Line #20 WebAnimation/BabyCakes


1	''Baby Cakes'' is a series of several short films created by Creator/BradNeely. Each short is in the form of a diary entry from Mark Cakes, known by the nickname Babycakes. Babycakes enjoys writing freestyle music, searching for love, and attempting to prove that his father and [[WebAnimation/ProfessorBrothers the other professors]] are wizards.
2	* '''Diary #1''': Babycakes begins his diary by describing an average day.
3	* '''Diary #2''': Babycakes visits his dad's dad. HilarityEnsues.
4	* '''Diary #3''': Babycakes goes to the park to [[FriendToAllLivingThings become one with nature]].
5	* '''Diary #4''': Babycakes divulges his [[StalkerWithACrush forbidden desire]].
6	* '''Diary #5''': Babycakes uses his "me time" to be other people.
7	* '''Diary #6''': Babycakes reflects on memories and remembering things.
8	* '''Doors''': Babycakes has a brief entry on two surprises.
9	* '''Group Therapy''': Babycakes breaks out some fresh rhymes about his day.
10	* '''Coffee Line''': Babycakes discusses wizardry and spells with a patient barista.
11	* '''Lies''': Babycakes explains the lies he has been fed by the world.
12	* '''The Role Play Tournament (Be Aggressive)''': Babycakes sings about his time at the Role Play Tournament.
13	* '''Babycakes Sees A Play''': Babycakes attends a play "called [[Creator/WilliamShakespeare Shakespeare]]."
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15	Not to be confused with the ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E12BabyCakes episode]].
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17	!!The Shorts include the following tropes:
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19	* AmazingTechnicolorPopulation: A few of the background characters.
20	%%* ArtEvolution
21	* AscendedExtra: Baby Cakes' dad. He doesn't do much in the shorts but is much more developed in WesternAnimation/ChinaIL.
22	* AttentionDeficitOohShiny: "I started reading this [[Literature/TheBible Bible]]. It sucks."
23	* TheBlueBeard: Baby Cakes' grandfather calls his father this, which raises some questions about the MissingMom.
24	%%* ByTheLightsOfTheirEyes
25	* CaptainObvious:
26	-->"Those guys that keep following us were following us."
27	* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Babycakes.
28	* {{Eagleland}}: "My country is wonderful! I don't have to think about anything!"
29	* ExactWords: Babycakes isn't a virgin because "[[Literature/TheBible he can't give birth to a]] UsefulNotes/{{Jesus}}."
30	* EyeBeams: Used in a few videos.
31	* FunnyBackgroundEvent: Often the words or people in the background include blink-and-you'll-miss-it jokes.
32	** Baby Cakes' dog is in every video at least once.
33	* GilliganCut: "They had the times of their lives." Chimmy and Nethario [[Administrivia/PeopleSitOnChairs sitting]].
34	* GoodSmokingEvilSmoking: Babycakes' dad's dad.
35	* GotTheWholeWorldInMyHand: Babycakes repeatedly sits on the world.
36	* GreatGazoo: The Brain Fuckler.
37	* GrumpyOldMan: Dad's Dad, although he becomes a lot nicer by the end of episode 2 after he moves past his hangups.
38	-->''We knew the time would be sucky, because grandpa had become a mean thing.''
39	* InherentlyFunnyWords: Chimmy Chummy and Kenny Winker.
40	* ItsAllJunk: Played beautifully and hilariously in Diary #2. [[NoNameGiven Dad's Dad]] and [[OnlyKnownByTheirNickname Dad]] begin singing together, Baby Cakes joining in, as they TrashTheSet, [[WhereIWasBornAndRazed burning down the Cakes estate]] in a drunken, heartwarming haze. It starts off as an accident, but they decide it's for the best, and grandpa gleefully throws gas on the fire. Called out in the episode's CouchGag:
41	-->"Burn your house! It's okay to go crazy!"
42	* KickTheDog: "Oh shit! Malcolm!"
43	* LetThePastBurn: In ''Diary #2'', the gloomy home of Dad and [[OnlyKnownByTheirNickname Dad's Dad]] is burned down in the midst of a drunken musical number, allowing Dad's Dad to finally move on after he tearfully throws a photo of his dead wife into the fire.
44	-->'''Baby Cakes:''' Burn your house! It's okay to go crazy!
45	%%* LivingForeverIsAwesome
46	* ManChild: A "Playboy Man-Baby" in fact.
47	%%* MissingMom
48	* MythicalMotifs: Dragons show up, as well as {{Unicorn}}s and Polycorns (multiple horns).
49	* NoEyeInMagic: "Eye Contact" is one of the wizardly spells.
50	* OneManArmy: Baby Cakes utterly ''destroys'' the Role Play Tournament, his stock-standard barbarian rolling critical successes enough to take out an entire ship with his bare hands and wipe out virtually the entire tourney solo.
51	* PrecisionFStrike: Along with ClusterFBomb at times, each video has at least one.
52	%%* RobeAndWizardHat
53	%%* RuleOfFunny
54	* RuleOfThree:
55	-->"Sometimes I go down to the lake and sing songs to the lake about the lake."
56	* RunningGag: Babycakes' "freestyle." Maybe the Brain Fuckler.
57	* TheRuntAtTheEnd: Visually, the characters introduced by Babycakes in Diary #1, which are seven attractive women and a witch.
58	* SolidGoldPoop: Literally.
59	* SpaceX: The Moon Babies.
60	%%* StalkerWithATestTube
61	* TalkingDownTheSuicidal: One of the "[[ManChild important things]]" Baby Cakes sees on his walk to the park is a "Wisdom of Socrates" machine where [[BlackComedy every card says DON'T KILL YOURSELF]].
62	%%* TimeCapsule
63	* ThemeSong: Though the lyrics change.
64	%%* TokenMinority: Nethario
65	* WaxingLyrical: In Diary #3:
66	--> '''Baby Cakes''': If you try sometimes, you just might find you get what you want.
67	* WordSaladLyrics:
68	--> "Yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yeyeyes yeyeyes yeyeyes yeyeyes yeyeyes!"

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