Line #192 WebAnimation/DaThings


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3	[[JustForFun/DescribeTopicHere Describe DaThings here.]] [[SelfDemonstratingArticle EreherE. SuS.]]
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5	[[https://www.youtube.com/user/DaThings1/ DaThings]] is a YouTubePoop series by Creator/EllieSpectacular, originally made popular by music video poops ([[ItMakesSenseInContext the literal music videos]], not [=YTPMVs=]). Other media has since been added to the mix, from ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' and movies to infomercials and instructional videos. The videos are usually (but not always) clean, in stark contrast to poops from other creators such as Creator/{{cs188}} or Creator/{{Deepercutt}}.
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8	!!Fellas, is it gay for a postman to read this trope list?
9	* ActorAllusion: "No, Do Harm" has Dr. Ruben Marcado (played by Lin-Manuel Miranda of all people) sing a few lines from {{Theatre/Hamilton}}.
10	* AdaptationalGenderIdentity: In "Jenson's Impact", Kermit the Frog is transgender, and Jon Snow's CBS cooking show parody has an episode for enbies (non-binary people) where he completes his transition.
11	* AdaptationalPersonalityChange
12	** [[Theatre/TheSoundOfMusic Sister Maria]] is a drug-obsessed hippie.
13	--->'''Maria:''' I want to be ''stoned'', I want to ''trip'' BALLS, I want to be HIGH, I want to browse [[Website/{{Reddit}} /r/trees]]... (''Caption: That's enough stoner jokes.'')
14	** [[WesternAnimation/PostmanPat Postman Tap]], instead of a kindly, helpful man beloved by his neighbours, is a sociopathic compulsive thief and general asshole given to [[ClusterFBomb verbally abusing]] members of the public, with an inflated sense of self-importance and a deadly vendetta against his neighbour Alf Thompson. [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking And a dedicated furry]].
15	* AdaptationalVillainy:
16	** Ross could be a bit of a {{jerkass}} from time to time in ''Series/{{Friends}}'', but he's far nastier in "Corn Area", turning Forneria into a wasteland of corn and capturing James [=McStarFox=] for no apparent reason when he's sent to investigate.
17	** [[VideoGame/StarFox Peppy is the one who betrays James instead of Pigma]] in "Corn Area".
18	** WebVideo/{{Saltydkdan}} tries to be as ethical as he can about [[MoralDilemma the trolley problem]], but here "[=SaucyDiggityDan=]" actively attempts to kill as many people as possible (barring the possibility they benefit him), specifically invoking [[Film/RevengeOfTheSith Anakin's choice about killing younglings]], arranging two trains to kill all five cops and the original cop so as to avoid laceration from them, panicking when he accidentally kills a cent instead of a person and specifically viewing his furry friend as Gerber to get more prompting to kill him. His violence is stopped when he tries to run over 77 people instead of a glass of O.J, stopping the train.
19	* AdaptationNameChange: Olive is renamed Ollie and Martini is renamed Martunities in "Ollie the Friggin' Reindog".
20	* AGodAmI: Dr. Young in "No, Do Harm".
21	-->'''Dr. Young:''' Gentlemen, you have a problem.
22	-->'''Ruben:''' Oh, god…
23	-->'''Dr. Young:''' Oh, yes, Dr. Marcado. [[BadassBoast I am.]]
24	* AllThereInTheManual: [[https://www.deviantart.com/akriloth2160/art/Sweeney-Todd-Completes-His-Arm-255471008 One viewer came up with an endorsed plot summary of the events in "Sweeney Todd Completes His Arm", which not only connects the jokes together in a fairly nonsensical plot, but expands on a few of the jokes.]]. This was inspired by a similar moment when another viewer had done the same thing with "[[Franchise/TheLionKing The LOL King]]".
25	* AnachronismStew: PlayedForLaughs in "[[Film/{{Hugo}} Hugh Geaux]]" when Hugo and Isabelle enter the bookstore to find Monsieur Labisse in the middle of playing ''VideoGame/AnimalCrossingNewLeaf'' on his UsefulNotes/Nintendo3DS in the middle of the 1930s.
26	* AntiClimax: In ''Will Wonk and the Chalk Factory'', Charlie and the other children are all waiting in front of the factory, when Will Wonk walks up to them, but then immediately goes back into his factory and slams the door.
27	* ArcNumber: Many videos include references to the numbers 701 and 24601.
28	** The number 701 is a reference to "The Price is Rice (And Other-Type Game Shows)", where one of the contestants repeatedly tries to bid $701 but gets misunderstood by the host.
29	** 24601 is a reference to [[Film/LesMiserables2012 Les Misérables]], but more specifically to "24601 Releases a Sammich On Parole".
30	* ArtisticLicenseGeography: In-universe example in "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CLoMcUU7fs Faces of Florida]]". At the beginning of the video Gwonam thinks that UsefulNotes/{{Florida}} is an island, which understandably results in the King and Zelda laughing at him.
31	* BadBoss: In the "Wow! It's Made" series, one of the narrators treats the workers like crap.
32	-->'''Narrator:''' I'm the king. The workers must be taught to obey.
33	* BilingualBonus: In "The 2010s Were Forever Ago", during the Despacito section, Ellie edits the lyrics to random Spanish words and sentences (translated in the closed captioning), most evident where she makes Luis just name different parts of the body in Spanish.
34	* BizarreTasteInFood:
35	** It probably doesn't need saying, but just in case, do not take cooking advice from "How to Food" et al.
36	--->'''Chef Jonathan:''' (listing ingredients) ...a family of four not-so-hungry people, and syrup on the side. (long pause) Or... Waste product, if you want a ''really'' kinky muffin.
37	** After catching the duck in "Total Dryland", Gwen's first thought is to have chocolate pea soup mousse a l'orange, although she does pick the noticeably tastier chocolate cake after a moment's thought.
38	* BlackComedyCannibalism:
39	** "Of or Belonging to Arby" introduces us to Eddie, who's the roast beef.
40	** "What Sarah Said" has Sarah Z mention she's eaten tens of millions of people as a thirteen-year-old, including fellow teenagers, her school, her parents, the government, and the Lorax, and she claims cannibalism is better than sandwiches. But at least she didn't eat her co-writer Emily.
41	** "How to Food" opens with a rambling list of ingredients that includes Music/{{Skillet}}, your local dentist and a family of four not-so-hungry people.
42	* BookEnds: "Killin' Ooze with Computers, Computers, Computers, and More Computers" begins with someone saying "Ah, Febreze!" with a phone in their hand. It ends with that same person watching the same clip on their phone, and going "So random!" [[spoiler:If the video is looped, [[HereWeGoAgain the end flows right back into the beginning, as it does in the source material.]]]]
43	* BreadEggsBreadedEggs: Things in lists being fused into a third item is almost a staple by this point.
44	** From [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kiZN8MNWtOo Wow! I'm Hungry!]]:
45	-->'''"They'll be used to make cereal or beer. Or beereal."'''
46	** From [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWZfuOQu__M A Guy's Change Of A Filetype]]:
47	-->'''"That's equivalent to going to the NFL, the NBA, the NFLBA."'''
48	** From [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oz-Kq8sHtEU Seeder Point]]:
49	--> '''"After working a few weeks, you'll develop basic methods of life-saving: such as CPR [...], the [=ABCs=] [...], and the ABCPR."'''
50	** In "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4GwRYKzyjXo Movies Feels Good]]", Nicole is telling the viewer about various things we need movies to make us do.
51	--> '''"To laugh, to cry, to cry-laugh..."'''
52	** From "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IuwBOjVoefo Postman Tap⁴: Love Tap]]":
53	-->'''"Yay for you, lots of letters and parcels and parters and lecels and Elvis for you, lol."'''
54	* BreakingTheFourthWall:
55	** The second half of "Jore Jarrison on Drinks" mostly consists of [[Music/TheBeatles George Harrison]] [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech ranting about]] YoutubePoop.
56	** "Michael's Roems" ends with Creator/MichaelRosen getting annoyed at being censored and declaring that [[ScrewThisImOutOfHere he's leaving for DaThings2]]. Sure enough, on the other channel, there's "Bloody Strict", a second poop uploaded at the same time where Michael [[VulgarHumor curses a lot]].
57	* BrickJoke:
58	** In "Thing of Da Hill", Luanne is told that a Christian puppet show is a sin. A bit later, when she goes through with it anyway, Bobby screams "SINNER!" at her over and over in the audience.
59	** The narrator from "Seeder Point" talks about how the park has musical performances from the band Music/SteamPoweredGiraffe. During the outro credits, their song Ya Ya Ya is played, retroactively confirming the narrator's claim.
60	* ButtMonkey: The poor, poor workers, as seen in the "Wow! It's Made!" series. In each video, some manufacturing process requires horrifically mangling the workers, in increasingly absurd methods.
61	* CaptainObvious:
62	** Sister Maria informs us that "The hills! Are hills!"
63	** The saddle expert informs that the saddle is, in fact, a saddle.
64	** The Phantom of The Opera updates Christine on that she has come there.
65	** Jaj informs us that his pet cow Milky White is, in fact, white.
66	** [[Series/LegendsOfTheHiddenTemple Kirk Fogg]] lets us know that "there are [[RuleOfThree three]] temples in the temple temple temple".
67	** The announcer on Jeopardy's Teeth begins by announcing "Today is today!"
68	** [[Series/DinersDriveInsAndDives Guy]] in "A Guy's DDDDD&D" opens his post-commercial break with "I'm driving! Right now! On a road!" while in his car. On a road.
69	* CastFullOfGay: {{Conversed}} in "Jenson's Impact", where Kevin from ''WebVideo/{{Defunctland}}'' points out that "a lot of Franchise/{{the Muppets}} were gay", including [[{{Spoonerism}} Ert and Bernie, Statdorf and Waltler]] and [[UsefulNotes/AbrahamLincoln Abe Lincoln]] and UsefulNotes/{{Jesus}}.
70	* Catch22Dilemma:
71	** "GET OUT Gasoline Park"'s sational and informafety video opens with a warning that you must watch the entire video before you can watch the video.
72	** Samsh from "Gameger" says, "The only way to learn, is by learning. The only way to play, is by playing."
73	** One of the general guidelines in "Seeder Point" is that you must follow all general guidelines.
74	* CargoShip: The expert the Old Man brings in to appraise his diving helmet seems interested in a sexual and/or romantic relationship with the object.
75	-->'''This thing’s got a date with this guy here. Every time I see a naughty little diving helmet my heart starts to flutter.'''
76	* CharacterCatchphrase: "Never mind, Charlie" for Grandpa Joj in ''Will Wonk and the Chalk Factory".
77	* CharacterSelectForcing: In "Smash Bros. Alternate", Sakurai says that there's no penalty for sticking with Ivysaur, implying there is a penalty for the Trainer's other two Pokemon.
78	* TheCoconutEffect: From ''Cinnamon Bunglasses at Night'': "To make the cinnamon roll look a little more realistic, I'm gonna make a real cinnamon roll and I'm just gonna paint it."
79	* ComicalOverreacting: In ''The Lol King'', both Scar and Mufasa are shocked that Simba peed in the gorge.
80	* CompetingProductPotshot: Inverted in ''{うんち} ヌン [\| Mitsune Haku \|] しょうゆ'', where Scott says that ''Pizza Hut'''s stuffed crust pizza is much better than ''Domino's Pizza'' in the middle of an ad for ''Domino's''.
81	* ContentWarnings: Content warnings have been a standard feature since '''80s Mercedes''. The most elaborate one to date has been in "No, Do Harm" (a YTP of 2013 Creator/{{NBC}} show ''Do No Harm''), wherein Ellie opens the YTP with a disclaimer stating that she does not condone the source material's badly outdated and harmful depiction of dissociative identity disorder (DID), multiplicity, and plural people.
82	* CountingToPotato: One participant in ''The Price is Rice Jr.'' is Katherine years old. Alice Fox of [=StaCup=] also tells about how she was completing eating sequences of over forty breakfasts when she was Catherine years old.
83	* DeathByGluttony: In "Wow! It's Played", an assembler in a shoe factory eats 100,000 cookies and immediately dies.
84	* DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment:
85	** In "Wow! It's Made!", the narrator describes part of a factory by saying "This machine is called the Machine Machine."
86	** In "Seeder Point", one of the attractions is listed as "challenging challenges."
87	** The instructor also states that "there are different types of extinguishers for different kinds of extinguishing."
88	** In "Big Talking Volcano", George loudly proclaims that he's filling his water with water. A later gag describes Volvic bottled water as being "filled with fill, so it's full of full."
89	* DiscreditedMeme:[[invoked]] Invoked in "The Eldest Scrolls IIV: SKRIM", where a line of dialogue from ''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim'' is remixed into the phrase "Memes used to be funny!"
90	* DisproportionateRetribution: In ''24601 Releases a Sammich on Parole'', Jajvert kills Joj Valjeaj for stealing bread. Is that better or worse than in [[Literature/LesMiserables the book]]? (where Valjean was imprisoned for 17 years instead.)
91	* DrosteImage: "Wow! I'm Hungry" ends with the narrator declaring "you really know the poop", with Pope Francis showing off the [=YouTube=] page playing that very moment of that very video.
92	* DudeNotFunny:
93	** ''Soup or Smash Bros.'' opens with "Super Suicide Bros.-" ''(RecordScratch)'' "OFFENSIVE!", then a caption reading "Sorry. No suicide jokes."
94	** The instructor in "Seeder Point" plays a video of a visitor falling out of a bumper car accompanied by a fart with reverb sound effect. He then comments on it, saying "This is serious. This is not funny."
95	* DeathSeeker: Dr. Ruben Marcado from No, Do Harm seems strangely disappointed to learn that Dr. Cookies doesn’t plan to kill him, asking him several times to make sure.
96	* DeliberateValuesDissonance: The Prawn Srars appraise a letter from 1930’s football coach Knute Rockne, advocating for football players to smoke as often as possible.
97	--->''”Dear Edward, it has been my experience that smoking cigarettes helps an athlete’s reflexes and is extremely popular, to the effect that tobacco smoking makes athletes really powerful. Any athletes that smoke are the greatest ever. LOL. You’re struly, Knute Rockne.”''
98	* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness:
99	** The early poops were rather more vulgar before Ellie decided to pursue a more "family friendly" style.
100	** Some other early poops had, light as most of them were, actual plots (such as "[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaCDIGames The King]] is Lonely"), something that most later videos dispense with outside of self-contained {{Running Gag}}s.
101	* EveryEpisodeEnding: Every "Wow! It's Made!" ends with a specific word being said over and over before Pope Francis makes a cameo.
102	* ExactWords: In "Big Talking Volcano", George responds to being told, "You can't say that!" by giving a dramatic pause and then loudly proclaiming, "That!"
103	-->'''Alan:''' Comical.
104	* ExpospeakGag: A poop of several Arby's commercials is titled "Of or Belonging to Arby", which is just a long-winded way of saying "Arby's".
105	* FemaleMisogynist: Barbie, apparently, according to "Of or Belonging to Barbie". She claims to hate all women, explicitly including [[SelfDeprecation herself in a list of examples.]]
106	* FollowTheBouncingBall: Used during the intro of "Postman Tap 2: Double Tap". The bouncing ball used was a recreation of the Creator/CBeebies "Get Set Go" watermark.
107	* FreezeFrameBonus:
108	** In "Pupin the Thirst", the letter Lupin sends has the entire script of the previous minute on the back, plus some FiveSecondForeshadowing to boot.
109	--->''P.S. I'm going to say "Hm." again, but in a higher pitch.''
110	** When the title of "Total Dryland" appears, for a split second, there's an arrow pointing off the side at the water surrounding the island, labelled "IGNORE THIS".
111	** "Postman Tap[[superscript:3]]: Tapped Out" has Jess deliver a 17-line speech bubble including a spoiler, an apology for the spoiler, a question as to why Tap is asking a cat anything, and a not-so-subtle request to support transformative work creators on Patreon, all of which is onscreen for about a second.
112	* FullyAutomaticClipShow: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDuQ781XJ_4 StaCup]]'s post-credits scene is a sequence of every time Emily said a number in the source video. [[OverlyLongGag This sequence lasts nearly four minutes and is longer than the main part of the video.]]
113	* GainaxEnding: After spending the whole video killing people via the trolley problem, [=SaucyDiggityDan=]'s rampage is stopped when the train [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome is unable to get through the 77 people stacked on the track]], and after briefly groaning in question of the situation, he starts playing Bop It, but he doesn't pull it in time, going into a panic before the video ends.
114	* GayOption: In ''Date Mystery'', there is a chance that the player's Mystery Date will be a {{bifauxnen}}. Not that the girls in the commercial seem to mind it.
115	* HalfwayPlotSwitch:
116	** [[Creator/MichaelRosen "Ring Around the Rosen"]] abruptly switches into a poop of the trailer for ''Literature/TheRing''.
117	** "Cinnamon Bunglasses at Night" switches from a poop of the "Sunglasses at Night" song to a craft video of someone making cinnamon bun-shaped soap.
118	** "The Sharkshank Redaction" starts off as a [=YouTube=] Poop about sharks, but halfway through, Rog takes over [=DaThings=] (as he says in the video), and the rest of the video is about Rog.
119	** "Total Dryland" drops not only the plot, such as it is, but ''WesternAnimation/TotalDrama'' entirely towards the end, with Heather and Duncan sitting there, entirely stationary, watching a YTP version of ''The Bear'' for a full minute of a six-minute video.
120	* HumanResources: ''Wow! It's Made: Revelations'' reveals that pillows are made from processed employees.
121	* IceCreamKoan: From ''The Mythsters'': "It may look nothing like Music/StevieWonder, but Stevie doesn't even know how he looks."
122	* IdenticallyNamedGroup:
123	** In "Making Caking Baking!", all the bakers are named Scotty.
124	** In "Gamer Think", the first team consists of three Davids (and a Javid).
125	* InterspeciesRomance: The planned tryst between Alan (a tyrannosaurus) and George (a talking volcano) in "Big Talking Volcano".
126	* JinxGame: In "Big Talking Volcano", after Alan and George say "Come on, world! I'm Tyrannosaurus Alan and I'll have you for breakfast!" at the same time, George jinxes Alan and tells him he owes him a stimulating new original tasty hydrating sugar-free ginseng and guarana Volvic Revive.
127	* JokeAndReceive: In "Postman Tap 2: Double Tap", Mrs. Goblins reacts to the news that they're going to turn off the water by joking that "they can't turn off the lemonade". Moments later, she's lamenting that they're also going to turn off the lemonade.
128	* JustifiedCriminal: TheStinger of "Eccentric Severe 2mors" suggests that grocery store employees shouldn't report incidents of shoplifting, as the thief probably needs the food more than the store needs their money.
129	--> If you suspect a customer of shoplifting, do not take action. Do not tell your manager for any reason. Your manager will take it too far. The key point to remember is, don't become a snitch. Any type of snitch-uation affects your community negatively. We understand that many people are in financially detrimental types of situations. Do them a favor and don't get involved. Just let them steal from your store's enormous amount of extra profits, because after all, everyone should be able to eat. And that's common sense.
130	* LamePunReaction: In "Postman Tap 4: Love Tap", Tap tells Ted about the lost cake, and Ted advises him to look for it, saying it will be a ''piece of cake''. Tap's reaction is an unamused "Shut it."
131	* LaterInstallmentWeirdness: The channel is still far and away one of the cleaner [=YouTube Poop=] channels on the site compared to other YTP channels, but later [=YTPs=], particularly from late 2019 onward, have seen a slight but still noticeable uptick in adult humor, to the point that some videos now open with {{content warning}}s.
132	* LethalChef:
133	** Arby's in "Of or Belonging to Arby" serve such things as exploding sandwiches, "rear beef", "portable sauce", [[BlackComedyCannibalism H. Jon Benjamin's grandparents, and their employees]]. At a price of two sandwiches for $90.
134	** Chef Jonathan Locke and Chef Jonathan Lonathan use some very questionable ingredients. "How to Food" opens with a rambling, incoherent list of ingredients that includes dentists, a sponge, a living plant, and "cubes".
135	** Chef Enzo, a contestant on Cutchen, starts his steak dinner with a brisket and ends up with a “big… piece of wood”. Even though the judges seemingly like the finished product, he [[ResignedInDisgrace immediately gives up on cooking to become a mechanic]].
136	** {{Inverted\|Trope}} by Chef Chef (the “tongue chef”), who wins Cutchen by being the only contestant to cook something edible (biscuits). His powers of [[VisibleInvisibility partial invisibility]] didn’t hurt either.
137	* LoadsAndLoadsOfLoading: "Wonder Bros." features the "loading bubbles" powerup, which causes Mario to stand there while a loading bar fills up by a single segment after several seconds. The video cuts to the next scene instead of waiting further. [[spoiler:When the bar finally is filled, Mario quickly shoots a single bubble and has to start loading all over again.]]
138	* MakeItLookLikeAnAccident: ''Postman Tap[[superscript:3]]: Tapped Out'' has Pat [[ComedicSociopathy murdering Alf Thompson in cold blood]] by upsetting Alf's ladder while the latter is fixing up brickwork on the gables of his house.
139	-->'''Tap:''' Sorry, Alf~! There's nothing for it~!
140	* MeaningfulEcho: The grandfather narrating ''[[Film/ThePrincessBride The Princess Book]]'' explains that, when Wesley tells Buttercup "as you wish", what he really meant was "[[DistinctionWithoutADifference if you want]]".[[labelnote:Explanation]]In the film, Wesley means "I love you."[[/labelnote]] As the video closes...
141	--> '''Grandson:''' Grandpa... read it again to me tomorrow?\
142	'''Grandfather:''' ...if you want.
143	* MeaningfulName: In "Jenson's Impact", Jenson adds Dave ''Goelz'' to his team, noting he is a puppeteer with ''goals''.
144	* MondegreenGag: "Dollip Eats-a the Prizza" has a brief appearance from a WesternAnimation/MickeyMouse puppet, who Dollip calls a "depraved, degenerate rat". The puppet responds to this by doing a Creator/ChrisPratt impression and saying "it's me, Crisp Rat!" A fancy Disney-style nameplate appears spelling this out for those who didn't get it.
145	* MurderIsTheBestSolution: In "Big Talking Volcano", George the volcano wonders how to stop Tyrannosaurus Alan's carnivorous plot...and then pulls out an extremely fake-looking toy laser gun, which nevertheless causes Alan to explode.
146	* MysteryMeat: In "Wow! I'm Hungry", the narrator notes that it's ''thought'' that beef jerky ''may'' be meat. New developments immediately {{exaggerate\|dTrope}} the trope, as beef jerky allegedly stops being food entirely (instead being [[DistinctionWithoutADifference a popular fruit snack]]).
147	* NegatedMomentOfAwesome: In ''Speedfolded'', the speedrunner Bubzia had amazing runs of ''VideoGame/SuperMario64'', to the point he could beat the game with his eyes closed. But "every freaking time," a player from the other world, AntiBubzia, would do the exact same thing backwards to cancel out Bubzia's run.
148	* NightmareFetishist: Aside from smoking weed during the movie, Nicole visits CBD theatres for “ghost images” she can fear.
149	* NoExportForYou: ''Soup or Smash Bros.'' declares that "Super Soup Bros. for Wii U will never be released in North America, ever."[[invoked]]
150	* NoodleIncident: "Of or Belonging to Arby" has H. Jon Benjamin claim to have eaten his grandparents at Arby's...somehow.
151	-->''Ving Rhames:''' Goodness. Somebody should say something.
152	* NoSympathy: Javert, naturally, pokes fun at Valjean's family starving.
153	-->'''Valjean:''' We were starving!\
154	'''Javert:''' You'll starve again! [[LeetLingo LOL!]]\
155	'''Valjean:''' [[SarcasmMode LOL.]]
156	** Emphasized in the Reanimated version, where Javert [=LOLs=] directly into Valjean's face while pointing at him mockingly and wearing a hot dog hat.
157	* NothingIsFunnier: TheStinger of ''Sonic Sesame'' is a nearly twenty-second shot of the human ''Series/SesameStreet'' characters [[BreakingTheFourthWall giving the viewer]] a [[DeathGlare silent look of disapproval]]. Nothing in the video explains this scene, nor is it followed by a {{punchline}}: the humor comes from the missing context behind this scene.
158	* NotMakingThisUpDisclaimer: In "How About a 3-Way?", after Angela describes a Skyline 3-way as "spaghetti, chili, and cheese", Creator/BrianDavidGilbert randomly pops in to clarify that this isn't a joke. They repeat this for the 4-way and 5-way, but the 2-way, 1-way, and ½-way [[InvertedTrope are all acknowledged as being made up]].
159	* OccidentalOtaku: In "The 2010s we're Forever Ago", Music/PharrellWilliams is obsessed with ''Anime/LuckyStar'' and stays up all night watching it.
160	* OverlyLongGag:
161	** In "Obama Bails Out", Obama spends a very long time explaining what his plan is not.
162	--->'''Obama:''' It's not a plan to create jobs, it is not a plan to reduce the deficit, it is not a plan to build the deficit, it is not a plan to create jaj, it is not a plan to defecate, it is not a plan to sit, it is not a planet, it is not a plant, it is not a plan, it is not a plalp...
163	** The opening of "How to Food", a very LongList of ingredients that goes on for about a minute.
164	** "[=StaCup=]" ends on a long RepeatCut of every time the speaker says a number, totalling three and a half minutes and taking up nearly half of the video.
165	--->'''Emily:''' I want you to memorize this...
166	* OverusedRunningGag: "Soup or Smash Bros." repeatedly cuts to the "23: Clear Movies" splash. After a certain point, the overusedness of the gag becomes its own gag. Lampshaded after about the tenth appearance, with a fake comment from "[=Fleelfmeister471=]" complaining about the joke getting old.
167	* {{Portmanteau}}: A frequent style of joke, showing up after the component words have been said separately. ''Wow! I'm Hungry!'' has quite a few, including 'thiquid' (thick + liquid), 'caplicator' (cap + applicator), and 'beereal' (beer + cereal).
168	* PunnyName: "Jenson's Impact" invents a man named "Howie Felt" to work on Jenson's team.
169	* RealLifeWritesThePlot: The first half of "The King Files His Taxes" is based loosely on the tax troubles Ellie herself was having at the time. The second half (no longer available) consisted of Link BreakingTheFourthWall to tell the viewers about the Ko-Fi raffle she was going to hold to raise the needed money (though this was cancelled for legal reasons).
170	* ReCut:
171	** In 2013, Ellie remixed two older videos ("Wilford Brimley Loses the Game" and "Why Won't Wilford's Parakeet Eat his Diabeetus?" into a newer video called "Wilford Brimley Loses". The former two have since been deleted.
172	** Starting with "Of or Belonging to Arby", a partial re-working of the 2012 video "Arby's serves some Goog Moom Foof", some of the earlier [=DaThings=] videos have been subject to this.
173	** "Bill Nigh Cells Himself For a Profit" is an updated/remade version of "Bill Nye Cells Himself".
174	* RhymingTitle: The episodes titled "Make Cake Bake!", "Making Caking Baking!", and "Makes Cakes Bakes!".
175	* RunningGag:
176	** Playing the first half of a word and then reversing it, such as "SUS", occurs in nearly every video.
177	** Several early videos play the syllable "de" three times and show a picture of [[Franchise/{{Kirby}} King Dedede]].
178	** "Memes used to be funny", a line from "The Eldest Scrolls IIV: SKRIM", shows up in several other videos. Each time it does, an inset is shown of the previous video(s) to have used the gag. (For instance, "The Critic Critic Reviews The [=RooR=]" overlays the "SKRIM" clip; "The Ground Roundup" overlays both of the previous two videos, etc.)
179	** "Wow! It's Made!" has one of the workers being abused in various ways.
180	** "The Price Is Rice" has a running gag of Nicole freezing and saying "no" over and over again. [[spoiler:Nicole being frozen is RunningGagged in "The Price Is Rice CLASSIC".]]
181	** Throughout "Seeder Point", after mentioning the band Music/SteamPoweredGiraffe, most of the other animals mentioned in the video are also steam-powered.
182	** "Total Dryland" has Akechi from ''VideoGame/Persona5'' repeatedly wander in when he hears someone talking about food, having missed lunch that day.
183	* RussianReversal: In ''The Lol King'', Timon tells Simba that the world turns its back on you, but in Soviet Russia, you turn your back on the world.
184	* SelfDeprecation: "Jaunt Ron Toot" features a section of rapid sus jokes, accompanied by babies laughing hysterically.
185	* ShapedLikeItself: In "Wow! I'm Hungry", the beef jerky segment describes "flavory flavors".
186	* ShoutOut:
187	** In "Woods: Rekindled", Red declares "I have no fear!", then the wolf jumps out with his crotch pixellated. She [[VerbalBackspace corrects herself]] to "I have [[Webcomic/EscapeFromHeaven one fear!]]"[[note]]Probably better known as "[[https://escapefromheavencomic.tumblr.com/post/112851136727/scanners-down-so-heres-teen-comix-1 Teen Comix]]".[[/note]]
188	** In "Wow! It's So Big!", the announcer says that a locomotive is [[WebVideo/{{Defunctland}} a powerful rat named Charles Enter-train-ment Cheese]].
189	** In "Seeder Point", the instructor is discussing the extinguishers used in the park.
190	--> '''Instructor: Water, Earth, Fire, and Air. [[WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender Everything changed when the fire extinguisher attacked.]]'''
191	** [[WebAnimation/BamanPiderman Baman and Piderman]] are mentioned when the narrator is talking about various comic book heroes in [[Series/AncientAliens Amciemt Aliems.]]
192	** In "Eccentric Severe 2mors", a loss from shoplifting is noted as being over $16,000, and then the narrator adds "[[Webcomic/ArielNeedsLegs Maybe more. Imagine.]]"
193	* {{Spoonerism}}: Swapping vowels around is a common source of comedy.
194	** "GET OUT Gasoline Park" informs us that we are required to watch the "sational and informafety" video.
195	** According to "Wow! It's Made! ... Up!", mascara grows in parts of Texico and Mexas.
196	** "Seeder Point":
197	*** The titular park is located halfway between Toleveland and Cledo.
198	*** The instructor tells the viewer to use "concern, courtesy, kern, and concertesy" when confronting guests.
199	** In "Corn Area", Eggman turns a maniacal scientist into a sciacal manientist.
200	** In "Jenson's Impact", the list of gay Muppets includes Ert and Bernie, and Statdorf and Waltler. Jim Henson himself is also [[AdaptationNameChange renamed to "Jenson".]]
201	** In "Movies Feels Good", Nicole says that the [=AMC=] theaters make the movie watching experience "perfect and powerful, and powerfect, and purple."
202	* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: When [=SaucyDiggityDan=] directs the trolley to hit seventy-seven people to save a glass of OJ, the trolley stops because there's too many people on the track.
203	* TakeThat:
204	** In "The Lol King", Simba starts reading ''Literature/TheTwilightSaga'', but Mufasa pushes him out of the way, shouting "No, son!"
205	** "Amciemt Aliems" takes frequent potshots at [[Series/AncientAliens its source material]], but goes closer to outright scorn at the end.
206	--->'''Creator/StanLee''' - ''Said nothing to validate the ding-dongs behind this show.''
207	** From the fifth "Wow! It's Made" video, there's "one side is a smooth knit, while the other is a nitwit." ''(video of Dennis Prager is superimposed onto the sheet.)''
208	** From "The 2000s were a Decade, Century, and Millennium.": "I used to play ''VideoGame/TheForceUnleashed''/But I discovered that it sucked."
209	* ThisIsForEmphasisBitch: "Of or Belonging to Barbie" has Barbie close a speech with "Bye, bitch!" before the video's credits roll.
210	* TheyLookLikeUsNow: When Dr. Cookies learns that one of his patients has [[NotQuiteDead inexplicably come back to life]], he suggests that they may be an alien.
211	* TokenHuman: In "Jenson's Impact", Jenson was the only human in Greenville Mississippi at the time he was born.
212	* TookALevelInBadass: After five videos of over-the-top abuse in the "Wow! It's Made!" series, the workers start resisting in "Wow! It's So Big!".
213	* TooMuchInformation: in "Postman Tap 3: Tapped Out", Sam goes into too much detail about Reverend Timms' 'punishment', causing Tap to faint.
214	* {{Tradesnark}}: "Products™" and "Goods™" are poops of various infomercials, so they're titled with trademark symbols to play up the overly-commercialized nature of it all.
215	* {{Troll}}: In ''Will Wonk and the Chalk Factory'', Grandpa Joj gives Charlie an empty package as a birthday present. He then shows him that he has a bar of chalk hidden under his pillow, but doesn't let him open it.
216	* VictoryByEndurance: "The Price is Rice CLASSIC" ends with one contestant going to bed, allowing the other contestant (Nicole) to win by default.
217	* VisualPun:
218	** A hay bale and a weight appears when Simba says "Hey! Wait!" in ''The Lol King''.
219	** [[Series/GameOfThrones Bran]] gets pushed out of a window when the workers 'remove bran' in ''Wow! I'm Hungry!''.
220	%% WouldHurtAChild: Jeff, a contestant in ''Sweepermarket Soup'', is heavily implied to be this--you don't want to hear "gore section" and "babies" in the same sentence. The commentator [[WhatTheHellHero calls him out]].
221	* YourMom: One of the gags in "Of or Belonging to Arby" mangles the ad voiceover into "I can get smothered by your mother for only $5."
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