Line #25 WebAnimation/TodayIsSpaceshipDay


1	-> "Of all the special days, this is the one that really means something. Ask yourself—what would life be like with the stars of heaven?"
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3	''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XO3q6MA668 Today is Spaceship Day]]'', a 2019 short film with no discernible genre, is the result of a collaboration between a Botnik AI and Website/YouTube user [[Creator/GregoryAustinMcconnell Austin McConnell]]. Surprisingly, this is [[{{Film/Sunspring}} not an]] [[Fanfic/HarryPotterAndThePortraitOfWhatLookedLikeALargePileOfAsh original concept.]] [=McConnell=] eventually released a children's book with the same story, characters and artstyle.
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6	!! This show provides examples of:
7	* EightiesHair: Charlie wears a mullet.
8	* AmazingTechnicolorPopulation: Most of the (supposedly) human characters have realistic skin colors, though Yaxley is green and an extra girl is blue-skinned.
9	* AnimateInanimateObject: Hagrid the table, who can walk and talk.
10	* ArtificialBrilliance: A few missteps here and there aside, the A.I that wrote the movie is surprisingly coherent. The plot is far more consistent than its spiritual predecessor ''Fanfic/HarryPotterAndThePortraitOfWhatLookedLikeALargePileOfAsh'', featuring things like CallBack and a few genuinely profound dialogues.
11	-->'''Charlie:''' "The truth is that it was a big thing to eat with you... and it seemed to feel right. I’m full of ordinary sounding words, but when I say them, and you are there to hear them, all is well with everything."
12	* BatmanCanBreatheInSpace: The three protagonists simply remove their helmets while on a remote planet that doesn't seem to have an atmosphere, and seem just fine.
13	* CoolCrown: Yaxley wears some kind of Babylonian crown.
14	* DeadpanSnarker: Yaxley has a habit of making sarcastic quips.
15	--> "[[BeCarefulWhatYouSay Take care what you say]], Harrison and Dexter! People might hear you and take it seriously."
16	* DeathSeeker: Dexter, possibly.
17	--> "This journey will be the death of me," [[MoodDissonance he whispered affectionately]].
18	* DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment: Quite frequent, as expected from something written by AI.
19	--> "It was a very irritating feeling to be so nervous."
20	--> "Harrison thought desperately for about twenty minutes, and then finally finished thinking desperately."
21	--> "She (Charlie) seemed to be rather unhappy to Harrison, so he asked her. [[CaptainObvious "You seem to be rather unhappy?"]]
22	--> "Dexter nervously flattened himself against the wall to get rid of his anxiety."
23	--> "The spaceship did its best to do a good job."
24	* DisproportionateRetribution: Overlapping with MisplacedRetribution, Harrison slaps Dexter in the face after Charlie remarks she's not particularly impressed with space.
25	* DopeSlap: Harrison gives one of these to Dexter for some reason while annoyed at how unimpressed Charlie was by their voyage to the dark mystery beyond.
26	* HumanSacrifice: The titular Spaceship Day is implied to be a religious holiday in which this is done, by sending three people into "the dark mystery beyond".
27	* GreenAndMean: Yaxley, the closest thing to a villain in the story, has pale green skin.
28	* ImThinkingItOver: Harrison is lost in thought for ''20 minutes''.
29	* InsistentTerminology: Outer space is always referred to "the dark mystery beyond".
30	* LackOfEmpathy: Hagrid the Table does not seem to care about the students in the slightest, having no qualms about sending them into space.
31	--> "Hagrid stood before the crowd and spoke with a finality bordering on indifference to them."
32	* NervousWreck: Dexter is introduced as having a cold wave of sweat. [[RunningGag Later, the film constantly mentions his anxiety issues]].
33	* OneHitPointWonder: Yaxley is instantly beaten with a single slap.
34	* UsefulNotes/{{Plagiarism}}: A number of lines are lifted directly from the ''Literature/HarryPotter'' books, with only a word or two being changed.
35	* TheRival: Yaxley is this to Harrison. When Harrison volunteers for Spaceship Day, Yaxley also takes the chance to volunteer. The two then engage in a BitchSlap fight to determine who gets to go to the dark mystery beyond.
36	* RummageSaleReject: Charlie wears pink pajamas under Spartan armor.
37	* SeriousBusiness: Narrator compares the rivalry between Harrison and Yaxley to a "historical disagreement".
38	* ShoutOut: There are quite plenty of references to the Harry Potter saga. Similar PowerTrio dynamics, a table literally named Hagrid, a boy with the last name Longbottom, lines of dialogue being taken straight from the books, and also Yaxley is likely named after Corban Yaxley and behaviour-wise resembles Draco Malfoy.
39	* SuicideMission: Apparently, there's no coming back from the dark mystery beyond.
40	* TomboyishName: Charlie is a girl.
41	* TwoGuysAndAGirl: Harrison, Dexter and Charlie.
42	* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: Charlie thinks calling traveling to another planet incredible is a stretch. Also nobody questions the fact that Hagrid is a table.

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