Line #127 WebAnimation/WTLNetwork


1	[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/250px-Specialedward_1336.png]]
2	[[caption-width-right:250:"Special Edward", the mascot of WTL Network]]
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4	WTL Network, short for "Where's the Line?", was likely the most notable maker of ''WesternAnimation/ThomasAndFriends'' YouTubePoop in the medium's existence. His (actually their, as the network was made up of three people who collaborated on poops) poops included a wide network of {{Running Gag}}s, and established a humor standard that subsequent poopers have aspired to match.
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6	The main account was closed due to copyright infringement claims by [=HiT=] Entertainment, the current owners of Thomas, while in March 2013, without warning, both their alt account and Poop Troupe channels were closed, for reasons yet unknown. Since then, [=HiT=] Entertainment has been berated by several [=YouTubers=], especially WTL Network and its fans, in a similar way to Viacom which has also removed videos for the same reason.
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8	Many of WTL Network's videos can still be found on Website/YouTube in the form of re-uploads by other users, as long as you know their titles.
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10	He is active on [[https://www.youtube.com/user/KrowtenLTW a different channel]], where in January 3, 2017, he made a quiet comeback, and has since begun making new ''Thomas'' poops, as well as using other sources such as ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'', ''WesternAnimation/{{Tugs}}'', ''Film/Titanic1997'', ''Film/{{Matilda}}'', and even association football, and is posting his old {{YouTube Poop}}s on [[https://archive.org/details/WTLNetwork Archive]]. He also joined some of the newer generation of Poopers in the 20 Minute [=YTP=] Challenge series of videos.
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12	'''General:'''
13	* AllThereInTheManual: There's a lot of extra info on the [[http://www.thepooptroupe.com/wikitl/Main_Page Wiki]] that's not readily apparent from the poops themselves.
14	* ArtEvolution: The later poops rely a lot less on the swear pack and a lot more on [[ManipulativeEditing cool visual effects]].
15	* CensoredForComedy: Sometimes even inconsistent with "fuck" being left unbleeped sometimes, while "shit" is bleeped out on occasion. Justified by RuleOfFunny.
16	* CreatorCameo: Occasionally, members of WTL Network will have voice cameos in the poops.
17	* ManipulativeEditing: Both of the auditory and, more recently, the visual variety.
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19	'''Thomas The Tank Engine series:'''
20	* AdaptationalVillainy:
21	** Sir Topham Hatt. In the ''Thomas''/''Railway Series'' franchise, he is a kind yet often strict railway controller. Here, he's a {{jerkass}} who once set up a deadly train derailment ForTheEvulz, cheats on his wife with his butler, has sexually assaulted his own engines, and [[DisproportionateRetribution once killed everyone on the island all because his number-one engine wasn't feeling well]].
22	* AnyoneCanDie
23	* AscendedExtra: The Butler, a bit character who only appeared once or twice, is now the Fat Controller's lover.
24	** Mrs. Stationmaster's breakfast is now the single most important character in the series.
25	* AssShove: From ''How Are You Didgeridooing'':
26	-->"Percy was so frightened that he ran right up Gordon's arse without stopping."
27	-->"HOOOOOOO," groaned Gordon.
28	* BerserkButton: Don't call Daisy "feeble", unless you want to be vaporized by her laser eyes.
29	** This eventually extended to being vaporized by Daisy if you called ANYONE "feeble".
30	* BlackComedyRape: Many instances.
31	* BowChickaWowWow: The Butler came in:
32	---> '''The Butler:''' Excuse me my dear I want you.
33	---> '''The Fat Controller:''' (To station master) I'm sorry station master I must go at once.
34	* BowelBreakingBricks: Gordon does this on some occasions.
35	* BreakingTheFourthWall: Happens occasionally, most notably in ''Alicia Takes It Up The Botti'' where Sam demands that the old Thomas intro be put in the video instead of the new one.
36	%% * ButtMonkey: Percy
37	* ChristmasEpisode: Christmas With WTL Network and Another Christmas With WTL Network.
38	* ContinuityNod: The events of WTL Network's poops follow a loose chronology. See the Wiki for more.
39	* DeathIsCheap: Characters frequently die, but it doesn't seem to slow them down much.
40	* EveryoneDiesEnding: "Thomas the Tank Engine was ill... [[DisproportionateRetribution So]] ''[[DisproportionateRetribution everyone]]'' [[DisproportionateRetribution must die!]]"
41	%% * EveryoneHasLotsOfSex
42	%% * EyeBeams: Daisy has these.
43	* FanRemake: Some of WTL Network's poops have been remade using the American Thomas narrators.
44	* GRatedMentalIllness: Edward doesn't really do anything that would classify him as "special", but does have googly eyes and a propeller-beanie.
45	* TheGrimReaper: Shows up from time to time, working as a lexicologist.
46	* IHaveManyNames: The Fat Controller has also been called Sir Topham Hatt, The Fat Troll, Sir Topham Twatt, Sir Topham Thing-A-Gummy, and My Dear (by the Butler).
47	* LudicrousGibs: Human characters often become bloody stains.
48	* MadeOfExplodium: All the engines.
49	* NewsBroadcast: "Fat Controller Arrested: Fat Controller had sex with trains"
50	* NoodleIncident:
51	---> '''Duck:''' Do they get you to do things, Percy?
52	---> '''Percy:''' Yes, they do. Unspeakable things!
53	** There's another incident involving James and the cum wagons.
54	* PaedoHunt: Parodied with Chris Hansen the Helicopter, who wants you to have a seat over there.
55	%% * {{Pixellation}}: And lots of it.
56	* ReadingsAreOffTheScale: Gordons number is OVER 9000
57	* ReallyGetsAround: Toby's coach Henrietta, who used to be a whore. She pines for the days when nine gentlemen would take her from behind.
58	* RunningGag: Several, including the Butler, James's unhealthy obsession with Gordon, Special Edward, and Daisy's laser eyes.
59	* ShoutOut: In ''It's a WTL Network Triple Feature!'', there is a reference to one of Noisepuppet's recurring gags.
60	* StalkerWithACrush: James, toward Gordon.
61	* TakeThat:
62	** In addition to the "Original Ideas" book, a copy of Twilight gets tossed in the trash during ''Ongoing Feuds''.
63	** In "Edward breaks his dick" the Fat Controller points angrily at Jedward (an Irish duo whose appearance on ''Series/TheXFactor'' was met with mixed reactions) and in "WTF WTL" Gio Compario appears and sings the "Go Compare" jingle before getting shot.
64	* TheStinger: The credits sequences, which sometimes are comically re-written.
65	* TitleDrop: Happens almost OnceAnEpisode in some way, shape or form.
66	* UnreliableNarrator: Ringo Starr.
67	* YoungerThanTheyLook: The Butler is actually only 26 years old, and attributes his older appearance to years of cigarette smoking.
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69	'''The Welsh Fireman series:'''
70	* AssShove: Trevor makes an awkward landing when coming down the fireman's pole in ''Attack of the Welsh Fireman''.
71	* BlandNameProduct: Fireman Sam enjoys a 'Wizzle' bar.
72	* {{Filth}}: Fireman Sam takes no shame in buying a porno magazine in Dilys' shop.
73	* ShoutOut: In ''Christmas With The Welsh Fireman'', a caption urges people to watch another Fireman Sam YTP (''FIRUMUSAMMO'' by TimAJH), declaring it as the best Fireman Sam YTP ever made.
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75	'''Sooty series:'''
76	* BrickJoke: In ''TWINS?!?'', Sooty tells Matthew that his favourite food is [[spoiler:puppies]]. In ''Wagons Roll!'', Sooty and Soo serve Matthew breakfast, which consists of [[spoiler:Sweep's head on a plate]].
77	* GagPenis: Matthew Corbett has one of those "super duper cocks".
78	* ReallyGetsAround: Soo has had sex with an entire football team.
79	* SpinningPaper: A copy of 'News of the World' uncovers a puppet sex scandal, and also the story of a man who bought a caravan full of cocks.
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81	'''Chazlar and the Chocolate Parody:'''
82	* AnatomyAnomaly: Everyone in Mr Testicline's class has an unusually large amount of testicles, apart from Charlie Bucket.
83	* [[TheBadGuyWins The Bad Guys Win]]
84	* BlackComedyRape: According to Slugworth, if Wonka succeeds, Wonka will ass-rape Slugworth.
85	* CharlieAndTheChocolateParody: All there in the name.
86	* DownerEnding
87	* FictionalCurrency: The currency used is called "These". According to the wiki, one of these is equal to about £1.75.
88	* TakeThat: The [[BigLippedAlligatorMoment part in the tunnel scene]] involving a chicken's head getting chopped off is replaced with [[ScrewedByTheNetwork the HiT entertainment logo]].
89	** "Now I AM going to be sick!"
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91	'''The Flint Called Manstone:'''
92	* DownerEnding
93	* EvenEvilHasStandards: Whilst Fred has no quarrels with killing small birds, he cannot bear to watch the destruction of Bedrock.
94	* IncrediblyLamePun:
95	---> '''Betty:''' Uh-oh! The trailer's got a flat!
96	** "The Green Goose" is quite literally a green goose.
97	* KickTheDog: Fred kills a small bird for no apparent reason.
98	* RagingStiffie: Fred gets one of these after being fondled by the nurses while checking out of the hospital.
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100	'''Marge And The Funny Whelk'''
101	* ActorAllusion: Ron tries turning Scabbers yellow, but instead ends up turning Scabbers into [[Series/DoctorWho David Tennant]]. Or, alternatively, Barty Crouch Jr, if you ignore the fact that the sounds were from ''Series/DoctorWho''.
102	** [[Creator/RikMayall Rik Mayall's]] frequent appearances as Peeves the Poltergeist, a role he would have played in [[Film/HarryPotterandthePhilosophersStone the original film]] had his scenes not been cut from the final version.
103	* AffablyEvil: Hagrid appears to be a genuinely nice guy until it is revealed that [[spoiler:it was Hagrid who killed Harry's parents.]] [[AntiClimax "Sorry about that!"]]
104	* BaitAndSwitch: The intro of Part 1 promises a YTP of the 'most magical movie of our generation', cutting to a clip from the 1986 adaptation of [[Literature/{{TheWorstWitch}} The Worst Witch]] before informing the audience that they were just kidding.
105	* BlackComedy: Hagrid dropped the baby ([[spoiler: Who wasn't neccessarily Harry]]) on his way to Dumbledore.
106	* BrainFood: One of the owls delivering letters seems to have cravings for grey matter.
107	* BrickJoke: After the credits of Part 1, a short clip of the promised YTP from the BaitAndSwitch intro is shown. The brick joke reached its ultimate conclusion when a full YTP of [[Literature/{{TheWorstWitch}} The Worst Witch]] was released on 31 October 2021, ''10 years'' since the release of Part 1.
108	* FlippingTheBird: Ron does this to the lady with the trolley. [[spoiler: Her experience with the two gets even worse when Harry threatens her with a gun]].
109	* FunnyBackgroundEvent: '''[[ItMakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext WANKER ALERT!]]'''
110	** [[spoiler: Film/ForrestGump?]]
111	* ImAHumanitarian: The snake.
112	* KillItWithFire: The message that Dumbledore left with [[spoiler: [[AlternativeCharacterInterpretation Professor McGonnagall]].]]
113	* LadyNotAppearingInThisGame: The titular character Marge does not appear in the poop, although she is mentioned.
114	* StuffBlowingUp: Professor Flitwick gets startled by a nearby explosion twice.
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116	'''The Rottentrolls series:'''
117	%% * GrossOutShow: The ShowWithinAShow ''[[Series/MenBehavingBadly Lets get a kebab and go to a DISCO]]'' ''television''.
118	%% * ShowWithinAShow: See GrossOutShow above.
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120	'''Others:'''
121	* CallingYourOrgasms: Both Mrs Tupp and Panjid do this in ''It's A Load Of Nonsense''.
122	* CowTools: It's already pretty unclear of what Bertha is able to do (Particularly to newcomers), but with some of the...[[GagPenis extras]] added, [[YouDoNotWantToKnow things only get worse]].
123	* DreadfulMusician: [[Series/{{Chucklevision}} Paul Chuckle's]] "brand new sound" has this effect on listeners. He even goes so far as to call it "rubbish" music. [[ComicallyMissingThePoint Yet he still]] [[SmallNameBigEgo says it's good]].
124	* * GlitchEntity: Parodied. Ash comes across Missingno and attempts to use his pokedex on it.
125	--->'''Ash:''' Oh, a Pokemon! ''(Opens Pokedex)''
126	--->'''Pokedex:''' Missingno. It- ''([[InterruptingMeme Screen glitches up]])''
127	* ShoutOut: In ''Mr Jeej Goes To Prison'', TheRealXboxNerd is shown beating up WTL Network for stealing one of his running gags.
128	* StuffBlowingUp: Many. For example, [[Series/{{Chucklevision}} Paul and Barry's]] caravan gets blown up by the ''Series/BrainiacScienceAbuse'' team.

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