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. |
18 | |
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. |
68 | |
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. |
74 | |
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. |
80 | |
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!" |
90 | |
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. |
99 | |
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. |
115 | |
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. |
119 | |
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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