Line #48 WebVideo/ShinyObjectsVideos


1	''Shiny Objects Videos'' is a channel on Website/YouTube with {{web video}}s created by amateur video production company Shiny Objects. The videos tend to be short, quirky, and absurd with most tropes PlayedForLaughs.
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3	Shiny Objects was founded by Matthew "Curly" Jeffers, who is also responsible for writing ''Webcomic/NoBlackPlume''. Its creators founded the company to hone their talents as aspiring writers, actors, editors, or cinematographers. The core group consists of Curly Jeffers, Daniel Androski, and Nathan Scheekluth. Previous members have included Wesley Williams, Erik Klingenberg and Evan Guido, and other people have contributed in small roles.
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5	The channel is available [[https://www.youtube.com/user/ShinyObjectsVideos here]].
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8	!!Shiny Objects Videos provide examples of these tropes:
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10	* ArtEvolution: Later videos are less amateurish, especially in their cinematography, as the creators learned more about film. "Psychic Powers" offered an even greater leap.
11	%% * {{Beat}}: A favorite
12	%% * BerserkButton: See DisproportionateRetribution below.
13	%% * BigNo
14	%% * BigLippedAlligatorMoment: Invoked by the videos' erratic format.
15	%% * BigWhat
16	%% * {{Calvinball}}: A board game of many board games
17	* TheCastShowOff: Daniel and Guido are singers. Curly likes to show off his knowledge of trivia.
18	%% * CloudCuckooLander: Everyone has shades of this. Mostly Curly.
19	* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: Erik, Wesley, and Guido eventually disappeared; [[EnforcedTrope enforced]] in Wesley's and Guido's case when they moved away.
20	%% * DemonicPossession: Of a toaster.
21	* DependingOnTheWriter: Though technically the writer has been the same for every sketch, the director has a pretty big impact on the ultimate style. (e.g. Daniel works in more improv, Nathan focuses more on non-verbal humor, Curly works off scripts)
22	%% * DisproportionateRetribution: DO NOT sit in Daniel's spot.
23	* DressCode: PlayedForLaughs in "Magiconomy", where even a flowing wizard robe requires a tie.
24	%% * FunctionalMagic: Given a low-level [[DeconstructedTrope deconstruction]] in "Magiconomy".
25	%% * HammerSpace: [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]]. It seems odd that Daniel hides weapons in Curly's house.
26	%% * IncrediblyLamePun: "Magiconomy"'s title.
27	%% * LargeHam: Everyone, from time to time. Exaggerated in "Fishsticks".
28	* MundaneUtility: Curly gains psychic powers unmatched by anyone in the world. He uses it to correct Nathan's grammar.
29	%% * MyFriendsAndZoidberg: Exaggerated in "On The Couch".
30	%% * OhCrap
31	%% * OnlySaneMan: Nathan usually fills this role.
32	%% * OverlyLongGag: Dice rolls take a long time in "Nerd Fight".
33	%% * PaperThinDisguise: Literally, since it's made of corrugated cardboard. Part of a ShoutOut to VideoGame/MetalGearSolid.
34	%% * PointyHairedBoss: Perfectly willing to banish an employee to the nether realms.
35	%% * PsychicPowers: In a video appropriately called "Psychic Powers".
36	%% * RedOniBlueOni: The most common pairing is Curly as Red Oni and Daniel as Blue. Of course, neither of them is exactly grounded.
37	%% * RobeAndWizardHat: Both averted and played straight in the same video, "Magiconomy".
38	%% * RuleOfFunny: Reality has no place here.
39	%% * SharpDressedMan: Daniel in every video in which he appears. Curly in "Psychic Powers".
40	%% * ShoutOut: Several of them.
41	%% * ShownTheirWork: The film debate Curly and Daniel have in "An Earnest Debate" is, in fact, legitimate, among other things.
42	%% * SliceOfLife: WordOfGod: "It's sort of like taking plain, ordinary, unremarkable scenes from a world that's utterly unfounded in reality as we know it."
43	%% * SpaceWhale: The reason for "On The Couch".
44	%% * TheStinger
45	%% * StopEdit
46	%% * ThisIsMyChair: Lampshaded. See BerserkButton for more.
47	* VocalEvolution: Since the videos are made by teenage boys, their voices naturally change and develop through puberty.
48	%% * WorldOfHam: "Fishsticks" again.

Context WebVideo / ShinyObjectsVideos