Line #31 Website/JibJab


1	A website created in 1999 featuring satirical music videos animated [[ClipArtAnimation using cut-outs of photographs]]. The site attained fame in 2004 when its video "This Land", which featured then-president UsefulNotes/GeorgeWBush and UsefulNotes/JohnKerry, became a huge viral hit. Since then, they have released at least one current-events parody a year in the same style. From 2005 to 2014 they released "Year in Review" videos, lampooning major (and not-so-major) events of that year, starting with "2-0-5" and ending with "2014, You Are History". [[http://blog.jibjab.com/2015/12/22/the-end-of-the-road-year-in-review-2005-2014/ They announced in 2015]] that they wouldn't do any more Year in {{Review}}s. Until they returned in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nNaGzi_LpDw 2020!]]
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3	In 2012, the creators of the website introduced ''WebAnimation/{{Storybots}}'', an educational collection of songs for young children, which has since spun off into two Creator/{{Netflix}} shows, ''[=StoryBots=] Super Songs'' and ''WesternAnimation/AskTheStorybots''.
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5	Their cartoons can be viewed [[http://sendables.jibjab.com/originals/all here]].
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7	!!This site contains examples of:
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9	* FiveFiveFive: In "2011, Buh-Bye", one classified ad says, "Full-Time Unemployment. Must Have 10-30 Years' Experience. Call 555-DAMN."
10	* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: There are quite a few of these examples in the year-in-review episodes. "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zls4Ao3GyM 2011, Buh-Bye!]]" probably has the most.
11	-->Quakes! Crimes! [[WesternZodiac New signs!]]
12	* ArtShift: In "What We Call the News", characters (except the old-timey anchors) talk by having their heads pop apart at the jawline (similar to babies and Canadians on ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'') instead of just having movable jaws. This was done to emphasize their "talking head" status.
13	** The 2010 year-in-review uses puppets.
14	** 2011 used stick puppetry.
15	* ArtisticLicenseGeography: The 2014 year in review portrayed Washington D.C. and Colorado as having legalized marijuana. It was Washington ''state'' that did so, not Washington, D.C.
16	* BreadEggsMilkSquick: The newspaper headlines in "Time for Some Campaignin'" when the candidates sing "When we promise you anything/You wanna hear/To win the crown we're chasin'!":
17	--> '''GAS TAX HOLIDAY'''
18	--> '''TROOPS HOME TOMORROW'''
19	--> '''HEALTHCARE FOR ALL'''
20	--> '''[[BiggerIsBetterInBed INCREASE YOUR MANHOOD]]'''
21	** In "2012: The End Is Here":
22	--->'''[[UsefulNotes/ElizabethII HM The Queen]] and [[UsefulNotes/OlympicGames Olympic Medal Winners]]:''' We had Olympic superstars!\
23	'''Astronaut:''' We put an SUV on Mars!\
24	'''Creator/ArnoldSchwarzenegger:''' In my new book, I bump and grind!
25	* TheChainsOfCommanding: While [=JibJab=] mocks politicians, "2-0-5" and "So Long To Ya, 2010" acknowledge Presidents don't have it very easy.
26	* ChirpingCrickets: Chirping crickets can be heard amongst the horrified looks from the parents after viewing [[SchoolPlay the 2006 year in review]].
27	* ClipArtAnimation
28	* EarlyBirdCameo: Mitt Romney in "It's Time for Some Campaigning"
29	* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: The 2005 Year in Review "2-0-5" has several differences from later Year in Review videos. For one, while all reviews have been parodies of a single song, "2-0-5" mixed up "Auld Lang Syne" and "Turkey in the Straw." Second, all other year-in-review songs (barring "So Long to Ya, 2010") said as much about pop culture as they did about domestic and international news. Also, the part where there's a confused audience looking on at the singing stops after the second.
30	* FluffyCloudHeaven: Most of the year-in-review videos have a montage to those who have died, showing them there.
31	* InkSuitActor: The Music/{{Weird Al\|Yankovic}} videos, in which Al appears as Taylor Hicks and Jack White.
32	* IrisOut: The held open variant occurs at the end of "This Land"
33	* ListSong: All the year-in-review songs.
34	* LiteralAssKicking: Both Barack Obama and Joe Biden do this to Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan (who even lampshade this) in "2012: The End Is Here!"
35	* LovableSexManiac: UsefulNotes/BillClinton is usually seen hanging around scantily-clad women. It almost always earns him a DopeSlap from UsefulNotes/{{Hillary\|RodhamClinton}} for his troubles.
36	-->'''Bill:''' [after getting smacked] What'd I do?
37	* MarilynManeuver: The Statue of Liberty does this pose in the rain and the winds of Hurricane Sandy in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0zf7EWZET0 "2012: The End Is Here!"]]
38	* MayanDoomsday: "2012: The End Is Here!" is naturally themed around this. ("Wishing you a 2013"). It was even uploaded on December 20, 2012 -- the day before the supposed "Doomsday" would occur.
39	* MediumBlending: The 2009 End Review.
40	* PatterSong: Some, especially "2-0-5".
41	* PredatoryBusiness: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pKv6RcXa2UI "Big Box Mart"]] is a heavy TakeThat at this. A big retail chain, "Big Box Mart" sells everything very cheaply, but this results in factories outsourcing their labor force, because that's the only way they can make stuff cheap enough to sell to Big Box Mart. The protagonist who loved to shop at Big Box Mart loses his job and ends up [[FallenOnHardTimesJob working there as a janitor]].
42	* PresidentSuperhero: Parodied in their video "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVFdAJRVm94 He's Barack Obama]]", which makes fun of the nearly messianic view some had of [[UsefulNotes/BarackObama President Obama]] when he came to office in 2009 by portraying him as a literal superhero who arrives to fix all of the US's problems.
43	* RedOniBlueOni: Bush and Kerry are presented this way in "This Land".
44	* RhymingWithItself: The Christmas song "Santa Claus" has one, combined with a LastSecondWordSwap:
45	-->'''Santa:''' I'm running out of dough,\
46	The bills ain't getting paid.\
47	''[camera cuts to Santa in bed with Ma Claus]'' I can't remember when,\
48	The last time I got... ''[{{Beat}}, camera cuts back to Santa grabbing dollar bills]'' paid!
49	* RunningGag: UsefulNotes/BillClinton being interrupted by his wife Hilary, who slaps him for some infraction (even if what he's doing at the time isn't particularly lewd).
50	** Arnold Schwarzenegger has also showed up in some form since the 2009 year-end review
51	* SchoolPlay: "Nuckin' Futs", the 2006 review, is set in an elementary school complete with CreepyChildrenSinging to the tune of "Jingle Bells" [[LyricalDissonance with rewritten lyrics]] to sum up 2006. All PlayedForLaughs.
52	* SensitiveGuyAndManlyMan: "It's Time for some Campaigning" has [=McCain=] riding a tank, and Obama hopping around on a unicorn.
53	* ShaveAndAHaircut: At the end of "2012: The End Is Here!"
54	* SlidingScaleOfIdealismVersusCynicism - Their "Year In Review" videos pretty much repeat HumansAreBastards. Over and over again.
55	** Thankfully, the cycle's been broken for the 2009 Review, which doesn't claim HumansAreBastards.
56	** And the 2007 review has about half its song dedicated to the positive things that happened that year.
57	* StrawCharacter: Nicely averted. They just mock whoever is in power, so they were just as ready to parody Obama as they were Bush.
58	%%(No tropeslashing)* StrawmanNewsMedia[=/=]TwentyFourHourNewsNetworks: Satirized in "What We Call the News."
59	* SubvertedRhymeEveryOccasion: Done with "The Year 2008 in Review", sung to the tune of "Miss Susie". One example:
60	-->'''Baby Year 2008:''' UsefulNotes/{{Bar\|ackObama}}rack ''[sic]'' defeated Johnny;\
61	So long to the far-right.\
62	Now [=McCain=] has many houses,\
63	But none of them are...\
64	White men got passed over,\
65	From Wasilla UsefulNotes/{{s\|arahPalin}}he was plucked;\
66	When the maverick tapped a hockey mom\
67	The press said, "What the..."\
68	Truck bombs in Islamabad;\
69	Bill Gates up and quit.\
70	Putin stuck his chest out,\
71	Told the Georgians to eat...\
72	Ships were seized by pirates,\
73	Ike and Gustav hit,\
74	Johnny's honey had a baby,\
75	But he said it wasn't...\
76	[=HIIIIISSS-tory's=] now littered\
77	With more famines, floods and wars.\
78	If there's one thing I am grateful for,\
79	It's that this job's now YOOOOUUUURS!
80	* TheThemeParkVersion: Each year in review song is, essentially, the theme park version of that year.
81	* WeDidntStartTheBillyJoelParodies: Done [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztj2qfui114 for their 2007 year in review]].

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