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2	[[caption-width-right:350:Laugh Harder, Grow Smarter]]
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4	''Wisecrack'' is an AnalysisChannel composed of various comedians, academics, filmmakers, and artists who collaborate on a series of videos analyzing pop culture. The group is prone to look into {{Anime}}, WesternAnimation, [[ClassicLiterature Classic]] and contemporary {{Literature}}, [[{{Film}} Films]] and VideoGames and analyze them, drawing out [[PhilosophyTropes philosophy]], [[SociologyTropes sociology]], [[PsychologyTropes psychology]] and whatever other [[DoubleMeaning hidden meanings]] can be found within them.
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6	Wisecrack produces and hosts several series on their [[http://www.wisecrack.co/ website]] and [[https://www.youtube.com/user/thugnotes YouTube channel]], including:
7	[[index]]
8	* ''WebVideo/BossBitchesOfHistory'' -- A short lived series where Sovereign Syre and Ela Darling – two entertainers who defy contemporary standards of American intellectualism and UsefulNotes/{{Feminism}} - talk about emboldened women throughout the ages who bucked the system and boldly faced the sexist powers of their time.
9	* ''WebAnimation/EightBitPhilosophy'' -- A series of animated cartoons that uses classic video game sprites and images to teach the viewers on fundamentals of theocratic, existential and political philosophy.
10	* ''WebVideo/EarthlingCinema'' -- Set in the far future, alien archeologist Garyx Wormuloid provides a colorful, [[FutureImperfect hilariously inaccurate]] summary of the plot of a movie and then provides a brief summary of the philosophy and message of the film in question.
11	* ''WebVideo/PopPsych'' -- A series where Tessa Goss psychoanalyzes behavior exhibited by fictional characters (Batman, Mario, Santa Claus, etc.) and determines a diagnosis.
12	* ''WebVideo/ThugNotes'' -- [[GangBangers Gangster]] Sparky Sweets provides a colorful summarization of classical and modern literature and then provides an educated analyses of the book’s themes, point of view and reflections of the time they were published.
13	* ''WebVideo/WisecrackEdition'' -- Hosted by various Wisecrack writers and editors and narrated by Jared Bauer, ''Wisecrack Edition'' selects specific pop culture properties - movies, anime, cartoons and even individual celebrities - and analyzing the philosophies they represent as a whole. Other episodes even go more specific, videos talking about religion, economics and psychology in particular franchises and even individual episodes.
14	** ''What Went Wrong?'' -- A spinoff series of ''Wisecrack Edition'' where the team analyzes a failed or problematic property (''[[Film/SuicideSquad2016 Suicide Squad]]'', ''[[Film/AssassinsCreed2016 Assassin's Creed]]'', etc.) and both try to find the message they failed to convey and why it failed.
15	* ''WebVideo/TheFilmTourist'' -- A show that analyses a very specific and trivial part of a production -- a specific scene, setting, line of dialogue, choice of music, cut, etc. -- that redefines and establishes the meaning of that specific piece of art.
16	* ''[[WebVideo/HowDidWeGetHere How Did We Get Here?]]'' -- A show that acknowledges the ways that fiction has predicted actual, real-world problems that is occurring in our present day and estimates just how it came to that.
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19	! This website contains the following tropes:
20	* AnalysisChannel: They are of the "analyze the work's deeper meanings" variety.
21	* ChessMotifs: The site's icon is clearly a play on the Knight chess piece, replacing the horse’s head with a [[StubbornMule donkey's]]. To see the significance of this, see VisualPun below.
22	* EdutainmentShow: All of their shows are built with this in mind: educate the audience about various topics (most famously philosophy), and make the education entertaining in some way, be it humor, beautiful graphics, or great writing.
23	-->[[TagLine Laugh harder, grow smarter.]]
24	* VanityPlate:
25	** Their first was a brief, three second clip of a white piece of paper crumpling itself up before rolling downward, revealing the Wisecrack logo beneath.
26	** Their second and current one is a brief animation of two people being covered in a liquid that forms the logo's shape, only for the liquid to split in half and reveal a brown logo. Then the company's name appears.
27	* VisualPun: The website's icon -- a donkey wearing a monocle -- is clearly a play on the term "wise-ass."

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