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  • Alphabet Lore: A bunch of malformed abominations team up and perform Fusion Dances in order to stop a limbless crocodile.
  • The Amazing Digital Circus: People are turned into toys and sent to an edutainment game where they are tortured.
    • Alternatively, Boris the Teeth Guy grounds a bunch of cartoony characters for a billion trillion years. In a circus.
  • Animator vs. Animation: An Author Avatar draws stick figures to fight, enslave, and torture for fun. Then they get along and play video games together.
    • Animation vs. Minecraft: A stick figure discovers a magic building block toy and one of their friends gets possessed by a demon that wants said toy.
  • ASDF Movie: A series of skits involving potatoes with guns, throwing cheese at aliens, and "doing an internet". Oh, and Edd likes trains.
  • Baman Piderman: Two floppy man-babies who looks like superheroes make mundane things surreal.
  • Barbie: Life in the Dreamhouse: Some literal dolls get stuck in various nonsense situations. Also, two of them are mean and pompous but the main character insists on being their friend anyway.
  • Battle for Dream Island: A plethora of objects, plants, and, on occasion, mentally insane stickfigures, go through intense trials devised by a talking box (and also eat cake) with the ultimate goal of winning over an entire island.
    • Battle for Dream Island Again: A larger cast battles for the same island even though it doesn't exist anymore.
    • dnalsI maerD rof elttaB: Same cast is no longer competing and is instead hanging out in an abandoned city oddly reminiscent of Seattle.
    • Battle for Battle for Dream Island: Even larger cast goes through far wackier challenges devised by a sentient number four and letter X.
  • Bonus Stage: A self-proclaimed Mad Scientist and a self-proclaimed Superhero are Two Gamers on a Couch. They make outrageous amounts of obscure references, and try as hard as they can to avoid any continuity.
  • Broken Saints: Four ethnically diverse outcasts travel to California to take on an Big Bad Corporation with an Evil Plan.
  • Camp Camp: A bunch of kids go to a crummy summer camp run by an overly enthusiastic counselor.
  • Clear Skies: Firefly meets EVE Online, starring various Half-Life 2 characters.
  • CPU Championship Series: Some guys watch computers fight each other and turn it into an anime.
  • Cute Mario Bros: Two young men film themselves playing with their toys. Everyone else tries to copy them.
  • DEATH BATTLE!: A Mad Scientist and a violence-loving redneck analyse the fighting prowess of fictional characters to find out who would win in a Duel to the Death. People took it way too seriously.
  • The Demented Cartoon Movie: A dadaist anti-movie in which stick figures die a lot, nuclear explosions occur, and the Deplorable Word is employed with devastating effect twice.
  • Dr. Crafty: A mad scientist and his monster assistant draw fan art and fanservice pin-ups while making lame jokes and memes over the footage.
    • Crafty's Chara-Cafe: An octopus chef helps the scientist create Original Characters (do not steal).
    • Crafty's Top Ten Tub: A slime maid makes perverted commentary over ten characters of the scientist's choice.
  • Eddsworld: Four (later just three) Author Avatars in a slapstick Flash cartoon.
  • Epithet Erased: Dumb criminals with weird superpowers fight over a necklace.
  • Extra Credits: Two Guys and a Girl "borrow" the Zero Punctuation format to create Author Filibusters about game design.
  • :the game: (2008): Faceless white caricatures mock today's media by jumping to their doom.
    • Replaying The Game: Faceless white caricatures mock today's media by jumping to their doom... again.
      • Reimagine: Faceless white caricatures mock today's media by actually reaching a goal and following a plot-line that ends with the world getting blown up.
  • gen:LOCK: Multinational Team of weirdos are gathered by the army to play with big machines.
  • Girl-chan in Paradise: A show that combines every anime cliché imaginable with very "interesting" voice acting and animation.
  • The God And Devil Show: The Man Upstairs and The Woman Downstairs host a talk show.
  • Guardian: Talking horse goes postal when her foals are threatened.
  • Hanazuki: Full of Treasures: A walking mood ring fends off the Sugar Apocalypse by planting trees with faces. Her sister gets mad about it.
  • Hard Drinkin' Lincoln: A President becomes a heavy drinker.
  • Happy Tree Friends: A bunch of friends hang out in a Crapsaccharine World. Everyone dies.
  • Hazbin Hotel: The daughter of the Devil sets up a hotel for demons with the help of some red-suited dude who sounds like he's an old-timey radio. And there's a gay spider in it.
  • Helluva Boss: An imp opens a business with two other imps, with the help of a prince with an interest in said imp. And it takes place in the same universe as the above.
  • hololive: An idol group who rarely do things idol-like like playing video games, swearing and pranking each other. Their creator is the butt of many jokes.
  • Homestar Runner: A luchador checks his email, while a dim-witted white guy exhibits his terrific athleticism, despite lack of arms.
    • A web series named after a deranged man with an obsession for sports. The title character is somewhat overshadowed by a deranged man with an obsession for different sports.
    • Strong Bad Email: Mysterious people start quizzing the second deranged man about random aspects of his life. The first deranged man breaks into his house on a regular basis under the impression that he lives there.
      • Teen Girl Squad: Deranged man writes a comic book just to repeatedly kill off a group of girls he doesn't like.
    • Cheat Commandos: Toy company makes a cartoon where every character is a variation on the deranged man's personal servant.
  • If the Emperor Had a Text-to-Speech Device: A cranky, elderly invalid on life support complains about things he doesn't like and tries to contact his estranged family via a text-to-speech device.
  • Inanimate Insanity: Twisted mutants compete for a million dollars.
  • The Lazer Collection: A series of vignettes, almost all of which end the same way. Its breakout character is an insane Alfred Molina lookalike.
  • Lobo (Webseries): An alien biker bags up villains with gory and funny results.
  • Lucas the Spider: The brief adventures of a talkative household pest.
  • Mappy: A security guard puts up with his asshole boss while trying to foil a scheme. In the finale he goes to jail.
  • Madness Combat: A bunch of plus-faced people start shooting eachother because one of them wouldn't pass the radio.
  • Mighty Magiswords: A pair of siblings play with strange weapons for fun and profit.
  • Minilife TV: Two best friends in a LEGO universe create the antithesis of Seinfeld.
  • Monster High: A flash cartoon made to promote a doll line of Cute Monster Girls aimed at pre-teens.
  • Murder Drones: Robots killing each other for no apparent reason.
  • The Music Freaks: A bully befriends the people he bullied because his crush tells him to.
  • Mystery Skulls Animated: Anime Scooby Doo takes a turn for the tragic.
  • My Little Pony: Equestria Girls Digital Series: A flash cartoon made to promote a doll line of human characters based on ponies, but aren't ponies, except for the one who used to be a pony and later was also a demon and then an angelic being.
  • Neurotically Yours: A squirrel rants about stuff that pisses him off, and mocks his owner, a fat goth whore.
  • Nomad of Nowhere: Adorkable wannabe soldier with a crush on her boss teams up with the target of a manhunt - who is actually a scarecrow.
  • Overly Sarcastic Productions: Two nerds sum up history and myths using chibi-eqsue drawings.
  • Phase-Connect: A talking fish recruits girls from insane asylums to act as saleswomen for his coffee brand.
  • Phoenix Wrong: Quirky lawyer and his friends (and foes) become expert ventriloquists, reciting song lyrics and movie/TV quotes just for the fun of it.
  • Red vs. Blue: In the middle of an epic war in the distant future, a bunch of soldiers just stand around in their bases, complaining about each other.
  • RetardedAnimalBabies: All matter of good taste, decency and nerd culture is trashed by a group of perverted infant mammals. The devil is a recurring character.
  • RWBY: Goldilocks, Snow White, Little Red Riding Hood and Beauty all get together and fight demons. Why? Because awesome, that's why.
    • Or: An anime with eight-minute episodes about girls based on famous fairy tales fighting weird poetry-inspired monsters in a world where people are disturbingly racist against furries.
    • RWBY Volume 1: Four young women go to Hogwarts, except every class is defense against the dark arts and every weapon is also a gun.
    • RWBY Volume 2: The Chessmaster sets off convoluted plan for power by sneaking into Hogwarts.
    • RWBY Volume 3: A Benevolent Conspiracy ruins a Tournament Arc thanks to The Chessmaster.
    • RWBY Volume 4: The gang have split up. Red Riding Hood gets lost in the woods with her friends, Snow White has enough with her asshole dad, Goldilocks recovers from PTSD, and Beauty rides a boat with a monkey.
    • RWBY Volume 5: While Beauty gets her comeuppance on the Beast, the other three reunite and go to another school, where The Chessmaster discovers the hard way that she shouldn't mess with Goldilocks' mother.
    • RWBY Volume 6: The gang wants to travel away, but their luggage makes things difficult.
    • RWBY Volume 7: The gang enrolls in a new school. The Chessmaster and her friends ensure things get difficult.
    • RWBY Volume 8: Red Riding Hood and friends are now wanted fugitives, the Tin Woodman loses his heart (and probably more), and a little boy gets beaten up by an old hag who ruined everything.
    • RWBY Volume 9: Red Riding Hood and her friends fall into Wonderland where Mary Poppins bullies her into killing herself. She gets better.
    • RWBY Chibi: Badass warriors become cutesy bickering idiots.
  • Salad Fingers: A thin green man lives in a Post-Nuclear world, likes to rub rusty spoons, and once, ate his brain.
  • Slim Chance Intergalactic Zoologist: A clone of a clone hosts a zoology show in outer space.
  • The Stump: An alien nerd goes to a school where being a geek is accepted.
  • "Super-Hero-Bowl!": Superheroes and anti-heroes duke it out in an arena to determine the greatest of them all.
    • "Super-Villain-Bowl!": Same as before, but with supervillains.
    • "Super-Showdown-Bowl!": Heroes and villains team up to overthrow their creator, a sentient Academy Award.
  • Super Mario Bros. Z: Two plumbers, two rodents, and a reptile team up to prevent a robot and a different reptile (with the help from a mysterious fat man) from acquiring colored rocks. A lot of problems encountered involve violence.
  • Super Smash Flash 2: A ripoff of a popular video game with a bunch of RPG and anime characters thrown in for good measure.
  • SMG4: An Author Avatar and his brain-dead Italian friend have video game-based misadventures and other such brainless shenanigans. Memes inbound.
    • The Waluigi Arc: A plumber is tired of not being in Super Smash Bros., so he gets his revenge by making everyone T-pose.
    • The Rapper Bob Arc: A dude with ovaries gets rich and famous and takes over the kingdom with rap. His former friends cancel him by singing.
    • The Anime Arc: Japanese cartoons get banned, so the protagonists must enlist the help of Aquatic Adeleine to save it. Also, a nerdy chameleon sucks out a bunch of people's bodily fluids because he was horny. Oh, and a squid turns into a human.
    • The YouTube Arc: The Author Avatar's Evil Twin plagiarizes his content, his cast, and Avengers: Infinity War. Also, the human who was once a squid learns how to talk.
    • The Genesis Arc: The Author Avatar finds out he's an alien, a watermelon learns to use a sword, and she has to kill her axolotl boyfriend to save the world from Blue Satan.
    • The Revelations Arc: A group of friends go to U.A. and discover a cult that worships a cardboard box. Blue Satan is back, but he's not actually Blue Satan—he's really a Tumblr Sexyman.
    • The Lawsuit Arc: The Nintendo Ninjas finally find the show.
  • Terrible Writing Advice: An incredibly sarcastic author avatar narrates on how to write incredibly bad books, all the while convinced of his genius. Meanwhile, personifications of villainous archetypes fight over who gets to use the latest videos sponsor to take over and/or destroy the universe.
  • There she is!!!: Interracial dating is Serious Business.
  • True Tail: Dungeons & Dragons with furries.
  • Turnabout Storm: A Butt-Monkey with astounding hair and a magician with personality issues discuss the possibility of throwing a tomboy with astounding hair to the Sun.
  • 2 in the AM PM: A student film from Cal Arts in which two Author Avatars work at a gas station, drop acid, and trip like crazy. Years later it became a Cartoon Network show for kids.
  • Underverse: A bunch of short skeletons fight.
  • Video Game Championship Wrestling: CPU-controlled wrestlers based off of video game characters fight each other. The underlying game engine is noticeably not well-coded.
  • X-Ray & Vav: Two super zeros get super suits and cause a lot of mayhem. Hilarity ensues.
  • Zero Punctuation: A snarky British guy reviews video games accompanied by off-beat animation and a startling lack of pauses in dialogue.
  • Zombie College: A man goes to a college filled with zombies.

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