Heartwarming / Drop-Out

aka: College Humor

Sketches

• The endings to most of 'The Six...' videos, after their largely humorous tone mocking you and the protagonist of them
  • In "The Six Ways You'll See Your Father", after describing how you see your father as a superhero, an embarrassing clown, a tyrant, a sell-out and a source of income, you'll realise that he's just a regular guy, like you, trying to make his way in the world, with similar hopes and dreams.
  • At the end of "The Six Ways You'll Try to Get out of the Friendzone", the main character gives up, after considering faking his death, trying to be more mysterious or making his friend jealous. Instead he just decides to hang out with her, as friends, and accidentally gets closer to her.
  • The conclusion of "Your Girlfriend's Six Friends". Your girlfriend's friends may be a pain in the arse, but you care about her, and she's your friend too, so you put up with them. After all she puts up with your mates.
  • "The Six Christmas Movies You'll Live Through". When you're a kid, Christmas is like an animated Holiday special, where everything's perfect and upbeat. As you get older and more cynical, it turns into a classic Holiday movie, then a Holiday comedy about dysfunctional families. When you fall in love on Christmas, it's a Holiday romance. But after the romance goes wrong, it's A Christmas Carol, where you just can't stand the Christmas spirit any more. Until that "Ghost from the Past" catches up with you again... and it turns into a home movie.
  • "The Six Girls You'll See Back Home". With the set-up being "you" coming home for the holidays, only to then head out to the bar after an argument breaks out, the video has the sixth one be "The One Who Loves You", aka. your mom, as shown with "you" heading back home and seeing a pie left out for "you". Granted, the mood is soured a bit with the punchline that "you" entered the wrong house, but the sentiment is still there.
• The "Horror Movie Daycare" sketch is funny, but oddly sweet, in a way. Despite dealing with Creepy Children from every horror movie imaginable, the teacher still loves the kids, and clearly isn't put off by all the supernatural weirdness surrounding them. She just treats them the same as you would any other students, and does her best to give them a place where they can have fun and just enjoy being kids.
  • It's subtle, but the way the kids interact with the teacher imply that the feeling is mutual. Some commenters have even speculated that this could lead to a Love Redeems situation.
• "Defender of the Basic", on the surface, pokes fun at the kind of things that people with middle-of-the-road tastes enjoy, but at the same time it's actually a surprisingly sincere and good-natured defense of those exact same things.
  Sir John Doe: So what if this young woman has a poster of Audrey Hepburn across from a poster of the Eiffel tower catty-cornered to a mural that says "Live, laugh, love" framed in Christmas lights?
  Jessica: (delighted) What?! How did you know that?
  Sir John Doe: Cause of course you do! Because those things are wonderful! Audrey Hepburn is an icon, Paris is romantic, Christmas lights can make small depressing rooms feel warm and welcoming, and "Live, laugh, love" is great advice for anybody!
• "Crippling Levels of Manliness" starts of as a Rated M for Manly commercial for whisky, until the spokesman starts legitimately questioning why he insists on acting so manly, and starts taking steps toward exploring his more feminine side as he realizes he's afraid of what society will think of him - concluding that he should embody Real Men Wear Pink instead.
• The woman asking for terrier pictures and her adorable reaction to them in If Google Was a Guy (Part 2).
• Google as a Guy: Quarantine Edition. Animated, calmer, but also informative about the Covid-19 epidemic.
  • Particularly the final exchange of the episode, in which the woman who'd earlier asked how long the quarantine would last asks...
    Woman: How to... feel... normal?
    Google: Look, it's normal to not feel normal. We've never gone through anything like this as a modern society, so go easy on yourself, and look for pleasant distractions.
    Woman: (Beat as she thinks) Exclamation point but for quiet.
    Google: (Smiles understandingly) Let's find out.
• "Maybe THIS Stupid Thing Will Fix My Life" has Trapp undergoing Sanity Slippage as the various journals, apps and other coping mechanisms he's using to manage his life only stress him out even more. In The Stinger, Sam finds him struggling to multitask in a state of extreme agitation, smiles understandingly and kneels down on the floor next to his chair to give him a Cooldown Hug while whispering, "It's okay."
• In Hardly Working's "Sticky Kids," Thomas Middleditch and Josh Ruben appear as a pair of grimy, hyperactive, unintelligible Bratty Half-Pint siblings that Pat is charged with keeping an eye on, annoying him to no end. While Pat snaps at them and threatens to call their mom, Owen ultimately kills them with kindness (while acknowledging that their annoying behavior is probably the result of nervousness).
  Owen: Calm the heck down! Okay, you know what, I think Darian and Damien are very nice boys.
  Darian: You do?
  Damien: We are?
  Owen: Yeah. Just because they're shy and sticky doesn't mean that beneath their Cheeto-crushed and tooth-plaqued exterior, they're not two very special young men.
• In "The Hottest Lesbian Kiss Ever", a trio of college guys at a frat party spot a pair of lesbians talking and eventually making out, and begin Lesbian gushing about how sweet the relationship between them is. In the span of a few minutes, the lesbian lovers meet each other's parents, move in together, get married, adopt kids, watch as the kids go to college, and become grandmothers, all while the guys continue to be amazed. It all ends on a bittersweet note when one of the lesbians dies with her lover at her side...until the guys realize that there's a dead old lady in their frat house.
• In a weird way, Grant and Katie helping Trapp come up with a good insult.

Other

• In "Um, Aah!ctually: Halloween Edition", the players are extremely chill and non-competitive, cheering each other on all the time. For one question, where they have to guess a movie from review quotes, they all get the point because they all figure out the answer and then shout it out in sync.
  Betsy, Jessica, and Oscar: One...two...three...Leprechaun!
• The third episode of "True Facts About Grant Anthony O'Brien" flips the script by having the newscasters all recount stories about Grant being a good friend and kind person.
  • He took time out of his week to help Rekha find a new car and accompanied her on all her test drives.
  • He was so kind and charming to Lily that she may have developed a crush on him.
  • He gave Brennan suggestions for Dimension 20 that became some of the most beloved elements of that show.^note Namely, having Stephen Sondheim act as one of the magical guardians of NYC in The Unsleeping City.
  • He offered to take Sam out for drinks after losing his job when CollegeHumor lost its funding simply because Sam "looked sad."
  • He sat in on Raph's first interview and made him feel at ease with his caring attitude. Immediately after reading this, Grant goes off-script to compliment one of Raph's pitches from that interview, which Raph points out proves his point.
  • According to the producer Paul, Grant once drove him home, then when he realized he had forgotten his keys at the office, drove him there and back again, which the subtitles points out is over two hours of extra driving.
  • The final part of the video is a call from Grant's father, who tells him how happy he is to have him as a son, remarks on how Grant has always looked after his younger siblings, and expresses happiness that Grant is doing what he loves (an ironic callback to the previous episode). By the end, Grant is nearly in tears.
  • The episode ends with the whole cast giving Grant a group hug.
• In the Finale of Total Forgiveness, having come to realise that they were hurting each other for money, Ally sets their final challenge to Grant to be simply having a day of fun with his friends Katie and Jess. Grant, in turn, made his last challenge to Ally be "share three nice mezcals with me". But with Grant behind in the money count, Ally chose to pour out their last drink, thereby failing the challenge and giving Grant the remaining money. Grant burst into tears, and he and Ally hugged.

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