Running Gags on the SiIvaGunner channel.
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General rips
- The most famous one is "Grand Dad", an Off-Model rendition of Mario (paired with Fred Flintstone) from a bootlegged version of The Flintstones: The Rescue of Dino & Hoppy that became famous from one of Joel's streams. After being featured in the very first rip, The Flintstones' Theme Tune basically became the main theme of SiIvaGunner.
- In a close second would be "Snow halation" from Love Live!, which became one through being Triple-Q's favorite Love Live! song. It was used extremely frequently during the first season, rivaling The Flintstones (but with a particular focus on Slippy-Slidey Ice World songs). The fact that this joke caused a Broken Base in the fandom was a major plot point for the channel's first story arc.
- Since the end of the first season, it shows up less often. However, if a video is listed as 4:20 in length...no, it's not a weed joke, it's not a coincidence, it's usually a full-length "Snow halation" mashup.note These follow a format where a still of a particular character is placed over the stage where "Snow halation" was performed in the anime, and are usually uploaded at the end of events.
- A gag common during the channel's early days was looping the beginning of a song for the entirety of the song's length, referred to by the channel's fans as "blue-balls rips". Blue-balls rips were slowly phased out as the channel continued but still pop up from time to time. The joke resurged for a few months after the release of the 2019 April Fool's album
entirely dedicated to them, with most of its tracks being released onto the channel afterwards. - Whenever the channel wants to post a new rip of a track, a subtitle is added, the most common one being "Beta Mix". This led to more bizarre "mixes" over time (most of them being applied to "Circus" from Five Nights at Freddy's, given that it has over 400 rips).
- This was taken to the absolute extreme on April Fool's Day 2023, when the channel began ripping itself, adding the "Beta Mix" tag to past rips on the channel, non-rip videos such as announcements, and even rips from that same day, up to twenty times over.
- The first season's "Main Theme (super remastered not gay version) - Metal Gear Solid" rip led to various rips being subtitled "super remastered not gay version" or "super remastered gay version." When a cleaner, more fleshed out version of "Snowy - Undertale" was uploaded, the original rip was retitled "Snowy - Undertale (super not remastered lesbian version)".
- This was taken to the absolute extreme on April Fool's Day 2023, when the channel began ripping itself, adding the "Beta Mix" tag to past rips on the channel, non-rip videos such as announcements, and even rips from that same day, up to twenty times over
- Two consecutive uploads will occasionally be inverses of each other; that is, the video title of the first rip will be the song played in the second rip and vice versa.
- The channel also features a lot of gags carried over from the Soundclown community:
- Loud Nigra, which was used prominently enough to be featured on the channel's header image.
- "Freestyle" by Chip tha Ripper.
- "Gangnam Style", "My Time is Now", and "Megalovania".
- "Crank Dat" is a common joke, usually involving steel drums added over the track in addition to his vocals.
- Smash Mouth's All Star is also occasionally used, mostly due to its association with Shrek, which is where the song achieved Memetic Mutation status.
- Gorillaz also makes some occasional appearances, in particular "Stylo" and "Feel Good Inc.", although other songs have also shown up as well.
- "Fuck Bees" is sampled in a number of rips.
- "Space Jam" shows up occasionally, but since it has become a sort of Cliché in mashups, it's not usually used as a joke on its own, unless it's a song with Uncommon Time. A notable series of rips during the first season that used "Space Jam" for intentionally terrible mashups, with Charles Barkley's head badly photoshopped over something in addition to a rainbow filter playing over the video.
- Loud Nigra
- During the Continuity Reboot, many of the three most famous running gags were replaced with parallels: Flintstones was superseded by the themes of The Simpsons and Family Guy, "Snow halation" became "GO MY WAY!!", and Loud Nigra gets replaced with the Howie Long Scream.note
- After the end of the reboot, the theme song of The Nutshack (a series infamous for its low quality) was introduced as a new recurring joke.
- To a lesser extent, "Uncontrollable" from Xenoblade Chronicles X.
- During the later months of the first season, a series of rips were released where the game's music is played over a "Bowflex Revolution" infomercial video, with surprisingly fitting results.
- The infamous "Pokemon Go Song" by Mishovy Silenosti, sometimes called "I Play Pokemon Go Everyday", showed up frequently in the latter half of the first season.
- The melody of Night Walk from Rhythm Tengoku shows up from time to time in melody-swap rips.
- As of September 2016, the Green de la Bean Facebook meme has occasionally show up in rips as a Jump Scare, accompanied by an image of the titular bean rapidly flashing and mirroring across the screen with rap music blaring at a distortingly loud volume for the remainder of the rip.
- Rips featuring the LazyTown song "We Are Number One" were introduced as a new running gag in the last two weeks before the original September 2016 ending, usually on rips with "1" in the title somewhere. When the channel returned for Christmas, the joke became a lot more prominent, even featuring in the lore.
- The leitmotif of the Haltmann Works Company shows up here and there as well. This is a reference to the source material, where the leitmotif slipped itself into many of the game's tracks to symbolize the company's takeover of Planet Popstar. This became a lot more common as of the Christmas Comeback Crisis, due to Haltmann's role as The Dragon.
- Haunted House, by 8-Bit Beast, is an infamous running joke for how awful the original song is. You can expect to see it in rips that contain the words "House", "Beast", "Castle", or "Boss" (referring to this remix).
- By the end of Season 1, JoJo-related rips tended to be either Stylistic Suck or insults directed at its fandom.
- "Smooth" by Santana started becoming used a lot after Bolero of Fire - The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 3D was released.
- Neil Cicierega's mashups have become popular sources for rips since the "Smooth" gag gained traction, and the rips are usually so good it's leading some to guess if Neil is actually a secret member of the creative team.
- Rips from Despicable Me: Minion Rush feature one of the channel staff members in a Minion costume dancing along to a song playing through an unseen speaker.
- mm2wood, poorly made MIDI of Wood Man's stage theme, got a lot of use during and after the Halloween Special.
- "Minecraft With Gadget" and the Inspector Gadget Theme Tune became running gags after being the spotlight of Gadget's Hostile Show Takeover.
- Early rips featuring "Astronaut in the Ocean" by Australian rapper Masked Wolf would most likely bound to be off-key and unsynced, referencing a TikTok trend which sloppily mashes up the aforementioned song with the theme of Peppa Pig. However, this running gag was eventually dropped after the the event dedicated to the song's 2nd anniversary, where "Astronaut in the Ocean" is more frequently mashed up properly with the ripped track.
- As of late 2021, many rips that are approximately 30 seconds will use the Countdown Clock jingle.
- Rips approximately seven to seven and a half minutes long will likely use either "One Winged Angel" or "Through the Fire and Flames".
- If it's about seventeen minutes (with a slightly wider margin of error due to its length), expect "Dancing Mad".
- As of 2021, any rips that have either the words "dream" or "mask" on its title will certainly contain any references to "Mask" by Dream. Bonus points if it's switched halfway through with the remix/cover of the song by We the Sus Music.
- Rips featuring songs by Tyler, the Creator, specifically those from Call Me If You Get Lost, will occasionally have the jingle outro play at the end of the track along with the logo appearing over the thumbnail.
- A smaller one that began during the Christmas Comeback Crisis's tie-in Alternate Reality Game was "Hate not the Wind, Spring Blossoms ~ Eternal Wind," a track from Book Of Star Mythology, a Touhou Project fangame. After being part of the clues to said ARG, it would reappear throughout the years on occasion, often in rips by frequent contributor Kirbio.
- With the release of the "Mad Mew Mew (NTSC Version) - Undertale" rip, any appearances of Tian Yiming (the representative of the "Super Idol" meme) in rips will most likely be paired up with Ninomae Ina'nis (as the rip was made on her birthday) and Mr. Incredible.
- "Bird Up!, the worst show on television" from The Eric Andre Show shows up occasionally, especially at the ends of Kirby rips.
- In 2023, "Hot Cross Buns" has been used as the theme of many short-length rips.
Specific games/tracks
- Any rips of, or featuring, "Athletic Theme" from Super Mario World will most likely be followed with an arrangement of "Witch Doctor" by Cartoons, referencing the channel's most popular rip "Athletic Theme (PAL Version) - Super Mario World".
- A common method of referencing this rip is through the replacement of the Super Mario World leitmotif with "Witch Doctor", i.e. "Mario Chase - Level 2 - Nintendo Land".
- Another method is through Super Mario World and "Witch Doctor" being placed next to each other, i.e. "M.I.L.F (In-Game Version) - Friday Night Funkin'".
- Lastly, recreated using a different joke in place of "Witch Doctor, i.e. "Athletic Theme (PAL Version) (Beta Mix) - Super Mario World"
- A common method of referencing this rip is through the replacement of the Super Mario World leitmotif with "Witch Doctor", i.e. "Mario Chase - Level 2 - Nintendo Land
- "Circus" from Five Nights at Freddy's has by a long shot been ripped the most, with well over 300 rips. Rips of "Circus" start off with the sound clip, but then transition into something completely unrelated. In 2022, the submission guidelines were updated to officially note that "Circus" is used to post rips that don't feature any video game music.
- During the first season, the subtitles for "Circus" rips started with letters of the Greek alphabet, then shifted to random words followed by "Mix" (with the chosen word usually reflecting the content of the rip).
- From the third season onwards, "Circus" rips almost always have a Pun-Based Subtitle using the word "Mix" or "Version", some examples being "The Mix Behind The Slaughter", "Mix Version Mix Mix", and "Mixorola". Unlike the previous "___ Mix" trend, these puns rarely have anything to do with the rip's content.
- Also starting from the third season, the transitions featured at the start have gotten more elaborate, often being a creative joke in and of itself, even moreso than the rip that follows. Because of this, some rips actually subvert the usual gag and simply have a shorter joke based on "Circus" alone, though given the creative execution needed to work around its Creepy Circus Music nature, this is rare.
- "Slider" from Super Mario 64 is the second biggest one, getting remixed over 100 times over multiple playlists. This is due to the original rendition being the fist rip to really go viral. For the original channel ending (now the end of Season 1), a final "Slider" rip was uploaded, listed under Super Mario 64DD; it ends with Mario finally reaching the end of the slide.
- Rips of Friday Night Funkin' and its mods always end with Boyfriend losing the round, even though he's usually playing well (and sometimes he's doing nothing at all); this is very likely a reference to the blue balls general Running Gag, since the game over sequence shows him with blue balls.note
- On several Pokémon rips and even some non-Pokémon related rips, some of JustinRPG's infamous songs, many involving his "marriage" to Reshiram, have been featured. This gag ended after the rebootnote , and in his place, Pokémon songs started becoming remixes of songs from JoJo's Bizarre Adventure.
- Beta Mixes of songs from Pokémon Black and White are almost always remixes of Hiroyuki Sawano songs, especially Xenoblade Chronicles X.
- Sonic CD Beta Mixes are always the song done in the Sega Genesis synthesizer.
- Deltarune Beta Mixes often use soundfonts from EarthBound (1994) or Mother 3.
- PaRappa the Rapper Gamma Mixes place the song's vocals over a different electronic instrumental.
- Nearly every rip of Cave Story during the first season was a cover of a song from VeggieTales.
- Several of the Cory in the House licensed game rips are actually covers of various anime openings, such as Cruel Angel's Thesis in the game's soundfont. Rather fitting, since calling Cory in the House "the best anime of all time" is a rather popular meme.
- Uploads of the "Main Theme" of Looney Tunes are simple, black-and-white animations featuring Mr. Rental with pixel-art assets. Uploads of Mr. Rental: The Video Game are also animations featuring Mr. Rental, but they are in color, and most of the assets were obviously drawn in MS Paint.
- In all of these rips, Mr Rental runs someone over with his car, or at least tries to.
- Rips from The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask marked as the "OST Version" feature Nicolas Cage as a source, based on infamous mod The Legend of Cage: Beneath the Mask. Most commonly, the infamous "Not the Bees!" line. On December 12, 2022, the joke was put to rest with the remaining songs on the soundtrack getting Nicolas Cage rips. It was then compiled into a full album.
- If it's from Chrono Trigger and has "JP Mix" in the title, a good 90% of the time you can expect a Studio Ghibli song.
- Most rips from Sonic Mania will involve the Totino's song by Tim and Eric. (The joke is that Totino's was a sponsor of the Sonic 25th anniversary party panel at San Diego Comic-Con where Sonic Mania was announced.)
- Whenever a rip of the DK Rap is posted, expect there to be gratuitous coconut guns.
- Whenever a rip has Live and Learn in it, expect the "OOOOOH" to be incredibly long.
- Any rip listed under Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories will, more often than not, have insane amounts of reverb, occasionally bordering on Sensory Abuse.
- Tate's Journey rips are remixes of either "Sweet Little Bumble Bee" by Bambee or "Tourner dans le vide" by Indila.
- Rips of the Eek! The Cat SNES game are always based on "the penis (eek!)" by Surasshu. The only exception to this so far is played for Anti-Humor.
- In Punch-Out!! Wii, each fighter gets a unique intro jingle, then when refought in exhibition mode, the usual fight theme is arranged into a different genre depending on the boxer. SiIvaGunner posts rips of these back-to-back, completely replacing the boxer in question with a Guest Fighter complete with an illustration of them in boxing attire, e.g. Aran Ryan's rips let you know what it'd be like if Crazy Frog was in the game.
- "Raft Ride" from The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening has been ripped over 100 times and also appeared in rips of numerous other tracks. When the track does get melody-swapped, you can still expect the final note of every other musical phrase to be pitched up an octave.
Non-rip/Misc.
- During the first season, whenever SiIva hosted a livestream he would usually repeat "5 nights of snop dog" in the chat. It cropped up in a few rips too.
- Pretty much every album announcement video from the first season has an "update" in the description where SiIvaGunner is flustered as to why the artist and song names get "corrupted"—of course, it's because the albums properly credit the channel's creative team. During President Haltmann's tenure as channel host in the second season, this was superseded by a new gag where he always is sure to mention some excuse as to why all the album's sales are being donated to charity (or otherwise being discarded).
- On January 3rd, 2018, in order to commemorate Ken Ashcorp's 27th Birthday, every single rip that featured snippets of his music had its default comment sorting set to "Newest", as per (alleged) tradition of Ken doing that exact thing since he lifted the comment ban on his channel circa 2016.
