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The short contains the following tropes: (2/48)
- Confession Cam: Bloo uses one in the MTV and The Office (US) segments which are a staple for these shows to talk shit about Trevor.
- Gratuitous Greek: The part takes place in the frat house of ΔUΧ as a pun on auxiliary (AUX) port given everybody has electronics for heads.
- Shout-Out:
- Trevor, a boombox-headed guy who speaks entirely in beatboxing, is a reference to Juke from The Amazing World of Gumball with the same gimmick.
- One of the party-goers has a Tamagotchi for a head.
- In a Freeze-Frame Bonus, there's a crewmate on a post-it note when seeing through the Plasma Ball guy.
- When Bloo is knocked unconscious from Trevor chucking a beer keg at him, a parody of the Blu-ray screensaver
is played across his face alluding to his Punny Name.
- 2D Visuals, 3D Effects: Sitcom parody
- Amazing Technicolor Population: Trevor and Bloo being a Yellow/Purple Contrast respectively
- Anachronism Stew: Despite the short being set in the year 2004, as seen on the date of the news footage, a few of the references (Such as ...) when the duo was switching channels are after that year.
- Animate Inanimate Object: Sliding Scale of Anthropomorphism
- Art Shift:
- Aspect Ratio Switch:
- Author Avatar: the MP3-headed
- Bittersweet Ending:
- Breaking News Interruption:
- Content Warnings:
- Crawl:
- Destructive Romance:
- Does This Remind You of Anything?:
- The Faceless: Since everybody has
- Freeze-Frame Bonus:
- Fun with Subtitles:
- Gay Aesop:
- Groin Attack: something along the lines of
- Inkblot Cartoon Style: The second channel, Deliberately Monochrome
- Intelligible Unintelligible:
- Italians Talk with Hands: The Godfather parody has the pair ...hands up in the gesture
- Kilroy Was Here: TREVOR WUZ HEЯE
- Left the Background Music On: a hangover record player, end credits "StaticElectricity" by REY GWEN.
- Love Cannot Overcome: their relationship cannot be salvaged anymore
- Manly Gay: Trevor, buff frat boy
- Medium-Shift Gag: struggling for the remote
- Monochromatic Eyes: Bloo, white eyes
- Mood Whiplash:
- Non-Human Head: electronic or appliance
- Noodle Incident: During the The Office (US) segment, Bloo listed ...including....
- Ominous Multiple Screens:
- One Head Taller: Trevor is more than twice the height of Bloo
- Opposites Attract: deconstructed
- Punny Name: The leads' names are Bloo (Blu-Ray), Trevor B. Box (middle initial and last name, beatbox or boombox)
- Shout-Out:
- The paintings adorned in the Sitcom house include the Minecraft-version of "Paradisträd", Jerma
- The second channel is in Inkblot Cartoon Style akin to Steamboat Willie.
- The third is a reenaction of the bus-stop scene from My Neighbor Totoro with Bloo as Satsuki and Trevor as an aggressive Totoro respectively.
- Next up is a The Godfather parody complete with Italian accents and gesturing. Bloo plays the part of Don Vito Corleone while stroking a black cat who has a heavy resemblance to Pipi.
- Reality Show parody
- The Office (US) (NBC logo reading "GAY"), The Nutcracker was also mentioned
- Channel 5 news
- The Crawl in the News Case namedrops a ton of short films in the SCAD's showcase and other media.In Order of Appearance
- There's a quick shot of Bloo slumping over a chair in frustration, reenacting the "Shinji in a Chair" scene from Neon Genesis Evangelion.
- The tv logo for the Telenovela segment reads "Trevormundo" with Trevor's face on the T.
- Trevor and Bloo are Batman and Joker respectively
- Bloo wearing Audrey Hepburn's iconic black Givenchy dress and holding a cigarette in a holder in one hand and a croissant in another, Breakfast at Tiffany's homage
- Homer Simpson
- Wheel of Fortune-esque gameshow, Trevor acting in Vanna White's role
- When struggling for control over the remote, it quickly changes channels... Spongebob Squarepants, Twilight, Sesame Street
- Once Trevor and Bloo snap back into reality, the posters are Jaws, Gorillaz's Demon Days (Album), ABBA, two other posters
- Clicker ends with the HBO Family static screen
- Sitcom Homage Episode: The first channel ...parody those 90s
- Skull for a Head: Bloo
- Sphere Eyes: type II
- Studio Audience: sitcom, Laugh Track
- Tagline: "We can't fix this... can we?" ....Double Meaning of Bloo and Trevor fixing the remote but also their relationship
- Turn of the Millennium: The setting takes place, 06/06/2004
- Trapped in TV Land:
- The Twink: Bloo, the MTV parody even calls him one
- Unmoving Plaid: sitcom
- Wacky Fratboy Hijinx: sorority house, frat party
- Walking Shirtless Scene: Trevor spends most of short
- Wild Teen Party:
Trivia
- Creator Cameo: MP3 player head is
