Sventoonie is a spin-off of both Toon In With Me and Svengoolie which debuted in 2022 after the latter. Hosted by Toony the Tuna in Svengoolie attire, it's billed as the "official Svengoolie after-party", and even takes place in the same dungeon as that program. Unlike Svengoolie, this show doesn't air full movies but instead recaps them in humorous fashion. This is accompanied by skits starring Sventoonie, his co-hosts Blob E. Blob and Trevor Ground, as well as various recurring and one-shot characters. It was renewed for a second season, which debuted on October 1, 2022. Originally airing at 10 pm/9 central on MeTV, it was pushed back to 10:30/9:30 once its preceding program Svengoolie expanded to 2 1/2 hours starting in 2023. (Unlike the parent show, it has discrete seasons and does not run 52 weeks a year; rather than repeats, the downtime between seasons has Batman (1966) run in the timeslot.)
Sventoonie provides examples of:
- Blackmail Backfire: In "You've Got Blackmail", Sventoonie, Trevor and Blob plan to beat the blackmailer at his own game by revealing embarrassing secrets before he can.
- Book Ends: Season 2 begins and ends with episodes featuring Ruddy Weaver taking over the show- the first, by turning it into a daytime talk show, the second, by hosting a "best guest star" contest.
- Catchphrase: Ruddy Weaver starts most sentences with "Lemme tell ya somethin'..."
- Sventoonie frequently says "Oopser doopsers!" during the movie recaps.
- Department of Redundancy Department: Episode 5 is titled "An American Vampire in America".
- Dramatic Unmask: "You've Got Blackmail" mostly plays it for laughs, but it also offers a genuine example. The masked blackmailer is at first revealed to be Ruddy Weaver, only to be Fratbrostein, then Batty Bradley, then Sea Captain, then Crack Rickelson, then Svengoolie, and finally Ruddy again. After Trevor questions why someone would wear all of these masks, we get the real twist: it's really Bill the Cartoon Curator.
- Dream Within a Dream: "Ain't No Party Like a Donner Party" has Sventoonie experience horrible nightmares in succession: Kerwyn proving more popular than he is, Trevor being the real host of the show, and (what he considers the worst one of all) co-hosting a weekday show about cartoons.
- Early-Installment Weirdness: The first couple episodes had more make-up under Sventoonie's eyes, and a bigger mustache and goatee. Both were refined in short order. Also, the first two episodes didn't have Trevor Ground or the extensive amount of pointing arrows during the movie recaps.
- Formula-Breaking Episode: The penultimate episode of Season Two, "Slightly Later with Sventoonie", has him interview Svengoolie and Internet personality Goth Dad talk show style, complete with a unique title sequence and no movie recap.
- "Freaky Friday" Flip: "I Wanna Seance With Somebody" features the souls of Sventoonie, Trevor, Blob, and Svengoolie switching around.
- Friendly Zombie: "Specimen Container" introduces Trevor Ground, who worked in a video store before he died. He showed up simply to get an old tape back, but as video stores are long gone, he stayed on as Sventoonie's other sidekick. He's typically credited with selecting the movies going forward.
- Halloween Episode: "Sventoonie's Scary, Merry Halloween!" is a double-length episode that also doubles as a Christmas Special (due to Sventoonie's belief that Christmas specials always overshadow Halloween ones). The featured movie is Santa Claus Conquers the Martians, while the skits mix Halloween and Christmas tropes together (such as a horror-themed gift exchange).
- Instrumental Theme Tune: Two notes repeated a few times on a synthesizer. It sounds like something that would come from an '80s horror movie.
- It's a Wonderful Plot: Subverted in the Season 2 Christmas Episode "It's a Wonderful Loss of Life": Trevor Ground wishes he'd never died. Ruddy Weaver shows him how horrible the world would've been if he had stayed alive, starting with Sventoonie having to show cutesy movies (hence the episode's subject, The Great Rupert).
- Latex Perfection: A Running Gag in "You've Got Blackmail".
- Once an Episode: Svengoolie briefly opening his coffin to address something said on the show, and shutting it immediately afterwards.
- Our Product Sucks: A frequent gag in the commercial parodies.
- Overly Narrow Superlative: Sventoonie considers himself the best fish Horror Host there ever was.
- Pixellation: Blob E. Blob's mouth is often presented that way — presumably he's swearing when that happens.
- Product Placement: In "You've Got Blackmail", Bill Leff turns out to be the man behind all the masks, as he just wanted to participate in Sventoonie. This is accompanied by "Shameless Plug" on the screen.
- Puppet Shows: Sventoonie and Blob are performed this way; everyone else is typically regular actors interacting with them.
- Retool: The second season premiere briefly tries to retool the series as a late night talk show. It quickly reverts to the usual format though.
- Romantic Comedy: Parodied in one skit, where a trailer posits Trevor as a dead Nice Guy that falls for an Endearingly Dorky girl with severe allergies.
- Self-Deprecation: Sven makes occasional cameos to complain about how loud the characters are being.
- "You've Got Blackmail" has a joke towards the end about how many of Kevin Fleming's characters seem so similar when viewed one after another, which suggests an actor with limited range. Sventoonie (voiced by Fleming) naturally doesn't see it.
- Suspiciously Similar Substitute: In the season 2 premiere, Ruddy Weaver replaces Svengoolie with a woman dressed as him named Svengoonie. It's part of his ill-fated and short-lived attempt to retool the show.
- Technology Marches On: Invoked: A gag when video store clerk Trevor Ground is introduced — he died three decades ago and is unaware that people watch movies on their phones now, instead of on VHS. Trevor sarcastically remarks how much fun that sounds, and mimes holding a landline phone to his ear.
- Toilet Humour: Fart jokes are common, especially for Trevor Ground.
- The Voiceless: Blob E. Blob, whose only sounds are typically air horns.
- Waxing Lyrical: Done repeatedly in "Chairman of the Circuit Board": Sventoonie works in numerous Frank Sinatra song titles while recapping The Man with the Golden Arm.
