The Amazing Tour is Not on Fire, also known as TATINOF, is a quasi-fictional theatrical stage show by YouTubers Dan and Phil in which Phil accidentally breaks the Internet by microwaving his laptop, exploding its contents like popcorn, forcing Dan and Phil to learn to entertain an audience without the very thing that made them.
TATINOF served as a companion piece to The Amazing Book is Not on Fire (2015). With UK, US, Australia, and Europe legs stretched across 2015 and 2016, it was the first tour Dan and Phil embarked on, as well as one of, if not the first major YouTuber tour. This would be followed by an even more international, less theatrical tour Interactive Introverts in 2018.
In October 2016, Dan and Phil released a filmed version of the Dolby Theater show in Los Angeles as a YouTube Red Original Film, alongside a behind-the-scenes documentary titled Dan and Phil's Story of TATINOF. This was seen by some as an unofficial conclusion to the 2012—2015 era of Dan and Phil's branding.
Tropes found in TATINOF:
- Audience Participation: Audience members would send in submissions for segments such as Uncle Dan's Phone Support Hotline and the fanart section.
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Bonus Material: They uploaded a video showing Phil trying to get his laptop to charge by sticking it in the microwave, which serves as a prologue to the show. - Camp: The versions of Dan and Phil they play on stage are essentially exaggerated, more theatrical versions of their online personas. Dan in particular gets very melodramatic, possibly due to his Wokingham Youth Theatre background.
- Character as Himself: The film's closing credits simply say Dil Howlter (Dan and Phil's Sim) played himself, keeping whoever was under the mask a mystery. Dil even has an IMDb page as a result.
- Cringe Comedy: Deliberately invoked as the show revives several (at the time) old Running Gags, such as llamas and lions, as a way to commemorate the era.
- Framing Device: The giant microwave — it breaks the Internet, which is used as justification for why Dan and Phil now have to entertain their audience live and transpose their YouTube content for the stage.
- Heroic BSoD: Dan goes into an existential crisis towards the end as he fears the Internet will never be fixed, which Phil has to talk him out of.
- In-Joke: Both TATINOF and Interactive Introverts relied heavily on their YouTube content, and you would have to be a regular viewer in order to understand them. Sometimes during shows, they would even reference something from a video they'd uploaded that same week.
- Interactive Fiction: For the fanfiction section, certain paths presented by the voiceover would be chosen based on how loud the audience Squee for each option.
- Live on Stage!: Many segments of the show are directly transposed from Dan and Phil's video series, such as Uncle Dan's Phone Support Hotline being a live version of Internet Support Group.
- Medium Awareness: Dan is rather freaked out by the fanfiction segment and has a bad feeling about where it's leading. Phil, on the other hand, is relatively chill about it.
- No Fourth Wall: The audience are very much included in the show's storyline.
- Slipstream Genre: As far as we know, nothing akin to the phenomenon of a microwave exploding the Internet has occurred before or after in the Dan and Phil universe.
- Stage Magician: Phil becomes the Amazing Phil (a play on his YouTube username) on stage and does a magic segment.
- Story Branch Favoritism: For the fanfiction segment of almost every TATINOF show, the audience chose "Phil draws Dan like a French girl" over "Dan and Phil share a cake". This turned out to be intentionally misleading, as the latter option was actually more "suggestive" than the former, with Phil literally feeding Dan a cake. Alas, most fans fell for the bait.
- Sudden Musical Ending: The show concludes with Dan and Phil — donned in gold suits — performing a musical number "The Internet is Here", celebrating all that's great about the Internet. They would later release a studio version of the song for charity.
- Totally Radical: They (especially Dan) incorporate some Internet memes that were popular at the time, such as "Here comes dat boi."
