Overly Sarcastic Productions / Trivia

Corpsing: On the channel's first Q&A, Red is visibly trying not to laugh when she sees her roommate making befuddled faces from behind the camera. By the third time, she... might have cracked off-screen.
Creator Backlash:
- Red admitted in the God of War III live stream that her video on The Inferno wasn't done well enough to her liking, due to the amount of work she had to do with her art skills.
- The video on the story of the "Rainbow Crow" immediately got this after Red learned that the myth never existed; and was considered offensive to the Lenape people due to the spread of misinformation about their culture. She proceeded note that the myth was fabricated in the video's title, description, and comment section.
- Blue described his Armchair History: The Borgia video as unfit for his standards of historical research and presentation. He also displayed a lack of sentimentalism towards his video about the Athenian Empire, even apologizing for its very existence. He even made a playlist showing all the videos that he's no longer proud of.
- Red is dissatisfied with Classics Summarized: The Iliad, due to it being the first video she drew for and is unhappy with the results.
Deleted Role: In addition to the video itself video being unlisted, Shadiversity's segments from the Norman episode were subsequently removed after he started expressing his rightwing Christian Conservative views more openly.
Falsely Advertised Accuracy: Their video on "Rainbow Crow" states that it's a Lenape folk story, but it wasn't until a couple of months had passed that Red learned that it isn't even a real folk story, let alone one from the Lenape people. She acknowledged this publicly and apologized for spreading misinformation, along with changing the description, title, and pinned comment.
Queer Character, Queer Actor: Red is asexual and she voices asexual characters, like Artemis and Athena for example, in the videos about Greek mythology.
Real Song Theme Tune:
- The series uses real songs in certain sequences, and Red usually sings a song in the end credits of her videos. But if you're really curious, someone did make a whole YouTube playlist of the background songs used in the OSP videos; highlights include:
- The Wake Me's Cover Version of "Kiss From a Rose" (originally by Seal) and Bonnie Tyler's "Total Eclipse of the Heart" are both used for romantic scenes.
- A common background piece of music in Miscellaneous Myths is Walter Wanderley's "Summer Samba", often when a character is pondering on something. Similarly Monkeys Spinning Monkeys by Kevin Macleod also gets the same use.
- In scenes highlighting lust or attraction, the intro to George Michael's "Careless Whisper" is used.
- In scenes emphasizing tragedy, a toned down part of the Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood soundtrack is used.
- Two Steps from Hell is also a common band heard in their videos. "Starfall", is notable for being used for scenes involving mystery, exoticness, or intensity. "Flight of the Silverbird" is also sometimes used in moments of heartwarming epicness.
- For scenes about war, conquest, or other mass bloodshed, "Mars, Bringer of War" is used.
Serendipity Writes the Plot: The channel's early summaries of classic works use footage of film and stage versions of various works to form the visuals. However, when making a video on The Iliad, Red found that there were no particularly good adaptations for her to use for footage, with nearly all existing ones being heavily altered. Consequently, she decided to simply draw the summary instead, conveying the events of the epic through cute-looking sketches. This turned out far more popular than the prior method, and Red's artwork became a major part of the channel as a result, with nearly all future videos made by Red (and some by Blue) involving Red's art in some way.
She Also Did:
- After some time of rumination and preparation, Red officially launched her personal webcomic Aurora which can be found here.
- Indigo, who handles the podcast and technical side of livestreams, also runs a podcast named Movie Struck, where she goes through and talks about movies, which Red and Blue have been guests on.
- Indigo (going by Sophia) and Red are both players on the Actual Play podcast Rolling With Difficulty.
- Red is also a player in the Actual Play of Dungeons & Dragons run by JoCat known as Heart of Elynthi. Red played a druid named Laira.
What Could Have Been:
- Sometimes factoids that were going to be brought up are either brought up in the video itself or during the credits, often having to be cut for time.
- Red brings up that she was going to do Dracula in the same atmospheric style as the book (which is an Epistolary Novel), but that it went on for around thirty minutes, and thus did it in her usual style.