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Greasy Tales, formerly Sexualobster or Sexual-lobster, is the online handle of Australian animator and musician Chris Voigt. His body of work consists of various shorts and series that are typically completely unconnected aside from sharing an irreverent, surreal comedic tone, transgressive storylines that frequently involve violence, drug abuse and sex, and his unique art and animation style. All of which is accompanied by the creator's original music and singing. Voigt got his start on Newgrounds in 2005 before settling onto Youtube.

Some of the recurring series on Greasy Tales include:

  • Greasy Moose (2005-present): The flagship series, which follows the trio of Fernando the Manwhore, Gooseman, and Randy on their misadventures through Pleasure Island and later on, their attempts to expand their company Manwhore Industries through unscrupulous means.
  • Meth Orcs (2016-present): Orc warrior Trestog goes on an epic fantastical quest...for meth.
  • Great Destiny Man (2010-present): Great Destiny Man, who is definitely not based on Steven Seagal, goes on a quest to achieve his great destiny - and winds up ruining a lot of people's lives in the process.
  • Raw Latex (2013-2016): A Mon parody where people fight using sex toys strapped to their foreheads.
  • Ragemelon (2012-2016): The rage-fueled watermelon Ragemelon fights crime in a world full of Anthropomorphic Food and Funny Animals.
  • Sweet Boy Beach (2017-2020): Follows the lives of achingly pretty beach bums Cuthbert and Dante.
  • Angry Dog (2006-2008): A vulgar Sitcom starring Funny Animals.

His content can be found on Newgrounds and YouTube, and he also has a Patreon and a Discord. He also has a second channel, which primarily hosts karaoke versions of his original songs and a few original songs that aren't hosted on his main channel for one reason or another.


Greasy Tales provides examples of:

  • After the End: "What if ur mom was anime?" has Tracksuit Man asking questions back and forth with an extremely weird man on a payphone in a destroyed town.
  • Anachronic Order: The Manwhore Industries episodes all take place after Pleasure Island, but the latter series wasn't completed until Final Climax dropped in 2020.
  • Animated Music Video: He has a ton of original songs, which range from predictably bawdy ("Rectal Computer") to surprisingly poignant ("Fill My Black Hole") but still suggestive, and each one has an animated music video.
  • Ass Shove: "Rectal Computer":
    I went to the doctor cause my gut was playing up,
    He said son your throat is too small I'm gonna have to put this up your butt,
    He bent me over and told me to think of something pleasant,
    It felt like he had a handful of stuffing and I was some kind of pheasant
  • Art Evolution: Chris' earlier animations had a rough, vaguely-Animesque artstyle with thick lines. Beginning around 2009 he began transitioning to his current refined style. While most of his pre-2009 material is exclusive to Newgrounds, the evolution can be seen pretty clearly on YouTube between Pleasure Island 1 and 2.
  • Author Avatar: The channel's mascot (as shown above), who's depicted as a crazy-eyed greasy shut-in who never blinks, is meant to be a self-insert of Voigt himself.
  • Bait-and-Switch: "The Girl on TV" starts off as a song about a Stalker with a Crush - who ends up witnessing his crush summon the demon god Glycon in a satanic ritual, plunging the world in darkness.
  • Big Damn Heroes: In Pleasure Island 4, Gooseman finds himself pinned by the Crab-Walrus, screaming in anticipation of its laser blast, when Fernando saves him in the nick of time by spearing it in the back.
  • Continuity Creep: Greasy Moose started off as standalone skits that happened to feature the same couple of characters, frequently resulting in situations such as major characters like Gooseman dying and coming back in the next episode and characters changing personalities willy-nilly. With Pleasure Island, the series began to follow a chronological continuity with clearly-defined characters.
  • Darkest Hour: Played for Laughs in "Despair", where Tracksuit Man is contemplating suicide after getting overwhelmed with emails, particularly one requesting a sponsorship for Raid: Shadow Legends.
  • Destructive Savior: Ragemelon takes revenge on Black Stabbath for killing a mother duck and her babies in front of Ragemelon by obliterating him (and the club full of people he's in) with dynamite. When the Police Chief expresses dismay at the civilian casualties, Ragemelon insists there "was no other way!"
  • Disproportionate Retribution: In ''Pleasure Island 2'': How does Gooseman respond to a man who nonchalantly refuses to tell him where the Walrus Pits where? Why, smash his head in like a grape, of course.
  • Double Entendre: Pretty much all of his original songs are barely-hidden sexual references. You'd have to be extremely sheltered to not understand what "Vertical Seafood Taco" is about.
  • Election Day Episode: "Gooseman Runs for Office", where Gooseman runs for a senate seat while accusing eight government officials of being lizards and fighting off allegations of running an organ-harvesting ring (the latter of which is definitely true). He doesn't win, but isn't too upset by it.
  • Everything Is Online: Not only is the narrator's rectal computer in "Rectal Computer" somehow internet-capable, it gets hacked and reprogrammed to give him gas.
  • Fantastic Drug: While plenty of real-world drugs get consumed on Greasy Tales, there are several made-up ones that are just as bad.
    • Gendo's berries in Great Destiny Man, which are basically magic mushrooms with the added benefit of granting mild magic resistance.
    • Todd McGovern's Mexican jumping beans, which when consumed have a similar effect to cocaine, complete with nosebleeds.
    • Meth Orcs inverts this trope: despite taking place in a Standard Fantasy Setting, the drug of choice is crystal meth.
  • Green Aesop: Parodied in a twisted way by "Captain Planet Rampage", where the mass destruction Captain Planet wreaks is said to have released more carbon dioxide than human industry ever did. The lesson is, don't set the world ablaze to cover up your crimes because it's bad for the environment.
  • Hilariously Abusive Childhood: Billy's dad in "Razor Blades" drunkenly smashes a beer bottle across his face, only to shout "someone glassed Billy!" once he realized what he did. His parents simply bandage up his face (his entire face, leaving him blind) and drop him off at summer camp. This may sound awful, but it wraps right back around to hilarious when Billy rips off his bandages and reveals the glassing somehow made him ridiculously handsome, a la Handsome Squidward.
  • Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: In his first episode, Great Destiny Man slays some spirits who confronted him in a forest. Instead of getting thanked by the ragged girl who shows up afterwards, he gets cussed out for killing the forest's guardian spirits, thus dooming her village to outside attack.
  • Good Thing You Can Heal: Ragemelon is able to pull himself back together pretty quickly after being completely splattered. Just not quite quickly enough to stop Black Stabbath from killing a mother duck and her ducklings.
  • I Love the Dead: "Cops On Fire With Erections": After killing a man and scratching the hell out of his face, Death and the cat decide to have sex with his body, pretty much just because.
  • Ice-Cream Koan: "Saten & Jezus": A dragon spits out a businessman, a eagle drops an egg that contains a businesswoman, and the two get trampled by prancing beasts until they meet up to consider their existences. Jesus (on a sea turtle) and Satan (on a giant cat) show up to try to convince the two to join them on their respective rides. An allegory for salvation versus temptation in Christianity? Or just more surreal humor that isn't meant to be taken seriously?
  • Intercourse with You: Fernando's "Manwhore" series of songs, though his come-ons are more bizarre and vaguely threatening than sexy.
    My rhymes will grab you by the throat
    And ride you like a sturdy goat
    I will drown you in my scent
    with or without your consent
  • Klingon Promotion: In "Fernando and the South American Swap Meat", Gooseman, Fernando, and Randy take over Pleasure Island after defeating Vera and the Pleasure Police.
  • Little Bit Beastly: Catboys are a recurring theme in his animations: The Catboy Assassins that attack Trestog in Meth Orcs, the Greek catboys in Prince of Vibes, and his own self-insert making out with Felix Argyle.
  • Mad Scientist: Doctor Von Ironfist, secondary antagonist of Pleasure Island, is a parody of one who splices together random creatures into monstrosities, some of which are completely ineffective (the "man-beetle-eel" with 10 tiger spleens, educated with pictures of him in a dress that he then gave herpes somehow, predictably falls immediately to Gooseman), while others are surprisingly dangerous (the "crab walrus", which is able to fight Gooseman to near victory).
  • Out-of-Genre Experience: "Lovely Walrus" has a live-action video, featuring Chris in the flesh playing instruments and singing while superimposed over imagery of walruses.
  • Penal Colony: Pleasure Island itself was intended to house convicts and it is currently run by a dominatrix and her gang of sexually deviant thugs - yet, it's also popular as an idyllic holiday destination.
  • Ripped from the Headlines: "What if ur mum was anime?" jokes about Prince Andrew's controversial association with convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein.
  • Sunglasses at Night: Gooseman never takes his off, even when entering a dark cave, as Fernando points out in World's Greatest Manwhore Pt. 2.
    Fernando: "Take your sunglasses off, that might help."
    Gooseman: "Never!"
  • Random Events Plot: Any video that isn't part of an established series like Pleasure Island where Chris lets his viewers write the plot inevitably turns into this. "Cops On Fire With Erections" is probably the most egregious.
  • Really Gets Around: Fernando may be the Manwhore, but it's shown that Randy and Gooseman get plenty of action as well.
  • Schizo Tech: The world of Meth Orcs is a Standard Fantasy Setting with fictional races like orcs and elves and weapons technology seemingly stuck in Medieval Stasis - yet somehow, the technology (or magic) and knowledge to synthesize methamphetamine is available and widespread.
  • "Shaggy Dog" Story: In "Meth Orcs: The Stench of Failure", Treshtog loses his friends and gets covered in own his own urine, only to find out that the meth chest he was transporting was actually full of quartz.
  • Surreal Humor: His works are as weird as they are funny.
  • Too Dumb to Live: In ''Ultimate Street Yacht Battle'', Fernando gets tasked with fencing some gold that Gooseman stole from a Russian bullion dealer. Along the way, he gets distracted by a yoghurt shop and winds up trying to sell the gold to the very same Russians Gooseman stole from. Needless to say, he gets captured and it's up to Gooseman and Randy to rescue him.
    • The protagonist from "My Mother-in-Law is a Scorpion" thought it was a good idea to insult a scorpion the size of a human being. His mother-in-law paralyzes his legs for his trouble.
  • Unstoppable Rage: Ragemelon's whole raison d'etre.
  • The 'Verse: Greasy Tales is made up of stories that take place in completely different universes that are connected via the common themes of quirky characters, transgressive storylines that often involve drugs and sex, and greasiness (both metaphorically and literally).
  • Vicious Cycle: "Captain Planet Rampage": A freakout leads Captain Planet to kill a police officer and two children, and to cover this up he decides to eliminate all witnesses. Unfortunately, these killings only attract more witnesses, leading him into a spiral of destruction that ends with him basically setting the whole world ablaze.
  • Villain Protagonist: The Pleasure Island trio as Manwhore Industries engage in grand theft, murder, illegal gambling and also run an organ harvesting operation. While Gooseman, Fernando and Randy weren't exactly heroic in Pleasure Island, they were largely just minding their own business until they got attacked by Vera and Doctor Von Ironfist's creations.

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