Web Animation / Team Neighborhood

Have you ever wondered what the colorful cast of Team Fortress 2 do when they aren't blowing each other up over pits of gravel?

Team Neighborhood, an episodic Machinima created by Greatdictator and Batman1138, features the RED and BLU teams (and assorted characters from other games) living directly across each other in a suburban neighborhood. There are also a few related videos included in Team Neighborhood's Grand Canon, in which RED and BLU partake in similar zany escapades.

Each episode revolves around them performing some relatively mundane activity (like hosting a barbecue or trying to watch a TV show), but since this is a World of Ham, these activities are taken to their logical extremes, and thus, fly out of control. Meanwhile, a mysterious third party ( Gray Mann and his Killer Robot army) has taken an interest in the teams' off-work exploits.

Owing to production difficulties on Episode 5, in December 2022 Team Neighborhood - Chronicles premiered, existing within the same canon but allowing the creators to further show off the characters' antics that aren't part of the main story.

Videos in the Team Neighborhood Grand Canon

• HEAVY'S QUEST: Adventures in Video Games n' Shit (December 2014)
  • Heavy realizes he forgot to get Christmas presents for his team, and in his effort to make a present for the Engineer he makes a teleporter which accidentally transports him into various other videogames.
• Moments with Heavy - Movie Night (February 2015)
  • The BLU House is in shambles after a particularly rowdy party, and Heavy is equal parts delighted to see that it's movie night and disgusted to find out it's his turn to do the chores. This video was made as a tribute to Garry's Mod animator kitty0706 who passed away in January 2015.
• Soldier Makes a Video (March 2016)
  • The BLU Soldier makes a video. He then goes on an epic quest to harass Scout for not liking it.
• The Loneliest Medic (February 2017)
  • The RED Medic gets depressed when the Heavy goes out to the shops and decides to show his depression by getting out a piano and playing "One" by Three Dog Night.

1. Team Neighborhood: The Grill (April 2017)
   • The first episode of the series proper. The RED Medic and Engineer build a grill. It doesn't stay just a grill for very long.
2. Team Neighborhood: Cable Calamity (August 2017)
   • The second episode of the series proper. With the BLU Team's internet knocked out, the Soldier goes on a quest to steal the RED Team's cable.
3. Team Neighborhood: Pool Fools (October 2017)
   • The third episode of the series proper. Amidst an agonizing heatwave, the RED Team get a pool. The BLU Team want in.
4. Team Neighborhood: Bush Beaters (November 2018)
   • The fourth episode of the series proper. The RED Sniper, Scout and Demoman set off to compete in the "Bushman's Challenge".

• Team Neighborhood Chronicles: Frozen Fortress (December 2022)
  • A prequel episode set before the four episodes. A documentary examining the world's 78th largest snowball fight as perpetrated by RED and BLU.

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The tropes featured in Team Neighborhood are:

• Added Alliterative Appeal: Aside from Episode 1 ("The Grill"), all the episode titles are either this ("Cable Calamity", "Bush Beaters" and "Frozen Fortress") or Rhymes on a Dime ("Pool Fools").
• Again with Feeling: Inverted. When fleeing from the Papa Bigfoot in Sniper's van, Scout accidentally runs into a Wahammer 40K Space Marine who threatens him with "You're so dead!". Then the Marine notices exactly what Scout was fleeing from and ammends his statement "Uh, like I said, you're so dead. See ya."
• A.I. Is a Crapshoot: The Grill from the first episode becomes hostile the second the RED Engineer who created it kicks it out of frustration. After it transforms into a humanoid shape, it then spends the rest of its screen-time terrorizing the RED team with its weaponry and brute strength.
• The Alcoholic: The Demomen, as usual. In "The Grill" alone, the RED Demoman spends the majority of his screen time in a drunken sleep. Although despite his alcoholism, BLU Demoman is sometimes shown to be one of the more sensible mercenaries.
• All for Nothing: Just when it seemed the RED Team was going to win the snowball fight, BLU Spy blew the whistle to the Administrator about the whole thing, forcing the two teams to knock it off and declare peace, virtually robbing the RED Team of their win.
  RED Scout: It was fucking bullshit! We won that battle!
  RED Soldier: I... have never been robbed of a victory like that since the Badwater Tournament in 2015!
• Ambiguous Gender: Both Pyros as usual, and accentuated by their differing hobbies. The RED Pyro likes barbecuing, a stereotypically masculine hobby, while the BLU Pyro likes gardening, a stereotypically feminine hobby.
• Animation Bump: The series is done in Garry's Mod by default, but when a scene calls for more fluid animation (like the moving backgrounds of the driving sequences in Episode 4) it switches to Source Filmmaker.
• Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever: The giant Papa Bigfoot in the climax of "Bush Beaters," who chases the RED team through the forest.
• Bait-and-Switch:
  • Early in "Bush Beaters," when the RED Scout is visiting a gas station bathroom, he catches some graffiti on the wall that declared the reader would be "consensually pummeled in da butt" at a certain time. Unfortunately, now was that time; Roadhog lumbers into the restroom and slams open the occupied stall's door... But upon noticing the frightened Scout, the brute meekly apologizes for scaring him and walks away. Just as Scout takes a breath of relief, Frank the Shark rushes in.
  • When the BLU Team gets locked out of their house in "Frozen Fortress", the Demoman lifts up the doormat to reveal a crowbar. However, rather than just break the door open, they give it to Scout, throw him in through a window and have him break the door open from the inside.
    • Later on, after the RED Engineer and Medic have engineered a giant water balloon shaped like a hydrogen bomb, it needs a delivery system. RED Soldier hypes up an American military transport plane, with shots of the citizens of Garrysville being in awe of it. Then, before it actually reaches the teams' neighborhood, Soldier admits he doesn't actually know anyone who has one of those, and the plane flies out of shot to be replaced with a tiny biplane which is having trouble even carrying the bomb.
• Bait-and-Switch Credits: "Pool Fools," initially opens with the BLU Team playing basketball against the Harlem Globetrotters. This premise is quickly abandoned, however, when GreatDictator and Batman1138 realize that they can't do the episode without actual models for the Globetrotters.
• Batter Up!: As per usual, the Scouts are armed with their iconic baseball bats. In "Pool Fools" Bill is seen carrying a large cricket bat with big thumbtacks attached to it when scaring off Francis.
• Berserk Button: In "The Grill," the RED Pyro is not happy when the titular grill roasts their clothing.
• Big Bad Ensemble: "Bush Beaters" has Frank the Shark, who not only pummels RED Scout in da butt, but also attacks the RED Team in the Fisher's Challenge and the night before the Parker's Challenge, Team Super Monday Night Combat, acting as the RED Team’s main rival in the Bushman’s Challenge and earning their ire by killing the Bigfoot, and Papa Bigfoot, who attacks the RED Team after Team SMNC kills his son.
• Bigger on the Inside: RED Sniper sleeps in his tent, which is inside a bedroom, which is inside a tent in the RED house's backyard.
• Bittersweet Ending: Many of the episodes end on such a note:
  • "The Grill" ends with the eponymous grill defeated, but the Administrator has to pay for the damages and likely punished the RED team for it.
  • "Cable Calamity" ends with the BLU team members successfully stealing the RED team's cable... but they can't directly control what airs because they left the TV remote in RED's house. Thus, when Game of Bones comes on, the channel suddenly changes to Oi! Fuck You! Friendship is Magic when a sleeping RED Demoman rolls over the remote.
  • "Frozen Fortress" in which the RED Team finally get a win over BLU only for the Administrator to snatch it out from under their noses by forcing them to sign a peace treaty.
• Black Comedy Rape: The scene where Frank the Shark rapes the RED Scout in a bathroom stall is played for comedy. The documentary Sniper watches outside makes specific mention of Tibetan land sharks having a 36" penis and that it's mating season.
• Bland-Name Product: Shows up occasionally, but most obviously in "Cable Calamity," where the main conflict is BLU's inability to watch Game Of Bones due to their internet being destroyed, and them trying to steal RED's cable TV so they can watch it directly on HOBO.
• Bottomless Magazines: Played with in "The Grill." Most of the time, the RED team just keeps shooting the grill without pause, but the Heavy's minigun does run out of ammo at one point, and the Sniper takes cover to load bullets into his rifle.
• Brick Joke:
  • In "Pool Fools," right as the assembled and Übercharged BLU team is about to assault the RED Sentry Guns, a giant Soviet submarine arrives to offer the BLU Heavy a chance to fight for the motherland again. (he accepts to escape the heatwave). Then just as the BLU team teleports into the RED backyard and is about to kill the RED team, the BLU Heavy sabotages a rocket in flight, causing it to crash on the pool and destroy it. He returns in "Bush Beaters," where he arrived back in the Neighbourhood in the back seat of a Lada, dressed in winter clothes, and carrying suitcases.
  • In "Pool Fools," the RED Spy applied some sunscreen on RED Soldier's back saying "Vive La France". While the BLU Spy infiltrates the RED Pool Party, he sees the RED Spy's message and ruins his Heavy disguise by laughing normally.
  • Also in "Pool Fools," the RED Sniper, Pyro, Heavy, and Engineer try to use the Civilian's pool to cool off until he chases them out with his shotgun. Later, after the RED Team's pool is destroyed, both teams are forced to free-load in the Civilian's pool until he orders them all out, but it can be debated that the two teams just told him to fuck off.
  • The moose that briefly appears in "Pool Fools" returns in "Bush Beaters." He and his fellow woodland creatures confront CJ and his team in a brief gang war.
  • In RED Sniper's Imagine Spot of the consequences of the RED Engineer designing his own pool in "Pool Fools", the team's Soldier has somehow been set on fire. In "Frozen Fortress" the Soldier somehow gets set on fire while having a snowball fight, running across the screen with the same animation.
• Butt-Monkey: When it comes to depicting their official Team vs Team events, the RED Team almost always loses. Inversely, the BLU Team usually come off worse for wear when they're off duty as shown in the episodes.
• Call-Back: The earlier episodes are occasionally referenced in later ones.
  • Before BLU's internet gets destroyed in "Cable Calamity," the BLU Pyro is browsing gardening supplies. In the previous episode, while the RED team was fighting their grill, the BLU Pyro was quietly gardening in BLU's front yard.
  • In "Pool Fools," when the RED Engineer declares his intent to build a pool, the RED Sniper imagines the pool attacking the team like first episode's titular grill had. He quickly discourages his friend's plan and hires a contractor to have a pool installed for them. In the climax of that same episode, the BLU team bypasses RED's sentry guns by using the teleporter they used to steal RED's cable back in "Cable Calamity."
    • Also, when RED is enjoying their new pool, RED Engineer and Medic are cooking in the pool with a small purchased floating grill.
  • "Bush Beaters" Has several. Examples include:
    • The episode's Cold Open shows RED Sniper sniffing BLU Spy's chloroform-covered handkerchief and getting knocked out (which is what happened in "Cable Calamity").
    • His Badwater Incident flashback links to the previous three episodes' flashbacks, seeing BLU Soldier shooting rockets, telling the Medic to stay with him (and the Spy behind him turning out to be the enemy Spy) and watching RED Engie being blown up by the giant stickies.
    • Post-Time Skip, the episode starts up the day after "Pool Fools," complete with BLU Engie being wheeled way with his lower half still stuck in concrete, the Civilian and Miss Pauling picking up the remains of the RED Team's destroyed pool, and BLU Heavy returning from his adventures fighting Nazis and stopping a missile in flight.
    • The BLU Scout's being a shameless furry, which was established in "Cable Calamity," becomes a plot point in the fourth episode as well. The gas station furries mistake RED Scout for his BLU counterpart, and when he doesn't reciprocate their feelings, they angrily chase him and his friends out.
    • While RED Heavy is flipping between TV channels, a clip from Game of Bones is briefly seen.
    • During The Stinger, RED Scout can be heard in the background telling CJ about his team's adventures in previous episodes.
    • The RED Scout attracts an aggressive shark much like what had happened in "Pool Fools".
  • The main events of "Frozen Fortress" took place prior to Episode 1, but the interview segments are being filmed later on, so at the end of the episode the teams briefly mention the events of the first four episodes. A brief mention is also made of the disastrous Badwater tournament.
  • The radio near the beginning of "Bush Beaters" makes mention of a hot dog vandal, which gets mentioned again (or previously) in one of the newspaper articles detailing the start of the snowball fight in "Frozen Fortress".
• The Cameo: A lot to go around, lending to the fact that it's a GMOD animation. Later episodes - particularly "Bush Beaters" - establish that the Team Fortress mercenaries share a universe with multiple franchises.
  • One noteworthy cameo in "Bush Beaters" is that among the group of furries that confused RED Scout for the BLU one, is Rachael Saleigh from Las Lindas^note Although there's also the chance that the animator didn't know who she was and grabbed a random furry model.
  • "Frozen Fortress" features a number of cameos from other GMOD animators and video game characters, since In-Universe it's being filmed as a documentary.
  • A recurring occupant of their universe is a giant Lola Bunny, who first appears in the background of Soldier's travelling montage in "Soldier Makes a Video".
    • During the start of "Cable Calamity", she can be seen for a few frames during a time lapse.
    • She appears again in "Bush Beaters" as a giant eye leering into BLU's upper bedroom window. Later on, BLU Scout can be seen sticking photos he took of her in a variety of poses and angles, some of which seem to heavily focus on her feet and legs.
    • Her limbs can be seen in the background during an interview segment in "Frozen Fortress", teasing a basketball player.
• Cheaters Never Prosper: In the climax of "Bush Beaters", SMNC Sniper and his team receive a healthy dose of Laser-Guided Karma and get punted skywards by papa Bigfoot after they steal RED Sniper's kill, Bigfoot jr.
• Chekhov's Armoury: In "Bush Beaters," the gang's Fur-troit gas station hijinks set up several things throughout the story:
  • While in the bathroom, RED Scout gets raped by Frank the Shark. Frank returns during the fishing competition looking for more action and ends up injuring RED Sniper during the night.
    • It also helps give Team RED a respectable amount of points during the Fishing competition, as RED Demoman was reeling in washed golf clubs and RED Scout didn't care enough to prevent a fishing reel from escaping.
  • RED Demo takes a picture of a nearby tourist trap (a large banana statue) while RED Sniper fills up the van. The picture is later used to lure out Bigfoot during the Hunter's Challenge.
    • Also at that same time, RED Sniper is watching a documentary about Frank's species, the Great White Tibetan Land Shark that says the only way to repel it is to blow it up. And this is exactly what they do when Frank returns to attack them on two separate occasions later in the episode.
  • RED Scout accidentally obtains some anal lube while being mobbed by the furries. Later, during the Papa Bigfoot chase, he passes the lube off to the RED Demoman to squeeze a large bomb into his launcher. Hilariously upon seeing the lube Demo is taken by surprise but it is interrupted by Scout.
  • On the subject of that bomb, the RED Demoman is tinkering with it during the gas station visit. He seems to be getting frustrated trying to fix it, foreshadowing the bomb's dysfunctional state in the climax.
  • A large medkit falls out of the van while the RED trio escapes from the furries. The loss of this medkit prevents RED Sniper from quickly recovering from his encounter with Frank, which stops him from participating in the camping competition.
  • Conversely, the small medkit the RED Scout purchased from the gas station at least helps Sniper recover for the final contest.
• Chekhov's Gun: "Pool Fools" has the BLU Engineer's teleporter setup from "Cable Calamity." RED examines it towards the beginning but does nothing about it. The teleporter becomes integral to BLU's final pool raid; it allows the team to quickly take out RED's sentries while conveniently placing them near their now defenseless rivals. Pity that the plan was all for naught.
• Chekhov's Gunman: The toaster from Episode 1. Just as the RED team has been cornered by the Grill, the discarded toaster transforms into a massive machine itself and starts fighting the grill, eventually defeating it.
• Comically Missing the Point: A physicist commenting on the water balloon bomb in "Frozen Fortress" opted to remain anonymous for their interview segment, which is all well and good if the silhouette and distinctive text-to-speech voice didn't clearly reveal them to be Stephen Hawking.
• Continuity Nod: To Moments With Heavy - Movie Night with all of the Badwater Incident flashbacks, as it can be seen on the calendar in that video that the tourney at Badwater happened the day before; hence why everyone on BLU was so hungover. BLU Soldier also has a moment in "Cable Calamity" when he remembers shooting down a satellite in Movie Night.
  • BLU Soldier also previously encountered the giant Lola Bunny seen in "Cable Calamity" and "Bush Beaters" in another previous video by Greatdictator, Soldier Makes a Video.
• Creation Sequence: Used in the beginning of "The Grill" as the RED Medic and Engineer try to assemble the titular grill. They accidentally create a toaster instead. The sequence is then repeated, but sped-up, with the desired result.
• Creative Closing Credits: Each of the episodes features these, each based on the episode's premise:
  • "The Grill" has the credits appear on a chalkboard while surrounded by stylized drawings of the main characters.
  • "Cable Calamity" features a fly-around of the Team's houses that recaps the events of the episode with static images of the characters performing various activities. The later part of the credits has them scroll past silhouettes of the Team dancing on cables.
  • "Pool Fools" has a similar fly-around to the one in the previous episode, showing the RED Team's pool party. The scrolling portion of the credits is shown underwater with various floating objects, including some of the Team members' weapons.
  • "Bush Beaters" has paper cutout puppets recapping the events of the episode that are surrounded by pictures of the RED Sniper, Scout, and Demoman hanging out with members of the other teams as well as getting into various other antics during their trip.
  • Since "Frozen Fortress" is presented as a documentary, the first set of credits are for that documentary, and like documentary channels, those credits are soon minimized to the corner of the screen for the continuity announcer to introduce the next show. In this case, it's a show about Richard Hammond and James May squatting in Dracula's castle. While this is going on the documentary credits quickly devolve into complaining about how hard it is to learn Blender and whether anybody will notice the background footage comes from the Total War series before the actual video's credits come up. ^{What it reads:} I wonder if people will notice that the background videos are from the Total War games. Total War is very fun, go play it. It is usually discounted for very cheap during the Steam sales. Empire: Total War is underrated. Sure, the ship combat isn't that good, but it's a change of pace for the franchise. People love Total Warhammer. It doesn't have a menu video like the others. Oh well.
• Cub Cues Protective Parent: It turns out the first Bigfoot RED encounters was the son of a much bigger one that dwarves the forest's trees. He's not happy to see what fate has befallen his boy.
• Death Glare: In the "Frozen Fortress" episode, almost all RED Team members glare at the BLUs when their Soldier gets hit by a snowball, setting the stage for the epic snowball fight.
• Death Is Cheap: Just like its source material, death is meaningless since the characters will just respawn. This means they can be hilariously mutilated without consequence.
• Digging to China: An involuntary variation. The RED Soldier gets stomped on by the first episode's titular grill, and he emerges in Japan. He later returns via taxi.
• Disproportionate Retribution: In the Creative Closing Credits of "Bush Beaters," a Freeze-Frame Bonus reveals that the RED Scout offended the Funny Animals at the gas station by scribbling out the BLU Scout's face on a lewd magazine and signing it with his own signature.
• Divergent Character Evolution: Zigzagged. While the personalities of the members on both teams are quite similar, the members of the RED and BLU teams gain personality traits that help to distinguish them from each other. For instance, the BLU Scout is a furry, while the RED Scout decidedly isn't.
• Does This Remind You of Anything?: In "Bush Beaters," at the gas station, Scout is cornered in the bathroom by Frank the Shark. Off his scream, the camera cuts back outside to the Sniper, who has to ram the gas pump nozzle into the camper fan's fuel hole a few times to get it to fit.
• Double Meaning: In "Pool Fools," RED Spy's swimming trunks have a French Flag pattern, which contains both the colors blue and red. Given Spy's French Heritage, he can also disguise himself as the enemy, which makes him a Double Agent for both teams.
• Double Take: Occasionally happens, like when the RED Sniper exchanges glances between the shark being held by the RED Scout, and Pyro (who had earlier disguised as a shark to prank Scout).
• Downer Ending: "Pool Fools." A missile disabled by the BLU Heavy lands on and destroys RED team's pool just as the BLU's were about to launch their attack on it to take it for themselves. Because he was still in the middle of the pool and at the center of the blast, BLU Spy is next seen in a full-body cast as both teams are forced to share a pool at the expense of the grouchy Civilian, who orders them all out. Meanwhile, the BLU Engineer, who had been coerced into building BLU team's own pool, doesn't even finish his project. Instead, he ends up digging a hole that resulted in the Water Main to the BLU House being broken and filled with Quick-Dry Cement because of his construction snafu. BLU House is now left without any water until it is repaired, with Miss Pauling in the next episode wondering aloud exactly how much money both teams even wasted on their individual pool projects that she and The Administrator have to clean up now.
• Dramatic Gun Cock: Spoofed in Episode 3, where BLU Scout cocks...a Rainbow Dash body pillow, complete with a shell case being ejected from it.
• Dream Sequence: Happens Once an Episode, where a random member of either of the two teams remembers the crazy events that happened at Badwater, then encountering two mysterious beings which instruct them to carry out the activity that drives the episode's plot.
• Drives Like Crazy:
  • Do not be in the passenger seat while the BLU Demoman is at the wheel. The BLU Sniper found out the hard way.
  • In Episode 3, coupled with some heat-induced delirium while trying to build the BLU house a swimming pool, BLU Engineer had caused quite a bit of damage with a bulldozer he acquired, such as plowing through the BLU house fence, backing up into Sniper's camper-van treehouse and knocking it down, and sinking the bulldozer after pushing a pallet of concrete into a water filled hole he thought was the almost completed pool.
  • The RED Scout in Episode 4 has trouble driving Sniper's van because of the Driving Stick mentioned below.
• Driving Stick: Comes up in the finale of "Bush Beaters," as the Scout doesn't know how to drive a manual transmission, so they can't drive fast enough to escape the Papa Bigfoot. When Sniper orders him to just fiddle with it until he gets the right gear, Scout accidentally puts the van in park. The pursuing Papa Bigfoot trips over the van, buying RED enough time to gain some distance before he recovers.
• Eagleland: Both the RED and BLU Soldiers are Type 2 in spades. When he gets scared by the grill in episode 1, the RED Soldier craps out a bald eagle before running away.
  • Much like in the official TF2 comics, the BLU Soldier is certain that his teammates are all American.
• Early-Installment Weirdness: "The Grill," unlike later episodes, has more primitive and ragdoll-ish animation more befitting that of 2012-era Garry's Mod videos, doesn't feature a traditionally drawn title card, and the title isn't a rhyme or an alliteration. The RED and BLU teams also primarily use audio from TF2 rather than recorded dialogue that only occasionally uses archived audio.
• Earn Your Happy Ending: "Bush Beaters." Despite all the crap they went through, the RED Sniper and his troupe win first place in the Bushman's Tournament, with the Sniper getting the electronium knife. The compensation prize pool ensures that the RED Scout and Demoman aren't left out, as they get to take home a wheelbarrow's worth of cash.
• Easter Egg: In "Cable Calamity," the BLU Soldier watches the trailer for Game of Bones on BluTube. Eagle-eyed viewers may notice the URL at the top of the Soldier's screen. If they type that video address (and replace "blutube" with "youtube" the end result is Rick Astley's "Never Gonna Give You Up" video.
• Edible Ammunition: The Grill Robot fires explosive bottles of Barbecue sauce as one of its attacks.
• Embarassing TV Appearance: In "Bush Beaters," while the RED Heavy was channel surfing, he comes across a smutty game show called "Truck Fuck", where he made an embarrassing appearance in. He was shown naked on TV with pixel blurs for his face and his genitals, while he was dared to have sexual intercourse with his friend's pickup truck for about $399,999.98. The truck RED Heavy engaged in sexual congress with belonged to RED Medic.
  RED Medic: Wait a minute...I recognize that truck!
  • As an added kicker, this was foreshadowed at the Gas Station, with the words "hevy[sic] was here" finger stenciled near where RED Sniper refuels his camper van.
• Epic Fail: A given, given that the Team Fortress mercs aren't the brightest knives in the shed.
  • "The Grill": After spending hours working on the RED Engineer's plans to make a grill, he and RED Medic successfully create a toaster.
  • "Cable Calamity": Almost every BLU Team plot to steal RED Team's cable.
  • "Pool Fools": The BLU Sniper's Trojan Crate plan to infiltrate the RED Team yard, in which he accidentally kills his teammates through a lack of oxygen.
  • "Bush Beaters": Many of the other competitors' attempts at the trials.
  • Multiple times in "Frozen Fortress":
    • With RED Team barricaded inside their house and BLU's onslaught ongoing, RED Sniper has an epic camera shot following him through the house as he prepares to make use of a break in the attack to hit the enemy Heavy with a special snowball sniper rifle. He promptly misses.
    • Immediately following that, BLU Soldier prepares to break the RED Team's door down - only the RED Spy has altered his intelligence, so he leads his team to the wrong house.
• Everyone Has Standards: BLU Team may have been willing to use Ice Balls in their snowball fight with RED, turning it deadly, but they all shout down Sniper when he suggests a plan involving "Yellow Snowcone".
• Extreme Libido: The reason Frank the Shark raped the RED Scout in the Gas Station, at least according to a documentary.
  Narrator: The Great White Tibetan Land Shark: Known for its uncontrollable sex drive and 36-inch penis. It gets quite horny during the summer, often choosing to seek a single mate.
• Exact Words: The rules of the fishing challenge in "Bush Beaters" state that whichever team has the most impressive catch will win. However, no restrictions were given regarding what they couldn't catch, so Team SMNC wins 1st place by catching another team.
• Expy: The team's shared neighbor, The Civilian, is one of Carl Brutananadilewski. Both are ornery fat men who have little patience for their zany neighbors. The Civilian even borrows some voice lines from Carl.
• Failed a Spot Check: "Bush Beaters" establishes that both it and "Pool Fools," which occur on subsequent days, take place two months after "Cable Calamity." Given that in "Pool Fools" the RED team is only just investigating the BLU Engineer's cable splice, that meant it went unnoticed for those two months.
• Failed Attempt at Drama: In "Frozen Fortress" RED Medic is overly dramatic when describing their team's 'ultimate solution' to win the snowball fight, with the parallels to the Manhattan Project already clear by that point from the visuals. After a Beat, Engineer ruins it by pointing out that it was just a giant water balloon, prompting the Medic to give him a Death Glare.
• Five-Aces Cheater: Most of the BLU team is flagrantly cheating in the mercenaries' shared hallucinations of battle. In the "Cable Calamity" hallucination, for instance, the BLU Soldier uses a syringe filled with "XxX_Cheatz_XxX" to shoot far more rockets than his Black Box should allow without reloading.
• Foreshadowing:
  • In "Bush Beaters", while Frank the Shark rapes the RED Scout in the gas station bathroom the RED Sniper watches a documentary about Frank's species. At the end of it, it mentions the best thing to do when encountering it is to blow it up. Guess how the RED team defeats Frank when he attacks them both on the lake and at their campsite?
  • In "Frozen Fortress", the reveal that it was BLU Pyro's fault for starting the snowball fight was hinted at right after RED Soldier got hit. When the camera pans to the BLU Team, everyone looks like a deer caught in the headlights, except for their Pyro.
• Freeze-Frame Bonus: The series features a lot of small details that can only really be seen if the video is paused at exactly the right time, but the most obvious example is during the Time-Passes Montage at the beginning of "Cable Calamity," where a lot of crazy stuff happens even without the RED and BLU teams present.
  • There are also a few of them in the Creative Closing Credits of each episode.
• From Bad to Worse: In "Frozen Fortress", the REDs were already in a bad mood after they lost an Upward tournament to the BLUs. Things got worse when both teams got locked out of their houses, and they had to watch the BLUs celebrate their win on their front lawn. RED Soldier getting hit by a snowball by someone on the BLU's side was the straw that broke the camel's back.
• Fun with Subtitles: Occasionally used, like in "The Grill" when the RED Soldier returns from Japan and for some reason speaks in Spanish subtitles, or when the BLU Medic and Heavy get ready to assault RED's house in "Cable Calamity."
• Funny Background Event:
  • At the very end of "The Grill," the giant robot toaster can be seen on top of a skyscraper, swinging its arms at circling planes.
  • When the RED Demoman calls the RED house during "Bush Beaters," the RED Heavy and Pyro can be seen in the background attempting to maneuver a pool table either up or down the basement stairs. Before the end of the phone call, the Heavy gets sucked into the world geometry.
• Furry Fandom: The BLU Scout is an unapologetic furry. This gets the RED Scout into trouble when he's mistaken for the BLU Scout by a group of furries after the RED Scout does something to offend them offscreen.
  • There's a Freeze-Frame Bonus in the end credits that shows Red scribbled out BLU Scout's face on the furry magazine and signed it RED.
• Game-Breaking Injury: In "Bush Beaters," the injury the RED Sniper suffered at the hands (or rather, teeth) of Frank the Shark forces him to let Scout handle the camping challenge. It's downplayed, however, as the Sniper makes a full recovery by the time the final challenge begins.
• Germans Love David Hasselhoff: In-universe. The reason why Saxton Hale is funding a documentary on RED and BLU's snowball fight is to sell it back home down under. With no snow, the novelty of it all will make it a huge hit there.
• Graceful Loser:
  • The Assassin of team SMNC applauds Team RED for winning in "Bush Beaters" and Assault is contently smiling while holding the silver trophy, while the SMNC Sniper looks on disapprovingly.
  • The other teams also applaud Team RED for their victory.
• Gravity Is a Harsh Mistress: A variant on the classic version of this trope, BLU Soldier rocket jumps and flies in a natural arc, but as soon as he realizes that he forgot his parachute, he immediately plummets like Wile E. Coyote.
• Grim Up North: Zig-zagged. "Frozen Fortress" sees both teams complaining about the colder winters north of the Rockies, as they're much more used to the warmer temperatures of New Mexico. Even so, "Pool Fools" has a heatwave take place there.
• Harmful Healing: In "The Grill'" the Medic decides to use Demoman's grenade launcher shoot med-kits at his teammates to heal them. Unfortunately, while it does heal the other team members, it also does them harm as they get knocked down by the med-kits being launched at their faces.
• Heat Wave: A severe heatwave kicks off the plot of "Pool Fools" as both teams try to find ways to stave off the heat.
• Hero of Another Story: Mid-episode in "Pool Fools," it's revealed that Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union are back at it again. The BLU Heavy gets invited to fight for his motherland, which he accepts with little hesitation so he could enjoy the countries' colder weather. The viewer gets to see this action-packed adventure near the end, which constitutes stopping a missile mid-flight.
  • Similarly in "The Grill", his RED counterpart is implied to have gone through his own adventure after being punted into space and back by the titular grill, as he returns to his team's house in a tank after the grill had been defeated.
• Hidden Supplies: The BLU Demoman buried a large stash of explosives in his team's backyard. It gets accidentally set off by the BLU Engineer while he's digging a pool in Episode 3.
• History Repeats: The snowball fight in "Frozen Fortress" is brought to an end by the Administrator forcing both teams to sign a peace treaty. Saxton Hale then hangs the treaty on the wall of his office, next to the dozens of other peace treaties.
• Inexplicably Identical Individuals: As usual, sans their clothing colors, the RED and BLU team members are physically similar. This comes into play in "Bush Beaters" when the fanatical gas station Funny Animals mistakes the RED Scout for the BLU Scout, who is a devout furry that they idolize.
• Instant Sedation: In "Cable Calamity":
  BLU Spy: (gives a napkin to RED Sniper) Does this smell like chloroform to you?
  RED Sniper: (unhesitatingly sniffs the cloth) Yeah! (falls over unconscious)
• The Internet Is for Porn: Parodied in "Cable Calamity". 6 of the 9 members of the BLU Team go to their rooms to have a wank, but only the Scout and the Spy are looking at actual porn.
• Insurmountable Waist-High Fence: In "Frozen Fortress", while the BLU Soldier blindly follows Spy-altered intelligence and charges at the wrong house, RED Pyro erects a picket fence around RED's yard which completely stymies the other team.
• Jerkass: SMNC Sniper from episode 4, "Bush Beaters." Throughout the Bushman's Tournament, he gives off an aura of smug overconfidence, abuses loopholes in rules in order to win the first challenge (as exemplified below), and during the final challenge actively stalks the RED Team in order to steal their kill.
• Karma Houdini Warranty: The BLU Team cheated to win a match against the RED and didn't got punished for it. However, since then, the BLUs tend to have it harder than the REDs, such as losing their Internet connection in "Cable Calamity" and being unable to cool down in "Pool Fools."
• A Lighter Shade of Black: With BLU's frequent attempts to steal the RED's stuff, tendency to turn on each other, and rampant cheating in the Badwater Basin match that keeps coming up in flashbacks, the RED team seems far more amiable in comparison.
• Loophole Abuse: Exploited by the SMNC team in Episode 4, during the Fishing challenge. They won by catching CJ and his friends with their boat — the rules never specified what they couldn't catch.
• Laser-Guided Karma: The SMNC Sniper intercepts the RED Sniper's bullet and attempts to steal his game after all the effort the RED team put in to attract it. When the Bigfoot's enraged father appears, he hastily casts the blame on the RED Sniper for killing the Bigfoot's son. It doesn't work; Papa Bigfoot punts the SMNC team into the sky, and the last time they appear in "Bush Beaters," they've lost the competition and the SMNC Sniper is restricted in a full-body cast.
• Literal-Minded: The BLU Soldier explicitly talks about stealing RED team's television throughout "Cable Calamity." Thus, the BLU Heavy's heist ends with him returning with only RED's television set, the thing many people refer to as a "television" in shorthand. Now it's detached from its setup and unable to function.
• Mad Scientist: Both the RED Engineer and Medic count, especially in the first episode.
• Massive Multiplayer Crossover: The world of Team Neighborhood is this in a nutshell. Aside from the RED and BLU teams, dozens if not hundreds of characters from various games or media show up in every episode, with varying levels of importance to the plot. This is best emphasized in "Bush Beaters," where Team RED competes with teams consisting of characters from other major video games, including Dark Souls, Halo, Fallout and even Ultramarines from Warhammer 40,000.
• Megaton Punch:
  • Megaton Kick, actually, but the principle is the same. The Grill robot in the first episode kicks the RED Heavy so hard it launches him out of the galaxy.
  • A similar thing happens in "Bush Beaters," with Papa Bigfoot kicking Team SMNC into the sky.
• Mockumentary: The story of "Frozen Fortress" is told as an in-universe documentary about the RED and BLU Teams' escalating snowball fight funded by Saxton Hale.
• Mundane Made Awesome: The basic premise of the series. The RED Engineer organizes a barbecue in Episode 1... And his homemade grill transforms into a giant robot and starts fighting the team. BLU decides to steal its rival team's cable in Episode 2... Then BLU's members all come up with different, zany solutions to get it done. The RED Team has a pool party to try and beat the heat wave... And BLU Team decides to go and steal their pool by any means necessary. Sniper, Scout, and Demo go to a hunting contest in Episode 4... which involves fighting monstrous beasts and dinosaurs.
  • In-universe, the crowning example is the Parker's Challenge in Episode 4. Twenty-four In-Universe hours of intense tent watching to dramatic music and camera sweeps follow.
• Mundane Solution:
  • While the rest of BLU come up with Zany Schemes to steal RED's cable (in "Cable Calamity") or their pool (in "Pool Fools"), the BLU Demoman just attempts to legally purchase a cable package and an air conditioner to deal with the episode's problem. Unfortunately, the prices are so high that not even a Briefcase Full of Money is enough to pay for them.
  • The RED Sniper in "Pool Fools" opts to hire a contractor to have a swimming pool installed in their backyard rather than let the RED Engineer build it.
  • Much like his BLU counterpart, RED Demoman also tries to pull this in "Bush Beaters." When Sniper is injured in an attack by Frank the Shark, Demo uses Scout's phone to call the Medic to come and heal them. The Medic refuses, however, saying he doesn't do house calls.
• Mundanger: Played for laughs. For all the overdramatic reactions to being hit by snowballs, the first casualty of the snowball fight in Frozen Fortress is caused by RED Demoman passing out drunk outside and freezing to death.
• My Friends... and Zoidberg: How the mercenaries are introduced in "Frozen Fortress".
  Narrator: For a hardened group of cold-blooded killers, and BLU Scout, one spark is enough to throw the rivals of the subdivision into turmoil.
• Negated Moment of Awesome: In "Bush Beaters," as the RED team is fleeing from Papa Bigfoot, they pass by CJ and the Grove Street Crew who decide to help out by spawning in and using some Cheat Code weapons... then, one of them summons a yacht, and they all get squashed.
• Non-Indicative Name: At the beginning of "Bush Beaters," The RED Soldier mistakes "Waterloo" for the name of a waterpark. In a fantasy sequence where he's Napoleon Bonaparte in the Battle of Waterloo, a soldier under the RED Soldier's command corrects his mistake, to which he orders his troop to fall back.
• Noodle Incident: Whatever happened at the RED house while Sniper, Demoman, and Scout are off doing "Bush Beaters," as when Demoman gives them a phone call, RED Engie has several large bolts embedded in his head.
• Not Me This Time: Almost everybody on the BLU Team blames the Scout for throwing the first snowball in "Frozen Fortress". Scout protests his innocence. Pyro did it.
• Oh, Crap!: Several of them throughout the series.
  • RED Engie gets one when the grill robot shoots a rocket at him in "The Grill." Also, when the Soldier runs away from the grill robot.
  • The entire BLU Team gets one at the beginning of "Cable Calamity" when their house loses its Internet connection.
    • BLU Engineer has another one RED Heavy spots him and gives chase.
  • BLU gets another one in "Pool Fools" when they realize they're out of cold water. Both teams also get one when they see the missile BLU Heavy stopped falling out of the sky.
  • Several occur in "Bush Beaters," the first of which occurs when the RED Scout realizes that he's going to get raped for being in the stall at the gas station, and again when Frank the Shark appears so he can rape the Scout. Scout gets two more when Frank returns during the Fishing Challenge and when he hears his ringtone despite RED Sniper having thrown his phone into the lake. Both Team RED and Team SMNC also get one when Papa Bigfoot shows up.
• Only Sane Man:
  • While he's just as crazy as everyone else, BLU Demoman is sometimes shown to be one trying to think of more sensible solutions. From outright going to a cable company to try and get a connection or even looking at a catalog of air conditioners, although granted neither one actually panned out but he's definitely above his comrades in being sensible.
  • In "Frozen Fortress", BLU Spy refuses to get engaged with the ridiculousness of the snowball fight, to the point where he specifically snitches on everybody else to the Administrator to get them to stop. He's also not happy with how Saxton Hale is trying to overdramatize his documentary.
• Planning with Props: Happens in Episode 2, when BLU is planning to steal RED's cable. Some of the props briefly return in a Freeze-Frame Bonus in "Frozen Fortress".
  • The Scout is represented with Classic Sonic.
  • The Medic is represented with Adolf Hitler.
  • The Spy is represented with a cigarette.
  • The Sniper is represented with a jar of Jarate.
  • The Demoman is represented with Bosco.
  • The Heavy is represented with a rotten Sandvich.
  • The Pyro is represented with Spyro.
  • The Soldier is represented with B.J. Blazkowicz.
• Papa Wolf: In "Bush Beaters," a massive Bigfoot rampages throughout the campsite after the Monday Night Combat Sniper kills off the beast's son.
• Prequel: "Frozen Fortress" takes place the winter before "The Grill".
• Rage Breaking Point: In "Frozen Fortress", RED Team was already melancholy due to being curbstomped by BLU in the Upward tournament, as well as RED Scout losing the front door key and BLU partying outside right across the road from them (although they, too, had been locked out). Getting a snowball chucked at them was just the final straw.
• Respawn Point: The RED and BLU teams each have one present in their corresponding Ape-Houses. "Bush Beaters" reveals that other creatures have access to these points as well, most notably Frank the Shark and the Bigfoot family.
• Resolved Noodle Incident: Before each episode's main plot begins, various mercenaries from both teams dream of a bizarre Badwater match heavily skewed in BLU's favor. At first, these moments seem to be only drugged-up nightmares, and they are, but "Bush Beaters" reveals that they are also flashbacks.
• Rhyming Title: The episode "Pool Fools".
• Robotic Assembly Lines: A few of them are briefly seen on the multiple screens during The Stinger of "The Grill."
• Rocket Jump: Both Soldiers and Demos occasionally use these in order to go somewhere. Interestingly, if they use their normal weapons, the predictable happens (like when the BLU Soldier tried to rocket jump with his default launcher and blew up in "Cable Calamity"), but if they use the Rocket/Sticky Jumper, they're fine.
• Rule of Three: In "Bush Beaters," Frank the Shark attacks a total of three times. The first time, he rapes RED Scout in the gas station bathroom. The second time, he attempts to go after Scout again during the Fisher's Challenge and is killed with an improvised explosive made of a set of Scout's unopened BONK and a firecracker. His third and last attempt sees him use the lost device tracker on Scout's phone to find him, only to get blown up again by RED Demo with his multi-barreled Loch-n-Load.
  • In "Cable Calamity," the BLU Soldier makes three attempts at stealing the RED Team's cable himself. And each time involves him getting killed because something goes wrong.
• Sequel Series: The series takes place after this fanmade episode of Moments with Heavy, as it's occasionally referenced in the series (most notably in "Cable Calamity" when the BLU Soldier remembers he accidentally shot down a TV satellite in that video).
• Serial Escalation: The series' first episode was 15 minutes long with almost all the lines either coming straight from the source game or being spliced together. By Episode 4, the run time is more than 50 minutes and several characters have entire conversations thanks to the custom voice acting.
• Shock and Awe: The rare Electronium knife that's the prize of the Bushman's Challenge is made of the eponymous rare and highly conductive metal. In one of the photos in the episode's credits, the RED team gets briefly electrocuted by its power simply by raising it up high.
• Shout-Out: Too many to count. Every episode features cameos from a lot of different games, some of them in important roles. In essence, the series is Team Fortress 2 fused with Rocko’s Modern Life, even down to using similar title cards and some of the themes from said show.
• Slice of Life: The series essentially details the daily lives of the RED and BLU Teams when they're not busy fighting each other.
• Sneeze Cut: In "Bush Beaters", when Frank the Shark attacks for a third time, the RED Sniper and Scout argue about how to fend him off, and when Sniper brings up watching Animal Planet, the Scout says that declares he "doesn't watch that shit" because he's not a furry. Cut to the BLU Scout in his room, saying he feels like he's being insulted.
• Snowball Fight: "Frozen Fortress" is an in-universe documentary around the world's 78th largest snowball fight, held impromptu between the RED and BLU teams after the BLU Pyro threw a snowball at the RED Soldier. As expected from the series itself as well as the source material, it immediately leaps headfirst into utter pandemonium. lampshaded by the BLU Spy.
  BLU Spy: It was just a snowball fight!
• The Stinger: Every main episode has one, which all have Gray Mann spying on the mercenaries through drones and Spy robots.
  • "The Grill" has a drone observing the RED team from above their house. Gray watches the screen, and turns it off.
  • "Cable Calamity" has a Spy robot spying on the BLU team, now in a funk as the television channel had been forcibly changed into Oi, Fuck You! Friendship Is Magic. The scene ends with the Spy robot cloaking.
  • "Pool Fools" has a drone arriving at the BLU team's backyard at night, only to find the BLU Engineer, still trapped in cement in an attempt to build his team their own pool. As the drone assesses him as a non-threat, the BLU Engineer asks it for help. The drone leaves, leaving him still trapped in the cement.
  • "Bush Beaters" has a Spy robot observe Team RED in the aftermath of their victory in the Bushman's Challenge. Assessing the RED Sniper as a threat, many more Spy robots emerge behind it, and they all produce knives before rocketing off into the sky. The RED Sniper looks on the rocket trails with wonder. Meanwhile, the RED Scout recounts the events of "The Grill" and "Pool Fools" to CJ.
  • While "Frozen Fortress" does not have one, it references the previous examples wherein a Spy robot is interviewed by the documentary. It speaks in unintelligible, staticky Robot Speak before cloaking.
  Man: (distant and offscreen) Ayo, what the fuck?!
• Suntan Stencil: In "Pool Fools," RED Spy applies some sunscreen on RED Soldier's back that says "Vive La France". Unfortunately for BLU Spy, who was infiltrating the RED Team's pool party, this proved to be his undoing.
• Super-Persistent Predator: Frank the Shark in "Bush Beaters" pursues the RED Sniper's troupe throughout, starting in a gas station then moving onto the distant campgrounds. He's notable since he's the first character who isn't a Team Fortress 2 mercenary to be shown respawning. Thankfully, he only harasses the gang one more time after his initial death.
• Super-Powered Robot Meter Maids:
  • The titular grill and the toaster turn out to be these in “The Grill”.
  • Defied in “Pool Fools”, where the RED sniper prevents the RED Engineer from building a pool and instead calls a contractor to build it instead.
• Synchro-Vox:
  • JC Denton briefly switches to this in his dialogue shortly before he destroys the BLU Team's internet.
  • In "Bush Beaters," while RED Soldier was playing with his toys, RED Scout was watching a Wild West Cartoon that employed this style called "The West [Sucks Ass:] Let's Go East, Instead!"
• Take That!:
  • The creators like to make light-hearted jabs at the expense of the Furry Fandom and the brony fandom. Although humorously enough the furries aren't really treated too badly compared to other Take Thats in the internet.
  • It's also obvious they're not fans of companies exploiting their monopolies to charge ludicrous amounts of money for their services, as the Air Conditioner ads and the TV broadcasting company's Jerkass attitudes and banners will show.
• Those Wacky Nazis: The BLU Medic.
  • In "Cable Calamity," when the BLU Soldier is spinning the blackboard with his plan to attack the RED house, he accidentally shows Medic's secret plan to invade France through Belgium which prompts Medic to run away.
  • In "Pool Fools," he awkwardly tries to avoid being seen after finding out the Motherland and Fatherland are back at it again.
  • In "Bush Beaters," When the BLU team notices the RED Sniper, Scout, and Demo leaving, Medic is seen reading Mein Kampfy Chair.
• Threatening Shark: In "Pool Fools", Pyro gets back at Scout for pushing him into the water by disguising themselves as a shark. Later on an actual shark somehow manages to get into RED team's pool^note It's ambiguous if Pyro had anything to do with it. "Bush Beaters" brings us Frank The Shark.
• Tiny-Headed Behemoth: When the Toaster assumes its robot form, it develops a bulky body with large limbs and a wide torso (actually the body of Giant Clank which humorously enough is also an example of this trope). The Toaster itself forms the head, but it remains exactly the same size.
• Transforming Conforming: In "Pool Fools", BLU Spy uses one of his disguise masks to transform himself into an ice cube in an attempt to cool himself off during a heat wave, but the intense heat causes him to quickly melt.
• Trojan Horse: In the episode "Pool Fools," the BLU Soldier, Scout, Pyro and Medic hide in a crate labeled "pool toys" to sneak past RED's sentry nest... but since they forgot to add air holes, they die from a mix of heat and suffocation.
• Unlucky Extra: The Civilian who neighbors the RED and BLU teams. He's frequently punished for his proximity to the mercs, such as when his car is totaled during the Grill fight or when the two teams are freeloading in his pool. Appropriately enough he speaks using voice lines of [[Aqua Teen Hunger Force Carl Brutananadilewski].
• Visual Pun: In "Pool Fools" a literal sentry nest (one big and several smaller sentries in a bird's nest) pops up when the BLU team triggers RED's defenses.
• We Are Not Going Through That Again: After an ice-cream induced dream/flashback, RED Engineer gets the idea to build a "Super Pool System" as a means for the RED team to cool off from the heatwave. This however, makes RED Sniper imagine that the result will be a repeat of the events of "The Grill," in that the pool will come to life and beat them up, so he turns down RED Engineer's idea and simply calls for a pool construction service to build the pool instead.
• Weaksauce Weakness: As the RED Sniper demonstrates in "Cable Calamity," all it takes to get the BLU Medic to run home with his tail between his legs is to show him an apple.
• Where the Hell Is Springfield?: Averted. "Frozen Fortress" reveals the mercs live in the fictional city of Garry's Ville in Colorado, somewhere outside the Rockies. A brief interview with DasBoSchitt also hints at the existance of a neighbouring city of Evocity, Gmoddington in the same state.
• Wimp Fight: Shortly before BLU crashes their pool party, the RED Demoman and Medic are partaking in one of these.
• Worthy Opponent: The RED Soldier is heartbroken when he accidentally breaks his Napoleon wargame miniature.
  RED Soldier: NOOOOOO! Napoleon! You were supposed to live! And then be exiled to an island with stomach cancer.

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