"Pfft you don't merely read 'Sweet Bro and Hella Jeff' you have to appreciate it like a fine wine."
— Mustang, Penny Arcade forumite
Sweet Bro and Hella Jeff
is a webcomic which is pretty much the epitome of the Stylistic Suck trope in its medium. Originally spawned by Andrew Hussie from an exchange on the Penny Arcade forums in March 2009, it was some time thereafter integrated into Homestuck as a Show Within a Show, ostensibly written by Dave Strider. It stars the eponymous Sweet Bro and Hella Jeff, as well as their Token Black Friend Geromy, as they get up to... well, plenty of things, none of which quite make sense.
You can also buy a hardcover SBaHJ book, co-designed by Hussie, KC Green, and John Keogh, collecting the first 44 comics. Although more comics have since been uploaded to the site, the book contains several exclusive features such as author notes from Dave, an "ACTIGITY ZONE", and physical objects such as a "paperclop" and a "pocket edition" poster. Notably, when it was first released, there was a limited time offer to pay 50 dollars to get it signed by Dave himself (compared to the mere 5 dollar price for Andrew's signature).
A second book, co-authored by Hussie, KC Green and infamous Twitter shitposter dril, has been announced via Kickstarter. While not even remotely as successful as the Hiveswap version, it has also been funded. It seems to be completely original, involving the titular characters in the "Quest for the Missing Spoon".
Now available read by Man on the Internet of Undertale the Musical fame in a fitting style.
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I WARNED YOU ABOUT TROPES BRO!!!!! I TOLD YOU DOG!
- Aborted Arc: The Nancho Party, although Dave had already planned on doing so in advance.
- Aerith and Bob: One guy is called Sweet Bro. The other is called Hella... Jeff.
- Anachronic Order: The first and second comics on the website are in reverse order to their original postings on the Penny Arcade forums.
- Art Evolution: Hella Jeff's appearance here. Actually, it's more like Art Devolution in this case. In addition, the comic's habit of saving in JPG and copying over parts from previous comics causes artifacts to gradually build up, meaning that each character pose gets worse the more it appears.
- Author Appeal: An in-universe example: Dave clearly emphasises the rumps of characters in SBaHJ. Dave's Bro, whom Dave strives to emulate, appears to have an odd puppet-ass fetish.
- Beat Panel: Considering how many panels are copied and pasted from earlier in the comic/earlier comics of the series, this can become ridiculous.
- Bloody Hilarious: The end of Ep. 38, where Sweet Bro is turned into meat chunks by helicopter blades
- Bold Inflation: Random words are in all caps and/or bigger font. They do not even reflect emphasis in places that would make euphonic sense.i HAVE the car
- Brick Joke: A literal example. This seems like a cut-off joke... until this happens.
- Towards the end of the Nancho Saga, Hella Jeff takes the nachos into the bathroom... for whatever reason. 27 comics later, when Sweet Bro goes to flush a pawn down the toilet... for whatever reason... the nachos are still there.
- Towards the end of the Nancho Saga, Hella Jeff takes the nachos into the bathroom
- Buffy Speak: All over the place, even for common words.
- "TURD THE SPOON FLATWAYS"
- "AHA, the sport pile doesnt stop from getting taller."
- Cartoony Eyes: The eyes of the animals are more human-like than the human characters.
- Catchphrase: "And there he goe's.....". Usually said by Hella Jeff, and more often than not referring to Sweet Bro.
- Catchphrase Spouting Duo: Everything out of the boys' mouths is some kind of meme.
Everything. - Cerebus Syndrome: MSPA Wiki states that issue 18 was seen as the beginning of this.
- Character Blog: Barack Obana had a
Twitter account (but according to Word of God it's not his). It got suspended at some point anyway.
- Clueless Aesop: Parodied in strip 19. "he wants that us all to keep it real about............... AIDS"
- Conspicuous Consumption: Possibly one of the strangest uses of this trope appears during Ep. 36...Hella Jeff: Dude. Dude. Chech out this fuckin squirrelt! I'm giving him my momey.Sweet Bro: GOD. DAMN!
- Cut and Paste Comic: For Stylistic Suck purposes, of course; chunks of Photoshop windows get caught in the cutting and pasting!
- Department of Redundancy Department: SWEET BRO AND HELLA JEFF goes shoping (in "SBahHJ go shopping)
- "THE SOCK RUSE WAS A........... DISTACTION"
- Disorganized Outline Speech: and with the prince of this shirt ready to SKYKROCKET, i forogot the point i was making?
- Distracted by the Sexy: "it was at that point when i got distracted by his moms HOT ASS..."
- The Ditz: Sweet Bro is so inept that he can't even do the simple act of putting on a boot correctly.
- Don't Explain the Joke: "THIS IS WHAT THE REFRANCE"
- Dog Pile of Doom: Hella Jeff watches a football match that ends with both teams dogpiling each other. And then the dogpile somehow keeps getting bigger, with more players jumping in.
- Dramatic Ellipsis: Pretty much everywhere.
- "ERR............... UH BRO....? WHERE ARE YOURE PANTS .. ...?"
- Dream Sequence: Hella Jeff dreams of sports in a fantasy game with The Big Man. Sweet Bro crashes his dream and Hilarity Ensues.
- Dynamic Entry: BAOOOAM!!!
- Edgy Backwards Chair-Sitting: Lampshaded in strip 19, where The Big Man does this in a chair with "backways chair" written on it in tiny, hard-to-see text.
- Eldritch Abomination: According to the wiki, stairs are all of the evil in this world.Sweet Bro: FUCK! I'M FALLING DOWN ALL THESE STAIRS!
- Eye Awaken: Here.
- Fan Disservice: If it's even vaguely intended to be sexual, it's this in spades; sexualising anything with this much Stylistic Suck makes it infintely more disturbing to regard. Even stuff that isn't presented in a sexual light but is nonetheless emphasised is this; we're talking a comic which put heavy focus on an elelephant's HUGE BUTT and GREY MUTANT PENIS.
- And issue 44 features a close up on a bull's ass. Then it takes a shit.
- Issue 47 features a close up on Hella Jeff's ass taking a shit. Into Sweet Bro's pipe.
- Funny Animal: The boys become these here. The comic being named "bube just no" suggests that they don't like it.
- Fonts: It's lettered in Comic Sans, which, true to form, is considered pretty terrible to read.
- Fountain of Memes: In-Universe. The whole reason it was brought into Homestuck was to provide a source of memes that would be original to the comic and exclusive to the characters. (It's also one in real life, of course.)
- Gag Penis: The elelephant, with its GREY MUTANT PENIS.
- Gambit Roulette: "the short... GLOWNS IN THE DARK / the short acutally DOES NOT GLOWN IN THE DARK / too find out watch thing is true...... BUY THE SHIRT????" The first run did not glow in the dark. The second run did. Then the same thing happened again with the second and third SBaHJ shirts."... The thing is, some of those new shirts got mixed in the the old ones. So I guess if you order one there is still a CHANCE you will get one that doesn't glow in the dark? So really the offer stands as the wild card originally advertised."
- Helicopter Blender: Played spectacularly straight for laughs in a Crosses the Line Twice kind of way, after Sweet Bro litfofs into a whirlybird.
- PHHPPPBBB
- bbthb...
- PHHPPPBBB
- I Banged Your Mom: The very first comic to be made (but the second in the archives) has Hella Jeff saying that he banged Sweet Bro's mom. And that Sweet Bro is currently doing the same thing himself.
- I'd Tell You, but Then I'd Have to Kill You: Hella Jeff pulls this trope when Sweet Bro asks him about his gaming stunts. Sweet Bro's response?GOD
DAAAAAAMMNN - I Fell for Hours: The nanchos, and apparently Sweet Bro on the stairs.
- In a Single Bound: "im telling you...air like that is UNREAL, it doens't even HAPPEN. most of the time"
- "and there he goe's...WE HAVE. LIFDOFF"
- "and there he goe's
- I Warned You: "I TOLD YOU MAN I TOLD YOU ABOUT STAIRS!"
- Jerkass: Hella Jeff, who loves screwing around with Sweet Bro as much as he can, usually for his own amusement.
- Karma Houdini: Hella Jeff. He steals the car, bangs Sweet Bro's mothernote , and is an all-around douchebag.
- His punishment is having to put up with Bro's incompetence.
- Lampshade Hanging: There's now a space for advertisements on SBaHJ, which feature the remark below "(i hope the ad is for some ponography!", seemingly hanging a lampshade on the fact that most of the ads on MS Paint Adventures proper end up being for porn comics.
- Living Prop: Geromy, despite getting a formal introduction in big letters. He doesn't even move.
- Long Pants: Hella Jeff and Geromy are always wearing these. Sweet Bro actually had differentiated pants at first, but is now always drawn with these.
- Loophole Abuse: After being corrected during a chess game, Sweet Bro throws a pawn in the toilet and declares checkmate.
- Ludicrous Gibs/Gorn: PHHPPPBBBbbthb
- Male Gaze: "dufe, are you SCOPING this bipches CHOICE ASS.."
- Malevolent Architecture: Sweet Bro just can't stop falling down stairs.
- Man Hug: The boys do possibly the most dramatic man hug ever in the fifth comic.
- Marijuana Is LSD: SUDDENLY WEED DREAMS. poof!
- Mind Your Step / Staircase Tumble: "FUCK IM FALLING DOWN ALL THESE STAIRS"
- Minimalism: "that's the comic fuckmunch, its't just a wall."
- Misaimed Fandom: In-universe- Dave mentions he has tons of fans who think the comic is hilarious and played totally straight, when it's meant to be ironic. However, that's just the way he likes it.
- More Dakka: Sweet Bro kills vampire Jeff with "deudly firearms".
- The Movie: Several in Homestuck's B2 universe, starring Ben Stiller, Owen Wilson and Donald Glover (sorry, no Snoop Dogg).
- A "movie" actually exists in real life. It's ostensibly this, but it's more of a Title Theme Tune.
- There's an unofficial movie now that's nearly two hours long, complete with all the So Bad, It's Good effects that the comic has.
- A "movie" actually exists in real life. It's ostensibly this
- Ms. Fanservice: Sweet Bro's mom and the beautiful wonan.
- Mundane Made Awesome: Virtually everything the boys do.
- Name and Name
- No Ending: Most of the comics.
- Pants-Free: The second comic.
- Parental Incest: The punchline of the second comic (which was actually the first one made). The psychological repercussions are not explored.
- Poe's Law: An in-universe example: in Homestuck, it's described as "a webcomic ironically maintained through a satirical cipher" with "legions of devoted fans, most of whom are totally convinced" of Dave's sockpuppet persona's sincerity.
- Punchline: They're there occasionally, usually complete non-sequiturs or orphaned.
- Rage Quit: checkmate
- Reality Is Unrealistic: Quoth Andrew Hussie:AH: Ironically, I couldn't make it anywhere near as terrible looking if I used Paint.
- Rouge Angles of Satin: Intentionally. It's very common, but fanwork has a tendency to flanderize it to near-unintelligible levels (see the start of this very page).
- Rule 34: Tongue-in-cheek, thankfully.
- Satire/Parody/Pastiche
- Sensory Abuse: Arguably the entire point of the comic, but the theme song in particular stands out.
- Shout-Out: To Chorlie Brown.
- Show Within a Show: The story behind the comic is that it's made by Dave Strider of Homestuck.
- Staircase Tumble: "Oh fuck I'm falling down all these stairs"
- Straight Man and Wise Guy: Normally, Sweet Bro (the Straight Man) takes everything seriously as he struggles to accomplish basic tasks, while Hella Jeff (the Wise Guy) is a prankster who is constantly laughing at Sweet Bro's stupidity and playing tricks on him. Occasionally this is reversed.
- Surreal Humor
- The Stoner: Sweet Bro is so HIGH, he puts JELLY on this hot god.
- Everybody was high when the nancho party went down. EVERYBODY
- Stylistic Suck: It's the usual poster boy for the trope.
- Take That!: The comic started as a lighthearted one from this thread in the Penny Arcade forums. The first comic appears in this post.
- The banner ad block is somewhat less lighthearted, riffing on the number of advertisements for porn comics which are an inexplicable regular feature on the main MS Paint Adventures website (well, and Oglaf...).
- Take Our Word for It: AHAHAHA omfg i cant BELIEVE what he made take place
- Team Pet: "staring the 'newd dog'..... peaches"
- Thanksgiving Episode
- Toilet Humor: Sweet Bro gets shat upon by a bull in issue 44.
- Token Black Friend: "intoducing, the new friend..., GEROMY"
- Token Minority: Geromy (despite being the third black character to be introduced, after Barack Obana and The Big Man).
- Took a Level in Badass: IT.S TIME TO GET: RIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIPPPPPPPPPED!
- Totally Radical: A substantial portion of their speech is a rather garbled version of this, as do some of their activities of choice, particularly Bro being God's gift to grinds.
- Twist Ending: He was lookind
- Two Gamers on a Couch: It initially sells itself as such, but quickly descends into madness. Very few comics have to do with video games, and even then only tangentially, and the only comic where Sweet Bro and Hella Jeff are actually on a couch playing video games quickly turns to... something else.
- Unsound Effect: Griiiiinb
- Very Special Episode: Strip 19. "he wants that us all to keep it real about............... AIDS"
- Vitriolic Best Buds: "OKAY SO THERE'S THESE TWO GUYS/THEY'RE TOTALLY THE BEST OF FRIENDS/AND THEY'RE TWO PIECES OF SHIT ALL THE TIME/WELL THAT'S JUST THE WAY IT WORKS"
- Wham Line: "i was banging your mom for a minute there...... AND NOW YOU ARE BANGING HER"
- What Could Have Been: In-Universe: Dave originally planned to make Cool Dude and Stoner Lou despite regretting the fact that it looked too much like his brother's stuff. As part of her trolling and a stable time loop, Terezi's artwork inspires him to make SB&HJ.
- Winged Humanoid: The first SBAHJifier-produced Sweet Bro and Hella Jeff comic: time to fly up away to the sun you fucknig piece of gargbage.
- Word-Salad Humor: "WHAT'S IS that guys even his PROBLEM? is like heg got BROAD SIDE SCHOOL FED up the BONE BULGE"
- This is revealed eventually in Homestuck to be something Dave quoted ad verbatim from Tavros's early trolling attempts, presumably not knowing what it meant (he uses it out of context and incorrectly) but thinking it sounds funny. At the time he said it, Tavros was adopting a Totally Radical rapper persona in the hope of besting Dave, which was making him harder to understand. It also later turns out "schoolfed" is the ordinary troll term for 'schooled', and a "bone bulge" is a phallic troll sex organ of some kind.
- dufe, are you SCOPING this arpicles CHOICE ASS..
