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"delicious cosmic alien vids full of vitamins and minerals (totally safe and non-toxic)"
— The channel's description

AlienMyth64 is a YouTube channel that was created on March 18th, 2009. The channel uploads a slow, but steady variety of fast-paced comedic content, that is very often related to video games, and only rarely related to aliens. The channel is known for it's content being highly reminiscent of "old YouTube" content and classic Newgrounds animations, both in style and writing.

AlienMyth64 started primarily with YouTube Poops and a series called Animal Crossing Blooperz, in which the uploader plays through the original Animal Crossing while roleplaying as his player character. The channel gained views and subscribers dramatically in 2014, during which it made a sudden shift into live action skits in real world, outdoor locations. They span several different miniseries and feature many recurring characters, most of which are played by the uploader himself in his regular speaking voice while wearing a simple mask/helmet and costume. The sense of humor remains the same across every video: Quick improv dialogue full of inflammatory comments, editing with lots of random non-sequiturs, BGM and sound effects from video games, and references to pop culture and video game media. The channel's origins as a YouTube Pooper shine very clearly through these videos. Chances are, if you're a fan of the genre, you'll love these too.

Although none of the miniseries have solid names,note the general premise of each one is as follows:

  • Squidward's house from SpongeBob SquarePants becomes sentient and decides to move onto land to make a life for himself there.
  • An alien comes to earth to study humans and eventually invade them, but is too lazy or incompetent to actually make progress, and instead spends his days hanging out with them or ranting about how much they suck.
  • Two english-speaking animated cats in the live-action real world come across early 2000's technology and culture (iPods, Blockbuster, Pepsi Man, etc.). The white cat — who is the son of the other cat — always shows distaste or confusion, resulting in his dad giving him an impromptu "crash course" on why that thing was so great.
  • A parody of Animal Crossing in which the player character creates his lavish lifestyle in the real world, which apparently runs on the game's logic.
  • The Chum Bucket, again from SpongeBob SquarePants, moves onto land with his anime-themed computer wife to become an online reviewer of fast food, with intent to use what he learned to help Plankton with his own failing business.
  • An overweight, unemployed, gamer named Gary lives with his nagging mom and deals with the everyday problems of... well, being an overweight, unemployed, gamer living with his mom.
  • SpongeBob SquarePants himself living life as the average land-dwelling highschooler... except he's emo.
  • A thwomp from Super Mario 64 attempts to handle his anger issues in a world that's seemingly a fusion of real life and the Super Mario series of games.

Aside from these, AlienMyth64 will occasionally have one-off videos featuring a One-Shot Character. Some of these include:

  • "Damn, I HATE GameStop": A fully animated video in which a teenager records himself going into GameStop to trade in an old game, all while ranting to his camera about how much he hates the company.
  • "A Shark Named Gilbert": A shark grows arms and legs and goes on land to teach a littering beachgoer a Green Aesop.
  • "The Bricked Up LEGO Man (the movie)": A stop-motion animated LEGO minifigure, who's also a wanted criminal, goes on a date with a human woman. Unbeknownst to him, she's an undercover agent who's just trying to find evidence to convict him.

In any given video, any character from one series may make an appearance in another series. Their role can range from a simple cameo, to actually advancing the plot somehow. The same handful of minor characters seem to be present throughout all videos, as though everyone lives in the same town within walking distance of each other.

AlienMyth64 can be found here. The second channel, which contains deleted scenes, bloopers, and extras from the main channel, can be found here. If you were looking for tropes about alien myths in general, see Alien Tropes.


Time for me to give you a crash course on what fucking tropes are present in these videos! AGGHHHHH!!!

  • Author Tract: Many videos exist solely as a means for the uploader to rant (or rave) about real world topics he feels strongly about, as the characters often ramble about things only barely relevant to the context, and it's seemigly aimed at the viewer themselves rather than another character within the setting. The most obvious examples of this are the Cat series and Alien series, given their premises.
  • Bizarre Alien Biology: In "ALIEN REVEALS NINTENDO SECRETS", while the Dumb Alien runs from Nintendo HQ, he expresses concern over getting caught and then castrated as punishment, before suddenly remembering "Oh wait, I'm an alien, I don't have a dick".
  • Butt-Monkey: Most of the times that Sarah makes an appearance, she's subject to some form of disrespect, even being straight up murdered in "Emobob works at Taco Bell".
  • The Cameo: Characters from one series will sometimes make appearances in others.
    • In "Emobob works at Taco Bell", the Chum Bucket ends up finding Sarah's dead body in the dumpster. He then pulls into the drive through and calls the cops about it when Emobob is mean to him.
    • The titular LEGO man of "The Bricked Up LEGO Man (the movie)" is owned by a guy who "bought [him] 20 years ago and gets no bitches". The guy is shown to be Gary the Gamer.
    • One of the drive thru customers that Emobob has to deal with is Gary the gamer.
    • "Chum Bucket Goes to McDonald's!" ends with the titular Bucket in a McDonald's bathroom stall, and the person in the neighboring stall is shown to be Squidward's House.
  • Dirty Old Man: In the granddad cat's first appearance, he attempts to use the internet and is greeted by a "Hot singles in your area!" popup. He falls for it immediately, clicking on it while making a creepy, perverted facial expression. This causes the computer to explode, and he wonders aloud where the ladies are.
  • Granola Girl: In "Chum Bucket Goes to McDonald's", Sarah is protecting ducks at a lake while wearing stereotypical hippie clothing and trying to convince bypassers to go vegan.
  • Green Aesop: "A Shark Named Gilbert" begins with a relaxing beachgoer casually littering. This motivates the titular shark to spontaneously grow legs so that he can go on land and teach the beachgoer the error of his ways.
  • Medium-Shift Gag: In "Pepsi Cat", the dad cat's transformation into Pepsi Cat has his animation style briefly change into that of an 8-bit video game, then into South Park's, then into stop-motion clay figures, then back to normal. He Lampshades this during the sequence.
  • No Name Given: Lots of the channel's main characters lack a proper name.
    • Neither of the cats are ever referred to by name. They simply call each other "son" and "dad". This is a justified example, as they're both strays.
    • Emobob's boss at work, who sounds very much like Mr Krabs, is never referred to by name. The same goes for one of Emobob's friends, who's an emo version of Squidward. He's only ever referred to by nicknames, such as "Shitward" or "Slit-your-wrists-ward".
    • The dumb alien and his mother are never referred to by name. Though, if they had any, they probably wouldn't be pronouncable in English, given their weird native language.
  • Medium Blending:
    • In the Cat series, the world and people are all live-action, while the two main characters are animated.
    • "Damn, I HATE GameStop" is fully animated, except for George Lopez's disembodied head, which is a real life image.
    • In "The Bricked Up LEGO Man (the movie)", the titular Lego man is stop-motion animated, while everything else is live-action.
  • Mood Whiplash: At the end of "Cat Goes to BLOCKBUSTER", the store spontaneously goes out of business. The sole worker and the two cats sadly walk out of the building while appropriate music plays, and the worker solemnly puts a single rose into the Quik Drop slot. Less than three seconds later, the music suddenly cuts and the worker slaps a Best Buy sticker over his Blockbuster badge, apparently already having gotten over the loss of his job.
  • No Fourth Wall:
    • In almost every video on the channel, characters will talk as if they know they're fictional characters and/or are filming and uploading the video to the YouTube channel themselves, especially in those which are Author Tracts. This can range anywhere from expressing concern about monetization, to a character outright stating that their sole motivation for doing something is that the comments section asked them to. This is justified for the "Squidward's House" videos, the Chum Bucket videos, and "Damn, I HATE GameStop", as they occur within the context of filming a video in-universe.
    • A few videos end with a section in which the uploader rants about the topic that the upload is about, often not making sense in the context of any character he was voicing.
      • "BANNED 'Cat' PlayStation 2 Commercial !" ends with random scatting about putting discs into the console.
      • "Cat Goes to BLOCKBUSTER!" ends with angry ranting about a Redbox being placed directly across the street from the Blockbuster in which the video took place in.
      • "*BANNED* GAMESTOP TRAINING VIDEO" ends with an admission that the ending was phoned in due to not being allowed to record inside of GameStop in real life.
  • Police Brutality: At the end of "Cat Goes to BLOCKBUSTER", the son cat states to his dad that he has a lot of pirated movies on a 1 terabyte hard drive. This is overheard by a cop (or rather, a stock image of one aiming a gun), who immediately shouts "Let's get em" and begins trying to shoot at both cats.
  • Realistic Diction Is Unrealistic: All of the characters played by the uploader himself avert the trope. They appear to not follow any script. As a result, they often trip over their words, go on non-sequiturs, and form half-complete thoughts, all while sharing the same speaking cadence. The only exceptions are Emobob and his friends.
  • Skewed Priorities:
    • A downplayed example occurs when the Chum Bucket arrives at Taco Bell to make a review. While he is shocked to find Sarah's dead body in the dumpster, he doesn't let it stop him from ordering at the drive through as usual. He only bothers to call the cops about it once Emobob is mean to him, and even then, he treats the murder like an afterthought.
    • In "Cat Goes to KMART", the Ford Focus driver is strangely unbothered by the fact that he just totaled his car and almost died in the process, as mere moments later, he's seen riding the coin operated kiddie rides at the KMart entrance, and then napping on one of their display mattresses.
  • Suddenly Shouting: A very large amount of the channel's characters will suddenly start exclaiming when they feel very negatively or positively about something. This is seen most often in the Cat series, as the main focus of each episode is the dad cat ranting to his modern-tech-using son about why certain outdated electronic accessories are better than their modern iterations.
    Son Cat: "Shhh Dad, you're yelling in the store!"
  • Taking the Bullet: A parodied example is in "The Bricked Up LEGO Man (the movie)". When the agent reveals her true intentions to the Lego man, he attempts to shoot her with a puny, harmless, Lego missile. Gary, who woke up a moment earlier from all the commotion, dramatically gets in the way of the shot and "saves" her, then falls over.


"Awww yeah, man that was probably the most phoned in ending I ever had to do for a trope page but man FUCK IT! And FUCK TV Tropes too, bitch!"

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