SkyCorp Home Video
is a satirical media corporation that delivers various assorted comedic (and sometimes disturbing) sketches (alongside various vulgar production logos) in a decayed VHS style evocative of the late 80s and early 90s. Notable for recording on actual VHS tape.
SkyCorp Home Video provides examples of:
- Black Comedy: One of their earlier videos goes from what seems like a standard 1980's-esque camera commercial to a guy forcing his best friend at gunpoint to pull his pants down and start dancing on camera. And that's just the start of their catalogue.
- Blob Monster: The mascot in their Jello commercial. It ends up drowning a little girl's mother in its membrane.
- Bread, Eggs, Milk, Squick: The Music Hammer is suggested for hammering nails to music, hammering couches, and killing your worst enemy. All to blaring royalty-free synthesizer music.
- Brother–Sister Incest: The Moreno Twins in the "80s Love Songs Album Commercial" proclaim their love for each other in song.
- Butt-Monkey: In The Wide World of Web series with Smithers O’Neil, Option A (as of How to Write an Email) is never selected.
- Creepy Stalker Van: Roger drives one in the Charm Bar commercial, and the child he lures into the van with the titular Charm Bar is none the wiser.
- Cure Your Gays: Closetra®, a pill to suppress gay thoughts.
- Disproportionate Retribution:
- The "80s Sex Ed PSA" suggests that premarital sex should be punishable by cuffing the one who proposes it in a room rigged with C4 and blowing the room up.
- "Smoking Weed Ruined This Family" - your son tries one joint? Hold him by the neck while his brother fetches a knife.
- In the "How to Write an Email" episode of The Wide World of Web, Smithers O’Neil gets fired over an inappropriate MS Paint artwork with his boss Nimesh and not knowing when to back down, along with insulting Janice, the HR lady. Smithers responds by sending the "I AM SORRY" virus to the tech startup company, which ultimately went out of business over this.
- Drugs Are Bad: Played for laughs with "Smoking Weed Ruined This Family" - the family falls apart because of their reaction to the son confessing to ownership of the joint the dad found. The son is the Only Sane Man in the situation. The younger son comes back brandishing a knife.
- Early-Installment Weirdness:
- When he first appears on a Sky Corp vine, Smithers O’Neil originally didn’t have a nasally voice.
- Similar to Smithers, Roger the Babysitter spoke in a more normal tone, compared to later videos where his voice gets pitched up.
- Wide World of Web has two notable ones:
- The first foray of The Wide World of Web was hosted by Paul Perkenstein for two episodes, both of which lasted a minute.
- The second foray hosted by Smithers O’Neil opened and closed with a different tune in the first episode from VAAV Social Club called "リングリング -de repente...".
- Faking the Dead: Advertised with "Fake Your Own Death!", with an entire list of reasons for doing so and methods by which to do it.
- Intercourse with You: The "80s Love Songs Album Commercial" advertises a pair of collections of cheesy love ballads... albeit with themes of stalking, morning wood, incest, keeping a preserved penis in a jar, and STDs.
- Mood Whiplash:
- "YOU ARE AMAZING" takes a turn by adding "-LY GAY" on the end. And then again by adding, "SO BURN IN HELL".
- The "This" in the "LET'S ALL DO THIS!!!" logo refers to panicking, at which point the synthesizer fanfare gives way to biohazard symbols appearing everywhere, terrified messages appearing on screen and the footage distorting.
- Really, if any of their videos start out like a standard parody or homage to retro television/VHS, then expect things to get dark or weird fast.
- N-Word Privileges: Parodied with "The N-Word Pass®", where SkyCorp sell documentation for them for just $50 a month, and carriers of the pass can say the word to designated recipients who receive that subscription cost. The commercial does point out that a variant of the pass with the hard R doesn't exist at this time.
- Off-the-Shelf FX: The Masturglove is basically an NES Power Glove, but for a... different purpose.
- Parody Commercial: A common theme of the channel is to parody 1980/90s commercials by adding a dark twist, like in The Charm Bar, Cuddles, the doll or Magnavox Movie Maker.
- Perverse Puppet: The murderous baby doll Cuddles.
- Raging Stiffie: In "You're The Reason" in the "80s Love Songs Album Commercial", Richie Hammerschmidt proudly proclaims that his lover is the reason he wakes up with a massive erection, which he then shamelessly displays.
- Retraux: A stunningly accurate recreation of the aesthetics of the 80s and 90s, to the point where according to their channel description, the footage is either shot on VHS or copied to a VHS tape. To that end, they even produced a video detailing the process, and even offer a service to create actual retro-styled commercials, like this series of Halloween ads for Papa John's Pizza.
- Sensory Abuse: A common trait in their videos. Some good examples are "CONTENT", "I'll Never Forget That One Day I Smoked Pot", "LET'S ALL DO THIS!!!", and the "LOVE ME" Vine.
- Serial Escalation: In the 90s Sex Ed PSA, when Rodney Buckentime learns that a hapless person likes to have premarital sex, Rodney responds by blowing a whistle at said person, tying him to a chair, dousing him in gasoline and SETTING HIM ON FIRE!Rodney: "Some sinners just can’t be saved..."
- Shout-Out:
- The "Quality Content™" logo is a phallic spoof of the default logo on Scotch VHS cassettes.
- The audio for the "I'm Begging You" logo is ripped from the logo for Simitar Entertainment.
- The Wide World of Web opening title uses the Brian Eno Microsoft sound.
- Stalker with a Crush: Parodied with "My Love Will Always Find You" by James Francesca in the "80s Love Songs Album Commercial" - he knows where she lives.
- Token Minority: Advertised with a phone delivery service with "1-800 Token Black Friend™"
- Unusually Uninteresting Sight: Upon being invited to a creepy abandoned house in the middle of nowhere, the two dimwitted teenagers in "1999 House Party" brush aside blatantly obvious signs of occult and paranormal activity in favor of... a discarded UPS uniform and a bunch of used condoms they think are balloons.
- Villain Protagonist: Smithers O'Neil enters this trope in "How to Write an Email", gradually losing it over the pronunciation of "affect" and "effect" from his boss Nimesh. When he gets rightfully fired over escalating the conflict and insulting Janice for good measure when he should’ve just listened to his boss, Smithers sends a virus called “I AM SORRY” to his former workplace in his apology message, forcing the rising tech startup company to go out of business. Then he anonymously recommends Nimesh for a cashier position at a Mc Donald’s.
