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  • Alternate Character Interpretation: Is everybody who works for Brennan's CEO characters companies really as clueless as they seem, or are they fully aware of what they are doing and want kids to eat soap and vape without concern for them as long as their making money?
  • Awesome Music: Some of their parody songs are actually pretty catchy.
  • Crosses the Line Twice:
    • The Furry Force videos play with this line as if it was a string of yarn.
    • The video "Zordon is a Racist" pokes fun at the fact that the original Black Ranger and the original Yellow Ranger in Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers were respectively African-American and Asian by establishing that Zordon is a total bigot who is blatantly appointing Ranger colors to his recruits based on what minority they belong to, and Zordon's politically incorrect attitude is so unashamedly offensive it's hilarious! Aside from being racist by lazily declaring a second black recruit "the other Black Ranger", intending to recruit a Native American as the Red Ranger and the white male as the White Ranger as well as the leader, plus recruiting a Mexican janitor named Jorge by giving him a sombrero and a poncho instead of a proper Ranger uniform, Zordon is also shown to be Anti-Semitic (he's accused of planning to make the Jewish recruit the Green Ranger because of the stereotype that Jews love money), misogynist (he makes the second female recruit the Pink Ranger just because she's a girl and shoots down the idea of her being the leader) and homophobic (he doesn't like the idea of a male recruit being the Pink Ranger because it would be "gay" and is disgusted when the Jewish recruit implies that he actually is homosexual). What especially sells it is how The Stinger has the second black recruit complain that he's actually from Connecticut when he sees that Zordon's teleported him to Africa.
    • The depths of despair the MoviePass CEO reaches cross into this, between answering a call from his kidnapped daughter, and the sketch ending with his abduction at the hands of a Loan Shark's goons.
      CEO: Don't. Just don't. I'm hanging by a thread. And... the thing I'm hanging over, it's bottomless. If I drop, I never hit the bottom, do you get it?
    • Prince Harry telling Mulan that he's not into Asian girls, then compromising after realizing that he's in China and asking her if it looks like a fortune cookie "down there".
    • Lou in the Sam Says episode of Game Changer responding to the prompt of "Say something we'll have to bleep" by saying OJ Simpson is innocent.
  • Ensemble Dark Horse: Some recurring sketches and characters become unexpectedly more popular than others.
    • "If Google Was a Guy", because of his reactions to the inane and disturbing searches of his users.This reached the point that the human Google ended up being the one to comfort CH viewers as the COVID-19 pandemic began.
    • Mr. S from the "Jeggings" sketches. Similar to Google Guy, he's just an average substitute teacher who gets increasingly fed up with the rules lawyering of the students in front of him.
    • The unnamed Only Sane Man agent from the "X's agent" series, for having to put up with the public relations nightmares of Chris Brown, Kanye West, Nicolas Cage, and Scarlett Johansson. Played by the same actor as Mr. S, Matt McCarthy.
    • Precious Plum was discontinued after Josh (who played Mama) left. It's still one of their most popular series and people wish it would come back.
      • Josh himself was beloved by the fandom, and pretty much all his sketches met with acclaim.
    • The Furry Force animations are rather popular, to the point that they were nominated for, and eventually won, an Ursa Major Award.
    • Brennan, due to the CEO series, his Large Ham tendencies and his work on Dimension 20, is one of the more popular cast members.
  • Fridge Brilliance: On the fake Nicholas Cage movie poster for To Kill a Mockingbird retold where the black guy really did rape that woman, Tom Robinson is shrugging with both arms in the air. It was a plot point in the trial that Tom Robinson's left arm was crippled and thus couldn't raise it. So that fact he can here implies it was proof he did it in this movie.
  • Harsher in Hindsight:
    • Their "Not Google Plus" video has everyone not joining Google Plus. Fast forward to November 2013, when a Google Plus account is mandatory for YouTube users. And then in 2018, Google Plus shut down due to low usership.
    • The sixth episode of Prank Wars has Amir planting a fake marriage proposal from Streeter to his girlfriend in the middle of a Major League baseball game. When Streeter's girlfriend accepts, Streeter has to inform her that he did no such thing, and the ensuing argument - and slap across Streeter's face - is broadcast to the entire stadium. Shortly afterward, the two of them broke up. Though they claimed it was for other reasons and that the break-up was amicable, it was impossible to completely detach it from the prank. This one got less harsh again in 2017 when Streeter and Amir admitted that they'd staged the prank war and that Streeter's girlfriend was in on the gag.
    • In the two-part North Korean propaganda parody video Kim Jong Un vs Kim Jong Il, Kim Jong Un's brother, Kim Jong-nam is revealed to be the mastermind behind a conspiracy to depose his brother and take over North Korea. However, he is defeated in the end. On February 17, 2017, Kim Jong-nam was killed in an alleged assassination, and people close to him have claimed Kim Jong Un to be the mastermind.
    • The message in Stop Saying "It Ruined My Childhood" (that reacting to movies and shows you grew up with being rebooted or changed in ways you don't like by claiming your childhood has been ruined when there are much worse things people have endured in their youth is ludicrously obtuse) loses some of its sincerity and comes off as hypocritical when you find out College Humor did an "honest" poster for Power Rangers (2017) calling it "Childhood Ruiners".
      • One of the complaining millennials in that video is Kelly Marie Tran, whose character in The Last Jedi gained a significant backlash to the point of her leaving social media.
    • In March 2017, they posted a video titled Don't Eat the Laundry Pods where someone gets curious about them and despite the dangers, ends up eating some in the end. Flash forward to late 2017 where teens and kids take a tide pod challenge, eating them despite the dangers. While before, toddlers would eat/attempt to eat them because they look like candy, teens and kids are eating them by choice.
      • They would end up addressing this in a video titled Tide CEO: You Gotta Stop Eating Tide Pods, in which the CEO of Procter and Gamble (not mentioned on screen for legal reasons) chastises the audience for eating Tide Pods, and then grows steadily more outraged at various products manufactured by the company for looking exactly like candy.
    • A video called CollegeHumor is Shutting Down (a clip from Dropout's series Kingpin Katie) became this in 2020, when it was announced that over 100 people, including the entire cast of CH Originals, would be laid off as College Humor had lost funding from their parent company.
    • In Game Changer S4E1 (2021), Brennan reacts to his Sam Says prompt by coughing loudly and all around Sam Reich. In 2023, Sam would contract long COVID.
  • Heartwarming in Hindsight: In 2019, on the very first episode of Game Changer, Izzy reveals that Brennan's greatest dream is to be a dad, and five years later, on a Fireside Chat for Worlds Beyond Numbernote  he revealed that he and Izzy, who he had since married in 2023, had welcomed the birth of their first child.
  • Hilarious in Hindsight
  • Jerkass Woobie: Google Guy comes off as annoying, but so would you be if you were in his shoes.
  • Les Yay: In the Sketch co-written by a computer, "everything is suddenly relationship goals", and Katie is seen embracing Ally.
  • Love to Hate: The Boy from the "Giving Tree" parody is one of the most hated characters because of his selfish and cruel actions. Then again, this was kind of the whole point.
  • Memetic Mutation:
    • Every time a comic about dating gets posted, the comment section will be fake flame wars about whether every identity in existence is represented.
    • From If Google Was A Guy (Part 3):
      "Vaccines causes autism?"
      "Here's one million results that say they don't, and one result that says they do."
      "I knew it!" (takes the latter result) Explanation
    • "He was bread the whole time." Explanation
    • The only things that makes Brennan laughExplanation
    • GIF's of Victor Vivisector going "Ew-ew-ew!" in the second Furry Force episode has been used as a Squick reaction, especially regarding furries.
    • GIF's of Brennan Lee Mulligan going "I will die on any hill!" are often used for people who have very strong opinions about extremely niche subjects.
  • "The son of a former Secretary of Labor, everyone."Explanation
  • Mexicans Love Speedy Gonzales: The Furry Force videos are actually pretty popular with the Furry Fandom, despite that the videos mock said fandom. To be fair, it mocks the darker side of it specifically, which is controversial even among the fandom itself.
  • Misaimed Fandom: "If Tag Were as Complicated as German Board Games" is supposed to criticize German board games and the people who play them. The comments are full of people wanting to play German Tag, and seeing it as a fun improvement over regular tag.
  • Moment of Awesome: How Grant managed to beat Sam in his own game in an episode of Game Changer. The rules of that particular episode was that the players had to compete for a pile of money, with whoever did the craziest stunt getting the award. With 3000 dollars left and the challenge being to do anything involving some crickets, Grant convinces the other players to work with him, leading to each of them walking home with 1000 dollars in return for Grant simply having to wave at some crickets, and none of the other players challenging him on it.
    • Also works as one for Sam, for having a graphic prepared for this instance sincerely congratulating the crew for unionising. Especially when you remember his dad was actually Bill Clinton's Secretary of Labor.
  • Moral Event Horizon: There's some debate over where this line may have been crossed in the (fictional, but presented as real) "Prank War" series, with the most common candidates being video 4 (Amir gets the audience at Streeter's standup comedy performance not to laugh), 5 (Streeter tricks Amir into thinking he's going to appear on Human Giant only to have the team berate his acting throughout the shoot and finally boot him from the sketch), 6 (Amir stages a fake proposal from Streeter to his girlfriend which gets him Bitch Slapped in public when he tells her the truth, implicitly ruining their relationship) and 8 (Amir pays Streeter's skydiving instructor to convince him that his parachute didn't open).
  • Nausea Fuel: The "Furry Force" sketches rely on this entirely for comedy.
  • Nightmare Fuel:
    • The "Super Intense ER Promo".
    • An in-universe example with Mike Wazowski's redesign for the prequel in "Billy Crystal and John Goodman Meet Their Monsters". The redesign is basically Billy Crystal (Mike's voice actor) with green skin. Billy is less than pleased while everybody else, John Goodman included, are absolutely terrified by it.
    • The Shazaam excerpt seems initially like a spot-on parody of kids' movies that work fantasy into the lives of children with a dysfunctional household. However, if viewers catch subtle references to other False Memories created by the Mandela Effect, it could prove unsettling to consider possible truth behind claims of those memories coming from an alternate universe or timeline, and a tape from such a place suddenly appearing in a spot where our universe's CollegeHumor could find it.
    • "How To Make a Human Pot Pie."
    • "The New iPhone Is Just Worse" dips into an unexpectedly creepy atmosphere near the end, with the music slowing to a crawl and the addition of glitchy sound effects, while Tim Cook reveals to the viewer that four members of the design team have mysteriously disappeared.
      Jony Ive: Oopsy daisy, where did Tim go?
    • The very end of What Undecided Voters Look Like To Everyone Else in which the clown handles the man's intestines like a balloon animal just might make the viewer wince. The sudden jump to this combined with the dark setting of the scene, as well as the jaunty circus music playing in the background, just adds to the creepiness.
  • Retroactive Recognition:
  • Not So Crazy Anymore: The "If Google Was a Guy" series began in 2012, when the idea of speaking aloud to Google directly was only seen in parodies. The Google Assistant in 2016 made it possible to speak aloud to Google, though it's not nearly as snarky as the Google in the videos. One standout is a scene where a woman asks "What song goes like this?" and then hums a song to Google, which only confuses him. Now it's possible for Google's vocal software to recognize a tune you hum and tell you the name of the song.
  • Rooting for the Empire: A large portion of non-furries (and even some who are furries) who watched the Furry Force series ended up rooting for Vivisector to defeat the Furry Force if only because he is their Audience Surrogate reacting to the more sexual aspect of the furry fandom and wants the Furry Force dead. The fact that the final part of the series he burns down all of his Scaly Squad to stop the world from becoming furries, commits suicide, and, in the alternative future, suffers a Mind Rape to start a... "relationship" with Leon (who he openly feels disgusted by) and drowns in a sea of wolf cum only increase this sentiment.
  • Shallow Parody:
    • The video parodying bronies is just a Cliché Storm of the worst nerd stereotypes they could think of with a MLP themed coat of paint poorly applied to it. It also manages to be a Shallow Parody of Friendship is Magic at the same time, by having the pony figures talk about stereotypical Girly Girl things even though Friendship is Magic is largely known for breaking that mold. Needless to say, the parody caused quite a lot of backlash from real-life bronies.
    • They also did a video parodying The Hunger Games called "Hunger Games Unabridged," which was all about defying the Nobody Poops trope. A hilarious idea, to be sure, and the video itself is rather well done. However, there's just one problem— The "unabridged" excerpts read in the video are written in third-person point of view, whereas the actual series is written from Katniss' first-person point of view.
    • Some of their parody videos could fall under this. Case in point, this video explaining how it would be if the anime Hayao Miyazaki made were like other anime.
  • Squick:
    • Back to the Future Sex Scenes - doubles as a Funny Moment.
    • Again, the "Furry Force" videos. Seriously, it's probably better to just listen to the audio rather than watch the video itself, since you'll still be able to tell what's going on regardless...
  • They Changed It, Now It Sucks!:
    • The site has changed its Originals intros often over the years. It's lampshaded in a Jake and Amir video, when Amir says he hates the new intro "Because it's different!"
    • The ending bit after the videos was also changed from a guy shouting "Huh!" a few years back. Afterwards every CollegeHumor YouTube video would have tons of comments about where it went and that it should be brought back.
  • Unintentionally Unsympathetic: Biff, and Marty's parents in the Back to the Future parody, "Back To The Future Alternate Ending". Marty's parents come off as having shockingly warped morals for mourning the death of Biff (who committed suicide because of what Marty changed in the past) and chastising Marty for criticizing him. Not only do they justify all of Biff's actions because of his bad homelife, they also completely brush over Biff's Attempted Rape of Lorraine. The majority of viewers did not like the implication that the audience should feel bad for a violent rapist. It's one of the few skits that Collegehumor eventually removed from the YouTube channel.
  • Unintentional Period Piece: "We Didn't Start the Flame War" is a snapshot of the Internet as of 2009, featuring many trends that have since fallen out of favor or been entirely forgotten. This includes rickrolling, Digg, the ROFLCopter, ASCII art in general, outdated slang like "pwnage", sites like BustedTees, and even CollegeHumor's own website. Unfortunately, Flame Wars turned out to be a timeless concept.
  • The Woobie: The green-shirted woman in the animated "If Google Was a Guy" COVID-19-themed videos, whose questions always relate to being terrified and lonely during the pandemic. In the third one, Google reads her New Year's Resolutions from the previous year and all of them were made impossible during the pandemic. While he snarks at most of his other clients, Google always takes the most gentle and reassuring approach with her anxiety.

Alternative Title(s): College Humor

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