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Line 2: [[File:cracked2_2155.jpg\|frame]] {{quote\| '''Dan''': "''What have you been doing in here?''"~~<br />~~ '''Michael''': "''Allow me to answer that question with a meth lab.''" }} ''[['''Agents of Cracked]]''''' is a [[Web Original]] comedy miniseries that, as the name would suggest, is produced by ''[[~~Cracked\|~~Cracked.com]]'', and ran in three "seasons" from 2009 to 2011. Michael Swaim and Daniel O'Brien star as [[Alter Ego Acting]] versions of themselves; the former a sociopathic [[Cloudcuckoolander]], and the latter [[Straight Man\|his much more down to earth partner]] [[They Fight Crime\|who write articles for Cracked]]. Watch it [http://www.cracked.com/video_18099_the-end-beginning.html here. ] {{tropelist}} ~~=== ''[[Agents of Cracked]]'' provides examples of the following tropes: ===~~ * [[Acquired Poison Immunity]]: Michael has built up an immunity to "pills" of all varieties as a result of taking too many this one time. * [[Actor Allusion]]: DOB meeting his lookalike and fing him is a reference to DOB's article [http://www.cracked.com/blog/human-clones-do-you-fk-or-fight/ about what to do when you're locked in a room with your clone]. * The mug of pens that DOB throws at B-Tone is a reference to [http://www.cracked.com/video_17155_mug-pens-coffee-mug-for-pens.html one of Cracked and Michael Swaim's first sketch videos for the site]. ** Mike using the ''[[Saved Byby the Bell]]'' Zack Morris Time Out is a callback to an episode of Cracked After Hours that aired the day before the Agents of Cracked episode. * [[Adorkable]]: DOB * [[Aesop Amnesia]]: DOB acknowledges he has some sort of amnesia that causes him to forget to never, ever go along with anything Swaim wants to do. * [[Ancient Conspiracy]]: The Chief is part of one. * [[Anything That Moves]]: Swaim takes Dan to a bar. Dan strikes out with the ladies, while Swaim goes home with ''every customer in the bar.'' And one dog. And a particularly sexy bar stool. Among Swaim's "quasi-legal fetishes" are Hot Wheels, making fart noises, and ''holding up either very small or very large charts''. [[Even Nerds Have Standards\|Regular-sized ones don't do it for him]], though. * [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking]]: Apparently, Michael mails heroin to kids, makes bald eagle egg omelettes that he doesn't even finish, and rents video games, then keeps the manuals. * [[Artificial Limbs]]: Sarge has a prosthetic nose. * [[Awesome McCoolname]]: "Thelonius Bone", or T-Bone for short. * [[Ax Crazy]]: Several characters but Swaim takes the cake! {{quote\| ''Swaim'': Deal? (calling off the 'prank war')~~<br />~~ ''D.O.B'': (reaches towards Micheal before recoiling)~~<br />~~ ''Swaim'': (Holding a ''very'' large butcher's knife) Ah! It was a knife...the ''whole'' time... }} * [[Back ~~From~~from the Dead]]: {{spoiler\|T-Bone}}. Then immediately subverted that its revealed its actually {{spoiler\|B-Tone, his twin}}. * [[Badass]]: The Chief. Apparently he rides a triceratops to work and drinks tiger blood milkshakes. FOR BREAKFAST! Line 33: The other Chiefs. * [[Bi the Way]]: {{spoiler\|Dan}} in the final episode. * [[Brick Joke]] Michael Swaim used to be a judge. This comes up again during the goat sex case. Ricky was blinded by one of Michael's 'pranks', in the Christmas Special, blinded Ricky is seen trying to feel his way out of the Cracked offices, along with DOB and Michael. Line 45: ** No one remembers Stuart's name. Not even Stuart's mother. * [[Bunny Ears Lawyer]] (see Idiot Savant) Although Michael has quirky bouts of ruthless anger, heroin-mailing and down right insanity, he is a great writer, so these oddities are overlooked. * [[But You Screw One Goat!]]: Swaim claims Walter Anderson "totally fks goats because he believes it gives him super powers - specifically, powers which allow him to fk more goats" in Season 2. This is why Cracked gets sued, and subsequently leads to Swaim's [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]]. * [[Camp Gay]]: Benedict Arnold. No, not [[The American Revolution\|that one.]] * [[Candid Camera Prank]]: Mentioned by DOB in the face of Swaim's... Swaim-ness. "I'm not convinced that you aren't part of a reality show that I forgot I was on." * [[Catch Phrase]]: GASP! * [[Chekhov's Gag]] ** In a first season episode, Michael mentions his belief that everyone on the east coast goes to work in hot air balloons and sleeps in grain silos; in the series finale {{spoiler\|Dan and Michael go to the east coast by way of a hot air balloon, and DOB mentions (possibly jokingly) that Michael's going to have to sleep in a grain silo because "That's where we all sleep, back east." And a few episodes earlier, Kelly mentions having traveled to California via zeppelin, confirming another of Michael's crazy cultural perceptions.}} * [[Chekhov's Skill]]: In Agents of Cracked, there is a running gag throughout the first season that Michael, the resident [[Cloudcuckoolander]], used to be a judge. This is mostly passed off as nonsense. In Season 2 Episode 4, that experience gives Michael the series [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]]. ** This might also count as a [[Brick Joke]]. * [[Cloudcuckoolander]]: '''Swaim.''' Also Crazy Raoul, and at least one of Swaim's homeless wives. * [[Comedic Sociopath]]: Michael. See [[Laughably Evil]] below. * [[Crazy Cultural Comparison]]: Michael believes that the "East Coast" is a foreign country where, among other things, everyone rides hot air balloons to work and sleeps in grain silos, "fag" is just a fancy word for "elevator", and the best thing Dan could hope for is to marry a soapmaker and sell scrimshaw scenes of [[The American Civil War]] to passing cattlemen until the day he dies of "heartstop". * [[Crazy Prepared]]: Swaim has ''thousands of knives'' hidden all around the world, including ''on the persons of Secret Service agents'', in case he ever needs one. * [[Cut His Heart Out ~~With~~with a Spoon]]: "Ever been killed with a doorknob before?" ** "I'll gouge eyeballs out of places you didn't even ''know'' you could see from!" * [[Dangerous Workplace]]: Half of the time, really. * [[The Danza]]: Both Swaim and DOB are named after, [[Captain Obvious\|well]], Michael Swaim and Dan O'Brien. * [[Depraved Bisexual]]: Swaim. He seems [[Ho Yay\|very]] [[Yandere\|attached]] to [[Butt Monkey\|DOB]], but he also has multiple wives, and he claims to have had sex with [[Shallow Female Love Interest\|Mandy]] at least twice. In season 3, he orders a group of drunken bar patrons to line up in accordance with their positions on the Kinsey scale, and tells them that he intends to have sex with ''all of them''. Not just "all of them", "every part of them, in alphabetical order". Don't forget the barstool. They're going back to his place. Perhaps making Swaim a Depraved Pansexual? In series 3, Swaim fulfills his pledge to have a [[Brick Joke\|BEST FRIENDS THREESOME!]] with DOB. Line 68: When Dan finds himself in the bar in season 3, he asks the bartender to serve him the most noxious, poisonous, self-destructive drink she can think of. He gets apricot brandy and Clamato. * [[Drugs Are Bad]]: [[Inverted Trope\|Inverted]] hard. Swaim has a heroin addition and gets Dan to try it in "The Least Effective Drug Intervention Ever" ("A hit a day keeps the tremors at bay!"), and Swaim implies he's done crack in "Adpocalypse Now": {{quote\| '''Swaim:''' Dude, I'm tellin ya, stuff is way funnier.}} * [[Early -Bird Cameo]]: Cody Johnston appears in the background of some shots, but just seemed to be an [[Easter Egg]]. {{spoiler\|In the final episode, we find out he's the Chief, who's been watching over Mike the entire time.}} * [[Escalating War]]: In one episode, Swaim ''thinks'' that he and DOB are in one--and that Dan started it--but Dan's "pranks" are entirely in Swaim's imagination. {{quote\| '''DOB:''' Michael, I have never played a joke on you, alright? I need you to believe that we are not in some kind of trick murder contest.~~<br />~~ '''Swaim:''' ''Prank'' murder contest.~~<br />~~ '''DOB:''' I really wish murder was the word we were arguing over in this sentence. }} * [[Even the Guys Want Him]]: B-Tone. {{quote\| '''Swaim:''' You're-~~<br />~~ '''B-Tone:''' Gorgeous?~~<br />~~ '''DOB and Swaim:''' Well, yeah. }} * [[Exactly What It Says Onon the Tin]]: Michael is told to make a "Facebook" for Cracked and assumes he's literally supposed to make ''a book out of people's faces''. Terror ensues. ** "It got easier when I remembered the ''children's cemetary''. * [[Exotic Equipment]]: Michael has a "weird-looking dick" as the result of {{spoiler\|being the son of a demigod with corkscrew-shaped testicles}}. His member is apparently prehensile and can be used to type and hold up large signs. Line 92: * [[GASP]]: Swaim's favorite exclamation seems to be [[Saying Sound Effects Out Loud\|the word "Gasp!"]] (see Catch Phrase). ** And then there's Swaim's clone: "Sharp intake of breath!" * [[Giver of Lame Names]]: Swaim spends an entire episode giving DOB terrible and insulting nicknames, though the lameness of the names could have been intentional. * [[Hard Work Hardly Works]]: Even when DOB spends months researching his article, it can't match the popularity of one that Michael wrote an hour before his deadline. In his sleep. * [[Heads -Up Display]]: Swaim sees the world by way of an HUD that is half ''[[The Terminator]]'' and half ''[[Robot Unicorn Attack]]''. * [[Idiot Savant]]: The Chief actually calls Swaim this, and it's shown that he is actually an excellent writer. ** And an excellent judge. Line 101: * [[Initiation Ceremony]]: Apparently one of the requirements put on Dan to join the Cracked staff was to kill a man. * [[The Internet Is for Porn]]: Swaim's immediate conclusion upon discovering Google. "I typed in 'porn' - and porn came up! I typed in 'breakfast' - and '''porn''' came up!" * [[Kavorka Man]]: Though not physically unattractive (with the arguable exception of his clothes), Michael's [[Psychopathic Manchild\|personality]] would seem to make him an unlikely lady's man. But almost all the women on the show, and quite a few of the men, are attracted to him. {{spoiler\|Including Dan.}} * [[Konami Code]]: "A man has to have a code, Daniel! And mine goes up, up, down, down, left, right, A...I'm sorry: up, up, down...F[[Sound Effect Bleep\|**]] me, I think I recorded it..." [[Lampshade Hanging]]: Throughout the body-switching episode, constant reference is made to, well, body-switching. {{quote\| '''Dan:''' Really? I mean, I can't believe we're stooping to that... as a website.}} ** Also Lampshades Swaim's Hammerspace. * [[Last -Minute Hookup]]: Played completely straight by {{spoiler\|DOB and Swaim in the finale.}} * [[Laughably Evil]]: Swaim. He drops empty liquor bottles on pedestrians from the roof of Cracked's offices, keeps his multiple schizophrenic "wives" imprisoned in his house and car for six years, has crippling addictions to heroin and jetski polish, wears skin suits, and '''is the Zodiac killer''', but he's a deranged, comedic savant and all of it is [[Black Comedy\|played for laughs]]. * [[Leaning Onon the Fourth Wall]]: In "F.U.B.A.R.-King Up the Wrong Tree": {{quote\| '''Kelly:''' I'm a huge fan of AOC.~~<br />~~ '''DOB:''' blank stare~~<br />~~ '''Swaim:''' A-O-what? }} * [[Living Emotional Crutch]]: Dan becomes one of these for Mike: {{quote\| '''Micheal:''' "But that's what would happen if you left, Dan. I'd miss you a lot, and then ''I'd die''. Is that what you want?!"}} * [[Luke, I Am Your Father]]: Subverted, because Sarge is not Swaim's father...son. ** {{spoiler\|Played straight, because The Chief is.}} * [[Meaningful Name]]: In [http://www.cracked.com/video_18281_most-poorly-planned-heist-ever.html Tactical Asset Liberation], there's a character called {{spoiler\|Benedict Arnold who betrays Mike and Dan}}. * [[Metaphorgotten]]: "I'll tell her the deal's off. ...''Then'' I'll tell her my ''pants'' are off! Then I'll tell her there's a new deal! And then I'll tell her 'Frankly, I'm about to Delano all over your Roosevelts.'" {{quote\| '''Dan:''' That kinda got away from you, huh?~~<br />~~ '''Michael:''' I don't think it did. }} * [[Mistaken for Pedophile]]: When Mandy calls Dan's choice of drink "juvenile yet mature", he quips "I love combining my man-parts with those of a child." Line 131: * [[Odd Couple]]: DOB and Michael. ** They {{spoiler\|become a real couple}} in the finale. * [[Or So ~~Iheard~~I Heard]]: A running gag from Swaim about the Chief in Season 1. ** Given a nod in the first episode of the second season. The Sarge is convinced that if he refuses to take the position The Chief will shrink down, climb into his brain and force him to do it. And when that's debunked, he thinks he'll go back in time. * [[Psychopathic Manchild]]: Swaim, beyond all belief: {{quote\| '''Daniel:''' You must understand, our entire editorial process is basically a toxic containment system meant to prevent Michael's real personality from ever leaking out into the world...}} ** Canonized when it is revealed that {{spoiler\|the entire Cracked website was created to keep Swaim occupied and distracted.}} * [[Rainbow Pimp Gear]]: Swaim's usual choice of attire, which Dan (correctly) surmises that he buys from thrift stores in the gay neighborhood. Line 141: * [[Running Gag]]: Very subtle, but Sarge's eye patch is constantly switching eyes. In a later season 3 episode, it switched entire bodies. ** Also: HORSES??!! * [[Self -Deprecation]]: "So what're you gonna do with the company now that it serves no purpose beyond compiling lists of infantile dick jokes?" ** Another possible one: "Are you just stuck in a loop ''listing'' things? Because I can talk you through that." [[Don't Explain the Joke\|Cracked.com is famous for list-based articles.]] * [[Shirtless Scene]]: Swaim's had a couple. ** Sarge gets a brief one when he and {{spoiler\|Mandy}} are shown in bed together. * [[Similar Squad]]: Swaim and Dan are caught sneaking into Broked.com's office, and are interrogated by an identical team played by themselves. Much to Dan's dismay, this leads to [[Screw Yourself]]. Same episode, a blink and you miss it appearance of T-Bone's robot double, B-Tone. ** It turns out that Broked.com is staffed by clones of everyone at Cracked. * [[Start My Own]]: The second to last episode of the first series has a case of this. After {{spoiler\|Swaim gets fired for supposedly leaking Cracked secrets to their rival Broked}}, Dan asks him what he's going to do. Swaim intends to make his own version of Cracked, completely by himself. Considering that he's an idiotic, comedic savant who is literally homeless from this incident, Dan has his doubts. {{quote\| '''Swaim:''' I'm going full ronin on this one. I'll wander from town to town starting my own multinational humour outlets.~~<br />~~ '''DOB:''' ... That is a big process, and I don't think you're qualified for any... ANY one aspect of it. I don't believe there is a single step you could handle. I mean, do you even have a place to stay?~~<br />~~ '''Swaim:''' I've got a few places in mind.~~<br />~~ '''DOB:''' I changed the locks in my apartment.~~<br />~~ '''Swaim:''' Why would you-?! Alright. Fuck. FUCK! }} * [[Through the Eyes of Madness]]: "Michael Vision" in the 4th episode of season 3. * [[Throw the Dog Aa Bone]]: [[The Chew Toy\|DOB]] is shown to be terrible with women in most instances, so it was a pretty touching moment when an episode--which started with Dan despairing over his recent break up--ended with him happily chatting with the lady bartender who [[Geeky Turn On\|likes Spider-Man]] (even though [[Status Quo Is God\|she was never mentioned or seen after that episode]]). Also counts as a [[Pet the Dog]] for Michael, who orchestrated their meeting. * {{spoiler\|[[Your Head Asplode]]: The function of Dan's 'Failsafe Device'. Apparantly it's not lethal.}} This may be due to Michael's apparent immortality, as he later claims that if Dan kills him, he'll come back 'so hard'. Later, this is revealed to be because {{spoiler\|he's a demigod}} * [[Wham! Episode]]: Ohai finale! Where should we begin? Well the Chief turns out to be {{spoiler\|Cody}}, who is also {{spoiler\|[[Luke, I Am Your Father\|Michael's father]].}} Because {{spoiler\|the Chief is part of a ancient order of demigods}}, and {{spoiler\|Michael is too "retarded as balls" to be his offspring}}, {{spoiler\|the order would want Michael killed if they found out.}} After all, {{spoiler\|"you can't have a retarded demigod running around."}} So the Chief {{spoiler\|created Cracked as a way to keep Michael occupied and hide him from the other chiefs.}} In other news, Cracked's rival Broked is staffed by {{spoiler\|clones of the Cracked staff (oh yeah, the Chief also created cloning)}}, the articles and videos on Cracked.com are {{spoiler\|encoded with the ultimate truths about the nature of life, the universe and everything, which can be decoded (or, if you will, "cracked") by anyone who reads every single article and buys the right merchandise}} and T-Bone {{spoiler\|(and B-Tone)}} are {{spoiler\|robots reprogrammed by the other chiefs to kill Dan and Michael}}. So of course, {{spoiler\|Dan and Michael fake their own deaths}}, and they all live happily ever after. Am I missing something? Oh, yeah, {{spoiler\|Dan turns out to have [[Ho Yay\|been in love with Michael all along.]]}} All this in 12 minutes and 40 seconds. Whew. * [["What Now?" Ending]]: The situation Cracked.com finds itself in at the end of the finale. {{quote\| '''Sarge''': "So, what are you gonna do with the site now that it has no other purpose than as a repository for dick jokes?"~~<br />~~ '''Chief''': "I don't know. Sell some hats?" }} * [[Yandere]]: Swaim is alarmingly attached to DOB, and genuinely seems to consider him his best friend. However, this won't stop him from unthinkingly ruining anything positive in DOB's life if it will bring Swaim personal pleasure. {{quote\| '''Swaim:''' One day we will be best friends, ''or die trying.''}} {{reflist}} [[Category:Work Com]] [[Category:Sandbox (New Media)]]▼ [[Category:Web Video]] [[Category:Agents Ofof Cracked]] ▲[[Category:~~Sandbox (~~New Media)]] [[Category:TV Series]]