Celebrity Bric-a-Brac Theater: Difference between revisions

separated link to work from title drop, deleted stray close paren from end of page, added categories
m (Mass update links)
(separated link to work from title drop, deleted stray close paren from end of page, added categories)
 
(10 intermediate revisions by 5 users not shown)
Line 1:
{{tropework}}
[http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=639A58EC9D0C1A09&annotation_id=annotation_359153&feature=iv '''''Celebrity Bric-a-Brac Theater]''''' is a [[Web Original]] series on Youtube. [[Christopher Walken]], [[John Madden]], [[Morgan Freeman]], and other various celebrities lend their voices and larger-than-life personalities to fictional stories and historical re-enactments, usually with a tried and true [[Stock Aesops|moral to tell.]] {{spoiler|Of course, this is a lie. Almost all voices are done by Jason Stephens, with the writing, directing, and producing coming from the minds who brought us [[Chad Vader]].}}
 
You can watch it [http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=639A58EC9D0C1A09&annotation_id=annotation_359153&feature=iv here].
----
=== Celebrity Bric-a-Brac Theater provides examples of... ===
 
----
{{tropelist}}
* [[Actor Allusion]]: The entire point.
* [[Bat Deduction]]: How Morgan Freeman figured out who killed Dennis Hopper. {{spoiler|"[[Bee -Bee Gun|Bees,]] [[Bill Cosby|Cos-bees]], it's obvious!"}}
* [[Bee -Bee Gun]]
* [[BigNon LippedSequitur Alligator MomentScene]]: Jack Palance [[Nightmare Fuel|singing about Christmas]].
* [[Captain Obvious]]: John Madden is ''master'' of the obvious, as usual. "Hey, [[Verbal Tic|y'know- y'know,]] this ice is as cold as it gets!"
* [[Catch Phrase]]: "[[John Madden|Boom!]]"
Line 20 ⟶ 21:
** [[Crowning Moment of Funny|"Oh no, that was a regular arrow and I accidentally killed that guy!]] I better be more careful."
* [[Hope Spot]]
{{quote| '''Cupid''':"''Okay, [[Animated Actors|Madden]], this is your last chance.'' Hey Romeo! This arrow will make you ''not'' drink the poison, okay?" *shoots him with a love arrow*<br />
'''Narrator''':"[[Foregone Conclusion|Of course,]] Romeo ''immediately'' drinks the poison and dies." }}
* [[Ho Yay]]: Madden in ''Eat Around the Razors: Trick or Treating Tips''
* [[Ironic Echo]]: "Buzz kill", from ''Burning Man Bric-a-Brac''.
* [[Kill It Withwith Fire]]: John Madden and George W. Bush try to burn pre-colonial America to the ground in ''The Story of Thanksgiving''.
* [[Lemony Narrator]]: Most of the episodes based on stories have a celebrity narrator.
* [[Make Wrong What Once Went Right]]: ''[[Romeo and Juliet]]'' was "the greatest love story ever, and Cupid [[Precision F-Strike|fucked it up.]]"
Line 37 ⟶ 38:
* [[Too Dumb to Live]]: All too often. Maddenclaus {{spoiler|almost}} got Rudolph killed by shoving him into a lake of pudding.
* [[Totally Radical]]: The entirety of ''Burning Man Bric-a-Brac''.
{{quote| "Hand me some of those ''disco biscuits!''"}}
* [[Verbal Tic]]: John Madden has it worst, sometimes devolving into almost verbal ''seizures''.
* [[Whole-Plot Reference]]: ''[[Independence Day]]'' fuses the sci-fi action film with the actual revolutionary war with... [[Hilarity Ensues|interesting results.]]
** And the "British Aliens" are, naturally, [[Doctor Who (TV)|Daleks.]]
** ''Romeo and Juliet'' re-tells the story as the disastrous events following Cupid's first day on the job.
* [[World of Ham]]
* [[You Fail Biology Forever]]: "Ah! The bees! They're biting me!"
* [[You Fail Religious Studies Forever]]: ''The First Christmas'' is not about the birth of Jesus, but about Santa and Rudolph being enslaved by the Spirit of Christmas.
{{quote| "Christmas? That's- that's never even been invented!"}}
----)
 
{{reflist}}
[[Category:Sandbox (New Media){{PAGENAME}}]]
[[Category:CelebrityNew Bric A Brac TheaterMedia]]
[[Category:TropeWeb Video]]
[[Category:Web Original]]