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A [[Comedy Central]] cartoon that ran for three seasons (2004-2007), ''Drawn Together'' is a [[Reality Show]] parody, the concept being that eight cartoon characters from different genres are forced to live under one roof. A notable mark of the show is how each character manages to be both a parody of a specific style of animation and a parody of the stock characters usually put together in [[Reality Show|Reality Shows]]. The show is one of the more polarizing ones to come along in recent years; it draws some ferocious hate for its reliance on gross-out humor and [[Dead Baby Comedy]], but it also has an [[Cult Classic|extremely loyal fanbase]].

 

* [[Absentee Actor]]: In "Captain Hero's Marriage Pact," Toot and Clara (both [[Acting for Two|voiced]] by Tara Strong) are virtually absent from the entire episode until the last few minutes. This could be due to Strong dedicating the majority of her time voicing Unusually Flexible Girl in that episode. The writers quickly [[Lampshade Hanging]] this:

'''Toot:''' Well, uh, duh! That's because we've been in the basement all week making this awesome potato gun! }}

* [[Acting for Two]]: [[Tara Strong]] does the voices of both Toot and Clara.

* [[Anything That Moves]]: Captain Hero, who doesn't even limit himself to that. In fact, he seems to [[I Love the Dead|prefer things that don't]].

** Also Foxxy, especially in ''Toot Goes Bollywood''.

** Foxxy Love has had so many of her children taken away from her, she considers the woman from Child Services to be her arch nemesis.

*** Well, she has admitted to putting Foxxy's children in horrible foster homes.

* [[Art Shift]]: Each character is animated in a style appropriate to their origin. For instance, Clara is drawn in a [[Disneyesque]] style, Foxxy is drawn like a [[Hanna-Barbera]] character, etc.

** Also everything in the movie.

* [[Attention Deficit Ooh Shiny]]: Wooldoor.

* [[Attention Whore]]: Most of them, but especially Toot.

* [[Big Ol' Unibrow]]: Spanky Ham.

* [[Bishonen]]: Xandir.

* [[Bloody Hilarious]]

* [[Bulletproof Human Shield]]: Captain Hero's "Hero Shield" move.

* [[Chew Toy]]: Everyone, at one point or another.

* [[Citizenship Marriage]]: Spanky "gay marries" Xandir in order to obtain health insurance.

* [[Clip Show]]: Parodied twice; old clips were shown, but were overlaid with goofy/nonsensical captions.

* [[Cloudcuckoolander]]: Wooldoor.

* [[Contest Winner Cameo]]

* [[Cousin Oliver]]: Parodied with the character of Strawberry Sweetcake.

** Same deal with Clara's Octopussoir. It's mentioned in exactly two episodes, yet articles on the show speak of it like it's a vital part of her character.

* [[Crapsack World]]

** Spanky and Ling-Ling in "Little Orphan Hero".

** Also Ling Ling in ''Foxxy vs. The Board of Education''.

* [[Cross-Dressing Voices]]: The male Ling-Ling is voiced by the female Abbey McBride. Also, whenever a young boy shows up, he's generally voiced by [[Tara Strong]].

* [[Darker and Edgier]]: The first half of Season Three, [[Seasonal Rot|much to the show's detriment]].

* [[Dark-Skinned Blond]]: Xandir.

** Heck, the episode ''Clum Babies'' is all ''about'' masturbation!

* [[Dead Baby Comedy]]

* [[Department of Redundancy Department]]: The name of [[The Movie]] is ''The Drawn Together Movie: The Movie!''

* [[Deus Sex Machina]]: In one episode, Ling-Ling and his "Permanent Battle Partner", Ni-pul enjoyed their battle sequences like sex, until it becomes too stale to enjoy. Ling-Ling's partner suggests to make things more interesting by actually, as Ling-Ling would put it, "dipping his noodle in her duck sauce"...

* [[Embarrassing First Name]]: Captain Leslie Shero. "The "S" is silent, you hithead!"

* [[Embarrassing Middle Name|Embarrassing Middle/Last Name]]: Ling-Ling... Well, not so much 'embarrassing' as much as offensive, but [[Rule of Funny|still hilarious]]:

* [[Embarrassing Tattoo]]: Xandir: "'Living Positive' just seemed like such a cool motto back in 1986..."

** Also all of Unusually Flexible Girl's tattoos to Hero.

* [[Everyone Is Bi]]

* [[Everyone Meets Everyone]]: The first episode.

* [[Expy]]: Each of the house members are supposed to be one, and many more of other cartoon characters show up throughout the series.

** Ling-Ling is supposed to be Pikachu.

*** YMMV. He also wouldn't be out of place alongside ''[[Ren and Stimpy]]'' or another Spumco production.

** Spanky is not based on a particular character, instead parodying Internet downloads in general. Although people have drawn parallels between Spanky and [[Sinfest|Squigly]].

* [[Extreme Omnivore]]: Exaggerated with Toot.

* [[Forgot I Could Fly]]: If Captain Hero could use his powers properly, the majority of plots would be resolved within five minutes. Of course, expecting Captain Hero to not be an idiot is like expecting your dog to mow the lawn.

* [[Forgotten Fallen Friend]]: Captain Hero enters the AIDS walk after witnessing his friend Popeye dying of AIDS by using contaminated needles. He manages to "win" the competition (actually killing all the other participants) and after having taken the prize he sees Popeye's face in the sky. He doesn't even recognize him!

* [[Four-Fingered Hands]]: In keeping with the characters' various animation styles, the more realistically drawn human characters -- Hero, Foxxy, Clara, and Xandir -- have five fingers on each hand, but the more "cartoony" characters, Toot and Wooldoor, only have four.

* [[Friend to All Living Things]]: Spoofed with Clara.

* [[The Fundamentalist]]: Clara.

* [[The Fun in Funeral]]: Two funerals are held in the show. [[Hilarity Ensues]].

* [[Gasshole]]: Spanky. He even draws out a fart for a [[Overly Long Gag|''full minute'']] in one episode.

* [[Getting Crap Past the Radar]]: The Mexican dub has the profanity beeped out, but the beep is only short enough to cover a single letter (Ex: Pend*jo), making the cuss words painfully obvious.

** Painfully? More like hilariously.

* [[A God Am I]]: Wooldoor in the second season episode "Terms of Endearment"

* [[God Guise]]: Toot ends up in India and is worshiped by Hindus as a talking cow.

* [[Good Times Montage]]: A literal parody, in "Breakfast Food Killers". Whenever Toot mentioned "I'll always remember the good times..." it cuts to a short montage of previous footage with the theme from ''[[Good Times]]'' playing. It also features all the characters sporting Afros.

* [[Gross Up Close-Up]]

* [[Grotesque Cute]]: Strawberry Sweetcake and hell, Ling-Ling.

* [[Handsome Lech]]: Captain Hero.

* [[Heroic BSOD]]: Xandir gets one for half of a two-part episode when the field trip (to the mall) he was supervising takes a turn for the worse.

* [[Hollywood Pudgy]]: Toot again.

** Lampshaded in one episode where after yet another ruthless fat joke she screams "I'm not even that fat! I'm ''slightly'' overweight!"

** Also Foxxy normally, since she's blatantly shown to have sex for money and be the most caring member of the household.

* [[Hypocritical Humor]]

* [[If It's You It's Okay]]: The otherwise straight Wooldoor Sockbat is extremely infatuated with Captain Hero.

** Then there was the scene in season one where Spanky, Hero, and Wooldoor all took turns playing spin the bottle with each other, culminating in a three-person mouth orgy.

'''Captain Hero:''' "Hey! If you're going to be gay about this, you can't play!" He proceeds to kiss him. }}

* [[I Love the Dead]]: Captain Hero ''really'' has a thing for dead bodies. Season Three is packed to the brim with jokes about how much he loves them, and in [[The Movie]], he carries a girl's corpse around for the entire movie, calling her his girlfriend, "Molly".

* [[I'm Dying, Please Take My MacGuffin]]: In "Breakfast Food Killer", the murdered cereal mascot Quackers gives Toot four of the five golden UPC codes before he dies, imploring her to find the fifth so they can bring down the evil cereal empire.

* [[Innocent Bigot]]: Clara, when she first met Foxxy.

* [[I Take Offense to That Last One]]: A nice example in "Drawn Together Babies".

'''Baby Captain Hero:''' I am NOT adopted! }}

* [[Japanese Ranguage]]: A very common gag with Ling-Ling.

* [[Least Rhymable Word]]: There's a first season episode that has Foxxy give the cast a "sex ed" talk as if she were a [[Misplaced Kindergarten Teacher]] and the rest of the cast (obligingly) act like kindergartners. She rhymes "pee pee" with "teepee", but when she gets to vagina, she calls it a "gigi", which in her words "rhymes with puppy...but not very well."

* [[Legal Jailbait]]: Parodied with Strawberry Sweetcake.

'''Spanky Ham:''' (grinning) She's so legal! }}

* [[Lifetime Movie of the Week]]: Parodied heavily in the [[Very Special Episode]].

* [[Mushroom Samba]]: In one episode, Ling-Ling's fur secretes a hallucinogen whenever he's disappointed. In another, Toot starts hallucinating after drinking saltwater.

* [[My Name Is Not Durwood]]: In the third season and the movie, Foxxy had a bizarre tendency to call her housemates and even herself by the wrong name. [[Lampshade Hanging|Lampshaded]] by Toot in the episode "Breakfast Food Killer".

'''Toot:''' Why don't you assholes believe me? (''to Foxxy'') And why don't you know any of our names? }}

* [[Native American Casino]]: "Ghostesses in the Slot Machine"

* [[Naughty Tentacles]]: Clara's Octopussoir.

* [[Negative Continuity]]: Like most things, heavily [[Lampshade Hanging|Lampshaded]]. As they say in the show, "Continuity is for bedpans".

* [[No Celebrities Were Harmed]]: Clara's character was partly inspired by Julie from ''[[The Real World]]: New Orleans'', the show's first Mormon housemate, known for her unenlightened views based on her sheltered upbringing (though she learned as she went along and had made a complete turnaround by the time she appeared in a later crossover series).

** By the same token, Spanky was originally based on Puck from ''The Real World: San Francisco'', although this characterization was pretty much gone by the end of the first season.

* [[Precision F-Strike]]: Princess Clara curses much, much less than the other characters, and as a result, it tends to be hilarious when she does so. [[Cluster F-Bomb|Strongly averted with everyone else, however]].

* [[Pre-Mortem One-Liner]]: Captain Hero, upon thwarting the supervillain "Two Hands" ([[It Makes Sense in Context|actually just Xandir in disguise]]<ref>Captain Hero wanted to prove to his mother that he was a competent superhero, so he had Xandir dress up and attack her, just so he could save her.</ref>):

[[Incredibly Lame Pun|"Semi Colon"!]] }}

* [[Pretty in Mink]]: Captain Hero buys a fur-trimmed coat after winning a bet with Spanky that he could get Clara's cousin Bleh to sleep with him. Later in the episode, Bleh is shown wearing an identical coat, having made a similar bet with one of her friends.

* [[Princess Classic]]: After her rebellious phase, Clara turns into a parody of this.

* [[Rapid-Fire Comedy]]

* [[Reading the Stage Directions Out Loud]]: Foxxy does this while running a suicide hotline in "Little Orphan Hero".

* [[Reality Show Genre Blindness]]: Only Foxxy seems to have any sense of [[Genre Savvy]] with regard to reality shows, and even with her, it comes and goes.

* [[Reality TV Show Mansion]]

* [[Running Gag]]

* [[Sassy Black Woman]]: Foxxy Love.

* [[Scooby-Dooby Doors]]: Parodied in the ''La La La La Labia'' video. They even show you how they work!

** Lampshaded by the plot of the direct-to-DVD sequel, obviously.

* [[Self-Deprecation]]: Seasons Two and Three are especially rife with jokes about how bad the show is, especially one episode in season 2 where the housemates fight back against an ''Entertainment Weekly'' article writer who graded their show an "F" [which happened in real life]. ''Entertainment Weekly'', of course, got wind of the episode and branded ''that'' one with an "F" as well.

* [[Short Run in Peru]]: The second half of Season Three, delayed by Comedy Central for almost a year, was broadcast in Latin America two weeks before the US.

** In one episode Toot goes to her [[Fat Camp]] reunion and [[Carrie|has pigs blood dropped on her.]]

** In season 1, episode 4, there's an extended [[Star Wars]] shoutout with Toot and Jabba the Hutt and Xandir in Leia's slave outfit. There's even a carbonited Han Solo that she eats like ice cream.

*** In "Capt. Hero's Marriage Pact" Capt. Hero daydreams that Toot is Chewbacca, Xandir is !!C-3PO, Clara is Leia, and Wooldoor is !!R2-D2 from the Ceremony Scene.

** [[Muppet Babies]]

** They even send a shout out to [[The Daily Show|Jon Stewart]] via [[Lampshade Hanging]].

* [[Shower of Angst]]: Parodied twice, first with Captain Hero and then later with Xandir.

* [[Status Quo Is God]]: [[Lampshade Hanging|Lampshaded]] more than once.

* [[Staying Alive]]: Taken to a ridiculous degree. The cast even began [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshading]] it after a while.

* [[Stock Footage]]: There is a silent film scene of a wolfman creature that is heavily used, especially in "Drawn Together Babies" (to parody ''[[Muppet Babies]]''' usage of live action films).

* [[Take That]]: Against ''[[South Park]]'' in [[The Movie]].

** Added to that, Spanky on the person who reviewed the show: "No wonder! You're a Jewish conservative pro-life born-again overweight Asian homophobic lesbian broad who cuts herself! YOU'RE NOT OUR TARGET AUDIENCE!"

* [[Talking to Himself]]: A small handful of performers, also members of the main cast, voice most of the guest roles on the series. [[Tara Strong]] even [[Acting for Two|voices two ''main'' characters]], Clara and Toot.

* [[Theme Music Power-Up]]: "Ling-Ling into battle go! ... Kill kill kill die die die!"

* [[They Killed Kenny]]: The entire cast, but Toot and Ling-Ling especially.

''(previously dead)'' '''Ling Ling:''' Tell me about it. }}

* [[Third Person Person]]: Now, the Foxxy will frequently talk in third person, y'all.

** [[Lampshaded]] in "The Lemon-AIDS Walk", where the separate plots are Hero training for an AIDS walk and Wooldoor getting caught stealing from the mall. Wooldoor is leaving the mall security office when Hero, having joined the Mall Walkers, shoves him aside, shouting, "Out of the way, subplot. Main story coming through!"

** Also lampshaded in "A Tale of Two Cows", when Toot, who is away in her own plot that week, materializes out of nowhere to comment on the ridiculousness of the main plot.

* [[Underwear of Power]]: Xandir.

* [[The Unintelligible]]: Ling-Ling.

* [[Very Special Episode]]: Spoofed.

* [[Virginity Makes You Stupid]]: Clara.

* [[Vocal Evolution]]: Clara's voice has gotten deeper and less chirpy over the course of the series, while the opposite has happened to Foxxy and Toot. Spanky's voice has gotten gruffer, to the point of becoming distinguishable from Adam Carolla's natural speaking voice.

* [[Wacky Sound Effect]]: Wooldoor first and foremost, but the others get their fair share.

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[[Category:The Millennium Age of Animation]]

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