Fun with Acronyms/Web Animation

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Examples of Fun with Acronyms in Web Animation include:

  • On Homestar Runner, in the Strong Bad Email "coloring", Marzipan teaches a kindergarten-like, unsettlingly politically correct learning program where students are called "life-blossoms". The program is called L.U.R.N., which stands for Life-Blossoms Undergoing Re-programming Naturally.
    • Homestar Runner also has Strong Bad's space program, SBASAF (pronounced something like "sbace-aff"): The Strong Badian Administration of Some Aluminum Foil. And in the Cheat Commandos cartoon "2 Part Episode Part 1," Flashfight appears on behalf of BEEF, the Bureau of Elite Fighting Forces. When Silent Rip points out that it spells "BEFF," Flashfight changed it to Bureau of Every Elite Fighting Force. When Silent Rip pronounces it "Beef-fuh," Flashfight fires him.
    • And let's not forget Strong Bads Cool Game for Attractive People, "Or if you want to get in on the ground floor of the cool abbreviations: SBCG 4 AP!"
  • Parodied in Bonus Stage with the robot MALCOLM: Machine Automated Leadership ... COLM.
  • The Decline of Videogaming shows the three protagonists invited to e3 (the Electronically Exaggerated Entertainment Show) by the Gaming Ordinators National Association of Developing Systems.
  • TOME centers around a MMORPG universe called the Terrain Of Magical Expertise.
  • RWBY: Team naming at Beacon Academy (and possibly elsewhere) takes the first initials of the four members of a team and puts them in an order (usually with the team leader's initial first) that can be pronounced as -- or is just similar enough to justify pronunciation as -- a word that is or evokes a color: RWBY (ruby), JNPR (juniper), NDGO (indigo), CRDL (cardinal) and so on.
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