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{{quote|''Now, as I was saying. Even before I was born, I was the most beautiful and charming of embryos. And then, once I was born, I discovered the wonderful world of sexual deviancy, between and within the many genders I have come across. So, I diversified. And after I had worn out even the French, I came to Japan, or maybe Britain, and set up this club where we entertain even the strangest fetishes: asphyxiophilia, catheterrophilia, infantilism (you can guess who's into that), kleptophilia, morphophilia, necrophilia (no comment), somnophilia, stigmatophilia, urophilia (don't ask), and zoophilia. We've had them all. What would you like to try?''|'''Tamaki Suou'''}}
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* Narrator - manitoug15 - convenience, manitoug15 edits the series alone and so, due to computer difficulties or incomplete scenes, she sometimes puts in a narration (once as Renge) to smooth it over. She has also been known to put in scenes she scripted (Ep 1 - Hescafe, Ep 12 - Fufflebunnies) and take out scenes (usually for time constraints or bad dialogue).
The writers have been criticized a number of times for their unnatural-sounding male voices due to the fact that they use a pitch change on all their male characters. This was due to the fact that neither one could get low enough to put off a convincing male voice. Tamaki's voice has often been likened to Tom Kane's Him from ''[[The Powerpuff Girls]]'', which was not the intention, and manitoug15 feels bad that she is dragging Tom Kane through the mud for this voice. Kyouya has actually had several more lines than he has spoken, but due to the fact that jellibette often talks very quietly when recording (it helps with the monotone) manitoug15 has had to cut quite a lot of his dialogue.
:Since the series has evolved from being created in Windows Movie Maker (a most despicable program) to Final Cut Express 4 (which is a thousand times better, but not the best) visual humor has become more fluid though editing has become slower- because now that manitoug15 has the ability to add loads of sound effects and music, she does.
:Another huge criticism of the series is that posting new episodes is slow. This is due to the fact that when the writers started this project they saw each other regularly due to their living arrangements, however, since October 2009 manitoug15 has started university (luckily and coincidentally the same one as jellibette) and both find it difficult to take time out to see each other. They have tried to script watching a simultaneous video but it felt wrong, and recording the twins (as they speak in unison a lot) was only possible in person.
:Oh, and FYI, [[Word of God|every last word between the link to the series and this very sentence is from God herself.]] You got all that?
Even though the series covered all 26 episodes by November 2010, manitoug15 announced that she will release additional projects related to ''Ouran''...then the suspension of her You Tube video put a damper on those plans. If manitoug15 ever gets permission to resume this series, she will post the videos on a new channel, "[http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=TheFabuliciousTea The Fabulicious Tea]."
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* [[Abridged Series]]
* [[All Just a Dream]]: Tamaki's way of pushing the ''[[Alice in Wonderland]]'' [[Homage]] into [[Canon
* [[Alternate Character Interpretation]]: To provide juxtaposition from the flamboyant Hosts, Nekozawa has changed in-universe from a [[Perky Goth]] to a Russian Scientologist.
* [[Artifact Title]]: The series was originally considered "vaguely abridged" because the first two episodes exceeded [[YouTube]]'s ten minute limit. The later episodes stayed within the limit, but the "vaguely" in the title remains.
** The title became appropriate again after the second-to-last episode took two parts, and the very last episode took more than 10 minutes.
* [[Author Avatar]]: Renge has received "writer powers" since manitoug15 voices her.
** More recently, manitoug15 has used clips of Renge for her update and announcement videos, one of which is actually titled, "Another Update From My Author Avatar!"
* [[Berserk Button]]: "For the love of all that is holy, do NOT call Kyouya a ''homo side character''." Bad things will happen.
** According to part three of the finale, jellibette can't stand people calling Kyouya a "homo side character" either.
*** Or maybe she was just stopping her for fear of what Kyouya would do should she have finished the sentence.
* [[Beware the Nice Ones]]: In addition to carrying over martial arts skills from the original series, Honey killed Shiro with a piano.
* [[Book Ends]]: The first sign to appear during the last episode reads, "The Host Club is now open. Welcome." The episode ends with a sign reading, "The Host Club is now closed. Go away."
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* [[Comedic Sociopathy]]
* [[Cool and Unusual Punishment]]: As the twins fight for the affections of Haruhi ("the manliest Host here"), Kaoru threatens to turn Hikaru straight by writing his name on one of Nekozawa's wooden cats. {{spoiler|After Haruhi demands they stop fighting, Kaoru writes her name on the cat instead.}}
* [[Cross
* [[Curse Cut Short]]: Episode 22 ends with Kasanoda exclaiming, "What the fu-"
* [[Cut His Heart Out
* [[Eleventy
* [[Fast
* [[Fate Worse Than Death]]: Haruhi sees her stay in the Host Club as one; she once encouraged a man to push her off a cliff.
** According to episode 21, {{spoiler|hearing the English dub of "Sakura Kiss".}}
** The Hosts spend part three of the finale trying to prevent {{spoiler|Tamaki from having ''Ouran'' renewed for a second season, which they seem to consider a ''literal'' Fate Worse Than Death}}.
* [[Filler]]: According to Kyouya, only three episodes of ''Ouran: Vaguely Abridged'' relate to the plot: the [[Pilot]] and both parts of the finale. With this observation, the Hosts will have endured 23 episodes of filler by the time the series ends.
* [[Have I Mentioned I Am Heterosexual Today?]]
* [[The Hedonist]]: Tamaki. Just see the page quote.
* [[Hilarious Outtakes]]: For episodes 8-11, 16, and 18-24.
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* [[Lampshade Hanging]]
* [[Larynx Dissonance]]
* [[Mandatory Line]]: Karou and Hikaru express joy at the end of their backstory episode that Haruhi did not appear, but their joy gets interrupted by Haruhi asking [[What Could Possibly Go Wrong?]] during her stay at Ouran.
* [[Mistaken for Gay]]: After Haruhi [[Completely Missing the Point|completely missed the point]] of Arai's attempt to ask her out, and Arai caught Haruhi hanging out with the Hosts later, Arai started believing Haruhi is a lesbian.
** Episode 20 also revealed that Tamaki initially thought Kaoru and Hikaru enjoyed [[Twincest]], but they were perfectly straight until Tamaki taught them how to act gay for his Host Club.
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* [[My Name Is Not Durwood]]: The Hosts call Kasanoda, "Shrek," after they decide his real name sounds too long.
* [[Overly Long Name]]: Renge Houshamafulamakalabajabaexpealidocious
* [[Phlebotinum
* [[Put
* [[Pygmalion Snapback]]: Nekozawa performs one less than a minute after the Hosts turn him gay.
* [[Record Needle Scratch]]
* [[
* [[Shout
* [[Stealth Pun]]: From the last part of the finale:
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'''Kyouya:''' Well, it was a good bridge. }}
* [[Squick]]: Haruhi's in-universe opinion on the thought of {{spoiler|Tamaki and Kyouya showering together}}.
* {{spoiler|[[Suddenly Voiced]]}}: Mori in the third part of the finale.
* [[Talking to Himself]]
* [[Theme Tune Cameo]]: Or rather, English [[Image Song]] Cameo -- Hikaru's ringtone in episode 15 is changed from Shissou to Vic Mignogna's version of Guilty Beauty Love.
* [[This Is Sparta]]: Tamaki does this twice after Haruhi buys the Host Club instant coffee in the first episode:
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'''Haruhi:''' What, you psycho? It's just normal coffee! Fine, I'll take it back. I'll take it back.
'''Tamaki:''' No, no! I will try this.
''(fangirls gasp)''
'''Tamaki:''' [[What Do You Mean
* [[To the Bat Noun]]: Complete with infamous ''[[Batman (TV series)|Batman]]'' score.
** Tamaki exclaims, "To the Batcave!" right before he and the hosts teleport to save Haruhi from <s> Lobelia</s> Lesbelia.
** A special video created in between parts two and three of the finale ends with manitoug15/Renge exclaiming, "To the recording studio!" which jellibette/Haruhi points out is just a microphone on a desk.
* [[Viewers
* [[Villainous Crossdresser]]: Haruhi and Ranka become some in the episode where the Hosts visit their apartment.
* [[Where the Hell Is Springfield?]]: The setting is referred to "Japan or MaybeBritain."
* [[Yank the
** Also, in the second part of the finale, {{spoiler|Tamaki crushes everyone's excitement for the series' end by proposing a second season}}.
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