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Not even the ''[[Ace Attorney (Visual Novel)|Ace Attorney]]'' games have ''[[Incredibly Lame Pun|immunity]]'' from being made into [[Abridged Series]].
 
[[Don't Explain the Joke|Get it? "Attorney"? "Immunity"?]]
 
Okay, anyway, [http://www.youtube.com/user/CardboardLawyer Cardboard Lawyer] has made a pretty good one in 2008-2009, managing to turn the games into a [[Black Comedy]].
 
You can find [https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL43E37EEA054C898D the series playlist] on YouTube.
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* [[Awesome McCoolname]]: When Phoenix gets amnesia, he believes his name is Pimpin' McKickass.
* [[Black Comedy Rape]]: Subverted. You'd think with Phoenix screaming off screen, he's being violated, but he's just not taking it well that his [[Tetris (Video Game)|Tetris]] high score was beaten. Played straight with Gant, however.
* [[Comedic Sociopath]]: Everyone has their moments, but Maya seems to be stuck on this.
* [[Courtroom Antic]]: Making even less sense than in the games.
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* [[Only Sane Man]]: Miles Edgeworth in [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tfOIkBHuYZ4&feature=PlayList&p=2CE6287CDF27D928&index=12 Episode Thirteen].
* [[Running Gag]]: Gumshoe's pay continually being cut.
* [[Shout -Out]]: You can tell the guy's a ''Zelda'' fan, as the series finale uses numerous songs from ''[[The Legend of Zelda: MajorasMajora's Mask (Video Game)|The Legend of Zelda Majoras Mask]]'' and even references that "[Maya] has only three days to beat [a] dungeon [[Colony Drop|before the moon falls on us!]]"
* [[Synthetic Voice Actor]]: The Judge, but with a Spanish program, even though everyone else speaks English. (except for Edgeworth's Dutch-speaking replacement Robo-Judge)
{{quote| '''Franziska''': What in the hell kind of foolish language is it speaking?<br />
'''Miles''': Dutch.<br />
'''Franziska''': You bastard! Only you would make a Judge-Bot that speaks a dead language.<br />
'''Miles''': I'm pretty sure Dutch isn't a dead language.<br />
'''Franziska''': Of course it is, you fool.<br />
'''Miles''': You may be more ignorant than Wright.<br />
'''Franziska''': Hah! Fool! Don't even compare me with Wright. My ignorance knows ''no'' limits!<br />
'''Miles''': This is going to be a long trial... }}
* [[Thematic Theme Tune]]: "I Fought the Law" by Bobby Fuller for the first game's cases.
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* [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]]: Phoenix convicts all the culprits from the first four games in ''23 seconds'', in a montage [[Crowning Music of Awesome|set to the tune of "Scatman".]] The Judge then declares court adjourned... for ''several years''.
* [[Dirty Old Man]]: The Judge. Frequently lampshaded.
{{quote| Judge: "I'm old, Mr. Wright. Didn't you learn anything from anime? All old men are perverts!"}}
* [[Early -Bird Cameo]]: Godot, who refers to his actual debut, season 3, as "season negative one."
* [[Everythings Funkier With Disco]]: In a certain flashback, everyone had afros, and the Judge was referred to as "Your Grooviness" rather than "Your Honor".
* [[Fate Worse Than Death|Fate Worse Than Penalization]]: Losing the internet is supposedly the worst thing that can ever occur to a character in the series, so much that Phoenix wishes for a ridiculous supply of them from Santa Claus to both make up for the ones he lost and the ones he inevitably will lose.
* [[Meaningful Name]]: Subverted by Bellboy, who is actually {{spoiler|a NASCAR driver}}.
* [[MesMe's a Crowd]]: In the first episode Phoenix defends Ema Skye... with [[Future Me Scares Me|Hobo-Phoenix]] as the Prosecutor and pink sweater University-Phoenix as the witness. Guess who the victim is? Hilarity Ensues.
* [[Shout -Out]]: The Judge shuts down a confrontation with Phoenix by shouting "[[Suburban Commando|I was FROZEN today!]]"
* [[The Internet Is for Porn]]
 
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