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[[File:Potterpalscastandcrew.jpg|frame|Alas, a cornucopia of awesome.]]

 

 

Eventually, Neil and his friends moved on from animated shorts to live-action shorts featuring real puppets, and they've even done a couple of live shows with the puppets. The series is most famous for the number of [[Memetic Mutation|memes]] it has spawned.

 

 

'''Shorts include''':

* "Bothering Snape": Ron and Harry [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|bother Snape]].

* "Trouble at Hogwarts": Voldemort invades Hogwarts, and it's up to Harry, Ron, and Hermione to stop him.

* "Wizard Angst": Harry's feeling cranky and pubescent today, and he doesn't know why!

* "Mysterious Ticking Noise": The entire cast sings along to a mysterious ticking noise {{spoiler|which unfortunately turns out to be a pipe bomb}}. (Yes, this includes Voldemort.)

* [[Butt Monkey]]: Ron.

* [[Call Back]]: In "Snape's Diary," we learn [[Driven to Suicide|just how much]] "Bothering Snape" ''really did'' bother Snape.

* [[Canis Latinicus]]

* [[Christmas Episode]]: The Yule Ball 2010 live performance.

* [[Cluster Bleep Bomb]]: Dumbledore's recitation of The Elder Swear in "Wizard Swears", also invoking [[Noodle Implements]] to a degree:

:: Note that it takes him no less than ''forty-three seconds'' to say this.

* [[Comedic Sociopathy]]: Poor, ''poor'' Neville. Haha.

* [[Completely Missing the Point]]: In "Snape's Diary".

'''Harry''': "My mum was awesome!" }}

* [[Continuity Nod]]: In "Snape's Diary", one of the diary entries is about "Bothering Snape."

* [[Cuckoo Nest]]: Occurs in "Harry's Nightmares" as a [[Shout-Out]] to ''[[Shutter Island]]''.

* [[Curse Cut Short]]:

'''Ron:''' Maybe he needs a hug! }}

* [[The Ditz]]:

** Ron.

* [[Easter Egg]]: {{spoiler|"Follow the butterflies, follow the butterflies, WEE~!" "Ronnicus Explodicus!"}}

* [[Even Nerds Have Standards]]: In "Neville's Birthday", after Harry and Hermione inform Neville that nobody likes him:

* [[Everything's Better with Plushies]]

* [[Evil Sounds Deep]]: Voldemort is depicted with a deep, reverberating voice.

* [[Fantastic Racism]]: [[Lampshaded]] when the Draco Malfoy puppet says "I'm really proud that I'm pure-blooded [[Freudian Slip|white]] -- I mean, [[Last-Second Word Swap|wizard]]."

* [[Gilligan Cut]]: The end of "Wizard Swears"

* [[Group Hug]]:

** The end of "Trouble at Hogwarts". It's a pretty weird version, though, considering one of the members of the group is a naked old man...

** And in "The Vortex": "Lose some weight before you hug me, Ron."

* [[Jerkass]]: Harry.

* [[Kick the Dog]]: Harry mercilessly picks on Neville, Ron and Snape.

* [[Kill It with Fire]]: The final fate of {{spoiler|the Draco puppet.}}

* [[Large Ham]]: "I mean everything I ever say, ever, because '''''I'm Harry Potter'''''." ''(thunderclap)''

* [[Naked People Are Funny]]

** Neville is a butternut squash on a stick.

** Cedric Diggory is a [[Foot Focus|foot]].

* [[Noodle Implements]]: Harry and Ron's potential punishment in "Wizard Angst" has some of these. [[Don't Explain the Joke|Though if you think about it, assuming that the cactus in question is a potted one, it will be picked up and placed over their heads or bare bums and hammered down with the croquet mallet by the drunken Filch. Or Filch will smash one of them with the mallet and then just shove the cactus in/on the other one]]. Alternatively, the mallet could also be used to shove the cactus in... places.

* [[Pet the Dog]]: Subverted hilariously in "Neville's Birthday". At first Harry appears to feel guilt for {{spoiler|making Neville so upset that he self-destructs}}... then {{spoiler|[[Crosses the Line Twice|he starts eating chunks of what's left of Neville.]]}}

** Besides the [[Take That]] to Twilight in "Snape's Diary", there's a quick shoutout to [[Shutter Island]] at the end of "Harry's Nightmares".

** In Neville's Birthday, there's this.

* [[Small Name, Big Ego]]: Harry.

* [[Straw Loser]]: Ron. Subverted in "The Vortex".

** "Awakening of the Incorruptible" has been declared to be a stab at fans who were whining about the sporadic updating. Not that they have a lot to complain about, "The Vortex" was uploaded shortly after.

** Also:

* [[The Smurfette Principle]]: Hermione is the only voiced female puppet of the cast.

* [[Uncanny Family Resemblance]]: Ginny resembles Ron with longer hair and [[Tertiary Sexual Characteristics|a bow]].

* [[Villain Song]]: The "Avada Kedavra" song

* [[Vomit Indiscretion Shot]]: Except since they're puppets, it's made out of yarn.

'''Hermione''': "That's not magic!" }}

* [[Why Don't Ya Just Shoot Him]]:

** Aversion -- at {{spoiler|the end of "Trouble At Hogwarts", they ''do'' shoot Voldemort}}.

** Also in "Mysterious Ticking Noise" {{spoiler|Voldemort uses it on the good guys because the source of the noise...}}

{{spoiler|''-Snape and Dumbledore look at each other in stunned disbelief-''}} }}

* [[A Worldwide Punomenon]]:

 

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