The Annotated Series: Difference between revisions

* [[Angst? What Angst?]]: [[Lampshaded]]. A kid known only as Junior is transported to the Mushroom Kingdom by accident and remarks on how he's instantly, effortlessly come to terms with his situation.

* [[Apocalypse How]]: Kevin's<ref> yes Kid Icarus helped but he might have been shooting a net arrow so what was the point of zapping a football.</ref> destruction of a Football world, interpreted as a class 5, got a lot of comments. And later he was called out for worrying about Faxandu being destroyed by The Evil One but showing no compassion for Football World.

* [[ASCII Art]]: Extremely common in the early days before [[YouTube]] began to [[Screwed by the Network|keep arbitrarily changing the annotation editor]] and breaking them.

* [[Author Appeal]]: With so many they certainly show off many, many (many!) different loves. If there's a nod to giant robots or [[Getter Robo]] it probably came from Irrelevant.

* [[BLAM Episode]]: Many of the intermissions come and go.

* [[Bond One-Liner]]: Particularly cheesy ones would be repeated. These tend to become a [[Never Live It Down]] moment.

* [[Breaking the Fourth Wall]]: Whenever a character looks towards the camera and pauses, this is invoked. Many of the characters' speech bubbles address the show's content from an unusually [[Genre Savvy]] standpoint too. Basically everyone can be [[Deadpool]] if the Annotators will it.

* [[Breaking the Reviewers Wall]]: ASCII boots stomping on SMB3's Kootie Pie whenever she had a tantrum on the floor, and a [[Blink And You Miss It Moment]] where Mega Man is hit by a projectile made out of annotations causing him to [[Mercy Invincibility|blink from the damage]].

* [[British Accents]]: The singer of the surf music bonus videos in Captain N season 1 meanders between being very stereotypically British and having a thick northern accent.

** Mocked. In particular, the final episode with Ryu and Ken in it had an Annotator have Ken say that he was "borrowing" Blanka's technique since Blanka's not on the show anymore. Also see the [[Left Hanging]] entry below.

** Many of the intermissions; while some of them have established timeless running gags like the Dr. Rabbit cartoons and , others have been forgotten entirely. In some cases this is subverted and a [[Brick Joke]] or two will be dropped referencing such latter cases, only for it to fade back into obscurity. And even then, such forgotten intermissions tend to only get referenced during other intermissions if they are to even be mentioned at all.

* [[Clip Show]]: In a rather interesting take on the format, Street Fighter ended with a music video showcasing the series' craziest moments. There are similar plans for Zelda and Captain N too.

* [[Collective Groan]]: Pretty common with one of the biggest being for the Red-Blue episode of Mario Bros, The Nutshack returning, Little Panda Fighter and the first Dingo Pictures production.

* [[Deadpan Snarker]]

* [[Delayed Reaction]]: Ethan's Everquest, or was it [[WoW]], character sets Lucas's on fire. The first two times Lucas just stands there in silence as his entire body is consumed by flames. Cue the annotators being amused that the third time it happens Lucas reacts more reasonably instead of keeping it a running gag.

* [[Directed by Cast Member]]: Annotated Daydream; one of the Annotators appears in the video, though he didn't let on until everyone had given him an amusing nickname. And Irrelevant's stupid fan fiction [[Crisis Crossover]].

* [[Disney Villain Death]]: A Defied version in ''[[Mortal Kombat: Defenders of the Realm]]'' has these gems:

Okay good I was about to ask why he forgot he could do that. }}

* [[Does This Remind You of Anything?]]: ASCII penises are often added to alter the meaning of characters' motions, and pause annotations isolate anything that accidentally looks suggestive.

* [[Don't Explain the Joke]]: Hoo boy, did they get on [[Ctrl+Alt+Del]]'s case for this or what?

** And then they'll do it themselves.

* [[Downer Ending]]: Sort of. There are lots of attempts to shoehorn one in every time it fades to black. [[Unexplained Recovery|Then they get better.]]

* [[Even Evil Has Standards]]: Make a racially or culturally insensitive joke in front of these guys...We dare you.

* [[I Am Legion]]: Since the axing of the collaborative annotations feature, it's no longer possible to hover over an annotation and see who added it, making it pretty hard to tell who's saying what. This has led to some viewers believe this is a solo project. The annotators don't do [[Color Coded for Your Convenience|very much]] to make themselves recognizable among one-another either. Among a list of almost fifty annotators, only a few stand out, such as CurtDogg for originating the concept, jmr48080 for being considered one of the funniest annotators during the beeupyou era, Irrelevant402 for always picking horrible intermissions, Avirosb for recording episodes and getting the ball rolling with the TheAnnotatXperiment channel, and ReloadPsi for essentially putting himself in some of the videos.

* [[Informed Ability]]: One of the many things they love to rip on. Especially when the antagonists are so vaguely on the cusp of victory with Armor of Light being one of the most triumphent examples.

* [[Inner Monologue]]: Sometimes inserted when a character is just standing there saying nothing.

* [[Insistent Terminology]]: Don't call it a monster, call it a "[[Street Fighter (animation)|kaibutsu]]."

** On a meta level, Irrelevant will ''always'' be remembered for The Nutshack and Beauty And Warrior.

* [[Never Say "Die"]]: Repeatedly mocked.

'''Annotation:''' But don't kill them! }}

* [[Nostalgia Filter]]: Averted hard, as many of the series are based on late 80s/early 90s video games, especially Captain N, and they will be loathe to admit any of said games are done justice. There have been many derogatory remarks about the use of late 80s/early 90s fashion and lingo as well, and how they don't allow their shows to age well.

* [[Tempting Fate]]: THE UNBREAKABLE ANNOTATION

* [[The Fifties]]: Mocked in Captain N S2E4.

Annotation: Hmm you're different from us. Are we going to have to chase you out like those Muslims, queers and blacks? }}

 

Annotations: And we're going to keep it that way!/ We can start a lynch mob, just like the old days!/ Because we killed them all! }}

* [[The Unintelligible]]: During season 2 of ''Captain N'', it seems to get harder to understand Mother Brain.

* [[Took a Level In Badass]]: People sure liked the Luigi from Ice Capades that took on Koopa's army all by himself... with a bazooka-rifle.

* [[Un Paused]]: Less common now, but stray frames and sounds from previous episodes or cut credit rolls left in by editing errors prior to upload would be subject to at least one joke.

* [[Unusual Euphemism]]: "Miscarriage" for, oh, pretty much anything.

* [[What Could Have Been]]: Intermissions have included clips of the Mario 3 cartoon with removed songs edited back in.

* [[Who's on First?]]: In Captain N S2E12.

''Julio:'' "No, HOO-LI-O." }}

* [[With Lyrics]]: Captain N episode 2 on onward gave lyrics to the surf music. [[Hilarious in Hindsight|Then in Season 2, Episode 8,]] [[Funny Aneurysm Moment|they heard the real lyrics instead of the instrumental version.]] Reaction was mixed, with some loving it and some being disappointed. Also those willing to click the "Bonus Feature" annotation that shows up at the end of some of them get an [[Musical Episode|interesting treat]].

* [[You Have Got to Be Kidding Me!]]: Frequent.

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