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'''''[http://www.youtube.com/user/TheAnnotatXperiment The Annotated Series]''''' is a [[YouTube]] series that lampoons TV shows and [[Public Service Announcement|public service announcements]], such as ''[[Ctrl+Alt+Del]]: The Animated Series'', ''[[The Adventures of Super Mario Bros 3]]'' and ''[[Captain N: The
On October 3, 2009, CurtDogg uploaded an episode of ''[[Ctrl+Alt+Del]]: The Animated Series'' and included a link to the video's annotation editor, a feature [[YouTube]] used to have, in the style of the channel [http://www.youtube.com/user/UnoriginalContent UnoriginalContent] which had been going for a few months by this time. It caught on and ''The Annotated Series'' was born. Under the name [http://www.youtube.com/user/beeupyou beeupyou] he continued to upload the rest of the series then moved onto other video game-related cartoons. However, [[YouTube]] eventually discontinued the feature, forcing the move to the shared channel, [http://www.youtube.com/user/TheAnnotatXperiment TheAnnotatXperiment]. In mid-2014 The AnnotatXperiment received two strikes, prompting another move, this time to the now-terminated TheAnnotationStation. An offsite annotation editor started being created in early 2017 in response to Youtube ending access to the site's own. However, in September of the same year, TheAnnotationStation was taken down, with three strikes to the [[Riki-Oh: The Story of Ricky]] riff. In October of 2017, videos from TAS and later TAX that managed to be recorded stated to be uploaded on [https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCp_JnQg6SPItgtaqZEncP-w Annotation Archive]. Finally, in June of 2018, the channel [https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCV2aCjJAG7KMzt44-xGMH2Q Annoverse] was established, allowing the annotators to post new material once again, but not without one more scare at the end of the year from Youtube axing annotations entirely and CBS taking down the uploads of ''[[Fonz And The Happy Days Gang]]'' that they were using.<ref>https://archive.is/BVamc</ref>
''The Annotated Series'' is presented in a regular episodic format, usually in the original order of the series in question, with a break in the middle of each season. Each season break, and the end of each season or series, will be marked by an intermission in which they'll [[Something Completely Different|annotate something completely unrelated]], usually of similar poor quality to the regular series.
A blog documenting moments from all eras of the series can be found [http://the-annotated-screencaps.tumblr.com/ here on Tumblr].
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*[[Mortal Kombat 4|The Mortal Kombat 4 endings]]
*[[Ratatoing]]
*[[What Could Have Been|"The Surf Music Could Have Been A Lot Worse!"]] - Re-edits of Super Mario 3 clips to have previously removed cover songs restored.
*[[Pac-Man|Christmas Comes To Pacland]]
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*''[[The Groovenians]]''
*''[[Duke Nukem]]: Critical Mass''
*Various
* [[Accentuate the Negative]]: Kind of the point.
* [[Actor Allusion]]: Every time Long John Baldry's voice shows up in a [[DiC]] cartoon, it goes [[Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog|pretty much how you'd expect.]]
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** Annotated Sex Is The Best! was in fact a [[Web Original]] parody, and was voted for by visitors to the channel, much to the Annotators' dismay. It's unknown whether they'll ever leave future material up to public vote.
** Irrelevant's upcoming project/valentine/salute for the channel Annotated Fan Fiction which was partially introduced by 'Annotated Fan Fiction (Practice)'
* [[Angrish]]: In the early days when anybody could contribute, any moment of particularly horrible quality would result in the screen being filled with
* [[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.
{{quote|'''Annotators''': Wow only Kevin could manage to turn a game of football into an
* [[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.
* [[Author Tract]]: They will pop up but they will be polite and have them last a mere second. So if anyone wants to see them they will go pack and hit the pause button.
** Armor Of Light invoked a lot of these.
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* [[Behind the Black]]: Many a speech bubble represents a character speaking from off-screen.
* [[Berserk Button]]: The slightest allusion, be it accidental or not, to any would-be scrappy character from another series causes at least one person to speak of ways to murder them.
** Each annotator has something that sets them off. Everyone being in on the plan except for Megaman in the ''Captain N'' season 1 finale pissed off a lot of people. Irrelevant gets really pissed when two people are supposed to be good friends and it is strictly told and not shown in episode 5 of the ''Mortal Kombat'' cartoon.
* [[Non Sequitur 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.
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* [[Breaking the Reviewer's 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.
* [[Broken Record]]: Volume 3 of ''The Surf Music Could Have Been A Lot Worse'' made fun of the infamous CD skip at an ill-fated [[Milli Vanilli]] concert. The hidden video at the end does more of the same.
** ''"...song is for- song is for- song is for-"''
* [[Call Back]]: Lots. Watching any most recent episode by these guys will likely be full of references to past series they've annotated, though they try to keep it accessible to first-time viewers.
* [[Cameo]]: Speech bubbles from characters from previous works show up, usually without a name but instead color-coded, making them almost an [[In-Joke]]. Character allusions not from works they've annotated have included as Slowbeef of [[Retsupurae]] and [[Electrical Beast]].
* [[Caustic Critic]]: If they can think of a better way you could've done something, they won't tell you nicely. Also see the [[Sophisticated As Hell]] entry below.
* [[Censor Bar]]: This appears any time something appears suggestive. In ''Captain N'' they frequently appear over Duke the dog's anus, which at least one person apparently finds offensive. And one person was annoyed it was getting covered, this was hopefully sarcasm.
* [[Cerebus Syndrome]]: If the show they're annotating turns particularly low in quality, dark or just plain offensive, people will stop making jokes and instead offer serious critical analysis on why the scene is bad.
* [[Child-Hater]]: If an episode has a guest child character, or involves the characters being turned into children, they won't much care for it.
** The closest exception was Julio (Hoolio?) from ''Captain N''. He was mocked (like everything else) for selling newspapers he knew that caused zombies. But many were touched that he would let his grades go to hell to secretly make money for his family after his dad, "Reggie", lost his job. And even with the [[Unfortunate Implications]] the annotators agreed that Julio's inability to read was genuinely topical.
* [[Christmas Special]]: ''Christmas Comes To Pac-Land''.
* [[Chuck Cunningham Syndrome]]:
** 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
{{quote|Polaris: ''Quit the daydreamin' Pancada, you know I feel about you-u!''}}
* [[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.
* [[Color Coded for Your Convenience]]:
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* [[Crazy Enough to Work]]: The reason the word "experiment" appears in the name reflects this. Nobody was certain that sharing an account and having multiple people log in and annotate simultaneously would actually work.
* [[Credits Gag]]: Once per series, the end credits of the show will be displayed for everyone to annotate. In [[Ctrl+Alt+Del]]: The Annotated Series, the credits were left in every time so they could lampoon the episode-specific credits gags. But more recently they do it twice per season, once at the start and once at the season finale.
* [[Crisis Crossover]]: Of a cosmic religious sense. Pastor Daniel from the Super Kids was able to not only annoy his very own God with his constant rambling but also much of the major Greek Gods demanded he shut up, the Siddhartha Gautama was disgusted, Allah wished for some of those misguided kamikaze extremists to kill him, Odin was ready to
* [[Curb Stomp Battle]]: Luigi vs. Koopa's army. Hell Koopa himself who just blows up when he is surrounded by kids. The first part was actually pretty awesome.
* [[Dead Baby Comedy]]: A bit of it, though any literal cases of this are usually lampooning [[Ctrl+Alt+Del]]'s miscarriage arc. It's become less common in later episodes.
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** After wanting to do the Nutshack and Beauty and Warrior...Irrelevant402 had an 'oh crap' moment when Dingo Pictures reared its ugly head.
** Sure they love to make 'come get some candy in my van' cracks but when an actual pedophile is the antagonist in Tricky People there are ZERO people going for a [[Draco in Leather Pants]] route and even some just slight cheering for the damn Yellow Dino when he takes matters into his own hands.
** This one is a shocker: typically they dislike child characters and scrappies. Yet many announced how disgusted they were with the death of the Gold Dragon in the second Dragon's Den episode. Yes this is even
* [["Everybody Laughs" Ending]]: Happens a lot, especially with captions turning it into King Harkinian's laugh from [[Link the Faces of Evil]].
* [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin]]: Played straight most of the time by simple adding "The Annotated Series" at the end of a title, with the notable exception of the Mortal Kombat cartoon (Defenders of the Annotated Realm) and many of the intermissions.
* [[Expospeak Gag]]: In the [[Cartoon All-Stars to the Rescue]] episode, there's a very long and roundabout description of Mel Blanc rolling in his grave after a certain line from Bugs.
* [[Fanfic]]: Mouse Police: The Annotated Edition included a side story in which Raiden's Defenders of the Realm incarnation, one of the annotators' favourite characters, imprisoned each series' scrappies, forced them to watch it, and broke their wills until they either were trying to kill themselves or became babbling, nervous wrecks.
** The final glorious list: The three Bouchedag leads died ''a la'' Lost Ark. Kootie Pie became
* [[Fan Nickname]]: "Silly The Willies" for [[Milli Vanilli]]. To some degree, "Kid Icky" for Kid Icarus. It's worth noting that these were [[Memetic Mutation|one-off nicknames used in the shows the characters were in and they just kinda caught on.]]
* [[Five-Man Band]]:
** [[The Hero]]: CurtDogg (The one who started it all way back.)
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** [[The Smart Guy]]: Avirosb (Saves videos and cleans up annotes that hang around a few seconds too long. Makes a good Hero for starting the second generation.)
** [[The Big Guy]]: ReloadPsi (Appears for real in one of the videos and is, well, rather large.)
** [[The Chick]]: Irrelevant402 (Gets the angriest fastest but also is the one who made a list of frequent
** [[The Sixth Ranger]]: MrGuyPwnsYou, Hamsteere and creatorofGandP. (Get a few more and there can be another band.)
* [[Grammar Nazi]]
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* [[Hot Mom]]: Julio/Hoolio's mom had Simon asking if she was seeing anyone. Aside from 'Reggie' of course.
* [[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
{{quote|Pastor Dan: "Now you all know that we face a very DANGEROUS enemy." Annotator:Perhaps we could take a few minutes to establish WHY (NME)they are so dangerous?}}
* [[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]]."
* [[It Got Worse]]: Captain N, the show not the character, grew on the team what with having a number of ensemble darkhorses. While the quality of animation and writing slipped in season 2 both had their highs and lows. Then season 3 rolled in a everyone began shitting hoops at the
* [[It Is Pronounced "Tro-PAY"]]:
** Bye son!
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* [[Mistaken for Masturbating]]: Played with big time when King Hippo reached into his pants for pieces of paper, and when he briefly appeared to be doing it while looking at one of them.
* [[Mood Whiplash]]: Pointed out repeatedly for ''Tricky People,'' which involved both a singing yellow dinosaur, and uncomfortable scenes of implied child molestation.
* [[Morality Pet]]: Sometimes they, the annotators, serve as morality pets to one another to keep everyone in line and each one is disgusted by child molestors or horrible ethnic sterotypes.
* [[Mystery Science Theater 3000]]: In text form.
* [[My God, What Have I Done?]]: Sometimes Irrelevant thinks he goes a little too far...sometimes. And admitted it was he who played up Gameboy as the worst thing ever. Going off memories of hating Game Boy as a kid and being okay with Icarus and Megaman.
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** Also crosses over into [[Lampshade Hanging]] territory when one [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jRXnOe5T1JQ takes a look at the tags for Captain N season 2, episode 1.]
** This very page is mostly maintained by the annotators, though with there being so many of them they rarely end up talking about themselves.
* [[One-Scene Wonder]]: Eggplant Wizard and his peach dancers. Mike only got one episode and has earned some
* [[Pac-Man Fever]]: Mercilessly lampshaded at times, especially considering 99% of these cases are in cartoons based on games, something you'd expect to get it right!
* [[Playing Pictionary]]: X-Box 360 games in VHS cases in ''[[Ctrl+Alt+Del]]'', pizza wheels being carried by the evil army in ''Captain N'', just to name a few.
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* [[Quip to Black]]: A few of these are inserted, and they come [[CSI: Miami|complete with sunglasses]] made out of black box annotations. YEEEEAAAAHHHHHHH!!!
* [[Retirony]]: When CurtDogg was uploading Street Fighter: The Annotated Series as beeupyou, the collaborative annotation feature was discontinued with only two episodes to go.
* [[Red Oni]],[[Blue Oni]]: Just about any pair up, Irrelevant believes in being
* [[Rhymes on a Dime]]: The surf music lyrics throughout season 1 of Captain N don't usually rhyme until the chorus.
* [[Running Gag]]:
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** "I am the <Title> of <Alliterating Action Or Adjective>!" Most notably used whenever Cheatsy was in a scene (due to his infamous "Emperor of Eavesdropping" line), having fallen off significantly upon moving to other series but sometimes it will make a come back for an episode.
** HORSE CUM! (whenever something liquidy shows up; most typically "water" that seems surprisingly white)
** But quite possibly the grandest, most continuing, most unabated, most returning, most tantalizingly
** [[Artistic License Physics|PHYSICS]]
** "Weapon Dickery" counts for when someone engages in [[Weapon Twirling]] or other flourishes with their weapon. Variants have included "key dickery" and "horse dickery".
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