The Annotated Series: Difference between revisions

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{{examples|Material they've annotated, in chronological order:}}

* [[Ctrl+Alt+Del|Ctrl+Alt+Del: The Animated Series]]

* [[Super Mario World (animation)|Super Mario World]]

* [[Doctor Rabbit|Dr. Rabbit Comes To School]]

 

* The [[Battletoads (animation)|Battletoads]] pilot

* The [[Xbox]] Live Originals competition winner: Bouchedags

 

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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)'

* [[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 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.

* [[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.

* [[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.

* [[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.

** ''"...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.

* [[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.

* [[Chuck Cunningham Syndrome]]:

{{quote|Polaris: ''Quit the daydreamin' Pancada, you know I feel about you-u!''}}

* [[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]]:

* [[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.

* [[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.

** 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.

* [["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.

* [[Five-Man Band]]:

** [[The Hero]]: CurtDogg (The one who started it all way back.)

** [[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 Sixth Ranger]]: MrGuyPwnsYou, Hamsteere and creatorofGandP. (Get a few more and there can be another band.)

* [[Grammar Nazi]]

* [[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.

{{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 Is Pronounced "Tro-PAY"]]:

** Bye son!

* [[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.

* [[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.

** 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.

* [[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.

* [[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.

* [[Rhymes on a Dime]]: The surf music lyrics throughout season 1 of Captain N don't usually rhyme until the chorus.

* [[Running Gag]]:

** "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)

** [[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".

** During Captain N: Videolympics, Kevin is made to suggest "Swimming gala?" when Mother Brain issues her challenge. The letter "N" on a letterman jacket signifies being on the school swimming team.

*** Naturally they were delighted when the show revealed he really WAS on the swimming team.

* [[Sincerity Mode]]: Surprisingly common when you take into account all their [[Not Bad]], [[Cerebus Syndrome]], [[Shown Their Work]] and [[Dude, Not Funny]] moments, and so on.

* [[So Bad It's Horrible (Darth Wiki)|So Bad Its Horrible]]: The most mutual agreement for this would be "Bouchedags" and [[Up to Eleven|even more so]] ''The Nutshack''. The latter had an [[Oh Crap]] moment from most of the Annotators when the rest of Episode one was uploaded.