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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: theThe Game Master (Animation)|Captain N the Game Master]]'' via [[YouTube]]'s annotation feature.
 
On October 3rd 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].
 
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.
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On beeupyou's channel:
* [[Ctrl +Alt +Del|Ctrl+Alt+Del: The Animated Series]]
* [[Super Mario World (Animationanimation)|Super Mario World]]
* [[Ctrl +Alt +Del|A compilation of Tim Buckley's convention appearances]] (under the title "bum fuckley")
* [[The Adventures of Super Mario Bros 3]]
* [[Doctor Rabbit|Dr. Rabbit's Bright Smiles World Tour]]
* [[Doctor Rabbit|Dr. Rabbit: Legend of Tooth Kingdom]]
* The [[Street Fighter (Animationanimation)|Street Fighter]] cartoon
* [[Doctor Rabbit|Dr. Rabbit Comes To School]]
 
On [[The Annotat Xperiment]]'s channel:
* [[Street Fighter (Animationanimation)|Street Fighter]] (the last two episodes anyway)
* [[Doctor Rabbit|How To Have A Bright Smile]]
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YSYY4tbKzJ8 Some music video by one of the Annotators' college classmates]
* [[The Legend of Zelda (Animationanimation)|The Legend of Zelda]]
* The [[Battletoads (Animationanimation)|Battletoads]] pilot
* The [[X Box]] Live Originals competition winner: Bouchedags
* [[Bibleman|A Fight For Faith]]
* The [[Bubsy]] pilot
* [[Mortal Kombat the Journey Begins]]
* [[Mortal Kombat: Defenders of the Realm]]
* [[Bibleman|Six Lies of the Fibbler]]
* [http://www.thenutshack.net/ The Nutshack]
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* [[Mortal Kombat 4|The Mortal Kombat 4 endings]]
* [[Ratatoing]]
* [[Captain N: theThe Game Master]]
* [[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.
* [[PacmanPac-Man|Christmas Comes To Pacland]]
* The Armor of Light
* [[Video Brinquedo|The Little Panda Fighter]]
* [[Paedo Hunt|Tricky People]]
* [[Cartoon All -Stars to Thethe Rescue]]
* [[Dingo Pictures|Mouse Police]]
* [[Beauty and Warrior]] (Yes, [[Brick Joke|really.]])
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* [[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 apcolyptic situation like this./And so the N-Team completely obliterated the grassy world of American Football...World./ Our heroes just killed millions of football players! Even as a nerd I am disgusted!/Kevin, you just quite possibly made the 9/11 of Video Land. And you're going to pop jokes?}}
* [[ASCII Art]]: Extremely common in the early days before [[YouTube]] began to [[Screwed Byby 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.
* [[Bad to Thethe Bone]]: The surf music.
* [[Be Careful What You Wish For]]: Irrelevant wanted to see the Nutshack get annotated for months. Then it was, and all hell broke loose.
** And then Irrelevant took it further by uploading Beauty and Warrior.
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* [[Comically Missing the Point]]: During the titular song and dance number of Tricky People, a lot of sympathy was shown for the man asking for help finding his lost puppy, and when offered free cash by a potential child molester, all they had to say to it was "Well hey, free cash."
* [[Companion Cube]]: Random black specks on the screen in the Super Mario Bros. 3 cartoon came to be known as Doug the Bug.
* [[Couch Gag]]: At first it was changing the words on the mode select screen in the [[Ctrl +Alt +Del]] opening, after which it was all about changing the title of absolutely everything, as well as the name of the writer, if credited.
* [[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 pucture his last eye, Ra suffered trauma, Raiden woed making Daniel a guardian of the Earthrealm and Xenu found the ending ridiclous.
* [[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.
* [[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.
{{quote| Oh? Third time's the charm apparently.}}
* [[Directed Byby 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:
{{quote| Is it too much to ask for a Disney Villain Death?<br />
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.
{{quote| Y'see the joke is: Yoshi eats everything.}}
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** 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 AFTER the Gold Dragon's baby form was a pallate swap of the dreaded Puff. Pretty much the writer's killed off a 'five minute old' creature with zero thoughts of the implications.
* [["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 Onon 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 Thethe 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 camotose. Big Mouth suffered a seizure. Phil gets amnesia and might be heading towards a more fulfilling life while Horatio froths at the mouth. Ethan suffers from despair, Stryker is a nervous wreck and Kid Icarus attempted suicide but it didn't stick.
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{{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 (Animationanimation)|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 pooor quality.
* [[It Is Pronounced "Tro -PAY"]]:
** Bye son!
** YESH!
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* [[Lull Destruction]]: Expect any scene without dialogue to be filled with speech bubbles.
* [[Made of Explodium]]: The Kootie Pie tolerance meter exploded about five seconds after she began to sing Girls Just Wanna Have Fun.
* [[Mondegreen]]: [[In -Universe|Usually deliberate]]. Anything sounding more like profanity than it actually is makes for a common target. It became especially common during Captain N as they often had no idea what Mother Brain was saying otherwise.
** Also from Captain N, "Havin' a Log!" from the Season Two song "Havin' a Ball". Became a minor running gag brought up whenever logs are involved.
* [[Men Are Generic, Women Are Special]]: Often when [[The Smurfette Principle]] rears its head the female character will complain about not being allowed to be wacky or not allowed to be wrong like the men or having to be subjected to a [[Girls Night Out Episode]] just to get focus.
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* [[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. Irrelvant tends to try to befriend all religions, and non-ones, and mocks extremists in general.
* [[MST3KMystery 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.
* [[Mythology Gag]]: Given that just about every Captain N episode gets some element of the games wrong, correcting remarks will flare up all over the place.
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** In one episode of Captain N, Kevin said "time for a power move!" only to fall flat on his ass. This has been referenced several times when someone stumbles during a fight scene. Whenever Kevin is hailed as a great hero someone brings up that the 'hero' is too terrified to clean his room.
** On a meta level, Irrelevant will ''always'' be remembered for The Nutshack and Beauty And Warrior.
* [[Never Say "Die"]]: Repeatedly mocked.
{{quote| '''Character:''' Destroy them!<br />
'''Annotation:''' But don't kill them! }}
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* [[Not Bad]]: At least one commentator complimented Ganon teleporting to his throne, and [[Up to Eleven|even more so when]] he teleported to stand sideways on the wall.
** Occasionally, one or two commentators will also compliment the plot in general for being (relatively) well-thought-out and interesting.
* [[Not That There's Anything Wrong Withwith That]]: Eggplant Wizard and King Hippo... just make them an official couple already!
* [[Oh Crap]]: The somewhat unexpected appearance of parts 2-4 of The Nutshack, and later The Little Panda Fighter.
* [[Once an Episode]]: Certain shows get this treatment. "X sez/says", as a tribute to Sonic Says, has appeared in ''Mortal Kombat'' animated whenever a character has a moral to teach.
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* [[One-Scene Wonder]]: Eggplant Wizard and his peach dancers. Mike only got one episode and has earned some fannon backstory!
* [[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.
* [[Pyrrhic Victory]]: Because Irrelevant didn't know how to upload he clamored/Whined for [[Beauty and Warrior]] to be annotated... and he finally got it!.. Only problem was what came before it was Mouse Police. A film that made less sense, had poorer animation, was dubbed awfully and helped make Beauty and Warrior shrink to [[So Okay It Is Average]] during the same weekend intermission!
* [[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 aggresive and striking at as many works as possible while Avirosb prevers focus firing when intermissions occur.
* [[Rhymes Onon a Dime]]: The surf music lyrics throughout season 1 of Captain N don't usually rhyme until the chorus.
* [[Running Gag]]:
** One of the very earliest, mainly applying to CAD, was [[Wall of Text|WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS]]
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*** If a character has a particularly memorable line, it will be ''made'' a catch phrase.
*** "PRECISELY!" From ''Ratatoing'' became this shortly after it was uploaded, but it was used less and less frequently.
** ''[[Street Fighter (Animationanimation)|Street Fighter]]'s'' use of the same music over and over spurred a "YESSSH!" every time a certain music cue played.
** The audience booing and throwing rotten food as the curtain came down in the ''Super Mario 3'' cartoon.
*** There was a callback to this during ''Mortal Kombat'' while the characters were exploring an empty theatre.
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** Most episodes end with a male character being made to ask "I still get laid tonight, right?"
** "[[Are We There Yet?]]" "How many times are you going to ask that, missy?" These two often appear in tandem during any traveling scene, and come from an episode of ''Super Mario Bros. 3''. The second question also sometimes appears as a response to the gag in the previous bullet.
** When a full moon appears in a shot, it will often be given a face to resemble the moon from ''[[The Legend of Zelda: MajorasMajora's Mask]]'', with an accompanying caption like "Dawn of the Final Day, 24 Hours Remain".
** Kootie Pie in the Mario 3 cartoon. As soon as she got noisy, a Kootie Pie tolerance meter would appear. It wouldn't take long to max out.
** THE UNBREAKABLE ANNOTATION. Which always ends up broken.
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* [[Say My Name]]: A monster rising from the bayou in an early Captain N episode shouted "Captain N!" in a manner similar to [[Homestar Runner|Strong Bad singing Trogdor.]] Cue suggested alternate lyrics.
* [[Schedule Slip]]: As of The Legend Of Zelda they've gone from one episode every few days to every Friday due to the reduced amount of contributors. Sometimes this slips to Saturday as well.
* [[Screwed Byby the Network]]: The fateful day when [[YouTube]] discontinued collaborative annotations. Beeupyou's channel now serves as an archive of past works, with the shared channel being how they now do things, but it took about a month to get it set up while everyone campaigned in vain for the collaborative annotations feature to be reinstated. Also, every time [[YouTube]] makes changes to the annotation editor, it's not uncommon to see the Annotators criticise these in the channel comments.
* [[Self-Deprecation]]: They all tend to make fun of themselves from time to time, at the least, for having no lives.
* [[Self-Fulfilling Prophecy]]: See the Spoiler entry below.
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* [[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.
* [[Sophisticated As Hell]]: Sometimes there are actual well thought out notes on pacing problems and inconsistent characterization with some swear words thrown in.
* [[Spared Byby the Adaptation]]: Ironically subverted by having one of their favourite characters, Cheatsy Koopa, run into some kind of death portal in his final scene. Given that they annotated Super Mario 3 AFTER doing Super Mario World, the original canon had him going on to make many appearances in the next series.
* [[Spoiler]]: ''"GAME BOY IS COMING"''
** If a plot point is brought up it will be highlighted.
* [[Spoof Aesop]]: The moral of [[Cartoon All -Stars to Thethe Rescue]] is apparently "take drugs and all your favorite cartoon characters will show up to talk to you."
* [[Status Quo Is God]]: Mocked a lot since they're not big fan of episodic non-arc based series. Though when there are continuity nods or signs of character development the praise is heaped on.
* [[Suspiciously Similar Substitute]]: Many new series and intermissions will have the main characters' names in the opening credits replaced by the names of characters from the CAD cartoon.
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* [[The Unintelligible]]: During season 2 of ''Captain N'', it seems to get harder to understand Mother Brain.
* [[This Is Gonna Suck]]: Every series and intermission starts out like this.
* [[Throw the Dog Aa Bone]]: Whenever their least favorite character in a series does something redeeming.
* [[Time for Plan B]]: After many ignored attempts to convince [[YouTube]] to restore collaborative annotations, the shared channel was set up.
* [[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.
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* [[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 Onon First?]]: In Captain N S2E12.
{{quote| ''Kid Icarus:'' "Who-icus?"<br />
''Julio:'' "No, HOO-LI-O." }}
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