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{{quote|''The poor, meme-ridden "comedy" website '''Uncyclopedia''' is the stuff of
{{quote|''[[Overly Long Scream|AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!]]''|'''Uncyclopedia''' on ''[https://uncyclopedia.ca/wiki/AAAAAAAAA! AAAAAAAAA!]''}}
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[[Affectionate Parody]] of ''[[Wikipedia]]'' that would like to be to wikis what ''[[The Onion]]'' is to newspapers. It advertises itself as the “content-free encyclopedia”.
The site's guidelines and rules are written in a truthful and non-satirical, but still humorous tone, the best example of which is “[[Hypocritical Humor|How To Be Funny and Not Just Stupid]]”.▼
Portions of ''Uncyclopedia'' were hosted on [[Fandom (website)|FANDOM/Wikia]] until May 2019, when [[Think of the Advertisers!|they were evicted]] for supposedly violating [[Censorship Bureau|Wikia policy]]. The affected projects (including English, French, Spanish, Italian, Polish and Russian among others) were moved to independent hosting, with the English-language version now found [https://uncyclopedia.ca/wiki/Main_Page here]. Another independent version of the site, to which much of the community moved in January 2013 in response to [[Content Warnings|Wikia's content warnings]] and [[Moral Guardians|censorship]], can be found [http://en.uncyclopedia.co here]. The “good” articles (so judged by Uncyclopedia users) are listed [https://uncyclopedia.ca/wiki/Uncyclopedia:Best_of here] (original) and [https://en.uncyclopedia.co/wiki/Uncyclopedia:Best_of here] (fork).
▲The site's guidelines and rules are written in a truthful and non-satirical, but still humorous tone, the best example of which is “[[Hypocritical Humor|How To Be Funny and Not Just Stupid]]”
International editions are notorious for sometimes [[Woolseyism|creating new puns for their titles]]. [
Let it be noted that [[TV Tropes]] listed them before [https://uncyclopedia.ca/wiki/TV_Tropes they listed TV Tropes]. And as far as we know, [[All The Tropes]] has so far escaped their notice.
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*[[Anthropomorphic Personification]]: [https://uncyclopedia.ca/wiki/Uncyclo-tan Uncyclo-tan], based on Wikipedia's [[wikipedia:Wikipedia:Wikipe-tan|Wikipe-tan]].
* [[Author Existence Failure]] (invoked): [https://uncyclopedia.ca/wiki/HowTo:Cut_Your_Own_Head_Off_With_a_Chainsaw “HowTo:Cut Your Own Head Off With a Chainsaw”]
* [[A Worldwide Punomenon]]: On Inciclopedia's [
* [[Bishonen]]: [https://uncyclopedia.ca/wiki/Mitsubishie They have their own car company]!
* [[Berserk Button]]: The [https://uncyclopedia.ca/wiki/Encyclopedia_Dramatica_%28Website%29 site's page] for Encyclopedia Dramatica shows a great amount of seething hatred, which is reciprocated in full on ED.
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* [[Bilingual Bonus]]: The full name given for [https://uncyclopedia.ca/wiki/Idiocrates Idiocrates] is “έναν μικρό εγκέφαλο αλλά ένα μεγάλο πέος”, which translates to {{spoiler|“A small brain but a big penis.”}}
* [[Blood Sport]]: [https://uncyclopedia.ca/wiki/Water_Polo..._With_Sharks! Water Polo... With Sharks!]
* [[Born in
*[[Broken Base]]: The English-language community after the 2013 split.
* [[Captain Obvious]]: [https://uncyclopedia.ca/wiki/
** And his arch-nemesis is [[Captain Oblivious]]!
* [[Censor Box]]: Used as a [[Running Gag]] to deal with [https://uncyclopedia.ca/wiki/Crimethink various forms of Crimethink], in much the same style as {{spoiler|AllTheTropes' use of censor boxes over spoilers}}.
* [[Censorship Bureau]]: Wikia staff deleted a good deal of content that violated their terms of use, even if it was acceptable by the local community's standards. Eventually they decided this wasn't enough and [https://uncyclopedia.ca/wiki/Forum:A_message_from_Fandom evicted the whole site].
* [[Cluster F-Bomb]]: [https://uncyclopedia.ca/wiki/Fuck_fucking_fucked_fucker_fucking_fuckups_fuck_fucking_fucked_fucking_fuckup_fucking_fucker%27s_fuck This article] analyses a grammatically correct sentence consisting entirely of variations on the word “fuck”, in the same vein as [[wikipedia:Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo|“Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo”]].
* [[Confusing Multiple Negatives]]: [
* [[Conspiracy Theorist]]: [https://uncyclopedia.ca/wiki/Jaws_did_WTC “Jaws did WTC”]
* [[Content Warnings]]: The site had [https://uncyclopedia.ca/wiki/Content_warning one of these] for a while when it was on Wikia, but it was eventually removed.
* [[Cute Kitten]]s: [https://uncyclopedia.ca/wiki/Kitten_Huffing …Let's huff 'em!]
* [[Dan Browned]]: [[Lampshaded]]. "[https://uncyclopedia.ca/wiki/Uncyclopedia_Brown Uncyclopedia Brown] is the fictional hero of a series of detective stories for small children. He is known by the nickname Uncyclopedia due to his vast knowledge of facts, figures and dates, all of which are untrue, misleading and inaccurate."
* [[Department of Redundancy Department]]: Of course there are at least two articles on redundancy, [https://uncyclopedia.ca/wiki/Redundancy here] and [https://en.uncyclopedia.co/wiki/Redundancy here].
* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: Articles frequently show a biting, snide wit.
* [[Even Evil Has Standards]]: [[Encyclopedia Dramatica]] makes these guys look like frickin' boy scouts.
*[[Fanon Discontinuity]]: The 2013 fork was created in order to move Uncyclopedia to different hosting, but many editors stayed with the original Wikia site, in effect making it a split rather than a move. That didn't stop fork supporters from claiming that "the community" had left for the fork and it was [[No True Scotsman|the "real" Uncyclopedia]].
* [[Finger Gun]]: [https://uncyclopedia.ca/wiki/Handgun Handgun]
* [[Friendly Neighborhood Vampire]]s: [https://uncyclopedia.ca/wiki/No_More_Room_In_Hell_Act “‘No More Room In Hell’ Act”]
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* [[Jerkass]]: Most of the users.
* [[Just for Pun]]: [[Running Gag]] of the site.
* [[Long Title]]:
* [[Media Watchdog]]: Various wikis have been blocked by the Great Firewall of China ("Golden Shield Project"), including Taiwan and Japan's Uncyclopedias. Russia's Absurdopedia was involved in a legal battle with [[Censorship Bureau|Roskomnadzor]], and a few individual Brazilian Desciclopédia pages may be blocked in Russia. There have also been plenty of [[Frivolous Lawsuit]]s threatened over the years, which invariably fail to materialise; sadly, spurious legal threats are a common reputational management tactic in some countries.
* [["Not Making This Up" Disclaimer]]: Inciclopedia's quotes for [
* [[The Nothing After Death]]: [https://uncyclopedia.ca/wiki/You_Are_Dead You Are Dead].
* [[Oscar Wilde]]: [https://uncyclopedia.ca/wiki/Oscar_Wilde Uncyclopedia's unofficial mascot].
* [[Overly Long Scream]]: [https://uncyclopedia.ca/wiki/AAAAAAAAA! AAAAAAAAA!]
* [[Parodic Table of the Elements]]: The [https://uncyclopedia.ca/wiki/Idiotic_Table_of_the_Elements Idiotic Table], the [https://uncyclopedia.ca/wiki/Canadian_Periodic_Table_of_the_Elements Canadian Periodic Table], and the Occasional Table (the third was deleted but can be found on the [
* [[Poe's Law]]: According to [[The Other Wiki]] some people have come across this wiki and believed it to be factual.
* [[Public Medium Ignorance]]: [https://uncyclopedia.ca/wiki/User:Joe9320/Vocaloid You know the] [[Vocaloid
* [[Refuge in Audacity]]
* [[Rule of Fun]]: Pretty much ''runs'' the place.
* [[Rule of Funny]]: Naturally, since it's a humor (or humour) site.
* [[Schmuck Bait]]: [https://uncyclopedia.ca/wiki/Do_NOT_click_any_links! Do NOT click any links!]
* [[Self-Demonstrating Article]]: They have [https://uncyclopedia.ca/wiki/Category:Pages_that_look_like_the_things_they're_about an entire ''category'' for them!]
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** The article on [https://uncyclopedia.ca/wiki/Plagiarism plagiarism] is copied verbatim from [[The Other Wiki]].
** The full text of the article on “[https://uncyclopedia.ca/wiki/Brevity Brevity]” reads “Brevity is.{{spoiler|.. [[The Stinger|wit]].}}”
** The articles on [https://uncyclopedia.ca/wiki/Binary Binary] and [https://uncyclopedia.ca/wiki/Morse_Code Morse Code] are written in binary and Morse, respectively.
** [https://uncyclopedia.ca/wiki/Recursion Recursion], which [[Shaped Like Itself|redirects]] [[Redundancy|to]] [https://uncyclopedia.ca/wiki/Recursion Recursion.]
** [https://uncyclopedia.ca/wiki/Ben_Croshaw Zero Punctuation] and [https://uncyclopedia.ca/wiki/Xkcd XKCD] get them as well.
* [[Self-Deprecation]]/[[Take That, Audience!]]: It's ''very'' often declared in the articles that anyone reading or writing Uncyclopedia must be a morbidly obese male virgin and a tragic waste of skin that the world would be better off without. Among the index “[https://uncyclopedia.ca/wiki/Category:Things_you_will_never_have Things you will never have]” are brains, common sense, a girlfriend, health, intelligence, knowledge, popularity, safety, sex, or a sense of proportion.
* [[Self-Referential Humor]]:
* [[Serious Business]]: [https://uncyclopedia.ca/wiki/I_don't_appreciate_your_attitude_towards_my_potato_chip_situation I don't appreciate your attitude towards my potato chip situation]
* [[Set Right What Once Went Wrong]]: [https://uncyclopedia.ca/wiki/Assassins_from_the_future “Assassins from the future”]
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* [[Shaped Like Itself]]: [https://uncyclopedia.ca/wiki/Category:Recursive_categories The category “Recursive categories”], which contains only one category: “Recursive categories”. This was based on a silly category that someone else did on [[The Other Wiki]].
* [[Stalker with a Crush]]: [https://uncyclopedia.ca/wiki/Martina_Hingis Martina Hingis]
* [[Start My Own]]: Many of the adaptations of Uncyclopedia into other languages, of which Desciclopédia (Brazil) is the largest.
* [[Strawman Political]]: Things do not get much more left-wing than this.
* [[Supercop]] / [[Waif Fu]]: [https://uncyclopedia.ca/wiki/Amanda_Steele%2C_Action_Cop “Amanda Steele, Action Cop”]
* [[Take That]]: The majority of the wiki. There are literally ''[[Overly Long Gag|hundreds]]'' (if not ''thousands'') of pages with jabs at President Bush
** Dear God, if you had a dime for every [[Take That]] Uncyclopedia ever made, you might be the richest person on the planet!
** Of course, rivals like Encyclopedia Dramatica don't get a pass, either.
** Every single article on Malaysia was apparently written by an angry Indonesian. A very angry Indonesian. With a good sense of humor.
** They even have a rather amusing one towards [[TV Tropes]]
{{quote|Most tropers also appear to be [[Natter|unaware of the existence of what are called Discussion Pages]].}}
** They aren't fans of ''[[Inheritance Cycle]]'' either.
* [[The Unfrozen Caveman Lawyer]]: [https://uncyclopedia.ca/wiki/The_defense_rests%2C_your_honor “The defense rests, your honor”]
* [[Think of the Advertisers!]]: Wikia has long attempted to circumvent Uncyclopedia's non-commercial Creative Commons licence. Other-language versions were routinely placed under incompatible licences and plastered with ads; Wikia also used Uncyclopedia to advertise other Wikia-hosted sites which carry intrusive commercial display advertising. The desire not to offend these commercial advertisers appears to have been a major factor in much of the content censorship, from the [[Content Warning]]s in 2012 to the entire site being [[Screwed by the Network]] and de-platformed in 2019.
* [[This Is Sparta]]: [https://uncyclopedia.ca/wiki/This_is_not_Sparta Or not.]
* [[Toilet Humour]]: [https://uncyclopedia.ca/wiki/I_maed_a_yuky_doody I maed a yuky doody]
* [[TV Tropes]]: [https://uncyclopedia.ca/wiki/TV_Tropes Why, hello there.] Notable among Uncyclopedia entries for being … well, pretty much accurate and truthful. Also notable for being featured on the
* [[Unreliable Narrator]]:
* [[Wiki Magic]]: [https://uncyclopedia.ca/wiki/Fisher_Price:_A_Retrospective Fisher Price: A Retrospective] is a critique of a single line of vandalism.
* [[A Wizard Did It]]: [https://uncyclopedia.ca/wiki/A_wizard_did_it Wow! It's magical or something!]
** [https://uncyclopedia.ca/wiki/Dennis_Kucinich Four wizards, a slutty nurse and Dennis Kucinich did it.]
* [[Written Sound Effect]]: [https://uncyclopedia.ca/wiki/Category:Names_that_sound_like_comic_sound_effects “These are things with names that would look totally awesome as comic sound effects.”]
* [[Yin-Yang Clash]]: What happens when [[Memetic Badass
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