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''Unforgotten Realms'' is a [[Web Animation|web animation]] following the adventures of Sir Schmoopy of Awesometon, dual-nunchuck-weilding sorcerer, and Eluamous Nailo, wizard in-training, as they quest to find a magical herb that will cure Sir Schmoopy's dying grandmother of her illness. Wait, no. Actually, the show follows Rob and Mike, two [[Vitriolic Best Buds|"friends"]], as they play Unforgotten Realms, Mike's roleplaying game as Sir Schmoopy and Eluamous Nailo, respectively. Rob's... interesting roleplaying style quickly and frequently results in throwing Mike's game off the rails, no matter how hard Mike tries to keep things on track. The group is quick to pick up two more allies: Petey, the (totally not evil) [[The Undead|Undead]] dire rat, and Jacques, the magical talking axe. Other important characters include [[Evil Overlord]] [[Names to Run Away From Really Fast|Timmy the Evil]], who plans to destroy Sir Schmoopy, Roamin the crime-solving rank-11 paladin, who tracks down crime with Gaary, a midget who is far more competent then Roamin, and the mysterious Kobolds.
The series was originally created as a series of poorly-drawn flash animations on ''Newgrounds'', but after seven episodes, the creator was hired to make ''Unforgotten Realms'' for ''[http://www.escapistmagazine.com The Escapist]'', and proceeded to reboot the series, starting with episode one, and making a new episode every other week. The new series follows the same plot as the first one, and the first three episodes are the same as the first three of "Season Zero", with better animation and plot, but from the fourth episode on, it has deviated from the old series into something with a good deal more plot and direction, while keeping many of the old and favorite jokes and catch-phrases.
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The majority of the humor comes from Sir Schmoopy's interactions with the campaign world, which often results in the plot being ignored, strange characters showing up, and [[Stuff Blowing Up|explosions]].
The show's contract with the ''Escapist'' recently{{when}} ran out, causing the show to be rather unceremoniously removed from the index on the main page. They can still be viewed there as well as the old episodes which are still on ''Newgrounds''.
Currently the creator of the series is fund-raising by selling ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20140110151244/http://store.wittywizard.com/ DVDs]'' of the first season while he produces the rest of the the third season and eventually a fourth. This information is available on the website at http://www.urealms.com. He also produces the ''[[GRR Podcast]]'' with Gaary and Roamin's real life counterparts, as well as doing a daily (usually) stream http://www.twitch.tv/rurikar22/videos.
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* [[A Day in
* [[As You Know]]: Episode 10
* [[Art Evolution]]: Compare the early episode of the first series with the new one.
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** Sort of. Timmy is far more powerful though, as he is able to change anything about the game.
** Malestrom is the [[Big Bad]] within Mike and Rob's game. Timmy the Evil is the overall villain, being more meta.
* [[Breather Episode]]: Episode 20, [[A Day in
* [[Card-Carrying Villain]]: Timmy the Evil spends his time in his evil lair discussing his evil plans for the not-so-evil adventuring party with the evil Professor Walrus, using indestructible evil crystals to complete his evil plots. Evil.
** Although as Walrus points out, Timmy is the only major character who hasn't committed murder.
* [[Catch Phrase]]: So very many from Sir Schmoopy:
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By fire be purged!
I cast Flare!
Feel the wrath of Canadian lumber/Canuck steel fool!
Hah. Fatality, bitch. }}
** Possibly Roamin shouting the name of his attacks.
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** Episode Nine actually ''doesn't'' have one, it goes right into the recap and opening theme. {{spoiler|And at the end, the familiar screen informs you that "The Following Episode is over."}}
* [[Cloudcuckoolander]]: Rob is a combination between this and [[Too Dumb to Live]].
* [[Cursed
* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: Gaary to Roamin. One example from Episode Nine:
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Gaary: "Well, no-one will be friends with you, and I enjoy pissing on people's parades."
Roamin: "Better reasons then most, I suppose."
Gaary: "Not really, it's probably the worst reason to be friends out of everyone who as ever used the word 'friendship' to describe their bond with another person." }}
* [[Dual-Wielding]]: Sir Schmoopy duel-wields nunchucks, even if he gets accuracy penalties.
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** Stood idly by and benefited from a Paladin engineering the [[Grand Theft Me|body theft]] of a trio of adventurers. Joined in on tossing their bottled pee bodies away into a body of water.
** And threw two out of three innocent villagers into a lake of acid due to not thinking thoroughly about a convoluted magical riddle, sparing the lady because she was a girl (in their defense it was kinda the mage who gave them the quest's fault for being in grammatical error and putting his sons and people's lives in general on the line).
* [[Hoist
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Schmoopy: God, Eluamous, this judge is a total dick!
Judge: OH GOD HIT THE DECK!!!! }}
* [[Hypercompetent Sidekick]]: Gaary, if only in comparison to [[The Ditz|Roamin]].
* [[Jerkass]]: Rob is honestly rather mean ([[Rule of Funny|though funny]]).
* [[Let's Get Dangerous]]: When Rob stops screwing around and focuses on fighting something, Schmoopy can pull of some seriously amazing stuff.
* [[Mega Manning]]: The magical Crystal of Absorb lets a person take on the powers of a dead foe by drawing that creature's soul into the user's body. Rob instantly equates this to being like [[Mega Man (
* [[Munchkin]]: Sir Schmoopy kills a hobo and loots his loincloth, stating that Eluamous not doing so is why Mike sucks at video games.
** Also his plan to hide inside Petey and wait for the ogre to die from the poison.
* [[Musical Episode]]: Episode 49, in celebration of the shows return
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* [[My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels]]: In the original series episode four, Rob tries to speak wolf and says this verbatim.
* [[Newspaper Dating]]: Mike uses this as a quick and easy way so Eluamous and Schmoopy find out they are in the past and can move on with the plot.
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* [[Only Sane Man]]: Eluamous seems to be this being as he is one of the two characters done by Mike the other being Maelstrom
** Most likely Douglas and Gaary as well.
* [[Pokémon
* [[Rule of Cool]]: Sorcerers arent' actually proficient with nunchucks, and duel-wielding drops Sir Schmoopy's attack bonus even further, but in Rob's own words "then I will die looking like a totally [[Badass]] dual nunchuck-wielding Abraham Lincoln."
* [[Running Gag]]: A few, like the <s>nonexistent</s> Lumberjack class, and the notion that all wizards wear monocles.
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* [[Shaped Like Itself]]: "Ten thousands gold pieces ''of gold!''"
* [[Schmuck Bait]]: [[Double Subversion]] in the Tower of Ultimate Wizardry. The first floor is a room with a spiky ceiling, and a jolly red candy-like button. {{spoiler|The spiked-cieling trap triggers automatically, slowly lowering the spikes, and pressing the button resets it}}. However, {{spoiler|there's no way out of the room. If you ''don't'' press the button, a door opens, and the trap resets, all at the last second}}.
* [[Shout
*** And Schmoopy's [[Catch Phrase]] "Be fire, be purged!" is a phrase said by the ''[[World of Warcraft]]'' raid boss Ragnaros during a fight with it. Considering the creator's [http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=Rurikar&view=videos&start=20 past] ''[[World of Warcraft]]'' [[Machinima]], it's clearly entirely intentional. Roamon's righteous fury and retribution spec also reference ''[[WoW]]''.
** Roamin ringing up the judge to go bowling - "Ey cousin, let's go bowling" "No, Roamin" - is straight out of ''[[Grand Theft Auto]] 4''.
* [[Straw Critic]]: In the second season, practically every episode has had straw criticism in some form (whether it be the narrator calling people idiots for asking questions, or straw criticism acted out between the two main characters. Of course, this isn't suprising, given to the fact he frequently rants about all the criticism he gets on the forums.
* [[
* [[Soul Jar]]: The evil Indestructible Crystal of Change swaps a soul in the crystal with the soul in the body of the one using it. {{spoiler|Schmoopy used this to survive an explosion and get into a wolf body}} Roaman used his Pee as literal souljars.
* [[Space Jews]]: [[Our Elves Are Different|Elves]]
** Keep in mind that Rob's wife is Jewish in real life, and this is so blatant as to be a possible parody
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* [[Spoon Speaker]]: The Kobolds are a race of spoon speakers, kobold...
* [[Stuff Blowing Up]]: There's a reason Sir Schmoopy is referred to as Mister-quick-to-blow-up-himself-and-everyone-around-him...
* [[Theme Song]]: Roamin has Gaary rap his whenever he's introduced:
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* [[Third Person Person]]: Ursa Arcadius, Archduke of the High Bears, would like you to know that he, Ursa Arcadius, Archduke of the High Bears, often begins his sentences by spelling out his title (Ursa Arcadius, Archduke of the High Bears) to everyone, even non-Archdukes of the High Bears.
* [[Unfortunate Implications]]: In-universe.
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* [[Unsound Effect]]: A rare audible form: Ogres grumble "Ogre Sound" when they're not talking to people.
** "Question-mark face?"
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