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After Hours was a Web Original comedy miniseries produced by Cracked, usually taking place in a diner after the Cracked.com workday has ended. Starring Katie Willert, Soren Bowie, Daniel O'Brien and Michael Swaim as themselves (though exaggerated versions of themselves), the series main source of humor is the characters discussing and deconstructing various aspects of both modern and nostalgic pop culture.
The series was (nominally) monthly and ran from July 2010 to December 2017 before being cancelled as part of the parent company of Cracked, The E. W. Scripps Company, laying off the entire video staff.
It can be found here.
Not to be confused with the 1985 Black Comedy of the same name.
After leaving Cracked.com, Michael Swaim created Off Hours, a Spiritual Successor with the Serial Numbers Filed Off starring other Cracked.com alum.
- A Mind Is a Terrible Thing to Read: The reason why mind-reading is panned as the ultimate superpower.
Katie: I mean, I only get to hear like three percent of what people are thinking and I already hate almost everyone. If I could read minds, I'd probably just end up knocking motherfuckers out. |
- Accidental Truth: Michael implying Forrest Gump is racist. He hadn't even seen it when he made the accusation.
- All for Nothing: As the group lampshades at the end of the first Simpsons episode, every point they raised was contradicted by a later episode meaning the score is tied at 0 for everyone.
- All Male Androids Are Perverts: Michael brings up sex considerably more often than Soren or Dan.
- Alternate Character Interpretation: The point of the series. Examples include:
- Declaring Marty McFly's mother Lorraine to be a hardcore sadist who can only orgasm when danger is involved.
Katie: First we learn that Lorraine is like a danger-slut. She only falls for George in the first place because he's injured, and then in the alternate past, Marty gets injured and she falls for him. |
- Saying Edward Cullen would be a better Spider-Man than Peter Parker.
- Also...
Katie (to Soren: Why don't you just admit that Batman is a violent, maladjusted sociopath who's using his parents' death as an excuse to work out his aggression!? |
- Mario is a douchebag, and Princess Peach would be better off with Bowser.
- Donatello, Leonardo, Raphael, Michelangelo = Carrie, Charlotte, Miranda, Samantha, respectively.
- Leia as a terrorist.
Soren: She invaded a kingdom, stole his property, and destroyed Jabba. She's a terrorist. |
- The group eventually comes to the conclusion that Mr. Belding had an obsession with Zack Morris and killed his girlfriends.
- Mr. Feeny was stalking Cory all throughout his education.
- Scar is trying to feed the starving hyena masses and Gaston is rescuing Belle from both an abusive beast and Stockholm Syndrome.
- The Federation is marxist state that buts into other planets out of sheer boredom.
- Captain America is uneducated and gay for Bucky to the point of violating several international laws and putting many people (both civilians and Avengers) in danger to hold onto him while being wilfully ignorant of hard truths.
- Ambiguously Bi: Soren. He talks at length about his female conquests and has made out with Katie but has very odd moments with Michael and Daniel.
- Asperger Syndrome: Michael, in true Cloudcuckoolander form, assumes that everyone has Asperger's in the Batman episode for literally no reason whatsoever. He tries to 'verify' their Asperger's by tossing a random number of coffee sweeteners to the floor of the diner or onto the table and demanding that his victim (in order: Dan, Katie, and Soren) tell him how many he threw. In The Stinger, editor Cody Johnston shows up in a cameo and demands of Katie and Soren (who just had a Slap Slap Kiss moment) who put 31 sugar packs on the floor.
- Awesome McCoolname:
- Soren is apparently named after Sauron.
- Averted for Captain America. The video description says "Steve" is not a cool name.
- Aw, Look -- They Really Do Love Each Other: Michael and Katie. Despite their history, his obnoxiousness and her standoffishness, she (visibly) finds his antics and sense of humor occasionally adorable, and he seems to go out of his way to entertain (and annoy; almost alternating between the two) her.
- Bad Boss: The unseen Jack. He makes Soren give him five dollars every week and calls Katie "Candace".
- Barbie Doll Anatomy: Mike uses this as a point against Bowser.
Dan: He's an ugly rage monster. |
- Batman Gambit: Soren has a minor one, and in the Batman episode, no less.
Soren': The winner of this conversation will be the first person to say 'Batman's the best' and 'You're an idiot.' |
- Become Their Own Antithesis: Dan is a clear Captain America fanboy but ultimately ends up providing the best arguments for why Cap is a discredit to the Marvel Cinematic Universe. He goes on an impressive speech of logical connections that ends with him declaring that Thaddeus Ross was right in Civil War. Ends with a My God, What Have I Done? moment for the poor nerd.
- Belligerent Sexual Tension: Katie and Soren have this in spades in the "Why Batman is Secretly Terrible for Gotham" episode. However, after they both snap and make out for a few seconds, things quickly go back to normal. Also with Michael. They dated and had sex at least once. Mike refuses to let her forget it.
- Berserk Button: The live-action Mario movie is a big one for Dan.
Katie: He (Bowser) was a T-Rex in...(realizes what she just said, looks horrified) nothing! (Soren and Mike look shocked, Dan goes berserk). |
- Black Comedy Rape: Michael greedily threatening to rape Christopher Columbus in If You Could Have Dinner (And Sex) With Any Famous Figure. Including a diagram of a Rube Goldberg-style Rape Machine that would take days to work.
- Butt Monkey: Daniel who either takes it in stride or is long since resigned to the role. In Why Movie Cops Are Terrible At Their Jobs, he's the one who's been hypothetically, but deservedly, brutally murdered.
Soren: You've all been zombies for weeks, (points at Dan) months for some of you. |
- Call Back: In the Cereal Mascots episode, Michael does an impression of Count Chocula. He later dresses as Count Chocula in the Halloween episode.
- Also, in the Mario episode.
Michael (to Soren): All of the stuff you said about Batman (flashback of Soren angrily defending Batman to Katie plays), man, but now, about THIS! |
- Chuck Cunningham Syndrome: Discussed in Six Creepiest Sitcom Characters with everyone coming up for reasons why Judy Winslow and all of Zack's girlfriends disappeared. They eventually decided that Carl and Principal Belding murdered them all.
- Comedic Sociopathy: Again, Michael, and again, so, so very much.
Soren: Dan, I'm a survivor. I play to win. I can't risk your slowing me down, or you (to Katie) falling in love with me, or you (to Michael) trying to trade me to the zombies in exchange for leniency. |
- Another example:
Katie: Oh my god, don't even get me started on Forrest Gump! You wanna talk about a creepy rape scene? |
- Cloudcuckoolander: And yet again, Michael. And, yet again, so, so very much.
Katie: Gordon and Batman both work hard to help the world. But only one of them has to file paperwork and obey the system, while the other one gets to expense smoke bombs and plow Catwoman, and it has nothing to do with who worked harder! |
- The guy eats hot dogs with chocolate sauce. Doesn't get any weirder than that.
- The Cameo: Cody Johnston, one of Cracked's top editors, appears as a waiter in the opening episode. He appears again in the same role in the next season. When the group has changed diners.
- Closet Geek: Soren. He changed out of his Comic Con costume before meeting up with the others because he's not "out" yet.
- The Cloud Cuckoolander Was Right: In the episode discussing alternate universes and dimensions, Soren appears very sick and is completely out of the loop regarding how everything works. Katie thinks he's just sick while Micheal thinks he's from a parallel universe. In The Stinger, Katie and Micheal take Bizarro!Soren to a hospital just before the real Soren arrives via teleport to try and find his alternate self.
- Crazy Prepared. Katie and Soren in the Mario episode.
Michael: Jesus, they are spending a lot of time in the jump-man era. |
- Soren carries around a boombox in case he needs to give a great romantic speech.
- On the off-chance that they'd discuss Harry Potter again, Dan watched all the films and read all the books.
- Crippling Overspecialization: Katie's opinion of Hogwarts as it just teaches magic. No science, math, politics or history.
- Critical Research Failure:
- 4 Movie Apocalypses That Would Be More Fun Than Reality:
- For starters, Dan didn't realize that cars need to have their oil changed.
- Micheal then says every apocalypse (bar Waterworld) is guilty of this because everyone in the show/movie is trying to recapture a long gone way of life.
- Micheal accuses the writing staff on The Simpsons of this, noting that they seem to think "Scoey" is a stereotypical black guy name.
- Soren accuses Team Cap of this in Captain America: Civil War. Not only did they lack the skills to do a stake out with just one person, and failed to stop a truck from crashing into a gate (which any old SWAT team could do) but they somehow didn't notice the Accords being agreed to by virtually every world government.
- 4 Movie Apocalypses That Would Be More Fun Than Reality:
- Depraved Bisexual: Michael, though he seems to prefer women.
- Didn't Think This Through: Daniel says that the best apocalypse would be The Twilight Zone ones where someone is left alone on an abandoned Earth. As a nerd, his status quo wouldn't change all that much, there'd certainly be enough food and supplies for him to last. Soren then points out that being the last man means there's no new pop culture coming out.
- Disposable Girlfriend: Pauline, Mario's girlfriend in Donkey Kong.
Soren: The first time that we meet Mario in Donkey Kong, what's he doing? |
- Don't Like, Don't Read: Invoked in 4 Movie Apocalypses That Would Be More Fun Than Reality where Michael tells Daniel to stop watching The Walking Dead since he clearly doesn't like it. Dan weakly retorts that he has to finish watching what he started.
- Double Entendre: Katie has a subtle one.
Katie: Okay, I will concede that ninja turtle selection is seminal to young boys.. |
- Dumbass Has a Point: The Star Wars episode. Mike, of all people, points out how, other than Leia, there are no female role models in the original movies. Katie and Soren both grudgingly agree that his apocalypse is the best, eventually forcing Dan to go along. Katie's analysis of the four ninja turtles as each representing one of the four humors lends credence to Michael's theory that your favorite ninja turtle reflects your personality. Michael has this more frequently than the others, especially Dan, would like to admit.
- The End of the World as We Know It: The Which Apocalypse Would Be the Most Fun? episode. The winner? An asteroid that is without a doubt going to destroy Earth. The reason? Everyone Has Lots of Sex, of course!
Michael: No one's running, no one's fighting 'cause there's nowhere to go, and nowhere to hide. So what do we do? Bone. |
- Entitled to Have You: In The 9 Creepiest Things Movies Portray as Romantic, the gang conclude that The Graduate Homage Shot can be summarized as this.
- Even the Guys Want Him:
- Daniel is unrepentant about his lust for Benjamin Franklin in If You Could Have Dinner (And Sex) With Any Famous Figure.
- Dan also has a very noticeable crush on Spider-Man... which becomes weird, when you consider that he once dresses as Spidey for Comic-Con.
- In the Friends episode, Micheal doesn't think Soren uses enough hair-gel and later expresses a possible desire to have sex with him.
- Expanded Universe: Mike mocks Dan for his knowledge of Star Wars' extended universe and forbids all EU material from their discussion of how Star Wars is terrifying for women.
- Expy: In keeping with Seinfeldian Conversation, Soren is a Born Lucky everyman, Daniel is a bespectacled Butt Monkey, Katies is One of the Boys, and Michael is an Idiot Houdini Casanova.
- Fanon Discontinuity: Enforced in the Mario episode, where Katie brings up the live action movie, to the chagrin of Dan, Michael and Soren.
Katie: I'm sorry, I forgot myself. |
- Fluffy the Terrible: According to Dan, and he has a good case for it, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial is the most horrifying alien invader.
- For Want of a Nail: In The Terrifying Truth About Doc Brown, the group theorize that Marty running around led to the Zeerust 2015 because he somehow made the '80s the most important decade of that universe.
- Four-Temperament Ensemble: Discussed in the Which Teenage Mutant Turtle Would You Want To Be? episode.
- Freudian Excuse Is No Excuse: The gang's general mindset. Be the subject of discussion a hero or a villain.
- Katie first shows it off in the first Batman episode. So what if Batman's parents are dead? That doesn't let him be judge, jury, and executioner of Gotham city.
- When discussing A Christmas Story, they note that Ralph is really bratty for someone who had such a comfortable lifestyle.
- In the Friends episode, they apply this to all six friends, Phoebe in particular, noting that a Dark and Troubled Past is not an excuse to lash out at strangers and her friends.
- The gang doesn't initially think this about the MCU's version of Captain America (opining that, at his worst, he's an idiot) but eventually decide that a fetish for doing things the old-fashioned way and a bromance with Bucky doesn't even come close to excusing what Cap did in Civil War.
- Fridge Horror: Another staple of the show.
- A good example of this is the gang naming Ferris Bueller's high school as the worst '80s high school of all time.
DOB: You go to a high school that comes to a grinding halt the minute one kid calls in sick. At best, it's a benevolent dictatorship. At worst, it's frigging Jonestown, except your cult leader is a seventeen-year-old who dresses like a lesbian. |
- Lots and lots of examples from the 4 Ads That Depict Terrifying Alternate Realities, like how in feminine product commercials all women seem to secrete windshield wiper fluid instead of y'know, blood.
- Also inverts fridge horror, of all things.
"...do you realize what you just did? You've actually made horror... boring." |
- Funny Background Event:
- In Why Mario is Secretly a Douchebag their waitress looks like Peach and a guy who looks like Mario is working the grill.
- In Why Captain America Is The Worst Avenger, Micheal is leading an increasingly elaborate "USA!" chant complete with flags and cheerleaders.
- In The Horrifying Truth About Life Inside of Movie Musicals, a musical piece is happening outside.
- Genius Ditz: Micheal.
- He manages to completely ruin Forrest Gump with very in-depth arguments despite only having seen the film once.
- In Why Movie Cops Are Terrible At Their Jobs, he wins the argument by saying the best movie cops are the ones that aren't featured in police/action/superhero films. They're doing their jobs so smoothly that you don't even have to think about them.
- In "Stupid" Movies That Are Surprisingly Progressive, he manages to make a good case for why Ursula from Super Troopers is a strong, independent woman and a great feminist icon.
- Genre Savvy: Daniel didn't bring any ideas in The Only 8 Types of TV Shows That Get Made. He knew they'd just end up discussing some other pop culture topic.
- Getting Hot in Here: Katie takes off her jacket, revealing tank top and bra straps, and then her glasses when her argument with Soren about Batman gets really intense, leaving Michael bemused and Dan terrified. When Soren finally gives up, they release some of their Belligerent Sexual Tension with a kiss.
- Harsher in Hindsight: The whole point of How to Ruin Your Favorite Sitcoms with Math.
- Heh, Heh, You Said "X": Michael in the bathroom with Dan and Soren.
Soren (trying to pee): Dan, I really don't want to talk about here. |
- Hypothetical Casting: Discussed in the apocalypse episode, for Independence Day.
Michael: Hey, if Dan's Goldblum, does that make me Will Smith? |
- I Resemble That Remark: In the Friends episode, Dan has made "Pro and Con" lists about everyone to which Katie, upon being informed that she has a shrill voice, asks in a very shrill voice "SHRILL?!". Michael is later offended to discover he's "Handsy Mc Sacgrab" that Dan mentioned in a column.
- In the same episode, Dan points out that Rachel asks her customers for advances on her tips so she can go on her skiing vacation before saying that's not how businesses work and scaring away the waitress dressed in ski gear.
- Idiot Houdini: Nick Fury according to 6 Movies Whose Timelines Don't Add Up. He tried to recruit Tony years before there was any actual need for the Avengers and the four theorize that, as opposed to being The Chessmaster/a Manipulative Bastard, he was just spewing forth tons of ideas and the Avengers initiative just happened to work out.
- I'll Be in My Bunk: Michael pulls this in the Ninja Turtles episode. He feels the need to drop everything and run to Blockbuster once somebody clues him in about "pseudo-porn for women" (also known as Sex and the City).
Dan: Well, he's in for a disappointing evening. |
- Later:
Dan: So it's really porn for women? |
- Insistent Terminology: Michael, again.
Katie: Why does Bowser keep coming back game after game? He rallies enough troops- |
- It Makes Sense in Context: The group notes that this applies to everything. As an example, Katie summarizes Spider-Man as a teenager whose body is going through changes and he's spreading goo all over the city.
- Late Arrival Spoiler: After Soren claims he's glad Dumbledore died, a patron revealed to be reading The Half-Blood Prince says "Oh come on!" before leaving. As Soren points out, the book came out in 2005. The movie had already come out when the episode was released!
- Make It Look Like an Accident: When Micheal burned down the first diner.
- Major Minor Inconvenience: Discussed at length in 4 Ads That Depict Terrifying Alternate Realities.
- Meganekko: Katie.
- Misaimed Fandom: Micheal is a firm believer of "Beauty Equals Goodness". As Katie realizes, this means he completely missed the point of Beauty and the Beast.
- Mr. Fanservice: Soren.
Michael: You have to cull your booty call list? |
- Ms. Fanservice: Katie, somewhat. In the Comic-Con and Halloween episodes, she wears low-cut cleavage-bearing costumes. This is lampshaded in the opening title sequence, featuring four different depictions of the group, one from the mind of each cast member. In Michael's, she wears a stripperific dress and heels (seen in the page picture, an amalgam of the four versions), and in Soren's she wears a slinky dress. In Katie's, on the other hand, she's a bitter-looking spinster, and in Dan's she's a nun.
- N-Word Privileges: In Katie's mind, only women can say "woman".
- Named After Somebody Famous: Soren and his siblings are all named after The Lord of the Rings characters.
- Noodle Incident:
- Michael and Katie's first date. Also the time they had sex.
- Also, Michael's Bio-Dome Theorem.
- Michael's semester aboard in Toronto.
- Noodle Implements: Michael and Katie's lone (possibly) sexual encounter occurred in a bowling alley. Their first date happened after Mike allegedly won the Indy 500, and a disoriented Katie showing up at Mike's dorm room. Obviously, due to Mike's incredible Comedic Sociopathy, it is likely none of this is true, with the possible exception of sex in a bowling alley, if only because it's actually (somewhat) plausible (not to mention in keeping with Mike's complete monstrosity) and Katie doesn't state otherwise. Still, Katie was more occupied telling Soren and Dan they only had sex once, because Mike referred to the bowling alley as 'the last place we had sex.'
- Odd Friendship: Jockish, handsome, sometimes dim Soren and nerdy, unlucky Dan seem to be the closest out of the group of four.
- Our Zombies Are Different: Aversion stipulated to in their discussion of the merits of a Zombie Apocalypse as a doomsday scenario.
Waitress: Doesn't that kinda depend on what kind of zombies you're talking about? (loud, collective groan) |
- Police Are Useless: Discussed in Why Movie Cops Are Terrible At Their Jobs as a natural consequence of action movies given that such films have to make the small group of heroes look good. Michael notes the best cops seen in fiction are the ones not in action films because they're doing their job so well in the background that no one needs think of them.
- Pop Cultural Osmosis Failure:
- Despite the series and his job, it apparently took a while for Dan to get into Harry Potter.
- Inverted for Michael who consumes so much pop culture that he's ignorant of many real world issues. For example, he only knows who Donald Trump is because of The Simpsons episode "Bart to the Future."
- Power-Up Food: What Michael thought Bowser planned for Peach.
Mike: Are you sure he loves her? I thought he was going to devour her Peach flesh, to get... princess powers, or something. |
- Progressively Prettier: Katie starts showing more skin as the series progressed.
- Protagonist Centred Morality: Raised in the discussion of Ferris Bueller's Day Off; when everyone challenges Dan when he claims it's the worst high school in 1980s movies, he points out that they're assuming it'd be great because they're also assuming they'd be Ferris instead of one of the minor characters.
- The Quisling: Michael gleefully admits that, if a Zombie Apocalypse occurred, he would trade his friends to the zombies in exchange for his own life.
- Reed Richards Is Useless:
- Katie's stance on Batman/Bruce Wayne. With what a Crapsack World Gotham City is, Bruce Wayne could be doing a lot more good than Batman, such as funding charities or even rebuilding that train that he broke. As she says, if Bruce did that, he would reduce crime a lot more than Batman would.
- InGen in Jurassic Park. The gang discusses how the movies suggest that InGen has mastered genetic engineering to force grow dinosaurs and made it so that the beasts can survive on a lot less food than an animal of their size should while also potentially having access to a Body Backup Drive or a time machine. Yet this technology is only used for a faulty amusement park. Though they're morally better than Biosyn.
- Discussed in Why Captain America is the Worst Avenger with regards to Tony Stark in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Tony isn't useless given his engineering skills and wealth but Steve wastes Tony's talent by insisting on doing things the old fashioned way.
- Daniel and Soren argue this about Indiana Jones. He's found magic that can heal anything, proof of the existence of God and even a super-weapon that can melt faces. In the midst of World War II. If Indy really wanted to do good, he could use the Ark of the Covenant to avert the Holocaust by just driving it through Berlin.
- Required Secondary Powers: Discussed in a debate about the best single superpower.
Soren: That's the problem with any one power. Without the whole suite, they just suck. |
- Rooting for the Empire: RomComs are all about sociopathic Designated Heroes. They don't stand for "Romantic Comedies" but rather "Trauma Accomplices."
- Running Gag:
- Michael accusing the others of having Aspergers in the first Batman episode and throwing sugar packets on the table and asking them how many it was, ala Rain Man.
- Someone will inevitably be about to take a bite of their food whenever bodily fluids are discussed.
- Dan finding some way to include Spider-Man into any conversation.
- No one ever gets Katie's Double Entendres.
- Seinfeldian Conversation: The show revolves around this trope. The live show even lampshades it, saying that the four have unusually well thought out conversations.
- Self-Deprecation: Whenever one of the four writes the episode, the flaws of their characters are pumped up. If the real Soren is writing, then the character is a Dumb Jock Know-Nothing Know-It-All. If the real Micheal is writing, the character is a pure Cloudcuckoolander who contributes almost nothing to the conversation. If the real Katie is writing, the character is a Straw Feminist with a shrill voice and short temper. If the real Dan is writing, the character is universally despised and crapped on for shits and giggles.
- Send in the Clones: The first Simpsons episode ends with the group theorizing that Springfield is a bizarre clone study (based on repeated background extras like Raphael or Akira) with Shelbyville as the control group.
- Sex Bot: Dan had one, kinda.
Michael: Dan, you like Donatello because he's a nerd and is open to sex with electronics. |
- Shared Universe:
- All of Pixar's films take place in one.
- Every Arnold Schwarzenegger film (save T1 and T2) are simulations experienced by the T-800. The Darker and Edgier ones are conditioning the unit to Kill All Humans while the Lighter and Softer ones take place between T1 and T2 as the humans reprogram their captured unit to protect the young John Connor.
- Shout-Out:
- In If You Could Have Dinner (And Sex) With Any Famous Figure, Michael briefly mistakes Mary Todd Lincoln's name for Martha Jones Lincoln.
- The "Robot spider!" aside in "Why the Scariest Sci-Fi Robot Uprising Has Already Begun" has a conference room full of robots given their thumbs up - including EDI.
- To stop himself from saying "Voldemort", Michael says "Valmont Snake-Face."
- Shipper on Deck: Michael and Soren are on Team Jacob.
- Stalker Without a Crush: In The 6 Most Unintentionally Creepy Sitcom Characters, the gang realize that a waiter (played by Cracked editor Cody Johnston) has followed them to their new dinner and he all but says that he's this trope.
- Straw Feminist: Katie sometimes displays shades of this attitude, though it's more often Played for Laughs. While Katie is a very clear feminist, it's not her only personality trait and most points she makes related to this are valid criticisms of how women are treated in movies and TV.
- Stupid Sexy Flanders:
- Benjamin Franklin, according to Dan, was a Pimp!
- Spider-Man is very seductive.
- Supporting Protagonist: Discussed where the Deuteragonist of films is always more popular than the Protagonist such as Jack Sparrow being more popular than Will Turner, the Autobots being more popular than Sam Witwicky or Han Solo being more popular than Luke Skywalker.
- Time Stop: Declared to be the ultimate superpower in The Best Superpower (is Not What You Think). Specifically, the Zack Morris "Time Out" from Saved by the Bell.
- Then Let Me Be Evil: At first, Daniel is insistent on saying Captain America is a good hero. However when presented with serious evidence of flaws in Captain America's MO, he dives right in to deconstructing him.
- They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot: The whole point of Movie Epilogues That Deserved Their Own Film.
- They Wasted a Perfectly Good Sandwich:
- In 4 Movie Apocalypses That Would Be More Fun Than Reality, Michael burns through the group's sole candy bar and water bottle For the Evulz.
- In the Pixar episode, the group destroys each other's food for no reason at all.
- Too Incompetent to Operate a Blanket: Discussed, where the group discusses how one would probably become the smartest person in the world in the world of infomercials.
- Ubermensch: Soren seems to view himself as one as he hates weakness, views the working class as invisible, is very attractive, and seems almost physically incapable of failing.
- Unfortunate Implications: Dan views Back to The Future as having these for black history, specifically the civil rights movement and rock music.
Dan: Marty gave this random black guy the push he needed to succeed in 1955, the year the civil rights movement started. |
- Villain Has a Point:
- The whole point of 4 Disney Movie Villains Who Were Right All Along. Never Trust a Title as of the four villains mentioned; Jafar, Ursula, Scar, and Gaston; they decide that only Gaston had any sort of point (Belle could have been suffering from Stockholm Syndrome and 9/10 times, it's up to the handsome guy to save the pretty girl from the monster in the castle). Jafar, while competent, only wanted to enhance his personal power; Ursula cheated by masquerading as Vanessa; and Scar destroyed the Pride Lands' ecosystem.
- Daniel eventually convinces himself that Ross was right in Captain America: Civil War on account of how incompetent Cap is. In the same episode Soren notes that Ultron was right about "a few things actually".
- As part of his Ubermensch attitudes, Soren is very sympathetic to Magneto's cause.
- 5 Movie Villains That Would Make Great Leaders. They eventually decide that the Borg are the best case as their Hive Mind would bring about a utopia, justifying it on the grounds that individual humans assimilate the culture of the time and adapt to that.
- Victim Falls For Rapist: Bowser expects it to happen.
Dan: You do realize that he kidnaps Princess Peach, right? |
- Why Don't Ya Just Shoot Him: Voldemort.
Soren: Wizards are supernatural. What good's a Muggle gonna do? |
- What If: Dan compares Leia going to Tatooine to save Han to George Washington abandoning his troops to rescue Martha during the Revolutionary War.
Michael: Did that happen? You're the only one that would know. |
- Wild Mass Guessing: Michael forces Soren and Dan to do this at the beginning of the Star Wars episode.
Dan: The logistics of warp speed. |
- The Woobie: One of Katie's alternate character interpretations for Bowser. Challenged by Michael.
Katie: So he loves her, but he just doesn't know how to express it! He's like a very competent Lenny from Of Mice and Men. |
- Yaoi Fan: Soren of all people, but when Dan brings up Ferris Bueller's Day Off and Michael says he "would be Sloan", Soren imagines Cameron about to make-out with Swaim.
- Zombie Apocalypse: Soren's preferred doomsday scenario.
Soren: It's simple. They're just an easily defeated opponent. They're a worse version of normal people. |