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Creator / Goobsmooch

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"Do you have any idea how many Shell gas stations could fit inside this thing?"

Goobsmooch is a web cartoonist, voice actor, and musician primarily on TikTok who posts surrealist skits accompanied by hand-drawn illustrations of warped and wacky weirdos. Said skits are full of Black Comedy, constant amounts of violence, and flat out bizarre situations which wouldn’t be too out-of-place on an Adult Swim show.

He also sometimes makes songs and posts relating to his band, Cheerleader Roadkill, often sponsoring it through his skits and/or other things not related to said skits.

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Hey Troper! Goob has some tropes for us!
  • Abduction Is Love: Downplayed in a familial sense as "Ralphie" intentionally disguised himself as his dead pit bull to be taken in and cared for by a trailer park woman. Leaving with a valuable treasure after two years of posing as a pet, he reciprocates his heartbroken "owner's" love for him as he leaves to win back his first family's favor.
    Lady: I love you, Ralphie…
    Ralphie: I love you too, mommy.
  • AcCENT upon the Wrong SylLABle: In The incident, one of Jessica's friends pronounces the company Boeing (/ˈbowΙͺΕ‹/) as "Boieng" (/bΙ”ΙͺΕ‹/).
  • Acquired Poison Immunity: In JoJo tries a new sandwich, JoJo's reason for eating a peanut butter sandwich despite his allergy to it was "to challenge [his] immune system". Averted as he needed his EpiPen.
  • Adolf Hitlarious: Movie came 73 years too late πŸ˜”πŸ‘ Image
     sees Joseph Goebbels informing Adolf Hitler that a shipment of Zyklon B has arrived, only to be told to shut up as the FΓΌhrer is invested in watching 22 Jump Street.
    Hitler: AHAHAHAHAHA DAS NAME IS JEFF!
  • The Alcoholic: Along with smoking, alcohol is a common vice for the Revolving Door Casting.
    • A Deranged Park Ranger in Sweltering Hell Crevice National Park advises packing as many cans of Monster Energy and hard liquor as you can, since "water is for pussies".
    • A son has to deal with his Alcoholic Mom in Oh Schnapp! While Phillips brand Peach Schnapps may have led her to Microwave the Dog, the Lady Drunk still has the wit to sell oregano to teenagers to fund a trip to Disneyland.
    • In Working Man, two men died at the plant due to their alcoholism. The first, inebriated by a fifth of whiskey, fell into a hydraulic press, and naturally Johnson was drawn to a whiff of liquor, only to slip on the gore and burn alive after his cigarette lit the whiskey on fire. As a manager and his wife recall, the incident was strikingly similar to one Noodle Incident that happened last Fourth of July barbeque.
  • Alliterative Family: Two of the few recurring characters are the free-ranged brothers Rufus and Remi.
  • Anachronism Stew: Done intentionally in a skit which features Adolf Hitler (1889–1945) laughing like an idiot at 21 Jump Street (2012). This is acknowledged in the video description, stating "Movie came 73 years too late πŸ˜”".πŸ›ˆIn an unintended error however, the "My name is Jeff" line Hitler adores is from the sequel 22 Jump Street (2014), which came out 75 years after World War II started.
  • Animal Disguise: In one of (if not the) longest of Goobsmooch's videosπŸ‘ Image
    , a man had the family dog taxidermized after it drowned in the septic tank, but his family didn't appreciate the gesture. After they leave him for a Disney cruise, he wears the dog's skin to pose as a stray to be taken in by a white woman who loves pit bulls and fast food, subsequently living as "Ralphie" for two years until he runs off with Queen Elizabeth's liver to win back his estranged family's love.
  • Animated Adaptation: Several of Goobsmooch's drawings have been animated by his friends and collaborators in the kooky, such as The Magma Muncher.
  • Anyone Remember Pogs?: One spectator of Super Bowl LIX states he only watches for the Super Bowl Specials, fondly reminiscing Mountain Dew's PuppyMonkeyBaby from Super Bowl 50 as the most enthralling "marketing based cinema" he had seen in almost a decade.
  • Apathetic Teacher:
    • Zig-Zagged with the principal in JoJo ties a new sandwich. He is concerned when JoJo receives an EpiPen shot in his brain causing his head to merely split open, and suggests he goes home to recover, but doesn't go out of his way to help him.
      Principal: You look like shit, JoJo; go home.
      JoJo: I don't remember my mom's phone number…
      Principal: THEN I GUESS YOU'RE STAYING AT SCHOOL, NUMB NUTS!
    • In UN Summer Camp, Mrs. Williams sends Gareth to the principal's office after firing a handgun through Theodore's neck, not finding murder a serious escalation of Gareth "picking on Theodore all week". While the principal does lash out at Gareth for five deaths at the school, his concern isn't for the loss of life but the superintendent getting up his ass for the cost of janitors cleaning up the murder scenes.
  • Appearance Angst: Played for Laughs in Daily Routine, as The Protagonist ends his days standing naked in front of his mirror for hours, shamefully reminding himself he will never look like either Rocky or Bullwinkle.
  • An Arm and a Leg: In Rootin' Tootin' Justice, little orphan Clancy is brought in to identify a prisoner as the man who murdered his ma and pa. Clancy confirms it's "half the man who killed 'em", only that "some misfortune befell upon him since the murder" as he is inexplicably missing all his limbs. Not even that they were severed, just gone, as he's left with a smooth, bean-shaped body with nothing but his nipples and navel.
  • Armed with Pepper Spray: The mailbox hobo sprays the teenager trying to get him out of his mailbox in the eyes, who rightly questions how a homeless person acquired such a weapon.
    Teen: OH! CAN FOOD STAMPS BUY PEPPER SPRAY NOW!? I DIDN'T GET THE MEMO!
  • Artistic License – Biology: Needless to say, a person (let alone a child) could not survive having their head split vertically down to the neck, nor are there any muscles what would involuntarily cause such from an adrenaline overdose.
  • Artistic License – Chemistry: Wrong applications of EpiPens wouldn't cause your head to rip open, whether or not you somehow managed to inject it through the skull and into the brain.
  • Artistic License – Law:
    • Chester's Misadventures: A Comic Tale of Survival: Even if Objectshifting someone into a traffic cone was possible, removing a person's bodily autonomy and placing them in a position of vehicular danger for any period of time, let alone thirty-eight years, would certainly count as cruel and unusual punishment, and an infringement of a prisoner's (remaining) civil rights, per the Eighth Amendment.
    • Getting Off Early: In the United States, Death Row inmates are also allowed under the Eighth Amendment to contest their planned methods of execution on grounds of whether it is inhumane or not, and can propose alternatives if scientific studies or religious decrees can substantiate their argument to higher courts. While six years is towards the shorter end of drawling legal proceedings considering how long Americans wait on Death Row, death by condensed milk is likely not something the justices would allow... assuming that means lethal injection of condensed milk, as execution by drowning or other (non-hanging or gaseous) asphyxiation has never been legal in the country.
  • Ashes to Crashes: The secret ingredient Ralphie's owner uses when feeding the pit bull is a spoonful of a three-year-old's ashes.
  • Attack Drone: Amazon Napalm shows Amazon drones equipped with flamethrowers torching every postal worker in the country.
  • Awful Wedded Life: The unseen mother in Follow Your Dreams' is planning to take her two sons and divorce her husband who quit his job in blind pursuit of a hopeless career as a puppeteer.
    Son #2: Dad, I didn't want to tell you this but mom's gonna divorce you. She got a business card from her friend Margret from work, she was married to a Beanie Baby hoarder; you're fucked dad, you're totally boned. If you don't change your shit right now, you're done for.
    Joe: (through his sock puppet) That fat skank could kill me in my sleep for all I care!
  • Axes at School:
    • Shooting ShenanigansπŸ‘ Image
       sees two useless cops (barely) responding to the scene of an Uvalde-esque school shooting.
    • UN Summer CampπŸ‘ Image
       sees a kid named Gareth shooting a nerd through the neck after reminding their teacher of homework. The principal blames Gareth for the deaths of four other student in two prior incidents, but Gareth insists that "the recent outbreak of wild west shootouts" has nothing to do with him or mercing Theodore.
  • Bait-and-Switch:
    • I forgot about this account ngl: When Scoobydick McChiggins tells the clerk at Hobby Lobby his favorite movie is Schindler's List, an uncomfortable silence ensues before the clerk tells him that's not funny. Scooby starts to panic over his Fee Fi Faux Pas only for the clerk to switch on him and they share a laugh into a coughing fit.
      "I'm fuckin' with ya, boy! This is Hobby Lobby!"
    • Taking a Dip: The sour-faced guy who finds a trespasser in his jacuzzi doesn't appear thrilled by his plans to marinate in NyQuil, only to praise the idea and join him in the pool of cold medicine.
    • Shooting Shenanigans!: The blood puddles, spent bullets, and ongoing gunfire should've clued the two police officers on what was going on in the elementary school. Alas, their Delayed "Oh, Crap!" was for realizing they could use the wet blood-coated tile floor as a slip-and-slide.
    • Taking in a Stray: Starts with this exchange...
      Bradley: Oh, Martha! You know how you're always saying we should get a puppy?
      Martha: Oh, Bradley! You didn't!
      Bradley: You're goddamn right I didn't!
      Feral gnome: (hisses)
  • Baldness Angst: This skitπŸ‘ Image
    sees a man shaming another for his "revolting beluga scalp" at his uncle Randy's funeral.
  • Big Eater: Sharing is Caring: One friend questions the other on his ability to finish a whole cactus. The second friend begins deepthroating the plant from the bottom as the first cries over how he never shares his food with him.
  • Black Comedy: It's a staple of his sketches.
    • Gaza Strip Shenanigans! sees a Palestinian shut-in finding out five months into the Gaza genocide that Israel has been mercilessly bombing civilians in what is much more than "a ruckus outside".
      Palestinian #2: The entire neighborhood is in pieces! You could have friends or loved ones that have died a miserable death, and you had no knowledge of any of this???
      Palestinian #1: Yeah, I just been so busy, man.
    • Lines are crossed several times in the video with Raphie the pit bull. His owner feeds him a can of creamed chipped beef mixed with her toddler's ashes (shredding her hand off in the process); and rewards him when he shoots a UPS man dead with a pistol, obvious having protected her. The "special treat" the mailman delivered turns out to be Queen Elizabeth II's liver which she acquired due to her influence as a Tier 7 Scientologist, upon which Ralphie steals the prized liver, revealing himself to have been a grown man wearing the taxidermized skin of his estranged family's dog after it drowned in their septic tank, and leaves to pawn the royal organ off to buy a new Corvette to win back his family's love after two years of no contact, much to his owner's betrayal.
    • Less than a week after Donald Trump survived an assassination attempt, Goobsmooch parodied the former president's near-death experience. Giving him less common sense than he had during the shooting, Trump ignores and mocks the Secret Service member trying to bring him to safety, and then mocking the assassin Crooks' corpse.
      Trump: I swear to God if this dweebazoid glowie fedboy doesn't stop yapping what's left of my ear of, I'm gonna start shooting.
  • Black Comedy Animal Cruelty: One skit (itself about a mother arguing with her daughter about killing a two-headed rabbit) mentions a pastor that killed a boy's dog on Thanksgiving all for the fact it was a schnauzer (a German breed) during one of the World Wars.
    Martha's mama: That was during wartime, Martha! He had every right to put down that Kraut bastard dog!
  • Blood from the Mouth: The terminally-ill Justin in The Ick dies after violently coughing up blood onto himself. His narcissistic girlfriend takes his death throes as him pleading for her not to leave him and tells him to stop.
  • Bloody Hilarious: Most of the exaggerated and rapid violence on his videos are played for the sake of humor.
  • Boom, Headshot!:
  • Bully Bulldog: Despite his bumblebee costume, Ralphie the pit bull leaves everyone but his owner to Beware of Vicious Dog. The Reveal shows that "Ralphie" is actually an Ax-Crazy man playing up the Dog Stereotypes in his pit bull disguise.
  • Bumbling Dad: Played for Drama (and Laughs, of course) in Follow You Dream. Puppet Joe determines to Pursue the Dream Job despite constant failure and no longer being able to provide for his family, who are forced to survive with no running water, gas station wi-fi, and leftovers from Outback Steakhouse.
  • Buy Them Off: The incident: Jessica's mother bought her a new outfit, ostensibly due to having shame over her husband's latest escapade.
    Jessica: Thaaanks! My mom bought it for me after daddy got chlamydia from an Albanian prostitute.
    Valley Girl #2: SLAY!
  • Calling the Old Man Out:
    • In Divorce, the son expresses satisfaction that his mother his leaving his father, and makes clear why he doesn't believe a word when he blames her for the Awful Wedded Life.
      Dad: It's your mom's fault.
      Son: Oh, really? Why is that?
      Dad: (Beat) She orders too many Amazon packages.
      Son: You used your joint bank account to spend $3,000 dollars on Clash of Clans!
      Dad: (Beat) …Gems are expensive.
      Son: (Facepalms) You suck, dad, you suck so hard.
      Dad: Hey, y'know what? You're just a kid; what do you know about anything?
      Son: I know that bringing your twenty-eight-year-old coworker home for dinner without even calling ahead is a bad idea.
      Dad: Do you think she got the hint? I bought like thirty pineapples and placed them upside down in like every room.
    • In Follow Your Dreams, two sons lose their patience trying to convince their father to get his job at PetCo back after he quit to Pursue the Dream Job of a puppeteer to complete failure, bringing their family into poverty and towards divorce. Like the father in Divorce, "Puppet Joe" is just as unrepentant for what he has done and hateful towards his soon-to-be ex-wife.
  • Catchphrase: Brothers Rufus and Remi share one, their appearances often marked by one calling out to the other with a "Hey Rufus!"/"Hey Remi!"
  • Cephalothorax: Several characters that are shown in full portrait have no torsos, instead being waddling heads with legs and sometimes arms.
  • Chest Burster: In Public Service AnnoucementπŸ‘ Image
    , Rufus and Remi witness a rat burst from the stomach of a dead body they found.
  • Child Soldiers: After the School Shooting deaths of five of his peers on three separate occasions, Gareth is enlisted as a United Nation peacekeeper. Cut to four months later, he's on the battlefield (presumably in the Levant), telling the viewer that, while he was initially scared at the prospect of getting in gunfights with adults, he's mostly just been shooting at other children.
  • Class-Based Insult: In the video Mailbox HoboπŸ‘ Image
    , a teenager confronts the eponymous homeless man living in his family's mailbox. Bizarrely, the hobo is the one who issues an insult, calling the boy a "housie" for living in a house.
  • Companion Cube:
  • Conjoined Twins: One skit sees a young country girl named Martha who finds a two-headed rabbit and protects it from her abusive mother.
    Martha: But mama! I already named him Rufus and read him his horoscope; he's a Pisces, mama, he's a Pisces!
  • Consulting Mister Puppet: Puppet Joe refuses to speak directly to his sons, instead speaking vicariously through his sock Hand Puppet in a pitched clowny voice.
  • Cool Teacher: Inverted with the somber and droll math teacher in JoJo tries a new sandwich, Mr. Binks. When he catches two of his students talking during his boring lesson on the icosidodecahedron, they lie and tell him they were discussing how he's the trope Played Straight.
  • Coordinated Clothes: Parodied in American Gnome Story. When the homeowner notices the gnome is wearing a jersey numbered "81", he angrily asks if that means there is at least eighty other numbered gnomes infesting his house. The gnome clarifies that not the case and he's wearing a replica of Aaron HernandezπŸ‘ Image
    's jersey, leaving the human uncomfortable with the fact he remains a fan of the New England Patriots' tight end turned murderer.
  • Crappy Holidays: Implied when Rufus enthusiastically likens poking a dead body by the creek to "Christmas but without the crying".
  • Cruel Mercy:
    • Discussed by the homeowner in American Gnome Story to his gnome captive. When the gnome refuses to sell out the location of his colony, the human threatens to rip off all his limbs without killing him like he plans for the others, sparing his life for a Fate Worse than Death as a "living football". The gnome caves.
    • A similar special-needs situation occurs in Rootin' Tootin' Justice when young Clancy confronts the bandit that killed his ma and pa, inexplicably missing all his arms and legs and pleading for the sheriff to hang him for his crimes. The savvy boy backtracks on confirming him as his parents' killer, forcing him to live as a quadriplegic.
  • Cruel Twist Ending: One skit ends with a woman finding out that her beloved pit bull has actually been a grown man disguised as a pit bull that has been mooching off her for the last two years; but her only concern when he leaves with a valuable item she gave him as a treat is that she won't have her fur baby anymore.
  • Currency Cuisine: A Blatant Burglar in An Act of Kindness returns a quarter to a mentally and physically deficient kid, who simply swallows the coin.
  • Deadly Euphemism: The boss from Getting Off Early provides crass ones for three of the most iconic methods of execution. The electric chair is "Ol' Sparky",πŸ›ˆ "Old SparkyπŸ‘ Image
    " is in fact a name that has been given to at least fourteen electric chairs across the United States in its history.     hanging is "early Christmas ornament", and lethal injection is "God's sleepy needle".
  • Dead to Begin With: Greg from Child Protective Services had been dead and festering on the floor of Rufus and Remi's house by the time their uncle Gumbo checks in on them.
  • Deal with the Devil: In The Scouts: Part 3, a tortured soul wading in an Underworld River offers the boy scouts the trick to evading eternal suffering in exchange for one of their cigarettes. This deal doesn't go through as the demon just screams in one of the boys’ ears until their scoutmaster shoots the demon in the head.
    Scoutmaster Toby: Now, now, kids; what did I tell you about talking to the Mormons?
  • Death of a Child:
    • Timmy (2006 – 2009).
    • UN Summer Camp starts with Gareth shooting one of his classmates through the neck. As the skit continues, Gareth appears to have been involved in four other deaths previously, and even more frighting Child Soldiers on the battlefield.
  • Deranged Park Ranger: Goobsmooch's video he made in GΜΆrΜΆaΜΆnΜΆdΜΆ CΜΆaΜΆnΜΆyΜΆoΜΆnΜΆ Sweltering Hell Crevice National Park features a fair handful of them doodled on his pocket map, each with their own tip and tricks for visitors.
  • Disproportionate Retribution:
    • In their debutπŸ‘ Image
      , the two idiot cops respond to a Domestic Abuse call, with one of them shooting the abusive husband in the back of the head; not because his wife was unconscious or dead on the floor, but because he lied when he said he didn't have a dog.
    • Fortunately, they didn't go through with it, but Rufus demanded a store clerk's head on a plate because the store him and his brother were robbing didn't have Chef Boyardee's; only SpaghettiOs.
    • When Rufus and Remi receive a letter from their mom in women's prison, her writings show that her boys take after her and she's behind bars for a reason.
      Remi: The other day, another convict was bragging about how her kid won the science fair, so I started bragging about how you guys dug a whole bicycle out of the creek with a magnet, and she called me a "hick", so I stabbed her.
      Rufus: I miss that woman.
  • Distracted by the Luxury:
    • Jessica the Valley Girl from The incident got a new dress from her mother to distract her from the fact her father contracted chlamydia from an Albanian prostitute.
    • Per Antiquing, Jason's grandmother has an "insatiable lust for jewels". While Jason discourages his friend from considering getting her a 19th-century amethyst broach, he appreciates the thoughtfulness.
  • Domestic Abuse:
    • One skit sees the police responding to a domestic dispute; however, the two responding officers are morons who respectively think "domestic abuse" means hitting dogs and a topping at the Applebee's salad bar.
      Police officer #1: (looking a woman face down in a pool of blood) Haha! Your wife sure does like the floor!
      Abusive husband: Yeah, she's a real… "floor fanatic".
    • The Super Bowl skit has at one point a despondent guy that is in a relationship with a Swiftie who would beat him on a whim of things outside his control, such as whether or not Travis Kelce and his team win against the Eagles.
  • Double Standard: Abuse, Female on Male: One withdrawn guy from Super Bowly fifty somethingπŸ‘ Image
    states the only reason he wants the Kansas City Chiefs (including Taylor Swift's boyfriend, Travis Kelce) to win because his Swiftie girlfriend will beat him again if they don't.
  • Enfant Terrible: In their first appearance, either Rufus or Remi killed a CPS worker that came their house. Subsequent appearances show that β€” whether they are poking dead bodies or threatening store clerks in robberies β€” they have some understanding of death, but none of the empathy expected of such cheerful children.
  • Evil Uncle: Subverted in Uncle Gumbo. Despite breaking out of prison and barging into his young nephews' home bloodied and seeking refuge, he turns out to be the Straight Man as he shows concern for Rufus and Remi when he finds out their parents are missing, and then a new concern for his own safety when they show him the body of a CPS worker they killed.
  • Extreme Omnivore:
    • A man in Sharing is Caring uproots an entire cactus to eat it from the bottom up.
    • The hobo living in a mailbox snoops through and eats the mail of the family he's inconvenienced. Letters from teenage Bedouin nomads are fine, but oriental trading catalogues have too strong of a sweatshop flavor for him.
  • Fantastic Slurs: In Mailbox Hobo, the titular hobo squatting in a family's mailbox calls the boy trying to get him out of it a "housie", disparaging him for living in a house to the boy's confusion and frustration.
  • Farmer's Daughter: Parodied in Love Knows No Bounds, as the childless farmer Phillips is confused by a young man asking for his scarecrow's hand in marriage.
  • Fire-Breathing Weapon:
    • Amazon Napalm: Amazon begins sending out drones of theirs affixed with flamethrower set out on incinerating every mailman they can find.
      Father: It's those pesky Amazon drones again. They won't stop until every postal worker on both sides of the Mississippi is balled up on the ground like a burnt marshmallow.
    • Mailbox Hobo: The teenager exterminates the hobo in his mailbox using a super soaker full of gasoline.
      Teen: If politicians aren't gonna do anything about you, I will.
  • Fired Teacher: Mrs. Walters gets fired for misapplication of an EpiPen on one of her students having an anaphylactic reaction to peanut butter.
    Principal: You're so fired, Margaret, you fucking idiot.
  • Free-Range Children: Rufus and Remi are free to roam and do what they want. Justified as their Missing Mom is in prison, their Disappeared Dad is possibly dead, and they shot the CPS worker that came to their house.
  • From Stray to Pet:
    • Ralphie the pit bull was taken in as a stray by his owner, as the man wearing the Animal Disguise expected "some white woman that liked a lot of fast food" would do so and provide him a chance to earn back his family's favor.
    • As the title of Taking in a Stray implies, Bradley finds a stray pet for him and his partner Martha. Not a dog or cat, but a feral gnome he found eating roadkill. The ownership of the ill-mannered forest creature does not last long once he deflates at the veterinarian's clinic.
  • From the Mouths of Babes:
    • Most of the videos involving a child character will be bound to have this trope pop up, with said child often saying something that would be considered horrific in real life.
    • Rufus and Remi are full of this trope, saying things are "like Christmas but without the crying" or describe the mess of a Boom, Headshot! as "a Jackson Pollock painting". They don't seem to get the "what's the difference between a gagged mouth and a commie journalist?" joke they read in a Playboy.
  • The Ghost:
    • There's no telling what happened to Rufus and Remi's Disappeared Dad, and their Missing Mom has only ever been heard of through a letter from prison.
    • Regina isn't seen in Love at First Sight, but her boyfriend gushing about Love at First Sight of her to a Panera Bread worker makes up the skit.
  • Gory Discretion Shot: The gore isn't always shown, only heard.
    • Aside from the police officer who gets his skull smashed in with a bowling ball, the other victims of the man throwing bowling balls onto the highway aren't seen. The sounds of scraping metal, screeching tires, and parental screaming about excessive child mutilation leaves much to the imagination.
    • In We're Costco Guys, A.J. Befumo has a Suspiciously Specific Denial of him and his son being responsible for someone being bleeding out on a forklift in the parking lot. His assuring smile is not helped by the distant screams of an ostensibly impaled man.
  • Great Escape: Uncle Gumbo escapes from prison and goes to his brother (in-law?)/sister (in-law?)'s house to lay low there. Once there, Uncle Gumbo is shocked to finds his two nephews Parentally Abandoned, with the only "adult" being the corpse of a CPS worker they killed with a gun from his brother (in-law?)'s unlocked safe.
    Uncle Gumbo: Uncle Gumbo's starting to think this isn't the best place to hide.
  • Gross-Up Close-Up: There are a few examples, such as of the rat that burst from the creek carcass or the two-headed rabbit Martha rescued.
  • The Grotesque: An Act of Kindness features a Blatant Burglar attempting to mug a kid that is deformed even by the artist's standard. The criminal inquires on why the kid's hand is so mangled, to which he explains he put it in a hydraulic press; the robber returns the kid's quarter, surmising that he needs it more than he does.
  • Heist Episode: You guys seem to really like these little scampsπŸ‘ Image
     sees Rufus and Remi rob a Stuff-Mart to replenish their fridge with Chef Boyardee's.
    Remi: Make it snappy, beefcake! I'd hate to turn that cigarette display behind you into a Jackson Pollock painting!
  • Hidden Depths: From how Regina (or "Star" as she goes by) is described by her boyfriend, she is a crass concertgoer who defecates in urinals, throws herself to the floor at the sound of loose change, and may or may not start fires. Beyond that, she has an interest in animals (PokΓ©mon and Tamagotchis) and she is an aspiring nurse, taking classes for it.
  • Homemade Flamethrower: Tired of the hobo squatting in his mailbox and eating his letters from his Bedouin nomad girlfriend, the teenager in Mailbox Hobo burns the pest alive after filling a super soaker full of gasoline.
  • Human Notepad: Parodied in An Act of Kindness. The deformed kid explains he lost all his assets due to β€” while looking at the back of his mangled hand with the words "biometric catfish breeding" written on it β€” carpal tunnel syndrome.
  • Hypocrite Has a Point: One of the police officers condemning the appearance of a school littered with blood and bullet casings is right to question where the country's taxes go to; the majority of US taxes goes to the over-militarized armed forces and law enforcement, leaving thousands of schools underfunded.
  • I Am a Humanitarian: With the revelation that Ralphie the pit bull is actually a man in an Animal Disguise, "Ralphie" is a cannibal not only by eating dog food and chipped beef laced with toddler ashes, but by mauling off the hand of the woman that feeds him.
  • Ignored Epiphany: The Bumbling Dad in Boy Genius tells his Child Prodigy he's trying to curb his intelligence because he feels emasculated by his subversion of the Loser Son of Loser Dad trope. His son lovingly tells him of his value and that he and his mom love him regardless of him being a retail worker that never went to college, which touches his father… until he realizes he went against him and said something emotionally intelligent.
    Dad: You just made a grown man cry, son, that's β€” that's some smart-ass shit; you're grounded!
  • Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: Implied by the screams when A.J. Befumo explains that he and his son have nothing to a guy being impaled on a forklift in the Costco Wholesale parking lot.
  • Intimate Marks: Regina (or "Star", as she goes by) has a Pikachu tramp stamp.
  • The Jeeves: The butler in this skitπŸ‘ Image
    is apply named this (it’s even written on his doghouse).
  • Jobless Parent Drama: Follow You Dream. Puppet Joe determines to Pursue the Dream Job of being a puppeteer despite constant failure and no longer being able to provide for his family, who are forced to survive with no running water, gas station wi-fi, and leftovers from Outback Steakhouse. Joe refuses his sons' encouragement to turn his life around, not caring about them or his wife looking into a divorce.
  • Justified Criminal: Puppet Joe and his family are forced to steal takeout from Outback Steakhouse to survive, with one of his sons noting that three-out-of-four times its just been Bloomin' Onions.
  • The Law of Conservation of Detail: Due to the simple art style, the gnome in American Gnome Story appears at first glance to simply be wearing a shirt numbered "81". With the lack of any further details such as patches or distinct fonts, it takes the gnome's dialogue to deliver the punchline that its an Aaron Hernandez jersey.
  • Literal Metaphor: When Ralphie's owner fed him, the pit bull Ate It All, including her hand holding the bowl; taking the proverb "to bite the hand that feeds you" literally.
  • Long-Distance Relationship: The teenager in Mailbox Hobo is in one with his girlfriend, who is a Bedouin nomad whose tribe is trekking through the deserts of northern Africa towards Casablanca.
  • Looped Lyrics: Downplayed in America's Got Talent!πŸ‘ Image
    . The lyrics to seven-year-old Tommy's short song about the Mother Earth is largely repetitive, but does have some slight differences between the first and second stanzas.
  • Loser Son of Loser Dad: Subverted in Boy Genius. A redneck father is trying to sabotage his Child Prodigy of son as he has an Inferiority Superiority Complex and feels intimidated that his son could be seen as more productive to society than himself.
  • Love at First Sight: The subject of a skit of the same name, starting of with a believer asking a random Panera Bread worker if he does as well, before regaling him how he first met "Star" at a rave.
    "I saw her Pikachu tramp stamp when she was popping a squat at the urinal, and I knew she was the one!"
  • Made of Iron: In JoJo tries a new sandwich, the titular child survives his head splitting open down the middle from an EpiPen shot to his brain.
  • Manchurian Agent: "We're Costco Guys! It's only a matter of time before someone activates us as MK Ultra sleeper cells!"
  • Microwave Misuse:
    • A couple of frat bros in College Students plan to microwave a football, and it sounds totally nelk as fuck.
    • How the son in Oh Schnapp! realizes his Alcoholic Parent has gotten into the Peach Schnapps again, because "[he] know[s] a microwaved chihuahua when [he] see[s] one."
  • New Year's Resolution:
    "2024 is gonna be my year! No more watching women with binoculars for ol' Scoobydick McChiggins! I'm a new man!"
  • NO INDOOR VOICE: Goobsmooch writes the lines of his characters in all capital letters, writing bigger or in bold to represent the tone of yelling or other inflections.
  • Noodle Incident:
    • According to the wise guy in Love at First Sight, Regina was using the men's restroom because the women's was on fire. He does not elaborate.
    • The hydraulic press/alcohol fire incident that killed two in Working Man, by the recollection of The Protagonist and his Trophy Wife, is compared to a Noodle Incident from their last 4th of July barbeque, only with "less bugs".
  • No Title: Most of the videos posted to Goobsmooch's TikTok don't have a proper title, as the post description serves as titles on the site. Some are what you could consider usable as a title, but others are just commentary from the creator.
  • Obsessive Sports Fan:
    • The gnome in American Gnome story turns out to be a fan of the late and controversial Aaron Hernandez of the New England Patriots. When questioned on his opinion of Hernandez β€” a potential serial killer who was acquitted for a double murder and committed suicide while awaiting trial for a third β€” he defensively says to "separate the art from the artist, brother."
    • Zig-Zagged in Super Bowly fifty something.
      • It's unclear if the first interviewee cares for the sports itself, as his interest is in the celebratory destruction the Philadelphia Eagles fans will unleash on Philadelphia should their team win.
      • Subverted with the Swiftie's abused boyfriend, but implied with the Swiftie herself due to Travis Kelce's association with Taylor and the fact she's beat her boyfriend over the Kansas City Chiefs' loss.
      • Subverted again with the guy who only watches the Super Bowl for the advertisements.
      • Played Straight with the uneducated Eagles fan who wishes to rub their victory in his fat fuck cousin Marvin's fat fuckin' face for daring to go to college, and comes back latter to shoot a level-headed Chiefs fan through the skull.
      • Inverted by the guy who shows contempt for "sports ball", leaving it for the fans while he busies himself with licking the rust off lampposts.
      • Played Straight with the shirtless father who shamelessly declares that's he's bet his daughter's college fund on the coin toss and the color of the Gatorade Drench Celebration.
      • The last guy seems pretty rational, calmly explaining his faith in the Chiefs' recent performance, namely Patrick Mahomes and how he... oh never mind, his brains were blown out.
  • Older Is Better: Parodied in The Generational Gap, which sees an old man admonish his grandson over the current youth activities while reminiscing on the violent and destructive thing his gang did as kids.
    Grandson: Grandpa, your youth sounds problematic
    Grandpa: (holding rope and baseball bat for "the human piΓ±ata") You're damn right, amigo.
  • One-Steve Limit: The name Rufus was used for a two-headed rabbit in one skit before Goobsmooch reused it for a recurring child character.
  • Our Gnomes Are Weirder:
    • American Gnome Story establishes gnomes as Fantastic Vermin akin to rats, being diminutive communal-living pests that can chew through metal and steal food from pantries. The one that gets caught in a Glassy Prison shows that they are sapient, capable of speech, backpedalling morals, and obsession with sports
    • Taking in a Stray sees Bradley present his girlfriend Martha with a feral gnome he found gnawing on an armadillo carcass; unlike her boyfriend, Martha is not endeared by his palpitating and puffing. Bradley's ownership of the mythical forest creature is short lived as, when taking him to the vet to get vaccinated, the first syringe punctures the gnome and he deflates like a basketball.
  • Parody:
  • The Peeping Tom: For his 2024 New Year's Resolution, Scoobydick McChiggins resolves to stop watching women with binoculars.
  • Please, Don't Leave Me:
    • Parodied in The Ick. The Valley Girlfriend rejects her now ex-boyfriend's "pleading", which in actuality him Coughing Up Blood and dying. There's no semblance of the How Dare You Die on Me! trope, as she's only crying for herself as he Flatlines.
    • Played Straight when the pit bull owner pleads for "Ralphie", who turns out to have been a grown man wearing his pit bull's taxidermized body for the last two years, not to leave her to pawn off Queen Elizabeth's liver and return to his old family.
  • Police Are Useless: Two recurring characters are a pair of uneducated oafish police officers who are affectionate Expies of Beavis and Butt-Head. In their debut, one concludes that a woman lying possibly dead "[likes] the floor".
    • Shooting Shenanigans! lambasts the Real Life example of the Uvalde school shootingπŸ‘ Image
      , infamous for the police "response" that for over an hour refused to engage an active shooter as he murdered 21 until US border patrol arrived and killed him. The Uvalde Police Department is portrayed using those two, who ingeniously use the children's pools of blood as a slip-and-slide.
      Distraught mother: It's been 45 minutes, and we can still hear shots being fired! My kids are in that school!
      Police officer #2: Ma'am, we're literally in the middle of playing Donkey Kong Barrel Blast; can you wait, like, two fucking seconds?
    • Another skit has an unrelated police officer responding to a lunatic throwing bowling balls off a freeway overpass into traffic. The officer tells him at gunpoint to drop the bowling ball, only for the guy to comply and throw the ball in his face, mangling his face and critically injuring him.
  • Police Brutality: One of the cops in their debut shoots an abusive husband in the back of the head because he lied about having a dog and not because he and his partner connected the dots that his wife was beaten unconscious or to death.
    • In the idiot cops' return in Shooting Shenanigans!, the same officer states that the civilians' tax dollars go to "the beanbag chairs in the breakroom and the lawyer for Johnson when he kicked a sixteen-year-old in the tum-tum."
  • Propaganda Machine: In Daily Routine, the protagonists starts his day watching three hours minimum of United States propaganda; "army recruitment videos, Amazon commercials, stuff like that."
  • Pursue the Dream Job: Deconstructed when a man who quit his job at PetCo to perform as a puppeteer in Follow Your Dreams. Puppet Joe is in complete denial of his failure in this, as he only got a hired one and just uploads clips to TikTok as his family lives in poverty and plans to leave him.
    Joe: (through his sock puppet) But don't you want your dad to follow his dreams?
    Son #1: No. I want running water in our house again.
  • A Rare Sentence: There's a fair amount of bizarre and brand new sentences.
    • We're Costco Guys starts off with "We're Costco guys! Of course we eat live Chilean sea bass as they wriggle in our hands praying for the sweet release of death!", and Costco has more to come from.
    • "Here, you can have this oriental trading catalogue, it tastes too much like sweatshop tears."
    • "That gas station hotspot you use to post your puppet TikToks gave my phone a virus that filled my camera roll with eight thousand fucking pictures of pregnant women on ziplines."
  • "The Reason You Suck" Speech: Often as part of Calling the Old Man Out.
    • Divorce: A father breaks the news to his son that him and his mom are getting a divorce, to which the son responds that that's good because he's terrible at being married and β€” between blowing their money on Clash of Clans Microtransactions and pineapples to signal his coworker he wants to have sex with her β€” it's not his mom's fault like he wants him to believe.
    • Follow Your Dreams: Failed puppeteer Puppet Joe gets confronted by his sons to get his job at PetCo back and provide for their family, one of them snapping at his refusal to be a responsible adult.
      Joe: No more scooping lizard shit for Puppet Joe!
      Son #1: Puppet Joe is a fucking fraud! You got one gig at a six-year-old's birthday party, and you cried for twenty minutes just to walk onstage and throw up on a kid in a wheelchair!
      Joe: Puppet Joe was awfully noivous!
  • Resurrection/Death Loop: In We're Costco Guys, Eric "Big Justice" Befumo states that him and his father have lived 827 lives of suffering, and their Rotten Reincarnation cycle that is partaking in the Costco brand can only end once they reach a state of enlightenment.
  • Revolving Door Casting: Most of the characters that appear in Goobsmooch's skits are one-off No Names, but there are a few who are named and even return.
    • One of the first characters to make a reappearance are a pair of unnamed police officers. They were first seen responding to a Domestic Abuse call, and returned in another skit that was a big Take That! towards the Uvalde Police Department that made the 2022 Robb Elementary school shooting worse.
    • Rufus and his brother Remi are his most recurring characters as of recent, showing more in the lives of their dysfunctional family absent of their imprisoned and/or dead parents.
    • Scoutmaster Toby and his boy scouts whom he neglects and verbally abuses in their camping trip through the Fire and Brimstone Hell.
    • The Bungus Boys often appeared in older skits where they're the aforementioned characters of, often getting into various shenanigans in the town of Microwave. However, they haven't appeared as much in recent skits.
  • Scary Scarecrow: Inverted in Love Knows No Bounds, where a young man falls in love with a scarecrow he perceives as a Farmer's Daughter, much to the farmer's confusion.
    Lover boy: Your daughter, Charlotte. Adorned in flannel with hair that shines like gold. You attempt to guard her with a wall or corn and soybeans, but I've never faltered in my quest.
  • Scout-Out: Scoutmaster Toby and his boy scouts.
  • Secret Government Warehouse: Played for Laughs in Government Cheese Spelunking, which follows a Tunnel King digging in search of the US government's cheese caves (referring to the real cheese warehouses located in Springfield, Missouri maintained by the Department of Agriculture).
  • Shout-Out:
  • The Shut-In: Played For Black Comedy in one video, with the shut-in being a Palestinian first finding out about the Israeli destruction of Gaza five months into the Israel-Hamas War.
  • Skewed Priorities:
    • Some police officers would rather sit in the break room and play Donkey Kong Barrel Blast than do their jobs and respond to an active school shooting.
    • Donald Trump would rather finish a speech accusing Joe Biden of planning to "replace all the dogs with chihuahuas" than cooperating with the Secret Service to take cover against his attempted assassin (because "[he looks] pretty friggin cool right now").
  • Smoldering Shoes: "Scoutmaster Toby, the ground is too hot to stick down my tent and my shoes are melting."
  • Spoiled Brat: In this skitπŸ‘ Image
    , a kid receives a serving tray of Adderall pills and Marlboro cigarettes from his butler Jeeves before dismissing him to his doghouse.
  • Stealth Pun: The shot of the dead CPS worker in the TikTok upload of Uncle Gumbo is accompanied by a few notes from the song "Nail in My Coffin", by Jerry Irby & The Texas Ranchers.
  • Straight Man and Wise Guy: Love at First Sight sees a man happily fawning about his new girlfriend to a tired Panera Bread worker, much to the latter's annoyance.
  • Suddenly Shouting: Characters suddenly start or are introduced yelling, either due to Hair-Trigger Temper, horror, or all around wackiness.
    • JoJo tries a new sandwich, after a student suffering from a severe brain injury states he is unable to recall him mom's phone number to pick him up, his Apathetic Principal goes back on his offer and yells at him that his only option left is to stay in school with his head split open.
    • Little Tommy in America's Got Talent! breaks out into Screamo Music before he finishes his first stanza.
      ''I think war is bad
      But at the same time
      I'm feeling so sad!
      I'd commit some war crimes
      I’'D KILL ANYONE WHO IS HOLDING A GUN

      I THINK WAR IS BAD
      BUT AT THE SAME TIME
      I COULD KILL SOMEONE
      I'D COMMIT SOME WAR CRIMES
      AGAINST ANYONE WHO IS HOLDING A GUN
    • The guy in Wichita Style Porker as he explains he wants an entire pig between two slices of bread.
      I've been to SEVEN FUCKING STORES. AND NOT A SINGLE ONE HAS HAD A WICHITA STYLE PORKER, AND I'M GETTING FED UP!!!
  • Suspiciously Specific Denial: "We're Costco guys. We had nothing to do with the man impaled by the forklift bleeding out in the front parking lot."
  • Take That!:
    • The Hobby Lobby clerk takes offense when Scoobydick McChiggins states he plans on using their toys to reenact Schindler's List... except not really, and he reminds McChiggin he works for an American retail company run and owned by a crime family of conservative evangelical Protestants; he doesn't care about The Holocaust!
    • Shooting Shenanigans! is one to the Uvalde Police Department for their incompetence during the Robb Elementary School shooting on May 24, 2022, told in the form of a Beavis and Butt-Head Parody.
    • America's Got Talent! jabs at the show by depicting the judges and audience being won over by a seven-year-old performing Screamo Music about committing war crimes.
      Middle judge: "Ladies and gentlemen, I think we have a new Kelly Clarkson on our hands! I'm going to give you a golden buzzer or whatever the FUCK we do on this show!"
    • The parody of the July 13, 2024 assassination attempt of Donald Trump does not portray the target in a good light, depicting Trump refusing to evacuate at the Secret Service's orders despite a bullet piercing his ear and mocking everyone who interrupts his inane ramblings about chihuahuas.
    • This skitπŸ‘ Image
      is an jab at the drama involving Lunchly, with Mr. Beast advertising said meal as "authentic genuine bunches of garbage" and crushing the head of a child calling him out for selling the product.
  • Think Nothing of It: When Leonard thanks the man who gave him a new head of hair, the man tells him "Don't mention it" (as he's suddenly behind the wheel of a Camaro).
  • Third-Person Person:
    • Uncle Gumbo exclusively refers to himself as Uncle Gumbo.
    • Puppet Joe consistently refers to himself by his stage name through his sockpuppet while ignoring his sons' pleas to stop his puppeteer schtick, breaking character only to call his wife a "fat skank [who] can kill [him] in [his] sleep for all [he] cares."
  • Those Two Guys: The two idiot cops, and the abandoned brothers Rufus and Remi.
  • Troubling Unchildlike Behavior: A frequent punchline for skits is the behavior of children, whether they be a voice of reason or agent of chaos.
    • Rufus and Remi are full of such behavior. Free-ranged after their Missing Mom went to prison and Disappeared Dad possibly died somewhere, engage in crime to survive and spend their time out of school doing anything from poking corpses with sicks to reading porn magazines. Their Uncle Gumbo, after breaking from prison, rethinks hiding at his nephew's home when he sees they killed a CPS worker.
    • The kid in this skitπŸ‘ Image
      is served for "dinner" by his butler a packet of Marlboro's and a prescription bottle of Adderall before dismissing The Jeeves to a dog house.
      Kid: (hacks his lungs up) Every day is the best day of my life.
  • Truth in Television:
    • Government Cheese Spelunking: Despite the absurdity of "government cheese caves", it is true, as the United States Department of Agriculture stores massive stockpiles of dairy products in over 150 warehouses across 35 states. The term "cheese caves" comes from the underground warehouses in Missouri repurposed limestone mines, and became a meme when an 2022 article by Modern Farmer mistakenly implied the USDA's entire 1.5 billion-pound supply of cheese was all buried near Springfield.
    • FEATURING @Kiid katze AS THE LOBOTMIZER AND CO-WRITER: To most in the 21st century, a lobotomy van akin to an ice cream truck seems a dystopian concept, when it was actually a reality from a bygone era. Dr. Walter Jackson Freeman II was the physician who in 1946 invented the transorbital lobotomy β€” the iconic icepick under the eyelid approach β€” and from The '50s until 1967,πŸ›ˆ When he was banned from medicine following the death of Helen Mortensen, the last of as many as 100 of his "patients" who died from cerebral hemorrhaging. he toured the United States performing thousands of lobotomies. The Cortez Motorhome he used in The '60s would be remembered by the public as the "Lobotomobile" (a name never used by the lobotomist himself, unlike the one in the the skit).
  • Unusual Euphemism: The man throwing bowling balls into traffic says he's "going for a turkey", immediately after explaining he means he's aiming for a "baby puke green" Volkswagen Beetle.
  • Valley Girl:
    • The Incident sees a gaggle of gals hanging out with each other when one of them gets half-crushed by a falling Boeing 747 engine, to the real concern of only the one underneath.
    • The Ick focuses on a Valley Girl breaking up with her boyfriend Justin, accusing him of being toxic what with how he won't talk to her and keeps holding her back in life… as he's Coughing Up Blood and dies in hospital.
  • Vocal Dissonance: A Running Gag is for someone to suddenly speak in a deeper voice for graver, more serious/deadpan lines.
  • Wham Shot: Uncle Gumbo asks his nephews why Child Protective Services hadn't taken them into custody after their parents disappeared. Remi explains β€œThey tried!”, pointing to the corpse of "Greg" festering on the floor.
  • Would Hurt a Child:
    • One of the activities the grandfather in The Generational Gap reminisces from his youth is trapping babies inside pinball machines.
    • The bowling ball-thrower has no indiscretion for which vehicle he hits, whether children are riding or not.
      Offscreen parent: OH MY GOD! EVERYTIME I LOOK AT THE ROAD, MY CHILD IS SEVERED INTO EVEN MORE PIECES!
    • The mailbox hobo's first reaction to the boy attempting to get him out of his mailbox is to pepper spray him directly in the eyes.
  • Wrong Bathroom Incident: The wise guy in ''Love at First Sight" met his new girlfriend in the men's bathroom, popping a squat at a urinal. Justified as the women's restroom was on fire. Moving on...
  • You Are Number Six: The homeowner in American Gnome Story suspects that since the number "81" on the gnome he captured means the other gnomes are numbered, but its subverted as "Gnome #81" explains he's just wearing an Aaron Hernandez jersey.
  • Young Gun:
    • Rufus and Remi know how to handle guns in the strictest sense of the words, whether it be to hold up a store or shoot any child care workers that come to take them from their abandoned home.
      Rufus: DADDY DON'T LOCK HIS SAFE!
    • In a more heroic example, Martha pulls a Colt revolver on her abusive mother and shoots her in the leg to protect a two-headed rabbit she befriended.
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