History WebVideo / BrandonRogers

[[https://www.youtube.com/user/hotbananastud Brandon Rogers]] is an American Platform/{{YouTube}}r, voice actor, and writer. Hus channel produces sketch videos that often combine elements of BlackComedy, tight plots with twist endings, and a surprisingly dark imagination. His videos often feature surrealist visuals (usually achieved through color contrasting, jumpy editing and the occasional [[StylisticSuck deliberate]] SpecialEffectsFailure) as well as characters who happen to be awful, horrible people but are mocked for this and have surprisingly solid personalities.

[[https://www.youtube.com/user/hotbananastud Brandon Rogers]] is the creator of a Platform/{{YouTube}} channel which produces sketch videos that often combine elements of BlackComedy, tight plots with twist endings, and a surprisingly dark imagination. The channel's videos often feature surrealist visuals (usually achieved through color contrasting, jumpy editing and the occasional [[StylisticSuck deliberate]] SpecialEffectsFailure) as well as characters who happen to be awful, horrible people but are mocked for this and have surprisingly solid personalities.

He is also the co-writer of the Web Animated series ''WebAnimation/HelluvaBoss'' and the voice of the main character Blitzo[[note]]the 'o' is silent[[/note]], and will be providing the voice of Katie Killjoy in ''WesternAnimation/HazbinHotel''.

[[https://www.youtube.com/user/hotbananastud Brandon Rogers]] is the creator of a Website/{{YouTube}} channel which produces sketch videos that often combine elements of BlackComedy, tight plots with twist endings, and a surprisingly dark imagination. The channel's videos often feature surrealist visuals (usually achieved through color contrasting, jumpy editing and the occasional [[StylisticSuck deliberate]] SpecialEffectsFailure) as well as characters who happen to be awful, horrible people but are mocked for this and have surprisingly solid personalities.

[[https://www.youtube.com/user/hotbananastud Brandon Rogers]] is the creator of a Website/{{YouTube}} channel which produces sketch videos that often combine elements of incredibly offensive comedy, tight plots with twist endings, and a surprisingly dark imagination. The channel's videos often feature surrealist visuals (usually achieved through color contrasting, jumpy editing and the occasional [[StylisticSuck deliberate]] SpecialEffectsFailure) as well as characters who happen to be awful, horrible people but are mocked for this and have surprisingly solid personalities.

He is also the co-writer of the Web Animated series ''WebAnimation/HelluvaBoss'' and the voice of the main character Blitzo[[note]]the 'o' is silent[[/note]].

He is also the co-writer of the Web Animated series WebAnimation/HelluvaBoss and the voice of the main character Blitzo[[note]]the 'o' is silent[[/note]].

* AffablyEvil: Noah the Ghost and {{Film/Annabelle}} the Doll in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIEsTaX16Mk DON'T GO TO CHURCH AT 3AM]] don't hurt anyone while hustling with Pastor Knees to drum up donations for his church (and they're collective pockets), even the bloggers who are out to unwittingly ruin their scam.

* ADateWithRosiePalms: Cathy is seen rubbing one out to an episode of ''Series/TheDoctorOzShow'' in "Concerned Mother". Doubles as RightThroughHisPants, since Cathy does it through her clothing. [[FanDisservice This doesn't make it any less unpleasant to watch.]] To make matters worse, [[NotInFrontOfTheKid Cathy's baby is sitting on the couch not five feet away from her while she does this.]]
-->'''Cathy:''' Oh, ''diagnose me'', Dr. Oz!

-->Cathy: Oh, ''diagnose me'', Dr. Oz!

** In "Theater Class", when the class leave a paraplegic Karen stuck in the car while they go out to eat, she refuses to open the door and let them in when they hear gunshots nearby.

* MoralityKitchenSink: [[PlayingWithATrope Played with]]. While all of Brandon's characters are horrible people in one way or another, the degree and rationale behind their behavior varies. There are characters whose negative actions [[HanlonsRazor stem more from naiveté rather than malice]] (Sam, Jürgen, Lord Mingeworthy, Alex Rimmer), ones who act out of irritability (Helen, Grandpa, Donna, Elmer, Mom), and those who are just appalling with no justification (Everyone from the “Angry Office” insurance company, CEO, Japanese Girlfriend).

-->'''Jürgen''': Hurry up with my concentration camp!

** This is acknowledged by Brandon on "The Nuclear Family", stating that they don't tie into the universe [[spoiler: because they're not a real family, just test mannequins at a nuclear detonation test site.]]

** ''Blame the Hero'' reveals that [[spoiler: Bobby Worst [[{{Retcon}} triggered the bomb that destroyed the Nuclear Family]], was Bryce Tankthrust's old childhood friend, and that Blame/Sebastian went back to the 1940s and [[IdentityAmnesia lost his memories after being shot in the head]], was nursed back to health by a young Donna, and later became the grandpa.]]

** Ball Brownstein, Helen's brother and the swim coach, is [[spoiler: actually Helen in drag to ensure that there's more "competent" supervision of the students.]]
** "Christmas Is Hell"- [[spoiler: It's not just a figure of speech. The narrator is stuck in Hell, reliving the events of the Christmas where he and his family died, with the strange old woman nobody knows being Satan overseeing his torment.]]
** "Normal Western Movie"- [[spoiler: After threatening the mapmaker of what they think is the last town in the west and demanding to know where Grimehollow is, Vivian and Lucious learn from him that they are already in it and have been since the start of the video, since every new town they came to was Grimehollow and every mapmaker they met was the same one brought back in a different body.]]

!! Tropes specific to the ''Stuff & Sam'' series:

* BigBad: [[spoiler: Bryce Tankthrust, the CEO]] plays this role in the series.

* FateWorseThanDeath: [[spoiler: Bryce Tankthrust]] actually does get punished by death, but when [[spoiler: the first clone she made of Elmer gets the universe-controlling book, he decides death wasn't enough and resurrects her so he can torture her for her monstrous actions.]]
* {{Foreshadowing}}: In her titular debut video, the CEO states that she had her heart surgically removed, which sounds ridiculous and hyperbolic per Brandon's usual comedy. Furthermore, in her video on adoption shown to Sam, she is labeled as "so rich [she is] no longer human". [[spoiler: The series reveals to horrifying effect that she was being completely serious and has become a sort of HumanoidAbomination]].

* FreudianSlip: After plastic surgery turns Sam into an African-Asian ''woman,'' Sam joyously declares that he’s “finally straight-” and immediately pretends that he hadn’t.

--> '''Sam:''' You murderer, those were innocent children!
--> '''Brandon:''' Children in my universe, yes, and not all of them were innocent.
--> '''Sam:''' Well I'd appreciate it if-
--> '''Brandon:''' Some of them were rapists.

* MagicPlasticSurgery: Sam visits Dr. Dillon because he wants to be a minority. He leaves the clinic a black/Asian woman. He eventually gets his original appearance back after another trip to see Dr. Dillon. [[spoiler: Later, Dr. Dillon helps him sneak inside the adoption agency by changing his face to match Helen. After some disasters, Dr. Dillon, who's missing his head, instructs Donna through texts in the process of changing Sam back to his original appearance, and gets a new head attached to his body.]]

* TheReveal: Episode 15 reveals some messed-up depths to the CEO. [[spoiler: Bryce is using her adoption agency as a front for an unnatural operation where she produces clones from a baby to be used as heart donors. The hearts she harvests give her immortality and the ability to have compassion, and the cloned donors are set out to work in her various branches. They are all Elmer, robbed of emotion from their heart removal.]]

* VitriolicBestFriends: In spite of how much Donna and Sam insult each other, how much they care is just as evident. Arguably one of the best instances of this is when Donna [[spoiler: saves Sam's life in episode 17 of .]]
* WhamEpisode: Episode 18 loses the comedy the series had only just regained when [[spoiler: Donna regains her memory and throws Sam out since she has her long-lost son back.]]

!! Tropes specific to the ''Theater Class'' series:

* TimeSkip: Two years pass between episodes 13 and 14. [[spoiler: Marlena and Oliver are married and live in a trailer, Karen wrote a self-help book for lonely, unattractive people, Cici still works as a waitress, Jaime is a "cop", and Alex and Mason opened an art school]].

* WouldHitAGirl: Kaden punches out one of Donna's friends for mistaking Karen for a boy.

-->--[[https://youtu.be/0tjBBO2SUbE Helen Brownstein, "Hall Monitor Helen"]]

* BlindMistake: Essentially describes Jurgen's entire life.
* BrickJoke:

* AmbiguouslyBrown: Brandon himself, which is lampshaded by Elmer, who thinks Dorian (one of many characters played by Brandon, including Elmer, too) does not seem like a plausible brother to Damian due to their differing appearances. There are many references about it through the videos: Sebastian is believed to be from a Mexican family in "Stuff & Sam" and Elmer is mentioned to be Native American and Mexican.

* ADateWithRosiePalms: Cathy is seen rubbing one out in "Concerned Mother" to a Dr. Oz TV program. It's [[FanDisservice not very pleasant]].

* ADateWithRosiePalms: Cathy is seen rubbing one out to an episode of ''Series/TheDoctorOzShow'' in "Concerned Mother". Doubles as RightThroughHisPants, since Cathy does it through her clothing. [[FanDisservice This doesn't make it any less unpleasant to watch.]] To make matters worse, [[NotInFrontOfTheKid Cathy's baby is sitting on the couch not five feet away from her while she does this.]]
-->Cathy: Oh, ''diagnose me'', Dr. Oz!

* ADateWithRosiePalms: Cathy is seen rubbing one out to an episode of ''Series/TheDoctorOzShow'' in "Concerned Mother". Doubles as RightThroughHisPants, since Cathy does it through her clothing. [[FanDisservice This doesn't make it any less unpleasant to watch.]]

-->Cathy: Oh, 'diagnose me', Dr. Oz!

-->'Cathy: Oh, diagnose me, Dr. Oz!'

-->'''Cathy: Oh, diagnose me, Dr. Oz!'''

* ADateWithRosiePalms: Cathy is seen rubbing one out to an episode of ''Series/TheDoctorOzShow'' in "Concerned Mother". Doubles as [[RightThroughHisPants]], since Cathy does it through her clothing. [[FanDisservice This doesn't make it any less unpleasant to watch.]]