History WebVideo / FiftyPercentOff

* GagPenis:
** Nagisa, thinking Rei is pointing to his penis, rather than his swimsuit, as the problem with his performance:
-->'''Rei''': I think I've found the problem - *this!*
-->'''Nagisa''': Nah, man. I use mine like a rudder. Helps me steer.
** In the outtakes, Kou sees what she thinks is a gun in Nagisa's shorts - then realizes it's not a gun.

* AuthorFilibuster: Episode 19 has Nagisa give a long one about the problems with Gou's real life gay shipping habits, and then extends it to the fetishization of gays by {{Yaoi Fangirl}}s.

** All the boys go from "AmbiguouslyGay" to "So Gay That They Might As Well Have Billboards Advertising Their Gayness" and Gou goes from having a small thing for muscles to being an extremely horny fangirl.

* CharacterExaggeration: Makoto has been made from a LovableCoward to full-blown wimp and Haru's AmbiguousDisorder is played up to ''Film/RainMan'' levels. Rin is also much more of a jerk.

* MonsterClown: Nagisa brought a {{Juggalo}} friend to Makoto's fifteenth birthday. [[NoodleIncident He apparently set the pinata on fire]].

* OffModel: Lampshaded in Episode 17 when Nagisa spots two background characters with disproportionately small hands and laughs hysterically, and in Bonus 16 spends the next minute or so [[HurricaneOfPuns delivering hand pun after hand pun]] in between bouts of hysterical laughter.
-->'''Makoto''': Nagisa, people are staring at us!
-->'''Nagisa''': They should be staring at those tiny-ass hands!

* WickedCultured: Surprisingly enough, ''Nagisa'' turns out to be this. Apparently, he draws his inspiration for the swim-club posters he makes from Wassily Kandinsky, a famous Russian painter and theorist.

* TheSpartanWay: Gou arranges the boys' trip to Camp Guillotine for this purpose, thinking that the dangerous waters will motivate them to be better swimmers.

* ADateWithRosiePalms: Gou and Makoto have admitted to seeing quite a few "trophies" when they get lonely.
-->'''Gou''': ''(after seeing shirtless Haru)'' I'm sinning tonight!
** Implied with Makoto while he's watching Haru cleaning up the pool.
--->'''Makoto''': ''(in thought)'' He doesn't even know I'm watching him... yeah... *ziiiip*

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An AbridgedSeries of ''Anime/{{Free}}'' created by Creator/{{Octopimp}} and written by [=SparkyTheAndroid=], ''50% OFF'' is a little different than than usual; rather than full episodes of the show, episodes of the series are three-to-five-minute[[note]]The time becomes more like eight-to-ten in later episodes[[/note]] shorts. The series covered most of ''Iwatobi Swim Club'', but fell to the wayside before going on unofficial hiatus, and eventually being outright [[OrphanedSeries cancelled]] in 2020. The spoof as it currently stands ends on Episode 19.

* ScriptBreaking: Back when Nagisa attended [[WebVideo/DanganRonpaAbridgedThing another school]], he decided the best way to kill someone without getting caught was to [[KillEmAll leave no one around to convict him]].

* AllJustADream: Bonus 14 contains a deleted scene which would have revealed the whole of Episode 15 to have been Rin's dream. Then ''that'' would have been revealed to be ''[[DreamWithinADream also]]'' [[UpToEleven Rin]]'s [[MindScrew dream]].

* {{Corpsing}}: Bonus 14 shows Octopimp cracking up every time he tries to deliver the "fart-smeller, fart-smeller" line. On the ''fourth'' occasion, he manages to get through it, ''then'' cracks up: "I did it!"
** Bonus 16 reveals that Rin's voice actor cracked up after delivering the "Suck my shark dick!" line.

* AllJustADream: Bonus 14 contains a deleted scene which would have revealed the whole of Episode 15 to have been Rin's dream. Then ''that'' would have been revealed to be ''[[DreamWithinADream also]]'' [[UpToEleven Rin's]] [[MindScrew dream]].

** Gou apparently writes ''{{Series/Supernatural}}'' FanFiction. [[YaoiFangirl Very]] [[SlashFic kinky]] fan fiction.

** Makoto himself gets one in episode 11 when he starts thinking about [[CostumeTestMontage all of the]] [[{{Fanservice}} possibilities]] of seeing the others in new, tight swimsuits.

-->'''Rin''': I sure hope we become best friends! But I ''don't'' hope we have a falling-out over a race, leading us to having a tense, emotion-heavy, [[RuleOfDrama dramatic]], [[TheRival competitive]], [[FoeYay love/hate]] relationship later on!

* EveryoneIsGay: With Gou as the obvious exception, pretty much all of the main characters are depicted as gay. Given the source material, though...

* CrossOver: An ever-so brief one with ''WebVideo/DanganRonpaAbridgedThing''. Nagisa apparently went to Hope's Peak at some point and killed every student in the building for scholarship money.
** Happens again in PalletTownChampion's Fairy Tail Abridged, getting broken out of jail by Easter Dave[[spoiler: AKA Makarov]] for illegally breeding Roskhopper penguins.