History Website / JibJab

* PredatoryBusiness: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pKv6RcXa2UI "Big Box Mart"]] is a heavy TakeThat at this. A big retail chain, "Big Box Mart" sells everything very cheaply, but this results in factories outsourcing their labor force, because that's the only way they can make stuff cheap enough to sell to Big Box Mart. The protagonist who loved to shop at Big Box Mart loses his job and ends up [[FallenOnHardTimesJob working there as a janitor]].

* AnAesop: Most of their videos are simple satire, but "What We Call the News" and "Big Box Mart" have very explicit Aesops about the impact of [[StrawmanNewsMedia yellow journalism]] and volume retail stores, respectively. They even [[BreakingTheFourthWall address the news networks and stores in the second person]].

* StrawmanNewsMedia[=/=]TwentyFourHourNewsNetworks: Satirized in "What We Call the News."

A website created in 1999 featuring satirical music videos animated [[ClipArtAnimation using cut-outs of photographs]]. The site attained fame in 2004 when its video "This Land", which featured then-president UsefulNotes/GeorgeWBush and UsefulNotes/JohnKerry, became a huge viral hit. Since then, they have released at least one current-events parody a year in the same style. From 2005 to 2014 they released "Year in Review" videos, lampooning major (and not-so-major) events of that year, starting with "2-0-5" and ending with "2014, You Are History". [[http://blog.jibjab.com/2015/12/22/the-end-of-the-road-year-in-review-2005-2014/ They announced in 2015]] that they wouldn't do any more Year in Reviews. Until they returned in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nNaGzi_LpDw 2020!]]

* TheChainsOfCommanding: While JibJab mocks politicians, "2-0-5" and "So Long To Ya, 2010" acknowledge Presidents don't have it very easy.

* TheChainsOfCommanding: While JibJab mocks politicians, "2=0-5" and "So Long To Ya, 2010" acknowledge Presidents don't have it very easy.

* PredatoryBusiness: [[http://sendables.jibjab.com/originals/big_box_mart "Big Box Mart"]] is a heavy TakeThat at this. A big retail chain, "Big Box Mart" sells everything very cheaply, but this results in factories outsourcing their labor force, because that's the only way they can make stuff cheap enough to sell to Big Box Mart. The protagonist who loved to shop at Big Box Mart loses his job and ends up [[FallenOnHardTimesJob working there as a janitor]].

--->'''UsefulNotes/HMTheQueen and [[UsefulNotes/OlympicGames Olympic Medal Winners]]:''' We had Olympic superstars!\\

* FilkSong: Most of the songs are parodies of popular folk songs, from "This Land Is Your Land" by Woodie Guthrie to "The Times, They Are a-Changin'" by Music/BobDylan.

-->'''Baby Year 2008:''' UsefulNotes/{{Bar|ackObama}}rack ''[sic]'' defeated Johnny\\

* PredatoryBusiness: [[http://sendables.jibjab.com/originals/big_box_mart "Big Box Mart"]] is a heavy TakeThat at this. A big retail chain, "Big Box Mart" sells everything very cheaply, but this results in factories outsourcing their labor force, because that's the only way they can make stuff cheap enough to sell to Big Box Mart. The protagonist who loved to shop at Big Box Mart loses his job and ends up [[FallonOnHardTimesJob working there as a janitor]].

* PredatoryBusiness: [[http://sendables.jibjab.com/originals/big_box_mart "Big Box Mart"]] is a heavy TakeThat at this. A big retail chain, "Big Box Mart" sells everything very cheaply, but this results in factories outsourcing their labor force, because that's the only way they can make stuff cheap enough to sell to Big Box Mart. The protagonist who loved to shop at Big Box Mart loses his job and ends up working there as a janitor.

* PredatoryBusiness: [[http://sendables.jibjab.com/originals/big_box_mart "Big Box Mart"]] is a heavy TakeThat at this.

* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: The 2005 Year in Review "2-0-5" has several differences from later Year in Review videos. For one, while all reviews have been parodies of a single song, "2-0-5" mixed up "Auld Lang Syne" and "Turkey in the Straw." Second, all other year-in-review songs (barring "So Long to Ya, 2010") said as much about pop culture as they did about domestic and international news.

* HesBack: After 6 years of break, the yearly review returned in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nNaGzi_LpDw 2020]].

A website created in 1999 featuring satirical music videos animated [[ClipArtAnimation using cut-outs of photographs]]. The site attained fame in 2004 when its video "This Land", which featured then-president UsefulNotes/GeorgeWBush and UsefulNotes/JohnKerry, became a huge viral hit. Since then, they have released at least one current-events parody a year in the same style. From 2005 to 2014 they released "Year in Review" videos, lampooning major (and not-so-major) events of that year, starting with "2-0-5" and ending with "2014, You Are History". [[http://blog.jibjab.com/2015/12/22/the-end-of-the-road-year-in-review-2005-2014/ They announced in 2015]] that they wouldn't do any more Year in Reviews.

A website created in 1999 featuring satirical music videos animated [[ClipArtAnimation using cut-outs of photographs]]. The site attained fame in 2004 when its video "This Land", which featured then-president UsefulNotes/GeorgeWBush and John Kerry, became a huge viral hit. Since then, they have released at least one current-events parody a year in the same style. From 2005 to 2014 they released "Year in Review" videos, lampooning major (and not-so-major) events of that year, starting with "2-0-5" and ending with "2014, You Are History". [[http://blog.jibjab.com/2015/12/22/the-end-of-the-road-year-in-review-2005-2014/ They announced in 2015]] that they wouldn't do any more Year in Reviews.

The last time I got... ''[{{Beat}}, camera cuts back to Santa grabbing dollar bills]'' [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar paid]]!

In 2012, the creators of the website introduced ''WebAnimation/{{Storybots}}'', an educational collection of songs for young children, which has since spun off into two Creator/{{Netflix}} shows.

From Wasilla {{s|arahPalin}}he was plucked;\\

* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: There are quite a few of these examples in the year-in-review episodes. "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zls4Ao3GyM 2011, Buh-Bye!]]" probably has the most.

* StrawmanPolitical: Nicely averted. They just mock whoever is in power, so they were just as ready to parody Obama as they were Bush.

* WeDidntStartTheBillyJoelParodies: Done [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztj2qfui114 for their 2007 year in review]].