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*BeethovenWasAnAlienSpy: One recurring gag is a series of videos where Bob Ross travels back in time and interacts with several other famous people, notable examples being him influencing Jackson Pollock’s splatter paint style with his Happy Accidents philosophy and giving some of his “positive essence” (actually an Energy Drink sold by Vat19) to Franklin D. Roosevelt before his speech in 1939.
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* SerialEscalation: The "HiddenInPlainSight" series, which has Danny attempting to hide from Jamie as long as possible while still making it obvious, gets increasingly bold with each episode. As of writing, Danny has, in order, pretended to be an intern, locked himself in a bathroom coated with Liquid Ass, hidden in a box on the top shelf of a warehouse while still being in view of a security camera, locked himself in a sprinkler room while putting up signage for his whereabouts everywhere, and finally [[UpToEleven leaving Vat19 altogether and hiding in Six Flags.]] Later entries, however, are less flamboyant, instead relying on psychologically manipulating Jamie with more subtle acts to keep Danny hidden.

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* SerialEscalation: The "HiddenInPlainSight" series, which has Danny attempting to hide from Jamie as long as possible while still making it obvious, gets increasingly bold with each episode. As of writing, Danny has, in order, pretended to be an intern, locked himself in a bathroom coated with Liquid Ass, hidden in a box on the top shelf of a warehouse while still being in view of a security camera, locked himself in a sprinkler room while putting up signage for his whereabouts everywhere, and finally [[UpToEleven leaving Vat19 altogether and hiding in Six Flags.]] Later entries, however, are less flamboyant, instead relying on psychologically manipulating Jamie with more subtle acts to keep Danny hidden.hidden; however, the subtlety was once again dropped in #12 where Danny not only leaves the building once more, but [[spoiler: doesn't tell Jamie about it, and sneaks everyone sans Jon (who was filming) out of the office to his location while the episode is filming]].

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* IAteWhat: Some of their challenge and competition videos involve this, mostly the ones that juxtapose oddly-flavored foodstuffs with the real version of whatever the flavors are. One video resulted in Jon being forced to eat paint and a rose.

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Some of their challenge and competition videos involve this, mostly the ones that juxtapose oddly-flavored foodstuffs with the real version of whatever the flavors are. One video resulted in Jon being forced to eat paint and a rose.rose.
** The company has apparently done this so often to themselves that mere months after Kyle joined the team, he was recorded turning down an offer to participate in one of these videos (with cash on the line), citing Jamie's overindulgence of this trope.


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* UpToEleven: The mini-series "This Could be Awesome" consists of challenges demanding the [=Vat19=] crew to invoke this trope on one of their products, such as upscaling a harmless dart gun to a violently explosive arbalest, or molding an entire outfit out of gummy.
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[=Vat19=] began as a website to sell their own line of [=DVDs=], the most famous of which being their ambient DVD series. In 2005, they put out their first non-DVD product: The fireplace-scented candle. It went on to become a hit with customers and encouraged them to seek out more "curiously awesome products" for them to promote and sell. They are also known for their witty and creative advertisements they make to sell their products, the first of which being their ad for the Grillput Portable BBQ.

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[=Vat19=] began as a website to sell their own line of [=DVDs=], the most famous of which being their ambient DVD series. In 2005, they put out their first non-DVD product: The fireplace-scented candle. It went on to become a hit with customers and encouraged them to seek out more "curiously awesome products" for them to promote and sell. They are also known for their witty and creative advertisements they make to sell their products, the first of which being their ad for the Grillput Portable BBQ.
BBQ. Aside from strict advertisements, they're also known for doing challenges and experiments with their products, many of which [[SerialEscalation tend to be pushing it a little.]]



* BlazingInfernoHellfireSauce: Sometimes, they also made these kinds of videos about the Toe Of Satan, the Ass-Blaster sauce, etc.

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* BlazingInfernoHellfireSauce: Sometimes, they also made these kinds of BlazingInfernoHellfireSauce:
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videos about them messing with extremely spicy foods and sauces to fill [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhh6biaOT3o an entire playlist.]]
** [=Vat19=] is also
the Toe Of Satan, creator of Burn or Bliss Chocolate (a set of chocolates that are either normal or spiked with 5 million Scoville units of heat) and the Ass-Blaster sauce, etc.World's Hottest Chocolate Bar (a very tiny bar that contains 9 million SHU[[note]]The highest heat level available to consumers, period[[/note]] all the way through, to the point [[UpToEleven where they consider only one fingertip-sized square of the bar to be reasonable for consumption.]])
** The aforementioned chocolate bar was dumped en masse into a chocolate fountain. It did not end well for everyone tasting it, especially Jamie, who [[ViolationOfCommonSense ate a freeze-dried ice cream bar that contained a humongous dollop of the liquified chocolate.]]



* DoNotTryThisAtHome: Plastered all over many of their videos, given the distinctly off-the-wall nature of their challenges and such.



* IAteWHAT?!: Bean Boozled Challenge with real food has this.
* ImagineSpot: In the Frogger Desktop Arcade ad, after an office employee plays Frogger all day and night, his boss comes in and he halucinates him in a frog costume and is able to control him with the Frogger game.

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* IAteWHAT?!: Bean Boozled Challenge HiddenInPlainSight: [=Vat19=] runs a series with the same name as the trope where Danny has to hide from Jamie (the company CEO and therefore his boss) for as long as possible while still making it either a textbook case of the trope or otherwise completely obvious to a trained eye. Much to Jamie's chagrin, Danny's hiding spots have almost always required assistance or hints to identify, and Danny himself has lasted for considerably lengthy periods of time in each video.
* IAteWhat: Some of their challenge and competition videos involve this, mostly the ones that juxtapose oddly-flavored foodstuffs with the
real food has this.
version of whatever the flavors are. One video resulted in Jon being forced to eat paint and a rose.
* ImagineSpot: In the Frogger Desktop Arcade ad, after an office employee plays Frogger all day and night, his boss comes in and he halucinates hallucinates him in a frog costume and is able to control him with the Frogger game.game.
* IncendiaryExponent:
** Their second video for the Giant Jenga set has them playing the game as usual, the only difference being that the tower is on fire while the players are using industrial-strength fireproof coating on their hands. They also offer a couple of products specifically about pyrotechnics and fire.
** A Burning Questions segment for Spitballs has Jamie being asked what would happen if the globules were filled with lighter fluid and then ignited. Though Spitballs can't soak up the fluid, it turns out they combust just fine.
** Jamie has on multiple occasions exposed the company's giant gummy products to potassium chlorate.[[note]]Mixing both together causes a violent reaction and accompanying flame, requiring only a tiny amount to create a large reaction.[[/note]]


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* OrphanedSeries: Every mini-series which features a character played by Eric (such as "Confection Perfection" or "The Sample Room") can no longer continue due to him leaving in February 2019.


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* SerialEscalation: The "HiddenInPlainSight" series, which has Danny attempting to hide from Jamie as long as possible while still making it obvious, gets increasingly bold with each episode. As of writing, Danny has, in order, pretended to be an intern, locked himself in a bathroom coated with Liquid Ass, hidden in a box on the top shelf of a warehouse while still being in view of a security camera, locked himself in a sprinkler room while putting up signage for his whereabouts everywhere, and finally [[UpToEleven leaving Vat19 altogether and hiding in Six Flags.]] Later entries, however, are less flamboyant, instead relying on psychologically manipulating Jamie with more subtle acts to keep Danny hidden.


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* StuffBlowingUp: On multiple occasions, [=Vat19's=] more gelatinous products, such as putty and gummy candies, have been strapped to packs of tannerite and shot at by the team to generate a massive explosion.


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* TakeThat: TheStinger for the Twiddle Mega has this:
--> '''Eric''': ''(repeating a line from the original scene earlier in the video, in response to Jamie's daughter saying "it's fun")'' I was going to say that, later in the discussion... ({{Beat}}) Who wants coupons to Whole Foods? ''(entire room begins {{Corpsing}})''
* VomitIndiscretionShot: Played with. In [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bdAzjqBmGE "We filled water balloons with WHAT?!"]], Jon vomits three times from being pelted with [[StinkBomb water balloons filled with Liquid Ass prank spray]] in clear view of the camera, but the stream is pixelated in spite of his vomiting being the video's main attraction.
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* MagicVersesScience: In one video about products that work with water, a scientist fights a wizard.

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* BlazingInfernoHellfireSauce: They made these kinds of videos about the Toe Of Satan, the Ass-Blaster sauce, etc.

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* BlazingInfernoHellfireSauce: People at Vat19 made these kind of videos about the Toe Of Satan, the Ass-Blaster sauce, etc.

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* IAteWHAT?!: Bean Boozled Challenge with real food has this.

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* MundaneMadeAwesome: Their music videos for the 26-Pound Gummy Party Bear and the Das Beer Boot.

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* RunningGag: The Not-A-Cat Cat.

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* ShoutOut: At the end of the Build-Your-Own Ukulele ad, Joey is playing the main theme from the Super Mario Series.

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* SkywardScream: In an ad for Ghost Pepper Fire Dust, a mob boss tries to blow up someone after failing to get ransom, only to invoke this trope after finding out that the gun powder he's using is candy.

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Vat19 began as a website to sell their own line of [=DVDs=], the most famous of which being their ambient DVD series. In 2005, they put out their first non-DVD product: The fireplace-scented candle. It went on to become a hit with customers and encouraged them to seek out more "curiously awesome products" for them to promote and sell. They are also known for their witty and creative advertisements they make to sell their products, the first of which being their ad for the Grillput Portable BBQ.

Their YouTube channel can be found [[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDRbNGFusqlXX4a5vwi9ouQ here]].

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Vat19 [=Vat19=] began as a website to sell their own line of [=DVDs=], the most famous of which being their ambient DVD series. In 2005, they put out their first non-DVD product: The fireplace-scented candle. It went on to become a hit with customers and encouraged them to seek out more "curiously awesome products" for them to promote and sell. They are also known for their witty and creative advertisements they make to sell their products, the first of which being their ad for the Grillput Portable BBQ.

Their YouTube Website/YouTube channel can be found [[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDRbNGFusqlXX4a5vwi9ouQ here]].here]].



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'''[[http://www.vat19.com/ Vat19.com]]''' is an online shopping website that was launched in 2001.

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'''[[http://www.[[http://www.vat19.com/ Vat19.com]]''' com]] is an online shopping website that was launched in 2001.
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*AprilFools: Stōn. Though it ended up being uploaded on the wrong day.
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* {{Defictionalization}}[[invoked]]: They have [[Film/{{Anchorman}} Sex Panther Cologne]] on the site, and thankfully, it doesn't smell bad like in the movie.

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* {{Defictionalization}}[[invoked]]: They have [[Film/{{Anchorman}} [[Film/AnchormanTheLegendOfRonBurgundy Sex Panther Cologne]] on the site, and thankfully, it doesn't smell bad like in the movie.
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* BaitAndSwitch: One of their videos spends a full minute advertising [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBgA0AY0Fnw ordinary folding chairs,]] only to reveal at the very last second that real purpose of the ad was to show off the hilariously awful sweaters the cast was wearing throughout the video.
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* {{Defictionalization}}: They have [[Film/{{Anchorman}} Sex Panther Cologne]] on the site, and thankfully, it doesn't smell bad like in the movie.

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* {{Defictionalization}}: {{Defictionalization}}[[invoked]]: They have [[Film/{{Anchorman}} Sex Panther Cologne]] on the site, and thankfully, it doesn't smell bad like in the movie.
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[[http://www.vat19.com/ Vat19.com]] is an online shopping website that was launched in 2001.

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[[http://www.'''[[http://www.vat19.com/ Vat19.com]] com]]''' is an online shopping website that was launched in 2001.



-->''[[VanityPlate Vat Nineteeeeeeen! Dooot com. *click*]]''

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-->''[[VanityPlate -->Get TV Tropes now, at [=Vat19.com=]. ''[[VanityPlate Vat Nineteeeeeeen! Dooot com. *click*]]''com.]] (click)''
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* CluckingFunny: In "A Musician's First Aid Kit":
-->"So you can worry less about the club's crazy cable situation...and more about your [[ElectronicMusic EDM]] stage persona."


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* RunningGag: The Not-A-Cat Cat.
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** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gkLhoEMQ7pE This music video for their brand of giant sticky notes]].
-->"[[EarWorm We do it JUMBO!]]"
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->''[[EarlyInstallmentWeirdness Creators of award winnning DVDs]], and provayors of curriously awesome products.''

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->''[[EarlyInstallmentWeirdness Creators of award winnning winning DVDs]], and provayors purveyors of curriously curiously awesome products.''



Vat19 began as a website to sell their own line of [=DVDs=], the most famous of which being their ambiant DVD series. In 2005, they put out their first non-DVD product: The fireplace-scented candle. It went on to become a hit with customers and encouraged them to seek out more "curriously awesome products" for them to promote and sell. They are also known for their witty and creative advertisements they make to sell their products, the first of which being their ad for the Grillput Portable BBQ.

Their YouTube channel can be found [[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDRbNGFusqlXX4a5vwi9ouQ HERE]].

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Vat19 began as a website to sell their own line of [=DVDs=], the most famous of which being their ambiant ambient DVD series. In 2005, they put out their first non-DVD product: The fireplace-scented candle. It went on to become a hit with customers and encouraged them to seek out more "curriously "curiously awesome products" for them to promote and sell. They are also known for their witty and creative advertisements they make to sell their products, the first of which being their ad for the Grillput Portable BBQ.

Their YouTube channel can be found [[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDRbNGFusqlXX4a5vwi9ouQ HERE]].
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** This trope also aplies to the website. Before becoming the provayors of curiously awesome products we know today, they used to create and sell [=DVDs=] (they still sell their [=DVDs=] but they don't make new ones anymore).

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** This trope also aplies applies to the website. Before becoming the provayors purveyors of curiously awesome products we know today, they used to create and sell [=DVDs=] (they still sell their [=DVDs=] but they don't make new ones anymore).



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* ShoutOut: At the end of the Build-Your-Own Ukilali video, Joey is playing the main theme from the Super Mario Series.

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* RockersSmashGuitars: In the DIY Ukulele ad, Joey almost smashes Jon's Ukulele before he stops him and suggests that he smashes Jamie's instead. After the VanityPlate, Joey smashes Jamie's Ukulele.
* ShoutOut: At the end of the Build-Your-Own Ukilali video, Ukulele ad, Joey is playing the main theme from the Super Mario Series.



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->''[[EarlyInstallmentWeirdness Creators of award winnning DVDs]], and provayors of curriously awesome products.''
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[[http://www.vat19.com/ Vat19.com]] is an online shopping website that was launched in 2001.

Vat19 began as a website to sell their own line of [=DVDs=], the most famous of which being their ambiant DVD series. In 2005, they put out their first non-DVD product: The fireplace-scented candle. It went on to become a hit with customers and encouraged them to seek out more "curriously awesome products" for them to promote and sell. They are also known for their witty and creative advertisements they make to sell their products, the first of which being their ad for the Grillput Portable BBQ.

Their YouTube channel can be found [[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDRbNGFusqlXX4a5vwi9ouQ HERE]].

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* CurseCutShort: In their Caffeinated Marshmallows ad, when they mention that ordinary energy drinks have lots of chemicals, it cuts to a lab worker mixing chemicals only for the test tube to overflow. He swears but cuts away halfway through it.
* {{Defictionalization}}: They have [[Film/{{Anchorman}} Sex Panther Cologne]] on the site, and thankfully, it doesn't smell bad like in the movie.
* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: Their early videos weren't as comedic as their newer ones.
** This trope also aplies to the website. Before becoming the provayors of curiously awesome products we know today, they used to create and sell [=DVDs=] (they still sell their [=DVDs=] but they don't make new ones anymore).
* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: At the end of the Finger Drumset ad, a female coworker comes in and ask a male coworker who is playing with finger drumset if she could [[DoubleEntendre "bang on his drums".]]
* GiganticGulp: The Das Beer Boot, the Giant Martini Glass, the 5-for-1 Giant Beer Glass to name a few.
* ImagineSpot: In the Frogger Desktop Arcade ad, after an office employee plays Frogger all day and night, his boss comes in and he halucinates him in a frog costume and is able to control him with the Frogger game.
* MundaneMadeAwesome: Their music videos for the 26-Pound Gummy Party Bear and the Das Beer Boot.
* NoAnimalsWereHarmed: The end of the Frogger Desktop Arcade ad disclaims that no humans in frog suits were harmed in the making of that video.
* ShoutOut: At the end of the Build-Your-Own Ukilali video, Joey is playing the main theme from the Super Mario Series.
** An earlier version of the Finger Drums Tabletop Electric Drum Set has the logo on the bass drum writen in [[Music/TheBeatles Bootle font]].
* SkywardScream: In an ad for Ghost Pepper Fire Dust, a mob boss tries to blow up someone after failing to get ransom, only to invoke this trope after finding out that the gun powder he's using is candy.
** And then there's the Scroll Pen Gift Set ad, which was the prequel to the Ghost Pepper Fire Dust ad. The same mob boss calls someone and threatens to kill the captive if he doesn't deliver ransom. However, the guy is unable to find a pen to write down the address and the mob boss invokes this trope yet again over the phone.
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