History Website / Vat19

** Also invoked with the Cross Promo gag, where individual ads featured references to other products, usually putty ads which mention other types of putty sold at Vat19.

** However, Eric has thankfully returned a few times to do some roles for newer commercials, a notable example being him playing the creepy Chet Huskins again in a [[https://youtu.be/tdcUHXe6N2o new gummy ad]].

* 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.

* RidiculouslyCuteCritters: While [=Vat19=] sells many plush animals that easily fit this trope, one notable example is the ad for the Squishable plushies, where a news show is shown interviewing people who have been severely affected by the cuteness of the plush animals before the people on the news set fall under the spell of the adorable Squishables too, cuddling them instead of doing their jobs.

* WouldHurtAChild: In one of the ads, Larry Poppins, supposed sister of Mary Poppins, casually tells everal kids to fly a kite near power lines.
-->'''Larry Poppins''': "Ol’ Larry Poppins just needs a nap. You stay near the power lines where I can see you, okay?"

'''Larry Poppins''': "Ol’ Larry Poppins just needs a nap. You stay near the power lines where I can see you, okay?"
'''Children''': "Okay Larry."

-->'''Scotty Pippen''': ''Challenge accepted!''

-->'''Dan Italy''':''VAT NINETEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEN!''

** 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. The mob boss, named Dan Italy, invokes this trope in almost all of his appearances, including [=Vat19=]’s official movie, shouting the name of the company whenever his plans get foiled by them.

** 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.

* 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 in 1947 with his Happy Accidents philosophy and giving some of his “positive essence” (actually an Energy Drink IRL) to Franklin D. Roosevelt before his speech in 1933.

** Their video on Feisty Pets has a scene where [=LordMinion777=] uses security cameras to look for the missing plushies and eventually gets jump scared by the brown bear Feisty Pet, which has many parallels to Five Nights at Freddy’s.

** Videos such as Flint Laces and the Aquabot Water Bottle feature a fake show known as [[NakedAndAfraid Bare and Scared]].

** Videos such as Flint Laces and the Aquabot Water Bottle feature a fake show known as [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Series/NakedAndAfraid Bare and Scared]].

-->'''Joey''':''I cannot break you.''

* ChallengeSeeker: [=Vat19=] has an [[https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLSqiExuEA-RHv58jpflkQz9fepBq9ns0B entire playlist]] invoking this trope, where they attempt many often bizarre and silly challenges, sometimes using their own products

'''Scotty Pippen''': ''Challenge accepted!''

'''Joey''':''I cannot break you.''

** [=Vat19=] made one more of these videos called the Watch It Grow Challenge, presented as a live stream where you watch a Garden Bon Bon grow, when in reality [[spoiler: absolutely nothing happens to the plant, and the stream is just 11 straight hours of the plant along with several random intervals when [=Vat19=] songs are played]].

* 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 IRL) to Franklin D. Roosevelt before his speech in 1939.

** [=Vat19=] made one more of these videos called the Watch It Grow Challenge, presented as a live stream where you watch a Garden Bon Bon grow, when in reality [[spoiler: absolutely nothing happens to the plant, and the stream is just 11 straight hours of the plant along with several random intervals where Vat19 songs are played]].

* EverythingsDeaderWithZombies: Invoked in the [[https://youtu.be/Iwd_KAZlRts Zombie Garden Gnome ad]], which feature the aforementioned products swarming a normal gnome while a surveillance camera looks on and later an Angry Garden Gnome with a gun who fights the undead.

* InitiationCeremony: There are videos of Danny, Adam and Kara being welcomed to Vat19 with very odd things happening which include Danny and Adam having to [[spoiler: drink eggs from a Beer Boot, get slapped in the face with Twizzlers, drink from a dirty toilet with the [=LifeStraw=] and get bombarded with water balloons]]. In Kara’s case, she had to ride on a Mini Circus bike while being doused with Coke, Silly String, eggs and other liquids, and ultimately [[spoiler: getting a cake shoved in her face at the end of the ride]] by the boss himself.

** Videos such as Flint Laces and the Aquabot Water Bottle feature a fake show known as Bare and Scared.

* 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".]]
** However, this trope does not completely apply as [=Vat19=] did request an age restriction for the video.

* {{GettingCrapPastTheRadar}}[[invoked]]: 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".]]
** However, this trope does not completely apply as [=Vat19=] did request an age restriction in the video.

* 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".]]

* Everything’sDeaderWithZombies: Invoked in the [[https://youtu.be/Iwd_KAZlRts Zombie Garden Gnome ad]], which feature the aforementioned products swarming a normal gnome while a surveillance camera looks on and later an Angry Garden Gnome with a gun who fights the undead.

* ZombieApocalyse: Invoked in [[https://youtu.be/b3o2x6KTRhU the video for the Gummy Brain]], where one of the survivors is a considerably more bearded Chet Huskins of Gummy Bear America.