Line #39 VideoGame/TheBasementShow


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2	[[caption-width-right:350:DON'T YOU BELIEVE IT!]]
3	''[[https://gamebanana.com/mods/390212 The Basement Show]]'' is a ''VideoGame/FridayNightFunkin'' GameMod created by [=JerryWannaRat=], based on the ''WesternAnimation/TomAndJerry'' ''[[https://creepypasta.fandom.com/wiki/Tom_and_Jerry_Lost_Cartoon Lost Cartoon]]'' [[{{Creepypasta}} creepypasta]], as well as other Tom and Jerry media and creepy moments.
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5	After the events of the "''Tom's Basement''" short from the creepypasta, Boyfriend and Girlfriend decide to buy the same house from Tom's owners, which is now set for sale by Jerry. The mouse receives them and things starts normally until the two go downstairs to see the basement. There, they find a body, Tom's body, and Jerry closes the basement door behind him and is about to kill them, but Boyfriend, as usual, challenges him to a rap battle.
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7	!Song List
8	[[folder:Song List (Sung by:)]]
9	!!Week 1: Secret of Nobody
10	#House For Sale (Jerry Mouse) [[note]]The old version is based on "Sweet Dreams Are Made of Screams", by Myuu (a Literature/JeffTheKiller-inspired rendition based on Music/MarilynManson's version of "[[Music/{{Eurythmics}} Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)]]"), while the V1.5 House For Sale is an original composition.[[/note]]
11	#Vanishing (Jerry Mouse) (which also got a remake in the V2 update)
12	#Sirokou (Jerry Mouse)
13	!!Week 2: Love is Hopeless
14	#Blue ([[WesternAnimation/BlueCatBlues Depressive Tom]])
15	#Tragical Comedy (Depressive Tom)
16	#Shattered (Depressive Tom)
17	!!Week 3: Glitch House
18	#Funny Cartoon ([[WesternAnimation/{{Pibby}} Corrupted Tom]])
19	#Cat Chase (Corrupted Tom)
20	#Unstoppable Block (Corrupted Tom)
21	!!Freeplay (Extra)
22	#Come For Revenge ([[VideoGame/FridayNightFunkinDSides D-Sides]] Nibbles/Tuffy Mouse)
23	#Reburning (D-Sides Nibbles/Tuffy Mouse)
24	#None Of All (Nicholas Fedorov/[=Proxima64=] Jerry)
25	#Invade ([[WesternAnimation/TomAndJerryTales Body Slammer]])
26	#Jam (Jammy/James)
27	#Soul Chance ([[WesternAnimation/SwitchinKitten Lightning]])
28	#Meme Mania (Meme Mouse)
29	#Mucho Mouse ([[FanWorks/{{Undertale}} Mousetale Jerry]])
30	#Hydrophobia (WB Splatter Spike)
31	#Desire Or Despair ([[VideoGame/VsSonicExe Famished]] vs. Spike)
32	#Steep Slopes (Tom on Wheels)
33	!!Freeplay (Covers)
34	#[[VideoGame/VsSonicExe Triple Trouble]] (D-Sides Nibbles/Tuffy, [=Proxima64=] Jerry, WB Splatter Spike, Mousetale Jerry, [[spoiler: WB Splatter Tom]] and T&JLC Jerry vs. Butch)
35	#[[VideoGame/TeamFortress2 Kaboom]] ([[WebAnimation/MadnessCombat Grunt Tom]])
36	[[/folder]]
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38	!!''The Basement Show'' provides examples of:
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40	* AcceptableBreaksFromCanon: Both Tom and Jerry rarely talk in the franchise (save for ''[[https://tomandjerry.fandom.com/wiki/The_Lonesome_Mouse The Lonesome Mouse]]'' episode, the 1945 musical-comedy ''Film/{{Anchors Aweigh}}'', and [[WesternAnimation/TomAndJerryTheMovie the 1992 movie]], at least in the classic era), and the ''Switchin' Kitten'' Lightning and the Body Slammer don't even talk at all in their respective episodes (with the former just growling and barking like a dog). Still, none of them would have such great songs if that was the same case in this mod.
41	* AdaptationalBadass: Tuffy (or [[IHaveManyNames Nibbles/Nebos]]) is either a baby or a child mouse that accompanies Jerry (and sometimes him and Tom) in his adventures, but he's mostly shown to be bad at fighting and puts his life in danger only to be saved by Jerry in one way or another ([[JustifiedTrope which makes sense]] considering he's a baby), though he's also been shown to prepare traps with Jerry when planning to defeat Tom. Meanwhile, [[VideoGame/FridayNightFunkinDSides his D-Sides counterpart]], based on the ''creepypasta Jerry'', of all people, is a teenager that took revenge on his version of Tom (called Mitt) [[AdaptationalAngstUpgrade for killing his uncle Jerry]], ''by making him explode into pieces with gunpowder and taking his heart''.
42	* AdaptationalModesty: Girlfriend wears her infamous "Faker" outfit from ''VideoGame/VsSonicExe'' during "Hydrophobia", though in this case the jumper covers her whole torso and her proportions are noticably toned down.
43	* AdaptationalVillainy:
44	** While Jerry in the show is an [[AntiHero antiheroic]] [[TheTrickster trickster]] at best (especially in the movies, where he's portrayed as a hero), and a mischievous sociopathic jerk at worst (with ''[[https://tomandjerry.fandom.com/wiki/The_Year_of_the_Mouse The Year Of The Mouse]]'' episode probably having his worst act yet), he's ''far'' from the bloodthirsty SerialKiller he is in Week 1, which makes sense considering this is his creepypasta counterpart.
45	** Spike might be antagonistic towards Tom (and sometimes Jerry), yet he's also loyal to his owners and to his friends, and even helps Tom & Jerry in some occasions (especially Jerry, though). While it is true that he acts [[EarlyInstallmentWeirdness more like a realistic fearsome bulldog]] [[WesternAnimation/DogTrouble in his first appearance]] and wants to attack both Tom '''and''' Jerry, even then, at least he isn't shown to be agressive towards ''humans''. His WB Splatter counterpart in the mod, however, looks like [[BewareOfViciousDog he's about to]] ''[[BewareOfViciousDog tear Boyfriend and Girlfriend to shreds]]'', with "Hydrophobia" being a heavy metal track [[InterfaceScrew and having a brutal screen-shake mechanic]] while ''also'' having an only-5-misses mechanic midsong, not to mention the bloody corpse of Tom in the background that was previously mutillated by him like in the original WB Splatter edit.
46	** Butch might be a {{Jerkass}} and a [[TheRival rival]] (though sometimes friend) of Tom, [[TheCasanova trying to rob his lover over and over again,]] [[WithFriendsLikeThese bullying him]] and, like any other cat, [[SapientEatSapient attempting to eat]] or get rid of Jerry; but if there's one thing for sure, is that he's definitely not [[EvilMakesYouMonstrous a monstruous]] [[ImAHumanitarian cannibal,]] [[AscendedToCarnivorism an extreme carnivore]] or a delusional freak ("It's better to meet them in another world than to spend the rest of your life in despair") like in "Desire Or Despair". Considering he's this mod's version of [[VideoGame/VsSonicExe Starved]], it's not really a surprise, either.
47	* AdaptedOut: In ''WesternAnimation/BlueCatBlues'', [[spoiler: Jerry sits next to Tom on the railroads at the end of the episode, once he discovers that his lover married someone else, just like Tom]]. However, he's nowhere to be seen [[spoiler: during the entire Week 2.]]
48	* AmbiguousSituation: It's not clear why is the ''Switchin' Kitten'' Lightning angry at BF, considering the reason he's angry at Tom in his respective short was because he was attempting to kill Jerry (as always). If the MadScientist from said episode was involved or if BF just did something to make him mad ([[TakeAThirdOption or both]]) is unknown.
49	* {{Angrish}}: It's confirmed that Jerry doesn't sing correctly in "Sirokou", but instead screeches out of frustration.
50	* AnimalsNotToScale: Tom and the other cats, of course. {{Exaggerated\|Trope}} in comparison to Boyfriend, who's a midget.
51	* BilingualBonus: The name of the song "Sirokou" (without the "-ou") means "basement" in Greek, in reference to the name of the short from the creepypasta and the place where the song takes place.
52	* BittersweetEnding:
53	** [[spoiler: Boyfriend and Girlfriend manage to escape from the clutches of Jerry at the end of Week 1, [[KarmaHoudini but Jerry doesn't receive any sort of karma in the end besides his lost in the rap battles,]] continuing to search for more victims who decide to buy the house.]]
54	** Week 2 is both this [[spoiler: and a DownerEnding. Tom is inevitably run over by the train, but unlike a similar situation with [[VideoGame/MistfulCrimsonMorning Served Plankton]], Boyfriend is able to dodge the train before he is also killed, and is found by Girlfriend shortly after.]]
55	** [[spoiler: Both Boyfriend and Pibby's version of Boyfriend return to their respective home worlds at the end of Week 3, but Pibby's world (or, well, [[TheMultiverse the entire multiverse within the Darkness' range]]) continues to be attacked by the Darkness and Tom, Jerry, Nibbles and Spike are still enslaved by it, making their show basically doomed and with none of their main characters surviving.]]
56	* BreakoutCharacter: The MadScientist from ''WesternAnimation/SwitchinKitten'', who was just a BitCharacter that appeared during the introduction of the short, makes a full appearance in the background of "Soul Chance".
57	* BrokenTears: [[https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/fridaynightfunking/images/1/16/DepressedTomFlashbackDown.gif Tom's down pose]] during the {{Flashback}} of the ''Blue Cat Blues'' episode when he remembers how he lost his love of his life during "Shattered".
58	* CanonImmigrant: The Corrupted Tom (and the other corrupted T&J characters by the Darkness) is not part of the official WesternAnimation/{{Pibby}} pilot, nor any official Pibby or WB/CN media (yet), but rather fanon concepts that became popular enough to be in this mod's canon.
59	* CompositeCharacter: [[JokeCharacter Meme Mouse]] is not really based on a specific variant of Jerry or any character in particular that existed before. He's more of a mix of [[Memes/TomAndJerry different Tom and Jerry memes]], Chinese, American and Latin American (the "¿Khé Verga?" meme).
60	* CreepyGood: Like in the episode it comes from, the Body Slammer is actually not aggressive towards Boyfriend, only to those who threaten it (and even then, it's more like a {{Slapstick}} beating than something serious). In fact, it's one of the few opponents that doesn't have a health drain like the rest. This is ironic, considering its SlasherSmile while taking the form of Jerry is what inspired the creepypasta.
61	* DeathByAdaptation: While it was implied but not shown in his source material, [[spoiler: Tom effectively gets run over by a train at the end of Week 2.]]
62	* DownerEnding: Just like what it was implied in the episode it's based on, [[spoiler: Tom gets run over by the train at the end of Week 2, with only Boyfriend surviving his encounter by moving out of the rails]]. It gets even sadder considering the fact that [[spoiler: nothing could change his mind, and he simply just went on with his suicide.]]
63	* DrivenToSuicide: The Depressed Tom in Week 2, of course. Though [[VideoGame/FridayNightInBikiniBottomLostEpisodes unlike]] [[VideoGame/MistfulCrimsonMorning other]] [[VideoGame/SundayNightSuicide characters]] [[VideoGame/CognitiveCrisis with]] [[VideoGame/CrazinessInjection similar]] [[VideoGame/WednesdaysInfidelity motives]], this Tom doesn't actually come from a creepypasta, but from the episode ''WesternAnimation/BlueCatBlues''.
64	* EvilSoundsDeep: Famished really has such a deep voice, ''especially'' constrasting with Butch's normal voice.
65	-->''"It's better to meet them in another world than to spend the rest of your life in despair... Come on, Spike! Make your choice! I'm the disaster itself!"''
66	* {{Expy}}:
67	** Famished to Starved, and [[JokeCharacter Jammy]] to [[VideoGame/SunkyMPEG Sunky]], both featured in the ''VideoGame/VsSonicExe'' mod.
68	** Mousetale Jerry is obviously his AU version of [[VideoGame/{{Undertale}} Sans]], like in the original fanwork.
69	* {{Foreshadowing}}: The lights in the background of "Shattered" are brighter than in the first 2 songs. [[spoiler: If you saw the original episode, [[ForegoneConclusion you probably know]] [[DrivenToSuicide what it means]].]]
70	* LivingToy: Tom on Wheels is [[https://www.ebay.com/itm/363345845055 a real toy]] still available on eBay... and, apparently, he can also talk and sing, at least in this mod.
71	* MythologyGag:
72	** The initial countdown is replaced with the [[WesternAnimation/MouseTrouble "Don't you]] [[WesternAnimation/TheMissingMouse believe it"]] line said by Tom. It's also mentioned in the creepypasta itself.
73	** Week 1's Jerry YellowEyesOfSneakiness is a reference to [[https://fridaynightfunking.fandom.com/wiki/The_Basement_Show/Characters?file=Imagen_2022-07-26_195248645.png the image that inspired the creepypasta]] in the first place, which is that of the Body Slammer disguised as Jerry and making a SlasherSmile in the episode ''[[WesternAnimation/TomAndJerryTales Invasion of the Body Slammers]]''.
74	** The name for "House for Sale" is a reference to a line from the creepypasta: "The last shot is Jerry putting up a "For Sale" sign on the yard of the house, laughing, clearly planning to do it all again".
75	** Midsong during "Shattered", we see Tom remembering the events before Week 2, which are frames from the ''WesternAnimation/BlueCatBlues'' episode.
76	** The different voices used for each variant of Tom & Jerry might sound like VocalDissonance...if it wasn't for the fact that Tom & Jerry never had any definitive type of voice for each episode or adaptations, since they rarely talked at all (William Hanna might have made the iconic screams for Tom and some of his dialogues, but not even he stayed all the time recording all of Tom's voices). Some were more deep, others more high or in-between. So of course each Tom & Jerry would have different vocals.
77	* RodentsOfUnusualSize:
78	** A more {{downplayed\|trope}} [[FunnyAnimal cartoony]] example with Jerry. [[VideoGame/CognitiveCrisis Unlike]] [[VideoGame/SundayNightSuicide certain]] [[VideoGame/VsMouse other]] [[VideoGame/CrazinessInjection bipedal]] [[VideoGame/WednesdaysInfidelity mice]] Boyfriend ([[IdenticalGrandfather and his great-great-grandfather, in the latter case]]) faced before, Jerry's more like a common mouse in the show ([[WorldOfFunnyAnimals well, the cartoony anthropomorphic kind, anyway]]). Here, at least in the cutscenes, he's almost the size of ''Boyfriend and Girlfriend''. What's weird is that, in gameplay, [[YourSizeMayVary both of them and Jerry become mouse-size with no explanation whatsoever]], given the dimension of the objects and Tom's hand in the background.
79	** Same goes with the D-Sides Tuffy, [[spoiler: the Corrupted Tuffy]] and the other Jerrys (not the gameplay part, of course), except for the [=Proxima64=] Jerry, who's the size of a mouse.
80	* PromotedToPlayable: Twice, in fact; Spike is playable in "Desire Or Despair", and Butch is the player character for the "Triple Trouble" cover (ironically, Butch is the one who faces a version of Spike in this cover instead of vice versa like in "Desire Or Despair").
81	* ShoutOut: There's plenty:
82	** The voice for Meme Mouse comes from the one used by players to complain about mouse-side teammates or make fun of the cat-side players in the Chinese server of the battle mobile game ''Tom and Jerry: Chase''.
83	** Speaking of Meme Mouse, "Meme Mania" has references to [[VideoGame/TouhouKoumakyouTheEmbodimentOfScarletDevil "Beloved Tomboyish Girl", "U.N. Owen Was Her?"]], "[[VideoGame/TouhouEiyashouImperishableNight Lunatic Eyes ~ Invisible Full Moon]]", the VideoGame/AmongUs [[Memes/AmongUs Trap Remix]], "Astronomía" by Tony Igy & Vicetone, "[[Series/LazyTown We are Number One]]", "[[VideoGame/{{Undertale}} Megalovania]]" (which is also referenced in "Steep Slopes"), and "Super Idol de Xiao Rong 热爱105°C的你" by Tian Yiming, respectively.
84	** "Menaced" has a reference to ''Mucho Mouse'', Mousetale Jerry's theme.
85	** "Tragical Comedy" has a reference to ''[[VideoGame/WednesdaysInfidelity Dejection]]''.
86	** "None of All" has a reference to ''[[VideoGame/VsSonicExe Sunshine]]''.
87	** "Desire or Despair" has a reference to ''[[VideoGame/VsSonicExe Cycles]]'', once again repeating the now iconic riff from "Execution".
88	** Famished's "[[CapsLock I LOVE THAT MOUSE!]]" phrase in [[https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/fridaynightfunking/images/1/13/Imagen_2022-10-17_120608622.png this artwork]] is a reference to [[VideoGame/VsSonicExe Starved]]'s phrase: "[[AllLowercaseLetters i love that hedgehog]]", but in capital letters and with an exclamation mark instead of only lowercase letters.
89	* TurnsRed: Jerry starts to get pissed off midsong during the V1.5 and V2 "Vanishing" (more notoriously in V2, where he slowly starts to get annoyed instead of immediately like in V1.5, and attempts to kill BF ''before'' "Sirokou"). In the old "Vanishing", he's already angry.
90	* ZombieApocalypse: Week 3, set in the apocaliptic world of ''WesternAnimation/{{Pibby}}'', has our Boyfriend (which accidentally swapped places with Pibby!Boyfriend) and the eponymous protagonist surrounded by corrupted versions of Tom, Jerry, Nibbles and Spike, and BF must rap battle Tom in order to survive.

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