As Tom Ska specialises in comedy sketches, most of his work is utterly hilarious. However, there are several examples that stand out...
- The "Banned University of Lincoln Adverts". All three
of them. - "HOLY SHIT CATS", in all its over-the-top silliness. Tom and Jenny versus cats that shoot lasers.
Tom: I was really drunk when I wrote this film.
- Tom's musings on Father's Day.
- Coming Out is about a guy at Tom's birthday party named Jack who has a nervous condition that makes him say he's gay in a clever rhyming way whenever he enters a room and everyone tries to help him with it. The first time has him saying he hates gay people (which is much worse), the second time has him saying nothing and making out with a guy, the third time has him coming through the window and falling through it and then just waving which is a success. It then skips to Jack and Tom getting married and it turns out the video was all about supporting gay marriage.
- VIDEO GAMES ARE DUMB has many hilarious moments but the one that stands out most are the Castlevania parts where Dracula's bratty teenage daughter tries to disobey him.
- First time.
Dracula: Daughter, you cannot go out, it's past your bedtime!
Daughter: I'll do what I want, daddy!
[Daughter goes outside and it's daytime. She catches on fire.] - Second time.
Dracula: Daughter, you cannot join a religion!
Daughter: Don't tell me what to do, daddy!
[Beat, then daughter catches on fire.] - Third time.
Daughter: Daddy, I bought a boy home for dinner!
Dracula: Fantastic!
[Dracula eats the boy. Beat, then both of them catch on fire.] - Another hilarious segment is the Legend of Zelda parts where Link gets the Kokori Sword from the chest and it continues floating up into the air as the music plays and then Link pouts and gives up after a few attempts to catch it before it flies up. In the next segment the sword ends up landing in Link's head as the Find Item theme plays.
- Baby with a Gun. Tom walks out of the kitchen to discover a baby with a gun and then does a bunch of crazy hijinks in response and even ends up pointing a gun at the baby and gives the baby his gun and then gets shot by it and kicks it out. What sells the joke is the many many ways Tom says "That's a baby with a gun!" and tries and fails to reason with it.
- Sniper Pug from start to finish with Tom as the Only Sane Man and it being revealed that Sargeant Pugsly is actually a Bunny-Ears Lawyer that is an amazing sniper despite being a dog with no opposable thumbs and only being there because the commanding officer couldn't afford a dog sitter. Then they all die because of a cat and a nuke.
- Tom discovers planking. "Well, he's dead."
- "Picture Perfect". True Art Is Indeed Angsty.
- "I've filled the room... with tiny, razor-sharp needles..."
- HORSE, in all it Comedic Sociopathy-filled Surreal Humor. Words cannot describe the insanity.
- How Tom "makes" his cartoons.
"THAT DOESN'T MAKE ANY SENSE!"
- The Hole. DUNNNNN
- Alice walks in asking about the best movie of all time, "17 Again", but it's in the Hole. DUNNNNN
- Tom put a rug over it. The rug fell in the Hole. DUNNNNN
- Tom called the Police. They're in the Hole. DUNNNNN
- Alice then asks where Tom's girlfriend is. At work.
- Alice then drops Tom's mug in the Hole.
- And his dog falls in too. DUN
- Tom looks like he fell in the Hole but he got a snack.
- Tom noncholantly shoots a Hole Person
- And it turns out Tom was holding 17 Again the whole time.
- The entirety of ''The Confession''.
Jenny: Chris, we have something to tell you—
Tom: BLURRRRGH! - "EPIC GIRLFRIEND PRANKS", in all of its over-the-top and borderline socially unacceptable glory. It involves Tom pranking his girlfriend(?) Alice to shocking extents, including pieing her in the face as she is being proposed to.
- This is then followed by her fiance chasing Tom, catching him after a short matter of time, and beating him up.
- "STUPID JUSTIN BIEBER PARODY", in which Justin Bieber possesses the ability to time travel after a freak autotuning accident. Oh, and he time travels through his butt - to show that Justin Bieber has his head up his own arse!
- Even though "The 7 Flaws of Tomska" is a very sad video, it's at the very least amusing to hear Tom completely deadpanning the following line when talking about his sexual insecurity:
Tom: You'll never hear me talking about all dem hunnies I dun scored wid at da club.
- Though it has an ending that personifies Black Comedy, the "Where's The Baby" video. It focuses around a missing baby, which would be cause for plenty of concern but you're unable to take it seriously because everyone in the video uses Baby Talk when referring to the baby.
- invoked I don't know, where a secret agent tries to get in on a crime boss' poker game. Problem: She doesn't know how to play poker. Not that anyone involved knows anything.
- TOMSKA'S OLYMPICS EMPORIUM, in which Tom (wearing tattered remnants of a shirt) advertises his emporium which sells a variety of 'lympics (Brolympics, Toelympics, Nolympics, Afrolympics, Hoelympics, etc.) and gear (sharp-as-all-hell throwy stick, not drowning, balls of fire, etc).
- "I'm just paying my way through college." "...Alright."
- "We got plenty of some nu metal bands - Olymbizkit. Also, Limpin Park."
- Tom's many accents and impressions. Also a CMOA.
- Le Alien. Tom kidnaps a French person, and trying to pass him off as an alien that he has captured. Turns out he was right.
- 17 WAYS TO DUMP YOUR GIRLFRIEND. Highlights include...
- Use A Disguise:
Brad!Tom: [in a fake-sounding accent] Hello! I am Brad, and you should break up with my brother, who is Tom.
Brad: [in the same accent] Oh my god I do not sound like that!
Brad!Tom: [still in the accent] Uh oh.
- Be Dramatic:
Tom: I can't see you anymore.
Dodie: Why not?
Tom: Because I have...
[turns around to show that he has no eyes] NO EYES!
Dodie: AAAA-
[Smash Cut] - Burst.
- The Violent Treatment
- It was so funny even Dodie was corpsing during the sketch.
- The Right Way... Writing a Sketch About Breaking Up With Your Girlfriend and Leave It In the Fridge For Your Actual Girlfriend to Find... and burst!
- Baby With A Gun 2 has the titular baby, this time going up against a police negotiator. It goes about as well as you'd expect.
- "Don't worry, Chief. There's nothing I can't handle." (Gilligan Cut) "I can't handle this."
- "Dear Santa. I have been a good boy. I did NOT ask for this!"
- "AAA-I'm fine. AAAAH! I'm not fine."
- "Uh oh! Smells like someone went poopy! It was me. I'm very scared.
- ALL OF THE GOD DAMN PICKUP LINES IN First Contact.
Tom: If looks could kill, then you must be the Zodiac Killer! [picks up conspiracy board] I found you!
Tom: Are you free tonight? Because I don't have any money. [gets slapped] I deserve that.
Tom: I was always told to follow my dreams, so I'm gonna follow you home.
Tom: Who has two thumbs and a big penis? [holds up hands, without thumbs and with blood squirts] This guy! [notices] WHERE ARE MY THUMBS?!
Tom: Do you want kids? [holds bag of crying babies] Cause I got a whole bag of em, right here.
Tom: Hey baby, you take my breath away. [faints due to lack of oxygen]
Tom: I like my women how I like my coffee, [holding a coffee and a spoon of sugar] milk and two sugars, open wide. [forces coffee and sugar into her mouth]
Tom: [breaks an ice cube] Well, now that I've broken the ice, [notices he's bleeding due to breaking the ice] AAAAAAAAAH!
- HOLY SHIT CATS 2 is, well, even crazier than the prequel. Guess why.
- Imaginary Friend. Lily and Mr. Tibbles are best friends! Except Lily may actually be insane. And she's actually the imaginary friend in question in a world populated by cartoon animals without legs.
- In Big Fat Monster, the military confuses Tom for some sort of gigantic monster. Tom is hurt at first, until he notices an actual giant monster next to him. Unfortunately for Tom:
- And then the monster is so disgusted by Tom that he shoots himself.
- The entire Meanwhile series. The original, the sequel, the third one, and the mini fourth one.
- "Wizzo the Wizard" has been favorably compared to a Monty Python skit, and with good reason.
Dave: What's [magic]?
Wizzo the Wizard: I can... make stuff.
Dave: Ohhh... like Harry Potter?
Wizzo the Wizard: Who's Harry Potter?
Harry:
(waves hello) Hi, I'm Harry Potter.
Wizzo the Wizard: What do you do?
Harry:
I make pots.
Wizzo the Wizard: That's not magic!
Harry: Well... maybe not to you.
- Tom's motley adventures in AI Dungeon as the humble peasant Tombl, who keeps accidentally having sexual relations with young girls due to the capricious whims of the AI, note First he has clothed sex with a girl named Heather who happily admits to only being 14, then discovers that his beloved wife pre-Timeskip in the second scenario is only 13 much to Tom's horror. When Tombl finally manages to escape those awkward scenarios (through continuous story resets on Tom's part), he ends up becoming the paramour in his best friend Percy's gay love affair against his girlfriend Hazel, who Percy constantly imagines Tombl to be in what seems to be an attempt to assuage his guilt. Feeling betrayed, Tom swiftly pulls out of that scenario too and finally nets Tombl a good scenario where he and his adult wife make passionate love to each other before a dragon burns down their farmhouse and he gets revenge by not only killing the dragon, but all of the elves who were trying to drive off the dragon in the first place as well(because Tombl hates elves).
- "1 Man, 27 Impressions" has this glorious line.
- Tom's interaction with Surfshark, trying to find what the limit on dark content was - while his contact appeared to genuinely enjoy the dark skits - including suicide, child porn, threatening with guns, and even outright murder and torture jokes - egged him on. Eventually Tom gave up as it was driving him to madness and couldn't come up with anything that wouldn't just get him banned from youtube.
At this point, I am so desperate to find the limit that I am erring into territory that even I am uncomfortable with. Specifically, themes like "Coercive suicide", [...] and still, the script gets approved with no edits.—
TomSka,
Dear Surfshark, Please Fire Me - Tom talks about the 100% canonical dark side of the Thomas & Friends franchise.
- The Blame Game starts with Tom kidnapping his old school bully, who blames the bullying on another bully. They kidnap her, only for her to kill the mood by calling him "Ham-Man", his old nickname which the first bully had forgotten, much to Tom's frustration. She blames it on her abusive, alcoholic father... And it just goes from there. Keep in mind that up to this point every time someone is blamed, it cuts to the person being blamed immediately in the chair with a bag over their head, to the point where they eventually kidnap a corpse and the anthropomorphic manifestations of capitalism and luck, much to Tom's bewilderment. Eventually Tom somehow ends up in the chair. After a heartfelt discussion about needing to move on from resentment and overcoming insecurities... Tom decides to blame God for turning out the way he did, eats his gun, and successfully kidnaps God... Who proceeds to call him "Ham-Man".
- His entire TUGS review. Highlights include:
- He has a minor breakdown over the idea of the boats having sex.
Tom: Grampus is SUBMERSED and BREEDABLE! I! Used to have! POTENTIAL!
- TomSka's Guide To Plagiarism (The Somerton Scale) is obviously inspired by H.Bomberguy's own video about plagiarism. It's lampshaded by a cameo from Harry himself...
Harry:
(in a video that Tom is watching) ...the end. And that concludes my
brief four-hour video about plagiarism. Thanks for watching! Don't steal my video idea.
Tom: I'm gonna steal that video idea.
Harry: NO, TOM! PLEASE! PLE-
(Reaches out of the screen and chokes Tom) - Almost all of "Dirty Mags With The Lads", but the following examples are the crowners:
- When they begin to look at the magazines, Eddie says this:
Eddie: I love this one, it's like, "role-playing games with absolutely no limits!" Okay I cast THUNDER!
Tom: Okay, I explode!
Elliot: In my pussy?!
- Eddie apparently found a porn mag in a bush, much to the confusion of Tom and Elliot.
- "THERE ARE BOOBIES IN THIS!"
- Eddie is given the UK Housewives magazine, much to his horror.
Eddie: I don't want to meet Britain's most amorous granny!
