Baby Cakes is a series of several short films created by Brad Neely. Each short is in the form of a diary entry from Mark Cakes, known by the nickname Babycakes. Babycakes enjoys writing freestyle music, searching for love, and attempting to prove that his father and the other professors are wizards.
- Diary #1: Babycakes begins his diary by describing an average day.
- Diary #2: Babycakes visits his dad's dad. Hilarity Ensues.
- Diary #3: Babycakes goes to the park to become one with nature.
- Diary #4: Babycakes divulges his forbidden desire.
- Diary #5: Babycakes uses his "me time" to be other people.
- Diary #6: Babycakes reflects on memories and remembering things.
- Doors: Babycakes has a brief entry on two surprises.
- Group Therapy: Babycakes breaks out some fresh rhymes about his day.
- Coffee Line: Babycakes discusses wizardry and spells with a patient barista.
- Lies: Babycakes explains the lies he has been fed by the world.
- The Role Play Tournament (Be Aggressive): Babycakes sings about his time at the Role Play Tournament.
- Babycakes Sees A Play: Babycakes attends a play "called Shakespeare."
Not to be confused with the My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic episode.
The Shorts include the following tropes:
- Amazing Technicolor Population: A few of the background characters.
- Ascended Extra: Baby Cakes' dad. He doesn't do much in the shorts but is much more developed in China, IL.
- Attention Deficit... Ooh, Shiny!: "I started reading this Bible. It sucks."
- The Blue Beard: Baby Cakes' grandfather calls his father this, which raises some questions about the Missing Mom.
- Captain Obvious:"Those guys that keep following us were following us."
- Cloudcuckoolander: Babycakes.
- Eagleland: "My country is wonderful! I don't have to think about anything!"
- Exact Words: Babycakes isn't a virgin because "he can't give birth to a Jesus."
- Eye Beams: Used in a few videos.
- Funny Background Event: Often the words or people in the background include blink-and-you'll-miss-it jokes.
- Baby Cakes' dog is in every video at least once.
- Gilligan Cut: "They had the times of their lives." Chimmy and Nethario sitting.
- Good Smoking, Evil Smoking: Babycakes' dad's dad.
- Got the Whole World in My Hand: Babycakes repeatedly sits on the world.
- Great Gazoo: The Brain Fuckler.
- Grumpy Old Man: Dad's Dad, although he becomes a lot nicer by the end of episode 2 after he moves past his hangups.We knew the time would be sucky, because grandpa had become a mean thing.
- Inherently Funny Words: Chimmy Chummy and Kenny Winker.
- It's All Junk: Played beautifully and hilariously in Diary #2. Dad's Dad and Dad begin singing together, Baby Cakes joining in, as they Trash the Set, burning down the Cakes estate in a drunken, heartwarming haze. It starts off as an accident, but they decide it's for the best, and grandpa gleefully throws gas on the fire. Called out in the episode's Couch Gag:"Burn your house! It's okay to go crazy!"
- Kick the Dog: "Oh shit! Malcolm!"
- Let the Past Burn: In Diary #2, the gloomy home of Dad and Dad's Dad is burned down in the midst of a drunken musical number, allowing Dad's Dad to finally move on after he tearfully throws a photo of his dead wife into the fire.Baby Cakes: Burn your house! It's okay to go crazy!
- Manchild: A "Playboy Man-Baby" in fact.
- Mythical Motifs: Dragons show up, as well as Unicorns and Polycorns (multiple horns).
- No Eye in Magic: "Eye Contact" is one of the wizardly spells.
- One-Man Army: Baby Cakes utterly destroys the Role Play Tournament, his stock-standard barbarian rolling critical successes enough to take out an entire ship with his bare hands and wipe out virtually the entire tourney solo.
- Precision F-Strike: Along with Cluster F-Bomb at times, each video has at least one.
- Rule of Three:"Sometimes I go down to the lake and sing songs to the lake about the lake."
- Running Gag: Babycakes' "freestyle." Maybe the Brain Fuckler.
- The Runt at the End: Visually, the characters introduced by Babycakes in Diary #1, which are seven attractive women and a witch.
- Solid Gold Poop: Literally.
- Space "X": The Moon Babies.
- Talking Down the Suicidal: One of the "important things" Baby Cakes sees on his walk to the park is a "Wisdom of Socrates" machine where every card says DON'T KILL YOURSELF.
- Theme Song: Though the lyrics change.
- Waxing Lyrical: In Diary #3:Baby Cakes: If you try sometimes, you just might find you get what you want.
- Word Salad Lyrics:"Yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yeyeyes yeyeyes yeyeyes yeyeyes yeyeyes!"