Cox and Combes' Washington is a 2½-minute long musical short created by Brad Neely. The short was what first garnered Neely the attention of Super Deluxe.com. As its name suggests the short centered around a Memetic Badass revision of George Washington as narrated by the Creased Comics characters Cox and Combes. The short derives its humor mostly from visual gags and the larger than larger than life exploits of George Washington.
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The Short includes the following tropes:
- Acid Pool: Washington dunks an opponent's wife's hand into a jar of acid. At a party.
- Anachronism Stew: Washington picking up a telephone
- Ambiguously Gay: Cox and Combes seem a bit too concerned with how many testicles and/or penises George Washington possessed.
- Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever: Twelve stories tall made of radiation. The present beware, the future beware, he's coming, he's coming.
- Big Eater: At one point Washington apparently eats the entire rear half of a nearby deer with a single bite.
- Body Horror: Washington apparently has both a brain in his head AND in place of his heart, and his body is allegedly covered from head to toe in penises.
- Brain Food: Washington eats the brains of his enemies.
- Combo Platter Powers: Washington is shown to shoot lasers, fly, have super strength, control water, kick people in half, and swordfight.
- Dark and Troubled Past: Washington killed his sensei in a duel, but never said why. The animation shows him blinking back tears after doing so.
- Eye Beams: How Washington kills with a stare.
- Heroic Comedic Sociopath: Washington again."Washington, Washington/ Six foot 20, fucking killing for fun."
- Historical Badass Upgrade: Though it's irrefutably true that Washington performed most of the actions in the video, Cox and Combes give him several extra penises.
- Hookers and Blow: Washington INVENTED cocaine.
- Insistent Terminology: His enemies are always called "opponents".
- Interspecies Romance: He fucks the shit out of bears.
- Kick the Dog: Plenty of it on Washington's part. It's balanced out by the fact that he's the loving owner of a pet Schnauzer.
- Made of Plasticine: Washington's opponents, although its also possible that he really is strong enough to kick a man in half.
- Manly Tears: When Washington kills his sensei in a duel. (But never says why.)
- Noodle Incident: Most of the song, but the "killed a sensei in a duel and never said why" and throwing a knife into heaven stand out.
- Pet the Dog: Washington saving children... as long as they're not British.
- Running Gag: Washington's height increases each time it's mentioned.
- Shout-Out:
- Two to Prince: on the line "Sue me if I go to fast," itself a lyric from "1999," one of the characters brandishes the Purple One's custom "Love Symbol" guitar. Later, it's said that Washington has a (literal) "pocket full of horses," which paraphrases a line from "Little Red Corvette" which is slang for having condoms.
- Instead of just crossing the Delaware, Washington parts it ala Moses.
