is a series of web-based shorts created by the YouTuber DailyAirings that features many recognizable characters. It made its debut on YouTube in 2021 and is currently at its third season.Gory Toons' premise is somewhat hard to describe. Effectively, it is a Fan Work of Happy Tree Friends but as a Massive Multiplayer Crossover with the likes of other works. It features the same Black Comedy premise, where everyone is a Chew Toy subjected to merciless pain, nightmarish violence, and disgusting Body Horror. It goes without saying that each episode features at least one violent death.
That being said, Gory Toons comes with its own oddities as well, as some of the episodes’ stories can be as zany as the newcomers involved. These include road rage, cannibalistic rampages, wacky races, and what have you. In fact, the episodes are possibly stranger than the Crossover premise itself!
Gory Toons provides examples of:
- Absurdly Sharp Blade: This applies to anything and everything that has a sharp edge. Chances are, someone will be killed by it.
- Accidental Murder: Most deaths are usually caused in this manner.
- Ambidextrous Sprite: Lumpy's inverted antler, SpongeBob's holes, and Nutty's lazy eye tend to change from side to side, often in contiguous shots. This is done so often that it almost seems intentional.
- Anyone Can Die: Every character, excluding Clara, Stan Marsh, and Kenny's parents has died at least once.
- Art Evolution: In particular, the character designs became less crude as the show progress.
- Art-Style Dissonance: For a web series drawn with a simplistic art style, it has gruesome moments. Plenty of them.
- Black-Hole Belly: In "The power of supernova", Kirby inhales the Miracle Fruit, transforming him into Hypernova Kirby, and proceeds to inhale everybody else.
- The Big Race: In "Dieseling Derby", and a hilariously gruesome one at that.
- Bizarrchitecture: In “And It Just Fixs”, where Pop’s house was inexplicably falling apart and started to horrifically mutilate Kirby at the most inconvenient times.
- Body Horror: Without a doubt. Complete with dismemberment, bloodshed, impalement, evisceration, Eye Scream, etc.
- Bloody Hilarious: Of course, who doesn't like seeing their childhood getting subjected to needless violence?
- The Cameo: Escargoon makes one in "Dieseling Derby"
- Comedic Sociopathy: Quite a few episodes run on this. “Road Rage” is perhaps the worst offender. Linda strangles Wario to death and drops Kirby into a meat grinder with no remorse. At the end, Pop tries to defend himself by hiring Squidward to kill her. And then there’s the ending, where Cub sets up a trap to kill his own father for a petty reason.
- Cosmic Plaything: Any character in any situation is likely to be this. Often, they survive incredible things only to die from a throwaway detail anyway.
- The Chew Toy: Everyone. But some characters definitely get the short end of the stick more than others.
- Crossover: This whole show is a crossover. Happy Tree Friends and SpongeBob SquarePants happen to be the most prominent works featured in Gory Toons.
- Deadly Rotary Fan: Kirby's death in "And It Just Fixs!".
- Death Is Cheap: By the end of the episode, at least one character will be dead or otherwise horrifically injured, only to return the next episode completely unscathed.
- Disaster Dominoes: A character will be injured, they or others will panic, this panic will lead to a worse injury or death, leading to a wider panic which tends to kill off those left standing.
- Eat the Bomb: Wario does this in "Down The Snatch", where he swallows Poppy Bros. Jr.'s bomb.
- Everything Trying to Kill You: EVERYTHING! No matter what, and we mean no matter what, a character, object, or hazard will cause the death of at least a few characters.
- Eye Scream: And how.
- In “And It Just Fixs!”, because of poor timing, Cuddles and SpongeBob’s firework causes Kirby to jam a hammer into his eye.
- Two instances in "All For Ski". Firstly, Lumpy's severed antlers jabs both of SpongeBob's eyes. The second one involves the latter getting impaled in the eye by a tree branch.
- Mr. Krabs gets stabbed in the eye-stalk by a knife in “Blind Mistake”
- Toothy gets yet another eye injury in "Restless Meg Syndrome". When SpongeBob attempts to fix Toothy's back, he pressed too hard on Toothy's chest, making both of his eyes swell up. One of them eventually pops out of its socket, with only the optic nerve keeping it intact. SpongeBob hastily tries to repair Toothy's gouged eyeballs, but two minutes later, he ends up gouging them out completely.
- In “Zombodie Told Me”, Nutty gets both of his eyes gouged by Zombie!Cuddles with his own glasses.
- In the Gory Toons break, "Undancy Resemblance", Toothy accidentally stabs himself in the eye with a lollipop stick. Ring a bell?
- In “Crappy Flush”, SpongeBob’s eyes are penetrated by a toothbrush, a bottle of alcohol, a shaver, and a plunger, the latter which impales his entire brain.
- In “We Round Love”, Petunia is pelted with several eating utensils, including a fork to her eye.
- Fingore: Chef Pee Pee suffers this, where his fingernails are scrapped off in "Zombodie Told Me".
- Halloween Special: "Zombodie Told Me" in 2021 and "Good Fright!" in 2023.
- Improbable Infant Survival: Oddly, played straight with Cub and most other children characters, too. Gruesomely averted with Kenny McCormick, as expected.
- Kill the Cutie: SpongeBob and Kirby classify equally as the Happy Tree Friends, especially Kirby in both areas.
- Killer Rabbit: Many non-anthropomorphic animals in the show classify as this, like Whistle in “And It Just Fixs”. Also, Kirby whenever he is the villain and for a literal example, Cuddles in the episode "Zombodie Told Me".
- Mandatory Twist Ending: In almost every episode at least one character dies horribly.
- Negative Continuity: The only way to keep the series going, or else everyone would be dead after about 5 episodes.
- Noodle Incident: In “Splendid What Mondon’t”, Kirby was already set ablazed through unknown circumstances by the time Splendid arrived there.
- Oh, Crap!: For when death is imminent and the characters are well aware of it. Larry Koopa gets several big ones in "Good Fright!".
- Rabble Rouser: When not the entire town, Sheila Broflovski and Pop tend to spearhead most of the town's riots.
- Rasputinian Death: If a character isn't killed instantly by something, chances are they'll go through quite a few more injuries before finally dying. The most well-known examples of this include Kirby in "And It Just Fixs!" and SpongeBob in "All For Ski".
- Rule of Funny: The explanation of Gory Toons’ chaotic nature.
- Sadist Show: How else can you describe it? This show thrives on killing characters of your childhood.
- Serial Escalation: At one point, Splendid went from screwing up as usual to spreading a fire onto two separate victims to engulfing the entire city in flames.
- Shoot the Shaggy Dog: Almost every episode, although some of the most noteworthy examples include “All For Ski”, where SpongeBob is subjected to torment through no fault of his own and “Road Rage”, where Pop spends the episode trying to escape a homicidal maniac, only to be killed by his own son.
- Status Quo Is God: Despite the number of times that the characters have been killed and the horrific ways in which this occurs, they'll always be alive and well by the next episode.
- Subverted Kids' Show: It features characters like SpongeBob SquaePants, yet is filled to the brim with violence and gore.
- Sugar Apocalypse: Happens routinely.
- They Killed Kenny Again: Almost everyone.
- Unexplained Recovery: The characters die in every episode and inexplicably come back to life in the next.
- Wingding Eyes: Mr. Krabs, true to his character, often gets the dollar sign variation.
