Web Animation / Metropolis (2023)

aka: Metropolis

Metropolis is the third film festival of the annual 48 Hour OSC Film Festival which premiered live on 5th June 2023.

We now exit out of the tranquil, unkept beauty that was Nature's Bliss and into the big city known as Metropolis (This year's theme). A bustling hub where you can either live out your wildest dreams imaginable or watch them get crushed beyond repair. Where this concrete jungle is seemingly alive with city-goers, love and crimes galore or long abandoned with no sign of civilization.

The festival had a huge turnout with over a hundred groups, both individual and team effort, creating a total of 92 shorts and five hours and twenty-seven minutes of animation within the usual two-day timeframe window. It also introduces Filmy, a fan strip, the Mascot and a die-hard fan of the film festival who serves as the bridge between the intermissions.

At the end of the screening, the viewers will vote for "Best in Show" via donations where all proceeds go to The Trevor Project. The festival raised a total of $1,026.

• The Winners:
  • WILL (1st)
  • The Million Dollar Idea (2nd)
  • FRAGMENTS (3rd)

Not be confused with the film or anime of the same name.

Preceded by Nature's Bliss

Check out the full screening alongside the individual shorts.

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Contains the following tropes:

In General

• Alliterative Name: Like the previous festival, Metropolis has thirteen film titles following the trope^note  Bank Breakers, The Colour Crew, A Cup Of Change, Magical Malfunction, Metro Memoir, The Metropolis Mayor, Moonlight Memories, Paint Can Peril, The Plant Protest, Tale of Two Cities, Troop 16, Critter Crusaders and Window Wipers
• Audience Participation: The QR code that comes up during the intermissions takes you to the donation drive to vote for the best short while the chat comments on the events going on in the short.
• Bickering Couple, Peaceful Couple: There's a noticeable trend that the few straight couples in the festival are either broken up^note Dollar in "A Million Problems" and Mark in "A Day in the Life of Mark" got dumped by their respective girlfriends while Briefcase's wife divorced him and took the kids in "Just Another Tuesday" or dysfunctional^note In "Wild Dreams", Poppy was manipulated into getting back together with her toxic ex Peacock Feather via memory wipe, with the only exception being Sunny and Fedoric in "A City of Gray", whereas the abundance of LGBT couples are incredibly lovey-dovey and happy together.
• The Cameo:
  • Waiting in the elevator alongside Filmy during intermission #6 was Dandy, the Title Character of last year's second placer Dandelion - The World Begins With You, who the latter asks if they had met before.
  • Corn from second-placer Reach For The Sky! of the first film festival appears at the beginning where Filmy annoys the hell out of him with their fanboying and retaliated by pressing all the elevator buttons and stealing his movie snacks for good measure.
• Chastity Couple: The many couples in Metropolis usually just hug, hold hands and/or say they love each other but the chat wants them to kiss as evidenced by the feverishly-typed abundance of comments saying they should.
• City Noir: Three films, "The Leftovers", "Terrors And Fables Of The Horrible City Of Cityplace" and "An Awakening Mystery", focuses on detectives solving a case in the nitty-gritty side of the city with the former two being Deliberately Monochrome as tirbute to the genre.
• Elevator Buttons Mash: Exasperated by Filmy's excessive gushing over the film festival, Corn spites them by pressing all ninety-two buttons on the elevator as the screening is on the ninety-second floor. The segways and Intermissions are through the elevator stopping on each individual floor and Filmy waiting in-between.
• Elevator Failure: Filmy spends the entire film festival stuck in an elevator with all the buttons pressed. It also would occasionally stall at two-minute increments and at one point had a power outage for five minutes.^note It would have been a whole day if the initial screening plans went through without incident.
• Mascot: Filmy the film strip who acts as the Audience Surrogate by being an avid Fanboy excited for the screening and is seen during the Intermissions taking the elevator floor-by-floor. It's unknown if they are gonna be the official mascot of the 48-Hour OSC Film Festival onwards or just for Metropolis only since legotd61 made up the character on the spot with no further plans.
• Official Couple: Metropolis has the most number of onscreen couples of all the film festivals, in part due to the screening having been released during Pride Month, featuring a total of thirteen pairs:
  • "A City of Gray": Unlike the other straight couples listed, Sunny and Fedoric are Happily Married with the former being the only light in the latter's miserable life. The first thing Fedoric did after he quit his job was rush back home to his wife and watch tv together.
  • "Wild Dreams": Poppy and Peacock Feather until the former acknowledges how toxic and dysfunctional they were. They recently broke up but Peacock Feather was so persistent in getting back together, he memory-wipes Poppy so she remains miserably trapped in their crapsack of a relationship.
  • "Just Another Tuesday": Briefcase and his unnamed wife were one since the credits revealed they got divorced with the children taken away from him. This would explain his cynical and depressive state in the short proper.
  • "Terrors And Fables Of The Horrible City Of Cityplace": Claire Wilson was revealed to have a wife who didn't take her death well at all and spends her only scene crying puddles over her lost beloved.
  • "A Million Problems": Dollar Bill has an unnamed girlfriend until she had broken up with him over the phone, adding to his already horrendous day.
  • "A day in the life of Mark": Mark and his girlfriend Bottle O'Ship until she dumped then kicked him out of the house. She did regret this decision, however, as it led to Mark dying in a robbery shootout.
  • "Moving Day": Popsicle and Parfait became one during a Timeskip, making them the second sapphic blue-and-pink pairing confirmed by the former kissing the latter on the cheek.
  • "FRAGMENTS": Fish Cake spent the entire short finding a way back to his boyfriend Wrench after his elimination. They share the only kiss on the lips in Metropolis, and the second in the 48-Hour OSC Film Festival as a whole.
• One-Steve Limit: There's only a finite number of objects that are recognizable and relatively easy to animate before they start repeating. As such, characters from different shorts end up with the same names as per Object Show tradition from being named according to their object.
• Public Domain Soundtrack: As per tradition, Kevin MacLeod music was played during the Intermissions. The tracks in order are Pamgaea, Local Forecast, Pinball Spring and The Complex with "Thief in the Night" for the film segways.
• Shipper on Deck: The livestream was set to release during Pride month so there were a lot more LGBTQ+ couples and moments this time around. As such, the chat was in a particular frenzy chanting "Kiss! Kiss! Kiss!" whenever something romantic or intimate happens between characters. Including the chat modulators and big OSC creators.
  • A very funny instance of this is when Dandy made a cameo during one of the Intermissions waiting in the elevator with Filmy. After both briefly interacted for a few seconds, the chat does what it does best:
  Commentor #1: dandelion????
  Commentor #2: KISS
  Commentor #3: KISSSSSSS
  legotd61: NO CHAT

Individual Shorts (By Order of Appearance)

#1-20

1. The Leftovers

Created by: Ivykit, Noddy, Jell and 111robloxdude

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Tropes for the short can be found here.

2. Super Object Megacorporation

Created by: Kramson, loonmoons, shimzo, chortle, Pirans and wishfixers

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• Surrounded by Idiots: Shakey's true feelings about their colleagues since she has to clean up after their messes due to their incompetency.
• Naïve Newcomer: The short follows Star Ledger on her first day of work in a big company and decides to commemorate the occasion by doing a video diary to interview with various employees and get to know them and her work environment better.
• Whole-Plot Reference: The short is directly inspired by The Waiting Room Pilot, another Object Show detailing the office life of a big company stylized as an interview documentary.

3. The Silver City

Created by: lacaad, duunzz, whimish

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• All for Nothing: The trio spent nearly two hours and quite a sum of fare money to get to the fabled Silver City, only for it to turn out to be a huge disappointment when it didn't meet their expectations at all. Strawberry tried subverting it by pointing out It's the Journey That Counts but Bucket shot that down immediately.
• Anthropomorphic Food: Strawberry, as their name implies, is a walking, talking fruit.
• It's the Journey That Counts: Subverted hard in that no, the trio still had to pay for the bus and train fare and then waited several hours to get to the Silver City for a huge disappointment so they have no net gain from this experience.
• Plant Person: Bush, like his namesake, is a sentient shrub with limbs and a face.

4. A City of Gray

Created by: jelly, sweepybun, DangerBites, MoKuZai, ScoopOfButter and Bradkitt

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• A Lizard Named "Liz": Two of the objects in the short are a sunflower named "Sunny" and a fedora named "Fedoric".
• Meaningful Name: Sunny is the ray of sunshine in Fedoric's dull, exhaustive life and is always there to cheer him up.
• Portmanteau: Fedoric's name is a combination of the hat "fedora" and the human name "Fredrick".

5. The Runaway Ticket

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Created by: Shattered Waters, Corny, PillowPepper and TestTubeh

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• All for Nothing: Lemon Sandwich spent most of the short retrieving his ticket, including a rooftop chase scene, only for the train conductor to make them pay for a "free ride" on the train roof and let the ticket go anyway in despair.
• Bittersweet Ending: While Lemon Sandwich may have lost his train ticket and paid extra, his ticket ended in the hands of another who needed a fresh start.
  Closing Narration: "When times get tough... and you finally get that big reward, only for it to take away... Another person may benefit from what you lost"

6. In the Metropolis

Created by: Airdot and Loonsaur

A postage stamp moves from the quiet countryside to the big city which they later recount in a letter about their experience and struggles to their sister.

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• Coming of Age Story: The short is about the protagonist adjusting to the fact that city life is a lot different than the countryside and must accept it but no matter what, their life back at home holds a special place in their heart that they'll never forget.

7. The Electric Saga

Created by: Compital, IreneThePhoenix, SunnyPeaches and ThatOneActor

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• Adaptational Villainy: According to Word of God, Byte was supposed to be on the same side as superheroes Sparkles and Bolt but was turned into an antagonist in the final project.
• Call-Forward: The assets of Bolt and Sparkles both reference the film festival by featuring the number 48 and the upcoming sequel according to Word of God.
• Freeze-Frame Bonus: The fractured things when Bolt was taking a closer look at are actually remnants of an extremely worn-out plaque from many decades ago that commemorated the foundation of the new Electric Bunker to store the power crystal.
• Limited Animation: The short was animated in ten frames per second so it was lacking in the fluid movement department.
• Shout-Out: The beginning and ending narration used Albertus Nova font, the same font as the thumbnails for BFB and TPOT.

8. Oh No.

Created by: Corndni, Lynx/Grim, Olliewollie and Soph

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• Limited Animation: Or rather the animation just abruptly stops for the last part since the group ran out of time. It skips straight to the credits with the remaining audio playing over.

9. Wild Dreams

Created by: Tuxedo

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• Ambiguous Criminal History: Poppy tells Hockey Sticks that she's on the run from the police and had to pay some cops to get off her back. What crime she had committed remains a mystery since Peacock Feather erased her memories before we could ever find out.
• Bland-Name Product: The shopkeeper is a box of "hockey sticks" which is an unsubtle reference to Pocky Sticks.
• Downer Ending: Having all her memories about the breakup and plans to run away wiped out, Poppy wakes up back in her toxic relationship with Peacock Feather and only could sigh while staring out the window wishing to be free.
• Laser-Guided Amnesia: Peacock Feather, unable to convince Poppy to get back together the normal way, pulls out a memory wiper underneath his eyepatch and in a blinding flash of light, Poppy forgets they have ever broken up in the first place.

10. Morning

Created by: Yisan

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• Alien Invasion: Toilet Paper was going through their Morning Routine when there was an alien attack out of nowhere, so they threw their torta at the invader and it went sailing out of orbit.
• Food Slap: Having nothing else to fend themselves from the hostile invader, Toilet Paper threw the torta they were eating at it with enough force to send the alien flying back to space and unintentionally saving the Earth.
• Morning Routine: Toilet Paper starts the day waking up to their obnoxiously loud alarm clock, finds themself broke to afford breakfast at home, grabs a burrito outside, unintentionally saves object kind from an Alien Invasion and reaches their workplace to start the day even though they are already exhausted.
• Oh, Crap!: When staring down the barrel of the alien's laser gun, Toilet Paper's eyes became as wide as saucers and quickly made the sign of the cross.
• Self-Deprecation: Yisan made it quite clear that they were not happy with the end results of the short.
  Disclaimer: This is like the worst film of the festival, that's it. Anyways (don't) enjoy.
• Stylistic Suck: Yisan wasn't really proud of this short as seen in the effort put into the powerpoint-like animation, PNG backgrounds and (lack of) voicework.

11. Magical Malfunction

Created by: mossyhaven, <DevyCola>, RainbowServal, dawn, foxlias griffin and SamuDrummer

When the only qualified worker of Cosmic Nexus Corporation, Glass Shard, wants a vacation, his boss Radio leaves the most important job of handling the Orb up to the newest intern Sundew. Of course, Sundew's inexperience leads to an impending citywide meltdown they must recorrect.

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• All There in the Manual: While not mentioned in the short itself, the standalone video's description states that Sundew goes by "they/them" and CNC, the company Sundew works at, stands for "Cosmic Nexus Corporation" which keeps track of all the laws in the entire universe using the Orb.
• Big Damn Heroes: When all hope seems lost for Sundew and the company is about to undergo a magical nuclear meltdown that would engulf the entire metropolis, Glass Shard comes to the rescue after deciding his much-needed vacation can wait from rightly worrying about Radio tasking someone vastly underqualified for his job. He swiftly breaks Sundew out of their Heroic BSoD and averts the crisis by teaching them how to diffuse the orb.
• Bizarrchitecture: To access the Orb, Sundew must hop onto a Floating Platform stairwell which was spaced so far apart, it might as well be a parkour course. Word of God also confirms the stairwell also has built-in apartments to house its employees as jobs in the company are important and need to be constantly maintained.
• City with No Name: Not a single city including where CNC resides was named in the short.
• Color-Coded Speech: Each of the main characters have their own signature colours for their respective textboxes and fonts with dark and light blue for Radio, lime green and red for Sundew and dark green and teal for Glass Shard.
• Director's Cut: RainbowServal later uploaded a remastered version which is the original storyboards with the audio. Notable changes include an extra scene of Sundew and Glass Shard taking the elevator and Radio being a bit more sympathetic (but not that much).
• Freeze-Frame Bonus: The letter Glass Shard left for Radio can be read out in its entirety when pausing the short.
  Shard Glass' Letter: "Dear Radio, I have been working nonstop for these past 5 years, the last time I’ve had a break was 3 years ago and I think today is my breaking point. I’m too worn out to work for now, so I’m going to need a vacation to let me relax a little. Cheers, Glass Shard."
• In Name Only: During production, mossyhaven only came up with the film's concept before they straight-up ghosted and left all the hard work of actually creating it to the rest of their teammates like every school group project. In spite of this, they were still credited first for the short.
• Masculine, Feminine, Androgyne Trio: The main three characters of the short film consist of Radio (Female), Sundew (Non-Binary) and Glass Shard (Male).
• Motor Mouth: Radio's instructions for Sundew on how to properly manage the Orb was so complex and so fast that you need to pause every second to read all the text flying past the screen.
  Radio: The orb in question contains a massive amount of data pertaining to the laws of the universe. Damage done to the orb could cause catastrophic results and may be irreversible. The employee manual states multiple times to never interact directly with the orb unprepared. Orb monitoring is strictly only for short periods as overexorbbture could cause illness though these illnesses don't usually cause death, they may break the fabric space. Never let orb data exceed 9223372036854775807 or else it would collapse-
  Sundew: Um, miss? Can you uh—
  Radio: [Without skipping a beat] -The orb may be volatile and decide to lash out at times. This may be just to spite you. Modifications to the orb to fit your own worldly ideals are illegal. You will be executed. The orb's data is similar to a computer's. If you have coding experience, it would be easier and that's all you have to do.
• Non-Human Non-Binary: According to Word of Gay, Sundew goes by "They/Them" pronouns and is a sticky carnivorous plant like their name implies.
• Plant Person: Sundew is an anthropomorphic sticky carnivorous plant of the Droseraceae family.
• Pointy-Haired Boss: Zig-Zagged. Radio is quite incompetent and often makes bad decisions, such as tasking an inexperienced intern to take care of such a huge responsibility and then getting disappointed at them causing a citywide meltdown even though it was entirely her fault for not giving them proper guidance, but she does allow Glass Shard to have a much-needed vacation without notice. Glass Shard acknowledges Radio's head position was poorly chosen but has the company's best interest at heart. The Director's Cut shows her to be slightly more sympathetic but still mostly this trope.
• Sticky Situation: While climbing the stairs, Sundew falls on their face and couldn't get up because their tendrils became stuck to the floor. They started struggling since the Orb is undergoing a nuclear meltdown and almost broke down into a panic attack if it weren't for Glass Shard helping them back up.
• Supporting Protagonist: Glass Shard is the Deuteragonist to Sundew's protagonist even though they only appeared in the last scene to help guide Sundew in stopping the orb's power meltdown.

14. Metropolitan Pizza

Created by: DoggyArts, Idamensional and Ashe

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• Be Careful What You Wish For: The quartet desperately wanted customers to come to their pizzeria and decided to advertise the place but soon regretted this decision since they now must deal with the long line of hungry police officers for free to make up for the vandalism stunt.
• Shout-Out: White Album is an obvious reference to The White Album by The Beatles.

15. City of Dreams

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Created by: benthobars and Terra

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• A Lizard Named "Liz": Chill is an ice cube with Cool Shades (Pun intended) while Time Stopper is a pocket watch.
• Alliterative Name: Fake Flowers
• Cyclops: Radio and Time Stopper have only one eye in their designs with the former having their eye on their knob.

16. Out of Bounds

Created by: BlueSky, dominomomento, Prowler, TacoSTUDIOUS

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• Callback: There was a random tumbleweed near the end who kept spouting "I do not like nature", calling back to the previous OSC film Festival.

17. Little Pleasures in the Big City

Created by: foolcrum57

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• All There in the Manual: The mop brush and eraser are named Mike and Aaron respectively in the credits and are implied to be a couple as indicated by the two holding hands.
• Minimalist Cast: Mike and Aaron appear as the only characters in the short.
• Relationship Reveal: It turns out Mike and Aaron are not just best friends but also a couple given the last scene implying that the two live together and share a bed and later hold hands in the credits. The live chat was especially pleased but also disappointed they didn't kiss.

18. Window Wipers

Created by: Berry!

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• Sticky Fingers: Scroll and Spool are stuck doing community service because the latter got caught stealing snacks from a convenience store.

19. Just Another Tuesday

Created by: Krimpybob, latsyrk, cc25013 and spaceblobz

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• Added Alliterative Appeal: Dr. Peavil addresses her would-be victims as "punny pathetic fools".^note Since "fools" is phonetically pronounced with "ph-" prefix
• Alliterative Name: The dessert-themed Superhero in the short calls themself Cotton Candy the Sugary Saviour.
• Kill It with Water: Cotton Candy is killed when Dr. Peavil exploits their Logical Weakness by dissolving them with water.
• Limited Animation: In one scene, Dr. Peavil's body is not moving at all with an accompanying sentence briefly scrawled at the corner of the screen explaining "I'm going to be honest, I forget to animate the body." from the animator.
• Logical Weakness: Cotton Candy is made entirely of spun sugar on a paper cone so ordinary lukewarm water is enough to melt them into a sugary puddle.
• Monochromatic Eyes: Briefcase has these in contrast to everyone else's Black Bead Eyes.
• Shout-Out: The supervillain of the short has the Punny Name of "Dr. Peavil".
• Silent Protagonist: Briefcase doesn't respond or engage with the shenanigans in his office and continues working in silence much to Dr. Peavil's frustration when trying to get any reaction out of him.
• Undignified Death:
  • Through exploiting their Weaksauce Weakness, Dr. Peavil defeats Cotton Candy using just a spray bottle filled with water who pathetically melts ala The Wicked Witch of the West meets Captain Underpants.
  • Dr. Peavil herself similarly met a humiliating fate after Briefcase threw an eraser at her, initially shrugging it off before realising it was a latex eraser she's deathly allergic to. One Funeral Cut later:
  Gravestone: R.I.P Dr. Peavil - Died to office supplies like a loser, lol.
• Unusually Uninteresting Sight: As the title implies, Briefcase sees this superhero-villain showdown in the middle of his office as nothing more than a boring average day for him. He doesn't even turn around or respond to the battle behind him or when Dr. Peavil threatens him. The reason is revealed in the credits that Briefcase is a recent divorcee and his ensuring custody battle left a numb husk of an object.
• Weaksauce Weakness: Cotton Candy's biology makes them incapable of coming into contact with water without melting and Dr. Peavil is likewise deadly allergic to the latex in the eraser Briefcase threw at them.

#21-40

21. Urban Trouble

Created by: Animatium

This Object Show is brought to you by ChatGPT because the creator entrusts bots to write a script due to time constraints and had animated accordingly. It's quite bare bones to say the least...

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23. A Waste of a Chase

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Created by: skye, megasolar, LTWindowsMusic, LogicalTex and paramilk

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• Anthropomorphic Food: Half the cast is this with Banana, Bubblegum, Martini and Orange.
• Armless Biped: As common in the OSC, Bag is a straight example while Banana is an inversion (Meaning they have arms but no legs) and scuttle around as a peel.
• Triangle Shades: Martini wears a pair to look cool (In his dreams) and hides his lack of eyes.

24. Terrors And Fables Of The Horrible City Of Cityplace

Created by: Lilac's Drawings, Ramblin64, AintEvenChillin and Sttanish

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• Aerith and Bob: The short contains a mix of these with Ty and Claire Wilson as normal human names, Tuts and Waulk being more unique with Banana and Gravestone smack dab in the middle.
• A Lizard Named "Liz": There are two objects who are named Ty Tie (A necktie) and Waulk (A walky-talky).
• Armless Biped: Ty is an armless variant (Though he briefly gained arms in one scene) while Banana is an inverted example. The former of which becomes instrumental in solving the murder since there are no fingerprints that can be tied to the crime.
• Black Bead Eyes: Everyone has itty-bitty dots for eyes which became apparent with the multiple close-up shots.
• Bunny-Ears Lawyer: Tuts may be a Clueless Detective but he still is a detective who managed to crack the case by himself in just a single day in spite of the little evidence and testimonies he has to work with.
• Bury Your Gays: Murder victim Claire Wilson has a now-widowed wife, making her the only confirmed LGBTQ character to permanently die in the film festival.
• Dude, Not Funny!: Waulk administered a Dope Slap on Tuts after he jokes about their boss getting arrested for accidental homicide with a stupid Pun.
• Everyone Has Standards: Tuts may not take Claire's murder or anything in general seriously and kept calling her corpse ugly but even he is creeped out at the Undertaker's enjoyment of burying corpses and funerals.
• Everyone Laughs Ending: After solving the mystery and arresting their boss, Ty, for the murder of Claire Wilson, Tuts attempts to end the film on a lighthearted note but Waulk is having none of it.
  Tuts: [Pleased with himself] Well, I guess you can say this case is all tied up. Ha, ha, ha!
  [Waulk smacks Tuts upside the head]
• Gender-Blender Name: Tuts' name is pronounced as "Toots" which is an old-fashioned term of endearment for addressing women even though Tuts himself is a guy.
• Inelegant Blubbering: Claire Wilson's wife was too busy bawling tears and snot from mourning her beloved to be of any use in the case.
• Meaningful Name:
  • Claire can mean "clear" in French which refers to her object as a transparent glass round-bottom flask.
  • Tuts comes from the word "Tut" which is an exclamation of disapproval or annoyance. This is often the reaction Tuts gets from his colleagues for his unserious and ignoramus attitude toward cases.
• Nightmare Fetishist: Gravestone may be enjoying his job a little too much so much that Tuts is unnerved in their brief interview.
  Gravestone: "God, I just really LOVE gravedigging so much. Like, seriously, whenever I read an obituary and see that someone died, it's just like, boom, instant rush of serotonin. Just such a rush!"
  Tuts: ... [Writes down "Gravedigging changes people"]
• My Nayme Is: Tuts's name is "toots" but spelled with a "u" instead of two "o"s.
• No Name Given: The widowed wife of Claire Wilson is only referred to and listed in the credits as "Widowed Wife".
• Non-Standard Character Design: Tuts' mouth opens and closes at the hatband in addition to his Monochromatic Eyes. Speaking of eyes, the Widowed Wife has Sphere Eyes contrasting the rest of the cast's Black Bead Eyes.
• Sphere Eyes: The syringe has a type 2, the better to cry neverending streams and puddles with.
• Repetitive Name:
  • The short is set in the City of Cityplace.
  • The chief detective and Tut's boss have a first name (Ty) that sounds similar to his last name (Tie), making him "Ty Tie".
• Sudden Anatomy: Ty is limbless except for the instance where he slams his hands on the table. This causes a plot hole since there are supposed to be no fingerprints at the crime scene yet Ty is revealed to be the culprit.

25. A Million Problems

Created by: Mew, Kalegend, Sebota and Typ0id

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• From Bad to Worse: The entirety of the short is this trope. Our unlucky protagonist Dollar oversleeps on the morning of his very important business meeting, has a freezing cold shower, stubs his toe on a coffee table, gets a warning notice for his rent, splashed by a puddle, trips over a rock, misses his train, bombs his presentation so hard that he's immediately laid-off, drunk himself silly to the point his girlfriend breaks up with him for missing their date and finally becomes evicted out of his apartment while it's raining. And get this, this is the second worst day anyone had in Metropolis.

26. WILL

Created by: Oska, Nic, Raine, Olivia Ciabattari and Daniel Adam Valle

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• Always Second Best: Subverted. After Oska, Nic and Raine had placed second twice for the past film festivals with "Lost and Found" and "Dandelion - The World Begins With You", WILL was the one to break the trend and nab themselves first place this time.
• Queer Colors: Night Light has a non-binary sticker on their violin.

29. What's Important

Created by: Paptrisha, Emik, Lime/Ren, Luna, PuppyRelp and Shpex

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• Armless Biped: Poppy is an inversion, having arms and no legs but can move around with no problem since she's a helium balloon.

30. Bad Case of the Unknown

Created by: KinyACat, Spaceysirens, TheDremCatcher and Tisrack

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• Alliterative Name: The broken lightbulb is named "Muttin Maxwell" in the credits.
• Stylistic Suck: The animation is one of worst presented in the festival, being slideshow-like with not only a Kinemaster watermark but also a cursor controlling the slides at the corner of the screen (Which the chat pointed out and started shipping them for some reason).
• Take Our Word for It: It's never explained how the protagonist managed to break free from the ropes with the scene in-between obviously missing and was replaced with a title card "Sorry!! Budget Cuts... Just W[ait] For The Program To Be."

31. Disarray

Created by: dategg, Versus, Chestnuts and HyperBlazing

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• Literally Shattered Lives: A glass cup proclaims it's the end of the world just before they are smashed to pieces by falling debris.

32. 2048

Created by: Shaontae Jr. (ShontaeTheWeirdo), Spcae Out CC, BKations, StriveVA, Crapz and ExpressoSugar

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• Never Trust a Title: "2048" suggest the short takes place exactly twenty-five years from 2023, the year Metropolis was released, when it's actually referring to the name of the abandoned building the gang decides to explore.

35. Stop, Yield, Explore

Created by: TBYT, Maxwell Martens (Ligreen), doodle, MKPsych, Tomato Bread 12 and Delango/Fireyswingy

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• Improvised Weapon: Mauve fights off the monster with a bent stop sign he found lying on the ground with scary efficiency and would have killed it if Sen didn't stop him.
• Manly Gay: Mauve is a badass fighter with an Eyepatch of Power who makes it clear if you intend to harm his boyfriend Sen, he will most definitely harm you with excessive force.
• Violently Protective Girlfriend: Gender-inverted. Mauve immediately went on the offense when the monster targeted Sen and proceeded to chase after and try to kill it despite already scaring it off.

Mauve: "Hey! Nobody messes with my boyfriend!" [Whacks the monster upside the head with a stop sign]

36. A Failed Heist

Created by: Bryin64, Red Ball, Matatoes, Mationbomb and CrispyNugget

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• Anthropomorphic Food: Three of the four characters in the short are and named Lime, Donut and Pretzel.
• Armless Biped: The thief duo Lime and Wheelchair as a straight and inverted example respectively with the latter being on wheels to get around.
• Foregone Conclusion: The title gives it away that Lime and Wheelchair's diamond heist would not go according to plan.
• The Heist: The short follows two incompetent burglars planning to steal a gigantic diamond in a museum but are interfered and foiled by two equally incompetent nightguards.

39. An Awakening Mystery

Created by: bounsterr, driftydrifter, theweirdestsalad, Ari Bunch, are jay and ExpiredJuly

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• Hiding Behind Your Bangs: The barista Chocolate-Dipped Strawberry has melted chocolate covering one of their eyes to accentuate her character as an Emo Teen.

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43. Moving Day

Created by: Vince (exponentbracket)

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• Relationship Upgrade: Parfait and Posicle became girlfriends during the Timeskip as seen with the latter kissing the former on the cheek at the end of the short. Coincidentally, this is the second pink-blue sapphic pairing where the blue object kisses the pink object on the cheek to signify their upgraded relationship (See "What's Important").

46. Large Inc - The Little Time

Created by: Sacri

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• Anachronism Stew: The Sheriff proclaims that technology shouldn't exist yet but if there isn't, how come he knows what to call it in the first place? Not to mention among the townsfolk was an LED TV, a keyboard cap and the sheriff himself being a smartphone.
• Ascended Extra: Lampy's clones who acted as Living Props from the previous short now have a slightly bigger role with their own feelings and thoughts about their current predicament.
• Body Horror: Lampy 93840 from the future is slumped motionlessly while missing most of their face including their right eye and mouth but can somehow [[ Talking Lightbulb still talk]].
• Clone Angst: It turns out the multiple Lampys in The Little Things were not special effects but actual clones with their own thoughts and personalities separate from the original Lampy. Collectively, they all feel incredibly miserable over having no purpose other than working at Large Incorporated, especially Lampy 47 who wants to live their own life as a dancer instead of a "cloth-remover". It's also implied that none of the clones can leave the building as seen by the numerous prison cells lining the walls, some of whom have gone stir-crazy from isolation.
• Dramatic Curtain Toss: Lampy 47 is paid to reveal inventions by pulling the cloth covering it during Large Incorporated advertisements which is how he unveils the time machine.
• Given Name Reveal: The lamp who is the CEO of Large Incorporated had his name revealed as "Lampy" (How original).
• Hypocrite: The sheriff declares that Lampy and the time machine are unwanted here in The Wild West as modern-day technology should not exist. This is in spite of the fact he's a living smartphone and a TV and keyboard cap are blatantly shown behind him while making the statement.
• Leaning on the Fourth Wall: Lampy mentions Large Incorporated's "two-year hiatus of radio silence" while working on a revolutionary project, not-so-subtly lampshading how their last advertisement was in 2021's The Little Things and that Sacri and their team had missed the deadline for Nature's Bliss.

47. The Metropolis Mayor

Created by: BradyLS and TylerLantz

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• Shout-Out: Mug pulls a Ferris Bueller by popping up after the credits to tell the viewers to go home but then realise they're probably at home already so he says bye instead.

48. On A Roll

Created by: GoofinandGaffin, Dapper, daysduzkrak, Zombie Turtle17, MsBonnieArt

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• Accidental Proposal: At one point, the ring hits Magnifying Glass and falls to the floor which Picnic Basket bends over to pick up. The former turns around and gasps to see what looks like the latter on one knee ring in hand, leaving them both flustered until Picnic Basket releases the ring in shock. This incident did end up with them gaining interest in one another.
• Anthropomorphic Typography: One of the objects the ring rolls by is just the letter A.
• Oh, My Gods!: Umbrella goes "Oh my raincloud!" upon seeing Flower Vase's anniversary gift.
• Shout-Out: The ring passes by a pair of red and green toilet plungers with mustaches, with the red one saying "Mama Mia", who looks an awful lot like the object personifications of Mario and Luigi.

50. The Poly Brothers: A Mission of a Lifetime

Created by: Great Lakes Animator

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• Bland-Name Product: The brothers are named Polystation and Polystation 2 after their real-life counterpart PlayStation.
• Whole-Plot Reference: The title and thumbnail with the two sunglasses and fedora-wearing protagonists is a direct homage to The Blues Brothers.

51. The Whole World & Ladybugs

Created by: wahoo64, skittleshadowz, batbii, superxapple and twowuv

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• Synthetic Voice Actor: Soda's voice actor is the text2speech.org program.
• Token Minority: Potted Plant is the first and only wheelchair-user object in the entire film festival.^note Not counting Wheelchair (An actual wheelchair) from "A Failed Heist" earlier on

53. FRAGMENTS

Created by: TMOJ Official

Fishcake is worried sick that his boyfriend Wrench will forget him while he's eliminated in another dimension so he and Shell devise a plan to escape this hellscape of a hotel.

As the short was a relative success, a four-episode, musical mini-series called Fragmented is in the works and TMOJ Official is currently looking for auditions.

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• The Big Damn Kiss: Fishcake and Wrench's long-awaited reunion is sealed with a kiss on the lips. As if on cue, the entire livestream chat went absolutely nuts at finally getting what they wanted from the previous couples.
• Callback: The short has Recurring Elements from TMOJ Official's previous film "Object-Rama" such as Rob Boss, the Ray William Johnson's cool transition sound effect and Boris from the GoAnimate Calilou animations popping up out of nowhere and going "Owowowowowo!".
• Company Cross References: When Fish Cake jumps through the portal, he passes through the dimensions of TMOJ Official's other shows Object-Rama (The previous film entry from last year) and Object Requiem.
• Conjoined Twins: Or Conjoined Triplets in the case of the Dango Trio, having three mochi heads vertically on one armless chopstick body.
• Dark Horse Victory: No one had expected FRAGMENTS to receive third place given that the fourth and fifth placers On a Roll and Justice Never Sleeps were better acclaimed and had more votes. This is because the one and only vote the short had to its name was a $100 donation which easily brought it up to the top three. TMOJ Official is especially surprised by this:
  TMOJ Official: "I JUST GOT 3RD PLACE... WHAT THE HECK!?"
• Exotic Eye Designs: Shell has one black eye and one white eye.
• Look Behind You: Shell tricks the Dango Trio out of their eldritch dimensional powder by telling them he spotted another of their kind out the room window. While easily distracted, he swipes the powder before they got the wiser.
• Photo Montage: Fish Cake recalls his time in the competition and his attempts at challenges via the trope.^note Including Fish Cake hanging off a cliff, fighting off Med-Kit while falling, Shell getting annoyed at him during a building challenge and two trying to find the Dango Trio in hide-and-seek This was later seen again in the credits but also shows pictures of him and Wrench together in-between.^note Including Wrench saving Fish Cake from falling down the cliff in a hot-air balloon, Wrench charging at Fishcake, the two of them in a loving embrace and Wrench carving his and Fish Cake's initials into a tree
• Remember the New Guy?: There was a black pawn, a magnifying glass, a flying orange square and a cobweb amongst the eliminated contestants that weren't alluded to at all but suddenly appear in the breakout scene alongside Med-Kit and the Dango Trio.
• Shout-Out:
  • The elimination area is called "Teh Elimination Hotel" with the subtitle "no relation to OJ's hotel whatsoever" in reference to Hotel OJ and Enanimat Ensanetay.
  • The Dango Brothers have a poster of Jamiroquai with the outfit he wore for his "Virtual Insanity" music video. Later, the middle Dango wanted to binge-watch Rob Boss.
  • In a Blink-and-You-Miss-It moment, the first dimension Fish Cake passes through are grass fields with the Announcer from Battle for Dream Island. The collective gasp and "Yeah!" sound effects iconic to the series are heard in the commercial and when the eliminated contestants escape respectively.
  • The short's black-and-white silhouette thumbnail is reminiscent of ONE.'s thumbnails.
  • The standalone video description contains the lyrics to Rick Astley's "Never Gonna Give You Up" in all caps to Rick Roll anyone who read it.
• "Shut Up" Kiss: Wrench gives one to reassure Fish Cake that he still loves him and to stop worrying about the little things.
• The Stinger: The host yells at the eliminated contestants they can leave since the competition is over, only to find the hotel empty after everyone escaped via the portal. They brushed it off and decided to play Fortnite instead.
• Sweetie Graffiti: In the Photo Montage, Wrench had craved a heart with his and Fish Cake's initials into a tree during a challenge, looking pleased with himself.
• Synthetic Voice Actor: The middle dango has one that he lampshades in his first line of how funny his voice sounds.
• Thinking Up Portals: The eldritch dimensional powder allows one to draw a magic circle that would act as a gateway to anywhere of their choosing. Fishcake and Shell use it to escape Teh Elimination Hotel and meet the former's boyfriend Wrench but didn't take into account that the portal doesn't close so the rest of the eliminated contestants follow suit.
• Title Drop: Not only this year but also the previous two film festivals get one at various points of the short:
  Key: "Is is next to impossible to rely on The Little Things in life?"
  [Later On]
  Fish Cake: "Welp, time for me to lie down and contemplate Nature's Bliss to try to make me feel better..."
  [Later, Later On]
  Shell: "You know what, I guess someone meant to be together are pretty big after all. Maybe even bigger than a Metropolis of New York."
• Transparent Closet: Fish Cake reveals to Shell that Wrench is his boyfriend and is worried sick he might be over him while competing. Shell, however, is completely unsurprised by the revelation:
  Shell: "Heh, I knew you would come out of the closet eventually..."
  Fish Cake: "SHUT THE FRONT DOOR SHELL!!!"
• The Voiceless: Wrench doesn't say a word during the short since he spent the only scene outside of photos he was in making out with Fish Cake once reunited.

54. Untitled (37)

Created by: JezzJul, Cove, Kenjja, Savage Brick and Yolkerson

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• Meaningful Name: Violet has a name that is the same colour as her object, a purple phone.
• Monochromatic Eyes: Evett is the only one with white eyes in the short as opposed to everyone's Black Bead Eyes.
• Toxic Friend Influence: Evett is oblivious as to why Violet has been avoiding him nowadays because of their obnoxiously, loud behaviour and pranking escapades which almost put her in jail once. It's also implied that Violet moved to the city in an attempt to have a fresh start away from her since she also kept insisting they shouldn't move there as well. Of course, Evett doesn't listen and does exactly that which gave Violet a rather unwanted surprise when they unexpectedly showed up at her doorstep.
• "Untitled" Title: What the short's name goes under although the number 37 is a strange addition since this is chronologically the fifty-fourth film in Metropolis.

55. Justice Never Sleeps

Created by: whale animation stuff, trinitots, gromzomb, scribbles, Ame Ame and emiliane

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• Scars Are Forever: Joe wears a cup sleeve ever since the Noodle Incident where someone resisted arrest by poking a hole through his body with a comically oversized straw.
• Shout-Out: There's a news segment with Pie the helicopter traffic reporter about The Chase which is a direct homage to "Arnie Pye in the Sky" from The Simpsons.

59. New Beginnings

Created by: Tiled_, Axinite, Stray, ToastyStrudel, Moldy and TikTok

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• Cyclops: Adam has a puncture of where his eye should be. It's never stated if he was born this way or lost it in an accident.

60. A day in the life of Mark

Created by: Decker Milk

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• A Lizard Named "Liz": Mark Markerton the marker, a name that can double as a legitimate human name.
• Alliterative Name: There's two with the main character Mark Markertown and an anchorwoman called Debra Dollar.
• By Stander Syndrome: The unseen cameraperson does nothing but document Mark, despite being told by him to back off multiple times, as his life spirals down the drain. At one point, they silently record him sitting behind a dumpster in an alleyway homeless while it heavily rained down without lifting a finger to help. It's also implied they did nothing to stop Mark from robbing the bank which eventually led to him getting shot.
• Downer Ending: The short closes on a news broadcast of Mark being Killed Offscreen from a botched bank robbery with his girlfriend completely distraught over Mark going to such extremes and thinking it's all her fault.
• From Bad to Worse: Mark was already annoyed by somebody filming him for an entire day but it just so happened to be the day when he was fired from his job, his girlfriend dumped and kicked to the street and is now homeless sitting behind an alleyway dumpster unprotected from the rain. Thinking he has nothing left to lose and desperate to turn his life around, Mark tried robbing the New Goiky Bank where he died during a shootout.
• Repetitive Name: Mark's full name as the news broadcast reveals is Mark Markerton.
• Shaky P.O.V. Cam: Whoever is filming Mark must have just gotten out of community film school with the short being in the style of a low-budget, amateur documentary.
• Shout-Out: Mark attempted to rob the New Goiky Bank which is in reference to the location in Battle for Dream Island Again.
• Species Surname: A marker named Mark has the surname of Markerton, doubling as a Repetitive Name.

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61. Bank Breakers

Created by: Bread and Guinea

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• Limited Animation: The short has an interesting development about The Heist going completely sideways followed by an intense chase scene but it was let down by the animation moving to storyboards due to Bread and Guinea being pressed for time when they eventually got to that part.

62. Job Interview "Object Show"

Created by: RyrBreadRyan, Stintocton and Blue Gelatin

Five applicants were narrowed down for an elusive job at Flamora. There's just one problem, all the candidates are idiots who somehow bypassed the screening process entirely. This is going to be one heck of an interview process...

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• Closest Thing We Got: After some careful consideration, Clipboard picks Harmonica to be a part of Flamora in spite of their criminal background and being quite proud of it. The only reason why so is because the five candidates are all unqualified idiots that would have been immediately rejected on the spot in any other company so Harmonica was just the best of the worst.
  Clipboard: Note's annoying, Latte is incompetent, Lamp has too many future plans, Snotty is a health violation and Harmonica's our best option.
• Curse Cut Short: Note was about to swear for not getting the job before Snotty expresses his displeasure.
  Note: "What bullsh-"
  Snotty: "Dang it!"
• Green Is Gross: Snotty is made of green goo that is most likely mucus judging by their name and was rejected for being a walking "health violation".
• No Mouth: Harmonica and Latte with the former playing it straight whereas the latter has theirs wrapped with an orange scarf.
• Shout-Out:
  • Latte has an orange scarf that wraps around his mouth and muffles his speech like Kenny from South Park.
  • Lamp wrongly identifies the Flormora logo as "the guy who does the Fitness Gram Pacer test"

68. malaware.exe

Created by: 1GAry/Randominations, Soneta, KittyZone51, snowybush, That Channel Called Sistube and viviancherry04

Comic Book, Flag, and Lemon of the Heroic Hackers face the trouble of saving their friend from the clutches of Xeluma and The Pom Brothers.

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• Alliterative Name: The quartet of heroes goes by the Heroic Hackers.
• Ambiguous Gender: Flag, Lemon, Comic Book are not mentioned in the third person throughout the short although Word of God had disclosed everyone's pronouns^note Flag and Xeluma are "She/Her", Lemon and The Pom Brothers are "He/Him" and Comic Book and Laptop are "They/Them"
• Cats Are Mean: Xeluma and The Pom Brothers are feline-like entities and the antagonists of the film.
• Deliberately Monochrome: The short was animated in a limited palette with only three color schemes.
• Gender-Equal Ensemble: A near-perfect example with two females (Flag and Xeluma), two non-binaries (Comic Book and Laptop) and three males (Lemon and The Pom Brothers).
• Good Scars, Evil Scars: Xeluma has a surgical scar across their right eye, adding to her character as the Big Bad of the short.
• Non-Human Non-Binary: Both Comic Book and Laptop go by "They/Them" pronouns and, as their name implies, are Animate Inanimate Objects.
• Odd Name Out: Xeluma's name isn't remotely object-related in the slightest (The Pom Brothers could be derived from "pom-pom") although it's granted because she's a cat-like entity.
• Stealth Pun: Flag's signature weapon is a quarterstaff so in other words, she's wielding a flag pole.

71. The Seedlings 2: Home Sweet Home

Created by: CraftedPin, Jesoysauce, NateSark and stickynoob

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• A Lizard Named "Liz": Like Seedo, Toad is named after the first syllable of toadstool, his species.
• Immediate Sequel: "Seedlings 2" picks up an hour where Nature's Bliss left off although it later Timeskips to the current year of the Metropolis festival screening.
• Meaningful Appearance: Toad is a toadstool which is poisonous and inedible in nature and otherwise unwanted like how Toad is by stalking Acorn and Seedo everywhere on the insistence they are friends which the two reacted accordingly.
• Oh, My Gods!: Acorn cries out "Oh my tree" upon seeing the full view of the city.
• Queer Establishing Moment: At the end of the short, Acorn and Seedo have a heartwarming and intimate conversation to indicate their Relationship Upgrade.^note This was made more blatantly obvious in the original ending where they kissed
  Acorn: We found our home but more importantly... [Closely moves in] We found each other.
  [Seedo leans and rest peacefully on Acorn who also did the same]
• Relationship Upgrade: Acorn and Seedo were implied to have gotten together as a romantic couple at some point during the Time Skips from being mere acquaintances in the first short.
• Shout-Out:
  • When Acorn kicks Toad into the sun, there's text briefly stating "beautiful mornin" in reference to The Daily Object Show's Running Gag.
  • Toad's croaky voice is likely inspired by the iconic Mushroom Man of the same name in Super Mario Bros..
  • The Timeskips are accompanied by the Spongebob Squarepants title cards and French narrator voiceover.
• The Thing That Would Not Leave: Toad constantly follows the main duo around and keeps insisting they're friends in their gratingly annoying voice when it's evident their presence is clearly unwanted. Acorn even had to kick Toad into the sun but that didn't stop them from coming back and interrupting an intimate moment:
  [Toad barges in-between Seedo and Acorn]
  Toad: "Hi folks! Sorry it took me so long—" [Acorn kicks him off the building] "NOT AGAIN~!!!"
  Seedo: "We've got to file a restraining order against the guy."
  Acorn: "Agree."
• Vocal Evolution: Seedo has a deeper, raspier voice compared to the first short due to their voice actor, Jesoysauce, reaching puberty.

73. Lemonade Tycoon

Created by: Gamebuilder2000

CJ sets up a Lemonade Stand in hopes of garnering enough money to buy the toy model she wanted but business proved to be incredibly successful beyond xir wildest dreams.

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• All for Nothing: The Object City model CJ wanted and went through all the effort to build her own lemonade empire to afford it had been bought out at the toy store. However, it's subverted when she bids for the model on vBay at a higher price instead which xe can afford anyway with her huge piles of cash lying around.
• Chirping Crickets: CJ gets annoyed when her lemonade stand is not having any business as seen in how deserted the area is with only a rolling tumbleweed. Subverted when the tumbleweed was actually sentient (and a Cowboy apparently) and became xir first customer.
• Leaning on the Fourth Wall: While a passer-by was watching the 48-Hour OSC Film Festival on their phone with an ad about CJ's Lemonade, the top comment lampshades the absurdity of the short:
  Top Comment: "Wait, xe's 9? I mean it makes sense in hindsight since xir primary goal is to buy a toy, but I'm wondering how this cartoon character is able to do things typically impossible in real life like run a business enterprise as a kid."
• Mundane Utility: One of CJ's first few customers was a pair of twin sisters who are linked teleportation portals where anything goes through the purple portal comes out the pink portal. She hired the twins on the spot, making Purple attract potential customers further down the city and be used as fast travel to get to Pink at CJ's lemonade stand.
• Ocular Gushers: Upon finding out the Object City model was sold out, CJ cries tears streaming down her face like two waterfalls but considerably cheered up when xe realise she has more than enough money to buy the model online.
• Only Known by Initials: CJ's full name is Cookie Jar but is not called that once during the short.
• Public Domain Soundtrack: Again like last short, there's a royalty-free Kevin MacLeod song playing in the background but this time it's "Amazing Plan".
• Queer Colors: CJ has a Demigirl flag hung up at her lemonade stand and later on her office desk.
• Ridiculously Fast Construction: The CJ's Enterprise building just spontaneously rose up from the ground to show how incredibly successful she became.
• Shout-Out:
  • The short's title and plot could be a nod to either the Shockwave or Roblox videogame of the same name.^note But since the OSC is usually filled with zoomers and few millennials nowadays, it's most likely the latter.
  • The customers waiting in line at CJ's lemonade stand were various Battle for Dream Island characters, specifically Announcer, Flower, Spongy, Blocky, Woody, Pin, Needle and Teardrop.
• Young Entrepreneur: CJ manages to turn xir Lemonade Stand into a multi-billion dollar enterprise complete with advertising buildings, billboards and blimps at the age of nine. Just so she can afford to buy a city model xe wanted at the toy store.

74. Metropolis Cave

Created by: ChrisFattyTV

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• Living Polyhedron: The world of the short is populated with monochromatic circles (and the occasional musical note).
• Shout-Out: The short takes place in a Blank White Void with almost all of its denizens being black-and-white circles that have the same voice which immediately brings into mind Battle for Circle.

75. Positive Changes

Created by: YellowSkittleTV

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• A Lizard Named "Liz": Contrary to how it's pronounced, Belly is named after a bell with an added "-y" suffix and not the body part.
• Informed Ability: Belly was noted to have a beautiful voice and would be a great addition to the school's musical but we never actually hear her sing despite the short having voice-acting. The chat decided to play along by pretending to be moved and praising Belly's "song".
• Take Our Word for It: Belly's song was skipped over entirely and replaced with the caption "Belly sang for them ;} (winking face emoticon)", probably to save time and spare the viewers from the less-than-stellar voice acting. The characters in-universe and the live chat out-of-universe declares Belly's singing is amazing.

76. Say No to the City!

Created by: TAFFYMARZI

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• Disproportionate Retribution: Jar eliminates Toothbrush on the spot for merely suggesting the grass fields as an alternative setting to the city, what he was trying to oppose in the first place.
• Not Quite Dead: It turns out Jar's second cast didn't fall to their deaths in the sewers and are in fact dancing away during the credits.

77. Opposites Attract

Created by: peny, C, Prizi, pogdogbytes, Ori and Max

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• Accessory-Wearing Cartoon Animal: Tie wears a bowtie while Cranberry has a straw hat to keep their leaves in place.
• Creator In-Joke: When Cranberry asks where Tie got their gift from, he replies "Girl World" and dismisses it as city talk. The reply isn't a reference to anything but something one of the group's members Max made up and was kept in since the group thought it's "funny for absolutely no reason"
• Crush Blush: When they finally meet for the first time in years, Cranberry and Tie could not stop blushing in each other's presence due to their mutual attraction.
• Non-Human Non-Binary: Cranberry and Tie are confirmed by Word of Gay to be non-binary with their pronouns being They/He and They/It/She respectively.
• Rule of Funny: The awkward placement of Staple's legs at the center of their body was solely because the group thought it was hilarious.
• Ship Tease: Childhood Friends Cranberry and Tie have such strong chemistry that most viewers thought they were already a couple, especially the latter's eagerness to meet the former like they were on a first date and how both of them were perpetually blushing at their reunion. The animator who did the scene of their reunion intended to imply the two have feelings for each other which worked given that most of the chat was begging them to kiss.
• Shout-Out:
  • The back of the seeds Tie bought has the silhouette of Bec's head from Homestuck which not only an Easter Egg to the web series but also one of the crewmembers' hyper fixation to the web series.
  • Tie's official pose references the Young Sheldon pose.

78. Your Fault Not Mine

Created by: Cylinder, Ender Eye, Borgus, PAHGIMATES, ExorcistGold and Boibolic

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• The Unintelligible: Whoever was in charge of the audio mixing did a rather poor job as many viewers complain about how inaudible the characters are and needed to crank up both the volume and volume booster. It was also present in the standalone short so this cannot be blamed on screening errors like the last time.

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81. Fools With Tools

Created by: Ghoulish Rat

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• Rhyming Title: Fools with Tools.

84. Archevilles Got Screws Loose

Created by: lambda

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• Double-Meaning Title: The title can either refer to the residents of Archevilles being not right in the head over architecture or the unexpected deaths caused by falling infrastructure because its screws were not tight enough.

85. Escape

Created by: BOT Allen

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• Boom, Headshot!: As the fugitives were exiting the city, Minnie the getaway driver was suddenly shot through the head by the coffee cup train-goer, catching the chat off-guard as seen by their frantic responses, but he was luckily Not Quite Dead.
• Ironic Name: Minnie was specifically nicknamed that because he's the biggest in the crew, the opposite of what his name implies.
• Limited Animation: The climax wasn't animated at all since Bot Allen was reaching the festival's deadline and resorted to storyboards with narration.
• Not Quite Dead: Minnie, despite being shot clean through the head, manages to survive with a fairly big crack running down his face and save the crew from the state police. This surprise the live chat as they thought there was no way he could make it.

87. My Own Two Eyes

Created by: 1uciferin, FORESTBIOME, IntersectingPlanes, elliosaurus and thechromosomegod

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• All There in the Manual: We only know the protagonist's name is Beepdoot from the credits as there's no dialogue spoken in the short itself.
• In-Joke: The reference to Psycho Teddy was because some of the participants kept spamming the official discord chat with the video on the first day of the festival (To quote FORESTBIOME: "May 27th was a weird day...").
• Shout-Out: The posters adorning the walls of some abandoned buildings feature nods to the aforementioned Psycho Teddy, Hatsune Miku, Young Girl A, OMORI, TIOSC (The group's upcoming Object Show project) and Steven Universe.

88. Watch Out

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Created by: Wawa

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• The Chase: Pitch chases down Bin across downtown and back to retrieve their gold watch which ends when the latter trips over a rock.
• Double-Meaning Title: "Watch Out" can either refer to the main character's watch getting stolen or the thief tripping over a rock and should have watch where they are going.

92. The Color Crew

Created by: frozenpetals, mandrinimates, Nate Bait, PastelLanding, snailvine and SunbiCat

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• Ambiguously Gay: Sharpener specifies having a wife and kids while begging for her life. Although this was just one of the lies she told to garner sympathy, the wife part implies Sharpener has an interest in women at the very least.