Web Animation / pantsahat

pantsahat is a YouTube channel revolving around Stop Motion animation utilizing various toys, figures, and more, particularly LEGO. At first, pantsahat focused on LEGO-based videos telling random stories, but starting around late 2019, that changed. First thing was the introduction of recurring character Hippo, but soon after pantsahat shifted from disconnected LEGO plots to a sprawling interconnected series revolving around Master Chief, Astolfo, said hippo, a LEGO man, Gangsta Tahu, Batman, and many more.

pantsahat's channel can be found here.

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This channel contains examples of:

• Adventurer Archaeologist: This is parodied when Indiana Jones comes to take Astolfo's girly clothes as "artifacts" that apparently can "femboyify" even the most masculine men, as Astolfo complains archeologists are supposed to wait until somebody is dead before archiving things, not steal from still living people.
• Ambiguous Gender: In "You Buy a Catgirl GF off Amazon", Jiko, the Amazon-ordered Cat Girl gives off some confusing gender-identity signals. Master Chief ordered them to have a girlfriend, Astolfo is pretty certain they're a femboy like him, said Cat Girl tells Chief to see them as whatever gender gets them more free stuff. That said, later episodes exclusively refer to her as female.
• Animesque: "If Anime Was LEGO" involves parodying anime tropes and series, such as using Gratuitous Japanese, a Chosen One plot, a Yandere girl, The Power of Friendship and so on, alongside several references to Jojos Bizarre Adventure, the main character telling the yandere "I love Emilios", and a Hatsune Miku song.
• Art Shift: Due to the sheer variety of item-types that have been made for Astolfo, along with how many of them pantsahat has bought, he has a habit of shifting to differently-designed models at the drop of a hat based on his mood, including Figure-stolfo, Chibi-stolfo, and Plushie-stolfo.
• Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever: Parodied. One of the movie posters in "They Should've BANNED me from the Movies Sooner" is for "Attack of the 32-year-old Goth Girl".
• Attack of the Killer Whatever: "Lego Gym Cookie Fail" involves an invasion of regular-sized chocolate-chip cookies attacking LEGO people.
• Baritone of Strength: Gangsta Tahu has one of the deepest voices in the cast, only beaten out by Hippo, and he is amongst the most badass, having mad driving skills, being well-trained with firearms, and overall taking no crap from anybody.
• Brick Joke: Early in "Simping Bad", after Master Chief defies Walter White's attempt to turn them into femboy E-"girls" after simping away all their money, LEGO Man goes on a tirade about how being a streamer can be a difficult thing to work at. The end of the video has the punchline be that LEGO Man was the E-"girl" Walter simped for.
• Built with LEGO: Goes without saying, as most of the content is made using LEGO pieces and figures, but as stated above pantsahat has used less and less LEGO for his videos as he introduces more characters with non-LEGO toys.
• The Bus Came Back: After practically vanishing from the series for a while, Master Chief returns to living with Astolfo in "Why is my Home School Teacher so Cute?", implicitly because of his money situation, and while him and Astolfo are still "exes", he continues being a Tsundere about it.
• Character Catchphrase:
  • Astolfo consistently declares his introduction into a video with a cheerful "Hello!".
  • Bordering on Verbal Tic, Hippo starts nearly all of his sentences with, "Bruh."
• Chromosome Casting: The vast majority of pantsahat's videos feature all-male casts without a single female anywhere, not even as a background character.^note Though Astolfo is very feminine. While a rare few videos include them, it's usually only one on-screen at a time, like the Friends Mini-Doll Yandere, Police Girl Rin, or Jiko the Amazon-ordered Cat Girl. Only rarely is there more females at one time, and even then they're usually one-off extras like the criminal girl duo.
• Comical Overreacting: "Did she really get married to get out of a $50 ticket?"
• Costume Evolution: When first introduced Gangsta Tahu didn't look any different than the regular Tahu design, but with every subsequent appearance, he got flashier and more "gangsta" through accessories like a fur coat, golden necklace, and cowboy boots.
• Continuity Nod: "Spider-Man Swings into Debt" references a few past jokes through the stream chat and donations, including Joker threatening to say the "gamer word", Duke espousing his "tomboys and tomgirls" spiel as an Extreme Omnisexual while watching femboy LEGO Man, and Walter White still simping for LEGO Man.
• Cut the Juice: In "Batman Gets Doxed on Twitter", Jiko unplugs Batman's computer while Riddler is going into his riddle. Batman thanks her for stopping the Riddler until Astolfo points out Jiko is just stealing his computer.
• Darker and Edgier: One of the movie posters in "They Should've BANNED me from the Movies Sooner" is a gritty reimagining of Garfield called Monday.
• Depraved Homosexual: Joker is reimagined here as less interested in chaos and mayhem and more interested in femboys, with most of his schemes involving either trolling Batman into showing Astolfo Robin's thighs or exposing the world for just how gay it truly is.
• Disproportionate Retribution: Mailperson Yui tries to have Turskit experience Demonic Possession through a package, then later tries to kill her, Master Chief, and Astolfo with a grenade because she's pissed off over the exhaustion of repeatedly delivering them things.
• Downer Ending: "Time Cruisers" ends with Tim conquering the world with the Wand of Ultimate Evil after having had to endure Dr. Cyber bossing him around and dragging him through time.
• Dude Looks Like a Lady:
  • This comes with the territory for Astolfo, and the videos really play it to the hilt, being proud of his femboy looks, loving to take up jobs where he tricks people into thinking he's a girl, and being put into various Ms. Fanservice-style situations that he blatantly enjoys.
  • LEGO Man is apparently quite feminine himself despite the min-fig look, not only tricking Walter White into simping away millions (and continuing to simp as shown by "Spider-Man Swings into Debt" under the username "HeisenDaddy"), but he's able to amass a large following of donating watchers for his twink looks to the point he's capable of putting up a "bussy reveal" as a stretch goal.
  • The "escorts" brought in by Sturdy for Amazon Catgirl to learn "life experiences" look and dress like girls, initially confusing her because she's straight, until he notes they're actually men, after which she becomes immediately more receptive to "learning" how to be a better lover.
• Dye Hard: invoked "Indiana Jones raided my panty drawer" reveals that Astolfo's pink hair is actually him filling it with an absurd amount of hair dye, enough to completely coat Master Chief's armor while also leaving a massive puddle on the floor, with him actually being naturally white-haired.
• Extreme Omnisexual: Duke Nukem already showed in Duke Nukem Forever how he'd be willing to tap the ass of a giant female Xenomorph Xerox so long as she has enough curves, but here when faced with femboy Astolfo and told about that fact, he proclaims that whether somebody is a tomboy or "tomgirl", he's an "equal-opportunity ass-pounder".
• The Faceless: As lampshaded in "Why is my Home School Teacher so Cute?", no matter what kind of outfit he wears from the neck below, Master Chief is adamant about being Never Bareheaded with his facial-feature-hiding helmet, letting others imagine what he looks like under it.
• Fat Bastard: Batman is a lot wider and stockier than in canon due to using a figure based on Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, and while he's nowhere as dark and ruthless as in that story, he's still much less morally sound, such as abusing server mod privileges, attacking people who never did any actual harm because they angered him, and grooming young boys to become his Robins.
• Forgot Flanders Could Do That: In early multi-brand videos, Astolfo had a habit of displaying his fighting skills as a threat, but as Characterization Marches On he settled into being passive outside his status as The Tease. Then "Anime Girls vs Pizza Hut" had him demonstrate that he's still got those skills, he just doesn't usually see reason to use them.
• Four-Point Scale: In "Anime Girls vs Pizza Hut", Jiko review bombs Pizza Hut with a 1-star rating, saying "They food mid." (sic) to get Master Chief and the Spartans he brought with him to back off.
• Freeze-Frame Bonus: Due to "Spider-Man Swings into Debt" parodying streaming culture, it of course utilizes the Unreadably Fast Text that is stream chat, and it absolutely revels in the concept, with every comment shown in both Spider-Man's and LEGO Man's streams being some form of Shout-Out, pun, meme, Continuity Nod, and many other jokes all used as Rapid-Fire Comedy.
  • It also dually foreshadows and reveals both Jiko's name, and that she's been stalking LEGO Man.
• Furry Reminder: Played almost-literally. After her first appearance, Jiko the Amazon Cat Girl mostly acts like a normal girl with cat features, and even often without her cat ears, but will grow them when reminded of her feline nature. She's also prone to episodes of catlike behavior.
  • She destroys the apartment living room furniture out of "stress" from not having any more dates since the previous episode in "Picking Up Hotties While you Uber."
  • When Sturdy uses a laser-pointer to distract her, she immediately runs head-first into a wall chasing it in "Why is my Home School Teacher so Cute?"
• Has a Type: In "Batman Gets Doxed on Twitter", when Astolfo notices Jiko is his new maid, Batman tells him he has a thing for women who are also cats.
• Have I Mentioned I Am Heterosexual Today?: Master Chief starts out frequently clarifying that he's a straight guy loyal to his girlfriend Cortana, and that he and Astolfo are just roommates. However, gradually over the videos, he gets less adamant about there being nothing between them, and he eventually admits that Astolfo is his boyfriend, albeit he views it as an If It's You, It's Okay situation, claiming he's still completely straight in spite of that.
• Help, I'm Stuck!: After somehow making Master Chief's armor pink by putting it in the wash alongside his pink "boy-panties", Astolfo tries to play it off in his usual The Tease way by invoking this trope, shoving himself head-first into the washing machine and leaving his butt exposed for "opportunities", as Hippo notes. Chief is so pissed about his pink armor that he just kicks Astolfo the rest of the way in.
• Hey, You!: Played with. While the Cat Girl girlfriend Chief ordered through Amazon is occasionally referred to as "Jiko" by the other characters, attention is also given to the fact that she has never directly introduced herself as or referred to herself as Jiko. Much like Ambiguous Gender above though, it can safely be assumed that Jiko is in fact herself.
• How We Got Here: The episode "Guys I Lost the Fight at Waffle House" starts with a brawl in a Waffle House. One of the fighters is about to punch Yellow Jacket in a maid dress before cutting back to two hours earlier at Astolfo's, showing how Yellow Jacket ended up in that situation.
• The Hyena: Turskit is borderline incapable of going one line without letting loose a giggle, adding to her teasing and playful attitude.
• Hypocritical Heartwarming: Master Chief offers to turn a delivery boy into "a chiseled sand god". When the boy expresses doubt about listening to advice from a man in a kitty cat apron, Chief snipes that real men can wear anything and still be manly. Except Astolfo.
• Insufferable Genius: In "Batman Gets Doxed on Twitter," Riddler brags he ghost wrote Rick and Morty while also boasting he's a better person than Batman.
  Riddler: I bet you don't understand the significance of the pickle.
• Innocently Insensitive: In "Simping Bad", when Astolfo asks Walter what happened to his hair, he says it's stage 3 cancer. Astolfo says he hopes he reaches stage 4. Walter threatens to liquify Astolfo and put him in the desert.
• Interspecies Romance: Hippo somehow manages to land Turskit, a "big tiddy goth GF" from Tinder, much to Gangsta Tahu's dismay as he wonders who would ever accept a Bionicle like him as a lover.
• Invincible Hero: In "Anime Girls vs Pizza Hut", Master Chief warns another Spartan not to try fighting Astolfo.
  MilfHunter48: Sir, permission to increase my K/D.
  Chief: Negative, MilfHunter48. He's got "anime protagonist" strength. You wouldn't last a second.
• I Want to Be a Real Man: The Delivery Boy develops an increasing desire to be a super-manly guy ever since Master Chief gave him a taste of manly potential, which made him realize how he's muscle-deficient and effeminate, to the point he has small breasts and perfectly fits in various girly outfits, as demonstrated by Turskit seeing him as a "gal pal" to dress up and being Dragged into Drag by Gangsta Tahu. He periodically watches videos by male role model "gurus" like Tahu for advice on becoming manlier, to the distress of Turskit who wants him to stay her "gal pal".
• Jerkass Has a Point: In "How to get a goth GF w/ a Dump Truck on Tinder", when Turskit reveals she's Hippo's hot goth girlfriend (to the surprise of Tahu), he feels it's not supposed to be mathematically possible, saying there's not enough goth girls. Hippo tells him he has to go out and work for a (goth) girlfriend and not expect one to fall into his lap.
  Tahu: How did you get a goth girlfriend? It's not supposed to be possible mathematically! There's not enough goth girls!
  Hippo: Bruh, stop thinking that a goth girlfriend is just gonna walk into your life one day. That's not how it work, bruh. You gotta get out there and hustle.
  Tahu: I don't need this kind of negativity in my life!
• Laser-Guided Karma: Mailwoman Yui tried to cause Turskit to experience Demonic Possession simply because her ordering habits annoyed her, only for Astolfo's paranoia to cause Turskit to leave the package unopened and bring it along, with Yui's attempt to take it back ripping open the package and causing it to possess her instead, and when she's spit back out she's apparently traumatized for life.
• "Last Supper" Steal: In "They Should've BANNED me from the Movies Sooner", Tahu says he sets up the food he smuggles into the movies like the Last Supper, with him taking the place of Jesus.
• Legally Dead: In "Batman gets Doxed on Twitter", Astolfo tells Batman that because he hasn't left the Batcave/Astolfo's apartment in weeks, the office (Wayne Enterprises) has legally declared Bruce Wayne dead.
• Leg Focus: A common part of Astolfo's various figure bodies is him possessing some very well-modeled thighs, and they're frequently given a lot of camera focus (alongside his decently-modeled feminine butt). It's even a running theme for Joker that he mainly trolls Batman in an effort to see "Robin's" thighs.
• Massive Multiplayer Crossover: After initially only making LEGO content, pantsahat expanded into utilizing basically every toy, figure, model, and more that he owns and buys, which means you've got Master Chief, Astolfo, Batman, Duke Nukem, Walter White, Darth Vader, and many, many more all hanging out in the same LEGO city (whether or not it's the LEGO City is unclear)
• Murderous Thighs: When Master Chief adamantly denies the fakeness of his Jordans, Astolfo tests his convictions about that belief by having Turskit the Goth GF give him a strangling headscissor, but despite the suffocating pressure of her thighs, he still insists they're real.
• Mythology Gag: After experiencing one rejection too many, Gangsta Tahu makes note of how "love isn't even canon", referencing the current stance in Bionicle about romantic relationships not existing in their universe.
• Never Bareheaded: Chief never takes his helmet off, since "chicks dig helmets".
• New Job as the Plot Demands: Every time a restaurant of any sort is in a video, Astolfo will always be the only employee there, with him showing how he's been working long enough to understand the intricate details about each place. There's implications that him basically being the sole worker for every restaurant in town is why he's the only person in the recurring cast that doesn't live in Perpetual Poverty, bordering on being The Team Benefactor.
• N-Word Privileges: In "Batman Becomes a Discord Mod," Joker threatens to say the "gamer word" on Discord unless he gets a month of Nitro. Batman reveals he's broke and had to move in with Robin #7, aka Astolfo. Joker changes the terms to now wanting pics of this Robin's thighs or he goes through with saying the word.
• Out of Focus: Following Master Chief breaking up with Astolfo (no matter how much he denies they were ever a couple), Chief has shown up a lot less frequently. Eventually, Astolfo moves in with Gangsta Tahu, who mentions Chief burned down his house. Astolfo defends Chief by saying it was a misguided romantic gesture.
• Perpetual Poverty: Just about every one of the characters absolutely suck at managing money, and many video plots involve having to do something about their money problems.
• Police Are Useless: Whenever Officer Rin shows up, she's at best being uncaring towards the law getting broken, at worst engaging in Police Brutality towards the main cast based on a Felony Misdemeanor. The only time she was even somewhat competent was when she put the Astolfo Gang and Darth Vader under house arrest after blowing up Starbucks in "Darth Vader goes to Starbucks to become Instagram Famous", and in that case she instead was too lenient in her actions, because putting them under house arrest instead of real arrest left them open to getting into more criminal shenanigans in the future.
• Puff of Logic: When Gangsta Tahu expresses relief that a clothes thief didn't steal his Tims, Hippo states that it's because they're so fake they're non-existant, which causes them to actually stop existing, with Tahu demanding he make them come back.
• Riches to Rags: Following some very poorly thought out crypto investments, Batman ended up losing almost all his money, and now has to live in Astolfo's house.
• Ridiculous Future Sequelisation: In "They Should've BANNED me from the Movies Sooner", one of the movie posters is for ''Super People 23: Ca$h Grab".
• Running Gag: In the beginning it was an ironically consistent joke for Master Chief's character that his voice was inconsistent, sounding completely different in every subsequent appearance, unlike every other character, who all keep the same voices they're introduced with. That said, when The Bus Came Back with him he fully settled into being consistently gritty and gravelly to reflect his self-proclaimed manliness and efforts to be treated seriously.
• Samus Is a Girl: In "Don't Trust the Mailman", Astolfo is surprised the mailman that's stalking him is a woman.
• The Scottish Trope: In "Anime Girls vs Pizza Hut", Jiko says she would have gone to Papa John's for pizza, but he (John Schnatter, founder of Papa John's) was cancelled. Astolfo tells Jiko not to say his name, otherwise she'll bring "the day of reckoning" upon them.
• Sequel Episode: Unlike most videos which are generally disconnected plot-wise and simply use the occasional Continuity Nod to make clear at least some time is passing, "Don't Trust the Mailman" directly follows up off of "Indiana Jones raided my panty drawer", with Master Chief's armor still coated by Astolfo's pink hair dye that he has yet to re-apply and Astolfo wearing hand-we-downs from Turskit because he's too scared of the mailman to buy new clothes after Indiana Jones stole his.
• Serious Business: Gangsta Tahu treats getting his food how it's supposed to be as an important aspect of life, so every time he comes across an Astolfo-run restaurant and finds he can't get his order the way he asked, he becomes quite violent, to the point of even bringing out guns for threatening.
• Shout-Out:
  • After Master Chief gets his armor dyed pink following a washing machine mix-up by Astolfo, Hippo notes besides pink that he could call it "lightish-red".
  • The video "Anime Girls vs Pizza Hut" includes a major one to Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance, with the interaction between Master Chief and Astolfo directly evoking the ultra-memeticinvoked one between Senator Armstrong and Raiden; right down to a soundbite from the game being used when Astolfo tackles Chief from the head.
• Snacksploitation: In "They Should've BANNED me from the Movies Sooner", Tahu smuggles in a whole rotisserie chicken in his coat pocket, and keeps a microwave under the theater seats, and a mini-fridge in the ventilation system. He then pulls out a whole tray stacked with food from under his coat, and hands it to Turskit, causing her to get banned from the theater. And it turns out he doesn't even eat all the food, he sells it from the bathroom.
• Stronger Than They Look: Astolfo has the body of a muscle-deficient sissy femboy, but despite that he is still a Heroic Spirit with the super-human power that provides, alongside having "anime protagonist strength", so when he and Master Chief get in a disagreement during "Anime Girls vs Pizza Hut", that "sissy femboy" quite easily throttles and throws the similarly super-enhanced SPARTAN soldier forcefully enough to topple two other Spartans.
• Stylistic Suck: "Skyrim BUT LEGO" is less about representing Skyrim with LEGO and more about poking fun at all the bizarre coding quirks, glitches, and weird mods, such as mountain-climbing horses, characters models bugging out randomly, and that one Thomas & Friends dragon mod.
• Take That!:
  • A large portion of his videos involve insulting various fast food restaurants based on poor service and crappy food, with the strong implication that pantsahat has been through bad experiences from each location used. The one that gets it the most is Taco Bell.
    Tahu: That does it. I'm going to straight up Taco Bell. Cause at least they didn't… At least it ain't a mystery if I'm gonna get food poisoning, it's guaranteed!
  • When Astolfo asks why Master Chief doesn't wear his newer armor when the old one is compromised, he states that he refuses because the art style for it is "busy", echoing a complaint many Halo fans had about his redesign.
• The Tease: Astolfo has a heavy inclination towards sexually teasing any other male he interacts with, taking this even further than his canon self by frequently propositioning gay sex as blatantly and vulgarly as possible. That said, he always gets shocked and flustered when anybody actually takes up his offer.
• Through the Eyes of Madness: Jiko falls in love with every straight male she sees, literally ignoring any flaws to the point she sees a scrawny takeout delivery boy as Goku.
• Tsundere: Master Chief utterly refuses to acknowledge the fact he and Astolfo are a gay couple, repeatedly rebuking his advances and exclaiming how he's very much a straight guy dedicated to Cortana. That said, as the videos go by, he grows less and less abrasive towards Astolfo, denying their relationship less often, and lessening his aggressively abusive attitude. Eventually, he just gives up denying anything, accepting and acknowledging that the two are an item who frequently get it on in bed. Gets even stronger after they broke up due to life complications, where he utterly refuses to acknowledge that they ever "got together" for them to "break up".
• Vitriolic Best Buds: Gangsta Tahu and Astolfo have come to countless disagreements, and gotten into many fights with each other, especially whenever Tahu orders food from a restaurant Astolfo works at, but the two frequently hang out together and accept each-other's occasional company regardless.
• Verbal Tic: Bruh, Hippo almost always incorporates "Bruh" into his sentences at the start or end, bruh!
• Would Rather Suffer: In "Can I Suffer a Taco Bell Visit?", Tahu tells Turskit he'd rather step on a land mine than go to Taco Bell because the explosion isn't as guaranteed.

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