Web Animation / The Object Show Extravaganza Mini

Already the title card is demonstrating how dubious the quality of the show gets^note Left to Right: Tire, Coffee, Lemon, Lunchbox, Axe, Hankerchief, Lamp, Envelope and Lava Lamp

The Object Show Extravaganza Mini (TOSEM) is an Object Show mini-series created by Creepingston. The first episode was released on 4th June 2022 and completed its runtime on 20th June 2022 with six episodes. The absolute Stylistic Suck and the fact it doesn't take itself seriously puts the series firmly into the Joke Show category.

A group of eight sentient objects^note Axe (8th), Coffee (6th), Envelope (4th), Handkerchief (2nd), Lamp (5th), Lava Lamp (N/A), Lemon (7th), Lunchbox (1st), Tire (3rd) decide to partake in challenges (or as it's called "Trials") where only one can win. However, Lunchbox discovers something is amidst and has to go to the edges of the universe to find the answer.

Do be warned that all spoilers for the first season are left unmarked as this is a fairly short mini-series.

Full official playlist can be found here.

Contains the following tropes:

• The Ace: Handkerchief for always completing the trials and has never been put up for elimination because of it. Alas, like a certain playing card for a similar previous series, Handkerchief only claimed second place as Lunchbox was the ultimate winner.
• A Dog Named "Dog": Such an original idea for an object show to have the characters be named after their object.
• A Glitch in the Matrix: Lunchbox starts walking on nothing after going out of bounds towards a mysterious door. They later see in the distance that the world was flickering in and out of existence.
• Alliterative Name: There's two "L"s for the contestant Lava Lamp even though they never competed or appeared in person.
• All Just a Dream: Turns out the competition we've been seeing the whole time was a result of Lunchbox making it up in the hour-long coma he was in after getting hit in the head with a basketball. It was so close to turning into a Dying Dream if were not for the cast desperately trying to wake her up.
• All There in the Manual: A YouTube community post by Creepingston confirms the genders of the cast.
• Animate Inanimate Object: Everybody is an anthropomorphic object of some kind with faces and limbs.
• Anthropomorphic Food: Lemon and Coffee are respectively a sentient sour fruit and bitter drink.
• Arc Words: WAKE UP
• Armless Biped: Averted as nobody in the show is lacking arms, a common staple for Object Shows.
• Artifact Title: It's supposed to be a mini show to The Object Show Extravaganza but given that the main series was never made in the first place, the name becomes this trope.
• Audience Participation: At the end of every episode aside from the last, the viewers can vote on the two worst performers in the trials to get eliminated and squished down to size.
• Back for the Finale: Everyone, minus Lava Lamp, returned after their respective elimination to gather around Lunchbox's unconscious body.
• Christmas in July: The final episode is fittingly titled "Christmas in June" and while not Christmas-themed, it references how the show released episodes in the middle of June.
• Death Is Cheap: Zig-zagged. While recovery centers do exist which revive objects with no problem or repercussions, they are fairly expensive in the world's economy and require long drives to get to the few available ones.
• Dying Dream: Lunchbox would have almost certainly fallen into this trope if she hadn't exited through the door in his dream and be woken up through the real cast's efforts.
• Evolving Credits: The title card which initially showed all the contestants would disappear one by one as more contestants get eliminated.
• Foreshadowing: There were many foreboding signs before the big reveal that the entire competition was all in Lunchbox's mind while they were knocked out:
  • The Arc Words "WAKE UP" is increasingly prominent in the episodes' thumbnails and the TOSEM logo.
  • Lava Lamp never appearing in the show proper, despite being in the intro card, is because Lunchbox only remembers them as a distant memory due to the former moving away on non-speaking terms in the real world.
  • Lunchbox, the Only Sane Man, is animated more fluidly, more aware of his increasingly surreal surroundings and always safe from elimination despite not doing the trials since he is the only real person in the show.
  • While Lunchbox is walking his way to the door in "Drawing on the Canvas Pt. ii", a disembodied voice yells something which startles them before continuing on. Once the finale came around, it becomes clear the voice was actually calling out Lunchbox's name in Axe's attempt to wake them up.
  • The world turns more distorted as the episodes went on alongside the music progressively becoming slower and creepier. This is a result of Lunchbox drifting back to consciousness and leaving the competition behind.
• Gender-Equal Ensemble: Excluding Lava Lamp, the contest consists of a pair of every gender, male (Lemon and Tire), female (Coffee and Lamp), non-binary (Axe and Envelope) and genderfluid (Handkerchief and Lunchbox).
• The Ghost: Lava Lamp never physically shows up at any point of the series let alone a contestant, only appearing in the Title Sequence and mentioned once in the last episode. The reason for why so is Lava Lamp has not spoken to the cast for years in the real world but Lunchbox subconsciously remembers them in his dream.
• Minimalist Cast: The show only focused on a group of eight objects^note Lava Lamp doesn't count on account of being The Ghost that slowly dwindles down as the contest goes.
• Non-Indicative Name: None of the episode titles are ever relevant to what's in store for the episodes themselves. For example, "We're in the Mini Mall" grossly exaggerates where the cast exactly is (Some unidentified grass fields) and "Christmas in June" isn't Christmas-related in any capacity.
• Only Sane Man: Lunchbox is a lot more self-aware and less single-minded in competing compared to the rest of the contestants which makes sense given they are the only real person in their dream.
• Recycled Soundtrack:
  • In every episode of the first season, "AutoRun IIIkg" by DiGERATi is heard for the entire duration but gets progressively slower and creepier as time went on. A remix version is played in the finale's end-credits.
  • The second season replaces the song with an instrumental version of the The Flintstones theme.
• Running Gag: Whenever Lava Lamp appears onscreen, an audience can be heard giving a standing ovation due to not being The Ghost anymore. This got old real fast in-universe as Lava Lamp would either walk offscreen or someone block him from view.
• Say My Name: Axe, in an attempt to wake her up, repeats Lunchbox's name over and over which one instance had bled into his dreams, albeit hard to make out on the first watch.
• Short-Runner: It ended after six episodes within the month of June 2022.
• Soft Reboot: The Object Show Extravaganza Mini was based on an old, obscure object show of Creepingston called The Object Show Extravaganza which was mentioned on his YouTube channel exactly once.
• Stylistic Suck: Self-proclaimed in the first episode's description to be the worst object show there is as seen by its low-quality animation, simplistic, uninspiring challenges, repetitive soundtrack, hundreds of countless errors and everything really. The justification for deliberately invoking such a choice is that it was All Just a Dream.
• The Voiceless: Nobody speaks in the series, replacing any dialogue with Pictorial Speech-Bubble, until the finale where they all have the same voice.
• We Hardly Knew Ye: Axe is the first contestant to be eliminated and wasn't seen during the competition until their elimination in the next episode.
• Where the Hell Is Springfield?: The show takes place in grass plains of undisclosed location which remains true when Lunchbox wakes up.