Brody, the mamas, the daddies, and most of the recurring characters.
"Yo mama!"
— Brody Foxx
Yo Mama is an animated series of comedic YouTube shorts directed and written by Zack James and Alex Negrete. It stars Brock Baker as Brody Foxx, an ultra-macho male who tells practically every Your Mom joke in existence.
On October 31, 2020, the channel premiered "THE FINAL JOKE" (extended cut here
), a Wham Episode where Yo Mama is a Show Within a Show. Although only a few videos have followed up on this, there has been an increase in continuity within the channel's videos since.
The series also had some Spin-Off series. The first is In Soviet Russia, where the format is the same as Yo Mama but it features a different host telling Russian Reversal jokes instead. This series had two seasons. The second is Bro Tips, where Brody Foxx gives life advice.
See the channel here. Brody Foxx also features occasionally on the channel Animeme (by the same people).
Yo Mama provides examples of:
- Ambiguously Bi: Brody; he dreams about Vin Diesel and likes Thicc Daddy's twerking, but also loves the Hot Mama.
- Ambiguously Human: Evil Mama seems more like a demon, and Slimy Mama seems more like a Slime Girl. Hairy Mama also seems less human and more primate. The reason they fall under this trope is that they're supposed to be Your Mom. Zach James has confirmed that most of the Mamas are merely actors, meaning that she's probably one of said actors.
- American Kirby Is Hardcore: Brody seems to believe this since he feels that Kirby is badass.
- Bigfoot, Sasquatch, and Yeti: Hairy Mama's appearance seems based upon this.
- The Chew Toy:
- All of the jokes are meant to humiliate the mamas. Possibly subverted with some mamas introduced in the later seasons who have positive defining traits.
- Brody is one in most of the "In Soviet Russia..." jokes. Getting chased by a dear, beaten by a dead horse, getting peed by a toilet, just to name a few.
- Crowded-Cast Shot: The intro to some of the newer YO MAMA videos.
- Crying a River: In one joke, the Ugly Mama makes 3 blind kids cry, who end up flooding the room. Combined with Ocular Gushers.
- Discriminate and Switch: "Yo Mama so Autistic!" initially appears to be a compilation of ableist jokes, much to the ire of the audience, but then turns out to be a video about Zack James' personal experiences of being on the autism spectrum and the stigma around it. A Crowning Moment of Heartwarming, indeed.
- Enraged by Idiocy: Some of the "Yo Mama So Stupid" bits end with Brody yelling at the woman for being such an idiot.
- Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas: Boris (the host of In Soviet Russia chapter 2) loves his mama (the Russian mama) a lot.
- Every Car Is a Pinto: In Slip N' Slide
- Exactly What It Says on the Tin: Guess what kind of jokes Brody tells in every short?
- Gasshole: The Fat Mamas often have this, to the point their farts are the cause of global warming.
- Fridge Brilliance: In Birthday, Brody realizes that he doesn't have to get Fat Mama a present for her birthday if he stands behind her.
- Girl of the Week: Brody often has a different girl at his side whenever he's shown with one.
- Hand-or-Object Underwear: When Old Mama visits the Garden of Eden as a kid, we see Adam & Eve, who are nude with Eve covering herself this manner. Or at least her breasts, as Scenery Censor also hides their lower halves. Averted by Adam.
- Identical Grandson: The "Get in the car!" cop appears to have one, sans mustache, in 2028 in this video.
- Jump Scare: The Five Nights at Freddy's jokes involve these.
- Kavorka Man: The Old Mama is the only one of the mamas to be shown to have had multiple partners and a good chunk of them are pretty good looking men.
- Michael Jackson's Thriller Parody: As seen here
- Noodle Incident: Strong Mama's sneezing causes earthquakes every week, according to Brody.
- Politically Incorrect Villain: The American Mama isn't actually evil and more of a Jerkass, but she doesn't have a high opinion on Mexicans (banning Uno in her house and building the wall before Donald Trump), black people (calling the cops on her shadow because it wasn't white), and the French (she sued McDonalds for selling French fries). She also spouted numerous bleeped out racial slurs immediately after Elon Musk bought Twitter in the name of free speech.
- Pop-Cultural Osmosis Failure: Brody doesn't know what the f**k a Hello Kitty is.
- Poverty for Comedy: Every "yo mama is so poor" joke.
- Really 700 Years Old: Old Mama appears to be this, considering what we know about her (i.e her first Christmas was the first Christmas).
- Real Men Wear Pink: Brody wears a pink shirt in all his videos and also adores Kirby.Brody: I don't care if he's pink, he's frickin' badass!
- Running Gag:
- A character having something thrown at them from offscreen.
- Brody being in love with Vin Diesel and Kirby.
- The redhead fat mama eating the short mama and vomiting rainbows.
- People turning to stone when they see one of the ugly mamas.
- Russian Reversal: The IN SOVIET RUSSIA videos.
- Scary Teeth: The Ugly Mamas often sport ghastly-looking teeth.
- Self-Deprecation: The video YO MAMA is a Terrible Channel (originally called "Yo Mama so Ironic!"), which has a compilation of dumb comments on/about their videos, plus multiple previous jokes with the punchlines removed, and other "cringe" moments.
- Shout-Out: A few episodes use Your Mom jokes from Robot Chicken:
- Shaking the Rump: The defining trait of Dummy Thicc Daddy. Also done by Big Chungus, Winnie the Pooh, Ronald McDonald and Pickle Rick in some videos.
- Stoners Are Funny: The punchline to one YO MAMA SO STUPID! jokes involves Spongebob and Patrick smoking sea weed.
- Suddenly Speaking: At first all the Mamas were silent, but overtime several have begun to speak during the episodes.
- Take That!: Brody openly mocks several characters that are notably unpopular on the Internet or within their franchises.
- He assaults Jacob and Edward and One Direction.
- He accuses Jar Jar Binks of ruining Star Wars.
- He claims that Short Mama is a suitable double for Ray William Johnson, but funnier.
- Taken for Granite: What Ugly Mamas can do with their sheer ugliness, according to this video.
- Testosterone Poisoning: Brody has an acute case of this.
- They Killed Kenny Again: Some of the jokes involve the mamas getting killed. Also taken literally when one of the jokes was animated in South Park style and had Kenny dead by the end of the episode.
- Too Dumb to Live: The stupid mommas often have a case of this.
- When I Was Your Age...: The Old Mama (Janice) talks about how a carton of milk and cheeseburger cost a penny in the 50 Cent joke.Janice: Back in my day, you could buy a carton of milk for a penny! You could also buy a cheeseburger for a penny.
- Who Names Their Kid "Dude"?: It's revealed in this episode that Short Mama's real name is "Some Hella Shortass Mama".
- Who Writes This Crap?!: In this episode, Brody complains about how unrealistic the joke is.
- Your Brain Won't Be Much of a Meal: Apparently, zombies walk right past the Stupid Mama because they don't smell any brains at all.
- Your Mom: Obviously, the whole point of this series is to do "your mom" jokes.
- Your Size May Vary: The Fat and Short Mamas' sizes seem to depend on what the joke calls for.
Yo mama so stupid, when I asked her to write The Stinger for the Yo Mama tropes page... she told me she didn't have a pen!
