Cartoon Clipshow is a Youtube web show created by Rob The Wonderful.
The show focuses on reviews of animated material that's obscure, that Rob watched in his childhood or obscure material that Rob watched in his childhood. As such the reviews are aimed at older, less well known properties.
Also hosted on the channel is Rob Watches... where he looks at modern animated material.
The Youtube channel can be found here
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Cartoon Clipshow provides examples of:
- A.I. Is a Crapshoot: Averted with Lisa. She does her job as intended and actually hates the idea of robots being evil human haters.
- Berserk Button:
- Rob does not like My Little Pony, to the point he was mortified to realize he made a reference to it in his Angel Wars review.
- Lisa does not like it when robots are shown as evil or as sex objects.
- While not quite rage inducing for him Rob does not like anime and generally refuses to review any. He has seen some and admits when he has a soft spot for any that he does watch but will usually avoid it. Getting stuck reviewing Lucky Star was not a good day for him.
- Rob hates cryptic characters, especially when they're being obtuse and danger is imminent. He specifically names Dungeon Master from Dungeons & Dragons (1983) as one of the worst examples.
- Rob is Enraged by Idiocy but he takes it beyond simple stupidity and openly loathes nonsensical rhetoric or things that just don't make sense.
- Rob gets rather annoyed when a work doesn't explain anything about something important like who the villain is.
- Chew-Out Fake-Out: Rob seems bothered when Lisa warps Richard Stevenson to the moon in the Top 10 Favorite DC Animated Movies video because there's no air but when she reveals she was aware of that and did it deliberately he praises her.
- Clap Your Hands If You Believe: Apparently how Rex came to be, as Rob reveals in his Real Ghostbusters review.
- Did Not Think This Through: The Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors review shows that the PUNch Running Gag was an actual technical function Rob installed and he outright questions why he had it in the first place, leading him to turn it off. He reactivates it after having to deal with more bad puns, noting that it actually makes it easier to handle them. It probably helped that he discovered he could make it work on who's telling them instead of just himself.
- Enraged by Idiocy: One of Rob's bigger Berserk Buttons. He hates it when characters are stupid or make moronic decisions. He also takes it well beyond stupidity as he's also bothered by nonsensical happenings or generally when something just doesn't make sense.
- Hidden Depths:
- Rob is a music buff, being familiar with several bands and finding music to be as important to animated projects as the other prominent aspects in his commentary. He's gone so far as to make two episodes focused around music in animation.
- Nostalgia Filter: Rob does a good job of averting this. He openly discusses his thoughts and feelings on works he saw as a child and compares them with how he regards them as an adult, noting any changes in his opinions in the interim.
- Rule of Cool: Rob admits a fondness for this trope, being willing to overlook other issues with a work if they show a willingness to throw aside the laws of physics for engaging action scenes or otherwise does something just because it would be cool instead of it made sense.
- Suckiness Is Painful:
- This happens in the show a lot. Rob will react like he's been physically punched if a bad enough pun gets told.
- Lisa claims she was brought to sentience by how horrible Orin was. Rob actually found the movie pretty good and is confused over how Lisa could dislike it until she clarifies that it was the depiction of robots in it that she was bothered by.
- Take That!:
- Rob does this a bit towards Hanna-Barbera. He even lampshades in one episode how he picks on the company. He's not condemning however and gives credit where it's due when they've done something he likes.
- Too Spicy for Yog-Sothoth: Coked-Up Cartoon Writer shrugs off and gleefully enjoys several bizarre things that happen in the cartoons being reviewed but the mushroom people from The Elm-chanted Forest freak him out badly.
