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Noah Maloney, also known under his YouTube alias Dog Shirt (though he initially called it Dog Shit), is a vlogger and video producer from Toronto, Ontario. He is best known for landing himself on the news several times for attempting to eat Jason Segel's face everyday until he eats a picture of him.
Yep.
He started uploading to YouTube in 2016, and his videos often partake in a lot of bizzareness and severe Mind Screw.
He originally began his YouTube career under a different channel, Dog Toons, where he hosts a series called "Homemade Intros". In these videos, he remakes theme songs from various cartoons and live-action shows, though he really sucks at it. The first intro to be remade was The Powerpuff Girls, which was uploaded on March 20, 2016. Eventually the series Grew the Beard, doing more than just intros (like trailers and Music Videos) and devolving into a surrealistic and outright terrifying web series; the latter is best demonstrated with his 3D intro remakes, basically exaggerated taking this. Do NOT watch these at night... You Have Been Warned.
You can see his Dog Shirt channel here
, and his Dog Toons channel here. His Twitter is here. He also has rather inactive Instagram and Facebook accounts. You can check his Patreon here.
Dog Shirt contains examples of:
- Bizarre Taste in Food: Noah attempted to eat a picture of Jason Segel's face everyday, which he got famous for doing.
- Multiple Endings: His aptly-titled video "This Video Has 18 Endings".
Homemade Tropes: Dog Toons
- Accidental Misnaming: Though it's more like intentional misnaming. As per the Stylistic Suck, expect no name of any characters or even the show titles themselves to be correct for the sake of comedy.
- Adaptational Jerkass: Here, Wyatt is described as seeming like a Nice Guy at first, until the singer reveals that he hit him with his car and grinned while doing it.
- The Alcoholic: The Moon from Summer Camp Island is depicted as being drunk.
- All-CGI Cartoon: Not often, though a few intros have been re-done in 3D, which often makes them even scarier than before.
- Anthropomorphic Shift: Stan suddenly turns anthropomorphic for one scene (and this is showcased in that video's thumbnail).
- Body Horror: Done to a certain degree in some scenes of his 2D intros, notably whenever a character detaches a body part. Taken to its full extent in his 3D intros however, in which some characters just straight up turn into abominations, sometimes breaking apart to add onto the
Paranoia Fuel. - Continuity Nod: In both Robot Chicken intro, a few Homemade Intros videos are shown on the television screens.
- Credits Gag: If there are any visible credits on screen, always expect it to be a joke (e.g. "directed by me").
- The Cynic: The American Dad! 3D intro subverts the original's cheery tone and optimism for the United States by being extremely cynical and nihilistic about it.Good morning, USA. I have a feeling that this country's going to crumble and break.
- Darker and Edgier: A lot of the intro parodies will end up being this to how they were in the original. His 3D videos essentially take this as far as they can.
- One example of this is his Elmo's World parody, where we're greeted to a looping animation of the sketch of Elmo that appeared at the beginning of original intro falling out of his window (implying suicide).
- The Dog with a Blog one is more than just a little unsettling, though one part in particular shows Stan holding a ripped-off arm in his mouth.
- In the Go, Diego, Go! intro (appropriately retitled "Run, My Man, Run!"), the song is about how Diego is running from the animals and fearing for his life. Alicia is trying to save him. His parents have come to terms with the fact that their child will likely die.
- Deconstructed hard in the Little Einsteins 3D video, as it makes light of the four children's Parental Abandonment and how they are unsupervised, they're scared to go on their missions, they don't know how to drive their rocket, that they should not be alone, they can't feed themselves, and they want the audience to send help.
- Deranged Animation: More present than ever, and it just gets worse with each video. It's basically enough to ask yourself, "is Noah okay?" And let's not even talk about the 3D videos.
- Early-Installment Weirdness: Originally, these videos were done lazily in Microsoft Paint and Windows Movie Maker, and were relatively tame. As his videos started Growing the Beard, they became a lot more surreal, and had a little more effort put into them (though that's not saying much).
- Earlier videos tended to use aspects of the original audio featured in the theme song (like the instrumental), though as time went on Noah has sought to either making the instrumental himself or just not having one at all.
- A lot of his past videos didn't make an effort to change the title of the shows he tackled, while this became a frequent practice later on (outside of the video title itself).
- Easter Egg: After a while, Stewie Griffin started to appear in many of the intros, albeit in different and unique ways. He's even in the current Homemade Intros intro itself.
- Freeze-Frame Bonus:
- The "media pending" error that comes up when using Adobe Premiere shows up in The Suite Life of Zack & Cody intro.
- In the Amphibia video, a frame from his Bubble Guppies video can be seen for one second before the former starts.
- Gratuitous Spanish: Robot Chicken is retitled "El pollo robit".
- Hormone-Addled Teenager: The lyrics to 6teen are dramatically changed to be about how these teenagers want to make out with other teens "at the freakin' mall".
- Identically Named Group: In the Ninjago intro, everyone is named Kev, except for the sole "Kevin".
- In Name Only: His The Octonauts 3D video stands out, as it would be completely devoid from the original intro if it weren't for the visuals. The melody of the song is completely different and the premise is changed to be about a polar bear-fish war. And outside of the Theme Tune Roll Call, the intro was originally mostly an Instrumental Theme Tune, while it isn't here.
- Laugh Track: One plays throughout the Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood intro.
- Limited Animation: Intentional.
- Medium Blending: As a whole, these videos have a tendency to mix 2D and 3D elements together when necessary. Specific examples include:
- Brian Griffin is a low-quality picture of a real life dog while the rest of the family are in 2D.
- To "replicate" the Roger Rabbit Effect present in the original Blue's Clues show, Noah poorly recorded footage of himself as Steve, while the rest of the video is in 2D.
- In the American Dad! 3D intro, Francine is shown as a non-moving 2D drawing, while the rest of the family are in 3D.
- Mind Screw: Frequent with a LOT of his videos, as they are often confusing, surreal, insane, or downright worrysome.
- The Movie: It was announced that there are currently plans to re-make a whole movie, in this case being the first Spider-Man film, if Noah receives a good amount of money to pull it off (which is the reason he created the Patreon).
- Never Learned to Read: "Super Why!... Super Why... he can't read, his life's a lie..."
- "Not Making This Up" Disclaimer: The Pucca intro ends with "I promise those are the lyrics."
- Parody: All of the Homemade Intros are meant to be parodies of whatever shows he tackles, and may even include Shout Outs to other shows.
- "Reading Is Cool" Aesop: Subverted in his Super Why! 2D parody. The lyrics are changed as the singer trying to warn you to not read because it's bad for you, it makes you stupid, and he doesn't like how they look.Reading is... reading is not good for you. Reading.. makes you stupid. It makes you, uh, it makes you- not smart. They say it makes you smart but it does the exact opposite so I would recommend... I would recommend not reading. Ever.
- Repetitive Audio Glitch: This is common in a lot of these videos. The audio glitch will be at the end of some of the intros, causing them to give off an ominous, creepy vibe (if they haven't already). This was also used in the credits of a lot of these videos, as a part of the song loops over and over before the video abruptly ends.
- Rhymes on a Dime: "frog on a log in the fog at a bog with a vlog on a jog still a dog"
- Running Gag: The phrase "JFK IS ALIVE" pops up occassionally.
- Sensory Abuse: Almost the entirety of the Blue's Clues & You! intro has a grating high-pitched noise going off in the background.
- Shaped Like Itself: "Homemade Intros: Homemade Intros". And "Homemade Intros Homemade Intros".
- Shout-Out:
- T.J. from Recess is one of the pictures in the Family Guy intro.
- In the Max and Ruby intro, Max and Ruby are renamed Mark and Cuban respectively, as a reference to Mark Cuban. His face even replaces Max in one scene.
- In the Oddbods intro, a few shots make the characters look like Among Us crewmates.
- In The Octonauts video, the Epic Meal Time YouTube channel is shown, and a penguin from Club Penguin can be seen. Also at the end, DVD covers of The Little Mermaid (1989), Shark Tale, and Titanic (1997) are on the ground.
- The duck and the lemonade stand owner from the Songdrops song, "The Duck Song", shows up during the Breadwinners theme.
- Status Quo Is God: Discussed with Steven Universe: Future, as the show is parodied for being the exact same as the original show, "except the intro's a little different".
- Stylistic Suck: The whole point of Homemade Intros and other similar videos on the channel is that they are poorly made, with cheap "animation" (and it gets worse with all of the 3D intros) and a low effort at replicating the original.
- Subverted Kids' Show: Though Noah never advertised his videos as being "for kids", they often lean into this trope as they tend to tackle a lot of shows for children in often morbid ways. No doubt that this resulted in a lot of "What Do You Mean, It's Not for Kids?" reactions.
- Synthetic Voice Actor: The announcer in the Homemade Intro for Jeopardy!.
- Title Drop: In the Steven Universe: Future intro, Peridot sings "Homemade Intros: Steven Universe!"note
