Web Video / Dubbed By Strangers

Just another Monday for the Strangers...

Dubbed by Strangers is a YouTube channel that posts Gag Dub videos of preschool shows and review/analysis videos, run by Brother–Sister Team Frankie and Korri Strange. They have a second channel called Stranger Sings, where they post song covers and original music.

The pilot video, a dub of the Animal Mechanicals episode "Whale Plane Island", was posted on December 12, 2020.

Dubbed by Tropers:

General tropes

• Art Evolution: In 2022, the artstyle was updated to a more sharp look with softer colours.
• Bad Boss: Jazzi does not treat Korri or Frankie very well.
• Big Ol' Eyebrows: Korri's avatar has thick eyebrows.
• Broken Pedestal: Korri and Frankie regard WildBrain as this, citing their disappointment in their reboots and them altering pre-existing shows, which resulted in them creating a series known as "WildBrain Ruins Everything" to document this.
• Cartoon Creature: Frankie's avatar's species, the Bean Boy.
• Color-Coded for Your Convenience: Videos with just Korri have a pink background, videos with just Frankie have a green background, and videos with them together have a purple background.
• Jerkass to One: Jazzi is much harsher on Frankie than Korri.
• Pink Girl, Blue Boy: Korri has a pink avatar and Frankie has a blue avatar.
• Pint-Sized Powerhouse: Frankie, a skinny Bean Boy, is said to be a professional boxing champion (later revealed to be in the WVBA).
• Sir Swears-a-Lot: Everyone, even child characters like Mouse, swears like sailors.
• Toilet Humor: Defied; Frankie loathes the fart jokes in The Mr. Men Show.

Tropes specific to the dubs

• Adaptational Sexuality: Komodo and Sasquatch are gay boyfriends.
• Affectionate Nickname: Sasquatch calls Komodo "honey" in the pilot.
• Gag Dub: The main series.
• Here We Go Again!: Said almost verbatim at the end of the pilot.
• Insistent Terminology: The big-ass whale (plane), at least for the first half of the video.
• Prone to Tears:
  Unicorn: "The whale plane doesn't like us, I'm gonna cry forever now!"
• "The Reason You Suck" Speech: The pilot ends with Frankie going on a long tangent (which he refers to as a diss track) about how much he hates Rex, including that he "ate all the hamster snacks", and that his power is lame.
• This Is for Emphasis, Bitch!: "Watch out, I got a hammer, BITCHES!"
• Subverted Catchphrase: From the pilot:
  Rex: Mechana-can we do it?
  Sasquatch and Mouse: No, let's just go home now.

Tropes specific to the reviews/analysis videos

• Almost Kiss: In "Why Mr. Rude and Mr. Stubborn Work Better Together", Frankie is about to make Mr. Stubborn and Mr. Rude kiss, when Korri interrupts him.
• Alpha Bitch: Korri feels this way about Spooky Spoon and Madame Carp.
• Fanboy: Frankie makes his love of Mr. Stubborn, Mr. Rude, and the aliens segment from The Mr. Men Show very apparent.
• Hostile Show Takeover: Frankie aggressively takes over a portion of "What Happened to The Mr. Men Show?" to talk about his feelings towards how the Little Misses were treated, as well as Miss Scatterbrain and Miss Stubborn being changed into Mr. Men.
• Running Gag: Korri wanting soup in "Yelling About the Mr. Men and Little Misses".
• Sequel Hook:
  • At the end of "Barbie as the Princess and the Pauper is Kind of Overhyped", Korri mentions having other Barbie rankings, thus setting up for future Barbie videos.
  • At the end of "The Format of the Mr. Men Show"; Korri asks if something happened to make Frankie lose his boxing championship. Frankie says "Not something; someone" as a picture of Soda Popinski appears on the screen, setting up his rant about him.
• Shout-Out: Several within "Yelling About the Mr. Men and Little Misses":
  • Korri compares Mr. Happy to Abe Lincoln.
  • Korri refers to Mr. Bounce's accent as "the Apu accent".
  • Korri loves Mr. Strong's UK voice because "It's Barnacles!".
  • The transition theme for Miss Magic's segment is the Harry Potter theme.
  • Several videos make use of Miitopia music.
• Stealth Pun: The transition music in "Barbie as the Princess and the Pauper" is snippets from "A Girl Like You". For the bit where Korri compares the film to Care Bears Journey To Joke A Lot, in the background is "I'm just like you, you're just like me".

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