Web Video / Jerma985 Dollhouse

Take care of me. Don't fuck around. You've got three streams to do this. Good luck.

The Jerma985 Dollhouse was a series of three streams hosted by Jerma985 and produced by JK Productions. Jerma stars As Himself, having just moved into a new home on 985 Dollhouse Lane, where he encounters an escalating series of bizarre characters and situations. Inspired by The Sims, the stream could be best be described as an Improv Comedy with Audience Participation; viewers would periodically vote on Jerma's next action, and every day they were able to vote for a new piece of furniture to purchase and place in Jerma's house.

The stream was hosted from August 18th to August 21st, 2021. Guest stars include micathegr8, Criken, Kitboga, and Ludwig Ahgren.

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Acquiring Tropes...

• Amoral Attorney: The offices of Stevenson, Stevenson, Stevenson, and Randy are more incompetent than outright evil, but none of them are able to resolve the situation with Jerma and Jebediah in a way that actually benefits the former. One of them is very close to Jeb to begin with, another charges Jerma for being rude to them and for Locksmith eating bread awkwardly, and Randy decides to give a cut of the safe money to everyone but Jerma (the two guys for helping discover and open the safe, the lawyers for showing up).
• As Himself: Jerma stars as Jerma (occasionally Jeremy). It's made clear that he is supposed to be his actual self when he begins streaming after the viewers buy him a PC. Ludwig Ahgren also plays himself in addition to several other characters.
• Audience Participation: The viewers were responsible for voting on what actions Jerma should take and were responsible for keeping him entertained, fed, clean, and employed.
• And Now for Someone Completely Different: Late in Day 3, Ludwig has Jerma evicted from his own house and takes over the stream, complete with the viewers now deciding his actions instead. He also shows up on TV, cursing Jerma for bringing him to Death.
• Back from the Dead: Uncle Ted visits Jerma out of nowhere on Day Two after being killed off-screen in the first stream. If he was already dead, that is.
  • Jerma, technically, since Death just let him go after a WooHoo gone wrong.
• Back for the Finale: On Day 3, multiple neighbors and bit characters come back for an impromptu house party at Jerma's, while the Car Warranty Salesman, Gi Gi, one of the clowns, and even the bear itself come back to urge Chat to delete the save file.
• Bears Are Bad News: A bear attacks Jerma's home on Day 2. Chat to no one's surprise makes him confront it, leading to a Curb-Stomp Battle.
  • Comes back to help Jerma though, because he got the ability to Call Bear later on in the series.
    • A gorilla invades Jerma's property later on. Instead of fighting it like last time, he calls the Bear.
    • He calls the bear to attack the Car Warranty Salesman.
• Bedroom Adultery Scene: Emilia walks in on Jerma WooHooing the Grim Reaper. They don't take it well.
• Big "WHAT?!": Unsurprsingly, Jerma is flabbergasted when the Chat votes for him to fight the bear. As he stands panicking in the bathroom, he suddenly gets the vote, screaming "HUH?!" right at the audience.
• Brick Joke: On Day 1, Edna comments that she's taken a fancy to Jerma's framed utensil collection. Jerma himself is reluctant to part with it, considering he just learned it belonged to his uncle Ted and he'd rather keep it as a memento. Edna steals it from Jerma's house early in Day 3, with him none the wiser and believing it was Emilia who took them in heartbroken rage.
  • Jerma throws his enormous bug catching net like a spear, hoping that the sound team can find a suitable audio clip to imitate both the sound of a spear whipping through the air and the scream of a guy who got hit by one. The former plays, but not the latter...until after work the same day, when the latter clip finally plays as Jerma is heading in for the night.
• But Thou Must!:
  • On Day 2, Jerma attempts to cook eggs and butter but starts a stovetop fire by accident. He wanted to put it out, but his only choices to responding to it were "Panic", "Panic!!!", and "PANIC!!!". Chat chose the biggest freak out.
  • At the end of Day 3, the audience was allowed to vote on whether or not to delete the save file. The audience repeatedly voted "No", but Jerma simply restarted the poll over and over until "Yes" won and the stream ended.
• Bookends: The beginning of the first stream and the end of the last stream start exactly the same due to the Reset Button Ending.
• Butt-Monkey: Jerma. So many horrible things happen to Jerma during the stream, most of them the result of chat polls. Over the course of the streams, Jerma gets attacked by a bear, is forced go days without bathing or proper sleep, gets caught in a house fire, gets robbed, banned from Twitch, gets evicted and his guests keep raiding his fridge.
• Cassandra Truth:
  • Everyone dismisses Jerma when he tells them that he's being forced to make questionable or downright stupid choices by the Chat.
  • When Edna asks what Jerma's job is, he first answers truthfully and tells her he's a streamer. Edna laughs at him and asks him not to make up a job to appease her, to which he just lies and says he's a plumber.
• Chekhov's Gunman: Two words: Call Bear.
• Concealing Canvas: When taking out the drywall section of the DIY room, Jerma and a neighbor, Jebediah, discover a painting in the back. The painting was virtually glued to the wall, forcing the pair to try cutting it out and hitting it with a sledgehammer. To their surprise, they find a hidden safe with $100,000 worth of bills inside, but Jeb and his friend ask for a cut.
• Corrupt Cop: The sole policeman in the Dollhouse 'verse doesn't really help in any situation he's in. Whether it be a robbery, an inspection, or when someone is drowning in their front yard.
• The Couch: One of the very first things Chat buys for Jerma on Day 2 is a couch. That couch gets placed in the kitchen, where roughly half of the stuff Jerma does occurs, and while every "visitor" criticizes its placement Jerma cannot do anything about it. It gets proper placement in Jerma's living room after his house is burnt down and rebuilt.
• Cross-Cast Role: Kitboga as Edna. Ludwig Ahgren as the Ambiguous Gender (later confirmed to be non-binary) Emilia. Subverted with the reveal that Emilia was actually Ludwig the entire time.
• Crossover: Kitboga plays Granny Edna, the "gullible old lady" stereotype from his scam-bait streams. She even has a phone conversation with a scam artist in her first appearance.
• Curb-Stomp Battle: After waking up to see a bear attacking his house in Day 2, Jerma is forced by Twitch chat to fight it. Naturally, the bear mauls him, forcing Jerma to play dead to get it to leave.
• Destination Defenestration: Day 2 ends with Jerma being thrown through a window while his house burns down.
• Did You Just Romance Cthulhu?: Early in Day 3, Jerma WooHoos with Death himself.
• The Dog Bites Back: After being stood up on a date, and walking in on Jerma WooHooing the Grim Reaper, Emilia looked into the history of the house and realized it was built on their backyard. They promptly get Jerma evicted and arrested.
• Don't Try This at Home: The second time Jerma gets suspended on Twitch, he genuinely tells his audience not to actually fall asleep during Twitch streams if they want to have them monetized.
• Downer Ending: Day 2 ends with the house going up in smoke after a freak cooking accident. Jerma attempts to put it out with a super soaker, but the flames are too powerful and one outright beats him up and throws him out a window.
• French Maid: Emilia's whole concept. They're not impressed when Jerma just wanted them to clean the house, however.
• The Ghost: The person who drives Jerma to work exists entirely offscreen.
• Here We Go Again!: After deleting the save file, the stream plays archived footage of the beginning of Day 1 before fading to black, implying a Stable Time Loop.
• Hope Spot: Every time something nice happens to Jerma, something just as bad or worse will happen to him not long after.
  • Chat surprises him with a television on Day 2, which he absolutely loves. Sadly, he can't figure out how to turn it on and breaks it. Even then, he doesn't even get to keep it in his home for long because a police officer confiscates it from him after informing him that it was stolen.
  • For once, Chat listens to Jerma and puts him to bed in his bedroom. He's all set for the first comfortable rest he's had in days, but then he gets pulled into a surreal nightmare and gets dragged around by the rest of the cast and the stagehands.
  • On Day 3, Chat encourages Jerma to call up Edna for a get together, and asks her to bring a +1. She brings a chunk of the neighbors instead, and all of them have a somewhat weird, but manageable house party. Amelia is invited, and things get frosty between them and Jerma, but nothing too bad happens...until the end, where Amelia reveals themself to be Ludwig, learned from Randy that 985 Dollhouse Lane was technically built on his property, and promptly kicks Jerma out of the house.
• Hostile Show Takeover: Emilia/Ludwig takes over the role of "player" after Jerma gets evicted (his house was on Ludwig's backyard), and even the stream logo gets changed to "The Ludwig Dollhouse" shortly after.
• Impossibly Tacky Clothes: To be expected when an outfit is voted on by an audience of tens of thousands. The Day 2 outfit is especially terrible, and includes a cartoon glove that Jerma can't remove because of the gold watch taped around it.
• Insistent Terminology: Combined with Verbal Backspace when Jerma insists that he didn't "have sex" with Death, they merely "WooHooed".
• Killer Gorilla: A gorilla attacks Jerma's home on Day 3.
• Laser-Guided Karma: After Emilia/Ludwig has Jerma evicted from his house, they/he promptly moves into the vacated home...and is immediately subjected to the whims of the Chat.
• Most Streamers Are Streamers: Jerma is also a streamer in-universe, with the chat being given options to stream every once in a while. Doing so gives him 500 dollars, if he isn't banned.
• Morton's Fork: There wasn't any real way for Jerma to successfully make it to the date with Amelia. Staying and entertaining the church members, which is what chat had him do, just exhausted him to the point of collapse; but given his already at the time low energy, he likely wouldn't have made it to the date anyway or collapsed just before or during it.
• No Fourth Wall: Exaggerated: not only does Jerma, the character, talk directly through the literal fourth wall of his house to the audience, but Jerma, the streamer, will occasionally break even that character and voice his genuine opinions. A good example of this is when he hosts his third stream on Day 2; before he begins, he says that he'd like to run some commercials while looking directly at the fourth wall. Then the stream's real ad break begins.
  • Jerma sneaks back into his house by becoming one of the stagehands who move furniture into the house during buying segments.
• Overly Long Gag: Jerma and Jeb find a safe in his house filled with cash! Cool, right? Well, however since the cash most likely belonged to the previous owner, they have to call a lawyer. And then that lawyer calls another lawyer. And then that lawyer calls a lawyer for the other lawyer...
• Product Placement: Aside from his own self promotions, Jerma does take the opportunity to advertise Coinbase, as it was the sponsor for this event.
• Public Domain Soundtrack: With the exception of the furniture buying theme, all songs used in the streams are royalty free music.
• Recursive Canon: Jerma hosts multiple streams in-character during the stream before he is permanently banned from Twitch for "a lot of things" on stream.
• Reset Button Ending: Chat finally agrees to delete the save after five failed votes, sending everything back to the tutorial.
• Riddle for the Ages: After Ludwig unmasks the stagehand trapped in his bedroom, revealing it to be Jerma in disguise, he comments "You know how hard it was to get involved with that group?!" When Ludwig tries to dig deeper, Jerma instead starts demanding that chat delete the save.
• Rule of Three: The Twitch suspensions. Sleeping on stream once nets Jerma a one day suspension, while the second offense nets him two days. On his third, he gets banned, but for "a number of reasons" besides just sleeping.
• Running Gag:
  • Whenever Jerma has company over, there's a pretty good chance that the viewers will choose the Flirt option. Notably, Jerma ends up flirting with every one of Kitboga's characters except for Josh the warranty salesman.
  • "-20 [person drinking it] beer."
  • Stools. The audience bought Jerma one stool, and later opened a mystery box that contained more stools. Then another mystery box that contained even more stools. He even got a cabinet with stools stuffed inside!
  • The guy repeatedly calling Jerma about extending his car's warranty. Jerma doesn't even have a car; he carpools with an offscreen coworker.
• Scatterbrained Senior: Edna, Jerma's neighbor, who almost gives her social security to scammers multiple times.
• Shout-Out:
  • The churchgoers all start singing the Halo theme as they start to leave Jerma's house.
  • One of Jerma's self promotions had Officer Tony ask what kind of colors were available in Jerma's online shop. When Jerma mentions green, the officer responds that green isn't a creative color. Jerma quickly responds saying that it's the "smartest" color, at least according to Ben Stiller in "a movie, like ten years ago".
• Spot the Thread: When the stagehands show up near the end to deliver a dresser, one stagehand in particular not only overacts and is the only one not focused on the delivery, but he also does the Jerma Walk◊.
• Speaking Simlish: Averted for the entirety of the stream, despite being a Sims homage. Played straight one time in the clothing choice screens, where Jerma fawns over the polka dot shirt.
• Stood Up: Not like it was intended, mind. Jerma with some encouragement from Chat asks Amelia out on a date, but the day of Jerma is stuck dealing with a rowdy bunch of Christian carolers. He sleeps through the rest of the day when his Energy meter peters out, making him miss the date. Unfortunately, this one action forms the basis of Amelia/Ludwig's last straw with Jerma.
• Throw the Dog a Bone: Sometimes the chat will vote on things that cheer Jerma up, like catching butterflies after he had to call the Grim Reaper on Uncle Ted, or getting him and Emilia to agree to a date together.
• Toilet Humor: The production team had too much fun with the "fart noise" button and used it so much that Jerma started keeping track, warning them not to go "over budget". There's also a lot of scatological humor, with numerous characters peeing or pooping where they shouldn't.
• Unwinnable by Design: After sneaking back into the house with the stagehands, Jerma is trapped in Ludwig's bedroom due to a dresser blocking the door. This soon prompts Jerma to demand the save be deleted.
• Video Game Cruelty Potential: Due to the audience participation, in spades. Since Jerma can't technically die from it, they intentionally tend to deprive him of sleep, showering, and the bathroom over reasons like not wearing a beer hat they gave him. They do something similar on Day 3 when Jerma refuses to wear the robe Chat picked because he finds it too warm to be in for the duration of the stream.
  • They end up killing him when they're given the option to remove the pool ladder. He gets better though.
  • It's not just limited to Jerma. After Ludwig evicts Jerma and takes over, chat goes out of their way even more to starve him out in revenge. The extension devs literally had to give them options that would only fill up his needs after awhile.
• Visual Pun: Jerma's house sets fire in the second stream. He fights a stagehand carrying fire props during it (he loses.) He's literally fire fighting.
• Wham Line: Not from a person, but from the extension itself:
  Remove Pool Ladder / Pee in Pool / Swim Laps
  • Then when Jerma gets stuck in Ludwig's bedroom after disguising himself as a stagehand:
    Jerma: (to Ludwig) No, just hold on a second. (to chat) Delete the save!
• World of Jerkass: The aim of the game, at least to Chat and some of the neighbors, is to see how long it takes to annoy or break Jerma.
• YouTuber Apology Parody: After getting caught WhooHooing Death, Jerma takes to Twitch and makes an apology stream explaining his actions and asking Amilia for forgiveness. He gets into a fight with his in-universe chat over insisting that he didn't have sex with Death, and shuts down in the middle of the apology. This leads to his third and final suspension from Twitch. Jerma sometimes muses that he'll need to make an apology video for the apology video from the apology stream.

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