Refrigerated Refreshments is a web-animated Object Show created by Tyler Lantz on 2nd March 2022 and ended exactly a year later after seven episodes.
The cast comprised of all sentient beverages in glass cup where Game Show Host Water offers an elusive prize to six (Later seven) of his contestantsnote . Seems typical and innoculous enough but there's something afoot behind the scenes when the eliminated contestants are kidnapped by another non-descriptive drink.
The full playlist
can be watched on Tyler's YouTube channel.
Contains the following tropes:
- A Dog Named "Dog": More like A Drink Named Drink since all characters are glasses named after whatever liquid is inside them.
- Alliterative Title: Refrigerated Refreshments
- Anthropomorphic Food: The cast, debuters included, are some kind of anthropomorphic beverage of different flavours.
- Clone Army: What Clear Juice planned to do with the eliminated contestants as part of his plan to Take Over the World.
- Death Is Cheap: As Literally Shattered Lives happens more often with this show, it can be undone by pouring the castmember's liquid of choice into an ordinary glass cup and their limbs, face and sentience pops up.
- Disproportionate Retribution: Why Clear Juice is so willing to go risk everything over total world domination is because he doesn't want to admit to crashing Water's helicopter into the cityscape and pay the subsequent, hefty fines for it. After his plan is entirely undone, he's now going to jail for both destruction of property with a helicopter and citywide invasion with clones.
- Disqualification-Induced Victory: Strawberry Milk only won the debut because the winner Root Beer had illicitly gained his votes through his voice actor PillowPepper telling his audience to vote for him on his YouTube channel. This results in Water automatically disqualifying him.
- Forced into Evil: Water had no choice but to follow Clear Juice's evil plans after he managed to threaten his livelihood over a helicopter incident despite it being entirely the latter's fault. He is more than happy to help the remaining contestants stop Clear Juice from attacking the city and the cast has no hard feelings towards his involvement and deception after expressing his regrets.
- Literally Shattered Lives: As everyone's body is merely a fragile glass cup, it doesn't take much for one to be smashed into a million pieces by a random projectile. Luckily for them, there is an easy way to be brought back to life.
- Minimalist Cast: Discounting the one-off debuters, Refrigerated Refreshments has only a host, six contestants, one debuter and one antagonist consisting of its cast.
- Never My Fault: Clear Juice blames Water for all the city property damage he caused due to renting the latter's helicopter rather than the former's terrible driving skills that crashed into the buildings.
- Odd Name Out: Clear Juice is not an existing drink contrasting the rest of the drink-related cast.
- One-Shot Character: The failed debutersnote never returned to the show once Strawberry Milk won the vote (Or rather through Disqualification-Induced Victory).
- The Reveal: The ominous scenes of the eliminated contestants being trapped in chrysalis and the host acting shady with another glass cup were finally explained in the finale. It turns out Water was never a Game Show Host at all but a rental helicopter charter merely pretending to be one so he can provide Clear Juice, a former client of his and the maniacal Big Bad, the eliminated contestants for his Clone Army to Take Over the World because he didn't want to pay for the city damages when he crashed Water's helicopter.
- Short-Runner: The series only consists of seven episodes in a single season and nothing more.
- Take Over the World: Clear Juice's overall goal which he tries accomplishing by roping Water into his scheme and forcing him to host a competition show so he could use the eliminated contestants as the base for his Clone Army. Ultimately, his evil plan failed due to the very host and contestant he exploited and was escorted off to prison swearing vengeance.