School's out and spring has begun
The Spring Breakly Object Show is yet another web-animated Object Show mini-series created by Creepsington (The Object Show Extravaganza Mini and Untitled Object Show ) on 15th April. The show was only produced during spring break so it went on hiatus until the next year even though the season wasn't finished.
It features Game Show Host wPhone 10b hosting a competition for ten contestants and a debuternote just for the sake of it as there's no mention of a prize or anything if one should win.
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Contains the following tropes
- A Dog Named "Dog": While it's not unheard of in Object Shows to name characters after their objects, some of the contestants' name are a bit too specific such as Glass Cube With Water Inside and Witter Default Profile Picture.
- The Alliance: There are two pairs within the game, Stamp & Bob Ross and Toy Boat & Witter Default Profile Picture, who agreed to look after each other's back and make it to the finale together. Alas, Bob Ross and Witter Default Profile Picture were subsequently eliminated, leaving their partners to compete on their own until the finale comes.
- Animate Inanimate Object: With the exception of Ross Federman, the host and contestants are anthropomorphic objects of any kind.
- Bait-and-Switch: As episodes go on, the intro slowly changes to become more ominous and creepier. This would normally signal something lore-related in the show but nope, it went back to normal after episode 6 and no cryptid stuff ever happened again.
- Anthropomorphic Food: Apple, Grapefruit and Soda Can are three examples of sentient food and drinks in an Object Show.
- Armless Biped: Sponge, Stamp and Toy Boat would be the ones to carry on the tradition of contestants in Object Shows with only legs and no arms.
- Blank White Void: Where all the dead eliminated contestants go after they exploded which was briefly shown in one episode but the host refuses to elaborate any further, Breaking the Fourth Wall to pull the scene back onto the competition.
- Couch Gag: The intro slowly changes starting with contestants changing position, Grapefruit being aware he's in the intro and the end title going a lot longer with distorted noises played over a black screen that's too unsettling for a joke show. This stopped from episode 6 onwards as if nothing happened in the first place.
- Dwindling Party: The eleven contestants are reduced to three by the end of the season since the method of elimination is via explosion (Just like a previous object show of Creepingston but without recovery) and the eliminated eight are trapped in some purgatory void wPhone 10b refuses to elaborate on or mentioned again.
- Fatal Flaw: Glass Cube With Water Inside always does challenges at top speeds which often led to them finishing first. The one time this did not work in their favour was the finale where they had to race while balancing a bowl of rice on their head. As expected, there were a ton of spilled rice bowls and restarts but their insistence to continue running despite it obviously not working left them in last place of the final three.
- Heroic Sacrifice: Witter Default Profile Picture rescues his alliance partner Toy Boat from the lava in one challenge, getting themself eliminated in the process.
- NO INDOOR VOICE: Glass Cube With Water Inside will either screech their lines or ear-gratingly scream from the top of their lungs with no in-betweens.
- Real Time:
- Because it takes place over and only at spring break, the first six episodes were released within two weeks but the last two had to be put on hold until spring break of next year.
- One challenge had the contestants run away from an explosion that will happen in ten seconds while an onscreen timer exactly counts down from ten.
- Running Gag: Ross Federman appears in every episode thumbnail in one way or another, even for the finale as an angel despite being eliminated in the episode before.
- Shout-Out: One of the contestants is a poorly drawn caricature of Ross Federman from Tally Hall.
- Short-Runner: Despite the show being released over a fairly long period of one year, The Spring Breakly Object Show only had eight episodes with an average runtime of 1 to 3 minutes for each episode.
- The Sixth Ranger: Glass Cube With Water Inside is the show's debuter who joined midway and reached the final three.
- Whatever Happened to the Mouse?: All the contestants sans the final three remain dead by the end of the series since wPhone 10b has the ability to explode them once eliminated but cannot revive them. One episode reveals they are trapped in some kind of mysterious void that serves as the universe's purgatory but the host stops the scene to focus on the competition instead and it's never brought up again.