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A Very Special Episode (Web Video)
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A Very Special Episode is a web series produced by Funny or Die, in which an unseen Narrator recaps Very Special Episodes of various American sitcoms of the 80s and 90s in a humorous manner, often pointing some of the poor stylistic or writing choices of the show, as well as some of the faulty logic. Each episode ends with the narrator recapping what was to be learned from the episode, which may not always encompass the lesson the episode was trying to give out.The series shares writer and narrator Dashiell Driscoll, as well as style, with its sister series Zack Morris is Trash. There are a total of four seasons, available on a playlist on YouTube. According to Driscoll, there are currently no plans for a fifth season.See also Telenovelas Are Hell. | |
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Crosses the Line Twice | |
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Crosses the Line Twice: invoked The 'Full House' When D.J. Almost Starved Herself To Death summarizes the dangers of DJ starving herself as DJ being on a one way hungry train that will cause her to wind up with "her dead mom in Hell". On a similar note, not five seconds into The 'Full House' When They Got Trapped In An Airport On Christmas: During the titular fire in The 'Webster' When He Torched The Apartment, Webster freaks out about his box of mementos he left in his room, as it contains the last photo he has of his dead parents. The Narrator tells him to calm down, as "they can't die twice". | |
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Ripped from the Headlines | |
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It’s blatantly obvious why the "'Full House' When Aunt Becky's Kids Cheated Their Way Into School" video exists. | |
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How does the Narrator reveal that Sandy died from internal bleeding? By taking a page out of Chandler Bing's book: | |
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Laugh Track | |
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The narrator commenting on inappropriate use of Laugh Track, such as in The 'Diff'rent Strokes' With the Bicycle Man Child Molester where a laugh track is playing over a pedophile setting some porn to be found by kids (amongst other moments), or in Mr. Belvedere where the Laugh Track plays repeatedly in relation to a young child having AIDS. | |
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"Because you can't say/show X Friday Nights on ABC" whenever an episode trades in what the episode is supposed to be about for something milder and more acceptable. | |
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Youth Is Wasted on the Dumb | |
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Youth Is Wasted on the Dumb: Brought up when Webster burns down the appartment. | |
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Skewed Priorities | |
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The reason why Will broke down in tears at the end of the episode where he was shot was because Carlton knocked his breakfast to the floor, not because Will discovered his gun was loaded. | |
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Broken Aesop | |
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invoked After pointing out in "The 'Wayans Bros.' When Marlon Ruined His Life With Marijuana" that the moral of the episode falls apart because of Scary Movienote the film where Marlon Wayans played a stoner coming out "603 days" later, the Narrator finishes the wrap up by stating that "drugs are no laughing matter, just like Scary Movie 3 through 5."note Which happen to be the movies in the series where the Wayans Bros. weren't involved. | |
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Harsher in Hindsight | |
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Harsher in Hindsight: invoked This comes up a few times from the Narrator in the episodes about 7th Heaven episodes, in relation to 7th Heaven lead Stephen Collins admitting he had sexually abused underage girls after the series ended. Invoked by the narrator while reviewing an episode of Punky Brewster, when he mentions a kid during "Career" day dressing as a soldier. | |
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Do Not Do This Cool Thing | |
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Do Not Do This Cool Thing: invoked Invoked by the narrator occasionally. Most notably in The "Step by Step" When The Hot Teacher Seduced J.T. where the narrator is fully supportive of Teacher/Student Romance the show is presenting. Also invoked in The "Wayans Bros." When Marlon Ruined His Life With Marijuana, where the narrator points out the show's anti-drug message (about how Marlon is screwing up his acting career by smoking weed) flies in the face of Marlon Wayans' actual career. However, the definitive example can be seen in The "Growing Pains" With Hot Babes Offering Free Cocaine, where the narrator is completely against how much of a narc Mike is about the fact that there's cocaine at a party "[on a] Friday goddamn night in 1987". In fact, the Narrator is so against Mike that, when the episode ends by claiming that Eddie and Boner called Mike after he left to tell him they didn't do coke, the Narrator is under the belief that it's "a coked out lie". | |
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Faux Horrific: How the narrator treats the episode of "Growing Pains" when a bunch of hot woman invite the characters to do cocaine with them. | |
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Alternate Character Interpretation: Invoked; like its sister series Zack Morris is Trash, that's part of the point. The reason why Will broke down in tears at the end of the episode where he was shot was because Carlton knocked his breakfast to the floor, not because Will discovered his gun was loaded. Eddie and Boner totally did coke at that party; they just straight up lied to Mike about not doing it. Jesse rallying everyone in the airport to celebrate Christmas there despite being snowed in is recontextualized as him having a mental breakdown. Similarly, the gag of Michelle turning on the conveyor belt Danny's sleeping on, sending him out into the snow, is painted as a deliberate act of Patricide. The 29 to 30 drunk driving deaths and injuries statistic at the end of The 'Growing Pains' When Matthew Perry Drove Drunk And Hit A Tree is said to have been all Sandy's fault. The Narrator point blank suggests that, when telling Webster they still love him in spite of him causing the apartment fire, Katherine was lying. | |
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Sincerity Mode | |
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Sincerity Mode: In the The Golden Girls episode about the dead guy, he repeatedly comments and shows appreciation sincerely for Sophia's witty snark, and actually comments on how good the drama of the episode is considering it's the show's 15th episode, actually pausing to let the viewer hear the monologue of Lucille's denial of her husband's death. | |
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Sanity Slippage | |
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Jesse rallying everyone in the airport to celebrate Christmas there despite being snowed in is recontextualized as him having a mental breakdown. Similarly, the gag of Michelle turning on the conveyor belt Danny's sleeping on, sending him out into the snow, is painted as a deliberate act of Patricide. | |
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Driven to Suicide | |
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Driven to Suicide: Any character who doesn't reappear is said to have "Probably fucking killed themselves". | |
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Lemony Narrator | |
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Lemony Narrator: The narrator is prone to colorful descriptions of the events taking place. | |
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God Is Good | |
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God Is Good: The Step by Step episode has J.T. call out God as his teacher seduces him, but the Narrator exlains that God failed to respond because he's "already delivered J.T. one miracle today." | |
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Obligatory Joke | |
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Obligatory Joke: When Lucille is explaining to Rose that Al had, in reality, died of a heart attack brought about from his own unhealthy lifestyle: Given how the drunk driving episode of Growing Pains centered around Matthew Perry's character Sandy, it was pretty clear where some of the video's humor would come from. For example: How does the Narrator reveal that Sandy died from internal bleeding? By taking a page out of Chandler Bing's book: Bordering on Ripped from the Headlines, you can make a reasonable guess as to where a chunk of the humor in "The 'Full House' When Aunt Becky's Kids Cheated Their Way Into School" comes from. | |
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Fantastically Indifferent | |
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Fantastically Indifferent: The 'Punky Brewster' When The Challenger Space Shuttle Exploded, the Narrator takes offense at Henry reacting to Brandon (a dog) doing a magic trick with a mild "This is amazing!". | |
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Patricide | |
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Similarly, the gag of Michelle turning on the conveyor belt Danny's sleeping on, sending him out into the snow, is painted as a deliberate act of Patricide. | |
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Punctuated! For! Emphasis! | |
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Punctuated! For! Emphasis!: In The "Mr. Belvedere" When That Kid Got AIDS episode, where the Laugh Track is one of the few times the Narrator's deadpan tone cracks. | |
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Deadpan Snarker | |
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Deadpan Snarker: The spirit and tone of the narrator. | |
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Spoof Aesop | |
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Spoof Aesop: In “The ‘Fresh Prince’ When Will And Uncle Phil Accidentally Bought Thanksgiving Handies”, instead of the Narrator coming up with the main Aesop for the video, he opts to accept Uncle Phil’s take instead: | |
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Everyone Has Standards | |
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Everyone Has Standards: As seen under Sincerity Mode below, the Narrator, for all of his snark, does show genuine appreciation for the writing and production values of The Golden Girls in The Episode of The Golden Girls Where Betty White Banged a Guy to Death. That particular episode of the web series focuses more on the plot of The Golden Girls itself rather than the heavy-handedness or ridiculous attempts at morals featured in other series of the time. | |
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Take That! | |
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Take That!: invoked After pointing out in "The 'Wayans Bros.' When Marlon Ruined His Life With Marijuana" that the moral of the episode falls apart because of Scary Movienote the film where Marlon Wayans played a stoner coming out "603 days" later, the Narrator finishes the wrap up by stating that "drugs are no laughing matter, just like Scary Movie 3 through 5."note Which happen to be the movies in the series where the Wayans Bros. weren't involved. It’s blatantly obvious why the "'Full House' When Aunt Becky's Kids Cheated Their Way Into School" video exists. A couple of the episodes dealing with 7th Heaven have taken shots at Stephen Collins being a self-admitted child molester. | |
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Too Dumb to Live | |
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Too Dumb to Live: "Do not travel on Christmas Eve, you dumbass." | |
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Double Standard Rape: Female on Male | |
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Double Standard Rape: Female on Male: The narrator clearly has no problem with a teacher seducing a male student in Step by Step, even calling him a "pussy" for not wanting to go through with the affair. | |
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Ass Shove | |
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Ass Shove: The Narrator warns Simon that the paint-huffing students intend to "put paintbrushes in [his] booty" in one of the 7th Heaven episodes. | |
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Shout-Out | |
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Shout-Out: While reviewing Punky Brewster, the narrator refers to a kid dressed as a Ninja at school during Career day as him being Batman before he got a costume. | |
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The Nicknamer | |
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The Nicknamer: The Narrator often calls the characters by odd names depending on whatever vice they're facing in that episode. For example, in The Sabrina the Teenage Witch Where She Got Hooked on Pancakes, he dubs the titular character "Witchney Houston" to mock the actual singer's drug use. | |
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Dude, Not Funny! | |
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Dude, Not Funny!: The narrator has this reaction whenever the studio audience laughs at something that definitely shouldn't be laughed about, such as in The "Mr. Belvedere" When That Kid Got AIDS when the references in said episode to a kid having AIDS elicit a laugh track. Subverted in The 'Diff'rent Strokes' With the Bicycle Man Child Molester, though, when the studio audience actually can only give an uncomfortable laughter. | |
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What the Hell, Hero? | |
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What the Hell, Hero?: Whenever there is an inappropriate laugh track, the Narrator will point it out. The prime examples are the Mr. Belvedere episode about AIDS and the Diff'rent Strokes episode about the bicycle shop man who's a child molester. The Narrator points out that, after Will got shot, Carlton was acting too mopey and depressed given how he wasn't the one shot. He even points out how, during the climax, Carlton flipped Will's uneaten breakfast to the floor. | |
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Unusual Euphemism | |
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Unusual Euphemism: One of the best bits of the series is hearing the Narrator come up with bizarre names for things like sex and drugs. | |
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Accidental Aesop: invoked The show is prone to pointing out these during the ending recap of "What did we learn today?". | |
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Catchphrase: The Narrator has a couple: "We never see x again, who knows what happened? They probably fucking killed themselves.", shared with Zack Morris is Trash "So what did we learn today?" "Because you can't say/show X Friday Nights on ABC" whenever an episode trades in what the episode is supposed to be about for something milder and more acceptable. | |
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Space Whale Aesop: During the wrap up for The 'ALF' When He Dated A Blind Woman, the Narrator concludes with one final lesson: "Lost in Translation ripped off season 1 of ALF". | |
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Drugs Are Good | |
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Drugs Are Good: The narrator's mindset anyway according to the episode on Growing Pains. He even boos and calls Mike cowards for not caving into peer pressure. | |
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Running Gag: The main cast of 7th Heaven's propensity for "snitching" on any bad behaviour, often for very tenuous reasons. The narrator commenting on inappropriate use of Laugh Track, such as in The 'Diff'rent Strokes' With the Bicycle Man Child Molester where a laugh track is playing over a pedophile setting some porn to be found by kids (amongst other moments), or in Mr. Belvedere where the Laugh Track plays repeatedly in relation to a young child having AIDS. Like in sister series Zack Morris is Trash, assuming any one shot guest character which is never seen again committed suicide. Sometimes played with when the episode implies a different fate. "Because you can't say 'X' Friday nights on ABC." whenever a show avoids actually mentioning the topic of their Very Special Episode due to censorship. Briefly mentioning the B-story (if an episode has one) before saying "Who cares". There are numerous jokes at Stephen Collins' expense that reference Collins exposing himself to underage girls in several episodes that cover 7th Heaven. | |
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