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China, IL

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79 feature instances
17 referencing feature instances

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China, IL	label	China, IL
China, IL	page	ChinaIL
China, IL	comment	Brad Neely's China, IL is an animated series that ran on [adult swim] from 2011 to 2015, adapted from a 4-part series of 3-minute shorts that aired on the channel in 2008. Both star Neely's long-running characters of The Professor Brothers Frank and Steve & Baby Cakes, all of whom he personally voices.The series follows the misadventures and strange goings-on at the University of China, Illinois, proudly dubbed 'the worst school in America'. Brothers Frank and Steve Smith, the two history professors at the campus, are regularly joined by their TA, Pony Merks and perennial student/confidant/drinking buddy Mark "Baby" Cakes as they deal with such frustrations as relationships with their students (in more ways than one) and confronting such eccentric side characters as their impossibly macho Dean (voiced by Hulk Hogan) and China's Strawman Christian Mayor (who is equally macho), along with the occasional gay ghost, time-traveling ex-president, and colossal, murderous baby.While the original shorts were created in Neely's trademark motion comic style, the series is his first project to be fully animated, allowing for more fast-paced comedic acting similar to that of Super Jail alongside with Neely's usual brand of humor.
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China, IL	parsed	2023-10-28T03:01:19Z
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China, IL	processingComment	Dropped link to CatBoy: Not a Feature - UNKNOWN
China, IL	processingComment	Dropped link to Foil: Not a Feature - IGNORE
China, IL	processingComment	Dropped link to GrandFinale: Not a Feature - ITEM
China, IL	processingComment	Dropped link to ProfessorBrothers: Not a Feature - ITEM
China, IL	processingComment	Dropped link to ShaggyDogStory: Not a Feature - ITEM
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China, IL	isPartOf	DBTropes
China, IL / int_10ca13e4	type	Stereotype Flip
China, IL / int_10ca13e4	comment	Stereotype Flip: Pony is a girl of Mexican descent who knows absolutely nothing about Mexico except stereotypes she's seen.
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China, IL / int_113480b7	type	Canon Foreigner
China, IL / int_113480b7	comment	Possibly Sammie Davis, a Canon Foreigner, for Lemon Drops, another disgusting faculty member that Frank and Steve had to deal with.
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China, IL / int_126ce03c	type	I Was Quite a Looker
China, IL / int_126ce03c	comment	I Was Quite a Looker: Sammy used to look exactly like Pony when she was younger. And continued to look like her until she turned 80. Then she became...Sammy.
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China, IL / int_14ed6ab7	type	Does This Remind You of Anything?
China, IL / int_14ed6ab7	comment	Does This Remind You of Anything?: In "Bi-Toping-Ality," Pony fights to prove that liking anchovies on pizza instead of pepperonis isn't a choice, but rather something you're born with, yet can't understand how Baby Cakes can like both.
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China, IL / int_15874e11	type	Faking Amnesia
China, IL / int_15874e11	comment	Faking Amnesia: Ronald Reagan fakes Alzheimer's to get out of trouble.
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China, IL / int_19e41d8f	type	And This Is for...
China, IL / int_19e41d8f	comment	And This Is for...: Frank goes ballistic on the Dean during the Season 1 finale.
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China, IL / int_1e679bd0	type	The Quisling
China, IL / int_1e679bd0	comment	The Quisling: Frank, after the Mayor takes over the campus.
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China, IL / int_20989d05	type	Parents as People
China, IL / int_20989d05	comment	Parents as People: Baby Cakes' dad is often exasperated by his antics and general Manchild nature, but ultimately cares about him and supports him.
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China, IL / int_25b5600	type	Captain Ersatz
China, IL / int_25b5600	comment	Captain Ersatz: Toy Story 3 anybody? There's also a combination of Applebee's and Chili's called "Chilibee's", with a giant bee with a chili for a tail as the mascot. Denny's is also replaced with "Din-Din".
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China, IL / int_26ac510e	type	Mythology Gag
China, IL / int_26ac510e	comment	Mythology Gag Baby Cakes's assumption that his father is secretly a wizard proves to basically be correct. The "Frank'n'Steve" themesong includes the line "Everybody wants a piece of the Professor Brothers" Numerous characters also have copies of Baby Cakes's Kenny Winker poster. Pony's spanish education takes cues from The Miracle Worker, calling back to the mangled retelling of Helen Keller's life that the original China, Il shorts revolved around.
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China, IL / int_26d1f65f	type	Verbal Tic
China, IL / int_26d1f65f	comment	Verbal Tic: Mayor likes to end his sentences with amen, amen.
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China, IL / int_26eb6287	type	Funny Background Event
China, IL / int_26eb6287	comment	Funny Background Event: See Freeze Frame Bonus.
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China, IL / int_2711e392	type	The Complainer Is Always Wrong
China, IL / int_2711e392	comment	The Complainer Is Always Wrong: In-universe the relationship counseling service Total Validation believes that the person who comes to there building with a complaint is automatically wrong. It reaches Insane Troll Logic levels as they will admit the person has a point, but will still find them in the wrong simply for complaining. Jack apologized to his wife upon finding out that they agreed with Babycakes
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China, IL / int_31da1e24	type	Shipper on Deck
China, IL / int_31da1e24	comment	Shipper on Deck: The entire town of China is convinced that Pony and Steve either are together or should be together.
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China, IL / int_3517000d	type	Mad Scientist
China, IL / int_3517000d	comment	Mad Scientist: Prof. Leonard Cakes (Baby Cakes' father), and most of the "Super Science" department at UCI.
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China, IL / int_39cee4cc	type	Team Power Walk
China, IL / int_39cee4cc	comment	Team Power Walk: Baby Cakes, Frank, Steve, and Pony power walk during the opening credits.
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China, IL / int_463da046	type	Ambiguous Gender Identity
China, IL / int_463da046	comment	Ambiguous Gender Identity: Crystal Peppers, who might be a cis or trans woman. She engages in a "winner cuts off the loser's nuts" bet with Steve, and Frank later has trouble with his "thank you" note for her partially because he doesn't know if she's trans or not, and if she is, whether that would be appropriate to mention in the note.
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China, IL / int_4781adbb	type	Jerk with a Heart of Gold
China, IL / int_4781adbb	comment	Jerk with a Heart of Gold: The Mayor. In his very first appearance, he forces his authoritarian and christian fundamentalist beliefs on the college when he takes it over after beating the Dean in a wrestling match, but it's revealed that in "Bi-toping-ality" that he's completely okay with homosexuality and with people marrying their own gender.
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China, IL / int_48b9731f	type	Paper-Thin Disguise
China, IL / int_48b9731f	comment	Paper-Thin Disguise: Baby Cakes + Robin Hood wig = Kevin Costner. Obviously.
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China, IL / int_5080221	type	Faux Horrific
China, IL / int_5080221	comment	Faux Horrific: Everybody finds the sight of the Governor, a very very short man, to be horrifying. Likewise, everybody reacts to the party thrown by Pony's entire extended family "Parent's Day", as if it were some form of torture, despite it being a completely wholesome family reunion, albeit one with a MASSIVE family. Crystal Peppers notably refers to it as being "too much".
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China, IL / int_549a7152	type	Godwin's Law of Time Travel
China, IL / int_549a7152	comment	Godwin's Law of Time Travel: In the first episode, Ronald Reagan and Steve travel back in time and completely change the course of man, including having Adolf Hitler circumcised and giving him a Jewish upbringing. When they return to the future, Hitler is leading a Jewish version of the Nazi party in overtaking the world.
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China, IL / int_5cc25ed	type	Not-So-Imaginary Friend
China, IL / int_5cc25ed	comment	The Dream Reamer for the Brain Fuckler, both being seemingly imaginary friends of Baby Cakes whose names basically mean "having sex with minds", but with "Reamer" being less profane than "Fuckler". The Dream Reamer also has a rich latin accent, possibly alluding to the Fuckler's brown Ambiguously Brown skin tone.
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China, IL / int_5d414804	type	Just Friends
China, IL / int_5d414804	comment	Eventually, the entire school starts egging the two of them on to hurry up already and admit they love each other. Neither Steve nor Pony are happy with this situation, as every man and woman they try to sleep with is telling them the two of them ought to be together instead; eventually, Steve and Pony try to stage a fake 'on fire' just to make people stop saying they were in love. However, due to Baby Cakes, people think they're more in love than ever much to their consternation.
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China, IL / int_5e7163c9	type	Alternative Character Interpretation
China, IL / int_5e7163c9	comment	Alternative Character Interpretation: In-Universe. In "Total Validation," Steve argues that Toy Movie 3 is not, in fact, a heartwarming story about family and unrequited love but rather one about an insane man with an unnatural attachment to his material possessions and slaves who refuse to disobey their master.
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China, IL / int_62434fe2	type	Sanity Slippage
China, IL / int_62434fe2	comment	Sanity Slippage: Steve is prone to these once in a while. Best case example was in the season 3 premiere. Due to her obsessive nature, this happens to Pony a lot.
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China, IL / int_62f9d08e	type	Freeze-Frame Bonus
China, IL / int_62f9d08e	comment	Freeze-Frame Bonus: Like the shorts that appeared on YouTube and Super Deluxe - this trope is practically a Brad Neely staple.
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China, IL / int_66dfe36a	type	Missing Mom
China, IL / int_66dfe36a	comment	The nature of Baby Cake's Missing Mom is very different from the conflicting stories in the original shorts.
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China, IL / int_68de0d0b	type	Hot on His Own Trail
China, IL / int_68de0d0b	comment	Hot on His Own Trail: Baby Cakes in "Prank Week," who never understands that the "serial killer" on the news that he's trying to track down is HIM, because he kidnapped a bunch of people he thought were witches, and the media assumed the missing people were dead.
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China, IL / int_69391768	type	Expecting Someone Taller
China, IL / int_69391768	comment	Expecting Someone Taller: The Dean expected The Governor to be a giant dude, like himself. Turns out he's a miniature, Penguin like guy.
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China, IL / int_69681e01	type	Big Brother Instinct
China, IL / int_69681e01	comment	Big Brother Instinct: Little Brother Instinct: When Steve gets shot during the Dean's List challenge, Frank goes from weak and whiny, to a Ramboesque asskicker.
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China, IL / int_6a4f3cf7	type	Took a Level in Dumbass
China, IL / int_6a4f3cf7	comment	Took a Level in Dumbass: The Dean he went from Crazy Is Cool in season 1 to Manchild in season 2. Baby Cakes went from the kind-hearted guy who was oddly above the inherent meanness in the shenanigans to Cloud Cuckoo Lander as the series went on. Frank in the original web shorts was nowhere near the eternally unlucky dope with a raging inferiority complex and no dignity that he wound up being in the show. He and Steve were more of less equals.
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China, IL / int_709fe8ac	type	Culture Blind
China, IL / int_709fe8ac	comment	Culture Blind: Pony, despite being Latina and raised in a Hispanic household, can't speak Spanish to save her life and was under the impression that Mexico is so poor that she could go to a university there for just pocket change. Frank, despite living in a time when superhero media is all the rage, had no idea what a superhero was until Baby Cakes explained it to him.
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China, IL / int_722b3319	type	Camp Gay
China, IL / int_722b3319	comment	Camp Gay: Professor Harold, voiced by a gloriously hammy Jason Alexander.
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China, IL / int_771f6307	type	Brother–Sister Incest
China, IL / int_771f6307	comment	Brother–Sister Incest: Barely avoided. Baby Cakes almost nails his hippie sister, Mattie.
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China, IL / int_79503ae9	type	Stout Strength
China, IL / int_79503ae9	comment	Stout Strength: Baby Cakes is a huge, misshapen lump of manchild and immensely strong. He frees Pony and Steve from the Mayor's punishment by pulling the stocks apart with his bare hands.
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China, IL / int_7b5c69c8	type	Dirty Old Woman
China, IL / int_7b5c69c8	comment	Dirty Old Woman Sammy Davis, another member of the History department faculty. The Accreditation Inspector, who drags Steve around town dressed as a Cat Boy.
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China, IL / int_7d89315b	type	"The Reason You Suck" Speech
China, IL / int_7d89315b	comment	"The Reason You Suck" Speech: Frank delivers one to his shallow neighbor-girl at the end of "Magical Pet," yelling at her for not giving him a chance. He finds confidence from the good deeds he did that episodes and ends up declaring "I AM MAGICAL!"
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China, IL / int_7ea2a915	type	Animation Bump
China, IL / int_7ea2a915	comment	Animation Bump: Goes without saying, since it started out as something more akin to an animatic than full animation, later getting fully animated. And since Titmouse is providing the animation, the bump is all the more noticeable.
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China, IL / int_80984829	type	Child Supplants Parent
China, IL / int_80984829	comment	Child Supplants Parent: Inverted in "Parents Day." Steves mother, who's aroused by "alpha" men, gets turned on by Steve taking charge in any situation, from helping the family out of financial troubles to hailing a taxi, which inadvertently displaces his complacent, testosterone-challenged father. She spends the entire episode either flirting with or coming onto her son and even after realizing what she's been doing and becoming repulsed, she still can't control her urges until Steve's father gets a slight testosterone boost at the end.
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China, IL / int_823c6e3e	type	Large Ham
China, IL / int_823c6e3e	comment	Large Ham: The Dean and the Mayor, though most of the cast counts in one way or another.
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China, IL / int_838748cb	type	Sour Outside, Sad Inside
China, IL / int_838748cb	comment	Sour Outside, Sad Inside: Frank is implied to be this out of resentment for Steve.
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China, IL / int_8a817c2a	type	Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil
China, IL / int_8a817c2a	comment	Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil: God himself admits this when he comes back to Earth as a surfer dude. He states that when he wrote the original ten commandments, he was just winging it and "No rape" really should have been on the list. Eventually, he puts it as #10 on the new list.
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China, IL / int_8c681acc	type	Third-Person Person
China, IL / int_8c681acc	comment	Third-Person Person: The Mayor talks in third-person.
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China, IL / int_8c9e724c	type	Big Beautiful Woman
China, IL / int_8c9e724c	comment	Big Beautiful Woman: Ok, she's more chubby than "big," but Pony otherwise fits the bill, having numerous male students and faculty members at UCI being interested in her sexually with little regard to her size.
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China, IL / int_970c790a	type	Big Bad
China, IL / int_970c790a	comment	Big Bad: Ronald Reagan, of a kind. He's the villain of the first episode, where it's revealed he's responsible for everything wrong with Steve's life. Later, Frank busts him out of prison in an attempt to get a history channel special, but Reagan hijacks his plan in order to become eternal president of the United States, at which point he has Obama Unpersonned.
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China, IL / int_98576799	type	Throw the Dog a Bone
China, IL / int_98576799	comment	Throw the Dog a Bone: Frank gets one at the end of "Magical Pet". Quite fitting, given that it's the Series Finale. In general, there are a handful of episodes that end relatively well for him.
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China, IL / int_9a0870ae	type	Screw Yourself
China, IL / int_9a0870ae	comment	Screw Yourself: Steve asks who else is f—ing their robot and every hand goes up. But it ends badly when the robots become clingy, jealous, pony-killers. No, not that Pony. Just a regular small horse.
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China, IL / int_9dd2cbc2	type	CloudCuckooLander
China, IL / int_9dd2cbc2	comment	Baby Cakes went from the kind-hearted guy who was oddly above the inherent meanness in the shenanigans to Cloud Cuckoo Lander as the series went on.
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China, IL / int_a2f1b41d	type	Robot Me
China, IL / int_a2f1b41d	comment	Robot Me: The faculty resorts to building robot versions of themselves to avoid teaching the students. Which leads inevitably to...
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China, IL / int_a4c37cbe	type	Mood Whiplash
China, IL / int_a4c37cbe	comment	Mood Whiplash: The first half of "Charlize", following Pony as the apparent last person on Earth following a Depopulation Bomb created by Prof. Cakes. It's a homage to Post-Apocalyptic movies like 28 Days Later and I Am Legend played completely straight. And then Frank shows up.
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China, IL / int_a65288e2	type	Ascended Extra
China, IL / int_a65288e2	comment	Ascended Extra: Students play a bigger role in season 2 though they're not the same students in season 1. President Reagan rose from a minor villain in Season 1 to "the president" in Seasons 2 and 3.
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China, IL / int_a6971841	type	Dining in the Buff
China, IL / int_a6971841	comment	Dining in the Buff: In the episode “Life Coaches”, Frank walks into his classroom and is disgusted to find that Baby Cakes is sitting at his own desk completely naked while eating an apple.
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China, IL / int_f5a3e496	type	Suspiciously Similar Substitute
China, IL / int_f5a3e496	comment	Suspiciously Similar Substitute The Dream Reamer for the Brain Fuckler, both being seemingly imaginary friends of Baby Cakes whose names basically mean "having sex with minds", but with "Reamer" being less profane than "Fuckler". The Dream Reamer also has a rich latin accent, possibly alluding to the Fuckler's brown Ambiguously Brown skin tone. Possibly Sammie Davis, a Canon Foreigner, for Lemon Drops, another disgusting faculty member that Frank and Steve had to deal with.
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China, IL / int_f673f8f1	type	Photo Doodle Recognition
China, IL / int_f673f8f1	comment	Photo Doodle Recognition: Subverted, when Baby Cakes kidnaps five professors, among them is his dad, because he thinks they're witches and wizards and locks them in his basement, the news reports their disappearances and people are lead to believe a serial killer is loose among the college. When the police releases a sketch of the suspect which is basically a face of a generic hairless person, Baby Cakes fails to realize that's him and thinks a wizard is killing the people that looks like his prisoners. He is lead to believe it was Steve after setting a square bottle on the wanted poster that leaves a stain on the eye of the face which inspires Baby Cakes to draw a pair of glasses and hair on the side.
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China, IL / int_faf383f7	type	Time-Traveling Jerkass
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China, IL / int_fdc1e848	type	Will They or Won't They?
China, IL / int_fdc1e848	comment	Will They or Won't They?: There are a few hints of this between Steve and Pony, most notably her offering to marry him right then (and his never actually turning her down) when she finds out about the premarital sex ban when the Mayor takes over the school. And something went on between her and his robot double. From the sound of it, it wasn't impressive. Eventually, the entire school starts egging the two of them on to hurry up already and admit they love each other. Neither Steve nor Pony are happy with this situation, as every man and woman they try to sleep with is telling them the two of them ought to be together instead; eventually, Steve and Pony try to stage a fake 'on fire' just to make people stop saying they were in love. However, due to Baby Cakes, people think they're more in love than ever much to their consternation.
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