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Off the Air
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Off the Air is an American anthology series of Quarter Hour Shorts that's been airing on [adult swim] since 2011.The show was created by Dave Hughes, who was known for editing shows like Beavis And Butthead, Celebrity Deathmatch, and various [adult swim] shows.It comprises animated (and sometimes live-action) shorts centered on a particular theme and released on a rather infrequent basis. Following a psychedelic nature, these shorts tend to be very bizarre and/or disturbing.If you're looking for the SMPTE color bars (which this wiki doesn't have a page for...yet), please consult the other wiki. | |
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Does This Remind You of Anything? | |
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Does This Remind You of Anything?: The opening segment of the episode "Body" features a close-up view of the human nasal passages and throat. To say it looks like a certain part of female anatomy would be an understatement. | |
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Epileptic Flashing Lights | |
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Epileptic Flashing Lights: And how. A great example of this is this short from "Robots". "Patterns" got so bad during the last video it actually aired with an epilepsy disclaimer during it's premiere, and was the first ever Adult Swim show to do so outside of Toonami. The version of "Animals" on Adult Swim's website is notably darker then the version on YouTube. It was likely made darker sometime after the episode was uploaded onto YouTube to prevent seizures for the flashing lights during the title card. | |
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The Cameo | |
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The Cameo Space Ghost has appeared in every episode, usually as a Funny Background Event. Zorak also appears in several episodes starting with "Falling", Moltar joins in starting with "Robots", and Brak joins in starting with "Trash". All three at once appear during the credits of "Nightmares". Some of said cameos can be REALLY hard to find. It took 6 years for Moltar's cameo to be spotted in "Death". Gerald appears in, fittingly enough, "Hair". The Slow Mo Guys show up in "Falling", specifically their first giant water balloon video. | |
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Once an Episode: Pretty much every episode contains at least one "Datamosh" transition, or where the image of the first clip is applied to the movement of the next clip, similar to getting a low signal on broadcast TV. | |
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Stock Footage | |
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Stock Footage: A good number of shorts is pretty much old footage from documentaries and TV shows. Or from Web Original shorts. | |
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*Bleep*-dammit! | |
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*Bleep*-dammit!: "Sound" censored out a URL for a site called 'friendzone.fun' (Despite it not being a real URL)... then left the URL uncensored in the next shot. In "Clowns", A man on a bike's face is blurred out. The motion tracking of the blur is very poor, though, and goes off the person's face multiple times. The blur also tries (and fails) to follow the person even after the datamosh rather than simply being put onto the image beforehand, implying that it was a last minute change. | |
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Early-Installment Weirdness | |
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Early-Installment Weirdness: And for a show like Off the Air, that's saying something. The first few episodes always opened up on old stock-footage from the 60s, accompanied by a mysterious voice whispering something ominous. By "Body" the stock footage was replaced with a regular clip and the voice spoke much less, and by "Death" the voice disappeared completely. | |
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Bookends | |
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Book Ends: Every episode usually has footage from an earlier segment (often the first) appear at the end. | |
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Freeze-Frame Bonus | |
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Freeze-Frame Bonus: During the disclaimer for "Food", text reading "DON'T TRY" flashes on the screen for a frame at a time. One of the flashes reads "DON'T DIE" instead. Some of the space ghost cameos have him appear in the background for just a few frames. | |
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Clumsy Copyright Censorship | |
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Clumsy Copyright Censorship: Averted. One of the shorts in "Patterns" blatantly features a sound effect from Super Mario 64. | |
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Surreal Humor | |
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Surreal Humor / Surreal Horror: A good number of shorts switch between the humor part and the horror part. | |
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Lawyer-Friendly Cameo | |
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Lawyer-Friendly Cameo: The episode "Color" features the music video for "Datamosh" by Yung Jake, which includes footage from a Justin Bieber music video. The edit shown in the episode replaces Bieber's image with a stock photo of a Bieber-ish teen. "Thom Cruise" and "Emmy Rawsome" in "Work". | |
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Medium Blending | |
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Medium Blending: This show uses 2D, 3D, Stop Motion and Live Action. | |
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Amazing Technicolor Population | |
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Amazing Technicolor Population: A few of the animated shorts have people with odd skin colors, like lavender, blue, red, green, etc. | |
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Reverse Cerebus Syndrome | |
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Reverse Cerebus Syndrome: The episode “Fashion� originally started off more serious and cynical, but later bent towards being more humorous, with only the opening keeping the more darker, serious tone. The change also caused this disturbing short Note(a fur pelt with mechanicals inside causing the pelt to roll around, all while it’s head and legs lay there dead as somebody in the background laughs manically), intended for the credits, to be cut from the episode as it would have clashed with the humorous tone. | |
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Recycled Animation | |
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Recycled Animation: The #disrupt short from "Trash" was originally a short for Adult Swim's "Smalls" series Note(1 to 2 minute shorts that play during commercial breaks and in-between streaming shows), later reused here. Unlike the other shorts, however, it wasn't uploaded to their YouTube. | |
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Take That! | |
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Take That!: In "Coping", a news ticker on a TV reads "America First in deaths, President Tweets Nonsense." In general, a lot of the shorts in Off The Air seem to have anti-consumerism messages in them. A good example being this short in "Earth". | |
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DoNotTryThisAtHome | |
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Do Not Try This at Home: "Food" opens up with a rather unsettling one of these proclaiming "DO NOT try anything you see in this show... EVER. You might die." The video in question is of a man lighting fuse-tipped bananas glued to his face on fire, causing the bananas to pop. | |
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Blood from the Mouth | |
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Blood from the Mouth: In "You Ruined It" from "Nightmares", a girl has blood dripping from her mouth. | |
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Mind Screw | |
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Mind Screw: The series in general. A few shorts have something of a cohesive plot, though. | |
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Jump Scare | |
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Jump Scare: There's one at the very end of "Nightmares" (as in, right before the credits). It's startling, to say the least. "Animals", "Sound", and arguably "Falling" also contain one each, Animals in particular having one at the very beginning of the episode. | |
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Shout-Out | |
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Shout-Out: "Shoutout to David O Reily", word for word in "Colors" "Coping" had This Homage. to Freddy Got Fingered | |
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Theme Naming | |
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Theme Naming: Season 13's first three episodes are titled Sex, Drugs and Music - in other words, sex, drugs and rock 'n roll. (The fourth episode? Farts.) | |
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