Dr. Tran



"Tran: I'm not a doctor!

Narrator: YES, HE IS!"

Dr. Tran is an animated web series by Lone Sausage Productions that follows an unfortunate 5-year-old boy whose life has been turned upside down by a disembodied "trailer narrator"-type voice. It was all started by the 2003 short Here comes Dr. Tran, in which the Narrator describes Tran as a secret superagent and the star of at least 30,000 Dr. Tran movies (and a doctor), while Tran tries (unsuccessfully) to drive the voice away. The short has quickly become popular through Memetic Mutation.

Other shorts in the series include:


 * Dr. Tran's Quiet Log Time - Tran enjoys a quiet evening by a campfire. Hilarity Ensues
 * Summer Splash - Introducing Leland the Cough Drop and Fat Friend, who argue whether Tran is a superhero or not.
 * Mr. Tran & The Toy Cack - Tran and Leland are driven by Leland's grandma to a toy store.
 * 100% ICE - Grandpa lectures Tran, Fat Friend and Leland on how to advertise their products. Introduces Hotel Soap, to whom cocaine is like vitamins.
 * Fruit Hat - Tran is sitting in a subway station. An old lady's hat asks him to buy it chewing gum.
 * Dr. Tran Fanmail - Fourth Wall Mail Slot series in the style of the original short.

"Tran: Please leave me alone. I have to do... pool... chores."
 * 3D Movie: For 5 seconds during "Here comes Dr. Tran".
 * During an early (if not original) showing of "Here Comes Dr. Tran," 3D glasses were handed out to viewers, with little explanation. The joke was that all that preparation was for five seconds of unmoving 3D.
 * Adults Are Useless: There are three adults in the series,
 * Angrish: Literally everything Dr. Tran says in the original video after the narrator says, "Come and get 'em!"
 * Arch Enemy: The chicken is (rather humorously) portrayed as Tran's nemesis.
 * Attention Deficit Ooh Shiny: Leland. "Toy stoooore!"
 * Badass: Dr. Tran, according to the Narrator.
 * Berserk Button: Tran's is pushed in Here Comes Dr. Tran. Unfortunately for him, it just comes across as adorable.
 * Big Lipped Alligator Moment: The super deluxe bacon hat.
 * Big No: Episode 7, where Dr. Tran is forced to go through with another fan letter after wounding Fat Friend with his trusty pneumatic nail gun.
 * Bilingual Bonus: The Roybertito's ad is almost completely in spanish.
 * Blatant Lies: After Grandma Norma runs over a little boy for the first time, she tells Leland it was a flock of geese.
 * Bold Inflation: The voice and accompanying text talks like this.
 * Butt Monkey: Tran.
 * Call Back

"Grandma: "I just keep hitting little boys!""
 * Catch Phrase: "I'm not a doctor!"
 * The Chew Toy: Tran
 * Cluster F-Bomb: The Furious Little Cinnamon Bun, for no reason at all.
 * Cloudcuckoolander: Leland on several occasions. Also, his grandma.
 * Combat Medic: Not quite what the trope describes, but Dr. Tran does have a PH.D in kicking your ass.
 * Continuity Nod: Lots of 'em.
 * Crap Saccharine World
 * Curse Cut Short: "I love to put carob right up my a- *hits little boy with car*
 * Dead Baby Comedy: Toy Cack

"But... I love mother!"
 * Department of Redundancy Department: From the original, Tran, when his Berserk Button is finally pressed by the ever-persistent narrator: "You make me mad, and you make me angry!!"
 * Drives Like Crazy: Leland's grandma.
 * Dude Looks Like a Lady: The old lady in Fruit Hat thinks Tran is an ugly little girl.
 * Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep": Yes, he is called Fat Friend.
 * His actual name is Barbara.
 * Girls Are Grody!
 * Gratuitous English: "Dear Dr. Tran, Why I always have so an hard feeling in my pants at the morning?" from Fan Mail episode "Keith Cares"
 * The Gump: The old lady in Fruit Hat regularly gets cookie recipes from James Van Der Beek, and when he gets uppity with her, she reminds him "who showed you the creek?"
 * Humiliation Conga: Any skit that involves Tran and a narrator can be viewed as this. A little Asian boy whose entire world is being manipulated by some unseen voice, the situation gradually becoming more and more hilariously insane at Tran's expense, until he's a knotted ball of frustration. The first Dr. Tran short and Nail Gun are prime examples of this.
 * Hurricane of Euphemisms: Leland's grandma gives one in "Dr. Tran and the Toy Cack", and it goes on and on until Tran says, "SHUT UP! WHY DON'T YOU JUST SHUT UP RIGHT NOW?!"
 * I Can't Believe It's Not Heroin!: The talking chicken defends his obsession with gum by saying it's an illness.
 * Improvised Weapon: Dr. Tran has apparently killed his own mother with a broken lawn chair.

"Grandma Norma: How did we wind up at the children's hospital?"
 * And the trust pneumatic Nail Gun hot glued to his left hand, which he fires every .5 seconds
 * In a World: Here comes Dr. Tran
 * Infant Immortality: Averted. No matter what she does, Grandma Norma just can't stop hitting little boys.
 * Inherently Funny Words: Dickable.
 * Interactive Narrator: Well, who d'ya think?
 * There are three of them. The main Narrator, the old man narrator from Dickable Afternoon, and the narrator for Roybertito's.
 * It Got Worse: Grandma Norma's vehicular homicide gets Turned Up to Eleven near the end of Toy Cack. How, you ask?

"Tran: What is cancer? I thought you said AIDS?
 * Japanese Ranguage: In the original short: "I've never been to Amellica!!"
 * Jerkass: The talking chicken and Grandpa, but especially the Narrator. He apparently loves screwing around with Tran's head, and his reality, for no reason. We don't even know why Tran is the one he screws around with. One way to look at it is that the Narrator really believes Tran is an action superstar, which is sort of backed up by the appearance of two alternate Trans, one in the 1940s, another in the 2040s. Of course, given his power, he could've just created those two Trans solely to mess with Tran once again. Two examples come to mind:
 * In one of the fan mail segments, Tran gets a letter from a little girl with AIDS asking Tran to make an appearance or to donate some money to her hospital. Tran thinks the girl sounds nice (even if doesn't know what AIDS are), while the Narrator basically tells her to go bitch to someone else. He then rubs it in by saying Tran is too busy at the "Venezuelan drug lord dance party", wearing sunglasses "black as the night [she] got cancer!"

Narrator: Same thing."

"Grandma Norma: BAIL OUT!
 * In another one, Tran gets a letter from a guy named Keith who says that he and his wife understand that Tran is just a little boy who is being misidentified with someone else, all the while being accused of doing horrible things "for America". Tran actually asks to answer this letter, but the Narrator decides that Tran should read another one about a kid asking questions about boners, all the while Tran is pleading to talk to Keith.
 * Memetic Sex God: Dr. Tran, at least according to the Narrator in-universe.
 * Merchandise-Driven: Parodied. In-universe, you can apparently buy anything with Dr. Tran on it. This gives Tran a hard time; denying being famous is a bit difficult when one is standing in a Dr. Tran Inflatabe Pool.
 * The series also include two Dr. Tran product commercials: Peanut Butter Square Hula Quest and Dickable Afternoons, plus an ad for a fictional restaurant that uses Tran's image in their products.
 * Mind Screw: The Furious Little Cinnamon Bun. Really,
 * After crossing the border.
 * And ordering a Cerveza
 * Also, the entire Roybertito's clip.
 * Motor Mouth: Roybertito's narrator.
 * Noodle Incident: Leland's grandma taking off her top and being killed by Greg Kinnear.
 * Oh Crap: The look on  when Tran finally sees him in Fruit Hat.
 * Only Sane Man: Tran, barring somewhat of an obsession with soap.
 * Overly Long Gag: "Where are you going to take us?"
 * Reality Warper: The Narrator, it seems. Aside from, well, being a disembodied voice, his achievements include: Changing Tran's clothes, turning the scene into 3D, summoning a heavy rain during a sunny day and, though this is probably stretching the trope, contacting Tran's past and future selves.
 * Real Trailer Fake 30,000 Movies
 * Well, for the most part. There actually is a "Dr. Tran 30,000 DVD Box Set," but it doesn't actually contain 30,000 movies.
 * Retraux: The Dickable Afternoons commercial, zipping in and out of sepia and black and white and full color.
 * Screw This, I'm Outta Here: Grandma Norma in ''Toy Cack'.

Tran: No, wait - she left!"

"Sorry Doctor, that was fucked up."
 * Screw Politeness, I'm a Senior!: The Old Man in the 100% Ice shorts.
 * Sex Sells: One of the bits of advertising advice that Grampa gives to Fat Friend.
 * The narrator constantly espouses Tran's sexual prowess.
 * One of the posters has topless female spies on it.
 * Stylistic Suck: The Peanut Butter Hula Quest and Dickable Afternoon commercials.
 * Synthetic Voice Actor: "I love Dr. Tran. I am an Asian male."
 * Tears of Blood: One of the guys in the Roybertito's ad.
 * Visual Pun: Look at that fat cock!


 * Where the Hell Is Springfield?
 * Yank the Dog's Chain: The "Keith Cares" Fanmail episode.
 * Your Mom - The narrator either has Tran kill his mom, or kill your mom, but not before giving her the best orgasm ever.
 * You Say Tomato: Fat Friend says "hev" for have, "melk" for milk, and "pellow" for pillow.