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'''Freakazoid''': ''"NO! Get out of here with that watch, lay off the poor beavers, will ya?! SHEEZE! You're a creep! Go away, we were having a good time until you showed up, Jeepers! ARGH! Go have some coffee with cream, or something! Because I'll tell ''you'' something! This is a ''happy place''!"'' }}
 
''Freakazoid!'' is a parody of the [[Superhero]] show, produced by the people who brought you ''[[Batman: theThe Animated Series (Animation)|Batman the Animated Series]]'', and the creators of ''[[Animaniacs (Animation)|Animaniacs]]'', [[Steven Spielberg]] and [[Warner Bros]] Animation. It follows the adventures of Freakazoid, an entity created by the addition of [[Hilarious in Hindsight|all the information on the Internet.]] <ref>This was back in 1995, so his head probably didn't explode thanks to the fact that hentai and [[Widget Series|Widgets]] hadn't become synonymous with Japan yet. He probably just went insane from all the Usenet groups.</ref> to a mild-mannered computer nerd, along with weird energy-based powers and a goofy sense of humor. [[Post Modernism|It parodied, lampshaded, or subverted every trope of superheroics at the time.]]
 
Almost every adventure, Freakazoid would encounter his deadpan policeman buddy, Sgt. Mike Cosgrove, who would offer to take him to some unrelated event or activity ("Hey, Freakazoid! Wanna go out for a mint?" "DO I!") [[Big Lipped Alligator Moment|Freak would then drop the adventure, often mid-peril, and go off to someplace fun. He'd resume it shortly thereafter, as if nothing had happened.]]
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The series is currently available in its entirety on DVD.
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=== This show provides examples of: ===
* [[The Ace]]: Greg, the production assistant. Able to rescue the heroes with more than enough time to pick up their mail
** Parodied with The Huntsman, who is set up as the most competent hero in the show, that is, until crime completely clears up in his city leaving him with nothing to do. This ultimately winds up have an obvious affect on Huntsman's self-esteem.
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* [[Alter Kocker]]: The ''Pope'', of all people
* [[Animated Actors]]: Happens several times during the series, especially the first two episodes.
* [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking]]: The Freaka-clone committed tax evasion, mail fraud, and impersonating a shriner.
* [[Art Shift]]: Toby Danger, especially its opening sequence.
* [[Ascended Fanboy]]: [[Otaku|Fan Boy]]. Well...he certainly ''tries''.
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** How many times Emmitt Nervend appeared in the episode.
* [[Crossover]]: With [[Animaniacs (Animation)|Animaniacs]] and [[Pinky and The Brain (Animation)|Pinky and The Brain]] in [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2NLrjVnMO7k this clip].
* [[Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass]]: Freakazoid may act like the biggest goofball in existence, which he actually is, but as any villain can attest, if he wants to take you down, he'll do it....driving you insane the whole while.
* [[Crunchtastic]]: Or so people thought...
* [[Cthulhumanoid]]: "I am Vorn the Unspeakable. I am the enemy of the enemy of he who summons me. And you are?"
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* [[Grand Finale]]: While the episode "Normadeus" doesn't stand out from any other episode, it ends with most, if not all of the show's main characters [[Tear Jerker|singing a rendition of Vera Lynne's We'll Meet Again]] to a full house (and the viewer) at the Hollywood Bowl, complete with fireworks. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cY45YOaXwVk It's an oddly poignant end to such a wacky show.]
* [[Happy Place]]: The Freak-A-Zone, where Freakazoid hangs out when Dexter's in charge.
* [[Hair -Trigger Temper]]: Roddy.
* [[Harlan Ellison]]: Has a cameo when Freakazoid spots him in a comic convention and uses him as a bargaining chip with [[Fan Boy]]:
{{quote| "How about your very own Harlan Ellison?!"}}
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* [[Heroic Vow]]: Why Freakazoid couldn't go after the Lobe:
{{quote| "Much as it pains me, I have to honor the Lobe's request, the same as everyone else's... Cause it's in the codebook, okay? Cause superheroes always keep their word no matter what, okay?"}}
* [[Highly -Visible Ninja]]
* [[The Hit Flash]]: Subverted.
* [[Homage]]: [[Post Modernism|To everything and anything.]] Of note is the rewriting of [[How the Grinch Stole Christmas (Animation)|"You're A Mean One, Mr. Grinch"]] to "You're A Meanie, Nasty Lobe".
** Fanboy and [[Mark Hamill]] doing the famous [[Luke, I Am Your Father]] scene, with Fanboy as Vader, of course.
* [[Hula and Luaus]]: "Waves, Hula Girls!, Pineapples, Hula Girls!, Surfboards, [[Male Gaze|Hula Girls!, Hula Girls!, Hula Girls!]]"
* [[Hypocritical Humor]]
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* [[Ink Suit Actor]]: Cosgrove and Guitierrez both look like the men who voice them, Ed Asner and Ricardo Montalban, respectively.
** As do [[Tim Curry|Dr. Mystico]] and Joe Leahy, the announcer (who essentially plays himself).
** Plus H.A. Futterman (Ben Stein), the man who explains [[Relax -O -Vision]].
** And Jonathan Harris, which is repeatedly Lampshaded. "Weren't you on a [[Lost in Space|show with a robot]]?"
* [[In Medias Res]]: Five episodes were produced and aired before the one about Freakazoid's origin.
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* [[Large Ham Announcer]]: A given when you have an awesome announcer.
* [[Laugh With Me]]: The [[Trope Namer]]. See the entry for [[Evil Laugh]] on this page.'
* [[Lawyer -Friendly Cameo]]: Parodied in "Dance of Doom," with [[Batman: theThe Animated Series (Animation)|Batman the Animated Series]]. According to Joe the announcer, he could easily stop Cave Guy, "but he's on [[Fox Kids|another network]]."
* [[Leitmotif]]: Freakazoid, of course, typically the first seven notes of his theme song. Cave Guy and Cobra Queen have them as well, both of which are trumpet based. The full version of the former can be heard in "Two Against Freak" as he heads to Cobra Queen's lair, after which it segues into the latter.
* [[Lemony Narrator]]: Most jarring when he actually has an appearance in the show.
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* [[Magic Floppy Disk]]: A VHS tape, and Dexter's brain.
* [[Medium Blending]]: Used live-action clips from classic Fifties TV/movies in some episodes, and in the title sequence.
* [[Merchandise -Driven]]: Parodied with the [[Thememobile|Freakmobile]]). The show's writers actually ask Freakazoid to use the Freakmobile in a chase scene.
** Toyetic: The term was popularized by being defined onscreen during this sequence.
* [[Mickey Mousing]]: Subverted.
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{{quote| "I feel like [[Star Wars|Obi-Wan cruddy Kenobi]]!"}}
* [[My Brain Is Big]]: The Lobe.
* [[NamesName's the Same]]: The entire series and its protagonist have nothing to do with the song "Freak-A-Zoid" by Midnight Star.
* [[Names to Run Away From Really Fast]]: Cobra Queen and Longhorn are pretty good; as for Candle Jack, well, he is rather tenacious.
* [[Nature Hero]]: The Huntsman.
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* [[No Celebrities Were Harmed]]: The Huntsman and Lord Bravery, who were quite blatantly modelled upon Charlton Heston and John Cleese, respectively.
** The "And now you know... the rest of the episode" guy is never named but clearly Paul Harvey.
** Cave Guy was a take-off of Jim Backus, specifically echoing [[GilligansGilligan's Island (TV)|Thurston Howell III]].
* [[No Fourth Wall]]: Used straight... and subverted.
* [[Official Couple]]: Freakazoid/Steff. Oddly, Dexter/Steff, though named in the 'Freakazoid and Friends' song, does not apply as Steff doesn't find out about Freakazoid's secret identity until later.
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''Freakazoid:'' [[Rule of Funny|Because it's funny!]]<br />
''Lobe:'' [[Lampshade Hanging|No it's not! It's stupid!]] }}
* [[Perpetual Expression]]: Emmitt Nervend's [[The Un -Smile|Unsmile.]]
* [[Phlegmings]]: Foamy the Freakadog.
* [[The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything]]: The Huntsman is ''not'' happy about being a superhero who never manages to do any crime-fighting in his own segments.
* [[Poorly -Disguised Pilot]]: The Toby Danger sequences; [[The Venture Brothers (Animation)|perhaps they came a decade too early.]]
* [[Post Modernism]]: And how.
* [[Psychic Static]]: Freakazoid, to avoid having his personality fed to his clone.
* [[Red Oni, Blue Oni]]: Freakazoid and Cosgrove. In the episode 'Two Against Freak', Roddy is also a Red Oni to Cosgrove's Blue. They're even, albeit unintentionally, wearing the right colors.
* [[Relax -O -Vision]]: The [[Trope Namer]].
** It also featured a variation with Scream-O-Vision, whereupon anything remotely scary, from Candle Jack to kissing and was followed up by the word "Scream" and a small clip of someone doing just that.
* [[The Renaissance Age of Animation]]
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* [[Villains Out Shopping]]: The Lobe in "In Arms Way."
* [[Voluntary Shapeshifting]]
* [[What Do You Mean ItsIt's Not Awesome?]]: Parodied and a [[Running Gag]], where Cosgrove will interrupt whatever Freakazoid's up to to invite him to something far more mundane.
{{quote| '''Freakazoid:''' Nothing will stand in my way!<br />
'''Cosgrove:''' Hey, Freakazoid, wanna go out for a mint?<br />
'''Freakazoid:''' Okay. }}
* [[What Happened to The Mouse?]]: We never did find out who killed Sir Jeffry.
* [[Where Does He Get All Those Wonderful Toys?]]
* [[Whole -Plot Reference]]: To [[The Crawling Eye]], of all things. The kid's demographic that the show was marketed to probably didn't get the joke, but [[Parental Bonus|the kids' parents (or the kids themselves 10 years later)]] who were fans of early episodes of [[MST3K]] did.
** Subverted pretty regularly, though. While shows like [[Animaniacs (Animation)|Animaniacs]] commit to their parodies once started, Freakazoid bails on them the second it'd be funnier to do something else. For example [[The Godfather (Film)|The Freakazoid]] and [[Amadeus|Normadeus]], where the parody they're doing last only for the first scene of the cartoon in question.
* [[With Great Power Comes Great Insanity]]: A rare example of this being applied to a hero.
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