Sanity Not Included
A Machinima series created by Guitarmasterx7 (real name Lyle), of Brawlgasm and Master Chief fame, and Dexterboy124, who is known for his Peach's Slutty Adventure series and his new Phoenix Wright: Bullshit Evolved, which premiered at the end of Sanity Not Included's first season. This machinima series is unique in that it doesn't use just one game, it uses many across many different gaming platforms a la "Robot Chicken". The first season has been finished with 13 episodes, and the two Machinimators are already well into their second season.
- Aren't You Going to Ravish Me?: In the season one finale, Psylocke thinks that Shuma-Gorath will molest her, simply because he is a tentacle monster.
- Art Shift: The animated segments have a marked increase in quality starting with the finale of season 1 and throughout season 2.
- Bag of Spilling: Made fun of in a machinima of the first level of Castlevania: Symphony of the Night. Alucard shoots through the level until he meets Death, who takes away all his weapons.
Death: 'sup bitch? Ever played Metroid Prime?
Alucard: No-WHAT THE FUCK?! ASSHOLE!!
Death: Later bitch!
Alucard: Oh, this is what I do now? I punch things. Yeah, I think I'll just kill myself.
Death: Have fun finding something to do it with!
- Bash Brothers: Lyle and Dexter can kick ninja ass.
- Berserk Button: DO NOT INTERRUPT ME WHEN I'M RECITING THE PART ABOUT THE HAIRY BUSH!!
- Biting the Hand Humor: The very end of the first episode has a Machinima employee choose to upload "a hundred trillion shitty Modern Warfare 2 gameplay videos that nobody fucking cares about and should be on the other channel anyways" instead of Sanity Not Included. The employee's eyes then glow red.
- It's more of a joke about the Machinima community claiming to unsubscribe to the machinima channels when a YMMV video is uploaded.
- The Cameo: So far, there have been two occasions in which footage from A Strange Dream, starring Vivvav (a friend of Dex and Lyle's), has appeared in the series. Both cameos have involved Pokémon.
- The character of the warden, Raust Blackdragon, is based off a real person who the creators are...acquainted...with.
- Camp Gay: Raust Blackdragon, the warden of the prison.
- Can't You Read the Sign?: NO PETTING THE RECYCLING BIN!
- Casanova: Solid Snake, apparently.
Snake: Sup baby, Bumblefaggot.
Woman: Oh God, I'm so turned on!
- Cleavage Window: Let's face it, any boob trope will be applied to Nina at some point, although she does avert it from time to time by wearing a shirt that completely covers her chest.
- Clothing Damage: In season 2, while trying to protect a baby, Nina's clothes are completely burned off. It would have been the perfect moment if not for the censor bar.
- Compensating for Something: Parodied in the very first episode.
Yellow Spartan watching other Spartan walk toward small car: Hey! What are you doing driving that small car? Trying to compensate for something, BIG DICK?
- Continuity Cameo: The man in the Pikachu coat who was in Guitarmasterx7's video "Morgan's Birthday Video Thing dot doubleyoo emm vee. This is so srs you guys." blows up a Spartan in episode 1.
- He was also featured in the video "Herpes: The Musical", which was uploaded by Lyle's alternate account "theloopholeistheahol". Another video that he used from that account in SNI was the "Disingenuous Assertions" video.
- Continuity Nod: During the INTERACTIVE CHOICE series, Link finds a hammer he can't control in the FIRE TEMPLE episode. He uses it again in the WATER TEMPLE.
- Dead Baby Comedy
- Or at least "We might kill this baby but instead we're going to catapult it" comedy.
Dex: (to Nina, after she tries to protect a baby from getting killed) Couldn't stop us that time, could ya?
Lyle: Yeah! FUCK THAT BABY! *He and Dex hi-five and walk away*
- Taken Up to Eleven in a skit in the first episode of season 2
Husband: I love you, honey.
Wife: (With a rope that has one side in her vagina, and another attached to a truck) THEN WHY DIDN'T YOU TAKE ME TO THE FUCKING HOSPITAL?!?!
- Fate Worse Than Death: Hearing a reading from Raust's novel.
- Flat What: Some viewers may experience this.
- Gainaxing: Nina and Amanda are almost always bouncing around with nary a care.
- Gag Boobs: Nina, as per Gainaxing above.
- Gag Dub: Of the first two minutes of Castlevania: Symphony of the Night. See Bag of Spilling
- I Love the Dead: Dex mentions that his girlfriend Amanda has necrophilia. It's not until he tells this to Lyle that he realizes how messed up this is in midsentence.
- I Read It for the Articles: Inverted. People apparently watch the interactive choices because there are sexy pics of Nina and Amanda in suggestive poses at the end.
- Ink Suit Actor: Parodied and inverted in the Q&A video. Meg, Nina's voice actress stuffs balloons in her shirt to make it seem like her boobs are as big as Nina's. Not that she's any less hot without them....
- Jerkass: Lyle, Dex, and several of the game characters.
- Evident when Lyle and Dex make Nina go onto X-Box Live just to see the Halo nerds yell and scream trying to impress her.
- Lame Excuse: The man who breaks into people's houses at night and smells their dicks wasn't their to smell someone's dick, he was there checking on the stove... it's a nice stove...
- Laser-Guided Karma: Two Sackboys steal a car, which immediately launches into the air, spinning around with them screaming inside.
- Like a Weasel: Dex will do anything Amanda asks him to.
- Meaningful Name: Lyle's last name is McDouchebag
- Ms. Fanservice: Nina.
- And sometimes Amanda, if Nina's not there.
- Modesty Bedsheet: Nina's bedsheet is barely enough to cover her enormous breasts.
- Naughty Tentacles: In the Left 4 Dead skit in episode 1 where Zoey was being attacked by a tentacle.
Bill: Is it just me or... is this... slightly arousing? I... *zip* It's gotta be done.
- It's also subverted in the finale of season 1:
Psylocke: "Well, you ARE a tentacle monster..."
Shuma-Gorath: "Yeah! That's exactly the thing! I'm a tentacle monster, that doesn't mean I automatically molest people, and even if I did, I would want other tentacle monsters! Do you even have the slightest idea of how procreation and sex drive work!?"
- Once Per Episode: An interactive skit where the viewer can choose the situation's outcome. And at least one animated segment featuring the creators.
- Pistol-Whipping: "I am meleeing its legs!"
- Red Oni, Blue Oni: Lyle and Dex. It's even in the title sequence!
- Refuge in Audacity
- Self-Deprecation: In a video by Guitarmasterx7 announcing that episode 13 would be delayed.
Spartan shoving medicine ball up his penis: Sanity Not Included is not a gay web show! It's the gay web show!
- There are often jokes about the creator's nationalities: One's British and the other is American.
- Shout-Out: To Death Note, when a group of characters fall down the stairs and die.
Last to die: Damn you, Light Yagami...
- Smoking Hot Sex: The waitress at the end of Season 2 Episode 12.
- Stay in the Kitchen: Season 1 Episode 3
- This Looks Like a Job For Aquaman: He's been forced to sell armor in the Watchtower. Because he sucks so much.
- Clothing Damage: In season 2, episode 4; In the final skit, an incident involving Amanda's baby nephew results in Nina's clothes getting burnt right off. Also contains traces of Hand or Object Underwear.
- Hey, It's That Voice!: Amanda is Princess H and Chi Chi!