Up, Up, Down, Down

What a cute start to a beautiful relationship.

"Up, Up, Down, Down" is a Flash animated music video by self-proclaimed "Nerd Rock" band, Kirby Krackle. It starts out as a love song about a geeky video game store clerk who has a crush on a girl who frequents his shop before going into something completely different. The video can be viewed here.

Tropes used in Up, Up, Down, Down include:

• Adorkable: Everyone in the video and both the song and video in general.
• Animesque: Including several standard "anime gestures".
• Blank White Eyes: The pianist switches between theses and Eyes Always Shut.
• Dogged Nice Guy: The male lead is a milder version.
• Downer Ending: The girl is a stalker who murders the lead after their date by cooking him alive and eating him.
• Foreshadowing: The girl has a poison mushroom shirt.
• Gamer Chick: The female lead.
• Eyes of Gold: The female lead sports them.
• Fluffy Cloud Heaven:
• I'm a Humanitarian: The girl
• Lyrical Dissonance: You will never hear someone sound happier while singing "Because I'm dead".
• Nerds Are Sexy: Yes.
• Eerie Pale-Skinned Brunette: The girl.
• Played for Laughs: The twist ending.
• Shout-Out: Many.
  • The girl's poison mushroom shirt.
  • The lyrics even mention Hyrule.
  • "I should take a risk, then like Wilson Fisk, be the Kingpin of this day."
  • During his daydream, the male lead imagines the girl wearing Morrigan's signature outfit.
  • (She) warned me that I shouldn't scream or she'd gut me like Wolverine.
  • Guys... THE KONAMI CODE in the title and song lyrics!
• Stalker with a Crush: The girl
• Twist Ending:
• Unmoving Pattern: The girl's skirt
• Yandere: The girl