Mokey's Show - TV Tropes

Mokey's Show is a webseries created by Sr. Pelo which parodies Mickey Mouse. All of the videos are nonsensical in nature. The videos follow our titular hero along with his friends Dilan and Grooby, his girlfriend Momi (pronounced "Moh-mee"), and his archenemy Put (pronounced "Poot") as they do things like celebrating Christmas, going to the beach, and smoking weed. Usually while being really loud while still managing to be entertaining. All of the episodes can be found right here.

Also check out The Dolan Webcomic series featuring Morky, Dolan, and Gooby to see the first parody characters, which inspired Sr. Pelo's own Disney parody series.

OH BOY!! TROPES!

• 420, Blaze It: The 420 series, mainly due to Mokey, Grooby, and Dilan taking in illegal drugs, heck, the first video involved smoking cannabis.
• Acid-Trip Dimension: Mokey sees one after he ate the weed instead of smoking it in "420".
• Adaptational Dumbass: What happens if you parody Mickey Mouse with an insane amount of stupidity? You get Mokey's Show of course.
• All There in the Script: For some videos, the closed captions give Dilan proper dialogue.
• Amusing Injuries: All over the place.
• April Fools' Plot: The aptly-named April Fools Day episode has Mokey and his friends pulling pranks on him until Mokey shoots them both and realizes too late he used a real gun.
• Ax-Crazy: Mokey, who's willing to flip out at the drop of a hat. In the Halloween 2016 episode, he nearly shoots his friends again after freaking out at the sight of Dilan's Exorcist mask.
  • Momi becomes such in "Is Not Christmas",
• Berserk Button: DO NOT shoot at The Sun.
• Better to Die than Be Killed: In "Missed Christmas", Momi throws herself off a cliff rather than face Mokey's wrath for lying to him about missing Christmas. Unfortunately for her, Mokey catches her before she hits the ground.
• Big Bad: Put is usually the main antagonist of the episodes he appears in.
  • Krampus turns out to be the source of the Krima's, serving as the main threat for "No More Christmas" and "The Christmas Hope".
  • Momi temporarily takes on the mantle when grabbing the watch Mokey used to access different dimensions, holding it for "Thanksgiving" and "Is Not Christmas". She briefly gets it back in "Missed Christmas" and "Christmas public enemy".
  • Knecht Ruprecht, Krampus's German counterpart, serves as the main threat for Mokey in "Painful Christmas" for awhile.
  • COVID-19 and its Sigma variant for the coronavirus-themed episodes.
• Brick Joke:
  • "Missed Christmas" has one; Momi threatening Dilan to call famous chef Romrom Gramsay to kill him. Unfortunately, Mokey is able to turn this on Momi when his Krima Spirit is restored, calling Gramsay to kidnap Momi and use her as a turkey on his cooking show.
  • In "The Sun", Mokey, Grooby and Dilan try to shield themselves from the titular Sun by standing on a post's shadow. When the Sun gets furious at Mokey and decides to destroy the Earth, Mokey, Grooby and Dilan survive by standing under the same shadow.
• Butt-Monkey: Absolutely no one is safe from getting beaten up in this show, not even with the likes of Santa Claus or Jesus Christ.
• Character Catchphrase:
  • "OH BOY!!" for Mokey.
  • "AHHH-hyug" for Grooby.
  • "I’m gonna call the police!" for Momi
• The Cameo: In some videos, Mokey will encounter a long line full of assorted characters whom he beats up one by one to get to the front. These characters are usually picked from Twitter threads where Pelo requests his viewers to post their Original Characters to be animated as this.
  • One such instance is in "The Sun", where all of them are waiting for ice cream. Some of the notable people in the line are Pyrocynical, Scribblejuice, Jesus Christ, Shadman, Pelo, and Reimu.
  • In "Is Not Christmas", John Cena appears to do an elbow drop on Mokey (but you can't see him when he does so). Susan Wojcicki makes an appearance when Mokey heads to the HQ of YouTube itself for help. PewDiePie also appears as a smoke grenade thrown by Momi.
  • Another long line appears in "Painful Christmas".
  • In "Contagious Christmas", Mokey effortlessly defeats Cirno simply by lightly punching her in the chest, which somehow makes her entire upper body explode. Later, after Mokey defeats COVID-19 by wearing a mask, Reimu and Marisa are among those applauding him, and Gendo and Asuka congratulate him.
  • "There is no virus" has X and Zero show up near the end to fight the Sigma Coronavirus. Zero proceeds to re-enact Mega Man X5 by spontaneously dying from Sigma.
• Chekhov's Gun: The stopwatch Santa gave to Mokey in "No More Christmas". It can open portals to other realities, witch Mokey does to summon more Mokey's to defeat Krampus in "The Christmas Hope". It comes back in "Thanksgiving", where Momi has gotten ahold of it, and is implied to be killing several Mokeys in several dimensions with it. The watch is destroyed in "Is Not Christmas", where Mokey shatters the stopwatch over Momi's head as payback.
• Company Cross-References: During the start of "Contagious Christmas", one police officer preforms the Spooky Dance from Sr. Pelo's fellow series Spooky Month, earning Mokey's ire for doing the wrong holiday tradition.
• Creator Cameo:
  • "No More Christmas" subjects Sr. Pelo to a curmudgeon's rants, until Mokey turns the grouch into an exploding ornament.
  • "The Sun" has Sr. Pelo in line for the ice cream man, until Mokey pops his head. Doubles as a Death by Cameo.
  • In "Mr. Tree" Mokey talks to a live action Pelo through his monitor, and then proceeds to choke him.
  • "There is no virus" has Sr. Pelo announce a new variant of COVID-19 on the news, the Sigma variant.
  • "Christmas public enemy" has Sr. Pelo asks Momi how she's doing before Mokey finds both of them.
• Curb-Stomp Battle: In "Christmas public enemy", when Mokey learns from Santa that Momi is the one who ordered the hit on him, he immediately makes Santa trip and shoot himself and unceremoniously crushes the thugs sent after him into a ball when they confront him.
• Cycle of Hurting: In "Is Not Christmas", Momi, after her spine gets bent into a boomerang, gets sent rolling upwards on a staircase, then slips on a banana peel on the top which sends her falling down, and then she slips again at the bottom, sending her rolling upwards once more before ending up on a wheelchair.
• Degraded Boss: The "Krima" or Krimah Demon, initially these demons are treated as unique enemies, but in "A Christmas Hope" they are simply the foot soldiers/mooks of the Krampus army.
• Deranged Animation: Why of course!
• Dirty Cop: In "425 - Math", a policeman gives Mokey and Grooby meth and encourages them to cooperate with a possible drug dealer.
• Diabolus ex Machina: The earlier Christmas episodes usually end with the devil coming in and ruining Christmas by slapping everyone to death.
• The Dog Bites Back: Momi attempts this twice; first in "Is Not Christmas" where she tortures Mokey on the account of not being Christmas yet, and then in "Missed Christmas" where she changes the date of the calendar to trick Mokey into thinking he missed it. Both attempts failed miserably.
• Driven to Suicide:
  • In "Contagious Christmas", Momi is forced to stay inside for quarantine. Knowing she can't go outside to escape Mokey and his Christmas shenanigans, she enters a room with a noose and prepares to hang herself... until she gets hit with a mug by Mokey, who doesn't have Christmas spirit yet.
  • Momi manages to exploit this in "Christmas public enemy" by saying she'll shoot herself unless Mokey is dealt with, giving her allies to defend her from the latter's terror, only for Mokey to suddenly fight them back and comes after Momi once he learned the whole thing is engineered by her. Initially, she is unable to go through it and attempts to shoot Mokey when the latter confronts her head-on, but he casually grabs the bullet with his hands. Realizing she's screwed, and with no allies to defend her left, Momi tries to off herself for real, only to quickly realize she has wasted the only bullet in the gun during her attempt to kill Mokey.
• Drugs Are Bad: After "422" (an episode about cocaine) is done, Sr Pelo says that drugs are bad and you shouldn't do it. ... Only to realize he's a cartoon. Cut to the real life Sr Pelo doing cocaine. (Actually flour, but still.)
• Early-Installment Weirdness:
  • The first video to feature Mokey was a 20-second video called Welcome to Disnehy. It had no plot to speak of, it was just Mokey, Grooby, and Dilan saying their catchphrases and generally acting weird, and ending with a clip from Disney's Magical Quest. Also, Mokey's voice was deeper in this video, and he doesn't scream.
  • In some of the earliest Christmas episodes, Mokey doesn't pronounces Christmas as "krima". Instead pronouncing it as any normal person would pronounce it. The first Christmas episode is also more directed at the Mayan Calendar apocalypse hoax, and in general they wouldn't feature the staple gag of Mokey brutalizing Momi on Christmas until the third episode, with Santa running her over in the second instead.
• Earth-Shattering Kaboom: In "The Sun", the titular Sun gets furious when Mokey shots at him, and destroys the Earth. Mokey, Grooby and Dilan survive by standing under the shadow. Mokey kind of lampshades the absurdity of this:
• Enforced Plug: The Christmas 2016 episode suddenly turns into Mokey plugging the Loot Crate deal Pelo had gotten before Mokey shows up to get help.
• Everyone Has Standards:
  • Put is understandably reduced to quivering in fear when he see's Dilans Scary Maze costume.
  • Mokey, who happily reveled in weed and cocaine last two 4/20 episodes, is understandably concerned for his friends when they take Lost Sass Day.^note 
  • A child on Santa's lap asks for cryptocurrency for Christmas, causing the jolly old elf to yell at the kid and tell him to get a job, since nowadays several people really hate cryptocurrency and it's negative impact on the world.
• Everything Trying to Kill You: In "Christmas public enemy", Momi exploits this by threatening to commit suicide if Mokey's not dealt with, which leads to everyone, INCLUDING Santa and Jesus who have been friends to Mokey up to that point, trying to kill Mokey.
• The Face of the Sun: "The Sun" depicts it as both looking and acting sadistic.
• Flipping the Bird: In the Halloween Episode, Mokey does this to Momi when she tells him and his friends that they're too old to go trick-or-treating.

  Mokey: Momi? I think you are blind.
  Momi: BLIND?! I am not blind Mokey!
  Mokey: Yes you are, Momi. You can't see.
  Momi: SEE?!?! SEE WHAT MOKEY?!
  Mokey: [flipping the bird] THIS, BETCH!!!

• Formula-Breaking Episode: Downplayed, for the most part, while 427 is mostly based on krokodil, also known as desomorphine, what it represents in the episode is rather radically different from its real-life counterpart, being an actual crocodile, Grooby borrows Mokey's Character Catchphrase, with him being the one telling his friend that the drug of the day (or animal in this case) is very very bad (something Mokey lampshades), and the episode itself being rather tame on the drugs compared to the previous ones, mainly being about crocodile care-taking.
• Fun with Subtitles: His subtitles that he (or other people) make can be entertaining to read.
• Gainax Ending: Almost all the episodes end on this, or No Ending at all.
  • The 2020 Christmas episode references this trope by having Gendo and Asuka show up to congratulate Mokey after he drives off COVID-19 by wearing a mask.
• G-Rated Drug: Downplayed given the series is decidedly not G-rated, but after the first couple 4/20-themed episodes the depicted drugs have been parodic substitutes (i.e. “Math” instead of meth and “Crocodile” instead of krokodil/desomorphine).
• The Grinch: Momi hates Christmas and she attempted to ruin it for Mokey twice in "Is Not Christmas" and "Missed Christmas". Considering all the crap Mokey's put her during that holiday every year, it's hard to blame her.

  Momi: [sobbing] I hate Christmas! You always hitting me, it's always the SAME! "Christmas! Christmas!" I'm TIRED. I'M TIRED OF EVERYTHING-
  Mokey: SHUT UP! [breaks Momi's neck]

• Groin Attack:
  • The Sigma variant of the coronavirus kills people by grabbing their crotches, apparently.
  • Momi does this to Grooby and later Dilan in "Missed Christmas". However, by the time she does it again to Grooby, he doesn't react in pain as much as he likes it.
• Hair-Trigger Temper: It's not hard to anger Momi. Mokey angering her by just calling her blind is an example.
• Heat Wave: "The Sun" revolves around this.
• Homage: Once Upon a Studio inspired these pictures◊ of Mokey reverently smiling at a photo of Pelo screaming.
• I Just Shot Marvin in the Face: Mokey accidentally shoots both of his friends with what he thought was a fake gun.
• Interrupted Suicide: In "Missed Christmas", Mokey almost jumps out off a cliff over his despair of missing Christmas, but is saved by Dilan and Grooby who reveal that Momi lied to him.
• Jerkass: Mokey acts like an asshole quite often. If it's not him being a prick, it's Momi and Put.
• Jerkass Ball: Santa Claus, who is rather chummy to Mokey in the Christmas episodes beyond suffering his abuse, is suddenly out for his blood after being coerced by Momi's suicide threats in "Christmas public enemy".
• Kiss of Death: "The sun" has Mokey crucify Jesus with a smooch, quickly homaging the night Judas betrayed him.
• Knight of Cerebus: The Fruit Man and Krampus could count as this.
• Loudness War/Sensory Abuse: YES.
• Manchild: Mokey in the (Way Before) Christmas and Halloween 2016 episodes. He believes Santa is real, gets way too excited about Trick-or-Treating and Christmas, freaks out when things go wrong, and generally acts well below his normal age.
• Malaproper: Starting from "423 - Lost Sass Day", the "420" episodes intentionally misspells the name of the featured drug and starts the plot around that. For example, misspelling "meth" as "math" and making Mokey, Dilan, and Grooby smart, having big brains and all.
• Marijuana Is LSD: The weed in "420" causes him to enter an Acid-Trip Dimension.
• Medium-Shift Gag:
  • "427" and "Christmas public enemy" briefly shifts into rotoscoped animation for some of its gags; the former uses it for instances when Mokey, Dilan, and Grooby are mauled by animals, and the latter rotoscopes a scene from The Shining where Wendy whacks Jack with a baseball bat, with Mokey over Wendy, Momi over Jack, and a crucified Jesus over the bat.
  • Said episodes also features a running gag of characters having photorealistic mouths and teeth when they open their mouths wide or sport a toothy smile.
• Might Makes Right: Invoked by Momi in the Math episode:

  Momi: You might have a brain...BUT I HAVE A GUN! shoots Mokey in the head

• Mr. Alt Disney: "Christmas public enemy" has Momi convince Walt Disney look-alike Dalt Wisney, among others, to hunt down Mokey.
• Narrative Shapeshifting: In “Missed Christmas,” Grooby turns into Momi, Mokey, Dilan and a car when he says those words.
• Nightmare Face: The faces the characters make in later episodes become more and more grotesque.
• Nothing Is Scarier: If you choose NO in the video Slunder Mokey will stare at the viewer for a few seconds then it will change into a page that says HELP ME, nothing else happens in the video.
• Non-Standard Character Design:
  • Santa and Jesus are static images taken from old-timey illustrations such as one would see on a holiday card.
  • Krampus, who is more smoothly animated than the other characters.
  • The "normal people" in "An Abnormal Halloween" are stock photos of people. They can move by sliding around, but otherwise have no animation at all.
• Not Hyperbole: In "Missed Christmas", Momi tells Dilan that she'll "gargle his balls" if he tells Mokey that it's Christmas. When she catches him and Grooby in the act, she proceeds to do exactly that.
• Pet the Dog: In "There is no virus", Mokey repeatedly warns friends about Covid-19 and was genuinely devastated devastated over their deaths.
• Police Are Useless: In "Mokey's Show - April Fool's Day", the police don't take Momi's call to them about Mokey trying to kill her seriously because of the date. Subverted when they do turn up and unload all their clips onto Mokey.
  • Also averted big time when they do show up.
  • "424", "425" and "426" however bring this trope back. In order, the policeman Momi gets just tries to ask the Steroid-buffed Mokey if he has a permit for them, doesn't try to get rid of Mokey and Grooby's Maths and even gives both of them some, and gets an autograph from them instead when they're under the influence of the Superhero-in.
• Puff of Logic: Put does this Santa in It's too early for Christmas! Negating what would have been Santa's Big Damn Heroes moment. He later attempts to do it on Jesus but is Killed Mid-Sentence. Jesus then makes Santa return by stating he is Real After All.
• Pun: In "There Is No Virus", the news announces a new "sigma" coronavirus variant. Cue Sigma.
• Refuge in Audacity: The 9/11 episode. The crisis is averted because the plane misses one of the Twin Towers by a mile... Until Momi blows up.
• Roses Are Red, Violets Are Blue...: A Valentine Mokey gives to Momi begins with this, and ends with, "FUCK YOU".
• Running Gag:
  • Momi calling the police.
  • Whenever Grooby introduces Mokey to a modified drug, Mokey says that said drug is very very bad, and a gross-up shows on his face whenever he shouts the word bad.
  • Mokey abusing Momi on Christmas.
  • Mokey killing lines of cameo appearances.
  • Jesus trying to derail Christmas in favor of his birthday. He also moans and gets instantly crucifixed when hit.
  • In "Missed Christmas", a sped-up clip of an Irish anti-speeding PSA plays whenever someone gets into a car, excluding its final appearance, when it's simply Mokey about to abuse Momi.
  • Whenether Mokey or Momi gain detailed faces or a Gross-Up Close-Up, they inexplicably gain human noses underneath their mouse ones.
• Saying Sound Effects Out Loud: "BOOM!" and "SHOOSH!"
• "Scooby-Doo" Hoax: Parodied in the two Halloween episodes. In the first, Put turns out to be dressing as the monstrous Fruit Man... but then Momi turns out to be a disguise worn by a real Fruit Man. In the second, Grooby dresses up as the threat to get back at Mokey for turning down trick-or-treating. Mystery Inc. themselves even appear in the latter!
• Servile Snarker: Momi's child butler in "Thanksgiving" goes beyond this, being foul-mouthed and outright disrespectful to her while doing his job.
• Shout-Out:
  • To The Shining in the April Fools Day episode.
  • The Halloween Episode opens with Mokey shouting part of the lyrics to "This is Halloween".
  • In "Is Not Christmas", Mokey makes a reference to Fist of the North Star before defeating Momi.

    Mokey: Omae wa... MOU SHINDEIRU.
    Momi: Què?
    Mokey: [grabs Momi's ear and twists it] KRIMAH!
    [Momi screams in pain]

  • In "Missed Christmas", when Mokey gets his Christmas spirit back and goes on a Momi-beating spree, he does the "MR. BEAST!" pose from "Squid Game vs. MrBeast - Rap Battle! - ft. Cam Steady & Mike Choe" by Freshy Kanal.
  • In "Crocodile", Momi makes a face that's blatantly modeled after the infamous "Fucktoy Cory" portrait from The Painter when Saxton Hale punches her in the groin. On a comment in an analysis video addressing The Painter among other horror web media, Sr. Pelo said that the Shout-Out was meant to be a comedic Take That!, as he thought "Fucktoy Cory" looked "fucking funny [...], like a gingerbread man being punched in the balls."
  • During the scene where Mokey kills a line of people in "Christmas Public Enemy", the first victim is Pomni from The Amazing Digital Circus, and the fifth is Ken Ashcorp's mascot Kenny.
• Sinister Sentient Sun: The main antagonist of the episode "The sun".
• Smash Cut: Used a lot.
• Spoonerism: In "Halloween", Put calls Mokey "the Mucking Fouse".
• Sudden Downer Ending: Mokey almost never has happy endings. Just when it seems like the video is going to end well, something terrible happens (often Mokey and his friends getting killed by the police, demons, or something else.)
• Suicide Attack: Momi performs this in the 9/11 episode.
• Superhero Episode: The "420" episode on heroin, "426 - Superhero" takes the pun and as the title suggests has the episode be such, in which Mokey, Dilan, and Grooby use the drug (represented by actual heroines in the form of The Powerpuff Girls) to get superpowers.
• Stop, or I Shoot Myself!: The major plot point of "Christmas public enemy" is Momi coercing the townsfolk to hunt down Mokey or else she'll kill herself. By the time Mokey finds out about her plan, he pulls a Suicide Dare against this knowing Momi wouldn't get through with her own threats.
• Strictly Formula: Most 420 episodes tend to follow this specific structure, though that doesn't make them any less hilarious:
  • Dilan and Grooby are shown enjoying the episode's eponymous drug (or whatever is meant to symbolize it) before Mokey comes in to ask what the two are they doing.
  • Grooby tells Mokey about the drug, followed by Mokey telling them the drug is very very bad, before taking the drug either voluntarily or forcefully.
  • Momi finds out Mokey and friends are taking the drug and calls the police, who are either do nothing or side with the trio.
  • The video then ends with most or all of the characters either dead or seriously injured.
• Stylistic Suck: Pelo's artistic talents tend to not manifest in the series' usual art style, but rather in Mokey and friends' facial expressions.
• Synthetic Voice Actor: The "normal people" in "An Abnormal Halloween" are voiced by text-to-speech programs rather than by Pelo himself, making them some of the very few characters in all of Pelo's videos that he didn't voice.
• Take That!:
  • The "Is Not Christmas" episode has one scene making fun of YouTube and Susan Wojcicki for the current state of the said site. It is allegorically shown with her drinking a coffee only to spit out from disgust, order one of her employees to demonetize Mokey when the former enters the HQ, and ban two innocent YouTubers for being "advertiser-unfriendly" shortly after Momi threw the literal PewDiePie gas grenade into the offices. This is also a dig against YouTube's monetization guidelines for being unfair and inconsistent.

    Susan Wojcicki: I like my coffee how I like my site. [takes a drink, then spits out from disgust] PPPFFT!!! [disgusted and upset] THIS IS DISGUSTING!

  • A scene in "Missed Christmas" involves Santa angrily telling a boy to shut up after he says he wants cryptocurrency for Christmas. Said boy has the head of Sam Bankman-Fried, the then-convicted head of crypto firm FTX who recently had filed for bankruptcy.
  • After Saxton Hale punches Momi in the groin in "Crocodile", her face changes to resemble the infamous "Fucktoy Cory" portrait from the highly controversial Analog Horror series The Painter, which Pelo had previously described as being unable to take seriously because it looked like "a gingerbread man being punched in the balls".
• This Is for Emphasis, Bitch!: Happens a lot.
• This Is Gonna Suck:
  • In "Missed Christmas", when Momi tries to stop Grooby from re-instating Mokey's Christmas spirit via groin attack, he No Sells it, and all Momi can do as Mokey rises behind her is pray for her life.
  • In "Christmas public enemy", after Mokey sucker-punches Jesus Christ, who had been defending Momi up until that point, the scene cuts to a close-up of an aghast-looking Momi.

    English caption: "*In that momment[sic] I witness the horrors soon to experience, the longest seconds in my life were about to begin*"

• The Unintelligible: Dilan, who only makes indistinguishable Donald Duck noises, presumably mocking the real character's hard-to-understand speech. Doesn't stop anyone from having trouble understanding him.
• Too Dumb to Live: In "Thanksgiving", Dilan's nephew Dick makes fun of Mokey, who was holding a gun to threaten everyone. He later gets shot.
• Trauma Button: Happens in "Halloween" when Dilan's costume triggers Put's trauma of the Scary Maze Game.
• Very Special Episode:
  • Parodied with the 4/20 themed episodes. They start out with Grooby and Dilan under the influence of a certain drug, and Mokey tries to stop them only to join in himself.
  • Played straight if you count "Mr. Tree", with the episode being a message to spread awareness of the #TeamTrees fundraiser.
• Would Hit a Girl: Mokey never hesitates to injure or outright kill Momi.
• Would Hurt a Child: Dilan's nephews Suk, Mai, and Dick are as just vulnerable from getting beaten up or killed as their uncle or any other adults. Most notable example is from "Painful Christmas" where Dilan brings Knecht to smack the triplets twice over, then Mokey shoves them to an oven and eats them.

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