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"Permit me go this direct. He's my uncle, and my gramps?"

"No. He'south everyone in the world'due south uncle and grandpa, and when he comes to visit, it's certain to exist a time y'all'll never forget!"

Okay, so what happens when y'all take the zany artwork of Don Martin-era MAD, throw in visual gags and slapstick that would make the Golden Historic period animators shed tears of pride, add a spoonful of heavy metal, so contaminate the batch with large portions of pure, undiluted weirdness?

What you're left with is Uncle Grandfather, a Cartoon Network original apropos the larger-than-life adventures of an Crazy Is Absurd Reality Warper who, equally the in a higher place quote implies, is the uncle and grandfather of everyone in the earth (don't ask).

A typical plot would outset with Uncle Grandpa traveling in his RV similar a madman, normally crashing into the homes of disgruntled youths. To them Uncle Grandfather is naught but a bumbling nuisance in rainbow suspenders and an insanely portable fannypack... ahem, "Abdomen Bag", but it'southward only when events start to blow out of proportion (normally the issue of his attempts to win them over) that the Permit'south Become Dangerous! side of Uncle Grandpa springs into activity. Together with the help of a pizza piece, a green lizard human and a giant realistic flying tiger (again, don't ask), he and his immature companion-of-the-week embroil in an ballsy boxing, and once the 24-hour interval has been saved, our protagonist has gained a great deal of respect for their Uncle Grandpa, only to notice that he has already left the scene, ready to spread his magic upon the lives of other unsuspecting folk:

"That's your Uncle Grandpa for ya. Drops in, shows yous a good time, and then you never see him again. Just like your father."

Pete Browngardt originally pitched Uncle Grandpa in 2008 for the cancelled blithe shorts vehicle Cartoonstitute (the same project which spawned Regular Show). When the finished cartoon was released through the Cartoon Network website, information technology rapidly became a word-of-mouth hit inside the animation community, eventually going on to be nominated for an Emmy.

The graphic symbol then went through a couple of years of Development Hell, only to reemerge on an episode of the equally surreal Undercover Mountain Fort Awesome (likewise by Browngardt). When SMFA got axed Browngardt decided to switch gears and focus dorsum on Uncle Grandpa, expanding its bandage of characters and retooling it as a Diverseness Prove, with almost each episode backed upward by a brusk B-story that sometimes given other characters created by the coiffure their take chances to shine. He succeeded, and the show eventually premiered in September 2013 much to the delight of fans of the original shorts. Even The Golden Age of Animation purist John Kricfalusi seems to have been pumped for the show judging by these sketches. The last episode of the series was aired on June 30, 2017.

Is in no way related to "Grunkle" Stan Pines.

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Uncle Grandpa contains examples of:

• Acquired Situational Narcissism: In "Duck Lips", Uncle Grandpa helps a daughter get plump lips. She so gets self-absorbed, interested simply in posting selfies and getting likes. Then her duck lips start attracting ducks who think she'south 1 of them, and in the terminate learns to merely be herself.
  • In "King Gus", Mister Gus is declared king of the food court and the ability rapidly goes to his caput. He has Uncle Grandfather, as the "King'due south Hand", arrest all those who displease him.
• Activity Girl: Behemothic Realistic Flying Tiger is a perfect mix of feminine dazzler and mortiferous power.
• A Dog Ate My Homework: "Uncle Grandfather Ate My Homework".
• A Dog Named "Canis familiaris": Giant Realistic Flying Tiger, Pizza Steve, Hot Canis familiaris Person, and Uncle Grandad.
• All Animals Are Domesticated: Giant Realistic Flying Tiger.
• Ambiguous Situation: Word of God is that each episode is written so that "at the end, y'all don't know if he's an idiot or a genius."
• Cryptic Syntax: In one skit Uncle Grandpa asks Mr. Gus, Pizza Steve, and Giant Realistic Flying Tiger if they know how to play the drums, the bugle, and the keyboard, respectively. They respond that they don't and proceed to play terribly, and so Uncle Grandpa comments that they do know how to play; he was asking them if they know how to physically utilize their instruments, not if they were any good with them.
• Arbitrary Skepticism / Hypocritical Sense of humor: Mr. Gus in "Aunt Grandma" says it doesn't make whatever sense for someone to be both anybody'southward aunt and everyone'southward grandma, even though it'south simply a female equivalent of what Uncle Grandpa is. He besides refuses to believe it when Pizza Steve tells him that he was robbed by elves in "Vacation", and he's pretty adamant that the hidden treasure in "Treasure Map" isn't existent (though that's probably because in both cases all the bear witness had obvious mundane explanations. Plus Pizza Steve lies to him almost constantly).
• Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking: Evil Wizard contemplates if he should demolish a pet store, set fire to an orphanage, destroy the planet, or mess with Eddie.
• Art Evolution / Animation Crash-land: The background designs get revamped with each passing flavor. Compare the flat, comic-book look of the offset flavor with the more textured, painterly manner of the later episodes.
• Art Shift: Night Wolf State resembles an airbrushed t-shirt design (considering it is).
  • Likewise, the two "Guest Directed Shorts" episodes are full of this trope.
• As Himself:
  • The Nature Boy, Ric Flair in "History of Wrestling".
  • Shaquille O'Neal in "Perfect Child"
  • Andrew Westward.K. in "Shower Party"
  • MC Hammer in "State of the Lost Shadows"
  • Several NBA players in "Uncle Baseball"
  • Marky Ramone in "Late Night Good Morn with Uncle Granddad"
  • Robert Rodriguez in "New Direction"
  • Buzz Osborne and Dale Crover in "Uncle Melvins"
  • Pete Browngardt (along with several members of the Uncle Granddad crew) in "Cartoon Factory"
  • Tom Browngardt (picture editor) and Myke Chilian (writer/storyboard artist) in "Transitional Phrase"
• Back for the Finale: Ham Sandwich, the ugly kid who appeared in the pilot, appears in the series finale.
• Pocketbook of Holding: Uncle Grandpa'southward talking abdomen bag/fanny pack.
• Bait-and-Switch: The episode "The Fan" has Uncle Grandpa getting tricked into visiting the firm of a Basement-Dweller fan, with said fan conspicuously being a little too obsessed with Uncle Grandpa. We so go to 4 months later, where Uncle Grandpa has become The Thing That Would Non Leave and the fan now getting increasingly annoyed past his antics.
• Barbarian Longhair: Eric (Cupcake) gets this, as well as a Barbarian Trunk, after doing all those chores while fighting a Bush-league Dragon.
• Base on Wheels: Uncle Grampa's RV.
• Beary Funny: Beary Prissy.
• Berserk Button: When the gang realizes they've been tricked, wait them to be super angry.
• Bigger on the Within: Uncle Grandfather's RV, which contains a gateway to multiple universes.
• Big "NO!": Uncle Grandpa'south reaction to having to wait in an incredibly long line in "Moustache Cream". It is overheard by a guy about to suggest with his girlfriend.
• Big Red Push button: For whatever reason, the microwave in "Wasteland" has an extremely prominent ruby push labeled "Evil". Naturally, Uncle Grandad accidentally presses it when he tries to microwave the talking leftovers he promised to eat, combining them into a giant nutrient monster.
• Black Comedy Burst: At the terminate of "The Lepre-Con" instead of Uncle Grandpa learning to get over his prejudice against leprechauns, he uses his wish from the Forest King to destroy them all.
• Boring, but Practical: Unlike Uncle Grandfather's wacky ways, Aunt Grandma uses unproblematic practical solutions to help children. Justified as she'south not a Reality Warper, but a normal man.
• Bowdlerise: UK airings of "Leg Wrestle" conscience the Show Inside the Show high school drama and then it cuts back to Uncle Grandad and Mr. Gus before the girls' faces melt off.
• Brain with a Transmission Control: Uncle Granddaddy and Pizza Steve shrink into a kid'south head and plug a controller into his encephalon to help him play video games. They mistake the real world for the game and send him all over the town.
• Bread, Eggs, Breaded Eggs: At the outset of "Grounded", Riley'south father is lecturing him on how if his grades don't meliorate, his only career choices volition exist flipping burgers, working at the auto parts store, or flipping burgers at the auto parts shop.
• Bread, Eggs, Milk, Squick: Have a await at some of the songs on Uncle Grandpa Sings the Classics - "Defenseless In My Curtain", "Also Much Paperwork", "Eyeball Fell Out".
• Breaking the Fourth Wall: "Viewer Special" is an entire episode where the scenery itself is composed of Fan Fine art, while Uncle Gramps and company annotate on how weird the episode is. A subversion occurs in that the episode is presented as a Show Within a Prove, and i lucky viewer of the cartoon draws the episode by drawing his pen direct on his own Television set screen.
  • The show gets more than self-aware equally it went on, especially with episodes like "Except for Cooper," "Uncle Baseball," and even dedicating to meta episodes "Cartoon Manufactory" and "Transitional Phrase."
• Butt-Monkey: Hot Dog Person and Mr. Gus.
• Carnivore Confusion:
  • In i episode, Pizza Steve is seen eating pizza.
  • "Prank Wars" has him cease up in a pizza-eating contest, and the competitors try to swallow him as a tiebreaker.
  • The post-episode gag in "Vacation" has Uncle Grandpa eating a normal-looking banana. After he leaves, a humanoid banana runs onto the screen and screams "My infant!"
• Car Radio Dispute: An Overly Long Gag version of this trope (as in, lasting for a whole segment) occurs between Mr. Gus and Pizza Steve in one segment. Mr. Gus'south decision is that if Pizza Steve wants to listen to dissimilar music, then he should exist the 1 to bulldoze. Pizza Steve doesn't drive every well.
• Catchphrase: A jovial "Good mornin'!" from the titular character. Heck, it'southward the only thing he says in his commercial.
• Central Theme: Learning the joys of life.
• Chekhov's Gun:
  • In "Jorts", Tiny Miracle attempts to help go Mr. Gus' embarrassing jorts off, merely Mr. Gus decides it's taking also long and he'll exercise information technology himself. In the cease, he comes to take them. Then Tiny Phenomenon completes the task.
  • "Bad Morning" opens with Pizza Steve eating a breakfast which is so sugary that anyone who eats information technology will crash well-nigh immediately. At the stop, this turns out to be the key to getting Uncle Grandad to go back to bed and get up on the right side.
  • "Ill Bag" has 2: We see Pizza Steve staring at a mirror, and Mr. Gus making chicken soup for Belly Bag, who is ill. Later on, the insect that caused Belly Bag's illness fires the laser hammer callously, and information technology goes out of Belly Bag, and then bounces off Pizza Steve'southward mirror to get dorsum and striking the web Uncle Granddad was trapped in. Then, when Abdomen Bag drinks the soup, it floods the room where Uncle Grandpa is fighting the problems. Uncle Grandad then uses two of the noodles to slice off the issues's limbs, at which signal it deflates to expiry.
  • In "Food Truck", at the beginning, Mr. Gus is shown cough because of the exhaust from Pizza Steve's motorcycle. Later, Pizza Steve accidentally turns the RV into a hamburger, which is then raided by hungry customers. Pizza Steve and so has the idea to brand the RV gustation bad, which he does by coating parts of it in exhaust.
• Cloneopoly: "Afraid of the Dark" had "Uncle Grandpa's Coin Madness Spectacular", a parody of Monopoly complete with Uncle Grandpa beingness in the aforementioned pose every bit the latter'due south mascot.
• Closer Than They Appear: Spoofed in "Driver'south Exam". "Objects in mirror may exist Uncle Granddaddy". Information technology Makes Sense In Context.
• Cloudcuckoolander: Uncle Granddad hardly makes whatever sense... until he does. He once idea that the spelling of his name "Uncle Granddaddy" was an imposter of him. Gus pointed out that it's simply a spelling of his name, and he thinks information technology has magical spells, rushing off to observe a manner to deal with it.
• The Cloudcuckoolander Was Right: In "Jorts", Uncle Grandpa sees a cactus and at beginning assumes it's an conflicting earlier Abdomen Bag corrects him. Only when Uncle Grandpa pulls it out of the ground, it does indeed turn out to be an alien.
• Continuity Nod: Christopher Columbus is arrested past the Time Constabulary for wearing pants from the futurity in "1992 Chosen". In "Escalator", during the news report on the broken escalator, the words "Christopher Columbus escapes from Time Jail" can be seen on the reel.
• Cool Shades: Averted with Pizza Steve, who only thinks he's cool.
• Cool Uncle: Uncle Grandpa is the living embodiment of this trope.
• Couch Gag: As of season four, the original opening is replaced with Uncle Granddaddy saying a unlike Non Sequitur every episode earlier it cuts to the prove's logo.
• Cranky Neighbor: Charlie Burgers lives next door to i.
• Creator Cameo: The 'funny face up' that follows Uncle Grandpa and friends around is the caput of Pete Browngardt wearing a goofy wig and fake teeth.
  • Browngardt's own loftier school yearbook photo appears in "Viewer Special".
  • Browngardt actually appeared as himself in "Cartoon Factory."
• Creator Career Self-Deprecation: In "Cartoon Factory", Uncle Grandfather visits the titular factory to find out why he was made, and it's hyped up equally a magical world of imagination... only to be shown as a series of ugly cubicles and offices. (Uncle Granddaddy is still enamored, though.) Furthermore, it depicts the bear witness's writers and storyboard artists as literal babies and monkeys throwing mud at the walls to come upward with plot ideas, respectively.
• Crossover: "Say Uncle", a crossover with Steven Universe in which Uncle Grandpa goes to Beach Urban center to aid Steven with his powers (using ordnance).
• Cutting the Knot: Tiny Miracle'southward solution to opening a jar of hamburgers is to smash it on the floor. The others don't seem to mind, even though they're eating cleaved glass.
• Dagwood Sandwich: The dinner sandwiches in "Space Emperor". Information technology has a whole roast chicken in it, for goodness sakes!
• Denser and Wackier: Especially when compared to most other shows on Cartoon Network nowadays (with the exception of Teen Titans Get!). On the show itself, nigh of the later episodes are a lot more focused on wacky adventures than Uncle Gramps helping kids.
• Demonic Dummy: In "Uncle Dummy", Mr. Gus takes upwards ventriloquism, but his dummy Leo is brought to life with Frankenstein juice and tries to kill him.
• Department of Back-up Department:
  • In "Uncle Gramps Sitter", Pizza Steve says that his favorite ice foam flavors are strawberry, chocolate, double chocolate, fudge, chocolate fudge, and gorgonzola.
  • Uncle Grandpa'due south Story-Time Storybook of Stories.
• Depending on the Artist: A few board artist had their distinct fine art style:
  • Nick Edwards (who draws the prove's title cards) had the most unique art style. He tends to draw characters off-model, especially making Uncle Grandfather and Mr. Gus fatter than usual. Also, his writing mode tends to make the show weirder than usual.
  • David Gemmill and Jason Reicher usually draw exaggerated faces from the characters, axiomatic in episodes like "Ball Room", "Land of the Lost Shadows", and "Acrimony Management".
  • Andres Salaff (who worked on only flavor 5) had a strange way of drawing Uncle Grandpa, who looks wider.
• Depth Charade: Used in one sketch where Uncle Gramps, Pizza Steve and Mr. Gus are lost at body of water (actually a giant bathtub) and they see a send in the distance. The ship comes to them and turns out to be a bathtub toy.
• Determinator: Uncle Granddaddy never gives upward on a kid, or his friends, as seen in "Space Emperor" and "Tiger Trails", respectively.
• Distaff Analogue: Aunt Grandma, a beautiful Hourglass Hottie female person version of Uncle Grandpa. She'southward not nearly every bit weird and cloudcuckolanderish as UG normally acts and always gives children the applied solution. This is because she's a normal human with no powers.
• Downer Ending: "Uncle Caveman" ends with Uncle Caveman making a snowcone machine that turns out to exist way likewise powerful, wiping out the dinosaurs and causing the Ice Age.
  • The series finale seems to end this manner.
• Drives Like Crazy: Uncle Gramps takes this to the Nth degree. In "Driver's Test", he teaches a girl how to drive crazy then she tin get her driver'south license.
  • Lampshaded in "Commuter'southward Test":

    Uncle Granddaddy: Simply do y'all know how to drive the Uncle Grandfather Way?
    Mary: Yous mean like on top of buildings and in outer space and stuff?
    Uncle Grandad: No, no, no, no, no, no, no. Yes.

  • Justified in "Locked Out" which shows that the RV crashing is his betoken that a kid nearby needs help achieving their dream.
• Droste Prototype: In a short shown with "Inventor Mentor", Uncle Gramps mounts a puppet prove for Pizza Steve and Mister Gus, about a puppet prove being watched past Pizza Steve and Mister Gus, which is about a puppet show being watched past Pizza Steve and Mister Gus. It was all a trap by a giant monster.
• Dynamic Entry: Usually how Uncle Gramps's van (driven past Uncle Grandfather) appears. Pizza Steve made one on a motorcycle in the van.
• Easter Episode: In "Uncle Easter", the Easter Bunny tells Uncle Grandpa that he has no fourth dimension to prepare for Easter because he has to wait eight hours for premium sports channels, and then Uncle Grandpa has to deliver eggs for him.
• Eating the Enemy:
  • In the episode "Uncle Grandpa Ate My Homework", Uncle Grandpa eats a boy's Egyptian diorama that he needed to pass his course. To go far upward to him, Uncle Grandpa helps him go an actual pyramid from Egypt. But it breaks on the way back. Dennis decides to just tell his teacher what happened. At the aforementioned fourth dimension, an evil mummy emerges from the pyramid and chases Uncle Grandpa all the way to Dennis's classroom. It catches U.K and Dennis, stating that he'll swallow them whole. But and so Dennis gets the idea to have him and Uncle Granddaddy eat him first. They each put a cast in their mouths and suck him up like spaghetti.
  • Speaking of spaghetti, 1 of Pizza Steve's tall tales has him fighting a giant spaghetti and meatball monster to the death. He puts upwards a adept fight against the animal with his Italian Karate but it'due south to no avail. But as the monster is about to stomp, he remembers a tip his master taught him and eats the spaghetti monster up.
• Edible Theme Naming: Ham Sandwich, an obese nerdy boy who is 1 of Uncle Grandpa's many nephews and grandchildren.
• Embarrassing Browser History: When Belly Bag is thrown into a garbage truck and hauled off to the dump equally role of a board game, he pleads to the others "Please don't go through my web history!"
• Enfant Terrible: The Crazy Baby from "Commuter's Exam".
• Everyone Has Standards: In "Pal.0" Mr. Gus states that Pal'southward redecoration of the RV is wearisome even for him.
• Anybody Is Related: He is related to everyone in the world.
• Everything's Better with Rainbows: Giant Realistic Flight Tiger leaves a rainbow trail wherever she goes.
• Evil Counterpart: Child Cousin, G-Domestic dog and Tony Pepperoni, the three basketball players from "Ballin". They even have a Scary Realistic Growling Pitbull.

• Expressive Accompaniment: The buttons on Uncle Grandpa's pants sometimes limited themselves similar eyes for Belly Bag.
• Farthermost Omnivore: Uncle Grandpa ate a diorama of Aboriginal Egypt and an actual mummy.
• Heart Scream:
  • In "Uncle Grandfather Sitter" when Uncle Grandpa insists that he doesn't need a babysitter, he sticks his finger in his eye then removes said eye with it.
  • Double subverted in "Hide & Seek" when Uncle Grandpa looks for Mr. Gus in the salt shaker and the common salt stops only higher up his middle, then he squirts a bottle of Blazing Inferno Hellfire Sauce in his eye and screams in pain.
  • In one skit where Uncle Grandpa is giving a (completely casuistic) tutorial on how to draw him, he uses one of Mr. Gus's eyes to trace with.
  • In "1992 Called" Uncle Grandfather gives Christopher Columbus a pizza box, which he opens followed by Pizza Steve pepper spraying him.
  • Parodied in "Shower Political party" where part of Uncle Grandpa'due south shower routine is shampooing his eyes with shampoo specially formulated for eyes.
• Face up on a Milk Carton: Uncle Grandpa first appears to Tommy as this in "New Kid".
• Facial Horror: In the short following "Prison Break", Uncle Grandpa stares directly into the RV'due south headlights while they're on high, and so turns to the camera showing that his face has been seared off and his eyes are gone.
• Fantastic Racism: According to "The Lepre Con", Uncle Grandpa hates leprechauns. In the cease, he uses his wish from the Forest King to destroy all leprechauns.
• "Fantastic Voyage" Plot: "Brain Game", where Uncle Grandpa and Pizza Steve become inside a boy's head to brand him ameliorate at video games.
• Fastball Special: In "Locked Out" when the UG-RV's self-destruct is activated and information technology grows arms, Uncle Grandpa cuts its lobster arm off by throwing Pizza Steve at it.
• Fingore: In "Ballroom", Uncle Grandfather's fingers become dented in by a falling plate and later rolled over by a table.
• Fire-Breathing Diner:
  • Mr. Gus when Pizza Steve replaces the ketchup with ghost chili sauce.
  • Uncle Grandpa downs a canteen of Blazing Inferno Hellfire Sauce to requite him this ability to melt a snowman full general and his igloo fortress. When he'south done, he downs a gallon of milk to put it out.
• Foreshadowing: In "Aunt Grandma", where Uncle Grandpa says the titular character looks familiar. Lampshaded past Belly Pocketbook, who tells him there's no time for foreshadowing. Turns out Aunt Grandma used to be a kid Uncle Grandpa helped, but resulted in her getting second place at a science fair.
• Forgot Nigh His Powers: Uncle Gramps can exist in two places at one time, but nonetheless has to leave the driver's seat of the RV to get peanut butter, and his beingness in the aforementioned room as Emperor Krell is taken by a kid as proof that they're two separate people.

• Freudian Alibi: Aunt Grandma's motivation for taking over Uncle Granddaddy's job is that she was once a kid whose science project was ruined thanks to Uncle G. Equally an developed, she vowed to ruin Uncle K's career. Loses some impact since past 'ruined' she means 'got 2nd place in the science fair'.
• Friend to All Children: Uncle Grandpa, of course. There'southward non a child in the world he won't help.
• Furry Denial: Parodied in "Prison Intermission" when the aliens keep referring to Mr. Gus and Pizza Steve as humans, even when pointing out their incomparably inhuman features. Even Uncle Grandad later says that the two look an atrocious lot similar humans when they return to Earth.
• Furry Reminder: In "Funny Confront", Mr. Gus eats a issues in a very lizard-like way. In "Jorts", he describes something equally "sliding off like a layer of skin in summertime". In "Future Special", he mentions that he can regrow his tail.
• Gag Series: Of the not sequitur kind.
• Gainax Ending: "Locked Out" ends with the RV crew going on bullheaded dates... with themselves. Granted, information technology's no weirder than anything else in the series.
• Gentle Giant: Giant Realistic Flight Tiger.

• Giving Upwards on Logic: At the end of "Treasure Map", Mr. Gus crashes through a sewer into the ship of a dolphin pirate who threatens to make him walk the plank if he tin't reply what has no beginning, middle, or finish, but touches every continent. He decides to embrace the weirdness and have Uncle Grandpa and Pizza Steve's suggestion to answer "Spaghetti fish sandwich", which information technology turns out was the correct answer.
• Groin Assail: In "Bad Morning" Uncle Grandpa does this to Mr. Gus while they're driving upwards a skyscraper.
• Hartman Hips: Pretty much every adult female that isn't a little daughter.
• High-Pressure Emotion: Sometimes, normally accompanied with a kettle whistle sound effect.
• Historical In-Joke: At the cease of "Uncle Caveman", Uncle Caveman apparently causes the Ice Age.
• Hypocritical Sense of humor: In "Christmas Special":

  Uncle Grandpa: Santa's crazy! He's a crazy former man who flies effectually the world, breaking into children's homes and claiming to make them happy! That'south all pretty stupid if you ask me!

  • As well in "Bad Morning", Uncle Grandpa goes out to salve his Companion Cube safety duck Electronic mail from an octopus. Turns out the octopus mistook Electronic mail for his lost son, and then his son finally appears and says "I practise Not look like Email!" and the meridian of his head is in the shape of a rubber duck. His father then denies ever thinking Email was his son.
  • From "Aunt Grandma":

  Mr. Gus: That proper noun doesn't brand any sense. How can you be someone's aunt and grandma?

• Identical Stranger: Emperor Krell to Uncle Grandpa (At to the lowest degree headwise), which makes people recollect it'due south just a Paper-Thin Disguise. The jury's withal out on whether or not it is.
• Identity Amnesia: Averted in "Numb Skull." Pizza Steve striking Mr. Gus on the head during a comedy routine, and he became a redneck, just Mr. Gus wasn't actually suffering from amnesia, and it was his cousin Nathan all along.
• Touch Silhouette: When Uncle Grandpa crashes through a glass window, he leaves the perfect silhouette of a slim, sexy woman.
• Intelligible Unintelligible: Giant Realistic Flying Tiger can simply communicate past roaring and Uncle Granddad can empathise everything she says despite the length of her roars.
• I Resemble That Remark!: In "Haunted RV", when a teenager calls Uncle Grandpa crazy, he replies "I'yard not crazy! In fact, I'm the almost normal guy I know" while he pulls his only tooth out and replaces information technology with one he pulled out of his olfactory organ.
• Narcissist: Pizza Steve, according to his character profile. Imagine Johnny Bravo as a talking pizza slice.
• Lame Pun Reaction: In "Uncle Grandpa Ate My Homework", Dennis's course collectively groans at Uncle Grandpa saying that things are "all wrapped upwardly" after defeating the mummy.
• Lampshade Hanging: While the song titles for Uncle Grandfather Sings the Classics are scrolling, 1 of them is chosen "Scrolling Song Titles".
• LEGO Body Parts: One of Uncle Granddad'due south special abilities is levitating his caput onto different bodies.
• Lightbulb Joke: The short "Uncle Grandpa Changes a Lite Bulb" is an illustrated version of one.

  Pizza Steve: So, how many Uncle Grandpas did it take to change a lightbulb?
  Uncle Granddad: (Spends a minute counting the ground forces of Uncle Grandpas he created to alter it.) ...Ane.

• Lighter and Softer: In comparing to the original pilot and its' spin-off Secret Mount Fort Awesome. Whilst even so very surreal and cartoony, much of the grotesque artwork and risqué jokes of Pete Browngardt's previous work are almost completely absent-minded here. The animation moves at a much smoother pace also.

• Logic Flop: One of the songs on Uncle Grandpa Sings the Classics is called "Good Mornin' (All Night Long)".
• Long-Runners: Not the show itself every bit it'southward merely five seasons long, merely one skit parodies this past showing the gang in the future where the bear witness has ran for 100,000 episodes.
• Makes Merely as Much Sense in Context: If the description of pretty much everything about the prove sounds completely random and insane, well, that's because the show is besides. Just ringlet with it.
• Manchild/One of the Kids: Word of God has confirmed that Uncle Grandpa is one of these.
• Massive Multiplayer Crossover/The Cameo: At the end of the episode "Pizza Eve", Uncle Grandad hosts the Grampie Awards. The audience and nominees include many unlike Cartoon Network characters, including an encore appearance past Steven and the Gems, alongside Clarence and friends, Gumball, Finn and Jake, The Powerpuff Girls, Samurai Jack, Dexter and Dee Dee, and numerous others.
• Medium Blending:
  • Giant Realistic Flying Tiger is a moving-picture show of a real tiger gear up in a drawing world. "Tiger Trails" also used onetime footage from a movie of a guy dancing with a tiger for a gag.
  • "Funny Confront" also has a realistic head with goofy glasses, goofy mustache and making goofy faces.
  • In Aunt Grandma'southward backstory flashback, her room has a live-activity poster of Nib Clinton.
• Me's a Crowd: Uncle Granddad is able to make copies of himself. Sometimes they appear from Behind the Black, sometimes they pop out of Uncle Grandpa himself.
• Miles Gloriosus: Pizza Steve.
• Heed Screw: Not just everything Uncle Grandpa does, but the entire show.
• Mistaken for Heart-searching: In "Tiger Trails", Uncle Grandpa can't find Giant Realistic Flying Tiger, so he fears that she has run away because her feelings were hurt when he forgot to say good forenoon to her. When Tiger is institute, information technology's revealed that she was never hurt and that she just sneaked out to explore when UG left the door open.
• Mood Whiplash: "The Lepre-Con" ends with Uncle Grandpa wishing for the extinction of all leprechauns, trapping a leprechaun in a drinking glass orb and great it to pieces. Await, what?!?
• Mundane Made Crawly: From helping a kid picking out a shirt, to irresolute a lightbulb, you can guarantee that if Uncle Grandad is involved, a boring chore is never quite and then tiresome.
• Mundane Utility: Amid his office supplies tucked away in his belly bag is a flaming blue sword that he uses as a letter of the alphabet opener.
• Mundane Solution: Subverted in every scenario. When a character mentions one of these, Uncle Granddaddy volition counter it, and for some foreign reason, information technology WORKS.
  • "Charlie Burgers": Twice. The starting time fourth dimension, the gang is trying to figure out how to go a ball from the roof of a neighbor's business firm. Mr.Gus suggests they wing Giant Realistic Flying Tiger, only Uncle granddad neglects, saying that she'southward taking a shower, and uses a gravity-irresolute switch to turn the world upside downwardly. The second time, Charlie burgers is flying towards a blackness hole. Mr.Gus suggests they flip the switch again and let gravity bring him back, but Uncle Grandpa neglects again, saying that gravity's just a theory.
  • "Ballroom": when Uncle Grandpa and Pizza Steve play with a brawl, information technology bounces into the ballroom. (which Mr.Gus told them not to set human foot in) Pizza Steve suggests that Mr.Gus won't run into it, just Uncle Granddad convinces him otherwise, even though it's behind a plate.
• Never Say "Die":
  • Averted when Uncle Grandpa mentions a funny face up will cause them to die of laughter.
  • And again when they follow the missing Giant Realistic Flying Tiger's trail to the pet cemetery, making Uncle Grandfather remember she died of grief at not getting a salutation from UG that forenoon.
• Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot: Giant Realistic Flying Tiger.
• Prissy Guy: Uncle Granddad. Beary Dainty is even sickeningly so.
• No Celebrities Were Harmed: English Muffinz is clearly a parody of Justin Bieber, just he'southward English instead of Canadian, which might too brand him a parody of I Direction.
• Not-Standard Character Blueprint: Behemothic Flying Realistic Tiger is of course, a motion picture of an actual tiger.
• Noodle Incident: Abdomen Purse claims in one episode that all ladies like him, with the possible exception of one living in Cleveland.
• The Noseless: Belly Bag. But he tin borrow Uncle Grandfather'due south nose.
• Not Hyperbole: In "RV Olympics", Pizza Steve says that Uncle Grandpa tin can't tell the difference between a banana and a microphone. Sure enough, Uncle Grandpa is shown talking into a banana as if it were a microphone, then he pulls an actual microphone out of his lunch bag and eats it afterwards removing an imaginary skin from it.
• Non-So-Imaginary Friend: "Y'all Talkin' to Tree?" has the tree in the RV talking to Uncle Grandpa, but shutting upward whenever the others are around, making them think UG has finally lost it. It turns out in that location was a crook hiding inside the tree, tricking Uncle Grandpa into committing his crimes for him. After the crook is caught, Uncle G laughs off the notion of copse being able to talk. Then the tree says, "What a day!"
• Notzilla: Mr. Gus looks a lot like a smaller version of Godzilla.
• Odd Couple: Compare the bragging, self-absorbed Pizza Steve with the laconic, contemptuous Mr. Gus.
• Off-Model:
  • Nick Edwards and Andres Salaff'south styles stood out the almost out of the storyboard artists.
  • Some of the Cartoon Network characters that made invitee appearances in "Pizza Eve", particularly Mordecai and Rigby (who look a bit shorter and fatter than usual), Dexter (whose signature glasses take much thinner rims), and Sumo (who has very thick eyelashes for unknown reasons).
  • Done deliberately in the "Oatmeal" skit.
• Only Sane Human being: Mr. Gus. "Embracing the weird" is non one of his strong suits.
• On the Next: Played with in "Fishing with Uncle Grandpa".
• Our Dragons Are Different: The Bush Dragon in "Nickname".
• Our Monsters Are Different:
  • Three Words: Hot Domestic dog Monster.
  • Also the Radiated Mustache Monster in "Mustache Cream"
• Panthera Awesome: Behemothic Realistic Flying Tiger.
• Paper-Thin Disguise: Uncle Grandpa only recognizes Aunt Grandma equally a former child he used to help when she takes off her tiny propeller hat.
• Perpetual Frowner: Mr. Gus.
• Pint-Sized Powerhouse: Pizza Steve, specifically in "Mustache Cream", where he's hold a behemothic Mustache Monster with Mr. Gus, and is actually doing a skilful job at it.
• Plot-Sensitive Push: Much in the same vein as Megas XLR, Uncle Grandpa'southward RV'due south gear shifter has more than just Park, Drive, and Contrary.

  Park > Bulldoze > Reverse > Flip > Upward > Plaid > Apple Pie > Nuts > Turbo > Explode > Implode > CRAZY Babe

• Portal Painting: Uncle Granddad once accidentally created one. Information technology was a T-shirt pattern rather than a painting, but notwithstanding.
• Raising the Steaks: "Tiger Trails" features blackness belt zombie pets. Ane of them is a pet stone.
• Reality Warper: He gives Haruhi Suzumiya a run for her money. Existence able to practise almost anything, in that location's no telling just how he'll solve a trouble. Sometimes it seems like he doesn't alter reality so much every bit reality conforms to his desires.
• Really 700 Years Old: Mr. Gus is at least 1.993 billion years sometime as shown in "Jorts", and Uncle Grandad is fifty-fifty older according to "Uncle Grandpa Sitter" and "Uncle Caveman".
• Rule of Funny: All common sense and logic has been thrown out the window in the name of this trope.
• Scary Stinging Swarm:
  • Hot Domestic dog Person has an unpleasant feel with one whilst about to attempt his first ice foam.
  • In "Nickname", Eric pulls out a stump, which contains a hive under it.
• Seen It All:
  • Mr. Gus is a dinosaur person who has seen everything in his billion plus years on planet Earth, so nothing always fazes him.
  • Uncle Grandpa himself is such a Weirdness Magnet (when he'south not the straight cause of the weirdness) that non even the most bizarre events e'er catch him off guard or prompt anything more an "uh-oh" from him. Not that that makes him enjoy them any less.
• Self-Deprecation: On at least two occasions. Once in "Aunt Grandma", where Mr. Gus questions how someone tin be everyone in the world's aunt AND grandma, and again in "Christmas Special", where Uncle Grandpa calls Santa a "creepy old man who flies around the world, breaking into children's homes challenge to make them happy".
• Serious Business organization: Proverb "good morn", evidently, for Uncle Granddaddy. In "Tiger Trails", he believes that not saying information technology to Giant Realistic Flying Tiger is what caused her to run away.
• Shockingly Expensive Beak: In "Treasure Map" the gang get hit with this from the restaurant they were at due to Behemothic Realistic Flying Tiger drinking a massive corporeality of smoothies while the others were on their treasure hunt.
  • In "Dog Solar day" Sandy'due south male parent gets charged $80,000 from the hospital he was taken to (appropriately named St. Scam-You). Fortunately, Uncle Grandpa covers him for it.
  • In "Appointment With Gus" Mr. Gus gets charged $5,035 at a eating house, but most of it is for the damages that Uncle Granddad and Pizza Steve caused to the building.
• Shout-Out:
  • Uncle Grandpa's RV contains a phone booth which may seem similar just another one of its random features... until you realize that said vehicle is larger on the inside and capable of interdimensional travel.
  • "I LIKE TRAINS!"
  • In "Space Emperor", the creature Melvin gets transformed into looks strikingly similar to Festro.
  • In "Afraid of the Night", when Uncle Grandpa examines the poster of a knight fighting a motorcycle with a magnifiying glass and it turns into a map, information technology's drawn in a style reminiscent of the map screen from Super Mario World.
  • In "Treasure Map" we see that Mr. Gus has I Bad Cadger stitched on his wallet.
  • Werewolves with six-pack abs.
  • An old human being yells "Hey, y'all, get off of my cloud!" to Uncle Grandpa and the others, who are continuing upside-down on a cloud nearly his business firm.
  • The Disgustoids are some of the faces seen in Uncle Grandpa's high schoolhouse yearbook from "Viewer Special".
  • In "Prison Break", Pizza Steve claims that he got his plan for him and Mr. Gus to hide in a prison laundry cart from FernGully: The Concluding Rainforest, before Mr. Gus points out that that isn't a prison house break movie.
    • In the following short, Abdomen Handbag gets mauled by a werewolf and the ending parodies the ending of Thriller.
  • One of the shorts is a fake commercial that name drops Adventure Time and Steven Universe.
  • In "Haunted RV", there is a boy dressed as Steven from Steven Universe.
  • In "New Child", when Tommy imagines himself being forced to get a dead-end job, he'southward shown at a restaurant that looks like the Krusty Krab with a graphic symbol that looks like a 1-eyed Squidward.
  • In "King Gus", ane of the stands at the nutrient court is named "Feed Me, Seymour!" Later when Pizza Steve is banished, he becomes The Human in the Iron Mask.
  • In "Lepre-Con", Giant Realistic Flying Tiger looks like Garfield.
  • The "Xarna - She-Warrior of the Apocalypse" segments are conspicuously a fusion between Xena: Warrior Princess and Mad Max.
• Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Pessimism: Creator Peter Browngardt said in an interview Uncle Grandfather is there to show you how awesome life is. That makes this show incredibly idealistic.
• Small Name, Big Ego: Pizza Steve.
  • Pizza Steve's father Nacho Cheese is the same, only unlike Pizza Steve he has the alibi of really being as talented as he claims to be.
• Social Media Is Bad: The "Duck Lips" episode deals with a girl who's obsessed with making friends and followers on social media. She tries to follow all the current trends and conform to social standards of female beauty. When she takes a selfie of her "duck lips", it permanently freezes her face similar that until she learns to accept herself and terminate trying to be pop through trends.
• Spin-Off: A unique case of a double subversion. Uncle Grandpa started out as the star of his own pilot, then he was spun off into Underground Mount Fort Crawly, so he was spun off again... Back into his ain serial.
• Spin-Off Babies: Parodied with the Uncle Granddad Babies brusque at the finish of "Grounded", which later became its ain episode.
• Spiritual Successor: To The Grim Adventures of Baton & Mandy in terms of No Fourth Wall and frequent references to other Drawing Network shows. They even shared the same joke of the show's writing staff existence literal babies and monkeys.
• Stable Time Loop:
  • Patently, when Uncle Grandpa was a child (he all the same had his mustache back and then), he was picked on for having a fat belly. His nowadays self popped upwards and told him that it's absurd to have a belly. All of this happened inside his own memories, thus he altered the past while he was remembering information technology.
  • In the showtime guest-directed short, Uncle Grandpa meets a weird-looking fourth dimension traveler who asks him to picket his fourth dimension auto, and of course Uncle Granddaddy takes it for a joyride. When he cranks it as well high, he ends upward turning inside out and becoming the time traveler, and then travels back to the start of the short and asks the side by side Uncle Grandpa to spotter the time machine.
  • In "The Parcel", the titular parcel turns out to hold duplicates of Uncle Grandpa, Belly Pocketbook, Mr. Gus and Pizza Steve, who are now infuriated that they spent all that time trying to open information technology just to observe themselves in information technology. The new ones shove the old ones into the box to cool down and tape it shut before they observe the box and the bike restarts.
  • In "Future Pizza", a wounded Uncle Grandpa comes dorsum from the futurity to warn Pizza Steve that something in the near future will cause Uncle Grandpa to lose all respect for Pizza Steve, but refuses to say what considering that would violate all the laws of fourth dimension travel. Pizza Steve spends the episode frantically trying to prevent this, and just when information technology seems like he's succeeded, he asks if Uncle Grandad has lost all respect for him. Uncle Grandpa is then offended by the idea that he could lose all respect for Pizza Steve that he loses all respect for Pizza Steve and goes dorsum in time to warn Pizza Steve not to enquire him that question.
• St. Patrick's Day Episode: In "The Lepre-Con," which takes place in Republic of ireland around St. Patrick's Day, Uncle Granddad is deceived by a leprechaun just to get the golden he craves.
• Suspiciously Specific Deprival:
  • Uncle Granddaddy, when asked why Emperor Krell looks similar him:

    Uncle Grandpa: Can't hear you, going through a portal.

  • He too says this earlier when he tells Melvin's babysitter he ran off, then spills the truth nigh sending him to some other dimension, just for her to be confused past it as he says the in a higher place.
• Have That!:
  • In "Older", Baton'southward mom tells him that he'south too young to watch fierce movies, and suggests he sentry that prove with the pink and purple horsies. Billy responds with this:
  • "Internet Troll" could exist seen equally i confronting critics of the show.
  • "The Grampies" at the stop of "Pizza Eve" could exist seen as a Accept That toward Nickelodeon and their Kids' Choice Awards, with Uncle Grandpa managing to sweep every single category (like SpongeBob SquarePants frequently does, leading to rumors of rigging), including "Best Steven Universe Episode", as well as how Nickelodeon often treats their shows that aren't SpongeBob or some other invokedGreenbacks Moo-cow Franchise, equally Uncle Grandad informs all the characters in the audience (all of them existing CN characters) that their shows have been cancelled.
• Taken for Granite: Happens in "Internet Troll" to the troll. Since existent trolls plow to stone when exposed to sunlight, the same happens to cyberspace trolls when exposed to the internet. So Uncle Grandpa posts a video of the troll, and with each negative comment it gets the troll slowly turns to stone.
• Third-Person Person: Pizza Steve.
• Throw the Domestic dog a Bone: The one fourth dimension ane of Beary Prissy and Hot Dog Person'south adventures works out well for the latter is when they go to the gym and he ends up using an overly-complicated do machine (a la what Rocko uses in the Rocko's Modern Life episode "No Pain, No Gain") that leaves him quite muscular.
• Time Police: Named as such. In "1992 Chosen", Uncle Grandpa calls in the Time Law himself to resolve an otherwise untenable situation involving Christopher Columbus' refusal to return a pair of fourth dimension-displaced parachute pants.
• Troll: Uncle Grandad deals with ane in "Internet Troll". Throughout, he thinks it means an bodily troll, merely when he meets him, it turns out to be a boy, who is really a troll in disguise.
• True Companions: Uncle Granddad, Gus, Pizza Steve, Belly Handbag, and Giant Realistic Flying Tiger.
• Uncle Granddad Can Exhale In Infinite: In this show, anyone tin can. Ironically lampshaded when he tells a child to hold his jiff when they travel to Mars.
• Upward to Eleven: The A+++++-+ that Dennis gets in "Uncle Grandpa Ate My Homework".
• Valley Girl: The babysitter from "Space Emperor".
• Verbal Tic: Uncle Gramps'south catchphrase "good morning time". In the opening titles alone he says it 5 times in a row.
• Vomit Indiscretion Shot: Belly Pocketbook gets i in "Mustache Cream". Since he's a Bag of Holding, he vomits junk.
• Wacky Racing: In the special one-half-hour episode "Uncle Grandpa Retires". Even features a cameo from Dick Dastardly and Muttley.
• Walking the Earth: Or driving it rather.
• Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma: Played for laughs: In "The Render of Aunt Grandma", Uncle Grandpa walks by a Idiot box store with a sign reading "Toms Television'southward".
• What Happened to the Mouse?: In "Tiger Trails", Uncle Granddad and Caleb are contesting the Evil Wizard in outer space, when U.Grand. notices Giant Realistic Flight Tiger is missing, so he goes looking for her, while the last known mention of Caleb is in a Brick Joke where he'southward notwithstanding fighting the Evil Wizard by himself while waiting for U.G. to return...
• What Measure Is a Non-Human?:
  • Averted in "Charlie Burgers". Even though Charlie Burgers is a talking dog, Uncle Grandpa still treats him the same way he would treat a homo kid.
  • Played straight in "Internet Troll" when Uncle Grandpa tries to kill the titular entity with his light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation hammer for leaving a negative comment on his Youtube video. Mr. Gus tries to restrain him, but only because he doesn't realize that the Internet troll is also a literal troll.
  • Taken to disturbing levels in "The Lepre-Con". First Uncle Grandpa, Abdomen Bag, and Giant Realistic Flying Tiger beat up a leprechaun just for existing, then when Uncle Granddad gets a wish from the Wood Rex he uses it to destroy the entire leprechaun species. This is despite the fact that the episode repeatedly tells us that Uncle Grandpa is pure of heart.
  • In "Uncle Caveman", Uncle Caveman doesn't see anything wrong with killing and eating Mr. Gus, who at this point is a sentient newborn dinosaur. He draws the line at killing Giant Realistic Flying Sabre-Toothed Tiger, though, since he doesn't eat his friends.
• White Gloves: Uncle Grandpa wears these.
• White Void Room: The segments between each episode take identify in one.
• You Must Exist This Alpine to Ride: Pizza Steve tin can't ride on a roller-coaster based on him because he's as well brusk. He somewhen sneaks in and finds out the hard way why he's not allowed, equally the safety confined don't go far enough to protect him, and he is nearly flung out of the machine. He ends upwardly stretched out of shape and not wanting to ride over again; ironically, he now is tall enough to ride, and is dragged boot and screaming dorsum in line.

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