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Funny Moments in The Amazing Digital Circus
They might as well become Wile E. Zooble.

"I do everything 'cause it's funny! 'Cause I'm the funny one!"
— Jax, "They All Get Guns"

The Amazing Digital Circus is a Dark Comedy series with lots of Surreal Humor and Surreal Horror to it, where even the most strange and unexpected scenarios can be extremely funny.

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    "POMNI WAKE UP TIME TO GO ON AN ADVENTURE" 

    Trailers 
  • The Episode 2 trailer is initially narrated by Caine like it's a preview for an upcoming episode...only for the commentary to quickly deviate into a funny conversation between Pomni and Caine.
    Caine: Sounds like a real radiant riot, right, Bubble?
    Pomni: ...Huh? Where am I?
    Caine: What's wrong, Bubble? Why are you acting like you don't know who I am?
    Pomni: Wha– I'm– I asked where I was, not who you are. Also, I'm not Bubble. What's happening?
    Caine: It's called "improv", Pomni! The first rule of improv is to never pretend you're not Bubble!
    Pomni: What...does this have to do with the Candy Canyon Kingd--?
    Caine: And, scene! It's gonna be a sickly sweet old time! I'LL SEE YOU THEEERE!
    Pomni: I-I still don't really know anything about this epis—and I've been teleported into a meat freezer. Cool.
  • The promotional short "Local Creature Spotted Having a Snack" is darkly humorous. The scene of the chibi-fied Pomni from the Glitch Inn shorts eating a few bites of her burger in the empty dining area of Spudsy's while music from Animal Crossing: New Horizons plays is innocuous enough. Then what appears to be a tactical nuclear blast incinerates the restaurant with her in it.
  • From Episode 3's trailer:
    • The trailer has a completely different narrator from Episode 2's trailer to create a spooky atmosphere like the episode itself. This time, Zooble interrupts the narrator, which Kinger chiming in soon after, leading to the two discussing what's on-screen, before Kinger closes up the narration.
      Narrator: Our friends find themselves in the decrepit manor of the Mildenhalls.
      Zooble: Except me. I'm not going on a stupid haunted house adventure.
      Kinger: Ooh, look! I team up with Pomni in this adventure! That should be fun. And look at that vacuum cleaner! You love vacuum cleaners, don't you, Zooble?
      Zooble: Uhh, no? Why would you think I like vacu– Wait, was that me in therapy?!
      Kinger: No, I think that was me with a shotgun.
      Zooble: Oh, great. This is gonna suck, isn't it?
      Kinger: See you all there whenever this thing comes out!
    • As Zooble and Kinger talk, the actual narrator speaks up again in protest, only to be teleported into a meat freezer as well, just like Pomni in the last episode's trailer...and it turns out Pomni is still in there.
      Narrator: Wasn't I supposed to be the narrator? Why'd they interrupt me? [magic teleporation sound] And I've been teleported into a meat freezer... Cool.
      Pomni: Hey.
  • Episode 4's trailer starts off like an old instruction video for workers, only for Gangle to start narrating over the nameless female voice, much more confident than usual. A confused Jax asks why Gangle is talking like that. She orders Jax to get the patties out from the freezer, which Pomni and the narrator from the previous episode's trailer were still trapped inside. As the door opens and the two of them finally escape, Jax is left even more puzzled at the situation.note 
    Gangle: Thaaaat's right, team! We're working at a fast food place today! So roll up your sleeves and wash your hands, 'cause we've got burgers to make!
    Jax: Why are you talking like that? What's wrong with you?
    Gangle: Looks like somebody doesn't have their smile on! Why don't you go into the freezer and get some patties ready?
    [The sound of a meat freezer door opening can be heard.]
    Episode 3 Narrator: Oh, thank god.
    Pomni: Y-Yeah, it was freezing in there...
    Jax: What were you— Who is th— What's going on?!
    Gangle: Find out in the brand new episode, coming at you soon!
  • Caine couldn't make a trailer for Episode 5 in time and he has to leave on a flight to Copper 9 in five minutes, so he tells Bubble to make it. The result is the most Stylistic Suck trailer possible using Windows Movie Maker, full of low-quality audio, obvious spelling and grammar issues, all while Ragatha and Jax try and fail to make sense of what is going on. This even extends to the subtitles, as most of them clearly don't match what the characters are saying.
    Bubble: Coming to a theater nearby, the next episode of The Great Gasicals District— episode of the Ungreat Amazing Circus is coming now!
    Ragatha: The gang finded themselfies faced with a challeng. "Challenge?" Uhh, they gois in the hole and throweth lifesavers down a tumor seal—What? What is this?!
    Bubble: Prepare for 101 Views!
    Jax: The green man writing a cringy musicalely about Regada in only threely days.
    Bubble: [stammering] 101 Laughs!
    Ragatha: Uh, wait... What did he say about me?
    Jax: What, you think I can make any sense out of this garbage?!
    Bubble: 101 Frightens!
    Ragatha: I-I don't know, sometimes there's logic in his nonsense.
    Bubble: The motion picture that's ever created! [spouting gibberish]
    [A female voice says "AudioJungle".]
    Ragatha: Uhh, well...stay tuned for the episode...I guess?
    Jax: [in the background] That was awful!
    [Beat]
    Episode 3 Narrator: Does anyone have bus fare? I...want to go home to my wife and kids now, please.
  • In the Episode 6 trailer, Caine gets right to the point:
    Caine: On the next episode of The Amazing Digital Circus, [adopts a Southern accent] EVERYONE GETS GUNS! That's really all there is to it! [starts laughing maniacally while random explosions go off and guns start flying across a backdrop of an American flag and a bald eagle wearing a top hat]
    • Predictably, the entire cast is very apprehensive when the episode's plot is revealed to be a three team stand-off involving many guns... with the exception of Jax.
      Jax: [in the most bloodhungry tone he's ever had] I've been waitin' for this my whole life!
      Gangle: Caine, I don't think this is a good idea...
      Ragatha: Yeah, I'm not sure this is really what we need right now. [A gunshot rudely interrupts her, as the trailer shows her hands getting shot off to her mild alarm.]
    • Caine is amazed at the episode's record-setting length... and then things quickly devolve from there.
      Caine: Over 33 minutes?! [drops the Southern accent] Holy moly! You couldn't cut that down at all?!
      Gooseworx: Making shows is really hard when you have a cast this big.
      Kinger: Wait, who was that?
      Mr. Gun: [Gooseworx putting up a new voice] Who am I? Well, I'm Mr. Gun!
      Kinger: Not you, Mr. Gun, the other voice.
      Zooble: Uhhh, Mr. Who?
      Mr. Gun: I was supposed to be in this episode, but Caine removed me for being too- gun!
      Zooble: Yeah, okay, whatever.
      Pomni: Are we just all in this trailer?
      Episode 3 Narrator: And I'm still here too, the Episode 3 trailer narrator.
      Ragatha: Why do these trailers have their own continuity?
    • Since the whole trailer has played out like an ad for a major event, it naturally ends with an infomercial-style "Buy your tickets now!" screen. The price is listed as at least $19999 - "at least" because the 9s run off the screen - and a voice reads the rapidly scrolling fine print at the bottom:
      Disclaimer: Tickets not really for sale. You can watch the latest episode and all previous episodes of "The Amazing Digital Circus" anytime at home or on the go on your computer book or device. If you have any further questions or concerns, dial 88888888888888888888 [the numbers start growing bigger on the screen until the final digit, which goes back to regular size] 88888888888888888881. Ask your parents' permission before going to Hell.
    • Caine has one last thing to say after it's all over:
      Caine: [wistful sigh] I wish guns were real.

    Merch & Advertising 
General
  • Aside from the merch videos, some of the actual merch is rather silly.
    • This aptly named t-shirt which features Ragatha, Gangle, and Pomni struggling to not fall out of the pocket.
    • The Jax "iconic quote" jumper, which features a quote Jax has never said:
    Jax: YOU GO GIRL
    • The descriptions for the merch on the official website also contain multiple gems.
      Pomni Plush: It's Pomni! Take her home today and she'll be able to have an existential crisis right there in your own house!
      Caine Plush: Are your plushes sad and bored? Bring home our Caine plush and he'll entertain them when you're not around by bringing them on adventures that may or may not include examinations of personal issues.
      Kinger Plush: A Kinger plush!! In the fetal position! Copy the pose next to him in the dark and you can both be alone - together!
      Gangle Plush: Gangle comes with different faces that you can swap with velcro!! Use her to express your feelings through a plush toy like a healthy individual!
      Zooble Plush: Pull Zooble apart! Rearrange their limbs and throw them around. A perfectly sane and healthy way to deal with your issues.
      Ragatha Plush: No, she doesn't resemble another famous well loved character, but she does resemble red liquorish that has been carefully sewn into the head of a doll.
      Bubble Plush: This Bubble plush has a roll out tongue and a magnetically attachable censor bar so you can finally let him say what we can’t legally print...
      Caine Animatez: It's Caine! As an animatez figurine! If you put him on your shelf it'll look like he's ruling over your room as your eternal prison master! Isn't that fun?!
      Pomni Pin [which looks very distressed]: Pomni was very happy when we told her she was going to be turned into a pin, this is the exact pose she was in when she heard the news.
      Jax-Suit Pomni Plush: Pomni is in her Jax era - after all, who wouldn't want to be inside Jax?
      Disappearing Guy Plush: We bring to you, our most realistic plush yet: Disappearing Guy available for only a LIMITED TIME! Get him before he vanishes forever.
      Jax Hooded Jacket: Ever wanted to crawl inside Jax's skin and see what it's like to be him? Well now you can do the legal version of that and wear this super fluffy Jax jacket!
      Jax USB Cord Holders: Okay we're going to admit, we don't know why we made these. And there's two of them in there so...I dunno I guess you show twice as many people the kind of person you are.
      Jax & Ribbit Magnetic Plush Keychains: We reverse polarised the magnets in the two of them so that they actually push each other away, mostly because we think you should suffer whenever you look upon your purchase.
      Pomni & Abstraction Magnetic Plush Keychains: Yes, we know that the Abstraction is obviously Jax, but we needed to name it like this so that we don't spoil the ending through a keychain. That said, since YOU know who this is, you can have all the fun you want in tearing Pomni away from him when he needs her the most!
      Ribbit Animatez [whose pose is deliberately the same as the Jax Animatez, only mirrored]: Ribbit's pose may seem familiar and that's completely intentional. You can place them together or keep them faaaaar apart. Both options are 100% canon
      Pomni Popcorn Bucket: Good news Pomni! Today's adventure is: being a commemorative popcorn bucket! I know you're constantly vomiting popcorn, but don't worry, the customers will eat that popcorn so nothing goes to waste! Also you have a strap so today's hungry/disgusting popcorn enthusiast on the go can use you anywhere!
      Maid Jax Plush: Jax in a maid outfit. We didn't ask for this - it's just democracy manifest.
      Maid Jax Mug: Tea time with Jax: comes with a mug, a coaster, and an overwhelming sense of regret.
      Pomni Chonk Plush: In an effort to improve Pomni's quality of life we removed her limbs. She can no longer run, jump or leave...she is at peace. Well at least we think so, she hasn't moved so we're choosing to believe it's peace.
      Kaufmo Plush: He's a clown with bad jokes and you're a person buying a clown plush. Neither of you are having your best moment, but we think you should cherish it.
    • Hovering over the thumbnails of products in the store changes the image of the product in a different angle or striking a pose. Hovering over Disappearing Guy's plush would result in him disappearing from the thumbnail, in lieu of his main shtick.
  • "Jax and Pomni's Adventure!" shows the Jax and Pomni plushies in various situations, presented as a crappy video from late 2000s with "Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)" as a background music: you notably have Pomni locked in a playground, on top of a tree, and stuck in a fresh section of a supermarket, begging the viewer to free her from her misery with her crying face, Jax taunting the viewer at the top of a slide, in the middle of a supermarket, and on a skateboard, and both in situations where Pomni is stuck and Jax seems to laugh at her misery, one where Jax seems to cook Pomni, and one where Pomni is sadly looking at a fallen ice cream... and Jax is mocking her.
  • The first official merch video, where plush versions of Pomni and Jax go on their own adventures including "Escape the Playground" (Pomni and Jax get thrown off a swing set), "Road-Rage Radness" (driving a car in gm_bigcity) and "Who killed Mrs. Killpatrick?"
    Caine: Where were YOU on the night of the murder, Pomni?
    Pomni: [screaming since "Escape the Playground", now suddenly silent] Wait, what?
    • The Jax plush hates having to play "tea party", but is delighted when the scene shifts to "battle" playing (where he's suddenly given a little sword, and Pomni isn't). "Oh-HO, that's more like it!"
    • This quick disclaimer: "Plushies will not talk unless haunted."
    • Series creator Gooseworx being referred as a "local cryptid".
    • Jax and his "karate chop action".
      "Jax plushie does not have karate chop action"
    • The start of the ad parodies Pokémon's "Who's that Pokémon?" bit with an obvious silhouette of Caine. At the end of the ad, it cuts back to reveal it's actually some character named Meat Lad, who's textured with real photos of meat, and yes, Meat Lad repeats his name like a Pokémon.
  • This post which shows the characters as plushies doing random things. From left to right, top to bottom:
    • Gangle, Zooble, Jax, Gummigoo, Kinger, and Ragatha having a tea party, except the teacups contain Zooble's appendages and Jax is wearing a flower crown.
    • Zooble playing Hollow Knight on a Nintendo Switch, but their arms are detached. Ragatha watches and Kinger hides in pillows.
    • Gummigoo in a basket filled with flowers with Pomni nearby, made as a reference to his funeral.
    • Gangle with her comedy mask removed and sitting in a "CRYBABY Corner :(".
    • Gangle crying over a broken egg. Kinger has an egg on him, and Zooble is in the background with their appendages swapped.
    • Caine cooking Zooble and their appendages, separately.
    • Gangle trapped in a cage, and Jax has her comedy mask.
    • Ragatha lying down in a circle of knives, with Jax in a corner and Kinger having a cup on his head.
    • Gummigoo and Pomni seem to be having a candlelit dinner. Caine watches in the background with an extra set of eyes.
  • After the release of ‘The Mystery of The Mildenhall Manor’, Glitch released this picture of a pacifist ending with Pomni and Kinger drinking tea with The Angel to promote the new merch relating to the episode.
  • The description of the Angel’s plushie deserves a special mention, for how much it delves into Creepy Cute territory:
    Angel Plush: Angel eyes glow, Angel head falls off, Angel hands hold together, Angel is the cutest thing you've ever seen just like a real angel!
  • In Glitch's Valentine's Day video, Kinger is playing with Jax's ears.
  • The Jax Maid plush gets advertised with a teacup-shaped mug to go along with it. Not letting his humiliation end there, after you've finished whatever drink you've poured into it, you'll see a vectorized image of a corncob at the bottom of the cup.
  • After the release of "They All Get Guns," Glitch released an "I Can Fix Him" shirt featuring Jax and an "I Can Make Her Worse" shirt featuring Pomni.
"A Very Special Digital Circus Song"
  • What better way to promote your merchandise than with a full blown musical featuring the cast as plushies singing a parody of I Am the Very Model of a Modern Major General? It starts with Caine tasking the crew with a "musical adventure", before he admits that he forgot to write lyrics and there is literally no time to write them, forcing everyone to make things up on the spot.
  • Pomni has to kick off the song by reading off the ingredients on the back of a shampoo bottle. For bonus points, it even has a cameo of Orbsman, who had not yet appeared in any episode at the time of the video's release. If you pause at the right time, you can see that the shampoo bottle really has the word "uh" listed as one of its ingredients, right where Pomni says it.
    Bubble: Sounds delicious!
  • Since he didn't have a plushie yet when the video was made, Bubble is represented by a Bubble pin on the Caine plushie's lapel.
  • Gangle ends up having her comedy mask broken yet again (as she's repeating "Don't break it Jax!" in her part), but ironically not because of Jax, but this time because of Kinger who was eating bananas and carelessly throwing the peels aroundnote . It even gets her to swear for the first time! If you look closely, you'll see that Kinger "takes a bite" of the banana by sticking it onto his eye.note 
    Gangle: What the f(HONK!)k?! Kinger!
    Kinger: [in the seats, banana by his side)]' Whoop! Sorry. Just... [takes a "bite"]'' eating a little banana~
  • Ragatha sings her heart out and tells Zooble to take it away after ending her verse with "do a silly dance". Zooble sits in unamused silence, only responding with "This is stupid". Caine then boos Zooble and, trying to get them to sing, grabs them with a live action arm and starts shaking them so hard that their limbs fall off, Jax following this up with a couple of sung out insults to Zooble before their body gets thrown at him.
    Ragatha: Sunny days and rainbows, getting hugs and petting kitty cats. When you feel down and in the mud, instead of frowning, do a silly dance!
  • Kinger meanwhile drops a dramatic voice change for his portion of the song... And then he utters a little "ow" as he's dropped by the hand moving him around.
  • To cap off the musical, Caine sets up Pomni for a duet... by summoning a living Gummigoo, much to Pomni's surprise. However, he keeps saying "Crikey!" before suddenly glitching out, letting a distorted "down under" and exploding into a ton of confetti in front of Pomni much like his in-show death. Cue Pomni letting out a Skyward Scream with Caine and Bubble joining in to end the musical before she falls off the stage.note 
  • Caine reveals that everyone is still being punished. That punishment being that Caine will MASS PRODUCE them.note 
    Pomni: [climbs back on-stage] Wait, we're still being punished?
    Caine: That's the thing about life, Pomni, sometimes you get MASS PRODUCED.
  • Caine brings up our friend the Gummigoo keychain, in all his NON-EDIBLE glory, perfect for NOT EATING.
    Onscreen Text: I KNOW IT LOOKS TASTY BUT YOU JUST CAN'T EAT IT I'M SORRYnote 
"The Amazing Digital Circus But smol"
  • It opens up in the Glitch Inn where it's quickly revealed that Jax put hot sauce in Cubert the Penguin's coffee and kidnapped his whole family, and calls for Pomni to see it. When he gets no response, he looks around and is Jump Scared by Caine, who drags him into the void.note 
    Jax: H... Heaven? [sees the rest of the cast] Oh, Hell.
  • Initially putting on a morose show, Caine abruptly switches to his ringmaster tone to reveal that he's updated their movement rigs. Zooble makes it clear that they don't care as they begin to walk away, only to topple over frozen, conveniently as they were about to say the F word. Caine's response?
    Caine: Well, my new update's bugged! Time to pani-- [freezes up]note 
  • The ad gleefully trolls the fanbase by having Jax freeze up right in the middle of saying, "No, I didn't even get to tell them I-". For bonus points, his figure is depicted as pointing and laughing, in this case, directly at the viewer, making the trolling all the more obvious.
  • When detailing the Animiniz, Caine brings up how there is a SUPER RARE one of the Abstracted Kaufmo that is totally not obvious based on the silhouette.
"Kinger's Special Place"
  • Another promotional video to showcase all of the new Digital Circus merch, this time with the Kinger plush hammering Pomni into a tote bag, and telling Pomni that he doesn't think he'll make it after seeing the socks which resemble his abstracted wife... except it wasn't even that, the real problem is that he's sad that he can't wear the socks because he has no legs. When he starts stressing out over this, we see voices (represented by his Animatez figure) whispering to him, "You don't have legs" and "Your plushie looks pregnant".note 
    Kinger: Pomni, why would you say that?
    Pomni: That wasn't m– n-nevermind.
  • When first appearing in Kinger's Special Place, Pomni is inexplicably wearing the jacket they're also promoting. Even on the big plush, it simply doesn't fit her, and it looks like she's draped in a giant blanket.
  • Later, the plush of the Angel appears, which scares the crap out of Pomni. Then the Angel speaks to the audience about the new merch, using the Half-Life 2 Headcrab Zombie screams as its actual "voice", which a female AI voice translates (in broken English) for the audience to understand.
    "Here, the funny little chess man hang for he life on this plush keychain. His pathetic!"
  • Apparently, the tote bag with "Kinger and frolicking and butterflies" can contain "naughty little damned souls" (Pomni) or "bottles of clam chowder".
  • The only thing the Angel has to say about the Aminatez Kinger and Zooble figurines is that they'll probably break into pieces if you throw them at the wall.
"NEW SUPER HAPPY DIGITAL CIRCUS MEAL TOYS"
  • The entire ad is in Japanese, probably as a nod to Gangle's love of manga.
  • Spudsy's theme tune is a thinly veiled parody of the McDonald's jingle.
  • The merch consists of toys being marketed as "Spudsy's kids meal toys", and like many such promotions, the toys are accompanied by clips of their corresponding characters.
    • Gangle's Animatez figure is accompanied by her happily declaring "It's lunch time!"
    • Gummigoo's Animatez figure is accompanied by him exploding into confetti.
    • Pomni's plush keychain is accompanied by her clinging to a glitching block in episode 2. Doubles as a humorous Match Cut, since it happens right after a clip of someone shaking the keychain around.
    • The Gummigang's enamel pins are accompanied by Max, the "most popular Gummigang character", doing Pizza Tower dodges.
    • The "Jax Burger" plush ("Your favorite rabbit and favorite food all rolled into one!") is accompanied by a clip of Jax saying "This is really weird..."
  • When the Jax Burger is announced, we see it being thrown onto a (thankfully not active) stovetop. Its packaging also resembles an actual fast-food burger bag.
"Never clean alone again with Maid Jax!"
  • The Maid Jax plushy ad, which advertises its use as a cleaning product. Jax's deadpan commentary helps sell it... as well as him quietly going "ow" as an unseen figure wipes Jax against things.
    Caine: Are you tired of cleaning alone? Say hello to the Maid Jax Plush! The only cleaning buddy with a detachable moral compass.
    Jax: If you're happy to see me like this, congrats. You're the problem.
    • Bonus points for the ad being completely riddled with innuendo after innuendo.
  • At one point, Maid Jax is used to wipe off someone's tattoos.
  • As he's used to wipe off some papers from a desk, Jax narrates "Dignity. I remember when I used to have that."
  • At one point, Jax is shown being washed off in a bucket while making gurgling sounds. Later, he's shown being dried in a laundry dryer and can be heard screaming as he spins.
  • A lot of Caine's commentary is really funny too, such as proudly declaring "Clean as a clean thing!" when Maid Jax finishes "wiping away the evidence" and declaring the product's tagline of "Why clean alone when you can... not do that?"
  • "Microwave me on high."
"Rate Jax's smile 1-10"
  • Pomni and Jax are in a short advertising the Nendoroid Jax and POP UP PARADE Pomni figures, with the Pomni and Jax plushies "talking" to each other while being held by their voice actors. Jax tells Pomni she doesn't have a good smile and Pomni tells him to shut up. They go "La la la la la la!" and "Blah blah blah blah blah!" at each other.
"PRESENTING MY FINEST WORK YET POMNI!!"
  • The plushies are waiting in front of a curtain. When Jax approaches, Caine interrupts him... slightly:
    Caine: No! Don't! Please! Forgive me, but no one must look under there!
    Zooble: Why? What are you hiding?
    Caine: I'm glad you asked! Let me show you.
  • Caine reveals a purple box with a face who can't stop shouting, its glorious ham courtesy of Maxmoefoe:
    The Machine: I'M THE MACHINE! I GRANT YOUR EVERY DESIRE! TOSS SOME MATERIAL INTO MY HOLE AND I'LL MAKE WHATEVER YOU WANT! I SUCK, YOU RECEIVE!
    Jax: [with obvious interest] Oh!
  • The Machine starts by sucking up Gangle (who wants to become more confident), changing her into the Spudsy's Gangle Plush.
    Spudsy's Gangle: [manic] Holy Toledo! I feel like I can get anyone to do anything! [internally to herself] That was so painful...
  • Jax tries out the machine... by throwing Zooble's left arm by changing it into a jacket, a t-shirt and a softball cap. Kinger tries it, looks at himself in the mirror... but a human in a baseball field is reflecting in it.
    Kinger: Wow. This outfit makes me look like a whole different person.
  • Caine then asks Pomni her desire by misnaming her:
    Caine: Come on, Christine. What's your desire?
    Pomni: Not my name.
    The Machine: DON'T LIE, CHRISTINE!
    • Bonus points in the German subtitles, where her name is rendered as "Christine" from that point on.
    • Gangle thinks she knows what Pomni wants and pushes Jax into the machine, turning him into Maid Jax. His presentation has him surrounded by a pink circle with little hearts.
      Maid Jax: Oh! What kind of a sicko are you, Pomni?!
      Pomni: What the f(BOING!)k is going on?
  • Ragatha asks for a horse... but the machine interprets it as wanting to be plastic. When Kinger says hi, all she can do is muffle in pain. It's as terrifying as it is darkly funny.
  • Zooble has a late realization:
    Zooble: Wait a minute, you're not granting our desires, you're just spitting out merch!
    The Machine: YEAH, EXACTLY! YOUR GREATEST DESIRES!
    Pomni: Really sure it thinks all human desires are just... merch. It's a merch machine.
    [everyone has a sudden realization]
    Kinger: Oh, it's fine, I just... didn't think it would be Chinese.
    [...]
    Zooble: You're gonna go rogue and turn us all into merch, aren'tcha?
    The Machine: THAT'S RIGHT!
    Zooble: Cool.
  • The Machine sucks up Pomni, turning her into a pencil topper with her sailor outfit from Gangle's anime adventure. As she screams in pain, Jax enjoys her predicament:
    Maid Jax: Serves you right, creep.
    • Right after, Gangle arrives to troll him even further:
      Spudsy Gangle: [manic] Oh, our Jaxy-boy looks so cute!
      Maid Jax: [jaded] Go to hell.
    • After that, he admires himself into a mirror and realizes that he indeed looks cute:
      Maid Jax: [thinking with a delicate voice] Oh, no! She's right though!
      Spudsy Gangle: [with creepy mask] You'd look great with some accessories!
  • The Machine indulges by sucking up Kinger and Zooble, turning both of them into a Maid Jax teapot. Pomni realizes that the machine has a “STOP” button, and so she rushes to press it. The Machine finally stops, but Pomni realizes that it was an acronym for “Ship Thousands Of Products”. She looks at the camera and throws the most defeated “Okay” she can think of before the Machine sucks up everybody, Caine included.
    Caine: Oh, no! It's eating too much! TAKE ME TOO!
    The Machine: *GRUNT* I CAN QUIT WHENEVER I WANT!
  • The Machine finally explodes, leaving all of the characters sucked into plastic versions of themselves with alternate forms.
    Caine: I like this. This is canon now.
    Plastic Maid Jax: [realizes another character was released by the machine] Oh. Hey Kaufy.
    Kaufmo: What's up, guys?
  • Among the plastic figurines, you have: President Pomni doing the infamous Kobeni pose, Spudsy Ragatha drunk on Stupid Sauce, Maid Jax embarrassed with a baseball bat, and Anime Gangle doing a "sugoi" face.
  • When Caine says the Blind Bag Collectables sale can include merch from different franchises, you have Plastic Solver Uzi, who shouts "Well, it's possible", Pomni's supposed catchphrase from a one-off comic by Gooseworx.
  • The Maid Jax plush is presented as waiting to endure torture, cuddles, humiliations, and general tomfoolery:
    Maid Jax: Hell is real.
  • Spudsy Gangle plush, on the other hand, is presented as a girlboss you can adopt so she'll watch you work with her happy mask... and best of all, watch you sleep with her creepy mask!
  • It then shows a sticker book with animesque stickers coupled with the sailor Pomni pencil topper. It adds the infamous "Wow~!" sound effect, which quickly glitches.
"well she tried"
  • With this being an advertisement for the Jax-Suit Pomni Plush, it has Pomni trying to act like Jax. Key word being "trying".
    • She attempts to break Gangle's happy mask, only to get scared off after the latter reveals her Nightmare Face from Episode 4.
    • She takes a go at scaring Ragatha with a centipede, but not only does she get the animal wrong (calling it a shrimp), it results in Ragatha hitting her with a shoe trying to kill it.
    • She tries to sneak up to Bubble to pop him with a pin, or "committing first-degree murder" as she calls it, only for Bubble to notice and somehow pop Pomni instead.
  • The ad ends with Jax rating Pomni's "Jaxmaxxing" as mediocre, and the reveal that the Jax-Suit that the Pomni plush is wearing is actually Jax himself but his skin being worn like a suit.
    Jax: I am in incredible pain right now…
"WATCH ME MERGE THEM"
  • It turns out that the Favorite Character Awards Show went over budget (to the tune of trillions), so Caine hosts a charity auction selling the show's latest merchandise to raise enough money. He has a Southern accent now to aid in his role as the auction's host for no other reason. Whenever he goes full Motor Mouth auctioneer mode, it's less Caine talking fast and more "fast-forwarded dialogue to the point of intelligibility".
  • Pomni asking why the Circus is suddenly concerned with currency now.
    Pomni: Wait, did money become a thing?
    Caine: [in normal voice] Pomni, look at me!
    [camera cuts between Caine and Pomni multiple times]
  • For some reason, there's a real live-action human man (played by Anything4Views) in the audience and no one bothers to bring him up.
  • Evil Jax and Evil Pomni appear in the crowd as auction-goers but because they don't have plushies of them, they just use small cardboard cut-outs in their place.
    • Evil Pomni swears up a storm while asking if she can purchase the real Jax, who playfully flirts with the idea. Meanwhile, Evil Jax meekly requests if he can purchase the normal Pomni to protect him from his regular counterpart.
      Evil Pomni: Ugh! [HONK!], man, this is so lame! Hey, dental plan, I'd like to buy this bad [BOINK!] boy if you're selling him.
      Jax: Oho, you~
      Evil Jax: I-I'd buy Pomni over here...!.. To protect me from.. him..
    • While it's muffled by Kinger suddenly speaking in reverse, Evil Jax and Evil Pomni have this exchange:
      Evil Pomni: Why do you have to be so f-[SWOOSH!]-ing stupid?
      Evil Jax: Please stop yelling at me, I don't like it when a female yells at me...!
    • If you actually reverse what Kinger says in this scene, he's saying the words "I buried Paul, or cranberry sauce?", a reference to the infamous "Paul is Dead" Theory regarding The Beatles.
  • Disappearing Guy expresses interest in purchasing some of the merch. He gets only two words in before he vanishes.
  • Nobody notices that Bubble has been replaced with what is later revealed to be his identical cousin La Buble, leading Caine to ask this.
    Caine: Bubble, why you sound like a complete fool?
    [La Buble shivers in fear before Bubble is shown standing behind him]
    Caine: Holy hot dog, Bubble, I'm seeing four!note 
  • The Machine appears again to fuse Jax and Pomni together into the Jax-Suit Pomni Plush. Complete with an improved Jax-like attitude to match. It causes Evil Jax to run away screaming in terror.
    • After Caine shows off the Digital Circus desktop gaming mat, Jax-Suit Pomni steals it from behind his back and is seen berating someone else she was playing an online game with. Her immediate course of action is to call them a dick and pull up their IP address. Jax-Suit Pomni also somehow gets away with saying "dick" without setting off the censor bar.
    • Then we see her using a baseball bat to pummel Evil Jax, with every vocalization of pain from him sounding suggestive. According to Michael Kovach, he intentionally made sure every moan from his takes would carry a sexual tone.
  • After advertising some of the wearable merch fashion, Caine tries to convince Kinger to potentially get some by calling him a fascist. It could also count as a dig to his evil version, Coach Dictatorer.
  • This exchange:
    La Buble: Or if you're a Canadian freak...
    Caine: Wait—
  • Near the end, Bubble informs Caine how much money they made in the auction.
    Caine: [speaking without the accent] I'm on the verge of losing my mind, Bubble! How are we doing? How much did we make back?
    Bubble: Doing basic math, judging by all of the items sold, I'd say we made a grand total of... zero.
    [beat]
    La Buble: The circus is saved!
    • Everything pretty much devolves into chaos around them at this point. Zooble meanwhile just quietly gets up to leave and Kinger finally realizes he's in an auction. Caine suddenly transforms into a keychain with small pieces representing the cast inside, loudly announcing it with the following phrase:
      Caine: [still with a Southern accent] Oh boy, HERE COME THE DEMOOONS!!!
    • With this new form, the entire circus (even Zooble) demands that he gets shaken for their amusement, until it's revealed that all of this was just a hallucination Caine was having while seemingly having a seizure on the floor of the theater. The sound of him having this seizure is the only sound he makes over the merch sizzle reel. Also, the reason Anything4Views is randomly in the video is revealed:
      Anything4Views: Um... (pointing at Caine) Is this guy gonna be okay? Should we...? We should call an ambulance. This is bad.
  • The fact that Disappearing Guy's plush is available for a limited time only means the chances for purchasing and owning it will disappear too.
"HELLO VIEWER, YES YOU! THE ONE BREATHING TOO LOUD."
  • The version on Twitter extends the title to say:
    LOOK AT THIS BEFORE I TURN OFF YOUR WIFI
  • Caine's sales pitch comes with this right out the gate:
    Caine: YOU'RE A SUCKER! AS IN, YOU'RE GONNA SUCK UP MY AMAZING PRODUCTS!
  • Caine introduces Bubble by teasing his "real name", only for it to be a loud, distorted noise while Bubble's mouth is censored.
  • The testimonials for the earrings:
    Zooble: These are actually kinda cool, Caine. I'm surprised you didn't stick them in my eyes or something.
    Pomni: [earrings stuck to her eyeballs] THEY'RE IN MY EYES OR SOMETHING!!!!
    Voice dubbing over Pomni: I really like these!
    Bubble: [makes choking sounds as the earrings are hooked into his tongue]
  • All of the testimonials are labeled in humorous ways:
    • Zooble "Hasn't been impressed since 2003", which becomes even funnier when you realize that Zooble's only 22, meaning that they've never been impressed in their entire life.
    • Pomni (a.k.a. XDDCC) is an "Olympic gold medalist in 'Being Short'".
    • Bubble is "Wanted for: [CENSOR ALL THIS STUFF]."
"Oh hi Pomni"
  • The ad starts out with Kinger standing in a completely blank void, greeting Pomni when she walks past. He then says the same thing, delivered with the exact same inflection, whenever clones of Pomni follow right behind the original. Kinger repeats himself immediately whenever the next Pomni enters his vision, trying to keep up when they walk by in quick succession until an entire avalanche of Pomni plushes suddenly flood in from behind him offscreen. Kinger's head proceeds to blow up.
    • The normal Pomni smiles and waves at Kinger as she walks past. Evil Pomni casually flips him off.
    • Jax is there and walks by at the very end of the lineup of actual Pomnis for no reason. Kinger still says "Oh, hi", just with his line omitting Pomni's name in a lighter case of YTP-style sentence mixing.
  • When showing off the pendant plush of Evil Pomni, Caine tries his best to make her sound cool, but he doesn't let himself finish his own sales pitch since he feels crushing guilt from seeing that she swears due to his family-friendly-centric moral standards.
    Caine: We evil got an even Pomni too! Watch out, she might swear at you—
    (Suddenly deadpan and delivered with sincerity) I apologize profusely; I did not know she knew those words.
"Ok guys, fine... here's the REAL Digital Circus beach adventure!"
  • Everyone speaks in captions instead of being voiced, which Caine comments on when one of Zooble's subtitle comments are a Wall of Text.
  • The "beach" Caine takes the Animiniz players to consists of sand and a glass of water standing in for the ocean.
  • Kinger "speaks" in random languages instead of English for this short.
    Kinger: Bonjour mes amis!
  • Jax is a part of this adventure, but decides to stay in a sand bucket and tells Caine that the digital ringmaster forgot something. Specifically, he forgot to provide Jax a swimsuit.
"Jax finds himself in his worst version of hell."
"POMNI PALOOZA"
  • The Pomnis introducing themselves, with Possessed Pomni and Evil Pomni introducing themselves with a Cluster *Bleep*-Bomb.
    Beach Pomni: Time for some good ol' sunshine!
    Possessed Pomni: HEHEHEHEH! F(BOING)K YOU! F(BOING)K YOU, B(BOING)H!
    Anime Pomni: I feel like a leaf...
    Noir Pomni: I need a drink...
    "XDDCC" Pomni: Hey guys! I'm just... normal Pomni.
    Evil Pomni: Muahahaha! F(BLEEP)K YOU, B(BLEEP)H! ...Again!
    • Caine describes them collectively as the "seven Pomni", except with a hard i as if it's the plural of "pomnus".
    • The silhouetted ultra rare Pomni says "Iconic catchphrase!" and has a point on her head strongly implied to be her Iconic Unicorn Horn.
    • The Pomnis' reactions to the Large Jax plushie appearing and crushing them.
      Beach Pomni: Why is he so heavy?!
      Evil Pomni: FAT F(BLEEP)K!
  • Caine losing his temper with the Players interrupting his advertisements and telling them to shut up constantly and increasingly virulently. Made funnier by the fact this is one of the only times the Players are actually fully engaged and helping him out with his pitch.
    Animiniz Pomni: What's with all the negativity? Those prizes are incredible!
    Animiniz Kinger: God, I wish that were me.
    Caine: JUST SHUT THE FRIG UP! YOU NO-TALENT, MEDIOCRE PIECE OF —
    [Cut to a rainbow test screen]
    [...]
    Caine: ...With these amazing prints, that will curl your toes!
    Animiniz Gangle: Wow, this art looks so nice and pretty... made from artists with such incredible talent and skill!
    Caine: [screaming so loud that his voice cracks into a squeal] SHUT UuUuUuUuP!
  • Caine constantly rhymes throughout the whole advert like a children's story, much to everyone's confusion. When Pomni asks him if he's going to do the whole thing in rhyme, he gives a flat, apathetic "yeah." before immediately returning to his whimsical demenour.
  • The commercial turns out to have been an ad made for the poorly-animated fish to visit the resort. When they criticize the production, Caine sighs, "This isn't fun anymore" and fries them on a stove, with the purple fish screaming like a certain mouse all the way through. The short ends with a Christmas card of Caine presenting a dish of the fried fish.
  • When Caine introduces the "funny, squishy Kinger", the latter greets the rest in a cartoonishly deep voice.
    "Kinger": Hey, guys.
  • The two-time gag of Caine having people vacuum-sealed — first, with Large Jax, then the Pillow Plush Kinger.
    Large Jax: [garbled and husky] I think I might be allergic to the shrimp or something...
    Caine: Tabarnak! We can't have another death at the resort! Somebody do something, call a doctor!
    [Large Jax screams as he's rapidly compressed]
    Caine: Or, yeah... just do that, I guess. Whatever.
    [...]
    Pomni: Why have all of these prizes just been strange, deformed versions of... us? It's a bit... uncomfortable?
    Caine: Oh, um, well... hmm... would this make things better?
    [Plush Kinger screams as the same thing happens to him]
Kinger vibes to chill & drive to
  • How does the first piece of Digital Circus media released after Episode 8 open? With Kinger driving in a red car, happily bopping along to the end credits music. A wide cut reveals the couch area of the Circus's big top to be in complete disarray, with Zooble's limbs scattered about in the foreground, Gangle laying on her face in the background, and Pomni nervously fidgeting as she stands between a set of tire tracks.
    Pomni: Wha— He's coming back.
    [Offscreen, tires screech and a motor roars as Pomni stares on in horror.]
    Pomni: Whoa, he is coming back--!
    [Kinger, screaming, crashes straight into Pomni and explodes.]
  • Caine once again manically rattles off the merch shown but, instead of sounding like his usual showman energy, he's apparently in fear of being ran over by Kinger. To drive the point home, every gap between Caine's sentences is punctuated with watermarked stock footage of cars flying off cliffs.note 
Just like old times, right honey...?
  • The video starts as a heartwarming and tearjerking look into Kinger missing his wife... before zooming out to reveal Jax sculpting eyebrows and a beard on Kinger's face with mashed potatoes.
  • When Ragatha complains about Jax putting mashed potatoes on Kinger's head, Jax claims Kinger likes it when he does that... and Kinger agrees with him.
  • Jax notes how the Queenie plush doesn't look pregnant like the Kinger one, leading to a roar from the abstracted chess queen making the screen shake, which causes Jax to immediately take back his comment.
Caine's Requiem
Welcome to the Average Physical Circus...
  • For starters, Caine introduces the show as "The Amazing Horrible Ungrateful Freaks Who I Hate Hate Hate Hate Hate Hate Hate Hate Hate Hate Hate Hate Hate Hate Hate Hate Hate Hate Hate Show! ...District." The sheer number of Hates ends up completely filling the screen. AM would be very proud.
  • First up, there's Stupidgatha (Ragatha as a bowling pin), whom Caine calls "the stupidest, uh, stupid thing." Bubble asks Ragatha to give a wave or something, but since she doesn't have any arms, Ragatha just glances at her body for a couple seconds before saying no. Then both of them get run over by a giant bowling ball.
  • Next is Zooble, who gets dropped from above in a pile of Zooble parts. Zooble sounds exhausted as they try to tell Caine they hate him, only for a giant broom to sweep them offscreen.
  • Last, Caine presents Jax as the most terrifying freak of all, "the freakiest, most horrible... abomination... purple... looking... creature we have." Jax calmly points out he looks normal and asks if he missed something. Bubble informs Jax his tail is missing, which Jax doesn't find so bad. Then Bubble slurps up all of Jax's skin in the blink of an eye, leaving him as a simple, yellow figure. Jax just looks at himself for a bit before returning to his previous pose completely unfazed. Caine points and laughs maniacally for about a second before snapping back into his chair looking bored.
  • Of the Animiniz shown, Caine considers the most frightening of all to be "physically fit people": a pile of Zooble parts and Orbsman lifting a barbell.
  • Caine describes the Ringmaster Caine figure as "the one who conducts all these sick and twisted little freaks OH I HATE THEM SO MU—" which is suddenly cut off by a rainbow screen.
  • Caine's tone throughout the short in general — he "hates" the players and yet can't even effectively come up with insults, as if he's trying and spectacularly failing to do an impression of AM. He's acting like a toddler who "hates" his mother because he got denied eating ice cream before lunch.
We want to watch what Kinger's watching ngl
  • Pomni and Jax are introduced in the middle of a conversation about Pomni's "good side", with Jax commenting that he "think[s] you look ugly from all sides".
  • Kinger accidentally saw Episode 9 without them, and he can't wait to share the entire plot:
    Kinger: Oh, it was great! Ragatha was able to use her magical flying car to save Gangle and Zooble from Loony Land!
    [Jax and Pomni, who panicked and plugged their ears to avoid spoilers, straighten up and look at each other in puzzlement]
    Kinger: Pomni went coo-coo from bureaucracy, and Jax's soul is forever trapped on the wreck of Titanic!
    Pomni: Oh, wow, that's... really great. I'm glad you enjoyed it.
    Kinger: ALSO, the ending where —
    [A three-second censor bleep drowns out him talking; Pomni buries her head in her hands and Jax gapes]
    Jax: [dashing his soda to the ground] SON OF A [BOINK]!
  • Kinger is wearing 3D glasses at a 45-degree angle on his face because his eyes aren't lined up with each other.
  • Given that the trailer dropped on Easter Monday 2026, Caine's god complex is out in full as he makes a Christlike return to the ad.
    [Static art of Caine floats out of a burst of sunlight to white doves and a heavenly choir]
    Bubble: Caine has RISEN to JUDGE THE SINNERS!
    Caine: That's right, Bubble, I bring good news to the world!
    [A hand pops up holding a Bible with the TADC logo on it]
  • Caine "going back to being dead" is his unrendered and untextured model laid over a reversed version of the viral footage of a Boston cop tumbling down a playground slide.
3 DAYS LEFT until we're in THEATRES!
  • The short begins with Caine abruptly running up to the camera and staring directly down the barrel of the camera, with the angle positioned in a manner similar to the Forehead Angle trend / meme. Caine then partakes in a series of challenges, including dancing, convulsing, and... pregnant. Caine then teleports out of there, swapping places with Jax.
    Caine: Yep. There, you see? I knew they'd make this weird. Yeah. I— I can't do this.
    [Teleports out. Jax appears in his place, looking like he was holding a sandwich.]
    Jax: Uh, wait, what?
    [A countdown begins.]
    Announcer: Pregn--!
  • It's also worth nothing that the dancing Caine is realistically proportioned.
Pomni and Jax from The Amazing Digital Circus are coming to Fortnite!
  • The announcement opens with Caine giving an announcement straight to camera, hyping up something grand… only for Gangle to undercut him by asking if he's talking about "the Fortnite thing" because it's the only thing that makes sense.
    Gangle: Plus, it would explain why Jonesy has been here the past two weeks.
    [The camera pans over to show Jonesy standing next to the cast and waving to Jax.]
    Jax: Oh, I was wondering who that was.
  • After Pomni asks if she's "a little short for Fortnite", Caine responds by suddenly grabbing her by both ends and stretching her limbs like taffy so that she's better-proportioned, then dropping her on the floor where she rests like a limp noodle. What sells it is Caine's pained sound of physical exertion as he does the stretching.note 
  • After Caine asks the Circus if they have any more questions, Gangle asks if they've brought back the Shockwave Hammers, only for Caine to reveal that she's not going before throwing Jonesy, Pomni and Jax onto the Battle Bus and teleporting away. Gangle's given a brief reprieve after Zooble assures her that they can hang out together, but Caine teleports back in, stating that the others will "need a pickaxe" before rearranging Zooble's parts into said pickaxe and teleporting away again.
    Gangle: [sighs despondently]
  • The gameplay montage features Jax using the Zooble pickaxe to break down objects and buildings, with Zooble saying "ow" with each strike.
  • With all that in mind, it's amusing to see Pomni knows enough about the game to know her proportions wouldn't fit for a skin unless tweaked. Contrast this with Jax from earlier, whose comedic persona includes snarking about the fandom and pop culture with faux-Medium Awareness, yet apparently somehow doesn't know much about Fortnite to recognize who Jonesy was. You could almost chalk it up to the characters canonically entering the Circus before the game even existed in 2015 (with Pomni entering in 2017 at the latest), but Gangle somehow has enough knowledge of the game's seasons long past 2017 to echo some player sentiment. For no other reason than just because.
  • Pomni saying, "I think we need to abandon the idea of getting a Victory Royale." during a montage of her and Jax getting shot at and eliminated by various players. Taking a line from the series that caused many a heart to sink, and recontextualizing it to be about winning in Fortnite is the cherry on top for this whole trailer.
What does Caine fear?
  • The Black Comedy of Caine having to act as salesman to a product that showcases his personal nightmare, everyone under his care abstracting is a sight to behold.
    Caine: "The abstraction animinez, a thing that we're selling now! I mean, who wouldn't want the broken form of their favourite digital circus character!"
  • At the start of the epsiode, after a nightmare of Pomni abstracting, Caine runs to her room like a child who's had a nightmare and asks if she currently plans to abstract. Half-awake, she confusedly explains that she has no current plans to, well, die.

    Other 
The Production Comics
  • Gooseworx's one-off comic series where Pomni has a unicorn horn. These were made while the series was still in pre-production and a bit after the pilot. It is laden with Non Sequitur gags and eccentric ideas thrown together, and Gooseworx partially intends for MatPat to read them and take them seriously. They get referenced a few times across marketing and once in the fourth episode for laughs.
    • The first panels themselves are hilarious, where Pomni shows off her new unicorn powers.
      Pomni: My iconic unicorn horn is picking up a Soviet signal!
      Jax: I'm going to kill you for no reason.
      Pomni: Well, it's possible... [note labelled near this speech bubble as "Her catchphrase."]
    • In the second comic, Caine announces that he and Pomni's mother are getting a divorce, which Pomni is confused by, since she had no idea he and her mother were married. Caine attempts to placate Pomni by telling her that now that her parents are divorced, she'll be getting two Christmases from now on... but Pomni counters that she already had three Christmases, prompting Caine to break it to her that she'll be losing one. Caine then hopes she's able to live through this and come out with a relatively stable outlook on life, to which she once again responds with her totally iconic catchphrase, "Well, it's possible". She's then told to hang out with her new brother-in-law: The Bone Pastor, inexplicably Jax with his left arm missing, a face redrawn into a realistic skeletal variant, and a bicycle pump held in his right hand. Apparently, he lost the left one in the divorce Caine had.
      Pomni: (thinking) Golly, I don't want to hang out with him.
    • The silly face Pomni makes through the comic, with Fish Eyes and her mouth agape with her tongue sticking out. This design would be referenced as the secret Super Rare variant from the Pomni line of "Animiniz pendantz".
Tangential Works and Promos
  • "Zooble car is the future":
    • The premise of Caine teaming up with Zooble (against their will) for a "one-on-one buddy comedy adventure" is hilarious on its own, especially as Caine runs up to Zooble intimidatingly from the void to tell them about it.
      Caine: It's time, Zooble.
    • Caine driving Zooble like a car and promptly crashing both of them into a wall. When the wreckage is shown, Caine is doing the Family Guy death pose before his incredibly Delayed Reaction.
      Caine: Zooble! Incoming wall!
      [Airbags suddenly activate and knock out Caine.]
      Zooble: [sighs in exasperation]
  • "We paid our editors to make this" is literally just an authorized YouTube Poop of Episode 5. It basically starts with Jax shooting himself with the same bullet fired at Gangle sent right back at him and ending up in the memetic Family Guy death pose, and it doesn't get any less ridiculous from there.
  • In the dedicated music video for "The One Who's Running the Show", the end merch reel has Caine cough and wheeze throughout due to not having sung like that in ages... right until the end, where it smash cuts to the Caine puppet flatlining on the ground.
  • In collaboration with a charity organization known as The Cookie Brigade, Glitch Productions handed out cookies during PAX East, with a sticker of Maid Jax that reads "plant one on me" included in every cookie's pouch. Their announcement post about this includes an unamused Jax serving a platter of cookies to Gangle and Zooble as they're seemingly having a tea party at Caine's restaurant environment, and the poor guy's stuck in his showgirl outfit from the eighth episode to top it off. He just can't catch a break, can he?
The Favorite Character Awards
  • The Digital Circus Awards Video intros from each of the characters are basically all gold.
    • Caine's starts out with Bubble "orally familiarizing" himself with the microphone (chewing on it), and continues on with a metaphor that somehow compares the circus crew to baby birds who threaten to kill themselves without his adventures.
    • Kinger starts off by saying he can make a great mushroom chowder with couscous. Except he can't remember if it was couscous or rice. Or if he actually made the chowder at all. Or if the chowder even existed, eventually derailing into existential questions that somehow loop all the way back to the chowder.
    • Zooble just tells the audience to vote for them and leaves, because that's all Caine told them to do. Bubble then speaks on their behalf.
      Bubble: Hownclorn!
      Caine: That was... quite profound actually. Thank you, Bubble.
    • Pomni manages a very normal and genuine pitch for people to vote for her if they like her as a person. Caine spends the last ten seconds disgusted at what a horrible job she did.
    • Ragatha similarly starts out genuine in her intro, talking about herself and her love of animals — until Caine cuts her off, telling her her one minute is up, despite her having only talked for about 15 seconds. Apparently, this happened the "last" time too.
    • Gangle naturally can't even get through hers without Jax showing up to bully her. Apparently she has a blue sketch book she really doesn't want anyone to know about. By the end, she's so distressed she tells people not to vote for her.
    • Jax starts out in typical Jax fashion, insisting that everyone will vote for him no matter what because the fans think he's hot.note 
      Jax: I've seen the art. There's something wrong with you guys.
    • Immediately after this, Zooble interrupts him, startling Jax so bad he actually pukes after poorly trying to play it off.
  • The randomly generated quick fact blurbs on each of the characters' bio pages (with a disclaimer that none of them have been fact-checked) are also hilarious. Some examples that could pop-up are:
    "They are Brutalist architecture's number one hater, they go on all the forums and hate on it."
    "Was arrested in Toronto for screaming at modern art back in 1983."
    "On a trip to a New Jersey airfield, they might have accidentally caused the infamous Hindenburg Disaster."
    "They once travelled between Montreal to Tokyo via Canoe because they're stupid."
  • As the voting for the "Absolutely Not Rigged" Award Show went on and Caine continued to be in last place, he tried harder and harder to rig the site to vote for him, up to and including having Caine's voting icon follow your cursor around, having a long string of confirmation dialog boxes appear, replacing everyone's voting icon with his own, or even just outright denying your vote in a fake error telling you to come back later. Eventually, the site went as crazy as Caine himself, with a ton of graphics being changed to Caine's icon (including all the character video links, which started moving in various ways and linking to Caine's video) and the music glitching unpredictably.
Cast Collaborations
  • Whenever Alex is part of a gaming stream and is idling, the other cast members would continuity say "Alex." until he plays again.
  • Whenever Lizzie is part of a gaming stream, she likes to nickname herself "XDDCC", a reference to Pomni's initial name when the jester first entered the digital circus.
  • In stark contrast to Ragatha being the Nice Girl that's always kind and supporting to Pomni, the cast's playthrough of PEAK has Amanda displaying unbridled fury towards Lizzie just for taking their bugle. At one point they exclaim "I am the John Wick of bugles".
    • And at another point, they exclaim "I AM UNTETHERED AND MY RAGE KNOWS NO BOUNDS!" It’s even lampshaded by Alex, who exclaims “Oh god, Amanda’s turned into Dennis!”, while struggling to hold back his laughter. It then escalates further with Lizzie playing the bugle in response, Amanda fuming and pointing a grapple gun at her….which they don’t know how to use, and Lizzie daring them to do their worst and walking away.
    • In the first Peak stream when Lizzie and Alex were the only ones to make it to the top of the mountain on the first level. Alex had an item called a "Scout Effigy" and tried to use it to revive Ashley and Amanda in the game, only to accidentally toss it down the mountain.
    Alex: OH WHAT? NO... NO, NO, NO!!
    Ashley: Did you drop it down the mountain?!
    Lizzie: I got jellybeans.
    • During the second Peak stream, in the Mesa level, Amanda is struggling to go the correct direction to go up due to Ashley and Sean directing them to go in different directions and telling them to turn 180 degrees. (Go to 1:41:30 to see the entire bit)note 
  • The Amazing Digital Circus: Digital Dungeon Danger is a Dungeons & Dragons one-shot featuring the main voice cast playing as their respective characters, with Alex Rochon acting as the DM under the guise of Caine. This leads to many moments of hilarity:
    • The session starts off with this exchange:
      Caine: It was another hum-dinger of a day, in the Amazing Digital Circus! A truly special and non-canon adventure was about to unfold! Digital! Dungeon! Danger!
      Jax: This is gonna be cringe.
      Caine: YOU'RE CRINGE!
    • Caine reads the name of a grave stone, which ends up being an Overly Long Name that he reads for about thirty seconds before being interrupted. When Pomni tells him she wants to hear the rest, he reads "Died after..." then notes it's cut off because the name took up too much space.
    • One of the enemies is "Bubbles' weird cousin", Labuble (the "L" is silent).
    • A merchant they encounter is the hypothetical Evil Gangle that never got to show up for softball. She has an extremely gruff voice and sells items typically priced at around 57 gold pieces each.
    • Zooble is incredulous that everything Evil Gangle sells happens to be 57 gold, which she excuses by saying, "It's just the way I was programmed, toots". Right after this, Pomni decides to ask why they can't be priced at 67 gold instead. This proves to be a bridge too far for Evil Gangle:
      Evil Gangle: You know what — little Jester girl, I know what you're sayin' — Fuck off!
      Ragatha: (caught off-guard) O-ooh!
      Evil Gangle: I-I-I know about those numbers — Six-seven this, six-seven that!
      Ragatha: Oh no...
      Pomni: I'm sorry! I-I'm just— I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I won't do it again.
      Evil Gangle: Y-Y-You're-You're terminally online.
      Pomni: (Embarassed, laughing a bit) Noooo, I just watch South Park...
      Jax: Reminder that this is all non-canon!
      (Everyone erupts in laughter)
      • Before Alex Rochon goes on his mini-tirade as Evil Gangle, Ashley Nichols can be heard quietly chiming in with a "six-seveeeen~" as Zooble.
      • Shortly afterwards, the cast briefly muses on whether or not Pomni would actually say and do this given how relatively new "67" was as a meme, especially given how ambiguous the series' time period was at this point. Some of them joke Pomni would be the only person who understands the reference by virtue of being the newest one there, while others think it'd still be way after her time.
    • When the gang locates a mysterious shadowy portal to another dimension in one chamber, Kinger investigates and gets a natural roll of 20, able to immediately recognize it leads directly to Hell itself. His reaction?
      Kinger: Hey guys, I found the way to get to Twitter.
    • A statue of Chad comes to life and tells the party that they'll have to "answer [his] questions twenty-eight" in order to pass, with them "existential" questions such as "Are kangaroos real?". Upon being given the first riddle, Kinger excitedly shouts "twenty-eight!"
      Kinger: What? He said we had to answer his questions, twenty eight!
      Caine: (Bursts out laughing) I hate you so much.
    • Carrying over from the Peak stream, Ragatha is obsessed with getting her hands on a bugle, only to watch in despair and envy as Pomni somehow locates it before her yet again. Even better is the cast's discussion over their classes; while they're both said to be proficient with horns, Pomni is arguably the better fit as a Bard, while Ragatha doesn't have any practical use for it as a Barbarian. The latter just really wants her bugle.
    • The gang comes across a room full of cows. Pomni decides to milk one of them, and when asked what she's going to keep the milk in, she settles on her lute. Afterwards, the party doubles back to the cow room and Pomni wants to milk another cow, using Ragatha's family bugle with a rock jammed in the mouthpiece. Then Gangle tells her about the second cow she's trying to milk.
      Gangle: Pomni, wait! That one lifted its leg to take a piss. That's a bull!note 
    • When encountering the seat of Darius Drake, Caine tells them they need candy offerings both sticky and sweet, or face the sting of defeat. Gangle says out loud "Sting like a bee?", and we all know how Caine feels about bees…
      Caine: You know what they say! You can't spell "be sweet"… without BEES!
      Zooble: GOD DAMN YOU AND YOUR BEE FIXATION!
    • Ragatha gets her revenge for this later on, with one of the penultimate trials involving Gummigoo strapped to an altar, whom Kinger referred to as Pomni's deceased boyfriend earlier (while mistaking the stature of Chad for him). The solution involves killing Gummigoo and harvesting a part of his gummy body along with the milk they procured from the earlier room as offerings. Ragatha wastes no time immediately snuffing the life out from the NPC, much to Pomni's horror.note 
  • The Amazing Digital Circus VN Fangame streams has the main seven cast members naturally voice act their own characters, with Marissa Lenti reading out the narration and the others (minus Lizzie Freeman) filling in for other characters. However, as they were all going in blind, there was corpsing and double-takes abound.
    • Much of the first game's early scenes could be summarized by the cast constantly pausing to praise Alex's performance. They also state that this accurately depicts their recording sessions.
    • During the stream, Lizzie Freeman had gotten herself food, leading to her voicing Pomni while eating. Leading to hilariously narmy moments where she was muching away while learning about the abstracted and comforting a glitching Ragatha.
    • Pomni's nightmare from the second game has the dialogue completely fall flat on its face for everyone. Not because it was poorly-written or because the cast disliked it, but because of the narration using the word "moist" to describe an abstracted player landing. One singular time. This would also completely change the entire mood of the stream as the cast began improvising lewd jokes based on the dialogue.
    • Poor, poor Ragatha.
      • The route they chose to play from the second game was not kind to her, as she was rendered completely Out of Focus, which was not helped by Pomni getting a moment early onnote  dedicated to interacting with all the other players except hernote . It got to a point where Amanda was left wondering out loud if Queen (the lead developer) actively had it out for them or Ragatha, all while the cast made jokes at the latter's expense to play things up for more laughs.
      • Sean really played up the Ragatha bullying, from improvising Kinger casually making fun of her or comparing others to her as an insult. And when Amanda punished him by forcing him to donate to the stream's charity for it all...
        Sean: I'll donate $20. I'm donating $2 for myself, $2 for what I'm about to say...
        Amanda: Oh no...
        Sean: ...And $16 that Ragatha wouldn't donate because she sucks.
        Amanda: Noooo, that's not true! My poor baby...
    • When Pomni talks to Kinger in-game, he talks about how Jax is a nice person for always offering to show centipedes to Ragatha (clearly not knowing what they'd be used for) before giving a large, purple centipede to Pomni. And Sean simply couldn't help but throw in a Double Entendre:
      Pomni: Wow, he's really big. He's almost bigger than both of my hands...
      Kinger: Are we still talking about Jax?
    • Alex's attempt at reading out a certain line Caine has when talking to Bubble. It must be seen to be believed:
      Alex as Caine: And don't tell them about your weird, uh... (Stunned Silence as the game's background music cits out and he reads the next line: "KINKS") ... W H A T ! ?
    • Bubble's lines in the game are even more unhinged than in the show, and to the cast's dismay, Sean Chiplock voiced him in the stream. Meaning they had to deal with Sean reading out Bubble's lines as creepily as he possibly could.
    • During the part where Pomni, Zooble, and Bubble are trapped inside the Gloink Queen to play a game show, Lizzie notices that the chat's saying that her volume was low, only to realize that she was using her headphone audio before switching to her microphone and changing the audio quality to a higher one.
      Lizzie: I didn't realize it went to that.
      Michael: Oh, yeah. You sound better now.
      Marissa: That's such a better mic! Wait, have you had that the whole time?!
    • While they at least let the scenes play out seriously and only joke around after they're done, not even the emotional climax of the route is safe from the cast's shenanigans.
      • Zooble has a massive Freak Out to Pomni over their body dysmorphia and self-hatred, and both the way they talk about their insecurities and Ashley's voice acting get a lot more intense than the version from Episode 3 of the show. The second they stop yelling, Marissa leads everyone into sarcastically celebrating Pomni's second day in the circus.
      • Once Pomni offers to support Zooble in finding something that they're comfortable with and the two develop a close friendship, the scene takes a turn into Heartwarming territory, much to Lizzie's delight. On the other hand...
        Ashley: Lizzie, your reaction was "aww...", my reaction was "KISS! KISS! KISS!!"
  • "Saying a Lot of Things as Caine" by Alex Rochon is a compilation of him reading memes as Caine. Highlights include the Cave Johnson Lemon Rant, The "where's the caveman" line, or "Don't worry, Zooble, I didn't care about your opinion anyway" which becomes Harsher in Hindsight after episode 8 reveals Caine has just lost it and begins to ignore their critiques in favour of amusing himself, or at least trying to. He then tells Alex as Caine that "you screwed up. This post has over 1500 comments".
    Alex: Yeah...if only it were just fifteen hundred...
  • After Alex Rochon did a "reading things as Caine" video, Marissa Lenti does the same thing as Gangle, reading out... an increasingly virulent list of comments refusing to believe she's actually Gangle's VA. She gets increasingly distraught as she tries to find someone who believes her, and when she finally does, it's about the commentor's Perverse Sexual Lust for her. She quickly runs away, saying this was a bad idea, sobbingly singing the "Digital Hallucinations" fan song over the credits.
  • Jax if she wasn't a huge piece of shit. Aside from Gooseworx confirming that Jax was in the middle of Trans Tribulations, along with drawing up a heartwarming alternate scenario where Jax dealt with his/her issues in a much healthier manner, it also goes straight over to hilarious with Jax's comment that "[Pomni] and Ribbit feel like they were destined to fuck each other's brains out."
  • One fan took a screenshot of Pomni saying that everyone needs to abandon the idea of leaving, and made a meme out of it with the caption: "I think... we need to abandon the idea of finding out what happens when Jax holds his breath..." Given how this wasn't revealed in the show itself, it so easily could've been a Riddle for the Ages. But Gooseworx was having none of that in her reply.
    Gooseworx: He fucking inflates, NEXT QUESTION.
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