Khonjin: "She's out of the cab! There she is! There's still time, let's go!"
Gino: "That's a fucking baby stroller!"
Khonjin: "Yes, Gino, It's a baby stroller! I know it's a baby stroller, I know this is a frisbee, and I know that your god-forsaken flea-ridden overgrown rat is a donkey! I know these things!"
Gino: "Why are you after a baby, you psychopath!?"
Khonjin: "Oh, you wanna know something about it? The baby stole my gun, okay?"
Gino: "Shut the hell up."
Khonjin: "Listen, when I was going to the store and they don't allow guns, I left it outside so—"
Gino: "What was so important that you had to leave your gun outside for anyone to take?!"
Khonjin: "This frisbee."
(Cue Gino tackling Khonjin and then beating him up off-screen)
Gino: "That's a fucking baby stroller!"
Khonjin: "Yes, Gino, It's a baby stroller! I know it's a baby stroller, I know this is a frisbee, and I know that your god-forsaken flea-ridden overgrown rat is a donkey! I know these things!"
Gino: "Why are you after a baby, you psychopath!?"
Khonjin: "Oh, you wanna know something about it? The baby stole my gun, okay?"
Gino: "Shut the hell up."
Khonjin: "Listen, when I was going to the store and they don't allow guns, I left it outside so—"
Gino: "What was so important that you had to leave your gun outside for anyone to take?!"
Khonjin: "This frisbee."
(Cue Gino tackling Khonjin and then beating him up off-screen)
— From the episode "Taxi
", which accurately summarizes pretty much every episode.
", which accurately summarizes pretty much every episode.What a wonderful day to describe Khonjin House.
Khonjin House is a web series by Connor Lavery. As the title suggests, it stars Khonjin igiuL Jr. III and his "friends" going on wacky adventures. The show is a cross between Xavier: Renegade Angel and old-school web cartoons that rarely makes sense. It's highly sporadic, with the average episode lasting for about a minute and often devolving into an insane mish-mash of screaming and violence by the end. Despite this, the quality of writing and voice acting is quite high (especially for a web cartoon), meaning the chaos always has a meaning and every second of the episode builds to a rapid-fire sequence of jokes. The show's probably most famous for its Stylistic Suck, as almost the entirety of it is animated with single static images moving around mimicking movement similarly to a stick puppet show.
Starting with episode 30, the show began to have a vague story arc involving an Ambiguously Evil, Reality Warper (or potential God) named Pent, whose main motives are extremely unclear. Any episode involving him takes the show's usual Rapid-Fire Comedy set up into a much more mysterious and dramatic turn.
A serialized series, called Khonjin Takes a Breaknote , debuted on March 8, 2017. Later, a spin-off series starring Pent and Smack called Supermental debuted on September 30, 2017, which reveals who these two characters along with Shelby truly are... Maybe?
On September 18, 2018, a large number of the episodes were either edited or deleted altogether by Connor. Among the things edited out were jokes Lavery felt were either too offensive in hindsight, fell flat, and almost anything related to Supermental, due to Connor rewriting it and removing all of its plot threads from the canon of Khonjin House. Connor would later release the unedited versions of these episodes as an unlisted videos for each season, which can be viewed here. Additionally, all of the episodes from the show's seven seasons in their original statenote , plus all episodes of Khonjin Takes a Break and other extra material made for the series were compiled into a single video and released on October 30, 2019 as Khonjin House The Movie.
The 70th and final episode was uploaded on May 31, 2019. In it, Lavery expressed that while he may return to the series later if he has any new ideas, Khonjin House is over for now. Lavery provided a file containing all of the assets he used in the description, encouraging his fans to make their own Khonjin House episodes if they wanted, ending the episode with a bittersweet montage of all the fan art the series had garnered over the years. Some cryptic messages in the final episode and a Tumblr link in the description have prompted an Alternate Reality Game to find the password hidden somewhere in the series's episodes, and The Stinger provides hints to Supermental’s new direction.
On January 1, 2021, Connor brought the series back once again for 10 additional episodes to provide content while Supermental was being finished. Episode 80, confirmed to be the true finale in the Patreon description, was uploaded on January 18, 2021.
Then, the show came back again with a spin-off titled Gino Show. Unlike the original series, there is an actual tangible premise in which Khonjin and Gino are forced to create a show together under a contract. When Gino discovers a loophole in the contractnote , the two decide to team up to create the worst show possible so it can get cancelled early. The first episode can be found here.
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- Action Figure Speech: Done as part of the Stylistic Suck.
- Ambiguous Situation: Whatever it is that's going on with Pent and Smack, at least in relation to the universe Khonjin House takes place in. Even with Khonjin removing Pent's influence in the original Episode 50, there's a lot still unexplained, even more so in the "recreated" version of the series that lacks Pent's influence entirely. Not to mention Pent himself is aware of this retcon. And if Episode 70 is to be believed, he may still not be fully gone altogether. Not to mention the Supermental side-series and the ARG, which has its own rabbit hole of information, and to say nothing on the meta side of things, most of which pertaining to Supermental's development...
- Amusing Injuries: Gino tends to get the most of them. Whether it be from exploding, getting mauled by tigers, or being a victim to a No-Holds-Barred Beatdown.
- Bottle Episode: Due to each episode clocking around 1-2 minutes (in rare cases, even shorter), many plots take place in a single location, typically Gino's pizzeria.
- Butt-Monkey: Both Gino and Khonjin tend to suffer a lot. Gino from suffering Khonjin's psycopathic antics, and Khonjin from being victim to the psycopathic antics of the world.
- Evil Counterpart: Pent to Khonjin. Probably. He looks just like Khonjin with a sinister plot involving the nature of their entire world.
- Gag Nose: Khonjin, his dad, and Pent have very prominent, bulbous noses. Gino has admitted to having dreams of tearing off Khonjin's.
- Gamer Chick: Ruther, who loves her Nintendo Gamecube and Super Monkey Ball.
- The Mafia: The main trio is part of one, working under Khonjin's dad. They are sometimes tasked for doing jobs, such as performing heists, infiltrating rival bases, or even killing themselves to go to Heaven and steal Jesus' shoes.
- Knight of Cerebus: Any time Pent shows up, all sense of comedy disappears, with characters such as Khonjin or Gay Spaghetti Chef being absent or silent.
- Meaningful Name: Gay Spaghetti Chef is exactly what his name describes him as - a homosexual chef who specialises at cooking spaghetti.
- New Jobs As The Plot Demands: Dumbass has been a Nigerian Prince, a game show contestant, a Mormon seller, and a waiter.
- Negative Continuity: Most of the time. With many episodes ending with characters dying only to show up just fine the next episode.
- No Ending: Almost every episode. Plots rarely have a conclusion and just end with Khonjin and his friends screaming at or killing each other, or exploding.
- Once an Episode:
- At the beginning of most episodes (save for a few) the camera is focused somewhere else for a split second before snaping into focus.
- Physical God: Pent's episodes heavily imply he might be one. This is very likely rooted in his status as Connor's icon and avatar in-universe.
- Rapid-Fire Comedy: Five gags can happen in the span of twenty seconds.
- Random Events Plot: Almost every episode just has Khonjin and his friends doing random things for the sake of randomness or tormenting each other.
- Repetitive Audio Glitch: “I think it’s time to order a pep-pep-pep-pepperoni pizza!”
- Exaggerated in the season 2 finale:Khonjin: WHERE MY DAMN PEPEPEPEPEPEPEPEPEPEPEPEPEPEPEPEPEPEPEPEPEPEPEPEPEPEPEP-
- Exaggerated in the season 2 finale:
- Running Gag:
- Some of the episodes starting with 18 and until Khonjin Takes a Break start with a character saying, "What a wonderful day to [do something, often not relevant to the plot]."
- Characters spontaneously exploding.
- Khonjin's very odd way of screaming.
- Gino claiming Undertale (or THE MONEY, as the case may be) to be the best and worst game ever made happens throughout season 4.
- Straight Gay:
- Gay Spaghetti Chef is the voice of reason half of the time.
- Stylistic Suck: Almost every character is just a static image that moves around.
- They Killed Kenny Again: Khonjin, Gino and Gay Spaghetti Chef die several times throughout the series.
- Trademark Favorite Food: Pepperoni Pizza for Khonjin. In fact, his main basis for always bothering Gino is to eventually get Gino to give him his pepperoni pizza.
Khonjin House (2015-2022)
- Artifact Title: You would think that a series called Khonjin House would greatly feature, well, Khonjin's house. However after the first few episodes the show firmly establishes that Gino's Pizza is the actual main setting of the series, with Khonjin's abode showing up sporadically.
- Art Shift:
- Gino and Khonjin go through multiple different animation styles once Khonjin touches a "magic."
- The entire second half of episode 50 is featured in smooth animation rather than the Stylistic Suck.
- Bookends: Episode 1 starts with Khonjin wanting pepperoni pizza, episode 50 starts with Gino offering free pepperoni pizza to Khonjin.
- Bittersweet Ending: One interpretation of the Season 5 finale. Pent's antics have been stopped and his control over Khonjin's universe has been revoked, leaving Khonjin and co. to continue their crazy lives in peace; However, Pent is still broken up over Shelby's death, and it's left ambiguous if he and Smack will make amends.
- Canon Discontinuity: In addition to the edits made to previous episodes in 2018, Lavery removed the entire Supermental plotline from the series's canon thanks to problems with the game's development. The Series Finale implies, however, that it's canonicity is still very much intact.
- Christmas Episode: Episode 26 is presented as such. It is about Khonjin cheating Gino out of 100,000 dollars, which has nothing to do with Christmas. That is until Khonjin gets run over by Santa's sleigh and is left with a disfigured face.
- Clip Show: Subverted in episode 40. Gino remembers that he fired Gay Spaghetti Chef back in episode 1, queue the typical harp music that usually plays for flashback, only for the scene to immediately stop when Gay Spaghetti Chef says that he doesn't remember that moment. Gino then tells him that he's "fired again" and then shoots him with his gun.
- Comical Overreacting: Gilmore's reaction to Gino calling Khonjin a retard is to scream at the top of his lungs and then throw Gino out of his restaurant, causing him to explode mid-air.
- Courtroom Episode: "Court" is about Gino suing Khonjin for slander after Khonjin claims that he killed his wife and children.
- Creator Cameo: At the very end of Episode 80, represented by Connor's actual head pasted onto Khonjin's body.Connor: This is the worst thing I've ever created, and I hope I'm dead within four years.
- Downer Ending: The true Series Finale ends with Khonjin dead as Ruther and her friends proceed to torment him in the afterlife. Possibly, as the episode turns out to be Khonjin's creation, before that escalates into a Droste Image.
- Extra-Long Episode: Both "Grand Finale" and "Finale" (season 8) are five minutes long. Which are more than 4-5 times the length of a normal episode. While the former is a mostly serious wrap-up to the arc involving Pent and Smack, the latter is the actual Series Finale of the show — but is effectively just a normal episode in tone, just longer.
- Foreshadowing:
- In episode 15, there was an advertisement line that said, "HAVE YOU'RE hUSBAND EVER MADE LOVE?". In episode 50, the same line is shown again, but is then revealed to be an anagram for "hER MOVE, A NEVER DEAD SHELBY UAVOU"?
- In episode 44, Pent (disguised as Khonjin) asks Gay Spaghetti Chef about Shelby, a character that won't be mentioned again until episode 50.
- Game Show Appearance: Khonjin hosted a game show called "Guess the Answer You Fucking Idiot" with Dumbass as the only contestant. The rules being that he has to ask Dumbass a question and give him three tries to answer it correctly, and much to the horror of Khonjin, the prize for winning the game is having full legal authority to burn down his house and killing his family. When Dumbass gets the answer wrong Khonjin laughs and yells to him the answer, completely forgetting that he still has two tries, which leads to Dumbass winning the game show. Khonjin then decides to blow up the entire building with gasoline, killing himself and Dumbass.
- Genie in a Bottle: The Pizza Mambo employees throw one through Gino's window in Episode 41. Gino wishes for Khonjin to be castrated by a scorpion.
- Groin Attack: Khonjin is presumably castrated by a scorpion off screen in Episode 41. "Presumably", because the last we see him is him riding said scorpion and making hos own wishes.
- Halfway Plot Switch: Episode 49, titled as "Hell", seems to be about Gino, Khonjin and his dad killing themselves and going into heaven to steal Jesus' shoes. Gino immediately backs out of this and leaves them instead. The plot then shifts to Gino receiving a letter from Smack.
- The first half of "Bowling" has nothing to do with bowling. Khonjin grows in size and causing widespread panic until out of nowhere, Gay Spaghetti Chef invites Khonjin to bowling.
- The Infiltration: Episode 45 and 46 involve Khonjin and the gang sneaking into an enemy base.
- Last Episode, New Character: Smack was mentioned a few brief times throughout the series but never seen until "Grand Finale".
- Megaton Punch: Khonjin's father does this to Gino in "Father" to the point that he actually blows up. All because he called his son a retard.
- Multi-Part Episode: Heist, T-Shirt, P.I. 2, Infiltrator and P.I. 3.
- Once a Season: Every season has an episode named "Finale" at the end.
- Official Couple: Khonjin and Gay Spaghetti Chef, according to
Word of God and Dadjin's Tumblr. - Out of Focus: Episode 50 barely focuses on the main trio and instead focuses on Pent and Smack.
- Outside-Context Problem: The Story Arc beginning in episode 30. Since it involves the affairs of Pent and Smack, along with a deceased person named Shelby; beings seemingly from another dimension. They are dealing with something that none of the characters (except maybe Gino) know or are given the full context of even after it is all done.
- Series Fauxnale: Parodied and Exaggerated. Every season ends with an episode titled "Finale," complete with a more extensive credits sequence, and the next season just picks up like normal. There are still few straight examples:
- The Season 5 finale puts an end to the plot threads concerning Pent and Smack, but the show continued from there with the main cast's continuing antics in the Khonjin Takes a Break and later seasons.
- The Season 7 finale was titled "The End" instead of the usual "Finale" specifically to signify that the show is over. That didn't last, as the show got another season few years later.
- Stable Time Loop: Maybe? After Khonjin removed Pent's influence in the original Episode 50, Pent was retroactively removed from the previous episodes, preventing him from ever appearing to begin with. However, given Pent later appears in Episode 70, it's possible this only delayed his arrival.
- Time Travel: Episode 43 features Khonjin going to the future, 9/11 and The Flintstones.
- The Un-Reveal: How exactly did Khonjin turn into a penguin in "Dweebus"? No one bothers to question in it.
- Wham Episode: Episode 30, in which Pent makes his debut and begins to linger in the background for the next twenty episodes.
- Wham Shot:
- In "Blind Date", after Gay Spaghetti Chef explodes due to them breaking up, Khonjin finally takes off the blindfold, revealing it was Pent in disguise all along.
Pent: Surpriiiise.- Towards the end of the Series Finale, the montage of Khonjin House fan art begins to shift from the main cast of Khonjin and co. to the characters of Supermental, which at first just seems like Lavery throwing a bone to anyone disappointed over it being subjected to Canon Discontinuity... and then we hear what sounds like someone flying out a window and screaming, and suddenly we're treated to a shot of Pent, crash-landing somewhere in a field by a city...
Khonjin Takes a Break (2017)
- Chuck Cunningham Syndrome: Gay Spaghetti Chef noticeably makes no appearances throughout the whole show.
- Cliffhanger: Every episode so far ends on one.
- Cut Short: This series was originally planned to have 10 episodes. Though due to lack of interest, Connor decided to end the show with episode 8, wanting to return back to the episodic nature of the previous show.
- Downer Ending: How the show ultimately ends. Gino, Khonjin and his dad are all dead and end up in heaven. Khonjin makes fun of God, causing him to be thrown into the pits of hell.
- Grand Finale: Episode 8, a Sequel Episode to "Hell" from the previous series.
- Oddly Named Sequel 2: Electric Boogaloo: The series went through a number of name changes. First being titled Khonjin, then Khonjin House Jazz, to Khonjin Takes a Break (which seems to be the common one most people are familiar with), to lastly Khonjin House Bonus Season.
- Out of Focus: Gino disappears relatively early on and shows up for the finale.
- Prison Episode: The penultimate episode has Khonjin in prison after becoming a Corrupt Cop.
- Random Events Plot: Despite the show being serialized, there is no coherent plot going on other than Khonjin ending up in increasingly bizarre adventures. In the span of nine minutes, the series goes from Khonjin and Gino trying to capture the Crabcrab, to Khonjin trying to save a penguin orphanage by making a commercial then trying to win a basketball game, to Khonjin becoming a Corrupt Cop and is then sent to prison, to Khonji, Gino, and Gilmore ending up in Heaven on a mission to steal Jesus' shoes.
- Sequel Episode: Episode 8 is this to "Hell" from the first series. In the original series, Gino ultimately left Khonjin and Gilmore to perform the mission while in this episode we see what would happen if Gino was dragged along.
- Screw This, I'm Outta Here:
- Gino does this to Khonjin in episode 2 after annoying him too much.
- He does this again in Episode 8 once Khonjin botches the mission.
Gino Show (2025)
- After Show: The show takes place a couple years after the original series ended, with Gay Spaghetti Chef (presumably) not appearing as he said in "Carpenter".
- Big Bad: Danielle/The Boss. She is the one forcing Gino and Khonjin to make the new show, and is the driving force in ensuring that their attempts to get it cancelled don't work.
- Denser and Wackier: Inverted. Unlike the previous series, Gino Show has a tangible plot that the show follows with each episode. Khonjin is nowhere near as nonsensical and chaotic (mostly because he too is a victim of The Boss) and the overall tone is just a bit more grounded.
- Enemy Mine: The main premise is about Gino and Khonjin being forced by their new boss into creating a revival series. The duo decide to work together and get the show cancelled as soon as possible.
- Extra-Long Episode: "Carpenter" is five minutes long. It is longer than the Series Finale of the original series. "Miracle" is even longer, but is justified in being a podcast-esque episode with just a still image for most of the video.
- Idiosyncratic Episode Naming: Following "The Works", is "The Wok" and "The W".
- Laser-Guided Karma: Khonjin's attempt to force Gino into a revival of the show backfires when Khonjin himself is forced to be in it as well.
- Out of Focus: Since Gino is the main star, Khonjin has a diminished role.
- Postmodernism: A much more pronounced example than the original series - where Khonjin House had a very thin fourth wall with Negative Continuity, Gino Show destroys it outright, along with most of the other walls for good measure; the cast simultaneously are and aren't Animated Actors, and the "show" is both the YouTube series and the in-universe Show Within a Show which has a talk show format the original series never had. Yeah, good luck with that.
- Putting the Band Back Together: Khonjin tries to get Gay Spaghetti Chef and Ruther back to the show, but they've moved on with their lives and clearly want nothing to do with Khonjin and his antics anymore.
- Title Drop: "Carpenter", "Forklight", and "Miracle" are name-dropped by the characters. Technically speaking, the first episode does it as well, since it is literally titled "The".
- Took a Level in Jerkass: In-Universe. Gino amps up his poltiically incorrect behavior in hopes of getting the show cancelled quicker. They all backfire and make the show even more popular as his shocking behavior brings them more viewers. It worsens with Danielle maliciously editing the footage to make him appear more politically correct and genuinely misunderstood.
- Vignette Episode: "Forklight" is a series of YouTube Poop shorts based on common ads that are interrupting Gino's latest episode.