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The Nutshack is a Filipino-American animated television series created by Jesse Hernandez and Ramon Lopez, and the first animated television series aimed at a Filipino-American audience. Airing on Myx TV in the United States and Myx in the Philippines, the series lasted two seasons with sixteen episodes in total, airing during 2007 and 2011 (each year for each season). The series follows Filipino-American San Francisco native Phil, whose cousin Jack flies in from the Philippines to live with him and their Tito (Uncle) Dick in the Tenderloin district of the city.

The entire series is available to watch on Myx's official YouTube channel (though it's region-locked in the Philippines). Deleted scenes and other promotional content can be found on the show's official YouTube channel (which is not region-locked in the Philippines).

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• 2D Visuals, 3D Effects: The intro puts 2D characters in a 3D city environment.
• Accent Relapse: Compared to the other Chinese characters in "The Wrath of Ning Ping", Ning Ping's assistant speaks in a surprisingly light accent. He reveals that he's a masked George W. Bush, dropping the accent from then on.
• Actor Allusion: One of the lines for the intro song is, "I got grapes. What you watching, son?" The singer is Filipino rapper NUMP, who had a minor Filipino hit with the song "I Got Grapes".
• A-Cup Angst: Implied for Chita. In "Got Surgery", it's revealed that she has breast implants, and a flashback shows that she had a small chest.
• A Dick in Name: Tito Dick was very much intended to be this.
• Animated Shock Comedy: Contains a lot of swearing, sexual content, and Toilet Humor.
• All Gays are Promiscuous: Rainbow Scout and pretty much every other gay character in this show.
• All Men Are Perverts: The male characters who are straight salivate over snagging "bitches", leer at women who catch their fancy, and will gladly catcall, whether or not the recipients approve. Those who like men are slightly less aggressive, with a stylist who apparently knows Phil's dad pushing Phil to meet him in his office.
• Alternate Reality Episode:
  • "Blind Dick" takes place in a universe inspired by feudal Japan. Tito Dick is a samurai who protects the Tenderloin from ne'er-do-wells, and rescues damsels in distress like Cherry Pie, a geisha.
  • "TT Boy and Utot" takes place in a universe where Phil and Jack are Batman-inspired superheroes, fighting against the machinations of Evil Dick (Tito).
• And There Was Much Rejoicing: In the second part of "The Wrath of Ning Ping", Douche, an employee of the titular mobster who's double-crossed the protagonists, is stabbed to death with a hidden blade. As he bleeds out, Phil celebrates, telling the murderer that he's "hella gangster".
• Art Evolution: The animation marginally improves in season 2... emphasis on "marginally".
• Artistic License – Geography: While the show is said to take place in the Tenderloin district of San Francisco, the characters state they live in Daly City. Daly City, while adjacent to San Francisco, is nowhere near the Tenderloin.
• Asian Buck Teeth: Douche, a Chinese goon of the villainous Ning Ping, has a set of these.
• Asian Speekee Engrish: Common for characters who didn't grow up in the States, like Jack, Tito Dick, and Cherry Pie. Exaggerated with the Chinese characters in "The Wrath of Ning Ping"; they almost all speak in stereotypical accents, with the exception being a disguised George W. Bush.
• Bait-and-Switch: In the first part of "The Wrath of Ning Ping", Phil, Jack, Horatio, Tito Dick, and Chita are chained up by Ning Ping's thugs, one of whom has a gun. Chita lures him over by flaunting her breasts, only for him to compliment her top.
• Battle Strip: In the second part of "The Wrath of Ning Ping", Jack removes his shirt before fighting one of Ning Ping's goons.
• Behavioral Conditioning: Ning Ping, a mobster introduced in "The Wrath of Ning Ping", has been conditioned by George W. Bush and Don Imus to remember embarrassing experiences whenever a bell is rung. During the two-parter, he recalls being rejected by a woman for being Chinese, and being laughed at by kids with whom he wanted to play basketball, one of whom said he had a tiny penis. The bell even rings of its own accord, when he sees masks resembling those worn by a dance troupe to whom he lost a dance-off.
• Bilingual Bonus: Some of the show's humor as found in the characters' names etc. is derived from the Filipino language, for instance Jack's full name punning on "masturbator". Also, as revealed in the pilot, Tito Dick's real name is Richard Cabeza. Cabeza is Spanish for "head"... making him a "Dick Head".
• Bishie Sparkle: In the second part of "The Wrath of Ning Ping", this occurs thrice:
  • Having styled his hair to match that of Edward Cullen, George W. Bush asks Don Imus if he looks like "Twilight". As he poses, slowly throwing down his head, the background brightens up and reddens, and a goofy synth tune plays.
  • He goes on to praise vampires. He asks Imus to check out the glitter of his skin, and the effect recurs, with added sparkles.
  • Later, having turned Jack white, and brainwashed him to join them, Bush and Imus are contacted by Ning Ping, Phil, Tito Dick, Horatio, and Chita. Chita pleads with Jack to remember that he's Filipino. "Is this Filipino?" asks Bush cheekily, striking another dreamy pose with Jack and Imus, a werewolf like Jacob.
• Black Comedy: To the point that it can hardly be called comedy.
• Bound and Gagged: In the first part of "The Wrath of Ning Ping", Phil, Jack, Tito Dick, and Chita are chained to posts by Ning Ping's thugs, while Horatio is left to hang. When the thugs are sufficiently annoyed by the quintet, they gag them as well. The gags come off, but the chains stay on, as the quintet are driven to Ning Ping's factory.
• Brainwashed and Crazy: In the second part of "The Wrath of Ning Ping", Jack is turned white by the Robophobe's laser. This also makes him willing to work with its controllers, George W. Bush and Don Imus, until he's forced back into his senses by the Nutshack gang and Ning Ping.
• Broken Aesop: invoked Parodied in one episode that focuses on plastic surgery, and how it's damaging for peoples' self-esteem and that people should appreciate their natural beauty. Chita, who has been preaching about this throughout the episode, eats her words when she falls head-over-heels for Jack after he becomes muscular through surgery. She then goes on to admit that she herself got plastic surgery for her breasts and nose in the past. The episode ends when everyone else's modifications bust out and ruin their bodies. When Chita tries to take the high ground again and deliver the aesop, Phil calls her a "phony-ass bitch."
• Camp Gay: Several characters have effeminate voices and dress extravagantly. A recurring character in this mould is Rainbow Scout, who gives Jack a cavity check in the pilot. It's evident in the way he dresses and how much he enjoys his job, with him remarking that he isn't even paid.
• Cardiovascular Love: Don Imus, one of the antagonists in "The Wrath of Ning Ping", introduces himself by blowing melty hearts at Douche and George W. Bush, the other antagonist. Both are thrilled by the affection, with Bush stuffing his hearts into his pants.
• Child Soldiers: Tito Dick's plan in "TT Boy and Kid Utot" involves using an army of babies that resemble him.
• Comedic Sociopathy: People get beat up really badly with their injuries visible to the audience. All for the sake of getting some laughs out of people.
• Content Warnings: Once per Episode, before the title sequence. We should add that it's suspiciously similar to South Park's. (i.e. it's the same thing but rearranged and less tongue-in-cheek.)
• Continuity Cavalcade: The last episode, "Battle of the Bay", showcases every major character and some of the transformations featured throughout the series.
• Continuity Nod: Occasionally referenced in the show—in the style of Aqua Teen Hunger Force there is continuity even in episodes that should logically change everything.
• Cool Car: The Jackulator is a Mercedes jeepney shipped from Manila for Jack. It arrives in a boring white, and is customized into a fiery monstrosity by a local auto dealer.
• Copping a Feel: Midway through the second part of "The Wrath of Ning Ping", the heroes are held at gunpoint. Crying that he hasn't had anal sex, Phil grabs one of Chita's breasts.
• Cluster F-Bomb: Nobody really has a filter, especially Phil and Horat.
• Crush Filter: When Jack is introduced to Chita in the pilot, he has an Imagine Spot where she is put under the filter.
• Disproportionate Retribution: Horat's reaction to everything.
• Dirty Old Man: Sanjee, the exclusive porno dealer for Daly City (Yet they somehow also live in the Tenderloin district).
• Dramatic Unmask: Ning Ping, an antagonist in "The Wrath of Ning Ping", is accompanied by an assistant. In the second part, it's revealed that the assistant is wearing a mask; he removes it, showing that he's George W. Bush.
• Drop-In Landlord: Dwayne is Tito Dick and Phil's landlord who desperately attempts to connect with his tenants, but is constantly humiliated by Tito Dick and Phil, and none of the others seem to like him all that much.
• Drugs Are Good: To say the least, drugs and alcohol are glamorized to death in this show.
• Enemy Mine: "The Wrath of Ning Ping" introduces Ning Ping, a Chinese mob boss who forcibly employs Filipino children at his factory, and sucks out fat for use in dolls. He's double-crossed by his assistant, a disguised George W. Bush, and realizes that he should ally with Phil, Tito Dick, Horatio, and Chita.
• Establishing Series Moment: The show's first episode opens with Phil and Tito Dick playing an off-brand Star Wars fighting game which Dick wins by zapping Phil's character in the crotch with lightning in a move he dubs the "Viagra-powered dong snatcher." Shortly after this, there's a shot of Dick walking in on Phil rubbing one out, and it only gets more obscene from there.
• Evil Twin: Used in a demented way in the Halloween episode, "Slasher." See Luke, You Are My Father below.
• Extra-Long Episode: "The Wrath of Ning Ping" is the only two-parter.
• Extremely Short Intro Sequence: The two parts of "The Wrath of Ning Ping" condense the minute-long intro to less than ten seconds.
• Excrement Statement: Jack's talking cyborg tarsier pet Horat flings his poop at people who annoy him (which doesn't exactly take very much effort to do). In the first episode, he does it on Jack's flight into the States, causing chaos and panic.
• Fake Defector: In the first part of "The Wrath of Ning Ping", Douche, an employee at Ning Ping's factory, promises to help Phil, Jack, Tito Dick, Horatio, and Chita stop Ning Ping from exploiting Filipino child labour. In the second part, it's revealed that he never changed his mind, and was leading them to Ning Ping so that they could be killed.
• Freudian Excuse: When he was younger, Ning Ping, introduced in "The Wrath of Ning Ping", was rejected by Filipinos despite his efforts to get to know them; one woman told him she didn't date Chinese people, and after losing a dance-off, he was forced to get a chest tattoo which said I ❤️ FIRIPINOS. Out of bitterness, he established a factory which employs Filipino child labour, with robotic bees resembling the mascot of Jollibee whipping them to keep them on track.
• Funny Afro: Dwayne gets one in "Got Surgery?", and the other characters milk it for all its worth.
  Phil: Is that fucking Bob Ross?!
• Fun T-Shirt: Phil's "Got Nutz" shirt.
• Gag Penis: A chihuahua with a gratuitously large member appears in one episode.
• Gonk: Most of the characters' designs can cross into this.
• Groin Attack: In the first part of "The Wrath of Ning Ping", Douche, an employee of Ning Ping, is struck in the crotch by a hammer. In the second part, Horatio hits a grunt of Ning Ping in the crotch with a nunchuck, disabling him.
• Gross-Out Show: Three minutes into the pilot, you see Phil masturbating. Two minutes after that? Horat throwing poop everywhere in an airplane. It's that kind of show.
• Humongous Mecha: In the second part of "The Wrath of Ning Ping", George W. Bush and Don Imus control the Robophobe, a giant robot adorned with swastikas and the Confederate flag pattern, and being able to shoot a laser which turns people of colour white. They're confronted by the Transforming Mecha of the FOBBots, Phil, Tito Dick, Horatio, Chita, and Ning Ping.
• Hypocritical Humour:
  • In "Got Surgery", Chita, offended by how the guys are leering at female passersby at the mall, decries the belief that women need to change their appearance. Later in the episode, prodded by a suspicious Cherry Pie, she sheepishly reveals that she has breast implants—sizeable ones, from a flashback to her previous appearance—and underwent a rhinoplasty to make her nose less prominent.
  • In quick succession at the end of the second part of "The Wrath of Ning Ping":
    • Ning Ping admits that racism doesn't pay, then apologizes for enslaving Filipinos, whom he calls a "dirty shithole race".
    • Phil tells the viewers to be down with other cultures, even Jewish people.
• I Am Not Shazam: In-Universe. In the second part of "The Wrath of Ning Ping", George W. Bush styles his hair to resemble that of Edward Cullen, asking Don Imus if he looks like "Twilight". Later, he brags to Chita that he, Don Imus, and a whitewashed Jack are "Twilight".
• I Have Boobs, You Must Obey!: Thrice used by Chita in "The Wrath of Ning Ping":
  • The first time this happens, it's subverted. She, Phil, Jack, Horatio, and Tito Dick are chained up by Ning Ping's thugs, one of whom has a gun. She lures him over by flaunting her breasts, only for him to compliment her top. Given that she hates it when the men leer at women, she's offended that her effort was for nothing.
  • As everyone is being driven to Ning Ping's factory by Douche, an employee at the factory, she's convinced by Horatio to use her breasts to distract Douche. Coyly, she asks him to loosen the chains around her chest; this works, and Horatio can attack from above.
  • As the quintet and Douche storm the factory floor, she takes down two guards by showing off her breasts.
• "I Know You're in There Somewhere" Fight: In the second part of "The Wrath of Ning Ping", Jack is turned white by George W. Bush and Don Imus, allying with them to turn the rest of the world white. Phil, Tito Dick, Horatio, Chita, and Ning Ping fight back, with Chita twice reminding Jack of his Filipino identity. The second attempt comes close to succeeding, getting him to remember their time together.
• Instant Flight: Just Add Spinning!: In "The Wrath of Ning Ping", Ning Ping remembers his dance-off with the leader of a dance troupe. The leader flew into the air by spinning incredibly fast, impressing the judges to no end.
• Intentionally Awkward Title: Just try explaining to people what The Nutshack is without absolutely killing the conversation.
• Leitmotif: Dwayne has one (which you might recognize as the theme to You Know What's Bullshit?) which plays every single time he's on the screen.
• "Lesson of the Day" Speech: The second part of "The Wrath of Ning Ping" sees Jack turned white, abandoning his Filipino identity. At the end, having come to his senses with help from the Nutshack gang and Ning Ping, he, Phil, and Chita tell the viewers that racism is wrong, and that people of colour should be proud of who they are, not trying to be white.
• Limited Animation: A very painfully obvious example.
• Luke, You Are My Father: In "Slasher," it's revealed that Jack gave birth after taking a bunch of super-fertility pills, and raised the resulting evil version of himself because, as he admits, it looked like him, and he couldn't help but raise it like his own.
• Male Gaze: If a woman has even a somewhat curvaceous figure, the animators will make sure to emphasize it. This is especially true of Chita, given that she appears so much.
• Match Cut: In the first part of "The Wrath of Ning Ping", Douche, an employee of the titular mobster, is struck in the crotch with a hammer on a rope. Just as the hammer hits home, there's a cut to Ning Ping, cracking a nut.
• Ms. Fanservice: In the second part of "The Wrath of Ning Ping", Phil, Horatio, Tito Dick, Chita, and Ning Ping transform into the FOBBots, a parody of the GoBots. Where the men wear regular jumpsuits, Chita's uniform is low-cut, with a short enough skirt to ensure there are a few Panty Shots.
• Nipple and Dimed: Largely averted. For example, in "Got Surgery", when Chita sees Jack after he's had his fat removed, her nipples are erect under her shirt. She's asked by Horat to "cover up those pencil erasers".
• No-Respect Guy: Dwayne is both Daly City's landlord and the show's resident Token White, making him an easy target for the other characters. He is constantly humiliated by Tito Dick and Phil, and none of the others seem to like him all that much either. Even the show's Theme Tune Rap (in the full version) takes a shot at him!
  Dwayne is a hater! Later, alligator!
• Non-Human Sidekick: Jack's extremely obnoxious talking pet Horat, who is half-robot and half-tarsier.
• Off with His Head!:
  • In "Slasher", Jack's Evil Twin beheads two women giving a man a blowjob.
  • In the second part of "The Wrath of Ning Ping", Horat uses a buzzsaw to behead a grunt working for Ning Ping.
• Pastel-Chalked Freeze Frame: In the second part of "The Wrath of Ning Ping", Phil, Tito Dick, Horatio, Chita, and Ning Ping become the FOBBots, fighting against George W. Bush, Don Imus, and a whitewashed Jack in vehicles which combine into a giant robot. As they approach the antagonists, in their own Humongous Mecha, there's a freeze-frame, with the screen blurring, and every line thickening.
• Previously on…: The second part of "The Wrath of Ning Ping" begins with a recap of the first part.
• Pun-Based Title: The show's title itself is this combined with Double Entendre.
• Punctuated! For! Emphasis!: The theme song abuses this trope in spades. "IT'S. THE. NUTSHACK. IT'S. THE. NUTSHACK."
• Racial Transformation: In the second part of "The Wrath of Ning Ping", George W. Bush and Don Imus control the Robophobe, a Humongous Mecha with a laser which turns people of colour white. Jack is among the many in Daly City subjected to this fate.
• "Rediscovering Roots" Trip: In "Fatherland", Phil, who's lived in the US for much of his life, takes Jack and Horatio to the Philippines to learn what happened to his dad. It becomes clear that he's acclimated to the States when his attempt to speak Tagalog to his cousins miserably fails.
• Shout-Out:
  • "Slasher" is a Halloween Episode, with the characters dressed as various characters from other works. Jack is dressed as Silent Bob, Chita as Chun-Li, Horat as Venom, Sanjee as Aladdin, Angel as Cheech Marin, and Ed as Tommy Chong.
  • "Blind Dick" references Mortal Kombat in Blind Dick's fight against Rainbow Scout and El Pinyot Loco. Street Fighter is referenced as well, with Loco using Blanka's rolling attack and "headbite" and Dick later using the Tatsumaki Senpukyaku.
• Simpleton Voice: Even when he's turned white by the Robophobe's laser, Jack speaks in a deep, slow, phlegmy voice.
• Something Something Leonard Bernstein: The Theme Tune Rap is very hard to understand for most people, barring infamously the line "Tito Dick 'Dickman', baby!"
• Sound-Effect Bleep: Airings on Myx TV sometimes used DJ scratches and/or sounds related to the episode to censor strong profanity.
• Speech-Impaired Animal: Horat's voice is high pitched like Alvin and the Chipmunks, and his robotic enhancements further mess with his voice, making him very hard to understand to the point that later episodes give his lines subtitles by default.
• Speech Impediment: Douche, a character in "The Wrath of Ning Ping", has a pronounced stutter.
• Status Quo Is God: Technically, only the samurai episode is out of continuity. Even the episode where Tito Dick "Dickman" is a supervillain counts. Things just sort of snap back to normal and the heroes routinely ignore their powers unless it's for a gag.
• Stock Footage:
  • When the show isn't re-using audio clips or animation from different episodes, it'll sometimes reuse entire scenes from within the same episode.
  • Exaggerated with the intro; which has the characters interacting in a CG animated version of their city, yet all of them are still animated using stock footage from the show.
• Stock Sound Effects: Some episodes use Apple's stock iMovie sound effects — the same sound effects that can be heard in many amateur YouTube videos.
• Superhero Episode: Two with actual superheroes, three if you count a Tokusatsu tribute in Bomb China pt. 2, four if you count the samurai movie episode, five if you count the Highlander parody, six if you count the protagonists coming back from the dead with unique skills as their Inner Mexican. That's not even counting a cutaway gag with Jack and Phil as Rambo-alikes. That's over a third of the series—almost enough to qualify as a superhero show!
• Take That!:
  • Random celebrities are often dissed for no reason and without context.
    Horat: Man, just say the words, honey, and I'll make this door look like Wilmer Valderrama's talent: nonexistent!
  • In "The Wrath of Ning Ping", the eponymous antagonist runs a factory where anthropomorphic, fanged bees dressed like bellhops whip workers to keep them focused. The bees greatly resemble the mascot of Filipino restaurant chain Jollibee, and are blatantly called "Jollibee" by Ning Ping. Ning Ping is a Chinese man who relies on Filipino child labour; at best, this implies that Jollibee is a hollow cultural icon.
• Theme Tune Rap: A pretty infamous example too.
• Theme Tune Roll Call: The theme tune describes all of the characters.
• Thick-Line Animation: A rather ugly-looking example of this trope.
• Those Two Guys: Tuquack and Snoop Duck are never seen apart and exist only to make a couple of bird poop jokes.
• Title Theme Tune: The line "It's the Nutshack!" shows up in the show's full theme tune a total of 28 times, no less.
• Toilet Humour: Very often, especially with Horat due to his habit of flinging feces everywhere.
• Transforming Mecha: In the second part of "The Wrath of Ning Ping", Phil, Tito Dick, Horatio, and Ning Ping become the FOBBots, fighting the giant robot of George W. Bush and Don Imus in their own robot, resembling Voltron.
• Voice of the Legion: Jesus speaks in this way.
• Voiceover Letter: In the first part of "The Wrath of Ning Ping", Douche, a worker at Ning Ping's factory, is convinced to quit. He sends a message in this regard to Ning Ping, with it being read by him as Ning Ping reads it on his computer.
• Vulgar Humor: Constantly in every single episode.
• We Will Meet Again: In "The Wrath of Ning Ping", George W. Bush and Don Imus are defeated by Phil, Tito Dick, Horatio, Chita, and Ning Ping. As they're carried away by the police, Bush angrily tells the heroes, "This ain't the last time you heard from me—" A Sound-Effect Bleep suggests he's slurred the heroes.
• Where the Hell Is Springfield?: They're in San Francisco, but the characters (and the show's creators) constantly switch between calling the place they live in Daly City and the Tenderloin, which are two different locations.
  • In "Jeepney Episode", Phil and Jack visit a body shop called DC Customs, with the DC probably standing for Daly City. "Got Surgery?", the following episode, has a Show Within a Show called DC, an Affectionate Parody of The O.C..
  • "Slasher" sees Chita mention the Tenderloin as the location, and that the Castro District is nearby the Tenderloin (which is accurate enough in real life), suggesting that the show takes place in mid-town San Francisco.
• World of Jerkass: Most of the characters are pretty unpleasant people, with the only characters that could be construed as "nice" being Jack and Chita, and even they have their moments of being just as bad as everyone else (although in Jack's defense, his jerkass moments come moreso from Phil's poor influence on him).
• You Meddling Kids: In "The Wrath of Ning Ping", George W. Bush and Don Imus are defeated by Phil, Tito Dick, Horatio, Chita, and Ning Ping. As they're carried away by the police, Imus grumbles, "And we would've gotten away with it if it wasn't for those meddling—" A Sound-Effect Bleep suggests he's slurred the heroes.
• You Wake Up in a Room: In the first part of "The Wrath of Ning Ping", Jack wakes up in an unknown bathroom with an unknown Chinese man. His pants are down, there's a hole in his ass, he has a key which says NP, and he's apparently called Phil for help. It's soon revealed that his fat was to be used in making dolls for Ning Ping, a sinister industrialist.