The George Washington Show

**The George Washington Show** is a text-to-speech "comedy" series about George Washington and his friends living in a modern world, created by DiamondMinerStudios.

## History

The inspiration for the show came from the **Sassy George Washington** meme, also known as "The Captioned Adventures of George Washington." The meme consists of paintings of George Washington with captions added to create humor to the situations portrayed. In addition, partial inspiration came from Microsoft Sam videos, namely "Microsoft Sam's Big Vacation." The work for the first episode began in late 2015, but it was not released. Later, another episode was made, and it was uploaded as the first video to the DiamondMinerStudios channel. The show was initially made with Windows Live Movie Maker on a crappy Windows 8 laptop, so the visual editing was very static and basic. There was also a weird quirk where not every image took up the whole 16:9 frame due to the limitations of Movie Maker.

The show was also originally planned to have 10 episodes per season, but didn't even make it past episode 3. After that, it went on a hiatus that lasted from 1/24/16 to 6/13/17, the longest gap between episodes in the show's history.

## The Show Today

Eventually, the show did return, with a change of direction. The show is now planned to have 6-8 episodes per season. It's now here to stay, and this time it's even more outrageous because the episodes are now created with Sony Vegas Pro 11. Many often include simple animations using the software, and the show now features occasional long-form story arcs/sagas spanning multiple episodes. In addition, the episodes have generally increased in length, occasionally going on for over an hour.

The show also has an upgraded, consistent 16:9 widescreen aspect ratio.

## Voice Cast

Microsoft Sam - George Washington

Microsoft Mike - Billy

MechaHitler v3 - Robosoft Three

Mike Hunt - Microsoft Sam (pitch shifted low)

Donald Trump - Microsoft Sam (pitch shifted high)

Shrek - American Male No. 1

Shaggy - Microsoft Mike

Tulip - Microsoft Mary

## Major Characters

1. George
2. Billy
3. MechaHitler v3
4. Donald Trump
5. Shrek
6. Mike Hunt
7. Shaggy
8. Tulip

## Minor Characters

1. Ben Franklin
2. Joy
3. Ghost Children
4. McDonald's Cashier
5. Donkey

## Villains

1. Martha (Ghost of Martha)
2. Hillary Clinton
3. Dreck
4. Sledgehammer Sam
5. Dr. Robotnik
6. Thanos
7. Mysterious Russian Man

## Episodes

### Season 1

1. The Magical Crumpet
2. The Mystical Walmart
3. War
4. HALE HORTLER
5. An onion-flavored thingy or something
6. Martha's Secret
7. A Ghostly Gamble

### Season 2

1. MERICA
2. A Magical Something or Other
3. A New Threat
4. MemeDonald's
5. Sledgehammer Shenanigans
6. Saving Christmas
7. New Year's Resolution

### Season 3

1. A Very Nonsensical St. Patrick's Day
2. The War for Easter
3. The Fourth of July... Again
4. End of the World
5. An Old Enemy Returns
6. The Final Showdown

### Season 4

1. The Halloween Heist
2. A George Washington Thanksgiving
3. The Christmas Conflict
4. The Cooldown

## Running Gags / Tropes

* "Shut up Billy" - George tells Billy to shut the fuck up a lot.
* George's Rant-Roasting Skills - something recently revealed about his character.
* Ben Franklin - he always seems to annoy George and cut him off, to which George yells at him in annoyance.
* Guns and Fights - George and his friends frequently go beyond the realm of verbal conflicts, using weapons anywhere from standard firearms to motherfucking onions.
* George's Intro - "ey yo wassup mah homies it's me George Washington and today..."
* Cutoff Prevention - in almost every episode since day one.
* Stores - George frequently goes to stores and other areas meant for shopping for seemingly nonsensical reasons.
* Interruptions - especially in episodes from 2017 and later, characters often cut off another mid sentence or are cut off by text and credits for comedic effect.
* Ear Rape - only present in episodes from 2017 and later. Name says it all.
* Credits Copyright Warning - a gag running since S1E2, where a random punchline about copyright will be in the credits where the original disclaimer was in S1E1.
* Unnecessary Swearing - swearing was introduced in S1E4, and has been included since. This is a gag because characters often use swear words in sentences that would have been fine without them, and frequently drop cluster F-bombs.
* SEXE FOODS - a lot of this. For example, S1E1's plot focuses on a magic crumpet, S1E2 has George buy Doritos, and one of George's main weapons he got in S1E5 is the Magical Sexy Golden Onion of Power.
* George's 999 Billion Dollars - he got scammed out of it by Ben Franklin in S1E2, and has been hellbent on getting it back since. This trope is much less prevalent after George won tons of money from slot machines in S3E2.
* 4th Wall Breaking - the characters, especially George and Hitler, do this a lot.
* Political Satire - this is mostly done against democratic liberals because Sir Shrek is a republican conservative. HAHA leave your angry comments below.
* Donald Trump - 'nuff said.
* Single Frame Flashes - introduced in S1E4, an image or text will sometimes flash over the screen, so only the quickest people will be able to pause the video and see it.
* Subtitle Humor - often times the message will contain an unnecessary swear word, say something completely nonsensical and random, or display a message asking for help as if the creator of the video were being held hostage and forced to make the video.
* References - almost every episode, there is a reference to some other kind of media. One notable example is Hitler's change to MechaHitler being a reference to Cards Against Humanity, in which one card reads "MechaHitler."
* Rollercoasters - George and friends often go to amusement parks and ride these. Bonus points if it includes Sonic Adventure 2 music.
* Video Game Music - makes up most of the background music in the show.

## Known Weapons

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1. George's Double Barrel Remington
2. Magical Sexy Golden Onion of Power (given to George by Shrek)
3. sexy liberal killing gun machine thingy (M1 Garand)
4. MechaHitler v1's rifle
5. MechaHitler v1's laser pistol
6. MechaHitler v2's missile cannons
7. MechaHitler v2's hand guns (literal hands that are guns, not pistols)
8. MechaHitler v2's shoulder-mounted rocket launchers
9. The Magical Crumpet
10. Dreck's Laser Eyes
11. a Realistic-brand 8-Track Tape Player
12. Hillary Clinton's Laser Eyes
13. Robo-Hillary's Doom Form's Missiles
14. Robo-Hillary's Final Form's Energy Balls
15. Unknown pistol (owned by Donald Trump)
16. McDonald's Cashier's Shotgun
17. Unknown dual pistols (owned by Donald Trump)
18. Dr. Robotnik's .357 Magnum
19. Dr. Robotnik's Automatic Pistol
20. Sledgehammer Sam's Annoying Sledgehammer
21. Hackinator 9000
22. Metropolis' Laser Cannon
23. Wing Fortress' Laser Cannon
24. Great Robotnik Robo
25. Death Egg Robot
26. Genocide Bot
27. Super Robotnik Annihilator
28. Weapons aboard the Flying Battery
29. Eggrobos within Genocide City
30. The Bloody Beautiful Crimson Onion of Power
31. The Goddamn Orgasmic Orange Onion of Power
32. The Sexually Arousing Green Onion of Power
33. The Peepee Erecting Blue Onion of Power
34. The Exceptionally Gay Purple Onion of Power
35. The Almighty Platinum Onion of Power
36. Shaggy's Lazer Eyes
37. MechaHitler v3's Lazer Cannon Mode
38. Various Giant Space Lazers