I'm With Stupid

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I'm With Stupid is a media franchise created by -Twinkie - Ultimate Trinitarian-. It consists of the titular series that ran on Club Penguin Wiki from October 23, 2016 to January 4, 2022, and a sequel series named You're Without Intelligence, which premiered on January 18, 2023. The universe is a collection of various silly characters. These characters were displayed in large images of them in rows from 2016 to 2021, when I'm With Stupid switched to a trading card format. The change was made due to the characters becoming more detailed and requiring larger visibility. I'm With Stupid was inducted into the wiki's blog hall of fame in 2017. The series ended with the release of I'm With Stupid 21.

I'm With Stupid was only created with Adobe Flash Professional/Adobe Animate until the Quarantine Quadrilogy, which introduced new production methods to the series. I'm With Stupid 16 was created in MS Paint, most of I'm With Stupid 18 was hand drawn on paper, and I'm With Stupid 19 was produced in Autodesk SketchBook. IWS17 was the only edition of the Quarantine Quadrilogy created in Flash. Production of the series mostly remained in SketchBook from May 2020 until the end of series production in 2021. The I'm With Stupid 5th Anniversary Special was produced in Adobe Animate as the early seasons were.

You're Without Intelligence was announced in November 2022 and premiered in January 2023.

## I'm With Stupid

### Original Run (2016-2017)

I'm With Stupid's original run began with the first season's premiere on October 23, 2016. The show's first era is retrospectively seen as its best and most popular one. The original run went on until April 12, 2017, when I'm With Stupid was cancelled due to the show's controversial sixth season, which was published in March of that year.

### Sophomore Run (2017)

I'm With Stupid was officially revived for five more seasons on July 22, 2017, with the premiere of season seven. The second iteration of I'm With Stupid saw higher volumes of characters per season with a decline in design quality. The series celebrated its one year anniversary with season 10 on October 23. The show was given a proper ending with season 11 on December 15.

### I'm With Stupid: The Movie (2018)

Production for a one season revival of I'm With Stupid began in April 2018. A couple of months into production, the course of the project was changed to create a longer version which would become known as I'm With Stupid: The Movie. The movie was officially announced in June of that year and premiered on October 23 to celebrate the franchise's two year anniversary.

### Spinoff, Second Revival, and the Quarantine Quadrilogy (2018-2020)

In 2018, during the late stages of production of I'm With Stupid: The Movie, work began on a spinoff titled You're Without Intelligence. Only a few characters were designed and the project was never officially released. In June 2019, production of IWS season 12 began by using what was created of YWI and creating all new characters. On July 19, a pre-season edition was published. Season 12 officially premiered four days later on July 23. The title "You're Without Intelligence" was picked up again in late 2022 when another spinoff went into production.

Seasons 13 and 14, two of the three lowest rated seasons, were published as a double premiere on October 3. Season 15, a much higher quality production, premiered on October 23 to celebrate the series' third anniversary.

During production of season 16, the show was cancelled again on December 20, 2019, due to producer -Twinkie - Ultimate Trinitarian-'s thought that the show had reached its full potential. However, this cancellation proved to only be a minor hiatus, as I'm With Stupid, the shortest edition of the series, premiered on March 22, 2020, as a result of shutdowns related to the COVID-19 pandemic. This era of I'm With Stupid saw experimental formats introduced to the series. The word "season" was dropped from the official release titles at this time. The Quarantine Quadrilogy ended with IWS19 on May 30.

### Stupid 20s (2020-2022)

I'm With Stupid 20 began work in June 2020 and was intended to release for the show's fourth anniversary in October. The original designs for the season were heavily influenced by the events of spring and summer 2020, such as the COVID-19 pandemic, the Black Lives Matter protests, and the ongoing election season. Due to distaste with the quality of the production, -Twinkie - Ultimate Trinitarian- scrapped the work and put I'm With Stupid on hiatus on August 1. In early 2021, Twinkie began reworking the project. Characters were either redesigned or scrapped and new characters were created. I'm With Stupid 20 premiered on April Fools Day 2021, introducing a new trading card format to the series.

I'm With Stupid 20.5, an edition showcasing scrapped characters, prototype designs, and new characters, premiered on April 28, 2021. In May of that year, high resolution remasters replaced select I'm With Stupid season photos. I'm With Stupid 20.9, a mini release similar to 20.5, was released on September 22nd. The I'm With Stupid 5th Anniversary Special was set to premiere on October 23, 2021, but was released three days early.

I'm With Stupid 21 began production on July 15 and was released on January 4, 2022, as the official finale of the franchise. Unlike all of the other editions of the series, including the movie and specials, I'm With Stupid 21 does not have an intro or opening statement by Twinkie, but rather goes straight into a story set in 2062, presented as a POV conversation with a nurse after waking up from a coma. The edition also lacks a closing statement, instead closing with the classic I'm With Stupid logo at the end of the hospital dialog. The series ended with an estimated total of 931 characters published.

## You're Without Intelligence

### Production and Current Run (2022-)

On November 28, 2022, Twinkie posted a teaser photo of the logo of You're Without Intelligence, indicating that a sequel series was in production. The series premiered on January 18, 2023 with 22 characters and various segments in its first season. The Halloween themed second season premiered in October 2023 with regard to the franchise's seventh anniversary.