An abridged series is an animation--typically a movie, tv show, or video game-- that is edited to be a shorter and fandubbed, usually for reasons of comedic parody. They are then usually posted on video websites, such as Youtube. The first and perhaps most popular example is the Yugioh: The Abridged Series which was created by LittleKurioh. Abridged series are sometimes created from collaborations, such as TeamFourStars which is doing an abridged series of DragonBallZ.
"Yugioh The Abridged Series is hillarious. It has terrific voice acting, writing, and editing."
"Adamwestlapdog made a funny abridged series on Zelda."
"NeighborhoodClucky's abridged movies awesome."
A youtube series parodying original TV series (usually anime) by taking clips from the show and dubbing them to make fun of the characters, plot, and over all the entire show.
"Dude! Avatar: The Abridged Series is so hilarious!"
"Yeah! I love how they made Zuko whiny, Jet paranoid, and Haru gay!"
The most hilarious show, ever. They parody DBZ, along with everything else imaginable. Made by Team Four Star, they have, hands down, made pure, solid gold here.
Quotes from DBZ Abridged:
UNCLE RADITZ IS PISSED! *bitchslaps Gohan*
No, my space pod! My space armor!
Response: We get it, you're from space!
A phenomenon in film/television series, most notably streaming series, where the main premise is drawn out to such a point that it takes an entire season or more to get the parts of the series the audience is actually interested in seeing.
For example, if a series is titled "Surf Dracula," a majority of viewers would tune in expecting to see Dracula surfing by the first or second episode. However, the entire first season would instead be tedious padding and backstory before finally ending with Dracula surfing in the last five minutes of the season finale.
I watched "Smallville" on Netflix the other day. Dude, it was ten seasons of filler before he finally flew! Major Surf Dracula Syndrome!
Finding your way back to the truth by fixing on one verified fact and working out from there, the way you navigate by the North Star when everything around you is spinning.
Rumours were flyingeverywhere, so she went northstarring — one checked fact at a time.
A plate of brown consists of foods that have little to no nutritional value, and are typically deep fried. A true plate of brown will also be accompanied by a dark soda.