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The Crazy-Ass Group Show: The Series, Television Presentation (or simply just The Crazy-Ass Group Show) is a French-American-Canadian adult animated black comedy television series created by Ryan Corbeil and Casey Alexander for the streaming service, HBO Max. The show debuted on HBO Max in February of 2021 and is currently on its 13th season.

The show centers on numerous characters from various franchises all in the titular group who roam around the city of San-Los AngelAntonioyorkytro (a portmanteau of various real-life megacities) to protect their citizens from villains & to prevent any shenanigans happening while doing random things during their spare time.

The show has its own video game called The Crazy-Ass Group Game: The Game, A Game with Locomotives, as well as a movie called The Crazy-Ass Group Movie: The Movie, An Animated Feature Film, as well as 6 spin-offs.

This show contains examples of the following tropes.

 * Aborted Arc: According to one of the writers, multiple story ideas were scrapped due to convience.
 * Mario and Luigi were meant to have a story arc of them saving Peach from one episode in Season 2.
 * Mr. Kat was going to miss his child that he gave birth to in "Pregnant Kat".
 * After the episode "Meet The Emperor", it seemed that Luz and Amity would be hunted down by Belos, Eggman, Killer Moth, and Bowser, only for the plot point to be abandoned in the next episode.
 * Acting for Two (Trivia): For his debut episode, Wrath shared his voice actor with Lynn Loud Jr. This was averted starting from "The Neverending Loop of Cube", where he is voiced by Casey Mongillo, who does a rather good job at voicing him.
 * Adaptational Dumbass:
 * Luigi here is an immature, annoying and clumsy idiot who doesn't think twice before doing something, is obsessed with spaghetti, and even would bash on Americans who are not from Brooklyn.
 * Waluigi, like Luigi, here is an even more annoying idiot than before, treats tacos as if they were a religion and mostly acts like a Mexican stereotype, despite being Italian.
 * Patrick Star here is portrayed as an immature moron who's as dumb as a bag of rocks and only has the purpose of telling too many corny and unfunny jokes in the series.
 * Adaptational Gender Identity:
 * Wrath, who was a cis male in his home series (albeit an androgynous-looking one), is a demiboy here.
 * Brighton and Checky are now nonbinary.
 * According to The Crazy-Ass Guide Book, Allen Walker is a trans man.
 * Adaptational Job Change: Kimihiro Watanuki, who took over Yuuko's duties after her death in his home series, now runs a café here.
 * Adaptational Sexuality: Although they are usually kept to their normal sexualities, a lot of the characters have been bent to bisexuality (with some characters even being pansexual) for fan service.
 * Blake infamously became asexual in this series, as opposed to being bisexual.
 * Depraved Bisexuals: Just about everyone in the Crazy-Ass Group can easily be turned on by a mere look at someone attractive, and sometimes not even that.
 * Adored By The Network (Trivia): And how! This show gets treated fairly well by most of the channels and streaming services (especially by HBO Max) it airs on. It often gets mistreated by TV channels operating in conservative countries, however.
 * Age Lift:
 * Lincoln Loud gets aged up to about 16 years old in this series.
 * Soul and Maka, whose ages were left ambiguous in their home series, are 23 years old here.
 * Meryl Hinton, despite being 14 years old in her original series, is depicted as a 17 year old here.
 * All-Star Cast (Trivia): Natch.
 * Artistic License – Physics: There is a scene in the episode "The Fat Red Circle" in which someone (later revealed to be Roger in one of his personas) hits Grimmy with a car, making him fly into the sun. In real life, to hit Grimmy that far into space, the car would probably need to be at an incredibly high speed.
 * Arch-Enemy: Everyone in the show has someone that makes the other's life a living hell. The best examples are:
 * Bowser is this to Mario, Luigi, Peach, and Toad. Bowser and Mario make it clear how much they hate each other and Bowser shows a longing to rape Peach. Bowser even admits to simply wanting to abuse Mario for as long as possible.
 * Eggman to Sonic. Although both are constantly mistreated, they want nothing more than to ruin each other's lives. In the 2-hour Season Premiere, Eggman jumps and flosses in excitement when he believes Sonic was killed by Mephiles.
 * Belos to Luz. Belos is fairly clearly out to kill Luz. He even calls her homophobic slurs just to spite her. Though, they still talked about breaking into homes, showing some form of tolerance.
 * Maddie acts as one to Thomas the Tank Engine, the U Got 45'd gang, and the Starch Brotherhood. Despite being part of the same group, they have no care for each other. Simply saying that they hate each other is a massive understatement.
 * Lilith Aensland and Amy Sorel to Ness and Alisa Bosconovitch. Lilith Aensland always had an extreme rivalry with the two, while Amy Sorel is her slave. Both of them enjoy making Ness cry on purpose while threatening to kill Alisa, saying that they don't even care if they are hurt or dead.
 * Big Ball of Violence: Isabela Madrigal and Ann Takamaki get into one in "Ann's Taxi".
 * Black Comedy Rape: Happens more often than it should.
 * Butt-Monkey: Everyone has at least one moment of unnecessary treatment.
 * Cerebus Rollercoaster: As a result of this series having multiple writers, this is bound to happen at any time. Season 9 had it the worst, with one head writer advocating for more drama-based episodes clashing with the other writers.
 * Chuck Cunningham Syndrome: POE-tan after season 3, and the Starch Brotherhood after season 9, just to name a few.
 * Console Cameo: Several Nintendo and PlayStation consoles (mostly the older ones for the latter) can be found as easter eggs.
 * Cool Car: The Crazy-Ass Group Mobile.
 * Creator Backlash (Trivia): Several cases of this from the creators of some of the source media have been reported.
 * Creator's Pet (YMMV): Alastor and Randy Marsh. Nicole and Roger were also this in Season 2. Ness also qualifies for this in Season 12.
 * Cross-Regional Voice Acting (Trivia): Inevitable given the sheer amount of characters appearing. Season 9 had it the most, with a few Dallas-based voice actors (Aaron Dismuke, Justin Briner, and Micah Solusod) appearing alongside the mostly LA-based cast. Most of the BlakeIsHere characters' voice actors are based out in London, Manchester, and Cardiff as well.
 * Ensemble Dark Horse (YMMV): BlakeIsHere, Rebel Friend and Thomas the Tank Engine are well-liked by both fans and the general audience, including fans of their home series'.
 * Flanderization: A fatal flaw of the series is that there are way too many characters that suffer from this.
 * Gross-Out Humor: A staple of the series.
 * Hostility on the Set (Trivia): Not a few instances of this have happened among the voice actors.
 * Jumping the Shark: Season 5 added numerous Disney-owned characters to the series, which caused no shortage of uproar among fans.
 * Karma Houdini: Anyone can be this.
 * Manchild: Walter White, P.I.X.A.L and Lloyd Garmadon. Tommy Andreasen did not approve of these versions of the characters, to the point where he once wanted to sue HBO Max.
 * Massive Multiplayer Crossover: Correlates to Weird Crossover.
 * Nostalgia Filter: Roley.
 * Only Sane Man: There are many members of the titular group who are qualified for this status.
 * The Other Darrin (Trivia): Although many of the original voice actors get to reprise their roles, some others aren't so lucky.
 * Johnny Yong Bosch voices Edward Elric instead of Vic Micnogna for fairly obvious reasons.
 * Justin Briner replaces Todd Haberkorn as Allen Walker.
 * Product Placement: Lots of it.
 * Ron the Death Eater (YMMV): Soul, Maka, Edward Elric, Alphonse Elric, Allen Walker, Crona, and Death the Kid were all subject to a severe case of this in half of their appearances in the show. If fans of their home series' aren't bashing them for how out of character they are, they generally make theories on why they were treated that way in the first place (one popular theory says that it was due to the creators openly hating on anime they don't even watch).
 * Screwed by the Network (Trivia):
 * This show is generally given the cold shoulder in conservative countries, especially in Muslim-majority countries such as Indonesia and India.
 * Sequel Episode: Multiple, with the most notable one being "Sleepover at Maka's", a sequel to "The Adventure Truly Begins", dealing with what happens after the episode.
 * Sitcom Arch-Nemesis: Mostly coincides with anything in Arch-Enemy (See above) and Unseen Rivals.
 * Smart Ball: Peter Griffin, on occasion. Such instances are regarded to be his best moments.
 * Spin-Off: Has several of them, which are:
 * The Loona and Kat Show
 * Maddie's Epic TV Series
 * The Ness and Alisa Funtime Show
 * The Randy and Alastor Shenanigans, which shows how egregious their status as Creator's Pets has become,
 * Isabela's Wack Show, which heavily relies on Stylistic Suck, and only lasted for 26 episodes, and
 * Girl's Night Out, which is a 13-episode mini-series airing a new episode every Saturday starting July 23.
 * Squirrels in My Pants: Exaggerated in the episode "Animals Inside Clothing", which is all about this trope.
 * Status Quo Is God: Sadly the case for this series, and not only that, but the status quo seems to have caused fans of the series to view any episode that dares deviate from it in a negative light.
 * The Scrappy (YMMV): Wrath, Soul, Maka, Edward Elric, Alphonse Elric, Allen Walker, Crona, and Death the Kid were widely hated by both fans and the general audience, including fans of their home series'. Giving them the nickname, The Hated 8.
 * Tickle Torture: Happens several times in the series, and is the main focus of "Breast And Butt Tickle" in season 5 and "Positions P4's Tickle Factory" in Season 10.