#this was my first tmc au btw so it's pretty special to me :) i love it a lot it's funny silly

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i know nothing about the sitcom au. but i need to hear about it because it is constantly rotating in my mind like one of them walmart chickens

not me thinking you meant a live chicken rotating in a walmart i am soooooooooo smart and cool

anyways sitcom au is like. exactly what it sounds like. the characters of mandela are put into some weird frankenstein of a 90's (seinfeldish) and early 2010's (those live action disney/nickelodeon shows. you knoe the ones) sitcom and Shit Happens, as it were

uh. tge Very Basics in terms of plot are:

- adam and jonah live together in an appartment in mandela (oh my god they were roommates)

- adam's dream job is to be a paranormal hunter and he does investigations on the "supernatural" activity in his appartment, jonah doesn't really believe in that kind of thing but ze supports him anyway

- adam is. very enthusiastic when it comes to paranormal hunting. he has a corkboard with red strings all over it and everything. he is extremely normal

- one day these two new guys named mark and cesar move into their appartment (they are qpps in this au btw) and adam is completely 100% sure there's a ghost following that cesar guy around. he saw it with his own two eyes he KNOWS it's there. jonah tells him it's cuz he hasn't slept in the past 3 days but he ignores them

- adam hasn't really had a real case before (most of the shit that happens in his appartment is just like. the result of faulty piping or smth) so obviously he immediately jumps onto this

- adam goes to the police (mcpd) to let them know about it, but thatcher and ruth don't believe him at all, telling him to come back once he can prove this "ghost" is real. they didn't mean it seriously but adam's like "alright bet"

- a lot of the episodes (cuz this is a sitcom, the story is very episodic and continuity is pretty much optional) are focused on him trying to get evidence that the ghost he saw is real and dangerous so that mcpd'll finally believe him, with jonah helping out along the way (they still don't believe in ghosts but it's been a while since he's seen adam be this excited about something so ze goes along with it)

- this happens in increasingly silly and stupid ways throughout the show, but every time he actually gets his hands on some evidence it always somehow gets destroyed before he can actually show it to the police

- important to mention that cesar's not at all secretive about being followed by a ghost (aka alt!cesar, who is later revealed to be a straight up demon btw). he would gladly tell adam all about it if he asked but adam thinks that it's "too easy" to ask cesar directly so he insists on doing it his own way. it never works

- comedy ensues

other thingys:

- adam and jonah are extremely emo and scene respectively ever since high school they never grew out of it (for context they are now both 23)

- not all episodes are dedicated to the formula i just talked about. of course there are holiday specials n stuff cuz what show'd be complete without holiday specials but there's also like. a baking competition episode, an amusement park episode, an episode dedicated to mcpd, etc. not every episode has to be about the formula i think

- adam and jonah aren't. uh. the most upstanding citizens in this au. nothing major, mostly just petty theivery and spraypainting grafiti n shit like that. mandela's a pretty slow area in terms of crime otherwise, so most of the calls mcpd gets are about them (which is probably one of the reasons why thatcher and ruth completely dismisses adam's claims about alt!cesar). as such, adam and jonah aren't exactly close with thatcher but they have a "HEYYYYY THATCHY MY MAN WHAT'S UP‼️‼️‼️" "if you call me thatchy ever again i'll punt your asses into next week" "GOOD TO SEE YOU TOO DUDE B)" dynamic w him you feel me

- speaking of which, dave's a part of mcpd in this au! unlike thatcher and ruth, dave is completely convinced that this ghost is real and he even occasionally helps adam with his schemes n stuff

- alt!gabriel is their landlord in this au. he's still satan incarnate but he also runs an apartment. not a single person in the apartment questions it

- this would also be something revealed later on but mark's an ex-paranormal hunter in this au, though he now works in amateur filmmaking. he got a permanent black eye from his time as a paranormal hunter, though he's very vague about what exactly happened

- mark hates talking about that time in his life in general for reasons i won't reveal yet cuz i like to be sneaky >:)

- alt!cesar isn't actually malicious at all he's just a dick

- sarah and eve do exist in this au, they just come in at later episodes (sarah lives out in california, but she occasionally visits mandela since that's where she grew up. eve eventually moves into the complex with everyone else and she and adam are still exes in this au so. hijinx. also eve's even more emo than adam which is an accomplishment to say the least)

- jonah's a homestuckie with a tumblr