is a sci-fi comedy animated web series by Naisekai, with each episode showing life in a world without something commonplace (such as chairs, pockets, or the number two). This usually leads to hilarious effects and silly workarounds for the missing item, with every situation ending up with there being a simple lesson... There's a damn good reason we have those things...This original Spanish-language version, Un Mundo Sin..., is available on Naisekai's YouTube channel alongside some other series such as 1 Minuto en el Futuro (1 Minute in the Future with its first episode having an English dub premiering on 10th May 2025) and Los Científicos (The Scientists), a Spin-Off starring the scientists from this series.
All spoilers are unmarked due to the nature of the series.
A World Without... Tropes:
- All of Time at Once: The episode "A World Without... Time" is like this, with multiple suns, a person petting an Ankylosaurus, and a T-Rex at a funeral with a caveman and the coffin turning into a log.
- Always Night: Justified in "A World Without... Sun", as there's nothing to illuminate the skies beyond some other faraway stars. The scientists try to replicate the sun, but it turns out to be a bad idea.
- Ate the Plate: Happens in "A World Without... Garbage", as a popsicle has an edible stick and bubblegum wrapper, complete with a kid blowing a bubble with a barcode on it.
- Bait-and-Switch: Used rather frequently throughout the series to highlight the absence of the thing in question, such as in "A World Without... Problems", what appears to be an insurance firm building reveals to be a restaurant after a tree falls over. One is in the episode A World Without... Science, as you wonder what the three scientists are doing... only for their only appearance being a parallel version, since scientists can't exist.
- Born Lucky:
- Everyone and everything in "A World Without... Problems", as every apparent accident coincidentally causes something beneficial, such as a rolling orange turning off an oven and a falling log straightening out a bent lamppost.
- In "A World Without... Losers", you win just by participating, so you can have everyone including the reporter and their camera crew winning the Olympics, casinos that are more like banks and everyone living in luxury.
- Born as an Adult: in "A World without....Children", humans are born has Adults, with full clothes and even the capacity to speak, but they still can and will act like children.
- Breaking the Fourth Wall: In "A World Without... Windows", the scientists use a hammer labelled with "In case of emergency break the fourth wall" and are surprised and disgusted by the audience.
- Brick Joke: In A World Without... Fruit, the famous Apple Of Discord from the Garden Of Eden is replaced by a piece of broccoli. Much later, a parody of Apple uses the brand name Broccoli, as if broccoli has outright replaced apples in the universe.
- Cardboard Prison: Parodied in "A World Without... Walls". Since prisons don't have walls, prisoners can escape very easily, yet the guards never seem to realize why criminals are able to escape without any effort.
- Companion Cube: In "A World Without... Children", the daycare is filled with inanimate objects that people treat like children (or pets).
- Comically Missing the Point: In several episodes, characters make hilariously bad leaps of logic, purely due to what was removed from the universe, with the three scientists often the worst offenders.
- Complexity Addiction:
- The three scientists have this in many episodes, with overly complex solutions to replace whatever is missing in their world, such as a technological waist pack in "A World Without... Pockets".
- Also, in many episodes, hugely complex machines replace otherwise simple concepts because those simple concepts don't exist, but items that used them do.
- "Could Have Avoided This!" Plot: Teo in "A World Without... Pockets" realizes this when Trini shows he could've just used a purse instead of making a complicated waist pack.
- Cyclops: In "A World Without... The Number Two", many of the characters have only one eye, or three eyes, as they can't have only two.
- Complete Immortality: In "A World Without... Death", Death does not exist as a concept, so all human beings can live forever and not die in any way, some have even been around for thousands of years and dozens of generations.
- Disaster Dominoes: In "A World Without... Pockets", one person dropping their things causes a chain reaction of many others in the same train dropping their things as well, since they are all holding them precariously.
- Feel No Pain: Everybody in "A World Without... Pain". A man doesn't even feel a thing even as he's tortured. It also extends to emotional pain too, with John and Barbara becoming Amicable Exes after they break up with no heartbreak.
- Formula-Breaking Episode: Most episodes are structured as a series of short skits. "A World Without... End" is not. Instead, it consists almost entirely of one character's unending walk through an unending world of unending events, set in one continuous 7-minute shot. The sequence loops through the same locations several times, each time with slight alterations. The end of the episode shows a character with a long white beard (possibly God) writing a story about a presumably infinite journey.
- Funny Background Event: In A World Without... Science, as that universe's version of the three scientists are about to begin a jam session, a portal appears nearby, the actual scientists appearing out of it briefly before they vanish back to whence they came.
- Gone Horribly Right: "Spheres", "Number 2", "Music", "Ducks", "Windows", "Choices", "Names", and "Sun" have the concepts be re-invented, resulting in some kind of catastrophe or otherwise not helping. In "Elbows", nothing bad happens, however.
- Heads, Tails, Edge: The scientists in "A World Without... Decisions" attempt to flip a coin to decide between two equations, but it lands on its edge. It starts tipping over onto one side just as the video ends.
- Horrible Judge of Character: The kids playing a soccer game in "A World Without... Memory" don't invite a person dressed like a professional athlete and instead want to ask a group that looks like stereotypical thugs. Justified since they would have no recollection of what thugs are.
- Leaning on the Fourth Wall: "A World Without... Chairs", "A World Without... Fire", "A World Without... Problems", "A World Without... Pain", "A World Without... Sun" have people try to reference something as if the subject is still present, but are unable to, lampshading how certain traditions would be lost in such case.Trini: Is it really necessary to come outside and eat sausages on a stick?Teo: And facing some logs? What are they for?Tom: It doesn't make sense. Let's go back inside.
- Mad Scientist: The three recurring scientist characters are a milder version of this, but they certainly make their fair share of overly complex and world-destroying inventions, usually to try to solve the paradox of the missing item in the episode, such as a portal instead of a window, or a mechanical hand lifting backpack instead of stairs. Hilariously, in A World Without... Science, they're seen sneaking into said world for a split second since it's their whole profession that no longer really exists.
- Major Injury Underreaction: "A World Without... Pain" plays this trope well, especially in the part where two criminals interrogate a guy tied in a chair while punching him and crushing his hand with a hammer. The victim's reaction? Nothing at all, Not even a single scream.
- No-Dialogue Episode: "A World Without... Sound" has absolutely no sound during the episode. There are subtitles for the viewer to see what characters are trying to speak.
- No Ending: "A World Without... End" focuses on a man who perpetually lives the same routine repeatedly, walking in a straight line. The video's ending has a writer writing a story that goes on forever, and the episode even ends on To Be Continued instead of The End like other episodes.
- No OSHA Compliance: Most construction qualifies in "A World Without... Rulers", as everything is shoddily and haphazardly constructed, including a wobbly-drawn bridge that cars continually crash on.
- No Sense of Direction: In "A World Without... Maps", people cannot navigate anywhere or point out the location of something since there's nothing to navigate with.
- Oral Tradition: Libraries have people who memorize all the "books" in "A World Without... Writing" and repeat them back to listeners when requested.
- Our Nudity Is Different: "A World Without... Clothes" is naturally about a world where everyone is naked, and the only thing they feel shy about is their feet.
- The Pen Is Mightier: People battle to the death with pencils in "A World Without... Writing", as they certainly don't use them for writing.
- Police Lineup: Played with in "A World Without... Windows", as the lineup for a murder investigation is done with the suspects and the witness right next to each other, so the witness is understandably nervous about pointing out who did it.
- Portal Cut: In "A World Without... Windows", the three scientists attempt to invent a portal that passes through walls to see the outside from the inside, but it malfunctions and cuts Teo in half.
- Reality-Breaking Paradox:
- In "A World Without... Spheres", once someone manages to make a sphere, it turns into a black hole and sucks up the solar system.
- The episode A World Without... A World Without... implies that the world ends because of some undefined cataclysm due to the paradox.
- Running Gag: Most episodes show the scientists seemingly figuring out what is obviously missing, only to build a flawed and overly complicated contraption instead.
- Scenery Censor: Used frequently in "A World Without... Clothes", even once with multiple objects directly in line with each other on a table.
- Serenade Your Lover: Parodied in "A World Without... Windows". The serenading man gets the location of his lover wrong and ends up serenading a random older man instead.
- Sequel Hook: In The Stinger of "A World Without... Gravity", a man wishes for a world without problems. So the following video is...
- Shake Someone, Objects Fall: Played with in "A World Without... Pockets", as a mugger shaking someone upside-down only drops the items they are holding in their hands.
- Shout-Out:
- The way the subject takes a look at their hands with elbows in "A World Without... Elbows" is framed like the famous scene from Frankenstein (1931).
- In "A World Without... Walls", it's seen that Pink Floyd's album The Wall is instead called The Floor.
- Spare Body Parts: In "A World Without... The Number 2", some people have three ears, Extra Eyes arms and/or legs as they cannot have a set of two body parts.
- Stating the Simple Solution: In "A World Without... Pockets", the characters struggle to hold all their belongings and put them in strange places, such as their shoes, buckets, or mouths. One of the male scientists even creates an overly-complex waist pack to solve this problem. The female scientist just mentions using a purse.
- Take That!: In A World Without... Fruit, one of the gags is about the Broccoli MyPhone, with them announcing the brand new MyPhone 19 pausing as they declare the price to be $25... only to reveal it's $25 thousand.
- Throw the Dog a Bone: In "A World Without... Elbows", the scientists finally reinvent something, elbows in this case, on a Frankenstein's monster-like being, without anything bad happening. The first thing it does? Touch its face and pick its nose.
- Too Dumb to Live: Downplayed. One of the scientists doesn’t know how risky the things that can’t be in these worlds can be. For example, in "A World Without... Spheres", when Tom makes a sphere out of clay, the sphere turns into a black hole.
- Unusually Uninteresting Sight: In "A World Without... Fear", since the plane passengers can't feel fear, they instead merely express irritation at the sight of the wings catching on fire for prolonging their flight (or in the case of a little girl, being excited at seeing fire for the first time).
- Wire Dilemma: The classic "cut the right colored wire" scene is parodied in "A World Without... Decisions", as the bomb squad can't decide which wire to cut, even though there are only two wires, and the timer is very long.
- World Shapes: The Earth is a cylinder in "A World Without... Spheres".
