The Spoony Experiment/Fridge

This is to point out fridge tropes in The Spoony Experiment, be they viewer reactions on the show itself or Noah/Spoony's reactions to works he reviews.

The Spoony Experiment has the following examples of Fridge Brilliance:

 * Spoony's particular irritation with the civilians failing to cooperate with the police and the restrictive rules of engagement in his Swat 4 Let's Play made a lot more sense when we learned his brother is a police officer himself.
 * He manages to combine this with Hilarious in Hindsight in his review of Highlander 2, where General Katana (the warlord of an alien planet) makes a Wizard of Oz reference. "Do they have Wizard of Oz on Zeist?" We then flash to an imaginary skit (with Spoony playing Katana) watching Wizard of Oz and saying "Yes! THAT'S what I need to defeat McLeod! Flying monkeys! You two! Come here! I have a plan!" Cue the two screaming, giggling, flying maniacs from earlier in the movie.
 * One wonders why in a world where The Nostalgia Critic doesn't exist would Spoony . Well,.
 * One helped along by his commentary on the Deadliest Character video: everyone was extremely pissed off at the Dragonzord stepping in at the last minute to help Megazord beat Mechagodzilla...which is exactly the kind of crap that occurs all the time on Deadliest Warrior and makes him hate it so much.
 * Spoony loved Black Swan because it really showed the stress and pressure of a performer and how that can lead to a Creator Breakdown. Nothing else needs to be said.
 * Spoony's review of the early Ultima games notes the bizarre aspect that on this Fantasy Kitchen Sink world, you can buy space shuttles from blacksmiths and there's an Unexpected Genre Change into space. This makes a lot more sense when you know that Richard Garriot's father was a space shuttle astronaut himself.
 * If CR's theory holds any water, then.
 * At the end of his Privateer 2 review he brings out The Wing Commander movie, and Ultima IX, implying they would be his next reviews. And while the review for the movie came shortly there after, instead of skipping straight to IX he started going through the entire Ultima series from beginning to end. Finally at the end of his Ultima VIII review he explained he couldn't have possibly talked about Ultima IX without first showing us how great the series was before the final betrayal. A plan two years in the making.
 * One would assume that "The Game" that Chuckles makes Spoony play in the Ultima VI review is a reference to the internet meme, but if you watch the Ultima VII review, you realize that it's actually the game from Ultima VII.
 * Going on par with a Theme Song Reveal,.
 * Why does Spoony use a Gunblade despite the fact he claims how nonsensical it is in his Final Fantasy VII reviews? Because at the end, Squall finally showed him what the gun part was used for firsthand, so it does make sense to Spoony now.

The Spoony Experiment has the following examples of Fridge Horror:

 * Spoony points out that Ferris Bueller's Day Off is a very entertaining film while you're watching it, but when you think about it, Ferris really is a horrible person who manipulates and deceives everyone in his life for the sake of having fun, and gets away with it.
 * Do we even want to know what happened to Spoony (the character, not Noah himself) to make him who he is? To wit: he's a proud and accomplished rapist, requires medication to keep him from flying into a murderous rage (or killing himself), and makes frequent remarks about drug addiction. Oh--and he apparently needs to kill someone in order to get an erection. When you factor in his seriously fractured psyche, it doesn't exactly paint a rosy picture....
 * In his "Death of a Soldier" review, Spoony admits to having strangled at least 7 prostitutes. At this point, he has officially beaten Jack the Ripper's record. Screwed-up doesn't even begin to describe it.
 * And of course this leads you to wonder about the death toll he causes before Spooning with Spoony...
 * A more disturbing thought would be this - what if nothing actually happened to him that made him this way? What if he just...is?
 * An early version of the 'About' page on his website explained that the Spoony Experiment was a dangerous experiment undertaken by the parents of America through the 1980s: to raise a generation on nothing but Nintendo, MTV and Saturday morning cartoons; and he is the result.
 * This is a real life version, but Lewis's tolerance of Noah's breakdown during the vlog of "Breaking Dawn Part One" makes even more horrible sense with the break up Lewis and Iron Liz becoming public. Their relationship must have been ending around the time of the vlog; small wonder Lewis was so caring towards Noah--it was not just because they're friends but because he knew he'd be in shoes like Noah's soon....
 * Wasn't Lewis' breakup relatively amicable whereas with Spoony it went much less smoothly?
 * True, but that doesn't mean it didn't hurt... ending a three year relationship, no matter how affably, is going to leave emotional bruises. And Lewis is probably aware it could have ended a lot worse.
 * Manure Golems. While overall the story is hilarious, in the Counter Monkey episode in which they are discussed Noah says that maybe instead of their touch turning you to poop and killing you, it turns you into a manure golem.
 * The ending to his review of Game Over. The horror sets in when you begin to wonder

The Spoony Experiment has the following examples of Fridge Logic:

 * In the Deadliest Character when Fanboix starts complaining that the Dragonzord interfered & helped the Megazord - Whilst it's an extra zord, it also combines with the Megazord thus meaning it doubles as an extra mode. Fanboix starts complaining that if the Megazord can do that, why can't Mechagodzilla combine with all of the other mechas featured in Godzilla - Because they can't combine, so it would just be a gang beatdown, and if that happened, logically the other Megazords could join the fight, and as of 2010 (When the video was made), there are upwards of 40 different Megazords.
 * The complaning about the Dragonzord is justified. There was no hint that the Dragonzord would be in the fight, nor was Fanboix told that it could be or that it even existed. It was supposed to be a fight between the classic Mechagodzilla and the standard form of the original Megazord. It was an Ass Pull of epic porportions, and before you say anything else... yeah, it might fit in with how the Power Rangers show was supposed to go, but this was supposed to be a simulated battle between two mechas based on their stats, and that the Dragonzord showed up with no foreknowledge and broke the rules, that was cheating.
 * Missing the point. I'm not arguing that it wasn't an Ass Pull or the the complaints are unjustified, I'm pointing out Fanboix's argument of "Why can't the other Godzilla mechas join in?" as being something that would just lead to even more Megazords joining in, leading to him complaining "Well, that's not fair! There's 40 of them!".
 * The conclusion of his Final Fantasy X-2 video is largely one giant rambling about the nature of Tidus and Shuyin and how confusing it is that they're linked.
 * Sadly almost everything he said about Ject and Auron was wrong, so it makes sense he was confused.
 * Unfortunately I do think that this is part of the problem. To the casual viewer who isn't all that invested in Tidus, Yuna, Auron or Jecht and is just trying to see the story through to its end, it's far too easy to get confused on the whole affair. Some will just give up, nod along and just finish it but someone like Spoony basically has to ramble and complain when the storyline just doesn't make the most sense to him.
 * So far, the best explanation (aka the one on the Final Fantasy Wiki) is that Jecht was teasing Shuyin like that because Shuyin looked like Tidus. So, going by that, either A: Jecht was just confused when viewing Spira form the the Farplane and thought it was Tidus when it wasn't or B: Jecht decided "hey, he looks like my kid and seems prone to overreacting--the same insults should work". Neither makes much sense either, though.