Freelance Astronauts/YMMV

"Maxwell: "It's really great when you get to the end of the mission, and you lose because the hit detection on the exit...shaft..."
 * Accidental Innuendo: Averted/Subverted most of the time, since they really mean their innuendo, but the F-Zero GX LP gives up this gem:

pipes!: "I HAVE EXCELLENT HIT DETECTION ON MY EXIT SHAFT!""

"Maxwell: People listening to this are probably thinking 'Hey, you should go and do a [Let's Play Forum] thread on Master Quest'. Well, screw you, Internet! I'm not going to..."
 * The name Seaman alone should give you an idea of how many are ripe for the picking in the LP.
 * "Luigi went up the pipe!" "Did you hear Luigi likes it up the pipe?"
 * And the Fandom Rejoiced: After months of Ferr and pipes! being absent from videos, they finally returned for the LP of Cargo the Quest For Gravity.
 * The return to official LPs in general, following almost a full year of just short streams showing the latest game maxwell got.
 * Crazy Awesome: The Kickboat from "The Kickboat Saga". Complete abuse of the Source physics engine + SMod's kick move + Boat + ??? = PROFIT!
 * Crosses the Line Twice: SPECIALBOY. Jokes about mentally ill people are not funny. Jokes about retarded Miis are hilarious.
 * Also, anything involving Louie Anderson.
 * Their JFK Reloaded videos, wherein they turn the assassination of John F. Kennedy into a minigame where they have to make ridiculous trick shots.
 * Mickey Mouse in an anime, during the Prototype LP. Tentacles are involved.
 * 'Little Billy from the Make-A-Wish Foundation' in the Wii Sports videos. "I'm not supposed to be out in the sun!"
 * Crowning Moment of Awesome: Ferr getting a higher score than anyone else on his 3rd song during the Karaoke Revolution Party LP.
 * Maxwell wins a Quicktime Event battle with Krauser in Resident Evil 4...without looking at the screen. He just shakes the Wiimote and presses the buttons constantly while leaving to get a glass of water, and he beats the cutscene flawlessly.
 * Crowning Moment of Funny: Has its own page.
 * Ensemble Darkhorse: PlasmaMan. Started out as some random guest off of the Skype Chat, and became a full-fledged regular.
 * Hilarious in Hindsight: The Astronauts make choo-choo noises as the postman runs past Link in Majora's Mask. This is the exact way another postman delivers letters to Link in The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks.
 * During their Resident Evil 4 LP, they begin discussing the movie Wanted and it's whole bullet-curving gimmick. Maxwell jokes that the Myth Busters would probably tear the myth apart and then create a robot to try and do it. One year later....
 * During their Vice City LP, Ferr and Maxwell discuss the fact that because the majority of pedestrians go around doing nothing everyday in Vice City, it'd be easy for a detective to track down Tommy Vercetti and pin him for all his crimes. Maxwell remarks that if there were a detective smart enough to do that, then you'd be playing as that detective, tracking down criminals and shooting them. Sure enough, a couple years later...
 * Maxwell after hearing about Doomisland's attempt on Master Quest in the Majora's Mask LP, including getting stuck on the Forest Temple:

"Ferr: For those of you listening at home, pipes! just put his hand on Maxwell's thigh, moved closer and rubbed it upwards while saying "nervous?"."
 * During the Power Stone 2 LP, Pipes is crying out "STOP BUBBLING ME" when he is repeatedly attacked with a bubble blaster. Now consider the later New Super Mario Bros Wii LP where almost all of them at some point will be crying out "NO BUBBLE UP, BUBBLE UP!".
 * During their LP of Wii Sports Resort, Maxwell and Ferr mention how they wish Nintendo would make a sequel to Pilotwings. Five months after that video, not only is a sequel announced, but its setting is the same one as the game they were playing when they talked about it.
 * Ho Yay: Given a VERY healthy boost between Maxwell and pipes! several times. Once during the Oblivion Let's Play as described by Ferr.

"Evek: STOP MAKING OUT! pipes!: I'LL DO WHAT I WANT, WHEN I WANT, WITH WHO I WANT! Maxwell: It's his hot body."
 * And again during the Kirby Super Star LP when they have Kirby and his Helper CONTINUOUSLY make out with each other (which in the game is a way of restoring each other's health).

"Maxwell: Is there any fire anywhere in this room? pipes!: ...in my heart. Ferr: (simultaneously) ...in my pants. (laughter from all four) pipes!: Wow. Insight into relationship dynamic."
 * Then there was pipes! feeding Maxwell an ice cream sandwich during the Resident Evil 4 Let's Play. Later referenced during the Bomberman LP.
 * And then during the Master Quest LP while in the Forest Temple:

"pipes!: I feel like we're married. Evek: When you were driving over here, were you telling him where to go? pipes!: No. Ferr: Don't say that too loud, my mom'll hear it. pipes!: I'm gonna make an honest man of your son...Mrs. Ferr. I'm an excellent provider. Maxwell: That's a lie. You're an artist, you have no money. pipes!: Shuddup."
 * Played around with between Ferr and pipes! during the Master Quest (at 4:20) LP when at one point Ferr mentions how he was saying goodbye to his mother once, and pipes! joked to her that him and Ferr were actually a couple. Later that night Ferr's mother asked if they were serious.
 * It's brought up again another dungeon later (at 15:32) during an odd discussion about pizza.

"pipes!: I have a question for ustream! Why are all of these questions like....us-boning-each-other-centric?"
 * The Seaman LP didn't help much when they talked a bit about how they were raising a child together.
 * Hugely implicated by all of their ustream fans during one of the Bomberman matches.

"Diabetus: I think vampires get upset when they go to download sites, and have to use mirrors."
 * Incredibly Lame Pun: In the first vid of the Crysis LP, Diabetus gave us this little gem:


 * Most Annoying Sound: Just try to make it through the entirety of the F-Zero LP without wanting to strangle Evek for laughing at every...little...thing.
 * The overly long whale "joke" at the end of the Seaman LP.
 * Most Wonderful Sound: Maxwell's voice, particularly during quieter/calmer LP series such as Seaman or the early stages of Elebits.
 * Replacement Scrappy: Some people are disappointed with people like Selic, Ashley and Irregular Hunter being in the group in place of pipes! and Ferr in recent days.
 * So Bad It's Good: The Astronauts' attempt to add voice acting to Ninja Gaiden 2 is loaded with intentional cheesy goodness... until Jaquio shows up.
 * Also the singing in Karaoke Revolution, with the most notable being the wondrous rendition of "When a Man Loves a Woman" by pipes!.
 * Squick:
 * This fanart. Also very commonly created in their comments.
 * Part 12 of the TP playthrough ends with Diabetus recounting two lovely stories about girls that got their faces mutilated; the first had her face eaten by her black lab while she was conked from pills, and the second got a machine caught on her face.
 * Pipes is surprisingly apt at squicking the other astronauts. In episode 7 of their Master Quest LP, Pipes succinctly describes "tossing a dwarf salad" as probably being like licking the inside of a vacuum cleaner, causing the other astronauts to simultaneously laugh and groan in disgust for about half a minute.
 * Tear Jerker: For some, there is one from them. Maxwell's beautifully heartrending video combining the final stage of Majora's Mask with Viimesen Kerran by Loituma.