Nostalgia Chick/Tropes S-Z

"Nostalgia Chick: As we all know, there's no such thing as a woman who's comfortable enough to joke about her own appearance. ... I mean, it's not like we're playing characters in a web series or anything."
 * Sadist Show: Reviewing-wise, she's had her fair share of Go Mad From the Revelation moments. Sketch-wise, she's a sociopathic Broken Bird who abuses her friends, the Dark Nella saga featured some failed Break the Haughty. Elisa's characters show disturbing glee in inflicting their Mad Science and pitiless makeovers on anyone in their sights.
 * Sanity Slippage Song: The frantic part of the Barber Of Seville overture plays whenever she goes on a shouty Motor Mouth rant about a movie's vast array of Plot Holes.
 * Sarcasm Failure: The nonsensical plot of Beauty and The Beast The Enchanted Christmas leaves the Chick saying "...I got nothing." At one point, all she can is do point at the screen and go "Boo!"
 * Sarcasm Mode: "Thanks For The Feedback 2", about why Nella puts up with things like the Grease "Makeover Fairy" (which Nella wrote the script for):

"Nostalgia Chick: Wow, I can't believe this was written by a man."
 * Used frequently in the Showgirls review.

"Chick: Yeah, Grease 2, it's gonna be big.
 * Say My Name: "NELLA!!!"
 * Nostalgia Critic wakes from being chloroformed, crash zoom to his face "CHICK!"
 * Scare Chord: One happens when The Little Mermaid pops up to answer her question about why Don Bluth failed so hard in the nineties.
 * Scenery Gorn: In The Disaster Movies Of Roland Emmerich when she's not being able to hide her worry about Critic, we get to discover a lovely shot of Chicago sickly green and completely destroyed.
 * Schedule Slip: She tries to put out one video a month but because of school and large amounts of traveling, can't always.
 * Now that her documentary is done, she's assured people that she's back to making regular weekly videos. She seems to have kept her word this time. She's even doing (usually) more than one episode a week now.
 * Science Is Bad: The Chick has learned this by the time of The Craft, complaining to the Makeover Fairy that it's got them nowhere. Of course magic proves unhelpful too...
 * Screw This, I'm Outta Here: She fights the Critic to do Fern Gully but, like him, tries very hard to escape when Robin Williams starts rapping.
 * She tries multiple times to get free from Bratz, but ultimately manages to get through it once the Critic explains why he wanted her to sit through such shit.
 * Self-Deprecation:
 * Even though the Chick is now definitely a totally separate character, Lindsay's made no secret that she thinks she's a horrible actress. (In the Jem review, the Chick even says so.) She doesn't even like being called an actress.
 * While she's not exactly going to win any awards soon, the general opinion is that she's much better at acting than she thinks she is. It takes talent to create a three-dimensional and funny persona who is totally different from yourself.
 * She also released a short film she did when she was fourteen and mocked the hell out of it in her newly added subtitles.
 * When she does her directing lessons in Xanadu, the image says "brought to you by the USC school of pretentious indoctrination".
 * Nella is the one who writes a lot of her character getting abused, including all the jokes about her makeover in the Grease review.
 * Elisa is a big Gargoyles fan and wrote the segment where the Chick took the piss out of it in the "Top Eleven Villainesses".
 * Serenade Your Lover: Over in the Critic's crossover review with Moulin Rouge, the Chick says she once got herself laid by singing Whitney Houston.
 * Sequelitis: Pointed out In Universe.
 * She rants about how when it comes to Disney Direct to Video films they're "bad by design" in the Enchanted Christmas review.
 * Grease II is so awful that it actually makes her say a few good things about the first one. Also, there's this "pitch session":

Nella: This time we're gonna switch the genders. What if it's the guy who gets made over into the sexy hoodlum?

Chick: And we already had an Australian... the British! They're all nerds, they're all prudes, let's make the foreigner a nerd!

Nella: Sandy was a prude, let's make him a nerd!

Chick: Nobody gets pregnant, we've already done that. Ooh, let's have a guy trick a girl into having sex.

Nella: Characters actually having sex, yeah! We already did that with the cop-out pregnancy sub-plot, too much of a downer, let's have them allude to it! A lot! And sing about it.

Chick: Prom! Ooh, we've already done that. How about a luau?

Nella: What about the guy? What makes him cool? What vehicle do we sing about? No, can't do the car, that was in the first movie. Boats!

Chick: No no no, not boats, motorcycles!

Nella: But they have a song about the car in the first movie...

Chick: Well they sing in this one too, but in this one the girl sings it. Man, motorcycles are hot!"

"Chick: Do the right thing! Karma will get you laid!"
 * The "Top Ten Worst Disney Sequels" and the "Top Five Least Worst Disney Sequels" proved... tough for her to deal with.
 * Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness: Present in some of her rhyming during The Lorax review. At point she inserts a Take That to the Critic's own rhyming review of The Grinch, calling him a "noxious dilettante". Because "bitchy Know-Nothing Know-It-All" wouldn't have sounded so academic.
 * Sexual Karma: In Anastasia.

"Chick: You see this a lot in screenplays that, maybe they have too much studio stink on them, or maybe they just weren't all that well thought-out in the first place."
 * Sexy Shirt Switch: In Lindsay, Elisa, Lupa, and Todd in The Shadows's vlog review of Captain America the First Avenger, Todd comments on how it's too hot to wear his hoodie and that he doesn't need to be wearing it because people will still know who he is. One jump cut later Lindsay is wearing it. Then Lupa...then Elisa...
 * Sexy Whatever Outfit: Apparently women are legally required to wear these on Halloween.
 * Shaggy Dog Story: The Dark Nella Saga. Nella's still abused, Dr. Tease and The Makeover Fairy are still evil and the Chick is still a horrible person. And we wouldn't have it any other way. At least Dark Nella didn't destroy the world, so that's a plus.
 * Shallow Love Interest: Uses the acronym "LINETS" (Love Interest Non-Essential To Story) for the trope in Dragonheart. (though the character discussed doesn't quite fit)

"Chick: Why did he have to be so damn cute?"
 * The girl in Hocus Pocus is the useless hot love interest.
 * Shallow Parody: Parodied with the Saturday Night Live Disney sketch. She doesn't like it for a variety of reasons, but she complains that Walt hated the Jews, not the blacks like the skit said.
 * She Knows Too Much: A ninja is sent from Disney to silence her when she theorizes that The Princess and The Frog was just made to expand the Disney Princess merchandising line.
 * Ship Sinking: Even though it should have been obvious from the nature of the 'relationship', Lindsay has confirmed that the Chick will never get together with Todd.
 * With regards to proper Real Person Fic, she said she views Doug and Noah as basically her asexual big brothers. But that's not going to stop the fangirls, especially not when they flirt for fun like the whole site does.
 * Ship Tease: Lots of it for Chick/Nella and Chick/Critic.
 * To the delight of shippers, the Chick/Critic teasing was confirmed in the Fern Gully commentary, when they said they made it too obvious to get Fanfic and that's why they don't get much. Because over a hundred fics with a lot of them being extreme fem-dom is not much. Although they were very likely just pushing for even more.
 * Other mentions suggest that the Critic and the Chick have something going on between them, but it's weird and self-loathing. Naturally.
 * Shout-Out / Reference Overdosed: The team have their own page.
 * Show, Don't Tell: Being a film student, she gets really irritated by movies that don't listen to this advice. Xanadu was the most blatant example.
 * Elisa's Maven Of The Eventide review of Underworld praises the convoluted Backstory of drama, passion, betrayal and murder, but notes it only comes up in exposition.
 * Shown Their Work: Perhaps fittingly, she knows a lot about revolutions, slavery, wars and just general disasters.
 * She's very knowledgeable about early animation (not just Disney), which she puts to great use in the NChick shorts.
 * Sister Jesus Mary Joseph of our Perpetual Guilt (aka Nella) is quick to point out the problems with the depiction of nuns in the two Sister Act films, namely the difference between nuns (cloistered prayer) and sisters (service to the needy, poor, in need of education etc).
 * Shrine to Self: "Michael Bay's" DVD shelf consists of only three films: Armageddon, Bad Boys II, and The Rock.
 * Sickly Green Glow: A destroyed Chicago gets this courtesy of Dark Nella.
 * Sincerity Mode: Done to tear-jerking effect (even she was visibly on the verge of tears) in her review of TLC. Lindsay comes out of her goofy, messed up, uncaring character and discusses how much Left Eye Lopez inspired her and how alcoholism is a disease like any other.
 * Single Girl Seeks Most Popular Guy: Calls out Teen Witch on a particularly obnoxious use of this trope.
 * Single Tear: Mocked in the She Ra review, where He Man and The Masters of The Universe cries with no facial muscles moving.
 * Sissy Villain: On Ratcliffe. "Nothing says sinister like little pink bows on your pigtails!"
 * Skyward Scream: Her Big No when.
 * Slapstick Knows No Gender: She and the Critic beat and chloroform each other without any Double Standard.
 * Slut Shaming: Has it as a Berserk Button but also plays it straight, doing the same thing as Critic by freely flinging around insults like "slut" and "whore". The character has been established as a mass Hypocrite though, so it's safe to say it's part of the humor.
 * Lampshaded and Played for Laughs in Sister Act, where the Chick defeats Nella's catholic guilt by asking her how her sex life (which the Chick knows she has) is going.
 * Small Annoying Creature: She might love dogs, but Scamp from Lady and The Tramp II just fails at being a likeable character.
 * Small Name, Big Ego: A very tongue-in-cheek invoked example. Her comic persona opens two of the "Thanks For The Feedback" segments with the self-important introduction "Hi, I'm Lindsay, star of such internet phenomena as 'The Nostalgia Chick'". The real Lindsay is nothing like this and actually seems to feel undeserving of the "small" fame she has.
 * Small Reference Pools: According to one fool in the comment section for the Jem review, Hannah Montana isn't mainstream so the Chick shouldn't use it a reference. Oh, if only that person was connected to the web, then they could look it up. Wait a minute...
 * The Smurfette Principle: A whole episode is devoted to it.
 * In the VLog for Super 8, Nella mentions that it's a boy movie with the token one chick.
 * In contrast, she's praised Batman the Animated Series for being a Superhero show and having at least three interesting and complex female characters.
 * So Bad It's Good: In-Universe. Showgirls is a "perfect storm of shit".
 * Jem only manages five minutes of being this before going into just bad.
 * The Spider Man musical Turn Off The Dark, especially the Green Goblin's Camp Gay "Freak Like Me" Villain Song.
 * Although she hates Love Never Dies like a typical phangirl, "Beneath A Moonless Sky" is the funniest shit ever.
 * She admits that Showgirls, Battlefield Earth and  are badly done but enjoyable, while From Justin To Kelly is "the cinematic equivalent of watching someone slooowly scrape the burnt part off the toast. And failing."
 * So Beautiful It's a Curse: Her opinion on bishie-style Leonardo Di Caprio.

"Chick: You really want to have Seinfeld music to denote victory?"
 * So Okay It's Average: In-Universe.
 * The Liam Neeson version of Les Misérables was more like "Les Meh".
 * The Craft is nothing great, nothing awful.
 * Brother Bear was on the "meh" side of okay. And Todd and Lindsay say this is the best that most Disney sequels can hope for, Todd falling asleep through half of them.
 * Song of the South's main flaw isn't racism as much being so deathly dull that the Chick falls asleep twice while she's trying to make fun of it.
 * Much like Song of the South and racism, the animal cruelty scenes in Milo and Otis are really the only things worth talking about because the rest of the film is so dull.
 * Unlike the no-effort-given sequel which ends up So Bad It's Good, Sister Act is frustrating because it tries, fails and just ends up being harmless.
 * Soft Water: She points how Pocahontas (and her raccoon and hummingbird) jumping from a cliff into a lake and still surviving isn't really possible.
 * Something About a Rose: Maven holds a red rose in the Underworld review to make herself look all mysterious and cool.
 * Something Completely Different: The NChick shorts. They're still in-character and funny, but they're less cynical comedy and more bringing attention to some really influential early animation.
 * "Thanks For The Feedback", where there's no review and it's looking at the characters "behind the scenes".
 * City of Angels and You've Got Mail were both a bit like her version of the Critic's "Old vs New", with her comparing the movies to the ones they were based off.
 * Apparently this can be a bad thing. Elisa explained the "TLC review taken down" controversy as Lindsay feeling like it was too different from her show's usual tone.
 * Soprano and Gravel: Parodied with the Nostalgia Duo's gender war song. Doug gets raspier to try and be all manly and Lindsay makes her voice thinner to sound stereotypically girly. Just adds to the hammy fun.
 * Sound Effect Bleep: She swears plenty, but "fuck" gets bleeped out because Lindsay thinks it's funnier.
 * Soundtrack Dissonance: She plays "Yakety Sax" to bypass a couple of pointless scenes in Labyrinth.
 * She plays "Love Game" by Lady Gaga at the start of her My Little Pony review. Because "I wanna take a ride on your disco stick" is really what you think of when you see cute, girly ponies.
 * In The Fifth Element.

"Nostalgia Chick: She's little more than a spoiled brat who channels all her spoiled brat energy into being an annoying antagonist."
 * Spank the Cutie: The end of Freddy Got Fingered has the Chick spanking a crying Luke (with Oancitizen doing the same to a very bored Phelous) because Canada needed to be punished for Tom Green.
 * Spoiled Brat: Angelica Pickles.

"Chick: And why do we have to eat these fine royal delicacies? I wanna eat Oreos!"
 * She has this viewpoint on Cinderella in Cinderella II, mercilessly making fun of her whining about princess life.

""Michael Bay would be proud.""
 * Spoof Aesop:
 * "Remember, you can't spell 'rape' without 'rap'."
 * "This Halloween, if you're still a virgin, STOP IT. You never know when your virginity might somehow unleash an undead Bette Midler from beyond the grave."
 * The third "Thanks For The Feedback". Aung Lang Syne plays as Nella gives a speech on not judging others on appearances and treating friends with respect... and then Chick tells her to do the dishes.
 * Squee: Mocked with high-pitched proclamations of "PUPPIES!"
 * When Dr Tease injects her with Truth Serum in the X-Men The Animated Series review, the result is a combination of Squee and Motor Mouth.
 * Lord MacGuffin even tells The Chick that is to "find her squee." That is right, they used squee as a plot device.
 * Stalking Is Funny If It Is Female After Male: Even though they're both played for creepy comedy and you're not supposed to root for either of them, can you imagine Todd taping Lupa to a chair and still being told by fans he'd get her in the end?
 * Stating the Simple Solution: In Showgirls, when a guy complains about his girlfriend being pregnant, she bluntly says he could push her down the stairs and hope for the best.
 * Stepford Smiler: Apparently her life-without-Critic husband is this. When the girls go, he bursts into tears and when the baby starts crying again, he yells at it to shut up.
 * Stock Scream: She uses the Goofy scream when the prince in Dragonheart falls off a building with a silly look on his face.
 * Story Arc: Three. Her decision not to just do "girly" stuff anymore (which ended up being more about the power dynamics between her and the Critic), the Nella abuse getting worse which lead to the Dark Nella Saga, and now her Sanity Slippage obsession over Todd.
 * Straw Man Has a Point: In-universe. While you're meant to sympathize with Rob Lowe's mother and wife, she wants to strangle them for being jobless leeches while he's being a messiah lawyer.
 * Strictly Formula: The Transformers series, even though she has it as a serious Guilty Pleasure.
 * Student Teacher Romance: She's disgusted when a student sing-asks a teacher for sex in Grease 2.
 * Stuff Blowing Up: On the train explosion scene in Anastasia:

"The Chick: Ah, Hugh Jackman. All the women want him, and at least twenty-five percent of the men. And the other seventy-five percent want him, at least a little."
 * Stunned Silence: After hearing Brian's rape rap, this was how a horrified Lindsay reacted.
 * Stupid Sexy Flanders: Referenced by The Chick in regard to Hugh Jackman:

"Elisa: I think I'm going to stand up now...because I like it better...here!
 * Stylistic Suck: The Chick and Elisa's scene with bad blocking in the Film/Xanadu review.

Nostalgia Chick: You know, it's my dream that you would stay in one place when you say your lines.

Elisa: Dreams die.

Nostalgia Chick: What does that even mean?

Elisa: Exactly."

"Nostalgia Chick: Dr. Tease! Where's Dr. Block?
 * Subliminal Seduction: A Sight Gag in Anastasia of Freud slipping on a banana. Durr hurr, get it? 
 * Subverted Kids Show: She tries to convince Nella that Rapunzel and Flynn are so obviously doing it in that 90% hair poster.
 * Suckiness Is Painful: The interquel to her one of her favorite movies ever causes her great and intense pain.
 * Only a few minutes of Shark Tale gets her crying and Transformers II sends her into a three month long bad movie coma.
 * The only way she knows how to cope with The Lorax is to drink cheap booze until she vomits up her insides.
 * This extends to real life as well. In the commentary, Lindsay said the "Top Ten Worst Disney Sequels" was her first "worst list" and therefore probably the most demoralizing episode she's done.
 * Suspiciously Specific Denial:

Dr. Tease: She's...not in space!

(later)

Nostalgia Chick: Where's Dr. Block?

Dr. Tease: ...Not orbiting a distant star!"

"Nostalgia Chick: This movie's so girly that next thing you know they'll be having a pillow fight.
 * In Grease II, the Chick does this a lot. No, she's not horny. No, she doesn't like a guy whose face she has never seen!
 * The same thing comes up in "Top Ten Songs About Sex (From Musicals)", which she did because it's about nostalgic music, and nostalgia is what she does. Nothing whatsoever to do with a musician who hides his face and rejects her advances, the ungrateful bastard.
 * Surprise Incest: The original plot of the first "Thanks For The Feedback" was apparently going to be a Shout-Out to Luke and Leia from Star Wars, with Chick and Critic going all the way and then finding out they were related.
 * Surprisingly Improved Sequel: In-universe. She readily admits to disliking the original Cinderella because the characters are so boring, so enjoys Cinderella III for retconning personality traits into the leads, the animation actually pretty decent and showing off self-aware humor.
 * Like Critic, she thinks The Rescuers is deathly dull and its sequel awesome. So much so that it shouldn't even be given the indignity of going on a "least worst" list.
 * Sweet On Polly Oliver: In Mulan, she subscribes to the theory that Shang had the hots for boy!Mulan.
 * Take That: She enjoys her (mostly affectionate) potshots at Disney. The Song of the South review has her thanking them for making themselves such an easy target.
 * Her At The NChick Labs video has an extended one to the people who keep trotting out the (long-removed) "Rape Rap" video as proof of what a terrible person (and feminist) she is. It very much feels like a very long "Shut The Fuck Up."
 * "Thanks For The Feedback: Wii Fit" is a Take That at all the people who judge her appearance far more than they do for the Critic.
 * When one of the Transformers in Transformers the Movie mentions the Matrix, she says it's overrated.
 * In her review of "The Fifth Element", Douchey McNitpick complains why she does movies other than girly ones, bitches about her definition of MacGuffins and says he's still going to masturbate to her picture later on. Triple-whammy!
 * When reviewing Rankin-Bass's The Last Unicorn, she blurts out that his version of The Lord of the Rings was "terrible!".
 * When she's overdosing on Truth Serum, she admits that that she thinks Johnny Depp's Willy Wonka is superior to Gene Wilder's.
 * She thinks Shrek was just a product of a load of anger and bile towards Disney.
 * Twilight fans don't have brain-stems. To be fair, she could have said a lot worse. And with a glorious dose of Hypocritical Humor, she's on Team Edward.
 * Unlike the Michael Bays of the world, Disney actually cares about not pissing people off.
 * There's a whole load of movies that she has in-universe Hype Backlash on and she has no problem making that known.
 * See Furry Fandom for her Take That to all the furries.
 * When they find out that Jem was made by Hasbro, both Nella and Nostalgia Chick let out a disappointed but knowing "Ohh".
 * Due to her utter loathing of X-Men III, Brett Ratner comes under fire a few times.
 * Calling the boob song in My Little Pony the best one is like calling Revenge of the Sith the best out out the Star Wars prequels.
 * She also cuts to Jar Jar Binks when she says Dragonheart paved the way for unfortunate CGI.
 * John "Where is my goddamn salad" Malkovich.
 * "Retire, Andrew Lloyd Webber, retire!"
 * The end credits for the "Top 11 Villainesses" has a bit of a rant about Christoper Nolan's Batman films for being a sausagefest and showing off his daddy issues.
 * Subverted with The Fox and The Hound. In her Thumbelina review, she showed the poster when she said Disney was in the pits, making people think she didn't like the film. It turns out that she loves it for how dark and subtle it is.
 * In The Lorax, she asks who wants to see an unpleasant dumbass spend a whole review bitching in rhyme. Not a serious Take That, though, as she's rhyming when she says this and rhymes some more about getting wasted at the end.
 * Take That Us: "Oh, Genie, you and your pop culture references. Anti-reference joke brigade, prepare to feel a wrath far greater than any Internet reviewer could come up with."
 * Teens Are Monsters: Like the Critic, she had a bad time at high school. Unlike the Critic, however, whenever there's a flashback her teenage self will act like an utter brat too.
 * Tempting Fate: In the Spice World review:


 * Spice Girls have a pillow fight*

Nostalgia Chick: Guys, I wasn't being serious!"

"Nostalgia Chick: Let's just try to do it in a tasteful way, shall we?
 * A slightly more Genre Blind version happened in the Top Ten Evil Nostalgic Characters. Chick, saying Dark Nella hadn't actually done anything "evil" so she doesn't really count is not a good plan.
 * In the Mulan review:


 * everyone orders chinese food from the assistant*

Nostalgia Chick: Hmm."

""I never chewed in self-defence, I only swallowed.""
 * In the Thumbelina review, she scoffs at Barry Manilow being the best the movie could do before hearing him sing (something good, not the songs in the film) and going off into a daze.
 * Reluctantly digging up Beauty & The Beast II for one more kick in the teeth. But, "hopefully at least this one will be washed away by the sands of ti-- [cue Blu-Ray edition] .... no!
 * That's What She Said: In Dragonheart.

"Chick: Oh, Christ."
 * Three uses in quick succession in Dune, followed later by a "do I really need to say it"?
 * There Are No Therapists
 * Thing-O-Meter: In the Spice World review she has a "Random Shit-O-Lever" that looks like a girly high heel; pulling it (supposedly) causes a totally random occurence to happen in the movie.
 * This Is for Emphasis, Bitch: "DON'T YOU EVER TRY TO BRING LOGIC INTO THIS MOVIE AGAIN! THIS IS Fern Gully, BITCH!"
 * This Is Gonna Suck:
 * When she's made to do Bratz: "This is gonna hurt me a lot more than it does you."
 * When she reviews Spice World, after a particularly vapid scene: "We're only six minutes into the movie."
 * Seeing as how she immediately said how grotesque and offensive Beauty and The Beast The Enchanted Christmas was to her, you knew it was gonna be a good one for suffering.
 * Right after seeing the annoying bird in Thumbelina: "...you're gonna be in the whole movie aren't you?"
 * Just before the "I LIKE BOYS!" song in Teen Witch, she looks like she's about to cry.

""Movie, that's not relatable. That's creepy.""
 * Inverted with Song of the South. She starts out excited to be self-righteously offended by the movie, but five seconds later she's fast asleep.
 * This Is Why We Cant Have Nice Things: Says it exactly after talking about how animal rights laws got put in place after a horse broke its back during filming.
 * This Is Unforgivable!: She'll never be able to forgive Dreamworks for Shark Tale.
 * This Loser Is You: Points out how annoying this trope is in the Teen Witch review:

"Chick: Why only five? 'Cos I- I can't."
 * Three-Month-Old Newborn: She is quick to note how Nicole's baby is "smegmaless" and "Caucasian" after it's born in Spice World.
 * To the Bat Noun: "To Wikipedia!"
 * Top Ten List: Avoids the Top 11 of The Nostalgia Critic "'[c]os you guys need to watch Spinal Tap."
 * Halved in the "Top Five Least Awful Disney Sequels":

"Chick: Yaay, Russia was awesome! For the obscenely wealthy!"
 * Trivially Obvious: In the Showgirls review, she calls her crew "a crack team of... humans".
 * Tropes Are Not Bad: Although there's a lot of movies she reviews are way too light, gloss over history or are pretty dumb fairytales, she understands that fantasy and wanting everything to be sweet and Disney-like aren't bad things.
 * Troubled Production: While talking about Titanic, she mentions the time someone put PCP in the punch and everyone got smashed. Except James Cameron.
 * With some Hypocritical Humor about her show's script, she mentions that the writers of Grease 2 hadn't finished theirs before the the movie started shooting.
 * True Art Is Incomprehensible: Because of the sheer shit of Showgirls, she concludes that it has to be an art film.
 * When Leopold looks confused at The Prisoner, she reassures him that she had no idea what was going on there either.
 * True Companions: Parodied and defied. The Chick calls the team her "extended family" in Hercules, but the only one who gives a shit about anyone else is Nella.
 * The True Meaning Of Christmas: Parodied. After giving her lottery ticket to Todd, she realizes that the meaning of Christmas is mass consumerism.
 * Truth Serum: Dr. Tease gives her several doses in the review of the X-Men Animated Series, turning her from a melancholy analytical academic into a Squee-ing motormouthed Genki Girl fangirl.
 * All The Tropes Will Ruin Your Vocabulary: Frequently brings up tropes and does Conversational Troping on her show.
 * Twisted Christmas: Her already Black Comedy gets even darker around Christmas time.
 * Two Words Obvious Trope: The "AJ, I got just five words for you: Damn glad to see you, boy!" line in Armageddon confuses her slightly.
 * Typecasting: She asks why Sarah Jessica Parker always get the role of the boy-crazy, attractive airhead.
 * Uncertain Audience: Notes that Spice World switches between jokes for kids and jokes geared toward adults at random.
 * Undignified Death: How she views Maleficent getting stabbed after a movie of being {[badass}}.
 * Unfortunate Implications: In Universe. Disney gets "weird" when it tries to depict "other cultures". And yes, she said that last bit in air quotes.
 * A surprising exception would be the infamous Song of the South, whose reputation for racism she feels is mostly hype. She felt that the only reason people remember the film's unfortunate portrayal of black people, even though it's not nearly as bad as in contemporary films like Gone With the Wind, is because a) that's the only thing there is to remember about an otherwise boring movie, and b) Disney brought it upon itself by treating it as an Old Shame for thirty years rather than admitting that some of their films had racist undertones.
 * She's creeped out by all the pedo-style undertones of the witches in Hocus Pocus.
 * In the Anastasia review:

"Chick: Be yourself, be your Grotesque Cute, fat-assed, over five foot tall, large-headed self that isn't a teenager and doesn't end the story a beautiful princess and married to your perfect mate."
 * Ugly Cute: In-Universe, Dreamworks.

"Chick: Oh and the Mom sings an entire song about how disappointed she is for her daughters being inadequate. ...not that I know how that feels or anything..."
 * The Ugly Guy's Hot Daughter: In her review of Disney Princesses, she talks about how there is a period of time when the princesses seemed to have goofy, old dads who they tried to escape by getting married.
 * Unintentionally Sympathetic: In-Universe. The reason why she likes the the two antagonist daughters in the My Little Pony movie far more than the titular ponies.

""I think everyone remembers their first boner--Bowie.""
 * Unsatisfiable Customer: Her Running Gag for John Malkovich.
 * Unusual Euphemism: Referring to babies as "crotch dumplings" in one review.
 * Unusually Uninteresting Sight: In her Teen Witch review, she wonders why the hell everyone is so unbothered about guys suddenly starting to rap in a school hallway.
 * And she says "Sure, why not?" to the Hocus Pocus leads' blasé reaction to the cat talking.
 * Vampires Are Sex Gods: A running theme in Maven's vampire reviews.
 * Verbal Backspace: In the Labyrinth review:

"Chick: Fucking virgins, man, why do we even have 'em?"
 * Very Special Episode: Things take a turn for the dramatic as Lindsay breaks character in the last act of her "TLC and the 90's" review.
 * Video Review Show
 * Viewers are Morons: In her review of Showgirls. "Because movie viewers are stupid and can't deduce success or failure based on what's been shown onscreen, we have Molly dictate from the sidelines whether or not Nomi is succeeding."
 * Her theory for why, unlike the first movie, Lady and The Tramp II keeps showing the faces of the humans.
 * Villain Song: The evil witch's song in The Worst Witch gets cut back to back with "Poor Unfortunate Souls" to make it look even more horrid.
 * Virginity Makes You Stupid: In Hocus Pocus:

"Lindsay: Why don't you bathe and get a job? You skin's starting to turn transparent.
 * Visual Pun:
 * During her Showgirls review, she asks why anyone would want to watch the film for any reason other than seeing some boobies. She also uses the birds in place of a Censor Box when the women show their... tracts of land.
 * During her Labyrinth review, whenever anyone mispronounces Hoggle's name (a Running Gag in the movie), the word "Gag" runs across the screen to the first measure of horns from "Spanish Flea" as Lindsay points at it.
 * Vitriolic Best Buds: She wonders why Wolverine even hung around with the other X Men, seeing as how he also disagreed with them. Angrily so.
 * Vocal Dissonance: She points out the disconnect between voices and character design in her She Ra review.
 * Vocal Minority: In Universe. She says that the annoying voices on both extreme sides of the political spectrum are just loud enough to keep Disney on edge.
 * Volleying Insults:
 * The "Wii Fit" game turns from a way to get exercise into a chance for Nostalgia Chick, Nella and Tammy to be increasingly bitchy towards each other.
 * She also gets into a fight with Douchey McNitpick in her review of The Fifth Element. It involves him telling her he's going to masturbate to her picture later.

Douchey: Yeah well, go back to reviewing girly stuff! You still do that, right?

Lindsey: Basement-dwelling manchild.

Douchey: Joke's on you! I'm still gonna masturbate to your picture tonight!

Lindsay: Virgin.

Douchey: 'WHOOOOOOORRRRRRE!!!!"

"Nostalgia Chick: Hi, I'm your Nostalgia Chick and I, like most of the world, am an American."
 * Wangst: Pointed out In Universe.
 * The Running Gag of the her Beauty and The Beast The Enchanted Christmas review is her breaking out the "Simple Plan" music and crying a Single Tear every time a character in the film indulges in this.
 * She also does a tear trail when the "awkward" lead in Teen Witch has a birthday party and nobody comes.
 * And when she's explaining Nomi's "genius" Meaningful Name in Showgirls.
 * We All Live in America: Mocked with her very first line.

"Dark Nella: You DARE interrupt MY review?!"
 * Wish Fulfillment: Kate and Leopold is blatant stereotypical girl-porn and she knowingly and completely falls for it.
 * Wham! Episode: In the special "Kirk vs. Picard", they actually had the ovaries to ! This sets up the Dark Nella Story Arc.
 * "Sleepless In Seattle vs. When Harry Met Sally" for two reasons. 1) Establishing that the Chick is batshit crazy. (Todd might be prone to ambitiously misfiring Grand Romantic Gestures, but he doesn't kidnap Lupa to make her love him.) 2) Her love for Todd is like Meg Ryan's plot in Sleepless In Seattle, something she's made up and a symptom of some kind of depression in her life.
 * What Did I Do Last Night?: The Chick and Nella ended up doing something involving bunnies after they passed out from the Drinking Game they played while watching Disney's Hercules. Also, they're wearing lipstick that they weren't before, and there's a strange guy in the kitchen.
 * [Note: The strange guy is the same guy playing Lord MacGuffin, and is one of the "actors" in the Showgirls review]
 * What Measure Is a Non-Human?: This was how they had their cake and ate it too with the Dark Nella Saga. Make the Chick's flaws and issues blatantly obvious, but it wasn't really Nella herself talking (Dark Nella was a clone who blew herself up) so nobody had to become a nice/better person.
 * What the Hell Is That Accent?: Like Doug, there are some weird accents she does that you can't place. They're also hilarious.
 * Who Dares:
 * Who Dares:

"Science!! Or maybe magic... We'll be more sure when the test results come back."
 * Win Back the Crowd: In Lindsay's and Nella's in-universe view, X-Men First Class did this for the X-Men franchise after the abomination that was the third movie.
 * What Do You Mean It's Not Awesome?: For the big climax, she directs everyone in Pocahontas to make it the epicest of epics.
 * What Do You Mean It's Not Heinous?: Virginity in Hocus Pocus. Even the thunder gets in on it.
 * In Pocahontas, when talking about Meeko vs. Percy personifying the two sides of the fighting: "...right down to when they stole our bowl of cherries! Those red-skin bastards!"
 * When The Makeover Fairy's make-up gets scraped off, she hides her face with a paper bag and cries that she wants to hide her flaws. We see her in the next episode and she doesn't look any different.
 * The Chick gets rather upset when called a nerd.
 * What Happened to The Mouse?: She says Gene Kelly's and Olivia Newton John's romance "gets dropped like a ball of roller-skates".
 * What Measure Is a Non-Human?: A big running theme of discussion in Maven's reviews. Justifiable, seeing as how she's vampire obsessed.
 * What the Hell, Hero?: As to be expected with an Ensemble Cast with a Villain Protagonist as the star, the Chick gets a few of these. The most satisfying was probably Nun!Nella passive-aggressively damning her to hell for her all-consuming stalking of Todd.
 * Who Names Their Kid "Dude"?: In, well, Thumbelina: "I hate you enough to call you Thumbelina."
 * From Hocus Pocus: "Thackary is a weird name."
 * From Jem: "What the hell kind of name is Jerrica? Is it like the feminine city that the Israelites brought down? Is it like Erica was too boring, let's throw a J on it? Like Jem, so they match?"
 * From X Men: "Jubilee must have born to Chinese-American hippies."
 * Wine Is Classy:
 * Holds a glass of dark-looking wine in the second part of her "Dreamworks Vs. Disney" review.
 * Again, she's drinking wine (as well as wearing a elegant dress and reading an intellectual book) when goofy bad-movie fan Obscurus Lupa picks her as "someone classier" to review the B-movie Honor And Glory with.
 * A Wizard Did It: "Magic, damn you!"
 * In the credits of her review of The Craft, she blames cosmic forces for the fact that her hair kept changing throughout the video.
 * Elisa's answer for how Critic and Spoony could come back to life after Dark Nella destroyed them both:


 * World of Ham: Nella's "pony melodrama".
 * And the main world. It's telling when a sociopathic, hammy Broken Bird who needs a fuckload of therapy is the "normal" one compared to the people around her.
 * Worlds Smallest Violin: Dr. Tease plays one while the Chick is angsting about Nella.
 * She struggles to find one small enough for She's All That.
 * The Worm Guy: She screeches "HOW DO YOU KNOW THAT?" when the lead in Godzilla does his Hand Wave-y explanation of how reptiles are born pregnant.
 * The Woobie: Pointed out In Universe.
 * The Chick talks about this trope in her Ever After and The Man in The Iron Mask reviews. For the latter, girls just love a pretty boy with Puppy Dog Eyes who needs a hug.
 * For Hercules: "He's like a puppy! We're meant to be endeared by his simpleness."
 * Written in Infirmity: Nella got sick from the horror that was Transformers III, so they wrote the Little Mermaid review with her as The Voiceless. She'd sold it for a Doctor Who scarf.
 * Xenafication: Discussed in the Ever After review with how every Cinderella type movie tries to make the main character more active. Mentioned in a good way when she discusses how Cinderella III had to retcanon traits in her that weren't there in the original and does it pretty well.
 * X Meets Y: She calls Jem a Hannah Montana/Barbie hybrid.
 * Yawn and Reach: Chick tries to do it to a taped up Todd, but he has a The One That Got Away breakdown before she can touch him.
 * You Bastard: "These landmarks don't have anything to do with the characters or the story, they're just a cheap marketing ploy to get your ass into the theater because you want to see buildings you know get destroyed, you sadistic fuck."
 * At the end of "The Top Ten Worst Disney Sequels", she holds a special place of contempt for parents who sit their kids down in front of the movies and act like it's no problem, because it's sending the message to Disney that this shit gets liked.
 * You Keep Using That Word: "Second degree murder" doesn't mean what the Chick thinks it means.
 * She uses The Princess Bride clip "I don't think it means what you think it means" as a response to the "truly outrageous" Jem theme song.
 * She keeps stressing to Thumbelina that "impossible" isn't the same thing as mildly inconvenient.
 * You Look Familiar: Nella's Mad Scientist character appears in the same room as Nella herself, while Elisa plays The Makeover Fairy and Dr. Tease.
 * In Ask That Guy 61, Ask That Guy mentions that he's been living with "that woman who looks suspiciously like the Makeover Fairy" as a Shout-Out to Suburban Knights. He of course goes off with a hammer to make sure she's dead.
 * Your Head Asplode: Happened to the Chick after part one of her Armageddon review, thanks to 'Michael Bay' and his iron testicles.
 * Your Mom: When revealing the voice actress for Madeleine in the Hunchback Of Notre Dome II, she cycles through a quick list of actresses—except one, which reads simply "Your Mom."