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''[[Brows Held High]]'' is a comedy review show about Arthouse cinema. It is hosted by Kyle "Oancitizen" Kallgren, who rose to some prominence on the [[That Guy With The Glasses]] forums when he wrote a [https://web.archive.org/web/20131021074457/http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/blogs/latest/entry/my-toy-collection-for-a-horse-gender-roles-and-comparative-mythology-in-nellas-pony-epic dissertation] on [[The Nostalgia Chick|Nella]]'s ''[[My Little Pony]]'' epic.
His signature style usually involves a lot of high-brow intellectual concepts, but explained well enough that they don't go over viewer's heads.
You can find these videos on [[That Guy With The Glasses]] and [
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* [[Accentuate the Negative]]: Pleasantly averted. He almost always has ''something'' nice to say about the films he watches, even if it does sometimes amount to little more than [[Damned By Faint Praise|"It had nice cinematography."]]
* [[Actually Pretty Funny]]: Oan's reaction to ''Shortbus''' "Shabbos goy" asking if a woman is on the rag.
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'''Oan:''' Ewww.
"I use {{spoiler|menstrual blood as makeup}} in my show."
'''Oan:''' '''''Ewww!'''''
"It's [[A Worldwide Punomenon|a period piece]]."
'''Oan:''' Heh-- [frowns] ewww. }}
** Later, in his ''Tromeo and Juliet'' crossover review with [[The Cinema Snob]], he admits that he thought the "see how she rests her cheek upon her hand." line (wherein the "cheek" was changed to be an ''ass'' cheek) was actually kind of clever.
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** [[Mickey Mouse]] is on the No-fly list.
* [[And Then John Was a Zombie]]/[[You Are What You Hate]]: {{spoiler|After watching ''Trash Humpers'', he realizes he's become one of them.}}
* [[Animation Age Ghetto]]: Spoofed [[In-Universe]] in his joint review of the "Utena" movie with [[
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* [[Anime Hair]]: How he describes the hairdo of the ''Twilight of the Ice Nymphs'' protagonist. Also complaints about it in the "Utena" review. "Why does everyone have rainbow hair?!"
* [[April Fools' Day]]: The "''[[Eraserhead]]''" review.
* [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking]]: Oan quibbles over misplaced Shakespeare texts and inarticulate-sounding voiceovers ("Well, I just don't think that the gentleman from [[Motorhead]] is the best chorus...") while the Snob is left cringing at the real depravities.
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'''Oan''': Well, to be fair, [[Comically Missing the Point|it was foreshadowed]].
'''Snob:''' '''WHAT?!''' }}
** And again with Tom Green and the gallons of elephant bunk. "This scene takes place on the Indian subcontinent and [[Somewhere a Mammalogist Is Crying|that is clearly an African elephant!]]"
* [[Art Imitates Art]]:
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* [[As Long as It Sounds Foreign]]: Oan's cameo in ''[[Atop the Fourth Wall]]'' consists of him trying to decrypt a conspiracy consisting of copious amounts of religious, political, and cultural mumbo-jumbo, which ultimately concludes with a nuclear explosion, followed by {{spoiler|the Messenger from ''[[Angels in America]]'' appearing before him and telling him the Great Work is about to begin.}}
* [[Ass Pull]]: Invoked when he gives a high-brow, symbolic analysis of the scene in ''[[Freddy Got Fingered]]'' that involves Tom Green jacking off a horse while shouting "Look at me, daddy, I'm a farmer."
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'''[[The Nostalgia Chick]]:''' And this interpetation...
'''Oancitizen:''' Extracted directly from my anus, yes. }}
* [[Awful Truth]]: "'''[[It Was His Sled|SEAN CONNERY IS DOROTHY!]]'''"
* [[Berserk Button]]: Do not call Kyle [https://web.archive.org/web/20130920164127/http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/podcasts/tranmission-awesome/30382-episode-65-oancitizen a hipster] or an [http://twitter.com/#!/KyleKallgren/status/100269102614056960 anti-intellectual.]
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'''Oancitizen''': I Am Not A Hipster, good sir!! }}
*** Although in the ''Slacker'' review he does say he "might or might not be a hipster". He likes a lot of hipster stuff, but doesn't feel like he is one.
** He also doesn't like being called a [[The Cinema Snob|Brad Jones]] rip-off.
** For the character, dead babies.
** Starting with the ''What Is It?'' review, if snails are ever mentioned or brought into the equation, [[Go Mad
** Oan screaming his lungs out after [[The Nostalgia Chick]] summarizes the ending of ''Der Himmel über Berlin'' as "a long monologue" about "time..and loneliness...or something." Film analysis is [[Serious Business]].
* [[Big "What?"]]: 8 minutes into [[
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* [[Bilingual Bonus]]: After hearing the nonsensical first line of ''Exterminating Angels'', Oancitizen asks any viewers who have an idea what it means to send their answers to "merdedetaureau@gmail.fr". In other words, send it to {{spoiler|bullshit}}.
** He closed "[[The Discovery Of Heaven]]" by delivering a few lines (unsubtitled) in Dutch.
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* [[Biting the Hand Humor]]: After viewing ''[[Sweet Movie]]'', he accuses several of his fellow reviewers (including [[The Nostalgia Critic|his boss]]) of being sheltered. He can't, however, make an argument for [[The Cinema Snob]].
* [[Blah Blah Blah]]/[[Freudian Slip]]: The opening speech to ''[[Nine Songs]]'' is nothing but proper nouns, the phrase "rock music" and slang for genitalia and/or sex acts.
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** The mental break during the ''Eat The Schoolgirl'' review is the sequel of sorts to the breakdown from ''What Is It?''
** He refers back to two previous episodes in his review of ''[[Nine Songs]]'':
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'''Oan (as Matt):''' You're not going to [[Antichrist|smash my balls with a block of wood then drill a hole through my legs]], are you?
'''Oan (as Lisa):''' No, that would be interesting.
'''Oan (as Matt):''' I could [[Shortbus|sing ''The Star Spangled Banner'' into your ass]].
'''Oan (as Lisa):''' No!!! }}
* [[The Cameo]]: [[Diamanda Hagan]] appears at the end of the ''[[Ken Park]]'' review, and the end of ''[[Gerry]]''. The latter also features cameos from [[Apollo Z Hack]], [[Obscurus Lupa]] and Derek from [[Audible Underwear]].
** Oancitizen accidentally invokes [[Rule 34]] in ''Sebastiane'', which results in [https://web.archive.org/web/20110711132001/http://blip.tv/dramatic-literations The Vegan] reciting a [[Slash Fic]] involving Ulysses S. Grant and Jefferson Davis.
** Roo from [
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'''Oan:''' D'ja like it? }}
** [[The Bunny Perspective|Phil Buni]] does a cameo in ''Alice''.
** [[Atop the Fourth Wall|'90s Kid]] shows up when Oan reviews ''[[The Doom Generation]]'' and notes that it combines all the worst traits of Nineties Pop Culture.
** [[Dark Maze Studios|Ed Glaser]] made two cameos in the review of ''A Serbian Film'', first as his voice to joke about his resemblance to the movie's villain and as the NATO president {{spoiler|who dropped fictional bombs in fictional Serbia}}.
** There is an extended cameo by [[Rap Critic]] in the ''[[Ghost Dog]]'' review, which starts off with RC explaining who RZA is, and he butts in on occasion to explain things that Kyle doesn't get.
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* [[Camera Abuse]]: He taps it pretty hard during ''What Is It?'', causing visible glitches in the video.
* [[Captain Obvious]]: The Snob challenging him to "make [himself] useful" and try interpreting Troma-Juliet's dream sequence with [[All Psychology Is Freudian|the killer penis]].
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'''Snob:''' Thank you. That was very insightful. }}
** It there anything we can say about Tom Green's love interest in this movie?
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'''Chick:''' ''Besides'' the fact that she exists?
'''Oan:''' She has a nice place. }}
* [[Caption Humor]]: Reviewing ''[[We Are the Strange]]'' momentarily causes Oan's words to be translated into [[Leet Lingo|L33t]] speak.
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* [[Cluster F-Bomb]]: Lets off a rare, if brief one, when the "666" motif is well and truly driven into the ground in ''[[The Doom Generation]]''. "Cock-smelting ''fuckercunt''!"
** Also in his co-review with Lupa of "Hamlet The Vampire Slayer," he tells a rapper to "Die motherfucker die motherfucker die!"
** When [[Obscurus Lupa|Lupa]] hears that Oan is planning on reviewing ''[[Gerry]]'', her reaction is: "Fuuuuck fuck fuck ''Gerry''! Fuck fuckery fucking ''Gerry''! Fuck fuck fuckery fuck fuck fuck ''Gerry''! Fuck ''Gerry''!"
* [[Continuity Nod]]: To [[Atop the Fourth Wall]] in his "Slacker" review: "Is 90's Kid {{spoiler|still evil?}}"
* [[Corpsing]]: He tries valiantly, but [[The Cinema Snob]] ''cannot'' keep a straight face when Oancitizen refers to ''[[Coriolanus]]'' as "[[Parallel Porn Titles|Gloryhole Anus]]".
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** And by "something", it means that it's not always a book. For instance, the ''Trash Humpers'' review starts with him reading the instructions for a box of trash bags.
* [[Covert Pervert]]: Oan hinted that he ''might'' be one during his cameo in Diamanda's ''Emmanuelle 5'' review.
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'''Diamanda''': ...I'm going to assume I imagined that. }}
* [[Crisis Crossover]]: The ending of the ''What Is It?'' review.
* [[Crossover]]: Given his love for Shakespeare, reviewed ''Hamlet the Vampire Slayer'' with [[Obscurus Lupa]] and ''[[Tromeo and Juliet]]'' with [[The Cinema Snob]]. Also, did ''[[Revolutionary Girl Utena]]'' with [[
* [[Cut His Heart Out with a Spoon]]: Kyle had some choice words for the director of ''Trash Humpers''.
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** The modern interpretation of Laertes has a gay dance instructor. ..who looks like Mike Myers in ''Sprockets.''
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* [[Damned By Faint Praise]] / [[Overly Narrow Superlative]]: ''Twilight of the Ice Nymphs'' is "easily the greatest Canadian film about ostriches ever made."
* [[Dead Baby Comedy]]: Defied, with strong effort, during his ''[[Antichrist]]'' review, where he mentions that normally he's above that sort of humor, but it's so hard not to make a joke like that when there's an actual dead baby five minutes into the movie.
** This, by his own admission, is why he's never reviewed a Todd Solondz film.
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* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: Oancitizen.
* [[Department of Redundancy Department]]: "That 2 seconds of blurry full-frontal nudity was [[Sarcasm Mode|the most necessary thing in the history of necessity]]." (''Twilight of the Ice Nymphs'')
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* [[Distracted by the Sexy]]: He proves unable to review an [[Emma Thompson]] film without blurting out a marriage proposal.
* [[Double Standard]]: Discussed in ''[[Anatomie De L Enfer]]''
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* [[Dude, Not Funny]]: [[In-Universe]]. He struggled ''hard'' to snark ''What Is It?'' without invoking this trope, as much of the cast had Down's Syndrome and one member had cerebral palsy.
** He says he's not even going to try to make a joke during the attempted rape of an Apathetic during ''[[Zardoz]]'', though he does pull out of this depressing nosedive by making a joke about a scene immediately after that. "Here, have Sean Connery imitating Donkey Kong!" (Connery throws a barrel).
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* [[Dull Surprise]]: Invoked by name in ''Anatomy of Hell''.
** ''Hamlet the Vampire Slayer'':
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'''Oan:''' [stonefaced] <small>Ew.</small> }}
* [[DVD Commentary]].
* [[Ear Worm]]: ''Trash Humpers'''s "MAKE IT, MAKE IT, DON'T FAKE IT!"
* [[Even Evil Has Standards]]: In his review of ''[[Perfume]]'', he shows a clip of a cartoon [[Lex Luthor]] proposing to use causing random orgies to happen as a weapon. The [[Super Villain|supervillains]] he's proposing this too all say "Ewwww." It then cuts to [[Diamanda Hagan]] saying Ewwww, before cutting back to the supervillains. For why this is amusing, see [[Despair Event Horizon]] above.
** Oancitizen's on the receiving end himself when he and Diamanda view ''Eat the Schoolgirl''. After spending a good minute responding to Diamanda's dare that he make a rape scene funny ("I don't care ''what'' George Carlin says..."), he finally gives in... and [[Soundtrack Dissonance|dubs the theme song to]] ''[[Jem]]'' [[Soundtrack Dissonance|over the whole thing]]. Diamanda is both impressed and horrified.
* [[Even Nerds Have Standards|Even Film Buffs Have Standards]]: He absolutely ''refused'' to call ''What Is It?'' "art," and begins sympathizing with people who don't watch art films.
** ''[[Sweet Movie]]'' causes him to break down entirely on several occasions.
** ''Almost'' averted with ''A Serbian Film''. He spent the review explaining allegories to the Serbian nation that the director claims are there, looking and sounding like he's in excruciating pain all the way through, until finally he gets a nosebleed and snaps.
* [[Everybody Has Lots of Sex]]: Present in ''Blood for Dracula'', ''Flesh for Frankenstein'', ''[[Nine Songs]]'', ''Sebastiene'' and ''[[Shortbus]]''- the last to the point of distraction. Also noting how much sex just one couple had in ''[[Antichrist]]''.
* [[Everything's Better with Monkeys]]: While already excited in his review of ''[[The Fall (film)|The Fall]]'' he perks up even more when explaining that [[Charles Darwin]] ([[It Makes Sense in Context]]) has a pet monkey.
* [[Fascinating Eyebrow]]: A signifier that you should [[Beware the Nice Ones]], such as when he discovered that Hollywood remade one of his cherished German films into a [[City of Angels (film)|Nic Cage vehicle]].
* [[Fan Disservice]]: After watching ''[[Ken Park]]'', he says "I used to like sex. Now I can never touch a human being again!"
* [[Flat What]]: He summed up ''Otto (or, Up With Dead People)'' thusly:
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** Oan opining that he'd rather be watching ''[[Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead]]''.
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'''Oan:''' ''(wounded)'' ......<small>what?</small> }}
* [[Freakier Than Fiction]]:
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* [[Fridge Horror]]: [[In-Universe]]. He comes to the conclusion that the orgy in ''Perfume'' would have incest and sex with children due to people bringing their families to the execution.
* [[Funetik Aksent]]: After dealing with the cavalcade of outrageous accents in ''Blood for Dracula'', he finally puts up subtitles that transcribe everything phonetically ("What the heck is a 'sackhufbens'?")
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* [[Genius Bonus]]: Due to the nature of the show, he of course likes to slip a few into the reviews. He's even commented on wishing to be listed on this trope in his commentaries.
* [[Giving Someone the Pointer Finger]]: Delivers this to the camera (re: the Nostalgia Chick) when he's obliged to 'correct' her opinion on a film's message.
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** A positive example to the Snob, who suggests they [[Enemy Mine|join forces]] to corner the grindhouse '''and''' the arthouse. ("I ''knew'' there was a reason I respected you.")
* [[Godwin's Law]]: Couldn't get past the ending of ''[[Film/Jubilee|Jubilee]]'' without constantly going back to the fact that there was a short scene featuring what he described as "Old Man [[Hitler]]".
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* [[Go Mad
** Likewise, he had Roo from ''[[Clan of the Gray Wolf]]'' on as a cameo to help explain the video game references in ''[[We Are the Strange]]''. It doesn't go well for him.
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** Most of ''[[Zardoz]]''.
** ''Revolutionary Girl Utena'' reduces him to a cackling lunatic.
** ''Eat the Schoolgirl'' leads him to hogtie Diamanda Hagan in a bathtub and then attempt to dress her up as a snail.
*** Though part of that was apparently the result of being loaded with horse tranquilizers and having his testicles removed, as once the tranquilizers wear off he can't remember a thing.
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** After mailing Oancitizen ''Freddy Got Fingered'', the Chick and Nella go to his hotel room and find a [[Room Full of Crazy]].
* [[Groin Attack]]: In the ''[[Zardoz]]'' review, Oancitizen takes "The gun is good! The penis is evil!" a bit too literally - he whips out a gun, walks into the bathroom, aims it at his crotch, we cut to black just as the gun goes off...
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* [[Happy Place]]: There's only ''one'' thing that can get us through ''Ken Park'': '''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bmDoT1TXV3k Sir John Fucking Gielgud reading Tennyson over the music of Gustav Holst!]'''
** PRETENTION NIRVANA.
** Again during ''Trash Humpers''.
* [[Have I Mentioned I Am Heterosexual Today?]]: His view on ''[[The Doom Generation]]'', which bills itself as "A Heterosexual Movie" and may go a bit over the top in proving. "Straight, straight straight straight straight straight straight! Penises going ''into'' vaginas, all the time!"
* [[He-Man Woman Hater]]: What the metaphor in ''Anatomy of Hell'' presents men as; Oancitizen even namedrops this trope.
* [[Heroic Blue Screen of Death]]: After viewing ''Freddy Got Fingered''.
* [[Heh
* [[Hilarious in Hindsight]]: [[In-Universe]]. ''[[Naked Lunch]]'' features a creature that Kyle can only describe as a "[[The Human Centipede|human centipede]]".
* [[Hollywood Nerd]]: [http://twitter.com/#!/KyleKallgren/status/86564777190629376 When not wearing his trademark suit,] he makes one hell of a type 2.
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* [[Hypocritical Humor]]: In the review of ''You And Me And Everyone We Know'', Oancitizen introduces the main character as an amateur solo video artist, "which means she films herself alone in her room doing stupid stuff." Cut to Oancitizen, camera in hand, filming himself in front of a mirror going "Man, what a dork!"
* [[I Have Nothing to Say to That]]: From the ''[[We Are the Strange]]'' review:
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'''Oan:''' I... I can't make that line funnier. }}
* [[I Resemble That Remark]]: The longstanding "Cinema Snob ripoff" charge was spoofed in their crossover together.
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** ...Along with Kyle and Brad's dodgy acting.
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'''Oan:''' ''(looks down at script)'' "I have no idea what you mean." }}
* [[Inadvertent Entrance Cue]]: According to the ''[[Revolutionary Girl Utena]] [[The Movie]]'' review, any time someone is confused by an artistic movie, Oancitizen is teleported to them against his will. [[
** Kyle has sensitive ears and is very territorial about '''[[William Shakespeare|PHWOOLLIAM SHAXPAHR]]''' being reviewed by others. So much so, that he gets suckered into crashing ''Hamlet the Vampire Slayer''.
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'''Lupa''' (helpfully): You [[Blunt Metaphors Trauma|drank a spider]]? }}
* [[Incredibly Lame Pun]]: Lampshaded by Oan himself, who sincerely apologizes. (''Tideland'')
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* [[Insult Backfire]]: "I'd tell (''Trash Humpers'') to eat my shit, but I'm afraid it might be [[Too Kinky to Torture|into that sort of thing]]."
* [[The Internet Is for Porn]]: In ''Exterminating Angels'', Oan calls out his viewers for wanting raw footage of the French lesbians.
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** From ''[[The Girlfriend Experience]]'', on porn actress [[Sasha Grey]]:
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* [[It Got Worse]]: Oan experiences a string of these near the end of ''[[Ken Park]]'':
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* cue molestation scene *
'''Oan:''' That was the most despicable thing I will have ever seen in my-
* we cut to another character covered in blood *
'''Oan:''' Oh, God, he [[Kick the Dog|killed the three-legged dog]], didn't he? I mean, I can't imagine him doing anything worse than that.
* [[Moral Event Horizon|the character stabs his grandparents]] *
'''Oan:''' [[Sarcasm Failure|D:]] }}
* [[It's Not Porn, It's Art]]: He has to deal with a ''lot'' of nudity in some of his film reviews.
* [[Jacob Marley Warning]]: [[Todd in the Shadows]] hovers over Oan's bed at MAGfest, half-hardheartedly waving his arms. Finally, he resorts to just punching him.
* [[
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'''Oan:''' Hey, he ''did'' want some gum! ...'cause her gums are in her mouth. }}
* [[Lampshade Hanging]]: Points out background noise picked up by his mic in his review of ''Primer.''
* [[Layman's Terms]]: So, Jason Witter replaced the original language of ''Hamlet'' with endless pop culture snark?
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'''Lupa:''' [beat] Is that a real sen--
'''Oan: Why the fuck am I watching this turd?!''' }}
** ''Freddy Got Fingered'' - The Nostalgia Chick starts to ask him how this film is "Dada", only for Oan to scream, '''"THIS CANNOT BE DADA! IT'S TOO''' '''''NORMAL''''' '''TO BE DADA! IT'S TOO''' '''''SHIT''''' '''[[Insult to Rocks|TO BE ANYTHING ELSE!!]]"'''
* [[Le Film Artistique]]: Aside from the films, and occasional film-within-a-film, in the show, the credits sequence is styled as one, including [[Gratuitous French]] credit "Kyle 'Oancitizen' Kallgren Presente:"
** His film school movie [https://web.archive.org/web/20130920005617/http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/videolinks/teamt/oancitizen/miscellany-and-hodge-podge/33635-notes-from-film-school-pretension PREtension], a parody of art films.
* [[Limited Wardrobe]] - He wears basically the same clothes in every review.
* [[Lost Episode]]: ''The Girlfriend Experience'' (only exists with commentary) and ''Sh*t TGWTG Fans Say''.
** And now ''What is It?'' due to legal reasons.
* [[Mary Sue]]: He calls out the protagonist of ''Exterminating Angels'' on this.
* [[Memetic Mutation]]: Invoked at the end of the ''Twilight Of The Ice Nymphs'' review.
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* [[Mind Screw]]: ''What Is It?'', both the movie and the 'sketch.'
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* [[Money, Dear Boy]]: In the vlog for ''Anonymous'', Oancitizen suggests that Derek Jacobi took a role in the film to pay off a parking ticket.
* [[Musical Episode]]: ''[[The Man Who Fell to Earth]]'', reviewed almost entirely to the tunes of the songs of [[David Bowie]].
* [[My Name Is Not Durwood]]: For some reason, his early [[IMDb]] page listed Kyle's name as "Ralph Oancitizen". It's since become a [[Running Gag]], as [[Phelous]], [[Obscurus Lupa]], and [[Sad Panda Q&A|Sad Panda]] have referred to him as Ralph on various occasions.
** ''Ghost Dog:''
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'''Oan:''' Oh, yeah, the-the Whooping Clan guy, right?
'''Rap Critic:''' '''''[[Wu-Tang Clan|WU! TANG!!]]''''' }}
* [[Narm]]: [[In-Universe|Oan]] bursts out laughing while watching the performance of the main character in ''Twilight of the Ice Nymphs'' when he monologues about trees, comparing the voice to a deaf cracked-out [[Bill Murray]].
* [[Never Heard That One Before]]: When Mario starts chopping off Dracula's limbs in ''Andy Warhol's Dracula'', Oancitizen says the audience is probably already going through the Black Knight's dialogue from ''[[Monty Python and
** [''Tideland''] takes the honor of being 8,524th ''[[Alice in Wonderland]]'' reference ever made. ''"[[Sarcastic Clapping|A round of applause]]'', everyone."
* [[Never Trust a Title]]: Discussed on occasion.
* [[Nightmare Fuel Coloring Book]]: A flurry of them while describing the scenes in ''A Serbian Film''.
* [[Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot]]: In ''[[What Is It]]?''
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* [[Nipple-and-Dimed]]: Since nudity crops up in his video reviews, he's forced to censor it creatively. Pictures of [[Incredibly Lame Pun|titmice, cats, donkeys, and Wii remotes]] are common, but sometimes, if he's feeling really silly, he covers them up with cropped pictures ''of nude statues.''
** ''[[Perfume]] - The Story of A Murderer'' actually managed to '''[[Broke the Rating Scale|break]]''' the censor bar.
* [["Not Making This Up" Disclaimer]]: An on-screen message pops up during {{spoiler|'90s Kid}}'s rant about the finer aspects of ''The Doom Generation'' to tell us that his words were actually part of the film's marketing.
** Assuring that his ''[[
* [[Not So Different]]: In the review of ''[[The Girlfriend Experience]]'', he 'inadvertently' draws similarities between escort and porn wesites, and being an internet reviewer. At the end of the review, he goes to work on his other job, as a host on webcam site LiveJasmin
** Possibly the reason some see him as a [[The Cinema Snob]] ripoff is that the difference between a lot of his "arthouse" films and the Snob's exploitation movies seems to be purely [[In Name Only]], as they both tend to contain similarly dark and disturbing content. (The other reason is that Kyle is a straight version of what the Snob is a parody of--a sophisticated cinemaphile). This is lampshaded in the ''Tromeo and Juliet'' review.
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** "[[Kenneth Branagh]] plays Hamlet. Emphasis on '''[[Large Ham|HAM]]'''."
** "Here's a diagram -- a primer on ''Primer'', if you will. [snooty chuckle] Huzzah."
** And so, the characters of ''The Doom Generation'' "invoke the [[A Threesome Is Hot|Power of Three!]]"
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** ''Tideland'''s deranged beekeeper. "Aaaaand [[The Wicker Man|meme]] in 3....2....1..."
** When a character in ''[[Ken Park]]'' randomly asks his girlfriend's mother, "can I eat you out?", Kyle explains that even though it's become cliché, he now ''has'' to play the infamous scene from ''[[Shark Attack 3: Megalodon]]''.
** ''Hamlet the Vampire Slayer'':
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** "[[Pimp My Ride|Yo dawg, I heard you like dogs]], so put a dog in ''Ghost Dog'' so Ghost Dog can watch a dog and -- [[Overly Long Gag|oh, screw it]]."
* [[Odd Couple]]: With [[Obscurus Lupa]] in their ''Hamlet the Vampire Slayer'' review; he's a highbrow critic and serious intellectual, she's a cheerfully goofy shlock reviewer who doesn't understand long words.
* [[Oh Crap]]: During the "Otto" review, when he realizes he is about to see a gay zombie orgy.
** During the ''Trash Humpers'' review (bear in mind, babies... don't tend to fare well in these kinds of movies):
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** Yet again during ''The Brown Bunny'', when he discovers, to his abject horror, that the film is revisiting ''[[Gerry]]''.
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** He realizes one second too late that he's invoked Rule34 and mentioned a Civil War real-person slash fic.
* [[Oh My Gods]] '''"SWEET HEAVENLY MITHRAS!"'''
* [[One of Us]]
* [[Old Shame]]: When he posted the old review of ''The Girlfriend Experience'' on TGWTG, some comments came in, which he agreed with about the review coming off as slutshaming, and he contemplated removing the review altogether. He did say the intent wasn't to mock Sasha Grey for her adult film work, but the message he meant didn't come across clearly.
* [[Overly Long Gag]]: "TREES!"
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** The point in his review of ''[[Gerry]]'' where he tries to make up background music... a cappella style.
* [[Phantasy Spelling]]: Oancitizen jokes that Mandragora from ''Twilight of the Ice Nymphs'' is "also probably a place for people who spell 'fairy' as 'faerie.'"
* [[Pass the Popcorn]]: Admittedly as what he's doing is in fact watching movies him breaking out a bowl of it in a review normally would be considered a normal film watching activity. However he's an arthouse film reviewer which people don't usually associate with popcorn, therefore he uses it in his review of ''Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai'' to highlight the more action movie aspects of some of the scenes.
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* [[Platonic Life Partners]]: With his artist and BFF, Ven Gethenian.
* [[The Plot Thickens]]: "...Into a [[Primer|65 lb. lump of unshaped concrete]]."
* [[Precision F-Strike]]: "Jean-Claude Brisseau, '''fuck you.'''"
* [[Pretty Fly for a White Guy]]: His rap at the end of the ''Ghost Dog'' review.
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* [[Psychic Nosebleed]]: Happens as Oancitizen struggles to talk about ''A Serbian Film'''s messages... then he [[Despair Event Horizon|snaps out]]. (in the bloopers, Kyle points out that given how much corn syrup he put on his nose for the scene, that could have been actual blood!)
* [[Punctuated!
** ARE. '''(SLAM)''' VIDEO. '''(SLAM)''' GAMES. '''(SLAM)''' ART-- [[Decided by One Vote|of course they are, that's not even a question]].
* [[Rage Breaking Point]]: Happens during the review of ''A Serbian Film.'' [[Played for Laughs]].
* [[A Rare Sentence]]: "[[We Are the Strange|The blood was laughing at me.]]"
** ''Sweet Movie'' wastes no time scrambling Oan's brain.
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** He repeats this little gem several times during 'Goodbye 20th Century':
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** [https://web.archive.org/web/20131101185308/http://blip.tv/brows-held-high/brows-held-high-a-serbian-film-bloopers-5601086 They raped a fictional baby!...I'm really saying this out loud aren't I?]"
** The first (translated) sentence of ''Exterminating Angels'' is: "The lampposts are in need of their long scarlet coats." Oancitizen ''dares'' the audience to explain what that means. There's also a later reference to "blood of airports...flooding blue grass."
** "Hamlet's a cheerleader. Why is Hamlet a cheerleader?"
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* [[Running Gag]]: During scenes involving male bodily fluids, Oan would take a sip of milk from a wine glass. Lampshaded during his review of ''Sebastian'', when he can't believe it has become one.
** [[Stephen Fry]]'s "tweets" in ''The Discovery of Heaven''.
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** During ''[[Film/Jubilee|Jubilee]]'', he would point out two "affectionate" guys are brothers, then say "Ew,".
** ''A Serbian Film'': "NEW! BORN! PORN!".
* [[The Scream]]: Time to introduce Lupa's favorite Shakesperan characters: Rosenchad and Guildebrad! "[[Totally Radical|Yo!" "'Sup?!]]"
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[cut to bathroom door]
'''Oan''': NYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAOHHHGODIWILLNEVERRRAAAAAAAAAUUUUUGHGH!!! }}
* [[Self-Deprecation]]: Oancitizen. Apparently, the man ain't gettin' any. He is quick to point out flaws and mistakes during commentaries.
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** Unfortunately, his gift for verbage fails him when trying to understand anime tropes.
** "Ah, beg your pardon, I have an inquiry. What is the semiotic denotation of a 'pinky promise'?"
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* [[Sexiled]]: For ''[[Nine Songs]]'', he claimed to have put a sock on his doorknob.
* [[Shaped Like Itself]]: From the ''[[W.R.: Mysteries of the Organism]]'' review:
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'''[[Deadpan Snarker|Oan:]]''' ...and our bad writers are bad at writing. }}
* [[Ship Tease]]: Between him and his [[It Makes Sense in Context|trashcan.]]
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** The "Lecture Alarm", explained that he got it from the same guys who made [[Atop the Fourth Wall|Linkara]]'s Continuity Alarm. He ends up breaking it during ''[[Gerry]]''.
** During the ''[[Gerry]]'' review, he mentions it was hard to find a copy as all the local video stores had theirs stolen by [[Diamanda Hagan|Northern Irishmen in black masks]].
** He later paraphrases Hagan's "This film and reality don't often meet!" line. (''The Doom Generation'')
** He ends one review with the sign off "[[The Nostalgia Critic|I'm Oancitizen and I analyse it so you don't have to]]"
** The [[The Brown Bunny|Vincent Gallo blowjob]] is kicked off by shouting '''"[[The Spoony Experiment|Experience Bij]]"''', complete with bared teeth.
** "Heroin's [[Chappelle's Show|a helluva drug]]." (''[[Tideland]]'')
** In his review of ''Prospero's Books'', after a scene that's supposed to be particularly meaningful, Oan halfheartedly raises his arms and blandly states "[[Bad Movie Beatdown|...Symbolism.]]"
** In his review of ''Trash Humpers'' he says he's expecting one of them to start a 90-minute ''[[Star Wars]]'' review. [[
** '''''JUST THIS ONCE, [[Doctor Who|EVERYBODY DIES!!]]''''' (''Hamlet the Vampire Slayer'')
** In his ''[[Naked Lunch]]'' review; "Maybe you oughtta try your hand at writing pornography." "I tried. Nobody liked my ''[[Final Fantasy VII]]'' [[Slash Fic]]. [[Bennett the Sage|Apparently, people think eating poop is weird.]]"
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** In the vlog for "Anonymous," just off the top of his head he mentions a ton of stuff about Shakespeare and his contemporary historical figures. The man really knows his stuff.
* [[Shut UP, Hannibal]]: Oancitizen gets '90s Kid to shut up by telling him that [[Nirvana]] is directly responsible for the existence of [[Nickelback]].
* [[Sick and Wrong]]: The man does not scare easily. Anything involving child exploitation makes him cringe, however.
* [[Something Completely Different]]: The "Dreams of the Witch House" episode.
* [[Sophisticated As Hell]]: Kyle himself. He will rarely swear, but when he does, it's either a striking [[Precision F-Strike]] or a full out [[Cluster F-Bomb]].
* [[Soundtrack Dissonance]]: He decides to play the happy music from the scene after the death of [[Bambi|Bambi's mother]] during the act cards in [[Antichrist]].
** He also jokes that playing stirring orchestral music over the puking scene in ''[[Sweet Movie]]'' would likely later inspire the choice of soundtrack for [[Shock Site|2 Girls 1 Cup]].
* [[Special Effects Failure]]: [[In-Universe|He laughs]] uproariously at the fake severed head in ''Flesh for Frankenstein''. "God, it looks like one of the [[Thunderbirds|Thunderbird pilots]]."
* [[Spoof Aesop]]: "So the moral of [''Tideland''] is: children are sociopathic morons!"
** "[[Drugs Are Bad|Parents who reanimate the dead have children who reanimate the dead.]]" (''Andy Warhol's Frankenstein'')
** "So just remember, when you're trying to settle serious relationship issues with your special lady, '''[[Faux Symbolism|bust her water main open]]''' and then invite her to dance. She'll be thrilled! ''[[Revolutionary Girl Utena|Utena]]'' told me so!"
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* [[Stay in the Kitchen]]: ''Anatomy Of Hell'' closes with him {{spoiler|[[Straw Misogynist|finally coming to terms with his gender's supposed inherent misogyny and calling his mother to tell her]].}}
* [[Stealth Insult]]: He ends the ''Anatomy of Hell'' review by commending [[Straw Feminist|Catherine Breillat]] for "teaching [him] so much about [[He-Man Woman Hater|the male psyche!]]"
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** His epitaph for ''[[Gerry]]''. Hey, it did '''one''' thing fantastically right.
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* [[Stealth Pun]]: The title. While he reviews "Highbrow" films, many of the films we see tend to raise Oan's eyebrows in a different way.
* [[Stepford Smiler]]: Oan spends the majority of ''A Serbian Film'' review in this state. {{spoiler|Until his nose becomes a [[Psychic Nosebleed|BLOOD GEYSER]]}}.
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* [[Take That]]: Halfway into ''Exterminating Angels'', he realizes that the entire film is basically an endless parade of thin, attractive women acting horny around a dumpy middle-aged man. [cue Robert Palmer music video]
* [[Tempting Fate]]: In ''Tideland'', Oan compares the ''[[Alice in Wonderland|Alice]]'' themes to that older, creepier film he already covered.
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** Since it's [[Animation Age Ghetto|animated]], Oan is confident that explaining the themes and symbolism of ''[[Revolutionary Girl Utena]]'' will be a trifling matter for his mighty brain.
** After being thoroughly mindfucked by the ''[[Revolutionary Girl Utena]]'' movie, Oan resolves that he'll never let himself get roped into reviewing an allegedly deep animated show or movie again. Then the [[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic|bronies]] get a hold of him.
** Since ''Tromeo and Juliet'' is busy drowning itself in [[Parallel Porn Title|pornographic Shakespeare puns]], Oan decides to join in, too.
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'''Snob:''' ...That one actually exists. }}
* [[This Is for Emphasis, Bitch]]: Claudius' death in ''Hamlet'' (1996). "Oh I have to poison him? That's boring--'''''[[Falling Chandelier of Doom|EAT CHANDELIER, BITCH.]]'''''"
* [[Too Soon]]: After seeing a stark funeral with black-clad mourners in a pure white room in ''Goodbye, 20th Century'', Oancitizen asks, "So, who wants to bet Steve Jobs' funeral looked exactly like this?" He then raises his arms in triumph as "TOO SOON" appears to fanfare.
* [[True Art Is Angsty]]: His description of [[Ken Park]].
* [[True Art Is Incomprehensible]]: A lot of his points are attacking this notion, either directly calling it out, or pretending to defend it while obviously twisting in logical knots.
* [[Unexpected Genre Change]]: His review of ''[[Angels in America]]'' is a completely serious, highly emotional piece that has nothing negative to say about the film and ends with him directly urging the audience to educate themselves about HIV.
* [[The Unfair Sex]]: Turns up a ''lot'' in the stuff he reviews, be it averted, subverted or played straight. Of particular merit in this regard is ''[[Antichrist]]'' and ''[[Anatomie De L Enfer]]'', which deconstruct and defend this trope, respectively.
* [[Unsound Effect]]: ''WANK!''
* [[Very Special Episode]]: His [[Angels in America]] review, made in honor of National AIDS Day.
* [[Visual Pun]]: His censor bars are all about this.
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** To the point that he's genuinely distressed that he can't come up with censor-bar puns for ''Otto'', and just resorts to descriptive text on boxes.
* [[Vomit Discretion Shot]]: Does this after making a ''[[Family Guy]]'' joke, which obviously is anathema to his high brow nature.
* [[Waxing Lyrical]]: In ''Anatomy'': "She gets unimpressively naked and [[Madonna|lets you know what it feels like for a girl. Lets you know what it feels like in this world for a girl]]."
** In ''[[Zardoz]]'', "They're all, 'Oh, [[Queen|I am immortal. I have inside me blood of kings]]' and '[[Highlander|Here we are. Born to be kings, we're the princes of the universe.]]'". Oancitizen lampshades shortly later. (specially as he had already used "[[Who Wants to Live Forever?]]" before, as "it's a movie with immortals with [[Sean Connery]]. I had to use [[Queen]]")
** ''[[Hamlet]]'' tells [[The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air|the story all about how his life got flipped turned upside-down]].
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** In ''[[Ken Park]]'', after the "Thom Yorke-looking kid" has a sex scene with a woman who has had work done on her breasts: "[[Radiohead|She's his fake plastic love, and she wears him out. She wears him out.]]"
* [[We Are Experiencing Technical Difficulties]]: Upon viewing stock footage of the Katyn massacre that was spliced into ''Sweet Movie'', Oan's screaming face is replaced by a test pattern.
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* [[What Do You Mean It's Not Didactic?]]: One of his in-universe specialties is finding deep symbolism where it almost certainly doesn't exist. This is emphasized in his early blog posts and "Between The Lines" videos.
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** Played around with in his review of ''A Serbian Film''. Instead of discussing much of the film's plot, Oan instead discusses much of Serbia's dark history and how the emotional turmoil of the Serbs translates onto the film. {{spoiler|None of this stops him from calling NATO and asking them to bomb Serbia.}}
* [[What Do You Mean It's for Kids?]]: One of the main reasons that Kyle finds [[Jan Svankmajer]]'s ''Alice'' so frightening is that it ''was'' originally intended to be a kid's movie.
* [[What Do You Mean It's Not for Kids?]]: Slumming it in the [[Animation Age Ghetto]] with [[
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* [[Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?]]: Has developed a phobia for bunnies.
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* [[Word of God]]: Oan will sometimes quote the filmmakers explanations for their films, often to make fun of them.
* [[You Can Turn Back]]: From the intro to ''Trash Humpers''.
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