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{{quote| ''[M]y primary goal: to get people in nerd culture to explore highbrow culture.''}}

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.

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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."]]

"It's [[A Worldwide Punomenon|a period piece]]."<br />

'''Oan:''' Heh-- [frowns] ewww. }}

* [[Alliterative Name]]: [[Lampshade Hanging|Lampshaded]] in ''The Discovery of Heaven''. Oan helpfully notes that the Messiah character has matching initials, a trait "common to ''many'' great men of legend!" (he then points out this applies to himself as well)

* [[Alternate Character Interpretation]]:

** He believes that "The Woman" in ''[[Anatomy of Hell]]'' was an aspiring [[Fag Hag]].

** The aging [[Keet]] Six Flags mascot is a trash humper.

** [[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 [[Jesu Otaku]], with himself taking the position of "animation is for kids/dunderheads."

* [[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.

* [[Art Imitates Art]]:

{{quote| '''Oancitizen:'''Ah yes, Botticelli's "The Birth of [[R Crumb]]."}}

* [[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."

{{quote| '''Oancitizen:''' Perhaps this horse's phallus represents the onset of manhood.<br />

'''Oancitizen:''' Extracted directly from my anus, yes. }}

* [[Awful Truth]]: "'''[[It Was His Sled|SEAN CONNERY IS DOROTHY!]]'''"

'''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.

** For the character, dead babies.

** Starting with the ''What Is It?'' review, if snails are ever mentioned or brought into the equation, [[Go Mad From the Revelation|You may be in trouble.]]

* [[Big "What?"]]: 8 minutes into [[Jesu Otaku]] making him watch ''[[Revolutionary Girl Utena]]''. The first of many, as we'll see in due course.

{{quote| "WHY IS THIS PINK-HAIRED BITCH A CAR?!"}}

** He closed "[[The Discovery Of Heaven]]" by delivering a few lines (unsubtitled) in Dutch.

{{quote| ''"<No, really. Why is the film not in Dutch? It's not like there aren't any smart, talented Dutch actors that can play these roles. And I think they would rather do this than shit like ''Spion Van Oranje! [a Dutch comedy film] ''And another thing...>"''}}

* [[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.

* [[Body Snatcher]]: For the "Freaks" review, Oan's body is possessed by Diamanda Hagan, who proceeds to dye his hair and paint his face in her usual color scheme and then do the review in a faux-Irish accent. He also feels himself up and comments "So that's what one of those feels like."

* [[Bread, Eggs, Milk, Squick]]: A lot of the comedy of the show.

* [[Breather Episode]]: The ''[[Angels in America]]'' and ''[[The Fall]]'' reviews.

* [[Brick Joke]]: [[Diamanda Hagan]] tells her minion to mail Oancitizen his balls (since he's obviously not using his) at the end of the [[Ken Park]] review. Two videos later, the [[Incredibly Lame Pun|package]] finally arrives.

** The time travel duplicate of Oancitizen he stuffed in the closet in his [[Primer]] review shows up again (and then gets killed) at the end of the ''What Is It?'' review.

* [[Brown Note]]: arguably some of the movies he's watched, but also Sasha Grey's music, as heard in ''[[The Girlfriend Experience]]'' review.

* [[Buffy-Speak]]: His early attempts at explaining the plot to ''[[Primer]]'' results in him just calling everything 'things'.

** He refers back to two previous episodes in his review of ''[[Nine Songs]]'':

{{quote| '''Lisa:''' Sometimes when you kiss me, I just want to bite you. And not in a nice way. Like, I want to hurt you.<br />

'''Oan (as Lisa):''' No, that would be interesting.<br />

'''Oan (as Matt):''' I could [[Shortbus|sing ''The Star Spangled Banner'' into your ass]].<br />

'''Oan (as Lisa):''' No!!! }}

** Oancitizen accidentally invokes [[Rule 34]] in ''Sebastiane'', which results in [http://blip.tv/dramatic-literations The Vegan] reciting a [[Slash Fic]] involving Ulysses S. Grant and Jefferson Davis.

** Roo from [http://www.clanofthegraywolf.com/ Clan of the Greywolf] agrees to "translate" M dot Strange's impenetrable video game/anime references. And has a nervous breakdown

'''Oan:''' D'ja like it? }}

** [[The Bunny Perspective|Phil Buni]] does a cameo in ''Alice''.

** [[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.

'''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.

** Oancitizen opens the Channel Awesome Holiday Greetings with a one-person quartet choir.

* [[Catch Phrase]]: Huzzah!

* [[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!"

* [[Couch Gag]]: At the start of each episode, or even cameo in other reviews, he reads something related, if only vaguely to the movie in question.

** 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.

'''Diamanda''': ...I'm going to assume I imagined that. }}

* [[Crisis Crossover]]: The ending of the ''What Is It?'' review.

{{quote| "Listen, Korine, if I ever meet you in real life, I will end you. I will '''take apart your camera and feed it to you'''. You will suffer I SWEAR TO GOD ''[voice quavers]'' [[Civilization|OUR WORDS ARE BACKED WITH NUCLEAR WEAPONS]]--" ''{{[[[Inelegant Blubbering]] deteriorates into sobs}}]''}}

** The modern interpretation of Laertes has a gay dance instructor. ..who looks like Mike Myers in ''Sprockets.''

{{quote| "I want to punch him in his sideburns."}}

* [[Damned By Faint Praise]] / [[Overly Narrow Superlative]]: ''Twilight of the Ice Nymphs'' is "easily the greatest Canadian film about ostriches ever made."

** This, by his own admission, is why he's never reviewed a Todd Solondz film.

{{quote| I'm not sure how many jokes I can get out of abortion, pedophilia and sexual abuse.}}

** Also, when realizing he made a [[Tyler Perry]] reference. He quickly made a [[Maya Deren]] reference to keep his snob cred.

* [[Dissimile]]: [[Diamanda Hagan]] refers to Oancitizen as "Young, straight, [[Stephen Fry]], only bearded and American."

* [[Double Standard]]: Discussed in ''[[Anatomie De L Enfer]]''

{{quote| After all, [menstrual blood]'s the only bodily fluid that has any stigma attached to it. *swigs from a wine glass* My semen is watery today.}}

** 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).

* [[Dull Surprise]]: Invoked by name in ''Anatomy of Hell''.

** ''Hamlet the Vampire Slayer'':

* [[DVD Commentary]].

* [[Ear Worm]]: ''Trash Humpers'''s "MAKE IT, MAKE IT, DON'T FAKE IT!"

** 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.

* [[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:

** Oan opining that he'd rather be watching ''[[Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead]]''.

{{quote| '''Snob:''' Pah! [[Roger Ebert]] gave that zero stars. Therefore, [[Reviews Are the Gospel|I hate it!]]<br />

'''Oan:''' ''(wounded)'' ......<small>what?</small> }}

* [[Freakier Than Fiction]]:

* [[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'?")

** It comes back sporadically in his ''Flesh for Frankenstein'' review. ("Come to Serbia! Try the 'nasum'!")

* [[Heroic Blue Screen of Death]]: After viewing ''Freddy Got Fingered''.

* [[Heh, Heh, You Said "X"]]: In his ''A Serbian Film'' review: "Ha ha! His name is Fuckmir!"

* [[Hollywood Nerd]]: [http://twitter.com/#!/KyleKallgren/status/86564777190629376 When not wearing his trademark suit,] he makes one hell of a type 2.

* [[Hurricane of Euphemisms]]: He ends up using a ''lot'' of terms for female masturbation ("flicking the bean," "tickling the tuna taco," "sampling the finger food," "petting the kitty") in his review of ''Exterminating Angels''.

* [[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!"

{{quote| '''[[Buffy-Speak|Black and White Thingy]]:''' Then we will celebrate with many scoops of iced cream!<br />

'''Oan:''' I... I can't make that line funnier. }}

* [[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. [[Jesu Otaku]] notes that now that it's known, it's highly exploitable, and he then teleports away from the review, and once back, angrily tells her to not give fans any more ideas on how to misuse the spell. This could also be a meta-joke about how Kyle become the go-to guy for cameos about symbolism and artistic topics.

** 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''.

'''Lupa''' (helpfully): You [[Blunt Metaphors Trauma|drank a spider]]? }}

* [[Incredibly Lame Pun]]: Lampshaded by Oan himself, who sincerely apologizes. (''Tideland'')

* [[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.

* [[Moral Event Horizon|the character stabs his grandparents]] * <br />

'''Oan:''' [[Sarcasm Failure|D:]] }}

* [[Lampshaded Double Entendre]]: ''The Anatomy of Hell'' opens with its female protagonist getting slapped by a random man, who then just stands there looking sullen. Wordless apology, or is she just handing him a stick of gum?

{{quote| '''''[unzips fly]'''''<br />

* [[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]].

** ''Ghost Dog:''

{{quote| '''Rap Critic:''' That's him! That's RZA!<br />

'''Oan:''' Oh, yeah, the-the Whooping Clan guy, right?<br />

* [[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 The Holy Grail]]'' in their heads, and says they really need to do some reading on media saturation.

* [[Never Trust a Title]]: Discussed on occasion.

* [[Nightmare Fuel Coloring Book]]: A flurry of them while describing the scenes in ''A Serbian Film''.

{{quote| '''Oancitizen''' (in shock): '''''NAKED NAZI [[Shirley Temple]] MASTURBATING WITH A RIDING CROP!'''''}}

* [[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.''

* [[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 ''[[Myth Busters]]'' reference wasn't just random. Jamie Hyneman really did work the special effects on ''[[Naked Lunch]]''.

* [[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

* [[Not So Stoic]]: He very rarely breaks down or goes over the top, making those few instances much more powerful (i.e. [[The Scream|his reaction to a disturbing scene]] in his review of ''Alice'').

* [[Obligatory Joke]]: Has openly stated he will not do some of the obvious jokes, as they would be "[[Defied Trope|Too easy".]]

** "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!]]"

** ''Tideland'''s deranged beekeeper. "Aaaaand [[The Wicker Man|meme]] in 3....2....1..."

** ''Hamlet the Vampire Slayer'':

** "[[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.

** During the ''Trash Humpers'' review (bear in mind, babies... don't tend to fare well in these kinds of movies):

{{quote| "Was that a baby?...(''looks horrified'') '''''Was that a baby?!'''''"}}

{{quote| "...''No.'' Oh, '''''no'''''..."}}

** 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!"'''

* [[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!"

** 55.5555555555555555555555555555555555555555555555555555...

* [[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.

* [[The Plot Thickens]]: "...Into a [[Primer|65 lb. lump of unshaped concrete]]."

* [[Precision F-Strike]]: "Jean-Claude Brisseau, '''fuck you.'''"

{{quote| '''[[Rap Critic]]:''' [[Anything But That|Kyle, NO! There's no way you can make this look good!!]]}}

* [[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 for Emphasis]]: '''''GET....ME...[[Nuke'Em|NATO!]]'''''

* [[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.]]"

* [[Real Song Theme Tune]]: "Procession of the Nobles" from ''Mlada'' by Rimsky-Korsakov.

* [[Reference Overdosed]]: Used mainly to showcase similar tropes or ideas in more mainstream movies to help de-mystify the films to his audience.

** "What Is It" was deliberately filled with all sorts of offensive things, the point being that the audience was to decide which of them was actually offensive. Oan takes umbrage at this, though, and says, "This is not art. This is ''[[Troll|trolling]]!''"

* [[Rule 34]]: "Yes, Internet, there exists communist porn."

** The review of ''Sebastiene'' contains a joke about American Civil War slashfics

{{quote| '''Lupa:''' I just heard '[[Blah Blah Blah]] big words pinkie promise,' so I can't help you.}}

* [[Sexiled]]: For ''[[Nine Songs]]'', he claimed to have put a sock on his doorknob.

{{quote| '''Narrator:''' In our sick society, everyone is sick.<br />

'''[[Deadpan Snarker|Oan:]]''' ...and our bad writers are bad at writing. }}

* [[Ship Tease]]: Between him and his [[It Makes Sense in Context|trashcan.]]

** The line "OUR WORDS ARE BACKED WITH NUCLEAR WEAPONS!" is a famous quote from [[Sid Meier]]'s ''[[Civilization]]''.

** He later paraphrases Hagan's "This film and reality don't often meet!" line. (''The Doom Generation'')

** '''''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.]]"

* [[Shown Their Work]]: Oancitizen makes a point of extensively researching the films he reviews, as he feels they deserve a thought out analysis.

** 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.

* [[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]].

** 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]]."

** "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!"

{{quote| '''Jesu:''' I think you're beginning to [[Sanity Slippage|lose your mind.]]}}

* [[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!]]"

{{quote| '''Oan:''' [dials phone] Hi, mom! Yeah, I just got done watching this French film and--'''''FUCK YOU!''''' }}

{{quote| "You ''really'' feel like you're lost in a desert. The scenery is repetitive, the sounds vacant. You wander aimlessly, every minute spent praying that the end to come. It will come when you reach the finish, or it will come with your own death. Hell, at some points you even begin to feel a little dehydrated at this movie. And should you emerge alive, you spend every waking minute wishing that you had never taken that wrong turn (or pushed that play button) and been dropped into a vast wasteland, traumatized by the void that you were dropped into -- and may never escape.}}

* [[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.

* [[Sure Why Not|Sure, Why Not?]]: ''Goodbye, 20th Century'' was such a jumbled mess that it reduced Oan to saying this over and over again.

* [[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]

{{quote| "Well, at least they got rid of that cheesy, creepy stop-motion animation and [severed doll's head comes to life] -- '''''BLUUAAGH!'''''}}

** 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.

** Since ''Tromeo and Juliet'' is busy drowning itself in [[Parallel Porn Title|pornographic Shakespeare puns]], Oan decides to join in, too.

'''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.]]'''''"

* [[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.

* [[Unsound Effect]]: ''WANK!''

* [[Very Special Episode]]: His [[Angels in America]] review, made in honor of National AIDS Day.

* [[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]]."

{{quote| "Ah Fresh Prince. Well, in the words of another [[Geto Boys|famous rap lyric]], DIE MOTHER FUCKER DIE MOTHERFUCKER DIE."}}

** 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.

* [[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.

{{quote| '''Oan:''' Would it be too didactic to reference Grotowski's ''Toward a Poor Theatre''?<br />

* [[What Do You Mean It's Not for Kids?]]: Slumming it in the [[Animation Age Ghetto]] with [[Jesu Otaku]], Oan encounters the [[Yuri Genre|lesbian romance]] in ''[[Revolutionary Girl Utena]]'':

{{quote| '''Oan:''' Don't they know there are children watching this? <br />

* [[Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?]]: Has developed a phobia for bunnies.

{{quote| "...Well, bunnies, chocolate, snails...trash cans, Italians-- this show is ''not'' healthy for me!"}}

* [[You Can Turn Back]]: From the intro to ''Trash Humpers''.

* [[You Can't Handle the Parody]]: He attempts it while watching ''Zardoz'', but fails due to [[Got Me Doing It|absorbing too much]] of the characters' [[Spock Speak]].

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