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{{quote|"[[Gushing About Shows You Like|OH MY GOD, THIS IS THE GREATEST MOVIE I'VE EVER SEEN IN MY LIFE!]]"
|'''Chester A. Bum''', on [[Citizen Kane|nearly]] every movie he sees in his life.}}
A homeless guy who reviews current movies on [[That Guy With
▲{{quote|"[[Gushing About Shows You Like|OH MY GOD, THIS IS THE GREATEST MOVIE I'VE EVER SEEN IN MY LIFE!]]"|'''Chester A. Bum''', on [[Citizen Kane (Film)|nearly]] every movie he sees in his life.}}
This character was partly inspired by Doug's first video review of the first ''[[Transformers (
▲A homeless guy who reviews current movies on [[That Guy With the Glasses]]. Since he's just happy to be in a warm building while seeing them, he likes almost every movie he sees.
A list of films review on the show can be found [[Doug Walker/Doug Walker List|here]].▼
▲This character was partly inspired by Doug's first video review of the first ''[[Transformers (Film)|Transformers]]'', where he acted very enthusiastic, and by Doug's silly voice in his review of ''[[Cloverfield]]''.
▲A list of films review on the show can be found [[Doug Walker List|here]].
▲=== OH MY GOD THESE ARE THE GREATEST EXAMPLES I'VE EVER SEEN IN MY LIFE!!! ===
* [[Acceptable Targets]]: In-universe.
** ''[[Twilight]]''. ''Eclipse'' had manic sarcasm in the place of gushing, and ''Breaking Dawn'' was just outright snark.
** ''[[Transformers]]''. In the review of ''[[The Hunger Games]]'', he called the third film "testosterone-filled mindlessness".
* [[Acting for Two]]: Chester does this quite often.
* [[
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* [[Adorkable]]
* [[Ambiguously Bi]]: He'll comment on a woman's attractiveness in a movie without fail, but he ''did'' make out with [[Atop the Fourth Wall
* [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking]]:
** In the ''[[Watchmen (
** And in the review of ''[[Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (
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* [[Ass Shove]]: Chester mentions the scene in ''[[Hancock]]'' and expresses hope that it happens in ''[[The Dark Knight]]''.
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* [[Big "Never!"]]: Him doing Jacob of ''[[Twilight (
* [[Bitch in Sheep's Clothing]]: Not that he doesn't have lots of nice moments too, but he used his "innocent harmless bum" persona in a plan to destroy the world (and succeeded as well!), always defends the Critic but also acts like the voice for his entitled fans, and [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking|tries to steal things at cons]].
* [[Breakout Character]]: Bum Reviews has become one of the most popular features on That Guy's website. Quite a feat for a spin off character.
* [[Butt Monkey]]: In his coverage of the 2011 Snowstorm.
* [[Captain Ersatz]]: [[Atop the Fourth Wall
* [[Catch Phrase]]:
** "OH MY GOD, THIS IS THE GREATEST MOVIE I'VE EVER SEEN IN MY LIFE!"
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** "There's this guy! Called..." (usually the second line of the review)
** ''"HOORAY!"''
*** When something bad follows, "[[
*** And when it's in the middle... don't ask.
** "And (insert character here) was like...!"
*** Often a dueling series of these ending with "and he was like - 'okay'."
** "I used to be/had a (something relevant to the movie) once!"
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** "And at the end they play the famous theme song! * sings said theme song with added lyrics* "
** "This is Chester A. Bum saying... CHANGE!! YA GOT CHANGE!?!? OH COME ON, HELP A GUY OUT WILL YA!!! C'MON, CHANGE!!! I promise I'll use it to educate people on the difference between a [[Subverted Trope|subversion]], an [[Inverted Trope|inversion]], and an [[Averted Trope|aversion]]!"
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* [[Credits Gag]]: At the end of each ep, the final card has a small comment that always begins, "Seriously", that outlines what Doug really thought of the movie.
** Recently dumped for a complete second video outlining what Doug really thought of the movie.
* [[Curse Escape Clause]]: In the review of ''[[The Princess and
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* [[Deliberately Monochrome]]: His review of ''[[The Artist]]'' is presented as a silent film with captions.
* [[Deliberate Values Dissonance]]: In the review of ''[[The Princess and
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* [[Despair Event Horizon]]: After nearly freezing to death in a night snowstorm, his reviews started giving more focus to flaws in movies, instead of just scatterbrained gushing about everything.
* [[Distracted
* [[Eat the Dog]]:
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* [[Embarrassing Middle Name]]: "A" is for {{spoiler|Alfred.}}
* [[Expansion Pack Past]]
* [[Expy]]: The first Nostalgia Critic video was actually the Critic acting like the future Chester A. Bum doing ''[[Transformers Film Series]]'' (2007). This is given a nod with the Critic doing ''Revenge of the Fallen'', and Bum popping up after he leaves, asking if the Critic stole his act.)
** Not to mention this being brough to its logical conclusion with the ''Dark of the Moon'' review when {{spoiler|right at the start of the Critic's review, he gets a letter informing him that Chester's suing him for stealing his act (in case you're curious, there IS a review... of Chester's when the judge asks how he'd review it).}}
* [[Everyone Has Standards]]: Unlike Bella from ''[[Twilight (
* [[Fridge Logic]]: Pointed out [[In
** In the review of "''[[Pirates of the Caribbean]]: On Stranger Tides''", he constantly says "I'm Johnny Depp!" while wiggling his fingers and staring at the camera after pointing out a couple of [[Fridge Logic]] parts.
* [[Girl
* [[Gushing About Shows You Like]]: One of the few in-media examples.
* [[Hostile Show Takeover]]: His review of ''[[Rango]]'' is quickly hijacked by {{spoiler|[[Fear and Loathing
* [[Hurricane of Euphemisms]]: From the [[Red Riding Hood (
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* [[Hype Backlash]]: In-universe example. The Bum actually gave a bad review to ''[[
** A lot of his criticisms towards District 9 was disagreeing with the movie being as ground breaking as people made it out to be.
* [[Hypocritical Humor]]: Chester comments on [[Family Guy]] stealing one of his jokes. In the process, he steals "Screw you Guys I'm going home" from ''[[South Park]]'' and the ending scene with the lawyer is a direct ripoff of the ending of ''[[Charlie and
* [[Innocent Fanservice Boy]]: Like Critic, played for creepy [[Black Comedy]]. He somehow got himself into both pole-dancing and prostitution at least once. (Off-screen, thankfully.)
* [[Innocently Insensitive]]: When he showed up in the Critic's press conference for ''[[James and
* [[It's a Long Story]]: Pretty often. Just one variation is "I was a slave once! ...but it's a boring story."
* [[
* [[Jittercam]]: Done in ''[[The Hunger Games (
* [[Jump Cut]]
* [[Keet]]
* [[Kill the Cutie]]: The end of his review for ''Paranormal Activity III''. {{spoiler|Teddy Ruxpin shoots him for not much reason}}. He's fine by the next episode of course.
* [[Like You Would Really Do It]]: Lampshaded in the review of {{spoiler|''[[The Muppets (
* [[Medium Awareness]]: The Chicago Snowstorm episode, which combines it with a defiance of [[Tethercat Principle]].
* [[Mood Whiplash]]: [[British Accents|A British accented voice]] with soft violin music opens every episode, followed by "OH MY GOD, THIS IS THE GREATEST MOVIE I'VE EVER SEEN IN MY LIFE!"
** Possibly the most extreme case was the end of his review for ''Paranormal Activity III''. The light cuts out, he gets shot by {{spoiler|Teddy Ruxpin, and we see red eyes and hear "come dream with me tonight..."}}. Followed immediately by the usual classical music for the credits.
* [[Motor Mouth]]: Something the other bums never quite managed to pull off.
* [[Nerds Are Virgins]]: Calling ''[[
* [[Never Heard That One Before]]: He was told by the subtitles to not compare ''[[Real Steel]]'' to "Rock 'em Sock 'em" robots, as everyone had already made that joke. Same with comparing it to ''[[Transformers]]''. Fortunately, ''[[The Asylum|Transmorphers]]'' comparisons were free.
* [[Nightmare Fuel Station Attendant]]: As a result of his occasional [[Bread, Eggs, Milk, Squick]] lines.
* [[Nightmare Retardant]]: The vampires in ''[[Twilight (
* [[Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot]]: ''[[District 9]]'' inpires the Bum to make a movie called "Batman and the Terminator Go to Jurassic Park", and the sequel "Batman and the Terminator in a [[Steven Seagal]] Christmas".
* [[No Indoor Voice]]
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** "I used to be an Asian boy scout!" And adds. "Wasn't that a weird week."
* [[Obfuscating Stupidity]]: Chester's surface persona is too in-your-face brain-fried to be taken seriously. However, much of his commentary is actually insightful and well-phrased.
** He acts [[In the Style Of]] a more traditional film critic--until [[Ask That Guy With
* [[Omnicidal Maniac]]: During Part 2 of Linkara's review of ''Countdown'', Chester hijacks all of Earth's nuclear weapons and plots to take over the world (''OF COURSE!''). He finally gets fed up with arguing with the Critic about it and just destroys the entire planet.
* [[Only Friend]]: Critic might hang around with other people more, but Chester is the only one who shows up to defend him in the ''[[James and
* [[OOC Is Serious Business]]: While reviewing ''[[The Avengers (
* [[Morality Pet]]: People being nasty to him is usually a way of showing their [[Jerkass]]-ness and Critic giving him money and offering a place to stay manages to get the interviewer in ''True Internet Story'' to begrudgingly admit that Critic's a [[Jerk
* [[Not So Different]]: He thinks Ask That Guy's a douche and Ask That Guy thinks Chester is disgusting, but they've both been in porn, both have fantasies (we hope) about killing their parents and both have a talent for evading lawful punishment.
** Both he and Critic have [[I Just Want to Be Loved]] issues - although ironically Chester has more of a backbone about it - and he got rageful when he tried to play the ''[[Blue Brothers]]'' game Critic threw out because it was [[Nintendo Hard]].
* [[Precision F-Strike]]: Chester drops a couple of F-bombs in his Iron Man 2 review, mostly because he's impersonating Samuel L. Jackson.
* [[Rapid-Fire Comedy]]
* [[Retool]]: The reviewing style in [https://web.archive.org/web/20130924125715/http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/videolinks/thatguywiththeglasses/nostalgia-critic/52-transformers-the-movie-review Doug's first Nostalgia Critic review] would later become the standard operating procedure for the Bum Reviews section.
* [[Selective Squick]]: In-universe and [[Played for Laughs]]. He has a [[Running Gag]] of demanding Jacob from ''[[Twilight]]'' to put on a shirt <ref> out of universe, Doug has the hots for the character because he's the only decent person in the films</ref> , and ''[[Get Smart (
* [[Sincerity Mode]]: Doug breaks character a few times during his ''[[The Avengers (
* [[Something Completely Different]]: His ''[[The Dark Knight]]'' review was done in a subdued style because of the impression it left on him.
** His review of ''[[Harry Potter and
* [[Stepford Smiler]]: A good chunk of episodes imply it. Like in ''[[The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951 film)|The Day the Earth Stood Still]]'':
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* [[The Stinger]]: Chester always adds an extra punchline about the movie into his calls for "CHAAAAANGE!" at the end of the videos. The end credits had a written stinger too (in which Doug Walker gave a one-sentence summary of how he actually about the movie, always starting with "Seriously, though..."), but that's been replaced by a separate and longer "Doug's Review" video that runs below the Bum Review.
* [[Stoners Are Funny]]
* [[Take That]]:
** Doug actually takes a minute during his Bum Review for ''[[The Princess and
** In both the ''Twilight'' and ''New Moon'' Bum Reviews, Chester often points out how boring and forgettable Edward is, especially compared to Jacob.
** His ''District 9'' review, where he declares that it's totally unoriginal.
** Same with ''[[Avatar (
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* [[Verbal Tic]]: Adds the syllable "ma" in randomly, e.g. "that nice Nostalgiama Critic man!"
** "Hello! Am I on the Intermanet!?"
** And his cardboard box computer is labelled "Com-pu-ta-ma-ter".
** "Oh I get it, it's like one of them Sila-ma-tent pictures."
* [[Wham! Episode]]: Secondhand. ''[[The Dark Knight]]'' was so great that it left a ''huge'' impression on him. Such that at the end of it he just told us, "You know what? Keep the change."
** Similarly, ''The Avengers'' had Doug briefly break character to emphasize that Chester isn't just doing his typical gushing and that it's really ''[[Beyond the Impossible|that good]].''
* [[What Do You Mean It Wasn't Made
* [[Vocal Evolution]]: Compare the 2008 episodes to now and it sounds a lot less natural back then, almost like he was clogged up from a lot of coke snorting.
* [[With Lyrics]]: Chester commonly does this for film adaptations.
* [[Yank the Dog's Chain]]: The end of the snowstorm episode. A nice person from across the street took him inside and gave him a blanket and a hot drink. Then it starts snowing indoors.
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* [[You Bastard]]: He thinks the audience is sick for watching him nearly freeze to death in a snowstorm for entertainment.
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