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[[File:Chester_A_Bum_resized.png|frame|"Hello! Am I on the inter[[Verbal Tic|ma]]net?!"]]

 

 

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.

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]]''.

 

* [[Acceptable Targets]]: In-universe.

** ''[[Twilight]]''. ''Eclipse'' had manic sarcasm in the place of gushing, and ''Breaking Dawn'' was just outright snark.

* [[Acting for Two]]: Chester does this quite often.

* [[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|Lester]] and really, you gotta do whatever it takes for '''chaaaaange'''.

* [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking]]:

** In the ''[[Watchmen (film)|Watchmen]]'' review, "one superhero blows up New York, one shoots women and children, and the last one just [[Full-Frontal Assault|flashes people]]."

* [[Ass Shove]]: Chester mentions the scene in ''[[Hancock]]'' and expresses hope that it happens in ''[[The Dark Knight]]''.

* [[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.

*** 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!"

** "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]]!"

** 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 the Frog]]'':

* [[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 the Frog]]'':

* [[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 by the Sexy]]: When failing to answer a couple [[Fridge Logic]] questions in ''[[Tron: Legacy]]'', he just says "There's a hot chick!"

* [[Eat the Dog]]:

* [[Embarrassing Middle Name]]: "A" is for {{spoiler|Alfred.}}

* [[Expansion Pack Past]]

* [[Hostile Show Takeover]]: His review of ''[[Rango]]'' is quickly hijacked by {{spoiler|[[Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas|Raoul]] [[Call Back|Puke]]}}, on the grounds that he actually appeared in the movie.

* [[Hurricane of Euphemisms]]: From the [[Red Riding Hood (film)|Red Riding Hood]] review:

* [[Hype Backlash]]: In-universe example. The Bum actually gave a bad review to ''[[Citizen Kane]]'', and this was one of the reasons. (It was a joke of course, Doug mentions at the end that he likes ''[[Citizen Kane]]''.)

** A lot of his criticisms towards District 9 was disagreeing with the movie being as ground breaking as people made it out to be.

* [[Jump Cut]]

* [[Keet]]

* [[Like You Would Really Do It]]: Lampshaded in the review of {{spoiler|''[[The Muppets (film)|The Muppets]]''}}

* [[Medium Awareness]]: The Chicago Snowstorm episode, which combines it with a defiance of [[Tethercat Principle]].

* [[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]]

* [[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 (film)|Get Smart]]'' was criticized for being "heavy on the man-love".

* [[Sincerity Mode]]: Doug breaks character a few times during his ''[[The Avengers (film)|The Avengers]]'' review to assert that no, really, it ''is'' a great movie, and that whoever's watching the review should go see it ''now.''

* [[Something Completely Different]]: His ''[[The Dark Knight]]'' review was done in a subdued style because of the impression it left on him.

* [[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]]

** His ''District 9'' review, where he declares that it's totally unoriginal.

** Same with ''[[Avatar (film)|Avatar]]''.

* [[Verbal Tic]]: Adds the syllable "ma" in randomly, e.g. "that nice Nostalgiama Critic man!"

** "Hello! Am I on the Intermanet!?"

* [[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.

* [[You Bastard]]: He thinks the audience is sick for watching him nearly freeze to death in a snowstorm for entertainment.

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