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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 (Web Video)|Lester]] and really, you gotta do whatever it takes for '''chaaaaange'''.

** 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]]."

** And in the review of ''[[Harry Potter (Film)|Harry Potter]] and the Half Blood Prince'', with a bit of [[Take That]]:

{{quote| "He defeats people by putting them up other people's asses! That better happen in the new Dark Knight movie! The Joker will be like 'I am going to kill everyone!' and Batman will be like 'You are going inside an ass!' Bloo-bloo-bloo-bloo-splut! THE END!"}}

* [[Big Never]]: Him doing Jacob of ''[[Twilight (Literature)|Twilight]]'' being told to put on a shirt.

* [[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.

* [[Catch Phrase]]:

** "OH MY GOD, THIS IS THE GREATEST MOVIE I'VE EVER SEEN IN MY LIFE!"

** "There's this guy! Called..." (usually the second line of the review)

** ''"HOORAY!"''

* [[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 The Giant Peach]]'', he stated genuinely that it was the best LP he ever saw in his life, but because he was also yelling about how the fans deserved better, Critic still looked like he'd been punched.

* [[Its the Best Whatever Ever]]: every single movie he sees is the best one. See the [[Catch Phrase]] above.

* [[Jittercam]]: Done in ''[[The Hunger Games (Film)|The Hunger Games]]'' to criticize its overuse in said film.

* [[Nerds Are Virgins]]: Calling ''[[Star Trek (Franchise)|Star Trek]]'' fans that.

* [[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 Retardant]]: The vampires in ''[[Twilight (Literature)|Twilight]]'', [[In-Universe|according to Chester]] (especially how they eat tofu).

* [[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".

* [[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]].

* [[Retool]]: The reviewing style in [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 (Film)|Get Smart]]'' was criticized for being "heavy on the man-love".

* [[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]].''

* [[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.

{{quote| '''Chester''' [anguished] [[Lampshade Hanging|How does that work?!]]}}

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