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* [[Easy Amnesia]]: Gordon has amnesia from Episode 34 onwards after a few punches to the face. He writes it off as the result of getting drunk the night before.
* [[Easy Amnesia]]: Gordon has amnesia from Episode 34 onwards after a few punches to the face. He writes it off as the result of getting drunk the night before.
* [[Eldritch Abomination]]: One of Freeman's nicknames for the Bullsquids is "Cthulhu Dog."
* [[Eldritch Abomination]]: One of Freeman's nicknames for the Bullsquids is "Cthulhu Dog."
** He also theorizes that the tentacle is a huge creature buried beneath black mesa, and that what he destroyed may have only its hair strands. Its pretty safe to say he reasonably thinks all the aliens are [[Eldritch Abomination|Eldritch Abominations]].
** He also theorizes that the tentacle is a huge creature buried beneath black mesa, and that what he destroyed may have only its hair strands. Its pretty safe to say he reasonably thinks all the aliens are [[Eldritch Abomination]]s.
* [[Emergency Stash]]: Mentioned in ep. 28.
* [[Emergency Stash]]: Mentioned in ep. 28.
* [[Everything Trying to Kill You]]: "I don't understand! Why is everyone trying to kill me?! I'm awesome! Are you all jealous!?"
* [[Everything Trying to Kill You]]: "I don't understand! Why is everyone trying to kill me?! I'm awesome! Are you all jealous!?"
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** And then the marines bring in the tripod guns and rocket launchers...
** And then the marines bring in the tripod guns and rocket launchers...
* [[My God, What Have I Done?]]: In episode 3 during the resonance cascade:
* [[My God, What Have I Done?]]: In episode 3 during the resonance cascade:
{{quote|'''Gordon:''' [[Science Is Bad|This is a bad experiment!]] [[Humans Are Bastards|We are bad people!]] WHY DID WE USHER FORTH THE GREEN APOCALYPSE?!}}
{{quote|'''Gordon:''' [[Science Is Bad|This is a bad experiment!]] [[Humans Are the Real Monsters|We are bad people!]] WHY DID WE USHER FORTH THE GREEN APOCALYPSE?!}}
* [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero]]:
* [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero]]:
{{quote|Jesus Christ I launched a missile... I'm not helping ''anything''.}}
{{quote|Jesus Christ I launched a missile... I'm not helping ''anything''.}}
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* [[Schmuck Bait]]
* [[Schmuck Bait]]
{{quote|"What's that say? Do not obstruct laser shield? Big letters, too. That's almost asking for someone to obstruct it, isn't it? I don't care for your rules. Now I wanna see what happens when it gets obstructed!"}}
{{quote|"What's that say? Do not obstruct laser shield? Big letters, too. That's almost asking for someone to obstruct it, isn't it? I don't care for your rules. Now I wanna see what happens when it gets obstructed!"}}
* [[Schedule Slip]]: After making a new video about once a month Scott didn't upload anything for the last four months of 2010<ref> Not entirely his fault since Machinima seems to take a while to put his videos up</ref>.
* [[Schedule Slip]]: After making a new video about once a month Scott didn't upload anything for the last four months of 2010.<ref>Not entirely his fault since Machinima seems to take a while to put his videos up</ref>
** [[Subverted]] from May 7 to June 24 2011 Ross Scott made episodes 32-37 and the bonus episode 0 running a nearly weekly schedule, and Ross Scott has stated he hopes to prevent large droughts again, but unfortunately, the switch to Windows 7 and the time spent on setting everything up delayed ep.38 for almost two months.
** [[Subverted]] from May 7 to June 24, 2011 Ross Scott made episodes 32-37 and the bonus episode 0 running a nearly weekly schedule, and Ross Scott has stated he hopes to prevent large droughts again, but unfortunately, the switch to Windows 7 and the time spent on setting everything up delayed ep.38 for almost two months.
{{quote|'''''Progress Report''': Windows 7 is kicking my ass.''}}
{{quote|'''''Progress Report''': Windows 7 is kicking my ass.''}}
* [[Schizo-Tech]]: In the Rocket Test Lab, Gordon is flabbergasted upon seeing a reel-to-reel memory storage device from the 70's. He's even more confused when he sees what looks like a punch card slot.
* [[Schizo-Tech]]: In the Rocket Test Lab, Gordon is flabbergasted upon seeing a reel-to-reel memory storage device from the 70's. He's even more confused when he sees what looks like a punch card slot.
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* [[Suspicious Videogame Generosity]]: "This is... suspiciously convenient. I haven't been used to things going my way for quite a while now."
* [[Suspicious Videogame Generosity]]: "This is... suspiciously convenient. I haven't been used to things going my way for quite a while now."
** "What's with all these grenades everywhere?"
** "What's with all these grenades everywhere?"
* [[Take a Third Option]]: Gordon brings this up when talking about the Uncertainty Principle (how measuring an electron's position changes its momentum, and vice versa). According to Gordon, there's only one correct answer--to get drunk and light things on fire.
* [[Take a Third Option]]: Gordon brings this up when talking about the Uncertainty Principle (how measuring an electron's position changes its momentum, and vice versa). According to Gordon, there's only one correct answer—to get drunk and light things on fire.
* [[Take My Hand]]: Gordon tells an elderly scientist to do this in an early episode after the Resonance Cascade. The scientist falls soon after, letting Gordon spout a hilarious line.
* [[Take My Hand]]: Gordon tells an elderly scientist to do this in an early episode after the Resonance Cascade. The scientist falls soon after, letting Gordon spout a hilarious line.
{{quote|'''Gordon:''' No, your ''other'' hand, you idiot!}}
{{quote|'''Gordon:''' No, your ''other'' hand, you idiot!}}
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{{quote|{{spoiler|Shephard}}: This makes me ask myself, did teleporting to an alien planet make you completely Asiatic? To which I respond: "Yes, but watch this."}}
{{quote|{{spoiler|Shephard}}: This makes me ask myself, did teleporting to an alien planet make you completely Asiatic? To which I respond: "Yes, but watch this."}}
* [[What Does This Button Do?]]: Quite common in all Mind spinoffs. Except perhaps Chell's Mind, where it's more obvious as to what the buttons do.
* [[What Does This Button Do?]]: Quite common in all Mind spinoffs. Except perhaps Chell's Mind, where it's more obvious as to what the buttons do.
* [[What Would X Do?]]: In episode 3 of Parker's Mind, Parker is hesitant to climb a rickety ladder due to his fear of heights but realizes he can't stay at the bottom of the elevator shaft forever. He wonders what Jesus would do -- cut to a cartoon of Jesus telling Parker to stop being a wuss and climb the ladder.
* [[What Would X Do?]]: In episode 3 of Parker's Mind, Parker is hesitant to climb a rickety ladder due to his fear of heights but realizes he can't stay at the bottom of the elevator shaft forever. He wonders what Jesus would do—cut to a cartoon of Jesus telling Parker to stop being a wuss and climb the ladder.
* [[What You Are in the Dark]]: When he's about to face down the final boss, Shephard admits that he'll probably never escape the facility, nobody outside would ever know what happened in Black Mesa, nor will they ever know he even existed. However, he resolves to go down fighting anyways.
* [[What You Are in the Dark]]: When he's about to face down the final boss, Shephard admits that he'll probably never escape the facility, nobody outside would ever know what happened in Black Mesa, nor will they ever know he even existed. However, he resolves to go down fighting anyways.
* [[Would Hit a Girl]]: Shephard, of all people, in a pretty brutal way, with a healthy dose of [[Heroic Sociopath|Sociopathy]] to boot.
* [[Would Hit a Girl]]: Shephard, of all people, in a pretty brutal way, with a healthy dose of [[Heroic Sociopath|Sociopathy]] to boot.