Frothy Pint of Metal: Difference between revisions

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=== Tropes featured on the show: ===

* [[Caustic Critic]]:

** Averted. His goal is to feature metal most people have not heard of, so his reviews tend to be positive in tone.

* [[Christmas Episode]]: The ''Immortal Guardian'' review.

* [[Cloudcuckoolander]]

* [[Crossover]]:

** With [[The Rosen Hacker]] for the [[Brutal Legend]] review.

** He reviews ''[[Bal-Sagoth]]'' with [[Diamanda Hagan]].

* [[Ditzy Genius]]

* [[Double Entendre]]: A [[Lampshading|lampshaded]] example in the ''Natural High'' review:

{{quote| You know what they say about guys with big hammers: They got big hammers.}}

* [[Filth]]: He uses it to grab the viewers' attention in the ''Týr'' video.

* [[High-Class Glass]]: He wears a top hat and a monocle in the ''Ahab'' review.

* [[Hipster]]: He maintains that snobby Metal fans have far more in common with hipsters than they realize.

* [[Nerds Are Virgins]]:

** He jokes in the [[Undergrads]] review that it is so full of [[Geek]] references you can become virgin again by watching it.

* [[No True Scotsman]]: He criticizes the tendency in Heavy Metal to squabble over the question what "true" metal may be and especially loathes those who only accept the most brutal metal possible. He also despises those who maintain that certain sexual orientations are incompatible with being a metalhead, as can be seen in the ''Power Quest'' review where he voices his annoyance with people who call [[Power Metal]] "gay metal".

* [[Pretentious Latin Motto]]: He uses ''Sic Parvis Magna'' (“Greatness from Small Beginnings”), the personal motto of Sir Francis Drake, in his ''Týr'' review to describe how such a great metal band can come from the unassuming Faroe Islands.

* [[Red Scare]]: Parodied in the ''Metal Shots! Rasputin'' video, where the target of paranoia are not Communists, but "crusty old white people".

* [[Rock Me, Asmodeus]]: The theme in the ''Ghost'' review.

* [[Shout-Out]]:

** To [[Doctor Steel]] in the ''Raubtier'' review.

** To [[Kevin Smith]] in the [[Undergrads]] review.

* [[Slasher Movie]]: Parodied in the ''Ahab'' review.

* [[Something Completely Different]]: A few reviews are not music reviews:

** One of [[Korgoth of Barbaria]], although this is of course a very "metal" series pilot.

** One of [[Undergrads]], which is reviewed purely for nostalgic reasons.

* [[Stupid Sexy Flanders]]: Happy Viking has this reaction to the members of ''Týr'', who like to play [[Walking Shirtless Scene|shirtless]].

* [[Stylistic Suck]]: One of DragonForce's videos makes Happy Viking immediately laugh because of this trope.

* [[Take That]]:

** He delivers one against [[Conspiracy Theorist|Birthers]] in the ''Heidevolk'' review.

** Against [[Emo]] kids in the ''Ahab'' review, because [[Doom Metal|Funeral Doom]] is depressive music for grown-ups.

** Against snobby Metal fans and hipsters in the DragonForce riff.

* [[Testosterone Poisoning]]

* [[Warrior Heaven]]: Happy Viking describes the Norse heaven as a never ending bar brawl and uses that to illustrate how fun-loving Vikings were which was ruined by christianization.

* [[A Worldwide Punomenon]]: He promised his viewers "boobies" after the credits in the ''Týr'' review. They get of course a picture of the seabird.