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* ''[[Red vs. Blue]]'' veers all over the genre map as it progresses. Beginning as a mildly surreal, Halo-themed take on ''[[MASH]]'', it quickly becomes more and more [[Monty Python|Pythonesque]] until it's nearly crossed into slapstick, ''[[Looney Tunes]]'' territory. Then, beginning with side stories like ''Out of Mind'', it suddenly veers into serious science fiction, which spills over into the main series before settling into a very odd fusion of all the above genres. Which genre or combination of genres works best is definitely a matter of personal taste.
** As of it's later seasons, it is firmly entrenched in serious business, albeit with some gags.
* While many of the chapter reviews on the [https://web.archive.org/web/20150428022333/http://markreadstwilight.buzznet.com/ Mark Reads Twilight weblog] follow the traditional "quote the source text, [[Snark Bait|mock it ruthlessly]], add some funny [[Angrish]]" formula that's far too common in most [[MST]] blogs, reviewer [[Mark Reads Harry Potter|Mark Oshiro]] often goes out of his way to mix up the structure of his posts.
** To list them all would take way too long, but just a handful of his best genre shifts include: Bella and Edward [[Fourth Wall Mail Slot|writing letters to Stephenie Meyer]] [https://web.archive.org/web/20140808012054/http://markreadstwilight.buzznet.com/user/journal/4437901/ questioning their own character development;] [https://web.archive.org/web/20140121234559/http://markreadstwilight.buzznet.com/user/journal/4442971/mark-reads-twilight-chapter-9/ Mark's own autopsy report] after the chapter's stupidity [[Driven to Suicide|drove him to "suicide";]] [https://web.archive.org/web/20140808030752/http://markreadstwilight.buzznet.com/user/journal/4489601/ legendary announcer Vin Scully giving a play-by-play of the infamous "Vampire Baseball" scene]; [https://web.archive.org/web/20140121233237/http://markreadstwilight.buzznet.com/user/journal/4523531/mark-reads-twilight-chapter-24/ Charlie and Jacob staging an intervention to stop Bella from submitting to "Cullenism";] and [https://web.archive.org/web/20140121205511/http://markreadstwilight.buzznet.com/user/journal/4608661/mark-reads-new-moon-chapter/ Bella Tweeting away while she stalks Jacob Black.]
** He also likes to change his targets, for example, mocking the hate mail he gets from ''Twilight'' fans, liveblogging the ''Twilight'' movie with his readers, [https://web.archive.org/web/20120512081315/http://markreadstwilight.buzznet.com/user/journal/4839521/mark-reads-story-behind-writing/ (attempting to) read the "Making of New Moon" page on Meyer's website], and [https://web.archive.org/web/20131220094633/http://markreadstwilight.buzznet.com/user/journal/5259711/mark-reads-eclipse-chapter-10/ calling out a relationship counsellor who uses Edward Cullen to give boys advice on romance.]
** Although he far preferred [[Harry Potter]] and [[The Hunger Games]] which he also reviewed at [[Mark Reads Harry Potter]], he also mixed those ones up. He'd write the reviews as a script of the book, with characters commenting on plot developments, liveblog entries from various characters, and Hedwig-the-spy writing entries on her mission to guard the boy who lived.
* "[[Ruby Quest|Okay, so we're playing as an adorable bunny with amnesia.]] And we have to rescuse our little cat friend from his cell. Okay, seems to be a standard puzzle game, so far so good...hey, is there someone behind that door?"
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