Giant Bomb/Funny
Recount the moments of videogaming insanity on the Giant Bomb website!
Endurance Run: Deadly Premonition
- Both teams dying to the exact same enemy in the exact same places for the exact same reasons. Yes, it happens more than once.
- Thomas' death:
- The teams have different reactions. Jeff and Vinny respond with maniacal laughter while Brad and Ryan respond with initial shock then admiration.
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Ryan: "Bravo, SWERY. Bra-fucking-vo." |
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Team VJ:
- While looking at their toolbox:
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Jeff & Vinny: "Panda Bear?" |
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- In retaliation for his attempted murder, the Mysterious Capitalist backs into Jeff & Vinny's car.
- Their reaction to York's character is awesome too, he's the gift that keeps on giving.
- Vinny and Jeff spy on Thomas while he's at home.
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Jeff: "Work it." |
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Team BR:
- Brad's increasingly profanity ridden declarations of his hatred of the game, and Ryan's utter delight in his suffering.
- To the point where he tells his critics to GTFO.
- Ryan singing to the racing theme.
- Brad and Ryan doing X-Factor during the lounge bar sequence.
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Brad (with a fake Cockney accent): "That was complete utter shit!" |
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- Brad and Ryan freaking out on seeing a giant demonic dog bashing around their car.
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Ryan: "Man, Greenvale gets weird at ni-THERE IS A GIANT DOG IN THAT INTERSECTION!" |
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- Brad and Ryan encounter fire in the Other World Galaxy of Terror.
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Brad: It's all on fire! Everything's on fire! |
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- Directly after that, Brad and Ryan discover, to their dismay, that the fire does nothing to the zombies. Keep in mind that, up to this point, the fire was a guaranteed insta-kill.
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Ryan and Brad (at the same time): OH GOD! |
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- Brad and Ryan's reaction to a room full of fire and zombies in the Other World Police Station:
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Ryan: Uh-oh. |
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- Thomas's profiling scene
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"I brought some Nat King Cole!" |
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Quick Looks
- The Dragonball Evolution game is So Bad It's Good, complete with moving character portraits fighting... the character portraits
- The New Super Mario Bros. Wii is one CMoF after another. From Vinny's constant deaths to Brad's ever increasing determination to take revenge on Ryan, this Quick Look is almost an hour of hilarity.
- The Price Is Right for the Wii is another long string of CMoFs. Dave's indignation at the cost of the flat screen TV and Jeff talking about cooking meth in his "Brand New Trailer" are some of the highlights.
- Dead or Alive: Paradise and Leisure Suit Larry: Box Office Bust are two terribly juvenile--and just plain terrible--games, made almost worthwhile by hearing Jeff and Ryan's utter revulsion at having to play them.
- In their Quick Look of Darkest of Days, the frequent bugs, the boring scenery and overall spottiness of the game literally reduces them to saying "So Yeah! Darkest Of Days!" several times, in a matter reminiscent of a certain Mystery Science Theater 3000 featured movie. Presumably that's the reason why said game didn't even get a review.
- Ryan was so disgusted by the phrase "What the Foxtrot is going on here?" in the Jurassic: The Hunted Quick Look that he got up and left. Brad had to fill in for the rest of the QL.
- During the playthrough of the Uncharted 2 multiplayer beta, Ryan manages to get his character stuck in the level geometry, leading to horrified screams and cries of "Put me out of my misery! The teleporter didn't work!" And then they decide to end the Quick Look by becoming griefers. "You're the reason Why We Can't Have Nice Things!"
- Motion Sports. Oh, please. Alright, Let me reintroduce you two: Rider meet horse, horse meet rider. [dead link]
- This gets referenced twice in the quick look of Motion Sports Adrenaline:
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Ryan: Those motions kinda remind me of, I dunno, riding a horse. |
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- Kinect Adventures and the Living Statues.
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"OH GOD I'M AN ABOMINATION!" |
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- The Hollywood Squares Quick Look, with the guys fantasizing about various game ideas involving murdering Brad Garrett.
- In the Shaun White Skateboarding QL, we have Jeff's reaction to the PC using his magical skating powers to turn a propaganda poster from the 1984-ish government into a Stride Gum billboard:
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Jeff: Oh my God. The billboard went from saying "No Chewing Allowed" and then you freed it from the shackles of The Man and turned it into an advertisement for Stride gum. This game is already the worst thing I've ever seen! |
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- The Tony Hawk: Shred QL: As the gang runs out of things to say about this crappy game, Vinny shows us all sorts of antics you can get up to when you combine a green screen with a green body suit.
- With an honorable mention to Vinnie's head-on-the-board: "PLAY ME!"
- Multimedia Celebrity Poker: "Turn the video quality back up! Turn the video quality back up!"
- Strangely enough, they seem to have completely missed Frakes flipping out around 17:40. The aforementioned scene and this really makes you wonder...
- Morgan Fairchild's endless "Cards?" loop.
- Quick Look: The Fight: Lights Out: their reactions to the entire tutorial sequence starring Danny Trejo giving an intense performance as a tough as nails trainer...while holding and gesturing with the colorful Move controllers and yelling at you not to move your feet otherwise you'll break the game.
- Vinny's avatar in DC Universe Online, full-stop.
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Finally, Superman and B4tm4n side by side. |
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- The Test Drive Unlimited 2 Quick Look has Vinnie, Brad and Alex MSTing the game's non-racing-related elements such as the superfluous first person navigation inside buildings ("How do I go to iron sights?"), the ridiculous cutscenes and the painfully awkward rationalization for the player receiving money for doing tricks; making the player avatar look like a gay bar fugitive with nothing more than the two starting outfits and their desperate attempts to start a multiplayer race ("I WANT TO BE YOUR FRIEEEEEEEEEEND!")
- Quick Look: Game Room for 12/22/10. Venetian Blinds.
- The Quick Look of Cargo: The Quest for Gravity. There are no words.
- The Duke Nukem Forever Quick Look, in which Jeff expresses his utter disgust at the game's sense of humor.
- The Deadliest Warrior: Legends Quick Look. "Come now, we can be frieeeeeeeeeends!"
- Fallout: New Vegas (Old World Blues DLC): Mistaking the K9000 Cyberdog Gun, which is the gun with the brain of a dog, for a gun that actually shoots dogs.
- In the Tetris Axis quick look, Vinny was lying down with a giant AR card to help demonstrate a mode that projected a giant tower from the card. He decides to place it in an, um, (un)flattering position.
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If your Tetris lasts longer than six hours..." |
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- In the Hulk Hogan's Main Event for Kinect Quick Look, Jeff's created character KID MONEY from PARTS UNKNOWN enters the ring by jumping on to the hood of a truck and screaming, "I'M GONNA MAKE SWEET LOVE TO 'EM . . . FROM THE BACK!!"
- During the Skyrim QL, they're running from a pair of giants when a sabre cat gets in the way. A giant smashes it and it goes flying off in the distance. See it here.
- The Self Defense Training for Kinect QL has their reactions to the Hurricane of Euphemisms for Groin Attack ("Genital Triangle" in particular) as well as the announcer's incredibly clinical demeanor while discussing the subject:
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Announcer: [completely deadpan] Deliver a kick to the genitals. |
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- Family Feud 2012 Edition. One word: HORSEBACK
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Ryan: Wait. Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait... |
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- The start of the Quick Look for Medieval Moves: Deadmund's Quest has them parodying a Sony press conference. Vinny provides some absolutely golden lines here.
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"The puppet man on the right holds his Move controller up. Now he's gonna put it down and Ryan does the same thing. Now he touches his penis with it and he does the same thing." |
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- The Binary Domain QL has Jeff struggling with the voice recognition tests. Then he discovers that (in theory) the game actually recognizes swearing...
Bombcast, Thursday Night Throwdown, and free Happy Hours
- Ryan abandoning the rest of the invited players on the Red Dead Redemption TNT to find and eventually fight a bear with only a knife. He won.
- The 2010 E3 Day 3 Bombcast was shot to levels of epicness by guest Leigh Alexander and her sassy drunken interruptions. People are divided as to whether it was so bad it's good or so bad it's horrible but none can deny how funny it was when she announced the recent Activision party cast $775 million dollars straight out of the organisers' own pocket.
- The Sims gang sign (a diamond over the head) being flashed by the guys every time she went on for too long. <>
- The event during a Bombcast that led to this website.
- And the callback to that Bombcast while talking about Skylanders:
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Jeff: I got Dark Spyro, Legendary Spyro, Spyro-Ass Spyro... |
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- During the Bad Company 2 Throwdown, "inspired" by the games inclusion of the term "Epic Fail" for suicides Jeff, Ryan, Vinny and intern Matt go off on a united rant against the current generation of net speak. For the win, indeed.
- POW block, anyone?
- Jeff's reading of the Nintendo downloadable releases. Highlights include anything read in his (one) foreign accent and singing the description for Petz Dogz Family.
- Special guest Jeff Green reading the week's DSiWare releases, in particular myNotebook Carbon and JUST SING! National Anthems.
- The whole Big Live Live Show Live. Special mention to the Tested boys who, after a slow start, stole the show with their "As seen on TV" product tests and John Drake for his (near)tireless and enthusiastic work promoting Rock Band 3 and Dance Central.
- The After Party stream also gave us Drunk Will and Rorie, Dave's sister and side-scrolling Ana.
- Jeff Gerstmann's answer to a Email question about being taken camping with one's dad:
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- Ryan, Jeff and Brad trying some Swedish candy given to them by the guys at now-defunct developer GRIN. On the same note, Jeff's visceral reaction to some hockey powder on the 03/23/09 podcast (starts at about 32:00 in) featuring GRIN is priceless.
- Jeff joking about "crap nap" during a discussion regarding possible terms for being able to beat a previously impossible section of a game after taking a break.
- The first free Whiskey Media Happy Hour has quite a few of these (and severely tempts people to go ahead and become premium members to enjoy the entire backlog of them). Among them is Dave Snider playing Gran Turismo 5 while getting more and more drunk... for science.
- Jeff and Ryan playing Babysitting Mama: "No, no, no! Please don't shake the baby!"
- The Nintendownload Xpress. Pretty much all of it, particularly Rick 'The Ricker' Peterson, the Bombcast Hijack and the dueling petitions, which the Xpress won, incidentally.
- The Bombcast imitating rap station Hot 97 while selling Zojirushi products.
- Also with rap mix.
- The 6/14/2011 [dead link] Bombcast, long story short: Jeff Gerstmann does a very good Duke Nukem.
- Ryan's reaction to Buckner and Garcia's song "Found Me The Bomb".
- Ryan flipping out at Will Smith for pronouncing "executable" as "exzecutable".
- During Jeff's very official announcement of Giantbomb's sale to CBS:
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Dave: Jeff I need to interrupt you. We are talking to a lamp. |
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