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[[File:14wy3kj.jpg|link=The Angry Video Game Nerd (Web Video)|~~right~~|We interrupt this review to bring you a nerd and [[Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot|a robot version of Jesus Christ]] fighting Satan spawned from a game cartridge.]]

[[File:14wy3kj.jpg|link=The Angry Video Game Nerd (Web Video)|frame|We interrupt this review to bring you a nerd and [[Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot|a robot version of Jesus Christ]] fighting Satan spawned from a game cartridge.]]

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However, these sketches can be very divisive among the reviewer's viewership, especially when reviewers get particularly carried away with their on-camera shenanigans, some even making videos where the Theatrics outweigh the actual review portions signifigantly, when they'd much rather just listen to the critic in question just talk about the actual work instead of producing a full-fledged sketch show with occasional review bits thrown in for good measure. Following this, what one viewer may declare a reviewer's [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]] [[Your Mileage May Vary|may very well be considered useless, unfunny excess baggage by another]].

* [[The Angry Video Game Nerd (Web Video)|The Angry Video Game Nerd]] more or less [[Trope Codifier|codified]] this trope: his earliest videos featured some short skits, but he got particularly carried away with these in his ''[[Friday the ~~13 th~~ (Video Game)|Friday the 13 th]]'' and ''[[A Nightmare On Elm Street]]'' reviews and hasn't stopped since. His format has since then become almost standard of just about any [[Caustic Critic]] with a video series of his own, and his own theatrical antics have evolved to the point where he can spend more than half the video goofing around in front of a camera instead of talking about the game.

* [[The Angry Video Game Nerd (Web Video)|The Angry Video Game Nerd]] more or less [[Trope Codifier|codified]] this trope: his earliest videos featured some short skits, but he got particularly carried away with these in his ''[[Friday the 13th (Video Game)|Friday the 13 th]]'' and ''[[A Nightmare On Elm Street]]'' reviews and hasn't stopped since. His format has since then become almost standard of just about any [[Caustic Critic]] with a video series of his own, and his own theatrical antics have evolved to the point where he can spend more than half the video goofing around in front of a camera instead of talking about the game.

** His more skit-heavy episodes can become so elaborate that he's often working on several reviews at a time, shifting between "classic"-style reviews with a bigger focus on the game itself, and more theatrical videos, the former kind taking less effort to make. (to show how the elaborate are complicated: in a [http://www.gametrailers.com/player/717056.html "making of" special], he points out he listened to [[Iron Maiden (Music)|Iron Maiden]]'s entire discography while editing his [http://www.gametrailers.com/player/711094.html 100th episode]!)

* Chris Bores' ''[[The Irate Gamer]]'' naturally does these frequently, seeing as his format is a wholesale carbon copy of the Nerd's format.

* Naturally, about half the contributors on ''[[That Guy With the Glasses (Website)|That Guy With the Glasses]]'' indulge in these constantly, especially the site's very own [[Doug Walker]] as the [[The Nostalgia Critic (Web Video)|The Nostalgia Critic]] (who once decided that the best way to end a review of ''[[The Garbage Pail Kids Movie (Film)|The Garbage Pail Kids Movie]]'' was a completely unrelated ''[[Two Thousand and One A Space Odyssey]]'' parody that lasts five minutes).

** [[Atop the Fourth Wall (Web Video)|Linkara]] only uses these occasionally, usually in the [[Previously On]] segments before each review, showcasing things that didn't actually happen in the last video while crossing over with other TGWTG contributors.

** [[Atop the Fourth Wall (Web Video)|Linkara]] only uses these occasionally, usually in the [["Previously On..."]] segments before each review, showcasing things that didn't actually happen in the last video while crossing over with other TGWTG contributors.

*** He also has had at least one ongoing storyline, which was mostly cameos and foreshadowing that didn't take very much time away from the review- until it erupts into a major storyline turning point where there's more theatrics than review, such as the Battle with Mechakara and the Linkara is Lost arcs.

** [[Noah Antwiler]] of ''[[The Spoony Experiment (Web Video)|The Spoony Experiment]]'' frequently interjects subtle theatrics into his videos, but only rarely gets too carried away with them (such as the end of his ''[[Phantasmagoria 2]]'' [[Let's Play]] and his ''[[Final Fantasy VIII]]'' review). He has mentioned in his commentary videos that there's been some backlash against characters like Dr. Insano and Spencer D. Bum, and understands that his viewers don't necessarily want to watch him goof around on-camera that much.

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