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{{quote|''"I'M SO GODDAMN WACKY"''|''[[Raocow (Let's Play)|Raocow]]''}}

[http://www.youtube.com/raocow Raocow] is a notable, though somewhat minor, personality in the [[Let's Play]] community, known and loved by many for his [[Non Sequitur]] commentary and pleasant-yet-amusing voice. He became a [[YouTube]] partner on March 17, 2011.

=== Games that Raocow has LP'd: ===

* [[Commander Keen (Video Game)|Commander Keen]] (up to the fourth installment)

* [[Distorted Travesty (Video Game)|Distorted Travesty]]

* [[Psycho Waluigi (Video Game)|Psycho Waluigi]]

* [[RunmanRock RaceMan Around4 theMinus WorldInfinity]]

* Super Mario Bros. X

* [[Super Mario World (Videovideo Gamegame)|Super Mario World]]

* [[Super Mario World (Videovideo Gamegame)|Super Mario World]] [[Game Mod|Hacks]]: His trademark/specialty.

** Mario's Challenge from [[Touhou (Video Game)|Marisa at the Scarlet Devil Mansion]] (aka Scarlet Devil Mario) 1 & 2

** [[The Second Reality Project (Video Game)|The Second Reality Project]] series

* [[YoshisYoshi's Island (Video Game)|Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island]] [[Game Mod|Hacks]]:

* [[VVVVVV (Video Game)|VVVVVV]]

A full list can be found [https://web.archive.org/web/20130524132450/http://everything.raocow.com/by_game.php here].

** Seems he's also getting [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqP_nJ0cbQ8&t=10m50s pretty annoyed] with people making ''[[Portal 2 (Video Game)|Portal 2]]'' references every time he says the word [[Discredited Meme|"space."]]

{{quote| '''Raocow:''' Hello. How's it going? ''Rock'n Nonne''. That's the name of ''[[Sister Act]]'' in [Canadian] French, for some reason.}}

{{quote| "That guy is wearing a helmet, but it doesn't protect him from the dangers of mustard. Probably because mustard is something you eat. I've once received a drop of mustard on my head and I don't think I've suffered a lot of brain damage although, I mean, I could be wrong. I've been wrong about a lot of things in the past such as: Yogurt is not a cat, I had to learn that the hard way, and you can not play the piano if your piano is resting precariously on top of the CN Tower."}}

** He decided on "Mr. Bean Man" as his name of choice for the Meep enemy in the ''[[Commander Keen (Video Game)|Commander Keen]]'' Let's Play.

* [[Canada, Eh?]]: Along with Psychedelic Eyeball, one of the two big ''French''-Canadian LPers to have come out of [[Something Awful]].

* [[Canon Dis ContinuityDiscontinuity]]: Raocow does not make any mistakes. Any mistakes he makes are either "demos" to show off what happens when you DO fail, or experiments done [[For Science!]]. When he does make a mistake, he will call a mulligan.

** In more recent episodes, after particularly nonsensical non-sequiturs he says "What am I even saying here?"

* [[Cloudcuckoolander]]/[[Talkative Loon]]: raocow's ~[[Let's Play~]]s are filled with some of the most bizarre and surreal commentary one would ever hear. It helps that he's a French-Canadian for whom English is a second language, although he's still rather fluent in English.

* [[Convection, Schmonvection]]: Lampshaded in a [[YouTube]] [[Let's Play]] of the 2ch ''VIP2'' ''[[Super Mario World (Videovideo Gamegame)|Super Mario World]]'' romhack

{{quote| '''Raocow:''' [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v{{=}}OQ3bdpOAxkQ&t{{=}}6m57s The lava might be scary, but it's only like a very hot bubble bath.]}}

{{quote| '''Raocow:''' This is just barely hair-singing me, because you know, lava, normally, like, at this proximity, Demo would be something like evaporated by now, but I mean we're talking about reverse-gravity lava, which has ''COMPLETELY'' different physical implications.}}

* [[Damn You, Muscle Memory!]]: Invoked in his ''Kouhai 2'' Let's Play, when he notes that playing ''[[Super Marisa World]]'''s squirrely controls has made it hard to go back to ''[[Super Mario World (Videovideo Gamegame)|Super Mario World]]''.

** "Hey there, tap-tap the tap-tap," in his ''[[YoshisYoshi's Island (Video Game)|Super Mario World 2+]]'' LP. Which later becomes "Tap-Tap the Tap-Tap the Tap-Tap the Tap-Tap".

* [[Dethroning Moment of Suck (Darth Wiki)|Dethroning Moment of Suck]]: New! Super Mario World 2 Level 2-E is the one of the few levels he's outright insulted, and by his own admission, the least fun he's ever had playing a mod. Just clearing through it left him drained mentally and emotionally, and by the end, he was downright angry at the creator.

{{quote| '''[[Raocow]] ''[While playing TSRPR]'':''' "A castle without forest is like a dalmatian without a tongue. It has a lot of trouble eating."}}

* [[Evil Is Hammy]]: He noticeably enjoyed playing an [[Evil Overlord]] in ''[[Psycho Waluigi (Video Game)|Psycho Waluigi]]''.

* [[Fair Weather Mentor]]: Raocow arguably falls into this when he is [http://www.youtube.com/AcolyteOfDeath teaching] fellow troper AOD to play ''[[Super Mario World (Videovideo Gamegame)|Super Mario World]]'' for the first time.

** [[Super Mario World (Videovideo Gamegame)|Charging Chuck]] plays football, but we all know his name is really [[Peanuts|Charlie]].

** (Stupid) Horse for Yoshi. Likewise, calls [[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (Animation)|ponies]] dinosaurs.

** "Flying Condom Man" for the Gustys in ''[[YoshisYoshi's Island]]''.

** "[[Mega Man X (Video Game)|Maverick]] Thwomp" for any Thwomp that moves sideways instead of up and down.

** "Spaceman Joe" for Galaxy Man from ''[[Mega Man (Videovideo Gamegame)|Mega Man]] 9''.

** "Missile Mike" or "Mack Bill" for the homing Bullet Bills.

** He calls [https://web.archive.org/web/20121022011409/http://www.mewgynewgy.com/freedomn/characters/07bros/11.html these enemies] [[Action 52|Cheetahmen]] Hammer Bros for their laughable walking animation.

** The brown Munchers from ''[[Super Mario Bros 3 (Video Game)|Super Mario Bros 3]]'' are "Potatoes", while the four-legged Koopa Troopas from the same game are "Chickens".

** "Flesh God" for the Tulips from ''[[Yoshis Island (Video Game)|Yoshi's Island]]''.

** The protagonist for ''[[Distorted Travesty]]'' is apparently "Allen"<ref>real name Jerry</ref>, originating from [[D .Gray Man (Manga)-man|Allen Walker]], whose sprite Jerry uses.

{{quote| "We don't even care about the story, it starts with the same thing. It's about a guy who, y'know, goes to the bathroom and he ends up in an alternate dimension where he's a lady in a space suit."}}

* [[Funny Character, Boring Actor]]: Raocow has admitted that while he's doing his videos he's incredibly, well, weird, he has difficulty maintaining that state of mind all the time.

* [[Hoist Byby His Own Petard]]: Some of the difficult levels in ASMT were of Raocow's own design.

** In ''[[VVVVVV (Video Game)|VVVVVV]]'', every episode name was six of a certain character in a row.

** In ''[[Bunny Must Die]]'', every episode was called "Bunny Must (verb)". This did not get carried over to [[Another Side, Another Story|Chelsea and the Seven Devils]].

{{quote| '''Raocow:''' I have placed myself in a sticky situation where from now on every series needs its own naming gimmick.}}

{{quote| '''[[Raocow]]''': ''[while playing [[An Untitled Story]]]'' You ''can't'' destroy the Milkman!......don't tell that to Kiwis, cause it might get infected. INFECTED WITH THE TRUTH!}}

* [[Nightmare Retardant]]/[[Laughing Mad]]:

{{quote| '''No.'''}}

* [[Oh Crap]]: while Let's Playing ''[[VVVVVV (Video Game)|VVVVVV]]'', [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EGUmtlBGWpg&t=6m50s Raocow sees the entirety of "Doing Things The Hard Way". And then it sinks in just why it's considered the single most difficult token to get.] Also leads to the fastest fast-forward to date.

{{quote| '''raocow:''' ...and I am not a time-ologist, unfortunately.}}

{{quote| '''raocow:''' ...twenty-five days to write non-stop.}}

{{quote| '''raocow:''' Yeah, this part has stopped being funny by now.}}

** This [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kzcKU6L-88s one] level has the gimmick of killing you if you score any points. ''Everything'' in ''[[Super Mario World (Videovideo Gamegame)|Super Mario World]]'' gives you points, including coins. Raocow's reaction is in the link.

* [[Player Tic]]: He always jumps through the ''[[YoshisYoshi's Island]]'' goal rings backwards.

* [[Save Scumming]]: Averted in later videos, but played straight in most of Raocow's earlier videos. For hard hacks like the ''VIP'' series, ''Kouhai'', and others, he would use save states all the time, but he later stopped doing that except for the occasional science moment, [[Platform Hell|unless the levels were really unfair]].

* [[Self-Imposed Challenge]]: His [https://web.archive.org/web/20120717070017/http://everything.raocow.com/game.php?id=98 ascetic run] (no coins nor points unless absolutely necessary) of the original ''[[Super Mario World (Videovideo Gamegame)|Super Mario World]]''.

{{quote| '''Raocow:''' [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v{{=}}v8baPBIsmPc&t{{=}}6m25s Freaking hell, Mario,] why did you have a [[Harry Potter|horcrux]] placed in such an unusual place?}}

* [[Stalker Withwith a Crush]]: Raocow's fans can be creepy at times.

{{quote| "It's logical that you don't know how to operate an elevator, after all your house doesn't have one. It has stairs, where your can dropped something that day, didn't he, Mr. Samuel Tanguay? Is your can green? I hope it's green, since it's your favorite color, isn't it, Mr. Samuel Tanguay?"}}

{{quote| "Oh, there's drills there, you don't want to get drilled to death... It's almost as bad as being bored to death, you could say."}}

* [[Stupid Statement Dance Mix]]: [https://web.archive.org/web/20110312094235/http://www.viddler.com/explore/Terashell/videos/35/ This catchy, hypnotic, and well done remix] of some of [[Something Awful]] [[Let's Play|Let's Player]] Raocow's stream of conscious commentary while playing a [[Mario]] game.

** It's gotten to a point where he already makes them on purpose: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2YtjPQipGZQ The Food Song,] from [[Mega Man (Videovideo Gamegame)|Skull Man's theme]].

** Another remixer joins the [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tLI4K5PdMrQ fray]!

* [[Stylistic Suck]]: His... "webcomic", ''[http://exupry.comicdish.com/?pageID=1 Exupéry, adventures of]''.{{Dead link}}

* [[Throw the Dog Aa Bone|Throw The Stupid Horse A Bone]]: Raocow has insulted Yoshi many, many times (see [[The Scrappy]] above), including calling him a "green miscreant" and "an insult to all creation". In [http://www.youtube.com/user/raocow#p/a/u/1/7pD1_2Eg8So this] video, after Yoshi looks like he's going to fall off a ledge, then doesn't, allowing Raocow to get back on him, he says:

{{quote| "Thanks for not plunging in that hole there Yoshi. I appreciate it. I-I usually I don't appreciate you enough, perhaps, some people would argue."}}

* [[What Do You Mean It's Not Didactic?]]: Mercilessly parodied on multiple occasions.

* [[Who Dares?]]: to try to stop the time bomb?

* [[You No Take Candle]]: Intentionally mangles English; he's more or less fluent in both English and French. With that said, on occasion some of his structures sound odd, but he'll often comment on how bizarre they sound immediately.

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