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{{quote| ''[M]y primary goal: to get people in nerd culture to explore highbrow culture.''}}
 
Brows Held High is a comedy review show about Arthouse cinema. It is hosted by Kyle "Oancitizen" Kallgren, who rose to some prominence on the [[That Guy With The Glasses]] forums when he wrote a [http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/blogs/latest/entry/my-toy-collection-for-a-horse-gender-roles-and-comparative-mythology-in-nellas-pony-epic dissertation] on [[The Nostalgia Chick|Nella]]'s ''[[My Little Pony]]'' epic.
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* [[Accentuate the Negative]]: Pleasantly averted. He almost always has ''something'' nice to say about the films he watches, even if it does sometimes amount to little more than [[Damned By Faint Praise|"It had nice cinematography."]]
* [[Actually Pretty Funny]]: Oan's reaction to ''Shortbus''' "Shabbos goy" asking if a woman is on the rag.
{{quote| "That's so hot."<br />
'''Oan:''' Ewww.<br />
"I use {{spoiler|menstrual blood as makeup}} in my show."<br />
'''Oan:''' '''''Ewww!'''''<br />
"It's [[A Worldwide Punomenon|a period piece]]."<br />
'''Oan:''' Heh-- [frowns] ewww. }}
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* [[And Then John Was a Zombie]]/[[You Are What You Hate]]: {{spoiler|After watching ''Trash Humpers'', he realizes he's become one of them.}}
* [[Animation Age Ghetto]]: Spoofed [[In-Universe]] in his joint review of the "Utena" movie with [[Jesu Otaku]], with himself taking the position of "animation is for kids/dunderheads."
{{quote| '''Jesu:''' Do I have to [[300|Sparta Kick]] [[Berserk Button|you through a window?]] [cracks knuckles]}}
* [[Anime Hair]]: How he describes the hairdo of the ''Twilight of the Ice Nymphs'' protagonist. Also complaints about it in the "Utena" review. "Why does everyone have rainbow hair?!"
* [[April Fools' Day]]: The "''[[Eraserhead]]''" review.
* [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking]]: Oan quibbles over misplaced Shakespeare texts and inarticulate-sounding voiceovers ("Well, I just don't think that the gentleman from [[Motorhead]] is the best chorus...") while the Snob is left cringing at the real depravities.
{{quote| '''Snob:''' You're concerned about the severed head landing on the family car, but ''not'' {{spoiler|the incest}}?<br />
'''Oan''': Well, to be fair, [[Comically Missing the Point|it was foreshadowed]].<br />
'''Snob:''' '''WHAT?!''' }}
** And again with Tom Green and the gallons of elephant bunk. "This scene takes place on the Indian subcontinent and [[Somewhere a Mammalogist Is Crying|that is clearly an African elephant!]]"
* [[Art Imitates Art]]:
{{quote| '''Oancitizen:'''Ah yes, Botticelli's "The Birth of [[R Crumb]]."}}
* [[As Long as It Sounds Foreign]]: Oan's cameo in ''[[Atop the Fourth Wall]]'' consists of him trying to decrypt a conspiracy consisting of copious amounts of religious, political, and cultural mumbo-jumbo, which ultimately concludes with a nuclear explosion, followed by {{spoiler|the Messenger from ''[[Angels in America]]'' appearing before him and telling him the Great Work is about to begin.}}
* [[Ass Pull]]: Invoked when he gives a high-brow, symbolic analysis of the scene in ''[[Freddy Got Fingered]]'' that involves Tom Green jacking off a horse while shouting "Look at me, daddy, I'm a farmer."
{{quote| '''Oancitizen:''' Perhaps this horse's phallus represents the onset of manhood.<br />
'''[[The Nostalgia Chick]]:''' And this interpetation...<br />
'''Oancitizen:''' Extracted directly from my anus, yes. }}
* [[Awful Truth]]: "'''[[It Was His Sled|SEAN CONNERY IS DOROTHY!]]'''"
* [[Berserk Button]]: Do not call Kyle [http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/podcasts/tranmission-awesome/30382-episode-65-oancitizen a hipster] or an [http://twitter.com/#!/KyleKallgren/status/100269102614056960 anti-intellectual.]
{{quote| '''[[Y Ruler of Time]]''': You sound like a hipster.<br />
'''Oancitizen''': I Am Not A Hipster, good sir!! }}
*** Although in the ''Slacker'' review he does say he "might or might not be a hipster". He likes a lot of hipster stuff, but doesn't feel like he is one.
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** Oan screaming his lungs out after [[The Nostalgia Chick]] summarizes the ending of ''Der Himmel über Berlin'' as "a long monologue" about "time..and loneliness...or something." Film analysis is [[Serious Business]].
* [[Big "What?"]]: 8 minutes into [[Jesu Otaku]] making him watch ''[[Revolutionary Girl Utena]]''. The first of many, as we'll see in due course.
{{quote| "WHY IS THIS PINK-HAIRED BITCH A CAR?!"}}
* [[Bilingual Bonus]]: After hearing the nonsensical first line of ''Exterminating Angels'', Oancitizen asks any viewers who have an idea what it means to send their answers to "merdedetaureau@gmail.fr". In other words, send it to {{spoiler|bullshit}}.
** He closed "[[The Discovery Of Heaven]]" by delivering a few lines (unsubtitled) in Dutch.
{{quote| ''"<No, really. Why is the film not in Dutch? It's not like there aren't any smart, talented Dutch actors that can play these roles. And I think they would rather do this than shit like ''Spion Van Oranje! [a Dutch comedy film] ''And another thing...>"''}}
* [[Biting the Hand Humor]]: After viewing ''[[Sweet Movie]]'', he accuses several of his fellow reviewers (including [[The Nostalgia Critic|his boss]]) of being sheltered. He can't, however, make an argument for [[The Cinema Snob]].
* [[Blah Blah Blah]]/[[Freudian Slip]]: The opening speech to ''[[Nine Songs]]'' is nothing but proper nouns, the phrase "rock music" and slang for genitalia and/or sex acts.
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** The mental break during the ''Eat The Schoolgirl'' review is the sequel of sorts to the breakdown from ''What Is It?''
** He refers back to two previous episodes in his review of ''[[Nine Songs]]'':
{{quote| '''Lisa:''' Sometimes when you kiss me, I just want to bite you. And not in a nice way. Like, I want to hurt you.<br />
'''Oan (as Matt):''' You're not going to [[Antichrist|smash my balls with a block of wood then drill a hole through my legs]], are you?<br />
'''Oan (as Lisa):''' No, that would be interesting.<br />
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** Oancitizen accidentally invokes [[Rule 34]] in ''Sebastiane'', which results in [http://blip.tv/dramatic-literations The Vegan] reciting a [[Slash Fic]] involving Ulysses S. Grant and Jefferson Davis.
** Roo from [http://www.clanofthegraywolf.com/ Clan of the Greywolf] agrees to "translate" M dot Strange's impenetrable video game/anime references. And has a nervous breakdown
{{quote| '''Roo:''' {{[[[Go Mad From the Revelation]] hugs self while trembling on the floor}}]<br />
'''Oan:''' D'ja like it? }}
** [[The Bunny Perspective|Phil Buni]] does a cameo in ''Alice''.
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* [[Camera Abuse]]: He taps it pretty hard during ''What Is It?'', causing visible glitches in the video.
* [[Captain Obvious]]: The Snob challenging him to "make [himself] useful" and try interpreting Troma-Juliet's dream sequence with [[All Psychology Is Freudian|the killer penis]].
{{quote| '''Oan''': ''(astutely)'' Wild guess. ...I ''think'' she's afraid of men.<br />
'''Snob:''' Thank you. That was very insightful. }}
** It there anything we can say about Tom Green's love interest in this movie?
{{quote| '''Oan:''' [[Shallow Love Interest|She exis]]--<br />
'''Chick:''' ''Besides'' the fact that she exists?<br />
'''Oan:''' She has a nice place. }}
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** And by "something", it means that it's not always a book. For instance, the ''Trash Humpers'' review starts with him reading the instructions for a box of trash bags.
* [[Covert Pervert]]: Oan hinted that he ''might'' be one during his cameo in Diamanda's ''Emmanuelle 5'' review.
{{quote| '''Oancitizen''': Now, if you'll excuse me, I have a number of prostitutes dressed like Catholic school girls that I need to teach the intricacies of Proust.<br />
'''Diamanda''': ...I'm going to assume I imagined that. }}
* [[Crisis Crossover]]: The ending of the ''What Is It?'' review.
* [[Crossover]]: Given his love for Shakespeare, reviewed ''Hamlet the Vampire Slayer'' with [[Obscurus Lupa]] and ''[[Tromeo and Juliet]]'' with [[The Cinema Snob]]. Also, did ''[[Revolutionary Girl Utena]]'' with [[Jesu Otaku]], ''Ghost Dog'' with [[Rap Critic]] ,''[[Freddy Got Fingered]]'' with [[The Nostalgia Chick]] and [[The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (film)|The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen]] with [[Bad Movie Beatdown|Film Brain]].
* [[Cut His Heart Out with a Spoon]]: Kyle had some choice words for the director of ''Trash Humpers''.
{{quote| "Listen, Korine, if I ever meet you in real life, I will end you. I will '''take apart your camera and feed it to you'''. You will suffer I SWEAR TO GOD ''[voice quavers]'' [[Civilization|OUR WORDS ARE BACKED WITH NUCLEAR WEAPONS]]--" ''{{[[[Inelegant Blubbering]] deteriorates into sobs}}]''}}
** The modern interpretation of Laertes has a gay dance instructor. ..who looks like Mike Myers in ''Sprockets.''
{{quote| "I want to punch him in his sideburns."}}
* [[Damned By Faint Praise]] / [[Overly Narrow Superlative]]: ''Twilight of the Ice Nymphs'' is "easily the greatest Canadian film about ostriches ever made."
* [[Dead Baby Comedy]]: Defied, with strong effort, during his ''[[Antichrist]]'' review, where he mentions that normally he's above that sort of humor, but it's so hard not to make a joke like that when there's an actual dead baby five minutes into the movie.
** This, by his own admission, is why he's never reviewed a Todd Solondz film.
{{quote| I'm not sure how many jokes I can get out of abortion, pedophilia and sexual abuse.}}
* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: Oancitizen.
* [[Department of Redundancy Department]]: "That 2 seconds of blurry full-frontal nudity was [[Sarcasm Mode|the most necessary thing in the history of necessity]]." (''Twilight of the Ice Nymphs'')
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* [[Distracted by the Sexy]]: He proves unable to review an [[Emma Thompson]] film without blurting out a marriage proposal.
* [[Double Standard]]: Discussed in ''[[Anatomie De L Enfer]]''
{{quote| After all, [menstrual blood]'s the only bodily fluid that has any stigma attached to it. *swigs from a wine glass* My semen is watery today.}}
* [[Dude, Not Funny]]: [[In-Universe]]. He struggled ''hard'' to snark ''What Is It?'' without invoking this trope, as much of the cast had Down's Syndrome and one member had cerebral palsy.
** He says he's not even going to try to make a joke during the attempted rape of an Apathetic during ''[[Zardoz]]'', though he does pull out of this depressing nosedive by making a joke about a scene immediately after that. "Here, have Sean Connery imitating Donkey Kong!" (Connery throws a barrel).
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* [[Dull Surprise]]: Invoked by name in ''Anatomy of Hell''.
** ''Hamlet the Vampire Slayer'':
{{quote| '''Lupa:''' INCEST JOKE!♥<br />
'''Oan:''' [stonefaced] <small>Ew.</small> }}
* [[DVD Commentary]].
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* [[Fan Disservice]]: After watching ''[[Ken Park]]'', he says "I used to like sex. Now I can never touch a human being again!"
* [[Flat What]]: He summed up ''Otto (or, Up With Dead People)'' thusly:
{{quote| "So, a gay zombie political documentary porno. ....[[Makes Just as Much Sense in Context|Wat]].}}
** Oan opining that he'd rather be watching ''[[Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead]]''.
{{quote| '''Snob:''' Pah! [[Roger Ebert]] gave that zero stars. Therefore, [[Reviews Are the Gospel|I hate it!]]<br />
'''Oan:''' ''(wounded)'' ......<small>what?</small> }}
* [[Freakier Than Fiction]]:
{{quote| '''Snob:''' ''(rubs eyes)'' Wait a minute, wait a goddamn second... You're telling me that there's a 400-year old public domain script involving incest and murder called "'''''[['Tis Pity She's a Whore]]'''''", and the intellectual crowd ''likes'' it? }}
* [[Fridge Horror]]: [[In-Universe]]. He comes to the conclusion that the orgy in ''Perfume'' would have incest and sex with children due to people bringing their families to the execution.
* [[Funetik Aksent]]: After dealing with the cavalcade of outrageous accents in ''Blood for Dracula'', he finally puts up subtitles that transcribe everything phonetically ("What the heck is a 'sackhufbens'?")
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* [[Genius Bonus]]: Due to the nature of the show, he of course likes to slip a few into the reviews. He's even commented on wishing to be listed on this trope in his commentaries.
* [[Giving Someone the Pointer Finger]]: Delivers this to the camera (re: the Nostalgia Chick) when he's obliged to 'correct' her opinion on a film's message.
{{quote| "You! You! Yes! You, Chick, you! '''YOU''' should be explaining this to '''ME'''!! I am ''offended''! ''Offended'' that I have to spell this out for you, I mean '''DEAR GOD'''--!!" {{[[[Throw the Book At Them]] hurls book at the wall}}]}}
** A positive example to the Snob, who suggests they [[Enemy Mine|join forces]] to corner the grindhouse '''and''' the arthouse. ("I ''knew'' there was a reason I respected you.")
* [[Godwin's Law]]: Couldn't get past the ending of ''[[Film/Jubilee|Jubilee]]'' without constantly going back to the fact that there was a short scene featuring what he described as "Old Man [[Hitler]]".
{{quote| "This film just Godwinned itself!"}}
* [[Go Mad From the Revelation]]: At the end of [[Refuge in Audacity]] [[Mind Screw|insanityfest]] ''What Is It?'', Oancitizen decides "If you can't beat 'em..."
** Likewise, he had Roo from ''[[Clan of the Gray Wolf]]'' on as a cameo to help explain the video game references in ''[[We Are the Strange]]''. It doesn't go well for him.
{{quote| "It's here that Roo's notes read 'Oh my God I can see forevarrrglblahhhh.'"}}
** Most of ''[[Zardoz]]''.
** ''Revolutionary Girl Utena'' reduces him to a cackling lunatic.
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** After mailing Oancitizen ''Freddy Got Fingered'', the Chick and Nella go to his hotel room and find a [[Room Full of Crazy]].
* [[Groin Attack]]: In the ''[[Zardoz]]'' review, Oancitizen takes "The gun is good! The penis is evil!" a bit too literally - he whips out a gun, walks into the bathroom, aims it at his crotch, we cut to black just as the gun goes off...
{{quote| "AAAAAAHHHH! OHHHHHHH! {{spoiler|[[Subverted Trope|How did I MISS?!]]}}"}}
* [[Happy Place]]: There's only ''one'' thing that can get us through ''Ken Park'': '''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bmDoT1TXV3k Sir John Fucking Gielgud reading Tennyson over the music of Gustav Holst!]'''
** PRETENTION NIRVANA.
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* [[Hypocritical Humor]]: In the review of ''You And Me And Everyone We Know'', Oancitizen introduces the main character as an amateur solo video artist, "which means she films herself alone in her room doing stupid stuff." Cut to Oancitizen, camera in hand, filming himself in front of a mirror going "Man, what a dork!"
* [[I Have Nothing to Say to That]]: From the ''[[We Are the Strange]]'' review:
{{quote| '''[[Buffy-Speak|Black and White Thingy]]:''' Then we will celebrate with many scoops of iced cream!<br />
'''Oan:''' I... I can't make that line funnier. }}
* [[I Resemble That Remark]]: The longstanding "Cinema Snob ripoff" charge was spoofed in their crossover together.
{{quote| '''Snob:''' Oh, come off it. We're nothing alike. Your suit is....green.}}
** ...Along with Kyle and Brad's dodgy acting.
{{quote| '''Brad:''' You didn't even memorize your lines!<br />
'''Oan:''' ''(looks down at script)'' "I have no idea what you mean." }}
* [[Inadvertent Entrance Cue]]: According to the ''[[Revolutionary Girl Utena]] [[The Movie]]'' review, any time someone is confused by an artistic movie, Oancitizen is teleported to them against his will. [[Jesu Otaku]] notes that now that it's known, it's highly exploitable, and he then teleports away from the review, and once back, angrily tells her to not give fans any more ideas on how to misuse the spell. This could also be a meta-joke about how Kyle become the go-to guy for cameos about symbolism and artistic topics.
** Kyle has sensitive ears and is very territorial about '''[[William Shakespeare|PHWOOLLIAM SHAXPAHR]]''' being reviewed by others. So much so, that he gets suckered into crashing ''Hamlet the Vampire Slayer''.
{{quote| '''Oan''': [[The Winter's Tale|I have drunk and seen the spider. There is a plot against my niche, my show. All's true that is mistrusted! Thou has usurped my art, and I remain a pinched thing; Yea, a very trick for you to play at will!]]<br />
'''Lupa''' (helpfully): You [[Blunt Metaphors Trauma|drank a spider]]? }}
* [[Incredibly Lame Pun]]: Lampshaded by Oan himself, who sincerely apologizes. (''Tideland'')
{{quote| "He's turned [[Deceased Parents Are the Best|her mummy]] into a...[[mummy]]."}}
* [[Insult Backfire]]: "I'd tell (''Trash Humpers'') to eat my shit, but I'm afraid it might be [[Too Kinky to Torture|into that sort of thing]]."
* [[The Internet Is for Porn]]: In ''Exterminating Angels'', Oan calls out his viewers for wanting raw footage of the French lesbians.
{{quote| "You want porn (points upward), the address bar is up there!" }}
** From ''[[The Girlfriend Experience]]'', on porn actress [[Sasha Grey]]:
{{quote| "[she is known for performing] extreme acts on scree. I went online, and [[Sarcasm Mode|believe it or not]], I found some clips of her doing these acts. I had to pixelate some things though [cue entirely [[Pixellation|pixellated]], flesh colored screen and loud moans]}}
* [[It Got Worse]]: Oan experiences a string of these near the end of ''[[Ken Park]]'':
{{quote| '''Oan:''' "Yes, director, I ''will'' allow myself to be filmed while drinking beer and simultaneously urinating. For the craft." [[Tempting Fate|I don't think it can get grosser.]]<br />
* cue molestation scene * <br />
'''Oan:''' That was the most despicable thing I will have ever seen in my-<br />
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* [[Jacob Marley Warning]]: [[Todd in the Shadows]] hovers over Oan's bed at MAGfest, half-hardheartedly waving his arms. Finally, he resorts to just punching him.
* [[Lampshaded Double Entendre]]: ''The Anatomy of Hell'' opens with its female protagonist getting slapped by a random man, who then just stands there looking sullen. Wordless apology, or is she just handing him a stick of gum?
{{quote| '''''[unzips fly]'''''<br />
'''Oan:''' Hey, he ''did'' want some gum! ...'cause her gums are in her mouth. }}
* [[Lampshade Hanging]]: Points out background noise picked up by his mic in his review of ''Primer.''
* [[Layman's Terms]]: So, Jason Witter replaced the original language of ''Hamlet'' with endless pop culture snark?
{{quote| '''Oan:''' [[Purple Prose|Wherefore is this columbarius film before mine eyes shown?]]<br />
'''Lupa:''' [beat] Is that a real sen--<br />
'''Oan: Why the fuck am I watching this turd?!''' }}
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* [[Mary Sue]]: He calls out the protagonist of ''Exterminating Angels'' on this.
* [[Memetic Mutation]]: Invoked at the end of the ''Twilight Of The Ice Nymphs'' review.
{{quote| '''Oancitizen''': Now if you'll excuse me, I have to turn that whole tree thing into a meme.}}
* [[Mind Screw]]: ''What Is It?'', both the movie and the 'sketch.'
{{quote| '''Oancitzen''': I have three ties! }}
* [[Money, Dear Boy]]: In the vlog for ''Anonymous'', Oancitizen suggests that Derek Jacobi took a role in the film to pay off a parking ticket.
* [[Musical Episode]]: ''[[The Man Who Fell to Earth]]'', reviewed almost entirely to the tunes of the songs of [[David Bowie]].
* [[My Name Is Not Durwood]]: For some reason, his early [[IMDb]] page listed Kyle's name as "Ralph Oancitizen". It's since become a [[Running Gag]], as [[Phelous]], [[Obscurus Lupa]], and [[Sad Panda Q&A|Sad Panda]] have referred to him as Ralph on various occasions.
** ''Ghost Dog:''
{{quote| '''Rap Critic:''' That's him! That's RZA!<br />
'''Oan:''' Oh, yeah, the-the Whooping Clan guy, right?<br />
'''Rap Critic:''' '''''[[Wu-Tang Clan|WU! TANG!!]]''''' }}
* [[Narm]]: [[In-Universe|Oan]] bursts out laughing while watching the performance of the main character in ''Twilight of the Ice Nymphs'' when he monologues about trees, comparing the voice to a deaf cracked-out [[Bill Murray]].
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* [[Nightmare Fuel Coloring Book]]: A flurry of them while describing the scenes in ''A Serbian Film''.
* [[Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot]]: In ''[[What Is It]]?''
{{quote| '''Oancitizen''' (in shock): '''''NAKED NAZI [[Shirley Temple]] MASTURBATING WITH A RIDING CROP!'''''}}
* [[Nipple-and-Dimed]]: Since nudity crops up in his video reviews, he's forced to censor it creatively. Pictures of [[Incredibly Lame Pun|titmice, cats, donkeys, and Wii remotes]] are common, but sometimes, if he's feeling really silly, he covers them up with cropped pictures ''of nude statues.''
** ''[[Perfume]] - The Story of A Murderer'' actually managed to '''[[Broke the Rating Scale|break]]''' the censor bar.
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** "Here's a diagram -- a primer on ''Primer'', if you will. [snooty chuckle] Huzzah."
** And so, the characters of ''The Doom Generation'' "invoke the [[A Threesome Is Hot|Power of Three!]]"
{{quote| " Aaand I'm more than three-fourths of the way through a film starring [[Rose McGowan]], and I finally make a ''[[Charmed]]'' reference. Go me."}}
** ''Tideland'''s deranged beekeeper. "Aaaaand [[The Wicker Man|meme]] in 3....2....1..."
** When a character in ''[[Ken Park]]'' randomly asks his girlfriend's mother, "can I eat you out?", Kyle explains that even though it's become cliché, he now ''has'' to play the infamous scene from ''[[Shark Attack 3: Megalodon]]''.
** ''Hamlet the Vampire Slayer'':
{{quote| "This guy must be on loan from ''[[A Raisin in the Sun|A Raisin in the Son of the Living Dead]]''. A theatre joke, thank you! [to Lupa] <small>[[Is This Thing On?|Don't use that take]]</small>.}}
** "[[Pimp My Ride|Yo dawg, I heard you like dogs]], so put a dog in ''Ghost Dog'' so Ghost Dog can watch a dog and -- [[Overly Long Gag|oh, screw it]]."
* [[Odd Couple]]: With [[Obscurus Lupa]] in their ''Hamlet the Vampire Slayer'' review; he's a highbrow critic and serious intellectual, she's a cheerfully goofy shlock reviewer who doesn't understand long words.
* [[Oh Crap]]: During the "Otto" review, when he realizes he is about to see a gay zombie orgy.
** During the ''Trash Humpers'' review (bear in mind, babies... don't tend to fare well in these kinds of movies):
{{quote| "Was that a baby?...(''looks horrified'') '''''Was that a baby?!'''''"}}
** Yet again during ''The Brown Bunny'', when he discovers, to his abject horror, that the film is revisiting ''[[Gerry]]''.
{{quote| "...''No.'' Oh, '''''no'''''..."}}
** He realizes one second too late that he's invoked Rule34 and mentioned a Civil War real-person slash fic.
* [[Oh My Gods]] '''"SWEET HEAVENLY MITHRAS!"'''
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* [[Phantasy Spelling]]: Oancitizen jokes that Mandragora from ''Twilight of the Ice Nymphs'' is "also probably a place for people who spell 'fairy' as 'faerie.'"
* [[Pass the Popcorn]]: Admittedly as what he's doing is in fact watching movies him breaking out a bowl of it in a review normally would be considered a normal film watching activity. However he's an arthouse film reviewer which people don't usually associate with popcorn, therefore he uses it in his review of ''Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai'' to highlight the more action movie aspects of some of the scenes.
{{quote| ''(stuffing his face)'' "Ohh, right, the--the appropriation of foreign philosophies and the separation of idiosyncratic cultures, yeah, yeah."}}
* [[Platonic Life Partners]]: With his artist and BFF, Ven Gethenian.
* [[The Plot Thickens]]: "...Into a [[Primer|65 lb. lump of unshaped concrete]]."
* [[Precision F-Strike]]: "Jean-Claude Brisseau, '''fuck you.'''"
* [[Pretty Fly for a White Guy]]: His rap at the end of the ''Ghost Dog'' review.
{{quote| '''[[Rap Critic]]:''' [[Anything But That|Kyle, NO! There's no way you can make this look good!!]]}}
* [[Psychic Nosebleed]]: Happens as Oancitizen struggles to talk about ''A Serbian Film'''s messages... then he [[Despair Event Horizon|snaps out]]. (in the bloopers, Kyle points out that given how much corn syrup he put on his nose for the scene, that could have been actual blood!)
* [[Punctuated for Emphasis]]: '''''GET....ME...[[Nuke'Em|NATO!]]'''''
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* [[A Rare Sentence]]: "[[We Are the Strange|The blood was laughing at me.]]"
** ''Sweet Movie'' wastes no time scrambling Oan's brain.
{{quote| '''Oancitizen:''' Then an OB/GYN unicycles into the room and -- [[I Can't Believe I'm Saying This|I just said that sentence out loud]], didn't I?}}
** He repeats this little gem several times during 'Goodbye 20th Century':
{{quote| '''Oancitizen:''' Nazi Harry Dumbledore punches Santa Claus in the face.}}
** [http://blip.tv/brows-held-high/brows-held-high-a-serbian-film-bloopers-5601086 They raped a fictional baby!...I'm really saying this out loud aren't I?]"
** The first (translated) sentence of ''Exterminating Angels'' is: "The lampposts are in need of their long scarlet coats." Oancitizen ''dares'' the audience to explain what that means. There's also a later reference to "blood of airports...flooding blue grass."
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* [[Running Gag]]: During scenes involving male bodily fluids, Oan would take a sip of milk from a wine glass. Lampshaded during his review of ''Sebastian'', when he can't believe it has become one.
** [[Stephen Fry]]'s "tweets" in ''The Discovery of Heaven''.
{{quote| "Woman carrying my child hit by a falling tree. FML."}}
** During ''[[Film/Jubilee|Jubilee]]'', he would point out two "affectionate" guys are brothers, then say "Ew,".
** ''A Serbian Film'': "NEW! BORN! PORN!".
* [[The Scream]]: Time to introduce Lupa's favorite Shakesperan characters: Rosenchad and Guildebrad! "[[Totally Radical|Yo!" "'Sup?!]]"
{{quote| '''Lupa:''' Geddit? [[Don't Explain the Joke|Rosen]]-- <small>hey, where'd you go?</small><br />
[cut to bathroom door]<br />
'''Oan''': NYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAOHHHGODIWILLNEVERRRAAAAAAAAAUUUUUGHGH!!! }}
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** Unfortunately, his gift for verbage fails him when trying to understand anime tropes.
** "Ah, beg your pardon, I have an inquiry. What is the semiotic denotation of a 'pinky promise'?"
{{quote| '''Lupa:''' I just heard '[[Blah Blah Blah]] big words pinkie promise,' so I can't help you.}}
* [[Sexiled]]: For ''[[Nine Songs]]'', he claimed to have put a sock on his doorknob.
* [[Shaped Like Itself]]: From the ''[[W.R.: Mysteries of the Organism]]'' review:
{{quote| '''Narrator:''' In our sick society, everyone is sick.<br />
'''[[Deadpan Snarker|Oan:]]''' ...and our bad writers are bad at writing. }}
* [[Ship Tease]]: Between him and his [[It Makes Sense in Context|trashcan.]]
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** "[[Drugs Are Bad|Parents who reanimate the dead have children who reanimate the dead.]]" (''Andy Warhol's Frankenstein'')
** "So just remember, when you're trying to settle serious relationship issues with your special lady, '''[[Faux Symbolism|bust her water main open]]''' and then invite her to dance. She'll be thrilled! ''[[Revolutionary Girl Utena|Utena]]'' told me so!"
{{quote| '''Jesu:''' I think you're beginning to [[Sanity Slippage|lose your mind.]]}}
* [[Stay in the Kitchen]]: ''Anatomy Of Hell'' closes with him {{spoiler|[[Straw Misogynist|finally coming to terms with his gender's supposed inherent misogyny and calling his mother to tell her]].}}
* [[Stealth Insult]]: He ends the ''Anatomy of Hell'' review by commending [[Straw Feminist|Catherine Breillat]] for "teaching [him] so much about [[He-Man Woman Hater|the male psyche!]]"
{{quote| '''Oan:''' [dials phone] Hi, mom! Yeah, I just got done watching this French film and--'''''FUCK YOU!''''' }}
** His epitaph for ''[[Gerry]]''. Hey, it did '''one''' thing fantastically right.
{{quote| "You ''really'' feel like you're lost in a desert. The scenery is repetitive, the sounds vacant. You wander aimlessly, every minute spent praying that the end to come. It will come when you reach the finish, or it will come with your own death. Hell, at some points you even begin to feel a little dehydrated at this movie. And should you emerge alive, you spend every waking minute wishing that you had never taken that wrong turn (or pushed that play button) and been dropped into a vast wasteland, traumatized by the void that you were dropped into -- and may never escape.}}
* [[Stealth Pun]]: The title. While he reviews "Highbrow" films, many of the films we see tend to raise Oan's eyebrows in a different way.
* [[Stepford Smiler]]: Oan spends the majority of ''A Serbian Film'' review in this state. {{spoiler|Until his nose becomes a [[Psychic Nosebleed|BLOOD GEYSER]]}}.
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* [[Take That]]: Halfway into ''Exterminating Angels'', he realizes that the entire film is basically an endless parade of thin, attractive women acting horny around a dumpy middle-aged man. [cue Robert Palmer music video]
* [[Tempting Fate]]: In ''Tideland'', Oan compares the ''[[Alice in Wonderland|Alice]]'' themes to that older, creepier film he already covered.
{{quote| "Well, at least they got rid of that cheesy, creepy stop-motion animation and [severed doll's head comes to life] -- '''''BLUUAAGH!'''''}}
** Since it's [[Animation Age Ghetto|animated]], Oan is confident that explaining the themes and symbolism of ''[[Revolutionary Girl Utena]]'' will be a trifling matter for his mighty brain.
** After being thoroughly mindfucked by the ''[[Revolutionary Girl Utena]]'' movie, Oan resolves that he'll never let himself get roped into reviewing an allegedly deep animated show or movie again. Then the [[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic|bronies]] get a hold of him.
** Since ''Tromeo and Juliet'' is busy drowning itself in [[Parallel Porn Title|pornographic Shakespeare puns]], Oan decides to join in, too.
{{quote| '''Oan:''' Please. No ''[[Titus Andronicus|Titties Andronicus]]''? No ''[[Coriolanus|Glory Hole Anus]]''? No ''[[A Midsummer Night's Dream|A Midsummer Night's Cream]]''?<br />
'''Snob:''' ...That one actually exists. }}
* [[This Is for Emphasis, Bitch]]: Claudius' death in ''Hamlet'' (1996). "Oh I have to poison him? That's boring--'''''[[Falling Chandelier of Doom|EAT CHANDELIER, BITCH.]]'''''"
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* [[Very Special Episode]]: His [[Angels in America]] review, made in honor of National AIDS Day.
* [[Visual Pun]]: His censor bars are all about this.
{{quote| "You have NO idea how long it took me to think of a good visual pun for "footjob".}}
** To the point that he's genuinely distressed that he can't come up with censor-bar puns for ''Otto'', and just resorts to descriptive text on boxes.
* [[Vomit Discretion Shot]]: Does this after making a ''[[Family Guy]]'' joke, which obviously is anathema to his high brow nature.
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** In ''[[Zardoz]]'', "They're all, 'Oh, [[Queen|I am immortal. I have inside me blood of kings]]' and '[[Highlander|Here we are. Born to be kings, we're the princes of the universe.]]'". Oancitizen lampshades shortly later. (specially as he had already used "[[Who Wants to Live Forever?]]" before, as "it's a movie with immortals with [[Sean Connery]]. I had to use [[Queen]]")
** ''[[Hamlet]]'' tells [[The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air|the story all about how his life got flipped turned upside-down]].
{{quote| "Ah Fresh Prince. Well, in the words of another [[Geto Boys|famous rap lyric]], DIE MOTHER FUCKER DIE MOTHERFUCKER DIE."}}
** In ''[[Ken Park]]'', after the "Thom Yorke-looking kid" has a sex scene with a woman who has had work done on her breasts: "[[Radiohead|She's his fake plastic love, and she wears him out. She wears him out.]]"
* [[We Are Experiencing Technical Difficulties]]: Upon viewing stock footage of the Katyn massacre that was spliced into ''Sweet Movie'', Oan's screaming face is replaced by a test pattern.
{{quote| '''Oan:''' ''[[Cannibal Holocaust]]'' [[Even Evil Has Standards|DIDN'T USE REAL BOD]]--!! [cuts feed]}}
* [[What Do You Mean It's Not Didactic?]]: One of his in-universe specialties is finding deep symbolism where it almost certainly doesn't exist. This is emphasized in his early blog posts and "Between The Lines" videos.
{{quote| '''Oan:''' Would it be too didactic to reference Grotowski's ''Toward a Poor Theatre''?<br />
'''Lupa:''' I have no idea what any of those words mean. :D }}
** Played around with in his review of ''A Serbian Film''. Instead of discussing much of the film's plot, Oan instead discusses much of Serbia's dark history and how the emotional turmoil of the Serbs translates onto the film. {{spoiler|None of this stops him from calling NATO and asking them to bomb Serbia.}}
* [[What Do You Mean It's for Kids?]]: One of the main reasons that Kyle finds [[Jan Svankmajer]]'s ''Alice'' so frightening is that it ''was'' originally intended to be a kid's movie.
* [[What Do You Mean It's Not for Kids?]]: Slumming it in the [[Animation Age Ghetto]] with [[Jesu Otaku]], Oan encounters the [[Yuri Genre|lesbian romance]] in ''[[Revolutionary Girl Utena]]'':
{{quote| '''Oan:''' Don't they know there are children watching this? <br />
'''JO:''' Am I going to have to [[300|Sparta kick]] you out of the window? [cracks her knuckles] }}
* [[Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?]]: Has developed a phobia for bunnies.
{{quote| "...Well, bunnies, chocolate, snails...trash cans, Italians-- this show is ''not'' healthy for me!"}}
* [[Word of God]]: Oan will sometimes quote the filmmakers explanations for their films, often to make fun of them.
* [[You Can Turn Back]]: From the intro to ''Trash Humpers''.
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