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''[[Proud to Be a Geek|Prouder to be an American geek]]"'' - The motto used at the beginning of each segment. }}

 

* [[Berserk Button]]:

** "[["Stop Having Fun!" Guys|Hardcores]]"

** Tyler Perry also counts, as does [[Sam Raimi]]'s departure from the ''[[Spider-Man]]'' films and the series' upcoming reboot.

** He also '''Hates''' the new ''[[Transformers]]'' films, as well as the bulk of [[Michael Bay]]'s output for that matter.

** Discussed [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/articles/view/columns/moviebob/7367-Stuff-Bob-Likes here]. To be specific: [[Everything's Better with Monkeys|Monkeys]], [[A Boy and His X|Dogs]], Monsters, [[Kaiju|Giant Monsters]], [[Everything's Better with Dinosaurs|Dinosaurs]], Lesbians, [[Heavy Metal]], Awesome Fight Choregraphy, [[Insufferable Genius|Insufferable Geniuses]] as protagonists, [[The Fifties]], [[The Eighties]] and strangely enough [[Honor Before Reason]].

* [[Curse Cut Short]]

** Repeated in his ''[[Iron Man (film)|Iron Man 2]]'' review:

* [[Darker and Edgier]]: "Violence is Golden", "Complex Issues" and "Building a Better Gamer" focus on more complex issues than most of his usual Game Overthinker episodes. His humor is more subtle in those episodes, and he does it a less contemplative tone.

* [[Deadpan Snarker]]

* [[Hypocrisy Nod]]: In the "Building a Better Gamer" video, Bob acknowledges the hypocrisy of a fat man telling people to get in better shape.

* [[I Take Offense to That Last One]]: Inverted. He calls himself out on insulting Michael Bay:

* [[I Want My Jetpack]]: Devoted an entire ''Big Picture'' [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/the-big-picture/4936-Science episode] to this subject.

* [[Jittercam]]: One of his [[Pet Peeve Trope|Pet Peeve Tropes]], along with [[Found Footage Films|the "found footage" genre]] that makes heavy use of it, though he sees why they're so popular nowadays. He feels that, for the generation that grew up with [[Cell Phone|camera phones]] and [[YouTube|social]] [[Friending Network|media]] as ubiquitous parts of their lives, this style of filmmaking is associated with realism, i.e. something that looks like it was shot on the street by random passerby rather than by a professional film crew.

** Averted, and examined, with [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/the-big-picture/5140-The-Simpsons-Is-Still-Funny-Pt-1 his treatment] of ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]]''. While going over the older seasons, Bob noticed that most of the episodes he thought were comic gold as a kid didn't age well, while the episodes he thought were boring when they first aired became much better now that he was [[Parental Bonus|old enough to appreciate the humor]]. He concludes that ''The Simpsons'' didn't [[Jumping the Shark|jump the shark]] like its fans thought it did, but rather, its fans grew up and their tastes in humor changed, and ''The Simpsons'' didn't change with them. Plus, there's the fact that the show, a broad satire of the greater pop culture, is a relic of a time stretching from roughly 1950-2000 when pop culture was largely monolithic<ref>As in, most mainstream Americans, apart from those on the cultural fringes, watched the same three or four TV [[Networks]] and the same movies, received the same news, listened to the same music, read the same books, et cetera.</ref> -- the early '00s, the time most commonly cited as when ''The Simpsons'' "stopped being funny", is also the time when the internet and cable television fragmented pop culture into a million little shards and [[Subculture|subcultures]].

* [[Not Making This Up Disclaimer]]: For ''[[Devil]]'', and emblematic of the whole movie's stupidity:

** Done constantly during his review of [[Street Fighter|Street Fight-]] uh, [[Fan Film|"Future Cops"]] because of the films over the top nature.

* [[Not So Different]]:

* [[Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness]]: Usually accompanied with the graphic "Big Words".

* [[Shaped Like Itself]]: Describing the performances in ''[[Thor (film)|Thor]]'':

* [[Shout-Out]]: While revisiting ''[[Metroid: Other M]]'', he points out the first rule of internet gaming culture is to never disagree with the mass opinion. The second rule is to never do a [[The Nostalgia Critic|Let's Play of]] ''[[The Nostalgia Critic|Bart's Nightmare]]''. (With a little subtitle saying he thought it was funny.)

* [[Sliding Scale of Silliness Versus Seriousness]]: Falls in the middle. While he'll deal with serious issues, or serious opinions, he'll usually be more serious, with some jokes thrown in. When he deals with something more silly, the jokes are more prevalent. His movie reviews usually fall under silly, with him giving his opinion in a easy-going tone, but can be more serious when going into complexity about the film.