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[[Board James]] is a Cinemassacre's [[Web Original]] series, created and starred by [[James Rolfe]], of [[The Angry Video Game Nerd]] fame.
[[As Himself|Board James]] is a pretty normal guy, a kid at heart who collects a great variety of [[Board Games]] as a hobby, and reviews them in the internet. Sometimes Board James does his reviews alone, and from time to time he's joined by his friend: [[Vitriolic Best Buds|Motherfucker Mike]], who is a little of a cheater when it comes to playing the games. And when there's place on the board for an extra player, there's [[The Jinx|Bad Luck Bootsy]], an annoying but friendly guy who is prone to ruin the games and cause nothing but troubles to James, Mike and himself.
It started out as a [[Spin-Off]] of [[The Angry Video Game Nerd]], but it's now its own series. It follows the same [[Mid-Review Sketch Show]] formula that the [[The Angry Video Game Nerd|AVGN]] helped popularize, but features a much less [[Caustic Critic|''enraged'']] style of reviewing, often focusing on the good too. Despite sometimes being still referred as a [[Spin-Off]] of [[The Angry Video Game Nerd|AVGN]], there is no established connection between the two series.
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* ''Key to the Kingdom''
* ''Donut Disaster''
* ''Loopin’ Louie''
* ''Monster Madness''
* ''Battle Masters''
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* [[Catch Phrase]]: Subverted; the first regular episode ("Dragonstrike") has Board James introduce himself with the phrase "Hey! I'm Board James. [[Just for Pun|And when Board James is bored, I play some board games]]." However, he only ever said it that one time.
* [[Cluster F-Bomb]]: Like the other Cinemassacre web originals, the characters from Board James don't shy away from swearing every once in a while.
* [[Continuity Nod]]: In the Donut Disaster episode, Bootsy is using an eye-patch because of [[Eye Scream|the little accident he had in the Tornado Rex episode.]]
** He splashed hot burning coffee all over his face at the end of the Donut Disaster episode, and in the Splat! episode we see him wearing the eye-patch ''and'' bandages over his face.
* [[Covers Always Lie]]: In the episode about [[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles]] games, as the games were more visually atractive and better illustrated the less fun they were.
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{{quote|'''[[Board James]]:''' It's very '''stimulating''' cause you're always '''grabbing''' the '''balls''' underneath your '''gun'''. You gotta keep '''firing''' and '''reloading''' nonstop. But the gun gets '''jammed''' all the time.
'''Mr. Bucket:''' I'm Mr. Bucket, pop balls out of my mouth! }}
* [[Dramatic Thunder]]: When James discovers Mr. Bucket under the bed sheets.
** The Monster Madness episode's full of them.
* [[Duct Tape for Everything]]: Used in the Weapons and Warriors episode while setting up the game. Because glue takes time to dry, and all is going to get fucked up again anyway.
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* [[Having a Gay Old Time]]: Discussed with the Mr. Bucket advert.
* [[Hey, It's That Place!]]: Some of the episodes take place in [[The Angry Video Game Nerd|the Nerd's room]].
* [[I Like My X Like I Like My Y]]:
{{quote|'''Bad Luck Bootsy:''' I like my coffee like I like my women... [[Metaphorgotten|with my dick in it!]]}}
* [[Ironic Nursery Rhyme]]: Mr. Bucket's childish jingle.
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* [[Live Episode]]: Loupin' Louie episode was recorded live at PAX 2011.
* [[Loads and Loads of Rules]]: Some of the boardgames, particularly Heroquest and Battle Masters (and how!), which were made by the same creators by the way.
* [[Metaphorgotten]]:
{{quote|'''Bad Luck Bootsy:''' I like my coffee like I like my women... with my dick in it!.}}
* [[Montages]]: One appears in the "Donut Disaster" video when James recalls all the previous times Bad Luck Bootsy ruined their board games with his bad luck.
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{{quote|'''Motherfucker Mike:''' I gotta get the key before the talisman and then I gotta go forward and then go back and then climb a ladder and then fuck in...}}
* [[Poorly-Disguised Pilot]]: The way Board James started. Board James first episode was only called "Board game review", and it was announced like [[The Angry Video Game Nerd|the Nerd]] doing a review of the game Mouse Trap. Although the narrator appears to be dressed as the Nerd, his face is never on screen and [[Caustic Critic|he's not as angry as he usually is]]. Also, James Rolfe's wedding ring (which he never wears while playing the Nerd) can be seen in his left hand in some of the scenes, suggesting that it was implayed from the start that the reviewer was James Rolfe himself and not his Nerd persona.
* [[The Prankster]]: One of the home-made games that appear in the Deadly Danger Dungeon episode is called "Mischief Night", and it's about a guy who plays pranks on his neighbors, the pranks went from throwing toilet paper in a yard to blocking someone's front door with bricks and cement.
* [[Precision F-Strike]]: Bootsy's first two songs ("Tornado Rex" and "Donut Disaster") have one right at the very end.
* [[Prop Recycling]]: [[Nice Hat|The caps]] that would later become Board James' trait can be seen in the Nerd's closet (the one in which he keeps the Atari he gives away to the kids) in the AVGN's Halloween episode of 2007.
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* [[Special Guest]]: There was a whole array of them in the "Loupin' Louie" episode.
* [[Spin-Off]]: Board James first episode was only called "Board game review" as part of [[The Angry Video Game Nerd|the Nerd]] videos, but later Board James became its own character.
** Though, not entirely related to Board James, there are the 'Motherfuckin Mondays', a review show with [[As Himself|Motherfucker Mike]] as the lead.
* [[Stock Monsters]]: The characters of the Monster Madness game: the Mummy, the Werewolf, the Frankenstein's monster and Dracula.
* [[Stuff Blowing Up]]: As Motherfucker Mike and Board James play Crossfire, random explosions start appearing around them, just like in the TV ad for the game.
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* [[Video Review Show]]: Leans ''very'' heavily on the show end of the Sliding Scale of Review vs. Show, even more so than the old school AVGN episodes.
* [[Vomit Discretion Shot]]: After consuming massive amounts of Play-Doh, Bad Luck Boosty marathon vomits it out. Thankfully we don't see it.
* [[What Do You Mean It's Not Awesome?]]: Board James narrates his games as if they were epic adventures, and not just a man moving figurines across a cardboard board.
** In the Dragonstrike review James tells about how he used to get very excited with the introductory video because it presents the game as something seriously epic, then when the video ended, he turned around to actually start playing and discovered that everybody had left the room out of boredom.
{{quote|'''Board James:''' ...And that's what happens.}}
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