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* [[Screw This, I'm Outta Here]]: She fights the Critic to do ''[[Fern Gully]]'' but, like him, tries very hard to escape when [[Robin Williams]] starts rapping.
** She tries multiple times to get free from ''[[Bratz]]'', but ultimately manages to get through it once the Critic explains why he wanted her to sit through such shit.
* [[Self-Deprecation]]:
** Even though the Chick is now definitely a totally separate character, Lindsay's made no secret that she thinks she's a horrible actress. (In the ''[[Jem]]'' review, the Chick even says so.) She doesn't even ''like'' being called an actress.
*** While she's not exactly going to win any awards soon, the general opinion is that she's much better at acting than she thinks she is. It takes talent to create a three-dimensional and funny persona who is totally different from yourself.
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* [[Shown Their Work]]: Perhaps [[Nightmare Fetishist|fittingly]], she knows a lot about revolutions, slavery <ref> as she probably should, considering Nella</ref> , wars and just general disasters.
** She's very knowledgeable about early animation (not just Disney), which she puts to great use in the NChick shorts.
** Sister Jesus Mary Joseph of our Perpetual Guilt (aka Nella) is quick to point out the problems with the depiction of nuns in the two ''[[Sister Act]]'' films, namely the difference between nuns (cloistered prayer) and sisters (service to the needy, poor, in need of education etc).
* [[Shrine to Self]]: "Michael Bay's" DVD shelf consists of only three films: ''[[Armageddon]]'', ''[[Bad Boys]] II'', and ''[[The Rock]]''.
* [[Sickly Green Glow]]: A destroyed Chicago gets this courtesy of Dark Nella.
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** The ''[[Spider-Man]]'' musical ''[[Spider Man Turn Off the Dark|Turn Off The Dark]]'', especially the Green Goblin's [[Camp Gay]] "Freak Like Me" [[Villain Song]].
** Although she hates ''[[Love Never Dies]]'' like a typical phangirl, "Beneath A Moonless Sky" is the funniest shit ever.
** She admits that ''Showgirls'', ''[[Battlefield Earth (film)|Battlefield Earth]]'' and ''[[Crossroads (2002 film)|Crossroads]]'' are badly done but enjoyable, while ''From Justin To Kelly'' is "the cinematic equivalent of watching someone slooowly scrape the burnt part off the toast. And failing."
* [[So Beautiful It's a Curse]]: Her opinion on [[Bishonen|bishie-style]] [[Leonardo DiCaprio]].
{{quote|'''Chick:''' Why did he have to be so damn cute?}}
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** Apparently this can be a bad thing. Elisa explained the "TLC review taken down" controversy as Lindsay feeling like it was too different from her show's usual tone.
* [[Soprano and Gravel]]: Parodied with the Nostalgia Duo's gender war song. Doug gets raspier to try and be all manly and Lindsay makes her voice thinner to sound stereotypically girly. Just adds to the hammy fun.
* [[Sound Effect Bleep]]: She swears plenty, but "fuck" gets bleeped out because Lindsay thinks it's funnier.
* [[Soundtrack Dissonance]]: She plays "Yakety Sax" to bypass a couple of pointless scenes in ''[[Labyrinth]]''.
** She plays "Love Game" by [[Lady Gaga]] at the start of her ''[[My Little Pony]]'' review. Because "I wanna take a ride on your disco stick" is really what you think of when you see cute, girly ponies.
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'''Nostalgia Chick:''' Where's Dr. Block?
'''Dr. Tease:''' ...''Not'' orbiting a distant star! }}
** In ''Grease II'', the Chick does this a lot. No, she's not horny. No, she doesn't like a guy whose face she has never seen!
** The same thing comes up in "Top Ten Songs About Sex (From Musicals)", which she did because it's about nostalgic music, and nostalgia is what she does. Nothing whatsoever to do with a musician who hides his face and rejects her advances, the ''ungrateful bastard''.
* [[Surprise Incest]]: The original plot of the first "Thanks For The Feedback" was apparently going to be a [[Shout-Out]] to Luke and Leia from ''[[Star Wars]]'', with Chick and Critic going all the way and then finding out they were related.
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** Three uses in quick succession in ''[[Dune]]'', followed later by a "do I really need to say it"?
* [[There Are No Therapists]]
* [[Thing-O-Meter]]: In the ''[[Spice World]]'' review she has a "Random Shit-O-Lever" that looks like a girly high heel; pulling it (supposedly) causes a totally random occurence to happen in the movie.
* [[This Is for Emphasis, Bitch]]: "DON'T YOU EVER TRY TO BRING LOGIC INTO THIS MOVIE AGAIN! THIS IS ''[[Fern Gully]]'', BITCH!"
* [[This Is Gonna Suck]]:
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* [[Unintentionally Sympathetic]]: In-Universe. The reason why she likes the the two antagonist daughters in the ''[[My Little Pony]]'' movie far more than the titular ponies.
{{quote|'''Chick:''' Oh and the Mom sings an entire song about how disappointed she is for her daughters being inadequate. ...not that I know how that feels or anything...}}
* [[Unsatisfiable Customer]]: Her [[Running Gag]] for John Malkovich.
* [[Unusual Euphemism]]: Referring to babies as "crotch dumplings" in one review.
* [[Unusually Uninteresting Sight]]: In her ''Teen Witch'' review, she wonders why the hell everyone is so unbothered about guys suddenly starting to rap in a school hallway.
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* [[Video Review Show]]
* [[Viewers are Morons]]: In her review of ''[[Showgirls]]''. "Because movie viewers are stupid and can't deduce success or failure based on what's been shown onscreen, we have Molly dictate from the sidelines whether or not Nomi is succeeding."
** Her theory for why, unlike the first movie, ''[[Lady and the Tramp]] II'' keeps showing the faces of the humans.
* [[Villain Song]]: The evil witch's song in ''[[The Worst Witch]]'' gets cut back to back with "[[The Little Mermaid|Poor Unfortunate Souls]]" to make it look even more horrid.
* [[Virginity Makes You Stupid]]: In ''[[Hocus Pocus]]'':
{{quote|'''Chick:''' [[Sarcasm Mode|Fucking virgins, man, why do we even have 'em?]]}}
* [[Visual Pun]]:
** During her ''[[Showgirls]]'' review, she asks why anyone would want to watch the film for any reason other than seeing some [http://japanhr.ja.funpic.de/wall/images/fullsize/Dancing%20Blue%20Footed%20Boobies.JPG boobies]. She also uses the birds in place of a [[Censor Box]] when the women show their... [[Running Gag|tracts]] [[Monty Python and
** During her ''[[Labyrinth]]'' review, whenever anyone mispronounces Hoggle's name (a [[Running Gag]] in the movie), the word "Gag" runs across the screen to the first measure of horns from "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UcAzR2QyPCI Spanish Flea]" as Lindsay points at it.
* [[Vitriolic Best Buds]]: She wonders why Wolverine even hung around with the other ''[[X-Men]]'', seeing as how he also disagreed with them. Angrily so.
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** The Chick gets [[Berserk Button|rather upset]] when called a nerd.
* [[What Happened to the Mouse?]]: She says [[Gene Kelly]]'s and Olivia Newton John's romance "gets dropped like a ball of roller-skates".
* [[What Measure Is a Non-Human?]]: A big running theme of discussion in Maven's reviews. Justifiable, seeing as how she's vampire obsessed.
* [[What the Hell, Hero?]]: As to be expected with an [[Ensemble Cast]] with a [[Villain Protagonist]] as the star, the Chick gets a few of these. The most satisfying was probably Nun!Nella passive-aggressively damning her to hell for her all-consuming stalking of Todd.
* [[Who Names Their Kid "Dude"?]]: In, well, ''[[Thumbelina]]'': "I hate you enough to call you Thumbelina."
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** From ''[[Jem]]'': "What the hell kind of name is Jerrica? Is it like the feminine city that the Israelites brought down? Is it like Erica was too boring, let's throw a J on it? Like Jem, so they match?"
** From ''[[X-Men]]'': "Jubilee must have born to Chinese-American hippies."
* [[Wine Is Classy]]:
** Holds a glass of dark-looking wine in the second part of her "Dreamworks Vs. Disney" review.
** Again, she's drinking wine (as well as wearing a elegant dress and reading an intellectual book) when goofy bad-movie fan [[Obscurus Lupa]] picks her as "someone classier" to review the B-movie ''Honor And Glory'' with.
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