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* [[Crazy Awesome]]: In-universe, when [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/ The Escapist] made him start doing [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/the-big-picture The Big Picture], he used a bit of the first video to officially dub his bosses as such.

* [[Creator Thumbprint]]:

** The word "douchebag" pops up heavily when regarding hardcores or Michael Bay, becoming his mainstay word to describe someone/something he really hates (naturally people call him this).

** 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]].

** Played straight and averted, respectively, with his treatment of [[The Eighties]] and [[The Nineties]]. Bob is ''not'' a fan of the latter decade, frequently accompanying mentions of it with a stock photo of [[The Wrestler|Randy "The Ram" Robinson]] with the caption "The '90s sucked", and he has little love for most of the pop culture trends of that era ([[Nineties Anti-Hero|Nineties anti heroes]], [[Post Modernism|post-modern]] teen horror, et cetera). On the other hand, he loves the '80s, cheesiness and all. He states that this was because the '90s were his awkward, schlubby teen years that came in between his wondrous childhood in the '80s and his present-day success as an internet personality.

** 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]].

{{quote|A character who we're supposed to regard as the grounded rational and moral centre of the entire story proves that they're in the presence of the Devil by throwing a piece of toast in the air and seeing if it lands butter-side-down. [Reverb] '''I. AM NOT. MAKING. THAT UP.''' }}

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