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New episodes are released every week on Freddie's site, http://www.rocketjump.com/ and the week after on his YouTube channel.
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* [[Ascended Meme]]: Episode 3 references 'nope.avi' from the [[Team Fortress 2 (Video Game)|Team Fortress 2]] fanbase, and 'Son, I am disappoint' from [[Image Boards|4Chan]].
* [[Arrogant Kung Fu Guy]]: The Law.
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* [[Beware the Nice Ones]] / [[Beware the Silly Ones]]: Brian and Ted may be a little out of it, but don't doubt their skill. Brian manages to kill The Law in ''Field of Fire'' and has shown decent skill in other games, and Ted is rather good at racing games.
** Plus, in Ted's case, it's heavily implied that he's beaten the supposed Drifting King before, or at the very least been a challenge.
* [[Bland
* [[Button Mashing]]: Judging by episode 2, reloading a gun is quite complicated in ''Field of Fire''.
* [[Cloudcuckoolander]]: Ted normally, but Brian sometimes takes this.
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* [[Crap Saccharine World]]: Sure, a world where society completely revolves around video games sounds cool. However, this means that the most powerful people are the best players, which can put [[Jerkass|Jerkasses]] like The Law into positions of power.
* [[Creator Cameo]]: [[Freddie Wong]], one of the creators, plays Ted's father in episode 5. Ted's actor is actually Freddie's younger brother.
* [[Deep
** When he goes AFK its just his mouth that's not communicating with his character's body - his in-game expression remains entirely neutral even while being mauled by his pet cat in the real world.
* [[Disproportionate Retribution]]: The Law's reaction to Brain D killing him once in an unranked pub stomp? He decides to ''completely humiliate Brain D in front of the world and ruin his life forever''.
* [[Does This Remind You of Anything?]]: VGHS students chug energy drinks when they party.
* [[Exactly What It Says On the Tin]]: The Agreement Corner consists of four people who present a topic, have one state an opinion, and then have the others all agree with that one person.
* [[Graceful Loser]]: Zigzagged with The Law. At first he seems to be perfectly fine with Brian besting him and even ''proud'' of him...only for it to turn out this is just an act and he now harbors a deep hatred towards Brian. Later, he plays this trope straight when he and Brian go head-to-head in ''Dance Ex Machina'', where Brian loses but becomes the life of the party (see [[The Runner Up Takes It All]] below).
* [[Hey
* [[Hold Your Hippogriffs]]: Brian says he has wanted to play on a VGHS team since he was "E For Everyone".
* [[Hollywood Game Design]]: Ki Swan can bash out simple games over the course of a conversation.
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* [[Never Trust a Trailer]]: The trailer portrayed the series in a very dramatic light, almost like some kind of epic feature film. So far, the series has been mostly comedic, with its few dramatic moments being so peppered with funny moments it's nigh-impossible to take them seriously.
* [[Nice Guy]]: Subverted with The Law. When Brian is having trouble tossing out his more sentimental gear, The Law comes up to him and gives him a very friendly pep talk. Before promptly destroying Brian's old gear and screaming that ''he'' is VGHS.
* [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero]]: It's very likely that Ted making the Brianpalooza posters is what caused most of the school to hate Brian, thinking ''he'' made them and was self-centered.
* [[Oh Crap]]: The Law when he realizes Brian is about to kill him in ''Field of Fire''.
* [[Only Known By Their Nickname]]: The Law, along with several other minor characters, such as Annihilus.
* [[Only Sane Man]]: Jenny when she's around. Brian when she's not.
* [[Red Oni, Blue Oni]]: Ted and Brian; Brian and Ki.
* [[The Runner Up Takes It All]]: Played with; when Brian and The Law battle each other in ''Dance Ex Machina'', The Law wins flawlessly while Brian does mediocre at best. Halfway through, realizing this, Brian gives up on dancing to the game and just starts doing disco dancing for the crowd. This results in him losing, but he becomes the life of the party, while The Law's victory is pretty much ignored.
** When Ted and the Drift King race for possession of Ki Swan's game prototype, Ted loses, but the King gives her back her game anyway.
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* [[Stealth Pun]]: Before the scrimmage in episode 5, one student tells Brian to "[[Break the Haughty|break The Law]]". {{spoiler|[[Curb Stomp Battle|Too bad he fails.]]}}
* [[Stock Scream]]: The Wilhelm Scream can be heard around eight and a half minutes into episode 5.
* [[Suicidal Overconfidence]]: Annihilus challenges Brian D to a game because he's a noob (freshman). His own in-school score is so low that {{spoiler|losing automatically gets him expelled.}} He was apparently so certain of his own victory, [[What an Idiot!|he never even considered what would happen if he lost.]]
** Brian D also suffers this during the scrimmage match, where instead of following Jenny's orders he rushes off to fight The Law one on one. {{spoiler|He gets absolutely curbstomped and causes his team to lose}}.
* [[Trademark Favourite Food|Trademark Favorite Beverage]]: Everyone drinks [[Must Have Caffeine|Monster]], constantly.
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* [[Villain With Good Publicity]]: Because he's the best player in VGHS, The Law can pretty much get away with anything in the school. In the first episode, he goes on a pub stomp on national television and even explains to the hosts what a pub stomp is. Their reaction to what essentially him logging onto random servers to bully other players you can't fight back? ''They applaud him''.
* [[Weapon of Choice]]: Brian's tomahawks, and The Law's custom gold-plated pistols.
* [["Well Done, Son" Guy]]: Ted having huge issues with his father is a bit of an understatement. Not only is his father a teacher at VGHS and is one of the best Guitar Hero players in the world while Ted himself is nearly as skilled, but his father also considers his very existence a disappointment.
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