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** ''Flaming Brian's Kitchen'' - Brad, Brian Lewis, and various others try hot sauces.
** ''Drunk Brian Tries'' - Brian Lewis gets drunk off his ass as the the rest of Team Snob push bizarre alcoholic beverages on him.
* ''[[The Hooker
* ''[[
* ''Brad and Jerrid'' - Fictionalized versions of Brad and friend Jerrid do random things.
** ''Brad and Irving'' - Same as above, but with Brian Irving replacing Jerrid Foiles after they had a falling out.
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* ''Radiodrome'' - A pop culture opinion podcast hosted by Brad and friends.
He is also co-starring in ''[[Ninja the Mission Force]]'', a series by [[Dark Maze Studios]] which parodies the [[Godfrey Ho Ninja Movies|ninja films of Godfrey Ho]] and other 80s "ninjasploitation" films. He wrote and starred in a number of independent films, including ''[[Paranoia (
Man has the voice of a young [[Jack Nicholson]], and is a featured contributor on [[That Guy With
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* [[Accentuate the Negative]]: Like most [[Caustic Critic|Caustic Critics]].
** [[Lampshaded]] at least twice, when he pointed out he legitimately likes at least two of the movies he's reviewed as the Snob (the first being ''Caligula'', and the other being ''Pieces''). He even appears [[OOC Is Serious Business|out of character]] at the beginning of both reviews to say so.
** His review of ''Violent Shit III'' opens with The Snob annoyed that ''[[Cowboys and Aliens (
** His ''Maniac'' review is an elaborate [[Deconstructed Trope|satire]] of this, taking opinions from real critics such as Gene Siskel and placing them in-context with the film footage.
{{quote| "What kind of [[Taxi Driver|sleazy movie featuring Joe Spinell]] would have [[Robert De Niro|its lead psychotic]] [[Hypocrisy Nod|have narration?!]]"}}
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** He also admits that the line "My wife has a fever, if I wanted something hot I'd stay with her." from ''Island of Death'' made him chuckle.
** Changes his opinion of ''Chatterbox'' in [[Arson, Murder, and Lifesaving|mid-sentence]], realizing its the greatest movie title ever.
*** Also, he finds the talk show host in ''Chatterbox'' funny, saying he'd rather watch him than the [[Exactly What It Says
** In his review of ''Nudist Colony Of The Dead'' he admits the sing along is actually pretty catchy, and sings a brief verse.
*** Similarly, he said he actually liked the random song and dance number from ''[[Don't Open Till Christmas]]''.
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* [[Alter Ego Acting]]: Brad's real persona is nothing like the characters he plays.
* [[Alter Kocker]]: Points this out in the [[Gag Dub]] of ''Dracula: The Dirty Old Man''. After that, somebody dubs over ''him'' the same way.
* [[Alternative Character Interpretation]]: [[In
* [[Analogy Backfire]]: "If I want to see a real Aliens rip-off then I will stick with Bruno Mattei's ''Terminator 2'', thank you very much. [beat] Wait a minute, no I won't!"
* [[And I'm the Queen of Sheba]]: ''Elves''' sketch of a nubile, naked "Virgin of Christmas."
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{{quote| '''Child:''' ''[Singing]'' You can take a trip to lands unexplored/And meet up with heroes who fight with a sword<br />
'''Brad:''' Damn right, they're fighting with a sword! [[As the Good Book Says...|For as it says,]] [[Moral Dissonance|"Take all the heads of the people and hang them up before The Lord against the sun!"]] Severed heads, children! It's in Numbers; look it up. <ref>Numbers 25:4, to be exact. Kind of funny in that "heads" actually means "chiefs" (This was the part where - after the people of Israel escape Egypt - they begin to worship Baal, which makes God command that Moses kill the leaders that authorized this), but the threat of violence is just as valid.</ref> }}
* [[Audio Erotica]]: In [[
{{quote| '''Brad:''' All you need is a penis the size of a lightsaber and the rest is done for you.<br />
'''Girl<ref>played by Brad's real life wife Jillian</ref>:''' ''Ahh! I just orgasmed at the sound of your voice.''<br />
'''Brad:''' It's to be expected. }}
** Lampshaded in the crossover with [[Atop the Fourth Wall
{{quote| '''Brad:''' ''I can't die! My voice is too sexy!''}}
* [[Author Appeal]]: ''Guaranteed'' to like a film so long as it contains an 80's musical number.
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** Homophobia. While reviewing ''Rock: It's Your Decision," he riffed on the protagonist's final speech until he made a homophobic reference - Brad pretty much ended the review on the spot.
** The writing style of Ehren Kruger. Brad ''really'' hates his writing going as far to blasting Transformers: Dark of The Moon in a giant [[Cluster F-Bomb]] rant during a Midnight Screenings segment.
** Depictions of animal cruelty or bestiality. He called Lars Von Trier a piece of shit for the dead animal shots in ''[[
** Terrence Malick
*** Judging from his dislike of [[Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!|Tim and Eric]], he seems to dislike the whole [[True Art Is Incomprehensible]] trope.
** ''[[Halloween III: Season of the Witch]]'' is this to 80s Dan.
** [[Friday the
** In the [[Christmas in America|War On Christmas]], Dolly is a General.
** CGI over practical effects.
* [[Better
* [[Big "What?"]]: Wait until he gets a load of Quint's replacement in ''Gums'' (the ''[[Jaws]]'' porn parody).
* [[Bilingual Bonus]]: At the beginning of his ''Beaver and Buttface'' review, the bad memories of ''E.T. The Porno'' prompt him to [[Waking Non Sequitur|wake up shouting]] "Ich bin der Waffelautomat!" ("I am the wafflemaker/wafflemachine" in German). Doubles as a [[Continuity Nod]] to ''The Refrigerator'', where that line originated.
* [[Brain Bleach]]: From his ''Dracula (The Dirty Old Man)'' review:
{{quote| '''Snob:''' Wasn't ''that'' something? It was a [[Squick|comedically-dubbed rape film]]. ''Holy shit!'' The bath I just took now needs to take a bath!}}
* [[Brick Joke]]: In ''Brad Tries New Coke'', post [[Defictionalization]] 80s Dan mentions that he got some Coke 2 from someone from the 90s who was also in Limbo. Flash forward to his joint review of Bimbos BC with [[Atop the Fourth Wall
** In his review of Nightdreams, the Snob says "Sorry, 8-Bit Mickey" for not being able to show a porn scene featuring a strap-on made from the leg of a goat. Which, of course, harks back to the massive [[Suburban Knights]] crossover some weeks before, where the Nostalgia Critic convinces Ma-ti that Mickey has an incurable addiction to goat porn.
** Brad pauses his review of ''Elves'' to answer the doorbell. In the following video, we discover that it was 80s Dan and Dolly.
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** At the start of ''Caligula'', he freaked out when the first shot had the title character running around with a herd of sheep. This trope was averted, however.
* [[The Cameo]]:
** Plenty of them in the 100th episode review of ''Caligula''. [[Ask That Guy With
** Bennett the Sage appeared at the end of the Snob's next review of the German slasher film ''[[Violent Shit]]'', also pretending to be Caligula, but he quickly became sad when he realized he missed his opportunity.
** LordKat appears during Brad Tries Durian. He also appears in ''The Bix Box'' review of ''[http://thecinemasnob.com/2010/05/05/the-big-box-dont-open-the-door.aspx Don't Open the Door]'' as Vic Dealio's Uncle Lino.
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** ''Really?!'' In the ''Rape Squad'' review, Jillian becomes a [[Phrase Catcher]] for it.
* [[Celebrity Endorsement]]: If "Brad Tries" hasn't left you dying to try a Crystal Pepsi just once, then nothing will.
** A Blu-Ray edition of ''[[A Clockwork Orange (
{{quote| '''Snob:''' Because when '''I''' watch near-future gang rape, [holds up DVD] I need that shit in HD.}}
* [[Child-Hater]]: The Snob cold opens his review of "Beware! Children At Play!" with the statement, "I hate kids." In fact, this isn't the first time he's said this: it goes all the way back to some of his first episodes. It is a particularly unfortunate sentiment given the movie's twist ending, though.
** He gets some hilarious [[Lampshade Hanging]] out of it.
{{quote| '''Snob:''' Oh, what? You're really surprised that the Cinema Snob doesn't like children? Am I really that big of a ball of sunshine? '''I'M GRUMPY!'''}}
* [[Christmas Episode]]: ''[[Don't Open Till Christmas]]'', ''[[Silent Night, Deadly Night]] Part 2'' and ''Elves''.
* [[Cluster F-Bomb]]: While The Cinema Snob (or any of Brad's scripted material) is more prone to [[Precision F-Strike|Precision F Strikes]], anything involving Brad simply going off the cuff (such as a Vlog) is all but guaranteed to result in at least one instance of these.
** Also, '''JAKE.'''
* [[Comically Missing the Point]]: After seeing Phelous hanging himself from the horror of ''Caligula'', the Snob wonders who turned the camera off.
** Also, on his [[Suburban Knights]] links have a plot summary of a movie atop it (in order: ''[[Weekend
** The fetus gag in ''Anthropophagus''.
** After receiving a VHS tape of the unsettlingly realistic [[Gorn|faux-snuff film]] ''Guinea Pig: The Devil's Experiment'' in the mail, the Snob reports it to the police... for [[Excuse Plot|having terrible scriptwriting and camerawork.]]
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** ''Island of Death'' ends up firmly in this territory by the end.
* [[Crossover]]: With other reviewers.
** Did a review of the film ''McBain'' with [[Bad Movie Beatdown
** He and the Nostalgia Critic did a review of the first ''[[Leprechaun (
** He makes another cameo in Nostalgia Critic's review of ''[[Jaws 3|Jaws 3D]]'' to discuss ''[[Manimal]]''.
** He and [[Obscurus Lupa]] did a review of [[The Asylum]]'s [[Mockbuster]] of ''Sherlock Holmes''.
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* [[Dead Baby Comedy]]: Subverted(!) in ''[[Las Vegas Bloodbath]]''. After a scene where a man kills a woman's unborn fetus, the Snob takes out a list of dead baby jokes, decides against telling them, and instead shows a clip of Jones' film ''Cheap.''
** Done literally in ''Antropophagous''. "I think it's expired."
* [[Deconstruction]]: One-off joke "Cinema Bum" being him dressed in the usual [[
* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: And he has such a great voice for it, too. Case in point from his ''Island of Death'' review, when he sees a character get brutally slaughtered with a knife and a gun, then another character says that they don't know how he died.
{{quote| '''Snob:''' If only the stab wounds and bullet holes had given us more clues!}}
* [[Deal
* [[Dear Negative Reader]]: Brad himself hasn't done this, but his review of "Grizzly II" was taken down due to a complaint by Suzanne Nagy, the film's producer. Her email (displayed on the former review's page) didn't seem to be concerned with Brad's right to review the film (it was never legally distributed, meaning that first amendment rights don't apply); instead, she showed anger at the Snob's trashing of the film, going so far as to refer to it as a "horrible review." Suzanne was a little upset. Of course, angry fans have made sure the review stays up on Youtube.
** Averted with ''Video Violence'':
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* [[Department of Redundancy Department]]:
{{quote| "If I want to watch a ''Terminator II'' movie, I'll watch ''real Terminator II'' movies like ''[[Terminator]] 2'', thank you very much."<br />
"I knew [[
"I would rather date a bipolar manic depressive... again."<br />
"I'm a snob who's so pretentious that I'm a snob ''during'' [[Le Film Artistique|something pretentious]]!"<br />
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*** Also, [[Diamanda Hagan]], whose choice of movies oddly echoes both the Snob's and [[Brows Held High|Oancitizen]]'s.
* [[Does Not Like Shoes]]: The Snob goes barefoot, or at least sockless-with-loafers, in every episode. Brad explains the reason for this in his Cannibal Holocaust review.
* [[Double Standard Rape (Female
* [[Drinking Game]]: [[In-Universe|He takes a sip]] every time a boom mic appears in ''[[Dolemite]]''.
* [[Dropped a Bridget On Him]]: The warden in ''Sadomania'' is a transsexual porn star.
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* [[Ear Worm]]: [[In-Universe|The Snob]] claims both the ''Porno Holocaust'' and ''Tortugas Pinjas'' themes are this.
* [[Eat That]]: Four words: Twenty year-old McDLT.
* [[Enforced Method Acting]]: The video on ''[[Twilight (
* [[Even Evil Has Standards|Even Snobs Have Standards]]: The Snob is generally portrayed as being okay with pretty much any sort of depravity, and doesn't even blink at scenes of sexual sadism, and yet anything involving children being hurt or abused gets a [[Dude, Not Funny]] reaction, especially since in character the Snob is a [[Child-Hater]].
** He also refused to joke about the real animal deaths in ''[[Cannibal Holocaust]]'', stating that there's limits on how sadistic a film can be, and that "there are some things that you ''just don't do.''"
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{{quote| "What? Don't take the spoon away! Now all we're left with is just a naked girl! And I see ''those'' every week! I ''rarely'' see a giant spoon!"}}
* [[Even the Girls Want Her]]: Brad accidentally putting his movie ahead of his wife's pick, ''Moment By Moment'', in the Netflix queue. Luckily, Jillian is game for it. "It's no Lily Tomlin's ass in the moonlight, but it'll do."
* [[Exiled to
** The third time, Brad pushes his luck [[Bullying a Dragon|a bit too far.]]
{{quote| '''Brad:''' Heh heh heh heh! What are you gonna do? [[Tempting Fate|Make me sleep at Jerrid's again?]]<br />
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** Spurred on by a scene in ''[[Caligula]]'', he pauses the review to do a brief ''Brad Tries'' where he drinks ''Human Blood'' (Well, allegedly anyway). His only complaint was that he was required to ''heat it up first.''
* [[Fan Boy]]: For Pierre Kirby and ''[[Manimal]]''.
** And for ''[[A Clockwork Orange (
* [[Fan Disservice]]: ''The Nudist Colony of the Dead'' review, during the [[Ear Worm]] sequence the Snob runs out onto his deck butt-naked. This later gets a [[Continuity Nod]] in the form of a reference to "that incident on the porch".
* [[Fan Service]]: Let's just say that in general, Brad never misses an opportunity to remind us that his wife has a killer rack. Like, ''never''.
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* [[Flat What]]: When he found out there was a ''Caligula part 2''.
* [[Follow the Leader]]: ''Brad Tries...'' has spawned many imitators, many of them fellow TGWTG reviewers. Even though LordKat was actually the first to do these tasting style shows on the site, he didn't make it a regular feature like Brad did.
* [[Food Slap]]: Jillian tries to review ''Twilight: Breaking Dawn'', but Brian and Brad keep pelting her with concession snacks (and later, [[Pie in
{{quote| '''"APPLESAUSE, [[This Is for Emphasis, Bitch|BEEYAATCH!!]]"''' }}
* [[Foreshadowing]]: He jokes that on any lines involving eating shit in ''[[Pink Flamingos]]''.
* [[Fourth Wall Mail Slot]]: A viewer writes to express concerns about the Snob telling his audience to call their girlfriend a "hot pussied little whore."
{{quote| '''Snob:''' Well, there's your problem. You [[Schmuck Bait|gotta pay them]] before you call them a hot pussied little whore!}}
* [[Freeze
* [[Fridge Logic]]: "If Hell is for Heroes, does that mean Heaven is for Villains?"
* [[Funny Background Event]]: His cats often pop onscreen unexpectedly.
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** At the end of the Rock: It's Your Decision review, Brad describes just how messed up the movie was & how it pretty much detailed the utter ruination of the main character as he is brainwashed. As he states that he is sure that, ten years later, the main character would hang himself, Lloyd picked that '''EXACT''' moment to jump up onto the couch as Brad smiles.
** In one episode, Lloyd starts meowing quite loudly off-screen, to which Brad reacts by assuring the cat they will drink the drink, which shuts the cat up.
** In the ''Hilter: Dead or Alive'' review, [[The Nostalgia Critic
** In "Brad Tries The Canwich And Super Rooster Booster", Lloyd pops on the table to take a sniff at some breadcrumbs, meows while Brad and Brian try the energy drink ("I think Lloyd wants some") and then when they show off the crumby mess the Canwich made, Lloyd lurks around before hopping on the couch to take a peek out the window.
* [[Fun
* [[Gag Penis]]: In an alternate reality, he's the world's greatest porn star for very obvious reasons.
{{quote| '''[[
'''Guardian Angel:''' How does he fit that into his pants!? }}
** The real world isn't far off, as he complains about an unwanted erection in ''The Gestapo's Last Orgy''. For emphasis, Brad knocks on the ''middle of his shirt'' while winking.
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* [[Godwin's Law]]: Invoked at the end of ''They Saved Hitler's Brain''. "You know, that law that says if you compare something to Nazis, you lose the argument. I guess that means "They Saved Hitler's Brain" is ''good'' now. ''(bitter laugh)'' Well, '''son of a bitch'''.
* [[Gone Horribly Right]]: After seeing it used in ''Cannibal Ferox'', the Snob decides to see what would happen if he called his wife a "hot-pussied little whore". [[Coitus Ensues]].
* [[A Good Name for
* [[Gorn]]: A few of the films he reviews. On ''Pieces'' he even snarks about blip.tv's censorship policies, as he only needs to censors [[Nipple-and-Dimed|breasts]] instead of the bloody mess that is the scene...
* [[Groin Attack]]: While watching ''Rape Squad'' with Mrs. Snob, the Snob [[Share the Male Pain|visibly recoils]] each time one of the girls takes a stick to a training dummy's crotch.
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** Likewise, for ''Dracula: The Dirty Old Man'':
{{quote| '''Snob''': Ha ha ha ha -- he murdered two people! }}
** During the ''[[Heil Honey I'm Home
{{quote| '''Hitler''': I've been a very very bad Hitler! ''[slaps his wrist]''<br />
'''Brad''': Ha ha ha ha...because he killed millions of people! }}
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* [[Hard Work Montage]]: Insert homemade montage for ''Strike of the Panther''.
* [[Harsher in Hindsight]]: [[In-Universe]], the ''very first words'' of the "Beware! Children at Play" review are "I hate children." (Which isn't a new fact, if you've watched enough Snob episodes). The last scene of the film {{spoiler|is a good 5 minutes of the mob '''murdering the children in various ways'''}}. The Snob is stunned to silence and proceeds to {{spoiler|order a bucket that he throws up into}}.
* [[Hey, That's My Line!]]: A variation, during his review of ''Dracula (The Dirty Old Man)''.
{{quote| '''Alucard:''' I wonder how come her hair's moving in this cave. That's strange. Nothing else is moving.\\'''Snob:''' Uh, that's my job to point that shit out, not yours. Go back to acting in your shitty movie!}}
** Inevitably happens during a crossover with Oancitizen.
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** From Snob's actual reviews, ''Dracula (The Dirty Old Man)'' is a notable example. Snob gets especially frustrated when a character who is clearly supposed to have lines winds up completely mute.
* [[Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday]]: "There are horror movies to go along with every fucking holiday, aren't there?"
* [[Hostile Show Takeover]]: In his review of ''[[Twilight (
** Jake threatens one, when they joke about booby-trapping his house to make him think it's haunted after watching [[Paranormal Activity]].
{{quote| '''Brad''' Wasn't us, man. It was a ghost.. I've got way too much porn to watch to be doing that shit.<br />
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* [[I Have Many Names]]: Brad had reason to suspect ''Zombi 7'' was added to IMDB as an alternate title specifically in the hope he'd review it.
** It doesn't help that he then [[Tempting Fate|sarcastingly claimed that months from then he would be reviewing]] ''Night Of The Seagulls'' because someone would attach the title ''Zombi 8'' to it on IMDB. [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0073461/releaseinfo#akas Which apparently someone did.]
* [[If I Wanted
* [[Inherently Funny Words]]: "Yeti, n. 1. A mythical large furry humanoid said to inhabit the Himalayas. 2. One of the funniest damn words ever (See also "buggery")."
* [[In Name Only]]: ''The Gestapo's Last Orgy'' seems to have an alternate title of "Caligula Reincarnated as Hitler" despite having nothing to do with Caligula, Hitler, reincarnation, or [[It Makes Sense in Context|even the word "as"]].
* [[Insult Backfire]]: Brad loved ''Tron: Legacy'', so when [[The Spoony Experiment
{{quote| '''Brad:''' I know, I know, I'm easily amused and have no standards. It's true. *Smiles coyly*<br />
'''Snob:''' *Puts paper down* Pfht, whatever, I hated this fuckin' movie! *Puts paper back up* No fucking sense... }}
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** His DVD-R Hell review of ''[[Clueless Aesop|Rock: It's Your Decision]]''.
{{quote| "Aww!! The Captain & Tennille is a sin now, too?! Calling The Captain & Tennille a "sin" is a '''sin''' against the word '''sin'''!"}}
* [[Irony
* [[It Is Pronounced "Tro-PAY"|It is Prounounced Bruno Ma-TAY]]: not Bruno Ma-TIE.
* [[I Wished You Were Dead]]: At the end of ''Beware: Children at play'' when the parents surround the kidnapped and brainwashed children the Snob shouts the kids are clearly evil and should be killed. When the parents proceed to do just that for the last 5 minutes of the movie, [[Delayed Reaction|the Snob goes to his computer, places an order on e-Bay, waits for it to arive, unpacks his new plastic bucket and pukes in it]]. Then he shouts "I was fucking kiding!"
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* [[Jerkass]]: The Snob. He fires guns wildly into the air, beats up TV personalities for discussing movies he hates, and abuses Film Brain for being young.
* [[Kindhearted Cat Lover]]: Brad himself.
* [[Leaning
{{quote| '''Brad:''' As long as you just ''think'' about the reference, it'll magically happen in the movie. }}
* [[Leave the Camera Running]]: ''The Astro-Zombies''.
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** There's also the review of Troll 4 he did with Phelous that is half cameos, half Snob and Phelous making things up.
** He was also a kickass [[Indiana Jones]] during ''[[Suburban Knights]]'', even wearing the outfit on the train into Chicago for the filming.
** "A Very Inappropriate 80s Dan Christmas" is a crossover between [[Talking to Himself|80s Dan, The Cinema Snob, and Kung Tai Ted]], with [[Mythology Gag|nods to]] ''The Big Box'' and ''[[Hooker
* [[Mean Character, Nice Actor]]: The real Brad Jones is very gracious towards his fans and generally seems like a nice person, and frequently does reviews as himself, instead of being in-character as The Cinema Snob. Much of the time, it's easy to mistake the Snob's opinions as Brad's own, even though the Snob himself is an exaggerated [[Caustic Critic]], and Brad frequently finds himself writing hateful reviews for movies he actually likes.
** Brad specifically mentions that "Snobbing" his favourite movie of all time, ''[[Caligula]]'', was particularly heartbreaking.
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* [[My Friends and Zoidberg]]: When describing the new ''[[The Expendables|Expendables]]'' movie:
{{quote| '''Brad:''' A movie that contains the legendary action heroes of our youth, along with the best action heroes of current cinema. And [[Stone Cold Steve Austin|Steve Austin]].}}
* [[My Significance Sense Is Tingling]]: Snob's "Snob Senses" started tingling when [[Atop the Fourth Wall
* [[Name McAdjective]]: He called an actor in ''Weasels Rip My Flesh'' "Steve McSeventies".
** ''Hitler: Dead or Alive:'' "You wanna know my name? It's '''[[Luke Nounverber|Frankie Überchop!]]'''"
** He called a female character in ''[[Home Sweet Home (
** The headliner victim in ''Cannibal Ferox'', "Impaled McTitties."
** Saucy McProbablyhasnudityinhercontract (''Mother's Day'' 2010)
* [[Narm]]: Referenced.
{{quote| "This is the funniest scene in the movie. It's not ''supposed'' to be."}}
* [[Narrowed It Down to
* [[Nausea Fuel]]: The very ''concept'' of ''Turkish [[Salo Or The 120 Days Of Sodom|Salo]]'' [[In-Universe|to the Snob]].
** The ending of Beware! Children At Play literally caused [[In
* [[Nerdgasm]]: Or snobgasm in this case. Snob mentions how inappropriate it would be to watch an [[Orson Welles]] movie and ''not'' have an orgasm.
* [[Never the Selves Shall Meet]]: What happens when Brad and the Snob cross paths in a Lupa review. (The Snob survives.)
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{{quote| "Interesting. I forgot the DVD I had was the limited [[Stock Sound Effects|glass case edition]]."}}
* [[Offscreen Teleportation]]: In the review of ''Rape Squad'', Lloyd the cat disappears from Jillian's lap between cuts, and Brad seems to be the only one of the two who notices.
* [[Old Shame]]: [[Family Ties|Justine]] and [[Arrested Development (TV series)|Jason Bateman]] co-starring in a sex ed video.
{{quote| '''Snob:''' This is awkward for '''me''', and I'm not even related to you!}}
** Ted Danson comes off fairly well, at least until the editing starts making him stammer like [[Max Headroom]].
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* [[Overly Narrow Superlative]]: ''Elves'', "the world's only Christmas-Elf-Incest-Nazi-Occult film."
** ''Abraham Lincoln Vs Zombies'' is the best Zombie-Confederates movie.
* [[Ow, My Body Part]]: Mrs. Crabtree on Christmas: "OW MY ASS!" (Don't ask.)
* [[Parallel Porn Titles]]:
** Commented on in his review of ''E.T.: The Porno'', where he suggests ''Dr. Buttlove, or: How I Learned To Stop Clenching and Love the Plug''.
** "Some of the more ''hilarious'' of these silicone-injected titles include ''[[Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
** [[Ass Shove|The Enema Snob.]]
** When reviewing a Sasquatch porno called ''The Geek'', he despaired that "not only would 'Sascrotch' be a better title, but it would be an ''amazing'' title!"
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** ''The Cinema Snob'' - ''[[The Greatest American Hero]]'', of all things.
*** "Jet Set" by [[Alphaville]] for the [[Pierre Kirby]] episodes.
** ''Kung Tai Ted'' - ''[[Master Ninja|The Master]]'' (but ''not'' [[
** ''The Big Box'' - ''[[
** ''Brad Tries...'' - ''[[Newhart]]''
** ''80's Dan'' - Probably the most obscure of all, this one is from a [[James D Parriot]]/[[Universal]] cop show called ''Hawaiian Heat''. It ran on [[ABC]] in 1984 and flopped horribly.
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** The ''[[Manimal]]'' theme is Brad's personal theme song, complete with the "Manimal!" and panther growl.
** Lloyd's theme music is the goofy Troll music from ''Troll 3'' (the Ator sequel). Yes, the cat has a theme song.
* [[Remember the New Guy?]]: 80s Dan, in the ''Caligula'' review. [[Zig
* [[Reviews Are the Gospel]]: He says the probable reason ''[[Pink Flamingos]]'' was requested so much was [[Roger Ebert]]'s [[Broke the Rating Scale|zero star]] review. Then he sees other zero star movies:
{{quote| "''[[Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead]]''? I like that! Guess I have to hate it now!}}
* [[Ruined FOREVER]]: ''Rape Squad'' manages to ruin Christmas for Jillian.
{{quote| '''Brad:''' Way past you on ''that''. [[Silent Night, Deadly Night|Garbage day]] and Nazi elves ruined it for me.}}
* [[Rule 34]]: "Thanks, Rule 34-sploitation!" in reference to ''Beaver and Buttface''.
* [[Rule of Three]]: The Top 3 rules in his "How to be a Cinema Snob" handbook: 1) Your favorite movie must be ''[[
* [[Running Gag]]: Team Snob casually slamming ''[[Priest (
** Attempting to end review early by saying "One of these days, I'm going to get that [villain]", then cutting to the credits, a la ''The Geek''.
** If this movie doesn't end with [reference to another, similar film], I'm gonna be pissed!
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* [[Shallow Parody]]: [[In-Universe|His other main complaint]] with ''Super Hornio Bros'', specifically when Porno Mario is called "Squeegee" and Porno Luigi is "Ornio".
* [[Sharp-Dressed Man]]: The Snob, though Brad frequently wears suits in real life too. He once filmed a vlog after going to a water park with friends wearing a t-shirt, a bathing suit, and his suit jacket.
** It is said that Brad modeled his distinctive sense of style on his idol, [[George Lazenby]]. According to [[The Spoony Experiment
* [[Shout-Out]]: Quite a few of them to ''[[
{{quote| '''Snob:''' Our heroes, ladies and gentlemen.}}
** He does a whole ton of references to ''A Clockwork Orange'' in his review of the porn spoof, ''A Clockwork Orgy''.
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** 80s Dan's insistence that his jacket [[Insistent Terminology|isn't white.]] "It's '''[[Miami Vice|Crockett.]]'''"
** In the ''Blood Feast'' review, he says that a group of men in dress shirts and ties are [[Mad Men|trying to come up with an ad campaign for Lucky Strike cigarettes]].
** At the start of his ''[[Ax 'Em]]'' review, on discovering that it ''does'' fit his cutoff date, the Snob runs outside and reenacts the notorious "Oh, God, oh, man" sequence from ''[[Tough Guys Dont Dance]]''.
** The title card for "Brad Tries Beaver" has [[The Angry Beavers|Norbert and Daggett]].
* [[Show Within a Show]]: ''The Big Box'', ''Kung Tai Ted'' and ''Softly From Cable'' are TV shows in The Cinema Snob's universe.
* [[Smart People Wear Glasses]]: It's not unusual for Brad to remove his glasses and then replace them with his larger Snob glasses. It's also the only thing he does in the [[Lock and Load Montage]] scene in [[Kickassia]].
* [[Soundtrack Dissonance]]: Given that the Snob tends to review exploitation films, his delightfully upbeat theme song often plays over images of horrific violence. One episode actually opened with the Snob questioning "[[Lampshade Hanging|why is my theme song so fucking happy]]?"
** Also done in homage to ''[[A Clockwork Orange (
** In ''[[Caligula]]'', when the title character makes his pregnant wife dance for his horse, the music gets overdubbed with the theme from ''[[Mr. Ed]]''.
** The Snob doesn't quite know what to make of the tender piano score played over the necrophilia scenes in ''Nekromantik.''
** Lampshaded again with ''Cannibal Ferox'''s funk soundtrack. "No. ''No''. I'm not in the mood for the music. I'm fucking ''pissed off''!" ''(starts [[Hypocritical Humor|bobbing his head]] to the beat)''
** He gets so fed up with it in ''[[The Last House
{{quote| '''Jillian:''' [[Inadvertent Entrance Cue|I have terrible news!]] My great-grandma passed away!<br />
''(cut to Brad [[Walk Like an Egyptian|walking like an Egyptian]] [[Naked People Are Funny|in the buff]] to kazoo music)'' }}
* [[Speak in Unison]]: Brad and Jillian share a drawn out, bored ''"Really?"'' when a character [[Broken Heel|breaks her heel]]. And then they share a kiss. Too cute.
* [[Special Effect Failure]]: [[In-Universe|Calls many of them out]], such as the ''Brutes and Savages'' crocodile death where a tribesman is killed by a hand puppet in a pool that's supposed to be a river in Africa.
* [[Spin-Off]]: ''[[
* [[Spoof Aesop]]: ''[sigh]'' Let this be a lesson to you on campus. If you see a tracksuit-wearing Chinaman, he WILL attack you. [[All Asians Are Alike|And mispronounce his L's]]. Because he had "bad chop suey". Could that have been '''any more''' out of nowhere?!" (''"Pieces"'')
** Subverted immediately by Kung Tai Ted materializing out of nowhere and punching the Snob.
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** ''[[Mr. T]]: Be Somebody or Be Somebody's Fool'' has such gems as, "If you have a gold allergy, best go home because you can't be anybody, much less ''some''body", "When you forget your pants, just take off ''more'' clothes!", and "Maybe I, too, can one day star in my own tampon commercial".
** ''[[Bibleman]]'': "If you get in danger, do ''nothing'', and God will smite [[The Spoony Experiment|Dr. Insano]]."
* [[The Stinger]]: In a tradition borrowed from [[
* [[Squee]]: This was the Snob's reaction to finding that there was another Pierre Kirby movie that he had not seen.
** Also, when he realizes that ''Extra-Terrestrial Visitors'' is actually ''[[Pod People]]'', his favorite [[
* [[Squick]]: [[In-Universe|His reaction]] to finding out the lead actress of ''Crazy Fat Ethel'' had been in a Seventies porno was just him saying "No" repeatedly while running away.
** Two words: "Child Bride". Not since ''A Serbian Film'' had Cinema Snob felt uneasy in reviewing a movie.
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* [[Stable Time Loop]]: In [http://thecinemasnob.com/2010/05/09/video-violence-2.aspx Brad's review of Video Violence 2,] he gets a call from {{spoiler|the Cinema Snob of 2007 that just reviewed Video Violence 1, warning him not to review the second movie. During the call, 2010 Snob inspires 2007 Snob to review another movie, suggested changes to his show, and reminds 2007 Snob to appreciate his DVD collection, since some time between 2007 and 2010 [[Real Life Writes the Plot|his DVD collection was, in fact, stolen]]}}.
* [[Stealth Parody]]: If you were to watch a typical ''Cinema Snob'' review uninitiated, you would have no idea it was a parody. Perhaps for this reason, he's started doing out-of-character intros to his more recent reviews.
* [[Straw Fan]]: Has a letter-writing one that shows up occasionally. It's unknown if he's related to [[The Nostalgia Critic
* [[Stunned Silence]]: The Snob's first response to "Virginia" in ''Chatter Box.''
** Brad (not playing a character) does this when [[Winnie the Pooh]] starts talking about child molestation with Piglet in the [[Too Smart for Strangers]] special.
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* [[Suckiness Is Painful]]: '''Nukie'''.
** By the end of "E.T. Week", he opens a broken DVD case and is disappointed when the plastic doesn't pierce his carotid artery.
* [[Suspiciously Specific Denial]]: Under no circumstances should it ever be assumed, for any reason, that the Cinema Snob owns a copy of ''[[Weekend
** The heroine of ''Elves'' to her cat: "You're the only friend I have left!" Cut to a meaningful glance at Lloyd.
{{quote| '''Snob:''' Pfft. Whatever. I have friends! This movie isn't... speaking to me in a weird way.}}
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* [[Talk Like a Pirate]]: Brad starts off his "DVR Hell" series this way, then decides he's not going to host the series as a character, but as himself, and takes off the eyepatch.
* [[Take a Third Option]]: "So, which one is better, ''Billy the Kid vs. Dracula'' or ''Jesse James Meets Frankenstein's Daughter''? That's easy! The answer is ''[[The Searchers]]''!" (he admits the former is somewhat better)
* [[Take That]]: Numerous examples. Favored targets: [[Eli Roth]], [[M. Night Shyamalan]], ''[[Boondock Saints]]'', reality television, [[Michael Bay]], ''[[Ishtar]]'' and cameras that record to VHS (aka "Shot on Shiteo").
** "At least ''this'' [[Pink Flamingos|pink flamingo]] is funnier than the one in ''[[Gnomeo and Juliet]]''."
** In the Top Ten Cinema Snob Moments of 2011, he gives one to [[Family Guy|Family Guy's]] habit of having a character waste two minutes of every episode by repeatedly doing a mundane action.
{{quote| '''Cinema Snob''': ''(After spending two minutes trying and failing to pick up a cardboard box)'' ....THIS ISN'T FUNNY!}}
** ''Rape Squad:''
{{quote| '''Jillian:''' I thought snobs ''like [[Scream (
'''Snob:''' Even I have my limits. }}
** Joseph Lai updated his title card with some sweet John Williams.
{{quote| "Phew. Don't scare me like that; I thought this was [[Star Wars the Phantom Menace|Episode One]]. Thank god it's ''[[Godfrey Ho Ninja Movies|Ninja Terminator]]''.}}
** "And [Nukie] is a lot shittier than ''Mac and Me'', so I'm guessing it was endorsed by Hardee's."
** Given that [[Roger Ebert|Ebert]] gave ''[[I Spit
{{quote| '''Snob:''' ''Wait''. Roger's my guy. I think can spin this. ''(beat)'' I guess the addition of comic relief involving cake-making and camera-mugging, plus two bumbling cops falling off of a chicken truck and getting harassed by hippies, makes the 3½ star difference in your dark and sadistic rape revenge movie. }}
** "For historical context, [''Tromeo & Juliet''] was made at a time when [[Jim Carrey]] was considered funny."
** Playing [[
* [[Tempting Fate]]:
** Sure to happen any time a movie he reviews has a sequel. [[Lampshaded]] in the review for ''[[Troll 2|Troll 3]]'', where he declares there's absolutely no chance whatsoever that there could possibly be another ''Troll'' sequel out there and he's definitely not jinxing himself. [[Captain Obvious|He's wrong.]]
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** The Snob's main complaint about ''Super Hornio Brothers''.
** When talking about The Asylum's ''Titanic II'', Brad starts talking about how a glacier melting was the catalyst for the ship sinking. At this point, he realises that was how ''[[Mega Shark vs. Giant Octopus]]'' started, so the films could take place in the same universe. He immediately laments that they should have had the shark sink the Titanic II.
* [[Took the Bad Film Seriously]]: John Carradine in ''Billy the Kid Versus Dracula'', as the Snob lampshaded [[In
* [[Totally Radical]]: How he refers to the "Tubular Corporation" from ''Bruno Mattei's Terminator 2''.
* [[Trapped in TV Land]]: "How is my real life taking place in a world of ''[[Jump Cut|shitty editing]]''?!"
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* [[Visual Pun]]: In ''Porno Holocaust'': "What else can't I show you in this review? This (picture of [[Looney Tunes|Sylvester]]), this (Dick Sargeant) and this (a donkey).
** He spends his ''Bat Pussy'' review wearing a horse head. His first line in the mask: "I hope my voice doesn't go hoarse!"
* [[Vocal Dissonance]]: Brad is a short man (watch his crossover videos with [[Atop the Fourth Wall
* [[Vocal Evolution]]: The Snob started out much more monotonous, and indulged more frequently in [[Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness]]. Since then, he's fallen more along the lines of a textbook [[Caustic Critic]].
{{quote| Hmmm. Guess it wasn't ''Kafka'' enough for me.}}
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