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[[File:SuburbanKnights_6323.jpg|frame|"Okay, you all look epically ridiculous. Now this is the kind of team that's gonna get us riches!" <ref>The smudges are [http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20110707021038/thatguywiththeglasses/images/thumb/2/26/3year.jpg/607px-3year.jpg autographs]. Left to right, top row: [[Dark Maze Studios|Ed Glaser]], [[Todd in the Shadows]], [[Paw Dugan]], [[Atop the Fourth Wall|Linkara]], [[Phelous]], [[That Dude in the Suede]], [[The Game Heroes|Handsome Tom]], [[Jew Wario]], [[Marz Gurl]], [[Bennett the Sage]]. Bottom row: Holly Brown (TGWTG showrunner), [[Obscurus Lupa]], [[The Angry Joe Show|Angry Joe]], [[Benzaie]], [[The Spoony Experiment|The Spoony One]], [[The Nostalgia Chick]], [[The Nostalgia Critic]], [[The Cinema Snob]], [[Captain Planet|Ma-Ti]] (Bhargo), [[Luke Mochrie and The Inners|Luke Mochrie]], [[Bad Movie Beatdown|Film Brain]], [[The Game Heroes|8-Bit Mickey]], That Other Guy (Rob Walker).</ref>]]
 
 
{{quote|''Names will be remembered. Quests will become legends. And legends will become... [[Shaped Like Itself|legendary]].''}}
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It is an adventure-comedy about [[The Nostalgia Critic]], like [[Kickassia|last time]], gathering a ton of reviewers and leading them into going on a quest. But this time, it is for a legendary gauntlet that is hidden somewhere in suburban Illinois, and according to the map, they must all dress up as famous fictional characters in order to find it.<ref>[[Suspiciously Specific Denial|Not LARPing, though. That's something completely different that only dorks do. That's totally not what this is.]]</ref> Real villains start showing up to stop their plans, and they discover that [[And You Thought It Was a Game|this isn't so much a "game" as they had first assumed!]]
 
The [https://web.archive.org/web/20130801031236/http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/videolinks/thatguywiththeglasses/specials/31222-the-third-year-anniversary-teaser teaser] is here, [https://web.archive.org/web/20131023012559/http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/videolinks/thatguywiththeglasses/specials/31413-suburban-knights-full-trailer the full trailer here.]
 
* Part 1 can be found [https://web.archive.org/web/20110628150809/http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/videolinks/thatguywiththeglasses/specials/31491-suburban-knights-part-1 here.]
* Part 2 can be found [https://web.archive.org/web/20130925061435/http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/videolinks/thatguywiththeglasses/nostalgia-critic/31499-suburban-knights-part-2 here.]
* Part 3 can be found [https://web.archive.org/web/20130925020243/http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/videolinks/thatguywiththeglasses/nostalgia-critic/31511-suburban-knights-part-3 here.]
* Part 4 can be found [https://web.archive.org/web/20130925113445/http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/videolinks/thatguywiththeglasses/nostalgia-critic/31517-suburban-knights-part-4 here.]
* Part 5 can be found [https://web.archive.org/web/20130924224539/http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/videolinks/thatguywiththeglasses/nostalgia-critic/31529-suburban-knights-part-5 here.]
* Part 6 can be found [https://web.archive.org/web/20130925022310/http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/videolinks/thatguywiththeglasses/nostalgia-critic/31543-suburban-knights-part-6 here.]
* Part 7 can be found [https://web.archive.org/web/20130925052202/http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/videolinks/thatguywiththeglasses/nostalgia-critic/31557-suburban-knights-part-7 here.]
 
Commentaries were also provided, by [[The Spoony Experiment|The Spoony One]] [https://web.archive.org/web/20131118075252/http://spoonyexperiment.com/category/channel-awesome/suburban-knights/ and friends],[[Atop the Fourth Wall|Linkara/Iron Liz]] [http://atopfourthwall.blogspot.com/search/label/commentary as well] and [http://phelous.com/node/791 one] by [[Phelous|Phelan]] and [[The Cinema Snob|Brad]]. (Doug and Rob's one is exclusive to the DVD release) <ref>Show runner Holly Brown also joined [[Chaos D 1]], [[Welshy]], [[Brows Held High]]'s Oancitizen, [[The Rap Critic]] [[Forget About It]]'s Sad Panda, and [[Diamanda Hagan]] in [https://web.archive.org/web/20130731061020/http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/videolinks/thatguywiththeglasses/specials/34066-suburban-knights-the-absentee-commentary a joke "absentee commentary"]</ref>
 
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== A-H ==
* [[Abandoned Playground]]: "A worthy place to call our battlefield!" Though it turns out to be not quite abandoned, as a mother comes with her daughter.
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'''Everyone else''': '''''SHUT UP!!!''''' }}
* [[Bilingual Bonus]]:
** Instead of actual [[The Lord of the Rings|Elvish]], the Nostalgia Chick speaks [[Gratuitous Foreign Language|a mixture of several foreign languages]], such as Hindi and Irish. What she's actually saying doesn't match up to the subtitles. For instance, when she says "Póg mo thóin" (Irish) in response to Benzaie's Conan speech, it's subtitled as "It's cool," but she's actually saying "Kiss my ass."
*** Averted, one line she speaks is English and is [[Waxing Lyrical|a lyric from]] "One Week" by Barenaked Ladies.
*** She misquotes the BNL line (Chikiti China, not Chikiti Chinese), though. And at another point, she utters "who's your daddy" over and over real fast.
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*** And no one besides Film Brain and Luke are happy when The Critic tricks them into going to Chicago.
*** [[The Angry Video Game Nerd]] has a cameo in both to provide exposition and does not take part in the actual filming, although {{spoiler|he does get to voice the ball of light during the fight at the end}}.
** The reaction of the female reviewers to [[Jew Wario]]'s costume is a [[Shout-Out]] to [https://web.archive.org/web/20130731125733/http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/videolinks/thedudette/nostalgia-chick/5570-labyrinth Lindsay's] and [https://web.archive.org/web/20130608062001/http://www.blisteredthumbs.net/2011/03/ycpt-3-20-labyrinth-famicom/ Jew Wario's] reviews of ''[[Labyrinth]]''. In the former, she warns that she'll be paying a lot off attention to "the Area" (Just look at her quote on the trope page); the latter had a scene where several female contributors swooned over Jareth.
** The "EPICNESS!!!!!!!" tape features a nod to both Doug's GNN/Lori Prince Live sketch, and Spoony's ''[[Mazes and Monsters]]'' review; specifically the film's [[Broken Aesop]] that games like ''[[Dungeons & Dragons]]'' ruin lives and Spoony's reaction.
** The Nostalgia Critic again brings up Chick-fil-A's policy of being closed on Sundays.
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* [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin]]: The Cloaks.
* [[Expy]]: GNN newscaster Larry Prince in the "EPICNESS!!!!" video is one of Lori Prince, one of Doug Walker's past sketch characters, who himself is an [[Expy]] of Larry King.
* [[Exposed to the Elements]]: It was cold and windy. Benzaie makes it clear in [https://web.archive.org/web/20130731125744/http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/videolinks/thatguywiththeglasses/specials/31605-a-frog-in-chicago-again his vlog] that it was hard to remain shirtless, and Lupa put on her leather jacket between takes to remain warm [[Throw It In|(said jacket was even incorporated in a battle)]]. Also, nearly everyone got sunburn.
* [[Eye Poke]]: During the first fight against the Cloaks, Brad pokes a Cloak in the eyes and runs away.
* [[Fan Service]]:
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** Linkara reveals that in one of his reviews {{spoiler|he sings [[Grief Song|Ma-Ti's song.]]}}
* [[Foe Yay]]: Film Brain and Luke Mochrie. Despite having spent the previous three parts fighting over the Critic's affections, they spend a significant portion of Part 4 holding hands. [[Crowning Moment of Heartwarming|Doing so to speak to a mystical stone phantom, perhaps, but holding hands nonetheless.]] After Part 5, they start getting along.
* [[Freeze-Frame Bonus]]: The entire map is visible for just a split second in Part 4. Besides the stuff that gets mentioned in the dialogue and a few more ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]'' references, the map also appears to mark the location of Jimmy Hoffa's body.
* [[The Fun in Funeral]]: Leave it to the good folks at [[Channel Awesome]] to inject a little bit of humor into something as depressing as {{spoiler|Ma-Ti}}'s death. {{spoiler|Ma-Ti is cremated by Todd and his ashes are poured into an Quaker Oats oatmeal canister (8-Bit Mickey comments that they should've used a Pop-Tarts box instead), and Tom chucks the thing god-knows-where while Paw plays "Amazing Grace" on the kazoo.}}
* [[Funny Background Event]]: When Crom is talking to Benzaie in Part 6, both Critic and Jaffers chase each other with the latter's sword, while Phelous fights a Cloak's sword barehanded.
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** The end of Part 6. They're victorious and have found the gauntlet, but then everything goes silent and they all get an [[Oh Crap]] look on their faces: {{spoiler|Malachite is right across the road}}.
* [[Mr. Fanservice]]: Critic and Benzaie due to the [[Stripperific]] nature of their costumes and [[Jew Wario]] for playing a [[Memetic Sex God]]. With the weather being the way it was, the former two regretted wearing so little.
* [[Music Video]]: For Sad Panda's song [https://web.archive.org/web/20130925025016/http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/videolinks/teamt/sadpanda/spmusicvideotheater/31584-suburban-knights-music-video "Flights of Fantasy"], which plays over the closing credits. '''''WARNING: VIDEO CONTAINS SPOILERS!'''''
* [[Musicalis Interruptus]]: Linkara keeps trying to sing in Part 2, but everybody tells him to knock it off. His efforts in Part 3 go just as well. He's interrupted yet again in Part 7, {{spoiler|but is finally allowed a whole song when he argues that he didn't even get a story arc, though his acting ability may have made up for it}}.
* [[Nakama]]: Out of verse, as always. But even in verse, they become this. They're still assy and snarky, but they stand together and comfort each other when one gets upset or hurt.
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* [[Snipe Hunt]]: How the Critic keeps stopping Ma-Ti from joining them, ranging from protecting non-existent children and elderly to finding goat porn.
** Lampshaded in Part 5, along with [[What Kind of Lame Power Is Heart, Anyway?]].
* [[Solemn Ending Theme]]: Sad Panda's song "[https://web.archive.org/web/20130925025016/http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/videolinks/teamt/sadpanda/spmusicvideotheater/31584-suburban-knights-music-video Flight of Fantasy]".
* [[Special Effects Failure]]: "Cat" is obviously a puppet. {{spoiler|Justified when Cat turns out to be a ''in-universe'' puppet.}}
** Jaffers and the Cloaks had some awfully wobbly swords for their supposed lethality. Just sayin'.