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{{quote|''"[[Catch Phrase|Hello, I'm the Nostalgia Critic. I remember it so you don't have to.]]"''|'''[[The Nostalgia Critic]]'''}}
[[Doug Walker]] is '''
{{quote|'''[[Keanu Reeves|Neo]]:''' [[Dull Surprise|Whoa]].}}
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Please restrict examples from the following shows to their respective pages, unless they're from non-anniversary special crossover videos.
* [[That Guy With the Glasses/That Guy With the Glasses Index|That Guy With the Glasses Index]] (works spoofed/reviewed by these people)▼
'''Subpages and Related Pages:'''
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** ''[[Bum Reviews]]''
** ''Demo Reel''
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* ''[[The Angry Joe Show]]'' (Angry Joe)▼
* ''Ask Lovecraft''▼
* ''Awesome Comics''▼
* ''[[Awesome Video Games]]'' (Fraser)▼
** ''[[Video Games Awesome]]'' (Fraser)▼
* ''[[Bennett the Sage]]''▼
* ''Blood Spattered Cinema'' (The Horror Guru)▼
* ''Brandons Cult Movie Reviews'' (Brandon Tenold)▼
* ''Chris Stuckmann''▼
* ''[[The Blockbuster Buster]]'' (ERod)▼
* ''[[The Cinema Snob]]''
** ''[[80's Dan]]''
** ''[[The Hooker with a Heart of Gold]]''
* [[Guru Larry and Wez|Guru Larry]]▼
* ''The Dom Reviews''▼
* ''Dtoons''▼
** ''Toons These Days''▼
▲* [[Guru Larry and Wez]]
* [[The Last Angry Geek]] (''Comic Book Issues'')▼
* [[Lee and Dena]] (''Still Gaming'' & ''The Game Den'')▼
* ''Rocked Reviews''▼
* ''Some Jerk with a Camera''▼
▲* [[That Guy With the Glasses Index]] (works spoofed/reviewed by these people)
* ''[[What The Fuck Is Wrong With You?]]'' (Nash)▼
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* ''[[Apollo Z Hack]]''
▲* ''[[The Angry Joe Show]]'' (Angry Joe)
* ''Animerica'' (Fox Catcher and Phoenix)
▲* ''Ask Lovecraft''
* ''[[Atop the Fourth Wall]]'' (Linkara)
** ''[[History of Power Rangers]]'' (Side-series)
▲* ''Awesome Comics''
▲* ''[[Awesome Video Games]]'' (Fraser)
▲** ''[[Video Games Awesome]]'' (Fraser)
* ''[[Bad Movie Beatdown]]'' (Film Brain)
** ''Projector''
* Bargain Boy
* Battle Geek Plus
* [[Benzaie]]
▲* ''[[The Blockbuster Buster]]'' (ERod)
▲* ''Blood Spattered Cinema'' (The Horror Guru)
▲* ''Brandons Cult Movie Reviews'' (Brandon Tenold)
* ''[[Brows Held High]]''
* [[
* ''[[Clan of the Gray Wolf]]''▼
* Count Jackula
* ''[[Dark Maze Studios]]''
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** ''[[Ninja the Mission Force]]''
** ''[[Press Start]] Adventures''
** ''[[
** ''[[Space Ninja]]''
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* [[The Amazing Atheist|Distressed Watcher]]
▲* ''Dtoons''
▲** ''Toons These Days''
▲* ''The Dom Reviews''
* ''[[Familiar Faces]]'' (CR)
* ''[[Eric Power Up]]''▼
* [[The Game Heroes]]▼
* Gaming Wildlife
* [[Harry Partridge|Happy Harry]]
* [[Iron Liz]]
* [[Internet Personality Vangelus]]
* iRawss
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* JewWario (''[[You Can Play This]]'')
* [[JonTron]]
▲* [[The Last Angry Geek]] (''Comic Book Issues'')
▲* [[Lee and Dena]] (''Still Gaming'' & ''The Game Den'')
* [[Lord Kat]]
* Lotus Prince
* [[Luke Mochrie and The Inners]] (''Film Conscience'')
* [[Marz Gurl]]
* [[Mike J]] (''Shameful Sequels'')
* ''MUD2MMO'' (Tyger)
* Needs More Gay (Rantasmo)
* ''[[The Nostalgia Chick]]'' (Lindsay Ellis)
* [[Obscurus Lupa]] (Allison Pregler)
* The Omega
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** ''[[Mortal Komedy]]''
* [[Paw Dugan]]
* [[Peanut Butter Gamer]]
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* [[The Rap Critic]]
* Rerez
▲* ''Rocked Reviews''
* [[Rollo T]]
* Rud the Spud
* ''[[Sad Panda Q&A]]''
** ''[[Forget About It]]''
* [[Sean Fausz]]▼
* Shark Jumping
* Some Guys I Know
* ''[[The Spoony Experiment]]'' (Noah Antwiler)
** ''[[Counter Monkey]]''
** ''[[Spoony's Campaign]]'' (''[[Dungeons & Dragons]]'' campaign featuring various site contributors)
* Stuff You Like (Sursum Ursa)
* [[Team Four Star]] (former affiliate)▼
** [[Hbi2k]]▼
** [[Lanipator]]▼
** MasakoX
** [[Little Kuriboh]]▼
* ''Terror Obscura'' (Fear Fan)
* [[That Dude in the Suede]]
* [[That SciFi Guy]]
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* ''[[Transylvania Television]]''
* [[Welshy]]
* [[Y: Ruler of Time]] (Read Right to Left)▼
▲* ''[[Clan of the Gray Wolf]]''
▲* ''[[Eric Power Up]]''
▲* [[The Game Heroes]]
▲* [[Sean Fausz]]
* ''[[Weird Video Games]]''
▲* ''[[What The Fuck Is Wrong With You?]]'' (Nash)
▲* [[Y: Ruler of Time]] (Read Right to Left)
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* [[The Angry Video Game Nerd]] (James Rolfe)
* ''[[Reviewtopia]]'' (site featuring certain TGWTG contributors and members of its community)
▲* [[Team Four Star]]
▲** [[Hbi2k]]
▲** [[Lanipator]]
▲** [[Little Kuriboh]]
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* [[All Men Are Perverts]], [[All Women Are Lustful]]: They're a pretty horny bunch. Seeing as how they're all nerds, this is to be expected.
* [[And Knowing Is Half the Battle]]: Spoofed by name when the Critic and the Chick review ''[[Fern Gully]]''. Also spoofed by the question-answering title character of [[Ask That Guy With The Glasses]] in one episode of his show
* [[And You Were There]]: Subverted at the end of his [https://web.archive.org/web/20130925045149/http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/videolinks/thatguywiththeglasses/nostalgia-critic/1743-surf-ninjas Surf Ninjas review], where he is surrounded by his friends after having a dream where he reviewed ''[[Surf Ninjas]]'' and liked it. He tells his friends that they were there; then, when one asks "Really?", he says, "No."
* [[Angrish]]: [[Lampshaded]] in the AVGN/Critic review, in which [[The Angry Video Game Nerd]] points out to the Nostalgia Critic that he's too angry to come up with a coherent way to express his distaste over how ugly [[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles|Master Splinter]] looks.
* [[Anti-Villain|Anti Villains]]: At least in the [[Kickassia|two]] [[Suburban Knights|specials]]. Doug has said that when he's writing them, he draws from the ''[[Batman]]'' [[Rogues Gallery]]: they're all horrible people, certainly, but they're sympathetic too and will look after each other in a sometimes manipulative, [[Tough Love]] way.
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* [[Big No]]: Panda, to Smarty's death in episode 4 of ''Panda Q&A''.
* [[Bizarre Alien Biology]]: According to Merry Zodmas, [[Superman (film)|Kryptonians]] grow their heads back after consuming a radioactive beverage.
* [[Black Comedy]]:[https://web.archive.org/web/20131120012246/http://blip.tv/nostalgiacritic/sketches-the-most-disturbing-aristocrats-joke-ever-1469521 The Most Disturbing Aristocrats Joke Ever].
* [[Black Comedy Rape]]:
** Zig-zagged in all three "Spooning With Spoony" segments. The horror and Spoony's smug objectification of everyone provides the funny, not specifically that they were raped. Also as a bonus, [[The Nostalgia Chick]] and [[The Nostalgia Critic]] are the most traumatized, yet Lindsay and Doug came up with their respective episode idea.
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** The Critic: He tries to throw his weight around in crossovers, but either the others get over him, or he defeats himself.
* [[Blessed with Suck]]: Phelous, apparently. Lampshaded in a crossover: [[The Angry Joe Show|Angry Joe]] thinks its awesome he comes back to life after he dies at the end of every review. Phelous, given what he has to review, disagrees.
* [[Casanova Wannabe]]: Site exec Mike Ellis in [https://web.archive.org/web/20130801031352/http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/videolinks/bt/benzaie/hardcorner/6858-casitcom Benzaie's crossover sitcom].
* [[Catch Phrase]]: Many. See the [[That Guy With The Glasses/Characters|character sheet]] for specific ones.
* [[Cat Fight]]: The entire male crew on the site loves cat fights, as shown in the review for ''[[Mortal Kombat (film)|Mortal Kombat]]: Annihilation''.
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** Also, when the Nostalgia Critic and [[The Angry Video Game Nerd]] team-up to review ''The Making Of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Coming Out Of Our Shell'' video, you can bet they lay on the swearing but thick.
** In fact, Linkara has been given grief by some fans for NOT swearing.
* [[Collectible Cloney Babies]]: On ''[[Channel Awesome]]'', it's revealed on [[Paw Dugan]]'s music reviews that his girlfriend Elyse, aka Maven of the Eventide, collects Phantom of the Opera plushies. She hijacks several of his reviews in revenge for one of his darts hitting her favorite one and "killing" it. They eventually make up, though, when covering ''[[Fantasia 2000]]''.
* [[Comic Trio]]: The Critic, Spoony and Linkara in ''[[Alone in the Dark]]''. They even parody ''[[The Three Stooges]]'' at the end of the review. Hell, if they had bothered to put shadows in front of the clips, the whole thing would have been one epic [[MSTing]].
* [[Continuity Lock Out]]: With the sheer volume of shout-outs, callbacks and cameos on display, [[Archive Panic|and a frankly intimidating number of shows available]], god knows what the site looks like to people who've just found it.
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* [[Culture Clash]]: According to one of Spoony's vlogs, this happens to Benzaie when he's introduced to the concept of sales tax.
** Though technically the issue wasn't the sales tax itself, variants of which exist in many other countries. It's that in Europe said tax is usually already included on the product's price.
* [[A Day in the Limelight]]: Many members of the site's "B-team" came together to [https://web.archive.org/web/20130924175117/http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/videolinks/teamt/paw/specials/16364-dragonball-evolution review] ''[[Dragonball Evolution]]'' while they were attending a convention. For some, it was their [[Schedule Slip|first appearance in a video in months]]. It was also a movie that many people had wanted the Nostalgia Critic himself to review, so it got a lot of attention when it came out.
* [[Death Glare]]: Linkara withers under the Critic's glare when he's caught pretending to be the Critic in their ''Superman IV'' review.
* [[Death Is Cheap]]: In the case of Phelous and the Nostalgia Critic. Both [[Lampshade Hanging]] it too.
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* [[Funny Background Event]]: The review of ''[[Interstella 5555]]'' always has one of the four reviewers dancing in the background.
* [[Furry Fandom]]: Several in-universe critiques.
** Bennett the Sage has harsh words to say after reading a ''TMNT''/''Gargoyles'' crossover [[Slash Fic]] [[Lemon]]. The fact that his next target is [[So Bad It's Horrible/
* [[Gag Sub]]: From the ''[[Star Wars Holiday Special]]'' review Doug Walker did:
{{quote|'''Wookiee mother:'''Junior, come over here and eat your yak testicles!
'''Young Wookiee:'''They taste like diarrhea. I wish I was adopted!
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{{quote|'''Lee:''' Shinji is a piece of shit! And EVA is ''overrated''.
'''Dena:''' DUDE! You... you can't say that, you're... [[Internet Backdraft|you're gonna piss people off]]. }}
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* [[MST]]: Done during some of the sample clips. This is even more noticeable in ''[[Alone in the Dark (2005 film)|Alone in The Dark]]'': Three guys reviewing a crappy movie while, for the most part, it's voiceover.
** They even won a contest at [[Riff Trax]] and got to record a special ''Rifftrax Presents'' of ''[[Batman Forever]]'' with a brief appearance from Mike, Bill and Kevin.
** Doug has started a riff series premiering with the anti-gay propaganda short [https://web.archive.org/web/20140830013234/http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/videolinks/thatguywiththeglasses/specials/27608-thatguyriffs-boysbeware Boys Beware]
* [[Mundane Fantastic]]: Despite a fairly normal world, Linkara has a magic gun, there are several [[Mad Scientist|mad scientists]] and robots around, [[The Nostalgia Chick]] also knows a fairy, a number of the reviewers have ''[[Street Fighter]]'' like powers, there's a [[Portal Network]] in washing machines...
* [[Narrow Parody]]: The ''Tommy Wiseau Show'' video was a particularly spiteful example, in which the representation of "John From [[The Room]]Movie.com" eventually resorts to bawling his own name; the only detail Doug knew about the man in question. The other contributors are not exempt from this either.
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* [[Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot]]:
** Giant Robotic Donkey Kong Jesus Riding on a Puff of Smoke.
** [https://web.archive.org/web/20120103074239/http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/videolinks/thatguywiththeglasses/specials/27929-coffee-with-bargo Coffee with Bargo] features robot zombie unicorns "messing shit up", which was apparently orchestrated by a [[Watchmen (comics)|Dr. Manhattan]] [[Star Wars|Jedi]] [[Everything's Better with Penguins|penguin]], who may or may not be a messianic spork god as well.
* [[Non-Indicative Name]]: The "5-Second Movies", for the most part, aren't exactly five seconds long.
* [["Not Making This Up" Disclaimer]]: So many reviews cover things that the reviewers have to assure the audience actually happened in those works.
** The cafe in [https://web.archive.org/web/20130925172259/http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/videolinks/thatguywiththeglasses/sketches/33165-where-is-malachite this video] is a real place. The last part even gives you the address in case you want to stop by.
* [[Not Me This Time]]: After several reviewers were stuck watching ''[[The Last Airbender]]'', they figure [[The Nostalgia Critic]] set them up since he did something similar before with ''[[Dragonball Evolution]]''. When they contact him, [[Even Evil Has Standards|he's horrified at the idea of anyone sitting through it]].
* [[Old Shame]]: In episode 5 of "Masterpiece Fanfic Theater", Bennett reads a script-formatted crossover fanfiction between ''[[Pokémon (anime)|Pokémon]]'', ''[[Digimon Adventure]]'', and ''[[Sailor Moon]]'', with a [[Self-Insert Fic|self-insert character]] and a plot ripped off from a ''[[Doctor Who]]'' [[Big Finish Doctor Who|audio drama]], written by... Linkara, who spends most of the episode tied up to an armchair, trying in vain to get Bennett to stop reading it.
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* [[Queer People Are Funny]]: the base of many a joke and much fanservice; although [[Guy-On-Guy Is Hot|male]] surprisingly more than [[Girl-On-Girl Is Hot|female]].
* [[Reaching Between the Lines]]: The Critic fires a pistol at Linkara when he catches him impersonating him; Linkara asks how he did that. Spoony and Film Brain's arguement over reviewing ''[[Hudson Hawk]]'' ends with Spoony beating up Film Brain.
* [[Real Life Writes the Plot]]/[[Written
** According to Spoony's commentary, in the joint review of the ''[[Alone in the Dark]]'' movie he did with the Critic and Linkara, Doug came up with the gag about losing his voice because he had a nasty throat infection that day. They also had to film it in his basement because of road work going on outside.
** He lost his voice again and used a black-and-white-like video to say what he wants, [[Gag Dub]] included.
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** He also tries to run away at the start of his review of ''[[The Star Wars Holiday Special]]'', but Rob catches him.
** During the Spoony/Lordkat Pumpkinhead "Until We Win" episode, Spoony is so disgusted by the game's moon logic that he tries to quit, but then remembers that the two of them are trapped in "The Black Hole" (which looks like a hotel room) and can't leave.
* [[Self-Deprecation]]: Doug's [https://web.archive.org/web/20130924145409/http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/videolinks/thatguywiththeglasses/sketches/16796-hitler-spoof parody of Hitler Parodies] is loaded with this. ''"This is why Spoony won that Open Web Award!"''
** "[[The Nostalgia Chick|Thanks for the Feedback]] Episode 1: Date With Doug" paints the Chick as an obsessively geeky shut-in - Nella says that at least going on a date will get her out of the apartment for more than three hours - and the Critic as just as socially awkward, if not more, and unable to arrange food more complex than cereal.
** The credits to the christmas special reveal that the CGI shot of Canada blowing up was done by Phelous...a Canadian.
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** The review of the best anime themes of all time includes ''[[Neon Genesis Evangelion]]'', not because Lee likes the show or it has a lot of fans or he even likes the music, but just to point out that {{spoiler|[[Dude, She's Like, in a Coma|Shinji jerks it over Asuka's bed]]}}. He doesn't hate the show overall though, he's just cold toward Shinji (which he says the theme song keeps promoting).
** The Nostalgia Critic is so traumatized by watching Uwe Boll's ''[[Alone in the Dark (2005 film)|Alone in The Dark]]'' that he claims in the review that his doctor says he may never speak again thanks to it.
** When it became clear that the Nostalgia Critic's review of ''[[The Room]]'' was taken down for "copyright infringement" (despite obviously being protected by fair use), a parody video was made called "[https://web.archive.org/web/20130930133933/http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/videolinks/thatguywiththeglasses/nostalgia-critic/26252-the-tommy-wiseau-show The Tommy Wiseau Show]". Wiseau himself is let off fairly lightly, almost to [[Affectionate Parody]] levels. A fellow named "John" from TheRoomMovie.com, however, is given perhaps the most brutal evisceration of Doug Walker's online career, being portrayed as a raging, paranoid, and greedy lunatic, obsessed with money and Wiseau's "good image". The video even ends with him crying "I'm John from TheRoomMovie.com!" over and over again, as if he might want his fans to... "get in touch" with him. It's pretty obvious that TGWTG had some unpleasant dealings with him after the review was taken down...
*** Taken [[Up to Eleven]] when The Critic, Linkara, Obscurus Lupa, Phelous, and Cinema Snob come together in what can only be described as [https://web.archive.org/web/20130924142106/http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/videolinks/teamt/ol/sketches/27503-day-tommy-wiseau "The Day of Many Wiseaus"].
** CR delivers an excellent (yet affectionate) one when talking about ''[[Wayne's World]]''.
{{quote|"Yeah right, like some random guy from Chicago can become famous just by talking about movies, making funny faces at the camera, and spouting absurd catchphrases. And not only that, but become a huge trendsetter too. [[The Nostalgia Critic|Ridiculous]]."}}
** Welshy does ''not'' like Kate Austen from ''[[Lost]]'', or Rose from ''[[Doctor Who]]''.
** The Nostalgia Critic did one to his nastier fans with a character called "Douchey McNitpick".
* [[Talking to Himself]]: [https://web.archive.org/web/20100924141014/http://nostalgiacritic.blip.tv/file/3906636/ "The Tommy Wiseau Show"] has Doug doing this to Tommy Wiseau's... "[[Narm Charm|quirky]]" acting. But that's just an [[Affectionate Parody]] compared to John from TheRoomMovie.com, [[Real Life Writes the Plot|who took down Doug's review of]] ''[[The Room]]'' [[Real Life Writes the Plot|due to copyright violations]].
** Having shaved off his beard at one point, he explains that he lost a bet to [[Ask That Guy With The Glasses|Ask That Guy]], who appears and has (obviously) also shaved due to a misunderstanding. When Chester A. Bum pops up too, Doug is having a three-way conversation with himself.
* [[This Is for Emphasis, Bitch]]: "Don't you EVER bring logic into this movie again! This is ''[[Fern Gully]]'', BITCH!"
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** His name was censored out of the episode of "Masterpiece Fanfic Theatre" that featured a story about the TGWTG gang.
** The fact that he ''is'' still in the Brawl leads to some confusion for those who became fans after his removal from the site: watch the video of the Brawl because of its nigh-legendary status, and wonder who the heck this guy is whipping a boomerang around the room.
** [https://web.archive.org/web/20130305071235/http://wegotclass.wordpress.com/2011/04/27/my-week-in-neverland-or-how-to-avoid-a-bj-from-lindsay/ Apparently] he spread a lot of gossip around during the year 1 shoot, and hated certain contributors for no reason whatsoever.
* [[Unusually Uninteresting Sight]]: The Critic points out no one pays attention to [[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles|four turtles]] playing music.
* [[The Verse]] Many of the reviewers' shows are set in the same universe and have common characters such as Doctor Insano.
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* [[Vitriolic Best Buds]]: Critic and [[The Nostalgia Chick]]. In fact, most of the critics tend to be excessively mean to one another [[Mean Character, Nice Actor|(they actually all like each other in real life)]] with exceptions like Little Miss Gamer, who was the [[Nice Girl]] of the site.
* [[What Did I Do Last Night?]]: The "Spooning With Spoony" and "Linking Up With Linkara" videos. Also [[The Nostalgia Chick]]'s ''[[Hercules (1997 film)|Hercules]]'' review.
* [[What Do You Mean It's Not Awesome?]]: [https://web.archive.org/web/20130731212052/http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/videolinks/thatguywiththeglasses/specials/32475-the-most-useless-game-in-the-world coaster flipping]
* [[What Do You Mean It's Not for Kids?]] and/or [[What Do You Mean It's for Kids?]]: In some reviews for ostensibly family-friendly films with notably family-unfriendly content, the Nostalgia Critic will comment, [[The Hudsucker Proxy|"You know, for kids!"]]
** Many of the website's shows deal with family-friendly subjects, but are still meant for an adult audience.
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