The Nostalgia Chick/Tropes M-R

Everything About Fiction You Never Wanted to Know.


  • MacGuffin: In her review of Dune, she introduces "Lord MacGuffin" a character who specifically describes her definition of what a MacGuffin is. He even tries to inject them into the review itself.

Lord MacGuffin: The Spice must flow.
Nostalgia Chick: What?
Lord MacGuffin: The Spice must flow.
Nostalgia Chick: See... I don't understand what you mean. See that's my problem with this movie in general is the fact that-
Lord MacGuffin: [Pulls out a handgun, cocks it, and points it at the Chick] "The Spice. Must. Flow."

    • He is later seen with a jar of mayonnaise, which is later revealed to have been filled with plot device and turns it into a portal. It also enables Lord MacGuffin to return from the dead.
  • Made of Plasticine: The friend from Teen Witch, after she trips over a stepladder.

Nostalgia Chick: What, are her legs made of balsa wood?

Nostalgia Chick: Where did you learn your science ethics, sir, the University of Mengele?

  • Male Gaze: She has a quick rant about how even though Jessica Rabbit is an interesting, noir-like character, all she's remembered for is the giant boobs.
    • Maven is a little confused as to why Selma Hayek needed to do a sexy bikini dance when all the humans were trapped in the bar already.
  • Mama Bear: Do not screw around with Lindsay when it comes to her friends or co-workers. She quickly came to the defense of Nella after the Grease review, was quick to correct anyone who thought Doug was making fun of her abortion in the Christmas special, heavily flamed a troll who put up vicious rumours about Elisa, and when some My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic fans came after Obscurus Lupa because she did not mention the show when she did a review on an old made-for-tv My Little Pony movie, Lindsay had this to say:

Lindsay: Guys. It ain't that they're grown men watching a cartoon. Good on 'em. It's that they're crazy obsessive and trying to spread the goddamn gospel, like crazies on the corner. THEY WILL NOT SHUT UP AND LEAVE US WHO DO NOT GIVE A SHIT ALONE. People inform me that I should be glad because it's a show made for girls that doesn't suck and has mass appeal. I might have been interested, but Jesus Christ, you people, BACK OFF. I'm with Lupa; if there was a shit to be given, my box of shits have long run dry, as has my box of fucks. I am out of fucks to give. You guys can have your fucking show. Please don't assume that anyone else gives a fuck about it, lest the backlash get backlashier. Let me reiterate in case I was not clear, for apparently clarity is not my strong suit. It's not that it's grownups watching cartoons. It's that (some of) you are crazy, tunnel-visioned, DEFENSIVE (did I mention defensive? God, if there's one trait that grates on me...) and annoying as hell. Sane ones, if you exist, tell your crazy friends to shut the fuck up. Stop being so goddamn defensive. Enjoy your goddamn show; leave us out of it. Jesus.

Nostalgia Chick: What are you doing if you're in high school and still a virgin?

Nostalgia Chick: It's at this point that you start to wonder if Taylor Swift even knows how Romeo and Juliet ends!

"We were too busy being outrageously horny to notice the smoky red sky of decimation in the distance."

  • Mood Whiplash: the TLC video, just the TLC video, damn!
    • In The Hunchback of Notre Dame, to demonstrate how Disney held themselves back from brilliant darkness by way of the gargoyles, she edits together Frollo being judged by the eyes of Notre Dame followed by the statues clicking their fingers in "A Guy Like You", and "Hellfire" to all the pop culture references.
  • Money, Dear Boy: She's visibly distressed when she discovers George Carlin did the voice of the misanthrope ape in Tarzan II.
    • This was the theory of Todd and Lindsay to try and explain all the cameos of talented people in the Transformers III movie.
  • Moral Event Horizon: Parodied In-Universe with this:

Linkara: [over the phone] I don't know what's going on where you are, but here in Minnesota there's pandemonium everywhere, everything is falling apart, and the big ball of twine is on fire!!!

Nostalgia Chick: [distraught] Not the big ball of twine! God, she's evil! Even Roland Emmerich didn't destroy the big ball of twine!

Nostalgia Chick: Have these people ever been to coastal Virginia?

Nostalgia Chick: And this can possibly attributed to the fact that her design was based on the looks of models such as Naomi Campbell, Christy Turlington, Barbie... and Janice from the Muppets.

  • Narm: Pointed out In-Universe.
    • She's pretty shocked over the "They're not like you and me, which means they must be evil!" line in Pocahontas.
    • She also doesn't seem to think much of Demona's "The access code is... alone" line in Gargoyles while talking about her in her "Top Eleven Villainesses" countdown.
    • All the so-called "angst" in Beauty and the Beast: The Enchanted Christmas comes off as emo
    • The death scene in The Man in the Iron Mask reminds her of the intentionally silly death in Megamind.
    • "Beneath A Moonless Sky" from Love Never Dies is the funniest thing ever because it takes itself so seriously.
  • Nature Abhors a Virgin: "Fucking virgins! Why do we need them around anyway?"
  • Needs More Love: The in-universe purpose of her three-part look on the Oscar shorts, a lot of which were better than some of the feature-length nominations.
  • Never Live It Down: Lampshaded hilariously in the "NChick Labs". "We do not talk about the rape rap!"
    • When Dark Nella starts reviewing Tron, the Chick says that reviews of sci-fi movies never go down well, "At least, not for me."
      • Pushing Up Roses recalls that too: "Between The Little Mermaid and Dune, it's a wonder you're still alive!"
    • She plays the "I'm so excited!" scene from Saved by the Bell a few times in the Showgirls review, mostly to remind us that Elizabeth Berkley has always sucked as an actress.
  • Never Trust a Trailer: When learning that Xanadu had robots and ELO, she was pretty excited. Obviously, her hopes were dashed.
    • She also talks about this in the "Disney Vs. Dreamworks" video, how "serious" animated movies will have a fun, feisty trailer to draw people in.
    • The "Dark Nella Saga" trailer led viewers to assume that Dark Nella was going to be a clone created by Dr. Tease. In the X-Men review, however, the Chick vetoes the cloning plan and Dark Nella is actually the real Nella resurrected.
  • Nightmare Fuel: Pointed out In-Universe.
  • Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: On Kirk in the second Star Trek movie:

Chick: How about your hubris leading to the untimely death of your best friend that will plague your smarmy ass with regret?

  • "No. Just... No" Reaction: She shakes her head with a Death Glare when Nella tries "sexy dice".
  • Non-Singing Voice: She's quick to notice that the grandmother's gritty voice in Mulan becomes much softer and higher when she's singing.
  • Noodle Incident: In The Stinger for Daria, the Chick kills Nella and Elisa's excitement for Magfest by saying they're not allowed to go onstage because there was an unfortunate incident with a guy and he doesn't want them near him.
  • Nothing Is Scarier: Just before Dark Nella makes her first appearance, the sound and background gets all out of focus and you can see someone following the Chick. Freakier than any horror movie.
  • Nostalgia Filter: Played with in the X-Men review. Whenever she has to smash the filter and talk about the show's problems, she'll be her usual self. When she's fangirling, she falls right in.
    • She says people switch off their brains even more when it comes to Christmas songs.
    • On Transformers: The Movie: "Yeah, I know, people are really attached to this movie, but that is that whole purpose of lifting nostalgia goggles, is it not? I mean, the show is usually watchable at times and sometimes even enjoyable in its campiness. This movie? Less so."
  • No Swastikas: The title card for Der Fuhrers Face has the Chick in the position of Donald Duck with his costume on, but the middle of the armband (where the swastika would be) is hidden by her pigtail.
  • "Not Making This Up" Disclaimer:
    • In her Transformers: The Movie review, points out that, yes, girly shows really had character names like that, and that the point of the movie was to kill off the old cast to make way for the new.
    • "Top Eleven Villainesses": she adds "No, really" after she says Ursula's design was based on a drag queen.
    • In her Showgirls review, she subtitles the first reenactment scene with the line "actual dialog from the movie."
    • Maven doesn't particularly relish having to say she's serious when she notes that film!Buffy had period pains as a spidey sense.
  • No Yay: Pointed out In-Universe.

Nostalgia Chick: Is she your daughter or your estranged ex who lost a lot of weight?

Nostalgia Chick: For the love of God! Cut half of this shit out, guys, c'mon!

Chick: Cos every movie needs an aliens-watching-TV scene.

Probably the #1 fan of the "NOSTALGIA CHICK", for I go back farther than anyone else knowing her, for I helped "make" her some 26 years back. You guessed it, I am her dad. James Carroll Ellis. Since leaving home for NYU, and then on to USC, I have watched her mature into a young adult while establishing a wonderful fan base and friends, which is deeply appreciated and I simply say "Thank You". Her talents are obvious, having many, just like her ol dad. As for NELLA, SWEET, SWEET, NELLA, Lindsay and Nella, (Antonella) have been and are the best of friends. Any remarks, suggestions, and/or references to her were done as a professional actor, and certainly no malice was intended. She (Nella) has visited our home many times, and she is a superb beautiful human being. The world would be a better place with more NELLAS.

Nostalgia Chick: Just put your hair back up, it's like the gender equivalent of Clark Kent's glasses.

Chick: But you saw it. You know you saw it.

This movie is whiter than Pride and Prejudice!

    • When she's calmed down from the unholy terror that is Shark Tale, we get this lovely quote:

This is what happens when white shut-ins try to be hip... and do so with fish."

  • Primal Scene: Two unseen people creaking the bed is what gives "Baby Scarred For Life" her name.
  • Product Placement: On the McDonalds in The Fifth Element: "Why do I suddenly want french fries?"
    • "Identify with this product, little girls. Be a Jem girl."
    • In What Women Want, she visibly drinks alcohol and eats chips while wondering why every movie lead is now an ad exec.
    • Likewise, she opens the You've Got Mail review with a glowing endorsement for Starbucks coffee liqueur - "providing my stimulants and my depressants in one useful dose." The credits feature "I except my check any day, Starbucks."
  • Pseudo Crisis: Played for laughs in her review of Anastasia:

Chick: [very seriously] Hi, I'm your Nostalgia Chick. And my glasses have been taken by communists.

  • scary music plays*

Chick: [with glasses on again] But it's okay because I got new ones.

ElisaInTime: I never thought I'd see the day when I received an email from my mother with the subject line 'Your "death" by the evil intergalactic clone'.

  • Reality Subtext: What drives half of the humor in the Chick>Todd storyline. In real life they're an adorably sickening couple, in-show she's hopelessly deluded that he'll one day love her back.
  • Really Gets Around: The Chick says Kirk is just a manwhore who would stick his peepee into anything with a hole in it.
  • Red Eyes, Take Warning: She makes a Running Gag of freaking out at one of the My Little Ponies having red eyes.

"And what's with your demon eyes?!"

  • Refuge in Audacity: Whenever she's in a dark mood.
  • Reed Richards Is Useless: In her review of Teen Witch, the Chick points out Louise could use her magic powers to fix the world but instead uses it on petty gain.
  • Rhymes on a Dime: As it's based off Dr. Seuss, the beginning and end of her review of The Lorax, the latter promoting the merits of drinking until you puke.
  • Rooting for the Empire: In-Universe. The good guys are so insufferable in Hercules that she wants Hades to win.
  • Rule of Funny
  • Running Gag: ... because, well, her Labyrinth review has a literal one across the bottom of the screen.
    • In her video on The Smurfette Principle, "And she's PAAAAANK!"
      • Referred to in "The NChick Labs". The Makeover Fairy shouts "PAAAAANK! PAAAAANK!"
    • "Say that again.", generally followed by massive violence.
    • She also has "PUPPIES!"
    • Non Sequitur Scene! (Pointed out In-Universe.)
      • The Xanadu review has it keep coming back again and again, despite her yelling at it not to.
    • It's only a model.
    • "That's what she said."
    • Thrusting her hips every time there's a rape implication in what she's reviewing.
    • Going into Perverse Sexual Lust-induced bliss whenever there's a good male singer.
    • She has, on more than one occasion, referred to breasts as tracts of land.
    • Tracing a tear down her cheek whenever there's a scene she perceives as Narm.
    • Dark Nella stuffing her in the fridge at the end of the episode looked to be heading this way, but didn't make it to the Rule of Three.
    • A soundbite of children going "YAY!".
    • In her Hocus Pocus review, Dramatic Thunder happening every time she says the word "virgin".
    • In Mulan: "Horrific implication time!"
    • Smiling wildly while holding two thumbs up, done either genuinely or sarcastically.
    • In the VLogs, they use Jew Wario's "I like it!" from Kickassia a lot.
    • She has a counter for the amount of deaths in Transformers: The Movie.
    • Repeating really stupid lines in slow motion so she can react to them properly. For example: "They're not like you and me, which means they must be evil!", "Everyone got AIDS and shit!" and "Ursula's crazy sister!".
    • Happens more in crossovers and yearly specials, but she'll be disinterestedly drinking something or playing on her phone any time something "important" happens.
    • Drinking a cup of coffee that didn't exist in the previous shot.
    • Phelous will always come in when she needs a brilliantly silly singing or announcing voice.
    • Inserting sad or smiley faces into usually horrific pictures of history.
    • John Malkovich dining at the Olive Garden and overpronouncing everything he says.
  1. ↑ except JesuOtaku, something to which Lindsay apologizes in the credits
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