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* [[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.
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'''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]''''' '''[[Punctuated!
** 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. {{spoiler|1=It also enables Lord MacGuffin to return from the dead.}}
* [[Made of Plasticine]]: The friend from ''Teen Witch'', after she trips over a stepladder.
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* [[Mad Scientist]]: Discussed in detail in her special on [[Hollywood Science]].
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* [[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 [[Fan Dumb|some]] ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic|My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic]]'' [[Fan Dumb|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:
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* [[A Man Is Not a Virgin]]: [[Hocus Pocus]]'s obsession with this amuses her greatly.
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* [[Manipulative Editing]]: In ''[[The Fifth Element]]'', a lot of Leeloo's more [[Badass]] scenes aren't shown because that would ruin the [[Real Women Don't Wear Dresses]] joke.
* [[Manly Tears]]: "[[Bruce Willis
* [[Mars Needs Women]]: "Everyone wants to get into [[Thumbelina]]'s tiny cotton panties. Frogs, beatles, [[A Bug's Life|fleas]], lican, the Dark Lord Xenu, dark matter... everyone. And she's a pretty passive player in all of this."
* [[Meaningful Name]]: Nomi Malone in ''[[Showgirls]]''. "Geddit? No-Mi I'm ''alone''. Genius!" Said with almost manic sarcasm.
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* [[Misaimed Fandom]]: Pointed out [[In-Universe]].
** She joins the ''long'' list of people who point out the flaws in [[Taylor Swift]]'s logic in "Love Story":
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* [[Misaimed Marketing]]: As it completely goes against the original message, all the tie-ins to ''[[The Lorax (film)|The Lorax]]'' get a lot of time devoted to how stupid they are.
* [[Missing Mom]]: She theorizes that the Disney company usually commits matricide right after their hero/ine is born.
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* [[Mister Seahorse]]: Gleefully got the Critic pregnant through fairy magic in the ''[[Fern Gully]]'' review.
* [[Mood Dissonance]]: On the [[Mood Whiplash]]-ing song in ''[[Mulan]]'':
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* [[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.
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** 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:
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'''Nostalgia Chick:''' [distraught] [[Comically Missing the Point|Not the big ball of twine! God, she's evil! Even Roland Emmerich didn't destroy ''the big ball of twine!]]'' }}
* [[Most Writers Are Adults]]: Comes up in her reviews of ''[[City of Angels (musical)|City of Angels]]'' and ''The Christmas Shoes'', her theory for this being the innocent, mature, perfect children there are how the writers ''want'' children to act.
* [[The Mountains of Illinois]]: [[Discussed Trope]] in her very first review, ''[[Pocahontas]]''; she's baffled by all the sheer cliffs in the area around Jamestown.
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* [[Musical Episode]]: Her review of ''[[Les Misérables (theatre)|Les Misérables]]'' ended with the entire TGWTG team singing "One More Day".
** And ''[[The Little Mermaid]]'' ends with the TGWTG girls<ref>
* [[My Friends and Zoidberg]]: While talking about the design of ''[[Pocahontas]]'':
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* [[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 death scene in ''[[The Man in the Iron Mask (1998 film)|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?"
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** The [[Will Smith]] fish haunts her nightmares.
* [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero]]: On Kirk in the second ''[[Star Trek]]'' movie:
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* [["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.
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** 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]]:▼
▲* [[Not Making This Up Disclaimer]]:
** In her ''[[Transformers: The Movie]]'' review, points out that, yes, girly shows really had character names like ''[[Tastes Like Diabetes|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 [[The Little Mermaid|Ursula]]'s design was based on a drag queen.
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* [[No Yay]]: Pointed out [[In-Universe]].
** She's made deeply uncomfortable by the [[Relationship Writing Fumble|father/daughter]] subplot in ''[[The Baby Sitters Club]]''.
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* [[Nuns Are Funny]]: The whole premise for the ''[[Sister Act]]'' review.
* [[Nuns Are Scary]]: Her parents were apparently [[Raised Catholic]], so they had lots of horror stories to tell her about eraser-throwing, ruler-whipping demon nuns in the classroom.
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* [[One-Winged Angel]]: In "Top 11 Disney Deaths", she gives the advice not to turn into a giant reptile as it never works.
* [[Organ Theft]]: Apparently the Chick's computer cost three organs on the black market. It's probably best not to think about who she got them from or how.
* [[Our Nudity Is Different]]: In her review of ''[[Kate and Leopold]]'', she lists "can't show your ankles" as one of the problems with Leopold's time period.
* [[Overly Long Gag]]: "[[My Little Pony|OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO...]]"
* [[Overly Narrow Superlative]]: She describes ''[[Bratz]]'' as "the worst, most racist movie that stars Jon Voight, came out in the summer of 2007 and was based on a line of toys". And yet it was ''still'' a [[Bait and Switch]] of ''[[Transformers (film)|Transformers]]'', especially after mocking [[Michael Bay]] for three successive videos.
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* [[Painting the Fourth Wall]]: In the ''X-Men The Animated Series'' review, without Nella the Chick's reviewing style becomes overly dull and analytical, which is shown by the video being washed out and lower quality. As soon as Dr Tease injects her with [[Truth Serum]] to liven it up, it goes into full colour and higher quality.
* [[Padding]]: She sees both ''[[Spice World]]'' and ''[[Xanadu]]'' as being filled with it:
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** And then there's ''[[Earth Girls Are Easy]]'':
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* [[Papa Wolf]]: Because of the [[Fan Dumb]] in the [[Comically Missing the Point]] example above, Mr. Ellis got involved to confirm [[Mean Character, Nice Actor|that his daughter is an awesome woman]] and that she and Nella are best friends.
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* [[Paper-Thin Disguise]]: Mocked in the ''[[Mulan]]'' review:
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* [[Parental Neglect]]: She theorizes that [[Thumbelina]]'s mother just lets her get into trouble because she's bitter that she got the short end of the stick.
** Like so many others, she wonders where Beast's parents are when he's a teenager on Christmas.
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* [[Periphery Demographic]]: Pointed out [[In-Universe]] on ''[[Dragonheart]]'' - "Let's face it, we're all here for [[Sean Connery|Connery]]."
** And for the other gender, ''[[Titanic]]''.
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* [[Perverse Sexual Lust]]: With [[All Women Are Lustful]] in full force, plenty of it going around:
** In the Top 10 Hottest Animated Guys video, we get good details on the three leading ladies' animated hottie preferences: Elisa likes them stoic and brooding like [[Gargoyles|Goliath]] and [[Batman: The Animated Series|Batman]], Nella just goes crazy over [[Pocahontas|Thomas]] and [[Anastasia|Dmitri]] (the latter partly because he resembles the former), and Chick has had childhood crushes on [[Aladdin (Disney film)|Aladdin]] and... {{spoiler|[[Ferngully the Last Rainforest|Batty]]}}.
* [[Petting Zoo People]]: "Why does Mirage have a cat head? Who cares?"
* [[Pink Means Feminine]]: "Because she's PAAAAANK!"
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* [[Please Don't Leave Me]]: Referenced at the end of the first "Thanks For The Feedback". Critic's had a [[Am I Just a Toy to You?]] breakdown and stormed off, Chick's ran away in relief but then "baby come back, you can blame it all on me, I was wrong..." starts playing when they're both offscreen.
* [[Plot Armor]]: Nella concedes that Kirk always got out alive and everyone else died because he was the main character.
* [[Plot Hole]]: In her review of ''[[She
** Trying to figure out all of the ones in ''[[Hercules (
* [[Political Correctness Gone Mad]]: Disney changing the design and name of the lead in ''[[The Princess and the Frog]]''.
* [[Poor Communication Kills]]: The ''[[Grease]] II'' makeover only happened because the Makeover Fairy thought she was getting Todd the right manliness level for the Chick, and Todd thought she was getting him perfect for Lupa.
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* [[Power Perversion Potential]]: She theorises about the possible unmentioned extensions of ''[[Dragonheart]]'''s "dragon and human share their pain" plot.
* [[Pretty Fly for a White Guy]]: The rap sequences of ''Teen Witch''.
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** When she's calmed down from the unholy terror that is ''[[Shark Tale]]'', we get this lovely quote:
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* [[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]]'':
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* scary music plays*
'''Chick:''' [with glasses on again] But it's okay because I got new ones. }}
* [[Punctuated!
** On ''X-Men 3'': "FUCK. THAT. MOVIE."
** Nella in ''Grease II'': "I! Deserve! Better!"
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* [[Rape as Redemption]]: Inverted. To finally get over her rape by him from three years ago, she rapes Spoony and tells him to "cry it out bitch" when he's having a breakdown about it.
* [[A Rare Sentence]]: Team NChick's Elisa [[Twitter|tweeting]] about her role as Dr. Tease:
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* [[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 Pony|My Little Ponies]]'' having red eyes.
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* [[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 (film)|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 (
* [[Rule of Funny]]
* [[Running Gag]]: ... because, well, her ''[[Labyrinth]]'' review has [[Visual Pun|a literal one]] across the bottom of the screen.
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** "Say that ''again''.", generally followed by massive violence.
** She also has "PUPPIES!"
** '''''[[
*** The ''[[Xanadu]]'' review has it keep coming back again and again, despite her yelling at it not to.
** [[Monty Python and
** [[That's What She Said|"That's what she said."]]
** [[Black Comedy Rape|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 [[Monty Python and
** Tracing a tear down her cheek whenever there's a scene she [[In-Universe|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]].
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