The Nostalgia Chick/YMMV: Difference between revisions

* [[Arc Fatigue]]: To some fans (that being why it's on this page) "The Dark Nella Saga" just kept going and going and going... (Well, it ''is'' a [[Fridge Brilliance|saga]].) But the problem was probably less the length of the arc itself - seven episodes, probably edging on three hours, all told - and more how an arc that seemed like it would be played out over a few weeks took two and a half months to release.

* [[Awesome Music (Sugar Wiki)|Awesome Music]]:

** Nella's road trip-style summary of ''[[Showgirls]]''.

** Lindsay leading her friends in a performance of ''[[Newsies]]''' "Seize the Day."

* [[Base Breaker]]: See [[Ensemble Darkhorse]] below. Check the comments for many videos Nella appears in and you'll find plenty that lament her getting screen time.

** Fans of the [[Disney Renaissance]] tend to [[Understatement|hate]] her.

** Her [[Driven to Madness]] [[Heroic BSOD]] over how pathetic reviewing makes her was never brought up again.

* [[Broken Base]]: Usually between those who prefer the style of her newer reviews - i.e. the ones featuring the supporting cast and based more around analysing tropes - and those who liked the linear reviews she originally put out.

* [[Complaining About Shows You Don't Watch]]: The people who think of her as a militantly feminist, unfunny hippie lovechild. The [[Politically Incorrect Hero]]-ism and the [[Black Comedy]] aren't ''that'' hard to spot.

* [[Crosses the Line Twice]]:

** Nearly all the "[[Christmas Songs]]" video qualifies. She gets roofied by Brian the Sex Predator, makes her face look like a skeleton at one point and does a pretty good imitation of [[The Joker]] when she's mocking the "Christmas Shoes" [[Glurge]]. The video that accompanies "Please, Daddy, Don't Get Drunk This Christmas" goes from disturbing to hilarious when {{spoiler|the realistic domestic abuse gives way to stop-hitting-yourself's and noogies}}. It was also her first [[Black Comedy]] video, which set the standard for the following episodes.

** The [[Creepy Uncle]] joke in her "Enchanted Christmas" review.

** [[Noah Antwiler|Spoony]] said in his commentary that "[[Black Comedy Rape|Spooning With Spoony]]" was her creation, not his.

** Her response to the guy in ''[[Showgirls]]'' saying his girlfriend is having a baby: "Why not just shove her down the stairs and hope for the best?"

* [[Dude, Not Funny]]: In her second "Thanks For The Feedback" video, she made a music video featuring [[Black Comedy Rape|a rap song about rape]]. The video was almost universally reviled as being in poor taste, and has since been taken down. Although not for that reason; [[Word of God]] says that she wasn't happy with the edit and didn't want it to be put up anyway.

** Yes, okay, [[Interquel|Interquels]] are pretty bad... but was it really necessary to compare the ''Enchanted Christmas'' movie to multiple holocausts?

*** This is a genuine comment on her Facebook page: "Compared to Lindsay's brand of humor, Doug is like a monkey throwing feces at a sad zoo-going child eating a tarnished ice cream cone." Uh, a touch unfair, don't you think?

** Even though she made fun of this attitude ''herself'' in ''[[Kickassia]]'', they also seem to think that she has the very worst [[Hate Dumb]] and she only gets criticized because she's female. While the shit-stirring trolls ''do'' go for sexism with her, everyone on TGWTG gets threats and creepiness and other nasty things. It just shows that they think she's a woman to be protected first and a person (who can so clearly look after herself) second.

** Many [[Goth|goths]] weren't amused by the jokes in her review of ''[[The Craft]]'', forgetting the fact that A) She's comedian first and foremost, telling jokes is her job, and B) She was less making fun of actual goth culture than the silliness of the movie.

** She's made two abortion jokes, one in ''Grease'' about coat hangers and the other in ''Showgirls'' about pushing the pregnant woman down the stairs. Even though she can joke about whatever the hell she wants, people didn't like these because of her own abortion about half a year prior.

* [[Fountain of Memes]]

* [[Growing the Beard]]: She began to develop more of her own review style starting roughly around the time of her ''[[Armageddon]]'' review, after which her BFF Nella became a regular on the show. Around this point is when her reviews took on a more trope based look with a lot more [[Sketch Comedy]]. Then again, see [[Broken Base]] above. And arguably, her "Top 10 Disturbing and Inescapable Christmas Songs" list proved that [[Black Comedy|dark, disturbing humor]] is what she's ''really'' good at.

** The Chick as a character really cemented finally at "Playing God", when she got her [[Sex Bot]].

* [[Harsher in Hindsight]]: She took quite a bit of heat for her [[Schedule Slip]] during 2009-10. Which is pretty painful after the news came out that she was a little busy ''getting an abortion'', and then making a documentary about it for her master's thesis. She should be respected for still being around and making funny videos for the internet even while that was happening.

** In her weight-issues-discussing "Thanks For The Feedback", she mentions that people judge her appearance far more than they do the Critic's. The playing field is leveling out a bit more now, with comments about the "cellulite" on his legs in ''[[Suburban Knights]]'', how he would look much better if he lost a few stone and how he should stop raiding his fridge more than five times a day.

** You get people willfully ignoring that Chick is a very different persona from Lindsay and calling the latter a snobby fandom-hater when she's clearly not.

* [[Heartwarming in Hindsight]]: In the first "Thanks For The Feedback", the Critic breaks down and shout-asks her if she even cares about him. She doesn't have time to answer before he storms off, but various episodes later on show pretty clearly that he's one of the very few people she ''does'' give a shit about.

* [[Hilarious in Hindsight]]: [http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/videolinks/thedudette/specials/29963-gallery-of-ancient-horrors-aids-and-stds This video], which Lindsay originally made while in high school, involves (among other things) a giant stuffed bear with AIDS having an affair with a teenager. In other words, [[Memetic Molester|Pedobear]].

** In her early reviews, she liked making fun of [[Belligerent Sexual Tension]] between characters and how people seemed to think that was entertaining. She has a [[The Masochism Tango|Masochism Tango]]/[[Dating Catwoman]] thing with the Critic that's incredibly enjoyable for both us and them.

** "And besides, who's going to be interested in a female character who's pretty shamelessly a knock-off of her already popular male counterpart?" Seeing how fricking huge the character sheet is, evidently quite a lot of people.

* [[Hollywood Homely]]: Nella, especially in the ''[[Grease]]'' review. Many [[Comically Missing the Point|Comically Missed the Point]] and treated her like a [[The Woobie|woobie]], not listening to the fact that Nella wrote that sideplot ''herself'' and is perfectly happy with her appearance.

* [[Ho Yay]]: Actually a Les Yay with BFF Nella:

{{quote| '''Nella:''' [Suggesting the Chick dates the Critic] I think you should go out ... of this apartment ... Away from me ... People are starting to talk. The [[Fun T-Shirt|shirts]] don't help.<br />

[The shirts read [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v{{=}}yzhB0gF5GTI&NR{{=}}1 "Mr. Owl, how many licks does it take?"] on Nella and "I (heart) my ([[Lampshaded Double Entendre|"kitten"]]) on the Chick.] }}

** Also with MarzGurl in "Linking up with Linkara", although that was a prank.

* [[I Knew It!]]: A few fics guessed correctly that she would rape Spoony to get revenge on him for hurting her, and in "Rejected Ideas For 'Spooning With Spoony'", she seems to do it.

* [[Memetic Molester]]: The TGWTG [[Kink Meme]] usually paints the Chick as a [[Bastard Girlfriend|dommy]] [[Comedic Sociopathy|sociopath]] who likes to pick up guys (and girls) with chloroform.

* [[Misaimed Fandom]]: In the Chick/Todd/Lupa [[Fan Nickname|Triangle Of Rejection]], the only one you're meant to feel properly sorry and root for is Lupa. Chick and Todd are only sympathetic because they're so pitiful and for either of them to get what they want (when the object of their affections ''really'' doesn't return the feelings) would be creepy as hell.

** To Lindsay's irritation, the character is seen sometimes as a feminist role model, and [[Girls Need Role Models|even gets bashed for not being one]]. While she says plenty of valid things, she's at heart an abusive, judgmental, stalking, over-exaggerated comedy character not to be taken seriously.

** It might help that she's so dominating and can ignore being in trouble pretty well, but she's really not meant to be a badass taking names. She's just a broken little girl who firmly believes in [[Don't You Dare Pity Me!]].

* [[Moe]]: Nella for being an abused [[Woman Child]] and Maven for being a pretentious but lovable [[Perky Goth]] fangirl.

* [[Narm Charm]]: The last half of the "Kirk vs. Picard video", where Chick and Nella meet to do battle, is ''gloriously'' cheesy.

** The ''[[Freddy Got Fingered]]'' review in all its entirety. Aside from the content of the movie itself, we have the Chick, Nella, and [[Oancitizen]] [[Go Mad From the Revelation|being driven to madness by the movie]]. It involves sausage among other things.

* [[Never Live It Down]]: Even though it was [[Lost Forever|taken off the site]] quickly, the "Rapping About Rape" video and all the drama surrounding it.

** God, you chloroform one guy in a sexualized, enjoying-yourself-immensely way and suddenly you're the chloroform queen. (This is a lighter example than the rest, obviously.)

** In an also lighter sense and around twitter, being an "obsessive compulsive stickler for pitch" and autotuning the majority of people in the musical numbers. Even though mostly by one or two notes.

* [[Older Than They Think]]: Fred The Bear predates [[Image Boards|4chan]] itself and therefore Pedobear by at least four years.

* [[Paranoia Fuel]]: She seems to know exactly when Todd is miserable and is willing to make him feel even worse so he can do what she wants. For anyone who's been stalked, it'll hit too close to home even though it's [[Played for Laughs]].

* [[Rewatch Bonus]]: You'll be surprised to see just how many moments in the earlier reviews that seemed like a prototype of the messed up, trying-to-be-sane-but-failing [[Psychopathic Manchild|Psychopathic Womanchild]] character we have today.

* [[He Panned It, Now He Sucks|She Panned It, Now She Sucks]]: She pissed off quite a few people with her negative review of ''[[Dune]]''.

*** Notably, Lindsay's actual opinion of Hercules sums up to "It was flawed, but I DO enjoy it."

** People who liked ''[[Dragonheart]]'' for more than just the "fucking dragon", bitched heavily after her review of it too.

** Not everyone agrees with her view that ''[[Shrek]]'' was a hate-filled [[Take That]] at Disney.

** As you can tell from this page alone, she made her rage at ''[[Beauty and The Beast The Enchanted Christmas]]'' abundantly clear. The movie was actually received quite well, so at the very least people were confused by her calling it worse than "seven holocausts".

** ''[[The Fifth Element]]''. Many people think she really misrepresented this film, especially when she didn't show Leeloo kicking ass so she could complain about her being [[The Chick]].

** Many fans of ''Jem'' were very angry at Lindsy for her panning the series, the biggest complaint came from her not even bothering to watch the series entirely before she reviewed it.

* [[He Really Can Act (Sugar Wiki)|She Really Can Act]]: Nella in the Dark Nella Saga. Funny, genuinely scary and able to go to between "a quasi-demonic force of evil" and her usual fangirly self.

* [[Spotlight-Stealing Squad]]: Nella and Elisa have gained more prominence in her newer reviews.

* [[Unpopular Popular Character]]: Nella, oh so much.

* [[Vocal Minority]]: Like how Critic fangirls don't actually want him [[Bound and Gagged]] in their basement, most Chick fanboys are respectful people who think she's great fun to watch (so not just something pretty to look at) and don't insult other contributors when praising her.