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He has since moved into video reviews of movies and TV shows, including completely off the cuff rants against any new releases he didn't like as soon as he gets back from them (the ones about ''[[Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull]]'' and ''[[Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen]]'' are truly something to behold), as well as similarly improv comments on the state of pro wrestling, which often run as long as the actual ''program'' he's critiquing.

 

 

 

 

Spoony was also the GM of a weekly D&D game with several other TGWTG contributors, which was livestreamed on Sundays; its page is [[Spoony's Campaign|here]].

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== A-C ==

* [[Aborted Arc]]: In his ''Nightmare'' review (October 2009), Spoony was handed 7 different ''Nightmare'' (or rather ''Atmosfear'') sequels by the Gate-Cleaner. As a punishment he was given one year to review them all or he will get punished. Spoony gave up on this plotline, and [http://twitter.com/#!/TheSpoonyOne/status/26944580134 Tweeted a confirmation]. So long Gatecleaner.

** Invoked in the ''Highlander: The Last of the MacLeods'' video to parody the main villain's [[Narm]]-heavy [[Big No]].

** He and the Sage share one together after a buildup hopefully leading to [[The Scrappy|the fairy girl]] in ''Garzey's Wing'' getting ripped apart but then escaping at the last moment.

** We get one in ''Microcosm'' when Spoony is unable to finish writing down the continue password before the game resets. The pathos is amplified by music from ''[[Requiem for a Dream]]''.

** Xiaoyu gives one in ''[[Tekken: Blood Vengeance]]''.

* [[Explosive Instrumentation]]: The swishy French tailor from ''Beastmaster 2'' puts out such a stereotypically gay vibe that it causes Dr. Insano's 'gaydar' to short-circuit and explode.

* [[Exposition]]: Spoony is not amused by [[Ultima]] 9's method: Having the Avatar [[As You Know|ask everything he should really know from the previous games]].

* [[Eye Scream]]: According to [http://twitter.com/#!/TheSpoonyOne/status/72931694918909952 this Twitter post]. Fortunately doesn't seem like it had any lasting effects.

** And his description of Karen Jarret's voice.

** He makes several deadpan remarks about how death would be a welcome relief to watching yet another bad anime with Sage, after Sage breaks into his house and stalks then teleports into his room.

* [[Faux Horrific]]: Like seeing the cast of the ''[[Wing Commander (film)|Wing Commander]]'' movie.

{{quote|"Loot the supermarket! Stockpile all the weapons and instant mash potatoes you can find! ''The end times are here!''"}}

* [[Filler]]: In mid-October 2010, while Spoony was under the weather due to an unspecified heart condition, he asked Scarlett to bump some of his "Greatest Hits" to the front page until he got back on his feet. However, only one video (his review of ''[[The Thing (video game)|The Thing]]'') actually got this treatment before he came back.

* [[Furry Confusion]]: He brings up the classic case of this during his ''[[Kingdom Hearts]]'' livestream:

{{quote|'''Spoony:''' Wait...if Goofy's a dog and Pluto's a dog...how come Goofy's sentient and Pluto isn't?}}

 

== G-I ==

** In his persona as "Leslie Striker," during his mini-review of ''Phase IV'', a movie about superintelligent ants, he makes just about every ant pun out there.

** His [[Twitter]] is rife with these.

** In his commentary for ''[[The Beastmaster]] 2'', Spoony points out that he made a ''[[Portal (series)|Portal]]'' joke in the review, which came out a week after a vlog where he said ''Portal'' jokes were completely played out. He then adds "Haven't you noticed yet that I'm a complete raving lunatic and hypocrite? Because you should."

** Later on, he lambasted [[Nintendo]] for cashing in by re-releasing ''[[Ocarina of Time]]'' on the 3DS, and then immediately turned tail to gush about the upcoming ''[[Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater|Snake Eater]]'' remake on the same system, calling himself out yet again.

"We get to him, we get to the root of the problem!" }}

* [[Incoming Ham]]: The Gatekeeper in Nightmare. When he even begins to speak, a loud thunder sound is played.

* [[I Need a Freaking Drink]]: What Spoony says after a good 40 minute rant on The Slammies.

{{quote|'''Spoony''': "I'm gonna go drink heavily now. And I may never stop."}}

** During his review of ''[[Tekken: Blood Vengeance]],'' he starts a drinking game for any scene where you need to be a Tekken fan to understand what's going on, which is one shot, and ''two'' shots if being a Tekken fan makes what's going on ''more'' confusing. He says this holding a shot glass and a bottle Captain Morgan. The first scene has Xiaoyu riding Panda to school—and he starts drinking directly from the bottle.

* [[Infomercial]]: In the ''[[Final Fantasy VIII]]'' review, Dr. Insano has one to advertise his new anti-magic field generator. Gets a [[Call Back]] in the ''[[Final Fantasy X]]'' review where he introduces the newest model...only to trail off as [[Rant-Inducing Slight|Wakka destroys it with a Blitzball]].

 

== J-L ==

* [[Keep Circulating the Tapes]]: Spoony's riff of ''After Last Season'' was taken down under polite request by the film's producers on the grounds of copyrights infringement. Now it's only available as an iRiff on [[Riff Trax]], which requires a copy of the film itself. To Spoony's credit, he discourages illegal downloads of the film despite [[Fan Dumb|fans suggesting otherwise on the comments section of his site]], and admitted that he was in the wrong for planning to post a movie in its entirety on his website. This is also a perfect opportunity for Spoony to put money where his mouth is regarding his challenge to TNA's Dixie Carter and see how many of his fans are willing to support him and buy his iRiff of the film instead of just illegally downloading the movie elsewhere.

{{quote|'''Spoony:''' "I won't condone piracy. I simply ask you to support the site if you enjoyed the rifftrax. $1 isn't much to ask for an evening's fun."}}

* [[Magic Versus Science]]: Parodied in reference to ''[[Final Fantasy VIII]]'' [[Ass Pull]] "anti-magic field", with a projector for such a thing being sold in a home shopping channel-type segment by Dr. Insano. Without any fuel. A similar gag re-appears in the ''[[Final Fantasy X]]'' review, with Dr. Insano selling an anti-magic negator...and being completely astounded when it turns out you can take it out with a Blitzball.

* [[Maniac Monkeys]]: The "[[28 Days Later|Rage]] Monkeys" that Spoony's so obsessed with in [[Ripper]].

* [[Mathematician's Answer]]: Spoony's take on the changes to Yuna between [[Final Fantasy X]] and [[Final Fantasy X-2]].

{{quote|'''Spoony:''' Quite a long way from the traditional kimono she wore before, and her previous characterization as a kind, demure, religious care-giver with a tragic fate. But is this huge change in outfit and characterization because of the radical cultural shift in Spira because of the exposure of Yevon as a maniacal, genocidal cult run by the undead bent on world domination... or just because japanese perverts want to see some cleavage and her cute ass in boy's shorts? Good question... The answer is "Yes".}}

* [[Mid-Review Sketch Show]]: Spoony tends to include vaguely related comedy skits with his reviews from time to time, the most elaborate of which by far were the "Predaborg" skits filmed by Ed Glaser of Dark Maze Studios, as a comedic pastiche of the film Spoony was reviewing, ''Robowar''. His skits tend to receive a mixed reaction, with some fans being exceedingly upset by how characters like Dr. Insano hog up so much screen time from his reviews, and others asking for more comedy (Chuckles the Jester's appearance in a recent video seems to be directly inspired by the latter group).

* [[Mind Screw]]: The "Madness of Roland" video.

* [[Missing White Woman Syndrome]]: Although she isn't missing, Spoony has a point that Reb Brown in ''Mercenary Fighters'' just looks on with a slight hint of disapproval as a dozen African women are lined up and mowed down, but when the [[Scary Black Man]] is putting his hands on that one white woman? Oh, now it's on!

* [[Monster Clown]]: Insano-as-[[Final Fantasy VI|Kefka]] in his [[Final Fantasy X]] review.

** "Tell me... about Disneyland..."

* [[Negative Continuity]]: Don't try to rack your brain over Insano's origins, Spoony's clones and wherever the hell Black Lantern Spoony fits into all of this. Clearly, [[Genre Savvy|as a fan of the show]], he has the [[MST3K Mantra]] in mind.

** Spoony himself has said "I find it funny people are trying to figure out the continuity at work in this vid. You know what, there ''is'' no continuity, there is only Insano."

* [[Nightmare Face]]: [[media:spoony face.png|The end of the Madness of Roland review.]]

* [[Record Needle Scratch]]: After playing porn music to acompany Quistis in his first Final Fantasy VIII video, the camera will continue to cut to Spoony becoming more and more interested in Quistis until he is seen with a jar of lotion in his hand, and he sees the camera is on. Cue the scratch.

* [[Reference Overdosed]]: Especially his ''Phantasmagoria2'' [[Let's Play]], where much of the humour comes from the way he crams in a reference to a film/game/internet meme in practically every sentence.

* [[Rewind, Replay, Repeat]]:

{{quote|'''[[Ultima|The avatar]]:''' [[As You Know|What's a paladin?]]

** Fitting in references to and clips of the [[David Lynch]] version of ''[[Dune]]'' every time he reviews something that involves a desert. Though admittedly in the case of ''[[Final Fantasy X]]'' the game was blatantly referencing ''Dune'' itself.

** He's somehow managed to take [[Mystery Science Theater 3000|Crow and Servo's]] "[[Mad Max|Beyond Thunderdome]]" [[Incredibly Lame Pun]] and turn it into a running gag.

** "The [[Mad Libs Catchphrase|Whatever-est]] Thing Ever Filmed", a faux warning card that shows up in his reviews of Reb Brown films preceding scenes. These include "The Most Awesome Thing" ([[Yor, the Hunter from the Future]] using a rigor mortis-stiffened pterodactyl thing to hang glide into a cave and kick a purple caveman in the head); "The Funniest Thing" (Reb's character from ''Strike Commando'' in a [[Narm]]-tastic scene where he's tearfully talking about Disneyland to a dying child); and "The Manliest Thing" (Reb in ''Mercenary Fighters'' taking over a machine gun and using it to single-handedly kill a dozen enemies).

** "Ooooooo, NASTY." Whenever someone gets killed of gorily, Spoony cuts to a clip from [[Knightmare]].

** In his [[Let's Play]] of "[[Deadly Premonition]]," he makes several jokes about how the game compares to ''[[Heavy Rain]]''. This is probably a meta-reference to Benzaie's [[Let's Play]] of the latter game.

{{quote|"What, I can't see him take a shower? Minus two stars! I must see every single part of his daily morning routine!"}}

** In his ''[[Deadliest Warrior|Deadliest Character]]'' sketch, the ending where {{spoiler|[[Ass Pull|the Green Ranger and the Dragonzord come out of nowhere to help out]]}} was confirmed by Noah in his later commentary to be intended as a [[Take That]] at ''[[Deadliest Warrior]]'', specifically at their [[Dan Browned|less-than-sound]] conclusions.

** The review of ''Mercenary Fighter'', a dumb and cheesy 80s action flick, gives him the opportuniy to skewer ''[[Avatar (film)|Avatar]]'' by [[Sarcasm Mode|gushing about how brilliant the former's plot is]] and [[Seen It a Million Times|saying nobody in a million years could come up with a story like that]]...while Burton holds the DVD for ''Avatar'' in the background.

** This is followed by Randy Savage's Slim Jim commercial where he does this as well as the Kool-Aid Man.

* [[They Just Didn't Care]]: [[In-Universe|Noah firmly believes]] that either the makers of ''Highlander: The Source'' either didn't have a clue about the franchise or were deliberately trying to piss off the Highlander fans with it.

* [[This Is Gonna Suck]]: When talking about ''[[The Beastmaster]] II: Through the Portal of Time'' he uses this trope to describe the reaction of fans of the first movie as soon as they saw the poster for the second and the car on the front. This was also his reaction to the ''Warrior'' comics.

* [[Threat Backfire]]: In ''[[Ultima VIII]]'', the Guardian gloats about exiling the Avatar to a planet where nobody has heard of him and his exploits saving Britannia. Spoony points out that previous games have demonstrated that [[Dude, Where's My Respect?|no-one in]] ''[[Dude, Where's My Respect?|Britannia]]'' [[Dude, Where's My Respect?|seems to have heard of him or his exploits either]]!

{{quote|'''Spoony''': WHAT THE FUCK DID YOU JUST SPELL, YOU STUPID PILLOCK?!}}

* [[Too Soon]]: Invoked by Spoony after he refers to a wrestler being choked out as being "''[[Chris Benoit]]''ed".

* [[With Lyrics]]: He uses the tune of "Ode to Joy" for this in his ''[[Final Fantasy VIII]]'':

{{quote|''"Quistis, boobies, Quistis, boobies, Squall is getting laid tonight!"''}}

* [[Zeerust]]: When reviewing games/movies made in the past but set in the future, he will often compare the technology presented there to that which now exists, such as [[IProduct|Apple iProducts]]. Shows up a lot in his [[Let's Play]] of ''[[Ripper]]''.

 

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