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Meet [[Noah Antwiler]], self-described "terrifying result of a generation raised on [[MTV]] and films by [[Jean
He began with ''[[The Adventures of Bayou Billy]]'', the quintessential [[Nintendo Hard]] title "which probably contributed a great deal to making me the psychological mess I am today," before moving on to the likes of ''[[E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (video game)|E.T.]]'' for the Atari 2600 (a review he made while recovering from having his wisdom teeth removed, setting "some kind of [[Macho Masochism|world record for pain]]").
He is perhaps most famous for his eviscerating reviews of the ''[[Final Fantasy]]'' series, specifically otherwise-beloved titles such as [[Final Fantasy VIII|VIII]] and [[Final Fantasy X|X]], which earned him a spot at [[That Guy With The Glasses]]. Additionally, Spoony garnered attention for his [[Mystery Science Theater 3000]]-style [[Let's Play|Lets Plays]] of ''[[Phantasmagoria 2]]: A Puzzle of Flesh'' and ''[[Ripper]]'' (which he slogged through in the dark ages of pre-[[
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.
Check it out [
In addition to his video and game reviews, Spoony also hosts a number of other video series. He has a spin-off site called [https://web.archive.org/web/20141218143712/http://wrestlewrestle.com/ ''Wrestle! Wrestle!''] that deals with [[Professional Wrestling]], which is updated on a semi-regular basis. He also has the [[Counter Monkey]] series, which recounts stories from his [[Tabletop Game]] days (all tropes for that series should go on its own page). Spoony also has a [[Star Wars: The Old Republic|Star Wars the Old Republic]] guild, [https://web.archive.org/web/20131118190755/http://spoonyexpendables.com/ The Spoony Expendables].
His live stream is [https://web.archive.org/web/20110807061244/http://en.justin.tv/spoonyone here], on which he sporadically plays games like SWAT 4, [[X-COM (Video Game)|X-COM]], Ultima Underworld and others. He also did an impromptu Q&A with his fans concerning his stance on originality in Nintendo franchises.
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]].
A list of things reviewed by Spoony can be found [[The Spoony Experiment/Spoony One List|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.
** The Deadly Premonition LP was apparently discontinued as well. This was lampshaded during 2011's April Fools as he uploaded a video titled "Let's Play Deadly Premonition - part 2" almost one year after the first part was posted, and the still shot that appears before playing the video WAS of a previously unseen part of the game, complete with text that looks like the kind of captions Spoony frequently includes in his videos. Turned out the video was actually a Cinema Snob parody and a review of an obscure bad movie. And no, that movie had nothing in common with Deadly Premonition.
** The [[Deadliest Warrior|Deadliest Character]] was nixed after its first episode because it took far too much time and effort to produce and the original animator couldn't do another episode, though he hasn't ruled out a possible
* [[Accentuate the Negative]]: On the one hand, Spoony/Noah will give credit where credit is due, as with ''[[Final Fantasy X]]'',<ref>Grudgingly admitting to enjoying the battle system, and praising the high quality of both the soundtrack and cutscenes, even going so far as to call the latter "heartbreakingly beautiful"</ref>
** In his vlog for ''[[The Avengers (film)|The Avengers]]'', Noah says that he thinks people misjudge him as overly negative because when he says "This movie was okay, I just didn't care for it personally", it gets misinterpreted as "This movie was shit". The specific example he gives is ''[[Captain America: The First Avenger]]'', saying that he always thought [[Captain America (comics)]] was a bit two-dimensional but the movie was well-made and it's just his own hang-up that kept him from enjoying it more.
** In his vlog for ''Snow White and the Huntsman'', Noah says that [[Kristen Stewart]] isn't a very good actress and is [[Informed Attractiveness|not nearly as hot as the film makes her out to be]], but he says that he's not trying to hate on her just to jump on the ''[[Twilight]]'' [[Hatedom]], and [[Apologizes a Lot]], remarking that he really does want to like her but she just annoys him.
* [[Acting for Two]]: Spoony occasionally shares the screen with other characters played by himself, including Dr. Insano, Chef Ramsay, [[Final Fantasy VIII|Squall Leonhart]], [[Fu Manchu]], Spencer D. Bum, the [[Ultimate Warrior|Ultimate Spoony]], [[Pirates of the Caribbean|Cap'n Smiling Jack D'Arcy]], the [[Atmosfear|Gate Cleaner]], [[Hulk Hogan|Hulk Spogan]], [[Battlefield Earth|Terl]], "Spoonette", Spoontock! of the [[Star Trek|Klingon Empire]], [[Ultima|Chuckles the Fucking Jester]], [[Final Fantasy X|Tidus]], [[Ultima|The Avatar]], [[Final Fantasy X
* [[Actor Allusion]]: A common gag. For example, when [[Christopher Lee]] appears in a film he will reference his roles as Dracula and Saruman, and his ''Cage'' review has constant references to Lou Ferrigno's most famous role as [[The Incredible Hulk]].
* [[Actor IS the Title Character]]: Spoony is fond of invoking this trope, for example during his ''[[Ripper]]'' LP:
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"Christopher Walken IS the ''Lawnmower Man''!" }}
* [[Adorkable]]: The guy gave his dog a Twitter account. Enough said.
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* [[Artificial Stupidity]]: The squad in ''[[SWAT 4]]'' have a tendency to hit you with flashbangs, which prompts Spoony to yell [[Running Gag|"YOU FOOL !"]] They also have a tendency to run in front of Spoony's gun while he's trying to fire, getting themselves or Spoony killed countless times.
** [[Memetic Mutation|"You're in my way, sir!"]]
* [[Artist Disillusionment]]: Spoony suffers this every so often, thanks to a large group of posters on his website being incredibly rude to anyone that's not Spoony or his brother Miles.
** ''It Came From Beyond Midnight'', a [[Screwed by the Network|canceled public access TV show]] in which Spoony has a small role. He uploaded it in addition to his own content, only for it to increasingly come under fire by his fans for not being fully Spoony-related content because it bloated the front page of his website every time Spoony uploaded a new segment (seven videos per episode). He got mad about it and called out his fans on Twitter, saying his friends are more important than the opinions of the whiners.
** Fans attacked his then-girlfriend after ''one'' appearance.
** Apparently [[Atop the Fourth Wall|Linkara]] and Noah have exchanged stories about the ridiculous [[Fan Dumb]] they've encountered whenever they do a cross-over.
** [[Film Brain]]'s collaboration with Spoony for the live-action [[Tekken]] movie lead to his brief return for the [[Dead or Alive|DOA]] review, where Spoony's fans lay a medieval siege upon Film Brain's home.
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* [[As You Know]]: Spoony is very, VERY displeased with the method of delivering [[Exposition]] to new players in [[Ultima]] 9, which is accomplished by giving the player dialogue options to just ask about things from the world of Brittania that he should already know. His personal low point is when he asks what a 'paladin' is, when the previous games featured a paladin as his loyal friend who performed a [[Heroic Sacrifice]] to die on the Avatar's behalf.
* [[A-Team Firing]]: Tends to happen to Spoony a '''lot''' during his ''[[SWAT 4]]'' playthrough, much to his annoyance.
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** Also parodied extensively in his ''Robowar'' review, in response to the plethora of scenes the soldiers are just randomly firing into the greenery like crazy. Cue Spoony firing dual AK-47's into the camera, as Sean Fausz and Angry Joe join in as well.
* [[Attention Deficit Creator Disorder]]: He is rarely working on fewer than two projects.
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* [[Badass Labcoat]]: Dr. Insano.
* [[Bag of Spilling]]: In his ''Ultima VII, Part 2'' review, he mentions how he hates it when this trope ''just is,'' but he does like it when there's a decent explanation behind it. In that game, you start off with all the goodies from the previous installment as [[A Taste of Power]], and then lose them all to a "teleport storm" later.
* [[The Beautiful Elite]]: After traveling to Washington DC to protest an internet censorship law, Spoony claimed that Capitol Hill's female population is entirely like this, even the police.
* [[Be Careful What You Wish For]]: Insano ending his ''Dungeonmaster'' review shouting "Where's my ''[[Dungeons
* [[Berserk Button]]: In ''Swat 4'', "You're in my way, sir" from his AI squadmates, leading to some truly epic rants, including the famous "[[I'm Having Soul Pains|I will punch you in the fucking soul!]]"
** [[Ultima IX]] is not just a button, but an entire damn berserk switchboard!
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* [[Bias Steamroller]]: [[Rule of Cautious Editing Judgment|Has been known to drive one...a lot]]. He's fully aware of when he's doing it, too.
* [[Big Damn Heroes]]: Towards the end of his ''[[Final Fantasy X]]'' review. And of all people, it's {{spoiler|Pumpkinhead}}.
** At the end of ''[[Final Fantasy X
* [[Big No]]: Invoked and subverted in ''Ripper'' when Catherine collapses:
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'''Jake''': ''FUCK!''
'''Spoony''': ... That works too, I guess. }}
** 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.
** Done over [http://twitter.com/TheSpoonyOne/status/35525987588509696 Twitter] when he learned that the writer of the ''[[Twilight (novel)|Twilight]]'' film would be scripting the ''[[Highlander]]'' [[
** 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]]''.
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* [[Big Ol' Eyebrows]]: In ''[[Tekken the Motion Picture]]'', Spoony began mocking Kazuya's and Heihachi's huge eyebrows as his own eyebrows progressively grew bigger before he peeled them off.
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* [[Big Word Shout]]: '''PUUUMPKIIINHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAD!!!'''
** '''BEEETRAAAYAAALLLLLLLL!!!'''
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** And again in the Final Fantasy X finale when he learns that after beating {{spoiler|Yu Yevon Tidus will disappear}}, complete with stock footage of crowds erupting into excited applause and celebration.
* [[Black Comedy Rape]]: Spooning With Spoony.
* [[
* [[Blind Idiot Translation]]: ''SWAT 4'', Mission 10: "Moviefilm For Make Training Of Police And Laughing Time"
* [[Book Ends]]: At the beginning of the first video of his ''[[Final Fantasy VIII]]'' review, Spoony comments on how as bad as he said the game was, ''[[Final Fantasy X]]'' was worse. Guess what his last message at the end of the final episode is.
** His ''[[Final Fantasy X]]'' review begins with the original Spoony (Who died at the end of his ''[[Final Fantasy VIII]]'' review) returning to take the show back from his clone, essentially book ending the period between the two reviews with the death & return of the real Spoony.
*** The final part of his ''FFX'' review featured {{spoiler|1=the original/[[Green Lantern|Black Lantern Spoony]] trying to take the show back again, providing book ends for the review; and culminated with the merging of the original & his clone, providing a book end to the era of the Spoony Clone}}. It also featured several call backs to the final part of his ''FFVIII''
* [[Borrowed Catchphrase]]:
** From fellow [[That Guy With The Glasses]] reviewer [[Atop the Fourth Wall|Linkara]]: '''I AM A MAN!!''' *PUNCH*
*** He borrows it again in his ''Ultima Underworld 2'' review, but follows it up with a [[Groin Attack|knee to the groin]] instead of a punch.
** There's also his use of [[The Nostalgia Critic]]'s gag of having [[Street Fighter|M. Bison]] appear on screen yelling [[Take Over the World|"OF COURSE!"]]
** He's also used the Nostalgia Critic's "I WAS FROZEN TODAY!"
** He also borrowed the "PWNED!" from Fat Mann Judgeth once.
** [[
*** Later, in the commentary for the finale of ''[[Final Fantasy X]]'' (which featured call-backs to the finale for ''[[Final Fantasy VIII]]'' he references the [[
* [[Breaking the
* [[Brick Joke]]: The first part of his ''[[Final Fantasy X]]'' review features the original Spoony returning to take his show back from his clone, before promptly killing himself and being resurrected as a [[Green Lantern|Black Lantern]] when told of the subject of the latest review. {{spoiler|The third part of the review features Black Lantern Spoony raising Tidus with a Black Lantern Ring, with the intent of using him to take back the show from the clone}}.
** An even further one: in the ''Partymania'' review the (alternate) Dr. Insano's origin is that he was one of the Schlumper brothers who was scorned by the unnamed female protagonist and went on to become evil. In the ''Warrior #2-3'' review Dr. Linksano references bringing glory to the Schlumper name, implying that he is the other Schlumper brother. {{spoiler|And given that his universe was conquered by Lord Vyce right before Linksano jumped universes, alternate!Insano is probably not doing very well.}}
** Again during the first part of his [[Final Fantasy X]] review, Dr. Insano walked in asking if anybody had seen Neutro. {{spoiler|It was later revealed that [[Atop the Fourth Wall|Linkara]] had stolen Neutro from Dr. Insano in his [[Power Rangers Zeo]] Comic review.}}
** In Dr. Insano's review of ''The Dungeonmaster'', Dr. Insano forces [[Bennett the Sage]] to provide footages for ''[[
* [[Broke the Rating Scale]]: Spoony finally decided to [[Overly Long Gag|do away with]] the Ass Counter in ''Dead or Alive''. Holly Valance and Sarah Carter cause it to '''EXPLODE'''.
* [[Brother-Sister Incest]]: The vibe Spoony got from the Marky Mark ''Make My Video''. It doesn't help that the actors in question ''happen'' to resemble him and his sister.
* [[Bruce Lee Clone]]: His subject when reviewing the movie ''The Clones of Bruce Lee''.
* [[Bury Your Gays]]: He was particularly incensed by this in {{spoiler|Phantasmagoria}} as it resulted in the death of the only character he actually didn't want to see die horribly.
* [[Buxom Is Better]]: He certainly seems to think so. This trips him up in his Beastmaster and Final Fantasy X reviews and he laments that the actress cast as the female lead in King of Fighters was not buxom like the video game character (though that's only one of a list of things they got wrong about her that he complains about.)
* [[Call Back]]: The Insano Experiment.
** For his "Lords of Magick" review, he says, "Yeah! Let's contact the devil!" and holds up a magic lamp, referring back to his ''[[Final Fantasy VIII]]''' review which had Satan in a lamp.
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** When reviewing a foreign or incredibly obscure movie, "... unless you know some especially deranged Hong Kong bootleggers. And I do."
** Spoony has a new one for his show ''Wrestle! Wrestle!'' - "Future endeavors". The WWE uses it as a polite euphemism for "he's been fired"; Spoony uses it to mean "The company's going to screw you up the ass, quit while you still have your dignity".
** ''[[Critical Research Failure|"How do you fuck that up!?"]]''
** The ''[[Ultima]]'' retrospective has given us "I'm the goddamn Avatar!"
** "Betrayal!" Started with X-Com but has now carried over to Ultima IX - So much so that it's the signal for the revitalized plot hole counter. (and we're apparently going to hear it A LOT in this review.)
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* [[Cloning Blues]]: Inverted, as the clone Spoony is able to pick up right where his predecessor left off. The original is killed, resurrected as a Black Lantern, then briefly brought back to normal before being killed and turned into a Black Lantern again.
* [[Cloudcuckoolander]]: His Ultimate Warrior persona is this in spades and ironically very accurate to the real-life Warrior's rambling and odd promos.
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"BUTTONS! BUTTONS! WHO'S GOT THE BUTTONS?!"
"IF YOU WANNA BE MY LOVER, YOU GOTTA GET WITH MY FRIENDS!! MAKE IT LAST FOREVER, BECAUSE FRIENDSHIP NEVER ENDS, HOAK HOGAN!!" }}
* [[Cluster F-Bomb]]:
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** Also during the end of his Deadliest Warrior follow-up.
* [[Cold-Blooded Torture]]: After being driven to madness by the inanity of TNA in what would become the first "Wrestle! Wrestle!" vlog, he suggests that he should force the people watching the vlog to watch TNA.
* [[Complaining About Shows You Don't Watch]]: [[Lampshaded]] in that he's never actually played ''[[Final Fantasy IX]]'', beyond maybe two hours, but avoided it ''solely'' because he hated the art style, and hadn't been paying any attention to the first two hours, since he wrote Zidane off as an "androgynous-whiny-pansy-ass character". He also admitted that "it was likely that [he] was being fiercely unfair" to ''[[Final Fantasy IX]]'' on judging it by its art style, especially when the game was specifically targeted at fans of the NES and [[Super Nintendo]]-era [[Final Fantasy]] games like him, but he just couldn't get over it.
** He elaborated in his Q&A at MAGfest, and admitted his reasons for avoiding it were entirely childish, and he really can't stand the art style so much that he simply can't make himself keep playing.
* [[Completely Missing the Point]]: [[Played for Laughs]] During his ''[[Ultima IX]]'' review, he pretty much is oblivious to the fact that the Avatar asks questions he should know ''specifically'' to prevent [[Continuity Lock Out]], without even pointing out that [[As You Already Know|they did this a different way in past games]].
* [[Contemptible Cover]]: Seeing the [[Wing Commander (film)|Wing Commander]] DVD cover causes some 30 seconds of Spoony [[Screams Like a Little Girl|screaming at high pitch]].
* [[Collectible Card Game]]: Spoony [http://akuoreo.deviantart.com/gallery/?q=Spoony appears] in the [[MSF High]] Collectible card game.
** A deck designed to counterpoint his, besides the Linkara deck, is [https://www.thegamecrafter.com/games/msf-high-card-game:-omeganek this one].
* [[Cool Versus Awesome]]: Spoony enjoys the last ten minutes of the show [[Deadliest Warrior]] for this reason, where the anachronistic warriors actually square off; but condemns most of the rest of the show on general [[Did Not Do the Research|research issues]] such as ignoring much of the circumstances of how various warriors would fight; a pirate, for example, wouldn't just be walking around, he'd be with 50 other pirates, ''on a pirate ship,'' and there's no way you'd ever be fighting just ''one'' Spartan.
** The rivalry that Spoony's alter ego Dr. Insano has with Linkara arguably falls into this category as well. Linkara has magical weapons (and cheat codes), Insano has mad science, and both are entertaining as hell.
** His parody of ''Deadliest Warrior'', ''Deadliest Character'' does the same as the TV show, but with fictional characters, namely the [[Mighty Morphin Power Rangers|Megazord]] {{spoiler|and later, the Dragonzord}} versus [[Godzilla|Mechagodzilla]].
* [[Cool and Unusual Punishment]]: Dr. Insano figured out a way to obtain game footage of [[
* [[Cosmic Retcon]]: Linkara punching the wall, a la [[Infinite Crisis|Superboy-Prime]], caused Dr. Insano to become a man (according to Linkara, anyway).
* [[Covers Always Lie]]: A [[Defied Trope]]. He screams in horror looking at the cover for ''[[Wing Commander (film)|Wing Commander]]: The Movie'' and explains thus: "You know that old saying, you can't judge a book by its cover? Well fuck you! That's books, not movies!"
** In regards to ''[[Final Fantasy IX]]'', he thinks Zidane fits in the stereotypical mold of a whiny, depressive ''[[Final Fantasy]]'' hero based solely on the cover art. He does admit that it's "massively unfair", but says that he just can't get over his dislike for the game's art style.
* [[
** Likewise, at one point in the video, guest-speaker Linkara points out that Mechagodzilla has failed to defeat Godzilla. In reality, Godzilla was unable to beat the Showa Mechagodzilla on his own and required both the help of King Caesar and humanity to defeat.
** Given the nature of [[Deadliest Warrior|the show]] he's parodying, this might be intentional.
* [[Creator Breakdown]]: July 2009 was not an easy month for him. His equipment was fucking up, his site was fucking up, and on top of that he was in the process of moving out of his parents' house. All this while trying to film the final ''[[Final Fantasy VIII]]'' video. Fortunately, it all worked out well in the end.
** Parodied in his review of ''Mazes and Monsters'', after a line about the need to go to MIT as soon as possible strikes too close to home.
** 2011 as a whole was also not kind to Spoony, as in addition to his health problems, he and his girlfriend (who was also in charge of a large portion of the technical stuff on the site) split up, and he did some soul-searching after PAX East got him questioning his capability as a journalist (citing his fanboying during an interview regarding ''[[Portal 2]]'' as proof that he couldn't be objective). And even after PAX, Spoony was dealing with depression and issues with sleeping, making it hard for him to do videos other than V-logs and Counter Monkeys. His V-log of Breaking Dawn Part 1, while funny, was pretty much the low point of the year, where he had actually [[I Need a Freaking Drink|resorted to drinking]] and needed [[Atop the Fourth Wall|Linkara]] and [[Jew Wario]] to get through the V-log.
** Luckily, 2012 seems to be going much better so far.
* [[Crossover]]:
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** Spoony and [[Bennett the Sage]] have made an annual tradition of reviewing bad anime.
* [[Cut His Heart Out with a Spoon]]: Has this to say for the VA who voices [[Exposition Fairy|the Ferario]] in ''[[Yoshiyuki Tomino|Garzey's Wing]]'':
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* [[Cut Lex Luthor a Check]]: Insano says Paul in ''[[The Dungeonmaster]]'' should patent his inventions "and make a zillion dollars!"
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** In Doctor Insano's ''[[Ferris Bueller's Day Off|Ferris Buellers Day Off]]'' review, he's shocked at the prospect of going to Chicago and not visiting the "Urkel House".
* [[Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?]]:
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* [[Different in Every Episode]]: Spoony does most of his reviews just sitting in his green chair where you can see posters hanging on the walls in the corner directly behind him. In almost every review he does, he changes those posters to reflect something relevant to the review itself, usually a movie poster or wallscroll of the movie or game he's reviewing. If it's anything ''[[Highlander]]'' related, it'll usually be a poster of that movie. Anything Japanese game related, expect to see wallscrolls of the game or of ''[[Cowboy Bebop]]: The Movie''.
* [[Disposable Sex Worker]]: During ''The Lords of Magick'', the [[Big Bad]] sorcerer tempts one of the protagonist to do a [[Face Heel Turn]] by telling him to go after whores, one of whom he then kills. This prompts Spoony to call his lawyer, complaining that this proves he shouldn't have taken the insanity plea when he told the court that [[A Wizard Did It|a wizard made him kill those hookers]].
* [[Distracted by the Sexy]]: In his ''Final Fantasy X'' review, he rants at one point about how Rikku is nothing more than a fanservice character and is only 15, until a picture of a cosplayer dressed as Rikku appears on-screen.
* [[Disturbed Doves]]: A flock of doves precedes Spoony busting out the SPAS-12.
* [[Division By Zero]]: In his ''[[Highlander II the Quickening]]'' review, the following sentence, from the back of the movie's VHS tape box, causes a "divide by zero" error:
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* [[Doing It for the Art]]: What else can you say about someone who is actually risking death to make free videos?
** About the only people who come close, are those who purposely died doing movies, or manga...and they got paid!
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* [[Drinking Game]]: He made one for ''[[Tekken: Blood Vengeance]]'': take a shot every time [[Continuity Lock Out|something happens that doesn't make sense unless you've played the games]], and take two shots every time something happens that makes '''less''' sense if you've played the games, like Sumo wrestler Ganryu randomly being a gym teacher.
** Immediately after announcing this, though, he subverts it when the film opening with a schoolgirl riding a giant panda at [[Super Speed]] causes him to [[I Need a Freaking Drink|chug the entire bottle]].
* [[Drop
** Dr. Insano and Spencer D. Bum.
* [[Dude, Not Funny]]:
** As a [[Running Gag]], whenever he makes a really dark joke or reference, the camera cuts to [[Stock Footage]] of a crowd booing at a rally.
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** During the third part of the ''[[Final Fantasy X]]'', he pulls this ''on the game itself'', when Wakka compares the destruction of Home to "happy festival fireworks". He even calls it the most insensitive thing he's ever heard been uttered in any form of fiction.
** In the commentary for the review of ''[[Highlander: The Source|Highlander the Source]]'', he claims that he'll never again make a joke about suicide, as one of his fans killed himself shortly after sending him an email about it.
* [[DVD Commentary]]: Does commentaries for many videos, including for ''[[Kickassia]]''.
* [[Early-Bird Cameo]]: Spoony's original video intro began with him screaming in horror at Yuna singing in the opening of ''[[
* [[Early Installment Weirdness]]: Spoony's early reviews lack an intro or theme song, and are credited to "[[Fan Wank|Fanwankery Films]]", a name he seems to have abandoned.
** The earliest ones were also ad-libbed. He didn't begin writing scripts until around the reviews of ''Robin Hood'' and ''[[The Thing (video game)|The Thing]]''. This resulted in the jokes being much more polished, and is frequently credited as the period his show started [[Growing the Beard]].
* [[Enemy Mine]]: Played for laughs in his LP of Deadly Premonition. One of the puzzles requires him to carry a fuse box with him.
* [[The European Carry All]]: From the Final Fantasy VIII finale,
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Spoony: "Wow, a time compressor, it...kind of looks like an [[
Insano: "IT'S A TIME COMPRESSOR!" }}
* [[Even Evil Has Standards]]:
** Dr. Insano can't stand [[Ferris Bueller's Day Off|Ferris Bueller's]] lack of work ethic, his spoiled, self-centered nature, and his complete lack of goals beyond his own personal amusement.
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* [[Even the Rats Won't Touch It]]: Apparently a pizza from Peter Piper's Pizza is so lacking in nutrition that even bugs avoid it as evidenced by a pizza left sitting for a month and a half that remained completely untouched.
* [[Precious Puppies]]: He has one now.
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** Spoony is shocked to learn that when Samurai Zombie Nation says it stars "head of the samurai Namakubi" it isn't kidding. You literally play as a disembodied head.
** Also, his explanation of the power "Death Field" in the "Gamma World Unboxing" Vlog:
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* [[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]].
* [[Extremely Overdue Library Book]]: It's heavily implied that Spoony didn't returned the ''The Lords of Magick'' VHS after borrowing it from the library twenty years ago.
* [[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.
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* [[Face Heel Turn]]: Claimed [http://twitter.com/TheSpoonyOne/statuses/21237726571 this] on his Twitter. [[Epileptic Trees|Are we witnessing the birth of Insano?]]
** [[Kayfabe|It's a work]], of course. He also seems to be feuding with Maffew of ''[[Botchamania]]''.
* [[Face Palm]]: He covers his whole face in shame with both hands after hearing Wakka tell Rikku not to be too disheartened about seeing her home city get destroyed in his [[Final Fantasy X]] review.
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'''Spoony:''' '''"...Happy... Festival... Fireworks!?''' That could be the '''STUPIDEST, MOST INSENSITIVE, IDIOT THING any character has ever said in ANY WORK OF FICTION!''' That's like trying to cheer people up after Hurricane Katrina.... by saying it's ''a giant happy waterpark!"'' }}
** And when Yuna in [[Final Fantasy X
* [[Fan Disservice]]: During ''[[The Beastmaster]]'' review, upon seeing a sorceress teleport out of her clothes as the camera pans up her body:
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* [[Fantastic Racism]]:
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'''Spoony''': "Now that's just racist.''' }}
* [[Fate Worse Than Death]]:
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'''Spoony:''' You insane fiend! I'm not gonna read that shit again!
'''Doctor Linksano:''' Well, I suppose we can get the same results by watching [[Total Nonstop Action|TNA Impact]]...
'''Spoony:''' Aaah! All right, I'll read it! }}
** 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.
** And when [https://web.archive.org/web/20130706212343/http://blip.tv/the-spoony-experiment/game-over-review-6116958 reviewing the film
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* [[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.
** The Counter Monkey episodes seem like this as well, seeing as they were put out during a period when Spoony didn't feel the creative juices flowing, and was dealing with health issues yet again, at least they kept us entertained.
*** [[Rodents of Unusual Size|Dormouse.]]
* [[Flat What]]:
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'''Spoony:''' What.
'''[[Ultima|The Avatar:]]''' [[Rewind, Replay, Repeat|The Codex of Ultimate Wisdom?]]
'''Spoony:''' ''What.''
'''[[Ultima|The Avatar:]]''' [[Rule of Three|The Codex of Ultimate Wisdom?]]
'''Spoony:''' '''[[Sanity Slippage|AAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH]]''' }}
* [[Foil]]: Noah's brother Miles, who's considerably calmer than his brother.
* [[Follow the Leader]]: Subverted in real life. He had intended to start a [[Mystery Science Theater 3000]] style show (which explains his blue robot pal Burton
* [[Foreshadowing]]: He ended his review of Strike Commando with the claim he was going to find an "American Reb Brown movie, made by Americans...in America!" Two months later he reviewed the two Captain America movies, the second of which ended with an appearance from [[Yu-Gi-Oh!: The Abridged Series|The Gatekeither]].
** His Clones of Bruce Lee review ended with the Spoony Bum inviting Noah and Dr. Insano to play boardgames with him. Among the stack of games he holds up is Nightmare, which Spoony reviewed for Halloween a few months later.
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* [[Freudian Slip]]: In [http://twitter.com/TheSpoonyOne/status/5140396720001024 this] tweet.
* [[Freudian Slippery Slope]]: Goes into one when Lulu and her "female advantages" are introduced in ''FFX''
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** And again in Part 3 of the ''FFX-2'' review when Leblanc offers to help the Gullwings.
* [[Freeze-Frame Bonus]]: In the new awesome animated Intro, you can see a few things on the shelves with references to various games and movies he's reviewed, such as "[[SWAT 4|You're In My Spot, Sir]]," "[[Ripper|Unfucking Believable]]", and "Spooning With Spoony Volume 19".
** He inserted [[Where's Wally?|Wally]] into the crowd of the concert scene in ''Final Fantasy X-2''.
* [[Friend in the Black Market]]
* [[Funetik Aksent]]: His description of the ''Nightmare'' review refers to the "blagoh," or "black hole" in the Gatekeeper's Cockney accent.
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*** Oreo tends to do this a lot, in both vlogs and reviews. Which is a good thing, since she doesn't ruin takes, she enhances them.
* [[Furry Confusion]]: He brings up the classic case of this during his ''[[Kingdom Hearts]]'' livestream:
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== G-I ==
* [[Gag Nose]]: Noah is known to make fun of his nose, including referring to it as a "Jew Nose" when he sees the shadow it casts during one commentary with Bennett.
* [[Gag Sub]]: The onscreen lyrics to the music which plays during [[The Beastmaster|Dar]]'s "[[You Killed My Father|Seeking for Revenge]] [[Training Montage|Montage]]" (also serves as a [[Call Back]] to ''[[Yor, the Hunter from the Future|Yor The Hunter From The Future]]''):
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If you been travel, he'll be there to fly the bat
Winning saaaaand! }}
* [[Gaydar]]: Dr. Insano has one in the ''[[The Beastmaster|Beastmaster 2]]'' review. The [[Camp Gay]] store clerk is so flaming that it overloads. He never actually explains why he would need one.
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** He and Linkara [[Oh Crap|learn the hard way]] that Kristanna Loken is actually very perceptive when it comes to interviewers trying to humiliate her for her role in Bloodrayne.
* [[The Ghost]]: Dr. Insano's nurse.
* [[Giftedly Bad]]: Spoony presents actor Reb Brown and director Bruno Mattei as examples of this. Also [[Uwe Boll]] to some extent, but only in his movie commentaries rather than the movies themselves.
* [[A God Am I]]: Terl claims godhood due to his amazing ability to [[What Kind of Lame Power Is Heart, Anyway?|instinctively know how high above sea level any location is, without help.]]
* [[Go-Karting with Bowser]]: Spoony allows Dr. Insano to join him in reviewing ''The Clones of Bruce Lee'', despite the fact that Insano {{spoiler|hired Squall to kill him in the previous episode}}. They even live together now.
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* [[Grand Finale]]: After spending several years ripping the game to pieces, Spoony brings his ''[[Final Fantasy VIII]]'' review to a close with {{spoiler|Dr.Insano turning on him and attempting a [[Hostile Show Takeover]] by sending Squall to kill him. Squall succeeds in mortally wounding him, but then Burton self destructs, killing him, Squall, Spoony, and destroying Spoony's entire house in a fiery explosion. Of course after the credits roll, Linkara recovers what's left of Spoony and states that he will bring him back to life. Which he does.}} Bonus points for that sequence originally being planned as a possible ending for the whole show given his major camera and website problems at the time. Everything ended up working out, so instead it just acts as a sendoff to the bedroom where he filmed the show until then, as he was finally moving out of his parents' house.
** Another one may be coming in the ''Ultima 9'' review, especially since he revealed at the end of ''Ultima 8'' that the entire point of the full series retrospective was to set up the review of the final game and just how much it betrayed all the games before it.
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** ''Bloodwings: Pumpkinhead's Revenge'' most definitely.
* [[Hair of the Dog]]: In his crossover review of the ''Garzey's Wing'' anime with Bennett The Sage, Spoony intentionally kills himself by inducing a stroke 1 minute into the OVA. 30 seconds later he's brought back to life.
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* [[Hat Shop]]: One character in ''Mazes and Monsters'' is wearing a different hat in every scene of the movie for absolutely no explained reason. Spoony calls this out and [[Running Gag|decides to do the same for the rest of the review]] until he eventually runs out.
** At one point he wears boxer shorts on his head.
* [[Ham
* [[Head Desk]]: Has one during his ''[[Final Fantasy X]]'' review when Rikku tells Tidus not to say he's from Zanarkand because it upsets people, only for Tidus to tell the Besaid Aurochs he's from Zanarkand FOUR MINUTES LATER.
* [[Hello, Insert Name Here]]:
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* [[He Panned It, Now He Sucks]]: Spoony is [[In-Universe|guilty of doing this]] himself; he yelled at the [[Riff Trax]] guys over on twitter for doing a Riff of ''[[Highlander]]''. Although it was done jokingly on his part; when he realized that the Rifftrax guys didn't treat it as a pretend feud, but thought he trolled in earnest, he immediately stopped and apologized.
* [[Hoist by His Own Petard]]:
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* [[Hurricane of Puns]]: In the ''Dragon Strike'' review, after a tree comes to life and attacks the elf. Eventually he apologizes and says he'll stop.
** 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.
* [[Hypocrisy Nod]]: In his review of ''Cage 2'', Spoony trashes the randomness of the climax, in which the little old FBI agent whips out a rocket launcher and uses it to shoot down the villain's helicopter. He asks "Who writes a story where an old guy just spontaneously whips out a bazooka?!" Instantly we get a still from the ''[[Ultima]]'' retrospective, showing Spoony as [[The Lord of the Rings|Gandalf]] with a grenade launcher. "Oh, shut up."
** 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.
* [[Hypocritical Humor]]:
** "I knew grown men who admitted to openly weeping at [[All There Is to Know About "The Crying Game"|the bit where Aeris dies in ''FFVII''.]] What a bunch of pussies." * Cut to a [[Flash Back]] of him in 1994, shedding [[Manly Tears]] over the opera scene in ''[[Final Fantasy VI]]''*
*** And later on he starts tearing up every time he mentions Aeris' death.
** "A robot puppet? How lame is that?"
** When his teammates in ''Swat 4'' throw flashbangs in such a way that it blinds ''him'', he yells "YOU FOOL!" A couple of times, he blinded ''himself'' with poorly thrown flashbangs, although he made sure to yell "YOU FOOL!" at himself.
** Furthermore, he calls everyone who likes "Eyes on Me" a complete pussy, and ends his Final Fantasy VIII review with a music video tribute of the cast set to the song. He says in the creator commentary "I call you all pussies then subject you to the pussy song. So yeah you're all pussies, you know what, I am too".
** In Part 1 of his ''[[Final Fantasy X]]'' review, Spoony criticizes the sexualization of underage characters like the 15-year-old Rikku... then starts drooling over a picture of a Rikku [[
*** [[Hilarious in Hindsight|Three-to-one: He cosplayed as Tidus during the last part of his]] [[Final Fantasy X]] [[Hilarious in Hindsight|review.]]
** Almost immediately afterward, he scoffs at the Al Bhed's characteristic spiralled irises. Cue Insano.
** Also, after going on about how Seymour Guado can't possibly be taken seriously due to his stupid hair and clothes, he becomes quite shaken at Seymour's summoning of Anima at the Blitzball Stadium.
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** In his review of ''Dungeonmaster'', Doctor Insano becomes angry at the [[New Powers as the Plot Demands]] offered by the hero's computer, comparing it to if Doctor Insano himself was able to shoot lightning out of his hand screaming "SCIENCE!" (Which Insano does. Frequently).
* [[I Always Wanted to Say That]]: While reviewing ''Strike Commando'', he points out one scene that is a blatant ripoff of a scene from ''[[Mad Max]] Beyond Thunderdome''. [[Mystery Science Theater 3000|"Can't we get... beyond Thunderdome?"]] Followed by celebrating his success at working the line into a review.
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*** His review of "Cage" brings the count to four, complete with celebratory dance.
* [[I Am the Trope]]: Arises from a hypothetical debate between a [[Lawful Good]] player and a trigger-happy pragmatic player.
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[gravely voice] I '''am''' justice. ('''SPLORCH''') }}
* [[Implacable Man]]: Squall who just. Wont. DIE!
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** "The morgue, people were just dying to get in there."
** Also, from his Terror TRAX PC review:
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'''Spoony:''' "Pulled your eyes out? That guys got some optic nerve!" }}
** There are several tree-related ones in rapid succession in the Dragon Strike video review:
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"I feel like such a sap"
"Its time we leaf"
"The apple doesn't fall far from the tree"
"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.
* [[Indestructible Edible]]: According to Spoony's story [https://web.archive.org/web/20130810090151/http://spoonyexperiment.com/2011/10/24/counter-monkey-the-toilet-pizza/ The Toilet Pizza] a pizza from Peter Piper's Pizza does not mold or decay instead just hardening into a pizza shaped slab of plastic.
* [[I Need a Freaking Drink]]: What Spoony says after a good 40 minute rant on The Slammies.
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** Happens quite literally in his [https://web.archive.org/web/20130818133423/http://spoonyexperiment.com/2011/11/19/vlog-11-19-11-breaking-dawn/ v-log] for the ''[[Twilight (novel)|Breaking Dawn]]'' film; Noah admits that he doesn't normally drink though he does keep alcohol on hand for guests, but the film was so terrible that he decided to get drunk.
** 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
* [[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]].
* [[In the Name of the Moon]]: In a crossover with [[Bennett the Sage]]:
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'''Spoony''': "For Lars.''' }}
* [[Insistent Terminology]]: "[[The Omniscient Council of Vagueness|The council of shadowy people who sit in poorly-lit rooms]] [[The Avengers (film)|who secretly run the world]]".
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** The same thing happened after his review of ''[[Highlander II the Quickening]]''; despite his claiming it to be the worst sequel (if not the worst movie) of all time. He subsequently found ''Highlander: Endgame'' to be arguably worse in certain areas; while the story isn't as bad, the direction and editing might actually be even more incompetent than the second film's. Finally, he declares ''Highlander: The Source'' to be vastly, unimaginably worse than ''The Quickening''.
* [[It Is Pronounced "Tro-PAY"]]: Spoony mocks Dave Thomas' pronunciation of fresh and fashion.
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* [[It's Personal]]: Spoony has mentioned several times that he prefers to review games and films that he has a personal connection with - in particular, ''awful'' games and films that he still feels burned that he wasted money on.
* [[It's the Best Whatever Ever!]]: After reading the synopsis of ''[[Samurai Zombie Nation]]'', declares it to have the "Best. Plot. EVER!"
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== J-L ==
* [[Jive Turkey]]: [https://web.archive.org/web/20131121111818/http://spoonyexperiment.com/2010/03/18/tse-riff-theater-gamecrazy-training-video/
* [[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.
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* [[Killed Off for Real]]: Spencer D. Bum at the start of the ''[[Final Fantasy X]]'' review's finale.
* [[Kleptomaniac Hero]]: In part 2 of his ''[[Final Fantasy X]]'' review, the first thing that comes to mind after Sin destroys Kilika village and leaves hundreds dead is to loot the bodies. Spoony figures Tidus wouldn't have a problem with it since he had no problem with stealing someone's potions from the ship just moments earlier.
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* [[Licked by the Dog]]: Happens with Dr. Insano after his attempt to create a world-eating monster out of cyboplasm [[Squick|and his own splooge]] only produces a fluffy pink [[Ridiculously Cute Critter]].
* [[Like a God to Me]]: Says that [[Ultima|Richard Garriot]] is "a god among nerds".
* [[Lord British Postulate]]: As well as demonstrating the [[Trope Namer]] in his Ultima Retrospective, Spoony discusses the trope in his Counter Monkey series when he unwisely gave Darth Vader a cameo in a Star Wars RPG and the adventurers promptly derailed the campaign out of obsession with trying to kill Vader.
* [[Love It or Hate It]]: [[In-Universe|He describes]] ''[[Final Fantasy VIII]]'' as this right off the bat during its review. While some of his fans love it, Spoony... doesn't.
* [[Lying Creator]]: Possibly. He announced the storyline of being banished to the Black Hole by the Gatecleaner if he didn't review a series of VCR board games within a year was being cancelled... only to pick it up again after that year had passed, with the Gatecleaner not being too happy that he failed to review them.
** Wouldn't be the first time, especially after he repeatedly denied that ''Spooning With Spoony 2'' was never going to happen during the TGWTG charity drive...barely an hour after ''Spooning With Spoony 2'' had been shot.
* [[Lyrical Dissonance]]: The theme song, ''"Break Me"'' by The Irresponsibles. While being a rousing piece of [[Crowning Music of Awesome]], it has rather dark lyrics you might notice on first hearing it. Lampshaded by Spoony in a commentary where he said he loved the song but it was "basically implying that I'm a girl who likes to be domestically abused."
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* [[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]].
* [[A Match Made in Stockholm]]: [https://web.archive.org/web/20130809232212/http://spoonyexperiment.com/hitman/ As noted] by Spoony in his written review, Agent 47's "relationship" with Olga Kurylenko's character in the ''[[Hitman]]'' movie strongly comes across as this. He drives across Russia while she's stuffed in his car trunk with a dead body, constantly threatens to torture and murder her, and drags her out of a restaurant by her hair. She becomes strangely attracted to him, very overtly tries to seduce him several times, and continues to accompany him when she has several opportunities to make a run for it. Being [[Asexuality|asexual]] 47 ignores her sexual advances, but does eventually show some degree of protection for her.
* [[Mathematician's Answer]]: Spoony's take on the changes to Yuna between [[Final Fantasy X]] and [[
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* [[Memetic Mutation]]: He uses clips from his infamous ahum, criticism, of the [[X Com]] remake as sound effect for his running counter of plot holes in [[Ultima]] 9, and it's inconsistency with the previous games. There's so many that we've heard '''"Betrayal!"''', '''"Betrayed me!"''' and "This game '''sucks!'''" more than 90 times in just part 1 of the review.
* [[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.
** The {{spoiler|items on Spoony's bookshelf moving and changing around}} during ''[[Game Over:
* [[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.
** Averted with Chuckles, who claims he's not a clown because "clowns get paid."
* [[Morally-Ambiguous Doctorate]]: Doctor Insano, natch.
* [[Most Annoying Sound]]: "You're in my way sir."
** Tidus in general, Tidus' forced laugh more specifically.
* [[
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* [[Multiple Choice Past]]: Is Dr. Insano an incarnation of Spoony trapped in a [[Stable Time Loop]]? Is he a high school loser named Alfonse Plumbottom (or Wayne Schlumper?) who had an unrequited crush on Spoony? Was he a woman (or a robot) until Linkara punched a hole in the fabric of the multiverse? Is he [[Highlander II the Quickening|an immortal from the planet Zeist?]] Is ''Spoony'' the future incarnation of Insano? [[Kickassia|Is Insano Spoony's "Mr. Hyde"-style alter ego?]] Was he all of the above because Linkara punched reality (Linkara only remembering the "transformed Insano" for some reason)? [[Word of God]] is that "the origins of Dr. Insano are shrouded in mystery".
** Noah drops the trope name in the audio commentary for ''[[Kickassia]]''. He also remarks that it's kind of impressive that he has fans dedicated enough to try and sort out the various "continuities" of Insano.
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* [[Murder Is the Best Solution]]: In his livestream of the DOS game ''Castles'', the game keeps giving him moral choices (such as whether to support an exiled rebel claimant to another throne) with the third option always being "...or HAVE HIM MURDERED!" This rapidly becomes a [[Running Gag]].
* [[My Friends and Zoidberg]]: In one of his Vlogs, Spoony describes the movie ''2012'' as having "a fantastic cast of really well known actors... and Amanda Peet."
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** "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.
** Won't keep us from [https://web.archive.org/web/20130925030604/http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/videolinks/teamt/cr/ff/27514-dr-insano trying.]
** 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:
* [[Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot]]:
** About ''[[Ultima I]]'':
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* [[No Dead Body Poops]]: Subverted in the ''Ultima 6'' review, where as revenge for Lord British being asleep and not waking up even when Spoony/The Avatar is dying from poison and needs healing, Spoony decides that as payback he'll die on Lord British's throne so that he'll wake up and find it covered in his voided bowels.
* [[No Ending]]: The ''[[Dirty Harry]]'' [[The Problem with Licensed Games|game]] would simply cut to a password screen upon completion of a level. Spoony would reproduce this shortly after in the review ''itself'', abruptly cutting to black just as Spoony would about to tell what would happen in the second level. [[Shout-Out|Plus]], there was the exact same song as [[The Sopranos|with certain more infamous instance of this trope]] playing in the background.
* [[No Ontological Inertia]]: Lampshaded in Grass Battle winner #1, "Norwegian Grass":
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'''Protagonist:''' Of course. Isn't it a bit illogical?
'''Fabian:''' Ehm, no. It should work, I think. }}
* [[Nostalgia Filter]]: Whenever Spoony talks about ''[[Fallout]] 3'', ''[[
** He is often aware of this though, but it caused him an unpleasant surprise when his general enjoyment of ''Fallout 3'' (barring the endgame) made him go back and try the previous games, only to discover he just can't enjoy them like he used to.
* [[Note to Self:]]: Insano's reaction to the nurses turning on the mad scientist in ''Clones of Bruce Lee'':
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* [[Off-the-Shelf FX]]: The "Time Compressor" looks an awful lot like an X-Box remote control. Dr. Insano insists it's not one!
* [[Oh Crap]]: In the end of ''[[Final Fantasy X
* [[One Steve Limit]]: "Okay, any team with two Jeffs on it I automatically write off as a complete joke."
* [[Overly Long Gag]]: The entire 8 minute or so part 2 of the ''[[Final Fantasy VIII]]'' is Squall drawing 2 spells, to underline [[Accentuate the Negative|how maddening the game can be]].
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** From his ''Cage'' review, in a conversation between Lou Ferrigno's character and two guys trying to get him to fight in a cage match:
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* [[Overused Copycat Character]]: "An elf with two swords. Who's surprised?"
* {{spoiler|[[Our Hero Is Dead]]}}: {{spoiler|...but not if Linkara has anything to say about it.}}
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* [[Out of Focus]]: Burton the Robot. Still listed in the opening credits, still part of the title card, and still sitting in the background next to Spoony, but when was the last time he ever actually ''did'' anything?
** Ultima VI: "Burton! Death ray! Now!" And he delivered.
** Mostly justified because, although Burton was created to be a sort of [[Mystery Science Theater 3000]] style puppet, the 'bot is still horribly fragile and difficult to work with, making it not worth the effort to integrate into Spoony's videos in any real capacity.
** More recent videos have not just given more of a role to Burton but are suggesting something BIG and diabolical involving the [[Robot Buddy]] is coming...
* [[Outrun the Fireball]]: The ending of the ''Final Fantasy VIII'' review, which is just [[Rule of Cool]]. {{spoiler|Subverted given that the fireball outran ''him'' and annihilated him down to the lump of protoplasm Linkara found after the time lapse}}.
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* [[Pragmatic Adaptation]]: Spoony says that, in his opinion, the live action ''[[Tekken (film)|Tekken]]'' movie was this because it ditched the more outlandish elements of the ''[[Tekken]]'' series like the robots and Devil Gene and just focused on the fighting.
* [[President Evil]]: Parodies the concept with President Dr. Insano following the lampshading of its occurence on Final Fantasy VII.
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* [[Prisons Are Gymnasiums]]: Says that would fill in a plot hole in ''[[Snow White and the Huntsman]]'', and says seeing Snow White pumping iron would have been awesome to see.
* [[Private Eye Monologue]]: Spoofed in the ''[[Phantasmagoria 2]]'' review when Curtis finds Therese sitting on his couch after she broke into his apartment.
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* [[Promotion to Opening Titles]]: Dr. Insano.
** And now Oreo as of the new credits, complete with launcher!
* [[Punctuated!
* [[The Purge]]: "And people ''like'' [[Final Fantasy X|this game]]! Ladies and gentlemen, I implore you; Find these people. Kill them. They're, like.. voters. '''Kill them all!'''
* [[The Rant]]: During the commentary for the Party Mania review, Noah pauses the video for a couple of minutes so he can try to address some of the backlash that it caused.
** A briefer example comes at the start of the ''[[Tekken: Blood Vengeance]]'', where he says that he's taken heat for liking the live action ''[[Tekken (film)|Tekken]]'' and defends his opinion.
* [[Readings Blew Up the Scale]]
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** The [[Dead or Alive|DOE]] movie exploding the Ass Counter.
* [[Real Life Writes the Plot]]:
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** Spoony's 'An Appeal For Manners' blog post explains to his fans how his fellow reviewers hate when he posts their videos on his site because a number of the comment posters on the site (as opposed to actual fans who like the show and support and encourage Spoony) tend to be jerkish trolls, which also prompted him to take down his acceptance speech video for winning a category in the Mashable Open Web Awards.
** In his infamous Final Fantasy VIII review:
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** And again for Kickassia.
* [[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.
* [[Refuge in Audacity]]: "[
* [[Rewind, Replay, Repeat]]:
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'''[[Ultima|The avatar]]:''' [[Naive Newcomer|What's a paladin?]]
'''Spoony:''' ''[[Berserk Button|Again!]]'' }}
* [[Ridiculously Cute Critter]]: Son of Insano. "Riki-tee!"
* [[Robot Buddy]]: Burton, a Mystery Science Theater-style puppet, made of a dust bin and a handheld vacuum cleaner, who spends most of his time sitting behind Noah's chair and looking on silently. He is apparently triggered to self-destruct if Spoony is gravely injured or dies.
** Also has voice operated functions, such as DEATH RAY, which Spoony used on Chuckles the jester as he was threatening him to shove a DVD up his ass. However, Spoony still had to manually turn Burton's head towards its target.
** He created Burton because he originally wanted to do his own [[Mystery Science Theater 3000]] style show.
* [[Ruined FOREVER]]: In his review of [[Metroid: Other M]], Spoony devotes a decent length of time to thoroughly explain why he thinks the series has suffered permanent damage thanks to the game's characterization of Samus.
** Likewise, his review of ''[[Highlander: The Source|Highlander the Source]]'' explains the many ways this movie pissed on the grave of the franchise dug and buried by everything following the original film.
** And in his review of [[
** And it also covers his view of [[Ultima]] 9. During the review of that game Spoony keeps a '''[[Memetic Mutation|Betrayal!]]''' counter for every plot hole. It's up to 93 by the end of part 1 of the review.
* [[Rule of Funny]]:
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** Linkara's commentary on the ''Warrior'' review notes a scene where Linkara gets a look at Dr. Insano without his goggles, which spawned all kinds of speculation due to him now knowing Insano was Spoony. He tells them all to not take it so seriously.
** Him turning back to normal after Insano's defeat.
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*** This might be a result of an [[Deleted Scene|abandoned idea]] Doug mentioned where Spoony would play peacemaker (like Ask That Guy did in the Brawl), only to snatch the [[Commissar Cap]] and reveal that it's still Insano, just disguised as Spoony.
* [[Rule 34]]: It exists, and Noah knows about it. He both makes fun and caters to the fans, just like the rest of the site.
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** 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.
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** "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]].
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** Almost the ''entirety'' of his review of ''Highlander: The Source''. At one point he says that all he needs to do is show a clip from the movie and then show his increasingly appalled reaction shot, as the film's stupidity speaks for itself.
* [[Sanity Slippage]]: It takes quite a bit before he can finish and articulate a complete setence after the Avatar inquires what the 'Codex of Ultimate Wisdom' is in [[Ultima]] 9.
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* [[Sarcasm Mode]]: This one should be pretty self explanatory.
* [[Satan]]: In his review of [[Final Fantasy VIII]], he ends up getting a lamp that has "TEH DEVIL" inside. Spoony is awesome enough to blind, beat and tame The Devil, though, so all is good.
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** He takes his [[Professional Wrestling]] very seriously and is the quintessential IWC Elitist Smark
* [[Sexophone]]: In Spooning With Spoony.
* [[Shirtless Scene]]:
** Spoony, while being completely intoxicated on pain killers, drenched in sweat, and oozing just a little blood, does some sort of dance sequence in his underwear after reviewing the ET video game.
** He also goes shirtless for a moment in the game reviewing convention panel with [[The Angry Joe Show|Angry Joe]] and Birdman.
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* [[Skyward Scream]]: His scream of "BETRAYAL!" in E3 over the reboot of "X-Com".
** Repeated in E3 2011.
* [[So Bad It's Good|So Bad It's]] [[Crazy Awesome]]:
** His review of "[[Yor, the Hunter from the Future]]" sums the movie up as this.
** He later clarifies this in his "Robowar" review as "Things don't have to be ''good'' to be ''awesome!''"
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** In ''[[The Beastmaster]] 2'' when he makes a joke about seeing one of the ''[[Sliders]]'' coming the other way through the portal to a parallel Earth... only to actually see Kari Wuhrer from ''Sliders'' go through it.
** In ''Lords of Magick'' when a wizard lists off his abilities as being finding lost friends, exorcising ghosts, curing the plague, turning frogs into toads and [[Bread, Eggs, Milk, Squick|restoring maidenheads]].
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* [[Stab the Salad]]: Sephiroth popping in to say, ".......Love your work."
* [[Stable Time Loop]]: Dr. Insano is created through Spoony's desire to go back in time to erase the ''[[Final Fantasy]]'' franchise from existence. To do so, he creates his own time loop where instead of studying science for decades he sends a future version of himself back in time to give him all the knowledge he needs.
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** For a given value, it might actually have been true. He was sick at the time and might have taken [[Healing Potion|some pain meds]], thus "[[Yes but What Does Zataproximetacine DO|high]]."
* [[Stock Footage]]: Has several bits he uses, most notably footage of a [[Dude, Not Funny|crowd booing at a political rally]] which he cuts to whenever he does a really dark joke.
* [[Strange Minds Think Alike]]: Both he and Maffew of [[Botchamania]] feel that the only thing [[John Cena]] [[
** [[
* [[Stupid Sexy Flanders]]: He expressed this same sentiment in the first part of the ''[[Final Fantasy X]]'' review in regards to a Rikku cosplayer (which wasn't about gender so much as [[Hypocritical Humor]] in regards to her [[Stripperiffic]] costume).
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* [[Stupid Statement Dance Mix]] Well, not a dance mix, but someone online took his BETRAYAL shout of ''[[X-COM (Video Game)|X-COM]]'' [[First-Person Shooter]] and turned it into a metal song.
** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wt39TNCpRTg And it is AWESOME.]
* [[Stylistic Suck]]: According to Noah's commentary, the Dragonzord's sudden appearance in ''Deadliest Character'' was done to imitate ''[[Deadliest Warrior]]'''s habit of having a previously unmentioned factor come in out of nowhere and decide the fight, often in contradiction of the research team's earlier conclusions.
* [[Suckiness Is Painful]]: This is the point of his "Experience Bij" segments. "Bij" being some Klingon thing where they test manliness by determining how much utter suffering they can go through. In this particular case, Spoony shows off videos that are ''intensely'' annoying.
** He's actually stated in several TNA reviews that he thinks Impact is so bad that it causes him ''actual'' physical pain. He even gives a small demonstration where watching the Knockouts proceeds to give him a headache.
* [[Take That]]:
** His whole Ultimate Warrior parody character, which is mostly a spoof of the man's spastic incoherency.
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** 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.
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** His ''It Came From Beyond Midnight'' persona of Leslie Striker is a <s>thinly veiled</s> [[Word of God|outright stated]] [[Take That]] towards [[World Wrestling Entertainment|WWE]] Color Commentator, Matt Striker.
** 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.
** In his ''Phantasmagoria 2'' LP: "Doctor, I think I need help. I got a Dane Cook CD... and god help me, it was funny!"
** In the ''[[Final Fantasy VIII]]'' review he delivered one against the ''[[Dark Avengers]]'':
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* [[Talkative Loon]]: Spoony's eerily accurate impression of the Ultimate Warrior.
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* [[Talking to Himself]]:
** Dr. Insano, Chef Ramsay, Spencer D. Bum, the Ultimate Spoony, Cap'n Smiling Jack D'Arcy, the Gate Cleaner, and Hulk Spogan. And thats not counting reading out writen dialogue in games.
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* [[Testosterone Poisoning]]: Yor the Hunter remains his yardstick for masculinity.
** He's the man!
** Until [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2u84cH_bmTA this]. Motherfucker suplexed '''A TRAIN.'''
** Another Reb Brown clip from ''Mercenary Fighters'' allegedly tops them all:
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* [[Tethercat Principle]]: In the ''[[Final Fantasy X]]'' review, Spoony apparently spent the ''entire'' two-month-long break between installments hammering the X button to farm potions from an infinitely deep chest. And he has the beard to prove it.
* [[That One Level]]: His playthrough of SWAT 4 has level 11 titled "I Die A Lot". That he does, and even lets you guess in the video how many times he does in fact die. {{spoiler|59}}. The final level he beats right out of the box.
* [[Tempting Fate]]: Spoony's does this in the Warrior #1 review, believing that Warrior can't be nearly as bad as Dr. Insano says it is, then screams in terror from ''one look at the cover'', and yes the comic really was that horrible.
** On his [[Final Fantasy X
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* [[There Was a Door]]: In ''Tekken: Blood Vengeance'' he's particularly exasperated when Jin and Kazuya separately punch out the walls of a room within seconds of each other and throws up his hands. He also [[Fridge Logic|wonders]] how awkward it would've been if either them of them accidentally punched out the wall Heihachi was hiding behind instead.
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** 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.
* [[They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot]]: In reviewing ''Game Over: Control-Alt-Death'', Spoony points out that Drexel's comments about how Hunter is torn up about the death toll from the military co-opting some of his games as training programs would be a great plot point and character beat... if the movie ever bothered to mention it again.
* [[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]]!
* [[Too Dumb to Live]]: In his ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20131110054644/http://spoonyexperiment.com/2008/08/17/knightmare-review/ Knightmare]'' review, one of the contestants had to spell the word ''shroud'' backwards. He first spells it D-U-R-H-S (shrud), and after getting a hint to use an O from the host, he confidently comes up with O-S-R-D-H-U.
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* [[Too Soon]]: Invoked by Spoony after he refers to a wrestler being choked out as being "''[[Chris Benoit]]''ed".
** Noah felt bad about writing a suicide joke (that was promptly scrapped) after the suicide of one of his fans.
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* [[Uncanny Valley]]: In-universe, Spoony has expressed distaste for films that rely too heavily on CG characters and effects. In his review of [[Avatar (film)|AVATAR]], he compared the film to Jackie Chan's movies, stating that watching Jackie Chan and other real actors do the stunts and fight scenes gives weight to the performance that he's never felt watching computer-generated characters like the Na'vi.
* [[Unfortunate Implications]]: Brings up in ''Mercenary Fighter'' that despite his supposed moral problems with killing the African villagers, Reb Brown's character doesn't protest a word as several of them are gunned down in cold blood, and instead protests shooting one white reporter.
* [[Unobtanium]]: Dr. Insano's inventions are powered by [[Ratchet and Clank|raritanium ore]].
* [[Uranus Is Showing]]: Appears in his review of ''[[Ultima II]]'', which is followed by an immediate lampshading:
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* [[Valley Girl]]: [[Gender Bender]] Spoony and 80's Chick.
* [[Verbal Tic]]: Hulk Hogan (as impersonated by Spoony) is seemingly incapable of not shouting "Brother!" at the end of every sentence. Similarly, Ric Flair yells "WOOOO!" anytime he speaks, though it's not so much a verbal tic as [[The Mentally Disturbed|a cry for help]].
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** [[No Indoor Voice]]: The Pope.
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* [[Video Game Cruelty Potential]]: In his livestream of ''[[Kingdom Hearts]]'', Spoony seems delighted that the game gives him the opportunity to beat up ''[[Final Fantasy]]'' characters he hates such as Squall, Tidus and Wakka.
** Also brings this up in ''[[Ultima VII]]'' in that despite you supposedly being ultimate force for good, the game lets you kill a lot of people for fun, and is most amused by being able to kill Lord British (who Spoony notes as the series goes on looks like more and more of a bad guy).
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* [[What Do You Mean It's Not Awesome?]]:
** When Terl claims godhood due to his amazing ability to [[What Kind of Lame Power Is Heart, Anyway?|inherently know how high above sea level any location in the world sits,]] Spoony is in ''enraptured awe'' of this skill.
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** Which parodies the fact that the [[Wing Commander (film)|Wing Commander]] movie presents pretty much the same situation, although it's somewhat more practical, if it wasn't for the fact every ship computer can do the same, anyway.
** At first Spoony thought the floors were the worst enemy in ''[[Ultima]] 3''. But then fans alerted him to the fact that you can be attacked by '''[[Everything Trying to Kill You|grass]]''' outside the [[Final Dungeon]]. In response, he set up a contest for fans to make videos of themselves battling the green menace for a chance to win prizes like autographed pictures and T-shirts.
** In his [[Let's Play]] of ''Phantasmagoria 2'', whenever the game dwells on the protagonist's banal mundane affairs for long periods and fails to live up to its horror theme ([[Running Gag|which is often]]), Spoony yells "PHANTASMAGORIA! A PUZZLE OF THE FLESH!"
*** A similar joke in ''[[Tekken: Blood Vengeance]]'', where he yells the title dramatically in response to the film focusing on the mundane affairs of the two teenage girls.
* [[What Do You Mean It Wasn't Made on Drugs?]]: Spooning with Spoony. The man himself had this to say in his commentary:
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** His E.T. review was a straight-up aversion, but it was justified: the drugs in question were painkillers, which he was taking following surgery to remove his wisdom teeth.
* [[What Happened to the Mouse?]]: Spoony's reaction to the fact that [[TNA]] showed Samoa Joe being kidnapped by [[Instant Awesome, Just Add Ninja|ninjas]] and then promptly forgot that he existed, with not so much as a single reaction, going on a month since the kidnapping. This also happens to be the moment when, after enduring the entire TNA broadcast, he [[Crowning Moment of Funny|finally snaps]]:
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* [[When She Smiles]]: Considers [[Natalie Portman]] this in his ''[[Thor (film)|Thor]] review''.
* [[Who Writes This Crap?]]: Inverted in his Punkinhead Review, in which Linkara, dressed the Gatekeeper, puts on a mask and exclaims [[Incoming Ham|I AM, THE BEEKEEPER.]] Spoony replies, "Oh my God, I wrote that."
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* [[Willing Suspension of Disbelief]]: He [[Invoked Trope|says]] the presence of Xiaoyu's panda in ''Tekken: Blood Vengeance'' is so distracting that it completely breaks his suspension of disbelief in every scene it's in, simply because no one explains it. At all.
* [[With Lyrics]]: He uses the tune of "Ode to Joy" for this in his ''[[Final Fantasy VIII]]'':
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* [[X Meets Y]]: He called ''The Lords of Magick'' [[The Lord of the Rings]] meets [[The Room]] and [[The Beastmaster]] meets [[Birdemic]]
* [[Your Costume Needs Work]]: In [https://web.archive.org/web/20131004151558/http://spoonyexperiment.com/2010/04/15/kristanna-loken-interview-chicago-2009/ this] video he mentions that he has been mistaken for a Doctor Insano ''cosplayer''. By someone from his own forum, no less.
* [[You Shall Not Pass]]: Edited himself in the [[The Lord of the Rings]] scene as part of a sketch for his review of ''Ultima''.
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* [[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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