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* [[Award Show]]: He created one for the Mediocre Mountain Challenge, with winners in a dozen or so different categories.
* [[Award Show]]: He created one for the Mediocre Mountain Challenge, with winners in a dozen or so different categories.
* [[Clip Art Animation]]: Has been known to animate artwork and photos of historical figures to present them speaking.
* [[Clip Art Animation]]: Has been known to animate artwork and photos of historical figures to present them speaking.
* [[Early Installment Weirdness]]: His very first video, ''[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9IFh6wFTJiQ Schwebebahn: Why Wuppertal's Trains Are Much Cooler Than Yours]'', is distinctly different from his later videos. Its tone is drier, more academic, with only one touch of humor at the very end, and he does not appear in it at all.
* [[Filler|Filler Episode]]: He'll gladly admit that some of his videos, such as the second "Fake Facades of Paris", are (as he put it) "lockdown content" -- releases created with the limited resources he had available to him during France's response to the [[COVID-19 Pandemic]], and as such suffer in quality compared to his other videos.
* [[Filler|Filler Episode]]: He'll gladly admit that some of his videos, such as the second "Fake Facades of Paris", are (as he put it) "lockdown content" -- releases created with the limited resources he had available to him during France's response to the [[COVID-19 Pandemic]], and as such suffer in quality compared to his other videos.
* [[The Mountains of Illinois]]: Invoked tongue-in-cheek with his Mediocre Mountain Challenge, itself spun off from a series of videos in which he visited the highest points in low lands, whose altitude could reach a dizzying ''tens'' of feet. [[Lampshade Hanging|Lampshaded]] by both Tim and the viewers who submitted their videos when they exaggerated the effort expended in climbing all the way to the tops of these towering peaks.
* [[The Mountains of Illinois]]: Invoked tongue-in-cheek with his Mediocre Mountain Challenge, itself spun off from a series of videos in which he visited the highest points in low lands, whose altitude could reach a dizzying ''tens'' of feet. [[Lampshade Hanging|Lampshaded]] by both Tim and the viewers who submitted their videos when they exaggerated the effort expended in climbing all the way to the tops of these towering peaks.
* [[Presenters|Presenter]]: Although Tim takes all the footage for his videos with a hand-held camera (and sometimes a drone), he narrates each one, and is almost always on-screen for at least part of each segment.
* [[Running Gag]]: Very often his videos include a bit of narration along the line of "Here we are in beautiful [Town]. It has [extensive list of historical and cultural features]. But of course we're not here for any of ''that''."
* [[Running Gag]]: Very often his videos include a bit of narration along the line of "Here we are in beautiful [Town]. It has [extensive list of historical and cultural features]. But of course we're not here for any of ''that''."
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* [[Visual Gag]]: In the opening credits of every episode: The show title is initially presented as ''The Time Traveller'' over footage of Tim; he then falls out of frame, taking the "E" from "Time" with him to reveal the true name of the series.
* [[Visual Gag]]: In the opening credits of every episode: The show title is initially presented as ''The Time Traveller'' over footage of Tim; he then falls out of frame, taking the "E" from "Time" with him to reveal the true name of the series.
* [[Vlog Series]]
* [[Vlog Series]]
* [[Well, This Is Not That Trope]]/[[Immediate Self Contradiction]]: in ''[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bIDlNQ8C5pM The Giant Old Ironworks Anyone Can Explore (Without Getting in Trouble)]'', he describes visiting the [[w:Völklingen Ironworks|Völklingen Ironworks]] as all the fun of urban exploration, without the danger, trespassing, or fear of arrest -- "So not very much like urban exploration after all."


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