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* [[Audience Participation]]: His 2020 [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkCVqLsjHL4 Mediocre Mountain Challenge], in which -- inspired by his videos where he scaled the highest points in places like The Netherlands that have no high places -- he invited viewers to submit photos and videos of them climbing to the peaks of the least-impressive "mountains" local to them.
* [[Award Show]]: He created [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9r4Zmvew2WU one for the Mediocre Mountain Challenge], with winners in a dozen or so different categories.
* [[Bait and Switch]]: It's not uncommon to for him to pull this, leading the viewer to expect one thing, then concluding somewhere else entirely after a [[Record Needle Scratch]]. For example, from a mid-2021 video on suspended monorails in Germany:
{{quote|[German national anthem starts playing] In the end, there was only one country who could take something as mad as this and make it economical, efficient and reliable. And that country was, of course...
[German national anthem interrupted with a [[Record Needle Scratch]], map appears on screen]
...France!}}
* [[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. As a subtitle on a mid-2021 video notes, "My early voiceovers had all the energy of a sloth on valium".
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* [[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.
* [[Record Needle Scratch]]: Frequently paired with [[Bait and Switch]] humor.
* [[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''."
* [[Shout-Out]]: His format started out as an intentional homage to the British travel show ''[[Wish You Were Here...?]]''
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