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'''Topikal:''' "Yeah, I know. I actually like him a little better now."<br />

-Beat-<br />

They also enjoyed making [[Let's Play|Let's Plays]].

The guys also made other videos that put a face to the voices. You can find their site [http://www.tippingforties.com here], or watch their videos on [http://www.viddler.com/explore/kuvo/videos/ Kuvo's Viddler], [http://tippingforties.blip.tv/ TippingForties's blip], or [http://www.youtube.com/user/tippingforties TippingForties's YouTube]. There's also their non-LP series, [[Lunch Break]], [http://lunchbreakshow.com/ found here] and their Movie [http://www.tippingforties.com/Videos.aspx?key=737 High Low]

=== ''Tipping Forties'' has Let's Played the following: ===

* Fugitive Hunter - War on Terror [http://www.tippingforties.com/project.aspx?key=17 [link]]

* [[Shenmue]] [http://www.tippingforties.com/project.aspx?key=22 [link]]

* [[Vanquish]] [http://www.tippingforties.com/project.aspx?key=25 [link]]

* [[Little Big Planet]] 2 [http://www.tippingforties.com/project.aspx?key=28 [link]]

* [http://www.tippingforties.com/project.aspx?key=13 Grab Bag], where they play various shorter, single-session games.

=== ''Tipping Forties'' provides examples of: ===

* [[Accidental Pun]]: Asking for a rain check while talking about a date with Raine.

* [[Americans Hate Tingle]]: The Forties are all pretty unanimous in their hatred of Yuna, Colette, Nozomi...

* [[America Saves the Day]]: The generally attitude taken on during the Fugitive Hunter LP.

* [[Artistic License Biology]]: That's not what badgers look like guys!

* [[Audience Participation]]: In some of their Let's Plays, they ask for various things from people on the [[Something Awful]] forums.

** For [[Little Big Planet]] 2, they asked people to either create or recommend custom levels for them to play.

* [[Base Breaker]]: The T40's new style of pre-recorded commentary making it's début in the Final Fantasy X-2 LP. The common consensus currently seems to be slanted on the ''Hate'' side of the scale however.

** It got so bad that {{spoiler|they ''started over'' with the old format. And Marvelis [[Screw This, I'm Outta Here|bailed out]], so it's even more like the original FFX run.}}

*** Ryan admits this in the final ''so what did we learn'' of the Final Fantasy X-2 LP - and rather graciously takes full credit for the whole situation.

** Ryo lets out a [[Big No]] in the first episode of their Shenmue LP, which is lampshaded by Benson.

{{quote| '''Benson:''' "Damn, that was a big no!"}}

** Kuvo groaning, "Thanks, ''Game!''" when it turns out [[Guide Dang It|the player must do something absurdly unintuitive to proceed]].

* [[Chekhov's Gun]]: While wandering around in New Vegas, bandunk managed to find a Lucky 38 VIP Keycard and states that he knows what has to do. {{spoiler|Upon confronting Mr. House, rather than doing any quests for him, he uses the Keycard to instantly gain access to the Control Room, where he [[And I Must Scream|deactivates him]], thereby cutting off an entire ending before he even started.}}

{{quote| '''Benson''': "Hammer Brothers RULE!"}}

** No love (hate) for Kimahri? They hated him so much that they planned to finish off the final boss by having him use Self-Destruct. Of course, being drunk, they sort of forgot.

** No love/hate for Raiden either? Repeated wishes for his death all throughout the Let's Play didn't really give the impression that they liked him. It doesn't help that the 40s enjoy logic, while Raiden makes literally none.

* [[Critical Existence Failure]]: The end of the life of their copy of Final Fantasy X-2 after they all unanimously agreed it was one of the worst games they had ever done a Let's Play of.

** The friggin' X-button in ''Final Fantasy X-2''...

* [[Deus Ex Machina]]: The ending of the Mario Party 5 LP.

** During their Metal Gear Solid 4 LP, they drank everytime a character said "Nanomachines", "Patriots" or "La Li Lu Le Lo".

** For the Tales Of Symphonia LP, the drinking words were "Regeneration" and "Mana". Sometimes [[Magnificent Bastard|someone]] who was playing two hours before the crew would tell them to drink on the word "world" and "Cruxis".

** The New Super Mario Bros Wii LP had them drinking whenever one of them dies, someone kills another or when one of them uses a continue. We're not sure how they survived that.

* [[Drunken Master]]: The leader of their [[Super Monkey Ball]] scoreboard got a fantastic score no one else can get close to...while being completely smashed.

** They've also challenged fans to make a collection of every drunken song they've ever done. Considering how often they sing and how many videos they have (5 videos a week nearly every week for about a year and a half at this writing, with little to no [[Schedule Slip]]), it would be quite the challenge.

* [[Easter Egg]]: How they hint at new LP's nowadays. They'll hide images in the programming of their website that give small hints, leading the thread to hunt and guess.

** Also Final Fantasy X-2 (with each episode as it went on finding more hate and something similar to depression) and To a degree Fable II.

* [[Ensemble Darkhorse]]: They love [[Shenmue|Tom.]] He reminds them of [[The Room|someone they love.]]

* [[Every Episode Ending]]: [[An Aesop|So]] [[Broken Aesop|what]] did [[And Knowing Is Half the Battle|we]] [[Family-Unfriendly Aesop|learn]] [[Central Theme|today?]]

** And [http://www.tippingforties.com/Videos.aspx?key=70 on three] [http://www.tippingforties.com/videos.aspx?key=208 unhappy] [http://www.tippingforties.com/Videos.aspx?key=721 occasions], a [[Fanfic]].

* [[Fan Nickname]]: More than a few.

*** Since Old Kentucky is a real-life cat, they seem to name anything vaguely feline after him. [[Shenmue]] has Old Kentucky, Young Kentucky, and Middle-Aged Kentucky.

** [[Anything That Moves|Nasty]] for [[Chivalrous Pervert|Zelos]].

** [[Unfortunate Implications|Fuck-san]] for [[Shenmue|Fuku-san]].

** [[Hillary Rodham Clinton|Hillary Clinton]] for [[Vanquish|President Elizabeth Winters]].

** [[Recycled in Space|Space Putin]] for [[Vanquish|Victor Zaitsev]].

* [[Fantastic Racism]]: The Forties don't like robots. Or furries. Though being [[Something Awful|Goons]], the latter's unsurprising.

* [[Five-Man Band]]:

** [[The Chick]]: Bandunk's Wife (or Benson's Girlfriend)

* [[Flanderization]]: Drinking has become a more and more important gimmick as the Forties have advanced. In the begining they were hecklers who occasionally had a few and now they have drinking games and are verging on cirrhosis. [[Tropes Are Not Bad|Not that anyone's complaining.]]

*** This Trope has now been reversed in near enough it's entirety. The T40's haven't used their ''what are we drinking'' catchphrase in years and with the exception of the final episode celebrations they rarely get as blind drunk as they used to - in fact they've potentially changed so much you could near enough apply the [[Early Installment Weirdness]] Trope to them.

* [[Four-Temperament Ensemble]]:

** '''Melancholic:''' Alex (Marvelis)

** '''{{color|green|Phlegmatic:}}''' Mike (bandunk)

* [[Gag Sub]]: Done [http://www.tippingforties.com/videos.aspx?key=251 here] with ''[[Kamen Rider Black RX]]'' for a competition (they tied for first). Features [[Special Guest]] Minifoo.

* [[Getting Crap Past the Radar]]: Ryan likes to sneak in references, like [[Mystery Science Theater 3000|ancient dentistry]] and [[Resident Evil|Jill sandwiches]], to see if he can get them past Benson, who hates those.

** Also one of the things that has some [[Something Awful|Goons]] to complaining that the [[Freelance Astronauts]] have already LP'd the game in much the same fashion. Seeing as it was [[Freelance Astronauts|Maxwell Adams]] himself who asked them to LP the game, it seems some people [[Misaimed Fandom|just want something to complain about]].

* [[Hard-Drinking Tropes]]: And how.

* [[Hollywood Tone Deaf]]: Benson is terrible at singing [http://tippingforties.com/Videos.aspx?key=254 The Offspring]

* [[Hopeless Boss Fight]]: What the gang thought that the fight with {{spoiler|Kratos}} was even though that fight is doable, just difficult. {{spoiler|Yggdrasil is a straight example though.}}

* [[Incredibly Lame Pun]]: [http://www.tippingforties.com/Videos.aspx?key=145 Napdunk.]

** [[Hurricane of Puns]]: [http://www.tippingforties.com/Videos.aspx?key=155 A Tad Mad at Bad Rad.]

{{quote| '''Benson:''' *Slaps a guard with the same face texture as [[Ensemble Darkhorse|Dr. Doak]].* <br />

'''bandunk:''' "Ya [http://www.tippingforties.com/videos.aspx?key{{=}}274 chopped Doak!]" <br />

'''Benson:''' "Chopped Doak? Chop-Doak."<br />

'''Ryan:''' "That sounds like a fried dish." }}

* [[Jerkass]]: Marvelis.

{{quote| '''Benson:''' "Would you say 'for sure' or [[Jive Turkey|'for shizzle?'"]] <br />

* [[Leitmotif]]: Mr. Roboto for Presea and [[Forrest Gump|Bubba's shrimp list]] for the Wonder Chef.

* [[Let's Play]]

** Also, [http://tippingforties.com/videos.aspx?key=623 Busy Scissors]. ''1/4 of the video's runtime'' is spent loading.

** STOP BEING A FAGGOT [[Fan Nickname|RÜSTY]]

** [[Soul Series|Lizardman]] owns, because [[Captain Obvious|he is both lizard and man.]]

* [[Memetic Molester]]: The Forties turned Zelos into this. To be fair, a lot of [[Fanon]] does too.

* [[Missing Episode]]: [http://www.tippingforties.com/project.aspx?key=19 The Lost Episodes.]

* [[My Nayme Is]]: [http://www.tippingforties.com/Videos.aspx?key=208 Octagon], apparently.

* [[No Indoor Voice]]: From Shenmue: [http://www.tippingforties.com/videos.aspx?key=308 "HEY MISTER!!!"]

** Unprecedently broken for the New Vegas LP, in which bandunk takes the wheel. He's not particularly good at it.

{{quote| '''Alex:''' "bandunk's pretty sad that he died to a gecko." }}

'''Alex:''' "I'm Alex AND Marvelis." <br />

'''bandunk:''' "Aaaaand I'm bandunk... or Micheal." }}

* [[Overly Long Gag]]: By the end of the Tales Of Symphonia LP, everyone except bandunk would start groaning and trying to make Benson stop when he did Genis and Noishe impressions.

* [[Schedule Slip]]: Averted hard. After getting their save-file in [[Shenmue]] corrupted, [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|Kuvo sat down and played the entire game up to that point again]]; it took him six hours to get back to where they left off. The recap is found [http://www.tippingforties.com/videos.aspx?key=329 here].

* [[Serious Business]] / [[Stop Having Fun Guy]]: Alex, especially seen during the Mario Party LP.

** Everyone in the New Super Mario Bros LP.

* [[Shaving Is Science]]: Invoked in [[Shenmue]] for a joke involving Ryo cutting himself while shaving.

** This bit from Fable 2, when the [[Evil Tower of Ominousness|Spire]] is first introduced:

{{quote| '''Alex:''' "Oh, [[The Matrix]]."<br />

'''Bandunk:''' "I feel like I'm playing flOw."<br />

'''Alex''': "...We all made different references." }}

'''Silent Roommate''' "..." }}

* [[Slash Fic]]: During the FFX LP, the guys would read slash fiction about the characters to pass the time during the boring to watch temples. One written by a fan even managed to name an episode. See [[Unusual Euphemism]].

{{quote| '''bandunk:''' They're all creepy! All of them.}}

** Episodes featuring [[Slash Fic]]:

* [[So Okay It's Average]]: The gang's opinion on Tales of Symphonia.

* [[Sound Effect Bleep]]: Towards the end of ''[[Mario Party]] 8'', Mike [http://www.tippingforties.com/videos.aspx?key=376 begins talking about] "[[Noodle Incident|something]] [[Nausea Fuel|really gross]] [[These Are Things Man Was Not Meant to Know|that shouldn't be repeated]]". Almost everything he says is bleeped out, save for [[It Got Worse|"No, but -- but here's the gross part!"]] [[You Do NOT Want to Know|The reactions]] [[Brain Bleach|of the others]] [[Squick|are left uncensored]].

** Silent Roommate is starting to not be so silent.

*** Alex used to be [[Ascended Extra|"Kuvo's Roommate."]] [[Wild Mass Guessing|Perhaps the same future for Silent Roommate?]]

** Best shown in the episode [http://www.tippingforties.com/Videos.aspx?key=158 Unbeweavable] where they talked to every single NPC in the city... except the one they had to.

*** Although to be perfectly fair, the Forties often do this as a result of being very, very drunk, thanks to their sadistic viewers. The above video is also the best example of ''that'', too.

* [[Total Party Kill]]: [http://www.viddler.com/explore/kuvo/videos/58/1598.33/ What happens when Bandunk takes the reins.]

* [[Vitriolic Best Buds]]: Type 2. The Forties are certainly not very nice to each other. Of course, that's part of the fun.

** Notably in their New Super Mario Bros. Wii LP, where they all deliberately try to fuck over each other any chance they get, but they still laugh about it.

** [[Lampshade Hanging|Lampshaded]] during Fugitive Hunter by Benson when he pointed out that you couldn't hit them when they rolled, but they couldn't hit you either so it was pointless.

{{quote| '''Benson:''' He John Woo'd!}}

* [[Unusual Euphemism]]: [http://www.tippingforties.com/Videos.aspx?key=70 Vulnerable Brown Cave]'

* [[Video Game Cruelty Potential]]: Marvelis is showing a lot of this in Fable II. Fallout: New Vegas also had quite a bit of this.

* [[What the Hell, Hero?]]: The aptly named [http://www.viddler.com/explore/kuvo/videos/61/ Fuck Bandunk], by both the other Forties and [[Something Awful|the thread]].

** A bit of a [[Running Gag]], too; just replace Bandunk with the name of whoever's massively screwed up that episode.

** [http://www.tippingforties.com/Videos.aspx?key=211 The Sheena Shuffle,] where half an episode of commentary was lost due to dead batteries.

** During episode 19 of Shenmue, the Forties noticed and commented on a problem with the controller... and then their save file got corrupted. Kuvo bought another controller and spent 6 hours playing through the entire game up to the point where it happened to avoid [[Schedule Slip]].

* [[Xanatos Speed Chess]]: [http://tippingforties.com/Videos.aspx?key=422 Bandunk decides to play the game his own way.]

** To elaborate, one accidental trip to H&H Tools lead [[Non-Action Guy|Bandunk]] to formulate the happenings in the video above, much to everyone's surprise.