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=== Web Original ===

* ''Every'' [[That Guy With The Glasses]] anniversary [[Massive Multiplayer Crossover]]s. Every one of them:

** The ''First Anniversary Brawl'' didn't really have any true filming troubles, but the camaraderie that it would be shown in later collaborations hadn't been developed yet, and it shows. More notorious were the behind the scenes troubles: as some collaborators later told, the ambient was quite toxic, mostly because a member of the group (implied to be That Aussie Guy, who would later abandon the site and ~~get~~ [[Unperson]]ed) spread untrue rumors about the sexual life of [[The Nostalgia Chick]].

** The ''First Anniversary Brawl'' didn't really have any true filming troubles, but the camaraderie that it would be shown in later collaborations hadn't been developed yet, and it shows. More notorious were the behind the scenes troubles: as some collaborators later told, the ambient was quite toxic, mostly because a member of the group (implied to be That Aussie Guy, who would later abandon the site and got [[Unperson]]ed) spread untrue rumors about the sexual life of [[The Nostalgia Chick]].

** ''[[Kickassia]]''. Almost everyone involved was injured somehow, the worst being cameraman Rob Walker getting a nasty leg injury on the first day, but he was still quite a [[Determinator]] as he kept cramming himself into tight places and waiting until filming was over to seek any medical attention. Also, [[Lord Kat]] twisted both his ankles, which forced his role to be severely reduced, and the extremely tight four day filming schedule meant that the climax had to be significantly trimmed down, with scenes like [[Noah Antwiler|Spoony]] revealing himself to still be Insano never being filmed.

** ''[[Suburban Knights]]'' was even worse, with [[Exposed to the Elements|the weather causing so many problems]] that [[Doug Walker]] was fully prepared to scrap the whole thing, until everyone banded together and convinced him they were willing to get the film done whatever it took.

*** Thankfully, injures were minimal compared to Kickassia. However, the few that did happen created controversy shortly before SK came out. During filming, Elisa of Team [[The Nostalgia Chick|NChick]] was duct taped to a wall and got a little overheated. Somehow this got interpreted as "crucified upside-down" and one of the site's biggest critics used this info to try and "ruin" TGWTG. Thankfully it didn't go anywhere.

** ''[[To Boldly Flee]]'', the Year 4 special, in contrast has little to no injuries, but it had a ''very'' rushed and constrained scheduled (about a week to film enough content for a three hours film), during which Doug Walker was in a yet another depressive mood and got very emotional on his scenes. To made up for the smooth filming, the ''post-production'' was the troubled one, with the special effects insertion and edition taking more time than expected, and then the servers refusing to upload the files, having to show the episodes each two days instead of daily as originally announced.

** Because of all of the above and the increasing coordination troubles, for the fifth anniversary it was decided that they would instead do an [[Anthology]] project. The resultant effort was [[The Uncanny Valley]], where the individual pieces had no production troubles by themselves.

** Because of all of the above and the increasing coordination troubles, for the fifth anniversary it was decided that they would instead do an [[Anthology]] project. The resultant effort was ''[[The Uncanny Valley]]'', where the individual pieces had no production troubles by themselves, unless you count how some segments were sightly late and how [[Welshy]]'s contribution, a mini-documentray called "The Dark Side of Internet" about [[Why Fandom Can't Have Nice Things]] because of trolling and stalking creators, was [[Roman a Clef|obviouisly inspired]] by his dealing with his [[Fan Dumb]] and the subsequent burnout he experienced. This anthology was the last site-wide anniversary special.

* On a smaller scale, the big crossover review between [[The Nostalgia Critic]], [[The Spoony Experiment|Spoony]] and [[Atop the Fourth Wall|Linkara]] for ''[[Alone in The Dark]]''. To begin with, Doug Walker had lost his voice the day before Spoony and Linkara arrived in Chicago (hence the use of [[Synthetic Voice Actor|text-to-speech]]). Secondly, construction work was being done outside Doug's house, so they had to film the review in Doug's basement. In addition, they didn't decide which [[Uwe Boll]] movie to review until the day they started writing. Spoony gives the scoop [http://spoonyexperiment.com/2009/09/10/alone-in-the-dark-noahs-commentary/ here].