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Two British gamers, Lewis and Simon (aka Xephos and Honeydew), making gameplay videos, adding funny (and often unrelated) audio commentary and posting them on [http://www.youtube.com/user/BlueXephos their YouTube page]. They are sometimes joined by their friend Hannah (Lomadia) as well as other ''[[World of Warcraft]]'' guild mates. Starting their [[YouTube]] channel in July 2008, they have celebrated achieving 1 million subscribers on YouTube in October 2011.

 

 

Their current flagship content is the [[Yogscast Minecraft Series]], which has its own page.

They have also expanded into several other YouTube channels, with these channels managed members of the Yogscast other than Lewis and Simon. Here are [http://www.youtube.com/user/YogscastLalna "Lalna's"], [http://www.youtube.com/user/YogscastSips "Sips'"], [http://www.youtube.com/user/YogscastRythian "Rythian's"], and [http://www.youtube.com/user/YogscastSjin "Sjin's"] channels. Hannah has taken over the [http://www.youtube.com/user/Yogscast2 "yogscast2"] channel. Each channel hosts the various gaming content of the respective owners and other content that didn't make it to the main channel. Of special note are the "Yogtrailers", hosted on the yogscast2 channel, which focuses on several [[MST|MSTs]] of advertisements of new games coming out but quickly devolves into off topic rambling similar to their YoGPoD.

 

 

Another member of [[The Game Station]], introduced there by their fellow Brit, [[Total Biscuit]].

 

 

'''For examples pertaining to the Minecraft series, including Shadow of Israphel, see ''[[Yogscast Minecraft Series]]''.'''

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* [[Accentuate the Negative]]: Their opinion of games that they are not familiar with tend to be negative, especially if they had liked a previous game in a series; see their video series of ''[[Dragon Age II]]'' and ''[[Final Fantasy XIV]]''.

* [[Adult Child]]: Simon has his moments.

* [[Anti-Hero]]: Both are type II.

* [[Author Appeal]]: Dwarves. See Simon's character in the [[Yogscast Minecraft Series]], Honeydew, and the undead dwarven pirate NPC Spacker. Also spreads to the YoGPoD constantly talking about dwarves, their [[YouTube]] profile image, and even their way of censoring inappropriate bits being images of dwarves.

** Taken to ridiculous levels in their ''[[Guild Wars 2]]'' preview, where Simon tries to make one of his characters as dwarfy as possible, despite playing a Norn, which are twice the size of humans. With the size slider turned up to max.

** In their Diablo 3 unboxing, Simon can't get the plastic packaging off...so he uses a [[World of Warcraft|Frostmourne.]] Also serves as a [[Call Back]].

* [[Better Than a Bare Bulb]]: Oh so very much.

* [[Big Eater]]: Simon

* [[Big No]]: Simon generally just drops these whenever something bad happens to him, Lewis, or a well-liked character during a game.

** Simon drops 2 giant ones during their playthrough of a ''[[Left 4 Dead]]'' Map [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ro9v24idzdE modded to look like Minecraft...]{{spoiler|When tasked to find a stick and block of cobblestone to make a lever in the Nether Level, Simon first finds Xephos' (Lewis' [[Minecraft]] Avatar) corpse holding the stick, and then later Lewis finds Honeydew's (Simon's Avatar) corpse holding the block of cobble.}}

** Probably one of Simon's biggest No's comes when {{spoiler|Knight Peculier is killed in [[Shadow of Israphel]]}}.

* [[Bland-Name Product]]: Crunchy Fried Wings, with its mascot, the General, in YoGPoD 37.

** Their LP of ''[[Fable]] 3'' has Simon taking a rifle and sword, and Lewis using a pistol and warhammer, further cementing their roles of ranged and melee damage respectively.

'''Simon:''' Oh, ''god''. }}

** Also, a letter from "Nick Fuckface" in the podcast: Lewis refuses to read it at first, letting Simon do it in a following episode. It turned out to include the immortal line: '''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZA44gHANaU "I am Dave ! Yognaut and I have the balls."]'''

** In YoGPoD, Warwick Davis {{spoiler|goes down the drain in Simon's sink}}. In the next YoGPoD, one of the dividers is {{spoiler|"Hello, I'm Warwick Davis and I'm in a sewer."}}

* [[Bring My Brown Pants]]: Simon and Lewis notice the unusual running animation of a character in ''[[Dead Island]]''. They theorize that this trope is in effect.

* [[Buffy-Speak]]: Lewis is a master at this.

* [[Canine Companion]]: The dogs in ''[[Fable]] 3''.

** Simon's "Follow me!" and "Cooooome 'eeeeeeere!" ("Come here!")

** Simon's girlish "Awwww!" along with Lewis' somewhat less girlish one.

** They call each other "Friend" an awful lot.

*** Lampshaded somewhat when they first arrive at the Mistral City graveyard and find their pre-planned graves. The prepared epitaph on Xephos's (Lewis's) grave is, rather touchingly, "Goodbye, Friends!"

*** Any official merchandise is sent with a thank-you card containing the message "Thanks for the support, Friend!"

** Simon doing a crude rendition of the Yogscast opening theme song with his voice during awkward silences.

** The charming but odd way Simon says "Hellloooooo!"

** "Balls to it" and variations.

** All the while Simon always refers to their relationship as them "living in sin" together.

** [[Played for Laughs]] in Part 5 of their Minecraft XBOX playthrough.

'''Lewis:''' Hannah's going to be furious.<br />

'''Simon:''' [[Comically Missing the Point|Yeah, she'll have to clean it up!]] }}

** At the end of the third ''Magicka'' video, Simon gets a machine gun. He spends the next few minutes killing Lewis, rezzing him, and killing him again.

* [[Cloudcuckoolander]]: Both of them, consistently, but Simon tends to be more often.

* [[Continuity Nod]]: Some of the donator names for the JustGiving fundraiser referenced old YoGPoDs, such as "Nick Fuckface" and "Happy Adjustable Spanners".

* [[Creepy Child]]: Lewis' impression of one of these during the second Halloween YoGPoD gave Simon "the opposite of an erection".

* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: Lewis has his occasional moments.

* [[Drop the Hammer]]: Lewis' starting melee weapon of choice in ''[[Fable]] 3''.

* [[Epic Fail]]: Referred to as "ballsing it up".

* [[Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep"]]: In the first episode of the Dungeons & Dragons Yogpod, Lewis refers to a man in an inn as '[[Invoked Trope|barkeep]]', to which the man replies that [[Subverted Trope|he isn't a barkeep]], he's an innkeeper. He then reveals that his name is [[His Name Really Is "Barkeep"|Jeremy Innkeeper]].

* [[Genius Ditz]]: Both Simon and Lewis are actually competent at things when they're not playing computer games. In at least one YoGPoD, they go off on a tangent and start having a conversation about science in the middle of something silly.

** Simon is generally seen as the dumb one, but is an astrophysicist and often shows a better understanding of science than Lewis.

** Lewis himself had jobs as a freelance science journalist, an organic chemist, and a technology scientist.

* [[Funny Background Event]]: In one of the Mists of Pandaria videos, there is a chat conversation going on about whether Pandas are bears or raccoons.

* [[Gosh Dang It to Heck]]:

** Lewis often replaces "fuckin' 'ell" with "flippin' 'eck", though the former is used quite frequently as well. He also sometimes uses "sugar" in lieu of "shit", commonly accompanied with a drawn-out initial s. Most likely more of an attempt to be cheeky than to actually cut down on swearing.

* [[Heterosexual Life Partners]]: As mentioned above, "friend" is a very commonly used word. "Where have you gone, friend?" "There you are, friend." "What have you found, friend?" "Take a look at this, friend."

** Lampshaded during their [[Accentuate the Negative|mockery/review]] of ''[[Dragon Age II]]''. When Simon find out that [[Level Up At Intimacy 5|maxing out a female ally's "friend" meter means that you can bang them]], Simon says that he acts mean to Lewis sometimes just to prevent this from happening in real life.

* [[Hit and Run Tactics]]

* [[Hollywood Atheist]]: Lewis is apparently one of these. In one YoGPoD, he started to talk about how religion was bollocks when Simon [[Shut UP, Hannibal|interrupted him with a speech]] that every time he goes on a "fucking Dawkins rant" he sounds just as insane as a Christian fundamentalist. Much later, when they met a priest in the [[Yogscast Minecraft Series|Minecraft series]], Simon said he was waiting for Lewis to "go all militant atheist" on him, but Lewis declined.

* [[Ho Yay]]: Happens in ''Diablo 3 Launch Event Outtakes'' when Simon kisses a cut on Lewis's lip.

* [[Incredibly Lame Pun]]: Simon tries to one-up himself at how many baaad sheep jokes he can inflict on Lewis in "Cataclysm Easter Egg Sheep Farm".

** More recently from their Hack/Mine series, when Simon accidentally blows up a ladder leading to the next bit of the tower.

* [[Kleptomaniac Hero]]: Taken to almost an art form; the only thing stopping Simon and Lewis from mining out entire buildings for loot in the [[Yogscast Minecraft Series|Minecraft series]] is a combination of a [[Shoplift and Die|watchful NPC]] and their own incompetence.

* [[Large Ham]]: Simon often does this at the beginning of videos.

* [[Let's Play]]: Sometimes a hybrid with machinima, as with the [[Yogscast Minecraft Series]].

* [[Live Episode|Live Streaming]]

** Simon and Lewis admit that this is the main reason why Simon's such a big part of the Yogscast compared to the other members. Paraphrased from a YoGPoD interview, Simon makes funny voices while Lewis does 90% of the work.

* [[Mermaid Problem]]: Discussed in YoGPoD 21. According to Simon, Mermaids ''do'' have vaginas, but scaly ones.

* [[Metaphor Is My Middle Name]]: While on board the aircraft carrier the USS ''Hornet'' for a massive LAN party, Simon told the tale of a boy turned into a plane.

* [[Name McAdjective]]: While Lewis rambles about altered maps in ''[[World of Warcraft]]'', Simon dismissively goes "Sure thing, Mumbly McWhisperstein".

* [[Only Sane Man]]: Lewis is sometimes subjected to this whenever Simon starts making impulsive decisions.

* [[Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping]]:

** Simon's [[The Karate Kid|Mr. Miyagi]] voice somehow turning into a stereotypical Jewish accent.

** Simon's occasional lapses into his [[Large Ham|"Professor Grizwald"]] voice when narrating.

*** Lampshaded in a story Simon told where ''forgot how he actually spoke'' in [[Real Life]] and yelled out things like orders for food in his Grizwald voice for a couple of weeks.

* [[Orphaned Series]]:

** The Yogcast's ''[[Fable]] 3'' Co-Op [[Let's Play]] crash and burned after Simon got stuck in a tree due to a glitch the developers didn't bother to fix after porting it to the PC. Also resulted in Simon [[Rage Quit|Rage Quiting]].

* [[Paper-Thin Disguise]]: Santa Claus looked rather suspicious in Day 1 of the 2011 Christmas Advent Calender. Especially with his inability to drink with his beard.

* [[Perfectly Cromulent Word]]:

** "Excitingest". It's a word.

* [[Pyromaniac]]: '''''Simon'''''.

* [[Red Oni, Blue Oni]]: Simon is red, eager to cause damage and wreak havoc and clearly the most spirited about this experiment. Lewis is blue, thinking things through sometimes too carefully, and hardly unnerved. During Planetoids in the [[Yogscast Minecraft Series|Minecraft series]], while Simon was loudly crying over mobs spawning, at night, left alone, and having died earlier, Lewis ignored him and commented on how the clouds were "causing some trouble for him."

** "[[Big No|Noooo]] Bill it's not your time!" during The Sacrifice campaign of ''[[Left 4 Dead 2]]''. Doubly funny because the crew had played The Passing campaign first.

** Lewis demonstrates a very unusual game, and Simon comments on how he doesn't seem to realize how weird it is.

** The word "Spacker". Mentioned multiple times in the YoGPoD [[It Makes Sense in Context|as a made-up nickname for an illegal substance]], and is the name of a character in ''[[Shadow of Israphel]]''.

** For [[Blatant Lies|copyright reasons]], all songs must be out of tune.

** Similarly, Sjin likes to call Rythian's character Pontius in their [[Trine|Trine 2]] playthrough "Fatty" or "Pie Lord".

* [[Serious Business]]: Simon protecting his jam.

** Simon yelling [[Top Gear|Oliver!!]] whilst playing ''[[Dead Island]]''.

** In YoGPoD 36, Simon mentioned that it would take a parsec to find his lost jam, especially if he used the [[A New Hope|Kessel Run]].

* [[Solemn Ending Theme]]: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNqwyAflwmo&t=3m This operatic rendition] of the Yogscast theme performed by Simon.

'''Lewis:''' (laughs) }}

* [[Spot of Tea]]: This is one of Lewis' favorite drinks.

* [[Squee]]: Lewis, on occasion. For example, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KhR04COpwts&list=UUH-_hzb2ILSCo9ftVSnrCIQ&feature=plcp his reaction to kittens].

* [[Strongly Worded Letter]]: In the YoGPoD, Lewis recounts that his father is so un-tech savvy that he sends these to then-prime minister [[Gordon Brown]].

* [[Suspiciously Specific Denial]]: They make great use of this during to cover some of their... less heroic actions - with good intentions and mild (at most) consequences, of course!

** Brian Blessed has jam sandwiches.

* [[Verbal Tic]]: "The thing is..." While it seems that Lewis says this phrase most often, both Simon and Hannah use it, as infamously pointed out by a fan who edited together ''several minutes'' of them saying the phrase without consciously knowing it in a YoGPoD.

* [[Wimp Fight]]: In a video where Simon and Hannah are trying out ''Total Miner'', Hannah comes across a [[Giant Spider]] in an underground cavern, and she constantly tries to attack it with her pickaxe while she's way too far to actually hit anything. Even when she gets up close enough that the spider takes up the entire game screen, she ''still'' can't attack it and is too terrified to get closer to see if the pickaxe can even be used to attack spiders.

* [[The Wiki Rule]]: [http://yogscast.wikia.com/Yogscast_Wiki Here.] The Wiki is just as informal as [[TV Tropes]], fittingly enough.

 

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