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''Broken Pixels'' (sometimes spelled ''Brok3n Pix3ls'') was an MST-style video game mockery show on 1up.com that ran from 2006 to 2009. Its longest-lasting and most popular hosts were [[Seanbaby]], Shane Bettenhousen and Crispen Boyer. Many of the games played were ones that had previously been featured on "Worst Games" lists in Electronic Gaming Monthly or Seanbaby's Web site, and thus the hosts tended to have professional history with some of the games, usually because they had been forced to review them before.
 
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The show died off around the same time as EGM did, as 1up.com was bought by UGO Entertainment. It had a brief [[Spiritual Successor]] called ''Shame Night''.
 
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* [[Actually Pretty Funny]]: The guys get really into some of the games and enjoy themselves.
* [[Author Tract]]: Cripsin believes the author of the ''Congo'' instruction manual made all the animal enemies female as a [[Take That]] against an unfaithful ex-wife:
{{quote| "It may sound cute, but she's a '''fucking whore''' like my ex-wife!"<br />
"The spider will fucking nag you to death and then sleep with the guy who cleans the pool." }}
* [[Beware the Nice Ones]]: Crispen, the quiet one, got more foul-mouthed as the show drew to a close.
{{quote| "I'm going to choke myself with this cord and masturbate..."}}
* [[Black Comedy Rape]]: One of the most common jokes in ''Wirehead'', where they assume that the bad guys rape Wirehead after each failure.
* [[Corpsing]]: The camera crew can often be heard laughing in the background.
* [[Four Point Scale]]:
{{quote| '''Shane:''' EGM gave this a 2 back when we used to give everything an 8.}}
* [[Gone Horribly Right]]: How the hero in ''Virtual Hydlide'' came to be, according to Shane:
{{quote| '''Shane:''' This game was developed in Japan...they needed to hire a white guy to be in the game...''and they found one''.}}
* [[Getting Crap Past the Radar]]: The guys find that the default name in ''Air Cars'' is "Fuckchop".
* [[Rage Quit]]: The presenters get so bored with ''Spider-Man 3'' on the Wii that they beg the director to cut. During ''Lifeline'', Shane gets so fed up with the hero that he lunges, screaming, at the screen.
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