Charlieissocoollike
Welcome to the world of Charlie McDonnell, a British twenty-something, YouTube sensation, and the epitome of Adorkable. He can be found here.
He started making vlogs when he was supposed to be revising for his GCSE's in July of 2007 and his channel has grown to have over a million subscribers since then.
- Acting for Two: In addition to himself, he also plays Artie Bloch in Coming Out and Mr. Information in Fun Science: Sound.
- Adorkable: Charlie could be the poster child.
- Annoying Younger Sibling: Averted; he and Bridie seem to get along quite well.
- Bad Bad Acting: In Cooking With Charlie.
- Big No: At the end of the Coming Out video.
- Buffy-Speak:
 |
All will be revealed next week, here at the charliessocoollike-web-video-show-thingie-whatever-this-is. |
 |
- Crossover: Sometimes with nerimon, aka Alex.
- Don't Explain the Joke: After Mr. Information gives false information about the five senses and Charlie gives the correct information...
|
Charlie: Mr. Information? Ha. More like... Miss Information. (Beat) Get it? See, I am calling him a woman, but at the same time, he gave you misinformation, so it's like a... (to Mr. Information, who he has just punched) What do you think of that. |
|
- Downer Ending: The song Bread ends on a rather depressing note. Parodied in Why Women Scare Me.
- Eat the Camera: does this at the end of the 2009 YouTube video "My Mum Makes Me Munch Marshmallows".
- Fourth Wall Mail Slot: On occasion.
- Halloween Episode: Scary Science
- Harmless Villain: "Evil" Charlie from The Other Charlie:
|
Evil Charlie: Based on my personal level of evil, probably the best thing I can do at this point is, uhmm...uhh.... (loos through Evil Handbook of Evil) THROW WATER IN HIS FACE! That...That's horrible. I like that one! |
|
- He-Man Woman Hater: He doesn't hate women, per se, but he is terrified of them.
- Heroes Want Redheads: His favorite Disney princess is Ariel and he also loves Amy Pond.
- A lot of people, girls in particular liked his red hair.
- He also likes Felicia Day.
- Heterosexual Life Partners: With Alex Day/Nerimon.
- Keet
- Nerd Glasses: His "serious glasses".
- Nice Guy
- One of Us: Charlie is a massive Nintendo fanboy, and his love for Mario and Zelda is displayed in many videos.
- Open-Minded Parent: Come on, not many moms would paint their sons purple or let them stuff marshmallows into their mouths until they puked.
- Product Placement: Accidental, and lampshaded, in Magic Mars Bars.
|
"I just want to make it clear that Mars Bars aren't sponsoring me to make this video. I could've said the whole thing exactly the same with Twixes and it wouldn't have mattered, they're not paying me, I promise!" |
|
- Promoted Fanboy: Charlie is a huge Doctor Who fan and, because of his YouTube account, got to go on the Doctor Who set, watching filming, making videos and going on the TARDIS!
- Same goes for Pixar. He even got to meet the director of Toy Story 3!
- Redheaded Hero: For a time, then he cut the red off since he was tired of being called "Ron Weasley".
- Significant Anagram: From the "Coming Out" video: an anagram of "Artie Bloch" is Charliebot.
- The Stinger: Quite a lot.
- Time Travel: Discussed in, well Time Travel.
- What Do You Mean It's Not Heinous?: Evil Charlie decides to torture Charlie by... THROWING WATER IN HIS FACE!
- Younger Than They Look: Bridie. When Charlie mentioned her turning 15, some people said things like, "Holy shit, I thought she was about 17!" or "Oh God, and I was thinking that she's hot!"