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* [[Birdemic]]: Shock and Terror (2008)
* [[The Bourne Series (Film)|The Bourne Identity]] (2002)
* [[Captain America: theThe First Avenger (Film)|Captain America the First Avenger]] (2011)
* [[Casablanca]] (1942)
* [[Casino Royale (Film)|Casino Royale]] (2006)
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'''Mike Nelson''': Come back here. You don't get off that easy. }}
* [[Author Appeal]]
** Mike is practically obsessed with ''Roadhouse'' (once writing an entire book using it as the rubric for [[So Bad ItsIt's Good]]) and film-related riffs often appear.
** All three are obsessed with beer and bacon, leading to shorts like "Three Magic Words", "As We Like It" and "Behavior of Domestic Pigs" (where at the end, they demand that the pigs "Be bacon now!").
* [[Bacon Addiction]]: a major [[Running Gag]].
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* [[Completely Missing the Point]]/[[Misaimed Fandom|Misaimed Hatedom]]: The riffers constantly trash ''[[Paranormal Activity]]'' for not being a thrill-a-minute horror flick, rather than the suspenseful buildup [[Your Mileage May Vary|it was supposed to be]]. Then again, [[Rule of Funny]] is in effect, folks.
* [[Darker and Edgier]]: If there's a happy, cheerful song in a short, its lyrics will be immediately changed to reflect death and horror. See the "County Fair" short for a great example.
* [[Dude, Not Funny]]: "The jokes in ''[[Memento (Film)|Memento]]'' are pretty rare, folks, enjoy 'em while you can."
** Kevin takes the time to acknowledge that the flashback of Rosalie being raped in ''[[Twilight (Literature)|Eclipse]]'' is genuinely disturbing.
** The crew is practically silent for the beginning of ''[[X-Men (Film)|X-Men]]'', during the Holocaust scene.
** This is arguably in play/overlaps with [[Refuge in Audacity]] when they crack jokes about Will Smith {{spoiler|killing his dog}} in ''[[I Am Legend]]''.
** Their discomfort is palpable during the scene in ''[[Star Trek Generations]]'' where Picard reveals that his family was killed in a fire.
* [[Dude, Where's My Respect?]]: A running gag in their riffs of the Harry Potter series particularly with regard to the continued distrust of the boy that saves Hogwarts once a year.
{{quote| '''Harry:''' I was only [using magic in front of muggles] to save [them.]<br />
'''Bill (continuing as Harry):''' Also I've saved the school four times and have a flawless record of being on the side of truth and justice. }}
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** In ''[[The Matrix]] Reloaded'', they wax adoring of the Merovingian's unnamed bouncer, [[Fan Nickname|"Big-Dead-Ass-Guy"]].
* [[Everyone Is Jesus in Purgatory]]: As in [[MST3K]], they occasionally espouse the theory that they've died and whatever movie they're watching is hell.
* [[EverythingsEverything's Better With Monkeys]]: Discussed in several of their riffs. For example, when Odin hurls Thor's hammer to Earth, they want a monkey to find it.
** For the first ten minutes of ''Laser Mission'', the guys keep asserting that the movie would be several times better if it were actually "Laser Chimps", as they randomly guessed at first.
* [[Fauxlosophic Narration]]: It's present in some of the shorts, including "American Thrift", "What It Means To Be An American" and "Your Chance To Live".
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* [[A Good Name for A Rock Band]]: Their typical variation of this gag is to state that they were in such and such band.
* [[Have a Gay Old Time]]: Comes up a lot in many of the older shorts.
* [[Hey ItsIt's That Voice]]: Almost by definition. Don't fret if it takes you a while to hear Kevin Murphy as himself and ''not'' picture a red gumball-machine shaped robot.
* [[Hollywood Tone Deaf]]: Whenever Disembaudio sings along to an end credits song, most notably in the ''[[Titanic]]'' riff.
** The guys mock a group of tone-deaf singers in "Coffeehouse Rendezvous" by singing "I harmonize badly" in set of truly horrible voices. They're otherwise pretty good singers, especially Kevin.
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** Subverted on the ''Twilight'' commentary when Mike starts to praise the plausibility of the love story only for Kevin to hit him with a phonebook
** On the other hand, he was greeted with praise for his minutes-long "Amway Sketch" during ''[[Avatar]]''. Granted, it ''was'' [[Actually Pretty Funny]].
* [[Precision F -Strike]] - On the short ''The Red Hen'', the following conversation takes place.
{{quote| '''Kevin''': I think it was really important to focus on the ''Red'' hen. The subtle differences between how the Red Hen and the speckled hen would handle this situation really elevates this short to a new level.<br />
'''Bill''': What level is that, Kevin?<br />
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'''Mike:''' ''<[[Beat|beat]]>'' Right. }}
* [[Robot Buddy]]: Disembaudio.
* [[Rule Thirty Four34]]: Mentioned during the "Being On Time Game" short when a dad eats a banana during an overcranked sequence. Mike and Kevin have to physically restrain Bill from looking it up.
* [[Running Gag|Running Gags]]
** Llllladies...
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* [[Sarcasm Mode]]: Used [[Sarcasm Mode|a few times]].
{{quote| ''"The silver screen cannot contain the heated passion of [[Twilight (Literature)|Twilight]]!"''}}
* [[Self -Deprecation]]: For professional snarkers, the guys direct a refreshingly large number of jokes at themselves ([[Vitriolic Best Buds|or each other]]) for being overweight, nerdy, incapable of holding their drink etc. This sportingness probably contributes to the fact that their riffs never sound truly mean-spirited.
* [[Self Referential Humor]]: A lot. But special mention goes to the opening of their Highlander riff where Bill and Kevin begin with a generic template of their normal dialog.
** Mixing this with [[Self -Deprecation]]: in ''[[Battlefield Earth]]'', Mike comments that it's demeaning for anyone to wear a jumpsuit, "even for a job."
* [[Shout Out]] - Many to ''[[MST3K]]''
** ''[[Battlefield Earth (Film)|Battlefield Earth]]''. Bill: "Psssh. 3000. What has the year 3000 ever done for us?"
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{{quote| '''Kevin:'''"Oh, come on, what kind of a director would make his [[Memento (Film)|movie backwards]]?!?!?"}}
* [[Skewed Priorities]] - Often, and played for laughs.
{{quote| '''Kevin:''' (as [[The Matrix|Neo]] discards his empty weapon during [[Kill 'Em All|the climactic lobby shootout]]) "Ugh, you know what message that sends to the young people out there? That it's okay to just go ahead and throw their semi-automatic rifles on the floor like he just did. Well, shame on you sir!"}}
* [[Spiritual Successor]] - To [[MST3K]]
* [[Stealth Pun]] - In the ''[[The Fifth Element]]'' Riff, Mike points out that the fifth element on the Periodic Table is actually Boron, and hopes that's not what the movie's about, since Boron is not a very interesting element.<ref>One could say he finds Boron boring.</ref>
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** Kevin invokes this trope by name when Barbara is trying to guess Alfred's password in ''[[Batman and Robin (Film)|Batman and Robin]]''.
* [[This Is Gonna Suck]]: The day after ''Transformers: Dark of the Moon'' was released, Mike, Bill and Kevin endlessly tweeted about how ''terrible'' it was - and they know they'll have to do a RiffTrax for it. Sucks for them, great for us.
* [[This Is for Emphasis, Bitch]]:
{{quote| '''Bill Corbett:''' [[Crowning Moment of Funny|Housekeeping, Bitch!]]}}
* [[Throw It In]]: If they think a joke is particularly funny the crew will leave their laughter in as opposed to editing it out, sometimes it can go out for several minutes and almost derail the commentary.
* [[Values Dissonance]]: Frequently addressed by the riffers, especially when it comes to women and having a personality.
* [[Viewers Areare Morons]]: The audience that many of the shorts were originally created for. Some of these include how to draw a rectangle and how to boil water.
{{quote| '''Bill Corbett''': Should a person who doesn't know what ''boil'' means even be allowed near an open flame?}}
* [[What the Hell, Hero?]]: Generally called out with a "Our heroes, ladies and gentlemen."
* [[Where Are They Now? Epilogue]]: Mike does one at the end of ''[[Road House]]'', except it's about all the characters dying in various ways - he even includes such characters as "the man who wanted to try Dalton" and "the man who encouraged fellow patrons to grope his wife". Afterwards he claims he was joking and in fact everybody lived [[Happily Ever After]]...except Tinker.
** Mike tried to do this at the end of [[Oceans Eleven]], but the epilogue cut him off mid-sentence. Twice.
* [[With Lyrics]]: This is done often in the movie but constantly during the shorts, almost to the point of [[Once an Episode]]. Usually the lyrics are [[Darker and Edgier]] too. For instance, singing "probably going to die" to the tune of the theme music for ''[[Harry Potter and The Prisoner of Azkaban]]'' or Bill's anti-monkey lyrics from "Monkey See, Monkey Do: Verbs".
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