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[[File:SuburbanKnights_6323.jpg|thumb|400px|Teamshot circa April 2011.<ref>The smudges are [http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20110707021038/thatguywiththeglasses/images/thumb/2/26/3year.jpg/607px-3year.jpg autographs]. Left to right, top row: [[Dark Maze Studios|Ed Glaser]], [[Todd in the Shadows]], [[Paw Dugan]], [[Atop the Fourth Wall|Linkara]], [[Phelous]], [[That Dude in the Suede]], [[The Game Heroes|Handsome Tom]], [[Jew Wario]], [[Marz Gurl]], [[Bennett the Sage]]. Bottom row: Holly Brown (TGWTG showrunner), [[Obscurus Lupa]], [[The Angry Joe Show|Angry Joe]], [[Benzaie]], [[The Spoony Experiment|The Spoony One]], [[The Nostalgia Chick]], [[The Nostalgia Critic]], [[The Cinema Snob]], [[Captain Planet and the Planeteers|Ma-Ti]] (Bhargo), [[Luke Mochrie and The Inners]], [[Bad Movie Beatdown|FilmBrain]], [[The Game Heroes|8-Bit Mickey]], That Other Guy (Rob Walker).</ref>]]
{{quote|''"[[Catch Phrase|Hello, I'm the Nostalgia Critic. I remember it so you don't have to.]]"''|'''[[The Nostalgia Critic]]'''}}
[[Doug Walker]] is '''That Guy With The Glasses''', part of [http://
{{quote|'''[[Keanu Reeves|Neo]]:''' [[Dull Surprise|Whoa]].}}
He's also notable for a "rivalry" with [[The Angry Video Game Nerd]] which was chronicled in 5 of his videos (which [[Fan Dumb|some fans]] took a little too [[Serious Business|seriously]]). It (temporarily) climaxed as a brawl between the two (with Captain S [[Melee a Trois|joining in for no apparent reason]]). Then each had to "do the other's job" and review a terrible video game/nostalgic movie. The Critic seemed to come off worse (i.e. he suffered more) in his review of ''[[Bebe's Kids]]''. He ultimately challenged the Nerd to a fight to the death that occurred on October
There has been a reprise video that turned into a [[Massive Multiplayer Crossover]], Gamers Vs Critics, showdown of awesome. It is known as the [[TGWTG Year One Brawl|TGWTG anniversary brawl]]. Later, the Critic and the Nerd teamed up to review an awful ''[[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles]]'' concert video, but their hostilities seemed to rekindle at the end.
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In addition to his own videos, Walker also hosts a number of other pop culture reviewers on his site. You can find a list of most of them (or at least the ones we tropers remembered to add) '''[[That Guy With The Glasses/Characters|here]]'''.
The site spun off into ''Blistered Thumbs'' in November 2010, for gaming-centric videos and article. It shut down in January 2014.
Contributors who have left Channel Awesome get their pages and videos deleted off the site.
Please restrict examples from the following shows to their respective pages, unless they're from non-anniversary special crossover videos.
* [[That Guy With the Glasses/That Guy With the Glasses Index|That Guy With the Glasses Index]] (works spoofed/reviewed by these people)
'''Subpages and Related Pages:'''
<Tabber>
Anniversary Specials=
:1. [[TGWTG Year One Brawl]]
:2. ''[[Kickassia]]''
:3. ''[[Suburban Knights]]''
:4. ''To Boldly Flee''
:5. ''The Uncanny Valley''
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Current Members=
* That Guy with the Glasses ([[Doug Walker]])
** ''[[Ask That Guy With The Glasses]]''
** ''[[Bum Reviews]]''
** ''Demo Reel''
** [[The Nostalgia Critic]]
** [[Video Game Confessions]]
* ''[[The Cinema Snob]]''
** ''[[80's Dan]]''
** ''[[The Hooker with a Heart of Gold]]''
* [[Guru Larry and Wez|Guru Larry]]
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Former Members=
* ''[[Apollo Z Hack]]''
* ''[[The Angry Joe Show]]'' (Angry Joe)
* ''Animerica'' (Fox Catcher and Phoenix)
* ''Ask Lovecraft''
* ''[[Atop the Fourth Wall]]'' (Linkara)
** ''[[History of Power Rangers]]'' (Side-series)
* ''Awesome Comics''
* ''[[Awesome Video Games]]'' (Fraser)
** ''[[Video Games Awesome]]'' (Fraser)
* ''[[Bad Movie Beatdown]]'' (Film Brain)
** ''Projector''
* Bargain Boy
* Battle Geek Plus
* [[Bennett the Sage]]
* [[Benzaie]]
* ''[[The Blockbuster Buster]]'' (ERod)
* ''Blood Spattered Cinema'' (The Horror Guru)
* ''Brandons Cult Movie Reviews'' (Brandon Tenold)
* ''[[Brows Held High]]''
* [[ChaosD1]] (''The MMO Grinder'')
* Chris Stuckmann
* Count Jackula
* ''[[Dark Maze Studios]]''
** ''[[Deja View]]''
** ''[[Ninja the Mission Force]]''
** ''[[Press Start]] Adventures''
** ''[[
** ''[[Space Ninja]]''
*
* [[The Amazing Atheist|Distressed Watcher]]
* ''Dtoons''
** ''Toons These Days''
* ''The Dom Reviews''
* ''[[Familiar Faces]]'' (CR)
* ''[[Eric Power Up]]''
* [[The Game Heroes]]
* Gaming Wildlife
* [[Harry Partridge|Happy Harry]]
* [[Iron Liz]]
* [[Internet Personality Vangelus]]
* iRawss
* [[JesuOtaku]]
* JewWario (''[[You Can Play This]]'')
* [[JonTron]]
* [[The Last Angry Geek]] (''Comic Book Issues'')
* [[Lee and Dena]] (''Still Gaming'' & ''The Game Den'')
* [[Lord Kat]]
* Lotus Prince
* [[Luke Mochrie and The Inners]] (''Film Conscience'')
* [[Marz Gurl]]
* [[Mike J]] (''Shameful Sequels'')
* ''MUD2MMO'' (Tyger)
* Needs More Gay (Rantasmo)
* ''[[The Nostalgia Chick]]'' (Lindsay Ellis)
* [[Obscurus Lupa]] (Allison Pregler)
* The Omega
* [[Phelous]]
** ''[[Mortal Komedy]]''
*
*
* [[Psychotaku]]
* [[Pushing Up Roses]]
* [[The Rap Critic]]
* Rerez
* ''Rocked Reviews''
* [[Rollo T]]
* Rud the Spud
** ''[[
* Shark Jumping
* Some Jerk with a Camera
* Some Guys I Know
* ''[[The Spoony Experiment]]'' (Noah Antwiler)
** ''[[Counter Monkey]]''
** ''[[Spoony's Campaign]]'' (''[[Dungeons & Dragons]]'' campaign featuring various site contributors)
* Stuff You Like (Sursum Ursa)
* [[Team Four Star]] (former affiliate)
** [[Hbi2k]]
** [[Lanipator]]
** MasakoX
** [[Little Kuriboh]]
* ''Terror Obscura'' (Fear Fan)
* [[That Dude in the Suede]]
* [[That SciFi Guy]]
* [[Todd in the Shadows]]
* ''[[Transylvania Television]]''
* [[Welshy]]
* ''[[
* ''[[
* [[Y: Ruler of Time]] (Read Right to Left)
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Affiliates=
* [[Stuart Ashen|Ashens]]
*
* ''[[Reviewtopia]]'' (site featuring certain TGWTG contributors and members of its community)
</Tabber>
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== A-H ==
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** Reportedly, not all producers find everything as bad as their in-character reviews indicate.
* [[Adorkable]]: '''Everybody'''.
* [[
** Mechakara from ''[[Atop the Fourth Wall]]'' is another example.
** The Nostalgia Critic's Microwave was struck by lightning and now hates him.
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* [[All Men Are Perverts]], [[All Women Are Lustful]]: They're a pretty horny bunch. Seeing as how they're all nerds, this is to be expected.
* [[And Knowing Is Half the Battle]]: Spoofed by name when the Critic and the Chick review ''[[Fern Gully]]''. Also spoofed by the question-answering title character of [[Ask That Guy With The Glasses]] in one episode of his show
* [[And You Were There]]: Subverted at the end of his [https://web.archive.org/web/20130925045149/http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/videolinks/thatguywiththeglasses/nostalgia-critic/1743-surf-ninjas Surf Ninjas review], where he is surrounded by his friends after having a dream where he reviewed ''[[Surf Ninjas]]'' and liked it. He tells his friends that they were there; then, when one asks "Really?", he says, "No."
* [[Angrish]]: [[Lampshaded]] in the AVGN/Critic review, in which [[The Angry Video Game Nerd]] points out to the Nostalgia Critic that he's too angry to come up with a coherent way to express his distaste over how ugly [[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles|Master Splinter]] looks.
* [[Anti-Villain|Anti Villains]]: At least in the [[Kickassia|two]] [[Suburban Knights|specials]]. Doug has said that when he's writing them, he draws from the ''[[Batman]]'' [[Rogues Gallery]]: they're all horrible people, certainly, but they're sympathetic too and will look after each other in a sometimes manipulative, [[Tough Love]] way.
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* [[Bad Boss]]: "In-universe", the Nostalgia Critic (and Rob, The Other Guy) runs TGWTG, so if someone's reviewing something particularly [[Suckiness Is Painful|painful]], it's probably because he made them do it. Nonetheless, he gets outwitted and walked over quite a lot.
* [[Berserk Button]]:
** In the "''[[
* [[Better Than a Bare Bulb]]: Half of Phelous and Linkara's ''The Airzone Solution'' review and Phelous and Film Brain's ''Lockjaw'' review have constantly lampshade the set-up of crossover reviews.
* [[Big Damn Heroes]]: Spoony and Linkara show up when the topic being reviewed is so bad for the Critic that a friend (or two in the case of ''Alone in the Dark'') is required to make it through the review. The Critic is not happy about this.
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* [[Big No]]: Panda, to Smarty's death in episode 4 of ''Panda Q&A''.
* [[Bizarre Alien Biology]]: According to Merry Zodmas, [[Superman (film)|Kryptonians]] grow their heads back after consuming a radioactive beverage.
* [[Black Comedy]]:[https://web.archive.org/web/20131120012246/http://blip.tv/nostalgiacritic/sketches-the-most-disturbing-aristocrats-joke-ever-1469521 The Most Disturbing Aristocrats Joke Ever].
* [[Black Comedy Rape]]:
** Zig-zagged in all three "Spooning With Spoony" segments. The horror and Spoony's smug objectification of everyone provides the funny, not specifically that they were raped. Also as a bonus, [[The Nostalgia Chick]] and [[The Nostalgia Critic]] are the most traumatized, yet Lindsay and Doug came up with their respective episode idea.
** Averted in "Ask That Guy VIOLATES Ma-Ti" when it looks like this will be the case, but Ma-Ti fights back and then points out how sick it is that anyone wanted to watch that video. [[You Bastard|He then rapes Ask That Guy because that's what people want.]]
*
** ''The [[Bjork]] Show''. There's a genie, and jump cut teleportation, and a rotting bologna sandwich?
* [[Brick Joke]]: Arguably, "Go Watch Porn" and LordKat's [[Brain Bleach|seductive strawberry eating]] in the ''[[
* [[Bring My Brown Pants]]: Lee craps himself when he sees King Hippo in ''[[Punch-Out!!]]'' for the Wii.
** [[Atop the Fourth Wall|Linkara]], [[What The Fuck Is Wrong With You?|Nash]], and [[Bad Movie Beatdown|FilmBrain]] have their "pants to be darkened" gag from their review of the 2011 Wonder Woman TV pilot.
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** The Critic: He tries to throw his weight around in crossovers, but either the others get over him, or he defeats himself.
* [[Blessed with Suck]]: Phelous, apparently. Lampshaded in a crossover: [[The Angry Joe Show|Angry Joe]] thinks its awesome he comes back to life after he dies at the end of every review. Phelous, given what he has to review, disagrees.
* [[Casanova Wannabe]]: Site exec Mike Ellis in [https://web.archive.org/web/20130801031352/http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/videolinks/bt/benzaie/hardcorner/6858-casitcom Benzaie's crossover sitcom].
* [[Catch Phrase]]: Many. See the [[That Guy With The Glasses/Characters|character sheet]] for specific ones.
* [[Cat Fight]]: The entire male crew on the site loves cat fights, as shown in the review for ''[[Mortal Kombat (film)|Mortal Kombat]]: Annihilation''.
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** Also, when the Nostalgia Critic and [[The Angry Video Game Nerd]] team-up to review ''The Making Of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Coming Out Of Our Shell'' video, you can bet they lay on the swearing but thick.
** In fact, Linkara has been given grief by some fans for NOT swearing.
* [[Collectible Cloney Babies]]: On ''[[Channel Awesome]]'', it's revealed on [[Paw Dugan]]'s music reviews that his girlfriend Elyse, aka Maven of the Eventide, collects Phantom of the Opera plushies. She hijacks several of his reviews in revenge for one of his darts hitting her favorite one and "killing" it. They eventually make up, though, when covering ''[[Fantasia 2000]]''.
* [[Comic Trio]]: The Critic, Spoony and Linkara in ''[[Alone in the Dark]]''. They even parody ''[[The Three Stooges]]'' at the end of the review. Hell, if they had bothered to put shadows in front of the clips, the whole thing would have been one epic [[MSTing]].
* [[Continuity Lock Out]]: With the sheer volume of shout-outs, callbacks and cameos on display, [[Archive Panic|and a frankly intimidating number of shows available]], god knows what the site looks like to people who've just found it.
** Case in point: two major plot points ( {{spoiler|Black Lantern Spoony's creation and original Spoony's resurrection}}) from an arc in Spoony's videos don't make any sense unless you watch two random non-consecutive Linkara videos.
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** The Critic impersonates the Cinema Snob in the ''Leprechaun'' review. The Snob is also not impressed.
** Doug has occasionally gone to events dressed as Linkara, who will shortly after appear as the [[Power Rangers|Green Ranger]] and confront him on this.
** Phelous and Nostalgia Critic dress as the other in the [[
* [[Crap Saccharine World]]: The sockpuppet [[Fluffy Cloud Heaven]]...with sex slaves as told in Coffee with Bargo.
** According to the ''That Guy Riffs'' of Casper, the friendly ghost killed several people and committed and/or was witness to various other atrocities, that weren't gone into because 'it's not that kind of story'.
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* [[Culture Clash]]: According to one of Spoony's vlogs, this happens to Benzaie when he's introduced to the concept of sales tax.
** Though technically the issue wasn't the sales tax itself, variants of which exist in many other countries. It's that in Europe said tax is usually already included on the product's price.
* [[A Day in the Limelight]]: Many members of the site's "B-team" came together to [https://web.archive.org/web/20130924175117/http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/videolinks/teamt/paw/specials/16364-dragonball-evolution review] ''[[
* [[Death Glare]]: Linkara withers under the Critic's glare when he's caught pretending to be the Critic in their ''Superman IV'' review.
* [[Death Is Cheap]]: In the case of Phelous and the Nostalgia Critic. Both [[Lampshade Hanging]] it too.
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* [[Epic Hail]]: The Nostalgia signal.
{{quote|'''Linkara''': No one should have to watch [[Uwe Boll]] alone, [[My Friends and Zoidberg|especially with Spoony]].}}
* [[Erotic Eating]]: LordKat of ''Until We Win'' eating a strawberry in the ''[[
* [[Et Tu, Brute?]]: In the Brawl: "Et tu, Lee from Still Gaming?" Echoed later in ''[[Kickassia]]''.
* [[Even Evil Has Standards]]:
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** Even [[Ask That Guy With The Glasses|Ask That Guy]] was horrified by [[Complete Monster|Bennett the Sage.]]
* [[Everyone Is Bi]]: Most likely aided on by the [[Ficdom]], if it makes for laughs or [[Fan Service]] then anyone can express an interest in their own gender.
* [[Face Palm]]: [[Y: Ruler of Time]], does this in his review of ''[[Hana Kimi]]'', after the school's doctor discovers that Mizuki is actually a girl passing for a boy, not because he ''is'' a doctor, and therefore has vast knowledge of human anatomy to identify her as a girl with a glance, but because ''he's gay''.
** The Nostalgia Critic also does this in his review of ''[[Battlefield Earth]]''
* [[Fan Disservice]]:
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* [[Ficdom]]: Has a name - the [[The Not-Secret|Secret]] Treehouse - and its tropes could fill a page of their own.
* [[Follow the Leader]]: A minor example - after That Guy's Bum Reviews' success, the other reviewers started to use their own Bum characters.
** Also, after [[The Nostalgia Critic]] started having unique cartoon title cards for his videos, more and more contributors to the site seem to be getting their own cartoon title cards as well, including [[Atop the Fourth Wall|Linkara]], [[The Nostalgia Chick]], [[Marz Gurl]], [[Phelous]], [[The Cinema Snob]], and now Mike J, [[
** In their commentary for the joint Critic/Chick review of ''[[Fern Gully]]'', Doug and Lindsay note that it was probably the first time two of TGWTG's reviewers had appeared together in the same frame. Since that review, multi-reviewer crossovers have become commonplace.
** There are also a number of people not from the site who have started doing their own satirical reviews.
* [[Foreshadowing]]: In his ''[[Battlefield Earth]]'' review, the Nostalgia Critic implies that there are two Sci-Fi films that are as bad or even significantly worse than ''Battlefield Earth''. Doug has since revealed that one of the films in question is ''[[Star Trek V: The Final Frontier]]'', but is keeping his lips sealed as to what the second film is.
* [[Freud Was Right]]: In the ''Coffee With Bargo'' segment this is implied about Alice in Wonderland.
* [[Fridge Logic]]:
** [[Bad Movie Beatdown|Film Brain]] points out the entire plot of ''[[Final Destination]] 3'' is derailed because of no falling camera.
* [[Frivolous Lawsuit]]: The site was threatened with one for its review of ''[[The Room]]''. The Critic made an awesome sketch out of it.
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* [[Funny Background Event]]: The review of ''[[Interstella 5555]]'' always has one of the four reviewers dancing in the background.
* [[Furry Fandom]]: Several in-universe critiques.
** Bennett the Sage has harsh words to say after reading a ''TMNT''/''Gargoyles'' crossover [[Slash Fic]] [[Lemon]]. The fact that his next target is [[So Bad It's Horrible/
* [[Gag Sub]]: From the ''[[Star Wars Holiday Special]]'' review Doug Walker did:
{{quote|'''Wookiee mother:'''Junior, come over here and eat your yak testicles!
'''Young Wookiee:'''They taste like diarrhea. I wish I was adopted!
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* [[A God Am I]]:
** Mako to the Nostalgia Critic in the ''[[Sidekicks]]'' and ''[[Conan the Barbarian]]'' reviews. Arguably.
** LittleKuriboh in the ''[[
* [[God Is Evil]]: He [[Evan Almighty|stripped away all of Film Brain's clothes]] and [[Bolt of Divine Retribution|smote the Critic]], so he seems to be shaping up to this in this universe.
* [[Golden Raspberry Award]]: Amazingly, only five Worst Picture winners have been reviewed on the site: Nostalgia Critic reviewed ''[[Howard the Duck (film)|Howard the Duck]]'', ''[[Battlefield Earth]]'' and ''[[Star Trek V: The Final Frontier]]'', the Chick reviewed ''[[Showgirls]]'' and Film Brain reviewed ''[[Hudson Hawk]]''. (Film Brain also reviewed ''All About Steve'', for which Sandra Bullock won Worst Actress.)
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{{quote|'''Lee:''' Shinji is a piece of shit! And EVA is ''overrated''.
'''Dena:''' DUDE! You... you can't say that, you're... [[Internet Backdraft|you're gonna piss people off]]. }}
== I-P ==
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** The One-Year Anniversary Brawl in May 2009, which featured over a dozen characters from the site as well as [[The Angry Video Game Nerd]], Kyle Justin, and Ma-Ti from the ''[[Captain Planet and the Planeteers]]'' review, just 'cause. This was followed by various smaller crossover videos.
** Then, in September, the Critic, with Spoony and Linkara (thanks to the Nostalgia Signal) review the ''[[Alone in the Dark (2005 film)|Alone in The Dark]]'' film by [[Uwe Boll]].
** In January 2010, a large portion of the site finally reviews ''[[
** [[Kickassia]] and its week of filming crossovers in Reno also employed this.
** The 2009 charity drive employed this, as did Spooning With Spoony 2 (filmed during said visit to Doug's house).
* [[Medium Awareness]]: Often used in the interest of comedy.
** In his review of ''[[Fern Gully]]'' with the Nostalgia Chick, the Nostalgia Critic would look around in confusion when the [[
*** [[Call Back|Called back to]] in the review for [[Superman IV]] when Linkara reacts with confusion to the emblem's appearance, which the Nostalgia Critic promptly notes was created by the Nostalgia Chick.
** One of the features of the ''[[Kickassia]]'' DVD that the Critic promotes is the absence of "that annoying caption", pointing to the tag reading "ThatGuyWithGlasses.com", and flicks it off-screen. It comes back to attack him.
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* [[Mind Screw]]: "Coffee With Bargo". Godlike penguins and robotic unicorns running at the speed of light. The sequel adds in Bargo as a tranvestite male lesbian heroin addict and panda bears in Ronald Reagan masks.
* [[Misaimed Fandom]]: Addressed in-universe by Y Ruler of Time in "Reaction Shots" with various series:
{{quote|'''What To Take From It''': Death is but another aspect of life, but the nature of the soul is eternal and [[Fantastic Aesop|meddling with it can have consequences]].
'''What We DO Take From It''': [[Bleach|BANKAI!]] }}
* [[Mood Whiplash]]: Not the site's fault, but blip will play [[Tear Jerker]] cancer research adverts or [[Nightmare Fuel]] rape PSAs before we get some hammy comedy from the reviewers.
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* [[MST]]: Done during some of the sample clips. This is even more noticeable in ''[[Alone in the Dark (2005 film)|Alone in The Dark]]'': Three guys reviewing a crappy movie while, for the most part, it's voiceover.
** They even won a contest at [[Riff Trax]] and got to record a special ''Rifftrax Presents'' of ''[[Batman Forever]]'' with a brief appearance from Mike, Bill and Kevin.
** Doug has started a riff series premiering with the anti-gay propaganda short [https://web.archive.org/web/20140830013234/http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/videolinks/thatguywiththeglasses/specials/27608-thatguyriffs-boysbeware Boys Beware]
* [[Mundane Fantastic]]: Despite a fairly normal world, Linkara has a magic gun, there are several [[Mad Scientist|mad scientists]] and robots around, [[The Nostalgia Chick]] also knows a fairy, a number of the reviewers have ''[[Street Fighter]]'' like powers, there's a [[Portal Network]] in washing machines...
* [[Narrow Parody]]: The ''Tommy Wiseau Show'' video was a particularly spiteful example, in which the representation of "John From [[The Room]]Movie.com" eventually resorts to bawling his own name; the only detail Doug knew about the man in question. The other contributors are not exempt from this either.
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* [[Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot]]:
** Giant Robotic Donkey Kong Jesus Riding on a Puff of Smoke.
** [https://web.archive.org/web/20120103074239/http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/videolinks/thatguywiththeglasses/specials/27929-coffee-with-bargo Coffee with Bargo] features robot zombie unicorns "messing shit up", which was apparently orchestrated by a [[Watchmen (comics)|Dr. Manhattan]] [[Star Wars|Jedi]] [[Everything's Better with Penguins|penguin]], who may or may not be a messianic spork god as well.
* [[Non-Indicative Name]]: The "5-Second Movies", for the most part, aren't exactly five seconds long.
* [["Not Making This Up" Disclaimer]]: So many reviews cover things that the reviewers have to assure the audience actually happened in those works.
** The cafe in [https://web.archive.org/web/20130925172259/http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/videolinks/thatguywiththeglasses/sketches/33165-where-is-malachite this video] is a real place. The last part even gives you the address in case you want to stop by.
* [[Not Me This Time]]: After several reviewers were stuck watching ''[[The Last Airbender]]'', they figure [[The Nostalgia Critic]] set them up since he did something similar before with ''[[
* [[Old Shame]]: In episode 5 of "Masterpiece Fanfic Theater", Bennett reads a script-formatted crossover fanfiction between ''[[Pokémon (anime)|Pokémon]]'', ''[[Digimon Adventure]]'', and ''[[Sailor Moon]]'', with a [[Self-Insert Fic|self-insert character]] and a plot ripped off from a ''[[Doctor Who]]'' [[Big Finish Doctor Who|audio drama]], written by... Linkara, who spends most of the episode tied up to an armchair, trying in vain to get Bennett to stop reading it.
** The ''Flashback!'' series, in which Doug showcases some of the stuff he's done when he was younger. Your Mileage May Vary on whether it's ''bad'', but he definitely is embarrassed.
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* [[Queer People Are Funny]]: the base of many a joke and much fanservice; although [[Guy-On-Guy Is Hot|male]] surprisingly more than [[Girl-On-Girl Is Hot|female]].
* [[Reaching Between the Lines]]: The Critic fires a pistol at Linkara when he catches him impersonating him; Linkara asks how he did that. Spoony and Film Brain's arguement over reviewing ''[[Hudson Hawk]]'' ends with Spoony beating up Film Brain.
* [[Real Life Writes the Plot]]/[[Written
** According to Spoony's commentary, in the joint review of the ''[[Alone in
** He lost his voice again and used a black-and-white-like video to say what he wants, [[Gag Dub]] included.
* [[Recursive Canon]]: The anniversary specials add another layer between the contributors' videos - where Linkara is a world-saving hero, Angry Joe lives on a space station and has [[Shock and Awe|electrical powers]], Spoony has enemies that have killed and cloned him, the Nostalgia Chick's sidekick Nella turned evil and rampaged across America - and the real world, as they're all still their characters, but are the people who work for TGWTG and make the videos.
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** [[The Spoony Experiment|Spoony]] has been garnering his own group of villains to contend with. Dr. Insano harasses him as much as he does Linkara, and there's also [[Blackest Night|Black Lantern Spoony]], The [[Ultimate Warrior]], The Gatecleaner, and [[Ultima VI|Fucking Chuckles]]. {{spoiler|All of whom seem to be forming an alliance of [[Green Lantern|Lanterns]] working under [[Ultima VII|The Guardian]]}}.
** [[The Nostalgia Critic]] himself has a small group of his own, made up of [[Ask That Guy With The Glasses|Ask That Guy]], [[Lost in Space|Dr. Smith]], [[Kickassia|Kevin Baugh]], [[The Angry Video Game Nerd]], and [[Fan Dumb|Douchey McNitpick]] (the latter has also harassed other contributors).
** Other villains of TGWTG include Spaceguy and the Alien Space Pants of Nash's ''[[What The Fuck Is Wrong With You?]]'', [[Bad Movie Beatdown|Professor Celluloid]], Luke Mochrie's Inner Serial Killer Ralph, half of the [[Phelous]] clones, [[The Angry Joe Show|Bizzaro Joe, Corporate Commander]], [[Paw Dugan|Dark Paw]], a Satan/Devil/Demon allegory played by [[Y: Ruler of Time]], [[The Room|Tommy Wiseau]], [[Battlefield Earth (film)|Terl]], [[The Nostalgia Chick|Dark Nella]], [[Suburban Knights|Malachite]] and sometimes [[Bennett the Sage]].
* [[Rouge Angles of Satin]]: Several stories reviewed on ''Masterpiece Fanfic Theater'' also suffer from this to a ridiculous degree. Particularly episodes 2 and 10.
* [[Rule of Funny]]
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'''[[Street Fighter|M. Bison]]''': ''OF COURSE!'' }}
** Most of the contributors have their own running gags, but the M. Bison gag is near universal.
** '''''[[Trope Namers|
** Pee Wee Herman's "This is crack."
** "[[Monty Python and the Holy Grail|It's only a model.]]"
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** He also tries to run away at the start of his review of ''[[The Star Wars Holiday Special]]'', but Rob catches him.
** During the Spoony/Lordkat Pumpkinhead "Until We Win" episode, Spoony is so disgusted by the game's moon logic that he tries to quit, but then remembers that the two of them are trapped in "The Black Hole" (which looks like a hotel room) and can't leave.
* [[Self-Deprecation]]: Doug's [https://web.archive.org/web/20130924145409/http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/videolinks/thatguywiththeglasses/sketches/16796-hitler-spoof parody of Hitler Parodies] is loaded with this. ''"This is why Spoony won that Open Web Award!"''
** "[[The Nostalgia Chick|Thanks for the Feedback]] Episode 1: Date With Doug" paints the Chick as an obsessively geeky shut-in - Nella says that at least going on a date will get her out of the apartment for more than three hours - and the Critic as just as socially awkward, if not more, and unable to arrange food more complex than cereal.
** The credits to the christmas special reveal that the CGI shot of Canada blowing up was done by Phelous...a Canadian.
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* [[The Smurfette Principle]]: The site suffered from this quite badly in the early days, and the Nostalgia Chick contest was created to get more women and more women viewers. Now though, a lot of just-as-crazy females are around and they've cottoned on how to ''really'' [[Ho Yay|get]] [[Foe Yay|more]] [[Fan Service|girls]] [[Female Gaze|watching]], which has proved a success according to Michaud.
* [[Sound Effect Bleep]]: Lee (at least in his "Still Gaming" shows), whenever he uses more profane language.
* [[Special Effect Failure]]: In the review of ''[[Alone in
* [[Spin-Off]]: Gaming-related material has been given its own [[Channel Awesome]] site, Blistered Thumbs.
* [[Spiritual Successor]]: ''[[The Last Airbender]]'' review for the ''[[
* [[Springtime for Hitler]]: According to their commentary, [[The Cinema Snob]] and Phelous' review of ''Troll 4'' was supposed to be a deliberate feeding of [[
* [[Soundtrack Dissonance]]: This is one of Phelous' main running gags, placing wacky and upbeat music to violent and gory scenes, as well as adding cartoon sound effects.
* [[Squee]]: JewWario is fond of doing this around cats. His review of the Ouendan series has an world-shattering atomic Squee.
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* [[Sure, Let's Go with That]]: Quoted verbatim several times in Linkara and MarzGurl's review of ''[[Cool World]]'' in response to the movie's increasing amount of bizarre and improbable plot twists.
* [[Surrounded by Idiots]]: Critic notes that in [[Stephen King]]'s ''It'', virtually every non-main character happens to be a total idiot and/or asshole. He wonders what's wrong with them that they become such asshole magnets.
* [[Synthetic Voice Actor]]: The Nostalgia Critic is forced to use this after the ''[[Alone in
* [[Take Over the World]]: Mocked constantly from all corners with M. Bison from the ''[[Street Fighter]]'' movie [[Memetic Mutation|saying "Of course!"]]
** In ''[[Kickassia]]'', this is the Critic's ultimate goal.
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** The review of the best anime themes of all time includes ''[[Neon Genesis Evangelion]]'', not because Lee likes the show or it has a lot of fans or he even likes the music, but just to point out that {{spoiler|[[Dude, She's Like, in a Coma|Shinji jerks it over Asuka's bed]]}}. He doesn't hate the show overall though, he's just cold toward Shinji (which he says the theme song keeps promoting).
** The Nostalgia Critic is so traumatized by watching Uwe Boll's ''[[Alone in the Dark (2005 film)|Alone in The Dark]]'' that he claims in the review that his doctor says he may never speak again thanks to it.
** When it became clear that the Nostalgia Critic's review of ''[[The Room]]'' was taken down for "copyright infringement" (despite obviously being protected by fair use), a parody video was made called "[https://web.archive.org/web/20130930133933/http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/videolinks/thatguywiththeglasses/nostalgia-critic/26252-the-tommy-wiseau-show The Tommy Wiseau Show]". Wiseau himself is let off fairly lightly, almost to [[Affectionate Parody]] levels. A fellow named "John" from TheRoomMovie.com, however, is given perhaps the most brutal evisceration of Doug Walker's online career, being portrayed as a raging, paranoid, and greedy lunatic, obsessed with money and Wiseau's "good image". The video even ends with him crying "I'm John from TheRoomMovie.com!" over and over again, as if he might want his fans to... "get in touch" with him. It's pretty obvious that TGWTG had some unpleasant dealings with him after the review was taken down...
*** Taken [[Up to Eleven]] when The Critic, Linkara, Obscurus Lupa, Phelous, and Cinema Snob come together in what can only be described as [https://web.archive.org/web/20130924142106/http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/videolinks/teamt/ol/sketches/27503-day-tommy-wiseau "The Day of Many Wiseaus"].
** CR delivers an excellent (yet affectionate) one when talking about ''[[Wayne's World]]''.
{{quote|"Yeah right, like some random guy from Chicago can become famous just by talking about movies, making funny faces at the camera, and spouting absurd catchphrases. And not only that, but become a huge trendsetter too. [[The Nostalgia Critic|Ridiculous]]."}}
** Welshy does ''not'' like Kate Austen from ''[[Lost]]'', or Rose from ''[[Doctor Who]]''.
** The Nostalgia Critic did one to his nastier fans with a character called "Douchey McNitpick".
* [[Talking to Himself]]: [https://web.archive.org/web/20100924141014/http://nostalgiacritic.blip.tv/file/3906636/ "The Tommy Wiseau Show"] has Doug doing this to Tommy Wiseau's... "[[Narm Charm|quirky]]" acting. But that's just an [[Affectionate Parody]] compared to John from TheRoomMovie.com, [[Real Life Writes the Plot|who took down Doug's review of]] ''[[The Room]]'' [[Real Life Writes the Plot|due to copyright violations]].
** Having shaved off his beard at one point, he explains that he lost a bet to [[Ask That Guy With The Glasses|Ask That Guy]], who appears and has (obviously) also shaved due to a misunderstanding. When Chester A. Bum pops up too, Doug is having a three-way conversation with himself.
* [[This Is for Emphasis, Bitch]]: "Don't you EVER bring logic into this movie again! This is ''[[Fern Gully]]'', BITCH!"
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** "I'm Eight-Bit Mickey, BITCH!"
* [[Top Ten List]]: [[Up to Eleven|Top 11]], in fact.
* [[Troper Critical Mass]]: [[
* [[True Companions]]: If anyone is unfairly treated anywhere, they'll all band together to help. Expect a lot of [[Papa Wolf|Papa Wolves]] and [[Mama Bear
** And in-character, Doug calls them like a dysfunctional family - filled with horrible, fucked up people - who snipe all the time but still sorta love each other despite everything.
* [[Two Guys and a Girl]]: [[Paw Dugan]], [[Todd in the Shadows]] and [[Pushing Up Roses]] in the ''Head'' review, popularly a [[One True Threesome]] for a section of the fans ever since.
* [[Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny]]: The first-year anniversary video had not just NC and AVGN fighting, but just about everyone on the TGWTG site taking sides of reviewers and gamers.
* [[Unfortunate Implications]]: Y Ruler of Time points this in-universe out in the manga ''Alive'' when the supervirus they're dealing with came from '''Africa''' after a man ate a '''monkey''' and they call the virus '''Black'''.
* [[Unperson]]: That Aussie Guy, who was actually a pretty big mover and shaker on the site back in its earlier
** His name was censored out of the episode of "Masterpiece Fanfic Theatre" that featured a story about the TGWTG gang.
** The fact that he ''is'' still in the Brawl leads to some confusion for those who became fans after his removal from the site: watch the video of the Brawl because of its nigh-legendary status, and wonder who the heck this guy is whipping a boomerang around the room.
** [https://web.archive.org/web/20130305071235/http://wegotclass.wordpress.com/2011/04/27/my-week-in-neverland-or-how-to-avoid-a-bj-from-lindsay/ Apparently] he spread a lot of gossip around during the year 1 shoot, and hated certain contributors for no reason whatsoever.
* [[Unusually Uninteresting Sight]]: The Critic points out no one pays attention to [[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles|four turtles]] playing music.
* [[The Verse]] Many of the reviewers' shows are set in the same universe and have common characters such as Doctor Insano.
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* [[Viewers are Morons]]: Discussed in the Oscar Retrospective episode of Film Conscience, namely the belief that the producers of the Oscars buy into this trope, hence the dumbing down and almost schizophrenic nature of the Oscars of current years.
* [[Vitriolic Best Buds]]: Critic and [[The Nostalgia Chick]]. In fact, most of the critics tend to be excessively mean to one another [[Mean Character, Nice Actor|(they actually all like each other in real life)]] with exceptions like Little Miss Gamer, who was the [[Nice Girl]] of the site.
* [[What Did I Do Last Night?]]: The "Spooning With Spoony" and "Linking Up With Linkara" videos. Also [[The Nostalgia Chick]]'s ''[[Hercules (
* [[What Do You Mean It's Not Awesome?]]: [https://web.archive.org/web/20130731212052/http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/videolinks/thatguywiththeglasses/specials/32475-the-most-useless-game-in-the-world coaster flipping]
* [[What Do You Mean It's Not for Kids?]] and/or [[What Do You Mean It's for Kids?]]: In some reviews for ostensibly family-friendly films with notably family-unfriendly content, the Nostalgia Critic will comment, [[The Hudsucker Proxy|"You know, for kids!"]]
** Many of the website's shows deal with family-friendly subjects, but are still meant for an adult audience.
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* [[With Lyrics]]: "Songs That Don't Need Lyrics But I Added Them Anyway HA!"
** That Chick With The Goggles also does this in her review of ''[[Ecco]]: Tides of Time''.
** During the opening text crawl in the ''[[Alone in
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