History Blog / Spongey444

* YetAnotherChristmasCarol: He did a Christmas Carol spoof in 2013, in which ghosts that look like [[spoiler: Freddie from Freddie As FR07]], [[spoiler: Creator/AdamSandler]], and [[spoiler: the ''Film/ParanormalActivity'' Demon]] make him a review a bad Christmas film from the past and present. In the future segment, he turns the tables on the ghosts and reviews a good recent Christmas movie.

* IncrediblyLamePun: He complains about the time puns in ''Film/SpyKidsAllTheTimeInTheWorld''.

* RefrainFromAssuming: He really rants on this trope in Part 2 of his Next Best ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'' songs list.

* BerserkButton: Abrupt/Rushed Endings, to the point where he will comment on the ending in most reviews.

* ChristmasEpisode:
** 2010: The blog started out with a list of the top 12 Christmas specials
** 2011: He did a series of general reviews called "Spongey's Christmas Carol", where reviews included ''Film/TheSantaClause'' and ''WesternAnimation/EightCrazyNights''.
** 2012: He did a couple of reviews such as ''Film/AFairlyOddChristmas'', but the big one was ''Film/BatmanReturns''.
** 2013: The first year of consistent Christmas reviews, which were ''Film/FredClaus'', ''WesternAnimation/EightCrazyNights'', (updating his earlier review) ''[[Series/GoodLuckCharlie Good Luck Charlie It's Christmas]]'', ''[[Film/AirBuddies The Search For Santa Paws]]'', ''Film/SantaWithMuscles'', ''[[Film/TheSantaClause The Santa Clause 3]]'', and ''Film/AVeryHaroldAndKumar3DChristmas''.
** 2014: The Reviews were Santa Paws 2, Film/GrumpyCatsWorstChristmasEver, Saving Santa and The Ultimate Christmas Present.
** 2015: Reviews included The Swan Princess Christmas and ''Film/SavingChristmas''
** 2016: He did The Dog Who Saved Christmas Vacation and Elf
** 2017: Surviving Christmas and The Santa Clause
* 2018: A Frozen Christmas, and WesternAnimation/TheNightmareBeforeChristmas.

* SomethingCompletelyDifferent: After reviewing mostly comedies, and light hearted films, he looked at...A Serbian Film.

* JumpScare: He mocks {{Goosebumps}}' use of these. As well the use in the Paranormal Activity series.

* BrickJoke: In His GuiltyPleasure list, he talks about My Little Pony TheMovie. At the end, he says he hopes [[MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic Celestia ]] doesn't mind him enjoying it. Cue picture of him on the moon.

* FollowTheLeader: He lists both Blog/BloggerBeware and WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic as inspiration. He also discusses the trope in a review of a Bone Chillers episode.

** 2016: His Title Card guy reviews a fictional play from an episode of Seroes/ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphia

* {{Crossover}}: His full review of ''Film/TheSpongeBobMovieSpongeOutOfWater'' is one with WebVideo/TheCartoonHero.

** 2013: The first year of consistent Christmas reviews, which were ''Film/FredClaus'', ''WesternAnimation/EightCrazyNights'', (updating his earlier review) ''[[LiveActionTV/GoodLuckCharlie Good Luck Charlie It's Christmas]]'', ''[[Film/AirBuddies The Search For Santa Paws]]'', ''Film/SantaWithMuscles'', ''[[Film/TheSantaClause The Santa Clause 3]]'', and ''Film/AVeryHaroldAndKumar3DChristmas''.
** 2014: The Reviews were Santa Paws 2, Film/GrumpyCatsWorstChristmasEver, Film/SavingSanta and Film/TheUltimateChristmasPresent.
** 2015: Reviews included Film/TheSwanPrincessChristmas and ''Film/SavingChristmas''

** 2017: Film/SurvivingChristmas and The Santa Clause
* 2018: A Frozen Christmas, and Western/Animation TheNightmareBeforeChristmas.

* JumpScare: He mocks {{Goosebumps}}' use of these. As well the use in the ''Film/ParanormalActvity'' series.

* MultiPartEpisode: His reviews of ''Film/TrasnsformersDarkOfTheMoon'', Film/TheLoneRanger'', and ''Film/TransformersAgeOfExtinction'' were 2 parters, while ''WebVideo/ToBoldlyFlee'' was a 3 parter.

** 2016: His Title Card guy reviews a fictional play from an episode of ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphia

* AuthorAppeal: He often talks about/makes references to/reviews ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'', RL. Stine's Works, and Disney/Nick Kidscoms.

* FollowTheLeader: He lists both Blog/BloggerBeware and WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic as inspiration. He also discusses the trope in a review of a Bonechillers episode.

** 2017: SurvivingChristmas and TheSantaClause
* 2018: A Frozen Christmas, and The Nightmare Before Christmas.

** His hatred for abrupt endings

** "I’m at the [[PieGuyRulz Bottom of the Ba-]]...Wait..

** Some of screw ups have become this, most notably how he [[NeverLiveItDown once described crunchy as a taste]]

-->'''Fred's Dad:''' They've been kidnapped...by kidnappers.\\

* ScheduleSlip: He's suffered this a few times, to the point where he made the main reviews weekly starting late 2014 to avoid this.

* IncrediblyLamePun: He complains about the time puns in ''[[Film/SpyKids Spy Kids 4]]''.

** A TitleDrop will be accompanied by a picture of [[WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb Buford]] saying [[CinemaSins "And Roll Credits"]].

[[http://spongey444.wordpress.com/ Spongey444]] (formely titled "Crossing the Streams", and now title "A Taste of Spongey") is a blog run by Thomas Blalock aka [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Spongey444]]. He does reviews of movies, as well as books (mostly Creator/RLStine books). He also does general reviews of movies, as well as top lists, and tributes. He is OneOfUs, which means lots of trope references and even a month dedicated to the So Bad, It's Horrible page.

** 2012: [[WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb Dr Doofenshmirtz]] reviews the 80's MyLittlePony [[TheMovie Movie]]

** 2014: Doof returns, along with Major Monogram to review ATalkingCat

** 2017: He reviews CitizenKane...legitimately
** 2018: He looks at some SpongeBob games...as WebVideo/TheAngryVideoGameNerd

Starting Mid 2016, he won't do the main Film Reviews weekly as explained [[http://spongey444.wordpress.com/2015/12/31/2015-review-retrospective-important-blog-annoucment/ here]], ad now does them about once or twice or month.

* BerserkButton: Abrupt/Rushed Endings, to the point where he will comment on the ending in every single review.

* CelebCrush: Pretty much everyone who has gotten the "She's nice" gag mentioned below but DebbyRyan is a common target.

* HostileShowTakeover: His Meet The Spartans review was taken over...by Creator/SeltzerAndFriedberg.

* JumpScare: He mocks {{Goosebumps}}' use of these. As well the annoying use in the ''Film/ParanormalActvity'' series.

** Review 300 (which was 303 due to clerical error was on 1982's The Treasure Planet.

[[http://spongey444.wordpress.com/ Spongey444]] (formely titled "Crossing the Streams", and now title "A Taste of Spongey") is a blog run by Thomas Blalock aka [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Spongey444]]. He does reviews of movies, as well as books (mostly Creator/RLStine books). He also does general reviews of movies, as well as top lists, and tributes. He is OneOfUs, which means lots of trope references and even a month dedicated to the DarthWiki/SoBadItsHorrible page.

** 2018: He looks at some SpongeBob games...as the AngryVideoGameNerd

* VillainSong: He's happy whenever one pops up, even in {{Bratz}} TheMovie.

Starting Mid 2016, he won't do the main Film Reviews weekly as explained [[http://spongey444.wordpress.com/2015/12/31/2015-review-retrospective-important-blog-annoucment/ here]]

* CelebCrush: Pretty much everyone who has gotten the "She's nice" gag mentioned below but Debby Ryan is a common target.

** For his 100th actual review, he visited his childhood with TheSpongebobSquarepantsMovie.

* AuthorAppeal: He often talks about/makes references to/reviews PhineasAndFerb, RL. Stine's Works, and Disney/Nick Kidscoms.

** A TitleDrop will be accompanied by a picture of [[PhineasAndFerb Buford]] saying [[CinemaSins "And Roll Credits"]].

** He did The Dog Who Saved Christmas Vacation and Elf

** For AprilFoolsDay of 2012, [[WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb Doofenshmirtz]] took over.

** For his 200th review, he reviewed [[JohnnyTsnuami]] due to it being the 10th DCOM. (He was going to do the 50th but he couldn't find it

* MultiPartEpisode: His reviews of ''Film/TrasnsformersDarkOfTheMoon, Film/TheLoneRanger'', and ''Film/TransformersAgeOfExtinction'' were 2 parters, while ''WebVideo/ToBoldlyFlee'' was a 3 parter.

* TeensAreMonsters: He mocked Film/{{{Cyberbully}} for this.