History Blog / Spongey444

** 2015: Another random guy takes over to review WalkingWithDinosaurs from a paleo-nerds perspective.

** The latter occurred during month celebrating the 100th Disney Channel movie, and later complained that said film wasn't a worthy celebration. DisneyChannel later advertised a different one as their 100th DCOM.

-->'''Fred's Dad:''' They've been kidnapped...by kidnappers.
-->'''Spongey:''' Who wrote this, [[WesternAnimation/{{WordGirl}} Lady Redundant woman?]]

** In the review of TheHauntingHourDontThinkAboutIt, he takes a shot whenever there's a pop song

** 2014: The Reviews were Santa Paws 2, GrumpyCatsWorstChristmasEver, SavingSanta and TheUltimateChristmasPresent.
** 2015: Reviews included TheSwanPrincessChristmas and [[Film/SavingChristmas Saving Christmas]]

[[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 depicted to the SoBadItsHorrible page.

* {{Crossover}}: His full review TheSpongeBobMovieSpongeOutOfWater is one with TheCartoonHero

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

** For the 300th post, he reviewed BillyMadison.

* AvoidTheDreadedGRating: He mocked WesternAnimation/{{Antz}} for this.

** 2012: He did a couple of reviews such as AFairlyOddChristmas, but the big one was ''Film/BatmanReturns''.

** 100: He reviewed Film/CryBabyLane ...as a musical.

-->'''Spongey:''' Who wrote this, [[{{WordGirl}} Lady Redundant woman?]]

** His love of [[HighSchoolMusical Sharpay]]

* BrilliantButLazy: The ParanormalActivity demon, at least according to him.

* IncrediblyLamePun: He complains about the time puns in [[FilmSpyKids Spy Kids 4]]
* JumpScare: He mocks {{Goosebumps}}' use of these. As well the annoying use in the ParanormalActvity series.

* MultiPartEpisode: His reviews of TrasnsformersDarkOfTheMoon, TheLoneRanger, and TransformersAgeOfExtinction were 2 parters, while WebVideo/ToBoldlyFlee was a 3 parter.
* MusicalEpisode: The aforementioned Cry Baby Lane review. Yes, a musical on a blog.

* 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 Paranormal Activity 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.

* BerserkButton: He hates it when movies cut to something else every 5 seconds, such as in Ninja Turtles The Next Mutation.
* BrilliantButLazy: The ParanormalActivity demon, at least according to him.
* BrokeTheRatingScale: "It's the first day of school forever" was so odd that he couldn't grade it properly.

* ChewingTheScenery: He thinks [[Film/GIJoeTheRiseOfCobra Cobra Commander]] was having a ten course banquet with it.

** The latter occurred during month celebrating the 100th Disney Channel movie, and later complained that said film wasn't a worthy celebration.

* MusicalEpisode: The aforementioned Cry Baby Lane review.

* ThisIsGonnaSuck: When the Serbian Film review opens with him saying he's not ready, you know it's not gonna end well.

* AbortedArc: He started a Dreamworks a-thon, but stopped due to laziness.
** Same happened with a Haunting Hour-A thon (which became a series of Season Retrospective) and a retrospective of the DisneyChannel Sitcoms.

* GuiltyPleasures: He did a [[http://spongey444.wordpress.com/2012/06/23/top-11-guilty-pleasures-2/ list of them]].
** The big one for him is DisneyChannel Kidcoms, as explored [[http://spongey444.wordpress.com/2013/09/12/a-look-at-disney-channel-sitcoms-part-1/ here]].

** When Film/DragonballEvolution mentions [[WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender air bending]], he pleads it not to remind him of TheLastAirbender. At the end, he finds out he has to review that film.

* DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment: From his review of {{Fred}}:TheMovie:
-->'''Fred's Dad''': They've been kidnapped...by kidnappera.
-->'''Spongey''': Who wrote this, [[{{WordGirl}} Lady Redundant woman?]]
* DrinkingGame: In the review of TheHauntingHourDontThinkAboutIt, he takes a shot whenever there's a pop song
** The GrownUps 2 review features the Creator/AdamSandler drinking game.

** 2015: Reviews included TheSwanPrincessChristmas and SavingChristmas

[[http://spongey444.wordpress.com/ Spongey444]] (formely titled "Crossing the Streams") 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 depicted to the SoBadItsHorrible page.

* BrokeTheRatingScale: "It's the first day of school forever" was so freaking odd that he couldn't grade it properly.

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

* HalloweenEpisode: He did a month of Halloween movies ... [[ChristmasInJuly in the month of july.]]
** He did normal Halloween reviews for October 2013 and 2014.

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

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

* ChewingTheScenery: He thinks [[GIJoeTheRiseOfCobra Cobra Commander]] was having a ten course banquet with it.

* IAmNotLeonardNimoy: Like the NC, he will call actors by their names, and not the character's names. He did this so much during AdamSandler month, that he lampshades this when he ''does'' use the character's name.

* YetAnotherChristmasCarol: He did a Christmas Carol spoof in 2013, in which ghosts that look like [[spoiler: Freddie from Freddie As FR07]], [[spoiler: AdamSandler]], and [[spoiler: the Paranormal Activity 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.

** The GrownUps 2 review features the AdamSandler drinking game.

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

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

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

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

* ChannelHop: Started on blogger, and then moved to wordpress.

** 2015: Another random guy takes over to review WalkingWithDi8nosaurs from a paleo-nerds perspective.

* OldShame: Most6 of his reviwws his did on Blogger.

* RuleSixtyThree: A gender-bended version known only as "Girlgy" appears in the banner and occasionally in the title cards of more female-centered movies, such as Bratz.

* ShoutOut: In the Spy Kids 4 review, The demon says the Devil cared when someone [[WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic made crappy Dr Suess movies]].

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

** He did normal Halloween reviews for October 2013.

* MultiPartEpisode: The TransformersDarkOfTheMoon review was a 2 parter, while WebVideo/ToBoldlyFlee was a 3 parter.

* AvoidTheDreadedGRating: He mocked {{Antz}} for this.

[[http://spongey444.wordpress.com/ Spongey444]] (formely titled "Crossing the Streams") is a blog run by Thomas Blalock aka [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Spongey444]]. He does reviews of movies, as well as books (mostly 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 depicted to the SoBadItsHorrible page.

** 100: He reviewed CryBabyLane ...as a musical.
** 200: He reviewed SpyHard.

* MultiPartEpisode: The TransformersDarkOfTheMoon review was a 2 parter, while ToBoldlyFlee was a 3 parter.

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

* ActuallyPrettyFunny: Happens at least once a review, as he likes to point out the good parts of any movie. This happens so much in {{Shrek}} The Third that he starts to wonder how it failed.

** 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''.