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** The ''Film/GrownUps2'' review opened with Jay and Mike giving it a favorable review, praising Creator/AdamSandler and advising viewers not to nitpick family films. Granted, blood and offal were [[PsychicNosebleed gushing from their eyes]] at the time.

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** The ''Film/GrownUps2'' review opened opens with Jay and Mike giving it a favorable review, praising Creator/AdamSandler and advising viewers not to nitpick family films. Granted, films, as blood and offal were begins [[PsychicNosebleed gushing from their eyes]] at the time.eyes, noses and mouths]].
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* {{Caustic Critic}}s: Jay and Mike are not kind to movies they dislike and, since they aren't worried about getting new movies to review (in real life, the actual Jay and Mike are watching these movies on streaming or in theaters), they can be as abrasive as they please with their criticisms.

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* {{Caustic Critic}}s: Jay and Mike are not kind to movies they dislike and, since they aren't [=RLM=] isn't worried about getting new movies to review keeping on the good sides of any studios (in real life, the actual Jay Bauman and Mike Stoklasa are watching paying to watch these movies in theaters or on streaming or in theaters), streaming), they can be as abrasive as they please with their criticisms.



* {{Otaku}}: Or, in their parlance, "pathetic manchildren".

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* {{Otaku}}: Or, in their parlance, "pathetic manchildren". Jay and Mike spend their time in the Lightning Fast VCR Repair shop talking about the movies they've seen instead of actually doing any work.



* ThoseTwoGuys: They are always together.

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* ThoseTwoGuys: They Jay and Mike are always together.together in the VCR shop, talking movies. In real life, Jay and Mike are the founders of Red Letter Media.
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* RoboticPsychopath

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* RoboticPsychopathRoboticPsychopath: As mentioned above, Fuck-Bot 5000 is programmed to have sex with anyone around it, even if they don't want it.
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* {{Caustic Critic}}s
* {{Con M|an}}en
* {{Crooked Contractor}}s

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* {{Caustic Critic}}s
Critic}}s: Jay and Mike are not kind to movies they dislike and, since they aren't worried about getting new movies to review (in real life, the actual Jay and Mike are watching these movies on streaming or in theaters), they can be as abrasive as they please with their criticisms.
* {{Con M|an}}en
M|an}}en: As in the description above, Mike and Jay are preying upon technologically illiterate senior citizens who don't know how to use [=DVD=] players. A frequent target of their scam is Mr. Plinkett, who explicitly wants them to fix his [=VCR=] so he can watch his ''Series/NightCourt'' cassettes.
* {{Crooked Contractor}}sContractor}}s: Mr. Plinkett has been asking Jay and Mike to fix his [=VCR=] for years, but the two have made no progress.



* StraightMan

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* StraightManStraightMan: Jay is generally more grounded than Mike, and is often more open minded and optimistic about the mass appeal movies they review on the show.
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* ProgressivelyPrettier: Jay loses quite a bit of weight and becomes much more handsomely-coiffed as the show goes on. This is lampshaded by Mr. Plinkett in the ''Film/WonderWoman'' review, where he remarks on Jay's shift in attractiveness and [[HoYay proposes to him]].

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* ProgressivelyPrettier: Jay loses quite a bit of weight and becomes much more handsomely-coiffed as the show goes on. This is lampshaded by Mr. Plinkett in the ''Film/WonderWoman'' ''Film/WonderWoman2017'' review, where he remarks on Jay's shift in attractiveness and [[HoYay proposes to him]].

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* AnythingThatMoves: He's mentioned attraction to a variety of things, including hookers, Creator/GeorgeLucas, Indian children, his granddaughter [[TheOldestProfession Crystal]], the Millennium Falcon, Neimoidians, the Olsen Twins, and his cat.


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* ExtremeOmnisexual: He's mentioned attraction to a variety of things, including hookers, Creator/GeorgeLucas, Indian children, his granddaughter [[TheOldestProfession Crystal]], the Millennium Falcon, Neimoidians, the Olsen Twins, and his cat.

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* ADateWithRosiePalms: Masturbates hard enough to destroy his television with his ejaculate in his ''Indiana Jones'' review, and later has "Pizza phone sex" in his ''The Force Awakens'' review.


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* DestructoNookie: Masturbates hard enough to destroy his television with his ejaculate in his ''Indiana Jones'' review.
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** {{Corpsing}}: Jay finally gets Mike to really laugh (after 45 episodes) during the ''Film/HauntedHouse'' discussion, which segues into a riff on the Seltzer and Friedberg films (ironically, it's about how unfunny their jokes are). Jay is clearly taken aback by how hard Mike is laughing, even starting to ask him "Did your brain...", before being overcome with laughter himself.
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* EvenEvilHasStandards: He hates the child actors in the Star Wars movies, to the point he considers the death scene of the younglings in the third movie to be one of its few positive qualitites, but he's still willing to admit how it was an unecessarily dark attempt at making Revenge of the Sith seem more mature.
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* BadassBeard: Goes between having one of these and being clean shaven.
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* HeroAntagonist: The Antagonist to VillainProtagonist Plinkett.

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* HeroAntagonist: The Antagonist antagonist to VillainProtagonist Plinkett.
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-->'''Plinkett''': Anakin is just sitting there like a retard. Oh can I still say "retard"? I mean "Anakin is just sitting there like an exceptional individual."

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-->'''Plinkett''': -->'''Plinkett:''' Anakin is just sitting there like a retard. Oh retard! [-Oh, can I still say "retard"? "retard"?-] I mean "Anakin is just sitting there like an exceptional individual."
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corrected misspelling of "coiffed" (wearing a coiffure/elegant hairstyle) as "quaffed" (to have drunk a liquid)


* ProgressivelyPrettier: Jay loses quite a bit of weight and becomes much more quaffed as the show goes on. This is lampshaded by Mr. Plinkett in the ''Film/WonderWoman'' review, where he remarks on Jay's shift in attractiveness and [[HoYay proposes to him]].

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* ProgressivelyPrettier: Jay loses quite a bit of weight and becomes much more quaffed handsomely-coiffed as the show goes on. This is lampshaded by Mr. Plinkett in the ''Film/WonderWoman'' review, where he remarks on Jay's shift in attractiveness and [[HoYay proposes to him]].
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* UnexplainedRecovery: After his head blew up, he returns in a later episode completely healthy with his head intact.
-->'''Mike:''' ''George Lucas!?''\\
'''Jay:''' I thought he was dead?\\
'''Lucas:''' Nope. Not dead. Still here.
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* AmbiguouslyBi: Jay accepts Mr. Plinkett's marriage proposal (admittedly with some bewilderment) and talks about meeting up with buff men in Los Angeles as though he has firsthand experience. He also dated a female ghost at one point.


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* ProgressivelyPrettier: Jay loses quite a bit of weight and becomes much more quaffed as the show goes on. This is lampshaded by Mr. Plinkett in the ''Film/WonderWoman'' review, where he remarks on Jay's shift in attractiveness and [[HoYay proposes to him]].

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* JerkWithAHeartOfJerk

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* {{Gasshole}}: Manages to inflate an entire balloon with just his farts.
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* SuicideAsComedy: Upon realizing this, he tries to kill himself.
-->''('''BANG!''')''\\
'''Rich:''' ''(offscreen)'' Aw, ''fuck!''
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* TeethClenchedTeamwork: During Plinkett's ''The Force Awakens'' review, JJ Abrams shows up to murder Plinkett, too. George just sighs and mutters, "Hi, JJ", then mildly snipe at each other before teaming up to kill Plinkett.

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