History Funny / MarkDoesStuff

** Their absolute horror of the Doctor's TastesLikeDiabetes family in "Real Life." "This is the whitest thing ever!"

* Mark referring to backstabbing in ''Franchise/DragonAge'' as "buttstabbing"

* Watch the video for episode 16 of ''[[Manga/FullmetalAlchemist Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood]]'' and you get to see they clair their hands over his mouth simultaneously with Maria Ross, and not even notice.

** Their utterly aghast reaction to the [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar "small subpoena"]] joke in "The Man Who Killed Batman."

* Just like ''Terminator 2'', he managed to watch ''Film/GalaxyQuest'' without knowing a thing beyond a few of the actors involved. The result is that the opening scene of the Galaxy Quest show leads him to think the whole movie is going to be a simple ''Trek'' spoof in the same vein as ''Film/{{Spaceballs}}'', and a bit afterwards he goes on the same journey as Jason in first thinking the Thermians are simply hardcore fans before being surprised that they're real aliens.

* In ''Series/StarTrekEnterprise'', he doesn't take long to get seriously weirded out by the infamous decon gel scenes.
** His seething hatred of the show's theme song, even searching for another song to play over the credits in every episode. Upon getting to the rearrangement in the third season, he considers for a moment and then declares it not an improvement at all.
** His insistence that the crew is somehow going to run into Riker on Risa, despite the show being set two centuries before his time.
** In "Two Days and Two Nights" he's thoroughly underwhelmed by the start of most of the subplots, and ''begs'' Hoshi to be doing something interesting.
** In "Similitude" he can't stop commenting on how the ore-encrusted Enterprise looks like it's covered in shit.
** In "Carpenter Street" he immediately starts begging for T'Pol to be included in the mission to 2004, so that she'd finally be forced to admit that time travel is possible. And is then tremendously excited when he gets his wish.
** Near the end of "Doctor's Orders," a horror story built around sudden noises, his sink suddenly starts acting up and freaks him right the hell out.
* In ''Series/PersonOfInterest'' he manages to forget that Finch's dead friend was named Nathan, and thus when a drugged-up Finch addresses Reese by the name he spends ''several episodes'' assuming it's Reese's real name, and is suitably embarrassed when he finally figures it out.

** Instantly calling the death of the token RedShirt just like he got to doing for TOS.

* His absolute delight in how ''Series/{{Alias}}'' is drenched with early 2000s technology.

** Gradually realizing that ''every single episode'' of the show is going to end on a horrible cliffhanger, ultimately calling it the most evil thing the fans have ever done to him.
** He freaks out over every single second of the extremely tall and precarious bamboo ladder in "Time Will Tell."

*** His bemusement at everyone's odd hair. "That was like three rat-tails sticking out the side of people's heads."
*** From the few things he's seen Tarantino act in, he's pretty sure his performance is just his real personality.

** During the whole storyline of Sloane being taunted with stuff related to Emily, he maintains that given how the show has already delved into fantasy territory with the Rambaldi devices, it could definitely be possible that Emily is haunting him as a ghost.
** His absolute inability to care about Thomas Grace, taking time in just about every Season 5 review to point out how he still has no interest at all in the ReplacementScrappy for Vaughn.
* In his ''Series/TheGoodPlace'' review, he says that the clown paintings mean [[spoiler:the group is actually in the Bad Place, figuring out a season long twist without even knowing.]]
* While he knew going in that ''Anime/YuriOnIce'' had some gay content in it, he clearly didn't have his hopes very high and is constantly freaking out over just how blatant the show is about Yuri and Victor's relationship.
* After just the first regular episode of ''Series/BabylonFive'', he announces that he's shipping Ivanova and Talia. What really makes it great is that, much like ''The Legend of Korra'', he clearly just has no expectation at all that it might actually happen, even saying he wants to write "AU" fic about it.
** His adoration of the design of Kosh's encounter suit is hilarious if you know about the disdain all the cast and crew held it in for being so cumbersome to film with, derisively calling it "the jukebox."
** His excitement at seeing Walter Koenig quickly turns to skin-crawling horror at the kind of character he's playing.
** Since Mira Furlan is under such heavy makeup, he struggles to figure out where he knows her quite distinctive voice from (Danielle Rousseau from ''Series/{{Lost}}'').

** He has a good chuckle at the description of motorcyles' roles in human culture, representing "masculinity, sexual prowess, and rebellion." It's technically all true, but mostly just means you're an asshole.
** He gets a charley horse during "GROPOS" and ends up kicking the camera.
** The reveal of Lennier staying up for two days to properly prepare a Minbari meal in "Confessions and Lamentations" actually sends him into falsetto.
** He points out repeatedly that in the middle of everyone else's dignified expressions in the Season 3 credits, Stephen Furst looks more like he's terrified to be there.
* In the Season 11 premiere of ''Doctor Who'', he gets very excited at the new companion team being transported along with the Doctor...and then his expression completely freezes as it enters his head after a few seconds that they're in outer space with zero protection.
** He completely freaks out upon seeing Alan Cummings' guest appearance, and almost misses that he's playing King James.
* His reviews of ''Veronica Mars'' Season 4 are quite amusing if you've already seen the whole season, as he correctly guesses the bombing culprit early on, only to spend the next several episodes talking himself out of it.

** He spends thirty-seven episodes desperately trying to figure out what the bizarre images of the closing credits could mean. Then he spends four episodes desperate to figure out what's in the Czech picture book. [[spoiler: He's suitably outraged when he realizes ''he's been looking at it the entire time in the credits.'']]
* Near the end of ''Series/RussianDoll'' he understandably says of the song that indicates the start of a new time loop ("Gotta Get Up" by Music/HarryNilsson) "If I ever hear this song in real life, I am going to freak the fuck out."
* Late in Season 1 of ''Series/JaneTheVirgin'', he's quite surprised to very suddenly find himself shipping Jane and Petra. "I'll just lob it out there and not address it."
** The arrival of Anezka seems to completely break his brain, with his having to spend two minutes after the episode ends struggling to sputter out some coherent thoughts about it.

** In the episodes before it's confirmed that the show is moving towards Petra and JR becoming a couple, he has some epic frustration over not being able to tell if the sparks between them are deliberate or just wishful thinking.

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QteF6uH6YfQ Pounded By the Gay Color Changing Dress]], aptly described as the story he was born to read.
** Someone actually throws him a mini plastic trophy at one point.
** His numerous existential crises over the fact that he's being paid to read gay porn.
** Someone comes in late and grants a first time reaction to the premise all over again, to which Mark freaks out so much that his hat flies off.
* Any time he brings up how he managed to avoid learning anything that happened in ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra'' after season one, except that a certain thing happened that “broke the Internet.” This is going to be ''good''…
** In the video for "A Breath of Fresh Air", he's basically laughing and grinning ear-to-ear for entirety of the Asami and Korra car-ride. At the end, he says:

** His reaction to P'Li's FamilyUnfriendlyDeath: "There is a ''zero'' percent chance she survived that!"
** In the Season 3 finale he finally gets his first inkling of The Thing during a "strangely intimate moment" between Korra and Asami, visibly reading the vibe between them and then pulling himself back from it five or so times in a row before saying "I read into things" and clearly having no hope it'll actually go anywhere.

** Mark beginning to ''really'' pick up on the sub-text between Korra and Asami. His reactions are a mixture of joy and sadness as he starts to ship them.

** In "Beyond The Wilds" he says "No! Why would you do that?!" at the ''exact'' same time as Ryu does in-show about the guy poking a threatening vine with a stick.
** During the series finale, he's at one point absolutely sure that Mako's apparent HeroicSacrifice is what everyone's been talking about.
** At the begining of the finale episode, saying how he figures this is where he'll learn about what broke the internet. He mentions how hard he and others have been working to keep him unspoiled (apparently, at one panel, somebody actually ''threw'' something at someone who was about to tell him), and then talks about how awkward it would be if he reached the end and still didn't know.
** When Kuvira attempts to kill Baatar Jr, he just goes, "Damn, that's cold."
* His reactions during the entire "thing on the bed" scene from the ''Doctor Who'' episode "Listen." He seems five seconds away from a heart attack the whole time.

** In the "Pilot, part II" reaction, he notes that there doesn't seem to be a single queer character in this world, and it's bugging him. Cue the revelation that Jack is gay.
* Mark's boyfriend Baize sits in on the videos for ''Series/{{Sense8}}'', and often camps it up in the background. By the start of the second one, he's already saying "I regret allowing you to be in these. I regret so much."
** At the shot of the Golden Gate Bridge in the credits, he says "I used to live there," then clarifies he doesn't mean he literally lived on the bridge. Then Baize pipes up that he lived ''under'' it.
** His confused feelings over the "gorgeous stereotyping" of the Bollywood number.

** Mark wondering in the written review of the penultimate episode whether or not Steiner will go after Wolfgang. Either he mixed up Steiner and his father, or he completely forgot that Wolfgang blew him up in the last episode.
* The sheer joy he takes in [[Series/AgentCarter Peggy's]] love for {{Improvised Weapon}}s, spending most of the first written review gushing over the part where she smacks a guy with a stapler.

** When Q first shows up on Deep Space 9, Mark immediately predicts that Sisko will punch Q in the face. [[DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu He's proven completely right about halfway through the episode]].
** During "Civil Defense," Baize walks in after reading what's apparently a devastating WhamEpisode in the manuscript of Mark's novel, declaring him evil. Mark then says the salad he's eating is actually Baize's tears, as he specifically designed the book as revenge for all the stuff people have seen him go through. Then in "Meridian" he's just finished the book, and simply sits in the background and glares at Mark for a while.
** In "Meridian," Mark laments that ''Fifty Shades of Grey'' has ruined lip-biting for him.
** His complete inability to stop gushing over how attractive Avery Brooks is after he gets his beard, and then his shaved head.
** He spends the entirety of "Rejoined" freaking out over the extremely thinly veiled homosexual romance. The best part comes when he says he'll be pissed off if the camera cuts away from their kiss, and then faints when Avery Brooks' direction doesn't wimp out on it ''at all''.

*** Plus, commenting that he didn't even realize Bashir and Leeta had been dating when they reveal they're breaking up. One of many big complaints fans had about the infamously bad episode is how little we got to see of this relationship (a handful of bits over the previous ten or so episodes totaling maybe two minutes of screen time) and now we're supposed to care that it's over.
** After he appears to make Worf/Dax a canon ship with his mind: "What if I just had this weird, magical power where I could yell 'SHIP!' and then it would become canon? That’d be pretty cool. I’d make everything SO GAY."
** At the beginning of "The Assignment", he mentions that he got up early to watch the episode. By the end, after going through an entire episode of NightmareFuel and ParanoiaFuel, he notes that not only is he wide awake, but he never plans on sleeping again.
** Thanks to how far ahead he was making videos at the time, after weeks of discussions in the comments about how neat a way the show's crew found to incorporate Nana Visitor's pregnancy by having the O'Briens' baby transferred into her, during the video of "The Darkness and the Light" Mark suddenly realizes "Was Nana Visitor actually pregnant?" Even better, the episode was filmed ''after'' her son was born and she was wearing a fake belly for it.
** During all the ''Literature/LesMiserables'' references in "For the Uniform," he becomes obsessed with seeing Avery Brooks play Javert in the musical somehow.
** After hitting the big twist of "In the Pale Moonlight," his jaw is halfway to the ground for the entire rest of the video.
** At the start of "The Reckoning" he points out how much Jake has been OutOfFocus in Season 6 and hopes to see more of him. The episode proceeds to have Jake be possessed by a Pah-wraith and almost killed. "Remember when this was about a tablet?"
** His glee at Cirroc Lofton being OneHeadTaller than the teenage guest cast in "Valiant."
** The look of pure horror plastered on his face during the entire second half of "Profit and Lace." "I don't typically like the Ferengi episodes, but this is a whole new level of bad."

*** His stunned reaction to Worf and Ezri's BigDamnKiss. "Here we go, into a new frontier!"

** His increasing anguish as the show's famously epic final arc ''just keeps going'' across nine whole episodes.
* While watching ''Anime/OuranHighSchoolHostClub'', Mark gets sidetracked when Tamaki claims extending a pinkie keeps a cup from making noise when set down. He's ''gobsmacked'' that it works after testing it with his water bottle and spends a moment gushing about this new knowledge.
* He expected ''Anime/DeathNote'' to be a tamer version of ''Series/{{Dexter}}'', with Light struggling with the morality of killing evil people. Light then kills hundreds of people and then [[AGodAmI declares himself a god]] in the ''first episode''.

** He gets caught completely off guard by the close-up shot of the porn magazine Light reads, and then gets it ''again'' when in shows up in the next episode's recap sequence.

** In the last few episodes, he happens to miss that Mikami sends a text to Takada to kill the rapist on the train, and thinks Mikami did it himself despite earlier being ordered to use a fake Death Note. This snowballs into his spending the whole final arc hopelessly confused as the twists keep piling up and he has no clue where the fake Note comes in.

** Baize brings up the idea that the Patron who sponsors his watching the show could have ''stopped'' requesting it right before they found out who the killer was. Mark says this would have made her his mortal enemy.
** His GenreSavvy calling the second-to-last episode of Series 2 ending on a cliffhanger before the verdict is read, which he called in the announcement post the worst cliffhanger he's ever had.
* Tweeting in total innocence that he would "be back soon" just before watching the pilot of ''Series/StarTrekVoyager''.
** His predictably epic reaction to the show killing off half of its apparent regular cast in the first episode, immediately followed by the surreality of the Caretaker's farmhouse illusion. He stares in slack-jawed StunnedSilence for a good minute or so.

** His complete bafflement at the especially blatant case of TwoDSpace in "Twisted".
** His reaction to the end of "Threshold" is everything that could be hoped for. "This is the worst thing to anything I've ever seen!"
** Upon seeing "The Thaw" includes a character named The Clown, he completely freaks out and doesn't let up for the whole thing. "I think I'm in Hell. This is Hell."

** His frustrations with the infamous dancing around the homo/bi-sexual aspects in "Warlord," first giving a resigned "But no homo" when Tieran's kiss with his wife while in Kes' body is interrupted, and then "This is not the triad I asked for" when he announces his new engagement.

** Thanks to working ahead on his projects before a five-week trip to Europe, he freaks out when the last ''Voyager'' episode he watches is "Blood Fever," leaving him cliffhangered for a month on the crew discovering they're in Borg territory.
** Struggling to comprehend the casual reveal of Neelix and Kes' breakup in "Darkling," his mind having a very hard time accepting that the show's writing staff actually cared so little about their work that this relationship that had been part of the show for more than two years was unceremoniously jettisoned offscreen. He seriously considers that he might have somehow missed an episode, or that there's some reality altering plot that will be revealed. In the same episode, he has some choice words for one of the historical figures the Doctor integrates into himself: "You may not know this, but Gandhi ''suuuucked''."

** His absolute horror of the Doctor's TastesLikeDiabetes family in "Real Life." "This is the whitest thing ever!"

** Baize does a bizarre interpretive dance thing around Mark's body during the opening credits of "Latent Image," which baffles him just as much as the audience. Mark finally gently nudges him back, which somehow sends him flying head over heels.

** In "The Disease" he becomes convinced that Starfleet's massive set of rules about interspecies romance is because of all the trouble Kirk caused them from being such a horndog.

** In "11:59" he's a bit triggered by Janeway stirring tea shortly after seeing ''Film/GetOut2017''.
** His seething disgust and horror for the Doctor's chick magnet fantasies in "Tinker, Tenor, Doctor, Spy."
** In "Fair Haven" he's completely mystified by the appeal of the titular holodeck program, asking "Is it?" every single time someone talks about how great it is.

** His bafflement at the shameless RememberTheNewGuy plot of "Ashes To Ashes," especially since he's absolutely positive he'd remember if Kim Rhodes had been on the show before after loving her so much on ''Supernatural''.
** In "Fury" he keeps saying there'd better be a darn good explanation for Kes' FaceHeelTurn coming. When he gets to the infamously confusing and unsatisfying answer, he gets a beautifully baffled and incredulous expression.

** He understandably spends the whole first act of "Work Force" completely baffled and struggling to figure out what's going on, occasionally chiming in that he still has no idea.
* He has to stop himself about every minute during the very eventful fourth chapter of [[Literature/YoungWizards "So You Want to be a Wizard"]] because he's so overwhelmed. It's hysterical to watch.
** His absolute terror during the final scene of "Deep Wizardry" Chapter 9, having to stop and groan every couple lines from the sheer force of parental disappointment.

** In "Wizard's Holiday" one of Carmella's new boytoys is named Mark. His reaction is predictable.
** His discovery of cats using internet in "The Book of Night With Moon". He's so delighted at the prospect that he spends most of the review gushing about it, even wondering what would happen if [[PostModernism cats could read the post and then send him hate-mail about it]].
* Discovering Mark Hamill was the voice of the Joker in ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries''. It blows whatever he was about to say next right out of his head.
** His utterly aghast reaction to the [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar "small subpoena"]] joke in "The Man Who Killed Batman."

** He finally gets to the legendary "Baby Doll," and is absolutely horrified through the whole thing, saying it's not possible for the show to have a more disturbing episode.
* His mental breakdown during the infamous [[LeaveTheCameraRunning elevator scene]] from ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion''.
* In ''Series/{{Hannibal}}'' he notes that Will is becoming a lot like Hannibal in Season 3, ''immediately'' followed by Will stringing up the prisoner's corpse as a firefly. "I take it back. I take it all back."
** His anguish at having to wait ''four episodes'' to find out if Alana survived the Season 2 cliffhanger.

** His becoming a rabid Oliver/Laurel shipper, blissfully unaware of how much the fans ''despised'' the pairing as the show aired.
** His immediate reaction to Sara Lance's introduction: "She's much better at this than Oliver."
* While watching Episode 2 of ''Anime/SerialExperimentsLain'', he has to deal with a bee flying in front of his face. After getting it out the window (including telling it "I believe in you,") he has a good laugh over how surprisingly long it took something like that to happen once he started making the videos a feature.
* The fun with ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'' started before he even posted anything about it thanks to his Twitter feed. First he asked if "Gem Glow" had given a good excuse to eat Cookie Cats for breakfast, and his comment on the infamous BodyHorror episode "Cat Fingers" is simply "What the FUCK."
** His response to Steven's obsession with Cookie Cats: "This show understands me."

*** Going from one of Mark's later reactions when this happens, it seems he's been trying for a while to convince people of how goofy Baize can get, and is quite glad to now have video evidence of it.

** When a raccoon shows up during a song in "On the Run", Mark briefly exclaims that they have a friend. [[MoodWhiplash The raccoon immediately starts attacking Steven]], prompting Mark to cover his face as Baize ''cackles''.
** After so long of him leaping at the slightest hint of any kind of non-heteronormative feelings in all the stuff he reads and watches, it's quite amusing to see Pearl's love for Rose, renowned as one of the most notable cases of it in American entertainment in recent years, sail right over his head in "Rose's Scabbard."
** Mark had no idea of the existence of ''WesternAnimation/UncleGrandpa'' before watching "Say Uncle," and Baize opts to not tell him until the episode is over, causing him to spend the whole thing being gloriously confused. Plus, "Is he everyone's gay uncle? Wait, I'm the gay uncle!"
** His continual viewing of Peridot as the show's BigBad, which is funny enough in the moment as it becomes more and more clear that she's a very tiny cog in Homeworld's plans, and so much more if you know where her story is going.
** His increasingly high-pitched yells of "WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH ONION" as "Onion Friend" goes on, to point there are tears by the episode's end.

* His obsession with dogs gets him into some trouble in ''WesternAnimation/{{Gargoyles}}'', as he can't figure out if Bronx should be called one.
** At the start of the show he assumes it'll have a big focus on the Gargoyles keeping themselves hidden from human society, and is completely surprised by how many people quickly see them. He even tries to keep count of how many people that is, before giving up at Goliath meeting Bronx in the middle of a busy street in "Enter Macbeth."
** In "Leader of the Pack" he's quite proud of predicting that Xanatos and Fox planned her getting out of jail legally, but is still caught by surprise by the reveal that they're a couple.
** He spends several episodes with a quite bizarre case of ArbitrarySkepticism, assuming that Matt Bluestone's search for the Illuminati has to be a fool's errand even with this being a world where things like gargoyles, fairies, and time travel have already been shown to exist. It takes Bluestone himself being inducted into the Illuminati's ranks for him to catch on that the show's AllMythsAreTrue set-up really does extend that far.
** The sheer joy he takes in the gargoyles fighting off skinheads in "M.I.A.".
** In "The Hound of Ulster" he quickly picks up on the similarities to Ronan's story in ''Young Wizards'', and is quite embarrassed to see that the episode was actually written by Diane Duane and her husband, so this actually wasn't that unusual a thing to point out.
** In part 1 of "The Gathering" he is convinced that Titania is secretly Puck, and dismisses the much more obvious clue that she and Anastasia share the same voice actor as just an example of reusing actors.

** In "Where Silence Has Lease," he notes that he'd either be the worst or best starship captain ever, always hitting on his officers while running from the first sign of danger.
** Immediately upon finishing "Shades of Grey," he declared on Twitter that it was the worst TNG episode that could ever exist, and said the video would be mostly just him playing games on his iphone, and some guitar.
*** The video also features an epic amount of eye rolling during the montage of Riker's romantic conquests, after which he concludes "This episode sucks. A lot."
*** And finally, his actual review of the episode is incredibly terse with him refusing to spend any real effort thinking about a throwaway ClipShow. It's the closest he's come to his threat to one day write a review that's just the word "No."
** Despite the excitement of Dr. Crusher's return, he spends the entirety of "Evolution" struggling not to fall asleep. Keep in mind this is a guy who was enthralled by every second of ''The Motion Picture''.
** His predictions for Season 3 include "Picard is kidnapped at some point," "We’ll get another episode centering on the Borg," ''and'' "We will get our first The Next Generation cliffhanger."
** His utter hatred of Riker's constantly sleeping with the female guest stars by Season 3, to the point that he preemptively says "Please don't fuck her" whenever Riker meets them.
** In "Remember Me" he immediately suspects that Wesley's experiment is the cause of the disappearing people, and refuses to let this go for the whole episode.
** Almost missing the reveal of Denise Crosby's face in the Season 4 finale because he's overly concerned with his food.

** His immediate reaction to the CreepyChild from "Imaginary Friend":

** The thumbnail for the Season 7 videos, cowering under his blanket.

** His adoration of the numerous cheesy zooms from "Dark Page," ultimately doing one himself.
** The review of "Force of Nature" where he imagines just how the writing process went, with various people constantly pushing their own ideas and talking past each other while the OnlySaneMan in the room (apparently Rockne S. O'Bannon given his desire to make a show about [[Series/{{Farscape}} Muppets in space]]) is driven nuts. It's even better when you know that pretty much ''is'' how the episode was made, as explicated in the comments.

** His enthusiasm for "Sub Rosa" gradually fading over its first ten minutes. "And I wanted a Dr. Crusher episode. This is...what the hell is this?"

* The Tolkien reviews where Mark plays off how Tolkien originally wrote ''Literature/TheHobbit'' as a bedtime story for his kids. His portrayal of Christopher Tolkien (ie, the guy we have to thank for ''Literature/TheSilmarillion'' and ''Literature/TheChildrenOfHurin'' being published) as a slightly bratty and overly curious kid is hysterical.
* The article on the final chapter of ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings: The Fellowship of the Ring'', about how all the problems in it could be solved if the Fellowship included a WebVideo/SassyGayFriend, demonstrated with numerous pictures of himself making various facial expressions, and also wearing a tuxedo t-shirt.
* From the ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' reviews: Mark has a habit for unknowingly anticipating the future, so when he made a few comments about how it would be so cute if Buffy and Faith became girlfriends or mentioned in early season 4 that he really latches onto any sign of a gay character in a work, there was some sniggering. But the high point was ''definitely'' in the review for [[http://markwatches.net/reviews/2012/03/mark-watches-buffy-the-vampire-slayer-s04e09-something-blue/ Something Blue]], literally ''one episode'' from [[ClosetKey Tara's]] introduction, when he goes off on this tangent about how much he identifies with Willow's heartbreak:

** Just as funny is his off-the-cuff tumblr end-of-Buffy prediction a month and a half before he ended the show:

* Starting in 2012, he started making videos of him reading horrible books and fanfic for every thousand dollars the fans raised for his favorite charity. First up is ''Literature/AtlasShrugged'', with highlights including his automatically associating the word "bum" with "butt," and pausing during the sex scene to ask if this is really how straight people have sex, "because stop it now."

* While reading [[Literature/{{Newsflesh}} Countdown]], he learns a character is in prison, says "He's fucking in prison!", then realizes how that sounded.

* Spilling water on himself in his surprise while reading chapter eight of ''Wild Magic''.

* Mark's video of reading ''Literature/FiftyShadesOfGrey'' has a few absolutely amazing moments where the awkwardness of the writing makes him cover his face in embarrasment, followed by him falling out of his chair.
* His reaction to Caligula's performance as Dawn in ''Literature/IClaudius''. Throughout the whole thing, you can see him screaming in his head "What in god's name am I looking at?"

* The video for the first episode of ''Series/{{Pushing Daisies}}'' has him completely freaking out every 30 seconds or so.
** The story of how he started watching the series. For years it was on his list of things he wouldn't watch, as he knew too much about it. Then one of his friends asked exactly what he knew, and it turned out he was under the impression it was a show about a circus that traveled to parallel universes in a hot air balloon, which as far as anyone can tell is a show that has never actually existed (though some of the fans now want to see it).
* Mark's horrified realizations as he processes the implications of the time travel in ''WesternAnimation/SamuraiJack''. Highlights include his priceless expression when Jack struggles to grasp the concept of "other worlds across the stars" and:

* The {{Running Gag}} of calling the Philosopher's Stone the [[Literature/HarryPotterAndThePhilosophersStone Sorceror's Stone]] in ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist''.
* Watch the video for episode 16 of ''[[Manga/FullmetalAlchemist Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood]]'' and you get to see him clap his hands over his mouth simultaneously with Maria Ross, and not even notice.
** Then in episode 29 he does a "thinker" pose at the same time as Ed.
** In episode 40 he tempts the preparedness gods by saying he thinks he knows what will happen next, and is prepared for once. Then [[spoiler:Hohenheim shoves his hand into Izumi's gut]] and he shouts "I lied! I'm not, I'm not!"
** His description of Ed's taste in cars: "It looked like a Hot Wheel threw up."
** He ships Alex/Sig Curtis. [[ItMakesSenseInContext They sparkled at each other]].
* In chapter 14 of ''Squire'' he has to deal in quick succession with [[spoiler:Raoul in a loincloth and unsheathed sword, Buri in his bed, and Joren's death.]]
* His complete brain shutdown at just the first sentence of ''The Android's Dream''.
* Being introduced to the idea of chocolate pasta during chapter 3 of ''Untold''. He reacts like this has altered his entire view of the world.

* His reaction to the MoodWhiplash opening credits in [[Series/TheWestWing "Twenty Five"]].

* His reaction to [[spoiler:Sam's death]] in season 2 of ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'': "He's on other boxes!"

** His written reaction to one of the more gruesome scenes from "My Bloody Valentine".

** In "Blade Runners", he gets annoyed at the gong sound that shows up every time an Asian woman is ogled, so he suggests that the show play the sound of hipsters squeeing whenever a white woman is ogled.

** Also, when he realizes the full implications of the series' name;

** His struggling to comprehend the setup of Great A'Tuin, the four elephants, and the Disc, finally just saying he needs to see a picture.
** His epic three-minute-long freak out over the "horse d'oeuvres" pun in ''The Light Fantastic''.
** When he realizes that plot the plot of ''Literature/EqualRites'' is about the world's first female wizard.

** His astonished laughter when he realizes how much of a DirtyOldWoman Nanny Ogg is, to the point where it takes a minute or two for him to be able to continue reading.

** "I don't think this book is going to have a time jump to when Tomjon is old enough to be king." Well, [[ExactWords he's not wrong]]. [[spoiler:Granny moves the country fifteen years into the future so Tomjon will be old enough to be king.]]
** "So many books! But the next book is... ''Literature/{{Pyramids}}'' which is about....[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin pyramids?]] I don't know." (He's right.)

** The video for Part 7 of ''Pyramids''. As he put it on Twitter, "I just recorded a Pyramids video where I 1. Googled a thousand things, including the worst twin names, 2. Mispronounced "pyramids" as "periods" and it is the worst slip-up in Mark Does Stuff history when you hear the whole sentence, 3. Told a story about my serial killer cat I used to have, 4. Had to awkwardly pause while someone knocked on my door and then SLID SOMETHING CREEPILY UNDERNEATH IT. I hope this is entertaining." To which someone replied, "It's the cat."
** He shares a story of a friend who has the worst sense of direction he's ever seen, and had to call him for help getting out of a parking lot.
** His utter joy at the pathetic, [[OurDragonsAreDifferent dog-like swamp dragons]], or as he calls them, "DRAGON PUPPIES!"

*** He's currently having a similar problem with the fact that two corpses have been identified as Beano the Clown's body in ''Literature/MenAtArms''.

** After a ton of ''Film/GoneWithTheWind'' references, he says without a trace of irony "All the ''Film/{{Casablanca}}'' references are hilarious."
** After an unfortunate technology fail erased his original readings of a few chapters of "Wyrd Sisters", he decided to read them again, but at various con panels, and the audience reactions 100% make up for it. For example, his sheer glee at having people being able to tell him how a word is pronounced ''real time'', and the result when he needs helps pronouncing the onomatopoeia 'ttccch'.

** Much like the mistake he made in ''Guards! Guards!'', he takes a hell of a long time to figure out who the titular characters of ''Lords and Ladies'' are, and why Granny and Nanny are so sure that anyone would falsely believe they're heroes rather than villains upon hearing their name. This despite several explicit mentions of elves in the same breath, which incidentally also completely proves the witches' point.

*** Pulling his blanket over his head in his shame of taking so long to figure out what the Gonne was.
** Mispronouncing the word "teeth" as "teets" in ''Soul Music''. He spends a good couple minutes agonizing over how unfortunate it was.
** In ''Maskerade'' he finally tries to predict what a pun from the footnotes is going to be, except this particular footnote is where Pratchett finally reversed the joke and it's all about how there isn't any wordplay going on.
** In ''Feet of Clay'' a joke about tax evasion goes right over his head, leading him to zoom in on the shopkeeper being upset about now having to pay his taxes as some incredibly important clue to what's going on.
** ''Hogfather'' gives him a misconception that some fans say beats the above bit on Vetinari, where he thinks the random guy Teatime hijacks and then kills is the Hogfather. One comment: "How in the name of the Soul Cake Duck did he get that idea?"
*** The entirety of his reading Death as a mall Hogfather. His sheer joy at the "beautiful chaos" makes the whole thing even funnier.
*** In Part 10 he finally loses the battle since the start of the book to not pronounce "Hogswatch" as "Hogwarts."
*** He again has a huge freak out over a pun with "ground coffee," which he ends up declaring even better than "horse d'oeuvres."

** In ''Jingo'', Leonard of Quirm delivers a WhamLine so casually that both the Partician ''and Mark'' completely miss the implications for a minute. The shock on Mark's face when he rereads and registers the line is ''palpable''.
** During a convention, he met a fan who was cosplaying as a clacks tower. She was understandably mortified to realize partway through their conversation that she was ''dressed as'' a spoiler right in front of him.

*** His constant frustration at how little he knows about the Australian gay scene, and thus how offensive or not their portrayal is.
** He somehow completely fails to get Granny's situation at the start of "Carpe Jugulum." "But where does the cow come in?"
** In ''Thief of Time'' he falls right into the trap Pratchett deliberately set up of having two equally likely candidates for the son of Time, constantly second-guessing himself on which one it is. His mind is then completely blown by the actual twist.
*** Made even funnier because he himself has a twin brother.

** His first impression of [[Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries Harry Mudd]]: "Music/LadyGaga's got nothing on this guy."
** He's ''very'' GenreSavvy about {{Red Shirt}}s, particularly in "Arena":

** In "Tomorrow Is Yesterday" he wants Kirk and Sulu interrupted every five minutes, forcing Spock to beam the person aboard, until there's forty or so people crammed into the transporter room. "Hire me to write TV shows. This is what you'll get."
** While watching "Space Seed," he finds the name Khan familiar but can't place it. He's figured it out by the next video, and reveals that a DVD of ''The Wrath of Khan'' is sitting directly across from him as he watches the episodes.
** His declaring "The City on the Edge of Forever" to be "very Harlan Ellison" upon seeing his credit, which is absolutely hilarious if you know anything about [[CreatorBacklash Ellison's own opinion on it]].
** While watching "Catspaw" he manages to inadvertently make a gay joke ''and'' a beastiality joke, followed by marvelous OhCrap reactions.
** His reaction to the LogicBomb from "I, Mudd." It's like his brain is getting melted right along with the androids'.

** The written review for "A Private Little War" is quite somber. So he ends it with a picture of [[Film/{{Zoolander}} Mugatu]].
** His stunned disbelief at the big twist of "The Omega Glory," ending with saying through a huge grin "That was fucking garbage!"
** After his adoration of "The Trouble with Tribbles," two fans separately sent him Tribble toys. He was quite amused by his one initial Tribble managing to reproduce just like in the show.

** Until the box from "Is There No Truth In Beauty?" opens, he's under the impression that Kollos ''is'' the box, and won't let it go.

** During the Kirk vs. Kirk fight in "Whom Gods Destroy," he quickly picks up that it's just Shatner and a stuntman, and tells Spock to shoot the one who's clearly not Kirk.
** The entire video for ''Film/StarTrekIVTheVoyageHome'', where he spends the whole time reveling in what he eventually names "The Wacky Capers of the Enterprise Crew."
* All his videos for the goofy filler episodes of ''Anime/RevolutionaryGirlUtena''. By the last one he's understandably asking, "Am I still on planet Earth?"
* On his Twitter, he mistakenly said he would be reading ''Literature/{{Pyramids}}'' after finishing ''Literature/{{Sourcery}}''. The result was numerous ''Discworld'' fans having an existential crisis and wondering if they just imagined [[Literature/WyrdSisters another book]] between those two.
* All of his video on the ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'' episode "The French Mistake," especially the line "Nobody says penultimate," given that Mark points this out ''every time''.
* His discovery that Briar from ''Literature/CircleOfMagic'' also has X tattoos on his hands.
** The whole video, really. He was under the impression that Sandry's Book was only going to cover Sandry, so he's incredibly confused when four separate characters get a viewpoint. And since the first chapter details not one, but ''four'' {{Dark and Troubled Past}}s, he quickly realizes "This book is going to break me."

** In his prediction for ''Daja's Book'', he wants everyone to have a backstory. Frostpine's comes with a note saying "Bonus points if he marries me!"
** His epic minute-long freak-out during ''Street Magic'' when he realizes, chapters before Briar does, what the "good fertilizer" [[HumanResources actually is]].
** One of his predictions for ''Cold Fire'' was that Daja would get a crush on a guy, which was funny on two levels. [[spoiler: First, the main plot of the book being based around an older guy having a super inappropriate attraction to ''Daja'', and Daja actually being a lesbian.]]
** His expression of dawning horror when he realizes that Bennat, far from being a mentor figure, is actually an creepy arsonist.
** Upon Daja noticing Rizu as "the most beautiful woman of the Empress' court," he's taken aback for a moment, then, likely thinking of how he was blindsided by Korrasami, whines "I don't want to react to a thing yet!"

* For the first few minutes of ''Film/TheTerminator'', he can't stop talking about how weird it was to have Arnold Schwarzenegger as his governor.
** In the [[Film/Terminator2JudgmentDay second film]], he completely fell for the misdirection that Arnold was playing the villain again, resulting in tons of great comments in the first half hour. "No, he's here to help you!"
** He didn't catch on that Kyle is John's father until the end of the film, resulting in a disgusted "You're making out with your best friend's mom!"
* While reading all of ''Literature/FiftyShadesOfGrey'', he starts by getting overly wrapped up in the path of Anastasia's trip to Seattle, clearly desperate to delay what's coming as long as possible.

** His impromptu Google search for "Fifty Shades of Grey Smurfs."
* Around December, folks can commission Mark to write holiday cards where he gets to write things about a theme of the commissioner's choosing, which usually ends up being short fanfic. ''Crossover'' fanfic. Have you ever wondered what it would be like if the cast of ''Series/BrooklynNineNine'' had to deal with the [[Literature/HarryPotter Wizarding World]]? Or what ''Podcast/WelcomeToNightVale'' candidate the folks from ''Series/TheWestWing'' would support? No? Well, he's written it anyway, and they're hilarious.

** The video for "The Office Job," where you can actually see the gears spin in his head as he struggles to comprehend the concept of the show doing a riff on ''The Office''.

** Upon seeing Diane Duane's credit for "Where No One Has Gone Before," he compliments her ability to write a completely infuriating {{Jerkass}} like Kosinsky, then quickly realizes how that might have sounded.

** On Darci's home birth: "This is the weirdest birth I've ever seen, and I watched ''Series/TheXFiles''.