History LetsPlay / FreelanceAstronauts

* ADayInTheLimelight: pipes! is Player One in ''KirbySuperStar'' while Max plays the helper. Evek has plied his trade in a few episodes of Overlord. Ferr is the one who plays through ''OregonTrail'' and some levels of Overlord and he also takes up Max's mantle as the player in ''[[VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoViceCity Vice City]]'' for a few videos... just in time for [[ThatOneLevel The Driver mission, too.]]

* TetrisEffect: Ferr mentions when he sees an abandoned mattress in VideoGame/{{Half-Life 2}} that his first instinct was to [[TheElderScrollsIVOblivion sleep on it to regain health]].

** [[ResidentEvil4 "Hey, it's that dog."]]

* EagleLand: During the ''[[ResidentEvil RE4]]'' LP,

* SuperOCD: Maxwell's constant inventory rearranging during ''ResidentEvil4''.

They are also joined frequently by guests on Skype, commonly Drakkel, Irregular Hunter, Ashley, [=PlasmaMan=], and {{retsupurae}} co-star Diabetus.

* DeadpanSnarker: Anyone that isn't [[NoIndoorVoice pipes!]], but especially Ferr and [[{{Retsupurae}} Diabetus]].

* DidNotDoTheResearch: After concern is expressed about the [[VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoViceCity aggressive pedestrians with guns cheat]] being unable to turn off, Max just shrugs it off and says that it'll go away when they save and restart the game. Any cheater worth his salt knows this is crap. So, unwittingly, Maxwell turns the rest of the game into a SelfImposedChallenge. It's implied they didn't know much about the cheats in the first place, since they went for half of the entire LP without using them.

* AffectionateParody: Despite all the vitriol aimed at anime, the jokes are aimed at specific enough targets to prove they're fans. Also, Maxwell has a Mii of [[NeonGenesisEvangelion Gendo Ikari]].

--> '''pipes!''': "Watch out for the [[TengenToppaGurrenLagann Anti-Spirals!]]"
** Music from NeonGenesisEvangelion plays during some of the battles in the Oblivon LP.

-->'''Ferr:''' They don't call me Jackhammer Custer[[hottip:*:referring to ''Custer's Revenge'']] for nothing.

** Also happened earlier in ''GrandTheftAutoViceCity''. Even more fitting, considering that (as Max demonstrated) if you shoot the moon with a sniper rifle, it gets bigger/closer.

* ADayInTheLimelight: pipes! is Player One in ''KirbySuperStar'' while Max plays the helper. Evek has plied his trade in a few episodes of Overlord. Ferr is the one who plays through ''OregonTrail'' and some levels of Overlord and he also takes up Max's mantle as the player in ''[[GrandTheftAutoViceCity Vice City]]'' for a few videos... just in time for [[ThatOneLevel The Driver mission, too.]]

* DidNotDoTheResearch: After concern is expressed about the [[GrandTheftAutoViceCity aggressive pedestrians with guns cheat]] being unable to turn off, Max just shrugs it off and says that it'll go away when they save and restart the game. Any cheater worth his salt knows this is crap. So, unwittingly, Maxwell turns the rest of the game into a SelfImposedChallenge. It's implied they didn't know much about the cheats in the first place, since they went for half of the entire LP without using them.

** Sometime after Max begins using cheats in ''[[GrandTheftAutoViceCity Vice City]]'':

** [[{{Futurama}} "Erotic." "What did you say?" "EROTIC!"]]

''Playing games and saying stuff.''

A troupe of American [[LetsPlay LPers]], the Freelance Astronauts are four goons who decided to try their hand at Let's Plays from the sub-forums of SomethingAwful. Within a couple of years, they have become some of the most popular characters of the forum, and one of the most famous [=LPers=] from the forum, even with many non-goon fans. They consist of four main members.

* GoodBadBugs: Maxwell's "{{Contra}} Secret" that he discovered as a child -- a glitched part of a level that lets you partially clip though the floor. You can't move anywhere and it serves no purpose, but the young Maxwell was so proud of his discovery he almost sent it in to NintendoPower.

* ChekhovsGun: A few do pop up now and again in their LPs, but one rather good example that actually worked surprisingly well was in their ''Vice City'' LP. At some point early in the LP, Maxwell stored a golf cart in one of his residences. Several videos later, the CopLand mission pops up. [[spoiler: Guess which vehicle they end up using to escape from the cops, on a 5-star rating, without getting totalled.]]

* ChekhovsGun: A few do pop up now and again in their LPs, but one rather good example that actually worked surprisingly well was in their ''Vice City'' LP. At some point early in the LP, Maxwell stored a golf cart in one of his residences. Several videos later, the CopLand mission pops up. [[spoiler: Guess which vehicle they end up using to escape from the cops, without getting totalled and complete the mission scot-free, despite the [[UnusuallyUninterestingSight bizarre unmistakeable appearance]] of two known fugitives dressed as cops ''riding a goddamn golf cart through the city''.]]

** Maxwell also suffered from this during their playthrough of ''GrandTheftAuto: Vice City'' after obtaining the tiger-striped cab from the Kaufmann's Cabs missions, and planned to park it in one of his larger garages....before he lost interest and went off to roll an SUV through a window.

* LegacyCharacter: Dongs REO Speedwagon makes her triumphant return in ''SaintsRow 2'', though eventually Maxwell scraps the character out of sheer disgust.

While most of the content on Viddler has been lost, a very awesome wesome fan of the Freelance Astronauts known as "expjeans" has uploaded all of or at least most of the videos onto [[http://www.youtube.com/user/expjeans his youtube account]] for all of their fans to re-enjoy.

** Whenever a retarded-looking character appears in a videogame, they all give a resounding cry of "[[TheGoonies HEYYYY YOUUUU GUUUUYS!]]"

* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotAwesome: Maxwell's "{{Contra}} Secret" that he discovered as a child -- a glitched part of a level that lets you partially clip though the floor. You can't move anywhere and it serves no purpose, but the young Maxwell was so proud of his discovery he almost sent it in to NintendoPower.

* TetrisEffect: Ferr mentions when he sees an abandoned mattress in HalfLife2 that his first instinct was to [[TheElderScrollsIVOblivion sleep on it to regain health]].

-->'''Maxwell:''' It's a plot right out of ''TheLittleMermaid''.

** In ''TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime Master Quest'', we see the heroic adventure of Lunk. Later, in ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTwilightPrincess Twilight Princess]]'', we see another incarnation, Lonk, make his debut. [[RunningGag On his horse, Speedwag.]]

* MissingEpisode: Their first recording of [[TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime The Shadow Temple]] failed. They did record it again, but [[LudicrousSpeed they sped up to the point of the video being only a minute long]], with SoundtrackDissonance/YaketySax playing over it. Oh, WhatCouldHaveBeen.

* SpiderSense: [[TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime "Why do I have the feeling that this room's gonna be a nightmare?"]]

* [[AttentionDeficitOohShiny Attention Deficit... Ooh, Shiny!]]: In their playthrough of Twilight Princess, the group distract Ganondorf in the final battle by dangling a fishing rod in front of him, which actually takes his attention away enough for Lonk to land a few potshots.

* [[ItsQuietTooQuiet It's Quiet... Too Quiet]]: Said word for word in ''Serious Sam''

** In ''TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime Master Quest'', we see the heroic adventure of Lunk. Later, in ''TwilightPrincess'', we see another incarnation, Lonk, make his debut. [[RunningGag On his horse, Speedwag.]]

* {{Squee}}: pipes!'s reaction to the ''[[TheLegendOfZeldaTwilightPrincess Twilight Princess]]'' [=LP=] when [[LegendOfZeldaCDIGames Link did indeed bomb some dodongos]].

See their stuff [[http://freelanceastronauts.com/index.php here,]] a list of the majority of the games [=LPed=] with links [[http://freelanceastronauts.com/games.php here,]] as well as their individual video accounts [[http://www.youtube.com/user/SAMaxwellAdams#g/u here,]] [[http://www.viddler.com/explore/Maxwell_Adams/videos/ here,]] [[http://www.viddler.com/explore/MadFriarAvelyn/videos/ here,]] [[http://www.viddler.com/explore/TheYellowAnt/videos/ here,]] [[http://lparchive.org/author/Maxwell%20Adams#results here,]] [[http://www.ustream.tv/user/Maxwell_Adams/videos here]], [[http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2485592166477446032# and one of the first games here]] (their stuff is spread out all over the place).

In addition, there is a separate page dedicated towards a one-time gag of theirs, [[Fanfic/TheTaleOfSephirothGokuTheStampede The Tale Of Sephiroth Goku The Stampede]].

* {{Angrish}}:

-->'''Ferr:''' You're a tree. You're a boy who is a tree. And the moon has a giant face on it. No, there is no gravity field.

** [[{{ResidentEvil4}} "Hey, it's that dog."]]

* ClusterFBomb: ''VideoGame/{{New Super Mario Bros Wii}}'', ''{{Lemmings}}'' and ''VideoGame/{{Tetris}}'' really turns the air blue. Basically any chance they get to screw each other over will be followed by howls of very imaginative cursing, usually from pipes!.

-->'''Maxwell (a few minutes later):''' [[SurvivalMantra Three days]]...

* ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin: Ten seconds into their ''VideoGame/NewSuperMarioBrosWii'' playthrough, pipes! christens the game ''Super Asshole Bros. Wii''. 4-ish hours of backstabbing, juvenile humour, and screaming [[{{Angrish}} nonsensical]] [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking death threats]] promptly follow.

* [[FiveManBand Four Man Band]]:

** With Ferr around, this is generally an inevitability.

** In ''TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime Master Quest'', we see the heroic adventure of Lunk. Later, in ''TwilightPrincess'', we see another incarnation, Lonk, make his debut. [[{{RunningGag}} On his horse, Speedwag.]]

** And when asked a later question on if he would kill either Ferr or Maxwell, he deadpanned "Probably both".

** The Astronauts absolutely hate anyone and everyone in the chat for their Ustream channel and will make numerous uncompromising jabs at them.

** [[{{TheSimpsons}} "X up, stupid!]]

** the different uses of the jack lalanne power juicer.

** Given a chance, [[{{MajorasMask}} the moon]] will always be modded into the night sky.

* TakeAThirdOption: For the LP of ''MassEffect''. "Okay, so there's a lot of debate over which is the better Shepard, the [=ManShep=] or the [=FemShep=]. [[TheReveal Well, what if you just can't choose?]] [[{{Gonk}} What if you just want both?]]"

* TetrisEffect: Ferr mentions when he sees an abandoned mattress in [[HalfLife2 Half Life 2]] that his first instinct was to [[TheElderScrollsIVOblivion sleep on it to regain health]].

** pipes! during the VideoGame/{{Tetris}} Smackdown: "NOOOO! THIS IS NOT WHAT I WANTED!"

* ThemeMobile: Maxwell named his helicopter in the GTA playthrough the "Tommycopter". [[{{Series/Batman}} You can probably figure out what theme the other Astronauts burst into at that point.]]

* WeAREStrugglingTogether: Their ''SeriousSam'' Let's Play. They seemed to spend equal time fighting enemies and shooting each other to bits, especially when Maxwell let them find the [[{{GatlingGood}} Chain Gun]] early.

** "[[{{Predator}} Do it now!]]"

* Evek, the quiet StarTrek expert.

* YourSecretsSafeWithMeSuperman: In the ''New Super Mario Bros. Wii'' playthrough, "I'm the [[StarTrekTheNextGeneration William Riker]] to your PatrickStewart."

* RapeAsComedy: Frequently, particularly with the mummies/zombies in the 3D Zelda games, and has culminated in a [[http://www.viddler.com/explore/MadFriarAvelyn/videos/119/ priceless moment]] where Link cries afterwards. Also...
-->'''Ferr:''' They don't call me Jackhammer Custer[[hottip:*:referring to ''Custer's Revenge'']] for nothing.

-->'''Ferr:''' They don't call me [[CustersRevenge Jackhammer Custer]] for nothing.