History LetsPlay / FreelanceAstronauts

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

* ItIsPronouncedTroPAY: Maxwell and co. refer to the Freezards from the ''Zelda'' series as icy "Day-liks", possibly referring to the Daleks (Dah-lek) from ''Series/DoctorWho''.
** Also, in the ''Majora's Mask'' LP:
-->'''pipes!:''' ...Pavlovianly conditioning you not to stick carrots in the ass. Games within games.
-->'''Ferr:''' Within games?
-->'''Doomisland:''' That's so meta. (''he pronounces it meat-a'')
-->'''Maxwell Adams:''' I thought you pronounced that "met-a".
-->'''Doomisland:''' Whatever.
-->'''pipes!:''' ...Scraping the fourth wall.
-->'''Ferr:''' What-ayver.
** And Drakkel thinking dysentery is pronounced "Dis-Sentery" in ''VideoGame/TheOregonTrail'' LP.
-->'''Diabetus:''' I can't wait to get me some dys-SENTRY from these tortilays! Maybe after I get some dys-SENTRY, I can play some ''O-raygun Traylay''.
-->'''Drakkel:''' ''Origin Trial''.
-->'''Diabetus:''' I only have so many sets of cloth-ing. Look at your mape. Maybe you should buy some soup-lees!
** Ferr also refers to Fort Bridger in that game as "Fort Brigadier".

* BadassMustache: Apparently pipes!'s father grew one during the ''Franchise/MassEffect'' LP.
** He had optimal mustache.

* DamnedByFaintPraise: Maxwell's opinion of the ''Film/ResidentEvil'' movie:

** Repeat after me: "[[FamousLastWords Spawn another tank]]..."

* [[FiveManBand Four Man Band]]:
** Maxwell Adams: TheHero
** Ferr: TheLancer
** Evek: TheSmartGuy
** pipes!: TheBigGuy

-->'''Ferr:''' Do they have to put the eggs back inside of her so she can sing?
-->'''Maxwell:''' It's a plot right out of ''Disney/TheLittleMermaid''.
-->'''Evek:''' Heh. Open wide.

* [[DropTheCow Drop The Tank]]: RunningGag in their ''Franchise/MassEffect'' LP.

* TooSoon: During the Prototype LP, while battling a boss with a super attack...
-->'''Maxwell:''' Oh hey, it's shooting the shockwave of death! Get the hell out because it's got a one-hit-kill.
-->'''Russ:''' Those are always fun.
-->'''Ainsley Mctree:''' It's like 9/11, but worse...
--> (Laughter and groaning)
-->'''Russ:''' TOO SOON!
-->'''Ainsley Mctree:''' I feel bad now. I should go.

* 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.]]

** the different uses of the jack lalanne power juicer.
-->'''pipes!:''' Did you know that if you put a sheep in the jack lalanne power juicer you will not only get a glass of delicious sheep flavored juice but also a sweater.

** In the ''VideoGame/SeriousSam'' LP, Ferr blocking a door. "Before you can pass through this door, you must answer me these questions- *blam*"

* TemptingFate: In ''VideoGame/NewSuperMarioBrosWii'', any time pipes! says Luigi is doing well expect something bad to happen to him within a few seconds.
** Unfortunately, there are exceptions.

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

'''Everyone:''' [[SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments Awwwwwww...]]

* MoodWhiplash: So Ferr's playing through Ballion, and everything's easy and dandy. And then [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hdqut6gq3JE&feature=related Level 8 shows up]] (skip to 7:31 for the breakdown, but it's [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments funnier]] if you watch the entire thing).

[[SugarWiki/MostWonderfulSound YHEAAAAY!]]

*** They recently began a new LP of Mass Effect, featuring the far-in-the-future descendant, Dongs Shepard. She is considerably better looking than her ancestors. Oddly, the first streaming of the game featured Dongs as a woman, but, when it came up on YouTube, the first hour of the LP was replaced with a different LP, where Dongs is some sort of Half-Of-Everything creature with no neck.

'''Everyone:''' [[CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming Awwwwwww...]]

* MoodWhiplash: So Ferr's playing through Ballion, and everything's easy and dandy. And then [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hdqut6gq3JE&feature=related Level 8 shows up]] (skip to 7:31 for the breakdown, but it's [[CrowningMomentOfFunny funnier]] if you watch the entire thing).

[[MostWonderfulSound YHEAAAAY!]]

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

* SoundtrackDissonance: MeatLoaf's "I'd Do Anything for Love (But I Won't Do That)" being played over the moon crashing into Termina in ''Majora's Mask''.

* LegacyCharacter: Dongs REO Speedwagon makes her triumphant return in ''SaintsRow2'', though eventually Maxwell scraps the character out of sheer disgust.

** And after the Gerudo pirates are [[EddieIzzard covered in bees...]]

* TheDevTeamThinksOfEverything: Except for [[Franchise/MassEffect tanks]] in very odd places, among other things Maxwell has done with the games.

* DamnedByFaintPraise: Maxwell's opinion of the ''{{Film/Resident Evil}}'' movie:
--> '''Ferr:''' ''(quoting the movie)'' You're all going to die down here...
--> '''Evek:''' ''(shuddering)'' Ugh, why'd you have to bring that up?
--> '''Maxwell:''' That was a good movie. That was, like, an hour and a half of looking at {{Creator/Milla Jovovich}}.

* DomesticAbuse: During a playthrough of [[http://www.freelanceastronauts.com/view.php?id=332 some terrible NES games]], pipes! and Ferr theorise this to be Maxwell's masochistic relationship with NintendoHard games [[spoiler:such as F-Zero GX.
-->'''Ferr:''' You'll go to his door and knock, and he'll open it just a tiny crack and he'll be all bruised up in the face and you'll be like "Are you okay what happened?" and he'll be "I...I fell down." "Did F-Zero do something to you, do I...do you want me to come in?" "No no it's I...this house is a mess I...I have to go." ({{Beat}}) ...abusive relationships are hilarious.]]

-->'''Wolf Shirt:''' Maxwell, if your mom and Ferr were trapped in a fire, who would you save?
-->'''Maxwell:''' Uhhhh, probably my mom.
-->'''Everyone:''' [[CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming Awwwwwww...]]

* TheFaceless: Formerly Ferr; back in the New Year's Special, Ferr refused to show his face for the camera (he opted to show his hand -- [[http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2484499748624302889# as a talking face]]). For the longest time, whenever there was fanart of Ferr, his face is obscured. [[http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/The_Freelance_Astronauts_Ferr_small_5825.jpg He finally revealed himself]] on the livestream party on March 12, 2011.
** According to the Twitter feed, which acknowledged this entry, whoever posted that image didn't get the right guy. THE MYSTERY CONTINUES!

--> '''Maxwell:''' *after [[PetTheDog a sweet moment]]* Ashley's a really nice person, isn't she?
--> '''Ashley:''' *[[NoSenseOfPersonalSpace in front of a sitting salarian]]* I can't tell the aliens from the animals.
--> '''Maxwell:''' *nonchalant* Oh, that's right, I forgot. She's a racist.

-->'''Maxewll:''' Okay, Evek is black guy, Ferr is white guy, I'm red guy and the CPU is playing as blue guy.
-->'''Evek:''' Well excuse me, he's blue-guy American!

** Maxwell Adams TheHero
** Ferr TheLancer
** Evek TheSmartGuy
** pipes! TheBigGuy

--> '''Maxwell''': "It's a point and kick interface."
--> '''Ferr''': "It's Das Boot!"
--> '''pipes!''': "I'm gonna kick it into high gear!"
--> '''Ferr''': "We're kickin' it old school."
-->...
--> '''pipes!''': You kicked your way out of the game. ...It kicked you out! Ha ha ha! You just got booted from the server.

-->'''Ferr:''' Next time they should try to bee good.
-->'''Maxwell:''' Oh, don't bee that way.
-->'''Evek:''' [[AustinPowers Oh, bee-have.]]
-->'''Ferr:''' I'm looking up their bee-hinds.
-->... %%Maxwell's kind of mumbly at this point.
-->'''Ferr:''' [[{{Hamlet}} To bee, or not to bee.]]
-->'''Evek:''' [[{{Hamlet}} That is the question.]]

* DistantFinale: The end to the Astronauts' first Let's Play of {{Seaman}} had them warping ahead through a few years of in-game time (1,825 days, to be exact) to see what would have become of their two Seamen if they had been left unattended for that long. [[spoiler:Cue [[DespairEventHorizon one of the most depressing things they've ever filmed]]: the sign with the Seaman on it that makes up the title screen is scratched and desolate-looking. There are no Seamen in the tank, no eggs, no nothing. The terrarium which is used for growing moths is similarly bare. Even Creator/LeonardNimoy, narrator of the whole game up to that point no matter what had been happening up to that point, abandoned them, the game apparently having nothing to say to the players after so much time passed with nothing but neglect. Ferr was freaked out enough to start apologizing frantically on the spot.]]

* OverlyLongGag: Let's Play {{Seaman}} Again - Day 14 Part 1 encourages would-be viewers with the caption "I know this great joke about sea creatures let me tell you". Those poor viewers had no idea what they were getting themselves into.

An (Now Retired) troupe of American [[LetsPlay LPers]], the Freelance Astronauts were four goon who decided to try their hand at Let's Plays from the sub-forums of Website/SomethingAwful. Within a couple of years, they became 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.

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

Sadly, they have since gone their separate ways, but thanks to [[http://www.youtube.com/user/SAMaxwellAdams#g/u Maxwell Adams]] and a very awesome fan known as [[http://www.youtube.com/user/expjeans "expjeans"]] (Who's account contains much videos that were lost when the video hosting site Viddler shut down), who have reuploaded all of (or at the very least most of) the videos onto their youtube accounts, their can still be watched for all of the (New and Old) fans to (re-)enjoy. The Internet Archive also has a collection of their videos [[https://archive.org/search.php?query=subject%3A%22maxwell+adams%22 here]], with some of the lost Viddler content.

Their website still exists [[http://freelanceastronauts.com/index.php here,]] a list of the majority of the games [=LPed=] with (Now dead) links could be found [[http://freelanceastronauts.com/games.php here,]] also on the [[http://lparchive.org/author/Maxwell%20Adams#results LPArchive.]]

* TheAristocrats: Ferr turns the tale of Sephiroth Goku the Stampede into this, making it even funnier.

* BlackComedyRape: 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...

* DomesticAbuse: During a playthrough of [[http://www.freelanceastronauts.com/view.php?id=332 some terrible NES games]], pipes! and Ferr theorise this to be Maxwell's masochistic relationship with NintendoHard games such as F-Zero GX.
-->'''Ferr:''' You'll go to his door and knock, and he'll open it just a tiny crack and he'll be all bruised up in the face and you'll be like "Are you okay what happened?" and he'll be "I...I fell down." "Did F-Zero do something to you, do I...do you want me to come in?" "No no it's I...this house is a mess I...I have to go." ({{Beat}}) ...abusive relationships are hilarious.

** See: [[http://www.freelanceastronauts.com/view.php?id=168 Dongs]] [[http://www.freelanceastronauts.com/view.php?id=751 REO Speedwagon]] and [[Franchise/MassEffect Commander Shepard]], the [[http://www.freelanceastronauts.com/view.php?id=885 tank-shitting]] [[http://www.freelanceastronauts.com/view.php?id=880 hermaphroditic]] [[http://www.freelanceastronauts.com/view.php?id=881 interpretive dancer]].
** Ferr also appears to be one in real life as shown by the videos on his Youtube. http://www.youtube.com/user/captainferr#p/a

** Almost done by Ferr at the end of [[http://freelanceastronauts.com/view.php?id=481 Chapter 6-7]] of ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaMajorasMask Majora's Mask]]''. After an hour of trudging through two Spider Houses, the group is understandably sick of scavenging for Gold Skulltulas. So when Maxwell [[spoiler:skips forward to the second day and reveals that the prize changed from a wallet upgrade to ''50 rupees'', Ferr throws off his headset and proceeds to storm out of the room. He realizes Max made a state save on the first day, though, [[SubvertedTrope so he comes back.]]]]

* SolveTheSoupCans: Mocked exactly 8 minutes into [[http://freelanceastronauts.com/view.php?id=489 Chapter 8-1]] of ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaMajorasMask Majora's Mask.]]''

An (Now Retired.) troupe of American [[LetsPlay LPers]], the Freelance Astronauts were four goon who decided to try their hand at Let's Plays from the sub-forums of Website/SomethingAwful. Within a couple of years, they became 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.

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 Website/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.

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

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).

Also almost every Saturday they have a stream at 9 or 9:30 (the time can and most likely will vary greatly) PM Eastern US time. You can watch it either on [[http://freelanceastronauts.com/stream.php their site]] or on [[http://www.ustream.tv/channel/the-freelance-astronauts---we-play-some-games Ustream]]


While most of the content on Viddler has been lost, a very awesome fan of the Freelance Astronauts known as "expjeans" has reuploaded all of (or at the very least most of) the videos onto [[http://www.youtube.com/user/expjeans his youtube account]], for all of their fans to re-enjoy. The Internet Archive also has a collection of their videos [[https://archive.org/search.php?query=subject%3A%22maxwell+adams%22 here]], with some of the lost Viddler content.

** In the ''SeriousSam'' LP, Ferr blocking a door. "Before you can pass through this door, you must answer me these questions- *blam*"

* 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.

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

** While dicking about in ''[[VideoGame/JustCause Just Cause 2]]'', Maxwell pans up to the sky revealing the game's moon has been modded up to look like the [[ColonyDrop creepy evil one]] from ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaMajorasMask Majora's Mask]]''. Cue nostalgic giggles.

** Also in ''Majora's Mask'', MichaelJackson's "Thriller" being played over the horrifying alien invasion at Romani Ranch. The worst thing is, the aliens appear to be dancing in time with the music.

* {{BFG}}: The Astronauts' opinion of {{Killer7}} improves considerably when [[HandicappedBadass Harman's]] gigantic wheelchair-mounted sniper rifle comes into play.

--> '''Maxwell:''' That was a good movie. That was, like, an hour and a half of looking at Milla Jovovich.