History LetsPlay / HatFilms

** "Oh ho! '''Dirty!'''" Said by Ross whenever sexual innuendo comes up.

* GenreSavvy:
** During the Filfy Mods Willy Wonka inspired episode. "Oh wow, [=GeoffCo=]! Oh wait...[[PyroManiac this can't be good]]."
** Towards the end of their Epic Hatventure series, the trio discovers a tower filled to the brink with ridiculously powerful enchanted weapons and gear, which leaves them nervous as to what they're about to face that requires them to have this level of equipment.
** In ''The Walls 3: Aztec'', they realize that the other teams will kill each other sooner or later, and fortify themselves in a tall tower so they can survey the surrounding area from above and snipe any stragglers, while also preventing the other teams from getting into melee range. [[spoiler:It works splendidly. By the end, only LetsPlay/SimonLane and LetsPlay/DuncanJones are left, and the pair try to build up under the tower to blow it up with TNT... Only for Duncan to realize the hard way that [[DidntThinkThisThrough it wasn't going to work]] (aside from being exposed to arrow fire no matter what they did, the TNT would automatically drop when lit, which would've rendered the attempt to blow it up useless without something under it). Simon is quickly finished off by the Sirs, winning them the game.]]
** During "Lucky Walls", the trio decide to repeat the tactic from ''The Walls 3'', reasoning that it worked quite well. [[spoiler:It doesn't work so well in the first round for a number of reasons, but the second time around they are left to deal with LetsPlay/InTheLittleWood, the last player alive, and murder him handily.]]

** "Ooooooh Long Johnson!"
** "What's the angle? What's the pitch? What's the PLAAAAAY?"

** "EAT SHIT", often said during Murder, mostly by Ross.

They have several series on ''VideoGame/{{Minecraft}}'' and have also played among other games, ''VideoGame/{{Trials}}'', ''VideoGame/{{Worms}}'' and ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoV''. They frequently partner and compete against LetsPlay/{{Sips}}, LetsPlay/{{Turpster}} and LetsPlay/LewisBrindley, and have played ''GTA 5'' and ''Skyblock'' along with ''VideoGame/GarrysMod Murder'' and ''VideoGame/TroubleInTerroristTown'' among other members of the Yogscast on Sips' channel and the main Yogscast channel.

** Trott ends up being this in quite a few games, even ''Minecraft''. After all when [[spoiler:they decided to blow up the From Ashes map]] no one seemed to have told Trott this...

* MultipleChoicePast: Smith and Ross like to make up events and false history about Trott; has developed into a series of jokes called "Trott Trivia" which has inspired a website and two separate Twitter accounts to store such Trivia in.

** Whenever the guys are retrieving lava, it's almost certain that one of them will burn to death due to sheer negligence.

** And now Trott's beloved [[spoiler:ostrich, Eric,]] has fallen victim to this as well. Again, it was Smith's doing.

** Their Skylands episodes also contain frequent impersonations of and references to [[Literature/LordOfTheRings Gollum]]/Sméagol/Andy Serkis.

** For their ''Old Fashioned Bashin'' episode in which the trio play ''VideoGame/GoldenEye'', Ross dresses up in a tuxedo.

* DoubleEntendre: The guys get some mileage out of jokes about "getting wood," "boning" wolves, and "porking" each other (throwing a pork chop to someone), and when Trott resorts to punching a Creeper to death after his sword breaks, he says "I just fisted a Creeper!"

* SuspiciouslySpecificDenial: In ''FeedTheBeast'', eventually, Smith decides that he can't hold in his destructive tendencies anymore and decides to craft a ''nuke'', casually asking how to make the requisite materials for it. Considering the ''type'' of materials he's asking for, Trott and Ross immediately get suspicious, and Smith's response to "what are you building" is "nooooothing." Cue snarking on Trott's part via editing, showing what he was actually intending to craft.

** "FIFA-CHU! ULTIMATE PACK OPENING!!!" is undoubtedly a mockery of ''VideoGame/FIFASoccer'' pack openings and overacting for what is simply opening a pack of cards. It also takes moments to mock ''Franchise/CallOfDuty'' MLG-style montages, with annoying air horn sounds and effects which have kids screaming down microphones.

* ArtifactTitle:
** The group's channel used to be called HAAT Films since Ross and Trott had 2 other people in their group for a total of 4 lads. Since the two former friends moved on in their lives and Smith was introduced, the group became HAT Films. The reason the old name appears on their [=YouTube=] channel is because [=YouTube=] doesn't allow account holders to change their name.
** No longer true as part of Google's push to join all their online social service together now means that the account is listed as 'Hat Films' in display name at least.

** During the ''VideoGame/GarrysMod VideGame/{{Murder}}'' games, Ross goes berserk whenever he is the murderer, angrily shouting "EAT SHIT!" at other players as he tries to stab them.

* BerserkButton: In real life, Ross loves animals, in particular dogs, so real life animal abuse is one for him.

* DudeNotFunny: Discussed in episode 36 of ''Hat Chat'' for the "Funny News" section, when Ross mentions that most of the news that they've found is more "morbid" than it is amusing. He gives the example of a grandmother accidentally poisoning her family with twenty-five year-old cocoa.

** When the gaming videos did start, the technology the Sirs used was a little more outdated and only focused on Ross' viewpoint for the most part; any time that Trott messed up his footage would be used with "fail cam" plastered on the screen. Nowadays, all three viewpoints are used equally. The trio were also considerably shier, whereas now they are all quite boisterous.

* NoMouth: Smith's ''Minecraft'' avatar.

* OneSteveLimit: Subverted; All of Trottimus's tamed wolves are named some variation of "Ralph".

** LetsPlay/CaptainSparklez joined the Sirs for a charity livestream in December 2014.

* CabinFever: Near the end of their [=Skyblock=] series, the boys get a bit desperate to leave their self described "Prison" but cannot stop playing until an Enderman spawns; they begin to attack each other, talk nonsense, and cry randomly (more so then they usually do of all these things, anyway).

* PreAssKickingOneLiner: Ross is very fond of shouting "EAT SHIT!" repeatedly in ''VideoGame/GarrysMod'', often when he's about to kill someone or playing ''Murder''. On occasion, he uses "EAT SHIT!" instead.

* BigBadEnsemble: While considered the overarching threat on the Yogscast Complete Server, the trio are not alone in antagonising the Flux Buddies (who are menaced by [[EvilClone Lalnable Hector]]) or Sjin (who initially is wary of [[EvilClone _Zips]] before KnightOfCerebus Strawfingers returns [[spoiler:and kills _Zips]]).

* AxeCrazy: During the ''VideoGame/GarrysMod VideGame/{{Murder}}'' games, Ross goes berserk whenever he is the murderer, angrily shouting "EAT SHIT!" at other players as he tries to stab them.

* BlackComedy: In Skylands — when blowing up the Rustic Sky dungeon, the boys joke about there being babies on the dungeon when it explodes.

* [[DickDastardlyStopsToCheat Alex Smith Stops To Troll]]: The GrandTheftAutoV video [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBg_ccvBmI0 "Roller Twister"]] features Smith, in the last race, deciding that, once he was about to hit the finish line, he'd instead go back to the area with the elaborate ramps and troll Trott and Ross. However, even when Trott gets through that part, despite initially panicking to get back to his car, he instead attempted to troll Trott some more with gunfire. ''Twice''. After passing him the second time, Smith realized that he was now suddenly too far away to get to the finish line before Trott could get there, resulting in Trott winning the playlist outright. ''[[LaserGuidedKarma Whoops.]]''

* PreAssKickingOneLiner: Ross is very fond of shouting "EAT SHIT!" repeatedly in ''VideoGame/GarrysMod'', often when he's about to kill someone or playing ''Murder''. On occasion, he uses "YOU'RE HUNGRY! EAT SHIT!" instead.

** When the boys keep catching fire in the wooden Skylands dungeon, they keep singing "[[Film/TheWickerMan The Lord is my shepherd]]." This has come up a few times

** Whenever the trio plays a custom track in ''Trials Evolution'' that has bullshit moments ([[CameraScrew bad camera angles]], [[CheckpointStarvation unforgiving checkpoints]], etc.), they "reward" the creator of the track with the "Fuck U Buddy Award" (or FUBA for short), complete with a trophy graphic in front of an explosion. There has been at least one occasion where the trio takes back the award after seeing that they were wrong for using it, which is followed by the FUBA trophy animation playing in reverse.
** One track ticked off the trio so bad that they gave the FUBA award ''five'' times just for that track alone.
** And then there's the track where they went ''completely overboard'' with the awards.

* ThatOnePlayer: Trottimus is the only Sir who plays ''Trials'' when they're not filming. It seriously shows. He has a tendency to mess up his turns hilariously in their Worms series, though -- so much so that when he has either of the other Sirs at his mercy, they start praying for him to make a 'Chris Trott error'.

* TookALevelInBadass: In the early episodes of ''Day Z'', the trio are quite bad in playing as they attract lots of attention from zombies, get shot by other players, and die quite often from their mistakes. As the series progressed, the trio gotten a lot better since now they conserve their ammo wisely, move with stealth, and they keep an eye on their status. Smith even gets revenge for Ross by killing another player that had shot him.

** When the gaming videos did start, the technology the Sirs used was a little more outdated and only focused on Ross' viewpoint for the most part; any time that Trott messed up his footage would be used with "fail cam" plastered on the screen. Nowadays, all three viewpoints are used equally.

* EpicFail: In the first two episodes of "[=SkyBlock=]-Take One", the Sirs, in a very short period of time, turn their lava into Obsidian, destroy their single water source, flatten their only plentiful block, dirt, into a non-recyclable bridge, and make it impossible for their only renewable resourse, saplings, to grow. To say that a restart was necessary is an understatement.

* GagCensor: During their Feed The Beast series, certain short statements (from obscene content to ''Game of Thrones'' spoilers) are censored out this way. The screen goes grayscale, the sound is replaced by a very sped up version of the beginning of their ''Pixelmon'' parody tune, and there's a pink caption expressing the video editor's feelings. [[http://youtu.be/GXJEqYuuotM?t=8m27s An example from episode 48]].

* SharpDressedMan: What Ross and Smith appear to be in ''Minecraft''. Trott wears a lab coat instead.

** When the boys keep catching fire in the wooden Skylands dungeon, they keep singing "[[Film/TheWickerMan The Lord is my shepherd]]."

** When playing ''VideoGame/PropHunt'' with the rest of the Yogscast, they and LetsPlay/InTheLittleWood joke that Martyn has replaced Sips forever, in response to the fans just "assuming" that was the case.
** In response to fans getting angry at them for letting Turps join, they calmly, but firmly, shot down some of the complaints, arguing that fans wanted the series to be too formulaic, and that Turps was their friend.

* TooDumbToLive: Alsmiffy's golem in the ''Feed the Beast'' Minecraft series jumps into a furnace filled with lava because it tried to get an ore that Alsmiffy dropped in there.

* InSeriesNickname: The trio refer to Duncan and Kim as "the Fuck Buddies", a pun on their series "Flux Buddies".

** The Sirs, LetsPlay/LewisBrindley, LetsPlay/{{Turpster}} and LetsPlay/{{Sips}} love each other's humour and have a lot of fun together, but can be very profane in their ''VideoGame/GarrysMod VideoGame/PropHunt'', ''VideoGame/TroubleInTerroristTown'' and ''Murder'' matches, to say nothing of [[{{Minecraft}} their SHATblock playthrough]].

* EarlyInstalmentWeirdness: In two senses:

* LimeyGoesToHollywood: This is parodied with the ''Stunt Lads'', who supposedly work in the USA but are British just like the Sirs in real life. This causes an issue since they get paid in dollars but then have to convert their profits after paying for various things such as taxes and their medical bills.

* FreudianTrio: Their newest Minecraft series, [=HatCorp=], has the lads using this trope more than usual:
** Trott is the unofficial leader of [=HatCorp=], and usually the one to attempt to get something done. He seems to know his way around Yogscast Complete, and Feed the Beast in general, more than Smith or Ross. (Ego)
** Ross currently spends a lot of time building in the background, occasionally chiming in to state what he's building, state that he's finished, or insult Trott. (Id)
** Smith usually works as an assistant to whatever Trott is doing. He is generally the first to try and weaponize everything they make. (Superego)

* EntendreFailure: In an early ''Left 4 Dead'' playthrough, Ross makes a joke that Rochelle was going to have a 'good time' with him after the campaign. A clearly distracted Smith responds back "Yeah, she's going to have the highest kill points, it's really depressing."

* LimitedWardrobe: Smiffy is very rarely seen without a red t-shirt. He even acknowledges this practice, himself, on a certain [[http://www.reddit.com/r/Hatfilms/comments/2sdy4i/alex_smiths_closet/cnx4xng?context=3 Reddit post]].

* TheFriendNobodyLikes: The original "HAAT Films" team consisted of two 'A's, whom were college peers of Ross and Trottimus, neither of whom were Alsmiffy. While one of the old 'A's, Nathan Asheman, is still occasionally seen and is regarded fondly when mentioned by the three, the second 'A' has never been referred to by name, and is confessed to be the one who inspired the personality behind the [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xj1s9dDqik 'Chris Director Trott']] videos. They did eventually admit that they reconciled offscreen.

* TheFriendNobodyLikes: The original "HAAT Films" team consisted of two 'A's, whom were college peers of Ross and Trottimus, neither of whom were Alsmiffy. While one of the old 'A's, Nathan Asheman, is still occasionally seen and is regarded fondly when mentioned by the three, the second 'A' has never been referred to by name, and is confessed to be the one who inspired the personality behind the [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xj1s9dDqik 'Chris Director Trott']] videos.