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* NoJustNoReaction: After realizing that he hadn't 100-percented the revised New! Super Mario 2 Yoshi's Island level 2-E, which featured [[ScrappyMechanic an incredibly lengthy, life-or-death P-switch run]] which [[FakeDifficulty was loaded with obstacles and allowed absolutely no room for error]]:
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* EskimosArentReal: Exaggerated; he often claims that a thing isn't real because he just encountered it in the game. (yes he is joking, how did you know)
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* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotDidactic: Mercilessly parodied;
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-->'''No.'''
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* BilingualBonus: Raocow occasionally speaks his native Québécois French, leaving what he's actually saying to whoever else understands the language. Most of the time though, he's just venting his frustrations with the level at hand, incorporating the French cuss words of "merde", "tabernac" and "simonak".
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* BilingualBonus: Raocow occasionally speaks his native Québécois French, leaving what he's actually saying to whoever else understands the language. Most of the time though, he's just venting his frustrations with the level at hand, incorporating the French cuss words of "merde", "tabernac" "tabarnak" and "simonak".
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* BlindIdiotTranslation: Mocked on VIP: When Oyster offered him multiple translations of the same level title, (common, as the level titles did not, in any way, feature kanji) he would take the funniest: "Change Your Ways," for example, became "Dodge the Beefsteak."
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* BlindIdiotTranslation: Mocked on VIP: When Oyster offered him multiple translations of the same level title, (common, as the level titles did not, in any way, feature kanji) kanji and Oyster had no context) he would take the funniest: "Change Your Ways," for example, became "Dodge the Beefsteak."
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** All the {{Karoshi}} videos have names that meticulously explains the respective game's title. This gets a CallBack in one of the DistortedTravesty [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQR3oh-SZdI video descriptions]].
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** All the {{Karoshi}} ''{{Karoshi}}'' videos have names that meticulously explains the respective game's title. This gets a CallBack in one of the DistortedTravesty [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQR3oh-SZdI video descriptions]].
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*** A few videos are titled "Chelsea and the *something relevant to the video*", but this is quickly abandoned. Later, he [[LampshadeHanging lampshades this trope]] [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XyGpVR4IKJs&feature=relmfu in one of the video descriptions]].
-->'''Raocow:''' I have placed myself in a sticky situation where from now on every series needs its own naming gimmick.
-->'''Raocow:''' I have placed myself in a sticky situation where from now on every series needs its own naming gimmick.
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** All the {{Karoshi}} videos have names that meticulously explains the respective game's title. This gets a CallBack in one of the DistortedTravesty [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQR3oh-SZdI video descriptions]].
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* AndNowForSomethingCompletelyDifferent: Occasionally, his normal silliness gives way to much more educational material, such as his explanation of humans' abilities as endurance hunters.
** Of course, there are cases where he DidNotDoTheResearch (or possibly made inaccurate claims on purpose), as when he tried to explain why the sky and ocean are blue. No, Raocow, one is not reflecting off of the other.
** Of course, there are cases where he DidNotDoTheResearch (or possibly made inaccurate claims on purpose), as when he tried to explain why the sky and ocean are blue. No, Raocow, one is not reflecting off of the other.
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**hunters. Of course, there are cases where he DidNotDoTheResearch (or possibly made inaccurate claims on purpose), as when he tried to explain why the sky and ocean are blue. No, Raocow, one is not reflecting off of the other.other.
** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PVuSPmAB1OM&feature=player_embedded Episode 60]] of his ''AnSMWCProduction'' LP abruptly switches to an LP of ''Santa Mario'' due to technical difficulties.
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** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PVuSPmAB1OM&feature=player_embedded Episode 60]] of his ''AnSMWCProduction'' LP abruptly switches to an LP of ''Santa Mario'' due to technical difficulties.
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* PetPeeveTrope: Again, In-Universe examples
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** He dislikes [[HostileWeather wind that blows you backward]].
*** He must have hated fighting Aya (and Hatate), then.
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** He dislikes [[HostileWeather [[GustyGlade levels with wind that blows you backward]].
*** He must have hated fighting Aya (and Hatate), then.backward]].
*** He must have hated fighting Aya (and Hatate), then.
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** "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xkjwyyr-bPk&t=6m20s Oh man, I get to build more bridges, ain't that amazing?]]"
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** "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xkjwyyr-bPk&t=6m20s Oh man, I get to build I'm building more bridges, ain't that amazing?]]"
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* CatchPhrase: "Hey there, everyone, this is Raocow..." "That was a demo." "That's pretty great." "Oh boogers." "Chipmunk time!" "Panic panic panic." "Not gonna lie." "Like it was no thing." "Science." "Jesus-hell!" "Good times." "This is Raocow, see you guys."
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* CatchPhrase: "Hey there, everyone, this is Raocow..." "That was a demo." "That's pretty great." (sometimes pronounced "S'pretty great") "Oh boogers." "Chipmunk time!" "Panic panic panic." "Not gonna lie." "Like it was no thing." "Science." "Jesus-hell!" "Good times." "This is Raocow, see you guys."
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** Seems he's also getting [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqP_nJ0cbQ8&t=10m50s pretty annoyed]] with people making ''VideoGame/{Portal 2}}'' references every time he says the word [[DiscreditedMeme "space."]]
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* GenkiGuy: Pretty much the only time he runs out of energy to commentate is when a level is really hard.
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* FanNickname: There are several In-Universe examples:
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* SignatureLaugh: His distinct "UAH HA HA HAHAHA"
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** The protagonist for ''DistortedTravesty'' is apparently "Alan"[[hottip:*:real name Jerry]].
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** The protagonist for ''DistortedTravesty'' is apparently "Alan"[[hottip:*:real name Jerry]].
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** "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xkjwyyr-bPk&t=6m20s Oh man, I get to build more bridges, ain't that amazing?]]"
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** The brown Munchers from ''SuperMarioBros3'' are "Potatoes", while the four-legged Koopa Troopas from the same game are "Chickens".
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** The brown Munchers from ''SuperMarioBros3'' ''VideoGame/SuperMarioBros3'' are "Potatoes", while the four-legged Koopa Troopas from the same game are "Chickens".
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* EvilIsHammy: He noticeably enjoyed playing an EvilOverlord in ''Fangame/PsychoWaluigi''.
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** Before starting levels, he often says, "We're gonna [part of the level name] it up."
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* ArcWords: While his stream of consciousness commentary style may seem completely random at first, certain words get referenced semi-regularly. Raocow himself mentioned he notices he uses the word "laundromat" a lot when he tries to think of a random word.
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* OverlyLongGag: The ending to the 25th video in his ''A Super Mario World Central Production'' LP in which he repeats a fake laugh for nearly a full minute. [[ContinuityNod The laugh even appears at the start of the next video.]]
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** WARNING: If you REALLY want something depressing, just go to 17:52 (And it goes downhill from there). Not a pretty sight. And the ending's quite miserable too. At least in the next episode [[IGotBetter he's quite cheerful]] compared to frustrated. He even says that it's one of the only few levels that he has ever ragequitted.
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** WARNING: If you REALLY want something depressing, just go to 17:52 (And it goes downhill from there). Not a pretty sight. And the ending's quite miserable too. At least in the next episode [[IGotBetter [[UnexplainedRecovery he's quite cheerful]] compared to frustrated. He even says that it's one of the only few levels that he has ever ragequitted.
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* SensoryAbuse: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7FncGOZyAM This]] [[StylisticSuck ironically bad]] hack in the 2010 vanilla contest had horribly corrupted music, which he commented on repeatedly.
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* WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs: Note that Raocow is also straight-edge, meaning that he simply has a bizarrely appealing thought process. The art to ''a.t.x.s.'' does raise some suspicions.
** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdtehRUfzWc "cat"]][[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGtR_iAC1y0 "planet!"]]
** Subverted [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NiuEUNk1M5k here]], when he fought [[TouhouProject Reisen]], for [[MindRape obvious]] [[RuleOfFunny reasons]].
** You think ''a.t.x.s.'' seemed like it was made on drugs? You obviously haven't read ''[[http://exupry.comicdish.com/index.php?pageID=1 Exupéry, adventures of]]''.
** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdtehRUfzWc "cat"]][[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGtR_iAC1y0 "planet!"]]
** Subverted [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NiuEUNk1M5k here]], when he fought [[TouhouProject Reisen]], for [[MindRape obvious]] [[RuleOfFunny reasons]].
** You think ''a.t.x.s.'' seemed like it was made on drugs? You obviously haven't read ''[[http://exupry.comicdish.com/index.php?pageID=1 Exupéry, adventures of]]''.
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->''"I'M SO GODDAMN WACKY"''\\
-- ''{{Raocow}}''
[[http://www.youtube.com/raocow Raocow]] is a notable, though somewhat minor, personality in the LetsPlay community, known and loved by many for his NonSequitur commentary and pleasant-yet-amusing voice. He became a YouTube partner on March 17, 2011.
Also artist and co-creator of ''ArtificialTimeXS''.
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!!Games that Raocow has LP'd:
* AnUntitledStory
* Blob's Adventure 2
* BunnyMustDie
* [[CatPlanet cat planet!]]
* VideoGame/CommanderKeen (up to the fourth installment)
* {{Crazd}}
* Videogame/DistortedTravesty
* VideoGame/{{Facade}}
* Fantasy Explorer Nitroid
* {{Karoshi}}
* [[{{Kirby}} Kirby's Dreamland 3]]
* [[MegaManRocks Mega Man ROCKS!!]]
* NezumiMan
* FanGame/PsychoWaluigi
* RobotDinosaursThatShootBeamsWhenTheyRoar
* RunmanRaceAroundTheWorld
* {{Spelunky}}
* Super Mario Bros. X
** The Invasion 2
** The Great Empire
* VideoGame/SuperMarioWorld
** [[SelfImposedChallenge Ascetic Super Mario World]], where Raocow is not allowed to get any coins or stage points. (Unless if they're absolutely required to go through)
* VideoGame/SuperMarioWorld [[GameMod Hacks]]: His trademark/specialty.
** AnSMWCProduction
** ASuperMarioThing
** Hyper V
** {{Karoshi}} Mario
** Mario's Challenge from [[Videogame/{{Touhou}} Marisa at the Scarlet Devil Mansion]] (aka Scarlet Devil Mario) 1 & 2
** Mushroom Kingdom Meltdown (1 + 2)
** Rise to the Challenge
** VideoGame/TheSecondRealityProject series
*** Original
*** Reloaded
*** Zycloboo's Challenge
** Something
** Super Mario World [=FreedoMN=]
** Super Mario Infinity[[hottip:*:WHO DARES TO TRY TO STOP THE TIME BOMMMMMMB?!]]
** The VIP and Wall and Alaska Mix series (aka VIP Mario)
** and a few more....
* [[VideoGame/YoshisIsland Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island]] [[GameMod Hacks]]:
** Kamek's Revenge
** New! Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island
** Super Mario World 2+
* SuperMarisaWorld
* SwimIkachan
* VideoGame/{{VVVVVV}}
A full list can be found [[http://everything.raocow.com/by_game.php here]].
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!!Tropes that apply to Raocow:
* AccentUponTheWrongSyllable: He has a surprisingly large English vocabulary, but often pronounces things strangely, due to English not being his first language.
** He stated that he doesn't mind people correcting his pronunciation, but that sometimes his odd-sounding words are on purpose. In addition, words that have a French origin often confuse him due to his uncertainty of which native pronunciation to use.
* AccidentallyAccurate: During one chipmunked segment, he complains about [[ReplacementScrappy Bowser Jr.]] and likens the change to [[PaperMario replacing Kamek with an old lady]].
* AdvancingWallOfDoom: An extremely annoying version can be seen in this VIP 4 video in the Temple of Homing level, where the entire second half the level is trying desperately to outrun a homing missile at top speed, including flight ([[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a3fPfDgm1SE&feature=channel_page link to video]])
** The [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vM632GCg4VU Sawdust]] level in Mario Gives Up.
* AlwaysABiggerFish: Poochy is basically the unreliable steed to Mario's unreliable steed.
* AmusingInjuries: Raocow accidentally fractured his foot during his VIP 3 playthrough. He makes fun of it.
* AndNowForSomethingCompletelyDifferent: Occasionally, his normal silliness gives way to much more educational material, such as his explanation of humans' abilities as endurance hunters.
** Of course, there are cases where he DidNotDoTheResearch (or possibly made inaccurate claims on purpose), as when he tried to explain why the sky and ocean are blue. No, Raocow, one is not reflecting off of the other.
* TheAristocrats: [[InvokedTrope Invoked]] after completing a [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bPrBseaePKg rather arduous desert level]] in ASuperMarioThing.
* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: Every episode of his LP of ''Craz'd'' is named after a mental disorder, like [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iae0St7XpLs Paranoia]] and [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EEWHG_qHszg Bipolar Disorder]]. Episode seven is named [[spoiler:[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kmpbvEFFF04&feature=relmfu Lactose Intolerance]]]].
** And again with #22, [[spoiler:[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5oO3Zj0e-BM&feature=feedu PEOPLE WHO PREFER DOGS OVER CATS]]]].
* BerserkButton: Oh, mentioning Youtube video errors on his videos' comments page.
** Raocow's fine with being given hints on how to complete things that he misses in his Youtube comments, but gets ''extremely upset'' when full solutions are given. His LP of ''BunnyMustDie'' was put on hold for over a month because [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVofsxT5eAQ commenters just wouldn't stop telling him to play.]]
** Seems he's also getting [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqP_nJ0cbQ8&t=10m50s pretty annoyed]] with people making ''VideoGame/{Portal 2}}'' references every time he says the word [[DiscreditedMeme "space."]]
*** To be fair, his reaction upon seeing the ''Vip 5'' special world (set in space) for the first time [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jxNwUHLUnY&t=16m04s sounded]] like he was making the reference.
* BilingualBonus: Raocow occasionally speaks his native Québécois French, leaving what he's actually saying to whoever else understands the language. Most of the time though, he's just venting his frustrations with the level at hand, incorporating the French cuss words of "merde", "tabernac" and "simonak".
** On a few occasions, he does translate:
-->'''Raocow:''' Hello. How's it going? ''Rock'n Nonne''. That's the name of ''SisterAct'' in [Canadian] French, for some reason.
** In [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n6sLUUmTPjg one video]], after realizing that he needs to start the level all over, he spends the last 5 minutes performing the commentary in French. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sa0SD2e-E6Y A translation video from a fan exists.]]
** In one video, where he finishes a Castle, he proceeds to read the English text as if it were French.
*** DoubleEntendre: The episode title "La petite Kappa" translates (with some awkward French grammar included) to "The little Kappa", aka Nitori, the main character of the game he was playing. But, seeing how he [[IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming replaces one word in all the episode titles in Nitroid by "Kappa"]], one can figure out that the title is actually a reference to the French expression "la petite mort" (little death), which roughly translates to "having an orgasm". Said expression very accurately describes his commentary in that particular episode.
* BlackComedy: [[DiscussedTrope Discussed]] at the end of his playthrough of Mario Gives Up 2. His consensus is that, while the ending [[spoiler:(Mario sending Peach into a lava pit, [[BookEnds like in the intro of the first game]])]] would have been funny to him if he were younger, it strikes him as disturbing as an adult.
* BreathlessNonSequitur: '''All the time.''' Let's just say that if you don't enjoy Non Sequiturs, you won't enjoy raocow. One example from [[http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x6fwr4_tsrpr-08-pipeparadisosewageunderpas_videogames#from=embed&start=419 this video]]:
-->"That guy is wearing a helmet, but it doesn't protect him from the dangers of mustard. Probably because mustard is something you eat. I've once received a drop of mustard on my head and I don't think I've suffered a lot of brain damage although, I mean, I could be wrong. I've been wrong about a lot of things in the past such as: Yogurt is not a cat, I had to learn that the hard way, and you can not play the piano if your piano is resting precariously on top of the CN Tower."
** The title of his Youtube channel even says "WARNING: non-sequitur content ahead"
* BrickJoke: [[spoiler:Black Plague, the [[{{Narm}} hilarious]] TrueFinalBoss of Super Mario Infinity, shows up years later as the ([[AnticlimaxBoss rather weak]]) TrueFinalBoss of A Super Mario Thing.]]
** While playing ''Mushroom Kingdom Meltdown'', Raocow spends several minutes on a non sequitur about skeleton growth being the cause of bodily aging, to the point where the skeleton will pop out of the flesh. Weeks later, during ''Nezumi Man'', [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=baX1CMZPnso&t=1m35s this happens.]] He mentioned skeletons pushing on skin several times in the LP; it's one of the few jokes that he repeats. If I'm not mistaken, he also makes the reference in his Yoshi's Island hack LP.
** The [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ErXL1DkJgLQ&t=0m20s legendary ending of SMI2]] is not the only time he has [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZnfyPxGnpY&t=8m18s faced a time bomb]].
** During ''The Great Empire'', in episode 10, there's a stage called "Boomerang Bro Bonus". It features a single Hammer Bro, rather than a Boomerang Bro. In episode 11, he calls a Hammer Bro's weapon a boomerang.
** In one episode of ''Vip 4'', [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATNIVzB_iJk Raocow goes off in a tangent about a squid that had too much power.]] In ''Super Mario World Freedomn'', [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b8jEfG0LVlM&t=9m48s he runs into a giant Blooper]], calls him Ikachan (referencing [[SwimIkachan another LP of his]]), and then says he shouldn't hold that much power.
* BuffySpeak: He is fond of referring to everything as a thing with a thing, and enemies as guys ("Hey there, guy").
** [[JustifiedTrope Justified]], as Raocow is from Quebec, and French in Quebec has many, many words that mean "thing" with different connotations that don't translate well into English.
** He decided on "Mr. Bean Man" as his name of choice for the Meep enemy in the ''VideoGame/CommanderKeen'' Let's Play.
* ButtMonkey: Yoshi, the green mistake of nature. Except for Yellow Yoshi, whose fart-powers apparently amuse the Cow of Rao.
* CanadaEh: Along with Psychedelic Eyeball, one of the two big ''French''-Canadian [=LPers=] to have come out of SomethingAwful.
* CandleJack: He takes Raocow at the end of [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5EuUxps538I this]] vi
* CanonDisContinuity: Raocow does not make any mistakes. Any mistakes he makes are either "demos" to show off what happens when you DO fail, or experiments done ForScience. When he does make a mistake, he will call a mulligan.
** "That totally just happened."
* CatchPhrase: "Hey there, everyone, this is Raocow..." "That was a demo." "That's pretty great." "Oh boogers." "Chipmunk time!" "Panic panic panic." "Not gonna lie." "Like it was no thing." "Science." "Jesus-hell!" "Good times." "This is Raocow, see you guys."
** "That totally happened." He says this when state-rewinding to avoid a cruel and/or unfair trap.
** His earliest [=LPs=] have "I am not feeling this one." and "That was pointful." He even [[LampshadeHanging mentions that he hopes the former doesn't become a catch phrase.]]
** "Join me next time, possibly/probably tomorrow..." at the end of his videos.
** "Scary like X (Bananas usually)"
** "Isn't that great? Not really."
** "That's crazy town!"
** In more recent episodes, after particularly nonsensical non-sequiturs he says "What am I even saying here?"
** "That guy, he has opinions."
** He often describes things as "destroying the world" when said action only involves destroying a small object of little significance.
* CharacterizationMarchesOn: It's really weird hearing Raocow swear a lot in his earlier videos. Though you probably won't hear a ClusterFBomb, he still swears a lot more in his earlier [=LPs=]. Also, his typical TalkativeLoon personality evolved slowly, to the point that he barely even seems eccentric in his early videos.
** Then, of course, [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufyvJSQKceo&t=12m26s something like this happens]].
* CloudCuckooLander[=/=]TalkativeLoon: raocow's [=~Let's Play~=]s are filled with some of the most bizarre and surreal commentary one would ever hear. It helps that he's a French-Canadian for whom English is a second language, although he's still rather fluent in English.
** He periodically speeds-up random bits of footage to squeeze a video in Youtube's 11-minute (or 15-minute as of July 29, 2010) mark. Sometimes the chipmunked footage is no less intelligible than the real-time.
* ClusterFBomb: During his Let's Play of ''Super Mario Infinity: Mystery of the Magic Wand'', he talks about a point in the game where it becomes a series of "'Fuck you' after 'fuck you' after 'fuck you.'"
* ConvectionSchmonvection: Lampshaded in a YouTube LetsPlay of the 2ch ''[=VIP2=]'' ''VideoGame/SuperMarioWorld'' romhack
-->'''Raocow:''' [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQ3bdpOAxkQ&t=6m57s The lava might be scary, but it's only like a very hot bubble bath.]]
** He more specifically addresses this [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B1YviZN9SXM&t=3m40s here]].
--->'''Raocow:''' This is just barely hair-singing me, because you know, lava, normally, like, at this proximity, Demo would be something like evaporated by now, but I mean we're talking about reverse-gravity lava, which has ''COMPLETELY'' different physical implications.
* CuteKitten: (LetsPlay of ''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdtehRUfzWc cat]] [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGtR_iAC1y0 planet!]]'')
* DamnYouMuscleMemory: Invoked in his ''Kouhai 2'' Let's Play, when he notes that playing ''SuperMarisaWorld'''s squirrely controls has made it hard to go back to ''VideoGame/SuperMarioWorld''.
* DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment: His "cat planet cat planet planet cat cat planet" LP of CatPlanet.
** "Hey there, tap-tap the tap-tap," in his ''[[VideoGame/YoshisIsland Super Mario World 2+]]'' LP. Which later becomes "Tap-Tap the Tap-Tap the Tap-Tap the Tap-Tap".
** One video title from ''Mario Gives Up'', taking place in a cloudy world, was titled [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aa3MLDOMCCs&feature=related "cloud cloud cloud cloud cloud"]].
** In the same video, "literally and I mean that in the literal sense"
** Repo Man. Repo Repo Repo Repo Repo Man. Repo Man. Repo Repo Repo Repo Man. Repo Man.
** It's boss time Mister Guy!
*** All the time during CRAZ'D, in fact.
** "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hDMP7p_q5Mo&feature=player_detailpage#t=51s Right, macey mace mace the mace mace?"]]
* {{Dissimile}}: All the time. Just one example
-->'''{{Raocow}} ''[While playing TSRPR]'':''' "A castle without forest is like a dalmatian without a tongue. It has a lot of trouble eating."
* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: [[InvokedTrope Invoked]] repeatedly throughout ''[[{{Kirby}} Kirby's Dreamland 3]]'' when a helper character attaches themselves to Kirby.
* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: His first LP, ''TheSecondRealityProject'', is downright lifeless. He improves dramatically after that.
* EloquentInMyNativeTongue
* EvenTheSubtitlerIsStumped: Turn them on and enjoy the insanity.
* EvilIsHammy: He noticeably enjoyed playing an EvilOverlord in ''Fangame/PsychoWaluigi''.
* ExcuseMeWhileIMultitask: Aubverted - Raocow has issues doing two things at once (not including talking). [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJrzI2rKU9c Cue him playing "Multitask" and failing repeatedly.]]
** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5r3B7cjaauQ The sequel!]]
* FailedASpotCheck: Happens fairly regularly, justified most of the time as him rambling and not noticing the flying fish that's about to land on him. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpooKb4FYiU&t=4m32s And then sometimes he fails to spot the difference between foreground water (which Mario can swim in) and background water (which Mario cannot).]] In any case, he'll just shrug (or laugh) it off.
* FairWeatherMentor: Raocow arguably falls into this when he is [[http://www.youtube.com/AcolyteOfDeath teaching]] fellow troper AOD to play ''VideoGame/SuperMarioWorld'' for the first time.
* FakeDifficulty: He sees the wind sections in ''Hyper V'' as these.
* FanNickname: There are several In-Universe examples:
** [[VideoGame/SuperMarioWorld Charging Chuck]] plays football, but we all know his name is really [[{{Peanuts}} Charlie]].
** (Stupid) Horse for Yoshi. Likewise, calls [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic ponies]] dinosaurs.
** Bartholomew the bird in ''AnUntitledStory''
** "Flying Condom Man" for the Gustys in ''YoshisIsland''.
** "Darwin" for the hang-gliders in ''Runman'', "Stalker" for the Hugabugs.
** Bob, the piranha plant fuzzys from ''Super Marisa World''.
** Marvin for the Banzai Bills in Rob-Omb's Quest.
** He was also a fan of calling Rumia "Bootleg Yoshi".
** In his short video of Spelunky during Random Week, he called the snakes "Optimus Prime".
** "Fishing Fish Guy" for Fishin' Boo.
** "Disco" for a rainbow Koopa shell.
** "[[VideoGame/MegaManX Maverick]] Thwomp" for any Thwomp that moves sideways instead of up and down.
** "Spaceman Joe" for Galaxy Man from ''VideoGame/MegaMan 9''.
** "Farts" for the Yellow Horse's ability.
** "Statue Man" for the Golden Bowser Statue.
** "The Elf" for Link from ''TheLegendOfZelda''.
** In his LP of SMW Freedomn he calls the Scuttle Bugs "Gerbils".
** "Neckbeard" for Fuzzies.
** "Catoboo" for the fireballs in ''Yoshi's Island'' that have [[CatSmile :3 faces]].
** The platforms that fall after a set amount of time are "Math".
** "Duck" for Mechakoopas.
** "Boo Laser", "Boo Carousel", "Boo Cloud", and "Boo Ceiling" for various ghost house enemies.
** "Beardo" for Birdo.
** "Missile Mike" or "Mack Bill" for the homing Bullet Bills.
** He calls [[http://mewgynewgy.com/freedomn/characters/07bros/11.html these enemies]] [[{{Action52}} Cheetahmen]] Hammer Bros for their laughable walking animation.
** The brown Munchers from ''SuperMarioBros3'' are "Potatoes", while the four-legged Koopa Troopas from the same game are "Chickens".
** "Flesh God" for the Tulips from ''[[VideoGame/YoshisIsland Yoshi's Island]]''.
* FauxlosophicNarration: The "story" in the ''Rise to the Challenge'' hack.
** His explanation of Samus Aran's backstory during his play of the Super Metroid Legacy hack...
-->"We don't even care about the story, it starts with the same thing. It's about a guy who, y'know, goes to the bathroom and he ends up in an alternate dimension where he's a lady in a space suit."
* FlatWhat: During the discussions surrounding ASMT, this was Raocow's [[http://talkhaus.raocow.com/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=1028&start=150#p47900 reaction]] to [[spoiler:{{Rule34}} of his character being made.]]
* ForScience: His justification for exploring an area, finding it leads to death, then rewinding.
* ForeignCussWord: In one particularly frustrating level, Raocow says "merde" and "tabarnac". Also qualifies as a PrecisionFStrike since he rarely swears in his commentary.
** Often times, he'll say "simonak" as well.
** He often exclaims "Voyons!", meaning roughly "Oh come ''on''!"
* FunnyCharacterBoringActor: Raocow has admitted that while he's doing his videos he's incredibly, well, weird, he has difficulty maintaining that state of mind all the time.
* GagSub: Youtube's Auto Captions are CONFUSED by Raocow's speech.
** To be fair, Youtube's Auto Captions would even be confused by perfect Oxford English.
* GameMod: Raocow plays many Super Mario World mods, which have been a mainstay of his LP ensemble since he began. The members of Raocow's community have also designed a mod for him to play titled ''ASuperMarioThing'', complete with tons of {{Shout Out}}s to Raocow's many {{Catch Phrase}}s.
** He's also made his own [[KaizoMarioWorld Kaizo-level]] romhack appropriately titled ''What The Hell?''
* GenreSavvy: Raocow is very genre savvy when it comes to platform games. He can sniff out a secret exit with almost no hint of its existence, and he even figures out puzzle levels, the bane of most platformers, without too much difficulty, mostly because he's SeenItAll by now.
* GentleGiant: In his "tagged" video, he says he's 6'5". Both in and out of character, he seems like a friendly, easygoing guy.
* GuideDangIt: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aE-IX9xPX_U This]] GameMaker game provides very little instruction of any kind. Conequently, Raocow has a little trouble figuring it out.
* GoodBadBugs: [[invoked]] In ''Super Mario Infinity'', he likes the glitched "Course clear" screen that reads "Course cleior."
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Some of the difficult levels in ASMT were of Raocow's own design.
** Yes, he's the one responsible for [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhrX7dsLXs0 this]] [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TSVZ3jA1_Zo mess.]] He hides it at first, presumably to receive unbiased feedback from his watchers, but owns up to it at the end of the second video.
* IMeantToDoThat: "That was a demo."
* IThinkYouBrokeHim: Often times when a level is extremely difficult or annoying, Raocow would either go crazy or silent. This leads to comments accusing the creator(s) for "breaking Raocow".
** Probably the best example of this is [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rD-eW700h0&t=5m12s this level.]] The highest rated comment on this video is "Raocow broke."
* IceCreamKoan: {{Raocow}} would sometimes say seemingly political or controversial ''sounding'' phrases in his [{Lets Play}}s that might just actually be meaningful and insightful. But if you think of it for a while, you will realize that it's just a plain NonSequitur.
** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQFxXLdK7VM&t=6m0s Probably the best example of this.]]
* IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming: Every [=LP=] has its own pattern to episode names.
** In ''VideoGame/{{VVVVVV}}'', every episode name was six of a certain character in a row.
** In ''Hyper V'', every one uses roman numerals, either appended to the end or somewhere in the middle. (At least, [[PlatformHell up to a point]]. After that, he starts using negative numbers.)
** In ''[[TheSecondRealityProject The Second Reality Project 2]]'', every episode name was "(something in level) Action".
** In ''BunnyMustDie'', every episode was called "Bunny Must (verb)". This did not get carried over to [[AnotherSideAnotherStory Chelsea and the Seven Devils]].
** In ''AnSMWCProduction'', every episode went by "that/those (thing(s) that is/are the subject of the video)". Except for "Tempestuous XXIX", which references ''Hyper V'''s naming scheme.
** In ''Scarlet Devil Mario 2'', every episode consists of a '''color''' followed by an''' animal ''', followed a '''random noun''' that in some way will relate to the content of the video.
** In the ''SuperMarioBrosX'' game ''The Invasion 2'', every episode is titled with a trope name from ThisVeryWiki. [[LampshadedTrope Lampshaded]] with the title of [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8zxhPGOoV0 episode 9]]: IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming.
** UnusualChapterNumbers: In his series of games from One More Level, the episodes are numbered in hexadecimal.
** In ''MegaManRocks'', every episode is titled using a different language.
** In ''The Great Empire'', another ''SMBX'' game, the episodes are titled with a culinary item that somehow relates to the levels covered.
** In ''{{Crazd}}'', episodes are titled with mental disorders, which is fitting once you realize the main character is named Loon.
** In ''[[TouhouProject Fantasy Explorer Nitroid]]'', all episodes are old sayings with "kappa" replacing a word.
** ''[=FreedoMN=]'' titles are in the format of "phrase, similar phrase"
** In ''Mario Gives Up 2'', all of the video titles are quotes from the video at or around the 4 minute mark.
** In ''S Mario'', titles follow the "Adjective-Noun" scheme.
** In ''[[TheSecondRealityProject The Second Reality Project Reloaded]]'', each episode has an ExcitedEpisodeTitle ("Sing!", "Iggy Koopa!", "Dig!", etc.).
** In ''New! Yoshi's Island'', each episode follows ExcitedEpisodeTitle format. It also might be a reference to the hack title itself.
** The ''Commander Keen'' videos are all "vs (something)."
** For ''DistortedTravesty'', all videos are titled in [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPA IPA]].
* InherentlyFunnyWords: According to Raocow, "laundromat". Also "parsimony", "clement".
* InstantWebHit: It's usually commented that any video uploaded by Raocow, or having Raocow as one of its tags gets 3,000 to 4,000 views by the end of the day. This includes demos, silly cuts, audiosurf songs, or whatever.
* JumpCut: Often used to get him back to where he was before dying, or to remove several failed attempts to get to a place. Often paired with him jump-cutting mid-sentence.
* KindheartedCatLover: Very much so.
** During his LP of ''Clarence's Big Chance'', Raocow outright ''refused'' to bring harm to any of the cats in the game, despite them actually hurting you if they made contact. When he accidentally defeated one of them once, and proclaimed "That never happened."
** Exemplified in [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_pUAnUmsH8o this]] brief, simple, but very moving tribute to his cat who passed away. If you listen closely, you can hear him stifling tears in the background.
* LargeHam: "[[AnUntitledStory I FOUND A ]]'''[[AnUntitledStory HEART!]]'''"
** And "JUMP HEIGHT!''' UPGRADED!!!!''''"
** [[ChekhovsGag Later, he found]] [[BunnyMustDie another kind]] [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcuNonY8FWs&t=10m14s of heart]].
** And earlier than that: "The power of [color] Switch...'''YOU HAVE!!'''
** '''WHO DARES TO TRY TO STOP THE TIME BOMMMMMMMB?'''
* {{Larynx Dissonance}}: While voicing many female characters ingame, he usually has a varying level of result, but [[http://youtu.be/E4OODjuvbOg?t=30s his voice for Marisa Kirisame is just bizarre....]]
* LawOfConservationOfDetail: Due to the way he cuts his videos, you know that if a reattempt of a level is shown at normal speed, he will succeed during that attempt, or at least ''something'' interesting is going to happen.
* LethalJokeCharacter: Any enemy that was meant to be point fodder in the original Super Mario World gave Raocow lots of trouble during his ascetic run.[[hottip:*: The point of an ascetic run is to ''avoid'' scoring points or collecting coins at all.]] One enemy in particular - [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0YZYE1uQac#t=5m45s the suicidal koopa of Vanilla Dome 3]] - gave Raocow lots of strife as he tried to avoid it. This koopa' lack of self-preservation instinct seems to be unintentional though - it behaves more reasonable in the GBA version.
* MadnessMantra: [[CatPlanet CATPLANETCATPLANETCATPLANETCATPLANETCATPLANETCATPLANETCATPLANETCATPLANETCAT!]]
* MajorGeneralSong: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=twGP7CGy9_Y A fan-made one]].
* MeaninglessLives: Double Subverted. In ''[=VIP5=]'', he dies a ridiculous amount and still has plenty of lives. Then, in the level THE GREED, he loses almost all of them... and immediately goes grinding.
* MilkmanConspiracy
-->'''{{Raocow}}''': ''[while playing AnUntitledStory]'' You ''can't'' destroy the Milkman!......don't tell that to Kiwis, cause it might get infected. INFECTED WITH THE TRUTH!
* MindScrew: THE PURPLE HORSE!
* MusicalEpisode: He routinely sings his commentary to the tune of the level music.
* MyFutureSelfAndMe: Sort of: in some of his ''Hyper V'' videos, he's been adding post-commentary in the sections where his live self (or Livecow as he calls him) gets quiet from frustration. This sometimes leads to him talking over himself, and he's even told his past self to shut up at points, making his videos even more surreal than they already are.
** He calls his future self "Post Production Raocow" or simply PPR. Especially amusing is when he tries to cheer up his past self with "Oh, cheer up, raocow, it's almost done." We also get more or less [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UW2kg29XDNA&t=14m37s live translations of him talking French]].
** In one of his videos, as his past self was playing (and repeatedly dying) through a [[NintendoHard level he was having trouble with]], PPR began to softly sing SimonAndGarfunkel's ''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VX2M5q9PYCo&t=6m14s Sound of Silence.]]''[[hottip:*:Though, if his [[AltText video tags]] are anything to go by, then this was a deliberate action on his part]]
* NightmareRetardant[[invoked]][=/=]LaughingMad:
** [[http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x44lh2 His reaction to Black Plague]]
** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zkpv1TFfNPQ&t=6m10s The ending of the epic Mario hack Vanilla Rain Endless Raindrop caused a good deal of this.]]
* OhCrap: while Let's Playing ''VideoGame/{{VVVVVV}}'', [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EGUmtlBGWpg&t=6m50s Raocow sees the entirety of "Doing Things The Hard Way". And then it sinks in just why it's considered the single most difficult token to get.]] Also leads to the fastest fast-forward to date.
** His reaction to the cat boss in ''Bunny Must Die''.
** You can hear the exact moment Raocow suffers a MoodWhiplash [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMYqn904-DA&t=7m30s in this video]].
* OrphanedPunchline: A lot of his quotes can seem like this, but they're usually non-sequiturs. This actually happens occasionally when he stops fastforwarding midsentence.
-->'''raocow:''' ...and I am not a time-ologist, unfortunately.
** Also occasionally happens due to jump cuts.
-->'''raocow:''' ...twenty-five days to write non-stop.
* OverusedRunningGag: [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6Tfbb0ThSs&t=10m10s here]] when raocow goes farming lives off a bullet bill cannon for at least the 6th time.
-->'''raocow:''' Yeah, this part has stopped being funny by now.
* PerfectlyCromulentWord: Raocow actually drops the trope naming word [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqqu4ZBvWx8&t=2m41s here.]]
* PetPeeveTrope: Again, In-Universe examples
** He is not a fan of bridge-building segments. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HWKc-Ln8E0c&t=4m12s In one video he says that the only videogame task he dislikes as much as bridge-building is taking care of a pony, "because, seriously, if I'm going to take care of an equine, it might as well be a full-grown horse".]]
** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=33YVcRhjj-o&t=3m54s He's not too fond of stair-making, either.]]
** He also seems to strongly dislike elevator sections.
** He also does not like puzzles that consist of "find item here, backtrack to previous place, get new item, backtrack again" and so on.
** He dislikes [[HostileWeather wind that blows you backward]].
*** He must have hated fighting Aya (and Hatate), then.
* PlatformHell: Raocow has played through some of them. The [[http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=D0A52C67C2BAE321 Kouhai]] series are a good example.
** This [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kzcKU6L-88s one]] level has the gimmick of killing you if you score any points. ''Everything'' in ''VideoGame/SuperMarioWorld'' gives you points, including coins. Raocow's reaction is in the link.
** His own romhack, What the Hell, also falls under this a good deal, especially since most of the enemies are invincible.
* PlayerTic: He always jumps through the ''YoshisIsland'' goal rings backwards.
* PrecisionFStrike: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yyDzpmJsgK0&t=2m17s Oh, it happened.]] Occurs during a rather frustrating tower of boss fights in ''BunnyMustDie''. One of the rare occurrences of the F-word a) being uttered, and b) being clear enough to not miss.
** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbzcRgv3xnQ&t=6m40s Another rare example.]]
** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YYIunJfk0Kg&t=7m30s And another.]]
* RageQuit: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJJ7oNXS1nU This infamous video (Of an episode of him playing "Cave of Elements").]] Only level in that game where he got extremely frustrated playing through.
** WARNING: If you REALLY want something depressing, just go to 17:52 (And it goes downhill from there). Not a pretty sight. And the ending's quite miserable too. At least in the next episode [[IGotBetter he's quite cheerful]] compared to frustrated. He even says that it's one of the only few levels that he has ever ragequitted.
** It is [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKrDP7ks83o mentioned]] that he did it with Acid Labs Inc. from ''Mario Gives Up 2''. He just straight up deleted the footage and just played the level all over again.
** The final level of ''Marisa & Alice'' was so [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YYIunJfk0Kg unforgiving]] that it caused Raocow to give up on the game entirely, going so far as to dump the game folder into his Recycle Bin and and empty it on camera.
** In the [[PlatformHell extremely unfair]] hack "S. Mario" ("S" as in "sadistic"), Raocow has had to "Rage Quit" a couple of times. Although one of the levels wasn't implied, he showed a video of one of his "scrapped takes" and it actually isn't too bad.
** Particularly unfair levels get the "[[BlatantLies OH NO the game just crashed]]!" treatment:
*** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWluSJ-Pvps This level]] "crashed" because of a KaizoTrap finishing up a level of PlatformHell.
*** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XO1GMSl6bfM This one]] "crashed" when there was a puzzle involving a key and TrialAndErrorGameplay.
* RecycledINSPACE: His reaction to the Space Tanks (BONUS 4) level in ''Mario Gives Up''.
* RuleOfFunny: According to the commentary in [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWOnN6MAiXQ this video]], he usually went into chipmunk time only if he didn't think the commentary was interesting enough to warrant splitting into two videos. With YouTube no longer having a time limit, he still chipmunks just because it's one of his trademarks, and has even [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0h25UNmYc8U&t=16m57s lampshaded]] it at least once.
* SanitySlippage: Inverted. When especially difficult levels start to grind away at him, Raocow's {{Breathless Non Sequitur}}s begin to dry up and he sounds increasingly... ''normal''. Can be rather unnerving when compared to [[CloudCuckoolander his usual demeanor.]]
** An example: After (impressively) managing to clear more than half of ''Vip 4'' without using savestates, [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdZoST9kaRM Absurd Athletics]] completely breaks him, and his usual [[TalkativeLoon wacky commentary]] is replaced with depressed, angry ranting. He even remarks that he's been rendered incapable of saying that "purple monkey cheese shit you guys like." Needless to say, this is the level that made him give up his "no savestate" rule for the rest of ''Vip 4'''s playthrough. This is referenced [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3LFEwPrdQjE&t=10m35s when he reaches the sequel level]] in ''Vip 5''... [[spoiler:which he DOES eventually manage to clear savestateless.]]
*** HeroicBSOD: Raocow has one after re-encountering [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATNIVzB_iJk the aforementioned sequel level in ''Vip 5''.]]
** Played straight [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2C-gWohKWk in the bonus world of Fantasy Explorer Nitroid]].
** Raocow + [[http://youtu.be/gQDOEZxWF9s?t=5m35s Touch Fuzzy,]][[http://youtu.be/gQDOEZxWF9s?t=6m46s Get Dizzy....]]
* SaveScumming: Averted in later videos, but played straight in most of Raocow's earlier videos. For hard hacks like the ''VIP'' series, ''Kouhai'', and others, he would use save states all the time, but he later stopped doing that except for the occasional science moment, [[PlatformHell unless the levels were really unfair]].
* TheScrappy: This is [[InvokedTrope Raocow's opinion]] of Yoshi the [[HorseOfADifferentColor stupid freakin' horse]].
* ScrappyMechanic: In-Universe: Raocow ''really'' does not like wind or [[HomingProjectile homing Bullet Bills]].
* SelfDeprecation: Raocow often informs us that he's "playing super-badly, just to be different."
** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wi-1WPx2KUQ&t=7m30s "Oh no, I'm a stupid! You know, to be different from my usual being an idiot."]]
** Throughout 2010, Raocow became aware that he had a habit of dying right before the end goal and [[LampshadeHanging made a point of mentioning this.]] Repeatedly.
* SelfImposedChallenge: His [[http://everything.raocow.com/game.php?id=98 ascetic run]] (no coins nor points unless absolutely necessary) of the original ''VideoGame/SuperMarioWorld''.
* SeriousBusiness: Raocow has repeatedly said that he thinks most Let's Players ignore the "let's" part of the aspect. Among other things, this means he insists on keeping the comments open even when people are spamming him with help.
* ShapedLikeItself: [[http://www.youtube.com/user/raocow#p/u/78/e1J3TwWulLA ...So basically, playing a video game is like playing a video game.]]
** "This level is a desert. You can tell because it's a desert!"
** "Welcome to the Forest of Depth. It's a very deep forest."
* ShoutOut: All the time. A notable example is in his ''Scarlet Devil Mario 2'' LP, where when describing how red the Red Switch Palace was, he randomly said ''RenAndStimpy''.
** "Oh hey, let's make a ProtonJon reference [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pLE4d6VnrWk#t=228s here.]]"
** He's made repeated mentions of how [[FatalFury you cannot X long death.]]
* SirNotAppearingInThisTrailer: Ultimately subverted, when he's eventually forced to admit that Yoshi '''is''', in fact, in ''SMBX''.
* SlashFic: Raocow's forums even have [[http://talkhaus.raocow.com/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=1710 its own thread for it.]] He's stated that he's not even gonna go near it.
* SoulJar: In one level, Mario can't let anything touch a skull shaped object, otherwise he gets killed.
-->'''Raocow:''' [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8baPBIsmPc&t=6m25s Freaking hell, Mario,]] why did you have a [[HarryPotter horcrux]] placed in such an unusual place?
* {{Spoonerism}}: He is prone to saying "Darshgorn it!".
* SpoofAesop: Way too many.
** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mb9kSTvz4mA&t=4m16s Here]].
* StalkerWithACrush: Raocow's fans can be creepy at times.
-->"It's logical that you don't know how to operate an elevator, after all your house doesn't have one. It has stairs, where your can dropped something that day, didn't he, Mr. Samuel Tanguay? Is your can green? I hope it's green, since it's your favorite color, isn't it, Mr. Samuel Tanguay?"
** Not to mention the [[http://talkhaus.raocow.com/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=1710 official raod thread]].
* StealthPun: In ''Mario Gives Up'' part 4...
-->"Oh, there's drills there, you don't want to get drilled to death... It's almost as bad as being bored to death, you could say."
* StupidStatementDanceMix: [[http://www.viddler.com/explore/Terashell/videos/35/ This catchy, hypnotic, and well done remix]] of some of SomethingAwful [[LetsPlay Let's Player]] Raocow's stream of conscious commentary while playing a {{Mario}} game.
** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xg8mDRAngZ0 There's]] [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qydCXMNutzI more]] [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNEYEi5S37Y where]] [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DEF4ICS7HzQ that]] [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VHE6AV5LUW0 came]] [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXQKOvQ5pQ0 from]]
** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTkty128kjQ And of course there's also a red zone remix.]]
** Okay, now Raocow's just begging [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2l3xhy8trA&t=1m15s for]] [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2l3xhy8trA&t=4m29 these]] to be done.
*** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29hAXAa2QDE&feature=player_detailpage#t=936s The second one is on its way.]]
** [[http://www.youtube.com/user/GenericCAW/ GenericCAW]] seems to be fond of Raocow remixes in general. The link leads to his Youtube profile. Sixteen of his twenty seven remixes (hosted on Youtube at least) are Raocow remixes.
*** The above mentioned mixer seems to have caught Raocow's attention on a few occasions, as evidenced by his [[http://youtu.be/iXCI8ELoihg?t=12m19s Call Back]] to [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qydCXMNutzI this mix]].
** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hwi-4wdepFM U. N. Owen was a Cat Planet]]
** It's gotten to a point where he already makes them on purpose: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2YtjPQipGZQ The Food Song,]] from [[VideoGame/MegaMan Skull Man's theme]].
** Another remixer joins the [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tLI4K5PdMrQ fray]]!
* SturgeonsLaw: [[DiscussedTrope Mentioned by name]] in [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYDwPguvuTc this video]], mentioning that most {{Newgrounds}} games are utterly terrible. Taken UpToEleven when he says that the good is only a small percent of a small percent, rather than the usual ten percent.
* StylisticSuck: His... "webcomic", ''[[http://exupry.comicdish.com/?pageID=1 Exupéry, adventures of]]''.
* SurprisinglyGoodEnglish: English is Raocow's second language and he's noted to speak English pretty much only for his Let's Plays, yet he verbosity is surprisingly diverse. Given, he flubs words occasionally but on the whole it's quite good.
** In a YT comment, he stated that his father being in the military caused him to move around a lot; he apparently mostly went to French-speaking schools, but spoke English in the neighborhoods he lived in. He says this is probably why his accent isn't really all that "French Canadian"-ish.
* SurrealHumour: His trademark.
* TalkativeLoon: His other trademark.
* TemptingFate: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3t9wGCy3oY&t=4m25s "Well, let's just hope I never die ever agai-]] [[BigWhat WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAT?!?!?]]"
** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EyNr10Smhqc "So I'm just gonna be playing with the keyboard because it's a lot safer]] - oh wow."
** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2c8qKQV2clk#t=20m20s "Now I don't want to die to Larry, so let's- pffff..."]]
*** [[spoiler:Averted]] in [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8TgoI8d45Us&feature=g-all-u&context=G28b0862FAAAAAAAACAA video]].
* ThisIsGonnaSuck: Raocow's reaction upon reading the name of [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9kt7JNPXRI this level]]
** Say hi to [[DonkeyKong DK]] For me... [[ThatOneLevel oh,]] [[DonkeyKongCountry THAT]] [[ScrappyMechanic kind]] [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUKPvm75FB8 of donkey kong]]
* [[ThrowTheDogABone Throw The Stupid Horse A Bone]]: Raocow has insulted Yoshi many, many times (see TheScrappy above), including calling him a "green miscreant" and "an insult to all creation". In [[http://www.youtube.com/user/raocow#p/a/u/1/7pD1_2Eg8So this]] video, after Yoshi looks like he's going to fall off a ledge, then doesn't, allowing Raocow to get back on him, he says:
-->"Thanks for not plunging in that hole there Yoshi. I appreciate it. I-I usually I don't appreciate you enough, perhaps, some people would argue."
* {{Troll}}: After constantly being pestered for not beating the key boss in ''MarioGivesUp'', he finally uploads [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tmC_0G3IztI this]].
* {{Undercrank}}: Chipmunk mode. He's even done [[http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x3qbd6_chipmunk-raocow-does-mxw-bsb_videogames two]] [[http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x5dwmy_chipmunk-raocow-presents-why-i-won_videogames videos]] entirely in chipmunk mode.
** Inverted in one video where a [=YouTube=] glitch causes the audio to go into half-speed before slowly cranking back up to normal, albeit about 2 seconds out of sync. Then back into chipmunk time. It's like [=YouTube=] found the one way to make Raocow more surreal.
* TheUnpronounceable: One of the many Super Mario World hacks he played was titled '':P :P :P''. When he had to refer to the game's title, he usually either said "P P P" or blew three raspberries.
** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4rm2TvuWgds&t=1m45s "*prr!* goes to *rrt!*"]]
* UnusualEuphemism:
** "Go eat a ham."
** He uses "Pumpernickels!" as a swear word occasionally.
* VerbalTic: Try listening to see how many times Raocow says "It's pretty great".
* VocalEvolution: His voice was a lot softer, calmer and more thickly-accented at first. As he refined his TalkativeLoon nature, he also developed a "wackier" tone of voice to match, while becoming more fluent in English. Even his out-of-character videos sound nothing like he did on his first LP.
* WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs: Note that Raocow is also straight-edge, meaning that he simply has a bizarrely appealing thought process. The art to ''a.t.x.s.'' does raise some suspicions.
** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdtehRUfzWc "cat"]][[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGtR_iAC1y0 "planet!"]]
** Subverted [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NiuEUNk1M5k here]], when he fought [[TouhouProject Reisen]], for [[MindRape obvious]] [[RuleOfFunny reasons]].
** You think ''a.t.x.s.'' seemed like it was made on drugs? You obviously haven't read ''[[http://exupry.comicdish.com/index.php?pageID=1 Exupéry, adventures of]]''.
* WhoDares: to try to stop the time bomb?
* [[WhyDidItHaveToBe Why Did It Have To Be Bones?]]: Raocow admits to being afraid of bones in one video.
* YouNoTakeCandle: Intentionally mangles English; he's more or less fluent in both English and French. With that said, on occasion some of his structures sound odd, but he'll often comment on how bizarre they sound immediately.
* ZenSurvivor: PPR (Post-Production Raocow).
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-- ''{{Raocow}}''
[[http://www.youtube.com/raocow Raocow]] is a notable, though somewhat minor, personality in the LetsPlay community, known and loved by many for his NonSequitur commentary and pleasant-yet-amusing voice. He became a YouTube partner on March 17, 2011.
Also artist and co-creator of ''ArtificialTimeXS''.
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!!Games that Raocow has LP'd:
* AnUntitledStory
* Blob's Adventure 2
* BunnyMustDie
* [[CatPlanet cat planet!]]
* VideoGame/CommanderKeen (up to the fourth installment)
* {{Crazd}}
* Videogame/DistortedTravesty
* VideoGame/{{Facade}}
* Fantasy Explorer Nitroid
* {{Karoshi}}
* [[{{Kirby}} Kirby's Dreamland 3]]
* [[MegaManRocks Mega Man ROCKS!!]]
* NezumiMan
* FanGame/PsychoWaluigi
* RobotDinosaursThatShootBeamsWhenTheyRoar
* RunmanRaceAroundTheWorld
* {{Spelunky}}
* Super Mario Bros. X
** The Invasion 2
** The Great Empire
* VideoGame/SuperMarioWorld
** [[SelfImposedChallenge Ascetic Super Mario World]], where Raocow is not allowed to get any coins or stage points. (Unless if they're absolutely required to go through)
* VideoGame/SuperMarioWorld [[GameMod Hacks]]: His trademark/specialty.
** AnSMWCProduction
** ASuperMarioThing
** Hyper V
** {{Karoshi}} Mario
** Mario's Challenge from [[Videogame/{{Touhou}} Marisa at the Scarlet Devil Mansion]] (aka Scarlet Devil Mario) 1 & 2
** Mushroom Kingdom Meltdown (1 + 2)
** Rise to the Challenge
** VideoGame/TheSecondRealityProject series
*** Original
*** Reloaded
*** Zycloboo's Challenge
** Something
** Super Mario World [=FreedoMN=]
** Super Mario Infinity[[hottip:*:WHO DARES TO TRY TO STOP THE TIME BOMMMMMMB?!]]
** The VIP and Wall and Alaska Mix series (aka VIP Mario)
** and a few more....
* [[VideoGame/YoshisIsland Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island]] [[GameMod Hacks]]:
** Kamek's Revenge
** New! Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island
** Super Mario World 2+
* SuperMarisaWorld
* SwimIkachan
* VideoGame/{{VVVVVV}}
A full list can be found [[http://everything.raocow.com/by_game.php here]].
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!!Tropes that apply to Raocow:
* AccentUponTheWrongSyllable: He has a surprisingly large English vocabulary, but often pronounces things strangely, due to English not being his first language.
** He stated that he doesn't mind people correcting his pronunciation, but that sometimes his odd-sounding words are on purpose. In addition, words that have a French origin often confuse him due to his uncertainty of which native pronunciation to use.
* AccidentallyAccurate: During one chipmunked segment, he complains about [[ReplacementScrappy Bowser Jr.]] and likens the change to [[PaperMario replacing Kamek with an old lady]].
* AdvancingWallOfDoom: An extremely annoying version can be seen in this VIP 4 video in the Temple of Homing level, where the entire second half the level is trying desperately to outrun a homing missile at top speed, including flight ([[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a3fPfDgm1SE&feature=channel_page link to video]])
** The [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vM632GCg4VU Sawdust]] level in Mario Gives Up.
* AlwaysABiggerFish: Poochy is basically the unreliable steed to Mario's unreliable steed.
* AmusingInjuries: Raocow accidentally fractured his foot during his VIP 3 playthrough. He makes fun of it.
* AndNowForSomethingCompletelyDifferent: Occasionally, his normal silliness gives way to much more educational material, such as his explanation of humans' abilities as endurance hunters.
** Of course, there are cases where he DidNotDoTheResearch (or possibly made inaccurate claims on purpose), as when he tried to explain why the sky and ocean are blue. No, Raocow, one is not reflecting off of the other.
* TheAristocrats: [[InvokedTrope Invoked]] after completing a [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bPrBseaePKg rather arduous desert level]] in ASuperMarioThing.
* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: Every episode of his LP of ''Craz'd'' is named after a mental disorder, like [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iae0St7XpLs Paranoia]] and [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EEWHG_qHszg Bipolar Disorder]]. Episode seven is named [[spoiler:[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kmpbvEFFF04&feature=relmfu Lactose Intolerance]]]].
** And again with #22, [[spoiler:[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5oO3Zj0e-BM&feature=feedu PEOPLE WHO PREFER DOGS OVER CATS]]]].
* BerserkButton: Oh, mentioning Youtube video errors on his videos' comments page.
** Raocow's fine with being given hints on how to complete things that he misses in his Youtube comments, but gets ''extremely upset'' when full solutions are given. His LP of ''BunnyMustDie'' was put on hold for over a month because [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVofsxT5eAQ commenters just wouldn't stop telling him to play.]]
** Seems he's also getting [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqP_nJ0cbQ8&t=10m50s pretty annoyed]] with people making ''VideoGame/{Portal 2}}'' references every time he says the word [[DiscreditedMeme "space."]]
*** To be fair, his reaction upon seeing the ''Vip 5'' special world (set in space) for the first time [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jxNwUHLUnY&t=16m04s sounded]] like he was making the reference.
* BilingualBonus: Raocow occasionally speaks his native Québécois French, leaving what he's actually saying to whoever else understands the language. Most of the time though, he's just venting his frustrations with the level at hand, incorporating the French cuss words of "merde", "tabernac" and "simonak".
** On a few occasions, he does translate:
-->'''Raocow:''' Hello. How's it going? ''Rock'n Nonne''. That's the name of ''SisterAct'' in [Canadian] French, for some reason.
** In [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n6sLUUmTPjg one video]], after realizing that he needs to start the level all over, he spends the last 5 minutes performing the commentary in French. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sa0SD2e-E6Y A translation video from a fan exists.]]
** In one video, where he finishes a Castle, he proceeds to read the English text as if it were French.
*** DoubleEntendre: The episode title "La petite Kappa" translates (with some awkward French grammar included) to "The little Kappa", aka Nitori, the main character of the game he was playing. But, seeing how he [[IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming replaces one word in all the episode titles in Nitroid by "Kappa"]], one can figure out that the title is actually a reference to the French expression "la petite mort" (little death), which roughly translates to "having an orgasm". Said expression very accurately describes his commentary in that particular episode.
* BlackComedy: [[DiscussedTrope Discussed]] at the end of his playthrough of Mario Gives Up 2. His consensus is that, while the ending [[spoiler:(Mario sending Peach into a lava pit, [[BookEnds like in the intro of the first game]])]] would have been funny to him if he were younger, it strikes him as disturbing as an adult.
* BreathlessNonSequitur: '''All the time.''' Let's just say that if you don't enjoy Non Sequiturs, you won't enjoy raocow. One example from [[http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x6fwr4_tsrpr-08-pipeparadisosewageunderpas_videogames#from=embed&start=419 this video]]:
-->"That guy is wearing a helmet, but it doesn't protect him from the dangers of mustard. Probably because mustard is something you eat. I've once received a drop of mustard on my head and I don't think I've suffered a lot of brain damage although, I mean, I could be wrong. I've been wrong about a lot of things in the past such as: Yogurt is not a cat, I had to learn that the hard way, and you can not play the piano if your piano is resting precariously on top of the CN Tower."
** The title of his Youtube channel even says "WARNING: non-sequitur content ahead"
* BrickJoke: [[spoiler:Black Plague, the [[{{Narm}} hilarious]] TrueFinalBoss of Super Mario Infinity, shows up years later as the ([[AnticlimaxBoss rather weak]]) TrueFinalBoss of A Super Mario Thing.]]
** While playing ''Mushroom Kingdom Meltdown'', Raocow spends several minutes on a non sequitur about skeleton growth being the cause of bodily aging, to the point where the skeleton will pop out of the flesh. Weeks later, during ''Nezumi Man'', [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=baX1CMZPnso&t=1m35s this happens.]] He mentioned skeletons pushing on skin several times in the LP; it's one of the few jokes that he repeats. If I'm not mistaken, he also makes the reference in his Yoshi's Island hack LP.
** The [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ErXL1DkJgLQ&t=0m20s legendary ending of SMI2]] is not the only time he has [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZnfyPxGnpY&t=8m18s faced a time bomb]].
** During ''The Great Empire'', in episode 10, there's a stage called "Boomerang Bro Bonus". It features a single Hammer Bro, rather than a Boomerang Bro. In episode 11, he calls a Hammer Bro's weapon a boomerang.
** In one episode of ''Vip 4'', [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATNIVzB_iJk Raocow goes off in a tangent about a squid that had too much power.]] In ''Super Mario World Freedomn'', [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b8jEfG0LVlM&t=9m48s he runs into a giant Blooper]], calls him Ikachan (referencing [[SwimIkachan another LP of his]]), and then says he shouldn't hold that much power.
* BuffySpeak: He is fond of referring to everything as a thing with a thing, and enemies as guys ("Hey there, guy").
** [[JustifiedTrope Justified]], as Raocow is from Quebec, and French in Quebec has many, many words that mean "thing" with different connotations that don't translate well into English.
** He decided on "Mr. Bean Man" as his name of choice for the Meep enemy in the ''VideoGame/CommanderKeen'' Let's Play.
* ButtMonkey: Yoshi, the green mistake of nature. Except for Yellow Yoshi, whose fart-powers apparently amuse the Cow of Rao.
* CanadaEh: Along with Psychedelic Eyeball, one of the two big ''French''-Canadian [=LPers=] to have come out of SomethingAwful.
* CandleJack: He takes Raocow at the end of [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5EuUxps538I this]] vi
* CanonDisContinuity: Raocow does not make any mistakes. Any mistakes he makes are either "demos" to show off what happens when you DO fail, or experiments done ForScience. When he does make a mistake, he will call a mulligan.
** "That totally just happened."
* CatchPhrase: "Hey there, everyone, this is Raocow..." "That was a demo." "That's pretty great." "Oh boogers." "Chipmunk time!" "Panic panic panic." "Not gonna lie." "Like it was no thing." "Science." "Jesus-hell!" "Good times." "This is Raocow, see you guys."
** "That totally happened." He says this when state-rewinding to avoid a cruel and/or unfair trap.
** His earliest [=LPs=] have "I am not feeling this one." and "That was pointful." He even [[LampshadeHanging mentions that he hopes the former doesn't become a catch phrase.]]
** "Join me next time, possibly/probably tomorrow..." at the end of his videos.
** "Scary like X (Bananas usually)"
** "Isn't that great? Not really."
** "That's crazy town!"
** In more recent episodes, after particularly nonsensical non-sequiturs he says "What am I even saying here?"
** "That guy, he has opinions."
** He often describes things as "destroying the world" when said action only involves destroying a small object of little significance.
* CharacterizationMarchesOn: It's really weird hearing Raocow swear a lot in his earlier videos. Though you probably won't hear a ClusterFBomb, he still swears a lot more in his earlier [=LPs=]. Also, his typical TalkativeLoon personality evolved slowly, to the point that he barely even seems eccentric in his early videos.
** Then, of course, [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufyvJSQKceo&t=12m26s something like this happens]].
* CloudCuckooLander[=/=]TalkativeLoon: raocow's [=~Let's Play~=]s are filled with some of the most bizarre and surreal commentary one would ever hear. It helps that he's a French-Canadian for whom English is a second language, although he's still rather fluent in English.
** He periodically speeds-up random bits of footage to squeeze a video in Youtube's 11-minute (or 15-minute as of July 29, 2010) mark. Sometimes the chipmunked footage is no less intelligible than the real-time.
* ClusterFBomb: During his Let's Play of ''Super Mario Infinity: Mystery of the Magic Wand'', he talks about a point in the game where it becomes a series of "'Fuck you' after 'fuck you' after 'fuck you.'"
* ConvectionSchmonvection: Lampshaded in a YouTube LetsPlay of the 2ch ''[=VIP2=]'' ''VideoGame/SuperMarioWorld'' romhack
-->'''Raocow:''' [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQ3bdpOAxkQ&t=6m57s The lava might be scary, but it's only like a very hot bubble bath.]]
** He more specifically addresses this [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B1YviZN9SXM&t=3m40s here]].
--->'''Raocow:''' This is just barely hair-singing me, because you know, lava, normally, like, at this proximity, Demo would be something like evaporated by now, but I mean we're talking about reverse-gravity lava, which has ''COMPLETELY'' different physical implications.
* CuteKitten: (LetsPlay of ''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdtehRUfzWc cat]] [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGtR_iAC1y0 planet!]]'')
* DamnYouMuscleMemory: Invoked in his ''Kouhai 2'' Let's Play, when he notes that playing ''SuperMarisaWorld'''s squirrely controls has made it hard to go back to ''VideoGame/SuperMarioWorld''.
* DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment: His "cat planet cat planet planet cat cat planet" LP of CatPlanet.
** "Hey there, tap-tap the tap-tap," in his ''[[VideoGame/YoshisIsland Super Mario World 2+]]'' LP. Which later becomes "Tap-Tap the Tap-Tap the Tap-Tap the Tap-Tap".
** One video title from ''Mario Gives Up'', taking place in a cloudy world, was titled [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aa3MLDOMCCs&feature=related "cloud cloud cloud cloud cloud"]].
** In the same video, "literally and I mean that in the literal sense"
** Repo Man. Repo Repo Repo Repo Repo Man. Repo Man. Repo Repo Repo Repo Man. Repo Man.
** It's boss time Mister Guy!
*** All the time during CRAZ'D, in fact.
** "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hDMP7p_q5Mo&feature=player_detailpage#t=51s Right, macey mace mace the mace mace?"]]
* {{Dissimile}}: All the time. Just one example
-->'''{{Raocow}} ''[While playing TSRPR]'':''' "A castle without forest is like a dalmatian without a tongue. It has a lot of trouble eating."
* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: [[InvokedTrope Invoked]] repeatedly throughout ''[[{{Kirby}} Kirby's Dreamland 3]]'' when a helper character attaches themselves to Kirby.
* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: His first LP, ''TheSecondRealityProject'', is downright lifeless. He improves dramatically after that.
* EloquentInMyNativeTongue
* EvenTheSubtitlerIsStumped: Turn them on and enjoy the insanity.
* EvilIsHammy: He noticeably enjoyed playing an EvilOverlord in ''Fangame/PsychoWaluigi''.
* ExcuseMeWhileIMultitask: Aubverted - Raocow has issues doing two things at once (not including talking). [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJrzI2rKU9c Cue him playing "Multitask" and failing repeatedly.]]
** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5r3B7cjaauQ The sequel!]]
* FailedASpotCheck: Happens fairly regularly, justified most of the time as him rambling and not noticing the flying fish that's about to land on him. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpooKb4FYiU&t=4m32s And then sometimes he fails to spot the difference between foreground water (which Mario can swim in) and background water (which Mario cannot).]] In any case, he'll just shrug (or laugh) it off.
* FairWeatherMentor: Raocow arguably falls into this when he is [[http://www.youtube.com/AcolyteOfDeath teaching]] fellow troper AOD to play ''VideoGame/SuperMarioWorld'' for the first time.
* FakeDifficulty: He sees the wind sections in ''Hyper V'' as these.
* FanNickname: There are several In-Universe examples:
** [[VideoGame/SuperMarioWorld Charging Chuck]] plays football, but we all know his name is really [[{{Peanuts}} Charlie]].
** (Stupid) Horse for Yoshi. Likewise, calls [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic ponies]] dinosaurs.
** Bartholomew the bird in ''AnUntitledStory''
** "Flying Condom Man" for the Gustys in ''YoshisIsland''.
** "Darwin" for the hang-gliders in ''Runman'', "Stalker" for the Hugabugs.
** Bob, the piranha plant fuzzys from ''Super Marisa World''.
** Marvin for the Banzai Bills in Rob-Omb's Quest.
** He was also a fan of calling Rumia "Bootleg Yoshi".
** In his short video of Spelunky during Random Week, he called the snakes "Optimus Prime".
** "Fishing Fish Guy" for Fishin' Boo.
** "Disco" for a rainbow Koopa shell.
** "[[VideoGame/MegaManX Maverick]] Thwomp" for any Thwomp that moves sideways instead of up and down.
** "Spaceman Joe" for Galaxy Man from ''VideoGame/MegaMan 9''.
** "Farts" for the Yellow Horse's ability.
** "Statue Man" for the Golden Bowser Statue.
** "The Elf" for Link from ''TheLegendOfZelda''.
** In his LP of SMW Freedomn he calls the Scuttle Bugs "Gerbils".
** "Neckbeard" for Fuzzies.
** "Catoboo" for the fireballs in ''Yoshi's Island'' that have [[CatSmile :3 faces]].
** The platforms that fall after a set amount of time are "Math".
** "Duck" for Mechakoopas.
** "Boo Laser", "Boo Carousel", "Boo Cloud", and "Boo Ceiling" for various ghost house enemies.
** "Beardo" for Birdo.
** "Missile Mike" or "Mack Bill" for the homing Bullet Bills.
** He calls [[http://mewgynewgy.com/freedomn/characters/07bros/11.html these enemies]] [[{{Action52}} Cheetahmen]] Hammer Bros for their laughable walking animation.
** The brown Munchers from ''SuperMarioBros3'' are "Potatoes", while the four-legged Koopa Troopas from the same game are "Chickens".
** "Flesh God" for the Tulips from ''[[VideoGame/YoshisIsland Yoshi's Island]]''.
* FauxlosophicNarration: The "story" in the ''Rise to the Challenge'' hack.
** His explanation of Samus Aran's backstory during his play of the Super Metroid Legacy hack...
-->"We don't even care about the story, it starts with the same thing. It's about a guy who, y'know, goes to the bathroom and he ends up in an alternate dimension where he's a lady in a space suit."
* FlatWhat: During the discussions surrounding ASMT, this was Raocow's [[http://talkhaus.raocow.com/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=1028&start=150#p47900 reaction]] to [[spoiler:{{Rule34}} of his character being made.]]
* ForScience: His justification for exploring an area, finding it leads to death, then rewinding.
* ForeignCussWord: In one particularly frustrating level, Raocow says "merde" and "tabarnac". Also qualifies as a PrecisionFStrike since he rarely swears in his commentary.
** Often times, he'll say "simonak" as well.
** He often exclaims "Voyons!", meaning roughly "Oh come ''on''!"
* FunnyCharacterBoringActor: Raocow has admitted that while he's doing his videos he's incredibly, well, weird, he has difficulty maintaining that state of mind all the time.
* GagSub: Youtube's Auto Captions are CONFUSED by Raocow's speech.
** To be fair, Youtube's Auto Captions would even be confused by perfect Oxford English.
* GameMod: Raocow plays many Super Mario World mods, which have been a mainstay of his LP ensemble since he began. The members of Raocow's community have also designed a mod for him to play titled ''ASuperMarioThing'', complete with tons of {{Shout Out}}s to Raocow's many {{Catch Phrase}}s.
** He's also made his own [[KaizoMarioWorld Kaizo-level]] romhack appropriately titled ''What The Hell?''
* GenreSavvy: Raocow is very genre savvy when it comes to platform games. He can sniff out a secret exit with almost no hint of its existence, and he even figures out puzzle levels, the bane of most platformers, without too much difficulty, mostly because he's SeenItAll by now.
* GentleGiant: In his "tagged" video, he says he's 6'5". Both in and out of character, he seems like a friendly, easygoing guy.
* GuideDangIt: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aE-IX9xPX_U This]] GameMaker game provides very little instruction of any kind. Conequently, Raocow has a little trouble figuring it out.
* GoodBadBugs: [[invoked]] In ''Super Mario Infinity'', he likes the glitched "Course clear" screen that reads "Course cleior."
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Some of the difficult levels in ASMT were of Raocow's own design.
** Yes, he's the one responsible for [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhrX7dsLXs0 this]] [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TSVZ3jA1_Zo mess.]] He hides it at first, presumably to receive unbiased feedback from his watchers, but owns up to it at the end of the second video.
* IMeantToDoThat: "That was a demo."
* IThinkYouBrokeHim: Often times when a level is extremely difficult or annoying, Raocow would either go crazy or silent. This leads to comments accusing the creator(s) for "breaking Raocow".
** Probably the best example of this is [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rD-eW700h0&t=5m12s this level.]] The highest rated comment on this video is "Raocow broke."
* IceCreamKoan: {{Raocow}} would sometimes say seemingly political or controversial ''sounding'' phrases in his [{Lets Play}}s that might just actually be meaningful and insightful. But if you think of it for a while, you will realize that it's just a plain NonSequitur.
** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQFxXLdK7VM&t=6m0s Probably the best example of this.]]
* IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming: Every [=LP=] has its own pattern to episode names.
** In ''VideoGame/{{VVVVVV}}'', every episode name was six of a certain character in a row.
** In ''Hyper V'', every one uses roman numerals, either appended to the end or somewhere in the middle. (At least, [[PlatformHell up to a point]]. After that, he starts using negative numbers.)
** In ''[[TheSecondRealityProject The Second Reality Project 2]]'', every episode name was "(something in level) Action".
** In ''BunnyMustDie'', every episode was called "Bunny Must (verb)". This did not get carried over to [[AnotherSideAnotherStory Chelsea and the Seven Devils]].
** In ''AnSMWCProduction'', every episode went by "that/those (thing(s) that is/are the subject of the video)". Except for "Tempestuous XXIX", which references ''Hyper V'''s naming scheme.
** In ''Scarlet Devil Mario 2'', every episode consists of a '''color''' followed by an''' animal ''', followed a '''random noun''' that in some way will relate to the content of the video.
** In the ''SuperMarioBrosX'' game ''The Invasion 2'', every episode is titled with a trope name from ThisVeryWiki. [[LampshadedTrope Lampshaded]] with the title of [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8zxhPGOoV0 episode 9]]: IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming.
** UnusualChapterNumbers: In his series of games from One More Level, the episodes are numbered in hexadecimal.
** In ''MegaManRocks'', every episode is titled using a different language.
** In ''The Great Empire'', another ''SMBX'' game, the episodes are titled with a culinary item that somehow relates to the levels covered.
** In ''{{Crazd}}'', episodes are titled with mental disorders, which is fitting once you realize the main character is named Loon.
** In ''[[TouhouProject Fantasy Explorer Nitroid]]'', all episodes are old sayings with "kappa" replacing a word.
** ''[=FreedoMN=]'' titles are in the format of "phrase, similar phrase"
** In ''Mario Gives Up 2'', all of the video titles are quotes from the video at or around the 4 minute mark.
** In ''S Mario'', titles follow the "Adjective-Noun" scheme.
** In ''[[TheSecondRealityProject The Second Reality Project Reloaded]]'', each episode has an ExcitedEpisodeTitle ("Sing!", "Iggy Koopa!", "Dig!", etc.).
** In ''New! Yoshi's Island'', each episode follows ExcitedEpisodeTitle format. It also might be a reference to the hack title itself.
** The ''Commander Keen'' videos are all "vs (something)."
** For ''DistortedTravesty'', all videos are titled in [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPA IPA]].
* InherentlyFunnyWords: According to Raocow, "laundromat". Also "parsimony", "clement".
* InstantWebHit: It's usually commented that any video uploaded by Raocow, or having Raocow as one of its tags gets 3,000 to 4,000 views by the end of the day. This includes demos, silly cuts, audiosurf songs, or whatever.
* JumpCut: Often used to get him back to where he was before dying, or to remove several failed attempts to get to a place. Often paired with him jump-cutting mid-sentence.
* KindheartedCatLover: Very much so.
** During his LP of ''Clarence's Big Chance'', Raocow outright ''refused'' to bring harm to any of the cats in the game, despite them actually hurting you if they made contact. When he accidentally defeated one of them once, and proclaimed "That never happened."
** Exemplified in [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_pUAnUmsH8o this]] brief, simple, but very moving tribute to his cat who passed away. If you listen closely, you can hear him stifling tears in the background.
* LargeHam: "[[AnUntitledStory I FOUND A ]]'''[[AnUntitledStory HEART!]]'''"
** And "JUMP HEIGHT!''' UPGRADED!!!!''''"
** [[ChekhovsGag Later, he found]] [[BunnyMustDie another kind]] [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcuNonY8FWs&t=10m14s of heart]].
** And earlier than that: "The power of [color] Switch...'''YOU HAVE!!'''
** '''WHO DARES TO TRY TO STOP THE TIME BOMMMMMMMB?'''
* {{Larynx Dissonance}}: While voicing many female characters ingame, he usually has a varying level of result, but [[http://youtu.be/E4OODjuvbOg?t=30s his voice for Marisa Kirisame is just bizarre....]]
* LawOfConservationOfDetail: Due to the way he cuts his videos, you know that if a reattempt of a level is shown at normal speed, he will succeed during that attempt, or at least ''something'' interesting is going to happen.
* LethalJokeCharacter: Any enemy that was meant to be point fodder in the original Super Mario World gave Raocow lots of trouble during his ascetic run.[[hottip:*: The point of an ascetic run is to ''avoid'' scoring points or collecting coins at all.]] One enemy in particular - [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0YZYE1uQac#t=5m45s the suicidal koopa of Vanilla Dome 3]] - gave Raocow lots of strife as he tried to avoid it. This koopa' lack of self-preservation instinct seems to be unintentional though - it behaves more reasonable in the GBA version.
* MadnessMantra: [[CatPlanet CATPLANETCATPLANETCATPLANETCATPLANETCATPLANETCATPLANETCATPLANETCATPLANETCAT!]]
* MajorGeneralSong: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=twGP7CGy9_Y A fan-made one]].
* MeaninglessLives: Double Subverted. In ''[=VIP5=]'', he dies a ridiculous amount and still has plenty of lives. Then, in the level THE GREED, he loses almost all of them... and immediately goes grinding.
* MilkmanConspiracy
-->'''{{Raocow}}''': ''[while playing AnUntitledStory]'' You ''can't'' destroy the Milkman!......don't tell that to Kiwis, cause it might get infected. INFECTED WITH THE TRUTH!
* MindScrew: THE PURPLE HORSE!
* MusicalEpisode: He routinely sings his commentary to the tune of the level music.
* MyFutureSelfAndMe: Sort of: in some of his ''Hyper V'' videos, he's been adding post-commentary in the sections where his live self (or Livecow as he calls him) gets quiet from frustration. This sometimes leads to him talking over himself, and he's even told his past self to shut up at points, making his videos even more surreal than they already are.
** He calls his future self "Post Production Raocow" or simply PPR. Especially amusing is when he tries to cheer up his past self with "Oh, cheer up, raocow, it's almost done." We also get more or less [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UW2kg29XDNA&t=14m37s live translations of him talking French]].
** In one of his videos, as his past self was playing (and repeatedly dying) through a [[NintendoHard level he was having trouble with]], PPR began to softly sing SimonAndGarfunkel's ''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VX2M5q9PYCo&t=6m14s Sound of Silence.]]''[[hottip:*:Though, if his [[AltText video tags]] are anything to go by, then this was a deliberate action on his part]]
* NightmareRetardant[[invoked]][=/=]LaughingMad:
** [[http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x44lh2 His reaction to Black Plague]]
** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zkpv1TFfNPQ&t=6m10s The ending of the epic Mario hack Vanilla Rain Endless Raindrop caused a good deal of this.]]
* OhCrap: while Let's Playing ''VideoGame/{{VVVVVV}}'', [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EGUmtlBGWpg&t=6m50s Raocow sees the entirety of "Doing Things The Hard Way". And then it sinks in just why it's considered the single most difficult token to get.]] Also leads to the fastest fast-forward to date.
** His reaction to the cat boss in ''Bunny Must Die''.
** You can hear the exact moment Raocow suffers a MoodWhiplash [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMYqn904-DA&t=7m30s in this video]].
* OrphanedPunchline: A lot of his quotes can seem like this, but they're usually non-sequiturs. This actually happens occasionally when he stops fastforwarding midsentence.
-->'''raocow:''' ...and I am not a time-ologist, unfortunately.
** Also occasionally happens due to jump cuts.
-->'''raocow:''' ...twenty-five days to write non-stop.
* OverusedRunningGag: [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6Tfbb0ThSs&t=10m10s here]] when raocow goes farming lives off a bullet bill cannon for at least the 6th time.
-->'''raocow:''' Yeah, this part has stopped being funny by now.
* PerfectlyCromulentWord: Raocow actually drops the trope naming word [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqqu4ZBvWx8&t=2m41s here.]]
* PetPeeveTrope: Again, In-Universe examples
** He is not a fan of bridge-building segments. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HWKc-Ln8E0c&t=4m12s In one video he says that the only videogame task he dislikes as much as bridge-building is taking care of a pony, "because, seriously, if I'm going to take care of an equine, it might as well be a full-grown horse".]]
** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=33YVcRhjj-o&t=3m54s He's not too fond of stair-making, either.]]
** He also seems to strongly dislike elevator sections.
** He also does not like puzzles that consist of "find item here, backtrack to previous place, get new item, backtrack again" and so on.
** He dislikes [[HostileWeather wind that blows you backward]].
*** He must have hated fighting Aya (and Hatate), then.
* PlatformHell: Raocow has played through some of them. The [[http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=D0A52C67C2BAE321 Kouhai]] series are a good example.
** This [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kzcKU6L-88s one]] level has the gimmick of killing you if you score any points. ''Everything'' in ''VideoGame/SuperMarioWorld'' gives you points, including coins. Raocow's reaction is in the link.
** His own romhack, What the Hell, also falls under this a good deal, especially since most of the enemies are invincible.
* PlayerTic: He always jumps through the ''YoshisIsland'' goal rings backwards.
* PrecisionFStrike: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yyDzpmJsgK0&t=2m17s Oh, it happened.]] Occurs during a rather frustrating tower of boss fights in ''BunnyMustDie''. One of the rare occurrences of the F-word a) being uttered, and b) being clear enough to not miss.
** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbzcRgv3xnQ&t=6m40s Another rare example.]]
** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YYIunJfk0Kg&t=7m30s And another.]]
* RageQuit: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJJ7oNXS1nU This infamous video (Of an episode of him playing "Cave of Elements").]] Only level in that game where he got extremely frustrated playing through.
** WARNING: If you REALLY want something depressing, just go to 17:52 (And it goes downhill from there). Not a pretty sight. And the ending's quite miserable too. At least in the next episode [[IGotBetter he's quite cheerful]] compared to frustrated. He even says that it's one of the only few levels that he has ever ragequitted.
** It is [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKrDP7ks83o mentioned]] that he did it with Acid Labs Inc. from ''Mario Gives Up 2''. He just straight up deleted the footage and just played the level all over again.
** The final level of ''Marisa & Alice'' was so [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YYIunJfk0Kg unforgiving]] that it caused Raocow to give up on the game entirely, going so far as to dump the game folder into his Recycle Bin and and empty it on camera.
** In the [[PlatformHell extremely unfair]] hack "S. Mario" ("S" as in "sadistic"), Raocow has had to "Rage Quit" a couple of times. Although one of the levels wasn't implied, he showed a video of one of his "scrapped takes" and it actually isn't too bad.
** Particularly unfair levels get the "[[BlatantLies OH NO the game just crashed]]!" treatment:
*** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWluSJ-Pvps This level]] "crashed" because of a KaizoTrap finishing up a level of PlatformHell.
*** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XO1GMSl6bfM This one]] "crashed" when there was a puzzle involving a key and TrialAndErrorGameplay.
* RecycledINSPACE: His reaction to the Space Tanks (BONUS 4) level in ''Mario Gives Up''.
* RuleOfFunny: According to the commentary in [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWOnN6MAiXQ this video]], he usually went into chipmunk time only if he didn't think the commentary was interesting enough to warrant splitting into two videos. With YouTube no longer having a time limit, he still chipmunks just because it's one of his trademarks, and has even [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0h25UNmYc8U&t=16m57s lampshaded]] it at least once.
* SanitySlippage: Inverted. When especially difficult levels start to grind away at him, Raocow's {{Breathless Non Sequitur}}s begin to dry up and he sounds increasingly... ''normal''. Can be rather unnerving when compared to [[CloudCuckoolander his usual demeanor.]]
** An example: After (impressively) managing to clear more than half of ''Vip 4'' without using savestates, [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdZoST9kaRM Absurd Athletics]] completely breaks him, and his usual [[TalkativeLoon wacky commentary]] is replaced with depressed, angry ranting. He even remarks that he's been rendered incapable of saying that "purple monkey cheese shit you guys like." Needless to say, this is the level that made him give up his "no savestate" rule for the rest of ''Vip 4'''s playthrough. This is referenced [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3LFEwPrdQjE&t=10m35s when he reaches the sequel level]] in ''Vip 5''... [[spoiler:which he DOES eventually manage to clear savestateless.]]
*** HeroicBSOD: Raocow has one after re-encountering [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATNIVzB_iJk the aforementioned sequel level in ''Vip 5''.]]
** Played straight [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2C-gWohKWk in the bonus world of Fantasy Explorer Nitroid]].
** Raocow + [[http://youtu.be/gQDOEZxWF9s?t=5m35s Touch Fuzzy,]][[http://youtu.be/gQDOEZxWF9s?t=6m46s Get Dizzy....]]
* SaveScumming: Averted in later videos, but played straight in most of Raocow's earlier videos. For hard hacks like the ''VIP'' series, ''Kouhai'', and others, he would use save states all the time, but he later stopped doing that except for the occasional science moment, [[PlatformHell unless the levels were really unfair]].
* TheScrappy: This is [[InvokedTrope Raocow's opinion]] of Yoshi the [[HorseOfADifferentColor stupid freakin' horse]].
* ScrappyMechanic: In-Universe: Raocow ''really'' does not like wind or [[HomingProjectile homing Bullet Bills]].
* SelfDeprecation: Raocow often informs us that he's "playing super-badly, just to be different."
** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wi-1WPx2KUQ&t=7m30s "Oh no, I'm a stupid! You know, to be different from my usual being an idiot."]]
** Throughout 2010, Raocow became aware that he had a habit of dying right before the end goal and [[LampshadeHanging made a point of mentioning this.]] Repeatedly.
* SelfImposedChallenge: His [[http://everything.raocow.com/game.php?id=98 ascetic run]] (no coins nor points unless absolutely necessary) of the original ''VideoGame/SuperMarioWorld''.
* SeriousBusiness: Raocow has repeatedly said that he thinks most Let's Players ignore the "let's" part of the aspect. Among other things, this means he insists on keeping the comments open even when people are spamming him with help.
* ShapedLikeItself: [[http://www.youtube.com/user/raocow#p/u/78/e1J3TwWulLA ...So basically, playing a video game is like playing a video game.]]
** "This level is a desert. You can tell because it's a desert!"
** "Welcome to the Forest of Depth. It's a very deep forest."
* ShoutOut: All the time. A notable example is in his ''Scarlet Devil Mario 2'' LP, where when describing how red the Red Switch Palace was, he randomly said ''RenAndStimpy''.
** "Oh hey, let's make a ProtonJon reference [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pLE4d6VnrWk#t=228s here.]]"
** He's made repeated mentions of how [[FatalFury you cannot X long death.]]
* SirNotAppearingInThisTrailer: Ultimately subverted, when he's eventually forced to admit that Yoshi '''is''', in fact, in ''SMBX''.
* SlashFic: Raocow's forums even have [[http://talkhaus.raocow.com/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=1710 its own thread for it.]] He's stated that he's not even gonna go near it.
* SoulJar: In one level, Mario can't let anything touch a skull shaped object, otherwise he gets killed.
-->'''Raocow:''' [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8baPBIsmPc&t=6m25s Freaking hell, Mario,]] why did you have a [[HarryPotter horcrux]] placed in such an unusual place?
* {{Spoonerism}}: He is prone to saying "Darshgorn it!".
* SpoofAesop: Way too many.
** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mb9kSTvz4mA&t=4m16s Here]].
* StalkerWithACrush: Raocow's fans can be creepy at times.
-->"It's logical that you don't know how to operate an elevator, after all your house doesn't have one. It has stairs, where your can dropped something that day, didn't he, Mr. Samuel Tanguay? Is your can green? I hope it's green, since it's your favorite color, isn't it, Mr. Samuel Tanguay?"
** Not to mention the [[http://talkhaus.raocow.com/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=1710 official raod thread]].
* StealthPun: In ''Mario Gives Up'' part 4...
-->"Oh, there's drills there, you don't want to get drilled to death... It's almost as bad as being bored to death, you could say."
* StupidStatementDanceMix: [[http://www.viddler.com/explore/Terashell/videos/35/ This catchy, hypnotic, and well done remix]] of some of SomethingAwful [[LetsPlay Let's Player]] Raocow's stream of conscious commentary while playing a {{Mario}} game.
** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xg8mDRAngZ0 There's]] [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qydCXMNutzI more]] [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNEYEi5S37Y where]] [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DEF4ICS7HzQ that]] [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VHE6AV5LUW0 came]] [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXQKOvQ5pQ0 from]]
** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTkty128kjQ And of course there's also a red zone remix.]]
** Okay, now Raocow's just begging [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2l3xhy8trA&t=1m15s for]] [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2l3xhy8trA&t=4m29 these]] to be done.
*** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29hAXAa2QDE&feature=player_detailpage#t=936s The second one is on its way.]]
** [[http://www.youtube.com/user/GenericCAW/ GenericCAW]] seems to be fond of Raocow remixes in general. The link leads to his Youtube profile. Sixteen of his twenty seven remixes (hosted on Youtube at least) are Raocow remixes.
*** The above mentioned mixer seems to have caught Raocow's attention on a few occasions, as evidenced by his [[http://youtu.be/iXCI8ELoihg?t=12m19s Call Back]] to [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qydCXMNutzI this mix]].
** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hwi-4wdepFM U. N. Owen was a Cat Planet]]
** It's gotten to a point where he already makes them on purpose: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2YtjPQipGZQ The Food Song,]] from [[VideoGame/MegaMan Skull Man's theme]].
** Another remixer joins the [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tLI4K5PdMrQ fray]]!
* SturgeonsLaw: [[DiscussedTrope Mentioned by name]] in [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYDwPguvuTc this video]], mentioning that most {{Newgrounds}} games are utterly terrible. Taken UpToEleven when he says that the good is only a small percent of a small percent, rather than the usual ten percent.
* StylisticSuck: His... "webcomic", ''[[http://exupry.comicdish.com/?pageID=1 Exupéry, adventures of]]''.
* SurprisinglyGoodEnglish: English is Raocow's second language and he's noted to speak English pretty much only for his Let's Plays, yet he verbosity is surprisingly diverse. Given, he flubs words occasionally but on the whole it's quite good.
** In a YT comment, he stated that his father being in the military caused him to move around a lot; he apparently mostly went to French-speaking schools, but spoke English in the neighborhoods he lived in. He says this is probably why his accent isn't really all that "French Canadian"-ish.
* SurrealHumour: His trademark.
* TalkativeLoon: His other trademark.
* TemptingFate: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3t9wGCy3oY&t=4m25s "Well, let's just hope I never die ever agai-]] [[BigWhat WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAT?!?!?]]"
** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EyNr10Smhqc "So I'm just gonna be playing with the keyboard because it's a lot safer]] - oh wow."
** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2c8qKQV2clk#t=20m20s "Now I don't want to die to Larry, so let's- pffff..."]]
*** [[spoiler:Averted]] in [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8TgoI8d45Us&feature=g-all-u&context=G28b0862FAAAAAAAACAA video]].
* ThisIsGonnaSuck: Raocow's reaction upon reading the name of [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9kt7JNPXRI this level]]
** Say hi to [[DonkeyKong DK]] For me... [[ThatOneLevel oh,]] [[DonkeyKongCountry THAT]] [[ScrappyMechanic kind]] [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUKPvm75FB8 of donkey kong]]
* [[ThrowTheDogABone Throw The Stupid Horse A Bone]]: Raocow has insulted Yoshi many, many times (see TheScrappy above), including calling him a "green miscreant" and "an insult to all creation". In [[http://www.youtube.com/user/raocow#p/a/u/1/7pD1_2Eg8So this]] video, after Yoshi looks like he's going to fall off a ledge, then doesn't, allowing Raocow to get back on him, he says:
-->"Thanks for not plunging in that hole there Yoshi. I appreciate it. I-I usually I don't appreciate you enough, perhaps, some people would argue."
* {{Troll}}: After constantly being pestered for not beating the key boss in ''MarioGivesUp'', he finally uploads [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tmC_0G3IztI this]].
* {{Undercrank}}: Chipmunk mode. He's even done [[http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x3qbd6_chipmunk-raocow-does-mxw-bsb_videogames two]] [[http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x5dwmy_chipmunk-raocow-presents-why-i-won_videogames videos]] entirely in chipmunk mode.
** Inverted in one video where a [=YouTube=] glitch causes the audio to go into half-speed before slowly cranking back up to normal, albeit about 2 seconds out of sync. Then back into chipmunk time. It's like [=YouTube=] found the one way to make Raocow more surreal.
* TheUnpronounceable: One of the many Super Mario World hacks he played was titled '':P :P :P''. When he had to refer to the game's title, he usually either said "P P P" or blew three raspberries.
** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4rm2TvuWgds&t=1m45s "*prr!* goes to *rrt!*"]]
* UnusualEuphemism:
** "Go eat a ham."
** He uses "Pumpernickels!" as a swear word occasionally.
* VerbalTic: Try listening to see how many times Raocow says "It's pretty great".
* VocalEvolution: His voice was a lot softer, calmer and more thickly-accented at first. As he refined his TalkativeLoon nature, he also developed a "wackier" tone of voice to match, while becoming more fluent in English. Even his out-of-character videos sound nothing like he did on his first LP.
* WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs: Note that Raocow is also straight-edge, meaning that he simply has a bizarrely appealing thought process. The art to ''a.t.x.s.'' does raise some suspicions.
** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdtehRUfzWc "cat"]][[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGtR_iAC1y0 "planet!"]]
** Subverted [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NiuEUNk1M5k here]], when he fought [[TouhouProject Reisen]], for [[MindRape obvious]] [[RuleOfFunny reasons]].
** You think ''a.t.x.s.'' seemed like it was made on drugs? You obviously haven't read ''[[http://exupry.comicdish.com/index.php?pageID=1 Exupéry, adventures of]]''.
* WhoDares: to try to stop the time bomb?
* [[WhyDidItHaveToBe Why Did It Have To Be Bones?]]: Raocow admits to being afraid of bones in one video.
* YouNoTakeCandle: Intentionally mangles English; he's more or less fluent in both English and French. With that said, on occasion some of his structures sound odd, but he'll often comment on how bizarre they sound immediately.
* ZenSurvivor: PPR (Post-Production Raocow).
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