History LetsPlay / TessellatingHexagons

* AudienceParticipation: He's the owner of the [[PunBasedTitle Yourovision Song Contest]].

* BilingualBonus: He titled one episode of Touch Detective "Joyeux Noel", which, in addition to meaning "Merry Christmas", could also be interpreted as "Joyous Noel", referring to Noel the Ice Fairy.

* {{Fanboy}}: Tess is a big fan of the EurovisionSongContest, as he quite frequently allows Eurovision references to bleed into his commentary. Alex, meanwhile, is a fan of Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure (calling his team the [=ToTolions=]) and WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic (his channel icon being a pony version of himself).
* {{Foil}}: Alex is this to Tess, not knowing much about things outside North America (for the most part) and being fairly blunt compared to Tess.

* CanadaEh: Alex is a Canadian.

* IronicName: He mentions in Spyro Adventure that Connor is a Celtic name meaning 'dog lover'. He really doesn't like dogs.
* ItsPronouncedTroPAY: Tess reveals in the Empire of Dreams VS that he always pronounced Klonoa without the second 'o', as in 'Klona'. He and Alex also poke fun at the other's pronunciation sometimes.

* ChangeTheUncomfortableSubject/ FurryFandom: In Empire of Dreams VS #2, when he refers to "scaly things". Also when he addresses Klonoa by his "furry little arse".
* CurbStompBattle: [[spoiler: Alex didn't win in any area of the Empire of Dreams VS.]]

* ''VideoGame/BombermanTournament'' (Blind)

* RecordNeedleScratch: Tess employs one during Alex's time alone in Empire of Dreams Versus.
--> '''Alex''': They asked me why I evolved into a [[{{Franchise/Pokemon}} Wobbuffet]]. I asked them...''[[{{Pun}} Wynaut]]''?
--> ''*WHIRRP!!*''
--> '''Tess''' (added in post-production): [[LamePunReaction That was terrible.]]

* FanCommunityNicknames: The players declare in the Empire of Dreams Versus that people supporting Tess are "Team Neptune", while people supporting Alex are "the [=ToTolions=]".
** More generally, Tess addresses his viewers as his "lovely people".

* ''VideoGame/BombermanTournament''

* ''{{VideoGame/Klonoa}}: Empire of Dreams'' Versus (with [=SuperAlex641=])

* {{Angrish}}: During one of the harder [[SpyroAttackOfTheRhynocs Agent 9]] [[ThatOneLevel levels]]. He temporarily starts [[LaughingMad laughing loudly]] once he actually succeeds.

** During Empire of Dreams Versus, he threatens to censor Alex if he sings the Zulu chorus of "The Circle of Life" (from [[Disney/TheLionKing The Lion King]]) one more time. Towards the end of the versus, he actually does mute Alex's audio in several places, citing this as his reason for doing so.

* MusicalisInterruptus: Tess employs this at one point during Alex's time alone in Empire of Dreams Versus.
--> '''Alex''': They asked me why I evolved into a [[{{Franchise/Pokemon}} Wobbuffet]]. I asked them...''[[JustForPun Wynaut]]''?
--> ''[[RecordNeedleScratch *WHIRRP!!*]]''
--> '''Tess''' (added in post-production): That was terrible.
* NamesTheSame: Tess and Alex share the same first name.

* ShoutOut: In Empire of Dreams #2:

** Referenced during Spyro Adventure:
--> '''Tess''': It instantly refills all your health and magic, and doubles your attack until the next time you get hit. That is what tea does...but only if you're a British person.
** Also addressed in his song "British Girls [[GratuitousForeignLanguage (My,]] [[TheForeignSubtitle Brytyjskie)]]", in which he drinks a cup during an instrumental break that precedes the following lyrics:
-->This special thing we have in our genes\\
Makes us all addicted to tea

** Also addressed in his song "British Girls [[GratuitousForeignLanguage (My,]] [[TheForeignSubtitle Brytyjskie)]]", in which he drinks a cup over the following lyrics:

* RecordNeedleScratch: Tess employs one during Alex's time alone in Empire of Dreams Versus
--> '''Alex''': They asked me why I evolved into a [[{{Franchise/Pokemon}} Wobbuffet]]. I asked them...''[[JustForPun Wynaut]]''?
--> ''*WHIRRP!!*''
--> '''Tess''' (added in post-production): That was terrible.

* FanCommunityNicknames: The players declare in the Empire of Dreams VS that people supporting Tess are "Team Neptune", while people supporting Alex are "the [=ToTolions=]".

** During Empire of Dreams Versus, he threatens to censor Alex if he sings the Zulu chorus of "Circle of Life" (from [[Disney/TheLionKing The Lion King]]) one more time. Towards the end of the versus, he actually does mute Alex's audio, citing this as his reason for doing so.

** Particularly prominent when he stumbles across an [[EasterEgg Easter Egg]] in the form of an apparently-erotic novel, with the more suggestive words censored out.

* FloweryInsults: [[CutHisHeartOutWithASpoon "I'm going to slit your kneecaps and ship you to Antarctica,"]] "You can choke on your spoon," "This soggy lampshade can back the fuck up," et cetera.

* OnThree: How the VS is resumed.

-->'''Tess''': How've you guyses dayses been being? [[BeatPanel *beat*]] This is what happens when I try to be sociable...

** Referencing "Boss Ass Bitch" in Klonoa: Empire of Dreams VS.

* {{Spoonerism}}: Referenced during Spryo Adventure when he promises to "go and shake a tower" once he finishes recording.

-->'''Tess''': Fucking Canadians... [[Beat *beat*]] ...I don't advise it.

* ''{{VideoGame/Ib}}''
* ''{{VideoGame/Klonoa}}: Empire of Dreams'' Versus (with [=SuperAlex641=])

* AudienceParticipation: He's the owner of the Yourovision Song Contest.

* TheCameo: Alex, with whom Tess would later do a VS with, made a brief appearance in the last segment of Tumblr #4.

* ChangeTheUncomfortableSubject/ FurryFandom: In Empire of Dreams VS #2, when he refers to "scaly things". Also when he refers to Klonoa's "furry little arse".

* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: In the Ib LP, he reads '???' as 'Mm?'. After doing this numerous times in a row, [[LampshadeHanging he notes how suggestive it sounds]].

* KindHeartedCatLover: As Twitter reveals, he has a few cats, including one named Meredith whom he takes selfies with. He also revealed in the Spyro Adventure LP that he has two other cats he nicknamed "Moely Cyrus" and "Skittletits". [[YouDoNotWantToKnow He assures the viewers they'd be better off not knowing the origins of those nicknames.]]

* SirSwearsALot: Alex will ''not'' hesitate [[ClusterFBomb to]] [[PrecisionFStrike swear]].

** Tess himself swears quite a bit as well.

-->'''Tess''': Fucking Canadians... [[BeatPanel *beat*]] ...I don't advise it.

-->'''Tess''': What the actual-- [[{{Angrish *dying velociraptor noises*}}]]

-->'''Tess''': What the actual-- {{Angrish *dying velociraptor noises*}}

* RealDreamsAreWeirder: He brought up one in particular during Spyro Adventure, in which he and his father had to travel to Israel, so they booked a flight, and flew over there, except, when they got off the plane, we discovered that they were in the wrong Israel-- not the country, but, in fact, a town in central Texas. Israel, Texas does, in fact, exist, albeit in the south-east, rather than in the middle.

** In the second episode of the Empire of Dreams VS, Tess says in Polish "My Słowianie wiemy jak nasze na nas działa!" (We, the Slavs, we know how to do it!)

* KindHeartedCatLover: As Twitter reveals, he has a few cats, including one named Meredith whom he takes selfies with.

-->'''Tess''': What the actual-- *dying velociraptor noises*

* BrickJoke: One involving a potato during VEDA whire the brick came down [[RuleOfThree three times]], once at the end of VEDA #17, again at the end of VEDA #18, and again at the end of VEDA #30.
** "Whire".

* BrickJoke: One involving a potato during VEDA whire the brick came down [[RuleOfThree three times]], once at the end of #17, again at the end of #18, and again at the end of #30.

* KindHeartedCatLover: As Twitter reveals, he has a few cats, including one named Meredith with whom he takes selfies with.

* LastSecondWordSwap/CurseCutShort: From Spyro Adventure:

* NiceHat: The red top hat he usually wears on-camera.

* BrickJoke: One involving a potato during VEDA whire the brick came down [[RuleOfThree three times]], once at the end of the first vlog, again at the end of the next vlog, and again at the end of the final video.

* {{Foil}}: Alex is this to Tess, not knowing much about things outside North America and being fairly blunt compared to Tess.

* FunWithForeignLanguages /SpeakingSimlish: The intro to part 3 of Spyro Adventure.

* ItsPronouncedTroPAY: Tess reveals in the Empire of Dreams VS that he always pronounced Klonoa without the second 'o', as in 'Klona'. Him and Alex also poke fun at the other's pronunciation sometimes.
* LastSecondWordSwap: From Spyro Adventure:

* ShoutOut: [[WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants "No, this is Patrick!"]]

* Spoonerism: Referenced during Spryo Adventure when he promises to "go and shake a tower" once he finishes recording.

-->'''Tess''': Love thy fellow apostrophe!

* {{Fanboy}}: Tess is a big fan of the EurovisionSongContest, while Alex is a fan of Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure (calling his team the [=ToTolions=]) and WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic (his channel icon being a pony version of himself).

-->'''Tess''': Don't make me censor your ass.

* BuffySpeak: He often asks characters in his [[=LPs=] to not [[MadLibsCatchphrase 'do a X']].