History LetsPlay / TheDeadbeats

* UnwinnableByMistake: During the "Pierce Family Treasure" quest, one of the riddles about [[spoiler: a chest containing iron and gold helmets, one "pointing" the way towards the next clue]] was accidentally made unsolvable when someone instinctively [[spoiler: collected the 'loot' inside]] without reading the clue first, leading the group to become stumped and eventually consult Joe for help after about ten/fifteen minutes [[spoiler: as to which helmet was pointing which way]].

* FinalDeath: Occurs to Jack Saint in his permadeath series, Lacking Lives. Then joked about at the beginning of Season 2, after [=StupidlyClever=] accidentally kills Jack, ''[[UnfriendlyFire twice]]''.

* TechnicolorPerson: Simon's permadeath character, "Welp", is all blue thanks to Casey showing him how to exploit the "Create Similar" function in the character creator.

*** The Anime/{{Digimon}} theme song.
** At the beginning of Season 2, the crew make a slew of references to plot points and locations of VideoGame/{{Fallout3}}, VideoGame/{{Fable}}, Franchise/StarWars, VideoGame/HalfLife and others.
** Phil's first mine in Season 1 is called Series/FraggleRock.

* SomethingCompletelyDifferent: A whole section of Episode 56 is replaced with one of Casey's "[[VideoGame/RocketLeague Rocket Klieg]]" review videos as he talks about Film/{{Deadpool}} with Phil.

The Deadbeats are a YouTube LetsPlay group that started as a VideoGame/{{Minecraft}} server in September 2012 with [=NateXTheMachine=], [=SimonSaysLPs=], Reddus, Ashdeer and [=LackingLives=]. At the time it was a split-off group from Creator/TheLayabouts as they transitioned from being a media creation group to game developers - Nate, Simon and Jack ([=LackingLives=]) were previously hosting LetsPlay footage on the The Layabouts, and got together with friends to play Minecraft and other assorted games.

* PromotedFanboy: Spicyrab (or Spicy) joins the duo here and there starting in episode 49 - when Ash quips that they don't watch any of Casey's videos, Spicy points out that she does (followed by Casey putting plenty of her YouTube comments on screen, all arguing about things Ash had said). [[invoked]]

** During a [[Film/HungerGames Survival Games]] [[FanRemake gamemode]] event, Simon climbs up a mob-infested tower, inching around the outside... only to get knocked off by a rogue zombie. Combined with PlummetPerspective and PrecisionFStrike.

The group has since evolved to have less focus on Minecraft with twelve total members. They have played VideoGame/{{Minecraft}}, TabletopGames/CardsAgainstHumanity (an online version), [[VideoGame/SegaSuperstars Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed]], VideoGame/TroubleInTerroristTown, and VideoGame/TheHidden together, with individuals having played VideoGame/BlastCorps, VideoGame/MetroidFusion, VideoGame/{{Civilization}}, and VideoGame/SonicHeroes.

** Right after, Edit Casey appears to tell the viewer that he [[spoiler: had never eaten a Snickers bar before. Cue tasting one on camera...]]

** At one point Ash and Casey decide they wanted to finish the game before VideoGame/DarkSoulsIII was released. While recording dates are uncertain, Edit Casey makes it clear that the videos themselves were a bit late on that.

* ShoutOut: Of course, but also generally [[DiscussedTrope discussed]]. Casey brings up at the end of episode 50 that some references or uses of music can destroy his impression of a given media, including a movie that used a licenced song fittingly, and found himself torn on whether to include a LetsPlay/GameGrumps reference made by one of his commentators. (Ultimately he kept it in, and the discussion, because talking it out made him realise his argument didn't hold up in this given case.)

** Coming to a head in the aptly named episode "Ash Plays Dark Souls".

** The video "zooms out" of Dark Souls in one video to instead show the room at his [[strike:dormitory]] (sorry, ''residence hall'') as he was leaving it not long after the episode was uploaded and he wanted a piece to remember it by.
** After an IncrediblyLamePun, "the viewer" clicks off the video to watch Simon Says play Minecraft instead.

*** [[spoiler: At the end of the video, Edit Casey gets a phone call telling him he never sponsored Snickers. It was always the other way around, in universe.]]

Resident VideoGame/DarkSouls expert Ash convinces Casey to pick up and play VideoGame/DarkSoulsI, with no idea of what to expect. This happens to be the longest running series, with its first episode coming out on September 22, 2014. You can [[https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL-8Pbv_DsYXR3S7Fx52IMS2gOEkuh31mI view the entire playlist here]].

-->''Sponsored by Snickers. Eat Snickers! "It's Snickers."''

The Deadbeats are a YouTube LetsPlay group that started as a VideoGame/{{Minecraft}} server in September 2012 with [=NateXTheMachine=], [=SimonSaysLPs=], Reddus, [=ChronosRegex=] and [=LackingLives=]. At the time it was a split-off group from Creator/TheLayabouts as they transitioned from being a media creation group to game developers - Nate, Simon and Jack ([=LackingLives=]) were previously hosting LetsPlay footage on the The Layabouts, and got together with friends to play Minecraft and other assorted games.

* [=ChronosRegex=]

* BerserkButton: Don't fill Chronos' cathedral with vines.

** After challenging members of Season 2 to make a house out of leather, Chronos then says you can craft leather into blocks to make a portal to the Meat Dimension. [[note]] None of these things are possible.[[/note]] The resulting tangent of the conversation immediately turns to the Layabouts Minecraft Server of years past and the infamous [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSVacMFFLrA PULSATING COW VORTEX]].

'''Chronos:''' Not after the TNT goes off it won't be.\\

'''Chronos:''' [''laughs''] I love saying lies and then Phil freaking out over my lies.

** Ross's funeral for Numpty Doppit. He gave a eulogy with Phil and Chronos present. Then Chronos ruined the moment by murdering him.
* FallGuy: Phil essentially became the fall guy for a prank on Chronos's cathedral by himself, Brian and Simon (though he probably deserved it more for killing Chronos while AFK). It resulted in no less than THREE pranks on him at the same time (his spawn house being filled with sheep and dirt, Ross vandalising Dragonmoor island with "Phil sucks" in dirt and a GagPenis, and Chronos filling his Dragonmoor house entirely with glass, placing vines all over it, replacing the "S" in "Sucks" with "f" [[TheresNoKillLikeOverkill and finally]] filling his wizard tower nearby with vines.

** Even though Briguy masterminded the original prank, and he admitted to this ''in a call with all four people'', Chronos says of Phil's particular punishment, "well you were involved". Brian and Simon somehow ended up being a KarmaHoudini, with nothing relating to the prank happening to them in season 1. Which is especially surprising as Brian tore a hole in the monastery where the giant bell 'fell' and Simon placed a majority of the vines in it.

* MoodWhiplash: After filling the top of Chronos' monastery with gravel, combined with the quietness of the server toward the end of Season 1, Simon apologised and personally took down the whole 'prank' with a depression-induced commentary.

-->'''Chronos:''' So that must mean Phil hasn't seen Dragonmoor Island at all!\\

'''Chronos:''' Oh god, ''yes''!

'''Chronos:''' Four enderdragons?!\\

'''Chronos:''' That's like five, right.\\

'''Chronos:''' How many chips are there?\\

** Context: In a chat about Nate against SMP, Zach noted that when he, Nate and Skyler fought the enderdragon for the finale, a glitch (or possibly a mod) caused one to spawn for each player connected (four at the time, though only three were in The End). Apparently, they managed to take down all four dragons.

* RealLifeWritesThePlot: Chronos wasn't around for the first part of season 1 as his computer was too bad to both play and record Minecraft with. The house he was building became the Museum when Nate, Jack, Brian and Joe went to The End.

* SelfDeprecation: Zach, while showing Chronos around the server in his first new episode of Season 1, takes potshots at his own inability to post videos when talking about Skyler's short-lived time on the server.

--> '''Chronos:''' You really should be careful with that stuff Simon.\\

* HowWeGotHere: Phil's first episode of Season 3 begins with "...But be warned, everyone watching on my channel will know your dirty secret," said by Chronos. It's implied that there have been a few takes of the 'first episode'. In Chronos' episode "Philman", most of the dialogue is of the take before, which he scraps on the spot because of unfortunate deaths. Phil states in the video that he had died eight times prior while trying to make the final video.

* UnrealisticBlackHole: In Simon's first video of Season 4, he, Chronos and Phil come across a Thaumcraft "Hungry Node" which gradually breaks down and sucks up part of the world around it. Simon, not having seen one before, is nervous. The others don't mind, as it doesn't affect a large area anyway.

** MurderByMistake: In the middle of a later video after fighting a mini-boss, Chronos is being revived by Simon... then Brian drives into them, knocking Simon away and causing Chronos to disappear. Another epitaph appears... with the message [[AndThereWasMuchRejoicing "I dunno I liked KC better"]].

* SomethingCompletelyDifferent: One of Simon's Borderlands episodes is called "The Vault". As soon as he, Chronos and Brian find out that Casey is unable to play, the video [[JumpCut Jump Cuts]] into a playthrough of [[VideoGame/{{Payday2}} PAYDAY 2]]'s Diamond Heist.

* WithFriendsLikeThese: Simon sure does like killing enemies Chronos needs to get Second Wind off of in VideoGame/{{Borderlands}}.

** The video "zooms out" of Dark Souls in one video to instead show the room at his ~~dormitory~~ (sorry, ''residence hall'') as he was leaving it not long after the episode was uploaded and he wanted a piece to remember it by.

* LostForever
** Nate Against Minecraft and Nate Against The Machine, as well as Joe and Jack's series', Survival Mode and Quick Attack, were previously lost to Blip.tv's account purge. Brought back with the release of The Layabouts Archive. [[http://old.wearethelayabouts.com/content/natm Nate Against The Machine]] and [[http://old.wearethelayabouts.com/content/survivalmode Survival Mode]] are now back in all their [[EarlyInstallmentWeirdness oh-god-why-did-we-make-this]] glory.
** Phil deleted the first four uploads of his vanilla Season 1 footage, as they were raw footage from his starting out on the server. Viewers looking for his first Deadbeats video now will find him already with a house and a decent amount of items.

--->[''as Brian collects items in the sky, an airplane is heard over the mic...'']\\

* LetsPlay/LackingLives

* LetsPlay/{{Vidvisionify}}

* UnwinnableByMistake: During the "Pierce Family Treasure" quest, one of the riddles about [[spoiler: a chest containing iron and gold helmets, one "pointing" the way towards the next clue]] was accidentally made unsolvable when someone instinctively [[spoiler: collected the 'loot' inside]] without reading the clue first, leading the group to become stumped and eventually consult Joe for help after about ten/fifteen minutes as to which helmet was pointing which way.

* FallGuy: Phil essentially became the fall guy for a prank on Chronos's cathedral by himself, Brian and Simon (though he probably deserved it more for killing Chronos while AFK). It resulted in no less than THREE pranks on him at the same time (his spawn house being filled with sheep and dirt, Ross vandalising Dragonmoor island with "Phil sucks" in dirt and a GagPenis, and Chronos filling his Dragonmoor house entirely with glass, placing vines all over it, replacing the "s" in "Sucks" with "f" [[TheresNoKillLikeOverkill and finally]] filling his wizard tower nearby with vines.

* FinalDeath: Occurs to Jack Saint in his permadeath series, Lacking Lives. Also joked about at the beginning of Season 2, after [=StupidlyClever=] accidentally kills Jack, ''[[UnfriendlyFire twice]]''.
* FiveFingerDiscount: [=StupidlyClever=] (buggy715 in-game at the time) was often talked about or heard going through Brian's chests in his house for (supposedly) food, when he was starting out. Even when Brian banned him from entering, he relied on him and Nate for food until he built his own house, making Brian ProperlyParanoid.

* NoIndoorVoice: Ross in "BE ACDC".

* TheQuest: The Pierce Family Treasure. Every person had a book with a hint to one of the puzzles on the way to the treasure, and most of the server gathered to take part. Zach had a pig steed that died multiple times, and Simon had [[TheBlankFace no face]].

* FiveFingerDiscount: StupidlyClever (buggy715 in-game at the time) was often talked about or heard going through Brian's chests in his house for (supposedly) food, when he was starting out. Even when Brian banned him from entering, he relied on him and Nate for food until he built his own house, making Brian ProperlyParanoid.

* TheQuest: The Pierce Family Treasure. Every person had a book with a hint to one of the puzzles on the way to the treasure, and most of the server gathered to take part. Zach had a pig steed that died multiple times, and Simon had ABlankFace.

** First episode of season 1: starving? Just kill yourself (or get someone to kill you) and [[DeathIsCheap respawn with a full hunger bar]].

* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: '''Everyone''', at some point or another.

* ThingOMeter: Spyke's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Odw3pIcM9fY&list=PLngPAEUQRS97CSQYQB6U6wwg3OOV2DG_L&index=3 Giftmas video]] counts the times Hinchy says "It's a [[{{ChristmasMiracle}} Giftmas Miracle]]!". It even counts back one when he 'takes back' a miracle.