History Recap / TheNostalgiaCriticS10E13

* WTHCastingAgency: [[InUniverse The Critic]] thinks that Ken Jeong was given a potentially [[StarDerailingRole career-derailing role]] as Mr. Greene because Creator/PattonOswalt outright refused the role.

** The Critic claims to have attained enlightenment such that he can predict the plot of Creator/MichaelBay's ''Film/{{Transformers}}'' movies, something [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ctembQrH_0k he actually tried]] for ''Film/TransformersTheLastKnight'' three weeks prior to this episode.

** Norm to [[WesternAnimation/{{Madagascar}} Alex the Lion]] (a social misfit)

** The lemmings are compared unfavorably to [[WesternAnimation/DespicableMe the Minions]], [[WesternAnimation/{{Brave}} Harris, Hubert and Hamish]], the various creatures from [[WesternAnimation/TheLorax2012 the animated adaptation]] of ''Literature/TheLorax'', the four penguins from ''WesternAnimation/{{Madagascar}}'', and [[WesternAnimation/IceAge Scrat]].
** When the Critic claims ''Norm of the North'' is a {{Mockbuster}} on its own, he puts up pictures of other cheap knockoffs such as ''Tappy Feet'' (''WesternAnimation/HappyFeet''), ''Frozen Land'' (''WesternAnimation/{{Frozen|2013}}''), ''What's Up'' (''WesternAnimation/{{Up}}''), ''Chop Kick Panda'' (''WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda''), ''Kiara the Brave'' (''WesternAnimation/{{Brave}}''), ''Ratatoing'' (''WesternAnimation/{{Ratatouille}}''), ''The Frog Princess'' (''WesternAnimation/ThePrincessAndTheFrog''), ''Tiny Robots'' (''WesternAnimation/{{Robots}}''), ''WesternAnimation/EscapeFromPlanetEarth'' (''WesternAnimation/Planet51'') and ''Little Bee'' (''WesternAnimation/BeeMovie'').

** The lemmings are compared unfavorably to [[WesternAnimation/DespicableMe the Minions]], [[WesternAnimation/{{Brave}} Harris, Hubert and Hamish]], the various creatures from [[WesternAnimation/TheLorax the animated adaptation]] of ''Literature/TheLorax'', the four penguins from ''WesternAnimation/{{Madagascar}}'', and [[WesternAnimation/IceAge Scrat]].

* UncannyValley: [[InUniverse Critic's opinion]] on Mr Greene's movements, which he describes as being "like a sped-up inflatable outside of a car rental".

* SomethingCompletelyDifferent: The Critic begins the review with a shaved head and dressed up as a Buddhist monk.

* AscendedToAHigherPlaneOfExistence: The Critic claims that ''Norm of the North'' is so bad that he has found enlightenment.
* BaitAndSwitch: After Norm randomly starts dancing for no reason, the Critic says [[TemptingFate "That's like if in the middle of this review, I randomly started dancing"]]... [[SubvertedTrope and then stares into the camera for a few seconds before continuing the review as normal.]] [[DoubleSubversion Then he randomly starts dancing a few minutes later]].