History Trivia / TheAngryVideoGameNerd

** Back when he only had planned to make a trilogy of videos, the first two, of ''CastlevaniaII'' and ''Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde'' came out on May 7 and May 15, 2004, respectively. The third, ''The Karate Kid'', came out on February 10, 2006, for almost a two-year gap between those videos.

** James released the review on the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III movie (which was not suppose to be an official episode of the Angry Video Game Nerd) with the intention of starting a spin-off series called the Angry Movie Nerd. While the review was quite good, the series never happened. Although he had eventually started doing movie reviews as himself for Spike.com instead.

** In his first ''Chronologically Confused'' video, he complains about the upcoming Rocky movie being called ''Rocky Balboa'', and sarcastically quips "Now with talk of Rambo 4 coming out, what're they gonna do, call it ''John Rambo''?!" Well, that's exactly what they did... until they subsequently changed it again to just ''Rambo''(and it actually ''was'' called John Rambo in some countries).

* IKnewIt: After the Film/BackToTheFuture re-revisited episode, he mentioned that he had another game to re-revisit. Their expression in the Nerd's face gave very obvious hints that he was going to re-revisit the ''Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde'' NES game. One month later, this is the game that he re-revisited. Possibly it could count as {{Foreshadowing}} too.

* IKnewIt: After the Film/BackToTheFuture re-revisited episode, he mentioned that he had other game to re-revisit. Their expression in the Nerd's face gave very obvious hints that he was going to re-revisit the ''Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde'' NES game. One month later, this is the game that he re-revisited. Possibly it could count as {{Foreshadowing}} too.

** In his first ''Chronologically Confused'' video, he complains about the upcoming Rocky movie being called ''Rocky Balboa'', and sarcastically quips "Now with talk of Rambo 4 coming out, what're they gonna do, call it ''John Rambo''?!" Well, that's exactly what they did... until they subsequently changed it again to just ''Rambo''.

** James intended to have a spin-off of the Angry Video Game Nerd, called the Angry Movie Nerd, starting with the review on Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III film. While the review was quite good, he never picked up on the idea. He had since been doing movie reviews as himself instead.

** Back in 2009, James had planned an episode covering ''Franchise/GIJoe'' games to coincide with the then-recent release of ''Film/GIJoeTheRiseOfCobra''. However, he stated that the games [[http://cinemassacre.com/2009/08/11/no-g-i-joe/ "weren't shitty enough for the Nerd."]]

** The Shit Pickle, and more recently, Nerdy Turd.
** With the real JamesRolfe!
** And then, the Bullshit Man from ''You Know What's Bullshit?''

** The Nerd occasionally exchanges dialogue (at least as much as he can with a being whose vocabulary consists mainly of variations of [[RefugeInVulgarity 'fuck' and 'die']]) with Super Mecha Death Christ, also voiced by James.

* DyeingForYourArt: James grew his mustache to play Gomez in the Addams Family review.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: James Rolfe commented about unused ideas for the Nintendo World Championship episode, which included one in which the two versions of the cartridge unleashed a magical power when combined, and another that spoofed ''Film/TheMalteseFalcon'', with gangsters approaching the Nerd, willing to kill for the game.

** In his first ''{{Chronologically Confused}}'' video, he complains about the upcoming Rocky movie being called ''Rocky Balboa'', and sarcastically quips "Now with talk of Rambo 4 coming out, what're they gonna do, call it ''John Rambo''?!" Well, that's exactly what they did... until they subsequently changed it again to just ''Rambo''.
** In that same video he comments about the Mega Man games: "Now if only they made a ''Mega Man 9'', it would come full circle. That game was released less than two years later.

** In his ''{{Rocky}}'' video, he complains about the upcoming movie being called ''Rocky Balboa'', and sarcastically quips "If they make another Rambo movie, are they gonna call it ''John Rambo''?" Well, that's exactly what they did.

** The 2010 Christmas episode features music by Bear [=McCreary=], best known as the lead composer for ''BattlestarGalactica''.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: James Rolfe commented about unused ideas for the Nintendo World Championship episode, which included one in which the two versions of the cartridge unleashed a magical power when combined, and another that spoofed ''Film/TheMalteseFalcon'', with gangsters approaching the Nerd, willing to kill for the game.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: James Rolfe commented about unused ideas for the Nintendo World Championship episode, which included one in which the two versions of the cartridge unleashed a magical power when combined, and another that spoofed TheMalteseFalcon, with gangsters approaching the Nerd, willing to kill for the game.

* GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff: Oddly enough, the Nerd has developed something of a cult following on Japanese YouTube-equivalent Nico Nico Douga, with dedicated groups translating his videos.

** Motherfucker Mike. As you can tell from his videos, he's actually nowhere ''near'' the character he is in "Board James".

* ScheduleSlip: Justified when he went from two videos a month to one, since the amount of work began to really exhaust him... and he is working on a movie.

* MeanCharacterNiceActor: JamesRolfe is a pretty nice guy, don't let the Nerd fool you.

* IKnewIt: After the BackToTheFuture re-revisited episode, he mentioned that he had other game to re-revisit. Their expression in the Nerd's face gave very obvious hints that he was going to re-revisit the ''Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde'' NES game. One month later, this is the game that he re-revisited. Possibly it could count as {{Foreshadowing}} too.

* [=~Hey, It's That Guy!~=]: Stuttering Craig and Handsome Tom, who did [=ScrewAttack=]'s (the site that hosts the Nerd's videos) {{Top Ten List}}s, appear as the Ghost of Christmas Past and the Ghost of Christmas Present.

* FollowTheLeader: Inspired a glut of profanity-filled internet video game reviews, with TheIrateGamer being among the most prominent.