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* HostilityOnTheSet: With Brad choosing to stay at Channel Awesome, his friendship with Creator/AllisonPregler has turned into mudslinging contest. Even if some allegations are more weighty than others, others chimed in with their own grievances. Brad's stance has always been that "Change The Channel" is nothing more than petty complaints fraught with half-truths and lies. Some rabid supporters harassed Brad's wife after her father's death. Laura accusing them of "swatting" and Brad's mother calling Allison out on Twitter didn't help. It's unfortunate that these people are in their thirties and still "responding" to one another via retweets and [=YouTube=] comments.

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* HostilityOnTheSet: With Brad choosing to stay at Channel Awesome, his friendship with Creator/AllisonPregler has turned into mudslinging contest.soured. Even if some allegations are more weighty than others, others chimed in with their own grievances. She was fine with Brad for years after leaving CA: she collaborated with him and was in one of his movies. However, Brad's stance has always been is that "Change The Channel" is nothing more than petty complaints fraught internet blowhard stuff. As soon as he shared that opinion in an interview, things changed. Even though Allison said multiple times not to harass anyone who stayed with half-truths Channel Awesome, she downplayed the hate mail he received and lies. insinuated that he helped [[WebVideo/YouCanPlayThis cover-up sexual abuse.]] Some rabid supporters harassed Brad's wife after her father's death. Laura accusing them of "swatting" and Brad's mother calling Allison out on Twitter didn't help. It's unfortunate that these people are in their thirties and still "responding" to one another via retweets and [=YouTube=] comments.
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* HostilityOnTheSet: With Brad choosing to stay at Channel Awesome, his friendship with Creator/AllisonPregler has turned into mudslinging contest. Even if some allegations are more weighty than others, others chimed in with their own grievances. Brad's stance has always been that "Change The Channel" is nothing more than petty complaints fraught with half-truths and lies. Some rabid supporters harassed Brad's wife after her father's death. Laura accusing them of "swatting" and Brad's mother calling Allison out on Twitter didn't help. It's unfortunate that these people are in their thirties and still "responding" to one another via retweets and [=YouTube=] comments.
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** The March 2019 review of Creator/TylerPerry's ''Film/DiaryOfAMadBlackWoman'' went down within hours of its upload, taking ''Boo! A Madea Halloween'' with it. The former was restored about a month later.

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** The March 2019 review of Creator/TylerPerry's ''Film/DiaryOfAMadBlackWoman'' went down within hours of its upload, taking ''Boo! A Madea Halloween'' with it. The former was restored about a month later.Both were subsequently restored.
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* ReferencedBy: ''Webcomic/CinemaSnobReviewsFrozen'' is a fan comic imaging if Snob reviewed Disney's ''Disney/{{Frozen}}'', but still in Snob's typical style. It even features a Pierre Kirby cameo.

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* ReferencedBy: ''Webcomic/CinemaSnobReviewsFrozen'' is a fan comic imaging if Snob reviewed Disney's ''Disney/{{Frozen}}'', ''WesternAnimation/Frozen2013'', but still in Snob's typical style. It even features a Pierre Kirby cameo.
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---->'''Young Snob:''' ''(throws video to the ground [[OffscreenCrash with a smash]])''\\

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---->'''Young Snob:''' ''(throws video to the ground [[OffscreenCrash with a smash]])''\\loud smashing sound]])''\\



* ScrewedByTheNetwork: Brad has noted that, due to Website/YouTube's crackdown on ConspiracyTheorist content, he can't upload old reviews for films with titles like ''Film/HitlerDeadOrAlive'' or ''Film/TheySavedHitlersBrain'' to the site without risking his account's demonetization. He also is unwilling to re-upload reviews with "Porn" in the title to the site (which led him to turn to [=PornHub=] for those episodes), and its copyright policies forced him to abandon "[[Series/TheGreatestAmericanHero Believe It or Not]]" as the show's theme.
* ScrewedByTheLawyers: At times, new episodes will be taken down due to the reviewed work's distributor issuing a copyright claim. Brad himself has started to refer to such removals as [[PersonAsVerb "Lionsgated"]] given [[Creator/Lionsgate that studio]] caused the first case with ''Hillary's America'' (twice!) and did it again with ''Diary of Mad Black Woman''. As MissingEpisode above shows, new episodes usually return following an appeal, but at least one old one (''Can't Stop the Music'') seems to be nixed right upon upload.

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* ScrewedByTheNetwork: Brad has noted that, due to Website/YouTube's crackdown on ConspiracyTheorist content, he can't upload old reviews for films with titles like ''Film/HitlerDeadOrAlive'' or ''Film/TheySavedHitlersBrain'' to the site without risking his account's demonetization.demonetization (although he would be able to eventually upload the former). He also is unwilling to re-upload reviews with "Porn" in the title to the site (which led him to turn to [=PornHub=] for those episodes), and its copyright policies forced him to abandon "[[Series/TheGreatestAmericanHero Believe It or Not]]" as the show's theme.
* ScrewedByTheLawyers: At times, new episodes will be taken down due to the reviewed work's distributor issuing a copyright claim. Brad himself has started to refer to such removals as [[PersonAsVerb "Lionsgated"]] given [[Creator/Lionsgate [[Creator/{{Lionsgate}} that studio]] caused the first case with ''Hillary's America'' (twice!) and did it again with ''Diary of Mad Black Woman''. As MissingEpisode above shows, new episodes usually return following an appeal, but at least one old one (''Can't Stop the Music'') seems to be nixed right upon upload.
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** 500th: A {{Gamebook|s}} video about the "life and career" of Creator/SteveGuttenberg by pretending the roles he played were his actual life story.

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** 500th: "Choose Your Own Guttenberg": A {{Gamebook|s}} video about the "life and career" of Creator/SteveGuttenberg by pretending the roles he played were his actual life story.
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* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: Any episode that Brad hasn't reuploaded to his channel. Usually made available by fans, specially foreign ones (says something a few reuploads earn the comments "finally a copy of this without subtitles in another language!").

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* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: Any episode that was pulled from the web that Brad hasn't reuploaded to his Website/YouTube channel. Usually made available by fans, specially especially foreign ones (says something that a few reuploads earn the comments along the lines of "finally a copy of this without subtitles in another language!").
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* TooSoon:
** The Snob cracks a joke about Oscar Pistorius shooting through a door in the ''Crackerjack'' review. He acknowledges it's too soon, but then promptly tells his viewers to fuck off.
** He asks if it's too soon to make a joke about Creator/RogerEbert writing [[Film/BeyondTheValleyOfTheDolls a movie]] that features a song called "Sweet Talking Candy Man", then gives up and lets an unseen audience boo at him.
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* ScheduleSlip: Began recording episodes for "The Cinema Snob Punches Nazis" DVD in early 2018 with an expected release later in the year, but due to preproduction (and later production) on ''Film/AnotherCinemaSnobMovie'' taking precedence, the DVD ultimately wasn't completed and released until 2019.

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** Also, done with every WatchItForTheMeme movie, such as ''Film/SilentNightDeadlyNightPart2'' ("Garbage Day!"), ''Film/MommieDearest'' ("No more wirehangers!"), ''Film/Troll2'' ("Oh my Gooood!...") and ''Second Glance'' ("Hey Scotty! Jesus, man!").

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** Also, done with every WatchItForTheMeme movie, such as ''Film/SilentNightDeadlyNightPart2'' ("Garbage Day!"), ''Film/MommieDearest'' ("No more wirehangers!"), wire hangers!"), ''Film/Troll2'' ("Oh my Gooood!...") and ''Second Glance'' ("Hey Scotty! Jesus, man!").



* ScullyBox: A few crossovers alternate between disguising or highlighting Brad's small size compared to the other reviewer. The intro to ''Film/MyraBreckinridge'' shows how WebVideo/DiamandaHagan towers over Brad, and the review itself with them in bed has him sitting on pillows to make both about the same height. In another with just camera tricks, the intro to ''Film/TromeoAndJuliet'' to make Brad taller than [[WebVideo/BrowsHeldHigh Kyle]] (once Linkara enters the shot, it's clear Kyle is bigger).

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* ScullyBox: A few crossovers alternate between disguising or highlighting Brad's small size compared to the other reviewer. The intro to ''Film/MyraBreckinridge'' shows how WebVideo/DiamandaHagan towers over Brad, and the review itself with them in bed has him sitting on pillows to make both about the same height. In another with just camera tricks, the intro to ''Film/TromeoAndJuliet'' to make Brad taller than [[WebVideo/BrowsHeldHigh Kyle]] Kyle Kallgren]] (once Linkara enters the shot, it's clear Kyle is bigger).


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* ScrewedByTheLawyers: At times, new episodes will be taken down due to the reviewed work's distributor issuing a copyright claim. Brad himself has started to refer to such removals as [[PersonAsVerb "Lionsgated"]] given [[Creator/Lionsgate that studio]] caused the first case with ''Hillary's America'' (twice!) and did it again with ''Diary of Mad Black Woman''. As MissingEpisode above shows, new episodes usually return following an appeal, but at least one old one (''Can't Stop the Music'') seems to be nixed right upon upload.
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* OrphanedReference: His review of ''In Search of the Wow Wow Wibble Woggle Wazzie Woodle Woo'' makes a joke about a Denny's commercial that used to air before the episode on Blip at the time of upload. With the ad later being replaced, and then the demise of Blip, the joke has lost its meaning.
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** According to Brad, he first checked out ''Savage Vengeance'' because Donald Farmer, the films director, left a comment on one of his videos saying "I made the worst film ever".
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* RealLifeWritesThePlot: Brad's DVD collection was stolen during his move, which was referenced on the show. The theft was precipitated by Brad's layoff from his job. Brad conducts "Sexploitation Week" while sitting on the bare floor, inspiring him to label those reviews the [[{{Pun}} Floor Season]]. (He didn't ''actually'' sell off his furniture - the iconic chair returned in due time).
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Correcting, as Choose Your Own Adventure is now a disambig between the genre (Gamebooks) and the book series.


** 500th: A ChooseYourOwnAdventure video about the "life and career" of Creator/SteveGuttenberg by pretending the roles he played were his actual life story.

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** 500th: A ChooseYourOwnAdventure {{Gamebook|s}} video about the "life and career" of Creator/SteveGuttenberg by pretending the roles he played were his actual life story.
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* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: Any episode that Brad hasn't reuploaded to his channel. Usually made available by fans, specially foreign ones (says something a few reuploads earn the comments "finally a copy of this without subtitles in another language!").
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* ScrewedByTheNetwork: Brad has noted that, due to Website/YouTube's crackdown on ConspiracyTheorist content, he can't upload old reviews for films with titles like ''Film/HitlerDeadOrAlive'' or ''Film/TheySavedHitlersBrain'' to the site without risking his account's demonetization. He also is unwilling to re-upload reviews with "Porn" in the title to the site (which led him to turn to [=PornHub=] for those episodes), and its copyright policies forced him to abandon "[[Series/TheGreatestAmericanHero Believe it or Not]]" as the show's theme.

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* ScrewedByTheNetwork: Brad has noted that, due to Website/YouTube's crackdown on ConspiracyTheorist content, he can't upload old reviews for films with titles like ''Film/HitlerDeadOrAlive'' or ''Film/TheySavedHitlersBrain'' to the site without risking his account's demonetization. He also is unwilling to re-upload reviews with "Porn" in the title to the site (which led him to turn to [=PornHub=] for those episodes), and its copyright policies forced him to abandon "[[Series/TheGreatestAmericanHero Believe it It or Not]]" as the show's theme.
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* InspirationForTheWork:
** Creator/BradJones was inspired to create the series after watching Creator/RogerEbert's review of ''Film/FridayThe13thTheFinalChapter''. He said that the review "made me think of how odd it is in general to see film snobs try to review horror or exploitation films...I'm reviewing these movies the same way a pretentious cinema snob would and I'm trying to give some laughs at the expense of the movies to people like me who really do love exploitation films."
** He based the Snob's appearance and voice on an audience member he saw at a Q&A panel for Creator/GeorgeARomero, who told Romero how he had interpreted ''Film/MonkeyShines'' as a metaphor for evolution and the bond between animal and man.


** Sometimes, Brad-As-Himself and Cinema Snob verbally disagree with one another as if they're in the same room; Cinema Snob hates everything, while Brad [[TheresNoBInMovie loves horrible movies]], so of course they clash.

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** Sometimes, Brad-As-Himself and Cinema Snob verbally disagree with one another as if they're in the same room; Cinema Snob hates everything, while Brad [[TheresNoBInMovie [[UnabashedBMovieFan loves horrible movies]], so of course they clash.
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* ScrewedByTheNetwork: Brad has noted that, due to Website/YouTube's crackdown on ConspiracyTheorist content, he can't upload old reviews for films with titles like ''Hitler: Dead or Alive'' or ''They Saved Hitler's Brain'' to the site without risking his account's demonetization. He also is unwilling to re-upload reviews with "Porn" in the title to the site (which led him to turn to [=PornHub=] for those episodes), and its copyright policies forced him to abandon "[[Series/TheGreatestAmericanHero Believe it or Not]]" as the show's theme.

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* ScrewedByTheNetwork: Brad has noted that, due to Website/YouTube's crackdown on ConspiracyTheorist content, he can't upload old reviews for films with titles like ''Hitler: Dead ''Film/HitlerDeadOrAlive'' or Alive'' or ''They Saved Hitler's Brain'' ''Film/TheySavedHitlersBrain'' to the site without risking his account's demonetization. He also is unwilling to re-upload reviews with "Porn" in the title to the site (which led him to turn to [=PornHub=] for those episodes), and its copyright policies forced him to abandon "[[Series/TheGreatestAmericanHero Believe it or Not]]" as the show's theme.
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* ScrewedByTheNetwork: Brad has noted that, due to Website/YouTube's crackdown on ConspiracyTheorist content, he can't upload old reviews for films with titles like ''Hitler: Dead or Alive?'' or ''They Saved Hitler's Brain'' to the site without risking his account's demonetization. He also is unwilling to re-upload reviews with "Porn" in the title to the site (which led him to turn to [=PornHub=] for those episodes), and its copyright policies forced him to abandon "[[Series/TheGreatestAmericanHero Believe it or Not]]" as the show's theme.

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* ScrewedByTheNetwork: Brad has noted that, due to Website/YouTube's crackdown on ConspiracyTheorist content, he can't upload old reviews for films with titles like ''Hitler: Dead or Alive?'' Alive'' or ''They Saved Hitler's Brain'' to the site without risking his account's demonetization. He also is unwilling to re-upload reviews with "Porn" in the title to the site (which led him to turn to [=PornHub=] for those episodes), and its copyright policies forced him to abandon "[[Series/TheGreatestAmericanHero Believe it or Not]]" as the show's theme.
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* ScrewedByTheNetwork: Brad has noted that, due to Website/YouTube's crackdown on ConspiracyTheorist content, he can't risk uploading old episodes with titles like ''Hitler: Dead or Alive?'' or ''They Saved Hitler's Brain'' to the site without risking his account's demonetization. He also is unwilling to risk re-uploading reviews with "Porn" in the title to the site (which led him to turn to [=PornHub=] for those episodes), and its copyright policies forced him to abandon "[[Series/TheGreatestAmericanHero Believe it or Not]]" as the show's theme.

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* ScrewedByTheNetwork: Brad has noted that, due to Website/YouTube's crackdown on ConspiracyTheorist content, he can't risk uploading upload old episodes reviews for films with titles like ''Hitler: Dead or Alive?'' or ''They Saved Hitler's Brain'' to the site without risking his account's demonetization. He also is unwilling to risk re-uploading re-upload reviews with "Porn" in the title to the site (which led him to turn to [=PornHub=] for those episodes), and its copyright policies forced him to abandon "[[Series/TheGreatestAmericanHero Believe it or Not]]" as the show's theme.
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* ScrewedByTheNetwork: Brad has noted that, due to Website/YouTube's crackdown on ConspiracyTheorist content, he can't risk uploading old episodes with titles like ''Hitler: Dead or Alive?'' or ''They Saved Hitler's Brain'' to the site without risking his account's demonetization. He also is unwilling to risk re-uploading reviews with "Porn" in the title to the site (which led him to turn to [=PornHub=] for those episodes), and its copyright policies forced him to abandon "[[Series/TheGreatestAmericanHero Believe it or Not]]" as the show's theme.
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** Also, a number of movies have gone on to [[CultClassic cult status]] since appearing on his show, such as ''Film/NudistColonyOfTheDead'', ''Zombie 90'', and anything starring Pierre Kirby or directed by Bruno Mattei. The DVD-R Hell reviews have done this for ''Tequila and Bonetti''.

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** Also, a number of movies have gone on to [[CultClassic cult status]] since appearing on his show, such as ''Film/NudistColonyOfTheDead'', ''Zombie 90'', and anything starring Pierre Kirby or directed by Bruno Mattei.Creator/BrunoMattei. The DVD-R Hell reviews have done this for ''Tequila and Bonetti''.
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* CreatorsFavoriteEpisode: Brad's favourite episodes are ''Wired'', ''Film/{{Bushwhacked}}'', and ''Miss Velma's Most Incredibly Magnificent Christmas Week''.

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* CreatorsFavoriteEpisode: Brad's Brad has gone on record to say that his favourite episodes are ''Wired'', ''Film/{{Bushwhacked}}'', and ''Miss Velma's Most Incredibly Magnificent Christmas Week''.
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* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: At the end of the ''Zero In and Scream'' review, the Snob complains that the DVD isn't even in widescreen, then looks up to notice that his review isn't in widescreen either, and claps his hands to add black bars to the top and bottom of the screen. The review was made back when [=YouTube=] used a 4:3 player, so the bars would've given the review the intended widescreen effect at the time of the review's release. However, when watching the review on a now-standard 16:9 player, all the Snob ends up doing is further letterboxing himself.

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* CreatorsFavoriteEpisode: Brad's favourite episodes are ''Wired'', ''Film/{{Bushwhacked}}'', and ''Miss Velma's Most Incredibly Magnificent Christmas Week''.



* RecycledScript: According to Brad himself, the ''Zombie 4: After Death'' script was originally written for a DVD review site, and he just added some vulgarity to make it a Snob episode.
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** The episode about ''Hillary's America'' was taken down shorlty after being posted in August 2018, with a re-cut re-upload suffering the same fate. It has since being reuploaded.
** The March 2019 review of Creator/TylerPerry's ''Film/DiaryOfAMadBlackWoman'' went down within hours of its upload, taking ''Boo! A Madea Halloween'' with it.
** ''Film/CantStopTheMusic'''s review won't be re-uploaded to Brad's channel anytime soon because every time Brad tries it Studio Canal flags it with a copyright claim. Snob lampshades that in the CSTM part of 'Choose Your Own Guttenberg', in which he just skips to the next set of choices cause he literally could only show three clips.

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** The episode about ''Hillary's America'' was taken down shorlty after being posted in August 2018, posted, with a re-cut re-upload suffering the same fate. It has since being reuploaded.
** The March 2019 review of Creator/TylerPerry's ''Film/DiaryOfAMadBlackWoman'' went down within hours of its upload, taking ''Boo! A Madea Halloween'' with it.
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** ''Film/CantStopTheMusic'''s In the ''Film/CantStopTheMusic'' chapter of "Choose Your Own Guttenberg", Snob revealed that his previous review of that film was taken down, and that it won't be re-uploaded to Brad's his channel anytime soon soon, because every time Brad he tries it Studio Canal flags it with a copyright claim. Snob lampshades that As a result, in the CSTM part of 'Choose Your Own Guttenberg', in which he chapter Snob just skips to the next set of choices cause he literally could only show three clips.
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I have been informed that someone else managed it.


** ''Film/CantStopTheMusic'''s review won't be re-uploaded anytime soon because every time Brad tries it Studio Canal flags it with a copyright claim. Snob lampshades that in the CSTM part of 'Choose Your Own Guttenberg', in which he just skips to the next set of choices cause he literally could only show three clips.

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** ''Film/CantStopTheMusic'''s review won't be re-uploaded to Brad's channel anytime soon because every time Brad tries it Studio Canal flags it with a copyright claim. Snob lampshades that in the CSTM part of 'Choose Your Own Guttenberg', in which he just skips to the next set of choices cause he literally could only show three clips.
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** ''Film/CantStopTheMusic'''s review won't be re-uploaded anytime soon because every time Brad tries it Studio Canal flags it with a copyright claim. Snob lampshades that in the CSTM part of 'Choose Your Own Guttenberg', in which he just skips to the next set of choices cause he literally could only show three clips.
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** 500th: A ChooseYourOwnAdventure video about the life and career of Creator/SteveGuttenberg.

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** 500th: A ChooseYourOwnAdventure video about the "life and career" of Creator/SteveGuttenberg by pretending the roles he played were his actual life and career of Creator/SteveGuttenberg.story.

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