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* JustForPun: Brandon occasionally inserts puns during his MotorMouth moments.
** Cameron once tried to make one after the pair made a mess of Brandon's truck. He failed to deliver, to which they gave thumbs up and scary smiles to the camera until he meekly offered up the words "Car pun".
** Cameron once tried to make one after the pair made a mess of Brandon's truck. He failed to deliver, to which they gave thumbs up and scary smiles to the camera until he meekly offered up the words "Car pun".
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** Brandon occasionally inserts puns during his MotorMouth moments.
** Cameron once tried to make one after the pair made a mess of Brandon's truck. He failed to deliver, to which they gave thumbs up and scary smiles to the camera until he meekly offered up the words "Car pun".
** Brandon occasionally inserts puns during his MotorMouth moments.
** Cameron once tried to make one after the pair made a mess of Brandon's truck. He failed to deliver, to which they gave thumbs up and scary smiles to the camera until he meekly offered up the words "Car pun".
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* TrashTheSet: Brandon tends to make messes in the areas where he films. [[ViolationOfCommonSense Most of these messes would be better done outdoors.]]
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* UpToEleven: Decided to take a video featuring a tennis ball as a stress reliver and drastically upgraded it by filling his room with 100,000 plastic balls. It worked not only for him, but for Gloria and Autumn as well. Up until Gloria found evidence of his ''other'' antics for that video...
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* AddedAlliterativeAppeal: Some of his MotorMouth moments start with him rattling off a sentence full of alliteration.
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** Both he and Cameron tend to spit out drinks that Brandon has bought online. Such as Hot Wings soda and camel milk.
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** After he got married, he ran his vows through Google Translate and read them on-camera to Gloria. Between the WordSaladHumor and implied BrotherSisterIncest, Gloria is laughing so hard she can barely stand by the time he's done.
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** Once dressed as the Red-Light-Green-Light doll from ''Series/SquidGame''.
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* WholesomeCrossdresser: If a life hack intends to fix specifically ''womens''' clothing, expect Brandon to be wearing it in the next cut.
** In [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dyRYN4WbT8M IF I SCREAM YOU WIN $10,000]], he spends the entire video dressed as the Red-Light-Green-Light doll from ''Series/SquidGame''.
** In [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dyRYN4WbT8M IF I SCREAM YOU WIN $10,000]], he spends the entire video dressed as the Red-Light-Green-Light doll from ''Series/SquidGame''.
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** His attempt to get Cameron with a Shocktato leads to a game of hot potato until the device discharges in Brandon's hands. He implies that the shock [[BringMyBrownPants caused him to soil himself]] as he excuses himself from the room.
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* OhCrap: In [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3c8smt-zhOo Things That SHOULD'T Be Sold On Amazon!]], Brandon passes Cameron a vaguely potato-shaped item with metal caps all over it. Once Cameron realizes that the musical device is a Shocktato, he immediately tries to dump it back into Brandon's lap. Game is achieved until [[HoistByHisOwnPetard it eventually zaps Brandon, who leaves the room in pain]].
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* LiteralMinded: Combines it with recipes run through Google Translate. This can lead to some unusual steps in which Brandon does ''nothing'' for the actual food preparation (such as randomly looking over his shoulder at a bowl of cranberries or treating a bottle of honey like a child).
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* GroinAttack: Has had a few accidents which have nailed him in the groin.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: During the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nfl64Y6Jx You Scream You LOSE!]] video, his attempt to frighten Cameron by firing a large confetti popper behind him goes bad because he's holding it backwards, causing him [[GroinAttack to shoot himself in the crotch]].
* IAteWhat: Cameron unwittingly drinks a bottle of camel milk with Brandon and doesn't think to look at the label until both of them are absolutely revolted by the taste (and the chewing). Otherwise, Cameron tries to avoid falling for this by asking ''before'' he eats or drinks whatever Brandon hands him.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: During the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nfl64Y6Jx You Scream You LOSE!]] video, his attempt to frighten Cameron by firing a large confetti popper behind him goes bad because he's holding it backwards, causing him [[GroinAttack to shoot himself in the crotch]].
* IAteWhat: Cameron unwittingly drinks a bottle of camel milk with Brandon and doesn't think to look at the label until both of them are absolutely revolted by the taste (and the chewing). Otherwise, Cameron tries to avoid falling for this by asking ''before'' he eats or drinks whatever Brandon hands him.
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* IAteWhat: Cameron unwittingly drinks a bottle of camel milk with Brandon and doesn't think to look at the label until both of them are absolutely revolted by the taste (and the chewing). Otherwise, Cameron tries to avoid falling for this by asking ''before'' he eats or drinks whatever Brandon hands him.
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* RougeAnglesOfSatin: Occasionally pops up in the videos' subtitles. For instance, using "censor" rather than "sensor", although it is not clear if Brandon's editor is doing this on purpose or not.
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* BaitAndSwitch: Goes hand-in-hand with his puns. For instance:
-->'''Brandon''': ''(in a grave tone)'' "So, here's the pickle." ''(produces a jar of [[ItMakesSenseInContext coke-soaked pickles from a ball pit]])''
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* ThisIsGonnaSuck: Cameron and Gloria occasionally wear expressions indicating this when Brandon goes to get something. One instance for Cameron is subtitled with "*instant regret*" when he, after Brandon leaves to go get some water, realizes he did not think to ask what kind of water Brandon was bringing. [[spoiler:It was hot dog water infused with a pitcher.]]
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** Once makes reference to Music/BritneySpears and her difficulties with her father's hold on her finances by addressing [[ItMakesSenseInContext a jar of coke-soaked pickles as if talking to her father]].
* SpitTake: Occasionally. As the videos he watches tend to not reveal their purpose right away, Brandon will be in the middle of a drink when the video concludes with a solution that he was not expecting and will spit up his drink in surprise.
* ThisIsGonnaSuck: Cameron and Gloria occasionally wear expressions indicating this when Brandon goes to get something. One instance for Cameron is subtitled with "*instant regret*" when he, after Brandon leaves to go get some water, realizes he did not think to ask what kind of water Brandon was bringing.[[spoiler:It was hot dog [[spoiler:Brandon used a pitcher to infuse water infused with a pitcher.hot dogs.]]
* SpitTake: Occasionally. As the videos he watches tend to not reveal their purpose right away, Brandon will be in the middle of a drink when the video concludes with a solution that he was not expecting and will spit up his drink in surprise.
* ThisIsGonnaSuck: Cameron and Gloria occasionally wear expressions indicating this when Brandon goes to get something. One instance for Cameron is subtitled with "*instant regret*" when he, after Brandon leaves to go get some water, realizes he did not think to ask what kind of water Brandon was bringing.
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** He also likes to try quick recipes on Tik Tok. The ones that are remotely edible are few and far between.
* DelayedReaction: While trying a soda-spraying gun that Brandon bought based on a Tik Tok video, Cameron takes a few minutes to realize that Brandon actually has Coke in the house and that Brandon offering him a drink earlier was an excuse to make him drink hotdog water.
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* IAteWhat: Cameron unwittingly drinks a bottle of camel milk with Brandon and doesn't think to look at the label until both of them are absolutely revolted by the taste (and the chewing). Otherwise, Cameron tries to avoid falling for this by asking ''before'' he eats or drinks whatever Brandon hands him.
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* NakedPeopleAreFunny: Brandon often does not mind tearing his clothes in order to modify them to fit the WardrobeMalfunction scenario presented by a Tik Tok video. Other times, he tries using the wrong items to improvise clothing and winds up quite exposed; the page image comes from a life hack using a ''trash'' bag, but all Brandon had were shopping bags.
* NoodleIncident: From the same video as the page image, apparently, Brandon once had to wear a plastic shopping bag while on a car trip as a child. He does not explain why.
* NoodleIncident: From the same video as the page image, apparently, Brandon once had to wear a plastic shopping bag while on a car trip as a child. He does not explain why.
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* UnfortunateImplications: Occasionally points these out in some of the life hacks he watches. When one shows a man engaging with a child by taping his phone to his forehead so that the child is entertained by the phone, Brandon remarks that there must be something wrong with the man's relationship with the child if this is necessary (especially if this man is meant to be the child's father).
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[[caption-width-right:350:Brandon and his co-host Kelly. [[ItMakesSenseInContext Yes, that is a Walmart bag]].]]
-> ''"You deserve to laugh."''
[[https://www.youtube.com/c/brandonfarrisvlog Brandon Farris]] is a [=YouTube=] personality going back to 2013 who specializes in viewing and applying "life hacks", buying and trying items advertised on the Internet, doing LetsPlay videos primarily of the horror game genre, trying exotic foods, and allowing Google Translate to give him instructions on cooking.
Brandon is easily frightened and tends to do things as incompetently as possible.
Part of Brandon's usual routine is to overreact to things that frighten him and perform different tasks while offering commentary up until the task has failed, during which he starts complaining about the applicability of something he can't get to work (so long as he is not writhing in pain). Originally starting his channel as a vlog, he found a niche in failing to perform tasks as seen on Tik Tok, playing with random objects he bought from the Internet, playing video games which he knows will cause him to scream and jump away in terror, trying foods from other countries or bugs that have been made edible (in spite of a crippling fear of anything with more than four legs), and following Google translations of recipes as close to the letter as possible just to destroy his kitchen. This is on top of doing activities with his friends and family. His main channel features Maria Gloria and Cameron Domasky, fellow Youtubers with the former being Brandon's girlfriend.
Although he tries to maintain a curse-free and friendly channel, many of his earlier videos feature clips which are adult-oriented.
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!!Brandon provides examples of:
* AmusingInjuries: A staple of Brandon's channel that comes in three general forms: having a life hack backfire or having to exert himself in a small room already full of objects, taking abuse from Cameron (usually after Brandon has inflicted the same on him), or, as found on his gaming channel, flailing about after being frightened by a jumpscare and smacking a nearby object. He usually recovers quickly, and it is most often self-inflicted.
* BlackHumor: In spite of Brandon's dedication to a child-friendly main channel, he occasionally slips into this. For example, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ow-UgtkHoBM Things TIKTOK Made Me Buy!]] features him tangling himself in a string of [=LEDs=] and miming hanging himself.
* BrickJoke: Once was so frightened by a jumpscare that he randomly ripped the cover off the microphone and shoved it in his mouth. In the next video, he comments about a hair from his beard being caught in the cover as a result.
* ButtMonkey: Invoked for his videos, usually by failing to perform a life hack or allowing Cameron or Gloria to inflict pain on him. His main premise is to make people laugh (as indicated in the description on his channel), and he prefers to do this by doing horrible things or allowing horrible things to happen to himself.
** Cameron on occasion as well, usually because of Brandon.
* CameraAbuse: Being front and center to Brandon's antics, the cameras and other equipment he uses for his videos take some of the abuse, normally in the form of being covered in exploding liquid.
* CollectorOfTheStrange: Regularly peruses Amazon and Tik Tok for items to use in his videos. This has included [[NoodleImplements two pairs of silicon feet, a riding crop, and about one hundred thousand plastic balls for a ball pit]]. Not all in the same video.
* CompanionCube: A canvas portrait of "Kelly". One Q&A video reveals that Brandon had received the protrait by mistake and contacted the real "Kelly" about it. Which doesn't explain why he still has the portrait. He has since made it his co-host and regularly addresses the portrait in the middle of his usual antics, most of which the portrait is capable of surviving better than Brandon.
* CordonBleughChef: Invoked by running recipes through Google Translate, though this mostly seems to hinge on him actually putting something on the stove or in the oven rather than just smearing it all over his kitchen.
* CreepyChild: Autumn tends to do things that scare Brandon, often becoming the subject of one of his car vlogs.
* DeadpanSnarker: Brandon will turn this way while playing a game that he is constantly dying on, his surprise giving way to irritation at being stuck and seeing the same jumpscare over and over.
** Cameron and Gloria, both because of Brandon's antics.
* DoubleEntendre: Brandon fills his rooms with plastic balls for children's ball pits. Both him and Gloria let the jokes fly like this likely because Autumn is with them.
* DoubleTake: He occasionally has to rewind videos to make sure he correctly understood what was happening in the video when the people in the video seem to be doing something he does not expect.
* EpicFail: Brandon's main schtick is to view life hacks from [=YouTube=] and Tik Tok and attempt to imitate them with whatever he happens to have on-hand. His success is limited, but there are occasions when something will not end in a spectacular mess or leave him in pain.
* EvenTheSubtitlerIsStumped: Brandon's editor winds up subtitling gibberish due to Brandon, and sometimes Cameron, saying something incomprehensible on-camera.
* FunWithSubtitles: Brandon's editor, especially on the gaming channel, likes to deliver some snarky comments with the subtitles. These include making fun of Brandon in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AcNS8bz1FLI PLAYING FNAF SECURITY BREACH]] for having to restart the game because he did not see the save stations. In [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nfl64Y6Jx You Scream You LOSE!]], when Brandon and Cameron prompt him to display who is winning, the editor snarks about them being in a tie.
* JustForPun: Brandon occasionally inserts puns during his MotorMouth moments.
** Brandon provides two sets of items (a pair of silicon feet, a lap(-shaped) pillow, and a torso-shaped pillow with breasts and one arm) just so he could tell Cameron that he ordered him a MailOrderBride.
** Cameron once tried to make one after the pair made a mess of Brandon's truck. He failed to deliver, to which they gave thumbs up and scary smiles to the camera until he meekly offered up the words "Car pun".
* MadLibsCatchphrase: Brandon will randomly utter "Save a (insert context-relative item). Ride a cowboy." in the course of trying out different life hacks, playing on Music/BigAndRich's "Save a Horse (Ride a Cowboy)".
* MotorMouth: His response to failing a life hack (either by his own incompetence or the life hack itself being complete bull) is to sit there and rant at the video, either for its misdirection or the horrible acting. He will also tear off on rants whenever he dies in a horror game.
* ObfuscatingStupidity: Brandon tends to forego what others would see as common sense and perform life hacks with either the wrong materials or by not following directions as spelled out on the video. In spite of this, he never does anything which has the potential to send him or others to the hospital. In videos where he is not doing life hacks, he is shown to be much more competent (if a little klutzy).
* OffWithHisHead: Brandon accidentally takes the head off a doll while trying toy hacks in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VeFfq3X6g8I TRYING HILARIOUS TOY HACKS!]]. He and Cameron instantly break down hysterically laughing.
* PasteEater: On the gaming channel, Brandon was so surprised by a jumpscare that he randomly ripped the cover off the microphone and shoved it in his mouth. Twice. Subverted, of course; he spat it back out.
* RefugeInAudacity: Pulled by Autumn when Gloria finds a wad of gum stuck to her arm. Instead of explaining why the gum is on her mother's arm, Autumn takes the gum and pops it back into her mouth. The matter is never discussed again.
* RunningGag: In [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ow-UgtkHoBM Things TIKTOK Made Me Buy!]], Brandon and Cameron make puns with escargot after Brandon opens a can so that they can test a brand of mouthwash.
* ScreamsLikeALittleGirl: Often expresses surprise or pain in brief, high-pitched squeals before flailing and falling to the floor. He can also get like this around bugs.
* ShoutOut: To WebVideo/MrBeast when trying to figure out what he was going to do with the 100,000 plastic ball pit balls he had used to fill his room. The end of that specific video also features Mr. Beast's usual sign off audio.
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_IphxKLvFPE 21.6 HILARIOUS COUPLE LIFE HACKS!]] features his shelves filled with novelty TabletopGame/{{Monopoly}} boards, including ''VideoGame/{{Fortnite}}'' and ''Anime/{{Naruto}}''.
** Brandon randomly quotes "[[Music/BigAndRich Save a Horse (Ride a Cowboy)]]", replacing the word "horse" with something relevant to his current situation.
** [[Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda He has a cat named Zelda and a dog named Link.]]
* ThisIsGonnaSuck: Cameron and Gloria occasionally wear expressions indicating this when Brandon goes to get something. One instance for Cameron is subtitled with "*instant regret*" when he, after Brandon leaves to go get some water, realizes he did not think to ask what kind of water Brandon was bringing. [[spoiler:It was hot dog water infused with a pitcher.]]
* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Is often seen with a pink Starbucks drink. Which is also subject to the chaos he causes.
* TranslationTrainwreck: As befitting someone who uses Google Translate. Recipes are rendered nonsensical, but Brandon still tries to follow them if only for the laughs.
* UncannyValleyMakeup: Takes makeup life hacks to the extreme and will spend the rest of the video still wearing the makeup.
* UpToEleven: Decided to take a video featuring a tennis ball as a stress reliver and drastically upgraded it by filling his room with 100,000 plastic balls. It worked not only for him, but for Gloria and Autumn as well. Up until Gloria found evidence of his ''other'' antics for that video...
* VitriolicBestBuds: With Cameron to a degree. While they do not outright fight, they will intentionally inflict pain on one another, and Cameron can get exasperated with some of Brandon's antics. The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nfl64Y6Jx You Scream You LOSE!]] video is the best example of this as they purposefully make each other scream using things like a tennis ball and racket and a riding crop while insulting each other in between. The only reason they are red-faced at the end of the video is the pepper spray.
* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: Has an extreme aversion to bugs. Whether alive or packaged as food, he has to physically force himself to interact with things such as tarantulas, scorpions, or flavored grasshoppers. Otherwise, he would spend most of the video splayed in one corner screaming in panic.
[[caption-width-right:350:Brandon and his co-host Kelly. [[ItMakesSenseInContext Yes, that is a Walmart bag]].]]
-> ''"You deserve to laugh."''
[[https://www.youtube.com/c/brandonfarrisvlog Brandon Farris]] is a [=YouTube=] personality going back to 2013 who specializes in viewing and applying "life hacks", buying and trying items advertised on the Internet, doing LetsPlay videos primarily of the horror game genre, trying exotic foods, and allowing Google Translate to give him instructions on cooking.
Brandon is easily frightened and tends to do things as incompetently as possible.
Part of Brandon's usual routine is to overreact to things that frighten him and perform different tasks while offering commentary up until the task has failed, during which he starts complaining about the applicability of something he can't get to work (so long as he is not writhing in pain). Originally starting his channel as a vlog, he found a niche in failing to perform tasks as seen on Tik Tok, playing with random objects he bought from the Internet, playing video games which he knows will cause him to scream and jump away in terror, trying foods from other countries or bugs that have been made edible (in spite of a crippling fear of anything with more than four legs), and following Google translations of recipes as close to the letter as possible just to destroy his kitchen. This is on top of doing activities with his friends and family. His main channel features Maria Gloria and Cameron Domasky, fellow Youtubers with the former being Brandon's girlfriend.
Although he tries to maintain a curse-free and friendly channel, many of his earlier videos feature clips which are adult-oriented.
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!!Brandon provides examples of:
* AmusingInjuries: A staple of Brandon's channel that comes in three general forms: having a life hack backfire or having to exert himself in a small room already full of objects, taking abuse from Cameron (usually after Brandon has inflicted the same on him), or, as found on his gaming channel, flailing about after being frightened by a jumpscare and smacking a nearby object. He usually recovers quickly, and it is most often self-inflicted.
* BlackHumor: In spite of Brandon's dedication to a child-friendly main channel, he occasionally slips into this. For example, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ow-UgtkHoBM Things TIKTOK Made Me Buy!]] features him tangling himself in a string of [=LEDs=] and miming hanging himself.
* BrickJoke: Once was so frightened by a jumpscare that he randomly ripped the cover off the microphone and shoved it in his mouth. In the next video, he comments about a hair from his beard being caught in the cover as a result.
* ButtMonkey: Invoked for his videos, usually by failing to perform a life hack or allowing Cameron or Gloria to inflict pain on him. His main premise is to make people laugh (as indicated in the description on his channel), and he prefers to do this by doing horrible things or allowing horrible things to happen to himself.
** Cameron on occasion as well, usually because of Brandon.
* CameraAbuse: Being front and center to Brandon's antics, the cameras and other equipment he uses for his videos take some of the abuse, normally in the form of being covered in exploding liquid.
* CollectorOfTheStrange: Regularly peruses Amazon and Tik Tok for items to use in his videos. This has included [[NoodleImplements two pairs of silicon feet, a riding crop, and about one hundred thousand plastic balls for a ball pit]]. Not all in the same video.
* CompanionCube: A canvas portrait of "Kelly". One Q&A video reveals that Brandon had received the protrait by mistake and contacted the real "Kelly" about it. Which doesn't explain why he still has the portrait. He has since made it his co-host and regularly addresses the portrait in the middle of his usual antics, most of which the portrait is capable of surviving better than Brandon.
* CordonBleughChef: Invoked by running recipes through Google Translate, though this mostly seems to hinge on him actually putting something on the stove or in the oven rather than just smearing it all over his kitchen.
* CreepyChild: Autumn tends to do things that scare Brandon, often becoming the subject of one of his car vlogs.
* DeadpanSnarker: Brandon will turn this way while playing a game that he is constantly dying on, his surprise giving way to irritation at being stuck and seeing the same jumpscare over and over.
** Cameron and Gloria, both because of Brandon's antics.
* DoubleEntendre: Brandon fills his rooms with plastic balls for children's ball pits. Both him and Gloria let the jokes fly like this likely because Autumn is with them.
* DoubleTake: He occasionally has to rewind videos to make sure he correctly understood what was happening in the video when the people in the video seem to be doing something he does not expect.
* EpicFail: Brandon's main schtick is to view life hacks from [=YouTube=] and Tik Tok and attempt to imitate them with whatever he happens to have on-hand. His success is limited, but there are occasions when something will not end in a spectacular mess or leave him in pain.
* EvenTheSubtitlerIsStumped: Brandon's editor winds up subtitling gibberish due to Brandon, and sometimes Cameron, saying something incomprehensible on-camera.
* FunWithSubtitles: Brandon's editor, especially on the gaming channel, likes to deliver some snarky comments with the subtitles. These include making fun of Brandon in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AcNS8bz1FLI PLAYING FNAF SECURITY BREACH]] for having to restart the game because he did not see the save stations. In [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nfl64Y6Jx You Scream You LOSE!]], when Brandon and Cameron prompt him to display who is winning, the editor snarks about them being in a tie.
* JustForPun: Brandon occasionally inserts puns during his MotorMouth moments.
** Brandon provides two sets of items (a pair of silicon feet, a lap(-shaped) pillow, and a torso-shaped pillow with breasts and one arm) just so he could tell Cameron that he ordered him a MailOrderBride.
** Cameron once tried to make one after the pair made a mess of Brandon's truck. He failed to deliver, to which they gave thumbs up and scary smiles to the camera until he meekly offered up the words "Car pun".
* MadLibsCatchphrase: Brandon will randomly utter "Save a (insert context-relative item). Ride a cowboy." in the course of trying out different life hacks, playing on Music/BigAndRich's "Save a Horse (Ride a Cowboy)".
* MotorMouth: His response to failing a life hack (either by his own incompetence or the life hack itself being complete bull) is to sit there and rant at the video, either for its misdirection or the horrible acting. He will also tear off on rants whenever he dies in a horror game.
* ObfuscatingStupidity: Brandon tends to forego what others would see as common sense and perform life hacks with either the wrong materials or by not following directions as spelled out on the video. In spite of this, he never does anything which has the potential to send him or others to the hospital. In videos where he is not doing life hacks, he is shown to be much more competent (if a little klutzy).
* OffWithHisHead: Brandon accidentally takes the head off a doll while trying toy hacks in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VeFfq3X6g8I TRYING HILARIOUS TOY HACKS!]]. He and Cameron instantly break down hysterically laughing.
* PasteEater: On the gaming channel, Brandon was so surprised by a jumpscare that he randomly ripped the cover off the microphone and shoved it in his mouth. Twice. Subverted, of course; he spat it back out.
* RefugeInAudacity: Pulled by Autumn when Gloria finds a wad of gum stuck to her arm. Instead of explaining why the gum is on her mother's arm, Autumn takes the gum and pops it back into her mouth. The matter is never discussed again.
* RunningGag: In [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ow-UgtkHoBM Things TIKTOK Made Me Buy!]], Brandon and Cameron make puns with escargot after Brandon opens a can so that they can test a brand of mouthwash.
* ScreamsLikeALittleGirl: Often expresses surprise or pain in brief, high-pitched squeals before flailing and falling to the floor. He can also get like this around bugs.
* ShoutOut: To WebVideo/MrBeast when trying to figure out what he was going to do with the 100,000 plastic ball pit balls he had used to fill his room. The end of that specific video also features Mr. Beast's usual sign off audio.
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_IphxKLvFPE 21.6 HILARIOUS COUPLE LIFE HACKS!]] features his shelves filled with novelty TabletopGame/{{Monopoly}} boards, including ''VideoGame/{{Fortnite}}'' and ''Anime/{{Naruto}}''.
** Brandon randomly quotes "[[Music/BigAndRich Save a Horse (Ride a Cowboy)]]", replacing the word "horse" with something relevant to his current situation.
** [[Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda He has a cat named Zelda and a dog named Link.]]
* ThisIsGonnaSuck: Cameron and Gloria occasionally wear expressions indicating this when Brandon goes to get something. One instance for Cameron is subtitled with "*instant regret*" when he, after Brandon leaves to go get some water, realizes he did not think to ask what kind of water Brandon was bringing. [[spoiler:It was hot dog water infused with a pitcher.]]
* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Is often seen with a pink Starbucks drink. Which is also subject to the chaos he causes.
* TranslationTrainwreck: As befitting someone who uses Google Translate. Recipes are rendered nonsensical, but Brandon still tries to follow them if only for the laughs.
* UncannyValleyMakeup: Takes makeup life hacks to the extreme and will spend the rest of the video still wearing the makeup.
* UpToEleven: Decided to take a video featuring a tennis ball as a stress reliver and drastically upgraded it by filling his room with 100,000 plastic balls. It worked not only for him, but for Gloria and Autumn as well. Up until Gloria found evidence of his ''other'' antics for that video...
* VitriolicBestBuds: With Cameron to a degree. While they do not outright fight, they will intentionally inflict pain on one another, and Cameron can get exasperated with some of Brandon's antics. The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nfl64Y6Jx You Scream You LOSE!]] video is the best example of this as they purposefully make each other scream using things like a tennis ball and racket and a riding crop while insulting each other in between. The only reason they are red-faced at the end of the video is the pepper spray.
* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: Has an extreme aversion to bugs. Whether alive or packaged as food, he has to physically force himself to interact with things such as tarantulas, scorpions, or flavored grasshoppers. Otherwise, he would spend most of the video splayed in one corner screaming in panic.
