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* DoubleEntendre: His description of ''[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS12E5HomerVsDignity that scene]]'' in "TOP 20 SIMPSONS BEARS":
-->"Once the panda ice cream cones show up, you know who's about to come."
-->"Once the panda ice cream cones show up, you know who's about to come."
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* CausticCritic: [[EarlyInstallmentWeirdness Though he had his moments in earlier episodes]], he generally avoids making a show of anger over the things he reviews, and will generally take the time to carefully discuss things he dislikes while pointing out the positives. [=TheRealJims=] is also known as one of the few online critics who is sympathetic as a whole to post-golden era episodes of ''The Simpsons'', always covering modern ''Simpsons'' episodes fairly in his ''Histories'' videos and even producing positive reviews of standout episodes like "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS12E18TrilogyOfError Trilogy of Error]]" and "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS23E6TheBookJob The Book Job]]". By late 2022, it's been fully {{averted}}, with the video "Top 20 Worst Treehouse of Horror Segments" even opening with him jokingly wondering if he's been going too easy on the show lately.
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* CompassionateCritic: [[EarlyInstallmentWeirdness Though he had his caustic moments in earlier episodes]], he generally avoids making a show of anger over the things he reviews, and will generally take the time to carefully discuss things he dislikes while pointing out the positives. [=TheRealJims=] is also known as one of the few online critics who is sympathetic as a whole to post-golden era episodes of ''The Simpsons'', always covering modern ''Simpsons'' episodes fairly in his ''Histories'' videos and even producing positive reviews of standout episodes like "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS12E18TrilogyOfError Trilogy of Error]]" and "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS23E6TheBookJob The Book Job]]". He even opens the "Top 20 Worst Treehouse of Horror Segments" video jokingly wondering if he's been going too easy on the show lately.
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* AnimationBump: Discussed; he is always sure to mention the unusually smooth animation on the babysitter whenever he discusses "Some Enchanted Evening".
* AprilFoolsDay: He is known to celebrate the holiday by uploading serious videos with silly topics.
** His joke for 2019 was a new series called "Simpsons Shipteries", where he examined the (non-existent, but feasible) relationship between Selma and Moe. He also [[AccidentalMisnaming refers to Marge as "Midge"]] throughout the entire episode, much like Moe does.
** His 2023 video "The Simpsons Did It??? The Problem with Pinchy" seemed to be a late April Fool's Day joke, presented as "the first of a 47-part series" where he jokingly lays out a conspiracy theory that ''The Simpsons'' copied a plot from an episode of ''WesternAnimation/GarfieldAndFriends''. However, he did actually return to this series for Halloween, covering two similar episodes about death from ''The Simpsons'' and ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy''.
** In 2024, he uploaded a video titled "TOP 20 SIMPSONS BEARS", which despite its silly premise is indeed [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin a ranking of the top 20 bears]] on ''The Simpsons''.
* AprilFoolsDay: He is known to celebrate the holiday by uploading serious videos with silly topics.
** His joke for 2019 was a new series called "Simpsons Shipteries", where he examined the (non-existent, but feasible) relationship between Selma and Moe. He also [[AccidentalMisnaming refers to Marge as "Midge"]] throughout the entire episode, much like Moe does.
** His 2023 video "The Simpsons Did It??? The Problem with Pinchy" seemed to be a late April Fool's Day joke, presented as "the first of a 47-part series" where he jokingly lays out a conspiracy theory that ''The Simpsons'' copied a plot from an episode of ''WesternAnimation/GarfieldAndFriends''. However, he did actually return to this series for Halloween, covering two similar episodes about death from ''The Simpsons'' and ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy''.
** In 2024, he uploaded a video titled "TOP 20 SIMPSONS BEARS", which despite its silly premise is indeed [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin a ranking of the top 20 bears]] on ''The Simpsons''.
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* AnimationBump: [=TheRealJims=] near-exclusively sticks to showing screenshots of the show in his videos, using the occasional creative transition or caption to illustrate his narration. This has led to at least a few viewers admitting they were startled when "Simpsons Mysteries - Schrödinger's Alligator" interrupts the CallBack to his MadnessMantra from his ''60 Second Simpsons'' episode on "Kill the Alligator and Run" with an unedited clip of a deleted scene from the show.
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* MediumShiftGag: [=TheRealJims=] near-exclusively sticks to showing screenshots of the show in his videos, using the occasional creative transition or caption to illustrate his narration. This has led to at least a few viewers admitting they were startled when "Simpsons Mysteries - Schrödinger's Alligator" interrupts the CallBack to his MadnessMantra from his ''60 Second Simpsons'' episode on "Kill the Alligator and Run" with an unedited clip of a deleted scene from the show.
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* RapidFireNo: Breaks into a stream of "No" in his video on [[OlderThanTheyLook Kerney's]] VagueAge when he realizes that, in order for Kerney to be a teenager and father of a teenager, [[{{Squick}} Kerney would've had to have conceived his son at Age 5.]]
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* RapidFireNo: [[invoked]] Breaks into a stream of "No" "no" in his video on [[OlderThanTheyLook Kerney's]] Kearney's]] VagueAge when he realizes that, in order for Kerney Kearney to be a teenager and father of a teenager, [[{{Squick}} Kerney Kearney would've had to have conceived his son at Age age 5.]]
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* GrowingTheBeard: Discussed during his Season 2 Retrospective, as many things that ''Simpsons'' fans enjoy, like the "Treehouse of Horror" episodes to the debuts of characters such as Dr. Hibbert, Troy [=McClure=], Groundskeeper Willie, and Mayor Quimby, all originated in season 2.
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* GrowingTheBeard: [[invoked]] Discussed during his Season 2 Retrospective, as many things that ''Simpsons'' fans enjoy, like the "Treehouse of Horror" episodes to the debuts of characters such as Dr. Hibbert, Troy [=McClure=], Groundskeeper Willie, and Mayor Quimby, all originated in season 2.
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* RecycledScript: In the video on his Top 10 Season 4 Episodes, he remarks that "Lisa's First Word" feels a lot like an episode of ''WesternAnimation/{{Rugrats}}'', with its portrayals of the sibling rivalry between baby Bart and Lisa and Homer and Marge's struggles as young parents.
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* RecycledScript: [[invoked]] Discussed. In the video on his Top 10 Season 4 Episodes, he remarks that "Lisa's First Word" feels a lot like an episode of ''WesternAnimation/{{Rugrats}}'', with its portrayals of the sibling rivalry between baby Bart and Lisa and Homer and Marge's struggles as young parents.
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** Referring to Milhouse as "Bart's friend", to the point that he refers to the episode "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS3E23BartsFriendFallsInLove Bart's Friend Falls In Love]]" as "Milhouse Falls In Love".
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** Referring to Milhouse as "Bart's friend", to the point that he refers due to the episode "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS3E23BartsFriendFallsInLove Bart's Friend Falls In Love]]" Love]]". A few variants of the gag include referring to the episode as "Milhouse Falls In Love", and during the Simpsons Histories about his dad, "Kirk's Son Falls in Love".
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* TouristBump: Discussed during his review of "Bart On The Road", which has Bart, Milhouse, Nelson, and Martin traveling to Knoxville, Tennessee to see the Sunsphere from the 1982 World's Fair, unaware that they were using a travel guide from 1982 (the episode originally aired in 1996). Jim expressed interested in traveling to Knoxville himself just to say it was something he'd done as a Simpsons fan.
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* TouristBump: [[invoked]] Discussed during his review of "Bart On The Road", which has Bart, Milhouse, Nelson, and Martin traveling to Knoxville, Tennessee to see the Sunsphere from the 1982 World's Fair, unaware that they were using a travel guide from 1982 (the episode originally aired in 1996). Jim expressed interested in traveling to Knoxville himself just to say it was something he'd done as a Simpsons fan.
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* BizarroEpisode: The first two thirds of Jims review of The Simpsons' first episode, "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS1E1SimpsonsRoastingOnAnOpenFire Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire]]", is done from the perspective of him from an alternate universe, where The Simpsons first season flopped and the series soon faded into obscurity, before the pilot was rediscovered years later as a curious piece of lost media that's gained a cult following.[[invoked]]
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* BizarroEpisode: The first two thirds two-thirds of Jims his review of The Simpsons' ''The Simpsons''[='=] first episode, "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS1E1SimpsonsRoastingOnAnOpenFire Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire]]", is done from the perspective of him from an alternate universe, universe where The Simpsons the first season of ''The Simpsons'' flopped and the series soon faded into obscurity, before the pilot was rediscovered years later as a curious piece of lost media that's gained a cult following.[[invoked]]
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* CausticCritic: [[EarlyInstallmentWeirdness Though he had his moments in earlier episodes]], he generally avoids making a show of anger over the things he reviews, and will generally take the time to carefully discuss things he dislikes while pointing out the positives. [=TheRealJims=] is also known as one of the few online critics who is sympathetic as a whole to post-golden era episodes of ''The Simpsons'', always covering modern ''Simpsons'' episodes fairly in his ''Histories'' videos and even producing positive reviews of standout episodes like "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS12E18TrilogyOfError Trilogy of Error]]" and "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS23E6TheBookJob The Book Job]]".
** By late 2022, it's been fully {{averted}}, with the video "Top 20 Worst Treehouse of Horror Segments" even opening with him jokingly wondering if he's been going too easy on the show lately.
** By late 2022, it's been fully {{averted}}, with the video "Top 20 Worst Treehouse of Horror Segments" even opening with him jokingly wondering if he's been going too easy on the show lately.
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* CausticCritic: [[EarlyInstallmentWeirdness Though he had his moments in earlier episodes]], he generally avoids making a show of anger over the things he reviews, and will generally take the time to carefully discuss things he dislikes while pointing out the positives. [=TheRealJims=] is also known as one of the few online critics who is sympathetic as a whole to post-golden era episodes of ''The Simpsons'', always covering modern ''Simpsons'' episodes fairly in his ''Histories'' videos and even producing positive reviews of standout episodes like "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS12E18TrilogyOfError Trilogy of Error]]" and "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS23E6TheBookJob The Book Job]]".
**Job]]". By late 2022, it's been fully {{averted}}, with the video "Top 20 Worst Treehouse of Horror Segments" even opening with him jokingly wondering if he's been going too easy on the show lately.
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* TheArtifact: His channel's profile picture is a sleeping [[VideoGame/YoshisIsland Yoshi]] taken from ''[[VideoGame/SuperSmashBrosBrawl The Subspace Emissary]]''. A quick glance at his channel's earliest videos show that it was mainly used to upload gameplay clips, including from ''Super Smash Bros. Brawl'', and that profile picture is a relic from those simpler times.
** He joked in 2022 that he finally updated the picture... [[Main/BaitAndSwitch to a higher quality image of Yoshi without the black bars.]]
** He joked in 2022 that he finally updated the picture... [[Main/BaitAndSwitch to a higher quality image of Yoshi without the black bars.]]
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* TheArtifact: His channel's profile picture is a sleeping [[VideoGame/YoshisIsland Yoshi]] taken from ''[[VideoGame/SuperSmashBrosBrawl The Subspace Emissary]]''. A quick glance at his channel's earliest videos show that it was mainly used to upload gameplay clips, including from ''Super Smash Bros. Brawl'', and that profile picture is a relic from those simpler times.
**times. He joked in 2022 that he finally updated the picture... [[Main/BaitAndSwitch to a higher quality image of Yoshi without the black bars.]]
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** "20 Hidden Gems from Modern Simpsons" features both several picks contributed by ''Simpsons'' writer Matt Selman, as well as a cameo from [=NICKtento=], who disagrees with Jim's choice of "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS28E18LookingForMrGoodbart Looking For Mr. Goodbart]]".
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** "20 Hidden Gems from Modern Simpsons" features both several picks contributed by ''Simpsons'' writer Matt Selman, as well as a cameo from [=NICKtento=], who disagrees with Jim's choice of "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS28E18LookingForMrGoodbart "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS28E19LookingForMrGoodbart Looking For Mr. Goodbart]]".
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* BrokenBase: An InUniverse discussion of this happens in "20 Hidden Gems from Modern Simpsons", when [=TheRealJims=] includes "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS28E18LookingForMrGoodbart Looking For Mr. Goodbart]]" on the list and gets interrupted by [=NICKtendo=] for the choice. Both agree that the episode's A-plot is great, but disagree on whether the B-plot (a very overt and dated ''VideoGame/PokemonGo'' parody) brings the overall episode down or not.
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* BrokenBase: An InUniverse discussion of this happens in "20 Hidden Gems from Modern Simpsons", when [=TheRealJims=] includes "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS28E18LookingForMrGoodbart "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS28E19LookingForMrGoodbart Looking For Mr. Goodbart]]" on the list and gets interrupted by [=NICKtendo=] for the choice. Both agree that the episode's A-plot is great, but disagree on whether the B-plot (a very overt and dated ''VideoGame/PokemonGo'' parody) brings the overall episode down or not.
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** Referring to Milhouse as "Bart's friend".friend", to the point that he refers to the episode "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS3E23BartsFriendFallsInLove Bart's Friend Falls In Love]]" as "Milhouse Falls In Love".
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* GrowingTheBeard: Discussed during his Season 2 Retrospective, as many things that ''Simpsons'' fans enjoy, like the "Treehouse of Horror" episodes to the debuts of characters such as Dr. Hibbert, Troy [=McClure=], Groundskeeper Willie, and Mayor Quimby, all originated in season 2.
-->"The reason that season 2 doesn't feel as '[[EarlyInstallmentWeirdness weird]]' as season 1 is the fact that almost all those experiments were successful. You don't get the kind of evolutionary dead-ends that were in the first season. They very quickly grasped what's working, what isn't, what they can change, like all good season 2's do on television. Yes, it is certainly more slowly-paced, relaxed, and traditional than the later iterations, but this is basically the show that we all know and love. Season 1's successes got them to season 2. Season 2's successes got them to season 6. [[{{Metaphorgotten}} Or something like that, I'm speaking more figuratively here]].
-->"The reason that season 2 doesn't feel as '[[EarlyInstallmentWeirdness weird]]' as season 1 is the fact that almost all those experiments were successful. You don't get the kind of evolutionary dead-ends that were in the first season. They very quickly grasped what's working, what isn't, what they can change, like all good season 2's do on television. Yes, it is certainly more slowly-paced, relaxed, and traditional than the later iterations, but this is basically the show that we all know and love. Season 1's successes got them to season 2. Season 2's successes got them to season 6. [[{{Metaphorgotten}} Or something like that, I'm speaking more figuratively here]].
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* TouristBump: Discussed during his review of "Bart On The Road", which has Bart, Milhouse, Nelson, and Martin traveling to Knoxville, Tennessee to see the Sunsphere from the 1982 World's Fair, unaware that they were using a travel guide from 1982 (the episode originally aired in 1996). Jim expressed interested in traveling to Knoxville himself just to say it was something he'd done as a Simpsons fan.
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* RuleOfThree: In his analysis on how Milhouse was treated by the show, he describes three episodes[[note]]"[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS8E6AMilhouseDivided A Milhouse Divided]]", "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS15E12MilhouseDoesntLiveHereAnymore Milhouse Doesn't Live Here Anymore]]", and "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS17E3MilhouseOfSandAndFog Milhouse of Sand and Fog]]"[[/note]] where something substantial happens in Milhouse's life, and Jims expresses interest in [[CharacterDevlopment how it would potentially affect Milhouse as a character going forward]]. Then the episode swerves to focus on the Simpsons, leaving Milhouse's situation as a mere footnote.
-->'''[=TheRealJims=:''' TheEnd.
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* RuleOfThree: In his analysis on how Milhouse was treated by the show, he describes three episodes[[note]]"[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS8E6AMilhouseDivided A Milhouse Divided]]", "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS15E12MilhouseDoesntLiveHereAnymore Milhouse Doesn't Live Here Anymore]]", and "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS17E3MilhouseOfSandAndFog Milhouse of Sand and Fog]]"[[/note]] where something substantial happens in Milhouse's life, and Jims expresses interest in [[CharacterDevlopment [[CharacterDevelopment how it would potentially affect Milhouse as a character going forward]]. Then the episode swerves to focus on the Simpsons, leaving Milhouse's situation as a mere footnote.
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* RuleOfThree: In his analysis on how Milhouse was treated by the show, he describes three episodes[[note]]"[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS8E6AMilhouseDivided A Milhouse Divided]]", "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS15E12MilhouseDoesntLiveHereAnymore Milhouse Doesn't Live Here Anymore]]", and "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS17E3MilhouseOfSandAndFog Milhouse of Sand and Fog]]"[[/note]] where something substantial happens in Milhouse's life, and Jims expresses interest in [[CharacterDevlopment how it would potentially affect Milhouse as a character going forward]]. Then the episode swerves to focus on the Simpsons, leaving Milhouse's situation as a mere footnote.
-->'''[=TheRealJims=:''' TheEnd.
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* NostalgiaFilter: Downplayed. Though he considers seasons 1-8 as the Simpsons "Golden Age", he isn't above criticizing it nor does he instinctively pooh-pooh anything not part of that. He's made the videos "20 Hidden Duds from Golden Age Simpsons", which covers some of his least-favorite episodes from seasons 3-8 (explicitly excluding the clip show episodes), as well as "20 Hidden Gems from Middle Simpsons".
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* NostalgiaFilter: Downplayed. Though he considers seasons 1-8 as the Simpsons "Golden Age", he isn't above criticizing it nor does he instinctively pooh-pooh pan anything not part of that.that period. He's made the videos "20 Hidden Duds from Golden Age Simpsons", which covers some of his least-favorite episodes from seasons 3-8 (explicitly excluding the clip show episodes), as well as "20 Hidden Gems from Middle Simpsons".
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* RapidfireNo: Breaks into a stream of "No" in his video on [[OlderThanTheyLook Kerney's]] VagueAge when he realizes that, in order for Kerney to be a teenager and father of a teenager, [[{{Squick}} Kerney would've had to have conceived his son at Age 5.]]
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* RecycledScript: In the video on his Top 10 Season 4 Episodes, he remarks that "Lisa's First Word" feels a lot like an episode of ''WesternAnimation/{{Rugrats}}'', with its portrayals of the sibling rivalry between baby Bart and Lisa and Homer and Marge's struggles as young parents.
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* SpiritualSuccessor: In the video on his Top 10 Season 4 Episodes, he remarks that "Lisa's First Word" feels a lot like an episode of ''WesternAnimation/{{Rugrats|1991}}'', with its portrayals of the sibling rivalry between baby Bart and Lisa and Homer and Marge's struggles as young parents.
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* SpiritualSuccessor: In the video on his Top 10 Season 4 Episodes, he remarks that "Lisa's First Word" feels a lot like an episode of ''WesternAnimation/{{Rugrats|1991}}'', ''WesternAnimation/{{Rugrats}}'', with its portrayals of the sibling rivalry between baby Bart and Lisa and Homer and Marge's struggles as young parents.
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