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In addition to his video and game reviews, Spoony also hosts a number of other video series. He has a spin-off site called [[http://wrestlewrestle.com/ ''Wrestle! Wrestle!'']] that deals with ProfessionalWrestling, which is updated on a semi-regular basis. He also has the CounterMonkey series, which recounts stories from his TabletopGame days (all tropes for that series should go on its own page). Spooony also has a VideoGame/StarWarsTheOldRepublic guild, [[http://spoonyexpendables.com/ The Spoony Expendables]].
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In addition to his video and game reviews, Spoony also hosts a number of other video series. He has a spin-off site called [[http://wrestlewrestle.com/ ''Wrestle! Wrestle!'']] that deals with ProfessionalWrestling, which is updated on a semi-regular basis. He also has the CounterMonkey series, which recounts stories from his TabletopGame days (all tropes for that series should go on its own page). Spooony Spoony also has a VideoGame/StarWarsTheOldRepublic guild, [[http://spoonyexpendables.com/ The Spoony Expendables]].
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He has since moved into video reviews of movies and TV shows, including completely off the cuff rants against any new releases he didn't like as soon as he gets back from them (the ones about ''IndianaJones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull'' and ''Film/{{Transformers}}: Revenge of the Fallen'' are truly something to behold), as well as similarly improv comments on the state of pro wrestling, which often run as long as the actual ''program'' he's critiquing.
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He has since moved into video reviews of movies and TV shows, including completely off the cuff rants against any new releases he didn't like as soon as he gets back from them (the ones about ''IndianaJones ''Film/IndianaJonesAndTheKingdomOfTheCrystalSkull'' and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull'' and ''Film/{{Transformers}}: Revenge of the Fallen'' ''Film/TransformersRevengeOfTheFallen'' are truly something to behold), as well as similarly improv comments on the state of pro wrestling, which often run as long as the actual ''program'' he's critiquing.
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He has also created a abandoned blog detailing his experiences with TabletopGames called [[http://countermonkeybook.blogspot.com/ Counter Monkey]], now appearing in [[http://spoonyexperiment.com/category/counter-monkey/ video form on the main site]], it also has [[http://countermonkey.com/ a WordPress site]]. You can also check out his wrestling spin-off site, [[http://wrestlewrestle.com/ ''Wrestle! Wrestle!'']], which is updated on a semi-regular basis. He also has a VideoGame/StarWarsTheOldRepublic guild, [[http://spoonyexpendables.com/ The Spoony Expendables]].
Spoony has a live stream [[http://en.justin.tv/spoonyone here]] on which he sporadically plays games like [=SWAT=] 4, VideoGame/{{X-COM}}, Ultima Underworld and others. He also did an impromptu Q&A with his fans concerning his stance on originality in Nintendo franchises.
Spoony has a live stream [[http://en.justin.tv/spoonyone here]] on which he sporadically plays games like [=SWAT=] 4, VideoGame/{{X-COM}}, Ultima Underworld and others. He also did an impromptu Q&A with his fans concerning his stance on originality in Nintendo franchises.
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In addition to his video and game reviews, Spoony also hosts a number of other video series. He has also created a abandoned blog detailing his experiences with TabletopGames called [[http://countermonkeybook.blogspot.com/ Counter Monkey]], now appearing in [[http://spoonyexperiment.com/category/counter-monkey/ video form on the main site]], it also has [[http://countermonkey.com/ a WordPress site]]. You can also check out his wrestling spin-off site, site called [[http://wrestlewrestle.com/ ''Wrestle! Wrestle!'']], Wrestle!'']] that deals with ProfessionalWrestling, which is updated on a semi-regular basis. He also has the CounterMonkey series, which recounts stories from his TabletopGame days (all tropes for that series should go on its own page). Spooony also has a VideoGame/StarWarsTheOldRepublic guild, [[http://spoonyexpendables.com/ The Spoony Expendables]].
Spoony has aExpendables]].
His live stream is [[http://en.justin.tv/spoonyonehere]] here]], on which he sporadically plays games like [=SWAT=] 4, VideoGame/{{X-COM}}, Ultima Underworld and others. He also did an impromptu Q&A with his fans concerning his stance on originality in Nintendo franchises.
Spoony has a
His live stream is [[http://en.justin.tv/spoonyone
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* BewareTheNiceOnes: A glorious triple-crowning instance with [[http://spoonyexperiment.com/2011/11/06/counter-monkey-vampire-spoonys-jyhad/#disqus_thread Vampire - Spoony's Jyhad]].
** His reaction to "X-Com" being turned into a First person shooter actually appeared to scare ''[[WebVideo/TheAngryJoeShow Angry Joe]]''.
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* BewareTheNiceOnes: A glorious triple-crowning instance with [[http://spoonyexperiment.com/2011/11/06/counter-monkey-vampire-spoonys-jyhad/#disqus_thread Vampire - Spoony's Jyhad]].
**His reaction to "X-Com" being turned into a First person shooter actually appeared to scare ''[[WebVideo/TheAngryJoeShow Angry Joe]]''.
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* FacialHorror: Tempus Thales in the Counter Monkey ''ThievesWorld'' campaign. Not only does he take '''acid to the face''', but the goddess he serves revokes his regenerative powers until he redeems his utter humiliation, and because the [=PCs=] [[HumiliationConga continually foil his plans to do so]], she makes it ''worse''!
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* GameplayAndStorySegregation: In one Counter Monkey video, Noah talks about an adventure he ran in the ''Literature/ThievesWorld'' setting, where the party (a group of Level 7 characters) managed to defeat [[GodModeSue Tempus Thales]]; he acknowledges that within the canon of the novels that would never happen, but the players spent (real-world) weeks planning and setting up the battle and exhibited amazing teamwork and foresight, so he felt that they had '''earned''' that victory and let them have it regardless of how it broke with the novels.
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* GenreBlindness: In the Vampire Jyhad video, the GM pretty much had it coming when he let Spoony's character make [[StuffBlowingUp Bathroom Semtex]] after just [[{{Railroading}} permitting his character into being brainwashed into being evil]].
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* KillerGameMaster: Spoony laments that most of his sessions end with his players dying gruesomely. This is chalked up more to bad luck than evil intent, though Spoony has admitted that he's a "harsh" DM generally.
** One thing he ''will not'' abide is players [[StopHavingFunGuys riffing on the campaign]], whether he designed it himself or not. [[BullyingADragon Nice knowing you, dicksmacks]].
** One party that ''did'' survive Spoony's campaign only did so by becoming a pack of sadistic, kill-crazy savages, even by ''ThievesWorld'' standards.
-->"All of a sudden there's [[BloodierAndGorier pikes shoved up asses, there's piles of heads, there's balls shoved in eye sockets]], and I'm like ''[[MyGodWhatHaveIDone ooooh god]]!''.
** A genuine Killer DM, the aptly-named [[GaryGygax Gary]], is the focus of a ''Counter Monkey'' segment.
** One thing he ''will not'' abide is players [[StopHavingFunGuys riffing on the campaign]], whether he designed it himself or not. [[BullyingADragon Nice knowing you, dicksmacks]].
** One party that ''did'' survive Spoony's campaign only did so by becoming a pack of sadistic, kill-crazy savages, even by ''ThievesWorld'' standards.
-->"All of a sudden there's [[BloodierAndGorier pikes shoved up asses, there's piles of heads, there's balls shoved in eye sockets]], and I'm like ''[[MyGodWhatHaveIDone ooooh god]]!''.
** A genuine Killer DM, the aptly-named [[GaryGygax Gary]], is the focus of a ''Counter Monkey'' segment.
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* LaserGuidedKarma: [[spoiler: Vegan Steve's campaign. [[http://spoonyexperiment.com/2011/10/20/counter-monkey-vegan-steve-and-the-djinni-of-jengai-fomogo/]].]]
* LensmanArmsRace: One of Spoony's Counter Monkey stories has one of these, where the introduction of DMSO (which allows any drug to be instantly absorbed through the skin) in {{Shadowrun}} leads to the introduction of lethal DMSO drug cocktails and an arms race of super soakers, hi-tech water balloons and fire hoses.
* LensmanArmsRace: One of Spoony's Counter Monkey stories has one of these, where the introduction of DMSO (which allows any drug to be instantly absorbed through the skin) in {{Shadowrun}} leads to the introduction of lethal DMSO drug cocktails and an arms race of super soakers, hi-tech water balloons and fire hoses.
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* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Spoony's reaction to how his ''ThievesWorld'' campaign spiraled into brutality.
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* NotMakingThisUpDisclaimer: Noah spends a good 15 seconds in "The Importance of Wearing Pants" reassuring us that he's not making up the story about the player who somehow left the house without his pants.
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* WhamLine: From the Counter Monkey episode about Spoony's ''Thieves' World'' campaign: "[[CrowningMomentOfFunny I HURL]] [[OffTheRails A FLASK OF ACID AT HIS]] ''[[MassOhCrap FACE!!!]]''"
** "[[TooDumbToLive I WISH FOR A DECK OF MANY THINGS!]]"
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* WordSalad: Was going for this with the name of his D&D character "[[SpoonyBard Tandem the Spoony]]", which is where his alias came from. ("Spoony" does have a meaning, but it's so obscure that it provoked a confused reaction from his fellow players).
* WrittenInInfirmity:
** He was drugged up on painkillers when filming the ET review, turning it into an homage to ApocalypseNow.
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* WordSalad: Was going for this with the name of his D&D character "[[SpoonyBard Tandem the Spoony]]", which is where his alias came from. ("Spoony" does have a meaning, but it's so obscure that it provoked a confused reaction from his fellow players).
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* WhamLine: From the Counter Monkey episode about Spoony's ''Thieves' World'' campaign: "[[CrowningMomentOfFunny I HURL A FLASK OF ACID AT HIS]] ''[[CrowningMomentOfFunny FACE!!!]]''"
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* WhamLine: From the Counter Monkey episode about Spoony's ''Thieves' World'' campaign: "[[CrowningMomentOfFunny I HURL HURL]] [[OffTheRails A FLASK OF ACID AT HIS]] ''[[CrowningMomentOfFunny ''[[MassOhCrap FACE!!!]]''"
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* Overly-LongScream: You try not spending the entire scene doing this after finding yourself in a Spooning with Spoony video with BennetTheSage.
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* Overly-LongScream: You try not spending the entire scene doing this after finding yourself in a Spooning with Spoony video with BennetTheSage.BennettTheSage.
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**** Actually what he said was stupider than Wakka's bltizball blitzball was Rinoa's boomerang arm-mounted dog/disk launcher, or Anal Cannon, which he also makes constant reference to.
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** Spoony has stated that many of his fans feel that his use of the fuse box counter, or counters in general, is this, however he continues to do it because it's a joke that he personally enjoys and he doesn't feel he got as much use out of it as he initially thought despite fan reactions toward the contrary.
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He is perhaps most famous for his eviscerating reviews of the ''FinalFantasy'' series, specifically otherwise-beloved titles such as [[FinalFantasyVIII VIII]] and [[FinalFantasyX X]], which earned him a spot at WebOriginal/ThatGuyWithTheGlasses. Additionally, Spoony garnered attention for his {{MST3K}}-style {{Lets Play}}s of ''{{Phantasmagoria 2}}: A Puzzle of Flesh'' and ''{{Ripper}}'' (which he slogged through in the dark ages of pre-GameFAQs).
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He is perhaps most famous for his eviscerating reviews of the ''FinalFantasy'' series, specifically otherwise-beloved titles such as [[FinalFantasyVIII VIII]] and [[FinalFantasyX X]], which earned him a spot at WebOriginal/ThatGuyWithTheGlasses.Website/ThatGuyWithTheGlasses. Additionally, Spoony garnered attention for his {{MST3K}}-style {{Lets Play}}s of ''{{Phantasmagoria 2}}: A Puzzle of Flesh'' and ''{{Ripper}}'' (which he slogged through in the dark ages of pre-GameFAQs).
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** 1/4/11 featured a review done in the style of WebOriginal/TheCinemaSnob masquerading itself as the second part of the discontinued DeadlyPremonition LetsPlay.
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** Apparently [[WebOriginal/AtopTheFourthWall Linkara]] and Noah have exchanged stories about the ridiculous FanDumb they've encountered whenever they do a cross-over.
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** From fellow WebOriginal/ThatGuyWithTheGlasses reviewer [[WebOriginal/AtopTheFourthWall Linkara]]: '''I AM A MAN!!''' *PUNCH*
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** There's also his use of WebOriginal/TheNostalgiaCritic's gag of having [[StreetFighter M. Bison]] appear on screen yelling [[TakeOverTheWorld "OF COURSE!"]]
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** Again during the first part of his VideoGame/FinalFantasyX review, Dr. Insano walked in asking if anybody had seen Neutro. [[spoiler: It was later revealed that [[WebOriginal/AtopTheFourthWall Linkara]] had stolen Neutro from Dr. Insano in his PowerRangersZeo Comic review.]]
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** Again during the first part of his VideoGame/FinalFantasyX review, Dr. Insano walked in asking if anybody had seen Neutro. [[spoiler: It was later revealed that [[WebOriginal/AtopTheFourthWall [[WebVideo/AtopTheFourthWall Linkara]] had stolen Neutro from Dr. Insano in his PowerRangersZeo Comic review.]]
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** He and [[WebOriginal/AtopTheFourthWall Linkara]] have done ''so many'' of these that's it become integral to how both their shows operate. [[EnsembleDarkhorse Dr. Insano]] was ''introduced'' in a throw-away [[PreviouslyOn parody]] segment of WebOriginal/AtopTheFourthWall.
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** He and [[WebOriginal/AtopTheFourthWall [[WebVideo/AtopTheFourthWall Linkara]] have done ''so many'' of these that's it become integral to how both their shows operate. [[EnsembleDarkhorse Dr. Insano]] was ''introduced'' in a throw-away [[PreviouslyOn parody]] segment of WebOriginal/AtopTheFourthWall.WebVideo/AtopTheFourthWall.
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-->* takes a breath* "So, where was I? Oh ya. * changes tone from annoyed to angry* Final Fantasy VIII sucks and [[FanHater You suck for liking it!]] It's a [[BadWriting poorly written]], [[FakeDifficulty badly designed]] [[AccentuateTheNegative piece of shit]], [[TheScrappy with annoying as fuck characters]], [[TradingCardLame a pointless card collecting mini game]] [[ScrappyMechanic and the most needlessly complicated and micromanaged character-management-system ever devised for any game]]! [[MiniGame It's full of ridiculous metagame-concepts]], [[LevelGrinding boring levelgrinding activities]] and [[PeninsulaOfPowerLeveling tedious magic-collection-busywork]]! The plot makes no sense, [[ImprobableWeaponUser the weapons are ridiculous]] and the setting is strangely underpopulated and [[SchizoTech technologically wildly anachronistic]]. It's long, boring, it's stupid - and [[UnstoppableRage I hate it with the fiery intensity of a million Forman-grills]]!"
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-->* takes a breath* "So, where was I? Oh ya. * changes tone from annoyed to angry* Final Fantasy VIII sucks and [[FanHater You suck for liking it!]] It's a [[BadWriting poorly written]], written, [[FakeDifficulty badly designed]] [[AccentuateTheNegative piece of shit]], [[TheScrappy with annoying as fuck characters]], [[TradingCardLame a pointless card collecting mini game]] [[ScrappyMechanic and the most needlessly complicated and micromanaged character-management-system ever devised for any game]]! [[MiniGame It's full of ridiculous metagame-concepts]], [[LevelGrinding boring levelgrinding activities]] and [[PeninsulaOfPowerLeveling tedious magic-collection-busywork]]! The plot makes no sense, [[ImprobableWeaponUser the weapons are ridiculous]] and the setting is strangely underpopulated and [[SchizoTech technologically wildly anachronistic]]. It's long, boring, it's stupid - and [[UnstoppableRage I hate it with the fiery intensity of a million Forman-grills]]!"
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** Referenced in his Kickassia commentary as well. Not concerning his role for a change, but Lord Kat's role had to be shortened severely due to injuries.
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** Referenced in his Kickassia commentary as well. Not concerning his role for a change, but Lord Kat's LordKat's role had to be shortened severely due to injuries.injuries.
** More recently, Spoony tweeted that he might have to retire the Chuckles character because Oreo got into his costume closet and tore up the outfit (and the rubber chicken).
** More recently, Spoony tweeted that he might have to retire the Chuckles character because Oreo got into his costume closet and tore up the outfit (and the rubber chicken).
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* AccentuateTheNegative
** Interestingly, though, he will still occasionally point out a few positives. For example, in the first part of his review of ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyX'' (a game which he believes to be [[SerialEscalation far worse than]] ''FinalFantasyVIII''), despite noticing the game's many ridiculous concepts, he (grudgingly) admitted to enjoying the battle system, and praised the high quality of both the soundtrack and cutscenes, even going so far as to call the latter "heartbreakingly beautiful".
** In his review of ''[[Literature/{{Twilight}} Eclipse]]'', Noah actually praises the start of the movie for showing the Cullen family's pasts and motivations, making them interesting characters, as well as the fact that the actors turned in better performances than in the previous two parts. He also states that he found the parts about Victoria's war more interesting than the romance. Granted, he eviscerates the rest of the film, but credit where credit's due.
** Despite the razzing, Noah has said that he actually likes RebBrown as an actor and feels that he could have been one of the big action stars if only he'd gotten better roles.
** He's repeatedly said "If something was good, I would tell you!"
** Interestingly, though, he will still occasionally point out a few positives. For example, in the first part of his review of ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyX'' (a game which he believes to be [[SerialEscalation far worse than]] ''FinalFantasyVIII''), despite noticing the game's many ridiculous concepts, he (grudgingly) admitted to enjoying the battle system, and praised the high quality of both the soundtrack and cutscenes, even going so far as to call the latter "heartbreakingly beautiful".
** In his review of ''[[Literature/{{Twilight}} Eclipse]]'', Noah actually praises the start of the movie for showing the Cullen family's pasts and motivations, making them interesting characters, as well as the fact that the actors turned in better performances than in the previous two parts. He also states that he found the parts about Victoria's war more interesting than the romance. Granted, he eviscerates the rest of the film, but credit where credit's due.
** Despite the razzing, Noah has said that he actually likes RebBrown as an actor and feels that he could have been one of the big action stars if only he'd gotten better roles.
** He's repeatedly said "If something was good, I would tell you!"
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** Interestingly, though, heAccentuateTheNegative: On the one hand, Spoony[=/=]Noah will still occasionally point out a few positives. For example, in the first part of his review of ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyX'' (a game which he believes to be [[SerialEscalation far worse than]] ''FinalFantasyVIII''), despite noticing the game's many ridiculous concepts, he (grudgingly) admitted give credit where credit is due, as with ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyX''[[hottip:*:Grudgingly admitting to enjoying the battle system, and praised praising the high quality of both the soundtrack and cutscenes, even going so far as to call the latter "heartbreakingly beautiful".
** In his reviewbeautiful"]], ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyX2''[[hottip:*:Praising the Thunder Plains concert (aside for some of the clunky lyric translations) for being a beautiful song that Yuna's VA performed well and for having an FMV that managed to get him emotionally invested the Shuyin[=/=]Lenne relationship in just three minutes]], ''[[Literature/{{Twilight}} Eclipse]]'', Noah actually praises Eclipse]]''[[hottip:*:Praising the start of the movie for showing the Cullen family's pasts and motivations, making them interesting characters, as well as the fact that the actors turned in better performances than in the previous two parts. He also states that he found the parts about Victoria's war more interesting than the romance. Granted, he eviscerates the rest of the film, but credit where credit's due.
** Despite the razzing, Noah has saidparts]], and RebBrown [[hottip:*:Saying that he actually likes RebBrown Reb as an actor and feels that he could have been one of the big action stars if only he'd gotten better roles.
** He's repeatedly said "Ifroles]]. On the other hand, any time he gives something was good, I would tell you!"a negative review, the FanDumb assumes he's {{Troll}}ing, as seen when JossWhedon fans leapt on him for saying he didn't like ''Film/TheCabinInTheWoods''.
** Interestingly, though, he
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** His reaction to "X-Com" being turned into a First person shooter actually appeared to scare ''[[TheAngryJoeShow Angry Joe]]''.
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** Spoony and [[WebOriginal/BadMovieBeatdown Film Brain]] reviewed the ''Tekken'' live-action movie together.
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** Lampshaded in [[WebOriginal/BadMovieBeatdown Film Brain]]'s review of ''HudsonHawk'' in early October 2010. Spoony complains that he was going to review the film & game, and Film Brain admits he did see the list that mentioned this... When it was posted 9 months earlier.
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** Lampshaded in [[WebOriginal/BadMovieBeatdown [[WebVideo/BadMovieBeatdown Film Brain]]'s review of ''HudsonHawk'' in early October 2010. Spoony complains that he was going to review the film & game, and Film Brain admits he did see the list that mentioned this... When it was posted 9 months earlier.
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* SeriesFauxnale: Spoony's ''FinalFantasyVIII'' finale, which he made not only to finish his ''FinalFantasyVIII'' series for good, but also to serve as his own grand finale because he was unsure if he would be able to make any more videos for a while. When [[WebOriginal/AtopTheFourthWall Linkara]] caught wind of this, he made an extra skit for the finale to serve as a SequelHook, where he recovers some of Spoony's genetic material with the intention of bringing him back to life... leading directly into the ''Clones Of Bruce Lee'' video, where Linkara creates a clone of Spoony.
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* SeriesFauxnale: Spoony's ''FinalFantasyVIII'' finale, which he made not only to finish his ''FinalFantasyVIII'' series for good, but also to serve as his own grand finale because he was unsure if he would be able to make any more videos for a while. When [[WebOriginal/AtopTheFourthWall [[WebVideo/AtopTheFourthWall Linkara]] caught wind of this, he made an extra skit for the finale to serve as a SequelHook, where he recovers some of Spoony's genetic material with the intention of bringing him back to life... leading directly into the ''Clones Of Bruce Lee'' video, where Linkara creates a clone of Spoony.
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** He also goes shirtless for a moment in the game reviewing convention panel with [[WebOriginal/TheAngryJoeShow Angry Joe]] and Birdman.
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* GameplayAndStorySegregation: In one Counter Monkey video, Noah talks about an adventure he ran in the ''Literature/ThievesWorld'' setting, where the party (a group of Level 7 characters) managed to defeat [[GodModeSue Tempus Thales]]; he acknowledges that within the canon of the novels that would never happen, but the players spent (real-world) weeks planning and setting up the battle and exhibited amazing teamwork and foresight, so he felt that they had '''earned''' that victory and let them have it regardless of how it broke with the novels.
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** In his review of ''Ripper'', repeatedly stating his belief that [[IAmNotSpock "Marion"]] is breeding killer attack monkeys in the sewers.
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** Repeated in E3 2011.
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->''"You believed the hype. You paid ten bucks to see a movie or fifty to play that game. Now you want revenge, because therapy is for pussies. Welcome to the experiment, where we cure the sickness with snark.''
->''Let the healing begin."''
Meet NoahAntwiler, self-described "terrifying result of a generation raised on {{MTV}} and films by JeanClaudeVanDamme and StevenSeagal at the height of their popularity." He started out with text reviews of movies, which for a while were published as "A Gamer's Rant on the Movies" in ''KnightsOfTheDinnerTable''. He was soon inspired by the likes of {{Armake21}} to make the leap to video reviews about video games, and so created a new identity as The Spoony One, a name borrowed from a [[SpoonyBard certain line]] in ''{{Final Fantasy IV}}''.
He began with ''TheAdventuresOfBayouBilly'', the quintessential {{Nintendo Hard}} title "which probably contributed a great deal to making me the psychological mess I am today," before moving on to the likes of ''[[VideoGame/ETTheExtraTerrestrial E.T.]]'' for the Atari 2600 (a review he made while recovering from having his wisdom teeth removed, setting "some kind of [[MachoMasochism world record for pain]]").
He is perhaps most famous for his eviscerating reviews of the ''FinalFantasy'' series, specifically otherwise-beloved titles such as [[FinalFantasyVIII VIII]] and [[FinalFantasyX X]], which earned him a spot at WebOriginal/ThatGuyWithTheGlasses. Additionally, Spoony garnered attention for his {{MST3K}}-style {{Lets Play}}s of ''{{Phantasmagoria 2}}: A Puzzle of Flesh'' and ''{{Ripper}}'' (which he slogged through in the dark ages of pre-GameFAQs).
He has since moved into video reviews of movies and TV shows, including completely off the cuff rants against any new releases he didn't like as soon as he gets back from them (the ones about ''IndianaJones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull'' and ''Film/{{Transformers}}: Revenge of the Fallen'' are truly something to behold), as well as similarly improv comments on the state of pro wrestling, which often run as long as the actual ''program'' he's critiquing.
Check it out [[http://www.spoonyexperiment.com here]].
He has also created a abandoned blog detailing his experiences with TabletopGames called [[http://countermonkeybook.blogspot.com/ Counter Monkey]], now appearing in [[http://spoonyexperiment.com/category/counter-monkey/ video form on the main site]], it also has [[http://countermonkey.com/ a WordPress site]]. You can also check out his wrestling spin-off site, [[http://wrestlewrestle.com/ ''Wrestle! Wrestle!'']], which is updated on a semi-regular basis. He also has a VideoGame/StarWarsTheOldRepublic guild, [[http://spoonyexpendables.com/ The Spoony Expendables]].
Spoony has a live stream [[http://en.justin.tv/spoonyone here]] on which he sporadically plays games like [=SWAT=] 4, VideoGame/{{X-COM}}, Ultima Underworld and others. He also did an impromptu Q&A with his fans concerning his stance on originality in Nintendo franchises.
Spoony was also the [=GM=] of a weekly D&D game with several other TGWTG contributors, which was livestreamed on Sundays; its page is [[SpoonysCampaign here]].
A list of things reviewed by Spoony can be found [[SpoonyOneList here]].
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* AbortedArc: In his ''Nightmare'' review (October 2009), Spoony was handed 7 different ''Nightmare'' (or rather ''Atmosfear'') sequels by the Gate-Cleaner. As a punishment he was given one year to review them all or he will get punished. Spoony gave up on this plotline, and [[http://twitter.com/#!/TheSpoonyOne/status/26944580134 Tweeted a confirmation]]. So long Gatecleaner.
** The Deadly Premonition LP was apparently discontinued as well. This was lampshaded during 2011's April Fools as he uploaded a video titled "Let's Play Deadly Premonition - part 2" almost one year after the first part was posted, and the still shot that appears before playing the video WAS of a previously unseen part of the game, complete with text that looks like the kind of captions Spoony frequently includes in his videos. Turned out the video was actually a Cinema Snob parody and a review of an obscure bad movie. And no, that movie had nothing in common with Deadly Premonition.
** The [[DeadliestWarrior Deadliest Character]] was nixed after its first episode because it took far too much time and effort to produce and the original animator couldn't do another episode, though he hasn't ruled out a possible LiveAction fight. Now fans will never know [[CoolVersusAwesome who would win in a fight]] [[Series/DoctorWho The Daleks]] or [[StarTrekTheNextGeneration The Borg]]
* AccentuateTheNegative
** Interestingly, though, he will still occasionally point out a few positives. For example, in the first part of his review of ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyX'' (a game which he believes to be [[SerialEscalation far worse than]] ''FinalFantasyVIII''), despite noticing the game's many ridiculous concepts, he (grudgingly) admitted to enjoying the battle system, and praised the high quality of both the soundtrack and cutscenes, even going so far as to call the latter "heartbreakingly beautiful".
** In his review of ''[[Literature/{{Twilight}} Eclipse]]'', Noah actually praises the start of the movie for showing the Cullen family's pasts and motivations, making them interesting characters, as well as the fact that the actors turned in better performances than in the previous two parts. He also states that he found the parts about Victoria's war more interesting than the romance. Granted, he eviscerates the rest of the film, but credit where credit's due.
** He's repeatedly said "If something was good, I would tell you!"
* ActingForTwo: Spoony occasionally shares the screen with other characters played by himself, including Dr. Insano, Chef Ramsay, [[FinalFantasyVIII Squall Leonhart]], FuManchu, Spencer D. Bum, the [[UltimateWarrior Ultimate Spoony]], [[PiratesOfTheCaribbean Cap'n Smiling Jack D'Arcy]], the [[{{Atmosfear}} Gate Cleaner]], [[HulkHogan Hulk Spogan]], [[BattlefieldEarth Terl]], "Spoonette", Spoontock! of the [[StarTrek Klingon Empire]], [[{{Ultima}} Chuckles the Fucking Jester]], [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyX Tidus]], [[{{Ultima}} The Avatar]], [[VideoGame/{{Final Fantasy X2}} Yuna]], and [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII Sephiroth]].
* ActorAllusion: A common gag. For example, when ChristopherLee appears in a film he will reference his roles as Dracula and Saruman, and his ''Cage'' review has constant references to Lou Ferrigno's most famous role as TheIncredibleHulk.
* ActorISTheTitleCharacter: Spoony is fond of invoking this trope, for example during his ''{{Ripper}}'' LP:
-->"ChristopherWalken IS the ''BladeRunner!''"
-->"Christopher Walken IS the ''Lawnmower Man''!"
* {{Adorkable}}: The guy gave his dog a Twitter account. Enough said.
* AffablyEvil: Doctor Insano.
* TheAhnold: His take on [[ConanTheBarbarian Conan the Cimmerian]], as interpreted by him playing around with a bunch of action figures and statuettes on his bed.
* AlternateCharacterInterpretation [[invoked]]: His ''{{Ultima}} Retrospective'' brings together a decent amount of evidence that Lord British is actually an oppressive, self-righteous, totalitarian tyrant. He notes that British establishes a worldwide religion that he forces everyone to worship ''after'' he lets the Avatar slaughter innocents and interfere with the space-time continuum to defeat his enemies and unite the country, declares war on civilizations who oppose him even if they aren't actually evil and could perhaps be reasoned with, and takes the exclusion in later games of the varied races that were in the earlier ones (elves, dwarves, bobbits, etc) as evidence that British enacted a genocidal campaign and wiped them all out.
** Also presents [[Literature/{{Twilight}} Bella Swan]] as a needy, manipulative sociopath who has no regard for the lives she ruins in pursuing her own desires, and [[Film/FerrisBuellersDayOff Ferris Bueller]] as a ManipulativeBastard who enjoys toying with others.
* AndThatsTerrible: "RicFlair just threatened a woman with sexual assault! And I'm pretty sure you can't do that!"
** Again in ''Tekken''. "I sold my soul to the Devil" "But that's ''wrong!''"
** After relating the tale of the toilet pizza: "But honestly, that was like the worst thing I've ever done to somebody... because that was ''horrible''. That was ''really bad''."
* AndThereWasMuchRejoicing: What he and a whole crowd of people did when [[spoiler: Tidus decided to sacrifice himself at the end of ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyX'']].
* {{Angrish}}: "Do ninfgh... Ninjas!... Kidnapping!... TV!"
* AprilFoolsDay:
** 1/4/09 featured an alternate universe version of Spoony reviewing the original ''[[VideoGame/FinalFantasyI Final Fantasy]]'' in a SelfParody of his own nitpicking, caustic review style, ending with a possible origin story for Dr. Insano.
** 1/4/10 featured "The Insano Experiment" with "Weird Science" as the theme song and Insano reviewing ''Ferris Bueller's Day Off''.
** 1/4/11 featured a review done in the style of WebOriginal/TheCinemaSnob masquerading itself as the second part of the discontinued DeadlyPremonition LetsPlay.
* ArrowCam: Noah hurling a doggie toy at Spuna's head.
* ArtificialStupidity: The squad in ''{{SWAT 4}}'' have a tendency to hit you with flashbangs, which prompts Spoony to yell [[RunningGag "YOU FOOL !"]] They also have a tendency to run in front of Spoony's gun while he's trying to fire, getting themselves or Spoony killed countless times.
** [[MemeticMutation "You're in my way, sir!"]]
* ArtistDisillusionment: Spoony suffers this every so often, thanks to a large group of posters on his website being incredibly rude to anyone that's not Spoony or his brother Miles.
** ''It Came From Beyond Midnight'', a [[ScrewedByTheNetwork canceled public access TV show]] in which Spoony has a small role. He uploaded it in addition to his own content, only for it to increasingly come under fire by his fans for not being fully Spoony-related content because it bloated the front page of his website every time Spoony uploaded a new segment (seven videos per episode). He got mad about it and called out his fans on Twitter, saying his friends are more important than the opinions of the whiners.
** Fans attacked his then-girlfriend after ''one'' appearance.
** Apparently [[WebOriginal/AtopTheFourthWall Linkara]] and Noah have exchanged stories about the ridiculous FanDumb they've encountered whenever they do a cross-over.
** It doesn't help when [[https://twitter.com/#!/TheSpoonyOne/status/182596864850399233 Fan's have shown up at his house]], in full costume no less, and have had to be removed by the Police for refusing to leave. It's implied this has happened at his Parent's house as well.
* AscendedMeme: Apparently, fans in the [[{{TNA}} Impact Zone]] have started carrying signs that say "Wrestle! Wrestle!"
** And even before that, [[http://spoonyexperiment.com/2010/04/21/destrucity-comes-to-nxt/ at least one fan was spotted]] at NXT holding a "SKRONK!" sign and wearing a Warrior University shirt.
* ATeamFiring: Tends to happen to Spoony a '''lot''' during his ''{{SWAT 4}}'' playthrough, much to his annoyance.
-->'''Spoony''': I don't know what the hell just happened, but I fucked that doorframe up beyond repair!
** Also parodied extensively in his ''Robowar'' review, in response to the plethora of scenes the soldiers are just randomly firing into the greenery like crazy. Cue Spoony firing dual AK-47's into the camera, as Sean Fausz and Angry Joe join in as well.
* AttentionDeficitCreatorDisorder: He is rarely working on fewer than two projects.
** He's admitted defeat to this disorder and attempted to hire an editor to get projects out on rails.
* AttractiveBentGender: At least one comment on the third part ''FinalFantasy X-2'' expressed this sentiment about [[spoiler:Spoony in Yuna drag]].
* AuthorAppeal: Besides the more expectable things like his liking for ''[[BabylonFive Babylon 5]]'', Spoony is a fan of ProfessionalWrestling and often slips references to it into his reviews - culminating with the appearances of the Ultimate Warrior and [[strike:Hulk Hogan]] [[strike: HOAK HOGAN]] HOAKOGAN!
* AwesomeButImpractical: "Giant Dizzy Gillespie" was a fan favourite, but Spoony had to stop featuring the statuette due to its fragility and it becoming slightly damaged during filming.
* AwesomenessIsVolatile: A warning to some parts of ''YorTheHunterFromTheFuture''.
* BadassLabcoat: Dr. Insano.
* BagOfSpilling: In his ''Ultima VII, Part 2'' review, he mentions how he hates it when this trope ''just is,'' but he does like it when there's a decent explanation behind it. In that game, you start off with all the goodies from the previous installment as ATasteOfPower, and then lose them all to a "teleport storm" later.
* TheBeautifulElite: After traveling to Washington DC to protest an internet censorship law, Spoony claimed that Capitol Hill's female population is entirely like this, even the police.
* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: Insano ending his ''Dungeonmaster'' review shouting "Where's my ''DungeonsAndDragons'' [[Film/DungeonsAndDragons movie?]]"
* BewareTheNiceOnes: A glorious triple-crowning instance with [[http://spoonyexperiment.com/2011/11/06/counter-monkey-vampire-spoonys-jyhad/#disqus_thread Vampire - Spoony's Jyhad]].
* BiasSteamroller: [[RuleOfCautiousEditingJudgment Has been known to drive one...a lot]]
* BigDamnHeroes: Towards the end of his ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyX'' review. And of all people, it's[[spoiler: Pumpkinhead]].
** At the end of ''VideoGame/{{Final Fantasy X2}}'', and it's [[spoiler:VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII Sephiroth]]. And apparentally, he's a fan.
* BigNo: Invoked and subverted in ''Ripper'' when Catherine collapses:
-->'''Spoony''': Oh, we're winding up to a big ol' "Nooooooooooooooo!"...\\
'''Jake''': ''FUCK!''\\
'''Spoony''': ... That works too, I guess.
** Invoked in the ''Highlander: The Last of the [=MacLeods=]'' video to parody the main villain's {{Narm}}-heavy BigNo.
** He and the Sage share one together after a buildup hopefully leading to [[TheScrappy the fairy girl]] in ''Garzey's Wing'' getting ripped apart but then escaping at the last moment. [[invoked]]
** Done over [[http://twitter.com/TheSpoonyOne/status/35525987588509696 Twitter]] when he learned that the writer of the ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'' film would be scripting the ''{{Highlander}}'' {{Reboot}}.
** We get one in ''Microcosm'' when Spoony is unable to finish writing down the continue password before the game resets. The pathos is amplified by music from ''RequiemForADream''.
* BigOlEyebrows: In ''TekkenTheMotionPicture'', Spoony began mocking Kazuya's and Heihachi's huge eyebrows as his own eyebrows progressively grew bigger before he peeled them off.
-->'''Spoony''': *laughing* Check out the eyebrows, you can hand-glide with those things!
* BigWordShout: '''PUUUMPKIIINHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAD!!!'''
** '''BEEETRAAAYAAALLLLLLLL!!!'''
* BigYes: Spoony and Sage have not one but three of these in a row in the ''Garzey's Wing'' review when it looks like the fairy girl will finally die painfully after annoying them for the whole review.
** And again in the Final Fantasy X finale when he learns that after beating [[spoiler: Yu Yevon Tidus will disappear]], complete with stock footage of crowds erupting into excited applause and celebration.
* BLAMEpisode: After having trouble getting ''The Madness of Roland'' to run on his computer, Noah simply edited together some brief clips from the game with framing material of the footage killing him.
* BlindIdiotTranslation: ''SWAT 4'', Mission 10: "Moviefilm For Make Training Of Police And Laughing Time"
* BookEnds: At the beginning of the first video of his ''FinalFantasyVIII'' review, Spoony comments on how as bad as he said the game was, ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyX'' was worse. Guess what his last message at the end of the final episode is.
** His ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyX'' review begins with the original Spoony (Who died at the end of his ''FinalFantasyVIII'' review) returning to take the show back from his clone, essentially book ending the period between the two reviews with the death & return of the real Spoony.
*** The final part of his ''[=FFX=]'' review featured [[spoiler: the original[=/=][[Comicbook/GreenLantern Black Lantern Spoony]] trying to take the show back again, providing book ends for the review; and culminated with the merging of the original & his clone, providing a book end to the era of the Spoony Clone]]. It also featured several call backs to the final part of his ''[=FFVIII=]'' reviews--in the commentary he referenced RedLetterMedia's clip of George Lucas pretentiously claiming that events in the Star Wars prequels "rhyme" with those in the originals.
* BorrowedCatchphrase:
** From fellow WebOriginal/ThatGuyWithTheGlasses reviewer [[WebOriginal/AtopTheFourthWall Linkara]]: '''I AM A MAN!!''' *PUNCH*
*** He borrows it again in his ''Ultima Underworld 2'' review, but follows it up with a [[GroinAttack knee to the groin]] instead of a punch.
** There's also his use of WebOriginal/TheNostalgiaCritic's gag of having [[StreetFighter M. Bison]] appear on screen yelling [[TakeOverTheWorld "OF COURSE!"]]
** He's also used the Nostalgia Critic's "I WAS FROZEN TODAY!"
** He also borrowed the "PWNED!" from Fat Mann Judgeth once.
** [[RedLetterMedia "What's wrong with your faaaaaace?"]]
*** Later, in the commentary for the finale of ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyX'' (which featured call-backs to the finale for ''FinalFantasyVIII'' he references the RedLetterMedia clip of George Lucas pretentiously claiming that events in the Star Wars prequels 'rhyme' with those in the originals.
* BreakingTheReviewersWall: Has happened a few times. One of the most over-the-top examples would be the conclusion of his ''FinalFantasyVIII'' review, where Dr. Insano hires Squall to kill Spoony.
* BrickJoke: The first part of his ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyX'' review features the original Spoony returning to take his show back from his clone, before promptly killing himself and being resurrected as a [[Comicbook/GreenLantern Black Lantern]] when told of the subject of the latest review. [[spoiler:The third part of the review features Black Lantern Spoony raising Tidus with a Black Lantern Ring, with the intent of using him to take back the show from the clone]].
** An even further one: in the ''Partymania'' review the (alternate) Dr. Insano's origin is that he was one of the Schlumper brothers who was scorned by the unnamed female protagonist and went on to become evil. In the ''Warrior #2-3'' review Dr. Linksano references bringing glory to the Schlumper name, implying that he is the other Schlumper brother. [[spoiler: And given that his universe was conquered by Lord Vyce right before Linksano jumped universes, alternate!Insano is probably not doing very well.]]
** Again during the first part of his VideoGame/FinalFantasyX review, Dr. Insano walked in asking if anybody had seen Neutro. [[spoiler: It was later revealed that [[WebOriginal/AtopTheFourthWall Linkara]] had stolen Neutro from Dr. Insano in his PowerRangersZeo Comic review.]]
** In Dr. Insano's review of ''The Dungeonmaster'', Dr. Insano forces BennettTheSage to provide footages for ''[[VideoGame/FinalFantasyX2 Final Fantasy X-2]]'' at gunpoint, [[spoiler: during TheStinger of the latter's review finale, a bald and aging Bennett almost finishes the game while Insano seemingly forgets (and doesn't care) about him.]]
* BrokeTheRatingScale: Spoony finally decided to [[OverlyLongGag do away with]] the Ass Counter in ''Dead or Alive''. Holly Valance and Sarah Carter cause it to '''EXPLODE'''.
* BrotherSisterIncest: The vibe Spoony got from the Marky Mark ''Make My Video''. It doesn't help that the actors in question ''happen'' to resemble him and his sister.
* BruceLeeClone: His subject when reviewing the movie ''The Clones of Bruce Lee''.
* BuryYourGays: He was particularly incensed by this in [[spoiler: Phantasmagoria]] as it resulted in the death of the only character he actually didn't want to see die horribly.
* BuxomIsBetter: He certainly seems to think so. This trips him up in his Beastmaster and Final Fantasy X reviews and he laments that the actress cast as the female lead in King of Fighters was not buxom like the video game character (though that's only one of a list of things they got wrong about her that he complains about.)
* CallBack: The Insano Experiment.
** For his "Lords of Magick" review, he says, "Yeah! Let's contact the devil!" and holds up a magic lamp, referring back to his ''FinalFantasyVIII''' review which had Satan in a lamp.
** His ''Breaking Dawn'' review, they talk about DavidCronenberg doing the Vampire C-Section and talk about how ''{{Twilight}}'' is a bodice-ripper Harlequin Romance novel, both are things he talked about when previously reviewing Twilight movies.
* TheCameo: After DiamandaHagan remarks in her review how much an actor in ''Apocalypse'' looks like Spoony, there are cameos by Spoony, Dr. Insano and a Spoony clone, Christian Spoony.
* CameraAbuse: His dog Oreo has a real knack for dealing glancing blows to his tripod.
* CaptainErsatz: Dr. Insano is apparently based on WarrenEllis' comic book character DoktorSleepless. [[Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000 Burton the Robot]] and [[WebOriginal/BumReviews Spencer D. Bum]] both definitely qualify.
* CatchPhrase:
** Dr. Insano - "'''[[ForScience With SCIENCE]]''', of course!!"
** "{{PHANTASMAGORIA}}!" He later stated this as his favorite word.
** "I HEARD that, Curtis!"
** "[[RedDawn Wolverines!]]" as a BattleCry is often used.
** "I am never getting over this!"
** "'''{{YOU FOOL}}!!!!'''" when his teammates screw up a flashbang and end up blinding him in ''SWAT 4''.
** When reviewing a foreign or incredibly obscure movie, "... unless you know some especially deranged Hong Kong bootleggers. And I do."
** Spoony has a new one for his show ''Wrestle! Wrestle!'' - "Future endeavors". The WWE uses it as a polite euphemism for "he's been fired"; Spoony uses it to mean "The company's going to screw you up the ass, quit while you still have your dignity".
** ''[[CriticalResearchFailure "How do you fuck that up!?"]]'' [[invoked]]
** The ''{{Ultima}}'' retrospective has given us "I'm the goddamn Avatar!"
** [[ADateWithRosiePalms Spank]] [[TooMuchInformation material]].
* CelebrityImpersonator: As mentioned under CaptainErsatz, Noah's costume "characters" are all to some degree impersonations of other people's intellectual property. And he does it quite well.
* CharacterBlog: Father Antos from ''UltimaII: The Revenge of the Enchantress'' has a [[http://twitter.com/#!/FatherAntos Tweeter account]].
* ChekhovsGag: If you thought Spoony only introduced the Gunblade for his ''FinalFantasyVIII'' reviews, think again. He's using it again for more gags in his review of ''Mazes and Monsters''.
** Also in his ''{{Ultima}} I'' review. We can only hope it will appear more.
** Again in the end of the ''Highlander: The Source'' review
** He even ''loads it before using it'' in the FFX finale.
** And it comes out again in his King of Fighters review. He declares it's "too Final Fantasy" for the situation though, and puts it aside.
* ChekhovsGun: In the second part of the FFX review, there's a throwaway gag where Dr. Insano bursts into Spoony's room to ask if anyone has seen Neutro, which he'd left parked out back while Spoony is singing "A Whole New World". [[spoiler: Later, in Linkara's review of Zeo Rangers #1, Linkara fights a giant Mechakara by using Neutro as a zord, which he claim he took from Dr. Insano when the doctor left it "parked behind Spoony's house"]]
* ClapYourHandsIfYouBelieve: Inverted in ''Warrior #4''. [[spoiler:The secret to ending the multiverse rift is to stop caring about the insane ramblings of the comic, for they mean absolutely nothing and thus are not worth thinking about.]]
* CliffHanger: His ''FinalFantasyVIII'' review ends on one, with [[spoiler:Dr Insano sending Squall after Spoony, leading to Spoony being mortally wounded as Burton initiates a self-destruct sequence which kills Squall & reduces Spoony to a lump of protoplasm; with TheStinger revealing that Linkara has found the lump & intends to bring Spoony back]].
** Happened again with the ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyX'' review, this time with [[spoiler:the original Spoony (Now a [[Comicbook/GreenLantern Black Lantern]]) [[ItMakesSenseInContext trying to take the show back from the Spoony that Linkara cloned]], and the clone having [[AllThereInTheManual Linkara beam both him & the clone onto the]] [[StarTrek Enterprise]] at the same time, merging them into one being; TheStinger reveals that whilst this plan worked, Linkara lost Spoony when he teleported him[=/=]them]].
* CloningBlues: Inverted, as the clone Spoony is able to pick up right where his predecessor left off. The original is killed, resurrected as a Black Lantern, then briefly brought back to normal before being killed and turned into a Black Lantern again.
* CloudCuckoolander: His Ultimate Warrior persona is this in spades and ironically very accurate to the real-life Warrior's rambling and odd promos.
-->"YOU'LL NEED AN ENERGON CUBE THE SIZE OF WYOMING TO DEFEAT MY AUTOBOTS HOAK HOGAN!!"
-->"BUTTONS! BUTTONS! WHO'S GOT THE BUTTONS?!"
-->"IF YOU WANNA BE MY LOVER, YOU GOTTA GET WITH MY FRIENDS!! MAKE IT LAST FOREVER, BECAUSE FRIENDSHIP NEVER ENDS, HOAK HOGAN!!"
* ClusterFBomb:
-->'''Spoony''': A lute? A fucking lute?! I run over, bust my fucking ass to save his only daughter from an evil fucking knight, fighting fucking skeletons and spending my own fucking money on swords and shit, and the best he can do is give me a fucking guitar?!
** Also during the end of his Deadliest Warrior follow-up.
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* ColdBloodedTorture: After being driven to madness by the inanity of TNA in what would become the first "Wrestle! Wrestle!" vlog, he suggests that he should force the people watching the vlog to watch TNA.
* ComplainingAboutShowsYouDontWatch: {{Lampshaded}} in that he's never actually played ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyIX'', beyond maybe two hours, but avoided it ''solely'' because he hated the art style, and hadn't been paying any attention to the first two hours, since he wrote Zidane off as an "androgynous-whiny-pansy-ass character". He also admitted that "it was likely that [he] was being fiercely unfair" to ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyIX'' on judging it by its art style, especially when the game was specifically targeted at fans of the NES and SuperNintendo-era FinalFantasy games like him, but he just couldn't get over it.
** He elaborated in his Q&A at [=MAGfest=], and admitted his reasons for avoiding it were entirely childish, and he really can't stand the art style so much that he simply can't make himself keep playing. [[invoked]]
* ContemptibleCover: Seeing the Film/WingCommander DVD cover causes some 30 seconds of Spoony [[ScreamsLikeALittleGirl screaming at high pitch]].
* CollectibleCardGame: Spoony [[http://akuoreo.deviantart.com/gallery/?q=Spoony appears]] in the MSFHigh Collectible card game.
** A deck designed to counterpoint his, besides the Linkara deck, is [[https://www.thegamecrafter.com/games/msf-high-card-game:-omeganek this one]].
* CoolVersusAwesome: Spoony enjoys the last ten minutes of the show DeadliestWarrior for this reason, where the anachronistic warriors actually square off; but condemns most of the rest of the show on general [[DidNotDoTheResearch research issues]] such as ignoring much of the circumstances of how various warriors would fight; a pirate, for example, wouldn't just be walking around, he'd be with 50 other pirates, ''on a pirate ship,'' and there's no way you'd ever be fighting just ''one'' Spartan.
** The rivalry that Spoony's alter ego Dr. Insano has with Linkara arguably falls into this category as well. Linkara has magical weapons (and cheat codes), Insano has mad science, and both are entertaining as hell.
** His parody of ''Deadliest Warrior'', ''Deadliest Character'' does the same as the TV show, but with fictional characters, namely the [[MightyMorphinPowerRangers Megazord]] [[spoiler:and later, the Dragonzord]] versus [[{{Godzilla}} Mechagodzilla]].
* CoolAndUnusualPunishment: Dr. Insano figured out a way to obtain game footage of [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyX2 Final Fantasy X-2]] without having to play the game. He forces Bennett the Sage to play for him at gunpoint.
* CosmicRetcon: Linkara punching the wall, a la [[InfiniteCrisis Superboy-Prime]], caused Dr. Insano to become a man (according to Linkara, anyway).
* CoversAlwaysLie: A DefiedTrope. He screams in horror looking at the cover for ''Film/WingCommander: The Movie'' and explains thus: "You know that old saying, you can't judge a book by its cover? Well fuck you! That's books, not movies!"
** In regards to ''FinalFantasyIX'', he thinks Zidane fits in the stereotypical mold of a whiny, depressive ''FinalFantasy'' hero based solely on the cover art. He does admit that it's "massively unfair", but says that he just can't get over his dislike for the game's art style.
* CowboyBebopAtHisComputer: His one-shot ''Deadliest Character'' video regarding the [[{{Godzilla}} Showa era (1974) Mechagodzilla]]. While he's describing the character, shots of ''Kiryu'' are used several times. Yes, Kiryu ''is'' an incarnation of Mechagodzilla, technically. But, it's not the same monster since the Showa Mechagodzilla is a giant robot built by aliens to take over the earth and Kiryu is a cyborg version of the original 1954 Godzilla.
** Likewise, at one point in the video, guest-speaker Linkara points out that Mechagodzilla has failed to defeat Godzilla. In reality, Godzilla was unable to beat the Showa Mechagodzilla on his own and required both the help of King Caesar and humanity to defeat.
** Given the nature of [[DeadliestWarrior the show]] he's parodying, this might be intentional.
* CreatorBreakdown: July 2009 was not an easy month for him. His equipment was fucking up, his site was fucking up, and on top of that he was in the process of moving out of his parents' house. All this while trying to film the final ''FinalFantasyVIII'' video. Fortunately, it all worked out well in the end.
** Parodied in his review of ''Mazes and Monsters'', after a line about the need to go to MIT as soon as possible strikes too close to home.
** 2011 as a whole was also not kind to Spoony, as in addition to his health problems, he and his girlfriend (who was also in charge of a large portion of the technical stuff on the site) split up, and he did some soul-searching after PAX East got him questioning his capability as a journalist (citing his fanboying during an interview regarding ''VideoGame/{{Portal 2}}'' as proof that he couldn't be objective). And even after PAX, Spoony was dealing with depression and issues with sleeping, making it hard for him to do videos other than V-logs and Counter Monkeys. His V-log of Breaking Dawn Part 1, while funny, was pretty much the low point of the year, where he had actually [[INeedAFreakingDrink resorted to drinking]] and needed [[AtopTheFourthWall Linkara]] and JewWario to get through the V-log.
** Luckily, 2012 seems to be going much better so far.
* {{Crossover}}:
** He and [[WebOriginal/AtopTheFourthWall Linkara]] have done ''so many'' of these that's it become integral to how both their shows operate. [[EnsembleDarkhorse Dr. Insano]] was ''introduced'' in a throw-away [[PreviouslyOn parody]] segment of WebOriginal/AtopTheFourthWall.
** Thanks in part to Spoony's [[WorldWrestlingEntertainment Raw]] and [[TotalNonstopAction TNA iMPACT!]] reviews, he made a video directly referencing {{Botchamania}} and its creator Maffew.
** MassiveMultiplayerCrossover: Not to mention his participation in the Anniversary brawl of That Guy With The Glasses.
*** {{Kickassia}}. All the way.
*** And SuburbanKnights.
** CrisisCrossover: The face to face battle between Linkara and Dr. Insano is a direct reference to {{Crisis on Infinite Earths}}, with the comic ''Warrior'' # 1 being so irredeemably awful that Dr. Insano's discovery of it rips a hole in {{Hypertime}}. As the review progresses, it shifts between several different universes where, among others, Linkara and Insano's actors are switched, both are stuffed animals, Spoony is a Roman emperor, and the two are played by Marzgurl, That Chick with the Goggles, Coldguy, and the Nostalgia Critic. The scene ends in a CrowningMomentOfAwesome as Angry Joe, Benzaie, MarzGurl, and That Chick with the Goggles beat the tar out of Dr. Insano to the tune of Rick Derringer's ''Real American'' (i.e. Hulk Hogan's theme).
*** Gets turned up to 11 in the ''Warrior 2 and 3'' review, where dozens of Doctor Insanos from throughout the multiverse find themselves in an UltimateShowdownOfUltimateDestiny. [[spoiler: Their non-insano counterparts show up at the end and beat the tar out of all of them.]]
** He reviewed ''{{Highlander}}: Endgame'' together with PatTheNesPunk.
** Spoony and [[WebOriginal/BadMovieBeatdown Film Brain]] reviewed the ''Tekken'' live-action movie together.
** Spoony and BennettTheSage have made an annual tradition of reviewing bad anime.
* CutHisHeartOutWithASpoon: Has this to say for the VA who voices [[ExpositionFairy the Ferario]] in ''[[YoshiyukiTomino Garzey's Wing]]'':
--> I swear to god, if I ever meet that women...demon-harpy...THING that voiced that ''fucking'' pixie, I WILL ''DUNK HER HEAD'' IN A BUCKET OF LYE!!
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* DamnedByFaintPraise: "For all his many faults, Bruno Mattei does Nazi porn well. Sometimes."
* DanBrowned: Noah and his brother, Miles, like many others, got hit with this hard while watching ''DeadliestWarrior''. Noah does enjoy [[RuleOfCool the fight scenes,]] though.
* DarkReprise: After the events of {{Kickassia}}, he started using a much darker and heavier version of his opening theme. It didn't last too long, though.
* DevelopmentGag: One of Spoony's UnstoppableRage freakouts about Tidus in the first part of his ''Final Fantasy X'' review cut to a 'Technical Difficulties' card dubbed over with Bruce Willis singing "Swingin' on a Star" from ''HudsonHawk'' as a SanitySlippageSong. This is a reference to how around the same time he had announced plans to review that film, but eventually abandoned the idea.
** In Doctor Insano's ''Film/FerrisBuellersDayOff'' review, he's shocked at the prospect of going to Chicago and not visiting the "Urkel House".
* DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu:
-->"Oooooh! I just [[GroinAttack kicked]] [[StarTrekTheNextGeneration Q]] in the [[UnusualEuphemism joy department]]! That can't be smart! ... Let's do it again!"
* DifferentInEveryEpisode: Spoony does most of his reviews just sitting in his green chair where you can see posters hanging on the walls in the corner directly behind him. In almost every review he does, he changes those posters to reflect something relevant to the review itself, usually a movie poster or wallscroll of the movie or game he's reviewing. If it's anything {{Highlander}} related, it'll usually be a poster of that movie. Anything Japanese game related, expect to see wallscrolls of the game or of ''CowboyBebop: The Movie''.
* DisposableSexWorker: During ''The Lords of Magick'', the BigBad sorcerer tempts one of the protagonist to do a FaceHeelTurn by telling him to go after whores, one of whom he then kills. This prompts Spoony to call his lawyer, complaining that this proves he shouldn't have taken the insanity plea when he told the court that [[AWizardDidIt a wizard made him kill those hookers]].
* DistractedByTheSexy: In his ''Final Fantasy X'' review, he rants at one point about how Rikku is nothing more than a fanservice character and is only 15, until a picture of a cosplayer dressed as Rikku appears on-screen.
* DisturbedDoves: A flock of doves precedes Spoony busting out the SPAS-12.
* DivisionByZero: In his ''{{Highlander}} 2 - The Quickening'' review, the following sentence, from the back of the movie's VHS tape box, causes a "divide by zero" error:
-->"Packed with [[{{Narm}} action]] and [[SpecialEffectsFailure visual effects]], HIGHLANDER 2: THE QUICKENING [[BlatantLies is the smartest sci-fi thriller since BLADE RUNNER.]]"
* DoingItForTheArt: What else can you say about someone who is actually risking death to make free videos?
** About the only people who come close, are those who purposely died doing movies, or manga...and they got paid!
* DoubleVision:
** Playing both himself and Gordon Ramsay in his Hells Kitchen: The Game review.
** In the Final Fantasy VIII Finale with him and Dr. Insano.
** Upgraded to Triple Vision in "Clones of Bruce Lee" with Spoony, Dr. Insano and Spencer D. Bum.
* DontExplainTheJoke: In his Phantasmagoria2 playthrough he said that if Curtis put on a straightjacket it would become a bi-curious jacket because he's bi-curious.
* DrinkingGame: He made one for ''TekkenBloodVengeance'': take a shot every time [[ContinuityLockout something happens that doesn't make sense unless you've played the games]], and take two shots every time something happens that makes '''less''' sense if you've played the games, like Sumo wrestler Ganryu randomly being a gym teacher.
* DropInCharacter:
** Dr. Insano and Spencer D. Bum.
* DudeNotFunny: [[invoked]]
** As a RunningGag, whenever he makes a really dark joke or reference, the camera cuts to StockFootage of a crowd booing at a rally.
-->'''''Darkest sketch! Darkest sketch! Darkest sketch!'''''
** During the third part of the ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyX'', he pulls this ''on the game itself'', when Wakka compares the destruction of Home to "happy festival fireworks". He even calls it the most insensitive thing he's ever heard been uttered in any form of fiction.
** In the commentary for the review of ''{{Highlander}}: The Source'', he claims that he'll never again make a joke about suicide, as one of his fans killed himself shortly after sending him an email about it.
* DVDCommentary: Does commentaries for many videos, including for ''{{Kickassia}}''.
* EarlyBirdCameo: Spoony's original video intro began with him screaming in horror at Yuna singing in the opening of ''[[VideoGame/FinalFantasyX2 Final Fantasy X-2]]'', which occured in his review of ''FinalFantasyVIII''. It was ''four years'' before he actually reviewed the game and talked about the scene in question.
* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: Spoony's early reviews lack an intro or theme song, and are credited to "[[FanWank Fanwankery Films]]", a name he seems to have abandoned.
** The earliest ones were also ad-libbed. He didn't begin writing scripts until around the reviews of ''Robin Hood'' and ''VideoGame/TheThing''. This resulted in the jokes being much more polished, and is frequently credited as the period his show started GrowingTheBeard.
* EnemyMine: Played for laughs in his LP of Deadly Premonition. One of the puzzles requires him to carry a fuse box with him.
* TheEuropeanCarryAll: From the Final Fantasy VIII finale,
-->Insano: "It's called the Time Compressor! It condenses Time as the world perceives it into an incredibly condensed period!"
-->Spoony: "Wow, a time compressor, it...kind of looks like an XBox DVD Remote..."
-->Insano: "IT'S A TIME COMPRESSOR!"
* EvenEvilHasStandards:
** Dr. Insano can't stand [[Film/FerrisBuellersDayOff Ferris Bueller's]] lack of work ethic, his spoiled, self-centered nature, and his complete lack of goals beyond his own personal amusement.
-->'''Insano:''' I may be evil, but at least I'm not full of crap!
* EvenTheRatsWontTouchIt: Apparently a pizza from Peter Piper's Pizza is so lacking in nutrition that even bugs avoid it as evidenced by a pizza left sitting for a month and a half that remained completely untouched.
* PreciousPuppies: He has one now.
* EverythingTryingToKillYou:
** "The floor is everywhere!"
** The grass is even worse.
* EvilIsHammy: Insano.
* EvilLaugh: Dr. Insano is of course fond of them; he criticises MadScientist villain Dr. Nye in "Clones of Bruce Lee" for using one after the end of every sentence.
* ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin: "My God people, what is it about the name 'Dr. Insano' that eludes you people?"
** Spoony is shocked to learn that when Samurai Zombie Nation says it stars "head of the samurai Namakubi" it isn't kidding. You literally play as a disembodied head.
** Also, his explanation of the power "Death Field" in the "Gamma World Unboxing" Vlog:
-->'''Spoony:''' Basically what it was was you emitted a [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin field of death.]]
* EyeScream: According to [[http://twitter.com/#!/TheSpoonyOne/status/72931694918909952 this Twitter post]]. Fortunately doesn't seem like it had any lasting effects.
** And his description of Karen Jarret's voice.
--> ''"I'm just coming off a migraine, it feels like a - it just feels like...someone's taking a hot needle and boring it into my EYES!"''
* FaceHeelTurn: Claimed [[http://twitter.com/TheSpoonyOne/statuses/21237726571 this]] on his Twitter. [[EpilepticTrees Are we witnessing the birth of Insano?]]
** [[{{Kayfabe}} It's a work]], of course. He also seems to be feuding with Maffew of ''{{Botchamania}}''.
* FacialHorror: Tempus Thales in the Counter Monkey ''ThievesWorld'' campaign. Not only does he take '''acid to the face''', but the goddess he serves revokes his regenerative powers until he redeems his utter humiliation, and because the [=PCs=] [[HumiliationConga continually foil his plans to do so]], she makes it ''worse''!
* FacePalm: He covers his whole face in shame with both hands after hearing Wakka tell Rikku not to be too disheartened about seeing her home city get destroyed in his VideoGame/FinalFantasyX review.
-->'''Wakka:''' "Hey, look. Don't get so down. BOOM! hahuhu Like happy festival fireworks, ya!?"
-->'''Spoony:''' '''"...Happy... Festival... Fireworks!?''' That could be the '''STUPIDEST, MOST INSENSITIVE, IDIOT THING any character has ever said in ANY WORK OF FICTION!''' That's like trying to cheer people up after Hurricane Katrina.... by saying it's ''a giant happy waterpark!"''
** And when Yuna in VideoGame/FinalFantasyX2 shoots down Nooj's plan to defeat [[BigBad Shuyin]] [[hottip:*: Which is to force Shuyin [[DemonicPossession into his body]], which he'll then blow up [[TakingYouWithMe taking Shuyin with him]]]] in favor of [[ThePowerOfLove love]], Spoony face palms, then it cuts to several other people and groups of people facepalming as well.
* FanDisservice: During ''Film/TheBeastmaster'' review, upon seeing a sorceress teleport out of her clothes as the camera pans up her body:
--->'''Spoony:''' Say, alright! Hey dude, throw something else at her, maybe she'll teleport out of her underewear too-- [sees her hideously deformed face] Oh my God! WHAT'S WRONG WITH YOUR FACE?! Ah, look it's a melted John Madden! Joan Rivers! It's the lady from ''TheGoonies''!
* FantasticRacism:
-->'''Dragonstrike narrator''': "Sounds like a couple of stupid orcs."\\
'''Spoony''': "Now that's just racist.'''
* FateWorseThanDeath:
-->'''Doctor Linksano:''' Doctor Insano didn't go far enough. He only subjected you to ''one'' issue of Warrior. I'm going to subject you to ''two''!\\
'''Spoony:''' You insane fiend! I'm not gonna read that shit again!\\
'''Doctor Linksano:''' Well, I suppose we can get the same results by watching [[TotalNonstopAction TNA Impact]]...\\
'''Spoony:''' Aaah! All right, I'll read it!
** He makes several deadpan remarks about how death would be a welcome relief to watching yet another bad anime with Sage, after Sage breaks into his house and stalks then teleports into his room.
* FauxHorrific: Like seeing the cast of the ''Film/WingCommander'' movie.
* {{Filler}}: In mid-October 2010, while Spoony was under the weather due to an unspecified heart condition, he asked Scarlett to bump some of his "Greatest Hits" to the front page until he got back on his feet. However, only one video (his review of ''VideoGame/TheThing'') actually got this treatment before he came back.
** The Counter Monkey episodes seem like this as well, seeing as they were put out during a period when Spoony didn't feel the creative juices flowing, and was dealing with health issues yet again, at least they kept us entertained.
*** [[RodentsOfUnusualSize Dormouse.]]
* {{Foil}}: Noah's brother Miles, who's considerably calmer than his brother.
* FollowTheLeader: Subverted in real life. He had intended to start a MysteryScienceTheater3000 style show (which explains his blue robot pal Burton} but couldn't get it together with his friends so he started this show with the AV equipment he'd already bought. He does eventually get to live out his original dream with his own Rifftrax offerings.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: He ended his review of Strike Commando with the claim he was going to find an "American Reb Brown movie, made by Americans...in America!" Two months later he reviewed the two Captain America movies, the second of which ended with an appearance from [[YuGiOhTheAbridgedSeries The Gatekeither]].
** His Clones of Bruce Lee review ended with the Spoony Bum inviting Noah and Dr. Insano to play boardgames with him. Among the stack of games he holds up is Nightmare, which Spoony reviewed for Halloween a few months later.
* ForTheEvulz: [[Literature/{{Twilight}} Bella Swan]]'s motivation, according to Noah.
* ForcedMeme: We'll need a lot more hemp before we're through.
** You're in my way, sir.
** [[{{Ultima}} Deadly grass]].
* FreudianSlip: In [[http://twitter.com/TheSpoonyOne/status/5140396720001024 this]] tweet.
* FreudianSlipperySlope: Goes into one when Lulu and her "female advantages" are introduced in ''FFX''
-->''Tits jugs Lulu--I mean, it's just Lulu...''
** And again in Part 3 of the ''FFX-2'' review when Leblanc offers to help the Gullwings.
* FreezeFrameBonus: In the new awesome animated Intro, you can see a few things on the shelves with references to various games and movies he's reviewed, such as "[[SWAT4 You're In My Spot, Sir]]," "[[{{Ripper}} Unfucking Believable]]", and "Spooning With Spoony Volume 19".
** He inserted [[Literature/WheresWally Wally]] into the crowd of the concert scene in ''Final Fantasy X-2''.
* FriendInTheBlackMarket
* FunetikAksent: His description of the ''Nightmare'' review refers to the "blagoh," or "black hole" in the Gatekeeper's Cockney accent.
* FunnyBackgroundEvent: While Spoony himself was busy talking about ''Film/TronLegacy'', the wallpapers on his computer desktop kept flipping from one to the next...including, at one point, a wallpaper fashioned after the big romance scene from ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyX''.
** His posters on the walls of his room often have something to do with the movie he's reviewing (such as the Beastmaster posters when he reviewed those movies). For his "Cinema Snob Impersonation" video review of ''Zombie 5'', he had a poster of ''Caligula'', Brad Jones' favorite movie.
** During Spoony's [[INeedAFreakingDrink booze-fueled]] Vlog of [[{{Twilight}} Breaking Dawn Part 1]], his dog is running around on the sofa behind him, picking up objects in its mouth, and occasionally trying to drink Spoony's rum.
*** Oreo tends to do this a lot, in both vlogs and reviews. Which is a good thing, since she doesn't ruin takes, she enhances them.
* FurryConfusion: He brings up the classic case of this during his ''KingdomHearts'' livestream:
--> '''Spoony:''' Wait...if Goofy's a dog and Pluto's a dog...how come Goofy's sentient and Pluto isn't?
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* GagNose: Noah is known to make fun of his nose, including referring to it as a "Jew Nose" when he sees the shadow it casts during one commentary with Bennett.
* GagSub: The onscreen lyrics to the music which plays during [[{{Film/The Beastmaster}} Dar]]'s "[[YouKilledMyFather Seeking for Revenge]] [[TrainingMontage Montage]]" (also serves as a [[CallBack Call Back]] to ''[[YorTheHunterFromTheFuture Yor The Hunter From The Future]]''):
-->And his pee like a flower!\\
If you been travel, he'll be there to fly the bat\\
Winning saaaaand!
* {{Gaydar}}: Dr. Insano has one in the ''[[{{Film/The Beastmaster}} Beastmaster 2]]'' review. The CampGay store clerk is so flaming that it overloads. He never actually explains why he would need one.
* GenderBender: The [[YuGiOhTheAbridgedSeries Gatekeither]] takes Spoony's wiener and turns him into a ValleyGirl for the Party Mania review. This also applies to Linkara and Benzaie. (The review takes place on [[AlternateUniverse Earth-982]], which apparently is a BizarroUniverse when it comes to gender.)
* GenreBlindness: In the Vampire Jyhad video, the GM pretty much had it coming when he let Spoony's character make [[StuffBlowingUp Bathroom Semtex]] after just [[{{Railroading}} permitting his character into being brainwashed into being evil]].
* GenreSavvy: In regards to SurvivalHorror, as his DeadlyPremonition Let's Play demonstrates.
** He also decided to install [[NoKillLikeOverkill antipersonnel mines]] in front of the door to his room because the villain du jour, usually of some game, keeps bursting in... [[RuleOfFunny for some reason.]]
** He and Linkara [[OhCrap learn the hard way]] that Kristanna Loken is actually very perceptive when it comes to interviewers trying to humiliate her for her role in Bloodrayne.
* TheGhost: Dr. Insano's nurse.
* GiftedlyBad: Spoony presents actor Reb Brown and director Bruno Mattei as examples of this. Also UweBoll to some extent, but only in his movie commentaries rather than the movies themselves.
* AGodAmI: Terl claims godhood due to his amazing ability to [[WhatKindOfLamePowerIsHeartAnyway instinctively know how high above sea level any location is, without help.]]
* GoKartingWithBowser: Spoony allows Dr. Insano to join him in reviewing ''The Clones of Bruce Lee'', despite the fact that Insano [[spoiler:hired Squall to kill him in the previous episode]]. They even live together now.
-->'''Spoony':''' "I told you if you are going to live here you have to stop killing people, ''especially me!''"
* GrandFinale: After spending several years ripping the game to pieces, Spoony brings his ''FinalFantasyVIII'' review to a close with [[spoiler: Dr.Insano turning on him and attempting a HostileShowTakeover by sending Squall to kill him. Squall succeeds in mortally wounding him, but then Burton self destructs, killing him, Squall, Spoony, and destroying Spoony's entire house in a fiery explosion. Of course after the credits roll, Linkara recovers what's left of Spoony and states that he will bring him back to life. Which he does.]] Bonus points for that sequence originally being planned as a possible ending for the whole show given his major camera and website problems at the time. Everything ended up working out, so instead it just acts as a sendoff to the bedroom where he filmed the show until then, as he was finally moving out of his parents' house.
** Another one may be coming in the ''Ultima 9'' review, especially since he revealed at the end of ''Ultima 8'' that the entire point of the full series retrospective was to set up the review of the final game and just how much it betrayed all the games before it.
* GuideDangIt: Spoony's main complaint about ShinMegamiTenseiNocturne. Mostly because most of the spells require you to, as he put it, learn a new language and that the bosses have exactly one way to beat them. To find both of these out you either A) Learn through trial and error (not recommended unless you have too much sanity) or B) look it up online. Note that despite that he still feels it's a good game.
** There's also quite a bit of this during Ripper as well.
** He rants about this in ''Ultima 2: Revenge of the Enchantress'', you have to find certain items in order to progress through the game, but the game itself literally makes no mention that you need these items, what they do in particular, or that one particular ring that is needed to slip through force fields can only be purchased once you have the blessing from some guy, and you have to find some old man living under a tree and have to pay him 500 gold to obtain it. This game was created in 1982, long before anyone had the internet to look things up. How the hell could anyone figure these out?
** ''Bloodwings: Pumpkinhead's Revenge'' most definitely.
* HairOfTheDog: In his crossover review of the ''Garzey's Wing'' anime with Bennett The Sage, Spoony intentionally kills himself by inducing a stroke 1 minute into the OVA. 30 seconds later he's brought back to life.
-->'''Spoony:''' ''"WAS THAT SO STUPID THAT IT BROUGHT ME BACK TO LIFE!??"''
-->'''Sage:''' ''"Hair of the dog that bit ya."
* HatShop: One character in ''Mazes and Monsters'' is wearing a different hat in every scene of the movie for absolutely no explained reason. Spoony calls this out and [[RunningGag decides to do the same for the rest of the review]] until he eventually runs out.
** At one point he wears boxer shorts on his head.
* HamToHamCombat: Spoontock vs. Angry Joe.
* HeadDesk: Has one during his ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyX'' review when Rikku tells Tidus not to say he's from Zanarkand because it upsets people, only for Tidus to tell the Besaid Aurochs he's from Zanarkand FOUR MINUTES LATER.
* HelloInsertNameHere:
** During his review of Final Fantasy VIII he chose to rename Squall into "Emo Git", Rinoa into "A Whore" and her dog into "Anal". The latter two resulted in such dialogue in "A Whore's Limit Break uses Anal" and "Anal Cannon/Reversal", and eventually led into jokes about Rinoa being Seifer's sloppy seconds (with visual aid from a certain doujinshi), though he did admit it was a bit of an unfair label, but far too amusing not to go for.
** For Final Fantasy X, he renamed Tidus "Meg Ryan" for his haircut.
* HellHotel: The hotel he, Jew Wario and Angry Joe stayed at while going to E3 was ''hilariously'' bad, and we got to hear about it. It is probably the only hotel you'll hear about where the air conditioning controls are in an unscrewed, dangling panel hidden behind the TV.
* HePannedItNowHeSucks: Spoony is [[{{In-Universe}} guilty of doing this]] himself; he yelled at the RiffTrax guys over on twitter for doing a Riff of {{Highlander}}. Although it was done jokingly on his part; when he realized that the Rifftrax guys didn't treat it as a pretend feud, but thought he trolled in earnest, he immediately stopped and apologized.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard:
-->"You FOOL! No, wait... ME FOOL!"
* HurricaneOfPuns: In the ''Dragon Strike'' review, after a tree comes to life and attacks the elf. Eventually he apologizes and says he'll stop.
** In his persona as "Leslie Striker," during his mini-review of ''Phase IV'', a movie about superintelligent ants, he makes just about every ant pun out there.
** His {{Twitter}} is rife with these.
* HypocrisyNod: In his review of ''Cage 2'', Spoony trashes the randomness of the climax, in which the little old FBI agent whips out a rocket launcher and uses it to shoot down the villain's helicopter. He asks "Who writes a story where an old guy just spontaneously whips out a bazooka?!" Instantly we get a still from the ''{{Ultima}}'' retrospective, showing Spoony as [[LordOfTheRings Gandalf]] with a grenade launcher. "Oh, shut up."
** In his commentary for ''Film/{{The Beastmaster}} 2'', Spoony points out that he made a ''VideoGame/{{Portal}}'' joke in the review, which came out a week after a vlog where he said ''Portal'' jokes were completely played out. He then adds "Haven't you noticed yet that I'm a complete raving lunatic and hypocrite? Because you should."
** Later on, he lambasted {{Nintendo}} for cashing in by re-releasing ''OcarinaOfTime'' on the [=3DS=], and then immediately turned tail to gush about the upcoming ''[[MetalGearSolid3SnakeEater Snake Eater]]'' remake on the same system, calling himself out yet again.
* HypocriticalHumor:
** "I knew grown men who admitted to openly weeping at [[AllThereIsToKnowAboutTheCryingGame the bit where Aeris dies in ''FFVII''.]] What a bunch of pussies." * Cut to a FlashBack of him in 1994, shedding ManlyTears over the opera scene in ''FinalFantasyVI''*
*** And later on he starts tearing up every time he mentions Aeris' death.
** "A robot puppet? How lame is that?"
** When his teammates in ''Swat 4'' throw flashbangs in such a way that it blinds ''him'', he yells "YOU FOOL!" A couple of times, he blinded ''himself'' with poorly thrown flashbangs, although he made sure to yell "YOU FOOL!" at himself.
** Furthermore, he calls everyone who likes "Eyes on Me" a complete pussy, and ends his Final Fantasy VIII review with a music video tribute of the cast set to the song. He says in the creator commentary "I call you all pussies then subject you to the pussy song. So yeah you're all pussies, you know what, I am too".
** In Part 1 of his ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyX'' review, Spoony criticizes the sexualization of underage characters like the 15-year-old Rikku... then starts drooling over a picture of a Rikku [[{{Cosplay}} cosplayer]]. Also a two-in-one, since he's critical of cosplayers as well.
*** [[HilariousInHindsight Three-to-one: He cosplayed as Tidus during the last part of his]] VideoGame/FinalFantasyX [[HilariousInHindsight review.]]
** Almost immediately afterward, he scoffs at the Al Bhed's characteristic spiralled irises. Cue Insano.
** Also, after going on about how Seymour Guado can't possibly be taken seriously due to his stupid hair and clothes, he becomes quite shaken at Seymour's summoning of Anima at the Blitzball Stadium.
-->"Praise be to Yevon!"
** In his review of ''Dungeonmaster'', Doctor Insano becomes angry at the NewPowersAsThePlotDemands offered by the hero's computer, comparing it to if Doctor Insano himself was able to shoot lightning out of his hand screaming "SCIENCE!" (Which Insano does. Frequently).
* IAlwaysWantedToSayThat: While reviewing ''Strike Commando'', he points out one scene that is a blatant ripoff of a scene from ''MadMax Beyond Thunderdome''. [[MysteryScienceTheater3000 "Can't we get... beyond Thunderdome?"]] Followed by celebrating his success at working the line into a review.
** He does it a second time, in his review of ''The Howling 2''. Afterwards, he throws up his arms and goes "WHOO!"
*** He does it for the third time as Dr. Insano towards the end of the ''Dungeonmaster'' review.
*** His review of "Cage" brings the count to four, complete with celebratory dance.
* IAmTheTrope: Arises from a hypothetical debate between a LawfulGood player and a trigger-happy pragmatic player.
-->[gallant voice] "[[IfYouKillHimYouWillBeJustLikeHim He must face justice!]]"\\
[gravely voice] I '''am''' justice. ('''SPLORCH''')
* ImplacableMan: Squall who just. Wont. DIE!
* IncendiaryExponent: '''[[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment FIRE APES ON FIRE.]]'''
* IncrediblyLamePun: A RunningGag in his [=LPs=] is that he's forced to slap himself whenever he makes one of these.
** Happens all the time during the final part of Phantasmagoria 2.
** When playing ''Ripper'' the game has you take a picture of a broken coffee mug. When Spoony calls it a "mug shot", he laughs but notes a second later he just hit himself out of reflex.
** Insano: "I call it: Squallity Control! * insane laughter* I spent all day thinking up that one!"
** "The morgue, people were just dying to get in there."
** Also, from his Terror TRAX PC review:
-->'''Distressed Caller:''' "... He pulled my eyes... out of my head...\\
'''Spoony:''' "Pulled your eyes out? That guys got some optic nerve!"
** There are several tree-related ones in rapid succession in the Dragon Strike video review:
-->"I'm okay, its bark is worse than its bite"
-->"I feel like such a sap"
-->"Its time we leaf"
-->"The apple doesn't fall far from the tree"
-->"We get to him, we get to the root of the problem!"
* IncomingHam: The Gatekeeper in Nightmare. When he even begins to speak, a loud thunder sound is played.
* IndestructibleEdible: According to Spoony's story [[http://spoonyexperiment.com/2011/10/24/counter-monkey-the-toilet-pizza/ The Toilet Pizza]] a pizza from Peter Piper's Pizza does not mold or decay instead just hardening into a pizza shaped slab of plastic.
* INeedAFreakingDrink: What Spoony says after a good 40 minute rant on The Slammies.
-->'''Spoony''': "I'm gonna go drink heavily now. And I may never stop."
** Happens quite literally in his [[http://spoonyexperiment.com/2011/11/19/vlog-11-19-11-breaking-dawn/ v-log]] for the ''[[Literature/{{Twilight}} Breaking Dawn]]'' film; Noah admits that he doesn't normally drink though he does keep alcohol on hand for guests, but the film was so terrible that he decided to get drunk.
** During his review of ''TekkenBloodVengeance,'' he starts a drinking game for any scene where you need to be a Tekken fan to understand what's going on, which is one shot, and ''two'' shots if being a Tekken fan makes what's going on ''more'' confusing. He says this holding a shot glass and a bottle Captain Morgan. The first scene has Xiaoyu riding Panda to school -- and he starts drinking directly from the bottle.
* {{Infomercial}}: In the ''FinalFantasyVIII'' review, Dr. Insano has one to advertise his new anti-magic field generator. Gets a CallBack in the ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyX'' review where he introduces the newest model...only to trail off as [[RantInducingSlight Wakka destroys it with a Blitzball]].
* InTheNameOfTheMoon: In a crossover with BennettTheSage:
-->'''Bennett''': "For Lars?"\\
'''Spoony''': "For Lars.'''
* IronicEcho: In the mission 12 LP of SWAT 4. The debriefing mentions that Lieutenant Spoony has been placed on medical leave for foot injuries sustained during the mission, an echo of and poke at Spoony injuring himself (Jones fracture in his foot) during the fund drive for That Guy With The Glasses.
** Black Lantern Spoony also breaks his foot literally kicking Linkara's ass when he presses one of his Berserk Buttons.
* ItGotWorse: At the end of his Power Rangers review, he says Sega CD games couldn't possibly get any worse. The preview for the next review that follows proves him wrong. Big time.
** The same thing happened after his review of ''{{Highlander}} II: The Quickening''; despite his claiming it to be the worst sequel (if not the worst movie) of all time, he subsequently found ''Highlander: Endgame'' to be arguably worse owing to the incompetent direction and editing, and ''Highlander: The Source'' to be vastly, unimaginably worse than ''The Quickening''.
* ItIsPronouncedTropay: Spoony mocks Dave Thomas' pronunciation of fresh and fashion.
-->"We have the fray-shest old fay-shioned hamburgers!"
* ItsPersonal: Spoony has mentioned several times that he prefers to review games and films that he has a personal connection with - in particular, ''awful'' games and films that he still feels burned that he wasted money on.
* ItsTheBestWhateverEver: After reading the synopsis of ''SamuraiZombieNation'', declares it to have the "Best. Plot. EVER!"
* ItsTheSameNowItSucks: [[{{In-universe}} Noah takes this position]] with regards to certain long running franchises such as ''TheLegendOfZelda''. Whether or not he's right is beyond the scope of this article.
* IWantMyJetpack: His reaction when ''Captain Z-Ro'' shows a man on a hovering platform and calls it "the latest development in powered flight".
** Spoony also plays with the trope and related ones like ItWillNeverCatchOn: he tends to compare predictions of future technology from works made in the past to how technology actually has moved on. The best examples of this are in ''{{Ripper}}'' where he mocks the UnusualUserInterface of the future internet and compares the character's communication gadget to the iPhone.
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* JiveTurkey: [[http://spoonyexperiment.com/2010/03/18/tse-riff-theater-gamecrazy-training-video/# comments The GameCrazy Training Video]] has a monopoly on this.
* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: Spoony's riff of ''After Last Season'' was taken down under polite request by the film's producers on the grounds of copyrights infringement. Now it's only available as an [=iRiff=] on {{RiffTrax}}, which requires a copy of the film itself. To Spoony's credit, he discourages illegal downloads of the film despite [[FanDumb fans suggesting otherwise on the comments section of his site]], and admitted that he was in the wrong for planning to post a movie in its entirety on his website. This is also a perfect opportunity for Spoony to put money where his mouth is regarding his challenge to TNA's Dixie Carter and see how many of his fans are willing to support him and buy his [=iRiff=] of the film instead of just illegally downloading the movie elsewhere.
-->'''Spoony:''' "I won't condone piracy. I simply ask you to support the site if you enjoyed the rifftrax. $1 isn't much to ask for an evening's fun."
* KilledOffForReal: Spencer D. Bum at the start of the ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyX'' review's finale.
* KillerGameMaster: Spoony laments that most of his sessions end with his players dying gruesomely. This is chalked up more to bad luck than evil intent, though Spoony has admitted that he's a "harsh" DM generally.
** One thing he ''will not'' abide is players [[StopHavingFunGuys riffing on the campaign]], whether he designed it himself or not. [[BullyingADragon Nice knowing you, dicksmacks]].
** One party that ''did'' survive Spoony's campaign only did so by becoming a pack of sadistic, kill-crazy savages, even by ''ThievesWorld'' standards.
-->"All of a sudden there's [[BloodierAndGorier pikes shoved up asses, there's piles of heads, there's balls shoved in eye sockets]], and I'm like ''[[MyGodWhatHaveIDone ooooh god]]!''.
** A genuine Killer DM, the aptly-named [[GaryGygax Gary]], is the focus of a ''Counter Monkey'' segment.
* KleptomaniacHero: In part 2 of his ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyX'' review, the first thing that comes to mind after Sin destroys Kilika village and leaves hundreds dead is to loot the bodies. Spoony figures Tidus wouldn't have a problem with it since he had no problem with stealing someone's potions from the ship just moments earlier.
** Lampshaded in Phantasmagoria: "What does it say about me as a person that my first instinct is to rifle through her desk for useful objects?"
* LampshadedTheObscureReference: Makes a ''BetrayalAtKrondor'' reference, and then says "I just made a Betrayal At Krondor reference in Two-Thousand-and fucking-Eleven... I don't get out much..."
* LargeHam:
** Ultimate Spoony, Dr. Insano, and, most of all, Spoontok of the Klingon Empire.
** [[BattlefieldEarth "While you were still learning to]] ''[[BattlefieldEarth SPELL]]'' [[BattlefieldEarth YOUR NAME..."]]
** Spoony as himself in ''{{Kickassia}}''. [[WorldOfHam He's in good company, though]].
** The GATEKEEPER will send your soul to the BLAGOH, MAGGOT!
** He taps into the hamminess of the Dragonstrike narrator when he reads the Pumpkinhead manual.
* LaserGuidedKarma: [[spoiler: Vegan Steve's campaign. [[http://spoonyexperiment.com/2011/10/20/counter-monkey-vegan-steve-and-the-djinni-of-jengai-fomogo/]].]]
* LensmanArmsRace: One of Spoony's Counter Monkey stories has one of these, where the introduction of DMSO (which allows any drug to be instantly absorbed through the skin) in {{Shadowrun}} leads to the introduction of lethal DMSO drug cocktails and an arms race of super soakers, hi-tech water balloons and fire hoses.
* LethalChef: Spoony describes himself in his Hell'sKitchen the game review as this saying that he can't cook anything that requires anything more then a microwave and/or a can opener or he might burn down the whole house although it is unknown if this also applies to him in real life.
* LickedByTheDog: Happens with Dr. Insano after his attempt to create a world-eating monster out of cyboplasm [[{{Squick}} and his own splooge]] only produces a fluffy pink RidiculouslyCuteCritter.
* LikeAGodToMe: Says that [[{{Ultima}} Richard Garriot]] is "a god among nerds".
* LoveItOrHateIt: [[{{In-Universe}} He describes]] ''FinalFantasyVIII'' as this right off the bat during its review. While some of his fans love it, Spoony... doesn't.
* LyingCreator: Possibly. He announced the storyline of being banished to the Black Hole by the Gatecleaner if he didn't review a series of VCR board games within a year was being cancelled... only to pick it up again after that year had passed, with the Gatecleaner not being too happy that he failed to review them.
** Wouldn't be the first time, especially after he repeatedly denied that ''Spooning With Spoony 2'' was never going to happen during the TGWTG charity drive...barely an hour after ''Spooning With Spoony 2'' had been shot.
* LyricalDissonance: The theme song, ''"Break Me"'' by The Irresponsibles. While being a rousing piece of CrowningMusicOfAwesome, it has rather dark lyrics you might notice on first hearing it. Lampshaded by Spoony in a commentary where he said he loved the song but it was "basically implying that I'm a girl who likes to be domestically abused."
** On the other hand, he ''is'' a guy who likes to be abused by bad movies and video games, so it's a bit of an apt metaphor.
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* MadScientist: Dr. Insano. He'll rule the world '''with science!!!''' And also winning the 2008 Presidential Election with running mate FuManchu.
* [[MadScientistsBeautifulDaughter Mad Scientist's Adorable Son]]: Son of Insano. He hasn't actually betrayed his father but he's so gosh-darned cute and full of love it's hard to think he'd do anything actually evil.
* MagicVersusScience: Parodied in reference to ''[[FinalFantasyVIII Final Fantasy VIII]]'' AssPull "anti-magic field", with a projector for such a thing being sold in a home shopping channel-type segment by Dr. Insano. Without any fuel. A similar gag re-appears in the ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyX'' review, with Dr. Insano selling an anti-magic negator...and being completely astounded when it turns out you can take it out with a Blitzball.
* ManiacMonkeys: The "[[TwentyEightDaysLater Rage]] Monkeys" that Spoony's so obsessed with in {{Ripper}}.
* AMatchMadeInStockholm: [[http://spoonyexperiment.com/hitman/ As noted]] by Spoony in his written review, Agent 47's "relationship" with Olga Kurylenko's character in the ''{{Hitman}}'' movie strongly comes across as this. He drives across Russia while she's stuffed in his car trunk with a dead body, constantly threatens to torture and murder her, and drags her out of a restaurant by her hair. She becomes strangely attracted to him, very overtly tries to seduce him several times, and continues to accompany him when she has several opportunities to make a run for it. Being [[{{Asexuality}} asexual]] 47 ignores her sexual advances, but does eventually show some degree of protection for her.
* MathematiciansAnswer: Spoony's take on the changes to Yuna between VideoGame/FinalFantasyX and [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyX2 Final Fantasy X-2]].
-->'''Spoony:''' Quite a long way from the traditional kimono she wore before, and her previous characterization as a kind, demure, religious care-giver with a tragic fate. But is this huge change in outfit and characterization because of the radical cultural shift in Spira because of the exposure of Yevon as a maniacal, genocidal cult run by the undead bent on world domination... or just because japanese perverts want to see some cleavage and her cute ass in boy's shorts? Good question... The answer is "Yes".
* {{Mid-Review Sketch Show}}: Spoony tends to include vaguely related comedy skits with his reviews from time to time, the most elaborate of which by far were the "Predaborg" skits filmed by Ed Glaser of Dark Maze Studios, as a comedic pastiche of the film Spoony was reviewing, ''Robowar''. His skits tend to receive a mixed reaction, with some fans being exceedingly upset by how characters like Dr. Insano hog up so much screen time from his reviews, and others asking for more comedy (Chuckles the Jester's appearance in a recent video seems to be directly inspired by the latter group).
* MindScrew: The "Madness of Roland" video.
* MissingWhiteWomanSyndrome: Although she isn't missing, Spoony has a point that Reb Brown in ''Mercenary Fighters'' just looks on with a slight hint of disapproval as a dozen African women are lined up and mowed down, but when the ScaryBlackMan is putting his hands on that one white woman? Oh, now it's on!
* MonsterClown: Insano-as-[[FinalFantasyVI Kefka]] in his VideoGame/FinalFantasyX review.
** Averted with Chuckles, who claims he's not a clown because "clowns get paid."
* MorallyAmbiguousDoctorate: Doctor Insano, natch.
* MostAnnoyingSound: "You're in my way sir." [[invoked]]
** Tidus in general, Tidus' forced laugh more specifically.
* MSTing: Spoony's weapon of choice. To wit:
-->'''Spoony''': "When you give someone a lamp with the devil in it you don't go, "Oh, this lamp is a little dangerous". You say, "Here's a lamp AND IT HAS THE DEVIL IN IT!" I mean what kind of weird shit was Headmaster Cid into?"
* MultipleChoicePast: Is Dr. Insano an incarnation of Spoony trapped in a StableTimeLoop? Is he a high school loser named Alfonse Plumbottom (or Wayne Schlumper?) who had an unrequited crush on Spoony? Was he a woman (or a robot) until Linkara punched a hole in the fabric of the multiverse? Is he [[{{Highlander}} an immortal from the planet Zeist?]] Is ''Spoony'' the future incarnation of Insano? [[{{Kickassia}} Is Insano Spoony's "Mr. Hyde"-style alter ego?]] Was he all of the above because Linkara punched reality (Linkara only remembering the "transformed Insano" for some reason)? WordOfGod is that "the origins of Dr. Insano are shrouded in mystery".
** Noah drops the trope name in the audio commentary for ''{{Kickassia}}''. He also remarks that it's kind of impressive that he has fans dedicated enough to try and sort out the various "continuities" of Insano.
-->Spoony: "There is no continuity, there is only Insano."
* MyFriendsAndZoidberg: In one of his Vlogs, Spoony describes the movie ''2012'' as having "a fantastic cast of really well known actors... and Amanda Peet."
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Spoony's reaction to how his ''ThievesWorld'' campaign spiraled into brutality.
* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: Likes to lampshade this when he comes across it in media. And of course there's Dr Insano in his first appearance calling the voters idiots for voting for someone called "Dr Insano".
* {{Narm}}: {{In-universe}}.
** After a while of listening to a middle-aged white woman trying to use gangsta-speak in his MST of the Game Crazy training video, Spoony's reduced to just laughing into the mike.
** "Tell me... about Disneyland..."
* NegativeContinuity: Don't try to rack your brain over Insano's origins, Spoony's clones and wherever the hell Black Lantern Spoony fits into all of this. Clearly, [[GenreSavvy as a fan of the show]], he has the MST3KMantra in mind.
** Won't keep us from [[http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/videolinks/teamt/cr/ff/27514-dr-insano trying.]]
** Spoony himself has said "I find it funny people are trying to figure out the continuity at work in this vid. You know what, there ''is'' no continuity, there is only Insano."
* NightmareFace: [[http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/spoony_face.png The end of the Madness of Roland review.]]
* NinjaPirateZombieRobot:
** About ''UltimaI'':
-->"Richard Garriot's tabletop ''DungeonsAndDragons'' game must have been just about the most glorious thing in human history. This game takes ''D&D'', ''StarTrek'', ''StarWars'', ''Series/DoctorWho'' among many other things, throws them in a blender and hits the puree switch. And ''my god is it beautiful''. This guy is a god of nerds."
* NoDeadBodyPoops: Subverted in the ''Ultima 6'' review, where as revenge for Lord British being asleep and not waking up even when Spoony/The Avatar is dying from poison and needs healing, Spoony decides that as payback he'll die on Lord British's throne so that he'll wake up and find it covered in his voided bowels.
* NoEnding: The ''DirtyHarry'' [[TheProblemWithLicensedGames game]] would simply cut to a password screen upon completion of a level. Spoony would reproduce this shortly after in the review ''itself'', abruptly cutting to black just as Spoony would about to tell what would happen in the second level. [[ShoutOut Plus]], there was the exact same song as [[TheSopranos with certain more infamous instance of this trope]] playing in the background.
* NoOntologicalInertia: Lampshaded in Grass Battle winner #1, "Norwegian Grass":
-->'''Fabian:''' You have to get to the source, the big grass monster. If you kill the source, all the grass will die. Haven't you seen ''TheFaculty''?
-->'''Protagonist:''' Of course. Isn't it a bit illogical?
-->'''Fabian:''' Ehm, no. It should work, I think.
* NostalgiaFilter: Whenever Spoony talks about {{Fallout}} 3, {{Bioshock}}, or the upcoming remake of ''VideoGame/{{X-COM}}'', he clearly prefers the originals. It can quickly go into YourMileageMayVary territory if you're not of the same gaming generation of him, or if you ''are'' and don't have a strongly positive opinion of the originals.
* NoteToSelf: Insano's reaction to the nurses turning on the mad scientist in ''Clones of Bruce Lee'':
-->'''Dr.Insano:''' "Note to self: have my nurse destroyed."
* NotMakingThisUpDisclaimer: Noah spends a good 15 seconds in "The Importance of Wearing Pants" reassuring us that he's not making up the story about the player who somehow left the house without his pants.
* OffTheShelfFX: The "Time Compressor" looks an awful lot like an X-Box remote control. Dr. Insano insists it's not one!
* OhCrap: In the end of ''FinalFantasyX2'' review, [[spoiler: [[FinalFantasyVII Sephiroth]] appears to actually save from death at Yuna's hands. Spoony freaks out thinking he would be the next but it turns out that he likes his show and let him alive. For the time being.]]
* OneSteveLimit: "Okay, any team with two Jeffs on it I automatically write off as a complete joke."
* OverlyLongGag: The entire 8 minute or so part 2 of the ''FinalFantasyVIII'' is Squall drawing 2 spells, to underline [[AccentuateTheNegative how maddening the game can be]].
--> *kick* You got a potion! *kick* You got a potion! *kick* You got a potion! *kick* You got a potion!
** From his ''Cage'' review, in a conversation between Lou Ferrigno's character and two guys trying to get him to fight in a cage match:
---> "But I like to wrestle!" *happy reaction shots* "But I don't like fighting." *disappointed reaction shots* "But I like to wrestle!" *happy reaction shots* "But I don't like fighting" *disappointed reaction shots*
* OverusedCopycatCharacter: "An elf with two swords. Who's surprised?"
* [[spoiler:OurHeroIsDead]]: [[spoiler:...but not if Linkara has anything to say about it.]]
** As he'd ended his FinalFantasyVIII review in this way just in case he couldn't make any new reviews - something which seemed entirely possible at the time - this trope was almost an example of [[spoiler:TheHeroDies]].
* OutOfFocus: Burton the Robot. Still listed in the opening credits, still part of the title card, and still sitting in the background next to Spoony, but when was the last time he ever actually ''did'' anything?
** Ultima VI: "Burton! Death ray! Now!" And he delivered.
** Mostly justified because, although Burton was created to be a sort of MST3K style puppet, the 'bot is still horribly fragile and difficult to work with, making it not worth the effort to integrate into Spoony's videos in any real capacity.
* OutrunTheFireball: The ending of the ''Final Fantasy VIII'' review, which is just RuleOfCool. [[spoiler: Subverted given that the fireball outran ''him'' and annihilated him down to the lump of protoplasm Linkara found after the time lapse]].
* OverusedRunningGag: Spoony has said he wants to avoid overusing Dr Insano to prevent him becoming one (though the character still seems pretty popular despite his frequent appearances) and also because doing the voice hurts his throat. However, he always manages to make these claims he's going to use Dr Insano less ''right before'' a review where Insano has a huge role, like the Ferris Bueller's Day Off review. One wonders if he's doing it on purpose.
** One might also consider the "beyond Thunderdome" jokes to be this, especially since the entire point of the original joke was that you don't get to use the joke very often
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* PetTheDog:
** [[CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming "You hear that, world? I love my pink, freakish, orb-shaped son!"]]
* ThePowerOfRock: [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyX Yunalesca]]'s "[[Music/{{Megadeth}} Mega Death]]" which caused the party to be "Rocked to Death".
* PragmaticAdaptation: Spoony says that, in his opinion, the live action ''{{Film/Tekken}}'' movie was this because it ditched the more outlandish elements of the ''{{Videogame/Tekken}}'' series like the robots and Devil Gene and just focused on the fighting.
* PresidentEvil: Parodies the concept with President Dr. Insano following the lampshading of its occurence on Final Fantasy VII.
-->'''Dr.Insano''': "You actually voted for a guy named "Dr.Insano"! What the ''hell'' is wrong with you people?!?"
* PrivateEyeMonologue: Spoofed in the ''{{Phantasmagoria 2}}'' review when Curtis finds Therese sitting on his couch after she broke into his apartment.
* ProductPlacement: When Linkara brought Spoony back to life, he hardcoded the urge to shill for his book into Spoony's DNA.
* PromotionToOpeningTitles: Dr. Insano.
* ThePurge: "And people ''like'' [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyX this game]]! Ladies and gentlemen, I implore you; Find these people. Kill them. They're, like.. voters. '''Kill them all!'''
* TheRant: During the commentary for the Party Mania review, Noah pauses the video for a couple of minutes so he can try to address some of the backlash that it caused.
** A briefer example comes at the start of the ''TekkenBloodVengeance'', where he says that he's taken heat for liking the live action ''{{Film/Tekken}}'' and defends his opinion.
* RapeAsComedy: Spooning With Spoony.
* ReadingsBlewUpTheScale
-->"The readings are into the GIGAQUEER RANGE!!" *Gaydar explodes*
* RealLifeWritesThePlot:
** The entire reason for ''FinalFantasyVIII'''s GrandFinale was that Noah was moving out of his parents' house and replacing his camera and didn't want to change things without explanation.
** As well as the plot of the Bloodwings: Pumpkinhead's Revenge review. The original plot was to have him forced to play it by the Gatekeeper/Cleaner/Beekeeper in the blagoh. But after weeks of frustration decided to make the plot about all the trouble he had with it.
** Similarly, he was unable to get ''The Madness of Roland'' to run on his computer, so instead edited together a bunch of the video files extracted from the game to form a [[MindScrew trippy series of visuals]] reminiscent of ''TheRing''.
** He's also made a few broken foot jokes ever since he broke his.
** He wrote in a sketch in his Skullduggery video to explain the appearance of his dog. She's appeared in the background of nearly all his videos since (and sometimes before).
** Referenced in his Kickassia commentary as well. Not concerning his role for a change, but Lord Kat's role had to be shortened severely due to injuries.
* RealitySubtext: In his review of "Ultima Underworld 2," he snarls at a Headless invading the review at the end of the skit, "Don't you fucking test me, you headless hairball, not after the month I've had." This was shortly after his CreatorBreakdown in 2011.
** Also in the finale of ''FinalFantasyX'', Dr Insano says the line "What were you expecting? The Ghost Busters?!". This line makes a lot more sense when you know that Spoony originally planned on having a huge finale with the Ghost Busters making an appearance. However, he couldn't get them to come, as they only really do charity events. This and the fact that he planned such a huge finale to begin with (instead of just focusing on reviewing the game) were fuel for his CreatorBreakdown.
* RealSongThemeTune: "Break Me" by The Irresponsibles.
** On the rare occasions that Dr. Insano does a review by himself, the theme tune changes to "Weird Science" by Oingo Boingo.
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech:
** Spoony's 'An Appeal For Manners' blog post explains to his fans how his fellow reviewers hate when he posts their videos on his site because a number of the comment posters on the site (as opposed to actual fans who like the show and support and encourage Spoony) tend to be jerkish trolls, which also prompted him to take down his acceptance speech video for winning a category in the Mashable Open Web Awards.
** In his infamous Final Fantasy VIII review:
-->* takes a breath* "So, where was I? Oh ya. * changes tone from annoyed to angry* Final Fantasy VIII sucks and [[FanHater You suck for liking it!]] It's a [[BadWriting poorly written]], [[FakeDifficulty badly designed]] [[AccentuateTheNegative piece of shit]], [[TheScrappy with annoying as fuck characters]], [[TradingCardLame a pointless card collecting mini game]] [[ScrappyMechanic and the most needlessly complicated and micromanaged character-management-system ever devised for any game]]! [[MiniGame It's full of ridiculous metagame-concepts]], [[LevelGrinding boring levelgrinding activities]] and [[PeninsulaOfPowerLeveling tedious magic-collection-busywork]]! The plot makes no sense, [[ImprobableWeaponUser the weapons are ridiculous]] and the setting is strangely underpopulated and [[SchizoTech technologically wildly anachronistic]]. It's long, boring, it's stupid - and [[UnstoppableRage I hate it with the fiery intensity of a million Forman-grills]]!"
** And again for Kickassia.
* RecordNeedleScratch: After playing porn music to acompany Quistis in his first Final Fantasy VIII video, the camera will continue to cut to Spoony becoming more and more interested in Quistis until he is seen with a jar of lotion in his hand, and he sees the camera is on. Cue the scratch.
* ReferenceOverdosed: Especially his ''Phantasmagoria2'' LetsPlay, where much of the humour comes from the way he crams in a reference to a film/game/internet meme in practically every sentence.
* RefugeInAudacity: "[[http://www.spoonyexperiment.com/2009/05/18/spooning-with-spoony/ Spooning with Spoony]]" is so offensive and disgusting, it warps all the way back around to hilarious and awesome. According to Spoony's commentary, the original was going to be worse. Spooning With Spoony II carried on the trend.
* RidiculouslyCuteCritter: Son of Insano. "Riki-tee!"
* RobotBuddy: Burton, a Mystery Science Theater-style puppet, made of a dust bin and a handheld vacuum cleaner, who spends most of his time sitting behind Noah's chair and looking on silently. He is apparently triggered to self-destruct if Spoony is gravely injured or dies.
** Also has voice operated functions, such as DEATH RAY, which Spoony used on Chuckles the jester as he was threatening him to shove a DVD up his ass. However, Spoony still had to manually turn Burton's head towards its target.
** He created Burton because he originally wanted to do his own MST3K style show.
* RuinedForever: In his review of MetroidOtherM, Spoony devotes a decent length of time to thoroughly explain why he thinks the series has suffered permanent damage thanks to the game's characterization of Samus.
** Likewise, his review of {{Highlander}}: The Source explains the many ways this movie pissed on the grave of the franchise dug and buried by everything following the original film.
** And in his review of [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyX2 Final Fantasy X-2]], he notes the minigame where you're supposed to give [[TheRival LeBlanc]] a [[LesYay massage]], to which she responds with audio that could easily be dubbed over any porn scene, as the point where FinalFantasy died.
* RuleOfFunny:
** From the commentary on the final {{Final Fantasy VIII}} video, about Dr. Insano's appearances: "It's kind of cute how people are trying to come up with some kind of continuity for all this. There's no continuity, there's only Insano."
** Linkara's commentary on the ''Warrior'' review notes a scene where Linkara gets a look at Dr. Insano without his goggles, which spawned all kinds of speculation due to him now knowing Insano was Spoony. He tells them all to not take it so seriously.
** Him turning back to normal after Insano's defeat.
-->'''Spoony''': "IGotBetter".
*** This might be a result of an [[DeletedScene abandoned idea]] Doug mentioned where Spoony would play peacemaker (like Ask That Guy did in the Brawl), only to snatch the CommissarCap and reveal that it's still Insano, just disguised as Spoony.
* RuleThirtyFour: It exists, and Noah knows about it. He both makes fun and caters to the fans, just like the rest of the site.
* RunningGag:
** Fusebox count.
*** Related to the Fusebox Count, there was the Ass Count that ran through his FinalFantasyX review. The counter broke during one particularly gratuitous ass-shot in the DeadOrAlive film review.
** "I heard that, Curtis." To the extent that the quote appears on a t-shirt that Spoony will occasionally wear on-camera.
** '''PHANTASMAGORIA!'''
** "[[YorTheHunterFromTheFuture We will need a lot more hemp before we're through.]]"
** "You ever get the feeling of deja vu? Probably nothing."
** After getting hit by a flash grenade by allies in SWAT 4'* "YOU FOOL!"
** "You're in my way, sir."
** "[[BladeRunner Live the good life in the off-world colonies!]]"
** "[[ChristopherWalken This guy, he's un-fuckin'-believeable!]]"
*** More ''{{Ripper}}'': "Now all we have to do is-" *change disc screen comes up for umpteenth time* "D'OH!"
** Black Lantern Spoony keeps getting killed.
** Evil science labs producing [[TwentyEightDaysLater Rage Monkeys]].
** "[I play this game on hard difficulty] because I'm '''hardcore''' and ''that's how I roll!''"
** "You ever get the feeling of deja vu? Probably nothing."
** Spoony (And later, Insano) constantly remarking on how stupid it is that [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyX Wakka's weapon of choice is a Blitzball]].
*** Earlier in ''FinalFantasyVIII'' he did the same with the Gunblade, and even at one point said it was [[EarlyBirdCameo even stupider than Wakka's Blitzball]].
** Fitting in references to and clips of the DavidLynch version of ''{{Dune}}'' every time he reviews something that involves a desert. Though admittedly in the case of ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyX'' the game was blatantly referencing ''Dune'' itself.
** He's somehow managed to take [[MysteryScienceTheater3000 Crow and Servo's]] "[[MadMax Beyond Thunderdome]]" IncrediblyLamePun and turn it into a running gag.
--> '''Spoony''': I think I stopped playing that series after I got Beyond Thunderdome. OH! OH, I DID IT AGAIN! [[ThisIsSparta I CANNOT. BE. STOPPED!]]
** "The [[MadLibsCatchPhrase Whatever-est]] Thing Ever Filmed", a faux warning card that shows up in his reviews of Reb Brown films preceding scenes. These include "The Most Awesome Thing" (YorTheHunterFromTheFuture using a rigor mortis-stiffened pterodactyl thing to hang glide into a cave and kick a purple caveman in the head); "The Funniest Thing" (Reb's character from ''Strike Commando'' in a {{Narm}}-tastic scene where he's tearfully talking about Disneyland to a dying child); and "The Manliest Thing" (Reb in ''Mercenary Fighters'' taking over a machine gun and using it to single-handedly kill a dozen enemies).
** "Ooooooo, NASTY." Whenever someone gets killed of gorily, Spoony cuts to a clip from {{Knightmare}}.
** Being attacked by a ''FinalFantasy'' character at the end of his multi-part reviews of each game.
** Any time Deron [=McBee=] shows up in something he reviews (surprisingly many!), Spoony will be sure to include a video of a nasty bump he suffered as Malibu on AmericanGladiators.
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* SarcasmFailure: The 8-6-10 Wrestle! Wrestle! V-log. The serious kind.
** Almost the ''entirety'' of his review of ''Highlander: The Source''. At one point he says that all he needs to do is show a clip from the movie and then show his increasingly appalled reaction shot, as the film's stupidity speaks for itself.
* SarcasmMode: This one should be pretty self explanatory.
* {{Satan}}: In his review of {{Final Fantasy VIII}}, he ends up getting a lamp that has "TEH DEVIL" inside. Spoony is awesome enough to blind, beat and tame The Devil, though, so all is good.
* ScheduleSlip: Several things that Spoony may announce at some point may take quite a while to actually get done, for various reasons; most prominently, of course, that Spoony is working entirely on his own.
** Lampshaded in [[WebOriginal/BadMovieBeatdown Film Brain]]'s review of ''HudsonHawk'' in early October 2010. Spoony complains that he was going to review the film & game, and Film Brain admits he did see the list that mentioned this... When it was posted 9 months earlier.
** ''Wrestle! Wrestle!'' started out providing weekly recaps of Raw and Impact, and even added Sean Fausz to cover the workload. Since mid-November 2010, however, recaps have been sporadic, and the site sometimes goes more than a month without updates.
** At the start of February 2011, Spoony announced a list of films & games he was going to review, intended to cover to the end of April. He was actually making decent progress through the list, until RealLifeWritesThePlot kicked in.
* ScreamingAtSquick
* ScrewYourself: Spoony complimenting Spuna as "the ''sexiest'' woman I have ever seen."
* SecretTestOfCharacter: In the ''FinalFantasyVIII'' finale, Spoony proclaims that being able to sit through ''Eyes On Me'' in its entirety proves that the viewer is a pussy, and then proceeds to use the song in its entirety in the end credits.
* SelfDeprecation:
** In the ''FinalFantasyVIII'' finale, he talks about how making you sit through the "Pussy Song", but then talks about spending a week matching it to the ''FinalFantasyVIII'' ending credits, and says that makes him a bigger pussy then the watcher.
** "You may not think having a cold is that debilitating, but you don't have a nose as big as mine!"
** "Who do you think is going to pick up [[DirtyDancing this game]], anyway... Other than retards who review games on the internet?!"
* SeriesFauxnale: Spoony's ''FinalFantasyVIII'' finale, which he made not only to finish his ''FinalFantasyVIII'' series for good, but also to serve as his own grand finale because he was unsure if he would be able to make any more videos for a while. When [[WebOriginal/AtopTheFourthWall Linkara]] caught wind of this, he made an extra skit for the finale to serve as a SequelHook, where he recovers some of Spoony's genetic material with the intention of bringing him back to life... leading directly into the ''Clones Of Bruce Lee'' video, where Linkara creates a clone of Spoony.
* SeriousBusiness: He thinks Twilight is the worst cultural phenomenom of the last decade.
** He takes his ProfessionalWrestling very seriously and is the quintessential IWC Elitist Smark
* {{Sexophone}}: In Spooning With Spoony.
* ShirtlessScene:
** Spoony, while being completely intoxicated on pain killers, drenched in sweat, and oozing just a little blood, does some sort of dance sequence in his underwear after reviewing the ET video game.
** He also goes shirtless for a moment in the game reviewing convention panel with [[WebOriginal/TheAngryJoeShow Angry Joe]] and Birdman.
* ShoutingShooter: When you give [[Film/LordOfTheRings Gandalf]] an assault rifle.
* SincerityMode: In his 2011 v-log for the new "X-Com" game, he mentions the time during the last E3 where he shouted "BETRAYAL!" and assures us that he was not playing a character. This video has Spoony almost chillingly quiet, yet nonetheless brimming with repressed rage that his most favorite strategy game of all time has not received an update, but an InNameOnly first-person shooter.
* [[SoBadItsGood So Bad It's]] CrazyAwesome: [[invoked]]
** His review of "YorTheHunterFromTheFuture" sums the movie up as this.
** He later clarifies this in his "Robowar" review as "Things don't have to be ''good'' to be ''awesome!''"
* SoundtrackDissonance: During Part 2 of his VideoGame/FinalFantasyX review, he played "Ignition Remix" by R. Kelly during Yuna's sending ceremony. Because, he said, [[LampshadeHanging "Naturally I feel the urge to profane this most holy and solemn ritual with completely inappropriate music."]]
* SpaceDoesNotWorkThatWay: '''"''[[BerserkButton Orbital wobble?!]]''"'''
* SpitTake: Turning into a RunningGag.
** Upon hearing that AJ in ''Mazes and Monsters'' wants to kill himself.
** When he hears that Yuna from ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyX'' seriously wants to marry the transparently evil Seymour.
** In ''{{Film/The Beastmaster}} 2'' when he makes a joke about seeing one of the ''{{Sliders}}'' coming the other way through the portal to a parallel Earth... only to actually see Kari Wuhrer from ''Sliders'' go through it.
** In ''Lords of Magick'' when a wizard lists off his abilities as being finding lost friends, exorcising ghosts, curing the plague, turning frogs into toads and [[BreadEggsMilkSquick restoring maidenheads]].
--->'''Spoony''': [spits] Oh man, [[LampshadeHanging I gotta stop drinking water during these clips]].
* StabTheSalad: Sephiroth popping in to say, ".......Love your work."
* StableTimeLoop: Dr. Insano is created through Spoony's desire to go back in time to erase the ''FinalFantasy'' franchise from existence. To do so, he creates his own time loop where instead of studying science for decades he sends a future version of himself back in time to give him all the knowledge he needs.
* StartOfDarkness:
** We belatedly learn ([[ContinuitySnarl one of]]) Dr. Insano's origins in his review of the original ''{{Final Fantasy}}'': the result of a time paradox just like the game's.
** In the Party Mania review Insano is actually Wayne Schlumper, a teenage scientist who was rejected by a female version of Spoony. Distraught and driven to insanity over the fact she didn't go out with him and his brother, wasting his scientific efforts on a pair of carefully created dancing shoes and hair-gel, he became insane with grief and hinted he would create his own woman. In the commentary, Spoony points out that this is simply the Insano of the alternate dimension the review takes place in.
* StealthParody: Part 10 of the ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVIII'' review is dedicated solely to "trashing" the original ''[[VideoGame/FinalFantasyI Final Fantasy]]'' and in doing so takes a bunch of potshots at himself and his caustic reviewing habits. It was so deadpan serious and over the top that Noah had to post a notice on the video that he was joking and he actually likes the game. Apparently few people noticed it was posted on [[AprilFoolsDay April 1, 2009]].
* StealthPun: During his ''Skullduggery'' review, while cosplaying as Simcoe The Magician, he conjures a dog from a pair of oreos. The dog was featured prominently in some of Spoony's videos before hand, and went by the name ''Oreo''.
* TheStoner: Though it's probably a joke, [[http://twitter.com/TheSpoonyOne/status/21092980201 this tweet]] is interesting.
** For a given value, it might actually have been true. He was sick at the time and might have taken [[HealingPotion some pain meds]], thus "[[YesButWhatDoesZataproximetacineDO high]]."
* StockFootage: Has several bits he uses, most notably footage of a [[DudeNotFunny crowd booing at a political rally]] which he cuts to whenever he does a really dark joke.
* StrangeMindsThinkAlike: Both he and Maffew of {{Botchamania}} feel that the only thing JohnCena [[NoSell sells]] [[MemeticMutation is merchandise]].
** ScrewAttack debuted a video series, ''DEATH BATTLE'', a few days after Spoony unveiled ''Deadliest Character'' at the 2010 TGWTG Donation Drive, with a similar concept to ''Deadliest Character''. In his commentary for ''Deadliest Character'', Spoony mentions [=ScrewAttack=]'s video & notes that whilst it's suspicious that their series debuted after his & was clearly put together quicker & with less effort than ''Deadliest Character'', he's going to put it down to this trope for the time being, rather than FollowTheLeader.
* StupidSexyFlanders: He expressed this same sentiment in the first part of the ''FinalFantasyX'' review in regards to a Rikku cosplayer (which wasn't about gender so much as HypocriticalHumor in regards to her {{stripperiffic}} costume).
-->"Stupid sexy cosplayers."
* StupidStatementDanceMix Well, not a dance mix, but someone online took his BETRAYAL shout of ''VideoGame/{{X-COM}}'' FirstPersonShooter and turned it into a metal song.
** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wt39TNCpRTg And it is AWESOME.]]
* StylisticSuck: According to Noah's commentary, the Dragonzord's sudden appearance in ''Deadliest Character'' was done to imitate ''DeadliestWarrior'''s habit of having a previously unmentioned factor come in out of nowhere and decide the fight, often in contradiction of the research team's earlier conclusions.
* SuckinessIsPainful: This is the point of his "Experience Bij" segments. "Bij" being some Klingon thing where they test manliness by determining how much utter suffering they can go through. In this particular case, Spoony shows off videos that are ''intensely'' annoying.
** He's actually stated in several TNA reviews that he thinks Impact is so bad that it causes him ''actual'' physical pain. He even gives a small demonstration where watching the Knockouts proceeds to give him a headache.
* TakeThat:
** His whole Ultimate Warrior parody character, which is mostly a spoof of the man's spastic incoherency.
-->'''Ultimate Spoony:''' "[[MetalGearSolid2 I HEAR IT'S AMAZING WHEN THE FAMOUS PURPLE STUFFED WORM IN FLAP JAW SPACE WITH A TUNING FORK DOES A RAW BLINK ON HARA-KIRI ROCK, HOAK HOGAN! I NEED SCISSORS! SIXTY-OOOOOOOONNNNNEEEE!"]]
** In his LetsPlay of "DeadlyPremonition," he makes several jokes about how the game compares to ''HeavyRain''. This is probably a meta-reference to Benzaie's LetsPlay of the latter game.
-->"What, I can't see him take a shower? Minus two stars! I must see every single part of his daily morning routine!"
** His ''It Came From Beyond Midnight'' persona of Leslie Striker is a [[strike:thinly veiled]] [[WordOfGod outright stated]] TakeThat towards {{WWE}} Color Commentator, Matt Striker.
** In his ''[[DeadliestWarrior Deadliest Character]]'' sketch, the ending where [[spoiler: [[AssPull the Green Ranger and the Dragonzord come out of nowhere to help out]]]] was confirmed by Noah in his later commentary to be intended as a TakeThat at ''DeadliestWarrior'', specifically at their [[DanBrowned less-than-sound]] conclusions.
** The review of ''Mercenary Fighter'', a dumb and cheesy 80s action flick, gives him the opportuniy to skewer ''Film/{{Avatar}}'' by [[SarcasmMode gushing about how brilliant the former's plot is]] and [[SeenItAMillionTimes saying nobody in a million years could come up with a story like that]]...while Burton holds the DVD for ''Avatar'' in the background.
** In his ''Phantasmagoria 2'' LP: "Doctor, I think I need help. I got a Dane Cook CD... and god help me, it was funny!"
** In the ''FinalFantasyVIII'' review he delivered one against the ''DarkAvengers'':
-->"Makes just as much sense as putting the [[SpiderMan Green Goblin]] as the head of SHIELD" *{{Beat}}* "Oh wait!"
* TalkativeLoon: Spoony's eerily accurate impression of the Ultimate Warrior.
-->'''Ultimate Spoony:''' ''At Wrestlemania, [[FullNameUltimatum Hoak Hogan]], you will feel the full force of my'' '''[[{{Portmanteau}} destrucity!]]''' ''And you had better be'' '''[[PerfectlyCromulentWord foked]],''' ''Hoak Hogan, because I am going to'' '''foke myself''' ''this Sunday on exactly one thing, Hoak Hogan: the WWF World Heavyweight Championship! You won't be able to [[Film/TheWizardOfOz click your heels three times]] and escape my [[TheMatrix Matrix]], Hoak Hogan! You have less chance [[ShoutOut than two fighters against a]] [[StarWars Star Destroyer!]] The only way to stop the power of the Warrior is [[NukeEm to take off and nuke the site]] [[{{Alien}} from orbit]], Hoak Hogan!'' '''[[SayingSoundEffectsOutLoud SKRONK!!!]]'''
* TalkingToHimself:
** Dr. Insano, Chef Ramsay, Spencer D. Bum, the Ultimate Spoony, Cap'n Smiling Jack D'Arcy, the Gate Cleaner, and Hulk Spogan. And thats not counting reading out writen dialogue in games.
** The '"Clones of Bruce Lee'' review, where a triple splitscreen allows Spoony to share the couch with Dr. Insano and a Spoony!Bum.
** A literal case in the finale of his Phantasmagoria Let's Play where he spoofs various scenes from the game.
* TestosteronePoisoning: Yor the Hunter remains his yardstick for masculinity.
** He's the man!
** Until [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2u84cH_bmTA this]]. Motherfucker suplexed '''A TRAIN.'''
** Another Reb Brown clip from ''Mercenary Fighters'' allegedly tops them all:
-->'''[[OurLawyersAdvisedThisTrope Disclaimer]]:''' Warning. What follows is the manliest thing ever recorded on film. Your balls may drop of in shame at the mere knowledge that you will never in your entire life do something half this manly.
* TethercatPrinciple: [[invoked]] In the ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyX'' review, Spoony apparently spent the ''entire'' two-month-long break between installments hammering the X button to farm potions from an infinitely deep chest. And he has the beard to prove it.
* ThatOneLevel: His playthrough of SWAT 4 has level 11 titled "I Die A Lot". That he does, and even lets you guess in the video how many times he does in fact die. [[spoiler:59]]. The final level he beats right out of the box. [[invoked]]
* TemptingFate: Spoony's does this in the Warrior #1 review, believing that Warrior can't be nearly as bad as Dr. Insano says it is, then screams in terror from ''one look at the cover'', and yes the comic really was that horrible.
** On his FinalFantasyX2 review, he comments on Yuna's ability to [[StandardStatusEffects blind]] people by dancing:
--->Yes, she dances so poorly it causes people to go blind. Who could ''possibly'' do a dance so horrifying it ''blinds'' people?[[hottip:*:Cue another guest appearance by Benzaie.]]
* ThereWasADoor: In ''Tekken: Blood Vengeance'' he's particularly exasperated when Jin and Kazuya separately punch out the walls of a room within seconds of each other and throws up his hands. He also [[FridgeLogic wonders]] how awkward it would've been if either them of them accidentally punched out the wall Heihachi was hiding behind instead. [[invoked]]
-->Anyone else? Anyone else want to punch out a wall, we've got two left!
** This is followed by Randy Savage's Slim Jim commercial where he does this as well as the Kool-Aid Man.
* TheyJustDidntCare: [[{{In-universe}} Noah firmly believes]] that either the makers of ''Highlander: The Source'' either didn't have a clue about the franchise or were deliberately trying to piss off the Highlander fans with it.
* ThisIsGonnaSuck: When talking about ''Film/TheBeastmaster II: Through the Portal of Time'' he uses this trope to describe the reaction of fans of the first movie as soon as they saw the poster for the second and the car on the front. This was also his reaction to the ''Warrior'' comics.
* ThisIsSparta: When talking about ''[[MetroidOtherM Metroid: Other M]]'', Spoony remarks that Samus never. Shuts. The Fuck. Up. ''Ever''.
* ThreatBackfire: In ''UltimaVIII'', the Guardian gloats about exiling the Avatar to a planet where nobody has heard of him and his exploits saving Britannia. Spoony points out that previous games have demonstrated that [[DudeWheresMyRespect no-one in]] ''[[DudeWheresMyRespect Britannia]]'' [[DudeWheresMyRespect seems to have heard of him or his exploits either]]!
* TooDumbToLive: In his ''[[http://spoonyexperiment.com/2008/08/17/knightmare-review/ Knightmare]]'' review, one of the contestants had to spell the word ''shroud'' backwards. He first spells it D-U-R-H-S (shrud), and after getting a hint to use an O from the host, he confidently comes up with O-S-R-D-H-U.
-->'''Spoony''': WHAT THE FUCK DID YOU JUST SPELL, YOU STUPID PILLOCK?!
* TooSoon: Invoked by Spoony after he refers to a wrestler being choked out as being "''ChrisBenoit''ed".
** Noah felt bad about writing a suicide joke (that was promptly scrapped) after the suicide of one of his fans.
** At MAGFest 2011, Noah made a joke about Warrior teaching Hogan's son out of drive. The audience gave a collective "ooooooooooo"
* TotallyRadical:
** Everything about Party Mania.
** When he MST's a Game Crazy training video, one of the hosts' flagrant overuse of this sometimes reduces Spoony to hysterical laughter.
*** Said host is a woman in her mid-thirties, maybe early forties, whose delivery is ''so utterly white.'' It really is that funny.
* TrashTheSet: The finale of the ''FinalFantasyVIII'' series was Spoony's excuse to give his room a proper sendoff - by blowing it up after Burton self-destructs.
* {{Troperiffic}}: For the sheer number of other tropes listed here.
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[[folder:U-Z]]
* UncannyValley: In-universe, Spoony has expressed distaste for films that rely too heavily on CG characters and effects. In his review of [[{{Film/AVATAR}} AVATAR]], he compared the film to Jackie Chan's movies, stating that watching Jackie Chan and other real actors do the stunts and fight scenes gives weight to the performance that he's never felt watching computer-generated characters like the Na'vi.
* UnfortunateImplications: Brings up in ''Mercenary Fighter'' that despite his supposed moral problems with killing the African villagers, Reb Brown's character doesn't protest a word as several of them are gunned down in cold blood, and instead protests shooting one white reporter. [[invoked]]
* {{Unobtanium}}: Dr. Insano's inventions are powered by [[RatchetAndClank raritanium ore]].
* UranusIsShowing: Appears in his review of ''UltimaII'', which is followed by an immediate lampshading:
-->"I also [[AnalProbing probed Uranus]], which is big and swampy and full of craters, but is otherwise uninteresting. Actually, there's only one town there, called [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin New Jester]], but for [[SarcasmMode the life of me I couldn't figure out why]]. But if I were to guess, I'd say it's where all the jesters of the world were exiled for making endless Uranus jokes."
* ValleyGirl: GenderBender Spoony and 80's Chick.
* VerbalTic: Hulk Hogan (as impersonated by Spoony) is seemingly incapable of not shouting "Brother!" at the end of every sentence. Similarly, Ric Flair yells "WOOOO!" anytime he speaks, though it's not so much a verbal tic as [[TheMentallyDisturbed a cry for help]].
--> '''Ric Flair:''' I'm wrestling with concussion ''right now'', WOOOO! *slams head onto desk*
** NoIndoorVoice: The Pope.
--> "WHO DARES FOLLOW THE POPE AROUND WITH A CAMERA, DADDAY?! [[RoyalWe THE POPE IS THE POPE AND THE POPE'S CONGREGATION'S ALWAYS BEHIND THE POPE]], DADDAY!"
* VideogameCrueltyPotential: In his livestream of ''KingdomHearts'', Spoony seems delighted that the game gives him the opportunity to beat up ''FinalFantasy'' characters he hates such as Squall, Tidus and Wakka.
** Also brings this up in ''UltimaVII'' in that despite you supposedly being ultimate force for good, the game lets you kill a lot of people for fun, and is most amused by being able to kill Lord British (who Spoony notes as the series goes on looks like more and more of a bad guy).
* VillainWithGoodPublicity: Dr. Insano is a merciless parody (specifically of Edea in ''FinalFantasyVIII''), getting elected president despite making no effort to hide his supervillainy.
* VillainousRescue: Spoonyroth runs through Spuna in a sequence reminiscent of Aerith's death in ''Final Fantasy VII''.
* WeAreExperiencingTechnicalDifficulties: Done twice within two minutes when he realizes the protagonist of VideoGame/FinalFantasyX is a collection of everything he hates. Cue him screaming that he hates him and getting cut off by a picture of Insano-Kefka and the words "HATE HATE HATE" showing up on the screen. Then two seconds later when he screams, "SEND HELP!" in response to Tidus opening his mouth again.
** Done again in the ''Ultima 8'' review, when he goes nuts after his game character finally makes it across the water form the insanely impossible jumping required only to get blown into the water by an exploding chest. And in this case, Noah took advantage of it to add a mid-show commercial break on the Blip video.
* WhamEpisode: ''Film/TheBeastmaster 2'' review ends with the happy note that Dr. Insanso and his son have to leave [[spoiler: in order to stop [[OhCrap a dimensional singularity]]]].
** [[WebOriginal/ATopTheFourthWall Foreshadowing]]?
* WhamLine: From the Counter Monkey episode about Spoony's ''Thieves' World'' campaign: "[[CrowningMomentOfFunny I HURL A FLASK OF ACID AT HIS]] ''[[CrowningMomentOfFunny FACE!!!]]''"
** "[[TooDumbToLive I WISH FOR A DECK OF MANY THINGS!]]"
* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotAwesome:
** When Terl claims godhood due to his amazing ability to [[WhatKindOfLamePowerIsHeartAnyway inherently know how high above sea level any location in the world sits,]] Spoony is in ''enraptured awe'' of this skill.
-->Scientology ''is'' the one true religion!
** Which parodies the fact that the Film/WingCommander movie presents pretty much the same situation, although it's somewhat more practical, if it wasn't for the fact every ship computer can do the same, anyway.
** At first Spoony thought the floors were the worst enemy in ''{{Ultima}} 3''. But then fans alerted him to the fact that you can be attacked by '''[[EverythingTryingToKillYou grass]]''' outside the FinalDungeon. In response, he set up a contest for fans to make videos of themselves battling the green menace for a chance to win prizes like autographed pictures and T-shirts.
** In his LetsPlay of ''Phantasmagoria 2'', whenever the game dwells on the protagonist's banal mundane affairs for long periods and fails to live up to its horror theme ([[RunningGag which is often]]), Spoony yells "PHANTASMAGORIA! A PUZZLE OF THE FLESH!"
* WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs: Spooning with Spoony. The man himself had this to say in his commentary:
-->'''Noah:''' "You probably think that I'm going to blame this on drugs or alchohol. I probably should. But nope, we were all stone-cold sober when we made this."
** His E.T. review was a straight-up aversion, but it was justified: the drugs in question were painkillers, which he was taking following surgery to remove his wisdom teeth.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Spoony's reaction to the fact that {{TNA}} showed Samoa Joe being kidnapped by [[InstantAwesomeJustAddNinja ninjas]] and then promptly forgot that he existed, with not so much as a single reaction, going on a month since the kidnapping. This also happens to be the moment when, after enduring the entire TNA broadcast, he [[CrowningMomentOfFunny finally snaps]]:
-->'''Spoony''': "But he was abducted by ninjas! NINJAS! CALL THE COPS! There are ninjas kidnapping people on TV! THE COPS! Did no one get a license plate? Do ni - NINJAS! KIDNAPPING! TV!"
* WhenSheSmiles: Considers NataliePortman this in his ''{{Film/Thor}} review''.
* WhoWritesThisCrap: Inverted in his Punkinhead Review, in which Linkara, dressed the Gatekeeper, puts on a mask and exclaims [[IncomingHam I AM, THE BEEKEEPER.]] Spoony replies, "Oh my God, I wrote that."
* WildMassGuessing: He and his brother think that JohnCena gets stronger the more merch he sells.
* WillingSuspensionOfDisbelief: He [[InvokedTrope says]] the presence of Xiaoyu's panda in ''Tekken: Blood Vengeance'' is so distracting that it completely breaks his suspension of disbelief in every scene it's in, simply because no one explains it. At all.
* WithLyrics: He uses the tune of "Ode to Joy" for this in his ''FinalFantasyVIII'':
--> ''"Quistis, boobies, Quistis, boobies, Squall is getting laid tonight!"''
* WordSalad: Was going for this with the name of his D&D character "[[SpoonyBard Tandem the Spoony]]", which is where his alias came from. ("Spoony" does have a meaning, but it's so obscure that it provoked a confused reaction from his fellow players).
* WrittenInInfirmity:
** He was drugged up on painkillers when filming the ET review, turning it into an homage to ApocalypseNow.
* XMeetsY: He called ''The Lords of Magick'' LordOfTheRings meets TheRoom and Film/{{The Beastmaster}} meets {{Birdemic}}
* YourCostumeNeedsWork: In [[http://spoonyexperiment.com/2010/04/15/kristanna-loken-interview-chicago-2009/ this]] video he mentions that he has been mistaken for a Doctor Insano ''cosplayer''. By someone from his own forum, no less.
* YouShallNotPass: Edited himself in the LordOfTheRings scene as part of a sketch for his review of ''Ultima''.
-->'''[[LordOfTheRings YOU! SHALL NOT! PASS!]]''' *starts blasting away at the Balrog with an AK-47 and phaser before finally blowing it away with an '''M79 grenade launcher'''*
* {{Zeerust}}: When reviewing games/movies made in the past but set in the future, he will often compare the technology presented there to that which now exists, such as [[IProduct Apple iProducts]]. Shows up a lot in his LetsPlay of ''{{Ripper}}''.
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->''"You believed the hype. You paid ten bucks to see a movie or fifty to play that game. Now you want revenge, because therapy is for pussies. Welcome to the experiment, where we cure the sickness with snark.''
->''Let the healing begin."''
Meet NoahAntwiler, self-described "terrifying result of a generation raised on {{MTV}} and films by JeanClaudeVanDamme and StevenSeagal at the height of their popularity." He started out with text reviews of movies, which for a while were published as "A Gamer's Rant on the Movies" in ''KnightsOfTheDinnerTable''. He was soon inspired by the likes of {{Armake21}} to make the leap to video reviews about video games, and so created a new identity as The Spoony One, a name borrowed from a [[SpoonyBard certain line]] in ''{{Final Fantasy IV}}''.
He began with ''TheAdventuresOfBayouBilly'', the quintessential {{Nintendo Hard}} title "which probably contributed a great deal to making me the psychological mess I am today," before moving on to the likes of ''[[VideoGame/ETTheExtraTerrestrial E.T.]]'' for the Atari 2600 (a review he made while recovering from having his wisdom teeth removed, setting "some kind of [[MachoMasochism world record for pain]]").
He is perhaps most famous for his eviscerating reviews of the ''FinalFantasy'' series, specifically otherwise-beloved titles such as [[FinalFantasyVIII VIII]] and [[FinalFantasyX X]], which earned him a spot at WebOriginal/ThatGuyWithTheGlasses. Additionally, Spoony garnered attention for his {{MST3K}}-style {{Lets Play}}s of ''{{Phantasmagoria 2}}: A Puzzle of Flesh'' and ''{{Ripper}}'' (which he slogged through in the dark ages of pre-GameFAQs).
He has since moved into video reviews of movies and TV shows, including completely off the cuff rants against any new releases he didn't like as soon as he gets back from them (the ones about ''IndianaJones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull'' and ''Film/{{Transformers}}: Revenge of the Fallen'' are truly something to behold), as well as similarly improv comments on the state of pro wrestling, which often run as long as the actual ''program'' he's critiquing.
Check it out [[http://www.spoonyexperiment.com here]].
He has also created a abandoned blog detailing his experiences with TabletopGames called [[http://countermonkeybook.blogspot.com/ Counter Monkey]], now appearing in [[http://spoonyexperiment.com/category/counter-monkey/ video form on the main site]], it also has [[http://countermonkey.com/ a WordPress site]]. You can also check out his wrestling spin-off site, [[http://wrestlewrestle.com/ ''Wrestle! Wrestle!'']], which is updated on a semi-regular basis. He also has a VideoGame/StarWarsTheOldRepublic guild, [[http://spoonyexpendables.com/ The Spoony Expendables]].
Spoony has a live stream [[http://en.justin.tv/spoonyone here]] on which he sporadically plays games like [=SWAT=] 4, VideoGame/{{X-COM}}, Ultima Underworld and others. He also did an impromptu Q&A with his fans concerning his stance on originality in Nintendo franchises.
Spoony was also the [=GM=] of a weekly D&D game with several other TGWTG contributors, which was livestreamed on Sundays; its page is [[SpoonysCampaign here]].
A list of things reviewed by Spoony can be found [[SpoonyOneList here]].
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* AbortedArc: In his ''Nightmare'' review (October 2009), Spoony was handed 7 different ''Nightmare'' (or rather ''Atmosfear'') sequels by the Gate-Cleaner. As a punishment he was given one year to review them all or he will get punished. Spoony gave up on this plotline, and [[http://twitter.com/#!/TheSpoonyOne/status/26944580134 Tweeted a confirmation]]. So long Gatecleaner.
** The Deadly Premonition LP was apparently discontinued as well. This was lampshaded during 2011's April Fools as he uploaded a video titled "Let's Play Deadly Premonition - part 2" almost one year after the first part was posted, and the still shot that appears before playing the video WAS of a previously unseen part of the game, complete with text that looks like the kind of captions Spoony frequently includes in his videos. Turned out the video was actually a Cinema Snob parody and a review of an obscure bad movie. And no, that movie had nothing in common with Deadly Premonition.
** The [[DeadliestWarrior Deadliest Character]] was nixed after its first episode because it took far too much time and effort to produce and the original animator couldn't do another episode, though he hasn't ruled out a possible LiveAction fight. Now fans will never know [[CoolVersusAwesome who would win in a fight]] [[Series/DoctorWho The Daleks]] or [[StarTrekTheNextGeneration The Borg]]
* AccentuateTheNegative
** Interestingly, though, he will still occasionally point out a few positives. For example, in the first part of his review of ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyX'' (a game which he believes to be [[SerialEscalation far worse than]] ''FinalFantasyVIII''), despite noticing the game's many ridiculous concepts, he (grudgingly) admitted to enjoying the battle system, and praised the high quality of both the soundtrack and cutscenes, even going so far as to call the latter "heartbreakingly beautiful".
** In his review of ''[[Literature/{{Twilight}} Eclipse]]'', Noah actually praises the start of the movie for showing the Cullen family's pasts and motivations, making them interesting characters, as well as the fact that the actors turned in better performances than in the previous two parts. He also states that he found the parts about Victoria's war more interesting than the romance. Granted, he eviscerates the rest of the film, but credit where credit's due.
** He's repeatedly said "If something was good, I would tell you!"
* ActingForTwo: Spoony occasionally shares the screen with other characters played by himself, including Dr. Insano, Chef Ramsay, [[FinalFantasyVIII Squall Leonhart]], FuManchu, Spencer D. Bum, the [[UltimateWarrior Ultimate Spoony]], [[PiratesOfTheCaribbean Cap'n Smiling Jack D'Arcy]], the [[{{Atmosfear}} Gate Cleaner]], [[HulkHogan Hulk Spogan]], [[BattlefieldEarth Terl]], "Spoonette", Spoontock! of the [[StarTrek Klingon Empire]], [[{{Ultima}} Chuckles the Fucking Jester]], [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyX Tidus]], [[{{Ultima}} The Avatar]], [[VideoGame/{{Final Fantasy X2}} Yuna]], and [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII Sephiroth]].
* ActorAllusion: A common gag. For example, when ChristopherLee appears in a film he will reference his roles as Dracula and Saruman, and his ''Cage'' review has constant references to Lou Ferrigno's most famous role as TheIncredibleHulk.
* ActorISTheTitleCharacter: Spoony is fond of invoking this trope, for example during his ''{{Ripper}}'' LP:
-->"ChristopherWalken IS the ''BladeRunner!''"
-->"Christopher Walken IS the ''Lawnmower Man''!"
* {{Adorkable}}: The guy gave his dog a Twitter account. Enough said.
* AffablyEvil: Doctor Insano.
* TheAhnold: His take on [[ConanTheBarbarian Conan the Cimmerian]], as interpreted by him playing around with a bunch of action figures and statuettes on his bed.
* AlternateCharacterInterpretation [[invoked]]: His ''{{Ultima}} Retrospective'' brings together a decent amount of evidence that Lord British is actually an oppressive, self-righteous, totalitarian tyrant. He notes that British establishes a worldwide religion that he forces everyone to worship ''after'' he lets the Avatar slaughter innocents and interfere with the space-time continuum to defeat his enemies and unite the country, declares war on civilizations who oppose him even if they aren't actually evil and could perhaps be reasoned with, and takes the exclusion in later games of the varied races that were in the earlier ones (elves, dwarves, bobbits, etc) as evidence that British enacted a genocidal campaign and wiped them all out.
** Also presents [[Literature/{{Twilight}} Bella Swan]] as a needy, manipulative sociopath who has no regard for the lives she ruins in pursuing her own desires, and [[Film/FerrisBuellersDayOff Ferris Bueller]] as a ManipulativeBastard who enjoys toying with others.
* AndThatsTerrible: "RicFlair just threatened a woman with sexual assault! And I'm pretty sure you can't do that!"
** Again in ''Tekken''. "I sold my soul to the Devil" "But that's ''wrong!''"
** After relating the tale of the toilet pizza: "But honestly, that was like the worst thing I've ever done to somebody... because that was ''horrible''. That was ''really bad''."
* AndThereWasMuchRejoicing: What he and a whole crowd of people did when [[spoiler: Tidus decided to sacrifice himself at the end of ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyX'']].
* {{Angrish}}: "Do ninfgh... Ninjas!... Kidnapping!... TV!"
* AprilFoolsDay:
** 1/4/09 featured an alternate universe version of Spoony reviewing the original ''[[VideoGame/FinalFantasyI Final Fantasy]]'' in a SelfParody of his own nitpicking, caustic review style, ending with a possible origin story for Dr. Insano.
** 1/4/10 featured "The Insano Experiment" with "Weird Science" as the theme song and Insano reviewing ''Ferris Bueller's Day Off''.
** 1/4/11 featured a review done in the style of WebOriginal/TheCinemaSnob masquerading itself as the second part of the discontinued DeadlyPremonition LetsPlay.
* ArrowCam: Noah hurling a doggie toy at Spuna's head.
* ArtificialStupidity: The squad in ''{{SWAT 4}}'' have a tendency to hit you with flashbangs, which prompts Spoony to yell [[RunningGag "YOU FOOL !"]] They also have a tendency to run in front of Spoony's gun while he's trying to fire, getting themselves or Spoony killed countless times.
** [[MemeticMutation "You're in my way, sir!"]]
* ArtistDisillusionment: Spoony suffers this every so often, thanks to a large group of posters on his website being incredibly rude to anyone that's not Spoony or his brother Miles.
** ''It Came From Beyond Midnight'', a [[ScrewedByTheNetwork canceled public access TV show]] in which Spoony has a small role. He uploaded it in addition to his own content, only for it to increasingly come under fire by his fans for not being fully Spoony-related content because it bloated the front page of his website every time Spoony uploaded a new segment (seven videos per episode). He got mad about it and called out his fans on Twitter, saying his friends are more important than the opinions of the whiners.
** Fans attacked his then-girlfriend after ''one'' appearance.
** Apparently [[WebOriginal/AtopTheFourthWall Linkara]] and Noah have exchanged stories about the ridiculous FanDumb they've encountered whenever they do a cross-over.
** It doesn't help when [[https://twitter.com/#!/TheSpoonyOne/status/182596864850399233 Fan's have shown up at his house]], in full costume no less, and have had to be removed by the Police for refusing to leave. It's implied this has happened at his Parent's house as well.
* AscendedMeme: Apparently, fans in the [[{{TNA}} Impact Zone]] have started carrying signs that say "Wrestle! Wrestle!"
** And even before that, [[http://spoonyexperiment.com/2010/04/21/destrucity-comes-to-nxt/ at least one fan was spotted]] at NXT holding a "SKRONK!" sign and wearing a Warrior University shirt.
* ATeamFiring: Tends to happen to Spoony a '''lot''' during his ''{{SWAT 4}}'' playthrough, much to his annoyance.
-->'''Spoony''': I don't know what the hell just happened, but I fucked that doorframe up beyond repair!
** Also parodied extensively in his ''Robowar'' review, in response to the plethora of scenes the soldiers are just randomly firing into the greenery like crazy. Cue Spoony firing dual AK-47's into the camera, as Sean Fausz and Angry Joe join in as well.
* AttentionDeficitCreatorDisorder: He is rarely working on fewer than two projects.
** He's admitted defeat to this disorder and attempted to hire an editor to get projects out on rails.
* AttractiveBentGender: At least one comment on the third part ''FinalFantasy X-2'' expressed this sentiment about [[spoiler:Spoony in Yuna drag]].
* AuthorAppeal: Besides the more expectable things like his liking for ''[[BabylonFive Babylon 5]]'', Spoony is a fan of ProfessionalWrestling and often slips references to it into his reviews - culminating with the appearances of the Ultimate Warrior and [[strike:Hulk Hogan]] [[strike: HOAK HOGAN]] HOAKOGAN!
* AwesomeButImpractical: "Giant Dizzy Gillespie" was a fan favourite, but Spoony had to stop featuring the statuette due to its fragility and it becoming slightly damaged during filming.
* AwesomenessIsVolatile: A warning to some parts of ''YorTheHunterFromTheFuture''.
* BadassLabcoat: Dr. Insano.
* BagOfSpilling: In his ''Ultima VII, Part 2'' review, he mentions how he hates it when this trope ''just is,'' but he does like it when there's a decent explanation behind it. In that game, you start off with all the goodies from the previous installment as ATasteOfPower, and then lose them all to a "teleport storm" later.
* TheBeautifulElite: After traveling to Washington DC to protest an internet censorship law, Spoony claimed that Capitol Hill's female population is entirely like this, even the police.
* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: Insano ending his ''Dungeonmaster'' review shouting "Where's my ''DungeonsAndDragons'' [[Film/DungeonsAndDragons movie?]]"
* BewareTheNiceOnes: A glorious triple-crowning instance with [[http://spoonyexperiment.com/2011/11/06/counter-monkey-vampire-spoonys-jyhad/#disqus_thread Vampire - Spoony's Jyhad]].
* BiasSteamroller: [[RuleOfCautiousEditingJudgment Has been known to drive one...a lot]]
* BigDamnHeroes: Towards the end of his ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyX'' review. And of all people, it's[[spoiler: Pumpkinhead]].
** At the end of ''VideoGame/{{Final Fantasy X2}}'', and it's [[spoiler:VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII Sephiroth]]. And apparentally, he's a fan.
* BigNo: Invoked and subverted in ''Ripper'' when Catherine collapses:
-->'''Spoony''': Oh, we're winding up to a big ol' "Nooooooooooooooo!"...\\
'''Jake''': ''FUCK!''\\
'''Spoony''': ... That works too, I guess.
** Invoked in the ''Highlander: The Last of the [=MacLeods=]'' video to parody the main villain's {{Narm}}-heavy BigNo.
** He and the Sage share one together after a buildup hopefully leading to [[TheScrappy the fairy girl]] in ''Garzey's Wing'' getting ripped apart but then escaping at the last moment. [[invoked]]
** Done over [[http://twitter.com/TheSpoonyOne/status/35525987588509696 Twitter]] when he learned that the writer of the ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'' film would be scripting the ''{{Highlander}}'' {{Reboot}}.
** We get one in ''Microcosm'' when Spoony is unable to finish writing down the continue password before the game resets. The pathos is amplified by music from ''RequiemForADream''.
* BigOlEyebrows: In ''TekkenTheMotionPicture'', Spoony began mocking Kazuya's and Heihachi's huge eyebrows as his own eyebrows progressively grew bigger before he peeled them off.
-->'''Spoony''': *laughing* Check out the eyebrows, you can hand-glide with those things!
* BigWordShout: '''PUUUMPKIIINHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAD!!!'''
** '''BEEETRAAAYAAALLLLLLLL!!!'''
* BigYes: Spoony and Sage have not one but three of these in a row in the ''Garzey's Wing'' review when it looks like the fairy girl will finally die painfully after annoying them for the whole review.
** And again in the Final Fantasy X finale when he learns that after beating [[spoiler: Yu Yevon Tidus will disappear]], complete with stock footage of crowds erupting into excited applause and celebration.
* BLAMEpisode: After having trouble getting ''The Madness of Roland'' to run on his computer, Noah simply edited together some brief clips from the game with framing material of the footage killing him.
* BlindIdiotTranslation: ''SWAT 4'', Mission 10: "Moviefilm For Make Training Of Police And Laughing Time"
* BookEnds: At the beginning of the first video of his ''FinalFantasyVIII'' review, Spoony comments on how as bad as he said the game was, ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyX'' was worse. Guess what his last message at the end of the final episode is.
** His ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyX'' review begins with the original Spoony (Who died at the end of his ''FinalFantasyVIII'' review) returning to take the show back from his clone, essentially book ending the period between the two reviews with the death & return of the real Spoony.
*** The final part of his ''[=FFX=]'' review featured [[spoiler: the original[=/=][[Comicbook/GreenLantern Black Lantern Spoony]] trying to take the show back again, providing book ends for the review; and culminated with the merging of the original & his clone, providing a book end to the era of the Spoony Clone]]. It also featured several call backs to the final part of his ''[=FFVIII=]'' reviews--in the commentary he referenced RedLetterMedia's clip of George Lucas pretentiously claiming that events in the Star Wars prequels "rhyme" with those in the originals.
* BorrowedCatchphrase:
** From fellow WebOriginal/ThatGuyWithTheGlasses reviewer [[WebOriginal/AtopTheFourthWall Linkara]]: '''I AM A MAN!!''' *PUNCH*
*** He borrows it again in his ''Ultima Underworld 2'' review, but follows it up with a [[GroinAttack knee to the groin]] instead of a punch.
** There's also his use of WebOriginal/TheNostalgiaCritic's gag of having [[StreetFighter M. Bison]] appear on screen yelling [[TakeOverTheWorld "OF COURSE!"]]
** He's also used the Nostalgia Critic's "I WAS FROZEN TODAY!"
** He also borrowed the "PWNED!" from Fat Mann Judgeth once.
** [[RedLetterMedia "What's wrong with your faaaaaace?"]]
*** Later, in the commentary for the finale of ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyX'' (which featured call-backs to the finale for ''FinalFantasyVIII'' he references the RedLetterMedia clip of George Lucas pretentiously claiming that events in the Star Wars prequels 'rhyme' with those in the originals.
* BreakingTheReviewersWall: Has happened a few times. One of the most over-the-top examples would be the conclusion of his ''FinalFantasyVIII'' review, where Dr. Insano hires Squall to kill Spoony.
* BrickJoke: The first part of his ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyX'' review features the original Spoony returning to take his show back from his clone, before promptly killing himself and being resurrected as a [[Comicbook/GreenLantern Black Lantern]] when told of the subject of the latest review. [[spoiler:The third part of the review features Black Lantern Spoony raising Tidus with a Black Lantern Ring, with the intent of using him to take back the show from the clone]].
** An even further one: in the ''Partymania'' review the (alternate) Dr. Insano's origin is that he was one of the Schlumper brothers who was scorned by the unnamed female protagonist and went on to become evil. In the ''Warrior #2-3'' review Dr. Linksano references bringing glory to the Schlumper name, implying that he is the other Schlumper brother. [[spoiler: And given that his universe was conquered by Lord Vyce right before Linksano jumped universes, alternate!Insano is probably not doing very well.]]
** Again during the first part of his VideoGame/FinalFantasyX review, Dr. Insano walked in asking if anybody had seen Neutro. [[spoiler: It was later revealed that [[WebOriginal/AtopTheFourthWall Linkara]] had stolen Neutro from Dr. Insano in his PowerRangersZeo Comic review.]]
** In Dr. Insano's review of ''The Dungeonmaster'', Dr. Insano forces BennettTheSage to provide footages for ''[[VideoGame/FinalFantasyX2 Final Fantasy X-2]]'' at gunpoint, [[spoiler: during TheStinger of the latter's review finale, a bald and aging Bennett almost finishes the game while Insano seemingly forgets (and doesn't care) about him.]]
* BrokeTheRatingScale: Spoony finally decided to [[OverlyLongGag do away with]] the Ass Counter in ''Dead or Alive''. Holly Valance and Sarah Carter cause it to '''EXPLODE'''.
* BrotherSisterIncest: The vibe Spoony got from the Marky Mark ''Make My Video''. It doesn't help that the actors in question ''happen'' to resemble him and his sister.
* BruceLeeClone: His subject when reviewing the movie ''The Clones of Bruce Lee''.
* BuryYourGays: He was particularly incensed by this in [[spoiler: Phantasmagoria]] as it resulted in the death of the only character he actually didn't want to see die horribly.
* BuxomIsBetter: He certainly seems to think so. This trips him up in his Beastmaster and Final Fantasy X reviews and he laments that the actress cast as the female lead in King of Fighters was not buxom like the video game character (though that's only one of a list of things they got wrong about her that he complains about.)
* CallBack: The Insano Experiment.
** For his "Lords of Magick" review, he says, "Yeah! Let's contact the devil!" and holds up a magic lamp, referring back to his ''FinalFantasyVIII''' review which had Satan in a lamp.
** His ''Breaking Dawn'' review, they talk about DavidCronenberg doing the Vampire C-Section and talk about how ''{{Twilight}}'' is a bodice-ripper Harlequin Romance novel, both are things he talked about when previously reviewing Twilight movies.
* TheCameo: After DiamandaHagan remarks in her review how much an actor in ''Apocalypse'' looks like Spoony, there are cameos by Spoony, Dr. Insano and a Spoony clone, Christian Spoony.
* CameraAbuse: His dog Oreo has a real knack for dealing glancing blows to his tripod.
* CaptainErsatz: Dr. Insano is apparently based on WarrenEllis' comic book character DoktorSleepless. [[Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000 Burton the Robot]] and [[WebOriginal/BumReviews Spencer D. Bum]] both definitely qualify.
* CatchPhrase:
** Dr. Insano - "'''[[ForScience With SCIENCE]]''', of course!!"
** "{{PHANTASMAGORIA}}!" He later stated this as his favorite word.
** "I HEARD that, Curtis!"
** "[[RedDawn Wolverines!]]" as a BattleCry is often used.
** "I am never getting over this!"
** "'''{{YOU FOOL}}!!!!'''" when his teammates screw up a flashbang and end up blinding him in ''SWAT 4''.
** When reviewing a foreign or incredibly obscure movie, "... unless you know some especially deranged Hong Kong bootleggers. And I do."
** Spoony has a new one for his show ''Wrestle! Wrestle!'' - "Future endeavors". The WWE uses it as a polite euphemism for "he's been fired"; Spoony uses it to mean "The company's going to screw you up the ass, quit while you still have your dignity".
** ''[[CriticalResearchFailure "How do you fuck that up!?"]]'' [[invoked]]
** The ''{{Ultima}}'' retrospective has given us "I'm the goddamn Avatar!"
** [[ADateWithRosiePalms Spank]] [[TooMuchInformation material]].
* CelebrityImpersonator: As mentioned under CaptainErsatz, Noah's costume "characters" are all to some degree impersonations of other people's intellectual property. And he does it quite well.
* CharacterBlog: Father Antos from ''UltimaII: The Revenge of the Enchantress'' has a [[http://twitter.com/#!/FatherAntos Tweeter account]].
* ChekhovsGag: If you thought Spoony only introduced the Gunblade for his ''FinalFantasyVIII'' reviews, think again. He's using it again for more gags in his review of ''Mazes and Monsters''.
** Also in his ''{{Ultima}} I'' review. We can only hope it will appear more.
** Again in the end of the ''Highlander: The Source'' review
** He even ''loads it before using it'' in the FFX finale.
** And it comes out again in his King of Fighters review. He declares it's "too Final Fantasy" for the situation though, and puts it aside.
* ChekhovsGun: In the second part of the FFX review, there's a throwaway gag where Dr. Insano bursts into Spoony's room to ask if anyone has seen Neutro, which he'd left parked out back while Spoony is singing "A Whole New World". [[spoiler: Later, in Linkara's review of Zeo Rangers #1, Linkara fights a giant Mechakara by using Neutro as a zord, which he claim he took from Dr. Insano when the doctor left it "parked behind Spoony's house"]]
* ClapYourHandsIfYouBelieve: Inverted in ''Warrior #4''. [[spoiler:The secret to ending the multiverse rift is to stop caring about the insane ramblings of the comic, for they mean absolutely nothing and thus are not worth thinking about.]]
* CliffHanger: His ''FinalFantasyVIII'' review ends on one, with [[spoiler:Dr Insano sending Squall after Spoony, leading to Spoony being mortally wounded as Burton initiates a self-destruct sequence which kills Squall & reduces Spoony to a lump of protoplasm; with TheStinger revealing that Linkara has found the lump & intends to bring Spoony back]].
** Happened again with the ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyX'' review, this time with [[spoiler:the original Spoony (Now a [[Comicbook/GreenLantern Black Lantern]]) [[ItMakesSenseInContext trying to take the show back from the Spoony that Linkara cloned]], and the clone having [[AllThereInTheManual Linkara beam both him & the clone onto the]] [[StarTrek Enterprise]] at the same time, merging them into one being; TheStinger reveals that whilst this plan worked, Linkara lost Spoony when he teleported him[=/=]them]].
* CloningBlues: Inverted, as the clone Spoony is able to pick up right where his predecessor left off. The original is killed, resurrected as a Black Lantern, then briefly brought back to normal before being killed and turned into a Black Lantern again.
* CloudCuckoolander: His Ultimate Warrior persona is this in spades and ironically very accurate to the real-life Warrior's rambling and odd promos.
-->"YOU'LL NEED AN ENERGON CUBE THE SIZE OF WYOMING TO DEFEAT MY AUTOBOTS HOAK HOGAN!!"
-->"BUTTONS! BUTTONS! WHO'S GOT THE BUTTONS?!"
-->"IF YOU WANNA BE MY LOVER, YOU GOTTA GET WITH MY FRIENDS!! MAKE IT LAST FOREVER, BECAUSE FRIENDSHIP NEVER ENDS, HOAK HOGAN!!"
* ClusterFBomb:
-->'''Spoony''': A lute? A fucking lute?! I run over, bust my fucking ass to save his only daughter from an evil fucking knight, fighting fucking skeletons and spending my own fucking money on swords and shit, and the best he can do is give me a fucking guitar?!
** Also during the end of his Deadliest Warrior follow-up.
%%Below tropes is about him, commenting on a work.
* ColdBloodedTorture: After being driven to madness by the inanity of TNA in what would become the first "Wrestle! Wrestle!" vlog, he suggests that he should force the people watching the vlog to watch TNA.
* ComplainingAboutShowsYouDontWatch: {{Lampshaded}} in that he's never actually played ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyIX'', beyond maybe two hours, but avoided it ''solely'' because he hated the art style, and hadn't been paying any attention to the first two hours, since he wrote Zidane off as an "androgynous-whiny-pansy-ass character". He also admitted that "it was likely that [he] was being fiercely unfair" to ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyIX'' on judging it by its art style, especially when the game was specifically targeted at fans of the NES and SuperNintendo-era FinalFantasy games like him, but he just couldn't get over it.
** He elaborated in his Q&A at [=MAGfest=], and admitted his reasons for avoiding it were entirely childish, and he really can't stand the art style so much that he simply can't make himself keep playing. [[invoked]]
* ContemptibleCover: Seeing the Film/WingCommander DVD cover causes some 30 seconds of Spoony [[ScreamsLikeALittleGirl screaming at high pitch]].
* CollectibleCardGame: Spoony [[http://akuoreo.deviantart.com/gallery/?q=Spoony appears]] in the MSFHigh Collectible card game.
** A deck designed to counterpoint his, besides the Linkara deck, is [[https://www.thegamecrafter.com/games/msf-high-card-game:-omeganek this one]].
* CoolVersusAwesome: Spoony enjoys the last ten minutes of the show DeadliestWarrior for this reason, where the anachronistic warriors actually square off; but condemns most of the rest of the show on general [[DidNotDoTheResearch research issues]] such as ignoring much of the circumstances of how various warriors would fight; a pirate, for example, wouldn't just be walking around, he'd be with 50 other pirates, ''on a pirate ship,'' and there's no way you'd ever be fighting just ''one'' Spartan.
** The rivalry that Spoony's alter ego Dr. Insano has with Linkara arguably falls into this category as well. Linkara has magical weapons (and cheat codes), Insano has mad science, and both are entertaining as hell.
** His parody of ''Deadliest Warrior'', ''Deadliest Character'' does the same as the TV show, but with fictional characters, namely the [[MightyMorphinPowerRangers Megazord]] [[spoiler:and later, the Dragonzord]] versus [[{{Godzilla}} Mechagodzilla]].
* CoolAndUnusualPunishment: Dr. Insano figured out a way to obtain game footage of [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyX2 Final Fantasy X-2]] without having to play the game. He forces Bennett the Sage to play for him at gunpoint.
* CosmicRetcon: Linkara punching the wall, a la [[InfiniteCrisis Superboy-Prime]], caused Dr. Insano to become a man (according to Linkara, anyway).
* CoversAlwaysLie: A DefiedTrope. He screams in horror looking at the cover for ''Film/WingCommander: The Movie'' and explains thus: "You know that old saying, you can't judge a book by its cover? Well fuck you! That's books, not movies!"
** In regards to ''FinalFantasyIX'', he thinks Zidane fits in the stereotypical mold of a whiny, depressive ''FinalFantasy'' hero based solely on the cover art. He does admit that it's "massively unfair", but says that he just can't get over his dislike for the game's art style.
* CowboyBebopAtHisComputer: His one-shot ''Deadliest Character'' video regarding the [[{{Godzilla}} Showa era (1974) Mechagodzilla]]. While he's describing the character, shots of ''Kiryu'' are used several times. Yes, Kiryu ''is'' an incarnation of Mechagodzilla, technically. But, it's not the same monster since the Showa Mechagodzilla is a giant robot built by aliens to take over the earth and Kiryu is a cyborg version of the original 1954 Godzilla.
** Likewise, at one point in the video, guest-speaker Linkara points out that Mechagodzilla has failed to defeat Godzilla. In reality, Godzilla was unable to beat the Showa Mechagodzilla on his own and required both the help of King Caesar and humanity to defeat.
** Given the nature of [[DeadliestWarrior the show]] he's parodying, this might be intentional.
* CreatorBreakdown: July 2009 was not an easy month for him. His equipment was fucking up, his site was fucking up, and on top of that he was in the process of moving out of his parents' house. All this while trying to film the final ''FinalFantasyVIII'' video. Fortunately, it all worked out well in the end.
** Parodied in his review of ''Mazes and Monsters'', after a line about the need to go to MIT as soon as possible strikes too close to home.
** 2011 as a whole was also not kind to Spoony, as in addition to his health problems, he and his girlfriend (who was also in charge of a large portion of the technical stuff on the site) split up, and he did some soul-searching after PAX East got him questioning his capability as a journalist (citing his fanboying during an interview regarding ''VideoGame/{{Portal 2}}'' as proof that he couldn't be objective). And even after PAX, Spoony was dealing with depression and issues with sleeping, making it hard for him to do videos other than V-logs and Counter Monkeys. His V-log of Breaking Dawn Part 1, while funny, was pretty much the low point of the year, where he had actually [[INeedAFreakingDrink resorted to drinking]] and needed [[AtopTheFourthWall Linkara]] and JewWario to get through the V-log.
** Luckily, 2012 seems to be going much better so far.
* {{Crossover}}:
** He and [[WebOriginal/AtopTheFourthWall Linkara]] have done ''so many'' of these that's it become integral to how both their shows operate. [[EnsembleDarkhorse Dr. Insano]] was ''introduced'' in a throw-away [[PreviouslyOn parody]] segment of WebOriginal/AtopTheFourthWall.
** Thanks in part to Spoony's [[WorldWrestlingEntertainment Raw]] and [[TotalNonstopAction TNA iMPACT!]] reviews, he made a video directly referencing {{Botchamania}} and its creator Maffew.
** MassiveMultiplayerCrossover: Not to mention his participation in the Anniversary brawl of That Guy With The Glasses.
*** {{Kickassia}}. All the way.
*** And SuburbanKnights.
** CrisisCrossover: The face to face battle between Linkara and Dr. Insano is a direct reference to {{Crisis on Infinite Earths}}, with the comic ''Warrior'' # 1 being so irredeemably awful that Dr. Insano's discovery of it rips a hole in {{Hypertime}}. As the review progresses, it shifts between several different universes where, among others, Linkara and Insano's actors are switched, both are stuffed animals, Spoony is a Roman emperor, and the two are played by Marzgurl, That Chick with the Goggles, Coldguy, and the Nostalgia Critic. The scene ends in a CrowningMomentOfAwesome as Angry Joe, Benzaie, MarzGurl, and That Chick with the Goggles beat the tar out of Dr. Insano to the tune of Rick Derringer's ''Real American'' (i.e. Hulk Hogan's theme).
*** Gets turned up to 11 in the ''Warrior 2 and 3'' review, where dozens of Doctor Insanos from throughout the multiverse find themselves in an UltimateShowdownOfUltimateDestiny. [[spoiler: Their non-insano counterparts show up at the end and beat the tar out of all of them.]]
** He reviewed ''{{Highlander}}: Endgame'' together with PatTheNesPunk.
** Spoony and [[WebOriginal/BadMovieBeatdown Film Brain]] reviewed the ''Tekken'' live-action movie together.
** Spoony and BennettTheSage have made an annual tradition of reviewing bad anime.
* CutHisHeartOutWithASpoon: Has this to say for the VA who voices [[ExpositionFairy the Ferario]] in ''[[YoshiyukiTomino Garzey's Wing]]'':
--> I swear to god, if I ever meet that women...demon-harpy...THING that voiced that ''fucking'' pixie, I WILL ''DUNK HER HEAD'' IN A BUCKET OF LYE!!
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* DamnedByFaintPraise: "For all his many faults, Bruno Mattei does Nazi porn well. Sometimes."
* DanBrowned: Noah and his brother, Miles, like many others, got hit with this hard while watching ''DeadliestWarrior''. Noah does enjoy [[RuleOfCool the fight scenes,]] though.
* DarkReprise: After the events of {{Kickassia}}, he started using a much darker and heavier version of his opening theme. It didn't last too long, though.
* DevelopmentGag: One of Spoony's UnstoppableRage freakouts about Tidus in the first part of his ''Final Fantasy X'' review cut to a 'Technical Difficulties' card dubbed over with Bruce Willis singing "Swingin' on a Star" from ''HudsonHawk'' as a SanitySlippageSong. This is a reference to how around the same time he had announced plans to review that film, but eventually abandoned the idea.
** In Doctor Insano's ''Film/FerrisBuellersDayOff'' review, he's shocked at the prospect of going to Chicago and not visiting the "Urkel House".
* DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu:
-->"Oooooh! I just [[GroinAttack kicked]] [[StarTrekTheNextGeneration Q]] in the [[UnusualEuphemism joy department]]! That can't be smart! ... Let's do it again!"
* DifferentInEveryEpisode: Spoony does most of his reviews just sitting in his green chair where you can see posters hanging on the walls in the corner directly behind him. In almost every review he does, he changes those posters to reflect something relevant to the review itself, usually a movie poster or wallscroll of the movie or game he's reviewing. If it's anything {{Highlander}} related, it'll usually be a poster of that movie. Anything Japanese game related, expect to see wallscrolls of the game or of ''CowboyBebop: The Movie''.
* DisposableSexWorker: During ''The Lords of Magick'', the BigBad sorcerer tempts one of the protagonist to do a FaceHeelTurn by telling him to go after whores, one of whom he then kills. This prompts Spoony to call his lawyer, complaining that this proves he shouldn't have taken the insanity plea when he told the court that [[AWizardDidIt a wizard made him kill those hookers]].
* DistractedByTheSexy: In his ''Final Fantasy X'' review, he rants at one point about how Rikku is nothing more than a fanservice character and is only 15, until a picture of a cosplayer dressed as Rikku appears on-screen.
* DisturbedDoves: A flock of doves precedes Spoony busting out the SPAS-12.
* DivisionByZero: In his ''{{Highlander}} 2 - The Quickening'' review, the following sentence, from the back of the movie's VHS tape box, causes a "divide by zero" error:
-->"Packed with [[{{Narm}} action]] and [[SpecialEffectsFailure visual effects]], HIGHLANDER 2: THE QUICKENING [[BlatantLies is the smartest sci-fi thriller since BLADE RUNNER.]]"
* DoingItForTheArt: What else can you say about someone who is actually risking death to make free videos?
** About the only people who come close, are those who purposely died doing movies, or manga...and they got paid!
* DoubleVision:
** Playing both himself and Gordon Ramsay in his Hells Kitchen: The Game review.
** In the Final Fantasy VIII Finale with him and Dr. Insano.
** Upgraded to Triple Vision in "Clones of Bruce Lee" with Spoony, Dr. Insano and Spencer D. Bum.
* DontExplainTheJoke: In his Phantasmagoria2 playthrough he said that if Curtis put on a straightjacket it would become a bi-curious jacket because he's bi-curious.
* DrinkingGame: He made one for ''TekkenBloodVengeance'': take a shot every time [[ContinuityLockout something happens that doesn't make sense unless you've played the games]], and take two shots every time something happens that makes '''less''' sense if you've played the games, like Sumo wrestler Ganryu randomly being a gym teacher.
* DropInCharacter:
** Dr. Insano and Spencer D. Bum.
* DudeNotFunny: [[invoked]]
** As a RunningGag, whenever he makes a really dark joke or reference, the camera cuts to StockFootage of a crowd booing at a rally.
-->'''''Darkest sketch! Darkest sketch! Darkest sketch!'''''
** During the third part of the ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyX'', he pulls this ''on the game itself'', when Wakka compares the destruction of Home to "happy festival fireworks". He even calls it the most insensitive thing he's ever heard been uttered in any form of fiction.
** In the commentary for the review of ''{{Highlander}}: The Source'', he claims that he'll never again make a joke about suicide, as one of his fans killed himself shortly after sending him an email about it.
* DVDCommentary: Does commentaries for many videos, including for ''{{Kickassia}}''.
* EarlyBirdCameo: Spoony's original video intro began with him screaming in horror at Yuna singing in the opening of ''[[VideoGame/FinalFantasyX2 Final Fantasy X-2]]'', which occured in his review of ''FinalFantasyVIII''. It was ''four years'' before he actually reviewed the game and talked about the scene in question.
* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: Spoony's early reviews lack an intro or theme song, and are credited to "[[FanWank Fanwankery Films]]", a name he seems to have abandoned.
** The earliest ones were also ad-libbed. He didn't begin writing scripts until around the reviews of ''Robin Hood'' and ''VideoGame/TheThing''. This resulted in the jokes being much more polished, and is frequently credited as the period his show started GrowingTheBeard.
* EnemyMine: Played for laughs in his LP of Deadly Premonition. One of the puzzles requires him to carry a fuse box with him.
* TheEuropeanCarryAll: From the Final Fantasy VIII finale,
-->Insano: "It's called the Time Compressor! It condenses Time as the world perceives it into an incredibly condensed period!"
-->Spoony: "Wow, a time compressor, it...kind of looks like an XBox DVD Remote..."
-->Insano: "IT'S A TIME COMPRESSOR!"
* EvenEvilHasStandards:
** Dr. Insano can't stand [[Film/FerrisBuellersDayOff Ferris Bueller's]] lack of work ethic, his spoiled, self-centered nature, and his complete lack of goals beyond his own personal amusement.
-->'''Insano:''' I may be evil, but at least I'm not full of crap!
* EvenTheRatsWontTouchIt: Apparently a pizza from Peter Piper's Pizza is so lacking in nutrition that even bugs avoid it as evidenced by a pizza left sitting for a month and a half that remained completely untouched.
* PreciousPuppies: He has one now.
* EverythingTryingToKillYou:
** "The floor is everywhere!"
** The grass is even worse.
* EvilIsHammy: Insano.
* EvilLaugh: Dr. Insano is of course fond of them; he criticises MadScientist villain Dr. Nye in "Clones of Bruce Lee" for using one after the end of every sentence.
* ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin: "My God people, what is it about the name 'Dr. Insano' that eludes you people?"
** Spoony is shocked to learn that when Samurai Zombie Nation says it stars "head of the samurai Namakubi" it isn't kidding. You literally play as a disembodied head.
** Also, his explanation of the power "Death Field" in the "Gamma World Unboxing" Vlog:
-->'''Spoony:''' Basically what it was was you emitted a [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin field of death.]]
* EyeScream: According to [[http://twitter.com/#!/TheSpoonyOne/status/72931694918909952 this Twitter post]]. Fortunately doesn't seem like it had any lasting effects.
** And his description of Karen Jarret's voice.
--> ''"I'm just coming off a migraine, it feels like a - it just feels like...someone's taking a hot needle and boring it into my EYES!"''
* FaceHeelTurn: Claimed [[http://twitter.com/TheSpoonyOne/statuses/21237726571 this]] on his Twitter. [[EpilepticTrees Are we witnessing the birth of Insano?]]
** [[{{Kayfabe}} It's a work]], of course. He also seems to be feuding with Maffew of ''{{Botchamania}}''.
* FacialHorror: Tempus Thales in the Counter Monkey ''ThievesWorld'' campaign. Not only does he take '''acid to the face''', but the goddess he serves revokes his regenerative powers until he redeems his utter humiliation, and because the [=PCs=] [[HumiliationConga continually foil his plans to do so]], she makes it ''worse''!
* FacePalm: He covers his whole face in shame with both hands after hearing Wakka tell Rikku not to be too disheartened about seeing her home city get destroyed in his VideoGame/FinalFantasyX review.
-->'''Wakka:''' "Hey, look. Don't get so down. BOOM! hahuhu Like happy festival fireworks, ya!?"
-->'''Spoony:''' '''"...Happy... Festival... Fireworks!?''' That could be the '''STUPIDEST, MOST INSENSITIVE, IDIOT THING any character has ever said in ANY WORK OF FICTION!''' That's like trying to cheer people up after Hurricane Katrina.... by saying it's ''a giant happy waterpark!"''
** And when Yuna in VideoGame/FinalFantasyX2 shoots down Nooj's plan to defeat [[BigBad Shuyin]] [[hottip:*: Which is to force Shuyin [[DemonicPossession into his body]], which he'll then blow up [[TakingYouWithMe taking Shuyin with him]]]] in favor of [[ThePowerOfLove love]], Spoony face palms, then it cuts to several other people and groups of people facepalming as well.
* FanDisservice: During ''Film/TheBeastmaster'' review, upon seeing a sorceress teleport out of her clothes as the camera pans up her body:
--->'''Spoony:''' Say, alright! Hey dude, throw something else at her, maybe she'll teleport out of her underewear too-- [sees her hideously deformed face] Oh my God! WHAT'S WRONG WITH YOUR FACE?! Ah, look it's a melted John Madden! Joan Rivers! It's the lady from ''TheGoonies''!
* FantasticRacism:
-->'''Dragonstrike narrator''': "Sounds like a couple of stupid orcs."\\
'''Spoony''': "Now that's just racist.'''
* FateWorseThanDeath:
-->'''Doctor Linksano:''' Doctor Insano didn't go far enough. He only subjected you to ''one'' issue of Warrior. I'm going to subject you to ''two''!\\
'''Spoony:''' You insane fiend! I'm not gonna read that shit again!\\
'''Doctor Linksano:''' Well, I suppose we can get the same results by watching [[TotalNonstopAction TNA Impact]]...\\
'''Spoony:''' Aaah! All right, I'll read it!
** He makes several deadpan remarks about how death would be a welcome relief to watching yet another bad anime with Sage, after Sage breaks into his house and stalks then teleports into his room.
* FauxHorrific: Like seeing the cast of the ''Film/WingCommander'' movie.
* {{Filler}}: In mid-October 2010, while Spoony was under the weather due to an unspecified heart condition, he asked Scarlett to bump some of his "Greatest Hits" to the front page until he got back on his feet. However, only one video (his review of ''VideoGame/TheThing'') actually got this treatment before he came back.
** The Counter Monkey episodes seem like this as well, seeing as they were put out during a period when Spoony didn't feel the creative juices flowing, and was dealing with health issues yet again, at least they kept us entertained.
*** [[RodentsOfUnusualSize Dormouse.]]
* {{Foil}}: Noah's brother Miles, who's considerably calmer than his brother.
* FollowTheLeader: Subverted in real life. He had intended to start a MysteryScienceTheater3000 style show (which explains his blue robot pal Burton} but couldn't get it together with his friends so he started this show with the AV equipment he'd already bought. He does eventually get to live out his original dream with his own Rifftrax offerings.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: He ended his review of Strike Commando with the claim he was going to find an "American Reb Brown movie, made by Americans...in America!" Two months later he reviewed the two Captain America movies, the second of which ended with an appearance from [[YuGiOhTheAbridgedSeries The Gatekeither]].
** His Clones of Bruce Lee review ended with the Spoony Bum inviting Noah and Dr. Insano to play boardgames with him. Among the stack of games he holds up is Nightmare, which Spoony reviewed for Halloween a few months later.
* ForTheEvulz: [[Literature/{{Twilight}} Bella Swan]]'s motivation, according to Noah.
* ForcedMeme: We'll need a lot more hemp before we're through.
** You're in my way, sir.
** [[{{Ultima}} Deadly grass]].
* FreudianSlip: In [[http://twitter.com/TheSpoonyOne/status/5140396720001024 this]] tweet.
* FreudianSlipperySlope: Goes into one when Lulu and her "female advantages" are introduced in ''FFX''
-->''Tits jugs Lulu--I mean, it's just Lulu...''
** And again in Part 3 of the ''FFX-2'' review when Leblanc offers to help the Gullwings.
* FreezeFrameBonus: In the new awesome animated Intro, you can see a few things on the shelves with references to various games and movies he's reviewed, such as "[[SWAT4 You're In My Spot, Sir]]," "[[{{Ripper}} Unfucking Believable]]", and "Spooning With Spoony Volume 19".
** He inserted [[Literature/WheresWally Wally]] into the crowd of the concert scene in ''Final Fantasy X-2''.
* FriendInTheBlackMarket
* FunetikAksent: His description of the ''Nightmare'' review refers to the "blagoh," or "black hole" in the Gatekeeper's Cockney accent.
* FunnyBackgroundEvent: While Spoony himself was busy talking about ''Film/TronLegacy'', the wallpapers on his computer desktop kept flipping from one to the next...including, at one point, a wallpaper fashioned after the big romance scene from ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyX''.
** His posters on the walls of his room often have something to do with the movie he's reviewing (such as the Beastmaster posters when he reviewed those movies). For his "Cinema Snob Impersonation" video review of ''Zombie 5'', he had a poster of ''Caligula'', Brad Jones' favorite movie.
** During Spoony's [[INeedAFreakingDrink booze-fueled]] Vlog of [[{{Twilight}} Breaking Dawn Part 1]], his dog is running around on the sofa behind him, picking up objects in its mouth, and occasionally trying to drink Spoony's rum.
*** Oreo tends to do this a lot, in both vlogs and reviews. Which is a good thing, since she doesn't ruin takes, she enhances them.
* FurryConfusion: He brings up the classic case of this during his ''KingdomHearts'' livestream:
--> '''Spoony:''' Wait...if Goofy's a dog and Pluto's a dog...how come Goofy's sentient and Pluto isn't?
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* GagNose: Noah is known to make fun of his nose, including referring to it as a "Jew Nose" when he sees the shadow it casts during one commentary with Bennett.
* GagSub: The onscreen lyrics to the music which plays during [[{{Film/The Beastmaster}} Dar]]'s "[[YouKilledMyFather Seeking for Revenge]] [[TrainingMontage Montage]]" (also serves as a [[CallBack Call Back]] to ''[[YorTheHunterFromTheFuture Yor The Hunter From The Future]]''):
-->And his pee like a flower!\\
If you been travel, he'll be there to fly the bat\\
Winning saaaaand!
* {{Gaydar}}: Dr. Insano has one in the ''[[{{Film/The Beastmaster}} Beastmaster 2]]'' review. The CampGay store clerk is so flaming that it overloads. He never actually explains why he would need one.
* GenderBender: The [[YuGiOhTheAbridgedSeries Gatekeither]] takes Spoony's wiener and turns him into a ValleyGirl for the Party Mania review. This also applies to Linkara and Benzaie. (The review takes place on [[AlternateUniverse Earth-982]], which apparently is a BizarroUniverse when it comes to gender.)
* GenreBlindness: In the Vampire Jyhad video, the GM pretty much had it coming when he let Spoony's character make [[StuffBlowingUp Bathroom Semtex]] after just [[{{Railroading}} permitting his character into being brainwashed into being evil]].
* GenreSavvy: In regards to SurvivalHorror, as his DeadlyPremonition Let's Play demonstrates.
** He also decided to install [[NoKillLikeOverkill antipersonnel mines]] in front of the door to his room because the villain du jour, usually of some game, keeps bursting in... [[RuleOfFunny for some reason.]]
** He and Linkara [[OhCrap learn the hard way]] that Kristanna Loken is actually very perceptive when it comes to interviewers trying to humiliate her for her role in Bloodrayne.
* TheGhost: Dr. Insano's nurse.
* GiftedlyBad: Spoony presents actor Reb Brown and director Bruno Mattei as examples of this. Also UweBoll to some extent, but only in his movie commentaries rather than the movies themselves.
* AGodAmI: Terl claims godhood due to his amazing ability to [[WhatKindOfLamePowerIsHeartAnyway instinctively know how high above sea level any location is, without help.]]
* GoKartingWithBowser: Spoony allows Dr. Insano to join him in reviewing ''The Clones of Bruce Lee'', despite the fact that Insano [[spoiler:hired Squall to kill him in the previous episode]]. They even live together now.
-->'''Spoony':''' "I told you if you are going to live here you have to stop killing people, ''especially me!''"
* GrandFinale: After spending several years ripping the game to pieces, Spoony brings his ''FinalFantasyVIII'' review to a close with [[spoiler: Dr.Insano turning on him and attempting a HostileShowTakeover by sending Squall to kill him. Squall succeeds in mortally wounding him, but then Burton self destructs, killing him, Squall, Spoony, and destroying Spoony's entire house in a fiery explosion. Of course after the credits roll, Linkara recovers what's left of Spoony and states that he will bring him back to life. Which he does.]] Bonus points for that sequence originally being planned as a possible ending for the whole show given his major camera and website problems at the time. Everything ended up working out, so instead it just acts as a sendoff to the bedroom where he filmed the show until then, as he was finally moving out of his parents' house.
** Another one may be coming in the ''Ultima 9'' review, especially since he revealed at the end of ''Ultima 8'' that the entire point of the full series retrospective was to set up the review of the final game and just how much it betrayed all the games before it.
* GuideDangIt: Spoony's main complaint about ShinMegamiTenseiNocturne. Mostly because most of the spells require you to, as he put it, learn a new language and that the bosses have exactly one way to beat them. To find both of these out you either A) Learn through trial and error (not recommended unless you have too much sanity) or B) look it up online. Note that despite that he still feels it's a good game.
** There's also quite a bit of this during Ripper as well.
** He rants about this in ''Ultima 2: Revenge of the Enchantress'', you have to find certain items in order to progress through the game, but the game itself literally makes no mention that you need these items, what they do in particular, or that one particular ring that is needed to slip through force fields can only be purchased once you have the blessing from some guy, and you have to find some old man living under a tree and have to pay him 500 gold to obtain it. This game was created in 1982, long before anyone had the internet to look things up. How the hell could anyone figure these out?
** ''Bloodwings: Pumpkinhead's Revenge'' most definitely.
* HairOfTheDog: In his crossover review of the ''Garzey's Wing'' anime with Bennett The Sage, Spoony intentionally kills himself by inducing a stroke 1 minute into the OVA. 30 seconds later he's brought back to life.
-->'''Spoony:''' ''"WAS THAT SO STUPID THAT IT BROUGHT ME BACK TO LIFE!??"''
-->'''Sage:''' ''"Hair of the dog that bit ya."
* HatShop: One character in ''Mazes and Monsters'' is wearing a different hat in every scene of the movie for absolutely no explained reason. Spoony calls this out and [[RunningGag decides to do the same for the rest of the review]] until he eventually runs out.
** At one point he wears boxer shorts on his head.
* HamToHamCombat: Spoontock vs. Angry Joe.
* HeadDesk: Has one during his ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyX'' review when Rikku tells Tidus not to say he's from Zanarkand because it upsets people, only for Tidus to tell the Besaid Aurochs he's from Zanarkand FOUR MINUTES LATER.
* HelloInsertNameHere:
** During his review of Final Fantasy VIII he chose to rename Squall into "Emo Git", Rinoa into "A Whore" and her dog into "Anal". The latter two resulted in such dialogue in "A Whore's Limit Break uses Anal" and "Anal Cannon/Reversal", and eventually led into jokes about Rinoa being Seifer's sloppy seconds (with visual aid from a certain doujinshi), though he did admit it was a bit of an unfair label, but far too amusing not to go for.
** For Final Fantasy X, he renamed Tidus "Meg Ryan" for his haircut.
* HellHotel: The hotel he, Jew Wario and Angry Joe stayed at while going to E3 was ''hilariously'' bad, and we got to hear about it. It is probably the only hotel you'll hear about where the air conditioning controls are in an unscrewed, dangling panel hidden behind the TV.
* HePannedItNowHeSucks: Spoony is [[{{In-Universe}} guilty of doing this]] himself; he yelled at the RiffTrax guys over on twitter for doing a Riff of {{Highlander}}. Although it was done jokingly on his part; when he realized that the Rifftrax guys didn't treat it as a pretend feud, but thought he trolled in earnest, he immediately stopped and apologized.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard:
-->"You FOOL! No, wait... ME FOOL!"
* HurricaneOfPuns: In the ''Dragon Strike'' review, after a tree comes to life and attacks the elf. Eventually he apologizes and says he'll stop.
** In his persona as "Leslie Striker," during his mini-review of ''Phase IV'', a movie about superintelligent ants, he makes just about every ant pun out there.
** His {{Twitter}} is rife with these.
* HypocrisyNod: In his review of ''Cage 2'', Spoony trashes the randomness of the climax, in which the little old FBI agent whips out a rocket launcher and uses it to shoot down the villain's helicopter. He asks "Who writes a story where an old guy just spontaneously whips out a bazooka?!" Instantly we get a still from the ''{{Ultima}}'' retrospective, showing Spoony as [[LordOfTheRings Gandalf]] with a grenade launcher. "Oh, shut up."
** In his commentary for ''Film/{{The Beastmaster}} 2'', Spoony points out that he made a ''VideoGame/{{Portal}}'' joke in the review, which came out a week after a vlog where he said ''Portal'' jokes were completely played out. He then adds "Haven't you noticed yet that I'm a complete raving lunatic and hypocrite? Because you should."
** Later on, he lambasted {{Nintendo}} for cashing in by re-releasing ''OcarinaOfTime'' on the [=3DS=], and then immediately turned tail to gush about the upcoming ''[[MetalGearSolid3SnakeEater Snake Eater]]'' remake on the same system, calling himself out yet again.
* HypocriticalHumor:
** "I knew grown men who admitted to openly weeping at [[AllThereIsToKnowAboutTheCryingGame the bit where Aeris dies in ''FFVII''.]] What a bunch of pussies." * Cut to a FlashBack of him in 1994, shedding ManlyTears over the opera scene in ''FinalFantasyVI''*
*** And later on he starts tearing up every time he mentions Aeris' death.
** "A robot puppet? How lame is that?"
** When his teammates in ''Swat 4'' throw flashbangs in such a way that it blinds ''him'', he yells "YOU FOOL!" A couple of times, he blinded ''himself'' with poorly thrown flashbangs, although he made sure to yell "YOU FOOL!" at himself.
** Furthermore, he calls everyone who likes "Eyes on Me" a complete pussy, and ends his Final Fantasy VIII review with a music video tribute of the cast set to the song. He says in the creator commentary "I call you all pussies then subject you to the pussy song. So yeah you're all pussies, you know what, I am too".
** In Part 1 of his ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyX'' review, Spoony criticizes the sexualization of underage characters like the 15-year-old Rikku... then starts drooling over a picture of a Rikku [[{{Cosplay}} cosplayer]]. Also a two-in-one, since he's critical of cosplayers as well.
*** [[HilariousInHindsight Three-to-one: He cosplayed as Tidus during the last part of his]] VideoGame/FinalFantasyX [[HilariousInHindsight review.]]
** Almost immediately afterward, he scoffs at the Al Bhed's characteristic spiralled irises. Cue Insano.
** Also, after going on about how Seymour Guado can't possibly be taken seriously due to his stupid hair and clothes, he becomes quite shaken at Seymour's summoning of Anima at the Blitzball Stadium.
-->"Praise be to Yevon!"
** In his review of ''Dungeonmaster'', Doctor Insano becomes angry at the NewPowersAsThePlotDemands offered by the hero's computer, comparing it to if Doctor Insano himself was able to shoot lightning out of his hand screaming "SCIENCE!" (Which Insano does. Frequently).
* IAlwaysWantedToSayThat: While reviewing ''Strike Commando'', he points out one scene that is a blatant ripoff of a scene from ''MadMax Beyond Thunderdome''. [[MysteryScienceTheater3000 "Can't we get... beyond Thunderdome?"]] Followed by celebrating his success at working the line into a review.
** He does it a second time, in his review of ''The Howling 2''. Afterwards, he throws up his arms and goes "WHOO!"
*** He does it for the third time as Dr. Insano towards the end of the ''Dungeonmaster'' review.
*** His review of "Cage" brings the count to four, complete with celebratory dance.
* IAmTheTrope: Arises from a hypothetical debate between a LawfulGood player and a trigger-happy pragmatic player.
-->[gallant voice] "[[IfYouKillHimYouWillBeJustLikeHim He must face justice!]]"\\
[gravely voice] I '''am''' justice. ('''SPLORCH''')
* ImplacableMan: Squall who just. Wont. DIE!
* IncendiaryExponent: '''[[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment FIRE APES ON FIRE.]]'''
* IncrediblyLamePun: A RunningGag in his [=LPs=] is that he's forced to slap himself whenever he makes one of these.
** Happens all the time during the final part of Phantasmagoria 2.
** When playing ''Ripper'' the game has you take a picture of a broken coffee mug. When Spoony calls it a "mug shot", he laughs but notes a second later he just hit himself out of reflex.
** Insano: "I call it: Squallity Control! * insane laughter* I spent all day thinking up that one!"
** "The morgue, people were just dying to get in there."
** Also, from his Terror TRAX PC review:
-->'''Distressed Caller:''' "... He pulled my eyes... out of my head...\\
'''Spoony:''' "Pulled your eyes out? That guys got some optic nerve!"
** There are several tree-related ones in rapid succession in the Dragon Strike video review:
-->"I'm okay, its bark is worse than its bite"
-->"I feel like such a sap"
-->"Its time we leaf"
-->"The apple doesn't fall far from the tree"
-->"We get to him, we get to the root of the problem!"
* IncomingHam: The Gatekeeper in Nightmare. When he even begins to speak, a loud thunder sound is played.
* IndestructibleEdible: According to Spoony's story [[http://spoonyexperiment.com/2011/10/24/counter-monkey-the-toilet-pizza/ The Toilet Pizza]] a pizza from Peter Piper's Pizza does not mold or decay instead just hardening into a pizza shaped slab of plastic.
* INeedAFreakingDrink: What Spoony says after a good 40 minute rant on The Slammies.
-->'''Spoony''': "I'm gonna go drink heavily now. And I may never stop."
** Happens quite literally in his [[http://spoonyexperiment.com/2011/11/19/vlog-11-19-11-breaking-dawn/ v-log]] for the ''[[Literature/{{Twilight}} Breaking Dawn]]'' film; Noah admits that he doesn't normally drink though he does keep alcohol on hand for guests, but the film was so terrible that he decided to get drunk.
** During his review of ''TekkenBloodVengeance,'' he starts a drinking game for any scene where you need to be a Tekken fan to understand what's going on, which is one shot, and ''two'' shots if being a Tekken fan makes what's going on ''more'' confusing. He says this holding a shot glass and a bottle Captain Morgan. The first scene has Xiaoyu riding Panda to school -- and he starts drinking directly from the bottle.
* {{Infomercial}}: In the ''FinalFantasyVIII'' review, Dr. Insano has one to advertise his new anti-magic field generator. Gets a CallBack in the ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyX'' review where he introduces the newest model...only to trail off as [[RantInducingSlight Wakka destroys it with a Blitzball]].
* InTheNameOfTheMoon: In a crossover with BennettTheSage:
-->'''Bennett''': "For Lars?"\\
'''Spoony''': "For Lars.'''
* IronicEcho: In the mission 12 LP of SWAT 4. The debriefing mentions that Lieutenant Spoony has been placed on medical leave for foot injuries sustained during the mission, an echo of and poke at Spoony injuring himself (Jones fracture in his foot) during the fund drive for That Guy With The Glasses.
** Black Lantern Spoony also breaks his foot literally kicking Linkara's ass when he presses one of his Berserk Buttons.
* ItGotWorse: At the end of his Power Rangers review, he says Sega CD games couldn't possibly get any worse. The preview for the next review that follows proves him wrong. Big time.
** The same thing happened after his review of ''{{Highlander}} II: The Quickening''; despite his claiming it to be the worst sequel (if not the worst movie) of all time, he subsequently found ''Highlander: Endgame'' to be arguably worse owing to the incompetent direction and editing, and ''Highlander: The Source'' to be vastly, unimaginably worse than ''The Quickening''.
* ItIsPronouncedTropay: Spoony mocks Dave Thomas' pronunciation of fresh and fashion.
-->"We have the fray-shest old fay-shioned hamburgers!"
* ItsPersonal: Spoony has mentioned several times that he prefers to review games and films that he has a personal connection with - in particular, ''awful'' games and films that he still feels burned that he wasted money on.
* ItsTheBestWhateverEver: After reading the synopsis of ''SamuraiZombieNation'', declares it to have the "Best. Plot. EVER!"
* ItsTheSameNowItSucks: [[{{In-universe}} Noah takes this position]] with regards to certain long running franchises such as ''TheLegendOfZelda''. Whether or not he's right is beyond the scope of this article.
* IWantMyJetpack: His reaction when ''Captain Z-Ro'' shows a man on a hovering platform and calls it "the latest development in powered flight".
** Spoony also plays with the trope and related ones like ItWillNeverCatchOn: he tends to compare predictions of future technology from works made in the past to how technology actually has moved on. The best examples of this are in ''{{Ripper}}'' where he mocks the UnusualUserInterface of the future internet and compares the character's communication gadget to the iPhone.
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* JiveTurkey: [[http://spoonyexperiment.com/2010/03/18/tse-riff-theater-gamecrazy-training-video/# comments The GameCrazy Training Video]] has a monopoly on this.
* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: Spoony's riff of ''After Last Season'' was taken down under polite request by the film's producers on the grounds of copyrights infringement. Now it's only available as an [=iRiff=] on {{RiffTrax}}, which requires a copy of the film itself. To Spoony's credit, he discourages illegal downloads of the film despite [[FanDumb fans suggesting otherwise on the comments section of his site]], and admitted that he was in the wrong for planning to post a movie in its entirety on his website. This is also a perfect opportunity for Spoony to put money where his mouth is regarding his challenge to TNA's Dixie Carter and see how many of his fans are willing to support him and buy his [=iRiff=] of the film instead of just illegally downloading the movie elsewhere.
-->'''Spoony:''' "I won't condone piracy. I simply ask you to support the site if you enjoyed the rifftrax. $1 isn't much to ask for an evening's fun."
* KilledOffForReal: Spencer D. Bum at the start of the ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyX'' review's finale.
* KillerGameMaster: Spoony laments that most of his sessions end with his players dying gruesomely. This is chalked up more to bad luck than evil intent, though Spoony has admitted that he's a "harsh" DM generally.
** One thing he ''will not'' abide is players [[StopHavingFunGuys riffing on the campaign]], whether he designed it himself or not. [[BullyingADragon Nice knowing you, dicksmacks]].
** One party that ''did'' survive Spoony's campaign only did so by becoming a pack of sadistic, kill-crazy savages, even by ''ThievesWorld'' standards.
-->"All of a sudden there's [[BloodierAndGorier pikes shoved up asses, there's piles of heads, there's balls shoved in eye sockets]], and I'm like ''[[MyGodWhatHaveIDone ooooh god]]!''.
** A genuine Killer DM, the aptly-named [[GaryGygax Gary]], is the focus of a ''Counter Monkey'' segment.
* KleptomaniacHero: In part 2 of his ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyX'' review, the first thing that comes to mind after Sin destroys Kilika village and leaves hundreds dead is to loot the bodies. Spoony figures Tidus wouldn't have a problem with it since he had no problem with stealing someone's potions from the ship just moments earlier.
** Lampshaded in Phantasmagoria: "What does it say about me as a person that my first instinct is to rifle through her desk for useful objects?"
* LampshadedTheObscureReference: Makes a ''BetrayalAtKrondor'' reference, and then says "I just made a Betrayal At Krondor reference in Two-Thousand-and fucking-Eleven... I don't get out much..."
* LargeHam:
** Ultimate Spoony, Dr. Insano, and, most of all, Spoontok of the Klingon Empire.
** [[BattlefieldEarth "While you were still learning to]] ''[[BattlefieldEarth SPELL]]'' [[BattlefieldEarth YOUR NAME..."]]
** Spoony as himself in ''{{Kickassia}}''. [[WorldOfHam He's in good company, though]].
** The GATEKEEPER will send your soul to the BLAGOH, MAGGOT!
** He taps into the hamminess of the Dragonstrike narrator when he reads the Pumpkinhead manual.
* LaserGuidedKarma: [[spoiler: Vegan Steve's campaign. [[http://spoonyexperiment.com/2011/10/20/counter-monkey-vegan-steve-and-the-djinni-of-jengai-fomogo/]].]]
* LensmanArmsRace: One of Spoony's Counter Monkey stories has one of these, where the introduction of DMSO (which allows any drug to be instantly absorbed through the skin) in {{Shadowrun}} leads to the introduction of lethal DMSO drug cocktails and an arms race of super soakers, hi-tech water balloons and fire hoses.
* LethalChef: Spoony describes himself in his Hell'sKitchen the game review as this saying that he can't cook anything that requires anything more then a microwave and/or a can opener or he might burn down the whole house although it is unknown if this also applies to him in real life.
* LickedByTheDog: Happens with Dr. Insano after his attempt to create a world-eating monster out of cyboplasm [[{{Squick}} and his own splooge]] only produces a fluffy pink RidiculouslyCuteCritter.
* LikeAGodToMe: Says that [[{{Ultima}} Richard Garriot]] is "a god among nerds".
* LoveItOrHateIt: [[{{In-Universe}} He describes]] ''FinalFantasyVIII'' as this right off the bat during its review. While some of his fans love it, Spoony... doesn't.
* LyingCreator: Possibly. He announced the storyline of being banished to the Black Hole by the Gatecleaner if he didn't review a series of VCR board games within a year was being cancelled... only to pick it up again after that year had passed, with the Gatecleaner not being too happy that he failed to review them.
** Wouldn't be the first time, especially after he repeatedly denied that ''Spooning With Spoony 2'' was never going to happen during the TGWTG charity drive...barely an hour after ''Spooning With Spoony 2'' had been shot.
* LyricalDissonance: The theme song, ''"Break Me"'' by The Irresponsibles. While being a rousing piece of CrowningMusicOfAwesome, it has rather dark lyrics you might notice on first hearing it. Lampshaded by Spoony in a commentary where he said he loved the song but it was "basically implying that I'm a girl who likes to be domestically abused."
** On the other hand, he ''is'' a guy who likes to be abused by bad movies and video games, so it's a bit of an apt metaphor.
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* MadScientist: Dr. Insano. He'll rule the world '''with science!!!''' And also winning the 2008 Presidential Election with running mate FuManchu.
* [[MadScientistsBeautifulDaughter Mad Scientist's Adorable Son]]: Son of Insano. He hasn't actually betrayed his father but he's so gosh-darned cute and full of love it's hard to think he'd do anything actually evil.
* MagicVersusScience: Parodied in reference to ''[[FinalFantasyVIII Final Fantasy VIII]]'' AssPull "anti-magic field", with a projector for such a thing being sold in a home shopping channel-type segment by Dr. Insano. Without any fuel. A similar gag re-appears in the ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyX'' review, with Dr. Insano selling an anti-magic negator...and being completely astounded when it turns out you can take it out with a Blitzball.
* ManiacMonkeys: The "[[TwentyEightDaysLater Rage]] Monkeys" that Spoony's so obsessed with in {{Ripper}}.
* AMatchMadeInStockholm: [[http://spoonyexperiment.com/hitman/ As noted]] by Spoony in his written review, Agent 47's "relationship" with Olga Kurylenko's character in the ''{{Hitman}}'' movie strongly comes across as this. He drives across Russia while she's stuffed in his car trunk with a dead body, constantly threatens to torture and murder her, and drags her out of a restaurant by her hair. She becomes strangely attracted to him, very overtly tries to seduce him several times, and continues to accompany him when she has several opportunities to make a run for it. Being [[{{Asexuality}} asexual]] 47 ignores her sexual advances, but does eventually show some degree of protection for her.
* MathematiciansAnswer: Spoony's take on the changes to Yuna between VideoGame/FinalFantasyX and [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyX2 Final Fantasy X-2]].
-->'''Spoony:''' Quite a long way from the traditional kimono she wore before, and her previous characterization as a kind, demure, religious care-giver with a tragic fate. But is this huge change in outfit and characterization because of the radical cultural shift in Spira because of the exposure of Yevon as a maniacal, genocidal cult run by the undead bent on world domination... or just because japanese perverts want to see some cleavage and her cute ass in boy's shorts? Good question... The answer is "Yes".
* {{Mid-Review Sketch Show}}: Spoony tends to include vaguely related comedy skits with his reviews from time to time, the most elaborate of which by far were the "Predaborg" skits filmed by Ed Glaser of Dark Maze Studios, as a comedic pastiche of the film Spoony was reviewing, ''Robowar''. His skits tend to receive a mixed reaction, with some fans being exceedingly upset by how characters like Dr. Insano hog up so much screen time from his reviews, and others asking for more comedy (Chuckles the Jester's appearance in a recent video seems to be directly inspired by the latter group).
* MindScrew: The "Madness of Roland" video.
* MissingWhiteWomanSyndrome: Although she isn't missing, Spoony has a point that Reb Brown in ''Mercenary Fighters'' just looks on with a slight hint of disapproval as a dozen African women are lined up and mowed down, but when the ScaryBlackMan is putting his hands on that one white woman? Oh, now it's on!
* MonsterClown: Insano-as-[[FinalFantasyVI Kefka]] in his VideoGame/FinalFantasyX review.
** Averted with Chuckles, who claims he's not a clown because "clowns get paid."
* MorallyAmbiguousDoctorate: Doctor Insano, natch.
* MostAnnoyingSound: "You're in my way sir." [[invoked]]
** Tidus in general, Tidus' forced laugh more specifically.
* MSTing: Spoony's weapon of choice. To wit:
-->'''Spoony''': "When you give someone a lamp with the devil in it you don't go, "Oh, this lamp is a little dangerous". You say, "Here's a lamp AND IT HAS THE DEVIL IN IT!" I mean what kind of weird shit was Headmaster Cid into?"
* MultipleChoicePast: Is Dr. Insano an incarnation of Spoony trapped in a StableTimeLoop? Is he a high school loser named Alfonse Plumbottom (or Wayne Schlumper?) who had an unrequited crush on Spoony? Was he a woman (or a robot) until Linkara punched a hole in the fabric of the multiverse? Is he [[{{Highlander}} an immortal from the planet Zeist?]] Is ''Spoony'' the future incarnation of Insano? [[{{Kickassia}} Is Insano Spoony's "Mr. Hyde"-style alter ego?]] Was he all of the above because Linkara punched reality (Linkara only remembering the "transformed Insano" for some reason)? WordOfGod is that "the origins of Dr. Insano are shrouded in mystery".
** Noah drops the trope name in the audio commentary for ''{{Kickassia}}''. He also remarks that it's kind of impressive that he has fans dedicated enough to try and sort out the various "continuities" of Insano.
-->Spoony: "There is no continuity, there is only Insano."
* MyFriendsAndZoidberg: In one of his Vlogs, Spoony describes the movie ''2012'' as having "a fantastic cast of really well known actors... and Amanda Peet."
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Spoony's reaction to how his ''ThievesWorld'' campaign spiraled into brutality.
* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: Likes to lampshade this when he comes across it in media. And of course there's Dr Insano in his first appearance calling the voters idiots for voting for someone called "Dr Insano".
* {{Narm}}: {{In-universe}}.
** After a while of listening to a middle-aged white woman trying to use gangsta-speak in his MST of the Game Crazy training video, Spoony's reduced to just laughing into the mike.
** "Tell me... about Disneyland..."
* NegativeContinuity: Don't try to rack your brain over Insano's origins, Spoony's clones and wherever the hell Black Lantern Spoony fits into all of this. Clearly, [[GenreSavvy as a fan of the show]], he has the MST3KMantra in mind.
** Won't keep us from [[http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/videolinks/teamt/cr/ff/27514-dr-insano trying.]]
** Spoony himself has said "I find it funny people are trying to figure out the continuity at work in this vid. You know what, there ''is'' no continuity, there is only Insano."
* NightmareFace: [[http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/spoony_face.png The end of the Madness of Roland review.]]
* NinjaPirateZombieRobot:
** About ''UltimaI'':
-->"Richard Garriot's tabletop ''DungeonsAndDragons'' game must have been just about the most glorious thing in human history. This game takes ''D&D'', ''StarTrek'', ''StarWars'', ''Series/DoctorWho'' among many other things, throws them in a blender and hits the puree switch. And ''my god is it beautiful''. This guy is a god of nerds."
* NoDeadBodyPoops: Subverted in the ''Ultima 6'' review, where as revenge for Lord British being asleep and not waking up even when Spoony/The Avatar is dying from poison and needs healing, Spoony decides that as payback he'll die on Lord British's throne so that he'll wake up and find it covered in his voided bowels.
* NoEnding: The ''DirtyHarry'' [[TheProblemWithLicensedGames game]] would simply cut to a password screen upon completion of a level. Spoony would reproduce this shortly after in the review ''itself'', abruptly cutting to black just as Spoony would about to tell what would happen in the second level. [[ShoutOut Plus]], there was the exact same song as [[TheSopranos with certain more infamous instance of this trope]] playing in the background.
* NoOntologicalInertia: Lampshaded in Grass Battle winner #1, "Norwegian Grass":
-->'''Fabian:''' You have to get to the source, the big grass monster. If you kill the source, all the grass will die. Haven't you seen ''TheFaculty''?
-->'''Protagonist:''' Of course. Isn't it a bit illogical?
-->'''Fabian:''' Ehm, no. It should work, I think.
* NostalgiaFilter: Whenever Spoony talks about {{Fallout}} 3, {{Bioshock}}, or the upcoming remake of ''VideoGame/{{X-COM}}'', he clearly prefers the originals. It can quickly go into YourMileageMayVary territory if you're not of the same gaming generation of him, or if you ''are'' and don't have a strongly positive opinion of the originals.
* NoteToSelf: Insano's reaction to the nurses turning on the mad scientist in ''Clones of Bruce Lee'':
-->'''Dr.Insano:''' "Note to self: have my nurse destroyed."
* NotMakingThisUpDisclaimer: Noah spends a good 15 seconds in "The Importance of Wearing Pants" reassuring us that he's not making up the story about the player who somehow left the house without his pants.
* OffTheShelfFX: The "Time Compressor" looks an awful lot like an X-Box remote control. Dr. Insano insists it's not one!
* OhCrap: In the end of ''FinalFantasyX2'' review, [[spoiler: [[FinalFantasyVII Sephiroth]] appears to actually save from death at Yuna's hands. Spoony freaks out thinking he would be the next but it turns out that he likes his show and let him alive. For the time being.]]
* OneSteveLimit: "Okay, any team with two Jeffs on it I automatically write off as a complete joke."
* OverlyLongGag: The entire 8 minute or so part 2 of the ''FinalFantasyVIII'' is Squall drawing 2 spells, to underline [[AccentuateTheNegative how maddening the game can be]].
--> *kick* You got a potion! *kick* You got a potion! *kick* You got a potion! *kick* You got a potion!
** From his ''Cage'' review, in a conversation between Lou Ferrigno's character and two guys trying to get him to fight in a cage match:
---> "But I like to wrestle!" *happy reaction shots* "But I don't like fighting." *disappointed reaction shots* "But I like to wrestle!" *happy reaction shots* "But I don't like fighting" *disappointed reaction shots*
* OverusedCopycatCharacter: "An elf with two swords. Who's surprised?"
* [[spoiler:OurHeroIsDead]]: [[spoiler:...but not if Linkara has anything to say about it.]]
** As he'd ended his FinalFantasyVIII review in this way just in case he couldn't make any new reviews - something which seemed entirely possible at the time - this trope was almost an example of [[spoiler:TheHeroDies]].
* OutOfFocus: Burton the Robot. Still listed in the opening credits, still part of the title card, and still sitting in the background next to Spoony, but when was the last time he ever actually ''did'' anything?
** Ultima VI: "Burton! Death ray! Now!" And he delivered.
** Mostly justified because, although Burton was created to be a sort of MST3K style puppet, the 'bot is still horribly fragile and difficult to work with, making it not worth the effort to integrate into Spoony's videos in any real capacity.
* OutrunTheFireball: The ending of the ''Final Fantasy VIII'' review, which is just RuleOfCool. [[spoiler: Subverted given that the fireball outran ''him'' and annihilated him down to the lump of protoplasm Linkara found after the time lapse]].
* OverusedRunningGag: Spoony has said he wants to avoid overusing Dr Insano to prevent him becoming one (though the character still seems pretty popular despite his frequent appearances) and also because doing the voice hurts his throat. However, he always manages to make these claims he's going to use Dr Insano less ''right before'' a review where Insano has a huge role, like the Ferris Bueller's Day Off review. One wonders if he's doing it on purpose.
** One might also consider the "beyond Thunderdome" jokes to be this, especially since the entire point of the original joke was that you don't get to use the joke very often
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* PetTheDog:
** [[CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming "You hear that, world? I love my pink, freakish, orb-shaped son!"]]
* ThePowerOfRock: [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyX Yunalesca]]'s "[[Music/{{Megadeth}} Mega Death]]" which caused the party to be "Rocked to Death".
* PragmaticAdaptation: Spoony says that, in his opinion, the live action ''{{Film/Tekken}}'' movie was this because it ditched the more outlandish elements of the ''{{Videogame/Tekken}}'' series like the robots and Devil Gene and just focused on the fighting.
* PresidentEvil: Parodies the concept with President Dr. Insano following the lampshading of its occurence on Final Fantasy VII.
-->'''Dr.Insano''': "You actually voted for a guy named "Dr.Insano"! What the ''hell'' is wrong with you people?!?"
* PrivateEyeMonologue: Spoofed in the ''{{Phantasmagoria 2}}'' review when Curtis finds Therese sitting on his couch after she broke into his apartment.
* ProductPlacement: When Linkara brought Spoony back to life, he hardcoded the urge to shill for his book into Spoony's DNA.
* PromotionToOpeningTitles: Dr. Insano.
* ThePurge: "And people ''like'' [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyX this game]]! Ladies and gentlemen, I implore you; Find these people. Kill them. They're, like.. voters. '''Kill them all!'''
* TheRant: During the commentary for the Party Mania review, Noah pauses the video for a couple of minutes so he can try to address some of the backlash that it caused.
** A briefer example comes at the start of the ''TekkenBloodVengeance'', where he says that he's taken heat for liking the live action ''{{Film/Tekken}}'' and defends his opinion.
* RapeAsComedy: Spooning With Spoony.
* ReadingsBlewUpTheScale
-->"The readings are into the GIGAQUEER RANGE!!" *Gaydar explodes*
* RealLifeWritesThePlot:
** The entire reason for ''FinalFantasyVIII'''s GrandFinale was that Noah was moving out of his parents' house and replacing his camera and didn't want to change things without explanation.
** As well as the plot of the Bloodwings: Pumpkinhead's Revenge review. The original plot was to have him forced to play it by the Gatekeeper/Cleaner/Beekeeper in the blagoh. But after weeks of frustration decided to make the plot about all the trouble he had with it.
** Similarly, he was unable to get ''The Madness of Roland'' to run on his computer, so instead edited together a bunch of the video files extracted from the game to form a [[MindScrew trippy series of visuals]] reminiscent of ''TheRing''.
** He's also made a few broken foot jokes ever since he broke his.
** He wrote in a sketch in his Skullduggery video to explain the appearance of his dog. She's appeared in the background of nearly all his videos since (and sometimes before).
** Referenced in his Kickassia commentary as well. Not concerning his role for a change, but Lord Kat's role had to be shortened severely due to injuries.
* RealitySubtext: In his review of "Ultima Underworld 2," he snarls at a Headless invading the review at the end of the skit, "Don't you fucking test me, you headless hairball, not after the month I've had." This was shortly after his CreatorBreakdown in 2011.
** Also in the finale of ''FinalFantasyX'', Dr Insano says the line "What were you expecting? The Ghost Busters?!". This line makes a lot more sense when you know that Spoony originally planned on having a huge finale with the Ghost Busters making an appearance. However, he couldn't get them to come, as they only really do charity events. This and the fact that he planned such a huge finale to begin with (instead of just focusing on reviewing the game) were fuel for his CreatorBreakdown.
* RealSongThemeTune: "Break Me" by The Irresponsibles.
** On the rare occasions that Dr. Insano does a review by himself, the theme tune changes to "Weird Science" by Oingo Boingo.
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech:
** Spoony's 'An Appeal For Manners' blog post explains to his fans how his fellow reviewers hate when he posts their videos on his site because a number of the comment posters on the site (as opposed to actual fans who like the show and support and encourage Spoony) tend to be jerkish trolls, which also prompted him to take down his acceptance speech video for winning a category in the Mashable Open Web Awards.
** In his infamous Final Fantasy VIII review:
-->* takes a breath* "So, where was I? Oh ya. * changes tone from annoyed to angry* Final Fantasy VIII sucks and [[FanHater You suck for liking it!]] It's a [[BadWriting poorly written]], [[FakeDifficulty badly designed]] [[AccentuateTheNegative piece of shit]], [[TheScrappy with annoying as fuck characters]], [[TradingCardLame a pointless card collecting mini game]] [[ScrappyMechanic and the most needlessly complicated and micromanaged character-management-system ever devised for any game]]! [[MiniGame It's full of ridiculous metagame-concepts]], [[LevelGrinding boring levelgrinding activities]] and [[PeninsulaOfPowerLeveling tedious magic-collection-busywork]]! The plot makes no sense, [[ImprobableWeaponUser the weapons are ridiculous]] and the setting is strangely underpopulated and [[SchizoTech technologically wildly anachronistic]]. It's long, boring, it's stupid - and [[UnstoppableRage I hate it with the fiery intensity of a million Forman-grills]]!"
** And again for Kickassia.
* RecordNeedleScratch: After playing porn music to acompany Quistis in his first Final Fantasy VIII video, the camera will continue to cut to Spoony becoming more and more interested in Quistis until he is seen with a jar of lotion in his hand, and he sees the camera is on. Cue the scratch.
* ReferenceOverdosed: Especially his ''Phantasmagoria2'' LetsPlay, where much of the humour comes from the way he crams in a reference to a film/game/internet meme in practically every sentence.
* RefugeInAudacity: "[[http://www.spoonyexperiment.com/2009/05/18/spooning-with-spoony/ Spooning with Spoony]]" is so offensive and disgusting, it warps all the way back around to hilarious and awesome. According to Spoony's commentary, the original was going to be worse. Spooning With Spoony II carried on the trend.
* RidiculouslyCuteCritter: Son of Insano. "Riki-tee!"
* RobotBuddy: Burton, a Mystery Science Theater-style puppet, made of a dust bin and a handheld vacuum cleaner, who spends most of his time sitting behind Noah's chair and looking on silently. He is apparently triggered to self-destruct if Spoony is gravely injured or dies.
** Also has voice operated functions, such as DEATH RAY, which Spoony used on Chuckles the jester as he was threatening him to shove a DVD up his ass. However, Spoony still had to manually turn Burton's head towards its target.
** He created Burton because he originally wanted to do his own MST3K style show.
* RuinedForever: In his review of MetroidOtherM, Spoony devotes a decent length of time to thoroughly explain why he thinks the series has suffered permanent damage thanks to the game's characterization of Samus.
** Likewise, his review of {{Highlander}}: The Source explains the many ways this movie pissed on the grave of the franchise dug and buried by everything following the original film.
** And in his review of [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyX2 Final Fantasy X-2]], he notes the minigame where you're supposed to give [[TheRival LeBlanc]] a [[LesYay massage]], to which she responds with audio that could easily be dubbed over any porn scene, as the point where FinalFantasy died.
* RuleOfFunny:
** From the commentary on the final {{Final Fantasy VIII}} video, about Dr. Insano's appearances: "It's kind of cute how people are trying to come up with some kind of continuity for all this. There's no continuity, there's only Insano."
** Linkara's commentary on the ''Warrior'' review notes a scene where Linkara gets a look at Dr. Insano without his goggles, which spawned all kinds of speculation due to him now knowing Insano was Spoony. He tells them all to not take it so seriously.
** Him turning back to normal after Insano's defeat.
-->'''Spoony''': "IGotBetter".
*** This might be a result of an [[DeletedScene abandoned idea]] Doug mentioned where Spoony would play peacemaker (like Ask That Guy did in the Brawl), only to snatch the CommissarCap and reveal that it's still Insano, just disguised as Spoony.
* RuleThirtyFour: It exists, and Noah knows about it. He both makes fun and caters to the fans, just like the rest of the site.
* RunningGag:
** Fusebox count.
*** Related to the Fusebox Count, there was the Ass Count that ran through his FinalFantasyX review. The counter broke during one particularly gratuitous ass-shot in the DeadOrAlive film review.
** "I heard that, Curtis." To the extent that the quote appears on a t-shirt that Spoony will occasionally wear on-camera.
** '''PHANTASMAGORIA!'''
** "[[YorTheHunterFromTheFuture We will need a lot more hemp before we're through.]]"
** "You ever get the feeling of deja vu? Probably nothing."
** After getting hit by a flash grenade by allies in SWAT 4'* "YOU FOOL!"
** "You're in my way, sir."
** "[[BladeRunner Live the good life in the off-world colonies!]]"
** "[[ChristopherWalken This guy, he's un-fuckin'-believeable!]]"
*** More ''{{Ripper}}'': "Now all we have to do is-" *change disc screen comes up for umpteenth time* "D'OH!"
** Black Lantern Spoony keeps getting killed.
** Evil science labs producing [[TwentyEightDaysLater Rage Monkeys]].
** "[I play this game on hard difficulty] because I'm '''hardcore''' and ''that's how I roll!''"
** "You ever get the feeling of deja vu? Probably nothing."
** Spoony (And later, Insano) constantly remarking on how stupid it is that [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyX Wakka's weapon of choice is a Blitzball]].
*** Earlier in ''FinalFantasyVIII'' he did the same with the Gunblade, and even at one point said it was [[EarlyBirdCameo even stupider than Wakka's Blitzball]].
** Fitting in references to and clips of the DavidLynch version of ''{{Dune}}'' every time he reviews something that involves a desert. Though admittedly in the case of ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyX'' the game was blatantly referencing ''Dune'' itself.
** He's somehow managed to take [[MysteryScienceTheater3000 Crow and Servo's]] "[[MadMax Beyond Thunderdome]]" IncrediblyLamePun and turn it into a running gag.
--> '''Spoony''': I think I stopped playing that series after I got Beyond Thunderdome. OH! OH, I DID IT AGAIN! [[ThisIsSparta I CANNOT. BE. STOPPED!]]
** "The [[MadLibsCatchPhrase Whatever-est]] Thing Ever Filmed", a faux warning card that shows up in his reviews of Reb Brown films preceding scenes. These include "The Most Awesome Thing" (YorTheHunterFromTheFuture using a rigor mortis-stiffened pterodactyl thing to hang glide into a cave and kick a purple caveman in the head); "The Funniest Thing" (Reb's character from ''Strike Commando'' in a {{Narm}}-tastic scene where he's tearfully talking about Disneyland to a dying child); and "The Manliest Thing" (Reb in ''Mercenary Fighters'' taking over a machine gun and using it to single-handedly kill a dozen enemies).
** "Ooooooo, NASTY." Whenever someone gets killed of gorily, Spoony cuts to a clip from {{Knightmare}}.
** Being attacked by a ''FinalFantasy'' character at the end of his multi-part reviews of each game.
** Any time Deron [=McBee=] shows up in something he reviews (surprisingly many!), Spoony will be sure to include a video of a nasty bump he suffered as Malibu on AmericanGladiators.
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* SarcasmFailure: The 8-6-10 Wrestle! Wrestle! V-log. The serious kind.
** Almost the ''entirety'' of his review of ''Highlander: The Source''. At one point he says that all he needs to do is show a clip from the movie and then show his increasingly appalled reaction shot, as the film's stupidity speaks for itself.
* SarcasmMode: This one should be pretty self explanatory.
* {{Satan}}: In his review of {{Final Fantasy VIII}}, he ends up getting a lamp that has "TEH DEVIL" inside. Spoony is awesome enough to blind, beat and tame The Devil, though, so all is good.
* ScheduleSlip: Several things that Spoony may announce at some point may take quite a while to actually get done, for various reasons; most prominently, of course, that Spoony is working entirely on his own.
** Lampshaded in [[WebOriginal/BadMovieBeatdown Film Brain]]'s review of ''HudsonHawk'' in early October 2010. Spoony complains that he was going to review the film & game, and Film Brain admits he did see the list that mentioned this... When it was posted 9 months earlier.
** ''Wrestle! Wrestle!'' started out providing weekly recaps of Raw and Impact, and even added Sean Fausz to cover the workload. Since mid-November 2010, however, recaps have been sporadic, and the site sometimes goes more than a month without updates.
** At the start of February 2011, Spoony announced a list of films & games he was going to review, intended to cover to the end of April. He was actually making decent progress through the list, until RealLifeWritesThePlot kicked in.
* ScreamingAtSquick
* ScrewYourself: Spoony complimenting Spuna as "the ''sexiest'' woman I have ever seen."
* SecretTestOfCharacter: In the ''FinalFantasyVIII'' finale, Spoony proclaims that being able to sit through ''Eyes On Me'' in its entirety proves that the viewer is a pussy, and then proceeds to use the song in its entirety in the end credits.
* SelfDeprecation:
** In the ''FinalFantasyVIII'' finale, he talks about how making you sit through the "Pussy Song", but then talks about spending a week matching it to the ''FinalFantasyVIII'' ending credits, and says that makes him a bigger pussy then the watcher.
** "You may not think having a cold is that debilitating, but you don't have a nose as big as mine!"
** "Who do you think is going to pick up [[DirtyDancing this game]], anyway... Other than retards who review games on the internet?!"
* SeriesFauxnale: Spoony's ''FinalFantasyVIII'' finale, which he made not only to finish his ''FinalFantasyVIII'' series for good, but also to serve as his own grand finale because he was unsure if he would be able to make any more videos for a while. When [[WebOriginal/AtopTheFourthWall Linkara]] caught wind of this, he made an extra skit for the finale to serve as a SequelHook, where he recovers some of Spoony's genetic material with the intention of bringing him back to life... leading directly into the ''Clones Of Bruce Lee'' video, where Linkara creates a clone of Spoony.
* SeriousBusiness: He thinks Twilight is the worst cultural phenomenom of the last decade.
** He takes his ProfessionalWrestling very seriously and is the quintessential IWC Elitist Smark
* {{Sexophone}}: In Spooning With Spoony.
* ShirtlessScene:
** Spoony, while being completely intoxicated on pain killers, drenched in sweat, and oozing just a little blood, does some sort of dance sequence in his underwear after reviewing the ET video game.
** He also goes shirtless for a moment in the game reviewing convention panel with [[WebOriginal/TheAngryJoeShow Angry Joe]] and Birdman.
* ShoutingShooter: When you give [[Film/LordOfTheRings Gandalf]] an assault rifle.
* SincerityMode: In his 2011 v-log for the new "X-Com" game, he mentions the time during the last E3 where he shouted "BETRAYAL!" and assures us that he was not playing a character. This video has Spoony almost chillingly quiet, yet nonetheless brimming with repressed rage that his most favorite strategy game of all time has not received an update, but an InNameOnly first-person shooter.
* [[SoBadItsGood So Bad It's]] CrazyAwesome: [[invoked]]
** His review of "YorTheHunterFromTheFuture" sums the movie up as this.
** He later clarifies this in his "Robowar" review as "Things don't have to be ''good'' to be ''awesome!''"
* SoundtrackDissonance: During Part 2 of his VideoGame/FinalFantasyX review, he played "Ignition Remix" by R. Kelly during Yuna's sending ceremony. Because, he said, [[LampshadeHanging "Naturally I feel the urge to profane this most holy and solemn ritual with completely inappropriate music."]]
* SpaceDoesNotWorkThatWay: '''"''[[BerserkButton Orbital wobble?!]]''"'''
* SpitTake: Turning into a RunningGag.
** Upon hearing that AJ in ''Mazes and Monsters'' wants to kill himself.
** When he hears that Yuna from ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyX'' seriously wants to marry the transparently evil Seymour.
** In ''{{Film/The Beastmaster}} 2'' when he makes a joke about seeing one of the ''{{Sliders}}'' coming the other way through the portal to a parallel Earth... only to actually see Kari Wuhrer from ''Sliders'' go through it.
** In ''Lords of Magick'' when a wizard lists off his abilities as being finding lost friends, exorcising ghosts, curing the plague, turning frogs into toads and [[BreadEggsMilkSquick restoring maidenheads]].
--->'''Spoony''': [spits] Oh man, [[LampshadeHanging I gotta stop drinking water during these clips]].
* StabTheSalad: Sephiroth popping in to say, ".......Love your work."
* StableTimeLoop: Dr. Insano is created through Spoony's desire to go back in time to erase the ''FinalFantasy'' franchise from existence. To do so, he creates his own time loop where instead of studying science for decades he sends a future version of himself back in time to give him all the knowledge he needs.
* StartOfDarkness:
** We belatedly learn ([[ContinuitySnarl one of]]) Dr. Insano's origins in his review of the original ''{{Final Fantasy}}'': the result of a time paradox just like the game's.
** In the Party Mania review Insano is actually Wayne Schlumper, a teenage scientist who was rejected by a female version of Spoony. Distraught and driven to insanity over the fact she didn't go out with him and his brother, wasting his scientific efforts on a pair of carefully created dancing shoes and hair-gel, he became insane with grief and hinted he would create his own woman. In the commentary, Spoony points out that this is simply the Insano of the alternate dimension the review takes place in.
* StealthParody: Part 10 of the ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVIII'' review is dedicated solely to "trashing" the original ''[[VideoGame/FinalFantasyI Final Fantasy]]'' and in doing so takes a bunch of potshots at himself and his caustic reviewing habits. It was so deadpan serious and over the top that Noah had to post a notice on the video that he was joking and he actually likes the game. Apparently few people noticed it was posted on [[AprilFoolsDay April 1, 2009]].
* StealthPun: During his ''Skullduggery'' review, while cosplaying as Simcoe The Magician, he conjures a dog from a pair of oreos. The dog was featured prominently in some of Spoony's videos before hand, and went by the name ''Oreo''.
* TheStoner: Though it's probably a joke, [[http://twitter.com/TheSpoonyOne/status/21092980201 this tweet]] is interesting.
** For a given value, it might actually have been true. He was sick at the time and might have taken [[HealingPotion some pain meds]], thus "[[YesButWhatDoesZataproximetacineDO high]]."
* StockFootage: Has several bits he uses, most notably footage of a [[DudeNotFunny crowd booing at a political rally]] which he cuts to whenever he does a really dark joke.
* StrangeMindsThinkAlike: Both he and Maffew of {{Botchamania}} feel that the only thing JohnCena [[NoSell sells]] [[MemeticMutation is merchandise]].
** ScrewAttack debuted a video series, ''DEATH BATTLE'', a few days after Spoony unveiled ''Deadliest Character'' at the 2010 TGWTG Donation Drive, with a similar concept to ''Deadliest Character''. In his commentary for ''Deadliest Character'', Spoony mentions [=ScrewAttack=]'s video & notes that whilst it's suspicious that their series debuted after his & was clearly put together quicker & with less effort than ''Deadliest Character'', he's going to put it down to this trope for the time being, rather than FollowTheLeader.
* StupidSexyFlanders: He expressed this same sentiment in the first part of the ''FinalFantasyX'' review in regards to a Rikku cosplayer (which wasn't about gender so much as HypocriticalHumor in regards to her {{stripperiffic}} costume).
-->"Stupid sexy cosplayers."
* StupidStatementDanceMix Well, not a dance mix, but someone online took his BETRAYAL shout of ''VideoGame/{{X-COM}}'' FirstPersonShooter and turned it into a metal song.
** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wt39TNCpRTg And it is AWESOME.]]
* StylisticSuck: According to Noah's commentary, the Dragonzord's sudden appearance in ''Deadliest Character'' was done to imitate ''DeadliestWarrior'''s habit of having a previously unmentioned factor come in out of nowhere and decide the fight, often in contradiction of the research team's earlier conclusions.
* SuckinessIsPainful: This is the point of his "Experience Bij" segments. "Bij" being some Klingon thing where they test manliness by determining how much utter suffering they can go through. In this particular case, Spoony shows off videos that are ''intensely'' annoying.
** He's actually stated in several TNA reviews that he thinks Impact is so bad that it causes him ''actual'' physical pain. He even gives a small demonstration where watching the Knockouts proceeds to give him a headache.
* TakeThat:
** His whole Ultimate Warrior parody character, which is mostly a spoof of the man's spastic incoherency.
-->'''Ultimate Spoony:''' "[[MetalGearSolid2 I HEAR IT'S AMAZING WHEN THE FAMOUS PURPLE STUFFED WORM IN FLAP JAW SPACE WITH A TUNING FORK DOES A RAW BLINK ON HARA-KIRI ROCK, HOAK HOGAN! I NEED SCISSORS! SIXTY-OOOOOOOONNNNNEEEE!"]]
** In his LetsPlay of "DeadlyPremonition," he makes several jokes about how the game compares to ''HeavyRain''. This is probably a meta-reference to Benzaie's LetsPlay of the latter game.
-->"What, I can't see him take a shower? Minus two stars! I must see every single part of his daily morning routine!"
** His ''It Came From Beyond Midnight'' persona of Leslie Striker is a [[strike:thinly veiled]] [[WordOfGod outright stated]] TakeThat towards {{WWE}} Color Commentator, Matt Striker.
** In his ''[[DeadliestWarrior Deadliest Character]]'' sketch, the ending where [[spoiler: [[AssPull the Green Ranger and the Dragonzord come out of nowhere to help out]]]] was confirmed by Noah in his later commentary to be intended as a TakeThat at ''DeadliestWarrior'', specifically at their [[DanBrowned less-than-sound]] conclusions.
** The review of ''Mercenary Fighter'', a dumb and cheesy 80s action flick, gives him the opportuniy to skewer ''Film/{{Avatar}}'' by [[SarcasmMode gushing about how brilliant the former's plot is]] and [[SeenItAMillionTimes saying nobody in a million years could come up with a story like that]]...while Burton holds the DVD for ''Avatar'' in the background.
** In his ''Phantasmagoria 2'' LP: "Doctor, I think I need help. I got a Dane Cook CD... and god help me, it was funny!"
** In the ''FinalFantasyVIII'' review he delivered one against the ''DarkAvengers'':
-->"Makes just as much sense as putting the [[SpiderMan Green Goblin]] as the head of SHIELD" *{{Beat}}* "Oh wait!"
* TalkativeLoon: Spoony's eerily accurate impression of the Ultimate Warrior.
-->'''Ultimate Spoony:''' ''At Wrestlemania, [[FullNameUltimatum Hoak Hogan]], you will feel the full force of my'' '''[[{{Portmanteau}} destrucity!]]''' ''And you had better be'' '''[[PerfectlyCromulentWord foked]],''' ''Hoak Hogan, because I am going to'' '''foke myself''' ''this Sunday on exactly one thing, Hoak Hogan: the WWF World Heavyweight Championship! You won't be able to [[Film/TheWizardOfOz click your heels three times]] and escape my [[TheMatrix Matrix]], Hoak Hogan! You have less chance [[ShoutOut than two fighters against a]] [[StarWars Star Destroyer!]] The only way to stop the power of the Warrior is [[NukeEm to take off and nuke the site]] [[{{Alien}} from orbit]], Hoak Hogan!'' '''[[SayingSoundEffectsOutLoud SKRONK!!!]]'''
* TalkingToHimself:
** Dr. Insano, Chef Ramsay, Spencer D. Bum, the Ultimate Spoony, Cap'n Smiling Jack D'Arcy, the Gate Cleaner, and Hulk Spogan. And thats not counting reading out writen dialogue in games.
** The '"Clones of Bruce Lee'' review, where a triple splitscreen allows Spoony to share the couch with Dr. Insano and a Spoony!Bum.
** A literal case in the finale of his Phantasmagoria Let's Play where he spoofs various scenes from the game.
* TestosteronePoisoning: Yor the Hunter remains his yardstick for masculinity.
** He's the man!
** Until [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2u84cH_bmTA this]]. Motherfucker suplexed '''A TRAIN.'''
** Another Reb Brown clip from ''Mercenary Fighters'' allegedly tops them all:
-->'''[[OurLawyersAdvisedThisTrope Disclaimer]]:''' Warning. What follows is the manliest thing ever recorded on film. Your balls may drop of in shame at the mere knowledge that you will never in your entire life do something half this manly.
* TethercatPrinciple: [[invoked]] In the ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyX'' review, Spoony apparently spent the ''entire'' two-month-long break between installments hammering the X button to farm potions from an infinitely deep chest. And he has the beard to prove it.
* ThatOneLevel: His playthrough of SWAT 4 has level 11 titled "I Die A Lot". That he does, and even lets you guess in the video how many times he does in fact die. [[spoiler:59]]. The final level he beats right out of the box. [[invoked]]
* TemptingFate: Spoony's does this in the Warrior #1 review, believing that Warrior can't be nearly as bad as Dr. Insano says it is, then screams in terror from ''one look at the cover'', and yes the comic really was that horrible.
** On his FinalFantasyX2 review, he comments on Yuna's ability to [[StandardStatusEffects blind]] people by dancing:
--->Yes, she dances so poorly it causes people to go blind. Who could ''possibly'' do a dance so horrifying it ''blinds'' people?[[hottip:*:Cue another guest appearance by Benzaie.]]
* ThereWasADoor: In ''Tekken: Blood Vengeance'' he's particularly exasperated when Jin and Kazuya separately punch out the walls of a room within seconds of each other and throws up his hands. He also [[FridgeLogic wonders]] how awkward it would've been if either them of them accidentally punched out the wall Heihachi was hiding behind instead. [[invoked]]
-->Anyone else? Anyone else want to punch out a wall, we've got two left!
** This is followed by Randy Savage's Slim Jim commercial where he does this as well as the Kool-Aid Man.
* TheyJustDidntCare: [[{{In-universe}} Noah firmly believes]] that either the makers of ''Highlander: The Source'' either didn't have a clue about the franchise or were deliberately trying to piss off the Highlander fans with it.
* ThisIsGonnaSuck: When talking about ''Film/TheBeastmaster II: Through the Portal of Time'' he uses this trope to describe the reaction of fans of the first movie as soon as they saw the poster for the second and the car on the front. This was also his reaction to the ''Warrior'' comics.
* ThisIsSparta: When talking about ''[[MetroidOtherM Metroid: Other M]]'', Spoony remarks that Samus never. Shuts. The Fuck. Up. ''Ever''.
* ThreatBackfire: In ''UltimaVIII'', the Guardian gloats about exiling the Avatar to a planet where nobody has heard of him and his exploits saving Britannia. Spoony points out that previous games have demonstrated that [[DudeWheresMyRespect no-one in]] ''[[DudeWheresMyRespect Britannia]]'' [[DudeWheresMyRespect seems to have heard of him or his exploits either]]!
* TooDumbToLive: In his ''[[http://spoonyexperiment.com/2008/08/17/knightmare-review/ Knightmare]]'' review, one of the contestants had to spell the word ''shroud'' backwards. He first spells it D-U-R-H-S (shrud), and after getting a hint to use an O from the host, he confidently comes up with O-S-R-D-H-U.
-->'''Spoony''': WHAT THE FUCK DID YOU JUST SPELL, YOU STUPID PILLOCK?!
* TooSoon: Invoked by Spoony after he refers to a wrestler being choked out as being "''ChrisBenoit''ed".
** Noah felt bad about writing a suicide joke (that was promptly scrapped) after the suicide of one of his fans.
** At MAGFest 2011, Noah made a joke about Warrior teaching Hogan's son out of drive. The audience gave a collective "ooooooooooo"
* TotallyRadical:
** Everything about Party Mania.
** When he MST's a Game Crazy training video, one of the hosts' flagrant overuse of this sometimes reduces Spoony to hysterical laughter.
*** Said host is a woman in her mid-thirties, maybe early forties, whose delivery is ''so utterly white.'' It really is that funny.
* TrashTheSet: The finale of the ''FinalFantasyVIII'' series was Spoony's excuse to give his room a proper sendoff - by blowing it up after Burton self-destructs.
* {{Troperiffic}}: For the sheer number of other tropes listed here.
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[[folder:U-Z]]
* UncannyValley: In-universe, Spoony has expressed distaste for films that rely too heavily on CG characters and effects. In his review of [[{{Film/AVATAR}} AVATAR]], he compared the film to Jackie Chan's movies, stating that watching Jackie Chan and other real actors do the stunts and fight scenes gives weight to the performance that he's never felt watching computer-generated characters like the Na'vi.
* UnfortunateImplications: Brings up in ''Mercenary Fighter'' that despite his supposed moral problems with killing the African villagers, Reb Brown's character doesn't protest a word as several of them are gunned down in cold blood, and instead protests shooting one white reporter. [[invoked]]
* {{Unobtanium}}: Dr. Insano's inventions are powered by [[RatchetAndClank raritanium ore]].
* UranusIsShowing: Appears in his review of ''UltimaII'', which is followed by an immediate lampshading:
-->"I also [[AnalProbing probed Uranus]], which is big and swampy and full of craters, but is otherwise uninteresting. Actually, there's only one town there, called [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin New Jester]], but for [[SarcasmMode the life of me I couldn't figure out why]]. But if I were to guess, I'd say it's where all the jesters of the world were exiled for making endless Uranus jokes."
* ValleyGirl: GenderBender Spoony and 80's Chick.
* VerbalTic: Hulk Hogan (as impersonated by Spoony) is seemingly incapable of not shouting "Brother!" at the end of every sentence. Similarly, Ric Flair yells "WOOOO!" anytime he speaks, though it's not so much a verbal tic as [[TheMentallyDisturbed a cry for help]].
--> '''Ric Flair:''' I'm wrestling with concussion ''right now'', WOOOO! *slams head onto desk*
** NoIndoorVoice: The Pope.
--> "WHO DARES FOLLOW THE POPE AROUND WITH A CAMERA, DADDAY?! [[RoyalWe THE POPE IS THE POPE AND THE POPE'S CONGREGATION'S ALWAYS BEHIND THE POPE]], DADDAY!"
* VideogameCrueltyPotential: In his livestream of ''KingdomHearts'', Spoony seems delighted that the game gives him the opportunity to beat up ''FinalFantasy'' characters he hates such as Squall, Tidus and Wakka.
** Also brings this up in ''UltimaVII'' in that despite you supposedly being ultimate force for good, the game lets you kill a lot of people for fun, and is most amused by being able to kill Lord British (who Spoony notes as the series goes on looks like more and more of a bad guy).
* VillainWithGoodPublicity: Dr. Insano is a merciless parody (specifically of Edea in ''FinalFantasyVIII''), getting elected president despite making no effort to hide his supervillainy.
* VillainousRescue: Spoonyroth runs through Spuna in a sequence reminiscent of Aerith's death in ''Final Fantasy VII''.
* WeAreExperiencingTechnicalDifficulties: Done twice within two minutes when he realizes the protagonist of VideoGame/FinalFantasyX is a collection of everything he hates. Cue him screaming that he hates him and getting cut off by a picture of Insano-Kefka and the words "HATE HATE HATE" showing up on the screen. Then two seconds later when he screams, "SEND HELP!" in response to Tidus opening his mouth again.
** Done again in the ''Ultima 8'' review, when he goes nuts after his game character finally makes it across the water form the insanely impossible jumping required only to get blown into the water by an exploding chest. And in this case, Noah took advantage of it to add a mid-show commercial break on the Blip video.
* WhamEpisode: ''Film/TheBeastmaster 2'' review ends with the happy note that Dr. Insanso and his son have to leave [[spoiler: in order to stop [[OhCrap a dimensional singularity]]]].
** [[WebOriginal/ATopTheFourthWall Foreshadowing]]?
* WhamLine: From the Counter Monkey episode about Spoony's ''Thieves' World'' campaign: "[[CrowningMomentOfFunny I HURL A FLASK OF ACID AT HIS]] ''[[CrowningMomentOfFunny FACE!!!]]''"
** "[[TooDumbToLive I WISH FOR A DECK OF MANY THINGS!]]"
* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotAwesome:
** When Terl claims godhood due to his amazing ability to [[WhatKindOfLamePowerIsHeartAnyway inherently know how high above sea level any location in the world sits,]] Spoony is in ''enraptured awe'' of this skill.
-->Scientology ''is'' the one true religion!
** Which parodies the fact that the Film/WingCommander movie presents pretty much the same situation, although it's somewhat more practical, if it wasn't for the fact every ship computer can do the same, anyway.
** At first Spoony thought the floors were the worst enemy in ''{{Ultima}} 3''. But then fans alerted him to the fact that you can be attacked by '''[[EverythingTryingToKillYou grass]]''' outside the FinalDungeon. In response, he set up a contest for fans to make videos of themselves battling the green menace for a chance to win prizes like autographed pictures and T-shirts.
** In his LetsPlay of ''Phantasmagoria 2'', whenever the game dwells on the protagonist's banal mundane affairs for long periods and fails to live up to its horror theme ([[RunningGag which is often]]), Spoony yells "PHANTASMAGORIA! A PUZZLE OF THE FLESH!"
* WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs: Spooning with Spoony. The man himself had this to say in his commentary:
-->'''Noah:''' "You probably think that I'm going to blame this on drugs or alchohol. I probably should. But nope, we were all stone-cold sober when we made this."
** His E.T. review was a straight-up aversion, but it was justified: the drugs in question were painkillers, which he was taking following surgery to remove his wisdom teeth.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Spoony's reaction to the fact that {{TNA}} showed Samoa Joe being kidnapped by [[InstantAwesomeJustAddNinja ninjas]] and then promptly forgot that he existed, with not so much as a single reaction, going on a month since the kidnapping. This also happens to be the moment when, after enduring the entire TNA broadcast, he [[CrowningMomentOfFunny finally snaps]]:
-->'''Spoony''': "But he was abducted by ninjas! NINJAS! CALL THE COPS! There are ninjas kidnapping people on TV! THE COPS! Did no one get a license plate? Do ni - NINJAS! KIDNAPPING! TV!"
* WhenSheSmiles: Considers NataliePortman this in his ''{{Film/Thor}} review''.
* WhoWritesThisCrap: Inverted in his Punkinhead Review, in which Linkara, dressed the Gatekeeper, puts on a mask and exclaims [[IncomingHam I AM, THE BEEKEEPER.]] Spoony replies, "Oh my God, I wrote that."
* WildMassGuessing: He and his brother think that JohnCena gets stronger the more merch he sells.
* WillingSuspensionOfDisbelief: He [[InvokedTrope says]] the presence of Xiaoyu's panda in ''Tekken: Blood Vengeance'' is so distracting that it completely breaks his suspension of disbelief in every scene it's in, simply because no one explains it. At all.
* WithLyrics: He uses the tune of "Ode to Joy" for this in his ''FinalFantasyVIII'':
--> ''"Quistis, boobies, Quistis, boobies, Squall is getting laid tonight!"''
* WordSalad: Was going for this with the name of his D&D character "[[SpoonyBard Tandem the Spoony]]", which is where his alias came from. ("Spoony" does have a meaning, but it's so obscure that it provoked a confused reaction from his fellow players).
* WrittenInInfirmity:
** He was drugged up on painkillers when filming the ET review, turning it into an homage to ApocalypseNow.
* XMeetsY: He called ''The Lords of Magick'' LordOfTheRings meets TheRoom and Film/{{The Beastmaster}} meets {{Birdemic}}
* YourCostumeNeedsWork: In [[http://spoonyexperiment.com/2010/04/15/kristanna-loken-interview-chicago-2009/ this]] video he mentions that he has been mistaken for a Doctor Insano ''cosplayer''. By someone from his own forum, no less.
* YouShallNotPass: Edited himself in the LordOfTheRings scene as part of a sketch for his review of ''Ultima''.
-->'''[[LordOfTheRings YOU! SHALL NOT! PASS!]]''' *starts blasting away at the Balrog with an AK-47 and phaser before finally blowing it away with an '''M79 grenade launcher'''*
* {{Zeerust}}: When reviewing games/movies made in the past but set in the future, he will often compare the technology presented there to that which now exists, such as [[IProduct Apple iProducts]]. Shows up a lot in his LetsPlay of ''{{Ripper}}''.
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