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The original site was hacked in late May 2011. As of April 20, 2012, the [[http://www.desudesbrigade.com/2012/04/the-desudes-brigade-disbands/ D2 Brigade has disbanded,]] although all on good terms. Late in 2014, Vixen opened a [[http://desudesbrigadehq.tumblr.com/ Tumblr blog]] to keep the Brigade's memory alive, and Prof is following it.
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The original site was hacked in late May 2011. As of April 20, 2012, the [[http://www.desudesbrigade.com/2012/04/the-desudes-brigade-disbands/ D2 Brigade has disbanded,]] although all on good terms. Late in 2014, Vixen opened a [[http://desudesbrigadehq.[[http://d2brigade.tumblr.com/ Tumblr blog]] to keep the Brigade's memory alive, and Prof is and possibly Ark are following it.
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* MoralMyopia: Played for HypocriticalHumor laughs; Tsubake accuses the viewers of being racist towards Music/{{Vocaloid}}s because they want to hear her sing. This is coming from a KillerRobot who [[KillAllHumans hates all of humanity and wants to kill them]].
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The original site was hacked in late May 2011. As of April 20, 2012, the [[http://www.desudesbrigade.com/2012/04/the-desudes-brigade-disbands/ D2 Brigade has disbanded,]] although all on good terms.
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The original site was hacked in late May 2011. As of April 20, 2012, the [[http://www.desudesbrigade.com/2012/04/the-desudes-brigade-disbands/ D2 Brigade has disbanded,]] although all on good terms. \n Late in 2014, Vixen opened a [[http://desudesbrigadehq.tumblr.com/ Tumblr blog]] to keep the Brigade's memory alive, and Prof is following it.
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* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: While Vixen did this on purpose, later "updates" to Blip have led to "Pocky Spot", Prof's "The Red Scorpion" and "[=DesuRattle=]" being removed from the site (although [=DesuRattle=] is archived and easily accessible through an audio download site).
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* '''Arkada''', who produces the anime review called "Glass Reflection." He wears a lab coat during his reviews, which makes him vaguely reminiscent of [[WebVideo/DoctorHorriblesSingAlongBlog Dr. Horrible]].
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* '''Arkada''', '''{{WebVideo/Arkada}}''', who produces the anime review called "Glass Reflection." He wears a lab coat during his reviews, which makes him vaguely reminiscent of [[WebVideo/DoctorHorriblesSingAlongBlog Dr. Horrible]].
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* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: While Vixen did this on purpose, later "updates" to Blip have led to "Pocky Spot", Prof's "The Red Scorpion" and "[=DesuRattle=]" being removed from the site (although [=DesuRattle=] is archived and easily accessible through an audio download site).
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* HostileShowTakeover: Malakye hosts Fanservice Corner in Pocky Spot episode 53, showing the opening to ''MakenKi''.
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* HostileShowTakeover: Malakye hosts Fanservice Corner in Pocky Spot episode 53, showing the opening to ''MakenKi''.''Manga/MakenKi''.
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** In the ''MagicKnightRayearth'' review, Professor Otaku had quite a bit of fun with this. Or rather, the rest of the Brigade had fun at his expense.
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** In the ''MagicKnightRayearth'' ''Manga/MagicKnightRayearth'' review, Professor Otaku had quite a bit of fun with this. Or rather, the rest of the Brigade had fun at his expense.
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** Prof did his review of ''MagicKnightRayearth'' in French, Japanese, Fake German and Fake Italian, with a little English thrown in.
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** Prof did his review of ''MagicKnightRayearth'' ''Manga/MagicKnightRayearth'' in French, Japanese, Fake German and Fake Italian, with a little English thrown in.
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* '''WebVideo/JesuOtaku''', who produces a review segment simply entitled "The [=JesuOtaku=] Anime Review". She is much more analytical than the other reviewers, using a four-star rating system. She tries to be objective and may give high scores to shows that she doesn't personally like. She also produced her "summer project", an audio drama adaptation of [[FruitsBasket Fruits Basket]], every Wednesday throughout summer 2011.
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* '''WebVideo/JesuOtaku''', who produces a review segment simply entitled "The [=JesuOtaku=] Anime Review". She is much more analytical than the other reviewers, using a four-star rating system. She tries to be objective and may give high scores to shows that she doesn't personally like. She also produced her "summer project", an audio drama adaptation of [[FruitsBasket Fruits Basket]], Manga/FruitsBasket, every Wednesday throughout summer 2011.
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* AllMenArePerverts: Prof, Arkada, Mal and Hitch are all pretty perverted and none of them are very good at keeping it [[CovertPervert covert]] (although they ''do'' try to keep it tasteful).
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* AllMenArePerverts: Prof, Arkada, Mal and Hitch are all pretty perverted and none of them are very good at keeping it [[CovertPervert covert]] {{covert|Pervert}} (although they ''do'' try to keep it tasteful).
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* AwesomeMcCoolName: Tristan Gallant, Arkada's real name. "Sad Bravery" sounds pretty damn cool.
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* AwesomeMcCoolName: AwesomeMcCoolname: Tristan Gallant, Arkada's real name. "Sad Bravery" sounds pretty damn cool.
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** For Vixen: Constant {{Random Encounter}}s in VideoGames. On the Fanservice [[strike:Coroner]]Corner segment of Pocky Spot, excessive T&A is also a BerserkButton for her, but that's not generally the case in her actual reviews.
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** For Vixen: Constant {{Random Encounter}}s in VideoGames. On the Fanservice [[strike:Coroner]]Corner Corner segment of Pocky Spot, excessive T&A is also a BerserkButton for her, but that's not generally the case in her actual reviews.
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** For Hitch: When he was reviewing the live-action ''FistOfTheNorthStar'' movie, he was hoping that there would be lots of [[YourHeadAsplode exploding heads]] like in the anime. When we finally got to our first exploding head, [[GoryDiscretionShot it was off screen]]. He... didn't take it well.
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** For Hitch: When he was reviewing the live-action ''FistOfTheNorthStar'' ''Manga/FistOfTheNorthStar'' movie, he was hoping that there would be lots of [[YourHeadAsplode exploding heads]] like in the anime. When we finally got to our first exploding head, [[GoryDiscretionShot it was off screen]]. He... didn't take it well.
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-->'''Vixen''': You ''do'' realize it's possible for guys to get raped too, [[TranquilFury right?]]
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-->'''Vixen''': You ''do'' realize it's possible for guys to get raped too, [[TranquilFury right?]]right]]?
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* HoldYourHippogriffs: After making a [[strike:herpes]] Harpies commercial voiceover, Prof quips in his review of ''Film/WonderWoman'' that he's going straight to the underworld for that one.
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* HoldYourHippogriffs: After making a [[strike:herpes]] Harpies Harpies[[note]]herpes[[/note]] commercial voiceover, Prof quips in his review of ''Film/WonderWoman'' that he's going straight to the underworld for that one.
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* MsFanservice: Vixen, of course. Usually, this is played for laughs, as in some of her [[DoubleEntendre lines]] in the Fanservice Corner segment of Pocky Spot, or in the [[http://i656.photobucket.com/albums/uu283/VideoGameVixen/DDB/QABanner.jpg banner]] for her [[strike:T&A]] Q&A segments.
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* MsFanservice: Vixen, of course. Usually, this is played for laughs, as in some of her [[DoubleEntendre lines]] in the Fanservice Corner segment of Pocky Spot, or in the [[http://i656.photobucket.com/albums/uu283/VideoGameVixen/DDB/QABanner.jpg banner]] for her [[strike:T&A]] Q&A segments.
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* RealWomenNeverWearDresses: Comes up in-universe in Vixen's vids.
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* ThatRemindsMeOfASong: Vix reported on her [[strike:T&A]] Q&A...
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* TokenEvilTeammate: Tsubake. Originally Malakye, though [[TheStarscream it's been brought up a a lot less since she came along.]]
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-->''Sky Walker? [[StarWars Luke]] called, he wants his name back.''
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** Tsubake apparently has a rather large colleciton of Yaoi porn.
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** Vixen killing Malakye [[RunningGag multiple times over]] on PockySpot.
** Vixen killing an 'intern' on PockySpot.
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** Vixen killing Malakye [[RunningGag multiple times over]] on PockySpot.
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** Vixen killing an 'intern' onPockySpot.Pocky Spot.
** Vixen killing an 'intern' on
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* ActorAllusion: Arkada's review of ''VisualNovel/{{AIR}}'' starts off with a less subtle one for the same actor. "[[DNAngel How would you like to go on a date with Phantom Dark?]]"
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* HeyItsThatVoice: Vixen points out a familiar Disney voice assigned to ''SpiritedAway'''s dub by briefly overlaying images of the character onto the footage.
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* ScheduleSlip: Just about every member has schedule slip due to real life, though that's by far the worst example.
** This also happens to Desu Rattle a LOT. Originally a weekly podcast, it's now a "whenever we can get people on Skype to record" occurrence.
** This also happens to Desu Rattle a LOT. Originally a weekly podcast, it's now a "whenever we can get people on Skype to record" occurrence.
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*** Pocky Spot 48 brings us an anime where [[AstarotteNoOmocha a 10 year old succubus has to have males ejaculate into her mouth in order to survive]]. She's horrified and disgusted to say the least.
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*** Pocky Spot 48 brings us an anime where [[AstarotteNoOmocha a 10 year old succubus has to have males ejaculate into her mouth in order to survive]].survive (''Astarotte No Omocha''). She's horrified and disgusted to say the least.
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* PokemonSpeak: Both JO and Arkada snark if Nyu's a Pokemon in their reviews of ''ElfenLied''.
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* PokemonSpeak: Both JO and Arkada snark if Nyu's a Pokemon in their reviews of ''ElfenLied''.''Manga/ElfenLied''.
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* ScrewYourself: There were already comments joking about this within hours of Prof's ''FushigiYuugi'' review.
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* {{Squee}}: During Pocky Spot 22, both Vixen and JO let out a good one when seeing [[OuranHighSchoolHostClub Kyoya]] with his shirt off.
** They do this again at the begining of Prof's review of ''{{Pretear}}'', much to Prof's annoyance.
** They do this again at the begining of Prof's review of ''{{Pretear}}'', much to Prof's annoyance.
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* {{Squee}}: During Pocky Spot 22, both Vixen and JO let out a good one when seeing [[OuranHighSchoolHostClub [[Manga/OuranHighSchoolHostClub Kyoya]] with his shirt off.
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* TakeAThirdOption: Even though Prof had several fans send video suggestions for his 100th episode, Profette comes up with the easy choice of [[spoiler:''BusoRenkin'']].
* TakeThat: Arkada took a shot at Creator/ToddHaberkorn voicing too many recent leads in his review of ''{{Gankutsuou}}''.
* TakeThat: Arkada took a shot at Creator/ToddHaberkorn voicing too many recent leads in his review of ''{{Gankutsuou}}''.
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* TakeAThirdOption: Even though Prof had several fans send video suggestions for his 100th episode, Profette comes up with the easy choice of [[spoiler:''BusoRenkin'']].
[[spoiler:''Manga/BusouRenkin'']].
* TakeThat: Arkada took a shot at Creator/ToddHaberkorn voicing too many recent leads in his review of''{{Gankutsuou}}''.''Anime/{{Gankutsuou}}''.
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* TakeThat: Arkada took a shot at ToddHaberkorn voicing too many recent leads in his review of ''{{Gankutsuou}}''.
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* IncrediblyLamePun[=/=]HurricaneOfPuns: Vixen's ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'' review featured a vampire Pun Count. When ''New Moon'' came back with its own awful puns, she suspected it was karma.
** Professor Otaku on Dolores from ''VideoGame/ZoneOfTheEnders: Dolores, i'':
-->'''Prof''': You know, other reviewers might harp on the location of the cockpit, but not me. I think that argument falls limp, because it has stiff competition, standing tall in a crowd of flaccid robot designs. The orbital frames really thrust themselves into the hard and thick market and show they have a rod of steel in their spines. And I think I just burned out my subtlety chip.
** Professor Otaku on Dolores from ''VideoGame/ZoneOfTheEnders: Dolores, i'':
-->'''Prof''': You know, other reviewers might harp on the location of the cockpit, but not me. I think that argument falls limp, because it has stiff competition, standing tall in a crowd of flaccid robot designs. The orbital frames really thrust themselves into the hard and thick market and show they have a rod of steel in their spines. And I think I just burned out my subtlety chip.
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* IncrediblyLamePun[=/=]HurricaneOfPuns: HurricaneOfPuns:
** Vixen's ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'' review featured a vampire Pun Count. When ''New Moon'' came back with its own awful puns, she suspected it waskarma.
** Professor Otaku on Dolores from ''VideoGame/ZoneOfTheEnders: Dolores, i'':
-->'''Prof''': You know, other reviewers might harp on the location of the cockpit, but not me. I think that argument falls limp, because it has stiff competition, standing tall in a crowd of flaccid robot designs. The orbital frames really thrust themselves into the hard and thick market and show they have a rod of steel in their spines. And I think I just burned out my subtlety chip.karma.
** Vixen's ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'' review featured a vampire Pun Count. When ''New Moon'' came back with its own awful puns, she suspected it was
** Professor Otaku on Dolores from ''VideoGame/ZoneOfTheEnders: Dolores, i'':
-->'''Prof''': You know, other reviewers might harp on the location of the cockpit, but not me. I think that argument falls limp, because it has stiff competition, standing tall in a crowd of flaccid robot designs. The orbital frames really thrust themselves into the hard and thick market and show they have a rod of steel in their spines. And I think I just burned out my subtlety chip.
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-->'''Prof''': You know, other reviewers might harp on the location of the cockpit, but not me. I think that argument falls limp, because it has stiff competition, standing tall in a crowd of flaccid robot designs. The orbital frames really thrust themselves into the hard and thick market and show they have a rod of steel in their spines. And I think I just burned out my subtlety chip.
-->'''Prof''': You know, other reviewers might harp on the location of the cockpit, but not me. I think that argument falls limp, because it has stiff competition, standing tall in a crowd of flaccid robot designs. The orbital frames really thrust themselves into the hard and thick market and show they have a rod of steel in their spines. And I think I just burned out my subtlety chip.
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* GenderFlip: Prof got this at the end of his ''{{Pretear}}'' review, lasting until near the end of ''FushigiYuugi''.
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* DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale: Averted with Vixen; there have been at least two Pocky Spots where her Fanservice Corner segments involved her raging over the fact that they portray female-on-male rape as comedy and explicitly pointing out that she doesn't think rape is ''ever'' okay.
-->'''Vixen''': You ''do'' realize it's possible for guys to get raped too, [[TranquilFury right?]]
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* AllMenArePerverts: Prof, Arkada, Mal and Hitch are all pretty perverted and none of them are very good at keeping it [[CovertPervert covert]] (although they ''do'' try to keep it tasteful).
** AllWomenAreLustful: Vixen, JO, Tsubake, Kagami and Rabbit aren't exactly innocent themselves, [[HypocriticalHumor no matter how much they lambaste the boys for it]].
** AllWomenAreLustful: Vixen, JO, Tsubake, Kagami and Rabbit aren't exactly innocent themselves, [[HypocriticalHumor no matter how much they lambaste the boys for it]].
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* MismatchedEyes: Arkada, at least in his animated form.
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* InSovietRussiaTropeMocksYou: Professor Otaku in his LetsPlay of ''Knights of the Round'':
-->(while being attacked by barrels) ''That's right folks, if you can't kill a castle, a castle will kill you.''
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-->(while being attacked by barrels) ''That's right folks, if you can't kill a castle, a castle will kill you.''
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* BrickJoke: In Prof's ''PrincessTutu'' review, he said "What next? Do I watch ''{{Pretear}}''? How about ''FushigiYuugi''? Why not just grow a nice pair of BOOBS while I'm at it?" Half a year later, he's reviewed the first, about to review the second and the third? [[GenderBender Well...]]
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* BrickJoke: In Prof's ''PrincessTutu'' ''Anime/PrincessTutu'' review, he said "What next? Do I watch ''{{Pretear}}''? How about ''FushigiYuugi''? Why not just grow a nice pair of BOOBS while I'm at it?" Half a year later, he's reviewed the first, about to review the second and the third? [[GenderBender Well...]]
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* DisproportionateRetribution: Ark's suggestion for punishing Hitch for not liking ''PrincessTutu'' (which he even said wasn't horrible, he just didn't like it) is a letter bomb.... or a NUKE.
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* GilliganCut: Done twice in Arkada's ''PrincessTutu'' review. The first time was after declaring that in no way was he ever going to review the aforementioned series. The second time was declaring that he was definitely not following it up with a ''Manga/CardcaptorSakura'' review, which is then subverted when he's instead shown watching ''LightNovel/{{Baccano}}!'' after the Gilligan Cut.
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* GilliganCut: Done twice in Arkada's ''PrincessTutu'' ''Anime/PrincessTutu'' review. The first time was after declaring that in no way was he ever going to review the aforementioned series. The second time was declaring that he was definitely not following it up with a ''Manga/CardcaptorSakura'' review, which is then subverted when he's instead shown watching ''LightNovel/{{Baccano}}!'' after the Gilligan Cut.
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* MotorMouth: Arkada's quick recap of ''FinalFantasyVII'' to help put context into ''FinalFantasyVIIAdventChildren''.
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* MotorMouth: Arkada's quick recap of ''FinalFantasyVII'' ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII'' to help put context into ''FinalFantasyVIIAdventChildren''.''Anime/FinalFantasyVIIAdventChildren''.
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The original site was hacked in late May 2011. As of April 20th, the [[http://www.desudesbrigade.com/2012/04/the-desudes-brigade-disbands/ D2 Brigade is ending,]] although all on good terms.
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The original site was hacked in late May 2011. As of April 20th, 20, 2012, the [[http://www.desudesbrigade.com/2012/04/the-desudes-brigade-disbands/ D2 Brigade is ending,]] has disbanded,]] although all on good terms.
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* WeHardlyKnewYe: Hitch's sudden entrance to D2 was contested, but his indefinite hiatus met with sorrow, he'll still be around on the forums though.
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* BreakupBreakout: Deconstructed. Rather than WebVideo/JesuOtaku leaving the brigade after joining up with ThatGuyWithTheGlasses, she still tried to be a loyal brigadier, and her newfound popularity did in fact bring in more viewers to the Brigade's site; however, her indecisiveness coupled with her [[AttentionDeficitCreatorDisorder ADCD]] caused her to grow increasingly distant from the Brigade, unofficially breaking off from it about a year from its official disbandment.
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* BreakupBreakout: Deconstructed. Rather than WebVideo/JesuOtaku leaving the brigade after joining up with ThatGuyWithTheGlasses, Website/ThatGuyWithTheGlasses, she still tried to be a loyal brigadier, and her newfound popularity did in fact bring in more viewers to the Brigade's site; however, her indecisiveness coupled with her [[AttentionDeficitCreatorDisorder ADCD]] caused her to grow increasingly distant from the Brigade, unofficially breaking off from it about a year from its official disbandment.
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* DroppedABridgetOnHim: Prof admitted in Quick Hits 2 that Shuichi dropped one on him.
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** Although not entirely changed, Hitch and Prof did [[AvenueQ If You Were Gay]].
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** Although not entirely changed, Hitch and Prof did [[AvenueQ [[Theatre/AvenueQ If You Were Gay]].
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->'' 'We love all fans except one. ([[BrutalHonesty If you have to guess who,]] [[TakeThatAudience it's probably you.)]]' ''
-->-- banner tagline
The [[http://www.desudesbrigade.com/ DesuDesBrigade]], abbreviated to the [=D2Brigade=], or incorrectly as the DUD Brigade, was a team of reviewers with the following members:
* '''Professor Otaku''', who produces the review series "Anime Dissection" and "OVA 101."
* '''Arkada''', who produces the anime review called "Glass Reflection." He wears a lab coat during his reviews, which makes him vaguely reminiscent of [[WebVideo/DoctorHorriblesSingAlongBlog Dr. Horrible]].
* '''WebVideo/JesuOtaku''', who produces a review segment simply entitled "The [=JesuOtaku=] Anime Review". She is much more analytical than the other reviewers, using a four-star rating system. She tries to be objective and may give high scores to shows that she doesn't personally like. She also produced her "summer project", an audio drama adaptation of [[FruitsBasket Fruits Basket]], every Wednesday throughout summer 2011.
* '''Vixen''', who produces the "Kit-Suki" review series. Her review style is very informal, and quite [[RedOniBlueOni opposite to her fellow reviewer]] WebVideo/JesuOtaku. In addition to reviewing anime, she sometimes reviews Western films (most of them {{Disney}}) in her "Film Fox" review series.
* '''Malakye''', who administers the [=DesuDes=] message board and produces the anime news segment called Pocky Spot. He has a cute, {{Vocaloid}}, evil assistant called Tsubake. Now has two of his own review series, "Mal's Monthly Manga" and "Sake Shots".
* '''Tsubake''', Mal's Vocaloid assistant who wants to KillAllHumans, Vixen in particular. She kills people on a regular basis and hates everyone.
* In March 2011 they added three new members to the brigade, unfortunately [[http://cjhitchcockanimemoviereview.blogspot.com/2011/10/end.html real life forced]] [[http://www.desudesbrigade.com/2011/12/desu-rattle-the-garbage-story/ all of them to leave.]]
** '''Kagami''', who produces K-Station, a series of [=AMVs=]. Not much else is known except she has an in universe fascination with knives and (also in-universe) most likely killed her own boyfriend to get on the site.
** '''Rabbit''', Vixen's closest friend who produces the show "To Read or Not To Read" where she reviews Manga. She has two other series called "Between the Lines" and "By the Quill". She also provided some of the website's artwork.
** '''Hitch''', who produces "AMR (Anime Movie Review)" where he reviews, well, anime movies. His second series is called "Season Impressions" where he showcases new animes of each season and gives them a score based on his first and last impressions. Currently writes the Fanservice Corner segments of Pocky Spot.
While each of the reviewers has his or her own individual video review series, they also collaborate on other productions together. This began with the "Desu Rattle" podcast, when Professor Otaku brought Arkada, [=JesuOtaku=] and Vixen together to create a weekly podcast about anime. They became known as the [=DesuDes=] Brigade when they created their personal website. Malakye helped in the creation of the site, so he became the fifth Brigade member. Their reviews are aimed at discerning anime viewers who want to find out anime worth watching.
The original site was hacked in late May 2011. As of April 20th, the [[http://www.desudesbrigade.com/2012/04/the-desudes-brigade-disbands/ D2 Brigade is ending,]] although all on good terms.
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!!This website provides examples of:
* ActorAllusion: Arkada's review of ''VisualNovel/{{AIR}}'' starts off with a less subtle one for the same actor. "[[DNAngel How would you like to go on a date with Phantom Dark?]]"
* {{Adorkable}}: Mal. Sure he's a little pervy, but he's quiet and shy, especially when compared to his more rambunctious peers (he makes JO look like [[WebVideo/TheAngryJoeShow Angry Joe]]).
* AlterEgoActing: Pretty much all the brigadiers do the third kind of this, especially on Pocky Spot.
* AnimalMotifs: Vixen themes herself after the fox. Aside from her name (A vixen is a female fox), her two series on the site are called Kit-suki (short for [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kitsune#Kitsunetsuki Kitsunetsuki]], Japanese for being possessed by a fox) and the appropriately titled Film Fox. Her avatar also has fox ears and a tail.
** Rabbit, whose animal theme is... well, guess.
* ArtEvolution: Prof's avatar has changed twice.
** And now the Pocky Spot (and other videos involving their avatars, as seen on the side of the site) avatars have undergone this now that Rabbit's drawing them.
* ArtificialHuman: Tsubake, somewhat.
* AwesomeMcCoolName: Tristan Gallant, Arkada's real name. "Sad Bravery" sounds pretty damn cool.
* {{Berserk Button}}s for the various Brigade members:
** For Professor Otaku: ''MDGeist'', bad girly shows and just about anything made by Kaishaku.
** For Vixen: Constant {{Random Encounter}}s in VideoGames. On the Fanservice [[strike:Coroner]]Corner segment of Pocky Spot, excessive T&A is also a BerserkButton for her, but that's not generally the case in her actual reviews.
*** Not to mention ''Literature/{{Twilight}}''.
*** Pocky Spot 48 brings us an anime where [[AstarotteNoOmocha a 10 year old succubus has to have males ejaculate into her mouth in order to survive]]. She's horrified and disgusted to say the least.
** For Arkada: ''VisualNovel/SchoolDays''
*** And flimsy spindle DVD cases, as indicated in almost any of his given reviews.
*** He still hasn't forgiven KyotoAnimation for [[LightNovel/HaruhiSuzumiya "Endless Eight"]].
** For Hitch: When he was reviewing the live-action ''FistOfTheNorthStar'' movie, he was hoping that there would be lots of [[YourHeadAsplode exploding heads]] like in the anime. When we finally got to our first exploding head, [[GoryDiscretionShot it was off screen]]. He... didn't take it well.
*** When he found out that the {{Badass}} ActionHero of ''Vampire Wars'' was named Cookie, well... he [[StealthPun snapped.]]
* BewareTheNiceOnes: Rabbit (don't let her cuteness fool you).
* BilingualBonus: Vixen did her review of ''LePortraitDePetiteCossette'' entirely in French.
** Prof did his review of ''MagicKnightRayearth'' in French, Japanese, Fake German and Fake Italian, with a little English thrown in.
*** The German sounded suspiciously like an audio clip of Hitler, and the Italian sounded like someone reading off the Olive Garden menu. However, Prof did that as an experiment to see who was actually listening when subtitles are underneath.
* BrainBleach:
** Something Vixen desperately wanted after reviewing the {{OVA}}s ''PapaToKissInTheDark'' and ''BokuNoPico''.
*** Vixen invoked this trope by name in her "Fanservice Corner" of Pocky Spot 15.
** Professor Otaku would have liked it after reviewing ''KekkoKamen''.
* BrickJoke: In Prof's ''PrincessTutu'' review, he said "What next? Do I watch ''{{Pretear}}''? How about ''FushigiYuugi''? Why not just grow a nice pair of BOOBS while I'm at it?" Half a year later, he's reviewed the first, about to review the second and the third? [[GenderBender Well...]]
* BreakupBreakout: Deconstructed. Rather than WebVideo/JesuOtaku leaving the brigade after joining up with ThatGuyWithTheGlasses, she still tried to be a loyal brigadier, and her newfound popularity did in fact bring in more viewers to the Brigade's site; however, her indecisiveness coupled with her [[AttentionDeficitCreatorDisorder ADCD]] caused her to grow increasingly distant from the Brigade, unofficially breaking off from it about a year from its official disbandment.
* ButtMonkey: Rin, one of their fans and Vixen's close friend. They make lots of fat jokes about her, lots and lots of fat jokes.
* CausticCritic: Professor Otaku, mainly, though Vixen gets like this sometimes, too.
* CanadaEh: Arkada, who really is Canadian.
* CatchPhrase:
** At the end credits of their respective reviews, Arkada says "Stay Frosty". Similarly, Professor Otaku used to say "Until next week, this is Professor Otaku signing off", which he seems to be bringing back. Vixen makes a little squeaky sound that sounds like 'omo' but she claims her catchphrase is 'I'm going to kill you, Prof'.
** During the Desu Rattle podcast, Arkada shouts "For Fanservice!" in a manner similar to how Dr. Insano from WebVideo/TheSpoonyExperiment shouts "For science!", which has trickled into Professor Otaku's vids on more than one occasion.
* CaramelldansenVid: Complete with Vixen's GainaxBounce, JO [[BareYourMidriff Baring Her Midriff]], and Arkada [[HollywoodToneDeaf singing]]. (Link?)
* CatFight: Between JO and Vix.
* TheChick: Vixen. Arguably a DarkChick.
* ChivalrousPervert: Hitch; sure he likes hentai but he genuinely respects women. [[http://www.formspring.me/cjhitchcock/q/218135111491681116 No, really]].
* ComedicSociopathy: Several examples:
** Vixen killing Malakye [[RunningGag multiple times over]] on PockySpot.
** Vixen killing an 'intern' on PockySpot.
** In the first Desu Des Brigade Christmas Special cartoon, after Vixen is [[BlackComedyRape attacked]] by the stream portal tentacles, Professor Otaku insists she continue with the show and says, "Come on, Vixen, suck it up! You're not the fanservice girl for nothing." Later on, as the stream portal tentacles get increasingly menacing while the Desu Des Brigadiers keep singing their Christmas song, the other Brigadiers want to quit, but Vixen holds them at sword point and shouts, "You're not finishing this song until all of us get [[BlackComedyRape violated]]!"
** Prof has a mean right hook. Just ask Vixen, as shown in the 'Quick Hits [=ACen=]' video, in which he systematically sucker-punched the rest of the Brigade. In his defense, Ark was singing the theme to ''SgtFrog'' at the time, but kicking JO through the door was unmerited.
* ContentWarnings: Always comes with the reviews of more violent titles.
* CouldSayItBut: Professor Otaku delves into great detail as to what colourful metaphor he ''would'' say about the English dub of ''{{Record of Lodoss War}}'' but states that he's above that.
* CreditsGag:
* CuteAndPsycho: Vixen
* CutenessProximity: [=JesuOtaku=]'s subtitled reaction to [[VisualNovel/{{AIR}} Potato]], pretty much. Less than a year later, [[HilariousInHindsight her sister got a rather similar looking puppy.]]
** Ark's reaction to [[BunnyDrop Rin]], despite claiming he didn't like kids.
* ADayInTheLife: Tsubake's Adventures
* DeadpanSnarker: All of them are like this. Even the LargeHam Arkada.
* DisproportionateRetribution: Ark's suggestion for punishing Hitch for not liking ''PrincessTutu'' (which he even said wasn't horrible, he just didn't like it) is a letter bomb.... or a NUKE.
** His actual punishment (suggested by ''[[BewareTheNiceOnes Rabbit]]'') is to have his testicles electrocuted every time he has a naughty thought while reviewing ''LaBlueGirl'' with Vixen.
*** Vix pulls the same thing on Prof for his 100th review.
* DoubleStandardRapeMaleOnMale: ''OkaneGaNai'' had Vixen laughing hysterically, for reasons best left un-analyzed.
* DrinkingGame: Vixen did one in-universe for her reviews of ''RomeoXJuliet'' and ''Film/ThePrincessBride''.
* DroppedABridgetOnHim: Prof admitted in Quick Hits 2 that Shuichi dropped one on him.
* EarlyBirdCameo: The new avatars for the Brigaders appeared on the sides of the site months before their proper debut in Pocky Spot 50.
* ElectricTorture: [[http://www.desudesbrigade.com/2011/08/kit-suki-and-amr-la-blue-girl/ Poor Hitch...]]
* EnemyWithout: His normal person self, Tristan Gallant, distinct from his reviewer self, Arkada. The two argue over whether or not it's okay to show the sexier scenes of ''Manga/DesertPunk'', due to the normal self having a girlfriend. HilarityEnsues.
* [[EvenEvilHasStandards Even Perverts Have Standards]]: Malakye is every bit as disgusted by Manga/IkkiTousen as the rest of the Brigade.
* EvilLaugh: Hitch gives one of these off after giving Vixen SailorMoonAndThe7Ballz.
* TheFaceless: Until recently, Mal was the only member who had never showed his face, instead opting to use an animated avatar wearing a mask similar to that of Zero from ''CodeGeass''.
* FantasticSlurs: Tsubake calls humans (and presumably other organic creatures) "fleshbags."
* FanVid: Kagami's AMV videos.
* FiveManBand: As explicitly established by Prof:
** TheHero: Professor Otaku
** TheLancer: Arkada
** TheBigGuy: Malakye
** TheSmartGuy: WebVideo/JesuOtaku
** TheChick: Vixen
** SixthRanger: Tsubake, Kagami, Hitch, and Rabbit
* FollowTheBouncingBall: Hitch's [[http://www.desudesbrigade.com/2011/07/amr-classic-top-ten-sing-alongs/ sing along video]].
* FunWithSubtitles: In the promotion for the first annual Taishi awards, the brigadiers made several videos where the subtitles had anime characters hawk the Taishis, often while talking like gangstas.
** In the ''MagicKnightRayearth'' review, Professor Otaku had quite a bit of fun with this. Or rather, the rest of the Brigade had fun at his expense.
** While introducing the review for ''NowAndThenHereAndThere'', [=JesuOtaku=] gets into a fight with the Red Snark Titles.
* {{Gainaxing}}: They call it wibble though.
* GenderFlip: Prof got this at the end of his ''{{Pretear}}'' review, lasting until near the end of ''FushigiYuugi''.
* GilliganCut: Done twice in Arkada's ''PrincessTutu'' review. The first time was after declaring that in no way was he ever going to review the aforementioned series. The second time was declaring that he was definitely not following it up with a ''Manga/CardcaptorSakura'' review, which is then subverted when he's instead shown watching ''LightNovel/{{Baccano}}!'' after the Gilligan Cut.
* GoMadFromTheRevelation: Vixen and Stevenlajr at the end of the ''The Literature/{{Twilight}} Saga: New Moon'' review.
* HeterosexualLifePartners: Prof's and Hitch's friendship implies this.
** [[RomanticTwoGirlFriendship Vixen and Rabbit]] take it even further.
* HeyItsThatVoice: Vixen points out a familiar Disney voice assigned to ''SpiritedAway'''s dub by briefly overlaying images of the character onto the footage.
* HoldYourHippogriffs: After making a [[strike:herpes]] Harpies commercial voiceover, Prof quips in his review of ''Film/WonderWoman'' that he's going straight to the underworld for that one.
* HostileShowTakeover: Malakye hosts Fanservice Corner in Pocky Spot episode 53, showing the opening to ''MakenKi''.
* IncrediblyLamePun[=/=]HurricaneOfPuns: Vixen's ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'' review featured a vampire Pun Count. When ''New Moon'' came back with its own awful puns, she suspected it was karma.
** Professor Otaku on Dolores from ''VideoGame/ZoneOfTheEnders: Dolores, i'':
-->'''Prof''': You know, other reviewers might harp on the location of the cockpit, but not me. I think that argument falls limp, because it has stiff competition, standing tall in a crowd of flaccid robot designs. The orbital frames really thrust themselves into the hard and thick market and show they have a rod of steel in their spines. And I think I just burned out my subtlety chip.
** Arkada's review for ''[[PhantomOfInferno Phantom ~Requiem for the Phantom~]]'' just had to go into the BeeTrain wreck pun.
* InSovietRussiaTropeMocksYou: Professor Otaku in his LetsPlay of ''Knights of the Round'':
-->(while being attacked by barrels) ''That's right folks, if you can't kill a castle, a castle will kill you.''
* ItSeemedLikeAGoodIdeaAtTheTime: Vixen's guest co-reviewer of the ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'' saga, Steven Lajr, on shooting himself in the balls when he learns they're splitting ''Breaking Dawn'' into two movies. (Hilariously, Vixen's response was to tell him that he wasn't allowed to have good ideas any more.)
* IWantSong: Vixen's and Tsubake's parody of ''[[VideoGame/{{Portal}} Want You Gone]]''.
** LetsDuet
* KillAllHumans: Tsubake's goal.
* LargeHam: Arkada when he [[strike:introduces]] hosts his Mailbag Showdown, and whenever he does voice work either, it's part of the [[MadScientist persona]].
** Ark in general, even when making V-Logs!
* LetsPlay: The members have attempted a few of these, Prof with ''Knights of the Round'' for the Arcade and ''Spider-Man Web of Shadows'' for the 360, Vixen with PC titles ''Left 4 Dead 2'', ''Phantasmagoria'' and ''The Sims 3'' as well as ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyI'' for Game Boy Advance and Arkada with ''Legend of Dragoon'' for the [=PlayStation=].
* LostForever: As of August 2012, Vixen's reviews have all been removed from the site, because [[RealLifeWritesThePlot she was worried about future employers or coworkers finding them and the contents of said reviews impacting badly upon her.]]
* MadScientist: Arkada plays this up from time to time.
* MismatchedEyes: Arkada, at least in his animated form.
* MsFanservice: Vixen, of course. Usually, this is played for laughs, as in some of her [[DoubleEntendre lines]] in the Fanservice Corner segment of Pocky Spot, or in the [[http://i656.photobucket.com/albums/uu283/VideoGameVixen/DDB/QABanner.jpg banner]] for her [[strike:T&A]] Q&A segments.
** See the entry for OfCorsetsSexy below.
** She has also [[{{Cosplay}} cosplayed]] as Jasmine when she did her Film Fox review of Disney/{{Aladdin}}, which of course involved [[BareYourMidriff baring her midriff]].
* MotorMouth: Arkada's quick recap of ''FinalFantasyVII'' to help put context into ''FinalFantasyVIIAdventChildren''.
* NiceHat: Both Ark and Prof have one.
* OfCorsetsSexy: Vixen is rather fond of corsets, including her "trademark" white corset, which she first wore in her review of ''YuYuHakusho'' for the hell of it, and is shown wearing in the intro sequence to her reviews.
* OhCrap: From Vixen and Steven's review of ''New Moon'':
--> '''Vixen''': No, movie, no. God damn you! You do not put Shakespeare near Edward Cullen and have him read it like he knows what he's talking about. You do not put one of the greatest literary fucking masterminds in a movie based on a book by ''Stephenie fucking Meyer.''
--> '''Steven''': Vix. Vix, calm down.
--> '''Vixen''': I'm not calming down!
--> '''Steven''': Go eat ice-cream!
--> '''Vixen''': Fuck ice-cream!
--> '''Steven''': [beat] ''Shit.''
* OneSteveLimit: Coincidentally, Prof.'s real name is CJ Irelan and Hitch's is CJ Hitchcock.
** It helps that the members all refer to each other by their stage names.
* OppositeSexClone: Prof's aforementioned GenderBender ended in this the male and female forms becoming seperate people towards the end of the review. [[AWizardDidIt How exactly that happened is never explained.]]
* ThePasswordIsAlwaysSwordfish: Blink and you'll miss it, but during the Red Scorpion "Luck Be a Lady" radio drama, featuring a red-tinted Green Hornet, the titular character uses this as a password before smashing down a door.
* PerverseSexualLust: Vixen's "List of Disney Boys I Would Bang": [[Disney/{{Mulan}} Li Shang]] and Disney/{{Aladdin}}.
-->'''Vixen:''' "Damn. ''Damn.'' Hey... Hey, wait, come back here, I'll make a man out of ''you''!"
* PokemonSpeak: Both JO and Arkada snark if Nyu's a Pokemon in their reviews of ''ElfenLied''.
* PrecisionFStrike: From all three {{Sixth Ranger}}s (Hitch at Anime Central, and Rabbit and Kagami at Metrocon) -- [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic "You are going to fucking LOVE ME."]]
* PutOnABus: What Hitch did to the gag characters Steve and Joe from his earlier reviews.
* RealMenWearPink: "Real men watch ''Princess Tutu''." And indeed, ''Tutu'' has been shown a couple of times on the Manime Monday stream.
** See also Prof's love of ''SuperGals'' and ''AngelicLayer''.
** All of the boys are fans of ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic''.
* RealWomenNeverWearDresses: Comes up in-universe in Vixen's vids.
* RedEyesTakeWarning: Vixen's cartoon avatar on Pocky Spot when she gets really angry.
* RedOniBlueOni: Vixen's the Red Oni, [=JesuOtaku=] is solidly the Blue one.
** Ark is [[LargeHam red]] and Prof is [[DeadpanSnarker blue]].
* ReTool: Pocky Spot as of episode 50. All segments barring Mailbag Showdown and Fanservice Corner have been replaced by a whole new host of segments, including one for each of the new brigadiers and Tsubake getting one to herself.
* RuleSixtyThree: Vixen [[InvokedTrope mentions this]] after encountering a male version of herself in her review of {{Vandread}}. Also invoked with Profette.
* RomanticTwoGirlFriendship Rabbit and Vixen
* RunningGag: Oh, so many...
** The legendary badassery of Arkada, who supposedly can make peanut butter by punching narwhals to death.
** Professor Otaku's cartoon avatar usually lacks anything below the waist, which sparked jokes about him having no legs, or his legs running off and selling real estate in Southern California, etc.
** Vixen and Malakye's feud on Pocky Spot, where Malakye writes scripts where Vixen is supposed to say pervy things, and Vixen responds by killing him in assorted horrific ways.
** Actually, on Pocky Spot, Vixen has a rather short fuse, anyway, to the point of ComedicSociopathy. (See examples above.)
* ScheduleSlip: Just about every member has schedule slip due to real life, though that's by far the worst example.
** This also happens to Desu Rattle a LOT. Originally a weekly podcast, it's now a "whenever we can get people on Skype to record" occurrence.
* ScrewYourself: There were already comments joking about this within hours of Prof's ''FushigiYuugi'' review.
** Later they invoked this in their review of ''Issho Ni''.
* SesquipedalianLoquaciousness: Arkada and Professor Otaku, though surprisingly it's Arkada that lapses into this most frequently.
* ShoutOut: In Vixen's Film Fox review of ''{{Enchanted}}'', the text across the bottom of the screen when the homeless guy steals Giselle's tiara is [[WebVideo/BumReviews "THIS IS THE GREATEST TIARA I'VE EVER SEEN IN MY LIFE!"]]
* SongParody: Vixen and Tsubake did one of ''Want You Gone''.
** Although not entirely changed, Hitch and Prof did [[AvenueQ If You Were Gay]].
* TheStinger: Ark puts an audio preview of his next review in his more recent reviews.
* StupidSexyFlanders
** Arkada has a shameless mancrush on Creator/CrispinFreeman.
* SuperDeformed: The Pocky Spot chibis, especially the current style.
* {{Squee}}: During Pocky Spot 22, both Vixen and JO let out a good one when seeing [[OuranHighSchoolHostClub Kyoya]] with his shirt off.
** They do this again at the begining of Prof's review of ''{{Pretear}}'', much to Prof's annoyance.
* StuffBlowingUp: Professor Otaku in his LetsPlay of ''Knights of the Round'':
-->'''Prof''': Now, I'm not quite sure about the biology of a tiger, but I'm pretty sure they don't ''explode'' into flames when you kill them.
* TakeAThirdOption: Even though Prof had several fans send video suggestions for his 100th episode, Profette comes up with the easy choice of [[spoiler:''BusoRenkin'']].
* TakeThat: Arkada took a shot at ToddHaberkorn voicing too many recent leads in his review of ''{{Gankutsuou}}''.
* ThatRemindsMeOfASong: Vix reported on her [[strike:T&A]] Q&A...
-->If you don't like people randomly bursting into song, then you probably wouldn't like Ark very much.
* ThisIsGonnaSuck: Vixen's reaction in Pocky Spot 48 where she learns the plot of the loli animé, ''AstarotteNoOmocha''.
* TokenEvilTeammate: Tsubake. Originally Malakye, though [[TheStarscream it's been brought up a a lot less since she came along.]]
* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: [=JesuOtaku=] has this dynamic with Vixen, full stop.
* TopTenList: Top X Lists, mostly.
** Vixen has Top 20 Musical Numbers.
** Prof had Top 10 Babes (though it was actually 10 + 5 Wussiest Girls + 5 Almost Made Its), Top 10 Stupidest ''{{Transformers}}'' Episodes, Top 10 Crushes, and Top 5 Mismatched Openings and Endings.
** Ark had Top 19 Anime BGM, Top 10 Unlicensed Anime of 2010, Top 14 Tragically Sad Moments, and Top 17 anime voice actors.
** Hitch had his Top 10 70's anime openings and Top 10 Singalongs.
** Mal recently had his Top 10 Anime Openings.
* VisualPun: Arkada uses these to great effect in his Glass Reflection reviews.
* WallBang: Some series that Professor Otaku reviewed, and he couldn't take it, and... you know.
* XCalledTheyWantTheirYBack: Professor Otaku in his LetsPlay of Knights of the Round:
-->''Sky Walker? [[StarWars Luke]] called, he wants his name back.''
* YaoiFangirl: Inverted. Vixen was way too squicked out by what she reviewed in ''PapaToKissInTheDark'', mostly due to that story being [[BrainBleach wholly]] [[ParentalIncest terrible]].
** Tsubake apparently has a rather large colleciton of Yaoi porn.
* YouCanLeaveYourHatOn: Was Ark stripping through their riff of Venus Wars, cause it certainly looked like it.
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-->-- banner tagline
The [[http://www.desudesbrigade.com/ DesuDesBrigade]], abbreviated to the [=D2Brigade=], or incorrectly as the DUD Brigade, was a team of reviewers with the following members:
* '''Professor Otaku''', who produces the review series "Anime Dissection" and "OVA 101."
* '''Arkada''', who produces the anime review called "Glass Reflection." He wears a lab coat during his reviews, which makes him vaguely reminiscent of [[WebVideo/DoctorHorriblesSingAlongBlog Dr. Horrible]].
* '''WebVideo/JesuOtaku''', who produces a review segment simply entitled "The [=JesuOtaku=] Anime Review". She is much more analytical than the other reviewers, using a four-star rating system. She tries to be objective and may give high scores to shows that she doesn't personally like. She also produced her "summer project", an audio drama adaptation of [[FruitsBasket Fruits Basket]], every Wednesday throughout summer 2011.
* '''Vixen''', who produces the "Kit-Suki" review series. Her review style is very informal, and quite [[RedOniBlueOni opposite to her fellow reviewer]] WebVideo/JesuOtaku. In addition to reviewing anime, she sometimes reviews Western films (most of them {{Disney}}) in her "Film Fox" review series.
* '''Malakye''', who administers the [=DesuDes=] message board and produces the anime news segment called Pocky Spot. He has a cute, {{Vocaloid}}, evil assistant called Tsubake. Now has two of his own review series, "Mal's Monthly Manga" and "Sake Shots".
* '''Tsubake''', Mal's Vocaloid assistant who wants to KillAllHumans, Vixen in particular. She kills people on a regular basis and hates everyone.
* In March 2011 they added three new members to the brigade, unfortunately [[http://cjhitchcockanimemoviereview.blogspot.com/2011/10/end.html real life forced]] [[http://www.desudesbrigade.com/2011/12/desu-rattle-the-garbage-story/ all of them to leave.]]
** '''Kagami''', who produces K-Station, a series of [=AMVs=]. Not much else is known except she has an in universe fascination with knives and (also in-universe) most likely killed her own boyfriend to get on the site.
** '''Rabbit''', Vixen's closest friend who produces the show "To Read or Not To Read" where she reviews Manga. She has two other series called "Between the Lines" and "By the Quill". She also provided some of the website's artwork.
** '''Hitch''', who produces "AMR (Anime Movie Review)" where he reviews, well, anime movies. His second series is called "Season Impressions" where he showcases new animes of each season and gives them a score based on his first and last impressions. Currently writes the Fanservice Corner segments of Pocky Spot.
While each of the reviewers has his or her own individual video review series, they also collaborate on other productions together. This began with the "Desu Rattle" podcast, when Professor Otaku brought Arkada, [=JesuOtaku=] and Vixen together to create a weekly podcast about anime. They became known as the [=DesuDes=] Brigade when they created their personal website. Malakye helped in the creation of the site, so he became the fifth Brigade member. Their reviews are aimed at discerning anime viewers who want to find out anime worth watching.
The original site was hacked in late May 2011. As of April 20th, the [[http://www.desudesbrigade.com/2012/04/the-desudes-brigade-disbands/ D2 Brigade is ending,]] although all on good terms.
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!!This website provides examples of:
* ActorAllusion: Arkada's review of ''VisualNovel/{{AIR}}'' starts off with a less subtle one for the same actor. "[[DNAngel How would you like to go on a date with Phantom Dark?]]"
* {{Adorkable}}: Mal. Sure he's a little pervy, but he's quiet and shy, especially when compared to his more rambunctious peers (he makes JO look like [[WebVideo/TheAngryJoeShow Angry Joe]]).
* AlterEgoActing: Pretty much all the brigadiers do the third kind of this, especially on Pocky Spot.
* AnimalMotifs: Vixen themes herself after the fox. Aside from her name (A vixen is a female fox), her two series on the site are called Kit-suki (short for [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kitsune#Kitsunetsuki Kitsunetsuki]], Japanese for being possessed by a fox) and the appropriately titled Film Fox. Her avatar also has fox ears and a tail.
** Rabbit, whose animal theme is... well, guess.
* ArtEvolution: Prof's avatar has changed twice.
** And now the Pocky Spot (and other videos involving their avatars, as seen on the side of the site) avatars have undergone this now that Rabbit's drawing them.
* ArtificialHuman: Tsubake, somewhat.
* AwesomeMcCoolName: Tristan Gallant, Arkada's real name. "Sad Bravery" sounds pretty damn cool.
* {{Berserk Button}}s for the various Brigade members:
** For Professor Otaku: ''MDGeist'', bad girly shows and just about anything made by Kaishaku.
** For Vixen: Constant {{Random Encounter}}s in VideoGames. On the Fanservice [[strike:Coroner]]Corner segment of Pocky Spot, excessive T&A is also a BerserkButton for her, but that's not generally the case in her actual reviews.
*** Not to mention ''Literature/{{Twilight}}''.
*** Pocky Spot 48 brings us an anime where [[AstarotteNoOmocha a 10 year old succubus has to have males ejaculate into her mouth in order to survive]]. She's horrified and disgusted to say the least.
** For Arkada: ''VisualNovel/SchoolDays''
*** And flimsy spindle DVD cases, as indicated in almost any of his given reviews.
*** He still hasn't forgiven KyotoAnimation for [[LightNovel/HaruhiSuzumiya "Endless Eight"]].
** For Hitch: When he was reviewing the live-action ''FistOfTheNorthStar'' movie, he was hoping that there would be lots of [[YourHeadAsplode exploding heads]] like in the anime. When we finally got to our first exploding head, [[GoryDiscretionShot it was off screen]]. He... didn't take it well.
*** When he found out that the {{Badass}} ActionHero of ''Vampire Wars'' was named Cookie, well... he [[StealthPun snapped.]]
* BewareTheNiceOnes: Rabbit (don't let her cuteness fool you).
* BilingualBonus: Vixen did her review of ''LePortraitDePetiteCossette'' entirely in French.
** Prof did his review of ''MagicKnightRayearth'' in French, Japanese, Fake German and Fake Italian, with a little English thrown in.
*** The German sounded suspiciously like an audio clip of Hitler, and the Italian sounded like someone reading off the Olive Garden menu. However, Prof did that as an experiment to see who was actually listening when subtitles are underneath.
* BrainBleach:
** Something Vixen desperately wanted after reviewing the {{OVA}}s ''PapaToKissInTheDark'' and ''BokuNoPico''.
*** Vixen invoked this trope by name in her "Fanservice Corner" of Pocky Spot 15.
** Professor Otaku would have liked it after reviewing ''KekkoKamen''.
* BrickJoke: In Prof's ''PrincessTutu'' review, he said "What next? Do I watch ''{{Pretear}}''? How about ''FushigiYuugi''? Why not just grow a nice pair of BOOBS while I'm at it?" Half a year later, he's reviewed the first, about to review the second and the third? [[GenderBender Well...]]
* BreakupBreakout: Deconstructed. Rather than WebVideo/JesuOtaku leaving the brigade after joining up with ThatGuyWithTheGlasses, she still tried to be a loyal brigadier, and her newfound popularity did in fact bring in more viewers to the Brigade's site; however, her indecisiveness coupled with her [[AttentionDeficitCreatorDisorder ADCD]] caused her to grow increasingly distant from the Brigade, unofficially breaking off from it about a year from its official disbandment.
* ButtMonkey: Rin, one of their fans and Vixen's close friend. They make lots of fat jokes about her, lots and lots of fat jokes.
* CausticCritic: Professor Otaku, mainly, though Vixen gets like this sometimes, too.
* CanadaEh: Arkada, who really is Canadian.
* CatchPhrase:
** At the end credits of their respective reviews, Arkada says "Stay Frosty". Similarly, Professor Otaku used to say "Until next week, this is Professor Otaku signing off", which he seems to be bringing back. Vixen makes a little squeaky sound that sounds like 'omo' but she claims her catchphrase is 'I'm going to kill you, Prof'.
** During the Desu Rattle podcast, Arkada shouts "For Fanservice!" in a manner similar to how Dr. Insano from WebVideo/TheSpoonyExperiment shouts "For science!", which has trickled into Professor Otaku's vids on more than one occasion.
* CaramelldansenVid: Complete with Vixen's GainaxBounce, JO [[BareYourMidriff Baring Her Midriff]], and Arkada [[HollywoodToneDeaf singing]]. (Link?)
* CatFight: Between JO and Vix.
* TheChick: Vixen. Arguably a DarkChick.
* ChivalrousPervert: Hitch; sure he likes hentai but he genuinely respects women. [[http://www.formspring.me/cjhitchcock/q/218135111491681116 No, really]].
* ComedicSociopathy: Several examples:
** Vixen killing Malakye [[RunningGag multiple times over]] on PockySpot.
** Vixen killing an 'intern' on PockySpot.
** In the first Desu Des Brigade Christmas Special cartoon, after Vixen is [[BlackComedyRape attacked]] by the stream portal tentacles, Professor Otaku insists she continue with the show and says, "Come on, Vixen, suck it up! You're not the fanservice girl for nothing." Later on, as the stream portal tentacles get increasingly menacing while the Desu Des Brigadiers keep singing their Christmas song, the other Brigadiers want to quit, but Vixen holds them at sword point and shouts, "You're not finishing this song until all of us get [[BlackComedyRape violated]]!"
** Prof has a mean right hook. Just ask Vixen, as shown in the 'Quick Hits [=ACen=]' video, in which he systematically sucker-punched the rest of the Brigade. In his defense, Ark was singing the theme to ''SgtFrog'' at the time, but kicking JO through the door was unmerited.
* ContentWarnings: Always comes with the reviews of more violent titles.
* CouldSayItBut: Professor Otaku delves into great detail as to what colourful metaphor he ''would'' say about the English dub of ''{{Record of Lodoss War}}'' but states that he's above that.
* CreditsGag:
* CuteAndPsycho: Vixen
* CutenessProximity: [=JesuOtaku=]'s subtitled reaction to [[VisualNovel/{{AIR}} Potato]], pretty much. Less than a year later, [[HilariousInHindsight her sister got a rather similar looking puppy.]]
** Ark's reaction to [[BunnyDrop Rin]], despite claiming he didn't like kids.
* ADayInTheLife: Tsubake's Adventures
* DeadpanSnarker: All of them are like this. Even the LargeHam Arkada.
* DisproportionateRetribution: Ark's suggestion for punishing Hitch for not liking ''PrincessTutu'' (which he even said wasn't horrible, he just didn't like it) is a letter bomb.... or a NUKE.
** His actual punishment (suggested by ''[[BewareTheNiceOnes Rabbit]]'') is to have his testicles electrocuted every time he has a naughty thought while reviewing ''LaBlueGirl'' with Vixen.
*** Vix pulls the same thing on Prof for his 100th review.
* DoubleStandardRapeMaleOnMale: ''OkaneGaNai'' had Vixen laughing hysterically, for reasons best left un-analyzed.
* DrinkingGame: Vixen did one in-universe for her reviews of ''RomeoXJuliet'' and ''Film/ThePrincessBride''.
* DroppedABridgetOnHim: Prof admitted in Quick Hits 2 that Shuichi dropped one on him.
* EarlyBirdCameo: The new avatars for the Brigaders appeared on the sides of the site months before their proper debut in Pocky Spot 50.
* ElectricTorture: [[http://www.desudesbrigade.com/2011/08/kit-suki-and-amr-la-blue-girl/ Poor Hitch...]]
* EnemyWithout: His normal person self, Tristan Gallant, distinct from his reviewer self, Arkada. The two argue over whether or not it's okay to show the sexier scenes of ''Manga/DesertPunk'', due to the normal self having a girlfriend. HilarityEnsues.
* [[EvenEvilHasStandards Even Perverts Have Standards]]: Malakye is every bit as disgusted by Manga/IkkiTousen as the rest of the Brigade.
* EvilLaugh: Hitch gives one of these off after giving Vixen SailorMoonAndThe7Ballz.
* TheFaceless: Until recently, Mal was the only member who had never showed his face, instead opting to use an animated avatar wearing a mask similar to that of Zero from ''CodeGeass''.
* FantasticSlurs: Tsubake calls humans (and presumably other organic creatures) "fleshbags."
* FanVid: Kagami's AMV videos.
* FiveManBand: As explicitly established by Prof:
** TheHero: Professor Otaku
** TheLancer: Arkada
** TheBigGuy: Malakye
** TheSmartGuy: WebVideo/JesuOtaku
** TheChick: Vixen
** SixthRanger: Tsubake, Kagami, Hitch, and Rabbit
* FollowTheBouncingBall: Hitch's [[http://www.desudesbrigade.com/2011/07/amr-classic-top-ten-sing-alongs/ sing along video]].
* FunWithSubtitles: In the promotion for the first annual Taishi awards, the brigadiers made several videos where the subtitles had anime characters hawk the Taishis, often while talking like gangstas.
** In the ''MagicKnightRayearth'' review, Professor Otaku had quite a bit of fun with this. Or rather, the rest of the Brigade had fun at his expense.
** While introducing the review for ''NowAndThenHereAndThere'', [=JesuOtaku=] gets into a fight with the Red Snark Titles.
* {{Gainaxing}}: They call it wibble though.
* GenderFlip: Prof got this at the end of his ''{{Pretear}}'' review, lasting until near the end of ''FushigiYuugi''.
* GilliganCut: Done twice in Arkada's ''PrincessTutu'' review. The first time was after declaring that in no way was he ever going to review the aforementioned series. The second time was declaring that he was definitely not following it up with a ''Manga/CardcaptorSakura'' review, which is then subverted when he's instead shown watching ''LightNovel/{{Baccano}}!'' after the Gilligan Cut.
* GoMadFromTheRevelation: Vixen and Stevenlajr at the end of the ''The Literature/{{Twilight}} Saga: New Moon'' review.
* HeterosexualLifePartners: Prof's and Hitch's friendship implies this.
** [[RomanticTwoGirlFriendship Vixen and Rabbit]] take it even further.
* HeyItsThatVoice: Vixen points out a familiar Disney voice assigned to ''SpiritedAway'''s dub by briefly overlaying images of the character onto the footage.
* HoldYourHippogriffs: After making a [[strike:herpes]] Harpies commercial voiceover, Prof quips in his review of ''Film/WonderWoman'' that he's going straight to the underworld for that one.
* HostileShowTakeover: Malakye hosts Fanservice Corner in Pocky Spot episode 53, showing the opening to ''MakenKi''.
* IncrediblyLamePun[=/=]HurricaneOfPuns: Vixen's ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'' review featured a vampire Pun Count. When ''New Moon'' came back with its own awful puns, she suspected it was karma.
** Professor Otaku on Dolores from ''VideoGame/ZoneOfTheEnders: Dolores, i'':
-->'''Prof''': You know, other reviewers might harp on the location of the cockpit, but not me. I think that argument falls limp, because it has stiff competition, standing tall in a crowd of flaccid robot designs. The orbital frames really thrust themselves into the hard and thick market and show they have a rod of steel in their spines. And I think I just burned out my subtlety chip.
** Arkada's review for ''[[PhantomOfInferno Phantom ~Requiem for the Phantom~]]'' just had to go into the BeeTrain wreck pun.
* InSovietRussiaTropeMocksYou: Professor Otaku in his LetsPlay of ''Knights of the Round'':
-->(while being attacked by barrels) ''That's right folks, if you can't kill a castle, a castle will kill you.''
* ItSeemedLikeAGoodIdeaAtTheTime: Vixen's guest co-reviewer of the ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'' saga, Steven Lajr, on shooting himself in the balls when he learns they're splitting ''Breaking Dawn'' into two movies. (Hilariously, Vixen's response was to tell him that he wasn't allowed to have good ideas any more.)
* IWantSong: Vixen's and Tsubake's parody of ''[[VideoGame/{{Portal}} Want You Gone]]''.
** LetsDuet
* KillAllHumans: Tsubake's goal.
* LargeHam: Arkada when he [[strike:introduces]] hosts his Mailbag Showdown, and whenever he does voice work either, it's part of the [[MadScientist persona]].
** Ark in general, even when making V-Logs!
* LetsPlay: The members have attempted a few of these, Prof with ''Knights of the Round'' for the Arcade and ''Spider-Man Web of Shadows'' for the 360, Vixen with PC titles ''Left 4 Dead 2'', ''Phantasmagoria'' and ''The Sims 3'' as well as ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyI'' for Game Boy Advance and Arkada with ''Legend of Dragoon'' for the [=PlayStation=].
* LostForever: As of August 2012, Vixen's reviews have all been removed from the site, because [[RealLifeWritesThePlot she was worried about future employers or coworkers finding them and the contents of said reviews impacting badly upon her.]]
* MadScientist: Arkada plays this up from time to time.
* MismatchedEyes: Arkada, at least in his animated form.
* MsFanservice: Vixen, of course. Usually, this is played for laughs, as in some of her [[DoubleEntendre lines]] in the Fanservice Corner segment of Pocky Spot, or in the [[http://i656.photobucket.com/albums/uu283/VideoGameVixen/DDB/QABanner.jpg banner]] for her [[strike:T&A]] Q&A segments.
** See the entry for OfCorsetsSexy below.
** She has also [[{{Cosplay}} cosplayed]] as Jasmine when she did her Film Fox review of Disney/{{Aladdin}}, which of course involved [[BareYourMidriff baring her midriff]].
* MotorMouth: Arkada's quick recap of ''FinalFantasyVII'' to help put context into ''FinalFantasyVIIAdventChildren''.
* NiceHat: Both Ark and Prof have one.
* OfCorsetsSexy: Vixen is rather fond of corsets, including her "trademark" white corset, which she first wore in her review of ''YuYuHakusho'' for the hell of it, and is shown wearing in the intro sequence to her reviews.
* OhCrap: From Vixen and Steven's review of ''New Moon'':
--> '''Vixen''': No, movie, no. God damn you! You do not put Shakespeare near Edward Cullen and have him read it like he knows what he's talking about. You do not put one of the greatest literary fucking masterminds in a movie based on a book by ''Stephenie fucking Meyer.''
--> '''Steven''': Vix. Vix, calm down.
--> '''Vixen''': I'm not calming down!
--> '''Steven''': Go eat ice-cream!
--> '''Vixen''': Fuck ice-cream!
--> '''Steven''': [beat] ''Shit.''
* OneSteveLimit: Coincidentally, Prof.'s real name is CJ Irelan and Hitch's is CJ Hitchcock.
** It helps that the members all refer to each other by their stage names.
* OppositeSexClone: Prof's aforementioned GenderBender ended in this the male and female forms becoming seperate people towards the end of the review. [[AWizardDidIt How exactly that happened is never explained.]]
* ThePasswordIsAlwaysSwordfish: Blink and you'll miss it, but during the Red Scorpion "Luck Be a Lady" radio drama, featuring a red-tinted Green Hornet, the titular character uses this as a password before smashing down a door.
* PerverseSexualLust: Vixen's "List of Disney Boys I Would Bang": [[Disney/{{Mulan}} Li Shang]] and Disney/{{Aladdin}}.
-->'''Vixen:''' "Damn. ''Damn.'' Hey... Hey, wait, come back here, I'll make a man out of ''you''!"
* PokemonSpeak: Both JO and Arkada snark if Nyu's a Pokemon in their reviews of ''ElfenLied''.
* PrecisionFStrike: From all three {{Sixth Ranger}}s (Hitch at Anime Central, and Rabbit and Kagami at Metrocon) -- [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic "You are going to fucking LOVE ME."]]
* PutOnABus: What Hitch did to the gag characters Steve and Joe from his earlier reviews.
* RealMenWearPink: "Real men watch ''Princess Tutu''." And indeed, ''Tutu'' has been shown a couple of times on the Manime Monday stream.
** See also Prof's love of ''SuperGals'' and ''AngelicLayer''.
** All of the boys are fans of ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic''.
* RealWomenNeverWearDresses: Comes up in-universe in Vixen's vids.
* RedEyesTakeWarning: Vixen's cartoon avatar on Pocky Spot when she gets really angry.
* RedOniBlueOni: Vixen's the Red Oni, [=JesuOtaku=] is solidly the Blue one.
** Ark is [[LargeHam red]] and Prof is [[DeadpanSnarker blue]].
* ReTool: Pocky Spot as of episode 50. All segments barring Mailbag Showdown and Fanservice Corner have been replaced by a whole new host of segments, including one for each of the new brigadiers and Tsubake getting one to herself.
* RuleSixtyThree: Vixen [[InvokedTrope mentions this]] after encountering a male version of herself in her review of {{Vandread}}. Also invoked with Profette.
* RomanticTwoGirlFriendship Rabbit and Vixen
* RunningGag: Oh, so many...
** The legendary badassery of Arkada, who supposedly can make peanut butter by punching narwhals to death.
** Professor Otaku's cartoon avatar usually lacks anything below the waist, which sparked jokes about him having no legs, or his legs running off and selling real estate in Southern California, etc.
** Vixen and Malakye's feud on Pocky Spot, where Malakye writes scripts where Vixen is supposed to say pervy things, and Vixen responds by killing him in assorted horrific ways.
** Actually, on Pocky Spot, Vixen has a rather short fuse, anyway, to the point of ComedicSociopathy. (See examples above.)
* ScheduleSlip: Just about every member has schedule slip due to real life, though that's by far the worst example.
** This also happens to Desu Rattle a LOT. Originally a weekly podcast, it's now a "whenever we can get people on Skype to record" occurrence.
* ScrewYourself: There were already comments joking about this within hours of Prof's ''FushigiYuugi'' review.
** Later they invoked this in their review of ''Issho Ni''.
* SesquipedalianLoquaciousness: Arkada and Professor Otaku, though surprisingly it's Arkada that lapses into this most frequently.
* ShoutOut: In Vixen's Film Fox review of ''{{Enchanted}}'', the text across the bottom of the screen when the homeless guy steals Giselle's tiara is [[WebVideo/BumReviews "THIS IS THE GREATEST TIARA I'VE EVER SEEN IN MY LIFE!"]]
* SongParody: Vixen and Tsubake did one of ''Want You Gone''.
** Although not entirely changed, Hitch and Prof did [[AvenueQ If You Were Gay]].
* TheStinger: Ark puts an audio preview of his next review in his more recent reviews.
* StupidSexyFlanders
** Arkada has a shameless mancrush on Creator/CrispinFreeman.
* SuperDeformed: The Pocky Spot chibis, especially the current style.
* {{Squee}}: During Pocky Spot 22, both Vixen and JO let out a good one when seeing [[OuranHighSchoolHostClub Kyoya]] with his shirt off.
** They do this again at the begining of Prof's review of ''{{Pretear}}'', much to Prof's annoyance.
* StuffBlowingUp: Professor Otaku in his LetsPlay of ''Knights of the Round'':
-->'''Prof''': Now, I'm not quite sure about the biology of a tiger, but I'm pretty sure they don't ''explode'' into flames when you kill them.
* TakeAThirdOption: Even though Prof had several fans send video suggestions for his 100th episode, Profette comes up with the easy choice of [[spoiler:''BusoRenkin'']].
* TakeThat: Arkada took a shot at ToddHaberkorn voicing too many recent leads in his review of ''{{Gankutsuou}}''.
* ThatRemindsMeOfASong: Vix reported on her [[strike:T&A]] Q&A...
-->If you don't like people randomly bursting into song, then you probably wouldn't like Ark very much.
* ThisIsGonnaSuck: Vixen's reaction in Pocky Spot 48 where she learns the plot of the loli animé, ''AstarotteNoOmocha''.
* TokenEvilTeammate: Tsubake. Originally Malakye, though [[TheStarscream it's been brought up a a lot less since she came along.]]
* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: [=JesuOtaku=] has this dynamic with Vixen, full stop.
* TopTenList: Top X Lists, mostly.
** Vixen has Top 20 Musical Numbers.
** Prof had Top 10 Babes (though it was actually 10 + 5 Wussiest Girls + 5 Almost Made Its), Top 10 Stupidest ''{{Transformers}}'' Episodes, Top 10 Crushes, and Top 5 Mismatched Openings and Endings.
** Ark had Top 19 Anime BGM, Top 10 Unlicensed Anime of 2010, Top 14 Tragically Sad Moments, and Top 17 anime voice actors.
** Hitch had his Top 10 70's anime openings and Top 10 Singalongs.
** Mal recently had his Top 10 Anime Openings.
* VisualPun: Arkada uses these to great effect in his Glass Reflection reviews.
* WallBang: Some series that Professor Otaku reviewed, and he couldn't take it, and... you know.
* XCalledTheyWantTheirYBack: Professor Otaku in his LetsPlay of Knights of the Round:
-->''Sky Walker? [[StarWars Luke]] called, he wants his name back.''
* YaoiFangirl: Inverted. Vixen was way too squicked out by what she reviewed in ''PapaToKissInTheDark'', mostly due to that story being [[BrainBleach wholly]] [[ParentalIncest terrible]].
** Tsubake apparently has a rather large colleciton of Yaoi porn.
* YouCanLeaveYourHatOn: Was Ark stripping through their riff of Venus Wars, cause it certainly looked like it.
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