History Webvideo / DemoReel

* SuddenDownerEnding: The happiness earned in ''Blue Patches'' is completely undone in ''The Review Must Go On''.

* KillTheCutie: Donnie was Doug's most optimistic character aside from Chester and gets squashed. Tacoma is {{adorkable}} too and dies as soon as he was going to tell Donnie something nice. Rebecca, Karl, and Quinn fall under TooCoolToLive.

* NarrativeFiligree: For instance, in one shot of "The Dark Knight Begins Rising", a game of Risk is prominently displayed in the background. What does it have to do with what's going on? Nothing at all, these characters are just [[{{adorkable}} dorky]].

** Because Rob cut the planned episodes from eight to six, neither the ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'' parody or the scene with [[{{Adorkable}} Rebecca in Donnie's hat and glasses]] got to be seen either.

** The second episode does the same, it begins with a StylisticSuck-heavy remake of ''Film/{{Taken}}'' but the primary focus is on the plot and the remake of ''Disney/WreckItRalph''.

* DramaticIrony: Donnie can actually make a [[LostInTranslation much better movie]] by [[Film/TheBlairWitchProject everything going wrong for him]] than when he [[Film/TheSixthSense actually]] ''[[Film/TheDarkKnightTrilogy tries]]'' [[Film/{{Taken}} to]] [[Disney/WreckItRalph parody]] [[Film/{{Skyfall}} something]].

** Tacoma in Belle's dress from ''Disney/BeautyAndTheBeast''. Rebecca loved it, and so did the fangirls.

** The first three movie remakes, ''Film/TheDarkKnightTrilogy'', ''Disney/WreckItRalph'' and ''Film/{{Skyfall}}'', give their own hints towards the finale. Rachel Dawes died tragically and Donnie made her come back to life, Vanellope is a child that needs protecting, and ''Film/{{Skyfall}}'' is the FreudianExcuse film of the Bond franchise.

** In "Disney/WreckItRalph vs VideoGame/AngryBirds", Donnie sounds like he's going to cry when he sees Tacoma sick, and the two share a tender cuddle before the former kisses the latter on the head.

** In-universe, Tacoma wrote the perfect ''Disney/WreckItRalph'' speech because it summed up his family situation. Donnie, same thing, proving he ''can'' act if the words mean anything to him.

** During the [[Disney/WreckItRalph Hero's Duty]] takes, Rebecca recites Jessie's ''I'm So Excited'' breakdown from ''Series/SavedByTheBell''.

* YouKeepUsingThatWord: Donnie called ''Disney/WreckItRalph'' a nostalgic movie, rather than a movie with nostalgic elements.

* NobodyOver50IsGay: Aversion. Bisexual and shamelessly flirty Donnie is revealed to be over 40 in “Blue Patches”, to the surprise of everyone in fandom as they didn't know why Doug made the character ten years older than he himself was.

''Demo Reel'' was an original web series for Website/ThatGuyWithTheGlasses. Starring Creator/DougWalker, Rachel Tietz and Malcolm Ray (who would later appear in ''WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic'' alongside Doug when Doug resumed making more episodes), it was Doug's next big series, succeeding ''WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic.'' It is notable in that it was filmed in a proper UsefulNotes/{{Chicago}} studio, rather than in Doug's basement as ''The Nostalgia Critic'' was.

It premiered on October 30th, 2012. Watch the two-part first episode [[http://blip.tv/nostalgiacritic/demo-reel-the-dark-knight-begins-rising-part-1-6420204 here]] and [[http://blip.tv/nostalgiacritic/demo-reel-the-dark-knight-begins-rising-part-2-6420255 here.]] The series was [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ummKvj8C7rQ cancelled]] on January 22nd, 2013, in favor of resuming ''The Nostalgia Critic'', two weeks later.

** ''Lost In Translation'' has Donnie go from the {{WAFF}}iest scene ever where he sings Pokemon with Yo and the crowd, to being on the phone with his wife and getting reminded that she doesn't love him.

* ActionPrologue: The first episode begins with a StylisticSuck-heavy remake of ''Film/TheSixthSense'' before the actual show starts, which is half remake of ''Film/TheDarkKnightSaga'' movies and half getting to know the characters behind the scenes.

* DramaticIrony: Donnie can actually make a [[LostInTranslation much better movie]] by [[Film/TheBlairWitchProject everything going wrong for him]] than when he [[Film/TheSixthSense actually]] ''[[Film/TheDarkKnightSaga tries]]'' [[Film/{{Taken}} to]] [[Disney/WreckItRalph parody]] [[Film/{{Skyfall}} something]].

** The first three movie remakes, ''Film/TheDarkKnightSaga'', ''Disney/WreckItRalph'' and ''Film/{{Skyfall}}'', give their own hints towards the finale. Rachel Dawes died tragically and Donnie made her come back to life, Vanellope is a child that needs protecting, and ''Film/{{Skyfall}}'' is the FreudianExcuse film of the Bond franchise.

** Because Rob cut the planned episodes from eight to six, neither the ''{{Twilight}}'' parody or the scene with [[{{Adorkable}} Rebecca in Donnie's hat and glasses]] got to be seen either.

* UsefulNotes/VictimBlaming: Adam pretends to be the PapaWolf who knocked out Donnie “for staring at his daughter” when, even his real motivation aside, ''she'' was the one stalking him and leading him home when he'd wanted to commit suicide.

* AsHimself: Creator/RobPaulsen, Creator/UncleYo, Creator/{{Egoraptor}} [[spoiler: , Doug Walker, Lewis Lovhaug, Brad Jones, Lindsay Ellis, Nella Inserra, and Rob Walker]].

* DefiedTrope: Rebecca and Tacoma set up pretty early on that they refuse to be the [[invoked]] MsFanservice and EthnicScrappy. Donnie also has no interest in being the [[{{Gayngst}} commonly tragic]] ButNotTooBi lead, instead making the moves on anyone he likes and having angst about everything else in his life. [[spoiler: sadly he falls into tradition in the end and [[BuryYourGays dies]]]].

* ShoutOut: Donnie DuPre is named after Don Dupree, a producer of ''Siskel and Ebert and The Movies''.

* AccentuateTheNegative: Slammed hard in "Blue Patches", as Donnie yells at the family and in extension, reviewers and nerd culture, for only thinking about how they can best mock everything they don't like and not about the emotions or people behind them.

* AuthorAppeal: With Doug's taste for dominant women, it's no surprise that Rebecca gets to handle a lot of huge guns.

* BeautyEqualsGoodness: Donnie, Rebecca, Tacoma, Quinn and Karl have one thing in common: they're all conventionally pleasing to the eye. Collins and the family, on the other hand, are made to look as unappealing as possible.

** [[http://blip.tv/bum-reviews/bum-review-hunger-games-catching-fire-6694518 A]] [[https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=595463193853479&id=127127037353766 lot]] [[http://blip.tv/nostalgiacritic/nc-bridge-to-terabithia-6643147 of]] [[http://blip.tv/nostalgiacritic/nostalgia-critic-turbo-a-power-rangers-movie-6608235 Doug's]] [[http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/videolinks/thatguywiththeglasses/specials/43078-adventure-time-vlogs-up-a-tree work now]] has trashing child stars for growing up "slutty" or "crazy". Sorry Donnie.

* DarkReprise: Of all things, the Pokemon theme song. The first time is with Uncle Yo, where Donnie's just euphoric at these people giving him love. But the second time is with Egoraptor after Yo is mad at him, and he just looks like he wants to hide in a corner.

* DeusAngstMachina: Donnie's entire life: [[spoiler: his dad left when he was little, his mom killed herself while he was filming a movie and so he gave his worst performance ever, he got so abused by strangers because of it that he disappeared from Hollywood and changed his name, he got married to a woman that doesn't love him, he was excluded from his remaining family, he tried remaking movies to get back at the system but they always failed, held out hope that things would get better only to be told (as gently as possible by Tacoma and Rebecca, and bluntly by Quinn and Karl) that he would always suck, sunk into depression at a con, got over that but got kidnapped at gunpoint, was left in the woods to starve or get killed, was held captive by a {{yandere}} family who loved seeing him in pain, got out of that with restored confidence but soon his friends started disappearing one by one and making him think he needed to be committed, finds out that ''all of that'' was a waste of time because he's just someone else who needed punishment in purgatory, loses all his friends once again for "the greater good", and turns back into being the Critic.]]

* DidYouJustHaveSex: As soon as Rebecca says she will never wear the burned swim-cap, it cuts to her singing with it on. But she's happy about it and her skin looks pretty glowy, so Donnie must have "convinced" her somehow.
** Donnie himself in the stinger for the pilot. His eyes are glazed over and his face and neck look completely wrecked.

* EveryoneIsBi: Apart from Rebecca (as there was no other girl she could hang out with), everyone had at least one moment full of HomoeroticSubtext. Some more than others, ''Donnie''.

** For the fourth episode, Rebecca gets a big, insightful speech about the shoddy treatment of actresses in the industry.

* {{Retcon}}: Watch WebVideo/ToBoldlyFlee and it's made clear that Critic's sacrificing his life half because [[DrivenToSuicide he wanted to]] and half for his friends. "The Review Must Go On" tries to have us believe it was just for the sake of the plot only.
** WordOfGod even confirmed in the TBF commentary that Critic made ''sure'' he died a martyr by putting on a JerkassFacade so the others wouldn't care. Now the tune is changed and he "couldn't handle the paradox of his own martyrdom".
** The continuity-strangling goes back to funny little Looney-Tunes-rip-off ''WebVideo/{{Kickassia}}'', as the whole reason Critic invaded the nation in the first place was because he hated his job and wanted out.
** The beginning of the Reloaded Reviews hammer the final nail in the coffin, as they were done when Doug still wanted nothing more to do with the Critic and it starts off with {{drama queen}}ing about how the PlotHole is hell being proved wrong when he gets served a drink.
** Lampshaded in the CallForward beginning of “The Dark Knight Returns”, as a post-TBF Critic reacts upset to the thought of coming back; he put everything on the line to come into the PlotHole and everyone would see him as a phony.

* CastFullOfPrettyBoys: Rachel's gorgeous but she gets very little gaze compared to Jim's arms, Malcolm's muscles in a dress, Rob's [[ArousedByTheirVoice sexy]] accent and Doug's... [[MrFanservice everything]].

* BehindTheBlack: When Donnie chases RobPaulsen to get him to sing "[[WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}} Yakko's World]]" for him, Rob "hides" in the middle of open hallways by standing where the camera won't see him, even standing ''right in front of Donnie'' while Donnie has the camera pointed at himself.

** Donnie's wife's voice is heard in episode 3, played by [[spoiler: MaraWilson.]]

* CriticalResearchFailure:[[invoked]] In-universe, ''Film/TheDarkKnightRises'' is mocked for Bruce leaving the other prisoners to rot after escaping the pit. He actually throws a rope down to the other prisoners right after. The ''Skyfall'' parody mocks that Bond did not simply kill Silva and his two guards when he was ordered to shoot the glass of scotch off of Severine's head. However, the reason Bond didn't do this in the film itself is because he was given a Flintlock Pistol, which has only one shot per round, plus the henchmen held a gun to Bond's head to ensure he only aims for the whiskey. However, mistakes and flubs like these can be attributed to Donnie's terrible directing.

* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: [[spoiler:Donnie [=DuPre=] was born Jimmy Boyd, a parody of Jake Lloyd.]] His mother, Elissa Hoffman is a reference to ''A Patch of Blue'' star Elizabeth Hartman who [[spoiler:died]] in a similar manner. Because of this, there's a clear influence of Creator/MaraWilson, whose mother died of cancer during filming of ''Matilda'', in his backstory.

''Demo Reel'' is an original web series for Website/ThatGuyWithTheGlasses. Starring Creator/DougWalker, Rachel Tietz and Malcolm Ray (who would later appear in ''WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic'' alongside Doug when Doug resumed making more episodes), it was Doug's next big series, succeeding ''WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic.'' It is notable in that it was filmed in a proper UsefulNotes/{{Chicago}} studio, rather than in Doug's basement as ''The Nostalgia Critic'' was.

''Demo Reel'' is an original web series for Website/ThatGuyWithTheGlasses. Starring Creator/DougWalker, Rachel Tietz and Malcolm Ray (who would later appear in ''WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic'' alongside Doug when Doug resumed making more episodes), it was Doug's next big series, succeeding ''WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic.'' It is notable in that it was filmed in a proper UsefulNotes/{{Chicago}} studio, rather than in Doug's basement as the Nostalgia Critic was.

** Mara Wilson as Donnie's wife in episode three winds up for the reveal of his backstory: she's a FormerChildStar whose mother died while she was filming ''{{Matilda}}'' and still gets hate for her bad performances, while [[spoiler: he's a FormerChildStar whose mother killed herself while he was filming and he gave bad performances which people hated him for, and so he changed his name to stop the abuse.]]

* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: [[spoiler: Donnie [=DuPre=] was born Jimmy Boyd, a parody of Jake Lloyd.]] His mother, Elissa Hoffman is a reference to ''A Patch of Blue'' star Elizabeth Hartman who [[spoiler: died]] in a similar manner. Because of this, there's a clear influence of MaraWilson, whose mother died of cancer during filming of ''Matilda'', in his backstory.