History YMMV / BarkleyShutUpAndJamGaiden

->[[RunningGag Warning: The YMMV tropes you are about to read are canon.]]

** And then there's "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRpw-8vxZag&feature=related Eternity]]," taken directly from BlueDragon. It's sung by Ian Gillan of Deep Purple. The song's meta-info for the artist even says "jesus christ the guy from deep purple sang this." While it's somewhat divisive in BlueDragon, since some people find the singing impossible to take seriously... in ''this game''? A game where the player is already accepting ridiculous amounts of silliness? You've still got that absolutely epic music, but the arguable absurdity of the singing now only ''adds'' to the charm. It really says something that most of the comments on most videos on youtube for the song are talking about ''this'' game and not Blue Dragon.

* FunnyAneurysmMoment: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZrUA-BB6Kd8&NR=1&feature=fvwp This [=McDonald=]'s ad from the 1990s]] (see MoralEventHorizon below). Suddenly, interaction between [[spoiler: Jordan and Bird]] has lost its humor value... [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pBWJB7DFJ4U And then there's the ad's sequel, including Barkley himself.]]
** Film/SpaceJam in general might also qualify.

* HarsherInHindsight: Cosby as Ghost Dad.

** And then there's "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRpw-8vxZag&feature=related Eternity]]," taken directly from BlueDragon. It's sung by Ian Gillan of Deep Purple. The song's meta-info for the artist even says "jesus christ the guy from deep purple sang this." While it's something of a BaseBreaker in BlueDragon, since some people find the singing impossible to take seriously... in ''this game''? A game where the player is already accepting ridiculous amounts of silliness? You've still got that absolutely epic music, but the arguable absurdity of the singing now only ''adds'' to the charm. It really says something that most of the comments on most videos on youtube for the song are talking about ''this'' game and not Blue Dragon.

** And then there's "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRpw-8vxZag&feature=related Eternity]]," taken directly from BlueDragon. It's sung by Ian Gillan of Deep Purple. The song's meta-info for the artist even says "jesus christ the guy from deep purple sang this." While it's something of a BaseBreaker in BlueDragon, since some people find the singing impossible to take seriously... in ''this game''? A game where the player is already accepting ridiculous amounts of silliness? You've still got that absolutely epic music, but the arguable absurdity of the singing now only ''adds'' to the charm. It really says something that most of the comments on that linked video are talking about ''this'' game and not Blue Dragon.

** And then there's "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRpw-8vxZag&feature=related Eternity]]," taken directly from BlueDragon. It's sung by Ian Gillan of Deep Purple. The song's meta-info for the artist even says "jesus christ the guy from deep purple sang this." While it's something of a BaseBreaker in BlueDragon, since some people find the singing impossible to take seriously... in ''this game''? A game where the player is already accepting ridiculous amounts of silliness? You've still got that absolutely epic music, but arguable absurdity of the singing now only ''adds'' to the charm. It really says something that most of the comments on that linked video are talking about this game and not Blue Dragon.

** And then there's "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRpw-8vxZag&feature=related Eternity]]," taken directly from BlueDragon. It's sung by Ian Gillan of Deep Purple. The song's meta-info for the artist even says "jesus christ the guy from deep purple sang this." While it's something of a BaseBreaker in BlueDragon, since somebody find the singing impossible to take seriously... in ''this game''? A game where the player is already accepting ridiculous amounts of silliness? You've still got that absolutely epic music, but arguable absurdity of the singing now only ''adds'' to the charm. It really says something that most of the comments on that linked video are talking about this game and not Blue Dragon.

** And then there's "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRpw-8vxZag&feature=related Eternity]]," taken directly from BlueDragon. It's sung by Ian Gillan of Deep Purple. The song's meta-info for the artist even says "jesus christ the guy from deep purple sang this." See the BlueDragon entry for more info, but it garners the exact same reactions here--which is certainly why it was used.

* ScrappyMechanic: The save pump rants stop being funny after the fiftieth time you've had to sit through them. And by fast-fowarding through the rants you'll risk stumbling into the save menu and overwriting file 1 even if for some reason you didn't intend to. Couldn't the developer have placed his hatred of fanboys somewhere less vital than the fucking ''save points''? Worst part is that you ''have'' to read this crap, because the last one [[spoiler:quizzes the player about the rants done through the game]].

* UnfortunateImplications: Cuchulainn's Tomb. With no foreshadowing beforehand, we learn that Charles Barkley's tragic flaw is his love for gold...for some reason. Subverted in that the implications were [[RuleOfFunny almost certainly intentional.]]

* ScrappyMechanic: The save pump rants stop being funny after the fiftieth time you've had to sit through them. And by fast-fowarding through the rants you'll risk stumbling into the save menu and overwriting file 1 even if for some reason you didn't intend to. Couldn't the developer have placed his hatred of fanboys somewhere less vital than the fucking ''save points''? Of course, [[TheyPlottedAPerfectlyGoodWaste being highly irritating is the point.]] The final pump actually [[spoiler:quizzes the player about the rants done through the game]]!

** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VopY7M0Gyuc Johnathan Taylor Thomas, also named Epic Battle. An original song used for most boss battles. A remix is used in the Kickstarter trailer for the sequel.]]

* FanDumb: Parodied by [[SavePoint the Pumps]], who spew long, pretentious rants at you about the superiority of Japanese "[[CallARabbitASmeerp vidcons]]" whenever you're trying to save your game.

* ScrappyMechanic: The save pump rants stop being funny after the fiftieth time you've had to sit through them. Couldn't the developer have placed his hatred of fanboys somewhere less vital than the fucking ''save points''?

** Noted as [[FridgeBrilliance]] by 2 Best Friends Play, who noticed that this annoyance was possibly an intended reaction from the creator.

** The song has been remixed with just about any song in existence underneath it. Like "[[Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann Libera Me]] [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=krXTZvkRCD4 From Hell]]" or "[[VisualNovel/AceAttorney Objection:]] [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VcfXh9xqiCU Cornered]]". It has something like the same reputation as [[StreetFighter Guile's]] [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QDFDzTOyLvo theme]], for its ability to go with anything.

** The song has been remixed with just about any song in existence underneath it. Like "[[Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann Libera Me]] [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkOj5DAJu2A&feature=related From Hell]]" or "[[VisualNovel/AceAttorney Objection:]] [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VcfXh9xqiCU Cornered]]". It has something like the same reputation as [[StreetFighter Guile's]] [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QDFDzTOyLvo theme]], for its ability to go with anything.

* TheUntwist: [[spoiler: The Ultimate Hellbane being Balthios]]. If he gets a status effect on him in battle, it refers to him as [[spoiler: Balthios]]. His character portrait is also the same, but in silhouette--and then there's the fact that he even [[NominalImportance has a portrait in the first place]].

* FunnyAneurysmMoment: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZrUA-BB6Kd8&NR=1&feature=fvwp This [=McDonald=]'s ad from the 1990s]] (see MoralEventHorizon below). Suddenly, interaction between [[spoiler: Jordan and Bird]] has lost its humor value... [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFt4S6hKwR0 And then there's the ad's sequel, including Barkley himself.]]

* MemeticMutation: '''CHAOS DUNK'''
** Quad City [=DJs=] vs. something mashups of the Film/SpaceJam theme, in the tradition of the [[SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic main theme]], the titles and descriptions of which (on Website/YouTube at least) often allude to the game in some way.

* TheUntwist: [[spoiler: The Ultimate Hellbane being Balthios]]. The main reason being, if he gets a status effect on him in battle, it refers to him as [[spoiler: Balthios]].
** And his character portrait is the same but in silhouette. Or that he even [[NominalImportance has a portrait in the first place]].

* SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments: For such a silly game, it's surprisingly well-written.
** Dikembe Mutumbo's tomb. "You are... forgiven."
** [[spoiler:The ghost of Leonard goes home.]]

* CrowningMomentOfAwesome: [[spoiler:The final Chaos Dunk Barkley uses at the end of the game.]]

* FridgeLogic: Meta example: there are several points where one is simply playing the game, going with the flow, and then has a moment of lucidity where they realize that they are playing a game about a basketball player trying to save the world.