History YMMV / BrainScratchCommentaries

** [[VideoGame/CrashBandicoot4ItsAboutTime Neo Cortex]] is a wannabe [=YouTube=] Personality who often relies on clickbait titles, [[VideoGame/{{Roblox}} overly]] [[VideoGame/{{Minecraft}} played]] [[Videogame/{{Outlast}} games]], and zany faces for his thumbnails to get people to watch his content. Meanwhile, N. Tropy is an actually successful [=YouTuber=] with 5 million subs who decided to ditch Cortex because he only had 30 subscribers.

* BaseBreakingCharacter: Pretty much every commentator is a base breaker to some degree, with Johnny being the only main commentator without a significant hate base:
** Amanda. To clarify, it's not ''just'' because she's a girl, though that certainly doesn't help things. Due to a lack of experience, many find her awkward when talking compared to the others, as she seemingly ends sentences abruptly with irrelevant topics only to just stop talking, leading to awkward silences. Some people will endlessly bitch about her even when she's not in a commentary and would prefer she not appear again in the future, while others are more optimistic about her and think she's improving.
** Ryan. He is enjoyed for his lowkey snark, his [[TheGadfly gadfly]] tendencies in multiplayer videos, and his criticisms. But a lot of people dislike Ryan for his passive-aggressive behaviour, [[CausticCritic being extremely critical in almost every commentary,]] and coming across as [[ItsAllAboutMe very]] entitled at points.
** Ted is by far the most divisive member of the crew. Some enjoy the energy that he brings in and his fanboying of series he likes. Others see him as a HolierThanThou FanHater who CantTakeCriticism.
** Lewis. Some enjoy his rather laid back commentary style, the insight he gives on certain games, and his references to more obscure media. Others dislike him, due to typically being the main instigator of discussions that have nothing to do with the game, his lack of use in multiplayer playthroughs and his Kleptomania causing some of his gameplay videos to drag out.
** Everybody discusses their haters in their 2014 Black Friday ''Super Smash Bros. 4'' Video.

* SugarWiki/DevelopmentHeaven: Each member always records their game footage off a video card or capture device to get the best quality out of their videos and to have their footage look legit when playing off the actual video game console rather than using emulators or shaky cameras. The only time the crew uses emulators is when they can't get a physical copy of the game or their recording glitches out.

*** Wario and Waluigi are the Scapelli brothers, as seen in the ''[[Film/SuperMarioBros Super Mario Bros.]]'' movie.

* PetPeeveTrope:
** When it comes to co-op games, Ryan absolutely loathes griefing since he finds it incredibly annoying and stops the team's progress. He mentions his hate for griefing during the group's ''VideoGame/SuperMario3DWorld'' run and asks the others to keep griefing to a minimum. Ryan also tells Johnny that he's glad that Matt (Johnny's friend) wasn't playing because he knew Matt would be griefing the entire time as he did in SGB's let's play of ''VideoGame/NewSuperMarioBrosWii'' and ''VideoGame/NewSuperMarioBrosU''.
** Ted goes absolutely nuts whenever anyone blatantly ignores items or power-ups in the game since he believes that every item, no matter how little of a purpose they serve, all have some use and should be picked up. Ted gets on Johnny's case a lot for ignoring items during the ''VideoGame/MetroidFusion'' commentary and he also gets annoyed in the ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaMajorasMask'' commentary when he hears Johnny and a few others don't bother collecting maps for the regions of Termina. Ted has been compared to Lewis with their kleptomania many times; Lewis collects everything in the game for the sake of collecting them while Ted collects stuff that are helpful to him, even if he won't ever use it.
** [[ShiftingSandLand Desert levels]]. Whenever a level that uses this trope shows up, one or all of the commentators will likely break into a tangent on how dull they are. Doubly so if it's the second world/area of a game as seen in a lot of Nintendo games.
---> '''Lewis''': And that's why I generally tend to lose interest in Nintendo games by the second world. I dislike desert themes.

* SeasonalRot: [[AbsenteeActor Commentaries that don't have Johnny in them]] tend to be this for many viewers.

* FanHater: Ted was once pretty bad about this, saying on several occasions that he doesn't get how [insert game he doesn't like] has any fans, and frequently starting arguments with the game's defenders in the comment section. He was probably most condescending toward ''Pokémon'' Gen 4 fans (and in general was much more vocal about his hatred of the games in earlier videos). Recently, he's shown some awareness and remorse for this trope (though not to the point where he is above [[PlayingTheVictimCard putting those he antagonized in the wrong for any lingering resentment]]). He has also been on the receiving end of this trope for trying to portray ''VideoGame/MetroidOtherM'' and ''VideoGame/SonicBoom'' as SoOkayItsAverage.

-->'''Ted:''' Our villain-I mean hero, Kirby...

* AccidentalInnuendo: "Hey Ryan, show us your [[Franchise/{{Pokemon}} Mews.]]"

--> "Now, I hesitate at every single crusher down here because I'm a ''pansy''. I hesitate like that, crushers make me nervous."
* AlternateCharacterInterpretation:

--->'''Ted''': Our villain-I mean hero, Kirby...

--->'''Ted''': No, [[VideoGame/MarioParty parties]] are ''too formal'' for ''Bowser''.

--->'''Ted:''' John, what were you drinking?

---> '''Ryan:''' We're NEVER playing that level again!

---> '''Ted (multiple times)''': FUCK YOU, CURSE!

* TheWoobie: Amanda, a nice, energetic commentator who is often hounded by the viewers for some forced attempts at humor to the point that some will leave the video the second they hear her voice. It's only become even worse in recent livestreams, where it's clear just how deeply Amanda has been affected by all the criticism. She's been trying desperately to improve her commentary style, though some would a little too desperately.

** Ryan is either enjoyed for his lowkey snark, or criticized for his lack of presence.

* HarsherInHindsight:
** Amanda mentioned in the Ib commentary she doesn't like to bug people out. And then she found out that she's considered TheScrappy of the group by many.
** Many jokes about Ryan being quiet in some commentaries became a lot less funny after he revealed it was because of his UsefulNotes/{{Depression}}.
** During recording for the second part of the ''VideoGame/SonicMania'' commentary, Lewis had doubts that the PC version's delay was for improving the DRM on the game. At the same time the part went live, controversy was already breaking out about the PC version having the Denuvo DRM.
** In Part 8 of the N Sane Trilogy version of Crash Bandicoot Warped, Johnny mentioned that he listened to WebVideo/NostalgiaCritic in the background while working, causing a brief discussion on their opinions on him... However, by the time that this part was uploaded, the March 2018 Mass Exodus was recently released and revealed a lot of mismanagement in Channel Awesome.
** In part 4 of the ''VideoGame/GravityRush'' commentary, Ted joked how he tweeted about Dragon Quest every 2 days... However, when that was uploaded, Ted recently announced he was going cut down on how much he uses Twitter due to the recent backlash on his opinions on ROMs counting as Piracy.
** During the Sun and Moon commentary, Ted commented that he hoped for some kind of a spin-off that would be set in the reality of the Ultra Beasts to learn more about them before remarking that Pokémon has a bad habit of tossing ideas after a short amount of time. Then we learned more about Sword and Shield...

* HilariousInHindsight:
** Watching Lewis' kleptomania in the ''Sonic the Hedgehog (1991)'' playthrough prompts Johnny to ask [[TemptingFate what will happen if Lewis ever decides to play Pokémon for the channel]]. Cut to two years later, as Lewis begins his playthrough of ''Pokémon Leaf Green'', which, before being commandeered by Johnny, is insanely slow-paced (it takes 2 and a half parts to get to BROCK). Lewis catches multiple fodder Pokémon, takes the time to explore every aspect of the game ad nausea (as in talking to EVERY NPC and reading EVERY sign at the lowest possible text speed), and remains consistently lax at actually editing bits out ([[TakeThat enough to make even Ryan complain]]).
** To add to this, Ryan made jokes during the ''Sonic'' playthrough about a ''Pokémon'' playthrough by Lewis having hundreds of parts and taking forever. Johnny points out at one point during the actual playthrough that if it were to continue in that manner, it would take them well over two years to actually get through it.
** During a random bout in ''Brawl'', Johnny told Clement Mega Man wouldn't be in ''Super Smash Bros. 4''. Come the official announcement and Mega Man was the HIGHLIGHTED new character.
*** Later, in their final ''Brawl'' livestream, Johnny specifically invokes Clement's prediction while saying Palutena should be in ''Smash 4''. Guess who was announced for the game.
** An earlier one. In their ''VideoGame/SuperMario64'' playthrough, they speak about [[ItMakesSenseInContext Miyamoto's opinions on cats.]] [[VideoGame/SuperMario3DWorld Lo, and behold...]]
** During the ''Pokémon 2000'' movie commentary, when Ash asks for a boat to fulfill the prophecy, the crew jokingly says he's going to use it to climb a mountain. Later on, that same boat is actually used to climb a mountain on one of the three islands and helps Ash obtain a MacGuffin. The boat goes on to become the most important thing in the movie.
** In part 4 of the ''VideoGame/SonicHeroes'' commentary, Lewis mentions that ''WebAnimation/SonicShorts'' had ended. While it's debateable at the time it was recorded if it happened, but by the time the part was uploaded, the Sonic Paradox team had finally put their GrandFinale out.
** In Part 9 of ''Shadow the Hedgehog'', the guys have a debate about the president in the Sonic universe until Lewis says "Mr. President should have vetoed Sonic 06, but he didn't.", and Johnny follows up with "And that's why we have Obama." what puts this here is that this part was recorder before, and uploaded after, the 2012 presidential elections, where presumably everyone voted for him.
** In Part 6 of ''Devil May Cry'', John talks about him wanting hover boards before 2015. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4vE_vpkr90 Later in March...]]
** In Part 4 of ''VideoGame/NewSuperMarioBrosWii'', the guys talk about wanting a [[VideoGame/LuigisMansionDarkMoon Luigi's Mansion for the 3DS]] (It should also be noted that they discused potential names for what would become the UsefulNotes/WiiU earlier in the Playthrough).
** In Part 3 of ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaCDIGames Link: The Faces of Evil]]'', Ryan mocks fans of [[VideoGame/PokemonRubyAndSapphire Gen 3]] for their expectations of remakes that won't happen, and Ted agrees that such fans should stop getting their hopes up. About a month after the recording was posted, [[ShutUpHannibal look what was announced]]....
** In Part 3 of ''Sonic '06'', Ryan jokes about how Lewis is so good at the game, that he'll be the one playing ''Superman 64'' for the channel. When they got around to playing that game, Lewis ended up being the most competent at controlling Superman.
*** It became even funnier when it turned out that Ryan was way better at the game than both Lewis and Ted combined. And it was his second time playing it.
** In Part 2 of ''VideoGame/MarioParty'', Lewis claims that chance time is only good "when it gets me a free star." And then in Part 3, Lewis ends up stealing Mario's star via chance time.
** When Ryan wins the first board of their ''VideoGame/MarioParty3'' playthrough, he quotes "[[VideoGame/BigRigsOverTheRoadRacing You're Winner!]]" and John replies with "you're always winner!" Ryan would then go on to win all three boards that they played.
** During the Majora's Mask commentary, Ted comments on the unlikelihood of a 3DS remake of the game. An official remake had been announced just before the part came out. Johnny (the editor of the commentary) lampshades this by showing the remake's box art while repeating and slowing down Ted's voice.
--> '''Ted:''' Iii doon't thiiink it's goonaa haaapen.
** Ted said that parties were too formal for Bowser. Well, he's going to have to take that back now, since Bowser stars in ''VideoGame/MarioParty10'', enough that people are calling it Bowser Party.
** In ''Azure Striker Gunvolt Part 4,'' Johnny makes a reference to the fact that Brainscratch's videos are uploaded at midnight. The video came out after Ryan announced the videos were going to be uploaded at noon from now on.
** At the end of the ''Mario Party 3'' live playthrough, the group was so disgusted by [[spoiler:Waluigi winning despite doing nothing but going in circles]] that they decided to play ''VideoGame/SonicShuffle'' next year instead of more ''Mario Party''. Cue them live playing ''Sonic Shuffle'' at Momocon 2015 and finding it so incredibly boring that they went back to do a playthrough of ''Mario Party'' (the fourth one though, not the third).
** In the ''[[VideoGame/DmCDevilMayCry DmC: Devil May Cry]]'' commentary, Lewis discusses how he dislikes the constant use of Dante's outfit from ''Devil May Cry 3'', namely as a DLC costume in [[VideoGame/DmCDevilMayCry DmC]], and prefers the design for his outfit in the original game. In the ''Definitive Edition'', an extra skin for Dante is added in the form of that exact outfit.
*** Made even funnier when Lewis describes Vergil's Downfall, highlighting how Vergil's hair at the end becomes spiked up, to which Johnny asks if it could have been referencing Vergil's look in ''Devil May Cry 3''. Vergil also found himself with a bonus costume in the ''Definitive Edition'': An outfit designed to mimic his original design in ''Devil May Cry 3''.
** In the first part of the ''[[VideoGame/MarioKart Mario Kart 64]]'' commentary, they predicted the DLC for ''VideoGame/MarioKart8''.
---> '''Ryan''': That would be funny, [[Franchise/TheLegendofZelda Link]] in a go-kart!
** In Part 10 of ''VideoGame/SonicUnleashed'', Gareth jokes about the enemies in Cool Edge Night, referring to them as "Poliwhirl and Fire Poliwhirl", with Ted jokingly saying not to give Game Freak ideas. Come ''VideoGame/PokemonSunAndMoon'', Alolan forms were introduced, some with equally contradictory types (such as Ice Vulpix), though no Poliwhirl form appeared in the final game.
** In Part 14 of ''VideoGame/LuigisMansionDarkMoon'', the group jokingly bring up the various NX rumors that were happening at the time. The part was released the same day that the NX was officially revealed, now called the ''UsefulNotes/NintendoSwitch''.
** In Part 26 of ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTheWindWaker'' a discussion about game releases lead to Gareth joking about Kingdom Hearts rereleases being rerelased till the end of time. The day after the part went up, ''Franchise/KingdomHearts 1.5'' and ''2.5'' were announced to being released on [[UsefulNotes/PlayStation4 PS4]].
** For Momocon 2017, the guys did a [[https://youtu.be/Hcc0BGwWkA8 Bubsy playthrough]] for the audience to commentate over... Guess what happened [[https://youtu.be/5RHdrmZsNs0 6 days later]].
** During the ''VideoGame/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtlesTurtlesInTime'' Live LP, Ted comments on how [[VideoGame/Splatoon2 Marina often loses to Pearl]]... hours after it was uploaded, Marina lost Splatfest yet again.
** In part 19 of VideoGame/GravityRush, Ted accidentally brings up Space Jam. 2 days later, Space Jam 2 was announced.

** In the ''Film/SpaceJam'' commentary, Lewis claims that [[SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome Slam]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J9FImc2LOr8 Jam]] is the Guile's theme of the next generation. There is a remix that combines Slam Jam and Guile's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QDFDzTOyLvo theme.]]

** During the ''VideoGame/PokemonYellow'' commentary, Ryan said he was going to pass on ''VideoGame/PokemonBlackAndWhite'' in favor of the inevitable ''[[UpdatedRerelease Pokémon Gray]]'' that he also expected to be 3DS-enhanced. Suffice to say, [[VideoGame/PokemonBlack2AndWhite2 neither of his expectations turned out to be correct]].

* CriticalResearchFailure:
** Although it in itself WAS a SugarWiki/{{Funny Moment|s}}... Johnny states in ''VideoGame/KirbysReturnToDreamLand'' that HAL is making the 4th installment of the ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBros'' series when in fact Namco Bandai are making it.
** Ryan is the one that most often makes factual mistakes about the topic at hand, such as repeatedly stating Pokemon Gold and Silver came out in 2001, when it was actually 2000, and saying Captain Planet isn't in ''Creator/CartoonNetwork: [[VideoGame/CartoonNetworkPunchTimeExplosion Punch Time Explosion]]'', when he is actually the last character you unlock. He also said that Mega Man 9 and 10 were for the Virtual Console, when they were actually for UsefulNotes/WiiWare. This one could be written off as a slip of the tongue. The team also seemed all convinced that the period between The First Movie and Gold and Silver was extremely brief, when in reality it was almost a full year after the movie came out that the games hit America.
** Every. Damn. Time. Fritz was on screen during the ''Frankenstein'' commentary, the team repeatedly called him Igor, even when his real name is said in the movie.
** The crew show shades of this during the various Star Wars commentaries, particular in the crew's commentary of ''Film/AttackOfTheClones''. For example, on multiple occasions, Ryan and Johnny say that Master Sifo-Dyas is an alter-ego of Count Dooku/Darth Tyranus. [[spoiler: Sifo-Dyas was actually a friend of Dooku's and was murdered before the events of the film]]. Otherwise, apart from the occasional CriticalResearchFailure, it should be noted the guys are extremely knowledgeable about Star Wars.
*** Minor example given it's a much newer entry, but in discussing ''Film/TheLastJedi'', they refer to Praetorian Guards as "The Knights of Ren," with the former being Snoke's guard meant to look like the Emperor's, while the latter are a group of presumably Dark Side users who have not yet appeared.
** In the ''VideoGame/LuigisMansionDarkMoon'' commentary, Ryan says that the Tower of Terror at Disney's Hollywood Studios would be closing and Disney planned to "put in something else." While this was the case, the Tower of Terror that closed was actually at Disney's California Adventure, where instead of it being replaced, was rethemed into a ''Guardians of the Galaxy'' drop ride.

* DarthWiki/MostAnnoyingSound: Any time skype audio drops in the older commentaries.

* DarthWiki/MostAnnoyingSound: Lewis' laughter: stilted cough-like chuckles, with a slurping inhale between each one. Not helped by his microphone.