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* AccidentalAesop: In the review for the ''[[Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine DS9]]'' episode "[[Recap/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS05E25InTheCards In the Cards]]", Chuck states that the moral went from "Don't waste your money on frivolous things" to "Throw away your life savings on frivolous things" because Jake makes Nog blow his live savings on a baseball card from the 1950s for his father Sisko because Jake can't or won't just replicate a copy and since the Federation doesn't use currency Jake can't get the card in the auction.
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* AccidentalAesop: In the review for the ''[[Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine DS9]]'' episode "[[Recap/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS05E25InTheCards In the Cards]]", Chuck states that the moral went from "Don't waste your money on frivolous things" to "Throw away your life savings on frivolous things" because Jake makes Nog blow his live life savings on a baseball card from the 1950s for his father Sisko because Jake can't or won't just replicate a copy and since the Federation doesn't use currency Jake can't get the card in the auction.
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* AlternateCharacterInterpretation: Many characters, especially Janeway and Archer, have all their actions [[{{inuniverse}} viewed through the lens]] of the kind of characters they would be if the writers knew what they were doing. Generally, Chuck has two versions of a character. The first, and more prevalent, is the one that is played for comedy.
** He depicts Kathryn Janeway as an oversexed, tyrannical, TriggerHappy lunatic who abuses her crew as she carves a swath of destruction and ruination through the Delta Quadrant. (a joke, a sort of {{Flanderization}} to add to his menagerie of transvestite Harry, cannibalistic Neelix, polymath Tom, and office clerk Borgs, along with other caricatures from TNG and ENT). Chuck occasionally uses Mulgrew's take on Janeway as well, interpreting her condemnation of Captain Ransom in "[[{{Recap/StarTrekVoyagerS5E25S6E1Equinox}} Equinox]]" as a [[YouAreWhatYouHate projection of guilt]] for her own questionable actions. Even more interestingly, he speculated that Janeway's fake identity in "[[{{Recap/StarTrekVoyagerS7E15Workforce}} Workforce]]" — toiling away in obscurity at a dead-end job and entertaining the possibility of a second love — was fueled by a subconscious desire to escape the burden she's been shouldering for over six years.
--->"People have their limits, period. Picard had his in "[[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS4E2Family Family]]", or Sisko had his in "[[{{Recap/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS01E01E02Emissary}} Emissary]]". Given the choice between watching your crew die one after the other -- year after year -- with home still decades away and a self-imposed isolation, or thinking that she could've resigned and taken a job on Earth with a husband and a pile of dogs, well... There's a lot of days where the former makes the latter ''look pretty damn good.''"
** In the review for [[Recap/StarTrekVoyagerS7E19FriendshipOne "Friendship One"]], despite his penchant for portraying Janeway as a homicidal despot, Chuck had a genuine theory that she was promoted to admiral because she was too emotionally broken to take a command again, but too popular to retire. When they were flying over the planet, was she holding firm out of a belief that they could see this mission through, or was she secretly wishing that the aliens would launch their missiles and put her out of her misery?
** In "[[{{Recap/StarTrekVoyagerS6E11FairHaven}} Fair Haven]]", the Doctor (playing the role of a vicar) dismisses Seamus who seeks to repent for repeatedly breaking the fifth commandment, apparently unaware the ''Catholic'' fifth commandment is "thou shalt not kill." Seamus spends the remainder of the episode murdering people offscreen and dumping them in shallow graves. Cue screencap of the Pope facepalming.
** In "[[{{Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS4E4SuddenlyHuman}} Suddenly Human]]", he plays this straight ''and'' averts it, by first theorizing that the episode has more weight if you consider that Jono's insistence that he isn't human is a metaphor for a child trying to assert sexual identity, similar to many teens who do so... before admitting that he simply finds the whole episode boring and that trying to add ''anything'' to liven up the episode is a better use of his time than continuing to watch it.
** He reinterpreted "[[{{Recap/StarTrekVoyagerS4E22Demon}} Demon]]" and "[[{{Recap/StarTrekVoyagerS5E17CourseOblivion}} Course: Oblivion]]:" as an unintended commentary on the Prime Directive. Janeway carelessly breaches it in "Demon" by [[spoiler:letting the Silver Blood copy ''Voyager'''s crew and become sentient]], and as a result, in "Course: Oblivion" [[spoiler:an entire species is wiped out without a trace]].
** Points out in the [[{{Recap/TheXFilesS03E02PaperClip}} X-Files episode Paperclip]] how very unlikely it is that an "information wants to be free" type hacker would encode a tape with copy protection, and that the more believable answer is that Skinner accidentally destroyed all the data on the tape and is now trying to find an excuse for why they can't copy it.
** He depicts Kathryn Janeway as an oversexed, tyrannical, TriggerHappy lunatic who abuses her crew as she carves a swath of destruction and ruination through the Delta Quadrant. (a joke, a sort of {{Flanderization}} to add to his menagerie of transvestite Harry, cannibalistic Neelix, polymath Tom, and office clerk Borgs, along with other caricatures from TNG and ENT). Chuck occasionally uses Mulgrew's take on Janeway as well, interpreting her condemnation of Captain Ransom in "[[{{Recap/StarTrekVoyagerS5E25S6E1Equinox}} Equinox]]" as a [[YouAreWhatYouHate projection of guilt]] for her own questionable actions. Even more interestingly, he speculated that Janeway's fake identity in "[[{{Recap/StarTrekVoyagerS7E15Workforce}} Workforce]]" — toiling away in obscurity at a dead-end job and entertaining the possibility of a second love — was fueled by a subconscious desire to escape the burden she's been shouldering for over six years.
--->"People have their limits, period. Picard had his in "[[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS4E2Family Family]]", or Sisko had his in "[[{{Recap/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS01E01E02Emissary}} Emissary]]". Given the choice between watching your crew die one after the other -- year after year -- with home still decades away and a self-imposed isolation, or thinking that she could've resigned and taken a job on Earth with a husband and a pile of dogs, well... There's a lot of days where the former makes the latter ''look pretty damn good.''"
** In the review for [[Recap/StarTrekVoyagerS7E19FriendshipOne "Friendship One"]], despite his penchant for portraying Janeway as a homicidal despot, Chuck had a genuine theory that she was promoted to admiral because she was too emotionally broken to take a command again, but too popular to retire. When they were flying over the planet, was she holding firm out of a belief that they could see this mission through, or was she secretly wishing that the aliens would launch their missiles and put her out of her misery?
** In "[[{{Recap/StarTrekVoyagerS6E11FairHaven}} Fair Haven]]", the Doctor (playing the role of a vicar) dismisses Seamus who seeks to repent for repeatedly breaking the fifth commandment, apparently unaware the ''Catholic'' fifth commandment is "thou shalt not kill." Seamus spends the remainder of the episode murdering people offscreen and dumping them in shallow graves. Cue screencap of the Pope facepalming.
** In "[[{{Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS4E4SuddenlyHuman}} Suddenly Human]]", he plays this straight ''and'' averts it, by first theorizing that the episode has more weight if you consider that Jono's insistence that he isn't human is a metaphor for a child trying to assert sexual identity, similar to many teens who do so... before admitting that he simply finds the whole episode boring and that trying to add ''anything'' to liven up the episode is a better use of his time than continuing to watch it.
** He reinterpreted "[[{{Recap/StarTrekVoyagerS4E22Demon}} Demon]]" and "[[{{Recap/StarTrekVoyagerS5E17CourseOblivion}} Course: Oblivion]]:" as an unintended commentary on the Prime Directive. Janeway carelessly breaches it in "Demon" by [[spoiler:letting the Silver Blood copy ''Voyager'''s crew and become sentient]], and as a result, in "Course: Oblivion" [[spoiler:an entire species is wiped out without a trace]].
** Points out in the [[{{Recap/TheXFilesS03E02PaperClip}} X-Files episode Paperclip]] how very unlikely it is that an "information wants to be free" type hacker would encode a tape with copy protection, and that the more believable answer is that Skinner accidentally destroyed all the data on the tape and is now trying to find an excuse for why they can't copy it.
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* DracoInLeatherPants: Discussed in his ''[[WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender Avatar: The Last Airbender]]'' review, where Chuck argues that Azula doesn’t deserve the level of sympathy that many fans give her. He feels that although her upbringing explains some of her violent and anti-social tendencies, it doesn't excuse them either. Unlike other characters with similar or worse upbringings who work to overcome their flaws, she does nothing to get over hers.
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* ReviewsAreTheGospel: Chuck wants to avert this trope and makes it clear from the outset that his reviews are just his opinion and he's perfectly fine with other people disagreeing with him.
* RonTheDeathEater:
** Chuck seems to have completely convinced himself Janeway is a CardCarryingVillain seeking universal domination that regularly torments her crew for laughs.
** His take on Picard is him as a ChildHater who may have pulled a MurderTheHypotenuse on Jack Crusher. He's only slightly less serious on this one.
** Lampshaded in the case of Neelix, whom Chuck admits he doesn't think he can be objective about anymore, even though he tries to give the character credit where it's due.
* RonTheDeathEater:
** Chuck seems to have completely convinced himself Janeway is a CardCarryingVillain seeking universal domination that regularly torments her crew for laughs.
** His take on Picard is him as a ChildHater who may have pulled a MurderTheHypotenuse on Jack Crusher. He's only slightly less serious on this one.
** Lampshaded in the case of Neelix, whom Chuck admits he doesn't think he can be objective about anymore, even though he tries to give the character credit where it's due.
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* AcceptableTargets: As stated in his review of "[[Recap/StarTrekS1E13TheConscienceOfTheKing The Conscience of the King]]", Chuck is very much an equal-opportunities offender, leaving no-one and nothing ''Franchise/StarTrek''-related sacred.
** Hippies and anything tangentially related to the '80s New Age movement.
** Socialists are taken out back to the woodshed.
** Whenever possible, he makes a jab at UsefulNotes/VladimirPutin, calling his running of Russia a "USSR tribute cover band."
** A much deserved TakeThat at renowned anti-vaccine advocate Creator/JennyMcCarthy, comparing her to the nanogenes in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E10TheDoctorDances The Doctor Dances]]" (believing they're saving the world when they're really destroying it).
** In ''Star Trek'': [[TheScrappy Neelix]], [[CreatorsPet Wesley]], [[MyBelovedSmother Lwaxana Troi]], [[DrJerk Dr. Pulaski]], the [[SubvertedTrope "Outrageous"]] [[LovableRogue Okona]] and of course [[CrazyHomelessPeople Captain Jonathan]] [[EmbarrassingNickname "Duchess"]] [[DesignatedHero Archer]] .
** In ''Series/DoctorWho'': [[TheScrappy Adric]].
** [[Series/TorchwoodMiracleDay Oswald Danes]], who he makes clear isn't just a TheScrappy to him, he's plain a mistake to include in the first place.
** Michael Grade, who let his personal vendetta against ''Series/DoctorWho'' tank the show.
** Writers and producers have been a frequent target. Rick Berman and Creator/BrannonBraga, the former especially in his reviews of ''Enterprise''. Jeri "Pantsuit" Taylor for living vicariously through Cap. Janeway, among other faults. And he'll gleefully savage Maurice Hurley at every opportunity. He's also pretty vocal in his dislike of Kenneth Biller and his inability to tell a coherent story.
** The food at UsefulNotes/McDonalds. Since he mentioned he's still not over that grudge, it's safe to assume it made him badly sick once.
** Radio/RushLimbaugh.
** UsefulNotes/DavidCameron - "the epitome of AmbitionIsEvil" - and his lovely "wife" UsefulNotes/NickClegg
** In two of his Christmas "Worst of the Worst" episodes ("[[Recap/StargateSG1S1E3Emancipation Emancipation]]" and "[[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS1E3CodeOfHonor Code of Honor]]", written by the same person) he refers to the episodes treatment of women as if inspired by the ''Literature/{{Gor}}'' books.
** Creator/RobLiefeld, especially during his Comics History videos. He even includes a brief explanation about why he ''isn't'' sorry about being so harsh towards him.
** Mimes in his ''Film/{{Alien}}'' and ''Film/RoboCop1987'' reviews.
** Dr. Pepper in his ''[[Film/TheReturnOfGodzilla Godzilla 1985]]'' and ''Film/GodzillaVsBiollante'' reviews, as well as the AprilFoolsDay episode where he covered episodes of ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic''.
** UsefulNotes/DonaldTrump has quickly found his way onto Chuck's list, particularly his "Make America Great Again" baseball caps. Chuck also took a swipe at Trump in the companion video to his "[[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS5E2Darmok Darmok]]" review, in 2013, two years before "The Donald" had announced his candidacy.
** In ''Series/BabylonFive'''s "[[Recap/BabylonFiveS02E18ConfessionsAndLamentations Confessions and Lamentations]]", the plague originated on an island known for being extremely amoral, which Chuck compares to Harvey Weinstein's penthouse.
*** Similarly, in ''VideoGame/DragonAgeII'', Anders' hypersexual behavior and deeply-inappropriate comments towards a grieving widow results in Chuck disgustedly remarking that the party appears to have been saddled with Harvey Weinstein as a companion.
** Also, Anders himself. Out of all the characters in the game, Anders is the only character in the game Chuck can find ''nothing'' charitable to say about: many of the team-mates are the targets of exasperated rants throughout the playthrough, but during the big character review in Chapter 8 of Act III, Chuck still finds a few positive or sympathetic traits to talk about. Anders, though, is regarded with nothing but blistering contempt.
** Creator/BillMaher gets a shot in the middle of an anecdote about [[Film/StarTrekVTheFinalFrontier Sybok]] being inspired by televangelists, describing him as an anti-vaccination fruit loop and scathingly comparing him to an atheist version of the aforementioned televangelists.
** Hippies and anything tangentially related to the '80s New Age movement.
** Socialists are taken out back to the woodshed.
** Whenever possible, he makes a jab at UsefulNotes/VladimirPutin, calling his running of Russia a "USSR tribute cover band."
** A much deserved TakeThat at renowned anti-vaccine advocate Creator/JennyMcCarthy, comparing her to the nanogenes in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E10TheDoctorDances The Doctor Dances]]" (believing they're saving the world when they're really destroying it).
** In ''Star Trek'': [[TheScrappy Neelix]], [[CreatorsPet Wesley]], [[MyBelovedSmother Lwaxana Troi]], [[DrJerk Dr. Pulaski]], the [[SubvertedTrope "Outrageous"]] [[LovableRogue Okona]] and of course [[CrazyHomelessPeople Captain Jonathan]] [[EmbarrassingNickname "Duchess"]] [[DesignatedHero Archer]] .
** In ''Series/DoctorWho'': [[TheScrappy Adric]].
** [[Series/TorchwoodMiracleDay Oswald Danes]], who he makes clear isn't just a TheScrappy to him, he's plain a mistake to include in the first place.
** Michael Grade, who let his personal vendetta against ''Series/DoctorWho'' tank the show.
** Writers and producers have been a frequent target. Rick Berman and Creator/BrannonBraga, the former especially in his reviews of ''Enterprise''. Jeri "Pantsuit" Taylor for living vicariously through Cap. Janeway, among other faults. And he'll gleefully savage Maurice Hurley at every opportunity. He's also pretty vocal in his dislike of Kenneth Biller and his inability to tell a coherent story.
** The food at UsefulNotes/McDonalds. Since he mentioned he's still not over that grudge, it's safe to assume it made him badly sick once.
** Radio/RushLimbaugh.
** UsefulNotes/DavidCameron - "the epitome of AmbitionIsEvil" - and his lovely "wife" UsefulNotes/NickClegg
** In two of his Christmas "Worst of the Worst" episodes ("[[Recap/StargateSG1S1E3Emancipation Emancipation]]" and "[[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS1E3CodeOfHonor Code of Honor]]", written by the same person) he refers to the episodes treatment of women as if inspired by the ''Literature/{{Gor}}'' books.
** Creator/RobLiefeld, especially during his Comics History videos. He even includes a brief explanation about why he ''isn't'' sorry about being so harsh towards him.
** Mimes in his ''Film/{{Alien}}'' and ''Film/RoboCop1987'' reviews.
** Dr. Pepper in his ''[[Film/TheReturnOfGodzilla Godzilla 1985]]'' and ''Film/GodzillaVsBiollante'' reviews, as well as the AprilFoolsDay episode where he covered episodes of ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic''.
** UsefulNotes/DonaldTrump has quickly found his way onto Chuck's list, particularly his "Make America Great Again" baseball caps. Chuck also took a swipe at Trump in the companion video to his "[[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS5E2Darmok Darmok]]" review, in 2013, two years before "The Donald" had announced his candidacy.
** In ''Series/BabylonFive'''s "[[Recap/BabylonFiveS02E18ConfessionsAndLamentations Confessions and Lamentations]]", the plague originated on an island known for being extremely amoral, which Chuck compares to Harvey Weinstein's penthouse.
*** Similarly, in ''VideoGame/DragonAgeII'', Anders' hypersexual behavior and deeply-inappropriate comments towards a grieving widow results in Chuck disgustedly remarking that the party appears to have been saddled with Harvey Weinstein as a companion.
** Also, Anders himself. Out of all the characters in the game, Anders is the only character in the game Chuck can find ''nothing'' charitable to say about: many of the team-mates are the targets of exasperated rants throughout the playthrough, but during the big character review in Chapter 8 of Act III, Chuck still finds a few positive or sympathetic traits to talk about. Anders, though, is regarded with nothing but blistering contempt.
** Creator/BillMaher gets a shot in the middle of an anecdote about [[Film/StarTrekVTheFinalFrontier Sybok]] being inspired by televangelists, describing him as an anti-vaccination fruit loop and scathingly comparing him to an atheist version of the aforementioned televangelists.
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* FunnyAneurysmMoment:
** Chuck has done jokes about Captain Picard having a HilariouslyAbusiveChildhood and in particular one reference to him being attacked by his drunken father. Sadly, ''Series/WhoDoYouThinkYouAre'' revealed that Creator/PatrickStewart actually ''did'' have an abusive father, lending an uncomfortable unintentional RealitySubtext to the whole thing. Acknowledged in his review of "[[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS4E4SuddenlyHuman Suddenly Human]]", where Chuck makes another joke about Picard's abusive parents [[OurLawyersAdvisedThisTrope while subtitles clarify that]] [[IAmNotSpock jokes about Picard are not about Patrick Stewart]].
** The "Memory Alpha vs Wookieepedia breast-athon", where Chuck compares the pages on breasts from the Star Trek and ''Star Wars'' wikis in order to distract himself from a bad episode, with ''Star Trek ''losing both times and Chuck joking that they should step up their game. In ''Series/StarTrekDiscovery'' a couple years later, ''Star Trek'' did in fact get its first topless shot... [[FanDisservice in the middle of a rape scene]]. When he finally got around to reviewing the episode in question, even Chuck noted that the joke wasn't as funny anymore.
** Chuck has done jokes about Captain Picard having a HilariouslyAbusiveChildhood and in particular one reference to him being attacked by his drunken father. Sadly, ''Series/WhoDoYouThinkYouAre'' revealed that Creator/PatrickStewart actually ''did'' have an abusive father, lending an uncomfortable unintentional RealitySubtext to the whole thing. Acknowledged in his review of "[[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS4E4SuddenlyHuman Suddenly Human]]", where Chuck makes another joke about Picard's abusive parents [[OurLawyersAdvisedThisTrope while subtitles clarify that]] [[IAmNotSpock jokes about Picard are not about Patrick Stewart]].
** The "Memory Alpha vs Wookieepedia breast-athon", where Chuck compares the pages on breasts from the Star Trek and ''Star Wars'' wikis in order to distract himself from a bad episode, with ''Star Trek ''losing both times and Chuck joking that they should step up their game. In ''Series/StarTrekDiscovery'' a couple years later, ''Star Trek'' did in fact get its first topless shot... [[FanDisservice in the middle of a rape scene]]. When he finally got around to reviewing the episode in question, even Chuck noted that the joke wasn't as funny anymore.
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** Chuck has done jokes about Captain Picard having a HilariouslyAbusiveChildhood and in particular one reference to him being attacked by his drunken father. Sadly, ''Series/WhoDoYouThinkYouAre'' revealed that Creator/PatrickStewart actually ''did'' have an abusive father, lending an uncomfortable unintentional RealitySubtext to the whole thing. Acknowledged in his review of "[[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS4E4SuddenlyHuman Suddenly Human]]", where Chuck makes another joke about Picard's abusive parents [[OurLawyersAdvisedThisTrope while subtitles clarify that]] [[IAmNotSpock jokes about Picard are not about Patrick Stewart]].
** The "Memory Alpha vs Wookieepedia breast-athon", where Chuck compares the pages on breasts from the Star Trek and ''Star Wars'' wikis in order to distract himself from a bad episode, with ''Star Trek ''losing both times and Chuck joking that they should step up their game. In ''Series/StarTrekDiscovery'' a couple years later, ''Star Trek'' did in fact get its first topless shot... [[FanDisservice in the middle of a rape scene]]. When he finally got around to reviewing the episode in question, even Chuck noted that the joke wasn't as funny anymore.
** The "Memory Alpha vs Wookieepedia breast-athon", where Chuck compares the pages on breasts from the Star Trek and ''Star Wars'' wikis in order to distract himself from a bad episode, with ''Star Trek ''losing both times and Chuck joking that they should step up their game. In ''Series/StarTrekDiscovery'' a couple years later, ''Star Trek'' did in fact get its first topless shot... [[FanDisservice in the middle of a rape scene]]. When he finally got around to reviewing the episode in question, even Chuck noted that the joke wasn't as funny anymore.
