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1	[[http://spongey444.wordpress.com/ Spongey444]] (formely titled "Crossing the Streams", and now title "A Taste of Spongey") is a blog run by Thomas Blalock aka [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Spongey444]]. He does reviews of movies, as well as books (mostly Creator/RLStine books). He also does general reviews of movies, as well as top lists, and tributes. He reads TV Tropes, which means lots of trope references and even a month dedicated to the So Bad, It's Horrible page.
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3	Starting Mid 2016, he won't do the main Film Reviews weekly as explained [[http://spongey444.wordpress.com/2015/12/31/2015-review-retrospective-important-blog-annoucment/ here]], and now does them about once or twice or month.
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6	!!Tropes Include:
7	* AbortedArc:
8	** He started a Dreamworks a-thon, but stopped due to laziness.
9	** Same happened with a Haunting Hour-A thon (which became a series of Season Retrospective) and a retrospective of the Creator/DisneyChannel Sitcoms.
10	* ActuallyPrettyFunny: Happens at least once a review, as he likes to point out the good parts of any movie.
11	* AprilFoolsDay:
12	** 2012: [[WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb Dr Doofenshmirtz]] reviews ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyTheMovie1986''
13	** 2013: A random man takes over a review of ''Film/TheOogielovesInTheBigBalloonAdventure'', in a more analytical style.
14	** 2014: Doof returns, along with Major Monogram to review ''Film/ATalkingCat''.
15	** 2015: Another random guy takes over to review ''Series/WalkingWithDinosaurs'' from a paleo-nerd's perspective.
16	** 2016: His Title Card guy reviews a fictional play from an episode of Series/ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphia
17	** 2017: He reviews ''Film/CitizenKane''...legitimately
18	** 2018: He looks at some [=SpongeBob=] games...as WebVideo/TheAngryVideoGameNerd
19	** 2019: He does straight forward reviews of some April Fool's Day episodes
20	** 2020: He reviews a book from the Spinechillers Mysteries series, a Christian ''Goosebumps'' ripoff.
21	* AvoidTheDreadedGRating: He mocked WesternAnimation/{{Antz}} for this.
22	* AuthorAppeal: He often talks about/makes references to/reviews ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'', Creator/RLStine's Works, and Disney/Nick Kidscoms.
23	* BrickJoke: In His GuiltyPleasure list, he talks about My Little Pony TheMovie. At the end, he says he hopes [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic Celestia]] doesn't mind him enjoying it. Cue picture of him on the moon.
24	** When Film/DragonballEvolution mentions [[WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender air bending]], he pleads it not to remind him of Film/TheLastAirbender. At the end, he finds out he has to review that film.
25	* BrilliantButLazy: The ''Film/ParanormalActivity'' demon, at least according to him.
26	* BrokeTheRatingScale: "It's the First Day of School Forever" was so odd that he couldn't grade it properly.
27	** A Serbian Film was also too much for him.
28	* CelebCrush: Pretty much everyone who has gotten the "She's nice" gag mentioned below but Creator/DebbyRyan is the biggest example.
29	* {{Catchphrase}}: "Hello, Spongey Here."
30	* ChewingTheScenery: He thinks [[Film/GIJoeTheRiseOfCobra Cobra Commander]] was having a ten course banquet with it. He also said a Goosebumps Villain somehow manages to do this in book form.
31	* ChristmasEpisode:
32	** 2010: The blog started out with a list of the top 12 Christmas specials
33	** 2011: He did a series of general reviews called "Spongey's Christmas Carol", where reviews included ''Film/TheSantaClause'' and ''WesternAnimation/EightCrazyNights''.
34	** 2012: He did a couple of reviews such as ''Film/AFairlyOddChristmas'', but the big one was ''Film/BatmanReturns''.
35	** 2013: The first year of consistent Christmas reviews, which were ''Film/FredClaus'', ''WesternAnimation/EightCrazyNights'', (updating his earlier review) ''[[Series/GoodLuckCharlie Good Luck Charlie It's Christmas]]'', ''[[Film/AirBuddies The Search For Santa Paws]]'', ''Film/SantaWithMuscles'', ''[[Film/TheSantaClause The Santa Clause 3]]'', and ''Film/AVeryHaroldAndKumar3DChristmas''.
36	** 2014: The Reviews were Santa Paws 2, Film/GrumpyCatsWorstChristmasEver, Saving Santa and The Ultimate Christmas Present.
37	** 2015: Reviews included The Swan Princess Christmas and ''Film/SavingChristmas''
38	** 2016: He did The Dog Who Saved Christmas Vacation and Elf
39	** 2017: Surviving Christmas and The Santa Clause
40	* 2018: A Frozen Christmas, and WesternAnimation/TheNightmareBeforeChristmas.
41	* ClusterFBomb: He's not WebVideo/TheAngryVideoGameNerd but he can explode a few.
42	* {{Crossover}}: His full review of ''WesternAnimation/TheSpongeBobMovieSpongeOutOfWater'' is one with WebVideo/TheCartoonHero.
43	* DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment: From his review of ''Fred: The Movie'':
44	-->'''Fred's Dad:''' They've been kidnapped...by kidnappers.
45	'''Spongey:''' Who wrote this, [[WesternAnimation/{{WordGirl}} Lady Redundant Woman?]]
46	* DrinkingGame:
47	** In the review of Film/TheHauntingHourDontThinkAboutIt, he takes a shot whenever there's a pop song.
48	** The ''Film/GrownUps 2'' review features the Creator/AdamSandler drinking game.
49	* EpisodeTitleCard: Some of his reviews have a drawn title card.
50	* FollowTheLeader: He lists both Blog/BloggerBeware and WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic as inspiration. He also discusses the trope in a review of a ''Literature/BoneChillers'' episode.
51	* FormulaBreakingEpisode: After reviewing mostly comedies, and light hearted films, he looked at...A Serbian Film.
52	* GuiltyPleasures:
53	** He did a [[http://spongey444.wordpress.com/2012/06/23/top-11-guilty-pleasures-2/ list of them]].
54	** The big one for him is Creator/DisneyChannel Kidcoms, as explored [[http://spongey444.wordpress.com/2013/09/12/a-look-at-disney-channel-sitcoms-part-1/ here]].
55	* HalloweenEpisode: He did a month of Halloween movies ... [[ChristmasInJuly in the month of July.]]
56	** He did normal Halloween reviews for the following Octobers.
57	* HostileShowTakeover: His Meet The Spartans review was taken over by Creator/SeltzerAndFriedberg.
58	** For AprilFoolsDay of 2012, [[WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb Doofenshmirtz]] took over. Most of the April Fools Day reviews are this.
59	* IAmNotLeonardNimoy: Like the NC, he will call actors by their names, and not the character's names. He did this so much during Creator/AdamSandler month, that he lampshades this when he ''does'' use the character's name.
60	* JumpScare: He mocks Franchise/{{Goosebumps}}' use of these. As well the use in the Paranormal Activity series.
61	* LamePunReaction: He complains about the time puns in ''Film/SpyKidsAllTheTimeInTheWorld''.
62	* MileStoneCelebration:
63	** 100: He reviewed ''Film/CryBabyLane'' ...as a musical.
64	** 200: He reviewed Film/SpyHard.
65	** For his 100th actual review, he visited his childhood with ''WesternAnimation/TheSpongebobSquarepantsMovie''.
66	** For the 300th post, he reviewed ''Film/BillyMadison''.
67	** For his 200th review, he reviewed [[JohnnyTsnuami]] due to it being the 10th DCOM. (He was going to do the 50th but he couldn't find it at the time)
68	** The latter occurred during month celebrating the 100th Disney Channel movie, and later complained that said film wasn't a worthy celebration. Creator/DisneyChannel later advertised a different one as their 100th DCOM.
69	*** He later did DCOM Month 3 to tie into the 20th Anniversary of DCOM's, one of the reviews being what the Adventures in Babysitting remake that Disney counted as the 100th DCOM. He didn't think it fit either,
70	** Review 300 (which was 303 due to a clerical error) was on 1982's The Treasure Planet.
71	* MultiPartEpisode: His reviews of ''Film/TransformersDarkOfTheMoon'', Film/TheLoneRanger'', and ''Film/TransformersAgeOfExtinction'' were 2 parters, while ''WebVideo/ToBoldlyFlee'' was a 3 parter.
72	* MusicalEpisode: The aforementioned ''Film/CryBabyLane'' review. Yes, a musical on a blog.
73	* ObviouslyEvil: Points this out so often, he refereed to the villain in the Garfield movie by this very name.
74	* {{Recut}}: He remade his old [[Film/SixteenWishes 16 Wishes]] review, because he felt the old one was lacking.
75	* ReviewBlog
76	* RuleSixtyThree: A gender-bended version known only as "Girlgey" appears in the banner and occasionally in the title cards of more female-centered movies, such as Bratz.
77	* RunningGag: Every time he runs into an attractive actress, there will be a picture of her accompanied with a "She's Nice"
78	** [[WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids RATED G]]
79	** Whenever there's a ridiculous death (the penguin in {{Foodfight}}, or death of a character he jokingly praised (Ron Fox in ''Film/HaroldAndKumarEscapeFromGuantanamoBay'') there will be a gravestone drawn by Spongey himself.
80	** His love of [[Film/HighSchoolMusical Sharpay]]
81	** His love of Alpha Bitches in general.
82	** His love of Creator/DebbyRyan
83	** Some of screw ups have become this, most notably how he [[OnceDoneNeverForgotten once described crunchy as a taste]]
84	** His hatred for abrupt endings.
85	** A TitleDrop will be accompanied by a picture of [[WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb Buford]] saying [[WebVideo/CinemaSins "And Roll Credits"]].
86	* ScheduleSlip: He's suffered this a few times, to the point where he made the main reviews weekly starting late 2014 to avoid this. Then he made them roughly monthly to further avoid this.
87	* ShoutOut: In the Spy Kids 4 review, The demon says the Devil cared when someone [[WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic made crappy Dr Seuss movies]].
88	** "I’m at the [[WebVideo/PieGuyRulz Bottom of the Ba-]]...Wait..
89	* ThisIsGonnaSuck: When the Serbian Film review opens with him saying he's not ready, you know it's not gonna end well. Lampshaded in one review where he says if the review beings with "...", it's gonna be bad.
90	* VillainSong: He's happy whenever one pops up, even in ''Film/BratzTheMovie''.
91	* YetAnotherChristmasCarol: He did a Christmas Carol spoof in 2013, in which ghosts that look like [[spoiler: Freddie from Freddie As FR07]], [[spoiler: Creator/AdamSandler]], and [[spoiler: the ''Film/ParanormalActivity'' Demon]] make him a review a bad Christmas film from the past and present. In the future segment, he turns the tables on the ghosts and reviews a good recent Christmas movie.

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