Line #17 Fridge/TheAngryVideoGameNerd


1	!!FridgeBrilliance
2	* The full theme song includes the lyric "The game sucks so bad he makes up his own words!" This is set to a clip of the Nerd saying things like "fuck rats" and "fuck farts" ...but if you look at it as referring to the time he has to make up a new swear for his ''Godzilla'' review, it makes a lot more sense.
3	* On more than one occasion, the Nerd has used the phrase "It's like puking on a pile of shit!" to describe when his situation has gone FromBadToWorse. In the ''Toxic Crusaders'' episode, he vomits at the sight of Creator/LloydKaufman taking a dump on the cartridge. In other words, puking on a pile of shit.
4	* Whenever the Nerd abuses a Gameboy game, he does it while it's still inside the Gameboy. Why does he only do this to the Gameboy when he removes the game from his other consoles first? Because the Gameboy is [[MadeOfIndestructium indestructible]]!
5	* In the ''Bayou Billy'' crossover episode with WebVideo/PatTheNESPunk, after the Nerd dies for the umpteenth time, Pat speculates that he might be doing it on purpose and that the game isn't that hard.[[note]]He finds out otherwise subsequently.[[/note]] Two years prior, in his making-of video, James states that he actually did purposely die in video games for some of his earliest videos. A very well-played MythologyGag, of sorts.
6	* Considering he only plays old games and in the movie, uses a record player on the road trip, The Nerd is a basically a {{hipster}}.
7	* The Nerd tends to complain about LoadsAndLoadsOfLoading a lot. While it's annoying and he wants to get on with the game, he does state in the ''VideoGame/McKids'' review that he has ADD.
8	* The TotallyRadical joke ad for Big Rigs may have been out of place, but it perfectly sums up the Nerd's position on just how out of touch the people behind the game must have been.
9	* In the ''VideoGame/SuperMarioBros3'' review, Super Mecha Death Christ only shoots at the Nerd and tells him to watch his "[[HypocriticalHumor FUCKIN' LANGUAAAAAAAGE]]!" when the Nerd exclaims "'''Holy''' shit!", not when the Nerd says "Oh, this shit? I'll tell you all about it." He's not upset about the word shit, but the sacrilege of calling it holy.
10	* His video of ''VideoGame/TheImmortal'' is notable for being done [[TheOner in one take]]. If you pay attention to his criticisms of the game, you'll notice one recurring complaint is you have to start over from the beginning every time you die. Much like how the game has to be played in one deathless run, the video was done in one uninterrupted take.
11	* R.O.B. doesn't do anything as the Nerd's teammate in the Spawn episode, because they aren't playing Gyromite or Stack-Up.
12	* In the ''Action 52'' episode, he states that "everything pink in this game sucks". Guess what color the game titles in the menu are? Looks like he's right.
13	* The Nerd's lamentation on why Acclaim was the one developing ''The Simpsons'' games, not Konami, make a lot more sense if you consider that in the nostalgia ages, Konami was well-known for their quality games (even if sometimes they get a little too NintendoHard), their downward spiral hadn't started yet; and if you listen to the Nerd's song lyrics, especially the opening: ''"He's gonna take you back to the past..."'', it would make a lot of sense that the Nerd wouldn't lambast Konami like the rest of the internet would; the present, controversial Konami is basically out of his scope, he's dealing with shitty games of the past.
14	* In his review for the ''Nightmare on Elm Street'' game, he briefly mentions how some of the music sounds like it's from the Roger Rabbit game. While it is likely just due to both games being produced by LJN and they just used the same music tunes (as The Nerd points out), it could have also been a weird in-joke, seeing as Creator/CharlesFleisher, the voice of Roger Rabbit, had a small role in the first ''Nightmare on Elm Street'' film.
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16	!!FridgeHorror
17	* Invoked with Super Mario Bros. 3. James speculates that the reason the game is so difficult is because it was a product forged by the Devil and gives sound, if not out of reach, theories on why. One of those theories is that the seven Koopalings represent the Seven Deadly Sins. This very site seriously considers the Koopalings to be designed after the Sins, as detailed on the Franchise/SuperMarioBros character page, so the theory certainly resonates.
18	* When the Nerd clones himself in ''VideoGame/ANightmareOnElmStreetNES'' video, three of the four nerds are killed off by Freddy. But there's no indication of who is or isn't a clone, so it's possible the original Nerd is dead and we've been watching one of his clones since 2007.
19	** That was a dream sequence, though.
20	** Despite being a dream sequence, if one pays close enough attention, they'll notice that the original Nerd is the one who "takes a shit" on the game cartridge (he's the one who mentions that he cloned himself), and he's the first to get murdered by Freddy.
21	** In the "Nightmare on Elm Street" movies, if you die in the dream, you die in real life. If the original Nerd died in the dream, that would mean he died in real life.
22	** The Nerd is also killed off at the end of the "Bugs Bunny's Crazy Castle" episode. Either DeathIsCheap, or the Nerd has a bunch of clones stored somewhere.
23	** He then died in the ''[[VideoGame/TheImmortal Immortal]]'' episode, but comes back at the end of the ''ComicBook/{{Spawn}}'' games episode due to beating Satan's challenge and being allowed to leave Hell.

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