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3->''"[[ThoseTwoGuys We're two guys]] who make fun of people [[WebVideo/{{Retsupurae}} on the internet.]] [[GenreBusting This is a radical new form of entertainment]] [[BlatantLies and we are the masters of it.]]"''
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5->''"Even whores gotta work their way up to the top. [[TemptingFate ...please don't quote me on that. Don't... don't put that quote down somewhere, like on TV Tropes, perhaps.]]"''
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7A popular [[LetsPlay Let's Player]] on the Website/SomethingAwful forums due to putting insane amounts of time and effort into each LP, Chip Cheezum has (at this time of writing) completed 31 Let's Plays, all of them currently or soon to be featured on the [[https://lparchive.org/author/Chip%20Cheezum LP Archive]]. Primarily accompanied in his [=LPs=] by General Ironicus, he has also collaborated with other fellow goons such as [=VoidBurger=], [=SnarkCookie=], A Wooden Palisade and Ambisagrus, as well as comic artist [[{{Webcomic/Gunshow}} KC Green]]. He also occasionally uploads WebVideo/{{Retsupurae}} videos to his [[https://www.youtube.com/user/chipcheezumsa?blend=1&ob=4 YouTube account]], though more recently the duo has focused more on old gaming-related commercials rather than bad Let's Plays, longplays, or any of the sort of shift the actual Retsupurae account experienced. He and General Ironicus have [[http://chipandironicus.com/index.html their own site]], where all of their [=LPs=] have been posted. Doesn't seem to have a high opinion of those who add quotes on this page.
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11So far, Chip Cheezum has finished Let's Plays for the following games:
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13[[folder:Finished Games]]
14* ''VideoGame/{{Bastion}}''
15* ''VideoGame/BeyondGoodAndEvil'' (once in 2008, twice more in [[UpdatedRerelease HD form]] in 2017 as a stream and then another full LP)
16* ''VideoGame/CabelasDangerousHunts 2011''
17* ''VideoGame/CondemnedCriminalOrigins''
18* ''Series/DuckDynasty''
19* ''VideoGame/FiftyCentBloodOnTheSand''
20* ''VideoGame/GunstarHeroes''
21* ''VideoGame/IncredibleCrisis''
22* ''VideoGame/{{killer7}}''
23* ''VideoGame/LegoStarWars''
24* ''VideoGame/MegaManLegends''
25* ''VideoGame/MetalGearRisingRevengeance'' (includes the Bladewolf and Jetstream DLC chapters)
26* ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid''[[note]]Primarily focusing on the [=PlayStation=] original, with occasional comparisons to ''[[VideoGameRemake Metal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes]]'' on [=GameCube=].[[/note]]
27* ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid2SonsOfLiberty''
28* ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid3SnakeEater''
29* ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid4GunsOfThePatriots''
30* ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolidPeaceWalker''
31* ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolidV'' (''[[VideoGame/MetalGearSolidVGroundZeroes Ground Zeroes]]'' and ''[[VideoGame/MetalGearSolidVThePhantomPain The Phantom Pain]]'')
32* ''VideoGame/NoMoreHeroes''
33* ''VideoGame/NoMoreHeroes2DesperateStruggle''
34* ''VideoGame/{{Rez}}''
35* ''VideoGame/RogueWarrior''
36* ''VideoGame/SpiderMan2000''
37* ''VideoGame/SuperMarioOdyssey''
38* ''VideoGame/TheWonderful101''
39* ''VideoGame/TheYouTestament''[[note]]Chip uploaded a few videos of a blind playthrough as a companion to [[https://lparchive.org/The-You-Testament/ a screenshot LP by Ironicus]].[[/note]]
40* ''VideoGame/UnchartedDrakesFortune''
41* ''VideoGame/Uncharted2AmongThieves''
42* ''VideoGame/Uncharted3DrakesDeception''
43* ''VideoGame/Uncharted4AThiefsEnd''
44* ''VideoGame/WatchDogs''
45* ''VideoGame/ZoneOfTheEnders'' (twice, once in 2011, again in 2016)
46* ''Zone of the Enders: The 2nd Runner'' [[/folder]]
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48Ongoing [=LPs=] include:
49* ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVIIRemake'' and ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII''[[note]]While focusing mostly on the remake, Chip occasionally splices in gameplay from the original game as a comparison, and will finish the Let's Play with a playthrough of Disc 1 of ''VII'' (the equivalent of what the game remakes). As of March 2023, the ''Remake'' portion, including the ''EPISODE [=INTERmission=]'' DLC, is complete, while the playthrough of ''VII'''s Disc 1 has yet to start.[[/note]]
50* ''[[VideoGame/KingdomHeartsI Kingdom Hearts]] [[UpdatedRerelease HD 1.5 Remix]]''
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52Chip also broadcasted streams of the games below, streamed on old Ustream and Hitbox channels that have since been archived to [=YouTube=]:
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54[[folder: Streamed Games]]
55* ''3D Ballz''
56* ''VideoGame/AladdinCapcom''
57* ''Music/AlvinAndTheChipmunks''
58* ''VideoGame/ApeEscape''
59* ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedII''
60* ''Film/BatmanForever''
61* ''VideoGame/BanjoKazooie''
62* ''VideoGame/{{Bayonetta}}''
63* ''VideoGame/BebesKids''
64* ''WesternAnimation/BeeMovie Game''
65* ''[[{{Film/Beethoven}} Beethoven's 2nd]] (SNES)''
66* ''VideoGame/BeyondGoodAndEvil'' (full streamed playthrough that is being re-edited into a Let's Play on his Website/YouTube channel)
67* ''{{VideoGame/Boogerman}}''
68* ''[[{{VideoGame/Bubsy}} Bubsy in: Claws Encounters of the Furred Kind]]''
69* ''[[VideoGame/CabelasDangerousHunts Cabela's Survival: Shadows of Katmai]]''
70* ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaSymphonyOfTheNight''
71* ''VideoGame/CrashBandicootNSaneTrilogy''
72* ''Music/CrazyFrog Arcade Runner''
73* ''VideoGame/{{Croc}}''
74* ''{{VideoGame/Contradiction}}''
75* ''Cyberswine''
76* ''VideoGame/{{D4}}''
77* ''VideoGame/DeadlyPremonition''
78* ''VideoGame/DevilMayCry3DantesAwakening''
79* ''VideoGame/DMCDevilMayCry''
80* ''VideoGame/DogsLife''
81* ''VideoGame/DonkeyKongCountry2DiddysKongQuest''
82* ''VideoGame/DragonsLair (SNES)''
83* ''VideoGame/EVOSearchForEden''
84* ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXV: Episode Duscae''
85* ''VideoGame/FirstEncounterAssaultRecon''
86* ''ComicStrip/{{Garfield}} Lasagna World Tour''
87* ''{{VideoGame/Gex}}'' (''Gex'', ''Gex: Enter The Gecko'' and ''Gex 3: Deep Cover Gecko'' streamed for Extra Life)
88* ''VideoGame/GoatSimulator''
89* ''VideoGame/HeavyRain''
90* ''Film/HomeAlone (SNES)''
91* ''Series/HomeImprovement''
92* ''VideoGame/HyruleWarriors''
93* ''[[VideoGame/{{Fahrenheit}} Indigo Prophecy]]''
94* ''Jack the Reaper''
95* ''VideoGame/JawsUnleashed''
96* ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsI [[UpdatedRerelease HD 1.5 Remix]]''
97* ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsII''
98* ''VideoGame/KirbysDreamCourse''
99* ''VideoGame/MassEffect2''
100* ''VideoGame/MegaMan7''
101* ''VideoGame/MegaMan8''
102* ''VideoGame/MegaManLegends 2''
103* ''VideoGame/MegaManX''
104* ''VideoGame/MetalGearSurvive''
105* ''VideoGame/NiNoKuni''
106* ''VideoGame/{{Okami}}''
107* ''VideoGame/OmikronTheNomadSoul''
108* ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil1 [[UpdatedRerelease HD Remaster]]''
109* ''Shamu's Deep Sea Adventure''
110* ''VideoGame/ShovelKnight''
111* ''VideoGame/SonicAdventure''
112* ''VideoGame/SonicAdventure2''
113* ''[[GameMod Sonic the Hedgehog (SNES)]]''
114* ''VideoGame/Splatoon1''
115* ''VideoGame/StarTrekBorg''
116* ''VideoGame/SuperMario3DWorld''
117* ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBros for UsefulNotes/WiiU''
118* ''[[Franchise/{{Tekken}} Tekken Tag Tournament]]''
119* ''The Adventures of Kid Kleets''
120* ''VideoGame/TransformersDevastation''
121* ''Trigger Man''
122* ''VideoGame/TyTheTasmanianTiger''
123* ''Film/TheBluesBrothers''
124* ''Film/TheLawnmowerMan''
125* ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaALinkToThePast''
126* ''VideoGame/TheSimpsonsBartsNightmare''
127* ''VideoGame/TheSimpsonsHitAndRun''
128* ''VideoGame/XenobladeChronicles1''
129* ''VideoGame/YoshisIsland''[[/folder]]
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131Chip and Ironicus have also [[{{MST}} riffed]] on various web animations, most notably ''WebAnimation/ElementalGoddess'' and the first arc of the ''WebAnimation/{{Xin}}'' series, as well as some anime.
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133Chip was also a Video Production Assistant for Creator/{{Volition}}, where he ran weekly streams for them on Thursdays, from early 2015 until September of 2017. He was hired back to the same position in late 2018.
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135Chip and Ironicus have two podcasts: ''[[https://chipodironicast.libsyn.com/ Chipod Ironicast]]'' (which updates irregularly) and ''[[https://soundcloud.com/bizarrepodcast Bizarre Podcast]]'', a recap podcast that currently has two series: ''Dogs Must Die'', where Ironicus watches the ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure'' anime for the first time, and ''Space Puppets'', where Chip watches ''Series/{{Farscape}}'' for the first time.
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137[[http://www.patreon.com/chipandironicus Chip now has a Patreon account]].
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139!!Chip (and his Let's Plays) provides examples of:
140* AchievementsInIgnorance: The [[CloudCuckooLander Vapor Snake]] runs of MGSV are marked by either humorously deliberate incompetence to [[DevelopersForesight show off the game's features]] or this. In the main mission in ''Ground Zeroes'', he manages to sneak across the entire compound to reach Paz by [[GoodBadBugs throwing a smoke grenade into a truck, turning it into a tactical stealth vehicle]] instead of finding Chico first. In ''The Phantom Pain'' proper, he's able to complete a mission ''before it actually begins'' by blowing up some equipment during a scuffle that happened as a result of him going to a place where he wasn't supposed to be.[[invoked]]
141* AddedAlliterativeAppeal: Chip doesn't just [[VideoGame/MetalGearSolid crawl for rations]], he ''sneaks for Snake Snacks''.
142* AlternateDVDCommentary: Yes, there is [[MindScrew alternate commentary for the alternate commentary.]] ''[=MGS3=]'' had a pair of videos that were reprisals of earlier cutscenes with the duo's commentary re-added. ''Metal Gear Solid 2'' had "Uncut" versions of the final few videos uploaded at a later date, which kept their commentary over cutscenes and Codec calls. Starting from ''Uncharted'', all of their [=LPs=] have had both "Cut" and "Uncut" versions of every video, the former of which removes their commentary during cutscenes as before and the latter which retains it.
143* AluminumChristmasTrees
144** [[invoked]] Chip and KC Green have a hard time believing that [[HeroicMime John Luke]] is a real member of [[Series/DuckDynasty the Robertson clan]], and not an OriginalCharacter made up for the game. They're even more amazed when they realize [[ExpositionFairy Cousin Beaux]] ''is'' an original character.
145** [[invoked]] As part of a RunningGag in the ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVIIRemake'' LP, Ironicus refuses to believe Chip when he talks about the last names of the members of Cloud's party (except Barret).
146* AndNowForSomeoneCompletelyDifferent: Chip has sometimes used co-commentators other than Ironicus; [=VoidBurger=] for ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid'' [[spoiler:(featuring a brief cameo by Ironicus)]] and the multiplayer portion of ''VideoGame/Uncharted2AmongThieves'', snarkcookie for ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolidPeaceWalker'' and KC Green for ''Series/DuckDynasty''.
147* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: Happens at the beginning of "[[Manga/MadBull34 Bad Anime #2]]", where Chip put a {{NSFW}} message: "WARNING - Not Safe For Work - Murder, Gore, Sex, Sexism, Nudity, Attempted Rape, '''Brooklyn Accents'''"
148* ArtisticLicenseGeography: Half the fun of the ''VideoGame/WatchDogs'' LP is hearing Ironicus rant about various inaccuracies in the game's portrayal of UsefulNotes/{{Chicago}}.
149* AscendedExtra: ''Literature/RogueWarrior'' was initially just a video Chip made for the Something Awful Let's Try thread. Almost a full year later, it became its own separate LP for a bad games thread.
150* AsHimself: [[spoiler:Chip appears as one of Aiden's Privacy Invasion victims in TheStinger of the ''VideoGame/WatchDogs'' LP.]]
151* AuthorAppeal:
152** Ironicus sure loves his comic books. Also ''VideoGame/ViewtifulJoe''.
153** Chip has a thing for showing off as many GoodBadBugs as possible, especially those involving RagdollPhysics. He's also a massive VideoGame/MetalGear fan.[[invoked]]
154** The games that Chip chooses for his Let's Plays usually have an eccentric older male relative (typically a {{Cool|Uncle}} and/or CreepyUncle); in the absence of such, [[AlternateCharacterInterpretation Chip and Ironicus will reinterpret another character to fit the mold.]] Notable examples include [[VideoGame/BeyondGoodAndEvil Pey'J]], [[VideoGame/{{Uncharted}} Victor Sullivan]], and [[VideoGame/MegaManLegends Grandpa]]. This was eventually taken to its logical conclusion with Aiden Pierce, a PlayerCharacter avenging the death of his niece.[[invoked]]
155--->'''Ironicus:''' [[VideoGame/WatchDogs This game]] is ''not'' helped by "uncle" [[InherentlyFunnyWords being the funniest relative]].
156* BatmanGambit: Chip pulls a hilarious one in the 19th episode of his ''Watch_Dogs'' LP, relying on ArtificialStupidity to get an easy kill during a mission. [[spoiler:Knowing that his target will get into a certain car and drive forward at full speed, he simply parks a car directly into its path... a car that has been covered with bombs.]]
157* BigWhat: Practically his catchphrase.
158* BrandX: Muuk Energy Drink as part of a TakeThat against blip.tv's video-partnering sponsorship program.
159* BrickJoke: Plenty.
160** ''VideoGame/{{Killer7}}'' has two - the first being Ironicus's reference to Theatre/{{Rent}} (which is alluded to in the credits for the LP), and the second being the doctor that Ironicus tells Chip to see, who appears in TheStinger for the ''Metal Gear Solid 3'' LP.
161** In the beginning of the ''[=MGS2=]'' LP, Chip enters the player name as "Suck my dick." The moment when Raiden pulls out his dog tags to reveal his "name" in the ending makes the whole journey worthwhile.
162** During the ''Spider-Man'' LP, the duo make mention of an Octocamo pattern in ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid4GunsOfThePatriots'' that makes Snake look exactly like The Shocker. It comes up again when they actually LP ''[=MGS4=]'', being brought up in the second update. Said camo doesn't appear until ''fifteen updates later''.
163* ButtMonkey: The other G-Unit members in ''VideoGame/FiftyCentBloodOnTheSand'' due to Chip constantly shooting and cussing at them, but ''especially'' Tony Yayo, the first one Chip brings along. It becomes a RunningGag to remark that everyone and everything (up to and including [[http://lparchive.org/50-Cent-Blood-on-the-Sand/Images/5-img_.jpg inanimate arcade machines]]) is better than Tony Yayo.
164* CallBack: The [[Series/TimAndEricAwesomeShowGreatJob "SPORTS!"]] music from the ''VideoGame/NoMoreHeroes'' LP briefly plays when Chip finds the SPORTS magazine in ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid2SonsOfLiberty''.
165* CatchPhrase
166** Ironicus will often say "This is the best game" whenever something really neat happens.
167** Chip says "STAR WARS!" so much during the Lego Star Wars LP that it constitutes as a temporary one, at least.
168--->'''Chip:''' R2, no! R2, WHY?!
169** Chip seems to like saying "There's a man" whenever he's pointing out an enemy that will become the center of amazing things.
170** Ironicus is also quite fond of saying "The end, credits roll" when something ridiculous happens, or at points that'd make a good cutoff for a video. Heard a ridiculous amount during the mind boggling ending cutscenes of ''[[VideoGame/MetalGearSolid4GunsOfThePatriots Metal Gear Solid 4]]''.
171* TheCameo:
172** In the original ''No More Heroes'' LP, LetsPlay/{{slowbeef}} [[WebVideo/{{Retsupurae}} and]] LetsPlay/{{Diabetus}} do "guest commentary" (actually unrelated Skype conversations with Chip about, respectively, the thread for the LP and books) for the Bitter Mode runs of Holly Summers and Speed Buster.
173** Also, Creator/EdwynTiong (aka [[VideoGame/TheTrappedTrilogy Dan McNeely]], aka [[WebAnimation/{{Xin}} Legend]]) ending ''VideoGame/TheYouTestament'' LP with a dramatic reading of two of [=MDickie's=] ([[SmallNameBigEgo incredibly egotistical]]) journal entries.
174** ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid'' was done by Chip and [=VoidBurger=], but during the Psycho Mantis fight General Ironicus is suddenly there after the first blackout. [=VoidBurger=] returns after a third blackout.
175** "The End" of ''Metal Gear Solid 2'' features readings of some of Creator/HideoKojima's tweets by other Something Awful regulars, including Voidburger, Baldurk, Blister, [[LetsPlay/FreelanceAstronauts Ferr]], and, again, slowbeef and Diabetus.
176* ContinuityNod:
177** In 'What If?' Mode of the Spider-Man LP, Scorpion and JJJ play Marco Polo, and Spider-Man says "Fish outta water!" Chip then gloats that there's something else to say in Marco Polo. Then, in part 6 of ''Uncharted 2'', Chip triggers the Marco Polo event. When Drake gets out of the pool he says "Fish outta water!" Chip then gloats about it again.
178** In the Trial #2 video during the ''Uncharted 2'' LP, Ironicus advertises his new CD, using the picture that Chip had used to show him in the Message to Ironicus video of the ''No More Heroes'' LP.
179** Early in the first ''Uncharted'', Chip talks up one of the first deaths he leaves in the video due to the ragdoll physics making it uniquely amusing. Upon hearing that the death happens while he's clambering over low cover, Ironicus immediately assumes he will be clipping into the cover and spazzing out upon dying, like the first death left on-video in ''50 Cent: Blood on the Sand''.
180** TheStinger of ''VideoGame/{{killer7}}'' has the reveal that [[spoiler:the LP never happened]], with Ironicus suggesting Chip see a psychiatrist. The stinger to ''Metal Gear Solid 3'', their next LP, has Chip actually visiting said psychiatrist (played by Ironicus).
181** In the introduction to Act 2 of ''Metal Gear Solid 4'', as Snake talks about how the data recovered at the end of ''2'' is a "load of crap", Chip jokes that "fighting the President with cyber-octo-arms" (aka Solidus Snake) is perfectly normal in comparison to the twelve founders of an ongoing conspiracy having been dead for a hundred years. Ironicus then claims that that's as weird as having world policy decided by one school in Washington - as ended up being the case in ''killer7''.
182** In ''Uncharted 3'' #14, during a cutscene, the duo start talking about Bear Grylls in their attempts to give Drake "survival tips", and then Chip notes how he once bought a Bear Grylls-branded survival knife that almost immediately broke. Ironicus asks him if it had matches in the grip, calling back to a radio conversation from ''Metal Gear Solid 3'' where Sigint tried to give Snake a knife with matches in the grip, among other things, which Snake rejected because that made the knife too brittle for actual use.
183** ''Metal Gear Rising'' #9-1 has a part early on where Jetstream Sam gives TheReasonYouSuckSpeech to Raiden while he's restricted to a slow walk through an alleyway filled with monitors and holographic projectors for Sam to give the speech through. About halfway through, Ironicus wonders when Sam will start mentioning "the garden of madness" and giving Raiden his odds of surviving the next boss fight, much like the phone calls before every ranked assassin fight way back in ''No More Heroes''.
184* CutenessOverload: Ironicus has this twice over in ''Revengeance'', once during the first Dwarf Gekko segment, and especially in the Blade Wolf DLC.
185-->'''Ironicus:''' His paws are so ''cute'' when he pushes buttons!
186* DeadpanSnarker: Both of them, especially when playing games of... ''lesser'' quality.
187* DisproportionateRetribution: Ironicus assumes at a slow moment during the ''Metal Gear Solid 3'' LP that Chip is doing said LP merely because Ironicus made a comment on ''not'' LP'ing stealth games, which Chip then jokingly agrees with.
188-->'''Chip:''' Hours of my life just for one offhand comment months ago.
189* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: At the end of the ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolidV'' LP, Chip and Ironicus discuss the various fan conspiracy theories that ''VideoGame/DeathStranding'' was a ''Metal Gear'' game in disguise. Chip notes that, as the game approached its release date and it became clear that ''Death Stranding'' would be its own IP with no connection to Kojima's prior work, one group of theorists called it quits, and the other dug in harder than ever. Ironicus immediately makes a comparison to [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millerism#Post_Great_Disappointment_Millerism the schism among Millerite Christians after the Great Disappointment of 1844]].
190* TheDreaded: Enemies wielding pipes are this in the ''VideoGame/NoMoreHeroes'' LP.
191-->'''Ironicus:''' I hate pipes...\
192'''Chip:''' It's always the ''pipes'' that get me! It doesn't matter if it's ''laser brass knuckles'', or a ''katana'', or a ''laser sword''-\
193'''Ironicus:''' Or a ''gun'', it's always the pipes.\
194'''Chip:''' ''Always'' the ''pipes''!
195* EnsembleDarkhorse: Invoked during ''VideoGame/TheWonderful101'' with P-Star; Ironicus quickly grows attached to him, and is especially enthused when [[spoiler:P-Star gets to participate in the {{Womb Level}}'s end boss]].
196* TheFaceless: Prior to his, Ironicus' and [=VoidBurger=]'s [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oG0A9Ujgyjc appearance at the C2E2 Let's Play panel]], whenever Chip recorded a video of himself, ''just'' enough of his face was obscured to keep you wondering, but gave you a good idea.
197* FailedASpotCheck: In part 17 of the ''Metal Gear Solid V'' LP, Chip and Ironicus both completely miss the fact that the prisoner Boss had to rescue for a side mission ''died'' in the middle of the firefight Chip got into, meaning he failed the mission and Boss ends up dropping a ''dead body'' in the helicopter.
198* FakeShemp: Ironicus in the ''Watch_Dogs'' stinger is played by [=VoidBurger=] wrapped in a sheet.
199* FriendlyFireProof: During their ''50 Cent: Blood on the Sand'' LP, they make a habit out of shooting the friendly NPC whenever there's downtime. This leaves a massive bloody stain on the wall, but their G-Unit companion doesn't even flinch.
200* FunWithSubtitles: Since the ''Duck Dynasty'' game didn't have any subtitles, Chip had to add them in himself. He took to opportunity to make some extra jokes along with them.
201-->''(Please help me, [[HeroicMime my voice has been stolen]]. The truck comes at six.)''
202* GainaxEnding: Often occurs whenever he ends an LP, [[TheStinger usually after the credits roll.]]
203** At the end of the ''No More Heroes'' LP (during the last Bitter Mode videos), parodying Creator/{{Suda51}}'s penchant for weird, nonsensical endings.
204** Another one for a Creator/Suda51 game at the end of the ''VideoGame/{{Killer7}}'' LP, where it turns out that [[spoiler:the LP never happened.]]
205** The ending of ''Metal Gear Solid 2'', between the rest of the ''Cabela's 2010'' demo and other SA regulars reading Hideo Kojima's tweets, had the duo reveal that ''they'' are the Patriots, and that the entire thread was part of the "T3 Plan" ("[[FunWithAcronyms Terrible Thread Testing]]") to see [[TakeThat just how bad an LP thread could possibly be]].
206** The final Duck Dynasty video, simply titled "jl", which is unadulterated SurrealHorror.
207* GenreShift: ''VideoGame/{{Rez}}'' and ''VideoGame/CondemnedCriminalOrigins'' were done by Chip alone, with subtitles instead of voice commentary (except in the eighth video for the latter). The first run through ''VideoGame/ZoneOfTheEnders'' and ''VideoGame/{{Bastion}}'' were also solo, though he still actually talked.
208** Not to mention any time he switches to a ''Cabela's'' hunting game mid-LP, most recently in the 'Trials' in the middle of Uncharted 2.
209** ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolidPeaceWalker'', after the first mission, is a [[CoOpMultiplayer literal co-op LP]] together with snarkcookie.
210* GirlOnGirlIsHot: [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments Hilariously]] {{averted|Trope}} in his WebVideo/{{Retsupurae}} video [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OlC0eJ6m-1M "Yowie wowie!!!"]] Most of the video consists of two girls kissing, but [[spoiler:[[YaoiFangirl they're actually]] [[{{Cosplay}} dressed up as]] [[Anime/{{Naruto}} Naruto and Sasuke]] [[ScriptFic acting out a]] SlashFic.]]
211-->'''Chip:''' [[NauseaFuel I feel really weird right now.]] This is [[SickAndWrong wrong.]] [[AllMenArePerverts Usually]] I'd be like [[{{Squee}} "YEAAAAH!"]] but I'm like [[NoJustNoReaction "No, um, no..."]]\
212'''General Ironicus:''' [[ItMakesSenseInContext I'm boxing up that lamp and putting it in storage.]]
213* HadToComeToPrisonToBeACrook: Ironicus jokes that [[VideoGame/TheWonderful101 Wonder-Prisoner]] learned his bomb-making skills while inside Alcatraz.
214* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:[[VideoGame/MetalGearSolid3SnakeEater Mission J. Frog.]]]] He was a true patriot.
215* HerrDoktor: Ironicus plays one in one of the bonus episodes for their ''Metal Gear Solid 3'' LP, overlapping with TheShrink.
216* HiddenDepths: It usually doesn't show up much in their Let's Plays or [=RPs=] but Ironicus has more than a little knowledge of sociology, as the ''50 Cent: Blood on the Sand'' LP showed. He also [[http://www.formspring.me/Ironicus/q/306647958554689318 apparently enjoys poetry]].
217** According to an offhand joke in Slowbeef's Let's Play of ''VideoGame/MetroidPrime3Corruption'', Ironicus is a sociology major.
218** He also shows off an impressive knowledge of Film/JamesBond trivia for ''VideoGame/{{Killer7}}''.
219** In the ''Uncharted'' LP, Ironicus and Chip spend about a minute discussing which of several ice-skating techniques a particular ragdoll death animation resembled more.
220** Ironicus is also a ''huge'' history buff, to the point that he started [[Podcast/HistoryHoneys a history podcast with his wife]] in 2016.
221* HurricaneOfPuns: Ironicus makes up a string of train-related puns during Part 11 of the ''Uncharted 2'' LP.
222** He does it again, with arms and hands, during the Mistral fight in ''VideoGame/MetalGearRisingRevengeance''.
223* IWarnedYou: During ''Cabela's Dangerous Hunts'', Ironicus complains about the loud volume during a "On Rails"-segment, to which Chip responds: "I told you it would be loud."
224* InsistentTerminology: Frequently. For example, in ''Uncharted'', AI partners are referred to as 'buddies', and by extension, special melee moves that can be performed with your partners in ''Uncharted 4'' are 'buddy moves'.
225* ItWasHisSled[[invoked]]
226** [[DiscussedTrope Discussed]] in relation to ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVIIRemake'''s treatment of Sephiroth. In the original, Sephiroth is barely mentioned until [[spoiler:he kills President Shinra off-screen]] at a point in the story around where [[DividedForAdaptation the first remake]] ends. In the remake, Sephiroth appears frequently [[spoiler:throughout the story as Cloud's hallucinations, his murder of Shinra is on-screen, and Sephiroth is also the FinalBoss]]. Ironicus argues that Sephiroth's slow-burn reveal from the original game is a trick that can't be pulled a second time, because he is a huge pop-culture icon that has eclipsed his own game, and arguably his franchise.
227** Otherwise averted during the LP, as Chip does not discuss any plot points from the original until they become relevant in the remake, while asking those in the thread and Website/YouTube comments to do the same.
228* KindheartedCatLover: Chip owns a couple of cats. One of them likes to jump on his desk while he's recording.
229** He also has at least one dog, offhandedly mentioning so while Ironicus discusses a breed of dog he'd like to own in the first ''No More Heroes'', and in the 19th video of ''No More Heroes 2'', noting how his dad has to present the dog they do own to him whenever they leave so said dog doesn't get lonely and think they've abandoned him.
230** And as of ''Metal Gear Solid V'', Ironicus owns a dog as well, which is never more clear than when she interrupts a discussion of [[AssistCharacter D-Dog's]] abilities by loudly squeaking a toy into his mic for close to a minute.
231* LetsPlay: One of the most famous LP duos on Something Awful.
232* LordBritishPostulate: In ''Duck Dynasty'', the members of the Robertson family are invincible, but [[https://youtu.be/tiGsF9W-a6M?list=PLrekaHLD2rhZnbTnEnEmUSl3nELk1ONUM&t=392 Chip finds a way]] to push a few of them into the water using John Luke's truck.
233* ManOfAThousandVoices: Chip frequently impersonates the characters in each game. Invoked repeatedly in the ''Metal Gear Solid'' LP, when [[RunningGag VoidBurger tries pressuring Chip]] into doing a [[VeteranInstructor Master Miller impression]].
234** [=VoidBurger=], on the other hand, does an ''absolutely perfect'' impression of [[Anime/PokemonTheSeries Ash Ketchum]]. She also does a spot on impression of a squeaky voiced lets player when she guested on Retsupurae.
235** Ironicus is very adept at Solid Snake impressions. So is Chip.
236** Subverted during the ''VideoGame/{{Killer7}}'' LP, when Chip fails spectacularly (and hilariously) at doing a ComicStrip/{{Popeye}} impersonation.
237* MindScrew: Happens quite a few times throughout his Lets Plays, usually at [[GainaxEnding the end]] [[TheStinger of a game.]]
238** To go along with the Psycho Mantis fight, Voidburger suddenly becomes Ironicus during the first Hideo Blackout. The second, Chip is now playing a hunting simulator as if it were a dad-themed RPG, while receiving Codec calls from himself trying to remember what he was actually supposed to be doing. The next video restores the game, and a third blackout in the midst of the boss fight brings back Voidburger.
239** The "uncut" versions for the fourth and sixth videos of the ''Condemned'' LP add audio of, respectively, Ironicus reading bad fanfiction to friends and Chip and Ironicus trying to play ''VideoGame/LinksCrossbowTraining'' together, both with (nearly-)unintelligible messages occasionally popping up. Between the seventh and eighth videos is also a video titled "House", consisting of a minute-long shot of a house while an unknown voice talks about how it "wants to meet you".
240** The last video for the Series/DuckDynasty LP. It's extremely unsettling, showing [[spoiler:the protagonist undergoing {{Body Horror}} while bringing in what may or may not be [[ApocalypseHow the apocalypse]] through the form of an old VHS tape]].
241* MistakenForGay: During a Let's Play by Voidburger, with Chip co-commentating, it's revealed that Voidburger's father thought that Chip was gay, due to his cleanliness.
242* MundaneMadeAwesome:
243** Feeding your cat in ''No More Heroes''.
244--->'''Chip:''' Cat. Again.\
245'''Ironicus:''' We are number 8.[[note]]Chip just finished defeating the rank 8 assassin[[/note]]\
246'''Chip:''' WE'RE FEEDING IT!\
247'''Ironicus:''' Let's feed our cat now that we're number 8. We are the number 8th cat feeder in the world.\
248'''Chip:''' Yes! I'm on the cover of Cat Feeding Magazine!
249** Later on in their LP of the sequel, their [[ItMakesSenseInContext cat massaging]] is eventually sped up and set to thrash metal.
250* NobodyPoops: Lampshaded:
251-->'''[=VoidBurger=]:''' What is it with [[Creator/QuanticDream David Cage]] games and pissing? Why does everyone piss? Is he one of those people that found it unrealistic that, like, in ''Zelda'' Link never goes to the bathroom?\
252'''Chip:''' That's like a thought that five-year-olds have, though! Like, I thought that when I watched Franchise/PowerRangers, like 'When do they pee?! They never pee! When do they go to the bathroom?!'
253* NonSequitur: Chip and his co-commentators tend to start new discussions in the middle of cutscenes. Not a problem if you're watching with Uncut Commentary, but if you're watching the edited version, it can drop you off mid-discussion with no prior context once gameplay resumes, seemingly coming off as this.
254* NoodleIncident: Played with during their ''VideoGame/{{Killer7}}'' playthrough. Played straight when Ironicus asks if Chip passed the question on his ''physics'' test related to ''gutting a deer with his bare hands''. Averted, when Chip, later in the video, explains that his physics professor took time out of class to show his students the ''decaying deer that had been sitting in his truck for hours''.
255-->'''Chip:''' The tongue was hanging out, there were flies on its face it was... ugh.
256* NotMakingThisUpDisclaimer:
257** In the final battle of ''VideoGame/MetalGearRisingRevengeance'', when [[spoiler:Senator Armstrong kicks Raiden like a football and he lands to the sound of a football crowd cheering]], Chip hastily blurts outs "The [[spoiler:football crowd cheering]] is not me, that's in the cutscene!"
258** Similarly, while playing ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolidVGroundZeroes'', he also points out that he didn't add a comical "Ding!" sound to a gameplay clip where [[CherryTapping he knocks out a guard in slow-motion with an empty magazine]].
259* OffscreenInertia: Parodied at the end of ''Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance''. The ''Jetstream'' DLC is a {{prequel}} to ''Rising'' proper, which Chip saved for the end. Since it ends with Sam's first appearance in the main game and a message outright stating that the story is {{to be continued}} in the main game, Chip jokes that he's now trapped the viewers in an infinite loop of forever rewatching the LP.
260* OffscreenMomentOfAwesome: In episode 10-2 of the Peace Walker LP, Chip and his co-op partner Snarkcookie are separated and she gets caught due to the game's AI being slightly smart for once. By the time Chip gets to her to help, she's just taking out the last guard that was surrounding her.
261* OnceDoneNeverForgotten: PlayedForLaughs. Big Boss says "Black site, nice." exactly once, in the opening cutscene of ''Ground Zeroes'', but Chip's Let's Play of ''Metal Gear Solid V'', everyone (including Big Boss, and even Chip and Ironicus themselves) has to impulsively say "nice" any time someone mentions a black site. [[RunningGag Nice.]]
262* OneSteveLimit: Averted. Any time Chip comes up with an 'original' character, chances are his name will be 'Hank', whether he's Chip's player-character in ''VideoGame/TheYouTestament'', an {{expy}} for [[Manga/DragonBall Goku]], or Liquid Ocelot's "true identity".
263* OrphanedPunchline: A unique example, where in most cases due to [[AlternateDVDCommentary commentary during cutscenes only being hearable on a second audio track or in an "uncut" version of a video]], it's up to the viewer whether this trope is in effect or not. For instance, from Act 4 of ''Metal Gear Solid 4'', during a cutscene in the offices where the Grey Fox fight took place in during [=MGS1=], the duo start discussing the two MSX games in the series. Those watching the cut version miss the vast majority of this conversation because it's happening during a cutscene, so apparently apropos of nothing, Ironicus states right after returning to gameplay that "they can retcon everything in [[VideoGame/MetalGear2SolidSnake that game]] ''except'' for poisonous Zanzibar hamsters".
264* {{Padding}}:[[invoked]] During the last few videos of the ''Metal Gear Solid 2'' LP, Chip would deliberately do meaningless things just before cutscene triggers, joking that he's afraid of them.
265* PickyEater: Chip once states that "I hate most food because it doesn't taste like candy."
266* ProductPlacement: Invoked by Chip at the beginning of the ''Uncharted 2'' LP, trying to take advantage of blip.tv advertising money.
267-->'''Chip:''' Okay, look, Blip. There's a video game coming out, and I know you're going to advertise it, and I just want to say there's no better way to experience a video game than an Alienware gaming laptop, played at a local cafe.\
268'''Ironicus:''' Yes. It makes you feel like you're in the game -- to such a degree that you may embarrass yourself in public, but that's okay, because the experience is so strong.\
269'''Chip:''' Yes. This Alienware gaming laptop comes with haptic feedback so that your laptop rumbles just like a rumble pack. It's a little inconvenient, but it's so immersive you won't believe how amazing VideoGame/DukeNukemForever is.
270** This is followed by the second episode being littered with sudden, highly intrusive advertisements for various products and restaurants.
271* PsychoKnifeNut: During his playthrough of ''Rogue Warrior'', Chip liked to forgo any gunplay in favor of just running up and stabbing everyone to death, even referring to the main character as a knife tornado.
272* PutOnABus: Ironicus has had a nasty habit of turning up absent recently due to real life complications, up to and including him living in a different state from Chip during ''50 Cent: Blood on the Sand'' at least. It got to the point where the end of one of their [=LPs=] listed him as having died after recording.
273** TheBusCameBack: Since ''[=MGS4=]'', though ''Peace Walker'' in co-op was also done without him, because he doesn't have a [=PS3=].
274* RescuedFromTheScrappyHeap: {{Discussed|Trope}} during ''VideoGame/TheWonderful101''. Ironicus feels like ''VideoGame/MetalGearRisingRevengeance'' did this for Sunny, as opposed to Raiden, whom Ironicus never disliked. [[invoked]]
275* RhymesOnADime: "[[VideoGame/KingdomHeartsII Time flies when]] [[spoiler:Goofy dies]]", and "[[VideoGame/AssassinsCreedII Jump in some hay,]] [[SoftWater and you'll be A-OK.]]"
276** "[[LampshadeHanging I'm a poet, and I didn't even know it!]]"
277* RunningGag:
278** Switching abruptly to a ''Cabela's'' hunting game and acting like nothing is unusual about this.
279** Referencing ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil4'' at least once per LP.
280*** Finally {{lampshade|Hanging}}d by Ironicus in part 5 of Cabela's Dangerous Hunts.
281** in ''VideoGame/{{Uncharted}} 2'', Ironicus mispronouncing Lazarevic's name.
282*** After Drake and Sully come across an abandoned U-boat at the top of a very tall waterfall early in the first ''Uncharted'', with a very flimsy and improbable explanation about flooding and heading upriver, Chip and Ironicus (the latter in particular) start referring to beached boats and other such things in impossible locations for the rest of the game and the next two as having "gone upriver".
283** Every time a member of the B&B Corps shows up in a cutscene during ''Metal Gear Solid 4'', Ironicus will say something to the effect of "[[FridgeLogic You know what]] [[BellisariosMaxim I don't like about]] WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast?" [[invoked]]
284** Ever since their Let's Play of No More Heroes, every time Chip looks at the "hard" mode in a game includes a reference that "Many strong men await you".
285** During ''VideoGame/{{killer7}}'', voice clips of Travis from ''No More Heroes'' can occasionally be heard in the background when the killer7 Travis is talking.
286*** Chip's inability to hit weakpoints on elbows is a recurring thing as well. At one point he only manages to hit an enemy's elbow weak point on the first shot [[EpicFail because it involved missing the elbow weak-point of the enemy]] he was ''[[AccidentalAimingSkills actually]]'' aiming at.
287*** As well as making characters dance up and down the stairs in the Vinculum Gate.
288** An example that only lasts one video: [[VideoGame/MetalGearRisingRevengeance Senator Armstrong]] [[ThatOneBoss is]] [[ThatOneAttack a]] [[HealingFactor jerk.]]
289** Chip and Ironicus getting more and more impressed with Alice in ''VideoGame/TheWonderful101'', to the point where by the last levels, they're sure that she competently participated in the previous Earth Defense War, while being a fetus.
290** Chip's "Original Characters", which just amounts to poorly drawn picture or poorly edited pre-existing pictures, and they're always named "Hank."
291** Appending "nice" whenever anybody - including the duo themselves - say "black site" in ''Metal Gear Solid V''.
292* TheScrappy: [[invoked]]
293** In ''VideoGame/TheWonderful101'', Ironicus takes an ''instant'' dislike to Professor Shirogane.
294** The duo also develops a dislike of Luka as the game carries on.
295** Chip seems to really hate [[VideoGame/MetalGear Naomi Hunter]], especially in ''Metal Gear Solid 4'', to the point that when the first boss in the game disguises herself as Naomi, Chip responds by [[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill shooting her with an RPG]].
296** '''[[{{VideoGame/Killer7}} Iwazaru]]''', to the point where Chip flat-out refuses to transcribe most of what he says or even talk to him unless absolutely necessary about halfway through the LP. He does admit however that Iwazaru starts making up for being so annoying by actively helping collect the color samples in the "Alter Ego" chapter.
297*** They seem to hate all the Remnant Psyches except for Travis and Yoo-Hyun, as they see them as entertaining in delivering exposition.
298** They also have a hate for most of the conversation transcript [=NPCs=] in ''VideoGame/WatchDogs'', due to most of them being [[{{Jerkass}} massive assholes]].
299** Horacio the manatee from ''Shamu's Deep Sea Adventure'' during Gextra Life 2017, due to him [[AnnoyingVideoGameHelper not letting Ironicus play the game.]]
300** Chip and Ironicus are not sympathetic to [[{{VideoGame/FinalFantasyVIIRemake}} the leaders of Wall Market]] at all. Being complicit in Don Corneo's human trafficking scheme tends to have that effect.
301* TheScrooge: Chip gets accused of being this by Ironicus during the ''Metal Gear Solid 4'' LP, because he insists on only recording footage on Wednesdays and Sundays (where you can get a 20% discount on all items purchasable with [[GlobalCurrency Drebin Points]]), and only stops once he gets to Act 5, where those daily discounts are over (because you get a ''50%'' discount for the entire act).
302* SelfDeprecation:
303** When discussing childhood in the ''[=MGS1=]'' LP:
304--->'''Chip:''' Everyone went, like, bonkers for gel pens. Even I did. I drew dragons and shit with them 'cause I was retarded as hell.
305** During the Bitter Mode fight against the final boss of ''VideoGame/NoMoreHeroes'', the two are discussing possible gimmicks for the video, and Ironicus suggests pretending they're fashion designers in the game's world:
306---> '''Ironicus:''' Ah, that'd be lame.\
307'''Chip:''' Plus we'd have to sound gay, and we... ''[Ironicus laughs]'' Well, that's us all the time, so.\
308'''Ironicus:''' I've had enough of that!
309** Late into ''Metal Gear Solid 3'', Chip calls attention to a Viddler comment on one of their earlier videos which referred to the pair as "Shit Shitzum" and "General Lack of Intelligence". Ironicus responded by saying it was "pretty accurate".
310* SelfImposedChallenge: Chip achieved the "{{Tsuchinoko}}" rank in ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid3SnakeEater'' by capturing said animal and keeping it with him for the entire game; he also stated a goal of acquiring every animal in the game and eating them, though he missed one or two. In the stream of ''[[VideoGame/{{Fahrenheit}} Indigo Prophecy]]'', he apparently aimed to pee in every single toilet in the game.
311* ShoutOut: Tons, seeing as both Chip and Ironicus are very much JustForFun/OneOfUs.
312** When fighting on the baseball field before the Bad Girl fight in ''VideoGame/NoMoreHeroes'', Chip makes a montage of the various minigames, styled after the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7u9hP4r1S8 "Sports!" music video]] from ''Series/TimAndEricAwesomeShowGreatJob''.
313** Ironicus rattles off a huge amount of comic references during the VideoGame/{{killer7}} LP:
314--->'''Ironicus:''' I was [[Franchise/{{Superman}} born on the planet Krypton]] where my parents were [[Comicbook/SpiderMan bitten by a radioactive spider]] which [[Franchise/{{Batman}} killed them before my very eyes]] so I was sent on a small spaceship to the planet Earth [[Franchise/WonderWoman as an envoy of the Amazons]] where [[ComicBook/FantasticFour I passed through cosmic radiation which gave me many powers]] though when I landed I crashed into radioactive waste which [[Comicbook/{{Daredevil}} blinded me, but heightened my other senses]]; since I landed [[Comicbook/TheFlash I bonded with the Speed Force]] and met with [[Comicbook/GreenLantern a representative of the Guardians of Oa who gave me a power ring]] in order to defend [[Comicbook/CaptainAmerica truth, justice, and the American way]]. [[SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome Please let me into]] [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments your comic house!]]
315** ''VideoGame/WatchDogs'' #12 was titled [[{{LetsPlay/Slowbeef}} Longshoreman]] [[VideoGame/DeadToRights X]].
316** Chip even manage to give a shout-out to ''WebVideo/MarbleHornets'' of all things; At the start of his Bitter fight with [[VideoGame/NoMoreHeroes Dr. Shake]], the video cuts out with the same level of video and audio distortion that is present in MH. Even the video's title is synonymously named after them: "Pewter Bumblebees".
317** The very first words of the ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolidV'' LP:
318--->'''Chip:''' [[Literature/ATaleOfTwoCities It was the best of Metal Gears, it was the worst of Metal Gears.]]
319* ShownTheirWork: Frequently. For example, during ''Metal Gear Solid 4'', Ironicus opined that it would be cooler to have the Octocamo suit capable of mimicking motion in real time, and Chip responds that Konami tried it and found it would take too much processing power. [[note]]Stealth Camo is usable by Snake in a NewGamePlus, but it basically just turns his model to glass.[[/note]]
320* SophisticatedAsHell: In ''Blood On the Sand'', General Ironicus launches into a long reading about the sociological implications of ghetto vernacular from ''American Aparteid''. At the end, he says "In conclusion, stop typing like you're ghetto, you fat white kids at your computers, God damnit!"
321* StealthParody: Chip's alter-ego, [[https://www.youtube.com/user/ChippoWai Chippowai]]. An insanely creepy, easily-distracted and only seldomly comprehensible otaku who's pretty much a gross exaggeration of bad Website/YouTube [=LPers=] and people who defend them.
322* StraightManAndWiseGuy: Ironicus and Chip, respectively, tend to commentate as this, with Ironicus usually having a much more level-headed approach. There's a bit of interlap, however, considering Ironicus' leaps of logic, and Chip's focus on being informative in his [=LPs=].
323* SurrealHorror: The final Series/DuckDynasty video, simply titled [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZDtSwyIjwI "jl"]].
324* StylisticSuck:
325** The video for the Bitter Mode "run" of [[VideoGame/NoMoreHeroes Letz]] [[TheUnfought Shake]] is done in a typical bad LP fashion, complete with jittery webcam footage.
326** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJJSbId_W-U His trailer]] for the Let's Play Wanking Session also has elements like terrible chroma keying, Hank the Chog, and INTUITIVE BORDERS.
327* SwappedRoles: Ironicus jokes early in the Plant chapter of ''[=MGS2=]'' that he loves the game because of its insistence on interrupting the gameplay with Codec conversations and/or cutscenes every five seconds lets Chip know how it feels to be the co-commentator.
328-->'''Ironicus:''' "God, stop playing the game and just watch it!" Now you know how it feels to be me! ''(chuckles from Chip)'' I love this game, just cause it puts you in my chair.
329* TakeThat: The announcement that their ''WebAnimation/ElementalGoddess'' videos were being hosted on their website came with an instructional video from Chip on character design. Where he tapes a picture of [[Manga/DragonBall Goku]] to a drawing desk, sloppily traces over it with markers and names it Hank.
330* TemptingFate: In the first part of ''VideoGame/TheYouTestament'' Let's Play, Ironicus wonders why you would ever need to jump in the game. [[spoiler:This, combined with wonky game design, was what ended up making the game unwinnable in the last video.]]
331* ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill: In [=MGS4=], when Chip fails to maximize an enemy's crying meter, he simply knocks him out and practically covers his face and body in tranquilizer darts.
332* ThisIsGonnaSuck: During the Rank 1 Bitter Mode fight in No More Heroes 2, Chip mentions that the fight footage was recorded around ''when he first got the game,'' roughly ''two full years prior.'' The reason? He started that fight on Bitter then, saw how incredibly hard it was going to be,[[labelnote:*]]According to him, that fight took him 96 minutes, and he died 18 times during the course of it.[[/labelnote]] and decided to record it right then and there just so he wouldn't have to play that fight on that difficulty again when he got to the inevitable LP.
333* TimeTravelTenseTrouble: Chip and Ironicus have a hard time explaining the timeframe in ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRBHhHwj84w MINECRAFT]]'':
334-->'''Ironicus:''' "At a point, isn't there a point where you have to start being skilled?", I thought at the time, is what I said then in the past!\
335'''Chip:''' "I don't know how long I can keep doing this! I'm dying!" I said in the past.\
336'''Ironicus:''' I also had a hard time keeping straight the timeline of events! On the one hand, there was, at the time, her speaking in black and white, and then there was her speaking in color, which happened before that, and also before I was talking about it originally, which was before I'm talking about it now, and in the color part she's talking about an ''even-further-back time''!
337* TooBleakStoppedCaring: Discussed in-universe by Chip during the VideoGame/WatchDogs LP in the context of one of the Privacy Invasion side events: since almost everyone in the game is an unlikable asshole, and those who aren't are usually being abused in some way by said assholes, the only thing you're left with is a gross, unpleasant feeling that doesn't make you want to get involved in the game's setting or story, making it "a cesspool of human misery".
338* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Chip loves his pizza.
339* UpdatedRerelease: The last few updates of their ''[=MGS2=]'' LP got re-uploaded to Website/YouTube with "Uncut" versions, similar to the second audio track found in their later LP's from ''Uncharted'' on. All of the LP's with second audio tracks later had their Uncut versions reuploaded in the same manner after the duo switched over entirely to Youtube from Blip.
340* VocalDissonance: Ironicus. You wouldn't expect a rich, smooth baritone like his to come from [[http://angietusa.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/photo-26.jpg the first man sitting on the left.]]
341* WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue: Done often at the end of games after the credits, with highly unlikely results for the characters, usually ending in a preview for the next LP.
342** The very end of ''50 Cent: Blood on the Sand'' was a ''Metal Gear Solid 3''-style timeline of future events involving the cast, ending with a "[[GratuitousFrench Les Fiddy Teribles]]" project producing clone sons of 50 Cent. [[spoiler:All of this being a lead-up to the ''Metal Gear Solid 2'' LP.]]
343** At [[http://chipandironicus.com/videos/mgs4/46.html the very end]] of the ''Metal Gear Solid 4'' LP, showing what happened to the cast after the end of the game. [[spoiler:This one was more to disagree with the extended ending of the game. Nope, Snake really did commit suicide in the graveyard, honest!]]
344* WrestlingDoesntPay: Ironicus discusses this in the lead-up to the Battle Royale event in ''No More Heroes 2'', specifically noting how, as the UAA has apparently shifted from a clandestine organization of assassins to basically the Wrestling/{{WWE}}, assassination has as such gone from the actual point of the organization to just the "second job" all the performers ''pretend'' they do when they're not "in the ring" and fighting each other to climb the ranks.
345* YouMonster: Ironicus calls Chip this late in ''[=MGS4=]'', after Chip recounts an incident in ''VideoGame/{{Civilization}} IV'' where he lost an aircraft carrier to [[DeathOfAThousandCuts a single tribalman chucking spears at it]].
346-->'''Ironicus:''' [[WhatTheHellHero Why were you attacking tribalmen with an aircraft carrier?]]

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