Line #293 LetsPlay/TheStrawhatNO


1	%%ThornBrain is trans, so even though she identified as male in the group's earlier [=LPs=], please do not refer to her with male pronouns.
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5	->''"[=TheStrawhatNO!=]: A first for everything!"''
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7	''[[https://www.youtube.com/user/TheStrawhatNO TheStrawhatNO!]]'' is a {{Lets Play}} channel headed by Creator/ThornBrain, Mugiwara Yoshi, [=JigglyJacob=], and formerly [=BigTUnit1=] of the parody channel Creator/TheMidnightFrogs. The group's Let's Play style is informative, yet [[DeadpanSnarker snarky]] and comedic commentary, with on emphasis on the game first and their personalities second. The team name is an admitted WordSaladTitle - see the entry for the trope below.
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9	[[Creator/ThornBrain Thorn]], and later Yoshi, originally did Let's Plays with former colleague [=DragonFatman=] on his [=LP=] channel [=FATLPs=]. The two split from Fatman on April 12, 2010 and started [=TheStrawhatNO!=] on April 13. They dabbled in Retsupurae for a while, sporadically recording Let's Plays after the first month ([[AbortedArc all of which were eventually canceled]]). They made the jump to Website/SomethingAwful in May 2011 with ''VideoGame/BombermanHero'', bringing Travis into the mix, and this is considered the formal beginning of TSN as it's now known.
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11	Travis bowed out of the group due to work in January 2017, and Yoshi was too busy for more than occasional commentating for the same reason, leaving Thorn as the channel's only active Let's Player for the next two years, though friend and recurring guest [=JigglyJacob=] was made a formal team member in January 2019. The channel currently has Thorn and Jacob trading off on leading [=LPs=] while Yoshi co-commentates with them. Thorn also occasionally [=LPs=] farming sims with Skippy Granola and [=YamiNoSenshi=] as "The Farm Fucks."
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13	The channel was signed with Screenwave Media from February 2018 to January 2021 and is currently independent. Thorn has a [[http://www.patreon.com/thornbrain Patreon page]] to support the channel and pay for her rent, and Yoshi [[http://www.patreon.com/mugiwarayoshi also has one]] as a tip jar.
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15	A complete archive of current and completed Let's Plays can be found [[https://themidnightfrogs.fandom.com/wiki/TheStrawhatNO!#Let.27s_Plays here]], and Best Of compilations of individual [=LPs=] can be found [[https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLuhyyy6nra7XMRo6GjGumV4iCqcD1DQzE here]].
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18	!!This group provides examples of:
19	* ABirthdayNotABreak
20	** A running joke in ''Wind Waker HD'', where Yoshi keeps announcing that this is [[HelloInsertNameHere PizzaJoe's]] worst birthday whenever anything bad happens, and then Travis points out that it's not his birthday anymore.
21	** In ''VideoGame/TheLastOfUs'', the ZombieApocalypse begins on protagonist Joel's birthday. Travis argues that Joel's birthday is ''still'' better than [=PizzaJoe=]'s.
22	* AbortedArc: The ''Fallout 3 Nuzlocke'', the original run of ''VideoGame/{{Bloodborne}}'', and all [=LPs=] before ''Bomberman Hero'' were canceled due to technical difficulties and/or lack of interest.
23	* AccentuateTheNegative: Thorn acknowledges that this was their MO for a long time. Even if they love the game being played, they will point out anything that irritates them. Thorn's made an effort since 2013 to focus on games she enjoys playing after ''Skyward Sword'' and ''Ni no Kuni'' trained so negative.
24	* AccidentalMisnaming:
25	** Thorn and Yoshi have noted that sometimes people think the channel name is "the stra-''what'' no".
26	** In ''Sleeping Dogs: Nightmare at North Point'', Travis briefly mixes up Old Salty Crab's name with "[[WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarepants Crusty Crab]]". The guys take to calling him this for the rest of the DLC.
27	* AGoodNameForARockBand:
28	** In ''VideoGame/BombermanHero'', Laser Rain is mentioned as this after an area with a lot of lasers. "Tower of Laser Spikes" and "Helicopter Brain TV" also get spoken, and they think they would make good album titles.
29	** In ''Majora's Mask'', Spiders and Seagulls, which they develop into a RevolvingDoorBand by virtue of the members eating each other and then the audience.
30	** In ''Twilight Princess'', they all agree that "Killed the ghost of an eagle" would make a great Country song.
31	** In ''Dark Souls'', Travis thinks that "Giant Toxic Slugs" and "The Frustrated Slugs" sound like Punk bands.
32	** "Calzone of Blood."
33	* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: A common in-universe comedic tool:
34	** VideoGame/{{Bomberman}} in every iteration - Superhero, or DeadpanSnarker PunchClockHero with murderous tendencies?
35	** ''Bomberman Hero'':
36	*** Pibot - An incompetent robot guarding a princess, or an insane, sociopathic rapist?
37	---->'''Thorn:''' You came for me my love.
38	---->'''Travis:''' Let's fly away on a white stallion.
39	---->'''Thorn:''' Well, it's not white anymore. It's kind of gray. I mean I crashed your ship.
40	---->'''Travis:''' Allow me to hold you in my silver, human-killing arms.
41	*** Princess Millian - Princess, or [[ItMakesSenseInContext seal]]?
42	** ''Bomberman Jetters'':
43	*** Max is depressed.
44	*** Shout isn't even paying attention to the player's actions.
45	*** All of the Jetters are monsters for attacking every Hige they see, even the ones who [[VillainsOutShopping are just hanging around]].
46	** ''Twilight Princess'':
47	*** Malo from has telekinetic powers
48	*** Colin is hated by his parents
49	*** Purlo wants to steal Link's virginity
50	*** Falbi wants Link to molest ''him''
51	*** Yeto the yeti likes shoving people for giving him soup ingredients and is also very religious.
52	*** The Freezards in Snowpeak Ruins aren't blocking a spiral staircase; they're just really amazed by walls.
53	--->"''Every time I wake up, it just gets '''BETTER!!!'''''"
54	** ''Bomberman Generation'':
55	*** The boss of Tako Desert is a Charabomb Merge GoneHorriblyWrong, and therefore wants to get rid of any future merges.
56	*** Ein is desperate for Bomberman's company.
57	** ''Skyward Sword'': Dumple (Link) is a crazy psychopath.
58	** ''Ni no Kuni'':
59	*** Drippy is made into the worst and most insufferable {{pun}}ster.
60	*** A random NPC woman is a robot grandma.
61	*** Myrtle is a CreepyChild
62	---->"I watched you from my window..."
63	---->"I wore this poofy dress for you..."
64	*** Swaine is a crazy, mumbling, homeless man who can only eat trash, eventually being dubbed "Dumpster Dracula".
65	--->'''Travis''': "I like how Swaine somehow became an even stupider character than Drippy."
66	** ''Sleeping Dogs'':
67	*** Wei and Raymond have BelligerentSexualTension and are secretly in love.
68	*** King is a {{Cloudcuckoolander}} with [[IJustWantToHaveFriends no friends]] who constantly asks Wei ridiculous questions, regardless of the time of day.
69	---->"[[CatchPhrase By the way, Wei-]]"
70	** ''Bioshock Infinite'': Elizabeth is [[VideoGame/ShadowOfTheColossus Agro part 2]].
71	** ''Majora's Mask'':
72	*** A rare non-comedic example: Thorn asserts that Link is mentally scarred and emotionally stunted by the events of his life.
73	*** Romani worships Satan, and Cremia is obsessed with spiking the farm's milk with various substances such as Kool-Aid.
74	*** The "Farewell to Gibdos" song depresses Gibdos with bad memories of carnivals.
75	** ''Punch-Out!!'': Doc Louis is constantly trolling Mac, who himself is only boxing to afford law school.
76	** ''Ocarina of Time'':
77	*** Link is stoic and unfeeling all the time, except for when he hates learning music.
78	*** Travis briefly presumes that the back alley soldier in Market Town is a homeless drunk.
79	* AmbiguousGender:
80	** [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTwilightPrincess Hanch, Renaldo, and Luda]], to Travis. He splits the difference with Hanch and Renaldo and calls them both.
81	** Bomber Elite. Even though Thorn prefaces the fight with "This is a dude", none of the three can remember it.
82	-->'''Travis:''' ''(as Bomberman)'' I loved her...
83	-->''({{Beat}})''
84	-->'''Thorn and Travis:''' ''Him.''
85	-->'''Thorn:''' I loved ''him''.
86	-->'''Travis:''' [[LampshadeHanging I'm kind of confused right now...]]
87	* AnEconomyIsYou: Lampshaded in [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTwilightPrincess the City in the Sky]], which is populated entirely by bird-like creatures with no arms, but the shop only sells items Hey Hey can use.
88	* AnimateInanimateObject: A cupcake in ''Pikmin 2'' Day 10 seems to move on its own; there is no Dweevil underneath it, and the nearby Blowhog is too far way to be pushing it. Yoshi suggests that it's being [[DemonicPossession controlled by the almond on top of it]].
89	* AnnoyingVideoGameHelper: [[invoked]] Thorn hates hand-holding that stops the gameplay to tell you what to do or how to do something she already knows how to do. Among her most hated is [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaSkywardSword Fi]], who frequently stops the game to give information that she already learned from someone else within the last minute, and [[VideoGame/NiNoKuni Drippy]], who when stopping fights to give hints always ''negates Thorn's attacks''. Marcassin ends up doing the same thing as Drippy late in ''Ni no Kuni'' whenever he casts Ward.
90	* ArtificialStupidity:
91	** In [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HchXMf-eMX4&t=6m Part 4]] of ''VideoGame/AgentUnderFire'', six different enemies (from three different recordings) blindly fall off a platform to their deaths in the ocean below.
92	** Several enemies in ''VideoGame/BombermanJetters''. The robo-carp in particular swim directly into bombs if you place one between them and yourself.
93	** Thorn takes advantage of enemies killing each other in ''Bomberman Generation'' any chance she gets.
94	** A background driver in Part 11 of ''Sleeping Dogs'' drives into another car immediately as a cutscene begins.
95	* AuthorAppeal: While some of the Mii's in ''VideoGame/TomodachiLife'' are based on TSN! {{Continuity Nod}}s, several are favourite musicians of Thorn's, such as Music/TomWaits, Music/AndrewWK and Music/JarvisCocker.
96	* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: InUniverse:
97	** Thorn often praises the soundtracks of ''The Legend of Zelda'' games when she [=LPs=] them, with ''Majora's Mask'' being an old favorite. She also considers the soundtrack for ''Skyward Sword'', a game she views poorly, to be one of its high points, and the music for Koloktos is her favorite boss theme in the entire franchise.
98	** Thorn and Travis gush over the soundtrack for ''Ni no Kuni'' every other part. The rest of the time they're chewing out the characters and writing.
99	** During a discussion on music in the ''Twilight Princess'' LP, Travis praises the soundtrack to ''VideoGame/SkiesOfArcadia''. Later when he [=LPed=] the game he praised it further.
100	** Despite her middling thoughts on the ''Bomberman'' franchise as a whole, Thorn often praises their games' soundtracks, particularly ''VideoGame/SuperBomberman 3'', ''VideoGame/SaturnBomberman'', ''VideoGame/Bomberman64TheSecondAttack'', and she even admits that she likes the memetically irritating ''Bomberman Hero'' soundtrack. She singles out ''Saturn Bomberman'' as one of her favorite game soundtracks, and it's part of why she thinks it's the best ''Bomberman'' game.
101	** Thorn notes in the ''VideoGame/HarvestMoonAnimalParade'' LP that its soundtrack is surprisingly lush and gorgeously orchestrated, and it's also one of her favorite game soundtracks.
102	* BelligerentSexualTension: The guys think this is what's going on with [[VideoGame/SleepingDogs2012 Wei and Raymond]].
103	* BerserkButton:
104	** Camcorder [[LetsPlay Let's Plays]] and child [=LPers=]. The two are usually combined, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZP57NPcjUg hence these]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4PAINff6LLk two videos]].
105	** For Thorn, being stopped mid-gameplay to be told something she already knows or something completely pointless, (E.G. Professor Ein, Shout, Fi, Mr. Drippy).
106	* BestBossEver: InUniverse, Thorn votes [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaSkywardSword Koloktos]] to be her favourite boss fight in all of ''Zelda'', with ''Majora's Mask'''s Goht a close second.
107	* BlackComedyRape: Occurred early in the team's life, but stopped in 2013.
108	** 90% of what Pibot says, aside from murdering the elderly and other bleak {{Non Sequitur}}s.
109	** Fighting the Mujoe statue miniboss in VideoGame/BombermanJetters:
110	-->'''Travis:''' ''cracking up'' I'ma gonna rape ya!!
111	* TheBladeAlwaysLandsPointyEndIn: Discussed in the ''VideoGame/ShadowOfTheColossus'' finale, which involves one of these.
112	* BobFromAccounting: One of the Bulblins slaughtered by Hey Hey in ''Twilight Princess''. [[KickTheDog Other mooks were laughing at his death.]]
113	* BondOneLiner: [[DiscussedTrope Discussed]] briefly when commenting on an enemy's aim in ''VideoGame/AgentUnderFire''.
114	--> "That's kind of a Bond line, isn't it? 'There's no way I can miss!' 'But you ''can'' die.'"
115	* BookEnds: The [[Videogame/LegendofGrimrock Grimrock 2]] LP opens on [[HeroicComedicSociopath Cricket Dazzler]] setting everyone on fire. The last episode of the mod showcase ends on Cricket Dazzler setting everyone on fire.
116	* BraggingRightsReward: Discussed with the Doomsday Apparatus in ''VideoGame/{{Pikmin}} 2'', the first boss treasure Yoshi picks up that doesn't upgrade the player.
117	* BrickJoke:
118	** ''VideoGame/BombermanHero'':
119	*** Thorn's opinion of the game is occasionally brought up as the [=LP=] goes on. She defends it heartily at the beginning, but just about hates it when the game is finished.
120	*** [[NonIndicativeName Dragon Road has no dragons]], just flying knives. The next time flying knives are encountered, Travis insists that they are dragons.
121	*** Thorn suggests early in the [=LP=] that she and Travis should write lyrics for "Redial". When the song is requested by the Website/SomethingAwful thread for a montage video near the end of the [=LP=], they do exactly that.
122	** ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTwilightPrincess'': Thorn has some inexplicable trouble opening a chest in the Goron Mines. Much later in the LP when she goes back to get a heart piece, she also goes back to the chest and opens it properly.
123	** ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaSkywardSword'': During the Lanayru Sand Sea, Thorn and Travis start talking about the to-be-Let's Played ''VideoGame/NiNoKuni'', namely how often Swaine dies in battle. Later when Thorn kills the Moldarach miniboss, Travis yells out Swaine's death cry.
124	** ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaMajorasMask'': During the Anju and Kafei sidequest, the guys joke about the Postman wondering if he can deliver mail to himself. Come the night of the final day, they see him panicking on the floor and think he's having a crisis because he still hasn't figured it out.
125	** ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTheWindWaker HD'': Yoshi explains how the islands of the sea are assigned to sectors by a number and a letter.
126	-->'''Thorn:''' Don't go to [[Creator/{{G4TV}} G4]]; it's not on anymore.
127	-->''(later in the video, Yoshi goes to the Great Fairy Fountain in that sector)''
128	-->'''Thorn:''' I TOLD YOU NOT TO GO THERE.
129	** ''VideoGame/LegendOfGrimrock II'': At the end of Part 2, Yoshi is excited to see what other disgusting foods they can feed to Pubert, and he jokes about feeding him a whole snake. When they get to the Pyramid of Umas, the cobra enemies drop their tails as food.
130	* BrokenPedestal: For many of her [=LPs=] in the first few years, Thorn started out liking the game in question, but by the end of it she and the guys learned to hate it as all of its flaws come to the forefront. It was so prevalent with ''Bomberman'' games that she predicted this would happen with ''Bomberman Generation'' before the LP even started. Travis later noted during ''Ni no Kuni'', a game that also experienced this, that only a handful of their [=LPs=] ended with them still liking the game. The ratio was upended considerably as Travis, Yoshi and later Jacob took over more [=LPs=] specifically of games they liked, and Thorn actively decided after ''Skyward Sword'' and ''Ni no Kuni'' trained so negative that she should focus on games she knew she would enjoy the whole way through.
131	* BrownNote: Just the sound of Thorn's kazoo or Travis' tuba mouthpiece is enough to send the whole trio into hysterics. When Travis brings the latter out at the end of Day 5 in Pikmin 2:
132	-->'''Yoshi:''' ''While still laughing'' That was my favorite moment in the entire fucking Let's Play.
133	* CallBack: The team often callback to previous [=LPs=] or jokes:
134	** In an early episode of ''Twilight Princess'', Link is shirtless and Thorn says [[FemaleGaze "Lllllllladies."]] Final video, [[spoiler:Midna's true form appears]]. [[MaleGaze "Mmmmmmmmm- boys."]]
135	** In ''Skyward Sword'', Travis jokes that Yeto from ''Twilight Princess'' randomly appears and shoves Fi into his soup.
136	-->'''Travis (as Yeto)''': "It's ''better'' now!"
137	** During the ''Skyward Sword'' Sandship video, Travis calls back to [[VideoGame/BombermanGeneration Constructor-X]] using [[ManOfAThousandVoices perfect impressions of]] WebAnimation/HomestarRunner and Strong Bad.
138	** [[VideoGame/BombermanHero Pibot]] found his way into the team's [=LPs=] up to ''Tomodachi Life''.
139	** In ''Majora's Mask'' Yoshi jokes about the Deku Scrub guards disapproving of anybody having fun in their palace, then linking them back to [[VideoGame/BombermanJetters Shout disapproving of the Hige-Hige Bandits having fun]].
140	** Among the portraits Thorn uses for everyone in ''Legend of Grimrock 2'', Travis's/Ogre Taint's is from the Randall video.
141	** Thorn titles Funland Co.'s introductory episode in ''Hero of Leaf Valley'' as "Punchable Faces". Come ''Story of Seasons'' and the introduction of Elise, she titles the episode "Punchable Faces 2".
142	** In ''Link's Crossbow Training,'' Yoshi brings back the "rumor has it..." gag from ''Twilight Princess,'' to Thorn's bewilderment.
143	* CallingYourAttacks: Thorn and Yoshi note that the Grand Bomber can '''not''' do this with any accuracy or cohesion.
144	* CanonDiscontinuity: Every LP from before ''Bomberman Hero'' has been removed from [=TheStrawhatNO's=] channel or set to private/unlisted. Solidified when Thorn updated all of the LP playlists, and ''Bomberman Hero'' is listed as LP #1. Blip.tv later deleted [=TheStrawhatNO=]'s account as well, making those old [=LPs=] permanently gone.
145	* CatchPhrase:
146	** "[=TheStrawhatNO!=]: A first for everything!": When they say or do something that may never have been said or done before in an LP, including "[[VideoGame/BombermanHero Robot trampoline lovemaking]]", "[[Franchise/JamesBond AI guard aneurism]]", "[[VideoGame/{{Pikmin}} fecal briefcase]]", "[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTwilightPrincess tickle on the booty-boot" and "clown repair montage]]".
147	** "[X], everybody!": Whenever they realize something particularly screwed up has happened, namely in ''Twilight Princess''. Can also be "[=TheStrawhatNO=], everybody!" when they've been saying even more ridiculous things than usual for the past few minutes.
148	** In ''Sleeping Dogs'', the guys turn "COP!" into one for everyone including themselves, "Damnit Wei!" into one for Raymond, and "By the way, Wei" into one for King.
149	* TheChewToy: [[VideoGame/NiNoKuni Drippy]] is constantly joked about as being run over, shot, and otherwise mangled as catharsis for hating his character.
150	* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}:
151	** Everyone on the team. They did write ''WebVideo/SgtFrogAbridged'' and ''WebVideo/JettersAbridged'', after all. In particular, Thorn asked Travis to co-commentate ''VideoGame/BombermanHero'' because of how quickly he comes up with ridiculous things to say.
152	--->'''Travis''': "Did you forget how abstract I am?"
153	** Travis points out in ''Shadow of the Colossus'' how there is always at least one character in every Let's Play that they make insane or creepy. These include [[VideoGame/BombermanHero Pibot]], [[VideoGame/ShadowOfTheColossus Agro]], [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaSkywardSword Fi]], [[VideoGame/{{Pikmin}} the President]], and every other NPC in ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTwilightPrincess Twilight Princess]]''.
154	* ClusterFBomb: The captions in the ''Bomberman Generation'' collection video when it gets to Eagle Bomber.
155	--->'''FUCK THIS FUCK IN THE FUCK WITH A BIG ICE FUCK'''
156	* ComedicSociopathy:
157	** Most of the love letter sidequest in ''Skyward Sword'' is spent laughing at Cawlin's misfortune.
158	-->'''Thorn (As Dumple)''': "I'm gonna sit here and laugh at you! Ha! Ha-ha!"
159	-->'''Travis (Also as Dumple)''': "So tell me how you feel, 'cause I don't care!"
160	** The entire ''Sleeping Dogs'' LetsPlay is this. Travis causes more than a ridiculous amount of pain, murder and destruction to the citizens of Hong Kong (innocent and otherwise), and the trio spend the whole time cracking up over it.
161	* CompanionCube: Everyone has their fun with "Jeremy", a statue in the [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTwilightPrincess Temple of Time]].
162	* ContinuityNod:
163	** Website/SomethingAwful members suggested names for Link and Epona in the ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTwilightPrincess Twilight Princess]]'' thread. Epona's winning name: [[VideoGame/BombermanHero Pibot]].
164	** Thorn also had the thread vote on Link's name for ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaSkywardSword Skyward Sword]]''. The winning name: [[VideoGame/{{Pikmin}} Dumple]].
165	** ''Wind Waker'''s Link was named [=PizzaJoe=]. Later when Thorn played the game's direct sequel, ''Phantom Hourglass'', [=PizzaJoe=] returned for one last hurrah.
166	* CrackPairing: In-universe, Louie x Purple Pikmin, courtesy of Travis.
167	* CreepyMonotone: Preferred method for voicing Pibot. Max's monotone isn't so much creepy as bored with life.
168	* CrossOver: Before [=JigglyJacob=] was a formal member of the team, he and Thorn collaborated on a ''VideoGame/MetalGearOnline'' session for each other's channels. Jacob's channel has [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09GvEqPimUU the condensed video]] while TSN has [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zx0kL2BQ2Hs the full session.]]
169	* CurbStompBattle:
170	** Yoshi flawlessly defeats any boss in ''Pikmin 2''. To add insult to injury in the case of the Waterwraith, the recording didn't even have Yoshi activating it in earlier sublevels.
171	** Many of Thorn's Charabom battles in ''Bomberman Generation''. The fight with Beast Pommy was particularly jarring for Yoshi and guest Jello Apocalypse.
172	** The entirety of the ''Punch Out Wii'' LP. Yoshi never takes any hits, and the opponent is knocked out in the second round. They would have been [=KO'd=] in the first round, but Yoshi wanted to show how they fought and what they said first.
173	** When Thorn isn't struggling with a boss or enemy in ''Breath of the Wild'', she often manages this against them.
174	* CutenessProximity:
175	** The guys whenever they see a dog in ''Twilight Princess''.
176	-->'''Travis:''' Aww...Pet him with your mouth.
177	** Exaggerated with Jaggle's dog in Part 7, and then immediately subverted:
178	--->'''Thorn:''' Let's cook him! ''Carries dog over to fireplace''
179	--->'''Travis:''' '''Yeah!'''
180	** Yeto's random "Burrrr" hums while he's cooking have this effect on Thorn, who giggles every time she hears them.
181	** Thorn is frustrated over something in ''Bomberman Generation'', until a happy chirp from Pommy Dragon cheers her up almost immediately.
182	* DeadpanSnarker: Everyone on the team. The game characters become this by proxy.
183	* ADegreeInUseless: Travis's view of Philosophy.
184	* DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment: Thorn and Yoshi have their fun with this in ''Jetters'' after running into Flame Bomber.
185	* DeusSexMachina: As ''VideoGame/AgentUnderFire'' shows, having access codes will get you laid. And getting laid will warp you out of a prison cell.
186	* DieLaughing: The Wizzrobe in Ikana Castle, as it hits Pizza Joe with a fireball at the last possible second before dying.
187	* DisneyAcidSequence: The MindScrew exposition scene in ''Twilight Princess'' was weird already. Thorn cuts the video completely halfway through, [[http://youtu.be/y0LSC6xIpu8?t=21m36s and turns it into a music video of a text-to-speech Cuckoo singing]] "[[Theatre/SouthPacific Happy Talk]]", complete with dancing clowns and cheap Casio.
188	* DisproportionateRetribution: Describing the Snitchbugs in ''Pikmin 2''.
189	-->'''Yoshi:''' Yeah, see? He snatches up your Pikmin, and then he buries them into the ground if you don't get him quick enough.
190	-->'''Thorn:''' He doesn't kill them; he just throws them into the ground.
191	-->'''[=BigTUnit=]:''' And then you murder him; that seems equivalent.
192	-->''Everyone laughs''
193	-->'''Yoshi:''' Hey! He grabbed my flowers.
194	-->'''[=BigTUnit=]:''' How dare he plant in a place where I can easily pick.
195	-->'''Yoshi:''' That would take me like... maybe a half second. That's annoying.
196	-->'''[=BigTUnit=]:''' So for that you die.
197	* DissonantSerenity: Bomberman's idle animation in ''Generation'' is him dancing in place. It makes for some very blatant dissonance after almost every boss fight, and the guys lampshade the hell out of it.
198	* EarWorm: "Redial", to the point that making fun of it becomes a RunningGag. When the Website/SomethingAwful thread requests the song for a montage video, instead of just putting it in or using a different song, Thorn and Travis decide to [[WithLyrics write lyrics for]] [[TakeAThirdOption it instead]].
199	* EnsembleDarkHorse: InUniverse:
200	** [[VideoGame/BombermanHero Nitros']] ineffectual disc hazard.
201	-->'''Travis:''' I want him to be your new henchman along with the robot.
202	** The trio get a lot of mileage out of MAX in ''VideoGame/BombermanJetters'', and their portrayal of him made its way into ''WebVideo/JettersAbridged''.
203	** The terrified-looking platypus enemy in World 5 of ''VideoGame/{{Bomberman 93}}'', especially when it comes to figuring out ''why'' it's freaking out.
204	-->'''Redundant (as platypus):''' [[VideoGame/{{Bomberman}} He]] seems to be making sure he's wiping us all out before he moves on; this is regimented genocide!
205	** [[VideoGame/ShadowOfTheColossus Agro the horse]], though there aren't many other characters to compete with in the game.
206	** [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaSkywardSword Groose]]. The trio are sick of ''Skyward Sword'' by the end of the LP, but they always enjoy seeing Groose and love him more the further on it goes.
207	** ''VideoGame/NiNoKuni'':
208	*** Shadar is in the LP for roughly thirty seconds before Travis and Thorn start gushing over his voice.
209	*** A random NPC woman provides a lot of laughs by the guys pretending she's a robot grandma.
210	--->'''Travis:''' I like how we made a character out of this ''extra''.
211	** ''VideoGame/SleepingDogs2012'':
212	*** King is only in one video and only for a portion of it, but the guys joke around with the character through to the end of the Let's Play.
213	*** In ''The Zodiac Tournament'' DLC, the guys treat a random {{mook}} in a yellow gi like he's as heroic as Wei.
214	---->'''Travis:''' ''(imitating the Film/{{Shaft}} girl chorus)'' Yellowgiguy!
215	* EpicFail:
216	** The ending of ''VideoGame/BombermanHero'' not only has such low graphical quality that the other Bomber characters are just jumping statues, but there are so many of them that the framerate drops.
217	** While Thorn is fighting [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaSkywardSword The Imprisoned]] the second time, she fails to jump on its back and instead hurts herself. She switches to Groose to attempt to slow the monster down, but the bomb flies right through The Imprisoned's ''hair''.
218	--->'''Travis:''' The old woman at the top just facepalms.
219	** Thorn just barely misses grabbing the top of Dueling Peaks in ''Breath of the Wild'', causing Link to tumble down the mountain, steadily lose all of their health, be revived by Mipha near the bottom, and die at the bottom anyway by smacking into a Sheikah shrine.
220	* EverybodyLaughsEnding: The ''Pikmin 2'' LP goes out on one of these thanks to Thorn's silly, impromptu Casio outro.
221	* EveryoneHasStandards: Joking about the President of Hocotate Freight being fat.
222	-->'''Travis as the President:''' I ate my dad, ho-ho!
223	-->'''Yoshi:''' That's... mortifying.
224	* FaceHeelTurn: The Yellow Gi Guy from the ''Sleeping Dogs: The Zodiac Tournament'' DLC is treated as a Shaft-like hero at first. In the ''Year of the Snake'' DLC, there are so many yellow gi-clad terrorists that the guys think he has turned evil and is the true mastermind of the plot.
225	* FailedASpotCheck: Travis gives Thorn heat for repeatedly doing this in ''A Link Between Worlds''.
226	* FantasticRacism: Thorn points out to Yoshi that the Jetters were willing to kill all the Hige, even the ones who aren't doing anything.
227	-->'''Yoshi:''' THE ENEMIES ARE HAVING FUN! NOT ON MY WATCH!
228	* {{Foreshadowing}}: On Day 4 of ''Pikmin 2'', Travis jokes "Happy early St. Patrick's Day. I'm already drunk". Then on Day 7, Yoshi says [[RunningGag "Travis, you're drunk, go home!"]] Then comes Day 9, where Thorn and Travis are drinking for the first 50-75% of the video.
229	* FridgeBrilliance: InUniverse:
230	** While working the FridgeLogic for ''Pikmin 2'' and Hocotate's inexplicably high and equal value for diamonds, bottle caps, and useless junk:
231	--->'''Travis:''' No wonder they went into debt! They have no sense of value!
232	** During ''Survival Kids'', Thorn shows that the player can make useless items by making a set of baseball gear. Olivia points out that it's totally in-character for a ten-year old like the game's protagonist to waste important supplies on making toys.
233	* FridgeHorror: InUniverse, Thorn talks about how the Cremia hug scene in ''Majora's Mask'' suggests that Link's life has left him emotionally stunted.
234	* FridgeLogic: InUniverse:
235	** They point out odd placements for treasure in ''Pikmin 2'', such as measuring cups and false teeth in a shower room. In addition to the irony of more food treasures existing in the Submerged Castle than in the Glutton's Kitchen. Travis also questions why he's still bringing logic into the game, right as a kamikaze spider appears.
236	--->'''Yoshi:''' Why?! Look at the spider bomb! Look at the spider bomb!
237	** In ''Ni no Kuni'', after the group gets launched out of the Fairy Godmother's tummy into a river:
238	--->'''Thorn:''' Oh, hey, look. Oliver can swim, [[DeadpanSnarker unlike in the opening when his]] ''[[DeadpanSnarker mom died]]''.
239	* FunWithAcronyms: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fSxndUd5HuU Towards the end]] of the second ''Sonic 2006'' stream, the chat starts tossing out acronyms for the characters' names:
240	-->Silver: "So I Love Vore Everyday, Right?"\
241	Shadow: "Shaky Hands Are the Devil's Own Work"\
242	Omega: "Oh, My Existential Guilt Affliction"\
243	Mephiles: "Maybe Everyone Poops Hard. I Like It [sic] Even So."
244	: And then they move on to the channel itself:
245	-->Jacob: "Jollyness Always Comes Overly Biased" or "James? Ass Comes Out Better"\
246	[=JigglyJacob=]: "Jelly Is Great, Guys. Like, Yo. Jesus Also Craves Orange Berries"\
247	Yoshi: "You Obviously Shit Hourly, Idiot" or "Yes, Optimized Sales Help Ireland"\
248	[=TheStrawhatNO!=]: "These Hats Equal Seriously Totally Rad/Awesome. What Hats Are Terrible? None, Obviously"
249	* FunnyBackgroundEvent:
250	** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDFxVaf6lqo Randall]], a Santa statue in a steakhouse Travis was in that ended up being seen in all of his pictures.
251	** Happens in ''Sleeping Dogs'' with vehicles, due to the cutscenes playing in-engine. Two happen within 40 minutes of each other in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-Upr_5RKGI Part 11]], one of a large truck hitting another car, and one of a car getting stuck driving in circles.
252	** Speaking of vehicles, in ''Sonic 2006'', Shadow's hovercraft keeps going after reaching the end of his Wave Ocean level.
253	* GeekyTurnOn: Olivia jokes in ''Harvest Moon: Tale of Two Towns'' that Thorn was immediately attracted to her when she found out she liked Music/TheyMightBeGiants.
254	* GenreRoulette: The group have alternated between vastly different game genres, including: ActionAdventure (''Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda'' franchise, ''VideoGame/{{Bomberman}}'' franchise, ''VideoGame/ShadowOfTheColossus'', ''VideoGame/StarFoxAdventures''), PlatformGame (''VideoGame/{{Oniken}}'', ''Grow Home'', ''Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog'' franchise, ''VideoGame/Kirby64TheCrystalShards''), StylishAction (''VideoGame/HiFiRush''), HackAndSlash (''VideoGame/HyruleWarriors: Definitive Edition''), FightingGame (''VideoGame/StreetFighter6''), FirstPersonShooter (''VideoGame/AgentUnderFire'' and ''VideoGame/{{Nightfire}}'', ''VideoGame/{{Stalker}}'' franchise, ''VideoGame/BioshockInfinite'', ''VideoGame/SlimeRancher'', ''VideoGame/{{Doom}}'' franchise), ThirdPersonShooter (''VideoGame/{{MDK}}'' and ''VideoGame/{{MDK2}}'', ''VideoGame/StarFoxAssault'', ''VideoGame/JetForceGemini''), SurvivalHorror (''VideoGame/TheLastOfUs'', ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil4''), RailShooter (''VideoGame/PokemonSnap'', ''VideoGame/StarFox64''), WideOpenSandbox (''VideoGame/SleepingDogs2012'', ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaBreathOfTheWild''), SurvivalSandbox (''[[VideoGame/LostInBlue Survival Kids]]'', ''VideoGame/StrandedDeep''), EasternRPG (''VideoGame/NiNoKuni'', ''VideoGame/SkiesOfArcadia'', ''VideoGame/RuneFactory4'', ''[[VideoGame/PokemonRubyAndSapphire Pokémon Alpha Sapphire]]'', ''VideoGame/{{Undertale}}'' and ''VideoGame/{{Deltarune}} Chapter 1'', ''VideoGame/Persona5 Royal''), DungeonCrawler (''VideoGame/LegendOfGrimrock I'' and ''II''), SoulsLikeRPG (''VideoGame/DarkSouls'', ''VideoGame/DemonsSouls'', ''VideoGame/SaltAndSanctuary'', ''VideoGame/SekiroShadowsDieTwice''), RealTimeStrategy (''VideoGame/{{Pikmin}}'' franchise), {{Roguelike}} (''VideoGame/TwentyXX''), SimulationGame (''VideoGame/HeyYouPikachu'', ''VideoGame/GraveyardKeeper''), FarmLifeSim (''VideoGame/HarvestMoon'' franchise and related, ''VideoGame/StardewValley''), SportsGame (''VideoGame/PunchOut Wii'', ''VideoGame/TonyHawksProSkater'' franchise), and MinigameGame (''VideoGame/WarioWare'' franchise).
255	* GetOut: Parodied: Thorn's response when Highwang tells her to use the Ice Rod in [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaALinkBetweenWorlds the Ice Ruins]]. Yoshi suggests cutting the episode short right there.
256	* GodModeSue: Parodied InUniverse with the Purple Pikmin. They're already {{game breaker}}s in ''Pikmin 2'', but the guys also say they can fire black holes, control space and time, and find seven cures for cancer. And cause five more.
257	* GoodBadBugs: InUniverse:
258	** One guard in Part 2 of ''Agent Under Fire'' inexplicably starts running in circles. Later in Part 4, six different guards run off the oil rig to their deaths.
259	** Thorn uploaded several short ''VideoGame/DemonsSouls'' and ''VideoGame/DarkSoulsII'' videos of bugs she came across, among them a Storm Demon flying in circles, a rock spinning through the floor geometry, a corpse bobbing its head like Music/MichaelJackson, Dark Orb causing giant enemies to levitate, and the entire Dragon Aerie glitching out in a black and white texture mess.
260	** Travis notes that he tends to find bugs and glitches in his [=LPs=]:
261	*** After two bosses in ''Shadow of the Colossus'', the animation of Wander passing out bugs out: first in Part 13 by having the boss land on top of him, causing him to fall through the world geometry; and second in Part 16 by Wander passing out on top of the boss, causing him to step forward and collapse onto thin air.
262	*** In Part 11 of ''Sleeping Dogs'', Travis opens the video by walking past a man neck-deep in a set of stairs.
263	*** In the same part, a background car [[RunningGag drives around in circles]] after getting stuck in its pathfinding when Travis transitions to a cutscene.
264	** In ''Majora's Mask'', Thorn messes up the Anju and Kafei sidequest twice with Sakon's hideout, and each time she responds by glitching through the door of the hideout, resetting the scene inside and allowing her to continue the quest as if nothing happened.
265	** The [=PS3=] version of ''Sonic the Hedgehog 2006'' is infamous for its constant slowdown. In many situations such as Sonic's mach speed sections, Thorn finds this to be a ''benefit'', because it allows her extra time to react or plan ahead. In the same game, she attempts to glitch her way out of doing Silver's infamous billiard-ball challenge, only to discover that, somehow, ''that'' bug actually got patched.
266	* GuestHost: TSN began including guest-hosted [=LPs=] in 2016, including Highwang playing ''VideoGame/{{Oniken}}'', [=JigglyJacob=] playing ''VideoGame/{{MDK}}'', ''VideoGame/{{MDK2}}'' and ''VideoGame/WarioWare: Smooth Moves'', and [=ElTipejoLoco=] playing ''VideoGame/Bomberman64TheSecondAttack''. Jacob was later made a formal member in 2019, in part due to his multiple [=LPs=] with the group.
267	* HeartIsAnAwesomePower:
268	** Discussed in ''A Link Between Worlds'', when Thorn describes how she hadn't realized that wall-merging would be a very useful ability before the game.
269	** Thorn similarly finds the Cane of Pacci from ''Minish Cap'' to be more useful than "flipping things over" sounds like it would be, though co-commentator [=MeccaPrime=] is dubious.
270	* HelloInsertNameHere: Several games with this option have been [=LPed=], and often the viewers get to give suggestions for the names, such as every Link in ''The Legend of Zelda'' games (Hey Hey, Dumple, [=PizzaJoe=]). Her ''Harvest Moon''/related commentators are terrified of seeing what she'll name new animals, because [[CloudCuckoolander it's often bizarre]] (MADSTACK, [=GiantBoobMo=]).
271	* HeroesLoveDogs: Zig-zagged with Thorn. Considers herself a dog lover and is as subject to CutenessProximity as anyone else during the [=LPs=], but she is infamous for losing her temper to the dogs outside her house, at one point going on a rant in the middle of ''Skyward Sword'' Part 23 about how much she hates them. When the dogs finally moved out, she had to bring it up in a podcast just because of how happy she was that they were gone. [[HereweGoAgain Then new families with dogs moved in...]]
272	* HurricaneOfPuns:
273	** The guys after defeating bosses in ''Zelda'' games and doing environmental kills in ''Sleeping Dogs''.
274	** Thorn, Skippy Granola and [=YamiNoSenshi=] make confectionery puns in ''Animal Parade'' after devising that Maya is trying to kill the mayor with cookies so she can take over the town.
275	* IHatePastMe: Thorn and Yoshi spend much of the team's 9th anniversary stream lamenting their past unfunny, douchebaggy behavior, particularly loathing the pre-Bomberman Hero videos they watch. Downplayed when Thorn calls herself out for her TakeThat against Drum 'n Bass music (described lower on this page).
276	* IJustWantToHaveFriends:
277	** Travis's interpretation of the Antenna Beetle in ''Pikmin 2'', which possesses your Pikmin.
278	** The group's interpretation of King in ''Sleeping Dogs'', thus he constantly bothers Wei with stupid questions.
279	* INeedAFreakingDrink: ''Saturn Bomberman'' eventually takes its toll on Travis after four videos.
280	* InsistentTerminology: In ''Legend of Grimrock 2'', Jacob calls the round bread loaves Crunchwraps. The others get on his case about them really being bread, but Jacob doesn't care.
281	* {{Irony}}:
282	** Thorn mentions that Myrtle and Esther's voice actress in ''Ni no Kuni'', a game where the protagonist is named Oliver, appeared in a musical called ''Oliver!''.
283	** Thorn streamed the beta for ''VideoGame/FridayThe13thTheGame'', and her computer's power crashed three times at oddly fitting moments: first when, while playing as Jason, she destroyed a power box; second when the truck she was sitting in crashed; and third when Jason killed her character after a long chase, much like her attempts to stream the game. Thorn and several viewers joked that the game is so realistic that it kills computers.
284	* LamePunReaction:
285	** It's telling how painful the puns in ''Ni no Kuni'' are when they make these guys groan. Doesn't stop them from joining in and trying to make ''even worse'' puns.
286	-->'''Travis:''' ''(As Mr. Drippy)'' 'Just tell me you're not ''fishin''' for compliments!' Points to a fish. '[[DontExplainTheJoke See?! See?!]]'
287	-->'''Thorn:''' They get to the ocean. 'Sea?!'
288	** ''Majora's Mask:''
289	-->'''Deku Scrub A (Yoshi):''' What are you doing?
290	-->'''Deku Scrub B (Yoshi):''' I'm ''scrubbing'' myself!
291	-->'''Deku Scrub A (Yoshi):''' YOU'VE BEEN WAITING YOUR WHOLE LIFE TO SAY THAT!
292	* LeaveTheCameraRunning: The group continue recording their commentary long after the gameplay video ends. This is often where their discussion becomes the most chaotic and surreal, due to the lack of anything visual needing explained.
293	* LeetLingo: 8357 in ''VideoGame/StardewValley'' is named with this ("Best"), as she's the alien progenitor of the Best clan from Thorn's previous ''Harvest Moon''/related [=LPs=].
294	* LetsGetDangerous: In ''Skyward Sword'''s Skyloft Silent Realm, Thorn gets spotted by the guardians and rushes to get a tear before they catch her. She goes for the hardest tear she could get. [[spoiler:She makes it.]]
295	* LetsPlay: Their [=LPing=] style is a mixture of humourous, snarky post-commentary with thorough gameplay and sometimes serious discussion.
296	* LetsSeeYouDoBetter: During ''Pikmin 2'', Yoshi keeps saying that he's waiting for Travis to do a Let's Play so he can mock him over everything, just as Travis has done for him. When Travis begins heading his own [=LPs=], they become some of Yoshi's favourites.
297	* LightIsNotGood: When Light Spirit Faron appears in ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTwilightPrincess Twilight Princess]]'' [[note]]Part 4, uncut version[[/note]], the trio play him as a "[[{{Portmanteau}} squirrelpion]]" demon who wants to destroy the world. Luckily he's too lazy to do anything.
298	-->'''Yoshi:''' So you gonna do something? No?
299	-->'''Travis:''' ''(As Faron)'' '''I'm comfy!'''
300	* LogicBomb: Travis and Thorn trying to explain mummy ghosts in ''Bomberman 93'', let alone killing them.
301	-->'''Travis:''' I wonder if we can kill mummy ghosts. But wait, mummy ghosts are already dead- wait.
302	-->'''Thorn:''' We kill them ''again''.
303	-->'''Travis:''' They are dead dead undead.
304	-->'''Thorn:''' I've given them peace? Or [[IncrediblyLamePun made them into pieces]]? Or-
305	-->'''Travis:''' You brought peace to their- you know, 'cause they died. [[MindScrew And they were prepared for death, and then they became undead, so then you killed them to prepare them for death death undead death]].
306	* MadlibsCatchPhrase:
307	** Near the end of ''VideoGame/BombermanJetters'', "[Noun] might be more effective!"
308	** In ''Sleeping Dogs: Year of the Snake'', "I [did x] like a jungle cat."
309	* ManOfAThousandVoices: Travis likes giving various enemies and characters voices, few of which sound alike.
310	* MarathonBoss: Thorn, Yoshi and Highwang get frustrated with the length of the [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaALinkBetweenWorlds Knucklemaster fight]] in the 11th ''A Link Between Worlds'' video.
311	* {{Meido}}: Thorn accidentally turns her Mii into one in ''Tomodachi Life''. First she gives her the maid outfit, then later she dyes her hair purple, and the chat points out that she has turned the Mii into an anime.
312	* MemeticBadass: InUniverse:
313	** The guys turn [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTwilightPrincess Malo]] from a WiseBeyondTheirYears DeadpanSnarker into Telekinesis Baby, with all of the associated mind powers, and he doesn't take anyone's shit.
314	** [[VideoGame/{{Pikmin}} Purple Pikmin]], which the team assert can break anything, including the fabric of the universe.
315	** ''VideoGame/SleepingDogs2012'':
316	*** The game's Kung Fu-mastering, physics-breaking protagonist Wei Shen.
317	---->'''Travis:''' ''Nothing'' can stop Wei Shen!
318	*** A random Yellow Gi Guy from ''The Zodiac Tournament'' DLC, who the guys play as a bigger hero than Wei.
319	** Voice actor Creator/TroyBaker, who is so multitalented that Travis and Yoshi think he can do anything.
320	* MistakenForRacist: Invoked when Travis and Thorn talk to Gondo about repairing Scrapper, and everything they say as Dumple is a desperate attempt to not sound racist while saying something pretty clearly racist.
321	* MondegreenGag:
322	** Uncut versions of ''Twilight Princess'' videos sometimes include [[FunWithSubtitles subtitles]], which read out what Thorn thinks [[SpeakingSimlish Midna's gibberish]] could be saying. Travis also started doing this during the commentary.
323	-->"Good arm bread meat."
324	** [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaSkywardSword Fi]] sometimes gets this treatment.
325	-->"You're sorta mass resource. Deployed with kindness sores."
326	* MotorMouth: Travis turns [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTwilightPrincess Iza]] into one for seemingly no reason.
327	* {{MST}}: Their Let's Plays involve an [[Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000 MST3K]]-like level of riffing the dialogue, cutscenes, and characters. Travis' commentary was most exemplary of this, followed by Thorn after Travis left the channel.
328	* MrExposition: Thorn takes this role most often, even when it's Yoshi's or Travis' LP, as long as she's played and researched the game herself.
329	* MundaneMadeAwesome: At the start of ''Skyward Sword'', Yoshi points out how Skyloft's people have built their culture around falling and competing for cloth.
330	* MythArc: A gag type arc began forming in 2016-2017 as viewers suggested giving player characters similar names in multiple [=LPs=], leading to the loose lineages of [[VideoGame/HarvestMoon the Best clan]], a group of women who take over farms out of nowhere and become obscenely rich, and Pubert, [[VideoGame/LegendOfGrimrock a ratling farmer]] [[VideoGame/RuneFactory4 who accidentally becomes a prince]]. [[spoiler:Their bloodlines seemingly intersect at the end of ''Rune Factory 4'', when Pubert and his wife Forte have a daughter named Best, until the Best clan's line was confirmed in ''VideoGame/StardewValley'' to begin with a mysterious alien designated [[LeetLingo 8357]].]]
331	* MythologyGag:
332	** During her second attempt at Let's Playing ''Majora's Mask'', Thorn opens the first video by deleting the save file from the original LP.
333	** The portraits Thorn uses for herself, Yoshi and Jacob in ''Legend of Grimrock 2'':[[note]]Travis's/Ogre Taint's is from the Randall video[[/note]] Thorn's/Failure of a Son's picture is from an Abridged Forums podcast she was in on Vokle, Yoshi's/Cricket Dazzler's is from a Tumblr video he made joking at their friend Shadow, and Jacob's/Pubert's is an old Skype screenshot of him making a goofy face while wearing a [[Manga/SgtFrog Giroro cap]].
334	* NewGamePlus:
335	** For some ''Zelda'' [=LPs=], Thorn will briefly show off the Hero Mode as an extra clip but will eschew a complete playthrough.
336	** Yoshi and Thorn opted to have the entire ''Zelda: Wind Waker HD'' LP be of the NG+ to separate it from other standard ''Wind Waker'' [=LPs=]. And also because it meant that ButtMonkey hero PizzaJoe got [[Literature/TheEmperorsNewClothes nothing]] from his grandma for his birthday.
337	* NoDamageRun: The ''Punch-Out!! Wii'' LP has Yoshi playing the whole game without taking a hit, only allowing damage in recordings where the only goal is to show the opponent's and Doc Louis's dialogue.
338	* NonAnswer: At the end of ''Ni no Kuni'' Part 17, Travis starts talking to Siri, who seems to hint that she is Mr. Drippy. Travis's attempts to find out more get met with this, which convinces him that Siri is Drippy and is trying to hide it.
339	* NonIndicativeName:
340	** Dragon Road in ''Bomberman Hero'' has no dragons, just a bunch of flying knives. When Thorn encounters more flying knives in later levels, Travis asserts that they are dragons.
341	** [[VideoGame/SleepingDogs2012 Crazy Fedora Man]]. He's not wearing a fedora: it's a straw hat. Thorn thinks that's why no one can seem to catch him.
342	* TheNoseKnows: Travis jokes that this is how [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTwilightPrincess Trill finds Link]] in the Forest Temple before Trill [[ItMakesSenseInContext mugs him]].
343	* NostalgiaFilter: DiscussedTrope. The subject of popular games being carried by nostalgia comes up at different points, such as with ''Ocarina of Time''. Parodied when Travis and Yoshi describe licensed games they'd received for Christmas during Part 8 of ''Ocarina of Time 3D''.
344	* OnceAnEpisode:
345	** As ''Majora's Mask'' went on, Thorn started every episode with a variation on "Welcome back to [=PizzaJoe's=] [[MadlibsCatchphrase [random business]]]"[[note]]E.G.: [=PizzaJoe's=] [[Music/TheB52s love shack]], heart surgery[[/note]]. Yoshi continues this in ''Wind Waker'' with TV and game references.[[note]][[Series/OrangeIsTheNewBlack PizzaJoe is the New Black]], [[VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddys Five Nights at PizzaJoe's]][[/note]]
346	** In each ''Zelda'' Let's Play, Link has a different, weird name.[[note]][[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTwilightPrincess Hey Hey]], [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaSkywardSword Dumple]], [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaMajorasMask Pizza]][[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTheWindWaker Joe]], [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime Groose]][[/note]] The only exception is ''Breath of the Wild'', where Link's name is fixed in-game to simply "Link".
347	* OneSteveLimit:
348	** [[invoked]] Zig-zagged with "Rick", who is originally used as the one guy in every development team who comes up with the bad ideas and happens to be the exact same Rick every time. In some cases, however, it's a name the guys use to denote a random JerkAss.
349	** Averted when several character names reappear in later [=LPs=] as HelloInsertNameHere characters, such as Dumple and Pibot. [=PizzaJoe=] was used for three Zelda [=LPs=], first in a bonus NewGamePlus video for ''Skyward Sword'', then twice after in full ''Majora's Mask'' and ''Wind Waker'' [=LPs=] to make up for the jokes they could have made; the same latter [=PizzaJoe=] returned for one last hurrah in ''Wind Waker'''s sequel, ''Phantom Hourglass''. An entire MythArc also developed around characters named "Best" and "Pubert", see above.
350	* OneTruePairing: InUniverse in ''Sleeping Dogs'', regardless of all the dates and girlfriends Wei has, the guys assert that Raymond is his true love.
351	* {{Padding}}: [[invoked]] One of Thorn's biggest gripes with ''Skyward Sword'' is that the third act of the game revolves around disruptive things happening to halt Link's quest that have no reason to be happening (I.E.: the Tadtones and Eldin Volcano erupting).
352	* PhysicalGod:
353	** After exploiting a glitch in ''Twilight Princess'' where Link can "kill" the Postman, he reappears at the end of the video, and from then on he's mentioned as warping space and time and flying in any future chasms that Link crosses.
354	** Epona in ''Majora's Mask'' is joked as being a chaos god for her apparent invincibility and teleportation powers. Thorn finds extra humour in that she's named after a Gallo-Roman god.
355	* PrivateEyeMonologue: The guys provide this for Wei in the ''Sleeping Dogs: Year of the Snake'' DLC.
356	-->"I leaped out of the car like a jungle cat..."
357	* PunchClockHero: Bomberman is played as this during ''Bomberman Hero''.
358	* PurpleIsPowerful:
359	** This became the point of the entire Pikmin 2 LP: Purple Pikmin destroy ''everything''.
360	** Thorn mentions this trope by name during the Morpheel fight in ''Twilight Princess''.
361	* ARareSentence:
362	** ''Twilight Princess'':
363	*** Travis (as a very playful Midna to Wolf Link): "Would you like a tickle on the booty-boot?" He later says he never said "booty-boot" before.
364	*** Redundant says this of Epee Em's "Hey, Hitler-head!" when talking about Ashei's hair, which looks like a toothbrush mustache on her forehead.
365	*** Travis when Fyer repairs the Sky Cannon: "Words I never thought I'd say: 'clown repair montage'".
366	** ''Bomberman Generation''
367	*** Thorn describes Constructor-X as "awesome but embarrassing". Redundant notes that more things should be described as such.
368	** ''Ni no Kuni'':
369	*** Thorn: "Certain ingredients can only be bought from [[PunnyName Hootenanny]]. And I can't believe I just said that."
370	*** Repeated when she mentions the "Cawtermaster".
371	*** When discussing the multiple tiers of Familiar food:
372	-->'''Travis, while laughing''': "That's such an odd statement. 'Sweetie Pie, the next generation of pie!'"
373	* RecursiveReality: In the uncut version of Part 4 of ''Twilight Princess'', the trio joke about this happening with Malo and Coro.
374	** For Malo, if you look into his hair, you see a black hole that reveals Hey Hey looking into Malo's head.
375	** For Coro, if he reaches into his afro, he pulls out his bird Trill. Then Trill reaches into his afro and pulls out Coro.
376	--->'''Travis''': "Until they both go, "''Wait a minute!''", and they both reach into their afros at the same time, and then they explode."
377	* RhymesOnADime:
378	** [[VideoGame/ShadowOfTheColossus Dormin]]. [[MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext In the voice of]] Wrestling/RandySavage.
379	** Thorn astonishes Highwang by doing this in ''Salt and Sanctuary''.
380	* RidiculouslyCuteCritter:
381	** Travis finds the little scorpions on ''Skyward Sword'' to be these. Thorn vehemently disagrees.
382	** Several familiars in ''VideoGame/NiNoKuni'' to both Travis and Thorn, particularly the Mites and the Seed Sprites.
383	** Skippy Granola finds every animal in the ''Harvest Moon/Story of Seasons'' [=LPs=] to be these, particularly the series' signature "spherical cows".
384	* RingOutBoss: Thorn witnesses [[ClimaxBoss Altair]] unintentionally ''[[EpicFail do this to himself]]'' in ''Bomberman 64''.
385	* RunningGag: [[RunningGag/TheStrawhatNO Has its own page]].
386	* TheScapegoat:
387	** All of the bad level design decisions in ''VideoGame/BombermanHero'', and many games after, were by a nerd on a pizza high named Rick.
388	* SceneryPorn: InUniverse:
389	** Yoshi's feelings for [[VideoGame/{{Pikmin}} the Wistful Wild]], coupled with ThatOneLevel.
390	** All of ''Ni no Kuni'' to Travis and Thorn, citing the visuals as one of its best points.
391	** Thorn uploaded a video of the area around the Guardian Dragon in Aldia's Keep from ''VideoGame/DarkSoulsII'', just because it looked so cool that it floored her.
392	* TheScrappy: InUniverse:
393	** [[VideoGame/{{Pikmin}} The Dumple]]. '''Nobody''' likes the Dumple.
394	** [[invoked]] [[VideoGame/BombermanJetters Shout]]. Thorn introduces her by comparing her to infamous AnnoyingVideoGameHelper Scrappy, [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime Navi]], and Shout ''loses''.
395	** [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaSkywardSword Fi]] gets introduced the exact same way as Shout, and Yoshi agrees. [[spoiler:They are not won over by her sacrifice at the end of the game.]]
396	** [[VideoGame/NiNoKuni Mr. Drippy]] is loathed by Thorn and Travis for his annoying character and useless game implementation, but they have the most fun hating him out of any other Scrappy, subjecting him to a CosmicPlaything/[[TheChewToy Chew Toy]] headcanon within the game world.
397	** The commentators generally loathe or are apathetic towards the characters of ''VideoGame/RuneFactory4'', but Amber is particularly disliked for the developers making her, a demonstrable child in mind and body, a marriageable bachelorette.
398	** In Jacob's ''Doom'' Let's Plays, [=TorpidTypist=] brings up his hatred of VideoGame/CommanderKeen (the character) whenever the games reference him, which Jacob finds rather strange.
399	* SelfImposedChallenge: Invoked in some of their Let's Plays:
400	** The most common self-imposed challenge is [[OneHundredPercentCompletion completing a game 100%]].
401	** Due to their open-ended nature, Thorn has more arbitrary goals for her ''Harvest Moon'' [=LPs=]. She'll usually collect all of certain types of collectibles and see as many cutscenes as possible, get married, and then simply find a point where enough of the game has been shown off that the LP can reasonably end. ''Hero of Leaf Valley'' and ''Rune Factory 4'' are so far the only ones with defined plots, story progression and endings.
402	** Jacob's ''Doom'' [=LPs=] are All Secret Runs, and he even shows off some secrets that can only be accessed by no-clipping.
403	* SequelHook:
404	** The ''Twilight Princess'' LP ends with one that alludes to the ''Skyward Sword'' LP.
405	** ''Majora's Mask'' ends with Yoshi joking that the video should include one for ''Wind Waker HD'' like ''Twilight Princess'' did, and Thorn says that since he said it they can't. [[spoiler:It has one anyway]].
406	* SerialEscalation: The "[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaMajorasMask Dying Zora, featuring Spiders and Seagulls" concert idea]], where each group progressively eats each other.
407	* ShoutOut: [[ShoutOut/TheStrawhatNO Has its own page]].
408	* SitcomArchNemesis: Owl is this to Thorn's Mii in ''Tomodachi Life''. Owl was the first Mii added to the island after Thorn, and they immediately started having fights the day after.
409	* SophisticatedAsHell:
410	** [[DiscussedTrope Travis and Thorn's assessment]] of the signature [=TheStrawhatNO=] sense of humor boils down to this trope, after the two alternate (almost immediately) from [=DaVinci=] helicopter jokes to cocaine jokes in ''Shadow of the Colossus''.
411	-->'''Thorn:''' We're like the dynamic range of an orchestra: we go all the way up and all the way down.
412	-->'''Travis:''' We can somehow fit into one sentence 'Pavlov's conditioning, motherfucker', and it somehow works.
413	** From the first screenshot update for ''Ni no Kuni'':
414	-->'''Thorn:''' Since nobody said if they actually give a shit if I transcribe the dialogue, I have forgone the minutia.
415	* SoundtrackDissonance: Travis likes to invoke this while driving vehicles in ''Sleeping Dogs'' by switching to the classical music radio station, especially if something ridiculous is happening. It makes even dorky scooters and chicken trucks seem awesome. Thorn does the same thing in a short video of her hitting-and-running thugs during a drug bust to "Peer Gynt Suite".
416	* SoUnfunnyItsFunny: In Part 4 of ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTwilightPrincess Twilight Princess]]'', Travis makes a [[FollowYourNose Toucan Sam reference]] that is so lame, Yoshi can't help but laugh.
417	* SoWhatDoWeDoNow: Travis jokes that a dice-like enemy in [=P2A2=] of ''Bomberman Hero'' has the aspirations to one day roll a 6, and when it does, it thinks, "...Well now what?"
418	* {{Squee}}:
419	** Thorn lets one out after gaining control of a statue in the Temple of Time in ''Twilight Princess''.
420	** Skippy Granola's default reaction to every animal in the ''Harvest Moon'' [=LPs=].
421	* TheStoner: Travis' interpretation of [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTwilightPrincess Coro]].
422	* StraightManAndWiseGuy: All commentators alternate on this depending on who is running the [=LP=]. Generally the host focuses on being informative while the co-commentators crack wise, though this can fluctuate depending on how much each person knows about the game and how serious the discussion gets.
423	* StylisticSuck: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4PAINff6LLk Thorn's old mockery of child camcorder LPers]]. She records her TV screen with an old webcam on the other side of the room, and said camera has fallen upside-down.
424	* TakeAThirdOption: When the viewers in the Website/SomethingAwful thread request "Redial" for a montage, instead of just including the song or using a different one, Thorn and Travis [[WithLyrics write lyrics for it]] recapping the LetsPlay.
425	* TakeThat:
426	** Thorn's opinion of the ''Bomberman Hero'' soundtrack (she later retracted this):
427	--->"It makes Drum 'N' Bass listenable."
428	** Day 7 of ''Pikmin 2'':
429	--->'''Travis:''' He took away your maturity, you find Carlos Mencia funny now!
430	** During a discussion on Psychology during the [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTwilightPrincess Arbiter's Grounds]]:
431	--->'''Travis:''' Fuck Philosophy, by the way. I'm sorry, but if you have a Philosophy degree, then ''fuck you''. [[ADegreeInUseless They call it the father of all sciences, but it doesn't answer a single goddamned question!]] You know what the answer to everything is? "Maybe!"
432	** Travis compares ''Ni no Kuni'' to ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIII'' in that they are rare [=RPGs=] where he doesn't care about the dialogue or like the characters. ''Ni no Kuni'' is still better because "at least [it] lets you go left and right".
433	** In ''VideoGame/HarvestMoonTheTaleOfTwoTowns'', Thorn goes into a tangent about how pandas are an evolutionary mistake.
434	* TechnicianVsPerformer: Each member of the group alternates with each other in this dynamic, depending on who's playing the game and who's commentating:
435	** [=LPing=]: Thorn tends to [[OneHundredPercentCompletion 100% the games she LPs]] and errs on the side of informative, Yoshi tends to record multiple takes in order to get the best runs, and Jacob just does as much as is feasible. Travis, meanwhile, "plays for the bullshit", enjoying the game on its own merits and leaning heavily towards silliness in gameplay and commentary. One of the group's taglines describes their dynamic as "Completionist, Perfectionist, Ridiculous."
436	** Commentating: The player of the game is typically more informative than jokey, with their co-commentators providing the most riffs.
437	* TemptingFate: During Thorn's ''VideoGame/{{Undertale}}'' stream, Highwang remarks that it took him forever to figure out the piano puzzle. Cue Thorn, who has a music degree, solving it on the first try.
438	* TensionCuttingLaughter: Epee Em's reaction to Ghirahim in ''Skyward Sword''.
439	* ThatCameOutWrong: Thorn mentions sneaking behind one of the ninja mooks and attacking in ''Bomberman Jetters'', with interesting wording. Then she lampshades it.
440	* ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill:
441	** When Thorn gets the Ball and Chain in ''Twilight Princess'', she starts using it (and Bomb Arrows) on bats.
442	** The "Thorn Signature" in ''Breath of the Wild'' is carpet bombing enemies with bomb arrows and multiplier bows.
443	* ThisIsGonnaSuck: Word-for-word, one of Thorn's first comments when she enters HIGE Central in ''VideoGame/BombermanJetters''.
444	* {{Troll}}:
445	** ''Pikmin 2'': The Burrowing Snagret in the Valley of Repose, dropping an Ultra Bitter Spray just outside of where Yoshi would be able to reach.
446	** Thorn: A person in the ''Twilight Princess'' thread requested that she do a live commentary version of the Cave of Ordeals so that they could hear her frustrated reactions as they happen. Thorn does exactly that...and proceeds to speedrun the cave using a debug glitch that was accidentally left in the game.
447	* ToiletHumor: With the hand in the toilet in ''Skyward Sword''.
448	-->'''Thorn:''' 'Don't ask what I need the paper for.' Is it for ''this?!'' ''(Sits on toilet)'' Haha!
449	-->'''Travis:''' Congratulations. You love a shit monster.
450	* TooDumbToLive: When Thorn plays a Bomberman game, she isn't as likely to be hurt by an enemy so much as by her own bombs.
451	* {{Tsundere}}:
452	** In the ''Twilight Princess'' Post-City in the Sky collection video, Yoshi jokingly acts like this towards Travis.
453	** Their ubiquity in Japanese-made media is lampshaded during ''Skyward Sword'':
454	-->'''Peatrice:''' It's not like I like you or anything.
455	-->'''Thorn:''' Do girls in Japan just say that ''all the time''?
456	** Travis jokes that a Wolfos hiding behind some ice in the [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaMajorasMask Snowhead Temple]] is this.
457	* UnEvilLaugh:
458	** [[VideoGame/BombermanHero Bagular's]] very bored-sounding "Ehhh-heh-heh-heh..."
459	** [[VideoGame/BombermanJetters Thunder Bomber's]] unnatural "Ha-''ha-'''haaaah'''''!"
460	* UnfortunateImplications: Discussed InUniverse:
461	** Thorn points out the awkwardness in ''Ni no Kuni'' having an interracial married couple in what appears to be 1950s America, at which point interracial marriage was illegal.
462	** In ''Ni no Kuni'', Thorn and Travis get hung up on how the method for catching familiars involves beating them up until they like you.
463	** Thorn gets frustrated in ''Story of Seasons'' when it's found that, alongside Marian being the franchise's first canonically gay character, it's also openly homophobic towards him for a scene.
464	** The group greatly dislike that Amber in ''Rune Factory 4'' is a demonstrable child in mind and body who can be wooed and married.
465	** Thorn, who identified as genderfluid at the time and later as transfemale, discusses how the crossdressing infiltration of Gerudo Town in ''Breath of the Wild'' perpetuates some harmful, false stereotypes about trans people, particularly those used as justification for Bathroom Bills in the United States.
466	* UnusualEuphemism:
467	** In ''Twilight Princess'', after finishing the Snowpeak Ruins and joking that the Yetis start "having fun":
468	-->'''Yoshi:''' Let's just say they're making soup...
469	-->'''Travis (as Yeto):''' I'll add the cheese!
470	-->'''Thorn:''' And Yeta has the pumpkin.
471	** In the same LP, "[[MondegreenGag Good arm bread meat]]" becomes slang for a sarcastic "Way to go" when Hey Hey does something screwed up, like beating up Yeta.
472	* ValleyGirl: Travis turns the female monkey into this in ''Twilight Princess''.
473	-->"Oh my ''god'', where's my iPhone?!"
474	* ValuesDissonance: In-universe and of the monetary value kind: the guys keep noticing that the universe of ''Pikmin 2'' seems to value bottle caps more than diamonds.
475	* WeHaveReserves: Yoshi's word on Red and Blue Pikmin, especially in comparison to [[RunningGag Purples]].
476	* WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids: Parodied in-universe on Day 11 of ''Pikmin 2''.
477	-->'''Yoshi:''' [=TheStrawhatNO=] [[BlatantLies is for kids]]. We've been making rounds on Creator/NickJr.
478	* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotPolitical: Invoked in one of the ''Undertale'' streams. An NPC tells Thorn's character that a skeleton reporting news to a fish lady is politics. Highwang weighs in:
479	-->'''Highwang:''' Y'know. A skeleton crew tells a fishy leader what to do. ... Eh?
480	* WhatMeasureIsANonCute: Happens a lot with Travis, who finds things like the little scorpions in ''Skyward Sword'' to be adorable while Thorn hates their face-hugging guts.
481	* WithLyrics: As mentioned earlier, Thorn and Travis' "[[VideoGame/BombermanHero Redial Redial'd]]".
482	* WordSaladTitle: "[=TheStrawhatNO!=]", which comes from Yoshi's [=YouTube=] username, "[=MugiwaranoYoshi=]" - "Mugiwara" means "straw hat" in reference to ''Manga/OnePiece'', and he had to add the "no" when [=YouTube's=] account submission page glitched on him. Thorn liked the idea of using it as their LP team name because it didn't make any sense.
483	* YouMonster: Thorn's opinion of the heads of the [[VideoGame/BombermanJetters Hige Hige Bandits]]:
484	--->"These guys right here [the Hige Higes] have 50x more personality than all of the Jetters combined, and 100x more charm... These guys have been placed on a planet that, let's remember, is flying to another planet to destroy it. The entire Hige Hige fleet is on this planet '''to die'''! ... Mujoe and Mechadoc are the biggest assholes."
485	* YoungerThanTheyLook: Thorn, Yoshi, and [=JelloApocalypse=] joke that Professor Ein is actually fourteen, even though he looks like an old man.
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