| 1 | [[quoteright:345:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/brentalfloss-Sitting-Outdoors_7447.JPG]] |
| 2 | [[caption-width-right:345: "Administrivia/JustAFaceAndACaption, [[VerbalTic mofo]]."]] |
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| 4 | Real name Brent Black, this guy, long story short, is the most prominent authority [[OverlyNarrowSuperlative in the video game branch of the]] "WithLyrics" [[OverlyNarrowSuperlative phenomenon]]. |
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| 6 | While he started out doing piano renditions of Nintendo songs on Website/YouTube, it wasn't until his "What if ''VideoGame/MegaMan3''...Had Lyrics?" video that he got his big break. After gaining a small cult following, he rose to further fame with deal to feature some of his videos on Website/ScrewAttack. This landed him his very first concert and an album, "What if this CD...Had Lyrics?" |
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| 8 | [[http://www.brentalflossthecomic.com/ A self-themed webcomic]] ran in 2012-2013 in collaboration with Dan Roth and illustrator Andrew Dobson, author of ''Webcomic/SoYoureACartoonist''. |
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| 10 | Listen to his works [[https://www.youtube.com/user/brentalfloss here]], his first CD [[http://brentalfloss.bandcamp.com/album/what-if-this-cd-had-lyrics here]], and the instrumental version of his CD [[http://brentalfloss.bandcamp.com/album/what-if-this-cd-didnt-have-lyrics here.]] He also has an [[http://www.brentalfloss.com official website.]] |
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| 13 | !! What if this page... Had examples?: |
| 14 | * AbsurdlySpaciousSewer: [[DeconstructedTrope Deconstructed]] in "Sewer Surfin' With Lyrics", which goes into [[ToiletHumor great detail]] about why living in a sewer doesn't make any sense. |
| 15 | * AdaptationalJerkass: "''Zelda: A Link to the Past'' with Lyrics" portrays Link as "a massively arrogant asshole" constantly bragging to everyone in Hyrule about his accomplishments. |
| 16 | * AdaptationalVillainy: |
| 17 | ** In ''DK RAP 2018'', [[BadPeopleAbuseAnimals Donkey Kong has become a hunter of endangered species, Tiny Kong kills bees for no reason]], and Diddy Kong is a bitter old man who hates his fans and is a member of the alt-right. |
| 18 | ** "''Kirby'' with Lyrics" depicts Franchise/{{Kirby}} as a monster who plans to devour everyone in the world (and [[ThoseWackyNazis also a Nazi]]). |
| 19 | * AdoptTheFood: In the song "Baby Mario & Papa Yoshi", Yoshi finds Baby Mario and expresses interest in eating him. However, he's too full, so he tries to give him to his friend, Yellow. When Yellow tells him that he's too sick to eat anything, Yoshi decides to keep and raise Baby Mario instead as he's started to grow attached to the baby (plus the dirty diaper made him lose his appetite). |
| 20 | * AllGermansAreNazis: In his "Mega Man Boss Interviews" video, Top Man says he wanted to be named Dreidel Man but the German Dr. Wily wouldn't let him. Also, in the "Civilization with Lyrics" video he thinks making Judaism the official religion of Germany is sufficient for creating "Jewish Nazis." [[RuleOfFunny Ironically,]] Albert Wily was named after the Jewish [[UsefulNotes/AlbertEinstein Albert Einstein]]. |
| 21 | * AlphabetSong: "Game Over Tinies" is a song that associates the letters with the fates of characters in video games. |
| 22 | -->A is for [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII Aerith]], stabbed right through the tummy\ |
| 23 | B is for [[Franchise/SuperMarioBros Bowser]], whose bridgework was crumby\ |
| 24 | C is for [[VideoGame/ChronoTrigger Crono]], or was that his double?\ |
| 25 | D is for [[VideoGame/StreetFighterII Dhalsim]], who had yoga trouble\ |
| 26 | E is for [[VideoGame/EccoTheDolphin Ecco]], and he was delicious |
| 27 | * BackAlleyDoctor: Dr. Mario got his degree "by watching Series/{{House}} and Series/{{Scrubs}} and Series/{{ER}}." |
| 28 | * BadBoss: In "Wario's Gold Mine WITH LYRICS", the Shy Guys working in the mine starting striking for healthcare and overtime pay. Wario responded by brutally bombing them, firing them, and replacing them with scabs. |
| 29 | * BadassBoast: |
| 30 | ** The entire ''Castlevania with Lyrics'' song is this, sung from Simon Belmont's point of view. |
| 31 | --->'''Simon/Brentalfloss:''' Dracula/I am backula/To lay the smacula/Like great-grandpa Trevor |
| 32 | ** One song on his first album is sung from the point of view of [[VideoGame/MegaMan2 Bubble Man]] is one big ironic BadassBoast. |
| 33 | --->You're gonna die!/I'll tell you why!/Bubbles! Bubbles!\ |
| 34 | '''Bubble Man:''' Ah, Mega Man, you've finally arrived, have at you! [[AntiClimaxBoss dewdewdewdew]] |
| 35 | * BaitAndSwitch: His album "Bits of Me" got so much leak circulation that, well, he decided to take care of things his own way...he decided to recruit his friends to BaitAndSwitch listeners into thinking this was the real thing, when all they should do is buy the album! You can definitely expect all instances of MusicalisInterruptus, LettingTheAirOutOfTheBand, and RecordNeedleScratch to happen recurrently with this "album." |
| 36 | * {{Beat}}: In DK Rap 2018 ("Where Are They Now?"), Chunky's verse is nothing more than an abrupt declaration that he's dead, followed by a period of uncomfortable silence [[MoodWhiplash before the song carries on like nothing happened]]. |
| 37 | * BoastfulRap: The ''VideoGame/{{Thief}} WithLyrics'' song is one of these from Garret's point of view. Hilariously, it's also one of the songs most accurate to the original rhythm. |
| 38 | * {{Bowdlerise}}: |
| 39 | ** "What If This CD... Had G-Rated Lyrics?" is a version of his first album with all the songs rewritten with new, family-friendly lyrics. |
| 40 | ** The original 2010 upload of "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=76ley2v2s9w Contra With Lyrics]]" had a line about the game's difficulty being "Harder than Mel Gibson hits Oksana Grigorieva". Brent came to regret these lyrics as tasteless, and changed the line on his 2013 album "Bits of Me". As explained in the video's updated description: |
| 41 | ---> Now, years later, it just feels like I'm making light of domestic abuse, which I don't think is funny at all. If you find this video to be nostalgic, that's fine, but just know that I don't think that's something to make light of, and that's why I changed the lyric in the album version. |
| 42 | * BringMyBrownPants: In "Kirby With Lyrics", Brent pretty much advises you to poop in your pants so Kirby won't think you're tasty and eat you. |
| 43 | * BrokenBase: [[InvokedTrope The central subject]] for both of his collaborations with Dave Bulmer. |
| 44 | ** "What if VideoGame/SuperMarioLand Had Lyrics?": On one side, you have Dave, who praises the game for setting the trend of handheld platformers and handheld gaming in general, while on the other, you have Brent arguing that the game simply hasn't aged well. |
| 45 | ** "What if ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime'' Had Lyrics?": On one side, you have Dave who boasts about the game taking the next step in graphics, presentation, and gameplay. On the other hand, you have Brent who hates the 3D graphics (especially in comparison to ''VideoGame/SuperMario64''), the awkward changes to the gameplay, and how the step 'up' to 3D ruined the classic formula perfected in ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaALinkToThePast''. |
| 46 | --->'''Brentalfloss:''' If you won't disavow...\ |
| 47 | '''Dave:''' Listen to your heart...\ |
| 48 | '''Brentalfloss:''' This, your [[SacredCow sacredest cow]].\ |
| 49 | '''Dave:''' If you still know how...\ |
| 50 | '''Both:''' I don't care 'cause / Either way... this ends noooow! (grab each others' shirts and ready blows) |
| 51 | * CallBack: |
| 52 | ** "VideoGame/SuperMarioLand With Lyrics" has Dave calling Brent a "son of a taint", which is a call back to Brent's much earlier "Videogame/MegaMan2 With Lyrics", and Dave asking Brent "Key change, mofo?", a call back to "Franchise/FinalFantasy With Lyrics". |
| 53 | ** The "VideoGame/MegaMan2 Title With Lyrics" describes Mega Man as "blue and cyan", which was also a line in "VideoGame/MegaMan3 With Lyrics" |
| 54 | ** "VideoGame/LuigisMansion3 With Lyrics" ends with Luigi asking if he can appear in the [[UpdatedRerelease HD remake]] of ''VideoGame/SuperMarioSunshine''; in the original "VideoGame/LuigisMansion With Lyrics", he wanted to make an appearance there instead of getting a horror-show launch title. Both times, Mario replies with "[[LittleNo No]]". |
| 55 | * TheCameo: |
| 56 | ** Got one in a [[WebVideo/TheNostalgiaChick Nostalgia Chick]] video, of all things. |
| 57 | ** Appeared (as a SpecialGuest) along with much of the Website/ChannelAwesome reviewers in a [[WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic Nostalgia Critic]] review for ''Film/MoulinRouge'', and would later return in the Critic's review of ''Film/LesMiserables2012''. |
| 58 | ** Appeared in the Critic's review of Baby Geniuses 2, and as a member of the [[IncessantChorus chorus]] in [[WebVideo/PawDugan Paw's]] review of [[WebVideo/DoctorHorriblesSingAlongBlog Dr. Horrible]]. |
| 59 | ** Cameoed in Paw's review of The Muppet Christmas Carol. |
| 60 | ** [[InvertedTrope Inverted]] when Website/ChannelAwesome contributed one of the tracks to "Bits of Me (Pirated Edition)". |
| 61 | ** He appeared as Mr. Clean in [[WebVideo/JonTron Jontron's]] review of Foodfight! |
| 62 | ** Paw, Elisa, Jontron, WebVideo/AndreTheBlackNerd and DJ Cutman all attempt to buy from his Wii Shop Channel. |
| 63 | ** He appears as Toad in [[Music/TheAdventuresOfDuaneAndBrandO Duane and BrandO]]'s Super Mario Bros 3. song. |
| 64 | ** Frequent collaborator 'Demon Tomato' Dave Bulmer makes an appearance at the end of ''Super Mario Land 2 With Lyrics'' as a CallBack to the ''[=SML1=]'' video (where they agreed that ''6 Golden Coins'' was [[SurprisinglyImprovedSequel flat-out better]]). |
| 65 | * CampGay: |
| 66 | ** His "VideoGame/MegaManClassic Boss Interviews" videos depict Jewel Man as this, and in a relationship with Plant Man. |
| 67 | ** This is his take on Toad from ''Franchise/SuperMarioBros''. |
| 68 | * CaptainObvious: The opening of 'Contra with lyrics'. |
| 69 | --> ''[=OhmyGodIfellintoajungleandit'sscary!=]'' |
| 70 | * ClusterFBomb: A staple of his discography. Though he has his limits, such as in the comments to "Ducktales: The Amazon with lyrics" which when a fan asked why he called [=DuckBurg=] [="SuckTurd"=] instead of [="FuckBurg"=] he said he didn't want to overdo it. |
| 71 | * ComicallyMissingThePoint: In ''Limbo With Lyrics'': |
| 72 | -->''Clearly [[CrapsackWorld something is not quite right]]... Everything is [[DeliberatelyMonochrome in black and white]]!'' |
| 73 | * ContinuityNod: |
| 74 | ** Towards the end of the "VideoGame/StarFox Space Oddity" video, Scrooge [=McDuck=] can be seen floating past in space, referring back to the VideoGame/DuckTales Moon Theme video. |
| 75 | ** At the end of the ''VideoGame/SuperMarioLand2SixGoldenCoins With Lyrics'' video, which is positive to the game, Dave pops up only to say that he agrees. At the end of their video about the original ''VideoGame/SuperMarioLand'', while Brent hated it and Dave loved it, they both agreed that the sequel was better. |
| 76 | * CulturedBadass: Mega Man, according to ''VideoGame/MegaMan2 With Lyrics'': |
| 77 | --> "Blue and cyan / Likes [[Music/FryderykChopin Chopin]] / And Rodin / Mega Man!" [[note]]The "i"s in both those names are pronounced like the "a" in "Man"[[/note]] |
| 78 | * DarkerAndEdgier: His ''VideoGame/{{Kirby}}'' song depicts Kirby as a monster who is going to eat every human being and steal their souls. |
| 79 | * DamnYouMuscleMemory: The subject of a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MzyTJbubzr4 video]] he made ranting about how the X Button has been in different positions on various controllers. |
| 80 | * DisproportionateRetribution: President Obama ''revokes Brent's citizenship'' for disliking ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime Ocarina of Time]]''. |
| 81 | * DoomyDoomsOfDoom: Bubbleman has a "spiky aquarium OF DOOM". |
| 82 | * DoubleEntendre: In the video on the first ''Luigi's Mansion'', E. Gadd describes ghostbusting as "just sucky sucky sucky and clean up the white stuff". He follows it up in the ''Dark Moon'' by saying "sometimes you just gotta suck some balls". |
| 83 | * EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: His earlier videos tend to use more official art and screenshots rather than Brentalfloss himself dressing and acting up as characters. |
| 84 | * EvenEvilHasStandards: |
| 85 | ** Brentalfloss says that the line "Fuck your mom and sister too" in ''Mega Man 3 "Game Over" With Lyrics'' (a TheReasonYouSuckSpeech given by a singing cartridge of Mega Man 3) is "not encouraging incest; rather, it's saying a big 'fuck you' to your mom and your sister. Mega Man 3 may be a dick when you get a game over, but I don't think he's THAT kind of 'mo-fo'." |
| 86 | ** During the "Don't Troll a Troll" video, Brent has the courtesy to censor the troll's name and refrain from showing his Facebook page, so as to prevent exposing him to the attacks of Brent's entire fanbase. |
| 87 | * EvilLaugh: At the end of "Ke$ha Plays Majora's Mask", devolving from girlish giggling. |
| 88 | * EyeScream: In ''Super Mario Land 2 with Lyrics'', Mario claims that the crane grabbed his eyeball, followed by screams of pain and bleeped-out swearing. After it deposits him on the ground, he goes on to say, "Great, I'm blind now!" |
| 89 | * FartsOnFire: The "Baby Mario & Papa Yoshi" video has Baby Mario give Yoshi a flaming fart to the face after touching a Fire Flower. |
| 90 | * FlawedPrototype: In "Super Mario Sunshine With Lyrics", after he points out that Fludd's nozzle has a spike located directly on it's back near Mario's head, an exasperated Dr. E. Gadd pops up and yells "That was just a prototype!" |
| 91 | * FormulaBreakingEpisode: |
| 92 | ** Occasionally, instead of putting lyrics to video game music, he'll put new lyrics about video games to songs that already have lyrics. For example, ''Super Mario World'' to the tune of ''What A Wonderful World''. |
| 93 | ** He also has "Without Lyrics" videos, which is him playing the original music. |
| 94 | ** Sometimes he'll write lyrics to games, but with original music he made himself. For example, the actual theme to ''VideoGame/{{Limbo}}'' is a dark somber track. Yet in Limbo with Lyrics he sings it to an incredibly Upbeat reggae song, as well as the two Bioshock songs are original ragtime [[note]] brentalfloss had no intention of making it ragtime but more "A showtime reduction of 20's/30's swing" and did it Ragtime proper later though without lyrics [[/note]] and Barbershop songs respectively. |
| 95 | * FreezeFrameBonus: |
| 96 | ** There's a part in the "Kirby with Lyrics" video where a crowd is running away from Kirby in fear. Most of them are cosplayers, and pausing the video allows you to see a lot of characters are being cosplayed ([[Manga/OnePiece Luffy, Law]], [[Anime/PokemonTheSeries Ash, Misty]], [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII Cloud]]...). |
| 97 | ** In the ''Ocarina of Time With Lyrics'' video, among the angry tweets flooding in after Brent disses ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime'', there is one from President Obama telling him that his citizenship has been revoked. |
| 98 | * FridgeHorror: InUniverse example, the "Sewer Surfin'" video is entirely about Brent's realization that the Ninja Turtles live in a sewer and thus are surrounded by feces. |
| 99 | -->"All right, Sewer Surfin'. Wait a minute, SEWER SURFIN'? That's GROSS! Oh my GOD!" |
| 100 | * FunnyBackgroundEvent: |
| 101 | ** In "Baby Mario & Papa Yoshi", you see Yoshis dropping baby Wario in a cook-pot in the background at one point. |
| 102 | ** In "Ocarina of Time With Lyrics", one of the angry tweets in response to his disparaging tweet about Ocarina of Time is "I can't believe I ever wrote slash about you and Link! #Disappointed". |
| 103 | * {{Gasshole}}/{{Fartillery}}: Bubbleman (who had chipotle for lunch): "Bubbles full of poo-poo gas[=/=]How else could anybody [[BubbleGun weaponize a bubble]]?[=/=]Poison bubbles from my ass..." |
| 104 | * GoMadFromTheRevelation: "Bubble Bobble with Lyrics" slowly grows more insane from the player's perspective until the very end. |
| 105 | * GodwinsLaw: |
| 106 | ** The "Kirby With Lyrics" video describes Kirby as anti-semitic, and shows a picture of Kirby dressed as Hitler. |
| 107 | --->"Kirby's anti-semitic,\ |
| 108 | and hungry as hell.\ |
| 109 | He likes kids who eat kosher the best." |
| 110 | ** He mentions the possibilities of Jewish Nazis in his ''VideoGame/{{Civilization}}'' rendition. |
| 111 | ** Compares the plot of ''VideoGame/SuperMarioLand2SixGoldenCoins'' to that of ''Literature/MeinKampf''. |
| 112 | * GratuitousJapanese: His ''Super Mario Bros. With Lyrics'' April Fools video. Japanese lyrics, English subtitles. |
| 113 | * HappilyAdopted: Mario, by [[InterspeciesAdoption Yoshi]] in "Baby Mario & Papa Yoshi". |
| 114 | * HeWhoFightsMonsters: E. Gadd comes to this conclusion regarding the titular plumber and the various ways he can kill various lifeforms in ''Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon With Lyrics''. |
| 115 | -->''Look at you bringing that badass jive\ |
| 116 | Burning a harmless arachnid alive\ |
| 117 | What does it look like inside of your head?\ |
| 118 | This plant has feelings, but you're like'' '''dead.'''\ |
| 119 | ''Used to be, you were the gentler bro\ |
| 120 | Smarter and nicer than Mario\ |
| 121 | Give you a vacuum & boom-bang-pow!\ |
| 122 | Luigi, you're the monster now!'' |
| 123 | * HiddenDepths: Black Mage's verses in Ballad of the Mages starts as a rap about how people don't understand that DarkIsNotEvil, and despite their assumptions about him based on him being a BlackMage, he wants love and a family. He then launches into a pleading heartfelt ballad. |
| 124 | -->I'm just a lonely Black Mage\ |
| 125 | Relegated to the back stage\ |
| 126 | There's so much I wish you knew\ |
| 127 | So that maybe, you'd see I'm just like you. |
| 128 | * HitlerAteSugar: In ''Super Mario Land with Lyrics'', Dave praises the game by calling it a "technical marvel", to which Brent replies, "Yeah, but so was the cotton gin!"[[note]]The cotton gin being an invention that automated the removal of seeds from cotton, making it profitable to cultivate. This resulted in the massive expansion of slavery in the United States during the first half of the 19th century, and thus the cotton gin is frequently cited as an example of a technical innovation with negative social consequences[[/note]] |
| 129 | * HypeBacklash: [[InvokedTrope Brought up]] at the start of ''What if Super Mario Sunshine had Lyrics?'' where Brent brings up how he had told Dave that ''Sunshine'' is the best Mario game during their ''What if Super Mario Land had Lyrics?'' video. He then reveals that he only heard the game was great until he actually started to play it. The whole song is about Brent pointing out all the flaws and annoying quirks of the game. He concludes with that the game isn't exactly horrible, but it's not his #1 game and others can still love the game if they liked it. |
| 130 | * IWantSong: "[[VideoGame/FinalFantasyI Ballad of the Mages]]": The RedMage wants to be the best at both swordplay and magic, the WhiteMage wants some praise, and the BlackMage wants people to [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything stop judging him by the color of his]]... [[DiscriminateAndSwitch magic]]. |
| 131 | * IntentionalEngrishForFunny: The English subtitles for his "Super Mario Bros. With Lyrics" song. |
| 132 | * JustOneMoreLevel: "Bubble Bobble with Lyrics" mentions the trope name almost verbatim in the second verse. |
| 133 | -->''I'll just play one more round of executin' everything I see\ |
| 134 | Grab a dead bad guy banana, and then hey, I'm in round three!\ |
| 135 | Woah, I just got a bubble bonus and my points are goin' strong\ |
| 136 | Maybe I'll just play a little more - [[SchmuckBait I'm sure it's not that long]]'' |
| 137 | * KonamiCode: This forms the chorus of the "Contra with Lyrics" song. |
| 138 | * ListSong: The Game Over tinies, in which he sings about video game characters dying in different ways, from A to Z ([[VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII Aerith]], [[Franchise/SuperMarioBros Bowser]], [[VideoGame/ChronoTrigger Crono]], [[VideoGame/StreetFighterII Dhalsim]], [[VideoGame/EccoTheDolphin Ecco]]...) |
| 139 | * LyricalDissonance: |
| 140 | ** One of his songs takes the upbeat, energetic tune from the ''Mega Man 3'' game over screen... and sets it to a TheReasonYouSuckSpeech directed at the player, with lines like "You're a sack of putrid shit! Dig a hole! Jump in it!". Lampshaded by the introduction: "Sure, the "game over" music from ''Mega Man 3'' '''sounds''' happy. But did you ever get the feeling that the game was just being a dick?" |
| 141 | ** In "The VideoGame/{{BioShock|1}} Song", a carefree jazz number about the many horrifying things that can happen to you in Rapture. |
| 142 | ** ''VideoGame/{{Limbo}} with Lyrics'' is a fun reggae song about the main character's predicament. Which is, needless to say, horrendous. |
| 143 | ** "''Franchise/{{Kirby}}'' with Lyrics" mostly has the normally cheerful Green Greens theme while Brent sings about how much of a monster the little guy is. Justified in that it was done as a Halloween video. |
| 144 | * ManOfAThousandVoices: The guy can do an excellent impersonation of [[WesternAnimation/SouthPark Cartman]] (from his ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyIV'' Love theme song), WebAnimation/HomestarRunner (from the G-Rated version of aforementioned song), and Mike Tyson (from his VideoGame/PunchOut song), as well as [[VideoGame/StarFox Falco, Peppy, and Slippy]] |
| 145 | * ModestyShorts: In [[VideoGame/ZeldaIITheAdventureOfLink Zelda II With Lyrics]] while cosplaying as Link. |
| 146 | * MotorMouth: His cover of the ''VideoGame/BanjoKazooie'' main theme is currently the closest he has ever got to [[Music/WeirdAlYankovic "Hardware Store"]] in the "impossible to sing" territory. |
| 147 | * NostalgiaFilter: Both Brent and Dave accuse the other of, and eventually themselves admit to, basing their opinion of ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime'' partly on nostalgia -- Dave played the game as a kid while Brent didn't, instead coming to the famously hyped game as an adult and being critical of it compared to games from his own childhood. |
| 148 | * NotMakingThisUpDisclaimer: "[[VideoGame/BubbleBobble Bubble Bobble]] With Lyrics" includes a line that reassures the listener that "this game was real". |
| 149 | * NotThatTheresAnythingWrongWithThat: In ''The Truth About Toad'' song, Brent spends the whole song on how Toad is actually gay, but he still likes him regardless. In a more comedic tone, he proclaims in ''Mario Paint with Lyrics'' that the game feels like "an art class where you don't feel gay" and then awkwardly attempts to say there's nothing wrong with it. |
| 150 | * OlderThanTheyLook: ''DK Rap 2018'' reveals that Diddy Kong still looks very youthful despite many years passing since the end of ''VideoGame/DonkeyKong64'', but women won't date him because he looks like a child and he's very lonely and sexually frustrated because of it. |
| 151 | * OminousLatinChanting: |
| 152 | ** His "Gregorian Chant style" cover of the ''Franchise/SuperMarioBros'' theme. |
| 153 | ** He also utterly deflates OminousLatinChanting with his "Decoded" videos, transcribing what it sounds like to the ear and providing hilarious visual aids. |
| 154 | * OnceOriginalNowCommon : [[{{Invoked}} Discussed]] in "Mario Paint with Lyrics" where he mentions that the fact that the game came with a mouse was, "A big deal [[TheNineties back then]]." |
| 155 | * PayEvilUntoEvil: As shown in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vAAklxOde14 this video]], Brentalfloss was holding a small online auction where he was selling his stuff and would use the money to help him and his girlfriend move into a better apartment. One of the things he offered to sell was a 30 minute phone call between him and the buyer and he set the starting bid at 99 cents. At the end of the day, the winning bid was over $800, but Brentalfloss wasn't paid for days and after finally getting a response from the bidder, [[{{Jerkass}} said bidder bluntly stated he would refuse to pay him]]. Brental Floss looked up the bidder's profile and other info and discovered that the bidder was a 15 year old [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic Brony]] with a Facebook account. After getting the kid's phone number, Brent's girlfriend called the troll and pretended to be a representative claiming that the kid won a contest and had won a bunch of prizes related to ''My Little Pony''. After getting the troll's hopes up, the phone was passed over to Brent who then gleefully called the troll out. |
| 156 | * PrecisionFStrike: |
| 157 | ** Sometimes, the F Bombs can come in small numbers despite Brent's usual reliance on large groups of swears. Case in point: |
| 158 | --->''[[VideoGame/DuckTales "...underscoring the life of a retarded mallard, ON THE FUCKING MOON!"]]'' |
| 159 | ** In the ''Ocarina of Time'' video, Brent calling Dave a "limey fuck". |
| 160 | * PunBAsedTitle: The name of his third "With Lyrics" album, ''Flossophy''. |
| 161 | * RunningGag: "Key change, mofo!" |
| 162 | * ScrappyMechanic: {{Invoked}} in ''VideoGame/LuigisMansionDarkMoon'' with lyrics, where he has some choice words for the game's second boss. |
| 163 | -->''Come in for ghostly scares. Spend half the game on stairs.'' |
| 164 | * SelfDeprecation: The Trojan condom Brentalfloss mentions in [[MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext his aforementioned rendition of Terra's theme]] is literally said to be "extra small, extra small". |
| 165 | ** In "Ballad of the Mages", Brent plays Fighter (the mages being puppets), has no lines (since it's the ballad of the ''mages'', duh) and is portrayed as a stupid meat-shield. |
| 166 | ** At the end of Super Mario Land 2 With Lyrics, the lyrics claim Wario as a "small balding elf man". Brent's face switches with Wario's a few times. |
| 167 | * {{Sequelitis}}[=/=]FirstInstallmentWins: Invoked in ''VideoGame/MegaMan2'' With Lyrics: |
| 168 | -->''"See, 3 was good,\ |
| 169 | and 4 was pretty good...\ |
| 170 | and 5 and 6 were okay\ |
| 171 | but 7 sucked big dinosaur balls!"'' |
| 172 | * SeriousBusiness: Brentalfloss and [=DemonTomatoDave=] keep getting into musical arguments over classic games. In the ''Ocarina of Time'' video Brent even goes all the way to England to pick a fight with Dave! |
| 173 | * ShoutOut: |
| 174 | ** Once did one to Creator/DougWalker with "Franchise/{{Metroid}} In 5 Seconds". |
| 175 | --->"Must restore peace! Must escape! Peace in the universe is once again restored...[[SamusIsAGirl HOLYCRAPIMAGIRL!!!"]] |
| 176 | ** He managed to combine it with FridgeBrilliance! In the G-rated version Brantalfloss did of his "''Zelda'' with lyrics" song, he replaced the idea of "Link being rewarded with sex" for "Link being rewarded with cake". Since [[VideoGame/SuperMario64 Princess Peach is always promising Mario cake]], it's become a Meme that ''"Cake"'' is a G-rated codeword for sex. All and all, he is simply [[FridgeBrilliance using the G-Rated idea of sex in his G-rated song about sex]]. |
| 177 | *** Just to show some examples of that Meme in action, here you have a [[http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=245 VgCats comic]], and here a [[http://www.shortpacked.com/2010/comic/book-11/07-sdcc-2010-sketches/cake-2/ Shortpacked comic]]. |
| 178 | ** "The Game Over Tinies" has the line "everyone gets one eventually" in its chorus, which used to be [[https://www.youtube.com/user/GameOverContinue Youtube user GameOverContinue's]] slogan/motto. The video itself is a parody of Creator/EdwardGorey's morbid ''[[Literature/TheGashlycrumbTinies The Gashlycrumb Tinies]]'', set to music. |
| 179 | ** "Just One Duck" features several cameos from other Internet celebrities, some of whom are dressed as other Capcom characters like [[Franchise/StreetFighter Ryu, Ken, Chun-Li]], [[Franchise/AceAttorney Phoenix Wright, Maya Fey]], [[VideoGame/MegaManClassic Dr. Wily, Proto Man]]... |
| 180 | ** "[[Franchise/AceAttorney Phoenix Wright]] With Lyrics" starts with a shout of "[[Franchise/MortalKombat MORAL KOMBAT!]]" |
| 181 | ** In "Ballad of the Mages" the Fighter being seen as a idiot, could be a shout-out to "8-Bit Theater" |
| 182 | ** "Ke$ha Plays Majora's Mask" includes the lyric "''Time Travel like [[Franchise/BackToTheFuture Doc Brown]] (Brown)":'' |
| 183 | --->'''Dr. Emmett L. "Doc" Brown:''' 88 miles per hooooouuurrrr!!! |
| 184 | ** The video for [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=It4U4dEDaSo the Bioshock Infinite Song]] features a split-screen shot of each of Brent's recordings of the individual vocals for the song, an obvious shout-out to Music/SmoothMcGroove. To make the homage even more obvious, his dog shows up in one of them. |
| 185 | ** "Zelda II With Lyrics" has a stealthy one in the first section: |
| 186 | --->"There will be rats ([[WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles1987 radical rats!]]) with boomerangs" |
| 187 | ** The second part of "Ocarina of Time With Lyrics" features a CounterpointDuet that sounds a lot like "The Confrontation" from ''Theatre/LesMiserables''. The scene and its shot composition, in particular, seem to be based on the [[Film/LesMiserables2012 2012 film adaptation]]. |
| 188 | ** "Mike Tyson's Punch-Out With Lyrics" features the lyric, "[[Website/{{YTMND}} Tyson stole]] [[http://wiki.ytmnd.com/Nigga_Stole_My_Bike!!! my bike!]]" |
| 189 | ** "Luigi's Mansion 3 with Lyrics" includes a brief parody of the Music/{{Eagles}}' ''Hotel California''. |
| 190 | ** "Ghosts n' Goblins with Lyrics" likewise has a brief parody of Music/MichaelJackson's "Thriller". |
| 191 | * SmallNameBigEgo: |
| 192 | ** An essential part of his Brentalfloss character. He used to end every video with [[ShamelessSelfPromoter "subscribe, mofos."]] As of now, however, [[ClusterFBomb "mofo" still borders on]] VerbalTic. |
| 193 | --->''[[AwesomeMusic/FinalFantasy "KEY CHANGE, MOFO"]]'' |
| 194 | ** During the Brentalween series, he carved his own face into a pumpkin. [[JustForFun/IThoughtItMeant That is, he carved a pumpkin to look like his face]]. [[BodyHorror Not the other thing]]. |
| 195 | ** In the lyrics to "Dr. Mario with Lyrics": |
| 196 | --->'''Dr. Mario:''' Take it, Floss!\ |
| 197 | ''(Piano solo by a handsome bald man)'' |
| 198 | ** "[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaALinkToThePast A Link to the Past With Lyrics]]" paint that game's Link as this. |
| 199 | * SpreadShot: In ''Contra With Lyrics'': |
| 200 | -->"S is what I shall use (Spread Gun Spread Gun muthafucka!)" |
| 201 | * StealthPun: In the "Baby Mario & Papa Yoshi" animation, teenage Mario goes to [[MushroomSamba Mushroom High]]. |
| 202 | ** The tune of "''VideoGame/{{Limbo}}'' with Lyrics" is a limbo tune. |
| 203 | * StylisticSuck: The crappy day to night dissolves from Castlevania 2 get a ShoutOut in the 'Castlevania II with lyrics' video. |
| 204 | * SubvertedRhymeEveryOccasion: From "3DS Streetpass With Lyrics": |
| 205 | -->And to whoever's next, I'll write up some text\ |
| 206 | To my heart's content\ |
| 207 | But since there's only sixteen letters, it says:\ |
| 208 | "Hi, my name is B" |
| 209 | * TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: His rendition of the GameOver music from Mega Man 3. He points out that because it's such an upbeat song, it sounds kinda dickish. |
| 210 | -->"That was fun, but now you're done.\ |
| 211 | You're out of luck because you suck.\ |
| 212 | You're not quite as good as everyone else who plays it.\ |
| 213 | Don't continue, just give in,\ |
| 214 | You silly boob, ya fuckin' noob,\ |
| 215 | Just turn off the power and cry yourself to sleep, you pussy." |
| 216 | * TakeThat: |
| 217 | ** His statement towards ''Rayman'' (or, more precisely, ''VideoGame/RaymanLegends'') in his "Game Over Tinies" song stands out - his stance about the game's delay to a [[VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoV more unfortunate]] release date is as straightforward as it gets. |
| 218 | --->''"R is for Rayman, since nobody cares"'' |
| 219 | ** His jab towards PETA in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Jog5ZLY-dQ this RANTalfloss video]]. |
| 220 | ** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=It4U4dEDaSo The Bioshock Infinite Song]] describes the white supremacist, jingoistic Columbia as a "Tea Party Fox News Disneyland". |
| 221 | ** A lot of his comics that had to do with the UsefulNotes/WiiU irked Nintendo fans, as the punchlines were nothing more than "The [=WiiU=] Sucks" over and over again. He referenced the backlash in his "Farewell song" for the comic. |
| 222 | ** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RAGcWht8DSI How the Trump Stole Christmas!]] is one against UsefulNotes/DonaldTrump, as is [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TE5fmZrqtL8 Bye Donald (Trump in Stripes Forever)]] when he was voted out of office. |
| 223 | * TemptingFate: In the G-Rated version of "Bubble Man with Lyrics", Bubble Man proclaims that he's "(in)vincible as [[ComicBook/XMen Wolverine]], as long as you do not have Metal Blades like Metal Man." Shortly afterwards, Mega Man shows up, and his final (spoken) line is, [[OhCrap "Wait are those metal blades-?"]] |
| 224 | * TitleDrop: From "[[VideoGame/CastlevaniaIISimonsQuest Castlevania II]] With Lyrics" (set to the tune of "Bloody Tears"): |
| 225 | -->"Drac appears\ |
| 226 | Every hundred years\ |
| 227 | But he'll cry '''bloody tears'''\ |
| 228 | And wish he never was a vampire!" |
| 229 | * ToiletHumour: The entirety of "Sewer Surfin' With Lyrics". |
| 230 | * TruckDriversGearChange: Used and lampshaded in ''Final Fantasy with Lyrics'', ''Civilization with Lyrics'', and ''This Is the Album You've Been Waiting For'' (his promo song for his "Bits of Me" album. "Key change, mofo!" |
| 231 | * TurnYourHeadAndCough: Spoken by VideoGame/DrMario in [[http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/517676 this]] song number, which depicts the character as being a quack. |
| 232 | * UnwantedAssistance: In ''VideoGame/StarFox: [[Music/DavidBowie Space Oddity]]'' |
| 233 | -->'''Fox:''' This is Fox [=McCloud=] to Star Fox team!\ |
| 234 | Hey, Falco, you're a douche!\ |
| 235 | And please, Peppy, for the love of God, retire!\ |
| 236 | As for Slippy, will you please die in a fire!? Immediately! |
| 237 | * VillainousGlutton: He interprets Kirby as a hungry being who won't stop until he eats everything, including humans. |
| 238 | * VisualPun: |
| 239 | ** ''Zelda 2 With Lyrics'' includes the lyric "Kicking some ass! Kicking some ass! Kicking some ass!" In the video, this is set to Link slashing with his sword... and then he kicks a donkey. |
| 240 | ** ''VideoGame/PunchOut With Lyrics'' includes the line "Bull shit cock!" In the video, this is set to a shot of Brent's angry face... superimposed by a bull, then a warm turd, then a rooster. |
| 241 | ** JokeWeapon: "R - just makes me confused! (It stands for Rarely helpful)" Also calling the Machine Gun "Marshmallow gun". |
| 242 | * WellDoneSonGuy: White Mage in "Ballad of the Mages" |
| 243 | * WhatTheHellHero: In "Ocarina of Time with Lyrics", Dave's first lyrics are about how Brent shouldn't be voicing his negative opinion on the game on the internet (or in the live version, a ''gaming con''). |
| 244 | * WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue: The premise of "DK Rap 2018", complete with the subtitle "Where Are They Now?". |
| 245 | * AWinnerIsYou: "Classic Ending Credits with Lyrics" is an extended musical rant about this trope. |
| 246 | * YoureInsane: Calls Scrooge [=McDuck=] crazy several times in the VideoGame/DuckTales song. |
| 247 | * YourMom: What has been listed under SelfDeprecation above is accompanied by "don't tell your mom", in hushed tones. |
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