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1* ApprovalOfGod: Spaceman's {{review}} of ''Eat Me: The Musical'' has gained positive attention from both the film's director Brian Wimer and members of the Falsies. It even led to Wimer taking Spaceman on as an intern for a few years!
2* TheCastShowoff:
3** Being a musician himself, Spaceman has occasionally made use of his skills in his reviews. Examples include his parodies of "The Trial" in his review of ''[[Music/TheWall The Wall: Live in Berlin]]'', "Best Song Ever" in his review of ''[[Music/OneDirection One Direction: This Is Us]]'', and "Soldier's Poem" by Music/{{Muse}} in his review of ''[[Film/Zombies2018 Z-O-M-B-I-E-S]]'', the first of which had him [[ActingForTwo playing different characters]].
4** He's an artist and draws the title cards for his reviews, being one of a few reviewers to do so.
5* ColbertBump: His review of ''[[Music/VanHalen Van Halen III]]'' received a boost in views after [[https://www.vhnd.com/2017/03/17/van-halen-3-was-it-really-that-bad/ being featured on the Van Halen News Desk]].
6* CreatorBacklash:
7** In ''[=TheHappySpaceman=] Messed Up?!'', he expresses shock at his debut ''Metropolis'' review being one of his most viewed. This is because of it being before he [[GrowingTheBeard found his own style as a reviewer]] and [[CowboyBebopAtHisComputer the amount of mistakes the video contains]], to the point where [[spoiler: the entire video topped the list]].
8** In his re-review of ''Film/RockOfAges'', which doubles as a review of his own original review of the movie, Spaceman also expressed many regrets said review, his fourth ever review, due to its lousy sound mixing, having many jokes that land, still trying to [[FollowTheLeader ape other reviewers' styles]], giving the film too much credit (he was harsher and found that he disliked the film in his re-review), and making a joke about [[Music/DefLeppard Rick Allen]], which [[IHatePastMe Spaceman finds to be in very poor taste]].
9* MilestoneCelebration:
10** Celebrated his tenth anniversary of being on [=YouTube=] with a two part review of ''Film/PhantomOfTheParadise'', which he has described as his favorite movie.
11** He celebrated getting 1,000 subscribers by recording a commentary of his ''[[Music/VanHalen Van Halen III]]'' review.
12* MissingEpisode: He had filmed reviews of ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyEquestriaGirlsRainbowRocks'', ''Series/TheWeirdAlShow'', and ''Film/TronLegacy'' in 2017, but they were thought to be lost after his computer got nuked. However, he later said in a video in 2020 that he came across files of the former two and began work on reconstructing them, floating the possibility of them getting released.
13* NewbieBoom: The video for ''Music/MusicFromTheElder'' exploded in views, gaining over a thousand views after only two days on [=YouTube=].
14* PromotedFanboy: In addition to Spaceman becoming an intern for Brian Wimer, his review of ''Eat Me: The Musical'' got him additional attention from Falsies frontman Lance Brenner; in 2022, Spaceman became the bassist and keyboardist for the Falsies.
15* RealLifeRelative:
16** In his parody of "The Trial" in his review of ''[[Music/TheWall The Wall: Live In Berlin]]'', the Mother role is played (but not voiced) by Spaceman's actual mum.
17** Both of Spaceman's parents appear at the end of his video, ''[=TheHappySpaceman=]'s Six Favorite Christmas Songs''.
18** Spaceman's mother appears again at the end of his ''Every Literature/RudolphTheRedNosedReindeer Special'' video.
19* RealSongThemeTune: The theme for ''Was It Really That Bad?'' is "{{Music/Bad}}" by Music/MichaelJackson.
20* ScheduleSlip: Over the course of the last few years, Spaceman has only been able to put out a few videos each year. [[JustifiedTrope This is mainly because of most of his time being taken up by college classes.]]
21* ThrowItIn: When Spaceman finds out in his review of [[Music/TheRamones Dee Dee Ramone's Rap Album]] that the album has a track on it called "The Crusher", he says "'The Crusher'? What, [[Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration like the doctor? LIKE THE WESLEY?]]" The last line was unscripted, hence [[{{Corpsing}} the small chuckle]] afterwards.
22* WhatCouldHaveBeen:
23** In addition to the aforementioned "lost" episodes, Spaceman worked on a script for a review of ''[[Music/OperationMindcrime Operation Mindcrime II]]'' by {{Music/Queensryche}}. However, this went unfilmed when he was unsatisfied with the review.
24** There were plans for his [[MilestoneCelebration tenth anniversary special]] review of ''Film/PhantomOfTheParadise'' to have even more [[TheCameo cameos]] than the four it had.

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