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2	[[caption-width-right:162:Clockwise from top: Birdy, Kora, Jimmy Esco, and Caveman]]
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4	->Getting screwed over, one film at a time.
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6	These four members of the round table--Kora, Birdy, Caveman, and Jimmy Esco--do reviews of various parts of the media, consisting of {{Film}}, LiveActionTV, and {{Anime}}. First, one of the members would get the ball rolling by introducing the audience to the subject of their review, then all four of them would discuss it and talk about the positive and negative aspects of the feature. The round table member who started the discussion will give his score, then the three other round table members will give their scores. Then the same round table member starting the review will calculate the average of the scores that he and his friends conjured up, delivering it as a final verdict. Their score is on a scale of 1 - 10, and they give each rating a title:
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8	* 10 - Inject It Into My Veins
9	* 9 - Harem Brigade
10	* 8 - Abduct A Friend
11	* 7 - Bargain Bin
12	* 6 - Late Night Double Feature
13	* 5 - Meh...
14	* 4 - You Should Be Ashamed
15	* 3 - Turd Blossom
16	* 2 - Why Have You Forsaken Me?
17	* 1 - Raging Torrent of Dick
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19	[[https://www.youtube.com/user/MediaWhorz Here are links to where]] [[http://blip.tv/mediawhorz you can watch their videos]]
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22	!!Relevant tropes:
23	* ArtEvolution: While the artwork for the emotion pictures for the Round Table members hasn't been updated, you do see them in higher quality than in earlier videos, there are more emotion pictures, and the audio quality has impoved significantly.
24	** [[http://blip.tv/mediawhorz/mw-special-avatars-benders-6621556 And they recently have obtained new avatars]].
25	* BerserkButton: If Kora watches a bad movie use a quote from an all-time classic movie, he gets angry.
26	** Caveman's Berserk Button is time paradoxes.
27	* BrickJoke:
28	** The whole evilBay thing becomes this. First in their very first review, which was for ''ComicBook/SpiderMan'',
29	--->'''Kora:''' Now, where do you get something like [the "thriller" bombs]? eBay?\
30	'''Caveman:''' evilBay.\
31	'''Kora:''' Do your enemies still posess an annoyingly large amount of flesh? Help them shed those unwanted organs with the Thriller Bomb. evilBay. Buy. Sell. Kill. evilBay. For all of your villianous needs. Warning: May cause postmortem dancing.
32	** Later in their ''Film/TimeCop'' review:
33	--->'''Caveman:''' the villian has an SUV! But the cops have a smart car!?\
34	'''Kora:''' evilBay had a special rebate discount.
35	** And there's the "Don't touch me" gags.
36	--->'''Caveman:''' I actually thought that [[VideoGame/MaxPayne the Max Payne movie]] was... ''better'' than you guys were saying. But I can't come up with a single reason why.\
37	'''Jimmy Esco:''' ''(pats Caveman on the back)'' I've been there.\
38	'''Caveman:''' Don't touch me.
39	** Then in Franchise/ResidentEvil, upon learning that Anderson directed AVP:
40	--->'''Jimmy Esco:''' DON'T TOUCH ME!!
41	* ColorCodedCharacters: Each member of the round table has a color to represent him: green for Kora, red for Birdy, blue for Caveman, and yellow for Jimmy Esco.
42	* CuteMute: Ele, the guest reviewer for their ''Film/ThePrincessBride'' review.
43	* DeadpanSnarker: All of them
44	* DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment: At the beginning of their 2011 prequel to ''Film/TheThing2011''. This is even lampshaded.
45	--> '''Kora:''' The difference between The Thing and The Thing is that The Thing comes before The Thing... (''beat'') I ''hate'' the title of this movie.
46	* GenreSavvy: When reviewing the 2011 prequel to ''Film/TheThing2011'', Birdy pointed out a nasty habit in modern horror movies that he personally dubbed "[[IdiotBall Horror Stupidity Syndrome]]." He and Caveman explained it to be when a character in a horror movie gets the IdiotBall in order to set up a jump scare.
47	* IdiotBall: {{Lampshading}}; in addition to the Horror Stupidity Syndrome mentioned above, Caveman also mentioned one such scene from the 2008 remake of ''Series/TheAndromedaStrain''.
48	--> '''Caveman:''' There's one scene that had me question his intelligence. He's been running from the military for most of the second half of the series. And then he sees a bunch of military choppers flying overhead. And what's his first thought? "Ugh, let's wave them down and see if they come get us." What the HELL!?!? Sign your own death warrant, my friend.
49	* NightmareRetardant: [[invoked]] Caveman considered ''Film/TheThing2011'' prequel's use of CGI to be this. He said he was actually laughing out loud as he watched it. Birdy agreed with him, but he did praise the few-and-far-between practical effects.
50	* RunningGag: While they reviewed ''Anime/{{Hellsing}}'', "jurisdiction" became this gag.
51	** And when they reviewed TheCape, they kept playing clips of other media with someone saying, "I'm Batman!"
52	** Jimmy Esco's constant conflicts with a penguin were abundant in their review for the original John Carpenter's ''Film/TheThing1982''.
53	* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Caveman delivers this to the makers of the 2011 ''[[Film/TheThing2011 Thing]]'' prequel.
54	--> '''Caveman:''' I have one thing to say to anyone who knows someone or is themselves directing a movie: if I am laughing at your monster, you fail. If I am [[NightmareRetardant laughing at the scenes that are supposed to make me piss my pants,]] you have failed. Go back and redo it. You're not making a comedy, you're not even making a horror comedy. You are making a ''horror... MOVIE!'' I'm supposed to be holding on to the edge of my seat. My knuckles bone white. My pants soaked. That is what I want from a horror movie and I haven't seen that in years!

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