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1	Premiering in July 2011, Bro Team Pill is a Website/YouTube series described by its creator(s) as "video game reviews for the modern intellectual."
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3	In actuality, Bro Team Pill has relatively little to do with reviewing games in the traditional sense, focusing instead on delivering non-sequitur looks of video games that are equal parts hilarious, satirical, and surreal. Though primarily a comedy series, the "creative" reinterpretations of games' [[AlternativeCharacterInterpretation characters]], [[AlternateAesopInterpretation plot]], and [[FridgeLogic mechanics]] often ''do'' serve as a subversive and incredibly sarcastic review of a game's content. The series' modus operandi is using professional quality video editing to distil commentary from the perspective of a stereotypical "bro," [[SirSwearsALot wildly creative overuse of profanity]], [[NoIndoorVoice LOTS OF YELLING]], and rapid-fire clips of gameplay into a potent 2-4 minute summary. The series is also notable for not cleanly falling into any existing category of EditingWorks, coming across as a hybrid of a VideoReviewShow, AbridgedSeries, and sometimes {{machinima}}.
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5	Bro Team Pill has been steadily growing in popularity through word of mouth over ImageBoards and news aggregators, amassing a buttload of subscribers and becoming featured content on {{Machinima}}'s Website/YouTube network. In 2021, his channel was removed from Youtube, though some of his videos are preserved by other channels attempting to KeepCirculatingTheTapes.
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8	!!Bro Team Pill Provides Examples Of:
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10	* AccentUponTheWrongSyllable: Used frequently, with a signature pronunciation of "woman" as "WAH-min."
11	* {{Angrish}}:
12	** Featured in many reviews, and especially prominent in Blacklight: Retribution.
13	--->[[VideoGame/KillingFloor CUM FLAUDE.]]
14	** Different flavors of angrish appear in different videos, ranging from psuedo-German gibberish (''VideoGame/{{Minecraft}}''), to furious incoherent screaming (''VideoGame/StarTrekOnline''), to just plain unhinged. (War Inc.)
15	* AstonishinglyAppropriateInterruption: When [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VkGgeBXcTq4 announcing his plan to start a new channel]], Bro Team's rant about Digitom Productions is greeted by Nelson of that very group, who excitedly asks if he's working on a new video and expresses high hopes for it.
16	* AudienceParticipation: "Fate of" video series, where he and some hangers-on party up on random (usually bad) multiplayer games.
17	* BerserkButton: Everything, but in a meta-sense, Bro is as harsh as [[CausticCritic other internet critics]] when it comes to big name releases, like ''[[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim Skyrim]]''. Compared to smaller releases, which usually consist of gibberish, twisting the plot into weird quests for drugs and/or boobs, Bro will often straight-out excoriate flaws in Triple-AAA games with little humor. See CausticCritic.
18	* BoomerangBigot: About his homeland of Canada.
19	ratings at all.
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21	* BrokeTheRatingScale: The series gives decidedly odd ratings when it decides to give
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23	** ''VideoGame/{{Garshasp}}'' gets a "Cool out of Yes".
24	** ''[[{{VideoGame/Tribes}} Tribes: Ascend]]'' gets a "cough hack wheeze out of 10".
25	** For ''[[VideoGame/FirstEncounterAssaultRecon F.E.A.R. 2]]'', he simply states "I would rate this game."
26	** Ignores rating ''VideoGame/Battlefield3'' in favor of rating ''the review itself'' as being better than his ''FEAR 2'' review.
27	** ''VideoGame/SniperGhostWarrior'' gets a Tau Epsilon, with no scale given).
28	** His ''VideoGame/{{Hybrid}}'' review, he would give a hug. [[{{Squee}} (hee hee hee~)]]
29	** He gave ''VideoGame/AlphaProtocol'' to his brother (and now he won't give it back!)
30	* BystanderSyndrome: In-game, dying civilians and allies are generally shrugged off in comedic ways.
31	* CausticCritic: Usually delivered in a bizarre, [[WebVideo/RedLetterMedia Plinkett-on-cocaine-and-meth]] speedscrew of {{Angrish}} and chopped up with non-sequiturs to the point of nonsense, but he drops his persona to eviscerate big name games:
32	** Bro takes time to not appreciate [[DiscreditedMeme overused memes]], lame jokes, questioning why Angel would return, and criticizing the co-op in ''VideoGame/Borderlands2''.
33	*** Though he seemed to enjoy it enough to play the DLC campaigns, and ''really'' liked the Bro Team reference in "Tiny Tina's Assault on Dragon Keep". Still thinks the co-op is dumb, though he blames that on his friends rather than the game itself.
34	** 99% of the ''Skyrim'' rap was attacking the game for being, in his opinion, dumbed down, generic, glitchy, not very improved over Morrowind, and short. "Caustic" really is the word here.
35	** The whole of ''The War Z'''s video was spent criticizing the [[invoked]]ObviousBeta state of the game, the absurd degree of micro transactions (to the point where he accuses it of being a scam in a [[FreezeFrameBonus freeze frame]]), and how monotonous the actual gameplay is along with the ridiculously long respawn queue. All set to a nightmarish rendition of MIA's ''Paper Planes''.
36	** Similarly, the ''VideoGame/DayZ'' video mocked how boring gameplay was.
37	** Bro mocked the enemy design (which varies wildly and is almost ''VideoGame/PaperMario''-esque), dungeon crawling, and characters of ''VideoGame/{{Recettear}}''.
38	* TheComicallySerious: All of the Cricket Revolution review is delivered in a calm, dispassionate tone.
39	* CouchGag: Many episodes have a unique audio clip after the appearance of the title and Pill, ranging from simple exclamations like "INTERNET!" to [[http://youtu.be/CSxlm6VBpzI whatever the hell this sound is]].
40	* ContractualGag: Combined with his own running gags and mocked in the Guns of Icarus review.
41	-->"I sure hope JEFFREY shows up! Or that I end up in a SEWER!" (LaughTrack)
42	* CuckoolanderCommentator: As applied to video game commentary and criticism. Especially noticeable in the ''Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine'' video where the game's many doors and elevators take precedence over the ultra-violent battles with hordes of demons and aliens.
43	* CurseCutShort: ''VideoGame/Warhammer40000SpaceMarine'' ends with "If you don't stand behind our troops, you might as well stand in front of them and get fu-'''BRO TEAM!'''"
44	* {{Determinator}}: Bro Team isn't very good at action games, but this doesn't stop him from sticking with even the worst of them until he's finished.
45	* DrinkingGame: His "Life is Dranks" playthrough of ''Videogame/LifeIsStrange'', in which he takes a shot at anything he finds cringey about the writing/dialog.
46	* DrivenToSuicide: His avatar in ''VideoGame/TERAOnline''.
47	* EverybodyLaughsEnding: A canned-laughter version in the Guns of Icarus review. Bro isn't very happy about it.
48	* EyeScream: Bro Team's eyes melt from becoming too good at videogames while wearing GUNNAR Optiks gaming glasses.
49	* FusionDance: The explanation for Bro Team seemingly consisting of one person.
50	-->"Bros COMBINED to form the team, you fucking guy!"
51	* FreeLoveFuture: Combined with CrapsackWorld in Bro Team's take on Syndicate.
52	-->"In the future, the human erogenous brain decides when and where shit's gonna go down. Humans are mere victims to their boner motives."
53	* FreudianSlip: Played for laughs in the ''Modern Warfare 3'' review.
54	-->"This shit's more interactive than your most terrifying wet dream, but in this you don't wake up before you get to suck your teacher's dick!"
55	* HurricaneOfPuns: The Singularity review. Doubles as a horribly dangerous Bro Team DrinkingGame if you take a shot for every "time" pun!
56	** The "Fate of VideoGame/{{TERA}}" video is this taken to a new, un''bear''able extreme, courtesy of a few dozen compatriots on Mumble chat.[[note]]Everyone involved played as Popori, which are small, furry, bear-cub-like creatures.[[/note]]
57	** In ''VideoGame/CallOfDutyBlackOpsII'', Bro proclaims [[HalfTheManHeUsedToBe a torso blown in half at the waist]] to have a "leg up in the competition".
58	** The "Conte" NPC name joke writes itself.
59	* IHaveBoobsYouMustObey: Bro Team contemplates the many round objects of Singularity, including a pair belonging to a female character that seem to rob him of all free will.
60	-->"There's even balls on the front of this guy's shirt, and for some reason they make me want to do whatever this guy says."
61	* LampshadedDoubleEntendre: In Guns of Icarus.
62	-->"We're gonna need a specialist: Me. Specialized in one-handed cranking, and also beatin' off my stupid dick."
63	* LastSecondWordSwap:
64	** In ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedBrotherhood'':
65	--->"When we all know it was the '''JEW'''[[Myth/ClassicalMythology piter Worshipers]].
66	** In ''VideoGame/{{Dishonored}}'':
67	--->"We all know you don't rock out with your [[AC:Sit on my lap]]."
68	* LaughTrack: Also in Guns of Icarus, apparently to mock his running gags.
69	* LogoJoke: When Bro Team mocked the Pill in the introduction to the Singularity review, it refused to perform in the next video.
70	* MadLibsDialogue: The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LFeC1O5UB-I Urgent Message from Vin Diesel]] uses snippets of [[Creator/VinDiesel Vin Diesel's]] interviews to protest Bro Team being linked to Machinima.
71	* {{Malaproper}}: Frequent, sometimes even combined with AccentUponTheWrongSyllable.
72	* MistakenForPedophile: Bro has to stop and freeze every time he sees his VideoGame/TeraOnline creepy avatar. He breaks down in tears after he makes her commit suicide.
73	* MusicalEpisode:
74	** The Skyrim review is delivered in the form of a rap.
75	** The War Z review is set to an {{Angrish}} rendition of MIA's ''Paper Planes''. Itself a StealthPun regarding the game being accused of being a scam (''"All I wanna do is... and take your money"'')
76	* NightmareFace: During the ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedBrotherhood'' review:
77	-->''That's because he knows he's entering a world of SHIHIHSHIHIH-'' (Bro appears, creepily flicking his tongue at the camera)
78	* NoIndoorVoice: Gradually ramps up throughout the series, becoming a staple around the Painkiller review. Lampshaded in the following exchange from the Guns of Icarus:
79	-->Knock at the door '''"HEY!" "WHAT?!"'''
80	-->"You got mail, man." "Oh, fuckin' '''THANKS DUDE!"'''
81	-->'''"NO PROBLEM!" "FUCK YOU!" "FUCK YOU!" "FUCK YOU, MAN!"'''
82	* PunBasedTitle: Alluded to in the April Fools video of Cricket Revolution.
83	-->"Well, it sounds like the word 'protein,' but that's not actually what's being said."
84	* RefugeInAudacity: One of the mainstays of the series, like the Killing Floor review's insistence that the game is about Irish police officers.
85	* RunningGag:
86	** Sewers, the Mace of Trit, MARTIANS, Canada being crappy, "Shit's FUCKED", Jeffrey the giant eagle, murdering the hostage, and EVAC helicopters being blown up.
87	** VideoGame/{{Crysis}} 3 requiring that Bro tear apart and "improve" (read: destroy) his computer to play the [[SceneryPorn sweet graphics]].
88	** The Fate of ''VideoGame/Planetside2'' video referring to the MAX power armor as "Mexicans" resulted in faux-Spanish gibbering and La Cucaracha blaring over Proximity Chat, which resulted in one fan's visiting Mexican family to call him an asshole.
89	** Rogue Warrior had "isn't expecting A KNIFE TO THE THROAT" and variations thereof.
90	* ShoutOut:
91	** The ''VideoGame/{{Hybrid}}'' review has [[Film/BladeRunner "I want more LIFE, FUCKER!"]]
92	** The ''VideoGame/{{Dishonored}}'' review has [[ComicBook/JudgeDredd I AM THE LAW]]
93	** ''Many'' videos feature brief allusions to ''Series/TwinPeaks''.
94	* ShowerScene: Well, a bath scene. From ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedBrotherhood''. It's interrupted by Bro [[NightmareFace enjoying the fanservice too much]].
95	-->[[AC:It's time to take a bath in olive oil, you greasy motherfucker~. Enter, bitches, and wipe my dink.]]
96	* SoMuchForStealth:
97	** Intentionally abandoned for ''VideoGame/AlphaProtocol'' and ''VideoGame/CallOfCthulhuDarkCornersOfTheEarth''.
98	-->"If anyone sees you the mission's '''FUCKED!''' ....Try to keep a low profile."
99	** ''Literature/RogueWarrior'' has him pull an OverlyLongGag about running up to the Russians and executing the insta-kill knife attack, each time with an increasingly less restrained "THE NEXT GUY ISN'T EXPECTING A KNIFE TO THE THROAT".
100	* ScreamsLikeALittleGirl: A few times, most noticeably when he's killed by a surprise melee attack in the CrimeCraft review.
101	* {{Squee}}: Terraria.
102	-->"Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!"
103	** He wants to give Hybrid a hug.
104	* SuspiciouslySpecificDenial: In the "Internet Dating" video, Bro Team (posing as a woman) is questioned whether he's actually a man.
105	-->''lol as if i'm a guy who made this entire profile and is streaming this to like 479 people on the internet''
106	* TakeThat: The ''VideoGame/ModernWarfare3'' "review" is actually ''VideoGame/ModernWarfare2'' footage. If you don't get it, it's basically saying [[ItsTheSameNowItSucks Modern Warfare 3 IS Modern Warfare 2.]]
107	** The Skyrim rap, which attacked the game for being generic fantasy, removing or simplifying many elements from Morrowind, and being extremely glitchy.
108	** Most of the ''Borderlands 2'' review was jokeless, and consisted of Bro trashing the reappearance of Angel, the overused jokes and memes, and (in his opinion) bad, needless co-op.
109	** Bro hated ''VideoGame/Battlefield3'' for its slow-paced multiplayer and mocked the [=DLC=], which he deemed unnecessary.
110	** The fake speedrun of ''VideoGame/GoneHome'' might be one. [[MindScrew If you can hear what Bro is saying.]]
111	** Bro thinks ''VideoGame/{{Recettear}}'' (or at least ''VideoGame/MarkOfTheNinja'') "fucking sucks" for its enemy graphics, lack of visitable locations, and anime art style.
112	** Apparently, Gearbox asked Bro to advertise a new {{MOBA}} of theirs. He posted a vaguely coherent video about how you can totally play as previous Gearbox heroes, like [[VideoGame/HalfLife1 Adrian Shephard]] (you can't), "or something like that".
113	* TakeThatAudience: The ''VideoGame/StarTrekOnline'' review, which consists almost entirely of him screaming unintelligibly (as opposed to him screaming more intelligibly in other videos). At one point he shouts
114	-->"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH, IS THIS WHAT YOU WANT!? YOU FUCKIN' PIGS! YOU SKULLFUCKERS!"
115	** The ''VideoGame/DayZ'' review, a game which Bro Team repeatedly refused to review, begins and ends with the audible sound of sheep bleating. The review itself is much more overly negative than their usual videos - which, in a series that has very little negativity, says something...
116	** The Skyrim review ends with Bro saying that only utter retards would think Skyrim is good.
117	** All Sagacious Interrogatives are read in gibbering, retarded voices... except for one or two delivered in perfect, calm English, just for comedic effect.
118	* TheTriple: In the review of ''Lord of the Rings Online'':
119	-->"You will listen... You will observe... You will EAT TATERS!"
120	* UnreliableVoiceover: Comes with the territory of rewriting games' plots for broness, fun, and profit.
121	* VulgarHumor: The mainstay of the series.

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