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4A WebOriginal show where redhead [[PunnyName Sursum Ursa (real name Jill Bearup)]][[note]]Sursum Ursa is Latin for "Bear up,"[[/note]] waxes enthusiastic about books, TV shows and [[WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender anything else that comes to mind]], while the [[FunWithSubtitles subtitles]] look on [[DeadpanSnarker and snark]].
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6Expect trope references and a '''lot''' of ''Series/{{Sherlock}}''.
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8You'll find all Stuff You Like episodes on her [[https://www.youtube.com/user/SursumUrsa?feature=mhee YouTube]]. The show is also featured on Website/TheAgonyBooth [[http://www.agonybooth.com/video_shows/Stuff_You_Like/ here]], Website/{{Geekvision}} [[http://geekvision.tv/channels/sursum-ursa/stuff-you-like/ here]], and she was on WebSite/ChezApocalypse until the sites temporary closure due to Blip's shutdown. She joined Website/ChannelAwesome as part of the 2014 Talent Search, and left in 2018 as part of a mass exodus from the site.
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10In 2020 she retired the "Stuff You Like" series, and since then she has being making videos as Creator/JillBearup, mostly about analysing screen fight scenes.
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13!!''Stuff You Like'' provides and discusses examples of:
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15* AbhorrentAdmirer: [[Website/TheAgonyBooth The Porn Critic]] for Ursa:
16--> '''Sursum Ursa''': Stop sending me condoms in the post, you creepy pervert!
17* ActionGirl: Mentioned by name quite a lot: Ariane, the adrenaline junkie pilot/racer from ''Literature/GrandCentralArena'', as well as [[WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender Katara, Toph, Suki, Azula, Mai, Ty Lee...]] and [[Literature/ChroniclesOfTheKencyrath Jame]].
18* AlternateCharacterInterpretation: InUniverse, [[Series/{{Sherlock}} Jim]] is a StalkerWithACrush.
19* AnachronismStew: Namechecked in Film/TheScorpionKing review:
20--> '''Sursum Ursa''': But this movie runs on RuleOfCool, not Rule of Historical Accuracy, so we must forgive it.
21* AsteroidThicket: Namechecked in [[Literature/GrandCentralArena GCA]] which has a section that consists of a long string of tropes and accompanying pictures.
22* BadBoss: Ursa herself, judging by the "Staff Training Video" at the start of the ''Film/{{Underworld|2003}}'' review...
23* BigYes / GlassesPull: "This week: (glasses) it's Series/{{Sherlock}} [[DistressedDude Whump]] Week." [[BigYes "YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"]]
24* BlackCloak: For the "Staff Training Video":
25--> '''Sursum Ursa''': Greetings, minions. ''[thunder]'' Welcome to hell. ''[EvilLaughter]''
26* BreadEggsMilkSquick: In the Roman Holiday {{review}}:
27-->'''Sursum Ursa''': …comfy shoes, gelato, dancing with boys, [[ImportantHaircut a mischievous pixie haircut]], and casual violence!
28* BuffySpeak: On the subject of Jim's mood swings:
29--> '''Sursum Ursa''': He has mood swings like a… very… swingy… thing!
30* CatchPhrase:
31** Early on in the series, "Meet our protagonist..."
32** More recently, "The plot it [[YeOldeButcheredeEnglishe goeth thusly]]"
33** "No, not that one," when dealing with things that have a name that could refer to something could.
34* ChewingTheScenery: Mentioned in ''Underworld'':
35--> '''Sursum Ursa''': One minute it's all, DullSurprise! And the next they're ChewingTheScenery like starving beavers with really pointy teeth!
36* {{Crossover}}: She does one with The Porn Critic for ''Film/ZombieStrippers'' which is a movie she doesn't seem to like very much.
37* DeadpanSnarker: The Subtitles, and also [[WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender Sokka]].
38* FoeYayShipping: Discussed in her review of ''Film/{{Hogfather}}''. She says it's easier to do in a visual medium because a lot of the body language behind intimidation is similar to attraction (dilated pupils, heavy breathing, and physical closeness). The [[Analysis/FoeYayShipping analysis page for Foe Yay Shipping]] is a summary of that video.
39* ForTheEvulz: [[Series/{{Sherlock}} Jim]] again.
40--> '''Sursum Ursa''': Jim is just indiscriminately evil... for the lulz.
41* GeniusesHaveMultiplePhDs: Deconstructed for laughs when Jill discusses Bruce Banner in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ODZhOM2aaXo&t=0s her review]] of ''Film/ThorRagnarok''. She questions how Bruce had the time, money, or sanity to get seven [=PhDs=], and points out how most people in the real world get one, maybe two, [=PhDs=] and then do post-doctoral research. She speculates for his sake that at least five of those [=PhDs=] could be just honorary. She later clipped this moment as a short in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4Dd3zAeN-U "Bruce Banner: SEVEN PhDs? Just... WHY?"]].
42--> '''Jill:''' Bruce Banner, what kind of eejit gets seven [=PhDs=]? Seven? Really? Seven? Are you serious? [...] No wonder you're so angry, man!
43* GoshDangItToHeck: Both [[Series/{{Firefly}} River Tam]] and [[Series/{{Sherlock}} Jim]] are described as, "Completely bat[[Series/BattlestarGalactica1978 frak]]ked!" More generally, the (usually) PG-rating means this is quite common.
44* HalloweenEpisode: "5 Ridiculously Entertaining Things About ''Film/{{Underworld|2003}}''."
45* TheHerosJourney: The ''Film/{{Labyrinth}}'' review is titled this and used to talk about it.
46* HollywoodHacking: Averted in ''Series/{{Sherlock}}'' Series 2, and mentioned in?[[Recap/SherlockS02E03TheReichenbachFall "The Reichenbach Fall"]] episode:
47-->'''Sursum Ursa''': Steve Thompson... your lack of HollywoodHacking is a joy forever.
48* HollywoodBeautyStandards: Discussed InUniverse in the Mycroft and Lestrade episode. TV!Lestrade is much better looking than his literary counterpart
49--> '''Sursum Ursa''': Because we cannot [[SarcasmMode ever, ever have ugly people on our screens.]]
50* HollywoodPudgy: Also InUniverse and in Mycroft and Lestrade, Ursa explains how the trope is avoided, and references Special K adverts to give an example of the trope.
51-->'''Sursum Ursa''': You're NOT FAT!
52* HoYay: [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] InUniverse by her when [[WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender Zuko wants Aang to dance with him]]. And ''Series/{{Sherlock}}'''s [[Recap/SherlockS01E01AStudyInPink "A Study in Pink"]] review had a dedicated montage on the subject.
53* LeftTheBackgroundMusicOn: In the Jim vs. Moriarty episode.
54* MusicalEpisode: For the Les Miserables review.
55* NiceMeanAndInbetween: She argues that Liz (from ''Literature/PrideAndPrejudice'') is a harder character to write because she is kind and smart, but takes no crap, but can laugh at herself. While Jane is [[WideEyedIdealist innocent and naive]] and Caroline [[SmugSnake looks down on everyone]], Liz is somewhere in the middle.
56* NoJustNoReaction: She gives one when The Porn Critic invites her in for a cameo, saying he will "gently ease [her] in" and showing off that he has lots of lube.
57* PimpedOutDress: Referenced by name in the video about Kaylee from ''Series/{{Firefly}}'', and the dress she wore in "Shindig".
58* PunnyName: Sursum Ursa's real surname is Bearup.
59* QuirkyMinibossSquad: Azula, Mai and Ty Lee from, what else, ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender''.
60* RebelliousPrincess: Anne from Roman Holiday.
61* RecordNeedleScratch
62* RightHandCat: Barclay.
63* RuleSixtyThree: As Watson in her crossover with [[WebVideo/MovieDorkness Sofie Liv]] to review ''Film/SherlockHolmes2009''.
64** And again as Sherlock (with [[WebVideo/MovieDorkness Sofie Liv]] as Joanna Watson) in her [[{{Portmanteau}} Wholock]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WyNLaK0lI90 trailer.]]
65* SarcasmMode: Most of the time.
66* SceneryPorn: Referenced in Roman Holiday.
67* ShoutOut: To ''Series/{{NCIS}}'' fandom when she describes [[Series/{{Sherlock}} Molly Hooper]] as an "Autopsy Gremlin." To the Series/{{Sherlock}} fandom... all the time.
68** Ep 32: [[Webcomic/{{Xkcd}} River Tam Beats Up Everyone]]
69-->'''Sursum Ursa''': Good luck [[Series/{{Firefly}} River]]. Now that you are a slightly less broken mind reading WaifFu practitioner I'm sure you'll be doing just fine.\
70'''Subtitles''': I spotted her in the {{Webcomic/Buildingverse}} yesterday. She seemed... fine.
71* {{Squee}}: She literally squees at the start of the ''Avengers'' review.
72* SurveillanceAsThePlotDemands: She has cameras EVERYWHERE. Above [[{{WebVideo/Welshy}} Welshy's]] and [[WebVideo/CheapArseFilmReview Cheapus']] beds, in [[Website/TheAgonyBooth Miss Liv's]] bedroom, in Cheapus' bathroom and fridge...
73--> '''Funky Monkey''': ...breaking into people's houses, and installing cameras, doesn't sound like a heroic thing to me! More like... paranoid.
74* TakeThatAudience: She notes that ''Zombie Strippers'' makes fun of the type of people who would go see this movie a lot.
75* TheFireflyEffect: InUniverse discussion in [[http://blip.tv/stuffyoulike/20-the-firefly-effect-5721154 SYL 20: this video]].
76* {{Unobtanium}}: Required to get the crew home in Literature/GrandCentralArena.
77* UnusualEuphemism: By way of ExpospeakGag in the [[{{Series/Firefly}} Zoe Washburne]] episode:
78--> '''Sursum Ursa''': But when the fecal matter hits the rotary air impeller...
79* VanillaProtagonist: Stuff You Like 102 is a discussion of this
80* WhatTheHellIsThatAccent: Addresses this in one episode; she's from Northern Ireland.
81* WouldHitAGirl: Discussed in her review of ''{{Film/Killers}}'', one of the few things she liked about the film was that the jarringly brutal death scenes were gender-neutral.

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