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* AccidentallyCorrectWriting:
** In "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ci2hj7CSHI Waterproofing My Life with FLEX TAPE]]", he makes a joke about Phil Swift having sniffed too much Flex Glue, a product which didn't exist at the time. A few months later, Flex Glue actually came out for real. Jon brings this up in his sequel video, "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vs2WRpu5syw Flex Seal II: The Flexening]]", jokingly taking credit for coming up with the idea and demanding royalties.
** In his review of ''VideoGame/ClockTower1995'', he attempts to escape in the car to which the protagonist refuses. Then [=JonTron=] edits a part where the protagonist rushes out in the car. However, if one examined the car 3 times, the main character will get in it and run away [[spoiler:though it doesn't go well for her.]]
** In "Dr. Ho: License to Practice", Jon wished ''Franchise/{{Predator}}'' would be in ''Franchise/MortalKombat''. It already happened four years before the video uploaded with ''VideoGame/MortalKombatX''.
** Lampshaded in his ''Series/VRTroopers'' video, after joking about Brian Steele's DisappearedDad paying child support in Bitcoin (the video was recorded months before the Bitcoin bubble).
** Episode 3 of ''Starcade'' had two such moments.
*** At the start of the video, Jon's Imperial NES won't let him play a game based on ''Film/ANewHope'', and suggests he instead plays ''Alderaan Was An Inside Job''. In ''Franchise/StarWarsLegends'', not only did the Empire tried to cover up the Death Star destroying the planet in question, one of the cover stories was that Alderaan destroyed itself when it tried to make a superweapon.
*** Later on, Jon comments on how the firing rate of blasters seem to get faster, leading to a skit where Jon (dressed as a university professor) predicts that "by the far-off year of 2002, the blaster will be firing off [at infinite speed]". One comment noted that ''VideoGame/JediKnightIIJediOutcast'' had a [[GoodBadBugs bug]] where the sniper rifle could fire 999 shots in one second.
* ApprovalOfGod:
** JR Ralls, the writer and producer of Webvideo/DarkDungeons thought Jon's review of the film was hilarious and thanked him on Twitter over it, as well as for clearly understanding that the film was satirical.
** Vanilla Ice followed Jon on Twitter after his review of Film/CoolAsIce.
** Phil Swift made an appearance [[AsHimself as himself]] in Jon's second Flex Tape video after Jon's first flex tape video gained nationwide attention. Phil even left a comment praising the video and approving the jokes about him and his products.
---> ONE YEAR AGO...\\
HISTORY WAS MADE!!! 💪
** Jon's review of Series/KidNation and frequent praising of Jimmy led to the now-adult Jimmy appearing in the sequel, taking part in an interview about what really happened during the show.
* BeamMeUpScotty: Jon only says "Ech" twice. He does it in ''A Talking Cat?!'' to imitate the famous MGM lion roar studio title card; it actually stemmed from his run on ''Game Grumps'', but nevertheless it has been immortalized as part of him. His only other instance is briefly uttering it in the ''Space Ace'' review when looking at the circuitry of one of the arcade machines.
* BlackSheepHit: Jon has been making videos since the better part of 2010, and is usually associated with video game and movie reviews. Who would’ve known that his most viewed and most popular video of all time was about poking fun at the Flex Seal infomercials? This was even lampshaded and parodied in the beginning of his Flex Tape II video.
* BreakthroughHit: Jon's first major hit was his "[=DinoCity=] BRO!!!" video, after someone posted a link to it on Reddit and it made it to the front page of r/gaming. While it wasn't an enormous hit, it was enough to finally put him on the map and give him a substantial audience.
* BuryYourArt: Jon deleted a number of videos from his channels over the years due to either EarlyInstallmentWeirdness or him being dissatisfied with the results in retrospect. One of these, "Apples and Breaks" (a video of him lamenting his broken UsefulNotes/NintendoDS), became a popular "holy grail" among fans for two years, eventually leading to it being reuploaded by a fan.
* ColbertBump:
** Creator/AllisonPregler promoted his review of ''{{Film/Birdemic}}'' on Twitter and earned him new viewers.
** Jon himself gave a massive amount of exposure to the Advertising/FlexSeal brand by making fun of their bizarre infomercials, helping turn the entire brand into a [[MemeticMutation meme]] and Phil Swift into the next Creator/BillyMays.
* CowboyBebopAtHisComputer:
** In his Hercules episode, he points out that ''[[VideoGame/HercsAdventures Herc's Adventures]]'' has a piece of soundtrack that sounds like the [[AwesomeMusic/StarWars Binary Sunset]] theme to ''Film/ANewHope''. It's very clear from looking at the disc itself, as well as the title screen, that the game was made by Creator/LucasArts, which was well-known for inserting nods to the franchise in even unrelated games.
** The bootleg ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'' episode ends with Jon playing the ''[[VideoGame/PokemonRedAndBlue Pokémon Black]]'' hack, depicting the game as being possessed, floating in the air, and [[TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou reaching through the screen]] to steal Jon's soul. While this was most likely done for the sake of ending the video on a joke, it can put off those who enjoyed the original creepypasta because it managed to be creepy ''without'' including any supernatural elements, thus standing out from the likes of so many haunted video game creepypastas. He also refers to the Lavender Town Syndrome when describing this hack, even though ''Pokémon Black'' and Lavender Town Syndrome are two separate and unrelated creepypastas. There's also his listing of ''VideoGame/{{Moemon}}'' as a bootleg ''Pokémon'' game, when it's technically just a romhack.
** While the grommet gag is funny, it slightly falls flat when you find out it is actually a [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grommet_(sportsperson) very common surfing term, and it has been since the 70s]], which means a young child. On a similar note, the graffiti reading SWOOD was probably meant to be SWOOP (although it's not like that is common lingo, and it may have been straight up RuleOfFunny).
** In the ''VideoGame/ClockTower'' review, he says that the Scissorman's real name is Dan. However, the first game's Scissorman was actually Bobby Barrows. Dan is actually the giant baby monster that made him vomit candy corn. (This is most likely the result of the fact that most runthroughs of the game will not see the sole scene to name the two characters while Dan returns as the Scissorman in the second game.) He also mistakenly claims that the game requires the player to restart upon dying even though it contained an autosave function.
** In his top 10 best boss battles, when he talks about [[VideoGame/{{Bayonetta}} Jubileus]] he says that after punching her into the sun, Bayonetta has to go in the sun and destroy her. While in the game, she punches Jubileus so hard her soul went to the sun and she must destroy the body before it crashes on earth, hence the flames surrounding the body.
** In the SNES port of Space Ace, Jon says that there are areas in which he could transform Dexter into Ace, but he tried pressing every button and nothing happens. The thing is, you could actually transform into Ace by pressing the left shoulder key on the SNES controller.
** In "Food Games Part 2", one of the things that makes Jon launch into a FauxSymbolism sequence is the fact that there's no music in ''VideoGame/{{Pepsiman}}''... except there ''is'', meaning that something was wrong with Jon's disc/emulator. While it's justifiable (Jon mentions in the review that he hadn't heard of the game beforehand), the fact that the music is one of the most iconic things about the game makes it a pretty glaring oversight.
** In "The Zoo Race", he comments on a flag reading "Shalom" seeming out of place. However, the game's focus is on an Old Testament story which is also part of the Jewish faith.
** In his ''Creator/{{Disney}} Bootlegs'' video, he comes across what looks like a swastika, leading to some SugarWiki/FunnyMoments. However, it's an easy mistake to make: the Nazi swastika is flipped around and tilted slightly. The Buddhist one is said to represent the exact opposite of the Nazi regime's ideals, and was also made into a dungeon in ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaI''. May have been on purpose for RuleOfFunny.[[note]]For the exact differences, consult [[https://www.tokyotrad.com/images/manji.jpg this handy graphic.]][[/note]]
** His Bubsy review has a rather glaring one on his discussion of checkpoints. He says he thought the gumball machine firing tiny projectiles was a checkpoint, and stands next to it for a moment before dying. Despite the fact he's very clearly already gotten the much more obvious actual checkpoint a little to the right of it, floating in place with Bubsy's face on it.
** ''REAL LIFE EXORCISM'' has one regarding the scene where Friedkin discusses various locations that appeared in ''Film/TheExorcist'', with Jon edited in calling the police on Friedkin for trespassing. Georgetown's "Exorcist Steps" are a public historical landmark and tourist site, and the director would be freely able to come and go.
* CreatorBacklash:
** He removed his "Top 10 Most Overrated Video Games" list because his opinions on many of the games in question eventually changed.
** In his Q&A video, he agrees that he and the ''WebVideo/GameGrumps'' [[DidNotThinkThisThrough didn't think through]] his departure from the series very well, which resulted with the ''slew'' of EpilepticTrees regarding his friendship with Arin.
** This trope was implied in how Jon (back during his Game Grumps days) admitted he was very uncomfortable with the word "fuck", yet before and since then he included the word in his [=JonTron=] scripts as if it was a vital tool for his comedy. His feelings on the word may have changed, however, since he used it a lot in his much-later-made "Bootleg Pokemon Games" episode.
** Jon had a brief foray into flash animation with [[http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/334879 this video]]. Given the date of publication, Jon could not have been more than sixteen years old at the time of production. Jon has never mentioned these videos except very, very briefly in one episode of ''Game Grumps''.
** "Top 10 Mario Party Minigames", which Jon bashes in an episode of ''Game Grumps''. He felt it was incredibly stupid of him to make a Top 10 List where the vast majority of mini-games are from ''VideoGame/MarioParty2''.
** From the early days of his channel, there were a lot of [[MissingEpisode episodes he put as private]] that didn't fit with his usual format (such as the entire Sonic Team saga). The most infamous of these was the ''Apples and Breaks'' video. Fans started to scout this one out, discovering they could grab snippets of the video despite its private status using the thumbnail generator function of [=YouTube=], and one fan asked Jon at a panel if he would re-release it one day. It got to the point the ''Game Grumps'' Subreddit banded together in a bid to get the video back online. And it turned out somebody mirrored it, who then posted it.
* {{Defictionalization}}:
** The "[=GreenBoys=]" [=YouTube=] channel mentioned in episode 6 of ''Starcade'' became a real channel not long after the episode went up, featuring (presumably) Chris O'Neill still messing around with the same Yoda puppet.
** The official Wikipedia plot summary for ''[[Film/TheSantaClause Santa Clause 3]]'' was indeed [[https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The_Santa_Clause_3:_The_Escape_Clause&oldid=756644629 Jon's edit]] for a time, however briefly.
* DevelopmentHell: It turns out that the ''VideoGame/TakeshisChallenge'' review started production in 2012, but because the game was so [[MoonLogicPuzzle cryptically]] [[NintendoHard difficult]], the actual review didn't come out until 2014.
* EnforcedMethodActing: In Jon's review of ''Howling II: Your Sister is a Werewolf'', he sees someone acting [[DullSurprise rather minimally]] after getting a bottle thrown at his head, and decides to replicate it with several bottles. Afterwards, Jon, [[RealityIsUnrealistic reacting in a nearly identical manner]], states that they actually hurt for real and he forgot whatever joke he was going for.
* FakeRussian: Malkovich speaks with a thick Russian accent that almost always eschews any cases of an "a" or "the" in sentences.
* FanCommunityNicknames: [=JonTron=] fans eventually nicknamed themselves "grommets" after the ''California Games'' review.
* HeAlsoDid: Jon has a [[https://www.youtube.com/user/BirdmanXz6 second]] (or fifth, if you count Game Grumps, [=JonTronLOL=] and [=JonTronStarcraft=]) channel, the contents of which include a video of Jacques either throwing up or trying to throw up (a sign of affection for birds), a Minecraft video with Barry Kramer of ''Grumps'' fame, and a video containing a photoshopped image of his girlfriend strapped to a rocket flying through the sky.
* MissingEpisode: Some of his older videos are put as private/deleted from his channel. The most infamous one however is one called ''Apples and Breaks'', which according to some found information (due to the fact Jon ''hastily'' put it on private), was about Jon's broken DS. It was eventually uploaded by a fan.
* MissingTrailerScene: Overlaps with DeletedRole, as [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ow5mku-j7zs the original trailer for his Starcade series]] contains several shots and lines that ended up being left out or changed, most notably a missing interrogation scene where an unknown female character asks Jon, "How are you just so goddamn handsome?"
* MoneyDearBoy: Jon has stated multiple times that the need to pay his rent is the main driving force behind making videos. The explains why he mostly does reactions videos and abandoned making game reviews given the significant amount of time it takes to beat and then review a game.
* ParodyAssistance: [[spoiler: Phil Swift actually appears AsHimself in the Flex Tape Part II video, portrayed as [[AdamWesting the supreme almighty god]] of his own dimension of Flex Seal products called "Flexworld".]]
* PortmanteauSeriesNickname: Jon eventually starts pronouncing ''Dino City'' as if it were one word (pronounced "Dye-NAW-sih-tee").
* PromotedFanboy: Jon's a big fan of James Rolfe and ''WebVideo/TheAngryVideoGameNerd'' series, so much so that he actually cites him as one of the main inspirations for his channel. Rolfe himself would eventually invite him to appear on his channel as a special guest.
* RealLifeWritesThePlot:
** Why did Jon lose Rockington in the "Banjo Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts" video? [[EpicFail Because Jon lost the Rockington prop in real life.]]
** Jon has admitted Jacques was DemotedToExtra starting in Season 3 was a result of Jacques becoming less willing to to stay still for long enough to record any substantial footage.
** A sort of reverse example, but the edit that Jon did to the Santa Claus 3 Wikipedia article can be seen [[https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The_Santa_Clause_3:_The_Escape_Clause&oldid=756644629 here]].
* RecycledScript: Both "Hercules Games" and "Food Games Part 2" have a gag where Jon collapses on his couch, sick from having eaten a comically small amount of food in the previous scene. In the former, it was a gyro, while in the latter, it was pizza.
* ScheduleSlip:
** Initially he uploaded his videos weekly. However, the gap between new videos has gotten bigger and bigger to the point where the series had updates once every couple of months. ''WebVideo/GameGrumps'' could be blamed for this, just like how all of Creator/{{Egoraptor}}'s animations ground to halt around the same time, though both insist that isn't the case, and just happen to both be really slow at updating these days.
** However, after he left ''Game Grumps'' and started making videos again, he seems to be updating regularly on a monthly schedule. This trope is ''still'' played straight InUniverse in regards to the ''Home Alone'' review, where his Christmas special is delayed to January due to his MushroomSamba.
** In recent years, his content production has slowed to a crawl. In the entirety of 2017, he managed a whopping ''six'' videos. He didn't publish any in 2018 until December 2nd.
** Jon, after a steady schedule of videos through August 2020, had another upload gap that lasted till April 2021.
* SimilarlyNamedWorks: In the early 80s, there was a game show called ''Starcade'' where contestants competed by playing arcade games.
* SpiritualSuccessor: THE HEAD TO HEAD GAME JAM is one to the notorious Green Label Game Jam of 2014, which Jon and another participant, Tom Jackson, had been involved in. A number of that earlier (and abortive) game jam's flaws were consciously avoided, such as the attempt to stir up drama between contestants in the vein of a RealityShow, the gratuitous and intrusive ProductPlacement, and the arbitrary challenges.
* ThrowItIn:
** According to his 2015 Q & A video, several of his jokes were improvised, most notably the line "I aiiiiiiint' havin' that shit!" in his ''Nightshade'' review.
** The only reason Jon mentioned losing Rockington in his ''Nuts & Bolts'' review is because he actually managed to lose the prop. [[EpicFail Somehow.]]
** In the ''Film/ChristmasWithTheKranks'' review, Jon gestures with a large jar of eggnog and accidentally spills it on himself. He ends up making a joke out of it in the spur of the moment.
--->"Good things ''never'' last! (''spills eggnog'') ...like this pants."
** In the ending of the same video, it's quite obvious that Jon legitimately [[EnforcedMethodActing has no idea what the fuck is going on]] when the random street-preacher guy starts proselytizing for his church, and can even be seen trying futilely to take the mic back while the guy continues ranting, obliviously.
* WhatCouldHaveBeen:
** On [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8uJTv3HDOsw&t=7m30s this episode]] of ''WebVideo/GameGrumps'' Jon admitted that Jacques was originally going to be a "jive black man" and that he was very happy he hadn't gone through with that decision. Jacques was also going to be animated with SynchroVox rather than glowing red eyes, and the show was going to be called "[=JonTron=] 2.0".
** Jon revealed during the 2014 [=ScrewAttack=] Gaming Convention that he had planned an episode all about games based on Disney theme parks, and even showed off clips that had been recorded for the episode, but ultimately the episode remains unfinished because Jon wasn't very happy with how stuff turned out. He's stated it may be completed one day, but for the time being has no plans to do so.
** While still on ''Game Grumps'', Jon mentioned that he was making a ''Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda'' video alongside Arin's ''Zelda'' focused ''WebVideo/{{Sequelitis}}''. While Arin's video eventually came out after a long ScheduleSlip (and eventually received CreatorBacklash), Jon opted to cancel his video for unknown reasons.
** Also on ''Game Grumps'', Jon quickly mentioned during their ''Sonic 06'' play-through that he was going to do a video on the game but never got around to it, thinking it was too obvious given the game's infamous reception.
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