What do you get when [[Creator/BenCroshaw Yahtzee]] of ''WebAnimation/ZeroPunctuation'' fame and Jim Sterling of ''{{WebVideo/Jimquisition}}'' fame come together and start writing games industry-related {{poetry}}? Simple, you get ''Jim and Yahtzee's Rhymedown Spectacular''.

A series started up in 2013, Jim and Yahtzee both take it in turns to present poetry based on the games industry, usually on the same subject. While Yahtzee's poetry is more [[PurpleProse detailed and wordy]], Jim's poetry is just about the [[BeigeProse opposite, generally being more blunt about the subject matter.]]

Concluded in 2014, albeit it had a SpiritualSuccessor, ''Jim and Yahtzee's Uncivil War'', where they compete at playing games and trash-talking each other.

The main page for the show can be found [[http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/jim-yahtzees-rhymedown-spectacular here]].

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!!The show itself presents us these Tropes, they're on your screen, so these you cannot grope:
* {{Allegory}}: Yahtzee likes to do this to show how business practices or other aspects of gaming would make no sense if applied to anything else.
* AntiClimax: Many of Yahtzee's poems do this, but ''A [[VideoGame/RogueLegacy Legacy Of Rogues]]'' is almost entirely composed of this.
--> '''Yahtzee''': The first of our line was mighty Sir Clyde/To the castle of darkness did he bravely ride/Flung the doors wide, and proceeded inside/Then tripped and fell on some spikes and died.
* AwfulWeddedLife: One with an old, jaded VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog in ''Cyclical''.
* BaitAndSwitch: In ''Confessions of a Game Reviewer'', Jim admits that there were many games that they gave ratings with which they no longer agreed - but that wasn't the confession they were here to make. The confession was that they had [[IRegretNothing no regrets]] about a single word they'd said, regardless of whether or not they still had that view.
* BeigeProse:
** Jim's poetry takes on this style, generally being more blunt. An example of this appears in the "Xbox One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" video.
---> '''Jim:''' So sit back, tune in, 'cause my wit's sharp and quick[=/=][[PunctuatedForEmphasis Mi cro soooooft...]] [[spoiler: suck my dick]].
** In ''Whine Out Of Ten'', Jim doesn't even bother with being witty; they just scold everyone who complained about GTA V getting nine out of ten.
* ChessWithDeath: Words With friends in "Friends At The End".
* ClusterFBomb: Jim drops one of these in ''The Cheese Master''.
* ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin: "A Poem in which Gaming Platforms are Analogized to Cutlery".
* GoodIsBoring: Used by Yahtzee in "The Noble Hero and The Cynic Hero" - only one of them wound up getting a statue in the town square.
* MoodWhiplash: Yahtzee's ''LudonarrativeDissonance'', telling what could be the story of a [[VideoGame/GrandTheftAuto GTA protagonist]] and occasionally bursting into cheerful singing.
* MusicalEpisode: Jim's ''The Ballad of Jack Tretton''.
* NightmareFetishist: Yahtzee in ''My Baby Takes the Morning Gateway to The Shadow Realm''.
* RedOniBlueOni: Jim is the Red to Yahtzee's Blue.
* ListSong: ''{{Franchise/Castlevania}}: A Primer''.
* LyricalDissonance: In ''Ludonarrative Dissonance'', Yahtzee begins depressed, describing a man who attempted to flee his past life of killing, but ends up back where he started after he goes broke. Then Yahtzee describes, in the most jolly voice he can muster, the same man going on a violent killing spree, despite previously seeming to hate that lifestyle.
* PurpleProse: Yahtzee's poetry generally consists of this, with more anecdotes involved with his poems.
* SelfDeprecation: From Jim, at the end of "Cabin Fever":
--> '''Jim''': And if you haven't been turning these off after Yahtzee's, it's your own fucking fault.
* SubvertedRhymeEveryOccasion: In Yahtzee's "Thief 4 Dead" poem when he finds out that ''VideoGame/{{Thief}} (4)'' it is a reboot of the series.
--> '''Yahtzee:''': Oh, wait! They are taking off the "four", to call it a reboot[=/=]A practice in recent years that I have come to abhor[=/=]But I'm willing to ignore[=/=]Because they making a new "Thief"...
* TakeThat: Jim makes a vicious one (in the form of their entire verse) in one episode to trash talk the infamously bad LetsPlay[=er=] [=DarkSydePhil=].
* TheyChangedItNowItSucks: [[invoked]] [[DiscussedTrope Discussed]] in ''The Cycle'', which reads like a series of internet posts on any ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog'' game from the last ten years.
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