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Mike Jeavons, or [=MikeJ=], is a British person and was a reviewer on Website/ChannelAwesome until March 2018. His shows include ''Shameful Sequels'', which looks at [[{{Sequelitis}} inferior movie sequels]] and ''Hang on a Second'', which is essentially a show about FridgeLogic, FridgeBrilliance, and FridgeHorror. More recently he has begun a show looking at the output of Creator/TheAsylum in an uncharacteristically positive SoBadItsGood fashion, called ''[[{{Pun}} Asylum Seeker]]'' and a sort of riff show regarding infomercials testing and usually mocking the product in question called "Infom€rcia£i$m". He can be found on [[https://www.youtube.com/user/MikeJtvmusic YouTube]].

He's also started a series called "A Week on..." where he spends a week on a themed diet. Types include legitimate weight loss programs, fad diets, or trying a specialty line from a grocery chain, though sometimes he finds some more unusual ideas to attempt, like a week on "apocalypse food", or a week entirely of items that start with the letter A.

On the side, he runs a movie analysis channel known as [[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCudm8HrktVE0gnyRe09tIvA Film Thought]].

Also known for his [[SeparatedByACommonLanguage English to American]] video.

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!!Tropes:
* AccentuateTheNegative: Averted in his Infomercialism reviews. While he does poke fun at the commercials, Mike tests the products out if he has them and tends to mention both the positive and negative points about them, even if it's DamnedByFaintPraise.
** Occasionally subverted in his Shameful Sequels reviews. He always makes jokes at the film's expense. But sometimes at the end of the review, he'll say he enjoyed it and why or at least, what he think worked.
* ActuallyPrettyFunny: A few jokes in ''Fred 2'' get a genuine chuckle out of him, much to his horror.
* ADayInTheLimelight: British Bastard knocks out Mike and does a two-part review of ''Film/TheDarkKnightRises''.
* AnachronismStew: According to him, Food was invented when some guy got bored killing kittens for lulz and ate one, England is cast in total darkness every so often, there is a 87 foot lemur (which is [[TheWormThatWalks really a whole bunch of lemurs]]) in the countryside, and goats are the dominant species.
* ArousedByTheirVoice: Katie, the Australian water-sports expert from ''Our Lips Are Sealed''. Mike stated he wished he could bottle her voice and take it with him.
* ArtisticLicenseHistory: Played for laughs in his ''A Brief History of Britain'' segments.
* BaitAndSwitch: From A Brief History of Britain:
--> So can you guess the major franchise that exists today that Andrew UsefulNotes/{{McDonald|s}} started? -- That's right, [[Advertising/TheBurgerKing Burger King]].
* BerserkButton:
** Ridiculing the British pushes Mike's buttons, as shown in the Shameful Sequels reviews of ''Garfield 2'' (tea) and ''Film/ProblemChild 3'' (Igor Peabody saying that British people have teeth like wolverines).
** While not in a rage, he's obviously displeased when an infomercial product add-on to shred cheese just destroys it instead. Given that almost all the food-related commercials showcase his love of cheese, you can see why.
** Inversely, he's equally impressed when Mr. Frosty which is absolutely ''terrible'' at making slushy snacks turns out to be ''the best cheese grater he's ever used.'' He writes ''Mr. Cheesy'' on a post-it note and proudly sticks it on his new repurposed cheese grater.
* BitingTheHandHumor: Savagely reviewed the Channel Awesome movie trilogy, and then for good measure reviewed the special [[SelfDeprecation he and Film Brain made]].
* BlackComedy: Well, he ''is'' British...
* BlackComedyRape: During his ''Butterfly Effect 3'' review, two characters in the film are taking part in a rape fantasy but the man decides it's too much for him and stops, annoying the woman. [=MikeJ=] comments that he didn't know women were into that sort of thing, so he goes off-screen and all that's heard is a woman screaming. [=MikeJ=] returns to his chair and continues the review.
** Throughout his ''Passport to Paris'' review he makes jokes about the Olsen twins [[Film/{{Taken}} being kidnapped by Albanian sex slavers]].
* BlatantLies: His "facts" about Britain.
* BreadEggsMilkSquick: This is pretty much an ongoing theme in his videos. Very frequently he'll bring up some sort of uncomfortable detail (such as [[BrotherSisterIncest having sex with his sister]], or being driven to DomesticAbuse by an infomercial he's watching) as if it's something normal and continue on without comment.
-->'''Infomercial''': Are you tired of cleaning up after your dog?
-->'''Mike J''': (deadpan) No, because my dog is dead.
* BritsLoveTea: Plays up the stereotype, to the extent that he can't function without one. Not even coffee would do when he's in a rut in a review.
* BrotherSisterIncest: Mentions he just finished having sex with his sister in his first review, uses it to BookEnd "season 1" in fact.
-->"Not really! ({{beat}}) It was my [[KissingCousins cousin]]!"
** He jokes about him and his sister having children.
*** In the ''Film/Catwoman2004'' review, he learns that it isn't his.
** Really, it's a bit of a RunningGag. Apparently, it applies to all British people, as seen in the ''Halloween 2'' review, where special guest star Welshy proved his British-ness by claiming to have had sex with his sister, a sheep, and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking cheese on toast]].
** He thought TheReveal (in ''Film/TheButterflyEffect 3'') that [[spoiler: the sister killed all those people]] because she was in love with her brother was bad. But he later admitted that he wish she was his sister.
* TheCameo: WebVideo/StuartAshen, [[WebVideo/SadPandaQAndA Sad Panda and Welshy]] all briefly appear in his crossover review with Film Brain.
** Creator/JewWario shows up when Mike invokes GodwinsLaw.
* CantBelieveISaidThat: The nadir of the ''{{Film/Beethoven}}'' sequels makes him pine for Judge Reinhold. At this, Mike chokes back vomit and decides to go the pub with British Bastard.
** At the end of his review of ''Fred 3: Camp Fred'', he says that since each sequel is slightly less awful than the previous, and that maybe if they produce 600 Fred movies they'll create a half-decent one. Then he realizes what he just asked for...
* CardboardPal: In one episode he has a cardboard cutout face of [[WebVideo/BadMovieBeatdown Film Brain]] on a stick with a ventriloquist's-dummy mouth; all it ever says is Film Brain's catchphrase "SYMBOLISM!!" His ''Ace Ventura Jr.'' review also had "WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic", which was actually an obviously female guest wearing a cardboard Nostalgia Critic mask.
* CargoShip: With aforementioned cardboard cutout. In-universe.
* CharacterCatchphrase:
--> '''Hello, I am a British person.'''
--> "[[TitleDrop Hang on a second!]]"
-->*infomercial product in reach* [[ThisIsGonnaSuck Let's give it a go then, shall we?]]
* ChristmasEpisode:
** ''Santa Buddies'' in 2009.
** ''Film/NationalLampoonsChristmasVacation 2'' (with Guru Larry) in 2010.
** Both ''[[Film/TheSantaClause The Santa Clause 2]]'' and ''[[Film/TheSantaClause The Santa Clause 3]]'' in 2011.
** ''[[{{Film/Beethoven}} Beethovens Christmas Adventure]]'' in 2012.
** ''Film/AChristmasStory 2'', ''Santa Paws II'', ''Home and Alone for Christmas'', and ''Bone Alone'' in 2013.
** ''[[Film/{{Casper}} Casper's Haunted Christmas]]'', ''[[Film/RichieRich Richie Rich's Christmas Wish]]'' and ''Film/HomeAloneTheHolidayHeist'' in 2014.
* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Often comes across as this.
* ComicallyMissingThePoint: After being sarcastically told by Guru Larry that a bad scene in ''Christmas Vacation 2'' was Oscar-worthy, he points out that made-for-TV films can't be nominated for Oscars.
* CompanionCube: A cardboard cut-out head of [[WebVideo/BadMovieBeatdown Film Brain]] who only can say: "[[CharacterCatchphrase Thymbolysm!]]"
* CrossOver:
** He reviews ''National Lampoon's Xmas Vacation 2'' with [[WebVideo/GuruLarryAndWez Guru Larry]].
** He also is in ''WebVideo/ForgetAboutIt: Film/MontyPythonAndTheHolyGrail'' with [[WebVideo/SadPandaQAndA Sad Panda]], WebVideo/{{Welshy}}, Creator/MasakoX and [[WebVideo/BadMovieBeatdown Film Brain]].
** He reviews ''Matrix Revolutions'' with [[WebVideo/BadMovieBeatdown Film Brain]], as well as a "Shameful Sequels Beatdown'' of ''Film/NuttyProfessorIITheKlumps''.
** He teamed up with The Porn Critic of Website/TheAgonyBooth to review ''Busty Cops II'' and Porn Critic also appeared in a couple of episodes of Shameful Sequels.
** He reviewed ''Film/GhostRiderSpiritOfVengeance'' with WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic.
* DeadpanSnarker
* DespairEventHorizon: Due to watching ''Film/BabyGeniuses 2''
* DolledUpInstallment: Three of the movies that he reviews are this:
** ''Beethoven's 5th'' since Beethoven himself is secondary to all the human characters in that film; Mike even jokes about remaking ''Literature/OldYeller'' with Beethoven, thus the franchise would be guaranteed a happy ending.
** ''Angel Dog 2'' which is actually the re-release of ''Sheeba'', which is the re-release of ''The Crab Orchard'', a 2005 TV movie which also featured a dog.
** The supposed ''WesternAnimation/{{Brave}}'' ripoff ''Braver'' which is actually an unrelated Christmas movie from 2005 called ''A Fairy Tale Christmas''.
* EarWorm: Invoked in the ''Infomercialism'' about Smash instant mashed potatoes, when the tune of the jingle gets stuck in Mike's head, but he needs a while to remember the words: "For mash, get Smash!"
* TheExitIsThatWay: To Guru Larry as he attempts to escape from ''Film/NationalLampoonsChristmasVacation 2''.
* FakeBrit: [[invoked]] Subverted in his ''Baby Geniuses 3'' review when an actor puts on a terrible British accent and when Mike checks [=IMDb=] to find out his real nationality he's shocked to find out the actor actually is British.
* FormulaBreakingEpisode:
** His review of ''[[Film/AmericanPie American Wedding/Pie 3]]'' was done entirely in rhyming couplets.
** A few episodes are more defensive, with "ContestedSequel Mike J actually likes". The ''Franchise/StarWars'' prequels even earned "In Defense of Episode 1/2/3" videos.
** His videos covering ''Film/TheDarkKnight'' and ''Film/TheDarkKnightRises'' seemed to be Mike testing the waters to see if he could give negative reviews to sequels that he likes. Since then he's done similar videos for ''Film/GhostbustersII'', ''Robosapien Rebooted'', ''Film/WeekendAtBernies II'', ''Film/DennisTheMenace'' and ''Film/Gremlins2TheNewBatch''.
* FridgeHorror[=/=][[FridgeLogic Logic]][=/=][[FridgeBrilliance Brilliance]]: InUniverse. His series, Hang On A Second, is about finding examples this in (good) films.
* FunWithSubtitles: ''Film/JurassicPark III'' subtitled the velociraptors dialogue.
* GretzkyHasTheBall: During his review of Switching Goals, he points out the various ways the rules of soccer are portrayed inaccurately, such as having time-outs and ending as soon as the timer reaches zero.
* HeroicBSOD: The mere thought that someone made a ''Film/BabyGeniuses 3'' was enough to give him one.
* HypocriticalHumor: {{Lampshade}}s the bad clichés ''Film/NationalLampoonsChristmasVacation 2'' does, before doing the exact same joke.
** He complains that he hates a SellOut... before a Platform/BlipTV commercial break.
** Every time he complains about the use of stereotypes in what he reviews, he immediately notices [[IAmVeryBritish he's out of tea and goes to his kitchen for more]].
* IAmVeryBritish:
** His catchphrase, "Hello, I'm a British person".
** He responds to the bad, posh British accent of the dad in ''Film/{{Legally Blonde}}s'' by going "So very British" in a bad British accent of his own.
* INeedAFreakingDrink: ''Fred: The Movie'' reduced him to this.
-->''There isn't enough booze in the world.''
* LampshadedTheObscureReference: In his "review" of ''Film/TheDarkKnight'' he references the Disney attraction ''[[Ride/DisneyThemeParks Soarin' Over California]]'', and then proceeds to congratulate "the three people" who got it.
* LandDownUnder: He makes fun of ''Our Lips Are Sealed'' for portraying Australia this way.
* MentalWorld: He goes to one containing versions of the other British critics when he reviews ''Film/TheMatrixRevolutions''. If he doesn't complete the review in time, something terrible will happen to him in real life.
* TheNicknamer: After watching one too many Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen, he decides to refer to them as the combined nickname ''[=MKNA=]''.
* NightmareFace: Rejuvenique, a plain white mask which delivers tiny shocks to the face and causes your pores to vibrate. The safety video that comes with it doesn't help. [[http://i.ytimg.com/vi/SXcYVh-W14E/hqdefault.jpg (It looks like this.)]]
* NightmareFuelStationAttendant: Much of his humor relies on BreadEggsMilkSquick.
* OverlyLongGag: Often in his Infom£rciai$m series when demonstrating a product is nowhere near as fast or effective as it claims.
* ParallelPornTitle: According to Mike, the title ''Bone Alone'' sounds more like this than what it actually is (a rip-off of ''Film/HomeAlone'' where the child is replaced by a dog).
* PrimalScene: He is particularly disturbed by the Flora "Wrestlers" ad, which shows a pair of kids walking in on their parents having sex.
* QuestionableCasting: [[{{inuniverse}} After finding out]] both ''Film/BabyGeniuses 2'' and ''Karate Dog'' have the same screenwriter ''and'' star Jon Voight, he figures the former must have [[{{Blackmail}} naked photographs]] or something of the latter.
* ARareSentence: In his review of ''Film/XXxStateOfTheUnion'':
-->''"Along for the ride is Music/{{Xzibit}} and a bunch of unnamed extras, who hijack a cheese lorry and retrieve some guns. Now there's something I didn't think I'd say today."''
* RunningGag:
** In ''Film/Catwoman2004'', turning off the movie, which later becomes "trying to make the remote turn off the movie" when the batteries die.
** During the Dump Cake Cook Off, Mike and Grace's increasing frustration at the amount of entries that pat the cake mix down before adding Dr. Pepper, resulting in the latter not mixing.
* SchmuckBait: From the review of ''Honey We Shrunk Ourselves'':
-->''"You're gonna be really sorry if they're upstairs playing soggy biscuit. Don't know what that is, go google it. Actually, don't. *smirks* Actually, DO.''
* {{Sequelitis}}: [[invoked]] [[{{InUniverse}} The premise]] of his segments.
* SeparatedByACommonLanguage:
** The title of his show ''Asylum Seeker'' is a pun based on it being about him looking for good parts in the films of Creator/TheAsylum, while the phrase "asylum seeker" is often (and stereotypically) used by UsefulNotes/BritishNewspapers hostile to immigration about immigrants seeking political asylum. Foreign viewers may not get the reference.
** He also made a MusicVideo about common words that are different in American and British English.
* SharedUniverse: Being part of Channel Awesome automatically made him part of the Reviewaverse.
* ShirtlessScene: Film Brain almost gets one in ''Film/TheMatrixRevolutions'' crossover review, but [=MikeJ=] [[DefiedTrope stops him]].
* ShowerOfAngst: At the end of his ''Matrix Revolutions'' review after [[spoiler:he and Film Brain kiss]].
--> "Make me clean. Make me clean. Make me clean."
* SoBadItsGood: InUniverse.
** [=MikeJ=] says ''Film/BabyGeniuses 3'' is this even going as far as to say it's "brilliant" (in its badness) and that you should give them all of your money... and then he realizes he's gone insane.
** His series, the Asylum Seeker, is about finding the film of Creator/TheAsylum So Bad It's Good.
** Played with in his ''Fred'' reviews. To his surprise, he finds each one marginally better (or at least less painful) than the one before, leading him to muse that, if 600 ''Fred'' films are made, then they might finally end up with a genuinely good film. Then, the [[invoked]] FridgeHorror of what he's just said hits him...
* SurprisinglyImprovedSequel: [[invoked]] Although he still considers ''Baby Geniuses 4'' to be a bad film, he's surprised by how better it is than previous ''Film/BabyGeniuses'' movies.
* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: In ''Film/Speed2CruiseControl'' he states that "Creator/KeanuReeves, here played by Jason Patric"
* SuspiciouslySpecificDenial: During ''Film/{{Sharktopus}}'' (on Asylum Seeker), he notes one of the characters was in Epic Movie, then claims he's never seen Epic Movie... not at all.
* TheyChangedItNowItSucks: [[invoked]] Mike's opinion on the new version of the ''Operation'' game with larger openings and easier to grab pieces no longer shaped like organs. He proceeds to demonstrates the pointlessness of this version by flawlessly removing all pieces in under 30 seconds on the first try.
* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Aside from tea, he seems to focus on cheese a lot in his Infomercialism reviews.
* TrollingCreator: When [=MikeJ=] reviewed ''Film/TheDarkKnight'', the response was [[invoked]] pretty much just as you would expect. The second part of the review ended with [=MikeJ=] saying that he actually likes the film and he just did the review [[TheGadfly for fun]].
* ValuesDissonance: Played for laughs in-universe. He will sometimes make a pretty offensive offhand remark, and explain how it is okay, because it is apparently a normal British viewpoint/practice.
* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotHeinous: He gets increasingly embarrassed at his compliments to ''Film/SpiderMan3''.
* YourMindMakesItReal: If he doesn't finish his dream review of ''Matrix Revolutions'' before 7:30 AM in reality, something terrible will happen....
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