Awesome / The Nostalgia Critic

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2007-8 episodes

• The Critic calling out the utter hypocrisy of the Broken Aesop of the Pokémon: The First Movie.
  Nostalgia Critic: SHUT UP! GODDAMN IT, SHUT UP! WE GET IT! VIOLENCE IS BAD, DON'T FIGHT, WE WILL NOT FIGHT! HOW MANY TIMES DO YOU HAVE TO HAMMER THIS SHIT IN!? I MEAN, TALKING ABOUT IT DOESN'T MAKE US LESS VIOLENT, IT MAKES US MORE VIOLENT! I mean, am I the only one who finds it a little ironic that a franchise whose made its entire profit on nothing but fighting is suddenly telling us it's bad to be fighting? How fucking hypocritical is that? That's like O.J. Simpson going around telling everybody it's bad to kill people.
• How about the fact that he had a spontaneous fanboy Freak Out at the Harry Potter book launch and didn't get arrested even though you can see people around him getting scared and running away?
• Played for Laughs, but in his research of finding out the Nerd's message, he finds an untraceable pattern in the stock market that would lead to nothing but higher returns. Too bad he thinks it's pointless.
  • He also manages to learn German, Latin and Gaelic really fast.
• "The Top 11 Naughtiest Moments In Animaniacs" still remains his highest rated video. What makes this awesome? Doug did the list while feeling like death.
• The start of the "Top 11 Drug PSAs" has him giving a well-reasoned, understandable argument of why you shouldn't do drugs, in stark contrast to the narmy messages of what's in his list.
  Hey kids, it's best not to do drugs. Why? Because it's bad for you, it kills your brain cells, it makes you stupid, you could get arrested for it, and it's really really addictive which means that it's hard to stop doing it. So if you don't wanna go through all that stuff, just stay away from drugs.
• Subverted whenever the DuckTales (1987) theme plays. He's got so close to figuring out enlightenment, solving world hunger and curing all unknown diseases... but that song comes in and all that knowledge disappears.
• Sesame Street Presents: Follow That Bird being so powerfully nostalgic that it turns him into high-pitched goo and forces him to give the review to Chester. While we might have all now got used to him being keetish when happy, back then everyone was expecting him to trash their childhoods.
• It might sound like a strange (and old) choice but the "Alas, poor Tom and Jerry" speech. You can show it to anyone who thinks his comedy is just 100% yelling/going crazy and it'll change their mind instantly.
  • Even more awesome? That speech apparently was a Throw It In! moment by Doug which even surprised his friends. Guy's got serious creativity.
• Optimus Prime bringing the Critic back to life by dying for his sins.
• His parody of Mary Poppins at the end of Batman & Robin. He might not be putting as much effort into his singing as he would later on, but it's still Doug's great voice.
• Of course in real life Doug and Rob drove to the Nerd's place, but in-universe Critic ran to Philadelphia and never got tired. Nice going for a lazy geek.
• Sure it's Nightmare Fuel, but Teddy Ruxpin proves to be a Magnificent Bastard in the 2008 Halloween special by forcing the Critic to write a positive review and then killing him when he breaks in terror.
  • It's also a ten minute mini-movie, with effective creepy atmosphere for his very limited budget, and more than likely inspired his want to do something other than sit in front of a wall.
• Calmly reaming out Godzilla (1998) for their Take That, Critics! stance towards Siskel and Ebert.
• Even though it doesn't work, trying to shoot Lady Tremaine from Cinderella because she's supposed to be looking after Cindy, not abusing her.
• The small speech at the end of his review of The Super Mario Brothers Super Show, one of many times that the Critic calls out the argument of "it's for kids" being no excuse not to put effort into a work.
  Critic: Now to be fair, I do think this show was probably intended for younger kids in mind, but that's no excuse. Just because something is intended for younger kids doesn't give you the right not to try. If you're really good at something, you can make anything entertaining and anything plausible, no matter how absurd.

2009 episodes

• In the Nickcoms video, one of the few times he's been badass:
  Critic: And you will know my name is the Lord, when I lay my vengeance upon thee. (shoots the scene black)
• Calling out Good Burger for acting like abuse to women is funny, and proving with Ferngully that slapstick with them is only okay when they can fight back just as hard, if not more.
• Nostalgia Chick not putting up with Critic's condescension in Ferngully and coming in to slam his head into the desk.
• The end of his review for The Garbage Pail Kids Movie, where he probably puts more effort into a few minutes long 2001: A Space Odyssey parody (while displaying a pretty awesome opera voice) than a group of assumedly professional group of writers for an entire movie.
  • And during his commentary on that video, he admits that looking back, he wishes they hadn't used that to end that video, because it ended up being so awesome, he wishes they could have saved it for the end of the very last video he ever did as the ultimate finale.
  • The Critic gets a Moment of Awesome just for actually WATCHING the film in the first place. Doug Walker, out-of-character, admitted that it was the worst movie he's ever seen, finding nothing redeeming at all about it.
• His apologies about poking fun at Mako certainly count in that he STILL manages to pull a Take That! at the audience by blatantly pointing out their own flaws in the argument. For the record, there's a difference between poking fun at a single character's voice and totally bashing an actor. Critic manages to point out these differences while apologizing to all the Mako fans at the same time, especially since he unintentionally referenced the fact that Mako died of throat cancer when he said that Splinter sounded like he "smoked a million Marlboros".

  Nostalgia Critic: I don't hate Mako. I don't know Mako.

  • Plus his disgust at the lazy Male Gaze of that dancing naked woman, asking if they were really that desperate to show boobs.
  • Also calling out the movie for calling the Prince "Prince Tard", saying it's offensive. Mostly because he was using 'retarded' himself a lot in 2008, and it's nice that he learned.
• In Short Circuit, complaining (with a big smile) about the racism of Ben.
  Critic: This would be incredibly racist if they didn't have an Indian guy playing that role… oh wait they don't, it's a white guy, so yeah, that's incredibly racist.
• Destroying North for all its offensiveness, drawing attention to an infertility joke as "the worst thing uttered by humanity" and getting most disgusted at the treatment of the Eskimos:
  Critic: (after Kathy Bates in redface comes in) No! No! You go back to your room, movie, until you learn something about being racially sensitive!
• In his review of Sidekicks, the Critic proceeds to mercilessly mock Mako's overzealous fans by deliberately avoiding making obvious jokes about him and explicitly comparing him to God. The review ends with Chuck Norris smiting the Critic because Mako hates him.
  • Calling out how the teacher is a strong smart woman in reality, but Barry's dreams always turn her into a Damsel in Distress.
• "The Top 11 Cereal Mascots" feels like a well-justified Take That! to all those who accuse him of not doing research.
• After being made seriously uncomfortable by a Male Gaze torture scene, giving Barb Wire some therapy.
• In the review of Captain N, his so very perkily bitter explanation and rant on princesses and how Lana can avoid any responsibility.
• In the "Top 11 NC Fuck-Ups", he reveals with glee that Drew Struzan emailed him after the tribute and told him he was one of the few people who got most of his artwork right. (Most mix in similar artists by accident.)
• From the Blank Check review, his making a joke about Michael Jackson, then making a long speech about how it's still okay to make jokes about him.
  • Showing no Double Standards in the "Bad Touch" Running Gag and calling the police even when a woman he has a crush on is creepy with a child.
  • Him calling out the father's total disregard to his son because he's not into business and grounds him for not being careful with his bike when he almost got run over. All in just one little world: DOUCHE.
• The end of the Casper review, where Critic crashes the Geek Media Expo in a Ghostbusters costume and chases down Casper with the help of some very cooperative convention goers.
  • Including a Chester A. Bum cosplayer who asks him for change.
• Roger Ebert tweeting that Doug's tribute video about him and Siskel was the best he's ever seen.
  • Revealed in the Animaniacs Tribute that Doug actually framed it.

2010 episodes

• At the beginning of the hundredth episode, Ma-Ti and past!Critic telling off present!Critic for being a lazy ass and making him do an actual review instead of a Clip Show.
  • Really letting Robin in Bébé's Kids have it for being such a shitty "parent" to the kids. You know someone's triggered his Berserk Button when he calls them one step away from being like Hitler.
• Getting Christopher Lloyd to say "I was frozen today" at a convention.
• There's the scene in the Quest for Camelot review where he digitally altered his voice to sound like the Rock Biter. It sounds so close that according to the commentary, many people wrote in to congratulate him, as they assumed it was the real audio from the film until the word "script" came up.
• Remember the scene from his Flubber review where Weebo gives Spock's dying speech from The Wrath of Khan? If you've never seen Flubber, you'd have thought that was part of the original movie, since the editing is that good.
  • The belief that movies need actual effort comes up again, where he slams the writers who just think all they need is Robin Williams being funny and they'll have a good film in their hands.
  • Telling the woman to go Lorena Bobbitt on Robin Williams' character for missing the wedding three times might have been going overboard, but it's still weirdly cool to see him care that much.
  • Just how much he detests Professor Brainard in general.
• Instantly hating the mother in Home Alone 3 for leaving her very young, sick son at home with a "babysitter" across the street.
• His talk on both the effects and King Kong himself in "Old Vs. New: King Kong". It's just so thoughtful and well-spoken, and might very well give you a new perspective if you've derided the old version.
  • The "Old vs New" episodes in general. Anyone who says he's not intelligent or "isn't analytical enough" are now directed to those to prove how wrong they are.
  • Sticking to his guns and standing by his opinion that he liked the 1989 Batman film better than The Dark Knight, knowing that some would get up in arms over it.
• A slightly... pornier example happens in the Jaws 3-D review. He manages to do sex noises for both the man and the woman and does them convincingly for a startling length of time.
• The Critic "outdreaming" Stanley the Troll by shoving a porcupine into his anus and then morphing it into a Tyrannosaurus Rex.
  • His rant about how you can't tell kids that all they need to do is dream and they'll get whatever they desire. Long? Yes. Coming from his own personal issues? Of course. Needed to be said? Very much so.
  • An example of Mundane Made Awesome: the Thumb-O-War between Stanley and Gnorga is accompanied by "Duel of the Fates", making it a lot more epic.
• The Nostalgia Critic's "Top 11 Best Clichés", which is essentially a long and loving tribute to tropes.
  • 11) Gangsta Style
  • 10) Sexy Cry
  • 9) The Past
  • 8) Ominous Latin Chanting
  • 7) Mono e Mono (AKA, Jousting)
  • 6) Dramatic Wind
  • 5) Unflinching Walk
  • 4) Big "NO!"
  • 3) Evil Laugh
  • 2) Team Power Walk
  • 1) Slow Motion
• The Animaniacs Tribute episode. He made clear in the commentary that he's more or less just as in awe as we are at the interviews and cooperation he was able to pull down.
• The Critic singing his own version of "Poor Jack" after a hard Heroic BSoD, particularly when he rips off his T-shirt revealing his signature outfit. The camera shots and timing mimic that entire sequence to the split-second!
  "That's right! I AM THE NOSTALGIA CRITIC!"
  • Upon at the end of the song, he also describes that "While it may be pathetic, he's proud of what he does". Guts, man.
  • And after all that, we hear a Nostalgia Critic theme song! The 'Nostalgia Critic Anthem' is by Sad Panda. Doug just hasn't used it in any of his videos until now. The full song of course is basically a big fan letter to Doug Walker and his characters The Nostalgia Critic and Chester A. Bum.
  • The way he performs the Heroic BSoD and rising again to sing; it's not all just yelling and ranting, he really can act.
  • The fact it was a major Throw the Dog a Bone. Critic's a Designated Monkey, Jerkass Woobie, The Chew Toy... whatever you wanna call him but just this once, he got to win. You couldn't stop yourself from cheering.
  • Relatedly, how he foreshadowed the low self-esteem and the insecurity with his job more than a year earlier, with the starts of his TMNT and Full House reviews. It kicks ass when you realize what was actually going on in his head when he made all those "YOU'RE IN MY TERRITORY" cameos.
  • Overshadowed by the ending, but Doug manages thirty seconds of motor mouthing Shakespeare lines.
• Judging GOD in "Old vs. New: The Ten Commandments vs. The Prince of Egypt".
  • You've also got to give him credit for being obviously religious (you see it in other episodes but this is the clearest one for natural reasons), but being mature about it, letting both the people without and with faith enjoy the funny analysis.
• His review of The Thief and the Cobbler. The fact that he knew about about the film's history and that he saw and recommended the "Recobbled Cut" makes the animation fan in all of us happy.
• Calling out Little Monsters, ostensibly a film made with young children in mind, for being needlessly dark and mean-spirited.
  • The "80s Montage" song. Absolutely perfect.
• In Rover Dangerfield, he does some really good drawings without effort in the space of about a couple of minutes. And gallingly, he says they're crap and throws them away.
• He KILLS AN ANGEL in the 2010 Christmas Special.

2011 episodes

• Butchering The NeverEnding Story III DVD with a crowbar. "I'M FUCKING THE DVD!"
  • Know what's really awesome about this? Remember he did the review of the second film and at the end, he happily and deliberately ignored the fact that there was a third movie made at all (which was pretty cool too.) We the fans never saw it coming!
• His clear distaste of the sequels to Ferngully and The Secret of NIMH both focusing on a male character barely seen in the original and Crysta and Mrs. Brisby being Demoted to Extra.
• His acting skills again in the review of The Secret of Nimh II. He sings a take on the "Pinky and the Brain" song as the chorus AND Timmy AND his brother, and makes a pretty awesome Justin.
  • Plus the bookending awesome moments, first gearing up for the review Hot Fuzz style. Then, well, how do you top going batfuck berserk with a crowbar on The NeverEnding Story III? Well, you don't. You go for a different kind of awesome by calling on the Death Star to destroy it.
• For Care Bears Movie II: Sage is Satan! Complete with "Night on Bald Mountain" for a theme!
• Starting off the X-Men review by nipping all the accusations that he's ripping off the Nostalgia Chick in the bud by pointing out the other movies he's reviewed after someone else on the site did them, and then showing what a REAL ripoff of the Chick would be.
  • In a livestream Team Chick did a couple of days later, the boys were actually commended by Elisa for how well Dark Rob's make-up was done. High praise coming from the Makeover Fairy herself.
  • And when the X-Men have another homophobia-subtext conservation, he says so casually and normally "I thought it was because the conservative right said we chose to be like this." The LGBT Fanbase were delighted.
• The "BEST! DEATH! EVAH!" from 'Double Team', prompting the Nostalgia Critic to make a meme of it called "Frying the Coke".
• Naming Bella Swan the number 1 Dumbass in Distress, topping even Princess Fucking Peach. This quote sums it up:
  Critic: This has to be the most selfish, male-dependent, uncaring, manipulative, self-centered, pretentious, idiotic, whining little bitch-bag you will ever see in your entire life! And honestly? That wouldn't be too bad a character. That'd be very, very interesting, IF IT WAS INTENTIONAL!!!
• His summation of The Legend of the Titanic, which takes on a more serious tone than usual as he discusses how offensive the film is to the memories of all the people who died on the Titanic, denying that their senseless deaths even happened for the sake of a cheap anti-whaling screed.
  • In the commentary, Doug calls attention to the great work done on the picture of the Ferngully characters being inserted into the film, which is detailed to the point where you can start to put together an actual story to go with it.
  • For the men of the audience especially, Doug clipping clothes-pegs to his scrotum for the crying scenes and only wibbling a little. He doesn't even regret it!
• In a commercial special, a commercial is shown for a theatrical re-release of Song of the South. After mocking the commercial for only using the brief animated Br'er Rabbit segment, the Critic mocks Disney's refusal to acknowledge the film, despite it winning an Oscar and being generally praised by international viewers.
• Similar to the Quest for Camelot part above, in his review of Once Upon a Forest, when the toxic gas is released, he notes he hopes it'll be voiced by Tim Curry, and proceeds to sing a short parody of "Toxic Love". His voice is so convincing that up until when he says the word "ass", you'd think he took the lines straight from the original song.
  • Ripping Cornelius a new one for being a Dirty Coward and endangering four children by making them go get herbs for their sick friend.
• If he did the manic dancing in Little Nemo without computer help, he should be applauded.
• Singing the Enjolras part in "One Day More" at the end of the Chick's Les Misérables review. This man should be on Broadway.
• Sending Milk Money to Hell after roughly the one-thousandth pedophilia joke.
  • Also from that review, his disgust that the movie got Vee out of prostitution so easily when it's close to impossible in real life.
• The line in Care Bears In Wonderland that so succinctly sums his problems with princesses:
  Alice: Mr. Rabbit, I was wondering, what exactly does a princess do?
  Critic: Well mostly sell toys, piss off feminists, and make girls question their own sense of self-worth. (Beat) Tell me I'm wrong!
• Paul Dini became the second video subject to praise Doug on Twitter, as he loved the video on the eleven best Batman: The Animated Series episodes.
• Would it be a cheat to put the Critic as an awesome moment for Doug? He's just such a funny, consistent, interesting, sympathetic-yet-total-waste-of-space asshole that you can't help but root for. Hell, we even get Character Development!
  • His discussing Harley and the Joker in the Top 11 Batman Episodes is a pretty good example of Character Development. The last time they appeared was in the uncomfortably Male Gaze-y "Top 11 Animated Hotties" where her abuse was treated for laughs and he compared himself to the Joker. In the Batman Top 11 however, he's kinder, more mature and can relate to how you might hate someone but keep still keep going back to them.
• In the Alaska review, his surprisingly serious rant on how disgusting it is to just use a dead parent for a plot device, and how he's never going to like the lead character because of his mean-spirited "I wish you had died and not her" line.
• His review of James and the Giant Peach. It was a really funny apology from Doug that still kept his backbone in place.
• The edit in The Avengers (1998) from Father to Doctor Strangelove. It's freaking seamless.
  • And despite never having watched the original show, he still puts its theme song over the closing credits.
  • Rob and Doug have tried to get it into the heads of fans for ages, but it was nice to hear Critic saying that an adaptation should stand on its own and you shouldn't need to read or watch something else in order to get it.
• The intro to Nostalgia-ween 2011 is an homage to the opening of The X-Files, and it is glorious. He even has the X-Files theme as his end credits music!
• Just how sickened he is by the adulterer in The Tommyknockers, calling how he left the search for a missing child to go fuck someone his Moral Event Horizon.
  • Extra bonus? This was all the character. Doug said on Facebook that he loved the guy for how one-note evil he was. Nice acting, Doug.
• In his review of the remake of The Haunting, rather than just chew out the film itself (which easily could have sufficed, given how dumb it is), he makes several point by point comparisons with the original film and how the remake got things wrong, including one line that was put in solely as a reference to the original film that makes no sense in its new context. Way to go above and beyond.
  • The breakdown, if only to show off how ridiculously childish the remake was.
  • It was also his longest review at the time, at longer than a half hour. Apparently his hatred for it just demanded that much time so he could vent.
• During the Exorcist II review, you can really hear his disgust at John Boorman filming the scene of Regan almost jumping off a roof completely for real, with no way to save Linda Blair if she fell. And then he's still able to make a good joke from it.
• His cameo in The Nostalgia Chick's review of The Worst Witch. Singing, having glorious fun and the whole song is a celebration of everyone joining in sluttiness.
• Any person who suffered from body issues because of bullying will love his rant on how teenage girls mistreat each other in the Doug's First Movie review.
  "They will pick apart ANYTHING that is not stylized perfection!"
• In his review of The Cell, his clear anger at the film using intense child abuse scenes as to show that "child abuse is bad". The clear implication that telling the audience the Serial Killer has child abuse as a Freudian Excuse doesn't fly at all because your tragic past is not what makes you. Extra bonus? With the Critic's own past, he knows this full well. It's both amazing and slightly pathetic when a comedy character on the Internet manages to have a more compelling and entertaining Freudian Excuse than a lot of movie villains.
• In the Superman Story Arc, even though he delivered it through Hypocritical Humor, bringing up the important point that female-on-male sexual harassment in the work place isn't taken seriously.
• "Top 11 Reasons the Nostalgia Critic Won't Review Digimon", which is actually an alert to the first American Internet Censorship bill, and giving us the website that will send our congressmen a letter urging them not to vote for it.
• In Felix the Cat, "Random Zone". Way too short, but an epic way of showing off his singing voice once again. However, he does get to show it off again in...
• The Moulin Rouge! review. Dear God, where to begin? In the Top Ten Nostalgia Critic Reviews video, Doug placed Moulin Rouge as #1. Here are some of the reasons why:
  • The singing voices of Linkara, The Nostalgia Chick, and Brentalfloss are put to exceptionally good use with several amazing parody songs courtesy of Brentalfloss himself.
  • Linkara singing a cover of the opening (and closing).
  • Nostalgia Chick's solo in "Pretense." Damn, that girl can sing.
  • The "guilty pleasures" song.
  • Critic and Chick's parody of The Show Must Go On, called "The Review Must Go On". New rule: whenever Critic has a breakdown, he must sing his recovery. It always works. The moment where he gets out his jacket, puts it on and straightens his tie is especially epic.
  • Brentalfloss's parody of Zidler's rap.
  • Hell, Phelous doesn't exactly have the best voice, but his talent for hamminess certainly qualifies his musical number as awesome. His angry, growling tone also flows surprisingly well with the Critic's operatic style.
  • Nostalgia Chick's rant about Christian's dickish treatment of Satine, insulting and humiliating her when she was actually being Cruel to Be Kind. She does mention that Satine's actions were objectively stupid, but Christian's bitter reaction is unforgivable in comparison. She later points out that the Duke was more gracious about having been played than Christian was - he went into a murderous frenzy, but simply walked away after he was disarmed, rather than calling Satine a whore.
    Chick: For as many times as he sings about "love", he treats her in the most insulting, dirty, mean-spirited way that you can treat a human being! And the dwarf's over here like "Oh, she wouldn't do that!" and yet him, the one who's in love with her can't figure this out?!
  • How about we just say the entire "Moulin Rouge!" review is just one long crowning moment of awesome, from beginning to end?
  • Heck, the fact that he got freaking Brentalfloss speaks for itself.
  • The fact that the two reviewers he's actually in the room with for their appearances are both people who like the movie, showing he walks the walk on his statement in the "movies I hate that everyone loves" video that your opinions on movies don't say anything morally about you as a person, and all that matters is how well you can explain that opinion.
  • Doug's acting during Critic's Heroic BSoD. He could have spent it like the Bad "Bad Acting" he did when he shot Brentalfloss, but nope, he can't resist looking and behaving like Critic's world just caved in (for about the fifth time this year).
  • In the commentary, Lindsay calling out the people who didn't even want to watch the review because they were scared of something they liked potentially getting bashed.
• The Critic doing the entire The Grinch review IN RHYME. The. Entire. Thing. He even edits the non-sequitur movie clips properly so they rhyme along with his own lyrics!
  • In the commentary, Doug (fairly humbly, as is his way) states the episode didn't take longer than usual and he's pretty good at rhyming. You must admit that's impressive.
  • His imitations of all the Grinch's postures from the cartoon.
  • Doug pulled quite the Magnificent Bastard move by making this one of the reviews he announced ahead of time, just because he knew some of his fans liked it, so now they would spend the week leading up to the review talking about it, and he could put those comments in the video.

2012 episodes

• Santa Christ deserves some kudos for getting through three snowstorms, two tornadoes and a tsunami alive and with no injuries.
• The Sci-Fi Guy acting completely accepting that the Critic's about to kill him, before turning the tables on him.
• In a nice, mature moment during the Star Trek V review, admitting without regret that "pain makes us what we are", especially seeing as he's had more pain in his life than most.
  • His disgust that the "dangerous journey" was less "to boldly go where no man has gone before" and more "everyone else was a coward and feared anything that was different".
• He gets in a few nice digs about Shatner's giant ego over the course of Star Trek month.
  • He's also fair to all the movies, detailing if anything works and not acting like the stereotypical fan who just dismisses the odd ones as shit.
• The Star Trek: Insurrection video starts with a subversion of the expected joke of Linkara interrupting the Critic gloating over having escaped him. Linkara then pops up on the TV.
  • Not impressed with how Star Trek has now made the ethical battles between in right and wrong into cold facts, Critic gives us this:
  Critic: Hey Data, which of these is ethically sound? Abortion. Stem Cell Research. The Death Penalty.
  (Data's head explodes)
  Critic: That's what I thought.
• In Thomas and the Magic Railroad, he sings once again, and for a parody entitled "Generic Song", it actually sounds quite pretty and soothing.
• The Patch Adams review is full of these.
  • He calls back to his Haunting review and discusses how badly written female characters were in the 90s:
    • Calling out how they changed from one bad stereotype (Hysterical Woman) to another (cold, bitter, and usually ball-busting), with the clear opinion that they're just as anti-feminist as each other.
    • Quickly interjecting that the media couldn't let an "unpretty" Love Interest into one of their movies.
    • Mocking how they weren't strong and competent for the reasons of strong and competent, but they were a Broken Bird inside and needed to put up their defenses.
    Critic: Ohh, I don't want to think, I just want to be loved!
    • Pointing out the fact that Patch is the master of insecurity, but unlike the "fragile" woman love interest, he doesn't need to be sorted out because he's a man and makes us laugh. "And that excuses everything in this movie."
  • Literally whipping the movie with a belt for disrespecting the murdered-in-real-life male friend of Adams so much that they changed his gender, put in a child molesting storyline and made "her" fall in love with Robin Williams.
    • While it might seem small to others, but to his genderqueer and trans fans, his consistently using the correct terminology (gender instead of sex) in the following rant. Not a whole lot of white, cis, middle-class men do that.
  • On a side note, the review shows how far his special effects have come since The Garbage Pail Kids Movie.
  • Critic rightfully pointing out and purposefully prolonging the revelation of the problem with the "What happens if a doctor becomes emotionally involved with his patients? Does his head explode?" scene, saying that getting emotionally invested with patients is a problem because it alters the doctor's objective judgement. And even pulls it out after the Love Interest in the movie is killed by the crazy patient shooting her in the head.
  • His pointing out that the idea behind the free clinic of it being free and a walk-in clinic with no issues about the background of patients is terrible, especially when an obviously disturbed individual enters the clinic, asks the Love Interest over after hours and consequently kills her. Critic points out that knowing the background of patients is important, not just for the safety of the patient himself, but also the safety of the doctors themselves and the other patients in the clinic.
  • His sickened outrage at the movie and its treatment of the real Patch Adams is both this and heartwarming.
  Critic: People, this movie is disgusting.
  • At at the end of the review, he not only recommends actually looking up Patch Adams, he looks him up himself and discovers that the real Patch Adams works hard with each of his patients and takes his work seriously, and ends the review urging viewers to look up his website, and even donate if they like what they see.
  • Pointing out that the movie's version of Patch Adams would be better off forgetting about being a doctor, and just hiring himself out to hospitals to entertain the patients.
  • Demonstrating how Patch's way of "act like clown = make people feel better" wouldn't help for someone admitting that they were molested.
  • He even gets one a minute in, by explaining that he's not against new forms of medicine, he's just against them being promoted in this strawmanny, incompetent way.
  • Agreeing with Patch that the catatonic person should be treated like an actual person instead of a punchline, and looking almost catatonic with rage himself when Patch makes Nazi jokes about the patient instead.
  • Celebrating the Love Interest's "The Reason You Suck" Speech to Patch (where she basically calls him out for being a dickheaded Sad Clown) and saying she should have been the focus of the movie.
  • His disbelief that even in the 60s, no doctor figured out the difference between not getting too emotionally involved and being a dick who talks to patients like they're not there.
  • When it comes to the "Patch is never seen studying" Strawman Has a Point of the movie, he compares it to Amadeus and how they set up that Mozart was a prodigy who was obsessed with music. PA, on the other hand, never gives an explanation for why he did so well.
  • His pointing out the idiocy that, in the movie, Patch Adams was stealing from local hospitals to "fund" his free clinic which he was practicing without a license. Once again showing that the movie clearly did not give a single damn about the real Patch Adams' work.
  • "Let me tell you something, movie! Maybe you should have been 'emotionally invested' when you decided to make a movie about a man, his beliefs, his dreams, and his actual hard work! FUCK you!"
  • After Patch gets expelled after his little gynaecology gag, just for "asking a group of doctors to have a sense of humour about themselves":
  Critic: No, that wasn't asking, that was forcing. As a comedian, you should know the difference. Bad clown!
• The cameos for the Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea review: LittleKuriboh, Spike Spencer, and Uncle Yo!
  • Managing to convince people that a) he likes the movie, but b) it's not above critiquing and analyzing the flaws.
  • Not letting the movie slide on the issue of bad parenting just because the general product is cute and enjoyable.
  • Doug is actually being held up by the foot and throat in one of those pictures at the end. Also, the fact that he immediately trusted a total stranger (and doesn't have any regrets about it despite having been in pain) shows again what a nice guy he is.
• Because it apparently needed to be repeated even in-review, telling the people who complain about how he should watch the shows before he reviews the movies based on them to calm down because a) he didn't say anything bad about the actual shows if he didn't see them and b) adaptations fail if they aren't able to stand on their own.
• In Richie Rich, his argument that because Richie is such a Flat Character, the jokes can't work because we don't know anything about him.
  • For about the millionth time in his show, bitching out the parents for not caring about their child or learning anything, and comparing the standing guard mother to a someone sending a canary into the coal-mines first.
  • He also displays more knowledge about economics than you'd expect of him.
  • His idea for a deconstruction movie about a hero who crashes and burns his company actually sounds pretty cool. It helps that he recut the Moneyball trailer for this purpose.
  • "Like a motherfucking boss, sir."
  • He notes that Richie gets his own when, after his parents go missing, the villain offers him a seat in the family office and he instead silently sits in the CEO's chair.
  • He also voices his disdain for including mild swear words like "shit" and "bitch" just to Avoid the Dreaded G Rating.
• One Acronym: L.A.Z.I.N.E.S.S.
  • He manages to never change from his calm, David Attenborough-type voice. For a guy who's such a brat normally, that must have been quite a challenge.
  • The pet-owners throwing knives at him when he kills their animals happens to be rather satisfying.
• On the third DVD, he rips Doomsday Machine to shreds for its mass amount of Stay in the Kitchen sexism.
• Here's some Fridge Awesome; to give but two examples, he can order the Death Star to destroy a DVD in his backyard and helicopters fly out giant bottles of alcohol for him. Yet he still thinks he has no power over anyone.
• While comparing the two adaptations of Red Dragon, he naturally decides that Anthony Hopkins' Hannibal Lecter is better than Brian Cox's. But rather than take the easy way out and just say that Hopkins' iconic performance is naturally the better one, he actually makes a serious effort to compare the two and justify his choice.
  • His Hopkins impersonation near the end is pretty impressive too.
• Starchaser: The Legend of Orin: Critic managing to get through a crossover review with Sage without too much falling apart. Even Sage was impressed, and that has to be worth something.
• Critic doing the entire The Transformers (Raiders of the Story Arc) review in a Peter Cullen impersonation. While cosplaying as Optimus Prime.
  • It may have been an Overly Long Gag, but he summed up perfectly how romantic comedies were Strictly Formula and that they manipulated the audience, like stooping to Toilet Humor to get guys in and making the female lead an Audience Surrogate so that women would root for her.
  • With this, the "Transformers 4 Auditions" accompaniment and the video about the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles being mutants, Doug's made his disgust with Bay's penchant towards the Male Gaze blatantly obvious.
  • Prime gives an epic speech regarding how the original cartoon may not have been perfect, but it at least tried its hardest to entertain kids, before asking the crowd that once seemed completely in love with the movies if they just want to watch some of the original show. THE CROWD GOES ABSOLUTELY BALLISTIC. Hell fucking yeah, indeed.
• After a whole episode of the Critic bitching about her Old Shame, MARA FUCKING WILSON utterly destroys him by playing ridiculously embarrassing movies he did as an early teenager.
  • The fact that he got Mara Wilson to make a cameo is awesome in itself.
  • Note that this is after Wilson was quite vocally displeased about his fans constantly bringing up the fact that the Critic apparently hated her, so both of them are being incredibly good sports here.
  • One for Critic himself: the sheer sarcasm when he's telling Murray off for this moment.
  Murray: Oh, you... You mean the whole guy thing. Can I ask you something? What difference does it really make where the magic comes from?
  Critic: Indeed, as a middle class white American male, we have been oppressed for too long.
• A small one to their fans- in the Heavy Metal review, the Critic teasing at a potential upcoming review with Jesuokatu.
• The Critic goes off to beat up Mr. Magoo, and the old man sadistically kicks his ass.
• At the end of "Top 11 Simpsons Episodes", the Elephant in the Living Room brings up the LP. They argue over the credits, and you could say his motor mouthed defense sounded like a Hurricane of Excuses, but it was a relief to see him not give in to his Extreme Doormat ways for once.
• In the Digimon: The Movie review, the Take That! to Toddlers & Tiaras for how it sexualizes little girls. The best part is that it's not him directly calling out the show, it was just him making a very funny joke.
• Editing "Riders of Doom" into a more appropriate scene - an action scene from Braveheart.
• In Baby Geniuses 2, he gets to be a Magnificent Bastard for once in his life by pretending to be comatose because hotel rooms aren't cheap.
  • Hey, how about getting Brentalfloss and Uncle Yo again?
  • And then all three of them reading Fifty Shades of Grey with the members of Team Four Star?
  • His anger at the only female baby being given the useless title of "cupid girl", and again at her forcing the straight male guards to be gay against their will.
• Most of his ire for Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom gets saved for Willie being completely useless and an insult to women, with some left over for how cruel the movie is, especially to children. Especially awesome when you do the research and learn that the actress herself was a feminist who hated the way her character was portrayed.
  • He also points out how people never complained about how unrealistic it was that Indiana Jones used an inflated raft to survive a fall from a plane but did complain when he survived a nuclear blast by hiding in a fridge.
• The review of The Wiz was filmed and edited within 24 hours, yet looks just as good as his usual work. Roger Corman would be proud.
  • Critic making it very, very clear that he's making fun of Joel Schumacher because he's done some awful movies, not for being gay. And after all the homophobic bullshit the Chick's review of Ender's Game got, it comes off as Doug cutting off those people before they can spout anything wretched.
• The end of the Scooby-Doo (2002) review, in which Critic recreates the iconic ending of the Star Trek: The Next Generation Grand Finale, with his past and future selves joining him in a Heroic Sacrifice to save the world from the horrible movie they all watched, with a perfect segue into the Heartwarming reenactment of the iconic poker game from that episode.
  • "Hey, Scooby-Doo, where are you? I'll tell you where - IN HEEEEEEEEELLLLLLLL!!"
  • Doug's acting. He's been great before, but here he sells everything from the self-loathing venom of the beginning to playing three separate characters for twenty minutes to Critic realizing he needs to actually work for the happiness he wants.
  • The delightful subversion of Competence Zone. Our Critic is broken and bitchy, young!Critic is a pretentious badbutt and old!Critic is shakier-voiced with memory-loss, but the writing gives them all intelligent complaints that suit their personalities.
  • The fact that the inclusion of Young, Modern and Old Critic wasn't just a gimmick or an overly long gag, but was a way for Doug to point out how the movie failed to entertain several types of fans.
  • Young!Critic already showing signs of being a Papa Wolf with Undying Loyalty, the two qualities that make usual!Critic a fundamentally good person.
  • He also gets a CMOA for actually calling out the treatment to Scrappy Doo, referring it as 'mean-spirited, even for the Scoobies'. Take note: He still hates Scrappy, but this What the Hell, Hero? on the underlying reason why Scrappy is the Big Bad is nothing but awesome.
  • He also calls out the characterisation of Shaggy for vouching to leave Fred and Velma to die.
• Doug and Jacob's commentary on Digimon reveals that the episode was really rushed- JO was at an anime con, Doug was editing To Boldly Flee, JO wasn't even in her house while filming (She's at JewWario's house, hence the cool background), and she also had to write the entire script. Despite this, the episode looks and feels as high-quality as many other crossovers Critic's been a part of, and you'd need to hear the commentary to know how rushed it was.

2013 episodes

• Doug's acting in The Review Must Go On, playing the Jekyll & Hyde angle of himself and Critic realistically instead of OTT like he complained about in "The Top 11 Dumbest Superman Moments".
  • It doesn't work out, but Donnie refusing to go quietly and lampshading how terrible the ending is for himself and his friends.
• His rant at the end of The Odd Life Of Timothy Green pinpointing precisely why the film's message is so bad: every parent will inevitably make mistakes while raising their kids, but you're supposed to learn from those mistakes, rather than just be excited to see what other ones you can make, incidentally screwing up your kids worse and worse.
  • When he says that February is being dedicated to the love one has for a child, a NAMBLA ad flashes on the screen.
  "No, no, and your jacuzzi of barbed wire in Hell is waiting for you."
• There's something downright inspiring about his final sum-up on whether Twilight is the worst thing in history. In the end, it's just a little stupid in the long road of entertainment, and it isn't going to have a long impact on our lives.
  • The entire video is a big CMOA. Because it's a mature editorial, the Critic gives a rather well-explained and rational explanation as to why people have such a hatred of the Twilight franchise. He also points out that people have strong reactions (negative or positive) to all sorts of pop culture phenomenon, but they eventually move on and learn that there's no need to make such a fuss over something as insignificant as a book/movie series.
• His ~4-minute speech against Michael Bay on the inaccuracies in Pearl Harbor is something to behold.
  Critic: Fuck you, it's not Hollywood! When you take it upon yourself to represent something that really happened, and is still painful, and hurts a lot of people, that means you have to do two things. One - you have to grow up and be an adult. Two - you have to actually represent these people as best as humanly possible, you son of a BIIIIIIIIIIITCH! (Fifteen second pause as he calms down and catches his breath) I... can't be the only one who sees this. And thank God - I wasn't.
  • You have to admit, the "Michael Bay Origin Story" sub-plot was also awesome... for various reasons:
    • A) It looks and feels like an actual movie at points.
    • B) It ultimately doesn't paint Bay as a bad person, but rather a good, albeit naive person with a limited skill set and limited world experience who proves that he's very creative with what he has.
    • c) While it did lampoon and make fun of Bay, it did it in a sub-textual way. The way it's presented, it feels like your usual "rise to glory, fall from grace, and rebirth" story. It makes Bay out to be a hero... for all the wrong reasons.
  • Plus, his accepting the cliched scene of FDR getting to his feet after being told retaliation is impossible, since the guy is one of history's greats, and he actually wishes it was more over the top, like his wheelchair turning into a robot.
• His dissertation on Romeo and Juliet, being able to convey more about the story's themes and innate tragedy in six minutes than some high school teachers can in a month.
• Malcolm as the Devil in the 'Son of the Mask' review is a mix of this and Moment of Funny. He looks sharp as all get out and his acting is like a sinister Large Ham.
• His analysis of the movie Where the Wild Things Are, which deconstructs the movie expertly and demonstrates a deep understanding of how a child views the world.
• For The King and I, rather than just mock the movie itself, he shows a deep knowledge of the history behind it, and we even see he owns a copy of the book Thailand put out to give their own take on King Mongkut.
  • The very well deserved Take That! he gave to his fans complaining about the fact that his wall is a different color.
• The editorial video "What's with the Princess Hate?", which is an examination of the role of princesses in stories and why they get so much flack from the audience. His conclusion? The hatred comes from the fact that there are more male characters as "kings", while more female characters are "princesses" because queens have a certain connotation to audiences for some reason.
  • Demonstrating how Cinderella and Ariel really were good role models and how their original purpose has been distorted by future generations. Cinderella was a hard worker waiting patiently for life to give her an opportunity (and Walt Disney's own role model), and Ariel was proactive and daring.
  • His speech at the end, where he talks about how the roles of women in media are constantly changing, and people should step back and think to move away from emphasizing youth and lack of desire for power as virtues in women. While he says this, he shows clips of Katnis Everdeen, Natasha Romanov, and Kim Possible.
• While reviewing Catwoman (2004), NC calling it out for instead of being the "empowering film" it claims to be, it is actually an incredibly sexist movie:
  • That the whole plot hinges on makeup:
  NC: ... Where she tries to stop her evil makeup from taking over the world! And, you know, saying that out loud makes me realize just how fucking sexist this "empowering women" movie sounds.
  • Also the Critic not putting the blame on Halle Berry (whom he admitted did fine with the script given to her). And when the Catwomen start to attack him for not insulting Berry, he points out they should all be happy they weren't part of such a horrible movie.
• After the Critic finishes up his review of the live-action The Cat in the Hat, Peter Souless tries to justify that the changes made in the movie made the story better, but NC points out how the adult jokes, pop culture references, and straying from the source material only made it worse. Then, when Soulless refers to the Seuss Books as "simple kids' books", NC delivers a speech on what's wrong with Hollywood producers and focus groups not taking the proper care and attention when adapting beloved childhood stories and pieces. The entire scene goes as such:
  Soulless: But! By having grown up humor, we make it more adult. By modernizing the dialogue, we make it more timeless. And by changing the source material, we show how much we want to make it even better!
  NC: No! Every single thing you said, you got backwards. By having grown up humor, you make it more childish. By modernizing the dialogue, you make it more dated. And by changing the source material, you show how much you don't respect what's already perfect. I'm not going to act like everything Dr. Seuss wrote was a masterpiece, but when he got it right, he got it right. They don't need to be updated. They don't need to be fixed. They don't even need to have movies made about them. But if you're going to do it, the very least you could do is understand the source material.
  Soulless: Well, of course I understand the source material. They're just simple kids' books.
  NC: No. They’re not just simple kids’ books. They are stories that we are continuing to read even today. They’re stories that we remember years later, even when other stories fade from our memories. They’re stories we will never forget, and for good reason! They’re stories that helped shape our childhoods, through well thought-out writing, imaginative drawings and endearing morals. And the idea of THIS shaping somebody’s childhood—the fact that it even has the same NAME—just makes me sick to my stomach. Maybe these “simple kids’ books” are far more adult than you give them credit for. And I guarantee you that’ll show: years from now when kids AND adults will still be reading these “simple kids’ books”, while pandering bullshit like this disappears out of people’s consciousness. Also for good reason. Good art doesn’t come from focus groups and statistics! It comes from people who share how they see things in their own unique way.
  • When Peter is making the Critic and Evilina watch all the Dr. Seuss movies until they appreciate them, Satan comes in and puts a stop to it.
  • The Critic dismisses the Analysists' narrow-minded viewpoint of Focus Groups by arguing that Dr Seuss wrote what he wanted to see, putting them on the spot about how this may be damaging to audiences.
• His #1 best South Park episode and his reasoning for it: "Osama Bin Laden Has Farty Pants" because it came out shortly after 9/11 at a time where America was being controlled by fear and paranoia and needed a reason to laugh again.
• Jurassic Park (1993): aaAAAHMAMUTHAFUCKINGT-REX!
• In his A.I.: Artificial Intelligence review, he infiltrates TMZ, and ultimately, attacks them by gaining footage of them doing embarrassing things. He follows up this by saying he's the biggest idiot of all for hating A.I. instead of considering what it meant for Kubrick and Spielberg.
  • Not only that, he also manages to shed some light on the infamous ending, in that it was Kubrick's vision, and that Spielberg was just trying to accomplish this one dream. It becomes a Heartwarming Moment as well. This actually indirectly led to the above events, as some choice words from the Critic caused some Alternative Character Interpretation to happen and causing TMZ to think the duo are gay, pressing the Critic's button and causing him to perform the above.
• In Turbo, actually making a better Zordon effect than the show/movie had.
  • Also the sheer effort put into the review. Adapting the original theme, making the different backgrounds, making the costumes.
• While bringing up Legolas' absurd awesomeness in The Lord of the Rings, we get a skit where he simply shoots the One Ring tied to an arrow all the way into Mount Doom. Which is then topped by a later version where Gimli catches it while riding an eagle before throwing it in.
• The editorial on Tom and Jerry shows a remarkable understanding of the art of slapstick, and what separates good uses of it from bad.
• The Les Misérables (2012) review:
  • "One Big Song".
  • Not to mention "Do You Hear The Critics Sing?":
  Do you hear the critics sing,
  Sing about how they don't agree?
  It is a metaphor for life,
  Where mouths are big and speech is free!
  When the pundits all concur,
  You'd better pinch yourself because
  You must be dreaming if that happens. It never does!
  Will you draw your own conclusions,
  Or give up and follow me?
  It's all subjective! Just don't be
  Pretentious — that's the key!
  There's even some people who didn't like Toy Story 3!
• The Critic's review of The Last Airbender:
  • It's detailed in contrasting the series to the flop of an adaptation and boils the flaws of the movie down to two major problems: 1) Every character in the movie has little to no emotion and spouts exposition (which goes against the rules of basic storytelling) and 2) a lot of the changes don't make sense (i.e. keeping the Earthbenders in a quarry instead of a metal ship).
  • When he compares the action sequences, he points out that not only are the movie's effects bad, but it takes a series of repeated movements just to do one trick like throwing a rock when the show's sequences were fast-paced and could do things like that (and a lot more than that) with a single movement.
  • Tearing into Shyamalan's Creative Sterility regarding the poor implementation of bending was a particularly stand-out moment:
    "Is that… really the extent of your imagination, Shyamalan? Is that really the wide range of possibilities that you could pull off with this scenario? Earthbending! Ea— (thumps against table and back wall violently) EARTH! Bending! Taking the elements of EARTH!… The fucking PLANET!… And bending it to your will!… and this is the poor, fuck-ass piece of shit you can come up with? (ecomposes himself) Lemme give you a crash course, or a "reminder" — as someone who has clearly seen the show — what just one, one Earthbender… can do. (Shows a montage of Earthbending powers from the show, which have individual Earthbenders causing earthquakes and tidal waves of rocks) One. That was all one Earthbender, in every single one of those scenes. [...] Have you no passion for possibility? Have you no understanding this… barrel of Miyazaki that you could unleash with this creativity?"
    • What makes the above even more impressive is the fact that it was ad-libbed and borne of genuine anger.
  • He states that in the end, even if the movie is bad, it has not put the franchise in any danger, and in fact, one bad adaptation still doesn't ruin a franchise.
  • His Take That! at Shyamalan for making such a poor adaptation after proclaiming himself to be a huge fan of the show.
  • The Critic sums up why he hates The Last Airbender so much after demonstrating that the whole movie and its characters are pretty much nothing more than vehicles driven by Info Dumping:
    "This isn't me being angry that it's different from the show, this is me being angry that it's missing the most essential element of telling any story: if the character can never express any emotion, why should the audience ever express any emotion? But yes, while we're on the subject, that does make this possibly one of the worst adaptations of all time. A show that created such memorable characters, characters you almost believed were real, you wanted to be real, you wished they were real. Being portrayed as the most stock, boring, empty vessels of just explaining more plot is about as insulting to an adaptation as you can get. By God, it's one of the few times I'm glad the characters I love so much aren't real. Could you imagine them actually seeing how they would be represented in movie form? I fucking cringe!" (Shows a clip from "The Ember Island Players" with the Gaang reacting to footage from the movie in place of the play in that episode.)
• His outrage at a bully in Bridge to Terabithia mocking Leslie's death, and telling Jess that, this time, violence is the answer.
  Critic: (At first sits in his usual spot before entering the recording studio) No-no-no-no-no! No! He did not-! He did not-! He did not-! No! There is joh, and there is no, and that was NO! That was... That was...! NO! No-no! NO! (sits back in his seat and continues talking) Look, normally I'd say violence isn't the answer, but in this test I'd pick answer F as in fuck his ass up. (shows Jess attacking the bully) Don't make him get out his cake decorating kit!
• The new stop-motion Nostalgia-Ween opening for 2013 is EPIC.
• Doug and Rachel's uncannily accurate recreations of Jack Nicholson and Shelley Duvall's performances in The Shining.
  • Hell, Rachel in general. She's basically the heroine of the whole review, figuring out what's wrong with Critic, dealing with his crazy ass, and then snapping him out of it by explaining how the mini-series portrayed Jack better than the film.
• The Devil himself reveals he was disguised as Santa Christ, and takes out Shyamalan.
• In the fourth Nostalgic Commercials episode, Greg Sestero (Mark from The Room) makes an appearance! This marks the third main actor from The Room to endorse NC (the actors playing Lisa and Denny have both stated that they really enjoyed the Critic's review in the past).
  • Considering how the Critic's mother is like, it was pretty awesome that Critic told her to shut up without any repercussions when she asked him when he was getting a job. Also a Funny Moment.
• Whether you like Man of Steel or not, Angry Joe's argument in favor of the movie defending its most controversial moments like John Kent's "maybe" line or Superman killing General Zod. In the former's case, it shows that Jonathan Kent is a normal parent in an extraordinary position, and doesn't have all the answers. In the latter's case, Superman still isn't perfect and he is more human than the Silver Age's supposedly morally perfect Superman, especially when compared to Superman II where he also kills General Zod, albeit via Disney Death and with noticeably less remorse.
  • On top of that, the final scene has a cameo from the Super Hero Cafe.
  • What about Superman saving the Critic by lasering General Zod's testicles off, or, what about the opening song comparing Superman and Batman?
• His EPIC speech after "The Worst Christmas Special EVER" review, where he lets his parents, Rachel, Malcolm, and Jim Jarosz give their opinions on Christmas.

2014 episodes

• At the end of the The Wicker Man (2006) review, it cuts to a bar where we see Brad Jones having a discussion about Nicolas Cage movies with someone. The camera pans over to reveal it is Spoony, in his first video with the Critic since he left the site.
  • You have to admit, before he was forced to do so, you have to give Critic props for his rant about not wanting to talk about the "NOT THE BEES!" scene.
  • And even when it happens, rather than just make the usual jokes, he goes into a serious analysis of why people responded to the scene so much, when there's so many other wacky things in the film and it didn't even appear in the theatrical release.
• In his review of Dragonbored, calling out the Chick Flick Twilight-esque porn of Jimbroth’s creepy stalking Stay in the Kitchen attitude being treated as romantic.
• Given how explosive the Bay rant was in Pearl Harbor, having the stones in “When Is A Movie Just A Movie” to admit the mistake, explain better his criticisms and realize he went too far.
• Chad Rocco's My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic animation in the Ghost Rider (2007) review. More specifically, featuring Ghost Rider Pony and Flutterbat as the equivalent of Blade!
• After an episode of getting humiliated, Tamara torturing Critic offscreen ("making him wish he was dead") in Ghost Dad while singing "Somewhere Over The Rainbow". Both for the singing and Critic actually getting punished for awful behavior.
  • Malcolm's completely spot-on impersonation of Sam deserves special mention.
• The "Tired Oppression Clichés for Tired Free-spirited Whippersnappers" bit in his Alice in Wonderland (2010) review. Specifically, when he calls the film out for its clichéd use of the Born in the Wrong Century trope to make the audience root for Alice without giving her any actual Character Development.
  Critic: This leaves Alice with a mother who is certainly a product of the times, who isn't willing to accept Alice because, of course, she's ahead of her time. And doesn't realize that the "ahead of the times" cliché has been done do many times that it actually makes it behind the times... "Bad Screenwriting 101", guys: a good writer focuses on what a character is, not on what a character isn't. We know that Alice isn't following the norm, isn't as submissive as her peers, and isn't going to be told what to do. Well, okay, that's all fine and good, but what is she, then? Um... blander than bread?
  • And upon realizing that Tim Burton's interpretation of Wonderland was so skewered that even its name isn't Wonderland, but rather Underland, he proceeds to slam the entire movie by saying one phrase: "CARE BEARS IN WONDERLAND IS A BETTER ADAPTATION THAN THIS!", followed by an explanation of why.
  • For anyone upset over Evilina's mistreatment in The Cat in the Hat review, Malice getting pissed off (instead of crying and being told to shut up like the former) at Critic hitting her (with the excuse “it's okay, it's just a dream”) and getting out her knife to tell him to stop.
• His revenge against Jar Jar Binks upon realizing he was the director of Foodfight!.
  "From hell's motherfucking heart, I STAB AT THEE!"
• Defending Hayden Christensen's portrayal of Anakin Skywalker by pointing out that Christensen's bland performance is probably more due to bad directing than bad acting (citing the other actors' performances as well), as the times he's allowed to act with just facial expressions are actually well done.
  • Bringing up the Nostalgia Filter with the original trilogy more than once throughout the review, he points out that many of things that people complain about in the prequels were present in the original trilogy, but people tend to look the other way with them, including the fact that the acting back then wasn't always great either.
• At the end of The Swan Princess, Tamara and Malcolm manipulating Critic into reviewing The Lorax (2012) because they're so bitter about his mistreatment of them.
• Similar to The Last Airbender review's message of 'how a bad adaptation doesn't ruin a great franchise', in The Lorax (2012), we have the Critic calling out the movie for showing nothing that respects the audience as thinking people and how people will be coming back to the books, culminating in:
  Critic: I don't care how many movies you make, how popular they are for the moment, or how often you keep missing the spirit of these great stories, because no matter what you do, people are always gonna keep returning to the books of Dr. Seuss. Not only because they remember them, but because they're worth remembering.
  • He also points out that giving the film a Happy Ending destroys the ambiguity of the original book, akin to revealing that Bambi's mother didn't die, or similar moments left to interpretation like whether or not the top fell down in Inception, what Bill Murray said to Scarlett Johanssen in Lost in Translation, or revealing what was in the briefcase in Pulp Fiction.
• The new live-action opening for "Old vs. New" starting with Spider-Man.
  • The Fangirl completely turning the Critic around on the subject of the films' villains, simply by asking him to quote one line of their dialogue from the Webb films.
  • Malcolm's makeup as Electro deserves some mention too. They actually lit him separately from Tamara, and he continues to glow even during the power surges.
• Let It Go Videos, a wonderfully ironic cover of Frozen's Let It Go lamenting the glut of said covers.
• The reunion of Spoony and Linkara to review Bloodrayne with the Critic, complete with recurring cameos from the Cinema Snob.
  • The title card has a nice bit of design: when viewed on Blip, you can see the sides of Spoony and Linkara's heads, but on the main TGWTG slider, their heads are hidden, keeping up the surprise.
• Getting Rob Paulsen and Maurice LaMarche to voice Pinky and the Brain in the The Purge review.
  • And the content of the scene itself, with Brain furiously telling off Pinky for ruining his plans so many times. When Maurice questions this, Critic accurately says the fans have wanted to see it for years.
  • The commentary makes it even better: Pinky only had two lines in the script, but by this point Paulsen and LaMarche have the characters down so well that Paulsen was able to throw in the occasional interjection, trusting that LaMarche would be able to work off it. They finished the scene in just one take.
• The commentary on the Disney Afternoon episode features Doug and Rob's dad Barney giving trivia on many of the shows and characters featured. He's quite fascinating to listen to, really.
• Critic begging Hyper Fangirl at the end of The Princess Diaries 2 review to see what love really is; it's not about giving people what they want, it's helping them to discover what they need, and there's no point if someone doesn't love them back – essentially his point being that he will never love her and she's Loving a Shadow. It doesn't work because she's insane, but it's a good Ship Sinking. Malcolm was asked his favorite moment of Critic in Midwest Media Expo and he picked this speech because it was such an important message.
  • In the same review, calling out Mia for wasting resources to throw a frivolous slumber party in the palace while there are people in her country who are genuinely in need.
• Rachel's cameo as Evilina in the Ghost Rider 2 review, causing havoc on The Angry Joe Show.
• The Reveal at the end of "Top 11 Worst (By Default) Episodes of Avatar". Dante Basco is doing the next episode, a Top 11 Best Episodes video, right along side him.
  • This reveal gets bonus points for referencing Iroh's reveal from The Legend of Korra.
  • The literal flame war pun in the Top 11 Best Avatar Episodes episode, pitting weird Internet comments against actual flame.
• At the end of Rise Of The Commercials, taunting those who'd get more upset at the thought of him giving blowjobs than making rape jokes about Canada, and gleefully wanting to lose them as viewers.
• The vicious Take That! to Chuck Norris' homophobic rants in recent years while reviewing Forest Warrior, taking every opportunity to make gay Accidental Innuendo about his character.
• The song at the end of the Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer review.
  • His anger at Grandma for not selling her million-dollar store, when she could have used all that money to help those in need.
• While he ends up being considered too harsh, Critic's initial telling Hyper off for everything she's done to him.
  Critic: What the fuck is wrong with you? Do you honestly think these actions will win me over? You break into my home, you kidnap me, you stalk me, I've had it up to fucking Jupiter with you.

2015 episodes

• In Matrix Reloaded, Malcolm finally succeeding in saving Critic for once and blowing up Schmuck up with pretentiousness and a cool-looking katana sword. And while what he says is labelled nonsense, it actually makes sense in a cynical way; you can't escape the past and it makes you what you are but life is full of lying to yourself. Plus he tells Critic after not to underestimate him.
• His Whole-Plot Reference to Dark City at the end of his The Matrix Revolutions review is amazing, just like the film it's referencing.
  • Critic using the Plot Hole and his ruining power to get things back to what passes for normal.
• His Mamma Mia! review is largely him eviscerating the idea of the Girl-Show Ghetto. Namely, he goes out of his way to point out that chick flicks aren't necessarily bad (he goes as far as mentioning that one of the highest grossing movies, as well as arguably the current highest grossing animated film, fit the criteria). The real issue with the genre, he feels, is that film-makers feel they don't have to put a lot of effort because it's "for women" and put nothing particularly "threatening" in as a result.
• From one of his older reviews, the Critic's delightfully unbiased description of the Furry Fandom in his review of the two nostalgic Sonic the Hedgehog shows.
  NC: What’s a furry you may ask? Um, long touchy story. Let’s just say in my Space Jam review when I said there weren’t people out there who’d want to fuck bunnies, I was wrong. Oh, okay, that’s a harsh generalization. But from what I can tell, it’s people who are fascinated by half-animal, half-human creatures. But for some reason centaurs are never on there. What’s up with that? What do you got against the centaurs, huh? Are you anti-centites? Huh? HUH?!
• Calling out the Protagonist-Centred Morality in Daredevil when the leads meet, because Matt is creeping on a woman who doesn't want him and she's fighting a blind guy.
  Critic: Nobody looks good in this situation!
• His vicious jab at the Politically Correct History of The Legend of Zorro: "Yay, we're part of a country that still has slavery!"
• When making a sketch in his Jupiter Ascending review involving a real life trans woman (Lana Wachowski) for the first time, he tackles the inevitable controversy head-on by having everyone break character to argue over whether her being played by a man or a woman is more offensive, before deciding to just keep going with it as a bunch of people are going to get upset no matter what.
  • His speech to her later, making it clear he thinks she's brave but still calling her out the portrayal of women she writes:
  NC (paraphrased): You know, Lana Wachowski, now that you've made the transition into becoming a woman, and you've been very brave coming out about it and trying to raise awareness and really standing up for transsexual rights and I really mean that, in all honesty, good for you, fantastic, wonderful job, you should very proud, but now that you are a woman, don't you think you could write them a bit better?
• Why the Nostalgia Critic is reviewing Jurassic World despite it being in theaters at the time: to Troll the copyright-happy hypocrites who keep on taking down his reviews regardless of content because they're scared of the scrutiny despite the free publicity. And then he really nails it by replacing all of the potential legal claim footage with sketches, so that any complaints have no leg to stand on. That takes not only balls, but dedication.
  • Flashing the poster for The Interview when alluding to Hollywood's own freedom of speech problems. The music even shifts briefly to draw further attention to this.
  • He gives credit where it's due though, getting so excited over the film's climax of The Motherfucking T. Rex and the raptors teaming up to take on the I. Rex that he calls in Jon Bailey of Honest Trailers to narrate it. Bailey gets so into it he even adds a robot T. Rex that breathes fire and gives the original Motherfucking T. Rex the voice of Optimus Prime (in spite of the fact that she's female) to make it more awesome.
  NC: I need a voice as epic as yours to narrate the climax of Jurassic World!
  Jon Bailey: The Motherfuckin' T. Rex scene?
  NC: Mmh Hmm!
  Jon Bailey: DONE.
• In his The Review Must Go On DVD review (obviously being post-Jurassic World episode), calling out those demanding he break one rule but getting angry that he broke another one.
  TRMGO!Critic: I won't do anything still in theatres.
  Critic: Now that one you definitely don't want to break, or a dozen of OCDers will go apeshit on you. Now the rule of never doing another Nostalgia Critic, that was okay to break.
  • At the end, he arrogantly gushes on the special before hoping “the writer doesn’t grow a conscience and make me say it’s only okay”. He then realizes that’s what happened, but his Rage Against the Author fit is interrupted by Doug pausing the footage and closing the review himself. Also awesome as Doug in-universe almost never gets a win.
• Giving General Thade from the Planet of the Apes remake a Confederate flag as a Take That! to the people defending it in the wake of the Charleston Massacre.
  • Malcolm creeping in and giving Critic a Death Glare when he's being racist again, and punching him in the face when he condescendingly boops Malcolm on the nose.
• In Osmosis Jones, Critic calling out the jokes surrounding this "slow" kid for the Unfortunate Implications of how the movie's young film audience would treat their intellectually disabled or struggling peers.
  • The Critic's brain is attacked by the dumbness of a song, so Sadness simply presses a button which triggers the mid-video ad.
  • The final rebuttal to the accusations Inside Out has been getting for being a ripoff of this movie. Jones may have done certain ideas first, but Inside Out did a much better job of fleshing them out and making them fun to watch, and that's ultimately what matters. All five emotions then proceed to eject the tiny Chris Rock out of the Critic's head.
• In "Are Kid Shows Now Better Than Ever", he praises Steven Universe, The Legend of Korra, and Postcards from Buster for showing kids gay and lesbian couples before their minds can be exposed to any homophobia.
• In Garfield, calling out the creepy Dogged Nice Guy-ness of Jon stalking Liz and how millions of fans wanted her to break character and give into him. Also easily serves as shade to the people who want Critic to give into Hyper even though he's said no millions of times.
  • Pointing out that from the way it's moving, the mouse "talking" to Garfield is clearly being tortured by someone waving cheese in front of him.
  • Their parody of a Coen Brother's version of Garfield, with Malcolm's smooth voice narrating, actually looks like a pretty good film.
• At the beginning of the Pixels review, the Adam Sandler impression and song.
  • The app gimmick. Like Doug said in the commentary, while it took far more work and sleepless nights, it's a fun way to make a critiquing point that people will understand.
  • Tamara's rant over how nonsensical the film became once cheat codes were used, since it isn't even explained how they could use them in the real world.
  • The final summation on why Pixels is so reviled: it's 2015 and Adam Sandler has done little to nothing to improve his style of comedy.
  • Obama declaring he's going to head into battle with his men. The Critic even finds that it sounds too legitimately awesome to properly convey the silliness of the scene and goes back to using Kevin James.
• In The Smurfs, for the LGBT Fanbase, Critic confirming that he and Nerd (which has been teased since the beginning) had sex at some point.
• The Bait-and-Switch troll of "When Does A Joke Go Too Far?". To explain, Doug said in the "Rising Tides Crashing Skies" vlog that he intentionally made it "people are too sensitive and should be offended" because he knew he was doing Mad Max: Fury Road the next week and that all the people (i.e meninists and others who abused women online) who agreed with him for the latter would suddenly get offended themselves.
• In the Mad Max: Fury Road review:
  • The meninists that hated the film for having "too many women in it" are portrayed as the villains, and are ripped into even by Devil Boner.
  Devil Boner: And you are [men]?! Christ! If you're the future of being what a man is like, then slap a fucking vagina on me! I'd much rather be a badass like [Curiosa] than whiny little bitches like you! Hey! Here's a thought: If you have to complain about how someone's stealing your manhood, chances are, you never had your manhood to begin with! What are you, five? You're afraid that you're gonna get cooties? And how's that working out for you anyway? Are women just falling at your feet because you bitch and complain about them online? Real chick magnet, guys! You must get laid a lot! You know what, keep living in your mama's basement! Because the grown-ups are gonna make a more badass world and we don't need your crybaby tears pussin' it up!

  • Before that, he clarified that being gay had nothing wrong with it, but they were clearly having deep rage issues against women.
  • When he's starting to get pissed off too. The meninists complain about Happy Feet having the women penguins hunt, and Devil Boner, so done, grits that is literally what happens in reality.
  • What can make this better? The meninists are then sent to war in the women's stead as per "President Obama"'s address and are deployed immediately.
  • Doug's insight in the commentary, that Devil Boner would just consider himself as an ally and let the women lead the feminism, made social justice circles love the character even more.
  • While mocked a lot less, Hyper and her cohorts being told off for only liking men if they're pretty, and really not caring about feminism, just using it as an excuse. Hyper also gets called a punchline and Critic's clearly standoffish with her for what she's done to him, a relief for anyone who felt like Christmas Story II was too heavy on the victim-blaming.
  • The special effects alone make this episode a winner. They're not realistic but for a No Budget web show they're incredible.
  • While, as he lampshades, it was only a chance to look cool and for the audience to catch their breath, Devil Boner getting up from the 'sand' in a slow motion shot.
  • A neat thing is all the gender counterpoints. You've got toxic men like the meninists, and overcompensating bad guys like Improbable Joe, but you've got Critic who would rather have character studies than chase scenes, and Devil Boner who gets Character Development. And you have shallow entitled Hyper and fangirls who just care about pretty over feminism, but also the badass Curiosa who gets shit done and defends her movie with no fuss.
  • Curiosa in general. Not just that she's badass or that Jim made a prosthetic arm for Tamara, but because she's one of the rare characters in the “debate episodes” that actually gets to have her say and isn't just straw for Critic to vent at.
  Curiosa: Just because there's no detail, doesn't mean there's no answers.
  • Critic pointing out to the meninists that the first film had Max appearing even less than in Fury Road and talking about his feelings.
  • Critic getting out of his chains, and escaping by distracting the fanboys with a reminder that a 'girl's film' beat their manly movie.
  • Devil Boner's response to Hyper's flirty asking if he's a feminist. Never has a "I'm whatever you want me to be" sounded so appealingly submissive but also badass.
  • Critic is obviously in Max's position throughout the review, and Devil Boner is clearly meant to be Nux, but they have their own context that still fit what they're satirizing: Critic's PTSD is about Hyper, and Devil Boner is labelled a Category Traitor just for not hating women.
• Kiki's (played by Dayna, Doug's ex) Big Damn Heroes moment in the Hocus Pocus review.
  • Doug as Bette Midler has more screentime than Doug as Critic, and it's not hard to see why as he's scarily accurate as her. He even manages to do a convincing female singing voice.
  • Much like the Fury Road review, The Critic manages to review a movie without even reviewing it by creating a compelling story replicating moments from the movie for the Critic to criticize.
  • The subversion of "Critic against the world", as he thinks all the other producers are getting sucked into the movie and he's the only one against it, but they tell him they're not brainwashed, just enjoying a silly film.
• The Nostalgia Critic reviewing the Segata Sanshiro commercials, especially when he calls the guy "like Chuck Norris, just take out the homophobe stuff".
  • Don Bluth intimidating the Critic throughout Conquest of the Commercials with nothing but a Death Glare.
  • Even better? Most guest stars usually intimidate Critic through a variety of means, whether it be using embarrassing clips, terrifying him by their sadism, or manipulating him. Don Bluth doesn't use such tactics nor does he need to. All he does is just look, only once say that he's waiting for Critic to do something.
  • The fact that he even got him for the episode is pretty awesome in itself.
    • To top it off, his death glare makes a reappearance during the "Cinderella" debate, which creeps out both Critic and Hyper.
  • Calling out the "ayds" commercial for being grossly ignorant, as this was done in the mid-eighties when the AIDS crisis was in full swing, and whether they knew or were just bizarrely naive it's still shitty.
  • While a joke (because it's a girl and her barbie), averting Double Standard: Rape, Female on Female and getting annoyed because even girls and their female partners need consent with each other.
• In We Wish You A Turtle Christmas, Tamara not breaking under Critic's abuse, still snarking at him and calling him an asshole even when she's being used as a footstool.
• In Christmas With The Kranks, actually playing the Hocus Pocus review to prove to 2007!Critic (and fans that complained) that he can say plenty about the film without using the clips.
  • Calling out the movie for its Unfortunate Implications, cliches, waste of any use for a plot, lack of decency, and asshole characters who the viewers are intentionally supposed to like.
    Critic!As Jamie Lee Curtis character: Through your constant harassment, you came through after we gave you exactly what you wanted. Cheers, assholes!
  • Tamara with a bow and arrow. She loved it and you can't exactly blame her.
  • In a dark way, Tamara getting back at the Critic for his treatment of her in the last episode, gleefully inducing unconsciousness by replaying a seizure-inducing edit over and over.
  • Pointing out that "skits only exist in reboot" is inaccurate, bringing up the Nerd/Critic feud, the crossovers and the anniversary specials that all existed and were popular in prime.
• In The Force Awakens, Tamara as Rey is perfect in how she looks (already looking a bit like Daisy Ridley anyway), acts and talks.
  • Tamara-Rey runs off after getting scared like in the film, and an offscreen voice calls her a "Mary Sue" right at this moment, showing how stupid that argument is.

2016 episodes

• In Tangled vs Frozen, calling Hyper (who the video pops up with as someone believing what she sees in Disney) "not a person, that's a nuisance" with no apology or punishment.
• The Critic's editorial on Goofy, in which he explains that there is more to Goofy than his reputation as a bumbler would have you believe; in his 1940s and '50s cartoons, he was one of the most hilarious and violent Disney characters of all time. What particularly makes this awesome is not just that the Critic was bringing up a side of Goofy so long ago abandoned, but also that Bill Farmer, the current voice of Goofy, and Jason Marsden, the voice of Goofy's son Max in A Goofy Movie, both praised the video via Twitter.
• With all the frustration on Twitter about unhelpful changes but not actually getting rid of abusive users, Critic in Labyrinth calling out how useless abuse reports are on that site.
  • She's tantrumming, but pigtails baby screaming how much her parents suck, considering her brother and Hyper are both conditioned to think they're great.
• In The Phantom of the Opera (2004), Critic calling Hyper out on only wanting the lead in the play so she can try to get him again, and when she tries to say at the end that she's the one in the right, calmly tells her he remembers things differently.
  • Beth's Incredibly Long Note in “Fandumb Of The Opera”. The Fan Dumb even tells her she's singing way too well. According to the commentary, Doug had always wanted to do his own Phantom movie and this scene was what he imagined. He also spent a whole day working on the editing for just those few minutes.
  • Doug switching from Hollywood Tone-Deaf as the Fan Dumb to his operatic voice as the Critic. Even Beth in the commentary melted.
  • Beth wrote most of the songs (except for “Texts” and “Point Of Epic Burns”), and not only do they match the musical, but they also give a load of character insight.
• In The Adventures of Pluto Nash, calling out Eddie Murphy for defending Bill Cosby at the time of everyone knowing what had happened, and telling people to look it up because it's a real thing he did.
  • Pointing out the misogyny of a long needless joke about how Rosario Dawson needs a bigger ass and boobs.
  • Tamara calling out the Double Standard of how Critic can half ass anything and still be fanned over, but they're never allowed.
• In the Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice review, Angry Joe's rant towards "Zack Snyder" in regards to killing Superman too early and not putting any effort into the man of steel himself.
  "Zack Snyder": Thus, we've combined the most famous Batman and Superman stories into one emotional package, giving you exactly what you've always wanted to see.
  (Angry Joe politely stands up and dusts off his shoulders... then roars out a massive NOOOOO!!!)
  Angry Joe: You know what I wanna see!?
  "Zack Snyder": No?
  Angry Joe: I wanna see the Justice League at his funeral, but now I can't! I wanna see a hero slowly stripped of his life in the ultimate battle instead of just being stabbed in one swoop, but now I can't! I wanna build a connection with this Superman the same way he built a connection with me in hundred of stories, but now I can't! I want to fear that this might be the time that Superman doesn't make it back, but now I can't! How many comics were there before Superman died?
  "Zack Snyder": (clearly terrified) I dunno.
  Angry Joe: Hundreds! Thousands! And how many movies did you make with him?
  "Zack Snyder": (still scared) Two.
  Angry Joe: TWO! You killed him in two movies and you barely even focused on him! You know what I want to see? I want to see you earn Superman's death! This isn't fuckin' Jimmy Olsen, this is goddamn Superman! He deserves your time and respect!
  • The Nostalgia Critic ripping into Lois' character arc as being nothing more than her being useless at best and worthless at worst, as her two major moments are revealing something everyone already knows and failing at retrieving a MacGuffin that she herself threw away.
  • The opening is legitimately epic, with Critic and Angry Joe facing off in the rain backed with great music.
  • While she's not in it very much (much like the film) Tamara looks badass as Wonder Woman.
  • Zack Snyder, even when he's cowed by two aggressive men, managed to beat the shit out of them once they say that they only busted into his office to write the next movie.
• In the Pixels commentary, Doug pointing out that the anti-clipless people demand he go back to the old days... of reviewing Transformers, Harry Potter and Cloverfield.
• Much like the review, a good third of the Fury Road commentary is bashing Meninists (with added mocking that for a group that doesn't exist, they sure are around a lot), Malcolm admitting he drew from experiences of watching dudes like that at cons, Rob sarcastically going on that as a white man he has it much harder than Malcolm or Tamara, and Doug saying that any problems men go through are dwarfed by what other groups have.
• Obligatory Joke sure, but Malcolm as Blade both looks and sounds exactly like Wesley Snipes.
  • The opening scene is also pretty awesome, making various It Will Never Catch On jokes at the expense of Marvel and DC.
• The Critic and Hyper Fangirl spend a whole episode debating which version of "Cinderella" is better: The Disney animated version or the live-action version. Which do they agree is the best Cinderella movie? The Drew Barrymore movie "Ever After." Also getting Devil Boner and Benny's opinions, and the four's individual reasons for liking the movie all fit their characters.
  • Like in Doug's Disneycember and the Sibling Rivalry, the episode has Critic defending the old one's strength, and how relatable it is that the abuse started when she was a child, as she's been brainwashed to feel like she deserves it.
  • You've also got to give Hyper credit in this episode. Rather then just being a Straw Character meant to represent the "Wrong" opinion, she raises several good points defending the remake.
  • While she ignores it (and calls starting-a-war Devil Boner "a more sensible love"), Critic calling Hyper out on deciding that she loved him without ever knowing him.
  • The highlight of the episode is when the Critic sits back and lets Hyper Fangirl repeat everything everyone's been saying about old Cinderella being weak and then calmly tears her argument to pieces, once again turning her into a blubbering mess.
  • Hyper Boner as a couple. Doug has said loads of times that he hates the True Love Is Boring trope, and they manage to be completely in love and still interesting because they're both totally insane.
• Is White Washing Really Still a Thing?:
  • Pointing out the flaw in thinking that no Asian-American actors are big names by mentioning just a few movies that made their actors stars, like Daniel Radcliffe in Harry Potter, Daisy Ridley and John Boyega in The Force Awakens, or Christopher Reeve in Superman: The Movie.
  • Discussing how race lifting a white male to a black male or female is not the same as vice versa, because we're nowhere near equal yet and there are tons of white male characters around, while not so much POC characters?
  • Talking about how a lot of POC characters in cartoons were voiced by white people (like Aladdin and Apu) and we shouldn't have let that slide.
  • Bringing up the trend of having non-American actors (such as from Britain) play major American characters (i.e., Andrew Garfield as Spider-Man or Henry Cavill as Superman).
  • Criticizing The Lord of the Rings for not casting little people as the leads, and only having them when you can only see the back of their heads. Also talking about the Skewed Priorities of complaining about changes from the book, and not for wasting a chance for representation. Plus he talks later on about we should get more trans actors playing trans characters, and disabled actors playing disabled characters.
  • He also notes that at some point, expecting all roles to be done by actors with the same identity as a character isn't realistic due to availability of certain kinds of actors.
  • His sum-up, saying you can totally be (and should be) offended at whitewashing, but you should also recognize that you've probably let it (or height-washing, or cis people playing trans characters, or able-bodied people playing disabled characters) slide in the past. The point is to get better, and to use media to inform of more opportunities — even though things will likely remain complicated for a long time to come, if Donald Trump's presidential candidacy, and with it his anti-Mexican, anti-Muslim agenda, is any indication.
  • Defending Cloud Atlas with the fact that the Wachowskis are trans women and if anyone can know about feeling like you don't belong in a body it's them, but also mentioning that if trans people and other races are offended by the film, that's okay too, and the Wachowskis probably shouldn't have to be the "official voices on the subject".
• Critic bashing Jem and the Holograms (2015) for being terrible, insulting to the fans, and being completely unfaithful to the 80s cartoon is always great to watch, but the best is yet to come. He reveals that the creators gave the fans a chance to be in the movie. All they had to do was make a video of themselves praising the cartoon to high heavens and why they love it so much. And then the creators edited the footage to make it look like the fans were praising the film even though they hadn't seen it yet, the ultimate "F' You" to the fans you could imagine. His response is so satisfying.
  Critic: Wow, that... is low!... This is like asking people to make videos saying why they love Star Wars and then suddenly editing it to make it look like you're talking about The Phantom Menace. It's not just cruel; it's a slap in the friggin' face!
  • When the lead lampshades that if you think that girls under one roof would argue then you're sexist, he shows them literally arguing about what clothes to wear and then says "it's like a 36 year old man wrote this".
• The Scooby-Doo 2 review has a mystery involving the Critic trying to figure out who gave him the DVD. Like the movie's mystery, it's freaking obvious whodunit, with an obvious villain and people who are attempted to be shown as the villains but don't fool anyone. At least, that's what the Critic wants you to think. If you pay careful attention, you'll notice this isn't actually the case with 3 easy to miss clues (First, the DVD case changing, with Jules (Tamara) having the case Roger tried to give the Critic in her shirt, second, after an anvil tries to crush the critic, Jules is pushing a pair of scissors underneath a couch with her foot, and third, while Roger tells them to "write this down", referring to the culprit's name, and says Roger over and over, Jules does write something down... her own name. This entire thing is just to give the audience what the movie did not, an actual good mystery, which the Critic succeeded in doing perfectly.
  • What makes this twist particularly awesome is the fact that it's presented as the classic gag of various fake clues being spread around the episode that wasn't really there. Obviously one's going to think "oh that's a funny joke" and then for a little laugh they'll replay the scenes only to find out no, those were actually legitimate clues presented in the episode! And only a rare number of fans were able to pick them up because they were so convinced that this was a simple spoof mystery. Doug, you Magnificent Bastard!
• His defense of Amadeus, explaining in detail all the supposed "inaccuracies" the film actually got right and suggesting how to respond to haters who dismiss it as "inaccurate":
  Doug: If anybody tells you you shouldn't enjoy it because of its "inaccuracies," you can tell them that your reason for liking it simply has too many notes for them to understand.
  • Also Uncle Lies getting a come-uppance for being a Know-Nothing Know-It-All.
• The Alvin and the Chipmunks review ends with a Shot-for-Shot Remake of the "Girls and Boys of Rock 'n' Roll" musical number from The Chipmunk Adventure, in which the Critic and his two male friends argue with the Aww Girls over which movie is better.
  • The girls replace the already surprisingly cool "you're living in a man's world, they tell us. But we ain't gonna buy it, the things they'll try to sell us now!" with "you're living in a past world, you dinosaur. You're more dated than a calendar, your films don't mean dick anymore now!" calling Critic and fanboys like him out on Nostalgia Filter gatekeeping.
  • In the behind the scenes, they struggle with choreography on the part where they all actually have to dance together, until Malcolm (who does a lot of dancing in his spare time) directs it himself to help them out.
• In a week of the Awesome Comics women (and Doug) and Leslie Jones getting a ton of abuse for enjoying/being in Ghostbusters Answer the Call, Tamara's Never Seen of The Secret Of NIMH has her wondering deadpan if the film got abuse for having a strong female lead as that tends to happen.
• In Ghostbusters, Rachel's cameo as Evilina, standing for all the little girls who loved the movie and making the meninists actually give a shit about women for once.
  • The Nostalgia Critic managing to defuse the situation with the warring factions by spraying Ecto Cooler and then proceeding to say his opinion: it's average.
  • Like with a lot of clipless parodies, Tamara, Aiyanna, Heather and KJ look pitch perfect as the female Ghostbusters.
  • When the meninists come in, Critic calls them out on "meninism" not being a real thing, and if they were so anxious to feel oppressed that they just joined the first group they saw.
  • Critic telling the people who say the reboot ruined their childhood that they never had a childhood to begin with.
  • Small but good, the Chicago Ghostbuster reminding people that a "Ghostbuster doesn't discriminate".
  • There's something pretty great and fitting to the movie that he gets the only female Ghostbuster to spray the ecto-cooler and calm everyone down.
  • Talking about the Double Standard in how something like Batman gets rebooted all the time and people are happy discussing what version they like best, but a parallel universe version of the Ghostbusters gets "destroyed my childhood".
  • In the behind the scenes, Doug mocking sexists again by teasing the Chicago Ghostbusters with "you're not the real Ghostbusters, you have a giiiirl".
• The ending of "Was That Real: Teddy Ruxpin". The whole episode is Critic, having been made to do this, being scared that he's going to have a run-in with the titular bear. The ending is he gets to his car and after all that build-up… nothing happens. He says he built up fear in his head while there was no danger and "that's life", and it's a pretty good Aesop for anxiety sufferers.
• The opening of the Wild Wild West review. Not only does the film look really good, but the fact that it stars a "black man who was always written as a black man" and a "woman who was always written as a woman" is treated as a good thing. Not only that, but the fact that the Nostalgia Critic was able to criticize a common fallacy within the movie industry (namely how unoriginal they are) with a purely original story is epic.
  • He's really disgusted (like to the point of looking like he's going to throw up) when the film shoves in a scene about women and children getting used as target practice, and then follows it up with sexist jokes about Hayek's ass.
  • Expressing hatred towards Will Smith's character for not caring that Hayek's character is getting abused.
• In The THIRD Animated Titanic Movie, there's a transphobic joke about a doll who acts like he's cursed because a girl owner made him look like a girl, and Critic calls it right out.
• His "Does PG Mean Anything Anymore?" editorial has a few:
  • Claiming that marketing merchandise for films like Robocop 1987 and Terminator 2: Judgment Day to children is "a little messed up".
  • Calling out the shoehorned-in "adult" jokes in movies like Casper, How the Grinch Stole Christmas! and The Cat in the Hat which were mainly inserted to Avoid the Dreaded G Rating.
  • Pointing out that many of the great films were rated G, and used the limitations of said rating to their advantage, and could still be intense.
  • Calling out the classic Double Standard of films getting away with a PG-13 or even PG rating despite being incredibly violent, whilst profanity and sexual references will lead to an R rating, specifically noting that the film Love Is Strange received an R rating despite its sexual content being limited to a gay couple kissing and sleeping together fully clothed.
  • Pointing out that the rating has nothing to do with box office success, citing that Toy Story and Deadpool (2016) were successful in fields stereotypically considered box office poison (a G-rated animated film and an R-rated superhero film, respectively) because these were good.
    • To that end, he concludes that Inside Out should be rated G (not PG) and Drag Me to Hell should be rated R (not PG-13), and that they should be glad to be rated G and R. Also, he thinks that the critically-panned live-action version of Mr. Magoo is so bad that it should be rated NC-17 (not PG) and not be shown at all.
  • Cutting off the expected reaction by saying the rating system isn't Political Overcorrectness, because a PC rating system would actually make sense.
• 2016's Nostalgiaween starts off with a perfect Gravity Falls parody, with Critic as Grunkle Stan, Aiyanna as Wendy, Malcolm as Dipper and Tamara as Mabel.
• At the end of Dreamcatcher, Critic fucks up by thinking Chester was an alien and "that explains everything", and Chester actually rips into him for being so ableist.
  Chester: You really think all of my mental problems are cos I was an alien, huh? No no I get it, it can't be because of how I was born or because of my environment, clearly being an alien explains it just as well!
  • Earlier on, Tamara and Malcolm getting their own back for Idiot Ball writing when Critic starts complaining about catchphrases.
  Tamara: I don't remember those.
  Critic: Well I remember it so you don't have to… damnit!
  Tam/Malcolm: [cute grins] Our work here is done.
  • Tamara getting away from evil Film Brain by distracting him with a phone call. Extra cathartic because he threatened Malcolm like she was a helpless girl.
• In Freddy vs Jason, Malice returning after more than two years away and stabbing Dorothy with a particularly devious Psychotic Smirk.
  • Devil Boner winning his battles against Chester and Santa Christ by nonchalantly shooting each. His refusal to shoot Hyper is awesome in its own way as well.
  • Critic calling out the white male writers for writing a black female teenager so shittily.
  Critic: White people, can we not white people today? I need a break from us.
  • Insulting Trump and Mike Pence for being recorded saying awful things, and their supporters for denying it.
• In TMNT 2, Despite getting replaced with the more smiley Aiyanna, Tamara telling Angry Nerd, Critic and Black Nerd off twice for being sexist and stupid.
  • Malcolm saving the day from Bay and Snyder by turning into a platypus bunny and breathing fire at them.
• In "Battle Of The Commercials", while he's mocking it, pointing out how ridiculous it is that there's a equal pay PSA nearly killing Batman and women still don't get paid enough. Even Tamara had that segment as one of her favorites.
  • Tamara as 11 from Stranger Things, breaking a 90s kid's neck with her psychic powers for Eggo Waffles.
  • When Batman is being a dick to tied up Batgirl (who wanted equal pay), Eleven comes in and kills him for her, and they have a nod of mutual "men sucking".
• In "Unlimited Beers", Rachel and Tamara talk about Doug learning (and he was pretty good in Demo Reel anyway, being the first director to let Rachel be a casual-clothes-wearing badass) about the sexist stuff they have to go through, and adjusting behavior accordingly.
  • Tam and Rach talking about how money works to people who don't get it, that just because they're with CA and get paid properly, it's only two days a month and they still need other jobs.
  • Rachel and Tamara talking about the Double Standard in the comments, as while Doug and Malcolm get comments on other stuff than their looks (and despite Doug getting creeped on at cons he doesn't have to worry about how he dresses up) while they often get "you looked hot/not hot in this".
• While reviewing Inspector Gadget Saves Christmas, Critic bemoans not only Cree Summer not voicing Penny in this special, but the character once again not getting the credit she deserves. Cue this animated segment.
  Penny: Greetings, people of the world. For years you've been under the assumption that my uncle, Inspector Gadget, was a respected detective for the Metro City police force. This was all just a cunning ruse. Did you really think such a bumbling dick with the voice of Don Adams could accomplish super-impossible feats and still be human?! For God's sake, he has a fucking helicopter in his head! And yet nobody questions where the hell his brain is. I created the Gadget-9000 prototype, and you dumb-asses fell for it. And now that I've created artificial life, I shall unleash it on an unsuspecting world! Your tanks and stealth bombers are no match for the hellfire I'm about to unleash! Do you know how difficult it was to constantly be in the shadows as that incompetent shit got all the credit!? I compressed the entire internet into my textbook, taught a canine how to simulate human speech, and created the Apple watch before Steve Jobs was out of his mother's basement! Gimme another 10 years! I would've created a fucking Matrix, complete with a Keanu Reeves that can actually act. You thought the real enemy was M.A.D., but they were merely a distraction. As long as Gadget and Claw fought, the police were always occupied. For you see, I was foiling M.A.D.'s plans so that when the time came, I could seize control of your governments, your thermonuclear warheads, your lives! I am Penny! Mother of gadgets, breaker of brains, I will take back the honor that was stolen from me and destroy those who stand in my way! (Sweetly) Isn't that right, Uncle Gadget?
  Terminator!Gadget: Wow-zers.
  Penny: Penny for your thoughts, bitches?
  Cree Summer: Does that work?
  Nostalgia Critic: Yeah but, you were supposed to just say "Ooh, I don't like that Uncle Gadget."
  Cree: Yeah, not anymore.
  Critic: Okay.
  • Even better, they recorded Cree Summer at a con off an iPad. Her read of Penny's monologue is still flawless. That's why the lady's a pro, folks.
  • More props for making Penny swear and not having it sound forced.
  • Likewise, Doug's voice for Parody!Claw is almost spot-on with Frank Welker's.
• In I'll Be Home for Christmas, the last ten minutes are essentially "love trumps hate", but he gets the nuance, that people have a right to be angry and to fight and to be scared, but to also show love and the best empathy you can.
• In the Snob crossover Dear Santa, how annoyed Critic gets at the homophobic stereotypes.

2017 episodes

• In the in-between of Balto, Doug reveals that their May review of Suicide Squad (2016) is going to premiere in a real theatre. The way the little pigtailed girl constantly calls out Aunt Despair on her story not making sense, considering we usually just see the kids comply with or cower from her awful behavior.
• His editorial on "Should Bad Singers Should Be Dubbed". Doug is musically trained (as well as having a mother who sang in opera) so it's a chance for him to show off a subject he knows about.
• His review of Fant4stic has a good deal of these...
  • Calling out the teacher's Arbitrary Skepticism, pointing out that even if the teleportation looked fake, there was still a sonic boom that destroyed the basketball hoop that couldn't have been faked.
  • Indicating that the Darker and Edgier tone doesn't work when the villain is still named Victor Von Doom. ^note The character was going to be renamed into Victor Domashev, but was changed back during reshoots.
  • Pointing out the sexism in the plot point to have Ben come with Reed, Victor and Johnny instead of Sue, despite the fact that Sue worked as hard as the latter three on the teleporter whilst Ben literally did nothing.
• Considering how misogynist his fandom can be (which both Doug and women who have worked with him have pointed out), explaining Stuffed in the Fridge in his editorial about The Killing Joke.
• In the Walkers' 50 Shades Freed review, annoyed at Ana for having no trauma about it, Doug talks in decent detail about how if he were grabbed and held at knifepoint in a sexual room, he wouldn't be able to deal with anything sexual or even look at anything in the room.
• Critic in the Suicide Squad (2016) review (in the position of Rick Flag) refusing to say Amanda Waller was right about making the Suicide Squad when she chose the Enchantress, who went rogue to try to take over the world, to be part of the team.
  • The Critic defending the Joker's lack of Mad Love towards Harley Quinn by saying that this is an interesting place to take them. This, while still acknowledging he treats her terribly.
  • Aiyanna displays an impressive Evil Laugh as Harley, with her eyes changing to skulls for good measure.
  • Harley subverting being a Faux Action Girl, and Critic defending her when everyone assumes she's just there to be fanservice.
  • Malcolm does a perfect little girl's voice, even better than Doug's.
• Critic has reviewed every Transformers film (dating back to his very first video), but by this point he's gotten sick of how each film is basically the same. So for the latest film, he's decided to do a "non-review", seeing if he can predict every plot point for the new movie and calling on his audience to tell him if his predictions were accurate. He admits up front that non-reviews like this are not something he intends to do often (or even again), but it's nice to see him stand for his principles and to call this franchise that arguably started his career out on the floor for laziness.
  • Calling out how samey the reboots and sequels coming out of Hollywood have become.
  • Critic cited Michael Bay's quote that people can complain about Transformers all they want, because they're still going to see them. "I don't want to give money to that idea!"
  • Even better, fans in the comments who actually did see the film said Critic's predictions were right, minus some little details.
• In Wonder Woman (2017), calling out the obnoxious male ally for telling the woman she wasn't allowed to enjoy the film, as it happens in real life (and Rob/Doug brought up in their Sibling Rivalry).
  • "You may be awesome, but you're not "eating hand cake next to Wonder Woman playing electric guitar" awesome."
  • Fitting for a scene that Doug thought was the best and summed up the film, but Tamara as Wonder Woman in No Man's Land captured the original perfectly.
  • Aiyanna and Heather as the Amazons telling Batman and Superman off for refusing to do anything not dark and greyscale.
• Talking in Cats Don't Dance about even if they didn't intend it, it's a good lesson for kids about how minorities in Hollywood have been shit on in the past and have come a long way (even though there can still be racial biases.)
• In Hulk, when the girlfriend has a dream of her boyfriend as her dad choking her, he doesn't even make a joke, he tells anyone dating anyone that if they hear that from their partner, run.
• The song sung by imitation!Nicolas Cage — equal parts Large Ham and Badass Boast — from The Teaser to The Sorcerer's Apprentice is truly something to behold.
  Nicolas Cage: PRAAAAIISE ME! I'M CRAAAAZY!
  Oh, God! OH MY GOOOD, NOT THE BEES!
  Whoa, whoa! Nicolas Cage, I am
  The Nicolas Cage, hot damn
  You've just been upstaged
  I laugh and I rage and I break every gauge, Nick Cage
  I'm on a rampage, Nick Cage
  Deranged, Cage
  I scream "Hallelujah", A-B-C-D-E-F-G-H!
  Nick Cage! It's my golden age! Ridiculous
  Nicolas Cage! Your sage, your sorcerer-mage, Nick Cage!
  MY NAME IS... Wait for it...
  Nicolas Cage!
• Removing Saphira's dialogue from scenes in Eragon, showing how much more interesting the movie would be without hearing the dragon's thoughts.
• He calls out Kangaroo Jack for teaching young boys that assertiveness and force towards women who they like are the same thing.
  • Shooting off Kangaroo Jack's head was also pretty awesome.
• The end of the Green Lantern (2011) review, where Hyper appears to let Deadpool (actually, an annoying Deadpool cosplayer touch her boobs, and Devil Boner comes out of nowhere and beats the shit out of him with a baseball bat. He then uses Deadpool's severed finger to propose to Hyper.
  Devil Boner: This! Is what! You get! When you touch! My! fiancee!!!
• Hyper literally shooting down the obsessive fans in the opening of the It (2017) review.
  • Critic completing the Batman women trifecta with a perfect impersonation of Poison Ivy's "hello boys".
  • When Skarsgård!Pennywise and Curry!Pennywise ask Critic which one of them is better, Critic informs the two that he's not the right person to decide, but knows someone who is. He pulls at his face to reveal himself as the Joker from the animated series.
  Joker: You should be both! Do you know how many incarnations of the Joker there's been? Tons! And do you know what the best ones have in common?
  Skarsgård!Pennywise: They're not Jared Leto?
  Joker: (annoyed) ...Yes. And they were both scary AND funny! Don't choose one, be both! As the world's most famous killer clown would tell you: It's best to go out on a scream AND a laugh!
  • In general the ongoing sketch "Almost Got It" is handled very cleverly, but special mention goes to the ending.
  Curry!Pennywise: Hey, Wasn't I originally up for your role?
  Joker: Woop! Gotta go! *Jumps out the window as he does his Signature Laugh*
  Maurice: ...Were you really up for his role?
  Curry!Pennywise: Yes... and I Almost Got "It".
• The Angry Video Game Nerd chastises the Tom Cruise version of The Mummy for not even teasing the other films in the Dark Universe effectively, saying at least the Marvel movies showed you something like Thor's hammer to get you hyped. The Critic is so disheartened that the Nerd leaves him another movie as an apology... and it's a Blu-Ray of Dragonball Evolution. Sinister music plays and the Nerd smirks at the camera as if to say "Now THAT'S how you do it!"
• Malcolm cuts the fat and just tries to straight-up shoot Dragonball Evolution with a gun! Critic and the others stop him, but they sympathize. "...He's a big fan."
  • They also get Kyle Hebert to reprise his role as DBZ's narrator, and have him do a narrator duel with Jon Bailey of Honest Trailers. Hebert wins. "He was here first."
• In "War of the Commercials", the Critic takes a moment to point out that Miss Piggy's behavior at the end of the Warburtons commercial is sexual harassment, and that her female and Muppet-pig status does nothing to excuse it. He name-drops Weinstein negatively too.
• In the intro for his Rapsittie Street Kids: Believe in Santa review, Critic (with help from Malcolm and Tamara), in an attempt to prove that he has the most Christmas spirit, slaughters an entire race of Christmas-themed Xenomorph-esque aliens who claim to have more Christmas spirit than him offscreen. And then we watch him messily slaughter their queen, with a Christmas-themed sword no less!
  • Also calling out more sexual harassers (Al Franken in this case) and the "if he bullies you that means he likes you" logic.
• In Home Alone 2: Lost in New York review, he acknowledges that Macaulay Culkin can't be entirely blamed for his wooden performance as he was shot into super-stardom and treated as an idol as a result of the first film, which understandably burned out his desire to give a passionate performance.
  • In terms of skit material, Chester and Doe calling out Aunt Despair and Uncle Lies on being shitty caretakers and protecting Bum Jr is cathartically awesome.
  • Sexual harassers get insulted again for the third main episode in a row, with Trump admitting sexual assault played over his cameo (extra good as he's trying to not discuss but still had to call out) and beforehand listing just a few abusers in Hollywood who need slapping. Rule of Three has him celebrating the MeToo movement getting on The Times.
  • Critic calling out the movie for picking an idealized version of homelessness, pointing out that a woman who got her heart broken isn't as representative as someone who was mentally ill or had been abused.

2018 Episodes

• A very rare call out of a Dr. Seuss story in Horton Hears a Who!, with Critic (canon child abuse victim if you remember) getting offended as the kid's reasoning for not talking is "disappointing his dad" and he points out that mutism is usually caused by abuse and Seuss needed to read a child psychology book.
• There's a new intro for this season too, which credits everyone in the cast alongside clips of them and a couple of notable sketch characters, once again ending on Critic walking coolly out of an explosion.
• Hyper and Devil Boner share the first onscreen mouth-to-mouth kiss in the show's ten-year history at their wedding in Chipwrecked. Even other characters in romantic relationships never got that privilege!
  • Devil Boner obviously can't say anything to Uncle Lies/Aunt Despair at his wedding, but the barely restrained rageface at them is so great considering Hyper can't see how awful they are.
  • Hyper Boner's vows being literally "I want you!" in a way making it clear that they still have a… healthy sex life was awesome and sweet all at once.
• In Maleficent, he's livid at the charming good fairies in the original being portrayed as catty bitches who are terrible parents.
  • On that note, the Critic explaining why going the Wicked route with Maleficent doesn't work—the original Wicked Witch of the West was a two-dimensional, thuggish, Hate Sink with no likable or sympathetic qualities, so depicting her as an intelligent, charming, charismatic woman who was blamed for everything because 1. she was different and 2. she didn't always know how to fight back is actually compelling. By contrast, Maleficent was already intelligent, charming and charismatic, so trying to pull the same thing with her doesn't work.
• The Spirit is filled with misogyny, and he tries to get it all, but he saves special mention for how the lead is constantly macking on every woman he sees when he already has a partner.
• In Deadpool 2, Rick and Deadpool are both sjw-hating dicks (to show they’ll be not so entertaining in real life) but Doug ripping on himself mercilessly for being an Extreme Doormat was cathartic.
• In July 2018, She-Ra and the Princesses of Power came out, and sexists who clearly didn't care about the original She-Ra: Princess of Power (a Merchandise-Driven show with Limited Animation) suddenly acted like their childhood had been ruined because the rebooted one had less cleavage. So with that context, Critic in Bartok the Magnificent mocking that with:
  Critic: There's a lot of female dragons aren't there? And while I never cared about this until now, my gender feels demeaned!
• In Fox Kids, instead of Critic talking about stuff Doug was too old for, he gets Heather and Walter in to talk about shows like Power Rangers and actually takes a back seat while they give their thoughts. They also get writing credit.
  • As well as Critic being forced to take a back seat to people who know more, Tamara taking his hat off and giving him a Dope Slap when he’s pissy about Power Rangers. Fans of the show appreciated her.
• In the Ghostbusters II review, after realising that the plot actually started after half an hour, he decides to do his own take on the intro that saves time without losing the essential details. His take? The Ghostbusters are down on their luck as they were getting sued due to the damages caused by Stay-Puff and with Gozer gone there are no ghosts for them to bust, making them lose credibility. Cut forward five years later where they are currently handling the court case-where Walter Peck is gleefully testifying against them in court- the new ghosts suddenly make their debut which results in a new mystery as Gozer is gone. This effectively takes around seven minutes, effectively cutting time without losing any detail.
  NC: THERE! I FIXED THE MOVIE!
  • Following up on that, Peter and Dana are actually happily married instead of being exes, meaning that the romance doesn't have to be redone and Dana has more motivation to help, probably resulting in her donning the suit and joining the team with Tully and Janine looking after the baby as promised. There’s also Oscar being the son of both of them and not just Dana, furthering investment in Venkman and the audience.
  • The editing and music perfectly transitioning the end of the courtroom scene into the title feels completely professional and real. It’s hard not to get chills from it.
• The 2018 Nostalgiaween intro is a wild ride, with Critic in place of animated Beetlejuice and Tamara as Lydia who turns into Hyper.
• Escape Of The Commercials doesn't have a cursed PSA, but it does have an extremely problematic 70s ad where they say innocence is the sexiest in their bid to sell body lotion. Critic/Doug vents his spleen about how disgusting it is, because nobody should be equating child innocence with sexiness.
• While the insecurity about only being liked because he's loud is still there, Critic in "The Most Hated Nutcracker Movie Ever Made" realizing he's genuinely gone a year without saying the f word, and people still pay attention to him. According to Tamara, Doug casually directed them for takes without the word, and they didn’t realize what he was doing until they saw this script.
  • To build on this, Rachel has spent the entire review making a Darker and Edgier reboot of "Home Alone", claiming that people can only like a movie for shock value. She makes a comparison that people only like Critic's videos for his use of the F word. But towards the end, Critic notes that just as a good movie can function with or without shock value, people still watch his videos even though he's gone a whole year without swearing.

2019 Episodes

• He doesn't even trash Donnie Darko, but he gets a Rule of Three in calling out sexual harassment not noticed by the film. First, pointing out Drew Barrymore's character should be fired for sexualizing her students; second, mocking Donnie for being surprised that a girl (who can't speak English well) runs off when he says a kind thing but gets up in her face; and third, wishing more people would react with disgust when they get a "Shut Up" Kiss.
• He's done plenty on X-Men: The Animated Series, but in February 2019 he managed to interview the developers of it, Eric Lewald and Julia Lewald.
• In X-Men, he has to babysit Mr. T's son while watching the film, and both sides get good points (even swapping views) on how sure it might not be as great as you remember it, but it paved the way as one of the first comic book movies trying to take itself seriously.
  • Malcolm also gets to call out the whitewashing of Doctor Strange (2016) and Iron Man 3, and come up with the idea of one of the badass women from Black Panther (2018) playing Storm instead of Halle Berry, who comes off more nervous guidance counsellor than strong and confident.
  • Critic calling out the misogyny of Rogue giving up her powers A) for a boy in the first place and B) for a boy who literally cheated on her.
  • In X-Men 3, Tamara’s snark at Critic for things being much less weird when he’s not around. Malcolm even makes an “oh snap” face.
• During his review of Man on the Moon he displays a great depth of knowledge about the life of Andy Kaufman. He even makes several suggestions to not only make the movie fit more in line with Kaufman's brand of humor, but also to creatively adapt his life so as to make a better film using bits of his life the film left out.
• Tamara, Malcolm, Heather and Walter getting their limelight in Toonami, again getting writing credit, as they grew up with it and Doug/Critic didn’t.
• While he definitely has no love for Movie 43, and calls out the shitty shock humor, actually doing his job and giving it a fair shake instead of just screaming Suckiness Is Painful was neat.
• Tamara does an excellent rendition of the original Mary Poppins, tough and takes no shit but sweet about it, while Aiyanna does an amazing job at being Sugary Malice creepy.
• In the Barney's Great Adventure review, he's sincerely trying to figure out what doesn't work about Barney the Dinosaur as a children's media character and trying to figure out why people hated him so much, and it boils down to a simple Armor-Piercing Question; could you imagine Barney playing any emotion other than happy? He further details out how tons of other children's media — Mister Rogers' Neighborhood and Sesame Street, for example — have covered poignant real-world topics like death, disabilities, tragedy and loss; teaching their young viewers important lessons in life while still holding onto the essence of those characters. Barney's Perpetual Smiler design and personality prevent him from doing that, making him wear out his welcome much more than other media for young children. And bear in mind, Critic nails down this aspect of him after Barney's been onscreen for less than a minute.
• Criticizing Kim Possible for faux-empowering moments when it mostly just has the lead cry and be jealous and catty to other girls, even going as far as to call out how Shego's insistence of henchwomen is stupid with what happened with Kim. He also talks in the end about how empowerment/representation should come genuinely and not just cynically jumping on a bandwagon.
  • When Bonnie bafflingly implies cheerleaders are considered losers, Critic plays footage of remarkable complex cheerleading routines whie sarcastically calling them "lazy" and "lame."
• In Blade 2, Malcolm's anger at Del Toro using the cliche of a racist villain (asking Blade the slur of "can you blush?") and Critic explaining that a Politically Incorrect Villain is a lazy trope, and also if you have to go into detail to make a joke less confusing, it's not funny.
• The way Nostalgia Critic interacts with Fennah's characters during "The Trial" is pretty impressive and seamless for something created in 17 days.
• Bringing up how Jasmine's new song in Aladdin (2019) ultimately is pointless in the end and that it could have been better if she was actually fighting the guards.
• Giving Holiday in Handcuffs hell at every turn for its use of A Match Made in Stockholm, pointing out that if the genders were reversed it would be a straight-up horror film rather than a comedy.

2020 episodes

• The Batman Returns review ends with Nostalgia Critic giving both a heartfelt and uplifting speech about how 2020 was such a tumultuous year with things like the COVID-19 Pandemic and other horrible stuff happening, but notes that humanity is good at surviving and will eventually make it through and move on.

2021 episodes

• The review of Mulan starts out with a parody of "I'll Make A Man Out Of You".

2022 episodes

• In his reivew of The Secret of NIMH, Critic pointing out that Mrs. Brisbee is all the more a unique female protagonist, not because she's special or brave or stalwart like modern female protagonists. Rather, it's because she's a vulnerable every-mouse who is willing to step outside her comfort zone for the love of her children, all the more defining courage. Heck, if it's any indication, Critic comments he's more fascinated with Mrs. Brisbee putting her life on the line as a vulnerable little mouse than he is live-action Mulan effortlessly stepping onto a battlefield.

2023 episodes

• Critic's review of Puss in Boots: The Last Wish opens with him parodying Death itself. Right down to his iconic whistle...
  • This also counts for the movie itself, driving home it did something right for that chilling whistle to be recognizable in so little time, rather than esoteric.
  Chart Guy: Who are you?
  Death: Oh I'm exactly who you think I am. Not metaphorically or rhetorically or poetically or theoretically or any other fancy words.
• Although it's over a small detail like Puss and Kitty using zero gravity to dance their way to the map, Critic uses this as an example of why Animation is the highest form of media. In live-action, you couldn't make such a feat happen, not without CGI anyway.
  NC: (Mimicking someone who disparages Animation) "Oh, whatever. It's all to babysit your kids, heh, heh, heh." (normal) Yeah, screw it. If those are the only options, I'm not gonna choose to be a boring, miserable adult. I'm gonna choose to be a happy, interesting kid!
• Critic acknowledging that the reason "Coraline" held up so well after all these years was because it wasn't afraid to be scary for kids and adults. As he so puts it, this movie earned its PG rating.
• The opening of the The Little Mermaid (2023) review takes the piss out of people who accepted the many changes the original animated film made to the original fairy tale, but suddenly have an issue with the mermaid being black. He later mocks those who are attacking the Disney remake trend only after the Race Lift controversy (complete with a Clickbait Gag mocking the overblock reaction), making a point that he always criticized the movies for their story, not superficial changes to appearances. He also praises Halle Bailey's singing as one of the best things in the movie while sarcastically noting that he must be doing the wrong thing because of all the dislikes the teaser got.
• Critic praising "Mrs. Doubtfire" for what it "doesn't do". That is to say, it doesn't make the ex-wife's new love interest a villain, it doesn't demonize the protagonist's ex-wife, and it does not get Danny and Miranda back together in the end. By subverting these tropes, it makes the story all the more real and the characters all the more human.

2024 episodes

• In his review of Wish (2023), Critic doesn't call it "the Worst Disney Movie Ever," but rather something worse: NOTHING. He states that for a film that's supposed to celebrate the company's 100th anniversary, the story was far too safe and soulless to carry that mantle, with all of the Company Cross References being completely superficial. To paraphrase the Critic, the company that made Snow White isn't acting like the company that made Snow White.
  • For that same reason, he also calls out its use of other Disney characters in the end credits because the movie didn't earn the right to use them.
  • He notes how King Magnifico was wasted as a villain, as the movie initially portrayed him as a potentially layered antagonist given his backstory, only to turn into a vain, narcissistic tyrant at the drop of a hat, while also making the Magic Book that supposedly corrupts him rather pointless.

Miscellaneous

• Any time he goes into Papa Wolf mode. People who were abused as children have gone on record to say he actually gives them hope. Because even though he's pitiful, has parent issues and is nowhere near a role model, if you're going to have a good quality, it might be as well be protecting innocent kids.
• "Holiday Clusterfuck"! Besides having some pretty funny lyrics and imagery, the Critic has some mean pipes. And all of it dropped with An Aesop about the over-commercialization of the holiday season.
• A convincing, well-spoken editorial on YouTube and fair use. It even manages to sprinkle in some sarcasm and humor. It feels like a documentary, especially with Brad Jones, Alex from 'I Hate Everything', and other YouTubers stating their respective cases.

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