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How I Survived My First Pokémon Nuzlocke

I hosted a normal dinner party with no ulterior motives

  • Once Jacob thinks everyone has done their performances for the talent show, he's ready to announce the winner... or so he believes.
    Jacob: (triumphant music) Alright, everyone! We have reviewed all of your talents... (music stops) You didn't go. Why?
    Jaiden: Did you forget about me?
    Film Crewmate: No one called her in.

Can you beat Pokémon with a Level 1 team?

Mario Kart in real life is dangerous

  • The equivalent to the Spiny Shell are spiky, blue rubber balls, which Jacob throws at the wheels of people who are in 1st. Most of the time, he ends up breaking the chains of their tricycles, but when Charles, who was given permission to run on foot when his tricycle stopped working, is in 1st, Jacob runs after him with a ball in tow.
  • During The Stinger, the camera cuts to Jacob in the bathroom... cosplaying as Princess Peach.

Attempting the 'PERFECT' Pokémon Nuzlocke

  • The opening of the video and the Establishing Character Moment(s) it displays of Jan of Pokémon Challenges, depicting him as The Dreaded who lords over any content creator daring to play a Nuzlocke followed by a montage of him critiquing various creators.
  • As fate would have it, Jacob runs into an Onix as his final encounter on Victory Road, just as he did in his original FireRed Nuzlocke. Taking this as a sign, he decides to end the run in the pettiest way imaginable; by subbing the Onix, named "4Kidd", onto his otherwise perfectly-crafted endgame team solely so he can beat his rival's Charizard with her, doing what his previous Onix didn't live long enough to accomplish. When the moment finally comes he switches her in and, after narrowly surviving a Fire Blast and with a lucky Quick Claw activation letting her move first, she lands a decisive Rock Slide... which fails to kill Charizard despite hitting for quadruple damage. As 4Kidd falls to a second Fire Blast, Jacob is forced to admit that yes, Onix really is that bad, and no, he's still never living that one down.

Jaiden and I entered a Smash Bros tournament

A talent show, but the prize is my Twitter account

Beating Pokémon with ONLY Shinies

  • After over three hours of trying to get a Shiny Lugia, Jacob decides that he's had enough and decides to just kill Lugia... only for the Shiny Lugia he was looking for to appear immediately afterwards.
    Jacob: ...Do I kill it?

Apparently, Undertale has Online Multiplayer now

  • The video's Establishing Series Moment: the instant Toriel enters the screen, Alpharad asks the following, signaling that it will get violent:
    Alpharad: Chat do we want to kill her, yes or no?
  • Alparad thought that only he would control whether to fight, but then the attack animation is seen attacking the dummy. When asked who did that, they all deny it, but one of them remarks he probably had it coming.
  • Jaiden remarks this gem:
    Jaiden: Someone in chat goes "Hey, by the way, there's a secret ending if you don't kill anyone."
    Alpharad: True, really?
    Somebody: Trying to get through the game without killing anyone, you can do that?
  • Later, the group kills their first Froggit:
    We're getting valuable EXP, which stands for "Experience Points".
  • When encountering Whimsun, Alpharad suggents sparing him, but the group doesn't listen.
    Alpharad: I think we can just spare this thing, I don't even think we have to kill it.
    Someone kills Whimsun.
    Alpharad: Okay, and we're killing it.
  • The fight with Toriel:
    • Alpharad reminds his fellow player that they literally cannot lose the fight. Then he gets reminded that the multiplayer mod screws with the game's mechanics, making them lose to her anyway.
    • On their second attempt, one of them tells them to stand back. Cue a Smash Cut to Toriel being killed and that player cheering, the others attempting to justify themselves and chat crying and calling them monsters. Alpharad remarks that he feels a couple sins crawling on his back, and Flowey taunts them by telling them it's not like they can go back and change fate.
    • They accidentally bug the game in Snowdin Forest, making them have to reset. This leads to them murdering Toriel again, and Flowey taunting them again, this time asking them how many more times they will kill her.
  • When meeting Sans, Alpharad says that despite his status as a meme, he's unironically a phenomenal character, and Cade/Weegee retorts that he's not gonna let "the folks at DeviantArt" ruin that for him.
  • Similarly, during Papyrus's first appearance, Jaiden says that she feels like she's meeting celebrities due to the huge internet presence of the two brothers.
  • Luckily for Papyrus, the group spares him. One of the characters ends up stuck on his door, with the other three walking around Snowdin with him.
  • When fighting Undyne, one of them gets left behind, leading Undyne to automatically catch up, thus making her fight Unintentionally Unwinnable by means other than killing her, leading them to have to reset.
    • When they reach Hotland, Undyne collapses right at the same place as one of them, making it seem as she just stumbled upon them.
  • When facing 01 and 02, the group turns to Smith to make them decide whether to kill or spare them, knowing they're chosen the former option every time. They also warn that should they kill them, Twitter will cancel them. Smith alternates between those two buttons several times, before asking Siri to flip a coin. Heads land, and they spare them, to the other's incredulity.
  • During Mettaton's bomb defusing game, Smith gets tasked with defusing one. Unfortunately, their notorious incompetence at the minigame makes everyone start screaming that they're going to die. This lasts for an uncomfortable amount of time.
  • Facing Asgore:
    • Alpharad suggests that, since he only needs a single SOUL more, he can take Smith's and everyone else can move on.
    • Chat starts singing something about Kanye West fingering his ass to the melody of the music, Jacob bemoans that he can't unhear it.
    • When Asgore's down, Jaiden immediately moves her SOUL to the FIGHT button, only to announce she's making this a team vote. The group unanimously agrees to kill him instantly.
      Jacob: That was the first group decision we've ever had and we're all bloodthirsty now.
  • Omega Flowey:
    • He was already That One Boss in the base game, but the multiplayer mod makes it near unbearable for two reasons:
      • First, every time the game crashes as a result of the player losing, the mod takes several minutes to set up.
      • Second, the health bar drops for every player hit, but healing between stages remains normal.
    • This leads to an hours long gruel, which some people think makes the infamous fight against Sans easier.
    • When they finally reach the last stage, they remark how bad it would look if they died there, and they proceed to do just that.
    • Jacob's brief intermission where he shows a page filled top-to-bottom with invites he sent to Jaiden to bring her back in to fight Flowey and comments on how desperate it looks.
    • The compilation gives several Hope Spots telling about how "finally it happened", showing the group making progress only to die again.
    • Upon finally reaching the final cutscene of the fight, the players are all still panicking about not touching the pellets in case something bad happens.
    • By the time it's all over, everyone agrees to just kill Flowey, and respond to his final taunts by stomping on his corpse out of spite.

I Hosted an Awards Show for Friends who don't deserve any

  • Jacob takes a brief intermission during editing to admire his own ass.
  • When presenting the nominees for Best Artist, Jaiden is not amused by the picture of her that Jacob pulls up, since she "didn't draw that one."
  • Giwi is crowned the "Most Likely to have their Spouse die of 'Natural Causes'" and is immediately followed by her partner Rubber Ross winning "Most Likely to Die First".
  • After all of the work that Jacob put in for the awards show for his friends, they thanked him by crowning him "Biggest Slut".
  • Smith drops a rather amusing Badass Boast when they give a speech for winning "Most Gay".
    Smith: Being gay isn't a choice; it's a game, and I'm winning.
    • Jacob, who was a fellow nominee for said award, is not amused by the fact that a picture of him kissing Skooch pops him for both this award and "Sloppiest Drunk" earlier and yet the latter wasn't even nominated for either.
  • Jawsh had a painting commissioned for him in the name of winning "Most Likely to become a Politician" and in fact did win. His speech for winning was a simple "My fellow Countrymen: GG."

100 YouTubers sent me a Pokémon for a Nuzlocke

  • Scott The Woz, being clueless about the mechanics of the series, managed to send Jacob a Watchog with no item, no moves, and no ability, making it completely useless. On the Google form to submit his Pokémon, when asked if it was holding an item, he responded "he doesn't look like he is". As for what ability and moves it should have, he gave no proper answer, instead confusedly responding to both questions that he "just looked through the Pokédex and picked a funny looking one".

Romeo and Juliet, but without any rehearsals

  • The entire video, thanks to the premise: in addition to having no rehearsals, there's also no script, with Jo writing down just a one-sentence description for each character in each scene describing the very basics of what they're doing therein, and they improvise their lines from there, which naturally makes for a ton of hilarious dialogue and Corpsing throughout.
  • Continuing Ross's Running Gag of dying early (started in Among Us sessions where he was frequently killed in the first round), he plays a nameless background character who gets killed immediately by Jacob-Romeo in the opening battle scene between the Capulets and Montagues without even getting any lines, as he himself lampshades in the comments:
    Rubber Ross: I made it through about 20 seconds of this video and died. It's among us all over again.
  • Jaiden-as-Benvolio's response to Jacob-as-Romeo telling his friends about his failed romance with Rosaline.
    Romeo: So I was with this girl Rosaline, right? And she ended things!
    Benvolio: ...Bitch.
  • This line from Mercutio (as acted by Anthpo).
    Mercutio: Listen, I understand how much you like feet, but you can't open with that, Romeo.
  • The Running Gag throughout of every single character verbally shitting all over Peter (played by CJ) whenever they speak to him.
    Peter: Can I come [to the party]?
    Everyone: No.
  • Romeo and Juliet (Deanna) having their awkward first meeting, with Romeo's Epic Fails at flirting that somehow still works.
    Romeo: You go to therapy with that ass? (She flirtatiously sticks her ass out)
    (Later, as Juliet admires Romeo's sword)
    Romeo: Yeah, you know what they say about swords. I fucking murdered a person today.
    Juliet: (Twirling her hair and giggling flirtatiously) That's hot~
  • For Mercutio's dying speech, Anthpo instead recites the famous "to be or not to be" soliloquy...from Hamlet. Complete with melancholy music in the background. Doubles as an Awesome Moment due to reciting almost half the speech just from memory.
  • Jules plays Lord Capulet like a drunk, Large Ham frat bro with No Indoor Voice, such as calling the party he throws near the beginning "a rager" for his "hot daughter" Juliet, enthusiastically telling her that her new betrothed Paris has a "huge schlong" and stating her (fake) enthusiasm to marry him is "pretty poggers," and later discovering her fake-dead body. "NOOOOOO! FUCK! MY GODDAMN DAUGHTER IS DEAD!"
  • Meanwhile, PointCrow goes hard into the Prince Charmless portrayal of Paris that some productions give him, playing him as an inappropriately-horny incel with no tact. A standout is the one scene he shares with Juliet where she threatens suicide over marrying him, and he responds with:
    Paris: Is it that time of the month, uh, Juliet?
    Juliet: Did you really just fucking say that to me?!
  • Benvolio using a knock-knock joke to tell Romeo that Juliet is "dead". And Romeo decides to travel the world to buy poison from an apothecary so he can join her in death...only for one to suddenly appear, dressed all in black with a bird mask and strumming a guitar.
    Romeo: Oh holy shit.
  • In this version, Romeo kills Paris by complete mistake via accidentally impaling him with his sword while trying to give him advice.
  • Romeo's last words, and then Juliet waking up to find him dead.
    Romeo: That's all, folks. (dies)
    Juliet: Babe? (realizes he's dead) Are you breaking up with me?! Are you...are you serious?!
  • Friar Laurence (played by well-known troll and gadfly Altrive/Dash) discovers Romeo and Paris dead and Juliet awake, and realizes he forgot to fill Romeo in on her faked suicide. He sums up the situation thusly to Juliet:
    Laurence: I think I did a little too much trolling.
  • And then the whole play somehow wraps with Prince Escalus, Peter, Benvolio, and Mercutio's ghost having a Dance Party Ending, despite three people being dead on the ground nearby.

It's been Ten Years of making videos

  • Jacob spends the whole video reacting to his first ever let's play from when he was a teenager. You can guess where this is going.
  • He inevitably gets a kick out of how his old avatar was one of those old Flash game "make an anime character face" pictures.
  • Jacob's complete and utter bafflement at the long-winded traumadumping rant his teenage self gives about having to pick up his sister from an appointment she had.
  • At one point, Jacob picks up on a very... interesting line delivery from his younger self and questions how it's at all possible that he hadn't already figured out that he was bi at that point.

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