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     2022 Episodes 
  • Blindfold Picks! (The Incredible Melting Man, Starship, and Lady Avenger)
    • The first episode of 2022 has Rich, Jay, and Jack pick videos from the wall while blindfolded. The first few minutes of the video are Rich knocking the majority of the videos down and falling to the ground himself.
    • When discussing Starship, which was filmed in Australia, they talk about how they managed to get a massive dump truck to run over and crush a car, and Rich remarks that Australians don't know how to make good vehicle action scenes.
    • Mike, predictably, picks the least likely choice (Melting Man) for best of the worst, despite preemptively picking Lady Avenger before they even watched it, assuming it couldn't be worse than the first two movies. In summarizing his choice, Rich declares "I picked horseshit over bullshit!"note  and walks away.
  • In Wheel of the Worst #23, since one of the videos is in Japanese without subtitles, they make up their own story for it.
    • They eventually put enough context together to realize that it's a video about AAAAAAAAAAIIIIIIIIIIIDDDDDDDDDDSSSSSSSSS.
      • An alert commenter provides the context that Japanese speakers had for this tape: the title translates to "A Message From the Future - What We Want You to Know About AIDS".
      • Rich's legendary cry of "AAAAAAAAIIIIIIIDDDDDDDSSSSSSS" lasts for a full 20 seconds, is treated with reverb, and is backed with thumping house music. There's a noticeable cut near the beginning, too, implying that the actual audio lasted far longer.
      • After Rich finishes his sustained yell of "AIDS", Mike recycles a joke from The Nerd Crew. Jay states they can get away with repeating a joke twice if the comments section can recycle the same five jokes over and over again.
        Mike: Wow, Rich, you held on to that AIDS longer than Magic Johnson!
    • Following their discussion of "High Impact Hand Safety" , Mike and Rich call the production company's number as Harry S. Plinkett and Harry G. Plinkett, leaving a voice message asking if they could be held liable for Harry S. Plinkett cutting his hand by masturbating against a combine.
      Mike (as Mr. Plinkett): There's blood all over the farm equipment.
  • From "Plinketto #10" with Special Guest Jack Quaid:
    • Mike casually spoiling when he introduces Jack that he was the Ghostface Killer in Scream (2022) clearly throws Jack for a loop, and he seems to expect that it will be cut in editing. (When it wasn't, Jack put a spoiler disclaimer in his link to the episode on his Twitter.)
    • Jack's credentials for bringing his own bad movie choices to the RLM studio? He was the president of his high school Bad Movies Club.
    • Jack's "youthful energy" throughout (he is the youngest guest the show has ever had, and is over a decade younger than the rest of the gang) is constantly played for laughs. Mike exploits this when forcing him to hold a running pose (with one foot off the ground) as he reads the painfully long blurb on the back of the box for Stone Cold (deliberately stopping a few times just to screw with him).
    • The Running Gag involving Jack heading off to shoot Oppenheimer with Christopher Nolan — from the setup at the beginning, to the beats with each of the main three handing Jack a script, culminating in a perfectly executed punchline with (the other) Jack at the end.
    • Quaid guessing out loud that the weird made-up drug in Stone Cold was in the script because "they didn't have the rights to crack."
    • "It's okay. The glass ceiling and the 50-foot drop broke his fall!" - Rich Evans, 2022
    • A couple of moments from Bog had the gang almost crying, such as one character asking what kind of creature has a "hypodemic nerdle" for a mouth, or another seriously wondering if the monster could be "some kind of Dracula." This leads Jack on a tangent about a Norm Macdonald bit where he also refers to vampires as "Draculas" and winds up doing a pretty good impression of him.
    • An incredible amount of Bog is spent in a lab with the lead scientist and the town sheriff trying to figure out what the monster is and how it can be stopped with a lot of attention being given to its unnatural biology and eating habits. In the end they deal with it by just ramming it with a car.
  • From the Spotlight episode on Clash in the College:
    • The episode begins with a disclaimer explaining that none of the clips were edited by RLM and that they were all exactly as they were seen in the movie.
    • Throughout the movie there are shots where people, they think possibly the other actors, are visible in scenes they're not supposed to be in, including a scene in a car where there's clearly somebody laying in the back seat trying to stay off camera, and the scene in a KFC where the director is clearly seen milling about in the background.
    • A scene with Krishna whispering on the phone while outside prompts a quip from Jay: "Is he on a phone sex line?"
    • At one point Mike is waving his hands around while talking and he knocks an open beer all over their Gremlin's prop to the panic of the three.
    • The majority of the movie takes place inside a hotel pretending to be other buildings despite obviously being a hotel. One of these scenes is supposed to take place in a doctor's office which has a framed picture of Marie Curie propped up against the wall on the table the characters are sitting at instead of hung on the wall, which they realize was because the hotel probably wouldn't have allowed them to hang anything up.
    • They crack up when the conservative student turns down a date with a girl by telling her, "sorry, I'm gonna be listening to Rush Limbaugh at that time." Jay comments that it's the exact moment when he should've realistically blown his chances with her.
    • Our main character stopping by the professor's house one night is for some reason depicted as a first-person walk through a dark house using night vision, which they say makes it look like he's ghost hunting.
  • Black Spine Junka 3.
    • One of the videos, Power Aging is about the elderly. Mike starts laughing to the point of tears at an elderly woman simply talking about COPD, prompting the others to question what is wrong with him.
      Woman on tape: And I was suffering from chronic obstructive pulmonary disorder.
      Mike: (covering his mouth with one hand to hide his laughter)
      Jay: That's just a lady.
      Rich: Yes, Mike. That's a woman.
      Beat as Mike continues to deteriorate into laughter
      Jay: (in utter desbelief) What's so funny about her?!
      (moments later, after a list of health problems the woman on tape has overcome)
      Mike: (uncontrollable cackling and pointing at the screen)
      Jay: What are you even laughing at? The background?
      Mike: (through tears) No, the things that are wrong with her!
      Jay: What??
      Mike: (still cry-laughing) All the things wrong with her! Obstructive pulmonar-(collapses back into laughter)
    • "Black balls! Mmm, my favorite!"
    • The group fails to be impressed with Mark Lowry's Mouth in Motion routine:
      • The little shot of Tim wincing when Lowry launches into a song about plastic surgery.
      • The admission that they stopped watching the tape after about ten minutes.
        Mike: He's the Bill Cosby of Christian comedians... He puts us all to sleep.
    • The crew finds quite a few things about the third tape, Power Pack: Take a Stand, an anti-bullying seminar for kids, to be rather questionable. Rich and Jay in particular graudually become outright antipathic towards the contents and Sherryll, the psychologist teaching the class.
      • Jay and Rich are quickly convinced that Sherryll's insistence on "demonstrating" examples of bullying, by making the kids roleplay the situations in front of the class, is really an excuse to bully children, both directly and vicariously.
        Sherryll: (while throwing crumbled paper balls at a kid) You're stupid! I hate you! You're never gonna get out of this class!
        Jay: (cracks up) There's some real aggression in that!
      • Jay considers the part where Sherryll calls Michael, the designated "fat kid" in the class, up front to participate in a "demonstration".
        Sherryll: Has anyone ever called you fat?
        Michael: (nonplussed) Mm-hm.
        Mike: (shocked) Aw, damn!
        Jay: Jesus Christ, lady!
        Sherryll: Yeah, okay? Do you have a choice about that?
        Michael: (still nonplussed) Uh-huh.
        Sherryll: So let's find out: Michael, you're fat!
        Mike: (covers his mouth with his hand in shock)
        Jay: Goddammit! This lady is the worst!
        Sherryll: Is that true about you?
        Jay: "Yeah?"
        Sherryll: No, it's not. You're not fat, you're big... But you're not fat.
        Michael: (visibly unsure how to respond)
        Sherryll: And are you ugly and disgusting?
        Mike: This is getting awkward.
        Jay: This is really awkward.
      • Rich becomes downright upset at some of the advice the video gives.
        Sherryll: How about "That's not nice"?
        Chloe: That's not nice.
        Rich: (making no attempt to hide his sarcasm) Oh, yeah, that'll work!
        (the rest of the crew applauds him)
        Rich: (genuinely incensed) YEAH, THAT'LL FUCKING WORK! (throws his can of soda at the TV)
      • At the conclusion, Rich calls the advice given by the video completely useless at best.
        Rich: "But-but, miss! Last week I took your advice and told my bully 'that didn't feel very good.' And then he said 'good!', and he started hitting me harder!"
        Mike: "I-I don't know what to do! My PhD! It didn't cover the bully not accepting your apology!"
    • The crew having quite a bit of fun with the host of Target Panic, Len Cardinale's choice of words in explaining the experience of being nervous while practicing archery, makes it sound like he is describing erectile dysfunction and hypersensitivity in men.
      Jay: (to Mike) I'm just picturing you editing this, and putting "splat" sound effects everywhere.
      ("splat" sound effect plays)
      Jay: ...And "boing" sound effects.
      ("boing" sound effect plays)
      Rich: And sometimes put the word "archery" in quotes.
    • After having watched several Too Smart for Strangers videos featuring goofy mascots clumsily and awkwardly deliver sugarcoated advice about avoiding child predators, the crew finds Street Smart: Straight Talk for Kids, Teens, and Parents with Detective J.J. Bittenbinder more upfront approach rather refreshing, especially as he gets increasingly blunt as the video goes on:
      Jay: Early on, he is like: "Don't let them touch you in your bathing suit area!" By the end, he's just like "They're gonna rape you!"

      Mike: In the middle, he's like: "When you love your boyfriend, and your boyfriend loves you, you guys go in your bedroom and you have 'love time'. But when a man comes along, who is not boyfriend, and says 'have special love time with a man who—' Ah, fuck it! When you get sucked into a gang and a guy tries to pimp you out as a prostitute, you gotta fuck men for money while watching the Bears."
      • J.J. Bittenbinder's advice on preventing date rape? Tell the girl to bite the guy's lip off:
        Mike: The mother says: "What do I do when my teenage daughter is in a compromising position with her boyfriend, who's a little too handsy?" And he is like: "Well, tell her to bite his fucking lip off! And spit it out!"
        Tim: (imitating Bittenbinder) Fuckin' punch in his crane-fuckin' eyes, I tell you that much.
        Mike: (imitating Bittenbinder) Spit his bloody lip out and say "Packers suck!" (imitating shocked mother) Oh, oh, oooh! (imitating Bittenbinder) I've given up with metaphors and any kind of nonsense. Fuck it. Fuck it!
        Tim: (imitating Bittenbinder) No more nonsense from dis here guy!
        Mike: (imitating Bittenbinder) When I'm talking about your "bathing suit area", I'm talkin' about (bleep)! He wants to come after it, this fuckin' sicko from Milwaukee! He wants to fuck you in your (bleep) in the back of a van!
        Rich: (imitating Bittenbinder) He's a fuckin' Packers fan.
        Mike: (imitating Bittenbinder) He's probably a Packers fan and he wants to fuck your kids! (imitating shocked mother) Oooh! Oh, Detective Bittenbinder! What did we sign up for?
      • Rich's description of how Bittenbinder would do an anti-bullying seminar for kids:
        Jay: He doesn't tell a kid to call a single other kid "fat".
        Mike: He doesn't. He would tell them to shoot the other kid.
        Rich: (taking the Chicago accent for a spin) Look, if they call you "fat", you pull out a Glock and you just start pluggin' that kid.
        Jay: It's tough, but that's just life on da streets.
        Rich: (laughs) He's not goin' to ease up on you. You get some friends, and you all have baseball bats. You find where he lives. And you go over there — now, make sure you got alibis — then you knock his fuckin' door down, and beat his brains in.
    • From the It's a Steal! segment:
      • The segment starts off with Mike asking Tim to do the introduction, he then turns to Rich, sighs and Stage Whispers that he "can't do this any more."
      • The crew remarks quite a few time that the various kids featured in the video have a tendency to stare directly into camera while smiling just a bit too brightly comes, which across as somewhat unnerving.
        Adam: I want to thank the Lord for loving me. Even when I'm bad. Thanks Lord!
        (Scare Chord plays as the video slow down, making Adam's facial expression come across as an Empty Eyes and Slasher Smile combo)
    • The final exchange of the episode after Mike says Rich can't drink with J.J. Bittenbinder.
      Rich: I can't wait to shoot you in the face.
      Mike: (sighs) I can't wait to let you.
    • The episode ends with a reprisal of the upbeat credit music (the theme song "Shine") from Circle Square, and a Long List Theme Tune Roll Call, featuring (in order):
      • Mike
      • Jay
      • "Michelle Obama" ("Marcy" from Circle Square)note 
      • "Jason Bateman" ("Jayson" from Circle Square)
      • Rich Evans
      • "Tay Zonday" ("Martin" from Circle Square)
      • "Barbara" (the old woman Mike was laughing hysterically at in Power Aging)
      • Tim
      • "Child Bully" (Dr. Sherryll Krazier from Power Play)
      • Mark Lowry
      • "Hairstyle Lady"
      • "Tim Heidecker" ("John" from Circle Square)
      • "Fraulein Sausageball" from Power Aging
      • "Bubble Man"
      • "Dracula's Dance Partner"
      • Len "The Skewer" Cardinale
      • "Child COVID Victim"
      • And J.J. Bittenbinder (perhaps the first time in any RLM video where Rich Evans does not get the "And Starring" credit)
  • Bad Movie Scavenger Hunt Too has Tim, Jack and Jay picking two options out of the bucket. Then Mike decides to make Jay pick one more, just because.
    • Mike clearly ends up wishing he was participating too, as he keeps shouting suggestions to all three guys.
    • Jack finally finds one that fits the time limit of less than 80 minutes, and it's Silk 2, the sequel to the first movie they abandoned during a viewing.note 
    • During one of the movies they complain how almost all the story is told as exposition so when a baby is found they joke that the baby will tell its backstory. Cue a character going into an exposition speech about the baby's "backstory", which is to say, its conception.
    • When time comes for Mike to select his Best Of The Worst tape, Jack asks everyone else to guess which he'll pick beforehand and show the numbers they guessed as Mike says it out loud. Everyone assumed he'd play the contrarian and pick Ultra Warrior.
    • After Mike notices the title screen for Ultra Warrior looks like a feminine hygiene product logo, the discussion quickly turns into wordplay involving every movie's title as though it were such a product. And after one of Mike's jokes doesn't land as intended, Jack drops this gem:
      Jack: You don't always hit with your jokes but we can count on you at least once a month.
  • Halloween 2022
    • After the main character of Night Killer receives a phone call threatening to rape her, the camera cuts to an overweight man walking out of a telephone booth across the street from her house, causing Mike to remark that he looks like Mr. Plinkett.
    • The opening of Evil Toons sees David Carradine hang himself, which causes the gang to burst out in howls of laughter. Harsher in Hindsight has never been so hilarious.
    • Rich at one point says "Can I get anal on you?", followed by a cut to Jay and Josh's confused and mildly disgusted reactions in split screen.
  • Albert Pyun Double Feature, a heartwarming...ish tribute to the B-movie auteur who passed away from terminal cancer a few days after airing. Thankfully, the gang has lots of nice things to say about him. Also thankfully, the movies - Cyborg and Arcade - still have enough bad about them to make fun of.
    • Throughout the entire episode, Rich periodically covers his mic with his hand, audibly muffling the hell out of his audio. Every time, editor Jay posts a message on screen: "Production Tip: Never completely cover your microphone with your hand and arm". It happens so much one of the messages says "Seriously!"
    • The whole crew can't stop being amused at Jean-Claude Van Damme's character in Cyborg being named Gibson Rickenbacker. (For those unaware, those are two brands of guitars.)
  • A Very Cannon Christmas II, in which the three action-packed Cannon flicks the gang choose for Christmas 2022 are Avenging Force, The Barbarians, and...Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo.
    • The opening bit has Rich claim he spent the last few months screening a series of bad Christmas movies only for Mike to reveal they're watching Cannon movies.
    • Mike attempts to compare the child falling off a roof and then getting shot in Avenging Force to a character falling down a very long flight of stairs in Breakin 2, but gloriously fucks up trying to remember Turbo and Ozone's character names.
      Mike: He got more fucked up than...than...z...than Zoops.
      Jay: ...who is Zoops? What are you talking about?
      Mike: Electric Boogaloo! Gooba and Zoops. What were their true names?
    • Even though Breakin 2 is on a double feature disc with the first movie, the crew decides to just skip the first one. When it comes time to discuss, they make up their own plot for the first movie to explain the events of the sequel. This is topped off by a Best of the Worst Fun Fact slowly appearing onscreen, informing the viewer that nothing they have described happens in the original.
      • It gets to the point Rich gets confused about whether or not the events they're talking about were made up or not.
    • The Reveal that Rich has already seen Breakin' 2. During its theatrical run. At a double feature drive-in movie with Star Trek 3: The Search for Spock where they showed Breakin' 2 first and Rich spent the whole movie wondering where Spock was.
      Rich: I thought, "thank god I'll never need to watch this again".
  • We Finally Watched Nukie: The VHS Grading Video, in which Mike, Rich, and Jay explore the VHS tape speculation market and attempt to corner it themselves.
    • Mike explains the VHS speculation market as "playing the lottery with worse odds".
    • Mike gives Rich a Therapy Plus roller for his birthday and explains that it could theoretically be worth something due to the story behind it. Rich then refutes this claim by saying the most important thing in collectibles being worth something is "rarity relative to the number of people who give a shit".
    • As Mike goes through RLM's collectibles, he reveals that they have autographed props from a Froggy Fresh music video. "Remember Froggy Fresh?!"note 
    • To test the VHS grading market, RLM sends off six tapes to be graded: Jurassic Park, Rocky IV, Conan the Barbarian, Death Ring, Tentakills (which is a fake movie sent to see if the company would catch it - which they do, to their credit), and...Nukie. Which, yes, they do finally watch - and hate.
      • The majority of Nukie clips are just Miko the alien shouting for Nukie.
      • Miko's eyes don't blink at the same time.
    • Mike explains that there are several criteria that makes their Nukie potentially worth something: it's notorious for being bad and it's famous for being in RLM's own videos. The last criteria is rarity, so RLM decides to make their graded tape even more rare...by putting every other copy of Nukie they own through a fucking wood chipper.
      • Mike's pure joy at seeing the first tape get shredded. "OH, FUCK ME!"
      • Rich sets up a Darth Vader model to fire some tape remnants at. The sheer force of the Nukies knocks it clean over.
      • At one point, they start playing Miko's cries of "Nukieeeee!" over every tape they shred.
      • The last tape to go is one they were sent just that morning with a very nice fan letter - which also goes through the chipper.
    • When they are done destroying all the tapes, who do they make clean up the mess all by himself? Why Rich of course!
    • After destroying their collection, RLM puts the graded Nukie on eBay and declares they're going to donate half of what they make to St. Jude's and half to the Wisconsin Humane Society, because Nukie features both animals and children.
      • This tape ended up selling for $80,600, breaking the $75k record set by a copy of Back to the Future that prompted this very video and setting a new record for the largest ever donation to the Wisconsin Humane Society.

     2023 Episodes 
  • Wheel of the Worst #24
    • During Rich's spin on the Wheel, it stops on a different tape, but then Mike none too subtlety turns the wheel to Elderly Parent Care. He then proceeds to floss (badly) and dab before grabbing the tape and running off excitedly.
      Jay: This is the most embarrassing thing that's ever happened in the studio.
    • Freddie Williams II summarizes the "Juiceman's" trampoline video in one sentence:
      Freddie: He basically told you how to purchase your own bear trap.
    • Freddie's genuine worry about the elderly people in a video is contrasted visually by him sitting next to Mike cackling with laughter.
  • Spotlight: After Last Season
    • The episode starts with Jay reading a bit of trivia about the film - namely, that it was only released in theaters in four cities, and afterwards the distributor contacted each theater personally to tell them it would be cheaper to burn the film prints than to return them.
    • As they have previously done with their prop Gremlins, this episode features a prop Baby Bink from Baby's Day Out seated at the table with a beer bottle placed in it's hand.
    • Rich at one point compares the movie to John Wayne Gacy failing to make a horror movie. Mike says it's more like Rich Evans trying to design a building, which Rich refutes on the grounds that "I understand what a building is."
      Rich: This is like if somebody asked Rich Evans to design a nuclear reactor.
    • The very first scene of the movie involves an MRI machine made out of cardboard.
    • The movie had such a low budget the group theorized that it pained the director to actually have to put effort into sets.
  • New Releases!
    • The episode begins with Mike chastising Rich for wearing a Mickey Mouse shirt, making him cover it up for the rest of the video.
      Mike: Mickey Mouse sucks.
    • Mike asks what a Tinder profile for pedos would be called, then Jay chirps in "Kinder!" note  Josh gets more upset by how he missed the obvious pun than the joke itself.
      Mike: That's fuckin' funny!
    • Mike continues making lame puns when he states that an actor named Casper Van Dien is "not very friendly," causing everyone else to groan.
    • The movies they watch are all streaming originals so they had to print out fake DVD covers to have something to hold during the opening discussion.
    • After Rich mocks the thick accents of the actors in Mega Lightning, we get this exchange:
      Mike: Rich, you put the "cock" in Cockney.
      Rich: I put the cock in my mouth. (everybody starts laughing) What?
      Jay: Why would you say that??
      Mike: (through laughter) WHY would you say that on the camera?! Good thing I'm not editing this!
      Jay: Can you be special guest editor for just that one line? You could somehow find a way to stretch it out to fifteen minutes!
      • Mike and Jay then offer a shout-out to the Youtube remixer Noiselund who builds songs around sampled dialogue from old TV shows and RLM videos. Noiselund dutifully remixed Rich's line into a funky disco beat and released it a mere three days later.
    • A scene in Shuny Bee's Fight of Fury features a shirtless child performing karate moves and singing for no clear reason, causing Rich to repeatedly ask "What?!"
      • Josh refers to one gang member as James Iha from Smashing Pumpkins. This eventually gives way to the group mocking Billy Corgan for the low production values of recent Pumpkins music videos and a viral video of Corgan eating potato chips on stage during a show, which appears again under the episodes credits.
      • Shuny Bee's daughter is kidnapped and drugged, with one of her abductors exclaiming "Good night!" in an odd way.
        Josh: (during the viewing) It sounded like he was fuckin'—like, going off stage!
        Mike: (during the discussion) THANK YOU, CLEVELAND, GOOD NIIIIIIIIGHHT!!!
      • During one of the many scenes of a women's self-defense course, the gang can't help but call back to Sanford Strong's "GOUGE HIS EYES!" line from Wheel of the Worst #24.
      • At the dramatic climax of the film, which takes place in a driveway, a woman can be seen in the background walking with her baby in a carriage. Rich calls this "the best part of the movie".
    • The gang debating how to take James Nguyen to court for claiming Birdemic 3 is a movie. They argue it doesn't qualify as one.
  • Hawk the Slayer and THE ACTOR FROM MALCOLM IN THE MIDDLE with the X-Ray Eyes
    • As Rich debates his options, he notices they have two copies of a movie called "Quiet Thunder", wondering if it's worth it if two people sent a copy in. Off-camera, Jay quickly points out it means nothing since they got sent eight copies of It's Pat!.
    • Jack struggles to read the back of Hawk the Slayer, prompting Rich to quip that there's finally someone worst at reading than he is.
  • Wheel of the Worst #25
  • Back in Action vs. Enemy Territory
    • The McNamara Brothers, of Twin Dragon Encounter and Dragon Hunt, appear again in Back in Action as henchmen who get beaten up by Billy Blanks. Rich asks how the brothers could have agreed to play a role in which they lose a fight, which Mike responds to by pretending to sign a check.
      Jay: (acting out excitement) "40 dollars!?"
      • Rich is particularly taken with Roddy Piper's cop character killing a criminal while telling him "You have the right to remain silent."
        Mike: (chuckling) Rich...Rich approves!
        Rich: (smiling, nodding in agreement) I do, I do!
      • Colin refers to an explosion in the movie as being "bigger than the one in Oppenheimer".
      • The climax of the film is set on a docked oil tanker. The editing is incoherent as Billy Blanks appears to be running around scaffolding and shooting off machine guns at nobody in particular. Mike cracks that a bunch of random people in Toronto are being hit.
      • The villain is a bald man whose death involves an obvious stunt double. Rich jokes about the character suddenly having hair by claiming it grew out due to the impact of the crash landing, then comparing it to the doll whose eyes pop out when you squeeze it.
  • Wheel of the Worst #26
  • Halloween 2023 (Tim Ritter's Killing Spree, Night of the Demon (1980), Vampire Riderz)
    • Mike begins the episode by doing an impression of Ghost Adventures host Zak Bagans, right down to mispronouncing certain words.
      Mike: HELLO, and welcome to Red Letter Media's HAUNTED MUSEUM. [poses awkwardly] We've collected many haunted objects from around the glob-ee, haunted objects like: haunted dolls, haunted clocks, haunted dolls, haunted goblets, haunted bird cages, haunted dolls, haunted tea pots, haunted dolls, haunted objects from around the rowld.
    • During the reading of the back of Killing Spree Rich has issues reading and Mike mocks him; later when they're talking about the video, Mike reads the back and realizes how small the font actually is.
      • One of the people that Asbestos Felt thinks his wife is cheating on him with is their neighbor, an older man who is identified by Felt as his best friend.
        Tim: "Remember when you were 6 and I was 22??"
        Rich: "Do you remember when I groomed you? I was your barber for sixteen years!"
    • When Mike mentions Blade during the Vampire Riderz discussion, an image of the DVD cover for Vampire Assassin appears on screen.
    • Tim, Jay and Mike each pick a different movie, requiring Rich to be the tie-breaker. He instead chooses Rhinestone, which has been sitting on a shelf within his line of vision for the entire discussion.
  • Black Spine Junka 4
    • When Macaulay Culkin makes his entrance, Rich says "Oh my god, it's Hollywood celebrity Warwick Davis!"
    • As Rich pulls the final tape the image freezes at the exact moment before the tower collapses, giving way to a long, dramatic narration by Mike:
      Mike: For one, brief moment in time, Rich Evans is a winner. The Junka pile precariously balances on one tape, for a moment. A moment so short, in fact, it's less than one one-hundredth of a second. Through editing I have the power to pause time, and let him relish in his victory, although short as it may be. For, alas, all good things must come to an end. And it is with a gentle nudge that I usher Rich Evans back into reality, a reality where he is never a winner. And he will always be a loser.
      • Culkin came prepared, sporting a t-shirt emblazoned with the word "WINNER". For the rest of the episode, Mac, Mike and Jay all wear matching shirts.
    • A new feature, "Poach a Pick", appears in this episode, allowing the winner to take a tape from the opponents pile. In introducing tape #3, S&M: Sweat and Muscle NYC, Mike is clearly shown whispering to Mac to make Rich talk about it and then chastises Rich for pulling it in the first place.
      Mike: It was your tape, it was your tape, you pervert! Sick fuck.
      • Some of the lines spoken throughout the tape tickle the group, such as "It's criminal not to have a great ass!"
        Jay: (laughing uproariously) Is this written by John Waters?
    • Mastodons is a promotional cartoon for dairy starring a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles knockoff team of bodybuilding, elephantine men. Jay appears to be particularly taken with the emphasis made on the title characters' attractiveness.
      Mike: I was more aroused watching this than this S&M workout video. I'm ashamed to say!
      [...]
      Jay: (in montage) It starts, and they just keep talking about, like, how, like, hot their bodies are! [...] "But they have the bodies of hot men!" [...] "They're all sexy, right?" [...] "You want a hot, sexy bod like these mastodon men!" [...] They're—the hot bodies of mastodons... [...] The hot bod. [...] "They're hot! You wanna be hot like them, eat ice cream!"
    • The segment on Difficult People: How to Deal with Them begins with a clip of the videos host stating "People learn to be difficult because it works for them. Consequently, it programs us to behave in certain ways. They can bring out the worst in you and often destroy your motivation, self-confidence and effectiveness" while close-ups of Mike and Rich are cut in to the first and last lines, respectively.
      Mike: This is the best video I think I've ever seen on Best of the Worst.
    • The final tape - a true black spine featuring an overview of an old surplus auction by Mammoth Cave National Park - turns out to be an unintentional comedy masterpiece.
      John Beaver: (on tape, not very enthusiastic) We've got some old appliances...most of which don't work.
  • Spotlight: Wish Upon
    • The review kicks off with Mike reading negative and sometimes nonsensical IMDB reviews of the film in his Mr. Plinkett voice.
    • Calling back to Wheel of the Worst #26 and in the spirit of previous Spotlight episodes, an Actar baby appears at the table in place of a fourth person.
    • As Mike goes over his research into who made the movie, we get a close-up on Rich with a thought bubble added by his head containing video from a Wendy's Baconator ad.
    • Select clips are shown throughout the video with Hanna-Barbera sound effects added, including one of Clare's elderly uncle's death in a bathtub wherein he bashes his head into the faucet twice, once while facing away from it.
    • Rich recounts Clare's wishes and Mike builds off of this by quoting "I Wish" by Skee-Lo.
      Jay: Does Rich get this reference?
      Mike: No.
      Rich: No. [...] I know "Amish Paradise", does that count?
    • Rich, appearing to not be paying attention yet again, recounts a scene that was just being discussed by Mike and Jay, leading to a brief silence and a declaration to end the episode on that note.
  • Christmas Plinketto, featuring Cancel Christmas, Silent Night Deadly Night 5 The Toymaker, and Mee Christmas

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