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- The crew gives credit to AGFA, the American Genre Film Archives, for preserving and reproducing Wicked World to be seen in the future. Mike asks if after watching it, the organization can now be legally classified as a terrorist group.
- When the film ends on a text blurb detailing how the government is developing a computer chip to suppress violent behavior in people, it slowly dawns on the group that the message is actually pro-brain chip.
Josh: It's a very Canadian spin on conspiracy theory. - Black Spine Junka 2
- At one point Jay is in a motorized wheelchair for no reason and repeatedly runs it into the table pushing it back into the four commentators.
- The music in Kelly Bear Teaches Respectfulness And Friendship Skills is so repetitive and derivative of existing songs that as it went on, the entire crew was temporarily driven insane and sang and danced along to the video.
- One of the acronyms Kelly Bear teaches to the kids is S.T.F.A.: Stop. Think. Feel. Act.Rich: Oh my God!
Jay: Shut The Fuck Up! - The low quality from the VHS tape unfortunately made the bears shown in the card demonstrating S.T.F.A. look like they have massive boners. This is not helped by the next card having a bear on all fours after supposedly falling over.
- The crew couldn't help but notice that all the kids' answers to the host's questions are clearly scripted and assisted by the host mouthing the words they're supposed to say.
- One of the acronyms Kelly Bear teaches to the kids is S.T.F.A.: Stop. Think. Feel. Act.
- The father in The Gospel According To Saint Bernard is clearly dubbed over with a very professional American accent and is a Middle Eastern-looking man who looks nothing like his children. The crew remarks that he probably has a thick Middle Eastern accent that was hidden in ADR to make him look like the archetypical 90s middle-class dad.
- During Rich's description of Fire Safety For Older Adults, every instance of him calling the host a "nagging bitch" is bleeped, which wouldn't be funny if Mike and Mac didn't crack up the first time he said it. The fact that Mike edited this episode is the cherry on top.
- The reveal that when Rich infamously set fire to his grandmother's kitchen trying to make fries, he wasn't a child, he was 22.
- The night's winning film, If You Love Me, Show Me, an absurd Christian animated film about the dangers of premarital sex with time travel as a primary plot device.
- The crew refers to the Make-Out Point that Jenny's boyfriend drives her to as "Fuck-Butt Point" for the duration of the review. Anyone mistakenly calling it "Butt-Fuck Point" is harshly rebuked.
- When Jenny realizes she's pregnant, her friend blocks her from getting an abortion; they instead go back in time to stop her from having sex. Rich openly wonders how this is any different from getting an abortion.
- The aforementioned Fuck-Butt Point makes her pregnancy even funnier in hindsight.
- Father Time spontaneously going into a Limbo Rock-parody musical number about abstinence.Jay: Do you think Father Time always knows exactly when to pull out?
- In the intro for their episode on Showdown, Robot in the Family, and Bloodz vs. Wolvez, Rich stands frozen while Jack pretends to be talking to him. but Rich's attempt to sell it by falling backwards leads to him hitting the shelf too hard, knocking dozens of tapes and some of their props off of them. Cue Rich, Jack, Mike, and Jay attempting to rescue their Gremlin arm.Rich: (dropping the act) I THOUGHT the wall was a LOT CLOSER than it WAS -
- "That's right, mother fucker, Leo Fong...in the hizzy."
- Before they watched Robot in the Family, the crew intended on watching Max Magician and the Legend of the Rings, which Rich presented as "a truly original film", but the tape was just static, so they swapped it out.Jack: It's just you're just taking popular IPs out of a hat and going "Okay, Harry Potter and Lord of the Rings, go! Just fucking go"
- In Showdown, the leader of the biker gang is played by Werner Hoetzinger, which the crew intentionally misreads as "Werner Herzog"Jay (as Herzog): "I look into the eyes of Leo Fong and I see notzing but darkness."
- The town of Sanctuary is described as a retirement community for veteran gangsters. However, Mike says that they seem more like a town full of pacifists, since none of the townsfolk lift a finger to defend themselves against the invading bikers. As such, the movie seems to overstate the threat the bikers pose.Lead Girl: Well, they're like a well-organised army.
Rich: No they're not! They're a scuzzy biker gang! Just shoot them and be done with it! - When the bikers hook up the main girl's father's truck with a bomb, the effect is so cheezy and bad, that when it does a Smash Cut to the girl's house, they thought it was a shot of where the truck used to be, and that the truck just vaporized.Old Man: The motorcycle gang...killed him today.
Rich: "He vanished in an improbable explosion. The entire car was atomized."
Jack: "Listen honey, it's called the Quantum Realm." - Mike goes into a tangent about how the town of Sanctuary should have teamed up with the town of Perfection, Nevada to deal with the bikers. And for some reason he descends into doing a Yooper accent while talking about said crossover.
- Near the end of Showdown, a major drug deal is going down, but one of the guys organizing it words it strangely.Dealer: He's coming with 50 kilos of pure shit.
Rich: (Laughs)
Mike: They're fertilizing some crops.
Jack: That's not how you describe good things.
Rich: "There is no corn."
Jay: This movie is 50 kilos of pure shit. - Rich has one of his longest laughing fits ever when it appears that Leo Fong stops chasing the biker gang leader, Kincade, to go around asking people where Kincade is, only to be told he's in the spot where he was previously chasing him.
- The town of Sanctuary is described as a retirement community for veteran gangsters. However, Mike says that they seem more like a town full of pacifists, since none of the townsfolk lift a finger to defend themselves against the invading bikers. As such, the movie seems to overstate the threat the bikers pose.
- Robot in the Family is considered such a bad movie that all of them felt like they were getting sick watching it because of how much of it is just constant visual and audio noise.
- Rich asks for a time lapse of their faces when they were watching it, which an edit provides, to show just how their faces changed as they became more and more baffled at the movie.Mike: It's like you're on a roller coaster into your own grave.
- The movie is almost nothing but chatter, particularly the robot.
- During one particularly loud and incomprehensible scene of the robot making breakfast for the kids, Mike turns to Rich holding his head in shock.Mike: Ah...help. Help me, Rich.
Rich: No one can help you.
Mike: Now I know how you feel when I make you do Picard videos.
(Everyone laughs) - Their attempts to describe the robot's appearance.Mike: The robot looks like Max Headroom fucked a traffic light.
Jay: (Laughs)
Rich: It looks like Max Headroom fucked the Tin Man, in a light bulb factory.
Mike: (Laughs)
Jay: And he's wearing the colander helmet from Ghostbusters.
Mike: Who fucked the guy who is Pizza the Hutt's assistant in Spaceballs.
Jay: Oh yeah!
Rich: Oh yeah! I was thinking of the electric guy from The Running Man.
Jay: That too, yeah. A lot of influence on this film. - When Jack refers to John Rhys-Davies' character as Gimli, Mike asks if he could refer to him as Sallah instead.Jack: I know him as Gimli, he is Gimli, Son of Gloin. (To Rich and Mike) You can call him Sallah, I understand that reference, but he is Gimli.
Jay: I'm only calling him Sliders {everyone laughs}
Jack: Not because of the show, he just likes tiny hamburgers.
Sallah: In it is something man is not meant to disturb. Death has surrounded it.
(cut to a montage of the robot maiming people)
- Rich asks for a time lapse of their faces when they were watching it, which an edit provides, to show just how their faces changed as they became more and more baffled at the movie.
- Once again, the crew feels bad for Bloods vs. Wolvez, because like with Demonwarp after Ryan's Babe, they didn't expect Robot in the Family to be such a good-bad movie that it made whatever came next look tame in comparison.
- The ending doubles as a teaser, because when Mike goes behind the Plinketto board to look for a sledgehammer, he looks horrified and turns it around to reveal a new Wheel of the Worst. Jay's response is to look absolutely mortified, then snap back to normal and calmly ask if they're still going to destroy the tape.
- Bad Movie Scavenger Hunt has the guys mix things up by picking random descriptions of covers from a bucket, Rich has the first pick and pulls "Depiction of rape on the cover" and immediately accuses Mike of rigging it.
- The makers of Computer Beach Party apparently believe that the lifeguard stations on a beach means people are not allowed on the beach.
- Mike gets a brainfart while describing a scene in Mission: Killfast and says that a undercover cop was posing as a porno mag photography actress. note
- Rich admits they'd usually just skip a dull-looking movie like Mission: Killfast, but he's just thankful to have found a film that meets most of his criteria. Jay asserts that this proves the scavenger hunt's worth as a gimmick because it forces them to watch films they'd normally not watch.Rich: We don't watch them for a reason!
- Wheel of the Worst #21 has the guys nostalgic for being able to go shopping without worrying about having to wear a mask or maintain social distancing.Josh: Remember shopping?
- The crew are completely baffled by the advice not to touch kitty litter, not knowing that every pregnant woman is told to avoid kitty litter at all costs because toxoplasmosis can give severe birth defects. Even moving the litter around can cause it to be inhaled and damage the fetus.
- The guys trying to figure out what the symbolism behind Turtle Dreams is supposed to mean. Except for Rich, who just dismisses it as a pretentious performance piece, which the others agree with. The whole Turtle Dreams section contains many great moments of the four's baffled reactions to the "singing".
- The guys attempt to decipher meaning from Turtle Dreams by reading the description on the back of the box...which is just an exact summary of what happens in the video.
- In spite of having picked three videos to watch, Mike insisted on everyone watching Massaging The Elderly and taking obvious glee in the fact that everyone sitting next to him is miserable because of it. Rich even just takes off his mic and leaves in the middle of the discussion.Rich: Mike, you do realize someday, someday VERY SOON, karma is gonna hit you like a freight train.
- Many noted the Hilarious in Hindsight of Rich's threat when not too long after this episode was posted, RedLetterMedia and its fandom got caught up in an online spat with William Shatner, which clearly hurt hardcore Trekkie Mike a little inside.
- The ending segment, where Rich is inserted into Turtle Dreams. He winds up stepping on and breaking Massaging the Elderly, losing his balance and taking out the greenscreen in the process.
- In their Spotlight Episode of Diamond Cobra vs. White Fox, Mike and Jay gave Rich a dedicated reaction cam during their viewing, because they had already seen it, and knew it was worth capturing Rich's bewilderment throughout the movie.
- During a scene where a little girl sings a song in a "church", that's barely tied in to the movie, Rich can only offer this to say to Mike:Rich: I have...all the questions. Where, who, when, why, and what?
- In an attempt to structure the review, Mike gives the three of them a challenge to keep naming characters from the movie, and while they could, they could remember almost none of their actual names. So the names they give are things like "Green Haired Lady", "CIA brother", and "Friend!"
- At least twice, when showing clips from the movie, a caption has to include that they are showing the actual editing of the movie.
- Jay points out that the cinematographer for the movie scenes was the writer/director/star's mother, and it shows.Jay: It would be like if I gave a camera to one of my relatives. "Is the camera in focus? Is it pointed at me?" "It looks good, the shot looks good!", where they have no idea what they're doing.
- The episode ends with a Fake-Out Fade-Out because Mike forgot to bring up the scene that was clearly shot at an Olive Garden, where the character played by the creator's mother isn't wearing her eyepatch or talking loudly because she didn't want to look stupid or be rude.
- During a scene where a little girl sings a song in a "church", that's barely tied in to the movie, Rich can only offer this to say to Mike:
- Best of the Worst: Twin Dragon Encounter, American Rickshaw, and Infested
- The discussion opens with the panel questioning whether one of the studio lights will last through the episode, as its bulb is looking dim. They all agree that, if it goes out before they finish, they will simply call the episode there and go home.
- The guys theorize that the twin brothers from Twin Dragon Encounter are such egotists that they're in love with each other because it'd be like loving themselves. Mike even describes it as being literal homosexual.
- The scene where the twins find out their girlfriends have been kidnapped, but the reveal that the kidnappers also stole the poster for their karate school gets a more dramatic musical sting causes everyone to lose it. That and the whole movie revolving around how cool and manly the twins are leads to them calling it maybe the most naked Vanity Project they've ever screened on the show.
- It turns out Mike has no idea what a rickshaw is and gets it confused with a hoverboat and (jokingly) guesses a bunch of other things they see in the movies later that night, including deciding the main protagonist's name in American Rickshaw was "Rick Shaw" since they couldn't remember his actual name.
- The panel theorise that Infested was the result of an attempt by the director and cast to make a movie over the space of a single weekend, in order to win a bet. This is their explanantion for why the entire movie takes place in broad daylight, as well as the terrible CGI; they thought they could leave the special effects until the last minute because they didn't realise how difficult and expensive it would be.
- The cast of Infested features some relatively well-known actors, so the panel assume that the movie was a quick cash-grab with some recognisable names to put on a DVD cover. Rich is absolutely flabbergasted to see that the cover doesn't feature any names or even faces; the movie is sold entirely on the monster bugs.
- A stinger set in Toronto shows Colin watching Twin Dragon Encounter and becoming inspired to get fit. He puts on a karate gi and heads to the McNamara brothers' own Twin Dragon Kung Fu Club... only to find that it is no longer in business and end up back on the couch eating junk food.
- Best of the Worst: Shock Em Dead, Hollow Gate, and The Satan Killer
- Josh and Rich play up the horror as they introduce the third movie. We get three false starts as Josh pulls out copies of It's Pat! from a pumpkin, each one going up from VHS to DVD and, finally, Blu-ray.
- In Hollow Gate, the panel get much amusement from the fact that the villain's attack dogs are golden retrievers, a breed known more for friendliness than ferocity. This leads Mike to pitch a horror movie about a pack of killer Pomeranians, titled "A Thousand Pomeranians".Mike: "One Pomeranian is cute, but a thousand...?"
- Much of the wrap-up is spent dunking on the photo on the IMDb page of Stephen Calamari, director of The Satan Killer, with Josh comparing it to a combination between a mugshot and a school portrait.Mike: Is anyone's IMDb picture a mugshot?
Rich: Harvey Weinstein!
Mike: [hysterical laughter] - At the end of the episode, a disembodied voice tells the gang that they desecrated the witches' sacred burial ground, so they curse them by sending them coronavirus. In The Stinger, the whole gang's been reduced to skeletons, with Jay's skeleton being comically small.
- Best of the Worst: Ben and Arthur
- Throughout the entire episode, a 1:1 scale Gremlin sits where the fourth panel member usually does. No one acknowledges it until the very end.
- When recapping the beginning of the plot, Mike, Rich and Jay keep mixing up the protagonists names. Mike trying to come up with a system of telling them apart gets confusing to say the least and it goes on for several minutes. Eventually he settles on A as in Alopecia for Arthur... and B as in Bald as in Not Bald for Ben.
- Rich later makes fun of Mike's method when he confuses Marc Summers and Mark Harmon.Mike: I've only seen that in Summer School with Marc Summers.
Jay: Mark Harmon.
Mike: Mark Harmon, Marc Summers is the Double Dare guy.
Jay: That's the Double Dare guy.
Rich: Marc Summers wasn't in Summer School, so that's how you know Marc Summers was the Double Dare guy.
Jay: (laughs)
Mike: You watch it! I've got my own methods and it's been working...30% of the time! Okay? I still get Ben and Arthur confused.
- Rich later makes fun of Mike's method when he confuses Marc Summers and Mark Harmon.
- Since the filmmakers didn't care what airplanes they showed flying by for their "travelling by plane" shots, Jay points out that they apparently go from Los Angeles to Vermont on Alaska Airlines, but come home through FedEx, implying that they stowed away in some boxes.
- Much of the discussion is spent dissecting the many pitfalls this film falls into when it comes to set design, culminating in a step-by-step guide to committing fraud at your local Goodwill.
- Best of the Worst: Christmas 2020
- Right at the outset, Rich shows up as Santa and, after talking about how long they've known each other and all the memories they share, gives Mike a present to show him how much he means to him. And that present? A black spine tape.Mike: (scared) No... (looks towards a table full of presents)
Rich: (demonically) ...they're all black spines...- "This is gonna be the best Christmas ever!" "Damn straight, it is..."
- "Merry Christmas MOTHER FUCKER!"
- Tim immediately intros the discussion, having cottoned on to the fact that the one leading the discussion doesn't have to talk about the tapes... only for Mike to point out there's eight tapes, and four of them.
- "It Ain't Worth It!" nearly gives Mike an aneurysm when Barry Sanders of the Detroit Lions is introduced holding a basketball and wearing a blue basketball jersey. Darrell Green, Washington Redskins cornerback? Also introduced on a basketball court. Rich speculates that they only prepared for A.C. Green, an NBA star, and couldn't get appropriate props in time.
- Mike expresses a little uncertainty that the tape is faith-based, interspersed with clips of all the athletes (Sanders, A.C. Green, David Robinson, Darrell Green) and Wikipedia summaries confirming that, yes, they are all devout born-again Christians. Rich makes the very salient point that Christian-produced abstinence videos for secular classrooms can't talk about "Jesus, Jesus, Jesus", or else they wouldn't be shown, and instead have to rely on "drugs, or AIDS, or whatever".
- Equally mind-melting (and hilarious) is the tape's fast-and-loose approach to statistics, most of which involve 50-50 stakes for some reason.Mike: And then the girl brought out a quarter, and said, 'Watch me flip this quarter', and said, heads or tails. Tails? You got gonorrhea. Heads, you got gonorrhea... [And] if you get the JFK side up, you've got all the STDs.
[Rich Evans demurs, ultimately giving a respectful golf clap] - Mike pitches a companion video, "It Was Worth It!", featuring sexually active teens talking about how fantastic and consequence-free casual hook-ups are.Tim: (Singing) It's all worth it, look at me, I'm doing fine!
Rich: Memories to last a lifeti~me!
Tim: "I'm havin' sex right now, and it feels great!"
Mike: Y'all all suckas~!
- Second Chance vs. Magnum Force proves to be the most bonkers self-defense tape the gang has seen since the legendary Surviving Edged Weapons, in large part because the host, Richard Davis, bears an uncanny vocal (and more than a slight physical) resemblance to Roger Ebert, which makes Davis's over-the-top displays of machismo weirdly surreal.
- Despite being made to promote Richard Davis's line of Second Chance Kevlar body armor, the video has just as much filler — Davis shooting up cars for the hell of it, bad comedy sketches starring Davis and his non-actor friends, segments made to showcase Davis being a man's man — as it does actual info and testimonials.note The guys, going into it blind, have no idea what to make of the tape at first.
- In one of the segments, Davis lifts "350" pounds over his head; in a caption, he admits it's really 175, but claims he could've also done twice the reps if he wanted to. Whether or not this was meant to be a joke, Davis is then left genuinely out of breath for a good while, cracking Jay up.Tim: He's fuckin' winded! "I'm stronger than most!"
- The sketch depicting police officers "as seen by... those whining leftest pinkos !" delights everyone for the novelty of seeing an army of cops roll up on a children's play fort and blow it to smithereens with shotguns after the kids stole some comic books.
- Due to the tape's considerable length of two hours, they could only watch the first half that night. Rich, thinking about the "leftest pinkos" skit, is quick to mention that he doesn't want to praise the tape too much, in the off chance that Davis's politics just kept getting more prominent and radical through the runtime.Rich: I'm afraid, like, the next skit's going to be "how the Jews view police officers"! [...] So if he starts endorsing, like, white-genocide ideas near the end of this, WE DON'T KNOW!
Tim: We don't know!
Jay: We just thought it was funny when he got a pie in the face, okay?! Give us a break!
- "How to Carve Great Faces for Halloween" has a lot of fun at the expense of poor Gordy Falk, both for how not-great and rushed his pumpkin faces are (his reputation as the "Pumpkin Man" was based on the quantity of his outdoor displays, not individual quality), and for the nonexistent production values of the video making it look exactly what it seemed like — that Falk filled his kitchen with pumpkins, drank a couple of beers, and turned the camera on.Falk: We gotta nice little five-pound pumpkin, here... aaaaand the first thing we have to do is get the top off.
Mike: "So, WHY did your wife leave you?"
Falk: [Pulling out a gigantic curved carving knife] ...And then you want a great, big, huge knife.
Mike: "And HOW did she die?" - Mike spends a surprisingly long time—during their annual Christmas episode—talking about famous spouse murderers. This gets edited down to a couple of minutes in the YouTube cut, but according to Jay, this tangent was forty-five minutes long.
- Once Mike gets to the point in the story where the murderers used blue barrels to dispose of their victims, the polka standard "Roll Out The Barrel" begins to play in the background.
- To finish the video, the crew decide to watch the rest of "Second Chance vs. Magnum Force", their pick for "Best of the Worst". Time-lapse footage of them watching the video plays during the credits and shows that they all left a couple minutes before the video ended and left the tape running until the VCR stopped itself.
- Right at the outset, Rich shows up as Santa and, after talking about how long they've known each other and all the memories they share, gives Mike a present to show him how much he means to him. And that present? A black spine tape.
