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Super Metroid

• The discussion about Metroid II: Return of Samus is Hilarious in Hindsight given this was obviously recorded well before the release of Another Metroid 2 Remake and Metroid: Samus Returns.
• Emile wishes that Ridley had Slowbeef's voice. So they do an impression of it, which ends up turning into an impression of Emile himself.
• Jon and Tim have an inverted This Is Gonna Suck moment when they realize just how much fun the project's going to be after witnessing Emile almost fail to escape Ceres Station in time.
• Episode 1 ends with possibly the weirdest outtro yet (for context, it's about a Map Station):
  Emile: "I'm not supposed to stand on it, I'm supposed to have sex with it."
  Jon: "With your arm?"
  [Video Ends]
• In Episode 2, they discuss how Samus cleans her suit. Tim suggests that she just goes through a car wash, which makes the other guys laugh.
• Emile reaches the point in the game where he got stuck all those years ago, which involved him completely failing to notice a Morph Ball tunnel near the start of Crateria until he gave up. All this at the ripe young age of...17. And it still takes him a few passes at age 26.
• Near the start of Episode 3, as Emile advances to another area in the game he'd previously never gotten to before, Jon states that his 17-year-old self must be glad to finally have closure now. Emile then replies that he thought Jon was originally going to say he "finally has clothes" and then admits when he was 17 he often did sit around his computer room naked, to which Jon sarcastically thanks Emile for telling him that.
• After defeating Spore Spawn in Episode 4, Emile has an... interesting thought.^* For context, you escape Spore Spawn's room by using the dead boss as a platform.
  Emile: "I wonder if there's ever been a murderer that, like, turned his victims into stepladders."
• After they get the speed booster, they discuss it like Samus got new shoes and Zebes is a brand of sneakers
  Emile: My pair of Zeebs also let me run like this.
  Jon: You got an upgraded pair of Zeebs.
  Emile: I got the 2016 Zeebs.
  Jon: Oh my god.
  Emile: They got red Xes on them which makes you run faster.
• In Episode 8, Emile tries various stuff on one of the floor enemies Jon draws his attention to before realising that it's actually a fake to cover a hole in the floor. This includes shooting it, so when Emile drops down through it he finds he has already opened up the powerup below, and claims that he found a speedrunning tactic. The Guys then joke about how Emile has now become the source of speedrunning wisdom, during which he struggles to leave the room using the Hi-Jump.
• Emile's idea for an intro in episode 10:
  Emile: [singing along to the fanfare] "Y cant Metroid craaaaaawl?"
  Jon: "Oh, good Lord..."
• At the start of episode 11, Jon and Tim have a heated discussion as to where Emile should go next, and he compared it to parents discussing their kid's academic future.
• Emile shares his thoughts on the Shinespark:
  Emile: "That's gotta feel so cool, it's like... having a rocket shoved up your ass without the anal pain."
  [Beat]
  Jon: "...Okay."
• The entire "Lovesac!" conversation in episode 11. ^note The three moved a Lovesac-brand beanbag chair off to one side to get set up for recording, and Emile's cat Kirby used it as a stepladder so it could reach and start playing with Emile's amiibos.
• Emile mentions a cartoon called "The Brothers Flub," and how you should never, at all costs, watch the intro. Cue lots of people in the comments doing just that, and immediately regretting it....
• Emile discovering how to get into Maridia by accident is both this and awesome.
  Jon: "Keep this room in mind for later."
  Emile: "Got it, flood the chamber!" [Drops Power Bomb]
  • When the chamber is flooded, Tim jokes about the water physics by speaking in slow motion.
    Tim: "Itttttttsssss liiiiiiiiiiikkkkkke wheeeeen yooooooou plaaaaaaaaay the coooooooommmmeeeentarrrrryyy aaaaaaat twenty-five perceeent speeeeeeeeed."
• Episode 14: Emile pulls off yet another pretty impressive feat using the newly-acquired Grappling Beam to grapple onto a moving Ripper II while doing a running jump in order to reach a Missile Pack...then immediately afterward, forgets how to use the beam the easy way. As Jon mocks him for it...
  Jon: "You pulled off this phenomenal flying-jump Grappling Hook, and the standing-still Grappling Hook is getting you."
  Emile: "Says the man who can't make one-block jumps in Mario, but can beat Kaizo."
  Tim: "Whoa..."
  [Beat]
  Jon: "...is that a challenge? Do you want to go through Kaizo? Is that what you're saying?"
  Emile: "You know, with how I'm doing in 2D games, maybe I don't need save states!"
  • Also from Episode 14, a discussion of cereal causes Emile to launch into a passionate rant about Kix. Jon points out that Emile sounds like he was hurt by the cereal as a child.
    Jon: "Where did the cereal touch you as a child, Emile? Jesus!"
    Emile: "It touched my insides! Literally!"
    Jon: "Ewww..."
• In episode 16, a Seinfeldian Conversation about world domination leads to Emile telling a story about how he used to think Mother Teresa had taken over the world.
• The utter struggle to get the reserve tank in episode 18.
  • Emile deciding to bomb jump all the way to the top of the very tall shaft instead of shinesparking, despite the others protesting. He actually gets to the top, but a speed block blocks the way.
  • After failing to get to the top, Emile somehow decides to leave the room, failing to notice or forgetting about the reserve tank on top of the shaft he bomb-jumped all the way up to. Jon is utterly baffled by the turn of events.
  • Immediately after finally getting to the top he falls into a trap pit, getting back to the bottom of the shaft. Twice.
    Jon: "This is the hardest to earn reserve tank!"
• Episode 19 brings us "Brain Care", originally a continuation of their "President Mother Brain" jokes from earlier in the series, but which Emile and Tim find to be Inherently Funny Words and mindlessly repeat for a while, to Jon's dismay.
• During a conversation in Episode 19, Jon argues that there's a lot of things Emile would like more if he had more patience. When asked for an example, the first one he gives is Paper Mario: Sticker Star. That wasn't a good idea. Emile goes on an uncharacteristically-angry rant about the game and says it's actually the game he dislikes the most out of any game he's played. Jon is pretty taken aback by this.
  Jon: "That got him a little more than I thought it would. Wow."
• The story about the French restaurant in Episode 19. TL;DR: Emile and friends went to a French restaurant one time at PAX East, but forgot French Cuisine Is Haughty and showed up criminally underdressed. Emile surmises he was not the first customer to show up like that, owing to the restaurant being highly-rated and near where PAX East is held.
  Jon: "I'm sure they didn't mind if you gave them money."
• Episode 20: Buzzsaw Man Pants.
  • Even better, the room Buzzsaw Man Pants appears in requires the being to be alive in order to break the blocks to get past it. Buzzsaw Man Pants is also immune to Power Bombs, which is also needed to break him free. Guess how many tries Emile takes before he figures out the gimmick of that room?^Answer Three.
  • Finally, Emile's extended reaction to Jon repeating Buzzsaw Man Pants (and all of the other dumb stuff Emile's said in the past), causing the others to wonder if he needs help.
    Jon: "My god, [Emile's] gone! He's completely gone!"
• Episode 21 opens on Emile wondering just what it was he found so funny the previous episode:
  Emile: "What did I think was so funny last night?"
  Jon: "Nothing. Don't worry about it."
• In episode 23, Emile makes a reference to Macduff's backstory in Macbeth which goes totally over Jon's head. When Emile explains the reference, Jon admits he thought that Emile was referencing DuckTales (1987) at first.
  Jon: "Like, what the fuck happened in Ducktales? Did I miss an episode?"
  [Later, to the tune of the Ducktales theme song] "Life is like a hurricane: c-sections, dead wives!"
• Episode 26: While Emile fights the Space Pirates guarding Ridley's lair, Tim sings along to the background music with "I Was Watching Television", which Emile finds amusing because the room they are in at the time is full of what look like TV sets hanging from the ceiling. This causes Emile to start Corpsing, in a similar vein to "Buzzsaw Man Pants".
  • Emile says that by the end of the episode, Tim's ad-libbed lyrics will send them all into hysterics. Lo and behold, Jon eventually caves when Tim repeats the "I was watching television" line.
  • Tim's singing eventually throws off Emile so badly that he immediately forgets which way to go upon receiving his last power bomb upgrade. Jon is dumbfounded.
• In Episode 27, just after achieving 100% Completion, Emile fails a spot check one last time for good measure by forgetting which door leads to Tourian despite Jon pointing it out not two minutes ago.
• And, not to be outdone, after doing a nearly flawless run through Tourian, Emile dies on the escape sequence after making it to his ship with seconds to spare because instead of going into his ship, he accidentally goes into his Morph Ball. The screams of agony are delicious.
  Emile: "I PRESSED DOWN!"
  • During the first escape sequence, Jon tells Emile that to save the animals, he has to go to the room where he first found the bombs... The same room he got stuck trying to find all those years ago.
  • Earlier during Episode 28, Tom can be heard shouting in the background while playing Overwatch. He's so loud that Emile had to mention it in editing.

Metroid Prime

Running gags:

• Emile constantly forgets about the Scan Visor, leading to multiple exasperated reactions from the other two (especially Jon).
• Continuing from Super Metroid, Emile and Tim singing nonsensical lyrics involving television to the background music of Magmoor Caverns.

Episode 1 - "Played for Three Seconds"

• Jon's reaction to how far Emile got in the game is downright legendary.
  Emile: (at the opening gate) Okay. So, this is as far as I got when I played this the first time.
  Jon: Are you KIDDING me?!

Episode 4 - "Have Ball"

• Once Emile gets the Morph Ball, he starts talking about how he thought Volleyball was pronounced "Balleyball", which somehow segues into how Live A Live is pronounced.
  Jon: What would "Balleyball" entail?
  Emile: Well like, it's just, you know, a fun little name, like "Balleyball", like y'know, it's a ball that's bally.
  Tim: It's like Live A Live, but it's balls.

Episode 5 - "Mysteries of Life"

• The very first line, leading to a discussion where even Jon has to admit that Emile's logic is sound.
  Emile: And the other thing is: Do you gain weight when you fart? Because your intestines have something that's lighter than air in them, and then they no longer do.^{If You Actually Want an Answer} No, it will not. Methane may be lighter than air, but it still has weight, so it leaving your body will make you lighter, not heavier. For farting to make you heavier, your body's volume would have to decrease by more than the volume of air that equals the weight of the expelled gas, which does not happen.
• Emile reads out the first Chozo Lore in the episode in a manner that depicts all of the Chozo as hippies.

Episode 7 - "Hot Jumprope"

• Jon humming along to the background music leads to Tim humming the Song of Storms, which then leads to Jon mentioning a Zelda game came out on the day of recording...which then leads Emile to almost quit the LP mid-recording to go play it.
  Jon: Be an adult! Be an adult!

Episode 8 - "Looking Right At It"

• Emile scans an enemy and then goes right back to playing without reading the scan. Then:
  Jon: You didn't read it.
  Emile: What'd it say?
  Jon: You didn't read it.
  Emile Yeah, what'd it say?
  Jon: You didn't read it.
  Emile: Yeah-
  Jon: Like as in, you did the scan for the creature but you didn't read the creature's entry, as in you made no text appear, there was nothing that we could read, you didn't read it.
• Emile's clip of Taion shooting someone at point blank range comes up again after the previous video and Jon reluctantly allows him to show it.
  Tim: Hey guys, we're back with more Metroid Prime!
  Jon: Metroid Prime looks a little different than how I remember it. Does this have any spoiler shit in it?
  Emile: Actually don't know if it does.^{If you want to know}  It shows one character with an appearance different from her default appearance.
  Jon: For fuck's sake, Emile.

Episode 9 - "Flaahgra"

• Three minutes into the titular boss fight, Emile's controller suddenly stops working, prompting Jon to explain what happened:
  Jon: For reference's sake, what just happened was, the dock that Emile's playing on is nowhere near him; the cord's not long enough. So I plugged into the other dock nearby, which Tim's Switch has been sitting in. When the controller finally died of battery power, it finally realized it was plugged in and started pulling from that, which synced it to Tim's Switch which was just sitting in the dock. So now I need to actually take Emile's controller, sync it back to his OWN system, THEN come back and plug it into the dock which has nothing in it now, so it will not attempt to re-sync to Tim's. This is very stupid.
• Jon's reaction upon Emile failing to realize that the boss does, indeed, have a health bar:
  Jon: Also they have a healthbar.
  Emile: Oh, I didn't...
  Jon: God!
  Tim: Oooo baby!
  Emile: I'm sorry it's not, like, flashing red, I'm not gonna look at it—
  Jon: It's literally in front of where you're shooting!
  Emile: *laughs*
  Jon: They can't place it any more obvious without putting it right where your gun is!
  Emile: I'unno man I'm not looking at s—
  Jon: Are you sure videogames are for you?!
  • Jon then notes that Emile told him a story about his ignorance: He managed to play The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild up until the end of the game without cooking anything, because Emile thought you needed an item to cook food, and another to make potions, due to how previous games in the franchise required you to find the required item to use a feature, and never thought to just use a cooking pot.

Episode 10 - "Magmoor Caverns"

• The utter joy in Emile's voice when he realizes that the music is a remix of Lower Norfair's theme:
  Emile: IT'S TELEVISION!
• Emile tells a story about the first time Adriana Figueroa watched A New Hope and missed the scene where Obi-Wan dies because she was googling to find out if he dies. He considers this "the most Adriana thing I've ever heard in my entire life."

Episode 14 - "Rare Earth Metals"

• Emile shares several anecdotes about a Pointy-Haired Boss of his from when he was working at a movie theater during high school:
  • He was short, balding, and liked to yell at people that they were going to be fired, prompting Emile to privately call him Mr. Spacely.
  • Pulling Emile away from work one day to ask him what color a sign was. When Emile answered pink, he claimed that was wrong; the sign was actually every color BUT pink, because it was reflecting every color that it was absorbing so that it appears that way to your eye. And then immediately telling Emile to get back to work.
  • During a midnight showing of Harry Potter, a bunch of people started showing up at 9, saying they were going to hang out typing on their laptop until midnight, prompting Emile to just say "Okay." When his boss saw this, he said "You mean to tell me you let them get by you with a computer?! You know they could be recording the movie, right?" He then proceeded to spend the next three hours standing over Emile's shoulder, telling people that he was going to look in their bags.
  • When Emile was playing with his DS in the break room, his boss came in, saw him, and said "I can't believe you would do something so wasteful as play video games," claiming that the hobby wastes rare earth metals that could be used to advance mankind. He also told Emile that he should be spending his money at the only company that makes computers for their intended purpose: Apple.

Episode 24 - "Thermal Visor"

• Emile, very well known for being hugely into StreetPass, initially had to be introduced to it through Jon because he "thought it looked lame".

Episode 39 - "Wave Trooper"

• At the beginning of the episode Jon is trying to hint to Emile to visit a save room he hasn't discovered yet at the beginning of the Phazon Mines, with decreasing subtlety (and patience), as Emile keeps missing the very obvious Spider Ball track leading to the save room. After about two minutes of wandering around the same room (and trying to leave out of the entrance multiple times), Emile finally finds the door to the save room, which has a bit of flaming debris at the end of a very short hallway with the actual save station on the left. He then spends another 30 seconds trying to break through the debris (beyond which is very obviously nothing), before Jon, exasperated, states quietly that Emile should look at his map. With near-perfect comic timing, Emile opens the map and sloooowly rotates it to reveal the little nook where the save station is, then closes the map and equally sloooowly turns to the left to face the very obvious, glowing save station access panel. He and Tim burst into laughter as Jon sighs and muses:
  Jon: Is this my penance for something?!? What did I do? What did I do to deserve this?!?"