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  • Chugga once hated his real name Emile and as a child he wanted to be called Steve. When Mimi reveals her true form, he remembers why he hated Emile and his nickname.
  • In episode 3 of his Super Mario Sunshine LP, he said that he had no plans to do Super Mario Galaxy or Super Mario 64. He would later technically stick to this, playing Super Luigi Galaxy and Super Mario 64 DS instead.
  • Also, in 2009, Chugga comments in a video of his SMS game "...I'm surpised PETA hasn't gotten on this game, yet." Another Mario game would become a target of PETA later, to the point that they made a mock game to show the animal cruelty the game is "promoting".
  • In his The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask LP, a Running Gag was that he'd kill the bosses by 'chopping off their toes'. Then Skyward Sword came out, and it was revealed that the first step to beating The Imprisoned boss was to literally chop off its toes.
  • In one of his Super Luigi Galaxy videos, he gets a coin and a star together and jokingly says he got a Coin Star and won Mario Party. Fast forward to 2011, and we have The Runaway Guys.
  • "This is the moment that starts it all." He says this while the camera focuses on a planted red leaf Pikmin.
  • His first use of the now-famous name is when he says "We'll just call him Steve and we're not going to like him." Let's just say the "not liking him" part would turn out to be an understatement.
  • In his Special Features video for Mother 3, Chugga announced that EarthBound would never be re-released outside of Japan. 4 years later, Nintendo announced they would do just that. Chugga's response on his Twitter:
    "How I wish I recorded my little girl scream from the reveal of EarthBound Wii U coming to the US."
  • In Super Mario 64 DS, Chugga talks about how maybe at E3 2013 there would be a multiplayer 3D Mario Game. He was right.
  • In Kirby's Epic Yarn:
  • Chugga talking about how changing someone's name while their knocked out as a joke becomes really funny after the same thing happens to him in Dokapon Kingdom Episode 3. To make matters even funnier, Jon chose to rename him Steve, not realizing the connection to a certain Pikmin of Emile's until Emile mentioned it.
  • Chugga (jokingly) suggests that the disparity in Luigi's characterization between Paper Mario 64 and Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga is because of character development that happened because of Luigi's Mansion, and not 24 hours later, Paper Jam is announced and shows that the two series take place in separate universes.
  • In an Animal Crossing New Leaf video, Chugga shows the new feature of placing furniture on the walls, and jokingly believes that the next Animal Crossing game will introduce hanging furniture from the ceilings. In Happy Home Designer, ceiling furniture is indeed available.
  • In Okamiden, Chugga mentions that he was scared of frogs growing up and tended to run screaming from them. Seems like his interactions with Croque were doomed from the start.
  • From Animal Crossing: New Leaf onward, most of Chugga's chosen games to LP have gotten news related to them announced or even released during/shortly after his playthrough:
  • Then the trend gets reversed at times, and occasionally it seems that Nintendo games are predicting Chugga's playthroughs:
  • In one episode of his ''Super Luigi Galaxy" LP, Chugga makes a joke about Star Bunnies, then lampshading that he doesn't know much about rabbits, having never owned one. Come 2016, and Emile gets a pet rabbit named Pippy.
  • During a bonus episode of his Splatoon LP, Chugga joked that, because Team Marie won the Callie vs. Marie Splatfest, Marie is factually the superior Squid Sister. According to Marina in the following game, Splatfest results are law, meaning that he's not too far off.
  • When dealing with Tolstar, Chugga criticizes him on not taking the Bros. money before scamming them. His + Bowser's Minions incarnation seems to have taken his advice.
  • In Episode 5 of his Pikmin 2 LP, he said that, while it wouldn't fit a Mario game the whole way through, he wished that they'd put a level in a Mario game in which everything looks realistic, like in Pikmin 2. Cut to Super Mario Odyssey, where the Metro Kingdom (which brings Pauline back with a new outfit for a new role) is exactly that.
  • In Pokemon FireRed he points out that Misty is wearing a swimsuit and sneakers and deduces that she swims with her shoes on just like everyone in the Mario & Sonic Olympic games. In the 2020 version, the human characters swim realistically, in other words, barefoot (although Peach and Daisy did this in an earlier game). Also counts as fan disservice for characters like Wario and Eggman.
  • At the end of Luigi's Mansion Dark Moon, he suspects that Luigi's Mansion 3 will happen due to E. Gadd accidentally pushing the Boo release button on his remote. Turns out King Boo's escape in 3 wasn't due to E. Gadd's incompetence.
  • During Pokemon Crystal's Kanto Post-Game, he addresses some comments saying their jealous of him because he makes money off his videos. Chugga points out that he doesn't "get diddly squat for it". This is no longer the case as he does indeed make money with his LPs.
  • The final bonus video of Chugga's redone EarthBound let's play was dedicated to showcasing the Tent Glitch, a Game-Breaking Bug that could produce all sorts of bizarre results; many commenters compared the video to one of Vinesauce Vinny's corruption streams as a result of the sheer similarity between the two in content and tone. Over a year and a half later, Vinny would start uploading pre-recorded videos of him playing Xenoblade Chronicles 1: Definitive Edition, a departure from his standard livestreaming content, that commenters would compare to a let's play. While it's more similar to a modern blind LP than Chugga's walkthrough style, one can't help but giggle at the parallels, especially given that Xenoblade is Chugga's favorite game of all time and Vinny had previously streamed a full playthrough of EarthBound two years before Chugga's redo of the LP.
  • In part 28 of his Pokémon Platinum LP, he mentions how he thinks Pelipper would be a more useful Pokémon if it only got a better ability. Later that same year, Pokémon Sun and Moon ended up giving Pelipper Drizzle, which vastly improved its competitive viability and quickly shot it up to Overused in the Smogon metagame.
  • Emile wouldn't prove to be the last Let's player to struggle with Shari living in his Animal Crossing town.
  • In his EarthBound lets play, Emile tells a story where he dreamt he married a woman who always wore a veil. On taking it off he learned that he married a tree just before waking up. He further added that yes, they had kids and everything. Becomes funny when during The Secret of Mana LP with TRG. He played the main character who was the son of a man and a woman who was a tree.
  • In his Sonic Colours playthrough, he mentioned that he'd like a HD port at some point in his first episode. Fast forward a few years and we have Sonic Colours Ultimate.
  • One of the running gags in his LP of Skyward Sword was counting the redundant item explanations every time they happened (basically, every time you turned off the game and then came back, picking up an item you already got would do the "You got X" scene every single time). Come the HD Remaster for Switch, and one of the big quality of life changes made was removing that redundancy.
  • In Splatoon 2, Agent 4 is named Joe per the name given to Chugga's secondary Switch account (which, in turn, is named after his Blue Pikmin), and for Agent 8, he wanted to name him something that rhymed, settling on Moe. ...Are Agent 4 "Joe" and Agent 8 "Moe" secretly the Komodo Brothers?
  • Also from Splatoon 2, in episode 10, Chugga has an unintentional guest in the form of JoshJepson, who he winds up facing in a random match up. Come episode 53, and Josh returns as the final guest of the series. Unintentional Foreshadowing?
  • Emile shipping Rex and Nia throughout Xenoblade Chronicles 2 and making fun of how awkwardly Rex handled Nia's Love Confession became this after Xenoblade Chronicles 3 revealed that Rex ended up marrying and having children with Nia (and Pyra and Mythra) anyway. Looks like Nia got wood for her Affinity Chart, after all.
    • Relatedly, during the Torna playthrough, Emile called out Azurda ("Gramps" in the base game) for acting like a cat.Context  Well, now he's got at least two cat-people in the family, and one is his actual grandchild.
  • An episode of Mario Party 2 with MasaeAnela has them playing Archer-ival and Emile says he imagines the three player team hiding behind the wall moving their targets. Come Mario Party Superstars, this is correct. If anybody from the team didn't get their targets shot by an arrow, they jump out from behind the wall to celebrate.
  • At the end of his Splatoon 2 Let's Play, Emile discusses DJ Octavio and how he feels he gets a bad rep. Come Splatoon 3, it's revealed very early on he wasn't responsible for kidnapping the Great Zapfish in that game, and at the very end of the game, he actively saves New Agent 3 in their time of need and teams up with the New Squidbeak Splatoon to stop Mr. Grizz's plans. Apparently, he was an even better guy than Emile gave him credit for.
  • The fifth bonus episode of his Pokémon Colosseum Let's Play has Chugga wishing Gamefreak would just give Dunsparce an evolution already. Come Pokémon Scarlet and Violet, Dunsparce can now evolve into Dudunsparce, and said evo even has two different forms!
  • During his dual Let's Play of Luigi's Mansion and Pikmin 2, Chugga's channel icon was a Pikmin's dying ghost with a green color scheme. Come Pikmin 4, and a new type of Pikmin was introduced, Glow Pikmin, which are not only green, but also highly resemble ghosts. Even funnier in that the ghost Pikmin is shown floating in a nighttime background, as Glow Pikmin are only capable of being used at nighttime or in caves.
  • His long-delayed part 4 of Sticks It to Sticker Star heaped unexpected praise upon many of the set pieces of chapter 4, including the way Bowser's Snow Fort winds up being both a fortress and a living Bowser statue that serves as the boss itself. Less than one day later, the official Nintendo Direct for Super Mario Bros. Wonder revealed that Bowser combining with a castle is a central plot point of that game as well.
  • During Animal Crossing New Leaf, he holds a contest for audience members to design clothes for him to wear in the game for a week and appoints Jon as the judge. Jon selects a Princess Peach dress. Another princess in the Mario franchise would end up causing him unexpected misfortune during Mario Party 5 and 6 when he plays as Daisy to replace Donkey Kong.
    • Jon would do the same thing years later with Rosalina during TRG Colosseum.
  • While going through Purity Forest in Rescue Team DX, Chugga comes across a Flygon which uses Hyper Beam right as he's about to give its species some words of pity. Upon being hit, Chugga apologizes for ever feeling sorry for Flygon and adds, "see if I ever let you be relevant in anything I do." In fairness, he immediately backtracks that threat as he's not sure he can commit to it, but come his Black 2 and White 2 Let's Play, it becomes clear he couldn't, as Jade the Flygon becomes a main team member.
  • When announcing his Paper Mario remake LP, Emile shoots a skit where he criticizes Paper Mario himself for wasting his potential, and tells him he needs to pull himself together. A remake of Thousand Year Door was announced only a few months later, making it seem like Paper Mario really did pull himself together, something Emile himself would lampshade on Twitter.
  • During Super Mario 64DS, he calls out commenters telling him to drop the baby penguin off the cliff. He would later do the same thing in another Nintendo game.
  • In Pokemon Crystal, he doesn't think there are any Dragon pokemon that are bad "except maybe Altaria". He would use Altaria in Pokemon Emerald.
  • Wario's slow swimming speed got some frustration out of him, particularly calling him a "less effective swimmer than the protagonist of Pokemon". While Wario's swimming speed in Super Mario 64DS is abysmal, Pokemon Legends Arceus would reveal the protagonist can barely swim.
  • A twofer. An episode of Super Mario Sunshine has him saying he wouldn't be a very good Let's Player for Donkey Kong 64. With him, Proton Jon, and Nintendo Capri Sun founding Therunawayguys, he would play as Donkey Kong in the Mario Party series. They would also go on to play Donkey Kong Country Returns.

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