Pcull (technically, Pcull with five 4's after it, but they're generally not referred to anyway) is a YouTube-based Lets Player. And while being emotive and interesting to listen to is generally important for a Let's Player, Pcull is notable for going far above and beyond. He has an extremely bombastic narration style, full of overblown diction, wildly vacillating voicesand accents, and his fairly deep natural voice. Add to that a tendency to ramble at length about whatever comes to mind while he's playing the game (he once burst into the entirety of a Tiny Tim song just because he felt like it), and you have one wacky LP'er on your hands.As for the games he's Let's Played themselves, he's tackled a number of games from Nintendo systems, mostly the Super Nintendo. He's also played a number of the 2D Zelda games, as well as several licensed titles.
Angrish: Most of his part in the Battletoads race is like this, but special mention must be made of one moment late in Part 3: After getting thrown across the room for the umpteenth time by one of the rubber ducks in Stage 9, his frustration breaks down into what can only be described as a real-life Stupid Statement Dance Mix. (Check it out around 27 minutes into the video.)
At the end of the race, he was given an achievement for the sheer number of times he went into an incoherent rage:
Quit Yo' Jibba Jabba!: Spoke in gibberish the most
Insistent Terminology: Ezlo in The Minish Cap is always called "Elmo". In Diddy Kong Racing, Diddy Kong is "Michael Bolton" and it gets more and more insistent over time, until by the end of the LP Pcull is even calling the game "Michael Bolton Racing".
Last Lousy Point: In-universe, happens to him when he attempts to get 100 coins in Shifting Sand Land in Super Mario 64. He goes into the pyramid, exhausts all the coins in there, and finds himself with... 99. And he can't leave the pyramid, no matter how hard he tries.
Last-Second Word Swap: "Peace out, mothertruckers!" Of course, he says it at the end of every video, so it's not precisely last second, but it's in the spirit of the trope.
Man of a Thousand Voices: Of particular note are his "Midwestern mother-in-law," "Surfer Dude," "Christopher Walken," and "Mickey Mouse" voices. He also does an absolutely uncanny Morgan Freeman.
During his Minish Cap LP, he decides to give Ezlo a new voice for each episode.
Metal Scream: His usual intro. "OOOOOH WUTUP DISSIS PCULL!"
He also does this in his Super Mario 64 LP whenever he gets the Metal Cap.
Performance Anxiety: The Let's Play curse hits him hard in Super Mario 64. Combine this with oddball glitches, and he admits that his fail is probably what's keeping his fans interested.
Punny Name: In Pokémon Red, most of the nicknames he gives his Pokemon create puns when coupled with the "Go! [NAME!]" part of the battle text. Except for FLARP!
Real Men Wear Pink: He breaks into a Hannah Montana song at one point. And he fully admits that he has no problems with knowing, or being able to sing, one.
Rhymes on a Dime: "Goody-goody gumdrop! ...Listen to my tongue flop!"
Sure, Why Not?: A YouTube user named Teh Jon Bro animated a portion of audio from one of his Pokémon Red videos, and depicted him as a monkey wearing a crown. Pcull was so taken with this, the monkey king (holding a pickle) is now his "official" depiction.
Tempting Fate: "Just watch, I'm going to spend forty minutes yelling at this game." Actual time on the video: 41 minutes, 50 seconds.
In episode 2 of Diddy Kong Racing he mentions that he only found out recently that you can fall off the side of the spiral level because 'I've never been bad enough at this game to fall off'. Three guesses what he manages to do seconds later. Twice.
Vocal Dissonance: In his Super Mario 64 LP, he gives Toad a deep, manly voice after brushing off a more typical high-pitched one.
And then there's pretty much the entirety of his co-commentary on Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors. He gives each character pretty much the least appropriate voice.
Not to mention the low, manly voice he gives Jasmine at the end of his Aladdin LP.
With Lyrics: Among others, constantly sings about Fish Fillets to the tune of whatever level music is playing in Super Mario World. Especially the level end jingle.
He constantly sings along whatever's on his mind to any one of the songs from Diddy Kong Racing.
(technically, Pcull with five 4's after it, but they're generally not referred to anyway) is a YouTube-based Lets Player. And while being emotive and interesting to listen to is generally important for a Let's Player, Pcull is notable for going far above and beyond. He has an extremely bombastic narration style, full of overblown diction, wildly vacillating voices and accents, and his fairly deep natural voice. Add to that a tendency to ramble at length about whatever comes to mind while he's playing the game (he once burst into the entirety of a Tiny Tim song just because he felt like it), and you have one wacky LP'er on your hands.As for the games he's Let's Played themselves, he's tackled a number of games from Nintendo systems, mostly the Super Nintendo. He's also played a number of the 2D Zelda games, as well as several licensed titles.
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