Recap / The Nostalgia Critic S 4 E 41

Release: November 1, 2011

Film: Doug's 1st Movie (1999)

This review contains examples of:

• 555: The phone number for Bob's "Stab 'em and Burn 'em" Torches and Pitchforks.
• Actually Pretty Funny: The Critic calls the scene where Mr. Dink shows off his virtual reality stuff the only funny scene in the movie.
• Bait-and-Switch:
  Critic: So [Herman] goes back into the water, and we get to see our favorite character one last time before the film ends. (Roger is shown) No no, not that puke stain! (Robocrusher is shown)
• Call-Back: The Critic recalls his hate for Doug from his Nicktoons review.
• Happy Dance: The Critic rejoices upon discovering that they Replaced the Theme Tune for Doug.
  Critic: Oh, it's bland, it's forgettable, it sounds like nothing I'd remember in recent history... but hey, so is the fucking show! It's absolutely perfect!
• Imagine Spot: The Critic has one that mocks how Doug's fantasies usually play out:
  Critic: Hmm, one of these days, I'd like to do a crossover with Nash!
  (cut to the Critic and Nash in a girly bedroom, with the Critic dressed as a knight and Nash as a beautican holding a Space Core doll)
  Nash: You... are weird.
• Informed Attractiveness: The Critic has a severe problem with the Lucky Duck Lake monster, in his Paper-Thin Disguise as a female student, being called cute by the other girls.
• Inner Thoughts, Outsider Puzzlement: The Critic wonders what happens in real life while Doug is having fantasies of being Quailman. Critic imagines Skeeter being concerned while Doug is lost in a daydream and trying to figure out what's going on with his friend.
• In Memoriam:invoked The Critic does this for Robocrusher once he witnesses Bluff's guards destroying it.
• Large Ham: Critic during his rant.
  Critic: You... are fired... from breathing! Please, pack up your desk, and kindly leave... LIIIIFE!!!
• Manipulative Editing: At the end of the movie's cold opening, blood splashes on the screen, implying that Skeeter was mauled by the Lucky Duck Lake monster. The Critic then admits there's no gore.
• Mondegreen Gag: Critic mistakes Patty saying "Funkytown" as "Fuckytown".
• Moral Event Horizon: In-universe, Critic describes Bluff's men destroying Roger's maid robot as this, calling her the only likable character in the movie.
• Obligatory Joke: Subverted — the Critic looked as though he's about to say something when Patti refers to the disguised "Herman Melville" as "Hermione", but he changes his mind and says, "I already made a Hogwarts joke, so I'll just let this one go."
• Pop Quiz: After the disasterous press conference:
  Critic: So after they find out that the workers did indeed work for Mr. Bluff, and that it was just a plan to capture the monster, the mayor's plan is going to be:
  A: Have Bluff arrested
  B: Document all that she can by video and eye witnesses that the monster is real
  Or
  C: Have some of Bud's famous leftover meatloaf
  (the latter scenario plays out)
  Critic: Am I on Mars?! Tell me I'm on Mars! None of this makes any goddamn sense, I must be on Mars!
• Punctuated! For! Emphasis!: "YOU... ARE ON... METH!!!"
• Rage Breaking Point: The Critic was able to let some of the movie's more baffling moments slide — the male students being excited for the Valentine's Dance, Mayor Dink not using her powers to expose Herman, and Roger and his gang not attracting media attention for inventing a giant robot or a Shrink Ray — but he draws the line at Herman being called cute by the girls while disguised as a girl himself.
• Running Gag: "But I digress!"
  • "You fucking people."
• Shout-Out
  • "The film opens in The '90s, but for some reason people act like it's the fifties as being told by the seventies."
  • "Why do you go where I can't follow?"
  • The Critic calls the characters "Dr. Seuss mutants" and "jellybean-colored Simpson rejects".
  • The Critic responds to the armed security at the dance by showing clips of the guards from The Blues Brothers.
  • The Critic describes Doug and Skeeter trying to fight off the monster instead of calling the cops as them taking the Paranormal Activity approach.
  • Upon seeing that Roger's gang actually built Robocrusher (although not in the scale Roger wanted), he sarcastically says he did it in high school all the time, right after he made the Honor Roll in Muggle Studies.
  • The Critic describes Robocrusher as "a sort of Julia Child bot".
• Subverted Catchphrase: "I'm the Nostalgia Critic. I remember it—" (original Doug theme plays)
• Take That!
  • During his rant about teenage girls...
  Critic: This is the species that's turning this into a cultural phenomenon!
  • Critic describes Doug's fantasies as if Scrubs and Family Guy took all of their pointless cutaway jokes and turned it into some sort of horrible hybrid of wasted time.
  • After getting annoyed at Doug's stupid decisions, The Critic calls him a "Dumbass" and looks up the insult at the dictionary expecting to find a picture of Doug there... but he instead finds the picture of Tommy Wiseau. ^note Tommy Wiseau was at the time a frequent target of mockery from Doug Walker after he took down the review he did of The Room.
  Critic: WELL IT SHOULD BE YOU IN THERE!
  • Really the entire review is this towards the Doug series in general, regardless of which version, due to the Critic's genuine hatred of the series, which he deems "bland and boring".
• Throw the Dog a Bone: Prepping himself for the opening theme which he absolutely dreads, the Critic is absolutely ecstatic when he realizes that Disney changed the theme song. Not because he thinks it's good, but because he's been spared another round of ear rape from the original.
• Your Head Asplode: The Critic, when he hears the Nickelodeon Doug theme song again at the end.

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"Roger... Roger... Roger..."