Shown Their Work / The Nostalgia Critic

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• In the North review, the Critic goes into a ballistic rage about the infamous "Inuits murder their own people callously" scene, with information that Inuits haven't been doing this for over hundreds of years, they only did it in famine and as a last resort, and they certainly didn't set up a theme-park-like business for it.
• His interviews to the creators of Animaniacs in his tribute to the show are extremely in depth. The clips he includes are hard to find including an original recording of Orson Welles complaining about doing a commercial.
• His "Top 11 Cereal Mascots" countdown proved he can do a terrific amount of research when he really wants to, finding very old clips to compare the old versions of the mascots with the new, and giving history and background in abundance.
• His The Thief and the Cobbler review mentioned the film's troubled production and he even saw the "Recobbled Cut".
• He goes into a lot of detail about Little Nemo's Troubled Production.
• His review of Full House, for the most part, is this, due to Doug watching the whole series to make sure he wouldn't fuck up. He did get the details of the mother's death wrong, though (i.e. he thought she died of a disease).
• Done with tremendous effect toward the real Patch Adams.
• Weird as they're played for comedy and most Hollywood portrayals aren't, but people with the actual disorders have remarked that he plays OCD and Dissociative Identity Disorder far more realistically than the usual portrayals, the former with his constantly going back to meaningless details and the latter with his apologizing/not remembering instantly after an extreme tantrum happens. Doug has said multiple times that he has OCD in real life, so that at least explains why the former's portrayal is so realistic.
• He watched all three seasons of Avatar: The Last Airbender (and the first season of The Legend of Korra) before reviewing The Last Airbender, so the review contains a lot of discussion about the differences between the two, and is laden with several of the former show's running gags.
• Hyper's baby-stepping Character Development actually fits a lot with real abusers who both want to get better but not actually acknowledge what they've done. Plus as Doug said in the Phantom commentary, her being with Devil Boner but but not being able to let go of what she can't have (Critic obviously) is a regression that made sense.
  • Abuse/stalking victims love Critic's side as well, finding it realistic that even after the anger, he's both tired and wants her to go away, and craves her attention. Also the fact that he shrinks back every time she's near him and Doug has talked about how unfortunately she isn't as fictional as he would like.
• Tired of people (represented by Uncle Lies in the editorial) telling him that Amadeus was bad because historically inaccurate, he did his research and found the film actually did their homework on Mozart.
• A lot of people have said that the three abused kids' reaction to said abuse is realistic to the different ways victims cope.
• Naturally in "Should Bad Singers Be Dubbed?", as Doug is trained in opera and musical theater, and even Rob has deferred to him for knowing whether a voice is any good or not.
• When he mentions Tumblr's gender variety in Blade, he shows he's being affectionate instead of nasty by designing a perfect depiction of the site.
• As much as he’s upset by “The Doggy In The Window” advert, compare previous years’ where he tends to just shout “you’re sick [country], you’re sick!” to this one; he looks up what RSPCA stands for, talks about the negative backlash in the UK and discusses the newer cut advert having the opposite message of the original (original being “give us money or else” vs new: “don’t spend money on a dog you can’t afford and will neglect”).

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