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- Accidentally-Correct Writing: One of Scott's jokes in his "Digital Only Physical Games" video is "What if [the consumer doesn't] have internet, but love[s] buying Lara Croft: Temple of Osiris? (Beat) There's gotta be somebody out there." There actually was a case of an alternate ending
in Shadow of the Tomb Raider that was discovered thanks to a player's poor internet and inability to download the day one patch. - Colbert Bump:
- 3D Dot Game Heroes saw increased popularity after the music that plays in the Blockout minigame became Scott's outro theme for the first five seasons. FromSoftware, the rights holders of the game unfortunately refused to allow Scott to officially license the music for the re-edits of his episodes on G4, which would lead Scott to commission a new theme song for the G4 episodes which he then began to use on YouTube as well.
- More people bought Madden 08 thanks to Scottnote being a huge fan of the game and it being featured numerous times in the show.
- Corpsing:
- As shown in the bloopers videos on Scott's second channel, this is very prominent in the filming of the skits. Scott and his friends don't rehearse, and Scott simply tells his friends what to say immediately before a shot. So, a lot of time is spent just trying to get through lines or scenes without somebody busting out laughing.
- In the Dark Age of Nintendo trilogy, there are many times when Scott's therapist is supposed to be furiously yelling at him, but the actor is clearly trying not to laugh, resulting in him screaming at Scott with an unexplained smile.
- Also, in the Mario Tennis: Ultra Smash review (the second part of the trilogy), when Rex Rage Quits over Classic Tennis mode not having Mega Mushrooms, Jeb is clearly stifling a laugh.
- In The Great Mysteries of Gaming, several of the characters can be seen either smiling or holding back laughter while somebody else in the shot is talking.
- Cowboy BeBop at His Computer:
- In his Game Boy video, Scott says that the Mega Man games on the handheld were all remixed versions of the NES titles, failing to mention that Mega Man V was a completely original game with a whole new set of stages and Robot Masters.
- In Classic NES Series for Game Boy Advance, Scott goes into a rant about the re-release of the first Bomberman stripping out multiplayer. That game never had multiplayer to begin with - the first Bomberman to do so was Atomic Punk on the original Game Boy.
- It's brief, but in the July 2021 segment of his Nintendo Switch: Five Years In retrospective, he ends up putting Fuga: Melodies of Steel twice on the list, mistaking Melodies of Steel and Fuga on the Battlefield as two different games. In reality, they're the same game, and the western name Melodies of Steel was a result of CyberConnect2 using a Market-Based Title.
- Creator Backlash:
- Scott has said that he wasn't entirely satisfied with how "Cancelled Game Consoles" turned out due to not having as much time to work on it as he would've liked, comparing the final product to a filler episode.
- In a Reddit AMA, Scott also admitted that 2022's Halloween special "It Came from the Nintendo eShop" was mishandled. He felt that while the retrospective aspects of the episode were 'pretty good,' the live-action segments and overall storyline were rushed and underdeveloped.
- Pokémon YouTuber Tama Hero has stated she regrets agreeing to cameo in "Borderline Forever" as a result of the episode featuring a cameo from RelaxAlax, in light of allegations against the latter. Scott would eventually edit his cameo out some time after.
- Scott has said that he wasn't entirely satisfied with how "Cancelled Game Consoles" turned out due to not having as much time to work on it as he would've liked, comparing the final product to a filler episode.
- Creator's Favorite Episode: It's a Bargain Bin Christmas is this for Scott.
- Distanced from Current Events: On July 1, 2021, a few months after Borderline Forever released, Scott quietly cut out RelaxAlax's cameo from the episode, presumably due to the allegations against the latter as mentioned above. The new cut of the episode abruptly skips at the 56:00 mark. Scott also unfollowed Alex on Twitter and Instagram around the same time. Alex is still in the credits, though, since it wouldn't have been as easy to edit those.
- Edited for Syndication: The airings on G4TV repackage several episodes together into hour-long time slots, so some scenes are cut short and any copyrighted video game music (which makes up most of the background music in the series) is replaced with a more generic track. It also replaces the censor bleeps with longer ones to obscure the curse words better (but, at least a couple times, they took out the bleeps while forgetting to add new ones), and replaces some footage with stock footagenote .
- Make-A-Wish Contribution: The episode "Toys to Life" was a request from Make-A-Wish kid Zak.note Zak also cameos in the episode as Dex Mohs, a crime boss with a Vague Age who runs the scam that is the throughline of the episode.
- Meaningful Release Date:
- "Stop Smoking!" was released on April 20, 2017, which Scott lampshades in the episode.
- "Super Mario Galaxy | Ten Years of Bliss" was uploaded exactly ten years after the titular game's North American release on November 12, 2007.
- An unintentional one on Scott's part which he admitted, but the Game & Watch episode was released just two days prior to the device's 40th anniversary.
- In the episode about New Play Control for the Wii Scott says "They (Nintendo) could re-release Jesus if they wanted". The episode's release date? Easter Sunday 2021.
- The complete video compilation for The Dark Age of Nintendo was uploaded on October 9th, 2020, which also happens to be the same date that Chibi-Robo! Zip Lash was released in North America on 2015. And on the game's five-year anniversary, no less.
- Milestone Celebration: Every 50th episode so far has been celebrated in some way.
- "A Very Madden 08 Christmas" was the 50th episode, and the finale of Season 1.
- "It's Awesome Baby!" is simultaneously the 100th episode, the Season 2 finale, and the Big Damn Movie.
- "It's a Bargain Bin Christmas" is simultaneously the 150th episode, the Season 3 finale, and another Big Damn Movie.
- "Borderline Forever" is simultaneously the 200th episode, and a literal Big Damn Movie, being 58 minutes long (63 with credits) and the longest non-"Nintendo Switch: X Years In" episode at the time*. Unlike the previous three, it didn't end a season, as Season 4 had ended on "You're Not an RPG Guy".
- "Merry Christmas, Data Design!" is simultaneously the 250th episode, the Season 6 finale, and slightly less of a Big Damn Movie compared to "Borderline Forever", but is still lengthy in its own regard.
- Official Fan-Submitted Content: Happens often especially for his longer, more elaborate videos. Scott would post a notice on Twitter for creators to submit their animation and music portfolio, so that he can call them up and hire them to create original animations and songs for the episodes.
- The animated sequences in the opening titles of It's a Bargain Bin Christmas and You're Not an RPG Guy, as well as the credits of Borderline Forever and The Gifts of Gaming, are submissions made by select fans.
- In the case of It's Awesome Baby!, Scott simply calls for fans on Twitter to submit videos for the episode, of them talking about which version of Madden NFL they like the most (except for Madden 08, which Scott says is "all mine").
- A similar participation event is held for Borderline Forever, where prior to the episode's release Scott asked fans to submit video clips of them reacting to an "earthquake"; in reality, the clips are used for the scene where everyone in Ohio becomes affected and trapped by the eponymous blue border.
- Another came from The Commercial Failure, where fans had the opportunity to post an image of them looking sad with a bad game that didn't sell well. Said images were used in the song at the end of the episode.
- For Tears of the Kingdom Isn't Perfect (Spoilers), Scott had fans submit audio recordings of themselves telling him that his opinions are wrong. Said clips were used in a "hotline" segment titled "Hate Scott, Why Not?" that played throughout the episode. Any other recordings that didn't make it into the segment proper were used for the episode's ending gag, where Scott plays every caller's voicemail at once.
- Reality Subtext:
- The entire Raid: Shadow Legends episode, where Scott realizes that nobody would take his opinion on "stupid Nintendo games" seriously if he was paid to "talk about a sh*tty mobile game I wouldn't have talked about otherwise", clearly reflects Scott's feelings on the subject of YouTube sponsorships (although it does end up being a Forgotten Aesop in the end).
- On a lighter note, Scott's Hungry-Man meal receipt joke in his "Call of Duty on Nintendo DS" episode is a reference to an update video he did for his then ongoing charity drive that had him talking while cooking a Hungry-Man meal.
- He was moving to a new house during October 2021, so his videos during that period used a robbery as an explanation as to why his then-apartment was empty.
- Real Song Theme Tune: A portion of the track "Breakout" from the PlayStation 3 game 3D Dot Game Heroes was used as the series' ending theme until Season 6. It's often referenced and remixed in other songs throughout the show, such as the song in The Bible Game, the opening titles in It's Awesome Baby! and It's A Bargain Bin Christmas, the fight scene in Anime Games, a Dark Reprise at the end of Mario Tennis: Ultra Smash | The Darker Age of Nintendo, and the last seven notes of Borderline Forever's final musical number references the tune as a Musical Nod.
- Schedule Slip: Scott uploads almost every week, and after wrapping up every season he always takes Series Hiatus breaks before resuming his weekly schedule. These breaks become longer and more frequent as time goes on:
- 2020 marks the first time that Scott doesn't upload anything for the entirety of January. Also on the same year, he took another month long break after finishing the final installment of The Dark Age of Nintendo trilogy on July, continuing regular uploads on August 30.
- 2021 saw an even longer break occur, with almost three whole months passing since his last upload (not counting his Best Of 2020 video) on December 23, 2020. He finally uploaded a new episode on March 21 ("Nintendo Switch: Four Years In", which is also two weeks late from the usual time period when he uploads his yearly Nintendo Switch retrospective video, on the early week of March).
- At over four months, 2022's break managed to even exceed 2021's, no videos being uploaded since Best of Scott The Woz 2021 back in January. Scott acknowledged this in this tweet. This hiatus ended in late May with a review of Donkey Kong Barrel Blast.
- The 2022 Halloween episode, It Came From The Nintendo eShop came out on November 8, a few days after Halloween, due to the scope of the video.
- The 2022 Christmas episode (and by extension, the Season 6 finale and the 250th episode of the series), Merry Christmas, Data Design came out way after Christmas (specifically, January 7th of 2023) due to Scott spending time with family for the holiday period, and the video's finalized release date of January 5th was also missed due to a huge snowstorm causing a massive power outage to his area- further delaying it for a few days.
- In 2023, Scott initially intended to avert this trope by providing a February/March release window for an episode about the Wii U (which would be the Season 7 premiere), but the sheer scale of that episode meant that it would be delayed by a few more months, and eventually become a three parter.
- Throw It In!:
- In Shovelware Variety Hour, Scott accidentally used a remix of a track which used the theme song from The Nutshack. Scott decided to keep it in the video because it fits, and even used it again for Shovelware Variety Hour: Round Two and Three. It made another return in Merry Christmas, Data Design!
- In his video on Mario Kart 7, Scott throws down the New 2DS he's playing on in disgust at the game being "f*cking Mario Kart again!" When filming, he threw it down so hard that it broke in half, prompting this reaction behind the scenes.
- During the filming of "Homecoming", there was a scene where Rex Mohs is supposed to slam a laptop on the ground, thinking it was really a beer. Six takes were filmed for this scene, and on the sixth and final one, either to get things moving faster or to spice things up, Rex's actor decked the laptop on his knee instead and completely destroyed it.
- In Shovelware Variety Hour, Scott accidentally used a remix of a track
- Troubled Production: In the commentary for The Funeral, Scott called the episode "one of the worst productions that we've ever had to be a part of" because of the coffin.
- Trolling Creator: During the unusually long Series Hiatus for early 2021, Scott posted this to Twitter making a claim that he was just getting started on a new episode after three months of nothing. Only about five minutes later, his first video following the hiatus was uploaded. Made better by the episode, "Nintendo Switch: Four Years In", being one of the longest ones he has ever made.
- What Could Have Been:
- The Great Mysteries of Gaming was originally supposed to be set on a train, but due to being unable to secure one as a filming location in time Scott decided to scrap the idea. Jeffrey Pohlman-Beshuk (who would later play Kay Swiss) was also originally planned to play the murder victim while Chet Shaft would have been one of the dinner guests, but Jeff was unavailable.
- Scott revealed in a 2020 Reddit AMA that the opening scene of Memory Cards was supposed to be longer, but due to some of the resulting shots that were filmed either looking bad or having bad audio, Scott chose to repurpose some of their intended dialogue for the desk scenes.
- In the Scott the Woz Archive Book, there is a schedule for Season 5 episodes, showing the order they were filmed in. One of these episodes is an unreleased one where Scott talks about the Black Box NES games. It isn't known if it was cancelled, or will be released as part of a later season.
