Hello, I'm Mister Toodle-oo! I like to collect things like VHS's, I am a fan of movie and TV studio logos and I like to add my knowledge and proofreading to this site.
My Internet name comes from Big Bird's "Toodle-oo!" closing of Sesame Street, which gave me childhood "nightmares". You can read about that and more strange stories from my childhood in Yack Fest.
Here are some tropes that apply to me:
- Brilliant, but Lazy
- Critical Backlash: When something, such as a cartoon, is being overly condemned by people on the Internet, I will have sympathy for the cartoon or whatever it is, especially since I think that those Internet people are "wasting stress".
- Famous Ancestor: I am related to James Arness, the star of the TV version of Gunsmoke!
- Keep Circulating the Tapes: I like to collect many things that fall under this category, including recordings of TV channels, some of which I recorded myself.
- Pet Peeve Tropes:
- Hate Dumb: I can't stand all that unnecessary negativity on the Internet!
- It's Popular, Now It Sucks!: I have better things to do than to waste my stress by holding contempt for popular works just because they are more popular than my favorite works. Popular works do not steal individuality from people; they bring people together. I also dislike a variation of this trope that could be called "It Has an Immature Fanbase on the Internet, Now it Sucks".
- Nostalgia Filter: When I succumb to this mindset, it interferes with my ability to enjoy life! Need I say more?
- Reviews Are the Gospel: Especially when this trope leads people on the Internet to think they're smarter than fans of certain things and when it causes them to spread negativity about the things in question around the Internet. When this happens, I will experience Critical Backlash.
- Talking in Your Sleep: Thanks to the "Sleep Talk Recorder" app, I found out that I once said, "Hey, teacher," and later something like "Scissor air..." in my sleep. I also found out that I make a lot of humming noises in my sleep, some of which appear to be me talking with my mouth closed.
- The Teetotaler
- Waking Non Sequitur: This has happened to me many times. Sometimes, I wake up screaming loudly, out of anger. But other times, I say examples of this trope! Here are some notable examples, and anything in parenthesis within the quotes is what I would have said if I had completed the sentences:
- "No, no, (no)!"
- "The Flyers players can't (hear Dad)!"
- "Stop it!"
- "What book?"
- "No, we don't have time!"
- "She doesn't believe her (own son)!"
- "Don't call it that!"
- "With Finn and Jake!"
- "Well, I fucked that up."
- "Damn right."
- "She wasn't even listening!"
- "What?"
- "You just fucking disowned him."
List of video examples added by me:
- Signature Laugh - Elmo's Laugh
- Who Writes This Crap?! - Mission Accomplished
- Credits Pushback - Barney Credits Pushback
- Credits Pushback - Hawaii Five-0 Reboot Credits
- Censored for Comedy - Hermey Censored
