History WebVideo / JonTron

* EatTheDog: Subverted in "Food Games", when Jon orders a Thanksgiving turkey, only to receive a live miniature horse instead. When he calls to complain, they ask him if he still has a large, heavy brick. The screen cuts to black as we hear a heavy thump and a whinny. [[spoiler: [[MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext Jon then carves the brick up like a turkey and gives it to the horse to eat.]]]]

* CanadaEh: The "Series/AreYouAfraidOfTheDark" episodes made a ''ton'' of cracks at Canada.

* BrownNote: A lot of the sounds from the ''Series/HerculesTheLegendaryJourneys'' UsefulNotes/GameboyColor game are treated like this. The intro theme is enough to make Jacques go haywire and [[StuffBlowingUp explode]].

* CandidCameraPrank: The second 'Gaming in Public' episode. To prove that people would exaggerate the (alleged) harmfulness of video games, Jon created a bogus petition claiming the UsefulNotes/Nintendo3DS caused blindness in children (featuring, among other things, the phrase "Heil Hitler") and asked random passersby to sign it for him. All of them signed without reading... and one of them signed even ''after'' having read it. Jon, naturally, crowned him King.

** The "(ACTUAL NOISE IT MADE)" disclaimer when [=JonTron=] puts the Hercules UsefulNotes/{{Commodore 64}} cassette [[HellIsThatNoise in a normal cassette player]].

** The whole 'mix-and-match console components' aspect is PlayedForLaughs regularly whenever Jon tries to put the game in the console. It's not uncommon to see something like Jon trying to stuff a UsefulNotes/PlayStation3 game box into an SNES and then tape a Gamecube controller to the controller port. To play ''VideoGame/{{Minecraft}}''. Or to tape an RCA cable to the top of an NES, and then stand the cartridge up and try to stick the console on top of it.

"More like the [[UsefulNotes/{{Commodore64}} Commodore Sixty-BORE.]]" *snigger*[[note]]Just kiddin', it was actually pretty revolutionary[[/note]]

** In his review of ''VideoGame/SonicColors'' (even though he ultimately gave the game a score of "A/5"), he mentions that a crucial matter in determining whether or not the game will be good is that the UsefulNotes/{{Wii}} may not have enough Blast Processing to run it. For those without context, "Blast Processing" is a somewhat meaningless marketing term invented by Creator/{{Sega}} in the early nineties to promote the UsefulNotes/SegaGenesis and ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog1'', claiming technical superiority over the UsefulNotes/SuperNintendo [[note]] For those who are really curious, it stood for a somewhat obscure programming trick that made the Genesis being able to map whole levels with enemies/sprites without the need for the screen to scroll to update the layout.[[/note]] Jon takes cracks at Sonic Team regularly, but seemingly all in good fun.

* RageBreakingPoint: In his review of ''Nightshade'', after he sees a robber beating up an old lady, he takes the cartridge to his garage and destroys it. [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere Then he flies off on a rocket]] [[MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext into the surface of the sun]].

* MemeticBadass: InUniverse; the ''Film/JurassicParkTheLostWorld'' review has Jon frequently portraying Creator/JeffGoldblum as this.

* BreadEggsMilkSquick: Jon listing off Sega's mascots in "Japanese Shoot 'em Ups": VideoGame/AlexKidd, VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog, and Billy the Sex Offender.

** In his Anti-Drug Games review, when he finds out there was a Nightshade competition thanks to his issue of [=GamePro=]: "'''I AIIIIIIIIN'T''' gonna take that sitting down."

*** For "Nightshade", he casually tosses the cartridge at the machine, which predictably just bounces off and hits the ground.

* SanitySlippage: His [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aq7rhn3h1m0 video]] about ''VideoGame/{{Nightshade}}''. Except replace "slippage" with "careening off the edge".

** Or another fantastic example from his Nightshade video:

** In his review of ''VideoGame/SonicColors'' (even though he ultimately gave the game a score of "A/5"), he mentions that a crucial matter in determining whether or not the game will be good is that the UsefulNotes/{{Wii}} may not have enough Blast Processing to run it. For those without context, "Blast Processing" is a somewhat meaningless marketing term invented by Creator/{{Sega}} in the early nineties to promote the UsefulNotes/SegaGenesis and ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog'', claiming technical superiority over the UsefulNotes/SuperNintendo [[note]] For those who are really curious, it stood for a somewhat obscure programming trick that made the Genesis being able to map whole levels with enemies/sprites without the need for the screen to scroll to update the layout.[[/note]] Jon takes cracks at Sonic Team regularly, but seemingly all in good fun.

** He used this trope once more after getting hit by a bomb in the first screen of Nightshade:

#''VideoGame/{{Nightshade}} Part 1: The Claws of Sutekh''[[note]]Or, as Jon called it personally, ''Nightshade: The Claws of HEUGH''[[/note]]

#''Series/{{Goosebumps}}''

** Jon is also able to watch episodes of the live-action Series/{{Goosebumps}} by inserting the novels of each episode into several different consoles.

* ActingUnnatural: Jon makes fun of the main character of ''[[{{Series/Goosebumps}} My Hairiest Adventure]]'' for using this trope, complete with [[NotSoInnocentWhistle humming]].

* AsideGlance: Jon pulls an iconic one in the ''VideoGame/{{Nightshade}}'' video after the game tells him the following when he tries using his crowbar:

* BrokenAesop: Jon finds several in his ''Series/{{Goosebumps}}'' videos.

** [[WebVideo/{{TOME}} Chris "Kirbopher" Niosi]] makes a vocal cameo in the Goosebumps episodes. This is following Jon's appearance on Niosi's own show, TOME, as the voice of Sniper Wheel.

** Lampshaded when the main character of [[Series/{{Goosebumps}} "Don't Go To Sleep"]] is put on trial by the Reality Police. When asked what he did, he's shown a flashback of him saying that he hates reality.

** He even does this when reviewing a TV show (Literature/{{Goosebumps}}, to be more specific,) sticking the original books into an NES, a Super Nintendo and then a Dreamcast.

*** In his review of ''Franchise/{{Goosebumps}}'', he puts a book in an NES. To review a TV show.

** Claims that the {{Aesop}} behind [[Franchise/{{Goosebumps}} My Hairiest Adventure]] is "Don't be unlucky and be a dog."

* TantrumThrowing: ''Nightshade'' concludes with Jon hurling the cartridge against his garage wall, hitting it with a viking mallet (which broke), and then holding the broken handle like a mic while singing into it. And then he flies into the sun.

* TrueArtIsIncomprehensible: [[invoked]]Jon hires a bunch of eccentric European artists to help make the sequel to the Flex Tape episode the masterpiece it deserves to be. The final result is about 10 seconds long, including intro and credits, and only consists of him silently sitting on the couch with a ThousandYardStare for several seconds before making a bizarre-sounding scream, then it {{Smash Cut}}s to him wearing sunglasses and smashing a piggy bank with a baseball bat. Roll credits.
-->'''Jon:''' ...Wow. I may have gone too far in a few places.

** "Ech!", which is from ''WebVideo/GameGrumps'' and has become permanently immortalized with Jon's persona. ([[BeamMeUpScotty He never really says it on]] ''[[BeamMeUpScotty his]]'' [[BeamMeUpScotty show, though.]])

* WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs: {{Invoked|Trope}} in his ''Sonic R'' review, where he theorises that Sonic Team actually was on drugs while making the game (cocaine, to be specific).
-->'''Developer''': [[MemeticMutation What the ''FUCK'' is a Sonic?!]]
** In his crossover with the crew of ''Continue'', they theorize that heavy amounts of drugs are the only explanation for ''Hyperzone.''

** Jon pins the Pokémon hack ''Moemon'' as unnecessary and [[WidgetSeries creepy]], being a version with the Pokémon sprites [[MoeAnthropomorphism replaced with little girls]]. One quick browse through the comments section shows a pretty large amount of people who now feel the desire to play said hack.

** Both [[WebVideo/SteamTrain Ross]] and [[LetsPlay/{{Markiplier}} Markplier]] appear in the second episode of [=StarCade=].