Pat Stares At
(formerly Angriest Pat) is the streaming channel of former Two Best Friends Play member Patrick "Pat" Boivin, with playthroughs being archived on his Youtube channel. On occasion, he also joins his wife Paige's streams at her channel PeachSaliva (YouTube archives).
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- Belligerent Sexual Tension: With his fiancee (later wife), Paige.
- Big Friendly Dog: Zangief, a bulldog who is 60 pounds of muscle and drool that is easily capable of overpowering Pat and Paige in his efforts to show his affection.
- Call-Back: While streaming Devil May Cry 5, Pat is playing a mod of the game created by a follower known as TheHitchhiker, which sees Pat have an early boss fight against Vergil. Pat proceeds to lose and gets an "Easy Mode is Now Selectable" game over screen. This is an elaborate reference to the infamous moment from his Devil May Cry 3 playthrough, during the Two Best Friends Play days with Woolie.
- Cats Are Mean: Played With by Elmo, who is generally beloved by both Pat and Paige, but has left both of them with several scratch wounds. The cat is also quite fond of messing with Pat's video setup and drinking out of his humans' water glasses.
- Cloudcuckoolander: Paige has some unusual habits, one of which is her refusal to believe that space exists.
- Dogs Are Dumb: Pat and Paige often joke about Zangief in this way, viewing their dog as lovable and earnest but also over-excitable and dumb. That said, Elmo's own behavior is joked about in a similar way.
- Driver Faces Passenger: Spells his doom while playing Outer Wilds. After setting his ship on autopilot to land on a planet, Pat takes some time to groom his cat Elmo with a brush, oblivious to the planet's volcanic, magma-covered satellite drifting into his flight-path.
- Genre Shift: While Matt and Woolie have continued to produce content in a format relatively close to the old Super Best Friends Let's Play videos (including frequent two-person videos with two commentators playing off each other), Pat's solo content is much more along the lines of the straight Twitch Livestreamer model, very much a personal decision on his end with preferences and such. To date, he has never had pre-recorded content on his channel, and the only thing that has fit close to it in any capacity since the Best Friends disbanded is a playthrough of Devil May Cry 5 on Woolie's channel, which mainly served to wrap up their marathon of the entire Devil May Cry series up until that point.
- The one exception would be his Elden Ring network test footage, which was pre-recorded with commentary and editing, then released publicly in accordance to Bandai Namco's terms for network test participants.
- The one exception would be his Elden Ring network test footage
- Instantly Proven Wrong: This Running Gag continues from Pat's Super Best Friends days. Whenever Pat declares his belief in anything (even something as simple as being good at snapping his fingers), there's a high chance that events will conspire to contradict him or make him suddenly fail at a task; though sometimes it can work to his benefit. The jinxing is so consistent that Pat and his fanbase anthropomorphized it into a Stand by the name of [Crazy Talk].note
- Laughing at Your Own Jokes: Paige has a tendency of doing this. Often her laughter itself is funny.
- Men Like Dogs, Women Like Cats: Thoroughly subverted. Pat clearly loves both his pets, Elmo and Zangief. Zangief tends to be a bit more enthusiastic with his affection though.
- Mythology Gag: His playthroughs are titled as "Pat Stares At [X]", a reference to a solo video he made on Mercenary Kings from the SBFP channel and his vlog detailing his 2014 Japan trip with Paige.
- Nightmare Fetishist: Paige has a thing for skeletons, and has implied that she wouldn't mind having sex with one.
- Stealth Hi/Bye: Paige has a tendency to move so quietly that she ends up startling Pat during streams — sometimes deliberately, sometimes just when trying to say hello or deliver food — which their fans have taken to calling the "white woman jumpscare". It happens so regularly that sometimes Pat will flinch and shriek reflexively at nothing, expecting Paige to be behind him.
- Tiny Guy, Huge Girl: At least in relation to each other. Pat is far shorter than Paige.
- Women Are Wiser: Played With. Or, rather, yo-yos between being subverted and played straight. Paige will often call out some of Pat's stranger beliefs, but is far too disaster-prone and idiosyncratic to be described as "wise."
