Paw Dugan is the resident music guru at That Guy With The Glasses.com. The scruffy faced sonic critic tackles everything from music videos, tunes from past, present, and future, video game music specials, being a Let's Player with fellow That Guy With The Glasses personality and all around lovely geek girl Pushing Up Roses, and co-hosting the official TGWTG podcast Transmission Awesome.
This reviewer provides examples of:
Adorkable: Come on, the guy has a pair of "Dress Headphones" that look exactly like his normal ones. If that doesn't put the Adorkable Rating squarely Over 9000, nothing does.
Book Ends: In his "Top 9 Music Moments In Gaming"; "I'M THE GOD!". It first comes up in Old School Edition, talking about his #9 pick, SimCity. It comes up again during his battle with himself, at the very end of the New School Edition.
Boredom Montage: The opening to the Music Movies series has Paw trying to conquer his boredom by (among other things) playing Team Fortress 2.
On the 360, no less. No wonder he's bored.
Borrowed Catchphrase: He uses the Nostalgia Critic's "OF COURSE!" gag twice. The first (in Total Distortion), is the traditional Raul Julia clip from the Street Fighter, but later is the Critic saying it from Kickassia.
The Cameo: Quite a few in his Top 9: Video Game Composers. How about the Critic as a DOG!
Catchphrase: Using the word "whimsy" a lot in Music Movies.
Companion Cube: Dartboard seems to be headed this direction.
Decision Darts: How he decides which movie to do next in his "Music Movies" series.
Did Not Do the Research / Director Displacement : In his "Top 9 Best Movie Songs", Paw refers to Danny Elfman working with director Tim Burton on The Nightmare Before Christmas. Except Henry Selick directed that film, Burton produced. To be fair, though, he's not the first person to make that mistake.
And in his Blues Brother review, he calls John Belushi 'Jim' twice. Now, Jim and John are interchangeable names. Someone called John can easily be called Jim and not bat an eyelid...except for the fact that John has a brother named Jim.
Paw's review of Snoopy Come Home lists The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh as one other non-Disney movie featuring Sherman Brothers music, even though Disney made it. Paw also mentions the Sherman Brothers writing music for an adaptation of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, but instead of a cover for the 1974 movie, he displays one for the 1993 adaptation. Worse, the covers he displayed for both these movies prominently feature Disney's logo.
Also from the Snoopy Come Home review, he calls the creator of Peanuts Bill Schulz, conflating Bill Melendez, director and animator of many a Peanuts special, and actual series creator Charles Schulz.
God Help Us All: Uttered by Spoony during the "Top 9 Composers" video, on the subject of Dark Paw's possible victory.
Go Mad from the Revelation: He can't subject himself to more than a few seconds of Amy Grant's Christian Rock, and says it's the reason he's such a heathen these days.
After going into detail how the original ending of My Fair Lady was the best way to wrap up the story, Paw becomes enraged at the movie's ending.
Headphones Equal Isolation: Usually averted, though parodied in both installments of Hotel Awesome when Joe tries to speak to him.
Inherently Funny Words: In his live King's Quest 2 AGDLet's Play, he stumbles across a message that simply says "Donk". He then spends the rest of the LP working the word "Donk" into every situation he can manage.
In both parts to his "Top 9 Video Game Songs of All Time", Paw retrieved a literal MacGuffin for every song he remembered: a crystal shaped like a musical symbol appeared with the phrase "MACGUFFIN GET!"
Mondegreen: Shares some of his more memorable ones, including "I need the ice cream" ("I knew the ice queen") and "Pika Pika Johnny" ("Be Good Johnny") complete with Pikachu showing up.
Paw actually got his name from this trope. Whenever he introduced himself people would hear Paw instead of Paul. The nickname stuck.
Negated Moment of Awesome: In the video where he goes through his dad's old 45s, he finds one of Arthur Brown's "Fire". Unfortunately, the record is too badly scratched to be playable.
Nice Hat: Both a few of his baseball caps and his fedora.
Perky Goth: Dresses as one (complete with overdone eyeshadow and black backdrop) for his The Nightmare Before Christmas review and peppers the review with Edgar Allen Poe quotes.
Graham: Now why would she toss aside this beautiful harp?
Paw:Because she's a cunt!
Running Gag: During his King's Quest V LP, he would often respond to Cedric's claims that something was dangerous by saying some variant of "is it pOIsonous!?"
In his Hugo 2Let's Play with Pushing Up Roses, after accidentally saying "Uncle Great Horace" instead of "Great Uncle Horace" at the start of the game, he proceeds to mix up the words in a different way every time the character is mentioned.
Shout Out: The end of Paw's Let's Play of King's Quest V has King Graham controlling Paw going "ain't I a stinker" in reference to Duck Amuck.
Before that, Paw pays homage to South Park by having Graham's talking head become a "King Swayze" flappy head in some scenes, especially in some funny scenes with the roc's nest and after he pushes the boat in the water.
The Unreveal: Elisa is about to tell Paw all of the weird places the dartboard portal has taken her when it suddenly activates and the two are teleported away mid-sentence.
Unsettling Gender Reveal: In the Mary Martin's Peter Pan review, he initially mistakes Peter Pan to be a woman (being played by an actress and all). He proceeds to do "manly things" like fixing a car and drinking beer shirtless to recover his masculinity.
During The Rocky Horror Picture Show episode of Music Movies, he's completely stunned to learn that the opening song "Science Fiction/Double Feature" is sung by Rocky Horror author Richard O'Brian.
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