History WebVideo / RedLetterMedia

* '''''Red Letter Media Animated''''': A (potential) animated series starring Mike, Jay, and Rich. It is an improv, unscripted show where the boys do what they do best: spitball bizarre, farcical pitches for movies, in the vein of their ''Ghostbusters: Afterlife'' or ''Gremlins 3'' pitches. Except now, enhanced with equally-deranged animation. At present, only a pilot exists.

* BlackComedyRape: In episode 2 of "The Nerd Crew", Rich Evans recounts a time he was threatened by a Sony executive at a screening, who then proceeded to shove his hand down his pants. Rich has no idea this incident could be considered sexual assault and is playing down what happened because he wants to stay in Sony's good graces.

* {{Flanderization}}: The first ''Nerd Crew'' episode is an exceptionally dry, satirical troll job about three boring, soulless corporate stooges parroting actual fanboyisms. Successive episodes make them more exaggerated, obvious, winking-at-the-audience caricatures of fanboy media types. However, as shown by [[https://youtu.be/lzTNdgjvlr0 this video]], their behavior is not that much of an exaggeration from actual nerd culture channels.

** In the "George Foreskin Grill" promotion for ''VideoGame/TroverSavesTheUniverse'', Rich Evans is volunteered to demonstrate the grill's functionality using it to circumcise his exaggeratedly fake penis. [[spoiler: The grill melts his member in two.]]

* MegaCorp: Disney becomes one in an episode of ''The Nerd Crew''. After buying out [=ExxonMobil=] and Kroger, they create "Disney+ Basic Needs", a service that assigns people a number designation and requires them to pay $159.99 a month in order to get access to food and car gas. Soon after, they launch "Disney Healthcare Plus" after buying out all public and private healthcare providers.

** The George Foreskin grill.

* SignatureLaugh: Rich's magnificent laugh. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VREr9ykhRdQ Witness its raw power.]]

* {{Malaproper}}: Rich occasionally stumbles over his speech or mispronounces words, such as saying he's "ambivalous" instead of "ambivalent." The rest of the gang is quick to mock him about it, and occasionally text will display the guessed-at spelling of whatever it sounds like he just said. After watching ''Lycan Colony'', Rich criticizes the constant malaprops by one of the actors, and adds, "And I'm Rich Evans!" In one ''Best of the Worst'' after Mike stumbles over the same line several times in a row, Rich says, "I'm suing you for copyright infringement."

* SoreLoser: In "''Star Trek: The Next Generation'' Trivia," Mike loses the quiz and consequently litters the closing credits with notes about how the game was rigged and that he only got the last question wrong because he knows ''more'' about Next Gen than Rich.

* TheTeetotaler: While the hosts of most shows drink pretty heavily during filming, Rich Evans does not drink at all and usually sips on water or Diet Coke. This is never drawn attention to and sometimes cleverly obfuscated. During the ''Film/Ghostbusters2016'' episode of ''Half in the Bag'', the three hosts supposedly down a shot of Crystal Skull Vodka, but an edit skips over the part where Mike hands out the shots he's poured, suggesting that the shot Rich actually drinks was probably just water. When the others get ''really'' drunk, Rich sometimes will make an AsideGlance to camera, and will take on the role of OnlySaneMan.

* TheUnreveal: In "Dick the Birthday Boy: The Legacy Continues," Mike and Rich spend 15 minutes discussing how they finally recovered the lost additional photographs of "Dick the Birthday Boy" and will examine them at the end of the video. Once they finally break out the polaroids, however, the images are blurred out, and Mike explains that they will never display digital versions of the photos.

* TrashTheSet: The members are very cavalier about flinging objects and knocking things over on their sets for physical comedy. Every once and a while, they will acknowledge the work it takes it clean things up afterward.

** Half in the Bag had Mike and Jay sitting six feet apart surrounded by towers of hoarded toilet paper. They looked even more dishevelled and deranged than usual. They also had to resort to discussing Netflix releases and small independent films, as cinemas were closed and the bigger premieres were postponed.

** Half in the Bag had Mike and Jay sitting six feet apart surrounded by hoarded toilet paper. They looked even more disheveled and deranged than usual. They also had to resort to discussing Netflix releases and small independent films, as cinemas were closed and the bigger premieres were postponed.

* '''''[[WebVideo/{{reView}} re:View]]''''': While ''Half in the Bag'' focuses on reviewing new films, ''re:View'' is a stripped-down, generalized review show with no framing device and no set criteria beyond whatever film or show two people want to discuss. It could be a very well-known film, it could be an '80s cult classic, it could be a weird art film, it could be Mike's hopeful pitch for a new Picard-led ''Franchise/StarTrek'' series, or it could be Mike and Rich bitterly mocking the [[Series/StarTrekPicard actual Picard-led]] ''Star Trek'' series for being a steaming pile. You never know what you're gonna get with ''re:View''!
* '''''[[WebVideo/{{reView}} re:Visit]]''''': A spin-off of ''re:View'' for films which the hosts have seen only once in the past and decided to reappraise. Otherwise, the format is identical to ''re:View''.

* SoreLoser: In the episode "''Star Trek: The Next Generation'' Trivia," Mike loses the quiz and consequently litters the closing credits with notes about how the game was rigged and that he only got the last question wrong because he knows ''more'' about Next Gen than Rich.

-->'''Mike''': [[ObfuscatingStupidity Ohmigosh, Rich? Rich? Rich?]] Why is there so much space on the right side of the frame? Rich, why-why is there a distracting amount of space on the right side of the frame?!
-->'''Rich''': [[BlatantLies I'm sure there's no reason.]]
-->''[Jumpscare]''
-->'''Mike & Rich''': "OH MY GAAAAAAWD!"

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* HalfEmptyTwoShot: {{Discussed|Trope}} during their commentary track for ''Film/ANightmareOnElmStreet'', when Mike pretends to have a panic attack while watching the movie.

* ''Film/DocOfTheDead'', a documentary done with Exhibit A Pictures and distributed through Creator/{{ePix}}. They filmed a lengthy story line featuring Mr. Plinkett (played by Mike as in the reviews) fighting zombies, but only two brief sequences made it into the film.

* LoadsAndLoadsOfRoles: Mike and Jay live in a world full of people played by Rich Evans.

* NegativeContinuity: The Nerd Crew have a recurring gag where one of them isn't a nerd and is only trying to make money, but they can never keep straight which one it is. Mike, Jay, and Rich have all at one point or another said they haven't seen ''Star Wars'' before, while the other two have.

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