History WebVideo / Thespoonyexperiment

** ''Bloodwings: Pumpkinhead's Revenge'' most definitely.

** His Website/{{Twitter}} is rife with these.

** {{Lampshaded}} in that he's never actually played ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyIX'', beyond maybe two hours, but avoided it ''solely'' because he hated the art style, and hadn't been paying any attention to the first two hours, since he wrote Zidane off as an [[invoked]] "[[NotBadassEnoughForFans androgynous-whiny-pansy-ass character]]". He also admitted that "it was likely that [he] was being fiercely unfair" to ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyIX'' on judging it by its art style, especially when the game was specifically targeted at fans of the NES and UsefulNotes/SuperNintendo-era Franchise/FinalFantasy games like him, but he just couldn't get over it. He elaborated in his Q&A at [=MAGfest=], and admitted his reasons for avoiding it were entirely childish, and he really can't stand the art style so much that he simply can't make himself keep playing. [[invoked]]

* RetroactiveRecognition: [[invoked]] Noah recognizes [[Series/StarTrekEnterprise Dr. Phlox]] making an appearance as a nerd who doesn't own tools nor can he figure out to check all the buttons and knobs on his UsefulNotes/GameBoy before thinking it's broken and coming into complain in the Nintendo Tech Support training video for retailers.

* CatchPhrase:

* CelebrityImpersonator: As mentioned under CaptainErsatz, Noah's costume "characters" are all to some degree impersonations of other people's intellectual property. And he does it quite well.
* CelebrityResemblance: As well as comparing actors in movies and games to other celebrities, he likes to compare them to fellow web video creators. For example, [[VideoGame/PhantasmagoriaAPuzzleOfFlesh Curtis Craig]] is WebVideo/TheAngryVideoGameNerd, a character from ''Film/HighlanderTheSource'' is [[WebVideo/BadMovieBeatdown Film Brain]], and [[VideoGame/MinorityReportEverybodyRuns Witwer]] is [[WebVideo/TheAngryJoeShow Angry Joe]].
** In the Andrew Dickman title cards and animated theme song he looks remarkably like [[Franchise/ScoobyDoo Shaggy]]
* CerebusSyndrome: Played for laughs with the Black Hole of Board Games series. The first entry, a review of the ''I, Robot'' video board game gets an enthusiastic review and a recommendation. The second, the ''Wrestlemania'' game gets a rather angry review, with Spoony accusing the makers of wasting an awesome concept. By the third entry, the VCR Golf Games, Spoony has gone flat-out insane and is going so far as to track down the people sending him the games and murdering them. In the fourth one, ''Gone Birding'', he's just sunk into complete despair and can't even muster up anything to say about the game.
* CharacterBlog: Father Antos from ''VideoGame/UltimaII: The Revenge of the Enchantress'' has a [[http://twitter.com/#!/FatherAntos Tweeter account]].

* CloningBlues: Inverted, as the clone Spoony is able to pick up right where his predecessor left off. The original is killed, resurrected as a Black Lantern, then briefly brought back to normal before being killed and turned into a Black Lantern again.

* WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs:
** Spooning with Spoony. The man himself had this to say in his commentary: [[invoked]]
--->'''Noah:''' You probably think that I'm going to blame this on drugs or alcohol. I probably should. But nope, we were all stone-cold sober when we made this.
** His E.T. review was a straight-up aversion, but it was justified: the drugs in question were painkillers, which he was taking following surgery to remove his wisdom teeth. [[invoked]]

** Spoony and [[WebVideo/BadMovieBeatdown Film Brain]] reviewed the ''Film/{{Tekken}}'' live-action movie together.

* EsotericHappyEnding: In-universe. His review of ''Film/{{Tekken}}'' shows that even with Jin winning the Iron Fist Tournament, nothing's changed.

* PragmaticAdaptation: Spoony says that, in his opinion, the live-action ''Film/{{Tekken}}'' movie was this because it ditched the more outlandish elements of the ''VideoGame/{{Tekken}}'' series like the robots and Devil Gene and just focused on the fighting.

** A briefer example comes at the start of the ''Anime/TekkenBloodVengeance'', where he says that he's taken heat for liking the live-action ''Film/{{Tekken}}'' and defends his opinion.

''The Spoony Experiment'' was the home of Creator/NoahAntwiler, self-described "terrifying result of a generation raised on Creator/{{MTV}} and films by Creator/JeanClaudeVanDamme and Creator/StevenSeagal at the height of their popularity." He started out with text {{review}}s of movies, which for a while were published as "A Gamer's Rant on the Movies" in ''ComicStrip/KnightsOfTheDinnerTable''. He was soon inspired by the likes of Creator/{{Armake21}}, WebVideo/PlayItBogart, [=WizWar100=] to make the leap to video reviews about video games, and so created a new identity as The Spoony One, after his QuirkyBard character in ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'', who he named "Tandem the Spoony", after the line "Spoony Bard" from ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyIV''. He began with ''VideoGame/TheAdventuresOfBayouBilly'', the quintessential NintendoHard title "which probably contributed a great deal to making me the psychological mess I am today," before moving on other titles.

He was perhaps most famous for his eviscerating reviews of the ''Franchise/FinalFantasy'' series, specifically otherwise-beloved titles such as [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyVIII VIII]] and [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyX X]]. Other prominent reviews include his {{Lets Play}}s of ''VideoGame/PhantasmagoriaAPuzzleOfFlesh'', ''VideoGame/SWAT4'', and ''VideoGame/{{Ripper}}'' (which he slogged through in the dark ages of pre-Website/GameFAQs). He also did an in-depth retrospective of the ''VideoGame/{{Ultima}}'' franchise, discussing not only how each game would reshape video game story and gameplay design, but how the games influenced his childhood, culminating in ''VideoGame/UltimaIX'' being, as he describes, "a top contender for the most blundered finale to an epic storyline in the history of fiction."

Aside from video games, he has done reviews of movie and TV shows, both as Vlogs and as dedicated reviews, and some of the former are off-the-cuff rants about new premieres he came back already hating (the ones about ''Film/IndianaJonesAndTheKingdomOfTheCrystalSkull'', ''[[{{Film/Twilight}} The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1]]'' and ''Film/TransformersRevengeOfTheFallen'' are truly something to behold), as well as similarly improv comments on the state of pro wrestling, which often run as long as the actual ''program'' he's critiquing. He is also a huge fan of Creator/RebBrown and reviewed several of his films, often lamenting he truly thinks he could have been an A-list action star if he only picked better roles.

For a time, Noah was a member of ''Website/ChannelAwesome'', which led to numerous crossovers and collaborations with their personalities, especially [[WebVideo/AtopTheFourthWall Lewis "Linkara" Lovhaug]]; Noah's MadScientist character Dr. Insano became a recurring archnemesis of Linkara, and to this day "Dr. Linksano", a version of Dr. Insano from an AlternateUniverse where Linkara became a MadScientist instead of Spoony, is a recurring cast member on ''Atop the 4th Wall''. Spoony left TGWTG in June 2012 (Noah said in the ''[[http://spoonyexperiment.com/2012/09/15/to-boldly-flee-part-1-spoony-commentary/ To Boldly Flee]]'' commentary that he was already planning to leave as he didn't need the site's promotions and management knew this; however, he also left in the midst of unfortunate Twitter comments made towards [[Creator/AllisonPregler Obscurus Lupa]], causing many to believe this was the reason he left, or at least contributed to the decision, though Noah admitted that the feud didn't help). Regardless of why he left, he stayed on good terms with many creators and would continue to appear in some of their videos after his departure.

2013-2015 marked the approximate time that Noah's productivity began to decline as his real-life health problems, both physical and mental, started to take their toll on him, and his already sporadic output became less and less frequent. The "Spoony Experiment" website was effectively abandoned in 2017, then taken down entirely in May 2019. [[https://www.patreon.com/spoonyexperiment Spoony's Patreon]] once promised a full-length movie from Noah if it hit $5,000 a month, but once it did he was taken aback and admitted he didn't think it would happen; the movie never materialized and likely never will, and his pledges no longer reach anywhere near that goal anymore. Noah occasionally streams video games on [[https://www.youtube.com/user/SpoonyOne his YouTube page]] and is very active on his [[https://twitter.com/TheSpoonyOne Twitter account,]] but the "Spoony" character is essentially retired.

In addition to his video and game reviews, Spoony also hosted a number of other video series:

In addition Spoony has:
* A ''VideoGame/StarWarsTheOldRepublic'' guild, [[http://spoonyexpendables.com/ The Spoony Expendables.]]
* His live stream, Live Wire, is [[https://www.youtube.com/user/SpoonyOne here,]] on which he sporadically plays games like ''[=SWAT=] 4'', ''VideoGame/{{XCOM}}'', ''Ultima Underworld'', and others.
* His Twitter, on which he posted updates and [[TheGadfly liked to argue with people or complain]], can be [[https://twitter.com/TheSpoonyOne found here.]]

His brother Miles also used to review movies, under the name Moviemoses. His blog can be found [[http://moviemoses.wordpress.com here,]] but it has recived no new updates since 2018.

** On the one hand, Spoony/Noah will give credit where credit is due, as with ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyX'',[[note]]Grudgingly admitting to enjoying the battle system, and praising the high quality of both the soundtrack and cutscenes, even going so far as to call the music "heartbreakingly beautiful"[[/note]] ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyX2'',[[note]]Praising the sandbox-like, fun-focused gameplay and Yuna's more upbeat and positive attitude, as well as the Thunder Plains concert, aside for some of the clunky lyric translations, for being a beautiful song that Yuna's VA performed well and for having an FMV that managed to get him emotionally invested the Shuyin[=/=]Lenne relationship in just three minutes[[/note]] ''[[Literature/{{Twilight}} Eclipse]]'',[[note]]Praising the start of the movie for showing the Cullen family's pasts and motivations, making them interesting characters, as well as the fact that the actors turned in better performances than in the previous two parts[[/note]] and Creator/RebBrown.[[note]]Saying that he actually likes Reb as an actor and feels that he could have been one of the big action stars if only he'd gotten better roles[[/note]] On the other hand, any time he gives something a negative review, some assume he's {{Troll}}ing, as seen when Creator/JossWhedon fans leapt on him for saying he didn't like ''Film/TheCabinInTheWoods''.

** In his vlog for ''Snow White and the Huntsman'', Noah says that Creator/KristenStewart isn't a very good actress and is [[InformedAttractiveness not nearly as hot as the film makes her out to be]], but he says that he's not trying to hate on her just to jump on the ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'' HateDom, and ApologizesALot, remarking that he really does want to like her but she just annoys him.

** ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'': He presents Bella Swan as a needy, manipulative sociopath who has no regard for the lives she ruins in pursuing her own desires, and [[Film/FerrisBuellersDayOff Ferris Bueller]] as a ManipulativeBastard who enjoys toying with others. He considers Charlie to be TheWoobie due to what he has to put up with from Bella, who by the fourth film is a vampire pregnant with a half-vampire child and has gotten herself mixed up in a war between werewolves and vampires, and yet does not tell him any of this for his own protection.

* ApologizesALot: In his vlog about ''Snow White and the Huntsman'', Noah says that Creator/KristenStewart isn't as attractive as this film (or the ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'' series) makes her out to be, apologizing several times for saying so and being visibly displeased with how piggish this makes him look.

** Done over [[http://twitter.com/TheSpoonyOne/status/35525987588509696 Twitter]] when he learned that the writer of the ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'' film would be scripting the ''Film/{{Highlander}}'' ContinuityReboot.

** His ''Breaking Dawn'' review, they talk about Creator/DavidCronenberg doing the Vampire C-Section and talk about how ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'' is a bodice-ripper Harlequin Romance novel, both are things he talked about when previously reviewing Twilight movies.

* ForTheEvulz: [[Literature/{{Twilight}} Bella Swan's]] motivation, according to Noah.

** During Spoony's [[INeedAFreakingDrink booze-fueled]] Vlog of [[Literature/{{Twilight}} Breaking Dawn Part 1]], his dog is running around on the sofa behind him, picking up objects in its mouth, and occasionally trying to drink Spoony's rum.

** Happens quite literally in his [[http://spoonyexperiment.com/2011/11/19/vlog-11-19-11-breaking-dawn/ v-log]] for the ''[[Literature/{{Twilight}} Breaking Dawn]]'' film; Noah admits that he doesn't normally drink though he does keep alcohol on hand for guests, but the film was so terrible that he decided to get drunk.

* StrangledByTheRedString: [[invoked]] During his ''Eclipse'' v-log, he almost seems to be going insane trying to figure out why [[Literature/{{Twilight}} Bella and Edward]] are in love.

* DespairEventHorizon: After [[spoiler:Dupre comes back to life]] in ''VideoGame/UltimaIX'', Spoony declares every good memory he has about the Ultima series (and he shares a lot) is worthless since it all lead to that. He then says you can only pray that you die before you live long enough to see everything and everyone you love betray you.

He was perhaps most famous for his eviscerating reviews of the ''Franchise/FinalFantasy'' series, specifically otherwise-beloved titles such as [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyVIII VIII]] and [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyX X]]. Other prominent reviews include his {{Lets Play}}s of ''VideoGame/Phantasmagoria2: A Puzzle of Flesh'', ''VideoGame/SWAT4'', and ''VideoGame/{{Ripper}}'' (which he slogged through in the dark ages of pre-Website/GameFAQs). He also did an in-depth retrospective of the ''VideoGame/{{Ultima}}'' franchise, discussing not only how each game would reshape video game story and gameplay design, but how the games influenced his childhood, culminating in ''VideoGame/UltimaIX'' being, as he describes, "a top contender for the most blundered finale to an epic storyline in the history of fiction."

** In his ''VideoGame/Phantasmagoria2'' playthrough, he tells Blob not to lay with the Dark One. When Blob starts talking in a demonic voice, he says "Blob, you have lain with the Dark One, and I told you no!"

* BuryYourGays: He was particularly incensed by this in [[spoiler:''Phantasmagoria 2'']] as it resulted in the death of the only character he actually didn't want to see die horribly.

** In his ''VideoGame/Phantasmagoria2'' playthrough he said that if Curtis put on a straightjacket it would become a bi-curious jacket because he's bi-curious.

* ElevatorFloorAnnouncement: Spoofed in Spoony's LetsPlay of ''VideoGame/Phantasmagoria2'' when Curtis goes to investigate the restricted basement of Wyntech.

* FeatheredFiend: Played for laughs in the review of ''VideoGame/Phantasmagoria2'', where Spoony depicts the nerdy protagonist Curtis Craig as having an irrational fear of ducks.

** Lampshaded in Phantasmagoria: "What does it say about me as a person that my first instinct is to rifle through her desk for useful objects?"

** Happens all the time during the final part of ''VideoGame/Phantasmagoria2''.

** In his LetsPlay of ''VideoGame/Phantasmagoria2'', whenever the game dwells on the protagonist's banal mundane affairs for long periods and fails to live up to its horror theme ([[RunningGag which is often]]), Spoony yells "PHANTASMAGORIA! A PUZZLE OF THE FLESH!"

* PrivateEyeMonologue: Spoofed in the ''VideoGame/Phantasmagoria2'' review when Curtis finds Therese sitting on his couch after she broke into his apartment.

* ReferenceOverdosed: Especially his ''VideoGame/Phantasmagoria2'' LetsPlay, where much of the humour comes from the way he crams in a reference to a film/game/internet meme in practically every sentence.

** In his ''Phantasmagoria 2'' LP: "Doctor, I think I need help. I got a Dane Cook CD... and god help me, it was funny!"

* ThisExplainsSoMuch: Spoony's reaction in his "Let's Play ''VideoGame/Phantasmagoria2''", after the big reveal that the [[RidiculouslyAverageGuy otherwise bland, dorky PC Curtis Craig]] is literally not of this world.

* YouWillBeSpared: Used as a gag in the ''VideoGame/Phantasmagoria2'' review when Jocilyn visits Curtis's home.

-->- '''"Break Me"''', sung by the Irresponsibles

** {{Lampshaded}} in that he's never actually played ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyIX'', beyond maybe two hours, but avoided it ''solely'' because he hated the art style, and hadn't been paying any attention to the first two hours, since he wrote Zidane off as an "[[WhatMeasureIsANonBadass androgynous-whiny-pansy-ass character]]". He also admitted that "it was likely that [he] was being fiercely unfair" to ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyIX'' on judging it by its art style, especially when the game was specifically targeted at fans of the NES and UsefulNotes/SuperNintendo-era Franchise/FinalFantasy games like him, but he just couldn't get over it. He elaborated in his Q&A at [=MAGfest=], and admitted his reasons for avoiding it were entirely childish, and he really can't stand the art style so much that he simply can't make himself keep playing. [[invoked]]

** [[ADateWithRosiePalms Spank]] [[TooMuchInformation material]].

* DidYouJustFlipOffCthulhu: Spoony's reaction to the ''VideoGame/TheRingTerrorsRealm'' game, where a coworker of the protagonist put a call on hold for her. Turns out the caller was Sadako.

* ForcedMeme: InUniverse he asked fans to make this out of the line "You okay, lady?" from ''VideoGame/TheRingTerrorsRealm''. He even started with putting that line over an emotional scene in ''Film/BladeTrinity''.

*** The joke appears again in the review of ''VideoGame/TheRingTerrorsRealm''.

** The weird reality distortions in his ''VideoGame/TheRingTerrorsRealm'' review, where we have sudden static screens switching between multiple Spoonys reviewing different things, and a clip of the world getting destroyed by a meteor.

** Similarly, he was unable to get ''The Madness of Roland'' to run on his computer, so instead edited together a bunch of the video files extracted from the game to form a [[MindScrew trippy series of visuals]] reminiscent of ''Film/TheRing''.

** In his review of ''VideoGame/TheRingTerrorsRealm'' he rants about how lame it is that the game has characters transforming into hideous monsters entirely off-screen -- which provokes another appearance by Simcoe the Magician and his "make something turn into something else between edits" brand of magic.

* StupidStatementDanceMix Well, not a dance mix, but someone online took his BETRAYAL shout of ''VideoGame/{{XCOM}}'' FirstPersonShooter and turned it into a metal song.
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wt39TNCpRTg And it is AWESOME.]]
** SO awesome, in fact, that Spoony loved it and used an Ultima version of it as his intro for Ultima IX Part 2.

''The Spoony Experiment'' was the home of Creator/NoahAntwiler, self-described "terrifying result of a generation raised on Creator/{{MTV}} and films by Creator/JeanClaudeVanDamme and Creator/StevenSeagal at the height of their popularity." He started out with text reviews of movies, which for a while were published as "A Gamer's Rant on the Movies" in ''ComicStrip/KnightsOfTheDinnerTable''. He was soon inspired by the likes of Creator/{{Armake21}}, WebVideo/PlayItBogart, [=WizWar100=] to make the leap to video reviews about video games, and so created a new identity as The Spoony One, after his QuirkyBard character in ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'', who he named "Tandem the Spoony", after the line "Spoony Bard" from ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyIV''. He began with ''VideoGame/TheAdventuresOfBayouBilly'', the quintessential NintendoHard title "which probably contributed a great deal to making me the psychological mess I am today," before moving on other titles.

** In ''Ultima IX'', after a series of pointless questions from the Avatar, Spoony snaps and gives the Avatar (and the writer) a roasting after ''the Avatar'' asks ''[[WhatAnIdiot what the Candle of Love is]]''.

** In his review of ''Film/TheBarbarians'' he originally thought that the villain's crossbow is merely broken for no adequately explained reason, allowing the heroes to kill him. Spoony released a correctional video when he was informed that the crossbow didn't work because the villain tried to pull the trigger with fingers that were [[{{Fingore}} bitten off]] [[WhatAnIdiot at the beginning of the movie]], which in-universe took place about a decade before the film's ending.

* DanBrowned: Noah and his brother, Miles, like many others, got hit with this hard while watching ''Series/DeadliestWarrior''. Noah does enjoy [[RuleOfCool the fight scenes,]] though.

** In his ''[[Series/DeadliestWarrior Deadliest Character]]'' sketch, the ending where [[spoiler:[[AssPull the Green Ranger and the Dragonzord come out of nowhere to help out]]]] was confirmed by Noah in his later commentary to be intended as a TakeThat at ''Series/DeadliestWarrior'', specifically at their [[DanBrowned less-than-sound]] conclusions.

* BuxomIsBetter: He certainly seems to think so. This trips him up in his ''Beastmaster'' and ''Final Fantasy X'' reviews. He laments that the actress playing Mai Shirinui in ''King of Fighters'' was not buxom like the video game character (though that's only one of a list of things they got wrong about her that he complains about.) He eagerly points out that the actress is gorgeous, but nonetheless is clearly miscast.

Pull me to the ground when you shake me, shake me!\\

And I'm beggin' "Please don't break me, break me, love!"''"

Well, Saturday I'm begging you, baby... just leave me alone!\\
You're turning me upside down\\
Threw me to the ground when you shake me, shake me!\\
I'm giving you what you need\\
And I'm begging "Please don't break me, break me, love!"''"