YMMV / Board James

• Awesome Music: Every time Bootsy Spankins appears, he also comes with some awesome music for the board game of the episode.
• Ensemble Dark Horse: Deadly Danger Dungeon had gotten tons of popularity in its episode that not only did people make their own versions, but Board James even uploaded his own version for people to play.
• Fridge Brilliance: Why can't he stick broken game pieces together well? Because he's actually using masking blue tape, which has a weaker adhesive than regular tapes to A) be easily removable, and B) prevent further damage that a stronger tape could cause.
• Fridge Horror: In Episode 8, the revelation of anybody who owns a Mr Bucket that will behave the same as James' own one is much more horrifying when you realize that some who own it are likely young children.
• Girl-Show Ghetto: Despite Dream Phone having been made with little girls in mind, it seemed to break out of it when James, Mike, and Bootsy said in the review that they actually enjoyed playing the game themselves.
• Harsher in Hindsight: Bootsy's in-series position as The Friend Nobody Likes is harder to stomach after his departure from Cinemassacre, particularly on bad terms with Mike.
• He Really Can Act:
  • James' acting from the end of "Dream Phone" onwards is genuinely impressive in showcasing a man that's gone batshit crazy. "13 Dead End Drive" takes the acting talent up to eleven.
  • It's obvious in "13 Dead End Drive" that Mike and Bootsy have come a long way since "Dream Phone"- especially Bootsy, of all people.
  • Bootsy's outburst at the start of the "Wacky Blasters" episode is surprisingly genuinely acted.
• Hilarious in Hindsight:
  • In "Deadly Danger Dungeon," James mentions making his own board game version of Street Fighter II as a kid. In "Video Games," he reviews an official board game version of it.
  • At the end of Doggie Doo a special thanks is given to "Anna and Elsa".
• I Knew It!: Many people have speculated that Board James is really The Angry Video Game Nerd, either as an alter ego of his or the person who would later become the Nerd. The "Video Games !!" episode reveals that Board James and the Nerd are the same person all along.
• Memetic Molester: Mr. Bucket. He just wants to suck on your balls.
• Narm: Despite the Dream Phone episode being a fairly effective horror movie pastiche otherwise, the revelation that the phone was the killer is rather silly — particularly when it starts going around the house holding a knife. Yes, a phone somehow holding a knife by its side. Later events suggest that James killed his friends this was all a hallucination to deny that, which may lessen the silliness.
• Nightmare Fuel: Has its own page.
• Signature Scene: Everything about the second half of the "Dream Phone" episode, but especially the very end with James giving a genuinely creepy Slasher Smile at the camera.
• Squick: Bad Luck Bootsy eating the Play-Doh in the Splat! episode. Thankfully, they employed the Vomit Discretion Shot.
• Suspiciously Similar Song: The combat theme from Weapons and Warriors sounds a lot like "He's a Pirate".
• Tear Jerker:
  • At the end of the Full House episode where James finds out his friends don't exist, leaving him sitting there alone and sad.
  • In general, James' fears and reaction to losing Mike and Bootsy and towards the thought that he may have killed them. Even if we later find out James is a murderer and has tortured his friends, at least in this point in time he's genuinely sad that they are gone, even after he raged at them for their shitty behavior.
  • Mike and Bootsy's agony during the Hangman and Operation "games". It hurts to see them suffer so much, even if sometimes their reactions can come off as Narm.

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