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  • Base-Breaking Character: Let's just say if you don't love Hanzi, you hate Hanzi and beg Glove and Boots to stop using him.
  • Crazy Is Cool: Where else can you see two puppets sliding down a snow-covered Wyoming mountain in a porta potty...and then have the puppets blow up the porta potty in case the that wasn't cool enough for the viewers?
  • Harsher in Hindsight: The ending to "Your Ad Here", where the blog's equipment is taken away after Mario and Fafa insult Pepsi during what was supposed to be product placement, is less funny after a lack of money and views led to the blog going on hiatus in late 2017. The ending to "Jobs That Don't Make Sense Anymore", where Fafa considers the blog a "sinking ship", and leaves to audition for Avenue Q, is awkward for similar reasons.
  • Hilarious in Hindsight:
    • In the "Ten Alternate Ghostbusters Reboots" video, one of the alternate reboots that Mario and Fafa think is better than Ghostbusters (2016) is one where the ghosts bust the humans instead. In the Ghostbusters (2016) Adventure World in LEGO Dimensions, one of the sidequests involves visiting an alternate dimension where ghostly versions of the Ghostbusters called the Pulsebusters capture humans.
    • In their video on vertical videos, Fafa and Mario discussed what might happen if vertical videos become widely accepted — namely, that movie theaters will switch to vertical format as well. Cut to 2020, and someone's building a vertical theater for real.
    • One of the words for Mario's Word of the Week is "Indelible", meaning "Unable to be erased, removed or forgotten". That video has since been removed.
  • Growing the Beard: Compare the older “vintage” episodes from 2004-2006 when the Blog was a bit more like a pastiche of the 1970s and 1980s Sesame Street and where they are now. There's also a bit of Characterization Marches On, most notably with Mario's presentation and voice.
  • Seasonal Rot: The late 2018-2019 season is extremely polarizing due to the emphasis on being more appealing to children, primarily by toning down the obscure pop culture references and language. This has had the unfortunate side effect of turning away a sizable amount of the fanbase who feel that the kid-friendly tone the show is now going for feels forced and devoid of the series's trademark charm and surreal humor.
  • Values Resonance: The video "#CancelGloveandBoots", made in response to the #CancelColbert campaign that briefly took hold in response to Stephen Colbert commenting on the renaming of the Washington Redskins, took a satirical look at how Manipulative Editing and trolls can easily create online witch hunts against celebrities years before the rise of "cancel culture" and its effects on online entertainment.
  • Win Back the Crowd: While the channel's return in late 2018 was highly criticized at first by old fans (see Seasonal Rot above), videos starting with "The Terrible History of Photographs" were considered major improvements, with a good balance between the Lighter and Softer style the season aimed for and the humor of the older seasons.

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