YMMV / Joel Haver

• Magnificent Bastard "Playing an RPG for the first time" & "Playing an RPG for the second time": Marshall seems to be Townton's beloved town rat, but is in truth a villainous fiend who seeks to control the kingdom. Hiding his true nature of a power hungry usurper for ages to win the love of the people, Marshall initiates his takeover by infiltrating the kingdom's prison and unleashing its criminals onto the lands, creating total chaos. Marshall then kidnaps the Old Man's son as a hostage and inexplicably obtains a gun that he uses to march on the castle and murder the king, laying claim to the throne before dueling Jacob in an epic final battle. Marshall was the most deadly, truly evil foe Jacob ever faced, even able to dance around Jacob's enemy-detection skills thanks to having no moral compass.
• Tear Jerker:
  • "when a scene ends with a joke" combines this and Cosmic Horror Story Nightmare Fuel. It starts off with "Guy who helps with box" helping Jim with moving out of his apartment, only for them to hard cut to a party scene where the audience catches the tail-end of a joke, prompting Joel to ask what it was they just laughed at. The partygoers think that he's just being overly critical of the joke, when Joel further elaborates that there was no joke, and that they just somehow ended up in that room. "Guy who helps with box" and Jim get into an argument about the nature of their existence in the next scene, culminating in "Guy who helps with box" practically pleading with Jim to give him "longing embrace" so he can be done. This prompts Jim to ask if he's going to continue existing after this scene, to which "Guy who helps with box" replies, choking back tears, "I don't think so. I don't think so."
  • It's hard to not feel bad for Lanky Kong in "Lanky Kong listens to DK Rap for the first time." He just sounds so betrayed that his teammates decided to single him out for insults in their theme song.
  • "Curiosity Killed The George" sets an absurd premise filled with Bathos, with Curious George revealing himself capable of speech and telling Man in the Yellow Hat what he'd found out about modern-day internet conspiracies, but gradually the humor is chipped away as his final speech about love is played completely straight. In the end, there's no joke whatsoever: just Man in the Yellow Hat contemplating those words with somber music in the background.

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