YMMV / Some Jerk with a Camera

• Archive Binge: All three seasons of the main show can be consumed pretty easily, with twenty-three episodes total (if multi-part episodes are combined) that average around a half-hour in length. If you include all of Tony Goldmark's internet work, that's another story, but the core show is relatively brief by YouTube reviewer standards.
• Bizarro Episode:
  • The Outtakes Special hosted by Kill Bozby is pretty weird. The "commentary" for it is mind-meltingly INSANE.
  • There's even a Bizarro Commentary for the Halloween Time episode, "explaining" how Jerk got the mafia to cut off his fingers ^note  before they grew back , how human beings are 90% butter, how one time when he was two, Jerk murdered a clown, cut it open, and put all his stuff in the clown, how man-eating elephants can metamorphose into really big buildings with scary-looking clocks, and so many other weird things, before finally concluding that every religion is wrong.
  [in the Haunted Mansion Holiday, we see thunder and lightning — really a remix of Worm Quartet's "Mommy's Broken"]
  Bizarro!Jerk: "What the— Huuuuh?!"
  Bizarro!Ghost Host: [which apparently now sounds like Kermit the Frog singing "Pictures In My Head"] "Remember when you were bored in my head? Caved in again, we can't repair my head."
  Bizarro!Jerk: "Uhhh... we're not having any of that."
  Bizarro!Ghost Host: [which apparently now sounds like Ludwig Von Drake] "Oop dig-a-dig-a, oom-pah-pah!"
  Bizarro!Jerk: "I shall consult my brain at the acceptability of this— whoop, none."
• Broken Base: Fans have been divided over the channel's post-Season Three content which shifted more towards personal vlogs instead of comedy sketches and less filming on-location at the theme parks. Some felt his content was as hilarious as ever and it allowed for slightly more frequent uploads, even if the video style had drastically changed, while others thought his more ambitious, filming and effects-heavy material was where he excelled and the shift away from it was to the channel's detriment. Now that his video content is basically done for the foreseeable future thanks to his full focus on Escape from Vault Disney!, this debate has died down. Though it still means the end of SJWAC for now and plenty still miss the show, the podcast means that Tony Goldmark releases lengthy weekly content on a regular basis, something unheard of for his content before, satiating both sides of the debate.
• Crosses the Line Twice: Most of his jokes are this. Such as him comparing selling merchandise with Voldemort's name on it to selling Hitler Ovens to Jews.
• Dancing Bear: The fact he films all his videos on-location at the theme parks he covers is what made him stand out of the reviewer crowd when he debuted. It's telling that when Doug Walker^note Who reportedly rarely, if ever, watched the content the producers on his site made. made a plug video for this show during its time on Channel Awesome, it was the only thing Doug talked about. During his review of Escape from Tomorrow, Tony takes a moment to point out that he's uniquely qualified to talk about it because of his close familiarity with the film's gimmick in both theory and practice.
• Fridge Brilliance: In It's A Small World Holiday, Jerk promises that he won't subject us to the ride's title song "be it in part one, or the inevitable part two". He apologizes for "breaking his promise" when he plays his parody song...but that doesn't happen until part *three* so he technically kept his promise!
• Friendly Fandoms:
  • Jerk's audience has a lot of overlap with other reviewers who frequently appear in his videos, including Spazzmaster, The Wire, Il Neige, and Tricksterbelle.
  • According to Jerk, about half of his viewers (as of 2017) discovered him after his crossover review with Brows Held High.
• Genius Bonus: In the Simpsons Ride review, he compares Disneyland and Universal Studios to Claire and Allison (respectively) in The Breakfast Club. What studio released The Breakfast Club in 1985? Universal.
• Growing the Beard: He finally manages to "keep his hilarious digressions to a minimum" in season two, vastly improving the show's comedic rhythm and keeping the critiques themselves on point.
• Harsher in Hindsight:
  • His character of "Kill Bozby", a Bill Cosby parody who's also a depraved psychopath, becomes a lot less funny after the multiple rape allegations against the real Bill Cosby. Lampshaded in his "Shrek 4D" review.
  • His Small World review ended with Jerk going back in time and blowing up the original ride, only to realize his mother was inside and being erased from existence. By a cruel stroke of coincidence, Tony's mother actually did die between this episode and the following one on Star Tours, which actually features an In Memoriam for her.
  • Following Tony's very bitter departure from the site, every joke he's done about finally joining Channel Awesome becomes this, especially the Running Gag in his Back to the Future: The Ride review where the Nostalgia Critic pesters him to pander to his (the Critic's) fanbase and have a more frequent upload rate. ^note While he didn't support the #ChangeTheChannel movement (initially), Tony agreed with the sentiment that part of the problem was the site's focus on the Nostalgia Critic brand, and called out the management for quickly letting go new talent if they failed to upload new content, a fate Tony barely managed to avoid due to the understandably long periods of time he needs to film and edit his own reviews. He became even more bitter towards the site after their first response to the controversy. His breaking point was when Doug Walker publicly defended his boss Mike Michaud, prompting him to quit the site and speak out against the channel.
  • His', Count Jackula's and Horror Guru's delight at the news of Guillermo del Toro directing a new movie based on The Haunted Mansion attraction became this after his version of the movie was cancelled.
• Hilarious in Hindsight:
  • His ABC Goes To Disney World video does the "show's theme song goes on way longer than it should" gag several months before Too Many Cooks.
  • Pretty much anytime in his earlier videos when he mentions that Lucasfilm properties had to be licensed from a separate studio.
  • In early May 2015, he released a review of The Simpsons Ride (which opened in 2008) at the Universal theme parks. Part of the review is devoted to mocking the fact that Harry Shearer was dropped from the project for demanding too much money despite not being an A-lister outside of the show. Only five days later, a similar contract dispute led to Shearer (temporarily) leaving the show entirely.
    • The same video, he mentions that Rupert Murdoch slept with the “enemy” (Disney) by allowing them to create an American Idol attraction in their parks. More than 2 years later, Disney has bought out the majority of Fox’s assets, all regarding entertainment. And with Disney parks having a land dedicated to Avatar currently and once had an Xenomorph on the Great Movie Ride, this quote about Disney parks becomes glorious:
      "With parks that rely almost entirely on properties Disney owns... Or buys out eventually."
  • When discussing Back to the Future: The Ride, Jerk mentions that "[l]ike so many things that alter history for no reason, this ride is all George Lucas' fault". Lucas would later be seen directly altering history.
  • In his Small World review, he states that he once heard that there was a place that was not a Disney park, and admits that that might be something worth looking into. Two seasons later, and Jerk would actually begin reviewing Universal Studios attractions, as well as also creating the "Some Jerk Visits" series, which is specifically about Jerk vlogging his trips to other parks that aren't Disney or Universal.
  • Tony points out that the only time he's ever received a Content ID claim is on Escape from Tomorrow, which is both hilarious in how hypocritical it is given the Dancing Bear of that film, and also in the fact the film is basically if Tony's show was a medium budget horror film.
    • Also in the Escape From Tomorrow review, the movie's misery causes Jerk to become disillusioned with the entire medium of film itself and declare that he'll only produce a podcast from then on. While the circumstances can make this Harsher instead of Hilarious, it still doesn't negate the amusement one might get from realizing this unintentionally foreshadowed Escape from Vault Disney!.
  • When Doggans and Spazzmaster learn that they're going to be riffing the Disneyland Opening Day Telecast with Jerk, Doggans's response is "Don't look at me. I thought we were here to review Fantasmic!" Even though Spazz points out that they already did, this didn't stop the trio and friends from actually reviewing it again a year later. Admittedly, they waited until the show had been revamped at Disneyland first.
  • In his Shrek 4D review, Tony claims that the hubris DreamWorks Animation has with their Cash-Cow Franchise is the reason why their live-action division is following Touchstone Pictures. Shortly after the review came out, DreamWorks announced that they were cutting ties with Disney in favor of Universal... whose parent company acquired their animation unit a year later.
  • In the "DCA Still Exists Too!" Vlog, Jerk jokingly accuses Soarin' Over California of hating Jews after he misreads Yosemite as "Yo, Semite!" A few months later, Donald Trump would actually make that mistake.
  • In his "Halloween Time at Disneyland" review, he jokes about the redundant nature of the name for Haunted Mansion Holiday, saying it'd be like advertising "A Christmas Story: Special Christmas Edition". 11 years later, A Christmas Story Christmas released, which has a title suspiciously similar to his joke.
• Memetic Mutation:
  • "GUMMI BEARS 4 THE WIN"^ExplanationOn Jerk's commentary for "Thirty Years of EPCOT" he sarcastically claimed it was extremely motivating for him to put months of work into his enormous 3 part review only to get "Gummi Bears for the win!" as the only comment on it. This references a comment left on the upload of the 2nd part of the EPCOT video here, referring to a very brief mention of Adventures of the Gummi Bears in the episode. Cue a bunch of his fans posting that all over his other videos.
  • "The new Twilight Zone Tower of Terror. The new Twilight Zone Tower of Terror. The new Twilight Zone Tower of Terror..." It's even started showing up in the comments of Spazzmaster's videos.
  Tony Goldmark: And this is the bit that broke all [our] comments sections, because literally none of us can mention the Tower of Terror anymore without someone in the comments copy-pasting...
  Everyone: The new Twilight Zone Tower of Terror. The new Twilight Zone Tower of Terror. The new Twilight Zone Tower of Terror... [etc]
• Once Original, Now Common: While plenty of his videos from his show, especially in the later seasons, hold up today, it can be hard for newer viewers to see why fans of reviewers lauded the show back then. Back in 2011, though online video content was thriving, hardly anyone made content about Theme Parks. This made Some Jerk With A Camera practically the only game in town covering the medium, and he was the first to cover a lot of the subjects with as much effort as he did in a video format. Also, the way Tony weaved the subject matter with the Caustic Critic and Mid-Review Sketch Show attributes of reviewer content was seen as innovative and fresh. Nowadays, there is arguably too much theme park video content online, from Defunctland, Jenny Nicholson, Yesterworld Entertainment, hundreds among hundreds of theme park vlogers, and much more. When you combine that with how the attributes he used in the show have fallen heavily out of style for viewers, new viewers can overlook how special the show was when it debuted.
• What Do You Mean, It's Not for Kids?: Don't let the subject matter fool you — the Jerk is just as profane as any internet critic. Mention of him or his videos is actually a bannable offense on at least one Disney park fan forum, MiceChat, due to his decidedly family-unfriendly nature.

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