YMMV / Something About

• Aluminum Christmas Trees: A lot of the slapstick and logic-defying movement in episodes based on older games isn't coming out of nowhere; a lot of them are common exploits or tricks used by the Speedrunning community, just taken to their single most absurd conclusion in-universe. Something About Breath Of the Wild even has a link to the speedrun it's based on in its description.
• Can't Un-Hear It: It's hard not to think of "Ga$ Money" when "A Single Bloom in an Eternity" starts playing once fighting Shara Ishvalda, since the monster's unarmored form raps the former song in "Something About Monster Hunter World: Iceborne”.
• Creepy Cute: Kirbo looks bizarre, and is just as drenched in Comedic Sociopathy as the rest of the Something Series cast, yet is considered as adorable as normal Kirby.
• Crosses the Line Twice:
  • In Something About Star Fox 64, team Star Fox flies through Corneria to dispatch Andross's forces, and they just end up shooting and destroying everything, including their allies, flying through a building of innocents (and Tony the Tiger), and letting a building fall on some dude in a fursuit and a kid in a lion costume, the last of which Falco enthusiastically yells "YES! YES!" to. It's so ridiculous and over the top that one can't help but find it hilarious.
  • In "Something About Undertale - Alternate Pacifist Route", Frisk immediately dies at the start from falling into the Underground from the top of Mt. Ebott. What careens it from horrific to funny is the fact that they still complete a True Pacifist run anyway by having their corpse flung all over the place like a ragdoll, with nobody (bar of course Sans) picking up on the fact that they're dead.
  • During "Something About Street Fighter", it's already hilarious enough that the Bonus Game Car had come to life and was putting up a fight against Ryu. But then it crosses into darkly hilarious as it slams into a boat, killing both Ken and several others, and framing Ryu for the incident as he's caught on the news.
  • "Something About Ocarina of Time Part 3" has Ganondorf dancing to "Suavemente" while mass-feeding the Gorons to Volvagia, who's dancing along and eyeing up the cauldron all the Gorons are falling into. It's as ridiculous as it sounds.
• Ensemble Dark Horse: Carl and Perry from Something About COPPA have a surprising amount of fans, especially after the Adult Conversations with Carl and Perry video for April Fools 2022. They even got their own merchandise on TerminalMontage's store and another, more sincere Adult Conversations video was posted on July 2nd, 2022. Not bad for a duo of characters made to be as boring as possible as an insult towards YouTube's rules!
• Fan Nickname: "Kirbo" for this incarnation of Kirby. Became an Ascended Meme in the "Donkey Kong Country" episode where as King K. Rool gets "darn" played over his intended swear towards DK, a pop-up appears reading "Kirbo Says: There will be no swears on my Christian channel!". "Something About Kirby Super Star" even has "Kirbo" in the video's version of the game's logo, and characters start referring to him by that name from then on.
• Funny Moments: Yes.
• Gateway Series: Many people have reported listening to a SiIvaGunner rip used in a video and subsequently getting hooked on the channel.
• Genius Bonus: Whenever characters use glitches or are sequence-breaking, there's a high chance it's a well documented tactic in the speedrun community. Besides pannenkoek2012 references, "Something About Zelda Breath of the Wild", "Something about Zelda Tears of the Kingdom," and "Something About Super Mario All-Stars" are in effect adaptations of Any% runs of the featured games.
• Hilarious in Hindsight:
  • In the original video on Monster Hunter: World, there’s a scene where Bill and Bogues fall out of their PS4, see a Nintendo Switch and promptly run back into the former in abject horror, the joke seemingly being a jab at the Switch for not having a mainline Monster Hunter game yet (with Capcom explicitly denying that World would receive a Switch release due to the console’s comparatively low specs). Just over three years later, however...
  • A Running Gag throughout the series depicts Kirbo as a devout Christian in a comedic exaggeration of Jeremy Chinsue's own faith. Two years after the gag started, the Kirby Art and Style Collection art book revealed that the reason why Magolor has yellow as part of his color scheme is because it's meant to foreshadow his betrayal of Kirby in Kirby's Return to Dream Land, as yellow is the color of betrayal in Christianity. What's more, when the remake of Return to Dream Land came out in 2023, the Magolor Epilogue mode ended up bearing a lot of Christian symbolism, especially with the Master Crown taking over an apple tree. Needless to say, fans started looking for more Christian symbolism throughout the series.
    • Dark Mind claimed at one point that Christianity was unfunny. Unfortunately for Dark Mind, the aforementioned reveal of the reason Magolor had yellow as part of his color scheme made Christianity funnier in the Kirby fanbase and drove many fans to watch Jeremy's Kirby videos because of the Christian references.
  • The Stinger of Something About Super Smash Bros (which was released April 19th, 2018) had Ridley, Sans, Geno, and Goku fighting in the next game of the series. Almost all of these characters would later be in Ultimate in some form, with Ridley being revealed as a fully playable fighter a few months later and Sans and Geno would be added as purchasable Mii costumes. And while neither Goku nor Dragon Ball is in Ultimate in any form, Goku from Yūyūki (which was also inspired by Journey to the West) appears as a spirit; furthermore, a similar character (also designed by Akira Toriyama) would be added, the Hero from Dragon Quest.
• Jerkass Woobie:
  • Bowser. Yes, he’s just as villainous as in canon, but absolutely nothing goes right for him, usually ending in a painful slap to his face. It gets to the point where in Something About Super Mario 64 and Something About Super Mario World, he doesn’t even try to fight Mario by the end, instead trying and failing to just get away!
  • Robotnik also qualifies as this too. He may be as evil as in canon like Bowser, but also like Bowser, he's just as much of an Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain who is almost always constantly thwarted by Sonic in various embarrassing ways and is shown to not stand even a single remote chance against the blue hedgehog to the point that he gets his neck snapped when unfortunately put up against a Super Chili Dogs powered Sonic.
  • King Dedede too. A majority of the time, like in canon, he's not even doing anything truly evil yet that still doesn't stop Kirbo from giving him various over the top punishments such as swallowing all of his insides. At least teaming up with Kirbo in Something About Kirby 64 has Kirbo finally going easy on him for a change.
• Memetic Badass: Speedrunner Mario and Melee Fox fit the bill pretty well. Ridley also counts by virtue of being the one villain who outright actually puts up a legitimate fight against any of the various player character protagonists. Kirbo also counts, being the internets example of Badass Preacher thanks to his streak of destroying nearly every single one of his enemies through the power of Christianity.
• Memetic Loser: OoT Link tends to struggle a lot against most bosses and even some regular enemies he meets, making him look rather ineffectual in comparison to pretty much every other protagonist in the series (to the point Navi is, ironically enough, more competent and murderous than he is). This is also true in ''Something About Super Smash Bros.", where he has the unluck of fighting Melee Fox and gets steamrolled by several other characters during 8-Player Smash.
• Memetic Mutation
  • Hey! I wanna ride the Yosh! ^ExplanationA line from Baby Bowser in "Something About Yoshi's Island". The fact that it's voiced by Sr. Pelo and is followed by his iconic earrape scream (as Yoshi slapped Baby Bowser) makes it even more popular.
  • I am four parallel universes ahead of you. ^ExplanationA line from Mario in Speedrunner Mario vs Melee Fox, which is used as a plain old Badass Boast or to indicate that someone or the memer was thinking incredibly far ahead, either intentionally or inadvertently. The line itself, and most of the rest of the video, are a reference to a memetic video explanation by pannenkoek2012 of how to complete a particular level of Super Mario 64 with the A button held down.
  • You are my most favorite creation. ^ExplanationA shot of God speaking to Kirbo from behind the clouds in "Something About Kirby's Adventure," used for object labeling and sometimes paired with a picture of a half painted Kirby. The first variant is used to mock either a Creator's Pet or obvious nepotism in a given field, and the second variation is used to indicate that someone is putting an unreasonable amount of pride in their work, especially if said work is on the lower end of the quality scale.
    • Kirbo is a meme unto itself, as he surpasses game Kirby in Memetic Badass status by beating most final bosses with Christianity.
  • Cucui Ganondorf ^Explanation Ganondorf in the "Something About: Ocarina Of Time" series is heavily associated with dancing to Spanish music. A number of his appearances are heralded with Spanish quotes or music numbers like the opening of Mundial Ronaldinho's Soccer 64, a MIDI-fied, text-to-speech "Suavemente," and "Para Santa Mingo". As such, it's become very common to play Spanish music over montages of Ganondorf in Super Smash Bros. or other scenes with Ganondorf with Spanish music.
• Nightmare Fuel: Has its own page.
• Signature Scene: Many people think of "Dharkon's" introduction from Something About World of Light when they think of this series, since the beast's Nonstandard Character Design of photorealistic crab legs and an eye, combined with it coming out of nowhere accompanied by a kickin' rendition of "U.N Owen was Her?" courtesy of Siiva Gunner, and Mario dispatching it in a comical way sums up the chaotic energy of the series perfectly.
• Spiritual Successor: "Ocarina of Time" to The Real Legend. Both of them are tonally similar, irreverently lampooning Link's journey in Ocarina of Time. Time will tell if TM is able to complete the series, as The Real Legend made it as far as the Water Temple before a lengthy hiatus (until releasing a new episode nine years later).
• Spoiled by the Format: The credits of "Yoshi's Story" give away the Isle Delfino Judge's appearance in The Stinger.
• Take That, Scrappy!: In "Something About Undertale - Alternate Pacifist Route", Undyne deliberately goes out of her way to kill So Sorry, an open jab at the hugely unpopular character.
• Tear Jerker: The extended version of the Vaporwave warp from Something About Star Fox 64. Peppy taking the time to mourn James and Fox and Krystal spending time with each other before having to part ways.
• Unexpected Character:
  • Due the Something Series mostly covering Nintendo games (with the games besides that being from big third-party companies like Capcom or Konami), very few expected an episode about Undertale, an indie game.
  • Storm Eagle's Revenge also features a deep cut reference to the unlocalized Mega Mission series, as Storm Eagle returns in his Storm Eagle L form, which was created with the help of the machine mutant parasite Limited.
• The Woobie: Adeleine in Something About Kirby 64, where on Shiver Star unlike the rest of the group she can see the planet for the post-apocalyptic ice age hellscape that it is. Needless to say, she doesn't take it well. By the time they get to HR-H, she's a shaking mess, holding her hat over her eyes so she doesn't have to see any more of the planet.

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