YMMV / Two Best Friends Play

• Accidental Innuendo: In the JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Eyes of Heaven playthrough, Woolie explains to Pat that Jolyne spells her last name "Cujoh" instead of "Kujo" like her father, because "fuck her daddy." Pat immediately makes a joke about her having a complex for her dad, and her being the only woman with strong enough legs to actually withstand fucking Jotaro.
• Alas, Poor Scrappy: Even if Matt and Liam dislike/hate Chloe for her attitude and behavior, they're clearly shocked and horrified when they see her in a wheelchair at the end of Part 13.
• Alternative Character Interpretation: Pat and Woolie theorize during the JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Eyes of Heaven playthrough that the entirety of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure has been a journey of sexual self discovery for Hirohiko Araki, going from huge Bara types to more waifish Bishōnen types over time, with a brief dalience towards Les Yay during Stone Ocean. Their reaction to this realization is absolutely priceless.
  Woolie: What we're seeing here is a man discovering himself sexually, that's all.
  Pat: Over the course of thirty years!?
  Both: *descend into a fit of manic laughter*
  • And that isn't even getting into the likes of Grand Wizard Wakka or the countless other times they've Flanderized or mischaracterized other characters in the games they've played.
  • Punish mode in the Punisher game is Frank wanting to feel it with the knife to satisfy his killing urge.
• Aluminium Christmas Trees:
  • In their WWE All Stars and WWF No Mercy videos, they use a custom wrestler named the Shockmaster who seems to be created to be as ridiculous as possible. In reality, there was a wrestler called the Shockmaster and he looked pretty ridiculous (though not to the extent Pat managed in All Stars).
  • While playing various Spider-Man games the two started listing various bizarre stories from the comics, all of which actually happened. The trope was fully invoked when Matt brought up how Peter's radioactive semen killed Mary-Jane in Spider-Man: Reign only for Pat to declare it didn't happen.
• Arc Fatigue:
  • Pat and Woolie's blind Bloodborne playthrough. Specifically whenever Woolie plays as he plays very slow and meticulously. Which is exasperated when he reaches the Forbidden Woods, a large area in its own right. This earned the LP the moniker of Snailborne, a name still occasionally referenced by fans whenever any game starts slowing down. Total time: 54 episodes and 28+ hours ^note (66 episodes and 35+ hours, if one counts the follow-up playthrough of The Old Hunters DLC).
  • Woolie and Pat's Knights of the Old Republic playthrough, due to Woolie's lack of progress, tendency to wander, and being repeatedly Sidetracked by the Gold Saucer. It eventually ended after 99 parts and 51 hours of footage^note (As the majority of episodes are half an hour long, some fans opt to cut the hour long debut episode in half to count the playthrough at exactly 100 episodes total), making it the longest playthrough of any game in the history of the Super Best Friends.
  • Tokyo Mirage Sessions ♯FE. It was in a bad enough starting position, being a niche JRPG based on a premise that can be alienating to some, but it also came out not long after the above Knights of the Old Republic playthrough and turned out to be stuffed to the gills with Fake Longevity. It was also concurrent with several very popular series such as A Way Out, God of War (PS4) (itself a sufferer of this trope: see below), and two whole playthroughs of Detroit: Become Human. At least some vocal fans accused TMS of taking time that could be spent progressing through the other games, even going so far as to mass dislike it and demand the Best Friends cancel the LP. Total time: 82 episodes and 45+ hours of footage.
  • God of War (PS4) dedicated many episodes to exploring the semi-open world and completing sidequests, which lead to the main plot progressing at a crawl. It doesn't help that the game is a Metroidvania, or that at certain points in the game, the available area to explore automatically expands. This led to the usual lineup of jokes such as "God of Snail," as well as the more LP-relevant "Side quest go up, but main quest go down"^note A reference to Pat's obsessive min-maxing of the Strength stat, to the point where he passes up decent equipment because they make Strength go down. Total time: 46 episodes and 23+ hours of footage.
• Awesome Art: A fanon example: an animator named CrankyConstruct often makes animations of certain episodes, and intros to some as well, and, put simply, their art style is adorable. No video shows it better than "Everything's Exploding", which also shows the sight of Liam sleeping peacefully with a pillow, likely an anime body pillow.
  • Then there's one of their famous Intro Animators Volta Bass, he has made a lot of well-animated intros^{Intros He's Made} Yakuza 0, The Intro and Outro of Nightin The Woods, Matt's Channel Intro for some of their playthoughs. What many in the fanbase consider his crowning achievement is his Shitstorm VI - At the Mountains of Madness Animation, awesome does not even begin to describe the intro itself.
  • From the Kirby lore videos, Mothmandraws managed to create artworks of Kirby characters to fit the tone of this four-episode series. As a result, most of them also cross over into Creepy Awesome.
• Base-Breaking Character: Rage. A majority enjoyed that he was the primary focus of Def Jam: Fight for New York, adding a cool new original character to the Best Friends' mythology. Then Rage started appearing more and more — frequently at the expense of Zubaz, one of the team's classic characters — leading older fans to accuse Rage of being a Creator's Pet. This perception wasn't helped by the penultimate Rustlemania 2 episode, where Rage leaves the Baz utterly humiliated.
• Broken Base: Has its own page here.
• Crosses the Line Twice:
  • In the Season 2 playthrough of The Walking Dead, Pat jokes about having Clementine punching a pregnant woman so hard in the stomach that the baby flies out, which he will use to distract nearby zombies. Also, taking the joke further, he says the baby will actually be glad to be out of her womb, referring to her as a "bitch."
  • Liam seems to be pushing this for a lot of fans; as detailed above, some are uncomfortable with the sheer amount of exposure he's gotten as of late, but his attitude toward Warren during Episode 5 of Life is Strange seemed to stop being Comedic Sociopathy and outright offputting for a lot of viewers right around the point he declared "I wish we can make Joyce and Frank so suicidal that they'd blow the place up with Warren inside it," particularly as the character he loathes never does anything particularly wrong. While a lot of viewers felt that Warren had previously been a Sitcom Archnemesis for Liam - equivalent to Pat's escapades against Quint - here it turned a little too intense.
  • Happens a lot depending on the material such as Grand Wizard Wakka and Naruto shitting on babies.
  • Woolie makes a number of jokes to this effect in their DmC: Devil May Cry playthrough. He especially rips into the infamous scene where Vergil fires a rifle through Lilith's torso, killing her unborn child; calling it a ".50 Caliber coat hanger" and wondering if Plan B was written on the bullet.
• Ensemble Dark Horse:
  • It's hard to tell how much Matt and Pat actually enjoy from Walking Dead Season 2. However, there's no denying that the guys really took a liking to Luke, with Pat mentioning how "dreamy" he is. Jane, too, because of her carrying a pragmatism unique to most characters in the season. It's made entirely clear in their wrap-up that they certainly didn't like Season 2 as much as Season 1, and a number of Matt's comments on his Tumblr have outright stated Telltale needs better writing for the next one.
  • The Omikron playthrough is undoubtedly one of the hardest games for the Zaibatsu to get through. Despite this, the Friends seem to like Soks, the Funny Robot that handles the Awakened's weapons. In a game filled with terrible accents and shoddy character models, Soks is the only character with a unique design and a somewhat humorous personality (even if, as Woolie points out, he's pretty clearly an Expy of C-3PO). The fact that he helps the Nomad Soul discover the traitor in the Awakened's ranks and his voice actor is giving one of the better performances also helps.
• Fandom Rivalry:
  • Between them and the Game Grumps. Every so often, you'll find comments comparing the two, or outright accusing TBFP of ripping the Game Grumps off (despite TBFP predating Game Grumps by a year). Nevertheless, Jon of Game Grumps has admitted he was inspired by TBFP to make a two person show revolving video games. While Pat has expressed disappointment in Game Grumps, both Matt and Pat are fans of Egoraptor, referencing his Metal Gear Awesome and Girl-chan in Paradise series on occasion. Regardless, the two groups seem to be on good terms, as evidenced in their 2013 E3 videos. And indeed, the two groups collaborated with each other, with the Grumps playing Dinotopia on the Zaibatsu channel, and the Best Friends playing Spider-Man 3 with the Grumps as part of Grumpcade.
  • There's a much more hostile one between them and PewDiePie. Which could be said to be instigated by Matt, as whenever he addresses the fandom, he likes to think of them as "better than PewDiePie fans."
  • There is also a certain rivalry with The Spoony Experiment with Matt commenting on an early LP there was not much interesting material on his website. During the Killer is Dead playthrough Matt commented that the only content from Spoony he likes is his early stuff from before Spoony had his infamous Creator Breakdown.
  • They also possibly have something of an issue with Ashly Burch, as suggested in their Colonial Marines video and a more podcast discussing Anthony Burch's leaving Gearbox.
    • Although this is possibly subverted/just the Best Friends ribbing other people as in a podcast episode, Matt declares Ashly a 'sweetheart' for coming over during a convention specifically to mock Woolie.
• Faux Symbolism: During the Earth Defense Force 2017 video, while discussing the symbology of the game.
  Pat: So what do the giant alien space ships shitting bugs out represent?
  Matt: Freemasons.
• Franchise Original Sin: Discussed, regarding the Metroid series. When Matt, Pat, and Woolie watched the cutscenes from Metroid: Other M, they took the plot to task for its shortcomings. Then Matt, Woolie, and Liam played Metroid Fusion, which they were much more positive about. As they played, they were surprised at how many of Other M's plot elements (such as Samus' backstory with Adam) were already present in Fusion, just better executed.
• Friendly Fandoms:
  • Some fans overlap with Maximillian Christensen's fanbase. If you hear anybody mention a Max on the channel, it's him. Taken up to 11, considering that the Best Friends are fans of him, have had him on the Podcast, got the Yo Videogames crew to do Rustlemania intros, and even did a proper crossover when Matt and Woolie flew out to California to hang with Max and the doods.
  • Many fans of Devil May Cry became well-acquainted with the Best Friends fanbase near the end of the latter series' run, when Devil May Cry 5 was announced and Pat and Woolie played through the entire series (except for Devil May Cry 2).
• Fridge Brilliance: Why does Matt have a habit (albeit not pronounced) of getting trapped on things or running into glitches? He used to work in QA, it was his job to find glitches.
• Good Bad Bugs: Possibly due to their experience as quality assurance testers, the Friends just love running into any kind of bug, error or crash. On occasion, such as with their Deus Ex: Human Revolution playthrough, they also recall memories of amusing bugs they ran into during their QA days.
• Growing the Beard: They seemed to grow the beard when Woolie and Liam became permanent members of the group.
  • Or arguably when their full LP's and channel started to gain prominence over their Machinima episodes. The latter are still funnier because of the condensed time and the admittedly scripted jokes, but the team arguably grew the beard when their LP's, videos and podcasts started to become interconnected with jokes crossing over from each format.
• Harsher in Hindsight:
  • Invoked with their Rustlemania-based look at the Hulk Hogan's Main Event Kinect title, which featured Matt loudly declaring "MATT HATES BLACK PEOPLE!"; Fast forward two years, and the Hulkster has now been cast into the spotlight following a racist rant involving his daughter.
  • In part 10 of their Silent Hill 2 playthrough, it's mentioned that Konami won't allow complete creative and financial freedom to anyone except Hideo Kojima, so the pair have faith in Silent Hills...
  • After the November Nintendo Direct came out featuring all characters from Super Smash Bros. (except Kirby) erased by Galeem's light beam, a fan video parodying this came out, with Woolie and possibly Matt and Pat getting smitten. A month and a half later, the guys have decided to end the Super Best Friends brand, without ever having gotten to play that game on the channel.
  • Pat and Woolie's Devil May Cry series had a Running Gag where the game they planned to do next finished installing in the last episode of the LP. The DmC: Devil May Cry LP, which didn't have the gag, turned out to be the last full LP on the channel.
  • A lot of the Running Gag jabs taken at Woolie become less funny when he stated on Woolie Versus that he eventually got tired of them due to fans beating the proverbial dead horse and inundating him with them.
  • Super Best Friendcast Episode 115 featured Mike Zaimont as a guest to hype Lab Zero Games's Indivisible, which was a fun moment due to the gang's Creator Worship for him. It lost a lot of that fun after Pat's claims, in the wake of Lab Zero's shutdown and the cancellation of updates to Indivisible over Zaimont's alleged abusive behavior, that Zaimont behaved like a Bitch in Sheep's Clothing off-camera and that the making of this episode caused Pat to resent him ever since.
  • During the Deadly Premonition playthrough, in part 14 Pat responds to Forrest's comments about "throwing a blonde in a bikini into a boy's locker room" with"rape culture! Does Kaysen support rape culture?!" in a very offended tone. At the end of the game, the actions of Forrest Kaysen make that statement and the offence taken seem rather prophetic.
  • Similarly, Pat notes during their The Last of Us playthrough that Joel's insistence that they are "survivors," rather than "shitty people," is typically said in movies by REALLY shitty people. Later on in the game, we find out Joel has "been on both sides."
  • In their podcast for January 12th of 2016, the Best Friends lament the then recent death of David Bowie and the earlier passing of Motörhead's Lemmy, citing that these things come in threes; two days later, it was unfortunately announced that Alan Rickman passed away.
  • During their look at Street Fighter X Mega Man, the group discussed how halfhearted it was that Capcom's only release to celebrate Mega Man's anniversary was to officiate a fan game, and debate on if they should be demanding more content or just be satisfied with what little effort Capcom did put into the game. Flash forward to 2016, when Mighty No. 9 attempted to please Mega Man fans and was met with extreme bile. As with the Best Friends and the earlier game, this was justified with "It's better than nothing."
  • One of the intros to the 2016 Shitstorm of Spookiness is a well done animated bit that ends with Liam vanishing into thin air in front of Matt. Just two months later, Liam announced that he would be leaving the channel for good due to mental health problems.
  • The most last full LP Matt did was Omikron: The Nomad Soul, which was a terrible game that they had a running gag of claiming it was driving them insane (later episodes cutting the usual video bumpers for mad imagery); soon after its finale was uploaded Matt announced his hiatus for stress. Liam was playing through Sonic Unleashed as, according to Woolie and Matt, he hadn't suffered as much as the other members, so they wanted a game to break him; Liam would resign from the channel for mental health issues midway through (although he did say he'd finish the game).
  • Their playthrough of Tales from the Borderlands was started just before news of Telltale Games' closure. They comment on it once the recordings "catch up" with the news.
  • It was once said on the Podcast that the original joke behind the channel was the fact that Matt and Pat weren't actually great friends at all, but during the recording of one of their first full playthroughs Pat came to the realization that they'd become friends after all. Cut to nearly nine years later where the stress of the business side of the channel has caused the friendship the channel began to end.
  • Likewise, there's a moment during the Shadow the Hedgehog Spindash Quick Look where Matt seems to express some genuine annoyance with Pat's (who isn't in the video) abrasive behavior, as well as the antagonistic manner in which he talks to people who enjoy games he doesn't personally like. Even though this was years before the actual end of their friendship, it's somewhat uncomfortable to listen to with the knowledge of what would ultimately happen to the channel.
  • The Best Friends' constant potshots at The King Of Hate becomes somewhat less funny in light of the end of the Best Friends given that DarkSydePhil ends up outlasting them. A specific example is a podcast with Retsupurae with them joking that once DarkSydePhil's day has come and gone any one of them could be latched onto as the Internet's newest "villain."
  • Any instances in which the gang critiqued David Cage and his consistent writing habits with female characters have become almost prophetic as of 2021, where Cage has made court appearances based on the treatment of female employees wherein he asked if he could lie and fled tearfully due to people critiquing his work; this follows a number of articles where he and other Quantic Dream staff were reported to have made some highly awkward and vulgar comments about women and female staff.
  • In their Playthrough of The Last of Us, they stand by their decision to massacre all of the surgical staff in the final level, thinking that Joel's anger was righteous. Cut to the sequel, and we find what happens after that...
  • The constant jabs at Paul Walker in the Fast and Furious Showdown video quickly became awkward when Walker died in a car crash only months after the video was made.
• He Panned It, Now He Sucks!: To say that a lot of JoJo fans changed their opinion on Pat after his opinions in the All Star Battle review is...an understatement.
  • Fans unsure of how serious Pat can be at times don't really care much for him liking to joke about some of Nintendo's financial troubles, with some feeling that the fact Pat didn't grow up playing Nintendo consoles makes him a bit biased against the company in general. Some even find it to be a bit disrespectful he still continued to make the jokes in spite of the passing of former Nintendo president Satoru Iwata and the fact Iwata cutting his own pay in half helped the company regain profitability in 2015.
  • Gundam fans were not happy when Woolie revealed he dismissed Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans after only two episodes because he felt it was becoming just another Mobile Suit Gundam SEED and criticizing the show for being "kiddy." Fans of the former agree that it's one of the darker settings Gundam has had, especially with a certain scene in the third episode. However, he was not incorrect in pointing out the relative lack of gray morality by displaying stereotypical villains and the inherently tropey nature of the work. Which is something Gundam SEED definitely did.
• Hilarious in Hindsight:
  • While playing Prison Break Matt was afraid of going to jail and said he needed to learn about prison from the game. A few years later, the Two Best Friends Play Facebook implied Matt, Pat and Woolie were almost arrested with the Aliens: Colonial Marines post showing really suspicious footage of the best friends. It later turns out that they were stopped by police when a person saw them sneaking around at night with (toy) guns, but thankfully nothing bad came of it.
  • The Resident Evil 4 video has a moment where Leon is attacked by a snake, prompting Pat to comment "That's a badass snake, gonna bite your dick." Fast forward to the Man vs. Wild: The Game video, where that is exactly what every snake in the game does.
  • When playing Soul Calibur V, they comment how Cervantes looks a lot like Leon. One of Leon's alternate costumes in Resident Evil 6 is a pirate costume.
  • In The Walking Dead Part 2 Pat says "And maybe you killed a Senator!" Matt adds "It was the one-armed man!" Now moving to the 14th part from Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance...
  • In the first part of their Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance Let's Play, they joke that they'll be going to space in the game. It does actually happen later on, albeit simply using a shuttle to get halfway around the world in a very short time period.
  • In the video for Lucha Libre AAA: Héroes del Ring, Pat responded to Woolie's Noblewoman's Laugh by angrily saying that Karin from Street Fighter Alpha was never coming back. Three years later, Street Fighter V was released, and not only did it bring back Karin, but it also featured her as one of the main characters in its Story Mode.
  • In their playthrough of F.E.A.R. 2 during the Shitstorm of Scariness, they make a comment about how the characters in the game's intro resemble the cast of the movie Alien and Matt makes a joke saying something along the lines of "wait until Aliens: Colonial Marines turns out to be not so great." Fast forward months later and said game is subject to multiple poor review scores and and considered one of the biggest gaming disappointments of early 2013. The kicker? Both games have the same lead designer.
  • Matt saying that Raiden was "the true face of the Playstation" in the PSABR episode becomes a lot more ironic after Raiden has been confirmed to be playable in the Xbox One version of Ground Zeroes.
  • In LEGO Marvel Super Heroes, Matt jokes that Captain America should not need a parachute to sky dive. Guess what Cap does within the first five minutes of Captain America: The Winter Soldier...
  • In the Silent Hill 3 video, Matt and Pat discuss what would happen if Hideo Kojima made Silent Hill. A new Silent Hill game has been announced, and it's being made by Hideo Kojima. Or at least, it was.
  • According to Pat, when Liam realized they got the Bad Ending in Resident Evil: Revelations 2, his response was "What kind of idiot gets the Bad Ending?" Either Liam is unaware of how the Good ending is notoriously counter intuitive, or he was trolling/rubbing Pat's failure in his face.
  • In the first part of the playthrough of Predator: Concrete Jungle, Woolie ponders "Why does Freddy Krueger make it into Mortal Kombat and not a Predator?" The very next MK game after that playthrough, Mortal Kombat X, has a Predator as DLC.
  • SBFC 013: Pat claims Masashi Kishimoto will die before he finishes Naruto. This episode came out in June of 2014. Naruto wrapped up about a year later (at least, manga-wise, as the anime is still ongoing).
  • Late in the playthrough of Beyond: Two Souls, Jodie is sent to the ocean floor in a diving suit to stumble around in dark, eerie waters. A short conversation springs up between the friends about how cool a horror game based almost entirely around that mechanic would be. Two years later...
  • In the same game, they mention how exciting it would be to have Wendigos as a spiritual enemy to combat. They would eventually play a game that featured such a foe as the main adversary.
  • The preview for Friendcast 119 has Matt's figure of Guts from Berserk cry out "JUST GET ME OFF THIS FUCKING BOAT ALREADY!!!" in reference to the manga's Arc Fatigue and Schedule Slip at getting to Elfheim. When the video was posted, it had been nearly eight years since they got on the boat, but then they got off two weeks later.
  • At the start of their Death Road To Canada video, Matt jokes about how the results of the 2016 US election may influence people to take said death road, with Woolie adding in a statement about Americans being "political tourists." Flash forward to Election Day, and the news of Donald Trump being the winner resulted in the Canadian immigration website crashing due to the high volume of people applying.
  • One of the Running Gags of the Yakuza 4 playthrough was Matt repeatedly shoehorning in references to Face/Off to Pat's annoyance. Fastforward a few years to the playthrough of Yakuza 0, where one of the sidequests is basically the plot of Face/Off. Cue Matt's elation.
  • In their first Third Strike Fisticuffs, Pat says that there should be a Canadian Street Fighter character. Come Street Fighter V, and Abagail, a Canadian, winds up becoming a Season 2 DLC character.
  • During their playthrough of Super Mario Odyssey, Matt early on makes a Dark Souls joke before it was then announced to be ported over to the switch.
  Matt: And then he linked the First Flame!
  • God of War (PS4) was released on the anniversary of the fireaxe incident. What's Kratos main weapon in that game? An axe he can throw and recall at will.
    • They even lampshade it in their LP of it.
  • The Memetic Mutation surrounding "Streets of Rage 4 for the PSP" from the Dong Dong Never Die Fisticuffs became infinitely more hilarious when an actual Street of Rage 4 was announced in 2018.
  • During their playthrough of L.A. Noire, they joke about Cole needing to eat the evidence he finds for safe keeping. They would later go on to play Detroit: Become Human, where Connor essentially does that.
  • Pat and Liam famously bet over whether Phantasy Star Online 2 would ever come out to the West or not, with Pat confidently declaring it to be NEVER release in the West. Fastforward to E3 2019, in which it was finally announced that PSO2 would be released for North America. Also cue Pat insisting that he did not lose the bet because the Western release of PSO2 was limited to Xbox and PC, thus technically not being out for all of North America.
  • The Chewie & Fuckface running gag on the Super Best Friendcast would eventually come alive for real as the Castle Super Beast podcast.
  • As many have noted, this conversation Liam describes about a coworker who proclaimed himself a loyal fan of the Three B's (Bethesda, Bioware, and Blizzard) in 2012, after all three companies were already considered past their primes, only continues to become funnier as they've all become embroiled in more and more controversies as time goes on.
  • A Running Gag during the playthrough of Silent Hill: Homecoming was forgetting or confusing its title with Silent Hill: Downpour due to how generic it was, and accidentally calling it Downcoming or Downfall. In 2022 a Silent Hill spinoff was announced with the title of Townfall, causing Pat and Woolie to groan at the pun and remember this former bit.
• Ho Yay:
  • Apparently Woolie and Liam call each other Big Papa and Saucy Liam respectively. Matt and Pat even joke that if Liam and Woolie were ever both asleep on the couch together, Pat could take a picture of the two and call it legally binding. Matt makes some Ho Yay comments, but it's generally played for laughs.
  • Has increased significantly in later times. Still played for laughs and done so rather effectively.
  • Pat's called Luke "dreamy" and "very attractive" in their Walking Dead: Season 2 playthrough.
  • And then we have the episode of Guacamelee! where Woolie dresses Juan as himself and makes Liam play as his waifu.
  • The cover image used for "Best Friend Play Sword of the Berserk was a fanart image Matt drew of Guts and Casca kissing one another...with their heads replaced by those of Matt and Liam◊.
  • The openings to Terminator Week Part #1 and Part#2 has to be seen to be believed.
  • In their Super Mario 3D World episode, Pat complains that Matt stole his cherry.
  • When Suda51 announced Travis Strikes Again: No More Heroes, Matt declared on Twitter that he wanted to divorce his wife and marry Suda. He also wanted to make out hard with a life-sized statue of Jotaro Kujo.
  • During Matt and Woolie's playthrough of Night in the Woods , Woolie gives us this:
  Woolie: Matt, how come you've never told me I have a hot bear ass?
• I Knew It!:
  • Happened so much during the Beyond: Two Souls playthrough, that at several points Pat openly worried that the viewers would start calling bullshit because they were predicting the story with such accuracy they might as well have already played it.
  • In the The Last of Us playthrough, Pat instantly guesses that Sarah won't make it out of the prologue, and that the watch she gives Joel will become a Tragic Keepsake.
  • In the God of War (PS4), Pat quickly guesses the true identity of the Stranger, and the three also sarcastically predict major plot points, which turn out to be correct.
• Just Here for Godzilla:
  • Some fans much prefer to watch their other videos (such as their full length LPs) on their secondary channel, rather than the main episodes on the Machinima channel.
  • Also, Pat. Some fans find him more entertaining than Woolie and Liam due to his angry tantrums and expected to see him in a lot of bad games.
• Memetic Badass: Billy, the group's editor, arguably achieved this status upon turning Woolie's proverbial Gun against him.
• Memetic Mutation:
  • "Hey guys, remember when Matt threw that axe?" ^note Matt accidentally threw a fire axe a bottomless pit. And it was one of the best weapons in the game, too. The others and the fanbase will never let him off for it.
  • "Kenpachi Ramasama" became a popular Fan Nickname for Yu Narukami after they used it for his name in their Persona 4 playthrough.
  • Woolie's Catchphrase of WHEN'S MAHVEL?! became a popular Snow Clone that spawned lots of spin-off phrases such as WHEN'S MARLOW?
  • It's popular for fans to jokingly accuse the guys (especially Woolie) of "Marvel bias" due to the frequency with which they play Marvel games and their negative reviews of DC movies like Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice and Suicide Squad (2016), mostly as a mockery of what they and the guys see as an overzealous Fandom Rivalry.
  • The nebulous Woolie hole, Matt's nickname for Woolie's old apartment, spread into a nickname fans jokingly use to refer to any Wretched Hive or Creepy Cave they see.
  • Woolie's gay fanfic^Explanation During their playthrough of Devil May Cry, Woolie incorrectly recalls Dante and Vergil's first fight in the third game, believing they were shirtless for it. This led to a number of jokes about how Woolie is secretly writing his own Dante x Vergil fanfic.
  • "I'm gonna be real with you."^Explanation In the wake of the Best Friends disbanding, shitposters on the group's Reddit have taken to editing the image of Woolie explaining that Pat and Matt are no longer friends, or replacing Pat and Matt's names with those of other people, and turning it into a meme which very much Crosses the Line Twice.
  • Shitpost through the pain!^Explanation When the Best Friends first announced their breakup many Redditors posted shitposts to "shitpost through the pain" they felt.
• Most Wonderful Sound:
  • Pat's laughter. Case in point.
    • What could be even better than Pat's laughter? Drunk Pat's laughter.
  • Or Matt's songs.
  • Woolie speaking in a Jamaican accent.
  • After their video on the first Smash Bros for Scrublords, "You didn't win! *You didn't win!* " has been a minor recurring statement on the channel whenever someone, in the game or among the group, escapes a fight before decisively losing or starts making excuses for their loss.
  • Pat's Tour Guide Nixon voice, and the Robo Speak Matt slips into while mocking characters with bad voice acting or writing.
  • Pat's scared laughter is just as great. Also are his high pitched screams when he's scared.
• Narm: Woolie and Pat both agree that the sudden usage of a heavy metal song during the credits of Tormentum Dark Sorrow is something of a mood killer, though they both love the entire rest of the game for using art that looks like it'd be perfect as metal album covers.
• Never Live It Down:
  • One time Woolie turned down a potential threesome so he could go pick up Marvel vs. Capcom 3. Matt and Pat never let it go. They went as far as to make their own video to mock Woolie.
  • Additionally, Woolie losing in the first round at EVO to Daigo gets brought up fairly frequently as well.
  • Pat (and the rest of the fandom) enjoys bringing up the time Matt accidentally threw the best weapon in Silent Hill: Downpour away (i.e., into a bottomless pit).
  • Several of the Shitstorm of Scariness videos has Matt still berating Pat for his timidity during the Slender Man video. Pat fully admits this and seemingly takes it in stride.
  • Pat worries this will be the case when he mentions in the second part of their Mortal Kombat 9 viewing that Liu Kang and Kitana will eventually have a "really hot, cool baby." Cue Matt and Woolie making pedophile jokes and Pat lamenting that "People will make pictures! You can't do this to me!"
  • A worry that is made Hilarious in Hindsight when one remembers that the Heavy Rain playthrough already featured Pat doing this, as he had earlier commented that Leonardo DiCaprio and Marion Cotillard would have "hot" kids, in contrast with Matt's thoughts that they would be "divine."
  • Ever since their blind playthrough of Last of Us, Pat has a hard time living down how this playthrough was less than ideal.
  • Pat having a My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic desktop wallpaper in the Amnesia episode lead many fans to believe that Pat is a brony (the fact they hired 2 Snacks, who is a brony, to be one of their main animators after seeing his MLP themed "Two Best Sisters Play" parody only added fuel to the fire). Pat later clarified it was only a joke and he's not really a fan of the show, saying he just found it funny to imagine the "angry redhead" as a fan of something colorful and happy looking. Even so, fans and the rest of the zaibatsu still like to sometimes joke about this to Pat, with at least one mailbag video involving Pat opening a package containing MLP related items inside, and Pat saying "you make one joke in a video nearly three years ago and you never hear the end of it..."
  • Pat's gotten a lot of this from his and Woolie's playthrough of ''Dark Souls II":
  • Any LP that feels like it's dragging on too long or feels like the Zaibatsu don't know what they're doing has been called "the New Nuzlocke."
  • Their infamous Fisticuffs video on BlazBlue.
  • Woolie once said to them that Castlevania started at Symphony of the Night and they occasionally bring it up to mock him ^note  Saying a franchise "starts" at a particular title is similar to saying that is when it began Growing the Beard and the titles before it aren't worth playing . Listen to an instance here. To quote Pat: "Woolie actually said this once un-ironically and we've been giving him shit over it since forever."
• Nightmare Fuel: Now has its own page.
• Nightmare Retardant: Pat's reaction to seeing Slender Man clipping into a wall.
• "Not Making This Up" Disclaimer:
  • Woolie's comment that a character from Sailor Moon had sexual intercourse with an unicorn bothered a fan as noted by Matt in "Two Best Friends Play Heavy Rain Part 17." Although Matt stated it was actually just a kiss, Pat defended Woolie's statement as it happened offscreen.
  • Matt mentions several silly and/or ridiculous Spider-Man comic book stories with Pat. The episode then provides a caption referring to the issues the crazy story appeared in.
• O.O.C. Is Serious Business: Pat is a lot more sedate in his work with Did You Know Gaming and his list of Top 10 Games for 2012. Common reactions in the comments section include shock and fear. Rarer reactions include confused arousal.
• Play-Along Meme:
  • When Liam departed from the Best Friends Zaibatsu to focus on his own solo channel, he asked Best Friends-related sites (like the Facebook group and the subreddit) not to link to his solo videos. In addition, since Liam appeared in the intro for the Best Friends sub-series Saturday Morning Scrublords, all future episodes had him edited out (very awkwardly, for laughs). The fandom ran with that, pretending that Liam has been completely Unpersoned and can only be referred to as [Redacted] now.
  • Matt and Pat loved talking about Woolie behind his back and inventing "lore" about him whenever he wasn't present for a video. Sometimes they'd take real events and exaggerate them into absurdity; other times they'd invent "facts" from scratch. The fandom took all of this as the gospel truth, interpreting Woolie as a compulsive liar, a habitual pie thief, and someone who killed a man while playing a high school football game.
• The Problem with Licensed Games:
  • The entire SNES video demonstrates this.
  • Inverted: In both the Pacific Rim-related videos, Matt says the Real Steel licensed game was a surprisingly good boxing game, and the Best Friends seemed to enjoy the Pacific Rim licensed game as well.
• Seasonal Rot: Towards the end of their channel, the Super Best Friends were having a number of LPs that didn't go over well. And it was becoming more and more clear that there was indeed backstage drama and a lack of communication between the members of the group.
• Scrappy Mechanic: Pat confessed in the animated shorts he dislikes escort missions.
• So Bad, It's Good:
  • Some fans apparently couldn't tell whether Matt and Pat liked Deadly Premonition or not, so Pat addressed the point in a video: in short, the game is full of "stupid bullshit", but it's enormously entertaining bullshit. He compares playing the game to being on the receiving end of a borderline abusive relationship.
  • Pat still doesn't know whether he enjoys playing Deadly Premontion or The Last of Us more.
  • Whenever they discuss recording material for the Last of Us, they both agree they'd rather be playing DP.
• Spoiled by the Format: Lampshaded near the end of the Def Jam: Fight for NY Super Best Friends Brawl.
• That Damn Ken: Seen in the Street Fighter III video:
  Pat: What is with the Ken brigade?
  Matt: What do you mean "what is with it"? It's always BEEN THERE!
• Strangled by the Red String: The main criticism of their Telltale Batman: Enemy Within LP is that Matt and Woolie put a little too much focus on Bruce's Ho Yay-heavy friendship with John at the expense of other character relationships, like Selina and Alfred, fall to the wayside.
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot:
  • In spite of many Suda51 games receiving a full LP on the channel, killer7 only has a single video as part of the Shitstorm of Scariness, and many of the comments on the video agree that it should have become a full series.
  • To end off Mecha Week II the gang decided to finally let Pat play Xenogears after years of talking about how much he loves this game. After the video people were disappointed that it was only a one off that was more or less just Liam and Woolie constantly shitting on Pat by comparing it to its spiritual successors and reminding him that this will never get a full LP. People who have beaten the game commented that they wished they did a full series just to see the others' reactions, while those who haven't were genuinely interested in what this game was considering Pat's constant references to later plot points that only really make sense if you've at least played a majority of the game.
• Too Bleak, Stopped Caring: Sometimes the Zaibatsu's attempts at creating character that run on Comedic Sociopathy fall flat on their asses and cause the audience to instead stop watching the adventures of a completely unlikable character. A prime example of this is Nevara "Pockets" Chaar from the KOTOR LP, whose fall to the Dark Side was less a fall and more a straight up belly flop.
• Vocal Dissonance: A lot of viewers were surprised by what Matt looks like when they saw his face for the first time. Matt even addresses this in the "Matt's Bombass Apartment Tour" video.
• Watch It for the Meme: In the Yakuza 0 playthrough, Matt and Pat pick a particular option in one of Majima's sidequests just to see a scene that had been immortalized in a .gif◊ captioned with, "When your Tweet's fire and no one notices."
  • In a fan example, many fans checked out JoJo's Bizarre Adventure just to understand what the heck the Super Best Friends were talking about when they constantly referenced it, and became fans themselves.
• What Do You Mean, It's Not Political?:
  • Matt thinks Earth Defense Force 2017 is Japan's commentary on the Iraq War.
  • During their Slender video, Pat muses on whether the Slender Man could be an allegory for the Internal Revenue Service.

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