History Awesome / TheNostalgiaChick

* In the "Top Ten Worst Disney Sequels", tearing down the StockholmSyndrome accusations directed at ''WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast'' simply by comparing Belle's strong personality in that movie to her StepfordSmiler behavior in ''[[WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeastBellesMagicalWorld Belle's Magical World]]'' and ''WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeastTheEnchantedChristmas''.

* Her mini-rant in the "Top 11 Hottest Animated Men" about Jessica Rabbit actually being a pretty cool character, not just a pair of GagBoobs.

* Four episodes where two people mostly beat on each other shouldn't be considered awesome usually, but the ''Franchise/{{Transformers}}''-''Franchise/{{Bratz}}'' arc really was. SlapstickKnowsNoGender, no {{Double Standard}}s and a dynamic so intriguing you [[JustHereForGodzilla stopped caring about what she was reviewing]].

* Putting out a very thoughtful critique of ''WesternAnimation/TheLorax'' in all three forms, including doing some of it in rhyme, less than a week after the film was released.

!!!Out of character.
* In a meta example, turning the complaints of LetsSeeYouDoBetter into a character trait: Chick ''knows'' she'll never get anywhere, so that's why she enjoys tearing down people more successful.
* ''The A Word''. Just the emotional maturity and personal steel it took to make the documentary, and about such a personal issue, let alone a political one, gets her my undying respect.
** She won an [[http://www.fest21.com/en/blog/editor/usa_film_festival_short_film_winners_announced award]] for it. Much deserved.
* Her vlog of Channel Awesome's trip to Washington to lobby against SOPA, particularly the parts about how the bill's support hinges on statistics that the FBI itself says are unverifiable, and no one can explain where they came from.
* Lindsay's rant in the ''Franchise/XMen'' commentary about how there's no point feeling ashamed for liking something. And this includes furries and fanfic writers, further separating herself from her character.
* Her response to a writer's (retracted) shot at [[Creator/AllisonPregler Lupa]] after she had reviewed several films he wrote, with zero hostility. [[http://imageshack.us/f/825/obscuralupamarksevi.png/ It's roughly half-way down.]]
* On the forums, Lindsay giving a hilarious smackdown to people already talking nonsense (including a rumor that someone got crucified and nobody cared enough to help) about the third anniversary. Bear in mind that she left that community ages ago.
* This might be really weird, but considering all Lindsay's SelfDeprecation on how terrible an actress she is and how she blogged once on how hard it was to write a female character, you've got to give her credit on creating a... female character who's wonderfully funny, filled with depth and still manages to be sympathetic even though she's a terrible example of a human being.
** Elisa and Nella also deserve praise for their loads of characters who are just as original, funny and flawed as each other.
* The Dark Nella trailer. Holy frigging crap, that was badass.
* On a meta note, pulling off the Dark Nella saga despite her two main actresses (herself and Nella) being on opposite coasts for the majority of filming. You really don't notice unless you're looking how little they appear together.
* The Nostalgia Chick interviewing Comic-Con counter-protesters of the Westboro Baptist Church.
-->[[DeadpanSnarker "You know, you really have to wonder if they're worth counter-protesting...ah well, at least they're having fun."]]
* The AscendedMeme of her idea for a Disney movie based on Anne Frank, which now has [[JustForFun/DisneysAnneFrank its own TV Tropes page.]] Which Lindsay herself has actually contributed to, and challenges people to try to spot which entries were made by her.
* She and Todd spent their Valentines Day trolling the fuck out of Music/ChrisBrown on Website/{{twitter}}.
* Whistling [[Literature/TheHungerGames Rue's song]], to which Nella can only say that she can't whistle.
* From a writing perspective (both Doug and Lindsay's really), the Critic/Chick relationship. You know something's happened or is even happening, but outside from a few WordOfGod confirmations that the shippers don't just have goggles on, there's no exposition dumps, the two just let their interactions, words and acting do the job. Take note Hollywood, ''that'''s how you make a DatingCatwoman scenario work.
* [[http://t.co/Axc0RwgG Nella came out as bisexual]], [[SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments causing a storm of love and support from all her friends and fans]].
* Lindsay getting Mara Wilson to appear in her ''{{Film/Matilda}}'' review.
** Let's fully appreciate this: Mara Wilson's appearance in Doug's ''A Simple Wish'' review was awesome enough. Then Lindsay goes one better by actually getting Wilson in the room with her, and becomes the first person on all of Website/ChannelAwesome to review a movie along with its lead actress.
* The second part of Lindsay's ''[[Film/TheLordOfTheRingsTheReturnOfTheKing The Return of the King]]'' review [[http://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=355154911266227&id=149264868600 was shared by]] ''Creator/IanMcKellen''.
* Getting nearly everyone at Channel Awesome (if not everyone), plus, Andre the Black Nerd, to do The Carlton Dance in her review of ''Series/TheFreshPrinceOfBelAir''.
* While agreeing with Rob on his complaining post about how she thought [[Anime/SailorMoon the show was bad]], still calling both him and Doug out for making the review [[https://www.facebook.com/thelindsayellis/posts/612511292122662?comment_id=99948226&offset=0&total_comments=1 "a failure in many ways"]] and {{gaslighting}} female fan complaints of sexism with the "it's just a character" excuse.
** [[http://lindsayetumbls.tumblr.com/post/85265948108/tgwtgsecrets-its-only-a-character-for-years She elaborated on the second point]], saying that even if Doug is too naïve to realize he's being offensive that's no excuse, admitting that it also applies to her and Chick, and if you're trying to make a satirical point in-character but it just comes off as what a bigot would say with no repercussions, that's failed satire.
* Hearing that she hated Wreck-It-Ralph was this for the few who also despised the film.
* After a caller in the 2013 drive asking Doug the ridiculous question of "is [[WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra Korra]] a redeemable character", Lindsay bringing up the DoubleStandard that nobody would be asking that if Korra were male.
** After getting attacked by a fangirl of ''The Little Mermaid'', she had this to say:
-->'''Lindsay''': Okay, people, you've got to stop attaching your ego to the things you like. It does not devalue you as a person if someone disagrees with you.
** Also telling Doug off for using Creator/DanteBasco as a crutch, as the caller asking for voice acting skills was a woman and trying to get her to emulate a guy is not in the least bit helpful.
** Even more; she called him out earlier, and it was so spot-on that he couldn't say a word back:
-->'''Lindsay''': I don't even think it's because of something you love, it's just you.
-->'''Doug''': Okay it's just me then...
-->'''Lindsay''': No it really is because I don't know anyone like you.
-->'''Brian''': When he gets stuck he hands it over to Rob.
-->'''Lindsay''': No he ''never'' gets burn-out, it's bizarre, like I don't know anyone that does it. Like even when you really enjoy something everyone gets burn-out except ''you''.
* Figuring out a suspiciously plausible reason why ''Film/TheFifthEstate'' is so intent on attacking Julian Assange.
* Joining many other fans in lambasting the ''Series/GameOfThrones'' scene where the writers and director managed to accidentally make what was supposed to be a consensual sex scene into a rape.
* Lindsay has said she considers it a CMOA for naming BigLippedAlligatorMoment.
* Lindsay defending Anita Sarkeesian of ''Webvideo/FeministFrequency'' on Website/{{Twitter}}.
* [[http://lindsayetumbls.tumblr.com/post/93996203458/why-are-you-so-interested-in-michael-bay Her post]] on why Michael Bay is both adored and reviled, hitting on a very good point. [[http://lindsayetumbls.tumblr.com/post/94266882123/your-last-michael-bay-post-was-so-mind-blowing-i And later pointing out that he knows exactly what he's doing]].
-->'''Lindsay''': To me, the wonderful thing about Michael Bay is that he doesn’t try to hide the grit and awful of our culture; he revels in it.
* Doug's ReviewsAreTheGospel crowd told Nella that she wasn't allowed to find ''Film/OzTheGreatAndPowerful'' sexist because he didn't. Her [[https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=10151357686407634&id=361014072633&stream_ref=10 response]]? She's not Doug, she can have a different opinion.
* [[http://lindsayetumbls.tumblr.com/post/78678708070/why-are-the-people-on-dougs-facebook-such-egotistical Calling out]] Doug's fandom for being such assholes that she could just look at his comment sections and get depressed.
* In the same vein, after Lupa got fired and a lot of leaks came out of Michaud and Rob being terrible and Doug knowing this but being an ExtremeDoormat, [[http://lindsayetumbls.tumblr.com/post/108563392918/do-you-find-it-odd-how-doug-seems-to-get-most-of pointing out]] that people would rather have a version of Doug in their head and don't want to deal with the real person.
* Both awesome and heartwarming [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p7F-SkglDKE but her “quitting”]] in this panel (about seventeen minutes in), heartwarming because it's a tribute to Doug quitting his job ages ago and they share a nice hug, awesome because she also brings up “[[http://obscuruslupa.tumblr.com/post/108008749157/bye-ca not getting the skype message]]” after Rob jokes “little did she know she was fired two weeks ago”, causing much “ooh burn” reactions from the audience and even Malcolm.

** Outside of that relationship, Chick giving Creator/MichaelBay TheReasonYouSuckSpeech for how racist and jingoistic he made the ''{{Transformers}}'' movies.
** Chick coming in to chloroform the Critic at the end of the ''{{Transformers}}'' review, mostly for how much of a shock it was at the time.

*** Hell, Critic managing to be ''scary'' (for about a minute but still) by sounding like Him from ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls'' was pretty impressive.

* Nella standing up for herself when The Makeover Fairy pops in during ''Film/{{Grease 2}}''

* The Nostalgia Chick interviewing Comic-Con counter-protesters of the Westboro Baptist Church.]]
-->[[DeadpanSnarker "You know, you really have to wonder if they're worth counter-protesting...ah well, at least they're having fun."

* Figuring out a suspiciously plausible reason why ''TheFifthEstate'' is so intent on attacking Julian Assange.

* Seeing as how Critic established that taunting Disney villains usually turned you into a BalefulPolymorph, her getting away with calling the Evil Queen in ''WesternAnimation/{{Snow White|AndTheSevenDwarfs}}'' an idiot for not delegating jobs to her minions.

* How she managed to get every viewpoint in for such a divisive movie. In order from positive to negative: Nella's literature-loving fangirl > Mara's pride on how it gave kids a voice > Chick thinking it's SoOkayItsAverage and not really giving a fuck either way > [[spoiler: poor Critic, who got bashed for disliking it and learned to keep his mouth shut]].

* Lindsay getting [[spoiler: Mara Wilson]] to appear in her ''{{Film/Matilda}}'' review.
** Let's fully appreciate this: [[spoiler:Mara Wilson's appearance in Doug's ''A Simple Wish'' review was awesome enough. Then Lindsay goes one better by actually getting Wilson in the room with her, and becomes the first person on all of Website/ChannelAwesome to review a movie along with its lead actress.]]