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* In ''Mario Party DS'', the Guys posit the existence of the Daisy Curse: Whenever Emile is playing as Daisy or on a board with Daisy as the AI, he loses. Daisy is the AI on "Kamek's Library," so everyone expects the curse to hold up, but Emile ends up winning quite handily. However, the ''Mario Party DS'' cartridge originally belonged to Amber[[note]]who went by Andrew pre-transition[[/note]], and Emile was playing on that save file instead of his. So as Amber herself commented on the video, the curse was void.

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* In ''Mario Party DS'', the Guys posit the existence of the Daisy Curse: Whenever Emile is playing as Daisy or on a board with Daisy as the AI, he loses. Daisy is the AI on "Kamek's Library," so everyone expects the curse to hold up, but Emile ends up winning quite handily. However, the ''Mario Party DS'' cartridge originally belonged to Amber[[note]]who went by Andrew pre-transition[[/note]], and Emile was playing on that save file instead of his. So as Amber herself commented on the video, the curse was void.void.
* The way the guys name their respective characters in ''VideoGame/SecretOfMana'' fits their individual styles of solo content. Emile, who takes his videos relatively seriously and is all about researching information, goes with the character's canon name of Randi. Jon, whose streams are often full of chaos and randomness, shuts his eyes and hits random letters to eventually get Tyna. Tim, whose commentary is often full of references, calls his character Joker after ''VideoGame/Persona5''.
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* During the Mario Party 6 LP, Emile declares their Solo Mode turn order of Emile-Tim-Jon as 'alphabetical order'. An understandably confused Jon asks for clarification, as Jon would jump Tim in that order by real-life first names and Tim would jump Emile by real-life last names (Tim's last name, Bishop, comes long before Emile's last name of Rosales, which still comes before Jon's last name Wheeler). The letter sequence Emile reveals for the turn order? C-N-P, revealing they're going alphabetical by their online names.

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* During the Mario Party 6 LP, Emile declares their Solo Mode turn order of Emile-Tim-Jon as 'alphabetical order'. An understandably confused Jon asks for clarification, as Jon would jump Tim in that order by real-life first names and Tim would jump Emile by real-life last names (Tim's last name, Bishop, comes long before Emile's last name of Rosales, which still comes before Jon's last name Wheeler). The letter sequence Emile reveals for the turn order? C-N-P, revealing they're going alphabetical by their online names.names.
* In ''Mario Party DS'', the Guys posit the existence of the Daisy Curse: Whenever Emile is playing as Daisy or on a board with Daisy as the AI, he loses. Daisy is the AI on "Kamek's Library," so everyone expects the curse to hold up, but Emile ends up winning quite handily. However, the ''Mario Party DS'' cartridge originally belonged to Amber[[note]]who went by Andrew pre-transition[[/note]], and Emile was playing on that save file instead of his. So as Amber herself commented on the video, the curse was void.

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* One Colosseum 2021 bumper featuring Proton Jon's Egg PAC has the group guess how Jon is going to become [=RosaJon=]. The first to get a negative response from the rest of the group was one based on Franchise/{{Pokemon}} evolution, and for a good reason. The ideas pitched before it (MagicalGirl, science {{phlebotinum}}, and {{sentai}}, in that order) are known to be temporary or reversible effects in works that feature them, matching Jon's intent for the cosplay to last only a couple days. Pokémon evolutions are (with some rare exceptions throughout the franchise) permanent.

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* One Colosseum 2021 bumper featuring Proton Jon's Egg PAC has the group guess how Jon is going to become [=RosaJon=]. The first to get a negative response from the rest of the group was one based on Franchise/{{Pokemon}} evolution, and for a good reason. The ideas pitched before it (MagicalGirl, science {{phlebotinum}}, and {{sentai}}, in that order) are known to be temporary or reversible effects in works that feature them, matching Jon's intent for the cosplay to last only a couple days. Pokémon evolutions are (with some rare exceptions throughout the franchise) permanent.permanent.
* During the Mario Party 6 LP, Emile declares their Solo Mode turn order of Emile-Tim-Jon as 'alphabetical order'. An understandably confused Jon asks for clarification, as Jon would jump Tim in that order by real-life first names and Tim would jump Emile by real-life last names (Tim's last name, Bishop, comes long before Emile's last name of Rosales, which still comes before Jon's last name Wheeler). The letter sequence Emile reveals for the turn order? C-N-P, revealing they're going alphabetical by their online names.
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* In the finale of ''Star Fox 64'', Jon laments that "He got demoted," when having to play as Slippy instead of Falco. Per the game's official strategy guide at the time of release, all of Fox, Falco, and Peppy are ranked as 1st Class Pilots while Slippy is a 2nd Class Pilot. So Jon's statement is true in multiple ways.

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* In the finale of ''Star Fox 64'', Jon laments that "He got demoted," when having to play as Slippy instead of Falco. Per the game's official strategy guide at the time of release, all of Fox, Falco, and Peppy are ranked as 1st Class Pilots while Slippy is a 2nd Class Pilot. So Jon's statement is true in multiple ways.ways.
* One Colosseum 2021 bumper featuring Proton Jon's Egg PAC has the group guess how Jon is going to become [=RosaJon=]. The first to get a negative response from the rest of the group was one based on Franchise/{{Pokemon}} evolution, and for a good reason. The ideas pitched before it (MagicalGirl, science {{phlebotinum}}, and {{sentai}}, in that order) are known to be temporary or reversible effects in works that feature them, matching Jon's intent for the cosplay to last only a couple days. Pokémon evolutions are (with some rare exceptions throughout the franchise) permanent.
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* Emile calls Jon "not independent at all" in "Do U Know Mii?" in ''Wii Party U'', and has a lot of trouble explaining himself; one thing he makes clear is he didn't interpret "independent" in the way that was intended (as in, "is Jon able to function properly on his own"). Another proper definition for "independent" is ''being'' on their own, so Emile could have interpreted it as "does Jon prefer to be alone or with others". Seeing as when trying to explain he goes right for talking about how Jon and LetsPlay/{{Lucahjin}} are engaged and living together, and he genuinely seemed to think he was meaning it in a good way, it seems likely this was what he was going for.

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* Emile calls Jon "not independent at all" in "Do U Know Mii?" in ''Wii Party U'', and has a lot of trouble explaining himself; one thing he makes clear is he didn't interpret "independent" in the way that was intended (as in, "is Jon able to function properly on his own"). Another proper definition for "independent" is ''being'' on their own, so Emile could have interpreted it as "does Jon prefer to be alone or with others". Seeing as when trying to explain he goes right for talking about how Jon and LetsPlay/{{Lucahjin}} are engaged and living together, and he genuinely seemed to think he was meaning it in a good way, it seems likely this was what he was going for.for.
* In the finale of ''Star Fox 64'', Jon laments that "He got demoted," when having to play as Slippy instead of Falco. Per the game's official strategy guide at the time of release, all of Fox, Falco, and Peppy are ranked as 1st Class Pilots while Slippy is a 2nd Class Pilot. So Jon's statement is true in multiple ways.
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* During [[VideoGame/WiiParty Highway Rollers]], Emile says that Jon has weird fetishes. All the way back in Episode 2 of ''VideoGame/NewSuperMarioBrosWii'', he says that Jon's fetish is mass murdering everyone.

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* During [[VideoGame/WiiParty Highway Rollers]], Emile says that Jon has weird fetishes. All the way back in Episode 2 of ''VideoGame/NewSuperMarioBrosWii'', he says that Jon's fetish is mass murdering everyone.everyone.
* Emile calls Jon "not independent at all" in "Do U Know Mii?" in ''Wii Party U'', and has a lot of trouble explaining himself; one thing he makes clear is he didn't interpret "independent" in the way that was intended (as in, "is Jon able to function properly on his own"). Another proper definition for "independent" is ''being'' on their own, so Emile could have interpreted it as "does Jon prefer to be alone or with others". Seeing as when trying to explain he goes right for talking about how Jon and LetsPlay/{{Lucahjin}} are engaged and living together, and he genuinely seemed to think he was meaning it in a good way, it seems likely this was what he was going for.
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** Also in [=FSA=], we have Tim in Level 4-1, when he used the Boomerang to snatch the Huge Green Force Gem, the only one that hangs out in the open in the ENTIRE game, that most players usually get later on when they come out of the hidden tunnel in order to progress. Show of hands, folks, who would have thought to use the Boomerang on that huge lump of... of... [[ShapedLikeItself Force...?]] The point stands.

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** Also in [=FSA=], we have Tim in Level 4-1, when he used the Boomerang to snatch the Huge Green Force Gem, the only one that hangs out in the open in the ENTIRE game, that most players usually get later on when they come out of the hidden tunnel in order to progress. Show of hands, folks, who would have thought to use the Boomerang on that huge lump of... of... [[ShapedLikeItself Force...?]] The point stands.stands.
* During [[VideoGame/WiiParty Highway Rollers]], Emile says that Jon has weird fetishes. All the way back in Episode 2 of ''VideoGame/NewSuperMarioBrosWii'', he says that Jon's fetish is mass murdering everyone.
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Uh, no. No to the stereotyping. Besides, that implies they were doing it as part of some kind of plan. Fridge Brilliance isn't really meant for coincidences.


* All 3 acts like the other's ethnicity/nationality stereotype. Emile acts like the stereotypical American, loud, rude, clueless, and arrogant. Tim like the stereotypical Canadian, a quiet NiceGuy whom ApologisesALot. And Jon like the stereotypical Mexican, angry, singing, and not so clueless.

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This isn't really Fridge, more just a made-up metaphor. Doesn't apply here, sorry.


* Their weird antics makes more sense and tolerable when you know that they're all {{Man Child}}ren, {{Adorkable}} ones at that. One can also think of the main 3 as brothers. Emile is the 1st grader, being the AnnoyingYoungerSibling at times, doesn't understand much adult talk, and has the child's luck of being good at games just because. Jon is the middle brother in 5th grade, he thinks his little brother is annoying for always wanting to be player 1, tries to make younger brother behave properly, doesn't want to be [[MiddleChildSyndrome ignored]], and wants the CoolBigBro to tell that AnnoyingYoungerSibling to calm down, also swears a lot. The oldest brother is Tim in 10th grade, thinks about other things when playing with his younger brothers, is somewhat proud of them and doesn't want to be strict, is really smart but is really tired of school, finds modern games a bit weird. Of their guests; Masae is Emile's classmate and friend, a bit more mature. Jepson is a 3rd grader who wans Jon to think of him as cool so they tease lil'bro Emile together. Lucah the 9th grader and close friend of bigbro Tim. Stephen is Emile's 2nd grade friend who doesn't want to make his brothers angry. Jake is in the same grade as Jon but slightly calmer.
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* In ''The Legend of Zelda: Four Swords Adventures'', Stephen has a tendency to harm or inconvenience his teammates, mostly through his bombs. In the playthrough of ''Twilight Princess'' he did on his channel, he and his wife Mal characterized Link as an IdiotHero. Now we just wait for Stephen to start going "[[MemeticMutation herp skerp]]".

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* In ''The Legend of Zelda: Four Swords Adventures'', Stephen has a tendency to harm or inconvenience his teammates, mostly through his bombs. In the playthrough of ''Twilight Princess'' he did on his channel, he and his wife Mal characterized Link as an IdiotHero. Now we just wait for Stephen to start going "[[MemeticMutation herp skerp]]".skerp]]".
** Also in [=FSA=], we have Tim in Level 4-1, when he used the Boomerang to snatch the Huge Green Force Gem, the only one that hangs out in the open in the ENTIRE game, that most players usually get later on when they come out of the hidden tunnel in order to progress. Show of hands, folks, who would have thought to use the Boomerang on that huge lump of... of... [[ShapedLikeItself Force...?]] The point stands.
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* Their weird antics makes more sense and tolerable when you know that they're all {{Man Child}}ren, {{Adorkable}} ones at that. One can also think of the main 3 as brothers. Emile is the 1st grader, being the AnnoyingYoungerSibling at times, doesn't understand much adult talk, and has the child's luck of being good at games just because. Jon is the middle brother in 5th grade, he thinks his little brother is annoying for always wanting to be player 1, tries to make younger brother behave properly, doesn't want to be [[MiddleChildSyndrome ignored]], and wants the CoolBigBro to tell that AnnoyingYoungerSibling to calm down, also swears a lot. The oldest brother is Tim in 10th grade, thinks about other things when playing with his younger brothers, is somewhat proud of them and doesn't want to be strict, is really smart but is really tired of school, finds modern games a bit weird.

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* Their weird antics makes more sense and tolerable when you know that they're all {{Man Child}}ren, {{Adorkable}} ones at that. One can also think of the main 3 as brothers. Emile is the 1st grader, being the AnnoyingYoungerSibling at times, doesn't understand much adult talk, and has the child's luck of being good at games just because. Jon is the middle brother in 5th grade, he thinks his little brother is annoying for always wanting to be player 1, tries to make younger brother behave properly, doesn't want to be [[MiddleChildSyndrome ignored]], and wants the CoolBigBro to tell that AnnoyingYoungerSibling to calm down, also swears a lot. The oldest brother is Tim in 10th grade, thinks about other things when playing with his younger brothers, is somewhat proud of them and doesn't want to be strict, is really smart but is really tired of school, finds modern games a bit weird. Of their guests; Masae is Emile's classmate and friend, a bit more mature. Jepson is a 3rd grader who wans Jon to think of him as cool so they tease lil'bro Emile together. Lucah the 9th grader and close friend of bigbro Tim. Stephen is Emile's 2nd grade friend who doesn't want to make his brothers angry. Jake is in the same grade as Jon but slightly calmer.
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* Their weird antics makes more sense and tolerable when you know that they're all {{Man Child}}ren, {{Adorkable}} ones at that. One can also think of the main 3 as brothers. Emile is the 1st grader, being the AnnoyingYoungerSibling at times, doesn't understand much adult talk, and has the child's luck of being good at games just because. Jon is the middle brother in 5th grade, he thinks his little brother is annoying for always wanting to be player 1, tries to make younger brother behave properly, doesn't want to be [[MiddleChildSyndrome ignored]], and wants the CoolBigBro to tell that AnnoyingYoungerSibling to calm down, also swears a lot. The oldest brother is Tim in 10th grade, thinks about other things when playing with his younger brothers, is somewhat proud of them and doesn't want to be strict, is really smart but is really tired of school, finds modern games a bit weird.
* All 3 acts like the other's ethnicity/nationality stereotype. Emile acts like the stereotypical American, loud, rude, clueless, and arrogant. Tim like the stereotypical Canadian, a quiet NiceGuy whom ApologisesALot. And Jon like the stereotypical Mexican, angry, singing, and not so clueless.
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** It's also one of the few times they played a game that they didn't have a very high opinion of at the start (or at least Emile and Jon didn't). So it's likely Emile didn't practice much, thus leading to his poor performance, and Jon chose to seek out glitches and mess around with everything he can to keep himself entertained. And Tim seems to do the best and most consistent because it's finally a single player game; getting confused with so many characters onscreen has been one of the primary causes of his mess-ups in past playthroughs.

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** It's also one of the few times they played a game that they didn't have a very high opinion of at the start (or at least Emile and Jon didn't). So it's likely Emile didn't practice much, thus leading to his poor performance, and Jon chose to seek out glitches and mess around with everything he can to keep himself entertained. And Tim seems to do the best and most consistent because it's finally a single player game; getting confused with so many characters onscreen has been one of the primary causes of his mess-ups in past playthroughs.playthroughs.
* In ''The Legend of Zelda: Four Swords Adventures'', Stephen has a tendency to harm or inconvenience his teammates, mostly through his bombs. In the playthrough of ''Twilight Princess'' he did on his channel, he and his wife Mal characterized Link as an IdiotHero. Now we just wait for Stephen to start going "[[MemeticMutation herp skerp]]".
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It\'s more like Jon has been streaming during Sonic tbh


* In ''VideoGame/SonicAdventure'', the guys seem to have swapped personalities (Chugga is prone to making mistakes and dying (like Tim), Jon is more focused on messing around as much as possible (like Chugga), and Tim is the one focused on beating the game (like Jon).) It seems odd... until you consider their solo [=LPs=] and how they act on those.

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* In ''VideoGame/SonicAdventure'', the guys seem to have swapped personalities (Chugga is prone to making mistakes and dying (like Tim), Jon is more focused on messing around as much as possible (like Chugga), and Tim is the one focused on beating the game (like Jon).) It seems odd... until you consider their solo [=LPs=] [=LPs=], or in Jon's case, his streams and how they act on those.
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** Even more brilliant when you remember that this is the first game on this channel that is single player. Of course they would act like they normally do on their solo videos. Aside from having the other guys in the room, this isn't that different from that.

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** Even more brilliant when you remember that this is the first game on this channel that is single player. Of course they would act like they normally do on their solo videos. Aside from having the other guys in the room, this isn't that different from that.that.
** It's also one of the few times they played a game that they didn't have a very high opinion of at the start (or at least Emile and Jon didn't). So it's likely Emile didn't practice much, thus leading to his poor performance, and Jon chose to seek out glitches and mess around with everything he can to keep himself entertained. And Tim seems to do the best and most consistent because it's finally a single player game; getting confused with so many characters onscreen has been one of the primary causes of his mess-ups in past playthroughs.
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* In ''VideoGame/SonicAdventure'', the guys seem to have swapped personalities(Chugga is prone to making mistakes and dying (like Tim), Jon is more focused on messing around as much as possible (like Chugga), and Tim is the one focused on beating the game (like Jon).) It seems odd... until you consider their solo LPs and how they act on those.

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* In ''VideoGame/SonicAdventure'', the guys seem to have swapped personalities(Chugga personalities (Chugga is prone to making mistakes and dying (like Tim), Jon is more focused on messing around as much as possible (like Chugga), and Tim is the one focused on beating the game (like Jon).) It seems odd... until you consider their solo LPs [=LPs=] and how they act on those.
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* Tim constantly gets rare items in ''Mario Party 3'', which requires honest answers to get... which makes sense, considering [[NiceGuy Tim's personality]].

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* Tim constantly gets rare items in ''Mario Party 3'', which requires honest answers to get... which makes sense, considering [[NiceGuy Tim's personality]].personality]].
* In ''VideoGame/SonicAdventure'', the guys seem to have swapped personalities(Chugga is prone to making mistakes and dying (like Tim), Jon is more focused on messing around as much as possible (like Chugga), and Tim is the one focused on beating the game (like Jon).) It seems odd... until you consider their solo LPs and how they act on those.
** Even more brilliant when you remember that this is the first game on this channel that is single player. Of course they would act like they normally do on their solo videos. Aside from having the other guys in the room, this isn't that different from that.
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* In ''KirbysReturnToDreamland'', Jon, the guy who knows a lot more on the game than the others, is playing Meta Knight, Tim is playing [[ButtMonkey Dedede]], and Chugga is [[{{Keet}} Kirby]].

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* In ''KirbysReturnToDreamland'', ''VideoGame/KirbysReturnToDreamland'', Jon, the guy who knows a lot more on the game than the others, is playing Meta Knight, Tim is playing [[ButtMonkey Dedede]], and Chugga is [[{{Keet}} Kirby]].
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Unless you meant Yoshi, Tim is not a character.


* Tim constantly gets rare items in ''Mario Party 3'', which requires honest answers to get... which makes sense, considering [[NiceGuy Tim's characterization]].

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* Tim constantly gets rare items in ''Mario Party 3'', which requires honest answers to get... which makes sense, considering [[NiceGuy Tim's characterization]].personality]].
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* In ''VideoGame/LittleBigPlanet'', Jon calls Chugga "Impatient Shark" due to his constant leaving everyone behind and his shark costume. A fitting name, as some sharks must constantly keep moving to stay alive.

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* In ''VideoGame/LittleBigPlanet'', Jon calls Chugga "Impatient Shark" due to his constant leaving everyone behind and his shark costume. A fitting name, as some sharks must constantly keep moving to stay alive.alive.
* Tim constantly gets rare items in ''Mario Party 3'', which requires honest answers to get... which makes sense, considering [[NiceGuy Tim's characterization]].
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* Jon often has the most number of lives during the run as the viewers know it. Think back to the original Kaizo LP and the following words in the final main episode:
-->'''Jon''': I've got 37 lives, I'm set.
* The Iggy/Lemmy confusion. While Jon claims to have "[[PrecisionFStrike fucking]] played Mario World" a large number of times, [[GameMod it's not like he's actually played the]] ''[[GameMod original]]'' [[GameMod that many times...]]
* It was stated previously that the main reason Tim has trouble in these collabs is that he's not very good with analog sticks. Later, he apparently chose ''Kirby's Return to Dream Land'' as the Guys' next game, and has been doing much better in it. ''Kirby's Return to Dream Land'' is played with a sideways Wii Remote, and therefore, no analog stick.
* In ''KirbysReturnToDreamland'', Jon, the guy who knows a lot more on the game than the others, is playing Meta Knight, Tim is playing [[ButtMonkey Dedede]], and Chugga is [[{{Keet}} Kirby]].
* In ''VideoGame/LittleBigPlanet'', Jon calls Chugga "Impatient Shark" due to his constant leaving everyone behind and his shark costume. A fitting name, as some sharks must constantly keep moving to stay alive.

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