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** At the time of the Minority Report review, [[spoiler: the Experiment has apparently begun to break down, as Spoonny flatlines during the opening credits, and the simulation glitches early in the review and nearly shuts down over the credits.]]

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** At the time of the Minority Report review, [[spoiler: the Experiment has apparently begun to break down, as Spoonny Spoony flatlines during the opening credits, and the simulation glitches early in the review and nearly shuts down over the credits.]]
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** As for ''why'' Mass Effect was chosen as a reference, it's pretty obvious when you think about it. Both games were the {{grand finale}} to their respective series, but got hit with a heavy dose of EndingAversion, and EA had their hands behind ''both'' games, whether [[ExecutiveMeddling it's true]] [[{{Misblamed}} or not]].

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** As for ''why'' Mass Effect was chosen as a reference, it's pretty obvious when you think about it. Both games were the {{grand finale}} to their respective series, but got hit with a heavy dose of EndingAversion, their endings were received poorly, and EA had their hands behind ''both'' games, whether [[ExecutiveMeddling it's true]] [[{{Misblamed}} or not]].

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* In the ''Deadliest Character'' when Fanboix starts complaining that the Dragonzord interfered & helped the Megazord - Whilst it's an extra zord, it also combines with the Megazord thus meaning it doubles as an extra mode. Fanboix starts complaining that if the Megazord can do that, why can't Mechagodzilla combine with all of the other mechas featured in Godzilla - Because they ''can't'' combine, so it would just be a gang beatdown, and if that happened, logically the ''other'' Megazords could join the fight, and as of 2010 (When the video was made), there are upwards of ''[[MerchandiseDriven 40 different Megazords]]''.
** The complaning about the Dragonzord is justified. There was no hint that the Dragonzord would be in the fight, nor was Fanboix told that it could be or that it even ''existed''. It was supposed to be a fight between the classic Mechagodzilla and the standard form of the original Megazord. It was an AssPull of epic porportions, and before you say anything else... yeah, it might fit in with how the Power Rangers show was supposed to go, but this was supposed to be a simulated battle between two mechas based on their stats, and that the Dragonzord showed up with no foreknowledge and broke the rules, that was cheating.
*** Missing the point. I'm not arguing that it wasn't an AssPull or the the complaints are unjustified, I'm pointing out Fanboix's argument of "Why can't the other Godzilla mechas join in?" as being something that would just lead to even ''more'' Megazords joining in, leading to him complaining "Well, that's not fair! There's 40 of them!".
*** Definitely missing the point: it's a parody of the slipshod way "deadliest warrior" runs its program. This should make it FridgeBrilliance
* The conclusion of his ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyX2'' video is largely one giant rambling about the nature of Tidus and Shuyin and how confusing it is that they're linked.
** Sadly almost everything he said about Ject and Auron was wrong, so it makes sense he was confused.
** Unfortunately I do think that this is part of the problem. To the casual viewer who isn't all that invested in Tidus, Yuna, Auron or Jecht and is just trying to see the story through to its end, it's far too easy to get confused on the whole affair. Some will just give up, nod along and just finish it but someone like Spoony basically has to ramble and complain when the storyline just doesn't make the most sense to him.
*** So far, the best explanation (aka the one on the Final Fantasy Wiki) is that Jecht was teasing Shuyin like that because Shuyin ''looked like'' Tidus. So, going by that, either A: Jecht was just confused when viewing Spira form the the Farplane and thought it was Tidus when it wasn't or B: Jecht decided "hey, he looks like my kid and seems prone to overreacting--the same insults should work". Neither makes much sense either, though.
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* At the end of his Privateer 2 review he brings out The Wing Commander movie, and Ultima IX, implying they would be his next reviews. And while the review for the movie came shortly there after, instead of skipping straight to IX he started going through the entire Ultima series from beginning to end. Finally at the end of his Ultima VIII review he explained he couldn't have possibly talked about Ultima IX without first showing us how great the series was before the final betrayal. A plan two years in the making.
* One would assume that "The Game" that Chuckles makes Spoony play in the VideoGame/UltimaVI review is a reference to the internet meme, but if you watch the VideoGame/UltimaVII review, you realize that it's actually the game from Ultima VII. [[spoiler: Chuckles hits Spoony whenever he uses a multiple-syllable word, and only uses single syllables himself.]]

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* At the end of his ''[[VideoGame/Privateer2TheDarkening Privateer 2 2]]'' review he brings out The Wing Commander the ''Film/WingCommander'' movie, and Ultima IX, ''Ultima IX'', implying they would be his next reviews. And while the review for the movie came shortly there after, instead of skipping straight to IX ''IX'' he started going through the entire Ultima ''Ultima'' series from beginning to end. Finally at the end of his Ultima VIII ''Ultima VIII'' review he explained he couldn't have possibly talked about Ultima IX ''Ultima IX'' without first showing us how great the series was before the final betrayal. A plan two years in the making.
* One would assume that "The Game" that Chuckles makes Spoony play in the VideoGame/UltimaVI review is a reference to the internet meme, but if you watch the VideoGame/UltimaVII ''VideoGame/UltimaVII'' review, you realize that it's actually the game from Ultima VII. [[spoiler: Chuckles hits Spoony whenever he uses a multiple-syllable word, and only uses single syllables himself.]]
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* One would assume that "The Game" that Chuckles makes Spoony play in the UltimaVI review is a reference to the internet meme, but if you watch the UltimaVII review, you realize that it's actually the game from Ultima VII. [[spoiler: Chuckles hits Spoony whenever he uses a multiple-syllable word, and only uses single syllables himself.]]

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* One would assume that "The Game" that Chuckles makes Spoony play in the UltimaVI VideoGame/UltimaVI review is a reference to the internet meme, but if you watch the UltimaVII VideoGame/UltimaVII review, you realize that it's actually the game from Ultima VII. [[spoiler: Chuckles hits Spoony whenever he uses a multiple-syllable word, and only uses single syllables himself.]]
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This is to point out fridge tropes in TheSpoonyExperiment, be they viewer reactions on the show itself or Noah/Spoony's reactions to works he reviews.

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This is to point out fridge tropes in TheSpoonyExperiment, WebVideo/TheSpoonyExperiment, be they viewer reactions on the show itself or Noah/Spoony's reactions to works he reviews.
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* After seeing the completion of the ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIII'' videos and the interview with Richard Garriott back to back, Spoony's opinions on Final Fantasy become a lot more understandable. Both Ultima and Final Fantasy are long-running RPG landmarks, with very similar trajectories in quality and success (starting off as blatant D&D clones, developing beyond that into their own, and similarly dropping off around the 8th entry in the series). This leads into another bit of brilliance: one of the quotes from the development team shown in the FFXII review mentioned how it was too difficult tell a story in an open world game, so they opted to make the game more linear instead. But Garriott showed in his interview his quite simple method of arraigning his plot points in a way to work in the very open world the FFXIII writers felt was too hard to do.

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* After seeing the completion of the ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIII'' videos and the interview with Richard Garriott back to back, Spoony's opinions on Final Fantasy become a lot more understandable. Both Ultima and Final Fantasy are long-running RPG landmarks, with very similar trajectories in quality and success (starting off as blatant D&D clones, developing beyond that into their own, and similarly dropping off around the 8th entry in the series). This leads into another bit of brilliance: one of the quotes from the development team shown in the FFXII FFXIII review mentioned how it was too difficult tell a story in an open world game, so they opted to make the game more linear instead. But Garriott showed in his interview his quite simple method of arraigning his plot points in a way to work in the very open world the FFXIII writers felt was too hard to do.
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** Even worse. His closest friend is Linkara, who actually cloned Spoony, and besides for adding shameless plugs, did nothing to fix him. That means that Spoony will forever be a KarmaHoudini. BewareTheNiceOnes indeed, because their friends come before the lives of strangers.
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* Some commenters have pointed out the irony that Spoony's complaint about ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIII'''s extreme {{Railroading}} (which he described as 'The Hallway') is very similar to the FateWorseThanDeath hundred million mile long straight-corridor 'maze' Spoony himself inflicted on a character in a ''CounterMonkey'' episode that went up shortly before the review.

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* Some commenters have pointed out the irony that Spoony's complaint about ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIII'''s extreme {{Railroading}} (which he described as 'The Hallway') is very similar to the FateWorseThanDeath hundred million mile long straight-corridor 'maze' Spoony himself inflicted on a character in a ''CounterMonkey'' ''WebVideo/CounterMonkey'' episode that went up shortly before the review.
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* If CR's theory holds any water, then [[spoiler:time-warp Insano effectively erased himself from existence after sending Squall to kill Spoony One Prime. Since it's implied that having the clone Insano around helps Spoony repress any factors that would have made him Insano in the first place, it can be assumed that the course of history has changed, and in the future, Spoony is just as stable as he is now, at least until he's forced to [[{{Kickassia}} give into the madness]] once again]].

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* If CR's theory holds any water, then [[spoiler:time-warp Insano effectively erased himself from existence after sending Squall to kill Spoony One Prime. Since it's implied that having the clone Insano around helps Spoony repress any factors that would have made him Insano in the first place, it can be assumed that the course of history has changed, and in the future, Spoony is just as stable as he is now, at least until he's forced to [[{{Kickassia}} [[WebVideo/{{Kickassia}} give into the madness]] once again]].
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* His [[http://youtu.be/d-_XkiBPW2k?t=4m15s conversation with]] [[BoardGame/Nightmare The Gatekeeper]] perfectly foreshadows a major conflict that Spoony will have: worrying that everyone will leave him.
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** WordOfGod is that it also serves as his recanting on his defense of the Mass Effect 3 ending; he had come to realize the Indoctrination theory was wrong and the ending really was just as nonsensical as the people he had been mocking had said.
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** At the time of the Minority Report review, [[spoiler: the Experiment has apparently begun to break down, as Spoonny flatlines during the opening credits, and the simulation glitches early in the review and nearly shuts down over the credits.]]
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* He manages to combine this with HilariousInHindsight in his review of ''Highlander 2'', where General Katana (the warlord of an ''alien planet'') makes a ''Wizard of Oz'' reference. "Do they have Wizard of Oz on Zeist?" We then flash to an imaginary skit (with Spoony playing Katana) watching ''Wizard of Oz'' and saying "Yes! THAT'S what I need to defeat [=McLeod=]! Flying monkeys! You two! Come here! I have a plan!" Cue [[ThoseTwoGuys the two screaming, giggling, flying maniacs]] from earlier in the movie.

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* He manages to combine this with HilariousInHindsight in his review of ''Highlander 2'', ''Film/HighlanderIITheQuickening'', where General Katana (the warlord of an ''alien planet'') makes a ''Wizard of Oz'' reference. "Do they have Wizard of Oz on Zeist?" We then flash to an imaginary skit (with Spoony playing Katana) watching ''Wizard of Oz'' and saying "Yes! THAT'S what I need to defeat [=McLeod=]! Flying monkeys! You two! Come here! I have a plan!" Cue [[ThoseTwoGuys the two screaming, giggling, flying maniacs]] from earlier in the movie.
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* After seeing the completion of the ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIII'' videos and the interview with Richard Garriott back to back, Spoony's opinions on Final Fantasy become a lot more understandable. Both Ultima and Final Fantasy are long-running RPG landmarks, with very similar trajectories in quality and success (starting off as blatant D&D clones, developing beyond that into their own, and similarly dropping off around the 8th entry in the series). This leads into another bit of brilliance: one of the quotes from the development team shown in the FFXII review mentioned how it was too difficult tell a story in an open world game, so they opted to make the game more linear instead. But Garriott showed in his interview his quite simple method of arraigning his plot points in a way to work in the very open world the FFXIII writers felt was too hard to do.
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* There is a reason why Squall would want to off Spoony for nothing, which in a way is HeartwarmingInHindsight. [[MyGirlIsNotASlut Spoony referred to Rinoa as "Seifer's Sloppy Seconds"]].

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* There is a reason why Squall would want to off Spoony for nothing, free, which in a way is HeartwarmingInHindsight. [[MyGirlIsNotASlut Spoony referred to Rinoa as "Seifer's Sloppy Seconds"]].
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* There is a reason why Squall would want to off Spoony for nothing, which in a way is HeartwarmingInHindsight. [[MyGirlIsNotASlut Spoony referred to Rinoa as "Seifer's Sloppy Seconds"]].
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* Take a look at the betrayal song music video that begins the later parts of his ''Ultima IX'' reviews, and you'll see that the montage of box art at the end includes the covers of ''Ultima I'' through ''Ultima VII'' and the title screen of ''Ultima IX''. Why isn't ''Ultima VIII'' represented? Because it's where Spoony believed the series started to go downhill, and thus it would not be appropriate to use it to illustrate his fond memories of the series.
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** check out the end to The Ring; Terror's Realm part 2. It gets worse.

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** check Check out the end to The Ring; Ring: Terror's Realm part 2. It gets worse.
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** The Red Ending presents options involving mass destruction and is the most expected option out of the three, though how good or bad it is varies differently. The Guardian [[spoiler: pretty much states destroying the world is a ''bad'' thing, since both he and Sephiroth know that Spoony will wind up doing this when he reviews Final Fantasy XIII]]. Mass Effect, on the other hand, [[spoiler:presents the destroy option as a ''good'' thing. After all, destroying the Reapers was sort of what Shepard and the entire universe banded together to do]].

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** The Red Ending presents options involving mass destruction and is the most expected option out of the three, though how good or bad it is varies differently. The Guardian [[spoiler: pretty much states destroying the world is a ''bad'' thing, since both he and Sephiroth know that Spoony will wind up doing this when he reviews Final Fantasy XIII]]. Mass Effect, The Catalyst, on the other hand, [[spoiler:presents the destroy option as a ''good'' thing. After all, destroying the Reapers was sort of what Shepard and the entire universe banded together to do]].

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