History Funny / LindsayEllis2020Episodes

* Lindsay deconstructs the lawyer's allegations about the EFF and OTW having previously worked together -- on unrelated things -- by saying that this must clearly mean that there is a "{{fanfiction}} [[GovernmentConspiracy deep state]]" colluding to destroy Addison Cain. Granted, there's clearly no meat to the lawyer's allegations, but if you really get to thinking about it, there's just something inherently funny about the sheer ''concept'' of a "fanfiction deep state."

Dressed up like he's read "Literature/TheGame"\\

--->'''Jewel''':We / Are living in America / We're giving in America / We're tripping in America
--->'''Lindsay''': Literally, "[[MemeticMutation We live in a society]]."

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** When she sprays it for obvious symbolism, she suddenly looks up and screams "''Oh no!''" and starts laughing, indicating that the string went to places she did ''not'' expect or want it to go.

** A special shout-out should be given to Lindsay remixing Javert falling into the fountain to the ''Series/ThomasTheTankEngine'' theme.

-->'''Lindsay:''' ''[[AreYouFreakingKiddingMe My GOD!]]'' The ''article'' is the citation! This isn't a blog, this isn't a peer-reviewed journal, Addison! (''laughs'') Newspapers don't have footnotes.

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* The HilariousOuttakes at the end, with Kaveh Taverian and [[WebVideo/PhilosophyTube Oliver Thorn]] hamming up their performances as The Persian and The Phantom. After slurring his way through one take, Ollie punctuates The Phantom's tirade with [[Film/TheRoom "I'm fed up with this world!"]].

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You suck, this opera house sucks, Charlotta sucks, everything sucks, besides Christine Daaé and the first three seasons of ''Series/{{Frasier}}''. Give me your money.\\

*** And indeed, when we later see the Phantom's lair, there is a ''Frasier'' poster decorating the wall.
* Lindsay bluntly admits that this video was partially motivated by some two-decades' old grudges against ''Literature/{{Phantom}}'' and takes time to air out her petty irritation at ''[[Franchise/ThePhantomOfTheOpera Phantom of the Opera]]'' fandom circa 2001 for defending it so much.
-->'''Lindsay:''' ''[excitedly]'' And there was a time when the Phantom fandom had no goddamn sense of humor and you were not allowed to criticize this book! But it's 2020, Phantom [[MemeticMutation shitposting]] is finally a thing and ''I am the god!''
* The HilariousOuttakes at the end, with Kaveh Taverian and [[WebVideo/PhilosophyTube Oliver Thorn]] hamming up their performances of The Persian and The Phantom. After slurring his way through one take, Ollie punctuates The Phantom's tirade with [[Film/TheRoom "I'm fed up with this world!"]].

** Special shout-out to remixing Javert falling in the fountain to the ''Series/ThomasTheTankEngine'' theme.

* In the dramatic reading of the letter Cain sent [=YouTube=] to remove Lindsay's video it gets to a point where Cain claims that Lindsay is a threat to Cain's child. Even though Cain posts pictures of the child regularly, and said child's face was actually blurred out for the video. Cain goes as far as to call Lindsay a menace for referring to the child as "damn baby" as in "she posts baby pics constantly, and WE had to blur a picture of her damn baby bc the baby was on the gofundme". Not only does Lindsay embrace the "Lindsay Ellis is a menace" claim, she's wearing a shirt that reads just that [[note]]made by [[WebVideo/VampireReviews Elisa]] [[/note]] for about half of the video. ''But she made a "Lindsay Ellis is a menace" pin to sell.'' And a few other merch pieces inspired by the ordeal.
--> '''Lindsay:''' ...Oh, I am gonna milk ''the shit'' outta that.

* Lindsay expresses empathy for the shit Addison Cain is getting, as a fellow author... but because it's Lindsay, her saying this is preceded by "EXTREME PETTINESS IN 3... 2... 1...", and her saying "New York Times best-selling author" is bass-boosted all to hell.

* Jenny Nicholson and her Oscar-worthy performance as Addison Cain, reading various emails, DMCA letters, and social media posts, portraying Cain as a melodramatic egomaniac with a perpetual victim complex, losing her composure more and more with each reading. Never before has "to ''whom'' it may concern" been so hilarious.

* Jenny Nicholson and her Oscar-worthy performance as Addison Cain, reading the various emails, DMCA letters, and social media posts, portraying Cain as a melodramatic egomaniac with a perpetual victim complex, losing her composure more and more with each reading. Never before has "to ''whom'' it may concern" been so hilarious.

* Lindsay expresses empathy for the shit Addison Cain is getting, as a fellow author... but because it's Lindsay, her saying this is preceded by "EXTREME PETTINESS IN 3... 2... 1...", and her saying "New York Times best selling author" is bass-boosted all to hell.

-->'''Lindsay:''' Creator/KateWinslet.\\

'''Lindsay:''' [[invoked]] Creator/LeonardoDiCaprio... [[BaitAndSwitch perfectly]] [[SoOkayItsAverage fine!]]

-->'''Lindsay:''' Creator/KateWinslet\\

** Using his performances in ''Film/TheManInTheIronMask'' & ''[[Film/WilliamShakespearesRomeoAndJuliet Romeo + Juliet]]'' to show how ''not'' to get a good performance from [=DiCaprio=].

'''Lindsay:''' This is from my Masterpiece [[Franchise/{{Transformers}} Starscream]], it's the only crown I have-

* One segment is just [an extended discussion of how badly ''Film/PearlHarbor'' [[TakeThat fails]] at serving as a [[FollowTheLeader follow-up]] to ''Titanic''.

-->'''Radcliffe!Addison Cain{''' Think how they'll squirm when they see how I['m]--dismissed ''with prejudice!''

** And following the above, the repeated {{Take That}}s at ''Film/WilliamShakespearesRomeoAndJuliet'' when she keeps bringing it up as a contrast to ''Titanic'' to show how ''not'' to get a good performance from [=DiCaprio=].

** Speaking of trash, the pile of cans & bottles strewn around her desk, later declaring "This is where we live now" after alluding to the then-current

* Lindsay snarks at one point that she's "sure the legality of fanfiction is going to get litigated someday and it's [[ThisIsGonnaSuck going to SUCK]]", coupled with a news article with [[TakeThat a picture of two crying children fighting and the headline "[[Franchise/StarWars Reylo]] Antis take Reylo Shippers to court, all are way too horny"]].
-->For the first time in her legal career at the Walt Disney corporation, lawyer Helen Sardella is stumped. "I never asked for this."

** Todd actually filming a rare cameo appearance for his former colleague!
--->'''Lindsay''' We just [stopped collaborating] because you never know who's going to have a Twitter meltdown and you don't want to be doing, like, apologies by proxy.
--->'''Todd:''' Oh yeah, yeah, that is why we stopped. And for ''no other reason.''

'''Lindsay:''' Creator/LeonardoDiCaprio... [[BaitAndSwitch perfectly fine!]]
* The [[FreezeFrameBonus blink-and-you'll-miss-it]] addition of a wee-bit of text to the scene in Film/TheAbyss where Dr. Brigman interacts with the water tentacle.

** Speaking of trash, the pile of cans & bottles strewn around her desk, later declaring "This is where we live now."

* When William Randolph Hearst comes up, the [[https://external-preview.redd.it/AVv_9OkfJGMudGHsPdeNIJl1V4IzhYdAIvLQWOCgxJA.jpg?auto=webp&s=3f349c1e4f29ba07c774dda8df3fb1eca7f141d2 "Oh Christ, It's This Asshole Again"]] reaction image appears onscreen. (To be fair, William Randolph Hearst [[TruthInTelevision was, indeed]], quite the asshole.)
* When talking about cycles of nostalgia, she points out that it's about time for it to recur for [[TurnOfTheMillennium the 2000s]]...which Lindsay, author of a novel set in the early 2000s, intends to shamelessly capitalise on. The screen fills up with advertising for ''Literature/AxiomsEnd'', and [[{{Corpsing}} she can't quite finish "Link in the description" before she cracks.]]

* Accentuating Jack's attempt to climb onto the door with a slide-whistle sound effect

* One segment is just an extended discussion of how badly ''Film/PearlHarbor'' fails.

** "Previously, on ''Cucked by Josh Hartnett''"
* Want and Need in storytelling is explained in detail with reference to ''Film/SpaceJam''.

-->'''Rose:''' When the ship docks, I'm getting off with you.\\
''HELL YES YOU ARE''

* "Creator/JamesCameron got cancelled for quoting his own movie at the Oscars, and Kate Winslet got fat-shamed. ''Fuck'' the 90s."

* Let's start with the intro to the video, which is just Kat Blaque, Angelina, [[WebVideo/FoldingIdeas Dan Olson]], [[WebVideo/HBomberguy Harry Brewis]], and [[WebVideo/ToddInTheShadows Todd]] reading pieces of ''full-on rapey wolf-porn fanfiction''.

* "So I stopped being actively involved in creating and consuming fan works around the time [[WebVideo/TheNostalgiaChick I started making]] [[Website/ChannelAwesome Internet videos]] back in the [[BlatantLies 19]][[TheSixties 60s]]"

* D.J. Stone of ''[=LegalEagle=]'' is called upon to explain DMCA takedowns. Afterwards, [[WhoWritesThisCrap he looks at the script]] and [[ClusterBleepBomb grumbles]] that Lindsay made him [[ARareSentence read and talk aloud about wolf porn]].

* Lindsay's... "choices" of computer wallpaper, from a "CAUTION: sticky surfaces" sign to Knott's Berry Farm to a poorly Photoshopped poster for "[[Film/NottingHill Knotting Hill]]."

* Lindsay snarks at one point that she's "sure the legality of fanfiction is going to get litigated someday and it's [[ThisIsGonnaSuck going to SUCK]]", coupled with a news article with [[TakeThat a picture of two crying children fighting and the headline "Reylo Antis take Reylo Shippers to court, all are way too horny"]].

-->'''Radcliffe!Addison Cain''': Think how they'll squirm when they see how I['m]--dismissed ''with prejudice!''
* While discussing genre traditions and ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'' knockoffs, the example she put at the very front is JustForFun/SerraElinsen's ''[[Literature/ViridianSaga Awoken]]''.

* When Lindsay talks about how Addison Caine is [[JerkassHasAPoint right about some things]], such as the fact that Zoey Ellis just suddenly abandoning the case and liquidating her entire company is actually rather suspicious in its own right, she shows a ''Website/{{Clickhole}}'' article "Heartbreaking: Worst Person You Know Actually Makes A Good Point" headline for emphasis.

* One of the most insane things that happened between the two videos; [=YouTube=] informing Lindsay that they got a DMCA takedown notice and [[ReasonableAuthorityFigure deciding that Lindsay's video]] [[CueTheFlyingPigs was indeed]] [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness fair use.]] This is accompanied by Music/BigSean's "I Don't Fuck With You" just to drive the point home.

* In the dramatic reading of the letter Cain sent [=YouTube=] to remove Lindsay's video it gets to a point where Cain claims that Lindsay is a threat to Cain's child. Even though Cain posts pictures of the child regularly, and said child's face was actually blurred out for the video. Cain goes as far as to call Lindsay a menace for referring to the child as "damn baby" as in "she posts baby pics constantly, and WE had to blur a picture of her damn baby bc the baby was on the gofundme". Not only does Lindsay embrace the "Lindsay Ellis is a menace" claim, she's wearing a shirt that reads just that [[note]]made by [[WebVideo/VampireReviews Elisa]] [[/note]] for about half of the video. ''But she made a "Lindsay Ellis is a menace" pin to sell.'' And a few other merch pieces inspired by the ordeal
--> '''Lindsay:''' Oh, I am gonna milk ''the shit'' outta that.

-->'''Lindsay:''' ''[excitedly]'' And there was a time when the Phantom fandom had no goddamn humor. You were not allowed to criticize this book! But it's 2020, Phantom [[MemeticMutation shitposting]] is finally a thing and ''I am the god!''

* A rather choice appearance of “[[Series/LawAndOrder Executive Producer Dick Wolf]]”.

* In the dramatic reading of the letter Cain sent [=YouTube=] to remove Lindsay's video it gets to a point where Cain claims that Lindsay is a threat to Cain's child. Even though Cain posts pictures of the child regularly, and said child's face was actually blurred out for the video. Cain goes as far as to call Lindsay a menace for referring to the child as "damn baby" as in "she posts baby pics constantly, and WE had to blur a picture of her damn baby bc the baby was on the gofundme". Not only does Lindsay embrace the “Lindsay Ellis is a menace” claim, she's wearing a shirt that reads just that [[note]]made by [[WebVideo/VampireReviews Elisa]] [[/note]] for about half of the video. ''But she made a "Lindsay Ellis is a menace" pin to sell.'' And a few other merch pieces inspired by the ordeal

** The reading for Blushing Books Publisher too. Maggie Mae Fish does an excellent job at sounding like a SmugSnake.