History LetsPlay / TippingForties

* FiveManBand:
** TheHero: Ryan
** TheLancer: Benson
** TheBigGuy: Alex
** TheSmartGuy: bandunk
** TheChick: Wifedunk (occasionally Benson's Girlfriend)
** SixthRanger: Silent Roommate
* Post-breakup:
** TheHero: Ryan
** TheLancer: Minifoo
** TheBigGuy: bandunk
** TheSmartGuy: Benson
** TheChick: Benson's Girlfriend
** SixthRanger: Alex

->'''Alex:''' "[[Film/CoolRunnings Feel the beer. Feel the wine. Get on up,]] [[Main/TheAlcoholic it's drinkin' time.]]"

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: Ryan likes to sneak in references, like [[Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000 ancient dentistry]] and [[VideoGame/ResidentEvil Jill sandwiches]], to see if he can get them past Benson, who hates those.

* EveryEpisodeEnding: [[AnAesop So]] [[BrokenAesop what]] did [[AndKnowingIsHalfTheBattle we]] [[FamilyUnfriendlyAesop learn]] [[CentralTheme today?]]

* {{Flanderization}}: Drinking became a more and more important gimmick as the Forties have advanced. In the beginning they were hecklers who occasionally had a few, a year later they had drinking games and verged on cirrhosis. [[TropesAreNotBad Not that anyone's complaining.]]

** This reached its crowning point for the VideoGame/GoldenEye1997 LP, where drinking conditions were basically what you were watching it for. When they played ''VideoGame/{{Shenmue}}'', they didn't use them at all, so they could get back to their roots. Curiously, they ended up drinking way more without the conditions.

--> '''Tom:''' "Oh ''NO!'' They are very dangerous, man!"
--> '''Benson:''' "Why does everyone scream as soon as you mention them to 'em?
* [[invoked]]ScheduleSlip: Averted. After getting their save-file corrupted, [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome Ryan sat down and played the entire game up to that point again]]; it took him six hours to get back to where they left off.

* [[http://www.hitbox.tv/cookingwithgas Cooking with Gas]] - Ryan's, Benson's and Bandunk's shared channel, put together after the [[Webvideo/VideoGameChampionshipWrestling Twitch Cops]] banned Ryan's old channel for streaming anime.

* DrunkenMaster: The leader of their SuperMonkeyBall scoreboard got a fantastic score no one else can get close to... while being completely smashed.

* {{Leitmotif}}: Mr. Roboto for Presea and [[ForrestGump Bubba's shrimp list]] for the Wonder Chef.

* [[invoked]]FanNickname: [[SuperMarioBros Bowserstone / Bowsertown]] for Bowerstone.

* DrunkenSong: Done very commonly, most notably by bandunk. ''[[EltonJohn It seems to me...you lived your life like a candle in the wind.]]''

--> '''Benson:''' "You gettin' any VideoGame/{{Half-Life 2}} flashbacks here?"

* BrokenStreak: They managed 90 videos of not using [[TheScrappy Presea]] until a [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mim2-4P9d7g scripted event]] forced them to. Needless to say they were crushed.

* AudienceParticipation: topiKal asked the viewers to make fan art, writing, and music for the thread. Some neat stuff came out of this, notably a spoof erotic fanfiction which was read on air, and a cover of TheNotoriousBIG's "Big Poppa" [[SongParody with the lyrics changed to be about Kimahri.]]

* BigNo: Alex made several as bandunk used his warp block in VideoGame/MarioParty to overtake him and got the star.

* SoundEffectBleep: Towards the end of ''MarioParty 8'', bandunk begins talking about "[[NoodleIncident something]] [[NauseaFuel really gross]] [[TheseAreThingsManWasNotMeantToKnow that shouldn't be repeated]]". Almost everything he says is bleeped out, save for "No, but -- but here's the gross part!" [[YouDoNOTWantToKnow The reactions]] [[BrainBleach of the others]] [[{{Squick}} are left uncensored]].

In May 2012 they announced their breakup, which meant the end of the podcast as well as everything else that had the T40 name on it. However, Ryan still does Let's Plays with a new crew, and streams together with Bandunk and Benson. They also have a new show where they riff Netflix movies. Links below.

!!'''Let's Plays Produced Post-Breakup:'''

* {{Flanderization}}: Drinking has become a more and more important gimmick as the Forties have advanced. In the beginning they were hecklers who occasionally had a few and now they have drinking games and are verging on cirrhosis. [[TropesAreNotBad Not that anyone's complaining.]]
** This reached its crowning point for the VideoGame/GoldenEye1997 LP, where drinking conditions were basically what you were watching it for. When they played ''VideoGame/{{Shenmue}}'', they didn't use them at all, so they can get back to their roots. Curiously, they ended up drinking way more without the conditions.

* RefugeInVulgarity: Very commonly invoked by bandunk. Wifedunk can usually be heard in the background going "oh my god, Michael" whenever he tells a particularly raunchy joke.

* AudienceParticipation: topiKal asked the viewers to make fan art, writing, and music for the thread. Some reat stuff came out of this, notably a spoof erotic fanfiction which was read on air and a cover of TheNotoriousBIG's "Big Poppa" [[SongParody with the lyrics changed to be about Kimahri.]]
* TheChewToy: Tidus and Kimahri.

* OffscreenMomentOfAwesome: Alex loves to recount the time he saw [[ShaqFu Shaq]] eating chicken in person.

* WeAreExperiencingTechnicalDifficulties: Ryan's beaten-up PS2 would crash the game every time they got a game over.

* DrinkingGame: Due to the [[GameBreakingBug nature of the PS3 version]], they would all take a shot if the game broke. If a quest broke, [[ButtMonkey only bandunk had to take a shot]] because he was the one who wanted to play on PS3.

--> '''Benson:''' "Well, why would I talk over him? [[HeyItsThatGuy He's Dave Foley.]] [[TakeThat I have no problem talking over Matthew Perry.]]"

** [[SpaceGhostcoastToCoast Old Kentucky]] for Corrine.

Originally a team of three guys named Ryan, Benson and Mike, they started out on the SomethingAwful forums under the handles Kuvo, topiKal and bandunk, respectively, with a well-received LP of VideoGame/FinalFantasyX. Following that up with an additional let's play of VideoGame/MetalGearSolid4 and adding Alex (a.k.a. Marvelis) to the team, they came into full-swing. Towards the end of their run, Marvelis retired from LP, leaving the original three to book-end the show with VideoGame/FinalFantasyX2.

* FantasticRacism: The Forties don't like robots. Or furries. Though being [[SomethingAwful Goons]], the latter's unsurprising.

* WhatTheHellHero: The aptly named [[http://www.viddler.com/explore/kuvo/videos/61/ Fuck Bandunk]], by both the other Forties and [[SomethingAwful the thread]].

** Also one of the things that has some [[SomethingAwful Goons]] to complaining that the LetsPlay/FreelanceAstronauts have already LP'd the game in much the same fashion. Seeing as it was Maxwell Adams himself who asked them to LP the game, it seems some people [[MisaimedFandom just want something to complain about]].

** This reached its crowning point for the VideoGame/GoldenEye1997 LP, where drinking conditions were basically what you were watching it for. When they played {{Shenmue}}, they didn't use them at all, so they can get back to their roots. Curiously, they ended up drinking way more without the conditions.

*** Since Old Kentucky is a real-life cat, they seem to name anything vaguely feline after him. VideoGame/{{Shenmue}} has Old Kentucky, Young Kentucky, and Middle-Aged Kentucky.

* [[Main/NeoGeo Neo Turf Masters]] [[http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3688018 [link]]]