History TearJerker / ToddInTheShadows

-->'''Todd''': I'm gonna call [[WebVideo/ObscurusLupa her]]. [He takes out his phone and dials a number. Thinking better of it, he hangs up, but dials again] Hello...hi, I'm...I probably shouldn't be calling you right now, but I...I...you probably think I'm an idiot and...I probably am an idiot. I just...I just...I just wanna talk to you right now and...I just wanna tell you that you...you always make me...I always really liked you since I met you...you're just so nice and [starts to cry] you're all I could ever want in a girl. I'm sorry, I'm sorry.

* His drunken breakdown at the start of the Best of 2013 vid. He starts playing [[{{Music/Eminem}} The Monster]] on his piano, but it degenerates until he starts smashing random keys and eventually headdesks on his keyboard. When [[{{WebVideo/BrowsHeldHigh}} Kyle]] and [[{{WebVideo/PawDugan}} Paw]] try and cheer him up, he [[{{DrowningMySorrows}} takes out a huge bottle and starts drinking.]] The RealitySubtext of [[WebVideo/YouCanPlayThis Justin Carmical's]] death really doesn't help.[[note]]Although the video was almost complete, the intro had not been filmed yet when Todd learned of Carmical's passing, hence the dark undertone to the scene[[/note]]

* While EMF and Dr. Elmo of Elmo and Patsy enjoyed Todd's One-Hit Wonderland reviews of their songs ("Unbelievable" and "Grandma Got Run Over By a Reindeer," respectively) , Miss Lady Kier of Deee-lite ("Groove Is in the Heart") [[WordOfGod apparently]] disliked his review and, as per Todd's Twitter, said "[he] got everything wrong and she cringed for [him]." That could just be pop star bitchiness, but the fact that Todd followed that up by saying it [[TheWoobie genuinely haunts him]] is a bit sad (not only that, it was a ''positive'' review, as opposed to the respectively neutral and negative opinions toward the former two artists)

* 2016 also marked the passing of two artists he had already covered for OHW, Billy Paul ("Me and Mrs. Jones") and Pete Burns of Dead or Alive ("You Spin Me Round [Like a Record]").
* His discussing the ''very'' bleak topic of [[Music/MidnightOil Midnight Oil]]'s "Beds Are Burning"; namely, the Australian military's incredibly poor treatment of Aborigines.

* Giving Chrissy Amphlett's passing a mention during the OHW retrospective of her band Divynls.
--->'''Todd:''' The Divynls, they touched themselves. They also touched all of us.
* Similarly giving Pauly Fuemana's passing a mention during the OHW retrospective on his group OMC.

* Similarly giving Pauly Fuemana's passing a mention during the OHW retrospective on his group OMC.

** '''Todd:''' The Divynls, they touched themselves. They also touched all of us.

* His feelings of being off trends in regards to most of 2016's hits during the "7 Years" review, especially given how much he liked 2015.

* While EMF and Dr. Elmo of Elmo and Patsy enjoyed Todd's One-Hit Wonderland reviews of their songs ("Unbelievable" and "Grandma Got Run Over By a Reindeer," respectively) , Miss Lady Kier of Deee-lite ("Groove Is in the Heart") [[WordOfGod apparently]] disliked his review and, as per Todd's Twitter, said "[he] got everything wrong and she cringed for [him]." That could just be pop star bitchiness, but the fact that Todd followed that up by saying it [[TheWoobie genuinely haunts him]] is a bit sad (not only that, it was a ''positive'' review, as opposed to the respectively neutral and negative opinions toward the former two artists)

* While EMF and Dr. Elmo of Elmo and Patsy enjoyed Todd's One-Hit Wonderland reviews of their songs ("Unbelievable" and "Grandma Got Run Over By a Reindeer," respectively) , Miss Lady Kier of Deee-lite ("Groove Is in the Heart") [[WordOfGod apparently]] disliked his review and, as per Todd's Twitter, said "[he] got everything wrong and she cringed for [him]." That could just be pop star bitchiness, but the fact that Todd followed that up by saying it [[TheWoobie genuinely haunts him]] is a bit sad (not only that, it was a ''positive'' review, as opposed to the rspectively neutral and negative opinions toward the former two artists)

* While EMF and Dr. Elmo of Elmo and Patsy enjoyed Todd's One-Hit Wonderland reviews of their songs ("Unbelievable" and "Grandma Got Run Over By a Reindeer," respectively) , Miss Lady Kier of Deeee-lite [[WordOfGod apparently]] disliked his review and, as per Todd's Twitter, said "[he] got everything wrong and she cringed for [him]." That could just be pop star bitchiness, but the fact that Todd followed that up by saying it [[TheWoobie genuinely haunts him]] is a bit sad (not only that, it was a ''positive'' review, as opposed to the rspectively neutral and negative opinions toward the former two artists)

* While EMF and Dr. Elmo of Elmo and Patsy enjoyed Todd's One-Hit Wonderland reviews,apparently Miss Lady Kier of Deee-lite disliked his review and, as per Todd's twitter says "I got everything wrong and she cringed for me." That could just be pop star bitchiness, but the fact that Todd followed that up by saying it genuinely haunts him is a bit sad.

* In his "I Took A Pill In Ibiza" review, Todd scoffs at the idea that Mike Posner could make him feel sorry for him. Then he hears the opening lines[[note]]"I took a pill in Ibiza/To show Avicii I was cool"[[/note]], then immediately takes that back. The aftermath of these lines is shown as a montage of Todd falling into depression, complete with sad piano music. Later on in the review, Todd realizes that he's always felt sorry for Mike.

* His reflection on how "Eve of Destruction" isn't nearly as dated as it appears at first glance, as the Middle East is still a powder keg, racism is still just as ugly, and Superman is even killing people. And yes, he actually does manage to make that last one just as somber as the rest, as an illustration of the kind of world that could create such a story.

*** [[https://twitter.com/ShadowTodd/status/695380810455609346 Let's not forget Maurice White.]]

** [[https://twitter.com/ShadowTodd/status/687706017178742785 Followed only a few days later by Alan Rickman's death.]]

* [[https://twitter.com/ShadowTodd/status/686442905112821760 His reaction to David Bowie's death]] could definitely be seen as this.

** In fact, 2015 did not start off very well for him, as first he had to watch his grandmother pass away just hours into the start of the year, then he had to do his list of the Top Ten Worst Hit Songs of 2014, a year he declared even worse than 2013 (which he hated).

** In fact, the New Year is not getting off to a good start for him, as first he has to watch his grandmother pass away just hours into the start of the year, then he has to do his list of the Top Ten Worst Hit Songs of 2014, a year he declared even worse than 2013 (which he hated).

* His grandmother's death. After several tweets near the end of 2014 about how people thought she had passed, come New Year's Eve she was taken off life support. [[https://twitter.com/ShadowTodd/status/550570646372356096 And on New Year's Day, she passed away]]. She made it through the entirety of 2014, but she fulfilled Todd's final wish for her to see into the new year.

* His somber reaction to Madonna saying Sean Penn was the one true love of her life in ''Truth or Dare''.

* His drunken breakdown at the start of the Best of 2013 vid. He starts playing [[{{Music/Eminem}} The Monster]] on his piano, but it degenerates until he starts smashing random keys and eventually headdesks on his keyboard. When [[{{WebVideo/BrowsHeldHigh}} Kyle]] and [[{{WebVideo/PawDugan}} Paw]] try and cheer him up, he [[{{DrowningMySorrows}} takes out a huge bottle and starts drinking.]] The RealitySubtext of [[WebVideo/YouCanPlayThis Justin Carmical's]] death really doesn't help.[[note]]Although the video was almost complete, the intro had not been filmed yet when Todd learned of Carmical's passing, hence the dark undertone to the scene[[/note]]

** [[spoiler:He accidentally called [=LordKaT=] instead. Todd hangs up in shock, [[INeedAFreakingDrink grabs the bottle]] but instead falls into a crumpled heap on the floor where he stays as the video ends.]]