History WebVideo / CGPGrey

* AdvertisingDisguisedAsNews: Thankfully, only [[SubvertedTrope subverted]] in an episode of "Podcast/HelloInternet" where he mentions being offered payment from an on-line currency company to do an episode on the history of virtual money, with the ending portraying them as the future of virtual currency.

* EtherealChoir: In "Grey Grades the State Flags", the first ten out of eleven state flags Grey grades are dominated by blue backgrounds (the exception is California's, which he fails for writing out the state's name on the flag and having a bear that looks scared on it). In despondency he calls out whether ''anyone'' made a flag that wasn't blue. Cue the choir as New Mexico's flag of the Zia people's sun colored red on gold background (a nod to the state's Spanish heritage) steps up, which Grey finds [[StealthPun enchanting]] and it becomes one of only four flags he rates as S-tier.

* EtherealChoir: In "Grey Grades the State Flags", the first several states' Grey grades are bad flag after bad flag, and in despondency he calls out whether ''anyone'' made a good one. Cue the choir as New Mexico steps up, one of only four flags he rates as S-tier.

* EthrealChoir: In "Grey Grades the State Flags", the first several states' Grey grades are bad flag after bad flag, and in despondency he calls out whether ''anyone'' made a good one. Cue the choir as New Mexico steps up, one of only four flags he rates as S-tier.

* SoBadItsGood: In "Grey Grades the State Flags", this is his conclusion regarding the infamous flag of Maryland: "So hideous, it falls right off the bottom to land back on the top. S-tier, Maryland."

* AssholeVictim: The video "Death & Dynasties" has a moment of this. When Grey is talking about why key supporters plan for the replacement of a dead ruler is that a "... a Dead Ruler surprise will lead to a scramble for power at best and a bloodbath at worst", with the latter outcome represented by a triumphant revolutionary surrounded by the corpses of dead key supporters from the old dictatorial regime. Since the episode "Rules for Rulers" establishes key supporters in dictatorships as [[ChronicBackstabbingDisorder Chronic Backstabbers]] who overthrow benevolent dictators and screw over the people for the sake of their own enrichment, seeing them subjected to LaserGuidedKarma brings some satisfaction.

--> '''Pirate Captain''': "But lose, and you might beg for mercy in the last and longest moments of your life! Boop!"

* ArtShift: "[[https://youtu.be/nQHBAdShgYI The Trouble with Transporters]]" ditches StickFigureAnimation in favor of a more standard cartoon style.

** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=swx6VyiJ7TI "Going to the Weed Research Lab in Colorado"]] was released on 4/20/2020, takes place in a state where marijuana is legalized, has a greened CGP Grey logo in the thumbnail... [[spoiler: and is actually a follow up to [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hsWr_JWTZss "The Trouble With Tumbleweed"]] as it details the research he made for that video.]]

* TheCameo: Grey has had many in other [=YouTube=]r’s videos, and some have cameoed in his own:

* {{Catchphrase}}: “Hello, Internet”

--> '''Grey''': "Ignore my emails? I might just show up!"

* ExcitedShowTitle: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8xhdL8BPvU The Battle For SHARKS!]] is an example, along with the titular art piece. ''SHARKS!'' (also known as ''Sharks!'') is a sculpture that was the subject of a long-running dispute about planning permission. Gray notes with approval that it was consistently written as ''Sharks!'' in court documents.

* PrecisionSwearStrike: Describes zebra as "bastards" and "pain-in-the-ass" animals in "Zebra vs Horses: Animal Domestication". The fact that this is in the same video as the above-mentioned LastSecondWordSwap makes this even more jarring.

* BreakingPointSwearing: Describes zebra as "bastards" and "pain-in-the-ass" animals in "Zebra vs Horses: Animal Domestication". The fact that this is in the same video as the above-mentioned LastSecondWordSwap makes this even more jarring.

* PrecisionSwearStrike: Describes zebra as "bastards" and "pain-in-the-ass" animals in "Zebra vs Horses: Animal Domestication". The fact that this is in the same video as the above-mentioned LastSecondWordSwap makes this even more jarring.

'''America:''' ''(still smiling)'' [[PrecisionFStrike You pretentious bitch.]] I hate you. Forever.

* ExcitedShowTitle: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8xhdL8BPvU The Battle For SHARKS!]] is an example, along with the titular art piece.

* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: In "Rules for Rulers", Grey notes that the leader of a successful coup will usually purge some of the supporters who helped him come to power, and will often continue to employ some of the key supporters who served the deposed ruler. Since a revolutionary leader must promise a greater share of the treasure to convince enough keys to power to switch sides, and the size of the treasury hasn’t increased in the meantime, the only way to free up enough money to pay off the most necessary keys is to identify and eliminate whichever key supporters are no longer needed. Good revolutionary supporters may not have the necessary qualities to help their master govern once in power, in which case they must be ruthlessly discarded.

* LeftTheBackgroundMusicOn:In "The Better Boarding Method Airlines Won't Use", Grey's lament about why the "Steffen Perfect" method won't work in real life is accompanied by mournful violin music. The circle that represents Grey in the video then looks at the top-left corner and sees two violin-playing angels. He glares at them, and they stop playing and fly away.

* Black Box: In "How Machines Learn" the bots that learn to separate images of bee from a three end up with a complex algorithm that cannot be explained by a human or the teacher and builder bots.

-->'''Grey:''' Let's put our monkey brains to work to tackle this queue, which is what boarding groups do: prioritizing plainly packing primates precisely... primarily. ''[later]'' This [Steffen Perfect method] maximizes pull-aways and parallels, pristinely packing people in a pinch.

* JudicialWig: The AnthropomorphicPersonification of the American Supreme Court always wears a long white wig of these.

* JudicialWig: The AnthropomorphicPersonification of the American Supreme Court always wears one of these.

* SorryILeftTheBGMOn: In "The Better Boarding Method Airlines Won't Use", Grey's lament about why the "Steffen Perfect" method won't work in real life is accompanied by mournful violin music. The circle that represents Grey in the video then looks at the top-left corner and sees two circular violin-playing angels. He glares at them, and they stop playing and fly away.