History WebVideo / Chubbyemu

* OncePerEpisode: Chubbyemu will often mention how "-emia" means "presence in blood", whenever the patient has a blood condition as a result of their malady. This even extends to episodes where the patient ''doesn't'' get a blood condition, like "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1MggKIfEld4 A Student Drank 2 Liters Fiber Supplement For Dinner. This Is What Happened To His Intestines.]]", where the patient suffered from clogged intestines without blood issues, and Chubbyemu mentions about how ''Psyllium'' fiber is a generally safe supplement that helps against hypercholestrolemia[[note]]"Hyper", meaning high; "cholestrol", refering of course to cholesterol; and "-emia", meaning "precense in blood. "High cholesterol precense in blood.[[/note]]

** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qNV5X-GBkR8 Patient RB]] is caught having an affair, and his wife responds by poisoning him over a long period of time with the heavy metal thallium. By the time he realizes what's going on, the damage to his system is too severe, and he suffers a fatal cardiac arrest while being given dialysis. The one bright spot is that his wife is arrested and ultimately convicted of his murder.

** A woman who got E. coli from lettuce in a burger, which was probably made worse by her habit of forgetting about her food, then eating it when it had cooled to room temperature, an environment ideal for bacteria that cause illness to grow in.

** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmiowRlk8Xc Patient GB]], who decided it would be a clever idea to (very poorly) boil up some suspect mushrooms he bought off the deep web, then inject the lot into his veins. Not only did he get a nasty brush with cyanide poisoning from the stock that may well have been contaminated deliberately by the seller, but the real body horror comes in the form of dual bacteremia and fungemia, the former from a common soil bacterial species, ''Brevibacillus'', but the latter from the very mushroom species as the one he thought he could trip from injecting; the patient had ''mushroom cells'' growing inside his bloodstream!

** The teenager who, after moving from Mexico to the US with his mother, feasted on bottles of vitamin gummies on a regular basis, thinking they were candy (both the patient and his mother spoke Spanish, but not English), inflicting serious damage to his bones and liver through Hypervitaminosis A, culminating in a moment where he downed an entire bottle in one go for breakfast, got dizzy and promptly shattered his arm. At no point did he question why his stomach was [[BalloonBelly swelling to an uncomfortable extent]], nor why he could see his own veins pulsing underneath the skin stretched taut-- both the patient and his mother simply assumed that "Everything is bigger in America, and ''all Americans'' (presumably both native and immigrants, going by their logic) ''are fat''."
*** Even more shocking is that the patient's mother kept buying bottles for her son to eat, and never questioned why the "candy" presumably came in tamper proof containers, nor why the bottles were presumably found inside the medicine aisle of the local supermarket. Viewers have also pointed out that the word for 'Vitamin' in Spanish is almost identical to its English counterpart, making this example especially egregious!

* AndIMustScream: This is the fate of several unfortunate patients who have had their stories featured on the series, especially those involving damage to the central nervous system.
** This is demonstrated extensively through the episode detailing the case of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karen_Wetterhahn Karen Wetterhahn]], who, after an [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJ7M01jV058 unfortunate encounter with dimethylmercury]], suffered an agonizing decline as the mercury compound and its metabolites slowly destroyed her brain, her consciousness being reduced to nothing but 'someone inside', 'trapped in a prison of their own comatose body'.

* BasedOnAGreatBigLie: While most episodes are either true stories or mildly fictionalized accounts derived from medical literature, Bernard occasionally creates a story from whole cloth to demonstrate what ''would'' happen if someone engaged in the behavior described.

* BodyHorror: ''And how!'' When the main premise is the human body having horrific shutdowns thanks to toxicological or pathological DisasterDominoes, it's to be expected; the details are never skimped on, and ''never'' pretty. Special mention goes to the following examples:

* TheComicallySerious: Bernard has a knack for letting unusually casual dialogue slip through his medical analyses without changing his tone of voice or expression, with the juxtaposition providing the humor, and is also very adept at sneaking the occasional meme in, either as a brief visual gag or in dialogue. For example, he describes [[https://youtu.be/NaAFOrudj0g?t=97 one of Patient JC's hallucinations]] as follows:

* DownerEnding: While most of the patients in Bernard's videos manage to at least sustain recoveries, there are some cases in which the patient does not recover:

* TheFoodPoisoningIncident: Several videos describe incidents of people who accidentally got sick from expired or unsafely prepared food.

* InstantIllness: Some of the illnesses, parasitic infestations and poisonings discussed on the channel show that some conditions really do kick in extremely quickly, and almost instantly in some examples:

* KarmaHoudini: Multiple people connected to the patients never get in trouble for making their situation worse, if not outright being the cause of their suffering.

* MyGodYouAreSerious: Used as a defence by witnesses to a patient when they suddenly go downhill in some of the cases.

* WorstAid: Self-medication is one way patients end up screwing themselves even harder.