History WebVideo / QuintonReviews

He also has a video series about Creator/TheHistoryChannel, a multi-part long, rather comprehensive series of videos analysing ''Series/{{iCarly}}''[[note]]which also encompasses ''Series/{{Victorious}}'', ''Series/SamAndCat'' and, in the future, the [[Series/ICarly2021 revival series]]. The series concluded on March 26th, 2024, with "We Don't Talk About Dan Schneider"[[/note]], several conspiracy-related videos, quite a few parody videos, and several Halloween-themed videos.

* InherentInTheSystem: In "We Don't Talk About Dan Schneider", Quinton briefly speculates that part of the reason why Schneider has been so vilified (to the point of being blamed for problems on the set of ''Series/NedsDeclassifiedSchoolSurvivalGuide'' when he [[MisBlamed never even worked on the show]]) is because the mistreatment of child actors is such a wide-reaching problem that it's easier to have a "fall guy" as opposed to confronting the system head-on.

** A pretty harsh one in ''The Collapse of Sam & Cat'' -- starting, of course, with the innocuous observation that everyone who calls Jennette [=McCurdy=] a nickname ends up having a measurably negative impact on her life:
---> '''Quinton:''' ...The Creator calls her "Netter", her mom calls her "Nette", Steven calls her "Jenny", [[spoiler: and ''[[WhatTheHellPlayer you]]'' call her "Sam"!]]

---> ''"Jerry Shay is [[spoiler: a Dan Schneider self-insert.]]"''

* InherentInTheSystem: In "We Don't Talk About Dan Schneider", Quinton briefly speculates that part of the reason why Schneider has been so vilified (to the point of being blamed for problems on the set of ''Series/NedsDeclassifiedSchoolSurvivialGuide'' when he [[MisBlamed never even worked on the show]]) is because the mistreatment of child actors is such a wide-reaching problem that it's easier to have a "fall guy" as opposed to confronting the system head-on.

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* WhamLine: Right before the [[WhamShot Wham Shot]] below, Quinton discusses how the end of ''Sam & Cat'' marked the end of the Nickelodeon Sitcom Universe as it existed in the ''iCarly'' era, a sensical sitcom world, which then transitioned into the more fantastical one portrayed in shows like ''Henry Danger''. However, he also mentions ''another'' way in which the show marked as an end to the era, becoming the first time [[Creator/DanSchneider a specific person]] is mentioned by name in the entire mini-series.
-->'''Quinton:''' But more than that, it's the end of an era. It's the end of the innocence that was once associated with these shows. It's when people started to notice things...and started to ask questions -- and when Nickelodeon started to intervene. And arguably, [[spoiler:this was when the collapse of Schneider's Bakery would begin]]. But it would take several more years for the extent of the damage to be discovered.

-->Next Time: [[spoiler:We Don't Talk About Dan Schneider]]

* PoesLaw: In "That Time the World Ended", Quinton mentions that the parody religion Church of the [=SubGenius=] somehow got unironic followers and served as the basis for some MayanDoomsday predictions.

He also has a video series about Creator/TheHistoryChannel, a multi-part long, rather comprehensive series of videos analysing ''Series/{{iCarly}}''[[note]]which also encompasses ''Series/{{Victorious}}'', ''Series/SamAndCat'' and, in the future, the [[Series/ICarly2021 revival series]][[/note]], several conspiracy-related videos, quite a few parody videos, and several Halloween-themed videos.

* DenserAndWackier: During his reviews of ''Victorious'' and ''Sam & Cat'', Quinton asserts that Nickelodeon sitcoms and children's television as a whole suffered this trope starting in the early 2010s. He theorizes that teens and pre-teens, whose attention used to be all but owned by cable television, shifted towards online platforms for their entertainment and the only kids still watching shows on cable were babies and grade schoolers too young to have a phone or tablet and networks adjusted to appeal to them more. This is why ''Sam & Cat'' and the ''Gibby'' pilot were both considerably more silly and juvenile than ''iCarly''.

* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: [[DiscussedTrope Discussed]]. Quinton notes that, starting with the later seasons of iCarly, Nickelodeon sitcoms tend to do this, with characters constantly making meta references to how they're in a show. Quinton finds it annoying to the point that he considers the later episodes of iCarly to be almost unwatchable due to how

* SeriousBusiness: A recurring gag across the Nickelodeon Sitcom Universe reviews is that he is spending objectively too much time and effort analysing TV shows made for literal children, though that doesn't stop him him from making entire 10-15 minute long segments about logo design, character relationships, the confusing interconnectivity of the Nickelodeon Sitcom Universe shows, and the characters' opinions on the complex geopolitical topic of climate change and treating them all as equal topics of analysis.

* AnAesop: The "Knockoff [=YouTubers=]" episode of ''Fallen Titans'' ends with the message that it's fine to take inspiration from one's peers, but you have to find a way to make your work stand out.

* ShoutOut: Discussed in the ''WebVideo/ToBoldlyFlee'' review, where Quinton says that the film (like Doug Walker himself) has a bad habit of thinking that referencing or outright copying the source material counts as a joke. He compares it to two of Creator/SeltzerAndFriedberg's films, but says that even ''they'' at least found ''some'' interesting ways to lampoon the films they were spoofing.

** The last third of ''The Collapse of Sam & Cat'' is devoted to Creator/JennetteMcCurdy's traumatic life from her childhood through her time with Nickelodeon and beyond. The section is largely devoid of music and edits, and begins with a LongList of ContentWarnings for what occurs throughout Jennette's story. It also acts as a deliberate contrast to the end of "The Scandal of Sam & Cat", which focused on co-star Music/ArianaGrande's far happier life and transition from sitcom actress to chart-topping singer... and, more significantly, "The Collapse of Sam & Cat" also ends, finally '''[[ElephantInTheLivingRoom naming]]''' Creator/DanSchneider, with a frankly ''disturbing'' distorted audio mix of different openings, showing him in stark relief.

** The last third of ''The Collapse of Sam & Cat'' is devoted to Creator/JennetteMcCurdy's traumatic life from her childhood through her time with Nickelodeon and beyond. The section is largely devoid of music and edits, and begins with a LongList of ContentWarnings for what occurs throughout Jennette's story. It also acts as a deliberate contrast to the end of "The Scandal of Sam & Cat", which focused on co-star Music/ArianaGrande's far happier life and transition from sitcom actress to chart-topping singer.

* ContentWarnings: PlayedForLaughs in "Bad Nazi Documentaries". The opening of the video warns that it will contain a Hitler sex change and exploding pancakes. Later, Quinton warns that the video will mention suicide, before making the counter-content warning that "it's about Hitler's suicide, so who gives a shit". A similar comment is made about Hitler's bones.

** During "The Decay of Sam & Cat", while searching for parodies of ''[=ICarly=]'', ''Victorious'', and ''Sam & Cat'', Quinton criticises the later seasons of ''WesternAnimation/RobotChicken'' for doing the bare minimum of research into subjects that the writers clearly didn't grow up watching. In particular, the ''[=ICarly=]'' sketch seems to have been based entirely on the first two sentences of the Wikipedia synopsis, as Carly's military father (a very minor character who [[TheGhost only appears in person in the finale]]) plays a major role where he nukes Iran after Carly streams herself in the shower while main characters Sam and Freddie are completely absent, while the sketch based on ''WesternAnimation/TheWildThornberrys'' completely ignores the core premise of Eliza being able to talk to animals in favour of putting the cast in a Creator/DiscoveryChannel parody.

* {{Unperson}}: A regularly [[RunningGag reoccurring joke]] in the Nickelodeon shows is that whenever Quinton tries to figure out [[Creator/DanSchneider who made these shows]], he mentions that he either blacks out, or can't find anything about them. At one point during the ''Victorious'' reviews, the credit for said person is even cropped out when it shows up. In the first ''Sam & Cat'' video, Ariana Grande's personal thanks to him is abruptly cut off with television static. He does briefly broach the topic when discussing [=TheSlap.com=], mentioning that he wants to keep the ElephantInTheLivingRoom sequestered into a separate video so that he doesn't have to address it every time it comes up.
* WeirdCrossover: Discussed in his ''iCarly'' video -- he wants crossover fanfiction of ''iCarly'' and ''Series/{{Frasier}}'' since they both live in Seattle, and edits a few short clips of the characters interacting, with the Cranes' proper nature contrasting the characters' wackiness.

-->'''Quinton:''' But more than that, it's the end of an era. It's the end of the innocence that was once associated with these shows. It's when people started to notice things...and started to ask questions- and when Nickelodeon started to intervene. And arguably, [[spoiler:this was when the collapse of Schneider's Bakery would begin]]. But it would take several more years for the extent of the damage to be discovered.

->'''Quinton''': But more than that, it's the end of an era. It's the end of the innocence that was once associated with these shows. It's when people started to notice things...and started to ask questions- and when Nickelodeon started to intervene. And arguably, [[spoiler:this was when the collapse of Schneider's Bakery would begin]]. But it would take several more years for the extent of the damage to be discovered.

** Later, Russ watches ''Sam & Cat'' along Quinton, and appears somewhat puzzled at the scene at the Bots restaurant. Quinton picks up on this and tries to explain to his father that the Nick-sitcom-verse is established to have sapient robots in it, and how it makes sense in the contexts of shows such as ''iCarly'' and ''Henry Danger''. The video then cuts to a close-up on Russ, who sits with the same glazed-over look as Quinton had earlier, while Quinton's explanation goes on the background but is increasingly drowned out by reverb.

* BlahBlahBlah: As one of the ''Sam & Cat'' episodes features a guest appearance by Creator/PennyMarshall and Cindy Williams of ''Series/LaverneAndShirley'' fame, Quinton notices that he doesn't have a lot of context has he is far too young to have any real idea what ''Laverne & Shirley'' is. He sits down with his father, Russ, who has seen ''Laverne & Shirley'', gives him his microphone and asks him to explain the show to him. Russ proceeds to start with an explanation of ''Series/HappyDays'', the show ''Laverne & Shirley'' was spun-off from, including a mention of [[BreakoutCharacter how the Fonz wasn't originally the show's focus]] and [[ChuckCunninghamSyndrome how the cast initially featured Richie's older brother Chuck]]. As Russ goes on, the camera cuts to a close of Quinton, as he sits with a glazed over expression on his face, and his father's explanation starts to get gradually distorted by reverb to the point where it eventually because unintelligible. The video briefly cuts back to Russ, as he starts to explain to how ''Happy Days'' coined the phrase "JumpTheShark", before cutting back to Quinton looking even more distant and hearing even louder and grating reverb. Quinton then suddenly snaps back to reality, as Russ comes around to talk about the episode guest starting Creator/RobinWilliams, and how this started the other ''Happy Days'' spin-off, ''Series/MorkAndMindy'', and how this incidentally also started ''Laverne & Shirley'', before [[RuleOfThree Quinton tunes out again]]. A quickly cut back to Russ as he explains that eventually Cindy Williams left the show, leading fans to jokingly call it "Laverne without Shirley", before a cut to an extreme close up on a genuinely despondent-looking Quinton, whose face take up the entire screen. Russ finally states that ''Happy Days'' itself was a spin-off of ''Series/LoveAmericanStyle'', and that ''Laverne & Shirley'' itself lasted 8 seasons and would get an AnimatedAdaptation. Quinton comes to again, mutters "Oh, fascinating..." and takes back his microphone.
** Later, Russ appears somewhat puzzled at the scene at the Bots restaurant, and Quinton tries to explain to his father that the Nick-sitcom-verse has sapient robots in it, and how it makes sense in the contexts of shows such as ''iCarly'' and ''Henry Danger''. The video then cuts to a close-up on Russ, who sits with the same glazed-over look as Quinton had earlier, while Quinton's explanation goes on the background but is increasingly drowned out by reverb.

* BlahBlahBlah: As one of the ''Sam & Cat'' episodes features a guest appearance by Creator/PennyMarshall and Cindy Williams ''Series/LaverneAndShirley'', Quinton notices that he doesn't have a lot of context has he is far too young to have any real idea what ''Laverne & Shirley'' is. He sits down with his father, Russ, who has seen ''Laverne & Shirley'', gives him his microphone and asks him to explain the show to him. Russ proceeds to start with an explanation of ''Series/HappyDays'', the show ''Laverne & Shirley'' was spun-off from, including a mention of [[BreakoutCharacter how the Fonz wasn't originally the show's focus]] and [[ChuckCunninghamSyndrome how the cast initially featured Richie's older brother Chuck]]. As Russ goes on, the camera cuts to a close of Quinton, as he sits with a glazed over expression on his face, and his father's explanation starts to get gradually distorted by reverb to the point where it eventually because unintelligible. The video briefly cuts back to Russ, as he starts to explain to how ''Happy Days'' coined the phrase "JumpTheShark", before cutting back to Quinton looking even more distant and hearing even louder and grating reverb. Quinton then suddenly snaps back to reality, as Russ comes around to talk about the episode guest starting Creator/RobinWilliams, and how this started the other ''Happy Days'' spin-off, ''Series/MorkAndMindy'', and how this incidentally also started ''Laverne & Shirley'', before [[RuleOfThree Quinton tunes out again]]. A quickly cut back to Russ as he explains that eventually Cindy Williams left the show, leading fans to jokingly call it "Laverne without Shirley", before a cut to an extreme close up on a genuinely despondent-looking Quinton, whose face take up the entire screen. Russ finally states that ''Happy Days'' itself was a spin-off of ''Series/LoveAmericanStyle'', and that ''Laverne & Shirley'' itself lasted 8 seasons and would get an AnimatedAdaptation. Quinton comes to again, mutters "Oh, fascinating..." and takes back his microphone.

* {{Anticlimax}}: Quinton invokes this in the second half of the ''Victorious'' review when he counts down the final episodes of the show. After finishing the thirteenth episode he tells the audience to get ready for the fourteenth, and final episode, before he raises his coffee to his lips and drinks as the screen FadesToBlack... and then fades back in as Quinton finishes his drink and says that he lied and there is no fourteenth episode. Quinton says he did this to replicate the whiplash fans of the show felt when it was abruptly canceled with no resolution.

* CerebusSyndrome: Invoked out of necessity due to heavy subject matter for the Fallen Titans episode on Creator/{{Tobuscus}}.

* {{Doorstopper}}: His series on the [[Series/NickVerse Nickelodeon Shared Sitcom Universe]] have all been multiple hour-long videos, with the shortest clocking in at little over three and a half hours and the longest at ''a little over eight hours'', all of which are quite lengthy, even by standards for analysis videos. As of the ''Sam and Cat'' video, the series spans a total of a little over 27 hours.

** During "The Decay of Sam & Cat", while searching for parodies of ''[=ICarly=]'', ''Victorious'', and ''Sam & Cat'', Quinton criticises the later seasons of ''WesternAnimation/RobotChicken'' for doing the bare minimum of research into subjects that the writers clearly didn't grow up watching. In particular, the ''[=ICarly=]'' sketch seems to have been based entirely on the first two sentences of the Wikipedia synopsis, as Carly's military father (a very minor character who [[TheGhost only appears in person in the finale]]) plays a major role where he nukes Iran after Carly streams herself in the shower while main characters Sam and Freddie are completely absent, while the sketch based on ''WesternAnimation/TheWildThornberries'' completely ignores the core premise of Eliza being able to talk to animals in favour of putting the cast in a Creator/DiscoveryChannel parody.

* ShallowParody:[[invoked]] In the ''WebVideo/ToBoldlyFlee'' review, Quinton says he has heard that the script for the film didn't mention the films the scenes were copying, so the actors often didn't even know what they were parodying. "Which, obviously, makes the parody work a whole lot less."