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* {{Dissimile}}: In "A Mann's Guide to the Big Earner" when describing all the various types of trickstabs, Ethan describes understabs as "like underwear, but with a knife". He also clearly gets confused at the script while saying it (since KJ wrote that comparison in) and the camera quickly cuts to him staring at it perplexedly for a second after he says it.
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* StatusQuoIsGod: The ''"A Mann's Guide to"'' series is procedural, with the ''"the Backburner"'' episode specifically highlighting it since Ethan was wondering why they were back in the studio after the events of ''"the Big Earner"'' (specifically the pair having earned the ire of their corporate overlords and were on the run as a result), causing KJ to explain as much to him. ''"The Huntsman"'' episode happens because Chris of ''The [=ChristoLee=] Show'' (which is notably ''not'' procedural) was trying to mess around with the Procedural Episode Machine in an attempt to reverse his show back to the start of season 1, but he screws up and instead generates the Huntsman episode.
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* TakeThat: The end of ''A Mann's Guide to the Backburner'' is nothing short of ''vicious mockery'' towards low-effort "manosphere" podcasts, complete with an insecure host who talks over the guest, the guest only being there to agree with everything the host says, and the host complaining about being "censored" and calling people he doesn't like "woke", and then using it as a springboard to promote his ''other'' shows/products.
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* AntiHumor: [[https://youtu.be/fUNx9P9UEEk?si=Sb3Vlb2ik05CqmEr&t=44 In this promotion for the video sponsor,]] one of the reasons why Soundsmith vouches for Opera GX is because other browsers tend to [[ExplosiveOverclocking explode his computer when he tries to open them while playing graphically intensive games]]. Opera GX's process limiter prevents this, so Soundsmith "''[doesn't]'' have to worry about ''[his]'' computer [[TemptingFate exploding in a comically large fireball]]." His computer doesn't explode into a comically large fireball, so the scene just depicts him standing next to his computer for an extended moment while nothing happens.
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* BunnyEarsLawyer: Though he's fairly competent at the game, by his own admission, RuleOfFunny is his main driving factor, but considering he mostly plays on CaptureTheFlag servers - the casualest Team Fortress 2 can be - it can end up being surprisingly effective.
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* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: Deliberately {{invoked|trope}} by ''War Paint Stereotypes'': Sound saw people clamouring for a new Stereotypes video despite his hatred of the series, and decided to call them out by [[LiteralGenie technically giving them what they wanted, warts and all]]. He even {{lampshade|hanging}}s it in the description.
--> This video was bought to you by The Monkey's Paw™! Shoutout to everyone who once though, "I sure wish Soundsmith would go back to making stereotype videos like he used to!" [[TakeThatAudience This is what you wanted, right]]?
* BunnyEarsLawyer:Though he's fairly competent at He's primarily focused on [[RuleOfFunny doing stupid gimmicks and tactics for the game, by his own admission, RuleOfFunny is his main driving factor, hell of it]], but considering he mostly plays on CaptureTheFlag servers - the casualest Team Fortress 2 can be - it can end up being surprisingly effective.effective, and he's genuinely quite good at the game once he starts playing seriously.
--> This video was bought to you by The Monkey's Paw™! Shoutout to everyone who once though, "I sure wish Soundsmith would go back to making stereotype videos like he used to!" [[TakeThatAudience This is what you wanted, right]]?
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* HitboxDissonance: Part of his advice for the Huntsman is to get good mileage out of how janky the hitbox works. Arrows don't need to hit the head to count as a headshot: if they hit the larger player collision box and the nearest part of the victim's body is the head, that'll count as a headshot. As such, many freezeframes in the video show Soundsmith very visibly shooting the empty space next to an opponent's head, yet that somehow counting as a headshot.
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* HitboxDissonance: Part of his advice for the Huntsman is to get good mileage out of how janky the hitbox works. Arrows don't need to hit the head to count as a headshot: if they hit the larger player collision box and the nearest part of the victim's body is the head, that'll count as a headshot. As such, many freezeframes in the video show Soundsmith very visibly shooting the empty space next to an opponent's head, yet that somehow counting counts as a headshot.
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** Anything that could be described as "edgy" used to gets a short snippet of Music/LinkinPark's ''Crawling'' in early ''Stereotype'' videos. He's [[RunningGagged intentionally ended the joke]], though that hasn't stopped the joke from trying to return.
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** Anything that could be described as "edgy" used to gets get a short snippet of Music/LinkinPark's ''Crawling'' in early ''Stereotype'' videos. He's [[RunningGagged intentionally ended the joke]], though that hasn't stopped the joke from trying to return.
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* ShamuFu: He's fond of Scout's Holy Mackerel. One of his videos his literally titled "Fish" and consists of him and his friends slapping people with it for 14 minutes.
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* ShamuFu: He's fond of Scout's Holy Mackerel. One of his videos his literally is titled "Fish" and consists of him and his friends slapping people with it for 14 minutes.
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*** WebVideo/LazyPurple is shown furiously working on a typewriter, only to produce [[AntiClimax a very underwhelming opening sentence of his script]], which opens with a very fancy caligraphy of the word "That". This is a reference to the ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'' episode [[Recap/SpongeBobSquarePantsS2E17ProcrastinationImWithStupid "Procrastination"]], in which Spongebob feverently works on his boating school essay but only makes a very fancy "The".
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[[https://www.youtube.com/SoundSmithTF2 [=SoundSmith=]]] is a Website/YouTube content creator, most well-known for videos based on Videogame/TeamFortress2. His most popular video sagas include ''[=TF2=] Stereotypes'' ([[CreatorBacklash to his chagrin]]) discussing stereotypes associated with specific hats, weapons and miscs in [=TF2=], ''Mann's Guide'' videos that demonstrate "pro" gameplay gimmicks with various [=TF2=] weapons, the ''How to Trolldier'' educational series, ''MVM Shenanigans'' that shows his exploits in the ''Mann vs. Machine'' gamemode, and various gimmicky videos of him goofing off with his friends. As of late he's been pushing more into variety content as well, most notably with ''Sandbox Shenanigans'' in ''VideoGame/GarrysMod''.
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[[https://www.youtube.com/SoundSmithTF2 [=SoundSmith=]]] (real first name Ethan) is a Website/YouTube content creator, most well-known for videos based on Videogame/TeamFortress2. His most popular video sagas include ''[=TF2=] Stereotypes'' ([[CreatorBacklash to his chagrin]]) discussing stereotypes associated with specific hats, weapons and miscs in [=TF2=], ''Mann's Guide'' videos that demonstrate "pro" gameplay gimmicks with various [=TF2=] weapons, the ''How to Trolldier'' educational series, ''MVM Shenanigans'' that shows his exploits in the ''Mann vs. Machine'' gamemode, and various gimmicky videos of him goofing off with his friends. As of late he's been pushing more into variety content as well, most notably with ''Sandbox Shenanigans'' in ''VideoGame/GarrysMod''.
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* AdamWesting: The Mann's Guide to the Huntsman has a joke about WebVideo/LazyPurple's "How it FEELS to Play Medic in [=TF2=]" video [[invoked]][[ScheduleSlip taking a long while to release]] (over three years between Lazy's previous "How it FEELS to Play" video and the Mann's Guide video). Not coincidentally, [=LazyPurple=] voices himself making a reference to [[Recap/SpongebobSquarepantsS2E17ProcrastinationImWithStupid a SpongeBob episode where SpongeBob struggles with procrastination in making some important project]].
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* AdamWesting: The Mann's Guide to the Huntsman has a joke about WebVideo/LazyPurple's "How it FEELS to Play Medic in [=TF2=]" video [[invoked]][[ScheduleSlip taking a long while to release]] (over three years between Lazy's previous "How it FEELS to Play" video and the Mann's Guide video). Not coincidentally, [=LazyPurple=] voices himself making a reference to [[Recap/SpongebobSquarepantsS2E17ProcrastinationImWithStupid a SpongeBob episode where SpongeBob struggles with procrastination in making some important project]]. Oh, and to top it all off, [[SelfDeprecation the joke was entirely Lazy's idea.]]
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** The overall theme of ''A Mann's Guide to the Backburner'', from pre-release media implying the video was actually going to be about the Huntsman to Ethan's main piece of advice about the weapon being to [[ConfusionFu get the enemy to expect one thing before doing something else]]. Two weeks later, however, this ''also'' turned out to be a bait-and-switch when ''A Mann's Guide to the Huntsman'' was released for real.
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** The overall theme of ''A Mann's Guide to the Backburner'', from pre-release media implying the video was actually going to be about the Huntsman to Ethan's main piece of advice about the weapon being to [[ConfusionFu get the enemy to expect one thing before doing something else]]. Two weeks later, however, this ''also'' turned out to be a bait-and-switch when ''A Mann's Guide to the Huntsman'' was released for real. Though Ethan himself admits that the work required for it means this sort of stunt is unlikely to be repeated.
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* MetaFiction: Part of the storytelling with later ''Mann's Guide'' videos follows producers Soundsmith and KJ getting into antics within the studio as they struggle to produce the guide videos themselves.
