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** Once the light-piping returned, Thew noted that it had been gone for so long some fans had mistaken it for a brand new gimmick.
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* {{Corpsing}}: A particularly awkward-looking knockoff sends Thew into [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iuNPuJ9Q_4E fits of helpless giggling]].
** Thew also tends to break into giggling if the toy's gimmick [[EpicFail fails to work as planned.]]
** Thew also tends to break into giggling if the toy's gimmick [[EpicFail fails to work as planned.]]
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** Taken [[UpToEleven up to thirteen]] in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2hejVSCw_vw Threevenge]], complete with a touch of AlcoholHic.
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** Taken [[UpToEleven up to thirteen]] thirteen in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2hejVSCw_vw Threevenge]], complete with a touch of AlcoholHic.
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** Decepticons in dark colours, ''especially'' black and purple, count in general.
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** When reviewing the original G1 Megatron toy, he admits that the story of the franchise's beginnings are so commonly retold that he simply shouts related buzzwords after two sentences.
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** As of ''Knockoff Beatdown: Christmassacre'', the Galaxy Shifter line of bootleg Transformers. They get drafted in to take the bullet whenever Thew likes the ''actual'' knockoff figure he's reviewing too much to destroy it, because they're painfully generic, offer nothing interesting for him to talk about, and he has far too many of them just lying around because of how common they are to find.
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** Similarly, during a Q&A he offered the name "Datashred"... because he'd seen it written on a data-recovery company's van earlier that week and thought it sounded cool.
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* {{Mondegreen}}: PlayedForLaughs in the Tank Megatron special, where he repeatedly mishears G2 Megatron's garbled "Megatron attack!" soundclip as [[ToiletHumour "Make a ton of cack!"]]
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** Modern-day Megatron toys that attempt to give him a "Cybertronian" alternate mode instead being given creative descriptions of how they're just masses of kibble as if that's what Megatron's alternate mode actually is. Or sometimes simply "...that."
** If a Seeker toy's alternate mode has the chest-cockpit appear in the wrong place, its not kibble, its "his portable keg of Fanta."
** Jokingly handwaving obvious robot parts in "Cybertronian" alternate modes with "Have you actually been to Cybertron, mate? That's just what they look like."
** Should Skywarp be mentioned in any way, Thew will draw attention to the shrine.
--> "Good, innit?"
** If a Seeker toy's alternate mode has the chest-cockpit appear in the wrong place, its not kibble, its "his portable keg of Fanta."
** Jokingly handwaving obvious robot parts in "Cybertronian" alternate modes with "Have you actually been to Cybertron, mate? That's just what they look like."
** Should Skywarp be mentioned in any way, Thew will draw attention to the shrine.
--> "Good, innit?"
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* AsYouKnow: The history of the early Generation One toyline and Gold Plastic Syndrome get lampshaded as things Thew tends to assume his audience already knows, before he provides a rundown of the basic concepts.
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* LineOfSightName: When asked about a hypothetical Decepticon he could come up with, Thew gave the name as "Carpet-door." Then he got fanart of Carpet-door, a seeker with a carpet cape and a shield made out of a door.
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*** Mutated further into general puns on his name, such as [[VideoGame/DoomEternal The Only Thing They Fear Is Thew.]]
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** Figures from and references to Cyberverse will often bring up Thew's uncanny resemblence to the show's depiction of Maccaddam.
--> "Is that me? That is me! At least tag us next time!"
** Monthly Megatron videos that don't actually come out monthly feature a "May Not Actually Be Monthly" disclaimer on the title card. With one exception.
--> "Monthly Megatron! ''Is it? Is it, though...?"''
--> "Is that me? That is me! At least tag us next time!"
** Monthly Megatron videos that don't actually come out monthly feature a "May Not Actually Be Monthly" disclaimer on the title card. With one exception.
--> "Monthly Megatron! ''Is it? Is it, though...?"''
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** Partially subverted with the Bloodthirsty War Dolphin - the figure itself is incredibly boring, the most entertaining thing about it is the bit of cardboard with the name.
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* NotSoDifferent: While he spends most of his review of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=skPARawMxI8 Power Battlers Crosshairs]] - which sacrifices a decent robot mode for a realistic vehicle mode ([[MoneyDearBoy "seeing as that's where all the backing comes from"]]) and a punch gimmick (which is admittedly quite impressive) - complaining about how "bloody shonky" it is, he acknowledges that it's aimed at a much lower age bracket than an adult collector like him and that many of the toys that he fondly remembers from his childhood were also "daft-looking bots that only existed because of a gimmick".
--> So if five-year-old Thew can love [[https://tfwiki.net/wiki/Flamefeather#Toys this]], then five-year-old somebody is gonna love [[https://tfwiki.net/wiki/Crosshairs_(AOE)#Age_of_Extinction this]].
--> So if five-year-old Thew can love [[https://tfwiki.net/wiki/Flamefeather#Toys this]], then five-year-old somebody is gonna love [[https://tfwiki.net/wiki/Crosshairs_(AOE)#Age_of_Extinction this]].
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* MadeOfIndestructium: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3HQW1I3cpaE&t=82s The Funtastic Wolf Beasty Convertor]]. '''Literally the brick used to smash it broke before the toy did.''' The tail was the only bit of actual damage that he managed to do to it.
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* TonkaTough: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3HQW1I3cpaE&t=82s The Funtastic Wolf Beasty Convertor]]. '''Literally the brick used to smash it broke before the toy did.''' The tail was the only bit of actual damage that he managed to do to it.
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** Thew making a comment about a toy's design following it up with [[YourMom "Much like your mother"]]
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** Thew also tends to break into giggling if the toy's gimmick [[EpicFail fails to work as planned.]]
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* CurseCutShort: PlayedForLaughs in the Punch-Counterpunch review, where the end-slide cuts off his acknowledgement that he got through the video without mispronuncing it as a [[CountryMatters certain swear.]]
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** [[LampshadeHanging Lampshades]] an avoided one at the end of the [[CountryMatters Punch-Counterpunch]] review.
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** He also points out whenever a toy was clearly designed and made to have it, but ended up having painted eyes anyway, much to his chagrin.
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** Metal music is usually used on the sped-up transformation sequences. [[RuleOfFunny Unless something else is going to be funnier]] or more fitting to the character.
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** Testing a wheeled vehicle mode by rolling it back and forth, while making a "doot-de-doot-de-doot" noise. Often followed by "The [overly specific to the toy's design] doot-de-doo!"
** Thew remarking on a figure or character in a slighty deprecating way, then bluntly sighing "Same."
** With the introduction of the Random Patron Shoutout during the ending credits, Thew always introduces it by half-singing, half-shouting to a short melody. Or sometimes just sings noises that vaguely sound like the phrase.
** [[LampshadeHanging Lampshading]] yet another TakeThat at the Michael Bay movies by singing.
--> "Dunking on the movies, so original!"
** Thew remarking on a figure or character in a slighty deprecating way, then bluntly sighing "Same."
** With the introduction of the Random Patron Shoutout during the ending credits, Thew always introduces it by half-singing, half-shouting to a short melody. Or sometimes just sings noises that vaguely sound like the phrase.
** [[LampshadeHanging Lampshading]] yet another TakeThat at the Michael Bay movies by singing.
--> "Dunking on the movies, so original!"
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* AuthorAppeal: A prominent display of his is a shelving unit dedicated exclusively to various incarnations of Skywarp, nicknamed the Skywarp Shrine.
** A running gag in his TFNation 2017 Q&A is that, whenever asked what he thinks he'd be as a Transformer, the phrase "best mates with Skywarp" keeps popping up.
* BingeMontage: Played with in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFjd5W2uVkA 10 Shots, 10 Bots]] (and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27um29OcTXI its sequel, The Re-Wreckoning]]), where Thew takes on a community challenge of ten improvised toy reviews, with each one preceded by a shot of liquor. The deeper in the bottle he gets, the more smashed and less coherent he becomes.
** A running gag in his TFNation 2017 Q&A is that, whenever asked what he thinks he'd be as a Transformer, the phrase "best mates with Skywarp" keeps popping up.
* BingeMontage: Played with in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFjd5W2uVkA 10 Shots, 10 Bots]] (and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27um29OcTXI its sequel, The Re-Wreckoning]]), where Thew takes on a community challenge of ten improvised toy reviews, with each one preceded by a shot of liquor. The deeper in the bottle he gets, the more smashed and less coherent he becomes.
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** A prominent display of his is a shelving unit dedicated exclusively to various incarnations of Skywarp, nicknamed the Skywarp Shrine.
** A running gag in hisTFNation [=TFNation=] 2017 Q&A is that, whenever asked what he thinks he'd be as a Transformer, the phrase "best mates with Skywarp" keeps popping up.
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** Played with in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFjd5W2uVkA 10 Shots, 10 Bots]] (and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27um29OcTXI its sequel, The Re-Wreckoning]]), where Thew takes on a community challenge of ten improvised toy reviews, with each one preceded by a shot of liquor. The deeper in the bottle he gets, the more smashed and less coherent he becomes.
** A prominent display of his is a shelving unit dedicated exclusively to various incarnations of Skywarp, nicknamed the Skywarp Shrine.
** A running gag in his
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** Played with in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFjd5W2uVkA 10 Shots, 10 Bots]] (and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27um29OcTXI its sequel, The Re-Wreckoning]]), where Thew takes on a community challenge of ten improvised toy reviews, with each one preceded by a shot of liquor. The deeper in the bottle he gets, the more smashed and less coherent he becomes.
** Done again in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JOOoJx59sUU 10 Shots, 10 Botbots]], where the simpler transformations made it a bit easier. He also switched both to a smaller shot glass and a lower proof whiskey, since Threevenge was a bit too rough on him.
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* CrossDressingVoices: Thew does the voice of just about every toy incarnation of Arcee with a scratchy high-pitched voice reminiscent of TeenGirlSquad.
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** Extends to his TFNation [=TFNation=] 2017 Q&A panel, where the description names it [[Series/HaveIGotNewsForYou "Have I Got Thew For You."]]
** '''Sideways Elbow Action''': First mentioned in one of his older videos, due to a lack of lateral arm movement in a relatively modern figure. It became a joke in the comments because of how ridiculous viewers thought it sounded (even as a valid point) and occasionally got brought up again, eventually switching to SesquipedalianLoquaciousness versions, like "lateral ulna activity".
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* SoOkayItsAverage: Heavily invoked in his video on Generations Scoop. Scoop is a fairly obscure character with no real following and a pretty generic design, and the toy didn't have anything overtly wrong with it or anything particularly interesting about it, to the point that [[UnexpectedCharacter the only thing he could really ponder was who the hell was asking for a Generations Scoop.]] Eventually, he simply goes "Generations Scoop! [[TriviallyObvious He looks like that!"]]
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** Heavily invoked in his video on Generations Scoop. Scoop is a fairly obscure character with no real following and a pretty generic design, and the toy didn't have anything overtly wrong with it or anything particularly interesting about it, to the point that [[UnexpectedCharacter the only thing he could really ponder was who the hell was asking for a Generations Scoop.]] Eventually, he simply goes "Generations Scoop! [[TriviallyObvious He looks like that!"]]
** Heavily invoked in his video on Generations Scoop. Scoop is a fairly obscure character with no real following and a pretty generic design, and the toy didn't have anything overtly wrong with it or anything particularly interesting about it, to the point that [[UnexpectedCharacter the only thing he could really ponder was who the hell was asking for a Generations Scoop.]] Eventually, he simply goes "Generations Scoop! [[TriviallyObvious He looks like that!"]]
