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[[folder:Mod spotlights & Yoglabs]]
* AndCallHimGeorge: In one video, Simon shows off his world (which has the [=YoGbox=] compilation mod pack installed) and meets a pink dolphin. He tries to ride it, but it keeps throwing him off. The eventually end up on shore, and Simon coddles the dolphin, which he accidentally beats to death.
** A giant Simon does this to tiny Lewis in the Gulliver mod spotlight, after nearly killing him with one punch.
---> ''As Lewis runs away to hide in a small hole''.\\
'''Simon:''' Come here I want to play with you, '''(Then in a booming voice)''' I will hug you and squeeze you and call you Lewis.
* AwesomeButImpractical:
** The Skyrim mod, to an extent. While the shouts are not terrible, they ultimately aren't as powerful as they were in the original game and it would be quicker in some cases to just slay your enemies with a sword or [[MemeticMutation an arrow to the knee]].
** The scuba mod as well. It's initially practical when you get to understand how it works; however, there is no in game indication as to when you will run out. But wait, won't you just get shown the bubbles and have time to flee to the surface? [[FromBadToWorse No, you won't. Running out of air in your tank causes the player to start suffocating almost immediately.]]
** The explosives mod, given that excessive use will probably render your overworld barren.
** The All Terrain vehicle that used to come as part of the Technic Pack covers a lot of ground, but it will cause you to jump fairly high as soon as you bump into a block that is higher than you. This can lead to a lot of AmusingInjuries, and if you fall in the water you're pretty much dead unless you bail.
** The Cinema Mod ''will'' cause you to crash your computer or lag like hell, despite its epic appearance.
** To an extent, the cars mod. While it does serve well as a mode of transportation and the integration of some Garry's mod style graphics and mechanics is pretty awesome, it will cause you to glitch a bit owing to the way it is programmed, and you're pretty much screwed if you fall down a hole, though admittedly when shown falling into the sea Simon didn't drown even when all of the bubbles had popped.
** An in-universe example with Yoglabs itself. During Part 2 of the Galacticraft mod, Lewis says that Yoglabs wallpaper is retextured gold blocks, meaning the entire facility is ''made of solid gold''. While they more than likely spawned in the gold using creative mode, it would have been a pain to build it in Survival, considering how expensive gold blocks are and how many of them are used.
** The Battle Pigs mod is an interesting idea, but in practice the titular mobs are best for a support role. Attempting to use them for a purely offensive role only works with smaller numbers of zombies; a horde will simply ZergRush the pigs. Similarly, [[ItMakesSenseInContext the Pig God]] ''will'' cause your framerate to eventually lag like hell. Simon actually discourages Lewis from using the last part, explicitly referring to it as impractical.
* BadBoss: Surprisingly, Lewis. It is revealed that the government was trying to reclaim Yoglabs because Lewis blew their entire budget on [[ItMakesSenseInContext BMWs]].
* BookEnds: At the start of the Block Gun Mod video, Simon [[spoiler: clone #27]] digs through the floor and falls to his death. After the events of the video with Simon [[spoiler: clone #28]], Simon [[spoiler: clone #29]] digs through the same floor.
* BoringButPractical:
** This is how Lewis felt about the Backpack Mod, especially in comparison to the previous AwesomeButImpractical Skyrim Mod.
** Depending on what you build, the Ugocraft mod.
** The Clear Water mod makes it a hell of a lot easier to see.
** The trampolines and automated door mods, though of course the former does have potential to be this trope, awesome yet practical or AwesomeButImpractical depending on what you build.
** The more basic weapons for the Block Gun mod fall into this. They're not terribly flashy, but with experience they are useful for crossing uninhabitable terrain and solving puzzles.
** The Battle Pigs mod may not be as useful for direct warfare, but the pigs are good in a support role.
* BuriedAlive: The fate of the [[Series/DoctorWho Weeping Angel]] that managed to worm its way into Simon's house in his mod spotlight of Weeping Angels. Simon's instincts of being a dwarf kicked in and he Diggy Diggy Hole'd a trap that it fell and got trapped in.
* BrickJoke: Odds are if something explodes, Lewis will go back to showcase a later mod in the resulting hole. For example:
** The nuclear explosion he caused in the Uranium mod spotlight wound up becoming his quarry for the Fossils mod (resulting in weird glitches, such as giving him a permanent awkward position that is hilarious [[HilarityEnsues both for the viewer and for Simon]]). He also decided to test out the explosives+ mod in a recreated Mistral city after blowing it up in a helicopter.
** During the technic pack mod spotlights, Lewis left after trying out a nuclear reactor that he felt has a dodgy construction. In the very next video, he goes back to look at his house to find out the reactor had overloaded, obliterating his house and most of the cliffside it sat on.
* CanineCompanion: Simon gets a damn '''army''' of these (around a dozen) when showing off the Biospheres mod.
* CerebusSyndrome: Yoglabs started as an extension of the old mod spotlights but gradually got larger and more out of control, introducing characters and obstacles, before going into full-blown multi-part story arcs (while still testing mods at that). Notably, Lewis somewhat called this in a Reddit AMA while it was still fairly early on, saying Yoglabs was becoming the new SOI.
* CloneDegeneration: The Simon clones have been getting progressively dumber. Number 27 almost immediately starts digging straight down and falls to his death. Number 28 has difficulty using doors at first.
* ADayInTheLimelight: Their [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_TtRpJw2D7g&feature=g-user-u Wizardcraft]] spotlight was done via Fumblemore sending them the video and them commentating on it.
* DragonRider: The dragons mod, of course. You have to tame the dragon first, however, otherwise you can be thrown off without warning and take serious damage.
** The Enderdragon mount in the yoglabs video lets you raise an Enderdragon from the [[BraggingRightsReward otherwise useless Dragon egg,]] giving you a mount to fly with and a very powerful and durable guardian.
* DropTheHammer: Lewis' main weapon in the Aether mod.
* DuelingMovies: Discussed InUniverse. Lewis and Simon discuss how disaster movies like ''Film/{{Volcano}}'' & ''Film/DantesPeak'', and ''Film/Armageddon1998'' & ''Film/DeepImpact'' always come in pairs.
* ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin: Lewis describes the [[StuffBlowingUp Boomstick]] from the Explosives+ mod as this.
* ExplosiveBreeder: The rabbits, which causes a massive problem for Simon when he shows off his Single Player map with Mo' Creatures, and finds two, which he keeps as pets in his house. He then leaves for a few minutes, finds another one, and brings it home, only to find a dozen baby rabits when he returns, ranging from newborn to about 75% grown up. He puts the third adult rabbit in the house while staring in shock at the swarm of adorable critters. This accelerates the rate of birth. When Simon decides to force his way to the door to get them out, he discovers that he can't get through all the rabbits. [[FromBadToWorse Then, a few of the oldest children reach full-grown age, and they start breeding too...]] This got to the point that he just deleted the file, because his world had been infested and that rabbits were pretty much swarming the landscape.
* FlatWhat: This is practically a CatchPhrase of Simon's, especially during Lewis' mod showcases.
* LaserGuidedKarma: Simon starts punching several penguins off an ice cliff in an effort to see if they can fly (they can). Duncan punches him off straight afterwards, [[HypocriticalHumour before going off to punch some to death himself]].
** [[spoiler: Then Duncan falls off the glacier himself.]]
* MathematiciansAnswer: During their showcase of the [[OurFairiesAreDifferent Fairy Mod]], this is Hannah's response when the boys ask her if the pink flowers are the red or yellow ones.
* MermaidProblem: Discussed as part of a tangent as to how OxygenatedUnderwaterBubbles work in the Coral and Scuba Diving mod.
* MundaneMadeAwesome: This is how they felt about gravitational pistons in the "More Pistons Mod" spotlight video. You can make bouncy castles!
* NominalHero:In ''Yoglabs'', Simon and Lewis on their good days.
* RecordNeedleScratch: The opening music suddenly stops in the [[Series/DoctorWho Weeping Angels]] mod spotlight, when Lewis spots an Angel.
* OxygenatedUnderwaterBubbles: Lewis notes how implausible this trope is when it appears in the Coral and Scuba Diving mod.
* PhlebotinumKilledTheDinosaurs: When they showed the Jurrasicraft mod, and Hannah starts killing dinosaurs indiscriminately.
-->'''Simon:''' We got it all wrong! An asteroid didn't kill the dinosaurs! [[PersonOfMassDestruction It was Hannah and her diamond sword!]]
* RunningGag: The busted coffee machine, the few times it's been "fixed", it's either leaked lava, alien parasites, [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking or tasted terrible.]]
** The brokenness is usually of their experiments. Some include dimensional rifts, having milk supplied by blood-soaked cannibalistic cows, and even worse.
* SimpleYetAwesome:
** The Ugocraft mod can be used to make gates, drawbridges, and even more. Quite useful for castles and forts.
** The planes and helicopters mod, when mastered. However, having multiple helicopters allying with you (you have to fire on them once) can cause this trope to be [[ZigZaggedTrope zig zagged]]. There is a lot of firepower, which is good if you need to clear a large area, and it is now multiplayer compatible. However, if you aren't careful your already fragile helicopter will break a lot faster when it bumps into the other ones. The standard firepower of the helicopter is not that strong either, though it is good for setting wood settlements on fire and still works well as a method of transportation.
** Smart Movement Mod, which changes the animations while also making it easier to travel certain terrains.
** The MindControl mod. This essentially gives you the ability to force hostile mobs away, turn them on other mobs, and eventually blow up near the undesirable parts of Minecraft.
** The Remote Control Mod, which essentially allows you to use remote control planes and cars. This essentially gives you a Recon vehicle that you can use to scout an area you want to explore.
** The Horses mod, which allows you to ride in style and traverse terrain at great speed. They're also very handy for battle, though you may want to practice first.
** Better Than Wolves, integrating ropes, grapples, better industrial facilities and even windmills. Great for revolutionising your town. It does, however, involve a fair degree of KickTheDog- wolves are not treated well in this mod.
** Technic pack/Tekkit. Lewis even stated at the begining that he was looking at "Industrial mods that make the game amazing".
** The SDK guns mod.
** The Dragon Mod gives you a badass dragon companion and is also a good method of transport. It's very good for hunting too. Just keep it away from your livestock.
** The Ferullos guns mod also counts, as it gives you a gun with reasonable effectiveness, plus a wide array of other powerful weapons and good armour, though diamond armour is still better.
* SuspiciouslySpecificDenial: In the Zepplin mod video. "That's not Stoneholm or anything."
** Lewis's constant denials that [=YogLabs=] steals any of its stuff from the government, or that the goings-on they sometimes have to contend with are repercussions for doing so.
*** A particular example of this ocurrs in the "Dimensional Doors" mod spotlight, where Lewis takes Simon past a garage placed in a pocket dimension filled with numerous vehicles, including several military, and silently claims Russia didn't provide them to fight the government. "Russia didn't provide these."
* ToiletHumor: The entirety of the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_nQmjRyYMUg Bad Gas]] video.
* {{Troll}}: In "Sunshine of Israpony", Lewis and Simon claimed that the niccolite ore (which looks like diamond from a distance) was trolling them.
* VolcanoLair: Fumblemore builds one in the [[Franchise/MyLittlePony Mine Little Pony]] mod.
* WhamEpisode: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLN0e0de2eU Soul Absorbers]] and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wryJGRLgAVw Clone Lab]]. [[spoiler:Two Yoglab employees betray Lewis and Simon and plan to make death permanent. Simon's master clone is killed and has to be replaced by the current Simon. This lets him keep respawning but at the cost of his own memories, all Simons from now on are clones of the selfless Simon]].
* WhyWontYouDie: Quoted word for word by Simon as Lewis is [[spoiler:fighting the MadeOfIron Valkyrie Queen]] in the Aether mod.
* WillingSuspensionOfDisbelief: [[InUniverse Simon has to do this]] when Lewis says he's been researching [[AppliedPhlebotinum nanomachines that restructure his DNA so he can absorb souls]].
-->'''Simon:''' Okay, I'm going to need to suspend my disbelief, and accept this as something you have been just been working on.
* WondrousLadiesRoom: The one in the [=YogLabs=] facility contains a large L-shaped couch, a fully-stocked bookcase, a fireplace, and a pizza dispenser. And a portal to another dimension in one of the stalls, but that's not supposed to be there. Meanwhile the men's room doesn't even contain a sit-down toilet.
* TheWorldIsJustAwesome: The Coral and Water Shader and the Amazing Water mods do a good job of this; the latter is mostly just a couple of minutes of Lewis and Simon going "wow".
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[[folder:Tekkit and [=YogCraft=]]]

!!!'''The Sipsco Dirt Factory'''
The second Tekkit/[=YogCraft=] series featuring Sips and Sjin following the series based on "Stacy Island". In this series, the two slowly try to build and run a Sipsco dirt factory and other nearby facilities, in between a lot of [[SeinfeldianConversation meandering talking]]. Had a short-lived stint when the Tekkit server updated to [=YogCraft=]; however, because so many mechanics were rendered useless, Sips and Sjin abandoned it, and in September 2013, they rebooted the series and started a new factory from scratch on a private server.
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* ButtMonkey: Nilesy. He gets chased off of Sipsco land in his first appearance in the series, and fails his interview and is crushed to death in his second.
* CrazyPrepared: At some point, the two build a secret base in the event that their compound be raided and destroyed; unfortunately, they show its location in the video, which does sort of give it away.
* ElaborateUndergroundBase: The duo build one at some point with the basic necessities such as a farm, a basic mine and power, as well as the slightly more advanced stuff such as charging their quantum armour.
* RubeGoldbergDevice: Their ludicrously complex factory for making dirt.
* SeinfeldianConversation: Easily 90% of Sips and Sjin's series.
* TeleporterAccident: In episode 91, Sips and Sjin [[spoiler: accidentally turn themselves into {{Beast M|an}}en.]]
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[[folder:Voltz]]
* ApocalypseHow: The bomb that Sips and Sjin set off ended up affecting just Sips and Sjin's base and the mountain behind it (as well as killing themselves and ridgedog several times), but could have wiped out the entire map on the server.
* BoringButPractical: Ridgedog builds an elaborate defense system of missiles, poison spikes, automatic turrets, and a railgun. [[spoiler: Simon kills him [[ImprobableWeaponUser with a bucket of lava.]] ]]
* CheatersNeverProsper:
** While Sips and Sjin get by OK at first by spawning stuff in, they cheat with a red-matter bomb which almost wipes out the server, and in the process of repairing it they lose [[spoiler: nearly]] all their items and die.
** [[spoiler: Ridge's base was filled with a lot more stuff than he had any reasonable excuse to have without having spawned stuff in, after busting open his bunker the main cast begin to loot what they can, and then he winds up losing it all when his failsafe blows his base to hell.]]
* [[spoiler: CliffHanger : the ending of Voltz 23 has Ridgedog sending a missile towards the trio's bunker. The automatic defense seemingly isn't working, and the screen cuts to black as Duncan looks up at the missile falling down on him.]] They didn't even roll with the usual closing theme, instead just having extra ominous music play through the whole moment and then fade to silence.
* [[spoiler: CollapsingLair: Ridge's base at the end of the series.]]
* DeusExMachina: Ridgedog and Duncan go into creative mode to spawn rejuvenation missiles in to revert the landscape; rather justified as nobody wanted a second version of ''Tekkit War'' and they'd only been using it for a few weeks at that point.
* ElaborateUndergroundBase: [[spoiler: Ridge's base turns out to me ''much'' more than a grove of trees.]] Pretty much par for the course in Minecraft.
* EpicFail: Near the end of episode 24, Lewis, Simon, and Duncan try to fire a nuclear missile at Ridge's base. [[spoiler: They ''completely'' miss the base, and wind up blowing up the nearby ocean, because they entered the wrong co-ordinate value.]]
* ForWantOfANail: The Red Matter incident was primarily triggered by the shortage of copper combined with Sips and Sjin wanting to mine in bulk rather by hand. If theybhsd just looked in their inventories, they would have found the copper they needed. Unfortunantly, they FailedASpotCheck and detonated the Red Matter bomb.....
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: The [[spoiler:red matter bomb]] used by Sips and Sjin to find copper in the Voltz special [[spoiler:continually kills Sips and Sjin, making access to their tools before they despawn impossible]].
* IgnoredAesop: Sips and Sjin steadfastly fail to learn anything from the Red Matter incident.
* LaserGuidedKarma:
** After almost dooming the server through the use of their Red Matter bomb, Sips and Sjin end up suffocating to death after a restoring missile fills their base with stone while they are still inside.
** Also, the fact that the only part of their base that got caught in the original Red Matter and Antimatter explosions was "Deliveries". Which was actually their supply of spawned in cheat items.
* NeverMyFault: Sips humorously claims that Sjin was the one who set the bomb off and that he had nothing to do with it.
* NoOSHACompliance: [[HyperCompetentSidekick Ridgedog]] manages to build [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?list=PLtZHIFR5osfCI5DVbdXg_h0Uc93ELKJgc&v=g8ujWBT2UjY&feature=player_detailpage&t=296 a working fusion reactor]] with about a third of the materials usually needed. Just don't stand underneath or next to it while it's running.
-->'''Ridgedog''': It works okay, except for the fire. And the radiation.
* SelfDestructMechanism: [[spoiler: Ridge installed one in his base.]]
* StuffBlowingUp: Frequently. They all seem to be of the opinion that this is the main point of the mod.
* SuspiciouslySpecificDenial
-->'''Sips_''': hey come check out our cool bunker guys
-->'''Sips_''': i promise that there's no crazy wormhole thing under our base continually killing us
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[[folder:Whale Lords]]
A series in which the Yogscast- including Simon, Lewis, Duncan, Sips, and Sjin- must care for a giant sky whale while they wait for their captain to return.

* AloneWithThePsycho: After the Yogs kill a giant for Orwin Butterbee, he leads them into his basement, [[spoiler: which is full of {{Creepy Souvenir}}s to past giants; all signify dead giants with legends like "took care of his sick mother" and "ran a kitten sanctuary". He then tries to kill the Yogs]].
* ARareSentence: Episode 33 gives us "[[ItMakesSenseInContext Don't misgender the whale.]]" For a moment the guys actually seem speechless that they just actually said that.
* ComicallyMissingThePoint: During Episode 33, Lewis is attempting to warn the others that [[spoiler:he's just been given a warning that if they don't build a statue for the Queen, they'll be trapped in the land forever]]. The other three couldn't care less because they're too busy [[ItMakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext building]] a [[InsistentTerminology dangus]] for [[GenderBender the whale]].
* TheFamilyForTheWholeFamily: Sly Tony doesn't do much organized crime. He just gives out advice on proper whale care. He ''may'' drop you in the lava pit, but only if you're being a dick.
* FantasticVoyagePlot: One story arc had the Whale Lords descend into Balti's digestive tract to find the source of his/her illness.
* HellIsThatNoise: The whale screaming in pain in Episode 6.
* HumanoidAbomination: The group attract the attention of a Lord Of Torment while exploring the abandoned dwarf city and barely escape it's rampage. Later on, they bump into the creature in the Whale's gut where it attacks the ship they're on with a small army of [[EldritchAbomination Eldritch Abominations]] before facing them in combat and meeting it's demise.
* KarmicDeath: At the end of Episode 30, Duncan doesn't care that [[spoiler:Orwin is actually a sadistic giant-killer who just manipulated them into finishing off the last giant]] because he's been promised [[CoolSword Excalibur]] in exchange for [[spoiler:Bologs' eye]]. [[spoiler:The second he picks up the sword, his HP rapidly drains and he dies, with the cause of death listed as "punished for using a relic that isn't theirs".]]
* LarynxDissonance: Let's just say that the voice Simon gave Sly Tony probably wasn't the one that the skin designer envisioned.
* MythologyGag: The dwarven log in Episode 15 contains several references to ''Shadow of Israphel'' and ''[=YogLabs=]''.
* RunningGag: Sips perpetually stealing Simon's furniture, to the point that Simon's house is left empty [[spoiler:and eventually dismantled altogether]].
* ScrewThisImOutOfHere: In Episode 3, after having his instructions from the crew perpetually ignored, Simon declares that he's leaving the crew to join the flying monkeys. This doesn't last long.
* TemptingFate: Upon descending to visit Sly Tony, Duncan (who had been absent for the first visit) points out that, given the group's track record, having a jumping puzzle that passes over lava is a terrible idea. Simon scoffs at this and declares that the puzzle is incredibly easy, and no one could possibly fall in. (Note that this is Simon, who [[HypocriticalHumor by his own admission absolutely loathes jumping puzzles]].) Duncan, [[ProperlyParanoid not willing to risk it]], starts building a bridge between the blocks...only to [[WrongGenreSavvy mistake a curve in the path for a straight line and plunge face-first into a lava spring]].
* WhamEpisode: Episode 12, "Sky Cops". [[spoiler:Sips and Simon get arrested for shoplifting from Skykea, only to escape their cells and shoot their way out of the prison, ultimately stealing a flying police car.]]
** Even more so, Episode 15. [[spoiler:The group happens upon an abandoned city of dwarves. A log reveals that the city was attacked by great beasts from the sky, implied to be the sky whales themselves.]] Oh, and there's also hints that [[spoiler:Simon might be a member of ''a lost royal bloodline''.]]
* WhamLine: From the dwarven log in Episode 15:
--> The king is dead, [[spoiler:the royal Honeydew bloodline is ended]].
** The various signs in Orwin's basement [[spoiler:revealing that he slaughtered an entire innocent race of giants]] also collectively qualify.
* WhamShot: At the end of Episode 30, the group descends into Orwin Butterbee's basement to discover that [[spoiler:it's filled with the eyes of dozens of giants, [[VanHelsingHateCrimes many of them completely innocent]], which he has murdered over the years]]. This is quickly followed up by [[spoiler:the sign at the end of the hall, which reveals that Bologs was in fact the LastOfHisKind, [[NiceJobBreakingItHero and they just helped murder him]]]].
* WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue: [[spoiler:For all the bad things they've done throughout the series, all five are arrested and sentenced to 25 years in jail. Lewis is in solitary confinement, Simon is digging an escape tunnel, Duncan is smuggling air balloons to turn his cell into an airship, Skin caused a mass shivving and Sips [[NoodleIncident somehow became warden]] - and isn't letting the rest out.]]

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