History YMMV / ThePoparena

** #094 Nickelodeon Studios: A Complete History spends the first 18 minutes explaining the founding of both [[Creator/{{Universal Universal Pictures]] and how the Ride/UniversalStudios attraction evolved since its creation in 1915. Considering the videos length (roughly an hour and 46 minutes) it is justified to give the entire picture of the rise and fall of Nickelodeon Studios and how history repeats itself on that having a functional studio lot combined with a tourist attraction would lead to its downfall.

* BetterThanCanon: At the end of most of his ''Literature/{{Goosebumps}}'' reviews, he gives suggestions on how he would re-write the book if given the chance. A lot of the people agree that they tend to be improvements on the story.

* ValuesDissonance: Anytime there's an overtly racist thing that appears in an older work, Greg tends to cry out, "Oh, no! The past was a mistake!" A prime example is showing ''ComicBook/TheBeano'''s old BlackFace Little Peanut character at the top of the comic's header in the ''ComicStrip/{{Bananaman}}'' episode.

* FunnyAneurysmMoment: Greg chooses to show a clip from a sketch on ''Series/NotNecessarilyTheNews'' featuring Jay North as rage-filled and AxCrazy about being typecast as his role on ''Series/DennisTheMenace''. It is very hard to watch in light of the earlier revelations in the episode of the abuse North suffered from while filming that series and subsequent dark thoughts he had as a result.

* NotBad: Despite not liking the Goosebumps books, Greg was always quick to label which ones were actually good. The ones he seemed to enjoy were Welcome to Dead House, Stay Out of the Basement, Let's Get Invisible, Welcome to Camp Nightmare, The Haunted Mask, Piano Lessons Can Be Murder, Deep Trouble, Phantom of the Auditorium, A Night in Terror Tower, It Came from Beneath the Sink, The Horror at Camp Jellyjam, How I Got My Shrunken Head, Ghost Camp, Calling All Creeps, The Curse of Camp Cold Lake, The Haunted School, Werewolf Skin and I Live in Your Basement.

* NotBad: Despite not liking the Goosebumps books, Greg was always quick to label which ones were actually good. The ones he seemed to enjoy were Welcome to Dead House, Stay Out of the Basement, Welcome to Camp Nightmare, The Haunted Mask, Piano Lessons Can Be Murder, Deep Trouble, Phantom of the Auditorium, A Night in Terror Tower, The Horror at Camp Jellyjam, How I Got My Shrunken Head, Ghost Camp, Calling All Creeps, The Curse of Camp Cold Lake, The Haunted School, Werewolf Skin and I Live in Your Basement.

* NotBad: Despite not liking the Goosebumps books, Greg was always quick to label which ones were actually good. The ones he seemed to enjoy were Welcome to Dead House, Stay Out of the Basement, Welcome to Camp Nightmare, The Haunted Mask, Piano Lessons Can Be Murder, Deep Trouble, Phantom of the Auditorium, A Night in Terror Tower, The Horror at Camp Jellyjam, How I Got My Shrunken Head, Ghost Camp, Calling All Creeps, The Curse of Camp Cold Lake, The haunted School, Werewolf Skin and I Live in Your Basement.

* HarsherInHindsight: Lampshaded in his review of ''Lancelot Link: Secret Chimp'', which featured an episode where a pair of YellowPeril villains release a flu bug as part of their evil scheme, which becomes akward after the Corona virus, specifically a) the fact it first cropped up in China, and b) accusations and conspiracy theories from hate groups claiming the virus was intentionally released.

** The opening of his review of ''Megamorphs #4: The Andalite's Gift'' did this as an homage to the book's jarring opening in an AlternateUniverse in which the Animorphs are militaristic, racist slaveowners. An alternate version of Greg uses racist and homophobic slurs and speaks approvingly of the government's execution of alternate versions of Creator/KAApplegate and Creator/MichaelGrant for allegedly supporting socialism. He complains that the narration of the ''Animorphs'' books contains only personal thoughts not devoted to the Empire and casually talks about vacationing in Brazil following a genocide. This goes on for three minutes before a portal is shown returning Greg to his normal self and he explains what he is doing. Seeing Greg adopt this over-the-top hateful persona is comedy gold.

* CrossesTheLineTwice: Attempted. It's no secret Greg considers Cassie to be the weakest link on the Animorphs team, which is fine, but his FreudianSlip during his Alternamorphs review, when Cassie was killed and he had to stop himself from cheering out loud, was a bit too much even though it was being PlayedForLaughs.

** One of the main reasons Greg offers re-writes for the ''Goosebumps'' books is that he feels they often have good ideas that are not executed to their fullest.

** This is especially notable in his Goosebumps Monthly on ''Literature/SayCheeseAndDieAgain'' where he flat-out '''REFUSES''' to keep going, his disgust being very real with how far the book goes into essentially body the main character and others as much as possible as a form of horror. This is also the shortest of the Goosebumps Monthlies by far, barely cracking 12 minutes.

** This is especially notable in his Goosebumps Monthly on ''Literature/SayCheeseAndDieAgain'' where he flat-out '''REFUSES''' to keep going, his disgust being very real with how far the book goes into essentially fat shaming the main character and others as much as possible. This is also the shortest of the Goosebumps Monthlies by far, barely cracking 12 minutes.

** This is especially notable in his Goosebumps Monthly on ''Literature/SayCheeseAndDieAgain'' where he flat-out '''REFUSES''' to keep going, his disgust being very real with how far the book goes into essentially fat shaming the main character and others as much as possible. This makes it his shortest of the Goosebumps Monthlies by far, barely cracking 12 minutes.

* ValuesDissonance: Anytime there's an overtly racist thing that appears in an older work, Greg tends to cry out, "Oh, no! The past was a mistake!" A prime example is showing ''ComicBook/TheBeano'''s old BlackFace Little Peanut character at the top of the comic's header in the ''ComicStrip/{{Bananaman}}'' episode.

** #033 Series/{{Lassie}} heavily focuses on the history of the franchise as a whole going back to the original novel and even examples predating it, with the actual history of the series not coming until about 22 minutes in with it periodically going over each individual era of the show wether it related to Nickelodeon's broadcast or not. This is justified as to explain that Lassie was one of the big franchises to help carry Nickelodeon and how it was aired and distributed around the network throughout its 12 years.

* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot: One of the main reasons Greg offers re-writes for the ''Goosebumps'' books is that he feels they often have good ideas that are not executed to their fullest.

** #001 QUBE focuses mainly on the cable package that Warner-Amex bundled Nickelodeon's predecessor with.
** #047 Creator/NickAtNite spends almost 14 minutes exploring the origins of TV and Baby Boomers; Greg lampshaded the latter's length by showing a card reading, "And now, the Nickelodeon stuff" afterwards.

** Greg is not very forgiving of the various ethnic stereotypes in ''WesternAnimation/DangerMouse'', and is one of the reasons he considers the recent reboot to be a better show.

* RetroactiveRecognition: In #075, Greg makes the case that ''WesternAnimation/CountDuckula'' is for all intents and purposes the first of the Franchise/{{Nicktoons}}, as it fits most of the definition of shows of the brand (it was commissioned, co-produced and premiered on Nickelodeon), and that it's only not considered such because of legal and branding semantics and Geraldine Laybourne's personal dislike of the show.

** #073 WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes's history on Nickelodeon suffers from this only because the history of ''Looney Tunes'''s television distribution history is composed of a complicated series of sales and rights issues that leads into how and why it eventually it aired on Nickelodeon when it did. The channel doesn't come into the picture until around the 30:00 minute mark, though it is justified as to explain why the cartoons offered on Nickelodeon changed periodically while the shorts also aired at the same time on Creator/CartoonNetwork, Creator/{{TNT}}, and network syndication for a while.

* SlowPacedBeginning: Nick Knacks can fall guilty of this if the viewer ever thinks that Greg spends too much time setting up the subject's historical context. Among others, #001 QUBE focuses mainly on the cable package that Warner-Amex bundled Nickelodeon's predecessor with, and #047 Creator/NickAtNite spends almost 14 minutes exploring the origins of TV and Baby Boomers; Greg lampshaded the latter's length by showing a card reading, "And now, the Nickelodeon stuff" afterwards.