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*** This troper was nearly [[TearJerker in tears]] reading the EncyclopediaDramatica article on him. Yes, AccentuateTheNegative is the whole point of that website, but I was shocked just how much abuse they gave him, some of it downright evil, even likening him to [[MoralEventHorizon Chris-Chan and Tim Buckley]].
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** Spoony himself becomes a pretty huge woobie for the duration of his Atari 2600 E.T. review. Not only is he playing [[SoBadItsHorrible one of the worst games ever made]], but he's doped up on painkillers and spitting blood while doing it. (The video was made shortly after multiple surgeries to remove his wisdom teeth.)

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** Spoony himself becomes a pretty huge woobie for the duration of his Atari 2600 E.T. review. Not only is he playing [[SoBadItsHorrible one of the worst games ever made]], made, but he's doped up on painkillers and spitting blood while doing it. (The video was made shortly after multiple surgeries to remove his wisdom teeth.)
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* SoBadItsHorrible: Mostly everything he's reviewed that ''isn't'' SoBadItsGood, mostly FMV games (''Pumpkinhead'' being the game that managed to finally break him).
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* ContinuityPorn: The new animated version of the show's opening contains a hurricane of references to almost everything Spoony has ever reviewed.
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* {{Adorkable}}: Spoony himself, to a large number of fans.
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* HarsherInHindsight: Learning about his heart-condition and that he has been forced to quit drinking caffeine because it, as Spoony so elequent put it, "Can make his heart explode". It makes it rather cringe-worthy when you go into a archive-binge and realize just how often he drinks from a can of soda during his reviews.

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* HarsherInHindsight: Learning about his heart-condition and that he has been forced to quit drinking caffeine because it, as Spoony so elequent eloquently put it, "Can make his heart explode". It makes it rather cringe-worthy when you go into a archive-binge and realize just how often he drinks from a can of soda during his reviews.
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* AlternateCharacterInterpretation: He thinks [[{{Twilight}} Bella Swan]] is a needy, manipulative sociopath.
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* UncannyValley: Spoony has expressed distaste for films that rely too heavily on CG characters and effects. In his review of [[{{Film/AVATAR}} AVATAR]], he compared the film to Jackie Chan's movies, stating that watching Jackie Chan and other real actors do the stunts and fight scenes gives weight to the performance that he's never felt watching computer-generated characters like the Na'vi.
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** And it gets worse: he and his girlfriend broke up after more than two years, leaving him in "a very dark place" and unsure of when he'll be able to muster up the will to make any more videos. Plus, he refuses to give details, as he doesn't want his unavoidably biased account to get her a {{Hatedom}} from his more [[FanDumb zealous]] fans.
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** He's also a bit of a closeted {{Otaku}}, as he's gotten pissed over people calling [[{{Hellsing}} Alucard]] [[SpellMyNameWithAnS Arucard]] and even [[http://twitter.com/TheSpoonyOne/status/5238440236941312 thinks]] he looks like [[{{Monster}} Dr. Tenma]].

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** He's also a bit of a closeted {{Otaku}}, as he's gotten pissed over people calling [[{{Hellsing}} Alucard]] [[SpellMyNameWithAnS Arucard]] and even [[http://twitter.com/TheSpoonyOne/status/5238440236941312 thinks]] he looks like [[{{Monster}} [[{{Anime/Monster}} Dr. Tenma]].
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* [[Ptitlew9bltta3dv6n So Bad It's Horrible]]: Mostly everything he's reviewed that ''isn't'' SoBadItsGood, mostly FMV games (''Pumpkinhead'' being the game that managed to finally break him).

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* [[{{Ptitlew9bltta3dv6n}} So Bad It's Horrible]]: Mostly everything he's reviewed that ''isn't'' SoBadItsGood, mostly FMV games (''Pumpkinhead'' being the game that managed to finally break him).

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* [[{{Horrible}} So Bad It's Horrible]]: Mostly everything he's reviewed that ''isn't'' SoBadItsGood, mostly FMV games (''Pumpkinhead'' being the game that managed to finally break him).

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* [[{{Horrible}} [[{Ptitlew9bltta3dv6n}} So Bad It's Horrible]]: Mostly everything he's reviewed that ''isn't'' SoBadItsGood, mostly FMV games (''Pumpkinhead'' being the game that managed to finally break him).
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* SoBadItsHorrible: Mostly everything he's reviewed that ''isn't'' SoBadItsGood, mostly FMV games (''Pumpkinhead'' being the game that managed to finally break him).

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* SoBadItsHorrible: Mostly everything he's reviewed that ''isn't'' SoBadItsGood, mostly FMV games (''Pumpkinhead'' being the game that managed to finally break him).
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* His FinalFantasyX review, he says that other than the boss fight with the Spherimorph. He says it's only point is to throw in a random boss fight. It actually also opens up a side quest. Collecting the recording spheres gives Auron new Overdrives. Auron gains the Shooting Star Overdrive after the fight.

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* ** His FinalFantasyX review, he says that other than the boss fight with the Spherimorph. He says it's only point is to throw in a random boss fight. It actually also opens up a side quest. Collecting the recording spheres gives Auron new Overdrives. Auron gains the Shooting Star Overdrive after the fight.
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* His FinalFantasyX review, he says that other than the boss fight with the Spherimorph. He says it's only point is to throw in a random boss fight. It actually also opens up a side quest. Collecting the recording spheres gives Auron new Overdrives. Auron gains the Shooting Star Overdrive after the fight.
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** Some fans were apparently unhappy with the jokes he cracked about [[TheIncredibleHulk Lou Ferrigno]]'s character in ''Cage'', a brain-damaged Vietnam vet who gets tricked into an [[FightClubbing underground cagefight]]; Spoony remarked that if anything, he was '''complaining''' about the idea.


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* EveryoneIsSatanInHell: Spends a good chunk of the ''Mazes and Monsters'' review decrying this, eventually leading to this question:
-->''"How joyless and paranoid is your life if you're afraid of children and adults armed with funny-shaped dice who still play with dolls?"


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* MostAnnoyingSound: "You're in my way sir."
** Tidus in general, Tidus' forced laugh more specifically.
* MoralEventHorizon: Despite numerous attempts at killing Linkara, Murdering Spoony and plotting to take over the world, for many viewers Doctor Insano only passed this after writing the Secret of Nimh 2.
** On a more serious note, he is officially disgusted with TNA after bringing children into an angle involving their divorced parents.


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* [[SoBadItsGood So Bad It's]] CrazyAwesome:
** His review of "YorTheHunterFromTheFuture" sums the movie up as this.
** He later clarifies this in his "Robowar" review as "Things don't have to be ''good'' to be ''awesome!''"
* StrangledByTheRedString: During his ''Eclipse'' v-log, he almost seems to be going insane trying to figure out why Bella and Edward are in love.
-->'''Spoony''': Give me one thing that they... mutually like. Give me one thing they do together. Okay, I'll make it simpler: give me one thing that Bella Swan likes ''at all''.
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*** That, and the fact that he was trying to appeal to [[UnpleasableFanbase Spoony's Fanbase]], which, as everyone knows, just about brands a large target on your forehead that will repeatedly draw the attention of some [[{{Troll}} Persons of rather aggressive opinions]].
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** Spoony's fanbase in general contains a ''lot'' more FanDumb than the fanbase of other {{TGWTG}} contributors. He is one of the few people to ever edit his own message boards, and he has good reason. Different aspects of the fanbase are [[UnpleasableFanbase highly volatile]] and [[HairTriggerTemper will erupt at the smallest provocation]], and unfortunately a large portion are volatile [[BrokenBase on different sides of the same argument.]] Hell, they will even blow up over [[TooDumbToLive whether they think they are too aggressive in their opinions or not]]. There is a very good reason why there is very little direct links to other members of TGWTG or any other associated websites, and that is because of the large number of trolls (or users with [[RedundantDepartmentOfRedundancy troll-like behaviour]]) who have spilled across and picked fights with anyone they didn't like. God help you if you've come across from thatguywiththeglasses.com and accidentally stumble across the forum on thespoonyexperiment.
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** Spoony himself certainly feels entitled when it comes to franchises he likes. He kept shouting "BETRAYAAAAAAL" in his preview video of Xcom, for the horrible crime of being an FPS of a Turn-based franchise... As if 2k were somehow accountable to him.
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Except people who have never played the game.


* ComplainingAboutShowsYouDontWatch: {{Lampshaded}} in that he's never actually played ''FinalFantasyIX'', beyond maybe two hours, but avoided it ''solely'' because he hated the art style, and hadn't been paying any attention to the first two hours, since he wrote Zidane off as an "androgynous-whiny-pansy-ass character". He also admitted that "it was likely that [he] was being fiercely unfair" to ''FinalFantasyIX'' on judging it by its art style, especially when the game was specifically targeted at fans of the NES and SuperNintendo-era FinalFantasy games like him, but he just couldn't get over it. Most would agree he's right--if nothing else, "whiny-pansy-ass" is a term that few would use for the likes of [[ChivalrousPervert Zidane]] [[LovableRogue Tribal]].

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* ComplainingAboutShowsYouDontWatch: {{Lampshaded}} in that he's never actually played ''FinalFantasyIX'', beyond maybe two hours, but avoided it ''solely'' because he hated the art style, and hadn't been paying any attention to the first two hours, since he wrote Zidane off as an "androgynous-whiny-pansy-ass character". He also admitted that "it was likely that [he] was being fiercely unfair" to ''FinalFantasyIX'' on judging it by its art style, especially when the game was specifically targeted at fans of the NES and SuperNintendo-era FinalFantasy games like him, but he just couldn't get over it. Most would agree he's right--if nothing else, "whiny-pansy-ass" is a term that few would use for the likes of [[ChivalrousPervert Zidane]] [[LovableRogue Tribal]].
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* ComplainingAboutShowsYouDontWatch: {{Lampshaded}} in that he's never actually played ''FinalFantasyIX'', beyond maybe two hours, but avoided it ''solely'' because he hated the art style, and hadn't been paying any attention to the first two hours, since he wrote Zidane off as an "androgynous-whiny-pansy-ass character". He also admitted that "it was likely that [he] was being fiercely unfair" to ''FinalFantasyIX'' on judging it by its art style, especially when the game was specifically targeted at fans of the NES and SuperNintendo-era FinalFantasy games like him, but he just couldn't get over it. Most would agree he's right--if nothing else, "whiny-pansy-ass" is a term that few would use for the likes of [[ChivalrousPervert Zidane]] [[LovableRogue Tribal]].
** He elaborated in his Q&A at [=MAGfest=], and admitted his reasons for avoiding it were entirely childish, and he really can't stand the art style so much that he simply can't make himself keep playing.

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* ThatOneLevel: His playthrough of SWAT 4 has level 11 titled "I Die A Lot". That he does, and even lets you guess in the video how many times he does in fact die. [[spoiler:59]]. The final level he beats right out of the box.




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* ViewerGenderConfusion: Kiros of ''FinalFantasyVIII''.
* TheWoobie:
** Insano stumbled into this territory at the end of the Street Fighter 2010 review. "NOBODY LOVES ME!"
** Spoony himself becomes a pretty huge woobie for the duration of his Atari 2600 E.T. review. Not only is he playing [[SoBadItsHorrible one of the worst games ever made]], but he's doped up on painkillers and spitting blood while doing it. (The video was made shortly after multiple surgeries to remove his wisdom teeth.)
** When in his [[http://wrestlewrestle.com/tna-bound-for-glory/ TNA-Bound for Glory V-Log]] he reveals he has a heart condition, I'm sure there were at least a few tropers who wanted to give him a hug.
*** If you didn't want to hug him then you might to after watching the beginning of the D&D Essentials vlog.
*** [[http://spoonyexperiment.com/2010/11/06/vlog-11-6-10-health-update-more-dd-unboxing/ There's more.]] By the end of the first part, you ''will'' be feeling bad for him. (And yet, there still are people who complain that [[WhatAnIdiot he's not working]] [[FacePalm fast enough]].)
* WallBanger[=/=]WhatAnIdiot[=/=][=~Why Don't Ya Just Shoot Him~=]:
** Spoony repeatedly complains about his teammates' ArtificialStupidity in Swat IV.
** One of his major gripes with the ''FinalFantasyVIII'' plot, where Squall repeatedly hands over the girl to random people who ask nicely and then immediately sets off on a quest to get her back.
** Does it ''literally'' on several occasions, but none with as much anger as the ones in his FinalFantasyX review.
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** He describes Bella from the ''{{Twilight}}'' series as [[AlternativeCharacterInterpretation the most evil character in fiction]], manipulating and emotionally torturing people entirely for her own amusement. To quote him:
-->'''Spoony:''': "I'm trying to think of a more flat out evil character... and I can't."


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* CriticalResearchFailure:
** Spoony normally does his homework with reviews, but his review of ''{{Dragonlance}}: Heroes of the Lance'' is utterly rife with errors, incorrect assumptions, and inaccuracies about the game itself that anyone who's played through the game can pick out.
*** The method of review, though rough (it is an early episode) [[YourMileageMayVary appears to be]] a recount of his experience with the game from his youth, as opposed to an actual in-depth review of the game.
** A minor example from when he discussing ''TheLastAirbender'' in one of his ''{{Twilight}}'' Vlogs. ''[[AvatarTheLastAirbender Avatar: The Last Airbender]]'' is not an anime.
-->"And believe me I got three THOUSAND emails correcting me on that point, so thank you, Internet."
*** [[TheyJustDidntCare He just didn't care.]]
** This was the main reason Sean Fausz gained fans' hatred for his appearances on Wrestle Wrestle.


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* CrowningMusicOfAwesome: His opening theme(s). [[YourMileageMayVary Your mileage may vary]] on which one is better, though.
** Spoony's vocal cover of ''A Whole New World'' even manages to make Dr. Insano just turn around and walk right out of the room.
** Syncing the first Anima summon to one of the many epic music bits from Kickassia in part 2 of his Final Fantasy X review.
** [[http://pandamonium.blip.tv/file/4074021/ Long Live the Spoony One.]]
** [[http://spoonyexperiment.com/2010/09/21/tse-riff-theater-wendys-training-videos/ Wendy's Training Videos]] - [[BetterThanItSounds no really.]]


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** Hot Drinks from the Wendy's Training Videos riff. Even Spoony admits that it's probably the catchiest song he's heard in a while.
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** Spoony himself certainly feels entitled when it comes to franchises he likes. He kept shouting "BETRAYAAAAAAL" in his preview video of Xcom, for the horrible crime of being an FPS of a Turn-based franchise... As if 2k were somehow accountable to him.

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