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1* ActingForTwo: In the "Video Game Board Games" episode, between Board James and WebVideo/TheAngryVideoGameNerd. [[spoiler:This also applies in-universe.]]
2* TheCastShowoff: It's a pretty safe bet that the entire reason for Bad Luck Bootsy's existence is to give Bootsy Spankins, P.I. the opportunity to write folk songs about board games.
3* TheDanza: James Rolfe as Board James, Mike Matei as Motherfucker Mike and Bootsy Spankins as Bad Luck Bootsy.
4* HeyItsThatPlace: Some of the episodes take place in [[WebVideo/TheAngryVideoGameNerd the Nerd's room]].
5* IronyAsSheIsCast: Unlike Bad Luck Bootsy, Brendan Castner is actually a very skilled gamer.
6* PropRecycling: The caps that would later become Board James' trait can be seen in the Nerd's closet (the one in which he keeps the Atari he gives away to the kids) in the AVGN's Halloween episode of 2007. [[spoiler: This foreshadows the revelation of Board James as the SplitPersonality OF the Nerd nearly a decade later when.]]
7* SeriesHiatus: With the third season dubbed the "finale" of ''Board James'', the series won't be seeing any new episodes for the foreseeable future.
8* ShrugOfGod: In the explanation linked below, James offers two different possible explanations for one of the plot points. He also refers to the period between the Dream Phone episode and BJ's AVGN cameo as "a foggy period best left unsaid."
9* TechnologyMarchesOn: In the "13 Dead End Drive" episode, James traps Mike and Bootsy in his basement by sealing off all escape routes with prison bars, and notes how the telephone probably wouldn't work since they were in a storm. Mike and Bootsy are unfazed by this and casually pull out their cellphones, which James then has to break.
10-->'''''[[EvilLuddite "FUCK TECHNOLOGY!"]]'''''
11* WordOfGod: According to James, the "Dream Phone" episode was not intended to be the GrandFinale for the show. He announced plans on working on a new season to keep the show going, but the ''AVGN Movie'' caused a severe ScheduleSlip. Fortunately, he was able to reactivate the series in 2015. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qE6Gmy2t-Es James himself explains the NIGHTMARE episode here]].

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