Line #23 YMMV/SchaffrillasProductions


1	* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic:
2	** In "Revenge of the Senate: Episode 3", "Rubberband Man" (then-recently used for the entrance scene for the Guardians of the Galaxy in ''Film/AvengersInfinityWar'') is used during ''Film/RevengeOfTheSith'''s opening shot of a sun. It blends very well with the action going on.
3	** His rendition of "[[Theatre/{{Hadestown}} If It's True]]" at the end of "Why ''WesternAnimation/ShrekForeverAfter'' is an Underrated Gem".
4	** From the 1-hour Tamatoa analysis, his [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ugCaVhuiGx8 I need it Shiny]] parody of Holding out for a Hero used in the climax.
5	** "Revenge of the Senate: Episode 4" one-ups the previous installment's opening by having Wig Wam's "Do You Wanna Taste It" play over each main character's introduction.
6	* BizarroEpisode: His 2024 April Fools video, The Tony Soprano Iceberg [[note]](WARNING: loud noise, scary!) o_O[[/note]] is one, even compared to his other April Fools videos. It starts out as a parody of iceberg videos, specifically riffing on Schaff's running Tony Soprano gag in the Mario Kart rankings, but as time goes on the facts get more and more disturbing. By the end, Schaff is claiming that Tony Soprano was meant to be in the [[Literature/TheBible Book of Revelations]], is the avatar of death set to bring about the end of humanity[[note]]November 15th, 2037[[/note]], and that he himself has been cursed by God to relay this forbidden information to the audience. The video ends with Schaff confirming everything in the video was made up -- except [[RealAfterAll Tony Soprano really is the avatar of death]].
7	* CommonKnowledge: Because his mascot is [[WesternAnimation/{{Moana}} Tamatoa]] and his most popular reviews tend to cover animated works, James is often seen as an animation reviewer akin to ''WebVideo/TheMysteriousMrEnter'' and ''WebVideo/{{Saberspark}}''. However, this isn't the case, as his channel covers a wide variety of content beyond animated works, such as live-action works, video games, and musicals, amongst other things.
8	* HarsherInHindsight:
9	** In his "Why ''Ralph Breaks the Internet'' is a Cinematic Disaster" video, when describing how the film killed his enthusiasm for Disney animated films being good, he says "The future of animation is in the hands of Netflix", among others. Netflix Animation would later come under fire for prematurely canceling several shows and laying off many employees.
10	** In the same video, when describing how a lot of Disney's creative works were suffering in quality in recent years, one bright spot he points out is that the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse was still doing pretty good. A few years later, both his and many other fans' opinions on the franchise soured due to poorly received content.
11	** At the end of his Illumination ranking, James briefly makes a joke about ''The Super Mario Bros. Movie'' being "the end", before clarifying that he's not dying. Kind of bad timing for the joke, considering that merely 2 months later, he'd get into a severe car crash that nearly killed him on top of killing his best friend and his brother.
12	* HePannedItNowHeSucks: Let's just say there's a good reason it [[HePannedItNowHeSucks/SchaffrillasProductions has its own page.]]
13	* HilariousInHindsight:
14	** The gag in "Sharp Talk" where Angie gives Oscar [[WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse a pink Pearl]] becomes this thanks to the later revelation that [[spoiler:Pink Diamond's Pearl is actually '''our''' Pearl. A twist Schaff himself would go on to criticize.]]
15	** During his "Disney Twist Villains" video, due to his limited knowledge from the ''WesternAnimation/RalphBreaksTheInternet'' trailer, he predicts that Yesss will be the villain. Not only does Yesss turn out to be one of the more ''supportive'' characters in the movie, but there's not a twist villain in the movie at all [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jBxYZqLLmM4&t=198s (much to Schaf's delight)]]. The closest the movie has to a proper antagonist is [[spoiler:a virus that ends up copying Ralph's insecurities and becoming a literal army of Ralphs]].
16	** In his ''Film/CaptainMarvel2019'' review, having grown tired of the ArcFatigue of the Infinity Stones, he hopes that they get annihilated in ''Film/AvengersEndgame''. [[spoiler:Sure enough, the stones are destroyed in ''Endgame'', and are later shown to be SoLastSeason by the first episode of ''[[Series/Loki2021 Loki]]'']].
17	** In his "Every VideoGame/MarioKartWii Course Ranked" video, Schaff claims that DS Yoshi Falls is so unremarkable that Nintendo hasn't made a Yoshi-themed track since. Fast forward to February 2023, and a WebVideo/NintendoDirect reveals a new ''VideoGame/YoshisIsland''-themed track is planned to be released as part of the ''VideoGame/MarioKart8 Deluxe'' Booster Course Pass.
18	*** In the same video, he mentions that Moonview Highway is very unlikely to make it into the Booster Course Pass due to the abundance of city tracks already included. Then comes the announcement of Wave 5 in July 2023 and the reveal of Moonview Highway being included in the wave.
19	*** Another Booster Course Pass-related thing that is related to the same video is the statement that "there's no way [Wii Rainbow Road] isn't the very last track in the Booster Course Pass" during the segment on ''Mario Kart Wii'''s [[AstralFinale Rainbow Road]]. The full reveal of Wave 6 during early November 2023 showed that, yes, James was right — Wii Rainbow Road happens to be the fourth and final course of the Spiny Cup and thus the final course of the entire Booster Course Pass.
20	** In his "Every VideoGame/MarioKart Character Ranked" video, he had Funky Kong as his #1 and Peachette at the very bottom. Wave 6 brings both of them back, meaning both his favorite character ''and'' his least favorite were added to the game in the same pack.
21	** In his video about the announcement of the upcoming 2025 live action remake of WesternAnimation/{{Moana}}, he says that if the Moana fandom took a vote on what they would want as a continuation of the Moana franchise, they'd rather want Moana 2 instead of a live-action remake, with Schaff additionally stating that a sequel would be a better idea than a live-action remake. Come February 2024, a teaser trailer for Moana 2 would be released.
22	** After all the effort he went through to find out if various Pokémon could eat pizza in ''VideoGame/PokemonCafeMix'' for his video determining which playable characters in ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBrosUltimate'' have canonically eaten pizza, not long after, ''The Indigo Disk'' DLC Expansion in ''VideoGame/PokemonScarletAndViolet'' would be released, and allow any Pokémon in that game to eat a pizza. And because the list of available Pokémon happened to include every playable Pokémon in ''Smash Ultimate'', this effectively meant his [[AllForNothing efforts were wasted]].
23	** His comedic plea in his Pixar Ranking video for Pixar to not make anymore Toy Story movies in the end of his entry about Toy Story 4, considering a Toy Story 5 would later be announced to be in the making.
24	* IKnewIt: Many people were expecting for his Illumination ranking to start from the best movies to the worst movies instead of the usual opposite due to how [[ForegoneConclusion obvious]] it would be what the [[WesternAnimation/DespicableMe1 best movie]] is.
25	* MemeticMutation:
26	** Why X is a Cinematic Disaster/Subversive Masterpiece[[labelnote:Explanation]]Whenever fans of Schaffrillas talk about a work, especially an animated movie, that is either widely disliked or unexpectedly beloved, someone will often refer to it in style of a Schaffrillas video title, most commonly calling it either "a Cinematic Disaster" like the many videos he has already made with that title, or "a Subversive Masterpiece" like the title of his video about ''WesternAnimation/{{Megamind}}''.[[/labelnote]]
27	** "We're going back in time to the first Thanksgiving to get turkeys off the menu"[[labelnote:Explanation]]A RunningGag in his video about ''WesternAnimation/FreeBirds''. He'd say the line in full any chance he gets to refer to the film. The video and gag ended up providing the movie with more exposure along with plenty of memes related to the line.[[/labelnote]]
28	** "That was his mistake!"[[labelnote:Explanation]]A line from ''WesternAnimation/BigHero6'' spoken by Professor Callaghan when [[spoiler:Hiro calls him out on letting Tadashi pull a SenselessSacrifice]]. The line is turned into a RunningGag in Schaffrillas' "Why Disney's Twist Villains Don't Work" video and called back to in later videos, and many of his viewers meme about it as well, to the point that it's now one of the movie's most famous lines.[[/labelnote]]
29	** "You tell Arthur Read that he'll never eat lunch in this town again."[[labelnote:Explanation]]A RunningGag from his YTP days of using a clip from Creator/MattDamon's guest appearance on ''WesternAnimation/{{Arthur}}''.[[/labelnote]]
30	** "Holy shit X that's a helicopter!"[[labelnote:Explanation]]From the "Every Disney Direct-to-DVD Sequel Ranked" video where an in-joke meme shared between James and his editor.[[/labelnote]]
31	** If Schaffrillas Productions Ranked [blank].[[labelnote:Explanation]]Some people have began making videos ostensibly "predicting" future Schaffrillas ranking videos by recreating the transition slides used in his ranking videos (but with a picture of the subject added for clarity). The ''actual'' point of this is to replicate the FiveSecondForeshadowing jokes used in the slides (comparable to "[blank] portrayed by WesternAnimation/{{SpongeBob\|SquarePants}}" or "[blank] described by Creator/MichaelRosen" videos, but with varied audio clips).[[/labelnote]]
32	** SHOOT THEM WITH THE DEHYDRATION GUN![[labelnote:Explanation]] Courtesy of his critical review of ''WesternAnimation/MegamindVsTheDoomSyndicate'', Schaffrillas' anger at Megamind not [[WhyDontYouJustShootHim just shooting the Doom Syndicate]] with [[ForgotAboutHisPowers the Dehydration Gun]] has been making the rounds on Twitter, becoming comparable to [[Memes/SpongeBobSquarePants the "Squidward's House"]] or [[Memes/TheNostalgiaCritic the "Bat Credit Card"]] rant, with many people turning it into a copypasta towards other incidents of WhyDontYouJustShootHim or ForgotAboutHisPowers. [[/labelnote]]
33	* NightmareFuel: "YTP: Revenge of the Senate: Episode 4" makes the [[Recap/AmphibiaS3E13OliviaAndYunan "Marcy forcibly gets the Core's consciousness transferred into her"]] scene even more horrifying. Ahsoka is the one who suffers this fate, and instead of the Core, it's actually a combination of every preserved Sith in history. It's just jarring to watch a mask similar to Darth Vader's being lowered onto Ahsoka's face and hear her resulting screams, [[FaceHeelTurn as she unwillingly becomes the very evil she fought against]].
34	* OlderThanTheyThink: In his "Every Disney Direct-to-DVD Sequel Ranked," James, his editor, and his fans came up with the meme/in-joke where a random helicopter shows in any shot of direct-to-video Disney sequel. [[{{Irony}} Little did they know]] that Creator/JacquesDemy already made a similar gag in his musical film adaptation of ''Literature/DonkeySkin'' where the helicopter shows up with the incestuous king and the Lilac Fairy at the near end of the movie. Even funnier considering James is talking about [[WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeastTheEnchantedChristmas the Christmas-themed midquel]] to ''WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast'' and Jean Marais, the actor who played the Beast in Jean Cocteau's ''Film/BeautyAndTheBeast1946'', played the king in Demy's ''Donkey Skin''.
35	* ReviewsAreTheGospel: Like with many other reviewers, a lot of his fans treat his opinions as facts and view them as final and the "correct" ones. Ironically, James himself is opposed to this mentality, as he has repeatedly implored his viewers not to mindlessly parrot his opinions and [[SelfDeprecation wondered why anyone would ever treat his views on works as Gospel]]. Some notable examples include:
36	** His review of ''WesternAnimation/RalphBreaksTheInternet'', where, among other things, he felt that the story was a "cinematic disaster" overall, that Ralph and Vanellope's character arcs were a mess and made [[UnintentionallyUnsympathetic the both of them look bad]], and viewed the [[MassiveMultiplayerCrossover "Oh My Disney" sequence]] to be more of a cynical advertisement than a fun love-letter to Disney's filmography. While these were already common criticisms of the film among its detractors beforehand, ''Schaff'' expressing them for better or worse caused the movie's reputation to go down the toilet and become regarded as one of the Franchise/DisneyAnimatedCanon's worst entries overnight.
37	** ''WesternAnimation/ShrekForeverAfter'' was, for quite some time, viewed as a thoroughly SoOkayItsAverage film responsible for [[FranchiseKiller sending the franchise back to the swamp]], with the best thing most people could say about it being that it was better than ''WesternAnimation/ShrekTheThird'' ([[DamnedByFaintPraise a low bar to clear]]). Then Schaff reviewed it and had almost nothing but good things to say about it, viewing it as an emotionally satisfying capper to the series that expands on themes introduced in the first two movies in a way that ''Third'' largely did not. Public opinion warmed up to ''Forever After'' not long after, and it's viewed as, if not on the level of the first two ''Shrek'' movies, then at least enjoyable in its own right. James himself has admitted that he never saw many people praising the film beforehand but more positive appraisals popped up after his review.
38	* TearJerker:
39	** His tribute video to [[WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants Stephen Hillenburg]], also crosses with SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments.
40	** In his comparison of how ''Film/TheLastJedi'' and ''Film/AvengersInfinityWar'' subverted expectations, he describes how the latter did it better by virtue of having the movie subvert expectations on Vision's fate: everyone going in expected him to die given how he had the Mind Stone in his head, but the movie gives the opportunity to safely remove it from his head by going to Shuri in Wakanda. However, [[spoiler:the Battle of Wakanda escalates to the point Vision is forced to take part, and Thanos becomes too powerful to stop before he even gets to Earth anyway, and thus Vision does die after a HopeSpot the entire film he'd pull through.]] To portray this, footage of Vision joining the battle [[spoiler:and ''both'' of his deaths despite Wanda's great trauma]] is played to "[[StarCrossedLovers Rewrite the Stars]]" from ''Film/TheGreatestShowman'', hammering in how [[spoiler:Vision couldn't escape his fate.]]
41	--->''"And when we go outside, you're gonna wake up and see that it's hopeless after all..."''
42	** His review video covering season 3 of ''WesternAnimation/TheOwlHouse'' begins and ends with him mourning the death of [[spoiler:Flapjack]] in "Thanks to Them", dropping the humorous tone entirely and talking about the loss and how hard it must have been for [[spoiler:Hunter]] to lose his best friend. The longer he keeps talking though, the clearer it becomes that he's using [[spoiler:Flapjack]] as a stand-in for his brother Patrick, who was tragically killed in a car accident a couple of months before the video's release. At the very end, when he mentions Patrick by name, he reveals that the video was posted on what would have been Patrick's 23rd birthday and tearfully asks the audience to wish him a happy birthday.
43	** In his ''Anime/WhisperOfTheHeart'' review, James talks about artistic burnout and fears of inadequacy, with details taken from his personal experience. Any artists in the audience will likely identify with much of what he says.
44	%%Please do not add James' car accident to TearJerker. The trope is Administrivia/NoRealLifeExamplesPlease.
45	* TheyChangedItNowItSucks: Much like fellow [=YTPer=]-turned-video-essayist [=YouTuber=] Creator/EmperorLemon, fans who got into his channel from his {{YouTube Poop}}s felt alienated by his channel's change in focus to video essays and movie reviews, especially since it resulted in the [[WesternAnimation/SharkTale Sharkslayer]] plotline being CutShort. Ultimately, he would create a second channel for anything that wasn't a review video, including his [=YTPs=].
46	* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter: Some felt [[spoiler:[[WesternAnimation/Ducktales2017 Glomgold]] and his adopted baby shark should have had a bigger impact on the "Sharkslayer" plot, instead of being anticlimactically killed off by Oscar in "Spingebill Awakens a Very Steamed Clam"]].
47	* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot: While the climactic resolution of the Sharkslayer plot was well-received in the million subscriber special, several fans lamented that due to Schaf's switch in focus to movie commentaries, the plot had not really been touched for years and felt a bit like a rushed solution.
48	* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotForKids: Schaffrillas could be mistaken as a channel aimed at kids [[AnimationAgeGhetto due to his most popular reviews covering family-friendly animated works]]. However, James frequently swears in his videos ([[SoundEffectBleep although he censors f-bombs]] with [[WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants dolphin noises]]), makes sex references, [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking and talks about topics that children don't understand]].

Context YMMV / SchaffrillasProductions