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  • Even after Bill Cipher tries to make her go insane and torments with her childhood fear note  in an attempt to make her give up and give him complete dominance over the blog, Shelf refuses to give in and ultimately realizes Bill has her trapped in a dream. She gets rid of them for good by summoning someone who's had plenty of experience dealing with demonic trees - Bruce Campbell.
  • Shelf's Ascended Fangirl moment when she asked her main inspiration, Unshaved Mouse, if he was willing to put in his two cents on Darby O'Gill for her review since he's genuinely Irish - and he did! This was a few years before Mouse himself reviewed Darby O'Gill.
  • Despite "blathering like an idiot" when it happened, Shelf got to meet legendary Disney animator Glen Keane and tell him how she considers the Beast's transformation note  the greatest transformation scene on film.
    • She also devotes a good portion of the review to talk about the impact he's made on animation, noting how he embraced both traditional and CGI techniques to create works like Duet and develop virtual reality drawing.
  • Shelf's analysis of why The Wicked Witch of the West is one of the best villains of all time, particularly her breakdown of the crystal ball scene.
  • The three-part review of the Weirdmageddon trilogy is full of these moments:
    • Despite being in a cursed state, Shelf is able to translate Bill's review of Weirdmageddon Part 1 and uses it to figure out Bill's motives and begin formulating a plan.
    • The Baron talking Shelf out of her depression and motivating her to finish the review of "Escape To Reality". By the time she's done, her spirits are renewed and she's ready to kick Bill's butt.
    • Shelf co-reviewing Weirdmageddon Part 3 with Bill himself.
      • Even after all he's done to her, Shelf understands why Bill acted out the way he did in trying to take over her blog and gives an awesome speech as to how he's one of the best Disney villains to not come from one of their movies and there's a fat chance that he'll be forgotten anytime soon.
      • Bill tries to destroy Shelf one more time - but since he trapped her inside a Funko Pop figurine of Mabel, she was able to cast the same unicorn hair spell that was used to prevent him from destroying the Mystery Shack on herself. She takes plenty of joy in his frustration.
      • And then it's revealed that Shelf reviewing the episode with Bill was her way of stalling for time so Baron Munchausen could arrive with Quentin Trembley, who quickly turns the fight against Bill into a Curb-Stomp Battle.
  • Shelf found a rare early draft of The Black Cauldron and used it to form a cohesive idea of what the movie could have been like before Executive Meddling cut down to what it is today.
    • The first part of the review has this moment, which expertly calls out Disney fans who criticize every change by claiming "It's what Walt would have wanted":
I understand where the former generation was coming from; I’d be pretty grouchy too if I had to train these too-big-for-their-britches whippersnappers who were going to replace me, but one of the reasons why the Disney company was this close to declaring bankruptcy in the decades after Walt’s passing was because it was adhering dangerously close to the mentality of “What would Walt do” instead of trying new things and evolving with the times. The very idea of “What would Walt do” is a paradox; none of us – not me, not the most religious of Disney fans, not even the workers who knew him the longest – could ever really know what his course of action on creative decisions might be, and yet the one thing we do know for certain is that Walt Disney always chose to move forward instead of clinging to the formulas or modes of thinking that were deemed the most successful. His whole body of work reflects that [...] Walt hated repeating himself in order to triumph, and he took every opportunity to push the envelope when it came to the story or technical aspects of anything he touched. He dove head first into the new, and if he made a mistake along the way, he learned from it instead of retreating back into the safe zone.
  • She opens her Muppet Treasure Island review by revealing it took so long to get to it because of pressure from her then-boyfriend, who was a manipulative bastard that hated the movie. She sums up how much hell he put her through and how hard it was to finally break free from his control, but she did it, and exclaims that his opinion doesn't matter to her anymore nor to anyone else. She then spends the rest of the review gushing about how much she loves the movie.
    • She only mentions the jerk one more time in the review where Benjamina (Miss Piggy) and Smollett (Kermit) see each other for the first time in years. She says Piggy greets her former lover the way she would if she saw him again on the street - by giving him a karate chop that sends him flying.

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