Characters / Brain Dump

Max G.

The host of Brain Dump.

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• At Least I Admit It: During his Moana video, when Goofball notes how Max's reviews seem to be colored by his own failings, Max retorts that he could either claim to be impartial (which he considers impossible), or admit to his own biases.
  • He is also frequently called a creep by Goofball multiple times. He admits it in an outburst in his Creep review.
• Author Avatar: Is simply Max Gilardi as a cartoon.
• Broken Tears: At the end of "DEADPOOL IS SCAMMING YOU", Max cries the "Lite Brite" jingle as he constructs Burnbots face with Lite Brite pegs.
• Character Catchphrase: "Tumblr's not gonna like this..."
• The Dog Bites Back: When Goofball comes to annoy/ridicule Max, he usually doesn't really do anything to stop him besides yell at him. However, there are a few instances where he finally retaliates with more force, MUCH more force.
• Evil Laugh: Pulls off an impressive one when he points out that some viewers might think he is not the best person to discuss racial and social issues, as he is, after all, one of the "most evil kinds of person" in existence: A straight, white man.
• Glamour Failure: Played for Laughs, as his Evil Laugh above causes him to gradually adopt a demonic appearance (with red skin, sharp teeth and horns) until it suddenly stops, leaving him with just the latter.
  Max: ...Sorry, usually we try to keep these things hidden. (pushes horns back into his head)
• Halloween Cosplay: Dresses up as Jack Skellington in the Ghostbusters episode.
• Heroic BSoD:
  • When Goofball manages to get Max G. to eliminate any source of information to help him understand his own reality, Max has a mental breakdown. Complete with actually BSoD'ing.
  • Happens again in "ALL Dream Drama Explained!! (2021) (Up to date)", though this is actually Played for Drama, as opposed to how it was last time. When Goofball forces him to talk about his feelings to help him with his mental health issues, Max G. dissociates, claiming he "wasn't wired for this introspection".
• Jerkass Ball: In "TOP 10 REASONS WHY THE GRINCH IS BULLSHIT", Max continuously tells Goofball — to Burnbot's face — that, not only is she an inanimate object, but she can't think or feel, despite her apparent negative reaction to such statements. He continues to make these statements after she's electrocuted him, causing her to be driven away.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: He can be a pretty egotistical, insufferable, crass, and self-destructive loser, however he's generally respectful to those who do not piss him off and still cares for his friends.
• My God, What Have I Done?: After he tries to blame Goofball for driving Burnbot away, Goofball reminds him that it is indeed Max's fault.
  Goofball: You can't blame this on me! This is what you get for being a pompous jackass who's always trying to prove he's smarter than everyone else! "Diodes, capacitors, and resistors, interconnections and transistors"!
  Max: (A look of horror grows on his face as Goofball is saying this)
• Pet the Dog
  • He can be pretty patient with Goofball at times... though this is usually right before Goofball annoys him once more and pushes his buttons, and when that happens then that patience goes STRAIGHT out the window.
  • In "BEST youtuber apology video EVER", after Burnbot gives him a hit to the balls, he genuinely apologizes for hurting her and apologizes for his many flaws. When Burnbot gives him vanilla ice cream as a sign of forgiveness, he seems pretty happy even if he preferred chocolate and says he will not take her for granted again.
• Rage Breaking Point: In "What Is Fash Ism?", after it's clear he's lost the Raid: Shadow Legends sponsorship on account of Goofball continually screwing up the video, he finally cracks and attempts to strangle him to death (despite Goofball being a ghost).
• Self-Deprecation: Half of the series' comedy stems from Max's joking self-loathing.
• Small Name, Big Ego: In the Sausage Party episode, Max spends half of the episode boasting about hosting the "#1 show on the internet". It turns out this was a simple miscalculation by Burnbot.
• The Sociopath: Due to his intense love for violence in his entertainment, Max's Self-Deprecation frequently mentions that he's a dangerous sociopath.

Burnbot

^{Click here to see her in her early design} 

Max's lovely television assistant.

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• Art Evolution: Her 2.0 makeover has her display a more nitid face, her hair colored and her flower actually being an actual flower outside of the screen. During the insult and end cards, she also has a humanoid avatar (needless to say, certain fans went crazy).
• Berserk Button: Snaps her usual pleasant and sophisticated exterior when Max calls her a "chick".
  • She loses it again when Goofball reveals that she's been in a relationship with Max's microwave.
  • On a more serious note, she doesn't appreciate being called soulless due to the fact that she's a robot. Max made the mistake of doing this and she disappears for five entire episodes before negotiating with Max prior to his apology video, and even then, she doesn't forgive him until she coaxes him into a sincere apology with a Groin Attack.
• The Bus Came Back: She returns to work at Brain Dump only with the conditions of being upgraded, paid, and apologized to by Max, the last of which she forces out of him with a punch to the nads.
• The Cutie: Just look at that adorable smile.
• Good Bad Girl: Is having a sordid, sexually charged relationship with Max's Microwave against his wishes.
  "MY BODY, MY RULES. DEAL W/ IT."
• Halloween Cosplay: "Dresses up" as a scarecrow in the Ghostbusters episode.
• Lovely Assistant: To Max.
• Meaningful Name: Named Burnbot, as she ends each episode with a very creative and verbose insult. Or, a burn!
• New Year's Resolution: Her 2016 one is to swear more frequently.
  • Her auto-generated insult at the end of the episode is just a gigantic swear-fest, with max commenting on her need to make a sentence.
• Not So Above It All: While she is usually quiet and pleasant, she joins in on Goofball's constant insulting of Max by using the adjective "socially oblivious" to describe him.
  • During the end of 2016 video, she and Goofball both enjoy a giggle when Max accidentally say the word "hard on" in a sentence.
• Screw This, I'm Outta Here: She drives away (despite not having hands or feet) from Max's house at the end of TOP 10 REASONS THE GRINCH IS BULLSHIT after deciding she's had enough of his insensitive remarks.
• Lady Swears-A-Lot: Issues a comically over-the-top insult at the end of each episode.
• Sophisticated as Hell: Despite her usual Spock Speak, she says "Who you calling 'chick', dicknose?" to Max in the Halloween episode.
• Spock Speak: If her letter had a few more degrees of sophistication, it'd qualify as Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness. She is a computer, after all.
• Token Good Teammate: The show goes out of its way to remind you how much of an insufferable, socially awkward loser Max is and how much of a spiteful, annoying Jerkass Goofball is, but Burnbot is just a typical, if rather foul-mouthed and snarky, Lovely Assistant in television-form.
• The Voiceless: Can only talk through text. Just about the only sound she's ever made is a Fearow cry when she got mad at Goofball for spilling the beans on her relationship with Max's microwave.

Goofball, The Goofy Cartoon Ghost

Max's annoying ghost roommate.

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• Affectionate Parody: Clearly one of Casper the Friendly Ghost.
• Ambiguously Bi: Though openly stated to be gay, he stated in "ALL Dream Drama Explained!! (2021) (Up to date)" that he's straight sometimes and when he is he has a girlfriend. It's clear he isn't romantically interested in her, but it isn't clear if this is purely sexual, hedonistic, or if he's just interested in seeing polyamorous relationships fail.
  Max G.: That sounds... greedy and self-destructive.
  Goofball: Pretty much. But let me tell ya, it's one hell of a ride on the way down, hoo hoo hoo hoo!
• Asshole Victim: A semi-common occurrence for him. So far, he has been choked, shoved into a fart jar, and left stranded on a desolate stretch of road in the middle of the night.
• Big Brother Instinct: In the Ghostbusters (2016) video, we learn that his sister is married to Slimer, who, to put it bluntly, does NOT treat her well. Goofball, quite understandably, hates the guy's guts and is trying to get his sister to dump him.
• Even Evil Has Loved Ones:
  • While not necessarily evil (He's more of a Jerkass than anything else), Goofball has shown concern for both his sister and Burnbot on two separate occasions. He even went as far as admitting respect for Burnbot.
  • In "ALL Dream Drama Explained!! (2021) (Up to date)", he rather explicitly states that he cares about Max G. despite busting his chops on a regular basis and even tries to help him through his mental issues.
• Everyone Has Standards:
  • Understandably, he really doesn't like the Domestic Abuse Slimer dishes out to his sister.
  • He also gets taken aback by Max's uncharacteristically cruel remarks about Burnbot, stating she doesn't have the capacity to think or feel. While he sarcastically tells Max to apologize to Burnbot at first, it grows a bit more sincere after Max states that he won't up until he's actually demanding him to apologize after one too many refusals from Max.
    Max: Goofball, I don't need to apologize to a TV.
    Goofball: Well, you don't need to but you still should.
  • In "Special Guest SONIC THE HEDGEHOG Discusses Upcoming Movie!", he seems disgusted with Max G. for putting Sonic the Hedgehog on his show after he had some apparent accident. At first, at least.
• The Gadfly: He clearly gets a kick out of finding new ways to get under Max's skin.
• Friendly Ghost: He's incredibly annoying to Max, but he has never done anything to actually try to harm him.
• Halloween Cosplay: Dresses up as the ghost on the Ghostbusters' logo in the Halloween Episode.
• Hate Sink: Goofball is intentionally meant to be as annoying, obnoxious and distracting as possible. However, thanks to Character Development, Goofball has started to develop more decent traits, such as trying to convince his sister into leaving Slimer, admitting to Max the reason he's so annoying is because he's trying to help with the show and his concern and self-admitted respect for Burnbot. Though it isn't much since he still likes to annoy Max.
• Hidden Depths: In BEST youtuber apology video EVER! (2020) Goofball has been shown to be at least adept at arts and crafts, showing off his admittedly adorable Burnbot papercraft.
• Informed Attribute: Is stated to be and claims that he's gay, but whatever actual sexual attraction he ends up showing onscreen keeps being for women, such as the mermaid in Max's campaign in "Dungeons in Dragons", his girlfriend Natalie from "ALL Dream Drama Explained!! (2021) (Up to date)" (see Ambiguously Bi above), and the green ghost he dumps Natalie for in "What Is Fash Ism?".
• Jerkass: Goofball is one spiteful son of a bitch.
• Laser-Guided Karma: He gets strangled (in a non-comical way) while on the receiving end of a "Reason You Suck" Speech by Max in "What Is Fash Ism?" after his joke about drinking a glass of cum derails and ruins Max's entire video. Notably unlike in most cases, it actually causes Goofball to genuinely lose his usually smug attitude and (somewhat) relents in fear.
• New Year's Resolution: His 2016 one is to be more annoying.
• "The Reason You Suck" Speech: Goofball gives Max a brutal one in his review of Creep (2014).
  Goofball: So wait, if you're not a creep, then why are your arms and legs so disproportionately long? How come you chew your fingernails? Why do you have a beard on your neck? How come you only shower, like, twice a week? Why did you see a psychiatrist for two years? What do you guys talk about? Why do you own these books? How come you don't have any friends? How come the bottom of your feet are so dirty? Why do you know the words to Raggedy Ann & Andy: A Musical Adventure? Why do you watch so many documentaries about serial killers? Why would a man who knows all the words to Raggedy Ann And Andy: A Musical Adventure also be a man who watches so many documentaries about serial killers?
• O.O.C. Is Serious Business: In the Halloween special, when his sister is reduced to a sobbing wreck after Goofball confronts her about leaving Slimer, he says "Uh, I'm sorry, I gotta go take care of this" and actually leaves (with his sister). Max lampshades this by saying "Well that went in a dark direction".
• Word of Gay: Max G. has confirmed on Twitter that Goofball is gay.

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