Fridge / The Runaway Guys

Fridge Brilliance

• Jon often has the most number of lives during the run as the viewers know it. Think back to the original Kaizo LP and the following words in the final main episode:
  Jon: I've got 37 lives, I'm set.
• The Iggy/Lemmy confusion. While Jon claims to have "fucking played Mario World" a large number of times, it's not like he's actually played the original that many times...
• It was stated previously that the main reason Tim has trouble in these collabs is that he's not very good with analog sticks. Later, he apparently chose Kirby's Return to Dream Land as the Guys' next game, and has been doing much better in it. Kirby's Return to Dream Land is played with a sideways Wii Remote, and therefore, no analog stick.
• In Kirbys Return To Dreamland, Jon, the guy who knows a lot more on the game than the others, is playing Meta Knight, Tim is playing Dedede, and Chugga is Kirby.
• In LittleBigPlanet, Jon calls Chugga "Impatient Shark" due to his constant leaving everyone behind and his shark costume. A fitting name, as some sharks must constantly keep moving to stay alive.
• Tim constantly gets rare items in Mario Party 3, which requires honest answers to get... which makes sense, considering Tim's personality.
• In Sonic Adventure, the guys seem to have swapped personalities (Chugga is prone to making mistakes and dying (like Tim), Jon is more focused on messing around as much as possible (like Chugga), and Tim is the one focused on beating the game (like Jon).) It seems odd... until you consider their solo LPs, or in Jon's case, his streams and how they act on those.
  • Even more brilliant when you remember that this is the first game on this channel that is single player. Of course they would act like they normally do on their solo videos. Aside from having the other guys in the room, this isn't that different from that.
  • It's also one of the few times they played a game that they didn't have a very high opinion of at the start (or at least Emile and Jon didn't). So it's likely Emile didn't practice much, thus leading to his poor performance, and Jon chose to seek out glitches and mess around with everything he can to keep himself entertained. And Tim seems to do the best and most consistent because it's finally a single player game; getting confused with so many characters onscreen has been one of the primary causes of his mess-ups in past playthroughs.
• In The Legend of Zelda: Four Swords Adventures, Stephen has a tendency to harm or inconvenience his teammates, mostly through his bombs. In the playthrough of Twilight Princess he did on his channel, he and his wife Mal characterized Link as an Idiot Hero. Now we just wait for Stephen to start going "herp skerp".
  • Also in FSA, we have Tim in Level 4-1, when he used the Boomerang to snatch the Huge Green Force Gem, the only one that hangs out in the open in the ENTIRE game, that most players usually get later on when they come out of the hidden tunnel in order to progress. Show of hands, folks, who would have thought to use the Boomerang on that huge lump of... of... Force...? The point stands.
• During Highway Rollers, Emile says that Jon has weird fetishes. All the way back in Episode 2 of New Super Mario Bros. Wii, he says that Jon's fetish is mass murdering everyone.
• Emile calls Jon "not independent at all" in "Do U Know Mii?" in Wii Party U, and has a lot of trouble explaining himself; one thing he makes clear is he didn't interpret "independent" in the way that was intended (as in, "is Jon able to function properly on his own"). Another proper definition for "independent" is being on their own, so Emile could have interpreted it as "does Jon prefer to be alone or with others". Seeing as when trying to explain he goes right for talking about how Jon and Lucahjin are engaged and living together, and he genuinely seemed to think he was meaning it in a good way, it seems likely this was what he was going for.
• In the finale of Star Fox 64, Jon laments that "He got demoted," when having to play as Slippy instead of Falco. Per the game's official strategy guide at the time of release, all of Fox, Falco, and Peppy are ranked as 1st Class Pilots while Slippy is a 2nd Class Pilot. So Jon's statement is true in multiple ways.
• One Colosseum 2021 bumper featuring Proton Jon's Egg PAC has the group guess how Jon is going to become RosaJon. The first to get a negative response from the rest of the group was one based on Pokémon evolution, and for a good reason. The ideas pitched before it (Magical Girl, science phlebotinum, and sentai, in that order) are known to be temporary or reversible effects in works that feature them, matching Jon's intent for the cosplay to last only a couple days. Pokémon evolutions are (with some rare exceptions throughout the franchise) permanent.
• During the Mario Party 6 LP, Emile declares their Solo Mode turn order of Emile-Tim-Jon as 'alphabetical order'. An understandably confused Jon asks for clarification, as Jon would jump Tim in that order by real-life first names and Tim would jump Emile by real-life last names (Tim's last name, Bishop, comes long before Emile's last name of Rosales, which still comes before Jon's last name Wheeler). The letter sequence Emile reveals for the turn order? C-N-P, revealing they're going alphabetical by their online names.
• In Mario Party DS, the Guys posit the existence of the Daisy Curse: Whenever Emile is playing as Daisy or on a board with Daisy as the AI, he loses. Daisy is the AI on "Kamek's Library," so everyone expects the curse to hold up, but Emile ends up winning quite handily. However, the Mario Party DS cartridge originally belonged to Amber^note who went by Andrew pre-transition, and Emile was playing on that save file instead of his. So as Amber herself commented on the video, the curse was void.
• The way the guys name their respective characters in Secret of Mana fits their individual styles of solo content. Emile, who takes his videos relatively seriously and is all about researching information, goes with the character's canon name of Randi. Jon, whose streams are often full of chaos and randomness, shuts his eyes and hits random letters to eventually get Tyna. Tim, whose commentary is often full of references, calls his character Joker after Persona 5.