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"I'm a monster, baby. There's no saving me. You should just stay away...for your own good..."

Because if you take away none of the lessons in these videos, at least know that learning can be hilarious as Hel.

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Journey to the West

General

• The Running Gag of Sun Wukong kicking down the wall of the villains' hideout in order to fight them. And every single time without fail, the villains are caught completely off-guard during their afternoon tea, reacting to the monkey with a Spit Take.
  • Subverted and lampshaded in Part IX when Wukong lures one of the villains out instead. As he explains to a questioning Sandy while knocking on the door, "They'll start anticipating it if I don't mix things up." Then he gets right back into form for the second villain of the episode.
• The Gold Star of Venus' only role in the story is to intervene and mitigate conflicts between the cast. It gets to the point where Red nicknames him "The Gold Star of Inter-Venus".
• After pointing out in the first part that, yes, Sun Wukong is best known as Goku, Red does the "Find Out Next Time"/"Previously on…" segments in the style of Dragon Ball Z, complete with music from the series. Then after mentioning that she's going be skipping some of the boring or fillery parts, she dubs the recap, "Journey to the West Kai."

Journey To The West

• First off, The Monkey King has a midlife crisis and, in Red's words: 'Pulls a Gilgamesh'. Complete with the Monkey King screaming "TO ADVENTURE!" atop a dingy raft.
• When discussing the shapeshifting abilities of Sun Wukong, one of the shown transformations is Red herself, who proceeds to question "What the heck is this one." Before the real Red pulls a Dynamic Entry while screaming "NOT THIS TIME T-1000!"
• How do they depict Sun Wukong getting bored? Having him screaming about how the Celestial Bureaucracy needs Netflix while surrounded in flames.
• Sun ultimately enrages the Jade Emperor so much he declares, in a particularly humorous manner thanks to Blue:
  Emperor: "How dare he resist arrest! Clearly we must execute ^note  Monkey is already immortal at this point him!"
• Sun Wukong is apparently not satisfied with just having plain old Complete Immortality and becomes first double immortal by eating heavenly peaches, then triple immortal(and thoroughly drunk) from wine, and finally quadruple immortal (and abruptly sober) from Lao Tzu's alchemical experiments.
  Red: And if you wanna know who this Lao Tzu person is...
  Blue: I'm working on it, goddamn it! [Sudden ninja] Ninjasohgod!
• Three guesses at to what Sun Wukong will do next:
  A) The Rational thing
  B) The 'I'm not getting involved' thing.
  C) THE IMPULSIVE THING!
• This exchange between Sun Wukong and Erlang when they meet.
  Wukong: Ah, hey, if you don't mind, could you send out the devarajas to fight me? 'Cause I'm-I'm kinda getting bored over here.
  Erlang: Not as bored as you're gonna be!
• By the time the Buddha arrives in heaven, Sun Wukong is fighting "thirty-six thunder deities because why not." You get the feeling that the author would have had the Kitchen Sink Included if such things existed back then.

Journey To The West Part II

• When Tripitaka recites the spell that'll allow him to keep Sun Wukong from rampaging, this is visually represented by words in a faint blue glow surrounding him... only it's the lyrics of Bohemian Rhapsody. This becomes a Running Gag, with various different songs, throughout the series.
• Tripitaka asks Sun Wukong why he doesn't just carry everyone on his cloud.
  Tripitaka: Wait, why can't you just fly us there?
  Sun Wukong: My cloud only carries the pure of heart.
  Tripitaka: Really?
  Sun Wukong: No.

Journey To The West Part III

• "So in this exciting episode, Sun Wukong gets to serve divorce papers!"
• Wukong having a background saying "expert at kicking ass" with the word "demon" stuck in-between "kicking" and "ass".
• Red starting a discussion with Tripitaka's water dragon-horse as to why it didn't carry Tripitaka across the river when it's clearly able to swim.
• During his fight with Pigsy, Wukong asks the pig demon why he's fighting him with a rake.
  Pigsy: A rake? HA! This is no ordinary rake! One blow from this and your very soul will be rent asunder!
  (Pigsy smacks him over the head with the rake. Wukong is unaffected)
  Wukong: *unimpressed* You were saying?
  Pigsy: *Appropriately terrified* I think I'd like to surrender now, please.

Journey To The West Part IV

• The White Bone Demon and her habit of getting instantly killed by Monkey.
• After all the shit he pulled in this episode, it's hilarious to see Pigsy get chewed out by the horse.
  Pigsy: Oh my god you talk.
• Sandy glomping Monkey. Doubles as Heartwarming.
• Tripitaka singing "I'm So Lonely" while in prison. Monkey calls him a drama queen in response.
• Sun Wukong teaching the other monkeys self-defence.
  Sun Wukong: All right, everyone. the trick to weapons is to hit your enemy!
  Demon monkeys: Oooh
  Sun Wukong: If there's a sharp bit, try hitting them with that sharp bit!
  Demon monkeys: Aaah
  

Journey To The West Part V

• When Sandy fights the demon army by himself, Pigsy remembers that he and Monkey never actually defeated him.
• "Will Monkey ever get to keep anything cool that he finds on this trip? Will Tripitaka learn to stop trusting Pigsy with important tasks?"
• How does the Silver Demon King avoid being carried by Sandy? Saying that his face is way too scary.

Journey To The West Part VI

• The Red Boy also insults Sandy's face in here and we see Sandy having a sad face in response.
• Red Boy's facial expression when Kuan Yin's lotus platform turns out to actually be a whole bunch of devaraja's swords, for example.
• Everyone's reaction to Monkey's logic on why they should just abandon the disguised Red Boy, even if he really was a starving orphan.
• Red Boy suspects the "Bull Demon King" who's gone on a vegetarian diet is an impostor:
  Red Boy: Hey, uh, Father, you know, it's slipped my mind, but, um, any chance you could tell me the exact hour and date of my birth?
  Disguised Wukong: Oh-ho, well, I'm far too old to remember such a weirdly specific fact about you.
  Red Boy: [attacking] My father never shuts up about my birthday!
  Wukong: Seriously? What a nerd.
  • Also, the Bull Demon King is voiced by Blue doing a Kronk voice.
• When Monkey sees Kuan Yin’s method for punishing Red Boy, ^note  By getting him to sit on a bunch of swords. he quietly thanks her for reducing his punishment to simply being stuck under a mountain for 500 years.
• Wukong's gleeful reaction when he realizes what Quan Yin is up to when she slaps five adornments on Red Boy.
• It is noted by a viewer that Pigsy's quip that Red Boy shouldn't bother injuring himself so that he could sue him and Monkey for assault is actually in the source material, not a Freeze-Frame Bonus joke.

Journey To The West Part VII

• There's a quick gag about how Pigsy is despairing because it feels like they've been on this journey forever. Cue a cut to Red, who quietly coughs.
• Tripitaka tries to negotiate with a ferryman who can only take two at a time on his boat. In the picture, Wukong adds, "We also need to bring this chicken, this fox, and a bag of assorted grains."
• When Tripitaka is kidnapped (again), Sandy goes down to the river bottom to challenge Pigsy and Tripitaka's captor to a fight. After banging on the door:
  Sandy: Release the monk or else!
  Demon: And the pig?
  Sandy: He's negotiable.
  Pigsy: *offended* Hey!
• This entire exchange after Monkey kills the Daoist guards watching over some imprisoned Buddhist monks, and tells them he's the "Great Sage Equal to Heaven" the gods told them will save them:
  Monk: *with a speech bubble depicting Sun Wukong with flaming eyes and hissing* No you're not, the Gold Star of Venus told us that the Great Sage is all ugly and hairy, with scary fangs and stuff!
  Red: And Monkey is all like—
  Wukong: *quietly and annoyed* That motherffffffmmmmmm. *clears throat a few times* You got me! I'm not the Monkey King, I just work for him, and he's RIGHT BEHIND YOU!
  Red: So all the monks turn around to look, and Monkey changes back and scares them. I'm not even joking, I love this book.
• Monkey and the gang tricking the Daoist Immortals into drinking their pee.
• The three Daoist Immortals that effectively control the city enslaving Buddhist monks issue a series of challenges to the group, as a part of a complicated series of escalating events. One of them? Sitting still and meditating for as long as possible on top of a tower. Sun Wukong may be immortal four times over and strong as all get out...but no. This is beyond even him.
  Red: Monkey can do a great many things... but 'sitting still' is not one of them.
  Wukong: BALLS!
  • Contrast his reaction to being told the next contest involves an immortality trial via being beheaded, having hearts removed, and being boiled in oil ...In That Order:
    Wukong: YES! This is hardcore!
• The king of the city's Squee when he gets to see dragons.
• Tripitaka letting out an exasperated "UUUUUUGH" after the Sore Loser Immortals propose yet another "final challenge."
• When Monkey gets his head cut off, Pigsy declares that he can now be the main character, which leads to Tripitaka facepalming and Sandy giving Pigsy a stern glare.
• Sun Wukong goes a bit Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness when he contacts the Dragon King of the North, after he discovers a pot of oil over a fire is actually quite cold to the touch.
  Wukong: Hey, Ao Ming? We've got a violation of the laws of thermodynamics.
  • For which an errant dragon spirit actually gets arrested, by a fish-shaped spirit no less. Complete with hand cuffs.

Journey To The West Part VIII

• Noting the In-Universe Arc Fatigue affecting Tripitaka due to the Journey having taken seven years in-story already, Red silently shows that her first Journey To The West video was five years ago and tells Tripitaka to suck it up and get on her level.
• Red's description and depiction of a haggard Guanyin. Even funnier if you read the book and know that she's still supposed to be absolutely gorgeous even when haggard.
• When Red narrates how Guanyin deals with the river demon and ends up with a mere goldfish, cue close up of the nervous goldfish in a basket waving at the audience.
  Red: Everyone say "hello~"!
  • The goldfish turning into a demon is depicted as a Pokémon evolution. ^note Funnily enough, this predates Pokémon Scarlet and Violet, meaning that Red effectively predicted the existence of the terrifying and evil goldfish Chi-Yu.
    GOLDFISH learned CRIMES!
  • "Heh, Pigsy got beaten by a goldfish."
• When Sun Wukong tells the others not to go near the demon castle until he gets back and then draws a circle in the snow around them.
  Wukong: Now when I say "Don't go near the demon castle," I worry that you hear, "Wait 'til Monkey's gone and then go anyway!"
• Wukong and several deities fight off the Single Horned Rhinoceros King, who uses a magic jade ring to steal their weapons by drawing them toward him. After he pulls this stunt several times:
  Wukong: This guy sucks, right? Heh, get it? [Beat] If I had thought of it earlier I would have said it earlier.
• The Star of Fiery Virtue, the god of planet Mars and fire, turns the trope of fire=hotheadedness on its head by being a mild-mannered bureaucrat, who is very excited about getting to do some action for once.
• "So the heavenly host dissolves into arguing, blame-placing and in-fighting, and Monkey finds himself living his worst nightmare by being the voice of reason."
• In desperation, Wukong decides to fly out to speak to Buddha himself.
  Red: Hoo boy, nobody tell Tripitaka it was that easy!
  • The episode then cuts to the others still tied up in the cave.
    Tripitaka: I feel very frustrated for some reason.
    Pigsy: Starting NOW?!
• The fact that with the other demon of the episode turning out to be Lao Zi's missing unicorn bull, the episode's theme can be summed up as "divine pets gone bad".

Journey to the West Part IX

• The start of the episode is so calm and peaceful that Monkey starts getting paranoid of everything from a calm stream to the boatwoman helping them cross it.
• Tripataka and Pigsy drinking unpurified river water despite Monkey's entirely valid concerns about health, and immediately getting stomach cramps. Funny enough, except, as they soon discover, that particular river has a very important function to the Lady Land country they're in...
  Pigsy: WHAT WILL THIS DO TO MY FIGURE!?
  Sandy: That's the hormones talking.
  Tripataka: (literal Heroic BSoD)
  • After Monkey, unaware of what's happening, asks a nearby village for help, the villagers find the situation utterly hilarious, and come out to spectate. Upon being briefed, Monkey and Sandy are inclined to agree, and proceed to start ribbing the two of them until they get the magical abortion water.
  Red: Sandy cautions them to take it easy, since new mothers are very delicate, officially confirming his status as the funniest person alive.
  • Also the fact that the river is called the Child and Mother Stream, and that they get the magical abortion water by going to Male Undoing Mountain, entering the Child Destruction Cave, and drinking the water from the Baby Be Gone Stream (these are mostly accurate translations).
• After Monkey fails to get water from the Baby Be Gone Stream, Red says he goes back to the group to figure out a plan B.
• Red's annoyance when Monkey describes the man who held the entire Lady Land's access to abortion water hostage for profit as "having done nothing wrong".
• Sandy's snark and comments both during and after Tripataka and Pigsy's pregnancies. You can tell he is having the time of his life.
• Pigsy and Sandy try to do the "Demon Routine" to scare away a band of women who are curious about seeing a man for the first time, which Red comments can't possibly scare away all of the women.
• When the Empress tries to strongarm Tripataka into marriage, Pigsy takes the opportunity to point out that the monk clearly wouldn't agree... so why doesn't she marry Pigsy instead? The next shot involves a royal guard casually strangling him, which does at least make him interested in her instead.
• When Monkey gets hit by the demoness's trident and is going through extreme pain, Pigsy gets back at him for his earlier ribbing about the pregnancy and asks him how it compares to childbirth. Monkey says that, on a scale from 1 to drinking molten copper while buried under a mountain for 500 years, it's a solid 8.
  • Pigsy later gets hit by the same trident, and when Monkey asks him how much it hurts for some proper comparison, Pigsy is too hurt to respond, since he's not made of rock like Monkey.
• Tripitaka has evidently been hanging around Monkey too much, since he actually snarks at the demoness, remarking that if he had been looking to get married he would have stayed with the Empress, and gives a smug smile when she has him dragged off.
  Monkey: Looks like you had a wild night, loverboy.
  Tripitaka: I'll have you know I was tied up for perfectly kosher reasons.
• Kuan-yin tells Monkey to retrieve Star Lord Mao, who is apparently the only one able to stop the demoness. He's able to remove the aftereffects of the demoness's scorpion venom from Monkey and Pigsy, and goes to fight her... by turning into a giant chicken. He's able to transform her back into a scorpion by crowing twice, and Real Life chickens are pretty good at dealing with scorpions, but it's still humorous to see a seven-foot-chicken and how bemused everyone is about it.

Journey to the West Part X

• Shortly after sending Monkey away, Tripitaka gets thirsty, which Red makes this crack about.
  Red: Which I'm told^note Red is asexual is a common problem after a bad breakup.
• When Sandy finds Monkey at Flower-Fruit Mountain reading the travel rescript, it's just the transcript for the previous episode.
• While hanging out and not causing any trouble at Kuan Yin's place, Monkey can be seen checking up on her goldfish and making sure he's not getting any ideas.
• When the monkeys fight their way up to the Buddha, one of them can be seen complaining that Tripitaka had apparently complained "for weeks" the last time he did this.
• You're gonna want to pause the video during Monkey's scuffle with his duplicate. Their battle banter is absolute GOLD. And just to drive it home, one exchange is a Sonic Adventure 2 reference.
  After the Jade Emperor (who is hiding behind his throne in terror) kicks the dueling Monkeys out of heaven
  Monkey: I can't take you anywhere!
  Other Monkey: The real me would've known that already!
• When the imposter is finally revealed as the Six-Eared Macaque and is depowered into his original form, Monkey kills him... By smacking him into the stratosphere. The Buddha isn't happy.
  Buddha: Sun. He was an endangered species!
  Monkey: I'll say. Pissing me off that bad is about as endangering as it gets.

Journey to the West Part XI

• Red's extensive attempts at alliteration during the opening recap.
  Red: Last time, on Journey to the West! A devastating duel of doppelgangers drew dangerous delinquency as a duo of deadly deuhhhh-monkeys ^note Or the alliteration equivalent of that trope, at least. *shrug noises* battled their way through the far corners of the world, shaking the very foundations of the heavens with their ferocious and terrifying strength! Unable to distinguish the deceit of the dreadful duo (yes! we're back in it!), Tripitaka was forced to rely on the aid of the Buddha himself, who concluded that the counterfeit cercopithecoid (bit of a stretch) was none other than the near-omniscient Six-Eared Macaque, one of the four heavenly apes that categorize our clever Sun Wukong, a concept that definitely didn't come out of absolutely nowhere!
• "Sun Wukong commits the faux-pas of pondering a logical worldbuilding question in a fantastical allegory for the journey to enlightenment"
• Monkey continues to snark in the visual panels.
  Princess Iron Fan: My baby boy is IMPRISONED!
  Monkey: I think your baby boy would agree the true prison is samsāra.
• Monkey hatches a plan for defeating Princess Iron Fan using his fly transformation and a cup of the Princess' tea. Red really doesn't want to explain.
  Red: (dejectedly, but still trying not to laugh) Oh nooooo, there's vore in this one.
• The local deity of the Mountain of Flames explains the Love Triangle between the Bull Demon King, Princess Iron Fan, and Princess Jade Countenance... using a hand puppet show. Monkey seems enthralled.
  • Hell, when you look at this entire episode of the story, it boils down to a soap opera drama conflict between a rich woman, her mob boss husband, and the latter's wealthy mistress that ridiculously escalated into getting all of the authorities involved, due to how powerful and appropriately bull-headed BDK is and how bent Jade Countenance is in stealing him from Iron Fan. For such an epic section of the novel that is the reason that BDK is easily the most memorable of the Monkey King's enemies, to the point of being treated as his Arch-Enemy in most media, the actual circumstances of how is actually completely silly.
• Monkey's impromptu disguise as "just a humble country crab" and Red's incredulous reaction to his potential punishment of "crab flogging".
  • The Bull Demon King figuring out Monkey was the crab is portrayed as E = MC Hammer equations superimposed on the Crab Rave video.
• Sun Wukong disguises himself as the Bull Demon King (complete with the return of Blue's Kronk voice) and later, the Bull Demon King disguises himself as Pigsy. As usual, OSP takes any chance they can get to do a …But He Sounds Handsome joke.
• The sheer confusion in Red's voice when the mountain spirit shows up with an unexplained army of ghosts. (Borrowed from Return of the King is her best guess).
• During a Shapeshifter Showdown between Monkey and the Bull Demon King, the latter hides in the mountains disguised as a deer for a breather, his eyes wide as he nervously grazes... only for Monkey to ambush him disguised as a lion, freaking him out.
  Bull Demon King: Normal deer. Normal deer. I am just a normal deer... AAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
• Prince Nata cuts off the Bull Demon King's head, to which he responds by simply growing a new one. This apparently happens ten times in a row before Nata comes up with another strategy.
• The anti-shapeshifting artifact that Devaraja Li uses to end the battle is understandably marked "In case of Sun Wukong, break glass".

Classics Summarized

Much Ado About Nothing

• Red's opening towards the book:
  Red: Much Ado About Nothing is the charming tale of love, betrayal, heaping loads of sarcasm, BRIAN BLESSED, Brian Blessed's beard, and grown men splashing around in fountains.
• When she gets to him again, she insists that BRIAN BLESSED's name can be said in no other fashion.

Julius Caesar

• Mark Antony gives a less-than-subtle suggestion that the crowd rise against the conspirators. Nothing seems to be taking, but at the very end:
  Mark Antony: Also, Caesar left you all money.
  IMMEDIATE Smash Cut to the crowd erupting into a riot
• Whenever something less than desirable happens (a completely random person being lynched by the mob for having the same name as a conspirator, for instance):
  Red: Truly A Victory For The Forces Of Justice!

Paradise Lost

• The summarization gives us Sexy Satan in all his Daddy Issues glory.
• Red compares the two common interpretations of Satan, the first being the classic sexy bad boy and the other being a disgusting evil monster:
  Exhibit A: 200 pounds of angelic beefcake
  Exhibit B: First recorded instance of Dickbutt
• Satan and God's short argument at the beginning:
  Satan: Oh, what? You think you're all that?!
  God: I'm sorry, is the fact that I'm God confusing you?
• The War in Heaven is illustrated by Lucifer leading his host of angels in war against God... And God manifesting a massive fist punching him straight out of heaven.
• This priceless exchange after Adam and Eve eat from the Tree of Knowledge:
  Jesus: See Eve, this is why you don't make decisions without your husband.
  Satan: Oh, please! You think I couldn't have got that guy to do something stupid? I'm the Father of Lies! He's not even wearing pants!
  Adam: Ahhh! I'm not even wearing pants!
  Jesus: *Face Palm* Not helping, Satan!
  Satan: HA! I've never had my existence summarized so succinctly before!
  Jesus: *exasperated sigh*
  Satan: Call me when Dad makes you suffer and die for these losers! I'll just be over here...ruling in Hell! *laughs and disappears*
  Eve: *to Jesus* Daddy issues?
  Satan: *in the background* I heard that!
• Red explaining that the gates of Hell are guarded by Satan's daughter Sin and his son/grandson - "Really, don't ask, it's gross"
• This exchange between Satan and the Archangel Gabriel:
  Gabriel: So the Prodigal Asshole returns.
  Satan: I thought you never left.
• Red covering up Adam and Eve's naughty bits with a little sign reading "Nope!".
• At the end of the video when Lucifer returns to hell, Zeus says that he would have screwed with them better. On the one hand, Zeus could have meant that metaphorically, because he's Zeus. But on the other hand, he could have meant it literally... because he's Zeus.
• Satan pushes over a vase and breaks it.
  God: Lucifer, get back here and clean that up.
  Satan: You're not my real dad.
  God: I'm everyone's real dad.
• The very last shot of the video is Lucifer sitting on his throne and admitting that this may not have been the greatest idea.
  Lucifer: Awesome. This was a terrible idea.

Dante's Inferno/Purgatorio/Paradiso

• The Running Gag of Dante's constant fainting and fan-squeeing.
  Virgil: Guess who gets to babysit this loser all the way to Purgatory?
• Paris and Achilles are in the Second Circle of Hell, which is reserved for the lustful. Paris is clearly enjoying himself, but Achilles... not so much.
• Red turns out to be an Interactive Narrator when she makes an Incredibly Lame Pun about the heretics in flaming coffins and the characters all turn around and glare at her.
• The Freeze-Frame Bonus jokes abound in this video. You'll likely need to pause and rewind several times just to catch most of them.
• In "Purgatorio", we have one instance of Black Comedy where Virgil and Dante notice the Terrace of Envy doesn't have any statues or any visual representation of what lack of Envy looks like. And our heroes learn the reason the hard way:
  Red: The reason for this becomes clear when we see that the souls in this terrace have their eyes sewn shut! *"Scream of Horror Incoming", followed by appropriately loud shriek!* Yeah, purgatory isn't all fun and games.
• In "Paradiso," Red decides to represent Saint Bernard as a Saint Bernard.
• Upon discovering that God is "A circle full of book and rainbows":
  Red: Wait, wait, wait one sec. Are you telling me God is a Reading Rainbow?!
  *Reading Rainbow title theme plays*
  Red: Oh my god, my childhood just got so much more theologically significant!

The Iliad

• As Randy Newman's song (you know the one) plays with a reference to a certain Pixar movie series, clips from the movie "Troy" play and stop just short of when a random soldier is about to get javelined through the face.
  Red: Yeah, yeah.
• Ajax the Lesser is portrayed as a miniature warrior clinging to Ajax the Greater's helmet.
• Hector's irate expression when Zeus wakes him up, and his bewildered side-eye when Helen interrupts her exposition to scream "ALSO I AM A HUGE SLUT."
• Red accurately describes Diomedes' and "Only Sneaky Guy in the Entire Greek Army" Odysseus' infiltration of the Trojan camp as a Metal Gear Solid level. Odysseus even has a Solid Snake headband.
  Odysseus: You'll want me as well. I have actual cognitive faculties.
• Diomedes' solo adventure in Book 5:
  • First, an annoyed Athena viewing the battlefield spots Ares flexing and Aphrodite being a Shipper on Deck.
  • Second, a tiny Athena poofs! in front of Diomedes, giving him the ability to see the incognito gods.
    Athena: And let me be clear about this — do not fight the gods. You will lose. Unless it's Aphrodite, then fight all you want! She's somewhere between a marshmallow fluff and a baby chick in terms of battle prowess!
  • Diomedes then chucks a spear through Aphrodite's wrist, to which she understandably reacts by screaming "OW, F**K!" at the top of her lungs (still with the godly reverb) and dropping the person she was ferrying to safety. As a bonus, the person she was carrying was her son Aeneas.
  • Aeneas gets picked up by Apollo, who Diomedes promptly tries to stab as well. Apollo flares up into full god-mode and gets him to back off.
    Apollo: Step off, kid. Some of us gods are a little sturdier than Aphrodite.
  • After that he's a bit leerier about attacking Ares, but is encouraged by the tiny Athena that reappears on his shoulder.
    Athena: Diomedes! Why aren't you hitting him?
    Diomedes: Be... cause you told me not to?
    Athena: Forget what I said, kid! You're the best! AROUND!
  • He then proceeds to jab a sword into Ares' gut. Red says that according to videogame logic, he should have become the new God of War, but instead Ares runs and complains to an unsympathetic Zeus.
    Zeus: Man up, you gigantic disappointment!
    Red: *on a teary-eyed Ares* So now Ares hurts on the outside and the inside.
• Odysseus is represented by Solid Snake, complete with a bandana, and he infiltrates the Trojan camp in a cardboard box.

The Odyssey

• Red's summarizing of Telemachus's attempt to kick out his mother's suitors before leaving to find Odysseus:
  Red: And [the suitors] are like, "Oooh, is widdle baby Telemachus gonna fight us?" And Telemachus is like [whiny voice, image switches to Telemachus running away crying] "Shut up! I'm gonna find my dad and he's gonna beat you up!"

The Aeneid

• There's a Running Gag about the localization of the Greek Pantheon to their Roman names. This is shown as a character walking in and erasing the Greek name before replacing it with the Roman one... until he gets to Apollo, who promptly disintegrates him with Finger Gun lasers because Apollo is also named Apollo in the Roman Pantheon as well. This is then followed up when we get to Hermes who apparently goes untranslated for no adequate reason^note For those who are wondering, he has a Roman name and it is Mercury., leading to this exchange:
  Hermes: Apollo, did you disintegrate the localization guy?!
  Apollo: ...Maybe.
• Then near the end the localization guy returns to rename Hephaestus to Vulcan, to which Red chimes in with "no relation" as an entirely different Vulcan is shown together with the formerly named Hephaestus.
  Spock: This joke was deemed illogical, but necessary.
• Whenever The Prophecy is mentioned, there's a fanfare of music. Either guitar string riffs, trumpets, choir, or otherwise. The Brick Joke has it being briefly being represented by a party favor.
• Red getting annoyed with the Roman localization of the Greek gods.
  Red: God, this is more confusing than those stupid Percy Jackson books.
• The illustration of Aeneas fleeing the city with his son in tow and his father slung over his shoulder.
  Ascanius: Dad where are we going?
  Anchises: Aeneas you forgot my meds —
  Aeneas: Dad so help me I will drop you.
• Venus stops her son from murdering Helen.
  Venus: Nooooo! Aeneas don't kill her she's too pretty!
  Helen: [Face Palm] Gawd.
• Blue briefly crashes the video to talk about something he brought up in his own video about the Roman Republic, and ends up getting kicked in the face for it.
  Red: NO!
  Blue: Ohgodnottheface!
  Red: My video!
• Homer pops in whenever Virgil rips off The Odyssey, understandably upset.
  Homer: DUDE!!
  Virgil: Shh, I'm busy.
• Then near the end, Virgil stops ripping off The Odyssey.. and starts ripping off The Iliad
  Virgil: Well, that was fun!
  Homer: Are you done?
  Virgil: Time for books 7 through 12!
  Homer: *offscreen* AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
• But before that, Virgil retcons one of his OCs onto Odysseus's crew.
  Achaemenides: Hiya captain!
  Odysseus: Who the hell are you and how did you get on my ship.
• At the beginning Aeneas is cursed by a harpy to not reach Italy before his crew is so hungry that they eat their tables. Cut to near the end where he is eating proto-pizza, complete with a Little Ceasar's cardboard pizza box next to him. How does this present a loophole to avoid starvation?
  One of Aeneas's men: "Hey, check it out! We got so hungry we ate a bread / table / plate thing!
• This is then immediately followed up by Aeneas gasping The Prophecy! in realization in front of a background of pixel art pizza slices.
• Having finally found Italy, Juno (Romanized version of Hera) is having none of it and unleashes the Fury Alecto to cause havoc. How is she depicted doing this?
  Juno: Alecto, I choose you!

Dracula

• Red mentions how the defining character trait of vampires has shifted from horrifying and unholy to glamorous and sexy. She describes the change in the most hilarious way possible, which explains why it's the title picture for this page.
  Red: Much like Paradise Lost reimagining Satan into a sexy bad boy, something must have shifted the pop culture perspective on vampires from "inhuman monster" to (suddenly dramatic, with "Total Eclipse of the Heart" playing in the background, somewhere between extreme Mangst and extreme Wangst) "I'm a monster, baby. There's no saving me. You should just stay away, for your own good."
  • Makes it doubly funny and appropiate that Red used this song in the vampire segment, when one knows that "Total Eclipse of the Heart" was used as the vampire love duet for the German musical Tanz Der Vampire, retranslated as "Totale Finsternis".
• As Jonathan tries to escape Dracula's castle while being pursued by the three vampire ladies, we get this scene:
  Vampire 1: Come down here so we can kill you!
  Vampire 2: But in a sexy way!
  Vampire 3: With bosoms!
  Jonathan: I'm too Victorian for this...
  • As Red shifts perspectives from Jonathan to Mina and Lucy, she describes Jonathan's perilous situation as "Jonathan Harker's Wacy Funtimes in Vampire Land."
• Red describes Lucy Westenra as a "textbook ingenue who is pure and good and has too many boyfriends".
  • One of Lucy's aforementioned boyfriends is summed up as "a walking personification of the state of Texas by the name of Quincey P. Morris, which is, coincidentally, when we readers learn that Mr. Bram Stoker has never spoken to an American in his life."
  • Red lampshades Lucy's mother's status as the Unwitting Instigator of Doom.
    Red: The only way she could have made this easier for Dracula was if she put down landing lights.
• The extra context provided on how Victorian novels would often have female characters falling mysteriously ill for the sake of drama, which leads to an illustration of Arthur saying, "John, help, Lucy's sick and not in a hot way."
• Anytime Van Helsing's "serious face" shows up.
• At the end, when Red is reading the epilogue, she mentions how Arthur and Seward are both happily married, although not to each other.
  Red: Boy, I misinterpreted that line...
• "And that's why vampires are sexy now! Thank you and good night!"

Frankenstein

• Red sums up the story as a whole at points as an exhaustive Nested Story, with Walton reacting with excitement at what he'll tell his sister and her appropriately confused reaction to the whole thing.
• The Rule of Three in place with the Fatal Flaw Victor faces throughout his story: Is he easily corruptible to new knowledge and risk becoming naïve or overly close-minded depending which extreme he chooses to follow to avoid becoming overwhelmed and jaded from knowledge about the creation of man? No, not really. Does he face future crippling insecurity at no longer being the smartest person in the classroom? No, not even close. Does his thirst for knowledge spiral out of control when he enrolls in college? Oh yes.
• As the Monster tells his story after being abandoned:
  Red: So the Monster explains that after Victor freaked out and abandoned him, he kind of wandered around for a while, barely sentient and incapable of understanding his surroundings, because he was basically a GIANT. NEWBORN. BABY. Victor.
• The mental image of what would happen if the Monster's custom-made "bride" didn't actually want to marry him.
  The Monster: I'm alone and friendzoned!
  The Bride: I'm alone and this creep thinks I owe him sex!
• The next mental image of what might happen if Frankenstein makes the Monster a bride and they get along and have children is just as amusing. The two look lovingly on their monstrous children with a rather ...ominous sentiment.
  The Bride:All right children, go forth and conquer!
• The kicker to the above mental images illustrating Frankenstein's dilemma in making the Bride is that Red points out he could just make the Bride infertile. When the Monster shows up, understandably upset that Frankenstein has destroyed the Bride, there's a small moment where that shows he'd actually be fine with not having children. Though Frankenstein... objects.
  The Monster: She didn't need to be reproduction-capable!
  Frankenstein: Only a fool makes a monster you can't fu—

MacBeth

• From this summary, we have...this:
  Red: Patrick Stewart may be getting old but he sure knows how to rock a tank top *smacks self* NO! FOCUS!

Hamlet

• After Horatio sees the ghost of Hamlet Sr., he shows remarkable Genre Savvy.
  Red: Horatio, recognizing both that this armor-clad ghost is a foreboding omen of foreshadowing and that his secondary character status is not good enough to impress the ghost into speaking, suggests that they bring Hamlet to meet it so that maybe the ghost will actually DO something besides staring at them.
• After summarizing the situation with Fortinbras, son of Fortinbras:
  Red: The weapons are for the country's defense because patricide-fueled retribution tends to stink for everyone involved. (with reverb) Foreshadowing, ladies and gentlemen!
• Red rechristens Claudius as "Uncle Dad."
• Claudius' attempt to console Hamlet:
  Red: Uncle Dad starts talking about how great it is to have a son-nephew like Hamlet and it's pretty obvious that the feeling is far from mutual. So Uncle Dad is like: "Are you really still on about that whole 'dead father' thing? Come on, Hamlet, it's been like two months! Which should be more than enough time to get over the tragic and sudden death of the man who raised you while you were abroad, studying in England and couldn't be with him in his final moments. After all, statistically speaking, the vast majority of ALL fathers are dead, so this is nothing special!"
  • Then:
  Red: And then she and Uncle Dad frolic merrily off to the bedroom, leaving Hamlet alone and angst-ridden in a large scenic room with excellent acoustics. Unsurprisingly, soliloquies ensue.
• Red keeps wondering why the play's called "Hamlet" when the secondary cast gets so much screentime.
  Red: And back to the others again! It...really doesn't feel like this is Hamlet's play at all...
  Onscreen Text: The Tragedy of A Bunch of Random People Talking for Four Hours And Also the Prince of Denmark
• These people really don't understand emotions.
  Red: That old guy discerns with great ingenuity that maybe, just maybe, Hamlet is a bit because of that whole "Ophelia spurning his affections" thing. Because amazingly, nobody in the entirety of Denmark thinks that it might be because his father died barely two months ago. But no. Love is in the air and Hamlet must be mad with it.
• Just the phrase "avunculate patricide."
• You can't be too safe, especially when plotting a murder.
  Red: Uncle Dad suggests that they arrange a fencing match between the two of them but give Laertes an actual pointed sword instead of a foil. Laertes sees his pointed sword and raises one vial of untreatable poison, which he apparently carries with him in his breast pocket everywhere. Which Uncle Dad sees and raises one poisoned wine glass in case stabbing Hamlet with a poisoned, pointed sword doesn't...kill him fast enough for their liking, or something. I don't know. There's no kill like overkill, I guess.
• In the Yorrick's skull scene:
  Red: Hamlet notes that maybe, just maybe, this gravedigger isn't taking his job terribly seriously. And...soliloquy. Hamlet muses on death—(zooming in on the death counter) truly a novel concept in this play—considering how undistinguished one skull (A red arrow saying "ESPECIALLY THIS ONE" points to the far left skull, which is missing a jawbone) is from another. Horatio stares awkwardly and considers how those soliloquies look so short on paper.
• His name is HAMlet for a reason.
  Red: Laertes begins an overly dramatic sequence of angry mourning—and at the risk of being out-hammed in his own play—Hamlet leaps out of hiding and has a flipping-out contest with Laertes.
  Hamlet: I shall eat a crocodile! I'LL DO IT!!
• Red expresses confusion at Hamlet FINALLY killing Claudius with poison sword, poison goblet, and decorative chandelier.
  Red: I don't remember reading that in the stage directions.
• Fortinbras, son of Fortinbras is described as bursting in, guns blazing, seeing the room full of corpses, and echoing the thought that most of the audience is sharing at this point: "What in the heck just happened?!"
• According to the ending text, the moral of this story is: "Never Study Abroad. Your Dad Will be Murdered and Your Uncle Will Marry Your Mom."

Beowulf

• While summarizing, Red is initially surprised that it took three murder sprees by Grendel before Hrothgar finally decided to do something about it. But then she remembered that they were Nords and that their deaths were probably just seen as an excuse to party even harder. Her theory is instead that Hrothgar simply grew tired of having to install new doors every night.
• She calls Grendel's ire with the inhabitants of Heorot a "Grinch complex", and proceeds to insert "Heorot", "Danes", and "Grendel" in a bit of Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas! text repurposed for the situation of constant partying instead of Christmas.

Antony and Cleopatra

• In her video, Red's mind gets completely blown when she spots a certain actor in the movie version she's using as a reference.
  Red: Also, there's this guy Enobarbus who's Antony's servant and— oh my god! He had hair!?

Oedipus the King

• The video on Oedipus The King features a photograph of Sigmund Freud with added Bishie Sparkle and Blush Stickers.
  Freud-senpai~

Iphigenia

• Menelaus starts having qualms about the Human Sacrifice of his niece. Agamemnon isn't having it.
  Agamemnon: No! There are no take-backsies on god-solicited murder attempts!
• Clytemnestra tears a hole in the fake marriage scheme simply by talking to the "groom."
  Achilles: Wait, what? I can't be getting married! What'll I tell my hetero life-mate Patroclus?

The Oresteia

• The rendering of Clytemnestra's nightmare about giving birth to a snake.
  Snake (with her eyes): You're a lousy mom.
  Clytemnestra: Outrageous.

Miscellaneous Myths

There's so much funny business going around Miscellaneous Myths that it has its own page!

Fables and Folktales

The Snow Queen

• Being struck by the mirror shards turns Kay into a hipster.
• Red explaining that the Demon demonstrates the mirror's power by having his fellow demons look at things through it, see that the things have flaws and then pat themselves on the back for hating the things for said flaws. This prompts her to compare it to Twitter.
• This gem from Red:
  Red: But if I wanted to read about an insufferable small child mistaking math skills for having a personality, I'd just read the "early life" section of the Wikipedia page I don't have.
• Red describes Kay running off with the Snow Queen as "like Santa but backwards... and also a crime".
• Red is a bit flabbergasted at the Bandit Clan having a castle. Extra funny if you're familiar with Scandinavian, and particularily Swedish, folklore, where bandits having castles was a very common trope.
  Because apparently bandits have castles now.
• At the end, after Gerda manages to save Kay and he starts recognizing the world around him, Red notes that he finally notices he's been nearly freezing to death for months. This is rendered as him asking "Why can't I feel my butt?"

Prince Lindworm

• While describing how the king and queen serve as both monarchs and as a tragically childless couple, the music switches abruptly from "Flight of the Silverbird" to tragic operawailing.
• Red draws the Lindworm wearing a bowtie during the wedding.
• The unnamed king is remarkably unfazed by his dragon son repeatedly eating his brides.
  Lindworm: Bride!
  King: Oh, is she not with you?
  
  Lindworm: Bride!
  King: Son, this is becoming a problem.
• The Shepherdess uses a highly elaborate method to turn the lindworm back into their human form, starting with simultaneously wearing 10 dresses to her wedding night. Red draws this looking exactly how it sounds.
  Lindworm: Did you get rounder?
  Shepherdess: It was a big cake.
  
  Shepherdess: I'd cross my arms but I can't move my shoulders.
  • The first part of the plan succeeding is followed by the Shepherdess having red eyes and subtitles saying "Just as keikaku'd."
  • The second part is to use a whip she had the staff bring her. Red is sure the staff assumed it was for some totally kosher bedtime activity.
  Maid: I'm just saying I understand the whip. What's the milk and lye for?
  Servant: Why do you ask questions you know you don't actually want answered?
• When the castle staff finds the Shepherdess and the now-humanized Lindworm the day after.
  Staff: How did this happen?!
  Shepherdess: Uuuh...
  Lindworm: TRUE LOVE'S KISS!
• With the Lindworm transformed into a prince, he and the Shepherdess get happily married for real and everyone lived happily ever after... except the two princesses who got eaten. One of their ghosts is a bit peeved at this.
  Princess #1: Well fuck me, I guess!
  Princess #2: I think it's sweet.
• The end-credits are Red singing "Bring me to life." Yes, that one.

Urashima-Taro

• When the titular protagonist asks the locals what happened to his missing house and missing family, the only thing they can tell him is how confused they are that he's so invested in looking for the family of a legendary figure. This prompts them to tell him the legend of the boy Urashima who was mysteriously drowned at sea and never returned. Perhaps the funniest part is how legendary!Urashima is portrayed in a fashion like an actual Japanese painting, driving home how Urashima's disappearance has been glorified.

Tokoyo and the Sea Serpent

• While Red considers the reasoning perfectly valid, she still gets a kick out of the fact that many people who visit Japan nowadays seem to do so mainly because of anime.
  Red: We all know an anime fan who was like, "oh I'd love to visit Japan! (cracks up a little) I've watched so much JoJo's Bizarre Adventure!
• Tokoyo maintaining the same exasperated, deadpan expression she has waiting to charter a boat as she does stealing a boat. This just isn't her day.
• The Priest in the story about to sacrifice his poor sobbing daughter to appease a serpent? Tragic. Him trying to calm her by saying "I know, I know" as though she's about to get a mere booster shot? Darkly adorable!
• Tokoyo zips over to save the Priest's daughter so fast that her rage eye-lights get left behind at her sleeping spot.
• This exchange between the Priest and Tokoyo after the former explains to the latter the context of the serpent:
  Tokoyo: (Tiredly, Hands him her robe) Hold this.
  Priest: Wha-
  Tokoyo: The Silk is too nice to ruin.
• Hojotakatoki's statue. The fact it's supposed to be a effigy of him to make him waste away should be scary on its own. The fact is has a blank expression with a tongue sticking out undercuts any scariness it's supposed to exude.
• Tokoyo climbing to shore with Hojotakatoki's statue and the slain sea monster with but a simple "Sup", as though killing a sea monster were nothing more than pearl-diving!

Shippeitaro

• Shippeitaro's fight against the demon cat is represented with a Persona 5-style cut-in and the dog absolutely demolishing his opponent.
  Demon cat: AAAAAAAAAAH MY ONE WEAKNESS
• The final shot of the video is Shippeitaro (who is an adorable Shiba Inu) with Fireball Eyeballs, a caption that reads "justice" in Comic Sans, and a blep. All while Red is just completely gushing over him.

Modern Classics Summarized

Of Mice and Men

• Red refuses to illustrate her video for Of Mice And Men, instead using the '90s adaptation. Her reasoning? She gets far more emotionally-attached to characters she's had to draw, citing her Big "WHY?!" reaction in The Odyssey as an example.

H. P. Lovecraft

• Red describing H.P. Lovecraft as less "a man with issues" and more "a bundle of issues shambling around in a roughly bipedal approximation of a man", and how his Trauma Conga Line of a life is almost a Kafka Komedy.
• When recapping his life, she mentions that he had access to a well-stocked home library, but "had too delicate a constitution for math." This causes her to briefly pause and give a bemused Aside Glance to the audience.^note For further context, Red herself has a Bachelor's degree in Mathematics, which makes her sheer disbelief as funny as it is understandable.
  • The initial captions also add a Flat "What" during the pause.
  • When Lovecraft's mom gets committed, Red notes that it's unknown what was actually wrong with her due to psychology at the time using the blanket diagnosis of hysteria, "aka 'Being-A-Woman' disease".
    Lovecraft's Dad: Probably that pesky uterus.
  • She also theorizes that he may have suffered from an Inferiority Superiority Complex, as evidenced by the image that pops up when she discusses his racism.
    Drawing!Lovecraft: My superior blood sets me above the common man. Because if I'm not inherently exceptional, I'm just another shrinkingly insignificant mote in the cold, pitiless gaze of the unfeeling cosmos. And that'd just be incomprehensibly horrifying!
  • Red imagines his reaction to the concept of the non-visible spectrum.
    Photograph!Lovecraft: You mean there exist colors that man has never seen? [sprouts a gigantic pair of Wiggle Eyes] What might they be capable of?!
  • And once that results in another case of Artistic License – Physics:
    Red: This is what happens when you don't have the constitution for math!
• The Running Gags of H.P. Lovecraft's initials meaning something else (e.g. "Hates Progress Lovecraft"), and, throughout the segment on "The Colour Out of Space," the (creepy music) "mysterious color unlike any seen on Earth."
• In The Call of Cthulhu, the speech at the archaeology academics' meeting:
  Speaker: And in conclusion, the world must never know that "for ritual purposes" is code for "we have no idea what this is."
  • And indeed, "ritual purposes" is the first suggestion thrown out regarding the Cthulhu statuette. Inspector LeGrasse points out that they already knew that. Duh.
  • "Oh, but don't worry, circa-1920's New England readers, I know you wanna know the exact ethnic backgrounds and skin color of these cultists before you render moral judgement. Well don't you worry, Lovecraft has you covered!"
    Inherent Moral Superiority: VALIDATED
    • "I won't say Lovecraft got subtler about his deep abiding loathing and terror of anyone with a skin tone darker than pantone 727, but this is probably the most all-inclusive it ever gets in his writing."
  • Her description of what happens to the sailors after the first appearance of Cthulhu:
    Red: The island's terrifying geometry notwithstanding, the sailors soldier on until they encounter a very big door. Following (I guess) video game logic, the sailors agree that opening this very big door sounds like a fun idea, and—surprise surprise—Cthulhu comes out. Way to do the cult's job for them, geniuses! So two of the sailors die of fright, one trips on a corner and clips through the map, and three of them get squished. Johansen and one other guy exit pursued by Cthulhu, and once in the boat, Johansen, brave, snow-white Norwegian that he is, turns the boat around and rams the pursuing Cthulhu right in his big jelly face. It smells awful, there's jelly everywhere, but as the boat retreats, Cthulhu is seen pulling himself back together. Because if you could kill an Elder God the same way you kill a rampaging Disney villain, most of Lovecraft's stories would have very different tones.
• "JUST MOVE AWAY."
• Her exasperated reaction to the oh-so-subtle "Gilman Hotel" in Innsmouth.^note Red didn't make the connection to Robert's last name, Olmstead — an olm is a sea salamander which is colloquially known as the "human fish", while "stead" is a home.
  • She also calls the narrator Robert "What-Are-Warning-Bells" Olmstead thanks to his dogged insistence on travelling the cheapest way possible.
  • The ticket agent's disclaimer regarding the dark rumors about Innsmouth:
    It's probably just racism, but I'm racist, so...
  • The Freeze-Frame Bonus brochure Olmstead picks up at the information booth:
    COME TO INNSMOUTH
    WE HAVE FISH
  • Then, at the end, the sales pitch he gets from his great-grandma:
    We've got a good thing going. Lots of gold, so much fish.
  • Red describes the islanders' fish fuckery as "Shape of Water-shenanigans."
  • She concludes the video with an acoustic rendition of "Under the Sea", partially because she can't help but think how horrified Lovecraft would have been by the modern "hot fish people" trope, with Ariel greeting Robert Olmstead.
• The professors of Miskatonic University show off the gear they brought to confront The Dunwich Horror. Armitage has some Latin spells, Rice has a bug sprayer loaded with an anti-invisibility potion, and Morgan brought "a really big gun".
  Morgan: We don't know it won't work! Get off my back!
  • Speaking of Miskatonic University, this is what Wilbur says when he turns up there looking for the Necronomicon:
    Wilbur: Where do you keep the evil books?
    • This is shortly followed by the librarian, Dr. Armitage, looking over Wilbur's shoulder, triggering a technicolor background and spooky music to signify the eldritch lore he was gleaning from the convenient page.
  • Red describes mysterious goings-on at the Whateley farm:
    Red: [The Whatelys] also start buying a lot of cows, although oddly, they never seem to have a lot of cows.

Don Quixote

• The Running Gag of the interesting characters not being the subject of the book: "Oh, right, the book's not about these people."
• Red reacting to Pancho deciding the bright side to being the leader of an African country would be having plenty of slaves to sell.
  Red: (aghast) OKAY!!!
• Red briefly interjects during the entire Love Dodecahedron adventure as it spirals into absurdity with a combination of marriage betrayals, emotional misunderstandings, and at least one minor character pushed off a cliff as retribution for attempted sexual assault:
  Red: (fondly) What an excellent goddamn soap opera.

A Christmas Carol

• In A Christmas Carol, Red mentions that she'd like to use clips from her favorite adaptation, but doesn't want to deal with copyright claims from "the multi-limbed Eldritch Abomination that is the House of Mouse", accompanied by a drawing of Red wielding a sword against Nyarlathotep with a pixelated Mickey Mouse head on it.
• Red describing Jacob Marley shutting down Scrooge:
  Red: Marley responds by ripping off his head wrapping and his jaw falls off. Wow, if I could do that I would never lose an argument again!
• Red's attempt at describing the Ghost of Christmas Past and shortly thereafter comparing it to a Biblical angel.
• This delightful bit of Black Comedy:
  Red: Scrooge reads the room and asks the Ghost [of Christmas Present] if Tiny Tim is going to live and the Ghost is all "NOOOPE!"
• Red making jabs at how long it took Scrooge to figure out that the dead guy in the "Christmas Yet to Come" timeline was him.

Lord of the Flies

• For Lord Of The Flies, Red dubs the conch shell "Shelley", then this happens.
  Red: So Ralph blows Shelley...(laughs)
  Screen: I'M AN ADULT

All Quiet on the Western Front

• Even though All Quiet On The Western Front is incredibly depressing (y'know, because World War One), Red adds kittens to fill in scenes that weren't addressed in its movie adaptation, along with a few confused comments about why... well, because kittens and levity.
• The Nazis executing the author's sister explicitly because they couldn't get to him and then sending Erna (her sister) the execution bill elicits a hilariously obvious "Guess what? Nazis are dicks, who knew?" from Red.
• Also from the beginning of the summarization, Red's narration of how Paul and his company got double their usual amount of food rations.
  Red: It's all thanks to (scene changes to Paul and company hurrying into a trench for safety) the unexpected shelling bombardment that wiped out half their company from 150 to 80. The cook didn't catch on in time, so woo-hoo, double rations for everybody! Yaaaay!
• After introducing the four main characters of the book, Red then says: "Anyway, here's the rest of [Paul's] Army Buddies" and quickly shows a few more side-characters, along with fairly dark captions under their names like "Voted 'Most Likely to Survive this Book'" and "Voted 'Most Likely to get half his ribcage blown off'"; all while AC/DC's "Highway to Hell" is playing in the background, cause, ya' know, War Is Hell.
• Throughout the summary, a "War Is Hell Counter" ticks slowly upward as Red's description goes on. At 43, the newest batch of fresh-faced recruits comes out, and it reacts "OH MY GOD THOSE ARE BABIES NOPE I'M OUT"

Dr. Jekyll And Mister Hyde

• In the Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde video, Jekyll's final note ends with him writing "Should've just gotten a cursed portrait like that Dorian guy down the road."
  • Red also ends the video by declaring Dr. Jekyll a better example of a Mad Scientist than Victor Frankenstein, since Jekyll was an actual doctor who took risks and used himself as a test-subject instead of a college dropout who abandoned their first experiment because it had the wrong eye color.
    Victor: And then my experiment worked but it was really spooky and the eyes were all wrong so I ran away and got sick for three months :c
    Doctor Jekyll, Sc.D.: [In the middle of pouring an unknown chemical into a can of Red Bull and chugging it] Unfortunate.
• When describing the viewpoint character, Gabriel Utterson, Red illustrates that he has "less personality than a sandwich" by abruptly switching his face to a vastly simplified one with dots for eyes and a tiny mouth. This art style is also used for the faces of Utterson's "equally boring cousin," Hyde's murder victim, and Jekyll playing innocent.
  Enfield: So something happened the other day.
  Utterson: Impossible.
• Red points out that, due to Victorian social mores, the "unspecified base urges" of Jekyll could have been anything from eating orphans to a liking for drag. This provokes a Brick Joke later when, after Hyde really starts getting into Jekyll's A Darker Me instincts, he laughs maniacally when he realizes he can finally... gamble on Go Fish.
• When Hyde is no longer available as an outlet for those urges, Jekyll turns to Ashley Madison.
  Jekyll: I sure do love completely reliable anonymity.
• The title of the newspaper is hilarious when you pause the video to read it.
  The daily exposition

  Mr. Hyde kills dude

  "Super murdered" says key witness

Edgar Allan Poe:

• Poe wails over The Lost Lenore a little too literally.
  The late Mrs. Poe: My name was Virginia, you ass.
• "You've saved me just in time, literary convention!"
• The protagonist of the first story, The Pit and the Pendulum has an unfortunate tendency to black out randomly while stuck in a dangerous death trap, much to Red’s annoyance.
  Red: So Fred, faced with this terrifying development opts to take another nap. (Cut to Red shaking the sleeping Narrator) Focus goddamn it!
  • Red's arbitrary decision to name the protagonist of The Pit and the Pendulum "Fred" made that section of the video Hilarious in Hindsight to anyone who watched Mike Flanagan's series The Fall of the House of Usher (2023).
• Red goes off on a slight tangent when discussing The Cask of Amontillado.
  Red: So the POV character in The Cask of Amontillado is Montresor, a... guy? He's a nobleman or something. You don't really need to know that much about him, since his primary defining feature is that he has this friend who he really hates. Why are they still friends, you might ask? Well, you know. It's like the Shakespearean duo, Iago and Othello. [a sketch of the aforementioned duo pops up] When you've known someone for so long and experienced so much together, when they start getting on your nerves a little, you don't just write them off like it's nothing. You work to preserve your friendship, because when all is said and done, [cue demonic music overtop Iago's serenely smiling face] nothing on this Earth is more satisfying than looking into their eyes one day and seeing the hope drain from their face as in one fell swoop you destroy them and all they hold dear. [music suddenly cuts out] Go read Othello. It's great.
• "And Fortunato's like, 'Dude!' and Montresor's like, 'Dude, indeed.'"
  • This might actually be based on two lines of dialogue from the story itself: "For the love of God, Montresor!" "Yes, for the love of God."
• In The Tell-Tale Heart, Red taking the narrator's insistence that he's not crazy and running with it.
  Red: But he's not crazy! He's just got crazy good hearing.

Stranger in a Strange Land

• The frequent Author Tracts by Heinlein get their own mini-segment, Deep Thoughts With Heinlein, with a photo of his head on Socrates' body as Red gives her irreverent summaries of his speeches.
  "Human society brainwashes us into accepting artificial limitations on our lives and choices. This is wrong. Love should be free, and without limits.
  ... Unless it's gay, of course."
• Everything do with the fact that Michael can apparently only explain the Martian concept of God through sex. Red takes a few minutes out to explain that yes, this is leading exactly where you think it is, and to remove children in the audience.
• This episode also continues Red's Running Gag of depicting the sex scenes as card games.
• Red censors the characters' private parts with pictures of Heinlein's head throughout the video. One of the final shots is Michael's superpowered descendants T-posing through space to confront the Martians, with both the people and Heinlein's heads sporting Glowing Eyes of Doom.
• Red points out some Fridge Logic when Jill teaches Mike how to not attract gay people... by being as masculine as possible.
  Red: Because if there's one thing gay dudes don't like, it's... dudes...
• When government agents arrive to re-kidnap Mike, one of them punches Jill and Red draws a sign saying "This violence was brought to you by the government"
• The music in the Fosterite church is It's Raining Men.
• At one point, Red brings up a character named Dawn, one of the members of Mike's sex cult who has been using her new powers to look nearly identical to Jill. Red notes that the reason is never explained in the text and ultimately concludes that it's "just something Heinlein is into".
• When Red finally gets to the sex cult part, she takes a moment to beg the audience to keep children away from the video.
  Red: And if for some ungodly reason you have a kid watching this or are a kid watching this...please don't. I just...I can't have that on my conscience.
• Red's reactions to 2 of the male characters being forced into sex by Michael's cult, with the second occurrence happening to Heinlein's self-insert character. Both times she sounds more like a mother scolding their child for misbehaving.
  Red: Heinlein, did you just write one of your male leads being assaulted by your sex cult and treat it like it was a good thing?
  [later in the video]
  Red: Heinlein, did you just write your SELF-INSERT character being assaulted by your sex cult and FRAME IT LIKE IT WAS A GOOD THING?!
• The sex cult's hiding place is a hotel with a "We're wearing pants" sign outside.
• From the video description:
  This book is:
  10% Mike
  20% stars
  15% concentrated power of mars
  5% water
  50% cult
  and 100% topics that are very adult

Trope Talks

• In the Write What You Know video, Red recalls a time in which she attended a voice acting panel run by David Vincent in which (among other things) a few attendees got to try their hand at on-stage reactions to various hypothetical situations, including death scenes. Red's prompt was to voice a character who gets splashed with acid and set on fire before falling out a window.
  Red: Now, I hadn't technically done any of those things... except for the fire part. Pro tip: superglue and cotton don't mix!
• In the Trope Talk for romantic subplots, Red goes on various slight tangents about controversial ships to expand on her points, which usually prompts clips from Pacific Rim of Kaiju, labelled as shippers of said ships being discussed, attacking Jaegers, who are labelled as the comments section.
• Before Red starts off her Trope Talk on plot twists, she gives us some backstory on the Game of Thrones show.
  Red: For those of you viewing this in the future, when both Game of Thrones and the polar ice caps are a distant, irrelevant memory...
• The trope talk on Mentors discusses the fact that mentors have a habit of dying. A lot. Red remarks that "the only deadlier professions in fiction are nightwatchmen in a government facility, street tough in a biker bar, and Mom." The last one is just a head-shot of a smiling woman with "Footage Not Found" in place of where her eyes and nose should be, just to drive the point home. And for extra points, she's a dead-ringer for Trisha Elric.
• From her Trope Talk on pure evil villains, Red expresses her dislike of Thanos' motivation in Avengers: Infinity War and thinks they should have stuck with his motivation from the comics: trying to bang the thoroughly uninterested personification of Death.
  Red: Anyone who thinks that wouldn't make a scary villain has clearly never dealt with r/incel.
• The Antihero episode starts with Red describing them as if they were dishes at a restaurant, before admitting the metaphor got away from her.
  Her whiteboard: Now I'm hungry (sad face)
• The Amnesia episode has Red's little sketches defaulting to the cause of the amnesia being a smack on the head with a pan. Especially funny when she's talking about degrees of fictional amnesia, while the guy getting smacked is casually saying "oh dang there goes March".
• When discussing the origins of the Five-Man Band trope, Red notes how the cast of Journey to the West has no one who really fills The Smart Guy role, "to the surprise of precisely nobody."
• When Red talks about the tournament arc in My Hero Academia, she has this wise summation about Bakugo:
  Red: It's rough being the rival when you think you're the protagonist.
  • And she even gets a brief experience of how it feels to mimic his voice:
    Red: [puts on a low, gruff voice] "Why don't you fight ME like that?! Am I not good enough for you, Deku???!!!" [...] [chokes on her normal voice] Oh my god! How does his actor do that?!
• In the Accents Trope Talk, on Pegasus' Gratuitous English in Yu-Gi-Oh!.
  Red: He was like the inverse of that person who sprinkles random Japanese into their English because they've gotten way into anime and they think that's sufficient to learn a language. To properly localize it, he probably should've been saying stuff like "Konichiwa, everybody! I'd like to welcome you to my simply sugoi tournament!"
• The Trope Talk for The Hero's Journey, which is made by Blue for a change.
  • The intro is hilarious, especially his attempt to lure Red out by provoking her.
    Blue: Hey, Red, you won't believe the morning I had! I just fought off an entire horde of... *walks into the screen, plucking a shuriken from his hair* ...nin...jas... Red? *Beat* Hey, look! Someone's writing characters based on antiquated stereotypes rather than personal experience! *Beat* Huh. Guess she's not here after all...
  • Later on about the increasing variability of the trope, in contrast to how rigid Joseph Campbell defined it:
    Blue: [...] any number of component parts can and usually are excluded from the final product, which is great, because with this generator we hooked up to Campbell's grave, we can power the entire Eastern Seaboard with how fast he's spinning!
  • And the ending, where Red suddenly bursts into the room via magic portal behind the bookcase, dressed up in adventure gear and with a glowing bottle.
    Blue: Woah!
    Red: Dude, you would not the believe the afternoon I just had!
    Blue: Where have you been?! I just did a whole— Never mind! What is that?
    Red: An elixir, I think. It seemed important that I return with it.
    Blue: Huh.
    Red: Also, did you know this bookcase has been a foot away from the wall the whole time!? ...So, yeah.
• In her talk on Magic, Red simplifies the use of spells as "wave your hands and something noticeably happens that is not typically correlated with the waving of hands." She gives lighting, fire and 1d6 Dire Rats as an example.
• In her talk on Grimdark, she talks about the general idea that optimism is childish while pessimism is realistic. And concludes that it's a load of hooey.
  Red: Yeah, I said it! What're you gonna do, be sad at me about it?
• Red doesn't get one sentence into the "Mary Sue" video before Godzilla labelled "HOW DARE U" attacks the comments section.
  • Later in the video Red notes that some definitions of a Mary Sue technically make Goku one.
    Kong: [throwing a boulder at Godzilla comments section] Goku is a goddamn hero this is slander
• In "Tragedy", after going through the history of tragedy, from the Greeks through Shakespeare and opera to modern tragedies like Death of a Salesman, Red mentions that non-tragic narratives can be read as tragedies from the perspective of a different character, usually the villain, and the example she brings up is Kung Fu Panda 2:
  Red: Ha! I fooled you with all that Shakespeare and opera talk! You forgot I'm not classy at all!
  • Also from "Tragedy", discussing how Romeo and Juliet plays like a standard Elizabethan romance until Mercutio dies:
  Red: In modern Rom Com context, that'd be like if the asshole boss shot the Gay Best Friend halfway through the movie!
  • Still more! Red comes across the, to quote her "frankly ridiculous pseudonym" of Jacopo Peri, considered the father of opera: "Il Zazzerino"
• In the "Queer-Coded Villain" trope talk, Red briefly discusses queerbaiting, complete with a screenshot of the That Other Wiki page. And a note saying that she was knocked out when she saw the picture they use. A picture of Sherlock's Watson and Sherlock.
  • The same talk features an illustration of a generic-as-hell hero confronting a rainbow colored villain while the audience watches.
  Hero: Once again the power of clean living and racial purity saves the day.
  Villain: Hissss
  Audience: Just kiss already!
• In the Sins of Our Fathers video, Red discusses the origin of the trope in the Tanakh, and how Ezekiel actually has God state that he no longer does that because it didn't have the intended effect. She describes this like a video game update, saying it's "No longer part of the policy for the 1.1 Alpha release".
• In the Space Horror video, Red refers to the xenomorph as the "unholy offspring of a gimp suit and a velociraptor."
  • The video starts with a content warning, in which Red notes that if you are already afraid of space, this video about how space is scary might not be for you, and if you aren't already afraid of space, this video might change that. The warning is prefaced by Red admitting she genuinely hadn't realised that a video about a horror trope might need a content warning until Blue brought it up.
  • Red's introduction to why people contemplate outer space, sharply contrasted by her doodle of a caveman being eaten by a tiger:
    Red: Experts around the world agree that humans look up sometimes. In fact, looking up is one of our species' favorite hobbies, and has been highly popular for as long as we've had suitably flexible spines and apex predators that know how to climb. But 'up' is more than just a fun direction tigers sometimes come out of! 'Up' is also where space is.
• In the video on Faustian Bargains, Red gives Puella Magi Madoka Magica as an example of characters who made a deal for something specific (a wish), and got superpowers as an add-on. She then throws in a quick PSA that "Cute kitty things offering free superpowers are only benevolent like 60% of the time".
  • Later in the video, Red starts Corpsing when stating that the moral of the story is that faustian bargains are really, really stupid.
• In "Personifying Death", Red spends a good portion of the video discussing Death from Discworld.
  Red: It's a pretty uncontroversial take that Discworld's Death is one of the best written Deaths in all fiction, and if you disagree, that's cool. Pistols at dawn and I won't need any backup.
• In many of the videos, Red's dialogue is accompanied by clips from Kaiju movies, with the Kaiju and the thing it's fighting having "comments section" and a stereotypical response hovering over them. In "Strong Female Characters", the first clip is one of the Jaegers from Pacific Rim with "HOW DARE YOU" fighting a kaiju comments section. When bringing up Rey from Star Wars, Godzilla with "She's a Mary Sue" is seen blasting a comments section MUTO.
• In "Robots" Red admits that she'd probably resort to using a calculator if asked to do a large amount of math.
  Red: Listen, I didn't get my degree in math so I could actually do math.
• Small Mammal on a Big Adventure:
  • Red notes that what matters most about the protagonists of the titular stories are that the protagonists are "very small, very fragile, and often rather unsure of the machinations of humans." The graphic that goes along with this lists a mouse's traits as "small", "squishy" and "does not know what taxes are."
  • A mouse looking upon a toilet from their perspective. Their response? "So majestic."
  • When Red is describing how easy it is to create dramatic irony from the reader easily recognizing things without exposition that an animal wouldn't, a mouse's reaction to seeing a box of "rat poison and miscellaneous knives" is "That sign won't stop me because I can't read!"
  • Red illustrates the different extremes of the anthropomorphization scale by showing one normal mouse hiding in panic from a human, while another, clothes-wearing mouse, is paying that same human their month's rent.
  • This hilarious quote from the "a common implication is the story could be secretly really happening" graphic:
    Mouse Lecturer: Remember, my siblings, if the humans catch you, take off your pants!
  • Red notes that in a low-anthropomorphism setting, reading from the perspective of a mouse or other small animal interacting with normal human things they see as terrifyingly incomprehensible produces a unique combination: Dramatic Irony and Cosmic Horror. Of course, the analogy she uses is pretty humorous:
    Red: This is like if we were the eldritch horrors reading The Colour Out of Space. Like, "No, little humans! Get out of there! The color pucegenta is very bad for organics!"
  • That is immediately followed by the contrast between mouse and human perspectives:
    Mouse: A great earth beast rampaged through my home, rendering the soil and consuming all that grew green and good.
    Human: That's rough, buddy, but is what a combine harvester is for.
  • The second sidebar that Red brings up is something that she can't decide if she thinks is funny or really annoying, that being the subtrope of "Magic Is Real, But Only For Mice." Cue a human watching a wizard duel between two mice.
  • Red highlights a twist from the The Dark Portal that reveals that the dark god the rats worship is a cat, which is played exactly as the sort of lovecraftian nightmare that one expect a rat to perceive it as, but then Red highlights that it's also a wizard and breathes fire, and she produces the very amusing image of said cat hanging from a wall and looking hilariously miffed about it while breathing fire.
  • While Red notes that the magical rodents thing is partly because the Secret Small Mammal Civilization thing is just a reflavouring of the Secret Hidden Magical World trope, she brings up this graphic where a human pulls back a curtain, finds a mouse castle, and then...
    Mouse: I know this is a lot to take in, but is it a bad time to tell you about Mouse Jesus?
  • Cue this immediate follow-up with Red noting how this leaves her with so many follow-up worldbuilding questions and the implications of rodent magic - specifically a human seeing a mouse performing out-of-body soul magic:
    Human: How did you do that?! Can I do that??
    Mouse: Sorry, only mice have souls.
  • Red briefly brings up The Chronicles of Narnia, and refers to Aslan as "God's fursona".
• Noodle Incidents:
  • A cursory look at the comments makes it evident that the most immediate go-to reference for this trope for quite a few people is the jockstrap incident.
  • The example Red uses for a story implying they're doing something exciting or clever incolves a crime scene with a whole bunch of clues... And then Emperor Palpatine of all people appears in the window gloating about doing the crime, much to the detective's annoyance.
  • While explaining how this trope is basically the humorous version of not showing a horror monster, it shows a scene of a person in a dark place with a flashlight, as something horrifying and unknowable creeps towards them from behind. They turn around, and the flashlight reveals the vague details of a Noodle Incident instead, specifically "something involving bananas".
    Scared Person: THIS CLARIFIES NOTHING!
  • Bananas are the other go-to food reference for this trope in this video. Including this one shot where a character tells their companion entirely seriously "it's time you learned the story of that thing with the bananas."
  • While explaining how a writers usually shouldn't explain a Noodle Incident in a segment Red calls "Fans Don't Know What They Want From Their Stories", and writers who don't understand this principle will inevitably disappoint fans than please them by revealling what happened. She uses Solo: A Star Wars Story for this example of how every explanation for every noodle incident from Han's backstory is the "average explanation", and this is despite the fact that she liked that movie more than most (the fact that she actually watched it was already kind of big step). One commentor puts the problem with the movie thusly:
    Solo did basically all the Noodle incidents back to back, which means that, instead of Han having a long and storied career filled with many different adventures, he’s a guy that peaked early who keeps bringing up the one cool week he had 10 full years ago.

Legends Summarized

The Nine Realms:

• It quickly becomes apparent that the 'nine' in Nine Realms is a Non-Indicative Name, and so the number counter for the realms starts going a bit... loopy. Mostly because the number of good pre-Christian sources are scant, there's only two big sources for Norse myth, and one of them (the Prose Edda) unfortunately is somewhat Christianized.
  1. Realm #1: Midgardr
  2. Realm #2: Asgardr
  3. Realm #3: Jötunheimr
  4. Realm #4-ish: Vanaheimr
  5. Realm #5-ish: Niflhel
  6. Realm #? and ¿: Niflheim and Muspelheim
  7. Realm #Oh this one was in Marvel: Nidavellir
  8. Realm #What: Okolnir
  9. Realm #Oh like in God of War: Urdarbrunnr
  10. Realm #Time warp: Idavöllr
  11. Realm #𓃡: Járnvidr
  12. Realm #Spooky: Nidafjöll
  13. Realm #Pranked: Útgardr
  14. Realm #Wales: Glæsisvellir
  • Really, it turns out that Norse myth really likes the number nine, which might actually be a straight up non-indicative number in this particular mythology.
  • Red's depiction of how the Eddas don't agree on the realms is also hilarious:
  Midgard, Asgard - *looks at smudged writing on hand*- Marscapone...'

The Epic of Gilgamesh

• Red censoring bare asses with images of peaches.
• Gilgamesh's subjects inscribing literal out-of-five-star reviews of his rule. The guy shown doing it compliments his tax policy and monster-killing resume, but complains about Gilgamesh bouncing him like a basketball and then banging his wife - this still only knocks off two stars.
• The Running Gag of depicting sex as board games continues, with Enkidu and Shamhat playing chess.
• When Enkidu learns of Gilgamesh's antics...
  Enkidu: How dare he ruin the wholesome fun of consensual boning!
  Shamhat: I have nothing more to teach you.
• Red runs with Gilgamesh and Enkidu's bromance as far as she can take it, really, and it's great.
• Red describes Gilgamesh's existential crisis on his journey for immortality as "he's still defeating lions with his bare hands but now he's sad about it."
• Utnapishtim's story is... Decidedly unhelpful for Gilgamesh.
  Gilgamesh: But I can't use that at all!
  Utnapishtim: Wow that's so weird it's almost like immortality doesn't just happen!
• Gilgamesh is challenged to stay awake for seven days and nights. He declares it to be trivial... And then passes out immediately. And stays asleep for that exact time!
• At the end, right after giving a speech about what immortality really is and how the Epic truly immortalizes Gilgamesh... Red goes on an immediate tangent/rant about Type-Moon's Fate series and complains about that specific depiction of Gilgamesh and how his design and Iskandar/Alexander's designs should have been swapped.
  Red: ...but while we're talking retellings, look, I coudn't give less of a sh*t about the Fate franchise, but it drives me up the f*ckin wall that this (displays Fate!Gilgamesh) is their design for Gilgamesh. THIS?! This... gold-plated broomstick?? TWO-THIRDS GOD WITH A SIX CUBIT STRIDE?! You're telling me it's not THIS beefy muscle-man?! (Shows an image of Iskandar/Alexander The Great) You're telling me that is supposed to be Alexander The GREAT? Who did all of his best work before he was 25?! It's a rare treat for the Fate franchise to have designs that even come close to making sense (while showing a comparison between a portrait of Sir Francis Drake and the gender-bent Fate version (who may actually be Elizabeth I in disguise), which she labels as "Sir Francis Drake, (1540-1596), "El-Draque", English explorer, privateer, G-Cup "), but these designs would ACTUALLY kinda work if you just SWITCHED them! And instead they did THIS! And I hate it! I hate it so much! I can't believe they'd do this to me!

Blue's Videos

History Summarized

• In the start of his video about the history of the Iroquois confederation, Blue says that he managed to get his hands on a rare and very accurate document detailing the history of this nation. Cue a cutscene from Assassin's Creed III.
  • Which leads to a Brick Joke at the end of the video when Blue is talking about how Iroquois history is a great example of the value of peace and cooperation. Cut to Connor murdering a British soldier with a tomahawk.
• The plethora of alternate nicknames Blue gives to Alexander the Great in his video on the man are absolutely glorious. They all include, but certainly aren't limited to:
  1. Alexander the Soon-to-be-Great
  2. Alexander the Oblique
  3. Alexander the Swell
  4. Alexander the Shiny and New
  5. Alexander the Suddenly Preoccupied
  6. Alexander the Legit
  7. Alexander the Passable
  8. Alexander with the Good Hair
  9. Alexander the Thorough
  10. Alexander the Alright
  11. Alexander the Adaptable
  12. Alexander the Hostage Taker
  13. Alexander the Hamilton
  14. Alexander the Flammable
  15. Alexander the alriiiight, alriiiight, alriiiight
  16. Alexander the Insistent
  17. Alexander the Thoroughly Miffed
  18. Alexander the Persistent
  19. Alexander the Absolutely Flawless
  20. Alexander the Adventuresome
  21. Alexander the Overhyped
  22. Alexander the Regal
  23. Alexander the Feisty
  24. Alexander the Good Boy
  25. Alex-sand-er the Is-Coarse-and-Rough-and-Irritating-and-Gets-Everywhere
  26. Alexander the Demigod
  27. Alexander the Underwood
  28. Alexander the Not-Done-Yet
  29. Alexander the Elfheid
  30. Alexander the Ample
  31. Alexander the Tactically Gifted
  32. Alexander the Decent
  33. Alexander the Alexandest
  34. Alexander the A.O.K.
  35. Alexander the Eastbound
  36. Alexander the Blandly-Named
  37. Alexander the Sculpt-Me-Pretty-or-I'll-Kill-You
  38. Alexander the Looking-More-Persian-By-the-Day
  39. Alexander the Still-Basically-Kind-of-a-Teenager
  40. Alexander the Dead
  41. Alexander the Promachos
  42. Alexander the Aristos
  43. Alexander the Conqueror
  44. Alexander the Horseman
  45. Alexander the (ugh, damnit!) Great
  • Which returns in the second Dumb History Tales video released two years later:
    1. Alexander the Rad
    2. Alexander the Alexander
    3. Alexander the Plot Armor
    4. Alexander the Not-Yet-Aware-of-How-Globes-Work
  • And also gets a mention in the History Summarized: The Roman Republic video:
    1. Alexander the Short-Sighted
  • And yet again in History Hijinks: Greek Wise Guys:
    1. Alexander the Not-Especially-Studious
    2. Alexander the Big-Deal King Guy
  • The video on Sappho adds yet another:
    1. Alexander the You're-All-Speaking-Greek-Now
  • One more added the pile with History Re-Summarized: Egypt
    1. Alexander the Macedonian Twink
• Other gems from the Alexander video:
  • The final item on Philip II's list of military innovations: spears longer than the Earth's radius.
  • The newly enthroned Alexander intimidates rebels into submission by conducting military drills.
    Blue: This is the only instance I'm aware of in which an armed revolt was suppressed by a marching band routine.
  • Blue cues up some dramatic music for the Battle of Gaugamela: the theme of The Good, the Bad and the Ugly.
    Alexander: Dude, what's up with this music?
    Darius: No idea, it's really thematically incongruous.
  • Alexander's possible causes of death: fever, alcohol poisoning, and poison-poisoning.
• Blue describes the creation of Islam as "Muhammad goes out mountain climbing and just like that, badabing bada-one-true-god,^note depicted as Nicolas Cage's face on the sun we have a shiny new religion."
  • Since Islam has a ban on images of the Prophet, Muhammad is depicted in the video as a M-shaped Pakistani flag with sunglasses.
• Throughout the "Ptolemies" and "Cleopatra" videos, Blue is continually astounded at how intelligent and cunning Cleopatra VII was, seeing how many generations of inbreeding produced her. Doubles as heartwarming when he also mentions her caring side not only towards people she highly trusted, but also to the Egyptian people and her political allies, considering the fact that she's often been portrayed as a villainous-only ruler in most popular media, and/ or as a mere incidental figure to ancient Roman history (aka the one who brought down Marcus Anthony through seduction).
  • On account of the Cleopatra-wrapped-in-a-rug story:
    Blue: ...likely derived from the queen being stuffed into a much less conspicuous laundry bag instead. And, by the way, when you do put your queen in the laundry, it's machine-wash cold and then tumble-dry low; there's not a tag, so it's hard to figure out sometimes.
  • Another from the Cleopatra video: When Blue is elucidating about how Cleopatra used her royal authority to actually respond to her people's needs, instead of being a party animal like her ancestors, several letters and her responses flash by. All of them are pretty hilarious!
    Letter 1: My Queen, Crocodiles have crowded into the courthouse, causing complete chaos! Send help!
    Cleopatra: Let's see here, a letter from Castor of Memphis. I'll dispatch Stephanos Irwinius immediately.
    Letter 2: Will Siwa ever know peace? -Bayek
    Cleopatra: And a letter from... oh great, Bayek of Siwa. Dear Horus not this nonsense again.
    Cleopatra's reply: Hi Bayek, no it won't. Stop asking and go back to assassinating my enemies for me. XOXO, Isis.
    Letter 3: My Queen, would your grace please release the Pharaoh from the Millennium Puzzle? For real this time?
    Cleopatra: And one more from a priest of Yami Yugi. That's the fourth letter this year. Alright...
    Cleopatra's reply: Tell your Pharaoh that he can have his freedom when he defeats me in Duel Monsters, and not a moment sooner. Git Gud scrub.
• In the Africa video, Blue explains that Red did a lot of the script, which was easy, since African history is clear cut, with clear right and wrong and no moral gray area. Gilligan Cut to Red screaming in a pile of notes saying stuff like "Slavery vs. Slave-based economy," "Apartheid," "Invention of Tradition" and "Islamic Law regarding Slavery."
• In "The Fall of Rome," Blue sums up the sack of Rome:
  Blue: The Eastern Empire had politely asked the Visigoths to go bother the West for land instead. In 410 those Visigoths made their quest to Rome instead by rolling up to the city and promptly sacking it. This is what we historians call an "Oh, shit" moment.
  • From the opening seconds alone, you get this gem:
    Blue: No matter when you go, Rome is a great city to visit, because you can see all four seasons: (picture shifts through Rome in different seasons) Winter, spring, summer, fall("Destruction" of "The Course of Empires" painting on-screen)-OHHHH NOOOOO-
    (We Are Experiencing Technical Difficulties screen reading "Welcome To My Hell)
  • "Casting" Phil Swift and Flex Tape as Diocletian and his reforms. Later, representing the splitting of the Empire with the boat sawn in two.
• In "Scotland", Blue proves himself to be very wary of one particular theater superstition:
  Blue: —but beyond outside threats, there were also constant internal fisticuffs over the crown. The quintessential example of the early Scottish king is Macbeth... whom hereafter shall be referred to exclusively as "MacBoy" because that play is HAUNTED and I'm not looking for trouble.
• Blue's horror at witnessing the number of times England and Scotland have gone to war.
  Blue: So I took a little peruse to see how many times the two actually fought each other and- Sweet MOTHER MARY! THAT IS A LOT OF STABBING! Scotland...who hurt you? Trick question: England!
• Blue's point about how when England leaves Scotland alone for any length of time Scotland becomes its own antagonist the way God intended.
• The Vikings video:
  • To get himself hyped for the video, Blue pulls up the The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim trailer, dubs himself "Bluevakhiin, Chibiborn" and starts singing along to the menu music... until he suddenly sees the audience.
    Blue: (singing along to the music) AH-OH GOD WHAT'RE YOU DOING HERE!? (Coughs) Uh, he-hey, you... caught me getting hyped for my video on the Vikings. ...So, let's just you and I pretend this didn't happen. 'Kay? Cool.
  • Blue summarizing why the histories depicting the Vikings were so brutal.
    Blue: Those records were written by people with an axe to grind with the Vikings, i.e. the English and North European Christians who were on the receiving end of a hefty handful of raids. If someone showed up unannounced, yoinked everything you owned, and killed a non-negligible amount of people on the way, you'd be pretty justified leaving a one-star review about your guests.
• In "French Empire", Blue notes the stark visual contrast between King George III and Napoleon Bonaparte.
  Blue: King George of England has a powdered wig and all this royal fance, but pretty boy Bonaparte was the most powerful dude in Europe, and he looks like the missing Jonas Brother! Why is the Emperor of France a shōnen protagonist?!
• The Italian 'translation' of a treaty signed with the Ethiopians, recognizing their rights. "Tutte le tua base sono appartiene a noi." ^note  "All your base are belong to us."
• In the Egypt video, Blue explains that Tutankhamun's tomb was discovered entirely intact by British archeologists... until the British archeologists found it, that is.
• In the Viking Age video, there's a random "Meow!" during the explanation so we segue to Blue showing footage of his kitty Cleo and him cooing over her.
  Blue: Oh Cleo, what are you meowing about?
  Cleo: Meow!
  Blue: I know, slavery's bad! C'mere, aaah good cat! Good cat. Who's a little floofy boot? It's you. It's you! Mwah!
  • Ludohistory aka "Yellow" comes in the last two minutes for some exposition. Blue notes that since Yellow has 2 degrees in Viking history, then that means that they technically have one degree each. Yellow notes that it's not how math works so Blue replies that he has a degree in classics and it's Red with the Math degree.
  Red: Don't you dare bring me into this.
  • Upon learning he's short on time, there is now a Wall of Text about everything he wanted to cover.
• In the Hong Kong video, Blue uses the British and Chinese views on tea to illustrate the culture of the city, then tries to move on...
  Blue: And along those lines, everything from sports to architecture went on to fuse British and Chinese influences throughout the 1900s as Hong Kong grew into a brilliantly harmonized cultural blend. Why does it still sound like I'm talking about tea?
• In the video on Portugal, while Blue is explaining the economic context pushing Portugal to develop its maritime empire, he shifts over to his favorite topic: Venice.
  Portugal: Hey, back off! This is my video!
  Venice: Aw, that's cute. Every OSP History video is just a video about Venice in disguise.
  Ottoman Empire: Yup, it happens to all of us. Just roll with it, he'll get back on topic sooner or later.
• The video on Hawai'i sees Blue very uncomfortable when he's describing the sheer size of the Pacific Ocean early on (Blue being thalassaphobic), culminating in a list of his fears popping up when he goes into his "Let's do some history" catchphrase. Said list consists of "Deep Water", "Modern History", and "People who don't stan Venice".
• Blue's attempts to summarize the very convoluted and contentious history of Britain produces some gems:
  • Describing the union of England, Wales, Scotland, and Ireland as a "geopolitical Megazord".
  • The Call-Back to Blue's video about failed assassinations, in this case a reference Guy Fawkes and the Gunpowder Plot, involves a picture of Guy Fawkes exploding into a cloud of Minecraft pixels.
  • The English Civil War (where Parliament allied with Scotland to oust Charles I) is depicted as an Among Us crewmate visor on Parliament, and the discussion Charles' execution features the distinctive gory kill sound from the same game.
  • The Boston Tea Party is summarized by Blue as follows:
    Blue: Hey, King George? What's the opposite of tea? YEET. (air horns blare in the background)
• When talking about how Florence suddenly wanted Dante's bones from Ravenna in second Dumb History Tales video, the instant he brings up Medici-controlled Rome, he serendipitously starts having a harsh coughing fit (on account of being sick, hence the video in the first place). Unintentional, but it's as if the mere mention of the Medicis triggered his coughing.
• The Leaning Tower of Pisa:
  • Early in the video, he swears that he won't mention Venice in shame for having mispronounced its Venetian name 'Venesia'. This causes problems when he has to talk about conflict between Pisa and Venice. He settles for calling the latter 'lagoon town'. Later, when he pulls up a photo of St Mark's Basilica, its location is given as "Nowhere in Particular".
  • Blue has finally discovered a dome he doesn't like: the Pisa Cathedral's baptistry.
  • While discussing the ongoing conflict between the Pope-supporting Guelphs and Emperor supporting Ghibellines, Blue calls Pisa "Imperial kiss-ass Ghibellines" and Genoa and Florence "God-fearing, Pope-loving Guelphs." He then pauses the video twice to apologize because even he doesn't know why he suddenly felt so strongly about a conflict he really doesn't care about.
  • Blue's reaction on learning that Diotisalvi, architect of the Pisa Cathedral and its leaning tower, built another tower, the church of San Nicola, which is also leaning.
  Blue: On one hand, I feel so bad for the guy. On the other, we cannot keep letting him get away with this.

History Hijinks

• Renaissance Antics has some humorous moments:
  • Blue considers Filippo Brunelleschi a diva of the highest sort. After losing an art contest, he stormed out of the city and vowed to never sculpt again.
  • "The life, murder and more murder" of Benvenuto Cellini, whom Blue describes as "someone's psychotic Dungeons & Dragons character"
    Cellini: I roll to attack everyone.
  • "It's a lovely day in the Renaissance, and you are a horrible artist"
  • When returning to Rome, he was charged with embezzlement. Not with the large amount of murder he performed regularly.
  • Blue ponders if Cellini gave up his career as a priest because he had to worship someone other than himself.
• At the start of the Failed Assassinations episode, Blue briefly talks about the benefits of assassinations. The illustration he uses is a painting of Archduke Ferdinand's assassination with the caption "zero negative consequences"
  • Blue kicks off the list with Mithridates, a king by the Black Sea who ruled prosperously for over 50 years, expanded his kingdom's borders, carried massive cultural and political weight, and slapped Rome in the face but was most well known for being Funny Ha-Ha Poison Man, beginning with an origin story where he wandered the wilderness chowing down on various poisons accompanied by Kirby sound effects. Blue even admits that there were probably far more assassination attempts than we know of because none of them worked. Finally, Rome retaliated, and he tried to commit suicide by poison... which didn't work due to aforementioned immunity, and he had to get someone else to stab him to death.
    Blue: [as Mithridates is presented with a line of cocktail swords on a silver platter] It's lucky he didn't supplement his daily poison regimen with doses of tiny knives or else he really would have been screwed.
  • As Blue wraps up his discussion of Mithridates, you can clearly hear him trying not to burst out laughing as he reads his final notes.
    Blue: And so, King Mithridates died as he lived. (audibly cracks up) Not dying from poison!
  • The Epic Fail of the Gunpowder Plot, including Guy Fawkes' Paper-Thin Disguise as John Johnson, esteemed doer of [Job] at [Place].
  • He declares the final stand at Holbeche House where the conspirators tried to dry gunpowder in front of an open flame an apt metaphor for a plan blowing up in your face.
• The very beginning of the Plague episode...which is airing months into the COVID-19 Pandemic. Blue's attempt to pretend that the video's topic is most certainly divorced from current events but...
  Blue: So today, we're gonna get 700 years away from all the worries of the modern world and instead talk about plague(he instantly cracks)hohohoh God! What am I doing!?
  (text on blank screen saying "This video was a mistake")
• In Greek Wise Guys, among other things, Blue imagines Gorgias the Sophist using his rhetorical abilities to skip out on his rent.
• The fact that Adolf Hitler spared the Vasari Corridor because he liked the view.
• For History's Best(?) Couples, Blue is obviously uncomfortable with the unnecessarily thorough court records about Louis XVI's genitalia. This leads to a Freeze-Frame Bonus that is just Blue ranting about how obsessed people were and are with Louis and Marie Antoinette's sex lives, considering that's the least interesting thing about them.
  • Blue's checklist includes Feeding Cleo, Contemplating the Duomo, make a video on Sappho ^{he did} link here and Dunking on Caesar.
  • His explanation of Caesar's political reasons for his extensive love life (which led to antics like reading out a love letter from Cato's half-sister in front of the entire Senate, at Cato's accidental insistence).
    Blue: In Rome, being a man of great manliness could be demonstrated by doing the sex.
  • Speaking of, Romans apparently had the same sexual norms as the Greeks. Namely, bisexual men were the societal norm the same way heterosexual white men are today. Having gay sex was totally okay. However, it was shameful to be a bottom because it meant you were submitting to someone. Blue admits that this is very in-character for the Romans.
  • He starts Corpsing a bit when he reads about Emperor Xuanzong deciding that of all the 3,000+ concubines he could have chosen as consort, he picked his son's wife.
  • When the "Song of Everlasting Sorrow" proceeds from the emperor falling for his daughter-in-law to a fight breaking out between the chancellor's crony and the new Imperial Consort's family, escalating into full-out rebellion:
    Blue: And you thought this was a love story! Ha, You Fool! The real sorrow here is the decline of good governance!
  • Years of war and a "suicide" later, the grieving Emperor Xuanzong then handed off the throne to his son while said rebellion continued to rage, which Blue notes is somehow the second-worst thing he ever did to him.
  • Blue notes that the rampant rumors about Marie Antoinette's infidelity were absurd, seeing as she wasn't Caesar (Caesar's head pops in to replace Marie's, Blue crosses "Dunk on Caesar" off his list).
  • While discussing King Louis XVI, Blue talks about the idea that the king was suffering from "PP too small" were due to the perceived connection between weak political performance and manliness. Cue Caesar's head popping up in the corner saying "Prove them wrong, bang everyone."
    Blue: Researching this video forced me to actually Google search the phrase "Louis XVI penis," and no amount of therapy can make that unhappen!
• The Best Couples In History—Valentine's Day Special has its moments, too:
  • Cleopatra and Marc Antony divvy the whole Mediterranean up so they can gift pieces of it to their toddler-aged children, and Blue remarks on the utter absurdity of it:
    Blue: I shudder to imagine what the baby shower's gift registry must have looked like. "Ah, yes, so I see here that you're interested in buying the Island of Cyprus for the royal baby, but unfortunately, Senator Lucius has already purchased it. Could I interest you in a subtler and more intimate gift... like the Parthenon?! (corpses)
  • When discussing how Byzantine empress Theodora was the daughter of a bear trainer, he remarks that he didn't even know that there were professional bear trainers in Constantinople, and now he's disappointed that he'll never get to see a real-life "bear-iot race." This statement is accompanied by a painting of a chariot race with Winnie the Pooh crudely photoshopped over the horses' heads.
  • At the end of the video, Blue delivers an Aesop pertaining to each couple. The historical erasure of Patroclus and Achilles serves as a reminder to never trust Victorian historians; the tragic end to Cleopatra and Marc Antony's "disaster" coupling is a reminder not to use Roman provinces as substitutes for honest affection, and Justinian and Theodora's successful reign and happy marriage proves that good communication will lead to both a healthy relationship and Imperial glory... and then Blue can't think of anything positive to say about Ferdinand and Isabella's incestuous marriage, so he ends the video quickly with an abrupt "LATER!"
    • By the end of the video, Cleopatra and Marc Antony have been dubbed "history's prime disaster couple," Theodora and Justinian "one of history's greatest power couples," and Ferdinand and Isabella "conquistadorable, if slightly deplorable."
• Blue, as a wedding gift to Cyan.. had her pick a place she'd wanna go to for a video project. And Cyan picked Venice. Crosses over with Heartwarming as Blue is clearly over the moon on his marriage.
  • The idea is represented by Blue's proposal photo, but replacing the ring with "dumbass history memes".
• In "Antique Antics: The Pantheon", Blue claims that the Roman Empire was fueled by intellectual property theft.
  Blue: Also slavery.
• In the History Hijinks about Henry VIII, Blue is quite clearly thoroughly unimpressed with Henry's behavior and spares no expense in dunking on who he refers to as "England's most notorious ladykiller".
  • Blue compares trying to research a notorious king to watching over a bratty toddler, and admits that there's very little difference between the two.
  Blue: No hitting! Hands to yourself, please! Do not put that in your mouth!
  • While discussing some of Henry's more notable traits, Blue recounts one that he became particularly famous for:
  Blue:...as it's here that Henry's reign surpasses the generally inept, and descends into the true hallmark of his career: religion-shattering horniness!
  • The absolutely golden line that Blue uses to cap off the video:
  Blue: And so, we come full circle to our starting comparison. Like monarch, like toddler, they want their mommy.
• In "History Hijinks: Another Dumb Italy Story", upon realizing that Venice's name in its native Venetian is "Venesia", Blue lets out a high-pitched, Italian-accented "Oh no!" that sounds uncannily like Mario. Even Blue himself can't help but chuckle at it.

Pope Fights

• From the first video:
  Benedict IX: I was told there would be snacks. I've been drinking wine and eating from this gigantic case of Nilla Wafers for three days straight, and for some reason the Cardinals are all mad at me now.
  Cardinals: THOSE WEREN'T FOR SNACKING YOU INCOMPETENT DUNCE!
  • Pope Boniface VIII responding to an insult from Philip IV of France with a variation of the Navy Seal Copypasta.
  • Blue's assumption that "at this point, St. Peter's probably thinking: Guys, what the hell?!, but Jesus is just omnisciently snacking on popcorn, loving every single minute of the drama."
• "Pope Fights 2 — The Reformation":
  • Blue takes some potshots at the House of Habsburg's penchant for Royal Inbreeding. One bit of text refers to Holy Roman Emperor Charles V as "a Habsburg with a jawline only a sister could love", and later quips "I would tell the Habsburgs to go screw themselves, but they beat me to the punch".
  • The Running Gag of Red poking her head in to tell Blue to add more memes to the video.
• In Pope Fights 3 -The Italian Wars, there are several hilarious visual gags courtesy of Indigo, including the return of the glorious goose censor.
  • Pope Leo X gets a tangent about how he loved to party in the aftermath of the War of the League of Cambrai (which Blue described as a "terrible teamwork rollercoaster") and a charming and illustrative story about him purchasing an elephant that got spooked in a parade and bucked Leo into the Tiber River, which he actually didn't mind.
    Blue: What were we talking about? Oh right, wasteful spending and mind-numbing debt, let's get back to it.
  • Blue's description of Charles V becoming both the King of Spain and the Holy Roman Emperor.
    Blue: And Emperor Charles found himself the most powerful man in Europe by a metric Habsburg jawline.
• In the video on Frederick II, Blue theorizes that Freddie's Arch-Enemy, pope Gregory IX, died either from fear because Frederick's army was parked outside of Rome, or out of spite to deny Freddie the satisfaction of killing him.
  • It's also kinda hilarious that, after the mop-up duty from his rivalry with the pope, Frederick's next challenge are the Mongols, showing up like a Giant Space Flea from Nowhere. Thankfully, they're not too keen on fighting and leave without fuss.

History Makers

• In the Thucydides video, as a nod to the fact that his History of the Peloponnesian War ended mid sentence, he decides to end the video in-
• The Confucius video features Manchild Emperor Gaozu and a long-suffering advisor (who sneaks an Audible commercial into his speech bubble).
  Gaozu: Courtier, I ask a question... Peeing in hats: yes or no?
  • This video also gives us the "History-Makers Mysteriousness Tier List", where Blue ranks the various historians on how much we know about their actual lives.
  Functionally a Ghost: Laozi, Homer
  Painfully Few Sources: Confucius, Herodotus^note Blue refers to this as the "frustration and flailing arms tier"
  Eh, Good Enough: Dante, Shakespeare
  Actually Quite Historical: Machiavelli, Anna Komnena
  Please Be Less Vain: Marco Polo
• In his video on how St. Nicholas became Santa, Blue acknowledges that since neither one is a historian, they shouldn't qualify for a History Makers video. However...
  Blue: But here's a secret for you: I don't care!
• The Plato video also focuses heavily on Socrates (who was Plato's teacher, mentor, and the main character of quite a few of his writings), and Blue portrays him as some kind of philosophical boogeyman who pounces from the shadows on unsuspecting passerbys to start arguing philosophy until they get a headache. That he was ultimately indicted and given the death penalty just for being really annoying didn't help matters either.
  Blue: In the golden age of classical Athens, the average citizen had exactly two fears: the war with Sparta, and talking with Socrates.
• After summing up Snorri Sturluson's glorious mess of a political career before tackling his literary achievements, Blue describes him as essentially being "what if William Shakespeare personally started the War of the Roses".

Miscellaneous Videos

OS Podcasts

• The twelfth episode of their podcast, which is essentially 17 minutes of Blue improvising about how utterly absurd the Ptolemy dynasty of Egypt was (including multiple generations of inbreeding), and slowly losing his mind as he tries to comprehend it. The whole mess caps off with this:
  Blue: "This is the legacy of ancient Greece. Ancient Athens is like 'Yeah, we're gonna be so cool! We're gonna rule over all the Greeks!' and Macedon's like 'LOL, nope! Just kidding! It's gonna be us!' And then Alexander dies drunk at a party, and this sh*t happens! NO!" <beat> "Um, thank you very much for tuning into the, uh, twelfth episode of the Overly Sarcastic Podcast. I need a drink, and I will see you all later."
• The first episode of the new podcast incarnation, which includes a lengthy discussion of what historical figures would be on their Caper Crew, with the mission of saving the Library Of Alexandria. Highlights include Da Vinci as their Gadgeteer Genius, Alcibiades as a Honey Trap, Dinadan being the Plucky Comic Relief, and Julius Caesar being the Fall Guy. They also try for Robin Hood but accidentally grab Maid Marion instead. Then, as a Sideplot, they accidentally kidnap Tripitaka, causing Sun Wukong to burn the Library down.
• In the second episode, they get into a discussion about Theseus and how much he sucks. Among other things, Red points out that apparently, when Heracles rescued Theseus from the underworld (long story, watch Red's Underworld Myths video), he had to sever Theseus' asscheeks to get him of the chair, which is explained as the reason the line of Theseus has extremely flat asses. Also, as Red notes, this means that the only company Pirithous has in the underworld are the Furies and his cousin's severed asscheeks.
  • Also in the second episode, they get to discussing oral histories, and how colonized peoples rarely have written sources, since no one expects to be colonized or repressed. Except the Jewish. By the second or third time it happens, you start to take precautions.
  • Continuing the discussion from last time, the trio suggests funding the movie by extremely gratuitous product placement, including Leonardo da Vinci stopping in the middle of building his helicopter to take a sip of Monster Energy Drink™, or Caesar being defeated by the Duolingo Owl.
  Caesar: You fools, how can you stop me?
  Red: Caesar, we've just been stalling for time. The clock has struck midnight. You missed a day of your Japanese lessons.
  Owl: Omae wa mou Shindeiru
  Caesar: Nani? What does that mean? If I'd been keeping up with my Japanese lessons, I'd know what that meant.
  • They also mention, that everyone in the film would be played by Nicolas Cage. Except for Caesar…who'd be played by Anne Hathaway.
• Episode 3 is the podcast's Halloween Episode, and when Blue is asked how he’s doing after the intro, he gives a rather exasperated response.
  Blue: Let me put it this way: My sleep has been a little… on the ‘crap’ side recently, and I owe that in large part to- um, actually, speaking of the ‘Spooky episode’ we have today, um, there are legends of a monster that roams around at night when good boys and girls are asleep, and what this monster does is- she’s extremely hungry, so if she is not fed, she will jump onto high surfaces and knock your LEGO architecture sets onto the fucking floor to try and wake you up, because she knows when the LEGOs start moving and the LEGOs start falling, Blue gets out of bed and gives this dumbass cat her food! The monster’s name is Cleo and she’s making my life hell!
• In episode 4, Red reveals that if she ever gets a dog, she's naming it Bark Anthony to go with Blue's cat Cleocatra.
• In episode 5, Blue claims that Red sometimes calls him by his full name when she's mad. His real name is apparently Blue Cerulean. And he has an evil twin brother named Azule, who looks exactly like him except with a mustache and an inexplicable Spanish accent.
  • The return of the time heist movie, this time in the form of a sequel. Red demands that the bad guy be Brutus, so that they can use Caesar as a red herring and eventually team up with him. The movie's tagline? "All roads lead to Rome."
• The Time Heist now has a design on Redbubble, featuring the whole crew, Red and Blue running away from Sun Wukong with Tripitaka, and Caesar looming in the background.
• Episode 9 has one fan ask what kind of themed coffee shop they would like to open. Blue would like to open a library coffee shop. Red wants a shop that doesn’t make you feel unwelcome. Indigo wants a cat café where the waiters are dressed as Nicholas Cage characters and every drink’s name is a pun relating to Nicholas Cage’s filmography. The cats don’t factor into the Nicholas Cage theme, she just thinks they’d be neat.
• Red is missing for episode 13 of the podcast, having been called in to consult on an Inciting Incident of The Hero's Journey in a small town somewhere. She's also missing in episode 14, since she decided to take the scenic route to do some research down in Egypt, and got stuck in the Suez canal. She may or may not have caused the blockage.
• In episode 16, one of the questions is what movie the OS crew would make a Muppet-version of, with one human character. The entire section features the trio in a fit of giggles.
  • Indigo suggests Casablanca, which Blue mishears as Castlevania (2017).
  Count von Count Dracula: One! I give you One year before I kill you all, ah ah ah!
  • Blue demands a Muppet production of Gladiator, with Joaquin Phoenix as Commodus. There would be violence and gore, with stuffing flying everywhere and an exposed human hand under the puppet felt. Since the character of Commodus was already insane, him being the only human leaves the implications that he is so insane that he either paid to have an all-Muppet gladiator show or he's just hallucinating the whole thing.
• Speaking of Castlevania, Red and Blue bring it up early in a later podcast, causing Indigo to plead for them not to spoil anything, since she's not finished with season 4. The two proceed to bring it up as often as they can (though not actually spoiling anything).
• On the podcast’s May the 4th special episode, the crew have to be very careful not to use any Star Wars media for the sound, as doing so would quickly get them targeted for copyright infringement. Since they aren’t able to directly put the theme over the outro, Indigo immediately volunteers for Blue and her to do the theme themselves, acapella style. What follows is Indigo and Blue singing whatever song from the Star Wars media comes to their heads in “doot-doot sounds” while Red has to take off her headphones to repeat the outro credits since none of them can stop laughing.
  Red: I can’t put my headphones on because I think they’re still doot-ing!
• Episode 19 features the cast with Daniel Greene in one of the podcast's two episodes thus far to include a content warning, and it is an hour and thirteen minutes of phenomenal chaos! The conversation topics include dissing Irish food, how on earth Poland’s culture survived being invaded by every single one of its neighbors, their favorite foods (which becomes a discussion on who would survive the Zombie Apocalypse, with all possible endings being in the last Thai restaurant), Indigo being hungover during the recording, and a VERY descriptive discussion of Greene’s latest video; How NOT To Write Sex Scenes. Poor Blue just wanted to talk about Greene’s book!
  • "A crossword puzzle that’s just different euphemisms for sex things!”
  Red: How many letters is ‘Throbbing member’ again?
  Blue: No, but ‘Magnum dong’ is eight down, that’s not- that’s not gonna work...
• In Episode 22, Blue promotes the then-latest episode of Indigo’s podcast Moviestruck where he appeared as a guest to discuss the movie Gladiator. Blue’s love of the movie led to some software issues down the line, as him setting his screen name to “My name is Maximus Decimus Meridius, commander of the Armies of the North. Husband to a murdered wife. Father to a murdered son. And I will have my vengeance, in this life or the next.” resulted in the recording being stuck in cloud-storage and the sound being in a lower quality than usual, which Indigo finds both exasperating and hilarious.
  • For the last question of the Q&A portion, the group are asked who they would want to guide them through Heaven, Hell, and all in between if they had to take the place of Dante Alighieri. Blue says Nicolas Cage and Rick Steves, and Red wants to be bridal-carried by the badass lady pirates. Indigo, who’s had much more time to think it over, explains what she believes to be the “one correct answer.”
  Indigo: -you need someone who’s gonna clearly explain all that you’re seeing and make it accessible to you regardless of your lived experience, you know, you’re trying to introduce these… various circles to-
  Blue: Oh, FUCK YOU Indigo, I know exactly where you’re going with this!
  (sounds of Blue's laughter)
  Indigo: You also need someone who’s gonna make the trip a little fun, you know, ‘cause it can be a downer to go through hell, so you want someone with charisma, someone who’s gonna really spice up the experience… And I think, finally, if you consider that this is your sole travel companion who’s really taking you through the, uh… death, despair and depravity of hell, the Triple-D if you will, the only correct answer to bring you through all of hell-
  Blue: God damnit! God damnit!
  Indigo: -is Guy Fieri himself!
  (sounds of Blue laughing hysterically)
  Red: OKAY. Well, I- for the record, I have also changed my mind. I want Steve Irwin because he’s gonna be wrestling the fuck out of everything.
• For episode 24, Blue is missing. Red and Indigo claim it's because he's on his way to plug the Suez Canal again. We've gotten a bit comfortable this year, he thinks.
• In the episode 31 lightning round, the cast is asked if they ever played with BIONICLE. Blue says yes, Red claims she was too busy talking to girls. Blue admits that he was bullied about it, only for Indigo to point out that they are still bullying him for it.
  • Next on the lightning round is Dingo Doodles' Fool's Gold.
  Blue: You just picked four random words!
• A viewer asks if any of the OSCrew suffer "curses", stuff that always goes wrong for them. After an account of how many times travel has gone wrong for Blue, they theorize that he has done something that pissed off Poseidon.
  Red: You told Poseidon to gargle your nuts one time.
  [Blue, who was sipping tea, does a Spit Take]
  
  Blue: Hey, Poseidon, would you like to try this tea? It's Su Yen Dis.
• Episode 40 features the circus performer and radio anchor Jack "Jacques Ze Whipper" as a guest and each of them jokingly state how his cool weapon-based alter-ego with a day job makes him similar to a superhero. Jack says that he did make one attempt to fight crime in Boston when he was woken at 2:00 A.M. to the sound of a woman screaming and, thinking she was being assaulted, grabbed the bullwhip he had been practicing with and ran outside to confront the perpetrator while cracking the whip and shouting. The scream was from a drunk college student who didn’t want to go home, and when her friend saw Jack running out, she asked him to help get her friend up the stairs to her place. Jack decided it would be better for him to book it out of there before anyone else saw a man with a whip next to a drunk college girl at 2:00 A.M.
• In episode 41, the first question is what sort of flag Red and Blue would use if they conquered the world. Red is in the process of describing her's as red and black with a spiky emblem when Blue asks how determined she is to reinvent the aesthetics of fascism.
• Red remarks how she sometimes gets comment on her fantasy webcomic asking in what time period it's supposed to be set.
  Red: Well, one of the characters is a cat-dude, so...
  Blue: 1740s specifically.
• In one episode, the cast gets asked to come up with a new Air Bud spinoff. After some discussion, Red suggests Pope Bud, reasoning that there's no rule saying a dog can't take the Holy Communion. Blue sadly has to chime in that there is, in fact, a rule that says exactly that.^note According to Catholic doctrine set down by pope Pius IX, dogs do not possess human souls and thus cannot enter the kingdom of Heaven or partake in the communion. This has been since contested by popes Paul VI, John Paul II, Benedict XVI, and Francis, though none have so far overturned the doctrine.
• During the Q&A portion of the OSBonus: Oops All Zelda episode, Red mentions her frustration that there’s no hidden content on the highest sky island in Tears of the Kingdom. Blue suggests that the potential hidden content should include one of the Koroks that requires an Escort Mission needing to reach his friend who is located all the way down on the surface, so that “you just drop him from orbit!”
  • This perfectly leads into the next question that Indigo reads from the podcast’s Q&A that asks “Do you believe the Koroks deserve what they are getting?”
• Episode 81; "We're homeopathing the dead guy."

Di-Vines

• The Greek Gods in a collection of Vines. No, seriously.
  • Aphrodite demonstrating her intelligence:
    'Aphrodite: (to Hephaestus) You are boring. B-O-R-N-I-N-G. (Poseidon, Dionysus, and Athena laughing in the background)

  • Ares copes with being Hera's son:
    Dionysus: C'mon, shake what your mama gave ya!
    Ares: My mother was the most selfish woman I ever met — SHE NEVER GAVE ME ANYTHING!
    Dionysus: Alright! Jesus.

  • An excellent summary of the relationship between Demeter, Persephone, and Hades:
    Demeter: (slams hand down on table) NOT ON MY WATCH!
    Cut to an unamused Persephone, casually eating a pomegranate, and a confused Hades, both standing behind her
    Demeter: (slams hand down on table again) NOT ON MY WATCH!

  • Ares attempting to respond to flirting:
    Aphrodite: You're so cute <3
    Ares: Mom, what do I do??
    Hera: Just don't do anything weird.
    Ares: ...ARGLEBLARGLE

• Now with the Norse Gods.
  • The video itself starts with Red sitting at her desk, before getting crushed by the sheer volume of comments asking for more Di-Vines.
  Loki: Wanna hear a chemistry joke? ...is that a no?
  Odin: Oh, sorry, did you want a — reaction?
  Loki: (curls up to cry, broken-hearted)
  • And then we've got Loki turning into a snake and slithering onto Thor's shoulder, resulting in the most unmanly high-pitched scream imaginable, followed by Loki turning back and Thor going, "Yo, what the fuck?" in a normal voice.
  Surtur: So, we still gonna destroy Earth?
  Jormungandr: Nah, they're doing a pretty good job without us.
  Fenrir: I feel lazy, like we don't even have to do anything!

  Freyr: People ask me how I get the wet look in my hair. Tell them I use "Essence of England" gel. They say, "What's that?" (amidst a raging thunderstorm) I USE THE FUCKING RAIN!
  • "How Tyr lost that hand"
  Tyr: Hey, how 'yall-
  (Suddenly Fenrir appears and growls menacingly)
  Tyr: EEEEEEEEEE!! (struggling with Fenrir) GET YO FUCKIN' DOG, BITCH!
  Loki: (nonchalantly reading a book) It don't bite.
  Tyr: (now with his hand in Fenrir's mouth) YES IT DO!

• And the Egyptian Gods joined the fun too.
  Ra: The only thing we have to fear is fear itself! And weasels. Those little bastards'll get ya—

  Osiris: (playing the guitar and singing) Hey~. How ya doin'? Well, I'm doin' just fine, I lied, I'm dying inside.

  Set: (snarling) We have ways of making you talk- (Anubis appears, prompting him to begin using a normal voice) Timmy, Daddy's working right now- Oh my gosh, did you draw this? That is so good!
  • The title for Medjed's skit is just "Medjed is a Real God and I Love Them So Much"

• And back to the Greeks:
  Artemis: Who's in our bathroom?
  Athena: I hired a drunk girl to compliment us.
  Artemis: Ohhh. (peers into the bathroom to see Dionysus leaning across the toilet lid)
  Dionysus: (extremely drunk) Are you a model?~
  Artemis: ...Yes.

  Apollo: Why do we even need Coming-Out Day? Everyone's a little gay!
  Achilles: (wearing an "If Found, Return To Patroclus" shirt) Well, I'm a big gay, and I'm coming out today as the World's Biggest Gay.^note while carrying Patroclus, who's wearing an "I Am Patroclus" shirt, in a bridal carry

  Demeter: You get one on your knee from "tripping", and now this?
  Persephone: (pointing to a bandage on her arm) Mom, for the last time, this is not a hickey!

  Hades: In the winter I like to dress in a cozy black jacket, shirt, and jeans. In the summer I wear— the same thing, because I look good in black and I'm willing to suffer!

  Ares:Hey, so I think you're pretty cute... So I was wondering if you wanted to go out, or-
  Aphrodite: *Silences Ares* Pretty cute? I'M A GODDESS!

• And now a crossover with Journey to the West.
  Kuanyin: Why didn't you come last night? It was so fun.
  Wukong: (stuck under a mountain) Kuanyin you know damn well why I didn't come so shut the hell up you shady bitch.

  Tripitaka: Do you have any shaving cream?
  Sun Wukong: Nah, I don't like the way that it tastes.
  Tripitaka: Wait, you eat shaving cream?
  Wukong: No, why would I eat it when I don't like the taste?
  • These two from ProZD
    Buddha: I sentence him to ten years in prison.
    Sun Wukong: (in a seductive tone) Well, your honor. Maybe I can... change your mind...
    Buddha: Twenty years!

    Sandy: Pigsy, this is a crime scene!
    Pigsy: (pulling food out of the pantry) What, is this the murder weapon?! (closes pantry) Get off my dick!

    Sha Wujing/Sandy: MWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! Great knock-knock joke, Tim!
    Zhu Wuneng/Pigsy: ...thank you...

  • Also this:
    Sha Wujing/Sandy: The building's on fire!
    Sun Wukong: (in bed, sleepy) Like, how big is the fucking fire?
    Sha Wujing/Sandy: Big.
    Sun Wukong: (getting up, grumpy) Okay...

• Another one, mixing some mythologies and literature together:
  • Hamlet Act 1 Scene V is Shia LeBouf's "JUST DO IT!" shouting intermixed with Michael Scott screaming "NO!"
  • "Loki still isn't sure if that was hyperbole"
    Thor: OH, THAT MAKES ME SO MAD I'M GONNA... FLY TO ANTARCTICA AND SHOOT A PENGUIN!
    Loki: (stares in horrified confusion)
  • "Apollo, the god of music"
    Apollo: Hey, betcha I can hit this note!
    Artemis: Nonono, please don't!
    Apollo: (unholy shrieks of terror)
    (Glass shatters in Dionysus' hand)

  • "Sekhmet: the cat that mauls your belongings. Bast: The cat that you never actually see move."
    Horus: Hey, bro, what do you want to eat?
    Sekhmet: The souls of the innocent!
    Bast: A bagel.
    Sekhmet: No!
    Bast: Two bagels.

  • "In Dionysus's defense, leopard skin is dry-clean only"
    Dionysus: Dude, just wear your pajama pants with me outside; that way we're matching!
    Hermes: How about you just do your fucking laundry?
    Dionysus: Nooooooo!

  • "Proud father of an Odinson"
    Odin: Son?
    Thor: Yes, papa?
    Odin: How old are you, boy?
    Thor: I am three, papa.
    Odin: Take this knife. Go hunt bear.
    Thor: (looks at the knife, smiles) ...just one?
    Odin: (chuckles)

  • "Romeo and Juliet, Act III, scene one"
    Tybalt: How does it feel to be worst cop ever, huh?
    Mercutio: Shut up, your mother buys you Mega Blocks instead of Legos.
    Tybalt: You fucking take that back, you—

  • "The best thing about Antony and Cleopatra is Antony quite literally fails at EVERYTHING"
    Antony: Every time I go out there, I do my best, and they don't!
    Cleopatra^note With a different, more generic design that the one used for historical videos, showing the the Shakespearean (re: flanderized) Cleopatra is treated a distinct person from the historical one, completely unimpressed: Lemme ask you a very fair question: What do you do successfully?
    (Antony looks stumped, with a Thousand-Yard Stare)
    Cleopatra: Quickly.
    (dramatic zoom on Antony's stumped face)

• And a sequel, prompted by going from 1 million subscribers to... 1.05 million, complete with confetti and noise-makers:
  • "Hamlet (act I scene II)"
    Gertrude: Your father and I want to talk. Have you been doing drugs or having sex?
    Hamlet: No?
    Gertrude: (crying, to Claudius) I told you we were raising a pussy!

  • "Zeus c'mon, you're embarrassing the pantheon"
    Ra: Earthling, take me to your leader!
    Mortal: (sighs) This is him. ''
    Zeus: (in swan form, harassing Leda) Let's make a demigod!
    Ra: Oh my God, I'm so sorry...
    Mortal: I'M SORRY FOR US!

  • Loki and his daughter, Hela.
    Loki: Hey there, little guy! I'm your dad!
    Hela: I gotta be ugly.
    Loki: What.
    Hela: Get me a mirror. (Loki pulls out a mirror, showing Hela with one half of her face being a rotten corpse) Now take it away, goddamn.

  • Tyr needs to keep Thor updated about these things
    Thor: Bro!
    Tyr: (missing a hand) Yo!
    Thor: What the fuck?!
    Tyr: Oh, I didn't tell you I lost an arm.
    (Beat)
    Thor: WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU JUST LOST AN ARM!?

  • Hamlet act III
    Hamlet: Hm, whattup girl? Was your father a serial killer, because I'm pretty sure he murdered my parents, and I'm here for REVENGE!!!!!!

  • "It's A Lovely Day In Ancient Greece and You're A Horrible Zeus":
    Zeus: You have the right to remain sexy! Anything you say can and will make me bust a nut!
    • The title of this one is especially funny when you recall that at least one myth featured Zeus turning into a goose or a swan to have sex with a woman.

• From part three:
  • "It took a while for Anubis's mummification process to catch on"
    Isis: We, uh, don't know what killed him.
    Anubis: (holding a jar and knife) May I make a suggestion?
    Isis: We're not gonna cut him open, Phil!
    Anubis: You guys are boring!

  • "Frankenstein, chapter 24"
    Walton: (somberly looking at Victor's body) He's dead!
    (The monster appears from the shadows, staring in silence)
    Monster: (mockingly) Not the dickhead! — What do you want me to say?

  • "That's it, that's the Odyssey"
    Odysseus: (clinging to a plank of wood in the ocean) Please God, just let me have one good day!
    Poseidon: Oh my God, you again? Give it a rest, buddy!

  • "Paradise may be lost, but that blue check is worth the fall"
    Gabriel: [to Lucifer] Sure, you may be verified on twitter, but are you verified... (sprouts eyes all over his wings and halo) ...in the eyes of God?

• From part 4:
  • "Goddess priorities"
  Aphrodite: My diamond earring came off in the ocean and it's gone!
  Athena: (standing on a battlefield) Ma'am, there's people that are dying.
  • "Macbeth Act V, scene VIII"
  Macduff: You ready to fucking die?!
  Macbeth: No! I'm a bad bitch, you can't kill me!
  • "Oedipus breaks the news"
  Oedipus: (reading a scroll) I thought you were bae. (shows Jocasta the scroll, which reads "Jocasta is your mom") Turns out you're just fam.
  Jocasta: BRUH...
  • "At least both Hera and Zeus are honest about it"
  Hera: Did you hang out with Beth last night?
  Zeus: No, yeah I did...
  Hera: Oh, I-I... I love Beth.
  Zeus: You hate Beth.
  Hera: (whirls around brandishing an axe) YEAH NO SHIT, HONEY!
• Then came another Journey to the West crossover, where we learn that Tripitaka's patience is wearing just a little bit thin.
  Tripitaka: (while the rest of the party fights in the background) Every time you yell at your kids, put a quarter in your no yelling sock and soon you'll have a weapon to beat-
  • Sun Wukong vents his frustration at the heavenly bureaucracy.
  Sun Wukong: I really do love working here, it's just - we all have a lot of laughs. (chuckles, then whirls around to yell at the Queen Mother of the West) Fuck off, Janet! I'm not going to your fucking baby shower!
  • Pigsy tries putting on the moves with the Empress.
  Pigsy: Oh my god, that's that girl from math! Okay, how are my teeth? (grins widely)
  Sun Wukong: Fucking huge!
  (beat)
  Pigsy: Okay, perfect!
  • The Empress copes with Tripitaka leaving her.
  Empress: (staring upwards) Yeah, so he broke up with me... (nervous laughter)
  Grand Preceptor: Why are you looking up?
  Empress: I need to CRY, but my foundation was FORTY-EIGHT DOLLARS!

City Reviews

• Red's take on Boston:
  • Regarding Boston drivers:
    Red: I nearly got hit by a car outside of a Dunkin' Donuts, and that is not allowed to be how I die. Everyone knows New York traffic is a nightmare, but New Yorkers know to fear Boston drivers. If New York is Mad Max then Boston is The Purge. No one is safe, traffic laws are meaningless, and the only goal is to survive as long as you can. When I told a Boston friend I'd heard the drivers are nuts, she told me in total seriousness that using your blinker is a sign of weakness. I laughed. She didn't.
• Blue's take on Copenhagen:
  • It starts out great with him discussing transit options.
    Blue: 10/10 Guys, please cut it out, you're making the rest of the world look bad.
  • Even going so far as to imply modern Danish architecture is achieved through magic.
    Blue: Why does this power plant have a ski slope on top of it?! I usually hate modern art but Copenhagen consistently nails it, so I just kinda hope their design-sorcerers is being fairly compensated. I don't say this lightly, but I am fairly sure Copenhagen has all the bases covered. Guys! Cut it out! 0/10, this isn't fair anymore!
  • Boston has drivers that make you fear for your life. Copenhagen is far more insidious apparently
    Food in Copenhagen is amazing if you know where to look for it, and a literal death trap if you don't. For instance, the first time I visited I ate at a tourist trap in Nyhavn that was overpriced and terrible. The second time I went to Copenhagen I went to Nyhavn again and got food poisoning. Lesson learned: Do not eat at Nyhavn. [...] 6/10, Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on Nyhavn.
    • Nyhavn is rather infamous as a tourist trap for those familiar with Denmark.
  • On the danish people as a whole quickly devolves into riffing on the Danish language.
    The biggest downside to Denmark is that the Danish language is an absolute nightmare, I've heard that the best way to learn Danish is to learn Swedish and then get drunk, and I believe it, but don't say that to a dane because they will knife you for comparing them to Sweden. [...] 7/10, What did you monsters to do those poor consonants?! [...] Stay clear [of Copenhagen] if you're allergic to new languages, or are Swedish.
• Blue's take on London
  • The city layout gets an 8/10 for having a beautiful layout but also making Blue feel that it was built by the systematic exploitation of colonialism.
    • He later describes London architecture as crazy because it was built with EMPIRE MONEY!!!
  • Londoners are apparently hiding something dark and sinister..
    Blue: Londoners are great when they open up and all laugh at the abyss together, but their coziness with primordial fear makes me worry there's a L̵ovećr͟af͢ti͡an Eld͡er̡ G͞od ͠ch̕i̷ll͢in̶g ̡so͏mew͏h̡er̸e ųnderńe҉a͝th͡ the҉ t͘ube̡ li͏nés, s҉o Į'm ̕gla̛d̴ I̴ ̨v̨ìsit̴ed b͞ef̶or͏e ͠Bre͘xit rele̢as͜e͝s Ia̢͡͏ldo͏go̵r̷͠th͡ th҉̴e͏̢͡ ̀D̷̵̛e̵̷vǫ̛ųr̀er ̢up̸̀on͡ ̛̕t͞h̴͝e̷ ̕U̧̕K

Livestreams

• Red and Blue's playthrough of Shadow of the Colossus is a goldmine, but one of the funniest quips comes from the battle against Dirge, where Dirge's persistent aggressive AI and the difficult motion controls for riding on Agro the horse have Red feeling... rather understandably tense.
  Blue (chuckling) Someone called it a danger noodle!
  Red (flipping out because Dirge is chasing her) IT'S A DANGER NOODLE! IT'S THE MOST DANGEROUS NOODLE!
  • "Now you suffer as I have suffered!"
  Blue [doing his best Palpatine voice]: Yes, Red. Give into your anger.
  Red: I'M SO ANGRY!!!
  • Red attempts to attack Pelagia's weak point by climbing on its legs, only for the creature to plunge its feet into the deep water and drag a terrified Red with it, inadvertently setting off Blue's thalassophobia at the same time.
  Red: OH FUCK THIS!
  Blue: OH GOD! Fuck that!
  (Cue a medley of cursing and screaming from both hosts)
  Blue: OH GOD! Oh God, oh God. Oh, that was bad!
  (Red surfaces with a long continuous scream)
  Red: That was the worst thing I've experienced in a long-ass time, and I just got shot in the face 17 times!
  Blue: Okay, press pause! I'm making tea!
  • Now with animated highlights!
• Another live-stream; for the purpose of raising money for the COVID-19 Response Fund for Feeding America, where they played Breath of the Wild with the intent of doing a dragon-run. It takes the entire stream^note Over two and a half hours for them to find one dragon.
  • The top donation spot is taken early, resulting in uncontrollable snickering whenever they look at the top of the screen and see their highest donator, "Link's Left Nut".
    Red: You're slacking, Right Nut!
  • Cyan throws a blanket over Blue's head at one point when he's wallowing over the lack of dragons, causing him to give a surprised yelp.
  • Now with a handy dandy highlight reel!
  • Every single time Impa is mentioned, cue a dramatic zoom on her face.
• The Hollow Knight stream isn't much better, and might as well be called "the OSP crew and JoCat cheerfully talk about tabletop roleplaying while Blue gets completely lost".
  • While describing her current gaming group, Red tries to explain Exalted.
    Red: My theory is, they all got super high, and then they watched 72 hours straight of all the anime made in the nineties, and then they were like "I HAVE A FUCKING GREAT IDEA"
  • As the chat members begin to argue about whether or not they should save Zote or not, the team decides to have them duke it out through donations. And then Jo personally drops a thousand dollars on the "Leave Zote" side mid-stream...
  • They get to talking about the storytelling of Dark Souls and how it parallels Greek Mythology. Namely that Gwyn shares a lot of traits with Zeus, and how 90% of bad things that happens in Greek myth or Dark Souls are caused by either of them in their respective myths.
  Jo: This thing sucks. Why? Because of Gwyn.
• A reading live-stream has Red read out My Immortal. You can tell where this is going.
• A second ''Breath of the Wild'' dragon-based stream does go somewhat better... but it still takes them long enough that Blue tames a wild horse and names it "Dragon" just to say he's found at least one.
  • A discussion on Zelda lore takes a turn for the weird when it's brought up that if Zelda, Link and Ganon are officially locked in a cycle of reincarnation, no one knows what's up with other, much less important recurring characters like Tingle or Beedle. Cue debates about whether or not they're reincarnating too, if there's another Triforce just for NPCs, if they're aware of it... if they're the ones leaving tantalizingly breakable pots everywhere to check if a new incarnation of the Hero has appeared...
• The third Uncharted 4 livestream has Blue and Cyan detailing a bizarre encounter with an eccentric waiter at an Italian restaurant in Florida. His flamboyant offer of "WIIIIIIINE?" sent Red into a laughing fit, comparing him to James from Pokémon. He then proceeded to give Blue and Cyan his business card, because as it turns out, he does wedding photography.
  • Blue and Cyan's recount of their first meeting is both adorable and hilarious. Cyan had just joined the fencing team, and Blue offered to spar with her. She then proceeded to accidentally shatter his fencing blade into several oddly consecutive pieces, leaving Blue completely flabbergasted.
    Red: Meanwhile in Blue's head, like, fucking fireworks going are off, and it's in slow motion.
• The Tour of Rome in Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood stream has a hilarious moment when Blue is talking about who his favorite Roman emperor is.
  Blue: Call me basic, but I'm kind of a Constantine bitch.
• The Ghost of Tsushima playthrough has some very hilarious exchanges of dialogue between Red, Blue, and Cyan.
  Red: I'm a sleeve hater with very high standards, alright? If I'm gonna be displaying these deadly weapons I wanna do it in a nice case, you know?
  Cyan: Woot!
  Red: (crippling realization) Oh God... that's on the internet forever! [...] NOOO!!! In my hubris...
  • "Tell the Khan we're coming for him. 'Dear Khotun Khan, ''Eat shit!'' Signed, the Samurai.'"
  • The hilarious juxtaposition of Blue burning a man to death, followed up immediately by Cyan asking if he wants a cookie.
  • Blue goes on a rant about a conspiracy known as "Big Ninja," which is hiding in the "literal and metaphorical shadows."
  • Blue mentions that they won't be traveling to the hot springs, because it includes a scene where the main character strips down to get in, prompting this line from Red.
  Red: If we did go to that hot spring, I guess we'd be seeing some steamed buns!
  • Blue finds a very furry sword, and its description leaves him extremely uncomfortable.
  Red and Cyan: [with :3 faces] Rawr.
  Blue: No, no— get that shit outta here! (throws the furry sword into the distance)
  • Now with animated highlights!
• The livestream of Journey gets off to a rough start when Blue knocks over his tea, then rapidly deteriorates as the entire livestream just collapses in on itself due to technical difficulties.
  • After coming back online, due to the technical mishaps, Red's audio is being outputted through Cyan's phone speaker, making her sound like a robot.
  Red: (in a very stilted tone) What-ho, fellow humans! Are you enjoying having skin today?
  • Cleo makes another cameo, much to Red's joy.
  Red: (gasps) Cleo cameo! Check it off your bingo cards!
  • "Terrible news, old chap! I'm afraid Her Majesty has been cancelled!"
  • Now with animated highlights! Including an amusing running gag of Red's character constantly falling to the floor in the background.
  • The group's stance on Technical Pacifist:
  Cyan: Please note, OSP does not condone violence. Or at least not murder. And usually not violence.
  Blue: OSP condones sending a message.
  • This little moment of contemplation and unrelated shenanigans happening in the background
  Blue: Why does Piranha Plant have bone in it...?
  Cyan: [ungodly screeching]
• In the Breath of the Wild "Dog%" stream, Red and Indigo spend a few minutes riffing on the question of whether it's OK (from an age standpoint) to find Link hot.
  Indigo: (mimicking Zelda's voice) Link, your sword is bigger than the rest of your body! Are you a child?
  Red: Link, we also need to establish the age of consent in Hylia (sic), or people are gonna get weird about it!
  (later)
  Indigo: We know for a fact that Sidon can swim up a river with Link on him. So tell me, why is he making Link climb?... Does he just want the twink to be sweaty?
  Red: He hates to see him leave, but he loves to watch him climb away!
• Eventually, Red did a "slow play" of Breath of the Wild. In the first episode, as soon as she first encounters the Old Man, she narrates Link's inner monologue as he feels a sudden, uncontrollable urge to punch him.
  • Chat tricks her into thinking the chest she's opening contains the Climbing Bandana. It doesn't.
  • Red realizing part of the Climbing Armor set is locked behind a Major Test of Strength.
  • Seemingly every time Red talks to a Great Fairy, she begs them to stop telling her about Set Bonuses. Naturally, whenever armor comes up in conversation, Indigo or Blue pause to paraphrase the Set Bonus spiel, much to her chagrin.
  • During one stream, Blue sets the chat to subscriber-only mode, and says "Real fans only in the chat." Chat immediately turns this into an Only Fans joke, to Blue's increasing discomfort.
    Blue: God, we put boobs in the thumbnail and you all lose your goddamn minds! ...I put out a video on Henry VIII and suddenly you're all taking his life as advice.
    Red: Whoa, whoa!
    Blue: Chat, please, I'm begging you, be less horny.
    Red: "Stop, stop, he's already ace!"
    • Then they are reminded it's Valentine's Day.
    Red: This is the one day that the allos are allowed to be weird in public.
  • Red tries to complete a sidequest at South Akkala Stable.
    Red: Wait, are you guys not actual bugs? Are you just environmental storytelling?
  • From earlier in the stream (58:01):
    Blue: How very 2010 Youtube of us to have put boobs in the thumbnail of the video.
    Red: (Laughs) No, they're behind the Zelda logo! I conspicuously did not include the calamitous cleavage on the Youtube version.
  • After Red watches the memory at the Spring of Power, she warps to a stable to buy arrows for, among other things, getting Dinraal's Scale. She wonders where Dinraal is and immediately spots her in the sky whilst warping.
• The Assassin's Creed II livestream has some wonderful moments:
  • In the very first stream, Blue openly states he got distracted from his fiance by Florence, which the commenters agreed was on brand.
  • The second livestream has Red joining in the fun, and two running gags go throughout the two hour stream:
    • First off, she simply cannot handle the graphics, especially the face and hand animations; it comes up constantly throughout the run as they continue running into awful graphics.
    • Secondly, she keeps bringing up series that are obscure to most of her viewership- primarily Slayers and the Thundercats reboot- and then makes fun of herself for bringing them up, and the viewers for not watching them.
    • She repeatedly describes characters dying as "getting merc'd."
  • Red points out how common the Good Father Dying trope is in modern storylines.
  • Blue and Red have a discussion on dubs, describing anime dubbing in the 90s as the Wild West.
  • Both Blue and Red ponder how absurd the incredibly casually way Ezio is dealing with the horrible murder of his family is, especially since in the game it's only a short time later.
  • When Mario shows up- particularly after he drops the " It's-a me, Mario!" line- they never stop making jokes about the other Mario.
  • During the end of the stream, while Red is having a very animated monologue about how the COVID-19 Pandemic will probably spark another labor movement due to the poor treatment of employees and unstable economy exposing serious flaws in the current system, Cleo shows up in the middle to beg for treats.
    Red: Oh hi Cleo, what do you think of the labor market?
    • She also notes that since their job wasn't as affected by the pandemic, she feels like she's just cheering from the sidelines while other people are doing the actual fighting.
    Red: Workers of the world unite! I'm just gonna sit over here and draw.
  • When the game mistakenly refers to Santa Maria Novella as "the first great basilica of Florence", Blue is deeply offended and goes on a tirade about the San Minato al Monte which was built nearly 400 years before.
    Blue: Which isn't in this game and isn't as well-known, because you have to walk across the river to see it and people are lazy.
• The Thumbnail for the "Chilling with the Fishes" livestream is Red and Sidon doing the latter's Twinkle Smile and arm thrust pose.
• Halloween 2022's Special stream is OSP Presents: Macbeth. Red and Blue are playing Macbeth and Macduff respectively entirely straight... While everyone else on stream is basically still conforming to their lines while doing the acting equivalent of shitposting, turning it into, for the most part, a comedy instead. It's beyond incredible.
  • Hello Future Me plays Lady Macbeth. His accent keeps changing, to the point where he's literally just playing Gollum. He even scares the crap out of Dominic by jumping into view! His version is so over-the-top, Indigo soon seems reluctant any time she has to cue the character:
    Indigo: Enter... *sigh*... Lady Macbeth.
  • The three witches are absolutely incapable of speaking in unison. This isn't just a function of it being done over video call, either: When a group of lords/thanes have to speak in unison, they do it perfectly.
  • Noir plays King Duncan... As Kermit the Frog. Complete with a hand puppet! And JoCat is playing Banquo as JoCrap, complete with the Wiggler hat.
  • At one point Dominic Noble pulls out a sword prop and accidentally hits the ceiling light. He then makes a big speech... Which JoCat responds to as a soldier, wearing a helmet from Halo.
  • During the scene with Malcolm and Macduff, Dominic (as Malcolm) keeps slipping into different accents throughout the speech and just going with it; he also gets visibly exhausted as the speech goes on and on, not having expected to be talking so much in one go.
    Dominic: Malcolm was just standing there until now, what happened?
  • Calluna playing Ross as a Valley Girl.
    Calluna/Ross: Is it known who did this more than bloody deed? Gimme the hot gos!
  • Macbeth and Macduff's final duel is done to a poorly-done acapella of Duel of the Fates.
  • Some of the improvised lines:
    Jo/Banquo: How goes the night, boy?
    Indigo/Fleance: The moon is down, papa! I have not heard the clock!
    Jo/Banquo: Well, then fucking look again!
  • Also:
    Jo/Lady Macduff: What had he done to make him fly the land?
    Calluna/Ross: He is noble, wise, judicious, and best knows the fits of the season!
    Jo/Lady Macduff: Well then you marry him!
  • And:
    Blue/Macduff: What, all my pretty chickens and their dam at one fell swoop?
    Calluna/Ross: I don't know if he killed the chickens or not, actually.
    Dom/Malcolm: Dispute it like a man, you beta cuck!
    Blue/Macduff: I SHALL DO!!
  • Even though Blue is trying to read all Macduff's dialogue as written, at one point he feels the need to interject a clarification for one line:
    Blue/Macduff: The queen that bore thee oftener upon her knees - PRAYING - than on her feet, died every day she lived.
    Cyan: (offscreen) If you say so!
    Blue: It says in the text notes!
  • Indigo is the messenger, and for every message she delivers, she makes sure to spend as long as possible going through a stack of letters before continuing with the line.
  • Also from Indigo: that one time she forgot that she was playing Lennox.
    Red/Macbeth: Come in, without there!
    Indigo: (still wearing the witch hat) Enter Lennox! Shit! (dives off-camera to switch hats)
    Red/Macbeth: Lennox?
    Indigo/Lennox: (pops back up) What's your grace's will?
  • At one point Calluna plays the role of holding up a magic floating dagger, lying down on her couch. One of her cats immediately takes an interest in it. Blue remarks on it.
    Blue: Is this a cat I see before me, a paw towards my dagger!

• The next Shakespeare play they read is Julius Caesar (for the Ides of March), with Red and Blue reading for Mark Antony and Brutus. As before, everyone but them is goofing off.
  • Because Cyan doesn't want to do a face reveal, she wears a sheet with eye-holes cut in, making all her characters appear to be Bedsheet Ghosts with various hats on. It becomes funnier when she has to struggle with her glasses over the top of it.
  • Everyone says Tinitius' name wrong, pronouncing it as "tinnitus" or "tetanus".
  • Indigo was expecting Noir to use his Kermit puppet for Caesar like he did with Duncan, so she created what she insists is a screen-accurate Miss Piggy to play his wife Calpurnia. It's an IKEA BLÅHAJ, with a wig and paper snout stuck on it.
    • Kermit does show up, but as a conspirator. Which leads to a moment where Kermit is smearing himself in Caesar's blood.
  • Noir reads all of Caesar's lines in Latin, with the exception of the one line in the play that is actually in Latin.
    Noir/Caesar: And you, Brutus? Tunc cadunt Caesar!
  • After the assassination, the conspirators immediately celebrate in a way that is simultaneously Breaking the Fourth Wall and Genre Blind, reasoning that because the play was named "Julius Caesar" and Caesar is dead, the play is over and they've won.
    Indigo: Alright, that's it! Play over, we're good!
    Tim: We've solved tyranny!
    Calluna: It's "Julius Caesar" and he's dead!
    Tim: Exactly! Nothing bad will possibly happen from now!
  • For several of his other characters, Noir plays them as himself, auditioning for those parts, with Indigo as casting director (and getting credited as such at the start of the first such scene). Indigo's prompts for Noir include for him to do his lines like he's falling down a hill, like he's dropping a giant sandwich one ingredient at a time, and in an Australian accent:
    Noir: I can do an accent...
    Tim: If this sounds anything like a New Zealand accent, I am coming over.
  • Tim/Publius says "Good morrow, Caesar" in binary code. He later communicates lines in Morse code and charades (the latter of which is noted as ridiculous, as everyone has the script in front of them).
    • Tim had been under the impression that this was Publius' only line in the play, so he is caught by surprise when another comes up and he doesn't have a binary translation prepared, while the others comment that the bit is now completely ruined.
  • When Tim makes his first appearance as Portia, using the same ludicrous accent as he used with Lady Macbeth, Indigo and Blue have this to say:
    Indigo: I love how, when Tim plays a woman, he plays every woman he's ever met, all at once.
    Blue: The double-casting of Tim as both Cassius and Portia really highlights the gay undertones of [Brutus and Cassius'] dynamic.
  • Tim gets into the habit of reading the punctuation for the stage directions, then getting Indigo to fill in the actual direction. At one point, he omits a closing bracket, leading to Indigo and Noir silently freaking out during his next line.
    Noir (mouthing): Is this all in brackets?!
  • Indigo reads the direction "Caesar exits, with train", then plays Thomas & Friends music.
  • Blue and Cyan appear to not own any prop daggers, leading to Blue using a pen, and Cyan using Cleo, to kill Caesar.
    Cyan/Casca: Speak, hands, for me! *Lunges at camera holding Cleo*
  • Speaking of cats, Indigo later enlists hers to play a plebian for one scene.
  • Indigo plays Artemidorus as a radio host:
    Indigo/Artemidorus: We'll be here all morning until Caesar passes along with your favorite hits, from whatever era of Roman history this is. [...] And now, a word from our sponsors.
    Tim: I think you just hurt Blue by saying "whatever period of Roman history this is".
    Blue: Famously 44 B.C!
  • Good news: the plebeians do a better job of speaking in unison than the witches. Bad news: they do so by way of Creepy Monotone, which doesn't make those scenes much better.
  • For Cinna the poet's death scene, Calluna plays him as Ditto, complete with Pokémon Speak.
    • And then there's this line from Indigo during this scene...
    Indigo: Tear him for his bad verses! Tear him for his bad verses! There's nothing worse than bad poetry!
  • Cassius gets very drunk after arguing with Brutus, eventually falling off his chair.
  • Indigo/Messala announcing Portia's death:
    Indigo/Messala: Then like a Roman bear the truth I tell: She dead. By strange manner, hella dead.
  • Blue describes Brutus' coping mechanism as "gay panic".
  • When Portia's death is first brought up, Tim (playing Cassius) is surprised.
    Tim/Cassius: Portia is dead. *Breaking character* Wait, I'm dead?
  • At the climactic battle, Cassius has two rifles.
  • When Messala sees Cassius' and later Titinius' bodies, Indigo plays him as a Beleaguered Bureaucrat who is more concerned with the paperwork load this will impose than anything else.
  • Clitus.
• When Red tackles the Spirit Temple in her long-play of Tears of the Kingdom, she discovers one puzzle involving getting a construct part over an electrified bar can be completely cheesed using the Lightning Helm. Her response?
  Red: Thanks, Yiga Clan, you've saved me again.
• While playing Sony's Marvel's Insomniac Games' Spider-Man 2, Blue greatly enjoys demonstrating that turning down web assist can turn loop-de-loop maneuvers into faceplants on building roofs. Multiple times.
  • The minute-long delay through which Red and Indigo are watching the stream leads to a lot of Delayed Reactions.
  • Earlier, Blue takes down a squad of Mooks before pulling a car free of a sand pile...on top of one of the Mooks. Red expresses amusement at this before Cyan tells her "Wait 'til you see who's in the car." Cue Miles rescuing J. Jonah Jameson from the car.
  • At 5:20:07, while Blue and Harry are fighting some Hunters and also a fire, Cyan wonders where the Hunters get all their weapons.
    Blue: Uh, it's all of those sponsorships that Kraven takes allows him to...
    Red: (laughter) (as Kraven) "This beatdown was brought to you by Hello Fresh."
    Cyan: (as Kraven) "Today the arson is sponsored by...Raid: Shadow Legends."
  • Later...
    Blue: Tryin' to think of what other, like, generic sponsors...it's like...and like—Nonono, it's like: (as Kraven) "I like to stay hidden within the dark forest. If you want to keep your personal data safe, you should use a VPN for your browsing."
    • Later, a commenter suggests that Kraven get sponsered by BetterHelp:
      Cyan: Someone recommended BetterHelp? Kraven definitely did not get sponsored by BetterHelp. (laughter)
      Red: (as Kraven) "Is your mind weak? Do you need...'help?' No you don't." (laughter)
      Cyan: (as Kraven) "No you don't. Play Genshin Impact."
      Red: It's like that, uh joke ad about, like, "buy water bottle," and like, these dumbbell shaped bottles, like, "What if I need other stuff?" (as Kraven) "Don't buy other stuff."
    • Thus, as MJ infiltrates Kraven's "hilariously on the nose" zoo-hideout, the KravenCast is born. For the next 40 minutes of stream, Red, Blue, Cyan and Indigo take turns doing ad reads in a hilariously terrible Kraven voice, discussing how Daniel Thrasher relegates sponsors to "the sketch after the sketch" and getting jumpscared by ManScaped sponsorships on YouTube, imagining what Kraven's podcast would be like and what segments it'd consist of, including being an educational ecological and conservationist podcast (implying that predatory animals should be protected for the purpose of Kraven being able to hunt them without endangering their species as a whole), and how MJ would somehow become Kraven's most frequent guest, while only briefly being interrupted by Blue pointing out MJ Taking A Level In Badass and becoming Mary Jane Wick and discovering evidence of dead supervillains.
  • The running joke even extends into the next two streams, where they imagine Kraven revealing his podcast's You Kill It, You Bought It policy and Blue realizes that the VenomCast has shorter legs than the KravenCast due to the physical limitations of doing the Venom Voice. Cyan, without skipping a beat, points out how Venom's legs are obviously way bigger than Kraven's.

Detail Diatribe

• "Dragon Ball: Super Saiyan (A Prophecy Done Right)" is a legitimately cool thesis on how incredibly well set-up the original Super Saiyan transformation was and how well-executed the prophecy surrounding it was, but there's also a bunch of hilarious moments where Blue and Red make a lot of jokes around the context:
  • Red points out that Piccolo was clearly supposed to be a recurring Vegeta-type villain and then Vegeta is introduced, so Piccolo became a good guy almost immediately.
  • "So the Saiyan who came to Earth, his name is Raditz, he's Goku's brother, you'd think this would be important, it's not."
  • Red mentioning most people not remembering Nappa is hilarious if you're a fan of Dragon Ball Z Abridged. Even better if you know that the Tournaments Trope Talk shows she is one, playing Trunks' "stop hinging the fate of the world on deathmatches" scene in that video.
  • She also mentions that despite the fact that both Goku and Vegeta both got utterly wrecked in their first fight and Goku really only wins because his friends helped out, it still absolutely gets under Vegeta's skin precisely because he believes that scenario should never have happened at all.
  • Red notes that Vegeta telling Nappa that he doesn't want a child stronger than he is turns out to be hilarious later when Trunks shows up.
  • Red keeps pointing out that the three people who know anything about the Super Saiyan legend (Vegeta, Guru and Frieza) don't elaborate on it at all to anyone, leaving everyone else in the cast and the viewers mostly very, very confused.
  • On the other hand, Vegeta won't shut up about it. At the same time, Red continues to highlight that he barely even elaborates on what a Super Saiyan even is.
  • A lot of fun is poked at Vegeta.
    Red: Vegeta's just not having a good day, and it won't get better from here.
    Blue: And thus begins the bad day that'll dominate the rest of his life.
    Red: Yeah! The Namek Saga, or "Vegeta and the Terrible Horrible No-Good Very Bad Day".
    (A bit later)
    Red: ...and then Vegeta goes back to being smug— Vegeta has two modes, smug and panicking, and he will switch between them on a dime in this arc.
    Blue: He's a metronome, yeah. (Cue image showing up on screen showing an image of a metronome and the two sides being "Tremble in fear, Frieza! My power has transcended all mortal limits!!" and "I-Impossible! How could anyone possibly be that strong?!")
  • Red doing the impression of Vegeta's Super Saiyan boast to Frieza is hilarious because it sounds exactly like the ones Vegeta does in Dragon Ball Z Abridged.
  • Red and Blue joking that the "Zenkai Boost" is an RNG manipulation strat.
  • Everything Vegeta says and does related to the Super Saiyan legend is what Blue notes to be the "perfect blend of a Chekhov's Gun and a Red Herring". And he comes up with a name for this combination: "Chekhov's Seafood Dinner". Red loves it, and Blue asks her to give him a moment to write it down!
  • More mockery of Vegeta even when he's dead:
    Red: If Vegeta had gone Super Saiyan just by speedrun hacking, it would've been kind of a disappointing payoff - but the fact is, this sort of makes it mean something. And Goku actually somehow puts this together, and explains to Frieza that as a Super Saiyan he is a "pure heart awakened by fury" which Frieza thinks is actually quite funny, because he's like "wow, no wonder Vegeta never pulled it off!" It's like-oh God!
    Blue: That's hilarious.
    Red: It's so funny.
• The 10 Year Anniversary Detail Diatribe about what they've learned concludes with Blue saying what their expectations for the channel's lifespan over time. They figured they had 3 year's left in 2015 when they hit 1000 subscribers, five years left when they started working on the channel full time in 2018...

  Blue:...but now, with two million subscribers and coming up on the ten year anniversary of the channel...I think there's about five more minutes before Namek explodes!
  Red: Yes! This is my favourite joke, and now it's your favourite joke!

• In the Detail Diatribe on Samurai Jack's Training Montage, at 17 minute mark, Blue describes how Jack tries and fails to fight blindfolded, until he nearly gives up.
  "And the monks are like 'Nonono, but like consider this; what if you got good?'"
• The Detail Diatribe on Spider-Man's "Black Suit Saga", or, as Blue likes to call it, "Peter's enshittening arc".
  • Blue defending himself against fandom heresy: "I said that Spider-Man 3 was my favorite film of the three. I did not say it was good." And then when Red starts seeing his point of view, she claims that now he's corrupting her.
  • The Spectacular Spiderman wins for nicest Black Suit Peter Parker...because he didn't try to kill anyone.
  • Red lampshades the somewhat wordy title of Marvels Spiderman 2, and so decides to give it an even longer one: Sony's Marvel's Insomniac Games' PS5 Spiderman 2 Coming 2023.
• In the Batman diatribe, Red calls Justice League the ultimate Justice League media because it has Catman.
  Blue: Your move, Zachary.

Everything else

• The Running Gag that parties (especially Norse parties) are depicted by an Establishing Shot of a structure with flashing neon colors coming out of the windows and a techno-bass thundering through the walls.
• The College Hell video is probably one of the duo's funniest episodes.
  • The Bad "Bad Acting" of the introduction, finishing with them stating that they're going to get lessons on "proper inflection and tone."
  • Blue getting chased by a random ninja.
  • This bit:
    Red: And we all know the people who belong in this next bol-hey.
    Blue: THAT'S SPANISH!
    Red: I believe you mean es español!
    (string guitar riff)
  • Red constantly pronounces "bolgia" wrong, which annoys the crap out of Blue. He finally gets fed up and tells her she's not allowed to say it anymore. Cue her finally saying it correctly. Blue's reaction is appropriately hilarious.
    YouTube Commenter: I guess you could say he went... Super Saiyan Blue.
  • "They screwed their friends, so now their friends screw them!"
  • This line from Blue:
    Blue: No, I didn't become an atheist because I once pissed myself in church! Please stop saying that! It's not true!
    (Beat)
    Red: Just gonna let that one slide...
  • And at the end:
    Blue: Okay Red, say it with me 'cause this is going to bother me to no end. Bolgia.
    Red: Bolgee.
    Blue: Bolgia.
    Red: Bolja.
    Blue: You are pure evil!
    Red: (Dressed as Bane) I'M NECESSARY EVIL!
• Blue's College Survival Guide (now removed, for some reason) kicks off with him informing us that Red has an entire extra month to be working on the channel. Gilligan Cut to Red, hard at work.
  Red is playing with a pair of action figures
  Red: [as the the first figure] You'll never defeat me, boy, for only I possess Articulated Jaw Action!
  Red: [as other figure] Oh no! My own face is stoic and unmoving.
• Their April Fool's Day 2018 video has Red and Blue apologizing for accidentally causing the apocalypse (Red) and various ancient historical events (Blue). Eventually Blue apologizes for stealing the Library of Alexandria and then setting fire to the foundations to cover his tracks. Red immediately leaves to track Blue down in revenge. Blue briefly panics before remembering she lives nowhere near him. Half a second later...
  Red: *breaking into Blue's home* There you are, you BARBARIAN! *kaiju roar*
  Blue: Bye! *briefly waves at camera as he flees*
• Red singing her version of a Major General Song called "The Philosopher's Song with Blue questioning what she's doing.
  Blue: What the hell are you doing?
  Red: Obviously, I'm singing about philosophers.
  Blue: Yeah, but why?
  (after the next verse)
  Blue: Shouldn't you be working on Journey of the West, Part 3?
  Red: Technically I should be doing my homework.
  (before the second verse ends)
  Blue: Couldn't you have chosen a song you can, you know, sing?
  Red: Shut up!
• From the Blue goes to Greece video we get this comment from Blue on Socrates:
  Blue: Socrates would’ve been walking around here about Two-Thousand Five Hundred Years ago. Bare-foot ‘cause he was a dumbass.
• From Blue's Copenhagen vlog, we get this little moment:
  Blue: (singing) Hello darkness, my old friend. I didn't see you in Iceland. (speaking) 'Cause it's frickin' sunlight all the damn time in Iceland! Jeesh...
  Cyan: (in the background, singing) But now we're here in Copenhagen!
  (both laugh)
  • Blue discovers some trampolines embedded near the sidewalk.
    Blue: (bouncing on the trampoline) Okay, so uh, new development. This is the best goddamn city on Earth!
• 2019's April Fools' Day special, OSP's Recipes: Carthaginian Delight. It seems like a typical Mediterranean seafood dish at first, but then things start getting... brutal.
• Red goes nuts and decides to sum up the Mahabharata (one of the most legendary epics of Indian culture and an outrageous Door Stopper) in a single minute. Ensues a ridiculous case of Motor Mouth even by her already fast-paced standards. Special mention to her shortening the Bhagavad Gita as "Arjuna doesn't want to fight his beloved family and teachers and stuff so Krishna calls him a whiny little baby for 700 stanzas".
  Krishna holding up a paper which reads: It's fine. Just do it. Source: I'm the universe.
  • Madri taking a flying leap onto her husband's funeral pyre. Self-Immolation has never been so cute.
• The 1 million subs video
  • Starting off strong:
    Blue: We're worth 1/23rd of Markiplier?
  • Since they're in the Big Leagues, they decide to dress the part. Blue goes for the "Evil Businessman" look, while Red looks like she's ready to suck your blood.
  • That's not fancy enough, so they rope Yellow into being their servant.
    Yellow: I hate you, I hate you both.
    Red: Hush, servant! More fizzy water!
  • Blue interrupts the fancy montage at the museum by stating
    Blue: Wow, it's cold as fuck.
  • Blue has some good bits even without audio, like making a "rawr!" face next to a t. rex skeleton, or pointing at a placard stating "Egypt is in Africa" and clearly mouthing "Egypt is in fucking Africa".
  • In the end the two of them are observing a painting - or rather, a sign denoting the art gallery that looks like a painting.
    Blue: You can see from the composition here, you can tell that there's paint on the canvas. It's a very important aspect of the uh...painting.
    Red: It probably tastes...not very good.
    *Blue doubles over laughing*
• 2020's April Fools' Day special is a Journey to the West ...... minecraft recreation
  • Starting off strong Red and Blue already get lost despite Red making a map with markers.
  • Blue playing as Tripitaka somehow manages to capture the spirit of the character by getting stuck by a tree. He even complains, "How am I already as useless as the real Tripitaka".
  • Red and Blue both die 10 minutes into the video by jumping off the mountain and failing to land in water. Blue reminds everyone they're still within walking distance of their spawn area.
  • When Blue recounts telling some family friends about his job, trying to describe as best he could when one of his younger cousins realized Blue had a youtube channel then advised him to play Minecraft. Blue with an audible sigh admits "he felt his heart sank" when he heard that. He brings it up later that he and Red are saps for focusing their channel on education videos when they could be playing Minecraft.
  • Blue gets his hands on a crossbow and immediately gets drunk on what little power he has. Red later denies him Creative Mode access for this reason.
    Blue: Tripitaka pulls out a fucking gun!
    Red: Tripitaka's sick of getting kidnapped, pulls out a glock...
  • Blue decides to end the video the only way he knows how to: jumping of a cliff and dying. He actually survives the fall, and is immediately after blown up by a creeper.
• The 2021 April Fool's video. I.e roughly 4 minutes of Cleo (the pet cat) being her crazy self.
  • Among other highlights is Cleo trying to escape the cat gate.
  Subtitles for Cleo: "Freedom! Freedom? Freedom!"
  Blue: "Cleo, no that's illegal!
• The main page of their website has a list of Red's favorites of her artwork, along with an artist's comment.
  • On a picture of Morrigan posing intimidatingly:
    My favorite artistic subgenre: "Scary women gesturing imperiously"
  • On a picture of the Simmurgh:
    "I'll give her a bunch of wings and a swirling mass of flowing hair! THAT won't get confusing to color later!" -Red, a fool, a damned fool
  • On a picture of Bacchae Dionysus
    I made a brush specifically to draw vines. I've been flagrantly abusing the power it gave me ever since.
  • On Desna:
    RPGs always have way more visually interesting deities than real mythologies.
• The official merch includes a number of "World's best X" mugs, all of which serve as literal Mythology Gags:
  • For Loki, "World's Best Horse Mom"
  • For Anansi, "World's Wisest Arthropod"
  • For Hades, "Underworld's Best Boss"
  • For Sun Wukong, "World's Greatest Sage (equal to Heaven)"
  • For Pele, "World's Hottest Vacation Destination"
  • And for Sekhmet, "World's Deadliest Eyeball"
• "Holiday Tales: Hanukkah":
  • The appallingly perky Seleucid official demanding Zeus worship on pain of death, with a smile on his face.
    Tsk. Intra-communal violence is always such a senseless tragedy. Escalating the situation won't make you any frie—
  • Judah Maccabee takes Heroic Self-Deprecation to new heights.
    Mattathias on his deathbed: Judah, my wildly qualified, highly educated, tactically brilliant, devilishly handsome son. You must lead the rebellion in my place.
    Judah: But Dad I don't know if I can do this.
    Mattathias: Okay let me start again.
  • The frantic resuscitation of the extinguished Menorah.
    Man holding oil jar: One side, I'm a fry cook!
  • Judah has a moment of self-awareness regarding Judaism's lot in history.
    Antiochus IV Epiphanes: Treasure this victory while you can! Don't think for a second it'll last!
    Judah Maccabee: I don't.
• Red and Indigo have an entire livestream discussing which characters are Himbos, defining the archetype as pure of heart, dumb of ass and respects women^note A Himbo, more than being just a male bimbo, is an archetype of western origin (mostly Tumblr) that resembles the Stock Shōnen Hero, being very buff and strong, but also extremely dumb, but makes up for their stupidity by being extremely friendly and kind, especially to women. They of course put Kronk as an S-tier himbo, since he is the platonic ideal. Others on the list are Zagreus (B-tier, too smart to qualify for top marks), Fred (also B-tier) and JFK (CLONE HIGH VERSION SPECIFICALLY).
  • At the end of the stream, Indigo lists every himbo in a voice which Red describes as "a spot-on WatchMojo". She drops the accent entirely when she gets to specifying which version of JFK they're talking about.
  • Red comments that Tumblr thinks Zagreus is hot, which Indigo agrees with. She immediately after requests that she'd not be quoted agreeing with Tumblr.
  • Red introduces a character as “The first ever himbo who’s also a war criminal” while referring to Alex Louis Armstrong, then cuts off the breakdown with her laughter when she sees that one viewer in the chat asked if she was talking about “YODA?!” Red does not want that fanart on her desk by Monday, and Indigo can’t stop laughing.
  • "...and this leads him to taking some unhimboly actions"
  • And then there's the moment where Indigo accidentally spoonerizes her criteria with the memorable line "Dumb of heart, pure of ass." The laughter only escalates when they come to an agreement that this is actually an apt summation of edgelord characters.
• In the livestream ranking magic systems, Red dubs Brandon Sanderson "Writers Georg, the outlier who should not be counted" for his prolific writing career. They then put all of his magic systems into S-tier at once basically in its own box, because going through them all separately would take half the video and both Red and Indigo admit they've barely read any of his books for seperate reasons.
  • The last entry on their existing list that they do, purely because Indigo wants it? Cats. Yes, the musical. Cue the chat having a mass Big "WHAT?!" moment, especially since half the chat was screaming for Jojos Bizarre Adventure at that point. The pair put it in F-tier, and Indigo admits that she already realized halfway through the stream that Cats barely even qualifies. But they still put it higher than Harry Potter.
  • Speaking of Jojo, when they get to the viewer choices, they put it in D purely because they barely know anything about it substantively. They speculate that considering how insane it is that the author is an alien who is desperately trying to hide his lack of familiarity with actual human culture, but considering a running fanbase meme is that Hirohiko Araki is somehow some kind of immortal vampire or fairy because he doesn't seem to age at all...
• In the After Dark episode on Lancers, Red and Indigo get into a debate about wether Glimmer belongs in the S tier or on the border between S and A tiers. Blue interrupts them by pointing out that they have done nothing but sing Glimmer's praises for fifteen minutes.
  • Indigo talks about how she doesn't think Todoroki from My Hero Academia "lances Midoriya in a way that causes Midoriya to have character growth", causing Red to remark that they need a less homoerotic verb.
• 2022's April Fools special. The Silmarillion?
• Red and Blue are featured as guests in Indigo's podcast Moviestruck while discussing The Batman (2022), resulting in plenty of laughs. Highlights include:
  • Blue repeatedly forgetting Thomas Wayne's name.
    Red: "WALTER WAYNE"!? He would never have been a billionaire, he would have been bullied into extinction long before that!
  • While discussing which locations the movie was filmed at, notably how the close-up city shots were filmed in Glasgow, Blue recalls one reaction that he saw online.
    Blue: I saw a Tweet which was, like- on Scottish Twitter that was like "Man, people are talking about how disgusting and awful that Gotham looks- THAT'S JUST GLASGOW YOU ASS!"
  • Every reference to Commissioner Pete, beloved long-standing character who is definitely long for this world.
    • "Just back from seeing The Flying Graysons!" "Hanging out with that lovely Fries couple! They're doing so well these days!"
  • While discussing where the Riddler must have gotten his oddly-specific greeting cards from, the crew notes that the people of Gotham probably have to do a lot to have cards for their common occasions.
    Red: "Sorry you got Joker Venomed and couldn't stop smiling for a week, but you always bring a smile to my face, Valentine!" [...] "Sorry the water supply got poisoned by the Lazarus Pit again, but I hope your dead grandma said hi when she was around!"
    Blue: Or just, like, fully diegetically, "What killed the dinosaurs? The Ice Age! Hope you have a wonderful holiday season!"
    Red: "My Nora used to love the winter snow. Wishing you a very Merry Christmas!"
  • Red and Blue's explanation for how the Penguin runs "a respectable establishment."
    Blue: This cocaine is organic!
    Red: It's from my mama's recipe.
  • Red pronounces chauffeur as "show-four".
    Blue: His four chauffeurs! In a quadruplet chariot of old Corvettes!
    Red: Yeah! And they're all singing in a barbershop quartet as backup, just to, you know, really raise spirits...
    Blue: [singing] Hello my vengeance, hello my darling, hello...
  • The crew had previously noted how the mask for the Batsuit was made to be fitted perfectly to Robert Pattinson's natural skull shape. His especially pronounced jawline and cheekbones being visible then brought up the question on if Mayor Mitchell's son recognized Bruce as Batman once they saw each other in public.
    Blue: He's like, "HI BATMAAAAAN!"
    Red: [as the mayor's son] I like your jawline! It looks the same in-and-out of costume!
    Red: [as Bruce] Shit! Fuck! [...] Alfred, come pick me up, I'm scared.
    Indigo: [as Bruce] I'm sorry, my mom said I have to go home.
    Blue: [as Alfred] No, Master Bruce, you have to stay for the full semester and then I can pick you up. You have to try!
  • "I'M SO SMART! EVERYONE LOOK AT MY BIG MENTAL DICK! WOOOO! LOOK AT ME!"
  • Since Selina is able to get information from criminals so much more easily by simply being a pretty woman, the crew decide that the only logical conclusion for Bruce to draw from that is that he should have no armor under the batarang so that when it's removed there's a "bat boob-window" to his chest.
  • Indigo notes that the Riddler's online interactions with the public, especially his fan community, are very Gen Z, prompting the crew to think up more ideas for his recordings.
    Blue: RIDDLE ME THIS, BAT-MAN: Why is it that 70% of you aren’t subscribed?!?
    Red: It's really hard to riddle on an empty stomach, which is why this murder was brought to you by HelloFresh!
    Indigo: Use code "Trick Question" for 30% off your first order!
  • "Riddle me this: why did the Mayor die of ligma?"
• The 2 million subscriber video is an animated compilation of moments from podcasts and streams, choked full of funny moments:
  • From a Hades stream, Blue takes offense to Asterius calling him "short one":
    Blue (as Zagreus): Short one? That's a low blow, sir!
    Red (as Megaera): The polite term is "manlet", my good man.
    Cyan (as Thanatos): [breaks down laughing]
    Red: I will also accept being referred to as "Short King".
    Cyan: [out of breath] No, I'm going with manlet, that was great!
    Blue: Zagreus is like, "THE TERM IS 'TWINK', MOTHERFUCKER!"
  • On a Breath of the Wild stream, Red has some technical issues, leading Indigo to tell Cyan that Red has to up her gain.^note Audio gain, that is, the amplification of her signal Meanwhile, Red is glitching out.
    Cyan: Up your gain, Red.
    [Beat while Red gives a Death Glare]
    Red: MY GA[static]IN IS[static] U[static]P!
    Cyan: Her gain is up.
  • Throughout the Zelda clips, Indigo is represented as Navi with headphones. At one point it zooms in to show that inside Navi is regular Indigo lounging in a big soft chair while speaking into a microphone.
  • Indigo recounts her kettle woes, constantly being distracted away from her tea until the water has boiled away to nothing. Red posits that Indigo is in some kind of hell. Cyan's counterpoint is that Indigo might just be a Sim.
  • "Man, that shit's pretty fucked, am I right? I'm Rod Serling."
• The 2023 April Fool's video: "ωονδερωάλλ." (That is, a cover of "Wonderwall" detailing the fall of Troy.) One highlight is that the bridge becomes Red stating that no-one could have seen this coming, over images of Cassandra.
• The video about the solar eclipse is derailed by Cleo oscillating between Cute Kitten and Cats Are Mean.

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