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I Read the Worst Romance Book in Human History

• "However, once in a very, very long time, someone will bring a book to my attention, and I'll be instantly gripped with a depressing certainty that, now that I know it exists, I am going to have to cover it. It's like making eye contact with a Pokémon trainer."
• Dom points out that the book is the first in a trilogy but the sequels can only be found on the author's website. Apparently there are some books so bad even Amazon won't sell them.
• He points out the book has a 100% one-star rating and debuted around the time Donald Trump lost the 2020 election, so this must have been a very rough time for the author.
• Dom's bafflement at the bit where the evil feminist sorority higher-ups invite the members to partake in some post-meeting cigars and whiskey.
  Dom: Seriously, did Liberty take a wrong turn looking for a feminist meeting to observe and end up in an aristocratic gentlemen's club, but not realize her mistake until it was too late?
• Dom points out that the author has an intense fascination with the word "female," then proceeds to show several passages to help prove his point. In the end, Dom has something to share with the author.
  Dom: Liberty, on the extreme off chance that you're watching this, I am about to blow your mind. Are you paying attention? (clears throat) Woman.

Finally Earning My Father’s Approval Using YouTube Analytics

• The video marking Dom's 300,000 subscribers is just a skit of Dom flying back to England asking his father (played by his real-life father) if he's proud of him for the subscription count. What really sells it is Dom dressed like a stereotypical British schoolboy, taking on a tone similar to Oliver Twist asking for more while his dad just gives a dismissive "hm."
• The resemblance between Dom and his dad is so strong several commenters admitted to having a hard time telling if it was Dom in a costume or not!

The Room

• For April Fools Day, Dom reviews the book The Room was based on. An obscure Polish novel, The Room I Died In by Prima Aprilis. Which ends up rewriting/recontextualizing some of The Rooms most iconic moments in a way that makes sense in someone else's hands. Such as the "I did not hit her! It's not true! It's bullshit, I did not hit her! I did not naaaght! Oh, hai Mark." becoming Book!Johnny's internal monologue venting through his frustrations at Lisa's lie, then noticing Mark standing right there and Johnny trying to play it cool. Or Johnny's "Haha... what a story Mark." being the result of Book!Johnny simply not listening and then trying (and failing) to seem like he was.
• Throughout the review Dom makes it clear that the book was actually even weirder than the movie, hinting at it all through, despite otherwise explaining how the movie's weird elements made sense in the book. Only to reveal at that the movie cut out the book's ending where, after shooting himself, Johnny was revealed to be a vampire the entire time. He even goes so far as to rattle off moments that foreshadowed the twist.
• The fact that, while the novel explains most of the film's bizarre moments, the spoons still remain a mystery.
• On the other hand, the novel has no sex scenes at all, sticking solely to implication. The movie's bizarre sex scenes are all on Tommy Wiseau.
• The best part, Dom played the joke 100% straight, with the same earnesty as any other Lost in Adaptation video, and created such a believable setup, it was difficult for a few people to notice the hints ^note  Such as the "author" being named Prima Aprilis. or, according to The Disaster Artist Wiseau was considering a subplot about Johnny being a vampire making the ending twist in The Room I Died In a Mythology Gag that it was just an April Fools Day prank.
• The titles of Prima Aprilis' books, translated from Polish: "I'm Lying To You", "Another Fake Title", and "This Is Not A Real Book".
• The author picture of Prima Aprilis, who bears a remarkable resemblance to Blue and apparently drowned in a canal in Venice.
• In a short released nine days later, Dom removes The Room I Died In's fake cover jacket, revealing the book to be Twilight (2005). Cue stock scream.

Twilight New Moon ~ Lost in Adaptation

• He describes Robert Pattinson as a "relatable human dumpster fire."
• His response to the Native American jokes in the movie. "I'm cringing so hard my head is withdrawing into my torso!"
• He does his Audible ad in a T-shirt with a giant dollar sign on it.

The Snowman

• Dom opens by acknowledging the coincidental similarities between the story of this adaptation, and the April Fools episode of Lost in Adaptation that he did for The Room (2003) a couple of months back, swearing that this time the famously terrible movie actually is adapted from a lesser-known foreign book in which many nonsensical elements made much more sense.
  • After affirming he's not making it up this time, Dom sees a wolf (off-screen), proceeds to cry wolf... then gets attacked by Jacob Black.
• His multiple puns concerning the name of the protagonist, such as Harry Hold My Beer, Harry Hold Me Closer Tiny Dancer, Harry Wholla Lotta Love by Led Zeppelin and Harry Wholefoods.
• Dom ends up dialing Rocked to confirm that the concert the protagonist takes his son to is not in fact Slipknot. After listening to the band in question wailing incoherently in utter shock, Luke hastily confirms it's not Slipknot and hangs up on nonplussed Dom.

LEAVE SPONGEBOB OUT OF YOUR SEX SCENES E.L. JAMES! - Reading The Mister for Charity

• The title refers to the woman in the sex scene having SpongeBob SquarePants on her pants. They imagine SpongeBob and Patrick getting an eyeful of the male lead's dick.
• Dom and Linkara acting out the nonsensical motions described in one of the sex scenes.
• Their reaction to James' constant use of the word "behind" even in the most graphic sex scenes. Linkara screams that he will mail James a thesaurus.
• Linkara loves the book's phrase "Music to my dick."
• There's a scene where the male lead fingers the woman and counts each thrust. They imagine the Count fingering her.
• "We're going to be avoiding eye contact for the next couple of conventions."
• The novel says that the woman's hair conceals her breasts except for her nipples. Dom points out she looks like a "sexy Cousin Itt."
• James describes the saliva left by a kiss as a "wet trail of possession", much to Dom and Linkara's disgust and confusion.
  Dom: "A wet trail of anything" is just the worst possible combination of words you can use in a book.
• They realize that the female lead had an orgasm while still wearing her SpongeBob pajama pants.
  Linkara: I hate you, Dom.
  Dom: I hate me too, honestly.
• The male character worries that the sight of his erection might shock or alarm the woman.
  Linkara: Why would it do that?! Is it shaped weird?! Is there a little face drawn on it?!
  Dom: Maybe it's literally shaped like a python. Maybe it actually has teeth. I dunno.
• "Don't lick Jesus, you sick fuck! You've already molested SpongeBob Squarepants, leave the Messiah out of your fucking sexcapades!"
• They burst out laughing at the male saying "Are you ready? It'll be quick."

Reading The Mister For Charity (Last Episode)

• Dominic's reaction to a scene where the male lead gives the female lead a foot massage and pops one of her toes in his mouth. For context, Dominic is so disgusted by feet his girlfriend Erin had to pressure him into buying sandals and he washes his hands after putting on socks.
  • When Erin briefly looks ahead and sees that this is coming, she immediately implores Dom to not read ahead, just so she can make him squirm.

What Happened Before House of the Dragon?

• The Targaryens' failure to conquer Dorne. The Dornish refuse to fight the Targaryens, but also refuse to surrender.
  Rhaenys Targaryen: You have to either fight us or join us. That's how conquest work!
  Meria Martell: No!
  Rhaenys Targaryen: (stutters and stammers before leaving) Can she do that?!
  • Made even better by Dom's old woman voice sounding like something out of Monty Python's Life of Brian. He's not the King of the Seven Kingdoms, he's a very naughty boy!
• The Incest Dance, played as Dominic points out how many problems the Targaryens caused for themselves because they just would not give up practicing incest.
  • After detailing one batch of said problems - the first major rebellion against the Targaryens and King Aenys dying of stress - Dom slips in a little dig at the Game of Thrones showrunners.
    Dom: Ahem. Uh, gentlemen, that's a thing called "consequences of one's actions", you know, the, uh, the thing that should have happened when the fantasy Vatican was blown up? ...Ah, never mind, you can't hurt us anymore.
• Dom finds Torrhen Stark's moniker as "The King Who Knelt" to be a bit mean considering the extenuating circumstances, and suggests an equally true title: "The King Who Kept His People From Being Flambéd".
• After pointing out how confusing the Targaryen family tree is with so many names reused over the generations and only the kings even getting a number to distinguish them, Dom brings up the firstborn son of Aenys the First, named - case in point - after his grandfather Aegon the First, and calls him "Aegon the... Aegon."