Episode 12, 47:00 in, Mason explains why he would never go skydiving. He would pull the cord, the parachute wouldn't deploy, then he would pull the backup cord, which also wouldn't deploy. Then his last thought would be that he paid a significant amount of money to shorten his life by forty-odd years. James adds on to that and imagines Mason pulling the first cord, bursting into flames, pulling the second cord, then falling into a pile of broken glass.
James: I remember first seeing him in the Iron Man 90s TV show and being like "What the fuck is this?"
Mason: I think that's part of his strategic— his battle strategy. He just rolls up and—-
James:"What the fuck?"
Discussing who a secret hover-chair-using villain in Guardians of the Galaxy (2014) could be.* It was Thanos. Ideas thrown out include C-3PO, R2D2 with little hover jets, a James Bond villain who was shot into space, Metron from the DC universe, and the Wishing Chair from the book of the same name.
"Well I was in a car and then I was SHOT INTO SPACE. And now I'm a Marvel villain."
Mason: You'd think, if you were clever and canny like Batman, you'd say "Hey Superman, I'm not gonna kill the Joker. I'm gonna just be cool for a while." James: Yeah, you would! Mason: "Just— just do whatever. Maybe leave Earth for a while. Cause I'll take care of all the other crime except killing the Joker." James: "You've earned a break. You've had a tough run." Mason: "Go into spaaaace duuude. Ya Dickhead."
James: Apparently, this is a lock, these four cast members. Michael Jordan, the basketball player...
Mason: Incorrect.
James: Michael B. Jordan, the basketball player...
Mason: Also incorrect, but you're getting there.
James: Basketball.
Mason: No, go back the other way.
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James: I looked up [Jamie Bell's] height. He's like 170 centimeters.
Mason: Put that in the imperial. How many feet and inches is that?
James: That's 1000 yards.
Reading the origin for the Fantastic Four in the comics:
Mason: "I ain't Ben anymore. I'm what Susan called me: The Thing."
James: Wait, Susan called him The Thing? That's really mean. He just had a horrible accident. That's like someone loses their legs and they're like "Way to go Stumpy. We're gonna call you Stumpy now."
Mason: Well first she calls him, like a "You ugly orange, rock-skinned, real prick." And Reed Richards is like "And I'll call myself Mister Fantastic." To really put the boot in.
On The Best & Worst BATMAN Suits!, James says the Michael Keaton's could fit a whole human hand in between the mask and the sides of the face. Which he promptly demonstrates.
Episode 128, the review of Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, is considered by many fans to be their favorite episode. Hearing the guys summarizing the plot and reacting to the movie is gold.
Mason: So imagine if you will, there was a man and he really loved a particular type of cheese. [...] But then imagine, he liked this particular type of cheese so much that if you said "Hey I like that cheese too," he's like "Oh yeah? Tell me all the ingredients of the cheese, in order. 'Cause that's the only way you can properly appreciate cheese, is knowing all the minute details. You can't just enjoy it. You have to really be a prick about it."
Discussing a possible adaption of Superman: Red Son, proposing that everyone who doesn't get that it's an Elseworld story is killed in the cinema. They go on to imagine a 16-year-old with a gun asking "Did you get it?" to a line of movie goers and killing people who say no.
Episode 222, 52:35. Praising Klaue as a villain, Mason suggests that Andy Serkis visit sick children in hospitals as Klaue.
Episode 251, 1:37:00: James's immitation of the typical bro-YouTuber:
James: It's your boi, Dickface! Mason: Are you saying that you wouldn't buy a T-shirt that says "It's your boi, Dickface!" on it? And it's just your face. Cue James laughing for about a minute.
Episode 257: A special eight-piece segment of "H8 Mail But The H8 Has An 8 In It" where one angry person leaves eight individual comments that proclaims the superiority of the Fox X-Men Film Series over the MCU films, while repeatedly stressing that Deadpool "lives in his own space."
Specific to the Mr. Sunday Movie's YouTube Channel
James: So what, they couldn't have bought a two-dollar, plastic, fake one? Or even just whipped something up made out of store-bought cake mix? And you know what, I bet if you threw it open to the crew, offering half that amount of money for one of them to shit on the lawn, almost certainly someone would have done it.
Orson Welles: What?! I died in 1985! I don't know what you are talking about! But fuck Paul Rudd!
Why Isn't Everyone Talking About This? To break up routine in the COVID-19 global quarantine, James breaks down an old commercial for restaurant chain Souvlaki Hut.
Any time James directly interacts with his editor Ben during one of his videos.
There's a recurring segment where James reads movie reviews from Letterbox and Maso has to guess the movie, usually with a theme (e.g. DC Movies, Marvel movies, bad reviews of good movies, etc.). However, James likes to spice things up by throwing in unrelated movies (often Joker (2019)), and moments where Maso is pondering whether this is a trick is often accompanied with a photoshopped image of James in Joker makeup.
“Listen, if you’ve got a responsibility, then maybe you should use your responsibility to do the best thing that you could possibly do at that exact moment in time—I’VEBEEN SHOT!”
In the beginning, James goofs up and refers to Rambo: Last Blood as Rocky: Last Blood instead. The video shows a poster of the original movie, but with a knife in Rocky's raised fist and a bandanna on his head.
Mason puts Rocky II in his list, and says he likes it better because unlike the first movie, Rocky wins. This leads to James and Mason discussing in some of the other movies they put in their list, whether Stallone's characters win or lose.
James can not remember Stallone's character's name in Lock Up, which leads to this:
James: ... So basically, what happens is, he is in jail... Stallone, Rocky, Rambo... whatever you wanna call it! His name is probably "Jake Jailbreak" in this movie! Mason:(laughing) Oh my goodness! If his name isn't "Jake Jailbreak", I'm taking it!
From the discussion of the same movie:
James: ... In a, kind of, previous life of his, he's known for being this expert jailbreak guy, and so Donald Sutherland, who— Mason: Why'd they put him in jail, then? James: Good question! Mason: They should've put him in a regular house, he'd be powerless! James: They should've put him in an open field! Mason:(laughing) That's right! James: He wouldn't know what to do! Mason:(grunting) How do I get out of this? (normally)Pushing over cows!.
The boys discussing the Hulk's Adaptational Wimp status in the TV series and Mason tries to make a comparison:
Mason: ... He gave me some sort of, like, Stallone in First Blood kind of vibes... James: Ah, okay! Sure, yeah. Mason: 'Cause you know, he's a danger but, he's also, uh... James:(cutting in)The Hulk. Mason: He's also the Hulk... James: Like in Rambo. Mason:(cracking up) Exactly, that's right!
They briefly discuss the moment where Banner offers to check Murdock's eyes, having experience with radiations himself.
James: I love the little interaction that they had, where [Murdock] goes "Oh I'm blind, I got blinded by radiation", and [Banner] is like "I'm a doctor" and he's like, "doctors looked at my eyes before" and he goes "no, I'm a doctor who specializes in radiation". And he looks at his eyes and he goes "Can my eyesight be restored?" and he's like "Nah!" (both laugh) Mason: Nah mate! Nah! James: These are cooked mate!
In the beginning of the video, the two discuss the Hulk's backstory, which involves Dr. Banner getting bombarded by gamma radiation during an unsupervised experiment. Mason points out that he should've got a supervisor. They later bring this back up when they discuss the ending of the movie.
James: And I liked at the end how they-they parted not as friends, Mason. They parted as brothers, who'd been horribly affected by radiation. I think that's cool. Mason: Absolutely. One of whom-one of whom was self-inflicted. James: Yes, that's right. Not to point any fingers. Mason: Yeah yeah yeah. And I mean, you know, who knows-who knows where that waste radiation came from? "Banner Industries?" James: Banner Industries!
James: … Producer Kevin Feige, he described this movie, in 2013 as The Empi— Mason: The worst one we’ve ever done, he said. James:(laughing) No no… Mason: And everyone’s going to agree. It’s gonna be at the bottom of everybody’s lists now and forever more!
"James carried Maso into the man cave and thrust him effortlessly onto their Casper mattress. All that crossfit had paid off, and Maso was the first one to notice. "Hey, I've got a new video idea for you" he said, slowly removing his anti-microbial boxer shorts, "10 Things You Missed About.... This Body!" James's heart raced like he'd just gotten a million views. He'd never done it with a tram driver before. What would his wife think? What would his dog think? He looked closely at Maso's body in front of him, his bare chest revealing the words "AMAZON AFFILIATE LINK" with an arrow pointing towards his crotch."
Weekly Planet fan theories. As in, fan theories regarding The Weekly Planet.
James lives in a van and his dog is actually Scooby Doo.
Before James revealed his face to the internet, it was common on the reddit page for the show to post a "photo" of James, only for it to be a goat.
A rare face reveal from James on a NerdSync video. Learn as he details his creative process!
After James's face was revealed, along with the fact that he has a wife and child, fans were (jokingly) outraged that his "backstory" was retconned. Many comparisons were made to DC Rebirth.
The podcast has a wiki (yes, really). Most pages are written with a sardonic tone to match the boys'.
James: I remember first seeing him in the Iron Man 90s TV show and being like "What the fuck is this?"Mason: I think that's part of his strategic— his battle strategy. He just rolls up and—-James: "What the fuck?"