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  • In the Chicken Little review, Mr. Enter jokes that the blatant usage of pre-existing songs (rather than making your own as par for the Disney course) will get him taken down for copyright. Not long after, he got into severe copyright trouble for his My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic reviews and other videos, including one that was two seconds long and reviews of fan-made episodes. And then, in January 2015, his channel was terminated, though it was eventually reinstated. It doesn't help that when he reviewed The Groovenians, he said: "I figured how to get around Viacom".
  • In his "Pinkie Apple Pie" review, he talks about feeling spoiled by how good Season 4 has been and wonders if he's been too nice in his reviews, speculating that he might be tempted to overcompensate if a genuinely bad episode should come along. The next episode to air would be "Rainbow Falls", his personal second least favorite episode of the entire series, and what he considers to be the worst episode of the show objectively.
  • The jokes about the 3 AM uploads don't seem quite as funny anymore after this video revealed that he uploaded in the wee hours of the morning because he was suffering from insomnia.
  • During his "Top 20 Worst Cartoon Theme Songs" list, when discussing Captain Planet's season 6 theme, there's a quick skit of Ma-Ti Rage Quitting over it. A few years later, the crossover episode in OK K.O.! Let's Be Heroes reveals that the Planeteers did disband for completely unrelated reasons, with Kwame as the only one left.
  • In his "Top 10 Worst Patrick's a Prick Episodes" video, he states that his deceased dog Patrick was named after Patrick Star, who would later become his most hated character on SpongeBob.
  • Mr. Enter's disgust with "Seahorse Seashell Party", for sending the message that children with abusive parents should stay in their dysfunctional family dynamics for their abusers' benefit, becomes even more poignant when, in his (now deleted) "Top 11 Worst Episodes (Year 1)" video, he reveals that he grew up in similar living conditions.
  • He stated in his The Problem Solverz review that watching the series gave him eye strain. A month later, he was diagnosed with myopia and now has to wear glasses.
  • From the same review, John saying that he would attempt to act calmer in his reviews after having a heart-to-heart conversation with the Old Man can be seen as this as his more recent reviews in 2020 have him sounding angrier and more frustrated than ever, particularly his "Lights Out!" review (which incidentally also features an appearance by the Old Man).
  • Two weeks before his Casper and the Angels review, in which he was particularly critical towards Hairy Scary, Hairy Scary's actor John Stephenson died of Alzheimer's disease. Mr. Enter has stated in his journal on the worst things he has reviewed in 2015 that he doesn't blame him for Hairy Scary.
  • He refused to review Clarence due to the suspension of its creator after sexually assaulting women on the Cartoon Network staff, as it made Enter too uncomfortable to even mention what the creator had done. Then a very similar situation occurred with the creator of The Loud House, a show Enter had already praised several times, before the revelations. Further making things depressing was the fact that he had already reviewed a bad episode only a week before the scandal arose. He also would later reveal that he was planning on making an Admirable Animation on two episodes of the show, only for him to cancel them after the scandal put the episodes he was planning to review in an awkward light.
  • His "Ink Lemonade" review, his first Animated Atrocity of a SpongeBob episode in yearsnote , was posted only one day before the passing of SpongeBob creator Stephen Hillenburg.
  • In his video about his favorite My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic writers, he mentions how he never came across an MA Larson episode that he dislikes. His first MLP review after 4 years of not reviewing the show is "Fame And Misfortune", an episode he did write, which he reviewed as an animated atrocity. note 
  • In general, it can be pretty bittersweet to look back at Mr. Enter's Friendship is Magic reviews and other videos where the show's brought up, and seeing how passionate he was about the show, knowing now that he eventually lost interest in it and stopped actively reviewing episodes.
  • In the opening of his review of ThunderCats Roar, he makes a joke about being under quarantine for COVID, comparing it to Eddy going crazy. To put it mildly, he would take it much much worse as COVID went on.
  • Toward the end of his "Mixed Messages" video on swearing, he called out YouTube for trying to appeal to kids, saying that it was illegal. Later in the year, it would come back to haunt YouTube when they were accused of violating COPPA, and they responded by putting more restrictions on YouTubers.
  • Mr. Enter talked about how much he hated the trope of a character harassing another character because they "like them". A year or two later he was stalked and harassed by a woman who had a lust for him.
  • In his review on Extra Credits, he points out how Far Cry 5 received bad faith reviews where people criticised the game not on its own merits but because it didn't make a statement that its developers did not use the game for. His review of Turning Red has him essentially do just that — criticising a film for not mentioning the post 9/11 paranoia when the film was not about that in any way. He has since apologized for it and acknowledged it was a useless and nonsensical remark.
  • In the video "Let's Talk About Elemental, Teenage Kraken, and Wish", he says that it would be very sad if Wish was a bomb because it’s Disney’s 100th anniversary movie. Wish ended up being a Box Office Bomb and received mixed reviews.
  • To an extent, his first video criticizing Star Giant Productions, "Regarding StarGiantProductions" in 2021. While the criticisms are fair, the video is somewhat awkward to watch nowadays, given the significantly more serious drama Enter had with Star in 2024, that makes the old drama almost feel trifling.

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