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"We're two guys who make fun of people on the internet. This is a radical new form of entertainment and we are the masters of it."

"Even whores gotta work their way up to the top. ...please don't quote me on that. Don't... don't put that quote down somewhere, like on TV Tropes, perhaps."

A popular Let's Player on the Something Awful forums due to putting insane amounts of time and effort into each LP, Chip Cheezum has (at this time of writing) completed 31 Let's Plays, all of them currently or soon to be featured on the LP Archive. Primarily accompanied in his LPs by General Ironicus, he has also collaborated with other fellow goons such as VoidBurger, SnarkCookie, A Wooden Palisade and Ambisagrus, as well as comic artist KC Green. He also occasionally uploads Retsupurae videos to his YouTube account, though more recently the duo has focused more on old gaming-related commercials rather than bad Let's Plays, longplays, or any of the sort of shift the actual Retsupurae account experienced. He and General Ironicus have their own site, where all of their LPs have been posted. Doesn't seem to have a high opinion of those who add quotes on this page.

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So far, Chip Cheezum has finished Let's Plays for the following games:

    Finished Games 

Ongoing LPs include:

  • Final Fantasy VII Remake and Final Fantasy VIInote 
  • Kingdom Hearts HD 1.5 Remix

Chip also broadcasted streams of the games below, streamed on old Ustream and Hitbox channels that have since been archived to YouTube:

     Streamed Games 

Chip and Ironicus have also riffed on various web animations, most notably Elemental Goddess and the first arc of the XIN series, as well as some anime.

Chip was also a Video Production Assistant for Volition, where he ran weekly streams for them on Thursdays, from early 2015 until September of 2017. He was hired back to the same position in late 2018.

Chip and Ironicus have two podcasts: Chipod Ironicast (which updates irregularly) and Bizarre Podcast, a recap podcast that currently has two series: Dogs Must Die, where Ironicus watches the JoJo's Bizarre Adventure anime for the first time, and Space Puppets, where Chip watches Farscape for the first time.

Chip now has a Patreon account.

Chip (and his Let's Plays) provides examples of:

  • Achievements in Ignorance: The Vapor Snake runs of MGSV are marked by either humorously deliberate incompetence to show off the game's features or this. In the main mission in Ground Zeroes, he manages to sneak across the entire compound to reach Paz by throwing a smoke grenade into a truck, turning it into a tactical stealth vehicle instead of finding Chico first. In The Phantom Pain proper, he's able to complete a mission before it actually begins by blowing up some equipment during a scuffle that happened as a result of him going to a place where he wasn't supposed to be.invoked
  • Added Alliterative Appeal: Chip doesn't just crawl for rations, he sneaks for Snake Snacks.
  • Alternate DVD Commentary: Yes, there is alternate commentary for the alternate commentary. MGS3 had a pair of videos that were reprisals of earlier cutscenes with the duo's commentary re-added. Metal Gear Solid 2 had "Uncut" versions of the final few videos uploaded at a later date, which kept their commentary over cutscenes and Codec calls. Starting from Uncharted, all of their LPs have had both "Cut" and "Uncut" versions of every video, the former of which removes their commentary during cutscenes as before and the latter which retains it.
  • Aluminum Christmas Trees
  • And Now for Someone Completely Different: Chip has sometimes used co-commentators other than Ironicus; VoidBurger for Metal Gear Solid (featuring a brief cameo by Ironicus) and the multiplayer portion of Uncharted 2: Among Thieves, snarkcookie for Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker and KC Green for Duck Dynasty.
  • Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking: Happens at the beginning of "Bad Anime #2", where Chip put a NSFW message: "WARNING - Not Safe For Work - Murder, Gore, Sex, Sexism, Nudity, Attempted Rape, Brooklyn Accents"
  • Artistic License – Geography: Half the fun of the Watch_Dogs LP is hearing Ironicus rant about various inaccuracies in the game's portrayal of Chicago.
  • Ascended Extra: Rogue Warrior was initially just a video Chip made for the Something Awful Let's Try thread. Almost a full year later, it became its own separate LP for a bad games thread.
  • As Himself: Chip appears as one of Aiden's Privacy Invasion victims in The Stinger of the Watch_Dogs LP.
  • Author Appeal:
  • Batman Gambit: Chip pulls a hilarious one in the 19th episode of his Watch_Dogs LP, relying on Artificial Stupidity to get an easy kill during a mission. Knowing that his target will get into a certain car and drive forward at full speed, he simply parks a car directly into its path... a car that has been covered with bombs.
  • Big "WHAT?!": Practically his catchphrase.
  • Book Ends: The Kingdom Hearts LP begins with Chip insisting that no, him doing this does not mean that he and Ironicus have any obligation to play the rest of the series, only to end with him revealing that he'd already recorded and edited the Re:Chain of Memories LP by the time he wrote the original disclaimer. Both revelations make Ironicus corpse in nearly identical ways.
  • Brand X: Muuk Energy Drink as part of a Take That! against blip.tv's video-partnering sponsorship program.
  • Brick Joke: Plenty.
    • Killer7 has two - the first being Ironicus's reference to RENT (which is alluded to in the credits for the LP), and the second being the doctor that Ironicus tells Chip to see, who appears in The Stinger for the Metal Gear Solid 3 LP.
    • In the beginning of the MGS2 LP, Chip enters the player name as "Suck my dick." The moment when Raiden pulls out his dog tags to reveal his "name" in the ending makes the whole journey worthwhile.
    • During the Spider-Man LP, the duo make mention of an Octocamo pattern in Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots that makes Snake look exactly like The Shocker. It comes up again when they actually LP MGS4, being brought up in the second update. Said camo doesn't appear until fifteen updates later.
    • The first thing to happen in the Kingdom Hearts LP is Chip throwing up a large disclaimer that the two of them have no obligation to play through the entire series, causing Ironicus to give a loud belly laugh. The last thing to happen in the playthrough is Chip sheepishly admitting that he's already finished recording and editing an LP of Chain of Memories, which makes Ironicus give a nearly identical laugh.
  • Butt-Monkey: The other G-Unit members in 50 Cent: Blood on the Sand due to Chip constantly shooting and cussing at them, but especially Tony Yayo, the first one Chip brings along. It becomes a Running Gag to remark that everyone and everything (up to and including inanimate arcade machines◊) is better than Tony Yayo.
  • Call-Back: The "SPORTS!" music from the No More Heroes LP briefly plays when Chip finds the SPORTS magazine in Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty.
  • Catchphrase
    • Ironicus will often say "This is the best game" whenever something really neat happens.
    • Chip says "STAR WARS!" so much during the Lego Star Wars LP that it constitutes as a temporary one, at least.
      Chip: R2, no! R2, WHY?!
    • Chip seems to like saying "There's a man" whenever he's pointing out an enemy that will become the center of amazing things.
    • Ironicus is also quite fond of saying "The end, credits roll" when something ridiculous happens, or at points that'd make a good cutoff for a video. Heard a ridiculous amount during the mind boggling ending cutscenes of Metal Gear Solid 4.
  • The Cameo:
    • In the original No More Heroes LP, slowbeef and Diabetus do "guest commentary" (actually unrelated Skype conversations with Chip about, respectively, the thread for the LP and books) for the Bitter Mode runs of Holly Summers and Speed Buster.
    • Also, Edwyn Tiong (aka Dan McNeely, aka Legend) ending The You Testament LP with a dramatic reading of two of MDickie's (incredibly egotistical) journal entries.
    • Metal Gear Solid was done by Chip and VoidBurger, but during the Psycho Mantis fight General Ironicus is suddenly there after the first blackout. VoidBurger returns after a third blackout.
    • "The End" of Metal Gear Solid 2 features readings of some of Hideo Kojima's tweets by other Something Awful regulars, including Voidburger, Baldurk, Blister, Ferr, and, again, slowbeef and Diabetus.
  • Continuity Nod:
    • In 'What If?' Mode of the Spider-Man LP, Scorpion and JJJ play Marco Polo, and Spider-Man says "Fish outta water!" Chip then gloats that there's something else to say in Marco Polo. Then, in part 6 of Uncharted 2, Chip triggers the Marco Polo event. When Drake gets out of the pool he says "Fish outta water!" Chip then gloats about it again.
    • In the Trial #2 video during the Uncharted 2 LP, Ironicus advertises his new CD, using the picture that Chip had used to show him in the Message to Ironicus video of the No More Heroes LP.
    • Early in the first Uncharted, Chip talks up one of the first deaths he leaves in the video due to the ragdoll physics making it uniquely amusing. Upon hearing that the death happens while he's clambering over low cover, Ironicus immediately assumes he will be clipping into the cover and spazzing out upon dying, like the first death left on-video in 50 Cent: Blood on the Sand.
    • The Stinger of killer7 has the reveal that the LP never happened, with Ironicus suggesting Chip see a psychiatrist. The stinger to Metal Gear Solid 3, their next LP, has Chip actually visiting said psychiatrist (played by Ironicus).
    • In the introduction to Act 2 of Metal Gear Solid 4, as Snake talks about how the data recovered at the end of 2 is a "load of crap", Chip jokes that "fighting the President with cyber-octo-arms" (aka Solidus Snake) is perfectly normal in comparison to the twelve founders of an ongoing conspiracy having been dead for a hundred years. Ironicus then claims that that's as weird as having world policy decided by one school in Washington - as ended up being the case in killer7.
    • In Uncharted 3 #14, during a cutscene, the duo start talking about Bear Grylls in their attempts to give Drake "survival tips", and then Chip notes how he once bought a Bear Grylls-branded survival knife that almost immediately broke. Ironicus asks him if it had matches in the grip, calling back to a radio conversation from Metal Gear Solid 3 where Sigint tried to give Snake a knife with matches in the grip, among other things, which Snake rejected because that made the knife too brittle for actual use.
    • Metal Gear Rising #9-1 has a part early on where Jetstream Sam gives "The Reason You Suck" Speech to Raiden while he's restricted to a slow walk through an alleyway filled with monitors and holographic projectors for Sam to give the speech through. About halfway through, Ironicus wonders when Sam will start mentioning "the garden of madness" and giving Raiden his odds of surviving the next boss fight, much like the phone calls before every ranked assassin fight way back in No More Heroes.
  • Cuteness Overload: Ironicus has this twice over in Revengeance, once during the first Dwarf Gekko segment, and especially in the Blade Wolf DLC.
    Ironicus: His paws are so cute when he pushes buttons!
  • Deadpan Snarker: Both of them, especially when playing games of... lesser quality.
  • Disproportionate Retribution: Ironicus assumes at a slow moment during the Metal Gear Solid 3 LP that Chip is doing said LP merely because Ironicus made a comment on not LP'ing stealth games, which Chip then jokingly agrees with.
    Chip: Hours of my life just for one offhand comment months ago.
  • Does This Remind You of Anything?: At the end of the Metal Gear Solid V LP, Chip and Ironicus discuss the various fan conspiracy theories that Death Stranding was a Metal Gear game in disguise. Chip notes that, as the game approached its release date and it became clear that Death Stranding would be its own IP with no connection to Kojima's prior work, one group of theorists called it quits, and the other dug in harder than ever. Ironicus immediately makes a comparison to the schism among Millerite Christians after the Great Disappointment of 1844.
  • The Dreaded: Enemies wielding pipes are this in the No More Heroes LP.
    Ironicus: I hate pipes...
    Chip: It's always the pipes that get me! It doesn't matter if it's laser brass knuckles, or a katana, or a laser sword-
    Ironicus: Or a gun, it's always the pipes.
    Chip: Always the pipes!
  • Ensemble Dark Horse: Invoked during The Wonderful 101 with P-Star; Ironicus quickly grows attached to him, and is especially enthused when P-Star gets to participate in the Womb Level's end boss.
  • The Faceless: Prior to his, Ironicus' and VoidBurger's appearance at the C2E2 Let's Play panel, whenever Chip recorded a video of himself, just enough of his face was obscured to keep you wondering, but gave you a good idea.
  • Failed a Spot Check: In part 17 of the Metal Gear Solid V LP, Chip and Ironicus both completely miss the fact that the prisoner Boss had to rescue for a side mission died in the middle of the firefight Chip got into, meaning he failed the mission and Boss ends up dropping a dead body in the helicopter.
  • Fake Shemp: Ironicus in the Watch_Dogs stinger is played by VoidBurger wrapped in a sheet.
  • Friendly Fire Proof: During their 50 Cent: Blood on the Sand LP, they make a habit out of shooting the friendly NPC whenever there's downtime. This leaves a massive bloody stain on the wall, but their G-Unit companion doesn't even flinch.
  • Fun with Subtitles: Since the Duck Dynasty game didn't have any subtitles, Chip had to add them in himself. He took to opportunity to make some extra jokes along with them.
    (Please help me, my voice has been stolen. The truck comes at six.)
  • Gainax Ending: Often occurs whenever he ends an LP, usually after the credits roll.
    • At the end of the No More Heroes LP (during the last Bitter Mode videos), parodying Suda51's penchant for weird, nonsensical endings.
    • Another one for a Suda51 game at the end of the Killer7 LP, where it turns out that the LP never happened.
    • The ending of Metal Gear Solid 2, between the rest of the Cabela's 2010 demo and other SA regulars reading Hideo Kojima's tweets, had the duo reveal that they are the Patriots, and that the entire thread was part of the "T3 Plan" ("Terrible Thread Testing") to see just how bad an LP thread could possibly be.
    • The final Duck Dynasty video, simply titled "jl", which is unadulterated Surreal Horror.
  • Genre Shift: Rez and Condemned: Criminal Origins were done by Chip alone, with subtitles instead of voice commentary (except in the eighth video for the latter). The first run through Zone of the Enders and Bastion were also solo, though he still actually talked.
    • Not to mention any time he switches to a Cabela's hunting game mid-LP, most recently in the 'Trials' in the middle of Uncharted 2.
    • Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker, after the first mission, is a literal co-op LP together with snarkcookie.
  • Girl on Girl Is Hot: Hilariously averted in his Retsupurae video "Yowie wowie!!!" Most of the video consists of two girls kissing, but they're actually dressed up as Naruto and Sasuke acting out a Slash Fic.
    Chip: I feel really weird right now. This is wrong. Usually I'd be like "YEAAAAH!" but I'm like "No, um, no..."
    General Ironicus: I'm boxing up that lamp and putting it in storage.
  • Had to Come to Prison to Be a Crook: Ironicus jokes that Wonder-Prisoner learned his bomb-making skills while inside Alcatraz.
  • Heroic Sacrifice: Mission J. Frog. He was a true patriot.
  • Herr Doktor: Ironicus plays one in one of the bonus episodes for their Metal Gear Solid 3 LP, overlapping with The Shrink.
  • Hidden Depths: It usually doesn't show up much in their Let's Plays or RPs but Ironicus has more than a little knowledge of sociology, as the 50 Cent: Blood on the Sand LP showed. He also apparently enjoys poetry.
    • According to an offhand joke in Slowbeef's Let's Play of Metroid Prime 3: Corruption, Ironicus is a sociology major.
    • He also shows off an impressive knowledge of James Bond trivia for Killer7.
    • In the Uncharted LP, Ironicus and Chip spend about a minute discussing which of several ice-skating techniques a particular ragdoll death animation resembled more.
    • Ironicus is also a huge history buff, to the point that he started a history podcast with his wife in 2016.
  • Hurricane of Puns: Ironicus makes up a string of train-related puns during Part 11 of the Uncharted 2 LP.
  • I Warned You: During Cabela's Dangerous Hunts, Ironicus complains about the loud volume during a "On Rails"-segment, to which Chip responds: "I told you it would be loud."
  • Insistent Terminology: Frequently. For example, in Uncharted, AI partners are referred to as 'buddies', and by extension, special melee moves that can be performed with your partners in Uncharted 4 are 'buddy moves'.
  • It Was His Sledinvoked
    • Discussed in relation to Final Fantasy VII Remake's treatment of Sephiroth. In the original, Sephiroth is barely mentioned until he kills President Shinra off-screen at a point in the story around where the first remake ends. In the remake, Sephiroth appears frequently throughout the story as Cloud's hallucinations, his murder of Shinra is on-screen, and Sephiroth is also the Final Boss. Ironicus argues that Sephiroth's slow-burn reveal from the original game is a trick that can't be pulled a second time, because he is a huge pop-culture icon that has eclipsed his own game, and arguably his franchise.
    • Otherwise averted during the LP, as Chip does not discuss any plot points from the original until they become relevant in the remake, while asking those in the thread and YouTube comments to do the same.
  • Kindhearted Cat Lover: Chip owns a couple of cats. One of them likes to jump on his desk while he's recording.
    • He also has at least one dog, offhandedly mentioning so while Ironicus discusses a breed of dog he'd like to own in the first No More Heroes, and in the 19th video of No More Heroes 2, noting how his dad has to present the dog they do own to him whenever they leave so said dog doesn't get lonely and think they've abandoned him.
    • And as of Metal Gear Solid V, Ironicus owns a dog as well, which is never more clear than when she interrupts a discussion of D-Dog's abilities by loudly squeaking a toy into his mic for close to a minute.
  • Let's Play: One of the most famous LP duos on Something Awful.
  • Lord British Postulate: In Duck Dynasty, the members of the Robertson family are invincible, but Chip finds a way to push a few of them into the water using John Luke's truck.
  • Man of a Thousand Voices: Chip frequently impersonates the characters in each game. Invoked repeatedly in the Metal Gear Solid LP, when VoidBurger tries pressuring Chip into doing a Master Miller impression.
    • VoidBurger, on the other hand, does an absolutely perfect impression of Ash Ketchum. She also does a spot on impression of a squeaky voiced lets player when she guested on Retsupurae.
    • Ironicus is very adept at Solid Snake impressions. So is Chip.
    • Subverted during the Killer7 LP, when Chip fails spectacularly (and hilariously) at doing a Popeye impersonation.
  • Mind Screw: Happens quite a few times throughout his Lets Plays, usually at the end of a game.
    • To go along with the Psycho Mantis fight, Voidburger suddenly becomes Ironicus during the first Hideo Blackout. The second, Chip is now playing a hunting simulator as if it were a dad-themed RPG, while receiving Codec calls from himself trying to remember what he was actually supposed to be doing. The next video restores the game, and a third blackout in the midst of the boss fight brings back Voidburger.
    • The "uncut" versions for the fourth and sixth videos of the Condemned LP add audio of, respectively, Ironicus reading bad fanfiction to friends and Chip and Ironicus trying to play Link's Crossbow Training together, both with (nearly-)unintelligible messages occasionally popping up. Between the seventh and eighth videos is also a video titled "House", consisting of a minute-long shot of a house while an unknown voice talks about how it "wants to meet you".
    • The last video for the Duck Dynasty LP. It's extremely unsettling, showing the protagonist undergoing Body Horror while bringing in what may or may not be the apocalypse through the form of an old VHS tape.
  • Mistaken for Gay: During a Let's Play by Voidburger, with Chip co-commentating, it's revealed that Voidburger's father thought that Chip was gay, due to his cleanliness.
  • Mundane Made Awesome:
    • Feeding your cat in No More Heroes.
      Chip: Cat. Again.
      Ironicus: We are number 8.note 
      Chip: WE'RE FEEDING IT!
      Ironicus: Let's feed our cat now that we're number 8. We are the number 8th cat feeder in the world.
      Chip: Yes! I'm on the cover of Cat Feeding Magazine!
    • Later on in their LP of the sequel, their cat massaging is eventually sped up and set to thrash metal.
  • Nobody Poops: Lampshaded:
    VoidBurger: What is it with David Cage games and pissing? Why does everyone piss? Is he one of those people that found it unrealistic that, like, in Zelda Link never goes to the bathroom?
    Chip: That's like a thought that five-year-olds have, though! Like, I thought that when I watched Power Rangers, like 'When do they pee?! They never pee! When do they go to the bathroom?!'
  • Non Sequitur: Chip and his co-commentators tend to start new discussions in the middle of cutscenes. Not a problem if you're watching with Uncut Commentary, but if you're watching the edited version, it can drop you off mid-discussion with no prior context once gameplay resumes, seemingly coming off as this.
  • Noodle Incident: Played with during their Killer7 playthrough. Played straight when Ironicus asks if Chip passed the question on his physics test related to gutting a deer with his bare hands. Averted, when Chip, later in the video, explains that his physics professor took time out of class to show his students the decaying deer that had been sitting in his truck for hours.
    Chip: The tongue was hanging out, there were flies on its face it was... ugh.
  • "Not Making This Up" Disclaimer:
  • Offscreen Inertia: Parodied at the end of Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance. The Jetstream DLC is a prequel to Rising proper, which Chip saved for the end. Since it ends with Sam's first appearance in the main game and a message outright stating that the story is to be continued in the main game, Chip jokes that he's now trapped the viewers in an infinite loop of forever rewatching the LP.
  • Offscreen Moment of Awesome: In episode 10-2 of the Peace Walker LP, Chip and his co-op partner Snarkcookie are separated and she gets caught due to the game's AI being slightly smart for once. By the time Chip gets to her to help, she's just taking out the last guard that was surrounding her.
  • Once Done, Never Forgotten: Played for Laughs. Big Boss says "Black site, nice." exactly once, in the opening cutscene of Ground Zeroes, but Chip's Let's Play of Metal Gear Solid V, everyone (including Big Boss, and even Chip and Ironicus themselves) has to impulsively say "nice" any time someone mentions a black site. Nice.
  • One-Steve Limit: Averted. Any time Chip comes up with an 'original' character, chances are his name will be 'Hank', whether he's Chip's player-character in The You Testament, an expy for Goku, or Liquid Ocelot's "true identity".
  • Orphaned Punchline: A unique example, where in most cases due to commentary during cutscenes only being hearable on a second audio track or in an "uncut" version of a video, it's up to the viewer whether this trope is in effect or not. For instance, from Act 4 of Metal Gear Solid 4, during a cutscene in the offices where the Grey Fox fight took place in during MGS1, the duo start discussing the two MSX games in the series. Those watching the cut version miss the vast majority of this conversation because it's happening during a cutscene, so apparently apropos of nothing, Ironicus states right after returning to gameplay that "they can retcon everything in that game except for poisonous Zanzibar hamsters".
  • Padding:invoked During the last few videos of the Metal Gear Solid 2 LP, Chip would deliberately do meaningless things just before cutscene triggers, joking that he's afraid of them.
  • Picky Eater: Chip once states that "I hate most food because it doesn't taste like candy."
  • Product Placement: Invoked by Chip at the beginning of the Uncharted 2 LP, trying to take advantage of blip.tv advertising money.
    Chip: Okay, look, Blip. There's a video game coming out, and I know you're going to advertise it, and I just want to say there's no better way to experience a video game than an Alienware gaming laptop, played at a local cafe.
    Ironicus: Yes. It makes you feel like you're in the game — to such a degree that you may embarrass yourself in public, but that's okay, because the experience is so strong.
    Chip: Yes. This Alienware gaming laptop comes with haptic feedback so that your laptop rumbles just like a rumble pack. It's a little inconvenient, but it's so immersive you won't believe how amazing Duke Nukem Forever is.
    • This is followed by the second episode being littered with sudden, highly intrusive advertisements for various products and restaurants.
  • Psycho Knife Nut: During his playthrough of Rogue Warrior, Chip liked to forgo any gunplay in favor of just running up and stabbing everyone to death, even referring to the main character as a knife tornado.
  • Put on a Bus: Ironicus has had a nasty habit of turning up absent recently due to real life complications, up to and including him living in a different state from Chip during 50 Cent: Blood on the Sand at least. It got to the point where the end of one of their LPs listed him as having died after recording.
    • The Bus Came Back: Since MGS4, though Peace Walker in co-op was also done without him, because he doesn't have a PS3.
  • Rescued from the Scrappy Heap: Discussed during The Wonderful 101. Ironicus feels like Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance did this for Sunny, as opposed to Raiden, whom Ironicus never disliked. invoked
  • Rhymes on a Dime: "Time flies when Goofy dies", and "Jump in some hay, and you'll be A-OK."
  • Running Gag:
    • Switching abruptly to a Cabela's hunting game and acting like nothing is unusual about this.
    • Referencing Resident Evil 4 at least once per LP.
      • Finally lampshaded by Ironicus in part 5 of Cabela's Dangerous Hunts.
    • in Uncharted 2, Ironicus mispronouncing Lazarevic's name.
      • After Drake and Sully come across an abandoned U-boat at the top of a very tall waterfall early in the first Uncharted, with a very flimsy and improbable explanation about flooding and heading upriver, Chip and Ironicus (the latter in particular) start referring to beached boats and other such things in impossible locations for the rest of the game and the next two as having "gone upriver".
    • Every time a member of the B&B Corps shows up in a cutscene during Metal Gear Solid 4, Ironicus will say something to the effect of "You know what I don't like about Beauty and the Beast?" invoked
    • Ever since their Let's Play of No More Heroes, every time Chip looks at the "hard" mode in a game includes a reference that "Many strong men await you".
    • During killer7, voice clips of Travis from No More Heroes can occasionally be heard in the background when the killer7 Travis is talking.
    • An example that only lasts one video: Senator Armstrong is a jerk.
    • Chip and Ironicus getting more and more impressed with Alice in The Wonderful 101, to the point where by the last levels, they're sure that she competently participated in the previous Earth Defense War, while being a fetus.
    • Chip's "Original Characters", which just amounts to poorly drawn picture or poorly edited pre-existing pictures, and they're always named "Hank."
    • Appending "nice" whenever anybody - including the duo themselves - say "black site" in Metal Gear Solid V.
  • The Scrappy: invoked
    • In The Wonderful 101, Ironicus takes an instant dislike to Professor Shirogane.
    • The duo also develops a dislike of Luka as the game carries on.
    • Chip seems to really hate Naomi Hunter, especially in Metal Gear Solid 4, to the point that when the first boss in the game disguises herself as Naomi, Chip responds by shooting her with an RPG.
    • Iwazaru, to the point where Chip flat-out refuses to transcribe most of what he says or even talk to him unless absolutely necessary about halfway through the LP. He does admit however that Iwazaru starts making up for being so annoying by actively helping collect the color samples in the "Alter Ego" chapter.
      • They seem to hate all the Remnant Psyches except for Travis and Yoo-Hyun, as they see them as entertaining in delivering exposition.
    • They also have a hate for most of the conversation transcript NPCs in Watch_Dogs, due to most of them being massive assholes.
    • Horacio the manatee from Shamu's Deep Sea Adventure during Gextra Life 2017, due to him not letting Ironicus play the game.
    • Chip and Ironicus are not sympathetic to the leaders of Wall Market at all. Being complicit in Don Corneo's human trafficking scheme tends to have that effect.
  • The Scrooge: Chip gets accused of being this by Ironicus during the Metal Gear Solid 4 LP, because he insists on only recording footage on Wednesdays and Sundays (where you can get a 20% discount on all items purchasable with Drebin Points), and only stops once he gets to Act 5, where those daily discounts are over (because you get a 50% discount for the entire act).
  • Self-Deprecation:
    • When discussing childhood in the MGS1 LP:
      Chip: Everyone went, like, bonkers for gel pens. Even I did. I drew dragons and shit with them 'cause I was retarded as hell.
    • During the Bitter Mode fight against the final boss of No More Heroes, the two are discussing possible gimmicks for the video, and Ironicus suggests pretending they're fashion designers in the game's world:
      Ironicus: Ah, that'd be lame.
      Chip: Plus we'd have to sound gay, and we... [Ironicus laughs] Well, that's us all the time, so.
      Ironicus: I've had enough of that!
    • Late into Metal Gear Solid 3, Chip calls attention to a Viddler comment on one of their earlier videos which referred to the pair as "Shit Shitzum" and "General Lack of Intelligence". Ironicus responded by saying it was "pretty accurate".
  • Self-Imposed Challenge: Chip achieved the "Tsuchinoko" rank in Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater by capturing said animal and keeping it with him for the entire game; he also stated a goal of acquiring every animal in the game and eating them, though he missed one or two. In the stream of Indigo Prophecy, he apparently aimed to pee in every single toilet in the game.
  • Shout-Out: Tons, seeing as both Chip and Ironicus are very much One of Us.
  • Shown Their Work: Frequently. For example, during Metal Gear Solid 4, Ironicus opined that it would be cooler to have the Octocamo suit capable of mimicking motion in real time, and Chip responds that Konami tried it and found it would take too much processing power. note 
  • Sophisticated as Hell: In Blood On the Sand, General Ironicus launches into a long reading about the sociological implications of ghetto vernacular from American Aparteid. At the end, he says "In conclusion, stop typing like you're ghetto, you fat white kids at your computers, God damnit!"
  • Stealth Parody: Chip's alter-ego, Chippowai. An insanely creepy, easily-distracted and only seldomly comprehensible otaku who's pretty much a gross exaggeration of bad YouTube LPers and people who defend them.
  • Straight Man and Wise Guy: Ironicus and Chip, respectively, tend to commentate as this, with Ironicus usually having a much more level-headed approach. There's a bit of interlap, however, considering Ironicus' leaps of logic, and Chip's focus on being informative in his LPs.
  • Surreal Horror: The final Duck Dynasty video, simply titled "jl".
  • Stylistic Suck:
    • The video for the Bitter Mode "run" of Letz Shake is done in a typical bad LP fashion, complete with jittery webcam footage.
    • His trailer for the Let's Play Wanking Session also has elements like terrible chroma keying, Hank the Chog, and INTUITIVE BORDERS.
  • Swapped Roles: Ironicus jokes early in the Plant chapter of MGS2 that he loves the game because of its insistence on interrupting the gameplay with Codec conversations and/or cutscenes every five seconds lets Chip know how it feels to be the co-commentator.
    Ironicus: "God, stop playing the game and just watch it!" Now you know how it feels to be me! (chuckles from Chip) I love this game, just cause it puts you in my chair.
  • Take That!: The announcement that their Elemental Goddess videos were being hosted on their website came with an instructional video from Chip on character design. Where he tapes a picture of Goku to a drawing desk, sloppily traces over it with markers and names it Hank.
  • Tempting Fate: In the first part of The You Testament Let's Play, Ironicus wonders why you would ever need to jump in the game. This, combined with wonky game design, was what ended up making the game unwinnable in the last video.
  • There Is No Kill Like Overkill: In MGS4, when Chip fails to maximize an enemy's crying meter, he simply knocks him out and practically covers his face and body in tranquilizer darts.
  • This Is Gonna Suck: During the Rank 1 Bitter Mode fight in No More Heroes 2, Chip mentions that the fight footage was recorded around when he first got the game, roughly two full years prior. The reason? He started that fight on Bitter then, saw how incredibly hard it was going to be,* and decided to record it right then and there just so he wouldn't have to play that fight on that difficulty again when he got to the inevitable LP.
  • Time-Travel Tense Trouble: Chip and Ironicus have a hard time explaining the timeframe in MINECRAFT:
    Ironicus: "At a point, isn't there a point where you have to start being skilled?", I thought at the time, is what I said then in the past!
    Chip: "I don't know how long I can keep doing this! I'm dying!" I said in the past.
    Ironicus: I also had a hard time keeping straight the timeline of events! On the one hand, there was, at the time, her speaking in black and white, and then there was her speaking in color, which happened before that, and also before I was talking about it originally, which was before I'm talking about it now, and in the color part she's talking about an even-further-back time!
  • Too Bleak, Stopped Caring: Discussed in-universe by Chip during the Watch_Dogs LP in the context of one of the Privacy Invasion side events: since almost everyone in the game is an unlikable asshole, and those who aren't are usually being abused in some way by said assholes, the only thing you're left with is a gross, unpleasant feeling that doesn't make you want to get involved in the game's setting or story, making it "a cesspool of human misery".
  • Trademark Favorite Food: Chip loves his pizza.
  • Updated Re-release: The last few updates of their MGS2 LP got re-uploaded to YouTube with "Uncut" versions, similar to the second audio track found in their later LP's from Uncharted on. All of the LP's with second audio tracks later had their Uncut versions reuploaded in the same manner after the duo switched over entirely to Youtube from Blip.
  • Vocal Dissonance: Ironicus. You wouldn't expect a rich, smooth baritone like his to come from the first man sitting on the left.◊
  • "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue: Done often at the end of games after the credits, with highly unlikely results for the characters, usually ending in a preview for the next LP.
    • The very end of 50 Cent: Blood on the Sand was a Metal Gear Solid 3-style timeline of future events involving the cast, ending with a "Les Fiddy Teribles" project producing clone sons of 50 Cent. All of this being a lead-up to the Metal Gear Solid 2 LP.
    • At the very end of the Metal Gear Solid 4 LP, showing what happened to the cast after the end of the game. This one was more to disagree with the extended ending of the game. Nope, Snake really did commit suicide in the graveyard, honest!
  • Wrestling Doesn't Pay: Ironicus discusses this in the lead-up to the Battle Royale event in No More Heroes 2, specifically noting how, as the UAA has apparently shifted from a clandestine organization of assassins to basically the WWE, assassination has as such gone from the actual point of the organization to just the "second job" all the performers pretend they do when they're not "in the ring" and fighting each other to climb the ranks.
  • You Monster!: Ironicus calls Chip this late in MGS4, after Chip recounts an incident in Civilization IV where he lost an aircraft carrier to a single tribalman chucking spears at it.
    Ironicus: Why were you attacking tribalmen with an aircraft carrier?

 
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