Lets Play / JoshJepson

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"My name is Josh Jepson, but you knew that already!"

JoshJepson is a Let's Player on YouTube that is known some places as being "the guy who guested on The Runaway Guys' New Super Mario Bros. Wii LP". Josh is fairly popular among the community, with over 100,000 subscribers (and growing). He is also very distinctive, having a style mirroring that of Chuggaaconroy, but with a lot more swearing and sometimes, a lot of very weird sounds.

He raced in Super Mario Sunshine Versus against fellow LP'er, AttackingTucans. It now has its own page. He followed this up with a Luigi's Mansion Versus on his channel.

But you knew that already.

Current Let's Plays:

• The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
• The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening (Switch Remake)

Games JoshJepson has Let's Played

• The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess (Wii version)
• Mario Kart 64 (deleted)
• Super Mario Sunshine
• Banjo-Kazooie
• The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker
• Banjo-Tooie
• Metroid Fusion
• The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
• Rayman 2: The Great Escape
• Outland
• Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island (blind)
• Donkey Kong Country Returns (co-op with SuperJeenius)
• Super Mario 64
• The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past
• Limbo (blind)
• ilomilo (blind) (deleted)
• Rayman 3: Hoodlum Havoc
• Luigi's Mansion Versus (against AttackingTucans)
• Glover
• Rayman Origins (with SuperJeenius)
• The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening
• Quantum Conundrum
• Pokémon Snap
• Super Mario Galaxy
• Yoshi's Island DS
• Fallout 3
• The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds
• Ratchet & Clank
• Pokemon Y
• Spyro the Dragon
• Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS
• Five Nights at Freddy's
• Ratchet & Clank: Going Commando
• Super Mario Galaxy 2
• Shovel Knight
• Fez (32 Cubes)
• Aperture Tag
• Ori and the Blind Forest (blind)
• The Legend of Zelda: Tri Force Heroes (with ProtonJon and Tom Fawkes)
• Yoshi's Woolly World (with Brooke)
• Ratchet & Clank: Up Your Arsenal (with Haldimond)

Games JoshJepson has collaborated with someone on (on their channels)

• Super Smash Bros. Brawl (invitational tournament with The Runaway Guys)
  • Mario Power Tennis
  • Super Smash Bros.
  • Mario Kart: Double Dash!!
• New Super Mario Bros. Wii (with TheRunawayGuys)
  • New Super Mario Bros. U
  • Fortune Street (Mario Stadium)
• Super Mario Sunshine Versus (against AttackingTucans)
  • Luigi's Mansion Versus (against AttackingTucans)
  • Super Mario 64 Versus (against AttackingTucans)
  • The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time Versus (against AttackingTucans)
• Barbie's Horse Adventures: Mystery Ride (with Lucahjin)
• Barbie's Wild Horse Rescue (with Lucahjin)
• Portal 2 (with JonPaula)
• The Legend of Zelda: Four Swords Adventures (with Super Jeenius, Pcull 44444 and NintendoCapriSun)
• Mario Party 9 (with SuperJeenius)
• New Super Mario Bros. 2 (with SuperJeenius)
• Super Mario 3D World (with Team Hypercube)
• Ty the Tasmanian Tiger Versus (against TheOriginalSpakass)

Games in Josh's "Highlights" series (hour long gaming session highlights)

• Defy Gravity
• Hey You, Pikachu!
• Super Meat Boy
• Super Mario World
• New Super Mario Bros. U
• Rayman Legends (with AttackingTucans)
• Super Mario Bros. 3
• Grand Theft Auto V
• Mega Man
• The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
• Portal
• Far Cry 4
• Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor

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Tropes Used Include:

• Ascended Extra: He has done work with Ubisoft in the past and has even submitted a weapon design for the first "Ratchet and Clank" game.
• Added Alliterative Appeal: "A female fish falling fast" from episode 18 of Rayman Origins.
• Alliterative Name: Josh Jepson.
• Amnesia Danger: His LP of Super Mario Galaxy was recorded years after Josh had last played the game, with the result that his memory of many levels and mechanics is vague and sometimes even feels like a blind LP. This trope naturally ensues on harder levels, along with hilarity.
• And That's Terrible: From Ocarina of Time, "Also, he wants to rape me, and that's not very nice!"
• Armor-Piercing Question: In one of his Jepscon vlogs, he begins arguing with Chuggaaconroy and ProtonJon (well, mainly Jon) over vlogging and claims it to be an art. The others begin mocking this, then...
  Josh: Let's put this in perspective here. Is let's playing an art?
  (Beat)
  Chugga and Jon: Oooooh... (Chugga points at Josh in a "good point" manner)
• Atomic F-Bomb: Many times, usually during deaths or jump scares.
• Big "NO!": Often occurs, but his best is easily during the Luigi's Mansion versus; it's so big he disappeared for the rest of the video.
• Big "YES!": Tends to take this trope to insane levels for a short time upon completing one of those levels, including Five Nights at Freddy's.
• Blood Knight: States his intent early on in his Fallout 3 LP to play through the game as one of these.
• Brick Joke: An offhand joke about coming back to play a particularly difficult level in Donkey Kong Country Returns when the world ends on 21st December 2012 actually results in a bonus video of Josh and Super Jeenius playing through That One Level, uploaded on that date.
  • Also a cross channel one, in his and AttackingTucans' Versus series, Tyler jokingly states that Josh's next LP is Pokémon Snap, Josh call him out with shock that he guessed his next let's play, then revealed he was just joking. Cue April Fool's day, and part one of Let's Play Pokémon snap.
  • During the first appearance of Princess Zelda in A Link Between Worlds, Josh makes a joke about Zelda giving Link her virginity. He makes the same joke in the final episode, when Zelda gives Link the Bow Of Light.
• Butt-Monkey: Whenever Josh collaborates with any other LP'er(s), he seems to have about a fifty-fifty chance of becoming this.
• Call a Rabbit a "Smeerp": In the DK Country Returns LP, both players decide that bananas are Blanabbas.
  • Less consistently, they will also insert Ls into the names of other things in the game, such as puzzle pieces becoming 'pluzzle polices'.
• Catchphrase:
  • "Jesus Grandma!"
    • "Congratulations - It's a Grandma".
  • "Swiiiirly X! Swiiiirly!
  • "It's not supposed to go at an angle!"
    • In his Ocarina of Time LP, "And may your X not go at an angle" was his standard way to finish a video.
  • "Oh my god what was the heck was the what the what the what?!"
  • "Stars... Lord knows I need 'em."
  • "YOU'RE SO SCREWED!"
  • "FIYABALLS? YUM!"
  • "Two at a time, every single time!"
  • "Duh, dummy!"
  • "Was that so hard? Yes, yes it was."
  • "KAMEK YOU FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK!"
  • "Oh, no! Oh, little boy, I'm so sorry!"
  • "... and I'll see you, in the next one."
  • There are a few both he and SuperJeenius use in Donkey Kong Country Returns, such as "So sad, bad dad", "Props where credit is due", "I sacrificed my body" (when one of them grabs a collectible and dies in the process), "NOPE--Chuck Testa", "True-ché", "My body is/isn't ready" and "X for DAAAAYS".
  • Some of these reappear in Rayman Origins, along with others such as "Balls on chair--now I'm ready for some things", one of them referring to 'lumms' and the other correcting the pronunciation to 'looms', and mispronouncing the word 'Origins' in the title in different ways.
  • When picking up a Hearts Are Health item, saying "It's a HUUUUMAN HEAAAART!" in a horrified, hammy voice.
  • "GOOOOOD LUUUUUUCK!"
  • "PUT ON SOME DAMN HEADPHONES!" which became so popular it's now a shirt.
  • "'I see,' said the blind man as he took out his hammer and saw."
• Catchphrase Interruptus: Often happens in his co-ops.
  Josh: My name is Josh Jepson—
  SuperJeenius: My name is SuperJeenius.
  Josh (having lost the rhythm of the catchphrase): ...but...you knew that already.
• Cluster F-Bomb: Episode 16 of Quantum Conundrum gives us "Fucking-congratu-fucking-lations!"
  • Drops an even bigger one in Episode 20 of Fallout 3, after getting surprised by a bear.
  Josh: OH MY GOD WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT? HOLY FUCKING SHIT FUCK FUCK SHIT FUCK ASS DICK BISCUT MOTHERFUCKING HOLY SHIT!
• Cool Uncle: On his April 12th 2017 vlog, Josh announced that he's now an uncle.
• Cuteness Proximity: Just hear him talking the first time (or any other time for that matter) he finds "Poochy" in Yoshi's Island.
  • Josh constantly mentions how adorable everything in Ilomilo is. He once barfed from cuteness overload.
• Curse Cut Short/Sound-Effect Bleep: In his Ocarina of Time LP he uses SHI*CLANG* a lot. Sometimes he'll cut to static so younger viewers can avoid excess rage.
• Damn You, Muscle Memory!: In Donkey Kong Country Returns, Josh plays as Donkey Kong and Jake (SuperJeenius) as Diddy Kong, who has a jetpack. Sometimes Jake will jump on Josh's back, which lets Josh use the jetpack to hover, but just when he's got used to having it, they split up and then he keeps falling into pits due to expecting to be able to hover and not being able to. Jake claims he's doing this deliberately to make Josh fail.
• Didn't Think This Through: Said word-for-word in his playthrough of the A Hat in Time prototype, where he rides a firework out to a faraway island in the level, jumps off it... and then realizes, without a firework, he'll have to swim alllll the way back.
  • Also, when presented with a strawpoll from AriZonia for her Organ Trail videos about which of the five characters is expected to die first^note Josh was one of the "winners" of a previous poll to be put into the game, he outright says "I voted for myself." with the fitting response of "Why!?" from Ari herself. Funnily enough, he does die first
• Epic Fail: In his Limbo LP, Josh comes across an obvious trap and tells himself not to jump in the large pit that sets up said trap. He goes in anyway.
• Failed a Spot Check: In part 1 of the Four Swords Adventures LP with NintendoCapriSun, Super Jeenius, and P Cull 44444, they step on a group of switches which spawns a couple of big green force gems and a couple of chests right between them. They immediately grab the force gems and move on to the next screen without opening the chests or even taking notice of them.
• Fake Difficulty: He and Super Jeenius struggle with this in Rayman Origins due to several glitches.
• Girlfriend in Canada: Amusingly enough, Josh literally has one in Brooke, which prompted his move to Canada along with other reasons.
  • As of November 14, 2015, She is his Wife In Canada.
• Girls Are Really Scared of Horror Movies: This trope is subverted in the common comedic way in Josh's livestream of Dead Space with his girlfriend Brooke; before they start, he talks up how easily scared she is, but when they actually play, it's Josh who sounds more terrified, as Brooke lampshades.
• Gorn: He gets the "Bloody Mess" perk in Fallout 3 to invoke this.
• Gosh Dang It to Heck!: Donkey Kong Country Returns gives us "MOTHERFATHER!"
  • An occasional catchphrase is Josh calling things in the game "You silly goose" in a Carol Channing-like voice.
• Happily Married: To Brooke on November 14, 2015.
• Hey, That's My Line!: At the end of the Dead Space livestream:
  Josh: Thank you guys for watching...and...uh...
  Brooke: We'll see you in the next one.
• Hype Backlash: invoked Regarding Raphael the Raven's boss fight. After hearing numerous people rave about how awesome it was, the fact that it was so lengthy and frustrating did not endear it to him. He admitted it was cool, but he didn't find it fun.
• Iconic Item: Josh has a random painting of a cow in his apartment, which is often referenced by people doing fanart or animations of him.
  • In a different way, his quiff and goatee.
• If I Wanted X, I Would Y: When Josh starts making vagina references in episode 18 of Rayman Origins, Super Jeenius replies that if he wanted to play a game with Tyler...
• Incredibly Lame Pun: A Running Gag in Donkey Kong Country Returns is them doing this with the letters K, O, N, G they have to collect in each level. Some of these started out as Accidental Puns. They also often say the last part in unison. Examples:
  "There's the K" "I'll get the K" "...K".
  "Where's the O?" "There it is!" "Ohhhhhh!"
  "We've got the K and the O, now we're OK!"
  "Where's the G?" "There's the G!" "Gee!"
  • In Rayman Origins, on encountering several examples of a Helpful Mook in the form of a toucan-like bird that launches Rayman upward when he jumps on its beak, Josh dubs them "Attacking Toucans".
• Insistent Terminology: In their Rayman Origins LP, Super Jeenius constantly reminds Josh that Lums are supposed to be pronounced differently. It doesn't seem to stick.
  • When he's LPing a Zelda game at the same time as another LP, Josh has a tendency to refer to levels or areas in the other game as 'temples' or 'dungeons' too.
  • In Super Mario Galaxy 2, he always refers to the Octoomba enemies as "Octagons".
• It Runs in the Family: In his Jepscon vlog where he visits his family in New England, we discover that Josh's grandfather is just as snarky as he is.
• I Was Beaten by a Girl: Josh's wife claimed in one vlog that she regularly beats him at Call of Duty.
• Large Ham: He occasionally throws his mic levels into the red.
• Let's Get Dangerous!: When he gets serious about finishing a hard level, he gets completely silent to focus. He describes this as taking a cue from Super Jeenius, who did this as well when they played Donkey Kong Country Returns together.
• Let's Players Want Redheads: His wife is a beautiful redhead named Brooke.
• Let's Play-ing Against Type: Josh's first 14 LP's were all of games that were T-rated at most. His fifteenth one is the much Darker and Edgier Limbo.
• Madness Mantra: "It's not supposed to go at an angle!" started out as this. His short LP of Five Nights at Freddy's counts as well.
  • "Baby carriages have explosives. Baby carriages have explosives. Baby carriages have explosives."
• Mood Whiplash: Two. Firstly, he jumped from the relatively child-friendly The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past straight into a blind LP of Limbo. He knew it was dark, but didn't know how dark until his player (a young child) missed the first jump and got impaled on a spike in a spray of blood. His optimism about the project got pretty somber from there. Then, he went from that onto the Sickeningly Sweet^note as he himself puts it ilomilo.
  • In Super Mario Galaxy Josh mentions that he likes this kind of contrast between light and dark tones and deliberately tries to organise his LPs around it.
• My Friends... and Zoidberg: In one of his "Jepscon" vlogs:
  ProtonJon: I got three assholes with me and they're kinda dicks... Like, look at the face on that guy. Face only a mother could love. (About Josh) And then we got this asshole.
  Josh: Oh, thanks!
  Jon: No, actually, he's pretty cool. Then we got... well, we got Tim.
• The Nicknamer: He gives nicknames to many of the enemy types and objects in Yoshi's Island. Also, "Bitchfish" from The Wind Waker.
• Nostalgia Filter: Invoked in Glover, which Josh says is objectively not a good game, but one he still likes just because he happened to play it when he was a kid.
  • He remembers about his summer camp experience during his LP of "Spyro the Dragon."
• Perfectly Cromulent Word: "Culpritty", according to SuperJeenius in Donkey Kong Country Returns.
  • In the same LP, they refer to collecting all four K, O, N, G letters in a level as "Konging it" or "We Konged the level!"
  • Episode 13 of Rayman Origins gives us "excellate".
• Pre-Platform Hell One Liner:
  SuperJeenius: "Now I have to pay attention."
• Precision F-Strike: At the end of Yoshi's Island DS, Josh is completely silent throughout the ending sequence after dealing with an incredibly frustrating final boss, only to let out a harsh "Fuck this game" before the credits roll.
• Pungeon Master: He's become this during the Glover LP.
• A Rare Sentence: "Whoa! I completely overshot the lime!" "That's not something you hear every day."
• Rimshot: In episode 5 of Glover.
• Running Gag: When reading out onscreen instructions, he replaces any reference to buttons with "something". So for example a caption reading "press A to rotate the item screen and B to close the inventory" will be read as "press something to rotate the item screen and something to close the inventory".
  • In Super Mario Galaxy, constantly mentioning how things in the game remind him of Treasure Planet.
  • Mixing up the names of items in Banjo-Kazooie and especially its sequel, and then often doing Rapid-Fire Name Guessing to try and work out which one he meant.
  • Josh singing things, often with Lyrical Dissonance, to the tune of Christmas songs seems to be becoming one, especially in co-ops with other people.
  • Talking about how something in a game reminds him of Banjo-Kazooie, and using that to segue into gushing about how much he loves Banjo-Kazooie. Especially shows up a lot in Super Mario Galaxy: as one commenter put it:
  "Welcome to Part 34 of Let's Talk About Banjo-Kazooie While Playing Super Mario Galaxy"
• Schmuck Bait: In the last episode of Donkey Kong Country Returns, while they're doing difficult jumps between floating platforms, SuperJeenius tells Josh "There's a giant Blanabba (banana) in the background, don't look at it!" Of course he does and immediately misses the jump and dies.
  • In episode 32 of his Let's Play of Super Mario Galaxy, he talked about how much he hates the phrase "I hope this helps!" Three guesses what all the comments were.
• Screams Like a Little Girl: During Donkey Kong Country Returns episode 16.
  • Also during his Metroid Fusion-run in Episode 2.
• Seinfeldian Conversation: Josh and SuperJeenius are prone to them in their co-ops, and also Josh and Tyler in their Versus projects to a lesser extent.
• Shame If Something Happened: Referenced by SuperJeenius in Part 24 of Donkey Kong Country Returns.
• Sir Swears-a-Lot: Varies. At one point he started to cut back on or censor the swearing in his own LPs, though he still swore A LOT in his collaboration videos. Later, he returned to swearing in his own videos, mostly during fails and deaths.
• Speak in Unison: Josh and SuperJeenius do this a lot in Donkey Kong Country Returns.
• Spoonerism: "Hentacle Tentai" in episode 15 of Rayman Origins.
  • "Closmic Cones" in episode 9 of Super Mario Galaxy 2.
• Spiritual Successor: The Rayman Origins co-op is this to the Donkey Kong Country Returns LP, both because Josh and SuperJeenius team up again with the same dynamic and because (as they point out) the games are so similar.
• Straight Man and Wise Guy: Josh has this dynamic with SuperJeenius when they team up for co-ops. Usually Josh is the Straight Man and Jeenius is the Wise Guy, but sometimes they trade roles.
• Suicidal "Gotcha!": Of an accidental variety, but in the Yoshi's Island level "Goonie Rides," he found himself plummeting into the abyss, shouting and weeping, sure he was done for... only to see Yoshi rise from the bottom of the screen, having landed on the back of a random Goonie flying by. From his perspective, it probably counts.
• Tempting Fate: In episode 23 of "Donkey Kong Country Returns", SuperJeenius takes the top path of a level and Josh reassures him the bottom path won't have any of the things they need to collect, like a letter...only for a letter to immediately appear down there.
• That Came Out Wrong: Referring to the upward slap attack in Rayman Origins: "This way, we can knock each other up and that sounded really strange."
• That One Level: Considers Tiny-Huge Island, Tick Tock Clock, and Rainbow Ride to each be this type of level. In-Universe.
• That's What She Said: In Donkey Kong Country Returns episode 23, about platforms that rise out of the lava and are temporarily red-hot and cause damage, but not when they sink back in:
  SuperJeenius: So yeah, it hurts you on the way out, but not on the way in!
  Josh: ...That's What She Said?
• Took a Level in Kindness: During his early years, Josh had a very high horsed and condescending attitude, and throughout most of his career, he took on a persona of The Gadfly. However, following a trip to the ER in September 2020 due to mental health issues, Josh returned with a much more relaxed and jovial personality compared to what he used to be, which has stuck with him since.
• Verbal Tic: SuperJeenius in Donkey Kong Country Returns comments "Lol!", "Sad!" and "Neat!" a lot in reaction to things in the game, and both he and Josh say "Nice!"
  • When Josh fumbles the name of something with a long name (or can't remember it) he slows down and ends it incongruously with "...pants?"
• Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: Feels this way about Buzzy Beetles in Mario side-scrollers. In his Highlights video of Super Mario World he starts rambling about their secret evil plans in a Conspiracy Theorist fashion.
• With Lyrics: He and SuperJeenius sing some Lyrical Dissonance lyrics along to Zelda's Lullaby in part 21 of Donkey Kong Country Returns.
• Worth It: Collaborating with Lucahjin on Barbie Horse Adventures. "This may have just ruined my Let's Playing reputation. But it was worth it for 'My Balls.'"
• You Have Researched Breathing: Josh and Jake call out Rayman Origins for having things like slapping and swimming as 'powers' you have to unlock and get from nymphs.

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Thank you guys for reading this trope page. I've been Josh Jepson, and I'll see you on the next one.