Memes / JonTron

Jon is very well known by many online, simply by how many of his clips are being used as Forum weapons and reactions gifs across the internet. The section has been split up into two; Memorable quotes that became memes, and Quote Forum Weapons that are used specifically used for reacting online.

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Memorable Quotes

• From his Sonic R review:
  • "Welcome to Sonic Team, we make games, I think!"^note Also turned into a snowclone with "Sonic Team" and "games" replaced by other terms.
  • "What the FUCK is a Sonic?!"
• From his Clock Tower Review: <heart beat>...... <heart beat>..... <heart beat>..... FUCK IT!
• "ECH!"
• From his Final Fantasy XIII review: God has come to reap the sinners.
• From his Foodfight! review: AM I DEAD YET?
• "Fool me once, I'm mad. Fool me twice, how could you. Fool me three times, you're officially that guy, OK? You know the one. You go to the bar and he's like, 'This suit is uh, officially, it's a Giorgio Armani, ech, my dad knows'im.' FUCK YOU! I AIIIIIN'T HAVIN' THAT SHIT!"^Explanation His iconic "fool me once" rant from his Nightshade episode has become synonymous or replacing the normal form of the phrase "Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me." Also has a chance for this quote popping up whenever a Giorgio Armani product becomes the subject of conversation or media.
• The Jontron Reddit Community has become a meme in of itself, thanks to how insane the place is. The subreddit is often overrun by in-jokes, including:
  • From Nightshade: "Actually, the crowbar snaps in two."
  • From Hercules Games: "I only speak to sailors." and COUPLE OF HUNDRED OF THEM!
• From his Space Ace review: "But I didn't die though, it was a joke."
• How infrequently Jon uploads, with spans between videos sometimes being months long.
• From his Goosebumps (1995) review:
  • STOP. STOP. STOP. AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA- YOU SICK FUCK (This program has been suspended indefinitely.)
  • FBI should be knocking this door any minute now. ^Explanation A common comment to some questionable Fanservice, mostly loli stuff in anime.
    • An other similarly used line: "I don't like where this is going!"
  • "Can't a guy get some pRivAcY??? HMMM HMM HMM! HMMM HMM HMMMM!"
• And goblins were still really, REALLY scary! EW! I DON'T LIKE 'EM! I DON'T LIKE GOBLINS! BWAAAAAH!
• From StarCade's first episode, Bird Versus Camel. To the point that someone even made a legit game called that.
• From the A Talking Cat!?! review: "And IIIII'MM about to blow my FUCKING BRAINS OUT!!!"
• From the Skateboard Kid review: Jon in a chicken suit awkwardly swinging around nunchucks while threatening.
  "HOW FUCKING DARE YOU SAY THAT TO ME, I'M GONNA MAKE YOU FOR—REGRET THOSE GODDAMN WORDS"
• From his Birdemic review: "I've cheated all of you and you didn't even notice."
• Rich X commit more crimes than poor Y. ^Explanation A controversial statement made on Jon's infamous debate with Destiny. While it started out as a way to criticize Jon by his detractors and vocal hatedom, in typical Jontron fandom fashion, it lost its power and fans found fun ways to turn it completely around in the most ridiculous ways. (For example, "Rich goblinss commit more crimes than poor sailors", "Rich h3h3productions commit more crimes than poor Videogamedunkeys", "Rich apples commit more crimes than poor grapes", etc.)
• Holy shit you fucking killed her, dude. ^explanation Jon believing that Vanilla Ice had accidentally killed Kat. Is now usually used as a reaction image to people responding with a "The Reason You Suck" Speech, mostly towards women.
• "Rise and shine bitch! We're goin' to Disneyland!" *Spills ice bucket*
• "That's a lot of daaa-mage!"
  • "I SAWED THIS BOAT IN HALF!"
• I sawed this schedule in half! And repaired it with only Flex Tape! ^Explanation After 11 months of no content with only vague hints, Jon released Flex Tape II, a crossover with Phil Swift himself. Afterwards Jon uploaded 3 videos in the span of 2 months, leading many to joke that Phil Swift managed to fix Jon's upload schedule with Flex Tape.
• Swood: A mistranslation of "Swoop" from California Games, often used as an expression of seeing something awesome ("sweet!")
• From his Monster Party review:
  • "And then they fused to-gether... WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA-"
• Damn Timothy Brentwood. ^Explanation During the Leafy vs. h3h3productions drama, Dunkey made a satirical "Rant" where he claims, among other hilariously nonsensical things, that Jon is not Jon, but a paid actor by the name of Timothy Brentwood, with Jacques actually being Jontron. Thus, anytime something controversial happens with Jon or Dunkey, people jokingly state that it was really the work of Timothy Brentwood.
• Terminal illness. ^Explanation How Jon refers to his subreddit and Scott The Woz in Flex Tape II.
• 100% buttfuck insane. ^Explanation How Jon describes Dan Aykroyd's perception of the world, with the aforementioned bold text compressed to horrible levels and played at max volume.
• Jon caused the Notre Dame fire. ^Explanation When Jon uploaded Dr. Ho: License to Practice, which featured him as The Hunchback of Notre Dame as a gag, the Notre Dame fire occurred the exact same day. Jokes about the astonishingly bizarre coincidence spread like wildfire.
• "It's really not my fucking problem."
• "Dead or dying birds" ^Explanation In the stinger of his JONNY NEW ENGLISH video, Jon discovers to his chagrin that the previous owner of the house he is staying in seems to have had a fetish for pictures of birds and various other animals being hunted, wounded, or just plain dead. Bird lover that Jon is, this disturbs him. The icing on the cake is when he finds a picture of a dying American Woodcock, the same bird depicted in the memetic "American Woodech" video. Jon makes note of this, and then makes a "Kill" tally of the pictures: 12 birds, 2 whales, and 1 endangered porpoise.
• "Could Porky Pig be classified as a monster?" ^Explanation While pretending to fall asleep on the pillow he bought with his own face on it, Jon randomly drops this line.
• The inevitable 8-month withdrawal between uploads after Jon posted his video about Steven Seagal led to many jokes about the hiatus being the result of the infamously thin-skinned Seagal hunting Jon down out of anger for being mocked so publicly.

Quote Forum Weapons

• "And IIIIIIIIII-HOLY SHIT!-will always love youuuuu-ICANTBELIEVEYOUDIDTHISTOMEGODDAMNITHOWCOULDYOUDOTHISTOME?!?"^Explanation Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts being based around driving has Jon feel very conflicted on his feelings, and so he lets out a massive crying song. Often used for any IP that's fallen from grace.
  • Also from the same review: "Oh no.... OOOOH NOOOOOOOOOO!!!! NOOOOOOOO!!!!"^Explanation The preceding This Is Gonna Suck reaction of Jon once he sees the first screens of Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts. Used for similar purposes.
• From the Anti-Drug games video:
  • "WHAT!? WHAT THE FUCK!?" ^Explanation During the segment where a crack dealer named Snake turned into a snake-like humanoid being. This becomes the internet's go-to reaction for something WTF-inducing.
  • (holding scoring placard) Ten!" ^Explanation Jon scores a jump made by a boss character in one of the games he's reviewing. Used online as a way to show appreciation.
  • "Oh, my favorite." ^Explanation A deadpan reaction used by Jon to describe his hatred for platforming on ice-themed levels. Used online as a sarcastic reaction to something the user doesn't like (or cannot stand).
• From his Goop video:
  • "Gotta be X in there somewhere!" ^Explanation Jon promoted snake oil made from crushed snakes. To justify this, he says "Gotta be vitamins in there somewhere!" The X can be replaced with any topic.
  • "That one didn't age quite so well." ^Explanation While dressed up in Renaissance-era garb, Jon begins reading off quotes from Gwyneth Paltrow, including one in which she states that former Hollywood producer and convicted rapist Harvey Weinstein used to let her borrow his jet, at which point he pauses and makes the above quote. Used to describe things that are Harsher in Hindsight.
• From "Plug and Play Consoles":
  • "I have several questions..." ^Explanation For when you have several questions about something confusing...
  • "I'm goin!... I'm goin!" ^Explanation For when you feign death at something you didn't want to see.
  • "I get it! (pause) I don't get it." ^Explanation Used online as a way to show that the person pretends to understand a topic, and the second half is their internal monologue.
  • "It's...it's awful. IT'S ALL FUCKIN' AWFUL, ALL OF IT, ALL OF IT, EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THEM SUCKS! ^Explanation Jon's irate reaction to finding out the plug'n'plays all contain NES clones. Used as a forum weapon online for when a person hates something.
  • "I'm a brave boy. […] Not a brave enough boy for this!" ^Explanation For when a person tempts fate, only to be met with something abhorrent.
• I'lL tAkE yOuR eNtIrE StOcK!^Explanation During Flex Tape II, Jon feigns disinterest in Flex Tape Clear until Phil mentions that it works underwater, at which point he bellows the mentioned phrase as his body undergoes content-aware scaling. Pretty much the alternative option for phrases like "SHUT UP AND TAKE MY MONEY."
• Oh my Gaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaad! ^Explanation Used in "Star Wars Kinect", which has Jon be completely dumbfounded at a dancing Han Solo. Used online to express intense joy.
• From his Foodfight! review:
  • AM I DEAD YET? ^Explanation A bass-boosted, clipped, uh... "clip" that has Jon regretting his decision to watch Foodfight. Used online for regretting a given experience (or rather "wishing I was dead").
  • It was cool though... ^Explanation Used online for an experience that a person deemed cool.
  • Bad touch, bad touch, stranger danger! ^Explanation Used online to react to scary or creepy images or posts.
• From his Monster Party review:
  • "Nope nope nope nope nope nope SO MUCH NOPE."^Explanation Used for scared reactions online, much like how Jon is scared of a sprite going all weird.
• From "The Zoo Race":
  • SICK BURN
    • UNWARRANTED SELF LOATHING
  • "Ah boy, here we go..." ^Explanation Jon gets annoyed at being forced to learn about Noah's Ark. Used online to show similar feelings to other things the person may not like.
• From "Disney Bootlegs":
  • "Well, if ya' can't beat 'em... JOIN 'EM." ^Explanation For when people concede to losing an argument; Jon twerking usually included.
  • "Oh my god" vocoded to "Circle of Life" ^Explanation Jon's reaction to Simba hanging himself is often used as a Big "OMG!" towards anything shocking.
  • "I can't live in this world anymore! […] S'Over for me!" ^Explanation Jon hanging himself is used as a reaction to anything warranting Brain Bleach.
  • "All my life, leading up to this moment... has been worth it. Every last second! I am truly blessed." ^Explanation Used in response to any reveal that is considered truly amazing.
  • "THIS WAS A MISTAAAKE!" ^Explanation Jon dressed as Elsa is often used when someone has dug themselves into something horrible too deep and wants to get out.

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