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Recap / The Nostalgia Critic: The Tommy Wiseau Show

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Release: July 20, 2010


This review contains examples of:

  • Basement-Dweller: The "offices" of Wiseau Films, where John from theroommovie.com works, is just a basement laundry room. It's implied that John from theroommovie.com lives there.
  • Big "NO!": John from theroommovie.com has this as his Catchphrase.
  • invokedBig-Lipped Alligator Moment: "Poodles."
    • Also, his "Seeing what is going on around the world". It entails describing the appearance of maps of Norway, Switzerland, and Spain.
    Doug/Tommy: Before we begin, let us see what is going on in other parts of the world. *graphics of maps shown* Norway has no clouds or people, and has instead been replaced with the color green and the names of various places. Switzerland is the same except it is light-yellow, and has different names... And Spain is Spain.
  • By "No", I Mean "Yes": Reversed.
    Doug/Tommy: It's like I always say, "You should be allowed to express yourself any way you want." But what I don't want to see happening is for you to express yourself any way you want.
  • Cloudcuckoolander: Tommy Wiseau.
  • Extreme Omnivore: John from theroommovie.com eats money when he's upset.
  • Everyone Has Standards: Even Tommy Wiseau, Cloud Cuckoolander extraordinaire, is weirded out when John from theroommovie.com tells him "I love you."
    • In fact, Critic Tommy is weirded-out by not only that but John from theroommovie.com deciding to sue him for basically existing (see Insane Troll Logic, below).
  • Freudian Slip: From John from theroommovie.com.
    Doug/John from theroommovie.com: NOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!… NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!! I don't care that in the long run, we're getting more views and people know about us! All we care about is the money — I mean *our dignity*! All we care about is our dignity, and we have plenty of that!
  • Frivolous Lawsuit: This is John from theroommovie.com's schtick (along with being a nut who lives in a basement).
  • Insane Troll Logic: John from theroommovie.com ends up suing Tommy Wiseau for using the copyrighted image of Tommy Wiseau.
  • I Should Write a Book About This: The Nostalgia Critic ends his phone call to Wiseau with, "I don't know what you're on, but I'm totally gonna make a sketch mocking the fuck out of you guys."
  • Large Ham: John from theroommovie.com
  • Literal-Minded: Tommy interprets maps as literal representations of the areas they represent — for example, looking at a map of Norway and saying that "Norway has no clouds or people, and has instead been replaced with the color green and the names of various places."
  • Makes Just as Much Sense in Context
  • Money Fetish: John from theroommovie.com. He's obsessed with money, suing everybody (including himself), and eating dollar bills.
  • Psychopathic Man Child: John from theroommovie.com.
  • Stylistic Suck: John from theroommovie.com's scenes in "the offices of Wiseau Films" are clearly shot in Doug Walker's basement laundry room.
  • Take That!: The entire video is one against Wiseau Films.

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