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  • Artist Disillusionment: Jillian left the show because she didn't enjoy doing it anymore.
  • Cast the Expert: Given that Allison Pregler has covered the original show extensively, Brad takes her to Baywatch (2017). Ditto Linkara to Power Rangers (2017) (though Brad also took him to Chi Ps, if only to troll fans with a picture of Lewis holding the ticket to that).
  • Creator Backlash: Brian and Allison have both left the show, partially as a result of the #ChangeTheChannel movement and have publicly expressed feelings of disillusionment towards Brad in general. Both actively turned against Brad and Laura after the Yesterday review, when Laura claimed that after her father's suicide, someone had sent officers to his funeral under the pretense that Brad had committed suicide and the two implied that this situation was somehow Allison's fault. Allison then revealed that she'd kept this alleged incident secret, while revealing texts from the day, when Laura claimed it was a Swatting.note 
  • Creator Couple: There are three husband-and-wife teams on Team Snob: Brian and Leddie, Dave and Sarah, and Brad and Laura. Brian and Brad are double examples, as they were formerly married to Sarah and Jillian respectively.
  • Enforced Method Acting: The video on Breaking Dawn Part 1 with Jillian getting plastered with all kinds of messy things. She revealed she knew what the items were, but didn't know when she'd get hit with them.
  • Fandom Nod: Being an improvised show usually shot the night before being posted on the site, they can make several references In-Universe to their fans, most notably that the comments are going to correct any error they make.
    • After a particularly hellish week of real life, at the end of Turbo Jake took a moment to sincerely and whole heartedly thank the fans of the site who, in either token or words, had helped him get through a very rough few days.
    • Brad immediately made fun of him for it (as Jake has several times told the entirety of the site to "go fuck itself").
      Brad: *trying to hold back laughter* Who'd've thought you'd be thanking the website... and the people who bother you every week asking...?
      Jake: Listen here motherfucker, *points at camera* I'm trying to have a goddamn moment with my fanbase. I could see the look you were giving me out of the corner of the camera screen, and I knew you were just waiting to say something, so I'm gonna need you to shut your goddamn mouth while I finish talking to my boys!... and my girls, all of 'em!
    • After uploading Brad Jones' Demo Reel, their parody of Demo Reel, the next screenings review noted that Brian got the invokedFan Nickname "Slaver Crackers" after both the "Slaver Brian" name and "Admiral Crackers".
  • Missing Episode: According to Brad himself, the very first episode (him and Jerrid reviewing Thor) disappeared due to a Blip glitch.
  • The Pete Best: Later fans of the show may not be aware that Jillian and Jake used to be among the more prominent reviewers.
  • Referenced by...: Cinema Snob Reviews Frozen (a fan comic where The Cinema Snob reviews Frozen (2013)) uses a few pics from this series, such as how Hilarious in Hindsight it is to see Jake bash Frozen from the trailers, when he would gush about the actual movie.
  • Screwed by the Lawyers:
    • The video on The Man from U.N.C.L.E. was temporarily taken down by Warner Bros., despite Brad pointing out that it was a review by two people in a car that had no footage from the movie whatsoever. The lack of legal standing meant that the video was re-uploaded the same day. What makes this even more of a Headscratcher is the fact that this was a favorable review of the movie that, if anything, would encourage more people to go see it.
    • The War Room video was temporarily taken down on YouTube due to YouTube needing proof that Brad owns footage of him and Dave sitting in a car.
  • Throw It In!: Despite the unscripted nature of the show, this can still happen. It's how the "Slaver Brian" joke got started.

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