Trivia / The Nostalgia Chick

• Acting for Two: In the NChick labs, Nella is in the same room with her Mad Scientist self while Elisa plays both The Makeover Fairy and Dr. Tease. Elisa has lampshaded this in a formspring question, saying that the Makeover Fairy was too obsessed with looking good to notice a woman looking almost exactly like her.
• Author's Saving Throw:
  • The Chick said she regretted the episode she did with the Critic about Moulin Rouge!, as she's actually a fan of the film. In her analysis of the 2004 film version of Phantom of the Opera, she uses Moulin Rouge as a comparison.
  • The team were getting a lot of flack over the "Nella abuse", which some took way too seriously and thought it was happening in real life. So Lindsay made a "Thanks For Your Feedback", detailing that the Nostalgia Chick had sinfully low self-esteem and was paying Nella to make her look better. This seems to have also influenced "the Dark Nella Saga," where the evil entity possessing Nella gets revenge on the Chick for all the hell she put her through. (Note that the "Nella abuse" has pretty much stopped since the Saga ended.)
• Blooper:
  • During the Bratz episode, when the Critic is reasoning with her about why he made her do the movie, he pushes the door and she pulls, which should actually open the door but it remains closed.
  • As was lampshaded in her review of The Craft, her hair length will change drastically over the period of an episode.
• Bury Your Art:
  • The review of the 1984 film adaptation of Dune was taken down shortly after its release, as Lindsay Ellis felt that most of the plot holes she brought up were actually addressed within the film itself, as unclear as they were.
  • Lindsay Ellis privated almost all of the series' videos thanks to her Creator Backlash towards them, believing that they helped foster an overreliance on the Caustic Critic reviewing style among content creators. The only videos still publicly available are the reviews for Freddy Got Fingered and The Lord of the Rings, which were reuploaded to Ellis' main channel.
• The Cast Showoff:
  • Lindsay's a trained soprano and she deeply enjoys showing this fact off. She was also studying film at USC, so that's why she sometimes goes into so much detail about the filming techniques (or lack thereof) in the movies she reviews.
  • Elisa's almost as good a singer as Lindsay herself, and frequently shows this off.
• Colbert Bump: Because of her short episode on Minnie The Moocher, Cab Calloway got a lot of new fans.
• Corpsing: The Chick once did a tribute video to Team NChick's tendency to nearly laugh while in a scene. Out of all of them, Lindsay is probably the most guilty of this, particularly in crossovers with the boys (especially with her RL boyfriend Todd in the Shadows). You can see this happen in her video "Sleepless in Seattle vs. When Harry Met Sally..." as well as the outtakes for her Freddy Got Fingered video with Oancitizen.
• Creator Backlash:
  • In her livestream, Lindsay admitted that she watched "Rapping About Rape" again and could see why it got so much hate. In 2021, she revealed that it had been uploaded without her consent, and she'd made the video primarily as a coping mechanism to deal with her own sexual assault.
  • In a weird way, the TLC retrospective. While she doesn't seem to think it's a bad episode, it's more that she thinks sincere emotions on the show are too out of place.
  • Her crossover review with The Nostalgia Critic for Moulin Rouge!. She legitimately enjoys the film, but since Doug Walker wrote the script for the review, he mapped his own opinions onto her lines, where she says she only considers it a guilty pleasure. Lindsay talked about her regret for agreeing to do the review on her Twitter. In her video essay of The Phantom of the Opera (2004) she talked about Moulin Rouge! positively.
  • The Kickassia movie was this due to the Troubled Production, calling it "the first time I felt genuinely disrespected."
  • To Boldly Flee - which she has said of:
    "I was embarrassed then to be part of them and I still am."
  • In her 400k subscribers Q&A special from 2018, Lindsay has stated that she is by and large rather ashamed of all her video content made before 2015. She would also announce in the same video that she has removed her Nostalgia Chick videos from her main channel and placed them on their own channel, where the series has been retitled "Nostalgic Woman". The only video from that era that remains on Lindsay's main channel is the one for Freddy Got Fingered, which she has said she is still proud of.
  • Lindsay has this to the "Nostalgia Chick" title, mostly to do with TGWTG's ugly politics and the title's connection to that (as she was brought on to be a Distaff Counterpart for Critic). There's only about seven episodes she likes, and she much prefers doing articles under her own name or "Loose Canon".
• Creator Couple: Lindsay and Todd wrote a lot of the scripts together, including episodes where he doesn't appear. They remain Amicable Exes and lived together for a time afterwards, sharing custody of their dog Kali.
• Creator's Apathy: Lindsay admitted that a good portion of her videos were her doing "the bare minimum", and she was nearly let go by the site several times for this.
• Dawson Casting: Lindsay occasionally plays herself (or rather, the Chick) as a mopey teenager in flashbacks.
• Defictionalization: Based on her idea for a Disneyfied Anne Frank, we have a page for it. She's even edited it herself.
• Development Hell:
  • There was talk of making a home site (like Angry Joe's, a place for stuff that they couldn't put on TGWTG), resulting in Chez Apocalypse. It was functional for several months and hosted other shows as well, but after Blip and Maker shuttered their doors, development of the site returned to square one.
  • The second book of TheViridianSaga seems to have dropped completely off her radar.
  • The intended final episode of the Nostalgia Chick—stated by Lindsay to be a review of the live action Animorphs series—appears to have fallen by the wayside.
• DVD Commentary: She's been doing them ever since "Kirk vs. Picard".
• Executive Meddling: Claims she faced some resistance from TGWTG when she started to do essay style videos - such as the one on The Smurfette Principle - who wanted her to remain the Distaff Counterpart to The Nostalgia Critic. But eventually they gave in and let her transition.
• Fake Nationality: In the Grease 2 review, the Makeover Fairy claims to be Moldovan, though Elisa is American.
• Fan Community Nickname: "Chicklets".
• Fandom Nod: After fans shipped Mara Wilson with Critic after just her enjoying his humiliation in A Simple Wish, Matilda ups that aspect with her acting like he was a really fun toy to play with.
• Keep Circulating the Tapes: Despite her steadfast hatred of this series, for a time, videos from it remained comprehensively documented as "Nostalgic Woman" on the "Vintage ChezLindsay" account, largely because she knew they'd be reuploaded and monetized by others. However, they were completely privatized in 2020 (Lindsay's claim at the time was that it was tentative, done so they wouldn't get highly promoted in recommendation algorithms).
  • In February 2022, she re-uploaded the videos—Unlisted—to a dedicated "Nostalgic Woman" YT account and released the links to her $2+ Patreon supporters, adding that "They're bad and you shouldn't watch them."
• Meaningful Release Date: Her own co-site, Chez Apocalypse came out on the day of the supposed apocalypse. (21/12/2012)
• Milestone Celebration: To celebrate her three year anniversary of being on the site, she did a DVD commentary on her first episode Pocahontas.
• Money, Dear Boy: After many content creators left Channel Awesome due to disillusionment with the site's management, Lindsay stated that the main reason she joined the site in the first place was because she needed the money after graduating from college in 2008 (right before the economy tanked). She also said she stayed on the site as long as she did because she was financially dependent on ad revenue despite not enjoying her time there.
• Promoted Fanboy: Lindsay was initially a fan of Channel Awesome before she was hired on by the site. She also loves MST3K and got to interview Mike Nelson with Linkara.
• Prop Recycling: Lindsay originally built the robot prop for a student film about a Catholic robot; it was reused for the Nostalgia Chick show.
• Schedule Slip: She tried to put out one video a month but because of school and large amounts of traveling, can't always.
  • Now that her documentary is done, she's assured people that she's back to making regular weekly videos. She seems to have kept her word this time. She's even doing (usually) more than one episode a week now.
  • She went on another hiatus in 2013, due to being hired to work on a project pertaining to Pokémon. The hiatus ended in January 2014.
  • She went on another hiatus in 2017 so she can complete her Master's Degree. She says whenever she has the time during, she'll try to put a video out, but her main focus for the year is finishing her degree.
• Throw It In!: In the "Kirk vs. Picard" video, the Chick does an impersonation of Picard while Nella acted like Shatner. According to the commentary, neither of those were scripted.
• What Could Have Been:
  • In her commentary for X-Men, Lindsay said she was going to follow the TGWTG trend of having more than one character and play Dr. Tease herself. The same went for Dr. Block, but because Lindsay hates acting so much, Nella took the role herself.
  • The Nostalgia Critic was going to review Newsies, but Lindsay told Doug she expressed interest in reviewing it, so he let her do it instead.
  • In the Les Misérables big group song, Ed Glazer or Doug could have played Marius instead of Paw, it could have been a chorus of Lindsays (recorded to set everyone's place, as described in the commentary), or the review might not have happened at all due to Lindsay and Elisa having a car accident on the way to Chicago. (A hurricane just made them swerve into a ditch, they were fine.)
  • In an example that made shippers' hearts soar, the first "Thanks For The Feedback" was going to see the Chick and Critic have sex, and then realize they were related.
  • As charmingly goofy as it was, the Dark Nella Saga was going to be much sillier and originally consisted of the eponymous quasi-demonic force of evil giving everyone evil noogies.
  • The Chick taping Todd to a chair in "Sleepless in Seattle vs. When Harry Met Sally..." was originally going to be a Misery parody instead, but was cut for being considered far too creepy.
  • Her last Nostalgia Chick review would've been on Animorphs. However, she chose not to release it, as it did not match her standards.
  • The other two women seriously considered for the role of Nostalgia Chick were Kaylyn Saucedo and Krissy Diggs. Given that the other two were picked up anyway and took up the characters of MarzGurl and That Chick With the Goggles, it's likely that Lindsay would have been picked up and started doing something akin to her later video essay content anyway.

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