Web Video / Bumbles McFumbles

Bumbles McFumbles, also known as Jack, is an American YouTube personality who started regularly making and uploading videos in 2019. Originally being focused on Yu-Gi-Oh! content, he would later move on to general video game topics, his most famous of which being his Which Punch-Out!! Boxer is the Biggest Cheater? two-parter.

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Bumbles McFumbles contains examples of:

• Added Alliterative Appeal: From the Kanto Pokémon pet ranking video:
  "Poliwrath is your pollywog pal with a penchant for poundings as its powerful punches produce pulp out of proud pugilists. While plenty of Pokémon parade around with predatory predispositions, Poliwrath pulls back on its puissant powers whenever packed near pleasant people. Though its profoundly protracted practice requires precise proficiencies so as to not leave you pooped, Poliwrath perpetually provokes pleased partialities from pros!"
  • He does the same thing with Politoed in the Johto follow-up video, with an even longer string of alliteration this time.
• And the Rest: He describes the final five contestants of The Tester Season 3 as "Akilleez [Might], the brave and strong! And the rest."
• Bait-and-Switch: In Which Team Fortress 2 Mercenary Is The Biggest War Criminal?, the lead up to the anti-personnel landmine section has Meet The Demoman as the visual as Jack explains the crime, which he admits later is a section all but meant for the Scotsman. He caps off the introduction by sarcastically asking who that sounds like before answering his own question: Scout^note who gets on there due to the Wrap Assassin.
• Boring, but Practical: In Which Team Fortress 2 Mercenary Would Make The Best Boyfriend, Jack notes that out of the trio of trios, Engineer's relative sanity and chill demeanor would make him the safest choice for a date compared to his more outlandish coworkers. This ends up being a double-edged sword for him in the rankings due to him being too safe of a pick to be that interesting of a mercenary boyfriend.
• Brick Joke: In ''Bionic Commando But It's Edgy," Jack mentions that there was an eight-year long gap between entries in the series, and says he would have broken something if he had to wait another year. Soon after, he brings up a later nine-year long gap, and you can hear something breaking in the background.
• Broke the Rating Scale: Jack points out that the plot of the Chicken Little game follows the plot of the Chicken Little movie, which brings him to his Plot Grading Scale. Said scale's standard ratings are Fantastic, Good, Okay, Bad, and Really Bad, below which sits Chicken Little.
• Brutal Honesty:
  • Normally, Jack closes a video by offering his final thoughts on the game/matter, finishing where the intro left off, or hinting at what he plans to do for the following video. His closing thoughts at the end of Chicken Little - The Video No One Asked For?
    "Pbth, game's bad."
  • When covering the Burger King Xbox games, Jack rhetorically asks if the three games in question were any good, given their history, before bluntly admitting that the viewer already knew they weren't before clicking on the video.
  • In Viral Horror Games, when talking about Slenderman, Jack asks if he thinks Slenderman could make a comeback.
    "No. No, he shouldn't."
  • In Jack Complains About The FNAF Storyline, the main point he makes before summarizing the storyline proper is that everyone who's tried to piece together the Five Nights at Freddy's storyline is varying degrees of wrong.
  • During Balan Wonderworld - A Third Look: The Yuji Naka Story, Jack acknowledges how there is a team of fans that are remaking Sonic Xtreme and commends them for dedicating themselves to preserving, if not finishing, the game. He follows this up by calmly saying that the game "looks like turbo-ass."
• Captain Obvious Reveal:invoked Discussed in Jack Complains About The FNAF Storyline. He points out how the developers of Security Breach would egg fans on into trying to figure out who Vanny was even though it was abundantly clear that it was just Vanessa. He notes how this is a similar case to how the developers of Batman: Arkham Knight would continuously deny that the titular Arkham Knight is Jason Todd despite how obvious it was until the game's release, where it gets revealed that the Arkham Knight is Jason Todd.
• Characterization Marches On: Discussed in the Which Punch-Out!! Boxer is the Biggest Cheater? two-parter. After the Wii version racked up a total of nineteen rule breaks in the first video, Bumbles is extremely surprised to learn that Aran Ryan was once the cleanest boxer in the game back in Super Punch-Out!. This prompts him to ask just what in the ever-loving hell happened between the two games that turned him from a fair fighter - albeit one with nothing to set himself apart from others - to a raging, cheating Blood Knight.
  "What grudge do the Canadians and the Irish have?!"
• Continuity Nod: In Sonic Adventure - A Hedgehog but in 3D, while going over his personal history with the Sonic the Hedgehog franchise Jack mentions that while he was salivating over the prospect of the then-upcoming Sonic for Xbox, the franchise had lower priority for him after his family's house burned down. In Postal 2 - A Game Where Nothing Bad Happens And Everyone Is Nice, picking up an in-game cat prompts Jack to introduce his cats, one of whom was named Ash after the aforementioned incident.
• Damned by Faint Praise:
  • When talking about Chicken Little, Jack explains, "Was it successful? Was it f*ck! Was it good? ...It was successful!"
  • Jack says that the top five minigames within Thrillville: Off the Rails just might be considered "passable to not get blammed off Newgrounds".
• Darker and Edgier: The But It's Edgy videos discuss instances of games that tried to take this route - namely, Space Raiders (a reboot/spin-off of Space Invaders), Altered Beast (2005), and the 2009 Bionic Commando sequel.
• Ending Fatigue:invoked Jack brings this up during the Chicken Little video, where the game goes on for several levels after what was declared as the Final Boss and eventually makes him wonder if the game is being developed in real-time to draw out the ending even more.
• Fanon Discontinuity:invoked Jack attempts to invoke this in his video covering the Five Nights at Freddy's storyline by urging his viewers to cut the books out of the equation entirely.
  "If we start letting these things count for the canon of the games, we're gonna have to recon with time-travelling ball pits and male impregnation a lot sooner than we would all like to."
• Five-Second Foreshadowing: In the second part of the Which Punch-Out!! Boxer is the Biggest Cheater? two-parter, covering the boxers from Super Punch-Out!!, Jack finishes off Masked Muscle's overview by giving him nine infractions, "still dwarfed by Ryan^note as in Aran Ryan in Punch-Out!! on Wii, but an admirable effort nonetheless!" The next boxer to go over was none other than Aran Ryan, as portrayed in the aforementioned SNES game. Jack promptly starts screaming.
• Follow the Leader:invoked Briefly discussed during Battletoads (2020) - Toadally Awesome where Jack brings up the early, explosive success of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and then starts (poorly) naming properties that tried to chase the trend. Most of his answers receive increasingly ludicrous incorrect buzzers, except for Skeleton Warriors.
  [Casino jackpot sound effect]
  Jack: "Oh, okay."
• Formula-Breaking Episode: Tony Hawk's Underground - Pretending I'm a Superman covers the notorious fan-made Tony Hawk's Pro Skater timeline parodying that of The Legend of Zelda rather than Jack's playthrough of the game itself.
• Freeze-Frame Bonus:
  • The Chicken Little game, much like the movie, takes a hard left into being about aliens, at which point said game introduces another gameplay style. Cut to Jack's Christmas list for a couple seconds:
    Jack's Christmas List
    More Chicken Little on the PS2
    A PONY
    a gun
  • In the Ace in Action video, when going over an extremely abridged history of Disney, he puts in a quick "tribute" to Walt Dreamworks reading "Some Time - Some Other Time" which is interrupted by a clip of Norm Macdonald saying "Hold the fort. He hated Jews." This is then followed by a wall of text, which is only on-screen for a second.
    WHILE FIRST HAND ACCOUNTS FROM PEOPLE WHO WORKED ALONGSIDE WALT NEVER ACCUSED HIM OF DIRECT ANTISEMITISM, HE WAS A PART OF THE MOTION PICTURE ALLIANCE FOR THE PRESERVATION OF AMERICAN IDEALS, A GROUP OF FILM MAKERS WHO WERE NOTORIOUSLY PRO FACISM, ANTI UNION, ANTI CIVIL RIGHTS, PROMOTED JIM CROW LAWS, AND MOST PRESSING OF ALL, ANTISEMITIC. SO WHILE NOT DIRECTLY USING HIS POWER AND INFLUENCE TO KEEP JEWISH PEOPLE DOWN HE WAS OKAY WITH WORKING AND ASSOCIATING WITH PEOPLE WHO WERE DIRECTLY ANTISEMITIC.
• Hypocritical Heartwarming: Duke Nukem Forever making fun of Donkey Kong enrages Jack, prompting him to yell out, "Listen here, you scumbag! Nobody makes fun of Donkey Kong except me! You got that?!"
• Hypocritical Humor: This line in the Battletoads 2020 video:
  "Leave your swear words uncensored, you f(bleep)ing p(bleep)ies"
• Idiosyncratic Ratings Scale:
  • Chicken Little - The Video No One Asked For introduces his Plot Grading Scale when talking about the plot of the Chicken Little video game.
  • When talking about Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder's Revenge, Jack brings up the chart he apparently rates every game on - "Quality of Ninja Turtle Live-Action Costume".
  "See, Ultrakill is a TMNT 1 costume, Balan is, like, a TMNT 3 or Out of Our Shells costume, and Ultimate Tenkaichi is a Christmas special."
• I Need a Freaking Drink:
  • At the end of his Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance review, Jack drinks to numb the pain of knowing that the presumed Sequel Hook at the end of the game was never followed upon.
  • Captain Dylan in Duke Nukem Forever ends up annoying Bumbles to the point of him starting to drink in Dylan's presence.
• Ironic Hell: The Stinger of Wrestling Empire has Diggity Dogg die, go to hell, and have the Devil offer him a chance to return to life by winning a fight. When Dogg accepts, Lucifer reveals his opponents and the arena: Berlaine and Lance Monaco, in a replica of the subway Dogg killed them in. Lucifer then reveals that he made Berlaine and Lance invincible, and Dogg's punishment in Hell was to be beaten by them for eternity the way he killed them in life.
• invokedIt Was His Sled: Due to the infamous nature of the game's twist ending, the review for Bionic Commando (2009) starts with Jack placing a timer in the upper left corner of the screen that reads "Time Left Until Wife Arm".
• Last-Second Word Swap: He calls the first enemy he introduces in the SpongeBob Movie game "this big belching ba- ...friend".
• Loophole Abuse: Invoked in the first part of the Which Punch-Out!! Boxer is the Biggest Cheater? two-parter, wherein Jack gives a pass to the disco ball for Disco Kid's fight, figuring that the disco ball was already part of the building's interior to begin with. This is later discussed and defied when, while going over Great Tiger's infractions, Jack points out that real life boxing rules don't forbid the use of magic, which Bumbles suspects is purely because it was never actually attempted in a real boxing match.
• Mathematician's Answer: Regarding whether Donkey Kong: Jungle Beat stays fun or overstays its welcome, Jack simply answers, "Kinda."
• "Metaphor" Is My Middle Name:
  • When playing the SpongeBob Movie game, Jack gets as many Goofy Goober Tokens as he can in the earlygame, stating, "They don't call [him] 'Jack 'Knows Where All The Goofy Goober Tokens Are In The SpongeBob Movie Game For GameCube' Lastname' for nothing!"
  • As he plays through Ed, Edd n Eddy: The Mis-Edventures, he struggles to get through some of the game's simple puzzles, admitting to "[continuing] to show why they call [him] 'Jack 'Can't Seem To Do Anything Right For The Life Of Him' Lastname'".
• "No. Just… No" Reaction: In his Kanto Pokémon pet ranking video, he completely skips over the two Pokémon that scores 19 points on his ranking scale. The first being Jynx and the second being Vaporeon, which, due to a certain infamous meme involving them…
  Jack: I can't trust a single one of you to be adults about this! There are plenty of people who are completely oblivious as to why I'm skipping them, and I advise you to keep it that way!
• Mood Whiplash: Bumbles closes his covering of The Tester Season 3 by looking up everything he possibly could of what happened to contestants, hosts, and a few guest judges involved in the season. It's mostly presented in a way to be relatively lighthearted and comedic as well as heartwarming. Special mention for heartwarming is Suzkaiden who had the biggest storybook-esque ending out of all of them; especially considering all the crap she went through on the show as detailed by Jack, by getting married, having a child, and is now an entrepeneur. The whole thing for the most part is like most of Bumbles' content....and then he ends the video off by stating what happened to ninjanomyx: He ended up being arrested on murder charges relating to a shooting with an illegal firearm that left one dead and another wounded. Jack does not beat around the bush with the subject matter with his usual tone and demeanor with his voice sounding somber and serious and the music goes dead silent just as Jack reveals the horrible truth. He even confirms it's the same guy with the assailant having the same real name (Richard Lugo), exact same age and location of residence as the ninjanomyx who appeared on the show. Jack laments on this story calling the fate of the victim that ended up deceased a senseless loss of life, and even states his thoughts go out to those affected. It's such a huge shift in tone that Jack's demeanor still doesn't change much when shifting to thanking the viewer for being able to watch this big 4 episode project to end off the video.
• Oh, Crap!: Jack has a fairly notable one in the Which Team Fortress 2 Mercenary Is The Biggest War Criminal? video upon reading that incendiary weapons are outlawed in the Geneva Convention. Thus, every count of incendiary weaponry usage by the mercs is a war crime, in a game with a class who's entire purpose is attacking people with fire.
• Overly Narrow Superlative:
  • He points out that Mutants in Manhattan was "the first Turtles game to be ranked #4 on ProJared's Top 10 Worst Games of 2016 list".
  • He puts Duke Nukem Forever in his "Top 10 games that culminate in going to the Hoover Dam".
• A Rare Sentence:
  • His final words on Thrillville: Off the Rails are, "I don't say this often, but getting to make out with random women doesn't save the game!"
  • Regarding the amount of content the Postal series is getting today, he states, "We're living in a Postal rennaissance... which is definitely one of the sillier expressions in the English language."
• The Reveal:
  • Thrillville: Off the Rails shows its wicked true colors at this point, as we had all assumed it was a park management game, when in reality, it's actually...A WII-ERA MINIGAME COLLECTION!" Cue "Toccata and Fugue in D Minor".
  • Jack falls into the same trap again while playing Amazing Island, "We're on to the first course, the Beginner's Course, as the game's dirty little secret becomes very clear: When I rented this game all that time ago, I thought it would be like Pokémon where I got to draw the monsters myself, when in reality, the game is...A GAMECUBE-ERA MINIGAME COLLECTION!" Lampshaded by Jack himself as he cuts off the use of "Toccata and Fugue in D Minor" with a, "Wait, what?! Are you serious?! I fell for this AGAIN?! Fool me once, fool me twice, fool me chicken soup with rice."
  • After repeatedly claiming that you can't kill anyone in Wrestling Empire... he throws Berlaine in front of an oncoming subway train and the game shows his obituary, at which point Jack reveals that, yes, you can kill people in this game.
• Running Gag:
  • Referring to the now-private Video 5 as "Thou Who Shall Not Be Named".
  • Starting with Tony Hawk's Underground - Pretending I'm A Superman, Jack has met every instant of points in a game as the most important thing ever. For example, regarding Battletoads 2020:
    "Points don't do anything EXCEPT ENRICH THE SOUL!"
• Sitcom Arch-Nemesis: Ever since he was flooded with tons of requests to do a second Punch-Out!! video due to not including Donkey Kong, the big ape himself has served as this to Jack, being constantly spoken of as his arch-enemy as a Running Gag.
• Shotguns Are Just Better: Discussed in the Pizza Tower review:
  "The shotgun is my favorite power-up in the game, and I'd love to say it's for some nuanced reason... but it's a shotgun. You point it in a direction, and then you have to point it in a new direction because there's nothing left in the other one."
• Take That!:
  • Whenever he brings up the Star Fox series, it's never in a positive light.
    "Squadron Ace shows that not everybody can just make a Star Fox game, and that includes Nintendo!"
  • Upon clearing the first secret level in Ultrakill, he takes a potshot at the Donkey Kong franchise:
    Testament I: "Mankind is a failure. Free will is a flaw. Let the evil of their own lips consume them. Then I shall begin again, with my word as law."
    Jack: (beat) Well, honestly, if I created the species that made Donkey Kong, I'd say the same thing.
  • In Viral Horror Games 2: Halloween Spooktacular, when Jack attempts to talk about about the infamous Garten of Banban, he instead recommends some interesting games nobody ever heard, skipping the entire section related to the game that was supposed to be discussed.
    Jack: Actually, while I have you here, have you heard of Slave Zero X?
• Tempting Fate: In his video on Viral Horror Games, Jack puts in a brief eyecatch saying that if the video cracked 100,000 views, he'd release a video discussing the FNAF timeline. Sure enough, the video reached that goal, and Jack was forced to make good on his promise, much to his displeasure. He ends up doing this again in the first Which Punch-Out!! Boxer is the Biggest Cheater? video, where after covering Don Flamenco, he believes the worst of the cheaters were covered after the Major Circuit, cue Aran Ryan who Jack skips until the rest of the boxers were done due to him being the worst of the bunch in infractions.
• That Came Out Wrong: There have been a few times where Jack has said something that could easily be taken out of context with him lampshading it with a brief segment of the quote being replayed in slow motion with a music box playing in the background, such as when he mentions how Bear Hugger's squirrel partner and Donkey Kong both gave consent to fight to avoid it being considered animal cruelty in the first and second parts of Which Punch-Out!! Boxer is the Biggest Cheater? respectively with the latter's version lampshading the joke being used again and in Which Pokémon Is The Worst Pet? when he realises what he said about Chansey being the second best instead of the best because he thinks it is more companion material than pet material just before it cuts to the segment.
• This Is Gonna Suck: Jack's reaction to having to list all of Aran Ryan's infractions in the first part of Which Punch-Out!! Boxer is the Biggest Cheater?, pointing out that he put off doing Aran until the rest of the boxers were done since the second biggest cheater, Great Tiger, had eight infractions (with two extra added in the second part) whereas Aran had nineteen.
• Tropaholics Anonymous: Used as the framing device for Sonic Adventure - A Hedgehog but in 3D, wherein Jack attends Accountability's Combination Therapist and Car Repair. Interestingly, all the attendees are there for different reasons; Howie Dewitt recently curbed their addiction to Pokémon card collecting by collecting drugs instead, Rich 'Dickwood' Mahogany became addicted to defending Nintendo online after a complaint about the large amount of Fire Emblem characters in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, and Jack is there because apparently liking Sonic the Hedgehog is considered an addiction.
• Viewer Name Confusion: invoked Throughout the Sonic Adventure review, Jack refers to Knuckles the Echidna as "Puncho the Magnificent" after forgetting what his name was.
• Waxing Lyrical:
  • While summarizing the stories of Sonic Adventure, Jack introduces Puncho the Magnificent^note Knuckles the Echidna for the first time as "the blow thrower, independent flower, Master Emerald holder" (sic).
  • In Balan Wonderworld - A Second Look, once Jack re-enters the first chapter of the game, he malaprops the chapter name with the lyrics of "Bury the Light" from Devil May Cry 5 and calls it "The Man Who Is the Storm Approaching, Provoking, Black Clouds in Isolation".
• "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue: Bumbles closes his covering of The Tester Season 3 by looking up what became of the contestants, hosts, and a few guest judges involved in the season, naturally excluding Egoraptor under the assumption that the viewer already knew what's become of him prior to watching Jack cover said season.
  • AkilleezMight (real name: Wilson Santaigo) did go on to work on God of War: Ascension, shortly after which leaving Santa Monica to work as a quality assurance tester for Pakistani aircrafts. Several years later, he returned to Santa Monica to work as the Lead QA Tester for God of War (PS4).
  • kristipryde (real name: Krysti Pruden) now hosts You Have My Sword, a Tolkien-themed podcast, and has worked with several charities based in New York as well as having done PR and marketing for various companies and groups. She also has "Reality TV survivor" in her bio, which Jack admits is fair.
  • RealityPalez (real name: Charles Weichselbaum) looks completely different now than he did on The Tester; Jack jokes that this may have been an attempt to escape the serial killer accusations put out by Jack himself. Weichselbaum now goes by Fall Guys Charles on Twitter and HebrewHammer on PSN, and currently works with Day One Agency, which Jack assumes is some sort of ad agency.
  • Skyd1ddy (real name: Skyler Harper) opened a gaming-themed barber shop called Cut N' Play, seemingly associated with the Shadow Fadez barber shop which follows a similar idea. He also either had or found a child since his time on The Tester, an act which Jack approves either way.
  • Suzkaiden (real name: Lissarette Nisnevich) got married, had a child, and is now an entrepeneur. She's also a published children's book author, having written books such as Yo amo mi pajón and Eldie Makes New Friends targeting mixed English and Spanish couples, and gave a few TED Talks as recently as November 2020.
  • kwajaMonster (real name: Kaila Nemoto) hasn't stayed active on social media, because she's currently active in the field of medicine, currently the Executive Assistant at the BJC Healthcare clinic in the greater Louisiana area.
  • J-Tight (real name: Joel Alexander) currently hosts a gaming channel on YouTube alongside Sky Diddy called SkyTightGaming.
  • burnNibelheim (real name: Shaunette DeTie) worked in marketing at Bioworld Merchandising, partnered with Hasbro, Universal, and CBS, and is now the Licensing Manager for Critical Role.
  • Asuukaa (real name: Nicole Dormer) has had little to no internet presence following The Tester - finding such not being helped by how commonly the name Asuka ended up appearing while Jack tried to find out what became of this contestant - mostly just amounting to a few Reddit posts talking about The Tester, how much she hates Suzkaiden, and Egoraptor being a cool guy.
  • AshiChan (real name: Ashphord Jacoway) has expanded her portfolio, working in music videos, commercials, and cosplay.
  • Meredith Molinari went on to host several other reality shows since The Tester and worked interviews for Sony on projects like the Jumanji movies.
  • Brent Gocke, whose name Jack has misread/mispronounced as Brett up until the epilogue, worked his way up to the position of Senior Manager of Project Development at Sony.
  • Adrianne Curry is happily retired away from Hollywood, got caught up in multi-level marketing, and one time attacked a sexual predator at a convention with the butt of her whip for attempting to assault her friend.
  • Seth Killian started working at Riot Games, working on a League of Legends fighting game, but moved to Epic Games and came forward alongside many other former Riot Games employees with allegations of sexual misconduct against Riot Games's CEO.
  • David Jaffe lost all credibility and became "the guy who threw a sh*tfit over Metroid Dread not spoonfeeding him answers" all between the upload dates of the last two videos covering The Tester Season 3.
  • ninjanomyx (real name: Richard Lugo) was arrested on murder charges relating to a shooting with an illegal firearm that left one dead and another wounded.