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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.


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.
      "Politoed proudly presents a pristine power-up for Poliwhirl. Though procuring the part for its progression may prove pestering, the potent potential of Politoed is plain to peep. Prohibiting punches may appear pedantic, but passing on the possibility for pugilistic powers provides prodigious precipitation! Perchance you presumed that prevents problems, but peeking its personal practices provides proof of putrid performances. Poliwhirl and Poliwag are its proteges, and as principal pioneer of their preparation, its piercing peels produce phobic performances. Politoed may please pros pursuing prestigious prizes, but Politoed's pleasant personality proves phony with puny progeny."
  • ...And That Little Girl Was Me: In Silliest Top Tiers In Fighting Games, Jack mentions an infamous matchup in a Shrek SuperSlam tournament where a professional player was utterly stomped by a player named "Tunes" who had literally never played the game before but was playing as Red Riding Hood. Jack then admits that he knows the story because "[he] played at the tournament and it was [his] first time playing."
    Jack: That's right... Tunes... was me.
    Gameplay footage goes grayscale with a message reading "That's not true I'm lying"
  • And the Rest: He describes the final five contestants of The Tester Season 3 as "Akilleez [Might], the brave and strong! And the rest."
  • Awful Truth: Discussed in The History of Chaotic. At first, he recounts the story of how the game died Screwed by the Network in a legal battle between 4Kids Entertainment and TC Digital Games over control of the IP, before quickly pointing out that the story is full of holes, most of what is "known" makes little sense in a legal context, and none of his research turned up any sources that weren't Chaotic fans spreading it; but on the other hand, what he did find was that the sales of the card game collapsed relatively quickly. In the end, he concludes that while the lawsuit story is probably made up, the Chaotic fandom latched onto it because blaming 4Kids (a very acceptable target in geeky circles) was much easier to do than accept that their favorite game was just a short-lived fad and not that successful to begin with.
  • 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 playing 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 is best known for using landmines before answering his own question: Scoutnote .
  • Beat Without a "But": His description of the... interesting getup of Rising Zan: The Samurai Gunman's titular character. Though in a twist, a real "but" does come right afterwards.
    Jack: Cowboy hat with the jeans and boots, while wearing a mesh top and Japanese coat, should look ridiculous. And it does! He looks like a kid who couldn't decide on what to go as for Halloween! But given the setting he finds himself in, he's kind of appropriately dressed.
  • Big, Stupid Doodoo-Head: In his video on failed marketing campaigns, he takes a stab at Nintendo's failed attempt to fire back at Sega's "It does what Nintendon't" slogan, and pays the price.
    Jack: More like Se...GAY... No wait, Gayga! GAYGA! NO, NO, (Foley that sounds as if he's being dragged to Hell) NOOOOO!
  • 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 Chicken Little (2005), 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 X-treme 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."
  • The Cameo:
    • He guest starred in Designing For, a channel looking at how video games work and giving tips on them. Specifically, an episode on Super Punch-Out where he explained how Rick Bruiser’s fight worked and how to beat him.
    • Rata appears (as his stuffed Astolfo descending from the heavens) in The Yu-Gi-Oh Iceberg Explained Part 4, as Jack wants him to demonstrate his ability to cause Konami to create cards specifically to annoy him. Rata instead dumps a bunch of random Digimon trivia on him.note 
      Jack: Say, can you "meme up" some of that Metaphys support?
      Rata: Can you suck my ass? [disappears back into the sky]
      Jack: *sob* Why do people keep saying that to me?
  • 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.
  • Celebrity Resemblance: His reaction when he opens the Character Customization menu in AEW: Fight Forever.
    Jack: Okay, so, first off: big ups to Super Eyepatch Wolf for being the base create-a-wrestler. Love to see a king succeed.
  • 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.
  • Couch Gag: His intro and outro usually consist of the screen getting covered in Yu-Gi-Oh! cards vaguely related to the topic at hand.
  • 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), the 2009 Bionic Commando sequel, and the 2008 Alone in the Dark reboot.
  • 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.
  • Failed a Spot Check: Whenever necessary during Jack Complains About The FNAF Storyline, Jack will bring up how everyone in the setting is horrible at spotting dead bodies, ranging from dead children inside the animatronics to Michael himself.
  • 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 Ryannote , 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.
    • In "Ranking The Dragon Ball Sparking! Zero What Ifs from Worst to Best", Tien's gameplay segments have quick flashes of the fan made "invokedMystic Tien" whenever Tien uses a super move.
  • Genre Throwback: Jack usually loves these kinds of games, but he heavily criticizes Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers: Rita’s Rewind for being too much of one. While there have been quite a few revivals of the Beat 'em Up genre in the 2020s (like Shredder's Revenge or Double Dragon Gaiden), they usually exploit the qualities of modern game design in order to feel like a natural evolution of the genre. In contrast, Rita's Rewind feels exactly like a 90s licensed beat'em up: extremely basic, repetitive, and overall underwhelming outside of its (admittedly awesome) visuals and music.
  • 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: In the Battletoads (2020) video, he gets upset at the game for censoring swear words only to finish his statement with "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.
  • In Memoriam:invoked
    • Yu-Gi-Oh! Archetype Iceberg Part 2 - GX opens with a dedication to Yu-Gi-Oh's creator, Kazuki Takahashi, who had drowned while saving an eleven-year-old girl, her mother, and a soldier from a riptide one month before the video's release.
    • Silent Hill Ascension Part 3: It's Finally Over, which covers the Pennsylvania portion of Ascension, opens on this for Toby Cirelli, one of the characters in that portion of Ascension's plot.
  • 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.
  • Irony: In the first Which Punch-Out!! Boxer is the Biggest Cheater? video, Aran Ryan had the most infractions of any boxer in the 2009 game by a longshot. The second video reveals that he's actually the cleanest boxer in Super Punch-Out, with a completely legal uniform and techniques.
  • 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".
  • Kayfabe: In Viral Horror Games 3: Halloween Spooktacular 2, the Shipwrecked 64 segment has Jack review Shipwrecked 64. Not the horror ARG, the Game Within a Game 2023 release of Shipwrecked 64 that exists In-Universe. During the review, Jack pretends it is just a normal, if slightly creepy, game and makes quips like him being unable to find any information about Cogware Games or Broadside Animation, wonders how Squeaks was able to get away with putting an unofficial rom of a Nintendo 64 game on Steam without any legal trouble, and states a desire to have Bucky throw Olive into a pond and watch her drownspoilers not directly mentioning any of the horror aspects of the full experience until the ending where he silently plays a few clips of the darker aspects of the game's 1997 section.
  • Last-Second Word Swap:
    • He calls the first enemy he introduces in the SpongeBob Movie game "this big belching ba- ...friend".
    • In his review of how the Noise handles in Pizza Tower, he starts out Refrigerator-Refrigerador-Freezerator with: "You start the level by warming up with a great big thermos of hot ch- gasoline."
  • 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 Jack suspects is purely because "Evander Holyfield never tried a f*cking cup and ball trick in the middle of a match".
  • Malicious Misnaming: In Viral Horror Games 2, Jack really doesn't want to talk about Garten of Banban. So instead he starts referring to it with names such as "Robert of Van Dam" or "Arven of Bad Dad".
  • 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 early game, 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'".
  • Mood Whiplash: Jack 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 entrepreneur. 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.
  • Mundane Made Awesome: When getting to the sixth area of Shinobi (2002), Jack declares that Stage 6-A has breached his own personal tolerance and makes a big deal out of... putting on the Bianco Hills theme to discuss how the level is a "invokedSunshine Moment".
    Jack: "...We're going to f*bleep*ing war."
  • "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!
  • "Not Making This Up" Disclaimer: In The Absurd History of the Nancy Drew Games, Jack has to admit that the truth behind how and why the series lasted for so long despite little evolution and niche sales barely covering licensing the franchise (namely, that Her Interactive was funded for years by an anonymous billionaire who really liked the idea of an mystery game series aimed primarily at girls) sounds like a fandom rumor (similarly to the ''Chaotic'' lawsuit he talked about in that franchise's video)... except the information came straight from an interview with Stuart Moulder, who was CEO of the company at the time.
  • 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 whose entire purpose is attacking people with fire.
  • Original Generation: A semi-recurring series is The Bumbles Mcrumbles, a collection of WWE-style videos mostly involving an original cast of characters throwing hands in WWE 2K14. In addition, when Jack plays a wrestling game's career mode he usually creates a character specifically for that video to focus on (it's usually a massively-unrepentant heel).
  • 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".
    • Dodgeball Academia gets mentioned as feeling like "the number 3 pick on a top 10 list of the best obscure 3DS games".
      Jack: I don't know what that means, but I know it's a positive!
  • 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 Reason You Suck" Speech: On his review of Asura's Wrath, Jack spends a good time talking about Asura's emotional struggle concerning his family, and how he stands up to the system imposed by Deus, which has gone on for millennia. However, he also mercilessly destroys Yasha by delivering a barrage of eviscerating insults towards his actions and attitude for the past twelve thousand years that has to be heard to be believed.
    "I hate Yasha; Pre-DLC, I hate him, and post-DLC, I acknowledge him. This guy has twelve. thousand. years to grow a spine, and do the thing Asura's been doing the entire time and stand up when his family has been torn apart. Yasha. KNOWS. EVERYTHING. He knows Sergei killed his sister. He knows where Mithra's being held. But he doesn't so much as move a muscle to change a thing!. He shows up to kill a critically injured Asura and talks down to him the entire time, he talks to Asura like he's an idiot, when he's fully aware that he's the only one doing the right thing!. He finally snaps back to reality when he watches Sergei blow up a city for...pretty much no reason...like they weren't doing that TWENTY MINUTES AGO!!. They've been doing this for twelve. thousands. YEARS—I don't think you get it. 12,000 years. It's such a big number, that the scope is kind of lost. But imagine if, since, the goddamn Paleolithic Era, magical android assholes have been bombing Earth whenever a scary animal shows up!. They've been doing this for way too long for Yasha to only now know that this is a problem...and if this is the first time he's witnessed it firsthand, HOW DID HE MISS IT!?. Sergei gets to make his grand declaration of killing Durga and kidnapping Mithra, and all this little bastard can say is "I knew". When I heard this the first time, oohoh..OOH, my blood was boiling. This game wants to show Asura and Yasha as equals, but what it really looks like, is that Yasha is a humungous coward that doesn't have the stones to do what Asura's been doing this entire time!."
    "He had the time, he had the means, he should've had the motivation, but that's somehow still up in the air!. And when he does start fighting Asura, he keeps up the shtick from the first fight and talks down to Asura the entire time!. Like Asura isn't the man he wishes he could be!. Asura, is powered by rage, and Yasha, is powered by sadness. How in the hell is he not as sad as Asura is angry!?. His last lines before the fight starts are pretty much "ah, sh[bleep]t, I wasn't paying attention". The most frustrating part is that he keeps asking how Asura got so strong...like he doesn't understand!...YOUR SISTER! THAT WAS IT, THAT WAS THE REASON!!...He even manages to talk himself out of critically thinking his own actions by repeating the same empty platitudes he has been FOR YEARS!!: "Squibbledy-dibbledy, Rumbledy-glum, I am sad, And you are dumb"...I can't stand Yasha, he is one of the most annoying and frustrating rival characters in any game I've ever seen...he never takes action, he never tries to be better, and the idea that the game tries to give him a face turn is very frustrating!. He only tries to be better after getting his nose held down in what being a passive rock has gotten him!."
  • Repeated for Emphasis: This is what Jack does to get the point across in Silent Hill Ascension Part 3: It's Finally Over that he sat himself through the show five times.
    "If you're looking to cut some fat from your fifth rewatch of Silent Hill Ascension, [the crossover sections] are probably the first place to start. (Beat) I've watched this five times. I have watched this series five times."
  • 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 regarded every instance 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!"
    • To emphasize the absurdity of what he's talking about, the Which Pokemon Is The Worst Pet series has him call the Pokemon dogs while describing their characteristics.
      (On Marowak in the Kanto video): Marowak is a dog with baggage.
      (Discussing Mega Evolution in the Johto video): Now, Megas aren't being counted in this discussion because "how best to abuse your dog" isn't something to look into when picking him out.
      (On Glalie in the Hoenn video): Glalie is the condensed regrets and pain of stranded hikers frozen and gathered into an ice ball with a mouth. So now you sleep on the doggy bed?
    • In the "Stupid Collectable Crap June" trilogy, any mention that the franchise he's talking about has a Roblox version will be followed by a skit of the show's main character trying to swindle kids for info on their parents' credit card.
  • Serious Business:
    • The Tony Hawk's Underground video posits that the most powerful and central force in the universe is... the process of getting points. You'd think with the subject matter it'd be skating but no; skating is merely the ideal way to acquire points. Tony Hawk is treated as The Chosen One due to his ability to score points, the jackass crew is described as an evil order dedicated to scoring points using the Dangerous Forbidden Technique of harming themselves and each other through stunts, and the grand conflict of good vs evil revolves around the lengths and methods one will go through to earn more points.
    • Jack loves character creators, to the point where he developed a sixth sense to tell when developers added one to their game.
  • 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.
    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.
  • 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."
  • Slowly Slipping Into Evil: Diggity Dog in the "Wrestling Mpire" video starts off as just one of many wrestlers trying to make a name for themselves... up until his Accidental Murder of Berlaine during a brawl in the subway. Following that he slowly grows more violent and ruthless as his success goes to his head, provoking wrestlers into fights through unprovoked assault, starting to take steroids, intentionally murdering Lance Monaco out of revenge for being denied a spot at his company, beating the only witness into a coma, and even stealing Monaco's corpse during his funeral, trying to throw it into a jet turbine. He ultimately arranges a ridiculously dangerous wrestling match, having the ring filled with explosives, fully intending to kill his opponent during the fight... only to accidentally kill himself by falling on a large pile of bombs.
  • 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!"
    • In Viral Horror Games 2: Halloween Spooktacular, when Jack attempts to talk 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?
    • Most of his video discussing the confusing plot of Five Nights at Freddy's has him bashing that community for even attempting to develop a plot with all they got from the games. At the end of the video, Jack even goes to make fun of some type of Youtubers that always ask for a certain number of views or likes for another video on the subject (and to add insult to injury, he decides to say the request in the most nerdiest voice he could think of), only for his request to be 1 single view, with him specifying that reaching that amount would've meant that he was not going to return to talk about the series anymore. Jack really wanted to avoid a second look on this franchise, especially when he was dealing with another game doing exactly that, already.
  • Take That, Audience!: At the end of Pizza Tower: The Noise Update, he rattles off a long list of usernames, seemingly following the tradition of Patreon thanks... until he reveals that those people were actually commenters who called him a loser for not going for P-ranks during the original Pizza Tower video.
    Jack: As you can see now, I have not just beaten Pizza Tower, I have gotten the best rank possible in Pizza Tower, which is to beat it with over 95% completion in under four hours. To every person I just named, all I have to say is: Who's Laughing Now?
  • Tempting Fate:
    • He ends up doing this 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.
    • 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.
  • 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 rendition of Baka Mitai 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 realizes 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.
  • invokedThat One Level: An oft Discussed Trope, with Jack referring to these kinds of segments as "Sunshine Moments" and playing the Bianco Hills theme during them.
  • 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.
  • invokedUrban Legend of Zelda: Discussed in When Gamers Got Gaslit, which takes a look at various examples of this trope in gaming history (such as Nuclear Gandhi and Deviljho autocannibalization) and goes in-depth on the details of the urban legends, how they might have gotten started, and how they were eventually debunked.
  • 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 Magnificentnote  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".
  • Wham Line: Silent Hill Ascension Part 2: It's Getting Worse has Bumbles summarizing the Norway half of Silent Hill: Ascension's plot, which he'd previously said was the weaker of the two storylines in the first part. With the full season released between videos, Jack spends most of Part 2 being rather scathing of the Norway storyline before ending the video with a single ominous sentence to set up his review of the Pennsylvania half of the game.
    That was the good story.
  • "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 Santiago) 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.
  • Who's on First?: Jack describes the Climax Heroes series as having been created to prevent playground fights between Kamen Rider fans over which one is stronger. With that said...
    Jack: I checked, it's this one.

 
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