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Hi, this is Mike Mozart, back again with the coolest tropes of yesterday and today!

Jeepers Media is the brainchild of Mike Mozart, a toy product designer and book illustrator. Simply put, there are a myriad of horrible candies and toys out there...and he owns one or more of every single one of them. He plans to make a toy museum someday with the best and worst toys the world has to offer. Has to be seen to be believed. He also has another channel which typically has reviews of good toys.

Mike looks like Al from Toy Story 2, which he has acknowledged.

In 2011, Mike made several videos dealing with SOPA, ACTA, PIPA, as well as a controversial Megaupload-centered video. He returned to his toy reviews in 2012 but vanished from YouTube in 2013. He finally returned in 2015, promising to produce far more toy reviews. As of March 2016, he has yet to upload any of said reviews, but he is active on Twitter. On the 16th of December 2018, he returned with a livestream on Youtube showcasing a new toy, as well as revisiting some classics shown off in earlier videos.

Mike is also an avid graffiti artist, whose works look like a piece of an infringed-upon cartoon character, but are really part of a totally different piece of original artwork.

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This YouTube channel gives examples of:

• Affectionate Parody: Mike made one of I'm a Marvel... And I'm a DC, pitting a badass Dark Knight action figure against a Badass Decayed Spider-Man toy for six-year olds.
• Berserk Button: Mike really hates Viacom, and uploaded a series of videos criticizing their hypocrisy in getting YouTube to ban contributors who use copyrighted material while they themselves uploaded clips from Viacom-owned shows designed to look like illegally-uploaded materials as a sort of viral marketing.
  • In one video, Mike points out that Viacom has apparently been stealing YouTube videos, reposting them on a Viacom-owned site (www.spike.com), changing the titles to deny the original posters credit, and putting ads before the videos in order to make money. He was not amused.
  • He did another video report about CNET (which has been owned by Viacom since 2008) being guilty of promoting and popularizing filesharing software such as Limewire, Grokster, and Kazaa which feature infringed-upon material owned by Viacom. The two were mainly responsible for Limewire's eventual demise in late 2010.
• Big Bad Friend: During the double review of a Mickey Mouse pirate ship Play-Doh set and a color changing pirate Play-Doh set, Mike Doughzart and Mickey Mouse both review the first set together. The two of them gleefully show off all of the hidden secrets on the ship, and they both share enthusiasm in doing so. However, when they're done, Mickey makes Mike walk the plank into shark infested waters so he can keep the treasure for himself. Thankfully, the pirates from the color change Play-Doh set arrive in the nick of time to rescue Mike, who then segues into reviewing the their set.
• Catchphrase:
  • "I mean, really..."
  • "I am not making this up."
  • "What were they thinking?"
  • "The picture... (shows the box/packaging/promotional photo of the product) ...the reality!" (shows the real thing, often looking nowhere near as good)
  • "Is this win or fail?"
  • "Hi! This is Mike Mozart (from JeepersMedia [on YouTube]) bringing you the coolest products from yesterday and today!"
  • "...[Please] Put that in the comments section."
  • "If you're Amish, you might not want to watch this video, because I'm about to show off these toys exactly as they were designed...[Shows off a potentially inappropriate toy]...for children?!"
• Censored for Comedy: The 100th Video Milestone Celebration concerns about the show's potential offensiveness by bleeping words...in a manner that makes the dialogue sound naughtier than before. (eg, "What happened after Ken kissed Barbie? Her cheeks got all Rosie!)
• Creepy Doll: A few real-life examples have been showcased:
  • Baby Secret, a creepy whispering doll that says some unsettling phrases.
  • Baby Say And See, Baby Secret's equally-evil twin.
  • Baby Laugh-A-Lot, a doll whose actual laugh sounds like an evil old smoker, rather than a friendly giggle, and a clown doll which was very similar.
  • Baby Tatters, A homeless rag doll with some very depressing and unnerving phrases.
  • Little Baby Lost, an "abandoned baby" doll with a face-changing gimmick operated by a lever, which has the unintentional effect of creating a multi-faced doll mid-transition.
• Content Warnings: A more humorous version than most. Both the Play-Doh Chomp 'n Chew Diner review and the Play-Doh Party Clown review start with a disclaimer that the reviews have a lot of immature humor.
  Disclaimer: "For the love of God, please do not watch if you are Amish, a Nun, or otherwise easily offended!"
• Darker and Edgier: Not so much darker (although more recent videos have seen a decrease in suitable lighting), but the few toy review videos that Mike has done since his Channel Decay / Halfway Plot Switch seems he almost goes out of his way to cram as many dirty jokes into the review as possible, and his reviews tended to be (for the most part) clean enough.
• Drop-In Character: In the few more recent toy reviews, Mike has been accompanied by extra people who throw in little random acts and sketches in the review.
• Early-Installment Weirdness: Mike's earliest reviews were a lot more mellow compared to his hyperactive style later on.
• Epic Fail: The website would not exist if not for this.
• Erotic Eating: The "Kiss Pops" lips lollipops. The tongue is the candy. You suck on the tongue. Also comes in animal. And Jar Jar Binks.
• Even the Rats Won't Touch It: In his review of the Hulkster Cheeseburger, he sets the burger down for Cocoa Puff, along with an ordinary McDonalds cheeseburger. Cocoa Puff won't touch the Hulkster burger, and Mike (accurately) points out that Labs will usually eat anything.
• Fun with Subtitles: Often in the YouTube annotations, there will be additional jokes.
• Get a Room!: In the Jar Jar Binks Lollipop episode, Mike insists two Jar Jar pops do this when one of them (which is tongueless) starts to erotically munch the other's tongue.
  Mike: "Um, shouldn't you guys get a room... or a galaxy far far away?"
• Halfway Plot Switch: As noted above, by December 2011, Mike had pretty much stopped doing toy reviews, and instead went very political, ranting against various different corporations and organizations, and even participating in an Occupy Wall Street protest. Since then, any toy reviews he does have been few and far between.
• Hurricane of Puns
  • His Pun-isher toy review.
  • His outtakes from the Snow White Pez dispensers review are even worse than the original.
  Mike: (holding a Dora the Explorer Aquapet) What do you play with this, hide and go seek? Um, I bet it'll be on your Mommy's nightstand.
  • His beer review preview. The amount of puns you can get from the names of beer alone. . . .
• Keet: Mike, obviously. His enthusiasm for showing off his toy collection is evident throughout all of his videos, and he often makes himself laugh with his own jokes.
• Last of His Kind: Downplayed with a quote in one of his recent livestreams. His famed Kaba Kick Russian Roulette toy gun for kids isn't the only one in existence. He has the only mint-in-the-box iteration in known existence, with all of the packaging, fake bullets, and point chips still intact.
• Later-Installment Weirdness: Specifically, Mike Mozart's videos. Starting around 2011, Mike had pretty much stopped doing toy reviews, and instead made increasingly more rant videos, usually against bigger media corporations like Viacom, but he also got very political as well. This continued for about a year, then he began doing new toy review videos, which contained a lot more adult jokes and wordplay than older reviews, in addition to other Jeepers Media folk joining in on the reviews as well. It's also clear that by this point, Mike's mindset went from Doing It for the Art to Money, Dear Boy.
• Mondegreen Gag: A lot of the toys featuring voice clips are unintelligible to the point where they sound like they're saying something obscene.
• Motor Mouth: You'd think Mike gets out at least seven sentences per breath, although he has slowed down since.
• Network Decay: Somewhat. Towards the end of December 2011 and up to the first half of 2012, Michael Mozart has started making videos that rant about SOPA, PIPA, ACTA (which were actually important issues and became highly controversial in late 2011/early 2012), and perhaps most famously, one centered around whether or not Megaupload's users will be arrested. He has also gone on to do beer reviews and has said that he is planning tons of more toy reviews.
• Once per Episode: Each video on The Toy Channel starts with a stock giggling sound effect and ends with a clip of Coco Puff, Mike's dog, with a stock aww-ing sound effect.
• O.O.C. Is Serious Business:
  • In his review of a Hannah Montana doll, he refused to give it a funny review, considering it one of the most inappropriate toys he'd ever seen, since the button for voice activation is in her crotch.
  • One video was a warning about a scam stealing YouTube accounts.
• Overly Long Gag: During the Chomp 'n Chew diner review, one of the patrons at the diner eats some Play-Doh peas, which he then claims make him gassy. He then proceeds to fart for seventeen straight seconds.
• Please Subscribe to Our Channel: "Click on that button that says "Subscribe", you'll be glad you did!" Nearly every video contains this message in some way, including the annotations!
  • Also, in his older videos, back when Youtube had stars instead of thumbs: "Please give me those five stars, I really appreciate those five stars..."
• Precious Puppies: Mike's black lab, Cocoa Puff (who is actually an adult, but still precious!), and her equally-precious sister Spunky.
• Real Life: All of the toys, candies, candles, etc. are real. 100%. Real.
• Serious Business: Played with. Mike's a professional toy designer and collector, so he has fun mocking these things.
• Shoddy Knockoff Product: The subject of several videos, with one of them featuring Cars knockoffs and another featuring Winnie the Pooh knockoffs. Mike himself explicitly states in video, text, and annotations that he does not sell or give away these due to safety concerns.
• Shout-Out: During Mickey's betrayal in the Mickey Mouse pirate ship set review, Mike tries to claim that it's not like Mickey to betray someone, only for Mickey to namedrop Kingdom Hearts in response.
• Take That!:
  • Mike has made several shots at Fred during the series' run, comparing him unfavorably to Jar Jar Binks and suggesting that he could use a Jigsaw puppet as a friend.
  • In response to Viacom's plans to sue YouTube, Mike created a series of videos in which he advises others to spread news of the lawsuit and boycott any SpongeBob SquarePants or Dora the Explorer merchandise with Unfortunate Implications. Here's part one.
  • His latest graffiti ventures appears to be this towards the 2007-2008 Viacom takedowns against Youtube, and perhaps SOPA and PIPA as well in it's style. Mozart calls it "Reverso". Mike takes a seemingly copyright infringing character on one side, and then on the other side, zooms out to reveal that that one tiny snippet was just a smaller part of a much bigger picture, like a bit of seemingly Roadrunner turns out to be a tiny part of some giant, multi-headed, dog-esque ''thing.''
• Toilet Humor:
  • "FAIL TOYS Knock-Off POOH Funny Video Toy Review" has a field day with this thanks to Fun with Subtitles.
    "The streets of NYC were COVERED in POOH! Piles of POOH! (knockoffs)"
  • The Chomp 'n Chew Diner review quickly devolved into the patrons of the diner both vomiting and defecating Play-Doh to make room for more Play-Doh food.
• Unfortunate Names: Mike demonstrates this when he reviews a knockoff Winnie the Pooh toy...named "Gout".
• Vomit Indiscretion Shot: Both the Chomp 'n Chew Diner review and the Party Clown review feature the characters vomiting multi-colored Play-Doh.
• What Happened to the Mouse?: Mike suffers from a HORRIBLE case of this, as he's made AT LEAST 20 promises to review things or make videos that he's never followed through on.
  • His worst case would be the "Funny Videos: , KNOCKOFF Fail Toys" video. He demonstrates a plethora of knock off products with the promise that he would review them all eventually. In the end, only three of the products were given their own reviews- with only one of them (the knock-off iPods) being a knockoff.

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