Web Video / Ryan George

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Ryan George (born June 21, 1989 in Montreal, Quebec) is an actor and web video producer, known for his work with Screen Rant and his personal YouTube channel, where he regularly releases comedy sketch videos, usually a deconstruction of society that ends with a joke. His most popular variation on this concept is his "The First Guy" series, which depicts the first guy to do a mundane activity, such as swim, celebrate a birthday, or open a restaurant, with the joke being that it sounds ridiculous when described for the first time.

With Screen Rant, he does voiceovers for videos, and also produced the hit Screen Rant Pitch Meetings.

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• Accentuate the Negative: Very common in his content. He makes fun of things society takes for granted, talks about how weird and/or inconvenient many everyday things are, and points out the flaws in popular movies.
• Affably Evil: Even the criminals are polite and understanding in the Ryanverse, since most of them are the first people to ever actually do any crime and aren't completely sure about what they're doing.
• All Girls Like Ponies: The first guy to ever ride a horse insists the trend will be popular with "rich people and little girls with intricately-braided hair."
• All Men Are Perverts: The only way he got people to buy his "Sandwich with a Pretty Big Pickle in It" was to say that "if you buy it, women will want to sleep with you." Everyone at the network office immediately ordered multiple sandwiches.
• All of Them: In "The First Guy To Ever Be King," when the other guy asks the king what he's in charge of, the king says "Just, you know, just all of it."
  • Similarly in "Time Traveler Discovers Elon Musk", when the reporter explains that Space X's work on getting humans to Mars seems less about helping expand humanity's horizons and more of a cynical escape plan, he is asked "Escape from what?", and replies "Just... all of it."
• Anachronism Stew: Big part of humor of "The First Guy to Ever..." series is that the titular characters do something in a vaguely modern era, but without some obvious-for-us things.
• Bad Present: A common theme of the "Time Traveller Discovers" series, where a reporter from the 90s is sent to whichever year the video was made in and is reporting back his findings to a 90s-era TV show. Practically every second sentence out of his mouth is some variation of the phrase, "I don't like it here, please send me back!"
• Bait-and-Switch:
  • "The Guy who Invented Sarcasm" begins with a guy responding to news of an office meeting in a sarcastic tone. Then his coworker Roger comes over and declares that he (Roger) just invented sarcasm, with Roger's coworkers telling him to go away. It's implied that the guy speaking in a sarcastic tone wasn't even doing it on purpose.
  • In "Ghosts Are Bad At Revenge", the guy who just died learns the last thing he did was decide to jaywalk across a busy street, but it turns out he got stabbed to death before he could do it.
  • "If Presidents Had Court Jesters" opens with the president insisting he get assistance from not his secretary of defense, but Blimpo, his court jester. In walks a guy in a full clown outfit... who is actually the secretary of defense called in on accident. The real Blimpo comes in next, and he's just dressed like an average businessman.
• Be Careful What You Wish For: In How Insects Got Their Names, the last insect got the name "roach", but the boss was not convinced, saying there should be something punchy at the beginning, then Pervert Guy said he had an idea, and the boss was completely dismayed of what would be.
• Berserk Button: In "How Animals Got Their Names", one guy is very inexplicably judgmental towards each big cat that comes up for naming, angrily insisting (and naturally giving them their names in the process) that they are clearly liars, cheaters, or horrible mothers (the last one he initially tries to name "sh*t mom", but upon being admonished to keep it PG amends it to "poo ma").
• Bile Fascination: invokedMocked in "When People Hate-Watch Stuff," which features two guys watching an offensive prank video by a Youtuber they both hate, questioning why he keeps doing what he's doing while also giving him ad revenue and buying his merch just to make fun of it.
• Birthday Episode: The First Guy to Ever Celebrate a Birthday is about somebody celebrating the day he came out of his mom's "parts" and awkwardly listening to someone singing "Happy Birthday To You" to him while a bunch of fiery candles are in his face.
• Bittersweet Ending: "Buying Concert Tickets in 2023" amounts to this. The concert fan can't buy the ticket he wanted from Ticketmaster, but he now won't become homeless like he would have as a result of the ticket's exorbitant price.
• Bland-Name Product: “When Giant Companies Say They Care” is about a tweet by a company called Wide-Mart.
• Brick Joke:
  • In "The First Guy to Ever Open a Restaurant", the owner tells the potential customer that he's going to walk into the building and that it's going to be very unclear if the owner wants the customer to follow him. At the end of the video, that's exactly what happens.
  • In "The First Guy to Ever Get Ripped", the muscly guy tells the construction worker Jim building his weightlifting room to work on that fourth wall. At the end of the video, when the skinny guy points out that the muscly guy's buff body is just a Photoshopped image, the wall collapses around them and the construction worker remarks that "the fourth wall just shattered."
  • In "First Day As A Sports Coach", the assistant coach confesses that he poisoned the coach soup in the hope of becoming the new coach but instead they called in a substitute coach because he had a stronger moustache. At the end of the video, when he realizes the substitute coach is really bad at his job, the assistant coach asks him if he wants some soup, to which he obliviously responds he would love to.
• Call-Back: The names and descriptions of things in the series as characters describe them tend to remain consistent in later videos, such as being arrested/going to prison being "getting put in a room", water being called "the drinking stuff", and drinking alcohol being "slightly poisoning yourself for fun".
• Call to Agriculture: This Video Will Age Terribly predicts that Donald Trump would become a farmer, read stoic philosophy, and swear off all social media.
• Cannot Convey Sarcasm: Subverted in "The Guy Who Invented Sarcasm." Despite the guy responding to his coworker's news about a meeting with a clearly sarcastic and disinterested tone, the coworker keeps talking about it as if the first guy is being earnest. It seems he really was excited about the meeting, however, and his sarcastic tone was accidental, since the actual guy who invented sarcasm was their coworker Roger.
• Caps Lock, Num Lock, Missiles Lock: In "Robots Are Definitely Turning Evil", the button that turns all robots violent is right next to the office light switches.
• Cardboard Box of Unemployment: Lampshaded in "The First Guy To Ever Get Fired," in which the boss insists the employee collect his things in a cardboard box and sadly leave in the elevator, as he insists it'll be a good image to "cinematically" represent being fired in the future.
• Catch-22 Dilemma: In "The First Guy To Ever Open A School", the man "who people decided decides things" explains to a child that 12 years of formal schooling won't necessarily prepare him for life:
  Child: Will I be able to get a job?
  Adult: No, you need experience to get a job. This isn't going to give you experience.
  Child: Well, how do I get experience?
  Adult: You need to get a job.
  Child: [groans in disbelief]
• Catchphrase:
  • In addition to the many that make up Pitch Meetings, his characters always greet each other by saying "Hi there, hello, it's me" and have a tendency to end sentences with "I/we decided".
  • The "Adstronaut" who shows up at the end of sponsored videos to promote said sponsor, always opens his section with, "Hi there, hello, it's me, I'm the Adstronaut. I'm out here in ad-space to talk to you about [sponsor product]."
  • Many characters love to respond to questions such as "Is that true?" (of a usually-implausible or even impossible idea) by aggressively shouting "It might be!"
• Cats Are Mean: At least, the one in "If Cats Were Able to Talk" is. He seems to be actively trying to ruin his owner's love life with noises, and when he does finally speak, he's racist.
• Charity Workplace Calendar: Discussed in "The First Guy to Ever Be a Firefighter" video, which ends with the victim of the fire telling the firefighter to take his shirt off before putting out the fire, saying, "You're gonna be a genre of calendar, I've decided," much to the new firefighter's total confusion.
• Cheating with the Milkman: In How Tools Got Their Names, Steve admits to his office that he caught his wife having an affair with his chauffeur and his mailman, hence he names one tool Screwdriver in her "honor".
  Steve: I put some vodka in some orange juice. I don't even care anymore! And you know what, I'm calling it a screwdriver too does that make you happy?!
• Continuity Nod: The guy who quits in frustration after a coworker is given credit for the name "bee" in "How Insects Got Their Names" later shows up in "How Sports Got Their Names", where he names a sport "cricket" and is criticized for just reusing names from his old department, and also corrects the guy who comes up with the name "rugwasp" that the insect flying around is actually a bee.
• Covers Always Lie:
  • The thumbnail for "Showing Off Our Cool Stuff To Other Dimensions" has a character talking about wasps. This does happen in the video, but only for the first minute; the next three or so minutes consist of an Author Tract about the dangers of social media algorithms, and the wasp bit only comes back briefly at the end.
  • The thumbnail for "If Sports Started Playing Out like the 2020 Election" has the words "GOAL FRAUD." written on it. These words are not said at any point in the video.
• Creepy Child: In The First Guy To Ever Celebrate Christmas, the titular guy's son has Ryan George's face edited be longer, to have larger eyes, only two teeth, and to still have a beard and mustache. This child appears again in The First Guy To Ever Be King as the King's designated successor and he's already showing signs of becoming The Caligula.
  Kid Ryan: Blood!
• Dada Ad: The second commercial in "The First Guy To Ever Make A Commercial" is a parody of meaningless commercials, showing a bunch of black-and-white natural vignettes that have nothing to do with the product.
• Deconstructive Parody: Most of his videos are this for Real Life and sometimes fictional traditions and phenomena that are otherwise taken for granted. The first guy to be a motivational speaker features an in-universe example: a story about a dog that joins a human basketball team and gets absolutely destroyed.
• Deliberate Values Dissonance: Usually Played for Laughs by the "90s Time Traveler Discovers" series. For instance, in one episode he assumes that the 2023 person who made an AI version of the reporter is a huge nerd because he works with computers. Said guy protests that he's average and he just used the free-to-use chatbot and AI art programs available to everyone now.
• Department of Redundancy Department: Characters typically introduce themselves with the phrase "Hi there, hello".
• Destination Defenestration: In "The First Guy To Ever Get Fired," the titular employee worries the boss and human resources guy are going to throw him out a window when they say they're "letting [him] go." At the end of the sketch, they decide to do this instead of giving him severance pay.
• Does This Remind You of Anything?: The "The Guys Who Named the Dongle" sketch is subtly alluding to the similarity between a dongle and a dong.
• A Dog Named "Dog": In the "When Fast Food Restaurants Give Out Toys" video, Michael Pickleseller introduces the mascot for the Sandwich With a Pretty Big Pickle In It company, a giant pickle named Pickles, The Pickle Who Doesn't Bite (results may vary).
• Drive-Thru Antics: "The First Guy to Ever Order Drive-Thru" has a guy drive up to a restaurant and demand the food be brought to his car so he doesn't have to get out of his warm seat, inventing drive-thru.
• Exact Words: At the end of "The First Guy to Ride a Horse," the horse-rider defends his confidence in riding horses with, "This isn't my first rodeo." His boss is confused about what a "rodeo" is, and is even more confused when the rider explains it's another idea he just had recently. The rider reiterates that this indeed isn't his first rodeo, because he hasn't scheduled his first rodeo yet.
• Eye Scream: In "The First Guy to Ever Wear Contact Lenses" the way the optometrist explains how to wear them is incredibly graphic and uncomfortable. The patient outright says it sounds like torture.
• False Reassurance:
  • How Is The Ocean A Real Thing has the boss misunderstand his employee asking if anyone's ever died in the ocean and assumes he's talking about the break room he'd just mentioned.
    Employee: Has anyone died in there?
    Boss: In the break room? Not very many, no.
  • When "The First Guy to Ever Climb a Mountain" casually alludes to two of his cousins dying while helping him test out methods of climbing the "triangle", the guy he's talking to asks exactly how many cousins were lost in this venture. The climber-guy assures him it was "less than twenty."
• Formally-Named Pet: The cat in "If Cats Were Able to Talk" is named Mr. Marbles.
• Gilligan Cut:
  • In "The First Guy to Ever Break an Arm," the guy in a plaid shirt tells the guy with a broken arm that the doctor can snap his arm back into place. The guy with a broken arm says, "Well, that sounds a little intense. I don't think he's gonna want to snap it back into place." Cut to the doctor's office:
  Doctor: I think we should snap it back into place.
  Guy with broken arm: Oh my god!
  • Subverted in "The First Guy To Ever Climb a Mountain," when the mountain climber assures that he's confident he won't freeze to death, then it cuts to an image of the mountain climber frozen to death... then cuts to the mountain climber holding the image of him frozen to death, explaining that he photoshopped it to show what it'd look like if he did freeze.
• Gonk: Young Ryan is a heavily altered and ugly version of Ryan.
• Groin Attack: In The First Guy To Make A Friend, the two characters bonded over the fact that they both had crocodiles bite their penises.
• Heel Realization: "The First Guy to Ever Go To Prison" doesn't agree with most of the reasons they decided to keep him in a small room for a long time, but agrees that cutting off someone's face and wearing it like a mask was messed up and he deserves to be punished for it.
• Home Nudist: He explains to a ghost that they need to leave his house because he walks around naked.
• I Never Said It Was Poison: In The First Guy to Ever Open A Hotel, a guy whose house burned down tells the prospective hotel owner that he thinks the idea will really catch on. The hotel owner's response gets the other guy suspicious that he's not just a prospective hotel owner, but an arsonist.
  Hotel Owner: You're dang right it's gonna catch on! Like a fire in a basement, eh?
  Hotel Guest: Eh!... Wait, I didn't tell you the fire started in the basement.
  Hotel Owner: (Beat) Listen, I had to get the word out somehow.
• I Have No Son!: How The Last Jedi Trailer But Every Lightsaber Sound Replaced With Owen Wilson Saying Wow ends with the person making the titular video - Jason - being told this word-for-word by his father.
• The Illegible: The doctor (implied to be the first doctor ever) in "The First Guy to Ever Break an Arm" has handwriting that's impossible to read but insists he's always going to write like that going forward.
• Injured Limb Episode: "The First Guy to Ever Break an Arm" is about, well, the first guy to break his arm, who goes to a doctor to get it put in an "arm shell," though he doesn't like the idea of being unable to move his arm while his friends draw penises on the shell.
• Innocent Innuendo: In The First Guy To Ever Make A Friend, there is this line.
  Person 1: We could set up a time to hang out.
  Person 2: Oh, I actually make a habit of not hanging out since the crocodile incident.
  Person 1: Not what I meant. We could meet and do something.
• Insistent Terminology: In "How Meats Got Their Names", one guy keeps insistently suggesting each meat be called "[animal] corpse bits".
• It Will Never Catch On: Many of his "The First Guy To Ever" videos have the character talking to the first guy do ever do something saying it doesn't seem like a good idea.
• Lampshade Hanging: In Guys Who Wear Expensive T-Shirts the characters seem to be aware that they all look the same.
• Leaning on the Fourth Wall: In "The First Couple to Ever Get Divorced" - which, as a collaboration with Julie Nolke, is one of the few videos where Ryan does not play every character - the husband at one point expresses how much he dislikes his wife's face and that he would rather it be more like his own.
• Least Rhymable Word: In "How Fruits Got Their Names," the guy who names the orange struggles to find a rhyme to explain his decision, and just shrugs it off.
• Line-of-Sight Name:
  • In "How Tools Got Their Names," the employee in charge of naming the hammer got the idea for the name because he was eating a ham sandwich when the boss called on him. The jackhammer comes from another employee seeing the hammer employee still eating that ham sandwich ("jack-" coming in when the employee in charge of naming it gets told he can't name it the same as the hammer and has to come up with "[his] own name"… so he appends his first name to it to solve that).
  • One of the employees in charge of naming sports claims to be very quick at thinking of names on account of his incredible creativity. When asked to demonstrate, he names one sport by looking at his socks and another by looking at the rug and a black-and-yellow insect flying around the room.
  • In "How Pirates Decided On Their Branding", the guy in charge of thinking up a name for the activity looks around and spots a rat on top of a pie. He suggests they call themselves... "dessert mice", before quickly amending it.
• Literal Genie: The genie in "If Cats Were Able to Talk" grants a wish for Ryan's cat to talk...in the sense that the cat can make infantile human babbling noises, because Ryan never wished for the cat to know how to speak English.
• Little Green Men: Florp-flap, an alien who occasionally shows up with the Adstronaut at the end of sponsored videos.
• Mad Scientist: Subverted in The First Guy To Ever Eat Dessert, where the titular first guy introduces the scientist who developed pure sugar as a wacky science guy. Then the science guy actually speaks and he reveals he's being held as a hostage.
• A Match Made in Stockholm: "The First Guy To Ever Kidnap Someone" ends with the abductee deciding that they've formed a psychological bond and want to be friends or maybe more. The kidnapper is creeped out and immediately turns himself in.
• Metaphorgotten: In "The First Guy to Ever Order Drive-Thru," the driver tries and fails to explain why he can't leave his car when his butt is so warm in his seat:
  Driver: If I got out of this car, that'd be like taking two perfectly toasted buns... and making them leave the car.
  Restaurant Guy: That— You lost track of the analogy right away.
• Mondegreen Gag: Occurs sometimes in the "How Things Got Their Names" sketches, where a staff member will say something unrelated to the situation, only for it to be misheard and used as a naming suggestion.
• Mood Dissonance: "The First Couple to Ever Get Divorced" features the husband and wife bluntly discussing how much they utterly despise each other now, all in very agreeable and polite tones.
  Wife: I think I'd prefer to not be your wife.
  Husband: Oh yeah, no, I'd prefer that as well. Cause when you talk, the sound of your voice makes me feel like my ears are bleeding?
  Wife: (sympathetic wincing noise) That's not good! Yeah, the way you brush your teeth, it, it makes me want to impale you with a harpoon.
  Husband: I can- I got that vibe, for sure, I could see that in your eyes, yeah.
  Wife: Yeah. Yeah, what was once a lustful desire is now definitely more a harpoon-related desire.
  Husband: Yeah, no, I feel the same way.
• Nepotism: In "How They Wrote Classic Christmas Songs," this turns out to be the reason for some of Winter Wonderland's more nonsensical lyrics. When the team isn't buying the one guy's insistence that his suggested lyrics about pretending a snowman is "Parson Brown" and "a circus clown" are in any way relatable winter activities:
  Guy 1: Listen, fellas, we could always run these ideas by my father, see what he thinks.
  Guy 2: (reluctantly adds in the lyrics) Alright, alright... You're lucky your dad's the CEO of this vague company that writes all Christmas music for some reason.
• New Job as the Plot Demands: The "Weird Pervert Guy" who first appeared in "The Guys Who Designed Public Bathroom Stalls" has since been shown to be on several of the committees for naming things, where he continually creeps out his coworkers to the point where they'll accept his suggestions just so they don't have to keep talking to him. Lampshaded in "How Meats Got Their Names":
  Moustache guy: How many departments does this guy work in??
• No Clear Leader: One of their sketches is about an "Imposter Syndrome Support Group". Naturally, no one in the group feels they are qualified to lead it, let alone join the group in the first place.
• Nonindicative Name: Several of the "How Things Got Their Names" videos provide explanations for various real-world examples of this trope; for example, the people responsible for naming bugs are so grossed out by images of a centipede and a millipede that they implore the chairman to just name them something that means "a hundred/thousand feet" so they can quickly move on, and refuse to look more closely to confirm if those numbers are accurate.
• Noodle Incident: A Running Gag in "90s Time Traveler Discovers" is that the anchor still in the 90s dies in 2004 in an apparently awful way, but to his increasing distress he's never able to find out exactly how or why.
• Offscreen Afterlife: In "Ghosts Are Bad At Revenge", a newly-deceased guy is shown a door that leads to the afterlife; when he asks what's behind it, he is told "It's just... y'know, whatever leads to the least-toxic comments section." At the end of the video, however, the Unfinished Business Bureau guy accidentally lets slip that it's reincarnation.
• One Dialogue, Two Conversations: In "The First Guy to Ever Play Tag" One guy describes how to play tag by "touching each other." Of course, The other guy thinks of something else dirty.
• One-Steve Limit:
  • Discussed in "The First Guy to Ever Have a Name" when Ryan's two friends decide their new "sound" is going to be Bob, so Ryan comes up with the idea of last names to distinguish them. However, when Ryan comes up with the idea of last names based on your profession, they both end up with the name Bob Unemployed.
  • Averted in "The First Guy to Ever Win an Award" when three out of five award nominees are named "Billy" with no last name. The host is grateful that none of them win, as it could've been confusing.
• Pinocchio Nose: The guy in "If Cats Were Able to Talk" wished for Pinocchio nipples. He claims everybody loves them (which causes them to grow).
• Pokémon Speak:
  • One of the employees who name tools, Alex, can only say his own name in a strange voice. This is how the axe got its name, as Alex's name kind of sounded like "axe."
  • A similar situation occurs in "How Sports Got Their Names", where an employee named Dennis just repeats his own name in enthusiastic-sounding tones, leading to the naming of tennis. Dennis is, at least, capable of saying a few other words, however- he is able to complain about the pain of "Dennis elbow".
• Prophetic Name: Jonathan Lawyer - Lawyer at Law, Michael Pickleseller & Frederick Noisemaker all fit into this, unless you buy into the theory that all his videos take place in the same world, in which case "The First Guy Ever To Have A Name" explains this.
• Rich Jerk: In "How Billionaires Will Act During The Apocalypse", the billionaires are busy talking about how to escape the planet, how to keep control of the masses, exclude their fellow member when his account drops to 998 million dollars instead of a billion, and think developing a conscience is a medical condition.
• Running Gag: In the "The Future is Dumb" series, the time-travelling reporter (reporting from the present day) always mentioning at some point that the newscaster (back in the 90s) is going to die in 2004, and never giving him anything more than vague hints as to how it happens.
• Science Is Bad: Expressed by a scientist of all people when talking about how he developed pure sugar. Justified given that he did this under duress.
  Science Guy: He made me process and refine these plants until there were nothing but crystals of sweetness. It's not right it's not natural! (later) He threatened my family! You gotta help me!
• Self-Deprecation:
  • In "The First Guy to Ever Have a Name," the guy inventing names gives "Ryan George" as an example of a full name, and one of the other guys calls it a "dumb sequence of sounds."
  • "The First Guy to Ever Reach a Million Subscribers" has Ryan make fun of himself for celebrating a pointless invokedMilestone Celebration.
• Severely Specialized Store: The recurring "Sandwich with a Pretty Big Pickle in it" fast food chain, which sells moderately large pickles in hot dog buns. They also offer a kid's meal, which is the same sandwich cut in half.
• Shame If Something Happened: The First Guy Ever To Sell Insurance video outright starts the Insurance Guy's pitch off saying "something awful could happen" before telling his potential customer the solution is to give him money. It makes the pitch come off more like paying a Protection Racket.
• Shaped Like Itself:
  • In "The First Guy to Ever Climb a Mountain":
  Guy 1: Right, but why do you want to be up there, exactly?
  Guy 2: Ah, well see, once I'm up there... I'll be up there.
  Guy 1: ...Yeah.
  Guy 2: So.
  Guy 1: So... what will that accomplish?
  Guy 2: Well, I'll have accomplished it.
• Shout-Out:
  • "The First Guy To Ever Shoplift" has a semi-random scene where the store owner and the shoplifter talk about how good Jurassic Park is and watch a clip of it (re-enacted by Ryan, naturally).
  • The beginning of "The First Guy To Ever Be A Bodyguard" has the bodyguard bring up that he had gotten his new suit from a store called the "Soup Store" (though he mentions that it was likely actually called the "Suit Store"). In other words, he was buying clothes at the Soup Store.
• Snake Oil Salesman: Media Guy in "The First Guy to Ever Get Ripped" insists that his weight loss tea, cologne, and a magazine can help somebody get muscles, despite the guy who actually has muscles saying he didn't use any of that and got ripped from a healthy diet and exercise.
• So What Do We Do Now?: In "The First Guy to Ever Reach a Million Subscribers," someone asks the titular guy what he's going to do now that he's reached his goal. The guy doesn't know, and this causes Ryan to walk away from editing the video and contemplate how to proceed with his channel. Subverted when he decides to aim for two million subscribers...or just not let numbers dictate his life.
• Straw Fan: As the title suggests, "The First Guy to Ever Be a Toxic Fan" is a parody of creepy fans. A guy aimlessly makes some "Bah-bah-bah" sounds with his mouth, and gets hassled by someone who begs him to do more sounds even when he doesn't really want to, gets overly critical as soon as he makes a new sound before quickly insisting he do more of that sound, and accuses someone who becomes a fan of the same guy of being a "phony" for not knowing him as long as the first fan. Then when the sound-making guy expresses that it's at least nice to bring them joy with how "things are in the world right now," the fans lash out at him to "stay out of politics."
• Surprisingly Realistic Outcome: In "If Cats Were Able to Talk", Ryan asks a Genie to make his cat able to talk. As the genie points out, it takes humans about a year to learn to talk, so the cat just makes random, creepy vocalizations rather than speaking English.
• Suspiciously Specific Denial:
  • In "The First Guy to Ever Open a Restaraunt," the customer is extremely suspicious about the fact that the owner won't allow him into the kitchen where the chef is making the food after the owner brings up the possibility of the chef "having an itchy a**hole" while he prepares the food.
  • "When Fast Food Restaurants Give Out Toys" introduces a mascot named Pickles, "The Pickle who Doesn't Bite."
  • In "The First Guy to Ever Climb a Mountain", said guy explains that you can't just drive up the "triangle" because the car would flip backwards, explode, and "your cousin Ron'll die but you'll make it out on time."
    Guy 1: That seems extremely specific, did that happen to you?
    Guy 2: Ehh, I'll never tell.
    Guy 1: I feel like you just did.
    Guy 2: Anyway, since I can't drive up there, rest in peace, Ron...
  • In "The First Guy to Ever Open A Buffet", the waiter offers a customer some bread like this:
    Waiter: Hi, there, hello, sir, can I get you started with some bread that didn't fall on the floor?
    Customer: Wh... did the bread fall on the floor?
    Waiter: No, sir, I said it didn't fall on the floor.
    Customer: That's a weird way to describe it, then.
    Waiter: It's just bread, sir, it didn't fall on the floor and accidentally get kicked under the fridge for a little bit.
    Customer: It's no — it's suspicious that you're being so specific about this.
    Waiter: No it's not!
    Customer: Oh, okay, then yeah, I'll have some bread!
  • In "90s Time Traveler Discovers AI", the newscaster's latest excuse for why they can't bring the reporter back to the 90s is that the time machine has apparently been hijacked by someone from the very distant future, whom the newscaster thinks seems very friendly...
    Future Person(?): Hi there, hello, everything's fine in the future! Please send us some of your flesh for no suspicious reason!
• Sustained Misunderstanding:
  • In "Time Traveler Discovers Minecraft":
    Reporter: Anyway so Minecraft, if I understand correctly, came out around 2009, about five years after your death...
    Newscaster: My god, okay, how does it happen, though?
    Reporter: Well this guy named "Notch" created it.
    Newscaster: Not what I wanted to know.
    Reporter: Okay, well then why did you ask? God! Now I don't feel so bad about what happens...
    Newscaster: What happens?!
    Reporter: Well he releases the game as an "early access" in 2009...
    Newscaster: Aaahhh.
  • In "Traffic Reporter Who Doesn't Understand Helicopters", the reporter absolutely refuses to accept that he has in fact been elevated high in the sky and that the "ants" he sees riding "Hot Wheels cars" on a "gray line" between various-sized "squares" are actually people in regular-sized cars driving to and from houses and buildings, forcing the exasperated anchor to play along just to get any meaningful traffic data from him.
• Take That!: A lot.
  • Frightened TikTok Star Finds A New Home (WHOLESOME) is a parody of wholesome animal adoption stories which features a Tik Toker as said animal. It makes fun of a lot of weird TikTok trends, including their weird dances, poses, and lip syncing.
  • "The First Guy to Ever Get Ripped" ends with a "Media Guy" coming in to pressure the skinny guy to get as buff as the muscley guy, or else nobody will ever love him, then pushes weight loss tea, cologne, and a magazine subscription to help him get buff (or a sports car to compensate for his body) despite the actual buff guy saying that's not how he got muscles. This is clearly making fun of unrealistic media standards and marketing that exploits the viewers' insecurities with their body.
  • The First Guy To Ever Sell Insurance is one to the insurance companies. People are expected to continuously pay for insurance for various aspects of their lives so that if one day something bad happens, the insurance provider will maybe pay for some of the costs, as opposed to the person in question just saving the money and putting it aside for such needs themselves. Insurance Guy even outright says his business model is "monetizing your anxiety".
• Tempting Fate: In "How Insects Got Their Names", the committee head is a bit unsure about the suggestion of "roach", saying that he feels like it needs an extra something at the beginning to make it punchier...
  Weird Pervert Guy: (creepy grin) I have an idea.
  Committee Head: Oh god oh no— (video ends)
• That Came Out Wrong: In "What Debates Will Be Like In 2028" the 97-year old Candidate Promises to "Rizz all over the youth of America"
• Time Travel: In his "Time Traveler Discovers" series, a time traveler from the 1990's travels to modern times and reports back on how everything has changed, naturally resulting in a lot of Comically Missing the Point moments, as well as a Take That! to modern society.
• Too Incompetent to Operate a Blanket: Parodied in "The First Guy To Ever Make A Commercial," where the Sandwich with a Pretty Big Pickle In It infomercial starts off with a guy who has no idea how to make a sandwich.
• Too Much Information: The titular employee in "The First Guy To Ever Get Fired" describes everything he buys with his money, including "various lubricants" before the human resources guy cuts him off.
• Undisclosed Funds: The final ticket in "Buying Concert Tickets in 2023" isn't given a specific number as a price; it is, however, known that it will cost the buyer all of his money, his car, and his house.
• Unfortunate Names: The First Guy To Ever Have A Name ends with this happening. While the person who created names makes a normal name (Ryan Baker) his two roommates both choose a name that's this trope (Bob Unemployed).
• Uranus Is Showing: Averted in "The Planets Hold An Intervention For Earth", a four-minute sketch about the solar system. The sketch has Earth pointing out that Jupiter is a gas giant, and then explaining the concept of poop to the other planets, yet it doesn't include any Uranus jokes.
• Verbal Tic: The various characters played by Ryan often use "freakin'" (pronounced "frickin'") as a filler word to describe something.
  • The "Weird Pervert Guy" character often makes a creepy "Oooooohhh..." while grinning salaciously, which always makes the other characters incredibly uncomfortable and dreading what he's going to say.
• Wacky Sound Effect: The sound used for malfunctioning equipment such as a creaky door or imminently exploding computer is a recording of Ryan saying "yip yip yip yip" rapidly.
• Who's on First?: In "How Insects Got Their Names":
  Guy 1: What would a good name for this one be?
  Guy 2: "Bee?"
  Guy 1: Yeah, that's what I said.
  Guy 2: No, yeah, I know.
  Guy 1: Okay, so what's a good name?
  Guy 2: "Bee."
  Guy 1: Be what?
  Guy 2: I'm suggesting the name "bee."
  Guy 1: What are you suggesting it be?
  Guy 2: "Bee."
  Guy 1: What do you— I don't— what?
  Guy 2: I'm suggesting it be "bee"! B-E-E!
  Guy 1: Now you're just saying gibberish!
• You Say Tomato: In "How Fruit Got Their Names," the guy in charge of fruits pronounces one newly-named fruit as "to-mah-to" despite the one who named it insisting it's pronounced "to-may-to."

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