"Hey boyyos and girlos!"
"You tell Arthur Read that he'll never eat lunch in this town again!"
James Phyrillas, better known by the name of his channel Schaffrillas Productions
, is a content creator best known for his reviews and analysis videos, most commonly centering around animated films, specifically DreamWorks Animation and the Disney Animated Canon, video games and musical theater.
He made his start around 2015 making YouTube Poops, which are notable for their ridiculous amount of references. On the side, he also made AMVs and live action re-enactments of SpongeBob SquarePants episodes. However, his content forever changed on August 2018, when he uploaded a 22 minute analysis video called "Why Disney's Twist Villains Don't Work". While he had previously made more review-centric videos on occasion, this video was a massive instant hit. Its success made James change the channel's focus overnight, with it now consisting almost entirely of analysis videos, though plenty of in-jokes and memes from before this shift have been preserved in his new content.
In August 2019, with increased attention towards his reviews and analysis videos, he decided to start a new channel called "Schaff Classic" which will be home to all of his YTP's and shitposts from here on out. His older ones will still remain on the old channel, though many are unlisted.
Funding for Schaffrillas has been provided by these tropes:note
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Reviews
- Acceptable Professional Targets: Judging from him derogatorily referring to them as "pigs" in his The Legend of Korra and The Falcon and the Winter Soldier videos, Schaff doesn't seem to have a high opinion of police officers.
- Acceptable Targets: Be warned, if Schaff sees any chance to insult Shrek the Third, he will take it. Other targets that he will commonly insult, albeit not to the same extent, include Shrek: The Musical, Shark Tale, Ralph Breaks the Internet, The Last Jedi (before The Rise of Skywalker replaced it as his Star Wars punching bag), The Good Dinosaur, the Cars franchise (specifically Cars 2), Brave, Happy Feet, Dinosaur, Chicken Little, the Disney live action remakes, Illumination Entertainment, the redemption of the Diamonds, Earwig and the Witch, Artemis Fowl, Cats, Dear Evan Hansen, Professor Callaghan (and poorly executed twist villains in general), T.J. Miller, Doug Walker, James Corden, Jimmy Kimmel and John Lasseter.
- Accidental Aesop: His analysis of Ratatoing is based on the thesis that the film delivers a powerful critique of class struggle entirely by accident.
- Antidisestablishmentarianism: Is the name of one of the fake patrons credited at the end of Schaff's 2021 April Fool's video.
- April Fools' Day:
- On April 1, 2020, Schaffrillas did a review of Over the Hedge in the styles of Scott The Woz, I Hate Everything, Nakey Jakey, YourMovieSucks, and RedLetterMedia.
- In 2021, he reviewed the Snyder cut of Shark Tale.
- In 2022, he reviewed Arcane for about three minutes before the plot synopsis took an unexpected turn with interdimensional portals. A minute later, it turns into a Poorly Disguised Pilot for General Grievous and Sid the Sloth working at an Arby's on Tatooine while Jinx becomes Palpatine's new apprentice.
- Arc Welding: In "Why Tamatoa Is My Favorite Character Ever," his video essays and YTPs cross over when it's revealed that Oscar was The Man Behind the Man who sent James to collect the pieces of Te Fiti's heart so he could rule over land, leading to the final battle where James rides Tamatoa and the two finally defeat Oscar.
- Author Appeal:
- References to musical theater tend to pop up a lot in his poops.
- If it wasn't obvious by his thumbnail, he's a pretty huge fan of Moana, especially Tamatoa. He's even ranked above "super classic Disney villains" like Scar and Judge Frollo. It's to the point where for his
1.22 million subscriber special, he made an 82 minute video explaining why Tamatoa is his favorite character of all time.
- Bait-and-Switch:
- In his analysis of Ratatoing, Schaffrillas notes that the rival rats deciding to go out and steal food for their restaurant after their goofing around gets the building laced with mouse traps is not a bright decision, and he nearly makes one of his recurring jokes by saying it was their mis...calculation, instead of "mistake" as the line in Big Hero 6 goes.
- In his ranking of Studio Ghibli films, he says that before watching all of them, he thought there was no way that he'd rank the universally beloved Spirited Away as second place, and was absolutely right... It's actually third place.
- During his review of Encanto, he mentions that, due to his disappointment with the past couple Disney films, he was hoping that the movie could at least hit the levels of Pixar's last couple movies like Coco and Luca. He states that the movie didn't...it surpassed them.
- Twice in his DreamWorks ranking video, he plays a clip from How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World and then begins talking about a sequel that he's either changed his opinion on (21st place) or thinks isn't as good as the first two installments (14th place). 21st place is occupied by Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa, while 14th is held by Kung Fu Panda 3. The Hidden World is ranked fifth.
- Better Than Canon: In-Universe; Schaf considers Twisted: The Untold Story of a Royal Vizier to be better than the film it's based on.
- Berserk Button: Outside of his YouTube Poops, Schaf's biggest one is probably the Dance Party Ending due to his massive rant at the end of the Shark Tale review.
- Same with twist villains that are unnecessary for a film's plot, not working despite their potential, or both.
- Big Bad: With the Story Arc that has been built up, Oscar has officially become the main villain of the poops.
- Brick Joke: When he goes over Penguins of Madagascar while ranking every Dreamworks movie, he says that he won't talk about The Madagascar Penguins in a Christmas Caper until he reaches the number where that short would rank if it counted as a movie. He doesn't get to it until the very end of the video; it would rank at number one.
- Caustic Critic: He usually tries to avert this, but there are some shades of this during his Cinematic Disaster videos and the lower ranked movies on his ranking videos. This is most apparent, however, on his reviews for the film version of Dear Evan Hansen and Surfs Up 2 Wave Mania.
- Chain of Deals: When Schaffrillas reaches YourMovieSucks.org and askes him for a piece of the Heart of Te Fiti, he instead asks to give him a VHS collection of Cool Cat movies. He goes to I Hate Everything for the collection, but the latter then asks him for a limited edition Beanie Baby of Mort from Madagascar. Schaffrillas then goes to Ralphthemoviemaker, who asks him for a copy of China Salesman starring Steven Seagal and Mike Tyson on Blu-Ray. This forces Schaffrillas to seek out Saberspark, who in turn asks him for the staff of Moses, and... well, you get the idea. This goes on for 4 minutes straight, with a total of 29 YouTuber cameos along the way.
- Chekhov's Gun: In the 1-hour Tamatoa special, the copy of Wii Play that Scott The Woz gave to Schaffrillas ends up being the thing he uses to beat Oscar on the back of his head, and save the world.
- Counting to Potato: He has 3 exhibits demonstrating why Over the Hedge is a sequel to The Curse of the Were-Rabbit. These are labeled as exhibits A, 2, and Gamma.
- Damned by Faint Praise: In his Shark Tale review, he says that it isn't the worst Will Smith movie with questionable racial implications. Considering that that other film is Bright, that's not really saying much.
- Dark Horse Victory: Lampshaded in his Blue Sky Studios ranking, when Schaff is as surprised as the audience when he reveals that Spies in Disguise is #1.Schaffrillas: Yeah I know right what the (dolphin chirp) Please forgive me Lord for I have sinned, but I just… really liked the Will Smith pigeon movie.
- Didn't See That Coming: In his video about Disney Twist Villains, he admits he didn't expect Hans from Frozen (2013) to turn out to be a twist villain when he first watched the movie.
- "Eureka!" Moment: Schaffrillas himself has one in his ranking of every Dreamworks movie when he realizes that he doesn't actually need to talk about Trolls: World Tour because it's not a theatrical release.note Schaffrillas: Ha, ha! NOBODY'S SMART BUT ME!
- Everyone Has Standards:
- As much as he hates Mako, even he felt bad about all the shit Korra inflicts on him in The Legend of Korra's second season.
- As much as he hates Shrek the Third, even he thinks that its ending is more realistic than Shark Tale's.
- Five-Second Foreshadowing: His "best of" lists play a very brief sound clip moments before he talks about each movie, which has some tangential relation to the movie in question, usually consisting of an Actor Allusion, a snippet of Suspiciously Apropos Music, or just an Incredibly Lame Pun.
- Foregone Conclusion: He makes it abundantly clear on at the beginning of his Ranking Sony Pictures Animation video that Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse is number one and acknowledging that many already knew that before watching the video.
- Franchise Original Sin: Discussed in "Why Shrek is an Enduring Classic". The runaway success of the original Shrek not only led to many other fairy tale spoof movies, but also influenced a slew of other animated films with its cast of famous celebrities, crude humor, and pop culture references. This included many future Dreamworks movies, to the point that many said the studio used the movie as a template. Shark Tale followed the "Shrek formula", but failed to recapture its success. Shrek used these elements to further its intent of being a Deconstructive Parody of Disney Renaissance movies with a strong emotional center that gave happy endings to characters traditionally denied them. In Shark Tale, the crude humor was there to be crude, the pop culture references went as by-the-numbers as characters quoting lines from other movies at random, the movie leaned into its celebrity casting too hard to the point of trying to trying to make the fish characters resemble their actors — which, since these were fish, resulted in downright hideous character designs — and the story it wanted to tell was a vapid, meaningless, poorly-done mashup of a mob movie, a "meaninglessness of fame" story, and an attempt to tackle LGBT issues allegorically. Schaffrillas goes so far as to say DreamWorks' penchant and reputation for crude humor in particular is holding it back, since not only does it make its bad movies even worse, it also weighs down some of its good movies with jokes that just don't gel with the tone.
- Fun with Acronyms: In the video Why Tamatoa is My Favorite Character Ever, the group protecting the pieces of Te Fiti's heart is called "The Guardians Of The Heart Pieces And Top Tier YouTubers". Pappy G quickly puts together that it spells "Gothpatty".
- Guilt by Association: While he admits that Monsters vs. Aliens wasn't as bad as he remembered, he still hates its character designs, mainly because its similarities to Megamind caused the latter film to underperform at the box office.Schaffrillas: Thanks for that, Dicks.
- Hypocritical Humor: In his video revisiting The Last Jedi, Schaffrillas says, "I especially love [Luke's] line 'no one's ever really gone', since it's a touching sentiment despite being turned into a meme. Seriously, I hate when YouTubers turn potentially emotional and harrowing lines of dialogue into memes! Like, come on, that was their mistake!"
- The One Thing I Don't Hate About You: He has some set standards when rating movies: that for a movie to be a 1/10 it needs to be a completely worthless experience of which he gained absolutely nothing from, if he’s able to find even just a single redeeming quality in an otherwise terrible movie, then he will give it a 2/10. Examples given by him include:
- He gives The Lion King (2019) a 2/10 because sometimes Timon and Pumbaa are funny in ways that they weren’t in the original movie.
- He gives Earwig and the Witch a 2/10 because sometimes he enjoys the Mandrake.
- He gives Cars 2 a 2/10 because sometimes he finds Francesco Bernoulli funny.
- He gives The Emoji Movie a 2/10 because sometimes it has creative visualizations of internet concepts.
- He gave Shrek the Third a 2/10 because he actually liked the campfire scene with Shrek and Arthur.
- "The Reason You Suck" Speech: His review of the film version of Dear Evan Hansen devolves into this for both the film itself, and Ben Platt's performance.
- Running Gag:
- Starting with "Why Disney's Twist Villains Don't Work," the bit from Big Hero 6 where Professor Callaghan says "That was his mistake!", each time edited in a different way.
- In his ranking videos, the last place entry will always have "♫ Disappointment in the Game of Life! ♫" as its introductory jingle, while the first place entry has the jingle that plays when obtaining a mask on The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask.
- “Hey, wait a minute!” is played whenever he or a character in-universe has a moment of Fridge Logic.
- The Scottish Trope:
- He deliberately tries to avoid talking about Cars 2 as much as possible and only includes it as visual representations rather than talking about it. Ultimately subverted in "Why Cars is a Conceptually Bad Franchise," and much later, his Pixar ranking.
- He later does the same thing to Shrek the Third, constantly referring to the series as a trilogy rather than as a tetrarchy. When he does his DreamWorks ranking, he expresses relief that he never has to talk about it again and go back to pretending it doesn't exist and when he does his review of the original Shrek, he refers to it as a bad fanfic.
- Seasonal Rot:
- His video "How Voltron: Legendary Defender Crashed and Burned" is about Voltron's last two seasons.
- His video on The Legend of Korra goes hard on Book 2, to the point where he unfavorably compares it to Season 4/the "Gas Leak Year" of Community and says it's the best example of a "Gas Leak Year" he had ever seen.
- "Seinfeld" Is Unfunny: In his Sony Pictures Animation ranking, Schaffrillas questions why everyone else reacted to The Emoji Movie so vitriolically while he (though believing the movie was terrible) mostly felt apathetic and bored from it, and he guesses that it’s because back when it came out, the idea of a mainstream Hollywood movie that was nothing but an advertisement was an anomaly, a cautionary tale of where the movie industry could be going if we didn’t stop studios from doing more like it, but with movies like Ralph Breaks the Internet and Space Jam: A New Legacy becoming commonplace, The Emoji Movie just feels like another one like that now (at least to him), and since he’s now completely numb to advertisement movies, the movie made him feel nothing special as a result.
- Series Mascot: The mascot of the channel tends to vary between Tamatoa (pictured above) and Aardvark!Matt Damon.
- Sequelitis: He believes that the sequels from Disney and Pixar (barring the Toy Story sequels) generally play this straight, while the sequels from Dreamworks Animation generally avert this (barring Shrek the Third and Trolls: World Tour).
- Shout-Out:
- During Every Dreamworks Movie Ranked, he introduces Shrek The Third by stating that "this movie blows" before throwing the case into a toilet.
- So Bad, It's Good: His opinion of Shark Tale. While he thinks it is the objectively worst movie DreamWorks Animation made, in the end he finds its flaws gives it more personality and makes it more entertaining and interesting to watch in opposition to other more competent but blander films in the likes of Illumination Entertainment's or The Nut Job. In fact, in his DreamWorks ranking video, he has Turbo, Shrek the Third, The Boss Baby and Trolls: World Tour directly under Shark Tale.
- So Okay, It's Average: Schaff has described films like Big Hero 6, Incredibles 2, Bohemian Rhapsody, Ralph Breaks the Internet, Captain Marvel (2019), Aladdin (2019), Frozen II, Sonic the Hedgehog (2020), and Puss in Boots ...as a movie. Though his feelings towards RBTI have since soured, and his feelings towards Incredibles 2 have slightly improved. He also has this overall opinion on the films made by Blue Sky Studios.
- Take That!:
- In his video on Over the Hedge, after praising a running gag in the film, Schaffrillas gets a "phone call" telling him that all comedy is based on misery, which leads him to go on a small rant that leads to an explosion taken from The Nostalgia Critic's intro. This is a jab at Doug Walker's infamous "all comedy is misery" philosophy.
- He does it again later in the video while praising the vocal talent in the movie. In Doug's review, he said that some of the Actor Allusion jokes don't work because you can't see the actors; just the characters that they're playing.Schaff: If you're concerned that the jokes don't work, because you're only hearing the actors and not seeing them, maybe that's a sign that you need to shut up and listen.
- He does it again later in the video while praising the vocal talent in the movie. In Doug's review, he said that some of the Actor Allusion jokes don't work because you can't see the actors; just the characters that they're playing.
- Similarly, in "Every Disney Renaissance Movie Ranked", Schafrillas throws shade at Doug Walker's Disneycember review of Hercules by breaking down the aspects of the movie Doug Walker didn't like or understand and explaining why they work.
- He's clearly not a fan of Corrin, showing a picture of them in "Why Elsa is a Terribly Written Character" when saying "I think one more bad character would have tipped the scales" and saying in his Kid Icarus: Uprising review that their personality can be summarized as "Dumpster Fire".
- While he does rate this as the 22nd best DreamWorks movie out of 38 (which at this point was in the part of the list where the films were 6/10 above average rating), the way he introduces Abominable is a sound clip of the Abominable Snowman talking to Mike Wazowski that without context sounds like the two of them just came out of the theater after watching it.Abominable Snowman: Abominable, heheh. Can you believe that?
- Also during his DreamWorks ranking, he compares the ending of Shark Tale to a Barney & Friends episode. Or the ending to Steven Universe's fifth season.
- His Shark Tale review has one where during his comparison of Shark Tale's plot, he describes Oscar standing on Franky's corpse and claiming he killed it to Ernie and Bernie as "If in Hercules, Hercules didn't actually kill the Hydra in front of hundreds of people, he just stood on its corpse with no witnesses except for two stupid people who saw it after the fact." Said stupid people are two images of Ansem.
- His Pixar ranking video has several directed at Cars 2. He states that it's worse than both Turbo and Shrek the Third, the two lowest ranked films from his Dreamworks video. He says the film is awful by Illumination standards, a studio that he has spoken much ill of before. He then stated that he'd rather watch The Rise of Skywalker, a film which he gave a 2/10, and Minions. Then, to add the coup-de-gra, he stated that it, Brave, and The Good Dinosaur were all worse than Ralph Breaks the Internet, a film that he made a Cinematic Disaster video on.
- In his 2000s Disney ranking, he says that Dinosaur and Chicken Little were both worse than his frequent target Ralph Breaks The Internet.
- His Ghibli ranking video contains several directed towards Earwig and the Witch. He states that it is worse than Cars 2, the lowest-ranking film from his Pixar video and a film he heavily critizied in said video, and that every wrong decision that could've been made during production was made, to the point where he says that it is his least-favourite animated movie of all-time.Schaff: If I were Goro Miyazaki, I would flee the country at this point. I would literally never be able to look my father in the eyes again.
- In his Dear Evan Hansen review, he describes it as the worst movie musical ever and says "Cats is looking at this film and laughing."
- In his Sony Pictures Animation ranking, he says that Surf's Up 2: WaveMania makes Cars 2 look like The Empire Strikes Back and Earwig and the Witch look like Citizen Kane and that Dear Evan Hansen, which he eviscerated in his review, was better in comparison. He also sends that the film did worse in regards to character assassination than Game of Thrones and that he has not hated a product that much since Artemis Fowl, his least favorite film of all time.
- A minor one, but in a spoiler-heavy video about Invincible, Schaff jokes about "spoiling" Rex Splode's credit card number, and says it's "less of an invasion of his privacy than what Robot did, afterall."
- In his video on Over the Hedge, after praising a running gag in the film, Schaffrillas gets a "phone call" telling him that all comedy is based on misery, which leads him to go on a small rant that leads to an explosion taken from The Nostalgia Critic's intro. This is a jab at Doug Walker's infamous "all comedy is misery" philosophy.
- Take That, Scrappy!: In-Universe. In his Ranking of the 2000s Disney Movies video, he states that he doesn't like Ray from The Princess and the Frog and said that he thought Dr. Facilier stepping on him was funny.
- They Wasted a Perfectly Good Character:
- Despite not being a popular opinion, Schaffrillas argues this being the case of Frollo as he appears in Disney's The Hunchback of Notre Dame. While still darker and more realistic than any of the other villains in the Disney Animated Canon, he still lacks the complexity and development seen in his theatrical counterpart, whom Schaffrillas considers even scarier due to his potential for evil in spite of his humanity and virtues.
- His Shark Tale review also shows that he feels this way about Sykes, wishing that this movie had been more about him trying to keep his Whale Wash afloat while having a mob debt over his head rather than focusing on someone as shallow and hateful as Oscar.
- He also feels this way about Noah from Total Drama, and made a video about how he could've been implemented better in the first three seasons.
- Despite not being a popular opinion, Schaffrillas argues this being the case of Frollo
YouTube Poops
- Aborted Arc: "Scrooge McDank Plots to Assassinate Mark Zuckerbeak" revealed that one shark was rescued from the great shark massacre by Glamgold, and it appeared to be leading into a bigger plan involving said shark. And then Oscar proceeds to have Glamgold framed for the theft of Clamu's pearl in "Spingebill Awakens a Very Steamed Clam", which results in the duck's crucifixion. Oscar then goes on to blow up Glomgold's remaining shark, effectively killing off any storyline that might have been built up.
- Adaptational Alternate Ending: Generally, whatever source he's pooping has a chance of ending rather... differently from how it originally did:
- "Sharp Talk" goes through the events of Shark Tale as they happened in the movie (albeit with many more references to other shows), only to suddenly change when Oscar, Lenny and Sykes get to Don Lino's meeting place. In this version, Oscar sets his plan into motion, revealing to Lino that he's had Lenny order a giant ship to aim guns at all the sharks in the world. When Lino begs him not to, Oscar refuses and blows them all up aside from Lenny and Lino. Lino ends up trapped and Forced to Watch Oscar gloat about being a real Sharkslayer, and Oscar proceeds to leave Lino to die in his trap. He also betrays Lenny and leaves him to die. Having killed every shark on Earth, Oscar then becomes governor, solidifying his Face–Heel Turn into a Villain Protagonist.
- "Spingebill Awakens a Very Steamed Clam" follows the same events of the episode with Spongebob feeling guilty about upsetting Clamu followed by Patrick taking the blame for his crime. Then things take a drastic change when the zookeeper reveals Flintheart Glomgold as the thief who stole Clamu's pearl. Then things get worse for him as Oscar and Skyes use false evidence to successfully convince the angry mob to kill the billionaire duck via crucifixion. And to top it all off, Oscar kills off the remaining shark that Glomgold was hiding thus rendering all sharks on Earth as extinct.
- "The Incrediboiiiis" follows the exact events of The Incredibles with the Incredible family facing off against Syndrome and his Omnidroid. The twist? It turns out that Syndrome was actually a robotic decoy created by Tamatoa, who was initially hired by Violet to babysit Jack-Jack, as a means of distracting the supers while he stole away their super powered baby. He even manages to kill the Incredibles via nuclear bomb. The final scene reveals that he intends to use Jack-Jack as a way to depose of Oscar and take over as the new governor of the ocean.
- "SpingeBill Jams Some Juicy Jellies" features an identical plotline to "Jellyfish Hunter" with Spongebob rounding up tons of jellyfish for the Krusty Krab only to learn of their horrid mistreatment in a jelly production factory. Only this time, we learn that Sykes is the one behind their abuse. Before Spongebob can bash the puffer with a monkey wrench, a laser beam from space zaps him leaving behind an agonizing explosion. This would be a Downer Ending if it wasn't for The Stinger revealing that the sponge will return in Sharp Talk 2.
- Adaptational Villainy: Mainly in regards to Oscar and Matt Damon.
- Oscar from Shark Tale was a liar and somewhat of a selfish jerk in the original movie, but in the YTP universe, he is a genocidal mass murderer and evil overlord who even tries to destroy the world at one point.
- When Matt Damon appeared in Arthur, he was a nice guy (outside of Arthur's Imagine Spot), but in Schaffrillas' videos he is a slaver and murderer who makes deals with the devil, and constantly tries to stop people from eating their lunch.
- Christmas Episode:
- Snow Miser Goes Down to South Park.
- Later on there's "YTP: Chowder's Knishmas Katastrophe".
- Snow Miser Goes Down to South Park.
- Continuity Nod: When Glomgold is discussing his plan to assassinate Mark Beaks with Scrooge in "Scrooge McDank Plots to Assassinate Mark Zuckerbeak", he mentions one part of the plan as getting Beaks eaten by sharks. Scrooge points out that all the sharks were killed in "Sharp Talk", to which Glomgold replies, "Not all of them." It's then revealed he managed to save several of them from being blown up.
- Close on Title: "Sharp Talk" does this.
- Crazy Jealous Guy: Lord Farquaad, who in "Lord Fafquadd Declares His Love for Shrek" is shown ordering his guards to kill Princess Fiona, since he wants Shrek to be his queen and would prefer not to risk anyone stealing him away.
- Death by Adaptation: Heat Miser ends up killed by Oscar in "Snow Miser Goes Down to South Park", who then takes over as the new Heat Miser and makes it snow in South Park.
- Disney Villain Death: Palpatine meets his end when Darth Vader throws him down a giant hole at the bottom of the sea, angry about Palpatine telling him to "take it easy" after Vader realizes he killed Padme.
- Downer Ending: As stated in an example of Adaptational Alternate Ending above, "Spingebill Awakens a Very Steamed Clam" ends with Flintheart Glomgold being framed as the thief who stole Clamu's pearl by Oscar and Skyes and was killed via crucifixion. And for no other reason than to twist the knife even further, Oscar kills the shark that Glomgold was hiding thus hammering in the final nail in the coffin of the Sharks' extinction.
- Every Episode Ending: What poop of his doesn't end with "Back in the 90's"?
- Evil Versus Evil: "The Incrediboiiiis" ends with the reveal that Tamatoa is planning to depose Oscar and take his place as ruler of the ocean.
- I Have the High Ground: At one point in "Revenge of the Senate", Obi-Wan manages to get the high ground in his battle with Anakin, just like the original movie. This time however, Anakin doesn't attempt to jump over him, and the fight ends in a draw.
- I Know You Know I Know: Oscar has a moment early on in "Sharp Talk" during his dream.Oscar: You might think you know, but you might think you know, but you might know I think I know you know-SpongeBob: What? What do I know?Oscar: No idea.
- Insistent Terminology: The Nostalgia Critic insists that Tamatoa is a giant turtle, to the point where he screams at Tamatoa to shut up when he tries to tell him he's actually a crab.
- Massive Multiplayer Crossover: A variation: Schaffrillas occasionally hosts YTP collabs, allowing for a crossover between several different YouTube Poopers, who all take the chance to show off their different editing styles.
- Musical Episode:
- The Schwiftening is what Schaffrillas considers to be his musically-oriented poop, and has so many songs that he put a note in the comments to show where each one was.
- Ditto for "Sharp Talk".
- Oh, Crap!: Oscar has this reaction in "Sharp Talk" when the seahorse he bet on trips before the finish line.
- Politically Incorrect Villain: In "The Incrediboiiiis", Mr. Huph yells at Bob for authorizing black people, and after Bob calls him out for his racism, sings "I can do whatever, I'm white". Bob throws him through the wall after he says "Vote Trump!"
- Pyrrhic Victory: Puss in Boots wins Farquaad Idol, but is then immediately arrested because the song he performed had him blatantly admit to evading his taxes.
- Rapid-Fire "No!": Upon being greeted with the sight of Wild Wild West, Oscar lets out a string of "nopes" as he's swimming away.
- Reference Overdosed: You can't go five seconds without being bombarded with some kind of reference.
- Running Gag:
- The appearances of Aardvark Matt Damon and, more recently, "Shiny" (or Tamatoa in general).
- Replacing the credits music of whatever series he happens to be pooping with the credits theme of BoJack Horseman. Most of the time he plays around with this, altering the song to be about something related to the poop and what said thing was up to in the 90's. For instance, the DuckTales (2017) poop ends with "Back in the 90's, the show was cancelled."note
- This is something of an exception, seeing as it was made for EmperorLemon's "The Shrekoning" collab, in which entries could only use Shrek-related sources, but Schaffrillas found a way to work around that obstacle to "include" the Bojack credits tune.
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- When a character screams in one of his videos, their screams have been replaced with a Gangster's Paradise choir.
- When a character makes a remark that may come across as offensive, a scene from the Family Guy special Something, Something, Something Dark Side appears showing the cast shouting a negative "Whoaaa!".
- In the comments sections of each video, one of the top-rated comments will be a variation on "You tell Arthur Read he'll never eat lunch in this town again!".
- "Revenge of the Senate" has several:
- Palpatine proclaiming that "[he is] the senate!".
- Mace Windu repeatedly getting electrocuted to death by Palpatine.
- Serial Escalation: In case of the lengthy YTP collabs he hosted. The Arthur YTP takes nearly 14 minutes, the Chowder and Shiny YTP collabs both take just over 20 minutes, the Robot Chicken YTP collab takes approximately 35 minutes, and the Super Smash Bros. YTP collab triumphs over previous YTP collabs, with a whooping 1 hour and 4 minutes.
- Shared Universe: If the call backs to Sharp Talk in Scrooge McDank Plots to Assassinate Mark Zuckerbeak is of any indication (not to mention the cliffhanger ending in which Oscar and Sykes appear, with the former finding out that there were more sharks after having killed all of them in the previous poop), then Schaffrillas seems to be on the way to making one of these.
- Spanner in the Works: At The Stinger of "The Incrediboiiiis", Scuttle is setting up to be this after he learns of Tamatoa's plan to overthrow Oscar.
- Special Edition Title: Will occasionally modify the Aardvark Matt Damon in his watermark to fit whatever show/movie he's pooping. For instance, the icon will be wearing a Chowder hat for the Chowder collab, or painted green with ogre ears for the Shrekoning collab entry.
- Stupid Crooks: In "Farquaad Idol", Puss in Boots' song is all about how he committed tax fraud. Unsurprisingly, he swiftly ends up getting arrested, though he at least gets to be declared the winner first.
- Take That!:
- Slowen Sells His Soul for Some Reese's Puffs delivers one to Total Drama All-Stars, which is widely considered to be the worst season of the show.
- In the poop "Spingebill Awakens a Very Steamed Clam", to prove that Glomgold was the one who upset Clamu, the zookeeper accidentally pulls out a copy of Metal Gear Survive from his pocket. The crowd reacts in total disgust.
- In "YTP: Chowder's Knishmas Katastrophe", Chowder asks Mung Daal why a holiday like Knishmas only exists to make people feel like complete garbage. As he says this, a card of Valentine's Day appears onscreen.
- In the same poop, Mung Daal states his one of his two regrets is being co-director in Shark Tale. This causes Shnitzel to scream in terror.
- Slowen Sells His Soul for Some Reese's Puffs
- Threatening Shark: Ultimately inverted in "Sharp Talk", when the sharks become the victims.
- Wham Shot:
- Oscar and Sykes' cameo at the very end of "Scrooge McDank Plots to Assassinate Mark Zuckerbeak".
- In "The Incrediboiiiis", Tamatoa crushes a picture of Oscar while singing about his goal of conquering the ocean.
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