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You review it, they review you.

A Video Review Show on the internet, where instead of reviewing movies or video games, the author reviews other people's reviews. In addition to reviewing other reviews, he has also reviewed other things (RWBY and You're a Dirty Rotten Bastard for example) himself and made non-review fun videos. His videos can be viewed on YouTube here

Not to be confused with Reviewing a Reviewer, with a similar premise (where the focus is on the reviewer's whole work itself, instead of a specific video of theirs).


     Reviews he has... reviewed 
  • Nostalgia Critic: Casper
  • AT4W: Marville #1
  • Nostalgia Critic: The Grinch
  • Bum Reviews
  • Spoony: Mazes and Monsters
  • Ask That Guy with the Glasses
  • AT4W: Battle for Bludhaven #1-2
  • Reviews Are Magic: Mysterious Mare-Do-Well
  • Bronies React to Season 2 Finale (Crossover with Game Tyrant)
  • Toonami
  • Blockbuster Buster: Mirror Mirror
  • BMB: Spy Kids 3D Game Over
  • YCPT: Hatsune Miku Project Diva
  • Todd in the Shadows: Hannah Montana The Movie
  • Music Movies: Rocky Horror Picture Show
  • Spoony: The Dungeon Master
  • Spoony: Final Fantasy XIII (all three parts over time)
  • The Bunny Perspective: Black Knight (hosted by Liter
  • SJWAC: Captain EO
  • Cinema Snob: Gums
  • AT4W: Christmas Carol
  • You're A Rotten Dirty Bastard
  • Animenia: Pokemon The First Movie
  • Animated Analysis: The Swan Princess
  • RWBY
  • WWHTW: Treasure Planet
  • Nostalgia Critic: Superman IV (Crossover with Delta Coat)
  • Nostalgia Chick: Hercules
  • NC: Are You Sick of "Let It Go"?
  • Cheap Damage: Topps Attax
  • JesuOtaku: Kaze no Stigma
  • BB: The Vampire's Assistant
  • Zero Punctuation
  • The Dex!
  • Pokemon Fact of the Day
  • Animenia: Pokemon The Movie 2000
  • BMB: I Love You Beth Cooper
  • Nostalgia Critic: It
  • Books vs Movies: The Little Mermaid
  • Coded Lock Films The Little Mermaid 2
  • Top 5 Favorite "Let It Go" Videos
  • Toons These Days
  • Anime Abandon: The Ultimate Teacher
  • Nostalgia Chick: Freddy Got Fingered (Crossover with Diane of Leafing Through The Frames)
  • Fiery Joker: FFVII SHOULDN'T Be Remade
  • WWHTW: Yu-Gi-Oh! The Movie
  • Coded Lock Films: Top 5 Entertainingly Absurd Things About Yu-Gi-Oh!
  • NC Let's Play Bart's Nightmare (50th episode special)
  • Top Five Favorite Nostalgia-Ween openings
  • Grim Tales from Down Below (crossover with The Cartoon Physicist)
  • Game Theory: Companion Cube
  • AVGN: Back to the Future Video Games
  • [insert title here]: Jurassic Park The Ride
  • Shark Jumping: Pawn Stars

This channel provides and discusses examples of:

  • Berserk Button: Ponies. While he doesn't hate the show, calling the episode featured in Bronies React pretty good, he's simply sick of seeing them everywhere.
    • This has somewhat cooled off over time for him; while he still wouldn't consider himself a "brony", he has had more fun watching reviews of MLP episodes (usually from Silverquill).
  • Brain Bleach: Reviewer and It need some after Nel shows an image of Chinese foot binding.
  • Breaking the Reviewer's Wall: He talks to the subject reviewer AND the subject THEY are reviewing.
  • Call-Back: In the review of Linkara's Marville review, Reviewer makes reference to the fact that It got beaten up while he wasn't paying attention in the previous episode.
    • In the review of Nostalgia Critic's Let's Play of Bart's Nightmare, Mr. It ends up in the wall and says how he did not miss being inside it.
  • Caustic Critic: Usually avoided as he mainly reviews good reviews.
  • Character Catchphrase: A the end of the reviews on question, the Reviewer always says before his thoughts on the review, "Sooo yeah." and at the end "I'm the Review Reviewer, you review it I review you".
  • The Chosen One: Three specifically, the chosen successors to the great magical power of Vikar (chosen by the mage himself) in the form of three artifacts known as the Draconis Triad. These successors are the Watcher (Mystiss), the Guardian (Reviewer) and the Heir (Mr. It).
  • Cool Key: The Reviewer obtains a Keyblade in his battle with the GameTyrant.
  • Cool Shades: Mr. It wears them.
  • Cool Sword: The aforementioned Keyblade.
  • Defeat Equals Friendship: Dr. Resano when he gets beaten in the review of SJWAC's review of Captain EO.
  • Dope Slap: Mr. It gives one to the Reviewer when he excuses Spoony for making a 9/11 joke.
  • Eccentric Mentor: Vikar, Mystiss' former master. While an accomplished magic user, he had his own odd sense of humour. For example, when Reviewer and friends are forced to pass a trial to prove themselves worthy of the Draconis Triad, the council members decide to settle the matter how Vikar would... through Spirit Summoner a.k.a a multiversal TCG ala Yu Gi Oh!.
  • Exactly What It Says on the Tin: He reviews reviews.
  • Expy: Mr. It is clearly based off of Cousin Itt from The Addams Family.
  • Heel–Face Turn: Doctor Resano has become the Reviewer's friend after his third appearance.
  • Mad Scientist: Doctor Resano, the Doctor Insano of the show.
  • The Multiverse: Besides pocket dimensions that are often used as private property for residence and experiments, one of which the Reviewer and crew end up moving to after inheriting it from Vikar, there are also alternate realities such as the universe where Mr. It and Reviewer (a.k.a. Tyrone) turned evil, which is where Medoris is also from, being the alternate self of Mystiss. One of Vikar's experiments was in creating gateways into these alternate universes, a project that he was assisted in by his sister, who wound up seemingly lost in one of these universes due to a reckless enthusiasm the two shared.
  • Obviously Evil: The Reviewer figures out, right away, Princess Cadance in the My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic season two finale is evil.
  • Only Known by Initials: It turns out that Mr It's full name is Inxodious Thatch (he went by his initial because the full name sounded pretentious). This winds up causing a problem for him and Reviewer, as Vikar had a recorded experiment of attempting to make a creature out of chaos magic, which was listed under the same name, and the council was manipulated by a disguised Drakal into attempting to destroy Mr It out of fear of what such a creature could do. This turns out to be a Red Herring, as Mr It is actually Vikar's nephew, born to Vikar's sister who named him after the experiment for whatever reason.
  • Overly Long Running Gag: Reviewer's opinion on Nostalgia Chick continuing to bring up jaundice throughout her Mulan review.
    • And more than a few were used in the review of Nostalgia Critic's review of The Grinch.
  • Painful Rhyme: In the review of Nostalgia Critic's Let it Go editorial, Reviewer points out that the opening linenote  is rather embarrassing.
  • Phlebotinum Overload: It's later revealed that the reason that Vikar's magical power was split among 3 artifacts rather than just giving it all to one heir (beyond his own eccentricities) is that having too much magical power in one body would eventually prove lethal. It's actually what killed Vikar in the end, and it ultimately caused the death of Medoris (Mystiss' alternate future self) after she had held onto her version of the Draconis Triad for too long.
  • Scarf of Asskicking: The Reviewer has adopted this look for some of the reviews.
    • It's origins are explained here.
  • Shared Universe: Because of some crossovers and cameos, the show's finally part of the Reviewaverse.
  • Story Arc: There have been several:
    • The Pony Tension arc where the GameTyrant plots to kidnap the Reviewer in order to make him like My Little Pony.
    • The Resano arc, where the Reviewer has to deal with his Doctor Insano self.
    • The Anti-Viewer arc, a mysterious masked version of the Reviewer is dead set on stealing the Reviewer's spellbook.
  • The Reveal: In the review of Coded Lock Films' Top 5 Entertainingly Absurd Things About Yu-Gi-Oh list, it is revealed that the Anti-Viewer is a Nobody
  • Those Two Guys: The Reviewer and Mr. It.
  • Video Review Show: Reviewing other people's reviews.
  • Wham Line: From the review of Coded Lock Films' Top 5 Entertainingly Absurd Things About Yu-Gi-Oh!
    Reviewer: (to the Anti-Viewer) You're a Nobody?
    Anti-Viewer: Yes.
  • What Do You Mean, It's for Kids?: The Reviewer, after hearing what the mermaid would go through while on land, asks what was Anderson's problem. Later on, Mr. It says "So not for kids then." (invoked)
  • World of Weirdness: Now confirmed to be part of the Reviewaverse, yep. Even the very first seconds shows how weird this universe is.

Alternative Title(s): Those Dudes With A Hat, Review Reviewer

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