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  • Arc Fatigue: The "Burnbot Left" arc lasted for a whole year, with little progress made for most of it. When it was finally resolved at the start of 2020, fans were more relieved than anything else.
  • Awesome Art: No doubt that this man's animation is high-quality for an independant Internet-original series.
  • Awesome Music: Max's Shout-Out to the Schoolhouse Rock! song "Hardware" in his Grinch review. It's a Kick the Dog moment on Max's part, sure, but we find out he can carry a tune.
  • Base-Breaking Character: Goofball. A hilarious Plucky Comic Relief character that provides a lot of funny moments? Or an insufferable Jerkass who ruins the series completely?
  • Broken Base:
    • His Bait-and-Switch gimmick. Many of the videos look like they are going to talk about a certain topic, until he "humorously" derails into something else entirely. Many viewers find this more annoying than funny and wish he would focus on the topic. Then there are viewers who hold the opposite view and want him to keep going with that gimmick.
    • On a related note, the "Burnbot Left Arc". If you scroll down in the comments, some people thought it was genuinely sad and were eager to see more of it, while others weren't as amused for said reasons above.
  • Cargo Ship:
    • Burnbot and the microwave.
    • As of late, you will find a good handful of comments that are at least suspicious of Max liking Burnbot just a little more than a Lovely Assistant.
  • Ensemble Dark Horse: Boy, does the community love Burnbot. Her extreme cuteness, sensitivity, and hidden naughty side won fans over.
  • He Really Can Act: Max's apology to Burnbot in "BEST youtuber apology video EVER!" sounds positively anguished, and really shows off his voice-acting chops.
  • Heartwarming in Hindsight: Around the time Max posted "The Apu That I Know", in which he argues against the notion that Apu is just a racial stereotype, the controversy surrounding the character had gotten to the point where the Simpsons writers had considered writing Apu out of the show altogether (which Max points out.) Thankfully, sometime after Max's video was uploaded, it turns out that the Simpsons writers had changed their minds and decided that Apu is here to stay.
  • Heartwarming Moments: In BEST youtuber apology video EVER! (2020) Max's tearful apology comes off as both this and cathartic (given Burnbot has to punch it out of him). While most of it is tongue in cheek (i.e., being sorry for "being white" and "having a penis"), he's shown to have genuine remorse for his actions and it appears he and Burnbot had finally made up.
    Max G.: I just forget is all... I don't mean nothing by it, I just forget is all.
    • After all that, Burnbot gives him an ice cream cone, and Max concedes that the things she does really are incredible, and he'll never take her for granted ever again.
  • Like You Would Really Do It: The Jokester, an Expy of The Joker who shows up during Max's review of The LEGO Batman Movie, claims to have planted a bomb inside Burnbot and threatens to detonate it if Max doesn't give him his cereal. To no one's surprise, there's no bomb.
  • Moment of Awesome:
    • His rebuttal to The Problem With Apu, defending the character as more than just a racist stereotype. Besides being funny and well-produced, he never resorts to strawmanning Hari’s arguments or anyone else’s experiences, keeping it a nuanced examination of both Apu and the subject of portraying different cultures in fiction.
    • At the end of his Emoji Movie review, Max actually offers an alternative plot for the movie that would've been absolutely AMAZING.
  • Nightmare Fuel: In "What is Fash Ism?", after Goofball goes too far (particularly with a supposed glass of cum that he drank) and causes Max to lose his sponsorship for Raid: Shadow Legends, MAX. LOSES. HIS. SHIT. He STRANGLES Goofball and attempts to murder him. During this moment his face is in a disturbing expression of tearful fury and he gives a horrific rant on the many antics of Goofball and how they piss him off greatly while Goofball is trying to gasp for air. The acting in this scene is horrifying and the music is just unsettling. Notably, this actually scares Goofball into relenting and revealing (probably) that the glass of "cum" was just milk, even clarifying it once more so Max would stop. Jeez.
  • Take That, Scrappy!:
    • Max strangling Goofball à la The Simpsons in the Moana review.
      • Similarly, in "The Apu That I Know", Max strangles Goofball again after Goofball makes a hideously racist joke.
    • Max stuffing Goofball into a fart jar in The LEGO Batman Movie review.
    • Goofball stranded at night on the middle of a forest road, with Max not picking up his calls because he had destroyed his phone with a hammer while it was ringing in his The Emoji Movie review.

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