- Best Known for the Fanservice: His most viewed video is his first "Top 10 Failed Animated Pilots" video. This is the video where he slipped in cropped footage from a porn parody of The Modifyers.
- Big-Lipped Alligator Moment: In his "Top 10 Animated Perverts" video, when Pan gets to Quagmire, he plays the "Who else but Quagmire?" clip, then has a violent meltdown where he trashes his room for absolutely no reason while screaming "WHO THE FUCK ELSE BUT QUAGMIRE??"
- Crosses the Line Twice: Pan has a pretty twisted sense of humor."Incest, incest, it's the best! Put your sister to the test!"
- Fandom Rivalry: A minor one with fellow YouTube animation critic The Mysterious Mr. Enter. While there are plenty who like both, fans of Mr. Enter generally find Pan's videos rely on too much crude and cringe humor and are boring compared to Enter's ranting where as Pan's fans consider Enter more of a compulsive nitpicker than an actual critic (and generally have a negative opinion of rant videos overall). It didn't help that the Pizza Party Podcast took a few gentle, indirect shots at Enter, specifically for the time his fans cyber-bullied a writer from SpongeBob SquarePants after Enter showed the writer's Twitter account in a review (which is Old Shame on Enter's part as well). However, after Enter made a video calling out other YouTubers for being mean to him, Pan apologized for any hard feelings and extended an olive branch
. - Foe Yay Shipping: There is a growing number of Slash art between Pan and NerosQ, a YouTube commentator largely mocked by the fans due to his Wangsty character design note and his Literal-Minded/Quote Mine approach to Pan's criticisms regarding The Powerpuff Girls (2016).
- Friendly Fandoms:
- A prominent overlap exists between Pan's fans and those of popular hentai web animator ZONE, thanks to Pan and ZONE being fans of one another and Pan frequently inserting cropped excerpts from ZONE's porn parodies in his videos.
- After inviting them onto his podcast and promoting them, I Hate Everything, YourMovieSucks.org, Guru Larry, and Saberspark began sharing an audience with Pan's fans.
- Harsher in Hindsight:
- His joke about John Kricfalusi liking little girls and preying on women turned out to be far more accurate than one would like to believe when it was revealed he had sexually abused teenage girls all the way back in the 90s.
- Exactly six years after Pan posted this joke tweet about ProJared exposing himself, many female fans of Jared revealed that he sent them unsolicited nude pics. (Some of the fans were underage at the time.)
- In the video explaining the Boston Bomb Scare, Pan insults Boston for taking the event so seriously by saying "Who cares about the Boston incident anymore? I mean, who even cares about Boston in general?". Four months later, an actual bombing happened.
- In his review of Doogal, he comments that it was brought over by The Weinstein Company, including a clip of Jon Stewart saying he agreed to do the movie because he fears Harvey. Cut ahead several months and the deluge of Harvey Weinstein accusations have come out making Jon's comment a lot less funny. Pan addressed this in the 89th episode of the podcast, and even edited the title of the Doogal review to refer to it as "Harvey Weinstein's Doogal".
- In his video on the top ten most obscure Cartoon Network shows, when discussing the Thumbs! series of parody movies, Pan begins the segment by saying "You're walking through Best Buy. You're in the DVD section. You're thankful digital distribution hasn't wiped out DVDs yet." In October 2023, Best Buy would announce that they would no longer be selling DVD or Blu-ray discs by 2024.
- In the video on online games themed to Halloween, Pan describes Odie's appearance in Garfield's Scary Scavenger Hunt as "wrapped up in some weirdo's fetish web". Years later, Nolan would leave Pan's podcast after he admitted to commissioning minors to draw fetish art where characters were wrapped up.
- He Panned It, Now He Sucks!:
- Podcasts and Tumblr posts have indicated Pan's not too fond of the way Adventure Time has been handling its romance sub-plots, along with calling one of the show's writers, (Jesse Moynihan,) a bit of a whiner after said writer took to /co/ to defend himself and his writing style against a bunch of people who were either angry fans or trolls. This has caused Pan to get some criticism from groups of Adventure Time fans who feel that Pan's merely expressing a "They Changed It, Now It Sucks!" kind of opinion.
- Similar criticisms have been given to Pan in regards to him losing interest in My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic around the time of the show's third season, though in all fairness he never said he began hating the show, and might watch season 4 one day.
- Inverted in regards to him liking shows that people hate such as Teen Titans Go! and Pickle and Peanut. Pan actually admits to really liking the former despite originally not wanting to, so the simple fact that he actually enjoys these shows that sparked a lot of They Changed It, Now It Sucks! reactions (like fans of the 2003 Teen Titans cartoon) has caused him to get the occasional "now I can't take your opinions seriously anymore if you honestly enjoy this crap" kind of comments.
- His utterly scathing review of the original Ultraman, going as far as to calling it "the worst show ever", earned the flak of many. Pan would see that video as an Old Shame, especially after getting into Toku himself.
- Depending on some, his hatred on the reboot on Powerpuff Girls, mainly due to some getting tired of him having to remind people how he hates it. It got the point where Pan got into a scuffle with Danny Antonucci who believed Pan's parody on his own show getting "rebooted".
- His review of Final Space has been well received for the most part (including a positive response from series creator Olan Rogers), but there are still quite a few comments from rabid fans who insulted Pan for judging the show despite only watching the first three episodes of it.
- Also, pick any personality he and the podcast crew have made fun of, even in jest. You'd be hard pressed to find someone they poked fun at that someone didn't jump to their defense.
- He got this reaction when he reviewed and panned The Nightmare Before Christmas: Oogie's Revenge which is considered to be under No Problem with Licensed Games by many people.
- Hilarious in Hindsight:
- In his Wander over Yonder review, he mentions that it's actually on Disney Channel and not a sub-channel like Disney XD. By the show's second season, Wander moved to XD.
- In his Johnny Test review, he said that Adventure Time and Regular Show will die, while Johnny Test will still be there. Guess which show ended first?
- In the very first Pizza Party Podcast, Pan challenges Ken and Nolan to try and do a podcast without him. A couple of years later, Nolan and Ken starred in the Mommy's Boys podcast.
- In his "Top 5 Best/Worst Cartoons Vol 7" video, he mentions that Pop Team Epic should be on [adult swim], but not the Toonami Anime Block. Take a wild guess which of those two blocks later ended up picking up the block.
- When Pan Pizza first talked about Final Space he rather liked it but by the time it actually became a show his opinion went on a complete 180.
- In his 2017 video regarding flash games from CN and Nick he included two that were made for Garfield despite mentioning how the character wasn't affiliated with either studio. Two years later, Cartoon Brew announced that Garfield had been purchased by Nickelodeon.
- In his video on 2018's Comic Con, Pan's response to the Adventure Time/Minecraft crossover episode is to jokingly propose a crossover between Disney's Phineas and Ferb and Line Rider. In September 2020, Disney would announce a series of videos crossing over their shows with Line Rider, called "Disney x Line Rider" (though instead of Phineas and Ferb, they started with Gravity Falls). Pan would acknowledge this on his Twitter.
- In his Free Birds review, he points out how Chuck E. Cheese Pizza doesn't do delivery. In 2020, due to the COVID-19 pandemic shutting down sit-down restaurants, Chuck E. Cheese was forced to resort to delivery under the name Pasquale's Pizza.
- Pan was very open about stating that Paws of Fury: The Legend of Hank looked and felt like a cheap imitation of classic parody movies in his video talking about its infamous development hell. When the film actually came out, Pan enjoyed the movie tweeting "Paws of Fury was surprisingly solid"
- Pan's Running Gag of going berserk whenever people ask him if he's pansexual gets pretty amusing when he starts dating Neoncaffeine, a trans man.
- I Am Not Shazam: He is not Rebel Taxi. The character is named Pan-Pizza, and he drives the Rebel Taxi.
- Memetic Loser: Pan, especially with his fictional crushes and one-sided attraction towards goth girls.
- Tear Jerker:
- In the middle of the first part of his Toy Story SNES LP, he tells a story of a friend he had a crush on who liked his videos. One day when he tried to ask her out, she laughed at him, and stopped talking to him after that, breaking Pan's heart. You can tell that it's a painful memory for him to recall, because near the end he's desperately trying not to cry. Even though he can be a pathetic loser, you can't help but feel sorry for him.
- His distraught attitude during parts of his "Top 10 Worst Animation Moments of 2017" video compared to the previous year's worst moments video, particularly when talking about the sexual harassment claims made towards Chris Savino and John Lasseter and even a mass shooting over Ember McLain. The video's ending, however, talking about the best moments of 2017 and how Regular Show restored his faith in animation, is more a happy tearjerker.
- In his "Phantom Planet" review, while pointing out how Danny is Unintentionally Sympathetic for wanting to quit being a superhero to protect his loved ones, he admits that he's starting to grow tired of making videos, feeling that his content is starting to decline, but has to keep doing it since he's not being hired for character design.
- Many fans had been worried about Pan's health since he made on announcement regarding his heart palpitation on his "6 - Top 3 BEST/WORST Failed Animated PILOTS & SHORTS (@RebelTaxi)" video.
- In the middle of the first part of his Toy Story SNES LP, he tells a story of a friend he had a crush on who liked his videos.
- Unpopular Popular Character: Pan Pizza himself. He's constantly ridiculed by his co-hosts in the Pizza Party Podcast and even outside of the podcast he likes to play up how pathetic he is with plenty of Self-Deprecation and stories of his awkward social interactions. His sheer awkwardness ends up being part of his appeal for fans.
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