YMMV / The Happy Spaceman

• Crosses the Line Twice: Spaceman managing to include not one, but two 9/11 jokes in his Every Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer Special video.
• Early-Installment Weirdness:
  • Spaceman's earliest reviews were much more in line with reviewers such as The Nostalgia Critic and The Cinema Snob. Right down to having a standardized opening and closing catchphrase.
  • His very first review was a comparison video for two movies similar to the Nostalgia Critic's Old vs. New series.
  • His third review was a retrospective of "Gangnam Style" and PSY's career similar to the videos of Todd in the Shadows. It would be his only video where he would review a single song.
  • Even outside of his reviews, his content went through this. He went from LEGO animation videos (which have mostly been deleted from YouTube), to Flash animation, to song covers, to Pivot animations, to music videos with his band Dark Matter. His channel had been around for nearly six years by the time he started making reviews.
• Funny Moments: Has his own page under construction.
• Growing the Beard: Initially, he stated off emulating other reviewers such as The Nostalgia Critic and The Cinema Snob before developing his own style. Spaceman himself puts this somewhere around the time of his Van Halen III review.
• Harsher in Hindsight: In his review of One Direction: This Is Us, Spaceman commended the group for continuing as a four-piece after Zayn Malik left the group. Merely days later, reports came out that the group was going on a permanent hiatus.
• He Panned It, Now He Sucks!: Discussed in the beginning of the High School Musical review. Spaceman thought that he could avoid this reaction by reviewing obscure films like Monster Mash. But when he got flack for reviewing it anyway, he decided to not worry about it and review what he wanted.
  • In his video on Music from "The Elder", Spaceman predicts that 90% of the people watching will have disliked the video after he states that he's not a fan of KISS.
• He Really Can Sing: Here's Spaceman doing a live cover of I Remember You by Skid Row.
• Hilarious in Hindsight:
  • In the Top 6 Happy Spaceman Moments Of 2015 video, Spaceman notes that the music video for his song "Zombieworld!" gave us cheerleader zombies to add to the growing list of different kinds of zombies. After he reviewed the horror anthology of the same name, he can now add cowboy zombies to that list.
    • Even funnier after his review of another movie about zombies and cheerleaders.
  • In 2015, Spaceman ended his review of The Wall: Live in Berlin with a musical parody of "The Trial" where the Pink Floyd fanbase targets him for his bad take. Four years later, and another reviewer's musical parody of The Wall would become infamous among the Pink Floyd fanbase...
  • In Spaceman's review of Annie (2014), he laments the fact that the Annie films are so easy to make and suggests that there will probably be another Annie movie before proper film adaptations of Cats, Hamilton, and Wicked. He was 1/3 correct: In the following years, Cats got a poorly received film adaptation, and a filmed performance of Hamilton was released; however, another filmed version of Annie, 2021's Annie Live!, was released before a Wicked movie could come to fruition.
  • In Spaceman's review of The Nutty Squirrels Present, he talks about the similar Alvin and the Chipmunks knock-off duo Shirley & Squirrely (and Melvin), since Wikipedia cited them as a reboot of the Nutty Squirrels, and he questions in the video whether they are truly a reboot since he can't find any sources to back this up. As Spaceman himself noticed, all mentions of Shirley & Squirrely were removed from the Wikipedia article on the Nutty Squirrels, proving Spaceman right.
  • In 2020, Spaceman reviewed Slave to the Grind by Skid Row for his first installment of All-Star Albums and criticized the band's lack of direction since original lead singer Sebastian Bach left the group, asking them to bring Bach back in as a member. That same year, he gave an unscripted review to H.E.A.T II by Swedish hard rock band H.E.A.T, and particularly praised lead singer Erik Grönwall. Cue 2022, and while Bach did not return to Skid Row, Erik Grönwall was announced as their new lead singer!
    • Doubles as a Harsher in Hindsight moment, as before he had filmed his review of H.E.A.T II (but not before he uploaded it), Grönwall announced his departure from H.E.A.T.
  • In his 2022 video, Album Covers That Were Changed After Release, Spaceman talked about the album cover of Open Up and Say... Ahh! by Poison, which caused controversy among church groups due to showing a long-tongued demon lady, and remarked that if Christians thought this was bad, they'd have an aneurysm if they watched a second of Hazbin Hotel. Come 2024, when the first season of Hazbin Hotel was finally released, and Christian groups reacted exactly as you would expect.
• Moment of Awesome: Spaceman's review of The Wall: Live in Berlin, especially compared to The Nostalgia Critic's review/parody of The Wall. In spite of having much less views and fewer resources, Spaceman succeeded where The Critic failed by giving an entertaining yet informative review of a comparatively overlooked version of The Wall. Having a well performed parody of The Trial at the end certainly helps.
  • At the end of his review of Z-O-M-B-I-E-S (2018), Spaceman delivers a scathing "The Reason You Suck" Speech to the movie for it's message that minorities shouldn't fight back against their oppressors.
  Spaceman: Movie...f*** you. I could've forgiven the clear lack of thought in your racial allegory, but when you pull the whole "If you fight against injustice, you're just as bad as they are" card, that's where I draw the line. I don't know what Eliza's sabotage plan involved, but I can guarantee that whatever she was planning was nowhere near as bad as what Bucky did. It wouldn't have endangered people's lives, for one. So, what's the takeaway from this message? That minority groups always have to be the bigger person? That it's only okay to stand up to injustice as long as you don't do anything to disrupt the system or make people uncomfortable, and just wait around for privileged people to feel sorry for you, which may NEVER happen? Also, the fact that Addison is the one saying this to Eliza makes it even worse. Addison is NOT a zombie. She may be DATING a zombie, but that does not give her the right to speak for the zombies. And just to add insult to injury, Eliza's actress, Kylee Russell, is black. Which means you have a white girl telling a black girl not to fight against racial injustice.
• Never Live It Down: In his Van Halen III review, Spaceman made a research error where he assumed that the album was the first time Eddie Van Halen played bass, which prompted many comments pointing out the other times he played bass. To his credit, he originally put in an annotation admitting his mistake. Unfortunately, this was negated by YouTube removing the annotations feature entirely.
• Older Than They Think: As pointed out in the Opening Narration to Part 2 of his review of Phantom of the Paradise, his series Was It Really That Bad? started long before Todd in the Shadows had a similar idea with Trainwreckords.
• Special Effects Failure: Spaceman's usage of green screens has sometimes been pretty obvious, especially in his earlier videos. When criticizing one film for it's poor usage of chroma key, he even admits he doesn't have much room to judge.