YMMV / Tom Grossi Comedy

• Big-Lipped Alligator Moment: While it's not uncommon for livestreams of non-Packers games to include a tangent or two, they're usually pretty low-key and unremarkable, used mostly to fill space if the pace of the game is slow. This was not the case in one Thursday Night Game, which spiraled off into a particularly bizarre tangent that came to be known as "Tom's Forbidden Tadpoles".
• Cargo Ship: In Coach, as a result of living within the crawl space behind Tom Grossi's office, Tohm has developed an intimate relationship with a piece of insulation:

  Tohm: I call her "Linda".
  Tom: Leave my house, and leave my life!

  • It becomes tragic in the season three finale when it is revealed that Linda was actually the name of his deceased wife.
• Ensemble Dark Horse:
  • Wildflower Turquoise, the placid, friendly, hippyish, yet highly prone to violence fan of the Washington Redskins/Football Team/Commanders. It's to the point where Tom has played as Wildflower during video game and Q&A live streams, used him to advertise a fundraiser to raise money to fight mitochondrial disease, and even had Wildflower make a cameo in 'Twas The Night Before Super Bowl 55 (2020-2021 NFL Season Recap).
    • During the "30 in 30" series, part of his Washington video was narrated by Wildflower, and he spent part of his time there in-character.
  • Eugene (a.k.a Grandpa Cardinal) has also earned his fair share of fans due to his calm (and somewhat wholesome) personality.
• Harsher in Hindsight: In his 2022 Week 16 fan reactions, the Bengals fan remarks on how the team "took the first half off" the previous week, then took the second half off that week, before expressing concern that they might "take the entire game off" for the upcoming week. That game ended up being called off less than 10 minutes into the first quarter after Bills safety Damar Hamlin suffered a cardiac arrest and had to be revived on the field.
  • After speedy wide receiver Henry Ruggs was drafted by the Raiders, Tom's Catchphrase for him was "Henry Ruggs go fast."^note To be fair, it wasn't exclusive to Ruggs; "[Name] go fast" is a phrase Tom often uses for players who are known for their speed, most notably Packers CB Eric Stokes. On November 2, 2021, Ruggs, driving drunk, was clocked traveling at speeds exceeding 150 mph before he collided with another car, killing the driver and her dog. Ruggs was cut from the Raiders within hours and would later plead guilty to vehicular manslaughter.
  • In his 2023 "Every NFL Fan's Reaction to Championship Sunday" video, the 49ers fan remarks that they "can't go up 10 points" in the Super Bowl, referring to the lead the 49ers had had — and lost — over the Chiefs the last time the two teams met in the big game. The 49ers took a lead of exactly 10 points over the Chiefs in the second quarter, and ultimately lost the game.
• Heartwarming Moments: During 30 in 30, before heading for Miami, Tom tries to call his father for Father's Day, but Papa Grossi doesn't pick up. Only after returning the rental car in Miami does Tom see Papa Grossi came down to see him.
• He Really Can Act: The NFC/AFC West and East series have garnered Tom a lot of praise - not least because he plays sixteen distinct characters across them - but Wildflower's breakdown rapidly became seen as the proof of his acting chops.
• Hilarious in Hindsight:
  • The San Francisco 49ers' portion of the 2022 Draft Reaction video jokingly highlighted QB Brock Purdy, the final pick in the draft, as a supposedly significant acquisition (mostly as a setup for a line about the team not trading Jimmy Garoppolo). Purdy would turn out to be the key player down the stretch for the 49ers in 2022, taking the team all the way to the NFC Championship game, where an elbow injury derailed the team's chance at a Super Bowl, before winning the job as the Niners' permanent starting quarterback the following offseason.
  • In his livestream of the 2023 draft, Tom reacted rather poorly to the Packers' decision to trade their draft position to the Lions, who promptly scooped up Brian Branch, a safety Tom had coveted. This was made even funnier when, in his very first NFL start—against defending champions the Chiefs, no less—Branch got a pick 6, helping the Lions achieve a 21-20 victory. Tom didn't take that one very well, either. This has now reached near Memetic Mutation levels since Lions fans have delighted in tagging Tom whenever Branch makes a good play, and Tom has begun incorporating it into his fan reaction videos, making it an Ascended Meme. At the end of the 2023 Lions fan reaction video, he even reveals that he's added a Branch Lions jersey to his jersey collection. (The fact that Green Bay made out pretty well in the trade — picking up Jayden Reed after the trade-down and using the additional pick on Dontayvion Wicks, both of whom had strong rookie years — probably contributes to Tom's ability to laugh about it.)
  • In "A Chiefs & Packers Fan Reaction to NFL Free Agency", the Chiefs, having just traded away All-Pro receiver Tyreek Hill to the Miami Dolphins, complain that they have only won 1 Super Bowl in 4 trips to the AFC Championship Game (something which the Packers, who didn't reach any Super Bowls with Aaron Rodgers post-2010 despite making it to the playoffs repeatedly, don't appreciate). Two years later, the Chiefs have won back-to-back Super Bowls, with the departure of Tyreek Hill allowing the Chiefs to pay their other solid depth pieces, particularly on the defense, to win two straight championships.
  • "A Steelers Fan Reaction to Trading Kenny Pickett" ends with the Bears fan jumping in to ask who's going to take Justin Fields. A day later, Fields was traded to the Steelers, essentially taking the spot vacated by Pickett.
• Memetic Mutation: Kitty goes meow!^note In the intro to "A Bengals Fan Reaction to the 2020-21 NFL Season", the fan was portrayed as a child innocently drawing a picture of a cat and getting disowned for refusing to draw a Raven, and the fan used that quote upon seeing that drawing years later to remind himself, resolutely stating the aforementioned line. It had since been used in the fandom as a rallying cry for the Bengals, especially as they had a surprisingly good showing that brought them to Super Bowl 56.
• That One Boss/That One Level: Regularly invoked by Tom in reaction videos for teams which seem to run into the same roadblock over and over again in the postseason. Notable examples include the Bills repeatedly being eliminated by the Chiefs, the Packers repeatedly being eliminated by the 49ers, and the Cowboys repeatedly failing to make it to the NFC championship game.
  Packers fan: Why is it always the 49ers? WHYYYYYY??!!!
• Unintentionally Unsympathetic: In the AFC/NFC East Series, Bruce and Springsteen start out as horrible brothers to Frederick, constantly bullying and demeaning him, and even telling him once to go electrocute himself in the bathtub. And yet, we're supposed to feel sorry for them when Frederick starts bullying them later in the series, even though once when Frederick compares himself to how they were when they bullied him, Bruce literally denies remembering what he and Springsteen put Frederick through.