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Board James (Web Video)
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Board James is a Cinemassacre Web Video series, created by and starring James Rolfe. You can find the series here.Board James is a pretty normal guy, a kid at heart who collects a great variety of Board Games as a hobby and reviews them. Sometimes Board James does his reviews alone, but from time to time he's joined by his best friend Motherfucker Mike, who is a bit of a cheater when it comes to playing the games. And when there's a place on the board for an extra player, there's Bad Luck Bootsy, an annoying but friendly guy who is prone to ruining the games and who causes nothing but trouble to James, Mike and himself.The series started out as a Spin-Off of Rolfe's most famous work The Angry Video Game Nerd but later became its own series. In its infancy, it followed the same Mid-Review Sketch Show formula that Rolfe helped popularize as the Nerd, but featured a much less enraged style of reviewing, often focusing on the good of the games. However, it would eventually carve its own path by developing a Myth Arc in its third season that was shockingly dark, complex, and surreal for a show that started out as goofy and humble as it did.The show was put on hiatus in April 2013 after the episode on Dream Phone, the series' first foray into the aforementioned darker storyline. According to Rolfe, he had plans on continuing the series with a new season, but had fallen behind due to working on the Nerd's movie. He promised that more episodes would come, and made good on that vow when the series returned on April 1, 2015.The finale of the third season came out on December 4, 2015 and centered around the board game Nightmare of the Atmosfear series while incorporating numerous other board games within it. While James originally said that the series wasn't over yet and was just on another hiatus, he has since said that he has no plans to continue the series, and with both Mike and Bootsy having parted ways with Cinemassacre, it's likely to stay that way.James has also released a video where he clarifies some of the more confusing aspects of the series which you can watch here. | |
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Rasputinian Death | |
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Rasputinian Death: Both the Dream Phone and Mr. Bucket. The phone somehow survived being blown up inside of a microwave, and reappears in the "Ouija / Domino Rally" episode to be re-killed by Elvis Mike. Mr. Bucket was drowned in his episode, and reappeared in the same episode to also be re-killed by the same person. Justified: James brought Mike and Bootsy Back from the Dead, and accidentally brought Mr. Bucket and the Phone back too. Plus, the next episode established that James is completely nuts and has been hallucinating since "Crossfire" anyway. | |
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Darker and Edgier | |
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Season 3 is Darker and Edgier than the previous 2 seasons, usually sticking to the normal video style but then having a conclusion pertinent to the overarching plot at hand. The final two episodes, 13 Dead End Drive and Nightmare and Beyond, are the darkest in the entire series. | |
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Does This Remind You of Anything? | |
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Does This Remind You of Anything?: In the "Mr. Bucket" episode, we see the bucket joining James in bed, and when James notices the bucket it appears as if he suddenly grew a giant boner that he was terrified of. | |
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All There in the Manual | |
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All There in the Manual: Some of the games he reviews suffer from this. The Dragonstrike game in particular has its story explained in a movie-like instructional VHS that came with the game. | |
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Unreliable Narrator | |
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Unreliable Narrator: The Lie Detector episode hints at this, as James' recollection of drowning Mr. Bucket is different from what was actually shown. In the Mr. Bucket episode, Mike looks at Mr. Bucket with a disturbed expression and says, "Dude, what the fuck?! What the fuck is going on?". In Lie Detector, Mike looks at James with a disturbed expression and says, "What are you doing?! It's just a toy! Are you fucking crazy?!". It's unclear which of these scenarios (if either of them) is what actually happened. | |
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Say My Name | |
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Say My Name: James and\or Mike exclaim Bad Luck Bootsy's name incredulously when he enters an episode uninvited. | |
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Multiple Endings | |
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Multiple Endings: The "Lie Detector" video has the Fight Promoter from the game accuse James of killing Mike and Bootsy, saying he was hallucinating all of the supernatural things happening, and dares James to put him in the lie detector to see if he's telling the truth. Annotations pop up linking to a "True" ending where he is telling the truth, and a "False" ending where he isn't. Although they both end up being pretty much the same as James refuses to believe that the Fight Promoter is telling the truth, and in both endings he vows to get to the bottom of what's been happening. | |
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The Cameo | |
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The Cameo: Board James makes a Cameo in the TGWTG second anniversary, in which he teaches the characters how to play Risk. In the Loupin' Louie episode, James invites people that were at PAX 2011, including Kevin Finn, A.J. Locascio, Angry Joe, The Happy Video Game Nerd and Pedobear. The Angry Video Game Nerd appears in the Video Games! episode. Complete with James Rolfe switching identity between Board James and the Nerd in the concluding moments... | |
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The Man in the Mirror Talks Back | |
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The Man in the Mirror Talks Back: "You know who you are. You're a nerd. You'll always be a nerd. A Video Game Nerd." | |
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Cower Power | |
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Cower Power: James has his moment of this when Mr. Bucket corners him. | |
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Breaking the Fourth Wall | |
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Breaking the Fourth Wall: In the review of Dragonstrike there's a moment in which James starts acting as if he was playing the game with a bunch of friends and starts assigning characters to each one, he then points out to the camera and claims "And you'll be the wizard!". A particularly epic version of this happens in Video Games!, which crosses into Painting the Medium, as Board James is harassed and partially aided by The Angry Video Game Nerd. Only for, in the conclusion, Board James just gives up, and walks out of the room, transforming into the Nerd as he enters the 'set' of the Nerd videos... In the Nightmare and Beyond episode, when The Gatekeeper from the game asks extremely specific numbers on the dices, such as the player's age, Board James himself then angrily says "How about looking at the release dates of all the Board James episodes released this year and correspond them to the letters of the Alphabet?". (Which when done, they spell "1313 Dead"). | |
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Laugh Track | |
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Laugh Track: Throughout the "Full House / Urkel Games" episode, much to James' chagrin. | |
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Hitler Cam | |
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Board James narrates his games as if they were epic adventures, and not just a man moving figurines across a cardboard board. Frequent use of the Hitler Cam helps with this. | |
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Alliterative Title | |
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Alliterative Title: Deadly Danger Dungeon, a board game. | |
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Special Guest | |
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Special Guest: There was a whole array of them in the "Loopin' Louie" episode. Board James himself also appears on the Nerd's "AVGN Games" episode, strangely happy and jovial as usual as if he hadn't almost died and then lost his mind, where he talks about an AVGN Monopoly game with him. When asked about why he isn't in jail, he says he used a get out of jail free card. What? Anyway, he still blames the episode's events on the phone and says that he's completely innocent. Hmm... The Nerd later became a special guest, himself, in Episode 25, where he decries board games based on video games until The Reveal shows Board James to be a Split Personality of the Nerd, himself. | |
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Spiritual Successor | |
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Spiritual Successor: Of the AVGN. Board James is not near as ill-tempered and foul-mouthed as The Nerd, but some of his solo episodes are very reminiscent of the more informative episodes of the AVGN, like the Swordquest episode. Also, it follows the Mid-Review Sketch Show formula that the AVGN became famous for. | |
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Hurricane of Puns | |
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Hurricane of Puns: While beating up the titular phone in the "Dream Phone" episode, James spits out a slew of pre- and post-mortem one liners. | |
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Halloween Episode | |
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Halloween Episode: 13 Dead End Drive | |
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Limited Wardrobe | |
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Limited Wardrobe: Averted. Unlike the Nerd, James wears a different shirt and baseball cap in each episode; however, they're always related to video games, comics or movies. | |
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Borrowed Catchphrase | |
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Borrowed Catchphrase: Board James borrows the Nerd's "What a shitload of fuck!" and "What were they thinking?!" At least, borrowing them from himself. | |
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Stuff Blowing Up | |
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Stuff Blowing Up: As Motherfucker Mike and Board James play Crossfire, random explosions start appearing around them, just like in the TV ad for the game. | |
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The Prankster | |
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The Prankster: One of the home-made games that appear in the Deadly Danger Dungeon episode is called "Mischief Night", and it's about a guy who plays pranks on his neighbors, the pranks went from throwing toilet paper in a yard to blocking someone's front door with bricks and cement. | |
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Super Drowning Skills | |
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Super Drowning Skills: From Battle Masters episode: | |
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Recursive Reality | |
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Recursive Reality: The nature of the afterlife in which the characters are trapped, to the point of the Nightmare and Beyond finale resembling a Bloodier and Gorier version of Inception. | |
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Microwave the Dog | |
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Microwave the Dog: James kills the Dream Phone by stuffing it in the microwave and heating it until it explodes. | |
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Cluster F-Bomb | |
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Cluster F-Bomb: Like the other Cinemassacre web originals, the characters from Board James don't shy away from swearing every once in a while. | |
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The Mirror Shows Your True Self | |
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The Mirror Shows Your True Self: After James realizes his true identity, his reflection in the mirror is that of the Nerd. | |
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Split Personality | |
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And then they top that in the next episode by revealing that James never existed either and was a Split Personality of the Angry Video Game Nerd all along. | |
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Not the Fall That Kills You | |
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Not the Fall That Kills You…: In the "Nightmare and Beyond" episode, this is everyone's fate in the Forbidden Bridge world. Mike hits his head on a rock, Bootsy is perfectly fine after the fall but is then attacked by a crocodile, and James lands on his own spear that he accidentally dropped earlier, which didn't land pointy end in, but pointy end up. | |
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Poorly Disguised Pilot | |
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Poorly-Disguised Pilot: The way Board James started. The first episode was only called "Cinemassacre's Board Game Review". The narrator can be seen wearing a white shirt, much like how the Nerd always has white shirts, although he's not as angry as he usually is. James Rolfe's wedding ring (which he never wears while playing the Nerd) can be seen on his left hand in some of the scenes, suggesting that the reviewer was James Rolfe himself and not his Nerd persona. The animated title card at the end also shows him wearing glasses, which Board James is never seen with. "The Making of Board James" reveals that the first video is just James doing a review as himself. When they decided to make more board game reviews, they created the character of Board James. | |
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I Like My X Like I Like My Y | |
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I Like My X Like I Like My Y: | |
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Black Speech | |
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Amongst other Black Speech, James tries to say "Klaatu Barada Nikto" but ends up coughing on the "nikto". | |
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Bittersweet Ending | |
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Bittersweet Ending: The Dream Phone episode. James manages to defeat the evil Dream Phone, but at the cost of Bootsy and Mike's lives, without even mentioning the effect it had on James. | |
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Story Arc | |
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Story Arc: Introduced in season 3 after being propelled by the game-changing "Dream Phone" episode. Myth Arc: According to his Board James Mythology Explained video, there's an even bigger arc that does span the entire series. | |
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| Board James (Web Video) / int_424c9a9b | type |
Cold-Blooded Torture | |
| Board James (Web Video) / int_424c9a9b | comment |
Cold-Blooded Torture: In the "Nightmare and Beyond" episode, James tortures Mike and Bootsy in the graveyard scene by hacking off Bootsy's limbs one by one with a chainsaw to play Hangman and inserts random objects in Mike. He then cuts open Mike with garden shears and uses a live battery wire to remove the objects in order to play a sick version of Operation. | |
| Board James (Web Video) / int_424c9a9b | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Board James (Web Video) / int_424c9a9b | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Board James (Web Video) | hasFeature |
Board James (Web Video) / int_424c9a9b | |
| Board James (Web Video) / int_43dca18f | type |
Game Night Fight | |
| Board James (Web Video) / int_43dca18f | comment |
Game Night Fight: In the "Shark Attack" episode, Board James just wants to play a normal game for a change, but he finally gets fed-up with Mike's cheating and Bootsy's trying to make love to the toy shark and lashes out at them. | |
| Board James (Web Video) / int_43dca18f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Board James (Web Video) / int_43dca18f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Board James (Web Video) | hasFeature |
Board James (Web Video) / int_43dca18f | |
| Board James (Web Video) / int_444154b8 | type |
Nightmare Fuel Coloring Book | |
| Board James (Web Video) / int_444154b8 | comment |
Nightmare Fuel Coloring Book: The Deadly Danger Dungeon board. | |
| Board James (Web Video) / int_444154b8 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Board James (Web Video) / int_444154b8 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Board James (Web Video) | hasFeature |
Board James (Web Video) / int_444154b8 | |
| Board James (Web Video) / int_45007296 | type |
Metaphorgotten | |
| Board James (Web Video) / int_45007296 | comment |
Metaphorgotten: | |
| Board James (Web Video) / int_45007296 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Board James (Web Video) / int_45007296 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Board James (Web Video) | hasFeature |
Board James (Web Video) / int_45007296 | |
| Board James (Web Video) / int_48081842 | type |
The Stinger | |
| Board James (Web Video) / int_48081842 | comment |
And in The Stinger from the Shark Attack video, Bad Luck Bootsy is on the receiving end of one from the shark. He now dons a hook on his crotch. | |
| Board James (Web Video) / int_48081842 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Board James (Web Video) / int_48081842 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Board James (Web Video) | hasFeature |
Board James (Web Video) / int_48081842 | |
| Board James (Web Video) / int_4881cda1 | type |
Ãœberwald | |
| Board James (Web Video) / int_4881cda1 | comment |
And the Transylvania flag was a bat, of course. | |
| Board James (Web Video) / int_4881cda1 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Board James (Web Video) / int_4881cda1 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Board James (Web Video) | hasFeature |
Board James (Web Video) / int_4881cda1 | |
| Board James (Web Video) / int_4aa98555 | type |
Evil All Along | |
| Board James (Web Video) / int_4aa98555 | comment |
And he also is an insane killer trapped in a recursive afterlife. | |
| Board James (Web Video) / int_4aa98555 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Board James (Web Video) / int_4aa98555 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Board James (Web Video) | hasFeature |
Board James (Web Video) / int_4aa98555 | |
| Board James (Web Video) / int_4e7c4536 | type |
Wham Line | |
| Board James (Web Video) / int_4e7c4536 | comment |
Wham Line: From "Dream Phone": From "Full House / Do the Urkel": From the "Video Game Board Games" episode: A certain phrase regarding The Reveal: And then to really drive it home: | |
| Board James (Web Video) / int_4e7c4536 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Board James (Web Video) / int_4e7c4536 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Board James (Web Video) | hasFeature |
Board James (Web Video) / int_4e7c4536 | |
| Board James (Web Video) / int_4e7f703c | type |
Wham Shot | |
| Board James (Web Video) / int_4e7f703c | comment |
Wham Shot: The ending of "Dream Phone", where James starts exhibiting insanity. The end of the "Full House / Do the Urkel" episode: when James's friends tell him he never had friends to begin with, a flashback is shown of James playing Crossfire and yelling at Mike, except Mike was not there at all. Cut back to the present day, where James finds himself alone, seemingly realizing that Mike and Bootsy never existed. | |
| Board James (Web Video) / int_4e7f703c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Board James (Web Video) / int_4e7f703c | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Board James (Web Video) | hasFeature |
Board James (Web Video) / int_4e7f703c | |
| Board James (Web Video) / int_4f3c14ca | type |
Go Mad from the Isolation | |
| Board James (Web Video) / int_4f3c14ca | comment |
Go Mad from the Isolation: Spending two years hiding out in an attic has not been good for Board James' sanity. Or perhaps he was just as insane as he always was. | |
| Board James (Web Video) / int_4f3c14ca | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Board James (Web Video) / int_4f3c14ca | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Board James (Web Video) | hasFeature |
Board James (Web Video) / int_4f3c14ca | |
| Board James (Web Video) / int_4f4372e9 | type |
Early-Installment Weirdness | |
| Board James (Web Video) / int_4f4372e9 | comment |
Early-Installment Weirdness: The first few reviews would have James explaining the game to the audience. When he actually got to the game, Motherfucker Mike would appear as his cheating opponent. Eventually, Mike became much less antagonistic, and the rules of the game would be explained through conversations between James and Mike. | |
| Board James (Web Video) / int_4f4372e9 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Board James (Web Video) / int_4f4372e9 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Board James (Web Video) | hasFeature |
Board James (Web Video) / int_4f4372e9 | |
| Board James (Web Video) / int_5009999d | type |
Painting the Medium | |
| Board James (Web Video) / int_5009999d | comment |
A particularly epic version of this happens in Video Games!, which crosses into Painting the Medium, as Board James is harassed and partially aided by The Angry Video Game Nerd. Only for, in the conclusion, Board James just gives up, and walks out of the room, transforming into the Nerd as he enters the 'set' of the Nerd videos... | |
| Board James (Web Video) / int_5009999d | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Board James (Web Video) / int_5009999d | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Board James (Web Video) | hasFeature |
Board James (Web Video) / int_5009999d | |
| Board James (Web Video) / int_504a1991 | type |
Body Horror | |
| Board James (Web Video) / int_504a1991 | comment |
Body Horror: In the Operation world of the "Nightmare and Beyond" episode, James reenacts the game by using Mike as the patient, having put a bunch of foreign objects in Mike's body, as shown by the stitches seen when James pulls the sheet back... | |
| Board James (Web Video) / int_504a1991 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Board James (Web Video) / int_504a1991 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Board James (Web Video) | hasFeature |
Board James (Web Video) / int_504a1991 | |
| Board James (Web Video) / int_51561f43 | type |
Hurricane of Euphemisms | |
| Board James (Web Video) / int_51561f43 | comment |
Hurricane of Euphemisms: From the Mr. Bucket episode. | |
| Board James (Web Video) / int_51561f43 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Board James (Web Video) / int_51561f43 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Board James (Web Video) | hasFeature |
Board James (Web Video) / int_51561f43 | |
| Board James (Web Video) / int_517ae522 | type |
Loads and Loads of Rules | |
| Board James (Web Video) / int_517ae522 | comment |
Loads and Loads of Rules: Some of the board games, particularly Heroquest and Battle Masters (and how!), which were made by the same creators. | |
| Board James (Web Video) / int_517ae522 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Board James (Web Video) / int_517ae522 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Board James (Web Video) | hasFeature |
Board James (Web Video) / int_517ae522 | |
| Board James (Web Video) / int_5288f02 | type |
All Your Powers Combined | |
| Board James (Web Video) / int_5288f02 | comment |
All Your Powers Combined: Quoted in the "Ouija/Domino Rally" episode. | |
| Board James (Web Video) / int_5288f02 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Board James (Web Video) / int_5288f02 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Board James (Web Video) | hasFeature |
Board James (Web Video) / int_5288f02 | |
| Board James (Web Video) / int_5313c266 | type |
Bookends | |
| Board James (Web Video) / int_5313c266 | comment |
Book Ends: The second season ends with the first showcase of James' descent into madness, with him making a Nightmare Face that flashes briefly before a sharp cut to black. The third season ends after James has really gone off the rails and has been killed in every game reality shown in the series finale, and a shot of his skeleton underwater surrounded by board games cuts quickly into that same Nightmare Face. | |
| Board James (Web Video) / int_5313c266 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Board James (Web Video) / int_5313c266 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Board James (Web Video) | hasFeature |
Board James (Web Video) / int_5313c266 | |
| Board James (Web Video) / int_53c9fc92 | type |
Flashback | |
| Board James (Web Video) / int_53c9fc92 | comment |
Flashback: A very humorous one with James and Mike remembering all the times Bootsy has screwed up their fun. Another one comes near the end of the "Full House/Do the Urkel" video, from the "Crossfire" episode. Except there's no Motherfucker Mike... | |
| Board James (Web Video) / int_53c9fc92 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Board James (Web Video) / int_53c9fc92 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Board James (Web Video) | hasFeature |
Board James (Web Video) / int_53c9fc92 | |
| Board James (Web Video) / int_5527dc0c | type |
Plot Coupon | |
| Board James (Web Video) / int_5527dc0c | comment |
Plot Coupon: Present in some of the adventure Board Games, but played for laughs in the Deadly Danger Dungeon episode. | |
| Board James (Web Video) / int_5527dc0c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Board James (Web Video) / int_5527dc0c | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Board James (Web Video) | hasFeature |
Board James (Web Video) / int_5527dc0c | |
| Board James (Web Video) / int_55cd4012 | type |
"Everybody Dies" Ending | |
| Board James (Web Video) / int_55cd4012 | comment |
"Everybody Dies" Ending: How "13 Dead End Drive" ends. Mike hangs James, Bootsy hangs Mike, and then Bootsy accidentally hangs himself. | |
| Board James (Web Video) / int_55cd4012 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Board James (Web Video) / int_55cd4012 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Board James (Web Video) | hasFeature |
Board James (Web Video) / int_55cd4012 | |
| Board James (Web Video) / int_560fd3cb | type |
Fan Sequel | |
| Board James (Web Video) / int_560fd3cb | comment |
Fan Sequel: When he was a kid, James made a board game based on Street Fighter II... and tired of waiting for the actual sequel, he made another one based on his own imaginary version of Street Fighter III. One of the characters was Dracula. And the Transylvania flag was a bat, of course. | |
| Board James (Web Video) / int_560fd3cb | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Board James (Web Video) / int_560fd3cb | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Board James (Web Video) | hasFeature |
Board James (Web Video) / int_560fd3cb | |
| Board James (Web Video) / int_56240281 | type |
Country Matters | |
| Board James (Web Video) / int_56240281 | comment |
Country Matters: The Full House & Urkel Games episode has one during James' profane outrage at Bootsy, although when he repeats it, he subverts it by swaping the word for "Bitch": | |
| Board James (Web Video) / int_56240281 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Board James (Web Video) / int_56240281 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Board James (Web Video) | hasFeature |
Board James (Web Video) / int_56240281 | |
| Board James (Web Video) / int_57e8aed6 | type |
Shameless Self-Promoter | |
| Board James (Web Video) / int_57e8aed6 | comment |
Shameless Self-Promoter: The Monster Madness episode is a promotion for James Rolfe's other project Monster Madness. | |
| Board James (Web Video) / int_57e8aed6 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Board James (Web Video) / int_57e8aed6 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Board James (Web Video) | hasFeature |
Board James (Web Video) / int_57e8aed6 | |
| Board James (Web Video) / int_58626d87 | type |
Genius Ditz | |
| Board James (Web Video) / int_58626d87 | comment |
Genius Ditz: For all of the dim-witted hijinks that Bootsy inevitably gets himself and the group into, there's this solitary moment that suggests more to his character. | |
| Board James (Web Video) / int_58626d87 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Board James (Web Video) / int_58626d87 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Board James (Web Video) | hasFeature |
Board James (Web Video) / int_58626d87 | |
| Board James (Web Video) / int_59a9605d | type |
Never Smile at a Crocodile | |
| Board James (Web Video) / int_59a9605d | comment |
Never Smile at a Crocodile: In the "Nightmare and Beyond" episode, Bootsy gets killed by a crocodile in Forbidden Bridge. | |
| Board James (Web Video) / int_59a9605d | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Board James (Web Video) / int_59a9605d | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Board James (Web Video) | hasFeature |
Board James (Web Video) / int_59a9605d | |
| Board James (Web Video) / int_5b01a021 | type |
The Calls Are Coming from Inside the House | |
| Board James (Web Video) / int_5b01a021 | comment |
The Calls Are Coming from Inside the House: In the Dream Phone episode, Board James is receiving calls from someone who appears to be able to see his every movement, even when he hides in the closet. Because the somebody is the phone. | |
| Board James (Web Video) / int_5b01a021 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Board James (Web Video) / int_5b01a021 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Board James (Web Video) | hasFeature |
Board James (Web Video) / int_5b01a021 | |
| Board James (Web Video) / int_5d5cc3fd | type |
Through the Eyes of Madness | |
| Board James (Web Video) / int_5d5cc3fd | comment |
Through the Eyes of Madness: "Lie Detector" presents the possibility that James had been hallucinating all of the supernatural events that happened to him. "Full House/Urkel Game" confirms it, then takes it to an absurd degree by suggesting that Mike and Bootsy are hallucinations too, and always have been, even before "Dream Phone". | |
| Board James (Web Video) / int_5d5cc3fd | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Board James (Web Video) / int_5d5cc3fd | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Board James (Web Video) | hasFeature |
Board James (Web Video) / int_5d5cc3fd | |
| Board James (Web Video) / int_5e965a73 | type |
Nice, Mean, and In-Between | |
| Board James (Web Video) / int_5e965a73 | comment |
Nice, Mean, and In-Between: Bad Luck Bootsy as the Nice, Motherfucker Mike as the Mean and Board James as the in-between, respectively. However, James, Mike and Bootsy are all Nice Guys in real life, so this trope is Played for Laughs. | |
| Board James (Web Video) / int_5e965a73 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Board James (Web Video) / int_5e965a73 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Board James (Web Video) | hasFeature |
Board James (Web Video) / int_5e965a73 | |
| Board James (Web Video) / int_5eb3a0a0 | type |
Audience-Alienating Premise | |
| Board James (Web Video) / int_5eb3a0a0 | comment |
Audience-Alienating Premise: In-Universe, James says this about Dragonstrike. Whenever he tried to find people to play the game with, they would be put off by the seeming complexity of the rules. | |
| Board James (Web Video) / int_5eb3a0a0 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Board James (Web Video) / int_5eb3a0a0 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Board James (Web Video) | hasFeature |
Board James (Web Video) / int_5eb3a0a0 | |
| Board James (Web Video) / int_5f146203 | type |
Dissonant Serenity | |
| Board James (Web Video) / int_5f146203 | comment |
Dissonant Serenity: James at the end of the "Dream Phone" episode. It is terrifying. James is awfully kind-sounding in "13 Dead End Drive" when he approaches Mike with a noose, asking to reenact the murder. | |
| Board James (Web Video) / int_5f146203 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Board James (Web Video) / int_5f146203 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Board James (Web Video) | hasFeature |
Board James (Web Video) / int_5f146203 | |
| Board James (Web Video) / int_5f70322e | type |
Public Domain Soundtrack | |
| Board James (Web Video) / int_5f70322e | comment |
Public Domain Soundtrack: The "Mouse Trap" review uses two classical pieces: "Blue Danube Waltz" and "Marriage of Figaro". | |
| Board James (Web Video) / int_5f70322e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Board James (Web Video) / int_5f70322e | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Board James (Web Video) | hasFeature |
Board James (Web Video) / int_5f70322e | |
| Board James (Web Video) / int_605cf3f | type |
Something Only They Would Say | |
| Board James (Web Video) / int_605cf3f | comment |
Something Only They Would Say: The person calling James on the Dream Phone challenges him to guess his name "if you've got the balls, and I know you've got the balls!". This leads James to suspect Mr. Bucket as the culprit, but upon finding Mr. Bucket still dead in the sink where James left him, it's revealed that the person on the phone (actually the phone itself) purposely invoked this trope just to mess with him. Attention has been brought to how the Dream Phone says "I just want to play a game", which is a line that was previously used by James at the end of "Shark Attack". In Episode 25, James himself screams "What were they thinking?!", causing him to realize that he's just a Split Personality of The Angry Video Game Nerd. | |
| Board James (Web Video) / int_605cf3f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Board James (Web Video) / int_605cf3f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Board James (Web Video) | hasFeature |
Board James (Web Video) / int_605cf3f | |
| Board James (Web Video) / int_62259825 | type |
Nintendo Hard | |
| Board James (Web Video) / int_62259825 | comment |
Nintendo Hard: The difficulty level of the original Deadly Danger Dungeon game. | |
| Board James (Web Video) / int_62259825 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Board James (Web Video) / int_62259825 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Board James (Web Video) | hasFeature |
Board James (Web Video) / int_62259825 | |
| Board James (Web Video) / int_62434fe2 | type |
Sanity Slippage | |
| Board James (Web Video) / int_62434fe2 | comment |
Sanity Slippage: Many believe that James is going through this over the course of the series. It starts with "Mr. Bucket", which ends with James graphically and disturbingly drowning the bucket in a sink. Then came the end of the "Shark Attack" episode, where he reaches a Rage-Breaking Point and yells at his friends for fucking up everything. Everything culminated with "Dream Phone", where a popular idea is that James was the real killer, not the phone; an idea that was acknowledged but deliberately left vague until the "Full House / Do the Urkel" episode, where it's revealed that there was no slippage. James was insane all along, and apparently his friends never existed to begin with. | |
| Board James (Web Video) / int_62434fe2 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Board James (Web Video) / int_62434fe2 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Board James (Web Video) | hasFeature |
Board James (Web Video) / int_62434fe2 | |
| Board James (Web Video) / int_627264e0 | type |
Death Glare | |
| Board James (Web Video) / int_627264e0 | comment |
In the Heroquest episode, Board James spends a considerable amount of time setting up the board as he explains the game mechanics, and after he dramatically reads the instructions for the first quest, Motherfucker Mike is so bored he asks to play another thing, much to James's annoyance. | |
| Board James (Web Video) / int_627264e0 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Board James (Web Video) / int_627264e0 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Board James (Web Video) | hasFeature |
Board James (Web Video) / int_627264e0 | |
| Board James (Web Video) / int_6293c185 | type |
Sequel Hook | |
| Board James (Web Video) / int_6293c185 | comment |
Sequel Hook: Both endings to "Lie Detector" have James say that he's going to get to the bottom of all the supernatural events that have happened to him. One ending suggests that he is going to summon the ghosts of Mike and Bootsy. At the end of Angry Video Game Nerd's 2015 Halloween special, he promises to Board James that he will have a Halloween special after Halloween. Cue 13 Dead End Drive released on November 1, 2015. | |
| Board James (Web Video) / int_6293c185 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Board James (Web Video) / int_6293c185 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Board James (Web Video) | hasFeature |
Board James (Web Video) / int_6293c185 | |
| Board James (Web Video) / int_62f9d08e | type |
Freeze-Frame Bonus | |
| Board James (Web Video) / int_62f9d08e | comment |
Freeze-Frame Bonus: Multiple in the "Nightmare and Beyond" episode: The newspaper clippings are unreadable, except the one at 0:04, which details the circumstances of the arrest. A mannequin appears in 5:13, which represents Mike tumbling down the stairs as he flees from James. | |
| Board James (Web Video) / int_62f9d08e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Board James (Web Video) / int_62f9d08e | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Board James (Web Video) | hasFeature |
Board James (Web Video) / int_62f9d08e | |
| Board James (Web Video) / int_6627695f | type |
Author Appeal | |
| Board James (Web Video) / int_6627695f | comment |
Author Appeal: As Mike is a huge fan of Elvis Presley, in the "Ouija / Domino Rally" episode, he makes his first appearance impersonating Elvis. And he does a pretty spot-on performance, too. | |
| Board James (Web Video) / int_6627695f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Board James (Web Video) / int_6627695f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Board James (Web Video) | hasFeature |
Board James (Web Video) / int_6627695f | |
| Board James (Web Video) / int_68068108 | type |
Evil Laugh | |
| Board James (Web Video) / int_68068108 | comment |
Evil Laugh: James gives an extremely unnerving chuckle at the end (directly to the camera, no less) after quoting Edgar Allan Poe. | |
| Board James (Web Video) / int_68068108 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Board James (Web Video) / int_68068108 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Board James (Web Video) | hasFeature |
Board James (Web Video) / int_68068108 | |
| Board James (Web Video) / int_6841f7f5 | type |
Evil Phone | |
| Board James (Web Video) / int_6841f7f5 | comment |
Evil Phone: Dream Phone is much more than just a girly game... | |
| Board James (Web Video) / int_6841f7f5 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Board James (Web Video) / int_6841f7f5 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Board James (Web Video) | hasFeature |
Board James (Web Video) / int_6841f7f5 | |
| Board James (Web Video) / int_6acb79b2 | type |
Episode Title Card | |
| Board James (Web Video) / int_6acb79b2 | comment |
Episode Title Card: Drawn by no other than Mike Matei, as with the AVGN. | |
| Board James (Web Video) / int_6acb79b2 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Board James (Web Video) / int_6acb79b2 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Board James (Web Video) | hasFeature |
Board James (Web Video) / int_6acb79b2 | |
| Board James (Web Video) / int_6b2b3b59 | type |
The Reveal | |
| Board James (Web Video) / int_6b2b3b59 | comment |
A certain phrase regarding The Reveal: | |
| Board James (Web Video) / int_6b2b3b59 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Board James (Web Video) / int_6b2b3b59 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Board James (Web Video) | hasFeature |
Board James (Web Video) / int_6b2b3b59 | |
| Board James (Web Video) / int_6b35bdff | type |
Serious Business | |
| Board James (Web Video) / int_6b35bdff | comment |
Serious Business: The reviews about adventure games usually describe them as being really epic experiences. Some of the games between Motherfucker Mike and Board James can get very intense. The Dragonstrike VHS really talks about the game as a serious business. James is very insistent that Bootsy & Mike follow the Full House and Do the Urkel games' rules (for example, by telling a "Joey Joke" and getting an extra turn in the former, instead of just taking the extra turn). | |
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The Scream | |
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The Scream: In the Dream Phone episode, when James finds Mike's corpse. | |
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Guide Dang It! | |
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Guide Dang It!: While playing Battle Masters, Board James had to check the manual before attempting any move. And even with the manual at hand, the rules were way too complicated and confusing, to the point that Mike ended up giving up. | |
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Mind Screwdriver | |
| Board James (Web Video) / int_710bd545 | comment |
Mind Screwdriver: The Board James Mythology Explained video, for Episode 27, although not completely. James still says it's up to the viewers to put the pieces together or make up their own minds. | |
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Jigsaw Puzzle Plot | |
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The "Nightmare and Beyond" episode, because so many subplots were unfolding simultaneously that all of the characters' fates are somewhat vague. Even with the Mind Screwdriver James provided, it was meant to not give a concrete answer and have fans theorize or conclude for themselves. | |
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Covers Always Lie | |
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Covers Always Lie: In the episode about Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles games, as the games were more visually attractive and better illustrated the less fun they were. | |
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Arc Words | |
| Board James (Web Video) / int_7464705c | comment |
Arc Words: "I just wanna play a game." | |
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Just for Pun | |
| Board James (Web Video) / int_76788531 | comment |
Subverted; the first regular episode ("Dragonstrike") has Board James introduce himself with the phrase "Hey! I'm Board James. And when Board James is bored, I play some board games." This is delivered in such a way that it APPEARS to be his opening catchphrase, but he doesn't say it again until the Omega Virus episode — as an Ironic Echo, given the circumstances. | |
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Phrase Catcher | |
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Phrase Catcher: "Bad Luck Bootsy?!" | |
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The Faceless | |
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The Faceless: Board James in the first episode. Probably to keep ambiguous whether if the narrator was the Nerd or not. | |
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Platform Hell | |
| Board James (Web Video) / int_7d0b5cb5 | comment |
Platform Hell: A game he made as a kid, Deadly Danger Dungeon, can be summed up as Board Game Hell. In May 2010, it got made into a Platform Hell video game. The original was scanned shortly afterward. Here. | |
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"The Reason You Suck" Speech | |
| Board James (Web Video) / int_7d89315b | comment |
The Shark Attack episode looks like it'll just be standard routine, but then Bootsy briefly lashes out at Mike, saying "Fuck you, you motherfuckin' piece of shit!" in a deadly serious tone of voice (to which James and Mike react with shock) before switching back to his normal zaniness. The episode continues like a regular Board James episode, with Bootsy being weird and Mike cheating at the game, until James suddenly gives a Reason You Suck Speech to Mike and Bootsy with a level of rage normally reserved for the Nerd, before storming off. And then the episode switches back to crazy again with the Shark Attack song playing over the credits and Bootsy getting a Groin Attack from the game's shark in The Stinger. | |
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Actually Pretty Funny | |
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Actually Pretty Funny: In a moment in Shark Attack, Bootsy winds up his middle finger like a jack-in-the-box, humming "Pop Goes the Weasel", causing James and Mike to immediately crack up. | |
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Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking | |
| Board James (Web Video) / int_808cbaeb | comment |
Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking: | |
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Breather Episode | |
| Board James (Web Video) / int_80a247a9 | comment |
Breather Episode: Wacky Blasters which comes after the Ouija / Domino Rally episode seems to return to the old format of the show from seasons 1 and 2 save for a scene where Mike and Bootsy begin to fade away for a moment. The two episodes that follow Wacky Blasters, "Full House / Urkel Games" and "Video Game Board Games" also count, especially because the episodes that come next are completely darker than any previous episode. | |
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Cuteness Proximity | |
| Board James (Web Video) / int_80d55f20 | comment |
Cuteness Proximity: The Doggie Doo dog had this effect on both James and Mike when it first came out of the box. | |
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Tome of Eldritch Lore | |
| Board James (Web Video) / int_815556aa | comment |
Tome of Eldritch Lore: In the "Ouija/Domino Rally" episode, James is seen consulting the Necronomicon Ex-Mortis. | |
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Live Episode | |
| Board James (Web Video) / int_81eb806a | comment |
Live Episode: The "Loupin' Louie" episode was recorded live at PAX 2011. | |
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Button Mashing | |
| Board James (Web Video) / int_82933b02 | comment |
Button Mashing: Pretty much the whole Crossfire battle. In a later episode, the curiously one-sided battle takes on an eerie turn... | |
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Gainax Ending | |
| Board James (Web Video) / int_82accf22 | comment |
Gainax Ending: The "Shark Attack" episode, which ends after James reaches a Rage-Breaking Point, yells at Mike and Bootsy, and then leaves. This doesn't count The Stinger, which still doesn't make much sense. The "Omega Virus" episode, which has the big reveal that there are multiple versions of James playing at once. Then another James comes in and kills them all, revealing the duplicates to be robotic doppelgangers. The "Ouija / Domino Rally" episode ends with James successfully bringing Mike and Bootsy back from the dead. When he tries to question them about the Dream Phone incident, they try to calm him down, stating that the incident never needs to be discussed again. Their statements of "never again" gradually turn into "nevermore", which leads to James creepily uttering the "Quoth the raven, nevermore" line from The Raven before performing an unnerving chuckle. The "Full House / Do the Urkel" episode ends with James coming to the realization that he didn't murder his friends. After all, you can't murder people who never existed to begin with. The ending for the "Video Games" episode, beginning when James yells "What were they thinking?!" After a beat, he looks into the mirror and sees The Angry Video Game Nerd, who tells him "You know who you are. You're a nerd. You'll always be a nerd. A video game nerd." At this point, he nods, and shortly thereafter changes his outfit into that of the Nerd's, leaving his room and entering the Nerd's trademark set, all while an electronic version of his theme plays. The "13 Dead End Drive" episode ends with Mike getting arrested by James, and when he tries to hang Mike he ends up hanged himself by Mike in a form of self-defense. Bootsy then hangs Mike, and then he ends up accidentally hanging himself. Afterwards the episode ends showing James in prison reading a bunch of board game manuals, being shushed by fellow inmates Mike and Bootsy. The "Nightmare and Beyond" episode, because so many subplots were unfolding simultaneously that all of the characters' fates are somewhat vague. Even with the Mind Screwdriver James provided, it was meant to not give a concrete answer and have fans theorize or conclude for themselves. | |
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Spikes of Doom | |
| Board James (Web Video) / int_83308c12 | comment |
Spikes of Doom: Deadly Danger Dungeon is full of them. | |
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Red Oni, Blue Oni | |
| Board James (Web Video) / int_8411ab92 | comment |
Red Oni, Blue Oni: Bad Luck Bootsy is usually the Blue to Board James and Motherfucker Mike's Red, while Board James rapidly switches between Red and Blue. He's typically the Blue to Motherfucker Mike's Red, but he'll go Red to Bad Luck Bootsy's Blue when he really needs to. Motherfucker Mike is the Red to Board James and Bad Luck Bootsy's Blue due to him cheating a lot. | |
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Dramatic Thunder | |
| Board James (Web Video) / int_84764598 | comment |
Dramatic Thunder: Used frequently throughout the Mr. Bucket episode: when James finds the bucket under his blankets, when the bucket says that it wants to suck James' balls, and when the bucket is attacking James in the living room. The Monster Madness episode is full of them. | |
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Back from the Dead | |
| Board James (Web Video) / int_8967e17f | comment |
Back from the Dead: Mike and Bootsy, in the Ouija / Domino Rally episode. | |
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Kudzu Plot | |
| Board James (Web Video) / int_8b5e8731 | comment |
Kudzu Plot: A scene in the "13 Dead End Drive" episode is based around Mike and Bootsy questioning James about how the game's admittedly quite convoluted plot plays out. | |
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The Television Talks Back | |
| Board James (Web Video) / int_8c30ad0 | comment |
The Television Talks Back: Much to James surprise, the narrator in the Dragonstrike VHS can talk directly to him at some points. | |
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Deep-Immersion Gaming | |
| Board James (Web Video) / int_8d9c8569 | comment |
Deep-Immersion Gaming: Done in the "Nightmare and Beyond" episode with the titular board game, Operation/Hangman, Candyland, Battleship, and Forbidden Bridge. | |
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Wham Episode | |
| Board James (Web Video) / int_8e20979 | comment |
Wham Episode: The Dream Phone episode marks the point where the series moves from episodic to full-on Myth Arc. Lie Detector, which starts out normally but then is revealed to be a continuation of the narrative from "Dream Phone", where he imagines that all of the people on the game cards are accusing him of the murder. Then the attention gets turned to the viewer, who is asked to pick between "true" or "false" as to whether James is the killer, which takes them to two separate videos. In the Ouija / Domino Rally episode, Mike and Bootsy are brought back to life... but something seems very, very off about the way they reassure him that nothing is wrong. The end of the Full House & Urkel Game implies that Mike and Bootsy never really existed and that James was insane all along. And then they top that in the next episode by revealing that James never existed either and was a Split Personality of the Angry Video Game Nerd all along. This goes off the rails entirely when it's possibly revealed that James, Mike, and Bootsy are all in prison, and the series to this point may have been All Just a Dream. Maybe. According to Word of God, the prison scenes are Flashbacks and the true location of the series is the afterlife. | |
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Parody Episode | |
| Board James (Web Video) / int_8e3f39b3 | comment |
Parody Episode: The Mr. Bucket episode is a parody of horror movies. The Dream Phone episode, on the other hand, aims for genuine scares. | |
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Better Manhandle the Murder Weapon | |
| Board James (Web Video) / int_8ee710e7 | comment |
Better Manhandle the Murder Weapon: In the Dream Phone review, after finding Mike dead, James pulls the knife out of his back. | |
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Split-Personality Takeover | |
| Board James (Web Video) / int_90a1fbd4 | comment |
Split-Personality Takeover/Split-Personality Merge: The Nerd spends an episode coaxing James into swearing up a storm at a bunch of shitty video-game-based board games, until he starts using more creative swears like the Nerd uses, and eventually drops one of the Nerd's catchphrases: "What were they thinking?!". At that point, James realizes who/what he really is and puts on the Nerd's Iconic Outfit, and leaves the board game storage room for the Nerd's room where he starts playing an NES. | |
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Justified Trope | |
| Board James (Web Video) / int_90c018ac | comment |
Justified: James brought Mike and Bootsy Back from the Dead, and accidentally brought Mr. Bucket and the Phone back too. Plus, the next episode established that James is completely nuts and has been hallucinating since "Crossfire" anyway. | |
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Rule of Symbolism | |
| Board James (Web Video) / int_916c72b3 | comment |
Rule of Symbolism: It seems rather correlative that things in the Dream Phone episode start getting more twisted after James walks through a door with a poster on it that reads "YOU ARE NOW ENTERING THE TWILIGHT ZONE". | |
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Major Injury Underreaction | |
| Board James (Web Video) / int_91cab736 | comment |
Major Injury Underreaction: After the fact. James calls Bootsy during the Dream Phone video. When he says that Bootsy can probably get to his house pretty fast, Bootsy casually mentions that he got his dick bit off by a shark recently, so it might take him a few. But he'll try to speed walk. | |
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Stock Monsters | |
| Board James (Web Video) / int_97ecc34a | comment |
Stock Monsters: The characters of the Monster Madness game: the Mummy, the Werewolf, the Frankenstein's monster and Dracula. | |
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Throw the Dog a Bone | |
| Board James (Web Video) / int_98576799 | comment |
Throw the Dog a Bone: Episode 27, the darkest in the series, finally fulfills Bootsy's request to play Candyland. | |
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Luck-Based Mission | |
| Board James (Web Video) / int_98b1dc8f | comment |
Luck-Based Mission: Deadly Danger Dungeon. Even playing the fan-retooled version that's actually beatable will kill you over and over and over... | |
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Eldritch Location | |
| Board James (Web Video) / int_9bee1a7f | comment |
Eldritch Location: When Bootsy and Mike are trying to escape, they end up going from the basement to the attic. Word of God explains that Board James's house is a recursive afterlife that has aspects of various parts of his original life as a murderer. | |
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Foreshadowing | |
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Foreshadowing: In the "Video Games" episode if you pause the video just right around 1:08 you can see an image of Mike and Bootsy just as Board James is explaining being trapped for eternity with two ghosts. This foreshadows The Reveal in "Board James Mythology Explained" that they have already died, and each death just sends them deeper into another board game. During the False Ending for Lie Detector, James says he has an idea of how to prove there's a presence. As it fades to black, the box for the Ouija game still stands out. Guess what he plays next? During James' Ouija ritual in "Ouija/Domino Rally", we see three board games summoning the people on their covers: Elvis, Rodney Dangerfield, and Vincent Price. Mike and Bootsy eventually appear as Elvis and Rodney Dangerfield. At the end, Board James starts behaving similar to Vincent Price. In the "13 Dead End Drive" episode, James traps Mike and Bootsy in his basement by sealing off all escape routes with jail cell bars. The Stinger of the episode has James in a jail cell. After playing Dream Phone, James points out that it plays like a mystery game. He goes on to draw parallels between it and a murder mystery like Clue, which is eventually what the episode turns into. | |
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Continuity Nod | |
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Continuity Nod: In the Donut Disaster episode, Bootsy is using an eye-patch because of the little accident he had in the Tornado Rex episode. He splashed hot burning coffee all over his face at the end of the Donut Disaster episode, and in the Splat! episode we see him wearing the eye-patch and bandages over his face. In the Dream Phone episode, the person on the other end of the line says for James to guess his name if he had the balls. We can't blame him for seeing if Mr. Bucket was the one stalking him. He wasn't. Again from the Dream Phone episode, Bootsy mentions that his dick was bitten off by a shark. This is a reference to the Shark Attack episode, in which he tried to make love to the plastic shark from the game. In James' appearance in an AVGN episode, the Nerd brings up his dead friends (this is post-''Dream Phone'', mind you) and James leaves in a bout of profane anger. | |
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Acid-Trip Dimension | |
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Acid-Trip Dimension: In the "Ouija/Domino Rally" episode, James finds himself in one after he completes his ritual. A sun and moon are floating around, there's a giant eye in the darkness, and the green Atari Frankenstein that the Nerd blew up with his Super Scope is in the corner. Even lampshaded by James. | |
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Fridge Logic | |
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Board James himself also appears on the Nerd's "AVGN Games" episode, strangely happy and jovial as usual as if he hadn't almost died and then lost his mind, where he talks about an AVGN Monopoly game with him. When asked about why he isn't in jail, he says he used a get out of jail free card. What? Anyway, he still blames the episode's events on the phone and says that he's completely innocent. Hmm... | |
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The Dog Was the Mastermind | |
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James in the Dream Phone episode when he realizes who the killer is. | |
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Sugar Bowl | |
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The Nightmare and Beyond episode switches between James torturing Mike and Bootsy complete with dark background music to a Sugar Bowl version of them playing CandyLand with bright and cheery music. | |
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Overly Long Gag | |
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Overly-Long Gag: Bootsy throwing up at the end of the Splat episode lasts over 50 seconds. | |
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Eye Scream | |
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Eye Scream: Bad Luck Bootsy, which is why he dons an eyepatch. At the end of the Tornado Rex review, where he sends Tornado Rex flying, bouncing off walls, and into his own eye. | |
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Mood Whiplash | |
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Mood Whiplash: The Dream Phone episode goes from your average Board James episode to a murder mystery! The Shark Attack episode looks like it'll just be standard routine, but then Bootsy briefly lashes out at Mike, saying "Fuck you, you motherfuckin' piece of shit!" in a deadly serious tone of voice (to which James and Mike react with shock) before switching back to his normal zaniness. The episode continues like a regular Board James episode, with Bootsy being weird and Mike cheating at the game, until James suddenly gives a Reason You Suck Speech to Mike and Bootsy with a level of rage normally reserved for the Nerd, before storming off. And then the episode switches back to crazy again with the Shark Attack song playing over the credits and Bootsy getting a Groin Attack from the game's shark in The Stinger. The Ouija / Domino Rally episode starts off darkly, with an agitated James screaming at the Ouija board regarding the deaths of his friends only to get no response. Then he notices Domino Rally and immediately cheers up, gushing over and playing with the game... up until the Ouija pointer suddenly flies into James's dominoes, at which point it swings right back into darkness with the Ouija board. The Nightmare and Beyond episode switches between James torturing Mike and Bootsy complete with dark background music to a Sugar Bowl version of them playing CandyLand with bright and cheery music. | |
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As Himself | |
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Though, not entirely related to Board James, there are the "Motherfuckin Mondays", a review show with Motherfucker Mike as the lead. | |
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Animate Inanimate Object | |
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Animate Inanimate Object: Mr. Bucket and the Dream Phone. | |
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Embarrassing Middle Name | |
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Embarrassing Middle Name: Motherfucker Mike's middle name is Clarence. | |
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Myth Arc | |
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The Dream Phone episode marks the point where the series moves from episodic to full-on Myth Arc. | |
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Oh, Crap! | |
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Oh, Crap!: James in the Dream Phone episode when he realizes who the killer is. Mike in the Nightmare and Beyond episode when while playing Battleship, he launches a torpedo but then realizes it's headed straight for Bootsy's ship. | |
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Catchphrase | |
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Catchphrase: Subverted; the first regular episode ("Dragonstrike") has Board James introduce himself with the phrase "Hey! I'm Board James. And when Board James is bored, I play some board games." This is delivered in such a way that it APPEARS to be his opening catchphrase, but he doesn't say it again until the Omega Virus episode — as an Ironic Echo, given the circumstances. Board James uses someone else's catchphrases abruptly in Video Games! shortly before he becomes the Nerd. | |
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Toilet Humour | |
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Toilet Humour: In the Dragonstrike episode, the listing of all the types of "crap" (actually "trap" written in a medieval font, with the T looking an awful lot like a C). The entirety of the Doggie Doo episode. | |
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Internal Homage | |
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Internal Homage: Board James describes playing Shark Attack as "easy-peasy-monkey-cheesy!" According to James, Board James saying "Oh well, he's dead" after he finds Bootsy hanging in the closet in the "Dream Phone" episode is a reference to the same line being used in his short film Death Puppy. | |
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Precision F-Strike | |
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Precision F-Strike: Bootsy's first two songs ("Tornado Rex" and "Donut Disaster") have one right at the very end. In "The Making of Board James", James says that he told Bootsy to do this so that the viewers would know that they weren't the actual songs from the commercials. It didn't always work, and many people commented on the videos along the lines of "I can't believe they got away with airing this on TV back in the day!". Maybe that's why the third song, used in "Shark Attack", actually is the song from the commercial (or rather, a cover version done by Bootsy). Board James's breakdown in Shark Attack. Despite the character's tendency to swear often, this time it was strong enough to take Mike aback. | |
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Berserk Button | |
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In James' appearance in an AVGN episode, the Nerd brings up his dead friends (this is post-''Dream Phone'', mind you) and James leaves in a bout of profane anger. | |
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Slasher Smile | |
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Slasher Smile: James does one at the end of the Dream Phone episode, hinting at his insanity. | |
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Mind Screw | |
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Mind Screw: This entire series becomes this after the Dream Phone episode, as the show goes from one interpretation as to what's going on to another in almost no time. The episode that takes the cake though is Episode 27, in which 13 Dead End Drive, Nightmare, Operation/Hangman, Candyland, Forbidden Bridge, and Battleship are all played in an Inception style "Game within a Game", with no clear answer as to what's going on. | |
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Dull Surprise | |
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Dull Surprise: In the "Dream Phone" episode, James and Mike both have the same reaction to Bootsy's death—a brief period of shock and horror, only to quickly come to accept that he's dead mere moments afterward. | |
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A Bloody Mess | |
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A Bloody Mess: In one shot of the "Ouija / Domino Rally" episode, James very clearly uses ketchup to simulate the scenario of him cutting his wrist with a steak knife as part of his ritual. | |
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Bestiality Is Depraved | |
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Bestiality Is Depraved: Bootsy apparently has a past of lovemaking with animals, with a particular fondness for marine life, and is even seen in bed flirting with the shark in the "Shark Attack" episode. According to accusations from one another, James and Mike have indulged in this as well. Though in their case it's probably just meaningless trash talk. | |
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Mid-Review Sketch Show | |
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Also, it follows the Mid-Review Sketch Show formula that the AVGN became famous for. | |
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Shout-Out | |
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Shout-Out: To the AVGN's catchphrase, in the Deadly Danger Dungeon episode when he's playing his own games full of Fake Difficulty. In the "Lie Detector" episode, James re-enacts the "Listen, you fuckers, you screwheads" scene from Taxi Driver after he gives the Taxi Driver card a warrant of arrest. Several in the "Ouija / Domino Rally" episode. During the ritual, we see him consulting the Necronomicon Ex-Mortis. Amongst other Black Speech, James tries to say "Klaatu Barada Nikto" but ends up coughing on the "nikto". While slitting his wrist at the end of the ritual, James says "May the power of Christ compel you! May the force be with you! IT'S NOT A TOOMAH!" | |
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Rage Breaking Point | |
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Rage-Breaking Point / "The Reason You Suck" Speech: Board James always plays the nice guy who tolerates Bootsy's oddness and is oblivious to Mike's cheating, but even he had enough and cracked, reaching the AVGN's levels of rage, after Bootsy took his Toy Shark to fuck it. | |
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It Won't Turn Off | |
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It Won't Turn Off: Poor Board James swears he turned off Mr. Bucket before going to sleep... The same thing happens with the Dream Phone. | |
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Cerebus Syndrome | |
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Cerebus Syndrome: It starts as your typical web review show, with Board James being a pretty normal guy, a kid at heart who collects a great variety of board games as a hobby, and reviews them. During the post-hiatus episodes, it starts to become much darker, revealing the true nature of the character in the process. | |
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Deliberately Monochrome | |
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Deliberately Monochrome: The Monster Madness episode. | |
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Mundane Made Awesome | |
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Mundane Made Awesome: Board James narrates his games as if they were epic adventures, and not just a man moving figurines across a cardboard board. Frequent use of the Hitler Cam helps with this. In the Dragonstrike review James tells about how he used to get very excited with the introductory video because it presents the game as something seriously epic, then when the video ended, he turned around to actually start playing and discovered that everybody had left the room out of boredom. In the Heroquest episode, Board James spends a considerable amount of time setting up the board as he explains the game mechanics, and after he dramatically reads the instructions for the first quest, Motherfucker Mike is so bored he asks to play another thing, much to James's annoyance. In the Loopin' Louie episode, the music and the way the video was edited makes the game look really fun and dynamic. In the behind the scenes it seems like it could get a little tedious after a while. | |
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Just Here for Godzilla | |
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Just Here for Godzilla: invokedThe video on Mouse Trap (1963) talks about how, though the game does have a clear ruleset involving assembling the trap, collecting pieces of cheese, and a Roll-and-Move mechanic to get one or more of the players into position, most people ignore it altogether in favor of assembling the trap immediately just to watch it go. | |
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I Know Your True Name | |
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The person calling James on the Dream Phone challenges him to guess his name "if you've got the balls, and I know you've got the balls!". This leads James to suspect Mr. Bucket as the culprit, but upon finding Mr. Bucket still dead in the sink where James left him, it's revealed that the person on the phone (actually the phone itself) purposely invoked this trope just to mess with him. | |
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It Was a Dark and Stormy Night | |
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It Was a Dark and Stormy Night: For their playthrough of 13 Dead End Drive, though Mike and Bootsy try to defy it by pulling out their cellphones to call for help when the landlines are down. | |
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Spin-Off | |
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Spin-Off: Board James' first episode was only called "Board game review" as part of the Nerd videos, but later Board James became its own character. Though, not entirely related to Board James, there are the "Motherfuckin Mondays", a review show with Motherfucker Mike as the lead. | |
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Red Herring | |
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Red Herring: See Something Only They Would Say. | |
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Lyrical Dissonance | |
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Lyrical Dissonance: The lyrics to Bootsy's upbeat Chipmunks-style Candyland song are actually pretty grim. | |
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Video Review Show | |
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Video Review Show: Leans very heavily on the show end of the Sliding Scale of Review vs. Show. | |
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Chekhov's Gunman | |
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Chekhov's Gunman: The crocodile in Forbidden Bridge in the Nightmare and Beyond episode. It is initially shown when Mike and Bootsy are first on the bridge, and when Bootsy falls and is unharmed, the crocodile is the one to kill him. | |
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Cat Scare | |
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Cat Scare: Multiple times in the Mr. Bucket episode, since you can't really make an effective Jump Scare out of a plastic children's toy. | |
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Silly Walk | |
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Silly Walk: Bad Luck Bootsy's funny little jumps, set to sound effects from Punch-Out!!. | |
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Manipulative Editing | |
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Manipulative Editing: Towards the end of the "DragonStrike" episode when James asks the VHS host if he should cast a death spell on the Teletubby outside his window, the host answers "of course!" However, that clip is taken from a different portion of the VHS tape. | |
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Fake Difficulty | |
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To the AVGN's catchphrase, in the Deadly Danger Dungeon episode when he's playing his own games full of Fake Difficulty. | |
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Gasp! | |
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Gasp!: In the Dream Phone episode when James finds Bootsy's corpse. | |
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The Oner | |
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The Oner: The entire shot of Board James transforming into The Angry Video Game Nerd never pans away from him from when he moves from backstage in Board James to the filming location of the Nerd videos, showing they're literally walking distance apart. | |
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All Just a Dream | |
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This goes off the rails entirely when it's possibly revealed that James, Mike, and Bootsy are all in prison, and the series to this point may have been All Just a Dream. Maybe. According to Word of God, the prison scenes are Flashbacks and the true location of the series is the afterlife. | |
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April Fools' Day | |
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April Fools' Day: This date in 2013 was the day the Dream Phone episode, the last episode prior to a two-year hiatus, came out. The same date in 2015 marked the return of the series in the Omega Virus episode. Neither of them were pranks. | |
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Groin Attack | |
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Groin Attack: Mr. Bucket always goes for the balls. And in The Stinger from the Shark Attack video, Bad Luck Bootsy is on the receiving end of one from the shark. He now dons a hook on his crotch. | |
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Me's a Crowd | |
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Me's a Crowd: The "Omega Virus" episode. It is hinted at with the three different camera angles we see in the video back-to-back-to-back, and then it is revealed that there are three different James clones playing the game, as well as a fourth that kills them all. | |
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Big Damn Heroes | |
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Big Damn Heroes: Hilariously subverted when Mike walks in on James being cornered by Mr. Bucket. Instead of helping, Mike becomes Mr. Bucket's new victim as James tells the bucket to attack him instead. Mike does eventually play this trope straight. When James gets tag-teamed by Mr. Bucket and the Dream Phone in the "Ouija / Domino Rally" episode, Mike appears and kills them off. While impersonating Elvis, no less. | |
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Duct Tape for Everything | |
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Duct Tape for Everything: Used in the Weapons and Warriors episode while setting up the game, because glue takes time to dry, and all is going to get fucked up again anyway. He seems to get a bad time keeping the pieces together with the tape, though. | |
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Vomit Discretion Shot | |
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Vomit Discretion Shot: After consuming massive amounts of Play-Doh, Bad Luck Boosty marathon vomits it out. Thankfully we don't see it. | |
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Disguised Horror Story | |
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Disguised Horror Story: The show begins as a review series about board games the titular James played as a kid, with some friends cameoing to help the reviews along. It becomes a Surreal Horror series in which James is revealed to have been a Serial Killer who murdered Mike and Bootsy and is torturing their souls through a Recursive Reality. | |
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Downer Beginning | |
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Downer Beginning: Word of God states that the parts with a long-haired James in jail are the earliest points of the Board James timeline. They show the original universe, where James is a convicted murderer on death row (and reading through board game manuals to reminisce about happier times during childhood). | |
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Series Fauxnale | |
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Series Fauxnale: "Dream Phone" was designed as the potential final episode of the series before James eventually found the time to get back to it, and "Nightmare and Beyond" is a similar example, which eventually did become the series finale. | |
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Real After All | |
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Real After All: Mike and Bootsy might be real. We're not sure, but if they are they're James's cell mates in a maximum-security prison. | |
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Beware the Nice Ones | |
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Beware the Nice Ones: As seen at the end of the "Shark Attack" episode, James can get really irate when pissed off. | |
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