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Brows Held High (Web Video)

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Brows Held High is a film analysis show about arthouse cinema. It is hosted by Kyle Kallgren (formerly known as Oancitizen), who rose to some prominence on the That Guy With The Glasses forums when he wrote a dissertation on Nella's My Little Pony epic.His signature style usually involves a lot of high-brow intellectual concepts, but explained well enough that they don't go over viewer's heads. The show was originally more overtly comedic, but has since changed its tone to be more on the analytical side of things, while still maintaining Kallgren's understated, quirky sense of humor as a major element.You can find these videos on YouTube here.
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And Then John Was a Zombie
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And Then John Was a Zombie/You Are What You Hate: After watching Trash Humpers, he realizes he's become one of them. Kyle has transformed into Diamanda Hagan when she Body Surfed into him. He also has some sort of psychotic mode which he turned into first at the end of the Lost Episode reviewing What Is It?, and later in the Eat The Schoolgirl and tried killing Hagan with a clothing iron.
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Madness Mantra: Goodbye, 20th Century had "Sure, why not?" In 9 Songs, the "five-ninths" gag. From Zardoz "SEAN CONNERY IS DOROTHY!"
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Tempting Fate
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Tempting Fate: In Tideland, Kyle compares the Alice themes to that older, creepier film he already covered. Since it's animated, Kyle is confident that explaining the themes and symbolism of Revolutionary Girl Utena will be a trifling matter for his mighty brain. After being thoroughly mindfucked by the Revolutionary Girl Utena movie, Kyle resolves that he'll never let himself get roped into reviewing an allegedly deep animated show or movie again. Then the bronies get a hold of him. Since Tromeo and Juliet is busy drowning itself in pornographic Shakespeare puns, Kyle decides to join in, too.
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What Did You Expect When You Named It ____?
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What Did You Expect When You Named It ____?: He discusses on how Nasa names a giant planet that might crash into Earth and exterminate all life something as negative as "Melancholia".
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Your Head A-Splode
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Your Head Asplode: In Gerry REDUX, Kyle's head explodes when he finds out that Gerry was inspired by Tomb Raider, of all things. He's fine after the ad break, though.
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Gone Horribly Right
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Gone Horribly Right: At the end of A Serbian Film review, the NATO officer calls it a horror movie that's actually horrifying.
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Fridge Horror
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Fridge Horror: In-Universe. He comes to the conclusion that the orgy in Perfume would have incest and sex with children due to people bringing their families to the execution.
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Scare Chord
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Scare Chord: Plenty in Room in Rome regarding a succession of reveals the characters make.
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The Cameo
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The Cameo: Diamanda Hagan appears at the end of the Ken Park review, and the end of Gerry. The latter also features cameos from Apollo Z. Hack, Allison and Derek from Audible Underwear. Kyle accidentally invokes Rule 34 in Sebastiane, which results in The Vegan reciting a Slash Fic involving Ulysses S. Grant and Jefferson Davis. Roo from Clan of the Greywolf agrees to "translate" M dot Strange's impenetrable video game/anime references. And has a nervous breakdown. Phil Buni does a cameo in Alice. '90s Kid shows up when Kyle reviews The Doom Generation and notes that it combines all the worst traits of Nineties Pop Culture. Ed Glaser made two cameos in the review of A Serbian Film, first as his voice to joke about his resemblance to the movie's villain and as the NATO president who dropped fictional bombs in fictional Serbia. There is an extended cameo by The Rap Critic in the Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai review, which starts off with RC explaining who RZA is, and he butts in on occasion to explain things that Kyle doesn't get. Kyle himself has become the site's go-to guy for cameos whenever something avante-garde is brought up. Or Shakespeare. The Melancholia review, which, being a Milestone Celebrationinvoked, naturally features a cornucopia of these, from The Nostalgia Chick, Todd in the Shadows, Allison Pregler, The Cinema Snob, Film Brain, Phil Buni, Diamanda Hagan, JesuOtaku, Linkara, and BHH title card artist Ven. Ven Gethenian continues to appear every now and then, given he and Kyle are basically Heterosexual Life-Partners now. In Room in Rome he even gives his opinion as he's actually familiar with the subject. He reaches cameo critical mass in the opening number for La Belle et la Bête. Aside from Some Jerk with a Camera (who he's crossing over with), there's Pushing Up Roses, Bennett the Sage, Todd in the Shadows, The Last Angry Geek, The Nostalgia Critic, Linkara, The Rap Critic, Film Brain, Nash, Allison Pregler, Phelous, Mikey Insanity, RL King, Diamanda Hagan, The Omega, Paw Dugan, Rantasmo, That SciFi Guy, Maven of the Eventide, Arthur Knowledge, Masqued Slaher, Horror Guru, Critical Marine, Viga, The Hardcore Kid, The Philosofan, Spazz, Il Neige, and The Wire.
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Visual Pun
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Visual Pun: His censor bars are all about this. To the point that he's genuinely distressed that he can't come up with censor-bar puns for Otto, and just resorts to descriptive text on boxes.
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Heterosexual Life-Partners
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Heterosexual Life-Partners: With his artist and BFF, Ven Gethenian.
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Papa Wolf
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Papa Wolf: In universe, he will get very angry if women, children and animals are harmed during a film he is reviewing. Out of universe, he's very much this for his fellow reviewers, especially Allison, who he's publicly defended on many occasions.
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Heh Heh, You Said "X"
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Heh Heh, You Said "X": In his A Serbian Film review: "Ha ha! His name is Fuckmir!"
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Stealth Pun
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Stealth Pun: The title. While he reviews "Highbrow" films, many of the films we see tend to raise Kyle's eyebrows in a different way. When discussing the Iranian New Wave in his review of This is Not a Film, the background music is "I Ran", a New Wave song.
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Black Comedy
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Dead Baby Comedy: Defied, with strong effort, during his Antichrist review, where he mentions that normally he's above that sort of humor, but it's so hard not to make a joke like that when there's an actual dead baby five minutes into the movie. This, by his own admission, is why he's never reviewed a Todd Solondz film. In "Mister Lonely," they get to a scene where the Marilyn Monroe impersonator hangs herself. Kyle can only stare horrified... and then Ven appears out of nowhere to sing "Candle in the Wind" by Elton John. Admittedly, the whole review seems to border on this, since it is a Harmony Korine film.
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Chekhov's Gag
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Chekhov's Gag: In the Melancholia review. Diamanda Hagan posting Kyle's phone number on Twitter out of spite causes the review to end with Kyle receiving a flurry of admiring and supportive calls from his adoring fans, pulling him out of the deep funk he spent the review in.
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Delusion Conclusion
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Delusion Conclusion: In-universe and Played for Laughs; upon witnessing Shawn carrying on an extremely lurid affair with his girlfriend's mother in Ken Park, Kyle initially comes to the conclusion that this is just Shawn's fantasy, pointing out the teenager's unrealistic sexual prowess and the fact that the supposedly ordinary suburban mom has clearly had plastic surgery. However, when no big reveal is forthcoming, he is forced to irritably admit that these scenes actually happened.
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Multitasked Conversation
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Multitasked Conversation: He does the video essay equivalent of this with his "Nostalghia Critique", which consists of an uncut take of the film's famous nine-minute candle ending scene as he points out and demonstrates methods of bypassing copyright automoderation algorithms to keep it from being flagged. Between this topic, his discussion of the film's protagonist observing himself becoming motivated by the past actions of a proven madman who thought himself a savior, various other digressions on the primary theme and the phrasing of the title, it becomes clear that he is discussing another very specific subject at the same time.
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Art Imitates Art
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Art Imitates Art:
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Ass Pull
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Ass Pull: Invoked when he gives a high-brow, symbolic analysis of the scene in Freddy Got Fingered that involves Tom Green jacking off a horse while shouting "Look at me, daddy, I'm a farmer."
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Hollywood Heart Attack
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Hollywood Heart Attack: During part two of the Beauty and the Beast review, Some Jerk claims that every time he mentions the name of a certain young adult vampire franchise and doesn't immediately follow it with "Zone", a REAL vampire dies of cardiac arrest. During part three, Jerk discovers (and says out loud) that Disney is remaking Beauty and the Beast with the director of Twilight: Breaking Dawn. Cut to a completely different scene, where:
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Bilingual Bonus: After hearing the nonsensical first line of Exterminating Angels, Kyle asks any viewers who have an idea what it means to send their answers to "merdedetaureau@gmail.fr". In other words, send it to bullshit. He closed "The Discovery Of Heaven" by delivering a few lines (unsubtitled) in Dutch.
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Lampshade Hanging
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Lampshade Hanging: Points out background noise picked up by his mic in his review of Primer.
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Limited Wardrobe
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Limited Wardrobe : He wears basically the same clothes in every review.
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Catapult Nightmare
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Catapult Nightmare: Sleeping Beauty certainly lived up to its name, referring not to Emily Browning so much as the hapless viewer. Kyle is jolted awake when Browning suddenly smashes a chair, complete with Inception horn.
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Rooting for the Empire
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Rooting for the Empire: During his review of the Roberto Benigni' Pinocchio (2002), Kyle's loathing of the fifty something hyperactive actor's portrayal of the six year old puppet drives him to cackle and cheer for any character attempting to harm or murder the title character. invoked
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Sophisticated as Hell
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Sophisticated as Hell: Kyle himself. He will rarely swear, but when he does, it's either a striking Precision F-Strike or a full out Cluster F-Bomb.
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Made Myself Sad
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Made Myself Sad: Taxidermia leads to a summation so sad that Kyle notes "Oh, that's why people preferred my funny episodes".
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In-Universe Factoid Failure
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In-Universe Factoid Failure: In Shame, Kyle based his entire script around the assumption that Shame was directed by Steve McQueen (actor). As Ven points out, that Steve McQueen died in 1980, but Shame was released in 2011. Kyle isn't pleased.
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Face Doodling
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Face Doodling: Courtesy of Ven in The Stinger for the Sleeping Beauty review
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Memetic Mutation
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Memetic Mutation: Invoked at the end of the Twilight Of The Ice Nymphs review.
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Even Evil Has Standards
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Even Evil Has Standards: In his review of Perfume, he shows a clip of a cartoon Lex Luthor proposing to use causing random orgies to happen as a weapon. The supervillains he's proposing this too all say "Ewwww." It then cuts to Diamanda Hagan saying Ewwww, before cutting back to the supervillains. He and Diamanda view Eat the Schoolgirl. After spending a good minute responding to Diamanda's dare that he make a rape scene funny ("I don't care what George Carlin says..."), he finally gives in... and dubs the theme song to Jem over the whole thing. Diamanda is both impressed and horrified.
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Got Me Doing It
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Got Me Doing It: In his crossover with Some Jerk with a Camera, Kyle keeps trying to spell out Jean Cocteau's last name in the final line of the song.
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Caption Humor
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Caption Humor: Reviewing We Are the Strange momentarily causes Kyle's words to be translated into L33t speak. Also uses mock captions in his reviews for "Andy Warhol's Dracula" and "Andy Warhol's Frankenstein", to make fun of the characters' unintelligible accents.
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Arch-Enemy
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Arch-Enemy: Harmony Korine. Kyle has to date reviewed four of his movies(which is about half his filmography), more than any other film-maker.
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Milestone Celebration
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The Melancholia review, which, being a Milestone Celebrationinvoked, naturally features a cornucopia of these, from The Nostalgia Chick, Todd in the Shadows, Allison Pregler, The Cinema Snob, Film Brain, Phil Buni, Diamanda Hagan, JesuOtaku, Linkara, and BHH title card artist Ven.
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Cluster F-Bomb
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Cluster F-Bomb: Lets off a rare, if brief one, when the "666" motif is well and truly driven into the ground in The Doom Generation. "Cock-smelting fuckercunt!" Also in his co-review with Allison of "Hamlet The Vampire Slayer," he tells a rapper to "Die motherfucker die motherfucker die!" When Allison hears that Kyle is planning on reviewing Gerry, her reaction is: "Fuuuuck fuck fuck Gerry! Fuck fuckery fucking Gerry! Fuck fuck fuckery fuck fuck fuck Gerry! Fuck Gerry!" From Vase de Noces: "So you're probably thinking: For fuckin' real, is there fuckin' pig fuckin' in the pig fuckin' movie? Yes there's fuckin' pig fuckin' in the pig fuckin' movie! Look at all the fuckin' pig fuckin'!" This escalates when The Cinema Snob and Phelous join in at the end.
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What Do You Mean, It's Not for Kids?
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What Do You Mean, It's Not for Kids?: invoked Slumming it in the Animation Age Ghetto with JesuOtaku, Kyle encounters the lesbian romance in Revolutionary Girl Utena:
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Sick and Wrong
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Sick and Wrong: The man does not scare easily. Anything involving child exploitation makes him cringe, however.
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Awful Truth
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Awful Truth: From his review of Zardoz:
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The Plot Thickens
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The Plot Thickens: "...Into a 65 pound lump of unshaped concrete."
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Flipping the Bird
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Flipping the Bird: Haxan ending with a title card reading SLUT.note Scandinavian for "The End". Kyle takes great offense at this.
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Never Heard That One Before
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Never Heard That One Before: When Mario starts chopping off Dracula's limbs in Andy Warhol's Dracula, Kyle says the audience is probably already going through the Black Knight's dialogue from Monty Python and the Holy Grail in their heads, and says they really need to do some reading on media saturation.
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Rule of Cool
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Rule of Cool: When discussing the 1995 film of Richard III and its setting in the 1930s, he cut in with "TANKS! SHAKESPEARE WITH TANKS! I LOVE THIS!".
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You Need to Get Laid
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You Need to Get Laid: After watching W.R.: Mysteries of the Organism, Kyle starts believing that if he doesn't, he will be driven to murder.
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Critic Breakdown
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Critic Breakdown: What Is It caused him to break down over its disturbing and offensive imagery. Kyle tries very hard to hold it together in his review of A Serbian Film, but ultimately snaps and calls NATO over it. Played for Drama in his review of Melancholia, a film about depression, where over the course of watching it he grows more and more despairing and lashes out at his friends and job.
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Crisis Crossover
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Crisis Crossover: The ending of the What Is It? review.
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Noodle Incident
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Noodle Incident: Kyle's stint as a performance artist in college. Since What Is It? is a Lost Episode, his reference to its closing sketch in the review of The Fall comes off as this.
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Falsely Advertised Accuracy
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Falsely Advertised Accuracy: Sarcastically remarks in-universe at The Devils for its portrayal of the king of France immediately after seeing the title sequence's claim of the film's events being historically accurate.
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Flat "What"
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Flat "What": He summed up ''Otto (or, Up With Dead People)'' thusly: Kyle opining that he'd rather be watching Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead.
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Cut His Heart Out with a Spoon
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Cut His Heart Out with a Spoon: Kyle had some choice words for the director of Trash Humpers. The modern interpretation of Laertes is a gay dance instructor. ..who looks like Mike Myers in Sprockets.
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Black Speech
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Black Speech: Kyle struggles with Klingonese while discussing the Klingon Hamlet. In particular, reciting the "Alas, poor Yorick" speech makes him keel over.
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Lampshaded the Obscure Reference
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Lampshaded the Obscure Reference: In his review of Julia Leigh's Sleeping Beauty, the protagonist being deep-throated with a small plastic tube is censored by a picture of Mark Felt and the caption "GET IT?".
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Freakier Than Fiction
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Freakier Than Fiction:
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Captain Obvious
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Captain Obvious: The Snob challenging him to "make [himself] useful" and try interpreting Troma-Juliet's dream sequence with the killer penis. It there anything we can say about Tom Green's love interest in this movie?
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Broken Aesop
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Broken Aesop: From Goodbye 20th Century, which he selected to be his Christmas episode:
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Shut Up, Hannibal!
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Shut Up, Hannibal!: Kyle gets '90s Kid to shut up by telling him that Nirvana is directly responsible for the existence of Nickelback. He also delivers an amazing comeback to Lars Von Trier's nihilistic worldview at the end of his 50th episode.
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Stylistic Suck
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Admittedly, the whole review seems to border on this, since it is a Harmony Korine film.
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Everyone is Jesus in Purgatory
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Everyone Is Jesus in Purgatory: invokedIt's rare to find a film whose message and symbolism utterly baffle Kyle, given his extensive background in the history and techniques of cinema. Thus, it's saying something when Goodbye 20th Century manages to completely break Kyle's psyche. In his Anonymous review, he calls out Anti-Stratfordianism by applying the same flawed arguments for doubting Shakespeare's authorship to the film's own director Roland Emmerich — assuming that a work of fiction always reflects the author's personal views and life experiences, Independence Day would suggest that Emmerich is a homophobic American conservative (instead of the gay German progressive he actually is).
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Bat Signal
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Bat Signal: Referenced as inverson in his Much Ado About Nothing review, as it wasn't to summon the person named but his friends to help him. He also starting a series analyzing past movies with anti-fascist themes.
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Happy Place
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Happy Place: Sir John Fucking Gielgud reading Tennyson over the music of Gustav Holst! PRETENTION NIRVANA.
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Nightmare Fuel Coloring Book
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Nightmare Fuel Coloring Book: A flurry of them while describing the scenes in A Serbian Film.
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Giving Someone the Pointer Finger
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Giving Someone the Pointer Finger: Delivers this to the camera (re: the Nostalgia Chick) when he's obliged to 'correct' her opinion on a film's message. A positive example to the Snob, who suggests they join forces to corner the grindhouse and the arthouse. ("I knew there was a reason I respected you.")
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Brows Held High (Web Video) / int_463084f4
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type
Inadvertent Entrance Cue
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comment
Inadvertent Entrance Cue: According to the Revolutionary Girl Utena The Movie review, any time someone is confused by an artistic movie, Kyle is teleported to them against his will. JesuOtaku notes that now that it's known, it's highly exploitable, and he then teleports away from the review, and once back, angrily tells him to not give fans any more ideas on how to misuse the spell. This could also be a meta-joke about how Kyle become the go-to guy for cameos about symbolism and artistic topics. Kyle has sensitive ears and is very territorial about PHWOOLLIAM SHAXPAHR being reviewed by others. So much so, that he gets suckered into crashing Hamlet the Vampire Slayer.
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Brows Held High (Web Video) / int_46754750
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Screams Like a Little Girl
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comment
Screams Like a Little Girl: His reaction to some scenes in Alice.
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1.0
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Brows Held High (Web Video) / int_46e53efd
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type
Butt-Monkey
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comment
Butt-Monkey: In and out of character; he is often taken on reviews to act as the stoic foil to all sorts of slapstick and silliness, gets tormented by other reviewers, most prominently by Diamanda Hagan. Out of character, three videos he posted on TGWTG in 2012 caused controversies, two from fans, one from the creator of the film he reviewed.
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Brows Held High (Web Video) / int_47fea76b
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type
Funetik Aksent
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comment
Funetik Aksent: After dealing with the cavalcade of outrageous accents in Blood for Dracula, he finally puts up subtitles that transcribe everything phonetically ("What the heck is a 'sackhufbens'?") It comes back sporadically in his Flesh for Frankenstein review. ("Come to Serbia! Try the 'nasum'!")
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Brows Held High (Web Video) / int_48d9e12d
 Brows Held High (Web Video) / int_4a875876
type
Yellowface
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comment
Kyle thought the reason Cloud Atlas uses very badly done yellowface for all the Asians but the main character was so that we sympathize/identify with her and not the villains as a result of them falling into Uncanny Valley. And then he finds out they originally wanted Natalie Portman to play the role.
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Brows Held High (Web Video) / int_4a875876
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type
Big "WHAT?!"
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Big "WHAT?!": 8 minutes into JesuOtaku making him watch Revolutionary Girl Utena. The first of many, as we'll see in due course. Tromeo & Juliet: He was willing to give W a fair shot, until the last few minutes. "Did he just call Hillary Clinton a whore?"
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Brows Held High (Web Video) / int_4a8c4e5f
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type
Wham Line
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Wham Line: From Blue, after going to an in depth discussion of the color, particularly the Proto-Indo-European root bhel:
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Brows Held High (Web Video) / int_4e7c4536
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Hurricane of Euphemisms
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comment
Hurricane of Euphemisms: He ends up using a lot of terms for female masturbation ("flicking the bean," "tickling the tuna taco," "sampling the finger food," "petting the kitty") in his review of Exterminating Angels.
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Brows Held High (Web Video) / int_51561f43
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The Internet Is for Porn
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comment
The Internet Is for Porn: In Exterminating Angels, Kyle calls out his viewers for wanting raw footage of the French lesbians. From The Girlfriend Experience, on porn actress Sasha Grey: In the Even Cowgirls Get the Blues review, Kyle says he wasn't able to do much research into the idea of cowgirls as a radical lesbian icon because "Googling 'lesbian cowgirl' got me nowhere."
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Brows Held High (Web Video) / int_53830d
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Hero of Another Story
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comment
Hero of Another Story: Many of the regulars at the Shortbus Club. For example, Doctor Donut.
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1.0
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Brows Held High (Web Video) / int_581f6468
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type
Enemy Mine
 Brows Held High (Web Video) / int_5989e3b6
comment
A positive example to the Snob, who suggests they join forces to corner the grindhouse and the arthouse. ("I knew there was a reason I respected you.")
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Brows Held High (Web Video) / int_5989e3b6
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Even the Guys Want Him
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comment
Even the Guys Want Him: At the end of Maven's review for I Am Legend, he steals the Will Smith lovefest book and claims it as his own. During Kyle's review of Richard III, he develops feelings for Ian McKellen's version of the title character.
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Brows Held High (Web Video) / int_598ad6e2
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Older Than They Think
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comment
Older Than They Think: invoked A favorite topic on the show. Kyle is fond of taking supposedly "groundbreaking" recent films and pointing out lesser-known arthouse films that did exactly what they did decades earlier. Case in point: pointing out that the film adaptation of Cloud Atlas is surprisingly similar to D. W. Griffith's Intolerance, that Inception borrows a few visual ideas from Jean Cocteau's The Blood of a Poet, and that Boyhood uses many of the same techniques that François Truffaut's Antoine Doinel films did. During his episode on The Birth of a Nation (1915), he mentioned that all of that film's innovations were done by films such as Victor Sjostrom's Ingeborg Holm, and D.W. Griffith's own A Corner in Wheat and Musketeers of Pig Alley among others.
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Brows Held High (Web Video) / int_5be7bcfa
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type
Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?
 Brows Held High (Web Video) / int_5beef860
comment
Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: Has developed a phobia for bunnies. We can add "Paw Paw's" voice to that list after The Future.
 Brows Held High (Web Video) / int_5beef860
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1.0
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Brows Held High (Web Video) / int_5beef860
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type
Gag Censor
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comment
Gag Censor: Just about any time a Censor Box has to be used.
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Brows Held High (Web Video) / int_5cb9b6b2
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type
Suddenly Shouting
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Suddenly Shouting: When listing the alternate titles of Vase de Noces, "The Pig Fuckin' Movie" earns this, as well as marking Kyle's Rage Breaking Point. When he compares Cocteau's work with the surrealists in the second part of the Beauty and the Beast video:
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Brows Held High (Web Video) / int_5ce2c9c6
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type
Brown Note
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comment
Brown Note: arguably some of the movies he's watched, but also Sasha Grey's music, as heard in The Girlfriend Experience review.
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1.0
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Brows Held High (Web Video) / int_5db59a03
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type
Alternative Character Interpretation
 Brows Held High (Web Video) / int_5e7163c9
comment
Alternative Character Interpretation: In-Universe The Woman was an aspiring Fag Hag. Mr. Six is a Trash Humper. The log used to make Pinocchio is Flubber rather than wood. Tideland is the origin tale for the family of The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974). Mickey Mouse is on the No-fly list. Melancholia was the galaxy's revenge for The Idiots, and the reason Justine is so depressed is because she's a costumeless X-Man. Crispin Glover and Thierry Zéno are Trolling Creators.invoked
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Brows Held High (Web Video) / int_5e7163c9
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type
Long List
 Brows Held High (Web Video) / int_5ff56a1f
comment
Long List: In W the Movie, the important people in George W. Bush's administration/life that are not featured.
 Brows Held High (Web Video) / int_5ff56a1f
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1.0
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Brows Held High (Web Video) / int_5ff56a1f
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type
Head-Tiltingly Kinky
 Brows Held High (Web Video) / int_60a66fb1
comment
Head-Tiltingly Kinky: Feminism and Pornography.
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1.0
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Brows Held High (Web Video) / int_60a66fb1
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type
Animal Reaction Shot
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comment
Animal Reaction Shot: Says the exact trope name and that he can't take any film with them in it seriously.
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Brows Held High (Web Video) / int_6595b784
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Aluminum Christmas Trees
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comment
Aluminum Christmas Trees: In-universe, he suggests "A Midsummer Night's Cream" as a made-up porn version of A Midsummer Night's Dream, only to be told that there's already a real one.
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Brows Held High (Web Video) / int_67013b78
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type
Nipple and Dimed
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Nipple and Dimed: Since nudity crops up in his video reviews, he's forced to censor it creatively. Pictures of titmice, cats, donkeys, and Wii remotes are common, but sometimes, if he's feeling really silly, he covers them up with cropped pictures of nude statues. Perfume - The Story of A Murderer actually managed to break the censor bar.
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Brows Held High (Web Video) / int_68069489
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type
Room Full of Crazy
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After mailing Kyle Freddy Got Fingered, the Chick and Nella go to his hotel room and find a Room Full of Crazy.
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1.0
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Brows Held High (Web Video) / int_6941e30b
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What Do You Mean, It's Not Didactic?
 Brows Held High (Web Video) / int_6a0297a8
comment
What Do You Mean, It's Not Didactic?: One of his in-universe specialties is finding deep symbolism where it almost certainly doesn't exist. This is emphasized in his early blog posts and "Between The Lines" videos. Played around with in his review of A Serbian Film. Instead of discussing much of the film's plot, Kyle instead discusses much of Serbia's dark history and how the emotional turmoil of the Serbs translates onto the film. None of this stops him from calling NATO and asking them to bomb Serbia. On a serious note, he says in the commentary that he does honestly believe that this interpretation was what A Serbian Film's director was going for, just that the message gets lost along the way. Kyle analyzes Vase De Noces, saying it's probably about man's relationship with nature. Then he reads the creator's explanation about how the main character's autistic and realizes they just wanted to make a movie where someone fucks a pig. Kyle thought the reason Cloud Atlas uses very badly done yellowface for all the Asians but the main character was so that we sympathize/identify with her and not the villains as a result of them falling into Uncanny Valley. And then he finds out they originally wanted Natalie Portman to play the role.
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Brows Held High (Web Video) / int_6a0297a8
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The Power of Hate
 Brows Held High (Web Video) / int_6a6760fa
comment
Also during the same episode, Allison sends a video seemingly to congratulate Kyle for his 50th episode... only to insult him and send him further down the emotional spiral. Double whiplash when her cat shows up in the background and starts poking its head around.
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Brows Held High (Web Video) / int_6a6760fa
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The Unfair Sex
 Brows Held High (Web Video) / int_6ae4dedd
comment
The Unfair Sex: As he identifies as a feminist, this turns up a lot in the stuff he reviews, be it averted, subverted or played straight. Of particular merit in this regard is Antichrist and Anatomy of Hell, which deconstruct and defend this trope, respectively.
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Brows Held High (Web Video) / int_6ae4dedd
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Awesome Ego
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comment
Awesome Ego: In-universe, Peter Greenaway; even though Kyle loves his "delightfully idiosyncratic" style of direction, and takes special care to point out how his richly detailed sets and meticulous staging draw from Renaissance art to create symbolic tableaus, a good deal of his review of Nightwatching is just spent poking fun at Petey Greens' sheer pretension and intellectual elitism.
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Brows Held High (Web Video) / int_6b0a284f
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The Reveal
 Brows Held High (Web Video) / int_6b2b3b59
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The Reveal: In the "Gerry REDUX" video, we learn that Gus Van Zant made Gerry... after playing Tomb Raider.
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1.0
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Brows Held High (Web Video) / int_6b2b3b59
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type
Unstoppable Rage
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comment
Unstoppable Rage: A couple of movies has Kyle to completely lose it. He lost it at the end of A Serbian Film, to the point were he begged NATO to bomb Serbia. Vase de Noces starts off with him screaming and swearing to the heavens and goes from there.
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Brows Held High (Web Video) / int_6b983bf7
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type
Insult to Rocks
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comment
Insult to Rocks: From the Freddy Got Fingered crossover — The Chick starts to ask him how this film is "Dada", only for a shell shocked Kyle to shriek, "THIS CANNOT BE DADA! IT'S TOO NORMAL TO BE DADA! IT'S TOO SHIT TO BE ANYTHING ELSE!!"
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Brows Held High (Web Video) / int_6c8ce91f
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The Scream
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comment
The Scream: Time to introduce Allison's favorite Shakesperan characters: Rosenchad and Guildebrad! "Yo!" "'Sup?!"
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Brows Held High (Web Video) / int_6cc2137b
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type
Big Word Shout
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Big Word Shout: Sleeping Beauty - "DUUUUUUUUUUUULLLLLL!" The Idiots — "AWFUUUUUUULL!" Vase de Noces — "MANGIAAAAAAAAAA!" and "WHYYYYYYYY?!" F for Fake — "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRT!"
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Brows Held High (Web Video) / int_6cf80934
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type
Bread, Eggs, Breaded Eggs
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comment
Bread, Eggs, Breaded Eggs: The review of The Cook, The Thief, His Wife & Her Lover comes with the trigger warning: "abuse, vomit, abuse of vomit".
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Brows Held High (Web Video) / int_720e28a4
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type
"Not Making This Up" Disclaimer
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comment
"Not Making This Up" Disclaimer: An on-screen message pops up during '90s Kid's rant about the finer aspects of The Doom Generation to tell us that his words were actually part of the film's marketing. Assuring that his MythBusters reference wasn't just random. Jamie Hyneman really did work the special effects on Naked Lunch. The most memorable line in Sleeping Beauty. Kyle just made you think too hard about labia! In his video about Anonymous, when the film gets into the Anti-Stratfordian theory about how the "real" Shakespeare was also the bastard child of Queen Elizabeth and unknowingly committed incest with her, and siring another bastard child, the video displays the text: "THIS IS WHAT ANTI-STRATFORDIANS ACTUALLY BELIEVE".
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 Brows Held High (Web Video)
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Brows Held High (Web Video) / int_72757e0d
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type
Eloquent in My Native Tongue
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comment
Eloquent in My Native Tongue: He admits that he's not all that skilled with Dutch, although he has some knowledge; he spent part of his childhood in the Netherlands and even went to an international school there. His review of Nightwatching/Rembrandt's J'accuse opens with him addressing the viewer in Dutch, until the cameraman (actually his brother) cuts him off complaining about his terrible accent.
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We Are Experiencing Technical Difficulties
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We Are Experiencing Technical Difficulties: Upon viewing stock footage of the Katyn massacre that was spliced into Sweet Movie, Kyle's screaming face is replaced by a test pattern.
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Ban on Politics
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Ban on Politics: Kyle maintains this on his show... for the most part. Averted after 2016, where he began to post video essays that deal with current issues such as Fascism (Siegfried Kracauer's From Caligari to Hitler), body politics (Taxidermia), toxic masculinity (Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence), racism (the question whether to erase D.W. Griffith's The Birth of a Nation (1915) from film history and replace with movies that used innovative techniques featured in the film), and representation of minority in media (The Watermelon Woman).
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Orphaned Punchline
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Orphaned Punchline: Catching the end of a speech by Diamanda Hagan in The Devils review:
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Time-Travel Tense Trouble
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Time-Travel Tense Trouble: Kyle runs into this while viewing Primer.
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Slobs Versus Snobs
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Slobs Versus Snobs: Well... A Fanboy-ish Snob Vs. Nitpicky Caustic Critics. In his review of La Belle et la Bête, Kyle plays the pretentious snob who looks down on others for not getting it. While Some Jerk with a Camera and many others play the nit-picky, uncultured, overly-negative slobs. Unlike most examples, both sides are mocked to some degree.
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You Can't Handle The Parody
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You Can't Handle the Parody: He attempts it while watching Zardoz, but fails due to absorbing too much of the characters' speech.
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From Bad to Worse
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From Bad to Worse: Kyle experiences a string of these near the end of Ken Park:
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A Threesome Is Hot
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The characters of The Doom Generation invoking the Power of Three.
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Somewhere, a Mammalogist Is Crying
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And again with Tom Green and the gallons of elephant bunk. "This scene takes place on the Indian subcontinent and that is clearly an African elephant!"
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Breathless Non Sequitur
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Breathless Non Sequitur "That's right Romero fans, board up the windows and rev up the chainsaws, because we're going to talk about gay porn!" Even Cowgirls Get the Blues: During the feminist takeover of a bird ranch, Kyle launches into a Scottish brogue by way of William Wallace:
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Obligatory Joke
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Obligatory Joke: Has openly stated he will not do some of the obvious jokes, as they would be "Too easy". "Kenneth Branagh plays Hamlet. Emphasis on HAM." "Here's a diagram — a primer on Primer, if you will. [snooty chuckle] Huzzah." The characters of The Doom Generation invoking the Power of Three. Tideland's deranged beekeeper. "Aaaaand meme in 3....2....1..." And again in his Yeelen review, when the main character attacks his enemies with a swarm of hallucinatory bees. When a character in Ken Park randomly asks his girlfriend's mother, "can I eat you out?", Kyle explains that even though it's become cliché, he now has to play the infamous scene from Shark Attack 3: Megalodon. When the scary version of the White Rabbit from Alice prompts the famous Killer Rabbit monologue, Kyle notes "I'm quoting from Monty Python and the Holy Grail. I shouldn't be that obvious!" Hamlet the Vampire Slayer: "Yo dawg, I heard you like dogs, so put a dog in Ghost Dog so Ghost Dog can watch a dog and — oh, screw it." The Devils ends with (caption and voiceover "AND NOW: THE MOST OBVIOUS JOKE I COULD POSSIBLY MAKE") "She got to bone him after all.", and canned sounds of applause. His verdict on W: "Heckuva job, Alfie." On Even Cowgirls Get the Blues: "Two thumbs up." On feminists shrugging off the tyranny of douche bags: The 24 jokes whenever Kiefer Sutherland appears on-screen. (in Melancholia, he even lampshades with "Well, that was an easy joke") He can kill you with a bathtowel; try buying him as a different character after that. In W.R.: Mysteries of the Organism, he even anticipates and puts the text "OVERUSED JOKE" as he plays "OOOH YEAH!" and pastes the Kool-Aid Man over a man breaking through a wall.
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Portmanteau
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Portmanteau: The Devils is "Sacri-larious."
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Shared Universe
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Shared Universe: Since it was originally on Channel Awesome and had plenty of cameos and crossovers, it counts as a part of the Reviewaverse.
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Actually Pretty Funny
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Actually Pretty Funny: His reaction to Shortbus' "Shabbos goy" asking if a woman is on the rag. Later, in his Tromeo and Juliet crossover review with The Cinema Snob, he admits that he thought the "see how she rests her cheek upon her hand." line (wherein the "cheek" was changed to be an ass cheek) was actually kind of clever. From another review: He had the same reaction on his Twitter when someone suggested a missed joke for Harmony Korine's Mister Lonely: "The people faked it, so they didn't make it."
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Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking
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Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking: Kyle quibbles over misplaced Shakespeare texts and inarticulate voice-overs ("Well, I just don't think that the gentleman from Motörhead is the best chorus...") while the Snob is left cringing at the real depravities. And again with Tom Green and the gallons of elephant bunk. "This scene takes place on the Indian subcontinent and that is clearly an African elephant!" The disclaimer at the beginning of the Ken Park review warns that "This episode deals with disturbing themes. Also, there are huge spoilers for season 2 of The Wire. And I horribly mispronounce 'Tagalog'."
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Breather Episode
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Breather Episode: The Angels in America and The Fall reviews.
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Cuteness Proximity
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Cuteness Proximity: He admits the only reason why he likes the piglet scenes in Vase de Noces is because it appeals to the same part of his brain that likes lolcats. While reviewing "This is Not a Film", Kyle gets easily sidetracked by the director's adorable pet iguana. "It's like a cat crossed with a dragon!"
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Large Ham
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Large Ham: When Kyle gets passionate and/or angry, he overacts accordingly. The most glorious example is Haxan, where he doesn't speak but mugs and gestures plentifully.
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Jacob Marley Warning
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Jacob Marley Warning: Todd in the Shadows hovers over Kyle's bed at MAGfest, half-hardheartedly waving his arms. Finally, he resorts to just punching him.
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Signature Scene
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Signature Scene: Discussed. The common conclusion is that a film with one of these has little else going for it. invoked
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Pun
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Pun Lampshaded by Kyle himself, who sincerely apologizes. (Tideland) Set up with a with a full-screen card and booming voice for The Devils: Let's talk about the Apocalypse. NOW. (wiggles eyebrows) That was barely a pun.
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Mary Sue
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Mary Sue: He calls out the protagonist of Exterminating Angels on this. The character is based on the director, and most of the women around him inexplicably fall in love with him.invoked
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Stepford Smiler
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Stepford Smiler: Kyle spends the majority of A Serbian Film review in this state. Until he snaps, complete with profuse nosebleed.. Kyle's trials in the Melancholia review mirrors Justine's in the film. His review is constantly interrupted by fellow contributors wishing him a hollow "Happy 50th", forcing Kyle to act elated while inwardly seething.
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Exactly What It Says on the Tin
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Exactly What It Says on the Tin: What is Trash Humpers about? Well, you know how Cats was about cats...? The plot of The Cook, The Thief, His Wife, Her Lover is about... well, a cook, a thief, his wife and her lover.
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Lampshaded Double Entendre
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Lampshaded Double Entendre: The Anatomy of Hell opens with its female protagonist getting slapped by a random man, who then just stands there looking sullen. Wordless apology, or is she just handing him a stick of gum?
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Eldritch Abomination
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Eldritch Abomination: His theory is that Vase de Noces is actually alive, is pure evil, and hates you.
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Bait-and-Switch
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Bait-and-Switch: For the final "Summer of Shakespeare" episode, Kyle looks at the story parallels between Disney's The Lion King and Shakespeare's Henry the Fourth. Some Jerk with a Camera, who sunk a ton of research into Hamlet in hopes of crossing-over, is not pleased to hear that.
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Humiliation Conga
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Humiliation Conga: Goes through a big one in his Melancholia reviews, where most, if not all, of the reviewers who make cameos insult him, and he appears to hold them in high regard—Allison sarcastically wishes his 50th video is awful, Film Brain chews him out for fixating on scientific accuracy over symbolic importance, and Diamanda Hagan posts his mobile phone number on Twitter as retaliation for not wanting to talk to anyone. He finally snaps when Jesu Otaku calls him up to suggest another crossover that would make him the butt of a joke regarding the Animation Age Ghetto.
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Go Mad from the Revelation
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Go Mad from the Revelation: At the end of Refuge in Audacity insanityfest What Is It?, Kyle decides "If you can't beat 'em..." Likewise, he had Roo from Clan of the Gray Wolf on as a cameo to help explain the video game references in We Are the Strange. It doesn't go well for him. Most of Zardoz. Revolutionary Girl Utena reduces him to a cackling lunatic. Eat the Schoolgirl leads him to hogtie Diamanda Hagan in a bathtub and then attempt to dress her up as a snail. Though part of that was apparently the result of being loaded with horse tranquilizers and having his testicles removed, as once the tranquilizers wear off he can't remember a thing. Coincidentally, it was also a nod to Uzumaki. After mailing Kyle Freddy Got Fingered, the Chick and Nella go to his hotel room and find a Room Full of Crazy.
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Body Snatcher
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Body Snatcher: For the "Freaks" review, Kyle's body is possessed by Diamanda Hagan, who proceeds to dye his hair and paint his face in her usual color scheme and then do the review in a faux-Irish accent. He also feels himself up and comments "So that's what one of those feels like."
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Cerebus Retcon
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Cerebus Retcon: A rare example done within the same multi-part essay on Starship Troopers. Part 2 has Kyle going over how difficult it is for non-Dutch speakers to pronounce "Scheveningen". This is played for laughs, with Kyle struggling to get it right while his younger brother does it with ease. Part 3 brings it back up to discuss the idea of a shibboleth, where correct pronunciation is used to decide who doesn't belong; "Scheveningen" was used as such during World War II by the Dutch Resistance to identify German spies, feeding into Kyle's larger point about how language is used to determine friend from foe.
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SpecialEffectsFailure
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Special Effects Failureinvoked: He laughs uproariously at the fake severed head in Flesh for Frankenstein. "God, it looks like one of the Thunderbird pilots."
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Reference Overdosed
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Reference Overdosed: Used mainly to showcase similar tropes or ideas in more mainstream movies to help de-mystify the films to his audience.
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Cargo Ship
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Cargo Shipinvoked: He ends his review of Trash Humpers by sleeping with his wastebasket.
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Erotic Film
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Erotic Film: Erotic films are regularly featured on the show.
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Retraux
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Retraux: The intro to BHH shows a montage of auteur films, beginning with classics such as Citizen Kane and ending with Gerry and Trash Humpers, giving them the illusion of being old-timey films.
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Bookshelf of Authority
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Bookshelf of Authority: Kyle Kallgren's set usually consists of him sitting in front of a bookcase full of books, befitting his show as a reviewer of "arthouse" media. He notes this in his review of Yeelen, remarking on how it reflects European-descended cultures in viewing literacy as a show of knowledge.
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Shaped Like Itself
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Shaped Like Itself: From the W.R.: Mysteries of the Organism review: And again in the Sleeping Beauty review:
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LostEpisode
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Since What Is It? is a Lost Episode, his reference to its closing sketch in the review of The Fall comes off as this.
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Layman's Terms
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Layman's Terms: So, Jason Witter replaced the original language of Hamlet with endless pop culture snark?
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Heel Realization
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Heel Realization: Throughout the review of La Belle et la Bete, Kyle and Tony have practically been at each other's throats over whether Cocteau or Disney made the better adaptation, it culminates with a heated argument. The fight climaxes with both parties yelling "WHY CAN'T YOU JUST... look.. past.. the surface?" It's here that they finally recognize they've both "been each other's beast" towards the other's opinion.
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Not So Above It All
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Not So Above It All: During his crossover with Film Brain on The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, FB catches Kyle reading the graphic novel and calls him out on it. Later, Kyle is raging over the movie's many changes from the book, and realizes he's become a fanboy.
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Little People Are Surreal
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Little People Are Surreal: A variant in What Is It? - apart from Glover himself, a number of topless porn stars in animal masks, and a morose man in blackface, everyone on-screen is intellectually and / or physically disabled in some fashion (mostly Down's Syndrome, although Steven C. Stewart, the man in the clam shell, had severe cerebral palsy). Not only does this have little purpose beyond eliciting confusion or causing offensenote Which is, at best, 98% of the movie, but as Kyle discovers, it makes it very hard to criticize their acting skills.
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He-Man Woman Hater
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He-Man Woman Hater: What the metaphor in Anatomy of Hell presents men as; Kyle even namedrops this trope.
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"Not So Different" Remark
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"Not So Different" Remark: In the review of The Girlfriend Experience, he 'inadvertently' draws similarities between escort and porn websites, and being an internet reviewer. At the end of the review, he goes to work on his other job, as a host on webcam site LiveJasmin The TGWTG menu screen described his crossover with The Cinema Snob as "A sheltered, hairy, condescending man who talks about porn for a living meets a sheltered, hairy, condescending man who talks about "erotica" for a living!"
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Odd Couple
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Odd Couple: With Allison in their Hamlet the Vampire Slayer review; he's a highbrow critic and serious intellectual, she's a cheerfully goofy schlock reviewer who doesn't understand long words.
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Money, Dear Boy
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Money, Dear Boy: invoked In the vlog for Anonymous, Kyle suggests that Derek Jacobi took a role in the film to pay off a parking ticket.
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Broke Episode
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Broke Episode: The Idiots ends with Kyle pledging to follow the Dogme "Rules of Filmmaking." No lighting rigs, no animations, no editing, and Kyle hums his own theme tune. "This is truth!"
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Rule 34
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He realizes one second too late that he's invoked Rule 34 and mentioned a Civil War real-person Slash Fic.
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Stay in the Kitchen
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Stay in the Kitchen/Straw Misogynist: Anatomy Of Hell closes with him coming to terms with his gender's inherent misogyny and calling his mother to tell her.
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Upper-Class Twit
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Upper-Class Twit: Comes to this conclusion about Roland Emmerich in his review of Anonymous and why he portrays the "true" author of the works attributed to Shakespeare as a privileged mass entertainer. Emmerich's father struck a fortune by founding a gardening tool company, thus by the time Emmerich busted into Hollywood he knew precisely nothing about hardship, thus making it difficult for him to communicate to the masses through anything other than broad, ugly stereotype. Kyle stresses that he doesn't believe that Emmerich actually believes in the uglier, classist implications of Anti-Stratfordian theory, he just repeats them because he is unaware of his own privilege.
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Continuity Nod
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Continuity Nod: To Atop the Fourth Wall in his "Slacker" review: "Is 90's Kid still evil?"
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Camera Abuse
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Camera Abuse: He taps it pretty hard during What Is It?, causing visible glitches in the video.
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Punctuated! For! Emphasis!
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Punctuated! For! Emphasis!: GET....ME...NATO! ARE. (SLAM) VIDEO. (SLAM) GAMES. (SLAM) ART— of course they are, that's not even a question.
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Gag Dub
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Gag Dub: He had to interrupt a review and hire somebodynote Allison Pregler to overdub the screechy voice of Paw Paw. (The Future) He soon regrets it.
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Have I Mentioned I Am Heterosexual Today?
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Have I Mentioned I Am Heterosexual Today?: His view on The Doom Generation, which bills itself as "A Heterosexual Movie" and may go a bit over the top in proving. "Straight, straight straight straight straight straight straight! Penises going into vaginas, all the time!"
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Overly Long Gag
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Overly Long Gag: "TREES!" 55.5555555555555555555555555555555555555555555555555555... The point in his review of Gerry where he tries to make up background music... a cappella style.
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World of Weirdness
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World of Weirdness: The show is set in the Reviewaverse, the universe gets that weird. Although the weirdness is not a frequent thing on the show, it does pop up occasionally.
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Adaptation Sequence
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Adaptation Sequence: (In-Universe) The Devils is a movie based on a play based on a novel based on historical events. And is historically accurate.
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Mood Whiplash
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Mood Whiplash: "Ooh, look at the little piggies! Look at their little snouts and their little curly tails! ... Silly man for trying to get the piggies to eat like peoples! Silly piggies for not trying to eat like peoples! Awwww...yeah...they die. They die because he kills them. He hangs them." Linkara's cameo in the Melancholia review, to cheerfully congratulate Kyle on his 50th episode, which happens as Kyle is in the middle of a depressive breakdown. Also during the same episode, Allison sends a video seemingly to congratulate Kyle for his 50th episode... only to insult him and send him further down the emotional spiral. Double whiplash when her cat shows up in the background and starts poking its head around. From Shortbus: "Zero to gay threeway in 0.03 seconds!"
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Accentuate the Negative
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There are a few where it enters Accentuate the Negative territory (like Vase de Noces, where he basically loses his mind, rants about 'The Pig-Fucking Movie' and declares the movie is evil) but it's usually rare and even the films that make him go postal get a compliment on something....however small....
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You Can Turn Back
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You Can Turn Back: From the intro to Trash Humpers.
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Not So Stoic
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Not So Stoic: He very rarely breaks down or goes over the top, making those few instances much more powerful (i.e. his reaction to a disturbing scene in his review of Alice).
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Soundtrack Dissonance
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Soundtrack Dissonance: He decides to play the happy music from the scene after the death of Bambi's mother during the act cards in Antichrist. He also jokes that playing stirring orchestral music over the puking scene in Sweet Movie would likely later inspire the choice of soundtrack for 2 Girls 1 Cup.
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Dissimile
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Dissimile: Diamanda Hagan refers to Kyle as "Young, straight, Stephen Fry, only bearded and American." Regarding Sleeping Beauty: "Imagine Eyes Wide Shut without the feeling of dread. Or feeling of mystery. Or feeling of feeling."
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Nice Job Fixing It, Villain
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Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: in the Melancholia review, Diamanda Hagan posts Kyle's cell number on Twitter to get back at him for not wanting to do a review with her. Contact with fans, both positive and negative helps him get through his Despair Event Horizon.
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Padding the Paper
 Brows Held High (Web Video) / int_ad08647
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Padding the Paper: In the review for Rembrandt's J'Accuse, he describes some of the film's more inane theories as just filler akin to a student padding out their essay.
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Oh, Crap!
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Oh, Crap!: During the "Otto" review, when he realizes he is about to see a gay zombie orgy. During the Trash Humpers review (bear in mind, babies... don't tend to fare well in these kinds of movies): Yet again during The Brown Bunny, when he discovers, to his abject horror, that the film is revisiting Gerry. He realizes one second too late that he's invoked Rule 34 and mentioned a Civil War real-person Slash Fic.
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Apocalyptic Log
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Apocalyptic Log: Played with a bit. When Roo from Clan of the Gray Wolf watched We Are the Strange to help review it he lost it. However he kept notes and gave them to Kyle.
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Deadpan Snarker
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Deadpan Snarker: Kyle. It's the only way he can make it out alive.
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Caustic Critic
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Most of his videos following the Melancholia review, his format changing from comedic Caustic Critic reviews to to (only mostly) serious discussions about films he either likes or he has something to say about.
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Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot
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comment
Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot: In What Is It?
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Unsound Effect
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Unsound Effect: WANK!
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Loophole Abuse
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Loophole Abuse: Jafar Panahi wasn't allowed to make movies again for insulting the Iranian government. So Mr. Panahi made This Is Not A Film as a response. It takes advantage of several loopholes. (He's not allowed to use a video camera, so he either has others direct the not-movie or uses a phone with video footage. He's not allowed to write scripts, so it instead follows his life under house-arrest. Etc.)
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Leave the Camera Running
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Also in Gerry after he a "walking-through-the-desert" scene gets on his nerves. He tries singing a few songs just to amuse himself, but he finally loses it.
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Animation Age Ghetto
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Since it's animated, Kyle is confident that explaining the themes and symbolism of Revolutionary Girl Utena will be a trifling matter for his mighty brain.
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1.0
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Spoof Aesop
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Spoof Aesop: "So the moral of [Tideland] is: children are sociopathic morons!" "Parents who reanimate the dead have children who reanimate the dead." (Andy Warhol's Frankenstein) "So just remember, when you're trying to settle serious relationship issues with your special lady, bust her water main open and then invite her to dance. She'll be thrilled! Utena told me so!" invoked "Proper decorum must be maintained at funerals and incestuous weddings" is one of the few things Kyle could take away from Goodbye Twentieth Century.
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Genius Bonus
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Genius Bonus: invokedDue to the nature of the show, he of course likes to slip a few into the reviews.
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Take That!
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Take That!: Halfway into Exterminating Angels, he realizes that the entire film is basically a parade of thin, attractive women acting horny around a dumpy middle-aged man. What follows is a snippet from a Robert Palmer music video. Observing the witch's broom in Haxan, Kyle laments that it's ninety years later and we still can't make broom-riding look any less dorky. From the same film: an obese monk with the ability to fly. Kyle strokes his chin in puzzlement, then envisions Kenneth McMillian in a flying fat suit and becomes disgusted. And this shot is clearly a metaphor for Kirsten Dunst trying to escape the films of Sam Raimi... In Melancholia we learn that Justine's parents divorced following a heated argument over whether it was more embarrassing to be in Tender Loving Care or Zardoz. In the Dead Man episode, after Kyle and Ven Gethenian go see The Lone Ranger (2013), all they can do is quote the earlier Johnny Depp Western, "Stupid fucking White man". Immortal, ad Vitam lists Renesmee Cullen as the prime example of the Unintentional Uncanny Valley. invoked Like most of his peers, he's got a negative view of CinemaSins, and does a deconstruction of why in mostly their format in "Sins. Cinema.".
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Everybody Has Lots of Sex
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Everybody Has Lots of Sex: Present in Blood for Dracula, Flesh for Frankenstein, 9 Songs, Sebastiene and Shortbus- the last to the point of distraction. Also noting how much sex just one couple had in Antichrist.
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Double Standard
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Double Standard: Discussed in Anatomy of Hell:
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Hypocritical Humor
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Hypocritical Humor: In the review of You And Me And Everyone We Know, Kyle introduces the main character as an amateur solo video artist, "which means she films herself alone in her room doing stupid stuff." Cut to Kyle, camera in hand, filming himself in front of a mirror going "Man, what a dork!" The opening to W. But Kyle, tell us what you really think of the Bush administration! In the review of Prospero's Books, he calls the movie pretentious for showing books that pertain to the plot before starting to read from The Complete Works of Shakespeare. In Kyle's Kickstarter video, he attempts to describe his project, starting over sixteen times, before finally coming out with:
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Self-Insert Fic
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Self-Insert Fic: He describes Exterminating Angels this way.
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It Makes Sense in Context
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It Makes Sense in Context: Brought up in his review of The Devils when Grandier fends off a lover's angry father with an Apothecary Alligator. "Okay, that requires some context. I'm not going to give it."
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The Gimmick
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The Gimmick: The reviews for Slacker, The Man who Fell From Earth and (where it's lampshaded) Haxan.
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Precision F-Strike
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Precision F-Strike: "Jean-Claude Brisseau, fuck you."
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Berserk Button
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Berserk Button: Do not call Kyle a hipster or an anti-intellectual. He also doesn't like being called a Brad Jones rip-off.note Cinema Snob reviews exploitation films and porn, Kyle reviews arthouse, which can occasionally look like one or the other when done badly. A subsection of Brad's fans took a glance at Kyle's videos, and got the wrong idea. Snob and Kyle once had a crossover where it turned out Snob had beef with Kyle for different reasons. For the character, dead babies. Including piglets. Starting with the What Is It? review, if snails are ever mentioned or brought into the equation, You may be in trouble. Kyle screaming his lungs out after The Nostalgia Chick summarizes the ending of Der Himmel über Berlin as "a long monologue" about "time..and loneliness...or something." Film analysis is Serious Business. Also, don't deny him the chance to sing in your crossover. In his Shame review, he begins ranting about his hatred of "New York, New York," and the fact that there are so many songs about New York City. Conspiracy theories, anti-Stratfordianism ("William Shakespeare didn't write his plays") in particular.
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Alliterative Name
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Alliterative Name: Lampshaded in The Discovery of Heaven. Kyle helpfully notes that the Messiah character has matching initials, a trait "common to many great men of legend!" (he then points out this applies to himself as well)
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Big Applesauce
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His review of Shame has an epic mash-up used to drive home his point that there are a LOT of songs written about New York City:
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Mind Screw
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Mind Screw: What Is It?, both the movie and the 'sketch.'
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Both Sides Have a Point
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Both Sides Have a Point: The review for La Belle et la Bete ends with both Kyle and Tony realizing that neither party's preference is wrong, but rather their nitpicking the other. Kyle's preference for the Cocteau version may be out of bias that it's French, but Tony admits that it's "creative in all the right ways". Tony's preference for Disney's version is because (well) it's Disney, but Kyle also acknowledges that the Disney version "has heart in all the right places".
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What Do You Mean, It's for Kids?
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What Do You Mean, It's for Kids?: invoked One of the main reasons that Kyle finds Jan Å vankmajer's Alice so frightening is that it was originally intended to be a kid's movie.
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Dull Surprise
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Dull Surprise: Invoked by name in Anatomy of Hell. Hamlet the Vampire Slayer: Regarding both Emily Browning's acting in Sleeping Beauty and the film itself, which he regards as aseptic and emotionless ("Every scene I feel as if I'm in a hospital waiting room").
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Bait-and-Switch Comment
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Bait-and-Switch Comment: "The thing about Gus Van Sant — he's not always dull. Or Oscar baiting. Sometimes... he's balls-out cuckoopants."
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Bestiality Is Depraved
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Bestiality Is Depraved: Discussed at length in Vase de Noces. He concludes that it's been Played for Laughs so often that the concept itself isn't shocking anymore, which costs the film much of its impact.
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Couch Gag
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Couch Gag: At the start of each episode, or even cameo in other reviews, he reads something related, if only vaguely to the movie in question. You can see a sampling here. And by "something", it means that it's not always a book. For instance, the Trash Humpers review starts with him reading the instructions for a box of trash bags.
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Insane Troll Logic
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Insane Troll Logic: Basically gives Roland Emmerich a taste of his own medicine by applying the same type of logic behind the Shakespeare authorship question as demonstrated in Anonymous with him using Independence Day as "evidence".
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Fan Disservice
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Fan Disservice: After watching Ken Park, he says "I used to like sex. Now I can never touch a human being again!"
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Blah, Blah, Blah
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Blah, Blah, Blah/Freudian Slip: The opening speech to 9 Songs is nothing but proper nouns, sexual swearwords, and the phrase "rock music."
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Cliffhanger
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Cliffhanger: Subverted at the end of What Is It?. As Kyle struggles to play another movie to escape the nightmares of this one, a narrator announces "Will Kyle escape his insanity? Will his next movie be a good one or will it be another Ken Park? Find out on the next episode of Brows Held High!" Then Kyle immediately shows up to say "My next movie will be The Fall, and yeah, it's pretty good."
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Shout-Out
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Shout-Out: Now with its own page.
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Sexiled
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Sexiled: For 9 Songs, he claimed to have put a sock on his doorknob. In the Shortbus review, he does it again.
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Rage Breaking Point
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Rage Breaking Point: Happens during the review of A Serbian Film. It's Played for Laughs as he spends most of the review trying to act above getting furious over the horrific and depraved events of the film, until he finally snaps and wants the whole country of Serbia destroyed. Also in Gerry after he a "walking-through-the-desert" scene gets on his nerves. He tries singing a few songs just to amuse himself, but he finally loses it.
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It's Not Porn, It's Art
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It's Not Porn, It's Art: He has to deal with a lot of nudity in some of his film reviews.
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Everything Sounds Sexier in French
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Everything Sounds Sexier in French: During Beauty and the Beast, he laments how the line "May the devil himself splatter you with his dung" still sounds beautiful in French.
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Artistic License – Chemistry
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Artistic License – Chemistry: In Even Cowgirls Get the Blues, the cowgirls sedate the cranes with peyote. Assuming that the drug works on cranes exactly the way it would work on humans, peyote is a hallucinatory drug, not a sedative.
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Self-Deprecation
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Self-Deprecation: Apparently, Kyle ain't gettin' any. He is quick to point out flaws and mistakes during commentaries. During his Naked Lunch review, he "telepathically" confesses that he does this show to cover up his insecurities about his intelligence. The longstanding "Cinema Snob ripoff" charge was spoofed in their crossover together. ...Along with Kyle and Brad's dodgy acting. On the supposed panty-peeling attractiveness of Oliver Reed: "I just don't see the appeal of round-faced, dark-haired snobby guys with prominent facial hair." His oft-cantankerous persona on Twitter was directly addressed in Melancholia. It turns out that Kyle has been grappling with depression and ennui, and he has chosen to document those arguments with his fellow contributors on video for posterity. "I get in a funk sometimes."
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Decided by One Vote
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ARE. (SLAM) VIDEO. (SLAM) GAMES. (SLAM) ART— of course they are, that's not even a question.
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Damned by Faint Praise
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Damned by Faint Praise: Twilight of the Ice Nymphs is "easily the greatest Canadian film about ostriches ever made." "This is one of Andy Warhol's most action-packed movies." Anybody familiar with Warhol will see that joke coming. How about Warhol's leading lady, Edie Sedgwick? Lars Von Trier is his favorite brilliant awful human being! In the case of Melancholia, Roland Emmerich is the more scientifically-accurate director.
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UnexpectedGenreChange
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Unexpected Genre Change: His review of Angels in America is a completely serious, highly emotional piece that has nothing negative to say about the film and ends with him directly urging the audience to educate themselves about HIV. Most of his videos following the Melancholia review, his format changing from comedic Caustic Critic reviews to to (only mostly) serious discussions about films he either likes or he has something to say about.
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Word of God
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Word of God: invoked Kyle will sometimes quote the filmmakers explanations for their films, often to make fun of them.
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A Man Is Always Eager
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A Man Is Always Eager: In Me And You And Everyone We Know, he wonders why the young man looks more depressed than excited about two girls giving him head.
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Dude, Not Funny!
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Dude, Not Funny!: In-Universe. He struggled hard to snark What Is It? without invoking this trope, as much of the cast had Down's Syndrome and one member had cerebral palsy. He says he's not even going to try to make a joke during the attempted rape of an Apathetic during Zardoz, though he does pull out of this depressing nosedive by making a joke about a scene immediately after that. "Here, have Sean Connery imitating Donkey Kong!" (Connery throws a barrel). While possessed by Diamanda, he stated that "Freaks" was hard to make fun of, as most of the cast was, well... ...Whatever-you-call-it concludes that it would just be "dickish."
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Spiritual Antithesis
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Spiritual Antithesisinvoked: He implicitly paints Jean Cocteau's Beauty and the Beast (1946) as this to Roberto Benigni's Pinocchio (2002). Both are live-action arthouse renditions of famous European fairytales that were the basis for films in the Disney Animated Canon, and both were made by highly regarded filmmakers hailing from the countries where the original stories originated. Kyle views Beauty and the Beast as a masterpiece, and his review largely focuses on how Cocteau's unique interpretation of the tale helped influence Disney's more well-known version. By contrast, he views Pinocchio as a complete failure, and his review largely focuses on how Benigni tried to create a new version of the tale that could stand apart from Disney's version, but just ended up with an inept mess.
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This Is for Emphasis, Bitch!
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This Is for Emphasis, Bitch!: Claudius' death in Hamlet (1996). "Oh I have to poison him? That's boring—EAT CHANDELIER, BITCH."
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That Came Out Wrong
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That Came Out Wrong: When describing the plot of the Iranian movie The Cow:
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Played for Drama
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Played for Drama in his review of Melancholia, a film about depression, where over the course of watching it he grows more and more despairing and lashes out at his friends and job.
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Character Catchphrase
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Character Catchphrase: Huzzah!
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What the Hell, Hero?
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What the Hell, Hero?: In the Tromeo and Juliet crossover review with the Cinema Snob, Kyle gets called out for trying to blow up Serbia in his A Serbian Film review. Film Brain calls him out when he starts over analyzing and criticizing the science behind the gas giant about to hit the Earth in Melancholia, telling him he should've picked up that it's a metaphor for depression and subject to a heavy amount of Artistic License. Unfortunately, it only serves to add to his growing Heroic BSoD.
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Refuge in Audacity
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Refuge in Audacity: He comes to the conclusion that A Serbian Film is attempting this, and since True Art always crosses a line of some sort, this is why he must review the movie despite The Cinema Snob and Phelous having also done it before. "What Is It" was deliberately filled with all sorts of offensive things, the point being that the audience was to decide which of them was actually offensive. Kyle takes umbrage at this, though, and says, "This is not art. This is trolling!"
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BackhandedCompliment
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Backhanded Compliment: The Future - "The reason I like this movie so much is Miranda July recognizes all the things I don't like about her. (beat) Huh." Rates Melancholia as Dunst's second-best performance of her career. Her absolute best was the Eye Take in reaction to Lars Von Trier's Nazi speech at Cannes.
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Comes Great Responsibility
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Comes Great Responsibility: When seeing that even openly gay Diamanga Hagan faints at a picture of Oliver Reed, Kyle realizes the power of that picture, and gravely declares he must only use it for good.
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Waxing Lyrical
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Waxing Lyrical: In Anatomy: "She gets unimpressively naked and lets you know what it feels like for a girl. Lets you know what it feels like in this world for a girl." In Zardoz, "They're all, 'Oh, I am immortal. I have inside me blood of kings' and 'Here we are. Born to be kings, we're the princes of the universe.'". Kyle lampshades shortly later. (specially as he had already used "Who Wants to Live Forever?" before, as "it's a movie with immortals with Sean Connery. I had to use Queen") Hamlet tells the story all about how his life got flipped turned upside-down. In Ken Park, after the "Thom Yorke-looking kid" has a sex scene with a woman who has had work done on her breasts: "She's his fake plastic love, and she wears him out. She wears him out." Alfred Eaker's mistress taking him, shall we say, "Down where it's better, down where it's wetter." When listening to the cheesy tango on the soundtrack of Room in Rome, he begins singing "Whatever Lola Wants". His review of Shame has an epic mash-up used to drive home his point that there are a LOT of songs written about New York City: The Devils at a certain point mentions how "Mother Superior jumped the gun".
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Anime Hair
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Anime Hair: How he describes the hairdo of the Twilight of the Ice Nymphs protagonist. Also complaints about it in the Utena review. "Why does everyone have rainbow hair?!"
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Did I Just Say That Out Loud?
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Did I Just Say That Out Loud?: When he sees a guy being killed during a three way, and says that's how he wants to die. Also, when realizing he made a Tyler Perry reference. He quickly made a Maya Deren reference to keep his snob cred.
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Hilarious in Hindsight
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Hilarious in Hindsight: In-Universe. Naked Lunch features a creature that Kyle can only describe as a "human centipede".
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Reasonable Authority Figure
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Reasonable Authority Figure: The NATO official whom Kyle calls to have Serbia wiped out.
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Ship Tease
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Ship Tease: Between him and his trashcan.
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A Rare Sentence
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A Rare Sentence: "The blood was laughing at me." "There aren't enough scenes of him arguing with the moon." (The Future) Sweet Movie wastes no time scrambling Kyle's brain. He repeats this little gem several times during 'Goodbye 20th Century': "They raped a fictional baby!" in the A Serbian Film review. In a blooper video, he says "I'm really saying this out loud aren't I?" The first (translated) sentence of Exterminating Angels is: "The lampposts are in need of their long scarlet coats." Kyle dares the audience to explain what that means. There's also a later reference to "blood of airports...flooding blue grass." "Hamlet's a cheerleader. Why is Hamlet a cheerleader?" Immortal Ad Vitam has "The reason Horus takes over Nikopol's body to use Jill's uterus to sire his bird baby... I still can't believe I'm saying that out loud."
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Despair Event Horizon
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Despair Event Horizon: Ken Park. A movie of such dismal, rage-inducing depravity that Kyle actually called in Diamanda Hagan to nuke the city it was set in. It happens again, predictably, with A Serbian Film, causing him to call NATO and try to get Serbia fictionally wiped off the map. The "Melancholia" review is a LONG one for Kyle, as each cameo makes him more and more depressed.
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Stock Scream
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Stock Scream: The Howie Long Scream is used in his symbolic illustration of an autoclitoridectomy.
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Psychic Nosebleed
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Psychic Nosebleed: Happens as Kyle struggles to talk about A Serbian Film's messages... then he snaps out. (in the bloopers, Kyle points out that given how much corn syrup he put on his nose for the scene, that could have been actual blood!)
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Drugs Are Bad
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"Parents who reanimate the dead have children who reanimate the dead." (Andy Warhol's Frankenstein)
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Start of Darkness
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Start of Darkness: More like start of snarkiness but Ken Park was this for Kyle. The movie was the first were he couldn't say a single nice thing about the character in it.
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Name McAdjective
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Name McAdjective: "Beardsman Von Soliloquy" (Sleeping Beauty) According to the tenets of Dogme 95, Kyle's not allowed to credit the director of The Idiots. Instead, Kyle continually refers to Lars von Trier as "Depress-a-tron Van de Nazipants."
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Even Nerds Have Standards
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Even Film Buffs Have Standards: He absolutely refuses to call What Is It? "art," and begins sympathizing with people who don't watch art films. Sweet Movie causes him to break down entirely on several occasions. Almost averted with A Serbian Film. He spent the review explaining allegories to the Serbian nation that the director claims are there, looking and sounding like he's in excruciating pain all the way through, until finally he gets a nosebleed and snaps. Subverted when the ending plays like a satiric deconstruction of the criticisms of the film. As much as he loves Shakespeare, Kyle can't do much to defend the sexist undertones in The Taming of the Shrew.
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Pass the Popcorn
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Pass the Popcorn: Admittedly as what he's doing is in fact watching movies him breaking out a bowl of it in a review normally would be considered a normal film watching activity. However he's an arthouse film reviewer which people don't usually associate with popcorn, therefore he uses it in his review of Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai to highlight the more action movie aspects of some of the scenes.
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Musical Episode
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Musical Episode: The Man Who Fell to Earth, reviewed almost entirely to the tunes of the songs of David Bowie. Beauty and the Beast has versions of the whole Disney version soundtrack.
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Who Would Want to Watch Us?
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Who Would Want to Watch Us?: The jokes in Melancholia start out upbeat, but as the review progresses, Kyle is clearly lamenting his choice of 'career.' He finally resorts to flatly announcing, "joke."
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Covered Up
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Covered Up: Invoked in the Beauty and the Beast review. He listens to a carousel playing Once Upon a Dream from Sleeping Beauty and calls it one of Tchaikovsky's finest works. A nearby woman "corrects" him by saying it's Lana del Rey.
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As Long as It Sounds Foreign
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As Long as It Sounds Foreign: Kyle's cameo in Atop the Fourth Wall consists of him trying to decrypt a conspiracy consisting of copious amounts of religious, political, and cultural mumbo-jumbo, which ultimately concludes with a nuclear explosion, followed by the Messenger from Angels in America appearing before him and telling him the Great Work is about to begin.
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Godwin's Law
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Godwin's Law: Couldn't get past the ending of Jubilee (1978) without constantly going back to the fact that there was a short scene featuring what he described as "Old Man Hitler". Also noted in the case of Ian McKellen's version of Richard III. Given some serious thought in his Between the Lines episode on Imagining the Tyrant. While he notes that comparisons to Nazis are indeed overplayed, he argues there's a good reason they're so abundant in the first place: in the aftermath of WWII, cultural critics of Frankfurt School attempted to figure out how democratic societies could slip into autocracy by analyzing popular media and searching for parallels to fascism .
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Fascinating Eyebrow
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Fascinating Eyebrow: A signifier that you should Beware the Nice Ones, such as when he discovered that Hollywood remade one of his cherished German films into a Nic Cage vehicle.
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Ahem
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Referring to his viewership as "ahem... enthusiasts of pop culture esoterica."
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Narm
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Narminvoked: Kyle bursts out laughing while watching the performance of the main character in Twilight of the Ice Nymphs when he monologues about trees, comparing the voice to a deaf cracked-out Bill Murray.
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Faux Symbolism
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"So just remember, when you're trying to settle serious relationship issues with your special lady, bust her water main open and then invite her to dance. She'll be thrilled! Utena told me so!" invoked
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Artistic License – Space
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Artistic License – Space: Goes on a lengthy rant about how Melancholia breaks every law of physics and astronomy possible.
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I Have Boobs, You Must Obey!
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I Have Boobs, You Must Obey!: When Kyle asks why he should follow the queen of punk England in Jubilee (1978), there is a shot of her opening a window, and she's topless. Kyle stands up and sings "I Vow to Thee, My Country".
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Brain Bleach
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Brain Bleach: After Ken Park, Kyle watches The Godfather to erase the terrible memories.
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O.O.C. Is Serious Business
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O.O.C. Is Serious Business: In most reviews, even if he dislikes a movie he'll at least attempt to analyze it. That said, you can tell he particularly doesn't like Vase de Noces when he quickly starts raging only a several minutes in, complete with Cluster F-Bomb, Angrish and generally ranting throughout the review.
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April Fools' Day: The Eraserhead review.
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Groin Attack: In the Zardoz review, Kyle takes "The gun is good! The penis is evil!" a bit too literally - he whips out a gun, walks into the bathroom, aims it at his crotch, we cut to black just as the gun goes off...
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Ham-to-Ham Combat: With Some Jerk with a Camera in his Beauty and the Beast review.
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Pretty Fly for a White Guy: His rap at the end of the Ghost Dog review.
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Crossover: Given his love for Shakespeare, reviewed Hamlet the Vampire Slayer with Allison Pregler and Tromeo and Juliet with The Cinema Snob. Also, did Revolutionary Girl Utena with JesuOtaku, Ghost Dog with Rap Critic, Freddy Got Fingered with The Nostalgia Chick, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen with Film Brain ("Brows Beat Down""), and Les Misérables (2012) (with The Nostalgia Critic and Paw Dugan)
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Giving Up on Logic: All too often. Though he should be credited for stubbornly, irrationally clinging to the hope of a hidden message.
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Oh, My Gods!: "SWEET HEAVENLY MITHRAS!"
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Covert Pervert: Kyle hinted that he might be one during his cameo in Diamanda's Emmanuelle 5 review.
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Bread, Eggs, Milk, Squick: A lot of the comedy of the show.
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Le Film Artistique: Aside from the films, and occasional film-within-a-film, in the show, the credits sequence is styled as one, including Gratuitous French credit "Kyle 'Oancitizen' Kallgren Presente:" His film school movie PREtension, a parody of art films.
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Distracted by the Sexy: An interesting aversion, as he proves unable to review an Emma Thompson film without blurting out a marriage proposal, but only because, besides being an Unkempt Beauty, she's witty, smart, stylish, strong, and just so damn awesome.
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Sarcastic Clapping: Tideland taking the honor of being the 8,524th Alice reference ever made. "A round of applause, everyone." A standing ovation for Old Man's story in Sleeping Beauty. Not adulatory toward the actual speech, just for the fact that it's finally ended.
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Running Gag: During scenes involving male bodily fluids, Kyle would take a sip of milk from a wine glass. Lampshaded during his review of Sebastian, when he can't believe it has become one. Stephen Fry's "tweets" in The Discovery of Heaven. During Jubilee (1978), he would point out two "affectionate" guys are brothers, then say "Ew." A Serbian Film: "NEW! BORN! PORN!". Any episode exploring Shakespeare will usually mention how his words inspired "everyone. Everyone! Everyone.", with each "everyone" punctuated by examples that gradually fall down the pop culture hierarchy. Calling Kyle by the name which IMDB mistakenly first applied to him, "Ralph Oancitizen". Ending his reviews with: "And that's quite a lot to say about a movie [with a disproportionately lowbrow aspect or unusual quirk that stands in stark contrast to the highbrow analysis Kyle has just finished]."
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Phantasy Spelling: Kyle jokes that Mandragora from Twilight of the Ice Nymphs is "also probably a place for people who spell 'fairy' as 'faerie.'"
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Never Trust a Title
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Never Trust a Title: Discussed on occasion.
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Department of Redundancy Department: "That 2 seconds of blurry full-frontal nudity was the most necessary thing in the history of necessity." (Twilight of the Ice Nymphs) From 'Goodbye 20th Century': This film is a messy messy mess of a mess! Me and You and Everyone We Know is one of the most "twee, twee bits of tweedom to ever come out of Sundance."
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I Have Nothing to Say to That: From the We Are the Strange review:
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Brick Joke: Diamanda Hagan tells her minion to mail Kyle his balls (since he's obviously not using his) at the end of the Ken Park review. Two videos later, the package finally arrives. And then, when the two have a Crossover, Hagan actually cuts off Kyle's balls. When he asked for them back, Hagan said she'd mail them to him. The time travel duplicate of Kyle he stuffed in the closet in his Primer review shows up again (and then gets killed) at the end of the What Is It? review. A very subtle one. When Allison Pregler tried to review Gerry (before switching to Hard To Kill), Diamanda Hagan tried to stop her by having her minions find every copy of the movie and destroy it. In his own review of it, he mentions it was hard to find a copy as all the local video stores had theirs stolen by Northern Irishmen in black masks. A little while after he slept with his wastebasket at the end of Trash Humpers, he watched W.R.: Mysteries of the Organism and reached the conclusion that he needed to have sex or turn into a crazed murderer. While calling up candidates, he eyes his dustbin with contempt and says "You used me."
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Buffy Speak
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Buffy Speak: His early attempts at explaining the plot to Primer results in him just calling everything 'things'. In the review of We Are The Strange, Roo's notes refer to every single element of the surreal movie as "thingies." Discussed at length in his review of Joss Whedon's version of Much Ado About Nothing, emphasizing how different Whedon's usual writing is from his use of Shakespeare's metered dialogue.
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Shown Their Work
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Shown Their Work: Kyle makes a point of extensively researching the films he reviews, as he feels they deserve a thought out analysis. In the vlog for "Anonymous," just off the top of his head he mentions a ton of stuff about Shakespeare and his contemporary historical figures.
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