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CGP Grey (Web Video)

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CGP Grey (Web Video)	comment	Colin Gregory Palmer Grey is an American-born, UK-based educational YouTuber who produces explanatory videos on a wide variety of topics, including history, politics, geography, economics, and pop culture. He's noted for his deep and rigorous research, with later videos occasionally having follow ups where he details how topics were investigated and produced.He first came to wide attention when his video, "The Difference between the United Kingdom, Great Britain, and England" went viral in 2011. As of 2021, he has surpassed five million subscribers.His videos can be found on his YouTube channel.Aside from his explainer videos, he's also produced narrations the works of others — such as an animated retelling of The Fable of the Dragon-Tyrant — and has livestreamed gaming videos.He also takes part in a few podcasts, most notably in Hello Internet, which is hosted alongside Brady Haran of Numberphile fame, as well as appearing on Cortex, hosted by Relay.FM owner Myke Hurley.
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CGP Grey (Web Video)	processingComment	Dropped link to Kurzgesagt: Not a Feature - ITEM
CGP Grey (Web Video)	processingComment	Dropped link to Minecraft: Not a Feature - ITEM
CGP Grey (Web Video)	processingComment	Dropped link to MinutePhysics: Not a Feature - ITEM
CGP Grey (Web Video)	processingComment	Dropped link to MontyPythonAndTheHolyGrail: Not a Feature - ITEM
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CGP Grey (Web Video)	processingComment	Dropped link to StarTrekTheOriginalSeries: Not a Feature - ITEM
CGP Grey (Web Video)	processingComment	Dropped link to TheBrainScoop: Not a Feature - ITEM
CGP Grey (Web Video)	processingComment	Dropped link to VlogBrothers: Not a Feature - ITEM
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CGP Grey (Web Video)	processingComment	Dropped link to YouTube: Not a Feature - ITEM
CGP Grey (Web Video)	processingComment	Dropped link to ZeroWing: Not a Feature - ITEM
CGP Grey (Web Video)	processingComment	Dropped link to magicthegathering: Not a Feature - ITEM
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CGP Grey (Web Video) / int_16bab5ee	comment	Punchclock Villain: The Pirate Quartermaster comes across as this. Unlike the Affably Evil and giddy Captain who thinks being a pirate is great, the Quartermaster states at the beginning that he's a pirate because of external forces. When he describes his duties he mentions "punishments executed for contract violations" and the accompanying image is a pirate being flogged with a cat-of-nine-tails by his shipmates.
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CGP Grey (Web Video) / int_18150c85	type	Democracy Is Flawed
CGP Grey (Web Video) / int_18150c85	comment	Democracy Is Flawed: According to "The Rules for Rulers", modern-day representative democracy isn't without its flaws with specific tax codes for wealthier segments, gerrymandering, and complicated election process to remain in power. On the other hand, democratic countries—specifically stable ones—tend to have a higher quality of life than dictatorships because improving the lives of voters also improve tax revenues and approval ratings.
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CGP Grey (Web Video) / int_19209d54	type	Sibling Rivalry
CGP Grey (Web Video) / int_19209d54	comment	Sibling Rivalry: In both "Who Owns the Statue of Liberty?" and "Grey Grades the State Flags", New Jersey and New York are depicted as constantly trying to one-up one another, a lot more so than other state pairings. In the former video, New York is generally depicted as a Big Sister Bully with regards to New Jersey's piers on the Hudson River that New York once demanded tax on because she claimed all of the river, befitting of the Empire State. The latter video New Jersey teases New York constantly, to the latter's displeasure, for having a (ever so slightly) better state flag as ranked by Grey.
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CGP Grey (Web Video) / int_1b465242	type	Conditioned to Accept Horror
CGP Grey (Web Video) / int_1b465242	comment	Conditioned to Accept Horror: Discussed in his "Why Die?" video. Grey views modern-day acceptance of the "necessity of death" as simply people resigning themselves to a horror they can't resist, the same way a hostage might development an attachment to their kidnapping, and this attitude has prevented humanity from properly finding ways to stop death and aging.
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CGP Grey (Web Video) / int_1b65dfad	type	The Cameo
CGP Grey (Web Video) / int_1b65dfad	comment	The Cameo: Grey has had many in other YouTuber's videos, and some have cameoed in his own: He appeared in "Favourite Numbers" and "Numbers confuse Americans" from Numberphile. In an "Ask Emily" episode of The Brain Scoop, Emily answered a question he submitted about how caterpillar metamorphosis works. The "You Are Two" video featured Kurzgesagt at the end, and he cameoed at the end of their sister video "What Is Something?"
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CGP Grey (Web Video) / int_1ba8eb64	type	Visual Pun
CGP Grey (Web Video) / int_1ba8eb64	comment	Visual Pun: In "How To Become Pope", when it comes time for the College of Cardinals to begin the voting process to elect a new pope, their means of communication with the outside world are confiscated. This includes electronic tablets, though people only paying attention to Grey's narration might not notice one of the cardinals has a tablet made of stone.
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CGP Grey (Web Video) / int_1c77ec26	type	The Voice
CGP Grey (Web Video) / int_1c77ec26	comment	The Voice: Grey considers himself a pretty private person, so in most of his videos, he becomes this trope. When appearing as himself, however, various methods are employed to hide his identity. These include framing his face out (People Pronouncing Uranus video), or standing behind a tree in Numberphileâ€™s "Favourite Numbers" videos. In Vlogbrothers videos where he is in the frame, he is usually censored with a large black box, sometimes annotated with his name. (The same courtesy was extended to John Green's wife, "The Yeti," before she started hosting The Art Assignment.)
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CGP Grey (Web Video) / int_1dea3034	type	Cool Shades
CGP Grey (Web Video) / int_1dea3034	comment	Whenever he says that someone/something is cool or popular, a pair of sunglasses come from nowhere to demonstrate it.
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CGP Grey (Web Video) / int_1e5df5	type	Heh Heh, You Said "X"
CGP Grey (Web Video) / int_1e5df5	comment	Heh Heh, You Said "X": When the Quartermaster does his presentation on how pirate ships are run in "How To Be A Pirate", he compares it to a business whose source of income is pirate booty. The recruit and captain immediately giggle like immature ten-year-olds, to which The Comically Serious Straight Man Quartermaster sighs and changes it to "treasure" for the rest of the video.
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CGP Grey (Web Video) / int_1e68311c	type	"No. Justâ€¦ No" Reaction
CGP Grey (Web Video) / int_1e68311c	comment	"No. Justâ€¦ No" Reaction: In the "How Many Countries are There" video, after talking about Chinaâ€“Taiwan relations:
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CGP Grey (Web Video) / int_20952a1	type	Product Displacement
CGP Grey (Web Video) / int_20952a1	comment	Product Displacement: In "Grey Grades Canada's Flags!", the Anthropomorphic Personification of Ontario is quite clearly sipping at a cup of Tim Hortons. The shape language is there to indicate the American logo for Tim Hortons coffee cups prior to their Minimalist redesign, but the actual name "Tim Hortons" isn't present.
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CGP Grey (Web Video) / int_24dd0eef	type	Judicial Wig
CGP Grey (Web Video) / int_24dd0eef	comment	Judicial Wig: The Anthropomorphic Personification of the American Supreme Court always wears a long white wig.
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CGP Grey (Web Video) / int_26eb6287	type	Funny Background Event
CGP Grey (Web Video) / int_26eb6287	comment	Funny Background Event: In "How to Become Pope", the bishop takes the cardinals' electronics away before they can vote for the new pope. One of the cardinals can be seen pocketing his phone and is later playing with it when he should be praying.
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CGP Grey (Web Video) / int_295087bf	comment	Non-Indicative Name: Grey's pet peeve. Though his own logo is a case of this: while it depicts science and technology, and the man wanted to make videos about the two fields since he thinks that they are the most important, most of his videos are about history, politics, and nomenclature.
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CGP Grey (Web Video) / int_2d047747	type	Gossip Evolution
CGP Grey (Web Video) / int_2d047747	comment	Gossip Evolution: In "The Race to Win Staten Island," Grey recounts how this happened with the Christopher Billopp story. Later versions of the story have Billopp using empty barrels to increase his sailing speed, but this detail does not appear in earlier versions. Also, early versions have Billopp living in the manor before the race, but later versions made it a prize for winning.
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CGP Grey (Web Video) / int_2d4a6d8c	type	Sophisticated as Hell
CGP Grey (Web Video) / int_2d4a6d8c	comment	Sophisticated as Hell: In explaining why the Perfect Steffen boarding method can't be used, one of the reasons Grey lists is that passengers would "flip the hell out" upon seeing that they were in boarding group 123.
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CGP Grey (Web Video) / int_2dc3e97c	type	Ghost Town
CGP Grey (Web Video) / int_2dc3e97c	comment	Ghost Town: On his road trip across the Loneliest Road in America, Grey stops off to use an outhouse in Cisco, Utah, which certainly looks like one of these, with no sign of human habitation except for several suspiciously new-looking "no trespassing" signs and what seems to be a fully functional security camera on one building. Grey never gets to find out what Cisco's deal is, and he leaves incredibly unnerved.
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CGP Grey (Web Video) / int_2e121bc0	type	SouthernGentlemen
CGP Grey (Web Video) / int_2e121bc0	comment	Southern Gentlemen: With a name like "General Beauregard Lee" he concludes that Georgia's native groundhog seasonal predictor must be one of these, and lists off a few characteristics he assumes said groundhog must-have.
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CGP Grey (Web Video) / int_2e39af52	type	Girlish Pigtails
CGP Grey (Web Video) / int_2e39af52	comment	Girlish Pigtails: The "young" versions of U.S. states are portrayed with these. In the present day, their grown-up incarnations have the standard straight hair.
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CGP Grey (Web Video) / int_33fa230b	type	Your Princess Is in Another Castle!
CGP Grey (Web Video) / int_33fa230b	comment	Your Princess Is in Another Castle!: A few of Grey's videos seem like they're about to conclude when they're not anywhere close to the end of the bar. The most extreme example is "How Many Countries Are There?", where he notes counting the number of United Nations members gets you 193 ("Fastest video ever, right?") but it's only 25 seconds into a video that's over 5 minutes long.
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CGP Grey (Web Video) / int_39b8d3d6	type	Boring, but Practical
CGP Grey (Web Video) / int_39b8d3d6	comment	Boring, but Practical: In "Hexagons are the Bestagons", Grey explains why hexagons are the best shape for tiling structures and why they are so common on the molecular and cellular levels.
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CGP Grey (Web Video) / int_3b99a9e0	type	Reality Warper
CGP Grey (Web Video) / int_3b99a9e0	comment	By contrast, the Judicial branch is given Reality Warper powers to sort matters out and the Supreme Court Justices are almost always depicted as The Comically Serious.
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CGP Grey (Web Video) / int_3e8c87a3	type	Dated History
CGP Grey (Web Video) / int_3e8c87a3	comment	Dated History: In one Q&A session he claims human development only improves over time. Whig history such as this is widely discredited by historians and hasn't been taken seriously in nearly a century.
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CGP Grey (Web Video) / int_4364fe24	type	Ethereal Choir
CGP Grey (Web Video) / int_4364fe24	comment	Ethereal Choir: In "Grey Grades the State Flags", the first ten out of eleven state flags Grey grades are dominated by blue backgrounds (the exception is California's, which he fails for writing out the state's name on the flag and having a bear that looks scared on it) and all but two of them are consigned to F-tier for egregious violations of good flag designnote And that's counting Oregon, which he initially failed before giving the lone beaver on the back a passing D grade. In despondency he calls out whether anyone made a flag that wasn't blue. Cue the choir as New Mexico's flag of the Zia people's sun colored red on gold background (a nod to the state's Spanish heritage) steps up, which Grey finds enchanting and it becomes one of only four flags he rates as S-tier.
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CGP Grey (Web Video) / int_43b154c9	type	Not Even Bothering with the Accent
CGP Grey (Web Video) / int_43b154c9	comment	Not Even Bothering with the Accent: In "The Battle of SHARKS!", Grey provides voices for various London-based organizations. While he uses some Britishisms, he maintains his natural accent rather than attempting to sound like a Londoner.
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CGP Grey (Web Video) / int_43da7708	type	Nations as People
CGP Grey (Web Video) / int_43da7708	comment	Nations as People: From "How Many Countries are There?" on. In earlier videos, they are either depicted as flags or have speech bubbles on a map. Notably, nations use his female stick figure model (with Vatican City as the major exception as it is demographically at least 90% male), with the nation's (or other political units like a state) flag as her skirt.
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CGP Grey (Web Video) / int_45cd286c	type	Corrupt Politician
CGP Grey (Web Video) / int_45cd286c	comment	Corrupt Politician: Deconstructed in "The Rules for Rulers." Politicians, whether as dictators or representatives, must placate a small cabal of supporters in order to keep power. Itâ€™s just Inherent in the System. These people donâ€™t all necessarily go into politics planning to be corrupt and self-serving, but the idealistic ones either get defeated by less scrupulous rivals, or learn to play the game in order to stay in power.
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CGP Grey (Web Video) / int_48081842	type	The Stinger
CGP Grey (Web Video) / int_48081842	comment	The Stinger: "Who Owns the Statue of Liberty?" contains one about Shooters Island, a tiny island north of Staten Island that is currently a bird sanctuary.
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CGP Grey (Web Video) / int_4832a3bb	type	Always Chaotic Evil
CGP Grey (Web Video) / int_4832a3bb	comment	Always Chaotic Evil: Discussed in "How to be a Pirate: Quartermaster Edition". When the personality index for the typical pirate is shown, the Cruelty vector is at a high level while the Aggression vector is at its maximum level.
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CGP Grey (Web Video) / int_4eaa9b84	type	Author Tract
CGP Grey (Web Video) / int_4eaa9b84	comment	Author Tract: Grey will sometimes outright express frustration at things he's come across. "A Crime Against Childhood", in which he rails against school administrators who are considering switching to remote learning instead of cancelling school on snow days, thus making childhoods slightly less magical. "Someone Dead Ruined My Life...Again", in which he spends 18 minutes describing the frustration poor scholarship and citation can have on researchers trying to track down information.
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CGP Grey (Web Video) / int_4ef62a4d	type	Full-Circle Revolution
CGP Grey (Web Video) / int_4ef62a4d	comment	Full-Circle Revolution: In "The Rules for Rulers," he lists that these rules are precisely why revolutions so often see a ruler become even worse than his predecessor. The keys to power expect a greater cut from him, or else they would simply stamp him out, so he has little choice but to provide that larger cut at the expense of the people.
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CGP Grey (Web Video) / int_4f4372e9	type	Early-Installment Weirdness
CGP Grey (Web Video) / int_4f4372e9	comment	His video "History of the Union Jack" has him not speak at all. This anomaly corresponds with Early-Installment Weirdness, as this is his eighth video on the channel.
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CGP Grey (Web Video) / int_514491f	type	Job-Stealing Robot
CGP Grey (Web Video) / int_514491f	comment	"Humans Need Not Apply" is about how robots are set to displace humans in all aspects of the labor force beyond just manual labor.
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CGP Grey (Web Video) / int_537dd8fe	type	Affably Evil
CGP Grey (Web Video) / int_537dd8fe	comment	Affably Evil: In "How to be a Pirate", the Pirate Captain is cheery and smiling throughout his description of his crew's operations ... including when he describes how he tortures captured enemy sailors to death just for fighting back.
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CGP Grey (Web Video) / int_568b9d5	type	Orphaned Etymology
CGP Grey (Web Video) / int_568b9d5	comment	Orphaned Etymology: Throughout the "Who Owns The Statue of Liberty?" video, Grey refers to Liberty Island by that name, but of course, it wasn't given that name until after the Statue of Liberty was put there. In fact, the name "Liberty Island" didn't become official until the 1950s. For most of the time period discussed in the video, it was known as Bedloe's Island. And even the name "Bedloe's Island" is too new for the time period in which the English had just taken over the Dutch colony. The Dutch called it "Great Oyster Island," with Ellis Island being "Little Oyster Island." Okay, it's pretty clear by now why Grey decided to just stick with the modern names.
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CGP Grey (Web Video) / int_598ad6e2	type	Even the Guys Want Him
CGP Grey (Web Video) / int_598ad6e2	comment	Even the Guys Want Him: In "Which Planet is the Closest?", Grey talks about what planet is closest to Earth; Mercury spends the most time closest to Earth, which he portrays with the Roman god Mercury gifting a rose to Earth, and to Venus (whose closest planet is also Mercury). Then, as it turns out, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, and every other planet in the solar system has Mercury as the closest planet. The final image of the video is of Mercury successfully wooing all the gods and goddesses in the Roman pantheon with roses.
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CGP Grey (Web Video) / int_5ab267e1	type	F--
CGP Grey (Web Video) / int_5ab267e1	comment	F--: When grading "his students' flags" in the episode where Grey ranks US state flags, the F tier is so full that he has to break it down into S-tier-F-tier to F-tier-F-tier.
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CGP Grey (Web Video) / int_5d753b19	type	The Smurfette Principle
CGP Grey (Web Video) / int_5d753b19	comment	The Smurfette Principle: Inverted. While countries and states are generally represented as female and referred to with she/her pronouns, Vatican City is the only one referred to as a "he," considering his demographics.
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CGP Grey (Web Video) / int_5db59a03	type	Brown Note
CGP Grey (Web Video) / int_5db59a03	comment	Brown Note: He places a faintly-audible sound in "This Video Will Hurt" that will cause sickness in listeners...is what he claimed to make viewers think that, so he can provide viewers with a firsthand example of the nocebo effect.
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CGP Grey (Web Video) / int_60b4a128	type	The Last DJ
CGP Grey (Web Video) / int_60b4a128	comment	The Last DJ: Deconstructed and defied in "The Rules for Rulers". Trying to be an "honest" leader, whether in a democracy or dictatorship, means you risk losing power at the hands of several powerful interests by not giving them a share of the wealth you control. But even after explaining the harsh realities of politics, the viewer is told that while the political game is hard and brutal, not engaging means you can't change a thing.
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CGP Grey (Web Video) / int_62f9d08e	type	Freeze-Frame Bonus
CGP Grey (Web Video) / int_62f9d08e	comment	Freeze-Frame Bonus: A few videos have blink-and-you'll-miss-it flashes of text that viewers would have little to no chance of reading without the pause button - a good example is "Quick and Easy Voting for Normal People" (which actually has two instances - one as a gag and one as a footnote). A rather off-color one occurs in "Who Owns the Statue of Liberty?"
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CGP Grey (Web Video) / int_63557923	type	Death World
CGP Grey (Web Video) / int_63557923	comment	Deadly, deadly nature.
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CGP Grey (Web Video) / int_648c3646	type	Enlightened Self-Interest
CGP Grey (Web Video) / int_648c3646	comment	Enlightened Self-Interest: In the "Rules For Rulers", nations that invest in their populations' welfare only do so because creative and productive citizens will create more wealth for the ruler and his cronies. This is why nations with lots of natural resources are often horrible places to live; a leader who can get wealth from the ground from a high-priced commodity doesn't have to concern himself with the welfare of the population since he can generate wealth regardless of the well-being of the population.
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CGP Grey (Web Video) / int_66f763c0	type	Interface Screw
CGP Grey (Web Video) / int_66f763c0	comment	Interface Screw: He inserts a brief series of fake buffers into his "Net Neutrality Explained" video to demonstrate the experience for non-"fast lane" users in a Net Neutrality-less world.
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CGP Grey (Web Video) / int_670db7d7	type	Formula-Breaking Episode
CGP Grey (Web Video) / int_670db7d7	comment	Formula-Breaking Episode: Once discusses Reddit. His video "History of the Union Jack" has him not speak at all. This anomaly corresponds with Early-Installment Weirdness, as this is his eighth video on the channel. His video "Humans Need Not Apply" about automation has an outright serious and existential tone, as well as being significantly longer than his usual videos at 15 minutes and a tad depressing. He takes a similar tone in "Americapox: The Missing Plague", at 12 minutes and on the rather depressing subject of plagues (specifically, how Old World diseases decimated the people of the New World but the reverse didn't happen). Also, he intentionally slowed down his Motor Mouth habit for this video. He takes this tone again in "Rules for Rulers", his longest video so far at almost 20 minutes, has a Machiavellian tone on how people are supposed to get in positions of power and how they keep it. He takes this tone again in "Why Die?" where he thinks the idea of accepting aging and death to be similar to having a fondness for a criminal that tortures you, and that people should fight it. "The Fable of the Dragon-Tyrant" is a departure from his usual art style and hard reality style in favor of Grey narrating a fable by Nick Bostrom about the wonders of human progress and the tragedy of accepting horror, with lush and detailed artwork to boot.
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CGP Grey (Web Video) / int_67d90683	type	Fictional Political Party
CGP Grey (Web Video) / int_67d90683	comment	Fictional Political Party: Grey's videos about U.S. politics feature two unnamed parties represented by the colors of yellow and orange.note Yellow actually is the color of the Libertarian Party, but this is probably a coincidence considering the Libertarian Party never actually gets into power. Plus, there is no existing U.S. party that uses orange as its color.
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CGP Grey (Web Video) / int_71e514b5	type	Don't Try This at Home
CGP Grey (Web Video) / int_71e514b5	comment	Don't Try This at Home: When discussing the law you won't be told:
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CGP Grey (Web Video) / int_720e28a4	type	Bread, Eggs, Breaded Eggs
CGP Grey (Web Video) / int_720e28a4	comment	Bread, Eggs, Breaded Eggs: Inverted in his video "This Video Will Hurt", listing what people believe cause allergies:
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CGP Grey (Web Video) / int_76b4b7dd	type	The Comically Serious
CGP Grey (Web Video) / int_76b4b7dd	comment	The Comically Serious: The personification of the American Supreme Court almost always has a very deadpan facial expression with a neutral mouth. Even when several states are physically fighting over whether or not the Electoral College should stay or go. But there are a few instances where the Supreme Court persona has a different expression. One was on the newspaper cover supposedly explaining that faithless electors were banned, showing them angrily slamming the judicial hammer as one elector is arrested. However, Grey explains that this didn't happen. Another instance is when New York and New Jersey were arguing over who owns Staten Island, the Supreme Court persona has a more annoyed expression, but is mostly still deadpan. The video where Supreme court justices are depicted with the greatest variety of emotions is in Supreme Court Shenanigans! Here, the justices are shown happy to serve (whether out of genuine desire to serve or being influenced by the president), being annoyed that an empty justice seat is not being filled, or other similar expressions. The Pirate Quartermaster is joyless and stern, only cracking a smile when contemplating the vast wealth a successful voyage will rake in.
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CGP Grey (Web Video) / int_78270847	type	Curse Cut Short
CGP Grey (Web Video) / int_78270847	comment	In "The Trouble With Tumbleweed", he mentions that tumbles can fpollinate themselves.
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CGP Grey (Web Video) / int_7abba202	type	The Faceless
CGP Grey (Web Video) / int_7abba202	comment	The Faceless: On the occasions Grey appears in person in his videos, he'll point the camera at his chest rather than his face.
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CGP Grey (Web Video) / int_7e5f2db2	type	Talk Like a Pirate
CGP Grey (Web Video) / int_7e5f2db2	comment	Talk Like a Pirate: When a personality matrix is shown in the "How to be a Pirate" videos, one of the vectors is "Yarr!". For Pirates, it's the only vector other than Aggression that's at maximum level, but for Surgeons and Empire Sailors, this vector is empty.
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CGP Grey (Web Video) / int_808cbaeb	type	Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking
CGP Grey (Web Video) / int_808cbaeb	comment	When explaining the many kinds of Daddy Longlegs, he casually mentions that the Australian version does indeed have venom and fangs and adds that "then again, so does everything else in that bloody country" as the screen changes to images of several animals and a politician, with the distinctive stick figure on the yellow background of Caustic Critic Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw hiding in the corner of the video.
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CGP Grey (Web Video) / int_80bc43b5	type	Stick Figure Animation
CGP Grey (Web Video) / int_80bc43b5	comment	Stick Figure Animation: Humans (excluding portraits of Historical Domain Characters) are drawn as stick figures, including CGP Grey himself.
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CGP Grey (Web Video) / int_82518cf7	type	Motor Mouth
CGP Grey (Web Video) / int_82518cf7	comment	Motor Mouth: In his United Kingdom video, he lists off about a dozen or so countries in the Commonwealth Realm at a very rapid pace. He also blurts out a very fast disclaimer in The Law You Won't Be Told.
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CGP Grey (Web Video) / int_83f0971b	type	Mexican Standoff
CGP Grey (Web Video) / int_83f0971b	comment	Mexican Standoff: In "Who Owns Antarctica?" there's a two-second scene of the Axis and Allied powers pointing guns at each other to illustrate who was threatening who (if you're wondering what that has to do with Antarctica, Argentina and Chile made claims that overlap with the UK who they believed wouldn't be able to object because of the impending World War II). America, who's looking off the right edge of the scene whistling, is apparently not paying attention to Japan.
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CGP Grey (Web Video) / int_8411ab92	type	Red Oni, Blue Oni
CGP Grey (Web Video) / int_8411ab92	comment	Red Oni, Blue Oni: The pirate captain and the pirate quartermaster, respectively, in the twinned videos about how to be a pirate. The captain's piece about how piracy and branding in the Age of Exploration worked is full of enthusiasm to the potential recruit, while the quartermaster is far more calm while he talks plainly about the economic forces at the time and the financial reasons that led to piracy and its far more egalitarian pay output.
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CGP Grey (Web Video) / int_8797239c	type	Bait-and-Switch
CGP Grey (Web Video) / int_8797239c	comment	Bait-and-Switch: In "Ten Misconceptions Rundown", the tenth misconception that people swallow eight spiders a year while sleeping is described as ridiculous, because people's mouths are so warm and moist, so eight spiders is an underestimate. "Going to the Weed Research Lab in Colorado" was released on 4/20/2020, takes place in a state where marijuana is legalized, has a greened CGP Grey logo in the thumbnail... and is actually a follow up to "The Trouble With Tumbleweed" as it details the research he made for that video.
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CGP Grey (Web Video) / int_8976acda	type	Civil War
CGP Grey (Web Video) / int_8976acda	comment	Civil War: In "The Sneaky Plan to Subvert the Electoral College for the Next Election", he states that should NaPoVoInterCo be enacted, states that did not join this plan (or refused to do so) would likely challenge the constitutionality of it by launching legal cases in the Supreme Court, leading to a judicial version of this as they clash with states that did enact the plan.
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CGP Grey (Web Video) / int_8b6394c	type	These Are Things Man Was Not Meant to Know
CGP Grey (Web Video) / int_8b6394c	comment	These Are Things Man Was Not Meant to Know: The Planck Length is the smallest distance that can be meaningfully measured. In "Metric Paper," Grey describes it as "a sort of reality pixel that it's best not to think about."
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CGP Grey (Web Video) / int_8ed5c6e4	type	Asshole Victim
CGP Grey (Web Video) / int_8ed5c6e4	comment	Asshole Victim: The video "Death & Dynasties" has a moment of this. When Grey is talking about why key supporters plan for the replacement of a dead ruler is that a "... a Dead Ruler surprise will lead to a scramble for power at best and a bloodbath at worst", with the latter outcome represented by a triumphant revolutionary surrounded by the corpses of dead key supporters from the old dictatorial regime. Since the episode "Rules for Rulers" establishes key supporters in dictatorships as Chronic Backstabbers who overthrow benevolent dictators and screw over the people for the sake of their own enrichment, seeing them subjected to Laser-Guided Karma brings some satisfaction.
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CGP Grey (Web Video) / int_8f37640a	type	Lies to Children
CGP Grey (Web Video) / int_8f37640a	comment	Lies to Children: There are occasional bonus videos that has Grey clarify that the method he described isn't really the best or most popular one, just the simplest. For example, the STV video and the video about bot programming. Both are complicated and unintuitive issues, so he instead opts to show the simplest way it can be done before explaining in a footnote the basics of how most people actually do it. For example, it's easier to explain how three representatives need about 33%+ of the vote eachnote 100/3 rather than 26%+ eachnote 100/(3+1) +1 and the difference isn't significant enough to waste time explaining.
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CGP Grey (Web Video) / int_8f9f71a8	type	Crazy Enough to Work
CGP Grey (Web Video) / int_8f9f71a8	comment	Crazy Enough to Work: On a business trip that involved traveling from San Jose, California to Moab, Utah, Grey's initial plan was to fly. Instead, he was convinced to drive a Tesla. In this situation, the sensible thing to do would be to take the Interstate to his destination (I-80 to I-15 to I-70), stopping at some of the several Tesla Supercharger stations along the way. Instead, he opted to cross Nevada on US-50, otherwise known as The Loneliest Road in America. Nearly 500 miles of rural road, with only three towns along its entire length, and not a single Supercharger. And it worked, although he did admit it was a stupid decision.
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CGP Grey (Web Video) / int_9125c7ab	type	Advertising Disguised as News
CGP Grey (Web Video) / int_9125c7ab	comment	Advertising Disguised as News: Thankfully subverted in an episode of "Hello Internet" where he mentions being offered payment from an on-line currency company to do an episode on the history of virtual money, with the ending portraying them as the future of virtual currency.
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CGP Grey (Web Video) / int_912b24c4	type	Art Shift
CGP Grey (Web Video) / int_912b24c4	comment	Art Shift: "The Trouble with Transporters" ditches Stick Figure Animation in favor of a more standard cartoon style.
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CGP Grey (Web Video) / int_928ca2cc	type	You Have Outlived Your Usefulness
CGP Grey (Web Video) / int_928ca2cc	comment	You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: In "Rules for Rulers", Grey notes that the leader of a successful coup will usually purge some of the supporters who helped him come to power, and will often continue to employ some of the key supporters who served the deposed ruler. This may sound like a bad idea, but it actually makes sense. Since a revolutionary leader must promise a greater share of the treasure to convince enough keys to power to switch sides, and the size of the treasury hasnâ€™t increased in the meantime, the only way to free up enough money to pay off the most necessary keys is to identify and eliminate whichever key supporters are no longer needed. Good revolutionary supporters may not have the necessary qualities to help their master govern once in power, in which case they must be ruthlessly discarded.
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CGP Grey (Web Video) / int_92fa14	type	Our Lawyers Advised This Trope
CGP Grey (Web Video) / int_92fa14	comment	Our Lawyers Advised This Trope: In his narration for "Sharks!", Grey repeatedly says that he had to have legal consultations and that he's not taking any legal stance in order to avoid litigation from any of the parties currently suing and countersuing each other.
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CGP Grey (Web Video) / int_943f7a7e	type	Wiki Walk
CGP Grey (Web Video) / int_943f7a7e	comment	Wiki Walk: Non-internet version (sort of), he describes "The Forest of All Knowledge" like this, as a place where there are rabbit-trails galore, and walking off the path you intend to tread leads you to get lost in its depths, far away from the topic you wished to learn about.
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CGP Grey (Web Video) / int_9aaf8eca	type	Crippling Overspecialization
CGP Grey (Web Video) / int_9aaf8eca	comment	Crippling Overspecialization: In "How Machines Learn" the bots are only designed to separate static images of a bee from images of a three, being shown as confused by videos, upside-down images, as well as images that clearly show neither (dog in a bee costume, for example).
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CGP Grey (Web Video) / int_9c1d1e31	type	Black Box
CGP Grey (Web Video) / int_9c1d1e31	comment	Black Box: In "How Machines Learn", the bots that learn to separate images of bees from threes end up with a complex algorithm that cannot be explained by a human or the teacher and builder bots.
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CGP Grey (Web Video) / int_9cc7c9fe	type	A Nuclear Error
CGP Grey (Web Video) / int_9cc7c9fe	comment	A Nuclear Error: "What is TEKOI?" reported that the Tekoi test range in Utah was a facility testing engines for the Minuteman ICBM, though in the exploration video, Grey found documents stating that the engines were for the Trident SLBM. He documented his making the mistake in another video and uploaded a corrected version with some changed wording and an appropriate missile model.
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CGP Grey (Web Video) / int_9d13914e	type	Apple for Teacher
CGP Grey (Web Video) / int_9d13914e	comment	Apple for Teacher: A variant in "Grey Grades the State Flags" with Grey as the teacher grading the flag of each state, represented as schoolchildren handing in homework assignments. Connecticut's flag has three bunches of grapes on it, and Connecticut is munching on some as she offers them to Grey, who declines.
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CGP Grey (Web Video) / int_9dab0a6e	type	Continuity Nod
CGP Grey (Web Video) / int_9dab0a6e	comment	Continuity Nod: "The simple secret of runway digits" has the pirate captain and quartermaster show up from the pirate videos, as well as the infinite A4 paper golden spiral from the metric paper video. Also, in one shot, Grey stares annoyed at a social security number, as a reference to his video about the insecurity of that system.
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CGP Grey (Web Video) / int_9e0c3153	type	Punctuated! For! Emphasis!
CGP Grey (Web Video) / int_9e0c3153	comment	Punctuated! For! Emphasis!: Look at Running Gag, and also used multiple times in his video about the UK's worst election ever.
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CGP Grey (Web Video) / int_9f80e1da	type	Sarcasm Mode
CGP Grey (Web Video) / int_9f80e1da	comment	Good luck. with that.
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CGP Grey (Web Video) / int_9fe075b0	type	High-Tech Hexagons
CGP Grey (Web Video) / int_9fe075b0	comment	High-Tech Hexagons: Hexagons are the Bestagons discusses this as it applies to real life.
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CGP Grey (Web Video) / int_a11972bf	type	Zebras Are Just Striped Horses
CGP Grey (Web Video) / int_a11972bf	comment	Zebras Are Just Striped Horses: Notably averted in "Zebras vs Horses: Animal Domestication", in which Grey points out all the differences between horses and zebras, and how they would make zebras horrible candidates for domestication.
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CGP Grey (Web Video) / int_a18042f1	comment	Left the Background Music On: In "The Better Boarding Method Airlines Won't Use", Grey's lament about why the "Steffen Perfect" method won't work in real life is accompanied by mournful violin music. The circle that represents Grey in the video then looks at the top-left corner and sees two violin-playing angels. He glares at them, and they stop playing and fly away.
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CGP Grey (Web Video) / int_a1a1491e	type	Homage
CGP Grey (Web Video) / int_a1a1491e	comment	Homage: Hank Green's VlogBrothers video, "Apples! (CGP Grey style)" is this to C.G.P Greyâ€™s videos. Conjecture makes a parody video of V Sauce, Vlogbrothers, and CGP Grey, the latter using Grey's iconic stickman animation. When discussing a hypothetical "Videocators Guild", CGP Grey in its coat of arms includes, besides his own logo, the logos of MinutePhysics, Vi Hart, and CrashCourse.
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CGP Grey (Web Video) / int_a3597c29	comment	Magic Countdown: Invoked as a metaphor in his description of the debt limit of the U.S. federal government, in which it is a ticking Time Bomb set by Congress that Congress also has the ability to disarm at any time. In cases where congress and the president are at odds, they can milk the debt limit for political points by delaying "disarming" it until the last possible moment.
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CGP Grey (Web Video) / int_a4c37cbe	type	Mood Whiplash
CGP Grey (Web Video) / int_a4c37cbe	comment	Mood Whiplash: In "Metric Paper" he goes from celebrating... Metric Paper, to narrating the scale of the universe with plenty of existential dread.
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CGP Grey (Web Video) / int_a545e2a4	comment	Money Fetish: The Quartermaster in the "How to be a Pirate" videos smiles exactly once between both installments: when he's looking at the heaps of gold he owns.
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CGP Grey (Web Video) / int_a8a04f6f	comment	And I Must Scream: The right brain in You Are Two.
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CGP Grey (Web Video) / int_a950584d	comment	In the "American Empire" video, the formation of the United States from the original 13 is depicted as forming Voltron.
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CGP Grey (Web Video) / int_aba5e1d1	type	Pluto Is Expendable
CGP Grey (Web Video) / int_aba5e1d1	comment	Pluto Is Expendable: In "Which Planet is the Closest?", Grey remarks that Pluto isn't counted as a planet anymore; cue the planetoid getting torn off the planet chart, with an upset D: face. Later in the video, Pluto (the Roman god) shows up, and he also seems distraught at the idea that Pluto is no longer considered a planet.
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CGP Grey (Web Video) / int_abc5ba2f	type	Men Are Generic, Women Are Special
CGP Grey (Web Video) / int_abc5ba2f	comment	Men Are Generic, Women Are Special: Grey uses male and female stick figure designs, where the female design consists of the male design with hair and a miniskirt. Human characters (without a specific gender) are male by default. Characters representing political and geographic entities are female by default, with the design on the miniskirt signifying the entity that the character represents.
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CGP Grey (Web Video) / int_ae3d6438	comment	Deadpan Snarker: His personal opinion towards things he disagrees with when stating the facts. Especially with scientific misconceptions, obvious logical thinking and political actions that only look out for their interest while missing the big picture.
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CGP Grey (Web Video) / int_b1dde8fd	comment	Loophole Abuse: "Supreme Court Shenanigans!" details how these are used in the appointment of justices to the U.S. Supreme Court.
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CGP Grey (Web Video) / int_b5049d76	comment	Added Alliterative Appeal: Happens multiple times. In "The better boarding method airlines won't use", this happens twice. In "The sneaky plan to subvert the Electoral College", Grey says that one outcome of the way the Electoral College works is "the states less populous produce preponderate Presidential picking power per person"
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CGP Grey (Web Video) / int_b707726f	type	Hypocritical Humor
CGP Grey (Web Video) / int_b707726f	comment	Though his own logo is a case of this: while it depicts science and technology, and the man wanted to make videos about the two fields since he thinks that they are the most important, most of his videos are about history, politics, and nomenclature.
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CGP Grey (Web Video) / int_bbc77bb5	type	Hard Truth Aesop
CGP Grey (Web Video) / int_bbc77bb5	comment	Hard Truth Aesop: "The Rules For Rulers" very bluntly states that power is mainly about controlling wealth and who gets it. If you want to hold power, you have to engage and even kowtow to powerful interests by giving them a share of the "treasure". If you don't, someone offering them a share will convince them to overthrow you.
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CGP Grey (Web Video) / int_bc00493f	type	Precision F-Strike
CGP Grey (Web Video) / int_bc00493f	comment	Precision F-Strike: Describes zebra as "bastards" and "pain-in-the-ass" animals in "Zebra vs Horses: Animal Domestication". The fact that this is in the same video as the above-mentioned Last-Second Word Swap makes this even more jarring.
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CGP Grey (Web Video) / int_bc9ddc86	type	Fictional Flag
CGP Grey (Web Video) / int_bc9ddc86	comment	Fictional Flag: Grey creates some redesigns for some of the worst state flags in "Grey Grades the State Flags". His redesign for Wisconsin, which looks like a slice of cheese on a blue background, previously appeared in his video about the flag of Antarctica.
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CGP Grey (Web Video) / int_c37a9e13	type	Alien Kudzu
CGP Grey (Web Video) / int_c37a9e13	comment	Alien Kudzu: Tumbleweed, as described in "The Trouble With Tumbleweed". They can grow enormously big and block homes, are covered in thorns to inconvenience removal, are ridiculously flammable, can plant themselves into farms and suck out all the nutrients for the crops, are an invasive species, and a single tumble can fu-pollinate itself to propagate without any immediate mates.
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CGP Grey (Web Video) / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
CGP Grey (Web Video) / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: When explaining the many kinds of Daddy Longlegs, he casually mentions that the Australian version does indeed have venom and fangs and adds that "then again, so does everything else in that bloody country" as the screen changes to images of several animals and a politician, with the distinctive stick figure on the yellow background of Caustic Critic Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw hiding in the corner of the video. For "How To Become Pope", two of the questions the Apostolic Nuncio asks potential bishops are "What is your quest?" and "What is your favorite color?" In the "American Empire" video, the formation of the United States from the original 13 is depicted as forming Voltron. When discussing Svalbard in the "Where is Scandanavia?" video, he mentions that it is guarded by armored bears. "Death & Dynasties" has one to Doctor Who, featuring the Tenth Doctor whispering the infamous quote he used to depose Harriet Jones ("Don't you think she looks tired?") to the monarch's aide. For the "Who Owns The Statue of Liberty?" video about the surprisingly complicated question of where the border between New York and New Jersey runs (due to the original English charter being both wordy and vague), New York claimed the whole river (including Staten, Ellis, and the future Liberty Island) as theirs — even the Hudson River piers New Jersey built. "All New York. All belong to us." Said while the New York avatar is wearing a blue cape mimicking CATS. In "Which Planet is the Closest?", all the planet humanoids are represented by their standard Roman mythological god/goddess appearances. Saturn specifically has blood leaking from his mouth, as a reference to Francisco de Goya's Saturn Devouring His Son. "The Trouble with Tumbles" recalls for Star Trek: The Original Series fans the episode "The Trouble With Tribbles", as Grey implicitly compares tumbleweeds with tribbles in terms of how they seem harmless and kind of endearing at first but actually cause major problems due to their absurdly rapid reproduction rate. A graphic within the video about how prairie fires are a threat to agriculture also mimics the user interface of RimWorld. "There are three players in this game: content creators who make videos, advertisers who make the ads, and YouTube playing matchmaker, matchmaker, making the match." Grey is fond of making references to My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic. In "You Are Two", Right Brain picks up an Twilight Sparkle figure, which Left Brain justifies as being "Because she's the best pony." In "Which Planet Is The Closest?", he exclaims "Oh my Celestia!" when holding up the paper with the maths results, and the paper emanates Princess Celestia's mane colors, which wave in a similar way to how it does in the show. In "Ask Grey: Lockdown Edition", while explaining how he believes post-virus life will go back to normal when everyone returns to normal life, he describes it as "everyone says 'Dear Princess Celestia, I didn't learn a thing.'" In Q&A with Grey: Ten Years Later on the eras question, a bespectacled Know-Nothing Know-It-All offers a generalized statement on Grey's death-themed videos, only for the listener to pull Grey himself from behind an easel, who tells the generalizer "You know nothing of my work". In "Why Nevada Owns Less Than 20% of Nevada", about US Federal Land, different plots of land are represented by Magic: The Gathering land cards.
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CGP Grey (Web Video) / int_c8b4278b	type	Straight Man and Wise Guy
CGP Grey (Web Video) / int_c8b4278b	comment	Straight Man and Wise Guy: In "How to be a Pirate", the Quartermaster and Captain respectively. The Quartermaster speaks in constant deadpan, manages the "boring business" side of the ship such as budgeting, and smiles exactly once and very slightly, at the prospect of treasure. The Captain talks like a pirate (without the accent), constantly gets distracted by his surroundings in the Quartermaster video, and almost always smiling, even when he's describing how he tortures his enemies to death if they fight and lose.
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CGP Grey (Web Video) / int_c9597a03	type	Self-Deprecation
CGP Grey (Web Video) / int_c9597a03	comment	Self-Deprecation: In "The Better Boarding Method Airlines Won't Use", CGP Grey describes one person who brings three carry-on bags because he doesn't think the rules should apply to him and who also fiddles around with getting his laptop out after stowing his bags. This figure is CGP Grey himself.
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CGP Grey (Web Video) / int_ca6da3b9	type	Stop Hitting Yourself
CGP Grey (Web Video) / int_ca6da3b9	comment	Stop Hitting Yourself: Discussed in the video about the debt limit, which compares the debt limit to Congress doing this to the President. "Who Owns the Statue of Liberty?" depicts New York doing this to New Jersey. "The Sneaky Plan to Subvert the Electoral College for the Next Election" depicts a figure representing NaPoVoInterCo doing this to the Electoral College. Because the video features several states inflicting Hoist by His Own Petard on the Electoral College, this is fitting.
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CGP Grey (Web Video) / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
CGP Grey (Web Video) / int_caf8c66c	comment	The Chains of Commanding: "The Rules for Rulers" is a rather sobering video on the idea that being the leader of a country is not all that it's cracked up to be in terms of being able to enact solutions to problems. Whether as a dictatorship or a democracy, Grey argues that most of the ruler's job is allocating enough "treasure" (straight-up cash in dictatorships, more legal favors like subsidies and tax breaks in democracies) to placate the key entities to his rule, or else face being taken out of office by ballot or bullet. Anything leftover that a ruler spends on the country as a whole (or keeps for himself) is potential money that a rival could use to entice those key entities to switch sides.
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CGP Grey (Web Video) / int_cb8880a5	type	Soul-Crushing Desk Job
CGP Grey (Web Video) / int_cb8880a5	comment	Soul-Crushing Desk Job: In the Pirate videos, the Quartermaster describes the life of a law-abiding sailor as this.
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CGP Grey (Web Video) / int_d04d14a5	type	Everybody Hates Mathematics
CGP Grey (Web Video) / int_d04d14a5	comment	Everybody Hates Mathematics: While Grey is perfectly fine with physics, forces, algebra, and what have you, he draws the line at Quantum Physics.
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CGP Grey (Web Video) / int_d148b019	type	Mundane Made Awesome
CGP Grey (Web Video) / int_d148b019	comment	Mundane Made Awesome: The "Steffen Perfect" boarding method. It's just a theoretically more efficient method of boarding a commercial airline plane, but it's treated as a downright utopia.
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CGP Grey (Web Video) / int_d397657d	type	Hoist by His Own Petard
CGP Grey (Web Video) / int_d397657d	comment	"The Sneaky Plan to Subvert the Electoral College for the Next Election" depicts a figure representing NaPoVoInterCo doing this to the Electoral College. Because the video features several states inflicting Hoist by His Own Petard on the Electoral College, this is fitting.
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CGP Grey (Web Video) / int_d3f14c68	type	Jolly Roger
CGP Grey (Web Video) / int_d3f14c68	comment	Jolly Roger: Discussed in "How to be a Pirate", where he says that real pirates normally don't fly the Jolly Roger, and only unveil it after sneaking up on a merchant ship that they plan to pillage.
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CGP Grey (Web Video) / int_d73e0f7f	type	"Ray of Hope" Ending
CGP Grey (Web Video) / int_d73e0f7f	comment	"Ray of Hope" Ending: Even after "The Rules for Rulers" makes it clear that structures of power and corruption go hand-in-hand, the viewer is encouraged not to turn away from politics, but to understand the rules if they ever want the power to bring the change they seek. It ends with the message that even if the viewer doesn't like the rules, better they be in power than someone else, and by knowing them, maybe they'll be different. note Of course, the very last, easy-to-miss shot is of the potential ruler becoming a dictator, showing that the viewer themselves could potentially become corrupt later in life..
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CGP Grey (Web Video) / int_d8cad890	type	Cough Snark Cough
CGP Grey (Web Video) / int_d8cad890	comment	Cough Snark Cough: A blunt, Saying Sound Effects Out Loud variation happens in "The Better Boarding Method Airlines Won't Use":
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CGP Grey (Web Video) / int_dcdde3b	type	Inherent in the System
CGP Grey (Web Video) / int_dcdde3b	comment	Inherent in the System: Why are governments so corrupt? Why don't they ever cater to the people and instead devote their resources to the benefit of the rich and powerful? Because according to "The Rules for Rulers," it's easier to win and maintain the support of a few key entities than it is for the masses. And any ruler who doesn't keep these key entities satisfied will lose them to a rival who will. Grey has highlighted across multiple videos, most notably "The Sneaky Plan to Subvert the Electoral College for the Next Election", that due to the way the Electoral College is structured, the United States may occasionally wind up with a president that most of its citizens did not vote for.
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CGP Grey (Web Video) / int_df7b1b60	type	Not in My Backyard!
CGP Grey (Web Video) / int_df7b1b60	comment	Not in My Backyard!: In "The Battle of SHARKS!", the art collective Antepavillion has had a long-running feud with the Hackney Council over their art pieces standing out in the neighborhood, including a balcony disguised as an oversized HVAC system and a massive play backdrop on the roof. SHARKS!, a collection of giant fibreglass sharks, won a contest themed around mocking Hackney's hackneyed planning rules, but a court injunction was issued at the last moment to stop the piece from being displayed in the canal next to Antepavillion's warehouse. Luckily, a nearby boat club was willing to host the piece, but has since run into trouble with their own council and the piece will soon have to move back to Antepavillion.
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CGP Grey (Web Video) / int_e135b3de	type	Pass the Popcorn
CGP Grey (Web Video) / int_e135b3de	comment	Pass the Popcorn: When he's listening to a New York vs New Jersey Supreme Court case in "The Race to Win Staten Island", he brings a bucket of popcorn, finishing it right as the recording ends. In "The Sneaky Plan to Subvert the Electoral College for the Next Election", when it gets to the point with states outside the compact the video describes fighting states inside the compact within the supreme court, CGP's avatar is seen looking over the chaos with a bucket of popcorn while he talks about how the conflict will be amazing to watch no matter the outcome.
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CGP Grey (Web Video) / int_e567510d	type	Determinator
CGP Grey (Web Video) / int_e567510d	comment	Determinator: "The Race to Win Staten Island" recounts Grey's mission to find out the truth behind the dubious story of Christopher Billopp securing Staten Island for New York. In pursuit of this goal, Grey flies to New York to visit the New York Public Library to see if the crucial editions of Richmond County Gazette are there. After confirming that the copies really are missing, he takes a boat to Staten Island to visit the Billopp House and Dissoway's gravestone. The video ends with him laughing maniacally as he wanders through the Staten Island Cemetery in a rainstorm.
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CGP Grey (Web Video) / int_e624f0e8	type	Suspiciously Specific Denial
CGP Grey (Web Video) / int_e624f0e8	comment	Suspiciously Specific Denial: Subverted in "Las Vegas isn't Las Vegas":
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CGP Grey (Web Video) / int_e83f211c	type	O.O.C. Is Serious Business
CGP Grey (Web Video) / int_e83f211c	comment	O.O.C. Is Serious Business: If Grey's speech departs from the usual Motor Mouth (i.e., he speaks more slowly and it's easier to follow what he's saying), it's a sign the video is going to be depressing and sobering: "Humans Need Not Apply" is about how robots are set to displace humans in all aspects of the labor force beyond just manual labor. The first "Americapox" video starts with the historical fact diseases from Europe killed that ~90% of the population of pre-Columbian America (and why the reverse didn't happen). "The Rules For Rulers" explains why politics and all the seeming backstabbing and corruption among those in power is nigh-inevitable (short answer: if you don't you won't stay in power for long). "Why Die?" dissects the ethics of mortality. "Spaceship You", released during the initial lockdowns of the COVID-19 Pandemic, discusses the importance of maintaining health while isolated from the rest of the world.
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CGP Grey (Web Video) / int_ea39d156	type	Who Wants to Live Forever?
CGP Grey (Web Video) / int_ea39d156	comment	Who Wants to Live Forever?: Deconstructed. Grey posits in "Why Die?" that death is a degenerative disease like any other, and that accepting death as natural was a dangerous deterrent to the life-extension that he believes will be feasible, comparing resigning yourself to aging to a hostage falling in love with their kidnapper.
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CGP Grey (Web Video) / int_edf8db61	comment	In "Which Planet Is The Closest?", he exclaims "Oh my Celestia!" when holding up the paper with the maths results, and the paper emanates Princess Celestia's mane colors, which wave in a similar way to how it does in the show.
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CGP Grey (Web Video) / int_f165cf2c	comment	Last-Second Word Swap: In "Zebra vs. Horses" (about animal domestication, the follow-up to the Americapox video), the first three traits he lists for a good candidate for domestication are friendly, feedable, and fu-, er, fecund. (The fourth is family-friendly.) In "The Trouble With Tumbleweed", he mentions that tumbles can fpollinate themselves.
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CGP Grey (Web Video) / int_f19ccfee	comment	Uranus Is Showing: Discussed in one video, where he mentions the problematic pronunciations of Uranus, i.e. "you-RAIN-us"note your anus and "YUR-in-us"note urine-us. In The Stinger he asks the viewers to avert this trope and pronounce it like the Greek Ouranos ("oo-RON-ohs") instead. note Someone in the comment then pointed out that the Ouranos version had connotations of Ron Weasley porn.... This is Why We Can't Have Nice Things.
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CGP Grey (Web Video) / int_f855f72d	comment	Destructive Teleportation: "The Trouble With Transporters" has Grey musing if the transporters from Star Trek kill the user as part of the teleporting, and whether the person arriving at their destination counts as the original person, or an identical clone of a dead person with all of their memories.
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CGP Grey (Web Video) / int_f9f2c33	comment	Running Gag: A handful appear in videos, but some have either receded in use or become discredited. The History Channel Because, Empire. Bigger-army diplomacy. Good luck. with that. If there is a photo with many people or many elements, try to watch out for a Creeper Deadly, deadly nature. Bitcoins as the international currency. Whenever he says that someone/something is cool or popular, a pair of sunglasses come from nowhere to demonstrate it. "NetMeTube" for video-sharing platforms like YouTube. The Executive and Legislative branches of the US government just can't seem to get along in Grey's videos, always arguing over how laws should work and trying to out-do each-other with political shenanigans. By contrast, the Judicial branch is given Reality Warper powers to sort matters out and the Supreme Court Justices are almost always depicted as The Comically Serious. Grey saying that there isn't time to cover something in a video, saying that it's "a story for another time."
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CGP Grey (Web Video) / int_faf5732b	comment	I Call It "Vera": For a video recapping a journey from San Jose, California through the desert of Nevada to Moab, Utah, Grey borrows an acquaintance's, Tesla Model X. He dubs it "Bailey".
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CGP Grey (Web Video) / int_fb17af62	comment	Rhymes on a Dime: The episode "The Better Boarding Method Airlines Won't Use" features a lot of rhyming.
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CGP Grey (Web Video) / int_fbd285b7	type	Comically Missing the Point
CGP Grey (Web Video) / int_fbd285b7	comment	Comically Missing the Point: In his description of how pirate crews are paid in shares, the Pirate Quartermaster states that surgeons rarely have a personality matrix that predisposes them to piracy and so often the carpenter is the surgeon much to the audience stand-in's horror. The quartermaster agrees: shocking... because the carpenter-surgeon's pay isn't that different to the crew's, and everyone is given fairly equal wage.
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CGP Grey (Web Video) / int_fd1f1a63	comment	Ridiculously Cute Critter: The Algorithm-Bots from "How Machines Learn", to the point that many viewers wished for a plushie. Almost a year later, they got their wish.
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