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Game Theory is a comedy Analysis Channel created by Matthew Robert "MatPat" Patrick, where he engages in Wild Mass Guessing by analyzing video games to provide answers on a wide variety of questions, from scientifically determining if something in a video game could be achieved in real life (e.g. could someone survive being headshot à la Fallout: New Vegas?) to tackling some of gaming's biggest questions (example: what is the Pyro's gender?) to some game changing accusations. (e.g. should Dr. Light be considered a villain?) The show is accompanied by pictures and diagrams, which often aid with what he is saying, or they are just there for visual puns. There are a lot of puns.MatPat has also created side channels branching off specifically from "Game Theory", including GTLive, which posts live streams of Matt and Stephanie playing video games, and Game Lab, a Mythbusters style show where MatPat goes on camera to test the episode's topics exclusively on YouTube Premium, with the pilot episode available for free.Game Theory is a part of the Game Theorists, a group of game-based shows that analyze video games for a certain reason. For more members of the group, see Game Exchange, Digressing And Sidequesting. Another Spin-Off, The SCIENCE!, is a show by fellow host Austin Hourigan, which picks video games apart with science and logic. It started airing on the YouTube channel ShoddyCast on January 29, 2016, before being picked up by Game Theory's YouTube channel on December 21.Not to be confused with the fanfic of the same name. Nor should it be confused with the study of strategic decision making.On January 9, 2024, MatPat announced that he would be stepping down as the face of the channel network in the coming months, but would remain in the background while other members of the channels would take over as hosts for future videos. He released his final ten theory videos from January 12th to March 9th, when he officially retired from hosting. On March 16th Tom Robinson took over as the head writer and host. | |
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Subliminal Seduction | |
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Subliminal Seduction: Proven to be laughably ineffective in an extremely early episode on Pokémon with his main evidence being "Gotta Catch 'Em All" and "I Love Satan" aren't even close to having the same syllables whether forwards or backwards. | |
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Cannot Tell a Joke | |
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Cannot Tell a Joke: Happens in the "Surviving the Assassin's Creed Leap of Faith" Episode after disproving its chance of survival. Which also somehow involves the AC world's gravity being greater than ours. And again in episode about Majora's Mask moon. | |
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Artistic License – Biology | |
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Artistic License – Biology: Lampshaded in Matt's video on Jurassic World, regarding the Indominus Rex's ability to hide its body temperature (due to tree frog DNA) and change color to camouflage itself (due to cuttlefish DNA). He points out that these abilities work opposite of each other: the tree frog's body heat regulation works by making its skin tone lighter-and thus more visible. Matt instead posits the idea that the I. Rex's escape was due to Dr. Wu sabotaging the cameras, so that he and Hoskins can have a chance to showcase the I. Rex as a weapon. | |
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Sand in My Eyes | |
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Sand In My Eyes: MatPat goes through this when bringing up Latios' death in the Raticate episode. | |
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Multiple Endings | |
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Multiple Endings: "MatPat's FINAL Theory!" has six different endings, which viewers can uncover by searching for the different clues throughout the preceding videos (though the links to each ending are still included in the video description). The six endings are (in order): Lore Keeper Ending (the standard ending): MatPat and Stephanie leave the studio to go on a road trip, so that Matt could take care of some unfinished business. They make their way to the residence of the one and only Scott Cawthon, who tells Matt that they have much to discuss. Chaos Ending: Matt and Steph head to the beach for a much-needed vacation, assuring that the team will be fine during their absence. Unbeknownst to them, the entire office has fallen into absolute anarchy. Meme Ending: A parody of Nyan Cat, in which Matt, Ness/Sans, the Pope, and DJ Music Man fly across the sky while encountering a slew of memes from the channel's past. Insanity Ending: After the episode wraps up, Stephanie finds a frantic Matt in a Room Full of Crazy, madly obsessing over the mysterious FNAF box. Horror Ending: The video suddenly delves into Analog Horror, with Matt and Steph getting Killed Offscreen by some unknown entity. And whatever it is, it's gunning for you next… True Ending: Instead of a skit, we get a clip of the team wrapping up the shoot, followed by one final farewell message from MatPat. | |
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Dead All Along | |
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Dead All Along: The center of the Link is Dead episode. Rosalina Unmasked suggests this of Princess Peach, or at least an alternate version of her as well. | |
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The Cameo | |
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The Cameo: After several years of Five Nights at Freddy's theories, Scott Cawthon himself appears at the very end of MatPat's final theory video to invite him into his house. | |
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Visual Pun | |
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Visual Pun: Multiple ones per episode too. | |
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Soft Water | |
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Soft Water: Defied in "Surviving the Assassin's Creed Leap of Faith", where he notes that the surface tension of water makes hitting it at high speeds just as bad as hitting concrete, and hay would actually break the assassin's fall better. | |
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Paranoia Gambit | |
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Paranoia Gambit: Claims in a FNAF video that he's not going to use any more Jump Scares, before invoking the trope. | |
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Self-Parody | |
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At the beginning of "The Tragedy of Deltarune", MatPat makes a Self-Parody of the infamous "Sans Is Ness" theory, then locks it in a vault with the channel's other unpopular theories. The vault is even sarcastically labeled as containing the best theories. | |
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Angrish | |
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Angrish: Says this out during the Humans are Pokémon theory, during his reaction to the Wheel of Gaming's flipper lands on "Pokémon" the third time. | |
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I Need a Freaking Drink | |
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I Need a Freaking Drink: Discussed in "No Cowboy is Safe! Red Dead's Biggest THREAT!", when Austin points out a tidbit about drinking beer in the late 1800s in one of RDR2's Funny Moments: | |
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Dare to Be Badass | |
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Dare to Be Badass: After examining the misleading advertising of Evertale and finding that not only did the truly massive number of ads have lore, but compelling lore, Mat's takeaway basically amounted to this - he suggested that rather than the microtransaction-laden gameplay they came out with, the developers get to work actually developing a game more in line with their advertising. | |
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Deal with the Devil | |
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Deal with the Devil: The Hello Neighbor theory is that the Neighbor is committing unholy rituals with victims trapped in his basement as payment for whatever he got in exchange for such a deal. | |
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Nine out of Ten Doctors Agree | |
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Nine out of Ten Doctors Agree: In one episode, he calls GT the show "Ten out of ten doctors agree... they don't watch." | |
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Your Mind Makes It Real | |
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Due to Your Mind Makes It Real, Luigi being brainwashed- er, sorry, hypnotized into becoming Mr. L in Super Paper Mario enabled him to show how he really felt Beneath the Mask of his usually cowardly facade. | |
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Subverted Catch-Phrase | |
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Subverted Catchphrase: The first being the video on Polybius and MK Ultra, where MatPat changes to "a conspiracy theory!" before cutting out. He changes it the most at the conclusion of his Watch_Dogs theory duology. | |
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Sick Episode: Dan fills in for MatPat on the video for Choo-Choo Charles due to MatPat contracting a sickness. | |
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Drunk on Milk | |
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Drunk on Milk: Well, more like "addicted to milk", in the Candy Crush Saga episode he claims to have an addiction to Diet Coke. Has reached the Running Gag status by now. "#NotSponsored, #JustAnAddict." | |
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Special Guest: Dream appears in the Minecraft Warden theory video as one, with GeorgeNotFound and Sapnap making brief cameos as well, being the Hunters chasing Dream down. | |
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Occam's Razor | |
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Occam's Razor: Said ad verbum during several episodes. For example, he uses this principle to say that instead of Raticate dying, the rival simply stored it away and replaced it with a better Pokémon. | |
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Missing Steps Plan | |
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Missing Steps Plan: Here in the dating sim episode. | |
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Shipper on Deck | |
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Shipper on Deck: Throughout the streams of Life Is Strange MatPat is desperate for Max and Warren to get together. Stephanie on the other hand is desperate for Warren and 'Drone Girl' (Brooke) to end up in a relationship. | |
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Kindhearted Cat Lover | |
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Kindhearted Cat Lover: MatPat has a cat named Skips, though he also nicknames it CatPat in the livestream. | |
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Parody of Evolution | |
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Parody of Evolution: In "No Cowboy is Safe! Red Dead's Biggest THREAT!", Austin uses Zallinger's "March of Progress" to describe the evolution of tuberculosis, placing a TB cell on top of a head of each creature in human evolution, ending with the current Homo sapiens itself. | |
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Rule of Sexy | |
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Rule of Sexy: Mentions the controversy about Smite and its original character model for Kali (and other characters) being overly sexualised to draw the attention of males. Justified, as MatPat goes on to argue, in that most mythological art of female goddesses are practically half-naked. Kali's already been showing her boobs since BC times, so Smite isn't really giving us anything we couldn't have seen after a quick search on the internet. | |
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Poe's Law | |
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Poe's Law: While they tried to defy this with the opening of the Five Nights at Freddy's episode, (where MatPat deliberately made it blatantly obvious that he was faking it), some people who failed to sit through the first two minutes apparently believed it. | |
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Take That, Audience! | |
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Take That, Audience!: MatPat regularly uses gags involving comment sections in videos, often hypothetical ones that he can often use for Self-Deprecation or for guessing what people will attempt to debunk him with. | |
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Pun-Based Title | |
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Pun-Based Title: Game Theory is a pun on a mathematical concept that allows a person to build a winning strategy based on previous outcomes. In fact, MatPat's final video is dedicated to pointing this out and how the concept factors into the channel's growth. | |
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Deus ex Machina | |
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Deus ex Machina: Repeatedly lampshaded in the Composite Superman episode. | |
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Stylistic Suck | |
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Stylistic Suck: The opening of his video on Five Nights at Freddy's plays out like a really bad Let's Play. | |
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Everyone Is Jesus in Purgatory | |
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Everyone is Jesus in Purgatory: invokedIn many theories, MatPat uses obvious or supposed symbolism as evidence. | |
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Metaphorgotten | |
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Metaphorgotten: In "Batman + Superman + COW = ???": | |
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Worthy Opponent | |
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Worthy Opponent: MatPat and Scott Cawthon can be considered this as both sides have had an impact on the other. ''Five Nights At Freddy's can be seen as MatPat's magnum opus and both him and Scott have mentioned the other with MatPat trying to solve the mystery and point out flaws while Cawthon adds more complications to the lore and does credit Game Theory in a post about FNAF 4's ending. | |
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Golden Ending | |
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True Ending: Instead of a skit, we get a clip of the team wrapping up the shoot, followed by one final farewell message from MatPat. | |
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Butt-Monkey | |
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Butt-Monkey: Ronnie of Digressing and Sidequesting is frequently mocked in Game Theory videos and end slates. These became far less funny after Ronnie's suicide. | |
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Analog Horror | |
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Horror Ending: The video suddenly delves into Analog Horror, with Matt and Steph getting Killed Offscreen by some unknown entity. And whatever it is, it's gunning for you next… | |
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Think of the Censors! | |
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Think of the Censors!: Even the very title of "Who Will Survive [CENSORED] Virus?" says it all. Apparently, YouTube will not have its monetized creators taking the name of the coronavirus in vain. | |
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Break the Cutie | |
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Break the Cutie: Matpat's experience with Five Nights At Freddy's became this as he spoke fondly of the lore in his FNAF 2 episode but he jokingly states under the title of the playlist "All the theories on Five Nights at Freddy's, FNAF 2, FNAF 3, and FNAF 4, AKA: Why MatPat has developed an anxiety disorder". | |
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Unfortunate Implications | |
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Unfortunate Implications: Invoked when MatPat made an episode on how many LGBT characters are portrayed; as villains, mentally unstable, inhuman. | |
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Author Tract | |
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Author Tract: The Wii U-centric theories are this regarding MatPat's opinions on the console, although a more obvious example would be the sociopathic Mario theory. | |
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Early-Installment Weirdness | |
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Early-Installment Weirdness: MatPat says outright that the show was inspired by Extra Credits, and before he found his own voice, artifacts of that style can be seen in the presentation. The Theme Song "Science Blaster" wasn't featured until his BioShock video. Until then the first episodes had a slide show of various game consoles, with each episode having a unique song related to the theme of the episode. The intro initially featured Mario looking popping up of Mat's head, until "Mario, the Problems with Princess Peach" had him leap out of the Game Theory logo instead. "Polybius, MK Ultra, and the CIA's Brainwashing Arcade Game" is the video to first introduce the longer run through the various game system logos, as well as replace the checkered surface with a reflective one. | |
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They Changed It, Now It Sucks! | |
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They Changed It, Now It Sucks!: invokedOne of the videos shows that the games that sell best are usually not too different from the ones we've already tried, and that the games praised for being "innovative" rarely sell as well. | |
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Beneath the Mask | |
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Beneath the Mask: According to MatPat, Luigi's hynposis-induced persona, Mr. L from Super Paper Mario, is effectively our green-clad plumber free from his inhibitions, unafraid to show how he truly felt about Mario and Peach, among other things. | |
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Fake-Out Opening | |
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Fake-Out Opening: The satire before the FNAF video. | |
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Hurricane of Euphemisms | |
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Hurricane of Euphemisms: At the beginning of the boobs episode, he sings a song of these to the tune of Offenbach's "Orpheus In The Underworld Overture".note The can-can song. Throughout the 2018 April Fool's episode, Does Luigi MEASURE Up?, he does the same for "penis", from "ye olde dinglehopper" to "little cannoli". | |
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Jumping the Shark | |
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Jumping the Shark: MatPat makes this joke about Scott Cawthon with his Fazbear Frights books in "FNAF, Return To The Pit (3 New FNAF Theories)", showing Scott's avatar jumping over a shark in the time travel ball pit. | |
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Catchphrase Interruptus | |
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Catchphrase Interruptus: In the video on Polybius and MK Ultra, where MatPat changes to "a conspiracy theory!" before cutting out the video with static. In his 102nd video covering Part 1 of him solving the mysteries of Five Nights at Freddy's, cutting off his "Thanks for watching!" is the Phantom Freddy from the third game before static, then his advertisement of NatureBox. Every GT Live stream cuts off the word "theory" in the "Hello, Internet. Welcome to Game Theory" opening. | |
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Through the Eyes of Madness | |
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The Animal Crossing characters all actually being humans viewed Through the Eyes of Madness. | |
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Triumphant Reprise | |
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Triumphant Reprise: MatPat's final sendoff in "MatPat's FINAL Theory!" is accompanied by a slow but rousing and epic rendition of "Science Blaster", the series' opening theme. | |
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Alternative Character Interpretation | |
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Alternative Character Interpretation: Hoo boy. invoked Princess Peach is actually paying Bowser to kidnap her. In a two-part episode, he described Mario as an animal abuser, misogynist, sadist, and mass murderer. He theorizes that The Angry Video Game Nerd (the character, not James Rolfe, who plays him) has a serious mental condition. In his Toad's Deadly Secret episode, he proposes that Peach is the true Big Bad of the Mario franchise, using her parasitic followers to run the goombas out of their native homeland, with Bowser as the tragic, reluctant Big Good just trying to combat a parasitic threat. Handsome Jack of Borderlands 2 already got a decent amount from fans, but Matt also theorizes that Jack actually has borderline personality disorder and gives examples meeting 7 of the 9 criteria. Bowser's habit of kidnapping Peach is actually an attempt to give his son and seven adopted children the complete family Bowser wishes he'd had growing up. In his analysis of Until Dawn, he comes to the conclusion that Josh has been experiencing poor mental health care, and, based off his symptoms, should be treated for schizophrenia. Villagers in Minecraft aren't buying back the crops you stole from them, they're paying you to harvest food that would take them a full day of work. In his analysis of Red Dead Redemption 2, Austin comes to the conclusion that Arthur Morgan's tuberculosis, which he got from Thomas Downes, has a latency period that could have stayed for years, but Arthur chose to hasten the tuberculosis process into a matter of weeks with his smoking, drinking beer, and getting beaten by physical trauma and malnutrition, all of which are risk factors for TB: Due to Your Mind Makes It Real, Luigi being brainwashed- er, sorry, hypnotized into becoming Mr. L in Super Paper Mario enabled him to show how he really felt Beneath the Mask of his usually cowardly facade. Sarah, the protagonist of Just Dance 2023's story mode, is hesitant to play not out of shyness, but because she knows she has a tendency to become overcompetitive and obsess over dancing perfectly (just like the Big Bad, Night Swan), mistreating her friends and ruining their fun in the process. Under this view, her battle against Night Swan can be seen as a battle against her own negative qualities. | |
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Late-Arrival Spoiler | |
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Late-Arrival Spoiler: If you saw the thumbnail for the second part of the Rosalina Unmasked theory before watching the first, then Princess Peach being Dead All Along won't come as much of a surprise to you. | |
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Monty Hall Problem | |
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Monty Hall Problem: Half of "Monty Hall, Plinko, and Probability" concerns this and how by switching your door, you're 2/3rds more likely to win. | |
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Bigger Is Better in Bed | |
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Bigger Is Better in Bed: MatPat deduces that Luigi from Super Mario is blessed with a 7 inch penis, while his brother, Mario, has the smaller 2.5 inch penis. He humorously theorizes that Luigi's "package" is the reason Daisy stays with him and why Mario is aggressive to him. | |
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Freeze-Frame Bonus | |
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Freeze-Frame Bonus: In his Minecraft Diamond Armor theory, after he talks about crystals having four planes of cleavage and says "we're not talking about the Pamela Anderson Bermuda Triangle brand of cleavage here," two "editor's notes" briefly appear on screen, the first saying "Wait!? We're not?" and the second saying: | |
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Armor Is Useless | |
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Armor Is Useless: In the Minecraft episode, diamond armor turns out be Awesome, but Impractical. Sure, it looks awesome, but it would weigh about 1100 lbs (over 500 kilograms)… and because of the fact that it would be very easy to cut the armor by slicing it along 90–degree planes relative to the surface of the armor, due to the diamond's cleavages (that all crystals also have), making it easier to slice through the hard armor, you would risk wasting a few billion dollars when hit with a sword. | |
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Room Full of Crazy | |
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Insanity Ending: After the episode wraps up, Stephanie finds a frantic Matt in a Room Full of Crazy, madly obsessing over the mysterious FNAF box. | |
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They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot | |
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They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot: invokedDiscussed in "The Scariest Game That Doesn't Exist!" with Evertale. The lore that goes into all of the advertisements is intensive, engaging, and well thought-out, which would make for an amazing game... if the ads weren't a complete lie to cover up what the game is actually like. | |
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The Reveal | |
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The Reveal: Subverted. Near the end of the two-parter concerning Rosalina, Matt thinks a little more and starts to think that she isn't Peach and Mario's daughter, but Peach and Luigi's… before dismissing it. Though his latest Mario Timeline episode seems to imply he accepts this theory. | |
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"Not Making This Up" Disclaimer | |
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"Not Making This Up" Disclaimer: He frequently puts these in his theories to demonstrate that his explanations are supported by the math. In "Mario's Lunar Apocalypse", however, he goes so far as to apply this to the entire theory, implying that he's dead serious about Mario's planet facing a lunar catastrophe in its very near future. | |
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Invoked Trope | |
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Invoked. MatPat calls Scott Cawthon out on making the key-pad tiles in Five Nights at Freddy's 3. | |
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Relax-o-Vision | |
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Relax-o-Vision: In "Is Link the STRONGEST Video Game Character?", when MatPat discusses "Kratos's latest beatdown where he takes a mythological creature and manually separates torso from cranium," he shows a bunny eating because "literally nothing Kratos in his games is brand-safe for us to use here." | |
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Later-Installment Weirdness | |
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Later-Installment Weirdness: The show removed the famous "Science Blaster" intro theme song after the Five Nights at Freddy's: Security Breach triple theory, and the first episode remaster featured a compilation of the various intro videos throughout the show's run. The intro song only briefly returned during the final ten videos of MatPat's tenure. Long time host MatPat stepped down as the face of the channel on March 9th 2024. On March 16th Tom Robinson took over as the head writer and host. | |
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Big Bad Friend | |
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Big Bad Friend: The theory posted that Phone Guy is the Golden Freddy Murderer after seeing Five Nights at Freddy's 2. Despite Five Nights at Freddy's 3 supposedly refuting that theory, he instead managed to solidify his theory with it, though the "Golden Freddy" part is disproven. After later games further refuted the theory and it was eventually that the killer is William Afton, one of the founders of Fazbear Entertainment, MatPat dropped it, however. | |
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Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking | |
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Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking: In the episode "Video Games Predict YOUR FUTURE!": In Watch_Dogs 2, he mentions how hackers can shut down your car, black out power grids, and slightly increase your home temperature, making it really hard to sleep. | |
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Artistic License – Law | |
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Artistic License – Law: Zig-zagged; In MatPat's video about Ace Attorney, he starts off looking at it from the perspective of the US courts. The Ace Attorney series' legal system is based on the Japanese one, with elements of the US system. Since he brings this up partway through, and debunks his previous points, it's clear that he did it on purpose to add a twist. However, he then goes on to accuse Phoenix of tampering with the crime scene in "Turnabout Sisters" despite the fact that he disclosed all of his actions to Gumshoe and so wouldn't get in trouble. | |
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Villain Protagonist | |
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Villain Protagonist: The story in the Ultimate FNAF Timeline Miniseries is told from the perspective of William Afton in the first and second episodes and Mrs. Afton (the proposed Greater-Scope Villain of the modern era of the FNAF series) in the fourth episode. | |
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It Was His Sled | |
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It Was His Sled: In-Universe. Austin's Red Dead Redemption II review video says, "No Cowboy is Safe! Red Dead's Biggest THREAT!" for a reason: Since he played the game to its completion at High Honor, he decided to do this video after studying the research on tuberculosis and its risk factors by looking them up on websites and on Wikipedia. The video itself has a Spoiler Opening, revealing the plot point as Austin narrates: | |
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...And 99¢ | |
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...And 99¢: Coincidentally, MatPat's calculations for the cost of Minecraft's Diamond Armor and New Super Mario Bros. 2's Gold Banzai Bills both end with 98 cents. | |
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Hive Mind | |
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Hive Mind: The Zerg episode focuses on the functions of a hive mind, or swarm intelligence, and goes on to theorize that humans operate on the same mentality as the Zerg thanks to the Internet. | |
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Magic Feather | |
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Magic Feather: One of the Zelda episodes focused on the various strength and health items, and then goes on to explain the Placebo Effect. | |
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Big Bad | |
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In his Toad's Deadly Secret episode, he proposes that Peach is the true Big Bad of the Mario franchise, using her parasitic followers to run the goombas out of their native homeland, with Bowser as the tragic, reluctant Big Good just trying to combat a parasitic threat. | |
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Unwitting Instigator of Doom | |
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Unwitting Instigator of Doom: According to the "Who is Mega Man's TRUE villain?" theory, due to Dr. Light's inability to program roboethics, Dr. Wily managed to manipulate the robots into serving him, by convincing them that by the time they have finished their work, they would be scrapped, and thus, joining him in his quest for world domination is the only way to survive, resulting in the events of the original Mega Man series. | |
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Fan-Disliked Explanation | |
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Fan-Disliked Explanation: invoked Discussed. MatPat suspects that, based on strong evidence, Scott's original plan regarding Five Nights at Freddy's 4 was that it and most of the series was All Just a Dream, only to ultimately leave said point unrevealed and discarded due to the likelihood of fan backlash. | |
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Fetish | |
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Fetish: When The JWittz rants about all the different types of Pokémon he's made videos about, he mentions "Sexy Pokémon". MatPat promptly types the phrase into Google. | |
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Unrealistic Black Hole | |
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Unrealistic Black Hole: "The Pokédex is Full of Lies!" is dedicated entirely as an analysis to debunk this trope. | |
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This Is Gonna Suck | |
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This Is Gonna Suck: From the beginning of "Is Link dead in Majora's Mask?" episode: | |
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Stunned Silence | |
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Stunned Silence: Matpat is visibly taken aback when Stephanie sees a rocket-propelled-grenade in the Henry Stickmin Series and immediately thinks it's a harpoon. He sits in silence for a second, and then gives her a hug. | |
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Overly Long Gag | |
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Overly Long Gag: In an episode discussing whether Pokémon supports animal abuse, the screen stops on a shot of a cricket match. While MatPat is talking, the subtitles comment that he's never stayed on one shot so long before. They then go off on a random tangent for about a minute, before reminding you that MatPat is still talking in the background and you should probably rewind to hear what he said. | |
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Take This Job and Shove It | |
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Take This Job and Shove It: MatPat's reaction to the wheel of gaming insisting he make a seventh video about Pokémon. | |
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Mood Whiplash | |
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Mood Whiplash: The Five Nights at Freddy's episode. Who expected him to bring up a real life murder incident that took place at a Chuck E. Cheese? At the end of the 2nd part of the Watch_Dogs episode, where he ends on a dark note about how vulnerable we are to hackers, so much so that they could kill people… immediately follows it up with a light-hearted advert about a shaving website. | |
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Rule of Three | |
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Rule of Three: During his Humans are Pokémon theory: | |
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Two First Names | |
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Two First Names: The host of the show, Matthew Patrick. | |
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Soundtrack Dissonance | |
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Soundtrack Dissonance: Toward the end of "No Cowboy is Safe! Red Dead's Biggest THREAT!", a song called "Can't Get Through to You" by Nemi plays in the background while Austin speaks about how people around the world are dying from tuberculosis every year, but that donating to charities like TB Alliance and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation can help save a life and work on new cures for TB. The video itself ends with a wounded Arthur Morgan watching the sunrise on the mountaintop as he passes away from TB in one of RDR2's High Honor endings, all set to the tune of the same song. | |
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Trademark Favorite Food | |
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Trademark Favorite Food: MatPat loves Diet Coke. | |
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Added Alliterative Appeal | |
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Added Alliterative Appeal: Downplayed, lampshaded, and later subverted here. | |
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Take That! | |
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Take That!: The AVGN episode has one towards The Irate Gamer. The laser blade episode has one towards certain DEATH BATTLE! fans. | |
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Acceptable Breaks from Reality | |
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Acceptable Breaks from Reality: Touched upon in his War Thunder Tanks video when he finally reveals a real life attribute that is not accurately represented in the game (that being the very significant rates at which the real tanks break down just from locomotion without even seeing combat), only to then state that the developers did spend some time deliberating as to whether or not they should add that trait into the game and ultimately decided that having your tank cripplingly malfunction at random was not fun. | |
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Berserk Button | |
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Berserk Button: YouTuber "TheJWittz", having done 375 videos about Pokémon at the time, was furious when MatPat complained to him about having to do more than six Pokémon videos. MatPat wasn't necessarily happy about the secret wall code in Five Nights at Freddy's 3. | |
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Signing-Off Catchphrase | |
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Signing Off Catchphrase: "But hey! That's just a theory: a Game Theory! Thanks for watching." He also sometimes uses variations of this when mentioning other theories like "string theory", "scientific theory", "crime theories", and so on. When doing two-parters, he ends with "In the meantime, that's just a theory!" | |
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Path of Inspiration | |
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Path of Inspiration : One episode was dedicated to examining the religion-themed antagonists from the Final Fantasy games. | |
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Stock Epileptic Trees | |
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Stock Epileptic Trees: Many of his theories are some of these: Link being in purgatory. Mario being the villain. Kirby being a heartless force of destruction. The Animal Crossing characters all actually being humans viewed Through the Eyes of Madness. | |
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Big "NO!" | |
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Big "NO!": Suffers one in The Stinger for the second half of part two of his FNAF 3 video when he learns how Five Nights at Freddy's 4 was announced just a day after posting the first part of the video. | |
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Boom, Headshot! | |
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Boom, Headshot!: There's a scientific look into how the Courier survived their headshot. Long answer: Yes, but only under certain conditions and the Courier likely wouldn't be the same afterward. Short answer: Doesn't matter, because Benny actually fired twice, with the second aimed at the temple, aka the squishiest, most vulnerable part of the head. | |
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Ass Shove | |
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Ass Shove: The line "Let's diagnose" in the AVGN episode is accompanied by a picture of the host giving the Nerd a prostate exam. | |
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Blah, Blah, Blah | |
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Blah, Blah, Blah: Downplayed, when Mat is reading out complex math formulas, he speeds up the talking to give the viewer a general idea without boring them. | |
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Shout-Out | |
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Shout-Out: In the "What gender is the Pyro?" video, MatPat, after "ending" the video about halfway through, says that his end-cards are long, but he's no Yuriofwind. He has name-dropped Game Grumps, Smosh, and Markiplier in an episode regarding "What Gamers Want". Mark also appears in the beginning of "Why FNAF will never end" Really, his videos are full of references to other works, including non-video games like Naruto, Dragon Ball, The Simpsons, The Cat in the Hat (for his early visual puns on "Here's the thing.") Tom's first video as MatPat's successor, focusing on the identity of the Prototype, sees Poppy say in a speech bubble "Business, business, numbers". The British-accented Tom opens a video about the Sniffer as if it he was doing a nature documentary on it, in the vein of BBC nature documentary narrator David Attenborough. | |
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Freudian Excuse | |
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Freudian Excuse: Part of the "Bowser's Broken Home" theory posits that Bowser is villainous because he grew up an orphan, using real-world studies regarding criminals with parentless upbringing. | |
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Artistic License – Chemistry | |
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Artistic License – Chemistry: Matt pointed out that the ingredients for human transmutation do not match up with the actual mass of elements found in the body as well as the cardinal sin of scientific calculations — inconsistent measurement units (going between grams and kilograms in the same list). | |
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Self-Deprecation | |
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Self-Deprecation: In his Fallout: New Vegas video, after saying that 10 percent of people shot in the head survive, he remarks that "you have better odds of surviving a headshot than I do of writing a decent joke for this show." This gem from "Problems with Princess Peach" episode: He's repeatedly referenced his error in evaluating Wario's fartillery, in which he says that Wario is ten feet tall. Ronnie while talking during Digressing and Sidequesting has a Greek Chorus calling out most of the flaws in what he says. Game Theory's 2015 rewind was just a montage of MatPat saying "FNAF", "Freddy", "Scott", and "Purple Guy". At the beginning of "The Tragedy of Deltarune", MatPat makes a Self-Parody of the infamous "Sans Is Ness" theory, then locks it in a vault with the channel's other unpopular theories. The vault is even sarcastically labeled as containing the best theories. | |
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Messianic Archetype | |
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Messianic Archetype: Discussed in Chrono Trigger episode, where MatPat claims that the whole game is actually a retelling of the Bible. | |
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Damned by Faint Praise | |
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Damned by Faint Praise: MatPat was extremely pleased to appear in YouTube's 2015 rewind for "a glorious 22 frames, 0.92 seconds". | |
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"Metaphor" Is My Middle Name | |
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"Metaphor" Is My Middle Name: In his first FNAF video: Also in the video about the Bee Movie meme where he says that "impossible" is his middle name. "Matthew Robert Danger Impossible Patrick". | |
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Epileptic Trees | |
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Epileptic Trees: invokedThe whole purpose of his theories. | |
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Nothing Is Scarier | |
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Nothing Is Scarier: MatPat acts terrified in the satirical beginning of the Five Nights at Freddy's episode, but once he actually gets jump-scared, he stops being scared of it in the slightest. Until Golden Freddy shows up, at least. | |
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Hostile Show Takeover | |
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Hostile Show Takeover: Subverted. While PeanutButterGamer interrupts an episode about Majora's Mask (MatPat blames a YouTube glitch), it's by no means hostile, or even intentionalnote In-Universe, anyway on PBG's part. In fact, the only real moments of hostility (if you can call it that) are when PBG jumps the gun and trys to say "A Game Theory!" before the proper point. | |
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GoshDangItToHeck | |
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Gosh Dang It to Heck!: MatPat actually apologizes for saying the word "poop" in one episode. | |
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Character Catchphrase | |
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Character Catchphrase: In addition to those listed under Signing-Off Catchphrase below... "Hello, Internet. Welcome to Game Theory, the show that (insert intro joke)." "That's just a stream. A live stream!" | |
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Sympathy for the Devil | |
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Sympathy for the Devil: Matt's thoughts about Josh from Until Dawn. | |
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Fake Boobs | |
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Fake Boobs: There is an entire episode about which video game characters have fake breasts and which ones have natural breasts. | |
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Voice of the Legion | |
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Voice of the Legion: During the final episode of the Fran Bow livestream, when Mabuka, Queen of Darkness appears, Matt and Stephanie spontaneously decide to Speak in Unison. The effect is very unsettling. | |
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Very Loosely Based on a True Story | |
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Very Loosely Based on a True Story: Half of the "Five Nights at Freddy's" episode posits that the game is based off of a real life incident that took place at a Chuck E. Cheese on December 14th, 1993. | |
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Greek Chorus | |
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Ronnie while talking during Digressing and Sidequesting has a Greek Chorus calling out most of the flaws in what he says. | |
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Expy | |
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Expy: The speculative theory on Assassin's Creed Syndicate is that the game's recurring enemy The Blighters, are modeled after various real world London gangs of the time such as the Elephant and Castle Mob and Forty Elephants Gang. | |
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Old Shame | |
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At the beginning of the boobs episode, he sings a song of these to the tune of Offenbach's "Orpheus In The Underworld Overture".note The can-can song. | |
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Freudian Slip | |
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Freudian Slip: Matt sure has a hard time saying "Kremcroc." | |
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All Just a Dream | |
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All Just a Dream: One of his FNAF theories suggests that the entire tetralogy is the coma-induced nightmares of the fourth game's protagonist. | |
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Crossover | |
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Crossover: There are a number of guests that appear in various episodes. The Rainbow Six Siege episode features Strippin, Mari and Jovenshire of Smosh Games and Kellie AKA TheNationalDex. With Australia Zoo, kinda. Part of the episode on LEGO Jurassic World is hosted by Robert Irwin, the son of Steve Irwin. | |
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Distracted by the Sexy | |
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Distracted by the Sexy: This episode argues the biological advantage in the Dead or Alive franchise's skimpy costumes, and their capacity to create imbalance in tournament play. | |
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Big-Lipped Alligator Moment | |
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Big-Lipped Alligator Moment: Invoked. MatPat calls Scott Cawthon out on making the key-pad tiles in Five Nights at Freddy's 3. After FNAF2 was announced, MatPat never brought up his FNAF1 Theory. | |
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Running Gag | |
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Running Gag: MatPat is really fond of them. Ever since the episode where it was the main topic, MatPat has frequently used his claim that "Wario is 10 feet tall" to highlight inaccuracies in his videos, and also for general Self-Deprecation. He frequently expresses his goal of beating PewDiePie in subscribers. As of his theory on Video Game Movies, he also likes to randomly throw a fez on characters and graphics. Though, supposedly, this is done not as a random joke, but for copyright reasons - by doing this to the images, he avoids any potential lawsuits that might occur from using them in unaltered form. His fear of, out of all the scary things in there, the fan in his Five Nights at Freddy's theories. Moreso when it's now purple in the fourth game. And before finally doing it, mentioning the dating sim episode. In the Five Nights at Freddy's videos, "Psychic Friend Fredbear" has its own jingle, sometimes played multiple times in one video. Failing to have a decent drum roll sound effect when revealing a final calculation (and sometimes having to settle for a different sound effect, like a slide whistle or an air horn). | |
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Rhymes on a Dime | |
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Rhymes on a Dime: Performed whenever the Wheel of Gaming is involved. | |
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Department of Redundancy Department | |
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Department of Redundancy Department: Towards the end of "No Cowboy is Safe! Red Dead's Biggest THREAT!", Austin gives a powerful message for those affected by tuberculosis: | |
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Canon Immigrant | |
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Canon Immigrant: In "FNAF, The Origins of EVIL", he suggests Chica was originally one of the Mediocre Melodies before joining the Fazbear Band as a result of the merging of Henry Emily's and William Afton's restaurants. | |
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