Channel Awesome Content Review: The Uncanny Valley and Spoony Commentary
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The Uncanny Valley: • The Uncanny Valley(Full)
The fact that the girlfriend is actually attracted to a character played by Doug Walker is the most unrealistic part of the first segment.
I'm not attracted to men in general but Doug Walker looks like he has negative attractiveness
Doug is literally the sexiest man to have been born in the last half century, wdym?
I think it’s his smooth-talking voice that the chicks go flocking for
@@Ithoughtthiswasamerica Of course, how could I be so blind.
Doug has been married for years.
The absolute disgust on Ralph’s face is so priceless
29:40
36:52
I actually think the "spoony's superego" scene was pretty funny XD just look at his gangly physique. You can see his ribcage
18:54
@@gabrielwarren6955 His face was so pained, annoyed & bored.
I honestly don’t know how he got through all this.
"My lips were cracked"
"I got sick and everyone else sick"
"Somebody sliced their finger open"
*"I'm proud of the work we did"*
Spoony said those words. He's not sound of mind.
I'd be proud of surviving that shit.
Yea dudes looney and dosent want to admit he wasted days if not weeks of his life on a terrible worthless project.
Even sadder is that's the peak of his "career." R.i.p
@@draydengee9060 More like years if you count all three movies.
spoony: during filming 15 people got sun poisoning, the cameras became sentient with a thirst for blood, and i died 87 times, but it was the best experience of my life :)
@@KevinJDildonik I heard that he hasn't been alive for at least five years.
Thanks Doug, for that great line!
spoony is about as close to suicide as is possible
I had to do that scream for 5 minutes straight
It's truly the Dark Souls of Indie Films
"It's the post-Obama age. We are the masters now" YIKESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
It's so awesome that Doug is able to write great roles for black actors, such as:
(1) nondescript African warlord; and
(2) businessman who only ever talks about slavery and being black.
“Say what?”
@@videogamenostalgia #2 sounds like most black characters written in the last 5 years (minus the businessman part).
@@typhonviserys8288 They don’t know how to write anything else.
aaaaggggghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
The deep lore of Nostalgia Critic is far more compelling than any of the cursed shit they actually make
Is there anything i can read to fully understand the situation, like a Lore breakdown because i thought doug was just an ok reviewer with bad skits
@@gaiamission7200 Maybe the Channel Awesome wiki and Ross McIntyre's videos about the Channel Awesome trilogy? I don't think either of those will tell you EVERYTHING about the lore, but they're good places to start. I might also be able to answer some of your questions because I used to watch Nostalgia Critic quite regularly.
@@gaiamission7200 there’s a video series by mistermetokur called TGWTG (as re-uploads now since his channel is gone) that is pretty in depth. Seek only if you wish to experience the entire spectrum of human emotions followed by a sense of emptiness.
very true, the story of doug walker is a fascinating one, he's screwed over so many people but also wound up in such a pathetic place himself, can't believe I was a big fan for like 2 years
@@jasondaveries9716 to be fair to you (and others who feel the same), there was no reason for you not to be a fan at the time. How was we to know that they took advantage of their fellow creators.
One thing to keep in mind about the "commentary" videos is that the only monetary compensation the people in the "anniversary" films got from them was the ad revenue they got from those "commentary" videos. Doug didn't pay them to be in those films at all! (It's quite telling that one of the selling points of the Atop the Fourth Wall Movie's Indiegogo campaign was that all the cast and crew would be paid.) So if the creators sound bored or say repetitive or inane things it's because they're not making those commentary videos because they have something to say but rather because they needed to make them to get any kind of money back to compensate them for the large amounts of time they put into making the films.
How tf this 2 days ago
Only thing I can think of when I hear atop the fourth wall is "hmmmmmmmmm"
@@ballerrr273 literally I am so confused
@@ballerrr273 pateron
me too
Ralph is getting much more invested in the Nostalgia Critic lore than he originally intended
This is a certified OneyPlays moment
Just when i thought I was out they pull me back in
He remembers it so we don't have to.
He's being indoctrinated into Dougism
It wasn't a choice
Doug's character isn't lore friendly to Skyrim. I literally don't think a single attempt was made to make it seem he was actually from skyrim.
Amen brother
Yeah whats up with his accent. There are plenty of examples in skyrim where they play up the 'nordic accent' they could have tried to imitate
@@squid1481 Yeah, pretty much the only characters who have a posh English accent, which is what it sounds like he's attempting, are the high elves. Humans usually have American or faux-Nordic accents.
Yeah but he's wearing a bad wig and has a bad accent no one in Skyrim even uses, what else could they have done?
He should have hired an Otherkin who thinks he has the soul of a Dragon to make it more accurate.
The ABC's of the Internet's Darkside is genuinely one of the most condescending things I have ever watched. Imagine watching a lighthearted "comedy" video only for it to end with a 30 minute lecture about how you should be nice to people on the internet.
If anything it has fueled my desire to be meaner on the internet.
Fucking hell I can’t believe this was actually a thing. I- was it meant to be satire?
@@chaosinc.382 What are you talking about?!
I can’t tell you how many times I’ve been on the verge - yea, with my finger in the air about to press “Send” - of telling some feminist to go make me a sandwich, or trying to get a 12yo Twitch streamer to kill themselves, or doxxing the family of some politician whose latest Twitter comment ground my gears, only to be stopped dead in my tracks by the wistful, now-faint voice of that narrator girl replaying in my head like the gentle admonition of a guardian angel
Coming from a person (Doug Walker) who sh-its on older films, even though he could never make anything good enough to be released in the theaters.
“you’re in the cast it’s not your department to talk about this” cute of you to think they have departments on productions like this and not just everyone scrambling
They didn't even have Craft Services until the blissfully unaware Walkers were roasted for it.
In Spoony defense, didn't he say he had to record, and write somee of the film as well...I am sure shot as well, just because they were "cast" doesn't mean they aren't UA-camrs and Filmmakers and don't know what FStops and Overexposing a scene is...
Spoony was probably being diplomatic, but really Doug and Rob are extremely bad filmmakers in almost every way, like almost literally any other person in the TGWTG movies would be better, a good chunk of them are more qualified, and a few of them are MUCH more qualified, Spoony included. Since Spoony is pretty experienced with film equipment, he was probably correcting Doug and Rob's mistakes all the time.
@@pentelegomenon1175 wasn't Doug a theatre major or something? Lol what happened to all that knowledge
@@justnoel4088 Not really, he majored in communications. He's had practically no film education
Not Doug Walker writing a scene where a black man says that racism has ended in America
A lot of stuff Doug writes has heavy references from Star Trek. He seems to want to live in the 23 century of Trek.
I don’t think Doug uses his brain
*a scene where a black man says that minorities have all the power now.
WE WON EVERYBODY
Yeah he was a bit eager, but now that Joe Biden is president racism has finally been put to rest
Talking about Channel Awesome has become one of the most fascinating micro-genres on UA-cam.
It really cannot be underestimated just how early and expansive that website was, and how tragic it all turned out to be in the end.
It’s sad. So many of the talent either quite or moved on partially because of all the weirdness that happened. Out of them all only a few managed to get long lasting careers. Mostly Lindsay Ellis who is now a successful UA-cam essayist/critic and author and angry joe who’s successful game commentator/critic and has been involved with lots of successful projects. The thing with both of these people is a regular person would not even know that they were connected with channel awesome.
@@AL-lh2ht I didn't know Angry Joe was connected to Channel Awesome until this video. But it makes sense because Angry Joe's videos are just as lame.
Channel Awesome as a company, with no exaggeration, is a cautionary tale. They used to be a big deal back in the late 2000’s and early 2010’s after AVGN. Little did we know how messed up things were behind the scenes.
Aside from a few very obvious ones that dropped off like Spoony most of them are still going
It really is.
I'm surprised no one has mentioned how Channel Awesome's views have dropped almost 70% in the span of a year after Nostalgia Critic's awful review of the Wall, they're in the red and probably will stay like that forever.
Really? That's so bizarre. As bad as The Wall review is, it's not really that much worse than his other content over the last decade or so.
@@videogamenostalgia It might've just been the one that opened a lot of people's eyes bc it was about a well loved music album
It's basically Doug shooting himself in his own weird rubber face
@@Gemidori There is a base out there that think that Pink Floyd are quite overrated. I hate Channel Awesome but I'm apart of that base. I think The Wall is pretentious and a bit goofy. I've spoken to other people and friends who are more classic rock fans than I am and they feel the same. I get backlash about it all the time, too and I understand but I don't see what other people see in the band. But I'm also not a fan of The Beatles, either so I'm a bit weird.
@@juliangrant9718 Well I can see why you would get backlash for opinions as controversial as this, but you're welcome to have it.
Didn't it come right at the time former members essentially leaked everything about their shit behind-the-scenes?
I think its been removed from the internet, but there was a To Boldly Flee commentary by Brad Jones, Phelous and Obscurus Lupa, which was pretty scathing of the film, particularly the way it was made, and none of them really tried to make an argument for it actually being any good. It was pretty awesome.
Too bad Brad turned against them
@@luffyduffy7817 I just looked that up, what the hell Brad?
Phelous and lupa are some of the most improved creators since leaving channel awful
@@luffyduffy7817
Doug: I have done nothing wrong! Ever! In my life!
Brad: I know this and I love you.
@@technounionrepresentative4274 I subbed to Phelous before ever knowing he was part of Channel Awful. I’m glad he left because his stuff his great.
When Spoony was talking about his sore throat and the exposure it looked like Ralph was about to cry
That story comes off differently these days than it probably did at the time
His mind is breaking
I almost got a brain aneurysm when he talked about the exposure. We all know they shoot this on auto on a camcorder
I nearly died laughing, maybe it’s just the way Ralph cut his parts together, but Spoony just going off was too much to handle😂😂😂
I love how Ralph is slowly turning into a Nostalgia Critic Critic
ralphthenostalgiacriticcritic
The quality's the same
Nostalgia Metacritic
I love Ralph’s channel awesome arc more than the DC arc
I hate how Ralph is slowly turning into a Nostalgia Critic Critic. Low hanging fruit is easy to grasp. Especially if it looks smelly on the surface.
Phelous really did decide to mentally check out for To Boldly Flee.
Good for him.
It feels so unbelievably strange to see Lindsey Ellis in these "movies"
Especially considering how great of a filmmaker she is. Her Hobbit videos were fantastic.
Everyone’s gotta start somewhere. It’s just like watching that pre-rocky Stallone porn film.
Only, you know, much more embarrassing
@@darthbriboy She’s no Trey Parker and Matt Stone but she’s alright.
She's become far more unhinged now
I really like Lindsay but God every time I see a glimpse of her in these 'movies' I hate it.
Genuinely scared for Ralph’s health at this point after watching all this
He gonna need more than a herbal cigarette.
Macon probably forced him to do it
@@freyathesage1749 Mecan‘s dead
The shear discomfort in Ralph's face during the Spoony commentary is honestly the only review necessary
He looked like he was about to cry
I went to college with Uncle Yo. He was in the anime club and while we were trying to watch anime movies/shows he would get up and do his act along with them. Like miming stuff along with it. Cringe. It's really weird to see him doing UA-cam stuff with these jerks but not surprising.
No fucking way 💀
PFTTT
HAHAHHAHa
I imagine that this is how all of these people interact in real life.
There was really no reason to insult an actor who was just doing their job.
Every single second Spoony was talking about the controversy I was begging him to stop. He was brought in to pretend to care about some trash film and he spends what must be 20 straight minutes of it talking about himself. Just shut up.
Commentaries and rants are some of Spoony's best content.
Shoot! Now I have to decide if it’s worth a hate watch. I’m completely out of NC commentary videos.
That’s Spoony for you. Even when he was well-liked, he had an ego the size of the sun. He reeeeaaallly likes to hear himself talk
Ralph, you look genuinely pained through half of this video. Don't torture yourself, man. xD
You too
How else is he gonna pay his jenkem dealer?
He looked like he was about to cry during the "we believe in Santa Claus" bit
2 days
hE lOvEs DaFfY
wHo DoEsN't LoVe DaFfY?!
Smosh’s “IF VIDEO GAMES WERE REAL” videos are way more funnier and shorter than Dragonbored. That’s how you know you failed
That's like saying cow shit is better than horse shit. C'mon man, you're gonna rip on Channel Awesome by bringing up Smosh? Really? That's going to be the example of quality you're going to bring up?
@@rodrigomarcondes5857 theyre not bringing up Smosh as an example of quality, they’re doing the exact opposite. Hence the “that’s how you know you failed”... if it’s worse than smosh it’s gotta be bad
ANTHONY FROM SMOSH
@@morningowl43 rest in piece man!
You were one of two types of people on the internet during the late 2000’s to early 2010’s, Channel Awesome or Smosh.
Down the Rabbit Hole's job is going to be so much easier if he contacts Ralph if/when they do a channel awesome video. Ralph clearly is invested in the lore.
Amen to that. I might drop an idea for that if I ever become a patron.
Spoony had a complete mental breakdown. I also hate him bringing up bipolar as an excuse for every single fuckin thing he does: I'm bipolar, and I hate seeing people use it like that, because it makes people think everyone with bipolar disorder is some walking fucking disaster, because it gets used as an excuse for every bad decision someone makes, which just makes any normal person think that those who are bipolar just constantly make shit decisions and have constant mental breaks with reality. Just to state the obvious: most of us are not like this.
That, and all the other five million ailments he's apparently suffering from. And if it's not any one of those it's him not being able to get over his shitty relationship ending. It's pathetic.
Thanks!
I'm also bipolar and I hate when people uses that as a defense.
He does have genuine multiple ailments, both physical and mental. He's talked about them since he started doing reviews, before CA.
I gotta say, even if it's a bit off topic I understand what you mean; as someone whose actually autistic I've seen a lot of people who claim they're also autistic as an excuse for when they act wrong, and it tires me out a lot as well.
@Et tu, Vi? That the bi flag in your pfp?
Why do I feel genuinely uncomfortable and sad when watching their content..
that means you have empathy. that's a good thing.
unfortunately it's kinda wasted on Doug Walker & crew
Bc you know what it all leads to later on through the years
You know how the story ends with CA crew after these movies and Spoony.
because Doug Walker is uncomfortable and sad
Because you're watching a bunch of overgrown children play make believe.
"I have nothing to offer" - Doug Walker
Yeah, sounds about right where he's concerned.
Oh he do have something to offer. Just not as a director/screenwriter.
Take a shot every time Spoony mentions Lupa in his To Boldly Flee Commentary
Nostalgia Critic isn’t even criticism or break down of a film, their just recaps of films with shit jokes
Yeah, I don't even remember a single vaild criticism that happened before the conclusion.
With a really short general review of the film at the very end.
So he's basically Mauler but older?
He’s in the same league as Cinema Sins where he’ll just recap, nitpick even good movies, and throws dumbass jokes in between while people actually defend them and takes them seriously.
He was fine when working with shitty movies everyone could rag on. Nothing great, just fine. That was his thing. But then he decided to expand to other more well-liked movies without changing the formula and we all know how that went.
No lie, the Greek Tragedy that has unfortunately become the story and career of Spoony was a big factor into me taking the steps to begin taking my own mental health seriously. Watching this ambitious, genuinely talented creative lose his support systems and gradually regress into his worst qualities over the past half-decade (or even more, depending on where you make the mark of Noah's fall from grace) played a big role in me taking a step back and recognizing, in periods of stress, I can absolutely let my anxiety and depression take hold of me and turn me into my worst self. I mean, geez, I don't want to turn out like Noah did once I reach 39.
Right there with you, dude. As bad as 2020 was, 2018 was my rock bottom, and seeing that Spoony documentary shook me back to life. As a content creator myself who has autism and the depression that comes with it, I could easily see myself heading down the same path as Spoony, and I made a proactive effort to avoid a flame out. I'm happy to hear you've got your mental health back in check too.
@@JeonardShadby505 I hope both of you are doing better now
@vice vice oh no.. where can I see them?
@vice vice Oh, I know, right? Noah's been slowly transforming into Glenn Danzig
He often complained of physical health issues as well, I remember him talking about his heart very often and how he would get weird fainting spells, I think he also mentioned some strange infections later on or something like that.
I'll never get over Spoony's defensiveness about making rape jokes regarding his colleagues
It wasn't even really a joke, he literally just said he could chain her up in his basement and 'love' her, some terrifying shit tbh
@@romaios1609 it's like he wants it both ways though where he can come off as being super reasonable and super remorseful but also downplay the fuck about what he said as if it just a little he went a bit too edgy with
@@fruitjuiceshibe It's what's common with a lot of people who make nasty remarks and get called out. They start acting like they were playing in order to take off some of the heat.
@@romaios1609 It's not terrifying. It's a joke, meaning not meant to be taken seriously.
@@CriticalRoleHighlights please explain where the funny is
I still like watching Alison pregler and Phelous videos. They tend to just talk about cheesy obscure tv shows and cartoons, no skits really either, just being themselves
It’s not even “it’s so bad it’s funny” It’s just bad.
In my opinion it's so bad that its unfunny and in return it makes it funny again
@@ThisIsCreation-FollowOnTwitter same here
Can this be a regular series, Ralph just tearing apart Channel Awesome’s/Nostalgia Critic’s atrocious content? I’m all for it.
You have to consider the kind of mental strain that would inflict upon someone. What you're describing could be considered a form of torture even the CIA would frown upon. I feel physically ill just from watching the clips.
Spoony being the source behind all this commentary is just...knowing where he is now, it’s not irony but it’s funny
Where is he now?
didn't expect to see you here
I’m OOTL, where is he know?
@@thecreepycritic4455 not making the Spoony Movie or any videos really.
What happened?
the whole section about "words are hurtful" is sorta rich coming from Channel Awesome...
Also annoyed that Dragonbored could probably actually be good if literally ANYBODY else had made it
Ralph corrupting his brain and browsing history to save us from endless, relentless cringe.
"Oh those pink converses are, I think jewwarios."
"Aw, nice."
Ikr!
Also, did you know that jewwario was a sexual groomer
@@producoesgomi1168 if he was, good thing he offed himself.
Providing he was ofc, I haven't looked into it myself
@@mastemathedank4043 Just Google it, you'll find it.
@@mastemathedank4043 Jesus Christ, imagine being glad someone committed suicide.
@@MrProg-ey3tl I'm sorry, are you feeling sympathy for a CHILD GROOMER?
"You have nothing to fear, my epic friend"
Christ, not even five minutes in, and already I want to hurl myself off a bridge with how bad this is.
Ralph, dude, I swear everytime you upload 30 minute long videos it's immediately comfy rewatching material. This will last me a good 2 months easily.
True. Ralphs videos always get added to the comfy list
Am I crazy or did this vid used to be 45 mins and now it’s only 23
@@ThexMCxMaster Dude, what the fuck? you're right.
@@ThexMCxMaster The runtime goes down every time I see it.
Doug Walker got a LOTTA ENEMIES
GOT A LOTTA ENEMIES
HIS ENEMIES GOT T
TRYNA DRAIN HIM OF HIS ENERGY
THEY TRYNA TAKE A WAVEEEE FROM A CRITIC
Tfw you're rewatching the video and then a huge chunk of the video gets cut out as you're watching it...
Sp00py
@@chaosinc.382Agreed.
It's ironic they made a documentary about online harassment/abuse, when Doug, his brother and especially the channel Awesome producers were complicit in some pretty heinous shit, from outrightbullying and isolating people they didn't like, sexual harassment by one of the Produders, firing their overworked HR person a day after her surgery, to prioritising getting someone who was injured to sign a legal waiver after they got injured before getting them medical attention, to Doug literally bursting out in laughter at the mere suggestion his crew needs WATER when filming *IN THE DESERT*.
most if not all of what you just said has turned out to be either hugely overblown or downright lies.
@@cokemaster3710 Keep telling yourself that.
@@WeirdWonderful no really do some research instead of blindly following a bunch of liars who were just upset they weren’t as big as nostalgia critic was.
they envied doug despite him giving them a platform and more views by association with him.
allison pregler is the most egregious example of the lies. she was never fired over 15 minute late skype call, she was fired cause that was a repeated thing she kept doing.
worst crime doug has done is be cringe, he’s not malicious unlike everyone else involved at channel awesome
@@cokemaster3710 So I should take the word of two people who did a kickstarted and raised tens of thousands of dollars for game shows they were hyping up, only to have dollar store board games for events, and then not produce half the shows they were supposed to deliver, over credible acounts from what, two dozen different creators ?
So I'm just supposed to say that their own HR person lied about being fired a day after surgery and forced into a multi year non-competition contract ?
Or that the person who said they forced her to sign a medical waiver AFTER she got hurt on set before they would call an ambulance was making that up ?
Or another creator lying about being fired due to being unavaible on Skype for 15 minutes, while the guy who fired her was notoriously impossible to get a hold of, according to multiple different accounts ?
Should I also disregard Dr. Gonzo saying he was psychologically abused, belittled and bullied by Michaud ?
Should I distrust Sean's account of inappropriate harassment from Ellis, whe he wasn't even the only person who claimed they were being bombarded by unsolicited lewd messages from this guy from management ?
Do all of those and many other claims just magically not count and every single one of these dozen + people ALL just made up total lies because they were "jealous" of Doug ?
@@WeirdWonderful Nothing was promised after the game show and watching the game show why would anyone want to make or see 50+ more episodes of that? its clear they spent the money on the studio they use for the content that came after, i dont think they pocketed it.
That HR person covered up the jewwario misconduct several times before doug even heard of it, by the time doug heard about it he immediately called for jewwario to be terminated from the site and he was. holly was fired because she protected a bad man hence why in the doc they only half tell what really happened with jewwario.
Iron Liz was dating Linkara at the time, if you think Linkara wasnt the one who asked her to sign that waiver youre crazy.
you keep conflating the producers with doug, doug has not done anything malicious.
he is a good guy who was just way in over his head and made bad sketches.
please try and see that doug isnt this bad man you want him to be, he is just a fool way too deep but his only goal has been to entertain. He has not personally hurt anybody in anyway that most bosses have to
I still find it hilarious how James Rolfe has done better movie reviews than Doug did. He beat Doug in his own game, it's amazing.
He’s the last man standing.
I still giggle remembering that Rocky I review AVGN did
And he still makes decent videos
I wonder if he's the reason why all of these amateur reviewers try to have skits in their videos, because he's had skit-heavy videos that actually worked.
@@pentelegomenon1175 He is. He inspired Doug, and many others like Chris Bores.
When Film Brain, Todd in the Shadows, Phelous, and Loopa and several others left Channel Awesome, they started doing their best work. If anything, Channel Awesome was holding them back. Maybe they got some exposure using that website, but given the stuff afterwards they've done has nothing to do with those years and they still are around today means people liked their content as opposed to the shared reviewerverse they were a part of.
Lindsey Ellis became a bona fide celebrity after leaving Channel Awesome, and has branched out.
Yeah FilmBrain is probably the only one I actually know and like in that entire crew. Ralph calling him “annoying” in the last video felt a bit out of left field, but I guess everyone in these dumpster fires come off as annoying
@@Archeopteryxman421 The one designed explicitly as 'Nostalgia Critic for chicks' broke off and became the most successful.
Sometimes the universe is okay.
The culture at channel awesome was to just copy Doug Walker's style, that was what was encouraged by the people who ran the site. That kind of style is fine if you're young or don't want to think too hard, but it's clear that format was very creativly limiting.
@@Archeopteryxman421 Celebrity? 10:55
17:01 Spoony saying that he had to do the scream for like 5 minutes while the scream he's talking is about being looped in the background is the funniest shit to me
I agree. But don't forget, while he had to do the scream for 5 minutes straight, he was also getting a nipple twist from M. Bison, also while the scream is being looped over and over in the background, which is hilarious, but also sounds like either the events of a ytp, or the title of a ytp: "Spoony Screams for 5 Minutes, While M. Bison gives both Ralph and Dougherty Waker a Nipple Twist".
Spoony: Who doesn't like cheese?
Ralph: This is like eating mold
36:20
Spoony: "This is brilliant"
Ralph: "This is JeWario..."
Sums up Channel Awesome commentary nicely.
Spoony: I think those pink Converse were JewWario’s.
Ralph: Ah nice.
God that fucking guy. Such a fucking tragic story that gets overlooked.
@@ringer1324 He betrayed us all
@@ringer1324 what's overlooked a lot is the fact Doug and Rob knew the shit he did and continued to have him on board
Wait, how are you linking to 36 minutes when the video is only 23?
I had an extremely hard time understanding what was going on. I felt like this video and context of the video got very meta. Plus I’m currently tripping on mushrooms so who knows what’s really going in my head at the moment.
BRO I watched a bunch of channel awesome on mushrooms a couple years back, i had never watched them before only commentary vids about how much they suck, and it honestly felt like watching another dimension. Doug’s face kept morphing into that skinny orc from lord of the rings or a goblin or something, I had to turn that shit off, it felt like he could see me through the screen shit was weird man
"I'm all better now, the meds are working great"
*looks at twitter*
Spoony: "I've been without my meds for weeks and I might kill myself, don't send help tho or you're a bad friend"
Why do you follow him?
@@TheFloodFourm Idk it’s probably funny as fuck
@@TheFloodFourm why else would you follow anyone, comedy, to see a mans psyche slowly burn to ash
I don't see how anyone can still follow him when he's such a wet blanket. I get it, depression bites. But he's not taking care of himself the way that he should.
@@ringer1324 It's weird how everyone is in this comment section saying how shit these people are while simultaneously laughing at someone with severe mental problems. I'm not a fan of spoony, but a lot of you are hypocritical as fuck.
"Anyone who tries to tell you it's just words **derisive look** they're idiots"
Now that's comedy.
Anyone who tries to talk about you and your famous power rangers rant... Is a son of a bitch. And he WILL throw you out in the cold without your jacket
DID YOU LEARN YOUR LESSON, HMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM?
Linkara, the great Linkara, he says it'll be out when it's out, and we love that. The great Linkara
@@stproducciones9140 BUILD THAT WALL
@@Xalth0rn
“It’s me, The Lightbringer!”
“There he is! There he is! Get him outta here! Drag him outta here and don’t give him his coat!”
ralph is the only guy who can say the most angry things about movies and shows and make me cry laugh
What about Redlettermedia?
Really?
Fun fact: Ralph originally made a longer video, twice as long in fact, but later replaced it. Thanks for sparing us the pain, Ralph.
Ralph, of course we love it when you put out content, but don't forget: You don't HAVE to do it at all costs. We need you healthy and in a stable mental state, so please don't do this to you on a regular base. Scientists have proven, that watching Channel Awesome kills more braincells than being punched in the head by Mike Tyson.
i HAve sInNed against ahFRIKAAAA
I guess that explains why my sense of humor was so bad in high school
Seeing the Down The Rabbit Hole about Spoony and hearing him pull this shit is hilarious
Mike Jeavons, in his video discussing his leaving of CA, talks about how he paid out of pocket to make his section of The Uncanny Valley, and then was never given any some sort of compensation.
35:45 makes me wish you also talked about Phelous's commentary on To Boldly Flee, as he, Brad, and Lupa seem to just make fun of the production for most of it iirc
Remember when Brad said that the sexual harrassment Lupa had to deal with at Channel Awesome was her fault?
@@HOTD108_ I don't. Was this in the Change the Channel doc or something else?
@@MStaynor No, Lupa was just mad at Brad for not leaving CA and had a tweetstorm at him for like months.
@@Crasson08 but then Brad just started to defend doug any chance he could (talking about that leaked document). he was like - all these haters just talk shit, our company never made any mistakes, all allegations ar wrong
@@Crasson08 You're wrong man. She appeared in videos with Brad after she left CA, several in fact. She only fell out with him after his various interviews where he downplayed the shitty behaviour of the company in the wake of the Change the Channel document, and said they were just mad that they didn't get an Arby's meal. In other words, the dude was two-faced and talked shit about her. Then he and his wife started making shit up about her being happy that one of their pets died, or mocking the death of his wife's father, sending the police to do a welfare check on them (after first claiming it was a SWAT team, then backtracking when called on it).
I'm picturing my life 45 years or so from now as Im sitting in a nursing home watching four or five guys fighting over the TV and talking about film as art, David Lynch vs Kubrick, and the collapse of Disney after the Child Slave Scandal of 2036. They bicker and moan and hit each others arthritic limbs with canes. As a look around the room I'll see Ralph Sepe, Doug Walker, and Jon Jafari in the scuffle. James Rolfe will be yelling obscenities in the corner at the XBox 2,304. MrBeast is still in a coma but his financial assets allow him to keep the plug in the wall. PewDiePie is long gone after endless litigation left him in ruins. Smosh... They're dead. And Mr Plinkett, at a ripe age of 165 years old, will hold my hand and tell me why it's all one big shit show.
Jesse what the fuck are you talking about
beautiful. 10/10 would read again
Prophetic
ok
so vivid, it's beautiful/ Brings a tear to my eyes
Is it just me or was this video 40 minutes when it came out. I might just be crazy
I swear it was longer too
Yeah it got cut down. My guess is CA got pissy and Ralph is gonna maybe re edit the video to appease them
OH MY GOD KM NOT THE ONLY ONE. i fucking felt like a schizo
@@WittyOriginalUsername A lot of the cut material was Ralph being mean to Spoony (e.g. reacting with prolonged visceral disgust to Spoony's shirtless body in that one scene of To Boldly Flee), so maybe Ralph was reminded of how severely depressed and unstable Spoony is these days and decided he probably wasn't a good target for that sort of commentary?
The guy in the red shirt at 6:21 is Jake. He used to appear in a lot of Cinemasnob's midnight screenings series but left after sleeping with Brad's (the Cinemasnob) fiancee.
Wow. Nice.
Wow he really puts the *Midnight* in "Midnight Screening" lmfao
Brad's wife is hot af
This should honestly be renamed into the Denial of Spoony. What a fucking joke.
Poor Spoony.
@@elijahfordsidioticvarietys8770 he blocked me on twitter after he said he is in a bad state for 2 years and cant really go out and i replied that i felt like that for 6 years, why would he block me over that? he is so on edge, i like him still and find all the hate that he got really too much
@@henkdachief I'd be totally cool with some stranger trying to, over twitter, one-up my personal sadness.
@@elijahfordsidioticvarietys8770 The Experiment produced some of the best videos the internet has seen.
@@simondaniel4028 are you alright? i would, it wasnt that one-uppy, why even turn to your twitter community with something like that if you cant deal with the most harmless responses. im not mad tho, we need to protect him. but whats your deal?
Doug walker’s face still gives me nightmares
Hairless Doug Walker
@@plaguedoctorjamespainshe6009
My Therapist: Hairless Doug Walker doesn’t exist
Hairless Doug Walker:
Dougs narcissistic ego has never sat well with me. From how he quit his job, to the near godlike status he and his cronies portray him to be has always been a gut wrenching...thing...to me. Ive completely blocked this man from showing up anywhere on my YT as well as a few others from CA. From Brad to Angry Joe, the content and "jokes" are simply not good and the skits are a pain to view.
RTMM is simply gold in how he tears these ego-blasted titans to shreds. God we need more of this shit, RALPH!
I never followed channel awesome but the whole *aiming for more than the nostalgia critic / Linkara / whateverelse reviews* thing was a huge mistake. They had decent success with simple YT videos, then got carried away by that and blasted out garbage like pop quiz hotshots.
CA is one of those “weird sides of the internet” to me. They put untold thousands of hours worth of work into these projects that end up looking SO amateur and cringey. Doug is a guy who’s just inherently unfunny...a black hole of charisma. The people he surrounds himself with are awful actors with no sense of comedic timing or delivery. Am I a funny, charming person? No! That’s why I stay THE FUCK away from comedy. They’re the same way but it’s like they refuse to admit it. They just keep pumping these abortional nightmares onto the internet for god knows who...I can’t even imagine the kind of blithering maniac who watches this shite at length for entertainment.
Every person on that channel thinks they're Bill Murray, they won't take any criticism on anything and believe they're the funniest guys on the Internet.
Everyone can be kinda funny in different environments: some are naturally born to be entertaining for wide crowds, some are better in controlled environments with people they're comfortable with. Some, of course, aren't interested in comedy, or aren't that good at it, but that's also fine.
Dough isn't funny. At all. But he's trying a very particular type of funny that's particularly difficult to make, and he somehow looks even worse that way...
And now Spoony can't even shovel the snow from his door step.
Or remove the utterly lethal icicles from above his porch.
Or stop whining about Trump even though he's no longer president.
@@CriticalRoleHighlights What the fuck does that have to do with you? It's baffling to me that so many people are upset with Spoony for never having done anything to you specifically. But, hey, hobbies.
@@simondaniel4028 whoooooooooosh
@@simondaniel4028 ok Spoony
The fall of spoony is so fucking sad. I watched all his ultima retrospectives despite not even really playing them in the past because they were so heart felt and his phantasmaphobia 2 LP was on replay every night for me in High school cause I thought it was funny as hell. Honestly all his videos were awesome, sucks that his mental state completely fucked him.
Last I heard he lost his house and moved back in with his parents after his girlfriend left, I was never a fan of the guy but I feel really bad for him
His Phantasmagoria 2 and SWAT 4 playthroughs are absolutely legendary in my book. Such a genuinely depressing fall from grace.
Yeah, it's a real shame. His Reb Brown videos are also pretty good if i want to mention other great videos that he made.
I miss the old spoony too :(
It's depressing to see someone who could've been a heavy weight with Rolfe and others slip into such a terrible state.
"Shut up!" Is what I thought throughout kickassia. Not sure why I put myself through it.
It's like a children's daycare! Everyone keeps yelling all the fucking time.
I'm still a bit sad that Spoony went insane, I really liked his Final Fantasy reviews back in the days.
I'll be honest...when Uncanny Valley originally came out, THIS was what finally made me realize what a bunch of horse-apples Channel Awesome really was.
Hahaha horse apples USA good insult
horse-apples?
So we all know that Doug walker has snapped now right?
He definitely put a gun to Spoony's head to get him to make this commentary
He snapped after Kickassia, he just knew how to keep it quiet.
Hatred is by far the longest pleasure. Men love in haste but detest at leisure.
I don't know what the fuck you're talking about, but tenyi suck. Pendulum is the best deck, let's GOOOOOO!
poetic
"Brad makes movies"
"No, he doesn't"
Well, tune in next time to Ralph's review of all of the Brad Jones Movies.
How can he review what he (incorrectly) says doesn't exist? Brad's made movies moreso than this guy made a review.
@@nyanuwu4209 You know, if you weren't going to like this review, you could have ignored it and moved on with your life.
@@ireallydidntwanttomakeanac575 or rightfully criticize it.
The "ignore it and move on" response really doesn't work in response to a review, does it? Because it could just as easily be said to the one doing the review.
I wasn’t even aware enough people stuck around after To Boldly Flee for a fourth movie to even exist
They didn't. That's why the fourth is a slapped-together anthology with minimal people.
was just watching an oneyplays compilation about these guys lol
I've seen an irregularity
WHY DOES IT LOOK LIKE VEGAS
Nostalgia critic I love nuts
I don't get it.
@@pizzatime1978 *WOMAN! BLACK GUY! GET IN HERE!*
There’s something so funny about Ralph explaining the insane and nonsensical plots to these movies in such a calm and rational manner
I feel so bad for Lindsay Ellis and Toddintheshadows amongst others.
Yeah, they're my favorite creators from the site and the only two I watch on UA-cam anymore despite still being subbed to Brad Jones. I just don't care much for Brad's content anymore :p
@@calisha1889 I'm still subbed to Angry Joe (I think he's in these things?). I dont really pay attention to his recommendations anymore but he's still got that endearing charisma and entertainment value.
@@calisha1889 I like some of the Midnight Screenings Brad used to do but yeah that channels kinda gone down hill.
Lmao, I don't. Todd's videos are just as cringe as this shit.
@@evanfields6623 imma go with false. 🙂
Everyone: Doug... why are you not embarrassed by this?
Doug: Why would I be? This is *art*
Nah, it's a living.
That video of him quitting his job after CA took off though...
@@TheFloodFourm Cleaning waste from sewers is a living. Not one you can be particularly proud of, but hell of a lot more valuable than whatever Doug's done.
@@papayer no arguments. But CA is still talked about enough that he can live off it
Ugh this some of the most genuinely painful things I’ve seen anybody go through in a while
What happened to the other half of the video
The way Doug muttered "see you at the dragonbored reunion" actually made me laugh.
Hearing spoony ramble on about how great the productions were and treating it like an actual profession makes me angry like seriously dude??! even if you feel bad you just want to make him stop
He sounds like a kissass.
The uncanny valley skit is somewhat ironic since the former CA people are some of the most argumentative people on the internet.
Those dead skin cells on the controller were so vile I felt like I was gonna yartz
Melvin, Brother of the Joker.
Melvin Melvin brother of the Joker!
Melvin Melvin brother of the Joker!
I see your Melvin and raise you the Let's Play of Bart's Nightmare.
@@ThEjOkErIsWiLd00 Don’t forget his Moulin Rouge crossover review with Brental Floss and Lindsey Ellis which gave us The Review Must Go On.
If you ever feel like you could never make it as a UA-camr, just remember Doug Walker made it on here.
When it was really really early though
And still makes it with a small following. He ain't going nowhere.
*Spoony on kickassia:*
Here's what happened during shooting.
*Spoony on to boldly flee:*
Here's why the rape joke a made wasn't that bad and why I never really needed channel awesome anyway so whatever.
when Ralph says "Oh....nice" when he finds out who's pink converse shoes those were, that had me cracking up
1:09 I've usually been pretty chill with Robs performances, but jeezuz. Never have I wanted to knock the shit out of a voice so badly in my life.
Does ralph seem idk... like depressed? Just seems more checked out than usual? Eh nvm wtf do I know
He’s watching channel awesome can you blame him.
He’s watching spoony. Spoony brings out this reaction in people. Ralph just looks like he needs more sleep. Not depressed
Eh maybe it’s just me then. Thought it was burnout or something
@@pristinegarbagesir2997 nah in all seriousness, ralph used to be energetic and fun, you know FUN, to watch
Compare his new videos to his bye bye man review, its like its someone else
@@notmocka i was getting the same impression too with the steven segal video
You seem a lot less energetic recently
Rona is getting to him.
@@beautyandtheoffbeats hope not
I would be too if I had to watch this CA shite
"you have nothing to fear, my epic friend" is the rawest line ive ever heard
I swear to fucking god this video was longer a little bit while ago. What the fuck happened to the parts where you watched spoony commentate Suburbian Knights and To Boldly Flee? You even bring in a guy for the second part.
The only people I still bother watching from my CA days are AngryJoe, Lindsay Ellis, Phelous, Obscurus Lupa and CinemaSnob. Lupa is amazing, her in-depth but sarcastic review of Charmed is hilarious.
Seeing Spoony not wallowing in self-pity and regret is kinda wild honestly.
I’m looking forward to the criterion release of Kickassia
jfc the whole spoony chapter is pure sad cringe, I’d feel bad for him if he wasn’t such a shameless grifter not actively doing anything to fix his depression
...well, in his defence; apathy is the most common symptom of depression.
He’s slowly decomposing on the inside.
Fuck spoony but you have to be a moron to think people with depression can just have/can magically conjure the energy to fix themselves.
I remember when I was a small lad and saw Kickassia, I was like "oh wow! This is so cool! I love That Guy With the Glasses! I hope to be in Kickassia 2!!!" Boy, was I a dumb kid...
I remember trying to watch it as a kid and I didn't have the attention span to get through it, I still don't tbh
Channel Awesome is what happens when you get a bunch of people together that were told constantly by their mothers that they're funny and that they should be in movies...