Pop Quiz Hotshot (and To Boldly Flee) - ralphthemoviemaker
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- Опубліковано 30 чер 2020
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00:51 - Pop Quiz Hotshot
24:58 - To Boldly Flee
51:35 - Epilogue
"Not So Awesome" Google Doc - ggle.io/3BgA - Фільми й анімація
"what is the name of the event that destroyed the twin towers and killed nearly three thousand people?"
"uh... titanic?"
"you're wrong, but 9/11 would've been sooo much different if a ship had crashed into the twin towers. I'll give you ten points."
Holy shit you actually made that funny
This is a beautiful spoof. *chef's kiss*
"the title of this movie is called haunting of what?"
"uhh...george floyd?"
"you're wrong, but it would've been sooo different if sharon tate was alive today. i'll give you ten points."
This scenario partly happened to me once, when I played Total War: Rome II. The game was so broken that instead of a ship landing on port and my soldiers disembarking, the ship went up on land, through the wall and killed entire formations of enemies within the city.
When I heard that, I thought “WOW, that is incredibly distasteful.”
Doug Walker: **puts a rape scene in “to boldly flee”
Ralph: they’re out of focus
@D Zuke um please explain?
@D Zuke c o n t e x t p l e a s e
@@prestonpham2074 She had a relationship with Todd in the Dark Because I'm Too Ugly to Show My Face.
@D Zuke tru dat
Hahahah
"Name an internet personality widely considered to be talented"
"Doug Walker?"
"Doug would be pretty funny if he was funny, give him 10 points"
Funny
Say "Mr. Plinkett" and lock the host in a stalemate.
@@JeanMarceauxYou know what? If that were actually true, that'd be SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO funny!!!!!! Give 'em 10 points!! Wouldn't it have so much funnier if it were true though?!!?
I think To Boldly Flee would’ve been better if at the end you could take home every DVD/CD they have sold in the store thus far
The video would've been so much different in that case, here's 69 points
🤣🤣🤣
All of those DVDs would be better than anything nostalgia critic has made in his entire life.
ahaha this was the best comment
Not even the "producers" that "acted" in "To Boldly Flee" got a copy of the Dvd of To Boldly Flee.
If you used to watch Nostalgia Critic, and you criticize it, from years in the future, does that not make you the Nostalgia Critic?
The "Nostalgia Critic" Critic
But hey that’s just a theory, A gAmE tHeOrY
Full circle
The Nostalgia “Nostalgia Critic” Critic to be more accurate
I might be high but that blew my mind mang
My favorite gag is in this putting "Written by Doug Walker and Rob Walker" over poorly written female dialogue.
Agreed
Fantastic.
Oh yeah that shit's PRICELESS
I don't get it
@@brycemiguel247men often cant write women well
This video is just such a love letter to Doug Walker
LMAO
:D
It isn’t but it would be HILARIOUS if it was! 10-points!!!
@@alessandroguarrera2203 You know what!? Give 'em 20 points; because it wasn't like that, but if it were; it'd be so different!!! 10 points!!!
Best comment
Fun fact: According to Obscurus Lupa, all the episodes of Pop Quiz Hotshot were never supposed to be released, rather just canned entirely. However, the Channel awesome CEO forced them to be released so Indiegogo wouldn't investigate them for doing nothing with the money they raised. How lovely.
I am waiting for someone to copypaste the Ed story, but basically the method actor was with Doug and co. in a break and pissed him off enough to tell him to shut up.
Yup and no one wanted to do it but the company heads basically forced them. Partly explains why Doug seems in a particularly bad mood and completely phones in the performance.
Oh wow
@@mbsb1376 I encountered that guy regularly in a few online Channel Awesome fan pages back in the day he was annoying as hell when not in character too.
@Potato King It was this show and Demo Reel that Doug put his heart into. He wanted to move towards a more traditionally structured show, with an overarching plot and narrative and all that stuff. However, that was so poorly received and got so few views that it forced the company to bring the Nostalgia Critic back.
The weirdest thing about Doug is that his video production is perpetually stuck in 2007. You could watch any of his videos at random and be unable to tell what year or even decade it was made. It's just so cheap and amateurish but without any charm.
Yeah fucking this.
I could watch a dunkey video and the quality is always pretty good. (except the really old ones with the terrible mic).
But with Doug it's always soooo terrible. It's very clear doug is so obsessed with having yes-men around him that people with actual talent don't want to work for him.
@@jeltje50 Okay those arent't quite the same, a Dunkey video is just Dunkey speaking into a microphone over footage. The issue with Doug is his cameras are always adjusted poorly and the lighting is terrible so it perpetually looks like an early youtube channel.
You think he’d get bored of the same style.
I don't think this si true, if you see his old NC videos they used to be only him talking shit about a movie with some minor animation clips or effects, I dare to say it used to be funny and simple, now everything he does is overexaggerated shit filled with awful CGI, cringe performances and plots.
I know people who started doing film for fun to keep them entertained through quarantine and whose worst shit now looks a million times better than Doug's best shit. And what's with his yellow fucking teeth. I he scammed his fans out of $90 000 and couldn't afford a fucking trip to the dentist???
“When I was 14 my teacher was asking the class who was their idol.I said Doug Walker.After that my teacher laughed and asked:who the heck is Walker?! I got so mad I threw a chair at her and got expelled.”
- Stanley Kubrick
He didn't say that, but Stanley Kubrick's life would've been sooo much different if his idol was Doug Walker. I'll give you ten points!
@@kitkatcutie520 Goddammit you beat me to it
“If Steven Spielberg, Alfred Hitchcock and Doug Walker all fell off a cliff, and I could only save one of them, I would save Doug Walker. Because he produces the greatest movies of all time”
- Christopher Nolan
Give this man 10 points, because it would be a much different movie if he did.
You had me going there for a second xD
How Doug manages to play _himself_ in his own production and still act terribly is a real gift.
Nobody gives him enough credit.
Because he *is* terrible irl too
He was never good, maybe amusing in an unintentional way early on, but he got old quick.
@@tylere.8436 Agreed. And he only got worse with time, adding in those boring, tedious, and tiring skits, oh God, the skits... I'm getting PTSD just thinking about the skits... thanks, Dog Waker.
An actual NPC
@@tylere.8436 He solely got by because he was riding the wave of angry, profanity-laden reviews of stuff that was nostalgic by that point. And, yeah, eventually it got tiring because doing the same shit will eventually get boring, but Doug didn't know how to adapt or evolve.
it should be mentioned that pop quiz hot shot was literally made to prevent indiegogo investigating them for fraud, lol
Being sentenced for fraud would have been better than this.
@@vhsgeneration9065 agreed
@@redvelvetunderground Honestly no money is worth being accociated with the horrendous shit Doug has created. I would rather work in the sewers or just sit at home and starve to death. It's hard to believe something inside him wouldn't just stop himself before releasing such low quality content.
really? that actually makes sense in retrospect. $100,000 and this was the best they could do? They could have made a decent short film, say 10 or 15 minutes, if they actually tried.
@@sheenlantern7312 95% went into whores and drugs I guess.
This proves that there's nothing less funny than someone who thinks they're really, really funny
He wrote an algorithm for laughter based on 2003 comedy films. But with the 90's more than 20 years away, he has nothing to reach for
God dang it, the likes were 69 when I noticed this comment, and it just turned 71 as I typed this.
I'd argue Michael Scott from The Office is an exception, even if he's only funny because of how awkwardly unfunny he is.
He thought he was so funny that he tried to make his entire cast act like him.
I feel like he is a child playing pretend and wants to have control of the game with his disinterested friends but instead of being able to ignore him his friends are literally being employed by him and are forced to submit to his autistic and extremely childish sense of humor.
"Who was the first black president?"
"David Hasselhoff"
"Wrong, but history would be so much different, give him 172 points!"
It was funnier to read this comment than watching any of the clips.
"Who said the quote, 'How about a little fire, scarecrow'?"
*names random comic book character*
"Ha! If had said that instead of the actual character who said it, the circumstances surrounding it would indeed be very different, and therefore funny! You have achieved humor! Give em 9001 points!"
Doug: What movie is this quote from: Go ahead, make my day?
Contestant: Moonlight
Doug: No, but could you IMAGINE how different that movie would have been if the main character said THAT?!?!?!?! You know what, you get 69,420 points for that answer!
Haha honestly, JonTrons random Malkovichs quiz show with Arin as the hostess was 1000 times funnier than this, with a similar theme, and they were barely trying
@@KaladinVegapunk Mainly because Jon is: a. Actually funny, b. Actually knows how to do video production well, and c. Malkovich's Game Show was just a few one-off sketches, not something that received NINETY THOUSAND DOLLARS from crowd funding and looks like five dollars at the most was spent on the final product.
"Who did xy"
"*Someone who would never do that*"
"Haha, yeah that would've been completely different, 10 points"
"Who orchestrated 9/11?"
"Osama Bin Laden"
"Haha, yeah that would've been completely different if that happened, 10 points"
@@videogamenostalgia ...is this ironic, or did you skip history?
Okay!
@@vanroyal244 I feel sorry for you
@@capncook2006 fr this dude doesn't even know that Obama did 9/11
I love how at 22:04 Doug doesn't even use the right quote from Christoph Waltz's character in Inglorious Basterds. It was "That's a bingo", not "I got a bingo". Imagine messing up a movie quote on a game show about MOVIE QUOTES.
I also love how all the questions are just quotes. No other gategories, like: Directors, Actors, Production etc.
86,000 dollars
I feel so bad for the contestants who participated in Pop quiz Hotshot. They look so uncomfortable.
The guy with the last name Beverage sounded PISSED when Doug made fun of his name. Him snapping "silent q" stung. I feel so bad for everyone involved...
@@JackedThor-so Also Smader sounds like he wants to kill Doug, while Chris seems confused as hell.
Given how much toxic misogyny goes on at Channel Awesome, I'm amazed they ever had a female contestant. Tamara must be a masochist to still be working there.
@@cyanmanta They were probably holding back her paycheck
@@cyanmanta my guess is she's in a nasty contract she can't get out of
The Irishman and To Boldly Flee are the exact same length
Seven Samurai and Das Boot are too. Difference is those are two of the best movies I've seen, and II'veve never seen To Boldly Flee. And I'm never going to.
Martin Scorsese took inspiration from to boldly flee.
@@rustyskunks and the big hollywood directors and writers watch to boldly flee to learn how to evolve there craft
So in at least one way, they are identical to each other.
super not best friends dont play there
The funny thing is, Phelan (red shirt guy) actually hated working on to boldly flee and is quite vocal about it. He actually did all the special effects- by himself, and was blamed for the movie’s poor performance despite being overworked and shat on in the script constantly
yeah i feel bad for phelan, he seems like a nice guy and he always got shit on in these stupid movies of dougs. i have heard though that his gf,lupa, starts drama out of thin air, same with lindsey ellis but i have no proof yet just a few peoples comments and if thats true then maybe hes not as nice as i thought since he associates with someone like that. i like phelans reviews too, now im worried though. after the cinemassacre scandal recently, im questioning every YTer i watch and whether or not they're good people or not.
@@Parasiteve what cinemassacre scandal? im just curious
@@Parasiteve A lot of people collaborated on Lupa's claims though
@@killerbug05 i thought it would be something exposing James Rolfe of Cinemassacre
I feel sorry for everyone from Channel Awesome except for Brad and the Walker brothers, most of them are entertaining or insightful people who got stuck under the thumb of those three assholes.
I think a small part of my soul died when Doug Walker started talking about the age of consent
I almost had to stop myself from eating.
He is nostalgic for little girls apparently
@@itsrainingmelons6202 foul😭
His sailor moon video is the worst thing he did. AND NOT ENOUGH PEOPLE CALLS HIM OUT FOR IT.
@Yanis Kaps uh oh your comment is really intriguing but I have a very strong unwillingness to rewatch NC what did he say in the bridge to terebithia video? ik he didn't like it but given the context of this comment thread I'm extremely scared of what he might have said.
Shader is literally the best part of the entire show just because he roasted Doug.
he was actually remotely funny because he just stood there looking ridiculous and could still come out with an insult
@The Pumpkin King
Yeah with the roasts Shader cooked up, I'm surprised he didn't burn Doug's studio to the ground... o_o
It was fun watching "Yo" and Brad roast him as well. Walker pushed around the contestants when they were randos but was powerless when up against two people who already knew him personally and had built up an immunity to his crap.
when Shader responded to something doug said with your autobiography that was the fist and only time i laughed at anything related to doug other that his the wall video...both of these times im laughing at doug's expence
I mean after everything that's happened after these few years, I'm surprised not more people like Shader is dissing him.
“Mystery Diners would’ve been a different show if there were no drones involved”
Mystery Diners is PLOT TWIST.... Actually an advertising of camera, and drone products.
I’m Charles Styles, I remember it so you don’t have to
Give him the 10 points
But we'll give them 50 points anyways
"We hired two private investigators to stand on opposite sides of the main area. Three Private investigators to hide in the kitchen. Ten Private Investigators to look into that Iraqi Food Cart. And then twenty Private Investigators to survey the outside of the building. Finally with Thirty Private Investigators to hid in the threes to pick up an anything weird."
Remember that episode of the office where Michael is doing improv and he's like I always use a gun because that increases the drama to the max or whatever. That's the same energy I get from Pop Quiz Hotshot with General Anesthetic.
That's fucking brilliant
You hit the nail on the head. Ironically though, Threat Level Midnight has higher quality production than anything Doug ever did
"in improv i always use a gun because you can't top it" basically saying he always wins at improv as if its a competition. its amazing how many people IRL are pretty much michael scott but without the charm. zero self awareness
i feel like doug thinks he has a swift silver tongue, but he sounds like an awkward kid trying to impress everyone at the lunch table in high school. i literally knew somebody who talked and behaved like him.
It doesn't help that his voice sounds like a whiny 14 year old. Like someone whose balls never fully descended.
YES thank you, he has the cadence or slight speech impediment of that same kid. I knew a few also.
Well the Nostalgia Critic never said, “I’m a impotent manchild”, but it would be really funny if he did. Give Ralph the 10 points anyway.
Amazing.
hes so cringey, hes always been insanely contradictory and hes one of those reviewers that always uses the crutch of 'this is just my opinion' or thats subjective if someone calls him out on shitty comments or mistakes haha
i mean loving the shit show of last jedi tells a lot
but even all that is fine, people want to watch him, whatever sinks their sub..but this is just a scam haha
I think it's either the fact that his standards are just horribly low, or he's too insecure in his own comedic abilities to criticize someone else's bad joke (unless it personally offends him).
The unfortunate part is that he sometimes writes alongside his brother some decent jokes or gags.
@@BeowulfNorther and the nostalgia critic sucks too
I like how the guy who donated $6,500 still had to buy his own plane ticket and hotel room.
@Matheus Gazotto yes, check what the reward said at 2:17
@@philatio1744 that's so pathetic jesus christ.
@@philatio1744 I thought he was laughing at the fact it had 1 buyer, but godamn that’s even funnier.
555 👍
@@philatio1744 uiuuuiiuiu in Ight uu
According to Allison Pregler (Obscurus Lupa) in the Not So Awesome document:
Pop Quiz Hotshot was ACTUALLY Mike Michaud's idea. NOBODY-not even Doug-wanted to work on or make this.
40-something episodes were promised, which obviously never came into fruition.
There were tons of reshoots done for the Pilot episode due to the studio NOT being sound-dampened (hence the constant echoes in the audio). This was done with all the same contestants and (more or less) the same questions.
Doug (and everyone else involved) were too embarrassed to upload the show, but because Indiegogo threatened to investigate CA to ensure the money produced something for the backers, Michaud forced them to upload the show in order to cover CA legally.
Because they had covered their Indiegogo goals, there was no need to make any more episodes after the Pilot and the other 11.
Now, I'm not defending Doug or his antics, but I think most of the criticism should be aimed towards Michaud. Doug is still a delusional visionary, but he never wanted to make this.
The worse part is, Michaud owns the exclusive rights to the NC IP. So unless Doug wants to buy back the IP, he's basically stuck with him. And I dont see Michaud being willing to give it up since he has no real reason to.
@@SmoothCriminal12 Yea lol xD. Really a big mistake of Doug to just sign off the IP of his own online brand to an unknown entrepreneur...especially a shady character like Michaud. Gives you a sense of Doug's naivety when it comes to the business side of things.
@@revenantevil1143 how much money did he actually get from that? Probably much less than what he could have got in a weekly basis with NC and a million subscribers.
Yes an no. Doug chose to work with him, he chose to be part of a lie to scam money from his fans, hes definately a wacko narcissist. But yes its not ALL his blame
@@StrifeSoul990I don't think their intention was to scam anybody. I just don't think they knew what the hell they were doing.
I have never seen a single piece of Nostalgia Critic’s content. The entirety of my knowledge comes from UA-cam channels where other people pick it apart. It’s probably better that way.
Same here
They watched it do you didn't have to.
I liked him as the Nostalgia Critic.
His Son of the Mask episode was really funny i.m.o.
@@XXcHiC123 lol that Linkara impression is hilarious
As a non American who didn't have internet during NCs heydays.. Same.
"I used to skip school to watch Doug Walker’s films"
-Orson Welles
I want to go back in time to when Orson Welles was alive and show him the Channel Awesome anniversary movies.
"A bat credit card!?!" - Francis Ford Coppola
GOAT comment
@@videogamenostalgia While sipping on a glass of Paul Masson wine and eating some of Mrs. Buckley's peas.
Wrong, but wouldn't it be funny if Orson Welles really *did* say that? 10 points!!!!
I actually got banned from the CA Forums for saying that PQHS looked like it was made by a high school av club.
Lol I was a forum regular. It was such a shitshow with no moderation, but people would get threads locked and bans for absolutely zero reason.
Jerma985 did this better and guess what? Instead of making people uncomfortable, he made the jokes about himself.
@@chad7021 hes got loads of former employees me tooing his company
Haha, you legend. And I thought I was cool because my avatar was the Wu-Tang Clan before I lost interest in that place.
Not quite, you got banned for telling the truth but I'll give you ten points anyway.
that guys chris rock impression was actually pretty fuckin good
not the greatest but far better than you’d usually expect from someone claiming to have a good impression
He'd later appear in the Osmosis Jones Nostalgia Critic episode.
I feel like ralph's editing gets slept on. This video in itself is extremely technically competent, especially the bit about doug and sailor moon
GIVE 'IM TEN POINTS!!!
It's disturbing in an entertaining way
“Come on man, look at the way they’re showing em off!”
"The movie would be a lot different if the script was different" *thunderous laughter and applause.*
I APPLAUDED IT FOR BEING DIFFERENT!
@@TheTrainFan9 IT BROKE NEW GROUND!
From like 9 people in the audience
This is how liberty dies
its the japanese, what do you expect. BTW sailor moon, who is in middle school, gets with an 18 year old in the show
God the japanese are a strange people
It'a like an Eric Andre skit that goes on for way too long and isn't funny
Doug doesn't do well unscripted. He doesn't even do well scripted, for fucksake; what chance does he have when he's just making shit up?
Kinda like his most recent stand up special
its like an alien watched the eric Andre show and tried to copy it but has no grasp on what humor is
Unfunny whitewashed Eric Andre
BIRD UP
This honestly shows Doug's character. He just can't stand it when he isn't the funniest person in the room
the problem is he's not even the funniest person in the room when he's alone in there...
@@gabrielaharries8149 thats why he's so angry
Same tbh
@@gabrielaharries8149 ☠️
@@gabrielaharries8149that made me cackle 🤣
In the “NotSoAwesome”-document former Channel Awesome employee Holly Brown said Doug, Rob and Mike had to be told to have a prize that could be won by the contestants of Popquiz Hotshot, so they opted to give 100 dollars to the winner. (On a 90.000 dollar budget) - Seeing as the contestants had to travel from all over the United States to get to their warehouse, I imagine even if they won the “prize-money”; I think many of them actually had lost a lot of money to appear in this dumpsterfire.
“it makes the character of nostalgia critic so unlikable and weird” pretty sure that’s just how doug is irl
💯
That's the joke.
Doug Walker is very much a man out of time. He's pretty much a Gen Xer (or Xennial, I guess) trying to produce content for a much younger audience without any real idea of how to do it besides "replicate what worked in 2008". Except, of course, the demographics have totally left him behind. You can tell from the kinds of jokes they make: jokes about 2 men dating, jokes about transvestites, etc. etc. These are jokes from a different era.
That's not to say he's completely irrelevant these days, or completely without something to offer. He did hit upon a character that young people find enjoyable, but only in the very narrow niche of comedic movie critiques, and we're seeing now that it also probably only worked in a very niche time circa 2010. He's sort of up there with CinemaSins as "a guy who had 1 good idea 10 years ago", and is struggling to build on it.
@@eliparker7151 Oh my goodness he is the *epitome* of 2008 energy that went bad around 2013, if not earlier.
666th like
"True or false: Japan bombed Pearl Harbor."
"Ummm... False?"
"That's incorrect, but the world would've been VERY different if Japan never attacked Pearl Harbor, give him 32 points"
@Josse 21 [f.u.с.к мe] ТАР 0N МY РROFILE I wanna see the person who created this bot/made this comment.
@@worm9862 o wow they deleted it
The Axis may have won.
Japan is a country. The planes did it!
@@Mr_Fancypants you’re right the planes did do it! But imagine just how cool and wacky it would have been if the actual country did it ! Give him 10 points
This whole show has the energy of when cast members at Disneyland bring unwilling participants into the show and everyone has to pretend it's fun.
The difference is at Disneyland it can be fun if you're not insecure. Being on Pop Quiz Hotshot is 100% a bad time unless you do what the guy in the helmet did. That would be me on that show LOL.
And if Doug just fuckin' gave the cast of To Boldly Flee food and water and also cut out all the lines where they have to talk about penises in front of him it might have actually been a little bit better.
"It would have been funny if _____" has the same repeated energy as Charles Stiles greeting restaurant owners
Why is Ralph talking like he doesn't want his mom to know he's awake at 2am
Because he doesn't want to wake up his mom.
It's really hard on Sardonacast. Because you can barely hear him. And after Adum rants, Ralph sneaks up on you.
and the way he’s just sitting in the dark too? 😂😂
@@partydude14212 Imagine if his mom caught him talking about Nostalgia Critic, not just watching him.
@ALFIOBOT But that's not possible! She's been dead for 20 years! Dun dun DUN!
The image of a 13 year old Ralph crying to a Doug Walker movie is the funniest thing imaginable
He kept it just for this.
You never forget your first
probably a cry-wank
That would've been so hilarious, 10 points
@Garamond what?
I just read the entire 74 page document “Not so awesome” about the extreme dysfunctional inner workings of Channel Awesome. It’s genuinely astonishing stuff. I recommend everyone read it.
Why?
You know your game show failed when the depressed man reviewing it is 10× funnier than anything your show has said or done.
I really enjoyed those parts of Pop Quiz hotshot where the guy in the helmet was spitting acid to Nostalgia Critic and the guy was getting legitimately angry.
He represents people who grew out of nostalgia critic
This dude hands out extra points like he's Dumbledore.
Give him 10 points
It would be a very different quiz show if Dumbledore was actually hosting it.
Have 50 points.
Doug's more of a closeted homosexual than Dumbledore and Ralph combined
For good at chess, FIFTEH POINTS
@@WiloPolis03 I get the feeling he likes 'em young...yeah know.
Ralph literally said “not funny didn’t laugh” and I’m here for it
All thinks considered I really liked the idea of "if you don't know the answer but can come up with a topical joke you still get points"
That's a decent idea, someone funny and/or talented should use that
I think that’s basically the show QI 😁
It would also probably need professional comics to work. If you did it with random people like this you'd more likely get people scrambling to be funny and coming up with stale references and non sequiters.
That's already a thing, Hollywood Squares.
You know if Charles Stiles Mystery Diners were the host of Pop Quiz Hotshot, it would've been a completely different show
Now I'm imagining Shader taking off his helmet only to drop the famous catchphrase "I'm Charles Stiles" before revealing all of the cameras he's secretly placed everywhere to catch Doug being such a dumbass
The show would be shot with 60 different cameras including a drone above the studio
It would've have had more production value and better scripted dialogue.
Give him the ten points
@@CM-jc7gk +10 points for you
Nostalgia Critic movies feel like when there is student film project in a middle school av club, but its directed by the asshole kid who refuses to let anyone have fun.
That was one of the most insightful metaphors I've read in a while. It's something I'd expect to see quoted on Metacritic.... or the Channel Awesome epitaph.
I like how the guy who donated $1500 was invited on for the chance to win a $100 prize.
This has to be Ralph's most rewatchable video
This and the Bruce Willis and Steven seagall videos are great
One of the most
The bigfoot one and redacted are on top
I can't tell you how many times I listened to this in my downloads on the way to work.
*"Charles Stiles mystery diners"*
Pop Quiz Hotshot feels like if Eric Andre got Jimmy Fallon to write for him.
That is such a depressing image, holy shit
I would actually say it feels like jimmy Fallon trying to act like Eric Andre but failing miserably
Christ, I think I had an aneurysm from reading that
Oh shit you're right
Brendan is right about this one and he knows he's right. That's exactly how this feels.
Ralph: Barely enters puberty
Also Ralph: "When I was a young man"
The red collar shirt guy (Phelan Porteous, aka Phelous) was the ONLY one contracted to do the majority of the special effects for the entire video by himself. Not the "single white frame = gunshot" bullshit, but stuff like the CGI renders of the spaceships and greenscreen backgrounds, the 3D Modelling of space and the transitions, the laserbeam, teleporting and particle effects, etc.
Yep. ONE guy.
WTF were they thinking? 😕
On his own UA-cam channel, where he reviews old VHS reviews and unboxing retro toys, the effects he does are fine for little sketch moments.
But to work on a THREE HOUR LONG internet video, 18 hour work days, with camera footage of varying quality, shitty lighting and angles, and poor direction by Doug and Rob, I'm surprised the guy didn't have a fucking aneurysm!!! 🤣
I think the thing that really adds to the fucked up-ness of making Phelous do *all* of the special effects for that video, is that in future crossovers between them (I'm speaking about the reviews they did of the Chuckie movies) one of the jokes was that that the special effects were better than To Boldly Flee. And just in case you didn't get it, Nostalgia Critic went the extra mile to say "Because you did them" to him.
It's almost kind of shocking how hard Doug Walker threw him under the bus for doing a pretty admirable job for one dude.
Extra funny thing about that is Doug, certain Phelous was half-assing the effects, tried to get another producer (Welshy) to spy on him. Didn't even consider that Welshy would tell Phelous what was up since they were friends.
Phelan's videos are great and anybody reading this should check out his Good Times and Dingo Pictures reviews.
@@thelemonadestandman Phelous also had a very public falling out with Doug over the fact that he's openly stated that To Boldly Flee is bad and made jokes at its expense. Doug can only tolerate criticism of other people's work, never his own.
@@asteroidrules
Yeah I noticed in quite a few of his “post-CA” videos, he always makes jabs at To Boldly Flee, and sometimes even Doug himself.
"Have lunch with Doug and Rob." I thought these were supposed to be incentives, not punishments.
I just almost screamed laughing
@@bettyjojoeharperre-imagina7322 Hey; what's the difference?
I went to a restaurant near a local convention for lunch a few years ago, and I randomly got seated at a table next to theirs. If I knew up to $3,500 was on the line, I would have gladly punished someone else by swapping tables with them.
@@RariettyC Damn; dude; sorry you had to deal with these 2. Doug and Rob ain't worth $3, let alone, $3,500. I'd just take the money and leave, it's not worth being near those 2 loud, annoying, screaming, obnoxious idiots. You deserve better.
@@RariettyC spill the teaaaa, I have to know the Walker brothers lunch experience!
Ralph sounds like he's talking low so his parents in the next room don't hear him
Doug is in the next room
I think it’s so nobody hears him watching and talking about this. I would prefer my mother walk in on me beating my schmeat than seeing me watch Pop Quiz Hot Shot
Its probably because he has a high quality mic and talking to loud would be loud as fuck in post. That or he has roommates beating off and he needs to keep it down.
I thought he just wanted to die.
@@devams1 ohh no. 😂
He's being so mean to Shader and Tom Beverage because they're daring to be funny and make jabs at him. Why is Doug so insistent that he be the center of attention 24/7?
This man has an insanely inflated ego, I think he genuinely believes he is the smartest and funniest person in the room. So it just baffles him and makes his skin crawl seeing someone else get a laugh from everyone else, especially at his expense.
I love that Doug cant make anything but Nostalgia Critic work and every other "Show" he made got canned with like single digit episodes before he put back on the ol suit and tie and milked that cash cow beyond full sellout mode
And it's funnier because of how much he hates being the Nostalgia Critic.
@@rossomac21 “say the line critic!”
**sigh** “bat credit card…”
YAAAAAAAY!
He is what is called a "one trick pony"
Oh god it’s like middle schoolers made a TV show
That’s the only way this would be acceptable
It kinda was, except this was a man-child with the brain of a middle-schooler.
Pre-Schoolers*
My brother and his friend played "Name That Tune" with their records at that age. They even recorded it once. I still have the VHS (this was like 1985 or 1986). Looks and sounds like crap but still, it's infinitely more watchable than this.
It would still be better
Dougs overacting was getting really uncomfortable because the contestants aren’t in it at all
I can't think of a single thing more awkward than a skype call with Doug and Rob.
Being in the same room with them would be…
@@pandamonium9255the NotSoAwesome doc talked about how when they were filming the anniversary movies, they would constantly stop everything to argue with each other about how a scene should be directed.
@@henrynelson9301...That sounds normal
Just a reminder that people used to actually take Doug Walker seriously as a film critic.
Who's gonna take him seriously now, especially after that "review" of the Wall? There's so many other better reviewers you could be watching.
remember when he tried to do a let's play and it was the worst thing ever lmao
@@PlahaKumar Doug.
@Allison VP yeah it was him attempting to play Bart’s Nightmare. It’s so bad that it’s almost painful to watch. He also played Bebe’s Kids and Blues Brothers, both of them also bad, but nowhere near as bad as his playthrough of Bart’s Nightmare.
This comment is a brick to the face
This show feels like something we weren't supposed to see, like a show a serial killer would do in front of corpses he pretends are alive
honestly, psychologically you probably aren't that far off, Doug clearly enjoys being in direct control of other people
Sounds like something The Joker would do.
@@Ratchet2431 Doug is the best actor to ever portray Melvin, brother of the joker, after all.
It feels like an experiment with no effort in making sure it would work.
It feels like he _knew_ it was godawful and was a complete failure before he even started, but felt obligated to still make it anyway because he crowdfunded it and put so much on the line to do it.
He has this look of desperate fear in his face and sounds legit highly agitated most of the time.
Every day I have to live with the knowledge that my sister and I are in Demo Reel because we interacted with Doug at a con, not knowing it was being filmed
@@Skullkan6 Nah, don't watch Brad Jones's anything.
I am so sorry. I hope it's buried and forgotten forever.
Isn't that illegal?
@@nejdalej, nope, because if that was the case, Karens would actually be able to sue people for taking videos of their meltdown.
@@johannderjager4146 haha xd le funni karen meem
I love that Doug did an “ironically bad crowd funding video pitch” but it turned out to be legitimately bad and delivered no clear use of funds.
unfunny deadpan comedy is fucking difficult to watch ay
Irony is dead. Stone cold dead. And Doug "Melvin" Walker killed it and tarshed the corpse.
Doug didn't quit Nostalgia Critic for that game show, he quit it to make Demo Reel. Hence the reason why the last episode of Demo Reel is called "The Review Must Go On", and is about him becoming the Nostalgia Critic again, with the NC series starting up again after the finale came out. It's also widely believed that the reason the game show is so damn awful in quality is because he used the vast majority of the Kickstarter money raised for it on his Demo Reel series instead, which was his actual passion project (and incidentally is of much higher quality). But whether that part is true or not, Pop Quiz Hotshot is definitely NOT the show Doug quit the Nostalgia Critic for
You sure its not because Mike Michaud pocketed most of the money?
Ralph has clearly lost his mind during isolation.
We all did
He lost his marbles sometime during the editing of his joker video
@@christopherrapczynski204 He's mad the Joker killed him on the train. Ralph always remembers, ever since the Zack Synder arc you can see he has slowly lost his mind
hes always been missing screws thats why we watch him
C WG Exactly
Contestant: coughs
Nostalgia critic: that is the funniest shit I’ve ever seen, that joke made me lol all over my pants, you sir have get 10 points!
Wrong answer, they would get 10 points but because you made me laugh, here's 10 points anyway.
I can see a lot of mileage in this joke
The movie would have been a LOT different if they coughed!
@@neal2399 Is this joke supposed to be Alfred?
Everyone gets a blue ribbon here!
Ralph trying his best to stifle his laughter while reading the Indiegogo campaign rewards will always be the funniest part of this video, hands down
That Angry Joe interaction is so cringe it actually hits the zero on the cringe-o-meter so hard it breaks it and pings back around to kinda cute and endearing. It's very humanizing.
That’s probably just because Angry Joe is a likeable dude.
Shouldn't a show about making the host laugh, have a host who's really stoic and hard to crack?
Honestly yeah it shouldn’t be a guy who doesn’t even have to laugh to give out the points you just gotta make him go “that would be a very different movie”
I smiled give 50 points
mike stoclasa!!!!!!
@@slightlyoffensivedadjokes He'd be too easy, just keep making jokes about movies ending with news footage of 9/11 :p
@@fulldisclosureiamamonster2786 And AAAAAAAAAAAAAAA-worse disease
One thing that makes Pop Quiz Hotshots even worse, Doug took the money used to fund the show and used it to buy the studio space he now films Nostalgia Critic at, with the game show not materialising for a while, it wasn't until someone threatened to take Doug to court for not honoring the GoFundme that Doug was forced to actually do the series.
Wow, my jaw actually dropped at the Robert Downey Jr. bit. I like dark humor but that's not even a joke, that's just straight up mocking someones struggle. What a douchebag move.
It’s Doug being an insensitive ass. Doug seems like he could unironically be a serial killer.
Hell, it even fails at being a proper douche move because hadn't Robert already recovered by the time of the Quiz?
@@koshavinka2995 Yup, so it’s not just a douche joke, but it’s a DATED douche joke.
In all fairness, Ralph made jokes at the expense of Ben Affleck’s alcoholism in his Justice League review so I guess we’re all susceptible to making tasteless jokes, from time to time.
@@joefission7179 Same with Bruce Willis, but who's counting
So is no one going to talk about how Angry Joe called a young Ralph a “conspiracy twat”?
What?!!?!
@@bettyjojoeharperre-imagina7322 watch the last 30 seconds of the video it’s an Easter egg
There are SEVENTEEN different comment threads on here talking about that, so I don't think you're doing a good service to their existence by calling them "no one".
The more alarming thing is someone actually claimed that $6,500 lunch date perk
How much do you want to bet they had to pay for their own lunch too
To be fair it was probably Brad Jones
TheFreepie and that’s why his wife left him 😂
There was at least one claimed in all of the stretch goals, so let's imagine it was the same superfan.....oof, if we lived in a sane universe then the only rational answer is they were being bought up by friends or family to give the impression that they were being claimed, as a tactic to stimulate demand by the illusion that these things might be in anyway desirable. However given what the world is actually like the former is probably the truth!
Paul Majano did his new wife leave too?
Full list of Doug Walker's character traits:
1. Unlikable
3. Pretentious
4. Delusional
5. Preachy
6. Projective
7. Narcisistic.
This is such a rewatchable video
I come back to it every couple of weeks
*GIVE EM TEN POINTS*
I honestly fall asleep to this video a lot for background noise
It's nice to know that Todd in the Shadows has come a long way since channel awesome
Little known fun fact: There was going to be a Channel Awesome 10 year anniversary film focusing more on newer Channel Awesome creators that came on after To Boldly Flee. Supposedly it would have been a "parody" of the horror film genre like how TBF "parodied" sci-fi. The film was cancelled before filming could begin due to the "Change the Channel" document being released and everyone leaving.
Good
Indeed
Kind of disappointing we didn't get a version with Doug filling every role. I feel like it's the best insight into his mind yet
It would have been Doug and Brad and then a cutout of Guru Larry that only ever says "Hey Doug, it's Larry. Just returning your call to let you know i regretably wont be able to fly to america to film my part for the 10th anniversary as i came down with a dreadful case of not giving a shit. Never call this fucking number again, twat."
A small but welcome mercy in this cruel, cruel world
This was when all these UA-camrs were convinced that they were going to take on Hollywood. Running around going, “What does Hollywood know? I can make a movie for like $500 and no experience.” Then they discovered that actual filmmaking takes a loooooot of actual work and often a great deal of money.
Its easy to make a movie with $500 when you don't provide food or water to your actors
Money helps but people with talent and experience can do a lot with very little. Doug just didn't know what he was doing and didn't want to make a movie that might have actually worked with the cast and crew they had.
Doug takes himself so seriously it’s so funny
He really let the success of NC go to his head.
Random theory: Doug secretly believes that Pop Quiz Hotshot and Demo Reel only failed because they were buried by angry fans of the Nostalgia Critic trying to force Doug to bring that show back, and he cancelled Nostalgia Critic hoping to prevent them from doing this, and this is why he made the new Nostalgia Critic show more similar to Demo Reel, because he thinks Demo Reel is secretly great and he's making the Nostalgia Critic better by doing so.
His show was better when it was just straight up reviews without all the skits imho.
@@SuperSteve180 I used to just skip the skits entirely, but I had to stop watching when his videos became 90% skits.
Seeing a lot of his reviews, I honestly believe Doug thinks this
@@dragonforks93 Same. I was still watching for a short while after he came back, but the skits were so awful and unfunny that I would always skip them just to save myself from the secondhand embarassment. They remind me of the kind of thing me and my neighbour would film on our phones when we were like 13 years old, except this guy is probably 40 at this point.
@@Niobesnuppa Yeah, the old skits were just as unfunny but at least he had some restraint and they wouldn't go on for too long. When Doug wasn't shrieking like a pig on meth he could actually be quite informative and insightful.
For a music reviewer, Todd in the Shadows is still a powerhouse. I didn’t even know he was linked to Doug.
they did whiz crossover and he appeared in lindsey's review (Disney sequels), he was her bf, they broke up, but still on good terms.
he's got a podcast Song vs. Song
He was with Channel Awesome for a long time, but left during the Change the Channel controversy
Same, he makes really good videos
Unfortunately that's how I found out about him , he just like Lindsay Ellis have danced in himself majorly from him.
He's been a "film critic" for a decade yet every movie he's ever seen can be found in a dorm room's communal DVD shelf
The Wall's can be found on a dorm room communal shelf?
To be fair I don’t think Doug actually saw the Wall before he did his 40 minute shitstorm on it
@@jayceeYT793 He just watched Boondock Saints for the 600th time but with Pink Floyd playing in the background.
Lol thought you were coming for Ralph
rewatching this for the third time. it's a work of art.
I will never get tired of watching ralph dunk on the critic, istg ive watched this shit over 50 times over the years.
Everythig about the Nostalgia Critic is just insane to me
As someone who used to watch him, he is insane
@@nevsnks Agreed.
How was this comment from five days ago?
Will Lock probably Patreon
@@catendway4754 nah I think it's onlyfans
“Who wrote the Emoji Movie?”
“Adolf Hitler.”
“That’d be funny, just give 250 points anyway!”
this got me giggling so hard
slightly offensive dad jokes 😊thanks
See the problem with this is, it's not realistic, what you really need to put is a painfully unfunny answer like what's actually in the show instead of the kind of answer that a person with a sense of humor and at least some human contact in their life would say.
Cuz dis is actually just funny.
Worm EXACTLY. this comment is actually funny, so it’d never happen in the show
Wil Bourke
“Why is John up by over 230 points! Nobody’s even got any of the questions right!”
Watching a montage of Doug dripping with insanity and being so unaware of how cringe-inducing he is while listening to In the Hall of the Mountain King come to a crescendo is surely one of the great cinematic triumphs of Ralph Sepe. Bless you, sir.
The saddest thing about Popquiz Hot Shot is that this one video shitting on it has more views than all 11 episodes of the show combined.. Ralph has made more money off of this video than Doug and his crew did on the actual show.
And rightfully so.
Watching this back, it feels like Doug’s entire personality is just....media he’s watched. He doesn’t even have his own personality or sense of humor.
Oh fuck. I feel like that describes me..
Hes an awful Sam Kinison knockoff
Basically a redditor.
this reminds me of the "not so awesome"-document that was released in 2018 (I believe) by former Channel Awesome members. One of them (I don't remember which one) would put on a silly voice from time to time and Doug would repeatedly ask what character this voice was based on. He replied "no one, it's just a silly voice I do", but apparently Doug Walker wasn't capable of understanding humor that isn't a reference to something or someone else in the pop culture universe.
And his media knowledge seems to be incredibly limited.
This goes to show how “just be confident and you’ll succeed at everything” is not good advice to follow. Nostalgia critic’s confidence is incredibly hard to watch. I can barely stomach it.
You'll end like the Fyre Festival if you follow that advice.
Because it's not even confidence anymore. It's just narcissistic fart sniffing.
nail = head.
I mean you say that but you can't deny he succeeded
Because you can’t fake confidence, he’s scared to death. As animals, we are able to spot weakness. That’s the big reason this is so cringey, my chimp brain keeps yelling at me that this guy is a beta acting like an alpha and it’s confusing to me.
I was friends with this guy in school who was really weird. When he was talking about something he'd sometimes start doing voices and stuff and you would kind of just have to wait for him to stop. Thats what channel awesome reminds me of
still more funny and cool then channel awesome
still more funny and cool then channel awesome
@@isaiahsimmons5776 I agree, give him 10 points, because that would've been so much funnier than anything Douche Walker's EVER done; by himself, because he's an untalented, egocentric, and narcissistic douchebag who thinks the entire world revolves around him, and the drug addiction joke he made about Robert Downey Jr., completely unfunny, and a douchey thing to do, and on top of it not being funny, it's not relevant, or even remotely interesting, because RDJ has been drug free for years, and reinvigorated his passion for acting, as both the Australian actor guy from Tropic Thunder, and also, as Tony Stark/Iron Man, and made those characters his own, both in the same year! Which is amazing. Because we all know that Doog Wanker could NEVER be anything even remotely interesting or that funny,( even if he tried).
Terrible sense of humor? Undiagnosed tic disorder? It's hard to say for sure!
Shader has to be the best contestant in Pop Quiz Hotshot. Though let's be real, that honor is about as tall of an obstacle to overcome as a shallow stairstep.
Doug is the type of guy who actually thinks that pickle rick is the funniest shit he’s ever heard.
Wdym it is
Doug is the guy who thinks his version of Pickle Rick is the funniest.
Yeah unfortunately he just doesn't have a good sense of humor it's really childish for some reason.
well now I can't stop visualising Doug standing on the counter at McDonalds and screaming, thanks
Drippy Ink Shard :/
i'm not even 20 minutes in, yet it feels like i've been watching for over 2 hours... watching doug is so draining...
Yeah, I tried watching a Nostalgia Critic video a few months back and it was so painful I turned it down after 5 min. He's dragging his jokes on and on and on and his face expressions and voice tone are so annoying.
@Delta Romeo there truly was nothing on television
8m in and already hurting
plot twist: NC has a kidnapping kink. it explains the re-use of "good thing you didnt kidnap me hoho", it explains Miss Stockholm, and it makes sense coming from a guy this self-important. Getting kidnapped implies that in some way you're "valuable".
he also has the hots for popeye
Man I remember loving the Nostigia Critic when he was just reviewing old movies. Once he started with those horribel skits I kind of lost intrest. When he did his first "movie" I was out. So looking at all... this... I do not regret that.
His editorials were good. Where's the Fair Use, The Dark Age of Movies, What happened to Spoof Movies, his "non-review" about Transformers. Whenever the guy actually sat down and TALKED ABOUT FILMS, he was okay to listen to.
@@laurocoman Despite some of his stupider takes I really liked his Disneycember and Dreamworksuary videos
Ralph, your video is completely wrong, but since it’d be a very different movie if they did it like you said, I’m giving you 10 points anyway.
kaveenieweenie that is how time works
@@kaveenieweenie6780 Probably released it earlier privately.
Underrated comment
You should have given him 50 points
My nipples are lactating