History Awesome / CounterMonkey

* In "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kRfrNeBspEE The Jedi Hunter]]" Spoony decides to make a non-Jedi character who can take on Sith Lords. In his first encounter a Sith taunts him telling him to just fly away on his jetpack. Spoony's response? "Oh this? [[OhCrap This isn't a jetpack]], it's a fuel tank for this! [[KillItWithFire FWOOOOOOOSH!]] Block THAT motherfucker!"

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1AT_FbOR0Y Tandem's Last Ride]]. Oh. My. ''God''. This story is about the final adventure of Spoony's signature D&D character: a badass, swashbuckling [[SpoonyBard bard named Tandem the Spoony]], in which he and five other characters brave the horrors of Dungeonland (a module of [[NintendoHard ungodly difficulty]] where characters literally go to [[Literature/AliceInWonderland Wonderland]], except [[EverythingTryingToKillYou everything is trying to kill you]]). Highlights include:

* The entirety of Vegan Steve's campaign. [[http://spoonyexperiment.com/2011/10/20/counter-monkey-vegan-steve-and-the-djinni-of-jengai-fomogo/ It must be seen to be believed]].
* [[http://blip.tv/the-spoony-experiment/counter-monkey-leaping-wizards-5696240 The Leaping Wizards encounter.]] In an (unintentional) ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight against the RPGA's "no risk of death" mentality, Spoony took what was supposed to be a CurbstompBattle against three first-level wizards and, with some logical tweaks to their spell loadout (with one spell per wizard) and some lucky rolls, managed to kill two members of a significantly stronger party of six.
* [[http://spoonyexperiment.com/2011/11/06/counter-monkey-vampire-spoonys-jyhad/#disqus_thread Vampire - Spoony's Jyhad.]] After being subjected to some of the worst railroading ever, Spoony gets glorious revenge.

* [[http://spoonyexperiment.com/2011/11/06/counter-monkey-invisible-jason/ Invisible Jason]]: He relates how his [=LARPing=] friend Jason managed to stand perfectly still on a car trunk, in a slightly awkward pose, for ''sixteen hours'', and while seriously drunk, all to avoid his character getting killed.
* [[http://spoonyexperiment.com/2011/11/22/counter-monkey-tandems-last-ride/ Tandem's Last Ride]]. Oh. My. ''God''. This story is about the final adventure of Spoony's signature D&D character: a badass, swashbuckling [[SpoonyBard bard named Tandem the Spoony]], in which he and five other characters brave the horrors of Dungeonland (a module of [[NintendoHard ungodly difficulty]] where characters literally go to [[Literature/AliceInWonderland Wonderland]], except [[EverythingTryingToKillYou everything is trying to kill you]]). Highlights include:
** Spoony spots that the hookah-smoking caterpillar is trying to dominate his party's minds with his apathetic, droning voice, and manages to save himself and his friends by invoking "countersong", a little-used bard technique that can cancel any sound-based attack.
*** Not to mention that he sang Iron Maiden at the top of his lungs, whilst nobody else around had any idea of what he was doing.

** Realizing after the previous fight that Dungeonland is not a place to screw around in, Tandem and the party blow through the rest of wonderland in a mad killing spree, pulling no punches and attacking anything as soon as it appeared (which was a good move, since everything was going to attack them anyway).

* Everyone who was involved in Spoony's [[http://spoonyexperiment.com/2012/03/04/counter-monkey-thieves-world-part-1-poor-impulse-control/ Thieves' World]] [[http://spoonyexperiment.com/2012/03/04/counter-monkey-thieves-world-part-2-the-chicago-way/ campaign]]. A game so amazing that he had to talk for over 2 hours to explain just how amazing his group were in working together as a team and going toe-to-toe with a nigh-indestructable God vessel with incredible strategic planning. Apparently, the entire campaign took 6 months, and is one of the most amazing stories Spoony has ever told.

* After telling a story involving a horribly racist woman, Spoony goes on at some length about how he'll come down fast and hard on any attempts to start a fight in the forums over it.
** Earlier in the video, he expresses frustration at Gary's [[note]]the man through whom he knew said racist woman[[/note]] inability to show up on time, and counters the stereotypes surrounding gamers by saying that people have lives outside of it, and that in actuality it's difficult to set up a session that's convenient to everyone's schedules, something that Gary seemed to have trouble understanding.

** The recounting of "The Greatest Swordsman in the World." A single boast by Tandem the Spoony pisses off the wrong guy, a dedicated sword specialist, who felt his honour was sullied. He challenges Tandem to a duel to first blood - he botches, losing his sword, as Tandem gets a crit. He concedes, but follows Tandem around, asserting his boast around powerful fighters in hopes to get him killed. However, he wins every battle, even managing through luck and guile to defeat a gigantic, tree-wielding gladiator by crippling his primary arm and finishing him off with DeathByAThousandCuts. The gobsmacked specialist never bothered him again. Doubles as a SugarWiki/{{Funny Moment|s}}.

* Halfway through the "Hey Fatty! Let's Go To Mordor!" video, Spoony delivers an awesome TakeThat to people who ask why they couldn't just fly the Eagles into Mordor in ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings'', pointing out how the Eye of Sauron and the guys on the walls of Mordor would see them coming and kill them.

* In "Thou Shalt Not Fuck With the Lady of Pain", a player tries to [[BullyingADragon anger]] the titular Lady of Pain, who Spoony has hyped as an unstoppable, statless badass capable of keeping the ''gods'' out of Sigil and trapping people in pocket-dimension mazes as punishment (if they're not outright killed in [[{{Gorn}} gruesome ways]]). The player tried to [[BriarPatching Briar Patch]] this by roleplaying a minotaur who he thought had the racial ability to never get lost in mazes; Spoony counters by sticking him in a maze that is a straight line ''one hundred million'' miles long.

* In "Jedi Hunter" Spoony decides to make a non-Jedi character who can take on Sith Lords. In his first encounter a Sith taunts him telling him to just fly away on his jetpack. Spoony's response? "Oh this? [[OhCrap This isn't a jetpack]], it's a fuel tank for this! [[KillItWithFire FWOOOOOOOSH!]] Block THAT motherfucker!"

* The Squirt Gun Wars shows incredible insanity and adaptation from Spoony's team concerning the titular war.

* Nightstake:

* During his reading through the Quick-start Rules, he notes how in Promethean, you play as a Frankenstein. He [[GenreSavvy realizes]] someone's [[IAmNotShazam gonna correct him on that]] and puts down the dead horse by stating just ''why'' people say Frankenstein instead of Frankenstein's monster for two reasons: 1) ease of use and 2) He is technically Frankenstein's son, and thus inherits his name.
* During his rant on ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons Fifth Edition'', he brings up the rules regarding a Death Saving Throw and brings up a possible reason for it: To make the game go faster. Keep in mind that he also brings up the process of the DST, in which you have to make a Saving Roll three to five times and ensure you don't fail either when you botch your roll or when the enemy hits you. What does Spoony do? Get the core rulebook from the very first edition and reads out ''its'' rule towards dropping to 0 hit points. "When a character reaches zero hit points, the character is slain." Afterwards, he instantly slams the book shut, drops it to the ground, and simply say "How's that for fast, motherfucker?" with a smug grin on his face. Even if you liked Fifth Edition, you gotta admit that the way he does it is simply badass.

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pBmEFgd_4ho 3d6 in order]] ends with what can only be called an oddly inspiring TheReasonYouSuckSpeech for people who refuse to randomly roll their stats:
-->'''Spoony:''' I'm gonna revise what I said earlier. You're not cowards if you don't try this. You're boring. [[AndThatsTerrible And that's worse]]. Cowards at least can be interesting. Who dares wins.

** In summary (needs some knowledge of ''TabletopGame/VampireTheRequiem''): [[spoiler: after his [[FriendlyNeighborhoodVampire Carthian]] character is abducted and tortured into joining the [[ReligionOfEvil Lancea Sanctum]] on his first session in the campaign, he decides that this isn't a very noobie-friendly thing to do. So he goes to the GM and complains, but the GM doesn't really address his concerns. So he get the idea to use his massive chemistry score to make a bathtub full of Semtex. He clears it with the GM, and comes back the next week. He observes the guard not patting down the entrants and proceeds to tape 30 cards worth of Semtex onto his person and walks by, sneaking enough homemade explosive to level the city block. He tricks another noobie into occupying the Prince's attention while he sneaks those cards into the Sanctum's bathroom. He places the cards behind the toilet, walks out, giving the guard a small stack of cards that he tells to flip over when he gets to his car. Spoony gets to his car, watches the guard turn the cards over, which have written on them (paraphrased): [[Film/LastActionHero "4", "3", "2", "1"]], "I just detonated enough Semtex I made with my chemistry skill to level the building. Everyone inside is probably dead." Just for fun, he also raises a card in his car labeled "detonator" while this is happening. The guard went to the GM, who comes over and confronts Spoony over this, and Spoony points out that he wasn't hit with any magical whammy and [[BeingTorturedMakesYouEvil only joined under threat of torture and death]], so he didn't exactly believe in the Lancea Sanctum's cause on a personal level. The GM tells him he can't do this. The GM doesn't let him but Spoony tells him that even so, he outsmarted everyone in the building and that if they want to play hardball with him, he'll play hardball right back at them. And as this story shows, he hardballs even harder.]]

* In "Thou Shalt Not Fuck With the Lady of Pain", a player tries to [[BullyingADragon anger]] the titular Lady of Pain, who Spoony has hyped as an unstoppable, statless badass capable of keeping the ''gods'' out of Sigil and trapping people in pocket-dimension mazes as punishment (if they're not outright killed in [[{{Gorn}} gruesome ways]]. The player tried to [[BriarPatching Briar Patch]] this by roleplaying a minotaur who he thought had the racial ability to never get lost in mazes; Spoony counters by sticking him in a maze that is a straight line ''One Hundred Million'' miles long.

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=unNSx7ilS4k "Where Have All The Lawful Goods Gone?"]] is a 25-minute TheReasonYouSuckSpeech towards the hatred of LawfulGood characters, pointing out all the ways it makes things easier because [[CaptainObvious people trust and like Lawful Good characters]].

* Starting with "Beware Women For They Come From Hell", the series has its own epic intro sequence. It's easy to picture [[AwesomeMusic the bardic tune]] being sung by [[AwesomeEgo Tandem]] [[QuirkyBard the Spoony]] himself.

** The recounting of "The Greatest Swordsman in the World." A single boast by Tandem the Spoony pisses off the wrong guy, a dedicated sword specialist, who felt his honour was sullied. He challenges Tandem to a duel to first blood - he botches, losing his sword, as Tandem gets a crit. He concedes, but follows Tandem around, asserting his boast around powerful fighters in hopes to get him killed. However, he wins every battle, even managing through luck and guile to defeat a gigantic, tree-wielding gladiator by crippling his primary arm and finishing him off with DeathByAThousandCuts. The gobsmacked specialist never bothered him again. Doubles as a CrowningMomentOfFunny.

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pBmEFgd_4ho 3d6 in order]] ends with what can only be called an oddly inspiring TheReasonYouSuck speech for people who refuse to randomly roll their stats:

* [[http://spoonyexperiment.com/2011/11/22/counter-monkey-tandems-last-ride/ Tandem's Last Ride]]. Oh. My. ''God''. This story is about the final adventure of Spoony's signature D&D character: a badass, swashbuckling [[SpoonyBard bard named Tandem the Spoony]], in which he and five other characters brave the horrors of Dungeonland (a module of [[PlatformHell ungodly difficulty]] where characters literally go to [[Literature/AliceInWonderland Wonderland]], except [[EverythingTryingToKillYou everything is trying to kill you]]). Highlights include:

** In summary (needs some knowledge of ''VampireTheRequiem''): [[spoiler: after his [[FriendlyNeighborhoodVampire Carthian]] character is abducted and tortured into joining the [[ReligionOfEvil Lancea Sanctum]] on his first session in the campaign, he decides that this isn't a very noobie-friendly thing to do. So he goes to the GM and complains, but the GM doesn't really address his concerns. So he get the idea to use his massive chemistry score to make a bathtub full of Semtex. He clears it with the GM, and comes back the next week. He observes the guard not patting down the entrants and proceeds to tape 30 cards worth of Semtex onto his person and walks by, sneaking enough homemade explosive to level the city block. He tricks another noobie into occupying the Prince's attention while he sneaks those cards into the Sanctum's bathroom. He places the cards behind the toilet, walks out, giving the guard a small stack of cards that he tells to flip over when he gets to his car. Spoony gets to his car, watches the guard turn the cards over, which have written on them (paraphrased): [[Film/LastActionHero "4", "3", "2", "1"]], "I just detonated enough Semtex I made with my chemistry skill to level the building. Everyone inside is probably dead." Just for fun, he also raises a card in his car labeled "detonator" while this is happening. The guard went to the GM, who comes over and confronts Spoony over this, and Spoony points out that he wasn't hit with any magical whammy and [[BeingTorturedMakesYouEvil only joined under threat of torture and death]], so he didn't exactly believe in the Lancea Sanctum's cause on a personal level. The GM tells him he can't do this. The GM doesn't let him but Spoony tells him that even so, he outsmarted everyone in the building and that if they want to play hardball with him, he'll play hardball right back at them. And as this story shows, he hardballs even harder.]]

** The battle between Invisible Jason (an [[GratuitousNinja Assamite]]) and the Justicar of Phoenix (''the'' "[[BadAss BAD space ASS]]" [[ProudWarriorRace Gangrel]] of the city). Spoony likens the battle to [[Film/ThePhantomMenace Duel of the Fates]], and describes in detail the Justicar's raw power and Jason's ninja-like capabilities. The real kicker? Invisible Jason didn't minmax his character... and he was '''winning'''!

* During his rant on ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons Fifth Edition'', he brings up the rules regarding a Death Saving Throw and brings up a possible reason for it: To make the game go faster. Keep in mind that he also brings up the process of the DST, in which you have to make a Saving Roll three times and ensure you don't fail either when you botch your roll or when the enemy hits you. What does Spoony do? Get the core rulebook from the very first edition and reads out ''its'' rule towards dropping to 0 hit points. "When a character reaches zero hit points, the character is slain." Afterwards, he instantly slams the book shut, drops it to the ground, and simply say "How's that for fast, motherfucker?" with a smug grin on his face. Even if you liked Fifth Edition, you gotta admit that the way he does it is simply badass.

** It gets even better when you consider that when he spoke to the GM about the issue, the GM almost comes off like he's blaming Spoony for what happened to his character.

* From [=ConBravo=] 2012 - D20 Live:
** In [[http://spoonyexperiment.com/2012/08/26/conbravo-2012-d20-live/ Part 1]], the recounting of "The Greatest Swordsman in the World." A single boast by Tandem the Spoony pisses off the wrong guy, a dedicated sword specialist, who felt his honour was sullied. He challenges Tandem to a duel to first blood - he botches, losing his sword, as Tandem gets a crit. He concedes, but follows Tandem around, asserting his boast around powerful fighters in hopes to get him killed. However, he wins every battle, even managing through luck and guile to defeat a gigantic, tree-wielding gladiator by crippling his primary arm and finishing him off with DeathByAThousandCuts. The gobsmacked specialist never bothered him again. Doubles as a CrowningMomentOfFunny.

** In [[http://blip.tv/the-spoony-experiment/conbravo-2012-d20-live-part-2-6322544 Part 2]], the party slays a would-be [[TotalPartyKill party slayer]], a black dragon, with Tandem stabbing it in the spine, Linkara's character hitting it in the same place with an arrow, and the team wizard striking the wound with lightning. On top of that, none of them were injured in the conflict and the DM had intended for them to retreat and come back with reinforcements.

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pBmEFgd_4ho 3d6 in order]] ends with what can only be called an oddly inspiring ReasonYouSuck speech for people who refuse to randomly roll their stats:

** The battle between Invisible Jason (an [[InstantAwesomeJustAddNinja Assamite]]) and the Justicar of Phoenix (''the'' "[[BadAss BAD space ASS]]" [[ProudWarriorRace Gangrel]] of the city). Spoony likens the battle to [[Film/ThePhantomMenace Duel of the Fates]], and describes in detail the Justicar's raw power and Jason's ninja-like capabilities. The real kicker? Invisible Jason didn't minmax his character... and he was '''winning'''!