History Creator / MichaelRosen

* AttackOfThe50FootWhatever: "The Bakerloo Flea" features, as the name implies, a flea the size of a Great Dane lurking in the Bakerloo subway tunnel.

* IAteWhat: The plot twist of "Custard's Last Stand". The Yum-Yum Burger Bar's meat, on top of being old enough to cause fatal poisoning, is revealed to be from horses, donkeys and kangaroos bought ostensibly for pet food. [[spoiler: And, if Maeve's white face is any indication, [[NothingIsScarier there might something even worse among them.]]]]

** By the end of "Custard's Last Stand", Michael doesn't want to finish his burger anymore.

* BurgerFool: The Yum-Yum Burger Bar in "Custard's Last Stand" ultimately proves to be this. The staff are forced to wear humiliating costumes and work 12-to-16 hour shifts. They're paid less than minimum wage and not even allowed to take time off when they suddenly start getting sick with an outbreak of stomach pains. And that's not even mentioning the drunken customers trying to start fights. Of course, this turns out to be [[IAteWhat the least of the restaurant's problems...]]

* BurgerFool: The Yum-Yum Burger Bar in "Custard's Last Stand" ultimately proves to be this. The staff are forced to wear humiliating costumes and work 12-to-16 hour shifts. They're paid less than minimum wage and not even allowed to take time off when a rash of stomach ramps takes hold of them. And that's not even mentioning the drunken customers trying to start fights. Of course, this turns out to be [[IAteWhat the least of the restaurant's problems.]]

* KitschyThemedRestaurant: The Yum-Yum Burger Bar in "Cuatard's Last Stand" was themed to the American Wild West, including all the staff dressing up in cowboy outfits and ridiculous names for the food.
* LostMyAppetite: By the end of "Custard's Last Stand", Michael doesn't want to finish his burger anymore.

* DarkerAndEdgier: The stories under the label "Nasty!" are aimed at older readers, and thus rife with gruesome details and more AdultFear scenarios.

* BurgerFool: The Yum-Yum Burger Bar in "Custard's Last Stand" ultimately proves to be this. The staff are forced to wear humiliating costumes, they find themselves working 12-to-16 hour shifts in the middle of a heatwave, they're paid less than minimum wage and drunken customers try to start fights. Of course, this turns out to be [[IAteWhat the least of the restaurant's problems.]]

* BurgerFool: The Yum-Yum Burger Bar in "Custard's Last Stand" ultimately proves to be this. The staff are forced to wear humiliating costumes, they find themselves working 12-to-16 hour shifts in the middle of a heatwave, they'e paid less than minimum wage and drunken customers try to start fights. Of course, this turns out to be [[IAteWhat the least of the restaurant's problems.]]

* BurgerFool: The Yum-Yum Burger Bar in "Custard's Last Stand" ultimately proves to be this. Employees find themselves working 12-to-16 hour shifts in the middle of a heatwave, there's nowhere to wash down in case of accidents and drunken customers try to start fights. Of course, this turns out to be [[IAteWhat the least of it.]]

* CallBack: Not really any of his stories reference each other unless they are in parts, but in "The Deal" it was mentioned of Michael's dad still complaining about the top of the toothpaste put on his shaving soap, which, by the uploading order, was first brought up on "Michael's Big Book of Bad Things Part 4".

* CosplayCafe: The Yum-Yum Burger Bar in "Custard's Last Stand" was themed to Hollywood depictions of the American West. The staff all dressed as cowboys and milkmaids and the food had ridiculous American-themed names.

* IAteWhat: The plot twist of "Custard's Last Stand". The Yum-Yum Burger Bar is revealed to get its meat - which itself is old and bad-smelling - from a knacker's yard (slaughterhouse) that deals in horses, donkeys and kangaroos. [[spoiler: And, if Maeve's white face is any indication, [[NothingIsScarier something even worse.]]]]

* MaliciousMisnaming: The staff at the Yum-Yum Burger Bar derisively call the restaurant's owner "General Custard" due to his pot belly and obsession with the Wild West.
* MustacheVandalism: Maeve apparently did this to a poster of John Wayne in "Custard's Last Stand".

* DarkerAndEdgier: The stories under the label ''Nasty!'' are aimed at older readers, and thus rife with gruesome details and more AdultFear scenarios.

* MustacheVandalism: Maeve apparently did this to a poster of John Wayne in "Custard's Last Stand".

** By the same token, when Maeve looks into the slaughterhouse window, she sees something that horrifies her, but what that ''is'' is left to the imagination.

* BlazingInfernoHellfireSauce: The "Hot Jamaica Sauce" Michael uses in "Orange Juice" to foil the thief stealing his morning orange juice.

* AttackofThe50FootWhatever: "The Bakerloo Flea" features, as the name implies, a flea the size of a Great Dane lurking in the Bakerloo subway tunnel.

* AttackofThe50FootWhatever: "The Bakerloo Flea" features, as the name implies, a flea the size of a Great Dane lurking in the Bakerloo subway tunnel.

!!Tropes that apply to him:

* ActuallyPrettyFunny: He was reportedly amused by the numerous remixes and [=YouTube=] Poops made from his poems, one of them being "Babyshitter". Rosen however took umbrage at the more offensive ones and "tried to get the racist, antisemitic ones taken down."
* CoolOldGuy: Absolutely. Not many men his age can say they're a successful author ''and'' an internet sensation.
* CheshireCatGrin: A rather famous one, present in nearly all his videos. If you don't want to look it up on Youtube, it's the page image. Sort of.
* GentleGiant: He's around six-feet tall and is well known for being a friendly, well spoken and kind hearted man.
* NiceJewishBoy: He was born and raised Jewish, however some sources state he now identifies as an atheist (this has been unconfirmed as he talks well of Jewish culture in several of his poems, though it is admittedly not incompatible with atheism).
* LargeHam: He ticks ''all'' the boxes, with his ridiculous facial expressions.

* ShaggyDogStory: "The Skyfoogle". A man puts up a tent, promising to show off a terrfying creature called the Skyfoogle. He then runs out of the tent, claiming the Skyfoogle to have escaped. None of them has seen the man, their money, or the Skyfoogle again.

--> '''Dave:''' ''"I was only saying!"

[[caption-width-right:200:''"[click] Nice."'']]

** Michael's mom never gets her comeuppance for depriving Michael of dessert and being a bitch about forcing him to eat something he doesn't like in "Tomato One"

Michael Wayne Rosen (born 7 May 1946) is an English children's author and poet, known for his work on Website/YouTube where he tells his stories, complete with exuberant and ''hilarious'' expressions and [[MilkingTheGiantCow gestures]]. He is most famous in Britain for his "We're Going on a Bear Hunt" song, and he's a ''hugely'' popular source for WebAnimation/YouTubePoop, mainly because his wide usage of words and virtually seamless videos give YTP makers maximum freedom in sentence mixing his videos and telling wholly different stories. His material can be found at [[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7D-mXO4kk-XWvH6lBXdrPw his YouTube channel]], previously known as "artificedesign", which was set up specially by his son.

Michael Wayne Rosen (born 7 May 1946) is an English children's author and poet, known for his work on Website/YouTube where he tells his stories, complete with exuberant and ''hilarious'' expressions and [[MilkingTheGiantCow gestures]]. He is most famous in Britain for his "Going on a Bear Hunt" song, and he's a ''hugely'' popular source for WebAnimation/YouTubePoop, mainly because his wide usage of words and virtually seamless videos give YTP makers maximum freedom in sentence mixing his videos and telling wholly different stories. His material can be found at [[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7D-mXO4kk-XWvH6lBXdrPw his YouTube channel]], previously known as "artificedesign", which was set up specially by his son.

-->'''Michael''': Mervyn! If I hear about your jam, your sandwiches, or the jam in your sandwiches, if I hear about any of it once more, I shall give them to the ''ducks''!"

* Squick: Invoked in "Horrible". While rather tame in comparison to other examples of this trope, "Horrible" is about the narrator buying a cheap pizza in a paper bag, which he splatters all over his face and knuckles, breathes in through his nose, whilst he dribbles everywhere licks his tongue over his knuckles and gets bag stuck in his mouth.

-->'''Michael''': Mervyn! If I hear about your sandwiches, your jam, or the jam in your sandwiches, if I hear about any of it once more, I shall give them to the ''ducks''!"

* CaptainObvious: Michael's father in "Hot Food". Everyone blows on their hot potatoes before eating them except for him, who puts the whole thing in his mouth and spits it out, saying "Watch out everybody! The potatoes are hot!".

* SerialEscalation: Very apparent in the stories "Washing Up" and "Chocolate Cake", of which the former features a full on kitchen war between Michael and his brother Brian, and the latter featuring Michael eating more chocolate cake with every bite, culminating in Michael getting a knife and cutting up the entire rest and eating it.

* NiceJewishBoy: He was born and raised Jewish, however some sources state he now identifies as an atheist (this has been unconfirmed as he talks well of Jewish culture in several of his poems).

* TheEndingChangesEverything: The Skyfoogle is set up as a standard monster. However, it is heavily implied by the way Michael lingers on the fact that he (and by extension, the audience) never saw the salesman again that the Skyfoogle never existed and the salesman was actually a conman.

-->'''Michael''': Mervyn! If I hear about your sandwiches, your jam, or the jam in your sandwiches, if I hear about any of it once more, I shall give them to the ducks!"

* DeterioratesIntoGibberish: In "Chocolate Cake", Michael gets so excited at the prospect of eating the titular food that his speech dissolves into nonsense words.

* TheEndingChangesEverything: [[spoiler: The Skyfoogle is set up as a standard monster. However, it is heavily implied by the way Michael lingers on the fact that he (and by extension, the audience) never saw the salesman again that the Skyfoogle never existed and the salesman was actually a conman.]]

* PrecisionFStrike: In "Orange Juice", after noticing that he had gotten no orange juice from the milkman, he says "Damn, the milkman's forgotten to deliver the orange." Granted, "damn" is about as offensive in Britain as "crap" is in America.

* SadistTeacher: The teacher described in "Strict", who forbids students from ''breathing'' in her class. Those who didn't keel over and die from not breathing were sent to "school prison" if they slammed the desk lid while snatching a quick breath under the desk, where they'd be strung up in a dungeon with rats nibbling at their toes.

* {{Squick}}:[[invoked]] "Horrible" is about the narrator buying a cheap pizza in a paper bag, which he splatters all over his face and knuckles, breathes in through his nose, whilst he dribbles everywhere licks his tongue over his knuckles and gets bag stuck in his mouth.

Michael Wayne Rosen (born 7 May 1946) is an English children's author and poet, known for his work on Website/YouTube where he tells his stories, complete with exuberant and ''hilarious'' expressions and [[MilkingTheGiantCow gestures]]. He is most famous in Britain for his "Going on a Bear Hunt" song, and he's a ''hugely'' popular source for WebAnimation/YouTubePoop, mainly because his wide usage of words and virtually seamless videos give YTP makers maximum freedom in sentence mixing his videos and telling wholly different stories. His material can be found at [[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7D-mXO4kk-XWvH6lBXdrPw his YouTube channel]], previously known as "artificedesign", which was set up specifically by his son.

--> ''"Mervyn! If I hear about your sandwiches, your jam, or the jam in your sandwiches, if I hear about any of it once more, I shall give them to the ducks!"''