History Fridge / TheAngryVideoGameNerd

* In the R.O.B. review , R.O.B.'s prime objective is to eliminate every video game other than Gyromite or Stack-Up. ''Every. Video. Game.'' He visibly turned Sega Genesis games into Stack-Up on-screen. How many people's video game consoles became useless because they're not NESes and can't play any NES games? What would you do if you noticed your PC's Steam library turned into multiple copies of the same two old games overnight?

** He then died in the ''[[VideoGame/TheImmortal Immortal]]'' episode, but comes back at the end of the ''ComicBook/{{Spawn}}'' games episode due to beating Satan's challenge and being allowed to leave Hell.

** The Nerd is also killed off at the end of the "Bugs Bunny's Crazy Castle" episode. Either DeathIsCheap, or the Nerd has a bunch of clones stored somewhere.

* The full theme song includes the lyric "The game sucks so bad he makes up his own words". This is set to a clip of the Nerd saying things like "fuck rats" and "fuck farts"...but if you look at it as referring to the time he had to make up a new swear for his ''Godzilla'' review, it makes a lot more sense.
* On more than one occasion, the Nerd has used the phrase "It's like puking on a pile of shit!" to describe when his situation has gone FromBadToWorse. And in the ''Toxic Crusaders'' episode, he vomits at the sight of Creator/LloydKaufman taking a dump on the cartridge. In other words, puking on a pile of shit.

* In the ''Bayou Billy'' crossover episode with Pat the NES Punk, Pat comments on how after the Nerd dies for the umpteenth time that he might be doing this on purpose and that the game wasn't that hard.[[note]]He found out otherwise subsequently.[[/note]] Two years prior, in his making-of video, James states that he actually did purposely die in video games for some of his earliest videos. A very well-played MythologyGag, of sorts.

* The Nerd tends to complain about LoadsAndLoadsOfLoading a lot. While it's annoying and he wants to get on to the game, he does state in the ''VideoGame/McKids'' review he has ADD.

* In ''WebVideo/TheAngryVideoGameNerd'' Super Mario Bros. 3 review, Super Mecha Death Christ only shot at the Nerd and told him to watch his "[[HypocriticalHumor FUCKIN' LANGUAAAAAAAGE]]!" when the Nerd exclaimed "'''Holy''' shit!", not when the Nerd said "Oh, this shit? I'll tell you all about it." He's not upset about the word shit, but the sacrilege of calling it holy.
* Why is Pepsiman hurt by Mentos mints? Well, what happens when you put a Mentos in a carbonated drink? It basically explodes.

* R.O.B. didn't do anything as the Nerd's teammate in the Spawn episode, because they weren't playing Gyromite or Stack-Up.
* In the ''Action 52'' episode, he states that "everything pink in this game sucks". And guess what color are the game titles made of in the menu ? Looks like he was right when he says that all of these games suck.
* The Nerd's lamentation why Acclaim was the one developing ''The Simpsons'' games, not Konami, made a lot more sense if you consider that in the nostalgia ages, Konami was well-known for their quality games (even if sometimes they get a little too NintendoHard), their downward spiral hasn't started yet; and if you listen to the Nerd's song lyrics, especially the opening: ''"He's gonna take you back to the past..."'', it would make a lot of sense that the Nerd wouldn't even lambast Konami like the rest of the internet would; the present, controversial Konami is basically out of his scope, he's dealing with shitty games of the past.

* Invoked with Super Mario Bros. 3. James speculates that the reason the game is so difficult is because it was a product forged by the Devil and gives sound, if not out of reach, theories on why. One of those theories is that the seven sons of Bowser represent the Seven Deadly Sins.
** This very site seriously considers Bowser's children to be designed after the Sins, as detailed on the Franchise/SuperMarioBros character page, so the theory certainly resonates.

* In his Schwarzenegger Games review, there's no intro. At the end of the review, we find out why. The guitar dude is dead.
** Don't worry, he comes back to life in the Ikari Warriors episode.

* He called the "Wally Bear" hotline in 2006 and it ''still worked''. He's immediately creeped out because it's ''still being maintained''.
** According to Website/YouTube commentators, the line was finally shut down around 2009.
* WebVideo/TheAngryVideoGameNerd universe takes place in the Website/ChannelAwesome universe. WebVideo/AtopTheFourthWall had it so a video game glitch, aka Missingno was an EldritchAbomination, meaning that 'programming glitches'' [[FromNobodyToNightmare can warp reality]]. [[GreatGazoo The Glitch Gremlin]] can create glitches. This means [[NotSoHarmlessVillain the Glitch Gremlin can create beings like]] '''THE ENTITY'''.
** Probably not. The Glitch Gremlin seems to represent the glitches due to faulty cartridges/discs, read errors and other random occurrences. '''The Entity/Missingno''' was a glitch triggered under specific circumstances that could be done on command and was a factor of the game's code, which the Glitch Gremlin has nothing to do with. Remember, in the video, the Nerd cleaned out the glitching game, getting rid of the gremlin, before moving onto glitches that could be triggered on command. The gremlin didn't show up again until he moved on to the Rocky game, where the shown glitches were again random.

* R.O.B. didn't do anything as the Nerd's teammate in the Spawn episode, because they weren't playing Gyromite or Stack-Up

* In ''WebVideo/TheAngryVideoGameNerd'' Super Mario Bros. 3 review, Super Mecha Death Christ only shot at the Nerd and told him to watch his "[[HypocriticalHumor FUCKIN' LANGUAAAAAAAGE]]!" when the Nerd exclaimed "'''Holy''' shit!" But didn't attack him when the Nerd said "Oh, this shit? I'll tell you all about it."

* Whenever the Nerd abuses a Gameboy game, he does it while it's still inside the Gameboy. Why does he only do this to the Gameboy when he removes the game from his other consoles first? Because the Gameboy is [[TonkaTough indestructible]]!

* R.O.B. didn't do anything when given as a teammate in the Spawn episode, because they weren't playing Gyromite or Stack-Up

** In the "Nightmare on Elm Street" movies, if you die in the dream, you die in real life. If the original Nerd died in the dream, that would mean he died in real life.

* Why is ''Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde'' (2004) the only review where he doesn't use professional video recording equipment to record footage of the game and instead points the camera at the TV screen (at a DutchAngle no less)? Because the game is so bad, he doesn't think it deserves any special treatment or extra effort to show it.

* In the ''Bayou Billy'' crossover episode with Pat the NES Punk, Pat comments on how after the Nerd dies for the umpteenth time that he might be doing this on purpose and that the game wasn't that hard[[note]]he found out otherwise subsequently[[/note]]. Two years prior, in his making-of video, James states that he actually did purposely die in video games for some of his earliest videos. A very well-played MythologyGag, of sorts.

* Why does the ''Mortal Kombat Rip-offs'' episode end with the Nerd rehashing previous episodes? Because the ''Mortal Kombat'' rip-offs did the same thing to their inspiration.

* WebVideo/TheAngryVideoGameNerd universe takes place in the Website/ChannelAwesome universe. WebVideo/AtopTheFourthWall had it so a video game glitch, aka Missingno was an EldritchAbomination, meaning that 'programming glitches'' [[FromNobodyToNightmare can warp reality]]. [[GreatGazoo The Glitch Gremlin]] can create glitches. This means [[NotSoHarmlessVillain The Glitch Gremlin can create beings like]] '''THE ENTITY'''.

** According to YouTube commentators, the line was finally shut down around 2009.

* In his Schwarzenegger Games review, there's no intro. At the end of the review, we find out why. [[spoiler: The guitar dude is dead.]]
** Don't worry, he comes back to life in the [[spoiler: Ikari Warriors]] episode.

* WebVideo/TheAngryVideoGameNerd universe takes place in the Website/ChannelAwesome universe. WebVideo/AtopTheFourthWall had it so [[spoiler:a video game glitch, aka Missingno]] was an EldritchAbomination, meaning that ''[[spoiler:programming glitches]]'' [[FromNobodyToNightmare can warp reality]]. [[GreatGazoo The Glitch Gremlin]] can create glitches. This means [[NotSoHarmlessVillain The Glitch Gremlin can create beings like]] '''[[spoiler:THE ENTITY]]'''.
** Probably not. The Glitch Gremlin seems to represent the glitches due to faulty cartridges/discs, read errors and other random occurrences. '''[[spoiler:The Entity/Missingno]]''' was a glitch triggered under specific circumstances that could be done on command and was a factor of the game's code, which the Glitch Gremlin has nothing to do with. Remember, in the video, the Nerd cleaned out the glitching game, getting rid of the gremlin, before moving onto glitches that could be triggered on command. The gremlin didn't show up again until he moved on to the Rocky game, where the shown glitches were again random.

** In the "Nightmare on Elm Street" movies, if you die in the dream, you die in real life. If the original Nerd died in the dream, that would mean he died in real life.

!!FridgeLogic
* One part of the Nerd's VideoGame/BigRigsOverTheRoadRacing review has him pressing and holding the Control key [[GoodBadBugs to infinitely]] [[ObviousBeta decelerate his truck]]. After the resulting decelerating sound grows increasingly louder, he covers his ears with ''both'' of his hands...and yet, he lifts his hand off the Control button a moment later as if he were holding it the entire time.
** That, my friend, is just how far the reality bending powers of Big Rigs' infinite speed can affect reality.
* Sure, the Nerd was [[HeroicBSOD pretty]] [[DespairEventHorizon jarred]] in the [[VideoGame/PennAndTellersSmokeAndMirrors Desert Bus]] episode, but was [[spoiler:attempting to end the show and retire]] really a smart move on his part? Even when he knew that this was his 10th anniversary episode?
** RuleOfFunny

* In ''WebVideo/TheAngryVideoGameNerd'' Super Mario Bros. 3 review, Super Mecha Death Christ only shot at the Nerd and told him to watch his "FUCKIN' LANGUAAAAAAAGE!" when the Nerd exclaimed "'''Holy''' shit!" But didn't attack him when the Nerd said "Oh, this shit? I'll tell you all about it."

* The Nerd tends to complain about LoadsAndLoadsOfLoading a lot. While it's annoying and he wants to get on to the game, he does state in the McKids review he has ADD.

* Considering he only plays old games and in the movie, uses a record player on the road trip, The Nerd is a basically a hipster.

* WebVideo/TheAngryVideoGameNerd universe takes place in the ChannelAwesome universe. WebVideo/AtopTheFourthWall had it so [[spoiler:a video game glitch, aka Missingno]] was an EldritchAbomination, meaning that ''[[spoiler:programming glitches]]'' [[FromNobodyToNightmare can warp reality]]. [[GreatGazoo The Glitch Gremlin]] can create glitches. This means [[NotSoHarmlessVillain The Glitch Gremlin can create beings like]] '''[[spoiler:THE ENTITY]]'''.

* When the Nerd clones himself in ''VideoGame/ANightmareOnElmStreet'' video, three of the four nerds are killed off by Freddy. But there's no indication of who is or isn't a clone, so it's possible the original Nerd is dead and we've been watching one of his clones since 2007.