History LetsPlay / FreelanceAstronauts

*** They recently began a new LP of Mass Effect, featuring the far-in-the-future descendant, Dongs Shepard. She is considerably better looking than her ancestors.
**** For those of you who are curious, the first streaming of the game featured Dongs as a woman. However, when it came up on youtube, the first hour of the LP was replaced by a different LP, where Dongs is some sort of Half-Of-Everything creature with no neck. Literally.

Also almost every Saturday they have a stream at 9 or 9:30 (the time can and most likely will vary greatly) PM Eastern US time. You can watch it either on [[http://freelanceastronauts.com/stream.php their site]] or on [[http://www.ustream.tv/channel/the-freelance-astronauts---we-play-some-games Ustream]] Or [[http://www.justin.tv/maxwell_adams here!]]

** There's also the orchestrated version of the [[SuzumiyaHaruhi Mikuru-Chan]] theme played over the first boss battles in VideoGame/{{Prototype}}.

-->'''Everyone:''' [[CSIMiami YEEEEEAAAAHHH!]]

** "[[ParappaTheRapper You [X]in' awful]]!"

* ADayInTheLimelight: pipes! is Player One in ''KirbySuperStar'' while Max plays the helper. Evek has plied his trade in a few episodes of Overlord. Ferr is the one who plays through ''VideoGame/TheOregonTrail'', ''VideoGame/{{Postal}} 2'', and some levels of Overlord and he also takes up Max's mantle as the player in ''[[VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoViceCity Vice City]]'' for a few videos... just in time for [[ThatOneLevel The Driver mission, too.]]

* {{It Is Pronounced Tro-PAY}}: Maxwell and co. refer to the Freezards from the ''Zelda'' series as icy "Day-liks", possibly referring to the Daleks (Dah-lek) from ''Series/DoctorWho''.

While most of the content on Viddler has been lost, a very awesome fan of the Freelance Astronauts known as "expjeans" has reuploaded all of (or at the very least most of) the videos onto [[http://www.youtube.com/user/expjeans his youtube account]], for all of their fans to re-enjoy.

** They spent a good deal of the Seaman LP calling Creator/LeonardNimoy "Spock".

** They spent a good deal of the Seaman LP calling LeonardNimoy "Spock".

* AmusingInjuries: Ferr

** pipes!. The other three fuck around with him [[{{Angrish}} just to see how he reacts.]]

** Who's a dick?! Youse a dick!!

* ChekhovsGun: A few do pop up now and again in their [=LPs=], but one rather good example that actually worked surprisingly well was in their ''Vice City'' LP. At some point early in the LP, Maxwell stored a golf cart in one of his residences. Several videos later, the ''Cop Land'' mission pops up. [[spoiler: Guess which vehicle they end up using to escape from the cops, on a 5-star rating, without getting totalled.]]

** Special mention also goes to Apetit and REO Speedwagon after [[TookALevelInJerkass Taking a Level In Jerkass]].

** Maxwell also does this during ''Power Stone 2'' after obtaining a powerup that turned his character into a robot, and then he begins to slaughter '''EVERYONE.'''

** pipes! TheBigGuy.
*** Especially funny because pipes! isn't actually very big.
**** [[LargeHam Yes he is.]]

* PlanetOfHats: Another RunningGag in the ''Mass Effect'' LP is referring to various characters as [[SpaceX Space]] ____. Ashley is [[FantasticRacism Space Racist]], the asari are Space Whores, the quarian are Space Gypsies...

*** Possibly "definitely" during his slow rage buildup in ''New Super Mario Bros. Wii'', caused by being a deadly combination of a) the only one actually trying to play properly rather than dick everyone else over and b) the second-worst player behind Ferr.

** Whenever a retarded-looking character appears in a videogame, they all give a resounding cry of "[[Film/TheGoonies HEYYYY YOUUUU GUUUUYS!]]"

-->'''Ferr:''' I really DIG your wife! *shovel strike to the head*

* ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill: The poor Secret Service agent in ''JFK Reloaded'' - after being put down with a bullet to the ankles, he is then shot again. And again. And again. [-And again.-] [--And again.--] [---And again.---] [----[[OverlyLongGag And again...]]----]

* TooStupidToLive: Maxwell turned Leon Kennedy into this during their LP of Resident Evil 4. He constantly refused to heal until Leon was nearly dead, generally resulting in Leon dying a few hundred times (and when his inventory was full of healing items, to boot.)

* WeAREStrugglingTogether: Their ''SeriousSam'' Let's Play. They seemed to spend equal time fighting enemies and shooting each other to bits, especially when Maxwell let them find the [[GatlingGood Chain Gun]] early.

* YouALLLookFamiliar: While lost in ''Majora's Mask'', Maxwell thinks that all Zoras [[note]]and their doors[[/note]] look the same. Ferr calls him out on this.

** They spent a good deal of the Seaman LP calling Leonard Nemoy "Spock".

* Maxwell Adams, leader and main game player/breaker.

* Evek, the quiet Franchise/StarTrek expert.

Also almost every Saturday they have a stream at 9 or 9:30 (the time can and most likely will vary greatly) PM Eastern US time. You can watch it either on [[http://freelanceastronauts.com/stream.php their site]] or on [[http://www.ustream.tv/channel/the-freelance-astronauts---we-play-some-games Ustream]]

* ADayInTheLimelight: pipes! is Player One in ''KirbySuperStar'' while Max plays the helper. Evek has plied his trade in a few episodes of Overlord. Ferr is the one who plays through ''OregonTrail'', ''VideoGame/{{Postal}} 2'', and some levels of Overlord and he also takes up Max's mantle as the player in ''[[VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoViceCity Vice City]]'' for a few videos... just in time for [[ThatOneLevel The Driver mission, too.]]

** And Drakkel thinking dysentery is pronounced "Dis-Sentery" in the ''OregonTrail'' LP.

*** And once more in their LP of OregonTrail.

* TrashTalk: Pretty much the only reason you would ever watch the [[http://www.viddler.com/explore/Maxwell_Adams/videos/265/ Tetris Smackdown]] video is purely because of Pipes! magnificent bullet train of trash talk.

* TakeAThirdOption: For the LP of ''Franchise/MassEffect''. "Okay, so there's a lot of debate over which is the better Shepard, the [=ManShep=] or the [=FemShep=]. [[TheReveal Well, what if you just can't choose?]] [[{{Gonk}} What if you just want both?]]"

* YouALLLookFamiliar: While lost in ''Majora's Mask'', Maxwell thinks that all Zoras [[hottip:* :and their doors]] look the same. Ferr calls him out on this.

* BadassMustache: Apparently pipes!'s father grew one during the MassEffect LP.

* [[DropTheCow Drop The Tank]]: RunningGag in their ''MassEffect'' LP.

* EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas: Maxwell may be an evil bastard to his friends in ''VideoGame/NewSuperMarioBrosWii'', and quite the renegade in ''MassEffect'', but then came this little nugget during 4-Player Bomberman.

* HitboxDissonance: Apparently, sitting down in ''MassEffect'' makes you ''very'' difficult to hit, even with tank fire.

** See: [[http://www.freelanceastronauts.com/view.php?id=168 Dongs]] [[http://www.freelanceastronauts.com/view.php?id=751 REO Speedwagon]] and [[MassEffect Commander Sheppard]], the [[http://www.freelanceastronauts.com/view.php?id=885 tank-shitting]] [[http://www.freelanceastronauts.com/view.php?id=880 hermaphroditic]] [[http://www.freelanceastronauts.com/view.php?id=881 interpretive dancer]].

* TakeAThirdOption: For the LP of ''MassEffect''. "Okay, so there's a lot of debate over which is the better Shepard, the [=ManShep=] or the [=FemShep=]. [[TheReveal Well, what if you just can't choose?]] [[{{Gonk}} What if you just want both?]]"

* TheDevTeamThinksOfEverything: Except for [[MassEffect tanks]] in very odd places, among other things Maxwell has done with the games.

* ViewerGenderConfusion: In-universe example with [[MassEffect Abominashep]], where even the game can't figure out what gender ''it'' is.

* DistantFinale: The end to the Astronauts' first Let's Play of {{Seaman}} had them warping ahead through a few years of in-game time (1,825 days, to be exact) to see what would have become of their two Seamen if they had been left unattended for that long. [[spoiler:Cue [[DespairEventHorizon one of the most depressing things they've ever filmed]]: the sign with the Seaman on it that makes up the title screen is scratched and desolate-looking. There are no Seamen in the tank, no eggs, no nothing. The terrarium which is used for growing moths is similarly bare. Even LeonardNimoy, narrator of the whole game up to that point no matter what had been happening up to that point, abandoned them, the game apparently having nothing to say to the players after so much time passed with nothing but neglect. Ferr was freaked out enough to start apologizing frantically on the spot.]]

* YourSecretsSafeWithMeSuperman: In the ''New Super Mario Bros. Wii'' playthrough, "I'm the [[Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration William Riker]] to your PatrickStewart."

--> '''pipes!''': You kicked your way out of the game. ...It kicked you out! Ha ha ha! You just got kicked from the server.

* RunningGag: Several recurring references and {{Shout Out}}s, including [[TopGun "Too close for X. Switching to Y"]] and "It was a rock...LOBSTER!" (from The [=B-52s=])

** While dicking about in ''[[VideoGame/JustCause Just Cause 2]]'', Maxwell pans up to the sky revealing the game's moon has been modded up to look like the [[ColonyDrop creepy evil one]] from ''[[TheLegendOfZeldaMajorasMask Majora's Mask]]''. Cue nostalgic giggles.

** Almost done by Ferr at the end of [[http://freelanceastronauts.com/view.php?id=481 Chapter 6-7]] of ''[[TheLegendOfZeldaMajorasMask Majora's Mask]]''. After an hour of trudging through two Spider Houses, the group is understandably sick of scavenging for Gold Skulltulas. So when Maxwell [[spoiler:skips forward to the second day and reveals that the prize changed from a wallet upgrade to ''50 rupees'', Ferr throws off his headset and proceeds to storm out of the room. He realizes Max made a state save on the first day, though, [[SubvertedTrope so he comes back.]]]]

* SolveTheSoupCans: Mocked exactly 8 minutes into [[http://freelanceastronauts.com/view.php?id=489 Chapter 8-1]] of ''[[TheLegendOfZeldaMajorasMask Majora's Mask.]]''

* {{Squee}}: pipes!'s reaction to the ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTwilightPrincess Twilight Princess]]'' [=LP=] when [[LegendOfZeldaCDIGames Link did indeed bomb some dodongos]].

* ChekhovsGun: A few do pop up now and again in their LPs, but one rather good example that actually worked surprisingly well was in their ''Vice City'' LP. At some point early in the LP, Maxwell stored a golf cart in one of his residences. Several videos later, the ''Cop Land'' mission pops up. [[spoiler: Guess which vehicle they end up using to escape from the cops, on a 5-star rating, without getting totalled.]]

** In their LP of the ''{{Bayonetta}}'' demo: