History WebVideo / DougDoug

* PoorCommunicationKills: Doug [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZ0e6fLr_QM recounts a story]] during his time as a producer for the 2016 ''[[VideoGame/HearthStone Hearthstone]]'' World Championship, where he instructed the competing players, Pavel and [=DrHippi=], to hold the trophy in the air if they won to make for a good photo. However, due to both players having a rudimentary understanding of English[[note]]Pavel is Russian, [=DrHippi=] is Ukranian[[/note]] and being socially awkward in general, when Pavel won the Championship and received his trophy, he proceeded to hold the trophy up above his head for ''three whole minutes''.

* ScrewTheMoneyIHaveRules: After AI Bjorn fails Davey for lying about the secret unlisted song in The Stanley Parable, Davey asks if he can make a deal, having Bjorn as the narrator for The Stanley Parable 2 and giving him a boat (bought with Doug's money) in exchange for making it a pass. While it's as tempting as "a pile of unicorn treats," Bjorn refuses since he doesn't actually like The Stanley Parable thaat much.

** Surprisingly common, as Doug lets Chat play sounds on-stream, such as a window of time where Chat can spam fart sounds, a message that congratulates Doug (which is more often than not used to mock him) and even sea shanties. This means that Chat can in theory spam these sounds all together. And of course, there's Doug's infamous laundry alert, giving Doug himself a taste of this trope.

* TakeAThirdOption: Whenever Doug gets Chat to vote on something via Clickmaps, at least a small portion of the audience with just click on Doug himself. Taken to it's logical conclusion in "I ran unethical social experiments on Twitch Chat", where the final vote on which of the contestants to eliminate results in 56% of the vote going to Doug.

* TheyKilledKennyAgain: The AI Sams that Doug tasks to play ''VideoGame/PajamaSamInNoNeedToHideWhenItsDarkOutside'' is "killed" whenever they're not being useful or something goes wrong behind the scenes, but a supposed clone of it takes its place before it's killed.

** In "Can you cross GTA 5 with ONLY Psychic Powers?", not only does Doug eventually go to start claiming this will be his pitch for ''Film/TheFastAndTheFurious 10'', but also tries to invoke instances from the series too, in particular picking a car Dom uses and making his character look like Dom (albeit thin with the moniker "Thin Diesel", the themeing of family with by spawning in tons of copies of Michael's son Jimmy, and referencing the climax of ''Film/FastFive'' with "every corrupt cop in the city" chasing after him.

* DidntThinkThisThrough: In his "Putting Twitch Chat on trial for unethical behavior" stream, Doug has the judge end a "case" by saying "Case Dismissed" as a catchy catchphrase, but when Parkzer makes him change it because "Case Dismissed" means that the trial was thrown out instead of a verdict being reached, Doug realizes this means the previously "killed" chatters were not technically guilty, and thus were "executed" when they shouldn't have. This leads to both Doug and the mods being put on trial and found guilty by the judge.

** "Walmart ends the violent videogame crisis". While still related to video games, it's instead Doug making fun of Walmart for removing violent video games from their stores (while still selling guns at those same stores).

** Another video that has completely nothing to do with video games was his first ever stream done outside his usual setup. There, the premise was that he and his friends had to drive up to a fast food restaurant, order what the person in front of them ordered, split the entire order within the group, and repeat it 9 more times.

* BlatantLies: The entirety of "Can I beat Mario before Twitch Chat beats ONE level?", Doug keeps saying that he wants this episode to be a quick 2-hour stream where he doesn't get sidetracked trying to code some wacky bullshit because Chat told him to for five hours straight. That is ''exactly'' what ends up happening, with Dough spending five hours coding OBS so that both his and Chat's Mario gameplay bounces around the screen DVD screensaver-style and loudly announces when one of them perfectly hits the corner. Even ''as he is coding this'', Doug is still desperately saying it's a quick 2-hour stream.

* MyMasterRightOrWrong: Basically the premise of "City Skylines, but I elected Twitch Chat as Mayor", where Doug follows the orders of a random person from Twitch Chat for 5 minutes, regardless of whether it helps Parkzerville... Or completely annihilates it. He also feigns offense whenever people try to speak out against the mayor... Though when Parkzer says it wouldn't be the mayor's fault for the city's ''really'' bad condition, Doug's quick to say [[NeverMyFault it was all on the mayor]] and that he was JustFollowingOrders... Though Parkzer brings up a critical point of ExactWords:

** The song "Coffee" by Supersister has shown up in a couple of 2023 videos, namely the endings of Rosa's 2023 birthday and Shufflemania [[note]]The usage of the song originates from a stream where Doug was grinding VideoGame/OnlyUp, and decided to play copyrighted music onstream, including Coffee, which he described as the worst song ever (naturally, meaning Chat latched onto the song). Eventually, he bought the rights to be able to use it onstream and in videos.[[/note]].

* NintendoHard: His ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoV'' challenge: get to five specific points on the map, but a mod makes the player's car a OneHitpointWonder and makes everyone else's car unpredictably launch forward or backwards every couple of seconds. It took him nine hours of consecutive play to beat this.

** In any voice based challenge runs, Doug always puts a self-imposed rule that he has to be engaging with Chat on a consistent basis over staying silent. This is because it would be easy to just not say anything in response, which defeats the challenge of the run being that Doug has to avoid saying specific things.

* ManipulativeBastard: After Chat proving he was bad at 2D-Platformers twice in a row in "Can I beat Mario before Twitch Chat beats ONE level?", Doug decides to take advantage of their gambling addict to beat them in a round by opening a Twitch prediction, banking on the people voting on Chat losing to him to sabotage their performance.

* NiceToTheWaiter: PlayedForLaughs - During "Twitch Chat and I ranked the greatest Fidget Toys", Chat randomly starts donating with the intention of it going to Doug's editors, with Doug finding it hilarious (and post-production, Barry (editor) is seen being slowly bombarded with money).

'''Barry (editor):''' Dammit.

* NonSequitur: Midway through "I threatened my viewers with a Discussion Robot", the video gets derailed [[spoiler:by the inclusion of [[Creator/BillyMays an entire Zorbeez commercial]]]].

* BerserkButton: The A.I. Bjorn in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HyqK2Tsujho "Peggle Speedrun, but an AI Robot threatens me with trivia"]] goes into insulting, swear-laden rants whenever Doug gets one of his questions wrong or when members of Chat call him various animals other than a unicorn.

** Doug's strategy for the team of Twitch Chat and A.I. "Chris Smash" to defeat progressively stronger ''Smash Bros.'' computer opponents is to invoke ''Anime/DragonBallZ''. Doug has not seen ''Dragon Ball Z'' and only knows the most basic things about it. So to come up with a plan he reads the episode synopses for the first story arc (baffled by all the information established in original ''Manga/DragonBall'' that he has no context for). By the end, Chat and the A.I. win the challenge by doing their best to reenact the Saiyan Saga.

** A twitch message usually saying the donator is afraid of something specific to whatever Doug is streaming, or some kind of negative event that similarly is applied to what Doug is playing, such as claiming to be afraid of platformers during a platformer stream.

* EvilAllAlong: In "I forced Twitch Chat to play my unethical D&D campaign", [[spoiler: Porky betrays the party near the end. While this might have initially seemed to be a case of MistreatmentInducedBetrayal given all the verbal and physical abuse the party had heaped on him throughout the dungeon, it turns out he was the owner of Walgreens and was planning on stealing the staff from the start.]]

* GainaxEnding: The final match of Shuffle-Mania has [[spoiler: Ludwig Ahgren and Squeex of Team Orange beating WebVideo/{{Alpharad}} and WebVideo/RubberRoss of Team Blue after a grueling comeback]], and Doug announces the secret of the Shuffler: [[spoiler:its true identity was Jerma from WebVideo/Jerma985, who then alongside Doug gives Team Orange their prize: [[SuddenContestFormatChange an abrupt game of tennis]] (much to Chat's delight), complete with Parkzer as the referee]].

* GainaxEnding: The final match of Shuffle-Mania has [[spoiler: Ludwig Ahgren and Squeex of Team Orange beating WebVideo/{{Alpharad}} and WebVideo/RubberRoss of Team Blue after a grueling comeback]], and Doug announces the secret of the Shuffler: [[spoiler:its true identity was Jerma from WebVideo/Jerma985, who then alongside Doug gives Team Orange their prize: an abrupt game of tennis (much to Chat's delight), complete with Parkzer as the referee]].

* FantasticDrug: [[GoodBadBug Horse tilting]] of all things becomes this during Doug's Dark Brotherhood speedrun with random weapons. By the end he's doing it [[MundaneUtility just to get down short corridors]].

* ICantBelieveItsNotHeroin: Horse tilting, of all things. Doug gradually becomes more obsessed with using it as his Dark Brotherhood speedrun continues, and it quickly becomes a bigger detriment to the run's speed than a help.

** In "I forced ChatGPT to make a sequel to Snake", Doug attempts to create a version of Snake with new features solely by asking ChatGPT. While the chatbot is able to make a basic version of Snake, it often forgets crucial features and overwrites previously added ones, at several points creating a program that simply doesn't work.

* ObviousRulePatch: Due to the blatant and intentional unfairness of AI Napoleon being able to cheat in chess, Doug's only rule for Napoleon is that he cannot just outright say he WinsByDoingAbsolutelyNothing, and will undo turns if Napoleon does anything that verges on not giving Chat a chance to play.

* DisproportionateRetribution: In "GTA 5's most chaotic law, but if I break the law I explode", the price of committing a normal crime is a simple run restart, but when Parkzer asks if he stepped on a bug from an endangered species while walking away from the Vinewood sign, he ends up (allegedly) going to a bug prison and is forced to give the channel over to Parkzer, who only reads from the California penal code.