History WebVideo / LifeOfBoris

** He starts to let out an utterly hilarious one [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_FqXsurjAE&t=6m22s here]] while playing ''VideoGame/KerbalSpaceProgram'', when yet another attempted launch goes kablooey.

* TheMillstone: Anatoli, albeit played for laughs. Nearly every single time Anatoly appears on-screen, he can be seen ''constantly'' engaging in very questionable antics that threaten to mess up the cooking process in some way, which Boris has to loudly yell at him to stop. It's rather miraculous that the final product nearly always comes out as it should, if somewhat messy.

* YouNoTakeCandle: Boris ''is'' capable of speaking English perfectly well, he just doesn't bother most of the time. Thus, he often omits a/an/the articles, verbs, conjugation, etc. This may very well be a case of StylisticSuck to further dedicate himself to his Eastern Slav image.

* StoneSoup: Does a version called [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BxgWp0J_vbk "Hatchet Soup"]]. It looks like it goes on the ideal scale of things, with the soldier and the elderly babushka having the soup for the rest of their happy lives, but then Boris tells us that the soldier was actually fooling the poor old woman.

* TheMillstone: Anatoly, albeit played for laughs. Nearly every single time Anatoly appears on-screen, he can be seen ''constantly'' engaging in very questionable antics that threaten to mess up the cooking process in some way, which Boris has to loudly yell at him to stop. It's rather miraculous that the final product nearly always comes out as it should, if somewhat messy.

* GoshdangItToHeck: Boris would frequently censor himself by saying "Blin" (which means Pancake) instead of "Blyat", essentially the Slavic equivalent of using "Fudge" instead of "Fuck". According to him, saying "Blyat" in front of his family is a quick way to get clocked in the head with a RollingPinOfDoom, courtesy of babushka or his mother.

* DoesNotLikeSpam: Margarine. Boris seems to have a pronounced dislike for substitute butter, and whenever it is mentioned, margarine is often the butt of jokes. Which sort of begs the question why he has it in his fridge to begin with...

* JerkAss: Vadim is a noisy neighbour as he's constantly annoying Boris with very loud [=D.I.Y=] work and complaining whenever Boris makes noise himself; however it's shown in his debut appearance on the channel that his so called [=D.I.Y=] that he's not actually doing anything productive at all. He wakes up in the morning (to a loud alarm clock) and spends the entire day doing completely random things with the single goal of making annoying noises that his neighbour can hear (during this time he also steals Boris's food for seemingly every meal) and when the day is done he goes back to bed (where its revealed the alarm clock has been ringing all day) [[HypocriticalHumour only to shout at Boris for being noisy]].

*** "And don't forget... the '''''bay leaf.'''''" [{{Beat}}] "Or maybe X."

* WhatTheHellIsThatAccent: In his [[https://youtu.be/xsjKBTSuUY8?t=581 Feb. 9, 2020]] upload, Boris explains he [[spoiler:grew up in four different Slavic countries and learned their languages ''and'' learned English on top of that]]. The result is that [[spoiler:not even ''he'' is sure what is accent is]].
* [[WhereTheHellIsSpringfield Where The Hell Is Boris' Apartment?]]: Boris has never specified what country he lives in, despite many viewers sending letters asking him to clarify. It's likely to be Estonia, however, as said [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=saU3_xJJrCg&feature=youtu.be&t=37s here]], and many of the condiments and produce he uses in his recipe are Estonian brands. In addition, he does also mention "rush[ing] back to Estonia" from Babushka's place in ''Life of Boris: Super Slav''. Despite this, he still does not give any direct clues to his location, and has said before he plans to keep it as such to preserve his anonymity. This, of course, doesn't stop his fans from ''trying'' to figure out where he lives. Recently, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xsjKBTSuUY8 this subreddit video]] has him finally reveal not only that he ''used'' to live in Estonia, [[spoiler:and now in Moscow]], but that he's moved between 4 different Slavic countries growing up, leading to...

* SmallNameBigEgo: Ask the man himself and he'll tell you that he's a Slavic Superman who was born in Chernobyl Reactor 4 and who is practically the be all end all of everything Slav. This aspect of his character becomes very clear during his travel videos where he tries to make it seem like he's a travelling superstar when he's clearly not given that treatment. Obviously PlayedForLaughs due to his habit of SelfDeprecation.

* SupremeChef: While supreme may be pushing it, he's definitely good at making Slavic dishes, even having the skill and patience to make his own loaves of black bread which anyone will tell you is a ''very'' involved process. He has also made his own sausage, which is definitely next level cooking. His most impressive feat to date however, is creating a cake he had in a dream once ''with no real life equivalent or recipe'' and managing to nail the taste and qualities it had ''in the dream.''

* SupremeChef: While supreme may be pushing it, he's definitely good at making Slavic dishes, even having the skill and patience to make his own loaves of black bread which anyone will tell you is a ''very'' involved process. He has also made his own sausage, which is definitely next level cooking.

** Also, it is "mayonez", not "mayonnaise". Other produce also have their own nicknames, like eggs being referred to as "chicken produce", or milk being consistently dubbed "cow juice".

** Boris used to speak much less clearly in his earlier videos due to his lack of experience with English, along with the absence of several of his trademark slang terms and jokes like the tried and true "pelmeninator".

*** He usually throws a way or disregards normal kitchen knives for combat knives instead. In one of his early videos, he even used a katana to slice a cabbage.

** He exclusively refers to the skimmer spatula as a "Pelmeninator", mainly because he doesn't really know what it's supposed to be called and refuses to learn.

** "Boom!"[[note:]]Almost always when either applying an excessive amount of an ingredient while cooking, or doing so aggressively and spraying flour or something else messy everywhere[[/note]]

->"Thank you for watching, my friends. Stay Cheeki Breeki! And I will see you next time."

** Other produce also have their own nicknames, like eggs being referred to as "chicken produce", or milk being consistently dubbed "cow juice".

* InsistentTerminology:
** Refers to the skimmer spatula as a "Pelmeninator", mainly because he doesn't really know what it's supposed to be called and refuses to learn.

* IMeantToDoThat: In his "Cooking with Chainsaw" video, Boris scuffed the tree stump he's using as the cutting board when he tried chopping up some potatoes. He then claimed it's intentional, to stop other potatoes from rolling off of the stump afterwards. And props to him, because it did work like he said it would.

* IMeantToDoThat: In his "Cooking with Chainsaw" video, Boris scuffed the tree stump he's using as the cutting board when he tried chopping up some potatoes. He then claimed it's intentional, to stop other potatoes from rolling off of the stump afterwards.