History WebVideo / ScottTheWoz

* MusicalNod: The last musical number (a reprisal of "Stupid Nintendo Games", to be exact) of ''Borderline Forever'' has the final seven notes [[note]](i.e. "These stupid Nintendo games!")[[/note]] take reference from Scott's usual ending theme (which is "Breakout" from ''VideoGame/3DDotGameHeroes'').

* ExactWords: According to Scott, only a [[HypocriticalHumor complete loser]] would waste their time and money buying every single Amiibo card for ''VideoGame/MarioSportsSuperstars''. Fortunately, he's still missing a Birdo card.

* ExactWords: According to Scott, only a [[HypocriticalHumor complete loser]] would waste their time and money buying every single Amiibo card for ''[[VideoGame/MarioSportsSuperstars]]''. Fortunately, he's still missing a Birdo card.

* AnAesop:
** ''A Very Madden 08 Christmas'': It is perfectly okay to have beliefs, but you should not force your beliefs onto others just because theirs are different from yours.
--->'''Wendy's Employee:''' You can't expect people to believe in what you believe. What's the point of beliefs if there's only one thing people can believe?
** ''It's a Bargain Bin Christmas'': Be thankful for the gifts you are given, and know that the gifts you yourself give can change people's lives in ways you never could have thought.
** ''The Dark Age of Nintendo'': There's nothing wrong with hating or being disappointed with a video game or video game company, but you shouldn't let it affect your mental health.
** ''You're Not an RPG Guy: A Scott the Woz Christmas'': It's OK to not like something, as long as you don't disrespect the people who do. Giving it a try sometimes can also expose you to brand-new experiences.
** ''Borderline Forever'' can be read as one towards creative burnout and how to deal with it. It doesn't matter what bad things happen to you, as long as you have and do the things you hold near and dear to your heart, everything's going to be fine.
** His video on ''VideoGame/DonkeyKongBarrelBlast'' has one about how being a virgin or sexually active doesn’t make you a better or worse person, albeit using [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything whether or not you’ve played ''Donkey Kong Barrel Blast'' instead of directly stating it]]. It also drops the messages that people should be allowed to do what makes them happy without judgement as long as they aren’t hurting anyone and to be yourself.
** ''The Commercial Failure'' has one about how you shouldn't buy games you're not interested in, and instead only support games you care about instead of buying bad games.

* ADayInTheLimelight: Downplayed. ''The Funeral'' is another ensemble episode featuring Scott's friends. But this time, Rex ends up with the most recurring bit, learns AnAesop and even defuses everyone else's issues. In comparison, Scott doesn't have as much going on for him in this video.

* AttentionDeficitOohShiny: In ''Wii U: Birth of a Death (Part 1)'', Scott recounts having audibly gasped upon seeing the Wii U [=GamePad=] for the first time. He then asks whether that was from imagining the possibilities or because "ooh, shiny," before answering that question:

* AwardBaitSong: "Just Buy The Game" in ''The Commercial Failiure'', a sappy ballad about how it's important to buy every game as it's partial to it's success... however Scott realises that people should focus on the games they want to play, thus the song changes gears.

** Similarly, portable versions of home consoles are held back due to factors such as being too big and bulky (defeating the portability), cost or technical knowledge needed to build them for newer consoles such as the [=GameCube=], or due to how large the cartridges for the NES, SNES, and Genesis are (once again defeating the portablity). They’re made increasingly redundant as time moves on given how the 3DS Virtual Console allows you to download NES and SNES games and the Nintendo Switch flat out allows for home console games on the go.

** In ''Wii U: Birth of a Death (Part 1)'', Scott kicks off the Wii U discussion proper with one of these.

* EmbarrassingCoverUp: From ''Memory Cards'', when Scott reenacts a scene of a parent finding their kid's notes of game passwords and asking what the notes are for:
-->''Uh, coordinates... For a bomb.''

'''Scott:''' Yeah, if I ''die''.

** Parodied. In ''Homecoming'', after Scott decided he wants his homecoming party to allow alcohol and drugs, he starts to deliberately spike all the food and drinks. Cue Scott filling the punch bowl with cigarettes, putting a beer can between two halves of a slider sandwich, [[TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers and pouring beer into the homecoming ballot box]].

* JustForFun/XMeetsY: In ''The [=WiiWare=] Chronicles III'', Scott describes ''TV Show King'' as "''Wheel of Fortune'' meets ''Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?'' meets [[TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers a 65 on Metacritic]]".

* AvoidTheDreadedGRating: Scott briefly [[DiscussedTrope discusses]] this trope in the episode ''Rated E for Irrelevant'' and what he feels about the ''Franchise/{{Kirby}}'' games being rated E10+ by the [[MediaNotes/EntertainmentSoftwareRatingBoard ESRB]]:
-->'''Scott:''' Sometimes the game's rating can leave you perplexed, like, how the f[[SoundEffectBleep -bleep-]]k are so many Kirby games rated E10+? Like I get it, Kirby games are kind of [[NightmareFuel/{{Kirby}} intense]], but too intense for a seven-year-old?

-->'''Scott:''' Sometimes the game's rating can leave you perplexed, like, how the f[[SoundEffectBleep -bleep-]]k are so many Kirby games rated E10+? Like I get it, Kirby games are kind of [[NightmareFuel intense]], but too intense for a seven-year-old?

* BrokenAesop: ''You're Not an RPG Guy'' ends with Scott accepting that there is nothing wrong with disliking another game genre (in his case, [=RPGs=]) as long as you are respectful of those who like them and aren't afraid to occasionally dip your toes in. This, despite a previous scene where Scott meets God, the latter decrying the existence of [=RPGs=] and proclaiming that he had created humanity with an innate instinct to hate [=RPGs=].

-->'''Scott:''' I have hobbies; I'm only human! I like talking harshly about ''Mario Kart 7'', being somewhat critical of ''Mario Kart 7'', negatively speaking about ''Mario Kart 7'', [[OddLastItemIndex hiking]], f*cking despising ''Mario Kart 7''...

-->'''Scott:''' I have hobbies; I'm only human! I like talking harshly about ''Mario Kart 7'', being somewhat critical of ''Mario Kart 7'', negatively speaking about ''Mario Kart 7'', [[OddOneOut hiking]], f*cking despising ''Mario Kart 7''...

-->'''Scott:''' I have hobbies; I'm only human! I like talking harshly about ''Mario Kart 7'', being somewhat critical of ''Mario Kart 7'', negatively speaking about ''Mario Kart 7'', hiking, f*cking despising ''Mario Kart 7''...

** 2017's episode covers the rumors surrounding the fabled ''VideoGame/{{Polybius}}'' arcade machine.

* DarthWiki/SoBadItsHorrible: InUniverse. This is Scott's general thoughts on the Data Design Interactive games due to their games being mostly the exact same (right down to the menus and the back of the box having the same template), having an awful lack of content, poor controls, awful camera and unresponsive attack buttons. In the first ''Shovelware Variety Hour'', he only completed one of them, and the game didn't have an actual ending.
--> ''"I can't really think of more deserving games to be the worst of all time. I don't think I consider them my least favorite, I mean I had no expectations for them. But I think in general they have to be some of the worst things ever conceived.''"

** Scott yells one at the end ''[[VideoGame/Sonic3AndKnuckles Sonic the Hedgehog 3]] | Half of a Masterpiece'' when [[spoiler:[[ItMakesSenseInContext he sees a billboard that says]] "VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehogSpinball Exists".]]]]

** Scott yells one at the end ''[[VideoGame/Sonic3AndKnuckles Sonic the Hedgehog 3]] | Half of a Masterpiece'' when [[spoiler:[[ItMakesSenseInContext he sees a billboard that says "VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehogSpinball exists".]]]]

** At the end of his "Console Bundles" video, he brings up the [[SarcasmMode "best"]] console bundle in gaming history: the Nintendo 64 Player's Guide Bundle, containing the console itself, a copy of a Player's Guide for ''Super Mario 64''..."and that's it!"[[note]][[ItMakesSenseInContext (it also did not come with a copy of Peggle 2.)]][[/note]]

** At the end of his "Console Bundles" video, he brings up the [[SarcasmMode "best"]] console bundle in gaming history: the Nintendo 64 Player's Guide Bundle, containing the console itself, a copy of a Player's Guide for ''Super Mario 64''..."and that's it!"

** Scott yells one at the end ''Sonic the Hedgehog 3 | Half of a Masterpiece'' when [[spoiler:[[ItMakesSenseInContext he sees a billboard that says "Sonic the Hedgehog Spinball exists".]]]]

* BigWhat: Lets one out during ''Animal Crossing: amiibo Festival | The Dark Age of Nintendo'' in response to his usual [[{{Catchphrase}} "'But Scott!', you may say!"]]

** In ''Sonic & Knuckles | Locked & Loaded'', when Scott sees the game gives the choice between two playable characters, he remarks "I hope one of 'em's Music/JimmyBuffett!" Later, at the end of the video, as he compliments the Genesis era Sonic games and says more people should appreciate them, he makes one concession:
---> '''Scott''' "But they chose Knuckles over Jimmy Buffett, so I think they were kind of asking for it."

-->'''Scott''': Netflix is amazing!
-->([[TimeSkip Time jumps from 2011 to 2019]])
-->'''Scott''': ''Netflix is okay!''

** In ''Sonic the Hedgehog 2 | Return of a Laughing Stock'', Scott considers the first ''Sonic the Hedgehog'' game to be "the worst first entry in the ''Sonic the Hedgehog'' series out there".

** ''Super Mario Galaxy | Ten Years of Bliss'' opens with Scott looking forward to the year 2027, which is overrun by a Robo Ebola epidemic.

--->'''Scott''': ''[[VideoGame/SuperMario64 Mario 64]]'' and ''VideoGame/{{Pilotwings}} 64''. Sure, one is one of the most revolutionary games of all time, and the other is ''Mario 64'', but my God, only two titles?

--->'''Scott''': What's shaped like a brick and gives you hours of fun?\\
[[ShapedLikeItself [shows a picture of a brick] ]]\\
'''Scott''': [as a picture of a Game Boy is swapped in] It's a close second.

** Scott's review of the ''VideoGame/NewSuperMarioBros'' franchise ends with Scott saying, "All in all, the New Super Mario Brother Series aren't ''bad'' games..." then pausing until the end screen comes on.

** In his episode on Mario Tennis Ultra Smash, he at one point shows a silhouette of the character Toadette, only to announce his exitement that they had added Grover Cleveland into the game, with a picture of the aforementioned president poorly edited over toadette's silhouette.

** Rex Mohs does ''[[ExaggeratedTrope several]]'' of these as he hopelessly loses to Jeb Jab during the ''Crane Game'' mini-game from the ''Mario Party 2'' episode.

** ''Borderline Forever'' has many references to past episodes, for example, another reference of "The L Button", "Team F*cked" from ''The [=WiiWare=] Chronicles'', Scott's bedroom having a sign saying "You're Entering the Mushroom Gorge" from ''Mario Kart Wii | Motion Sickness'', as well as the "No Sex Allowed" sign from ''Anime Games'', a copy of [=FlingSmash=] being wet as first mentioned in ''The Legend of Zelda | Tales from the Backlog'', ''VideoGame/DonkeyKongBarrelBlast'' "repelling virginity" as first mentioned in ''Viral Games'', even a reference to the blue border shrinking after the intro to ''A Very Madden 08 Christmas''.

** In ''The Annual Release'', Scott mentions how "the simulation has crumbled" [[ItMakesSenseInContext after an]] Franchise/AssassinsCreed [[ItMakesSenseInContext did not release in 2016,]] referencing the same joke from Pre-Orders when discussing what would happen if [[VideoGame/NewSuperMarioBrosU New Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe]] [[ItMakesSenseInContext wasn't available on launch day at Best Buy.]]

** Early on in ''Super Mario Kart | Baby on Board'', Scott receives a video message from his future self with an eye patch warning present Scott that he thinks ''Super Mario Kart'' is just okay. Later on in the video, we learn that what led to Scott wearing an eye patch was [[spoiler:a paddle ball to the eye]].

-->'''Vanna White''': Too bad. But I guess it could've been worse.
-->'''Scott''': Yeah, if I ''die''.

* EyepatchAfterTimeSkip: The Super Mario Kart episode has Scott being visited by himself 14 minutes from the future, wearing an eyepatch. It turns out that [[spoiler:future Scott got the eyepatch from accidentally swatting his eye out with a paddleball. Also, the now-future Scott [[StableTimeLoop (which was the regular Scott from 14 minutes ago)]] is ''then'' visited by another Scott from farther into the future, with eyepatches over both of his eyes.]]

** Come the Mario Kart: Double Dash episode, the poster on the side of the milk carton is changed with the caption "MISSING -- Scott's Ability to Complain About Mario Kart: Double Dash's Drifting."

-->''“I also killed a man.”''

** ''Mario Party (N64) | Party Hard'' has Scott calling a helpline to provide him with friends to play ''Mario Party'' with. Said service is named the Mario Party Assistance Agency, or the [[MediaNotes/MotionPictureAssociationOfAmerica MPAA]] for short.

** The guy in the Wario hat Scott hires to play Mario Party does this after Scott agrees to the $10 nicotine fee.

* MusicalNod: The last musical number (a reprisal of "Stupid Nintendo Games", to be exact) of ''Borderline Forever'' has the final seven notes [[note]](i.e. "These stupid Nintendo games!")[[/note]] take reference from Scott's usual ending theme (which is "Breakout" from 3D Dot Game Heroes).

** The description for ''Super Mario Galaxy 2 | Derivative Bliss'' is "Scott takes a look at his least favorite ''Super Mario Galaxy'' game!"

** A variation of this trope occurs during his video on VideoGame/MarioKartDoubleDash when he talks about Birdo (who has a very...''interesting'' history) and immediately brings up Toadette a mere second later after mentioning Birdo's name ''and nothing more''.

** Scott puts the first ''VideoGame/MarioParty'' game at the #1 rank... on the list of ''Mario Party'' games he has reviewed, of which there's only the first two games, by the time the episode takes place (he starts playing it in the year 2024).

* ProductionForeshadowing: In ''Toys to Life'', ''[[VideoGame/MarioParty Mario Party 2]]'' can be seen sticking out of Scott's Platform/Nintendo64 in the background. ''[[VideoGame/MarioParty Mario Party 2]]'' would be the subject of the very next episode released.

** ''Wii U: Downfall of a Downfall (Part II)'' ends with [[spoiler:Scott [[ToBeContinued potentially dying while in his coma]] immediately after mentioning ''VideoGame/MarioParty 10'']].

* ThatManIsDead: Exaggerated in ''Mario Sports Superstars | Five in None'', which closes with Scott holding a funeral for the Scott who wanted to play ''Mario Sports Superstars''.

-->'''''Mario Kart 8''!Scott''': Hey all, Scott here. What'll it be?
-->'''Audience!Scott''': ''Mario Kart 8''!
-->'''''Mario Kart 8''!Scott''': This is a bar. ...wait-
-->(glitch)
-->'''''Mario Kart 7''!Scott''': What-
-->(glitch)
-->'''''Mario Kart Wii''!Scott''': Is-
-->(glitch)
-->'''''Mario Kart DS''!Scott''': Happening-
-->(glitch)
-->'''''Mario Kart: Double Dash''!Scott''': I-
-->(glitch)
-->'''''Mario Kart: Super Circuit''!Scott''': Already-
-->(glitch)
-->'''''Mario Kart 64''!Scott''': Talked-
-->(glitch)
-->'''''Super Mario Kart''!Scott''': ''Mario Kart 8''-
-->(glitch)
-->'''Scott''': (appears in a glitched out version of his room) Before. ... (looks around the glitching landscape) Wow... See, that's a fun quirk in talking about ''Mario Kart 8 Deluxe'', the space time continuum thinks you're just talking about ''Mario Kart 8'' again, so it just... gives up.

-->'''Liza Lots''': Hi. Liza Lots. Real lawyer.
-->'''Rex Mohs''': ...DAMNIT!

** Played for laughs in the end of the first part of his ''Wii U'' retrospective series, where Scott makes a coma-related analogy about the range of the launch titles for the console- which then leads to a brief CutawayGag of a comatose Scott being found by Target Employee and Jeb Jab in Scott's game room.

In 2021, it was announced that Scott The Woz episodes would begin to be broadcast on a television network. They began airing on [[Creator/G4TV G4]] on December 7th of that year. As the rights to the online show's theme song, "Breakout" from ''VideoGame/ThreeDDotGameHeroes'', could not be secured from the copyright holders, a new original theme was composed for the G4 series by Garrett Williamson. This would be adopted for the online show in due time as well, and continued even after the G4 series ended (along with the channel itself) in 2022.

[[JustForFun/IThoughtItMeant No relation to]] [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Wozniak Steve Wozniak]].