History WebVideo / ScottTheWoz

[[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4rqhyiTs7XyuODcECvuiiQ Scott The Woz]] (real name: Scott Daniel Wozniak) is a Website/{{YouTube}} personality who primarily makes content focused on, in his own words, "stupid Nintendo games". He is mostly known for his fast paced narration and the overall humorous tone of his videos.

While he started out his video making in 2009 for school projects, he started making [=YouTube=] content around the same time, making top tens and comedy skits under the name "Wozniak News TV", most of which have been reuploaded to a secondary channel called [[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmm3qhYkdW699stV_28TQpw/featured Scott's Stash]], which also features videos such as behind-the-scenes and bloopers from the main series, in-depth retrospectives on various Nintendo junk, and even occasional gameplay with his co-stars. He adopted the "Scott The Woz" moniker on November 7th, 2012, with the "Scott The Woz" series starting on January 7th, 2017.

His videos vary from comedy skits, straight game reviews, and retrospectives on video game-related topics usually under-discussed about in the industry. No matter what, this is all coated within a very [[SurrealHumor off-beat sense of humor]], which gets even wackier in his later videos.

In the early days of the channel, Scott made a variety of videos, though not much of the channel pre-2016 is known. Prior to the main series, Scott made a few non-gaming skits and short films under the name of "Originals", one of which is ''WebVideo/TheInternetAndYou''. Nowadays, non-gaming skits have been released as "Scott The Woz" videos along with gaming videos.

In 2021, it was announced that Scott The Woz episodes would begin to be broadcast on a television network. They began broadcasting 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 continues even after the G4 series ended (along with the channel itself) in 2022.

** Every 50 episodes (the first three of them being season finales), Scott adds more physical releases of Madden 08 to his desktop collection.

** 2023's "Have a Bootleg Christmas" has Scott and friends attempting to sell unlicensed bootleg video games so Scott buy himself a calendar.

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: Scott already censors all severe swear words, but Creator/{{G4}} (which airs Scott's show under a TV-14-DLSV banner) bleeps them out even more so the word is harder to make out. Despite that, the G4 airing of "Plug and Play Games" did not censor Scott saying "They weren't the only ones to not give a shit" nor his "Oh, fucking shit" when he finds the dead battery on his Plug and Play game, even though the rest of the episode censored "fuck" and "shit." Even the ''original upload'' didn't leave that uncensored, indicating a technical error.

** ''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 [[UsefulNotes/MotionPictureAssociationOfAmerica MPAA]] for short.

** Scott's ''Madden 08'' collection grew to include the UsefulNotes/{{Mac}}, Platform/{{PSP}} and ''08 Collection'' versions that the gala attendees gave to him at the end of ''It's a Bargain Bin Christmas''; this is one of the few cases where it was made obvious to the viewer.

** Scott admits that he played ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoSanAndreas'' on a UsefulNotes/{{Mac}} — cut to a scene of Scott doing a little jig before a text appears, stating "I'm Irrelevant".

** In ''Cloud Gaming'', Scott repeatedly does a SpitTake every time he mentions UsefulNotes/GoogleStadia (*spits*) by name. After doing that multiple times, he finally cuts it out by saying "I ran out of fluids".

** Made into a RunningGag in "Cloud Gaming", in which Scott spits out some water whenever UsefulNotes/GoogleStadia's name is mentioned, until he can't do it anymore because he "ran out of fluids".

* AudienceAlienatingEra:[[invoked]] His ''Dark Age of Nintendo'' videos focus on the late days of the UsefulNotes/WiiU (and, to a lesser extent, the 3DS), which he regards as such. During 2015, Nintendo was essentially forced to support their consoles by themselves due to lack of interest, and was already planning their transition to the Switch. His "big three" of the period (''VideoGame/AnimalCrossingAmiiboFestival'', ''VideoGame/MarioTennis: Ultra Smash'', and ''VideoGame/ChibiRobo Zip Lash'') all came out within ''two months'' of each other.

** From ''Launch Titles'' regarding the [[UsefulNotes/Nintendo64 Nintendo 64]]'s Launch:

** In ''UsefulNotes/Nintendo64: Nintendo's Best Mistake'', Scott still heralds ''[[Videogame/{{Pilotwings}} Pilotwings 64]]'' as one of the greatest games ever made like he did in ''Launch Titles''.

** The UsefulNotes/SegaGenesis with ''Dick Vitale's "Awesome, Baby!" College Hoops'' sat on Scott's desk from the start, and became the focus of Episode 100.

** Scott's ''Madden 08'' collection grew to include the UsefulNotes/{{Mac}}, UsefulNotes/{{PSP}} and ''08 Collection'' versions that the gala attendees gave to him at the end of ''It's a Bargain Bin Christmas''; this is one of the few cases where it was made obvious to the viewer.

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

** Scott's obsession with ''[[VideoGame/MaddenNFL Madden 08]]'', the last game ever released for the UsefulNotes/NintendoGameCube, and equally unexplained and extreme hatred of ''Madden 09''.

** In ''Old Series, New Developer'', Scott explains that the primary function of the first ''Luigi's Mansion'' game as a launch title for the UsefulNotes/NintendoGameCube was "to show off just how graphically impressive a ''Luigi's Mansion'' could be."

** Whenever the UsefulNotes/Nintendo64 is mentioned, you can count on Scott to mention the controller, and not in a positive light.

* TooIncompetentToOperateABlanket: In the UsefulNotes/NintendoGameCube video, Scott demonstrates the alleged portability of the [=GameCube=] with its "handle" by exaggeratedly fumbling around with and then dropping a [=PS2=].

** Also in the episode covering the UsefulNotes/VirtualBoy; at one point, Scott attempts to line up his eyes with the Virtual Boy's eyepieces, and then he suddenly vomits some water.

* UnexplainedRecovery: At the end of ''Candy Games'', [[spoiler:Jerry Attricks dies in [[MakesAsMuchSenseInContext a mortgage-bobbing incident.]] He comes back in ''Have A Bootleg Gaming Christmas!'', with nobody even mentioning how he died. Of course, [[DeathIsASlapOnTheWrist this is Scott the Woz,]] so it may be a JustifiedTrope.]]

* SeinfeldIsUnfunny: Invoked in ''Subscription Services'':
-->'''Scott''': Netflix is amazing!
-->([[TimeSkip Time jumps from 2011 to 2019]])
-->'''Scott''': ''Netflix is okay!''

* NoYou: In ''The [=WiiWare=] Chronicles IV'', Scott decides to read from a paper that lists how many of the games spotlighted he didn't care about, [[TakeThat which reads "Most of them"]]. However, [[EasterEgg before we cut to the paper]], we can clearly see that Scott wrote "No WebVideo/JonTron YOU sound like a terminal illness".[[note]]This was in response to Jon's own response, which was to insult Scott's channel name, to his subreddit being replaced by a Scott subreddit due to his infrequent release schedule.[[/note]]

In 2021, it was announced that Scott The Woz episodes would begin to be broadcast on a television network. They began broadcasting on [[Creator/G4TV G4]] on December 7th of that year.

** In his episode on Mario Power Tennis, 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.

* BigDamnHeroes: Just as Scott's friends are about to be destroyed by [[spoiler:Brett Favre]], the latter's ship is barraged by attacks from seemingly nowhere; it turns out to be [[spoiler:Vince Young]] in his Madden 08 spaceship, saving them.

* AudienceAlienatingEra:[[invoked]] His ''Dark Age of Nintendo'' videos focus on the late days of the UsefulNotes/WiiU (and, to a lesser extent, the 3DS), which he regards as such. During 2015, Nintendo was essentially forced to support their consoles by themselves due to lack of interest, and was already planning their transition to the Switch. His "big three" of the period (''VideoGame/AnimalCrossing: amiibo Festival'', ''VideoGame/MarioTennis: Ultra Smash'', and ''VideoGame/ChibiRobo Zip Lash'') all came out within ''two months'' of each other.

* AprilFoolsDay: Had one on the subject of ''Raid: Shadow Legends'' and how it's usually sponsoring too many people on Website/YouTube. It ends with him being sponsored by [[spoiler:Ziploc (a brand of plastic cling wrap) instead.]]

For a list of Scott The Woz episodes, [[Recap/ScottTheWoz check out the recap page]].

* RousingSpeech: Parodied; Scott convinces his friends to go to space and deal with the blue border in ''Borderline Forever'' with a song all about how they've got nothing else to do otherwise.

** Most of the time cards used throughout Scott's videos are usually played off with the final five notes of the original ''WesternAnimation/ThomasAndFriends'' theme song.
** Scott's complicated relationship with his virginity: the full range from being ashamed, being in denial, being proud and even trying to get ''officially declared'' a virgin.

** The SeasonFinale will ''always'' be a much longer, higher production values episode than usual, with an actual plot and heavily featuring Scott's friends. Often, but not always, doubles as the ChristmasEpisode.

* 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. the final time "these stupid Nintendo games!" is sung)[[/note]] take reference from Scott's usual ending theme (which is "Breakout" from 3D Dot Game Heroes).

* MidReviewSketchShow: While most ''Scott The Woz'' episodes are mostly about the games or other gaming-related phenomena that Scott reviews, some episodes have a much greater focus on an overarching narrative, with plot and other characters besides Scott. This includes the season finales and episodes such as ''Game Stores'', ''The Great Mysteries of Gaming'', ''Memory Cards'' ''The Commercial Failure'', ''The Dark Age of Nintendo'' mini-series, and ''Borderline Forever''. Some episodes skip the "review" part entirely in lieu of original sketches, such as ''Homecoming'', ''The Trial'', and ''Speed Dating''.