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The Dudes and Panda

Dude Perfect is an American YouTube group based out of Dallas, Texas. The group consists of members Tyler Toney, Garrett Hilbert, Cody Jones, and twins Cory and Coby Cotton, all former high-school basketball players and roommates at Texas A&M University. The group also has a mascot, Panda, which is merely someone in a panda bear costume.

The group is well-known for their trick-shot videos in multiple sports, as well as more comedic and competitive videos with their Stereotypes and Battles series, respectively. They also perform non-profit and charity functions, once collaborating with the Make-A-Wish Foundation.

As of July 2022, the group has over 58 million subscribers and over 14.6 billion views on YouTube. In April of 2016, the group got their own TV show, which premiered on CMT on April 14, 2016. It was an instant success, scoring the highest-ever rating for a CMT original series premiere. The 13-episode first season concluded on June 30, 2016. The series moved to Nickelodeon for its second season, which kicked off on July 22, 2017.^note A sneak preview episode aired six days earlier after the 2017 Kids Choice Sports Awards. A third - and what turned out to be, final - season premiered on October 27, 2018.

The group also made content for another YouTube sports-based channel called Whistle Sports, where their bonus content for each trick shot, Stereotypes, and some Battles videos was posted. They also had an original series on Whistle called Face Off, where two members of the group were selected via a blind draw to take part in a one-on-one game, with another member selected via a blind draw to act as the event's announcer, which they chose to do as a goofy character instead of themselves. The group no longer posts content to the channel, although they do have a deal with Whistle to make long-form content.

In January 2018, a new show on the channel premiered called Overtime. A parody of a talk show, the bimonthly (in this case, every other month) features Guinness World Record attempts, plus two popular segments, one called "Wheel Unfortunate", where a member is randomly selected to spin a wheel full of punishments, and another called "Cool Not Cool", where each member presents an object that may not be well-known by the public, and the others judge whether it is cool or not.

They also set up a vlogging channel called DudePerfectTV, but they last posted to it on December 23, 2015. At one point in 2012, they had a third channel called Trick Shot, where they would post viewer-submitted content; three videos would be showcased per week: a "Big Time" shot, a "Brilliant" shot, and a "Blooper". Understandably, they stopped uploading to this channel due to being too busy. In addition to the YouTube videos and TV show, the group has also written two books, made four mobile games, has their own line of toys produced by Nerf, and even created a flavor of baked beans for Serious Bean Co. In 2019, the group went on their first cross-country tour. A second tour was planned for 2020, but obviously got pushed back to 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic (two planned Canadian dates - in Toronto and Ottawa - got pushed back to June 2022). The group embarked on a third tour in 2022 with the aforementioned Canadian dates completely off the calendar.

In 2020, a new series premiered called "Bucket List". Exactly What It Says on the Tin, the series focuses on the guys basically using their connections to cross off as much of their bucket lists as they can. Also in 2020, the group created another channel, Dude Perfect Plus, going behind the scenes on Battles and Overtime, as well as showing bloopers and deleted scenes on Stereotypes, as well as deleted footage and behind the scenes interviews for Bucket List. In 2023, the group bought a minority stake in Burnley FC, newly promoted to the English Premier League.

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Examples:

• The Ace: Tyler has earned some heat from the viewers for his frequent Battle wins due to his status as this. His self-admitted weak points are hula-hoop (Glow in the Dark Trick Shots) and soccer (Quarantine Classic Night 4)
• Alliterative Name: Tyler Toney, as well as Coby and Cory Cotton.
• Bait-and-Switch: Unexpected Trick Shots, where all the shots were set up to look like they would hit a certain target, but actually hit another.
• Battle Royale Game: They had an airsoft battle sponsored by PUBG Mobile where each player carried three balloons and the goal was to pop all of the enemy's balloons with airsoft guns scattered around a forest.
• Berserk Button:
  • During the "Nerf Blaster" battle, Cory accidentally knocked the hula hoop off, which the group had spent an hour setting up. Tyler was not amused.
  • Tyler and Cory were ready to kill Coby after Coby seemingly allowed Cody and Garrett to win the Trampoline Charades Battle with easy prompts^note Coby hosted this Battle instead of competing in it, since it required teams of two.
  • 2020's live-streaming "Quarantine Classic" found Tyler lapsing into his furious persona at several points. As the event was streaming live, both Garrett and announcer Sparky lampshade it during Night 1, a 3-point basketball shootout where Ty presented the second-worst showing of the event and took it out on the final rack.
  Sparky: A little Rage Monster there...
  Garrett: Everyone says "it's always fake". (points at Ty) It's not fake! He's a Rage Monster, man. It's real.
  • But Tyler really tapped into it at the conclusion of the Drone Hunting Battle, when Garrett used a cordless saw to cut the trophy in half so that he and Cory could each have a piece, after determining the final round ended in a tie, and opting not to do a tiebreaker.
  Tyler: ARE YOU KIDDING ME?! A HALF A BATTLE?! WHAT IS THIS?! THIS IS GARBAGE!
• Big "NO!": How some of the group reacted when the ping pong ball hit off the rim of the Pringles canister and bounced away in the outtake that kicked off the bonus video for the first edition of Ping Pong Trick Shots.
• Big "YES!": A common reaction to nailing a trick shot.
• Bioluminescence Is Cool: "Glow In The Dark Edition", shot at night in the group's previous Frisco office (affectionately known as "DPHQ").
• Bizarre and Improbable Golf Game: Enforced by their All Sports Golf Battle series, where the guys navigate golf courses using equipment and techniques from just about every sport except golf. Their first two battles mostly contained run-of-the-mill tricks such as swinging baseball bats and kicking soccer balls. The third (with help from Bass Pro Shops) amplified the bizarre value by including outdoors equipment such as clay pigeon launchers and fishing poles.
• Bread, Eggs, Breaded Eggs: Garrett, describing what's in his snack bag during Softball Sterotypes.
  "I got bacon seeds, ranch seeds, bacon ranch seeds!"
• Bread, Eggs, Milk, Squick: During the R/C battle:
  Tyler: "What I always say, if you don't get nervous before a big jump, you don't need to be doing it, it's that first kiss, it's that first ticket, it's running away from the cops on a Friday night."
• Brick Joke: During "Flip Edition", Garrett's son Owen was shown attempting a bottle flip, encouraged by the guys; Garrett proclaimed it the "early stages of his training". One year (less one day) later, Water Bottle Flip 2 comes out...
  Garrett: Can you say "This is the bottle flip"?
  Owen: This is bottle flip. (sticks it!)
• Bridezilla: One of the many stereotypes on display during the Wedding Stereotypes video from October 2022, this Bridezilla, played by wrestler Alexa Bliss, flies into a rampage as the "Rage Monster" starts wreaking havoc at the wedding and the "Intense Wedding Planner" chides him for ruining 'his' wedding, prompting "Bridezilla" to yell at the top of her lungs "IT'S NOT. YOUR. WEDDING!". The mayhem comes to a head with "Bridezilla" throwing "Rage Monster" straight into the wedding cake, then driving off in a monster truck. For some reason, Bliss's line, "I'm gonna go marry Ryan Cabrera!" was deleted from the YouTube upload, but kept in an Instagram post of the bridezilla stereotype scene specifically.
• Butt-Monkey:
  • Cody is usually the victim of Ty's "Rage Monster" rampages in Stereotypes.
  • Cory is this in regards to the "Wheel Unfortunate" segment of Overtime. He's been picked ten times, and at least half those times, he picked himself. The things he's had to do: riding on top of a truck through a car wash, having his eyebrows shaved, sleeping in a bed covered with thirty bags worth of sand, getting his armpits waxed, sleeping at a hotel in a suit of armor, eating a whole banana (including the peel), eating dog food like cereal, flying to Wisconsin for literally no reason, eating a popsicle made of frozen ketchup, and touching every seat in SoFi Stadium.
• Call-Back: The Soapbox Car Battle had two call backs involving Coby: First up, in OT 26, he got drawn to do Wheel Unfortunate, where his spin landed on "Fat suit in a battle video". This was the battle in which he wore it. Secondly, Cody's Secret Santa gift for Coby in OT 22 was a massive amount of fireworks to celebrate a battle win in 2021. Cue Coby winning the battle (nicknamed the "Chubby Dubby"), and the group setting off the fireworks later that evening (with Coby having removed the fat suit), although the fuse was so long, it took 45 minutes to reach the fireworks from the time it was lit.
• Casual Danger Dialogue: Airsoft Battle Royale 2 - after eliminating Coby's balloons and seizing his sniper rifle, Tyler asks him to call for a pizza under the assumption that he won't be getting up to anything else.
• Catchphrase: Several recurring ones in the various Battles.
  • "It is not my honour, but it is my duty..." and variations during the trophy presentations, usually from the second-place runner-up.
  • "Door's still open" when the first performer during a finale makes an impressive showing.
  • Tyler's "When it's on the line, I'm in my prime" when he's trying to surpass a strong lead.
  • Garret frequently makes mention of "the podium", as being in the top 3 is considered a victory on his part. Other occasionally borrow it when talking about his performances.
• Cheaters Never Prosper:
  • Metal Detector Battle 2, each guy went off to a destination of their choice and searched for a period before coming back. Garret decided that he would search in his back yard and "find" his wife's wedding ring. He proceeded to throw it blind over his shoulder and spend the majority of the search period just chilling. As the time started to wind down, he grabbed his metal detector... and didn't even get a ding, since it fell in the pool.
    Garrett: My wife's gonna kill me.
  • In the Animal Olympics, the last game is a game of chicken soccer in which the person with the least amount of chickens through their goals win. While they are supposed to lead or scare off the chickens to their opponents goal, Tyler cheats the system by throwing chickens through Cody's goal instead. Only for the second chicken to return to the area and go through his goal instead, which wins Cody the game.
  • In the Crystal Hunting Battle, Cory was having trouble finding his chosen gem, geodes, so he had one of the editors open up a National Geographic children's geode-collecting set and dump the contents out for him to "find". Later, he found what looked like his biggest and best geode, only to find on opening it that it looked significantly worse than expected. Cue his backup plan: spray-painting it purple. It didn't fool anyone.
    Cory: No way. A geode. We're saved!
  • During the "No Fishing Pole" battle, Cody had the idea of using a similar plan with a store-bought goldfish to "catch" as an emergency backup plan if he didn't find anything, only to be informed that releasing the fish is illegal in the state of Florida, where he was fishing, due to laws protecting against invasive species.
  • OT 43's "Get Crafty" challenge was for the dudes to come up with a smoothie that would be sold nationwide by Smoothie King. For this challenge, Cody went rogue and brought in a bunch of outside ingredients that Smoothie King does not sell, including soda pop, Cheetos, and a mini-pizza with the paper still on it. The end result was a smoothie that tasted so bad that it made Sparky physically gag from the taste and caused Tyler and Coby to recoil just from the smell.
    Sparky: I don't think that's kid-approved, definitely not parent-approved, and possibly not FDA-approved.
• Christmas Episode: The gingerbread house Face Off released in December 2016, where Tyler and Cody teamed up to take on Cory and Coby to see who could build the best gingerbread house. The former team won.
  • The 2017 Christmas Face Off pitted the twins against one another in a competition where they had to put their hands into a box, and feel what was inside, then guess. Coby was the victor.
  • Christmas Stereotypes, released in 2017.
• Correlation/Causation Gag: The opener for the Super Bowl Party Stereotypes was the "Superstitious Fans", which leads with one of these. The dudes are getting excited about their team scoring, including Cory, who is just coming back into the room.
  Ty: (accusingly) You're always in the bathroom when we score! (realization dawns on everyone) He's always in the bathroom when we score! (everyone ushers an already-retreating Cory back into the washroom)
• Creator Cameo: The editors, Tim and Chad, got their own edition in which they performed trick shots and lampshaded the Dude Perfect Stereotypes series.
  • Panda, the mascot, once won a battle.
  • Similarly, Tim defeated Tyler in the Hockey Face-Off. Though as he said himself, he had 17 years of competitive ice hockey experience.
  • Another Face Off video saw the group's old cameraman, Toby, obliterate Ty in "The Most Dangerous Game''^note A game similar to air hockey, but played on a billiards table, where two competitors each use a cue to try and put the cue ball into the corner pockets that the opposing player is defending; the Dudes themselves came up with it.
• Curb-Stomp Battle: On Overtime 37, which premiered on New Year's Eve 2022, Cody played a one-on-one basketball game against Dallas Mavericks star Luka Doncic, and failed to score a single point as Doncic cruised past him. Adding insult to injury, Luka even noted at a point that he was "playing walking".
• Damn You, Muscle Memory!: In the bloopers for "Cell Phone Stereotypes", Cody was originally meant to intentionally drop his phone, but instead made two very impressive juggling catches out of instinct. They tried to film Coby doing the scene, but he did the exact same thing, so Cory ended up being the one in the scene (after also falling down himself trying to catch the falling phone).
• Dark Horse Victory: Night 4 of the Quarantine Classic was a 3 v 3 soccer match. Panda, goalkeeping for Garret and Coby, took the win.
• Death or Glory Attack: In All Sports Golf Battle 2, Tyler attempts to throw his vortex football across a water hazard from a significant distance behind the near bank. After a running start, it looks as if the ball will clear the water, only for it to fall short of crossing, right at the edge of the water. Cue Record Needle Scratch.
• Dissonant Serenity: During Road Trip Stereotypes, Garrett calmly delivers the message from the video's sponsor while in the background, "Rage Monster" Ty is laying waste to Cody's car.
• Distaff Counterpart: Wedding Stereotypes presents the Bridezilla as the female counterpart of the Rage Monster.
• Duct Tape for Everything: While setting up for a trust shot during Nerf Bow and Arrow Trick Shots, the guys advise anyone intending to start their own trick shot channel to invest in a lot of duct tape for use in setting up targets (the example in question being a bottle atop Cody's head, taped to his hat).
• Early-Installment Weirdness: The group's first few videos, shot on a home video camera with grainy footage. Their first logo looked like something they created in Microsoft Paint, and the graphics weren't great, either. It also featured a sixth member of the group named Sean Townsend, who worked as their camera operator; it was believed that Townsend is Panda, but in a 2016 Ask Me Anything chat on Reddit, the group confirmed that Townsend was not Panda, but rather, had become a doctor. Over time, of course, the production values in the videos shot up exponentially as the group got more and more famous.
  • Even as the group got more famous, it still took a few years for them to make enough money to hire outside people to help film their videos, so, for a number of years, one of the Dudes operated the camera, meaning they always weren't on-screen at the same time. And even after getting their first office and hiring outside help, someone from the group would be operating another camera.
  • The very first episode of Overtime had a different logo and graphics for the Cool Not Cool segment. The second episode saw the introduction of the logo and graphics that are currently in use.
• Elevator Buttons Mash: In World Record Edition, Tyler and Cory are riding to the top of the building where the world's highest basketball shot is to be attempted. Tyler slides his hands all over the buttons. Cue Aside Glance from Cory.
• Epic Fail: There have been plenty of individual fails, but the entire group collectively failed on what would have been Build an Airplane Battle. In the vein of Build a Boat Battle, each dude created an airplane, took it to the top of the tower at Circuit of the Americas, and threw it with intention to award the farthest throw. All of them experienced a catastrophic failure, whether they fell into a nosedive, caught the wind hard enough to hit the tower again, or (in Garrett's case) cracked a wing against the balcony railing. In the interest of still having a battle at the location, they bought the same sort of stock planes as they used for Airplane Trick Shots and held Giant Glider Battle instead.
• Everyone Has Standards: In Christmas Stereotypes, Tyler's Rage Monster character picks up a stool, ready to smash a nativity scene, when he stops himself, saying it would be going too far. He then proceeds to note that having the Three Wise Men as part of your nativity display isn't actually correct, since they were still traveling when Jesus was born. He then continues his rampage.
• Every Year They Fizzle Out:
  • Coby, to a certain extent. His failure to win a battle despite coming agonizingly close several times became a staple of them until April 2017, when he won the Giant Sumo Battle. The group celebrated by giving him an actual parade complete with high school marching bands, jugglers, the other four members of the group riding in the bed of a pickup truck, and Coby himself dressed like an old English king riding on the back of a white horse, on the roads immediately outside Toyota Stadium^note Home of Major League Soccer's FC Dallas in Frisco, where thousands of the group's fans^note One family had driven all the way down from WASHINGTON, DC during their kids' spring break saw Coby be presented with his incredibly tall trophy on a stage, as well as hear him give a speech. It would take two years for Coby to finally win a second battle, this one the RC Airplane Battle in July 2019. He has since added four more wins to his total, becoming a semi-regular at it.
    • Oddly enough, in the Face Off series, Coby was the most successful, winning 6 out of 7 one-on-one showdowns. In contrast, Cory was the least successful, losing all 7 one-on-one battles he took part in. His one win was a team victory with Coby.
  • Cory is the only member who has yet to win "Get Crafty", a mini-battle series held as part of Overtime that has the members build various objects.
• Exact Words: The Model Rocket Battles offer a 300ft bonus to the launch height if the dude managed to catch it before it met the ground. The first one had Cody's rocket fail to clear the launch tower. After the Oh, Crap! and extinguishing of the rocket, Garrett assesses it as 0ft... and Cody inquires about the catch bonus as he pulls the rocket off the tower (the mounting of which is not grounded). Garrett concedes him a score of 300ft.
• The Food Poisoning Incident: Bad scallops forced Garrett to go to the hospital to get an IV in the middle of the Shark Fishing Battle.
• Great Escape: The "Prison Escape Battle" in March 2024 saw the dudes in a series of challenges recreating a prison escape.
• Hair-Trigger Temper: Tyler's "Rage Monster" in the Stereotypes series. Ty will be in a given situation, someone (usually Cody) will slight him in some way, devastation (and possibly injury) will follow.
• Happily Married: All five members are married, and have children with their wives. Behind the scenes, Editor Tim is also married with a child.
• I Need to Go Iron My Dog: The twins' excuse to not go to the movies with Tyler in Movie Theater Stereotypes - which helps to set off his Rage Monster - is celebrating their sister's quarter birthday.
• Instantly Proven Wrong: During the "Drone Hunting" battle, Cody says that he's not worried about Coby as the archer, saying he's horrible at it. Coby immediately snipes his drone out of the air on the first shot.
• Large Ham: Have you seen the way they celebrate? This also extends to the stereotypes videos they do, which exaggerate stuff related in the topics.
  • Ryan Britton, a member of the production team, has quickly gotten attention for his over-the-top characters roleplayed while hosting several battles.
• Lost in the Maize: For 2020, Irons Mill Farmstead in New Wilmington, Pennsylvania, made their corn maze Dude Perfect-themed. So, naturally, the guys went there to have a Nerf Battle. Round 1 was held in the maze itself, where the guys had to navigate their way through. The first three to get out moved on to the final round. In order, they were: Tyler, Garrett, and Coby. Cory came out not too far behind his brother. But Cody had an awful time. He was wearing a boot on his right foot, having torn two ligaments in it. He was given a four-wheel bicycle-like mobility scooter called a KneeRover to put his right knee on while moving around. He eventually abandoned this scooter when he realized he didn't know where the exit was. At one point, the twins ganged up on him to pop the balloon attached to the pole on his backpack, forcing him to inflate another one. Things went from bad to worse, though, as his walkie-talkie went dead, in addition to him losing his phone. The guys shot the finale without going to look for him^note using the excuse that they had to hurry in order to catch the flight home. The trophy presentation was held back in Frisco at DPHQ2 without Cody on-screen, implying he was still in the maze.
• Mad Libs Catchphrase: Tyler likes to open a trick shot with "I'm Ty, the [X] guy", where [X] is something related to the trick shot in question. Cory once borrowed it in Nerf Trick Shots... without making a particular edit he should have.
  Cory: I'm Ty, the tape guy...
  Tyler: No you're not, you're Cor. I'm Ty. And I'm not a tape guy.
• Merchandise-Driven: Notable examples include RC Edition and RC Battle, where the group used remote-controlled cars from Traxxas, and the numerous Nerf videos. The first two Ping Pong Trick Shot videos can count as this, as the guys used empty Pringles canisters to shoot ping pong balls into, although they were mostly promoting the Walmart-exclusive backboards people could slip onto Pringles canisters. Another notable example is Glow in the Dark Edition, where they used glow-in-the-dark products provided to them by Rochester-based company Glow City.
• Middle Name Basis: Coby and Cory are the twins' middle names. Coby's actual first name is John, and Cory's is William. When the viewers learned this on the "Judge Dudy" segment of OT 24, it was apparently also news to Judge Tyler and gallery member Cody, who have known the two for more than a decade.
• Mistaken for Terrorist: One of the segments from Airplane Stereotypes has editor Chad announce he's going to the bathroom with the very unfortunate wording of "I'm about to blow this thing up." Upon being subdued by fellow passengers when he returns to his seat...
  Tyler: What do you have to say for yourself?
  Chad: It was just a number 2!
  (Record Needle Scratch)
  Tyler: There's two bombs!!!! (Cue mass freakout)
• Not My Lucky Day:
  • Overtime 22 was just gut punch after gut punch for Cody. In the "Get Crafty" segment, the guys were assigned to build gingerbread houses. Cody made multiple structures: an apartment building and a church with a house for a single family in-between. Sparky awarded him third, accusing him of doing too much. Even Tyler thought that Cody got robbed and should've won. Then, Cody was shown his office, which had been covered in instant snow^note Powder that becomes snow just by adding water, complete with Santa and a male elf, along with an actual reindeer (one that was pooping in said snow, no less). He somehow didn't get chosen to spin the wheel for "Wheel Unfortunate" (Coby did, and he was forced to tow his own car). His bad luck wasn't done, though. In "Cool Not Cool", he was presenting Coby with his Secret Santa gift (a massive amount fireworks to celebrate a battle win in 2021), when one of the package of fireworks accidentally hit Coby's red button, not allowing him to change his vote and give Cody's gift a Super Cool. Then, Tyler presented his gift for Cody: a tiny leaf blower, having admitted that he thought Secret Santa and White Elephant were the same thing. Cody accepted the gift, only because his kids would play with the blower, giving him some free time. Finally, came Garrett's gift for Cory, a VIP milkshake service. The truck had only four milkshakes, running out when it was Cody's turn to get one.
  • Coby got hit with this to a lesser extent in the 15th anniversary edition of Overtime. First, in the "Top 15" moments, his first battle victory (which, as a reminder, was celebrated with a literal parade) only came in at 12th place. Then, during "Cool/Not Cool, Cody's item was the exotic cars from Overtime 12'', but there were only four of them (because when the cars were first presented Coby was considered suspended for going over budget in the previous episode) so Coby didn't get one. Finally, he ended up being chosen to spin the wheel for "Wheel Unfortunate", of which the exact consequence has yet to be revealed.
• Oh, Crap!: Garrett, Cory, and Tyler each had a case of this during Metal Detector Battle 2. In ascending order of concern:
  • Garrett intended to cheat by "finding" his wife's wedding ring in his own back yard. Feigning good sport, he threw the ring blind over his shoulder at the start. When he actually starts looking, it turns out a ring on a grassy lawn is not easy to find...but that's because it ended up in the pool.
  • Cory went hunting in a gold mine. During his commentary, he's in the middle of talking to the camera... while still in the mine, having taken his hard hat off. A rock falls from the ceiling. Hard cut to Cory with the hard hat back on.
  • Cody went island hopping and narrowly missed a sizeable storm which, as he observed, was headed straight for Tyler. The expression on Ty's face when he heard thunder while ankle-deep in a river speaks volumes about his situation.
• Outside-the-Box Tactic:
  • During the Giant Sumo Battle, the members were supposed to climb up a fake coconut tree to ring a bell. Garrett inquired about the rules, and when Tyler informed him "No rules, just get to the top", he instead climbed up the metal frame holding up the trees.
  • During the Nerf Fortnite Battle, Cody was tending a wounded shoulder - a significant disadvantage when the first round of the battle revolves around hanging from gym equipment while shooting targets with Nerf darts and touching the floor is a ten-second penalty to his time. His solution? Blitz straight through without regard to any of the targets, charging across the penalty zones instead of maneuvering over them. He made it to the second round without question and finished the battle in third.
• Product Placement: A lot of their videos utilize this trope. Examples include Tyler pouring Kingsford charcoal into a grill in Real Life Trick Shots, eating a slice of Pepperoni Stuffed Crust Pizza from Pizza Hut backwards in Backwards Edition, and the group as a whole using the camera of an LG G3 phone to shoot footage in the first video they made in their old Frisco office.
• Rage Breaking Point: Plastic Golf Club Battle, hole 2 was surrounded by sand traps. Cory kept landing in them until he was upwards of 20 strokes over par. When he finally got out of a bunker at +14 and hit back in, he slammed his club into the pavement.
  Cody: I've never seen you lose your composure in seven years.
  • A list of what sets off Tyler's "Rage Monster" in the Stereotypes videos now has its own page.
• Rage Quit: During the "Blitzball Trick Shots" video, the group is throwing pitches to Garrett. After Tyler almost hits Garrett with one pitch, Garrett promptly smashes the next pitch. Cue Tyler throwing down his hat.
  • Tyler's "Rage Monster" during the Stereotypes videos.
  • Doubles as Screw This, I'm Outta Here: In OT 17, having had enough of the consequences in "Games With Consequences" while playing a match against Coby in PGA Tour 2K21, Cody, needing a three-foot putt to tie the match and send it to a sudden death playoff, turns his golfer away from the hole, and makes him putt the ball off the green, then gets up from his chair, and tosses his controller away, leaving the set at the local golf course they were at.
• Record Needle Scratch: Along with Letting the Air out of the Band, done too many times to list whenever someone's performance in a competition goes incredibly wrong.
• Repeat Cut: Although most of the videos make copious use of this to show off their events, some of the Trick Shots videos with professional guest stars avert it, with enough noticeable differences that it's clear that the guest star is just skilled enough to make the shot multiple times (including trust shots).
• Rube Goldberg Device: Each one of the Ping Pong Trick Shots videos begins with this, each one more elaborate than its predecessors.
  • World's Longest Trick Shot Machine was a continuous series of these. This particular video featured appearances by YouTubers Joseph Herscher (a.k.a. Joseph's Machines) and Lily Hevesh.
• Running Gag: Mentioning Coby's lack of success in Battles until he finally won one.
  • Tyler's "Rage Monster" character in the Stereotypes videos. It's also become a running gag that the Rage Monster is triggered by something Cody does.
  • Coby and Cory getting hit over the head with a prop beer bottle.
  • Tyler singing the Face Off title in a high-pitch that makes the other Dudes cringe. Once, to the confusion of the others, he opened a Face Off video by singing the title in Spanish: Cara Apagado. After pointing out the translation, Coby correctly stated that it didn't exactly work that way, since Face Off is the title of a video series, and thus a proper noun, so it wouldn't be translated into another language. Tyler, however, likely knew this, and did it as a joke.
  • Tyler being picked to be the commentator in the Face Off videos.
  • Tyler has so far gotten horrible luck of the draw in both Airsoft Battle Royales when it comes to starting equipment. In the first one, his environs contained one pistol and and a dozen backpacks; in the second, he got the airsoft equivalent of a flintlock pistol.
  • Cory has been selected as the victim for the "Wheel Unfortunate" segment of Overtime a statistically improbable amount of times.
• Self-Deprecation: 2020's "Quarantine Classic" was DP's first live-streaming video. During the first event, Tyler asks the viewers to go easy on the G.I.F.T because it's their first time filming a live video.
  Tyler: You might be thinking to yourself "Well, how do we know it's live?" Well, first indication is... (takes a no-looker corner-position hook shot and fails) ...that would have gone in.
• Serial Escalation:
  • The Rube Goldberg Device at the start of each Ping Pong Trick Shot video is grander and more extravagant than the last.
  • The Rage Monster started off in Pickup Basketball Stereotypes with throwing shoes, kicking garbage cans, and shoving people. By Softball Stereotypes, Ty had destroyed a car, brought down a tree, and taken a flamethrower to a duffel bag full of money.
  • Model Rocket Battle 1 involved rockets that could be comfortably held in one hand, the dudes attempted to catch them before landing by chasing after the landing site on foot (three of them successfully), and the unsuccessful launch (Cody's) left the rocket intact enough to be pulled off the launch tower. Model Rocket Battle 2 involved rockets that towered over all the dudes, flew far enough to require an ATV ride in an attempt to catch them before landing (none of them successfully), and the unsuccessful launch (Tyler's) outright exploded. The third edition escalated even further with the prize being a trip to space, and Garrett's rocket buried itself in a farmer's field, destroying its altimeter when its parachute failed.
  • Airsoft Battle Royale 1 had the guys scattered across a forested area surrounding a couple 2-story buildings. Airsoft Battle Royale 2 had them scattered around an urban area surrounding a 9-story building. Airsoft Battle Royale 3 took place at two different locations in an abandoned amusement park.
• Shot-for-Shot Remake: For their 15th anniversary Overtime, the dudes recreate their very first trick-shot video in their backyard.
• Signing-Off Catchphrase: "Pound it. Noggin. See ya!"
• Soft Glass: Sugar glass bottles are a common target, usually full of coloured powder for added oomph.
• Space Episode: The Bucket List chronicling Coby's journey to space aboard Blue Origin flight NS-22, nicknamed "Titanium Feather", on August 4, 2022^note The date of the flight, not the episode's release..
• Special Guest: The group's videos have featured many big-name athletes like LeBron James and Serena Williams, just to name a few, as well as actors like Paul Rudd and Jeff Goldblum.
• Spoiler: People's social media posts from the parade celebrating Coby's win in the Giant Sumo Battle pretty much gave away what was going to happen.
• Stealing the Handicapped Spot: One of the segments from Driving Stereotypes has Tyler parking his truck in a handicapped spot and happily doing flips when he gets out.
  Garrett: I mean, I don't want to jump to conclusions, but no way that guy should be parking there. People these days.
• Stuff Blowing Up: From 2014 to 2015, the group had a miniseries called BroMo: Guys Things in Slo-Mo where they blew stuff up (specifically eggs, flour, basketballs, and action figures), using phantom cameras to show it in slow motion. In the run up to the big finale, the group would maim the objects using different types of weaponry (slingshots, crossbows, guns, etc.). Tyler specifically placed the flour video on the Not Top 10 list in Overtime 23 because the guys didn't realize that flour was flammable and when it came time for the big finale, had to be told by the phantom camera operator to stand back further than they were, otherwise there was a chance of them winding up dead.
• Team Mom: One of the stereotypes in the Softball Sterotypes video. The dudes are moping after losing 13-0, but Tyler and Cody's wives show up to console them with Fruit Gushers and orange slices. Cue celebration.
• The Moving Experience: In the summer of 2016, the group moved into DPHQ2, which is, at most, 2 miles from the first DPHQ. In 2022, DP had plans to commission a theme park, which will be the location DPHQ3 will be housed.
• Theme Twin Naming: Coby and Cory obviously (which gets rather confusing when there's also a similarly-named Cody in the group), but Cory takes it a step further by having a twin son and daughter named Crew and Collins.
• Trans-Pacific Equivalent: The Australian group How Ridiculous, which also posts numerous trick-shot videos of the same types, and also started in 2009, a few months after DP.. HR's members have stated they were inspired by watching one of DP's early videos. Adding to the parallels: The three HR members met at church, and both DP and HR prominently mention their Christianity throughout their websites, though in their videos they typically don't mention it.
• Travel Montage: Episode 4 of Overtime saw Cory forced to spin the "Wheel Unfortunate" wheel for the third straight time; this time, he landed on "Fly to Wisconsin for no reason". The montage showed what was required: take a flight from Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport to Milwaukee Mitchell International Airport, step outside for a few seconds, then go right back into the terminal for the flight home. Cory took his hat off at DFW to "feel like [he was] carrying something", since he had no luggage or even a carry-on bag.
• Unscrewed Salt Shaker: The trick that Cory and Cody - labeled "The Pranksters" - play on Tyler in Restaurant Stereotypes.
• Unstoppable Rage: The Rage Monster during Stereotypes. By Tyler's own admission, a lot of money goes into the devastation he leaves in his wake.
• Very Special Episode: Subverted by the 2020 Quarantine Classic, which aired live during the COVID-19 pandemic. Although the event served as a fundraiser and the dudes took some certain precautions in accordance, the event was self-admitted to be meant as entertainment for those at home.
• William Telling: Almost every type of trick shot they've made has included a "trust shot" of this sort, usually with Ty as William and Cody as Walter.
• Workaholic: In the group's early days, Cory and Coby edited the videos, primarily Cory^note In videos from the group's early years, there are a lot of shots of just four of them with one of the twins missing. This is because the other twin was behind the camera. The camera belonged to them, and so, they'd take home the footage to edit.. After three straight all-night editing sessions on one video, Cory woke up with Bell's palsy affecting the right side of his face due to stress and lack of sleep. It was temporary.
• Wrong Genre Savvy: Airsoft Battle Royale 1 had Cody pop a balloon on a branch right out of the gate (and then go on to win). When Garrett hunches down near a truck in Airsoft Battle Royale 2 and one of his balloons pop, he (and likely the viewer) assume it made contact with something sharp on the truck... until Tyler experiences the same thing, and we cut to Coby cycling the bolt on the Sniper Rifle he'd found earlier.
• You Didn't See That: In the summer of 2022, Dude Perfect released a video called "Bucket List: Qatar World Cup 2022", which received backlash due to the group being paid by a Qatari tourist agency to produce the video amid the country's human rights record. After two days, the video name was quietly changed to "Bucket List: Desert" without comment.

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