Dude Not Funny / The Nostalgia Critic

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• Lampshaded in the Casper review:
  Nostalgia Critic: I already had an abortion.
  (Casper stares at the Critic, wide-eyed)
  Critic: Okay, that was a little disturbing—
  Casper: Wow.
  Critic: Okay, that was a little dark humor, I mean it's nothing—
  Casper: Wow!
  Critic: Okay, okay, let's just move on!
  Casper: ...You sicken me.
• The Critic has one of these reactions in his review for Tank Girl.
  Rebecca: You just gotta think about it like the first time you got laid. You just gotta go, “Daddy, are you sure this is right?”
  Critic: Wow, that was offensive and unfunny. It's like a female Jeff Dunham.
• In Star Trek: The Motion Picture review, he jokes that Vger has no emotions or needs and so is the perfect woman. Immediately there's a chorus of feminine booing and he gets slapped. A few moments later he's on feminism's side and bashes Twilight for setting women's rights back years.
• He's called himself out on this one, twice;
  • His joke about Splinter's VA sounding like a chain-smoker in TMNT (2007). It was Mako Iwamatsu, who had died of throat cancer before the movie was released, and the movie was dedicated to his memory. He apologized, mentioning he was completely unaware of any of it, and he's made a gag of walking on eggshells around his earlier roles, like in Sidekicks. He even honors the guy in his review of Pearl Harbor.
  • In the initial version of his Ernest Saves Christmas review, he told a joke about autism as a pot-shot to the puppet show's quality. He considers this a bigger mishap than screwing up basic math, and later edited it out because he found it too offensive.
  • Sometimes, he catches himself about to make a quip that goes too far, stops himself, and the "Joke Aborted" screen shows.
  • The Ponyo review has him try his hardest not to make fun of then-recent events in Japan whenever tsunamis and flooding are brought up.
  "But hey, I'm sure that's the reaction a lot of people had when they went through- Ooh, dammit! You almost made make a joke about it!"
• In his The Room (2003) review, the Critic is baffled that Johnny laughs at Mark's story about a woman beaten up by one of her boyfriends upon finding out about her many lovers.
  Critic: [fake laughter] That's not funny, you sick fuck.
• In his review of Pearl Harbor, the Critic hits the Rage Breaking Point and delivers a hard-core "The Reason You Suck" Speech at Michael Bay for having a random Navy man hollering "I can't swim!" while his ship is sinking, calling it incredibly low for the sake of "ooh, America is suffering!". Turns out that it wasn't mandatory in the U.S. Navy for their shipmen to learn to swim until after this attack.
• In an episode that had jokes with worse backlash, he chose to have the booing sound-clip in Dawn of the Commercials for when he ruins a sweet McDonald's commercial by calling it an advert for stranger danger.
• Avoided in Jingle All the Way, as a joke was originally going to be Critic hanging himself (quite realistically even) because of Sinbad's ranting. But as Doug explained, a white man, a noose, and a black man equals invoked Unfortunate Implications.
• In Rise Of The Commercials, he lampshades the shittiness of making fun of “Canada pointing out that 1 in 2 girls are assaulted” by saying he can't make fun of them for anything else.
• A joke not being funny was turned into the joke in his review of DuckTales (1987) when an episode has Webby paint herself up to look like a penguin, complete with painting her face black. Cue Doug visibly straining to avoid grabbing the literal "MINSTREL SHOW JOKE" that was hovering over his head before flying away.
  Critic: The sacrifices I make for good taste!
• Doug has something of a Heel Realization about all the jokes he's made at the expense of Patch Adams once Carin is murdered, as he fears he's been mocking someone who was killed in real life since the movie was Very Loosely Based on a True Story. After quickly Googling it and learning that not only was the person who Carin was based on a completely different man in real life, but that the movie was shamelessly disrespecting the man (who actually was murdered in real life under different circumstances) by changing his character so much to make something of a Love Interest out of him and tacking on a cheap Rape as Backstory onto her largely fictional character for drama, he flips out and has this reaction about the movie.
  Critic: (whipping the movie poster with his belt) BAD MOVIE! THAT'S A BAD, BAD MOVIE!! I AM SO ASHAMED OF YOU!! BAD MOVIE!! Okay, all bets are off! If this movie can't even represent a dead person by getting his GENDER right, NOT making up a false romance, AND A CHILD MOLESTING STORY , ALL OF IT FABRICATED... I mean, I know a person really was murdered in real life, but it wasn't the same way, it wasn't the same time, and it wasn't even the same gender as they're saying here. And what is so strange about this is that it totally proves why the method they're so poorly trying to convey to us wouldn't work! People do make bad choices when they're emotional, and bad things do happen! Again, the real teachings of the real Hunter Adams are much smarter than this. And by trying to simplify it to such a disgusting, fictionalized degree is absolutely HORRIBLE. Let me tell YOU something, movie. Maybe YOU should have been "emotionally invested" when you were representing the life of a man, his theories, his friends, his real life practices, and his actual hard work! FUCK...YOOOOOOOUUUUUUU!!!
• His reaction to the "Institute for Sexually Molested Children" scene from Freddy Got Fingered. Understandably so, as it actually makes him disappear briefly.
  Critic: (hushed) I wasn't here for a second, was I? That scene actually took me someplace else. A place...not of this realm. It was not a good place. In fact, it was a very, very bad place. One of the worst places I've ever been. But...it was so bad...I almost want to go back to it. I want to study it. I want to understand how, on every level of unpleasantness, this scene went above and beyond what I thought possible in a film. James Gunn was fired for tweeting scenes like this. And this guy was given $14 million to bring it to the big screen. I have never witnessed a scene like that in cinema. And only this story and this tone could build up to something so heinous. There is no place you can look, no area you can escape to, nothing else you can think about except every possible ugliness crammed into this one moment.
• He laughs at a cat nearly getting caught in a trap during Sleepwalkers and then makes an "oh fuck" face when he realizes it looks like a real trap.
  • Subverted in his Blank Check review, where he makes a joke about Michael Jackson, waiting just under two months after his death, telling us it's no longer too soon and nothing we can say about him could take away what he truly was...
    Nostalgia Critic: Don't be afraid, people. No matter how hard you laugh, he will always be a genius.
• In Old Vs New: Cinderella (which was released shortly after the death of Prince), Hyper misinterprets Critic's statement that "Sometmes a prince leaves no impact on you whatsoever" (referring to the prince from Cinderella) and his later reference to the animated Cinderella prince having "A shit-ton of eyeliner" as a dig at the artist Prince, and tells him "too soon" both times.
• In the review of Dreamcatcher, Chester A. Bum (a homeless man with mental problems) gets really upset at Stephen King's constant use of Neurodiversity Is Supernatural, here represented by Duddits, the psychic Manchild with Down Syndrome who may or may not be an alien.
  Chester A. Bum: You really think all of my mental problems is because I was an alien, huh?
  Nostalgia Critic: It's not like that...
  Chester A. Bum: No no no no, I get it! It can't be because of how I was born, or my environment! Clearly, being an alien explains it just as well!
  Nostalgia Critic: No, I...
  Chester A. Bum: It's like if an Asian person walks by and I'm like, "Ooh, maybe he looks that way because he's an alien! It's a perfectly legit reason!" I hope I will be seen as more than just an excuse for your stereotypes, sir!
• NC took "Dude, Not Funny!" up a notch in his North review when he referred to a joke about Governor Ho's wife being barren as "the worst thing ever uttered by humans," going on to call the film "pure evil."
• This is his reaction to both the pranks that the two leads play on random children (which the Critic says are more cruel than funny) in Little Monsters, and to the aftermath.
  "Well, maybe the kids' reactions will be funny..."
  * scenes are the kids' parents screaming at the innocent children, the youngest of whom looks to be about four*
  "....That was HORRIFIC!"

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