Funny / James & Mike Mondays

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2012 & 2013

• James and Mike playing Super Mario 4 Rambo, which is merely a hack of the Japanese Mario 2 and the only difference is that Mario's name is Rambo. This leads them to contemplate what his full name is now. It's either Rambo Mario or Rambo Rambo (an allusion to Super Mario Bros. (1993) where his full name was Mario Mario).
• James and Mike playing the Odyssey.
• The Atari Jaguar CD didn't work for The Angry Video Game Nerd, but a couple years later James got a unit in working condition, so he and Mike gave it a try. The best was when they played the Highlander: The Last of the MacLeods game, and were unable to get away from two enemies who kept beating the main character with sticks (James: "I can't get out of this!").
  Mike: Time ta get beat, bwah! Time ta get beat motherfucker!
  • They both start to wonder why the enemies are attacking the player character.
    Mike: These guys are fuckin' mean! What did this poor orange-haired kid do to these fucking green warrior men? (speaking as one of the enemies) "You orange-haired freak! We're gonna beat your fuckin' ass senseless, you little freckled fuck!"
    James: What do they want with him?
    Mike: I think they hate him cause he has orange hair.
    James: They just don't like it. They don't like the way he walks. He just, he walks funny.
    Mike: I don't like the way he walks either.
    James: (snickers) I know. Let's all kill him.
  • The two observing that the main character is like a one-ponytailed Pippi Longstocking.
  • Prior to playing Highlander, they checked out Hover Strike, a game where you take control of a "tank on the Death Star shooting oranges", as Mike put it.
    James: It's just one of those games, that it's like you can't even look at it.
    Mike: (starts laughing) You can't look at it.
    James: You can't. (starts laughing as well)
    Mike: (in hysterics)
    James: Like, look what's going on here! Look at this! It's so disorientating!
    Mike: Ah, you think it's disorientating? (both are in hysterics now) This is a terrible fucking game. Oh my god.
    James: Alright. Hover Strike, sucks ass.
    Mike: There's some great classical games, but this is not fucking one of them! This is garbage. This is shit from a shit fountain.
    James: It's like you're riding through garbage as well. Like, it's not even appealing to look at. It's just gray with dots. Look at all the dots!
• Mario Paint: James and Mike replace various notes in the pre-loaded songs with other instruments, such as a meowing cat. After the song concluded, Mike observed with a big grin on his face, "It's such a happy game, isn't it?"
  Mike: That was a lot of pussy right there.
  • The looping animation James created of Mario shoving a spiky shell up Yoshi's ass.
• Taboo the Sixth Sense: "I see shitty games!"
  • Their reactions to the trippy card shuffling screen.
• When the two of them played Pilotwings 64 and dicked around with it immensely.
  • Mike says, "touch the balls", in reference to an objective in the game. After a pause, he does an Aside Glance into the camera and smirks, trying hard not to laugh while James is talking.
  • At one point, they try to enter a cave to find out what could be inside (In case you're curious, it's actually a star). James flies away from the island in order to get enough room to turn around, but at the same time, he talks about Abott and Castello. He ends up getting sidetracked to the point that the island isn't even visible for a while by the time he turns around.
  • During the cannonball stage, they don't even bother to try and hit the targets. They actually try to shoot the guy as far away as possible, preferably into walls. And Mike's exaggerated screaming deserves a mention too.
• Corpse Killer: James's advice for playing the game: Don't press the "C" button, because it will end your game.
• Sonic the Hedgehog (2006). Biggest moment, the game switches character control over to Tails, temporarily breaking James' concentration (he was playing as Sonic a moment ago) and causing him to accidentally drop Tails into the watery abyss and lose his last life. Cue James and Mike encountering the exact same problem pokecapn and his pals encountered way back in 2008: It doesn't autosave thus they're forced to play the game from the very beginning all over again.
  • Their reaction to the shopkeeper whose talking animation keeps playing even after his text box only said one thing. James imitating said animation makes it even funnier.
  • Making Tails somehow fly through the ground and into the skybox.
• Godzilla Unleashed: The discussion gets onto shows not on DVD and Blu-ray (such as Batman (1966), which at the time wasn't on home video). Mike wants a complete box set of The Weather Channel. And not just the programming, but all the commercials and bumpers.
  James: You mean, like 24 hours of everything that that was ever shown? Like, of all time?
  Mike: ("obviously" tone) ...Yeah!

2014

• Rocky (PS2): James picks Mickey, and Mike picks Rocky Balboa. Rocky knocks Mickey out soon after the fight begins, disappointing James.
  James: Is that it?!
  Mike: You can't do anything if you're dead, dude.
  James: So wait, does he really suck that much?
  Mike: I would hope- I would think so!
  James: Well I thought he'd be awesome!
  Mike: He's fuckin', like, why would he be awesome?
  James: Well I thought he'd be like Yoda or something.
  Mike: Yoda's, like, science fiction or whatever; Mickey's just, like, an old man.
  James: Well why'd they put him in the game if he sucks that bad?
  Mike: Well, 'cause it's funny. (both laugh)
  • Then the two do a match of Mickey vs. Ivan Drago, just for the sheer ridiculousness of it.
  Mike: It should be, like, one hit, he should be dead!
• In Contra, when James drops this accidental innuendo: "Let me be a little more aggressive since I'm on the top."
  • And when losing a life on a boss, Mike hits the couch repeatedly while shouting "Fuck! Fuck! Fuck! Fuck! Fuck! Fuck! Fuck!" James can't help but crack a smile at how angry Mike got.
• In Universal Studios Theme Park Adventure, the two are confused why they can't get on rides when there are too many people. Later, James and Mike are underwhelmed by the Waterworld exhibit, which is just the finale of the stage show that lasts about five seconds and the only thing you can control is where you sit in the audience. Mike admits: "Well, at least we got to look at that instead of having to stand in a line." James starts laughing at how ridiculous Mike's statement is: "Who would ever think you'd say that when you're playing a game, like- "We might have to stand in a line!""
  • After beating the Jaws ride, Mike is underwhelmed by how it ends: Jaws just swims away.
  Mike: I thought something better was gonna happen than that.
  James: You thought the kid was gonna go, "Smile, you son of a bitch!"?
• James and Mike played the unreleased Super Mario's Wacky Worlds on CDi, and since there is no goal post (not to mention many of the levels don't even work, or are only one screen), the duo have to reset the game every time they "finish" a level. After a number of times doing this, James and Mike look visibly exasperated. This moment perfectly encapsulates the entire video.
  • After getting tired of having to get up repeatedly, James gets out a long stick that the two use to reset the game from the couch. Mike, taking a Southern accent, tells James, "Get that stick, bwah!"
  • At one point, Mike deadpans about the stick, "You'd have more fun sticking that up your ass than playing this."
  • A minor one, but when Mike tries to play the level "Sewer", he says in a nasal voice, "Sewer Surfin'."
• When playing the Action Max console, the discussion briefly went to Full House, and Mike asked James if he could sing the theme song. Mike proceeded to do the first couple verses. He quickly noted what an odd juxtaposition it was to be singing that over gameplay footage of a haunted house.
  • In the same review, James asked Mike what was on the TV behind him. It was Xbox One. James asked if Mike wanted to play it, and Mike replied, "No." Yes, they'd rather play a shitty VHS-based light gun game instead of a brand new console.
• Anticipation: James, Mike, and Bootsy laughing incredulously at how many of the items that the game draws are weapons.
  • Mike saying, "Remember when Lloyd Kaufman vomited over there?", a reference to the AVGN episode Toxic Crusaders. James clarified that he vomited, and Lloyd took a shit.
  Mike: "Remember the time Lloyd Kaufman shit over there?" (laughs)
  James: I never thought you'd be able to say that. (clarifying) I mean, not that he really shat.
• Oh boy, Super Off Road...
  • James' controller doesn't work too well due to tech problems with their extension cables, so they have to dust off James' childhood NES to try again.
  • When the first race begins, the car sprites' small size and relatively small color palette make James mistake his car for the grey car, when it's actually the blue car stuck all the way back at the start of the race.
  • Mike eventually gives up because Pat the NES Punk keeps winning, so he decides to troll Pat and James for the rest of the video. This isn't helped by the fact that the later courses have very confusing layouts, which causes more mayhem as James tries to follow Mike, unaware that the latter is actually fucking around.
  • The fun continues into the very next video, where they play RC Pro-Am 2. Pat brings up Super Off-Road and Mike, half-facetious and half-serious, tells him to shut the fuck up about that game. And they also have a hypothetical discussion of Ivan Stewart eating out Mike's ass, causing all three of them to burst into hysterics.
  Mike: It's better than Ivan... whatever the...
  James: Ivan Shithead.
  Mike: (chuckles) Whatever the fuck that stupid thing's called.
  Pat: I don't like you guys taking a shot at Ivan 'Ironman' Stewart.
  Mike: Fuck him. He can eat my asshole. (James laughs)
  Pat: Y'know, he might be such a nice guy, he might actually do that for you. He's probably 75 by now...
  Mike: (laughing while talking) A 75-year old man is gonna eat my asshole. How did the video turn into this?!
  Pat: Hey, I'm just sayin', he might be open to it. I don't know what his social situation is.
  James: I don't know anything about the guy, so who knows?
  Pat: He's probably a very nice guy.
  Mike: Yeah, he's probably this nice, just...
  James: That's... that's way too nice. If you're gonna be like...
  Pat: Well it depends on how you look at it. Y'know, some people might think it's too nice, but they'll be like, "That's real sweet of you to do that."
  Mike: (in old man voice) Hey you don't need to wipe that ass. I'll eat it for ya.
  Pat: I didn't say- I didn't say "dirty". See, that, that reveals way too much about Mike. (Mike laughs) We didn't say "dirty" ass, we just said ass. There's dirty ass and clean ass.
  Mike: Why does everything turn into ass and shit? It's always...
  Pat: You guys can answer that for me, tell ya the truth.
  Mike: I guess I brought it up.
  Pat: You brought up ass and eating it, so I mean...
  (everyone breaks down)
  James: You play shit, you're gonna end up talkin' about shit.
  • On an unrelated topic, Mike mentioning how there's a game called Butt on the Ouya.
• While playing Mario Chase on Nintendo Land, Mike notices the face-cam feature, and screws himself over. At first, both of them question why the Wii U would have such a feature, but by the next round, they have so much fun with it that they don't care.
• Bootsy casually beating Back to the Future Part III for Genesis. The shocked look on James and Mike's faces after he beats level 1 (which The Angry Video Game Nerd got stuck on) is priceless.
• The video on Jaws Unleashed, which mostly consists of James, Mike, and Pat the NES Punk shouting "YEAH!!!!" and "OHHHH!!!" (and variants thereof) while Jaws eats people and wrecks boats.
  James: Jaws is comin' for you, motherfucker!
  • Later, when Pat and Mike pleading James not to have Jaws eat some harmless seals on land:
  James: I love seals, but come on, Jaws has gotta eat!
• The Sonic the Hedgehog Genesis games, which sounds like they'll just be playing the first four Sonic games. Turns out, they're ROM hack cartridges, one of which is Sonic Megamix, another is a hacked Streets of Rage 3 game with Sonic in it and another involves Sonic.exe. James and Mike's reaction to the Sonic.exe hack, the I AM GOD Jump Scare popup and the bloody Green Hill zone sells it.
  (James and Mike start up Sonic 1)
  James: Love the music in this game.
  Mike: It's so classic...
  (The title screen changes to Sonic.exe with the Green Hill Zone backdrop changed into hell)
  James: What the fuck...
  (Beat)
  (They start playing the game)
  Mike: Did you see that? There was, like, blood coming out his eyes...
  James: No, no, I didn't see that. No.
• Batman on NES. Near the end, Mike finds himself in deep shit, faced with very tough enemies to defeat, no weapons to attack them with, and one HP left. James advises him to run for it, which he does, screaming all the way, and he makes it. However, in his excitement, he throws the controller to James, not realizing there's a boss. James only manages to pause right as the boss is about to hit Batman, with no way to avoid it. Fortunately, they had one last guy, and James manages to beat the boss anyway.
• James' bizarre stream of consciousness rambling about why the Grim Reaper carries a scythe from Super Ghouls and Ghosts.
  • In the same video, they start pondering subjects for pop songs not commonly heard. James suggests waiting for Final Cut Pro to render. "I feel like it'd be a very angry song."
  • Mike suggests an angry song about iTunes...which you then listen to in iTunes.
• In Excitebike 64, James shared an anecdote about a time in grade school when he took a field trip to a museum where they had a display of droppings from various animals. James was the only one to get 100% of the answers correct, which caused the guy running the quiz to tell him, "You really know your shit."
• In their playthrough of Mega Man 2, James trying to make words out of the inventory screen's weapon abbreviations: "PHAWBQE" and "FMC123".
• The second part of the Blaster Master playthrough had a tangent about Marmaduke, of all things. It's funnier than it sounds.
• Double Dragon: At first, the two are saying "This game's awesome", but after James gets game over three times, he declares, "I hate this game." Then he tells a story about when he played the game as a kid, he got so frustrated he took the cartridge out of the system and threw it on the floor. His dad comes in and asks, "You want me to get a hammer and smash it?" and young James says "No no, don't do that!"
• Super Scope 6: James says one of the Super Scope games is a "piece of shit, not a whole shit". Mike compliments that he has a way with words when it comes to games and shit.
  Mike: You have a way of making analogies that are very...
  James: Shitty.
  Mike: ...(laughs) See?
  • James tells an anecdote of when he was a kid: When playing Star Fox, his sister insisted that General Pepper was saying "Goodbye" when you start a mission- young James got pissed because it was clearly "Good luck."
• Double Dragon II: The moment at the end when they beat the game but can't read the ending card because it flashes on the screen for only two seconds. After rewinding and pausing the screen, they realize they have to beat it on the Master setting to get the true ending. James gives two fingers in response.

2015

• While playing the Friday the 13th NES game, James and Mike realize there's no in-game way to keep track of which cabins have lit fireplaces, so they have to resort to pausing the game and sticking pieces of tape to the television screen.
• In Bomberman for NES, James and Mike bring up how they did a version of this video with Pat the NES Punk instead of JonTron, and mention how Pat kept lying to novice James about how to play the game.
  James: Are skulls good?
  Pat: Yeah.
• James and Mike have fun playing the Double Dragon Neo Geo movie-based fighting game...even as it resets on them halfway through.
  James: I feel like the game was just gettin' too crazy, and when the game gets outta hand, the game has to turn itself off.
  • "Burnov. He needs to burn off some fat."
  • James and Mike both start grunting and shouting while playing, and eventually James addresses this:
  James: Can you imagine how this sounds in other parts of the house right now? It's like, "Nnnggghh!! Nnnnggh!! Take it, bitch!" (Mike laughs) It's like, "What the fuck's going on down there?!"
• When James, Mike, Bootsy, and Kyle Justin were playing Krazy Kreatures, the whole discussion about whale penises, dolphin dick dildos, and dildo chess.
  • Mike observes that one of the objects in the game looks like Freddie Freaker, and he and James proceed to sing the jingle to the 1-900-490-FREAK commercial.
  • Later in the video, Mike and Bootsy don't contribute much to the conversation because they're intensely focused on the game. Bootsy: "I'm so far from reality right now."
• In their playthrough of The Legend of Zelda on the original Famicom, James killed Pols Voices by shouting "FUCK" into the second controller's microphone.
• James and Mike playing Doki Doki Panic on a glitchy Famicom Disk System that occasionally breaks down, and putting up with the eye-raping waterfall background.
• It was uploaded on a Wednesday, but the "James & Mike Bonus" video of Explosive Fighter Patton on the FDS is hilarious. James & Mike are just trying to figure out why the "Flip the disk" message says "INSEFT [sic] TO FUCKING BOX".
  • When they finally finish talking about that message and get ready to play the actual game, they follow the game's example and engage in some gratuitous cursing themselves:
  Mike: I'm inserting it into the FUCKING box...
  James: The FUCKING box, you ASSHOLE.
  Mike: [holding up the game for the camera] Here's the game...
  James: You fucking shit! Bastard, fucking shit...
  Mike: ...I'm gonna insert it into the fucking box.
  James: [starts to crack up again and shakes his head]
  Mike: Here you go, just listen. There you go, I just inserted it into the FUCKING box.
  James: Are you happy, game?
• James, Mike, and special guest star Ryan Schott of Cinemassacre.com play Indiana Jones and the Infernal Machine, and only a few minutes into the video, are bitten by a snake. The three are confused why their health meter keeps dropping, even after they start a new life, and finally Ryan wonders if this is because of the snake bite. So the trio reset the game and try again, this time making doubly sure not to get bit again. And they do good for a while... before being bit again by a different snake.
  • In the same video, a game glitch caused Indy to sink through the ground when dying.
  • Also in the video, there's a brief cutscene of Indy swinging to a platform with his whip as a sparsely-orchestrated snippet of the Raiders theme plays. Mike and Ryan crack up at it.
• In Total Carnage when Mike goes completely off-topic to share a dream he had as a teen where he invited The Three Stooges to the last day of high school. Keep in mind, this story takes up a good half of the video. He even lampshades how his story is completely separate from the craziness happening on-screen.
• Jackie Chan's Action Kung Fu: James and Mike trying to say "slipperier" and eventually devolving into imitating the gibberish vocals in Star Fox.
• When reviewing Metroid, the topic again gets onto turds, and Mike asks, "What is wrong with us?!"
  • The second half of the video is James playing the game solo, since Mike had to duck out. When facing the final boss, James seemed to be channeling his Angry Video Game Nerd character in a couple instances.
• Doug Walker and James play American Gladiators, and both are amused by the Stock Scream when a player falls off the platform in the Joust minigame. This leads Doug to say, "I wanna hear the scream", and immediately notes how saying that makes them sound like psychopaths. Then it cues a slow-motion, lower-pitched replay of Doug saying, "I wanna hear the scream."
• James actually plays a good game for the first time in a while, with Donkey Kong Country. During one level, James makes an off-hand remark about how this level reminds him of dog farts. Mike's utterly baffled, so James explains how one of his memories of playing the game as a kid involved his dog being gassy while he was playing this level.
  • James says he finds it amusing when Cranky Kong calls DK an "asshole" and to "fuck off".
  Mike: I was kinda half paying attention what you were saying, and all I heard was, like, "I like the part where he tells you to go fuck yourself."
• Towards the end of Star Wars (Famicom), James talked about a time when he was watching the original Scooby-Doo cartoon with his toddler-aged daughter. One episode that they watched contained Scrappy-Doo, and she started mocking Scrappy's catchphrase of "Puppy power!" with "Poopy power!" instead. He said that he almost corrected her... but then realized that she was making her first poop joke and laughed along with her instead.
• While playing LEGO Star Wars, James and Mike spend most of the video deliberately trying to kill Jar-Jar Binks, leading to James telling a story about one time in college when the two of them were so pissed off about The Phantom Menace that they threw a VHS tape of the film down the stairs, and then put it in the microwave.
• Star Wars Chess: James and Mike talk about the reveal in Phantom Menace when Anakin was the creator of C-3PO. James argues that it doesn't really change anything about the story, that it was a trivial thing. Mike can't resist taking a shot:
  Mike: Another reason that movie's shit. (laughs)
• Super Contra 6: James hopes that when he gets game over, that's it, but he's given the option to continue and he's not too pleased about it.
  Mike: (smiling widely) Aw, gotta keep playing. Wah-wah.
• Battletoads: When Bootsy is on the Terra Tubes level:
  James: Any of these, I think, would qualify as a final stage in any other game, and you're all telling me future things that I haven't seen yet, you're like "Oh yeah, and then there's this one part where this", and I'm like, jeez, when is this gonna stop?
  Mike: It doesn't. It's relentless, it goes on and on...
  James: You're still talkin' about things that haven't come yet!
  Mike: There's a lot that hasn't come yet.
  James: Oh my God.
• Mortal Kombat X: One of Kung Lao's fatalities has a character's face being inched towards a spinning blade. Mike protests: "No, no..." only to be resigned to it: "It's definitely gonna happen, isn't it."

2016

• While playing Killing Time, James brought up the BFG from Doom. At the time, he didn't know what it stood for, until he went over to a friend's house and the friend's dad clued him in: "You know what that stands for, doncha? (quietly) Big fucking gun." James was like, "Wow, your dad's cool!"
• Supreme Warrior: Mike causing James to get the giggles by imitating the ineffective kung fu moves featured in the game.
• As they attempt to play a malfunctioning Metroid II: Return of Samus cartridge in a Super Game Boy, James goes off on a tangent about historical film colorization techniques. While he rambles on, Mike tunes him out and uses the Super Game Boy's built in art program to doodle Link flipping off a lightsaber-wielding firebreathing demon.
• Goat Simulator: James has absolutely no idea what's going to happen when they start and the two of them spend the entire video in hysterics.
  • Special mention goes to the last three minutes, when James starts a new game with different options enabled and ends up controlling a goat's legs attached to a spiky microwave. Just look at it. And when the thing goes airborne while making Darth Vader-esque hissing noises, the two really lose it.
• James and Mike break out the infamous Power Glove and U-Force. What follows are exercises in frustration and hilarity as they try to play Super Mario Bros., Castlevania, Gauntlet, and as the cherry on the sundae, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (NES).
• Who's Your Daddy: A game where one player is a suicidal baby and the other player is the father trying to keep him out of harm's way. At one point, after the baby has died numerous times:
  James: Lemme tell ya, it's hard being a dad, but it's not this hard to be a dad!
  Mike: Because the baby's not actually trying to kill itself.
  James: The baby's not flyin' around the room!
  • Things really get hilarious when Mike's character opens a nightstand drawer and finds a pink rubber dildo.
  James: Is that what I think it is?!
• Hot off the heels of the AVGN review of Beavis and Butt-Head (Genesis), James and Mike play it on this show ^Note(though it was actually recorded before the AVGN episode). Of special mention are two instances where the duo die for seemingly no reason ^Note(their health kept depleting from the tainted burger), and on the second instance James hits an instant replay and still can't figure it out.
• Wii Car Adapter: The last couple minutes when they actually try it out. Contains hilarious use of miniatures.
• Eternal Champions: The duo make a big point off the top about how hard the stage fatalities are to execute properly, only to get one right on the first try. And then they successfully do subsequent fatalities. After a particularly gruesome one where a character falls down a blade-filled shaft and is repeatedly stripped of flesh until just the skull is left:
  James: The pit from Mortal Kombat is pussy shit now. THAT's a fucking pit! Mortal Kombat's for pussies! This is a REAL fuckin' game! (tiger growl sound effect)
• Most of Abobo's Big Adventure
  • Particularly in the Zelda level:
  Mike: [after getting the beef] Have some beef, bitch! I really hope my girlfriend's not upstairs listening to the conversation. Have some beef, bitch!
• Alex Kidd in Miracle World: The scene transitions are Alex Kidd munching on an onigiri (rice ball). Mike interprets it as Alex eating a pot brownie.
• Joe & Mac: While playing one of the volcano levels, James meant to say "I'm gonna make a far jump", but trails off before he finishes the sentence, and Mike bursts out laughing because he thought he was going to say "I'm gonna make a fart."
• Super Smash Bros.: James, Mike and Jon observing that when the announcer says Fox, it sounds like "fucks", so they set up "Mario! FUCKS! Luigi!" when selecting characters.
• Aladdin (Virgin Games): The duo theorize that because the Genie's been in his lamp for 10,000 years that it's full of his shit.

2017

• When playing Road Runner on NES, Mike once again accidentally says an innuendo when he tells James to "eat the seed". And later, James says "I just ate a lot of fuckin' seed." Cue zoom-in on Mike's grinning face.
• Peter Jackson's King Kong on PS2: Mike getting really excited about Kong snapping a T-rex's neck. Followed by the two emitting a chest-beating roar.
• When playing Dr. Mario, the duo go off on a tangent about The Karate Kid and its similarities to Rocky. This leads to them bringing up Bullet to the Head and that nobody saw it. Then they do Stallone impressions to each other, culminating with a parody of the Rocky line "That's right, it STINKS!": "YOUR movie stinks!"
• The duo play Blue's Journey and are utterly perplexed by the ending, especially since they're not given enough time to read the text. ^Note(for the record, here are all the different endings)
• Dungeons & Dragons: Shadow over Mystara: Mike doing William Shatner as Jack Nicholson in The Shining, then following it up with Pee Wee Herman doing Jack.
• "Sailing" starts out fairly slowly, but when the duo play a different game, "Tell Me Why", it gets significantly funnier, especially when they lose it over the bad jokes on the menu screen.
  • James and Mike have this exchange during Sailing's lecture about the importance of keeping fire extinguishers on your sailboat:
  Mike: So we were thinking of playing Super Metroid but we decided to play this instead.
  James: This is the worst idea ever. This video is going to be the video that tanks Cinemassacre.
  • Around the end of the episode, Mike eventually loses his calm during the information on cabbages, and is just about done with the "game."
  Mike: Am I dead yet? Can ya kill me?
  • Immediately afterwards, when Mike sees a section on sports, his reaction is glorious.
• While playing Super Metroid, James and Mike get into a discussion about actors reprising roles from years before, and start brainstorming. James comes up with The Karate Adult with Ralph Macchio, and Mike comes up with Brent Spiner in Grumpy Old Data.
• While playing A Week Of Garfield, Mike has an Ask a Stupid Question... moment where he (seemingly non-sarcastically) asks James if he can think of any bad games that got released on NES.
  James: "Uh, yeah... I have a series called, The Angry Video Game Nerd..."
• For Wario's Woods, James and Mike try to figure out the whole gameplay, since they hadn't played the game beforehand. After a match, James tries to explain how to get a bomb to match up with a tall column of monsters that have the same color, in a similar fashion to Doc Brown, causing Mike to laugh just trying to understand what he's saying.
• The Rocketeer: James and Mike discussing about making a fart album. Just.. the entire part. Of special note is the part when Mike mouth-farts the opening bars to Tiny Toon Adventures, which James doesn't get- and shortly after James mouth-farts only the first couple notes of DuckTales (1987) and Mike gets it immediately.
  • In the same video: James asks Mike, "Do you have any gas yet?" After a chuckle from Mike, he immediately clarifies he wasn't trying to make a joke, he meant gasoline for the jetpack.
  • Mike is in a freezer level. He proceeds to talk like Paulie from Rocky except all his words are gibberish.
• The last few minutes of Haunting Starring Polterguy had Mike putting on a Halloween mask. Mike joked that it was a "Sylvester Stallone mask" but James took it seriously and was baffled why it looked nothing like him, all while Mike laughed himself silly at James's priceless reaction.
• When the duo played Simon's Destiny, Mike told James to check out a room with a secret switch. Said switch activated a giant middle finger, followed by James Rolfe's head saying "That was some turkey! Haha!" James couldn't believe his eyes.
  James: WHAT?! Did that just happen? Did that SERIOUSLY just happen?! (laughs)
• Their playing of Gremlins 2: The New Batch is interrupted by a "This video is unavailable." After a few seconds, Shitpickle and R.O.B. the Robot pop up and address the viewer. Followed by Hulk Hogan!
  • When discussing movie sequels and reboots, James wonders if they're going to make an Air Force Two.
• Mike describing Knuckles Chaotix as a video game "for crazy people".
  Mike: If you're a fucking serial killer, you'll love this game.
  James: Wow, this conversation got dark. (Mike laughs)
• Solomon's Key: At the very end, Mike sets James up for his catchphrase but James doesn't catch on at first:
  Mike: Moving on. What's your line?
  (James has a baffled look; Mike mouths his line to help him out)
  James: Oh. (chuckles) Many more Mondays, many more games.
• NARC: James describes a dream he had where he tries to interview Harrison Ford. He ignored James until he offered him a whisky, at which point Ford tells him, "Now you're talkin' my language."
• Brutal Doom: Laughing about how the demons want to "fuck your ass for a million years".
• Kabuki Quantum Fighter: Mike asks James if video games are art, and James says immediately "Well yeah, why wouldn't they be?" Mike agreed, and added:
  Mike: I think people that don't play video games and don't appreciate video games are probably, (falls in the game) fucking shit... have a hard time probably of thinking of-
  James: They're probably "fucking shit".

2018

• Amazing Frog. Just, all of it.
  James: (laughing) Where do you find this stuff?!
• When the duo played Lords Of Thunder, they went off on a tangent about Hell and Satan while they're playing a stage with a fire background. Mike thinks it would be cool to be one of "Satan's dudes", hanging out playing poker. (in demonic voice) "YEAH, I'LL BE OVER FRIDAY NIGHT." And then segue into which game system Satan would probably play. James guesses CDi; Mike thinks he would make you watch him play Super Mario Bros. 3.
• My Horse Prince, a particularly infamous mobile game about a young girl who dates Yuuma, a horse with a human Bishōnen face. The part where Yuuma forcefully feeds the girl green onions (to the point where she exclaims, "He's going to kill me!") was enough to break Mike and James.
• Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy was one of those games where the duo had a hard time getting past the first screen, a giant mountain of rocks and trash. More than once, they fell all the way back to the bottom and had to start all over again. Their many reactions are priceless.
• The Rocketeer (SNES) had the duo struggling to finish the first level (an airplane race), being confused as what they were supposed to do. Mike manages to beat it, only for the second level to be exactly the same as the first. Cue the screaming.
• James ran out of time to beat Mega Man X because he had to watch the kids. He resumed fighting the final boss at 4 in the morning, and again at 6 because his youngest started crying on the baby monitor.
• James and Mike try out some unofficial mods for Grand Theft Auto V, including playing as Kermit the Frog, The Pink Panther, Slimer, and a realistic duck.
• When playing Demons to Diamonds on Atari 2600, James and Mike make a bet: loser has to play Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (NES) for 5 minutes. Mike loses and gets through the first level of Jekyll & Hyde with ease before his allotted time is up, but James shuts the NES off before Mike gets the chance to ask him if he wants to try the second level. Mike says it's the fastest he's ever seen James get up to turn off a game.
• Instruments of Chaos Starring Young Indiana Jones: Three moments in particular:
  • The two getting the giggles at Indy's death by lightning on a bridge.
  • More giggles at Indy flailing while stuck in a hole.
  • After Mike does really well on one level, he's knocked all the way down to the bottom of the level by "Dick Tracy".
• The Pagemaster: Even with the help of special guest Macaulay Culkin, James and Mike can't even get past the first level due to a dripping acid glob that kills them instantly. Then a fly buzzes into James' basement and starts distracting them. Mac even references the famous Breaking Bad episode with the fly.
• The duo play the Super Mario World hack "Brutal Super Mario World". Everything is mostly normal until they get to a world boss that looks nothing like traditional Mario bosses (it's actually a re-colored version of Mammon Machine from Chrono Trigger). Mike says in a disturbed tone: "That's not from Mario..."
• F-Zero: The Revenge: The duo note that one of the hazards in the Game Mod looks like pizza bagels, which leads to the topic of Michelangelo's bad taste in pizza, and whether he would eat a Bagel Bite.
  James: Pizza on a bagel, you can eat (camera zooming in on his face) pizzaaaAAAHHHHH anytime!
• Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest: They get off on a tangent about what happens to children's chewable vitamins over time- Mike pulls out a bottle of thirty year old Pac-Man themed vitamins he just happens to have, and they're charcoal black and reek something fierce.
  • At the start of the third episode:
  James: All right, welcome to Donkey Kong Country part 19. Let's beat this fuckin' game.

2019

• Mike touts Batman and Robin (PS1) as one of the best Batman games ever made. James believes him and spends the first few minutes struggling with the controls. After six minutes, Mike finally comes clean that he's just messing with him:
  James: This is supposed to be good?!
  Mike: ...Have you ever done with a video with me before? This is the worst Batman game ever.
  James: [...] So why wasn't this on AVGN? This is terrible!
• This part of a crazy course in Super Mario Maker 2 has James speechless.
• Skyblazer: A section of platform hopping requiring incredibly fast timing causes the two lots of pain. After one failed try, Mike screams "FUCK!" abruptly, then immediately realizes it was louder than usual and apologizes. It even spooks James!
  • After one successful attempt at climbing the tower, the next screen is a giant wall immediately pushing across the screen towards the character, cracking up Mike. James has to pause the game because he needs a "brether".
• In The Simpsons: Bart's Nightmare, Mike repeatedly referring to Smilin' Joe Fission as "the dude". Obviously he doesn't know the character's name, but that's what makes it amusing, especially since "the dude" can refer to somebody else.
• When playing Decap Attack, there's a section where the character is being chased by a giant totem pole and he has to jump between bouncy blocks. The grunts James makes on this attempt are hilarious.
• On the Doom (2016) episode, James and Mike go off on a tangent about theoretical movies with extremely short titles, like They, Them, and Be. When James searches IMDB to see if the last one actually exists, he stumbles across a movie titled Don't Fuck in the Woods (yes), which causes him to keel over in laughter.
• Faceball 2000: The last couple minutes of the video, when James and Mike wear smiley masks like the "characters" in the game.
• When playing Die Hard on PC Engine, James goes on a tangent about how streaming is better than DVD and Blu-ray, mainly because you don't have to wait for ads and warning screens on streaming services:
  James: Streaming has won. It has totally won.
  Mike: So then why do you have a video store in your house?
  James: Because it's nostalgic. (Mike chuckles)
• Shinobi 3: James wonders how the game can possibly top itself after a giant Eldritch Abomination boss partway through the game- Mike says the final boss is "just, like, a dude".
• Baby T-Rex Prototype: James glances at the camera viewfinder and notices he's holding the controller near the top of his chest and slanted, then wonders why he's having so much trouble playing the game.
  • In the same video, James and Mike collapsing in laughter after much Self-Deprecation.
• Super C: No Shots Fired: The moment at 3:36 when James struggles to keep from laughing when Mike's jumping around tons of bullets, and eventually can't help but crack up.
• The Mario "No Coins, No Enemies Challenge" has an extended bit towards the end when Mike does a purposefully bad impression of Sylvester Stallone listing off all his Rambo and Rocky movies. While doing the latter, he blanks because he can't think of Creed- James says Rocky Creed.
• Thunder in Paradise: While playing one of the levels, Mike jokes that the level goes on for an hour and a half.
  • "Hey James, my CD-i's better than yours. Are you jealous?"
• Kid Chameleon: James gets stuck at a part where you have to wait for the correct pattern of disappearing blocks to jump up them.
  Mike: It's also, like, a pattern. Like, they want you to wait to the certain pattern to get up it.
  James: Nobody wants to do that shit.
  (...)
  Mike: (laughs) I like your response: "Nobody wants to do that shit!"
  James: Who wants to- no, really, who wants to-
  Mike: Who the fuck wants to do that? Who wants to do it the right way?
• The Mask (SNES): The subject gets onto the two Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade games on NES- they watch a clip from the Nerd episode about Indy games and Mike comments on the turd pic used in one scene and says it was a good choice... and immediately adds: "Now that one in the 5200 video (James laughs) on the other hand..." They proceed to discuss why the turd in the 5200 video looks weird- it's brown in the middle but white/silver on the edges. James thinks it was a glitch in post-production.

2020

• The SNES Variety Pack had a part where they played The Flintstones: Treasure of the Sierra Madrock. Spurred by the title, James mentions that he wants to see The Treasure of the Sierra Madre. Mike then asks if James wanted to ask Humphrey Bogart if he ever played the Flintstones game. Until James looked it up, both are unaware that Bogart died over 30 years before the SNES made its debut, and three years before The Flintstones was even a thing.
  • Also, their reaction to there being a game called Bastard!!, and said there's no way you could release a game with that title in the U.S. James then joked he bought Shithead. Apparently it's a fighting game.
  • Congo: The Secret of Zinj: The part where the duo laugh at blowing up gorillas.
• When James and Mike play Super Mario Bros. 3 in different locations, James keeps exclaiming "Oh Bertha!"^Note(as in, Big Bertha the fish enemy) Mike notes how funny it sounds hearing that over the phone.
• While playing Captain Commando, the discussion somehow got onto Looney Tunes. James noted that it's more difficult to watch the series than it was in the '80s and '90s when it was on broadcast networks that everyone got. Mike had an idea of how to introduce it to new viewers: Have a random cartoon come on during a video game. James said that would be a good way to get people to hate Looney Tunes; Mike clarified that he meant a hidden cartoon in the game itself, but James took it to mean that while playing Minecraft, it just randomly cuts to a Looney Tunes cartoon that the kids are forced to watch before it goes back to the game. At this point, the two are laughing hysterically at such a bizarre scenario.
• During the two's first round of Wheel of Fortune for the NES, the two are soundly trounced by the CPU's Joe, who near effortlessly solves every single puzzle. It gets to ludicrous levels in the final round when Joe is only given one correct letter for the final spin, and still solves the puzzle with no problem at the end, causing Mike to shout a Big "WHAT?!" and come up with the theory that it's actually Joe Redifer playing.