Funny / StephenPlays

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The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim

• In episode #153 when he finally gets the completed Bend Will shout, he repeatedly fails to try to control the dragon in more embarrassing ways and 'dies' multiple times.
  *after already attempting three times* Stephen: The dragon is stuck in the air...
• OPPA RIEKLING STYLE!
• When doing the Dark Brotherhood quest to kill Grelod the Kind, he doesn't like how there doesn't seem a way to solve the situation without straight up killing her. How he solves this has to be seen. Also a Moment of Awesome for Lil' Brekflek.
  • And when Constance Michel is panicking, he just closes the door as she's running out. And even though he hasn't laid a finger on her, she's making noises of pain.
• His usual way of assassinating comes back to bite him in a couple parts later when Lil' Brekflek gets a little too excited and as well as killing the target, kills a guard and a quest giver forcing Stephen to send him away.
• When confronting a wounded Cicero, Stephen is not sure if he should kill him or not...Untill his kleptomania decides for him. Also an amusing glitch afterwards.

  *While Cicero is attacking him* Stephen: Cicero, you're healed! *Beheads Cicero, leaving behind his hat floating above his body*

• During the final episode, when he goes on a massive rampage to kill everyone in Skyrim, it's funny on multiple occasions. It truly has to be seen in order to get the full experience of it.
• Stephen celebrates the tenth anniversary of Skyrim by playing a new HD update with new quests on stream, recreating Argyl from scratch. He repeatedly forgets how weak he is at the start of the game and takes on too-strong enemies, and also spends almost the entire stream obsessed with a false memory that a crab is about to appear at one point.
  Chaz (in the second stream): Update on Hidden Crabs found: 0/0
  • He recruits Faendal as an ally again, then gets confused when he attacks and kills him 'for no reason', oblivious to the fact that Faendal just got 'launched to space' by a blow from a giant when Stephen attacked a group of them without purpose.
  • He also gets a new Li'l Brekflek equivalent goblin friend, this one named 'Vinnie Van Gogh'.
• Due to Mal being sick in February 2024 and one Zelda stream being cancelled as a result, Stephen tries Skyrim with Crowd Control, leading to predictable chaos like his chat crashing the game by giving Argyl too many baked potatoes.
  • Someone keeps spawning crabs, probably in reference to the 'Hidden Crabs' running joke from the last time he played this Skyrim file.

Little Big Planet 2

• Stephen's reaction when they earn some new costumes in episode 2:
  Stephen: Now we can be a chef astronaut! I've always wanted to be a chef astronaut!
• In episode 4, Stephen thinks the preview image of the boss they're going to fight looks like "a mechanical Texas".
• In episode 9, Stephen's moment of Laser-Guided Karma when he and Mal are working together in a minigame to bounce Sackbots over a Pit of Despondency. Mal misses one which burns up in the pit and she apologises, Stephen offhandedly says he doesn't care because it's one that doesn't count towards Mal's score, putting him ahead - only to immediately miss one himself, putting them equal again.
  • Later in the same episode, Stephen is worried they might be bypassing new stickers and miss one "of...President Taft's moustache".
• In episode 10, Mal mistakes the cyborg animal they're riding for a goat rather than a camel, and even after she realises she was wrong, she keeps accidentally calling it a goat.
  • "'The Negativitron Hates Monorails'... that should be on a shirt."
• "Watch out for the seashell!" in episode 17.
• The whole cavalcade of questionable-looking fan made fighting game mods with QWOP-like physics in episode 21.
• In episode 22, Mal and Stephen play a Shadow of the Colossus-based level, and at one point Mal manages to break the game when she and Stephen accidentally grapple each other rather than onto a bird that takes them to the boss, but the cutscene keeps playing.

Pokemon: Leaf Green

• At the beginning of the LP there is a warning pretty much saying that this LP isn't to be taken seriously, which also counts as self advertising for a certain other Let's Player.
• All of the different fake Pokedex entries and the hilariously bad made pictures that are with them.
• Many of the nicknames Stephen gets from a randomised list of fan suggestions can qualify as well.
• His habit of applying massive amounts of Fridge Logic to all the dialogue.
• In episode 1, Stephen notes that there is a seven character limit when you put in your name...
  Stephen: Luckily, my parents gave me a seven-letter name, as opposed to those idiot parents who gave their kids eight-letter names, because they'll never be able to play Pokemon. Sucks for them.
• In episode 6, his reaction when his randomised list of names unexpectedly produces an appropriate one - calling a Zubat he just caught "Batman".
• While fighting Misty, he casually comments that he always found her to be the most attractive anime character, then adds that Mal (not in the video, but evidently present) "just gave me a weird look".
• The Running Gag of saying "I'm Jitters!" in a quavering high-pitched voice whenever Jitters the Pikachu emerges from his Pokeball.
• Stephen consistently referring to the Picnicker trainer type as "Luigi" because of their green clothes.
• In episode 12, he captures a Meowth and the randomised list names it "Geodude".
• In episode 16, "This is the first time we are seeing Raichu, unfortunately for this Raichu, it will be the last time we see...this...Raichu...dangit."
• In episode 20, "Technically you're drilling into their skull and inserting a CD into their head...Pokemon's weird."
• In episode 23, Stephen plays the slot machines and acts like a stereotypical gambling addict as a joke, saying he could spend an hour doing this. He then messes up by evolving Jitters the Pikachu before it learns the move Thunderbolt, and actually has to spend an hour in the next episode playing the slot machines until he has enough money to buy the TM.
• The Running Gag that Stephen thinks the protagonist is illiterate (or just an idiot) because every time he looks at a computer screen it says "It's all complicated words and numbers that make no sense".
• In episode 26, Stephen comments that the Channeller trainer type looks like they're using a giant toothbrush...
  Stephen: Actually, I also have a giant toothbrush. Thank you so much, Emile.
• In episode 31, "SausageGuy's a powerhouse, and he's got a backbone of spines...coming out his...back."
• The sleeping Snorlax ends up being named "Chugga" by Stephen's random list.
• Stephen's increasing confusion in episode 35 over the fact that Koga's gym supposedly being about poison types turning out to be an Informed Attribute.
• ALL of episode 40, in which Stephen denies being drunk before rambling about unrelated things in a manner (he says) is reminiscent of NintendoCapriSun, and finally goes on a Disorganised Outline Speech where he wonders why Pokemon can't be gym leaders.
• The failure montage in episode 43 of Stephen repeatedly accidentally killing Articuno. As well as the idiosyncratic way he pronounces its name.
• In episode 53, the screen scrolls in a way after Bill walks off that suggests he's vanished into the ocean to a puzzled reaction from Stephen.
• The Tangela in episode 54 that Stephen has more trouble catching than the legendaries.
• In episode 55, he's fighting Giovanni's Rhyhorn with his Lapras as rain still falls from a Rain Dance he used earlier...
  Stephen (singing): Raindrops keep falling on my head... and I'm gonna use my Surf attack until you're dead...
• In the finale, "Stephen and Chugga Catch Mewtwo", Chugga's self-pointed-out Verbal Tic of "Honestly..."

The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess

• In the first episode, Stephen mishears Mal saying "Ocarina of Time" as "Macarena of Time".
• Stephen's reaction to Malo's shocked face.
• In episode 5, Stephen (as Wolf Link) talks to a chicken, and randomly decides to give the chicken a Dashing Hispanic voice.
• In episode 6, when text initially comes up at the very slow default speed, Stephen reads it in a slow slurring voice, then suddenly speeds up into Motor Mouth when Mal pushes the button to make the text go faster.
• In episode 8, Mal's convinced that everything is better with monkeys, while Stephen thinks anything but, getting increasingly annoyed with the monkeys as the video goes on.
  Stephen: What do you get for freeing all the monkeys?
  Mal (completely deadpan): Monkey jelly.
• In episode 13, Mal trolls Stephen by making him panic when he's doing the goat-herding challenge and one refuses to cooperate, then casually adds at the end that it doesn't matter how much time you take to complete the challenge.
• Stephen's song about walking on the ceiling, sung to the tune of "I've Been Working On The Railroad", in episode 15.
  • Similarly, in episode 19 he has an enemy sing variant lyrics to the Garth Brooks song "Friends in Low Places" as a Badass Boast.
• Every time you load a save, the game starts over telling you again how much different rupee colours are worth as soon as you pick one up, which many players find annoying; Stephen decides to read out every such dialogue box in a Mickey Mouse-like voice. "YOU GOT A BLUUUUE RUPEEE!"
• In episode 28, Mal deliberately avoids moving along several text boxes to add awkward pauses.
• Stephen constantly comparing everything in the game to Ocarina of Time. One commenter suggests they should make a Drinking Game out of it.
• Mal trying to pick up a bug with the Clawshot in episode 32.
• Stephen deciding to ruin the dramatic cutscene of Midna reacting to the smashed Mirror of Twilight at the start of episode 36 by singing "HOW COULD THIS HAPPEN TO ME?" over it.
• Stephen's increasing rage in episode 39 after he repeatedly fails at jumping between swinging platforms.
• The voice Stephen does for Yeta.
• In episode 44, Mal fights a Beamos (which has a single glowing red eye) and has it talking like HAL.
• At the end of episode 47, Mal casually mentions that there are three more dungeons left in the game, and Stephen (who hasn't played very far into the game before) reacts with "THREE MORE?!"
• 51 episodes in, Stephen finally notices Ooccoo's nipples...
  Stephen: Nipple hooks? Nipple hooks? NIPPLE HOOKS? NIPPLE HOOKS!
• At the end of episode 53, Stephen jumps down out of a room without hitting a switch that requires you to backtrack a long way around to get back to. The video ends on Mal's Stunned Silence.
• In episode 54, Stephen fights the boss Argorok while being constantly distracted by the fact that he can't remember the name of the horse in Shadow of the Colossus.
• In episode 63, Mal's trolling of Stephen as well as (sings) "Frodo and Friends! Come to save the day with their RPG! It's Frodo and Friends!"

Super Smash Bros. Brawl

Subspace Emissary

• Stephen tunelessly singing/humming the entire theme song at the beginning of the first episode.
• Stephen's fascination with making Squirtle constantly bounce up and down shouting his name in episode 4.
• In episode 5:
  Stephen: If I met a Yoshi in the wild, I would ride him so hard...Don't quote me on that.
  • Mal's fascination with making Zero Suit Samus crawl everywhere.
• Stephen's rendition of Diddy Kong as Rhymes on a Dime.
• Mal's obsession with collecting stickers.
  Mal: Sticker, sticker, sticker, sticker, sticker!
• In episode 11, both Mal and Stephen play as Lucario against Meta Knight. Stephen tries repeatedly to hit him with a charged attack and fails, then Mal does it without trying and one-hit-kills him.
• The entirety of the fight with Meta Ridley in episode 14. Especially how Mal gets the killing blow, but all she cares about is that the screen might transition before she can pick up the resulting stickers.

Events

• In the third co-op events video, in the penultimate battle Stephen defeats Bowser, the last enemy, by repeatedly throwing a spring jump platform up at him.
  Stephen: BOUNCE, BOWSER, BOUNCE!
  • In the same video, Stephen talks about how the last battle is nigh impossible because you have only one life and you have to fight every other character in the game. Mal declares "I'm gonna be Tabuu!"

Battles

Mario Kart

• Wario being Stephen's Arch-Enemy in the Mario Kart 64 Mushroom Cup.
• The Running Gag of Stephen managing to drive between the item blocks and miss picking one up what seems like almost every time.
  • And also Stephen never getting the boost at the start, and reacting every time in a Dull Surprise fashion.
• In episode 5, "You can't catch me, I'm the Gingerbread Toad!"
• In episode 14, Stephen falls off of Rainbow Road towards the planet below...
  Stephen: I landed in Canada!
• Stephen's constant Yank the Dog's Chain moments where he talks about how well he did in practice, only for Mal to beat him when the camera's running.
  • Especially prevalent in their Mario Kart Wii race on Toad's Factory in the Mushroom Cup. In the past games, Mal and Stephen always tie perfectly in the Mushroom Cup, and Stephen wants to change that, thinking that it could make the difference for him to win. He gets a commanding lead as Mal struggles with an item onslaught. The entire time he makes insanely cocky statements... only to be slaughtered by a blue shell and knocked to 9th as Mal swoops in to 2nd place. The final score: Mal with 51, Stephen with 45.
    Mal: Well... at least we didn't tie.
    Stephen: ...shut up.
• Six months after the original series ended, Stephen and Mal continue due to the release of Mario Kart 8, which they play completely blind for the first time. Despite this, they somehow end up tying in the Mushroom Cup, exactly as they did in nearly every other game!
• Stephen suffers from Aesop Amnesia when they play the Flower Cup of Mario Kart 8. He builds up a decent lead over Mal in points after the first race and starts making cocky trash-talking statements. Needless to say, he loses.
  • After Stephen and Mal set the difficulty to 150cc (mistakenly thinking that's what they used for the previous games) they both keep getting beaten by the AI and wonder if they'll even be able to unlock the next cup.
  • Stephen's moment of total Mind Screw in the Leaf Cup.
• Stephen's reaction to continuously getting bananas in the fourth round of Mario Kart 8's battle mode.
• After EIGHT YEARS, Stephen and Mal finally return to playing Mario Kart 8 to play the Switch DLC.
  • As always, Stephen remembers literally nothing, including which button is 'accelerate' and the name of Kamek (whom he calls "Wizard the Kidnapper"). He also has no idea who Peachette is.
  • Stephen's appalled reaction to there being a Mercedes kart, especially when it turns out to be the one whose stats means he has to use it. In the second stream he is even more put out when he talks himself into using the Mercedes-branded tyres as well because of their stats.
  • Both Stephen and Mal comment that they used to load up the original Kalimari Desert level just to drive along the train tracks (which you're not supposed to do). Mal sarcastically claims they've changed it in this new version so you really do go along the train track, in a joking attempt to make Stephen go in the wrong direction (which he doesn't fall for). It turns out they actually did make that change!
  • This time, streaming the gameplay means the chat gets to bet channel points which, given how close the contest between them always is, leads to a lot of fun reactions when one snipes the other at the last minute.
  • While racing the Berlin track, a blue shell hits Stephen but also visibly damages one of the background NPC cars next to him, which Stephen attempts to call attention to by referring to it as "the human car".

Battle Block Theater

• In the first episode, Mal gets a jetpack and tries and fails repeatedly to use it to get a hard-to-reach gem. Stephen claims he could do better, Mal demands he try, Stephen admits he's just kidding with her and he wouldn't do any better. Then he finally tries and does it on his first attempt.
• Mal's "BOAT!...BOAT!...BOAT!..." Madness Mantra in episode 2.
• In episode 5, Stephen gets grenades and promptly turns into a Mad Bomber, usually blowing up both himself and Mal every time he tries to use them.
  Mal (not pleased): Stephen, you are not allowed to have grenades.
• All the Wunza Plot-style unlikely pairings between character head types that Mal and Stephen come up with for each episodes.
  • "Squirtle & Satan, the team no one believed in." (episode 4)
  • "Cold Kitty and Plasma Chef!" (episode 9)
  • Coffee Addict With Golf Balls and Elephant With Vacuum Cleaner (episode 10)
  • Soviet Soldier and Viking (episode 22)
• Stephen's random scatting to the background music of a World of Chaos bonus level near the start of episode 8.
• Stephen going faux-cutesy in Episode 9 in a way of mocking Mal because she can't reach the platform he is on.
• In episode 11, "I don't know why you expect me to help you if you continually throw frogs at me!"
• Episode 12 gives us "PK FAN!!"
• In episode 22 Mal plays as a Soviet soldier, which leads Stephen to attempt a Russian Reversal joke:
  Stephen: In Soviet Russia, saw cuts you! ...Even though that's the way it is everywhere else.

Resident Evil 5

• In the first episode, Stephen attacks a cardboard box with his knife 'because Solid Snake might be hiding in it'.
  • Also in the first episode, Stephen explains the inventory system to Mal and notes that they can request healing or other items from each other's inventory. Mal promptly decides to request Stephen's gun so she can Dual Wield.
• The Running Gag of Stephen always kicking every door open in an unnecessarily dramatic way.
• In the second episode, Stephen claims the mob of enemies is actually one side of a Coke vs. Pepsi gang war.
• In episode 6 the two of them run out of space in their inventories and Stephen in particular gets more stressed out from trying to manage the inventories than he does from fighting the enemies.
• Mal's consistent This Is Gonna Suck reaction whenever they encounter a Let's Split Up, Gang! section (which because of the game's mechanics inevitably means that she, as Sheva, has to go on ahead without Stephen's Chris Redfield).
• In the flashback in episode 10, Chris and Jill are getting beaten up by Wesker with his Super-Speed and Super-Strength...
  Stephen: And this, kids, is why you always eat your vegetables. He's had so much broccoli!
  Mal: Broccoli makes you teleport?
  Stephen: Uh, if you eat enough of it.

Super Smash Bros for Wii U

• Stephen and Mal fail on Master Core with Marth... twice.
• Stephen once stated, they would get to a point they would fail all the time... and they've gotten there.
• Stephen's ROB impression when fighting Master Core, followed by Mal accidentally saying he runs on "eight double D's."
• The complete gong show that is "Keep 'Em off the Ship!". 57 failures!
• They died as Lucas (who is a character they play frequently) once on Master Hand, but they didn't when they played as Roy (to whom they admit they're unfamiliar with).
• In the first Classic Mode battle with Corrin, Stephen is trying to explain their moves and point out how their neutral B shot can stun enemies. He tries to show this on Jigglypuff... who is wearing a Franklin Badge, and thus sends the shot right back at Stephen.
  Stephen: (clearly unamused) She's wearing a Franklin Badge. Kill her.
  • The entirety of the final battle of Classic Mode with Corrin. Stephen... slightly exaggerates what happens during the first episode of Pokémon, and then finishes (the second attempt) by whacking Master Core's butthole.

Super Smash Bros Ultimate

From the World of Light playthrough:

• Mal's love of the Lip's Stick item (which slowly drains health from the enemy once hit). In particular, when they get stuck on a fight and Stephen tries various combinations of spirits and fighters to try to overcome it in a bespoke nuanced way, Mal has a tendency to just use Lip's Stick and beat it easily.
• Stephen's goldfish-like memory (as he himself notes) to forget everything he's just read about an upcoming fight immediately after he switches to the fighter-selection screen - especially whether it was a stamina battle or not.
• The Running Gag of Stephen losing an easy fight, followed inevitably by Mal quickly defeating the enemy on her turn.
• In episode #53, Mal struggles to remember King K. Rool's name, unable to keep from calling him some variation on King Dedede. Stephen just sits back and allows her to fumble around trying to remember his name just cause it's hilarious to him.
  Stephen: (trying to help her remember without giving it away) His middle name, cause he has a middle name... is one letter.
  Mal: ...King D? (Stephen starts laughing) ...dede?

From Co-op Classic Mode:

• Stephen still hasn't learned from the Mario Kart days and constantly jinxes his and Mal's attempts with different characters by talking up how well things are going - which inevitably leads to disaster.
• Each episode begins with Mal (and sometimes Stephen) positioning their cursors to seemingly poke their character's portrait in a suitable place. This is never acknowledged in their commentary.
• Stephen and Mal trying to guess the theming of each character's route, and quite often getting it wrong (as the commenters note) because many routes give a themed helper to the player, who doesn't show up because they're playing in two-player mode.
• During Sephiroth's route, Stephen and Mal have quite possibly the quickest and easiest match against Giga Bowser ever known to man, thanks to Giga Bowser using Flying Slam on the former, and accidentally self-destructing by flipping off the stage. Not only are Stephen and Mal utterly gobsmacked by this turn of events, but the game rewards them for this mishap, giving them a whopping 0.9 for their "performance".

The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time

• All the completely inappropriate voices Stephen and Mal do for the characters, such as Saria with a constant nervous Annoying Laugh, Zelda sounding like a chain smoker, or Impa with a high-pitched Minnie Mouse-like voice.
• Inevitably Mal starts saying things "remind her of Twilight Princess".
• Stephen gets alarmed at Mal's overly aggressive play style such as immediately picking a fight with a Peahat and firing her slingshot at everything she can find.
• Inserting 'but' many times into Zelda's dialogue in episode 4.
• In Episode 12, Stephen insists that Mal voice the Bean Seller because "He looks like...you", and promptly cracks up. For those unaware, the Bean Seller is a bald, stocky, overweight man whose face roughly resembles that of a pig.
  Mal: (unamused) For that, I'm not.
• Throughout the Fire Temple Stephen assumes the Goron's "special crop" is the Megaton Hammer while Dan leaves increasingly bewildered and sarcastic editors notes correcting him.

Super Mario 3D World (Stephen, Mal, Alex & Hayley)

• Everyone, especially Alex and Hayley, gives their own names to enemies and items, including referring to Chargin' Chuck as "Football Jones" and to a Piranha Plant in a plant pot as "Potmans". At the end of episode 2 it's suggested they're actually playing a bootleg version where the main character is called "Barry".
  • In later episodes this is extended to the four characters being called Barry, Larry, Peche and Frog.
• Hayley also pretends to confuse Bowser with Link and always calls him by the latter name.
• Stephen discovering in episode 2 that Mal didn't know there was a run button.
• Everyone, especially Hayley, being unimpressed with the Wii U gamepad based gimmick mechanics and that you have to collect stamps.
• Alex's Third-Person Person play style, constantly announcing that Barry is the best.
• On loading screens Alex keeps disconnecting and reconnecting his controller, driving Stephen to frustration as he's not sure if "Barry" will appear when the level loads or not.
  • Later, Mal also starts doing the same and they start playing chicken with each other over who's going to reconnect last.
• Alex attempts to name everything in the game after his character ("the Barry coins", "the Barry crown", etc.) and the others constantly scream "BARRY!!" at him when he screws up, leading to Stephen and Hayley lampshading the fact that 'half the LP is just the word 'Barry'.'
• The Running Gag of Alex constantly complaining whenever an in-game mechanic does not work like Super Mario 64 "because that's what 3D Mario is."
• Every time a non-Toad House type bonus house appears, Hayley (and eventually the others) refer to it as "a pleasure palace".
• In episode 12 they finally realise that you can use the Wii U gamepad to interact with the enemies and environment and it blows their minds.
• After a break of well over a year, the series returns with episode 15 for the bonus levels. As soon as they unlock Rosalina, they conclude that this is Barry's ex-wife Brenda (and Hayley switches to her as her player character).
• Episode 20 sees them play a level where blocks rapidly vanish and reappear in time with the music. Alex and Stephen decide to keep track of this by rapping to the music as Barry and Larry. And it is glorious.

The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild

• Stephen and Mal play this game for the first time on stream in 2020, after managing to avoid being spoiled on it for three years. Their mod community work overtime to squash all spoilers and backseat gaming in their Twitch chat, which can lead to many Funny Background Events in the chat when Stephen and Mal themselves aren't looking at it.
  • After the first couple of streams, they switch to just blanking the chat during gameplay so they can't see it, which Stephen consistently describes as "sending the chat to The Shadow Realm".
  • Exclusive to the Twitch streams not the Youtube version, fans created a bingo card for recurring events, and then Stephen has to improvise a song for the winner saying what imaginary (and usually bizarre) prize they have won, which he has to make up on the spur of the moment. The results are...memorable, as depicted in art by a fan in this tweet and this tweet.
• Stephen decides to refer to the Old Man Link encounters in the first area as "Obi-Wan Kenobi", and occasionally also as "Big Friend" (his name for Hagrid from Harry Potter) when he notices just how huge he is compared to Link.
• As they have the DLC, early on Link finds a chest containing a Nintendo Switch T-shirt. Stephen finds this hilariously immersion-breaking and insists on Link wearing it everywhere, portraying him as being confused about what this mysterious thing is. Eventually Link gets characterised as either an unsubtle pushy salesman or a cult leader, including Stephen portraying him as ignoring portentous dialogue and responding to it with things like "...but have you considered purchasing a Nintendo Switch?"
• Stephen singing Dust in the Wind whenever they finish a shrine and the sage turns to dust. He promises he will do so every time to a clearly less than impressed Mal.
• When they are looking for food to cook as part of a quest, Mal keeps hitting the wrong buttons because she defaults to the Animal Crossing control scheme. At one point this leads her to fling an axe into a pool. This leads to a tradition of excess weapons being consistently 'yeeted' away into the distance rather than just dropped.
• They find their first Rupees in the game... and it's a blue rupee.
• Stephen reads out an NPC's long, rambling dialogue while Mal pointedly pretends to fall asleep on his shoulder.
• Stephen complains that they're probably going to hold on to the Korok Leaf item all game but never use it - five seconds before encountering a situation where he has to use it.
• After one and a half streams in which Stephen was the only player to die (and in five inch deep water), his reaction when Mal finally dies is delight that they're now even, much to the chat's bemusement.
• Mal attempts to shoot a Bokoblin off his horse to steal the horse, but ends up shooting the horse in the face. She still somehow manages to take and ride the horse afterwards.
  • Later Mal captures a piebald horse which they name "Keppy" due to his resemblance to their cat Kepler. Due to her aforementioned problem with hitting the wrong button, she keeps whistling for him (when he's miles away) when trying to do something different.
• Stephen's enthusiasm for bombs returns, with him often using the game's (infinite) bombs as his preferential way of attacking enemies - despite them causing low damage, this often works surprisingly well.
• Stephen and Mal's first encounter of the Blood Moon, which restores all enemies defeated prior to it appearing in the sky, is while they are in the middle of attacking a Bokoblin base. Said Bokoblin base was one they already needed to redo, so now they have to do it all over again.
• As Stephen & Mal continue to find more Koroks across Hyrule, Stephen's dislike of them grows more and more each time.
• Both Stephen and Mal have a tendency to forget the Cryonis ability exists and to solve shrines intended for it via other means, much to the (non-visible) chat's displeasure. This eventually results in a new ice-cube emote being added! Come the youtube uploads, Dan has taken to noting "Nobody remembers Cryonis" when they come to a situation where it would help and they don't use it.
  • Mal also constantly forgets there's a run button, much to Stephen's discomfiture (sometimes she remembers running exists but refuses to do it anyway).
  • Meanwhile, Stephen always assumes the Sheikah orbs used for puzzles are made of metal, and gets newly surprised every time to find out he can't use Magnesis on them.
  • Stephen also consistently thinks Ganon's Malice is bombable or burnable every time they find it, even though he's tried every time before and it's never worked.
• Stephen's panicked (but ultimately successful) attempt to scale the Central Tower under the guns of multiple Guardians.
• Stephen spends most of one stream with Skewed Priorities, with his only goal being to burn the thorns off a shrine that stumped them last time, and sees the only purpose of the Zora's Domain / first Divine Beast quest being to make it stop raining so he can burn the shrine.
• After a number of tense attempts and deaths from the Lynel, Stephen manages to collect enough shock arrows for the quest. To let off some stress, he shoots an arrow at the Lynel from a seemingly safe distance and walks off... only for the Lynel to nearly snipe him anyway, causing Stephen to panic, jump off the cliff, and drown.
  • Fortunately he saved progress, so on his second attempt he instead tries gliding down...and attempts to land on the divine beast, predictably bouncing off its shields. Cue "I've never seen that before" comments in chat.
  • This also leads to the Running Gag of Stephen shouting "YOUR MOM!" at intimidating enemies from (what he thinks is) a safe distance. ^note  The gag originated in a song during a break. After the aforementioned Central Tower Incident, a viewer had Stephen sing about how he definitely defeated a guardian, for real. According to the song, he stood tall and shouted "YOUR MOM!" at the guardian. Predictably, this led to fan art, which led to the joke becoming a running gag.
• As Stephen blankly watches Mal struggle up a waterfall, he comments on the need to stay hydrated in a less than well thought through manner, which he uses as an out-of-context highlight in that vlog day's video
  Stephen: I think I need to start drinking.
• Due to a mispronunciation, Mount Ploymus becomes Mount Polyamorous. Stephen also pronounces the Zora Laflat's name as "Lay Flat".
• Stephen refers to the Divine Beast Vah Ruta as "Wet Elephant", which Chaz (in the unseen chat) comments is 'my favourite Mega Man X boss.'
  • Stephen works out that Mal can shatter the ice cubes the elephant fires at them using Cryonis. Ironically (as he later states in his Youtube annotations), that was the one use of Cryonis that Dan didn't know about.
• Mal attempts a Kass quest and stuns the chat by 1) immediately correctly figuring out it involves riding a stag, and 2) successfully managing to do so on only her second attempt despite relatively low stamina.
• After three streams of trying, Stephen finally manages to do the shrine he needed to burn the thorns off, despite almost using up all their flint while ignoring Mal's advice that he needs to add firewood as well.
• Stephen consistently can't remember Hestu's name, leading to him dubbing him "Henley", "Hentai" and eventually "Big Hanson", needing to find him to hold more weapons. Amusingly it turns out half the chat commenter who've played the game also had his name wrong, always having read it as "Hetsu".
• Stephen's This Is Gonna Suck reaction to seeing the dragon Farosh for the first time from a distance.
• Mal decides to fly to what turns out to be Eventide Island, prompting Stephen to tempt fate:
  Stephen: I hope it's a friendly island.
  • When Mal tries to sneak up on some Eventide Bokoblins, they spot her and ready their TNT... only to blow themselves up by accidentally hitting a neighboring palm tree with the TNT instead of Mal.
• Stephen is unable to figure out the Korok puzzles involving three trees in a row, becoming frustrated in a way that leads to chat portraying him as a Conspiracy Theorist convinced the trees are plotting against him.
• After cashing in some of their Spirit Orbs and cooking up a few meals in Kakariko Village, Stephen activates the sidequest in which you fetch one of the villagers' Cuccos and hands the controller to Mal, clearly expecting her to get started on it. Her response? Immediately teleport away to try and catch the giant horse they learned about earlier in the stream.
  Stephen: Unfortunately, it's your turn, and I've already started the quest, so you'll have to... You'll have to...
  Mal: [indignantly; opening the map] I don't 'have to' do anything.
• Stephen mistakes a distant Lynel for the silhouette of Beedle the merchant, then has an instant Screw This, I'm Outta Here reaction when it turns to reveal its true form.
• Both Stephen and Mal start shouting "BIOSHOCK!" at each other (whichever one is playing) to take photos of enemies, due to that being a mechanic in that game. Usually this is one of them demanding the other take a photo when about to be attacked by said enemy.
• Mal attempts the spiral path to the Ritaag Zumo shrine (an Escort Mission which requires Link to carry a Sheikah orb along the path with several enemies in the way). Chat commenters discuss the ways they beat it, such as using Stasis to knock the orb straight to the centre, or fighting all the enemies along the way, or using stealth to sneak past them. Mal proceeds to just calmly walk past all the enemies with the orb, who chase after her but always almost immediately give up, much to the chat's confusion.
• In another chat-confusing Stephen nickname, he refers to Killton as 'Klingon'.
• Stephen climbs most of the way up a long narrow pillar to a shrine, when it starts to rain (which causes climbing Link to slip). However, he's in the shadow of an overhang so Link can just cling on indefinitely...so he and Mal switch to reading alerts while leaving Link hanging there waiting for the storm to pass.
• Stephen manages to beat their first Lynel, much to the unseen chat's approval...which rapidly turns to horror when he then promptly breaks the powerful weapon he salvaged from its remains by using it to play golf. He then proceeds to fly to the Guardian maze and pass the controller for Mal to deal with.
• Mal then beats a Guardian (their first mobile one), solves the maze and gets the treasure...and then, after dropping to the basement, proceeds to panic and waste all their fairies on basically the same fight she just did perfectly. An annoyed Stephen takes over...only for all the Guardians to awaken, causing him to teleport away before the same can happen to him.
  • In the next stream he goes back for a missing item and Mal forces him to leave manually, with all the laser sights tracking on him.
• Stephen and Mal return to see the Great Fairy Cotera. When she emerges from her flower...
  Cotera: Ahhh woooo...
  Stephen: No, it's "Ahwee", but your Peggy impression could use a little work.
• As Mal approaches the Eldin tower, she wonders why there's a bright blue light being cast on her. It's just the moonlight, but Stephen immediately invokes Aurora Borealis.
• On Death Mountain, Mal insists on buying the last, expensive piece of the fire-protective armor, the helmet, even though the unseen chat (and Stephen) says there's no point because they get the benefit just from the other two pieces they already have. Mal immediately causes both to change their mind when she points out this means they can stay fireproof while wearing the Nintendo Switch shirt.
• After they successfully beat the Divine Beast Vah Rudania in the previous stream and obtained Daruk's Protection, Mal somehow manages to game over fighting an Igneo Talus, for the first time in many streams - blowing through Daruk, Mipha and all their fairies (due to panicking and using an unsuitable weapon, as well as not realizing her bomb arrows are blowing up on her). An annoyed Stephen takes over and beats the Talus in about ten seconds.
• However, Stephen then proceeds to get 90% the way to beating a complex shrine... only to fail because he's ran out of the ordinary arrows he needs to solve puzzles involving blue flame, because he used those instead of ice arrows when fighting all the fire-themed enemies last time.
• After spending dozens of episodes not knowing where to look for "Hanson" (Hestu), Stephen and Mal run into him again... and initially walk straight past him without seeing him, much to the unseen chat's bafflement.
• In the darkened maze of Thyphlo Ruins, Mal successfully finds and opens the shrine (sneaking an orb from a Hinox) in about ten minutes, much to the chat's approval. Stephen then takes over and spends at least as long purposelessly wandering around the ruins due to being convinced there must be something else there; the frustrated chat joke about editor Dan needing tequila and limes to get through editing this footage for Youtube, only for Stephen to accidentally sing about "tequila and dimes" instead.
• Stephen attempts to devote a stream to sidequests, only for Mal to go haring off and open up the Wasteland tower instead.
• While gliding down to attack some enemies as part of a sidequest to clear a beach, Stephen dramatically uses bullet time to pick them off with arrows...only to forget he is still over water as he used up all his stamina to does so, and promptly drowns Link as a result. After succeeding on his second attempt, a blood moon (which resets enemies) immediately rises, and he races back to the quest giver and desperately tries to wake him up in case the quest resets (fortunately it doesn't). Being Stephen, his preferred method of waking up the quest giver is with bombs.
• At the end of a stream, Stephen and Mal raid MC, who is playing The Wind Waker. Watching the stream, Stephen is absolutely stunned to learn Koroks were in that game first. He shares his vague memories of playing the game, which include: "You live on an island, and your grandma is your grandma". He clarifies that he meant your grandma is your guardian. No, not that sort of Guardian! (Cue fanart requests).
• After the chat often tell Stephen and Mal off for forgetting or not getting certain mechanics in shrines, the tables are turned when they tackle the shrine near the 'trash lady' and quickly figure out you can pick up a laser and put it on a moving platform to automate platforms rising and falling. It turns out almost everyone in the chat never figured that out and did it slowly and painstakingly with bombs.
• A shrine being called "Shai Yota" leads to Stephen and Mal both losing it making jokes presenting the monk as "Shy Yoda", despite the fact that Stephen points out it shouldn't be this funny.
• History repeats itself (as in the Ritaag Zumo Shrine) when Mal has to carry a giant ice cube through the desert ruins with fire enemies for the "Perfect Drink" sidequest; she just calmly walks past all the enemies and somehow none of them ever hit her, so she gets it there on her first try.
• The chat is both impressed and upset when, in quick succession, 1) Mal figures out how to open the shrine at the Gerudo Tower (at night, which many of them didn't think possible), and then 2) Stephen easily beats the stealth section at the Yiga Hideout on his first try.
• Stephen and Mal spend a big chunk of one stream doing the sidequest that gets them the Sand Boots item. In the next stream, they do Divine Beast Vah Naboris (including Mal beating the boss on her first try) and, at the end of it, the chat points out they forgot to ever equip the sand boots.
• As pointed out in the Youtube comments, there's an unintentional Running Gag that Stephen checks if he's photographed the Pink Heron every time he sees one, despite having done so as one of the first animals they photographed.
• Stephen's reaction to Mal refusing to let go of puzzling out the glowing mountain in the northwest of the map.
  • Later, they do find what it is - the Lord of the Mountain, a glowing, two-faced deer horse thing that's a tribute to Satoru Iwata. Mal's disappointed she can't register it in the stable, while Stephen's convinced it's just a bigger version of the Blupee creatures and thinks they might get rupees out of it if they shoot it.
• While Stephen is fighting a Lynel, Kepler decides to shove his face in the camera.
• Over the course of one stream, Stephen and Mal manage to tame the royal white stallion and the giant horse. They name them "Keppy 2" and "Big Keppy", respectively.
• Stephen consistently refers to Revali as "Falco" and keeps inventing headcanons about the Divine Beast Vah Medoh being his Arwing and so on.
  • Doubly funny when you recall that Revali's voice actor, Sean Chiplock, voiced Falco in Smash King.
• Stephen and Mal struggle with the Warbler's Peak sidequest, correctly working out it has to do with matching the Rito children singing in order to holes in numbered pillars, but never trying the right thing due to not talking to them beforehand.
• A discussion over whether there is more to the Goflam Spring area (and Mal discovering a Korok there) leads to a massive creation of lore at the end of the stream. as the chat make Stephen sing about a half-Goron, half-Korok "Gorok" named Wallace Goflam and his successful camping equipment empire, his Hylian wife Carol and their rancher son Wafflam.
• Mal spends a while looking for the Stalhorse, failing to find it because they don't realise it doesn't appear until 9 pm in-game. Stephen is about ready to have them teleport away, but Mal closes the map only to find the Stalhorse ("Bone Keppy") has materialised in front of them.
• They do the first part of the Champion's Ballad DLC quest, which involves Link having a weapon that kills in one hit but also reduces his health so he dies in one hit - which they mostly ignore in favour of attacking from a distance. Mal proceeds to successfully defeat a group of enemies, only to die by running into a bee on the way to the shrine that appears. Stephen attacks another group with bomb arrows, and as he declares "Live dangerously!" kills himself by blundering into a spike.
• Stephen judges weapons' ability purely by their attack number, not realising that the speed of attack also counts, and thus has a tendency to ignore or dismiss spears - to the upset of some chat members who describe this as "spear disrespect". In later streams, it slowly becomes apparent that he is now fully aware of this and keeps doing it just to annoy them.
• Stephen goes to the Forgotten Temple (which contains many Guardians) and then passes the controller to Mal in an attempt to force her to learn how to parry Guardians, which she's always avoided doing. Much to the surprise of both him and the chat, she does it nearly perfectly and kills them all.
• About 130 episodes in, and after complaining the Great Fairies keep repeating "do you know about set bonuses" every time he sees them, it turns out Stephen didn't know what set bonuses were and is astonished when Mal points out the text describing what they do.
• Stephen's incredulous response to discovering that the final reward for the Champion's Ballad DLC is Link getting a motorcycle and how unfitting it is for the setting. This is particularly amusing because (as commenters point out) it's reminiscent of the incongruous prizes Stephen has made up in songs for chat bingo winners throughout the series.
• The DLC also ends with a cutscene of a photo being taken of all the Champions with the Sheikah Slate. Camera-obsessed Stephen keeps pointing out how unlikely it is that someone who's never encountered the concept of photography before would know how to compose a photo and get the group to comply with instructions.
• They do the Xenoblade 2 tie-in quest, which involves finding the biggest bridge:
  Stephen: If you were a bridge, where would you be big?
  • Stephen then crashes the Mechakeppy Cycle on the Bridge of Hylia and goes flying into the river far below, needing to climb back up. When he gets there, annoyed, he tells a Lizalfos "Alright, y'all, listen. It ain't nothin' personal, but you have to leave." The Lizalfos obligingly jumps backwards off the bridge and into the river.
• Due to having never fully figured out the logic of how cooking works in the game, Stephen decides to try using the scientific method by experimenting with different ratios of ingredients. Unfortunately, as Chaz points out to the chat, he decides to try this with the Monster Extract, the one ingredient whose effects are inherently random. Stephen then decides to 'use one of his three lifelines and phone a friend' and Chaz explains it to him. (Particularly funny as the chat had been trying to trick him into saying 'Hey Siri, call Dan / Emile / etc' for months and he finally did it on purpose).
• During a stream where Stephen and Mal finished up Bowser's Fury, one Twitch viewer tries to convince Stephen to turn on Breath of the Wild, chipping away at his resistance with a barrage of song donations. When ProtonJon joins the chat, the viewer insists that Stephen shows Jon Keppy-Horse. Stephen relents, and takes a selfie photo of Link, wearing the Korok Mask, in front of Keppy. This ends up replacing the photo for the Horse entry in the Compendium, and even though Stephen closes the game without saving, the updated Compendium remains, creating a Funny Background Event in all subsequent videos that never gets commented upon during the actual BotW playthrough.
• In one stream, Mal repeatedly figures out the puzzles early but Stephen won't listen to her until trying everything else, leading the chat to tell him off for it during the breaks and that he should always trust her. Then they run into a shrine where Stephen is the one to figure it out early while Mal is confused...which, to be on brand, involves bombs.
  • In the same stream, Stephen has a printout map to help them find the last few shrines. He is so used to using electronic maps that at one point he splays his fingers apart on the paper to make it 'zoom in', which Mal proceeds to mock him for for the rest of the stream.
• They return to streaming the game after a four-week gap due to TRG Colosseum and other matters, and Mal has to fight a Guardian almost straight away after forgetting everything she's learned about doing so - Hilarity Ensues.
• At the chat's suggestion, Mal tries shooting a Lynel with an Ancient Arrow - which makes it disappear along with all its equipment. This starts a joke that the Lynel actually got sent to the 'Shadow Realm' or 'Void' where chat is during play time, with fanart depicting the Lynel running riot among the viewers.
  • Again at fan suggestion, Stephen and Mal try fighting two more Lynels where each of them has half a Joycon and they have to control Link together, as they did in their Katamari LP. Much to everyone's surprise, these fights go better than the times when they've tried fighting Lynels alone!
• In the finale, Stephen's confusion that the game forces him to fight the final boss atop "Keppy 2", the horse they barely used. He also initially thinks he has to climb the final boss like Shadow of the Colossus, and takes quite a while (with the unseen chat screaming at him) to work out he needs to use the updraft instead to Attack Its Weak Point. The music keeps repeating the same phase over and over as the game evidently didn't expect this, and in the end it takes Zelda telling him to do it before he does.
  • Stephen puts Link in the Nintendo Switch shirt and Bokoblin mask before dealing the final blow (and demanding Ganon buy a Switch), meaning he appears that way in the final cutscene. (A fanartist managed to do art of this in advance due to accurately predicting which clothes he'd choose).
• After they beat the game, they tell the chat they can now finally make spoiler comments. Stephen's reaction when he finds out that all the attack potions he made and drank didn't stack on top of the Barbarian armour set, so were completely pointless, is memorable (as is Chaz's when he revealed he kept quiet about it).
• Two years after finishing the game and not playing it in the meantime, to refresh themselves before the sequel Tears of the Kingdom comes out, Stephen and Mal decide to stream themselves replaying the beginning on Master Mode. The results are...memorable.
  • Stephen spends most of the stream trying to remember what all the Sheikah runes were, eventually recalling all of them except (of all things, for him) the camera.
  • Stephen forgets he can teleport back to the top of the first tower and painstakingly climbs there.
  • Both of them are more concerned with finding the Nintendo Switch shirt again than any in-game objective. Stephen, while forgetting many fundamental things about the game, remembers exactly where to find the shirt.
  • As the chat points out, both of them make the exact same jokes and have the same misunderstandings that they had when they did it the first time around, especially in the bomb shrine.
  • Stephen's outrage at the existence of flying enemies and regenerating health.
  • Both of them keep skipping the monks turning to dust cutscene, with the chat joking that they can no longer use the "Dust in the Wind" running joke due to copyright strikes.

Pikmin 3 Deluxe

• The sheer exasperation that Stephen and Mal have when Alph and Brittany get separated again.
• Only funny if you've played the game and know she's wrong, but Mal initially interprets the found data files from Olimar as evidence that Olimar is dead and this game is set years later.
• The Running Gag of Stephen or Mal ending up with 99% of all the Pikmin in their squad, while the other is limited to having a handful of Pikmin to work with.
• Stephen's increasing concern each day that they haven't found the Blue Pikmin yet. When they finally do, he's so relieved he spends the day building their numbers even though Louie stole all their food which is a rather higher priority.
  • Conversely, the Winged Pikmin get portrayed as The Un-Favourite by the Youtube comments (though in reality it's just that Stephen and Mal takes the game's slightly misleading description of them as poor fighters at face value and are unaware they can be a Game-Breaker in reality).
• Stephen finds the arena where the Quaggled Mireclops is fought, but he doesn't trigger the fight. After the day ends, he concludes... the area's boss is Louie, and they're going to have to kill him.
• Episode 27: When Stephen's Pikmin start getting attacked by Fiery Blowhogs, his only response is to say "Some of you are on fire, you need to get over it."
• Stephen's reaction when he realises they narrowly failed to beat the final boss in one in-game day (having misunderstood how to fight it) but it was close enough they would have won...if he'd remembered to use any of the eighteen ultra-spicy sprays he'd spent the entire game conscientiously gathering.
• At the end of the main campaign, Stephen attempts to read the Ending Scroll, only to find out it's already fully voiced.
• In a moment of Artificial Stupidity, the Blue Pikmin attempt to take the long route to bring a Dekopon back to base, despite the fact that a shortcut was already constructed for them.
• Throughout the first round of Mission Mode, Stephen keeps commenting there are ten missions in the round, much to the commenters' anticipation because there are actually fifteen and the last five unlock on completing the first ten. His reaction when this finally happens was worth the wait.
• In the very last mission of Battle Enemies, Stephen kills off his entire party of Pikmin just over a minute into the mission and spends nearly two more minutes aimlessly wandering the level with no Pikmin. In a seven-minute-long mission. The description of the video puts it best:
  "One of us will be competent, and the other will be Stephen."
• In episode 6 of Bingo Battle, Mal gathers the last two items she needs to win the match. She stops the Pikmin carrying one of them right in front of her Onion in order to allow the second one to catch up while preventing the game from alerting Stephen that she's one away. His reaction when she wins the match instantly after the "One Away" text appears is great.

Super Mario Galaxy

• Stephen played the game shortly after launch but hasn't played it for fourteen years, while Mal hasn't played it at all. Despite this, she usually figures things out faster than he does.
  • It slowly becomes apparent that, even by Stephen's standards, he remembers literally nothing about the game, as he repeatedly notes throughout the playthrough.
• Stephen initially introduces Rosalina as ProtonJon, then switches to calling her "Brenda" from the 3D World LP.
• The game constantly gives the option of either motion controls or pressing a button to do certain things, and Stephen passive-aggressively pulls an Orwellian editor and only reads out the button controls as though the motion control ones don't exist. He also gets increasingly annoyed every time the game suggests a control option for handheld mode as he never uses it.
• Stephen introduces one Toad as "Larry", then remembers they already dubbed Luigi "Larry" in 3D World, and hastily clarifies that this one is spelled "Larrie" with an IE.
• Stephen accidentally refers to the bee powerup going away if you touch water as "losing your bee-ness" which becomes a Running Gag.
• In episode 4, Mal takes five attempts to complete the motion-controlled ray surfing level, upon which Stephen wants to try it himself. His previous disdain for motion controls and his usual Tempting Fate persona in co-ops leads us to believe it'll go badly, but then he does it in one try.
• The seventh episode has Stephen and Mal's ever growing curiosity about a ground pound button that Mal was unable to figure out how to get to, and spend the rest of the episode wondering what it would've done if they pressed it (it just gives the player Star Bits).
  • Mal manages to forget all the controls in between recording sessions (repeatedly firing star bits when trying to do something else) while Stephen forgets they've got an extra health mushroom a few minutes later and is highly sceptical when Mal tries to stop him buying one by saying they already have one.
  • Stephen also beats the garbage ammo dump mission in one try, much to the commenters' displeasure.
• Stephen gives all the surfing penguins with dialogue (of which there are a surprising number) variations on the vaguely-Australian Fargothix voice.
• Episode 18 sees Stephen repeatedly get himself killed by long-jumping and face-planting into a glass barrier (telling Mal he can't stop, 'it's a disease') while Mal refuses to skate on a Cosmic Mario race based skating level, yet still manages to win.
• At the beginning of episode 16, they receive a letter from a distressed Luigi asking Mario to come rescue him. They don't recognize the location in the picture (Honeyhive Galaxy, one of the first areas in the game), so they brush it off and say that they'll come across him eventually. This leads to a minor Running Gag about how they still need to save Luigi. They don't actually save the poor guy until episode 25.
• During the end of the main story, Stephen interprets the baby Luma waving goodbye to Mario as it goes to join the other Lumas in recreating the galaxy as it leaving Mario for dead amidst the destruction.
  Stephen (as the Luma): Bye Mario, it's time for you to die. Lumas look out for number one, punkass. See you in hell!
• In episode 38 (the finale), Stephen points out the ridiculousness of Go-Karting with Bowser.
  Bowser!Stephen: So, Waluigi tells me you've got another party next month?
  Mario!Stephen: Well...you did try to, you know, destroy the universe.
  Bowser!Stephen: Yeah, but that was two weeks ago. I'm a new man. A new Bowser!
  Mario!Stephen: Right...Don't call us, we'll call you.

It Takes Two

• In Episode 21, Stephen suggests that Rose thinks her mom and dad are dead and she's eating a whole stick of butter because she doesn't know how to properly care for herself.

Pokemon Let's Go

• Stephen plays the Pikachu version of the game while Mal plays the Eevee version, in synch with each other in single-player mode and then battling after each gym. At least, in theory; in practice, Mal has a tendency to race ahead when Stephen is either pondering something distractedly or trying to end the episode. This also means she often outpaces Stephen in levels.
• For their starters, Stephen's Pikachu is named Jitters again (but this Jitters is a girl, which he constantly forgets) while Mal's Eevee, named Beatrice, rapidly becomes a Memetic Badass due to her over-training her in the early part of the game.
  • Stephen insists he will try to use different Pokémon this time and not reassemble the same team he always uses, only to recruit a Venusaur and Gyarados...
    Stephen: It's a DISEASE, alright?!
• Viewers get to submit Pokemon nicknames and 'quirks' (mostly for artists' prompts) which Chaz's randomiser then assigns to Pokemon as they catch them.
  • They have to unexpectedly try this out early when Stephen realises they have to name their rival - Stephen's ends up being named 'Kale' and Mal's 'Canoe', so they usually just both refer to him as 'Kale Canoe' as a Composite Character.
  • Several of Mal's Pokemon she uses on her team have quirks related to organised crime, so Mal creates the headcanon that she or Beatrice is running a criminal organisation and rival to Team Rocket.
• Stephen commenting on every change made from the Game Boy original, or anything else he finds strange, such as:
  • New moves with comically childish names like 'Zippy Zap' or 'Baddy Bad'.
  • Jessie and James from the anime appear (accompanied by Stephen's startlingly good James VA impression) yet their Meowth has forgotten how to speak English.
  • Stephen gets repeatedly confused by the Alolan versions of Gen 1 Pokémon having different types, such as Mal using the ice-type Alolan Vulpix and Stephen reverting to thinking it's still fire.
• Stephen spends a long time angsting over the fact that Mal easily caught a Kangaskhan (and gets many more duplicates) while he can't find one - then the reverse happens with Haunter.
• Stephen, Mal and the artists all interpret the 'Diglett Hat' accessory for the starter Pokemon as being a brain-worm Puppeteer Parasite.
• During the intermissions for one stream, Stephen invents an alternative grass / ground type evolution of Onyx, which he dubs "Woodix" before realizing the implications of the name - which the chat then inevitably makes him sing about.
• A Nidoran is named after Dan... so when the LP was uploaded to YouTube, Dan superimposes his face onto the Nidoran's in post.
• Stephen and Mal race through Sabrina's teleporter maze in her gym, fighting trainers, to see who gets to her first. Surprisingly, despite having No Sense of Direction and repeatedly getting lost, Stephen gets there first while Mal is stuck in a battle...then, while doing a 'victory dance', Stephen accidentally walks into the exit pad that dumps him out at the entrance.
• Stephen and Mal decide to spend a bit of time pacing the stretch of water by the Power Plant in order to catch Dratini and Dragonair. They both catch Dratini in a reasonable amount of time, but get rather unlucky with Dragonair's 1% spawn rate and end up spending over an hour trying to find one. Stephen's reaction when he finally comes across one must be seen to be believed.
  • The cherry on top is the name assigned to it: "But why?"
• Stephen gave the Gary Oak voice to the new rival in this game, "Kale Canoe" without realising the original Blue is also in the game. When they eventually share screentime and talk to each other, he has a breakdown due to trying to do the same voice for both while still distinguishing them.
• While fighting the Elite Four, a Running Gag is Stephen agonising over type match-up choices, while Mal just quietly steamrollers them and usually ends up beating each member several minutes before Stephen does.
• Stephen catches Mewtwo in just 19 attempts after offering it Dairy Queen. He and Mal therefore try offering Mal's Mewtwo every single fast food option they can think of with each ball, finally catching it with just 'pizza'.

Kirby and the Forgotten Land

• A very fast, surprisingly long version of the Gourmet Race theme is introduced as Stephen's new improv song theme, which he assured Chaz would be fine. Chat has other ideas, including one stream where he is forced to sing a whole story of multiple songs about a tiny version of Tom Fawkes that lives in his ear whispering 'SHRIMP'.
• Stephen's reaction to the Crash hat.
  Stephen: ...Why am I the pope?
• Stephen talking about the first time he was ever scared by a video game:
  Stephen: I'm sure this [the next level] will be, um, scary. Extremely scary.
  Mal: Very. It's a Kirby game.
  Stephen: Well, yeah. I- The first time I ever uh, was scared. In my life.
  Mal: Was it Kirby's Dream Course?
  Stephen: ...Yeah. The fear of losing.
• Stephen enthusiastically wants to upgrade the Fire ability to its third level, only for Mal to quietly ignore him and upgrade Crash again, after they never even used second level Crash. A confused Stephen dubs the new ability 'Time Pope'.
• Stephen doing a cutesy "baby" voice for Noble Ranger Kirby:
  Stephen: I wanna shoot people now! Poyo! I gotta get rid of my devil horns, thank you Satan! Where's my gun?
• When Stephen and Mal return to Waddle Dee Town with only a sliver of health remaining on Mal's part, Stephen suggests she should go take a nap at Kirby's house. Mal uses the Sleep ability to slowly regen her health instead.
  Stephen: You wanna go take a nap in that house?
  Mal: I was going to go take a nap.
  Stephen: 'Cause you're gonna die.
  [Mal picks the Sleep ability]
  Stephen: Or that.
  [Long Beat as Mal slowly uses Sleep to recover her health]
  Mal: Let's take another nap. [Chooses Sleep again]
• Stephen repeatedly mistakes the speed upgrade for a defence one, and then frustrates the chat when he wonders why he's suddenly so fast.
• Throughout the LP, both Stephen and Mal are either suspicious of Elfilin or forget he exists (Stephen refers to him as "Illin' Elf"), in part because they're playing two-player and in that mode much of his role is replaced so he barely appears. When he's kidnapped in what's meant to be a dramatic plot point, Stephen admits he forgot Elfilin was with them in the first place.

Super Mario Galaxy 2

• On Dan's suggestion, this time Stephen and Mal indicate who's currently playing as Mario for the viewers by one of them wearing a (comically small) Mario hat. Hayley then makes a Luma headband for the other to wear, and eventually a better Mario hat (actually a visor).
• Chaz programmes a setup where viewers can submit 1000 bits and have a randomised galaxy and mission assigned to them. The randomly-generated galaxy names often sound surprisingly fitting for the game, the missions...are more variable.
  • Some mission names are extremely long, while on the other hand there is the hilariously abrupt "Insult Penguin", "Hug Birdo" and "Ride Mallow".
  • Fanartists often attempt depictions of the more peculiar missions.
  • Many mission names include a Mario character or enemy name with an adjective, but sometimes wander off into other fictional characters, like "Nathan Drake's Sleeping Contest" or "Ride a Bison with Goku".
  • One mission name refers to "Violet Mallow" and then soon afterwards Mal fights a Lakitu boss (and dies right as the boss does so they have to repeat it) on a purple cloud, which Stephen identifies as Violet Mallow.
  • Stephen doesn't know the names of Super Mario World enemies particularly well, so he keeps thinking names like "Rip Van Fish" and "Torpedo Ted" are made up by the randomiser rather than being actual Mario enemy names.
  • We get a heaping dose of Accidental Innuendo with the mission "Wash Bayonetta".
• Stephen's Lubba voice, which sounds like a cross between Grover from Sesame Street and Homsar from Homestar Runner.
• On a mission where Stephen hopes to regain his bee-ness, he instead ends up finding a hidden star after playing only 45 seconds.
• Mal refuses to zoom the overworld map out to navigate by world and instead insists on moving Starship Mario along the line of courses, much to Stephen's bafflement and frustration.
• After Mal realises she can click on the Lumas on Starship Mario to get star bits from them, she refers to this as 'beating them up for their lunch money'. After finding out she can feed star bits to Lubba, she also insists on doing this every time they go to navigate to a level.
  • Mal also usually long-jumps Mario straight into Starship Mario's ship's wheel so he hits it, bounces off and falls back onto the button that opens the navigation screen. Stephen occasionally comments on it but usually it's a Funny Background Event while they're talking about something else.
• Stephen is convinced that all Bowser Jr's vehicles look like they were made by Dr Robotnik / Eggman from Sonic and refers to him as such during boss battles.
• Stephen does a purple coin speedrun in a level where gravity changes rapidly, and ends up just barely missing it on his first attempt when he can't reach the very last coin in time. Part way through his second attempt, Mal remembers she (as Luma) could have grabbed it for him.
• Mal plays a level with a mechanic where the player can hit buttons to slow down time and make it through traps. She then decides not to use any of the buttons till the very end, much to Stephen's confusion.
• Unlike most LP'ers of Galaxy 2, Stephen and especially Mal have no interest in playing as Luigi whenever the option arises (mostly because he plays differently and causes them to misjudge jumps). There's an unintentional Running Gag of some chat members getting excited every time Luigi appears and offers to take over, only to get confused when they say 'no' to him taking over every time.
• Due to mistakenly thinking there are no stars available left to do, Mal casually goes to the final boss without warning, catching Stephen offguard to the point that he forgets how to do the Lubba voice.
• When Stephen accidentally voices Peach with a Toad-like voice, the usually straitlaced Mal comments "I have a Toad under my skirt!" and Stephen is thrown off his stride again for the next few minutes.
• In the post-final boss cutscene, Stephen voices giant Rosalina in a deep, Vegeta-like supervillain voice.
• Stephen's increasing annoyance at the game almost never letting the player control the camera, which (like Chuggaaconroy) he holds Shigeru Miyamoto personally responsible for.
• Stephen gradually grows more concerned at the revelation that Mal played every level involving the Spring Mario power-up in both Galaxy 1 and this, so he's never actually experienced it. He finally gets to use it briefly in the third green star mission of the only galaxy in 2 to feature it, discovers it's a Scrappy Mechanic, and decides that's enough. The chat points out that, as he was playing as Luigi, he's technically still never played as Spring Mario.
• Stephen gets frustrated in multiple missions involving the cloud power-up in one stream, which the viewers sum up as "Old Man Yells At Cloud".
• An interstitial break features so many viewers sending in 'clown' donations that it starts a hype train, and a raid by Let's Play/Lucahjin adds to the chaos. Stephen has to sing seven or eight songs in succession about a car full of naked attack clowns driven by Thomas.
• The final stream sees, purely by random chance, Stephen get all the really hard green stars and Mal get the easy ones.

The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom

• Exclusive to the full streams, two new special bit alerts are added for TOTK: One where a random incarnation of Link "fights" a random Zelda enemy with humorously stilted animation, and one where up to 5 ingredients are "cooked" BOTW style. Unlike with the Tiny Eddie alerts, these recipes are not randomly generated, instead created by various members of the & Friends group (most notably Thomas and Haley).
  • The list of potential ingredients goes beyond what's available in BOTW, including ingredients pulled from Pokemon, Stardew Valley, and Minecraft.
  • One dish, "Conker's Spicy Soaked Nuts" (made from Peanuts, Ale, and Hot Pepper) prompts multiple song donations. This eventually devolves into Stephen singing about George Washington using his wooden teeth to "scrape off all the dry."
  • During an intermission in the sixth stream, they run out of the cooking alerts and Hayley and Thomas have to quickly write new ones. Mal somehow seems to psychically work out all of Thomas' ones before they appear, much to Stephen's alarm.
• A Running Gag throughout the LP is them never using a consistent stamp system to mark points of interest on the map, and forgetting what the stamps they put before were meant to indicate - much to the chat's displeasure.
• In the intro, Stephen gets annoyed with having to keep up with Zelda's slow walking speed:
  Stephen: Move faster... Pokey.
• Mal's variable grasp of the controls returns from BOTW, with her repeatedly firing arrows into the ground while trying to do something else.
• Stephen's glee at learning about the Ultrahand ability (as they had avoided watching the previews of the game).
• Stephen refers to the Purah Pad as "the P-Pad."
• On Mal's advice, Stephen transports a Korok from one island to another by attaching a giant hook directly to his head and sending him down the rail. He then makes a raft to follow with an acorn glued on as a 'hood ornament', which he dubs the SS Nut, and ends up crashing it into the Korok in the process.
  Stephen: I SS Nut'd him... never mind.
  • Mind you, he refuses to unglue the korok for the entire objective, dragging them over to their friend while the korok throws out repetitive quest lines the entire time. When Stephen gets the korok seeds and the hook disappears, he’s disappointed that the korok isn’t glued to it for all eternity.
• After acquiring a fused weapon called a Barrel Club from a construct, Stephen claims that 'Barrel Club' is a service you can sign up to and be sent a new barrel in the mail every month.
• Stephen attaches a brightbloom seed to the front of a minecart in order to navigate a mine, not realising that the rails aren't usable after the first short part. Undaunted, he just uses Ultrahand to float the minecart around with him for light and refers to it as 'my extremely heavy flashlight'.
• At the last shrine on the tutorial island, Rauru says 'extend your right hand' and Stephen does a Who's on First? routine about whether he means Link's right hand or his own right hand, and Link's current right hand is Rauru's right hand...
• Stephen doesn't understand that Rauru has goat-like ears rather than a hat until literally seconds before he disappears, then promptly decides to ruin the dramatic moment by suggesting the goat element manifests by him pronouncing "Bye" as "Baaa-aaa-aaa-hye".
• On opening the door to the Temple of Time, Stephen and Mal wonder whether the tear-shaped object (in a game called "Tears of the Kingdom") is a comma, liver, apostrophe or kidney. When Zelda grants Link the Recall ability, Stephen's voiceover implies she's actually teaching him how to use a comma in a sentence.
• Stephen ends the second stream with Link stood precariously on top of Robbie's telescope. The third stream starts with Mal playing. After Stephen gives a long spiel about how they should probably follow the main quest for a bit, Mal promptly jumps straight off the telescope and dies.
• They find Captain Hoz (with Mal playing) and Stephen reads out his dialogue:
  Stephen: "Link? Is that you? You're alive! And all in one piece, it looks like."
  Mal: Eh, two.
• Both of them (but especially Mal) keep pointing out the glitch where Link drips as though wet in cutscenes. For instance, Mal adds pointed references to it in Purah's dialogue about him getting the Purah Pad wet and there being towels in the emergency shelter.
• Mal happens across a horse that looks like Kepler, so yet again they register him, this time under the name "Kepi". She also gets distracted by a dog in the background when the stablemaster is trying to explain the registration process, and gets outraged that you still can't pet them, her one criticism of BOTW.
• One sidequest requires them to collect up ten seal plushies that have fallen from the waggon of a woman named Juney. Mal simply uses Ultrahand to glue them all together and then drop them back in the waggon. Surprisingly (and much to the chat's alarm) this counts.
• After separating a horse from a Bokoblin waggon, part of the harness comes away with the horse and Stephen realises he can attach a fan to it, with mixed results. Later, Mal reunites two Koroks by gluing one of them to the horse harness and dragging it along the ground behind her.
• In contrast to his obsession with photographing everything in Breath of the Wild, Stephen (and Mal) completely forget to photograph anything in Tears of the Kingdom, despite this repeatedly being pointed out to them in messages.
  • In the fifth stream (after Chuggaaconroy jokes that of all the runes the chat expected Stephen to forget in TOTK, they didn't expect the one holdover from BOTW) it finally sinks in, and Stephen reverts to wandering through a Bokoblin camp photographing everything while they attack him.
• Stephen decides that the light balls that the shrine statues give Link look like CDs, and interprets it as Rauru passing on a Nickelback album he no longer listens to now he's only into smooth jazz.
• Stephen tries to blast away some breakable rocks with a bomb, and in a very on-brand moment, manages to blow himself up, take out all his hearts and force Link to revive with a fairy. To add insult to injury, the rocks don't even break.
  Mal: WOW.
• Stephen portrays Tulin as being obsessively excited with the concept of boats in a one-track mind way, after his overly surprised reaction to finding one in the clouds. During a break, Stephen and Mal role-play Tulin asking to drive a boat, with Stephen getting increasingly louder and angrier in his support for him as the chat looks on in terror.
  Mal: Let me drive your boat?
  Stephen: Let the boy drive your boat!
  Mal: I promise not to crash it...
  Stephen: He WON'T crash the BOAT!
  Mal: It'll stay upright, not-
  Stephen: IT'LL STAY. UP. RIGHT!!!
  Mal: I'll just catch some fish...
  Stephen: HE JUST WANTS TO CATCH SOME FISH!!!!
  Mal: Let me drive your boat?
  Stephen: LET THE CHILD! DRIVE! YOUR GODDAMN BOAT!!!!
• Mal's first thought on finding a long staircase in the clouds is to wish she had a Slinky to send down it (inevitably making Stephen reference Ace Ventura doing that with a temple staircase in Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls, which he saw many times as a child).
• Stephen's reaction when Mal spends an episode abandoning a quest he'd spent several minutes on, then trying to build a hover-cycle in the clouds, only to immediately fall off and abandon it, and then finds the gold horse but doesn't have enough stamina to ride it yet, meaning it was all for nothing.
  Stephen: The hovercraft fiasco took way longer than you thought!
  Mal: I had so much fun though!
• Stephen dives from a sky island to Kakariko Village and manages to snatch a shooting start fragment from the air as it falls - an awesome moment that immediately turns to backpedalling horror when he almost slams straight into the ground immediately afterwards.
• Mal makes fun of how hard the game tries to railroad the player into a particular sidequest involving the Ring Ruins in Kakariko Village with repetitive dialogue.
• They discover the Autobuild ability, but Mal accidentally attaches the wheel in the wrong place on the test vehicle and then the Yiga members won't let her change it.
• Stephen gets annoyed at Mal not knowing what the shield button is when she has to shield-surf for a quest, then is stunned when a fanartist pointed out that Mal has never actually used a shield in either the BOTW or TOTK playthroughs up till now.
• Robbie gives them the sensor and puts up a poster in his lab to explain its instructions. Stephen and Mal joke that this is like Chaz adding a new stream feature and putting up a reminder of how it works in his own house in Indiana and Stephen has to drive there every time he needs to review it.
• The Hateno Village election quests come with a host of moments:
  • While doing the 'Reede's Secret' sidequest, Stephen is about to report back to Reede's wife Clavia:
  Mal (reading out Clavia's text): "I worry about that man." Is Clavia me?
  • At the urging of chat, Stephen fuses a piece of cheese to a soup ladle so he can have a Cheese Hammer in-game as well as in real life.
  • The 'Cece's Secret' sidequest requires Link to stealthily tail Cece at night, which Stephen somehow pulls off despite Link wearing clothing covered in lit-up lightbulbs.
  • Both Stephen and Mal think Reede on the hustings stage Looks Like Jesus, leading to a hurricane of Biblical references.
  • Stephen's incredibly flamboyant voice for Cece ends up becoming quite endearing for the chat, so much so that during the break post-election, they begin to spam songs that request Stephen to sing in Cece's voice. One particularly memorable song has Stephen-as-Cece threatening to kick the listener's "cowboy ass".
• Stephen builds what he claims is a motorcycle, actually a vertical board with two adjoined wheels attached and a Korok glued on the front (despite the fact that the friend he's trying to reach is in the opposite direction to the way Stephen's going). Much to the chat's displeasure, this somehow works.
  • After running down an NPC and crashing, Stephen then can't climb back into the 'motorcycle' because it's raining, so he has to Ascend to reach the steering wheel instead.
  • At the end of the stream, when fanartists post art of Stephen's creation vs a real motorcycle, Stephen claims he genuinely didn't remember that motorcycles have one wheel in front of the other till then.
• Stephen keeps impatiently hitting A too quickly when trying to pick up items or open chests, and instead triggers Tulin giving a blast of wind that slams him into a wall (or blows the chest away) instead.
  • He also gets repeated Jump Scare moments from Tulin appearing in the corner of the camera when he's forgotten he's there.
• Stephen's delight when he realises he can Fuse an endless chain of logs together to solve a shrine, which chat compares to 'rediscovering marker lightsabers'.
• Stephen attempts to drive a car up a mountain, and for a while seems to be succeeding.
• Stephen climbs up a cliff face while giving a monologue about how, while this may not be the most efficient way to do it, he'd rather not waste time thinking but just start climbing. Just before reaching the top, it starts raining and he immediately slips back down to where he started.
• After they finally remember to cook food, Mal then proceeds to use up most of it (and several fairies) in a drawn-out fight with a Stone Talus.
• Stephen starts one stream by randomly singing, very loudly and passionately, "Basket Case" by Green Day. The chat joke that the stream VOD will end up muted and copyright-striked, which Stephen claims he would find to be a compliment if he was that close to Billie Joe Armstrong.
  • A little later, a cooking alert referencing "Escape (The Pina Colada Song)" leads Stephen to sing a bit of that as well, only for us to discover that he thought the line "if you like making love at midnight" was "if you like making love in Memphis".
• Mal keeps sneezing while Link is near horses or stables in-game, leading Stephen to wonder if she's allergic to horses.
• Stephen comments that it's hard to stop his mind going to dirty words for rhymes in songs, and he should never try to sing songs about ducks, for instance. Cue the chat making him sing fifteen songs in a row about ducks, expanding a break to over half an hour and creating the tongue-twister "Drunk duck in a truck trunk". Strangely, this is followed by him having a mental breakthrough about the use of Recall - "the ducks opened his mind!"
• Stephen finds a location in the sky which he refers to as 'the Death Star', tries to fly to another sky location, gives up and turns, expresses interest in a 'new' sky island he sees...then belatedly realises it's where he started.
• In a cave where you do not have any equipment or weapons and have to defeat a group of enemies around a campfire, Mal suggests pushing some nearby rocks down a slope to hit them. Stephen agrees, pushes a rock...and it somehow weaves a path straight through several enemies without hitting any of them. He then tries rewinding it, and it still doesn't hit anything, but scares the enemies who think it's 'haunted'.
• Stephen and Mal have been awarding imaginary bingo prizes by both thinking of a word, saying it at the same time and then figuring out how to combine the two words into a prize. This works well, up until they both say "skateboard" as their word.
• As a cave near Death Mountain is too hot for Link to enter, Mal tries cooking some fish with cold properties in the hope it'll make heat-resist food. Except she misses throwing them into the cookpot and already hit A in the assumption the cook prompt would come up, with the result that she throws them on the ground, then activates Tulin, whose wind blows the fish away into the cave, where they catch alight.
  Stephen: We didn't need those fish anyway!
• While exploring the interior of Death Mountain, Stephen is repeatedly unimpressed by the level of help he gets from Yunobo (whom neither he nor Mal remember being in the last game). Mal also creates a questionable car and is (in Stephen's view) inordinately proud of it. Then, while being attacked by gloom enemies:
  Mal: The car can help you!
  Stephen: ..."the car can help you?" (brings up menu, selects bomb) I think what I'm going to want to do... (attempts to shoot bomb arrow, instantly blows himself up and dies due to it being a hot area)
  • After laughing, Mal then points out that the enemies just walked away, as though thinking Stephen was so inept they didn't need to worry about him.
• As Yunobo ends sentences with "goro", the chat makes Stephen sing endless songs with that in, adding more words he has to add like "kupo", "meow desu", and then words Stephen finds hard to pronounce like "Thermodynamics", "Super Bowl Oil Pies" and "Acclimatise", while also talking like a pirate and coming up with a backstory for the pirate character.
• Halfway through the Fire Temple, they have to take a break from the game for three weeks because Mal was recovering from surgery. When they're back, it's assumed they will have trouble remembering where they were. Well, Stephen does, but Mal figures out the puzzle immediately and then instructs him on what to do, while Stephen just nods along and (he says) pretends he knows what's happening. Note that most of the chat users admit that they gave up on the puzzle and cheesed it.
• After a few shrines have chests with disappointing items in them, Stephen becomes absolutely convinced that every chest contains 'a crappy shield' and gloomily predicts so every time, no matter how many times he's wrong.
• They find a Korok at the top of a mountain with his separated friend at the bottom, so Stephen just pushes him off so he rolls down to meet him. Surprisingly, this works and he almost does it in one go!
• On a sky island, Mal tries to figure out a mysterious, hard-to-see object on the edge of the island (a Korok puzzle as it turns out). Halfway through, she gets interrupted when a Construct comes up to attack her. She indignantly calls it rude, casually knocks it off the island to fall to its death with one blow, and goes straight back to studying the Korok puzzle.
• Lifelong Tony Hawk fan Stephen's delight at discovering he can grind the minecart rails.
• Stephen decides to build a stack of Rock Roasts on a minecart to more easily transport them back for a quest, only for it to then hit the top of the tunnel and get stuck.
• The chat gets incensed that Stephen and Mal get 1000 rupees on their first try giving flint to Gomo the Gourmand, an RNG based quest which many of them took many attempts to achieve.
• Stephen becomes obsessed with finding the Lost City of Gorondia in a Conspiracy Theorist manner after meeting NPCs trying to find it, having forgotten that they already found out Gorondia is the Fire Temple and they've already been there.
• Stephen accidentally refers to Tulin as "Tortellini", then realises the Fridge Brilliance that his predecessor Revali was nicknamed "Ravioli".
• At Tarrey Town, Mal accidentally throws a battery off a cliff (and Stephen portrays her as going through a Walmart in real life dismissively throwing batteries aside). The game periodically respawns the battery there, so then she starts deliberately throwing it off again in a Running Gag.
• After the viewers point out that they have barely been to the Depths, Stephen spends most of two streams promising they'll go back there, only to then proceed to get distracted by something and never do it, over and over.
  • They finally go to the Depths right at the end of the second stream... and then go on hiatus for a week due to Extra Life. When they resume, Stephen notes it's good he's playing first, as Mal had threatened to immediately leave the Depths just to troll the viewers. Then he has to go up anyway because he can't find a good path to the next area.
• Due to not being able to see her clearly at first in the cutscene, Stephen ends up voicing the character Fernison with a Christopher Walken-like voice.
  • When Fernison and two Gerudo need a control yoke put on a vehicle, Stephen encourages Mal to put it in a weird and inappropriate sideways position because he thinks they will drive it and it'll make a funny cutscene. This backfires when it turns out Link has to drive it himself...
• On encountering some time bombs in the Depths, Stephen decides to check they're time bombs...by hitting one, which sets all of them off in a chain reaction.
• Stephen figures out the connection between shrines on the surface and lightroots in the depths. The chat promptly decides to gaslight him by misattributing this to Mal...followed by an Escalating Punchline where it's attributed to Chaz, Chuggaaconroy, Chikorita or Kepler.
  • After Stephen talks about his brain being 'a hamster on a wheel', Hayley damns with faint praise by suggesting he has 'at least five hamsters'. After Stephen says only three are on the wheel at once while the other two are taking a break, fanart ensues of this.
• When they refight Colgera in the depths, Stephen is absolutely convinced that their previous encounter with the boss was in Breath of the Wild, and has a breakdown when it turns out he's just from earlier in this game.
• Stephen builds a balloon with two fans for steering, adding "I'm a genius!" However, he fails to actually fuse the balloon to the base (only seating it atop it) so when he lights the wood, the balloon part just lifts away without taking him with it.
  • En route, he then realises he needs to adjust the fans, and whilst doing so, accidentally disassembles the balloon in midair and falls.
• After discovering the flautist they need for a quest climbed up a tree to play, Stephen compares him to Zacchaeus.
• Adding to the lack of impression Yunobo made on him in the last game, Stephen then misremembers his name as "Yajirobi".
• Stephen's attempts to solve the "Long or Wide" shrine have to be seen to be believed. He notes how the game keeps perversely giving him physics puzzle shrines and Mal combat shrines, rather than playing to their strengths.
• Both Stephen (and, uncharacteristically, Mal) begin the gameplay portion of one stream by singing their conversation about who plays first. Stephen belatedly realises that he's subconsciously using the tune of the title track from Jesus Christ Superstar.
• During a break while Mal isn't there, Stephen asks the chat which movie he's thinking of but can't remember the title of - "it's THE GOOD movie". He eventually also manages to dredge up "There's two guys. There's two guys. In a car. Looking for beans" which is enough for someone to identify it as The Blues Brothers. With sitcom-level inadvertent timing, Mal returns in time to hear the last part and comment "Good movie!"
  Mal: We're on a mission from GAWD!
• While exploring the Depths, Stephen pauses the game to switch to Mal and asks if she heard something, and the game freezes on Stalfos photobombing Link out of nowhere and about to attack him.
• Stephen actually aces a physics-based shrine for once and the chat joke that his brain has been supercharged by Thanksgiving food from the previous day.
• Mal, on the other hand, tackles another shrine requiring the player to put rockets on a minecart to make it accelerate up a track...except she puts two on the same side, it spins off and into the air at an angle...and flies past the goal so she can jump out straight to it.
• After fighting a Lynel, Stephen accidentally realises he can fuse a bow to a boomerang to make a gigantic boomerang.
• They learn how to use mirrors and are, eventually, able to use one to trigger a gate on a sky island above the Gerudo lans. Stephen then tosses the mirror off the island to fall to the ground far below. A chat commenter jokes about it flattening Mattison on the way to visit her mother's homeland.
• While discussing which spirit to upgrade, Mal also forgets Yunobo's name, referring to him as Daruk. (And then in the next stream Stephen calls him 'Darien' and 'Alfredo'; he eventually settles on 'Big Bill').
• Stephen is figuring out how to fly into Gerudo Town through the sandstorm:
  Stephen: We need to find a way to stay high. (beat) Let me rephrase that...
• Stephen kills a Gibdo, and the remains it leaves behind leads to Mal referencing Stephen's Fallout 4 LP.
  Mal: Ribcage??
  Stephen (in Grit Jones voice): ...Ribcage.
  • The chat is also upset that, after they talked up for ages how threatening they would find the Gibdos, Stephen casually picked the weapon that one-hit KOs them and doesn't see what all the fuss is about.
• Stephen Ascends through the ceiling of a tunnel under Gerudo Town and emerges in a room full of Gerudos (who ban all males from their town)
  Stephen (exhales as he takes this in): Now...how them Duke boys gonna get out o' this one?
• They are then encountered by Buliara, Captain of the Guard, who says Link can be trusted, while in the background a stall has several pulsating Chuchu jellies:
  Stephen (reading out Buliara's dialogue): "For you to come all this way, enduring the strange storm that plagues us... You must have some important news to share." Yeah...
  Mal (as Link): "Your jelly is moving!" (Stephen cracks up)
• Mal tries getting spa treatment from a Gerudo apprentice, Olu, who only charges half as much as the official one, which Stephen compares to getting a haircut from community college. The screen is black for an uncomfortably long time and then transitions to the Blood Moon!
  Stephen: "I'll give you the best spa treatment!" Hell was unleashed upon the world! The apprentice did not do as good a job as she thought she would! Monsters came out of the ground! The moon turned red! (reads Olu's dialogue as it transitions back to her) "How was that?" (cracks up again)
• Coming swiftly on the heels of the Grit Jones Fallout 4 reference comes a C. B. McCoy Starfield one, when Stephen picks up one of Riju's plush sandseals and comments "I like plushies" in C. B.'s voice.
• Mal fuses the Sand Seal Statue to a shield, and then the chat makes Stephen sing "Sand Seal Statue Shield" as his latest tongue-twister.
• When confronted with Zonai parts to solve a light beam reflecting puzzle puzzle around Gerudo Town, both of them think it resembles parts of an IKEA table and joke about doing it on a soft surface and calling the helpline. When Stephen tries to put one of the 'legs' at a corner and it joins at the centre instead, he jokes that he's made an Atari joystick by accident.
  • Stephen gets completely the wrong idea about what to do and goes to the third pillar first before the light beam is there to reflect, which the chat enjoys. Then Mal goes to the second pillar and sets it up correctly... and they initially think Stephen left the mirror on the third pillar in just the right place to reflect it on again and instantly complete the puzzle! It turns out it was only close to being right, but still.
• Stephen casually refers to the Queen Gibdo boss as 'a critter' and lights up when it appears as though greeting an old friend.
• Stephen deliberately takes time preparing food and upgrades before fighting to the boss, then tells Mal it's her turn and she has to fight it. He then does the same in the next episode with Master Kohga.
• After defeating the boss, Stephen decides to resume the Yiga sidequest (or as he calls them 'bad clan, bad man, banana clan!') and is astonished when the quest marker is literally right where he's standing now, but on the Depths level.
• The Blood Moon starts as Stephen heads towards a shrine, on a stream recorded three days before Christmas:
  Stephen (singing to the tune of 'It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas'): It's beginning to look a lot like Blood Moon, red up from the sand...
• After Stephen accidentally took up a whole episode to himself, they begin the next stream with Mal taking a whole episode - which includes a...memorable attempt at two different shrines.
  • While on her way to the second shrine, it looks as though Mal will end up blundering into the Molduga...
  Stephen (cackles in anticipation): You're gonna have to fight Reba McEntire!
  • Later, while trying to navigate an underground river as a means to enter a snowed-in tower, Mal builds a 'boat' consisting of a giant wooden box with wheels stuck on randomly... then ends her turn and leaves Stephen to struggle with it down the river.
• Just before starting the first episode of the Jan 12 stream, Stephen tries to point out where Keppy's food is so Mal can feed him as she's leaning forward to stand up and accidentally smacks her on the head.
• After discovering a Zonai sword whose description says it works best when fused with Zonai devices, Stephen decides to fuse it with a balloon.
• Mal finds a Tear memory showing Ganondorf attacking Hyrule in the past with Molduga, and all Stephen cares about is that two shrines are shown in the background of the cutscene and wondering about if they've got them.
• Stephen talks about eventually getting to Zora's Domain, but always refers to it as some variation on "Fish World" or "Fishburg".
• Stephen is delighted when he finally gets to do one of the shrines which you have to beat without equipment (or as he calls it, a "No Things Shrine"). He promptly dies doing it (which Mal usually didn't) despite the help of the Death Roombas.
• Stephen wants them to approach Zora's Domain from the south along the intended route this time, unlike how they did it in BOTW:
  Stephen: In the Zora place especially, there's like, there's rocks that are like (puts on stuffy voice) "This is where Jim first learned he was a fish", y'know? So if we start at the bottom we might get some additional exposition about Fishburg.
  • However, Stephen then gets distracted by a shrine he can't find, so it switches to Mal's turn and she ignores him, going straight to Zora's Domain regardless.
• The 'Power of Water' shrine is a rare case of Mal completely failing at a physics or engineering puzzle while Stephen gets it right!
• They meet Sidon's fiancée, who introduces herself as Yona...
  Stephen: YONA! Y-O-N-A, Yona!
  • He later proceeds to voice her with a Dolly Parton-like southern accent.
• Stephen continues to be unclear on whether Mipha is dead or alive, despite Mal constantly reminding him.
  Mal: SHE DROVE THE BIG ELEPHANT AND THEN SHE DIED!
• Stephen heads off in the wrong direction due to following the quest marker rather than the one he made. He then pointlessly dives into the contaminated water and dies two feet away from solid ground (despite having three stamina wheels). When Mal points out he should have checked the quest log for the next step, he insists he never follows quest markers.
• While experimenting with the water orbs at the entrance to the water temple, Mal keeps attacking Sidon instead by accident.
• Stephen manages to confuse the game into thinking he's leaving Sidon at the entrance to the water temple and going away to do something else, when he's just flying a plane there instead of talking to Sidon and using the waterfall. He then gets annoyed when the game won't let him activate the start of the temple for no reason, and has to go all the way back to talk to Sidon and set things in motion.
• Stephen manages to shoot the spinning puzzle in the water temple without stopping time, both impressing and upsetting the chat.
• To go with Yunobo being 'Big Bill', Stephen dubs Riju 'Electric Lucy'.
• They come back to the game after a 3-week absence due to illness, still recovering and struggling as a result.
  • Mal finds a tricky-to-locate shrine in a water-filled cave right at the end of her play session...
  Stephen (to an NPC named Sasan): Unfortunately you won't find out till next time.
  Mal: Oh, I can't build you a boat?
  Stephen: NO. NO YOU CANNOT. No more boat-building. You built me one boat and that was one boat too many.
  • In the next session, Stephen's entire attempt to it with the boat provided, and his complaints about Sasan constantly being scared of everything.
  • Mal fails at soothing the gold horse twice...before realising she was mashing the wrong button.
• Stephen and Mal go to Hyrule Castle for the first time, choosing to make several flights from the Lookout Landing tower to get there for different parts of the quest. Every time they do, they talk about how they need to cook to make healing items, then never actually do it.
  • This means Stephen ends up facing Phantom Ganon with essentially no healing items. Much to the chat's annoyance, he finds a way to cheese the fight and survive by hiding in a corner which the Gloom doesn't reach.
  • The last thing Stephen ate in desperation came with the property that it makes Link glow...which means he's glowing in all the subsequent plot cutscenes. Stephen almost immediately forgets he ate it and initially assumes the glowing is plot-relevant before Mal points it out.
• They finally save Lurelin Village after putting it off for months (still not having cooked since the castle fight and having to use the portable pots mid-fight). Like many players, they're stymied by finding the last enemy Bokoblin. Mal suggests it's in the well, Stephen immediately dismisses the possibility, they search fruitlessly for a while, then Stephen gives up and unhides the chat...who have been screaming at him that it's in the well.
• They then do the quests to rebuild the village, which include carrying logs there for Bolson. At no point do either of them think of making a vehicle to help this process, and the idea doesn't actually occur to Stephen until they raid Tom Fawkes at the end and he assumes they used one.
  • Stephen trying to fit the logs through the holes in the roofs of the destroyed houses looks extremely questionable, as he observes himself.
• After reviving the Great Fairy Cotera, Stephen upgrades a lot of his equipment, then ends up 19 rupees short for one last upgrade. They go to the local shop run by Rola, who gushingly thanks them for saving their village.
  Stephen (completely unmoved): ...you're welcome...can I get nineteen dollars?
• Stephen struggling to remember what and where the Temple of Time is (and, ironically, forgetting the Forgotten Temple).
• As Mal looks for the stone gate of the Great Plateau, a chunk of rock falls from the sky next to them.
  Stephen (deadpan): Oh. neat.
• The entirety of Stephen's attempt to transport the first eye through the depths by strapping wheels to the side of a minecart.

Pikmin 4

• As this Pikmin game novelly allows the player to create their own character, Fargothix finally gets to be the protagonist of an entire LP.
• Consistently throughout, Stephen and Mal state that "No Pikmin have ever died" and that they just go to a farm upstate (or on vacation), under the sea. At one point, due to a misspeaking, they concede that one Pokemon has died.
• Both of them, especially Mal, making fun of how repetitive the game's dialogue is. In particular, the constant use of the words 'rescue' and 'Dandori' and how repetitively incredulous Shepherd and the others are about discovering the leafling-transformed people.
• Similar to Super Mario Galaxy, in this game player 2 can shoot pebbles at enemies from 'off-camera'. In practice, this is powerful enough that player 2 can often beat enemies before player 1 can even reach them with their Pikmin. Stephen consistently refers to this as "We gave player 2 A GUN!". When playing Olimar's Shipwreck, Will Peters has Olimar refer to it as the "invisible gun".
• Mal's displeasure when, on-brand, Stephen (player 2 at the time) throws a bomb at a boss enemy with Mal's Pikmin on it, without any warning. He later does the same with an ice bomb and turns a Pikmin into a 'Pik-sicle', amused that the cutscene that plays clearly assumes this would first happen with the player running into an ice hazard rather than friendly fire.
• Stephen's outrage at the gameplay inconsistency when the 'Pikmin drowning' cutscene first plays for Ice Pikmin who fell off Oatchi while trying to make the latter swim before he's able, yet then Ice Pikmin can be safely thrown into water to freeze it. Fanartists portray this as the Ice Pikmin only pretending to drown before saying "Haha, PSYCH!"
• Stephen's concern at Oatchi's side-eye look at Fargothix in some cutscenes.
• In episode 9, Mal plays the second Dandori battle and she makes fun of the Leafling using the word as a Verbal Tic.
  Leafling (as read by Mal): This place is for testing Dandori. Do more Dandori. Improve Dandori...Show me your best Dandori...Steady progress is also good Dandori...Division of labour is important for Dandori...So this is gold-medal Dandori... (Mal wins) You work too fast, I fell dizzy...
  Collin (as read by Stephen): Oh my, they fainted. I wonder what caused that?
  Mal (flatly): Dandori.
• Stephen's incredibly dodgy Australian accent he gives Dingo leaves the chat (and Mal) incredulous.
• As in Pikmin 3, Stephen's obsession with finding the Blue Pikmin drastically outweighs all other priorities.
• The sheer number of characters in the game means that Stephen rapidly runs out of voices or forgets which ones were given to which characters.
• While exploring the Engulfed Castle, Stephen loses several Pikmin not to the Waterwraith patrolling the cave, but to a Volatile Dweevil, because he decided to march straight towards it despite it clearly being about to explode at any second.
• Stephen has a breakdown when one of the castaways they rescue is Molly, whose in-game job is being "a streamer, who came to the unknown planet in search of content and likes".
• Stephen's complete and utter Epic Fail in attempting to move the base in Hero's Hideaway, which results in him losing a whopping 90 Pikmin due to some poor planning and battle strategizing.
• Mal gets so angry that she barely managed to miss killing a Porquillion on a countertop in Hero's Hideaway, she lets out a rare "Shit!" in frustration, much to Stephen's shock.
• During a break, Mal tries to get Kepler to eat some of his kibbles in front of the screen, to make it look like he's eating one of the Pikmin alerts that is currently on the screen.
• While playing through the Olimar's Shipwreck side mode, a Twitch user named Will Peters begins recounting the entirety of each day from Olimar's perspective, which Stephen starts Corpsing while reading it aloud as it gets increasingly more ramble-y and ridiculous. Fans have taken to calling it "The Great Pikmin Epic".
• During the 6th Story of the Trial of the Sage Leaf, Stephen attempts to pluck several Reds as quick as he can. Unfortunately, he fails to pay attention to when the task is completed, and he accidentally throws several Pikmin down a bottomless pit.
• While navigating the Ultimate Testing Range, Stephen ends up having to deal with a Puffy Blowhog. How does he describe the experience?
  Stephen: Some of my guys got deflowered by the big blowy guy.
• Stephen's habit of Buffy Speak becomes outright confusing when he refers to both Player 2's pebble pitcher and the Man-at-Legs enemy as simply "the gun", alternating between saying how much he loves the gun and hates the gun.
  • The complete Anticlimax of the Man-at-Legs fight after Stephen talks up his fear of it for several preceding floors.
• When preparing to jump into the Subterranean Cavern, Stephen calls Louie an insane person for indicating that he likes how sticky the place is.
• Mal's multiple attempts at Empress Bulblax in the final dungeon.
• The entirety of the Dandori Battle saga at the end. Especially when Stephen seems about to win his first match, only for Mal to beat him at the end by 2 points, causing him to ragequit.

Starfield

• Stephen starts a new Bethesda Let's Play. This time his character is C. B. McCoy, a Space Trucker which he spends 70 minutes crafting in the character creator.
  • When Stephen tries changing his helmet in an area with vacuum and the game warns him he's lost all his oxygen, the chat jokes that the C. B. stands for "Can't Breathe". This starts a Running Gag of both Stephen and the chat coming up with new meanings for C. B. each stream.
  • A meta-joke is that Youtube commenters keep insisting Stephen needs to collect resources and use the research and crafting mechanics. Some of the Twitch chatters sarcastically quote these kinds of comments at the end of the series, when Stephen easily beats the game without ever needing to use any of them.
• He is determined to see if he can make his Robot Buddy Vasco wield an axe as a weapon.
• Stephen does a quest where he needs to sign up for the UC security services in order to get a keycard to gain access to a locker and retrieve a parcel for a woman.
  • Firstly he talks to the recruiter while standing on the desk (which the chat jokes is just Stephen's usual eyeline) to which the recruiter doesn't react, other than looking up at him while he talks.
  • Then Stephen makes an obvious lie response when the recruiter asks about his experience, only for the recruiter to point out it's a lie, shrug it off and offer him the job anyway.
  • In the end, Stephen's so keen to gain 'Persuade' expertise that he tries talking the man guarding the lockers into letting him retrieve the parcel. He succeeds, with the critical point being C. B. telling the guard "I was just picturing you wearing a tiny hat", after which point the guard is willing to put his job on the line to let Stephen retrieve the parcel - so he never needed the keycard and everything else was unnecessary.
• Stephen's alarm when an NPC talks to him in French.
  Stephen: I don't know Space French!
• Stephen decides C. B. needs a gimmick like Grit Jones' habit of collecting ribcages. He initially decides to collect plushies, only to have a My God, What Have I Done? moment when he realises he was taking them from what appears to be a child's bedroom.
• Stephen has C. B. take an hour-long nap in the middle of breaking into a guy's apartment to steal information.
  • This becomes a Running Gag, with him then taking a nap while boarding a ship with hostile pirates aboard. And his companion Sarah Morgan joins in.
  • On a later mission, while he and Sarah are both shooting (and being shot at) by pirates, he pauses to talk to her and swap gear.
• His reaction to some of the questions when a quest requires him to fill in a job application form to become an administrative assistant. Especially when one of the questions involves mixing drinks, something which Stephen notoriously knows nothing about.
• Stephen keeps pulling off Persuasion attempts despite only having the first level of it, including talking a pirate into letting him keep his ship and acquire some blackmail material, and talking a miner who'd stolen equipment and pulled a gun on him into giving himself up to the authorities.
• Due to a typical Bethesda launch glitch, C. B. sometimes randomly turns his head to the left while running forward, which Stephen describes as "Look Left Disease".
• Stephen attempts to attach a wooden duck to his dashboard as a direction, only to accidentally drop it behind the dashboard and lose it somewhere in the cockpit.
• While looking through items he's found, Stephen finds a drug that the game warns him is contraband and he can be searched for. Panicking, he decides to get rid of it...by eating it. The game then warns him he's become addicted.
• Stephen's liking for Barrett's character increases further during a visit to the Paradiso resort, where Barrett randomly gives him an unspecified gift and Stephen has to respond without knowing what it is, including choosing the dialogue option "I've got a few ideas" (for what to do with it). The game then reveals it's a ham and cheese sandwich, prompting Stephen to laugh uncontrollably.
• His incredulous reaction when the same NPC tells him a generation ship was launched in 2040 at the same time their written dialogue says 2140.
• Stephen recaps the recent plot at the start of an episode, giving a long and involved monologue about how the pirate/bounty hunter Mantis planned to pass on her mantle to her son Leon, training him up to face her lair of traps to reach the treasure therein...and then, in a casual record-scratch moment, adds that Leon died early into said lair.
• Stephen's Jump Scare reaction facing alien monsters on the planet where he finds Andreja (which he compares to Jurassic Park).
• Stephen points out the Gameplay and Story Segregation where Andreja is anxious that the player not judge her because she was in the process of killing a pirate when they first encountered her...after she, Barrett and C.B. have just killed dozens more pirates together.
• C. B. McCoy gets lung damage by breathing in fumes while picking up more artefacts. This then ruins a dramatic scene back at the Lodge where the members of Constellation congratulate him, but McCoy keeps coughing over the dialogue in the background.
• C. B. McCoy's backstory is that he grew up as a Neon street rat. When Stephen finally visits Neon, he keeps making in-character pronouncements about how well he remembers everything he's seeing for the first time.
  • Stephen's outright bafflement about an NPC on Neon called Miguel who has come here on his bachelor party alone because he has no friends, wants some drugs but then changes his mind and wants alcohol first, borderline jump-scares him by coming out of nowhere when he's trying to end the episode, and then doesn't even have an option to continue his questline at the time anyway.
• Stephen is delighted by a new patch which lets him eat food directly in-game rather than having to navigate a menu first.
• Barrett glitches halfway across the room through solid objects when C. B. awakens from one of his regular naps.
• Stephen sells most of his weapons for money. Later he approaches a room full of enemies and takes it cautiously, while Barrett charges in and attacks them. Stephen only realises later that when he sold the weapons, he also sold the ones Barrett was carrying, so he was attacking a room full of armed enemies with his bare hands. Stephen then gives Barrett a Cool Sword in the hope he'll lead the attack again, but he refuses to...until he deals the killing blow to a robot in a cinematic moment.
  • In the following stream, the chat commenters attribute (a certain cinematic moment) to Stephen leaving Barrett with only a sword.
• Stephen's bafflement when, while walking around New Atlantis after it has been attacked, badly damaged, police are locking down the area etc., he runs into a random NPC called Donna who excitedly talks about how she's having a great day and hopes to travel with her boyfriend, whom she asks C. B. to go and buy a coffee for.
• When doing the United Colonies quest line, Stephen gets a long briefing on an elaborate plan on how to get around the Freestar ambassador to get her code in order to access the restricted archives. He then proceeds to just talk to her and use his high persuade stats to convince her to give him the code voluntarily.
• Stephen's confusion and delight when, after lots of warnings not to do more than authorised in the archives, he is nonetheless able to hack his way into entering the restricted areas of the archive staff (complete with quarters) and all the staff do is make sarcastic comments that they normally do this on the other side of the glass.
• Stephen climbs the UC tower at New Atlantis and goes on a long tangent, jumping off it and swimming his way all the way to buildings on the horizon (which he is surprised to find he can go directly to).
• The allegedly-dead war criminal 'Vae Victis' does a deal with C. B. where C. B. will hunt down a fugitive in return for a favour. Stephen, as C. B., insists they will only bring the fugitive in to face justice and not kill him as Vae Victis wants. When he actually comes to it, however, this principled stance breaks down when he can't figure out how to board the fugitive's ship, so he just kills him anyway. Chaz comments that C. B. refuses to take an immoral action 'unless it's the most convenient one'.
• Stephen does Sam's companion quest, which seems to include a lot of Sam and his daughter Cora randomly standing on things and looking up at each other during dialogue.
• Stephen is shocked when he, Sam and Cora walk into a room covered with blood from a mutilated corpse on a bed, and 12-year-old Cora casually comments that 'he's just dead, I've seen worse'.
  Stephen: WHERE??!
• Stephen spends one mission of Sam's quest mocking the Syndicate goons for being 'the easiest enemies in the game', then charges into the next one and, in one of very few times in the game, actually dies through his overconfidence.
  • This also involves him accidentally being lifted off the ground by an enemy ship, then slowly falling to the ground (saved by his booster pack) and cinematically shooting the Syndicate enemies from above as they shoot up at him.
  • When Sam's estranged wife Lilian mysteriously disappears after this and Stephen worries it's a glitch, Chaz looks up how to fix it - Lilian was also abducted by enemy ships, but respawns when Stephen goes to a particular place... by falling out the sky and landing harmlessly in front of him.
• Stephen's increasing exasperation that entire governments (such as the United Colonies Cabinet) ask him as C. B. McCoy, a random Space Trucker, what decision to take in major interstellar crises.
• Towards the end of the series, the chat (and occasionally Stephen) keep jokingly attributing questionable decisions or glitches in the game to "Todd" as though Todd Howard created everything in the game himself.
• The end of the game manages to accidentally be a perfect full-circle sum up of the whole series:
  • After an epic confrontation with the two Starborn factions, Stephen is anticlimactically able to use his high Persuade stat to just Persuade both of them to give him the Artefacts without a fight.
  • He creates the Armillary and takes off to travel to Unity...before realising he never repaired his ship from earlier fights and it looks like it's about to explode as it takes off.
  • He is outraged that when he is confronted with a vision that takes on the form of C. B. McCoy himself, he doesn't talk with a trucker accent.
  • Stephen's decision whether to travel to a new universe or not is entirely based on the fact that there might be a bigger truck there...and Barrett might be alive. The second part turns out to be true, not only that but he does a mission with alt-Barrett that leads to him being able to briefly bring a second Barrett there!
  Stephen: We've gone from zero Barretts to two Barretts!
  • Part of the New Game Plus is that all Stephen's equipment and weapons are gone, so he takes a few items and sells them so he has just enough cash to buy back his trucker hat, going around naked except for that and shorts.
  • Stephen and the Barretts then have to fight some Starborn, which is challenging as Stephen lost most of his weapons. He ends up killing the Starborn against the odds with the mining drill that was his very first weapon in the game, in an unintentional full-circle moment.
  • However, after Stephen then lets C. B. asphyxiate as a way of ending the series, he realises he forgot to save and is plunged straight back into the Starborn fight. He decides to leave it as a surprise to his future self if he ever comes back to play any DLC.

Moon Remix RPG Adventure

• Stephen plays this game blind with Mal as his guide. This leads to amusing moments such as him trying to read out all the intro text, not realising that vast amounts flashing past quickly is an intentional joke.
• Chaz creates a new alert (from the second stream onwards) consisting of the in-game UFO which rescues animals that the 'hero' has killed (and which the protagonist has revived). The chat can choose to either rescue one of the Breakfast Stream birds, their own choice of Twitch emote, or a Pokemon (reusing Chaz's Pokemon sprites from the Pokemon Let's Go LP...including the more unusual ones like Phil Collins and the Babadook).
• Stephen's reaction to the character Shambles saying he hates women and children.
• All his reactions to the game's trademark weirdness (and comparisons to Chulip, made by the same developers) including one of the castle guards being a Freddie Mercury enthusiast, a child tied to a post reading out directions in lieu of a sign, and a character who is convinced first the 'hero' is God, and then he himself is. Also, all the incredibly obtuse puzzles, including trying to pick out slightly different text or images in the latter's case, and the different 'Love X' titles the Moon Queen gives them which each level-up.
• Stephen has incredibly bad luck with the Fishing Minigame, initially burning dozens of baits while catching almost nothing valuable. Then he comes back to the fishing hole and somehow catches all four of the critical items in as many casts!
  • Similarly, there's the bird-betting minigame, where red birds seem to show up constantly despite supposedly being one of the least likely according to the odds.
• Stephen's liking for the stoner character Florence, who gives out plenty of metaphysical LORE that Mal never bothered to read on her own playthroughs of the game.
• Mal warned Stephen from the start that there are two incredibly difficult and frustrating minigames in the game that she never got the 'love' from and thus has never 100%ed Moon. One is a pseudo arcade game which she compares to Flappy Bird (but with inconsistent physics that change each level) and the other is a fishing challenge. In the end, Stephen manages to beat the former without too much trouble, but they end up having to devote two streams to the latter and its Fake Difficulty. To add insult to injury, both challenges only yield one heart's worth of 'love'.
• Stephen's reaction to learning that the final twist and message of the game is to tell the player to stop playing it and go outside. He and Mal promptly ignore this to go and play Mon Amour, another game from the same developers, instead.

Stephen & Friends

• In the second Halo 3 video, JoshJepson coming out of nowhere and knocking Pcull44444 off the top of a tower (which Stephen had previously jumped off of when he was invisible).
• Just about anything from Broken Picturephone (essentially Telestrations online, a hybrid of Telephone and Pictionary) can put your sides in orbit. Running gags include:
  • Thomas' colour blindness resulting in him using or describing the wrong colours, sending the game off in unexpected directions
    • In particular his problem with greys leads to the separate running gags of Green Sharks and Flesh Dolphins, which reappear a number of times.
  • Lindsey's overly simplistic images (due to her being limited to a laptop touchpad) in which she usually doesn't bother giving characters limbs
  • Alex 'creatively' interpreting images to send the game off the rails
  • Dan's love of scatological starting lines
  • The use of the terrifying staring-eye stamp stock image
  • Chaz is always indicated when drawn in-game by having the colours of Magic the Gathering cards floating around his head like a halo
  • Both Chaz and Dan have (different) weird trademark ways of drawing dogs, Chaz drawing them as snoutless and wearing shoes, Dan drawing them as boxy and with googly eyes
  • Several players (especially Alex) have a habit of spending ages creating one really detailed and artistic image, and then just doing hasty scribbles for all the others when they run out of time
  • When Stephen questions the logic of something in an image (often one drawn by Chaz himself), Chaz has the Catchphrase "Don't worry about it" (in reassuring tones) before hastily changing the subject.
  • Dan's phrases (and occasionally Lindsey's) are compared to headlines from The Onion due to his matter-of-fact descriptions of strange things with every word capitalised.
  • A meta one is how the group will allude to their (off-camera) pre-recording arguments about what fan-suggested theme to use, which on at least one occasion ended with the nonsensical compromise "The theme is...'themes'."
  • Sonic the Hedgehog appearing in a drawing in what feels like almost every episode of Broken Picturephone, regardless of its theme. Pikachu, clowns, giraffes, and Steve Harvey also see common appearances.
  • It slowly becomes clear that whenever Stephen draws what he thinks is a generic person, the others all interpret it as a picture of Stephen himself (not least because he usually gives them green shirts).
    • On one occasion Stephen draws someone in a red shirt instead...and then a later entry by Alex is a photo collage including a photo of Stephen drawing during the current play session, and Stephen is wearing a red shirt.
  • After watching several episodes of Broken Picturephone back to back, Alex (and later Thomas) brings up how often Stephen compares people's drawings of skeletons to "Good Idea, Bad Idea" from Animaniacs, similar to Dan's irritation over him comparing a robot to Samus Aran in Mad Verse City.
  • Stephen missed one recording session due to falling asleep, so the rest of the gang (as just "And Friends") recorded a special Broken Picturephone where all of the books are themed around Stephen.
• 1000 Blank White Cards has also become a source of constant hilarity. Just from the 1st episode we have Dan's attempts to talk like a British person (a card he inexplicably played to himself), Chaz having multiple cards applied to him such that at one point his proper address was 'My Liege Earthbound the Giant' which actually saved him from losing points at one point. Accent cards became so popular that in the 3rd episode Chaz had to beg card creators to stop making them.
• Golf With Your Friends became another long-running series, with early episodes in particular being noteworthy for being some of the sweariest and Angrish-filled videos on the channel due to glitches and other annoyances.
  • Stephen has a tendency to abuse the jumping mechanic, making his ball bounce dozens of times long after it'll do any good, just prolonging the shot. He also always tries to take a direct short cut rather than the intended route, which nine times out of ten results in him using up more shots than he would if he just played the hole as intended.
  • Chaz eventually becomes less than enamoured of Golf With Your Friends and votes for not playing it in a Stephen & Friends session...so instead the group plays Human Fall Flat. A golf-themed level in Human Fall Flat, much to Chaz's annoyance.
• Whenever playing anything in Tabletop Simulator (including 1000 Blank White Cards), Chaz will take any excuse to use an animated bear model that's part of the game setup, whether it fits into the game they're using or not.
  Chaz: I play...bear.
• The crew finally encounters a "Jinx"^note Both responses are exactly the same down to the letter, and penalizes both players with 0 points. in Quiplash, from Alex and Hayley. Heartwarming in that they both think alike, but unfortunately that's not how it works in the game.
  Stephen: You guys are meant for each other. You lose. You both lose.
• Whenever they play Mad Verse City, Stephen always points out every time that the camcorder robot looks like Samus from Metroid as though he's never noticed it before, much to Dan's annoyance.
  • In "Here's Some Sauerkraut", the gang play the game for the first time in a long time...
  Stephen: Oh man. The robot on the left looks like Samus.
  Dan: ...Fuck! Jesus Christ!
  Brandon: Did Samus offend you?
  Dan: ARE YOU SERIOUS?! YOU SAY THAT EVERY TIME!
  (Amusingly, because it had been so long, nobody else remembers this either, and they all react with surprise to Dan's vehemence)
• During Wario's Battle Canyon in Mario Party 1, Chaz manages to buy Stars and all three of the other players steal them. Then the last five turns roll around and, thanks to Chance Time, Chaz gets ALL three Stars back! "Chaz just always wins" indeed.
• For April Fools' Day 2021, the group recorded a special episode of Broken Picturephone titled "Broken Phone" where they don't draw any pictures, essentially turning each book into a game of group storytelling. Not only are the resulting stories hilarious, throughout the video the group constantly references the fact that this is how they've always played the game.
  • Both the group and the audience enjoyed it so much that Broken Phone became a regular series on Stephen & Friends.
  • In "Reggie and the Colonel", Chaz tries having an AI finish each book after the human players have started it with three posts. The AI is surprisingly good at capturing the zany feel, but is peculiarly obsessed with opening interdimensional portals in almost every book.
• The Garf Kar Quadrilogy. What do you get when you combine Stephen & Friends with an incredible, poorly-programmed mess of a racing game? Comedy gold, obviously.
• The entirety of everyone playing Job Job is hysterics from start to finish, from the nonsensical answers, to the sheer audacity of adult humor that's used to answer the prompts. Stephen claimed that this game was so outrageously funny, the group dropped trying out the other games to play another round, just to get a recording. This down here is the first prompt.
  "How are you spending your paid sick days this year?"
  Jeff: Watch God fuck the old bitches live in videos Man
  Stephen: fetch margaritas, generate lots of money, and go to jail
  • From the same Jackbox Party Pack, the game "Poll Mine" is guaranteed to cause tension, as it involves trying to guess which option one's fellow team members ranked highest (e.g. the most surprising item to find in a field) and every time they play it, it's revealed that Stephen's mind works very differently to everyone else's. At the end of one playthrough, Hayley suggests they will have to rebrand the series as "Stephen and Enemies".
• Tom Fawkes is usually someone who's watched the past material of the people he collaborates with and is known for referencing others' running gags and in-jokes, including Stephen's. However, there proved to be one exception to this in his shocked reaction to the others mentioning "The Kill Your Parents Turtle" from a past episode of Tee K.O.
• In their second playing of Tee K.O. with FamilyJules, Stephen carefully and accurately explains how the timer works to Dan, who got it wrong and rushed his drawings last time. Then, somehow, Stephen ignores his own advice and rushes his own drawings due to misunderstanding the timer.

GTA Online

• Right off the bat with the first episode, which is the first, and only episode to contain POV's from Stephen, Jeremy, and Josh. And they are all equally as hilarious.
  • To clarify: Stephen and Josh are starting out with playing GTA Online for the first time, meaning they have very low stats, and limited abilities. Unfortunately, this creates problems very quickly, as Stephen and Josh realize that they don't even have the ability to enter apartments.
  • It gets better. Stephen and Josh witness the police coming to Jeremy's apartment, thanks to Dan's 4 stars. Then, Stephen steals a car right in front of them.
  • Even better is that Stephen and Josh try again in the beginning of the next episode to get into Jeremy's apartment and once again fail.
  • Stephen's "Welcome to GTA Online" song at the start of the episode which mostly consists of reading the in-game descriptions to an upbeat tune.
• Later in the video, Stephen and Josh both end up jumping out of Jeremy's jet, with Josh slamming into the propellers immediately after he jumps, and Stephen failing to "land on the grass". Then there's Jeremy's Oh, Crap!! when he realizes he landed in the military base.
• In the second episode, Stephen attempts to fly a plane for the first time, getting airsick in the process, and ends up colliding with a telephone pole that rips one of his wings off and leaves his plane sitting on the ground.
  JoshJepson: Well at least it didn't explode.
  (plane immediately explodes)
• Jeremy being the Token Evil Teammate who repeatedly randomly kills Stephen in the middle of a plan and keeps accidentally foiling their attempts to go to ammo stores by pulling out a gun in them and making the owner shut up shop.
  • Jeremy kills Stephen so much that by Episode 3 the game calls him Stephen's archenemy.
• In the third episode, Stephen, Nick, and Jeremy spend a good chunk of time trying to recover their bikes from the impound, and consistently get murdered by the police as they do so. It gets especially difficult since Jeremy keeps respawning with stars, since he does so right next to the impound.
  • At one point during their failed escapades, Stephen and Nick come across a dying police officer who has been lying on the ground in agony as no one comes to help him, and somehow hasn't died yet. Thankfully Jeremy comes along to end his misery a few moments later.
  • After giving up and buying a new roadbike, Stephen starts having issues regarding pedaling. Namely, moving at ridiculously slow speeds despite Button Mashing as had as he can. Cue Jeremy smashing Stephen into a canal, and Stephen starting a one-on-one deathmatch with him, despite only having a single pistol with four bullets.
• Episode 5:
  • At the very beginning of the episode, Stephen gets the opportunity to change his character's appearance. He proceeds to remove the 10 hours spent doing illegal work, which had caused his avatar to retain horrible scarring on his face. While putting the 20 hours into doing legal work, his character inexplicably starts to bald and grow a goatee, much to Stephen's bemusement.
  • Minutes later, Stephen decides to go to Ammu-Nation to buy some more ammo and weapons for himself. Unfortunately, this takes much longer than it probably should, as Stephen's friends keep brandishing weapons each time they enter the store, resulting in Stephen having to find another Ammu-Nation store to go to.
  • Near the end of the episode, Jeremy manages to get his hands on a large dump truck, with Stephen and Nick doing their best to push it up a steep hill, and later driving off a cliff with everyone on it. We don't get to see much of it though, as Stephen and Taylor end up falling off while still on a motorcycle and riding all the cliff.
• Episode 6:
  • Stephen starts off the episode by singing nonsense while in the shower to earn some RP, before realizing that not only does the RP grinding shower system thing never end, but that he was singing inside an entire public server. This is all done as Dan is heard corpsing in the background.
  Stephen: Dahdah dahdah dah dah dahdah dahhhh! Washing all my dirty parts, doo doo! Get the blood off my body, and wash all the warts, and the death, and the stink, and the corpses...
  Thomas: What the hell are you-
  Stephen: Hold on, I'm almost to the end! Did I get it? Yes, 20 pee-pee RP is mine now! Gonna wash my face even though my hands aren't touching my body...Rubbing my nipples, got 20 R-oh wait, it never ends. Oh. Okay, I'm not doing this anymore...
• Two words: Air Stephen.
• In Episode 8, Stephen, Josh and Jeremy are flying jets in Top Fun. Josh, never having flown a jet before, asks what button fires his cannon. Jeremy of course, tell Josh that it's the Y button. You can guess what happens next.
• Episode 10:
  • At the episode's beginning, Stephen and Alex are arguing whether Alex was swearing or not in the previous video. It leads to this exchange:
  Alex: [Shooting the shit's] not swearing! It's an expression!
  Dan: Okay, well then fuck my ass! That's an expression!
  • Shortly afterwards, the group expresses confusion/bemusement at "Box of Gay Mice", one of the usernames in the public server Stephen's in.
  • Stephen and Alex arguing about the color of a bus, in a way that's quite reminiscent of the Carpet Debate from the Vlog. Eventually, Stephen gets fed up with this debate and ends it with this non sequitur statement:
  Stephen: Suck a giraffe and die!
• Josh surfing on Hayley's semi truck in episode 11, much to Stephen's confusion.
• In GTA Online #12, Thomas made a Capture game called "King of the Hill" where you steal lawn mowers... except you only need to take one to win and, due to a glitch, people manage to respawn in them. That's Epic Fail stuff right there.
  • Two episodes later, Thomas reveals he fixed it by increasing the capture number to three... and he also added tanks. What follows is chaos incarnate...
    • At one point, cops enter the game. This drives Stephen into laughter-induced hysterics (that, and his difficulty moving).
• Also from episode 12, Stephen and Thomas deciding they will travel around via Le Parkour...which consists of them flinging their characters randomly around while constantly yelling "Parkour! Parkour!"
• Episode 14 takes the cake. The hysterics start on a rooftop when Stephen and his friends decides to do a race on the edge of the roof, which causes everyone to fall down and die quickly. Then Thomas sets up a deathmatch on the golf course that has every single gun you can think of on the course. This goes to the point where shooting each other is banned, due to the fact that no one can stay alive for five seconds before getting shot. Unfortunately, this rule quickly becomes useless once Stephen and Hayley discover that Patrick and Josh both have tanks, who sing Mr. Sandman while stuff blows up.
• The start of the Golf Course Deathmatch in GTA Online #16. Stephen and Thomas kill each other at the same time. This makes Stephen go into the same laughter-induced hysterics that Thomas' improved King of the Hill capture game gave him.
  • This is then later followed up by Stephen and Thomas repeatedly failing to hit each other, and it winds up lasting so long that Dan strolls up to them and one-shots them with a golf club. Cue Stephen almost dying from laughter.
  • Later in the Deathmatch Stephen and Hayley try to swing at each other and keep missing.
    Stephen: We're doing a very terrible interpretive dance.
    • Cue Thomas strolling up and one-shotting them with a golf club.
  • Earlier in episode 16 there's everyone (including Stephen himself) mocking the way Stephen says "sure-fire".
• In episode 17, the group try melee fighting atop a cable car armature to knock each other off and fall to the rocks below, but often end up just accidentally walking off anyway. Stephen somehow wins a technical victory, only for his character's hair to mysteriously vanish, leading him to joke he scraped it off sliding down the mountainside.
• Alex's Buick from the Humane Labs mission. Especially when he casually drives it into the crossfire of some armoured fighting vehicles the crew are trying to steal, and somehow gets away with it.
  • In the same mission, Stephen tries to organise the crew to use Stealth-Based Mission tactics when stealing a jumpjet from an aircraft carrier, which works about as well as you'd expect, with Dan firing off dozens of flares as they approach the carrier and then getting them into a firefight with the ship's crew.
  Stephen (as intruder alarms blare): This is going great. Nobody knows we're here. Because they're all dead.
  • Alex spends most of Part 2 making jingles and slogans for Brawny Paper Towels after the rest of the team ride to the heist in a van with a similar picture on the side.
  • Alex and Stephen's impressions of kids on Xbox Live when Stephen talks about how the heists would be less fun if they weren't with friends via Skype.
  Stephen (high pitched voice): I just learned the word 'shit' and now I'm going to say it 50 more times!
  • After several attempts, the crew are about to finally beat a difficult setup, only for Dan to then lose his connection and them to automatically fail.
• Dan's irritation with repeatedly always being given the bronze rank in episodes 26, 27 and 28. Also, Alex's new look (as Stephen insisted he get a haircut so his character stands out more from Stephen's); in episode 28 he decides to add a purple top hat and go shirtless.
• In episode 28, Stephen tells Alex to put a helmet on while riding his bike, while Alex refuses and retorts with a parody of anti-vaccination conspiracy theorists' Insane Troll Logic arguments but about helmets instead - forcing Dan to put up a massive paragraph of disclaimer text about Stephenplays not being liable for anyone following Alex's "advice".
• The final heist episode has Dan (as the editor) recap Stephen Tempting Fate about how the setup for this job has been easier than the others and he expected the final mission to be harder. Needless to say, the mission itself takes them dozens of attempts and ends up with over six hours of recording.
  • When everything is said and done, with the mission finally being completed, what is the first thing Alex does after regaining control of his character? Beat Stephen to death.
• With episode 32, the heists are over and they migrate to the higher-resolution PC version of the game, which Stephen attempts to explain while Hayley blows him up in the hot tub on Dan's yacht, which is of course called the I AM DAN.
  • Soon afterwards Stephen gets lit on fire, which seems to have little effect.
  Stephen: This is fine.
  • Now they can use first-person view, everyone is obsessed with going into it for inappropriate and awkward actions.
  • During several deathmatches, Stephen becomes obsessed with throwing bombs and grenades around, again being the Mad Bomber he became in Battleblock Theatre and Four Swords Adventures.
• In episode 33, Mal joins the game and constantly punches Stephen in the face whenever she meets him.
  • In the strip club, after Mal starts a fight with the bouncer, the bouncer starts attacking Stephen, who tries to hit him back but ends up hitting Chaz instead, and then as Stephen does manage to start hitting the bouncer, an enraged Chaz comes up behind him and punches him dead at the exact same moment.
  • The game gives them a challenge to cause the most damage (in dollar terms) in a short time limit. Alex wins with over a million dollars and most of the others manage to clock several hundred thousand. Stephen gets about fifty thousand, and most of that was clocked in the last few seconds - for most of the challenge he was stuck on around two thousand.
• In episode 34, they have 10 players in a race possibly not designed for 10 players. This leads to Chaz spawning underwater. After Stephen and most of the players all picked buggies for the race, Hayley also decided to play with a monster truck that disrupts the whole race, some players getting stuck under it.
• Episode 36:
  • Hayley dresses as an anime girl complete with Uncanny Valley mask, then at one point gives Thomas a lift on the back of her motorcycle. When he comments that he feels like a ten-year-old riding behind his mom, everyone starts calling Hayley "Anime Mom" for the rest of the video.
  • Stephen suggests they steal motorcycles from a biker bar where they did the same in one of the heist missions. After proposing they go in stealthily, Dan agrees and fires off his bright pink rocket launcher at the bikers. Then it turns out that everyone is still set up to auto-target their friends not the bikers from having played competitive matches and Mal kills Chaz and Hayley. And then, after they've finally beaten the bikers, turns out that there aren't any bikes there in the regular game, only for the heist mission, so it was all for nothing. And then the cops turn up but Dan decides to solve the situation with his rocket launcher.
  • At the airport they use a ramp to jump first one, then two, then three planes on their motorcycles, one of the planes catching fire and eventually exploding. None of this draws attention from the authorities.
  • Stephen designs a match based on riding around on motorcycles throwing molotovs at each other, with no other weapons. As usual, it turns out that the intended way of playing the game is no match for breaking it, in this case by stealing passing cars and running each other over.
  • During this, at one point Stephen is run over by a polite and apologetic British driver.
• And then we get Episode 37, which has the greatest amount of insanity in a GTA Online episode. Yes, more insanity than Thomas adding tanks to the King of the Hill map. Want to know why? The episode contains 13 players inside of ROCKET CARS.
• Episode 42
  • The episode ends with everyone climbing to the top of a construction crane. When Josh attempts to point at Stephen, he accidentally presses B and immediately leaps to his death. However, he manages to get the last laugh in the end...
  Stephen: Oh I hear a plane...
  (Camera pans to reveal Josh piloting a biplane right into the crane, blowing up every other player)
  Josh: Oh my god, I got everybody!
• Episode 43:
  • Hayley drinks so much she dies from alcohol poisoning. Stephen invites others to do the same.
  • Stephen suggests everyone jump from one bus to another (referencing this video). While on top of one of the buses, Josh accidentally hits Mal and she points a gun at him and a helicopter comes out of nowhere and kills everyone. And the game thinks Chaz did it for some reason.
  Chaz: Wait, why does it say I killed everyone?
• Episode 44:
  • Dan creates a Parkour course where everyone is on foot, which leads to hilarity such as Thomas faceplanting and everyone being unable to climb ladders consistently.
  • Stephen creates a 'Kamikazombies' scenario where everyone's in a car except for one plane, and as soon as the plane kills someone in a car, they have to become a plane, with the last remaining car winning. What seems like a reasonable idea in theory rapidly turns to farce when it turns out that the planes don't have any weapons, so all the plane players can do is ram the people in cars, and almost every time they do it doesn't actually kill the people in cars. Even after Stephen changes it so the car players are on mopeds instead, it still takes over twenty minutes to actually get everyone. In particular, several moped players end up on what they dub "Safety Beach" where Stephen and Alex ram them fruitlessly multiple times and kill themselves but almost never the other players.
  • Alex does eventually manage to kill some other players, but ends up being a little too...enthusiastic about it.
  Alex (gleefully): I KILLED MY WIFE!
  Alex: I KILLED FIVE PEOPLE TODAY! I am very good at killing people with planes...and my body.
  Dan: ..."Join the Air Force"?
• Episode 45:
  • The Book Ends that the episode both begins and ends with the cops attacking a beach party on what (in reference to the previous episode) gets dubbed "Unsafety Beach".
• Episode 46:
  • Chaz gets off a sick burn against Stephen:
  Stephen: I know what we should do! I know exactly what we should do! It's something I've been talking about for a while. We should-
  Chaz: Catch up on vlogs?
  • Stephen's actual plan is to go and confront a nudist cult that they've never sought out in the game before; to do so, the gang create their own rival cult, which consists of them all wearing white bathrobes and top hats while constantly doing the chicken-dance taunt.
• The setup for the Doomsday Heist missions involves a 'StephenCorp boardroom meeting' in-game, in which it's revealed that the company named for Stephen is actually owned by Dan.
  • Having spent 2.5 million in-game dollars on an Elaborate Underground Base, Stephen and the gang all become childishly excited about the fact that it comes with "free" snacks.
  • After learning that they need to found a motorcycle club in order to become eligible for the heist, Stephen dubs it "Friend Riderz" and Alex, later, insists on having the (undefined) role of "Hog Boss".
• When Stephen realises that episode 60 will come out on May 4th, he and the gang decide to do a clickbait "Star Wars special", despite Stephen infamously knowing almost nothing about Star Wars and many of his friends being only slightly better off. This leads to halfhearted attempts to dress up their characters as Star Wars characters, having Dan dub over bad copyright-friendly midi versions of the soundtrack as they race, etc. About the only person whose 'cosplay' is taken serious is Alex, who dresses up his character as Grand Moff Tarkin, but always refers to him only as "Peter Cushing", which later also becomes his battle cry.
  • Stephen realises they can do Podracing from Episode 1 as a gimmick. The planning for this turns into an unintentional comedy sketch as the group try to remember it:
    Stephen: We'll just load in one of the sea races and say "It's podcasting - podracing"
    Dan: "Now, THIS is podcasting!"
    (later)
    Stephen: So the podcasting - podracing, goshdarnit, the podracing is when it's Anakin, and he races Boba Fett, or somethin'?
    Dan: No!
    Alex: There's like a racist Italian stereotype...
    Stephen: I remember that!
    Alex: ...big green blob...with an elephant trunk...
    Stephen: Blue-bar! Blue-balls! Blue-somethin'...and he's mad about...for some reason.
    Hayley: So Anakin's talkin' to Blue-balls, and they're gonna race the slug man?
    Stephen: Jung! Jungen! Jungle! Jungar! Or that's his race or somethin'. He's a Joon-gar.
    Thomas: ...Gundam?
    Stephen: He's a Gundam. ... Alright, I'm starting this race!
• Episode 61:
  • After Dan murders Stephen with a helicopter, Chaz reveals that he somehow became a soldier by trying to promote his nightclub via dropping pamphlets at other nightclubs. Needless to say, everyone was confused.
  Stephen: That’s the scariest thing I’ve ever heard in my life…
  Hayley: The government has accepted you now!
  • At the same time that this exchange is happening, Tom Fawkes is attempting to kill himself through alcohol poisoning, claiming that he’ll become a soldier himself by doing so. He eventually does drink enough to pass out and wake up throwing up in the toilet, much to his and Hayley’s amusement.
  • While hanging around the club, Hayley and Stephen insist that the incredibly phallic object on her shirt is merely a rocket ship. Dan however is not convinced, and rightfully declares it a penis with semen on it.
  • The main event of this episode is attempting to make the world’s tallest (not widest) car pile. The first attempt starts off pretty well until Paul shoots a flaming car into the pile, blowing everything up. 

    • Later, Tom tries to help out by adding a plane to the pile…only to completely miss the wall where the pile is, and crash into the water.
  • Dan tries to repeat what Thomas did in a previous episode and carry Stephen’s bus with a cargo bob. He doesn’t get too far before Stephen points out how bad of an idea that is. Sadly, picking up a box truck works out just as well.
  • As the second car pile reaches it's limit, Stephen and co are suddenly confused by the complete lack of non-pile cars on the highway (due to there being too many for the game to spawn).
• Episode 66:
  • At the beginning, Dan gives Stephen a ride in his flying DeLorean from Back to the Future. Stephen promptly starts humming the theme tune...to Jurassic Park, much to Dan's annoyance.
• Episode 67:
  • Alex running into a man and receiving 2000 dollars for good behavior.
  • Stephen is nonplussed at how the game reminds him that he can commit suicide to respawn elsewhere, despite only wanting a haircut. He later decides to go for a hairstyle that currently reflects the state of his actual hair due to quarantining in his home, much to Lindsey’s displeasure. Dan calls him Kurt Cobain.
  • The camera switching from Dan and Alex to Stephen getting ran over by Emmy just out of left screen.
  • Mal going full blown Omnicidal Maniac and destroying everything with a rocket launcher and killing anyone she comes across without saying a word.
• Episode 68 (Raid on Tripoli)
  • Alex creates a mission with an incredibly detailed, historically accurate background (including a trailer video!) about rival French and American marines raiding the Ottoman city of Tripoli in 1804 during the Barbary Wars. It then turns out that the only real in-game effect of this is that everyone is using slow-reloading musket weapons, and the mission also includes "period accurate" dune buggies, an APC, and the goal is to steal a "secret Ottoman flying machine" (a jet fighter).
  • The game only let Alex test the mission in a limited way, leading to chaos like players respawning on "period accurate" BMX bikes next to "Ottoman" NPCs who immediately shoot them in the head, and the "flying machine" respawning in random areas where it can't take off from.
  • Thomas successfully steals the "flying machine", but in an action movie-like sequence, a near-naked Tom Fawkes manages to wrench the cockpit open even as it takes off and almost manages to hijack it in his place before falling off.
• Diamond Casino Heist:
  • While going over the plan for how the heist will be set up, Dan and Alex's screens show the other heist members and multiple copies of Stephen wandering around the garage striking ridiculous poses and pelvic thrusting next to Lester and Georgina. The fiasco ends with Dan's avatar staring into the camera with a huge grin on his face as if to say “Yep, that just happened.”
  • While Stephen and Dan are scoping out parts of the VIP section of the Diamond Casino to send to Lester, Alex ends up getting lost and resorts to taking pictures of women in the bathroom instead.
  • While scoping the entrance, Stephen attempts to use his jet motorcycle to land on the roof, only to crash into it and die by falling onto the ground before his parachute can deploy. Later he does it again by crashing into a hospital, with his motorcycle stuck on a roof.
  • Dan constantly humming the Back to the Future theme song while taking off in his flying DeLorean.
  • The DeLorean also turns out to be a Game-Breaker when Dan is able to use it to just blow up a load of enemies on jetskis, meaning by the time everyone else arrives, the enemies are almost all dead.
  • Alex's annoyance at Stephen's flying rocket bike and Dan's flying DeLorean mean they get to their destination long before him in on a regular motorcycle. He makes Stephen promise to ride his rocket bike on the road, which Stephen does, but still using the rocket engine to overtake Alex. Alex later gets his revenge by overtaking Stephen, only for Stephen to pull off Five-Second Foreshadowing by saying Alex will crash about one second before he does.
  • As before, the guys have a tendency to take a With Catlike Tread approach to stealth, yet somehow this time it seems to work out - such as Stephen accidentally crashing his rocket bike right into the middle of a group of bikers they're meant to be stealthily stealing bikes from, yet they somehow don't react at all to this.
    • Dan later blows up a government facility they're trying to stealthily steal a hacking device from, yet they all still get out fine.
    • While supposedly stealthily stealing maintenance uniforms from the airport, Alex, Dan and Taylor all drive aircraft around on the runway for fun while Stephen is finding the uniforms. Dan also guns down several people rushing at them before realising they were just civilian employees and has an incongruous My God, What Have I Done? moment.
  • Alex insists that they take the Brawnymobile for the missions in episodes 3 and 4, and it turns out to be surprisingly resilient, with them somehow managing to escape repeatedly from four-star groups of cops despite its slow speed.
  • Stephen also somehow manages to get the Brawnymobile trapped in the one place next to a house where it can't fit through a gap to retrieve it.
  • While entering the morgue to retrieve a valet's ID, the group ends up inexplicably dressed up in a fancy suit and a top hat ala Abraham Lincoln. Cue four heist members wandering around dressed like this amongst a group of regularly dressed morticians.
  • Dan gets clothes and a car that let him pretend to be "Vacation Dad", and gets way too into roleplaying the character (slightly to Stephen's concern) which he says is due to him recently playing D&D.
  • In the actual heist, Stephen repeatedly ignores Lester's warnings that gas is about to fill the vault and continues filling his holdall with cash, even after multiple attempts and dying once to it.
• "Dam Tuggers":
  • Alex once again makes a custom map, and once again, the game decides to ignore various things he put into it, such as a time limit and more advanced weapons.
  • Almost everyone (but especially Stephen) doesn't listen to Alex's explanation of the level, and Stephen only even works out what the airline tug objective is a couple of minutes before they finish their final run of the mission.
• "Mass Transit":
  • Another Alex-created level, this one involves a prosaic setup of the city authorities having established a new bus service to the top of Mount Chiliad...the twist is that it involves driving buses (or otherwise travelling) down to the summit from random objects suspended in the sky.
  • Stephen effortlessly manages to get down to the objective on the first attempt, and then spends the entire rest of the video failing to achieve it again.

GTA V Stream with Chuggaaconroy and MasaeAnela

• What happens when a youthfully-innocent Chuggaaconroy and a bloodthirsty MasaeAnela play Grand Theft Auto V for the first time? Nearly three hours of pure chaos and hilarious blind reactions.
• The stream starts out with some minor technical difficulties due to a high-pitched buzzing sound interfering with the game. While Stephen fixes up the issue, Masae stalls for time by playing with a "cat keyboard".
• As a Running Gag, Emile spends the majority of his playtime obeying traffic laws and attempting to make friends with the NPCs; you know, the exact opposite of how the game is typically played. Even more ironic that he's playing as Trevor Phillips for the entirety of the stream.
  • Emile passes by a pet store and comments that he really wants a pet in the game. Then he accidentally decks a woman in the face.
    Emile: You're my bitch now! That's me adopting my pet!
  • While driving through the countryside:
    Emile: WHOAAA! I ran I stop sign all by myself!
    Stephen: In a game of murder, Emile is thrilled at the idea of running the stop sign. The game's like "Here's your rocket launcher", and he's like "I just ran a stop sign!"
  • After stealing a trailer from a woman, Chugga asks if he's able to take her with him.
    Stephen: That's called kidnapping, but no.
    Emile: I'd buy her dinner!
• Dan trolls Emile by telling him to press Y while driving (in a way not too dissimilar to what Jeremy did with JoshJepson in GTA Online), which of course sends him flying out of the car and onto the road, where he nearly gets splattered headfirst by an oncoming truck.
• Emile drives a buggy over a hill and catches some air, and he feels pretty invigorated until...
  Emile: I'M FREE!!! (lands the buggy right onto a mountain lion; everyone reacts accordingly)
  Dan: What was that?
  Stephen: I don't know, but it's dead now!
• At one point, Chugga punches a lady so hard that she lands in front of an oncoming car. Everyone's reactions are 100% priceless.
• Masae spends a good 20 minutes trying to take off in a crop duster, but since they keep spawning the plane in the middle of a busy road, it becomes quite the struggle. At one point, Masae tries boarding the plane but accidentally kicks it instead; since Dan told her to activate the "explosive melee attacks" cheat earlier, the plane explodes in her face and kills her instantly.
• When Masae hops into a car to evade the police, the game unceremoniously crashes.
  Emile: I guess you could say you crashed that car!
  Stephen: [...] Honestly, this the the least aggravating thing to happen tonight!
• When Emile heads to the bathroom during an intermission, he lets out an audible scream off-camera. When he returns, he explains that he somehow fell over while trying to sit on the toilet.

Extra Life charity streams

2014 (SNES)

• The penultimate game played was Final Fantasy VI, by which point Stephen and Mal were quite sleep-deprived. Stephen spent almost the whole of the 45 minutes stuck on the introductory Whelk battle due to attacking the shell of the enemy, much to moderator Hayley's aggravation. Although the footage was sadly lost, the whole "Snale Fantasy" saga (named after a misspelling by an equally sleep-deprived JoshJepson in chat which made Mal laugh uncontrollably) continues to be referenced to this day.

2016 (Game Boy, Game Boy Colour and Game Boy Advance)

• Stephen is introduced to the infamous bootleg Pokémon Vietnamese Crystal, and spends most of the segment reading out the broken English text in an erudite, matter-of-fact voice.
• Final Fantasy VI comes up and Hayley calls Stephen to call him out for the previous 'Snale Fantasy' incident and warn him not to do it again. A sleep-deprived Stephen proceeds to do it again, still not understanding that you're not meant to attack the shell. Hayley then calls him again in the middle of all this to tell him off, only for tired Stephen to argue with her while repeatedly calling her 'Mallory' (even as the real Mal is next to him on the couch) and complaining their names are too similar. In the end the Snale is vanquished and Stephen acts surprised there is more to the game than this.
• JoshJepson spends the entire stream fruitlessly trying to get people to donate to Link's Awakening (which, ironically, three years later Stephen and Mal would make an entire LP of).

2017 (N64)

• While playing Superman 64, Mal accidentally sets the subtitles to French, and Stephen insists on playing it in that mode for the rest of the segment
• Fargothix returns by fan demand as the protagonist of Bass Masters 2000, and less predictably Harvest Moon 64. In the latter his farm gets dubbed "Farmgothix" and his dog "Fardogthix".
• JoshJepson tries to donate at the last moment (as Stephen is closing donations) the exact amount to get Pokemon Stadium 2 into first place...but calculates it wrongly so it's still behind. Twice.

2018 (Gamecube)

• This record-breaking stream gives birth to a number of memes that get incorporated into Breakfast Stream:
  • Stephen and Mal create a terrifying eyeless Eldritch Abomination in Amazing Island called "Peggy" who runs at great speed by crying 'AHWEE!' and will allegedly come to life on October 5th 2033 (because Stephen had the Gamecube's clock set wrong).
  • Mary-Kate and Ashley: Sweet Sixteen turns out to be a Mario Party-a-like, and the overly long 'SIXTEEEEEEN!' in the theme song is lengthened even further by Stephen to make a new Breakfast Stream alert.
  • Piglet's Big Game turns out to have a sanity meter mechanic, leading Stephen to unironically describe it as a horror game and dub it "A Machine for Piglets" after the Amnesia title of a similar name.
• They play Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door and Stephen decides this version of Mario is called "Mortio".
• Stephen plays Pokémon XD: Gale of Darkness without really understanding it has a full RPG storyline, and thus spends almost the entire segment skipping through text without reading it and then getting confused about where to go and why there aren't any battles.
• ProtonJon raids with joke donations for "Gamecube Game Boy Player disc - with no game", only for his Walking Techbane properties to strike and make Stephen's streaming computer catch fire.
• Due to the early ending of the stream, Stephen and Mal do an additional catch-up stream. This includes them playing the incredibly rare game NCAA College Basketball 2k3, which drags on for a while; the chat rapidly gets annoyed by how the commentator voice clips keep commenting "This is now a double digit ball game!" long after it became one.

2019 (Gamecube)

• This year introduces the Roulette mechanic, by which viewers can donate to a roulette fund that is then randomly assigned to any game that's received at least $25 in donations. Hilarity Ensues.
• Stephen ends up starting and ending the stream with Karaoke Revolution Party.
• Fargothix becomes a Cubivore.
• Thanks to the roulette, Chicken Little ends up being played, and much to Stephen's horror, it's almost entirely clips from the movie with badly programmed gameplay in between - meaning Dan has to pixellate the footage for the Youtube vods due to the 'Disney copyright vultures'.
• Amazing Island inevitably returns, and Chaz and Dan make their own bizarre monstrosity, a skin-coloured dog-creature with multiple tongues called 'Cyndee'. Stephen also beats a level he couldn't last year with Peggy, and decides to reward her with a hat...until he discovers he can give her two hats.
• Much to Chaz's annoyance, the chat donates to force him to play Super Mario Sunshine, despite his insistence that he "doesn't play video games."
• The roulette picks Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance, and the fans of the series in chat are initially delighted...until Stephen takes a dislike to the character Boyd and devotes the rest of the segment to finding a way to kill him off in the first battle.

2020 (Wii)

• Stephen and the rest of the team are visibly enthusiastic through the year leading up to the event about the Wii's vast, shovelware-heavy library and what mysteries it contains. The sheer success of the event also leads to some comedic reactions, like Stephen's realisation that they've raised an extra $10k just in the intermission gap between two games!
• The 'High Heel Gang' decided to enliven the event by sending the team a skeleton with glowing eyes named "Dampe" (as in The Legend of Zelda) who gets positioned behind the couch and periodically equipped with various hats.
• During their playthrough of Busy Scissors, Stephen gives one of the customers a very strange and hilarious accent.
  Stephen: [Normal voice] Isaac Inks, where are you from? [as Isaac] Try and guess! 'Cause I don't know!
  Mal: [Laughs] Commitment cutting.
  Stephen: [Still as Isaac] I was born at the age of 26...
  Mal: Somewhere.
  Stephen: [In his normal voice] But where, Isaac? [as Isaac] I don't know! And now I'm here, love. Ready to get my hair on.
• When Stephen and Mal decide to face each other in Bakugan Battle Brawlers, It takes them over twelve minutes for them to actually engage in combat with their Bakugans.
• While Stephen is trying to solve the final puzzle in Wheel of Fortune, Dan figures out the solution, "ROW HOUSES", before he does. In order to help Stephen out, Dan says the word "row" out loud several times. Stephen comments that that can't be the answer because E was already used (having heard what Dan was saying as "roe"), leaving Dan incredibly exasperated.
  Dan: R-O-W, YOU DING-DONG!
• The chat donates for Harry Potter fan Lindsey to play Lego Harry Potter, and she spends most of the segment fielding continuous childlike questions from Stephen, who (as previously established) has a rather shaky understanding of the setting. A highlight that sticks out is Stephen thinking that nobody is allowed to leave Hogwarts.
• When they get to playing America's Next Top Model, Mal hammily imitates the elaborate bodily gestures the models make.
  • Stephen continuously makes the player character (named SmeFanye) only eat pizza, providing an amusing contrast to how Lucahjin constantly made Smefanye only eat fruit.
• Dan attempting to use imperfect, second-hand knowledge of Fortune Street (just from having edited TRG's videos of it) to understand how to play. He also constantly parodies Chugga's bad guesses from the same TRG videos he edits when they get to play Wheel of Fortune.
• When creating their characters in Dokapon Kingdom, Dan wants his character to have the "sexy face" that the female custom characters have, only to be disheartened by the fact that the male player characters lack such a face.
  Stephen: Welcome to the Duck Pond, men aren't allowed to be sexy!
• Stephen utterly loses his mind during Sesame Street: Elmo's A to Zoo Adventure. He eventually starts saying outlandishly ridiculous things as Elmo.
  Stephen: [as Elmo] Elmo got the giant D nut!
  • While losing his mind by spelling with acorns, there's this gem out of Stephen's mouth:
  Stephen: [Speaking like a children's show host] DUI! Grover has DUI!
  Dan: [laughing]
  Stephen: [Still talking like a children's show host] Grover's license revoked! Gover— Grover has fast moped.
• The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword gets played, and Stephen becomes convinced that Zelda's father Gaebora is an owl (both because of his name fitting the owl from Ocarina of Time and his eyebrows). Dan proceeds to voice his dialogue whilst constantly replacing random words with 'hoot' in a way that makes people in the chat cry with laughter.
• ProtonJon raids with his community to back the absurdly terrible Canada Hunt which he encountered on his own streams a few months back... and gets into a fight with MasaeAnela and her community simultaneously pushing for Okami.
• While playing Ōkami, Stephen refers to Amaterasu "Dog Bob Ross".
  • Due to a combination of poor motion controls and a lack of rest, Mal finds herself unable to draw a straight line during Okami. It's even funnier when you remember she's an artist.

2021 (Wii)

• This year, Stephen was enthusiastic about pushing for games that use the Wii Balance Board peripheral. He changes his mind when the early part of the stream has him playing an improbable number in a row, including games no-one would expect to use the board.
  • As Chaz points out, the first few games also have an unintentional theme of aliens (either actually in the games, or brought up because of the Unintentional Uncanny Valley look or behaviour of the characters).
  • Everyone shouts "Whee!" / "Wii!" when a big donation comes in.
• Stephen plays Let's Play Ballerina and is taken aback by the fact that he spends most of his time reading out very lengthy dialogue.
• The crew are astonished to learn that The Garfield Show: Threat of the Space Lasagna uses the same muzak as Garfield Kart and is somehow even worse.
• Trauma Centre sees Stephen and Mal getting really into voice acting the characters in a dramatic scene, and Stephen thinking the antibiotic gel is different flavours of Mountain Dew.
• In Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn, Stephen invents headcanon about Sothe and Yune the bird being the same shape-shifting character (which quickly falls apart when they both appear on screen at the same time); "Begnion" is treated as The Unpronounceable in dialogue; and Stephen quickly runs out of plausible voices for the characters and heads to ridiculous ones like Toad from Mario.
• The voice filters in Storybook Workshop must be heard to be believed.
• Dan's struggles with depth perception for jumps when playing Wipeout. He also stuns everyone by realising you can jump to others' platforms and knock them off in one round, but usually knocks himself out in the process.
• The 'High Heel Gang' somehow manage to have Cake Mania: In The Mix played right as the cake they organised gets delivered to the crew.
• During Lego Star Wars: The Complete Saga, Dan and Stephen encounter a glitch where Dan manages to play as a car!
• Stephen's astonishment towards how The Dog Island is so melodramatic for a game about dogs marketed towards children.
  Stephen: What's happening? There's like, this weird undertone of like, drama and... sickness.
  [...]
  Stephen: There's way too much drama for a game that's clearly marketed towards children.
  Mal: This is how Galaxy starts.
  Stephen: Like, this is for kids, this is definitely for kids and it's like "Well, after his father passed away and his sister got deathly ill, and the sign of the times was famine. Soon, the puppy chow was all gone, and the kibble factory was shut down."
  Mal: They had to rely on milk.
  Dan: They resorted to eating cat food!
  Stephen: "Your uncle had to kill his wife for food, and that was the only way he could survive. The dog police took him in, but did he really deserve it, we're not sure." Anyway, this game's for seven year olds.
  • As it's stylised in-game as "THE DOG Island", Stephen pronounces it as "THE Dog Island."
  • Like ProtonJon before him, Stephen is delighted by the game's unexpectedly generous character limit for the protagonist's name, and dubs him "SuperRuffDoggoPupper".
• Much to Dan's delight, the chat donates so he can rematch Stephen from last year in Imagine Party Babies.
• Stephen was keen for the chat to back Tetris Party Deluxe, a.k.a. "Tetris With The Feet", a game which lets you play Tetris with the Wii Balance Board. He changes his mind when it turns out to be torturous, yet he still manages to clear 150 lines amid periodic moments of panic.
• In Wii Sports, Stephen tries out a gimmicky bowling ball peripheral for the Wiimote when playing bowling. Surprisingly, he successfully manages to beat Mal's score with it.
• After the roulette picks Wii Party:
  Sleep-deprived Stephen: Wii Party is a first-party...party game on the Wii...that was the dumbest sentence in the history of mankind.
• By the time they get to Wii Party Stephen is even more sleep-deprived, yet somehow beats Mal in a memory game. He wonders if 'his third eye has decalcified' and insists Mal test him on trivia he is usually bad at to see if he has developed a Disability Superpower.
  • His hubris strikes again, as he almost immediately refers to British Columbia as "Bitty Columbia".

2022 (Wii and Wii U)

• This one has more people than ever before, including Alex and Hayley. In a much-foreshadowed moment, Hayley reveals the outfit she made for the Wiimote baby peripheral for Babysitting Mama - and it turns out to be a 'Snale Fantasy' costume! "Snaby" promptly becomes the stream mascot for the event.
• Alex's enthusiasm for Sonic and the Black Knight being played.
• The roulette chooses Scribblenauts and Stephen compares the opening to The Wizard of Oz, then casually adds he's never seen the film - which even for regulars used to how this film student has seen so few films, still shocks people.
• One of Mal's choices, an Iron Chef game with No Budget is played because she thought it included a Mii version of Alton Brown. Instead, it turns out to have bad single-frame animations of an Uncanny Valley version of him which is compared to Andross from Star Fox by fanartists. And like Busy Scissors before it, it crashes for no reason. During this (of all games), the stream gets on the Twitch frontpage and gets over 15,000 viewers.
• Chuggaaconroy donates for Super Paper Mario and disses Colour Splash in the process. Stephen's regular generous donor MrGameboy18 promptly donates enough to Colour Splash to put it one cent higher than Super Paper Mario.
• After Stephen discovers he can play Smash Bros 4 with the bongo controllers from Donkey Konga - allowing attack but not movement, and you have to scream to shield - he decides to challenge Alex to a match using them. Fox only, no items, Final Destination, of course.
• The chat donates for the (now nonfunctional) Wii Netflix disc, and they pass the time by having Stephen try to summarise the plot of The Lord of the Rings (in his usual idiosyncratic way) for half an hour.
• JoshJepson is able to attend in person for the first time, and advocates for Link's Crossbow Training. When Stephen points out that they also have an orange shotgun peripheral from hunting games to insert the Wiimote into, the chat upgrades the game's name to Link's Shotgun Training.
• Mal plays Xenoblade Chronicles X and is irritated by the game constantly reminding her she's offline. Then donation messages start mentioning she's offline as a joke. And then Chuggaaconroy phones her to tell her she's offline.
  • The deuteragonist is called Elma, so Stephen inevitably refers to her as "Elmo" and gives her Elmo's voice.
  • The game shows a flashback to a cutscene that played less than ten minutes ago, which Xenogears fan Hayley claims is essential for it to be a real Xeno game.
  • When Mal wonders if her eyes could look like those of their player character "Fargothia", she, Hayley and Lindsey spontaneously invent RGB 'gamer contacts'.
  Lindsey: You're not a real gamer girl unless you've got RGB gamer contacts!
  • The group are confused by pop-up messages saying "United States" without context (on a planet with low gravity)
  Josh: We're in the United States, where gravity is lower!
• Roland had wanted them to play Elebits for years but it had never made it to the top of the donation pile before. When it does, Hayley refers to it as "Halibuts", while Josh wonders if it's made by "Capcom, or Konami...Capnami?"
• They play Veggy World, the incredibly rare Wii game (which was the final one to complete their collection) and it turns out to be a very bad generic shooter...but, as Alex discovers, the manual contains an absurd amount of unnecessary backstory, such as the protagonist's 'strawberry plane' having solid-state drives that allow it to produce its own upgrades.
• Starting with Devil's Third, the team starts getting quite enthusiastic about their voice acting. Special mention to Lindsey's exaggerated Midwestern accent and everything in the Monster High game (where, due to copyright concerns, Alex and others even improvise their own theme tune and incidental music after Stephen mutes it).
  • This starts because the group decide to bowdlerise the dialogue in the violent and sweary Devil's Third (deliberately turning off the in-game voice acting) because the 'underage' Snaby is 'watching'. In particular, all references to blood are hastily covered up with lines like "Oh no, my strawberry jam!" The chat calls it 'the 4Kids dub' of Devil's Third.
• In Oregon Trail, the game has default names for characters which you can change, and the group plan to put their own names in. The leader of the party is already called 'Steven' which is slightly funny...and then it gets a little creepy when his son is called 'Joshua'.
  Stephen: LEAVE IT! MOVE ON!
  • Some other highlights from the trail include the wagon catching fire and getting attacked by wolves at the same time (which Stephen interprets as the wolves attacking with molotovs), and Joshua managing to break both of his legs in quick succession.
• The group plays Disney Think Fast, with everybody expecting the others, especially Lindsey, to wipe the floor with Stephen due to his lack of Disney knowledge. However, due to many of the questions not being actual trivia, plus a bit of dumb luck, Stephen actually manages to come in first. As Stephen declares that he's the Champion of Disney Trivia, an irritated Lindsey requests for the viewers to push for You Don't Know Jack so she can get revenge. They quickly oblige, mostly in the form of a generous donation from MrGameboy18 that immediately bumps it into first place, thus serving Stephen an extremely swift slice of humble pie.
• Mal and Hayley have a breakdown in Reader Rabbit whilst trying to direct an oblivious Stephen to make an animation of the colon-V 'Chaz face' emote.
• After previously sending Stephen bad game choices such as Canada Hunt and Ninjabread Man, ProtonJon decides that this time he'll have Stephen play a kart racer called Jimmie Johnson's Anything with an Engine. Jon ends up playing the game on his stream just before Stephen plays it, and actually finds it to be unironically entertaining, musing that he may have inadvertently chosen a fairly good game for once. Except he only played the single-player, and when Stephen and friends try multiplayer, it becomes an unplayable sluggish-framerate mess. In a sitcom-level Springtime for Hitler moment, Stephen refuses to believe that Jon actually thought he was sending a decent game.

2023 (Gamecube, Wii and Wii U)

• Hayley makes a 'Snibling' for Snaby, to be released when the money reaches a certain threshold. She also makes a plush Odama for Thomas.
• A user named BigFearedBalloon is obsessed with Overlord: Dark Legend getting played, doing over 40 pieces of crossover fanart in the leadup to the event.
• The first game played is Mario Party 4, carrying on a saved game from Extra Life in 2018. They rapidly learn that the player 3 port (Dan) on the Gamecube doesn't work, leading to an amusing moment where a crayon-tracing minigame turns into a flatline and fanart depicts Mario as dead or comatose.
  • Waluigi, originally a CPU, becomes first Josh, then Thomas when Josh has to go and get a replacement Gamecube.
  • Jeff is alarmed when Boo refers to the players as 'flesh puppets'.
  • Dan's non sequitur question "Are those angels or bees?" - it takes the others a while to realise he's talking about the dizziness stars circling a knocked-out Mario's head.
  • During Mario Party 4, Thomas' wife donates to try to stop him playing Odama.
• The second game, picked by roulette, is Peter Jackson's King Kong: The Movie: The Game. Stephen initially thinks he's still in a cutscene when gameplay has already started. The chat are also confused about when King Kong will show up.
• The third game played is Odama, and world speedrun record holder Thomas plays (which mostly consists of him constantly shouting PRESS FORWARD). Hayley, meanwhile, provides a detailed commentary on the game mechanics from pre-prepared notes.
• Dan on Freddi Fish (confusing it with Putt-Putt by the same company): "Isn't that fish supposed to be a car?"
  Hayley: "Are angels bees?" "Are fish cars?"
  • Hayley, regarding Luther's Black Bead Eyes: "Why does he not have a soul?"
  • Stephen compares a crab to Sebastian from The Little Mermaid, but the others warn him of Disney copyright, so they come up with a copyright-friendly version of Under the Sea.
  • The three genders: Boys, girls, fish.
• They struggle with the controls for the Wii port of the Laserdisc arcade game Mad Dog McCree, not least due to ignoring all the dialogue and shooting all characters indiscriminately.
  • As a result, the group of four gunslingers keep getting defeated by one guy at a time, and get to see many different game over screens showing an undertaker (whom Alex, in a Call-Back to Grand Theft Auto Online, compares to Abe Lincoln).
  • They repeatedly fail on the Final Boss, Mad Dog himself, due to ignoring dialogue warning he wears a bulletproof vest, then being unable to decide what to shoot instead. Finally Chaz reads out the wiki page telling them to shoot his hand...but doesn't read out the second sentence adding there's a fake-out where he recovers. As a result, they finally manage to shoot Mad Dog just as the time allocated to the game is over, only to lose at the last moment anyway.
• For Guilty Gear Accent Core Plus, Stephen decides it should be a face-off between two of the group members least experienced with fighting games, Hayley and Lindsey. Among the things they deal with are the Waggle-filled controls and the general insanity of the franchise.
  • Among their nicknames for the characters are "Booty Man" (Faust) and "Robo-Kentucky" (Robo-Ky).
• Lindsey mixes up Ōkami with Katamari Damacy, leading to crossover art of the two.
• Barnyard features the protagonist Chad the Beefmaster, JoshJepson voicing a mouse character in his Mickey Mouse impression, and a lot of Squick at the 'squirting mechanic'.
• For MLB Power Pros 2008, the group is so enthusiastic to continue that they get fans to check who voiced which character last time. There is also a memorable reaction to the Big-Lipped Alligator Moment where Marvin realises he is a character in a video game and has an existential crisis.
• DuckTales: Remastered comes with a long online update, leading the group to sing (to the tune of the theme song) "We are waiting to update DuckTales, whoo hoo" etc. Fortunately, the Snibling reaches its donation goal during this so Hayley finally unveils it...revealing it to be Stephen's infamous "Chikorita From Memory".
• Trauma Center returns, with more Mountain Dew and hammy voice acting, this time with Dan and Lindsey joining in.
• For weeks leading up to the event, Mal and especially Hayley practiced their skills at Puyo Pop Fever while Stephen, who's always said he can't wrap his head around the game, vocally dreaded facing them at it - and the fans were gleeful at the idea of forcing him to play against them. Then it actually comes around and Stephen beats first Josh and then Mal, before narrowly losing to Hayley. The chat accuse him of being a 'Puyo hustler'.
• For Wheel of Fortune with Wii Speak, all three Runaway Guys (who popularised this version) are in the chat:
  • Chugga reminisces about their own experience with the less-than-reliable Wii Speak when Stephen and company realise how bad it is.
  • Tim, who often gets the puzzle even before a single letter is picked, claims he's got it before the game loads up.
  • Jon is upset that Stephen ignored his advice to create custom profiles with recorded speech taunts, one of the funniest parts of this version.
  • One of Jeff's garbled guesses (not helped by the Wii Speak) is "Polly Loves Hurdles", to which he suggests "It's a track parrot!" a concept that makes Stephen laugh uncontrollably.
  • Stephen, playing off a deliberately bad guess by Dan and one the Wii Speak prefilled for him: "Looks like it's gonna be an All-Girl Hurl! What kind? Hyphens and Redheads!"
  • In general, the Wii Speak just refuses to recognise anything Stephen says in his accent, whilst being much more forgiving of Mal's.
• Overlord: Dark Legend is similar to Pikmin and even has colour-coded Minions as well. The chat jokes about Stephen supposedly being obsessed with finding the Blue Minions, as he is with Blue Pikmin in his Pikmin LPs.
• While Dan and Thomas play Lego Marvel Avengers (and the rest, especially Stephen, reveal how little they know about Marvel), Ben 10: Defender of Earth is the next game to be played and Stephen has to improvise his own version of the theme song 'to a well-known Christmas tune'.
  • A misspeaking over Tony Stark's name also leads to them conceiving the concept of 'Lego Tony Hawk'.
• During the aforementioned Ben 10: Defender of Earth, Hayley comes up with elaborate theories for why the game's co-op mode lets you just have two Bens (with no explanation). These include an Alternate Universe Ben coming out of a portal, or Ben reaching the age of 20 and being cut in half.
  • There's also the gag that Stephen insists that Brandon play because he's ten.
  • Stephen summarises the plot of Danny Phantom in his inimitable way (which started out as him trying to do the theme song).
  Stephen: It's something like "He is a ghost and he's Danny Phantom, he met a ghost and he's Danny Phantom, his dad is a ghost, he's Danny Phantom". Somethin' like that. (After it is pointed out that Danny Phantom's dad is not a ghost but hunts ghosts) "His dad hunts ghosts and he is a ghost and he gets hunted by his dad, his dad's tryin' to kill him, he's Danny Phantom"
  Hayley: I don't think his dad's trying to kill him-
  Dan: So he has to kill his dad!
  Thomas: That's the plot!
• They play Cosmic Family, a very strange edutainment game hosted by a yellow elephant with Deranged Animation. The parents of the titular family have a significant height difference, which the chat jokes is an accurate representation of Stephen and Mal. They also have a dog and cat who resemble Laika and Kepler.
• Josh is determined to play Splatoon 1 one last time before Nintendo shuts down the servers. He is stymied by first a long Wii U update and then the game being unable to find a last player for the match. Meanwhile in the background, Hayley and Dan have a Seinfeldian Conversation about the definition of the word "animal".

Miscellaneous

• Anything from the "Memorable Moments" playlists.
  • The thumbnail images for the Memorable Moments are often hilarious in their own right.
• Stephen's reaction to Chuggaaconroy's ridiculous luck when they (and Mal) play Mario Party.
  Stephen (to the viewers at the end of a video): We will see you guys in the future for probably more Mario Party boards from various Mario Party games, all of which Emile will win.
  • Both Chugga and Stephen find Mal's impression of Princess Peach to be scarily accurate, to the point that Stephen says that sometimes he genuinely can't tell if the voice is coming from the TV or Mal.
  • In episode 2 of Mario's Rainbow Castle, they decide that Peach is a Third-Person Person who always announces "Yeah! Peach is X!" whenever she does anything.
• Stephen, Mal and Chugga play "You're in the Movies", a game which involves inserting yourself into movie clips and playing minigames. They choose a level that needs 4 players, so Stephen tries to use his cat Sagan as the fourth player, and when that doesn't work ends up pulling his shirt over his head and standing in for the cat.
  • Chugga beats Sagan/Stephen at a minigame and sings "I beat a cat!" to the tune of the Zelda Item Get! music.
  • Then a minigame requires both Stephen and Sagan at the same time, so Chugga has to pull his shirt over his head and stand in for the cat.
  • When Chugga is called upon to wave his arms around for one of the animations, he yells "BOWSER'S ARMS!!" and then, when the movie has him haunting a toilet and being flushed away by Stephen's elbow, he adds "IN THE BATHROOM!"
• In "Sister Segadventure: Aladdin", Stephen constantly being bitter about how in the SNES version of the game he grew up with you don't get a sword. As well as Karley (and occasionally Mal) singing along to the level songs.
• In "Sister Segadventure: Sonic 2", Stephen voicing Tails in a similar voice to Jitters and voicing Sonic as a Surfer Dude, as well as presenting Tails as a Hypercompetent Sidekick who does all the work.
  • In the 2-player Versus mode, Stephen asks about how the unknown item boxes can be a teleport that switches the two players, just as Mal gets one and says "Like this?"
  • Also in 2-player mode, Stephen's bafflement that Mal and Karley deliberately try to draw with each other because they like playing the tie-breaker stages.
• Throughout the Sister Segadventure series, the fact that Stephen tries to interview Mal and Karley as they play with questions about the games, but ninety percent of the time they just ignore him (as he lampshades towards the end).
• Stephen and Mal guested on JoshJepson's channel to play Mario Kart 7, but the game audio was lost...so Stephen decided to re-record all the audio effects with his voice.
• Steven and Mal took April Fool's day up to eleven, by doing a puzzle for six hours.
• "The Oilventure", a game Stephen made with RPG Maker. It needs to be seen in order to be believed.
• Both of the First20 episodes of Endless Ocean games, starring protagonist Fargothix.
• Stephen does a First20 of Minesweeper. The First 20 seconds of Minesweeper.
• In Tecmo Bowl during their Month of NES Classic, Stephen brags about leading the game against Mal 14-7, saying "That's twice as many points as you have." Mal then proceeds to return the ensuing kickoff for a touchdown, leading to a Stephen freak-out, and ultimately shut out Stephen the rest of the way to win the game, 26-14.
• A conversation with a talking house. That is all.
• In SNES Classics: Castlevania, Stephen reads out the opening narration with ridiculously unsuited voices every time he comes to the words "Dracula", "Transylvania", or "the Belmont Family".
  • Also in SNES classics, Stephen voice acts everyone in Final Fantasy VI as sounding like a cross between Fargothix and a Monty Python character. Particularly memorable is his No Indoor Voice interpretation of Locke...
  Stephen (as Locke): I'M IN THE LIBRARY! THE LIBRARY!
• During Breakfast Stream and Friday gaming streams, viewers can donate 5000 bits to make Stephen improvise lyrics to the tune of a song - originally the Haircut song, and later one from Yoshi's Island. The results are...variable.
  • After a ridiculous number of songs in the second part of the Super Mario RPG streams (meaning they only recorded three episodes in a multi-hour stream due to Stephen working through all the songs), he proceeded to change the song again...to the Hoedown from Whose Line Is It Anyway?, made with the EarthBound soundfont.
• As noted in Dan's editing annotations, in the Mario Party 1 videos with guest players, Stephen tells the same story over and over in almost every single board about injuring his hand through control stick spinning when he was a kid. It doesn't help the videos were recorded months apart.
• In the Nintendo giveaway-sponsored Super Mario Odyssey stream:
  • Stephen referring to the inhabitants of the Lake Kingdom as "Fisher-Price Zoras".
  • Mal, who's played the game before, clearly struggling not to tell Stephen (who hasn't) when he misses things.
  • Stephen shows off his Mario 64-driven abilties to sequence break around obstacles, but sometimes spends more time trying to do so than it would possibly take just doing it the intended way.
  • Due to thinking the map looks like California, Stephen thinks New Donk City is Sacramento. The chat constantly tries to get him to look at the street signs to see the Donkey Kong references, only for him to acknowledge the comments and then completely ignore them for about fifteen minutes straight before he finally remembers to do so.
• Stephen goes full Motor Mouth reading out the Seed and Fertilizer scene in Super Mario RPG. Doubles as Awesome considering he manages to keep up with the scrolling text.
• In 2020, FamilyJules, then obsessed with Among Us, begs Stephen via Breakfast Stream chat to play a round with him and other TRG members. Stephen says he will, but warns him "I have killed before, and I will kill again..."
  • In the actual game, Jules sees Stephen struggle to even move at first, not having played the game more than a couple of times and having forgotten the controls. When crewmates start disappearing (including Adri) Jules accepts Stephen's claim it can't be him as he's still figuring out the game. Meanwhile, MasaeAnela is irate that the meeting interrupted her just before the end of the long end tedious 'Simon Says' task. Jules pledges to go and watch her do it, and does so as she stands in front of the console for minutes, speaking up for her in the meeting. Jules has someone else spaced, and as he does, Adri returns to the call to scream 'NOOOO!'...
  Stephen: Anyway. [Jules' screen comes up saying 'Defeat' and that Stephen and Masae were the impostors] I just want all of you to know that I have killed before and I will kill again.
• In a truly Awesome moment, Stephen gets to appear on Nintendo's official Youtube channel in a prom-themed video for Animal Crossing: New Horizons... in which he tells the story of a literal Oh, Crap! moment he experienced at his senior prom, where he was announced as prom king right as he desperately had to use the restroom.
  Stephen: [As his friend] You can't leave right now, they're about to announce the prom king and the prom queen!
  [As himself] I have to go.
  [As his friend] But what if you're prom king?
  • Sadly, Nintendo later deleted the video when they removed the content from the Nintendo Minute producers. However, Stephen then told a funny 'behind the scenes' story that, due to poor communication in setting up the event, he, Mal and KungFuFruitCup (the other content creators in the video) all dressed up in prom clothes in real life, not realising only the in-game footage would be shown.
• For Pokémon streams, Chaz programmed a donation alert that allows fans to summon a particular or random Pokémon (including some...unusual ones). Rather than limit the work to only those streams, variations are implemented so viewers can donate to put Pokémon in prison for A Way Out, pair them up romantically for It Takes Two, or even produce bizarre Wario-Pokémon hybrids for Warioware.
• Stephen's two "Name That Pokemon" videos with Chuggaaconroy is full of funny moments. Unfamiliar with Pokemon past the first couple generations, Stephen comes up with names like Grunknork for Bastiodon and the Notorious L.I.C.K for Lickylicky.
  • He is mocked by the comments for coming up with "Ratichonk" for Alolan Raticate (which he assumes is a third evolution of Ratatta). Because obviously Game Freak would never use 'chonk' in the name of a Pokemon. A few months later...
• When Triangle Strategy was first announced, Stephen kept mispronouncing it as "Strangle Tragedy". Then Nintendo gifted him a copy and asked him to make a stream promoting it... Hilarity Ensues.
  • One character compliments another by saying 'your hair is beautiful', prompting this:
  Stephen (suddenly singing very loudly and passionately): OHHHHH...your hair is beauuuuutiful...tonight...to-niiiiight...ATOMIC!
  • He then gets upset when most of the chat don't get the reference.
• Stephen and Mal play Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker and Stephen mishears Captain Toad's opening voice clip ("Time for Adventure" or "Ready for Adventure") as either "I love this mixture!" or "I love your sister!"
• Stephen and Mal play Xenoblade Chronicles 3 on release day (despite not having played the previous two much). On learning that their protagonists are child soldiers who only live ten years and die in service of a queen, Mal keeps insistently describing them as "They're BEES!"
• Due to recovering from illness, Stephen and Mal play the remake of Mario vs Donkey Kong in February 2024. Stephen is delighted at the appearance of a rhinoceros NPC that looks like a baby Rambi from DKC, then turns completely horrified when the game identifies it as an enemy and shows a tutorial of Mario picking up and throwing it.