Main | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023
The American Book That Offended The British
- Dom is incapable of doing a New England accent, so portrays Morgan with a rather bombastic Southern one since it's the best American accent he can do.
- Knights-Errant were Garbage and Here's Why.
- He's wearing an Olenna Tyrell t-shirt for the video, and at one point covers up her eyes when he rants about the series ending.
Omegaverse: Male Pregnancy In Romance
- Dom assumes that omega children are birthed through the anus because the alternative "would look like footage of a snake eating a football played backwards."
- The skit about Daddy Wanted where Thorn saves Toby from being kidnapped by a stalkerish Loony Fan.Thorn: Daddy... PUNCH! [punches out the stalker, to Toby's delight]
The Vampire Lestat/Queen of the Damned
- Dominic introduces Lestat with a somber monologue about his long life and his many experiences...before pulling out an electric guitar and playing it with a massive grin.
- The skit where Lestat tries to communicate telepathically with the other vampires but can't get through, shouting slowly as if he had a phone with poor reception.Dom!Lestat: (in an outrageous French accent) I said I'm stopping by Starbucks on the way to the coven! Does anybody want anything?
- Dominic describes Lestat flying around with Louis on their date. Cut to Dominic playing both a grinning Lestat and an increasingly uncomfortable Louis carried in the former's arms, complete with an over-the-top French-accented version of "A Whole New World".
- Dominic notices an actor named Pip Mushin is credited as "Guy Being Sucked."Dominic: That feels like intentional sabotage of a guy's IMDB page. What did you do to piss off the editor, Pip?
- The appearance of Luke Spencer. Luke is just as happy to see him here as he was in A Voice from the Darknote .
Covid19 Is Already A Romance Subgenre
- Dom's Screw This, I'm Outta Here reaction to finding out the first book he's reviewing will be Quarantined With The 10-Inch Soldier: Interracial Romance.
- Dom's bemusement that the U.S. government in a smutty erotic story takes a more organized, sensible and proactive approach to quarantining people coming back from cruiseships than it did in real life.
- "Yes, I do like to imagine my libido looks like Benedict Cumberbatch."
Pride and Prejudice
- The skits where Dom demonstrates the extreme sass of the characters in the book.Mr. Collins: I should go and talk to Mr. Darcy.
Elizabeth: Oh, I wouldn't. He doesn't like being approached by randos without an official introduction.
Mr. Collins: Oh, pish-posh, what do you know? You're just a woman, you don't understand these things. [walks off-screen] Hello there, my good man!
Mr. Darcy: [echoing, from off-screen] How dare you speak to me?!
Mr. Collins: [as Elizabeth looks at him knowingly] Um... I... think that went rather well.
Lady Catherine: Once and for all, girl, are you currently engaged to my nephew Mr. Darcy?
Elizabeth: No.
Lady Catherine: Good! And I want your solemn promise that you'll say no if he asks you to marry him.
Elizabeth: Oh, yes, of course! I have your promise right here in my pocket, as it happens. [flips a scandalised Lady Catherine the bird] Goodness, that's not a promise at all! I'm so embarrassed! Well, perhaps this crank can summon it. [makes a cranking motion with one hand and once again gives Lady Catherine the finger with the other] Oh no!
The Picture of Dorian Gray (2009)
- As a lead-in to the "What They Changed" section, we get a skit of Dorian's portrait roaring at him. Only Dorian is unimpressed, so the picture continues roaring before quickly losing steam to the point where the last one is more akin to a question.Portrait: [Quizzical Tilt, Beat] Rawr?
- By the time the "What They Left Out Altogether" section rolls around, the two are playing Go Fish.
The Deceit And Broken Promises Behind The Worst Adaptation Ever
- Il Neige's song about Ursula K. Le Guin over the end credits.Her name was sung with the highest regard
Even earned the praise of Orson Scott Card
And that guy's a dick! - And in the post credits bloopers, Sir Terry (the cat) takes a moment to eviscerate the curtains.
- In line with LeGuin's own dislike for the series' whitewashing, Ged is referred to solely as "White Ged".
- He repeatedly points out how the Age Lifts of the characters make their actions worse. For example, Ged appears to be in his twenties but still acts like a 12 year old boy, and the romance between Ged and Tenar being much creepier when you consider that when they met in the books, Ged was in his 30s and Tenar was 15. note.
- "Even insulting this series is giving it too much credit!".
- "Put bluntly, on Earthsea, white people are the minority. Well, to be even more blunt, on Earth white people are the minority but LeGuin seems to be one of the only fantasy writers that remembers that."
- In the "What they Left Out Altogether", he mentions several awesome and emotional moments from the books (hard sea voyages, Ged fighting dragons, the journey to the Dry Land and back, the death of the otak, etc.) that he would have loved to have seen on screen....before cutting it off by saying that he's glad the adaptation cut them out so he didn't have to suffer through them screwing it up.
Twilight Made Me Question The Existence Of Love
- While struggling to find an example of why Bella might actually be in love with Edward, he comes to the conclusion that she's attracted to him because he has an inherent allure as a vampire, and that Edward is only attracted to her because her blood smells so good and that they are mutually brainwashing each other. He then takes this line of thought too far and decides that all love is involuntary biological response with nothing special about it and furthermore all life is meaningless and we are just tiny bags of meat in an uncaring universe with no control over our lives or choices... and then he reads another passage disproving that theory, making his entire breakdown All for Nothing. And then it jumps to commercial. For extra points, the breakdown gives him emo hair, which he keeps for the rest of the review."It's not that deep, bro."
- He also delivers this line in perfect deadpan;"What is love? (Baby don't hurt me, don't hurt me no more.)"
- He also delivers this line in perfect deadpan;
New Moon, The Boring One
- The skit of Bella attempting a Tuck and Cover to save Edward from his Suicide by Cop, only to fall to the ground when she crashes into him, while he doesn't even move an inch due to his Super-Strength.Bella: [down on the ground] I love you.
Eclipse, The Character Assassination Of Jacob
- He starts by taking off the Team Jacob shirt he wore in the last video, revealing a tank top that says "Nevermind, they're all terrible."
- The opening skit.
- Edward acts controlling and condescending to Bella, who rides off on a motorcycle with Jacob. Edward admits she was right to do so.
- Jacob explains imprinting to Bella, who points out that he's basically describing grooming.
- Edward's over the top dramatic reaction to Bella wanting to sleep with him.Edward, putting his hand against his forehead: SEX!? BEFORE MARRIAGE!? But what about our virtue!? *faints*
- Bella's reaction after Edward defeats Victoria. "Yay! I am so numb to violence at this point!"
- "Jacob acts like a greasy drunk bro hitting on you at a Dave and Buster's. I have no idea what I just said, my co-producer Kate wrote that line."
Breaking Dawn, Edward's Penis Is Filled With Venom
- In the recap skit, Edward dramatically bemoans how he accidentally hurt Bella with his vampire strength in the heat of passion while they were having sex. Bella, however, was totally into it and wants to do it again, with Dom roleplaying as a dishabile Bella and screaming at the top of his lungs:Bella!Dom: GIVE...MEEE..THAT...VAMPIRE DICK!!!
- And "Vampire Dick" gets hilariously topped by Bella then chasing Edward Scooby Doo-style as goofy cartoon music plays in the background. After a few seconds, she stops chasing Edward to inform him that she's pregnant, to which he responds by going completely still and staring at nothing in utter shock.Bella: Edward? [waves a hand in front of his face] Edward...?
Breaking Dawn, NOW It Gets Graphic?!
- From the recap skit, after Bella gives birth and Jacob and Edward, who is holding the baby, walk away covered in blood with haunted looks on their faces:
Breaking Dawn, How NOT to Write a Satisfying Ending
- The opening skit depicting the "battle" with the Volturi basically boiling down to Edward and Aro going back and forth with "No, we didn't." "Yes, you did." Bonus points for him clearly trying to emulate Michael Sheen as Aro in the movies.
- The complete and utter disdain he has for the name Renesmee. Irritably saying that being the one who gave the kid the name in the first place, Bella has no right getting mad at Jacob for giving Nessie a significantly less dumb nickname.
- Dominic gets increasingly incensed about Meyer's tendecy to pad out plotlines that easily could have been resolved in a single, concise sentence, so that they instead end up going on for much longer than necessary and often peters out in an Anti-Climax, leaving him with the feeling that the story as been a waste of his time.Dom: I want the time I spend reading this meandering, pointless drivel back, DAMMIT! GIVE MY TIME BACK, STEPHENIE MEYER!
- He clearly has a few thoughts on Joham experimenting with human/vampire hybrid children to create a master race.(cut to Dom dressed as a police officer, complete with a cityscape and car in the background)
Dom: (into a megaphone) STEPHANIE MEYER, BACK AWAY FROM THE HEAVY RACIAL SUBJECT. YOU ARE NOT IN ANY WAY EQUIPPED TO WRITE ABOUT A HEAVY RACIAL SUBJECT. - The shirt Dominic wears throughout the episode reads "It's not that deep, bro."
- "IT'S THE FINAL LETDOWN!"
- When introducing the supporting cast, he describes Trumpkin as meeting the Pevensies after losing an election to his rival Bidensan.
- Dom was confused on why Aslan grew with the children, and finds out there's a theological explanation, which he explains in grand, bombastic fashion.Dom: WHEN YOU DRAW CLOSE TO JESUS, SO DOES JESUS GRRRRROW WITHIN YOU! So...uh....yeah.
- He uses the same tone for his skit of CS Lewis telling a journalist that no, Aslan isn't an allegory for Jesus, he is literally Jesus.
- Due to a combination of Age Lift and Dawson Casting (Caspian is about 13 in the book, he's in his late teens in the movie, and Ben Barnes was 26 at the time of filming), Dom concludes that film Caspian is a grown adult who needs teenagers from another world to save him from his own stupidity.Dom: (about the plan to resurrect the White Witch) [Caspian] of the book rejected the idea outright because he had more than three brain cells.
- In describing how one-note the Pevensies were in the original novels so they'd be easier for children to put themselves in their shoes, he calls them the noble knight (Peter), the redeemed one (Edmund), the true believer (Lucy)....and Susan.
Immortal Highlanders Vs The Roman Vampires, A Time Travel Romance
- While talking about the author's published works, Dom stumbles across one of the books, called Dominic. Because he knows his audience will demand it anyway, he says if the video gets 10,000 likes he'll read it too.
- Sure enough the video go that 10,000 likes in less than 24 hours after it was uploaded.
- At one point Dom explains that this book probably has the most sex scenes of any other book he's discussed, barring Fifty Shades. So, yeah, it's really not safe for work. But it's also not safe to download the audiobook, listen to it while driving to Starbucks and forget that it's still playing as you wind down your window at the drive-through, avoiding eye-contact with the barista as she hands you your iced white mocha while the narrator describes licking the juices off of a highlander's still erect cock after sex. He finishes the bit by taking an awkward swig from his iced white mocha and letting out a resigned sigh.
- The skits of Roman vampire soldiers trying to use Kinley as bait for her love interest, only for her to kill them all. Particularly the Captain's nonchalant response to being set on fire.Captain: Atlast we have you right where we want you, and now I'm going to *Kinley sets him on fire* Er...Right, right...Well... I feel silly now.
A Sexy Lumberjack Christmas Romance
- Partway through the video, Dom notices that the book about a gay romance and their negative past experiences being written by a straight woman is rubbing him the wrong way. But he has no place to call foul being a straight man. So he brings in Rantasmo for assistance... by using the Dragon Dagger.Rantasmo: Dom, I thought we've talked about this before, I am not the Dragonzord.
