Describe The Review Show here.
Sarcasm aside, The Review Show - which they repeatedly state will get a proper name any day now - is the end result of two teenagers who worked at a video store together, Susan and Elliot. The show started as a way to shill new releases for the video store they worked at, and quickly spiraled into them riffing on all kinds of movies, many of which are classics that Elliot never got around to seeing.
New episodes of The Review Show usually post on Sundays, but as of late have been appearing about twice a month.Click here
Tropes present in this series:
- Adorkable: Elliot and Susan both have their moments.
- Ambiguously Gay: Elliot, to the point that it was the subject of a comment war.
- Bile Fascination: Adam Sandler's recent oeuvre.
- Blunt "Yes": Was shaping up to be Susan's catchphrase briefly.
- Deadpan Snarker: Susan, mostly. She can't help but smirk half the time.
- Defrosting Ice Queen: Severely downplayed. Susan is obviously a GLORIOUS GEEK, but she had a little more stoic reserve in the early episodes - possibly just nerves around the camera.
- Enforced Plug: Once per episode in the first "season".
- Epileptic Trees: Very infrequent, but Susan can go down the rabbit hole with speculation and Fridge Logic. For a good example, check out the Wreck-It Ralph review.
- The Ghost: Ted. Who's Ted? What's the deal with Ted? We will never know. Used in the same way as Skunky Beaumont was in the Nick seasons of Doug.
- Harsher in Hindsight: That moment you realize Elliot's full name is the same as Cheerleadra's civilian identity. Then realize what the poor guy's probably gone through since then.
- Made of Explodium: Couches, evidently.
- Mr. Fanservice: Elliot. GAZE UPON HIS RIPPLING ABS.
- Noodle Incident: Elliot and Sarah's breakup, anything involving Ted, and "The Movie Of Which We Do Not Speak".
- No True Scotsman: Discussed in terms of the nebulous term "a real fan".
- Obfuscating Stupidity: Or obliviousness. Played with - it's hard to say how much of Elliot's pop culture blindness is real, and how much is played up.
- More obviously exploited in later videos.
- Psycho Ex: Exaggerated with Elliot's ex-girlfriend, Sarah, who proceeds to throw an exploding couch at him, Zig-Zagged then inverted as the captions inform us that the breakup was civil and they're still friends. Which explains how they got her on camera in the first place.
- Rule of Awesome: Discussed.
- Rule of Funny: Discussed and abused.
- Seinfeldian Conversation: Which can overwhelm the actual reviews.
- So Bad, It's Good: Invoked infrequently, including with the Sporkman motion picture.
- Straight Man and Wise Guy: Although which is which can vary between videos. Frequently.
- Trekkie: Susan. The first episode contains a rather epic rant on why Star Trek is silly and awesome.
- Troperiffic: Susan frequently comments on tropes in play.
