Trivia / Some Jerk with a Camera

• Accidentally-Correct Writing: In his ABC retrospective video of Step by Step, He makes a joke about a baby who seeks therapy every time she screams and vomits at Disney parks. The actor who played the baby (Kit Meyering) actually had to see therapy because of her panic attacks in crowds which includes Disney World.
• Acting for Two:
  • Occasionally, Jerk will play two characters having a conversation such as Michael Eisner and his assistant, Walt Disney, and a wealthy businessman, or a Game Show Host and two contestants...all three of whom are named Some Jerk With A Camera.
  • Count Jackula cameos in the Star Tours II review as two separate Imagineers.
  • Charlie Callahan often guest stars as both Spazzmaster and Conspiracy Guy.
  • And then there was the time the Jerk played himself, with Tony's Kill Bozby character in the same shot!
  • Lampshaded in "It's A Small World Part I", where Jerk plays both of the Sherman Brothers. A cut reveals him to be just walking from one side of the room to the other to speak both sides of the conversation, with onlookers thinking he's crazy.
• Approval of God:
  • Apparently Matt Groening himself gave his approval to his The Simpsons Ride review.
  • Actress Kit Meyering, who played the baby in the Disney World episode of Step by Step that the Jerk reviewed, praised the episode and had to explain the baby was a girl and not a boy.
• Cast the Expert: While they aren't necessarily in the videos because of this, collaborators like Spazzmaster and Il Niege work or have worked at Universal Studios and Disneyland respectively. Chris Nebergall as shown below is also treated similarly.
• The Cast Showoff: Tony writes and performs comedic songs and frequently uses this talent in his show. Examples include the "What's This?" musical number and his ABC Retrospective ^note  almost finale, "The Freakin' ABC."
• Colbert Bump: Tony gives one to the real-world Pinetta's in Baton Rouge during the "ABC Goes to Disney World" commentary, saying he ate there when filming its cameo and said it was a pretty good restaurant.
• Creator Backlash:
  • Goldmark regrets his review of "it's a small world" Holiday due to the Black Comedy Rape jokes. When re-uploading the series for Channel Awesome, he considered cutting those segments out but was eventually convinced not to by his Twitter followers. That said, he afterward included a Retcon in the Escape from Tomorrow review suggesting the It's a Small World Ride might not actually be a rapist but was merely depicted as such by Jerk.
  • He has stated on Twitter that he regrets the Chris Hanson jokes on his "30 Years of EPCOT" retrospective, stating, "The bit comes the fuck out of nowhere and makes it seem like I'm demonizing him for the sake of defending internet predators."
  • Per his tweets, his cracks in the Full House review at Dave Coulier's and John Stamos's failed relationships. While he still considers Dave to be of medium talent, he came to feel that the jokes about them were hurtful and unnecessary. He's also mixed about the joke of Olivia Wilde pestering him for sex.
  • He's admitted that he wished the series ended with the Escape from Tomorrow three-parter since The Haunted Mansion (2003) video turned out to be a rough shoot and the Harry Potter at Universal Studios episode has aged poorly in his eyes due to his constant praise of J. K. Rowling in light of her opinions on transgender people.
  • Tony now considers the first three seasons of the show to be "tainted" due to affiliation with Channel Awesome.
  • Despite being proud of his crossover with Nostalgia Critic's review of The Sorcerer's Apprentice (which gave him a lot of followers and subscribers) he regrets it mainly due to the #ChangeTheChannel incident. He even made a Twitter thread on how the review was restricted by Doug's questionable decisions, terrible and narcissistic directions, lack of cooperation with him, and no understanding as to what Tony even does on his series, thinking he was a prank show instead of a theme park reviewer. He mocks this every chance he gets in videos and podcasts he's in even his own.
• Creator Breakdown: He's considered his jokes about Olivia Wilde to be because of his then-recent divorce.
• Doing It for the Art: In the Escape from Vault Disney! episode on The Country Bears commemorating Some Jerk with a Camera's tenth anniversary, Tony stated his main motivation for starting to produce online content was that, though he was trained in comedy screenwriting and initially thought he could have just tried to make it as a Hollywood television screenwriter for eternity to pay the bills, he found it immensely more satisfying to have full creative control over his work from start to finish.
• DVD Commentary: Or rather, online commentaries.
  • The first commentary was on his "Season One Outtakes" video, and is a random assortment of various songs and other things. It's completely insane.
  • The second commentary was on his Halloween Special and is more of a Gag Dub than the previous one.
  • The third commentary was on his April Fools' Day Walt Disney Family Museum video and is virtually unedited. The only additions are a short introduction by Jerk and a clip of Mexican comedian José Natera in a Devil costume.
  • The fourth commentary was his first actual commentary, on his 3 part EPCOT series.
  • The fifth commentary was on his three-part review of Back to the Future: The Ride.
  • The sixth commentary was on his eight-part ABC retrospective.
  • The seventh commentary was on his three-part Escape from Tomorrow review.
• In Memoriam:
  • His review of Star Tours: The Adventures Continue closes with a tribute to his deceased mother, the author Kathi Kamen Goldmark.
  • His review of The Simpsons Ride was dedicated to The Simpsons writer Sam Simon, who had just died around the time of the video's premiere.
  • His State of the Parks retrospective on Splash Mountain is dedicated to Chadwick Boseman, who passed away during the video's production.
• I Want You to Meet an Old Friend of Mine: After his Heroic BSoD at the end of season two, Jerk gets a visit from The Great Luke Ski, someone who Tony has collaborated with in the past in his comedy music.
• Looping Lines: The parks that Tony filmed at are all full of people and noisy, so some post-production dubbing was ultimately necessary. Plus, there's also probably some bits that Tony didn't feel comfortable screaming at the top of his lungs in the middle of these parks targeted towards and filled with families.
• Official Fan-Submitted Content:
  • Viewers could send in their bad Doc Brown impressions and tag them on Twitter with #ShowMeYourDoc, resulting in them appearing in the third part of his review on Universal Studio's Back To The Future ride.
  • On Twitter, fans could vote for the next episode Tony does a commentary on, the eventual winner(s) being not one, but all of the ABC/Disney World episodes! The second- and third-highest, respectively, were the Escape from Tomorrow and The Country Bears reviews, so there's also a chance they'll get commentaries.
• Promoted Fanboy:
  • Chris Nebergall, a Knott's Berry Farm theme park actor and Some Jerk fan who first appears in "Some Jerk Visits Knott's Berry Farm" as outlaw "Tiny Mayfield" and has since appeared in some One Movie Later vlogs.
  • Tony has said that he was basically The Nostalgia Critic but for theme parks and made several affectionate references to Channel Awesome before he was officially brought on. Then #ChangeTheChannel happened.
• Schedule Slip: Jerk's videos are real productions, with scenes that are mind-meltingly tough to stage and edit (especially in an amusement park), and Tony is a huge perfectionist about them. As such, the "2 videos a month" rule he had to follow during his time on Channel Awesome was...loosely followed, to say the least.
  • While the hard work almost always pays off, it's still incredibly aggravating when it takes months to finish a three-part episode.
  • He's not above lampshading his schedule slipping tendencies, either. From Part 3 of his The Haunted Mansion (2003) review...
  Jerk: Hey, where are you guys?
  Jackula: Oh, we're back at Castle Jackula.
  Jerk: WHAT?! WE HAVEN'T FINISHED THE MOVIE YET!
  Jackula: Well stop making us wait so long between videos! We got shit to do!
  • He originally said Season 4 would come in 2018, but after leaving Channel Awesome due to #ChangetheChannel, he has since slipped that release and said during his podcast that Season 4 may never happen. Doesn't help with COVID-19 closing Disneyland for over a year.
• Serendipity Writes the Plot:
  • Disneyland's ban on toy guns is why Goldmark and gang don't do any gun-related jokes on location anymore.
  • In the BoyMeetsWorld episode when Jerk denies the idea that Disneyland is a cult, the joke was supposed to be that behind him, hundreds of guests were shown waiting in line. Unfortunately, by the time they shot the joke, there wasn't a big enough crowd for it to work, so instead they went with the Mickey Mouse ferris wheel ominously laughing.
• Throw It In!: Unlike most of his fellow reviewers, Tony's filming style means there are bounds to be more accidental gems due to his genuine lack of control over his environment.
  • The glow on the note in the Family Matters episode was not planned. Upon seeing it however, Goldmark decided to accentuate it by adding a heavenly choir.
  • In the same review, while Tony celebrated Stefan saying that he was never turning back into Urkel, a Disney performer came up behind him and started dancing. Tony notes that he'd been photobombed by performers before, but this was the only time it was actually useful.
  • Spazzmaster miming "Dun dun duuuunnn!" in "ABC Goes to Disney World!" was improvised.
  • The camera's pan up at the sun in the Back to the Future: The Ride episode was the camera operator's idea and had no input from Goldmark.
  • Doug Walker did some unscripted stuff for his cameos in the aforementioned Back to the Future: The Ride review: he rubbed his head in exasperation when Jerk continued wasting time and added "I think that would've been darling" when Jerk screams in anger over the Critic pestering him to pander to the Critic's fanbase.
  • Zach Hurst's appearance in his Pinocchio costume was not for the Escape from Tomorrow episode. He seriously was just cosplaying at MAGfest.
  • During the long dolly shot of Jerk back in Disneyland at the end of the Escape from Tomorrow episode, a garbageman walks by with a trash can in tow. This was purposefully left in due to it showing Disneyland realistically, warts and all.
  • Trevor McCune's cameo in the Escape From Tomorrow review was not planned ahead. According to Tony in the commentary, Trevor commented about his role in the film on the YouTube upload of part one, which prompted Tony to get in contact with him and ultimately asking if he wanted to appear in the review, whose later parts were still being filmed.
  • Per Tony's commentary: during a break in filming the EPCOT retrospective, he and Dave Ganssle (who was filming it) sat down at a table near a ride, not noticing which one it was. Dave asked what the next part was going to be, and Tony said they were going to discuss how the park's biggest e-ticket is Soarin'. Dave then told Tony to turn around. As it turned out, they were only a few feet away from Soarin', with a perfect view of the ride's sign. So, right then and there, they got the perfect shot of Jerk standing to reveal the Soarin' sign.
  • The motorcyclist whizzing past in the background as Jerk tried to find the plot of Escape From Tomorrow. Tony kept it in because, as he joked in the commentary, it made it look like he missed a plot while in the process of looking.
• What Could Have Been:
  • Tony noted that if his grandfather were alive, he'd have had him appear in the "30 Years of EPCOT" video, acting as Danny Kaye, since Tony thinks Kaye and his grandpa have a Celebrity Resemblance.
  • His "ABC Goes To Disney World" retrospective was originally going to be possibly a a two or three parter. However, it blossomed into multiple videos that took up the remainder of season 2.
  • In an odd case of coincidence, as a child, Tony was almost an extra among the crowd cheering Flash when he completes his world record break in Step by Step. He and his mom opted not to be a part of it when they learned they would be required to stand around for two hours.
  • His "Escape From Tomorrow" review was to be in black-and-white, much like the film, up until the point where Jerk returns to Disneyland a la The Wizard of Oz, but Tony decided against it because his joke about the actual colors of the rising fountain in the Enchanted Tiki Room wouldn't have fit, and Tony was hesitant to cut the joke out.
• Word of God: Per his commentary, you can tell when he has second thoughts about a joke if he adds some secondary punchline. A particular example is when he jokes about Brandon Call getting shot in both arms over a traffic dispute and punctuating it with his Running Gag about IMDb to lessen the insensitive Black Comedy.
• Writing by the Seat of Your Pants: Tony revealed in commentary that along with Trevor McCune's entire involvement, The Reveal that he was part of a mysterious conspiracy that nudged Jerk into reviewing Escape From Tomorrow was also not planned; Tony just happened to realize that it was a nice way to tie up loose ends.

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