"Welcome to Monday Morning Mooks, the one that's not Game Grumps"
— Pete, Xenoblade Chronicles 1: Episode 1
The Mooks, Pete and Mike, play videogames and discuss aspects of game design in this youtube webseries. Pete frequently points out similarities between Monday Morning Mooks and things like Game Grumps and Giantbomb Endurance Runs. However, the show is primarily about design with comedy in it, rather than a comedy show that talks about design.
Monday Morning Mooks contains examples of:
- Added Alliterative Appeal: The title of the show
- Aerith and Bob: Xenoblade Chronicles 1 has so many silly names that Pete says he will flip if someone has a normal one. Minutes later...
- Alternate Character Interpretation:
- Master Chief is bored of his own action hero lines by Halo 4.
- And Shulk secretly wants his friends to die.
- Attention Deficit... Ooh, Shiny!: A serious discussion will rarely be finished before a reaction to a new game development interrupts it.
- Catchphrase: "Are we really doing this? It's okay if that's what we're doing, I just want to know we're doing it."
- Fan Nickname: The Mooks point out that Shulk is a Fan Nickname for She-Hulk. They refer to the main character as She-Hulk for the rest of the game.
- Heterosexual Life-Partners: Pete calls Mike this in the first episode of Halo 4.
- Take That!: Final Fantasy is a whipping-boy series for the Mooks on examples of what is bad.
- Unwanted Revival: During the play through of Xenoblade Chronicles 1, the Mooks realize the game left the door open for the maligned love interest Fiora to come back and were very upset.
