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  • Accidental Innuendo: The kids movies he reviews are chocked full of these. Whenever he sees anything that resembles something else, he comments, "Must be a Bobsheaux!"
  • Awesome Music:
  • Broken Base: Hooo boy, his "Pixar Theory- DEBUNKED" video is easily his most divisive. On the one hand there are a large, very vocal group of opposers, who have come to love the Pixar theory and argue he's trying to ruin their fun. A small subsection of these opposers don't believe the Pixar theory but consider Bob making a debunking video on it to be a complete waste of time. On the other are viewers long sick of the theory and pleased someone finally stood up to it.
  • Designated Hero: Bob accuses Marnie from Halloweentown of being one of these, calling her obnoxious, smug, and a Spoiled Brat.
  • Ensemble Dark Horse: Wolfabob, the cute little wolf handpuppet that was used in the later Alpha and Omega sequels, has gotten high demand to make more appearances by viewers.
    • Raven Fox also seems to be this, if some comments are anything to go by. It helps that she is not only Bob's girlfriend, but has helped behind the scenes as well, and even co-comments on his other reviews, like when they covered the Descendants trilogy and The Little Mermaid II: Return to the Sea, among others.
  • Girl-Show Ghetto: Was reluctant to review a Barbie movie at first in order to avoid coming across as having this mindset until Raven convinced him to do it anyway on account on how girls, like all children really, need better movies.
  • Harsher in Hindsight: In the Trolls review, Bob makes a quick joke about refusing to make a joke about Jeffrey Tambor's then recent sexual harassment allegations. An hour after the review was posted on YouTube, Tambor announced he was quitting his show Transparent in light of the allegations.
  • Hilarious in Hindsight:
    • During his review of the book Cool Cat Stops Bullying, some fans of Splatoon probably got a kick out of him singing "Do You Wanna Build a Sandcastle?"For context 
    • In his review of The Page Master, he acknowledges that The Nostalgia Critic had already reviewed the movie. A few days later, the Critic reviewed Green Lantern (2011), which Bob had already reviewed.
  • Nightmare Fuel:
    • The wall at the end of his Tentacolino review.
    • The photo montage of creepy Halloween costumes from the 1930s and the music that plays during it in the "Spooky Buddies" review.
    • In his "The Bears Who Saved Christmas" review, the cut to the family frozen to death in the car coupled with the Scare Chord might catch one off guard.
    • During his review of Cool Cat Saves the Kids, he does a parody of The Shining where he discovers a series of papers that repeat “Trolley the Trout makes another friend”. He gets progressively more unnerved as he continues reading until Cool Cat appears and asks how he likes the writing.
  • Questionable Casting: One of his issues with the Family Guy Star Wars trilogy is how they cast certain characters.
  • Squick: In his Romeo & Juliet review, he says that the main characters look too young to be in love. This happened again in his Alpha & Omega 3 review.
  • Tear Jerker:
    • The aforementioned tribute to the late Judith Barsi.
    • His depiction of Chomper's mom being killed by Littlefoot and friends, though done as a joke, is surprisingly sad.
    • Bob's review of Land Before Time 7, 8, 9, and 10 starts with him talking about the death of his grandmother. He says that the web camera he used for his earliest reviews was the one she used to keep in contact with the family during her last few months, and he considers the entire show a tribute to her. He says that the last thing she ever told him was "It could always be worse."
    • In the same review, he comments on how pointless "No One Has to Be Alone" is, due to being sung while Littlefoot is surrounded by his old friends and several new friends. Instead, he suggests it take place earlier in the film, while Littlefoot is actually alone, and that it should be sung by the spirit of his mother. This trope is quickly invoked.
    Littlefoot's mother: I am always with you, even though we had to part.
    Watching over you every place you roam.
    Though you cannot see me, I'm right there in your heart.
    I'll always be your home.
    And you'll never be alone.
    • All of this. Not only did Raven lose her mom, suddenly and without any warning, but Raven and her sister are left to pay for the funeral, and her brother, who pretty much inherited all of both of their parents wealth, contributed nothing. And when they objected, they were vilified by the entire community as ungrateful daughters who wouldn't bury their mother, which forced them to go against their mother's wishes and cremate her to keep the expenses low. And even that is too much for her to handle, so she is forced to ask the fans for help. Throughout the entire video, she is on the verge of crying, until she finally breaks into tears during the end.
  • They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot: As well as They Wasted a Perfectly Good Character, he has the tendency to either find or come up with a better way a movie could've gone, or finding things that would have told a more interesting story. Amongst others, he says that Fly Me to the Moon would've been better if the flies were adults who had already lived a long, boring life, or that Bailey's Billion$ should've focused on the opera-singing, dog-loving henchman of the main villain.
    • In Halloweentown, he feels it would have been a nice twist to have Sophie save the day instead of Marnie.
  • Visual Effects of Creepy Awesome: Any time he tosses a movie into his box and the box shuts itself. The effect is pretty creepy but also really impressive. It even screams, as seen on the opening sequence!
  • What Do You Mean, It's for Kids?:
    • His views on El Arca.
    • Just about anything that he reviews. When he finds something that's inappropriate for kids, more specifically something sexual, he'll say his new catchphrase with a fanfare at the end: "Must be a Bobsheaux!"
  • The Woobie: Bob feels sorry for the ogre from The True Story of Puss 'n Boots that he wants to be a swan.
    • He also has a soft spot for Periwinkle from Blues Clues and feels bad that Steve is always too busy to see his magic act.

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