Anvilicious: In the late 2010s, several episodes tended to feature Brad diverting from the movie at hand to deliver his opinion on an issue of the day. In particular, the majority of them were against cancel culture (best evidenced by the short-form vlog series he debuted around that time, Problematic!), especially since they happened after the #ChangeTheChannel controversy that involved Doug Walker and Channel Awesome, of which Brad emerged as the major defender of both, but also would be about other issues. Sometimes, he would tailor a review around said issue,note (for example, in the Black Christmas (1974) review, if you didn't know PG-13 slasher films, and specifically slasher, not horror in general, are a bad thing, and that the then-unreleased 2019 remake is bad for being such, you certainly will by the end of the episode; the review was made shortly after the 2019 remake's co-writer confirmed that the film had been made PG-13 for accessibility reasons, sparking an online debate over the validity of PG-13 horror) but sometimes would also appear unexpectedly.note (Such as in his review of Oy Vey! My Son Is Gay!, when in the climax the female lead makes a public plea for forgiveness for judging her son for being gay, hence the title, but Snob dismisses her with a rant that sounds less like a joke and more like how Brad views cancel culture: "Redemption no longer exists! You once had bad beliefs, which means you still do! No growth or forgiveness in this dojo! Mom is cancelled!") This tendency subsided in the 2020s, however, as did the similarly-themed Problematic! spinoff vlog series, as the #ChangeTheChannel controversy also died down.
Archive Panic: Over 500 episodes and counting since 2007.
Big-Lipped Alligator Moment: Radu (played by Allison Pregler) appearing for about five seconds in the Karate Girl review. According to Brad, he and Allison decided to just confuse the viewers by having Radu pop up randomly.
Crosses the Line Twice: Snobby the Puppet's conspiracy theory in the I'm Not Ashamed review, about the cause of the Columbine Massacre: toxic material from the cafeteria seating several affected the students' brains.
Fridge Brilliance: In his review of In Search of the Wow Wow Wibble Woggle Wazzie Woodle Woo, Brad doesn't refer to the titular MacGuffin by its proper name until the end of the movie, neither did Tim.
Genius Bonus: Especially in his earlier reviews. If you get every reference to the many films that get name-dropped, bravo to you.
In the Chatterbox review, after the lead is dumped via fortune cookie, the Snob notes that "people got creative with their breakups before text messaging.'' Several years later, Snob actor Brad Jones would be subjected to a particularly harsh text-message dumping, making the joke much more of a somber one.
Los Porno Sin Son: When Porn!Homer hires a prostitute for Porn!Bart, the Snob states "That is not in Bill Cosby's book on fatherhood."note (A reference to an also-poorly-aged moment in "Saturdays of Thunder.") Cosby would later be convicted of several sex crimes far worse than merely hiring a prostitute.
In the review of A Little Piece of Heaven, Snob jokingly expresses concern for what the orphan black kid Kirk Cameron's character kidnaps will grow up into, as a dig to Cameron's controversial beliefs. The kid was played by Jussie Smollett, who a few months after the release of the review would gain infamy for allegedly staging a racist/homophobic hate crime against himself (supposedly committed by people of similar controversial beliefs), leading to his subsequent arrest. This is lampshaded by Snob in his review of Cameron's Left Behind, where he jokes that A Little Piece of Heaven turned out to be an origin story for Smollett.
In his cameo in the Star Babe review, Phelous says "You wouldn't think that I'd get this question a lot, but to be fair, you're a fucking idiot." That turned out to be the last appearance by Phelous as the two had a real life fallout in light of the Channel Awesome controversy.
In In Search of the Wow Wow Wibble Woggle Wazzie Woodle Woo:
Brad sings the refrain of "Bitchin' in the Kitchen" from Shock Treatment, which he would later review. (Video Violence 2 and Deathrow Gameshow also had the addition of "The Denton Song")
In the same review, he made a joke about the Oogieloves, and went on to review that movie in 2016. He even made a Call-Back to In Search of the Wow Wow Wibble Woggle Wazzie Woodle Woo.
From Can't Stop the Music, a woman passes by (then pre-transition) Caitlyn Jenner on the street and remarks, "Nice box!" Snob responds by saying, "Well, that was random; [Caitlyn] Jenner didn't even have a vagina yet." This was before Caitlyn Jenner came out publicly as transgender a few months later.
From the Grumpy Cat's Worst Christmas Ever, he lists other meme based movies he has to watch, including "Secret Agent Scumbag Steve" that has "Kingsman 2" as a caption on Steve's picture. Fast forward to 2017 where Kingsman: The Golden Circle features the Statesman, the American equivalent of the Kingsman, whose agents do not wear a suit and tie either.
In his Sex Trek review, he made fun about the porn name choices of the movie by bringing up how his porn name as The Cinema Snob would probably be "The Citrus Snort". A year later, Evan Stone actually announced that he would star in The Cinema Snob XXX Porn Parody starring as the Cinema Snob...
In the Christian Mingle: The Movie review, he tells the female lead "I'm 35 and divorced. You'll be fine." when she angsts over being 30 and not having a long-term relationship. In real life, Brad got remarried less than a year after the episode was made.
In the video about The Star Wars Holiday Special's commercial breaks, after a commercial for the Reggie bar airs, Snob says, "Coming up next on Brad Tries..., Brad tries a 40-year-old Reggie bar and dies!" Brad later actually tried one (albeit from the 90's re-release) and found it to be the worst thing he ever ate on the show.
In his Star Babe review, the film points out that the Star Angels' (the film's heroines) contact on Earth is named Captain Marvelous. Remember that this porno spoof came a few decades before Kaizoku Sentai Gokaiger.
In 2018, shortly after a public spat involving Sex and the City actress Kim Cattrall and the rest of the series's co-stars made the possibilities of a third Sex and the City movie appear impossible, Snob uploaded a review of a "Sex and the City 3", claiming at the beginning that he traveled to an Alternate Universe to find a third movie, before revealing that it's just a porn parody that he had retitled. While a third film hasn't happened yet as of 2021, that year it was announced that the series would have a continuation series after all without Cattrall's involvement, titled And Just Like That...
Jerkass Woobie: The Snob tries to be an obnoxious person. But often he comes out as someone enduring a hard life (to which the horrible movies he watches are only a part of).
This little film called Gross Out, for one. For the first time in his reviewing career, Brad opened the video by breaking character and issuing a content warning. Not to mention the thumbnail itself, depicting the snob's face rotting off, with blood, worms, flies, and some suspicious green stuff...
Walt Right. He appears from out of nowhere and speaks in a Creepy Monotone with his unblinking stare fixed to the camera asking Snob to bash the types of people he doesn't like. Pretty much the only thing that brings levity to his appearances is that while the Snob is understandable freaked out whenever he appears, he seems to be so Conditioned to Accept Horror that he only considers him a little nuisance.
Brad punching Lupa is already being referenced in other folks' videos, and his own, too.
Snob will always describe himself as a man specialized in E.T. pornos and talking vagina movies, even though those very specific categories only showed up a couple of times each (which is still more than you'd expect).
Any time the Golden Raspberry Awards are mentioned, expect the Snob to bring up how they gave Worst Picture (and later Worst Picture of the 1980s) to Mommie Dearest - or other dumb choices such as nominating Stanley Kubrick for Worst Director for The Shining - as a way of saying that their opinions should be disregarded, even if they gave awards to a film that the Snob agrees was terrible.
Quirky Work: Many episodes deal with downright bizarre works, including actual Weird Japanese Thing Tampon Tango. Weird American movies (made for theatrical release, at least) earn the descriptor "What the Fuck, Hollywood?!"
The Woobie: "There's no such thing as happy dreams, right? Everyone has nightmares every night like me? Please tell me I'm normal."
" that has "Kingsman 2" as a caption on Steve's picture. Fast forward to 2017 where Kingsman: The Golden Circle features the Statesman, the American equivalent of the Kingsman, whose agents do not wear a suit and tie either.