YMMV / Third Rate Gamer

• Crosses the Line Twice:
  • Billy, TRG's sidekick, getting into a car crash after leaving the set? Horrifying. The audience applauding and cheering for this incident? Hysterical!
  • Many of his failures with research, playing the game, or just about anything wouldn't be nearly as funny if he didn't make them so mind-bogglingly stupid that no human on earth could make the mistakes in question.
• Growing the Beard: Funnily enough, in spite of the fact that the show is meant to be Stylistic Suck, the increasingly higher-quality webcams he uses and the larger, more varied skits arguably made his show improve in-universe.
• Harsher in Hindsight:
  • At the end of the Chip n' Dale: Rescue Rangers review, the Shadow Overlord is anticipating being able to put the Third Rate Gamer's head on a mount next to other similar, discontinued game reviewers such as The Irritated Gamer and the Save State Gamer. He may have succeeded as, to date, this has been TRG's most recent review.
  • In the Street Fighter II video, he says that Capcom is notorious for having shitty games. While it was meant to be a joke, it seems awfully prophetic of the company's bad reputation in the 2010s.
• Hilarious in Hindsight:
  • In his Cool Spot review, he parodies the Irate Gamer's use of side characters from the game that he is currently reviewing, with numerous appearances by Spot in particular. The Irate Gamer then reviewed the same game only nine months later, which featured the same exact thing. This would not go unlampshaded in the Chip n' Dale review.
  • A minor example: At the title card of his review of Finding Nemo for the Nintendo NES, he's sticking his tongue out at a very strange angle with his mouth open fully. As one YouTube commenter puts it, it's Third Rate Miley Cyrus!
  • One of TRG's Running Gags is showing that he plays the games on the easiest difficulty. In the Irate Gamer's DuckTales Let's Play, it's shown that he plays on the easiest difficulty.
  • In his Rocket Knight Adventures review, he says the video game world must be running out of animal mascots "after such crappy games as Sonic the Hedgehog and Spiral [sic] the Dragon." Years later, Chris Bores would start putting out video after video about Skylanders.
  • In the Paperboy review, he satirizes the Irate Gamer's lack of awareness of the fact that point systems were mainstream during the 1980's. When The Angry Video Game Nerd reviewed the same game, he (rather surprisingly) makes a sarcastic comment about how Paperboy uses points.
• Memetic Molester: One would be surprised at the number of YouTubers who say that he looks like a pedophile because of his mustache.
• Memetic Mutation: Within his fanbase, "Didn't they test this game before they released it?"
• Misaimed Fandom: There are many YouTubers who completely fail to realize that he is satirical.
• Parody Displacement: Quite a few of the gags in the series are ripped directly from the original source material, which is somewhat obscure now that Bores has fallen out of popularity.
• Rewatch Bonus: While Third Rate Gamer is already hilarious in his own right, it isn't until one watches the Irate Gamer until they realize the inspiration behind many of the former's jokes.
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Character: Some wanted to see more of the Offensive Stereotype, who only had a part in the Super Mario Bros./Super Mario Bros. 2 review and cameoed in the Chip n' Dale review before the Third Rate Gamer stopped making videos altogether.

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