YMMV / UrinatingTree

• Awesome Music:
  • Tree loves using BGM and sound effects from video games. Especially Sonic the Hedgehog.
  • Any time the chiptune version if "Ode to Joy" (over the victory screen from The Oregon Trail) plays to herald an NFL team clinching a playoff spot in later episodes of This Week in Sportsball (2022 Edition).
• Broken Base: He did a very negative video on Venezuela and its socialist government in early 2017. As expected, whether or not you found the video good/funny depends almost entirely on what political ideology you support. After the reaction, UT did not do another political-related video until the January 2021 Capitol Riot; even then, that video was laden with his usual "Conglaturation!" snark as opposed to straight political commentary.
• Big-Lipped Alligator Moment: While the preview card hints at it, the actual "Congrats, Lightning!" video gives no indication in its first 1:34 that it's anything other than Tree laying into the Lightning for choking spectacularly against the Capitals - then it cuts out of nowhere to a rehash of 2017's "Congrats, Preds!" vid, this time with "Too good right now" layered even thicker and "Unless he falls apart" thrown in, along with mocking chants of "PEKKA! PEKKA!" and "IT'S ALL YOUR FAULT! IT'S ALL YOUR FAULT!", over footage of Pekka Rinne getting shot to pieces against the Jets. After 36 seconds, it then cuts back to Tree laying into the Lightning, with no mention of the Preds segment.
• Discredited Meme:
  • Called time of death on "THE FUCKING PENGUINS!" after the Capitals flipped the script on Pittsburgh in the second round of the 2018 Stanley Cup playoffs.
  • He declared "the memes are dead" after the Washington Capitals won the The Stanley Cup in 2018. Up until then, he had been calling teams "the Washington Capitals of [Sport X]" because, up until that point, the Capitals has a tendency for choking in the NHL playoffs.
  • As of the 2018 NFL season, he's also called time of death on "Fuck you, Spanos!". The first indication was in the first Sportsball video after the end of the 2017 NFL season, "NHL Trade Deadline Edition", which had "Who Is Spanos?" in the thumbnail instead of "Fuck You, Spanos!", with the line itself not appearing. The next several Sportsball episodes featured "Spanos?" and "Something Something Spanos!" on the thumbnail before all references to it disappeared completely beginning with "MLB In May Edition". The big sign, though, came with "The Los Angeles Chargers: Professional Football's Diamond Dogs", when the vid ended with Archival!Tree calling over Codec to drop the line. Tree's response? "Good news, 2017 just called me, they want their forced meme back.". Its death was confirmed on an episode of The Dumpster Fire^note a co-branded livestream featuring himself (voice only) and FivePoints Vids (voice and face) talking about sports stories (with a lot of tangents and tons of dead air) during the previous week; guest stars, both other YouTubers and patrons on FPV's Patreon, pop up from time to time, where he revealed he would only reference the meme indirectly in the coming season of "This Week In Sportsball", even calling it "old and hackneyed". The catchphrase would resurface in the 2023 NFL season starting in week 15, much to delight of everyone.
  • The Eagles' elimination in the 2019 NFC Divisional Round led Tree to declare the death of the "BIG. DICK. NICK." meme for Philadelphia's backup quarterback (and Super Bowl LII MVP), Nick Foles, whose pass to Alshon Jeffrey slipped through the latter's hands and was grabbed by the Saints' Marshon Lattimore, killing a potential game-winning drive with two minutes left. The gag made a one-off appearance in week 3 of 2020 season, when Foles - now playing for Chicago Bears - lead them to a 16-point comeback against Falcons, but remained absent since then.
  • Though the Steelers suffered embarrassing losses to the Washington Football Team and the Bills during the second half of the 2020 season after starting 11-0, Tree refused to revive the previously recurring "Days Of Our Steelers" segment to ridicule them. He did, however, bring it back once they lost their third straight game - to 2-10-1 Bengals of all teams.
  • The new NHL meme that resulted from the top-seeded Tampa Bay Lightning getting swept in the first round by the Columbus Blue Jackets in 2019 lasted precisely one season when they won the Stanley Cup in 2020, and he declared the memes "stone cold dead in the ground" after they followed it up with a 2021 repeat.
• Don't Shoot the Message: In "Buffalo: The Duality Of Franchise", he proclaims that calling him sexist doesn't change the fact that Kim Pegula has no qualifications that would justify her appointment (by her husband Terry) to the post of team president for the Buffalo Sabres.^note she is also president of the Bills, by way of her post as president of their joint holding company, Pegula Sports & Entertainment; however, the Bills front office and coaching staff seem to have much greater autonomy dating back to around the beginning of 2018
• Fan Nickname: Tree has inspired several since his videos or coining of the term. You may notice a theme...
  • Ben Roethlisberger is often referred to as Captain Fatfuck, even by non-detractors.
  • Antonio Brown became "The Diva".
  • After the success of THE FUCKING PENGUINS, and its snowclones, there are several teams that get referred to as THOSE FUCKING [X].
    • Those fucking [Pittsburgh] Penguins, especially to Washington Capitals fans (despite winning a Cup and defeating the Penguins in the process of doing so).
    • Those fucking [New England] Patriots, by Pittsburgh Steelers fans.
    • Those fucking [Oakland] Athletics, by Seattle Mariners fans.
    • A variant that doubles as a Shout-Out to the play, Those (God)Damn Yankees. This one has been applied to a few teams, but stuck for Minnesota Twins fans after the 2019 postseason.^note the Yankees swept the Twins, extending that team's overall playoff losing streak to sixteen games, which tied a record across the four major North American sports; thirteen of those losses have come at the Yankees' hands. (The Astros have since pushed the Twins into sole possession of the record, which stands at eighteen ahead of the 2022 postseason)
  • Fucking [Dean] Spanos (though more often he gets "Fuck you, Spanos!" yelled about him instead).
  • The San Diego Chargers are referred to as the diamond dogs of the NFL.
• Genius Bonus: Pulls out some rather spectacular references in describing how bad a team can be.
• Harsher in Hindsight:
  • "Congrats, Dodgers!" and "Congrats, Astros!" (the latter the first sincere video of the series) in light of the sign-stealing controversy of the Astros using cameras to predict their opponent's pitching. And then, the 2018 version landed squarely in this as well when it was disclosed that the Boston Red Sox had done the same thing during their 2018 season, with the common link being Alex Cora, who served as the Astros' bench coach in 2017 and the Red Sox's manager in 2018. Poor Clayton Kershaw...
  • In his 2017 LOLCow video about the Jacksonville Jaguars, he jokes that the San Francisco 49ers were slowly becoming a competing LOLCow, showing then-49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick kneeling to protest police brutality during the national anthem. In 2020, several high-profile deaths of African-Americans, most notably George Floyd in May 2020, at the hands of police officers sparked massive protests across America, which made many people, including in the NFL, re-evaluate what Kaepernick was doing.
• Hilarious in Hindsight:
  • Tree's anger towards Ben Roethlisberger took on a whole different meaning when the "A Yinzer in Jerryworld" blog revealed that Tree bore more than a passing resemblance to Captain FatFuck.
  • During his LOLCow video on the Pittsburgh Steelers (released near the start of the 2017 season), he predicts that Antonio Brown "is going to become a cancer and might get run out of town". Brown would go on to not only get run out of Pittsburgh (being traded to Oakland after their drama-laden 2018 season, which he had no small part in causing) and get run out of Oakland after several weeks of antics before the 2019 season began, but get run out of the League after publicly threatening a woman who had accused him of sexual assault (getting himself dropped by the Patriots and most of his sponsors as a result).
  • His video on the San Jose Sharks' Legacy of Failure notes that the Sharks' two wins in the 2016 Stanley Cup Finals gave them "more playoff success than the [St. Louis] Blues and [Washington] Capitals combined." The next two Stanley Cup Champions after the video was uploaded were... the Capitals and the Blues.
  • His excitement over the Tampa Bay Lightning in both "The Haters Guide to the 2017/18 NHL Eastern Conference: All-Star Edition" and "This Week In Sportsball: NHL Trade Deadline Edition", considering not only their playoff collapses in both 2018 and 2019, but that he switched to relentlessly dismissing them even before the start of the 2018 playoffs, as evidenced in the relevant Haters Guide:
    UT: You remember that Tampa Bay boner I had back at the deadline? It's gone flaccid.
  • His pessimistic views on the St. Louis Blues in "The Haters Guide to the 2018/19 NHL Season: Western Conference Edition" and "The Haters Guide to the 2018/19 NHL Western Conference: All-Star Edition" (both times labeling them "Eternal Pain"), considering that the Blues would go on to win their first Stanley Cup that season.
  • Overlapping with Heartwarming in Hindsight, in his LOLCow video on the Los Angeles (St Louis) Rams, after their franchise owner Stan Kroenke suddenly takes the team to Los Angeles in 2016, putting down the city of St. Louis, Tree reassures the heartbroken city that they're better off without him. In 2019, the Rams returned to the Super Bowl, only to suffer a humiliating 13-3 loss to the New England Patriots, the same team that had defeated them the last time they were there. Meanwhile, the St. Louis Blues defeated the Boston Bruins to win their first-ever Stanley Cup.
  • In the week 1 "Sportsball" episode about the 2017 NFL season, after the Pittsburgh Steelers beat the Cleveland Browns 21-18, Tree says "Brownies, you may be getting out of the basement this year. A six-win season awaits!". Instead, the Browns finished 0-16, the second team after the 2008 Detroit Lions to lose every game in a 16-game schedule.
  • While lamenting how "fucked" the NBA was during his Haters Guide to the 2018 NBA Finals, Tree rattles off teams that his commentators had tried to tell him would take the reins to prevent yet another Cavaliers/Warriors Finals, corpsing derisively when he lists the Toronto Raptors. The joke ended up being on him; the very next year saw the Raptors not only make the Finals^note The Cavs would end up not even making the playoffs., but emerge victorious in a 6-game series against those same Warriors to win the Championship and, in his own words, "unfuck" the NBA.
  • Throughout the 2019 NFL season, Tree is pessimistic at the idea of a Patriots Super Bowl victory and pretty much guarantees that Tom Brady will perform his black magic once again, and as such picks them to win it all in that season's Hater's Guide to the Playoffs. Merely two days after uploading that video, the Patriots get bounced out of the Wildcard by the Titans, with Brady's last play of the game (and, as it would later turn out, last play as a Patriot) being a pick six in the final minute.
  • In "Congrats, Falcons!", after the Atlanta Falcons squandered a 28-3 lead against the New England Patriots at Super Bowl LI and lost 34-28 in overtime, Tree remarks about then-Falcons offensive coordinator Kyle Shanahan, "San Francisco wants to give this guy complete control of their franchise for one good year. Have fun, Niners fans!". Initially, it was hilarious due to the 49ers struggling through 2 losing seasons in the 2017-18 and 2018-19 seasons before finishing 13-3 in the 2019-20 season and making it to Super Bowl LIV. And then, it got so more much amusing when Shanahan squandered another double-digit lead, going from leading 20-10 in the 4th quarter to losing 31-20 against the Kansas City Chiefs.
  • During his ripping of the Oilers, UT keys in on Chiarelli's extremely messy tenure in Edmonton and singles out Leon Draisatl's contract as "breaking the league" and "this this is the kind of shit that leads to a lockout" for one year of first line production. At the time the contract was questionable and pundits wondered if his production was largely due to teammate Connor McDavid, widely seen as the best player in the NHL. Fast forward a few years and Draisatl would notch a 50 goal season in 2018-19, and a scoring championship and MVP award in 2019-20, even ahead of the aforementioned McDavid. Peter Chiarelli made many questionable moves while in Edmonton but the Draisatl contract is arguably his best move. Not only that, but the league would ratify a brand new Collective Bargaining Agreement in July 2020, ending any potential for yet another lockout. Tree would later admit he was wrong about Draisatl's contract.
  • "Congrats, Lightning! (2019)" features an evisceration of the Tampa Bay Lightning, who had just been swept by the 8th-seeded Columbus Blue Jackets as the President's Trophy winners, with Tree stating that the Lightning are all but destined to failure with their current team and coach. Come the next season, said coach and core returned (including all the players specifically called out by Tree himself) and became Stanley Cup champions. And when they did it again, Tree dedicated a video to calling himself out.
  • While covering the Sebastian Aho drama in "This Week In Sportsball: 2019 NHL Free Agency Edition", he opined that the Montreal Canadiens and their GM, Marc Bergevin, should be wary of future retaliation from the Carolina Hurricanes after convincing Aho to sign an offer sheet^note this made him the first restricted free agent in six years to sign such an offer from another team that was at least a million dollars more per year and three years shorter than Canes GM Don Waddell wanted to sign him to. (He matched the offer regardless, thus retaining Aho) Tree even spotlighted Ryan Poehling, Max Domi and Jesperi Kotkaniemi as specific young players the Canes could opt to target when their contracts ran out. Two years later, Domi had been traded and Poehling had just come off a season stuck entirely in the AHL, but Kotkaniemi was a fairly steady presence on the NHL roster. Sure enough, once it became clear that he and Bergevin were at an impasse on a new contract following the expiration of his entry-level deal, Waddell and the Hurricanes swooped in and got Kotkaniemi to sign an offer sheet was reported to be at least three million more than what the Habs were willing to offer.^note details in the contract, like the $20 signing bonus (Aho's jersey number) and the 35 extra dollars (Aho was drafted 35th overall in the 2015 NHL Draft) tacked on to the very end of the overall number of $6.1 million, also served as cheeky references to Aho to make it clear this was a revenge move Bergevin and the team ultimately decided this was too much money to deal with (likely because of effects it would have on his next contract) and accepted the offer instead of matching, thus sending Kotkaniemi to Carolina. (In exchange, Montreal got first and third round picks.) Tree had a couple chuckles about this on Twitter, both lauding it for injecting some action into the normally dry RFA market, but also questioning the move in the context of the Hurricanes' other offseason moves.
  • After calling time of death on the "TOO GOOD RIGHT NOW" meme regarding Pekka Rinne as Rinne retired, SportsNet referred to Andre Vasilevskiy as "too good right now" during a pregame broadcast in the run-up to the 2022 Stanley Cup Finals Game 6, with the Lightning down 2 games to 3 despite Vasy's tremendous play. Like Rinne before him, Vasilevskiy would then lose Game 6 and the series, despite keeping his team in it with a heroic performance.
    • This is a Call-Back to the aforementioned "Congrats, Lightning (2021)", where he muses in hindsight that he should've gone with that after the Lightning's epic choke job in the 2019 first round.
  • "Congrats, Bruins! (2023)" ends with Tree making a Shout-Out to the ending of the Batman: The Animated Series episode "Riddler's Reform". The same day of the video's release, Walter of Channel Awesome began the final year of his then-annual "Bat-May" reviews by reviewing the episode in question.
• Memetic Badass: In his reviews, he has treated a few people as these.
  • Phil Jackson ("the motherfucking zen-master, the soothsayer of superstars and egos alike")
  • Pirates pitching coach Ray Searage ("the demonic necromancer ... who with a few occult rituals and sacrifices of a few fattened calves, pitchers are throwing the best in their careers")
  • Nashville Predators goaltender Pekka Rinne, who is, and always will be, too good right now.
• Memetic Mutation:
  • On Tree's old gaming-centric channel, he was fairly well-known for his hammy and loud delivery of the word "PWNED!" There is a techno song dedicated to his pronunciation, and would be repeated/imitated in other videos.
  Spoony One on Yor: Hunter from the Future: "If I may borrow the expression- PWNED!"
  • Several prominent memes have come out of his sports videos:
    • "I just think Pekka Rinne is too good right now."^ExplanationNashville Predators starting goaltender Pekka Rinne was a huge contributor to his team's improbable 2016-17 Stanley Cup run. Through the first three rounds, even UT, a big Pens fan, thought Rinne was unstoppable, as evidenced by this Tree quote from the 2017 Final prediction video, and he quickly became a Memetic Badass among UT's fanbase. Rinne's subsequent collapse to his Achilles' Heel Penguins in the Cup Final cemented this meme. Declarations of Rinne's too-goodness still show up in the comments, and teams who are struggling are said to deserve it because they didn't sign Pekka Rinne...regardless of what sport the video is about.
    • "THE FUCKING PENGUINS!"^ExplanationThe Pittsburgh Penguins (who happen to be UT's favourite team) are the most notorious thorn in the side of the show's frequent punching bag, the Washington Capitals. The Penguins are sometimes seen as a Sitcom Arch-Nemesis of the Capitals because the rivalry is so one-sided.. The phrase has gotten snowcloned whenever teams in another sport are in a similar situation, like THE FUCKING PATRIOTS! And now courtesy of this, it has become customary among UT fans to call them "Those fucking Penguins."
    • "Fuck you, Spanos!"^ExplanationA Once per Episode bellowed oath in "This Week in Sportsball" aimed at notorious LA Chargers owner Dean Spanos. UT's fans will blame Spanos for anything, even If it has nothing to do with football.
    • "This week, on Days of Our Steelers." ^ExplanationThe 2018 Pittsburgh Steelers were a historically drama-laden team, so much so that Tree covered most of their games separate from his "This Week in Sportsball" weekly recaps of NFL games, presenting them like a preview for a soap opera (the name being a reference to Days of Our Lives ). Between Ben Roethlisberger (AKA "Captain Fat Fuck, Leader of Men") being outspoken about his teammates in public callouts and being accused of deflecting criticism, Leveon Bell holding out for so long he missed the entire season, the antics and inconsistent play of several other players on the team, coach Mike Tomlin's purported lack of holding players accountable, and several issues with upper management, many believe the drama from this season caused the Steelers to play far worse than their team should be able to, and thus led them to missing the playoffs. As such, "This week, on Days of Our Steelers" became a regular quote found in the comments section about any sort of coverage of drama within the Steelers organization, including on other Youtube channels and social media pages.
    • The Tree jinx. ^ExplanationUrinatingTree's sports predictions usually prove incorrect, to the extent that fans will immediately assume that if Tree picks a team to win, the opposite will happen. Notable occurrences include picking the Nashville Predators to win the 2017 Stanley Cup Final (where, aware of his reputation, he immediately congratulated the Penguins), picking the Atlanta Falcons to win Super Bowl LI (where he got the winning team's score right, as well as the game going Down to the Last Play), picking the Chicago Blackhawks and the Montreal Canadiens to face each other in the 2018 Stanley Cup Final ("Now watch me be wrong at the end of the first round." — and he was), stating that the Tampa Bay Lightning would not win a Stanley Cup with their coach and core after being swept by the Columbus Blue Jackets in the first round of the 2019 playoffs (they proceeded to win two Cups in the next two seasons), and picking the Tampa Bay Rays and Milwaukee Brewers to make it to the 2023 World Series (both teams were swept out of the Wild Card round... less than a day and a half after the prediction. To make it even worse, their opponents in the Wild Card Round — the Texas Rangers and Arizona Diamondbacks, respectively — both made it to the World Series instead).
    • STILLERS GAHNTA SEWPER BOLL ^ExplanationTree's catchphrase originally conceived for The Yinzer character, which has morphed into his catchphrase for the (false) hope he has for the Pittsburgh Steelers whenever they qualify for the playoffs.
• Misaimed Fandom: Probably one of the funnier cases of this trope. Because of the popularity of Days of Our Steelers, numerous fans and viewers wish for the Steelers to continue having bad seasons or bad games just for Urinating Tree to make more videos. The reason Tree made the series in the first place was to express frustration at the incompetence of the team and really wishes for them to improve. It initially appeared this was going to happen in the 2020 season with their 11-0 record, only for them to lose several games down the stretch leading to a humiliating lose to the Browns in the Wild Card round. Tree live streamed his reaction to game which, to the delight of his viewers, blew up when the Steelers were getting blown out.
• Misblamed: In "Thrashed", Tree admits to this regarding Atlanta's hockey failures; he previously thought that Atlanta just wasn't a Hockey town:
  • The Flames were merely mediocre in their tenure in Atlanta in the '70s.
  • The failures of the Thrashers^note the subject of the video came down to an ownership group that was A: utterly apathetic towards the Thrashers^note at the expense of the Hawks, the city's NBA franchise, and B: more interested in suing each other.
• Newbie Boom: In his own words, he started 2017 with a little over 500 subscribers, only for that number to multiply by (literally) two hundred beginning with his first "Hater's Guide" video in January of that year.
• Nightmare Fuel: The injury list for "This Week In Sportsball: NFL Week Two Edition (2020)" eschews the usual Taps in favor of an ominous piece of ambient music and features a staggering forty-five injuries (eleven of which were season-ending), an MRI truck scheduled for the Greenbrier breaking down, a partial loss of footage from CBS's broadcast due to a power outage, and two deaths (Chicago Bears' Hall of Fame running back Gale Sayers passing away at age 77; and the father of New England Patriots running back James White dying in a car crash that also hospitalized White's mother).
  UT: This week was so bad, it outlasted Taps. The gods are insatiable.
• Special Effect Failure: In his NFL Week 16 and 17 (2018) videos, Tree uses a bass-boosting effect when introducing Nick Foles with his nickname, "Big Dick Nick". The effect lasts a while after the introduction, leading to some of his following commentary sounding crunchy.

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