Ryan George (Pitch Meetings)

Let it be known that Venkman's first scene is repeatedly shocking a poor college student so that he can be alone with that guy's date. The dude's a scumbag through and through.

Also worth pointing out that as a PHD in Psychology and Parapsychology, Venkman doesn't have access to prescription or controlled drugs like sedatives, so ya know, add that to the pile of question. Where'd he get it and what for. Sure as hell wasnt for work.

All the controversy surrounding Bill Murray in real life makes it all the more cringeworthy.

I'm glad he wasn't like Cracked, where he said that Walter Peck was the good guy. Thank you, Ryan! Of course, no one cares about Cracked nowadays anyway.

I need to rewatch Ghostbusters, since it seems there's a lot about it I forgot.

Also, I think I'm okay with the Ghostbusters ending up as losers in the sequel.

When I watched Ghostbusters as a child, the awfulness of Venkman's behavior didn't occur to me; it was just funny. It wasn't until much later that I realized how much of a creep he is. At least the sequel played that down.

This guy has figured out that you can climb on top of those big animals and get around on them, nobody has done that before.

And the Ryanverse continues to be amazingly unhinged in that cars have been invented before horseback riding.

It's weird how Ryan can make some standard word play (neigh/nay) weirdly compelling and funny.

He's also worked out how to do ads. Which is... do it very insincerely? I mean I wouldn't think his sponsors would be very happy about it, on the other hand, I do often watch through them.

On the other other hand (I have three hands) I've never bought anything from his sponsors, so...

... have you bought anything from any Youtube sponsor?

I think literally the only Youtube sponsor that's ever compelled me to buy something was Nebula and that practically seems like cheating.

The bombardment of Nord VPN ads did get me to try it… for a short while, before I realized I didn’t really need it for anything I did on the net, so I unistalled it after a year or so.

Sponsors wouldn't pay for reads if they didn't work. Ryan is one of the few 'tubers I know who makes them consistently entertaining, so they're worth the watch for the jokes if nothing else.

I'm sure the janitorial staff appreciates that guy's decision to stop bringing his horse inside the office.

Edited by Fighteer on Mar 8th 2024 at 6:23:32 AM

Yeah, as long as the content creator isn’t completely antagonistic towards the sponsor they don’t really care how sarcastic you get with them. Michael Reeves, for example, is 100% taking the piss when it comes to his sponsors, and they don’t care, because it’s entertaining.

Some More News is pretty much entirely sarcastic about their support of AG-1 and yet they keep getting support.

I think advertisers have pretty much figured out that more people will watch the ads if the content creator is allowed to take the piss out of them and be funny. At the end of the day, more eyeballs looking at them makes it more likely that someone will buy, if only out of sheer curiosity.

I recall watching a video series wherein he actively tried to get them to drop him by being as obnoxious as possible and it didn't work.

Internet Historian once did a Nord VPN ad that was almost tailor made to make them drop him as an advertiser, designed to be as insulting and offensive toward the product and its customers as it could be.

He's still a sponsor for them.

Much as I could absolutely endlessly go on with these (Okay, one last one: LegalEagle is fascinating for his absolutely terrible segues into solid pitches. Okay. One last last one. WTF is with World of Tanks.), this is getting pretty far away from Ryan, who really does seem to universally be considered to having particularly entertaining ad reads.

I feel like we could have a trope page just for the Adstronaut.

Edited by Larkmarn on Mar 11th 2024 at 1:47:34 PM

When You Get The Emergency Exit Row

What a hero, this guy.

Edited by Ghilz on Mar 13th 2024 at 5:24:01 AM

I was so excited by the "snap the badguy's neck" line making a comeback that I agreed to everything the flight attendant asked without question.

Also, is that Harrison Ford sleeping behind Ryan?

Divergent definitely raises some questions. Like what’s with the big weird age gap between Tris and Four? What happens is Four gets scared of something new? What’s with the whole testing ceremony? Why eliminate people if you’re just trying to build a mind-controlled army? How exactly does that mind control stuff work anyway?

Plus another Who's on First? routine, which Ryan does so very very well.

Edited by Fighteer on Mar 21st 2024 at 9:53:06 AM

"We are going to follow the main character, Triss, and she is not like the other girls"

"Oh, can you tell me more?"

"Nope"

"Perfect"

.............

"She (Triss) is going to tell him (Four) that she loves him, and this will break the curse"

"I thought it was a serum?"

"I don't care"

"So to save the day, does she have to tell all the other kids that she loves them too?"

" No,no,no,no"

I'm glad the pitch meeting got mileage out of the fact that the Dauntless' whole thing for half the movie was "just fucking run around the city hooting."

Seriously. What a weird choice.

And climbing things. Don't forget the climbing.

If I understand the plot correctly, it's the smart people who are the villains of this movie. You know, that's fitting in a way. Anyone who criticizes the intelligence of the plot can be painted as an enemy. Darn eggheads, ruining our fun.

Edited by Fighteer on Mar 22nd 2024 at 3:13:56 PM