TGWTG "Nostalgia Critic" / Doug Walker, Rob Walker, Mike Michaud, Mike Ellis, Holly Christine Brown, et al - The Incompetent Predator-Protecting Upper Management of Channel Awesome, Doug Still Not That Funny

[The Pink Panther]

Oh... yeah, now it at least makes sense why anyone would question it.

So I guess that makes Doug Walker a method actor, then?

Even A-Log made better jokes than you

 

[Random Internet Person]

So the SJW crowd is pissed at him? Oh God, what did he do this time?

So a few weeks ago he made a video about Duckman being anti PC and “ahead of its time”, and Obscurus Lupa said CA was desperate to stay relevant. And Linkara shat on CA some more while talking about Bojack Horseman. And the biggest Doug hater of them all in MisAnthroPony tore into the Sibling Rivalry for Sonic.

 

[LiquidKid]

So a few weeks ago he made a video about Duckman being anti PC and “ahead of its time”, and Obscurus Lupa said CA was desperate to stay relevant. And Linkara shat on CA some more while talking about Bojack Horseman. And the biggest Doug hater of them all in MisAnthroPony tore into the Sibling Rivalry for Sonic.

But he’s not wrong, Duckman has several episodes that went against the PC crowd of the 90’s, which was just a more subdued version of today’s pc crowd

 

[Random Internet Person]

But he’s not wrong, Duckman has several episodes that went against the PC crowd of the 90’s, which was just a more subdued version of today’s pc crowd

And to #CTC, that crowd and appealing to it screams “desperation”.

 

[LiquidKid]

And to #CTC, that crowd and appealing to it screams “desperation”.

I mean, I’m sure doug is desperate, but Duckman was very under appreciated when it came out despite positive reviews(in fact this was used as a running gag in the show) so if anything, it’s calling attention to an often over looked classic of the adult animated sitcom era And perhaps Jason Alexander’s only good non-Seinfeld role

 

[The Pink Panther]

Jason Alexander’s only good non-Seinfeld role

bruh

 

[LiquidKid]

bruh

To be fair, I haven’t seen Dilbert in so long I forgot he was Catbert

 

[BigTubboWithLittleChina]

I liked him as Boris Badenov in the Rocky & Bullwinkle film, too. He nailed the character.

 

[Dom Cruise]

And perhaps Jason Alexander’s only good non-Seinfeld role

It was a small role but he was perfect as a lawyer character in Jacob's Ladder.

 

[Clark Kent]

Jason Alexander rules.

Doug Walker sucks.

Universal truth.

 

[I Love Beef]

This is probably really petty of me, but I quit watching Brad Jones after his review of the Challenger episode of Punky Brewster. Something about his presence on camera during this "review" and him using the show's 1980s tone as a flaw really irks me and tells me that his alignment with Channel Awesome is beginning to channel its tardery into him.

 

[Random Internet Person]

This is probably really petty of me, but I quit watching Brad Jones after his review of the Challenger episode of Punky Brewster. Something about his presence on camera during this "review" and him using the show's 1980s tone as a flaw really irks me and tells me that his alignment with Channel Awesome is beginning to channel its tardery into him.

Eh, all the CA crew is most likely past their prime if you ask me. What makes Brad any different?

 

[I Love Beef]

Eh, all the CA crew is most likely past their prime if you ask me. What makes Brad any different?

I thought Brad had at least the standard of being coherent in maintaining his integrity as an individual like he does as the Cinema Snob.... But apparently, even that is a face act. Apparently, when the facade is off, he's just another smarmy dipshit who is too self aware for his own good and drinks from the same hipster ass tard pool like everyone else down at CA. Guess there was a reason why he continues to stay on the sinking ship. The fact that he doesn't understand that Punky Brewster was made in a time when people were less coddled by society and understood the extreme mood whiplash life comes to give us highlighted this further to me, now that I realize it.

 

[The Fresh Maker]

I thought Brad had at least the standard of being coherent in maintaining his integrity as an individual like he does as the Cinema Snob.... But apparently, even that is a face act. Apparently, when the facade is off, he's just another smarmy dipshit who is too self aware for his own good and drinks from the same hipster ass tard pool like everyone else down at CA. Guess there was a reason why he continues to stay on the sinking ship. The fact that he doesn't understand that Punky Brewster was made in a time when people were less coddled by society and understood the extreme mood whiplash life comes to give us highlighted this further to me, now that I realize it.

Well, he also retweeted this.

So I think whatever standards he had were gone long before that.

 

[The Pink Panther]

Well, he also retweeted this.

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So I think whatever standards he had were gone long before that.

Remember when niggas all thought Brad was gonna jump ship during #ChangeTheChannel?

Heh, heh, heh. Funny.

 

[Random Internet Person]

Remember when niggas all thought Brad was gonna jump ship during #ChangeTheChannel?

Heh, heh, heh. Funny.

Oh I do. This whole thread was seeing the standoff of Brad, Doug, and Guru Larry. Honestly, it really felt like we were seeing the end of an era. And Doug Walker was truly going to bow out and away from the Internet for good.

 

[Fraudius]

I kind of admire Brad's loyalty to Doug and Rob. Stand by your friends, even if they are talentless hacks.

 

[The Fresh Maker]

I kind of admire Brad's loyalty to Doug and Rob. Stand by your friends, even if they are talentless hacks.

And in turn, he himself became a talentless hack.

 

[interalia]

I kind of admire Brad's loyalty to Doug and Rob. Stand by your friends, even if they are talentless hacks.

Brad seems genuine as a guy. That said I have watched him on and off since 2007 and have gotten to see the full evolution of his career. I can't say I've watched every video of his but damn near, including most of the really old ones he took down due to poor production quality, or the old films he nervously deleted due to them being more un-PC than the current internet tolerates. Brad had a niche and that was reviewing the kind of content that in its own time was censored out of the mainstream, and as a result he has always had more trouble doing the Cinema Snob than any TGWTG people have ever had with their shows and characters. Blip disappearing basically killed the Cinema Snob as a show because there's no way the stuff he reviews would stay up on New YouTube.

If you look at Brad's early stuff, it's all filmed with his old 2000s crowd who were mostly people he'd known for years or decades: Dave, Sarah, Brian, Irving, Jerrid, Jake, his old wife Jillian. A few other hangers on. What worked was the unscripted shows where they got to make fun of movies together and crack jokes freely, but a few of these people, even if Brad was still friends with them, would be suicide for a youtube channel today - hell, Irving once said "negroes" in a video, and there were jokes about Brian owning slaves. What didn't work was Brad's cringey attempts at creating his own Channel Awesome by setting these people up with scripted web series like 80s Dan, which was a disaster. Now most of these people are no longer friends with him, whether it's due to his breakup with Jillian, CTC, personal beef, or any combination of those. The only one left is Jerrid.

Brad works best when he has a straight man or another comedian type to bounce lines off of, but that can be hard to find. What he was really meant for, in my opinion, was something like Red Letter Media. Instead he's stuck with Channel Awesome, participating in their stupid skits in exchange for Rob and Doug reviewing movies with him in his car to keep his site and YouTube channel alive. This deal was done probably long before Brad's move to Chicago - he mentioned "collaborations" as a contributing factor - and is basically him and the Walkers, having both had their mini empires effectively collapse, merging to a degree so they can both survive and lean on what's left of each other's fanbases. It's really sad. But nowhere in any of that have I gotten the impression that they're friends, or Brad is doing them a favour. He needs them almost as much as they need him, if not more.

 

[Random Internet Person]

Brad works best when he has a straight man or another comedian type to bounce lines off of, but that can be hard to find. What he was really meant for, in my opinion, was something like Red Letter Media. Instead he's stuck with Channel Awesome, participating in their stupid skits in exchange for Rob and Doug reviewing movies with him in his car to keep his site and YouTube channel alive. This deal was done probably long before Brad's move to Chicago - he mentioned "collaborations" as a contributing factor - and is basically him and the Walkers, having both had their mini empires effectively collapse, merging to a degree so they can both survive and lean on what's left of each other's fanbases. It's really sad. But nowhere in any of that have I gotten the impression that they're friends, or Brad is doing them a favour. He needs them almost as much as they need him, if not more.

You know, when the exodus happened, I thought Brad was fine because he had his website and his movies and his shows to keep him going if CA really went belly up. Guess I overestimated how he was doing. Still though, #CTC has pretty much decimated TGWTG.