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Mario Party

  • The group talks about Wario's infamous "D'OH I MISSED!" quote while playing Mario's Rainbow Castle. They actually get him to say it at the very end, to their satisfaction.
  • NCS's sudden victory in Wario's Battle Canyon. Seriously, who saw that coming?
  • Even the CPU gets one! It seems like Wario is about to lose a mini-game, when at the last second, the platform rises and allows him to win the match.
  • Chuggaconroy's victory at Magma Mountain. At first it seems like the computer will win, as it had 3 stars to the other players' one...then Jon lands on Chance Time on the FINAL TURN, and causes Chuggaconroy to swap stars with the computer. The computer gets two of the bonus stars, evening their scores, but it's then revealed that Chugga had a maximum coin count of exactly ONE COIN more than the computer's, earning him the final bonus star for the win. Chugga literally hugged Jon when this happened. And before you say NCS was robbed of victory yet again, both he and Jon had less coins than the computer, thus, even if they had swapped stars during chance time, they would have lost due to being tied in stars but behind in coins.
    • And remember, this wouldn't have been possible if Jon didn't get the Chance Time at the two needed factors (Wario trading the coins) so give him credit!
    • Actually, observing the count, Jon or Tim could have won if they'd obtain the stars, had Chugga and Wario lost the 2v2 minigame that followed, which would have brought their coin counts just over Wario's.
  • Proton Jon managing to get a 100% accuracy on one of the many matches of Face Lift.
  • Proton Jon, having been royally screwed over for most of Yoshi's Tropical Island, managing to win.
  • The final mini-game in the Let's Play is simply epic. For one, it's the first Mini-game they played in the Let's Play and that it lasted for a good two minutes when it would normally be about thirty seconds.

New Super Mario Bros. Wii

  • Proton Jon, in world 4-2, managing to get to the top of the flagpole by jumping on top of Chuggaconroy's (or Mario's, at least in the game) head, following up by jumping on Josh Jepson's (Or yellow Toad's) head. That was Lampshaded by Chugga.
  • When discussing the Koopalings when they reach world five, Chugga manages to prove Proton Jon, of all people, wrong about something in Super Mario World. This is Lampshaded during the conversation by Jon exclaiming "How many times have I fucking played Mario World?!"
  • During a run to get a star coin from a fortress, they all died from platforms to the head. The second time they do so, Jon immediately screams for them to turn back...but NCS (Luigi) has hopped all the way to the other side and into a pipe, without being harmed.
  • In an LP notorious for deaths of all kinds, Proton Jon manages to only die once in the ninth episode of New Super Mario Bros. Wii.
    • As mentioned on the main page (so no spoilers will apply), Josh lost the least number of lives in Episode 11. Small feat but still one to be mildly proud of.
  • Proton Jon getting 99 lives. (Maybe now he'll let everyone else get some...)
    • Yeah... not going to happen (as shown in episode 14)
  • In episode 9, while in a cave filled with giant Wigglers, Chugga is the only person not to get hit by said Wigglers. He uses awesome jump-dodging skills, perfectly timed spinning, and hiding in a hole to do this. Even Proton Jon, who is basically his rival for the series, compliments him on it!
  • Jon had a huge one in episode 14. He decided that he hadn't been trolling enough and decided to really get dangerous in response to the group's repeated collective fails. He threw shells at Josh and NCS, jumped into a pipe on the second try after watching Chugga fail around four times, survived a barrage of bullet bills, grinded extra lives despite having more than everyone else, screwed Chugga out of a chance at a star coin and extra lives, gloated about being an ass hole, got the star coin, and then managed to avoid Chugga long enough to be the only person on the flag pole at the end. Wow. What a Magnificent Bastard.
  • The bubble jumping. It didn't exactly get them to the end like they hoped, but they survived in awesome ways for several seconds. Now if only they could do that longer, they could beat similar levels with ease.
  • Finally defeating their seemingly most hated level in World 7 by having Chugga carry Josh and Jon ride Yoshi with NCS in its mouth. Jon even used NCS as a projectile to nab the final Star Coin. They lampshaded this at the end, saying they managed to defeat it with the power of teamwork.
    • Aaaand no more teamwork as of the next level, wherein they quickly start trying to kill each other. And again, lampshaded.
  • In episode 15, NCS somehow pulls off a hilarious glitch. He jumps for the flagpole, then bubbles the instant he reaches the top. So Luigi disappears, NCS gets the 1-up, and an empty bubble floats away, leaving the Guys with hilarious reactions.
  • Literally all four of them get separate ones during the World 8 airship.
    • Tim survives a short while with the others in bubbles and nabs a Star Coin that is literally covered by two Mechakoopas without getting hurt.
    • Jon pulls off a perfect wall jump to reach a Star Coin over a pit and bubbles to safety.
    • Josh jumps off the others' heads enough times and high enough to reach a screw that needs to be spun.
    • Chugga surviving getting thrown into a fire by bubbling RIGHT before hitting the fire.
  • In the final battle with Bowser, they do have to do the fight three times due to deaths, but there are a couple moments in there. For example, Chugga is always the one to hit the first switch [1], which kind of makes sense considering he's Mario. There's also Josh grabbing the final Star Coin during the third run (it was Jon the other times), and lastly Jon running through most of the final portion, only for Chugga to appear and get his bubble popped, then miss hitting the switch by a split-second.
  • Throughout World 8 in general, despite knowing next to nothing about this place, guess who seems to be the one to carry the group through? TIM.
  • After the final battle, during the credits minigame, Tim actually gets more coins than Josh and Chugga, reaching second place (Jon got over 200), proving just how much better he's gotten since the start.
  • While Jon is running across a timed path to reach a Star Coin, Tim zips ahead and nabs the coin instead. They didn't survive to the end of the level, though...
    • Josh succeeded in grabbing the coin on a later attempt. They didn't survive that one either.
  • While in 9-4, they need to figure out how to enter a red pipe...mwhich is horizontal... over a giant pit. The way to do this is use an Ice Flower to freeze a piranha plant that comes out of a green pipe below it (but angled the same), providing a platform. Everybody except Chugga loses their ice flower, and Chugga also loses it right at this point...but not before launching a lucky shot, striking the piranha plant the instant it comes out of the pipe, leaving a one-inch platform. Jon then gets into the red pipe with it. Big Yes ensues. (It's more awesome when you actually see it.)
  • YMMV, but Chuggaa managing to evade having to use a continue even under the pressure of Jon's constant attempts of killing him is one. During the final tally, the most common death cause for Chugga is Jon himself! (And vice-versa.)
  • Josh managing to jump across circling platforms and fuzzies to grab a coin that the other guys were having trouble with.

Jon: *Josh is hopping over to the coin, unnoticed* I might need someone to follow me for when I freeze the platform...
Josh: *grabs the coin* Or I could just be a Badass.

  • Beating the supposedly hardest level in the game on only two tries. They did point out that the level would have been much harder for a solo player, but still.
  • Jon winning the whole thing overall, despite spending so much time trying to kill Chuggaa. He had even gotten the most coins in the credits sequence! It all may have been a Foregone Conclusion but that doesn't mean we should overlook that it soundly established his place as The Ace of the team. That is awesome.
  • Despite the difficulty he seems to find in pressing A to not die, Tim is consistently awesome throughout the LP. Sure, it plays second fiddle to his Butt Monkey / Plucky Comic Relief status and he's always Overshadowed by Awesome, but he gets a few moments before Chugga points it out in the finale. For instance, running through a death-trap while everybody else is on the verge of freaking out, yelling for him to get out of the falling blocks' paths... and he expertly weaves through the blocks, landing neatly in front of the nearly-sealed-off secret exit. Of course, he follows this amazing feat by bubbling right before the flagpole, but he may have had an ulterior motive for that, too.
  • Level 6-4, anyone? All of them end the level with a major power up (the propeller suit), catch the top of the flagpole AND have the fireworks. If this is not awesome, I don't know what it is.
  • Josh in 8-1. Crowning Moment of Funny too.

Jon: Josh, don't fail us now!
Josh: I will totally fail you now! *proceeds to not fail them now*

Subspace Emissary

  • Two involving Trophy Stands:
    • One is during the Fire Emblem stage, where Chugga grabs a Trophy Stand without noticing and continues for a bit with it. When he reaches a key, he tries to pick it up, only to throw the Trophy Stand forward, bounce it off a wall, and hit an enemy behind him.
    • Another is when Tim grabs a Trophy Stand in The Forest and throws it upward, completely missing the only remaining enemy. The enemy floats over to Tim just as the stand comes back down, capturing the enemy.
  • Tim actually gets the last hit on Galleom during the first fight with him.
  • Related to the above, Jon curb stomping Galleom with Charizard's Rock Smash.
  • Chuggaa kills Ridley by doing Thunder while jumping off the edge.
  • In the Research Facility, Chugga is forced to go through an entire level on his own without any spare lives. He does it almost perfectly.
  • During a battle on a floating platform, Chugga is Donkey Kong and Tim is Captain Falcon. However, Tim thinks he's playing as Donkey Kong. Despite this, when Falcon falls off the edge, he still manages to pull off a perfect recovery, without even knowing who he's actually playing as.
    • Even before that, keep an eye on Captain Falcon; Tim, despite not knowing that's who he's playing as, manages to kill quite a few enemies without meaning to. In fact, if it's your first time watching the video, you'd likely think he knew he was Falcon!
  • YMMV (like this whole page,) but a pretty notable one is Jon taking advantage of the Steve meme so much that it makes Chugga weep. Also a Crowning Moment of Funny. To elaborate: Jon used this to his advantage on the Pikmin portion of the game, which leads to Chuggaa moaning at the very mention of it, followed by Captain Falcon killing all the Pikmin but Steve. Cue Chuggaa sobbing and Jon creating dialogue between Olimar and Steve, then saying Chugga should play as him that round. Chugga slides off until the next round, where Jon forces him to play as Olimar by withholding both controllers and making sure Chugga "piks" Olimar.
  • False Peach keeps nearly killing Chuggaa over and over, but he manages to hold his own and end up winning.
  • They purposely had Samus deliver the finishing blow to Meta Ridley.
  • During a battle against a giant swarm of enemies, Tim is the only one left alive against the final enemy, an Armank. The guys have had troubles with Armanks for a while now, but Tim manages to defeat this one by himself. Cue cheering.
  • Chugga gets one in episode 17, when he is playing as the Ice Climbers with Jon, and then both Jon and Nana die, leaving Chugga with Popo. Despite being handicapped, he manages to defeat Cyber Peach and own a bunch of Floows, all without dying. Jon was impressed.
  • A somewhat more subtle example is the fight with Chugga and Jon against Cyber Luigi. They take no damage whatsoever throughout the entire fight, and they spend much of the battle conversing with each other, not paying much attention to the actual fight.
  • During the final battle against, Tabuu, Snake (Chugga) was caught by Tabuu's whip and would be killed with the damage he's taken. Luckily, Yoshi (Jon) manages to save him and defeat Tabuu at the same time. Doubles as a Crowning Moment of Funny due to the position Snake was stuck in after Tabuu was defeated.

Jon: Yo-You were stuck in what was probably going to kill you, and then we glitched it. We beat the game glitching!
Chuggaa: We beat the game by glitching when this is supposed to be the realm of glitches. How fitting, Tabuu died to a glitch.

  • Jon winning against Toon Link. Both are blown off the screen. Jon won because Toon Link flew off a second before him. Doubles as a Crowning Moment of Funny.

Super Smash Brothers Tournament

  • The guys play a free-for-all match and Tim manages to kill Jon twice, and it ends up so that Chuggaa beat both of them, with Tim in second place. Not an example of this trope for Jon, but for the other two.
    • The second match counts as one for both Chugga and Jon: Tim loses all of his stock early in the match, leaving Jon in the lead. Chugga manages to pull ahead and win rather epically, though it takes three PK Starstorms to do it. The fact that Chugga managed to win both matches is one of these moments, and the fact that Jon put up such a good fight in the second round is another.
  • In the tournament, during the Sudden Death match between Tim and Donnabellez, Tim wins in just one attack within seconds.
    • The fact that Donna managed to tie the game to enter Sudden Death with only a second left on the clock also counts.
    • The fact that Tim's fight with Donna was so evenly matched (both were probably the least experienced players in the tournament) makes it serve as one for both of them.
  • On the opposite side of the spectrum is Jon's fight with ALG, where both players are very evenly matched, experienced and using very similar characters (Ike and Marth). The match finally ended when Jon knocking ALG into the air and watching as an exploding block spawned on him, sending ALG off the map.
  • Chugga's victory against Josh:

Chugga: FIRE YUMS, BALLS! (smashes a flaming soccer ball into Josh, knocking him off the stage and killing him)

    • For that matter, his victory over Lucahjin. He wins without losing a stock, but how much does she do to him? A mere 27% damage. Curb Stomp Battle indeed.
  • In the second round, between SyKho and SuperJeenius, they are fighting on Norfair. At one point, the giant lava wall (which covers the entire screen and deals massive damage to anyone hit by it, with the only way to avoid it being by either staying offscreen long enough or hiding in a safety capsule) appears, and SyKho hides in the capsule while Jeenius just stands around casually. He then jumps up at the last second, dodging the lava.

SyKho: What.

SuperJeenius: (completely nonchalant) Problem?

SyKho: Gah-what?

SuperJeenius: Trollface.jpg?

SyKho: No, that's... that's not-

SuperJeenius: That's what I thought. Don't mess with me.

  • Diabetus and Chuggaaconroy's fight could be the best one yet. Both of them were completely serious for once, matching each other move for move.
  • And the winner is... Proton Jon. How they won was pretty Curbstompy.

Mario Party 2

  • Once again, the guys find themselves playing Shy Guy Says in Pirate Land. And once again, Chugga somehow manages to hold his own for at least a minute despite the Shy Guy's fakeouts being trickier than before (though Jon failed a short while in).
  • In the Archer-ival mini game, Tim manages to avoid the computer player's arrows for the whole time, in addition to Jon and Chuggaa never being shot at.
  • In Pirate Land, near the very end, Chugga gets a Hidden Block with a Star in it, letting him win just in time.
  • At one point in Pirate Land, a Star appears on the space in front of Chugga.
  • Tim winning the Crane Game.
  • Tim tried to steal coins from DK when he first meets Boo, but accidentally got Jon instead. The kicker? Jon was close to the star and had 36 coins, which was actually the right move to do all along! He temporarily prevented Jon from grabbing the star!
  • Doubting that Tim has gotten better since the last Mario Party? Well, along with the two above examples, he has done several other amazing things; he uses strategy a lot better now, often has the most or second-most coins, and wins quite a few of the minigames. Plus, he's stopped going so easy on Jon and Chugga, as shown when he stops specifically attacking the AI and now goes after one of them if they have a big lead. In fact, the only reason he hasn't won a board yet is because Chugga and Jon have also gotten a bit better, plus he frequently gets bad rolls. And even then, he's still come surprisingly close.
    • Good examples on how he's gotten better is how he stayed in first place for the majority of Bowser Land, and how he never died whenever they played Platform Peril. Not to mention how he won 1st place in Bowser's Ballon Burst.
  • At the end of Western Land, Chugga challenges Tim to a duel, putting 30 coins (and potentially the Coin Star) on the line. Tim's reflexes were the victor.
    • In spite of that, Chugga still somehow manages to get not just the Coin Star, but all of the Bonus Stars, tying with Wario for Mini-game and Jon for Happening. And the kicker? Jon still won anyway from managing to get 3 hard-earned Stars over the course of the actual game.
  • Jon got 1 in space land. After landing on the "Happening space" and being chased back, he gets a hidden block that has a star...ON HIS FIRST TURN!
    • Strikes again in Mystery Land. He got between the warp points, thus missing the star... only to land on the star block space. THEN LATER, he refused the UFO ride to the star, since he thought Chugga would get to it first, only to land on a teleport space, which took him to ANOTHER star space, and to boot, [Luigi landed on THE SAME SPOT before but DIDN'T GET THE STAR! THEN LATER, he gets two more warp points and a low roll AND GETS A THIRD! HIDDEN! STAR!. The chances of this happening on a single board is just phenomenally low! Granted, two of them got stolen and he didn't need them to win anyways, since he got all three bonus stars which gave him the victory, but it was still ridiculous.
      • And you know what? On the last turn, he needed to roll a 9 to at least get one final star, which would be the first -- and only -- star he gets from Toad. He got the 9.

Jon: You know what the funny thing is? I only bought ONE STAR this whole game! I have SIX STARS!

  • Everyone's racing to get a star, and Jon is down to the only roll that has a chance to get him there. Jon rolls a 1 and plays an item game, in which he wins the only negative item in the game, the Bowser Bomb. That's not the awesome part. He states that he meant to do this, so that when Chugga and Tim immediately go past the star, Baby Bowser, and thus Bowser's starting space, moves directly behind them. Effectively, Jon missed the star, but in the meantime he was able to screw Chugga and NCS out of EVERY one of their coins.
    • That's not even the best part: later that turn -- knowing full well what Jon has planned -- NCS chooses to use his dueling glove to challenge and beat Chugga in the dueling game, and then we're treated to this:

Jon: But now you actually need a decent roll.
NCS: That's not a problem. Watch this! (Rolls a 9, making it to the star with room to spare)

  • The guys are on the bad side of a 1-vs-3 game against Wario at Horror Land. Tim wins it for them.
  • Chuggaa and Jon respectively win Platform Peril and Shy Guy Says, each a game that they had yet to win in the LP and that the opposite player had always won so far in the LP.
  • Throughout the LP, Chugga, Jon, and the AI have a hard time getting Tim in Crane Game. Jon goes for him first in the last instance of the minigame being played, and gets him in the pipe.
  • Near the end of Bowser Land, Jon has to choose whether to steal a star from Tim, who has 2 stars, or Chugga, who has 1 star. He decides to steal a star from Chugga. Now this wasn't out of spite or rivalry, he specificly planned this since Tim had no chance at the bonus stars. Not only this but at the end of the game both Jon and Chugga got tied for one of the bonus stars, meaning that Jon only won because he stole a star from Chugga which he specifically planned for. Talk about strategic.
  • Jon's massive streak in the Minigame Coaster, which spans multiple episodes. Chugga and Tim have barely even gotten to play because of him.

Emile: Welcome to Proton Jon Plays Mario Party 2 featuring Chuggaaconroy and Nintendo Capri Sun.
Jon: So can I put this on my TVTropes page?

  • After Jon and Chuggaa fail on Hot Rope Jump, Tim wins it on his first try. Keep in mind that to clear it, you have to jump over the flames fifty times, and none of the guys had survived past forty.
    • Similarly, there's Jon finally clearing Sneak 'n' Snore, which the guys have never won.
  • TWICE now, the guys have kept the AI from winning a single board in a Mario Party Game.

Mario Power Tennis

  • Josh Jepson and Lucahjin have an incredibly long match, and Josh gets his first major victory in a Runaway Guys tournament.
  • Josh's match against Rodri was also just as long, and it was epic. Ending on a tiebreaker. Too bad Josh lost.
  • Chugga's tournament victory. Most of it was a straight up Curb Stomp Battle against the other contestants, and he emerged undefeated after a very close tiebreaker match with Rodri.

Kirby's Return To Dreamland

  • NCS's sudden, unrivaled win during the last round of Ninja Dojo. Chugga got 500-some points. Tim? In the 700s.

Other

Super Smash Bros.

Jon: "I am the strongest of the Guys! I RUN AWAY THE MOST!"

  • The fact that Nintendo Capri Sun managed to hold his own against Jon during their one on one match. He still lost, but it didn't happen nearly as fast as one would come to expect of Tim during Runaway Guys.
  • Chuggaa beating Tim 4-0 with Ness on Saffron. For those of you not in the know, Ness on Saffron is the worst possible character/stage combination.
  • The whole Chuggaa vs. Jon round. Two Players with a goal of making one another's life hell and bragging rights hinging on the match? Intense. Tim's traditional commentary also deserves mention.

Mario Kart 64

  • Both recordings of Rainbow Road are big ones for Tim. The first time he managed to snag first place and never lost that position for the entirety of the race. Unfortunately the recording was lost, but even in the second version he's able to keep first place most of the time and soundly beats Jon and Chuggaa.
  • On that note, the lost recording of the Mario Kart battles was one for Jon. He won every battle. He still wins overall in the second recording, but it's not as much of a curbstomp.
  1. ↑ first by running under Bowser, then using the Propellor Suit to get over him, and then just toasting him with fireballs
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