40 Fun Facts About Nostalgia Critic

The Nostalgia Critic's trademark outfit pairs a black hat and jacket with a necktie of which color?

Red was a late addition: the first video had the black hat and jacket, but the tie and white shirt only arrived with the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Movie review.

Doug Walker says the Nostalgia Critic was mainly inspired by the Queen of Hearts and which Looney Tunes character?

Daffy Duck sits alongside comedians Lewis Black, Stephen Colbert and Bill Murray on the list of influences Walker credits for the Critic.

The Bat Credit Card, a prop that sends the Nostalgia Critic into a recurring rage, comes from which film?

Batman & Robin was reviewed in May 2008, in the episode that also gave viewers their first look at Rob Walker, and the card kept resurfacing as a running gag in later reviews.

Which video essayist hosted The Nostalgia Chick, the Nostalgia Critic companion show that launched in 2008?

Lindsay Ellis took the title after a 2008 search and made over 100 episodes before moving on to long-form video essays.

Which famous film critic praised the Nostalgia Critic tribute episode about him and his late TV partner?

Roger Ebert praised the 2009 tribute to his partnership with Gene Siskel, and Walker posted an unscripted farewell video within hours of the critic's death in 2013.

Which real micronation does the Nostalgia Critic invade and rename in the 2010 anniversary film Kickassia?

Molossia covers a few acres of land in Nevada, and its actual president, Kevin Baugh, played a fictionalized version of himself in the film.

Doug Walker, creator of Nostalgia Critic, was born on a naval base in which European country?

Italy was his birthplace because his father, a naval officer and musician, was posted to Naples; the family then moved often before settling near Chicago.

Which German director of video game adaptations made Alone in the Dark, reviewed by the Nostalgia Critic in 2009?

Uwe Boll built his reputation on loose game adaptations such as House of the Dead and BloodRayne, and this one holds a 1% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes.

Which Captain Planet Planeteer became a recurring Nostalgia Critic character who dies in the film Suburban Knights?

Ma-Ti was played by Channel Awesome co-founder Bhargav Dronamraju, first turning up in the Critic's Captain Planet review before joining the anniversary films.

Which 2007 summer blockbuster was reviewed in the first Nostalgia Critic video, posted to YouTube that July?

Transformers got a high-speed, two-minute review that was more positive than the episodes that followed.

Why were early Nostalgia Critic episodes frequently removed from YouTube before Doug Walker moved to his own site?

Copyright complaints from studios including 20th Century Fox and Lionsgate got his channel's content withdrawn, and re-uploading each video to a separate new channel did not solve it.

Which website did Doug Walker launch in April 2008 as the new home of Nostalgia Critic after leaving YouTube?

That Guy with the Glasses went on to host more than twenty other reviewers' shows before it shut down and was rebranded as the Channel Awesome site in December 2014.

Before Nostalgia Critic took off, Doug Walker worked as an illustrator and in which other job?

Janitor shifts and illustration work paid the bills after college while he made videos in his spare time, until the success of his shows let him perform for a living.

Which recurring character does Rob Walker play on Nostalgia Critic, with a pivotal role in the film Kickassia?

Santa Christ merges Santa Claus and Jesus into one jolly figure, and he first appeared in the Critic's review of the Star Wars Holiday Special.

In the 2012 film To Boldly Flee, the Nostalgia Critic takes his place inside which cosmic anomaly to stabilize it?

The Plot Hole was the device for writing the Critic out for good, because the film was meant to be the grand finale of the series before Walker changed his mind months later.

Which short-lived sketch series did Doug and Rob Walker launch in 2012 after retiring the Nostalgia Critic?

Demo Reel followed a hapless production company remaking famous films badly to get Hollywood's attention, and only five of its episodes ever aired.

Which former child star crashed the Nostalgia Critic review of her film A Simple Wish to take revenge on him?

Mara Wilson first ranted about the Critic after fans pestered her over his Thomas and the Magic Railroad review, then agreed to turn up and embarrass him on camera.

Which heavily requested sci-fi flop did the Nostalgia Critic review to mark the 100th episode in February 2010?

Battlefield Earth was chosen after the episode teased a clip show, with the Critic's past self persuading him to tackle a film that viewers kept requesting instead.

Which 2015 blockbuster received the first clipless Nostalgia Critic review, with scenes re-enacted by the cast instead?

Jurassic World was still in theaters, so the usual clips and stills gave way to comedy re-enactments by Walker, his friends and his family.

Which actor plays paranormal investigator Edward Carnby in Alone in the Dark, the film panned by the Nostalgia Critic?

Christian Slater plays Carnby as a former agent of the secret Bureau 713, opposite Stephen Dorff as the unit's commander.

Which actress plays archaeologist and museum curator Aline Cedrac in Alone in the Dark, a role critics singled out?

Tara Reid's performance was among the things reviewers blamed, along with the story, dialogue and special effects, and the film went on to lose money at the box office.

In the Nostalgia Critic review of Alone in the Dark, how does the supposedly speechless Critic deliver all his lines?

A text-to-speech voice from his laptop does the talking, the joke being that the film was so bad it shocked him into silence.

Which comic book reviewer joined Spoony and the Nostalgia Critic to review Alone in the Dark in 2009?

Linkara, host of the comics show Atop the Fourth Wall, turned up alongside Spoony to help the Critic through the film whether he wanted the company or not.

Greg Weisman praised the Nostalgia Critic review of which 1990s Disney animated series that he created?

Gargoyles got a rare glowing review as one of Disney's best action cartoons, and Weisman said the admiration ran both ways between the Critic and the people who made it.

Which actor from The Room reprised his role as Mark in a 2013 episode of Nostalgia Critic?

Greg Sestero returned three years after the Critic's own review of The Room, the cult 2003 film whose making he recounted in his memoir The Disaster Artist.

The Big-Lipped Alligator Moment, a term coined in a Nostalgia Critic crossover, takes its name from which film?

All Dogs Go to Heaven stops for an odd musical number with an alligator, and the label now covers any surreal scene that arrives from nowhere and is never brought up again.

Which recurring Nostalgia Critic character made her first appearance in the review of the 2012 film The Lorax?

Hyper Fangirl was introduced as a member of the online Once-ler fan community who falls for the Critic on sight, and she later became his stalker.

In the Channel Awesome film Suburban Knights, the Nostalgia Critic leads a quest for which kind of magical object?

A gauntlet called Malachite's Hand is the prize, and the reviewers have to dress up as fantasy characters and solve riddles to track it down.

Which 2012 family film was reviewed first when Nostalgia Critic returned from retirement in February 2013?

The Odd Life of Timothy Green opened a revival that ran every two weeks instead of weekly and leaned much harder on sketches with a supporting cast.

Which anime film did the Nostalgia Critic review at the Anime Milwaukee convention for the 200th episode?

Ponyo was reviewed in front of con-goers who turn on the Critic, accept him, then turn on him again once he insults another Hayao Miyazaki favorite.

Which Halloween comedy opened the first NostalgiaWeen, the Nostalgia Critic's October marathon, in 2010?

Ernest Scared Stupid kicked off a month of Halloween reviews that became a yearly tradition, skipped only in 2012 while the series was retired.

Doug Walker of Nostalgia Critic earned his degree at which school, where he drew cartoons for the student newspaper?

Northern Illinois University is where he majored in mass communication and minored in visual art while serving as an editor and cartoonist on the student paper.

Channel Awesome, the company behind Nostalgia Critic, was founded by three men laid off from which electronics retailer?

Circuit City laid off the three founders in 2007; they had already talked about starting a company, and one said it would not have happened soon without losing their jobs.

The frontman of which metal band sang on the Nostalgia Critic's 2019 parody album of Pink Floyd's The Wall?

Slipknot's Corey Taylor and his son Griffin covered the opening theme of SpongeBob SquarePants for the album.

Which environmental cartoon did the Nostalgia Critic and Nostalgia Chick review together in their first crossover?

FernGully brought the two hosts together after a short on-screen fight, and the same review introduced the Big-Lipped Alligator Moment to the series.

What are the names of Doug Walker's two pet cats, who appear as talking characters on Nostalgia Critic?

Chaplin and Buster keep announcing their own names in sketches for no reason, and they are mentored by Lloyd, the talking cat from The Cinema Snob.

Which video host carried most Nostalgia Critic episodes from 2008 until the service shut down in 2015?

Blip struck a 2009 arrangement that let the videos return to YouTube, and in 2012 it signed Walker and three other Channel Awesome hosts to exclusivity deals.

Which Nostalgia Critic cast member plays Black Willy Wonka and the Devil in the series' sketches?

Malcolm Ray joined for the 2013 revival, and his other sketch roles include the hitman Bennie and parodies of Pinhead and Barack Obama.

Doug and Rob Walker won a 2009 RiffTrax contest by recording a comedy commentary for which Disney animated film?

The Lion King riff, made with Brian Heinz, earned the trio $1,000 and a session recording another commentary with guidance from the RiffTrax hosts.

Evilina, a Nostalgia Critic character played by Rachel Tietz, is the daughter of Satan and which reality TV star?

Kim Kardashian is named as the mother of Evilina, one of several characters Tietz played, alongside Rita Repulsa, before she left after season seven.