The Angry Joe Show / YMMV

Awesome Music:
- Angry Jooooooooeeee! Angry Joe is there, Angry Jooooooooeeee!
- Both the metal-style chiptune music introducing the reviews and the uncredited Thrash Metal song that plays at the end of each episode. GOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
Broken Base:
- Joe himself seemed to recognize this when he openly supported Anita Sarkeesian. Some people have agreed with Joe that the personal attacks and threats need to be stopped, regardless of the quality of her work, while others either just went ballistic at the mention of Anita.
- Joe's refusal to cover Nintendo games in light of their controversial YouTube practices naturally had people split down the middle. While most will agree he has a right to be angry over their copyright claims, there are people who don't like that Nintendo games won't be covered at all considering he appears to have positive thoughts on some games that will never get seen because of this. Others seem to not be particularly happy with his passive aggressive tone, although this has come under fire from other people, including Joe himself, for coming off as sucking up to the company.
- Joe's increase in movie reviews and other gaming videos caused accusations that he was doing fewer Angry Reviews for games. Many viewers threw flames and automatic downvotes on his non-review videos. His announcement of a two-month vacation from game reviews only seemed to break the base more. Joe and other viewers responded with actual stats of how his number of reviews hasn't gone down any significant amount (and that previous years with fewer Angry Reviews did not cause the same complaints). The situation was further hurt by Joe deleting comments and then later turning off comments and the ability to thumb up or down videos, as this was seen as Joe being thin-skinned and unwilling to listen to criticism, much of which was no different than what he himself heaped onto content providers.
- For some people Joe putting "Last of Us 2" at #2 on his "Worst Games of 2020" despite giving it a 6 out of 10 came off as cheating and pandering to the most vocal detractors of the game(with many arguing that putting it on the "Disappointing" list would've made far more sense), not to mention many felt his hatred towards the game was for very shallow reasons over Joel getting killed off and that he was far too whiny and unprofessional in his review(with him missing actual plot points due to streaming it and getting distracted by his own rants). The fact that even other reviewers who weren't so hot on the game like Jim Sterling said that those who were giving the game negative scores mainly because of Joel's death were being very stupid and shallow didn't help. Other argued that even if they didn't agree with Joe on the game that he still had a right to put it on the list regardless of the rating.
- The start of the 2020s, Joe was starting to phase out his "classic" review style with just him reviewing the game with the more "discussion"-type style that was reserved for movies, tv shows, spoiler reviews, extended review for said game and ''Angry Discussions" which feature him, Other Joe and Alex (and others such as Delrith). This angered some fans to the point some stopped watching these specific reviews entirely in favor of his "classic" reviews.
Ensemble Dark Horse: Joe has introduced plenty of characters to the show, from Corporate Commander to Demon Joe, and masquerading as different character archetypes, but his portrayal of "Principal AngryJoe" in his Cyberpunk 2077 Angry Review as a disciplinarian frustrated with CD Projekt "hanging out with the wrong crowd" instantly shot to fame because of his down-to-Earth, honest-to-God stance against the publisher and their situation with the launch debacle of 2077.
Fridge Brilliance: When Joe dressed up as Doomguy (actually a Master Chief costume) to go to hell to get revenge on Corporate Commander and Demon Joe for making him suffer through Umbrella Corps in his Doom (2016) Angry Review, Commander mistakes Joe as being dressed up as Master Chief - he'd be more familiar with the franchise that has pushed out more entries^note; Demon Joe, on the other hand, correctly realizes it's Doomguy they're facing - and as established in the Umbrella Corps Angry Review, since he shares Joe's DNA, he'd know Joe's weaknesses...as well as how Joe would deal with him and Corporate Commander.
Growing the Beard: Right on the very first episode of its new season, the show introduces a new scenery, new characters, a steady storyline, a main antagonist, and a new, fully animated opening theme. Talk about instant facial hair...
Harsher in Hindsight:
- Joe gets invited to the Spike Video Game Awards to do an interview with fan-submitted questions. It became a well known trainwreck.
- His "Top 10 Reasons Aliens: Colonial Marines Will Kick Ass" is one, due to the near universal negative reception from critics towards the game and his own negative Angry Review.
- People getting excited for Joe having the opportunity to cover Nintendo by getting a Wii U became this once Nintendo instituted aggressive copyright claims in the winter of 2014, which caused Joe to swear off from covering them and prevent fans from finding out his apparently positive responses to the Wii U and its games.
- His tribute to JewWario and then his attacking of people who didn't like it becomes this now that it has been revealed JewWario sexually harassed at least one underage woman and that was why he had to leave Channel Awesome.
Hilarious in Hindsight:
- During his Assassin's Creed III Angry Review, he comments how the new ship system that was created for the game could be used in the future to make a great pirate game. Ubisoft would eventually release Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag as a pirate game.
- During his Xbox One interview with Major Nelson at E3 2013, Joe questioned why Microsoft was persisting with the more extreme Digital Rights Management measures since they could just remove them from the console. Nelson did not take kindly to this and got mad at Joe for the insinuation that Microsoft could remove the Xbox One's integral DRM measures at the flip of a switch. Less than a week later, Microsoft announced that DRM measures would be removed following a patch upon release.
- At the end of his Marvel vs. Capcom 3 Angry Review, Joe makes a sarcastic remark about a possible sequel called "Marvelous Marvel vs. Capcom 3". A few months later, Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3 gets announced.
  - From his rant over Ultimate, Joe complains about the new characters not being recognizable enough, one of which is Rocket Raccoon. Fast forward to 2014's Guardians of the Galaxy (2014) and Rocket is suddenly very popular and recognizable to the point the Guardians have started to become A-list superheroes.
- During Joe's Deadpool Angry Review, Deadpool accuses Joe that he only cares about Call of Duty when he panned his game, to which Joe responds with the fact that he didn't even review a single Call of Duty title. Eventually, when Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare comes out...
- Joe had gag in his XCOM: Enemy Unknown Angry Review that the council chose to surrender to the aliens after it was clear he was losing. As of the sequel, this turns out to be the canon ending.
- Mindjack, which was about controlling other people and objects, was #1 on his "Worst Games of 2011" list. The next time he ended up including a game with that as a feature on one of his lists, it became #2 on his "Best Games of 2017" list.
- In Joe's Guild Wars 2 Angry Review back in 2012, he remarked that its "World versus World" game mode could use mounts so that players can get around faster. In 2019, the Warclaw mount was introduced to the game mode.
- In his Angry Review of [PROTOTYPE], he wears a hoodie and a jacket over his black Superman shirt. One can't help, but wonder if one Shane Davis watched the episode, since Joe's cosplay is almost identical to the cover of◊ the first issue of Superman: Earth One^noteDavis drew said cover.
- Corporate Commander being the recurring Big Bad of the skits becomes a lot funnier when The Outer Worlds features actual Corporate Commanders (obviously not the same as Joe's) as enemies, meaning players too can now join Joe in retribution.
Ho Yay: With a little Rohypnol, the Spoony One learns from personal experience that he's also quite hot-blooded in bed.
Joe: I guess she's sleeping with him to get the job, if you know what I mean...wait.
Just Here for Godzilla:
- There is a sizeable potion of his fanbase who seems to only watch his Angry Reviews where he tears bad games apart due to his entertaining rants, skipping his reviews on actual good games, his news show and his television and movie reviews, entirely.
- In recent years, a lot of fans have only tuned into the show for Alex, with many finding his personality and opinions to be much funnier, more interesting and having better nuance than Joe.
Memetic Mutation:
Never Live It Down:
- The Geoff Keighley interview at the VGAs is going to haunt Joe for the rest of his life, something a lot of people refuse to stop reminding Joe about.
- His thoughts on Suicide Squad (2016), to which he declares it as an "awesome fucking movie", has also been haunting him in some circles, as well.
- The fact that he was not angry enough at a game has reached the point that there is not just one video condemning him for it, but an entire playlist on YouTube, replete with final battle...until tomorrow.
Nightmare Fuel:
- The zombie makeup Joe wears in his The Walking Dead: Survival Instinct trailer.
- The demonic Joe in his Angry Review of Dragon Age: Origins.
  - Demon Joe's return in Ride to Hell: Retribution, thinking the game will push Joe to a Heroic BSoD, not to mention how genuinely scary Joe's Unstoppable Rage gets when he's reviewing the game.
- In his Angry Review of Umbrella Corps, there's a point where he shows his face to the camera and says "It's killing meeeee....". Only it's not just his face like normal. Using a filter, he manages to create perhaps one of the most horrifying faces ever put to video.
- The start of Angry Joe's Angry Review of Resident Evil 7: Biohazard begins with a disturbing Art Shift to a Found Footage Film, where Peter Walken is describing how his Sewer Gators film crew is being picked off one by one, only to get ambushed and dragged off-screen by an unknown THING. If it wasn't for him asking for Angry Joe's help, one would SWEAR this was a live-action trailer for the game:
  Peter: "This is bad... real bad... Andre's dead- He's bleeding from his fuckin' eyes, leaking blood all over! And Clancy? I don't even know where the FUCK he went! The Baker family? Batshit fucking crazy!! (Something crashes from off-screen, causing Peter to jump to see what it was) Listen- this tape? It needs to get to Angry Joe. I don't care how you do it, I don't care what you need to do to get it out there, but it needs to get to Angry Joe- (Another crash, this time much closer) AHHHHH!! WHAT THE FUCK?! I can't take this anymore! These people- these FREAKS! Y-You gotta get the tape, you gotta AHHHH-!"
- In his "Top 10 Gaming Controversies of 2014", Joe's number 2 spot was about the rising in "swatting" that year, where many high profile Twitch streamers have had the SWAT Team called on them by people who think it's funny to call the police on people. One of the clips he showed was especially terrifying, showing a person screaming in fear as SWAT broke into their house.
- Other Joe's googly-eyed face in the Mass Effect: Andromeda Angry Review.
Player Punch: His last entry on the list of things he hated about Fable III was when his virtual wife and child were unceremoniously killed in a cutscene.
The Problem with Licensed Games: While Joe hasn't explicitly stated he does not want certain publishers not to adapt intellectual properties of licensed series into video games, he hates that some resulting products, such as Ghostbusters (2016), Rambo: The Video Game and Star Trek Trexels, have absolutely nothing in common with that licensed work at all besides the title and is a complete mockery of that property due to the way these games present themselves through their game-play and being guilty of Joe's Pet Peeve Tropes.
Rescued from the Scrappy Heap: When Alex first joined the set for movie reviews, he was widely disliked for his overly negative points, and being seen as bland compared to others. Throughout 2019 and 2020, Alex began growing on a lot of people, particularly his slightly snarky attitude that has led to some genuinely funny moments. In addition, his contributions to the Angry Reviews' skits have increased and instead of making only negative points when he's present in discussions, he'll say positive aspects, while backing up his statements, something that's proven to be valid for many viewers. Out of all the Extended Review Discussions with Alex, many fans believe that The Last of Us: Part II review was him at his best. With Delrith leaving the show, Alex is now responsible for the Rapid Fire Reviews, which has been lauded by fans for its well-spoken dialogue and honest critique, as well as presenting an interesting and contrasting style to Joe's review format, leading some to affectionately dubbing Rapid Fire as the "Calm Alex Show".
Special Effect Failure: Commonly averted well in green screen scenes, but Played for Laughs in the Aliens: Colonial Marines Angry Review, when a scene for a Last Stand eventually shows the charging Xenomorphs are merely scale models waved around by hand, though it does get played straight in some circumstances where there's an object that's also green, and the green screen effect got applied to said object, too. For example, the Gorn head in 2013 Star Trek Angry Review and the leaves in Divinity: Dragon Commander Angry Review. One can also see the outlines on the green t-shirt worn by "Sony Joe" in the Killzone: Shadow Fall Angry Review's introductory sequence.
Squick:
- Many people's reactions during the Cold Open of the BioShock Infinite Angry Review where he is dressed like a little girl.
- The photoshopping of his bearded head onto a Lara Croft model in the Tomb Raider (2013) Angry Review.
Superlative Dubbing: The fandub on his channel of his Deadpool Angry Review, which Joe openly admits the person who made it did a much better impression of Nolan North in his performance as Deadpool than what he had in his video.
Visual Effects of Awesome:
- During the intro for his Green Lantern Angry Review, viewers are treated to an amazing (if silly) scene where Red Lantern Joe shoots up holes in the street while blasting at Other Joe.
- The effects in his outro for his Dragonball Z Kinect Angry Review, where he charges up his ki and fires a Kamehameha, is also quite awesome looking and well done.
- For the PlayStation 4 introduction in his Killzone Shadow Fall Angry Review, he uses a green shirt over a green screen to cast himself as a disembodied floating head...IN SPACE, though it's possible to see traces of the green shirt in the video.

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