raocow (real name Samuel Tanguay) is a long-running personality in the Let's Play community, known and loved by many for his Non Sequitur commentary and pleasant-yet-amusing voice. He became a YouTube partner on March 17, 2011.

Also artist and co-creator of Artificial Time XS. His community forum, Talkhaus, created A Super Mario Thing, which raocow also contributed to.

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Games that raocow has LP'd

A full list can be found here . This youtube account has also created and maintained a list up to Escape Goat .

Accidental Murder: In the final Rockman 4 Minus Infinity video, he accidentally sucks up Eddie when attempting to suck up some extra lives .

AcCENT upon the Wrong SylLABle: He has a surprisingly large English vocabulary, but often pronounces things strangely, due to English not being his first language. He stated that he doesn't mind people correcting his pronunciation, but that sometimes his odd-sounding words are on purpose. In addition, words that have a French origin often confuse him due to his uncertainty of which language's pronunciation to use.

The Ace: Chibi-cow can complete levels much faster than raocow, and often flawlessly too.

Advancing Wall of Doom: Advertisement: An extremely annoying version can be seen in this VIP 4 video in the Temple of Homing level, where the entire second half the level is trying desperately to outrun a homing missile at top speed, including flight (link to video )

) The Sawdust level in Mario Gives Up.

Always a Bigger Fish: Poochy is basically the unreliable steed to Mario's unreliable steed.

Alt Text: raocow uses the tags on his videos for basically the same purpose. To quote the tags in this video : I tend not to use tags properly instead [I tend to use] them as one of those alternate image tag joke things you see sometimes in webcomics and whatnot This eventually verged into Easter Egg territory when YouTube stopped showing tags on the pages— as of August 2012, they're only visible through reading the site's source code.

Amusing Injuries: raocow accidentally fractured his foot when his current LP was VIP 3. He makes fun of it.

And Now For Something Completely Different: Episode 60 of his An SMWC Production LP abruptly switches to an LP of Santa Mario due to technical difficulties.

of his An SMWC Production LP abruptly switches to an LP of Santa Mario due to technical difficulties. When he's having trouble with an especially hard game, he'll often randomly switch to playing Voxatron for a day or two.

"the guy who quits history" , an xtranormal short wherein a panda relates the story of the titular character, who will never affect anyone and will never be affected by anyone.

Angrish: Inverted when he, after numerous attempts, completes level 8-5 of MariAri2. It's complete gibberish to symbolise relief. BASHISHUSHAJBUAY! Whew! Which I'm pretty sure is pig latin for bashishushajbuay.

Arc Words: While his stream of consciousness commentary style may seem completely random at first, certain words get referenced semi-regularly. raocow himself mentioned he notices he uses the word "laundromat" a lot when he tries to think of a random word. New Jersey and Tim Hortons are referenced a lot as well.

And buckets. Lots and lots of buckets.

As well as lozenges and McCain.

"Mayonnaise!"

"Video game!"

"Scary like bananas."

Juice.

Ascended Extra: Not with raocow, but with N!SMW2 Yoshi's Island, Lord Puddington was originally just a one-level appearance enemy (Although it did make another appearance in the GBA version) that wasn't necessary for collecting any Red Coins or Flowers.

Bait-and-Switch: Done in this video. raocow: Now, I've got a lot of requests here to play as a certain green-hatted dude note Link is a playable character in Super Mario Bros. X , so... sure, I'll play as Luigi. He's also started doing this with his video title gimmicks. For example, the first video of his Super Mario 64: Last Impact series is titled "wahoo", which would imply that the gimmick is going to be various Mario lines and exclamations. However, "wahoo" is also the name of a type of fish , which turns out to be what the real title gimmick is.

"Blind Idiot" Translation: Oyster's translations of the VIP level titles (which were out of context, sans kanji) resulting in, among other things, the memorable "Dodge The Beefsteak."

Bread, Eggs, Breaded Eggs: "It's a cat! It's a bubble! It's a Bubble-Cat!"

"Super giant tumbstones. That are super. And giant! And tumbstones. And probably made of stone."

Breather Episode: His Big Fish Legend videos, in which he plays a rather unexciting video game after completing a B-side LP, are intended as this.

Breathless Non Sequitur: All the time. Let's just say that if you don't enjoy Non Sequiturs, you won't enjoy raocow. One example from this video : "That guy is wearing a helmet, but it doesn't protect him from the dangers of mustard. Probably because mustard is something you eat. I've once received a drop of mustard on my head and I don't think I've suffered a lot of brain damage although, I mean, I could be wrong. I've been wrong about a lot of things in the past such as: Yogurt is not a cat, I had to learn that the hard way, and you can not play the piano if your piano is resting precariously on top of the CN Tower." The title of his Youtube channel even says "WARNING: non-sequitur content ahead"

From this : "I just collide words together and stare at the train wreck." During his playthrough of New! Yoshi's Island, whenever Yoshi is inflicted with a Fuzzy, he rambles about in an even more nonsensical way than usual, if you can believe that!

Break the Cutie: Some of his LPs are of games he's actually highly looking forward to, which turn out to be loaded up with Fake Difficulty or poor level design, causing him to become more frustrated or lose interest in the game, which he still tries to complete out of obligation. The biggest example is probably N!SMW2 Yoshi's Island. Happens in a notable scale in episode 38 of YUMP (which, to begin with, sticks out due to the lack of the titling gimmick and the description, which are basically never absent from raocow's videos). The level featured causes raocow to spout more profanities than ever before in any of his videos and to even question the meaning of his entire LP career.

Buffy Speak: He is fond of referring to everything as a thing with a thing, and enemies as guys ("Hey there, guy").

Justified, as raocow is from Quebec, and French in Quebec has many, many words that mean "thing" with different connotations that don't translate well into English. Particularly arduous levels are especially often referred to as being "a thing."

He decided on "Mr. Bean Man" as his name of choice for the Meep enemy in the Commander Keen Let's Play.

Butt-Monkey: Yoshi, the green mistake of nature. Except for Yellow Yoshi, whose fart-powers apparently amuse the cow of rao.

Canada, Eh?: Along with Psychedelic Eyeball, one of the two big French-Canadian LPers to have come out of Something Awful.

Canon Discontinuity: raocow does not make any mistakes. Any mistakes he makes are either "demos" to show off what happens when you DO fail, or experiments done For Science!. When he does make a mistake, he will call a mulligan.

"That totally just happened."

Catch Phrase: "Hey there, everyone, this is raocow..." "That was a demo." "It's pretty great." (sometimes pronounced "S'pretty great") "Oh boogers." "Chipmunk time!" "Panic panic panic." "Not gonna lie." "Like it was no thing." "Science." "Jesus-hell!" "Good times." "This is raocow, see you guys." "Nuts to y'all, y'all!"

"Destroy the world!" when something chaotic is going on.

"That totally happened." He says this when state-rewinding to avoid a cruel and/or unfair trap.

His earliest LPs have "I am not feeling this one." and "That was pointful." He even mentions that he hopes the former doesn't become a catch phrase.

"Join me next time, possibly/probably tomorrow..." at the end of his videos.

"Isn't that great? Not really."

"That's crazy town!"

After particularly nonsensical non-sequiturs he says "What am I even saying here?"

"That guy, he has opinions."

He often describes things as "destroying the world" when said action only involves destroying a small object of little significance.

He sometimes calls people "happy Dan"s, including himself.

Hitting an enemy while the enemy hits him back is often referred to as "an exchance of services."

If raocow dies at one point, more often than not, the video will cut to when he gets back to the point where he died, with him saying "the return of the revenge".

There's also the occasional reference to beefsteaks and dodging them (in reference to a particularly nonsensical alternate reading of one of the level names in the VIP series.)

"Oh man".

As well as repeated mentions of raocow being the greatest video game.

"Fart."

After making a mistake: "I'm pretty good at video games, by the way."

"What's the story, Wishbone?"

"I can tell you that, using words of the English language."

When responding to text in the game, he says "You don't say".

"This is really dumb," usually when he's laughing at an over-the-top gag in a level.

He's actually lampshaded all his various catch phrases at one point, saying that he sometimes takes a look at this trope page for examples of things he should be saying less often.

Not exactly a phrase, but, after beating Super Meat Boy, he started humming the "Bandage girl is in another castle " jingle every time he makes a dumb mistake or falls for an obvious trap.

" jingle every time he makes a dumb mistake or falls for an obvious trap. "He's like 'check it out'!" Especially when playing Kirby's Adventure. Which turns into "Yo, check it!" in other games.

"I'm picking up what you're putting down."

Sometimes in a sing-songy tone, "hey [there] buddy, how does it go[/do]?", especially in Guacamelee.

"I did it, I solved the puzzle." Sometimes becomes "I did it, I solved world hunger."

"Sadness abounds."

Hollow Knight has "Thank you, Melody" whenever the Carefree Melody charm tanks a hit for him.

"My name is Mega Man and I'm here to say..."

Some variation of "Video games don't exist", usually when he's in the middle of rambling while trying to steer himself into making an actual point.

Character as Himself: raocow is a playable character in A Super Mario Bros X Thing. As if it wasn't meta enough already.

Characterization Marches On: It's really weird hearing raocow swear a lot in his earlier videos. Though you probably won't hear a Cluster F-Bomb, he still swears a lot more in his earlier LPs. Also, his typical Talkative Loon personality evolved slowly, to the point that he barely even seems eccentric in his early videos.

Then, of course, something like this happens .

. Or something like this.

Cloudcuckoolander/Talkative Loon: raocow's Let's Plays are filled with some of the most bizarre and surreal commentary one would ever hear. It helps that he's a French-Canadian for whom English is a second language, although he's still rather fluent in English.

He periodically speeds-up random bits of footage to squeeze a video in Youtube's 11-minute (or 15-minute as of July 29, 2010) mark. Sometimes the chipmunked footage is no less intelligible than the real-time.

Cliffhanger: This video ended right after the game explained to him that the level he was about to play could potentially break the game simply by playing it.

Cluster F-Bomb: During his Let's Play of Super Mario Infinity: Mystery of the Magic Wand, he talks about a point in another game he was trying where it becomes a series of "'Fuck you' after 'fuck you' after 'fuck you.'" And in French, of course .

. And again in 2017 !

Content Warnings: In this episode of MaGLX2, he puts a warning for headphone users. Cue the X-Files theme and the Illuminati confirmed.

Corpsing: There are some videos in which raocow laughs continuously for several consecutive seconds (sometimes even minutes). It helps that he has perhaps the most contagious laugh you will ever hear.

Cuckoolander Commentator: As mentioned above, his trademark style of commentary.

The Cuckoolander Was Right: raocow's preconception of the level 90 Degree Climate in Super Talking Time Bros. 2

in Super Talking Time Bros. 2 And his one of VISTA in Romancing Mario .

Damn You, Muscle Memory!: Invoked in his Kouhai 2 Let's Play, when he notes that playing Super Marisa World's squirrely controls has made it hard to go back to Super Mario World.

He discusses it when he goes from Super Mario Bros. X's controls to Super Mario World's slightly looser controls, and the differences cause him to (among other mistakes) die 8 seconds into the first level of the ROM hack Romancing Mario.

Deadpan Snarker: mostly in the YouTube comments (as opposed to his usual hyperactive Cloudcuckoolander in the videos, but that has shades of it too).

Dissimile: All the time. Just one example: raocow [While playing TSRPR]: "A castle without forest is like a dalmatian without a tongue. It has a lot of trouble eating." In the description of this video, it says that his playthrough is an allegory of the effects of smoking note The entire thing is: "This playthrough is an allegory. At first everything goes fine and you think you can handle it, and then you just keep litteraly dying. Multiple times. But then if you keep at it you'll make it through and become the immortal king of man." . At the end it says "The analogy is perhaps flawed."

Early Installment Weirdness: His first LP, The Second Reality Project, is downright lifeless. He improves dramatically after that. He was also a little more casual about swearing in English in his very early days.

Easter Egg: The video tags after they got removed, since they still can be found in the pages' source codes.

Easy-Mode Mockery: Inverted. When he turned the difficulty down for the Climax Boss of Distorted Travesty just to see what the final phases would be like, he stated that the game has become unfair in his favour. Could also be seen as a reversal, as he's essentially mocked the easy mode. Note that the game did proceed to kick his ass anyway for a while.

Epic Fail: In "A Dreamland Castle Ship", a level from the Make a Good Level X contest, he messes up the first jump and dies. Repeatedly.

Eskimos Aren't Real: Exaggerated; he often claims that a thing isn't real because he just encountered it in the game.

Even the Subtitler Is Stumped: Turn them on and enjoy the insanity.

Evil Is Hammy: He noticeably enjoyed playing an Evil Overlord in Psycho Waluigi.

Although the main character is not actually evil, raocow's behavior during Copy Kitty suggests this, especially during the extra missions.

Fair-Weather Mentor: raocow arguably falls into this when he is teaching fellow troper AOD to play Super Mario World for the first time.

Fake Difficulty: He sees the wind sections in Hyper V as these.

Fan Nickname: invoked He's come up with a whole mess of them.

Fauxlosophic Narration: The "story" in the Rise to the Challenge hack.

His explanation of Samus Aran's backstory during his play of the Super Metroid Legacy hack... "We don't even care about the story, it starts with the same thing. It's about a guy who, y'know, goes to the bathroom and he ends up in an alternate dimension where he's a lady in a space suit."

There's also the "story" in Takkoman . "I don't know what any of these words mean, by the way, but the world and the sun is approaching. And the sky is falling, and Chicken Little wasn't around to warn us. The result? Slight disaster, but only a little bit. Luckily, we have some form of hero-like critter to help us. It has a smile, and also a pair of eyes, only one of which is available in profile obviously."

Flat "What": During the discussions surrounding ASMT, this was raocow's reaction to Rule 34 of his character being made.

For Science!: His justification for exploring an area, finding it leads to death, then rewinding.

Gainax Ending: His reaction to Variety of Chance's ending sums it up. raocow: "with a grin on her face eclair shouted let's do this again next week." Man, they live in like some sort of weirdo municipal hell together...

Genki Guy: Pretty much the only time he runs out of energy to commentate is when a level is really hard.

Game Mod: raocow plays many Super Mario World mods, which have been a mainstay of his LP ensemble since he began. The members of raocow's community have also designed a mod for him to play titled A Super Mario Thing, complete with tons of Shout Outs to raocow's many Catch Phrases. He's also made his own Kaizo-level romhack appropriately titled What The Hell?

Genre Savvy: raocow is very genre savvy when it comes to platform games. He can sniff out a secret exit with almost no hint of its existence, and he even figures out puzzle levels, the bane of most platformers, without too much difficulty, mostly because he's Seen It All by now.

Gentle Giant: In his "tagged" video, he says he's 6'5", and in "Opening Pandora's Box," he described himself as "nearly two meters" tall. Both in and out of character, he seems like a friendly, easygoing guy.

Giant Space Flea from Nowhere: Lampshaded in one of the GMC Jam games that raocow plays. The game ends with the Microsoft Sam-voiced Final Boss helicopter from the creator's previous Jam entry appearing and proclaiming "I AM HERE FOR NO REASON."

Glass Cannon: raocow's build in Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga is to just pour 95% of the player-chosen stat boosts into Power, leaving him able to deal over 100 damage with Bros Moves by the time the rematch with Popple and Rookie comes around, but going down in only 1-2 hits against any enemy that does any decent amount of damage.

Good Bad Bugs: invoked In Super Mario Infinity, he likes the glitched "Course clear" screen that reads "Course cleior."

Good Bad Translation: invoked raocow gets a big kick out of the strangely-translated Portuguese of Drama Mistery, including a sign that reads "OK SON, YOU ARE DOING THIS WELL " and a character named "JOWEY, the poison cow ". When talkhauser Horikawa Otane did a "proper" translation of VIP1 for raocow, she left the level named "Dodge the Beefsteak!" alone because that was just too damn funny. (The actual translation was more along the lines of "Avoid the enemies".)

Guest Host: When he reaches the tenth place of MAGLX (made by raocow himself), Aterraformer does the playthrough. It's handwaved by him stating that before playing, he does invasive brain surgery on himself in order to forget all about the level, of which the side effects include a change in personality, voice, and name. Later repeated for the second MAGLX but with Isocitration, although without the handwave.

Guide Dang It!: This Game Maker game provides very little instruction of any kind. Conequently, raocow has a little trouble figuring it out.

Hoist by His Own Petard: Essentially every time he submits a level to a collab hack, just to die hundreds of times in traps of his own design when playing the level on record.

Some of the difficult levels in ASMT were of raocow's own design, including the infamous Trial of Iron.

Yes, he's the one responsible for this mess. He hides it at first, presumably to receive unbiased feedback from his watchers, but owns up to it at the end of the second video.

mess. He hides it at first, presumably to receive unbiased feedback from his watchers, but owns up to it at the end of the second video. He also made a level in Super Mario Bros. X, named "murder death place zone". Here it is. You can actually hear him throw his controller across the room.

it is. You can actually hear him throw his controller across the room. "[This level ] was made by me back in the day when I had no idea what 'fun' meant"

Horse of a Different Color: Yoshis, which he even calls "horses." Inverted, too: when he comes across an actual horse in one mod (and the same horse in another) he calls it "Mr. Dinosaur."

Hot-Blooded: LPing Copy Kitty tends to bring out the Hot-Blooded, Ax-Crazy god of destruction within raocow.

Hypocritical Humor: After the name "madcow" appears in Karoshi 2.0's credits, he comments on how silly it is to have the word "cow" in your username.

Ice-Cream Koan: raocow would sometimes say seemingly political or controversial sounding phrases in his Lets Plays that might just actually be meaningful and insightful. But if you think of it for a while, you will realize that it's just a plain Non Sequitur.

Probably the best example of this.

Lampshaded at one point where his nonsequiter about non-self-sufficiency and Fox News ends in him saying "this might be a political message or not, I don't know."

Idiosyncratic Episode Naming: Nearly every LP has its own pattern to episode names. See here for more information. One series in which he doesn't, he has for the fourth video's description: "It's hard without a naming gimmick :("

Averted even moreso with the Earthworm Jim and Super Mario Land 1 Let's Plays, whose episode's titles are the names of the levels/worlds.

Infallible Babble: Discussed early on in the LP of An Untitled Story.

Inherently Funny Words: According to raocow, "laundromat". Also "parsimony", "clement". Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga has nuts as party-wide healing items. raocow can't help but laugh every time he finds one.

Instant Web Hit: It's usually commented that any video uploaded by raocow, or having raocow as one of its tags gets 3,000 to 4,000 views by the end of the day. This includes demos, silly cuts, audiosurf songs, or whatever.

Almost every ''comment'' he posts on YouTube becomes top comment.

I Think You Broke Him: Often times when a level is extremely difficult or annoying, raocow would either go crazy or silent. This leads to comments accusing the creator(s) for "breaking raocow". Probably the best example of this is this level. One of the highest rated comments on this video is "raocow broke."

Jump Cut: Often used to get him back to where he was before dying, or to remove several failed attempts to get to a place. Often paired with him jump-cutting mid-sentence.

Jumping the Shark: invoked Briefly discussed in this video, when he literally jumps on a shark ingame.

Lampshade Hanging: During his MaGLX2 postgame playthrough: "Oh man! It's a modified Big Boo! I am going to laugh a lot."

Late-Arrival Spoiler: SMWCP's level Rupture in Reality was made by raocow, although he tried to hide that when he played his own level.

Larynx Dissonance: While voicing many female characters ingame, he usually has a varying level of result, but his voice for Marisa Kirisame is just bizarre....

Laser-Guided Amnesia: Invoked(?) in this video, where he seems to have forgotten Kirby's name. raocow: Your name is not Yoshi. What's your name again? Pizza? Zbambabar?

Laughing Mad: Happens very often. Just look at the Funny Moments page and count how many of the linked videos consist of him descending into uncontrollable laughter.

Lawful Stupid: In his Newgrounds Roulette, he made up some rules for himself: He'd pick one game from Newgrounds' daily top 5 each day to LP, "game" meaning anything with even the slightest bit of interactivity. This resulted in him LPing a small animation collab simply because you could choose which animation you want to watch. This is not so much a playthrough of a game, but a demonstration of how stubborn I am about make-belief and arbritary rules that I give myself for projects.

Law of Conservation of Detail: Due to the way he cuts his videos, you know that if a reattempt of a level is shown at normal speed, or from the beginning of a section he would normally jump-cut, he will succeed during that attempt, or at least something interesting is going to happen.

The same is true of chipmunk runs, at least on newer episodes  they almost never feature a death.

Leeroy Jenkins: He prioritises fun over everything else, and rarely takes his time to plan ahead until a game inevitably breaks his face for the effort. While it's usually entertaining to watch him just enjoy playing a game, it often causes him to not notice foreshadowing, hints, or helpful objects which would have spared him a lot of grief if he just took some time to think ahead.

Lethal Joke Character: Any enemy that was meant to be point fodder in the original Super Mario World gave raocow lots of trouble during his ascetic run. note The point of an ascetic run is to avoid scoring points or collecting coins at all. One enemy in particular - the suicidal koopa of Vanilla Dome 3 - gave raocow lots of strife as he tried to avoid it. This koopa' lack of self-preservation instinct seems to be unintentional though - it behaves more reasonable in the GBA version.

Let's Mock the Monsters: He finds nearly all the enemies in Castlevania: Symphony of the Night, as well as the game as a whole, to be hilariously goofy.

Long-Runners: If you count All The Megamen as a single LP (it's certainly numbered that way,) it's his longest LP by far, spanning 631 episodes over nearly two years.

Logic Bomb: In "Mushroom Kingdom Meltdown" he claims he has voices in his head, but can't hear them.

Mad Libs Catch Phrase: "Scary like X (Bananas usually)"

Before starting levels, he often says, "We're gonna [part of the level name] it up."

"Nuts to you, X!"

"There's an X there and his name is Y."

Mentions of various people eating their weight in X.

When an enemy starts behaving strangely, raocow comments that "That (enemy name) doesn't know what the hell."

As of late 2012/early 2013, he's taking to adding the suffix "-on" to random words.

"Hey there ___, how's it going?"

Many of his non-sequiturs describe something as "My favorite [random object, usually some type of food product]." For example, he's described things in the game as "My favorite sports drink" or "My favorite breakfast cereal if I were missing teeth."

When encountering a boss: "IIIIIT'S [NAME OF BOSS]!"

"Hey there guy, it's ___ planet!"

Meaningless Lives: Double Subverted. In VIP5, he dies a ridiculous amount and still has plenty of lives. Then, in the level THE GREED, he loses almost all of them... and immediately goes grinding. There are quite a few hacks he's played with a location that pretty much doles out free lives. Or at least has a vine next to a Bullet Bill generator so he can exploit a bug to farm for lives.

Milkman Conspiracy raocow: [while playing : [while playing An Untitled Story ] You can't destroy the Milkman!......don't tell that to Kiwis, cause it might get infected. INFECTED WITH THE TRUTH!

Mind Screw: THE PURPLE HORSE!

Mood Whiplash: Happens at the end of episode 11 of Hina's Fluffy Dream, upon reaching the final world. raocow: [after a 58-second Hina's in a coma. : [after a 58-second beat ] ... Guys... I think In Sad Skillful Military Base from MAGLX2, raocow encounters the "sad cat room" . He starts laughing hysterically upon seeing a hall of sad cats, but it quickly turns to a very sad moment for raocow.

Motor Mouth: He isn't usually spectacularly fast, but the way he rambles on without pause, or concern for the topic he was speaking on four words ago, inspires awe in all but the most jaded of viewers. Apparently (and fortunately for people trying to talk to him) this is something he does semi-on-purpose, and having an actual conversation with him brings a much more normal speech pattern.

Musical Episode: He routinely sings his commentary to the tune of the level music.

My Name Is Not Shazam: Subverted in the Castlevania Romania segment of Zoda's Revenge. He calls a certain enemy type "Frankensteins", but eventually mentions that they're actually based on Frankenstein's Monster, whose name is "Adam".

Mythology Gag: Solving the naming formula for the final episode proper of Gato Roboto yields cat planet, one of the Let's Plays commonly associated with raocow.

New Powers as the Plot Demands: raocow learns how to cast different spells during the fight against the first boss of Valdis Story: Abyssal City. Deconstructed, however, when this new ability confuses him to the point of nearly losing the fight.

Omnicidal Maniac: He lapses into this quite often during his LP of Copy Kitty. It reaches its peak here .

Once an Episode: Starting somewhere in the summer of 2012, punctuating dumb mistakes with the phrase "I'm pretty good at playing video games, just in case you didn't know" and an exasperated cry of "Video games!" became this.

After someone complained about this in the comments, raocow going out of his way to find other words to illustrate his incompetence became a Running Gag.

Though he sometimes mangles it, he tries to say "Hey there everyone, this is raocow" and "Next time X" in every episode.

OOC Is Serious Business: The only time raocow will ever actually stop talking is after he dies/fails a difficult section multiple times in a row. He'll often show cuts from his series of failed attempts (often accompanied with an exclamation of surprise and annoyance) and then put in the full, successful attempt that gets him through the section. These are performed in almost total silence and are very jarring to viewers who are used to the normally extremely loquacious cow.

Orphaned Punchline: A lot of his quotes can seem like this, but they're usually non-sequiturs. This actually happens occasionally when he stops fastforwarding midsentence. raocow: ...and I am not a time-ologist, unfortunately. Also occasionally happens due to jump cuts. raocow: ...twenty-five days to write non-stop.

Overcrank: Usually when dying yet again, often right in the middle of a chipmunk segment. Or when he kills a boss . Termed "Walrus time" by the fans, unless he's using it to cover a sneeze. Then, it's a visit from raolion. Lately, he's prone to doing this for clips showing parts of secondary goals (dragon coins, or "get all the red coins" secrets).

Zig-Zagged when he replayed levels for 100% completion in Yoshi's Island: Forlorn Lands. Most of the level is in chipmunk mode, but the video slows down to normal speed when he collects a red coin, and slows even further down to walrus mode when collecting a flower.

Overused Running Gag: Lampshaded here when raocow goes farming lives off a bullet bill cannon for at least the 6th time. raocow: Yeah, this part has stopped being funny by now. The cut-off joke regarding a hack being unacceptable on SMWCP stopped being funny for him by now.

Padding: invoked If a video ends up extremely short on content (like not even coming close to 10 minutes) he'll often play a few Voxatron levels at the end. raocow: PADDING VIA VOXATRON! He also used PPR once for this. PPR: I figured I'd do this this way instead of I figured I'd do this this way instead of ye olde fast-forwarde because I wanted the video to be longer than 8 minutes. I'm all manipulative like that.

Perfectly Cromulent Word: raocow actually drops the trope naming word here.

Platform Hell: raocow has played through some of them. The Kouhai series are a good example. This one level has the gimmick of killing you if you score any points or collect any coins. Everything in Super Mario World gives you points, and coins are plenty as well. raocow's reaction is in the link.

level has the gimmick of killing you if you score any points or collect any coins. Everything in Super Mario World gives you points, and coins are plenty as well. raocow's reaction is in the link. His own romhack, What the Hell, also falls under this a good deal, especially since most of the enemies are invincible.

Player Tic: He always jumps through the Yoshi's Island goal rings backwards.

He'd also occasionally make Mario dance by rapidly hitting the D-Pad buttons.

Previously On : This video. Before he starts playing, he shows the footage from the Cliffhanger example on this page again.

Protagonist-Centered Morality: raocow frequently hangs a lampshade on this trope, especially when it comes to Mario.

Reading the Stage Directions Out Loud: raocow has taken to reading the musical notes/stars/etc. that pop up in Marisa's dialogue in Mari Ari 2 out-loud.

Recycled IN SPACE!: His reaction to the Space Tanks (BONUS 4) level in Mario Gives Up.

Rhymes on a Dime: His commentary frequently slips into this.

Rule of Funny: According to the commentary in this video , he usually went into chipmunk time only if he didn't think the commentary was interesting enough to warrant splitting into two videos. With YouTube no longer having a time limit, he still chipmunks just because it's one of his trademarks, and has even lampshaded it at least once.

Save Scumming: Averted in later videos, but played straight in most of raocow's earlier videos. For hard hacks like the VIP series, Kouhai, and others, he would use save states all the time, but he later stopped doing that except for the occasional science moment, unless the levels were really unfair.

Scrappy Mechanic: In-Universe: raocow really does not like wind or homing Bullet Bills.

Sensory Abuse: Several "bad" entries in the contests he plays end up doing this. Aural Invasion: This ironically bad hack in the 2010 vanilla contest had horribly corrupted music, which he commented on repeatedly.

ironically bad hack in the 2010 vanilla contest had horribly corrupted music, which he commented on repeatedly. Visual Assault: This level, Pink Zone, made for the Talkhaus's Make A Good Level 2 contest is... very pink. It's a Take That! to raocow's What The Hell? which he partially realizes.

Serious Business: raocow has repeatedly said that he thinks most Let's Players ignore the "let's" part of the aspect. Among other things, this means he insists on keeping the comments open even when people are spamming him with help.

Signature Laugh: His distinct "UAH HA HA HAHAHA"

Sincerity Mode: Sometimes, raocow has to point out that he's actually trying to tell the audience something rather than rambling about stuff as usual.

Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer: Ultimately subverted, when he's eventually forced to admit that Yoshi is, in fact, in SMBX.

Slash Fic: raocow's forums even have its own thread for it. He's stated that he's not even gonna go near it.

Something Completely Different: The LP of Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga marks the first time that he has LP'ed a Role-Playing Game, something that before then he would never have done. Downplayed in that it's still a Mario game.

Spoonerism: He is prone to saying "Darshgorn it!".

Spoof Aesop: Way too many. Here .

Stealth Pun: In Mario Gives Up part 4... "Oh, there's drills there, you don't want to get drilled to death... It's almost as bad as being bored to death, you could say."

Strictly Formula: His Takkoman LPs are kind of similar. Eventually lampshaded at the beginning of episode 8 . "My prediction for this video goes thusly: I'm going to enter a level and I'm going to finish the level itself in roughly three minutes or so. I'm not going to say a whole lot of thing that relate to much of anything, I'm just gonna smash my face through everything, not pointing out much unless there's a new enemy or Nue's there for some reason. Otherwise I might, you know, share a comment with, if there's a mid-boss. I might die at the midboss or I might not. Once I get to the boss, I'm gonna try two or three lives to do it legit, unless, you know, until I get kind of tired and basically tank every hit and win by kick spamming. Of course this is assuming it's a Megaman-type boss and not a gimmick." note In the video it's 50 seconds long.

Sturgeon's Law: Mentioned by name in this video , mentioning that most Newgrounds games are utterly terrible. Taken Up to Eleven when he says that the good is only a small percent of a small percent, rather than the usual ten percent.

Surprisingly Good English: English is raocow's second language and he's noted to speak English pretty much only for his Let's Plays, yet his vocabulary is surprisingly diverse. Given, he flubs words occasionally but on the whole it's quite good. In a YT comment, he stated that his father being in the military caused him to move around a lot; he apparently mostly went to French-speaking schools, but spoke English in the neighborhoods he lived in. He says this is probably why his accent isn't really all that "French Canadian"-ish.

Surreal Humour: His trademark.

Take a Third Option: In Façade, when Grace asks him whether or not what he's said so far is supposed to mean something, he replies "yneos ". And from the same video, mineral juice .

Take That!: In the intro of Mega Man: A Day in the Limelight 2: Game Intro: DR WILY HAS UNLEASHED A SUPER VIRUS THAT HAS INFECTED ALMOST ALL ROBOTS ON EARTH CAUSING THEM TO DESTROY ALL THEY SEE. raocow: Oh no, SUPER virus?! Not Roboenza! Oh no, SUPER virus?! Not Roboenza! That's a TERRIBLE idea for a plot!

Intentional or not, he seems to have a habit of taking lighthearted jabs at the US during his rambling.

Also one here where he takes a jab at people who think it's always the game's fault they lose.

where he takes a jab at people who think it's always the game's fault they lose. In a Super Talking Time Bros 2.5 playthrough, there's a level with a similar name to Are You Afraid of the Dark?. raocow then says that it's the same name as "a stupid show".

Take That, Audience!: At the start of this episode, he calls all of his fans a literal butt.

Talkative Loon: His other trademark. In all of his videos, nary even a second goes by without him saying something.

Three Lines, Some Waiting: He tries to make two videos per day, one game for each, but then there are times where he's playing more games than that. Add in some intermission videos, and this trope comes into effect. Case in point: he has been uploading his Big Fish Legend playthrough whenever he ends one of his B-side projects, but only one video at a time. Then the day after he starts a new B-side and Big Fish Legend goes back right into the fridge. He started the series on August 1st 2015, and it may very well be his longest project -measured by days- up to date (unless you count All The Megamen as a single LP.)

Throw The Stupid Horse A Bone: raocow has insulted Yoshi many, many times (see The Scrappy above), including calling him a "green miscreant" and "an insult to all creation". In this video, after Yoshi looks like he's going to fall off a ledge, then doesn't, allowing raocow to get back on him, he says: "Thanks for not plunging in that hole there Yoshi. I appreciate it. I-I usually I don't appreciate you enough, perhaps, some people would argue."

Title Drop: Invoked multiple times in the Façade video.

Undercrank: Chipmunk mode. He's even done two videos entirely in chipmunk mode. Inverted in one video where a YouTube glitch causes the audio to go into half-speed before slowly cranking back up to normal, albeit about 2 seconds out of sync. Then back into chipmunk time. It's like YouTube found the one way to make raocow more surreal.

Chipmunk mode has since been renamed "Chibicow ".

The Unpronounceable: One of the many Super Mario World hacks he played was titled :P :P :P. When he had to refer to the game's title, he usually either said "P P P" or blew three raspberries. "*prr!* goes to *rrt!*"

Unusual Euphemism: "Go eat a ham."

He uses "Pumpernickels!" as a swear word occasionally.

Verbal Tic: Try listening to see how many times raocow says "It's pretty great" or "oh man".

Vocal Dissonance: His voices for Marisa and Mario. Marisa's is quite deep, makes his throat hurt, and is the exact same voice he uses for Bowser, and Mario's is his attempt at reading 'normal' dialogue with Mario's canon Super Mario 64 voice.

Vocal Evolution: His voice was a lot softer, calmer and more thickly-accented at first. As he refined his Talkative Loon nature, he also developed a "wackier" tone of voice to match, while becoming more fluent in English. Even his out-of-character videos sound nothing like he did on his first LP. Listen to it here.

Wham Episode: At the end of Vip 5 episode 48, raocow game overs on a postgame level and is sent all the way back to right before Bowser's Castle, which took six episodes to complete. By the next episode, though, he's mysteriously total-cleared the level. It's still quite shocking when it happens, though.

What Do You Mean Its Not Didactic: Mercilessly parodied on multiple occasions. invoked

Who Dares?: to try to stop the time bomb?

Why Did It Have To Be Bones?: As the result of being witness to a horrific motorcycle accident in his youth (in which the motorcyclist's face had been cut open), raocow has a significant aversion to depictions of facial injuries, and to bones. With that said, in his playthrough of Castlevania: Symphony of the Night, he found the design of the majority of the skeletal enemies there to be too goofy to 'trigger' him (though the bovine Stone Skulls nevertheless struck him as being a little too realistic for comfort).

With Great Power Comes Great Insanity: Seems to be the case in his Copy Kitty playthrough, although it's played for laughs. His video titles for the series even seem to reflect this. raocow: I assume this is how the world works when you're also, you know, slightly FILLED WITH INSANITY! * I assume this is how the world works when you're also, you know, slightly FILLED WITH INSANITY! * evil laugh * The world is a Cloyster of love! Yes! Fill the world with the confettis of my soul! He can't even explain the rules of the game without descending into madness.

without descending into madness. He outdoes himself after defeating Exgal .

Womb Level: Posits that Circuit Man's level in Mega Man Rock Force must be this for Mega Man with all its circuitry and computer parts.

Word-Salad Humor: Just about everything out of his mouth will quickly twist its way into this.

Ye Olde Butcherede Englishe: Sometimes he precedes a random noun with "ye olde" note He pronounces the y like a y, rather than the "th" sound it was meant to sound like and adds an e at the end of it, resulting in phrases like "ye olde P-switche".

You No Take Candle: Intentionally mangles English; he's more or less fluent in both English and French. With that said, on occasion some of his structures sound odd, but he'll often comment on how bizarre they sound immediately.

Zen Survivor: PPR (Post-Production raocow).