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TheOdd1sOut (or James Rallison, if you want to call him by his real name), born on May 14, 1996, is an Arizona-born YouTube animator and webcomic artist who tells his different life experiences, opinions, and other stuff in his videos, like to other storytime animators such equally Domics and Jaiden Animations. He has a simple, marshmallow-man artstyle, and is ane of the biggest Youtube animators on the site.

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TheOdd1sOut's videos provide examples of:

• Added Alliterative Appeal: Happens in "My Verse Instructor" when his poetry teacher tells James that he simply didn't add the stop quotes considering of a typo. Later lampshaded by himself past adding "PTERODACTYL!" later noticing that what he said turned out alliterative.

  James: Well, frickin', why am I perfectly nitpicking this piece, when the poet purposely put poor punctuation in his poems? PTERODACTYL!

• Aesop Amnesia: In "Buying Clothes" he tells the viewers not to guess someone based on their appearance, but in "Talking to Strangers" he says the exact opposite.
• Air Quotes: His character does this in "A Volume I Made as a Child".
• All Girls Similar Ponies: The little girl in "Buying Clothes" is given a pony, but due to her Spoiled Brat nature, she wanted the pink one instead of the one that was given to her.
• Alliterative Title: TheOddanesOut.
• All Simply a Dream: It turns out at the end of "Monsters Y'all Didn't Know Were Under Your Bed" that it was all just part of a hallucination all along of his character that's in a padded cell.
• Amazingly Embarrassing Parents: His mom to a T, he recounted a crowning moment where he was getting out of the car for school and asked his mom to plow down the music since he was very insecure about his reputation. She, seemingly, agreed by turning down the music, but as presently as he opened the car door, she turned the music to full volume. Letting anybody in the vicinity know that they were listening to Christian rock and mortifying him and his sister.
• American Eagle: In "Boy, Were They Incorrect!", the first affair that James talks about is Christopher Columbus mistaking America for India. When the word "America" is first said, an eagle head is briefly shown and is heard screeching.
• An Aesop: He tends to requite a few lessons in his videos:
  • My Girlfriend, My Best Friend and the Barfy Beach Date: Understand the divergence between real life and fiction. Content creators are only average people at the end of the mean solar day with their own struggles and personal relationships. Don't concord them to a gilt standard or permit fan fiction overshadow this fact.
  • Conventions (I Miss Them): While talking about his time at a furry convention, he tells the audition how wrong it is to violate someone'southward personal infinite. Stating that he wanted to scream when a moose furry grabbed his waist in an elevator.
  • Life is Fun: The significant of life is in the eye of the beholder, nobody has the definitive reply to what is the pregnant of life. Pessimistic or optimistic, your stance is yours and you shouldn't strength people to adjust to it.
  • Good Person: Existence a practiced person requires doing good for the sake of doing skilful. You are not a expert person if you only practice good deeds for merit from social media or to brag nearly doing the bare minimum.
• Angrish: Regularly does this when bellyaching.
• Animal Lover: Applies to both James and his sister Faith. For instance, they endemic hamsters in the past and they tried to prefer a moth in "Harry the Moth".
• Animated Music Video: The music video for "Life is Fun" is this.
• Animated World Hypotheses: In the video "Ownership Dress", some people reveal that they do see themselves like in the fine art style. They point out that they never habiliment clothes, and instead of moving their mouths, they but open them and words come up out.
• Animation Bump: The quality of his videos/comics significantly improved over the years.
  • "Reading More Fables (I swear I'g not a furry)" has a small one during the Animesque trick drowning scene because someone else drew information technology for him.
• Antidisestablishmentarianism: This is i of the on-level spelling words the teacher gives to James's classmates in "My Horibal Speling".
• The Antinihilist: The theme of "Life is Fun", life is cluttered and ane of the almost depressing aspects of life comes from the things we tin can't command or predict. Nonetheless, that shouldn't hateful you can't savor life or appreciate the things within it. If you lot're comfortable with the knowledge that life is inherently meaningless and uncontrollable then don't force your behavior on people who'd rather live in blissful ignorance.
• Art Development: His comics originally had human characters with names (Jake, Justin, and Kevin) which lasted about a year or so, just then evolved to his marshmallow-man art fashion he'south known for. Lampshaded here.
• Art Shift: This happens in "Embarrassing Times to get Recognized [MAP]", because dissimilar animators collaborated to animate the video. Hence Multi-Animator Project (MAP) in the championship.
  • This likewise happens in his miniseries "Remember Well-nigh That", since it's drawn on paper. Justified because his drawing tablet wasn't working at the time he fabricated said miniseries.
  • The animation briefly shifts to paw-drawn paper stick puppets in "Reading More Fables (I swear I'yard not a furry)" when summarizing Aesop's fable "The Crab and the Fox".
  • Likewise in "Fighting in Mr Beast'southward $100k Youtuber Battle Royale", the animation shifts to CGI twice.
• Author Avatar: His marshmallow-man character. Doesn't utilise for his comics, though.
• Car-Tune: Mentioned in the song "Life is Fun". Also, said song has some traces of this.
• Bunko Comment: In "Hobbies", when he'southward saying that doing extra activities not only teaches you of import skills, only it as well teaches you what your interests are, he and then mentions he tried ballet, and and then he says now he can say with confidence.. that ballet is not for him.
• Airship Abdomen: The "trash moth" in "Harry the Moth" has one.
• Berserk Button: When his mom flicked him water in the confront every bit a child after washing her easily.
• Big "WHAT?!": He did this when getting hitting past a laser out of nowhere and having merely ONE alive left (and thus making him lose) in a fan-made video game inspired by his "Light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation Tag" video.
  • He besides does this in "My Thoughts on Roommates".
• Big "Yes!": Does one in the video where he reacts to him being reacted on Teens React, when the reactors land they like his videos/style or other similar comments.
• Bilingual Bonus: In the video My Poetry Instructor, while he mentions that Sophomores had to have a form on Latin, the board reads "CDXX illud io ardentia". When translated, it reads "420 bonfire that yo".
• Birthday Episode: James ofttimes publishes videos (and comics also when he was active on his Tumblr) on his altogether in his main aqueduct and/or his secondary channel every bit well.
• Black Bead Optics
• Black Comedy Pet Expiry: In the video "Our Hamsters", James talks nearly his dead hamsters and makes jokes nigh a hamster'southward short lifespan and wonders if a dog killing a hamster counts as murder, among other jokes.
• Bland-Name Product: Zoopies (Zupas), Tillll (Tilly's), and Ood Nooy (Old Navy), just to name a few.
• Bare White Optics: Happens numerous occasions to his character, usually when he starts screaming, panicking, freaking out, or getting angry.
• *Bleep*-dammit!: His characters' mouth is unnecessarily pixeled out (due to the absenteeism of lip-syncing and his oral cavity tin can all the same be seen) when he starts cursing to his female parent for laughs in "My Mom's Cruel and Unusual Punishments".
  • As well, nosotros can all the same deduce what he first cursed before his whole voice communication was bleeped out.
• Blood Sport: He once described two kids in a loftier school gym class playing a game of "Bodies," where the objective is to punch the other guy until he can't stand upwards anymore. The only dominion was that you couldn't aim for the head or the face of your opponent, hence the proper name "Bodies."
• Blush Sticker: His graphic symbol can get these at times.
• Borrowed Catchphrase: He said MatPat's The Game Theorists sign-off catchphrase "That's merely a theory. A Game Theory! Thanks for watching!" before his usual catchphrase in the stop of "Getting Recognized function 2".
• Buffy Speak: When describing what a captcha is in "My Random Thoughts (James Edition)":

  James: You know how websites will inquire you to type in a bunch of misshapen letters to make sure you're not a robot? That's chosen a "captcha".

• Burger Fool: James worked at Sooubway for over a twelvemonth. In the third Sooubway video, James states that he made more coin from the first two Sooubway videos, sharing his experiences working at Subway than actually working there. Also, James states that everyone should work at least for vi months at either a fast food or retail job at least once in their life so they know what it's like to hold that kind of job.
• The Bus Came Dorsum: His character Jake makes a comeback in his comic "Two Thumbs". Justified since the joke wouldn't make sense with his fingerless marshmallow characters.
• Past "No", I Mean "Aye": In Our Hamsters he says "This domestic dog wanted to MURDER THESE ANIMALS. Well, I don't know if MURDER'Due south the right word. Yeah, MURDER'South the right word."
• By the Lights of Their Optics: Their eyes tin can still be visible even though Boyinaband turns off the calorie-free in the "Life is Fun" music video.
• Cannot Tell a Joke: James finds a couple of jokes to apply to this trope in his My Random Thoughts (James Edition) video.
• Tin can't Take Criticism: He is somewhat known for being this.
• Captain Obvious: In "Extracurricular Activities", he says "Everyone is loud. People already know each other. And no one is quiet".
• Catchphrase: "Habiliment your seatbelt!"
• Cat Smile: In the CGI art shift in "Fighting in Mr Beast'southward $100k Youtuber Boxing Royale", the graphic symbol who represents his opponent has this smile.
• Conscience Suds: Happens to his character when showering in "The Spiders and the Bees".
• Christmas Episode: Same deal every bit Birthday Episode.
• Clickbait Gag: Ane of his videos is titled "Do CLICKBAIT TITLES AND THUMBNAILS ACTUALLY Work?!?!?!", and its thumbnail is nothing simply the words "CLICK ME" over a rainbow background. The video itself is simply a 1-2nd clip of James maxim "Yeah, manifestly." in response to the video'south title.
• Cluster Bleep-Flop: This happens in "My Mom's Cruel and Unusual Punishments" when taking advantage that he can "afford enough money to swear":

  James: Swear words cost ya 5 dollars. That's why I don't swear in videos. Only now I can afford it. And then.. f-(bleep) you, Mom! You piece of-(multiple bleeps)

• Comically Missing the Point: The doctor in the get-go of "Strangers Trying to Sell You Stuff" advises the children not to accept candy from strangers... because they cause cavities. Justified since it was parodying Besides Smart for Strangers.
• Comprehend Innocent Eyes and Ears: His mother does this to James later on he sees martial arts in activity in "Hobbies".
• Cry Laughing: This has been done diverse times in his videos.
• Curse Cut Brusk: Done many times. Notably in the Peeing Yourself video.

  James: My 1st form teacher was just a humongous fleck-*cutting* But a humongous... person.

• Cut Himself Shaving: James once saw a "game" of Bodies in gym class, where two kids beat out each other upward in the boys' locker room at school, causing one child to fall, hitting his caput, and get knocked out. When the charabanc asks what happened, James and well-nigh of his classmates (including the child who fainted) remark that he just vicious and they're not certain why. They almost got away with it until the last kid in line told the charabanc what actually happened, causing the whole form to become in problem.
• A Domestic dog Named "Dog": He has a calico true cat named "Calico", since he couldn't change his proper name. He even lampshades information technology in "Our Cats :three":

  James: We concluded upward naming the male child true cat Spot, the other cat nosotros named Pepper, and the calico.. we didn't modify her proper noun. Nosotros named her Calico. That'south like naming a dog Aureate Retriever or Chihuahua.

• Disembodied Eyebrows: Same deal as Chroma Sticker.
• Don't Inquire: He mentions in "My Thoughts on Roommates" that he said this after his roommate caught him mixing Reese's Puffs cereal with crushed Oreos for a video. His 7-Day Vegan Challenge video, to be exact.
• Don't Explain the Joke: He tends to do this, particularly when reading his ain comics.
• Double Take: Happens to James in where he reacts to him being reacted on Teens React, when he finds out towards the terminate of the video that a reactor will get out Teens React. Turns out the reactor was but announcing that he will move to Adults React.
• Dramatic Irony: In the "Our Cats" video, James recounts how, at one point, three strays wound up in their lawn ^note "Calico", "Spot", and "Pepper", as they would eventually be called, but his mom refused to let them keep them, as they already had two cats, so she voiced her intention to observe them a new home, and that no one was allowed to name them ^note as to prevent them from getting attached. She never did, and they wound upwardly naming them.
• Dreaded Kids' Table: James prefers the kids' table so he won't have to get into a political argument at the adults' table.
• Easter Egg: He points out several easter eggs in his "My Teachers" video hither.
• Elmuh Fudd Syndwome: In this video, he mentions that he had this as a child.
  • He mentions this over again in "My Horibal Speling".
• Embarrassing Damp Sheets: He mentions in "Peeing Yourself" that he used to wet the bed.
• Episode Tagline: The video "Boy, Were They Wrong!" is about James pointing out historical inaccuracies and noting, "Boy, were they wrong!".

  James: "And yep, I am gonna say that every time."

• Even Evil Has Standards: In ane of his old comics, Satan refuses to let Hitler use the ovens for a birthday.
• Everything Sounds Sexier in French: Implied in "My Teachers". The chalkboard next to James's French instructor reads "Larn how to sound Sexy" for a brief moment, with the word "Sexy" being in cursive.
• Exactly What Information technology Says on the Tin: This excerpt from his video "Call back About That episode 1":

  James: And so in the meantime, I've created a miniseries called: "Think Almost That", where I tell you something, and you lot call back about that.

  • "A Book I Made as a Kid" is also an example of this.
  • In fact, well-nigh of his video titles are this.
• Extra-Long Episode: "The Movie That Was Besides Scary for Baby James" is 23 minutes and 9 seconds long, and was for a time the longest video on his channel.
• Eye Pop: This happens to his character when he freaks out at the fact that MrBeast added Logan Paul in "Fighting in Mr Animal's $100k Youtuber Battle Royale".
• The Face of the Sun: The sun in the music video "Life is Fun" has a face.
• Simulated Interactivity: Parodied Dora-mode in the terminate card of "When Volition We Tweet EVERYTHING possible: 24-hour interval 4".
• Fantastic Foxes: He shows his appreciation for foxes from Aesop'south Fables. He believes foxes are the wisest characters considering of the number of morals they tell others.
• Fingerless Easily
• Flipping the Tabular array: His graphic symbol (representing James) is seen doing this after losing a board game in "Tabletop Games".
• Strange Cuss Word: Someone in his Tumblr messages called him a pendejo, simply then simply slipped it abroad by saying "Thanks!" once he learned what it meant in his now-unlisted Speed Art + Tumblr Q&A video.
• Fourth Wall Greeting: He greets his imaginary engagement this way in his unlisted video "Sandwiches".
• Freeze-Frame Bonus: He does this regularly.
  • While talking about a plagiarized essay, the conclusion that got highlighted is just the lyrics to Never Gonna Requite You Up. In the same video, one of the classes he passed in during college was "Memeology".
  • The Non-Ricegum character at one bespeak gets a brief thought bubble that gives his ain reasons for liking pricy clothing that's actually quite kind and considerate.
• Friend to All Living Things:
  • In his My Random Thoughts (James Edition) video.

    James: I think humans make fun of hairless animals Manner too much.

  • James seems to take a dearest for hamsters.
  • Also, James refers to rodents (hamsters) as "brodents" in the description of his Our Hamsters video.
  • James is very caring towards his ii pet dogs.
• Fun with Acronyms: He, Jaiden from Jaiden Animations, and Adam from SomeThingElseYT play a game based on this.
• Fun with Subtitles: Sometimes the added English language subtitles of his videos have funny descriptions for noises, for case. In fact, sometimes the subtitler is actually funny (or cruel) plenty to do this.
• Furry Fandom:
  • References them oftentimes in his videos, though he's denied being one himself.
  • It's Averted in the fact that he calls himself a hirsuite in his My Random Thoughts (James Edition) video. Although it'due south just James playing this for laughs.

  James: And then, I look at this phenomenon and I have a theory. I think nosotros humans find things covered in hair more beautiful. Nosotros're more attracted to things covered in hair. And that's why I'm a hirsuite.

  • In "Growing up Without Cablevision", he describes a Clifford the Big Red Canis familiaris fanfic that crossed over the master testify/book with Clifford'southward Puppy Days, which has an older Clifford and a Puppy Days grapheme reunite and become rather questionable before Clifford starts spreading his legs (with yaoi fansrt) and then James ends it there before information technology tin can get any weirder.
• Gasp!: He does one for dramatic result in "My Mom'due south Cruel and Unusual Punishments" after watching his mom swallow an M&M in forepart of him.
• Skilful with Numbers: James really really wanted to exist a math teacher, but then Youtube happened.
• Gosh Dang It to Heck!: In the Backside the Scenes video of "Life is Fun", he messes upward a take and says "dang it". Dave immediately comments how odd it is to hear someone say "dang it", especially later working with iDubbbzTV.
• Halloween Episode: Same bargain as Christmas Episode.
• Human Shield: James is animated using Jaiden for this purpose at terminal minute in "Fighting in Mr Beast's $100k Youtuber Boxing Royale".
• Hyperventilation Bag: His graphic symbol uses one when he starts complaining about bees in "The Spiders and the Bees".
• Iconic Outfit: His mom is always depicted in his videos with a lavender apron.
• Incredibly Long Note: He extends the "you" in "All I Want for Christmas Is You lot" in his video "Christmas Carols".
• Ink-Suit Histrion: The customer who asks James his cheese recommendation in "Annoying Customers" resembles Jaiden Animations, who provided her voice.
• Instantly Proven Wrong: Happens in "Buying Wearing apparel" after he says that the brand-proper noun shirt doesn't have any material that can brand it that expensive. However, the tag reveals the shirt was made out of 60% unicorn hair and 40% cotton. Plainly, this is played for laughs in the video, simply he does have a indicate.
• Internet Safety Aesop: My Thoughts on Reality Shifting, Scams That Should be Illegal, and My Girlfriend, My Best Friend and the Barfy Beach Engagement are nearly respecting the personal lives of content creators, taking everything online with a compression of salt since they can exploit you, and how reality is more appealing than the cyberspace.
• Iris Out: The music video "Life is Fun" ends this way and it centers on Boyinaband (Dave) rapping the last verse of the vocal, emphasizing on the fact that he finally Took a Level in Idealism.
• Irony: Despite James'south catchphrase being "Article of clothing your seatbelt!", his character doesn't wear one when he gets in the machine in the "Life is Fun" music video. According to James, however, he said it'due south because he forgot to add it.
• It Seemed Like a Skillful Idea at the Time: For reasons even he can't explain, James once wondered if he'd exist able to stand up on a hamster cage and let curiosity go the better of him. The event was a broken hamster cage and a serious foot injury that scarred as it healed.
• Lame Comeback: This happened to his sis while trying to come up up with a comeback for James to compensate the one he already gave her considering she felt bad that his brother had to pay l cents for a word that wasn't really meant to offend her.

  James: But sometimes, united states kids would simply be messin' around with each other, and nosotros didn't really hateful the insults, so nosotros would experience bad taking someone else's l cents. Similar, someone would say:

  Faith: Hey, James, what'southward 6 + 6?

  And I would say:

  Kid James: Uhh.. 9, idiot!

  And my mom would hear me and say:

  Female parent: James, that's 50 cents!

  And my sister would feel bad, and so she would insult me back and say:

  Religion: James, y-y-you're an unpleasant person!

  Kid James: Aw..

• Leaning on the 4th Wall: This chat on "Buying Wearing apparel":
• Express Wardrobe: When he used Jake, Justin, and Kevin in his comics. Jake is normally in a blue shirt with a singular regal stripe and black pants, Justin in an orange shirt and blue pants, and finally Kevin in a lime greenish hoodie and bluish pants.
• Long Championship: His book is named The Odd 1s Out: How to Be Cool and Other Things I Definitely Learned from Growing Upwardly.
• Ludicrous Gift Request: Conversed in "Christmas Carols" when James mentions that three things that people wanted for Christmas in songs are "my two front teeth", "a hippopotamus", and "y'all".
• Meaningful Name: James had a hamster named "Killer" because said hamster kept biting them.
  • Initially, when his comics had characters with names, they were "the odd ones out", according to James. Hence the once meaningful proper name "TheOdd1sOut".
• Mic Drib: A running gag in his video "Reading Fables".
• Mister Seahorse: Played for Laughs in "My Mom's Barbarous and Unusual Punishments" when his grapheme appears meaning when James mentions that pregnancy is something "anyone can do".

  James: Oh, and I estimate they as well give nativity to you lot and take care of y'all, but similar, pfft, anyone can exercise that!

• Morning Routine: The music video for "Life is Fun" starts this way. The song only mentions taking a shower and brushing teeth, however.
• Morning Sickness: James had a teacher when he was six who threw upwards considering she was pregnant.
• Nature Is Not Dainty: James recalls how he and his sister caught a moth, and since neither their mom or teacher wanted to deal with it (which he guesses is because if it dies, so they'd take to teach the kids near expiry), the teacher instead convince the entire class to permit it render to the wild... and then a bird promptly swooped down and ate information technology. And she had to teach them about death and how nature isn't nice anyhow.
• Nice Guy: In a few of his videos such as his Subway stories, he says that he was likewise squeamish to not serve customers after endmost time.
  • He also mentions in "Wrong Numbers" that he was willing enough to build a sandwich over the phone (and giving it to him personally despite the shop being minutes abroad from closing) for the guy who was calling him.
• No Body Left Behind: What's Inside is represented "dying" (he actually got out of the game) like this in "Fighting in Mr Beast'southward $100k Youtuber Battle Royale".
• No-Neck Doormat
• The Noun and the Substantive: "The Spiders and the Bees".
• Non-Indicative Name: Afterwards he stopped using Jake, Justin, and Kevin in his comics.
• Not What It Looks Like: He says this later someone caught him in a fountain reaching for a coin in "Embarrassing Times to become Recognized".
• Oh, Crap, There Are Fanfics of Us!: One video depicts James reading the start (known) fanfic of him, featuring a Stalker with a Vanquish (our protagonist, ladies and gentlemen!) that calls him "senpai".
• Overly Long Gag: In his riddle video in his second channel, he and so comments he doesn't know how to end the video without beingness awkward, as he doesn't take a catchphrase for his 2d aqueduct. He then starts saying ways he could cease the video for an overly long time until someone tells him to cease.
• Pædo Chase: When James found out that the phrase for when the sunday is still out when it's raining is "The Devil is chirapsia his wife and marrying his daughter" in France, good lord, he was not happy!
• Parody: His secondary aqueduct TheOdd2sOut parodies other Youtubers.
• Pink Daughter, Blue Boy: James briefly wears a blue shirt and his sister is in a pink one in his video "My Poetry Teacher."
• Porky Pig Pronunciation: This happens to him when trying to say "dakimakura" in his anime body pillow review video. He and then decides to just refer to them equally "anime torso pillows" for the sake of the video.
• Potty Emergency: In "Peeing Yourself", James mentions existence a child and having to pee in class, and he as well mentions having to poop at college (although thankfully that last 1 didn't cause an accident like the first one did).
• Potty Failure: One video is about times James has wet his pants every bit a child.
• Precision F-Strike: The mother in the introductory scene of "Tabletop Games" tells her girl Sally to "close the fuck up". This from a Youtube series where swearing is rarely heard. James even admits he doesn't swear in his videos in "My Mom's Cruel and Unusual Punishments".
• Pride: While James is certainly not big-headed or egotistic, he has admitted that being a Youtuber has given him a conviction boost. Not an unhealthy amount, simply more than when he was in high schoolhouse...
• Pubescent Braces: The 15-year old James in "My Mom's Cruel and Unusual Punishments" is depicted wearing braces. However, information technology is unknown if James wore braces at this age, in that case this trope would be justified.
• Pun With Pi: In "Why Pi is Awesome", James says that the principal reason pi is awesome is its name— it'southward a number that allows people to make silly puns due to sounding like "pie".
• Puppy-Dog Optics: His character does this briefly in "My Cats :3" in order to convince his mother to keep the three extra cats.
• Real Person Shipping: There'south quite a bit of it between between James and Jaiden Animations, probably due to their similar styles and the fact they both live in Arizona. Both James and Jaiden are well aware of this, and sometimes tease their fans about information technology, even once Property Hands as part of a charity drive.
  • On the other hand, when he reveals that he now has a girlfriend, James takes the time to stress that she's non Jaiden and that he finds the idea of Real Person Aircraft to exist kind of creepy.
• Recycled Animation: Discussed in "The Truth Virtually Making Cartoons". Using some like animations of Mowgli and Christopher Robin equally an instance, James defends this do by proverb that blitheness takes fourth dimension and money, especially in the pre-digital era, and then recycling more than minor animations is okay (as long every bit it's from the aforementioned studio) if it ways more fourth dimension and coin tin be used on more than major animations, like an epic fight scene. Additionally, a exterior nighttime city skyline background from "Conspiracy Theories and Crazy People" is reused, due to the artist spending 7 hours making that background when it but appeared in four seconds of that video, and James wants to make sure her work is appreciated.
• Rhymes on a Dime: His graphic symbol starts speaking in rhyme (but so stopped doing information technology) in "Monsters You Didn't Know Were Under Your Bed".
• Ridiculously Cute Critter: Floof, James's recently-adopted canis familiaris.
• Rimshot: His character performs one in "Hobbies".
• Running Gag:
  • For any reason, contrasting viewpoints are frequently animated as being spoken by sock puppets on James' easily.
  • James denying that he'south a furry.
• Say My Name: He mentions in "Getting Recognized part two" that a Zupas employee got this reaction after recognizing him.
• Self-Deprecation: He calls his Boy Scout videos "dumb" in his video "Hobbies".
• Shout-Out: He has done various:
  • In "Movies I Thought Were Weird", he reviews the Charlotte's Web sequel and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
  • In "Strangers Trying to Sell Yous Stuff", i of the doors he´southward well-nigh to knock is Boo'due south door from Monsters, Inc. and another i is from Bowser's.
  • In "The Movie That Was Besides Scary For Baby James", said picture is The Dark Crystal. He also mentions Jurassic Park.
  • James made two fan-made Garfield comics as a child. He wonders if ane of them contains a shout-out to The Incredibles or if it'south but a coincidence.
  • In "My Poetry Teacher", James jokingly says he and his sister had to become to prep schoolhouse due to "having powers". In this cutaway, James is dressed as Wolverine and his sister is dressed as Jubilee (Marvel Comics).
  • In "Wrong Numbers", James recalls how two women called him asking for someone named Vance. Turns out he misheard and they were looking for someone named Fiftyance. Tired of them calling him dorsum despite clarifying that they got the wrong number, he was considering to retrieve and tell them he found Lance — Lance McClain. Simply that he decided not to practise it and continued sleeping.
  • In "My Thoughts on Roommates", James awakens to his anime roommate watching the Magic Knight Rayearth opening song.
  • In "Our Cats :3", James jokes about how they've had about as many cats as he'southward had hamsters. He demonstrates this with drawings of Long Cat, Nyan Cat, Bongo Cat, and Nick Nocturne.
  • In "Talking to Strangers," one shot has him walking upward to someone like DIO against Jotaro.
  • "The Truth About Making Cartoons" has James scrolling through a fake Instagram feed with ads for a band called My Chemical Fallout at the Disco and a testify chosen Average British Bake-On.
• Shutting Upwardly At present: He does this in "Christmas Contemplations" after singing his made-upwardly song (plain To the Melody of... the original song), "Prancer, The Normal-Nosed Reindeer".

  James: Well, plenty near you going down in history, Rudolph! I'chiliad gonna make my ain vocal about... Prancer! Do-do-practice/Prancer, the.. normal-nosed reindeer/Had a very.. normal nose/And if you ever saw it/Y'all would even say "Yep, that'southward a nose!"/All of the other reindeer/Respectedhimformeetingtheexpectationsofwhatanormalreindeershouldbelike/They always permit little Prancer/Play on his reindeer bike! Okay, I'll cease.

• Soap Penalization: He mentions in "My Mom'south Roughshod and Unusual Punishments" that his mother oft threatened him to practice this if they swore. So one 24-hour interval he said a naughty discussion and his mom threatened him, as e'er. James told her that he didn't care and that soap tastes good. Then his mom accepted and offered him to take a bite off a soap bar. He does, and regrets it.
• And then Unfunny, It'due south Funny: He considers a joke in a comic about his pet hamster's loud beliefs at night to exist "not that funny", although, to some people, information technology might actually BE that funny.
• Split-Screen Phone Call: This happens occasionally in "Wrong Numbers", and some of his comics as well.
• Sprouting Ears: Jake gets cat ears and a tail in a console for some reason in this comic.
• Squish the Cheeks: Boyinaband does this to James in "Fighting in Mr Beast's $100k Youtuber Battle Royale".
• Sudden Beefcake: Despite his characters are usually drawn without noses, they occasionally have them for cursory moments when the situation asks for it.
• Sudden Heart Color: His character gets blue Animesque optics for a cursory moment in "Fighting in Mr Beast's $100k Youtuber Boxing Royale".
• Suddenly Shouting: He does this in "Reading More Fables (I swear I'one thousand not a furry)" when explaining the moral of "The Crab and the Play tricks".

  James: And the moral is: "Be content with your lot". Don't move, don't travel, don't try and alive in a better location because a flim-flam might Consume YOU! JUST Alive IN A STUDIO APARTMENT AND Deal WITH Information technology!!

• Accept That!: His "Buying Apparel" video has... a lot of stabs towards Ricegum, to say the least. Though as he admits, he doesn't mention him past proper noun; he simply makes fun of him through a cartoony avatar of him multiple times. Besides, the primary focus is on repeated flexing on people through his expensive clothes.
  • In "Growing up Without Cablevision", he flat out calls Caillou a demon, rants well-nigh his parents beingness spineless, and in general hates the show.

    James: All you demand to know virtually Caillou is that I hate him.

  • Zigzagged in "The Moving-picture show That Was Too Scary For Baby James". He calls The Dark Crystal garbage...but likes the fine art.
• Talk About the Weather: He mentions in "Starting Conversations" that this is one of iii adept conversation starters he knows.
• Championship Drib: Done in the end of "Think About That episode 1".
• Toilet Humour:
  • One video is near wetting himself.
  • One of his "University Anecdotes" is about a male child peeing at a urinal with his pants down.
• Teeth Flying: A tooth falls out to his character'south Lamentable playmate after being punched in "Tabletop Games".
• That Came Out Wrong: Subsequently recording his take in which he says "Ahhh! Such a beautiful day, uh! The dominicus is shining in a beautiful way, uh!" in the Backside the Scenes video of "Life is Fun", he then asks Dave if information technology sounds too sexual.
• Tradesnark™: He adds in a trademark after he says "It's All About The Residual" a second time in "Hobbies".
• Height X List: "Top 10 Things That Go on Me Awake at Night".
• Truth in Television:
  • James points out in his My Random Thoughts (James Edition) video how we as humans often dislike hairless animals and view them as ugly while preferring fluffy animals. Call back about information technology, exercise you hear people gushing over fluffy kittens or hairless kittens more often?

    James: ''[petting a hairless beast] We retrieve that all hairless animals are ugly. But go to Google Images and blazon in "Hairless animate being" and you'll probably recollect the animals you see in that location are ugly as well... but we all seem to forget that... we're hairless animals as well. If anything, other animals should think that We'RE ugly.

  • James also points out that he's come to realize that the net loves drama and beautiful animals in the beginning of his Our Hamsters video. Honestly, he couldn't be more right about those things.
• Uncomfortable Elevator Moment: He mentions this happened to him in "Starting Conversations" later on an elevator temporarily bankrupt down.
• The Unintelligible: The first of the two women attempting to call Lance in "Incorrect Numbers". Despite his all-time efforts, James couldn't brand sense of anything she was saying, and the i affair he idea he understood - the name of the person she was looking for - he'd misheard as Vance.
• Vegetarian for a Day: He decided to do the "7 Day Vegan Claiming" (which he decides to rename it as "seven Solar day Vegan Claiming Babe, solves all yo' issues"), and, according to what he wrote on Day #1 on his log on the challenge, he suffered from this, which is something pretty expected to happen when doing a challenge like this (if you're non used to this kind of lifestyle).
• Visible Sigh: In "Our Cats :3", his character (representing him) is seen sighing like this later on accepting not to keep the three extra cats.
• Visual Pun: His videos often take these.
• Volumetric Mouth: His character gets one when laughing loudly in "Top 10 Things That Go along Me Awake at Nighttime".
• Vomit Indiscretion Shot:
  • While talking most a plagiarized essay,
  • In "My Horibal Speling", T.J. is illustrated throwing upwardly on a horse.
  • In "My Mom's Cruel and Unusual Punishments", his character (representing James) is seen puking into a toilet after bitter into a lather bar.
• Wallet Moths: In his video "Chore Interviews", a moth flies out a wallet when he mentions a minimum wage job won't assistance beget a college.
• We All Die Someday: He says this towards the terminate of his video "Reading More Fables (I swear I'grand not a furry)" when telling the viewers that defending furries is not a large bargain:

  James: I know I'thousand gonna go some dislikes for defending furries, but merely, chill out, guys. It'due south non a big bargain. We're all gonna die 1 day anyway.

• What the Heck Is an Aglet?: In "Buying Clothes", he recounts a period when he wore trendy shoes and was told he wasn't supposed to tie the laces, so he walked around with the loose laces tucked within, leading him to constantly step on the sharp aglets. Cue the definition of "aglets" briefly popping upwardly on screen.
• Broad Eyes and Shrunken Irises: In "The Spiders and the Bees", his character does this when he stares at the bee flight by.
  • This also happens briefly to Boyinaband in the music video "Life is Fun" when reminding James of the exploitation of the natives, and when telling him bald eagles aren't bald.
  • Also happens frequently in "Fighting in Mr Beast's $100k Youtuber Battle Royale".
• White Void Room: More often than not takes identify in one, as revealed in a shot of "Chaperoning 7th Graders".
• Y'all Gotta Have Bluish Hair: A female background character in "Extracurricular Activities" has pinkish hair.
• Your Tomcat Is Pregnant: His family had a cat named Azula, thinking information technology was female. Withal, while James was playing with the cat, he saw the true cat´s "male parts" and was renamed "Baby Cat" later on.

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