Doug Walker

Did You Know: This article was left partially vandalized for several years and nobody noticed.

That's how little people care about Doug nowadays.

Doug Walker (a.k.a The Nostalgia Critic, That Guy With The Glasses or simply That Guy) is co-founder of That Guy With The Glasses and a self-proclaimed actor, comedian, and filmmaker who became a minor lolcow due to his stunning incompetence at doing what he calls a career. While he is TGWTG's most popular contributor, his videos are no better than what you'd find on Youtube back in 2008 and isn't even the best TGWTG.com has to offer. In recent years Doug has been involved in several embarassing incidents, usually the result of him trying to move beyond entertaining 14-year-olds on an increasingly irrelevant website and failing miserably.

He is also said to produce the most annoying sound known to man.

Origins and Fallout with YouTube

Before co-founding TGWTG.com, Doug was either an illustrator or janitor who made a self-explanatory series of videos on Youtube called "5 Second Movies", allegedly based off of some in-joke he and his friends had about some movie. Hilarious. Eventually one of these videos was taken down due to a copyright claim, which Doug dealt with by deleting his Youtube videos and teaming up with Circuit City employee-turned entrepreneur Mike Michaud and a couple of other nobodies to make his own website.

Doug eventually became successful enough to quit his day job and focus on his work. This is not uncommon for people who make money off of posting videos on the internet, but Doug decided to put on a big show when he quit for the lulz. Of course any potential employer who sees the video he posted probably won't be laughing, so Doug's probably going to be stuck with making videos for TGWTG.com for a long, long time.

What a rebel.

Doug Walker, wondering where his hair went

Doug's crotch. We're almost sure there's a penis there somewhere.

The Nostalgia Critic

Critic's voice sample about you

The Nostalgia Critic became Doug's main routine after his fallout with Youtube. Originally, he reviewed films and television shows from or around his childhood (even if he never watched it himself), but nowadays he'll just review whatever he thinks people will like watching. His "reviews" would be more accurately described as synopses interlaced with occasional criticism and jokes that he spends way too much time on. The videos also last an average of 30 minutes, which is more than twice as long as they need to be. Because he is by far the most popular contributor on the site, Doug is tasked with promoting his co-contributors when they're not doing well; this is done by having them make an unwanted cameo appearance in his newest video where they waste even more of everyone's time. Also, enjoy the ads that he puts in the middle of his videos for extra Blip monies. That aforementioned "occasional criticism", by the way, is rendered completely useless by wildly inconsistent standards and minimal background research. It doesn't help that a lot of his criticism is thinly disguised humor with no regard for anything he's said prior. His obvious prioritization of comedy doesn't even make the videos more funny, since his best jokes are the ones he spends the least amount of time on, and you'd probably be able to get those same jokes in a 10-minute review by any of the 750 other "funny" critics out there.

All in all, The Nostalgia Critic is neither Nostalgic nor is it Criticism. It's just an unnecessarily long comedic routine that isn't really funny.

Other Routines

This is the greatest wiki he's ever seen in his life.

Doug has also performed a number of other routines. Most of them were thankfully one-offs but a few stuck around.

Ask That Guy - Doug wears a bathrobe and pretends to be a douchebag named That Guy With the Glasses, answering dumb questions from fans in the most offensive way he can think of. Confusingly, Doug also uses "That Guy With the Glasses" as a pseudonym and as the name of his website. He must not be very good with names.
Bum Reviews - Doug wears a Stan Marsh hat and pretends to be a homeless drug addict named Chester A. Bum, then bounces around giving a barely comprehensible synopsis of some movie he recently saw with a very brief statement at the time about whether he actually liked the movie or not. Still not actually reviewing.
Video Game Confessions - Doug dresses up as a bartender named Dominic and tells stories about various video game characters coming to his imaginary bar and doing embarrassing things while Doug draws rather bland pictures of them. Canon is usually disregarded completely.

Doug's Inner Circle

Bhargav Dronamraju dressed as a very bored Ma-ti

Most of the people under the TGWTG banner have content of their own (although nobody watches them). These guys, however, have somehow achieved notoriety on the site just by helping Doug make his videos.

Rob Walker

a.k.a. The Other Guy With the Glasses. Doug's older Brother. Helps Doug write the scripts for his videos and occasionally appears as a throwaway character for one of Doug's unnecessarily long jokes. Seems to be an even bigger asshole than Doug and according to one eyewitness account they fight constantly, raising the question of how these two ever manage to get anything done.

Bhargav Dronamraju

a.k.a. M. Night Shyamalan. Doug's special effects guy. It should be noted that many of Doug's less popular co-contributors had significantly better special effects before Doug started collecting money for his glorious return, so the Walker brothers aren't alone in being lazy. Bhargav is arguably better known for playing the Ma-Ti character in videos made by Doug and for whatever reason several other reviewers, where he repeats that old joke about heart being a dumb power that you've heard a million times.

Running Gags


	ALERT: THESE ARE FORCED MEMES
	Doug Walker's Running Gags will be posted by the same unfunny newfag until you like it.

Doug reuses his jokes. A lot. Whether this is the product of unoriginality or Doug wrongfully assuming that he is a walking meme factory isn't entirely clear, but using these jokes are a surefire way to entertain Doug's fans... and nobody else:

"Of Course!" - One of Doug's oldest and most well known running gags. Doug shows a clip of M. Bison from the Street Fighter movie saying "Of course!" whenever he reviews a movie where the villain seeks world domination. Very frequently used by other TGWTG.com contributors as well as youtubers who wish they could post videos there.
Big Lipped Alligator Moment - A term Doug coined to describe out-of-place scenes that have nothing to do with the rest of the movie. The name comes from a scene in All Dogs go to Heaven but strangely was first used in a review of Ferngully. People on TvTropes LOVE to use this term, by the way. This joke also tends to be used by ThatGuyWithTheGlasses wannabes.
Doug's Gun - A prop that Doug used in his review of Cartoon All-Stars to the Rescue! that inexplicably became part of the Nostalgia Critic's image. Even Doug himself isn't really sure how this happened. It's appearances are usually accompanied by lots of screaming and bad special effects.
Santa Christ - Christian meme combining. Rob Walker wears a Santa hat and beard and puts a blanket on his shoulders and does... Santa things. Doug made him up for one of his Christmas episodes and continued using him afterward, but the character never contributed to anything, making him completely pointless.
"I Was Frozen Today!" - A quote from Christopher Lloyd in some Hulk Hogan movie that Doug took a liking to. Has no other point, Doug just thought it was funny.
Chuck Norris Revival - Doug reviewed a movie that starred Chuck Norris and used Chuck Norris jokes as source material, either unaware or uncaring of the years of work that people put into killing this awful meme. Thankfully the revival did not spread outside TGWTG.com and TvTropes.
Frying The Coke - Another term coined by Doug, used when someone makes something that's allegedly so dumb it's awesome. While more forced than the Big Lipped Alligator moment, it's much less popular.
Bat Credit Card - A trigger word for the Nostalgia Critic, inspired by a scene from Batman and Robin where Batman uses a special credit card with a Batman logo on it to purchase something. Even Doug himself hates this joke, but his fans won't let him forget.
Burger King Elephant - Doug's attempt at showing how "You Can't do That on Television"'s habit of dumping slime on anyone who says "I don't know" didn't make sense. Whenever Doug says "Elephant", an image of The Burger King pops up.
"You Know, For Kids!" - A phrase Doug says in response to anything sexual, violent, or otherwise illegal that appears in a kid's movie. Very popular among TGWTG wannabes.

There are many other jokes that get reused constantly, but most of them aren't even recognizable to anyone who doesn't have a shrine of Doug Walker hidden somewhere.

Feud with the Angry Video Game Nerd

Less than a month after uploading his first Nostalgia Critic video, Doug made claims that he was being harassed by the Angry Video Game Nerd's fanbase, already infamous for antagonizing young upstarts such as Chris Bores, Armake21, and like 1/3 of the people in this article. He responded by demanding that The Nerd himself tell his fans to stand down, warning that there would be trouble if the harassment continued.

...There's just one thing. By 2008, the time Doug's first AVGN rant came out, most of the AVGN's fanbase tolerated AVGN clones like Doug and most of them probably didn't even know who Doug was. In all likelihood, Doug and/or Mike Michaud saw the opportunity to gain publicity by staging a feud with the AVGN and just made up an excuse to get James Rolfe's attention.

Amusingly, James initially responded by doing exactly what the Nostalgia Critic demanded, and Doug had to make a second video of himself making even more things up or else the plan would've fallen flat on its face. Luckily for the TGWTG crew, James caught on afterward and was willing to partake in their little viral stunt. This led to several crossover videos of things such as Doug and James fighting to the death, Doug, James and a bunch of other nobodies fighting to the death, and Doug and James reviewing a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles video. The stunt worked and Doug won the hearts of the very people he claimed were harassing him less than a year earlier.

It is rumored that more recently Doug and Michaud fruitlessly attempted to stage a similar feud with RedLetterMedia.

Doug the Filmmaker

It's most apparent that Doug doesn't know what the fuck he's doing when he attempts to record something more ambitious than just him sitting in front of a white wall. While his videos with James Rolfe at least looked passable thanks to Rolfe, Doug was left on his own for his two year anniversary special "Kickassia" and everything that followed. You can read about Kickassia and the other anniversary films here, but make no mistake that Doug played a key role in these movies turning out the way they did. Doug is so clueless as far as filmmaking is concerned, even with the decently sized budgets he usually has, that even some of his co-contributors have commented on it. Do note that TGWTG.com has several contributors with at least some experience with filmmaking, so the only benefit that comes from having Doug in charge is the ability to see how much of an incompetent buffoon he really is. And Kickassia would only be the beginning.

Doug vs. Trolling and Criticism

While he's long been accused of censoring negative comments on his videos, Doug's history with trolling has been somewhat uneventful in comparison to Spoony, a similarly popular reviewer who was also posting videos for TGWTG.com at the time. For whatever reason, he did feel the need to lash out at his trolls and critics a couple of times, sounding about as butthurt as Spoony usually does.

Douchey McNitpick

What would have otherwise been another boring Nostalgia Critic "Top 11" list became a seemingly unprovoked display of butthurt on Doug's part when Douchey McNitpick, an unflattering troll caricature he created for the episode, popped up to help the Nostalgia Critic admit 11 "f*ck ups" that were made in past reviews. Douchey's "trolling" consisted of him telling the Nostalgia Critic he did something wrong with some lame insult tacked on at the end. This would imply that Doug considers moderately harsh criticism, something that's practically unavoidable on the internet, to be trolling, strongly suggesting that he's either much more sensitive than he lets on, or just doesn't give a fuck about what other people think.

Doug vs. Encyclopedia Dramatica

Doug lashed out at "trolls" again in his "A Troll in Central Park" review, a review which, as you might expect, had heavy emphasis on the "troll" part. Encyclopedia Dramatica in particular was briefly mentioned in this review, causing commenters to giggle like schoolgirls because they're all even more sensitive than Doug and think ED is literally worse than Hitler.

	“	Something that amuses me about the TGWTG page - the immense amount of butthurt over a joke in A Troll In Central Park. The joke was included in a gigantic wall of text that was on the screen for maybe a second, yet they're whining like babies. I always have to laugh at how defensive people on ED get over jabs at ED. It's surprising how fragile the feelings are on a site that's like 90% goatse.	„
	—Rebochan, jizzing himself over ED's original three sentence response to Doug's callout.

"The Room" Review

What a story, John from theroommovie.com!

Oh hai Encyclopedia Dramatica. As you can see, I'm totally not butthurt. This is why I make Tommy Wiseau Show!

Doug's plan to hide from the evils of copyright law on blip worked for quite some time, but eventually the man came to ruin Doug's day once more. This time it was Doug's review of The Room, which he was forced to pull down after receiving threats of a lawsuit from John from theroommovie.com. In retaliation, Doug posted a video titled "The Tommy Wiseau Show", where he attempts to humiliate John and Actor/Director Tommy Wiseau, but unsurprisingly comes off as extremely butthurt instead. Nevertheless, fans were eager to help Doug get his review back and defended it by claiming it was protected by fair use. However, it's never really specified how. The obvious argument is that it's a review, but as previously stated Doug's videos are useless as reviews. It could be argued that it counts as parody, but you would really need to stretch the definition of parody as his reviews contain a spoiler-filled synopsis and most of his jokes don't really parody anything.

Doug's fanboys harassed John by sending him hate mail, calling him a retard for not agreeing with the idea that Doug's review was protected by fair use, and calling Tommy Wiseau a hack for making a bad movie. In response the email link on theroommovie.com was taken down. That's it. While Doug did eventually get permission to put the video back up, it was in no way thanks to these wonderful people. The only thing they accomplished was proving that Doug's fans were as bad as the imaginary AVGN fanboys that attacked Doug back in 2008. So how did Doug get to put his review back up on TGWTG.com, then? Well, a couple of fatasses recorded themselves asking a clearly apathetic Tommy Wiseau if Doug could post the video, and Tommy said yes, fogetting they ever existed immediately afterwards. Mission accomplished.

Here's a few of the letters that were sent to John:

	“	Oh hi, John from The Room Movie Dot Com. How are you doing? Probably angry because of all the hate-mail you're getting. I have the solution! Your movie would make much more money if the review was still up, because in the end of it, the Nostalgia Critic tells the viewers to actually watch the movie! You'd get much more people at the screenings that way. I highly recommend that you allow the Nostalgia Critic to keep his review, or you will pay.. You will pay.	„
	—His mouth probably hurts from sucking cock too hard

	“	I think your parents were either inbred or you got dropped on your head as an infant to not only act in (horribly I might add), direct and write such an atrocious movie as "The Room", but to claim copyright infringement on a satirical review. Not only was the review funny, it is also protected by the same laws that you claimed it violated. The only reason it got deleted was because the administrators of the site probably didn't know enough about copyright law. Now that I think of it I should probably have you sued for bodily damage (I almost needed eye surgery) and mental anguish due to watching "The Room". You sir, are a total and utter fuck-up and the internet will always prevail. That I can guarantee you.	„
	—Clinically retarded from watching The Room. It shows.

	“	"Oh, hi! John from the room movie dot com. How's it going? Probably not that great right now because of all the angry emails about the Nostalgia Critic's review of "the room" being taken down because you guys claimed copyright infringement. Well, I'm here to help! Firstly, you should know that he (the Nostalgia Critic) does not need to ask for your permission, nor does he need to pay you any sort of fees, because he reviewed your movie. It's covered under fair use, which I quote here: "Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for "fair use" for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. Non-profit, educational or personal use tips the balance in favor of fair use." This means that he does not need any legal or moral clearance from you in order to review "The Room." Now, to resolve all of this hate mail I'm sure you're getting, you are truly better off not lodging any copyright claims against him, because, if this were to go to court, you would most surely loose any legal battle, not to mention money. But that aside, letting him keep the review up is actually good business for YOU! Yes, it is! For, you see, he actually tells people to go watch the movie! This is what you would call a free advertisement! Now, you can do what you want, but the Nostalgia Critic is most likely going to dispute your copyright claims, in which case you will loose, according to the "fair use" clause I provided you above.	„
	— How cute, the fantard thinks it's a lawyer!

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Failed Let's Play Attempt

In September of 2011 Doug made an attempt to expand into doing let's plays, presumably under the assumption that since he already does commentary in the form of reviews, he should easily be able to do commentary in the form of let's plays. So, he grabbed a copy of Bart's Nightmare for the SNES and recorded himself commentating in character as the Nostalgia Critic. This was the result. Doug stumbles around trying to do improvised commentary on a game that he isn't good at and doesn't provide him with anything to make jokes about. For over half an hour. Of course he could've talked about the gameplay or about the various characters and settings that appear in the game, but that's not what the Nostalgia Critic does. The video got an unusually negative reaction: while there were, as always, fans willing to call it perfect, many others practically begged Doug never to make another Let's Play again. They got their wish, but at a cost...

Doug Walker's fanbase vs. Retsupurae

Doug's crappy let's play was quickly brought to the attention of Retsupurae, who commentated over the video for their (slightly) less cancerous fanbase.

http://blip.tv/slowbeef/retsupurae-vs-the-nostalgia-critic-5535142

Some fans admittied that the let's play was deserving of criticism. Others were infuriated, demanding to know why two random haters had the right to criticize Doug's let's play, most of them unaware of the fact that the two "haters" were both let's players with a youtube channel full of similar commentaries. In the end the efforts of Doug's fanbase were once again in vain, as Doug himself ended up admitting that the video was bad and even apologizing for it. Even that wasn't enough reason to stop for some fans, though, as evidenced by the fact that Retsupurae's video still gets angry comments years later. In addition, one can sense a hint of butthurt in Doug's apology when he, once again, labels his critics as petty whiners.

	“	I like the part where he swore and screamed. Contextless profanity is a cornerstone of decent comedy. Truly this man is a witty comedic genius.	„
	—Are you daring to question the Critic's genius with sarcasm? STONE HIM

	“	This was brutally unfunny and boring.	„
	—STONE HIM TOO

	“	I love how so many people are saying that this video isn't that bad, and yet the person who uploaded this disabled the ratings system.	„
	—Criticism? What's that?

	“	'People like to see me get tortured' - So before you bitch about this, remember this, it was YOU lol'd the first time and video game reviews was on demand since then. Basically, YOU asked for this and now you bitch about it. So yeah think about that.	„
	— Yeah! It's all OUR fault Doug made a horrible Let's Pla- wait.

	“	People need to get a life if they take this too seriously. Honestly. Go outside and get some fresh air. It's immature, unreasonable, stupid, idiotic, dimwitted, etc to lash out and troll and saying he's a terrible person aghagjahgjhag are really low. Seriously. I don't get it. He made a bad video. You have every right to like it or not, but there's a difference between disliking and trolling. Everyone takes these things way too seriously when they shouldn't. If you do, get a life. That's all..	„
	—Also don't like it don't watch it yada yada.

	“	"Stop complaining and don't watch if you don't like it u sad people." Um... The Nostalgia Critic gets paid to watch movies that he doesn't like and then complain about them. He even goes looking for shitty movies. So why can't NC fans complain about a video they were expecting to be good?	„
	—Surprisingly, the fanboys didn't respond to this gem.

	“	I really dont see why people dont like this, this was the funniest thing I ever seen. I was literally ROTFL.	„
	—Now where's that pesky brain of mine I keep losing over and over?

	“	Not. A big. Fucking. DEAL. I mean, Doug's made mediocre videos before, he's allowed to have an off week, on account of his frequent genius.	„
	—Too bad this is his day job dipshit, so he's automatically obliged to put some effort in his videos with his non-existent frequent genius.

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The end of the Nostalgia Critic (Except Not)

With TGWTG.com falling into a gradual decline after Kickassia, Doug eventually attempted to move on to bigger and better things and announced that he would be ending the Nostalgia Critic series. His fans were split over this announcement: some encouraged Doug, whereas others only cared about the fact that they wouldn't be getting any more Nostalgia Critic reviews. Fortunately for the latter group, Doug's plans failed spectacularly due to the fact that nobody outside of TGWTG.com really cared about him. Doug ended up bringing the Nostalgia Critic back several weeks after ending it, with little changing aside from the addition of an unneeded intro, less forced memes, and more excessively long jokes in the form of sketches. And there was much rejoicing in spite of all the time and money Doug wasted. Since then, Doug's biggest accomplishment was making a cameo appearance in The AVGN Movie, where he was widely considered to be one of the worst things in the movie.

Along with restarting the Nostalgia Critic, Doug asked fans to give him money for new recording equipment, something he could obviously pay for on his own. Another, goal of this fundraiser was to upgrade to an SDI workflow so that they could achieve a better quality, faster. this would have probably meant more if Blip supported SDI's higher bitrate, but either way the fans were happy to provide what Doug asked for. Doug was still disappointed, though, because he only got about $90,000 when he wanted a million. Not even the AVGN managed to raise that kind of money. Of course, the people who donated were rewarded for their generosity, as most people who donate to these kinds of things are these days, but it was with things like a T-shirt and DVD ($100), a voicemail greeting ($200), and a 30-minute skype call ($300).

Gallery

He Married It, So You Don't Have to
Check out that six-pack
Doug, sporting his pedo-face
We all do
We love you too, Doug.
Shadbase speaking the truth.

Doug Walker

Contents

Origins and Fallout with YouTube

The Nostalgia Critic

Other Routines