why do people call him "doug walker" if he sits most of the time?

Comparing nc to garfield is both really baffling and extremely accurate.

RIP Scott Henson. Your voice will always be missed and your humour and soul have left a void in the hearts of many.

That title makes no sense and makes sense at the same time

Chris Pratt will play Nostalgia critic in To Boldly Flee 2

Garfield and Nostalgia Critic are both things I liked when I was younger, never hated, and now give next to no crap about. Though I know it will be quite an event when each of them end.

what did garfield or doug walker do to deserve this insult

The Bat credit card was his "I Hate mondays" schtick

0:26 The fact that NC’s catchphrase is “I remember it so you don’t have to” and Adam forgot it is very ironic. EDIT: Stop liking, it’s at 69 ADDENDUM: Never mind

YMS and all the other film reviewers complaining about Doug being in Smiling Friends are just jealous lol.

Smiling Friends has been such a breath of fresh air for me. I grew up on KZfaq and for the longest time have basically breathed slept and ate it daily. All these references truly make me feel fantastic

Wow Doug Walker got his respect from Smiling Friends since Mike Stoklasa from Redlettermedia and James Rolfe from Cinemassacre.

I think it’s inaccurate to say that he was never good. While I understand that popularity doesn’t equal quality, things that are wholly cancerous to watch in media simply don’t become as successful as Doug Walker did. He’s honestly underrated. Go back and watch his old material, both his reviews and stuff like Attack of the Commercials where he riffs on nostalgic advertising, and he’s actually funny. He even does good sketches here and there. I still go back sometimes and laugh at some of that stuff, like his commentary on a horrifying Canadian abuse PSA or his Garbage Pail Kids review. His biggest issue was that he never found a way to adapt his content for the changing times and also became way too big for his boots. He wasn’t able to expand far beyond the NC character because he wasn’t able to be self-aware or ironic enough to produce at a higher level. Dan Olsen, unfortunately, nails it in his review of NC’s The Wall when he says that Doug is someone who wants to make art, wants to be a real filmmaker, but can’t because he’s just not very interested in other people or how they think so all his ideas boil down to “what if Mario met Batman”. Still, if he’d treated his co-creators better and didn’t allow himself to be taken in by soulless corporate jackasses he would have been fine and still respected today, probably. Zach Hadel said it best when he remarked that if the Channel Awesome guys had played their cards right ten years ago, they could have been the Iron Bank. But instead, they tore themselves apart with mismanagement and just a lack of basic human services. Allowing JewWario to run around as long as they did was their most unforgivable action.

Doug Walker knows his legacy and is comfortable with it, as long as he gets money out of it.

I actually met Doug at C2E2. He seemed really nice in person.

Hold on, does Scoot legitimately not know who the Nostalgia Critic is

The “I Feel Fantastic” robot legit sings 10x better than any AI generated singer could ever.

"WHAT THE FUUUUUUUUCK! WHY DOES IT LOOK LIKE VEGAS?"

Someone tell Quinton Reviews this, he'll have an aneurysm.

Garfield wasn't always bad, that's a silly thing to say

1:11 this is borderline experimental

remember when Adum teamed up with Doug and I Hate Everything for #Where’sTheFairUse

THE NC cameo was cool, but the I Feel fantastic feels like it gets under-mentioned in the same scene

So Adam, when you're going to be free cameo along with Smiling Friends? If anything, then you'll be cameo like the one where you stare on the camera while showering and then grin a creepy face so that bunch of friendly helpers can work with that.

You sound bitter, pal.

When watchalong of Kickassia?

I guess adum is heathcliff

OK wait. OK hang on. I heard Scoot make an "I'm sad that I'm flying" joke a while back... so he knows early 2000s Homestar Runner, but NOT Nostalgia Critic?

I can only hope this means we'll get a LasagnaCat level tribute for Nostalgia Critic one day.

I guess you can say they both inspire people for better or for worse

Doug Walker is “baby’s first film reviewer”, in the same way that a band like Imagine Dragons is “baby’s first rock band”.

Even though Doug can make some pretty awful content and he's barely improved in the over a decade he's been doing this, I have to give him props that he works real hard; even with a team, making a 10-20 minute review a week with fully filmed and edited sketches is a lot of work, even if it's not executed well. Also, I disagree with Adam when he says "Nostalgia Critic was never good". I grew up with Channel Awesome and AVGN in high school and I think I was the right age to enjoy it and I've since outgrown it. A lot of people really are allergic to the concept of demographics, and will just write off something as universally shit. Even then, Doug had some pretty hysterical bits.

If NC is the Garfield of KZfaq then AVGN is the Snoopy of KZfaq

I appreciate that comment about Garfield, I don't know I just could never get into the original cartoon. Wasn't for me

Quinton Reviews is going to cry while eating McDonalds when he reads that title.

The title of this video is ironic, cause years ago, I used to find Nostalgia Critic funny, and I have never once found YMS funny in the entire decade he's been around.

If Nostalgia Critic is Garfield, then that means AVGN is Peanuts, but then who would the Heathcliff equivalent be?

Really seems like Doug has come around in recent years and become more self-aware, rolling with the jokes and memes he's become over the years, and, honestly, that's the best thing he could have possibly done. When he's not adhering strictly to the NC persona (Doug Reviews, Dark Toons, Etc.), he's shown he's actually pretty insightful and knows his stuff. Yeah, he's had his share of downs over the years, but seeing the internet celebrate his SF cameo is actually kind of sweet, and makes me happy for him.

I still maintain that parody/skit recreations of films are a fun and unique way to do a review. Yeah, a lot of the time they don't work, but there's still a level of effort put into those reviews that makes them stand out next to the majority of film reviews which are mostly talking head pieces.

Didn't expected Doug's get up in the show. Like, when I glanced at the thumbnail of the short where he see his cameo I expected the cameo had him in his ussual get up, not in a Rob Zombie-esque cosplay. 1:17 THAT'S HOW THIS SOUND?! I don't even remember hearing it.

Its psychotic how much channel awesome lore occupied my brain when I was a teen

Doug was the TESLA of youtube. not really good but the first one who did the thing so he had a few years advantage

Doug did too much shit that wasn't funny to his coworkers. Like boring adult stuff that's just being shitty. He'll probably get a career revival out of this and fuck up everything again. At least they didn't do the same for Chris-chan I guess.

The main reason why they got Doug is because the creators and friends are quite fans of him more than anything

Hes the thing we liked when we were 8 and then moved on and it doesn't hold up at all?

I actually liked his reviews up until he “retired” the character. I never watch his anniversary specials or anything like that. His skits and parodies always feel so hollow. References for references sake. Him and Scary Movie are the sameeeee

this a pretty accurate comparison

Doug Walker is the kind of person who doesn’t really mind making fun at him, So I don’t he’ll mind the Garfield Comparison.

What is Garfield the Garfield of?

I love Smiling Friends and Helluva Boss/Hazbin for being able to perfectly encapsulate a portion of the internet with really STELLAr animation and atmosphere.

Doug won

If Doug Walker is the Garfield of KZfaq then what does that make you probably the paradise pd of KZfaq or something

I wonder if Adam will do a watch along on smiling friends season 2

I liked Nostalgia Critic, it is definitely OLD-INTERNET and now irrelevant, but you know it's like going from the Big Bopper to The Ramones. Wouldn't have the latter without the former, but the former doesn't hold up. Ramones definitely does. No one is giving two craps about Chantilly Lace.

Nostalgia Critic was always awesome bro, it's literally in the channel name

Meme concept: Nostalgia Critic minus Nostalgia Critic Or: Nostalgia Critic is starving and hallucinating everything post-Demo Reel

I love both Garfield and the nostalgia critic 😅

This guys voice is just like Chris chan

Good luck when you arrive at EMO JONES

I don't think Nostalgiacritic's stuff was ever bad. Some of it I enjoyed a lot.

Sad knowing someone doesn't know who Doug is :(

Honestly at this point I'm expecting Adum to voice a one-off character in Smiling Friends soon

Nah, nostalgia critic used to be great.

Sooo Quinton Reviews will be also obssesed on him???

Honestly hating Doug Walker for anything other than calling him dumb just feels pointless, Most of the Internet has already come to the realization that Doug is a normal dude, He's an Idiot but he's not the worst person in the world, He's not a criminal, He's not abusive, He doesn't go out of his way to hurt people & he's certainly not a predator. There was one time where someone accused Doug of being a predator but two weeks after we found out the same dude who accused him was infact a Predator themselves. The Dude can take criticism & in his most recent reviews he's listened to most of them, He's seen all of the videos about him & he's even shown subscribed to some of the people that have criticized him, He's selfless & cares about the people he works with, even at his absolute worst the biggest mistake he's made was Poor Money Management which is a very normal issue most KZfaqrs often go through, My Family struggles every week with Money Management. Dougs worst Crime is just being an Idiot, A Normal Filthy Casual Idiot & it's okay to not like him for that, that is the only valid reason you can have for not liking him, anything else at that point is just a stretch.

I highly suggest anybody to go watch the old thatguywithglasses videos. It's weird, it's like for a point the Nostalgia Critic character consumed Dougs entire person like Venom or something. He sincerely, actually cares about cinema and film making, and it makes it that much harder to watch him be so hollow playing a character for so many years, when it's so clear this entire time that he actually just wants to make movies and skits. He's not like a bad person or anything, and the Nostalgia Critic character is sort of a product of it's time in internet history. It's just sort of puzzling why he never really pivoted out of the whole thing, and then doubled down on the production value when it took away from the original videos. It culminated in him making one of, probably actually the most infamous movie review(s) ever uploaded on this entire websites history; Nostalgia Critic's The Wall. He genuinely meant it in in that video when he said "this is a love letter to The wall" and it's legitimately baffling how he did not understand how low brow and insulting it is, he just thinks because he put in lots of time and greenscreened sequences and paid a furry 3d animator, that that means he made something inherently better. It's the mentality of everything the character hates. It's hollow, substanceless filmmaking. I don't think his video's have always sucked, I think they retroactively suck because he got so stuck in character he never left. Kept making the same videos for like a decade, while something like AVGN that has a very similar thing was able to slowly pivot into being more genuine and talking as just himself, and the AVGN is much more fondly remembered. Call it the Simpsons Effect I guess.

Glad to see that Adam didn't jump on the bandwagon of youtubers trying to put doug in a bad light because of #changethechannel (even though the people spearheading that movement were just as in the wrong, if not more, than doug)

I actually like listening to Doug talk about movies and tv when he’s not in character and just doing a normal review. I just think he’s partially good at comedy and his NC reviews don’t provide enough actual insight on the film to be worth watching.

Is Doug Walker's content good (generally speaking)? Not really. Is Doug Walker's content good when you compare it to what other media reviewers do? Yes. When you limit your comparison to only his peers, then yes, yes his content is good. There is only so much you can do if you only make commentary about other people's stuff. It's a very limiting internet video genre.

That's an insult to Garfield

i ruined the 666 likes on the video. sorry

Doug is a bigger success than you'll ever be. Thats a fact.