The Nostalgia Critic
Overview
Web television
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series starring Doug Walker
That Guy with the Glasses
That Guy with the Glasses is a website that mostly showcases satirical reviews of movies and video games. It primarily stars Chicago native Douglas Darien "Doug" Walker as "That Guy with the Glasses". The founder and administrator of the site is Michael Michaud, CEO of the parent company Channel...
as the eponymous reviewer. The series was initially launched on YouTube
YouTube
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before moving to an independent site, That Guy with the Glasses
That Guy with the Glasses
That Guy with the Glasses is a website that mostly showcases satirical reviews of movies and video games. It primarily stars Chicago native Douglas Darien "Doug" Walker as "That Guy with the Glasses". The founder and administrator of the site is Michael Michaud, CEO of the parent company Channel...
, run by production company Channel Awesome
Channel Awesome
Channel Awesome is an online media production company based in Naperville, Illinois. The company was created in 2008 by Mike Michaud , Mike Ellis and Bhargav Dronamraju...
. It is the flagship show for Channel Awesome, which has since built on it with additional content, additional websites and the spin-off show The Nostalgia Chick.
The show involves the Nostalgia Critic (played by Chicago comedian Doug Walker), often referred to as simply the Critic or NC, reviewing mostly nostalgic
Nostalgia
The term nostalgia describes a yearning for the past, often in idealized form.The word is a learned formation of a Greek compound, consisting of , meaning "returning home", a Homeric word, and , meaning "pain, ache"...
media in a negative (but humorous) manner.
Quotations
I'm the Nostalgia Critic. I remember it so you don't have to!
:first and final line spoken in each video
This game is a bucket of balls!
Time limit?...There's a time limit? I could eat my way through a WALL faster than I can kill these assholes, and there's a TIME LIMIT?!