"It's Christmas, but a bad Intellivision Amico investment has left Pat without money to buy struffoli -- what happened?! Pat details the Amico disaster, plus a bonus holiday NES game review!"
This is a "Pat the NES Punk" episode (as opposed to a CUPodcast[1] episode) about the colossal scam and failure that was the Intellivision Amico. It is not a funny episode. It's pretty close to the polar opposite of funny. That's not to say that it wasn't still morbidly entertaining, in its own way. That said, it was mostly just 30 minutes (well, more like 18 minutes, because around 5 minutes in, I bumped it up to 2x speed) of Pat saying "I told you so" and ineptly clowning all over the people[2] who supported the Amico and who, more specifically, criticized Pat for criticizing the Amico. Said clowning mostly just involved showing clips of them saying dumb things about how supposedly orgasmic the Amico was going to be, which is pretty much all Pat needed to do to show how clownshoes those guys are. His inane, insipid skits "responding to"/"interacting with" them were just superfluous, in my opinion.
And... ...also a review of the
Snow Bros. NES game, I guess? He managed to squeeze that into the video as well. That part of the video was okay, at least. Except for the bits where he tried to tie it back into the Amico shit.
I mean, I get it. These assholes had been gunning for Pat for the past couple of years at least, so it probably felt cathartic for him to make this video, and in that sense I can appreciate it for what it is. I'm just saying it was also a very unfunny attempt at a "funny" video.
[1] - Which is ending, aside from occasional one-off things, as was
recently announced and as I only just learned today. Given that my viewing of (Youtube clips of) it had been dropping off recently (mostly due to the fact that
they seemed to be more and more using the podcast as a bludgeon against people who wronged them, rather than, you know, just generally shooting the shit about video games or whatever, which was the main reason I started watching it in the first place), this doesn't bother me as much as it would have, say, two or three years ago.
[2] - The only two of which I'd ever even heard of prior to this video were Stuttering Craig (of the now defunct
ScrewAttack.com [the
old URL for which just redirects to Rooster Teeth/Death Battle now], which I
entirely stopped paying attention to after Handsome Tom left/was kicked out of ScrewAttack back in 2008) and Tommy Tallarico himself, who
I've never much liked. Of the others who were lampooned in the above embedded video, I'm not able to name a single one of them now, 20 or so minutes after watching it. Well, no, I know one of them apparently was named "Nick," like one of the two main characters in the
Snow Bros. game, but that's about it.
