# The Nostalgia Critic/Season 18

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Quotes from the 18th season of The Nostalgia Critic, which aired in 2025.

### The Tale of Despereaux

    Princess Pea: Oh, I wish it would rain. I wish there was soup again.
    Nostalgia Critic: 20 bucks say she laughed when she first tried saying that line.
    Narrator: And we'd tell you that they all lived happily ever after, but... what fun is that? [Despereaux falls and Critic edits in blood]
    Nostalgia Critic: Why can't most Broderick movies end that way? No, he flies away because Disney's lawyer somehow missed this film, and the movie ends.

### Beauty and the Beast

    Lumière: You fall in love with her, she falls in love with you, we'll be human again by midnight.
    Mrs. Potts: It's not that easy, Lumière. These things take time.
    Nostalgia Critic: [showing the rushed romances in other Disney movies] In most cases it takes 3 days, maybe a month.
    Nostalgia Critic: When Gaston sees she has feelings for the Beast, he immediately tries to destroy him cuz that should win her over.
    Gaston: The Beast will make off with your children! He'll come after them in the night! We're not safe til his head is mounted on my wall!
    Nostalgia Critic: Tell us more, expert who a moment ago said he wasn't real.
    Nostalgia Critic: Yeah okay, let's talk about the Beast's human design. First off it's weird he doesn't get a human name. People tell me it's Adam, but if they don't say it in the movie, if he's credited as the Beast, I don't count it. Second, the director said because like Belle, we all fell in love with the Beast, no human design for the prince would ever be good enough. I don't think that's true. Look at him compared to the other Disney Princes, he just doesn't look right. He looks like a Prince of Egypt character drawn by a Quest for Camelot animator. When I was a little kid, my grandma was watching this with me and went "Ew turn him back to the buffalo dog".

### The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

    Nostalgia Critic: They have themselves a wizard's duel...
    Madam Mim: I win! I win!
    Nostalgia Critic: ...Which is pretty cool even if the scene is a little silly.
    [Saruman causes Gandalf to spin on his head as Critic adds in silly sounds]
    Nostalgia Critic: The next day they're on their way where they encounter the most epic toll stop ever constructed.
    Aragorn: [on the massive Argonath] Long have I desired to look upon the kings of old... my kin.
    [The next scene has a very slow frame rate]
    Nostalgia Critic: Let's follow it up with this really dated frame rate effect that looked terrible back then and looks even worse now.

### The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers

    Nostalgia Critic: [on Wormtongue] He's played by Brad Dourif wearing a Play-Doh mask from the Gary Oldman and Danny DeVito villains playset.
    Éomer: How long is it since Saruman bought you? What was the promised price Gríma?
    Nostalgia Critic: [as Wormtongue, who's gazing lecherously at Éowyn] One day I'll be a blonde.
    [Aragorn kicks a helmet and gives a genuine scream of grief, as Viggo Mortensen actually broke his toe]
    Nostalgia Critic: Fun fact, Mortensen-
    Hades: I know!
    Nostalgia Critic: Oh, everybody's talked about the toe story that became a meme. Um well, did you know why kids love the taste of Cinnamon Toast C-
    Hades: I know!
    Nostalgia Critic: Oh it's also a meme. Um well, have you seen Bee Movie- [atomic explosion]

### The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

    Gimli: Salted pork?
    Nostalgia Critic: And this is the film where Gimli's handled the best. On that note don't let him and Treebeard talk. Might sound kind of weird.
    Éowyn: I am no man!
    Nostalgia Critic: You see... everything? [shows various mediocre female-led movies] That's how it's done!
    Nostalgia Critic: And okay this is where the onslaught of endings start, and as a rule I think you're allowed one fake out. When this fade to black happened, some people actually started applauding like that might be it, but then we fade back and see the eagle saved them.