B1-2: All the Rest!
Channel: Rooreelooo
Date: 2022-09-06

Original video upload date: Feb 22, 2009

🎵 2022 commentary 🎵

like i promised, time to talk about done and dusted. the last possible opportunity, right at the end of tooie. i've put it off for as long as i can, but no more. i can't push it back into the nuts and bolts videos since i decided to ditch it by then - or at least trim my usage of it down all the way to basically non existence. so here we are.

i can so clearly remember my decision to try and turn 'done and dusted' into a catchphrase, and the thought process makes me cringe. i said it one or two times just normally, and then thought ‘hey i can turn this into a running joke!’. i was desperate to make a name for myself and make my content more popular, and i figured (like i assume many others do) that having a catchphrase would strengthen my brand. something that people could associate with me, and thus would help spread my popularity. when people in other contexts and circumstances said done and dusted i could swoop in and be like ‘lol you stole my catchphrase! i'm suing you for copyright infringement, that will be one million Internet Points please *opens wallet expectantly*’

making a running joke is also something that would help me fill space, since writers block was a thing. any gag i can keep coming back to again and again is one that i can rely on to fill 10 seconds of video or so, which is worth its weight in gold during some of the more tedious updates.

and it worked! a bit. people certainly came to associate the phrase with me, but i think i came to regret my decision pretty quickly. it was a stupid and cheap thing to do, and i felt like it demeaned my product. like, artistically or whatever. and if that sounds like a moronic thing to say, then you’re right - it is. i suppose my fame did grow, and i actually became very happy with the moderate audience my content was pulling. i reached a point where i felt i didn't need to rely on cheap tricks to get attention any more, and that my videos could speak for themselves. but by then it was too late - i was stuck with done & dusted. apparently forever.

one does not simply stop using a catchphrase. not after people have started expecting to see it. i wanted the catchphrase to go away, but i had to ride it out all the way from the start of banjo-kazooie to the end of banjo-tooie. i came to hate it, and to this day i still think its maybe the stupidest thing i did as part of this project. if i could do it all again i never would have tried so hard to force a dumbass catchphrase.

i had planned to phase it out during nuts & bolts. like, i’d maybe say it once right at the end of the game as a meme. or maybe i’d make puns that riff on it like saying ‘completed & cleaned!’ and other gags instead, as a way of paying homage to it without actually speaking the words. then i could retire it quietly and have it not be something i needed to rely on just to get a round of applause from the punters. turns out the problem solved itself though - when i abandoned the LP this whole issue fucking disappeared. see you in hell trash LP, and see you in hell stupid catchphrase!

it's like 2022 now and i still get people sometimes say it to me in reference to the old videos. they still associate it with me. all sorts of stupid shit from one's childhood can follow you into your adult life, and sometimes you just have to deal with it. accept it as a part of yourself, and move on. it has a legacy that i suppose still persists, even though i would really rather it didn't. i’ve done my own bed though, and i guess it’s time to dust it.

🎵 Links & Information 🎵

This video was originally created as part of my Let’s Play of the Banjo-Kazooie series, a project that I worked on while at the SomethingAwful Forums LP Subforum in the years 2008-2010. It was originally posted to a number of video hosts such as Viddler, DailyMotion, GameVee, blip.tv. Most of those hosts are long dead now, yet I still want it to be hosted somewhere accessible for archival purposes. Hence the loooooong-delayed re-upload to YouTube. 

The original Banjo-Tooie LP ran from 21st September 2008 to 22nd February 2009, lasting 154 days and consisting of 50 videos.
🧩Banjo-Kazooie Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZQQ3CBOJeZp_VDhCXPFEJsI0cxANgusL
🧩Banjo-Tooie Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZQQ3CBOJeZpG0tvDCAdf3pZcNWGnErf3
🧩Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZQQ3CBOJeZr1wc1SwnROcIWE1nDUhIGI

Original thread links
🧩BK/BT: http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=2930941 
🧩BT:N&B: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3188254 
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