Pulse (2006) (Phelous)

There are some movies we were never meant to watch!
== Synopsis ==
* TBW
== Featured Characters ==
*Phelous
* Phelous D1
*Benzaie
* JewWario; see Notes
== Music ==
Music by Michael Schiciano unless otherwise noted.
* "Resident Evil Gaiden Prologue Orchestral Music", uncredited. First appeared in the 2009 "Resident Evil" reviews.
== Quotes ==
* "Pulse-dot-com-dot-stupid internet ghosts, let's do it."
== Trivia ==
* This video begins several running gags, namely internet ghosts, face downloading, and red tape as protection from supernatural phenomena.
* Like the other videos in the Pulse saga, borders and columns on the Phelous website have been turned red, in reference to the red tape.
* The video's opening sketch, in which Phelous and Phelous D1 banter about fiber intake, was supposedly based around various commercials that were heavily played at the time on Blip, the original video hoster for Phelous and other contributors to TGWTG and Channel Awesome. These ones seemingly being an Activia commercial, a trailer for the film "The Pillars of the Earth", and possibly a commercial for the "Hands Up Campaign".
* After a Twitter mention of an angry fan who demanded Porteous stop doing skits, Lewis Lovhaug commented that, "[Porteous] should stop doing skits only because you've never topped your best opening skit.", and posted a link to this review. Porteous in turn responded that he "[didn't] get that sketch anymore.""I don't get that sketch anymore."
== Notes ==
* This episode was subject to a large edit in 2018, following allegations brought on by the "Not So Awesome" document and information disclosed by Channel Awesome that concerned former CA contributor Justin Carmical, aka JewWario.
* Says Porteous himself in a pinned comment: "I felt it necessary to re-edit this review. I don't want to expose any viewers to a particularly harmful figure who lied about who he really was.This is about "changing history" or whatever. It's about having a version of this video that I'm still happy with and doesn't force people to see a potentially very upsetting face when they just want to watch my Pulse review."
* The excised video alters the plot significantly, but ultimately does not detract from the review itself.
** Phelous has a video chat with JewWario, in which they discuss Phelous' recent delving into a series of reviews tenuously connected by having the word Pulse in their title. JewWario proposes a crossover between his show, "You Can Play This!", and Phelous' show, because of the Japanese horror film "Pulse". They discuss the film and go over its pros and cons, before they conclude that because it's a good horror film, Phelous does not have to review it. Instead, JewWario forces him to watch the "shitty American remake".
** After concluding his review, Phelous again speaks with JewWario, who, revealing himself as an internet ghost, whereupon he downloads Phelous' face; he loses the will to live and dies.
* Even prior to the revelations of 2018, there had been talk of editing out the cameo, as portraying the JewWario character as a ghost was deemed distasteful by many following Justin Carmical's suicide. Porteous at the time included a disclaimer in the video, stating that despite what he himself considered uncomfortable, he wanted to honour his friend and leave the cameo as tribute to a friend. In the 2018 edit, any and all mention of Carmical have been removed.
== Links ==
* https://phelous.com/2010/07/28/phelous/and-the-movies/pulse-2006/
* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zsi5104WGs
== References ==
Category:Fiction
Category:Phelous and the Movies episodes