User talk:QuestJ65/Nostalgia Critic

Has he been in the news? Because I find that that may help. Since there's this UK trainer Joe Wicks that wore a Scooby suit in one of his videos. The guy has become nationwide in his YouTube videos, and has been on TV on at least one morning show that I noticed. -- Signed by James (talk) 15:01, 2 July 2024 (UTC)

Unfortunately, as far as I cold probably find, I don't think there were any news that reference the Nostalgia Critic/Doug mentioning or making reference to any Hanna-Barbera properties; no Tom and Jerry, no Scooby-Doo, no Flintstones, whatsoever. There is a New York Times article from 2009 that reported on his videos back then, but no mention for any of their series, whatsoever; although there a few quick mentions of TMNT, Kazaam, and Gargoyles sprinkled in (both not from Hanna-Barbera, unless you want to squeeze in the naming similarities of Kazaam and Shazzan, but that's beside the point). Doug was also a subject of a 2013 ABC News report, but it was not related to any of his NC videos, but instead an unrelated one that showed examples of people quitting their jobs while at camera; Doug was there because he had to quit his job as a janitor to pursue working on his videos full time.

These examples of how far I could probably get with traditional news outlets. It's very difficult since the series was created at a time when YouTube and its surrounding culture was still in their infancy, so reports such as these are a dime a dozen. It may have been a bummer that that there were no instances of videos referencing HB media (like the example you showed me, tnk you), but at least we know now that his show got acknowledged by the New York Times of all things. And that's the early years of the show I've been mentioning; some of the other news reports I dug were either from internet outlets or making reference to the 2018 incident surrounding Channel Awesome's work ethics. -- QuestJ65 (talk) 17:27, 2 July 2024 (UTC)