Top 10 Worst Angry Video Game Nerd Episodes

This is a highly "acquired taste" episode, largely down due to Lloyd Kaufman's style of humour. Many feel it didn't fit the show and just served as a huge distraction, and an overly more-than-normal gross-out sequence near the end some felt to be too much.

This episode was full of cheap attempts to be funny all along and for me the "jokes" just fell flat on their face. Lloyd Kaufman's humour didn't suit the show and was just annoying. Just shut up Lloyd, you're not being funny!

I haven't spent the time to watch this ONE episode, and I have pretty much watched everything else to the fullest at least once. I don't have the guts to sit through this one, it's so uninteresting.

The only one that I can say I didn't even finish. I was so bored I shut it off.

I have never seen a bad AVGN Christmas special... until now. Not only is this the worst AVGN Christmas special, it is without a doubt THE WORST AVGN episode PERIOD. This makes the Toxic Crusaders episode look awesome. At least in that one he actually REVIEWED something. Here, it's just a bunch of smashing glass on purpose with a bunch of Sega accessories. The only "reviewing" part was comparing the Activator to the Roll n Rocker. Not to mention, this was hard to watch because of all the broken glass everywhere. The fact that this was a Christmas special is just a slap to the face. This should've been a spinoff like the one where he examines bad game art, not an actual episode. I mean, I'd rather put my balls in a crocodile's mouth while shoving my head up a unicorn's ass. I'd rather 69 a grizzly bear while shoving King Kong up my ass. If you wanna see the best AVGN episode, watch one of the Bugs Bunny ones, those are hilarious, even to this day.

Just no... I mean - what's point of this episode? To crush as many things possible? AVGN was all about bad games and how players feel about them. This episode is just slapstick show, like old Goofy cartoons or Three Stooges, but it has charm neither of them. Even more to say - let's add some annoying sidekick with oral defect. I would tell you what's point of this video - after credit roll's ads. Yeah, just in about to end, this video shows you tons of cinemasscare products, like 9x DVD (seriously, in 2017? DVD? Why not VHS? ) with Board James (come on, there are only ~30 episodes, with half of them less than 5 minutes long! ). Just no...

In my opinion, probably the worst episode of AVGN.

This is a VERY "acquired taste" episode, as it revolves solely around slapstick comedy and a comical over-abundance of prat-falling and smashing/breaking objects, which is a common trope of the guest of the show; Nathan Barnatt's "Keith Apicary" character. Personally it just feels a bit too over-the-top and doesn't really feel like the episode advances anywhere.

Thought this was funny, and I like how James tries different things every now and then. having Nathan Barnatt join him made the perfect crossover.

A great episode, but many feel that the inclusion of the "Nerdy Turd" prevented it from being better than it could've been. Personally, it didn't bother me too much, as it fit in with the Nerd's scatological humour gag that makes up a heavy portion of the series.

Interesting enough, sadly the "Nerdy Turd" was indeed dumb and unfunny. The episode felt like James was just aimlessly messing around.

It was a great episode just like every episode about a console, its just the nerdy turd that got obnoxious. Lets guess what mike added.

Nerdy Turd had me in tears laughing! Take this off this list NOW!

This episode was a complete bore (at least for an AVGN episode)! Usually during an AVGN episode, there was always at least one joke or antic that the nerd did that was entertaining, but this episode was long and tedious, just like the game he reviewed.

The episode suffers from going on a bit longer than it needs to, and the overuse of Kyle Justin breaking into song through various events in the game. Otherwise, not too bad an episode.

An attempt to bring back Kyle Justin but the whole episode wasn't fun to watch. by the way, the scrotum gun joke can go die, it isn't funny and it's a dead horse.

I just didn't like the Cowardly Lion. It was just a background character that I couldn't care about. It was just annoying and completely unnecessary to the show. I liked Bugs Bunny, he was funny. The Cowardly Lion was just lame.

The content of the game review wise is very on point, but many feel that Mike Matei's interpretation of the Cowardly Lion was overly done and not all too funny.

This wasn't even an actual episode, it was just an extra. It wasn't even that bad except for mike's constant elmo voice. Hated it in his worst movie review and certainly hate it now, brown bricks up your ass.

Really? I thought his Day Dreamin Davey and Ikari Warriors reviews were funny. This one on the other hand.

Not a proper episode, rather just an extra with far too much of Mike's "Elmo voice".

Hands down his worst episode. As the Nerd himself would say "a Thank you to his fans? More like a F.. K You! "

This came out in the midst of the time where it seemed like James had grown weary of the character and was really just pushing episodes out to please his audience. Over time, the series would adjust to fit the more modern end of the AVGN show better and bring in new audiences. Alien 3 is just a forgettable episode.

This episode was just forgettable. The seizure inducing lighting effects didn't help either.
Also the editing at the end could have been done much better. This episode just feels... rushed.

The review itself was part of his movie, with scenes from the game added in on the YouTube release of the review itself (the movie couldn't have game footage for copyright reasons). Meant to fit more with the movie than be served as a proper dedicated review, which might've disappointed some.

Should be higher very disappointed at this one the most

Such a big dissapointment its sad to think after all that build up we get a medicore movie and a medicore episode/Clip from the movie

This is just a crappy scene cut from his crappy movie.

I really run out of reasons here. This episode is here because it is just forgettable like Alien 3 but not as forgettable as that one.

An EXTREMELY basic episode that seems like it was mostly only meant to serve as filler so that James could make sure his "R.O.B." review would be Episode 100. Just suffers from being boring and forgettable.

It's basically just James narrating the gameplay. Very boring and one of the first real signs that the AVGN quality was taking some dips (to me, anyway).

Boring, very boring and I sat through Toxic Crusaders!

Not an actual episode. The "Nintendo 64" video is just James playing in his character whilst parodying the "Nintendo 64 Kid"'s dramatic reaction of receiving an N64 as a Christmas gift.

If he did, it would actually be very positive, unlike from The Real Cinemassacre who needs more hate while Cinemassacre needs more love.

This episode as well as the others in this Christmas series I would say are the worst AVGN episodes. His humor here as well as his delivery of every line seems very forced as well as the anger it was almost as if he was not trying in the slightest and didn't really care. A couple of his newer episodes have been good and seem to be back to par. I don't know what he changed but I'm glad.

Not the re-visit, but the first time he played it (the Episode 2). This episode was awful. It didn't show much of the gameplay, just a single play. The quality? It was recorded with a camera, so you could barely see the T.V. ! THANK GOD IT WAS RE-VISITED!

Well this was at a time that the nerd didn't even exist, it was just called "bad nes games" or something generic like that.

How is this here? He wasn't even Angry Video Game Nerd at the time. - Gehenna

This one.. divides opinions.

I'm on the side of having quite enjoyed it, with James making fun of just how much the titular character is a complete wimp and parodying what it would've been like if they made "sequels".

Others feel that James did not play enough of the game, which actually shows the progression that Lester slowly stops becoming a "wimp" and becomes more confident as a character, whilst some felt the jokes just didn't work.

One of the weakest episode by far, the jokes just didn't work at all and they were random as hell. And James sounded so boring throughout the review.

Who put this on the list? I thought it was HILARIOUS.

This part serves more for introducing the console and the game serving as an "appetizer" for the terrible games that came after it (the Zelda games).

Also, "for not referencing YouTube Poops" is a terrible reason to call the episode bad. Especially because that would've had nothing to do with the review in particular, and also because at the time James was still releasing his videos first to the now defunct GameTrailers.

Besides, a lot of those old "poops" released around the same time the review came out have aged terribly.

For Not Referencing YouTube Poop Videos

Seriously?

It's the PILOT episode! Were you honestly expecting James to have completely gotten the character down in something that was only originally supposed to serve as a bonus clip on one of his Cinemassacre releases?

It seems like a complete "cop-out" to call the pilot episode as the worst episode, especially when it wasn't originally supposed to have kickstarted the character that James has had since.

Castlevania 2: Simon's Quest is good, that Nerd is stupid. Worst episode.

YOU DARE INSULT THE NERD?! Irategamer is the real stupid ripoff!

I like this one