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ToddInTheShadows
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Real Name
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Todd Nathanson
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Affiliation
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Channel Awesome, Team TGWTG
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Todd out of the shadows.
ToddInTheShadows has been a blogger on TGWTG.com and musical talent on Youtube until 2010. He was a fan of the site for a long time before deciding to become part of the Channel Awesome family. He found the site through 5 Second Movies before the site went live in April of 2008. He reviews current (usually bad) pop music and, starting in 2012, one-hit-wonders of the past. In addition, he occasionally reviews music-related movies.
In his videos, he plays the piano (having spent eleven years playing piano) and he wears a gray hoodie in order to keep his true identity secret. The reasons for this are unclear -- he has alternately claimed that he hides his face to protect his position as a Sunday school teacher, as a secret agent, and as White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs. At other times, he has said that he doesn't want his face attached to the "hamburger incident." His image-consciousness led him to do his reviews in profile silhouette, which adds to his mysteriousness. When not 'in the shadows' such as during crossover videos and during the events of Suburban Knights, Todd wears a Zorro-esque bandana that covers everything above his mouth (though it is revealed in Surburban Knights that he can't even see out of his mask, to the point of mistaking a pole for one of the villians).
Todd claims that he didn't get into pop music until an incident in 2007 when the antenna came off of his car. Because he didn't have money to fix it, he listened to pop music over and over because that was the only station that came on, and eventually he got into it. He started to review the songs he heard over and over in his personal blog. He then started filming his reviews and posting them as blogs on TGWTG under the name "MBI"; two early reviews were chosen as Awesome Blogs of the Week, which greatly increased his popularity on Youtube. As he built his fanbase, he was invited to come on to Channel Awesome.
Specials
| Episode Number | Episode Title | Description | Date Released |
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| 1 | Hannah Montana: The Movie | A ToddInTheShadows special | September 25th, 2010 |
| 2 | Hannah Montana Guitar Game | A Todd In The Shadows video game review | October 15th, 2010 |
| 3 | Commentary Eenie Meenie/OMG | Todd's Pop Song Reviews commentary | December 13th, 2010 |
| 4 | MAGfest Vlog | sorry about the quality | January 22nd, 2011 |
| 5 | Commentary Like a G6/Whip My Hair | Todd commentary | April 18th, 2011 |
| 6 | Glitter | Maybe she won't always be my baby. | July 29th, 2011 |
| 7 | MTV Video Music Awards 2011 Vlog | Remember when people used to care enough about MTV to complain that they no longer showed music videos? | August 30th, 2011 |
| 8 | Todd's Black Eyed Peas Experience | Todd stumbles upon the most anticipated game of the year at New York Comic Con! | October 29th, 2011 |
| 9 | Some Quick Thoughts on the Grammys | It's a vlog with some quick thoughts on the Grammys. | February 14th, 2012 |
| 10 | From Justin to Kelly (with Nostalgia Chick) | At some point during their first season, the makers of American Idol forgot that their two winners won a singing contest, not an acting contest. | May 8th, 2012 |
| 11 | Top Ten Groin Shots in Movies | We now interrupt your regularly scheduled pop song reviews for a montage of people getting kicked in the nuts. I make no apologies.
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June 29th, 2012 |
| 12 | 2013 Grammy Vlog | So, the Grammys happened! You care, right? Please tell me you care. | February 12th, 2013 |
| 13 | Burlesque | If you thought Christina Aguilera's oversinging was bad, wait til you hear it for two hours straight! | June 29th, 2013 |
| 14 | MTV Video Music Awards 2013 Vlog | So, let's talk about Miley Cyrus's butt | August 28th, 2013 |
| 15 | 2014 Grammy Vlog | Robots got awarded, same sexes got marriaged, Kendrick Lamar imagined dragons, and maybe some other stuff happened. What did Todd think? | January 29th, 2014 |
| 16 | Cinemadonna - Desperately Seeking Susan | That's right, everyone, we're gonna sit down and watch all of Madonna's movies, starting with her desperately overrated debut Desperately Seeking Susan. | July 29th, 2014 |
| 17 | Cinemadonna - Shanghai Surprise | The legend of Madonna, Queen of the Razzies, begins with her first leading role in "Shanghai Surprise," a bomb that stank like week-old chow mein. | August 6th, 2014 |
| 18 | Cinemadonna - A Certain Sacrifice | Behold, the movie so bad that even Madonna tried to keep it from being released. | August 24th, 2014 |
| 19 | Cinemadonna - Who's That Girl | Who's that girl? A RAVING PSYCHOPATH, that's who. | August 31st, 2014 |
| 20 | Cinemadonna - Bloodhounds of Broadway | Yet another contender for worst Madonna movie yet. | October 9th, 2014 |
| 21 | Cinemadonna - Dick Tracy | Sooner or later, she always gets her man, even if she doesn't get a good movie to be in. | November 23rd, 2014 |
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