7 Pun Achievements So Painful You’ll Need Paracetamol 

I truly love the idea this video was made by Ellen holding Mike hostage and forcing him to sit through all these puns refusing to let him leave until this foul work is completed

In this video Mike truly went to 'Ellen back'... Edit: He really 'Rose' to the occasion.

I said it at the beginning of the year, and I'll say it again: the return to the studio has really seen an abstraction of the formerly rigid list-video form by the OX crew. Larger, overarching gags; increased breaking (or ignoring) of the fourth wall; a general lowering of the pretense that any institution is as put together as it tries to seem, but without losing the professionalism or quality of the product that institution creates. It's really lovely to behold.

Mike, after the fish puns: "What is happening to me?!" Ellen, under her breath in the background: "One of us, one of us.."

Mike and Ellen giving full on siblings in the back of the car energy.

Andy, watching Mike suffer after years of enduring him playing 'stealth' games: YES, YOUR FRUSTRATION TASTES LIKE VICTORY

So, now we know what happens when Ellen is left alone without Luke, nothing but pun videos. I applaud this!!

With how prevalent puns are in achievement names, I kinda assumed they were just studios competing with each other in some secret annual pun competition.

For the Uncharted 3 achievement, I'm shocked it wasn't called "Holy Smackerel!"

I haven't laughed this much in ages. Ellen is utterly irrepressible with her wordplay, and her cheeky delivery is a pure delight! Please do a follow-up!

I'm with Ellen when it comes to puns. Yes, they can be awful and I'll shake my head at them, but I also can't help laughing at them, and also just making a bunch of stupid puns. I now feel the urge to go play Portal 2. I love GLaDOS's lines so much. One of my favorite bits of that room is also GLaDOS calling Chell garbage 3 times. First being pretty subtle, then about taking out the trash, and then a third time with her just saying she called you garbage a second time because you didn't react to the first one; thereby technically calling you garbage 3 times.

In Mega Man 11, Fuse Man, an electricity themed robot, says nothing but electricity based puns, like "Assault and Battery."

Resident Evil 8’s “Not Lycan This” Achievement made me laugh too hard the first time I saw it.

I would love to give my expert opinion on puns. Sadly, I'm no pundit.

These puns are so painful one could call them 'pun-ishing'...

I'm so happy Ellen got to have such a 'pun' filled time time with this one.

I can FEEL Mike's soul wither away after each entry

I’m on Ellen’s side, puns are fantastic and Ellen saying “ursine of the times” was absolutely PUNderful.

I can’t speak for the entire oxboxtra audience (but im gonna), an Ellen pun-o-orama video is one of the best formats on this platform. The pun-ishing psychic damage caused to the rest of the team and implication that Mike is being held hostage to create this masterpiece makes for an... arresting proposition. Ok i’ll stop now lol

*Deep sigh* “To be fair that is a classic.” I’m dying! at Mike 😂😂

Love the Lego games, in general. They're great for me to play with my kids early on, but they're also fun for relaxing and exploring on my own, too. The achievements add a bit more fun to them. My personal favorite is "Do I know you?" if you pair up Captain America and the Human Torch on the first Lego Marvel Super Heroes game (think of the movies if you don't get it). Also, my son loved getting crowds dancing with Starlord so much that he'd bring the game near-crashing with the massive crowds he'd collect.

I love how genuinely confused Mike looked when Ellen referenced Toploader. I like to think the "how the f**k do you know two Toploader songs?" line was unscripted

I'm still waiting to see my favorite one on one of these lists from Legendary (2008). "DouBull TroBull" for defeating 2 minotaurs at once. Not only is this a bad pun, but it's made better by the fact you immediately got a 2nd achievement called "I owe you an apology" where the lead designer apologizes for the bad pun and gives you free points.

Getting Mike on as Ellen's counterpart here was a stroke of genius!

I’m sorry Mike. Have you considered an intervention for Ellen? You could gather the rest of the staff and serve some PUNch. 🤣

I just love the variety of things this channel covers. This randomness is why I subbed 2 years ago. Keep it up.

Pundamental indeed! In fact, while it might be eggs-treme to call many of the yokes here "puns", I'd say it'd be shell-fish to keep Ellen from having a cracking good time! Keep it up, guys!

You know what I love about Ellen's puns? She always thinks outside the xbox for them

I can't decide what I love more about this video, Ellen's enjoyment of delivering the puns or Mike's annoyance at them. Both. It's probably both

This was one of the best 7 list you guys have done a long time. My wife and I were howling with laughter when Mike helped Ellen off the stage. Big love to Mike for tanking his way through this one. :)

Not sure what's worse, that all those bear puns are also in Oxventure, or that I still laughed

In Minecraft, when you travel 500m in a single direction in a minecart, you get the achievement “On a Rail”.

"That was a pun, or play on words." As Death would say.

Ellen finally gets her own video to enthusiastically do, like Mike with "cars don't work that way" and weird driving games, and Andy's hitman kills and weirdest fighting games :D edit: 3:54 oh no he's infected

This is pun-demonium, and it's given me a lot to pun-der. Ellen's clearly glad this is hap-pun-ing, though Mike seems to find the whole thing re-pun-gnant. A truly pun-derful experience

i absolutely LOVE it when they fail to stick to the script without breaking. "clickbait and switch" genuinely had both of them reacting in their respective ways and it was DELIGHTFUL.

Things were getting a little "grizzly" at the end there 😁

Just to add to it: In 2004 Valve released a making of Half-Life 2 coffee table book called "Raising The Bar". Truly masters in the way of the pun.

I love puns Especially when it involves word play Brilliant

Just yesterday, I got an achievement in Jedi: Fallen Order for exploring the crashed ship on Zeffo. It was titled "Alderaan Places."

Just lock Ellen in the pun-ishment room. (I'm sorry, I regret my actions 😞)

The "Over the Brink" achievement in Torchlight 2 is one I can't forget. You get it after defeating Brink, an NPC who's been helping you but turns monstrous.

God, I need this dynamic more. Are Barnaby and Lilith going to be the next non-group session of Blades in the Dark?

Love how the bear puns from early Oxventure made a come back.

I love how Mike just gets more and more exasperated as the video goes on (and how he's not allowed to leave 😂)

We love you Ellen. Don't ever change.

You two really smashed this out of the park, mike struggling not to laugh with the fishing puns was very enjoyable. Great back and forth banter here, love to see you back in the studio after COVID.

I love some of the jokes in the Uncharted series. Like in #3 when they're in the town under siege, they've climbed to the roof with a pool. If you mess around there long enough there's a little Easter Egg dialogue where he goads her into playing Marco Polo while he's in the water & she's out, then calls her out for it.

In Total War Rome 2, you can also get pun achievements like "Thats my Boii" for completing the campaign using Boii, "Struck a Nervii" for completing the campaign using the Nervii, or "Backtria to the future" for completing the campaign using Bactria.. My favorite one is "Thrace for Impact", you get that after completing the campaign with Odrysian kingdom referring your kingdom's home province which is Thrace 🤣

I'm aware it's extremely outside your wheelhouse, but...Europa Universalis IV has to be mentioned. Sure, like a lot of strategy games, it has loads of achievements (334 currently). But I went through the list on Steam, and I reckon that at least 35 (so over 10%) are puns, the worst of which is probably "Spaghetti Western", for starting as Bologna and forming Texas (or Mexico).

Halo Master Chief collection has a slew of pun achievements. For example beat Halo CE's the maw with par score and you get the All you can eat achievement.

To this day, one of the only things I remember the game NeverDead for is a brilliant bit of achievement wordplay. At one point you need to rescue some people by getting them to a helicopter. You do so, get an achievement called "Evacuation Plan", then seconds later the helicopter is destroyed and the achievement "Premature Evacuation" pops. I also remember it for Dave Mustaine's completely dull original music.

The bear one was just Grizzly

Awesome video can't wait for part's 2, 3 and beyond. 😉 🤞

Best episode yet! Bring on the puns!!!

Octodad: Dadliest Catch had a tie with a hen on it. The description: I've seen enough hen ties to know where this is going

Guess you could say mike was baited into those fish puns.

"How the **** do you know TWO Toploader songs?" made me CACKLE

This is why Ellen is exceptionally excellent! 1) She knows puns R fun 2) She allows for an appreciable amount of awesome alliteration 3) She throws out rhymes from time to time 4) She not above a little innuendo in-your-end-though. In short, she a truly cunning-linguist.

🤩 This video seems like such a great pun-ishment for anyone that doesn’t appreciate fun kinds of wordplay so thanks for creating this awesome clip!

I knew there was a reason as to why Ellen has always been my favorite.

Idea for Oxventure. The adventurers have to defeat an enemy only with puns.

3:32 What do you mean by 'REJECTED' Monty Python? Fish slapping dance is a classic!

Fun analysis & list video! Thanks for uploading!

It’s great to see that even with her regular partner ELLEN ROSE to the occasion...

Looked it up... Paracetamol is called Acetaminophen in the US and is the active ingredient in Tylenol. Just in case anyone else was wondering what the heck they were talking about.

I’ve been watching this channel for years, and this is by far my favorite video.

Ellens energy was just *chefs kisses* from the get go, matching the theme of the vidoe perfectly. There's countless achievement puns in almost every single game, so I doubt a commenters vidoe will be made

Be wary guys... If you take one paracetamol per Pun, then you MUST limit your daily supply to 8 puns/day

Ellen is just awesome

Ellen, the entire Ratchet and Clank series is built on two things innuendo and puns(and crunch but that's something for another time)

I'm very much in the Ellen camp. We need more pun filled videos and yes, Mike has to be in them all!!!!

They did the fish pun for the halibut

_"They're pundamental to the channel!"_ It is at times like these I am sad I have but one upvote to give. (Also 👻👻👻, obviously) Stray has several as well. There's "A little chatty" for meowing 100 times (remember your french) and "Can't Cat-ch me" for ... well, that'd be a spoiler. As would several others. There's also another cat game called "Catlateral Damage". The name alone should say enough, but it has things like the obvious "Catastrophe", and "Night at the Mewseum" and "All Pawerful". Hmm ... I wonder if there is a correlation between liking cats and puns.

I love pun security Mike escorting Ellen out of the building. Hopefully her crimes won't go un-pun-ished

I have never identified with Mike more. I sincerely hope he got a bonus for this.

I never understood pun hate

Ellen I love you! You are soooo punny! I wanna watch a bunch of shows with you and try to come up with ALL the puns!

My favourite punny achievement is also from Lego Harry Potter Years 1-4. There's an achievement if you use Polyjuice Potion to turn into Severus Snape and then hide inside a barrel: Solid Snape.

I love this episode. The world needs more puns.

Excellent video. I can imagine all the giggling during it's production.

Ok, now we need a video where Ellen makes Pun-Combos and see how many hits she can dish out in one go. Best she had was a 3 hit combo at the end of this one, I believe she can do way more then that.

I love that Mike hates the puns and all these achievements, while Ellen explains why each pun is amazing and so funny. perfect balance

This. This is the quality content that keeps me coming back.

I remember in the game Legendary for Xbox 360 there was an achievement for defeating two Minotaurs that attack you, and you get an achievement called DouBull TrouBull, then another achievement immediately afterwards apologizing for the pun. That pun has stuck with me for over a decade

I could watch an entire video dedicated to Ellen's puns! SUPER funny!

I wish I could ever be as happy and content in life as Ellen when she's talking about puns...

Mike's grunt at 10:03 is me when the meeting's not over yet.

I do not have the words to convey how much I loved this. Puns. Always puns.

I love puns they are a balm for my soul :) Ellens are always fantastic, especially when they are bad

Never stop Ellen. We're here for the puns.

@0:08 Well played, Ellen!

No, Mike! Never ever stop Ellen's punage. It is one of my absolute favourite parts of the OX experience.

This video has fully cemented Ellen as my favorite member of the team xD

Mike holding the clipboard with a confused face could be a beautiful template

This one just made me smile quite a lot, after the workday I've had. There's one thing I wonder [and I might scare myself for saying this]: What would've happened if Ian guest starred on this list? Ian always has a way of messing Aoife up in mid-thought and have Zoe want to lock him up in a broom closet somewhere. Ellen and Ian doing puns together in a list video. Hmm..., then again..., I owe Mike an apology for making him crazy beyond internationally accepted standards. [Oops!!] Thank you both so much. 👍🏾

This video was puntastic. Thanks for sharing.

Eeeheehee~! **giddy applause** The more painful the pun, the better!! xD **starts chanting “pundimental” over and over in the background** Puns that assault your very soul? Could you say they’re… PUNishing?? Or is that joke too pun-dimensional? Eh? Ehh?? … I’m not sorry. ^_^ “Well, well, well” is, and always will be, one on my favourite puns. It’s not very deep, but I still dig it. :D Mike’s series of increasingly horrified puns after the Nathan Drake bit went swimmingly, even if the poor guy looked like he was feeling like a fish out of water for a minute there. xD Too bad Ellen’s follow-up joke to the Turret-dactyl pun… didn’t land! XD I tried to think of a pun about the freakers that you could really sink your teeth into, but every attempt just felt so lifeless. xD I’m not sure which was funnier, the line “Clickbait n’ switch” or Mike’s giggling booing from off camera. Oh, and Ellen did a punderful job, I could never pun-up her performance here. In fact, I could BEARly contain my delight! Definitely a claws for celebration. xD … I regret nothing!!! **flees**

God I love these puns, this whole video made me grin more than I ever usually do XD

Neverwinter has a few pun achievements. One example is found within their Chult module. There are several hostile animals in the jungle, and if you kill a lion, a tiger, and a bear, you receive the "Oh, my!" achievement. Another can be found if you complete the Lair of the Mad Mage dungeon. Upon doing so, you are awarded the "Player of the Mad Mage" achievement.