| “ | Greetings and Salutations, my beautiful people, and welcome to the Caddicarus show, where I have to do the dirty deed of deciding whether or not a game deserves to be Slaughtered or Salvaged | ” |
―Caddicarus' salute in The Caddicarus Show before 2020 | ||
Jim Lazarus "Caddy" Caddick[1] (born: James Caddick; June 19, 1994), better known online as Caddicarus, is an English YouTuber who does video game reviews, retrospectives, and many other types of videos revolving around video games as well as occasionally covering other topics. Caddy has been one of the six Hidden Block members since March 2013, when the site was created.
History[]
Caddy first created his YouTube channel on September 10, 2011 when he was 17, but his first videos were very different to his current ones. The videos were he created were random comedy sketches and music videos similar to that of Tobuscus, Caddy's main inspiration at the time. After amassing less than 200 subscribers, Caddy tried game reviewing and uploaded his first video game review, which covered the PlayStation 1 game Rascal Racers, in May 2012. The video was made originally as an 'audition tape' for NormalBoots when they were still recruiting creators.
Despite Caddy being rejected, from here his channel grew in popularity and he began making gaming videos full time and developed several unique troupes to his videos; such as his iconic opening theme tune and him rating the games he reviews by either "slaughtering" them (for games he dislikes) or "salvaging" them (for games he likes). Caddy would expand into more shows alongside 'The Caddicarus Show', such as 'Current Quickies', 'Caddy's Retrospectives', 'Tinker Time' and 'Drive-Thru Reviews'.
In February 2016, Caddy made major changes to his upload schedule, which included him discontinuing most of his side shows aside from 'Current Quickies', and The Caddicarus Show being now uploaded weekly on a Sunday.
In January 2017, Caddy discontinued 'Current Quickies', since he had grown tired of the formula, and launched a new show simply called 'Caddy', which covers new games, drum covers and various other gaming topics. In August 2018, Caddy announced that 'The Caddicarus Show' would undergo further changes, such as getting moved to Saturday (for no disclosed reason) and the removal of the 'Slaughter or Salvage' verdict.
Starting from 2020, 'The Caddicarus Show' is now no longer uploaded on a set weekly schedule and instead is released on a rough schedule to allow for Caddy to put more time and effort into the videos. The videos no longer look at individual games (aside from specific occasions), have notably longer runtimes, are less focused on critically analysing games, and no longer have a consistent schedule.
Shows[]
Current shows[]
- The Caddicarus Show - Caddy's main show that covers video games, franchises, top 10s as well as occasional non-gaming related topics
Special shows[]
- Bandicoot Month - annual show since 2017, the month sees Caddy cover exclusively Crash Bandicoot-related videos for the entire month of June. Also jokingly dubbed "Bandiconth" and "Junedicoot".
- The Cadvent Calendar - 2016 Christmas Special, the series saw Caddy count down his top 25 favourite games of all times across the month of December.
- The Badvent Calendar - 2018 Christmas Special, the series saw Caddy count down his top 25 least favourite games of all time across the month of December.
Former shows[]
- Current Quickies - a series where Caddy (as the character Quick J. Hoarsethroat) reviews new games, while speaking very quickly. Series was cancelled in January 2017 due to Caddy being tired of the formula.
- Caddy's Retrospectives - a series where Caddy reviews 3 games in a certain older game franchise in depth. Cancelled in February 2016 to focus more on the main show.
- Tinker Time - a series where Caddy talks about a game he has been playing recently unscripted. Cancelled in February 2016 to focus more on the main show.
- Drive-Thru Reviews - a series where Caddy makes a short, quick fire review of a random game. Again cancelled in February 2016 to focus more on the main show.
- Today's Special - Caddy talks about a game in depth with a restaurant theme. Technically not a show as it lasted only one episode.
- The Puppicarus Show - a self-parody of the Caddicarus show made by Caddy's girlfriend Cerys. Also cancelled in February 2016 to focus more on the main show.
- Caddy's Film Fridays/CINEMAGGOTS - Caddy talks about films either as reviews done by himself or with his step-children. Series later became known as CINEMAGGOTS and was edited by Cerys. Cancelled in 2018 due to Cerys becoming too busy with other work.
- The Caddy Show - a series of videos Caddy makes that are not part of the main show, these include modern game reviews, drum covers, discussions, reactions and 'thoughts on' videos. These were stopped at the start of 2020 due to Caddy majorly changing his upload schedule.
Quotes[]
- "Let's talk about Crash Bandiphewrfueh"
- "Caddicarus Bouns Round!"
- "Hello! I'm Spons!"
- "It's bloody Cash... IT'S CASH BANOOCA!!"
- "HERE WE GOOOO! I'M LOOOONG DENNIS!!"
- "HI I'M COMPOST!"
- "Hello. I'm JC... Jesus Christ."
- "Bob The Building! He's a building! Bob The Building! Ohhhhhhh noooooooo..."
- "Build The Bobder! He's not built yet! Build The Bobder! How... HOW DO WE DO IT?!"
- "It's my cousin, Leg."
- "Oh... the world is still bricks." (when referring to the COVID-19 lockdown)
- "Oh bugger me."
- "THE POLICEMUN."
- "Yahoo. It's-a me. Mario. C'mon children."
- (In a Winnie The Pooh voice) "Oh bother, I just laid that."
- "IT NEEDS TITS JERRY!"
- "Oh!.. SHAVE MY BACK!"
- "It's my evil twin brother BADDY!"
- "HAHA! BONJOUR SMALL PERSON! IT'S YOUR FAVORITE CHEF WHO LEAVES HAIR IN YOUR SOUP, SAM WIDGE!"
- (in Mickey Mouse voice) "MAKE ME A SANDWHICH BITCH!"
- "This is Jim... he lives in the skip."
- (To the tune of his channel's opening jingle) "CAR-DI-AC ARREEEEEEST!"
- "You know what else we want to put down, Toddlers. But that's not legal-"
- (to the tune of You Are A Pirate from Lazy Town) "Do what you want cause a pirate is free, you are an anus!"
- "Georgie Peorgie pudding and pie! Kissed the girls and made them- CHEAT AT VIDEO GAMES."
- "You make your videos on Crash's pants, don't you?"
- "Where are you? No i didn't say go to New Zealand, i said go and get me new sealant!."
Trivia[]
- Caddy currently lives in Hereford, England with his girlfriend, now fiancée Cerys and her 3 children (Amy, Phoebe, and Chloe), which caused fans to humorously give him the nickname "Daddicarus" or "Daddy Caddy".
- Caddy also has two pets, a Rottweiler named Stan who appears at the end of all the current episodes for a segment called "Stan's Word of The Day" where he approves or disapproves a statement or joke posted online, and a cat named Eevee, who's recently appeared in the Spyro video and Eyetoy video.
- On December 11, 2016 on Twitter, Caddy announced that he'll go by Jim rather than James since he has stated he never liked the name James.[2]
- On January 1, 2021, Caddy announced that he had decided to legally change his name to Jim.[3]
- Caddy's favourite game console is the Sony PlayStation and his favourite game is Bloodborne.
- The name of his channel is a pun of his last name and the game Kid Icarus. Ironically however, Caddy has never played Kid Icarus before and currently has no intentions of doing so.
- He is the older brother of fellow YouTuber Professor Juice.
- In his A Tour of The Room video, it was revealed that he's a cousin of Cormac Neeson, lead singer of the band The Answer.
- He voiced Nibbler in the indie game Buck. He also appeared in the game Asagao Academy along with other Hidden Block crew members.
- He also recently voiced a section of the news in the slig barracks and backup Slig speech in 2021's Oddworld Soulstorm.
- Him and Brutalmoose are enemies in their channels for comedic effect.
- He was one of the hosts of "Did You Know Gaming?", a video game focused blog.
- Caddicarus has ADHD.[4]
- During the week of February 13th, 2024, Jim suffered two severe panic attacks and in a panic posted about it on Twitter. Other creators who are currently in contact with him assert that he is okay.[5]
- As of in his recent videos, Jim often features one off cameos from other content creators such as Scott The Woz and LS Mark.
- The opening jingle of his channel ("CAD-DIC-A-RUUUS") has been attached to his channel for a long time, it has now recently been upgraded and composed by well known musician, Tee Lopes, famous for working on games in the Sonic The Hedgehog franchise, mainly Sonic Mania and Sonic Superstars.
- Jim dedicated a long amount of time to the Crash Bandicoot franchise, since it's his favorite and the third game in the series was the first video game he ever played. As he states in multiple Bandicoot Month Videos.
- The reason why "Bandicoot Month" takes place in June is that Jim was born June 19th 1994 and the month conveniently aligned with the Crash Bandicoot franchise, since the remasters of CTR and the original trilogy released in June.
- Jim has multiple nonsensical nicknames for various game characters, such as Cash Banooca (Crash Bandicoot), Simon The Door (Spyro The Dragon) and Super Martin (Super Mario).
- Jim has gotten every single one of the platinum time trial relics in all Crash Bandicoot games that have them. His original count amounted up to 202 platinum relics all from the first game to the ones on the Gameboy Advance.
- After a grueling and tedious time of playing Crash Bandicoot 4: It's About Time to completion, ticking over the completion percentage, his new total amount of platinum relics is now 240.
- Jim's current videos often feature one-off characters that come to give him the next game. The only reoccurring modern ones are "Long Dennis". A long armed and long headed bald man. "Sam Widge", a chef character who only appears to fry or cook bad games, or to make food related to the game.
- One reoccurring character on the show is "Baddy", Jim's evil twin brother who's face is upside down, he is the only reoccurring character from the original show, he originally appeared in his old Crash Twinsanity video as a joke about evil character archetypes, although he's changed a bit and can't really be considered "evil" anymore, since he only really shows up to give Caddy a gift or the next game/accessory in more recent videos..
- In his video "The Exhausting World of Making a Caddicarus Video". Jim reveals that there is a contact clause in which the reoccurring character "Spons" has to do the sponsor segments, that companies that sponsor him have to agree to. Jim hasn't explained why this is the case, simply stating that Spons is more powerful than we could imagine and that it was just funny.
- George Wood, host of the first video game reviewing show known as "Gaming In The Clinton Years" on Youtube, watched Jim's video on his absurd reviews and loved it.[6]
Controversy[]
Insensitive Joke in Disney PS1 Video[]
Through Caddicarus' many years on Youtube, he hasn't had many major controversies, unlike one of his associates The Completionist. However, the one controversy he did have stems from a joke in one of his videos that was removed due to backlash. In the "The Demonic World of Disney PS1 Games" video, there was a joke where Jim played a scene from Mulan with a transphobic joke in it, and laughed and used the t-slur in response. The joke upset many of his fans, many trans viewers as well, which led to Jim making a response where he clarified what the intent of the joke was. The joke was supposed to point out the absurdity of a family friendly company like Disney to make a joke at the expense of the trans community in one of their family animated films. Jim stated that "Even though Disney made the initial joke, I should've chosen a more sensitive way to bring that to light", he apologized to anyone he hurt, took down the now deleted version of the video, and uploaded the current version of the video that's still on his channel today. Fans and non fans have praised Jim's maturity and understanding of the situation, as well as him understanding the impact his jokes have on people.
Gallery[]
References[]
- ↑ https://twitter.com/Caddicarus/status/1650587937132650500
- ↑ https://twitter.com/Caddicarus/status/807996880982515713
- ↑ https://twitter.com/Caddicarus/status/1477081386926358528
- ↑ http://twitter.com/Caddicarus/status/1674770737721229313
- ↑ https://www.reddit.com/r/Caddicarus/comments/1avpdb6/comment/krbwwq6/?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=web2x&context=3
- ↑ https://x.com/FofWood/status/1281042085341278208