Chester A Bum

Chester A. Bum is a movie reviewer on thatguywiththeglasses.com and is perhaps the second most well-known character created by Doug Walker behind TheNostalgiaCritic. Chester is depicted as a homeless person who reviews recently released films.

Chester's M.O. is to apparently sneak into movie theaters in order to be inside "a warm building" and chooses to give his opinions on the movies he sees there. His character is a stark contrast to the Nostalgia Critic, as he almost always gives the moveis glowing reviews; in fact he opens every video with his trademark line," Oh my god, this is the greatest movie I've ever seen in my life!" He then proceeds to give a fast-paced recap of the film shot in a series of jump cuts, while making references to his own por living conditions, his drug addictions and suggesting that things that happened to the characters in the film also happened tohim at one point. At the end, he wraps thing up with "This is Chester A. Bum saying: CHANGE?? YA GOT CHANGE??? Ah come on, help a guy out will ya?? C'mon, change!!!" while waving a small styrofoam cup at the camera.

The "Bum Reviews" show is also different from "The Nostalgia Critic" in that Walker does not completely script the videos ahead of time, usually going on the fly while the camera is rolling (which likely causes the need for the jump cuts).

The Bum has appeared on episodes of "The Nostalgia Critic," revieweing movies there in his own style. When the Critic broke down and declared he couldn't snark on the Sesame Street movie Follow That Bird, he brought in Chester to finish the review. On April Fools Day 2009, appeared solo in an episode to review The Neverending Story while the Critic appeared on "Ask That Guy" and That Guy was on Bum Reviews.

The Bum character has been parodied numerous times by other contributors to TGWTG. Linkara appeard as Lester B. Bum in an April Fools Day video to review the Watchmen graphic novel. TheSpoonyOne also created the Spoony Bum character, but he was not well recieved by his own fans, and Spoony often made fun of creating the character before killing him off in his Final Fantasy X review.