History Podcast / PeculiarObjects

* ShoutOut: One of the mysterious ''VideoGame/{{Polybius}}'' machines appears at The Four Corners soda parlor, which immediately makes the players ''much'' more nervous about the already-unsettling events unfolding in Spencer's Folly.

** Season Two reveals that there's ''another'' ''VideoGame/{{Polybius}}'' machine in the arcade at the movies, which raises the question: "What the hell is happening in Spencer's Folly that the government needs ''TWO'' sinister, mysterious arcade games gathering data and/or brainwashing people there?"

* OneSteveLimit: Averted by having Marshall Redwood, Fire Marshal Dave[[note]]that asshole[[/note]], mention of Kitt Russell (self-styled Marshall of Spencer's Folly and surrounding environs) and an ''[[JustForPun actual Steve]]''.

** [[spoiler: "[[NamesTheSame Kitt Russel,]]]] what are we going to do with you?"

* WhamLine:[[spoiler: "[[NamesTheSame Kitt Russel,]]]] what are we going to do with you?"

* AncientConspiracy: The cult comprised of several dozen of the town's youths appeared at first to be this, then began to seem more like an AncientOrderOfProtectors; either way they've suffered at least one CriticalResearchFailure and their well-intentioned actions may have done more harm than good.

* BlackSpeech: Used in the cult's midnight ritual; it certainly accomplished ''something'', [[CriticalResearchFailure but perhaps not what they thought it would]].

* NiceJobBreakingItHero: The cult attempting to protect Spencer's Folly from the presence in The Woods performed what they thought was a ritual of cleansing to ward the town against the lurking darkness, but a CriticalResearchFailure resulted in the performance of [[FromBadToWorse a different ritual entirely]].

Peculiar Objects is a Kids On Bikes actual-play podcast from Semiautomagic, Inc., set in Spencer's Folly, a small town on the Alaska/Canada border in the year 198X. It seeks to actively emulate all of your favorite 80's child-adventure movies while telling an original story about the evil lurking in the heart of a friendly town nestled deep in the moosewood trees.

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[[folder: Season One]]

** All three boys are film nerds of various kinds, but Thony and Nigel are especially knowledgeable about the cinema of Main/FilmsOfThe1980s and the SlasherMovie.

* BerserkButton:
** Only the brave or the foolhardy dare besmirch Film/TheLostBoys in Nigel's presence.

* DistractedByTheSexy: Oddie struggles valiantly against this while attempting to reconnoiter during a showing of {{Film/Porkys}}, and aside his collar involuntarily popping does very well.

* {{VideoGame/Polybius}}: One of the mysterious machines appears at The Four Corners soda parlor, which immediately makes the players ''much'' more nervous about the already-unsettling events unfolding in Spencer's Folly.

* {{Troper}}: All three hosts are fans of story structure and film and are proof positive that JustForFun/TVTropesWillRuinYourVocabulary.

[[folder: Season Two]]

** That asshole Fire Marshal Dave for [=DeSoto=]. [[spoiler: Considering that he’s dating [=DeSoto=]'s mom, this is pretty clearly justified.]]

* InsistentTerminology: ‘’Popacorn.’’

* LastNameBasis: [=DeSoto=], with one .

* [[Main/VideoGame Polybius]]: Season Two reveals that there’s ''another'' Polybius machine in the arcade at the movies, which raises the question: ‘’What the hell is happening in Spencer’s Folly that the government needs ''TWO'' sinister, mysterious arcade games gathering data and/or brainwashing people there?’’

** Jamal: "I'm thinking I'm probably gonna have sex with Cassandra at some point."
**K.R.: "I'm probably gonna have sex with Ashley at some point."
**[=DeSoto=]: "Ms. Erickson and Mr. Thomas are probably gonna have sex at some point."

* ShoutOut: [=DeSoto=] referring to his customers as 'Friends of [=DeSoto=]' is a nod to the Star Trek podcast The Greatest Generation, whose listeners us the phrase as a shibboleth to identify each other.

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** That asshole Fire Marshal Dave for [=DeSoto=]. [[spoiler: Considering that he’s dating DeSoto’s mom, this is pretty clearly justified.]]

* OneSteveLimit: Averted by having Marshall Redwood, [[note]]that asshole[[/note]]Fire Marshal Dave, mention of Kitt Russell [[note]] Marshall of Spencer's Folly and surrounding environs[[/note]] and an ''[[JustForPun actual Steve]]''.

* GivenNameReveal: [[spoiler: "Bonjour, Jubilee."]]

* ParentWithNewParamour: DeSoto's mother is currently dating [[spoiler: Fire Marshall Dave]], and her son is ''not'' happy about it. Jamal also begins to [[StacysMom qualify]], though how serious he is and to what extent he's just being a teen horndog and/or [[ForTheLulz a dick]] to [=DeSoto=] is unknowable.

** That asshole Fire Marshal Dave for [=DeSoto=]. [[spoiler: Justified in that he’s dating DeSoto’s mom, and the latter is NOT happy about it.]]

* Foreshadowing: Hints began dropping fairly early that [[spoiler: [=DeSoto=]'s mother, Remi is a cop; prior to the reveal it was natural for the listener to assume that his reluctance to meet with law enforcement was something of an occupational hazard]].

* LastNameBasis: [=DeSoto=].

* ParentWithNewParamour: DeSoto's mother is currently dating [[spoiler: Fire Marshall Dave]], and her son is ''not'' happy about it. Jamal also begins to [[StaceysMom qualify]], though how serious he is and to what extent he's just being a teen horndog and/or being a dick is unknowable.

* Polybius: Season Two reveals that there’s ''another'' Polybius machine in the arcade at the movies, which raises the question: ‘’What the hell is happening in Spencer’s Folly that the government needs ''TWO'' sinister, mysterious arcade games gathering data and/or brainwashing people there?’’