History Podcast / TheDollop

* UnfortunateImplications (InUniverse): The end of the Noid as Domino's Pizza mascot came as a result of an attack by Kenneth Lamar Noid, a mentally disturbed man who thought the Noid advertising campaign was a personal attack against him, to a Domino's Pizza franchise in the late 80s, and his suicide some short time after, as explained in the ''The Domino's Pizza Story'' episode.

* ApocalypticLog: The flight log on Fedex Flight 705, which Dave and Gareth read with gusto [[spoiler:as Auburn Calloway enters the cockpit and starts trying to [[DroptheHammer kill the crew with hammers.]]]]

* BigScrewedUpFamily: Too many examples to list, though Carrie Moore's still stand out. (A mother who believed she was Queen Victoria, an aunt who thought she was a weather vane, and a cousin who only walked on all fours, to name a few.)

* AmbiguousDisorder:
** Rube Waddell, who seemed to have the attention span of a squirrel while being a baseball savant, and whose irrepressible oddities ranged from juvenile (running after fire engines to help them, sometimes [[BattleStrip ripping off his uniform to reveal a "costume" of red long underwear]]) to animalistic (being hypnotized by a shiny spoon like a chicken). Teammates claimed he could read, though they never clarified to what extent, suggesting he was functionally illiterate, and he had no memory at all when it came to learning his lines on the stage, so everyone had to improvise around him saying and doing whatever he wanted.
** The Leatherman's obsession with routine (showing up at the same house at the same time on the same date) and complete lack of social skills hint at this.
** Charles Sumner, once described by his sister as very cold, distant and reserved despite the genuine affection he held for friends and family, and who was so uncomprehending of humor that he would express complete bafflement at his friends' jokes and asides, immediately debating them as if they were false allegations. Dave pegs him as likely somewhere on the autistic spectrum.

* ADateWithRosiePalms: The hosts enjoy portraying David Hahn's parents as ''begging'' him to just masturbate instead of spending all his time messing with dangerous chemicals.

* IncrediblyLamePun: Dave gets a groan out the audience for explaining that Dan Morgan's brief gold prospecting venture didn't pan out.

** John [=DeLorean=], who went from the multi-millionaire rebel wunderkind of General Motors and later CEO of his own car company to spending the last ten years of his life living on Social Security.

* EveryCarIsAPinto:
** You'd think the Pinto's tendency to explode would have disqualified it from the running as the model for a flying car wouldn't you?

** Dave [[NoPronunciationGuide having trouble pronouncing]] the various exotic names that crop up and getting upset when people keep correcting him.

* NoPronunciationGuide: The difficulty of correctly pronouncing unfamiliar names is an endless source of frustration for Dave. It almost becomes a drinking game when he does episodes in Australia.
** Inverted in the "Steven Seagal" episodes, where Gareth is initially convinced that Dave is mispronouncing Seagal's name, only to learn that Seagal changed it himself.

* NamesTheSame: (InUniverse):
** Towns in Indiana with names identical to famous foreign cities (and a man called Eddie Murphy) appear with strange frequency in the episode "Bank Robber Harry Pierpont".
** Notoriously corrupt Philadelphia mayor Frank Rizzo, who shares a name with a Jerky Boys character.

* AllForNothing: In "The 1908 Race from New York to Paris," the entire reason that the titular race took place during the winter was so that the cars would be able to drive across the Bering Strait when it froze. However,[[invoked]] [[CriticalResearchFailure not only does the Bering Strait not freeze in winter]], but it was also literally impossible for any car to even come ''close'' to the Bering Strait through Alaska's inhospitable terrain, so the racers were forced to take a ship to Japan and Russia, meaning there was no reason that the race could not have been held during a warmer time of year.

* OfferedTheCrown: The orchestrators of "The Business Plot" approached retired Marine Corp General Smedley Butler and offered to make him the dictator of a new American fascist regime [[CriticalResearchFailure not knowing that he was an outspoken socialist.]] He refused and turned them in.

--->'''Gareth:''' I kinda miss when I knew nothing. It was a simpler time.[[note]]Episode 356 -- "The Resnicks: Water Monsters"[[/note]]

-->'''Dave:''' "Billy VI" is here.\\

-->'''Gareth:''' I kinda miss when I knew nothing. It was a simpler time.[[note]]Episode 356 -- "The Resnicks: Water Monsters"[[/note]]

* GeorgeJetsonJobSecurity: Over the course of the two-parter on Billy Martin, George Steinbrenner, for reasons ranging from disciplinary to inexplicable, fires and then rehires Billy as Yankees manager no less than ''five times'' -- usually canning him ''after'' he'd rallied the team to a successful season, then taking him back after public outcry or the subsequent season going badly, then firing him again, and so on. Plans were already in place for Billy to begin a sixth stint in 1989, and would've gone through if he hadn't died soon after in a Christmas drunk-driving accident. At a certain point, Gareth stops trying to see any logic in it.

* ILoveNuclearPower: "The story of David Hann, a boy who loved science and [[GoneHorriblyRight did a bad thing]]."

* AwesomeMcCoolname: Some of the names brought up during "The Two Indigenous Actors" are darn cool, like 'Silverheels', 'Iron Eyes', 'Thunderbear'.