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* ConvectionSchmonvection: Averted when Mark puts Kelsey and David in a situation where they are surrounded by lava everywhere, with even the air being lava (somewhat realistic, as the air rising from the lava is just as deadly hot).
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* ShoutOut: Barry bores Craig and JP J.P. by talking about older Creator/CartoonNetwork and late Creator/HannaBarbera shows they're unfamiliar with, including relatively obscure ones like ''WesternAnimation/SwatKats'' and ''WesternAnimation/SymBionicTitan''. [[LeaningOnTheFourthWall He specifically compares]] Craig and his friends to ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy'' and ''WesternAnimation/CodenameKidsNextDoor''.
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->Written & storyboarded by Katie Aldworth & Ashley Tahilan
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* PaintingTheFourthWall: When Mark tells Kelsey that only the GameMaster can narrate, her InnerMonologue switches to Mark's voices as she says it's like her own life has been taken over.
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When a spat between the Elders of the Creek leaves an opening in their tabletop role-playing game, Kelsey joins the campaign.
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!!Tropes:
* ATasteOfTheirOwnMedicine: As DM, Kelsey nullifies all of Mark's attempts to win an encounter through force (the opposite of what Mark did to Barry) to show how frustrating his own railroading can be.
* BigWhat: Kelsey lets one out when Barry quits the campaign.
* BothSidesHaveAPoint: While Mark runs his campaign like a ControlFreak, his railroading is also because Barry's bizarre tactics risk breaking the narrative Mark had spent hours planning.
* ConvectionSchmonvection: Averted when Mark puts Kelsey and David in a situation where they are surrounded by lava everywhere, with even the air being lava (somewhat realistic, as the air rising from the lava is just as deadly hot).
* DeepImmersionGaming: {{Downplayed}}; the RPG's events are accompanied by sound effects and a changing background, but the characters and table in the foreground are unchanged.
* FeudEpisode: Barry gets fed up with Mark's {{Railroading}} the campaign, so he decides to hang out with Craig and J.P. while Kelsey takes his place. None of the younger three kids can stand Mark as DM or Barry's rambling, so they resolve to get the group back together.
* KillerGameMaster: Kelsey and David's campaign is ended when Mark puts them in an encounter where the monster doesn't even matter because the ceiling, walls, and ''air'' are made of lava. Although we don't see ''how'' they got in such a situation, so it may well be their own fault (for comparison, David's character died because [[TooDumbToLive he decided to drink acid]]).
* OurWerewolvesAreDifferent: The RPG game features a three-headed werewolf.
* PaintingTheFourthWall: When Mark tells Kelsey that only the GameMaster can narrate, her InnerMonologue switches to Mark's voices as she says it's like her own life has been taken over.
* PressXToDie: When faced with a giant centipede in the PRG, David asks if his character can ''drink'' its [[AcidAttack acid spit]] [[PowerCopying to gain its power]]. Mark flat-out tells him he'll just die. David figures anything ''else'' will still kill him, and so [[ItAmusedMe does it anyway]].
* {{Railroading}}: After Barry befriends the three-headed werewolf in the game, Mark spitefully makes the werewolf a zombie immune to friendship spells. This is what makes Barry quit the campaign. Mark is a bit more permissive when Kelsey plays (even begrudgingly letting her [[SequenceBreaking skip a subquest through brute force]]), but still makes her use a character he made to replace Barry's.
* ReplacementGoldfish: Mark blatantly treats Kelsey as a substitute for Barry, going so far as to make her play Barry's character and wear his (horribly oversized for her) armor.
* RPGEpisode: It starts with the trio watching a live-stream of the Elders playing, then Kelsey takes over for Barry after he quits.
* SequenceBreaking: Kelsey skips a quest to get a treasure map when she assumes the quest-giver is a thief and more or less mugs him. Mark allows it, but complains that he'd spent hours on the parts they're missing entirely.
* ShoutOut: Barry bores Craig and JP by talking about older Creator/CartoonNetwork and late Creator/HannaBarbera shows they're unfamiliar with, including relatively obscure ones like ''WesternAnimation/SwatKats'' and ''WesternAnimation/SymBionicTitan''. [[LeaningOnTheFourthWall He specifically compares]] Craig and his friends to ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy'' and ''WesternAnimation/CodenameKidsNextDoor''.
* {{Squee}}: Kelsey reaction to Mark's inviting her to join their RPG in Barry's place.
* TalkingTheMonsterToDeath: Mark gets mad at Barry for wanting to befriend enemies instead of fighting them. In the game Kelsey makes the Elders play, they face an ogre that is too strong for all attacks, and can only be defeated by befriending it.
* ThirdWheel: Barry decides to hang around with Craig and J.P., but keeps derailing all of their activities and conversations to talk about cartoons they've never seen.
* TwoDecadesBehind: Zig-zagged; most of the cartoons Barry mentions shouldn't just be before Craig and J.P.'s time, but his as well (including ''WesternAnimation/ThePiratesOfDarkWater'', which is almost ''thirty'' years old). However, he covers a pretty wide time range (the most recent was ''WesternAnimation/SymBionicTitan''), suggesting Barry watched them archived, even if his tone makes it ''sounds'' like he saw them when they were new. (It should be noted that the older Hanna-Barbera shows had Cartoon Network reruns contemporaneously to the premiere runs of the first Cartoon Cartoons.)
* WhenAllYouHaveIsAHammer: Kelsey's solution to all her encounters in the game, even seemingly innocuous ones like a bard and a miner dwarf, is to attack with her sword (which Mark interprets as "intimidate into doing what I want").
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!!Tropes:
* ATasteOfTheirOwnMedicine: As DM, Kelsey nullifies all of Mark's attempts to win an encounter through force (the opposite of what Mark did to Barry) to show how frustrating his own railroading can be.
* BigWhat: Kelsey lets one out when Barry quits the campaign.
* BothSidesHaveAPoint: While Mark runs his campaign like a ControlFreak, his railroading is also because Barry's bizarre tactics risk breaking the narrative Mark had spent hours planning.
* ConvectionSchmonvection: Averted when Mark puts Kelsey and David in a situation where they are surrounded by lava everywhere, with even the air being lava (somewhat realistic, as the air rising from the lava is just as deadly hot).
* DeepImmersionGaming: {{Downplayed}}; the RPG's events are accompanied by sound effects and a changing background, but the characters and table in the foreground are unchanged.
* FeudEpisode: Barry gets fed up with Mark's {{Railroading}} the campaign, so he decides to hang out with Craig and J.P. while Kelsey takes his place. None of the younger three kids can stand Mark as DM or Barry's rambling, so they resolve to get the group back together.
* KillerGameMaster: Kelsey and David's campaign is ended when Mark puts them in an encounter where the monster doesn't even matter because the ceiling, walls, and ''air'' are made of lava. Although we don't see ''how'' they got in such a situation, so it may well be their own fault (for comparison, David's character died because [[TooDumbToLive he decided to drink acid]]).
* OurWerewolvesAreDifferent: The RPG game features a three-headed werewolf.
* PaintingTheFourthWall: When Mark tells Kelsey that only the GameMaster can narrate, her InnerMonologue switches to Mark's voices as she says it's like her own life has been taken over.
* PressXToDie: When faced with a giant centipede in the PRG, David asks if his character can ''drink'' its [[AcidAttack acid spit]] [[PowerCopying to gain its power]]. Mark flat-out tells him he'll just die. David figures anything ''else'' will still kill him, and so [[ItAmusedMe does it anyway]].
* {{Railroading}}: After Barry befriends the three-headed werewolf in the game, Mark spitefully makes the werewolf a zombie immune to friendship spells. This is what makes Barry quit the campaign. Mark is a bit more permissive when Kelsey plays (even begrudgingly letting her [[SequenceBreaking skip a subquest through brute force]]), but still makes her use a character he made to replace Barry's.
* ReplacementGoldfish: Mark blatantly treats Kelsey as a substitute for Barry, going so far as to make her play Barry's character and wear his (horribly oversized for her) armor.
* RPGEpisode: It starts with the trio watching a live-stream of the Elders playing, then Kelsey takes over for Barry after he quits.
* SequenceBreaking: Kelsey skips a quest to get a treasure map when she assumes the quest-giver is a thief and more or less mugs him. Mark allows it, but complains that he'd spent hours on the parts they're missing entirely.
* ShoutOut: Barry bores Craig and JP by talking about older Creator/CartoonNetwork and late Creator/HannaBarbera shows they're unfamiliar with, including relatively obscure ones like ''WesternAnimation/SwatKats'' and ''WesternAnimation/SymBionicTitan''. [[LeaningOnTheFourthWall He specifically compares]] Craig and his friends to ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy'' and ''WesternAnimation/CodenameKidsNextDoor''.
* {{Squee}}: Kelsey reaction to Mark's inviting her to join their RPG in Barry's place.
* TalkingTheMonsterToDeath: Mark gets mad at Barry for wanting to befriend enemies instead of fighting them. In the game Kelsey makes the Elders play, they face an ogre that is too strong for all attacks, and can only be defeated by befriending it.
* ThirdWheel: Barry decides to hang around with Craig and J.P., but keeps derailing all of their activities and conversations to talk about cartoons they've never seen.
* TwoDecadesBehind: Zig-zagged; most of the cartoons Barry mentions shouldn't just be before Craig and J.P.'s time, but his as well (including ''WesternAnimation/ThePiratesOfDarkWater'', which is almost ''thirty'' years old). However, he covers a pretty wide time range (the most recent was ''WesternAnimation/SymBionicTitan''), suggesting Barry watched them archived, even if his tone makes it ''sounds'' like he saw them when they were new. (It should be noted that the older Hanna-Barbera shows had Cartoon Network reruns contemporaneously to the premiere runs of the first Cartoon Cartoons.)
* WhenAllYouHaveIsAHammer: Kelsey's solution to all her encounters in the game, even seemingly innocuous ones like a bard and a miner dwarf, is to attack with her sword (which Mark interprets as "intimidate into doing what I want").
