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2	[[caption-width-right:350:Terrible things read with enthusiasm]]
3	->''"I can feel my burrito sealing already."''
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5	''The F Plus'' is an {{MST}} [[http://www.thefpl.us podcast]] that focuses on the more horrible aspects of internet culture. Every week, hosts [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold Lemon]] and Boots Raingear, accompanied by a rotating crew of Ridiculists and guest readers, read the weirdest or dumbest posts from a different website, forum, or blog, and make (mostly) good-natured jokes.
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7	Needless to say, there are millions of jokes to be had about internet insanity.
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9	The show now has its own forum [[http://ballp.it/index.php Ballpit]], however, they have yet to make to make an episode on it.
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11	It also has [[http://www.wrongest.website/ a Cards Against Humanity style game, based off statements from the episodes]], and [[http://damn.dog/ a guessing game based off one of their most popular subjects: Wikihow]].
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13	!!Tropes:
14	* TheAlcoholic: The Ridiculists' drinking habits come up from time to time. Lemon, in particular, can be occasionally heard gesturing as he speaks, which is audible from the ice in his drink sloshing around.
15	** Jack Chick decided to record an entire episode by himself, getting progressively drunker as time went on. By the end, he's near-incoherent from both inebriation and [[Angrish frustration]] at having to read crappy poetry.
16	* AnimateInanimateObject: Several of the readers are depicted as these in their avatars, or on Portaxx's animations, usually related to their username. For example, Boots Raingear is a boot, Lemon is a lemon, and Nutshell Gulag is a nut.
17	* {{Angrish}}: Appears whenever a forum post does not follow the laws of proper grammar.
18	* BreakTheCutie: The entire Pokegirls episode was designed to break Portaxx, who is an avid fan of ''Franchise/Pokemon''.
19	* {{Crossover}}: The Creator/HansVonHozel fanfic ''Internet Computer'', which received a dramatic reading on the show, featured Music/TheBeatles facing off against the antagonistic {{Music/ABBA}}.
20	* CallBack: With over three hundred episodes, readers will regularly refer to older podcast subjects when making jokes.
21	* CatchPhrase:
22	** "Readers Assemble!" which was dropped some way into the show's run.
23	** "Goddamnit!"
24	** "YAAAAAAAY!!!!"
25	** "WHY? WHY? WHYYYYY?"
26	** "Yay Victor!"
27	* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: STOG and Kumquatxop.
28	* CuteKitten: STOG is depicted as one.
29	* DeadpanSnarker: Pretty much all of the Ridiculists.
30	* EnsembleCast: While many are regulars, most frequently Boots Raingear and Lemon, the rest of the five-to-six person cast is random.
31	* FoodPorn: Subverted in the All Recipes and raw food episodes. However, the OTHER type of food porn appears in certain episodes.
32	* GenreSavvy: The readers are all too aware of their topics.
33	* InstantWebHit: What temporarily happened upon reddit finding their Wesley Crusher: Teenage F*** Machine reading, this gave an unprecedented spike to the sites visits, and prompted The F Plus's first reddit episode. In the words of Lemon, "you're gonna get traffic from the number 600,000th place on the internet!"
34	* JerkJock: Bunnybread, whose relative lack of immersion into nerdier parts of the internet often have him cast as the OnlySaneMan.
35	--> "My waifu is Tim Tebow because I don't have a reference point for this shit."
36	* LargeHam: STOG and Bunnybread especially.
37	* LoveSpell: Both inverted and played straight during Acierocolotl's segment in HOCUS BOGUS! A fan of the show, Chaz Gelf, made an animation for the exchange [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vyGJMPkSMZM]].
38	* NoIndoorVoice: Kumquatxop. During the seventh live show Lemon related an exchange he had with Jimmyfranks during Kumquat's reading where he was shown the waveform for Kumquat's audio, which was [[RecordofLoudnessWar a solid box]]:
39	--> '''Lemon:''' And Jimmyfranks asked me, I believe genuinely, "Does he know that there's a microphone"?
40	* OnlySaneMan: Victor Laszlo and Portaxx.
41	* RunningGag: Many of them, constantly.
42	* SadisticChoice: At least once an episode, Lemon offers the readers a choice between two readings. Sometimes this leads to a ButThouMust situation, where the reading selection is already decided before the offer is made.
43	--> '''Lemon:''' "First choice: Don't pick this Jimmyfranks. Second: The onomatopoeia for fart."
44	* SuspiciouslySpecificDenial: "I've certainly never pissed in a jar." "Nope. And I have never peed in a Slurpee cup from 7-11." "I've never pissed in a Mountain Dew bottle-- I don't even think it's possible."
45	* TokenGirl: Only about a quarter of the episodes have more than one female reader. Lampshaded in the MRA episode.
46	* TriggerHappy: Isfahan
47	* TheUnpronounceable: Acierocolotl. Even he doesn't seem sure how to pronounce it sometimes.
48	* TheVoice: According to his official bio, Bunnybread is a disembodied voice who works a [[VoiceActors "voice whore"]]
49	* WantonCrueltyToTheCommonComma: Many of the readings exhibit signs of this.
50	* WordSaladPhilosophy: Time Cube and Godlike Productions, among others

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