Early Installment Weirdness / Podcasts

• While the actual format of '80s All Over barely changed from its launch through its being Cut Short, up through August 1980 "boners" regarding release dates and missed movies that have to be caught up on are much more frequent than they are later, as Drew and Scott had trouble finding the relevant, correct information on such. This is partially because many of these films had gradual rollouts across the country (especially B Movies) and thus multiple dates exist for when they opened in certain territories. The two test episodes that were later released as Patreon supporter bonus episodes — which cover August and December of 1979, rather than anything from the 1980s — only have extensive discussions of a few of the films featured, with many of the December titles quickly glossed over in the closing minutes.
• The Adventure Zone: In Tres Horny Boys' first meeting with Davenport, he speaks normally, but later episodes have him using only Pokémon Speak. Griffin later handwaves this by saying that due to Lucretia's interfering with his memory, he sometimes has days where he remembers enough to talk but is mostly only able to say his own name.
  • There's also Taako being overwhelmingly dumb, and Merle worshiping Marthammor Duin instead of Pan.
  • During the BOB initiation trial (the lethality of which is also a bit out-of-character for later BOB), Magnus, Taako, and Merle consider themselves the strongest, bravest, and smartest of the trio respectively. By later in the series, Merle and Taako should certainly be swapped here.
• Blank Check with Griffin & David: The first few dozen episodes hadn't worked out the concept of the resulting podcast. It was first called The Phantom Podcast, with the hosts Griffin and David taking ten episodes to discuss Star Wars: The Phantom Menace in an attempt to understand "what it's about" while also pretending to not realize that there were other Star Wars films made before or after it. From there, they dedicated ten episodes to each of the other prequel films after "discovering" that they exist, and then covering the original trilogy and later sequels in one episode each. Once they'd completely covered Star Wars, they pivoted to the new name and concept: covering movies from other directors who'd been given a "blank check" of artistic control by Hollywood, covering one film an episode, often with a celebrity guest.
• Early episodes of Escape from Vault Disney! definitely had more dead air than later ones. The episodes did not open with audio of an advertisement of the work they're covering and instead went straight to the theme song, which was a public-domain honkey-tonk theme that didn't gel well with the show's tone. The music for the transition sections and the outro did not fare better, having some twangy banjo music. Special sections such as State of the Parks were completely absent, the discussion section did not go into as much depth about the work, and the introductions for new guests were far less elaborate. Most of these changes started after the podcast went on hiatus because of the COVID-19 Pandemic, with the music in particular being original compositions that evoke (and, in the outro's case, lift from) Disney VHS tapes from the 80's.
• The F Plus didn't always sign off with Lemon's "Round about an hour, and that's it for The F Plus, terrible things read with enthusiasm—" Catchphrase (or a plug for Ballpit, their official forum, which didn't exist at the time), the sound quality was fuzzier (and had audible Skype blips), and a few of the 2009-2012 hosts no longer show up on later episodes.
• There is a segment in the first episodes of Gilmore Ball Z where they compare what aged worse between the two shows. This is dropped very quickly.
• The History of Rome took a few episodes to hit its stride, with its creator, Mike Duncan, trying a number of different episode lengths and styles before settling on his Archive Binge-inducing half-hour length and signature slightly-snarky-college-professor narrative voice. Production values also audibly improved.
• How Did This Get Made? Early episodes were never done live, lacked the popular "Second Opinions" segment and instead had a "What the Fuck Moment" that highlighted the most bizarre moment in the movie, a “Life Lessons with June” segment, and another dedicated to viewer mail. The Closing Credits also always ended with an awkward Credits Gag where the Earwolf howls and then, via a series of intentionally-bad human-made Wacky Sound Effects, is shot and possibly blown up before the announcer says "The wolf dead."
• Kritzkast, the fan-podcast for Team Fortress 2, used to have a "Postman Pat" mail segment, which would be responded to by Mann Co. CEO Saxton Hale. The podcast spun this off into its own YouTube segment briefly, then ceased it altogether. There also used to be a host on the show named B00bies, who quit due to real life commitments.
• Mom Can't Cook!: Discussed in the Under Wraps episode. This was the first Disney Channel Original Movie, and both hosts comment on how unusual it is to see a DCOM with a proper budget.
• A few early episodes of Sick Sad World feature crime updates, which are just quick discussions of recent crimes. After the show got its own social media pages, the crime updates moved there.
• In early episodes of Trials & Trebuchets, Winsler is timid, prone to tears, and hates lying, a far cry from his more mischievous characterization in later episodes, and Integrity has an aloof and mysterious personality, whereas in later episodes she's much more outgoing.
  • Winsler also doesn't speak with a Southern accent in early episodes.
• Early episodes of Twilight Histories had some noticeable differences to the current show. In them, the protagonist travels through the alternate worlds in a flying time machine, jumping to various points in the worlds’ history. There was also less emphasis on plot and characters, with the emphasis being on the changes to history.
  • Additionally, even after the show settled into its current style, some episodes gave the “You” character a more solid backstory, and the character was obviously meant to be male. This is most evident in shows such as “Ice Age Misery” and “Deep City.” Some episodes, such as “Ice Age Misery” and “Mask of the Plague Doctor” were straight-up time travel rather than alternate history.
• The first several episodes of the Hey! Jake and Josh show Pokemon World Tour, feature Jake giving recaps of anime episodes where the locations where featured; these were soon shortened, then made into separate episodes, then removed altogether. They also started off rating any nickname sent in to them before shifting to their current format of taking names for the previous episode's spotlight pokemon.
• Welcome to Night Vale: Cecil's voice started out measured, always calm, and monotonous, fitting the show's theme of "NPR from The Twilight Zone", as if he felt there was never anything unusual about hooded figures in the dog park or anything to criticize about the City Council. As the show went on, his performance morphed into a more emotional, expressive tone.
• You're Dead To Me: There is no quiz in the first two episodes, on Boudicca and the Spartans, respectively. The first quiz happens in episode 1x03, on Harriet Tubman.

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