Funny / A Voice from the Dark

Running Gags

• Any interaction between Luke and Dom.
• YoMarz has a tendency to weird out everyone that he talks to. Even Goofy Gary.
• Chris Ho as Dr. Vivisen's dramatic inflection whenever referring to "THE VOICE".

Part 1

• Diamanda Hagan laments how she never got invited to the previous anniversary specials.
  Linkara: Well, you were invited this time.
  Diamanda: Yeah, well... (grumbling) ...fuck you and your hat.
• Welshy introducing Rob the Monkey to Bargain Boy:
  Boy: Huh. You... usually bring a stuffed animal with you when you go overseas?
  Welshy: Yeah, but he usually goes by the name "SadPanda".
• Shaun Kronenfeld doesn't believe that the events of the anniversary specials actually happened.
  MarzGurl: You realize that wasn't scripted, right? We went into space.
  Nash: MarzGurl went twice.
  Shaun: Oh, come on, How gullible do you take me for? You act like stuff in the anniversaries was REAL or something!
  Nash: (Beat, deadpan) I almost died.
• Some Jerk With a Camera lampshades that his chilling challenge is to find a way out:
  Mike: Is now really the time to be making references?
  Jerk: WE ALL DEAL WITH STRESS DIFFERENTLY!
• Apparently Some Jerk with a Camera is named after something his father called him.
• Jerk's Explain, Explain... Oh, Crap! moment with Erod.

Part 2

• Bargain Boy tries to stop his companions from breaking down a door out of fear the owner would make them pay for it and put it on HGTV.
  Welshy: I think when the house locks you up and almost kills you, the owners have given up any right to sue you for damages.
• Everyone's frightened about what happened, except Elisa, who loves the Gothic atmosphere. Then she runs into a small table because she can't see where she's going.
  Dom: Perhaps "Gothic" should just be another word for "didn't pay the electric bill".
• Even after the earthquake, ERod is still filming and narrating.
• While looking for a secret passageway in the library, Diamanda recommends looking for an Erotic Fiction section because that's the place a polite guest would be least likely to take a book from.
• Mike J, Paw, Some Jerk With A Camera, and Lovecraft struggle to lift the shutter. Paw accuses them of not trying hard enough and Mike answers he just did a video entitled "A Week on American Jell-O" while Jerk says he subsists on a diet of churros and Dole whip.
• We join Chaos D1, Welshy, MarzGurl, Nella, and Bargain Boy's group with Nella in the middle of a tangent about the Colorado-Texas Tomato War.
  Boy: NOW you realize you went off on a tangent?!
• Bargain Boy's greatest fear is the Burger King.
  • His explanation of why he's afraid of the Burger King ^note He played Sneak King, the King starved him out and then sucked his mind into another dimension. leads to this gem from Nella:
    Nella: I feel like the context just made it MORE confusing.

Part 3

• While the others worry about Goofy Gary, MarzGurl charges at him, kicks him, and beats him up.
• Nash freaks the fuck out when one of the ghosts in the study walks right through him. Elisa also gets walked through, but her reaction is less shocked and more indignant.
• Lovecraft's companions ask him to make his narration a bit more "uplifting."
  Lovecraft: Uh, I suppose I could try. 'The descent into the cursed, dank abyss of this house is a pleasant one. The eternal agony that awaits us is probably not so bad, like watching a trashy reality show that only had one season on repeat. Eventually we'll get used to it.'
• MarzGurl and Bargain Boy bond over beating Goofy Gary into submission.
  Nella: Truly, lasting friendships are formed over beating Chucky knock-offs to death.
• Nash, Elisa, Dom, Luke, and Shaun grow bored watching a pair of arguing ghosts on a "Groundhog Day" Loop.
  Nash: We get it, you were horribly murdered!
• Welshy stops Goofy Gary by throwing his plush monkey at it.

Part 4

• Jerk's description of the plan to deal with Dr. Vivisen's creature. "Mike fends off Dr. Frankenstein if he comes out, [Paw] holds down the monster, Lovecraft gives it an overdose of chemicals, and I stand in the back making pointed witticisms. Sounds good!"
• Jerk wonders why Linkara didn't just gather everyone at Walt Disney World and film a movie there. No way that could go wrong.
• Jerk's reaction to Dr. Vivasen's appearance: "Eat phone! (Throws cell phone)." It works about as well as you'd expect.
• Mike's
  Dr. Vivasen: So, what are you? Some kind of hero? A would-be defender of this world?
  Mike: No, I'm just a British person. (Knocks Vivisen out)

Part 5

• Linkara asks if Diamanda betrayed them because she was angry about never getting invited to the anniversary specials.
  Diamanda: No, you daft tit-face, I'm just fucking evil. I do this shit because I feel like it! That's all! Also, yes.
• Diamanda threatens to put the corpse of her traitorous Minion in the Hall of Betrayers located beneath the public toilets. There's even a camera feed so people can see whose body they're pooping on.
• Shaun throws a Molotov Cocktail at a ghost
  Nash: Did you just set a ghost on fire?
  Shaun: Of course not. I don't believe in ghosts.
• Chaos D1 points out that if the Voice only comes if the humans fail to kill Goofy Gary, that just means they have to keep trying to kill him.
  Goofy Gary: Oh...Well it seems it's time for me to once again get hit. There are days sometimes I think this job is full of...
  Marz Gurl: Nella, find anything else interesting?

Part 6

• ERod is insulted because the Voice, the thing about to take over his body and eventually destroy it, calls him merely "Acceptable."
• Diamanda's reaction to the not-fully-stabilized Voice "glitching".
  Diamanda: Should we download a new patch to fix that?
• Paw says Linkara's plan is sound.
  Welshy: Ha! Foreshadowing!
• MarzGurl tells Linkara that the former producers don't need a leader. They just need to stand at each others' sides.
  Linkara: I'll drink to that.
  MarzGurl: Not with that bottle! That brandy's going to help put a hole in this damned house!
• Chaos D1 says he's not impressed with the Voice.
  Voice: Your evaluation is irrelevant.
  Linkara: Well, that's a mean thing to say to a bunch of critics.
• Nella's exchange with Diamanda during the Big Damn Heroes moment.
  Nella: Hey, Diamanda!
  Diamanda: Hey!
  Nella: Could you, like, not murder us all? It just seems like a butthole thing to do.
  Diamanda: Sorry. Got to kill you and the entire world.
  Nella: Okay. Thanks for hearing me out, at least.
• YoMarz being so good at rhyming that it leaves Goofy Gary stammering wordlessly.
• While fighting Emma, Maven muses on whether Jerk calling her "Turn of the Screw" was an appropriate reference.
• The gang defeats the Voice by singing "Time Warp" from The Rocky Horror Picture Show.
• The first thing Sally says when she is de-zombified is to tell Linkara he's not getting his deposit back.
• Linkara tries to do a Heroic Sacrifice when a staircase collapses beneath him and he tells the others to run. He forgot that ERod can teleport.
  • Immediately after, they ask why they are trying to run up the stairs if ERod can just teleport up them.
• YoMarz as he flees the collapsing house. "Oh hey, there's the chandelier."
• After a Running Gag about how much he hates Dominic, Luke says that Terrence (Dom's Ravenclaw wizard character) is the coolest guy ever.
• ERod wants to do a crossover review with Jerk for one of the Pirates of the Caribbean movies. Jerk agrees, but only if they film it on the ride, which means getting in line repeatedly. ERod is not thrilled.
• Nash can't find the kitchen on Linkara's spaceship and is a little bit on edge:
  Nash: Me want food or me mutiny and take this ship to a combination Pizza Hut and Taco Bell!
• On another note for Nash, in a bit of a CallBack to the Atop the Fourth Wall Movie, Nash was the relatable outsider to Linkara's spaceship and the general odd lifestyle of the former Site Reviewers, and where Angry Joe and Harvey Finevoice had to be the ones to help him through the nuttiness/confuse the hell out of him. Now he's the one who's has to do the same for Shaun after the latter finally realizes (and kinda freaks out) that the batshit insane stuff is all real.

Meta

• The blooper track on the CD reveals behind the scenes hilarity during recording.
  • Nash's mic picks up his neighbors working on their car during late-night recording session, prompting one person to ask, "What kind of small-dick-mobile do they have?"
  • After hearing Suede complain about not getting to use his sword for the entire recording session, Calluna chimes in, "He won't swear, but he'll stab a bitch!"
• During a panel at ConBravo 2019, Calluna revealed that amidst the chaotic group scenes, she and Suede had a running subplot of her trying to steal his sword.