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Episode One

  • Hazel Berkovitch throws egg salad at one of the auction speakers for being too boring.
  • Judith Van Horne is a source of incredibly funny non-sequiturs.
    • Judith talks about how egg salad is just eggs surrounded by eggs since mayonnaise is made of eggs. Also, how it's equivalent of being a corpse surrounded by gore.
    • Judith's reaction to Hazel gathering them in a bathroom to speak privately: "I've never been in a bathroom with three other people before." Everyone's expression is just priceless.
  • Much humor is made of Carlos' lack of maturity both physically and mentally.
    • Carlos Luna can't stand comic books but loves stories of murder and madness.
    • He also kisses up to every academic he meets in hopes of getting a job.
  • The Epic Fail when the group absolutely cannot talk their way past a middle aged asylum guard and end up having to knock him out then stuff in the trunk. It is notable because they're unable to get past him despite one of them being a psychologist who has been there.
  • Judith acting like she's gone insane because she discovered science.
  • The group being told by the psychologist they're going to try the "radical new therapy" of roleplaying.

Episode Two

  • The Epic Fail of Neil Black in attempting to trip a guard and ending up getting his hands stepped on instead.
  • Judith showing her knowledge of how to make Molotov cocktails and suggesting they make some out of Mickey's booze.

Episode Two and A Half

  • The realization that the player characters are trapped in children's fairy tales doesn't mitigate the horror but it is the rare occasion when Golidlocks and the Three Bears tries to kill Call of Cthulhu protagonists.

Episode Three

  • Carrying around Neil's dead decomposing body in a backpack. Judith even suggesting they carry him in a baby sling.
  • Saige's reaction to Hazel losing her memory of her One True Love via Laser-Guided Amnesia, "Hazel is single and ready to mingle."
  • Saige's reaction to Mickey getting a Hard success on a psychology role after her repeated failures throughout the game. She says Hazel needs to find a new profession.

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