Funny / RPPR Actual Play

• The running joke that Connor is very bad at the "secret" part of being a secret agent.
  "It says 'Special Agent Watson' stitched on your collar."
• Alex's need to mention that he's a park ranger, often equating himself with a police officer.
  “I’m good at Survival! I’m a Park Ranger!”
• Anything involving Dash Guster, who is so annoying that his own Monster hesitates to help him out.
• The few times they've played Wushu turned out entirely ridiculous and funny as hell. Both episodes could qualify in and of themselves, but for a couple of summaries:
  • The 4th of July special: Galactus declares he will eat Earth unless some warriors can defeat his personal gladiators in several games of dodgeball. Nick Fury (the Samuel L. Jackson version, of course) gathers an unlikely team of superpowered misfits to save the world. ...erm, another unlikely team of superpowered misfits to safe the world. Our heroes are a well-mannered, intellectual actor tired of being typecast as a brutal villain-oh yeah, and he's also a velociraptor, Arnold Schwarzenegger constantly shifting in and out of his movie roles due to steroid-induced Alzheimer's Syndrome, Danny Butterman, who is also a Cylon, Henry from the Eureka TV show, and last but not least, Martin Van Buren, former President of the United States of America and New Powers as the Plot Demands incarnate. So, what happened in this one-shot campaign?
    • Martin Van Buren's antics, full stop. In a game system where flourishes and showing off are required, his player's antics aren't annoying, they're hilarious.
    • Arnold's antics in general, from just the hammy voice to acting like he's in his movies to starting with some remarks about the balls snowballing into a bevy of ball-related puns. That and starting the game with breaking up protests that end with killing Martin Sheen by squeezing his head between his "guns," presumably his ripped arms, and being turned into the Hulk by Henry.
    • The first dodgeball match involves facing Khan Noonien Singh as the center of the opposing team. One would think he would be daunting and frightening...until his team dons outfits straight out of Power Rangers and performs an elaborate team attack, before everyone piles on him in one strike with a paper airplane to the eyes, the raptor complimenting him so emotionally that he cries, right before being seduced by Martin Van Buren's Venusian hookers.
  • 1980s League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Tony Montana has raised an army of Lost Boy vampires, and a new League of Extraordinary Gentlemen must stand up to him. The twist? They're composed of 80s heroes, so the League is made up of Doc Brown, Optimus Prime, MacGyver, Jack Burton, and the piece de resistance, an out-of-work B. A. Baracus channeling the Mr. T Saturday Night Live sketch. Highlights include:
    • Optimus Prime saves a family from Gremlins spawning in a pool. How? By cannonballing into it with so much force it's likened to a bomb going off in the pool, sending Gremlins and water everywhere. The best part? It totally works, without a hitch.
    • The battle against the Gremlins in general. Poor things couldn't catch a break once the fight started. B.A. ate one, Jack stuck one with a thrown knife, to which the Gremlins actually gave a thumbs-up, and at the end of the fight they sold the remaining ones at strip malls and pet stores all across America because what could possibly happen from distributing the Gremlins you just stopped, and then taking the last surviving Gremlin and throwing him into the ocean just as a cherry on top.
    • The heroes journey across the United States...running over other 80s icons as they travel.
    • A lack of knowledge about Short Circuit reduces Ross' knowledge of Johnny Five to just shouting "NO DISASSEMBLE!" a whole lot. To be fair, the rest of the table does join in, but still, he started it...
    • Whenever someone does something suitably awesome, mostly Mr. T, MacGyver and Optimus, their theme songs blare. As in, during the podcast, thanks to a boom box.
    • Fighting Lord Humumgus' champion in the Thunderdome to advance the story. The battle? B. A. versus Ivan Drago, milked for all it was worth.
• Operate Heavy Machinery is a Call of Cthulhu campaign that sounds like it was written on a dare: create a campaign around "Operate Heavy Machinery," a skill which sounds like it'd be great help against the Elder Gods and their various cults, but nobody ever really takes or uses since when are you ever actually going to use it, right? How about right here? Set in an industrial-sized abattoir, snide and well-timed remarks about genetically-modified cows, family-unfriendly tours and slaughterers with issues putting faces on each cow killed pepper the game. The most darkly comic bit is probably the reveal about the horrible secret of the abattoir, where the horrible plans of the people inside are revealed not via a Motive Rant, the ramblings of crazed cultists or an unholy book, but an internal memo written by middle management, absolutely shot through with managerial buzzwords, making it sound like something out of The Office or Office Space. Of course, the fact it's being treated as so mundane by those in the know could just make it more frightening. Nightmare Fuel or Nightmare Retardant? You decide!
  • The best part? They never actually use Operate Heavy Machinery!
    • Later, in a Gencon game run by Adam Scott Glancy, Ross loses it when he realizes that since they were given a Backhoe and a location to dig up, they finally will need to use Operate Heavy Machinery... and he doesn't have that skill.
• Almost all of their oneshot game of Fiasco counts. Action 6 News was what would happen if Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy were made by The Coen Brothers, and is played to perfection. The whole thing is funny, but everyone gritting their teeth through their news broadcast, guys with insane names including the anchorman, one "Ramble Turducken," and the gloriously insane third-act plot involving human cockfighting-not what people used to think Mixed Martial Arts was, but Fight Club in rooster suits, are seriously highlights.
• Call of Catthulhu is a comedy-horror RPG which is exactly what it sounds like: the Cthulhu Mythos as seen from the world of your typical housecat. RPPR's one-shot of this game lived up to expectations. Highlights include breaking a laptop via improvised water damage and Bonzibuddy as the ultimate villain at the end, defeated by literally going into the Internet and uninstalling him.
• The Lord of the Peaks is a scenario revolving around Italian Alpine soldiers reaching an abandoned outpost in the mountains and having to find their missing comrades. It's hilarious from the very first role, as Aaron's poor luck roll leads the NPC Commanding Officer plummeting to his doom. Caleb declares Aaron a witch and suggests killing him. In the major firefight of the scenario, Aaron attempts to shoot an Elephant monster attacking Caleb... and shoots Caleb. In the face. Then Caleb's second character rolls 99 twice in a row. On a demolitions roll.