The Needle Drop is a web and radio based review show hosted by Anthony Fantano with various cameos by his bizarre roommate Cal Chuchesta. The music he reviews is usually more of indie and underground fare with the occasional bigger name slipping in either because of popular demand or relatively high critical acclaim. The show is highly popular on 4chan's music board, partially due to the fact Anthony also is a
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YouTube channel can be found
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This show provides examples of:
- Accent On The Wrong Syllable: A frequent habit of Cal's, along with Mondegreens.
- Adorkable: Anthony when he gets excited.
- Alter Ego Acting: Cal Chuchesta constitutes the Type 1 variety.
- Ascended Fanboy: Anthony works in radio and is an NPR contributor.
- Broken Record: Some of the edits thrown in each video.
- Brown Note: The cover of ''Born That Way'' causes Anthony and Cal to throw up.
- Amusingly, Cal then chose Born This Way as one of his favorites albums of 2011 (so far), and when called out by Anthony on the fact that it made them throw up, he replied by stating that it was the most fun he'd had throwing up all year.
- Catch Phrase: "Anthony Fantano here, the Internet's busiest music nerd."
- Caustic Critic: Averted as he tends to be quite calm and collected even with music he dislikes, managing to point out its strengths as well as its flaws.
- Cloudcuckoolander: Once again, Cal.
- Couch Gag: The tree.
- Department of Redundancy Department: In his video debating messages in music, Anthony asks the audience "And what about people who're in my position? In every review, do I have to throw in a footnote that says 'Anthony Fantano does not necessarily agree with the ideology of the artist he is currently reviewing in this review?'"
- Fan Vid: There are a few odd remixes of reviews and livestreams.
- Large Ham: Scott Stapp, apparently.
- Mondegreen: Cal with lyrics and names.
- One of Us: Anthony frequents /mu/ and a persionified version of /mu/ appears in the review of ''The King of Limbs'', as well as Take Care, Take Care, Take Care.
- Overly-Long Gag: His review of ''Gold Cobra'' basically consists of Anthony eating food.
- Sound Effect Bleep: Anthony usually bleeps himself out when he swears, although this is subverted in his review of David Comes to Life *, and drops the F word in the Couch Gag before the review starts.
- Stylistic Suck: Cal's reviews are very poorly done. Of course, that's what makes them hilarious.
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