"What about, and I'll have to make sure this isn't already a thing, what about Elwood City Limits?"
- -Will Young, Episode One
Elwood City Limits is a podcast created by Will Young where two hosts, Will and his friend Lucas Mancini, review every episode of the children's cartoon Arthur.
The show started in 2016 and has since mostly aired on a weekly basis and is available on many streaming services. They are currently on season twenty out of the twenty-five available seasons.
Elwood City Limits contains examples of...
- Abandoned Catchphrase: For the first few episodes, Lucas is noted as stating "And My Free Time" when listing what the podcast is "Provided By". Though this joke ends by episode 30.
- Entertainment Below Their Age: The hosts are grown men who like Arthur enough to make a podcast where they give commentary on every. single. episode. They even occasionally lampshade the fact that the show is not really catering toward their age group.
- Furry Confusion: A frequent discussion topic in early episodes. Referred to by the hosts as "Animal Hierarchy," it is generally Hand Waved and set aside in later episodes, but an egregious enough incident can bring one of them (usually Lucas) to speculate on it again.
- The Ghost: Will's wife Jenna is frequently mentioned but has not appeared on the podcast.
- Humble Goal: Played straight with their Patreon goals. They only want to gain some extra money from it, not make it their main source of income.
- Once per Episode: In later episodes, Will and Lucas have started to award 'Throwaway Character of the Week' to a notable character who they do not believe will reappear in the series.
- Spin-Off: The show has had a few series come out of the main series—most notably the Patreon-exclusive show Fil-A-Buster, which is a fill-in for weeks without episodes. The premise is Will and Lucas talking about non-Arthur-related topics. Other ones are Elwood City Presents for interviews with current and former Arthur cast members and ELC Flashforward, where they cover notable episodes that they have not gotten to yet.
- Strictly Professional Relationship: Averted. Despite having worked in radio together and both running the show, they are friends outside of work.
- Villainous Lineage: Conversed in their commentary on the episode "My Fair Tommy", where they interpret D.W. telling Tommy that he "can't be good" because he's a Tibble to mean that he and the other Tibble twin, Timmy, are genetically predisposed to being bad to the point where they are incapable of being anything else.
