Drive Time Radio is a video game released in 2021 by Birthday Boy.
You play as a contestant on the Brett and Kyle Show who has to answer a number of inane trivia questions while driving, dodging spikes, and comprehending the mortality of the universe. You play for the grand prize: a ticket to the Beach-A-Palooza Spring Break Beach Blowout!
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This game contains examples of:
- Affably Evil: The eponymous Brett and Kyle. They joke around with you and are generally polite, at least up until the end. Brett reveals himself to be Faux Affably Evil after you win. He admits to rigging the show, fights Kyle, and tries to kill you with spikes the whole time. Kyle, on the other hand, goes the opposite direction. He argues that you won the game fair and square and saves you from Brett's ending attack, sending you over to the fabled Beach-A-Palooza Spring Break Beach Blowout.
- Artistic License – Music: In the question about Beethoven's 5th Symphony, Brett is asked to sing a C minor and sings an A♭ instead.
- If you got the question wrong, you get a different outcome, where Kyle claims that he's singing a D♭ on an A, while Brett says he's singing a C on a D.
- Big Honking Traffic Jam: How the game opens.
- Black Speech: During the Speed Round, you answer some questions in Brett and Kyle's alien tongue.
- Blue-and-Orange Morality: Brett and Kyle host the show to feed off the human contestant, and therefore want the contestant to die. Brett even calls Kyle out for "playing with his food" at the beginning. But at the end, if you win, Kyle still lets you go to the Beach-A-Palooza Spring Break Beach Blowout, not because you deserve to live, but because you won.
- But Thou Must!: If you answer all of the questions in round 1 incorrectly, Brett and Kyle give you an "easy question": "What is 2 + 2?" with the answers 4 and 4.
- Comically Missing the Point: In response to the Battle of Hastings taking place on a Saturday, Brett says that "there's nothing better than getting the fellas together on a Saturday night".
- Cosmic Horror: Brett and Kyle are eldritch beings not from Earth, seeing as how they demonstrate their native language and are able to manipulate reality and your brain. They constantly remind you of this with sudden and verbose speeches about the mortality of the Earth and humans as a race.
- Establishing Series Moment: The moment where it's truly apparent that Brett and Kyle aren't all talk is when Brett not only says, but shows his power by making the moon disappear and reappear in front of your eyes.
- Humanoid Abomination: Brett and Kyle, at least audibly.
- Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: Your fate if you get a question wrong.
- Insane Troll Logic: Kyle exploits this to make sure you win:Brett: (in response to your final answer) Ooh, sorry Caller, that's incorrect.
Kyle: Not so fast Brett, you know our language is quantumly phonetic. By making a choice, the Caller collapsed all possible choices into a single one, therefore providing the correct answer. - Kick the Dog: Brett delivers one to you and Kyle. After you win, Brett is furious and tries to kill you with spikes as he says to Kyle that he's "tired of this radio show bit". Kyle is seriously hurt by this.
- Large Ham Radio: Kyle is your typical smooth-talking radio host. Brett is not.
- Names to Run Away from Really Fast: Brett says that if you lose the game, they will harvest your nightmares through a process called "void melding".
- Offscreen Moment of Awesome: The fight between Brett and Kyle at the end, which you experience entirely through the radio.
- Overly Long Gag: Brett's barrage of spikes.Brett: Kyle, I'm sorry, I gotta interrupt, we have some breaking news coming in. Preliminary reports are coming in that a number of "big spikes" are ahead of you. (3 spikes come from the ground) Eyewitnesses are reporting, uh, two or three more. (2 spikes) Oop, this just in, I'm being told there's one more. (1 spike) And one more. (1 spike) Last one. (1 spike)
- Also of note is the Rattling Off Legal moment near the beginning which, even at its fast speed, takes about 30 seconds.
- Pet the Dog: After you finish, Brett and Kyle sincerely congratulate you on finishing the questions and surviving, and even though that isn't enough to win, Kyle still gives you a last chance in the form of a bonus question.
- Post-Climax Confrontation: After you won the game show, Brett gets furious and throws a barrage of spikes at you while fighting Kyle.
- Rattling Off Legal: Exaggerated and Played for Laughs.By crossing the fault line between the physical universe and the realm of unconscious thought, any and all legal rights to their memetic consciousness have been waived by the individual. Any premature forfeiture will result in immediate psychic death. Any attempt to exit or stop the vehicle will result in immediate psychic death. Any attempt to call law enforcement or first responders will result in immediate psychic death. WKCR 92.3 waives any all legal liability to injury, distress, death, or idiosyncratic disincorporation experienced by contestants. Grand Prize winners will be returned to their original dimension with Grand Prize materials, comprised of two VIP weekend platinum pass all access backstage celebrity experience premium tickets to the Beach-A-Palooza Spring Break Beach Blowout or equal renumeration of no more than 200 US dollars. All rights reserved WKCR LLC.
- Rule of Three: There are 3 rounds in the game show with 3 questions each.
- Running Gag: Saying the full name of the Beach-A-Palooza Spring Break Beach Blowout.
- Schizophrenic Difficulty: There are very difficult questions thrown in the middle of very easy ones. For example, the first round goes as such: 1. What is the European name for soccer? 2. Who was the 20th President of the United States? (while this may seem hard, the answers are Garfield (Man) and Garfield (Cat).) Then, 3. Who was the third member on the Apollo 11 mission?
- Sliding Scale of Comedy and Horror: Generally on the comedic side. Even the Cosmic Horror moments are delivered with such levity that you could consider them Black Comedy.
- Sophisticated as Hell: Often, Brett and Kyle speak in pretty basic terms, but sometimes they will veer into elaborate cosmic horror speak about the meaninglessness of the universe.
- Speed Round: Rather, the Lightning Round. They ask you a series of difficult questions, all while Brett sends rows and rows of spikes your way.
- Spikes of Doom: Brett is trying to kill you with these the entire time.
- Surprisingly Happy Ending: For Cosmic Horror media. Kyle is able to wrestle you out of Brett's grip and teleports you to the Beach-A-Palooza Spring Break Beach Blowout on Earth.
- Troll: Brett sends a big spike your way in the middle of a question.In the year 1875, the capital of— BIG SPIKE!
- Also, see Overly Long Gag above.
- Villainous Breakdown: Brett has one at the end after you win, fighting Kyle while sending a lot of spikes your way.
- Weird Moon: Apparently, the moon in this universe doesn't exist. Humans only see it due to the moon gland in their brain.
