YMMV / Distractible

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• Broken Base: There's been a frequent divide between fans of the audio format VS the video format. While a lot find the addition of video to be very welcoming as it allows the trio to be more varied in their jokes and storytelling, many other fans prefer the audio format as it often feels easier to enjoy without reliance on rapid fire visual gags.
• Crosses the Line Twice:
  • "Beware The Candy Uncle" is about finding creative ways to traumatize children into obeying their parents, such as hiring a "relative" whose purpose is to dramatically die when the kid misbehaves, or editing their favorite cartoons to implant subliminal messages.
    Wade: For legal reasons, we would never do this. For anecdotal reasons, I'm excited for this!
  • "Who's The Worst" is a Deal or No Deal-style game in which Bob and Wade have to come up with the most amoral reaction to a moral dilemma. Naturally, many lines are crossed, all of them absolutely hilarious, but the crowner may be the story of Bob in the Hospital with the Revolver, in which Bob narrates manipulating his ailing father into shooting himself so he can collect on a life insurance policy, and then feigning shock and anger to his family when his father goes through with it. Then Mark points out that in the actual prompt, his father's illness wasn't terminal, and that there was a suicide clause in the policy so Bob wouldn't even get the payout. It's Bob's emotional tone throughout that really sells the whole thing.
    Bob: You said to be less moral!
    Mark: That was incredibly amoral! And stupid! And I love it!
• Discredited Meme: Bob has stated repeatedly that his new fridge works fine now and he'd like people to stop pestering him about it.
  • Hilarious in Hindsight come "One Paw In The Grave" with the revelation that the fridge has started accumulating water.
• Heartwarming Moments:
  • The "Thank You" episode, in which the trio discuss the things they're grateful for in life. Highlights include Bob gushing about his wife, Wade describing the effort a veterinarian clinic went to to save his cat, and Wade's reunion with a fan who'd tattooed his signature on her wrist to help her stop self-harming. The episode ends with Baldemort thanking the audience for tuning in every week.
  • In general, any time the trio shift to Sincerity Mode and speak glowingly about each other, such as the ending of "The Distractible Threesome".
• Memetic Badass: "Two-Toes Johnny", Bob's Ax-Crazy alter-ego from "Who's The Worst".
• Memetic Loser:
  • Bob endured this for a long time due to a widely improbable losing streak across multiple episodes. One episode in particular hit rock bottom due to a series of arbitrary coin tosses that he continuously kept failing. Even in the episode aptly titled "Bob Wins This Episode" Bob still ends up losing because he didn't feel good having an episode rigged in his favor... and proposes another coin toss.
  • Wade would eventually endure an improbable losing streak of his own later down the road as well, not only for similar reasons that caused Bob's, but also due to ass pulls in regards to points that were "owed" to Mark or Bob in the past. It eventually reaches a head in the episode "Wade wins" where history repeats itself and Wade does not actually win that episode, however unlike Bob's failed coin toss Wade loses this episode because Mark essentially wanted to piss off their subreddit.
• Memetic Mutation:
  • "This bush is in the way." [beat] "NO IT'S NOT, LET'S GO!"^ExplanationBob summarizing the delivery guys' dubious thought process while delivering his refrigerator.
  • "But does your fridge work?!"^ExplanationAfter the ambiguous ending to "Bob's Fridge," Bob's social media blew up with comments like these, which he quickly got sick of and asked the fanbase to stop posting. "Yes, my fridge works fine now, please stop asking."
  • Campfire guitar guy.^ExplanationIn "That One Guy", Wade uses this term to describe Attention Whores who use intruments to get people to pay attention to them. His zealous hatred for this behavior apparently struck a chord with listeners.
  • "Fuck your dreams, fuck your nightmares. I'm gonna beat you."^ExplanationA quote from Wade in "Fuck You Energy," which instantly went viral; for some time afterwards, listeners flooded the subreddit with Fauxtivational Posters using the phrase.
  • "Have you ever heard of the Ship of Theseus?"^ExplanationA Running Gag by Mark in "The Bobs & The Bees," used as a tortured metaphor for puberty and sex.
  • "Eight inches... around!"^ExplanationA kid at Mark's band camp kept claiming this about his penis, as related in "The Atrocities of Summer", which has become a meme about questionable claims of sexual prowess.
  • "Shouldn't have been driving while listening to Distractible!"^ExplanationNumerous Redditors claim to have wrecked their cars while listening to and laughing at the podcast, leading to several half-joking disclaimers made by the hosts. This has since escalated into memes about how doing anything while listening to the podcast will result in disaster.
• Nightmare Fuel:
  • In "Cryptids Are Scary", Wade mentions that for a while, he's had a strange feeling that someone has been secretly living in his house, which was heightened when he noticed that the door to the crawl space above his wife's walk-in closet seemed slightly ajar despite neither of then having used it. Then, while in bed one night, he saw what looked like a shadow moving past the bedroom door, far taller than any his cat could have made. The fact that he didn't hear footsteps when this happened did not reassure him, and he hasn't been sleeping well since then.
    • Bob had a similar experience while moving into a new house, leading him to conclude that the house is either haunted, or someone is secretly living in the attic already.
  • In the same episode, Mark recalls an incident from his early teens when he woke up in the middle of the night and went downstairs, and saw what looked like some kind of shadowy figure under the archway. For some reason he felt compelled to grab a pen and notepad and draw a sketch of it, and after doing so, he looked up from the notebook, and suddenly the figure looked convincingly solid and real, like a person (or something else) standing right in front of him in the pitch darkness. He has no idea why he felt compelled to sketch it, or what doing so seemed to make it real.
  • The "Rage" episode has Wade recounting a time where, after years upon years upon years of frustration, anger, and sheer hate building up in him towards his brother, it eventually boiled over in him attacking the guy after said brother was screaming at their mother and making her come close to breaking down. Wade outright says that, in that instant, he wanted nothing more but to push his brother down the stairs and watch him break his neck on the way down. Granted, it only lasted a few seconds, given how neither of them knew how to fight, before their mother and sister intervened... but Wade still admits how horrified he is that he could be driven to want to kill someone, even his own family, when pushed to the brink. It crosses over with Tear Jerker too because Wade's been haunted by that moment ever since it happened.
• Signature Scene: "Bob's Fridge", which is by far the most popular and talked about episode due to the sheer Trauma Conga Line poor Bob had to endure, and his increasingly hysterical tone as he recounts the story while Mark and Wade just about piss themselves laughing at his misery.
• They Changed It, Now It Sucks!: The transition to video has become rather divisive among fans due to the show originally being aired as a podcast (which, for those not in the know, means audio only). Many fans who still exclusively listen on podcast platforms are often left in the dark due to their increased use of visual gags and aids and their inability to keep listeners informed when something visual happens on their webcams. Because of this many audio-only fans have seen the transition to video as a noticeable drop in quality.
  • Not helping matters either is the issue of video platforms not being available in certain parts of the world, such as the Middle-East.

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