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* BludgeonedtoDeath: The fate of Jordy P's victims at Camp One Counsellor, courtesy of a Ukulele.

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* BludgeonedtoDeath: BludgeonedToDeath: The fate of Jordy P's victims at Camp One Counsellor, courtesy of a Ukulele.



-->'''Klyle:''' That’s a little racist, bro.
-->'''Riley:''' No it isn't! You chose to be a vampire, it's like hating someone for having a Triple X tattoo. Totally reasonable!

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-->'''Klyle:''' That’s a little racist, bro.
-->'''Riley:'''
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'''Riley:'''
No it isn't! You chose to be a vampire, it's like hating someone for having a Triple X tattoo. Totally reasonable!



* HeroicBSoD: Evelyn goes through one in The Tell-tale Heartache after [[spoiler: breaking up with Olivia.]]

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* HeroicBSoD: HeroicBSOD: Evelyn goes through one in The Tell-tale Heartache after [[spoiler: breaking up with Olivia.]]



-->''Meg:'' We try to inject as much Australian sensibility into the show as we can. (because honestly what is Australia if not the world's Florida)

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-->''Meg:'' -->'''Meg:''' We try to inject as much Australian sensibility into the show as we can. (because honestly what is Australia if not the world's Florida)



* TheSecretOfLongPorkPies: The Last Chance Texas-Style BBQ, run by Tarrare's present-day descendants, serves human brisket and chilli.

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* TheSecretOfLongPorkPies: The Last Chance Texas-Style BBQ, run by Tarrare's present-day descendants, serves human brisket and chilli.chili.



-->'''Shaz:'''There’s a bit where you ride a whale to the moon! How is that...How did you not mean for that to be funny?
-->'''Riley:'''It was SUPPOSED... to be an EPIC and UPLIFTING reflection on the limitations of gravity!

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-->'''Shaz:'''There’s a bit where you ride a whale to the moon! How is that...How did you not mean for that to be funny?
-->'''Riley:'''It
funny?\\
'''Riley:'''It
was SUPPOSED... to be an EPIC and UPLIFTING reflection on the limitations of gravity!



-->'''Emperor Nero:'''Well, it does remind me why we do this. To see boobs, mostly.
-->'''Iron Felix Dzerzhinsky:''' Da. Big Boobs.

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-->'''Emperor Nero:'''Well, it does remind me why we do this. To see boobs, mostly. \n-->'''Iron \\
'''Iron
Felix Dzerzhinsky:''' Da. Big Boobs.
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* GoKartingWithBowser: The hosts play dungeons and dragons with Camille and Todd, who were antagonists in their previous appearances.
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* BludgeonedtoDeath: The fate of Jordy P's victims at Camp One Counsellor, courtesy of a Ukulele.

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* TheSecretOfLongPorkPies: The Last Chance Texas-Style BBQ, run by Tarrare's present-day descendants, serves human brisket and chilli.
-->'''Barbecue Dad:''' What’s our secret recipe? What are you, a cop? Don’t ask me that. Shut up.
* ProfessionalKiller: The ad for Episode 20 features Glenn Rhodes, an incompetent hitman.
* PunnyTitle: 'Medium; Tarrare'



* TheSecretOfLongPorkPies: The Last Chance Texas-Style BBQ, run by Tarrare's present-day descendants, serves human brisket and chilli.
-->'''Barbecue Dad:''' What’s our secret recipe? What are you, a cop? Don’t ask me that. Shut up.
* ProfessionalKiller: The ad for Episode 20 features Glenn Rhodes, an incompetent hitman.
* PunnyTitle: 'Medium; Tarrare'
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* ProfessionalKiller: The ad for Episode 20 features Glenn Rhodes, an incompetent hitman.
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* SomethingOnlyTheyWouldKnow: Evelyn, when she possesses Riley, is able to prove her presence to Olivia this way.

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* SomethingOnlyTheyWouldKnow: SomethingOnlyTheyWouldSay: Evelyn, when she possesses Riley, is able to prove her presence to Olivia this way.
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* LandDownUnder: A third of the team behind the show are Australian, so naturally Australian jokes appear. Most notable is Jarrod McKnight, the Crocodile Dundee-esque electrician who sports a blond mullet, carries a hunting knife, and constantly spouts phrases like "Cheers, big ears" and "I'm not here to fuck spiders."

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* LandDownUnder: A third of the team behind the show are Australian, so naturally Australian jokes appear. Most notable is Jarrod McKnight, [=McKnight=], the Crocodile Dundee-esque electrician who sports a blond mullet, carries a hunting knife, and constantly spouts phrases like "Cheers, big ears" and "I'm not here to fuck spiders."



* ShockAndAwe: Jarrod McKnight, the electrician, who climbed a mountain to learn electricity-wrangling from Zeus himself.

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* ShockAndAwe: Jarrod McKnight, [=McKnight=], the electrician, who climbed a mountain to learn electricity-wrangling from Zeus himself.
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* WhamEpisode: [[spoiler: Tender-Hearted in Tallahassee, which starts a three episode arc.]]
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* NiceJobBreakingItHero: In Tender-Hearted in Tallahassee, Riley [[spoiler: arranges a reunion between Evelyn and her old girlfriend Olivia, which ends in disaster]]. In Underworld Vacation, Evelyn [[spoiler: ends up breaking Hell.]]
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* HeroicBSoD: Evelyn goes through one in The Tell-tale Heartache after [[spoiler: breaking up with Olivia.]]
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* DisproportionateRetribution: Riley is kind of an expert at this, from cursing a classmate who spread a rumor about them, to having Ryan Loeball [[spoiler: torn apart by skeletons for buying a sword they wanted.]]
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* BreakTheCutie: This happens to [[spoiler: Evelyn]] in Tender-Hearted In Tallahassee.
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* BigDamnHeroes: Happens a few times on the show, most notably [[spoiler: The Skunk Ape saving the gang from Nosferatina in The Irate Outdoors, and Riley storming in to rescue Evelyn in The Post-Postmodern Prometheus.]]
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* LandDownUnder: A third of the team behind the show are Australian, so naturally Australian jokes appear. Most notable is Jarrod McKnight, the Crocodile Dundee-esque electrician who sports a blond mullet, carries a hunting knife, and constantly spouts phrases like "Cheers, big ears" and "I'm not here to fuck spiders."
-->''Meg:'' We try to inject as much Australian sensibility into the show as we can. (because honestly what is Australia if not the world's Florida)


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* ShockAndAwe: Jarrod McKnight, the electrician, who climbed a mountain to learn electricity-wrangling from Zeus himself.

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* HistoricalDomainCharacter: Blackbeard, Tarrare, and Edgar Allen Poe.

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* HistoricalDomainCharacter: Blackbeard, Tarrare, and Edgar Allen Poe.Poe, HH Holmes, Emperor Nero, Felix Dzerzhinsky, Benjamin Pitazel and Betsy Ross. Those last 5 appear all in the same episode.


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* SomethingOnlyTheyWouldKnow: Evelyn, when she possesses Riley, is able to prove her presence to Olivia this way.


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* TimeTravel: The possibility of this is introduced in Episode 24, when a gang of unsavory characters from world history show up in the basement on their Bill and Ted-esque romp through time and space.
-->'''Emperor Nero:'''Well, it does remind me why we do this. To see boobs, mostly.
-->'''Iron Felix Dzerzhinsky:''' Da. Big Boobs.
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* TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou: Episode 25 has Scott Thomas, the producer, directly threatening to kill you, the listener, if you ride the Death Coaster.
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* AbhorrentAdmirer: Bubba is this to Riley in episode 25. It's implied that Riley themself is this for Tobias, the as-yet unseen Pizza Pizzaz-o waiter.
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*** The family that owns the restaurant shows up again as main antagonists in episode 25. The two sons of the restaurant's owner are very clear parodies of Leatherface and the Hitchhiker.
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* UnusualPetsForUnusualPeople: Czernovitch has pet pigeons which fit his blue-collar New Yorker persona. Ed has a koi carp, which mirrors his zen, hippie vibes.
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* ToiletHumor: The show is not afraid to be immature. There's an extended joke in episode 14 about Ryan Loeball using an expensive replica sword to break up his "heavy duty shits", which leads into a bit about poop scissors.
-->'''Riley''': Ask Jon. He knows.
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* OurVampiresAreDifferent: Less is Morgue's vampires are strong, can hypnotise people, and are hurt, but not killed, by sunlight.
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* FantasticRacism: Ghouls and vampires don't get along in this series' universe. Although, as Riley points out, it's not exactly equivalent to racism.
-->'''Klyle:''' That’s a little racist, bro.
-->'''Riley:''' No it isn't! You chose to be a vampire, it's like hating someone for having a Triple X tattoo. Totally reasonable!
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* GagBoobs: Evelyn's got, in Riley's words, "some bazongas". The trope is then taken UpToEleven in episode 19 where the main plot surrounds a sea captain and his cabin boy hunting down a giant flying boob creature known as the Moby Tit.
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* EatenAlive: The fates of Jon and [[spoiler: Brains Vincent]], courtesy of Riley. Fate of Fat Cat and the Middle-Aged Tree Men, courtesy of Morby.

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* EatenAlive: The fates of Jon and [[spoiler: Jon,[[spoiler: Brains Vincent]], Vincent, and Jordy P.]], courtesy of Riley. Fate of Fat Cat and the Middle-Aged Tree Men, courtesy of Morby.



* HistoricalDomainCharacter: Episode 7 features Blackbeard, while Episode 9 has Tarrare.

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* HistoricalDomainCharacter: Episode 7 features Blackbeard, while Episode 9 has Tarrare. Tarrare, and Edgar Allen Poe.
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* HeadlessHorseman: It turns out that Riley summoned a dullahan to curse their middle school nemesis, and he's been hounding her ever since. When Evelyn convinces Riley to try and call him off they mess up the summoning and get an [[HornyDevils incubus]], who turns out to know the horseman in question, quite intimately.

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** Episode 4 has Riley play the Podcast/{{Congeria}} theme music when asked to play the most embarrassing song on their playlist.

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** Episode 4 has Riley play the Podcast/{{Congeria}} theme music when asked to play the most embarrassing song on their playlist. Riley and Bloody Mary's mentions of a certain dapper, faceless eldritch abomination are also bleeped for copyright purposes using the static sounds from the game Slender.


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** The ad for [[Franchise/SilentHill Sleepy Mountains resort town]].


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** Episode 13 features an ad for [[Film/TheShining The Overwrite Hotel Writer's Retreat.]] The ad makes sure to mention that the hotel has a [[Series/KeyAndPeele continental breakfast included with the room.]]
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* SpaceWhale: One appears in Riley's high fantasy novel, in a baffling scene that is apparently meant to be PlayedForDrama.
-->'''Shaz:'''There’s a bit where you ride a whale to the moon! How is that...How did you not mean for that to be funny?
-->'''Riley:'''It was SUPPOSED... to be an EPIC and UPLIFTING reflection on the limitations of gravity!
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* ImperfectRitual: Riley and Evelyn attempt to summon a Dullahan substituting chalk, a stick from a dead oak, and Irish butter with duct tape, a vibrator, and a jar of mayonnaise. They get an [[HornyDevils incubus]] instead.
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