History Podcast / PlumbingTheDeathStar

!'''''Plumbing the Death Star'' contains examples of:'''

* WackyFratboyHijinx: In "How Would You Make a Chamber of Secret?", this is essentially what they decide they'd get up to as founders of [[Franchise/HarryPotter Hogwarts]]. Plumbing House wear bedsheet togas, lost their common room in a bet with Gryffindor and have to sleep outside, have permanently negative points in the House Cup, and the founders are ghosts because they bet they could get their heads shrunken and survive. Although they built a Chamber of Secrets, they use it mostly to steal food, breed hideously ugly dogs, and play UsefulNotes/Nintendo64.

* InterestingSituationDuel: "How Would You Kill Father Christmas?" eventually considers a hypothetical duel between two ordinary Plumbing Boys against an enraged, club-wielding caveman SantaClaus on a houseboat in the Pacific Ocean, which they think sounds amazing.

* PokeInTheThirdEye: Duscher realizes that in the roleplay portion of "Is the Death Star a Good Weapon?" that any if his character insulted the Emperor, he would hear it through TheForce and kill him from across the galaxy. To allow the episode to continue, Zammit handwaves it away by saying the Emperor had the radio on so loud it clogged the Force.

The show is hosted by the affable and silly Jackson Baly, editor-in-house Joel Zammit, and the loud and aptly named Joel Duscher, who have taken the not-so-elegant name "The Plumbing Boys." The Boys frequently make use of guest stars to add some variety, most frequently the ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' expert and the nerdiest of the bunch, Adam, Sanspants regular Zoe Bilotta, ''WesternAnimation/{{Ducktales}}''-podcaster Michael Williams, and others.

* DeusSexMachina: Much to his co-host's horror, Zammit's answer to "What Would Your Ultimate Crime Fighting Super Power Be?" is the ability to [[ADateWithRosiePalms relieve one's self]] and then live the potential life of one of one's sperm before dying and returning to the moment of relief. Jackson and Duscher are disgusted, not only by how weird the power itself is, but by how strange it would be to live the life of your children, only to die, and then raise the child whose life you lived. Jackson attempts to move on with his less disgusting power, but Duscher is too disgusted by Zammit's suggestion to discuss anything else. Zammit gets either a negative four hundred or a ten out of ten for that one.

** The title of "Would You Prefer to be Suddenly 30 or 17'd again?" used ''Film/SeventeenAgain'' as a verb to describe suddenly becoming young again. The rest of the podcast similarly uses ''Film/ThirteenGoingOnThirty'' and ''Film/{{Big}}'' to describe being suddenly turned into an adult.

* DisguisedInDrag: Inspired by the example of ''WesternAnimation/BugsBunny'' but going one step further, Zammit's idea of how to [[WesternAnimation/WileECoyoteAndTheRoadRunner catch the Road Runner]] is to dress up as a sexy female Road Runner, seduce the bird, then [[DeathBySex murder him when they head somewhere private]].

* YoungFutureFamousPeople: Since ''Film/{{Jumanji}}'' featured a young Creator/KirstenDunst, the Plumbing Boys assume they'd be paired up with 90s versions of celebrity actresses and singers for their scenarios in "Which Would be the Worst Classic Board Game to be Trapped in. Jumanji-style?"

* ArbitraryMaximumRange: Not caring much for his biblical omnipotence[[note]]stopping storms with a word, healing people from miles away, sustaining the entirety of existence by His will as God etc.[[/note]], Jesus can only perform miracles in a range of twenty feet around him, if "A Christmas Heist" can be trusted.

** ''The Fall Guy:'' With one role left to fill for the heist, Zammit puts forward ''Bad Santa'' as a fall guy before offering the perfect option: [[UsefulNotes/{{Jesus}} the Lord Jesus Christ]]. In addition to being able to distract crowds with His miracles[[note]][[ArbitraryMaximumRange unless they're twenty feet away]][[/note]], the King of Kings would also put any police coming to arrest Him in a moral dilemma.

* AmbiguousDisorder: An unexpected conclusion from "Why Donkey Kong Wears a Tie?" is that Franchise/DonkeyKong doesn't wear clothing and doesn't talk (in contrast to others like Funky Kong and Lanky Kong) is that he has a severe mental handicap.

* HalfDressedCartoonAnimal: Justified in "Why Does Donkey Kong Wear a Tie?", where they figure Donkey Kong refuses to wear anything besides a tie because of some AmbiguousDisorder. Once the similarly pants-less Diddy Kong is brought up, they brush him off and don't explain his outfit.

* RunningGag: In "What if Professor X Ran Hogwarts?", every single time Professor X kills someone, he tells Hagrid to grab his shovel, implying that the Professor's going to force Hagrid to bury whatever dog, twelve-year old, or demon horde he's murdered today.

* FailOSuckyname: The villain of Duscher's proposed Film/JamesBond film, ''Sinkhole'', is named Stinkhole. Not only does it rhyme with the title, it reflects the character's dark backstory [[spoiler:as a janitor.]]

* BestialityIsDepraved: Jackson somehow ends up defending the idea of sex with sentient animals in "Which Fictional Doctor Would Make the Best GP?". Specifically, he casually mentions there's nothing wrong with a man having sex with a swan so long as [[BalefulPolymorph the swan was originally a person]]. His co-hosts, Zammit and Duscher, are too stunned to respond with a complete sentence before resorting to just asking for some type of justification. Jackson reasons that as long as its consensual, its fine, but Zammit ends the discussion by asking the audience to applaud if they agree with Jackson. The silence is deafening... until two people applaud and cause the everyone around them to stare at them in disgust.

* TheWormThatWalks: Part of Jackson's ultimate crime fighting power involves becoming a sentient colony of bacteria in the shape of a man. It's pointed out just how deep in the UncannyValley that would be.

** In "When Bad Guys Go Good," Zammit tries to explain the dynamics of his good-aligned versions of the sharks from ''Film/{{Jaws}}'' by comparing them to the ''Franchise/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles'' and the ''WesternAnimation/XMen''. Jackson laughs at how recursive their pop culture references have become.

* SamusIsAGirl: One of the disadvantages of having Samus from VideoGame/{{Metroid}} as a step-parent is that her new stepchild would assume the masked mercenary his mother married was a man, before seeing Samus take off ''her'' helmet and shatter the child's view on sexuality.

** In "Which Superhero is the Best Lover?", Duscher argues the ComicBook/IncredibleHulk would make a great lover and gets laughed off by the rest of the cast when they realize that coitus with Hulk would definitely end with him accidentally ripping you to shreds from sheer strength.