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* TitleConfusion: Season 2, Episode 7 is titled “Pontus Pendaghast and Ivan Nebrekyu” in the YouTube video, but is “Ivan and Pontus” on Apple Podcast.
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* MushroomHouse: Balian the Disgraced lives in one. Later offered to Mario Q. Godot as payment for mentoring Prince Pratt.

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* MushroomHouse: According to Prince Pratt, Balian the Disgraced lives in one. Later It is later offered to Mario Q. Godot as payment for his mentoring Prince Pratt.the prince.

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* ForgotICouldChangeTheRules: {{Averted}}. Prince Pratt could not grant a pardon to Tristan Lambert. He also needed the approval of the local governing officials to overturn the magic ban.


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* ScrewTheRulesIHaveConnections: {{Subverted}}. Prince Pratt reassures Tristan Lambert that he could change the laws in case Tristan gets arrested during his investigation. When Tristan does end up in jail at the end of the episode, Pratt ruefully tells him he couldn’t change the law after all.

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* PoppingButtons: While Pratt is talking to Mark Mountain about his weight, a button pops off his outfit, which Mark catches. Mark uses the button as inspiration for the LineOfSightAlias he gives as “Greeny McButtons”.

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* PoppingButtons: While Pratt is talking to Mark Mountain about his weight, a button pops off his outfit, which Mark catches. Mark uses the button as inspiration for the LineOfSightAlias he gives as “Greeny McButtons”.[=McButtons=]”.
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* HiddenWire: A shady figure puts a wire on Mark Mountain in hopes of recording a confession out of Pratt regarding the death of Vito Staccato. After Mark secures himself a job as Pratt’s advisor, he surreptitiously removes the wire and throws it into the fire.
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* PoppingButtons: While Pratt is talking to Mark Mountain about his weight, a button pops off his outfit, which Mark catches. Mark uses the button as inspiration for the LineOfSightAlias he gives as “Greeny McButtons”.
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* TheGhost: King Brenin and Queen Manon, the rulers of Trottleara, are missing [[spoiler: until Season 2]]. Prince Pratt is ruling in their absence.


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* UnseenNoMore: [[spoiler: After having been missing and presumed kidnapped since the beginning of the series, King Brenin and Queen Manon finally appear in person in Season 2, Episode 5, working as brainwashed slaves for an evil hunter.]]
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* PostStressOvereating: When Mark Mountain meets Pratt, the king is stuffing his face with chocolates. He explains to Mark that he has dealing with the combined stress of disturbances by RatMen, being taken hostage by SpiderPeople, questioning by the Dikeo police, and dealing with his parents’ amnesia.

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* CheapGoldCoins: Season 2, Episode 6 establishes that gold coins in Trottleara have roughly the same value as 1 USD.



* NoirEpisode: Episode 2

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* NoirEpisode: Episode 22 follows Tristan Lambert, a HardBoiledDetective pastiche who investigates a mystery.



* TheQuest: {{Invoked}} by Prince Pratt in Episode 3 in order to bolster his reputation. It does not go [[HilarityEnsues quite as intended.]]

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* TheQuest: {{Invoked}} by Prince Pratt in Episode 3 3, who climbs Pinkeyse in order to bolster his reputation. It does not go [[HilarityEnsues quite as intended.]]

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* HouseRules: Unlike usual play podcasts, ''Quest In Show'' uses a custom ruleset (based on TabletopGame/PoweredByTheApocalypse) for its episodes.
** This was explained by James in a [[https://youtu.be/qPc8zK0kj1g post-mortem video]] as a means to speed up play time and keep things simple for new players.

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* HouseRules: Unlike usual play podcasts, ''Quest In Show'' uses a custom ruleset (based on TabletopGame/PoweredByTheApocalypse) UsefulNotes/PoweredByTheApocalypse) for its episodes.
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episodes. This was explained by James in a [[https://youtu.be/qPc8zK0kj1g post-mortem video]] as a means to speed up play time and keep things simple for new players.
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* ComicallyMissingThePoint: While Mark Mountain is at the palace waiting to see Pratt, a woman arrives and assumes he’s meant to be Manon’s dressmaker. When Mark tries to explain that he’s waiting for Pratt, the woman assumes that he means regarding Queen Manon.
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* MysteryEpisode: Season 1, Episode 7

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* MysteryEpisode: Season 1, Episode 77, where the Sorcerer Supreme investigates a murder in the palace of Trottleara.
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* BloodierAndGorier: Season 2, Episode 2.

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* BloodierAndGorier: Season 2, Episode 2.2, where Richie De L’Argent has to handle the messy remains of Vito Staccato.
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* WhamEpisode: Season 2, Episode 5

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* WhamEpisode: Season 2, Episode 55 [[spoiler: The missing King Brenin and Queen Manon are found and returned to the kingdom.]]
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* TheyHaveTheScent: Tristan Lambert as Cody sniff the arrows to track down Crescent's killer.
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** The tune Mark Mountain hums on his way to the palace is [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gold_Diggers%27_Song_(We%27re_in_the_Money) “The Gold Diggers' Song (We're in the Money)”]].
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* MayDecemberRomance: Pratt suggests this to his aunt in Episode 9 in order to [[HeelFaceTurn get her to join his side.]] She doesn’t reciprocate.

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* MayDecemberRomance: Pratt suggests this tries to flirt with his aunt in Episode 9 in order to [[HeelFaceTurn get her to join his side.]] She doesn’t reciprocate.
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* RedIsHeroic: The figure in the opening Season 2 is a knight dressed in red armor.

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* RedIsHeroic: The figure in the opening sequence of Season 2 is a knight dressed in red armor.
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** Mark Mountain comes to the kingdom with a cargo of [[[[Theatre/TheMusicMan 76 trombones.]]

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** Mark Mountain comes to the kingdom with a cargo of [[[[Theatre/TheMusicMan [[Theatre/TheMusicMan 76 trombones.]]
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* EmpathicEnvironment: When Pratt enters the library in Episode 9, it is cold and icy, presumably to reflect his next encounter.

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When Pratt enters the library in Episode 9, it is cold and icy, presumably to reflect his next encounter. haughty aunt.
** Lampshaded by the GM in Season 2, Episode 5. After the villain was finally defeated, and Duncan Brewer is triumphantly making his way home [[spoiler: with the lost king and queen in tow]], the storm that was raging through the night clears to a bright and beautiful morning.

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* ChekhovsGun: The exotic potion Duncan uses to burn away the lock on a door is later used by him to fight and disfigure the villain in the climax of the episode.



* LockingMacGyverInTheStoreCupboard: When Duncan Brewer discovers Jack has locked him in a room he woke up in, Duncan uses his mixing kit to whip up a concoction acidic enough to burn through the lock.

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* LockingMacGyverInTheStoreCupboard: When Duncan Brewer discovers Jack has locked him in a the room he woke up in, Duncan uses his mixing kit to whip up a concoction acidic enough to burn through the lock.
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* GoToTheEuphemism: In Season 2, Episode 8, a drunken Pratt asks Yianni where he can go to “do his kingly business.”

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* GoToTheEuphemism: In Season 2, Episode 8, a drunken Pratt asks Yianni where he can go to “do his kingly business.” Yianni tells him that he has a bathroom in the back of the restaurant.
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* GoToTheEuphemism: In Season 2, Episode 8, a drunken Pratt asks Yianni where he can go to “do his kingly business.”
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* ImprovisedBandage: Duncan Brewer rips the tablecloth from the meal to cover Jack’s bullet wound.
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* RedIsHeroic: The figure in the opening Season 2 is a knight dressed in red armor.
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* ForceFeeding: During the shootout, Duncan Brewer tires forcefully pouring the wine from the dinner into the mouth of Jack and Jill’s master.
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* ZeroPercentApprovalRating: By the first season finale, Prince Pratt’s popularity is at an all time low.

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* ZeroPercentApprovalRating: By the first season finale, Prince Pratt’s popularity is at an decisions throughout the first season cause him to lose favor with practically all time low.his subjects by the start of the finale. Fortunately, he manages to turn it around by the end of the episode.

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