History WebVideo / BadCallTV

* BeyondTheImpossible: In "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bN4vN0unPmI Fapple, Inc.]]," a porn addict feeds his addiction by somehow looking at porn on a 1st generation iPod and ''an UsefulNotes/AppleII''-- neither of which are capable of displaying photos or videos.

* AcceptableTargets: [[invoked]] Even when mocking Paramount's decision to not pick up the ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'' movies, the folks at ''Bad Call TV'' decide to make fun of the [[OurVampiresAreDifferent Sparkly Vampires.]]

'''Patient:''' It's really that good?

* AndNowForSomethingCompletelyDifferent:
** Episode 24, "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cW1pmeSQ054 Creature Feature]]," is the first work they do that does ''not'' involve a RealLife mistake.
** And again in Episode 27, "[[http://www.badcalltv.com/?p=1108 Bloody Good Investment]]," which is a story about purchasing a clearly cursed/haunted house.

''[[http://www.badcalltv.com/ Bad Call TV]]'' is a WebVideo series that explores the various terrible decisions that are made in boardrooms, government bureaucracies, laboratories and homes everywhere. Mostly by trying to come up with a reason for [[InsaneTrollLogic their horrible, horrible ideas.]]

The two main cast members are [[StraightMan Lachlan Huddy]] and [[LoveableRogue Darcy Lord,]] occasionally accompanied by friends or family when they require a larger cast.

!This Series Has Examples of:

* AcceptableTargets: [[invoked]] Even when mocking Paramount's decision to not pick up the ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'' movies, the folks at Bad Call TV decide to make fun of the [[OurVampiresAreDifferent Sparkly Vampires.]]
* AmbiguouslyGay: The Mars Brothers from "Product Misplacement."
* AndNowForSomethingCompletelyDifferent: Episode 24, "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cW1pmeSQ054 Creature Feature]]," is the first work they do that does ''not'' involve a RealLife mistake.
** And again in Episode 27, "[[http://www.badcalltv.com/?p=1108 Bloody Good Investment,]] which is a story about purchasing a clearly cursed/haunted house.
* BeyondTheImpossible: In "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bN4vN0unPmI Fapple, Inc.]]," a porn addict feeds his addiction by looking at porn on a 1st generation iPod and ''an Apple II''.Neither of these are capable of displaying photos or videos.

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* BlatantLies: "The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oD87wCM4_TQ new Premiere cigarette]] is 100% safe, 100% clean, and makes no compromises on taste." [[spoiler: Followed by Lachlan taking a VomitDiscretionShot, of course.]]
** Also, the biographies on the main site, which claim that (among other things) Lachlan engages in [[SpeaksFluentAnimal shark-whispering]] and [[DefaceOfTheMoon moon-surface property development]] as hobbies, and that Darcy [[HilariouslyAbusiveChildhood lived in a hessian sack at the bottom of a well]] until he was 15 years old.

* CampGay: The lispy executives of the Hoover Corporation in "Well, This Sucks."
** Not to mention ''Santa Anna'' in "Remember This?"

* UsefulNotes/ColdWar: The topic of several videos, particularly in "[[http://www.badcalltv.com/?p=992 Relaying the Problem]]."

* CorruptCorporateExecutive: If it's not a result of [[IdiotBall total incompetence,]] bad decisions at corporations will be attributed to this.
** Taken to new heights in "[[http://www.badcalltv.com/?p=814 Wasted Energy,]]", thanks to [[spoiler: Enron.]]

** And it's back again in "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ocXVhxLJ_Og Feudal Japan, Part II.]]"
* DistractedByTheSexy: The reason why [[spoiler: the Bikini Atoll nuclear test]] went so badly in "[[http://www.badcalltv.com/?p=1021 Oh, Bravo!]]".
* DrugsAreBad: And unsurprisingly, they tend to result in some bad decision-making. Many videos depict people drinking or doing drugs before making a particularly bad decision.
* DudeNotFunny: Even the Bad Call TV guys [[EvenEvilHasStandards don't want to joke about children dying of pneumonia]] because their parents believed in prayer healing... which is why they [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_qE3iwm-Yc invented a scenario]] in which [[SubvertedTrope a man dies of a seizure, instead.]]

* ForegoneConclusion: It's called Bad Call TV; how do you ''think'' these decisions tend to turn out?

* IdiotBall: Given the nature of the series, it's unsurprising to see at least one person carrying the Idiot Ball in each episode, assuming it's not a full-on IdiotPlot.

* InsistentTerminology: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqh9j9KkLn0 PITS!]]
** Also counts as an [[InherentlyFunnyWords Inherently Funny Word.]]
* KarmaHoudini: Several, made more infuriating because most of them happened in RealLife.
** J.A. Bailey, the creator of Radithor and other radioactive products, died extremely wealthy even after condemning his customers to horrific and painful deaths.
** McDonnel-Douglas failed to correct a design flaw in one of their airplane models, even after one of the planes [[spoiler: suffered an explosive decompression]] from the flaw, which eventually resulted in [[spoiler: the deaths of 347 people.]] They managed to avoid much of the litigation that resulted, and survived another twenty years before being bought out by Boeing.

* MadScientist: [[HerrDoktor Dr. Doomsday,]] obviously. Subverted because his plans don't backfire as much as they simply fail due to his own stupidity.

* NotMakingThisUpDisclaimer: Used during "What's In a Name?," when the executives in charge of [[spoiler: Ayds Candy]] choose to change the name to [[spoiler: Diet Ayds,]] clearly demonstrating [[ComicallyMissingThePoint their understanding of the situation.]]
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYgfiFcbMZI Stephanie Bannister]] was a candidate for the Australian parliament running under the One Nation Party, a group of [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain thinly-veiled white supremacists.]] When asked about various issues, she said [[CriticalResearchFailure that Islam was a country, that Jews worshiped Jesus, and called the holy book of Islam the "Haram."]] Again, the narrator has to emphasize that ''none of this was made up.''

* RealityIsUnrealistic: In a promotional giveaway, Pepsi advertised a number of free gifts that could be redeemed in exchange for "Pepsi Points." In the commercial, they jokingly said they'd give out a Harrier Jump Jet to anyone who could save up 7 million points. When Pepsi refused, he sued. Yes, [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard_v._Pepsico,_Inc it's a real case,]] though in RealLife, he didn't actually drink that much soda himself- instead, he just collected points from his friends and neighbors.
* RecurringCharacter: [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Dr. Siegfried Doomsday,]] who is responsible for [[spoiler: pitching asbestos as a building material]] and [[spoiler: the disastrous Hoover promotional giveaway.]]

* SexSells: At the end of "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N3XiOsnnBIY Touch of Bogus,]]" they show a picture of one of the comediennes topless, and promises to [[CensorSteam un-blur her chest]] if viewers subscribe.
** Even better? The normally snarky and sarcastic narrator only has this to say:
--> "[[spoiler: Do it.]]"
* SideEffectsInclude: When you're talking about things like thalidomide or asbestos, you've got some pretty horrible side effects coming.
** Becomes downright despicable when you realize that [[CorruptCorporateExecutive many companies knew about the harmful side effects, and marketed them anyway.]]

* StupidSexyFlanders: Creator/RobertPattinson, apparently.
* StylisticSuck: The ''painful'' rap from Episode 24, "Video Shame Adaptation."

--> '''Doctor:''' "Radium water, Mr. Byers, a real cure all... pain relief doesn't come much more effective than that."
--> '''Patient:''' "It's really that good?"
--> '''Doctor:''' "Better, I'd say, and the 17% rebate the company offers me for each prescription has nothing to do with my saying so."
--> '''Patient:''' "[[IdiotBall Nothing?]]"
--> '''Doctor:''' Nothing at all.
* TakeThatAudience: In Episode 25, "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6ybvHaQZ34 Devastated]]," they mock Creator/MichaelBay's decision to [[spoiler: give Devastator swinging testicles]] in ''Film/TransformersRevengeOfTheFallen.'' They note, however, that [[SpringtimeForHitler everyone went to go see it anyway,]] allowing Bay to subsequently make a third film.

* TotallyRadical: Steven Spielberg winds up hiring two of these guys to help with his E.T. video game adaptation. It goes as well as one would expect.
* UnfortunateNames: Discussed in "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6GHeD5Q7U8 What's In a Name?]]", where we learn the sad fate of [[spoiler: Ayds Candy,]] which took a dive in popularity [[spoiler: after the outbreak of the AIDS epidemic in the 80's.]]

** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYgfiFcbMZI Stephanie Bannister]] was a candidate for the Australian parliament running under the One Nation Party, a group of [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain thinly-veiled white supremacists.]] When asked about various issues, she said [[CriticalResearchFailure that Islam was a country, that Jews worshiped Jesus, and called the holy book of Islam the "Haram."]] Again, the narrator to emphasize that ''none of this was made up.''

* BlackComedy: It's one thing to joke about the decision making behind the New Coke formula. It's another thing entirely to make fun of the effects of [[DeadBabyComedy thalidomide,]] or the many times [[UsefulNotes/ColdWar the US and Russia]] came within an inch of nuclear war.

* DeadBabyComedy: Or close to it, when talking about the decision to manufacture and sell L-thalidomide as a morning sickness medication, without checking on the [[SideEffectsInclude side effects.]]

* InUniverse/DudeNotFunny: Even the Bad Call TV guys [[EvenEvilHasStandards don't want to joke about children dying of pneumonia]] because their parents believed in prayer healing... which is why they [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_qE3iwm-Yc invented a scenario]] in which [[SubvertedTrope a man dies of a seizure, instead.]]

* InUniverse/AcceptableTargets: Even when mocking Paramount's decision to not pick up the ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'' movies, the folks at Bad Call TV decide to make fun of the [[OurVampiresAreDifferent Sparkly Vampires.]]

** In "You've Got the Flight Stuff, Baby," the narrator says that [[ViewersAreMorons even the idiots that watch the show]] would know that Pepsi [[spoiler: couldn't actually give away a Harrier Jump Jet.]]

* EvenTheGuysWantHim: In "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJR5thXLh-Q Joining the Team,]]" a man is tricked into watching ''Film/{{Twilight}}'' with his girlfriend. One of his first comments is [[StupidSexyFlanders how striking]] RobertPattinson's eyes are.

* HypocriticalHumor: After spending [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJR5thXLh-Q an entire episode]] making a joke about how [[spoiler: RobertPattinson can turn you gay,]] and representing a gay man in a stereotypically CampGay fashion, they immediately have a PSA about why it's bad to use gay stereotypes.

* StupidSexyFlanders: RobertPattinson, apparently.

* ExecutiveMeddling: Pro-tip to any executives out there- ''do not meddle with Creator/HarlanEllison.'' That is all.

* HeyItsThatVoice: If you're a fan of [[Website/ThatGuyWithTheGlasses Channel Awesome]], you might recognize the voices from "Feudal Japan II" as WebVideo/MarzGurl and [[WebVideo/BennettTheSage Mark the Engineer.]]

* KickTheDog: Every episode ends with a threat to commit some terrible act unless the viewers subscribe to the YouTube channel... followed by a narrator [[ZigZaggedTrope saying that it probably won't happen,]] but you should subscribe anyway.