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** In a more recent example, the "One of Three Will Fall" arc plunges the show into ''psychological horror'' as the unexpected death of one of her teachers plunges Olivia Parker into cutting herself off from her friends and family, as well as doubting her faith in God. Especially when [[spoiler: the imaginary friend responsible for sowing those doubts is revealed to be '''Satan''' in disguise. Our child protagonist being tormented by a ''demon'' isn't something one would ever expect from a kid's program.]]
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** "For Three Dollars More" has Barrett learning the importance of tithing, being charitable, and using what God has given us to help others. It's during this that Matthew and Connie attempt to teach Barrett this lesson using [[SpaceWhaleAesop well-meaning but quite ridiculous]] ForWantOfANail scenarios in the Room of Consequences that end up leaving Barrett more confused and annoyed than anything else.[[note]]Matthew suggests that if Barrett doesn't tithe, it'll lead to everyone at church deciding not to tithe after Barrett questions why they have to do it, causing a DisasterDominoes that'll lead to Odyssey becoming a CrapsackWorld. Connie, meanwhile, suggests that if Barrett doesn't tithe, the money he didn't give wouldn't be given to and thus prevent a child from going to church camp and lead said to said child becoming a criminal that'll gun Barrett down during a bank robbery years later.[[/note]] It's after this that Whit sets the record straight by presenting Barrett with a more reasonable and realistic scenario that Barrett understands better. While the original moral about tithing and being generous with your money is still there and takes center stage, there is (unintentionally or not) a subtle moral about not being [[{{Anvilicious}} dogmatic]] and using scare tactics with lessons you're trying to teach someone, or the person you're trying to impart a lesson on will probably think you're being ridiculous and not want to take you or the life-lesson seriously.
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** "For Three Dollars More" has Barrett learning the importance of tithing, being charitable, and using what God has given us to help others. It's during this that Matthew and Connie attempt to teach Barrett this lesson using [[SpaceWhaleAesop well-meaning but quite ridiculous]] ForWantOfANail for-want-of-a-nail scenarios in the Room of Consequences that end up leaving Barrett more confused and annoyed than anything else.[[note]]Matthew suggests that if Barrett doesn't tithe, it'll lead to everyone at church deciding not to tithe after Barrett questions why they have to do it, causing a DisasterDominoes that'll lead to Odyssey becoming a CrapsackWorld. Connie, meanwhile, suggests that if Barrett doesn't tithe, the money he didn't give wouldn't be given to and thus prevent a child from going to church camp and lead said to said child becoming a criminal that'll gun Barrett down during a bank robbery years later.[[/note]] It's after this that Whit sets the record straight by presenting Barrett with a more reasonable and realistic scenario that Barrett understands better. While the original moral about tithing and being generous with your money is still there and takes center stage, there is (unintentionally or not) a subtle moral about not being [[{{Anvilicious}} dogmatic]] and using scare tactics with lessons you're trying to teach someone, or the person you're trying to impart a lesson on will probably think you're being ridiculous and not want to take you or the life-lesson seriously.
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* UnintentionallyUnsympathetic: Trent [=DeWhite's=] teacher Dr. Hawthorne in the episodes "Think on These Things" and "A Glass Darkly", who seems to have taken teaching advice from the [[Franchise/HarryPotter Professor Snape]] School of Abusing One's Power:
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* UnintentionallyUnsympathetic: Trent [=DeWhite's=] teacher Dr. Hawthorne in the episodes "Think on These Things" and "A Glass Darkly", who seems to have taken teaching advice from the [[Franchise/HarryPotter Professor Snape]] School of Abusing One's Power:Darkly":
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* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: The music that plays at the end of "The Final Conflict", as the radio newscaster makes a weather forecast of a beautiful day in Odyssey. The sense of triumph, hope, and justice of the track is palpable.
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** The music that plays at the end of "The Final Conflict", as the radio newscaster makes a weather forecast of a beautiful day in Odyssey. The sense of triumph, hope, and justice of the track is palpable.
** The music that plays at the end of "The Final Conflict", as the radio newscaster makes a weather forecast of a beautiful day in Odyssey. The sense of triumph, hope, and justice of the track is palpable.
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* EnsembleDarkhorse: Richard Maxwell, by virtue of being quick-witted, complex, good-looking, and an [[TheAtoner atoning]] Woobie by the end of his run on the show. To this day, fans are clamoring for his return.
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** Richard Maxwell, by virtue of being quick-witted, complex, good-looking, and an [[TheAtoner atoning]] Woobie by the end of his run on the show. To this day, fans are clamoring for his return.
** Richard Maxwell, by virtue of being quick-witted, complex, good-looking, and an [[TheAtoner atoning]] Woobie by the end of his run on the show. To this day, fans are clamoring for his return.
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* GeniusBonus: In the episode "Stage Fright"; a SchoolPlay where the [[KidDetective Jones and Parker Detective Agency]] are investigating a [[ItMakesSenseInContext mysterious noise]] is held at the Taft-Hartley Theater. In universe, the theater is named after two local actors, but it also serves as a reference to the 1947 Taft-Hartley Act: a bill passed in response to a series of 1946 strikes that outlawed the "closed shop", sought to prevent Communists from gaining leadership in unions, and allowed states to institute "right-to-work" laws that would prevent unions from excluding non-union workers.
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** In the episode "Stage Fright"; a SchoolPlay where the [[KidDetective Jones and Parker Detective Agency]] are investigating a [[ItMakesSenseInContext mysterious noise]] is held at the Taft-Hartley Theater. In universe, the theater is named after two local actors, but it also serves as a reference to the 1947 Taft-Hartley Act: a bill passed in response to a series of 1946 strikes that outlawed the "closed shop", sought to prevent Communists from gaining leadership in unions, and allowed states to institute "right-to-work" laws that would prevent unions from excluding non-union workers.
** In the episode "Stage Fright"; a SchoolPlay where the [[KidDetective Jones and Parker Detective Agency]] are investigating a [[ItMakesSenseInContext mysterious noise]] is held at the Taft-Hartley Theater. In universe, the theater is named after two local actors, but it also serves as a reference to the 1947 Taft-Hartley Act: a bill passed in response to a series of 1946 strikes that outlawed the "closed shop", sought to prevent Communists from gaining leadership in unions, and allowed states to institute "right-to-work" laws that would prevent unions from excluding non-union workers.
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* HarsherInHindsight: Connie's snippy comments to the airport security officer who inspects Whit's computer in "Waylaid in the Windy City, Part 1" are considerably less funny in a post-9/11 world.
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** Connie's snippy comments to the airport security officer who inspects Whit's computer in "Waylaid in the Windy City, Part 1" are considerably less funny in a post-9/11 world.
** Connie's snippy comments to the airport security officer who inspects Whit's computer in "Waylaid in the Windy City, Part 1" are considerably less funny in a post-9/11 world.
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* HilariousInHindsight: In "W-O-R-R-Y", Erica Clark worries that she'll get a huge zit on her nose before she can take a good school picture. In "Lost by a Nose", 28 albums later, Liz Horton quits a beauty contest because of a zit on her nose.
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** In "W-O-R-R-Y", Erica Clark worries that she'll get a huge zit on her nose before she can take a good school picture. In "Lost by a Nose", 28 albums later, Liz Horton quits a beauty contest because of a zit on her nose.
** In "W-O-R-R-Y", Erica Clark worries that she'll get a huge zit on her nose before she can take a good school picture. In "Lost by a Nose", 28 albums later, Liz Horton quits a beauty contest because of a zit on her nose.
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* {{Narm}}: John Campbell is a really gifted composer and has made some fantastic scores for the series...which is why it's really jarring to hear the music playing while Regis confronts Edwin in "The Return"; it sounds more melodramatic than legitimately intense and chilling.
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** John Campbell is a really gifted composer and has made some fantastic scores for the series...which is why it's really jarring to hear the music playing while Regis confronts Edwin in "The Return"; it sounds more melodramatic than legitimately intense and chilling.
** John Campbell is a really gifted composer and has made some fantastic scores for the series...which is why it's really jarring to hear the music playing while Regis confronts Edwin in "The Return"; it sounds more melodramatic than legitimately intense and chilling.
** The suspense of the climax of "The Case of the Secret Room" is deflated a bit by how the murderer merely threatens Whit and those with him with blow-darts laced in tranquilizers instead of, say, a gun[[note]]originally Fenwick ''was'' supposed to be using a gun, but the writers became concerned that it would make an already DarkerAndEdgier episode ''too'' intense[[/note]], meaning that Whit and the others were in no mortal danger and, even if Fenwick ''did'' use the darts on them, they could easily tell the authorities on the perpetrator when they came to later. Even the writers seemed aware of how awkward this made the climax of the episode, as they were less afraid to have antagonists threaten characters with guns and other legitimately dangerous weapons going forward.
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* OneSceneWonder: The episode "[[InAnotherMansShoes Another Man's Shoes]]" introduced an invention of Whit's called "The Trans-muter", which (in a controlled environment) enabled a person to experience life from the perspective of another person. Aside from a passing mention to the invention in an episode that aired a short time later, the invention hasn't been used or mentioned since. [[note]] The likely reason is that the Room Of Consequences can do, and has done, what the Trans-muter was built to do, so the Trans-muter was seen as redundant and written out of the show.[[/note]]
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** The episode "[[InAnotherMansShoes Another Man's Shoes]]" introduced an invention of Whit's called "The Trans-muter", which (in a controlled environment) enabled a person to experience life from the perspective of another person. Aside from a passing mention to the invention in an episode that aired a short time later, the invention hasn't been used or mentioned since. [[note]] The likely reason is that the Room Of Consequences can do, and has done, what the Trans-muter was built to do, so the Trans-muter was seen as redundant and written out of the show.[[/note]]
** The episode "[[InAnotherMansShoes Another Man's Shoes]]" introduced an invention of Whit's called "The Trans-muter", which (in a controlled environment) enabled a person to experience life from the perspective of another person. Aside from a passing mention to the invention in an episode that aired a short time later, the invention hasn't been used or mentioned since. [[note]] The likely reason is that the Room Of Consequences can do, and has done, what the Trans-muter was built to do, so the Trans-muter was seen as redundant and written out of the show.[[/note]]
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* ToughActToFollow: "The Green Ring Conspiracy", the first major saga since Novacom, is constantly scrutinized in comparison to its predecessor and the Blackgaard saga. One camp loves GRC, another camp hates it and considers it emblematic of the missteps they see the show having taken since the relaunch, and another camp just thinks [[SoOkayItsAverage it's decent without being anything really stand-out.]] The main issue with GRC is that, unlike the previous two sagas, it's self-contained in one album with no buildup in prior ones, working more as a serial rather than a full-on saga. It is also much LighterAndSofter, generally lacking the intense scenes that pervade the previous two sagas. Effectively, if one goes in expecting a SpiritualSuccessor to Novacom, they will be setting themselves up for disappointment.
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** "The Green Ring Conspiracy", the first major saga since Novacom, is constantly scrutinized in comparison to its predecessor and the Blackgaard saga. One camp loves GRC, another camp hates it and considers it emblematic of the missteps they see the show having taken since the relaunch, and another camp just thinks [[SoOkayItsAverage it's decent without being anything really stand-out.]] The main issue with GRC is that, unlike the previous two sagas, it's self-contained in one album with no buildup in prior ones, working more as a serial rather than a full-on saga. It is also much LighterAndSofter, generally lacking the intense scenes that pervade the previous two sagas. Effectively, if one goes in expecting a SpiritualSuccessor to Novacom, they will be setting themselves up for disappointment.
** "The Green Ring Conspiracy", the first major saga since Novacom, is constantly scrutinized in comparison to its predecessor and the Blackgaard saga. One camp loves GRC, another camp hates it and considers it emblematic of the missteps they see the show having taken since the relaunch, and another camp just thinks [[SoOkayItsAverage it's decent without being anything really stand-out.]] The main issue with GRC is that, unlike the previous two sagas, it's self-contained in one album with no buildup in prior ones, working more as a serial rather than a full-on saga. It is also much LighterAndSofter, generally lacking the intense scenes that pervade the previous two sagas. Effectively, if one goes in expecting a SpiritualSuccessor to Novacom, they will be setting themselves up for disappointment.
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* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter: Although the video series produced its fair share of unique and memorable characters, there is still a very noticeable lack of any other radio series characters outside of the core trio of Whit, Eugene and Connie, with the only other radio series character to appear in animated form aside from them being Bernard Walton in "The Last Days of Eugene Meltsner". Aside from Bernard's single appearance, there's no sign of the likes of Tom Riley and his farm, the Rathbones and the Electric Palace, or resident BreakoutCharacter Wooton, and even Connie herself was a complete non-entity in the video series until "A Stranger Among Us".
* ValuesDissonance: At the end of "In Harm's Way", Doug Harding tries to push a deaf boy, Elliot, down a dangerous hill on a bike with intent for Elliot to get hurt or possibly worse (with the resulting DisasterDominoes effect nearly leading to a train collision at the Odyssey train station that was only just barely averted at the last second), showing no guilt whatsoever about the chaos caused by his actions in the aftermath. The extent of the punishment that Doug gets for all of this is an earful from Whit and being sent home with the knowledge that Whit will tell Doug's parents about what he did. Nowadays, the act of trying to injure Elliot by itself (let alone almost causing a devastating train crash) would have more than likely gotten Doug sent straight to juvenile detention the moment the authorities found out about it.
* ValuesDissonance: At the end of "In Harm's Way", Doug Harding tries to push a deaf boy, Elliot, down a dangerous hill on a bike with intent for Elliot to get hurt or possibly worse (with the resulting DisasterDominoes effect nearly leading to a train collision at the Odyssey train station that was only just barely averted at the last second), showing no guilt whatsoever about the chaos caused by his actions in the aftermath. The extent of the punishment that Doug gets for all of this is an earful from Whit and being sent home with the knowledge that Whit will tell Doug's parents about what he did. Nowadays, the act of trying to injure Elliot by itself (let alone almost causing a devastating train crash) would have more than likely gotten Doug sent straight to juvenile detention the moment the authorities found out about it.
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* NightmareFuel:
** "The Mortal Coil", where Eugene experiences what Hell would be like for him.
** Dr Blackgaard has a few of these, but his resurrection is particularly horrific. Abraham Lincoln going on a killing spree?
*** And he was about to kill a little girl before Whit intervened.
** In "A Name, Not A Number, Part 2", Blackgaard has the driver of a car ''commit murder-suicide'' to get rid of Mustafa, the leader of a terrorist group with whom Blackgaard was previously associated.
** The Marquis of Matrimony from "The Marriage Feast" (an adaption of the story in the Book of Matthew). Unlike the Duke of Terra and the Countess of Bovine, he is against the emissaries right from the start, and then orders them to be ''tortured''; which leads to the actual ''death'' of one of the said emissaries.
** The disguised voice in "The Search for Whit, Part 2", that gives a lackey named Benjamin instructions. It comes [[JumpScare completely out of nowhere]], and it's a rather unnerving sound.
** An early, skit-based episode "The Devil Made Me Do It"'s final act is a demon awards show where the final nominee is Satan for tempting Jesus in the desert. However, the show goes horribly awry when, of course, Jesus resists the temptation and quotes scripture at him. Not only is the voice for Satan absolutely monstrous, but the awards show dissolves in panic down to a "Technical Difficulties" jingle glitching out into silence and the episode just ends.
** Episode 438's B-story is a [[ShootTheShaggyDog "parable"]] about how two men end up in Hell despite taking completely different paths in life. On Kid's Radio, in-universe!
** In "Plan B, Part II", Bennett Charles takes Arthur Dent captive and subjects him to [[ColdBloodedTorture "another 'experiment'".]] [[NothingIsScarier The audience is never told what exactly Dent was subjected to]], but Joanne later remarks that he looks like someone who's been through shock therapy, and Charles menacingly tells Dent that he's going to help them "whether [he] want[s] to or not".
** "The Black Veil", a dark chapter in the Novacom Saga where a new satellite system is causing an inexplicable HatePlague with several characters becoming strangely irritable and violent. Oh, and this is just an opening stage of the villain's EvilScheme, and things get worse.
*** The icing on the cake for this episode has to be the scene where Whit decides to see for himself exactly what alteration Novacom made to the Imagination Station's operation and implements the changes onto it. He has Connie and Eugene stand by just in case anything goes wrong...which things happen to go horribly wrong ''mere seconds'' after starting the Station. He then crawls out practically clawing for his dear life talking about how [[spoiler:he was portrayed as all of the worst monsters in history, like Cain, Pharaoh, Stalin, and Hitler. No, not witnessing them, ''being filled in their roles.'']] You know, for kids!
** The scene in the episode "The Unraveling" where Rachel Mitchell plays the answering machine message of Justine Baker, a friend of Robert Mitchell who worked at Novacom, as she ends up followed by a Novacom agent due to her [[HeKnowsTooMuch knowing too much about Novacom's schemes]] ultimately [[spoiler:run off the road]]
** Near the end of "The Imagination Station, Revisited", when Kelly is trying to leave a malfunctioning Imagination Station and desperately trying ''not'' to see the crucifixion of Jesus.
** In the blood drive episode, Whit explains why he's afraid of getting his blood drawn: he lost a lot of blood in the war and woke up to find a nurse mistakenly taking ''more'' blood from him.
** Meta example: The closing tag for the original broadcast of the Odyssey special "Passages: Fletcher's Return: Part 2" included Chris Anthony promoting the season premiere (the "Blackgaard's Revenge: Part 1" episode referenced above in the NightmareFuel entry) only for her voice to slowly morph into the voice of Dr. Regis Blackgaard; which no doubt would easily have scared quite a few younger kids who happened to be listening.
** Olivia's hallucination of Leonid Zepanov during the "One of Three Will Fall" arc starts off as another humorous imaginary friend in the same vein as episodes with Lawrence Hodges and Trent Dewhite before her. But as the arc goes on and Olivia plunges further into doubt, Leonid stops being funny and starts being mean. The doubts he sows push her further away from her friends and family. This all culminates in "The Lost One" two-parter. Once Olivia hits her lowest point and feels completely and utterly alone, Leonid's voice transitions from a Russian philosopher to a voice that sounds downright ''demonic.'' If not for Whit's intervention, things could have ended very badly.
** "The Mortal Coil", where Eugene experiences what Hell would be like for him.
** Dr Blackgaard has a few of these, but his resurrection is particularly horrific. Abraham Lincoln going on a killing spree?
*** And he was about to kill a little girl before Whit intervened.
** In "A Name, Not A Number, Part 2", Blackgaard has the driver of a car ''commit murder-suicide'' to get rid of Mustafa, the leader of a terrorist group with whom Blackgaard was previously associated.
** The Marquis of Matrimony from "The Marriage Feast" (an adaption of the story in the Book of Matthew). Unlike the Duke of Terra and the Countess of Bovine, he is against the emissaries right from the start, and then orders them to be ''tortured''; which leads to the actual ''death'' of one of the said emissaries.
** The disguised voice in "The Search for Whit, Part 2", that gives a lackey named Benjamin instructions. It comes [[JumpScare completely out of nowhere]], and it's a rather unnerving sound.
** An early, skit-based episode "The Devil Made Me Do It"'s final act is a demon awards show where the final nominee is Satan for tempting Jesus in the desert. However, the show goes horribly awry when, of course, Jesus resists the temptation and quotes scripture at him. Not only is the voice for Satan absolutely monstrous, but the awards show dissolves in panic down to a "Technical Difficulties" jingle glitching out into silence and the episode just ends.
** Episode 438's B-story is a [[ShootTheShaggyDog "parable"]] about how two men end up in Hell despite taking completely different paths in life. On Kid's Radio, in-universe!
** In "Plan B, Part II", Bennett Charles takes Arthur Dent captive and subjects him to [[ColdBloodedTorture "another 'experiment'".]] [[NothingIsScarier The audience is never told what exactly Dent was subjected to]], but Joanne later remarks that he looks like someone who's been through shock therapy, and Charles menacingly tells Dent that he's going to help them "whether [he] want[s] to or not".
** "The Black Veil", a dark chapter in the Novacom Saga where a new satellite system is causing an inexplicable HatePlague with several characters becoming strangely irritable and violent. Oh, and this is just an opening stage of the villain's EvilScheme, and things get worse.
*** The icing on the cake for this episode has to be the scene where Whit decides to see for himself exactly what alteration Novacom made to the Imagination Station's operation and implements the changes onto it. He has Connie and Eugene stand by just in case anything goes wrong...which things happen to go horribly wrong ''mere seconds'' after starting the Station. He then crawls out practically clawing for his dear life talking about how [[spoiler:he was portrayed as all of the worst monsters in history, like Cain, Pharaoh, Stalin, and Hitler. No, not witnessing them, ''being filled in their roles.'']] You know, for kids!
** The scene in the episode "The Unraveling" where Rachel Mitchell plays the answering machine message of Justine Baker, a friend of Robert Mitchell who worked at Novacom, as she ends up followed by a Novacom agent due to her [[HeKnowsTooMuch knowing too much about Novacom's schemes]] ultimately [[spoiler:run off the road]]
** Near the end of "The Imagination Station, Revisited", when Kelly is trying to leave a malfunctioning Imagination Station and desperately trying ''not'' to see the crucifixion of Jesus.
** In the blood drive episode, Whit explains why he's afraid of getting his blood drawn: he lost a lot of blood in the war and woke up to find a nurse mistakenly taking ''more'' blood from him.
** Meta example: The closing tag for the original broadcast of the Odyssey special "Passages: Fletcher's Return: Part 2" included Chris Anthony promoting the season premiere (the "Blackgaard's Revenge: Part 1" episode referenced above in the NightmareFuel entry) only for her voice to slowly morph into the voice of Dr. Regis Blackgaard; which no doubt would easily have scared quite a few younger kids who happened to be listening.
** Olivia's hallucination of Leonid Zepanov during the "One of Three Will Fall" arc starts off as another humorous imaginary friend in the same vein as episodes with Lawrence Hodges and Trent Dewhite before her. But as the arc goes on and Olivia plunges further into doubt, Leonid stops being funny and starts being mean. The doubts he sows push her further away from her friends and family. This all culminates in "The Lost One" two-parter. Once Olivia hits her lowest point and feels completely and utterly alone, Leonid's voice transitions from a Russian philosopher to a voice that sounds downright ''demonic.'' If not for Whit's intervention, things could have ended very badly.
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** "The Mortal Coil", where Eugene experiences what Hell would be like for him.
** Dr Blackgaard has a few of these, but his resurrection is particularly horrific. Abraham Lincoln going on a killing spree?
*** And he was about to kill a little girl before Whit intervened.
** In "A Name, Not A Number, Part 2", Blackgaard has the driver of a car ''commit murder-suicide'' to get rid of Mustafa, the leader of a terrorist group with whom Blackgaard was previously associated.
** The Marquis of Matrimony from "The Marriage Feast" (an adaption of the story in the Book of Matthew). Unlike the Duke of Terra and the Countess of Bovine, he is against the emissaries right from the start, and then orders them to be ''tortured''; which leads to the actual ''death'' of one of the said emissaries.
** The disguised voice in "The Search for Whit, Part 2", that gives a lackey named Benjamin instructions. It comes [[JumpScare completely out of nowhere]], and it's a rather unnerving sound.
** An early, skit-based episode "The Devil Made Me Do It"'s final act is a demon awards show where the final nominee is Satan for tempting Jesus in the desert. However, the show goes horribly awry when, of course, Jesus resists the temptation and quotes scripture at him. Not only is the voice for Satan absolutely monstrous, but the awards show dissolves in panic down to a "Technical Difficulties" jingle glitching out into silence and the episode just ends.
** Episode 438's B-story is a [[ShootTheShaggyDog "parable"]] about how two men end up in Hell despite taking completely different paths in life. On Kid's Radio, in-universe!
** In "Plan B, Part II", Bennett Charles takes Arthur Dent captive and subjects him to [[ColdBloodedTorture "another 'experiment'".]] [[NothingIsScarier The audience is never told what exactly Dent was subjected to]], but Joanne later remarks that he looks like someone who's been through shock therapy, and Charles menacingly tells Dent that he's going to help them "whether [he] want[s] to or not".
** "The Black Veil", a dark chapter in the Novacom Saga where a new satellite system is causing an inexplicable HatePlague with several characters becoming strangely irritable and violent. Oh, and this is just an opening stage of the villain's EvilScheme, and things get worse.
*** The icing on the cake for this episode has to be the scene where Whit decides to see for himself exactly what alteration Novacom made to the Imagination Station's operation and implements the changes onto it. He has Connie and Eugene stand by just in case anything goes wrong...which things happen to go horribly wrong ''mere seconds'' after starting the Station. He then crawls out practically clawing for his dear life talking about how [[spoiler:he was portrayed as all of the worst monsters in history, like Cain, Pharaoh, Stalin, and Hitler. No, not witnessing them, ''being filled in their roles.'']] You know, for kids!
** The scene in the episode "The Unraveling" where Rachel Mitchell plays the answering machine message of Justine Baker, a friend of Robert Mitchell who worked at Novacom, as she ends up followed by a Novacom agent due to her [[HeKnowsTooMuch knowing too much about Novacom's schemes]] ultimately [[spoiler:run off the road]]
** Near the end of "The Imagination Station, Revisited", when Kelly is trying to leave a malfunctioning Imagination Station and desperately trying ''not'' to see the crucifixion of Jesus.
** In the blood drive episode, Whit explains why he's afraid of getting his blood drawn: he lost a lot of blood in the war and woke up to find a nurse mistakenly taking ''more'' blood from him.
** Meta example: The closing tag for the original broadcast of the Odyssey special "Passages: Fletcher's Return: Part 2" included Chris Anthony promoting the season premiere (the "Blackgaard's Revenge: Part 1" episode referenced above in the NightmareFuel entry) only for her voice to slowly morph into the voice of Dr. Regis Blackgaard; which no doubt would easily have scared quite a few younger kids who happened to be listening.
** Olivia's hallucination of Leonid Zepanov during the "One of Three Will Fall" arc starts off as another humorous imaginary friend in the same vein as episodes with Lawrence Hodges and Trent Dewhite before her. But as the arc goes on and Olivia plunges further into doubt, Leonid stops being funny and starts being mean. The doubts he sows push her further away from her friends and family. This all culminates in "The Lost One" two-parter. Once Olivia hits her lowest point and feels completely and utterly alone, Leonid's voice transitions from a Russian philosopher to a voice that sounds downright ''demonic.'' If not for Whit's intervention, things could have ended very badly.NightmareFuel: [[NightmareFuel/AdventuresInOdyssey Has its own page.]]
** "The Mortal Coil", where Eugene experiences what Hell would be like for him.
** Dr Blackgaard has a few of these, but his resurrection is particularly horrific. Abraham Lincoln going on a killing spree?
*** And he was about to kill a little girl before Whit intervened.
** In "A Name, Not A Number, Part 2", Blackgaard has the driver of a car ''commit murder-suicide'' to get rid of Mustafa, the leader of a terrorist group with whom Blackgaard was previously associated.
** The Marquis of Matrimony from "The Marriage Feast" (an adaption of the story in the Book of Matthew). Unlike the Duke of Terra and the Countess of Bovine, he is against the emissaries right from the start, and then orders them to be ''tortured''; which leads to the actual ''death'' of one of the said emissaries.
** The disguised voice in "The Search for Whit, Part 2", that gives a lackey named Benjamin instructions. It comes [[JumpScare completely out of nowhere]], and it's a rather unnerving sound.
** An early, skit-based episode "The Devil Made Me Do It"'s final act is a demon awards show where the final nominee is Satan for tempting Jesus in the desert. However, the show goes horribly awry when, of course, Jesus resists the temptation and quotes scripture at him. Not only is the voice for Satan absolutely monstrous, but the awards show dissolves in panic down to a "Technical Difficulties" jingle glitching out into silence and the episode just ends.
** Episode 438's B-story is a [[ShootTheShaggyDog "parable"]] about how two men end up in Hell despite taking completely different paths in life. On Kid's Radio, in-universe!
** In "Plan B, Part II", Bennett Charles takes Arthur Dent captive and subjects him to [[ColdBloodedTorture "another 'experiment'".]] [[NothingIsScarier The audience is never told what exactly Dent was subjected to]], but Joanne later remarks that he looks like someone who's been through shock therapy, and Charles menacingly tells Dent that he's going to help them "whether [he] want[s] to or not".
** "The Black Veil", a dark chapter in the Novacom Saga where a new satellite system is causing an inexplicable HatePlague with several characters becoming strangely irritable and violent. Oh, and this is just an opening stage of the villain's EvilScheme, and things get worse.
*** The icing on the cake for this episode has to be the scene where Whit decides to see for himself exactly what alteration Novacom made to the Imagination Station's operation and implements the changes onto it. He has Connie and Eugene stand by just in case anything goes wrong...which things happen to go horribly wrong ''mere seconds'' after starting the Station. He then crawls out practically clawing for his dear life talking about how [[spoiler:he was portrayed as all of the worst monsters in history, like Cain, Pharaoh, Stalin, and Hitler. No, not witnessing them, ''being filled in their roles.'']] You know, for kids!
** The scene in the episode "The Unraveling" where Rachel Mitchell plays the answering machine message of Justine Baker, a friend of Robert Mitchell who worked at Novacom, as she ends up followed by a Novacom agent due to her [[HeKnowsTooMuch knowing too much about Novacom's schemes]] ultimately [[spoiler:run off the road]]
** Near the end of "The Imagination Station, Revisited", when Kelly is trying to leave a malfunctioning Imagination Station and desperately trying ''not'' to see the crucifixion of Jesus.
** In the blood drive episode, Whit explains why he's afraid of getting his blood drawn: he lost a lot of blood in the war and woke up to find a nurse mistakenly taking ''more'' blood from him.
** Meta example: The closing tag for the original broadcast of the Odyssey special "Passages: Fletcher's Return: Part 2" included Chris Anthony promoting the season premiere (the "Blackgaard's Revenge: Part 1" episode referenced above in the NightmareFuel entry) only for her voice to slowly morph into the voice of Dr. Regis Blackgaard; which no doubt would easily have scared quite a few younger kids who happened to be listening.
** Olivia's hallucination of Leonid Zepanov during the "One of Three Will Fall" arc starts off as another humorous imaginary friend in the same vein as episodes with Lawrence Hodges and Trent Dewhite before her. But as the arc goes on and Olivia plunges further into doubt, Leonid stops being funny and starts being mean. The doubts he sows push her further away from her friends and family. This all culminates in "The Lost One" two-parter. Once Olivia hits her lowest point and feels completely and utterly alone, Leonid's voice transitions from a Russian philosopher to a voice that sounds downright ''demonic.'' If not for Whit's intervention, things could have ended very badly.
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* NightmareFuel: "A Twist In Time" features Dylan and Sal entering the (not yet unveiled) Room of Consequences and being shown a very grim future where they have been missing for decades and Whit and their families exhausted themselves (physically and financially) [[IWillFindYou trying to find the boys]], and as a result, Whit is implied to have passed away penniless and in very poor health, [[MessOfWoe Whit's End is in shambles]], and an elderly and nearly senile Eugene is trying to keep the place standing. At least [[AllJustADream it was just a simulation]] and isn't the actual future of Whit's End and the people involved with it, but still, Dylan and Sal were lucky to get through that without being traumatized in some way.
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* NightmareFuel: "A Twist In Time" features Dylan and Sal entering the (not yet unveiled) Room of Consequences and being shown a very grim future where they have been missing for decades and Whit and their families exhausted themselves (physically and financially) [[IWillFindYou trying to find the boys]], and as a result, Whit is implied to have passed away penniless and in very poor health, [[MessOfWoe Whit's End is in shambles]], and an elderly and nearly senile Eugene is trying to keep the place standing. At least [[AllJustADream it was just a simulation]] and isn't the actual future of Whit's End and the people involved [[NightmareFuel/AdventuresInOdyssey Shared with it, but still, Dylan and Sal were lucky to get through that without being traumatized in some way.the radio series here.]]
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** Wooton's father Winston Basset makes his first and only appearance in "Wooing Wooton." Yet in the span of a single episode, he recontextualized all of Wooton's (and Wellington's) previous appearances from purely comic relief into much more serious, sadder events, showed just how screwed up the Basset family actually is by trying to force his son to marry a non-believer purely for familial gain, cut Wooton out of his will when he refused, and threw a massive wrench into Grady's spiritual journey on top of it. Wooton's strained relationship with his dad would be called back to as far forward as the relaunch era.
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** Olivia's hallucination of Leonid Zepanov during the "One of Three Will Fall" arc starts off as another humorous imaginary friend in the same vein as episodes with Lawrence Hodges and Trent Dewhite before her. But as the arc goes on and Olivia plunges further into doubt, Leonid stops being funny and starts being mean. The doubts he sows push her further away from her friends and family. This all culminates in "The Lost One" two-parter. Once Olivia hits her lowest point and feels completely and utterly alone, Leonid's voice transitions from a Russian philosopher to a voice that sounds downright ''demonic.'' If not for Whit's intervention, things could have ended very badly.
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* {{Irony}}: An early episode about facing your fears ended ''terrifying'' several children who had never had such a problem before.
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* ValuesDissonance:
** Whit ''spanking'' his grandson Monty in "A Member of the Family" comes across as this, now that it is much more of a hot button issue in the years since its first airing in 1987. To be fair, his daughter (mother to Monty) Jana does raise quite a stink about it, but it's only one of a few reasons she is upset rather than the main one. Whatever it was trying to portray it as, it's far from something considered acceptable to depict on a kids' show nowadays.
** Whit ''spanking'' his grandson Monty in "A Member of the Family" comes across as this, now that it is much more of a hot button issue in the years since its first airing in 1987. To be fair, his daughter (mother to Monty) Jana does raise quite a stink about it, but it's only one of a few reasons she is upset rather than the main one. Whatever it was trying to portray it as, it's far from something considered acceptable to depict on a kids' show nowadays.
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**ValuesDissonance: Whit ''spanking'' his grandson Monty in "A Member of the Family" comes across as this, now that it is much more of a hot button issue in the years since its first airing in 1987. To be fair, his daughter (mother to Monty) Jana does raise quite a stink about it, but it's only one of a few reasons she is upset rather than the main one. Whatever it was trying to portray it as, it's far from something considered acceptable to depict on a kids' show nowadays.
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** "Choices" featured Lucy unable to write a school report on evolution due to it contradicting her Christian beliefs. Come another three decades, and scientific evidence widely supports evolution as fact, to the point where most Christians have accepted it as compatible with their beliefs, and creationism is generally seen a fringe belief that isn't taken too seriously anymore.
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** [[MaybeMagicMaybeMundane While it's ambiguous to how the Imagination Station actually works]], it's implied that it engages all five senses, even simulating pain in some instances. Come the ''Novacom Saga'', the eponymous broadcasting company develops a virtual reality headset called the "NovaBox" Whit discovers that it was developed using research to convert radio waves to brainwaves ''and'' his Imagination Station technology, so it can be reasonably assumed that the device engages all 5 senses as well. A VR headset that can do all that? [[LightNovel/SwordArtOnline That sounds awfully familiar.]]
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** [[MaybeMagicMaybeMundane While it's ambiguous to how the Imagination Station actually works]], it's implied that it engages all five senses, even simulating pain in some instances. Come the ''Novacom Saga'', the eponymous broadcasting company develops a virtual reality headset called the "NovaBox" Whit discovers that it was developed using research to convert radio waves to brainwaves ''and'' his Imagination Station technology, so it can be reasonably assumed that the device engages all 5 senses as well. A VR headset that can do all that? [[LightNovel/SwordArtOnline [[Literature/SwordArtOnline That sounds awfully familiar.]]
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** The writers goofed and gave Lucy's last name as Cunningham in one episode and Schultz in another. The explanation became that her father died and Shultz was her stepfather's last name, and from then on she was Lucy Cunningham-Schultz.
** In an early episode that explains the backstory for how Whit's End came to be, Whit claims that he's buying the building and its adjoining land. However, later on it's said that he only owns the building, not the land, which may not have been so problematic if not for the fact that this becomes a pivotal driving force during the Blackgaard saga's finale arc. This conflict is finally put to rest in "The Forgotten Deed" where Whit claims he ''thought'' he was getting both the building and the land at first, but later found out he only owned the building.
** While he was eventually written out entirely, Officer Harley's final few appearances tried to help right the wrongs of the character from the past, heavily toning down his ditzy tendencies and showing him solving much more high-stakes cases (such as a missing child) with a decent level of competency. In fact, he TookALevelInBadass when he saves a child's life by the skin of his teeth.
** The writers goofed and gave Lucy's last name as Cunningham in one episode and Schultz in another. The explanation became that her father died and Shultz was her stepfather's last name, and from then on she was Lucy Cunningham-Schultz.
** In an early episode that explains the backstory for how Whit's End came to be, Whit claims that he's buying the building and its adjoining land. However, later on it's said that he only owns the building, not the land, which may not have been so problematic if not for the fact that this becomes a pivotal driving force during the Blackgaard saga's finale arc. This conflict is finally put to rest in "The Forgotten Deed" where Whit claims he ''thought'' he was getting both the building and the land at first, but later found out he only owned the building.
** While he was eventually written out entirely, Officer Harley's final few appearances tried to help right the wrongs of the character from the past, heavily toning down his ditzy tendencies and showing him solving much more high-stakes cases (such as a missing child) with a decent level of competency. In fact, he TookALevelInBadass when he saves a child's life by the skin of his teeth.
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* AudienceAlienatingEra: The so-called "split-era", which listeners will near-unanimously call the lowest-point in terms of episode quality. Despite having a few well-regarded episodes such as "Blackgaard's Revenge", "The Y.A.K Problem", and "I Slap Floor", many other episodes were seen as dumbed down and overly wacky and cartoonish, containing [[CluelessAesop confusing]] and increasingly {{Anvilicious}} morals, [[IdiotPlot weak plots]], [[SeriesContinuityError rampant continuity errors]], [[BizarroEpisode uncharacteristically strange premises]], and flattened characterizations. Some of the show's most reviled episodes (such as "Bethany's Flood" and "The Lyin' Tale") aired during this period. None of these issues were helped by the slashed episode length (a number of episodes during this era were short eleven-minute episodes instead of the series' traditional 22 minute episodes). Fortunately, this was only a temporary period and the series was quickly rerailed back into what it was before once listeners objected.
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* AudienceAlienatingEra: The so-called "split-era", which listeners will near-unanimously call the lowest-point in terms of episode quality. Despite having a few well-regarded episodes such as "Blackgaard's Revenge", "The Y.A.K Problem", and "I Slap Floor", many other episodes were seen as dumbed down and overly wacky and cartoonish, containing [[CluelessAesop confusing]] and increasingly {{Anvilicious}} morals, [[IdiotPlot weak plots]], plots, [[SeriesContinuityError rampant continuity errors]], [[BizarroEpisode uncharacteristically strange premises]], and flattened characterizations. Some of the show's most reviled episodes (such as "Bethany's Flood" and "The Lyin' Tale") aired during this period. None of these issues were helped by the slashed episode length (a number of episodes during this era were short eleven-minute episodes instead of the series' traditional 22 minute episodes). Fortunately, this was only a temporary period and the series was quickly rerailed back into what it was before once listeners objected.
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** The episode "Buried Sin". It's understandable that a kid would think he'd committed murder when a gun he was holding went off and killed someone, and that the descendant of said victim (who is currently a child) would think that, but ''Whit?'' Pretty much ''everyone else?'' No...that's not ''murder''. No court in the US would charge him with murder for accidentally killing someone. I mean, considering his age, he probably wouldn't even have gotten a manslaughter charge. His ''father'' would have been charged with negligence for leaving the gun where his son could get to it and for not teaching his son proper gun safety, but the child would not have been held responsible.
** The first Blackgaard arc is started entirely because of Whit's complete lack of planning ahead with the Applesauce program. So, this is a highly secret and classified computer program that both works [[spoiler:as an emergency shutdown mechanism for Whit's End and for purposes for the government never disclosed to the viewer.]] You would think such a program would be locked behind several levels of security and buried deep within the computer it's stored on so that it wouldn't be possible for any old idiot to just bring it up willy-nilly, but he leaves it ''out in the open'' on the computer's main menu and only locks the ''second level'' security behind a password, with the first level merely requiring the ''program to be launched.'' True, getting to the computer it's stored on at all requires access to a room that is highly secret to begin with, but he didn't even consider the fact that if someone broke into the room, the computer would be all theirs to tamper with. If he had simply put forward the simplest of common sense with locking down the program, the entire arc with Blackgaard could have been completely avoided.
** The episode "Buried Sin". It's understandable that a kid would think he'd committed murder when a gun he was holding went off and killed someone, and that the descendant of said victim (who is currently a child) would think that, but ''Whit?'' Pretty much ''everyone else?'' No...that's not ''murder''. No court in the US would charge him with murder for accidentally killing someone. I mean, considering his age, he probably wouldn't even have gotten a manslaughter charge. His ''father'' would have been charged with negligence for leaving the gun where his son could get to it and for not teaching his son proper gun safety, but the child would not have been held responsible.
** The first Blackgaard arc is started entirely because of Whit's complete lack of planning ahead with the Applesauce program. So, this is a highly secret and classified computer program that both works [[spoiler:as an emergency shutdown mechanism for Whit's End and for purposes for the government never disclosed to the viewer.]] You would think such a program would be locked behind several levels of security and buried deep within the computer it's stored on so that it wouldn't be possible for any old idiot to just bring it up willy-nilly, but he leaves it ''out in the open'' on the computer's main menu and only locks the ''second level'' security behind a password, with the first level merely requiring the ''program to be launched.'' True, getting to the computer it's stored on at all requires access to a room that is highly secret to begin with, but he didn't even consider the fact that if someone broke into the room, the computer would be all theirs to tamper with. If he had simply put forward the simplest of common sense with locking down the program, the entire arc with Blackgaard could have been completely avoided.
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* AudienceAlienatingEra: The so-called "split-era", which listeners will near-unanimously call the lowest-point in terms of episode quality. Despite having a few well-regarded episodes such as "Blackgaard's Revenge", "The Y.A.K Problem", and "I Slap Floor", many other episodes were seen as dumbed down and overly wacky and cartoonish, containing [[CluelessAesop confusing]] and increasingly {{Anvilicious}} morals, [[IdiotPlot weak plots]], [[SeriesContinuityError rampant continuity errors]], [[BizarroEpisode uncharacteristically strange premises]], and flattened characterizations. Some of the show's most reviled episodes (such as "Bethany's Flood" and "The Lyin' Tale") aired during this period. None of these issues were helped by the slashed episode length (a number of episodes during this era were short eleven-minute episodes instead of the series' traditional 22 minute episodes). Fortunately, this was only a temporary period and the series was quickly rerailed back into what it was before once listeners objected.
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*** "The Seven Deadly Dwarves" has a similar setup involving Bethany falling asleep on the ride home from church after learning about the Seven Deadly Sins in Sunday School. She dreams that she is "Snow [=DeWhite=]" who lives in a castle with the Good Step-Ladder Father (played by her real father) until she begins to doubt his love for her and runs away to a shoe where the Seven Deadly Dwarves live. They end up enslaving her until the Step-Ladder Father comes to her rescue and they defeat the dwarves. Whereas the crazy goings-on in "I Slap Floor" had a justified, clever, self-parodying tone, many felt that the events of these two episodes came off as insanity for the sake of it and broke the listeners' WillingSuspensionOfDisbelief, leaving these two episodes to end up being considered two of the worst episodes of the series and a symbol of everything wrong with the [[DorkAge split era]].
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*** "The Seven Deadly Dwarves" has a similar setup involving Bethany falling asleep on the ride home from church after learning about the Seven Deadly Sins in Sunday School. She dreams that she is "Snow [=DeWhite=]" who lives in a castle with the Good Step-Ladder Father (played by her real father) until she begins to doubt his love for her and runs away to a shoe where the Seven Deadly Dwarves live. They end up enslaving her until the Step-Ladder Father comes to her rescue and they defeat the dwarves. Whereas the crazy goings-on in "I Slap Floor" had a justified, clever, self-parodying tone, many felt that the events of these two episodes came off as insanity for the sake of it and broke the listeners' WillingSuspensionOfDisbelief, leaving these two episodes to end up being considered two of the worst episodes of the series and a symbol of everything wrong with the [[DorkAge [[AudienceAlienatingEra split era]].
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** The so-called "split-era", which listeners (even those who don't care as much for episodes past the other two points mentioned below) will near-unanimously call the lowest-point in terms of episode quality. Despite having a few well-regarded episodes such as "Blackgaard's Revenge", "The Y.A.K Problem", and "I Slap Floor", many other episodes were seen as dumbed down and overly wacky and cartoonish, containing [[CluelessAesop confusing]] and increasingly {{Anvilicious}} morals, [[IdiotPlot weak plots]], [[SeriesContinuityError rampant continuity errors]], [[BizarroEpisode uncharacteristically strange premises]], and flattened characterizations. Some of the show's most reviled episodes (such as "Bethany's Flood" and "The Lyin' Tale") aired during this period. None of these issues were helped by the slashed episode length (a number of episodes during this era were short eleven-minute episodes instead of the series' traditional 22 minute episodes). Fortunately, this was only a temporary period and the series was quickly rerailed back into what it was before once listeners objected, leaving this era as a (thankfully brief) DorkAge.
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** The Parker family has been this as of late, with many believing they outstayed their welcome and should just be retired already. It doesn't help that they, for whatever reason, stuck around for a lot longer[[labelnote:*]]to the point that Matthew has gone through ''three'' different actors since the family's debut[[/labelnote]] with other child characters getting pushed to the wayside during their era like Jay Smouse and Barrett Jones, and leaving them as the only recurring family for almost twenty albums straight, and also being considered one of the less interesting families to be featured on the show.
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** The Parker family has been this as of late, with many believing they outstayed their welcome and should just be retired already. It doesn't help that they, for whatever reason, stuck around for a lot longer[[labelnote:*]]to the point longer[[labelnote:*]]long enough that with the exception of the mother, Eva, and grandmother Lucia; every member of the Parker family has had at least one change in voice actors; with Matthew has gone going through ''three'' different actors since the family's debut[[/labelnote]] (Creator/ZachCallison; Gunnar Sizemore; Creator/JustinFelbinger) in a 2-year stretch between 2014 and 2016[[/labelnote]] with other child characters getting pushed to the wayside during their era like Jay Smouse and Barrett Jones, and leaving them as the only recurring family for almost twenty albums straight, and also being considered one of the less interesting families to be featured on the show.
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* RelationshipWritingFumble: There is some ShipTease and [[BelligerentSexualTension belligerent romantic tension]] between Eugene and Connie, even after Eugene gets married.
** The chemistry between Townsend Coleman and Katie Leigh and their characters' easy rapport has led to many fans shipping Jason and Connie, even though they've both dated multiple other people and [[WordOfGod writer Paul McCusker has essentially gone on record to say that]] [[ShipSinking it's never going to happen.]]
** The chemistry between Townsend Coleman and Katie Leigh and their characters' easy rapport has led to many fans shipping Jason and Connie, even though they've both dated multiple other people and [[WordOfGod writer Paul McCusker has essentially gone on record to say that]] [[ShipSinking it's never going to happen.]]
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* ValuesDissonance: Whit ''spanking'' his grandson Monty in "A Member of the Family" comes across as this, now that it is much more of a hot button issue in the years since its first airing in 1987. To be fair, his daughter (mother to Monty) Jana does raise quite a stink about it, but it's only one of a few reasons she is upset rather than the main one. Whatever it was trying to portray it as, it's far from something considered acceptable to depict on a kids' show nowadays.
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** Whit ''spanking'' his grandson Monty in "A Member of the Family" comes across as this, now that it is much more of a hot button issue in the years since its first airing in 1987. To be fair, his daughter (mother to Monty) Jana does raise quite a stink about it, but it's only one of a few reasons she is upset rather than the main one. Whatever it was trying to portray it as, it's far from something considered acceptable to depict on a kids' shownowadays.nowadays.
** "Choices" featured Lucy unable to write a school report on evolution due to it contradicting her Christian beliefs. Come another three decades, and scientific evidence widely supports evolution as fact, to the point where most Christians have accepted it as compatible with their beliefs, and creationism is generally seen a fringe belief that isn't taken too seriously anymore.
** Whit ''spanking'' his grandson Monty in "A Member of the Family" comes across as this, now that it is much more of a hot button issue in the years since its first airing in 1987. To be fair, his daughter (mother to Monty) Jana does raise quite a stink about it, but it's only one of a few reasons she is upset rather than the main one. Whatever it was trying to portray it as, it's far from something considered acceptable to depict on a kids' show
** "Choices" featured Lucy unable to write a school report on evolution due to it contradicting her Christian beliefs. Come another three decades, and scientific evidence widely supports evolution as fact, to the point where most Christians have accepted it as compatible with their beliefs, and creationism is generally seen a fringe belief that isn't taken too seriously anymore.
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* FunnyAneurysmMoment: Listening to any of the Officer Harley episodes can be this if you know the character's controversy. While a fairly light example as it mostly only affected the impressionable youth, it still can be a little uncomfortable knowing that he was quite disliked among parents, and the fact he was intended to be a humorous character puts him in this territory as a result.
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** Listening to any of the Officer Harley episodes can be this if you know the character's controversy. While a fairly light example as it mostly only affected the impressionable youth, it still can be a little uncomfortable knowing that he was quite disliked among parents, and the fact he was intended to be a humorous character puts him in this territory as a result.
