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1Thornwick and Bob are incompetent cowards. So when they go off The Road without the army, they find themselves going through all sorts of hilarious situations on the way back to The Road.
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4!! This show provides examples of:
5* BreakingTheFourthWall: The protagonists are aware that they are in a weekly podcast with multiple seasons.
6* GenreSavvy: Thornwhick and Bob often remark they expect situations going certain ways according to adventure genre stereotypes. They expect a MacGuffinMelee, and later make sure nobody AccidentallyBrokeTheMacGuffin.
7* IDontLikeTheSoundOfThatPlace: Almost every episode is named for where it takes place. Examples include:
8** The Forest of Madness and Terror
9** The Valley of Unwitting Ends
10** The Desert of Terror Birds Who Swoop Down On You And Devour You Terribly. In the Desert
11** The Sunspire Citadel (of Doom)
12** Castle Stabyoureyes
13** The Jungle of Person Murder
14** The Room of So Many Axes.
15* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: Thornwick and Bob have variably limited knowledge of the 4th wall, and often use the tropes of their genre to their advantage.
16** Bob: "Now to use my trusty hatchet that I always keep strapped to my boot."
17 Thornwick: "Bob, I've never seen
18 that before."
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20 Bob: "Well you can't prove I
21 didn't have it before!"
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23 Thornwick: "Well, would you look
24 at that, there it is."
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26** Thornwick:"Because this is a comedy, and that gives us a certain amount of immortality." Bob:"Yeah, but interludes like this make me forget."
27* ManEatingPlant: Examples include the trees that eat flesh and the digestabush. Also, elves exist to help their trees devour people.
28* PlayingWithFire: Bob has a tendency to leave a trail of fiery destruction in his wake, sometimes from doing drunken jigs near suspiciously open lanterns, other times just because.
29** Thornwick tends to do this after he gets his spell book, his custom spells often just setting his surroundings (and usually Bob) on fire.
30* TitleThemeTune: Every episode in Season 3 begins with the theme song. Since the show is ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin: it doubles as an ExpositoryThemeTune.
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32!! Episodes of this series provide examples of:
33* FakinMacGuffin: The protagonists switch the Nurian Box of Secrets with a cardboard box filled with snakes.
34* GodOfChaos: The adventurers meet Yvarden, their world's God of Chaos, Destruction, and Low-Grade Headaches. He is established as a ChaoticStupid entity.
35* InteractiveNarrator: Thornwick suffers a deadly disease that causes him to hear someone narrating his life, and the duo go on a quest to cure him.
36* KickTheDog: Lord Egregious buys "boots of puppy kicking".
37* StupidEvil: Lord Egregious kills some of his own men to show that human life means nothing to him.

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