A look back at some of the best Cecil broadcasts we have never heard before.
Tropes present in [Best Of?] include:
- Call-Back: To many previous episodes, including History Week, A Memory of Europe, Cassette, and The Deft Bowman.
- The Cuckoolander Was Right:Simone Rigadeau: "The world ended three or four decades ago. I don’t know what this thing is that we’re living in, but it’s not the world."
- Mind Screw: Pretty much the entire episode. On one tape, Cecil talks about the cool new invention of radio on a radio show. Some people (including Cecil) don't age throughout the tapes, spanning centuries. Then, after the entire episode, even the proverb, we hear a final cassette click, implying... something.
- Nostalgia Filter: The replacement narrator hates change, and insists that every moment in time is always worse than the one before it.
- Wham Line:Stay tuned next for less of the best and more of the same. It's been a pleasure to fill in this week in my old job, Night Vale. Cecil will be back soon. Until then, this has been... Leanard Burton.
- Worst News Judgment Ever: On his first ever broadcast as full-time radio host, Cecil picked Leonard Burton's retirement as the main story for the night, instead of America entering WWII.
"Today's proverb: 'I'm all business,' I say, peeling off my skin strip by strip, showing you what oozes out. Business to my core."
