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  • Aluminum Christmas Trees: Vin Diesel really does have a (fraternal) twin brother. He's not actually called "Twin Diesel", though.
  • Continuity Lockout: Season Three was deliberately made to avoid this, by having a mostly stand-alone story. However, it Still has some returning characters, who are never given a proper introduction.
  • Creepy Awesome: Allhands, a Magnificent Bastard with a Voice of the Legion, several cool designs and an Evil Plan which actually worked for years before he bit on more than he could chew. General consensus seems to be that he made an excellent final boss for the Ladies Book Club. The players even felt a bit bad for having to kill such an awesome character.
  • Fan-Preferred Couple: Ryjinah and Legzi are a fairly popular pairing. It probably helps that neither character have any long-running love interests, and that their Les Yay was acknowledged in the show itself.
  • Harsher in Hindsight:
    • The conversation about the possible end of the show between Julia and Caldwell in Episode Five of Season Three. While it got laughs from the players at the time, the CollegeHumor shutdown really did mean the end of Drawga for the foreseeable future, and by the time the episode premiered, everyone already knew that to be the case. It took almost a year before any new Drawga content was released.
    Julia: Do you ever look at your art and go "I should probably stop?"
    Caldwell: That's it for me, folks.
    Julia: I should have stopped before I made this.
    Caldwell: That could be the last one.
    • Ryjinah's dream of becoming an Internet celebrity, briefly reaching that goal, only for people to move on from her and be told by DM Caldwell Tanner that "the legend of Barfgirl is dying before your eyes" unintentionally mirrors the fate of Season Three, which had the highest budget and fastest release schedule in the history of Drawga, only to be Cut Short after less than a month. To make matters worse, the above quote appeared in what was then the last episode. Though this is very much mitigated by Drawfee surviving the CollegeHumor layoff as an independent channel, and the announcement that the remaining episodes of Drawga would be released on Youtube, after all.
    • The backstory of Season Three involves a large-scale disaster which — aside from an implied body count — also put a dent in the economy and forced many smaller businesses to close down. The COVID-19 Pandemic ended up having a rather similar effect on the world. Legzi also tries to defeat the Big Bad with what is essentially a home-made (and likely not doctor-approved) vaccine. Watching the final episode as it aired on YouTube (almost a year after the season premiered) became rather bittersweet, as it has a Happy Ending where "life starts returning to normal" in Somewherica, which decidedly hadn't happened yet in Real Life.
    • The series finale also has the Ladies Book Club experience loneliness after being temporarily and forcibly separated. Then the New York City lockdowns happened, and the cast of Drawfee would themselves bemoan how they weren't able to hang out together in person anymore. Even after the finale was (finally) released, it would take an additional five months before the cast could meet up in person again. (Though unlike their characters, they at least weren't stopped from staying in touch by other means.)
  • Heartwarming in Hindsight:
    • Quadzo showing up as part of The Cavalry can be this if you've read the Ladies Book Club prequel comic, which he spends mostly as a Fantasy-Forbidding Father. It shows that he's learned from his mistaken and now fully supports his daughter Legzi's chosen career path.
    • Similarly, Rah'ōxah using happy memories of spending time with her friends, after the comic shows that she actually has difficulties feeling emotions, but managed to smile herself after being reminded of a similar memory.
    • In general, the players portraying their characters as Determinators and True Companions, given all the extra work they've gone through to keep Drawfee running despite the severe setbacks of losing their original employer and having to record episodes over the Internet due to lockdown.
  • Hilarious in Hindsight:
    • The original drawing challenge has the players jokingly ask if there's any DM willing to run a Ladies Book Club campaign in New York. Seems like Caldwell decided that if he wanted something done, he'd better do it himself.
    • Ryjinah having a crush on Rah'ōxah's Spear Counterpart — and the real Rah'ōxah having a thing for tieflings — seem to foreshadow Jabob Andrews and Julia Lepetit's later Real Life dating announcement.
    • In Life Of The (Adventuring) Party, Nathan tells Caldwell that he "should not have a child" after he makes some (hopefully) joking comments about being bothered by how chubby babies are, and offering some... creative solutions to this "issue." Between the recording and the rerelease of the episode, Caldwell became a father for real.
    • Season Three has some reference to Norse Mythology, which Caldwell admitted to being unfamiliar with. Coincidentally, it also has cows wandering a frozen wasteland. The players would later learn that one of the first beings in Norse myth actually was a cow, who was born from the melting rime of a primordial glacier.
  • It Will Never Catch On: In the Dungeons and Drawfee two-parter, the artists repeatedly say that their "Ladies Book Club" characters will probably never be used for anything. They ended up becoming the stars of the longest running story-based show on Drawfee.
  • Sequel Displacement: Not initially an issue, as Season Three originally premiered shortly after the Season Two finale, (to the point that both were advertised on Drawga LIVE.) However, when the former was re-released on YouTube (uncensored and complete, this time) many viewers confused it for a new show, with some even clamoring for a "second" season.
  • Values Dissonance: A surprisingly quick example. The penultimate episode has all four players sharing a single drink with one another. As increased health regulations were put in place during the COVID-19 Pandemic to slow down the spreading of the virus, many viewers pointed out how this now seemed completely irresponsible.

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