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{{quote|''"Computer. Define 'Earth'.... Define 'Sea'.... ... [[Wiki Walk|Define 'Hoedown']]."''|'''The Captain''', ''[[
Picture the scene. You're just idly surfing the web. You find a webcomic and read the most recent one. You laugh. You decide to read the previous one. That's funny as well. You read a week's worth and laugh at all of them. You feel the urge well up inside you. It's time to go on... an Archive Binge.
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The site [http://www.archivebinge.net/ Archive Binge] lets you subscribe to a webcomic's archive via an RSS feed at a rate you choose, allowing you to binge at your own pace.
[[Archive Binge]] is common for first timers of [[Tropes Will Ruin Your Life|this wiki]], (and [[The Other Wiki|the other one]]) as ''[[
It is not unusual for fans who have already been following a series to undertake several more archive binges, often initiated by an [[Archive Trawl]]. It's also good practice for [[Fanfic]] writers to undertake this, especially in a new fandom, or one they're going back to. It's often called "Canon Review" in these circumstances.
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== Comic Books ==
* Certain comic books (such as Action Comics, Detective Comics, and ''Batman'') have been running continuously for over 70 years. Their long history and continuity changes seem to be enough to prevent most people from doing full-on binges... but heaven help you if you, say, read a particularly interesting arc from fifteen or twenty years ago that crosses over into three or four different series, all of which you get through [[Blatant Lies|perfectly legal methods]], of course. And then, of course, you need the context, and then you want to know what happens next, and before you know it, you've read all 153 issues of ''Nightwing'' in two days. And then, after you've read every comic book in existence, you suddenly get a hankering for a favorite arc of yours, and it starts all over again!
* While ''[[
* As a gift to fans, every issue of ''[[
== Comic Strips ==
* Thanks to online archives of traditional print comics on gocomics.com, the website of the two biggest newspaper comic syndicates in the United States, you can put traditional pre-Web favorites like ''[[
* ''[[
* ''Adam@Home'' features this when Adam stumbles upon [[Lost
* Thanks to its recent public domain status, you can now read all of ''[[
* Reading ''[[
== Fan Works ==
* The fan made game ''[[Heta Oni]]''. It starts out dull at first, but you'll get hooked by the suspense, especially when {{spoiler|Japan goes into the kitchen of the haunted house to investigate, only to hear strange sounds in the foyer and find that the three he came with -- Italy, Prussia, and Germany -- are all gone.}}
* ''[[I'm a Marvel And
* ''[[
* ''[[
* Gaedhal's "Queer Theories" has been going for almost a decade now.
* The ''[http://lightning.ffstories.net/browse.php?type=categories&id=2 Sacrifices Arc]'', recced on the ''[[Harry Potter (
* ''[[Cat Tales]]'' has been updating on a chapter-a-month-or-so schedule for nine years, resulting in 60 separate stories (with almost 350 chapters, combined) and multiple (thankfully much shorter) spin-off series. Although heavily influenced by both the comics and the DCAU, it has its own cast of recurring characters and complicated storylines that require any new reader to start at the beginning before you're able to understand later stories. Thankfully, once you've read through it once, it's easy to stay updated... but oh, that one story back at the beginning was so good, maybe I'll reread it, and let's see, the next story was pretty good too...
* Arguaby, ''[[
== Films -- Animation ==
* [[The Captain]] in ''[[
== Films -- Live-Action ==
* Leeloo in ''[[
* ''[[The Lord of the Rings (
== Literature ==
* The ''[[
* The ''[[Darkover]]'' Cycle are also loads and loads of books, it helps a little that they are categorized by the time area in which they are set.
* Introduce someone to ''[[
* ''[[
* [[Baen Books]] via the [http://baencd.thefifthimperium.com/ BaenCD at The Fifth Imperium], a promotional site sponsored by Baen, haas nearly their entire library on the internet for free for promotional purposes. ''[[
== Live-Action TV ==
* [[No Export for You|If you live in America]], [[Hulu]].com offers several complete television seasons (sometimes series) available for free. These are mainly old action shows (''[[
* Subscribers to Netflix have access to the instant list in addition to the mail order stuff. They have many series that stream instantly, including (completely): ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer
** Guess what? [[Offer Void in Nebraska|Only available]] [[No Export for You|in the U.S. and Mexico]].
** Now in the UK too, although the selection is not as great as in the US. The UK also has [[Love Film]] Instant, a service run by Amazon, although the DVD rental selection is better than that available for streaming.
* ''[[
== Music ==
* Japanese noise artist Merzbow released a 50-disc boxed set. And then Atlanta-area college radio station WREK [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|broadcast the entire thing over three days]]. Also notable is [http://ifuckinglovemerzbow.blogspot.com.au/ this blog] where somebody listened to and gave a track by track summary of the whole box. Spoiler: 90% is SCREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
* [[
* Jazz musician Sun Ra has over a hundred full length albums, which add up to over 1000 songs.
* Spotify has almost all of recorded music in history, for free.
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* [[Ted]], a yearly conference, places most of the recorded presentations on its website under the Creative Commons license and has over 500 listed as of this writing. Good luck getting through them all in under a month.
* The same thing happens on [http://www.fora.tv FORA.tv], only the videos are often much, much longer...
* ''[[
* [http://dailycoyote.net The Daily Coyote] has updated every day and includes archives back from when Shreve Stockton first started to take care of the coyote we know as Charlie.
* [http://retailhellunderground.com Retail Hell Underground] likewise has a rather funny archive binge.
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* The [[MUGEN]] fighting game engine has LOADS of content available for it. Not only will picking your favorite characters to fight with be a total binge, but setting your stages, motifs and other add-ons is a massive adventure. And all of this considering you don't do any editing or creation yourself.
* ''[[Freedom Force]]'' likewise has a huge number of skins and models for pretty much every conceivable superhero and supervillain, as well as many other characters.
* ''[[Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri
* Any video game with an in-game encyclopedia can turn into an [[Archive Binge]]. Notable examples include the codex section popular in ''[[BioWare
* The proliferation of [[RO Ms]] available for older consoles, (SNES, Genesis, NES, N64, PSX, etc.) can allow a gamer to lose themselves in thousands of free games on a computer and now, most smartphones.
== Web Animation ==
* Strategically keying up all nine-plus hours of ''[[
== Web Comics ==
* Oh God, don't get us started on ''[[
* ''[[Its Walky]]'' (and its spinoffs) has been going on for 15 years, but is especially bad because it has a rather detailed plot.
* ''[[
* ''[[
* Pity on the one who decides to just now get into ''[[
* ''[[
* [[Lampshaded]] [http://fanboys-online.com/index.php?comic=169#60 in] ''[[Fanboys (
* ''[[
* ''[[
* [http://xkcd.com/214/ This] ''[[
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* Good luck trying to [[Archive Binge]] at ''[[
* ''Webcomic/Newshounds'' started in 1997 and is running in the form of the creatively named Newshounds II. Needless to say, it takes a while to wade through it.
* ''Funny Farm'' has lasted for 9.5 years. And it updated every, single day. There were only a few months in which he didn't update every day. Instead he updated 4 days a week for a month or two, then 5 days a week for a month or two, and then back to every day. However, the entire archive has been removed so he can post the 9.5 years worth of 7 days a week over 5 days with commentary. So the weekend strips tend to rest on weekdays now. It's no longer an archive binge, more an archive wait.
* ''[[
* ''[[
* Many new fans of ''[[
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* ''[[Sequential Art (
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* There's over 1300 ''[[
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* ''[[8-Bit Theater (Webcomic)|Eight Bit Theater]]'' ran from 2001 to 2010, and has 1,224 strips, not including guest comics and the epilogue.
* Screencap comics ''[[
* [[BZ Power]].com 's The Editorialist made a series called ''Psycho Dogs and Carbonated Beverages''. It has over 300 strips. They even lampshaded this trope in one comic.
* ''[[
* In ''[[Grey Is
* ''[[
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* New fans of ''[[
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* ''[[
* ''[[Penny Arcade (Webcomic)|Penny Arcade]]'': Though it's entirely episodic, you really can't not read the old strips. And since Tycho and Gabe have been doing the same strip for longer than most webcomic creators have been in the business, you're in for a lot of reading. It doesn't help that they seem to have a comic on just about any topic even vaguely related to video games, which are frequently linked to on this very website. Yes, there's PA in your [[TV Tropes]] so you can binge while you [[Tropes Will Ruin Your Life|binge]].
* ''[[
* ''Superosity'' has been running for 11 years daily, with a large amount of continuity.
* ''[[
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* Deliberately averted with the ''[[
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{{quote| '''Greg:''' And hopefully, a few years from now when you're old enough to read, you'll want to go back and read all of Daddy's comics. Maybe even ''enjoy'' them. Won't that be neat?<br />
'''Harper:''' ''(blows raspberry)''<br />
'''Greg:''' Everyone's a critic. }}
* ''[[
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** Videos can be as long as they want now, although Let's Play videos rarely go above 20 minutes, though.
** And then there is this [http://www.youtube.com/user/cubex55 World of Longplays' Youtube channel]...
** [http://www.youtube.com/user/mcgammar?blend=1&ob=4 Boltage McGammar] has over ''1800 videos''... and he's ''still going''. His ''[[The Legend of Zelda:
** Speaking of [[YouTube]]... [[The Amazing Atheist]]'s videos are an example of this. He does on average 1 video a day and had 664 videos at one point.
** [http://www.youtube.com/user/garudoh The Music of Video Games]. 529 videos and growing.
** [[
** Series of Let's Plays. Want to experience Nakar's wonderful tales about the exploits of [[Heroic Sociopath|Steve]] the [[Ultima|Avatar]] in full? Then you have six full-length Let's Plays ahead of yourself (''[[Ultima]] 4'', ''5'', ''6'', ''Martian Dreams'', ''7'' and ''Serpent Isle''). Love The Dark Id's snarky style as he tears apart the ''[[Resident Evil]]'' games? Again, seven entire Let's Plays.
* People visiting the ''[[Global Guardians PBEM Universe]]'' website for the first time usually indulged in one of these, until they realized how much information was available and it descended into an [[Archive Panic]].
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** Case in point: [http://forums.sjgames.com/showpost.php?p=676491&postcount=30 A poster on the Steve Jackson Games forum discovers TV Tropes for the first time.]
** It's even worse if -- after finishing binging a work -- you then proceed to read through its [[TV Tropes]] page (and all subpages, such as [[Wild Mass Guessing]]), and then check out its "related links". If it's a work popular among tropers, this secondary binge can take a relatively long time.
** Listening through all the links on the ''[[
** Casually ''glancing'' at the index at the bottom of the page, particularly if you see a trope you're unfamiliar with or haven't seen in a long time, only worsens the problem -- ''especially'' with the various groupings/lists of related tropes.
** This page is especially bad. If the other examples here are offenders, this page is an offender squared. A large archive of large archives...
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* Even websites ''about'' comics succumb to this, such as [http://www.joshreads.com The Comics Curmudgeon]. C'mon, I dare you to not keep flipping back through the archives of commentary.
* [http://www.crunchyroll.com/forumtopic-350792/Anime-motivational-posters.html?pg=0 The Anime Motivational Posters thread at Crunchyroll.] First you see an anime you recognize, then you see one that's really smart, then you start to notice the hilarious banter between the moderator and the regulars, and before you know it, you've gone 200 pages. The fact that it grows around 5 to 10 pages a day does not help.
* This is frequently caused by ''[[
* Half the point in Board Hunting on [[Game FAQs]].
* The ''[[
* Archive binges can get ludicrous when applied to text-heavy mediums, like blogs. Long-running, text-heavy, frequently-updated blogs can easily take your free time for a week to properly binge. Of course, this also applies to series of novels, newspaper columns, and other similar media, but blogs tend to be the easiest to access.
* ''[[Loading Ready Run]]'' can easily qualify. Over 300 videos (most of season 1 is unavailable, but the bonus vids easily make up the difference), averaging, oh say, 6 minutes a piece. That's over 30 hours folks.
* ''[[
* ''[[The Salvation War]]'', with two ''eighty-plus'' chapter books complete (alright, the chapters are quite short, but the point still stands), you'll spend at least a week catching up if you read at a reasonable pace.
* ''[[
* ''[[
* [[That Guy With
* Long-running [[Play-By-Post Games|forum RPs]]. If you want to hop in, and there's plot you need to be aware of, it can take a ''lot'' of reading to catch up.
* The Yogscast contains more than just Simon and Lewis. Don't let yourself get pulled into their wacky British Minecraft shenanigans.
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