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* [[And That's Terrible]]: After relating the tale of the Toilet Pizza: "But honestly, that was like the worst thing I've ever done to somebody... because that was ''horrible''. That was ''really bad''."

* [[Born Lucky]]: Vegan Steve. Out of a shuffled Deck of Many Things that has 11 good cards and 13 bad cards, he draws 11, and {{spoiler|the first 10 are all good cards}}.

* [[Born Unlucky]]: The subject of the "Botchamania" video, and in particular Spoony's friend Big Mike.

* [[Eureka Moment]]: During "Tandem's Last Ride", when he realizes [[Compelling Voice]] is at work and uses [[Not Completely Useless|Countersong]] [[The Power of Rock|to drown it out]] and save everyone.

* [[Everything Trying to Kill You]]: ''Dungeonland'', a ''[[Dungeons and Dragons|D&D]]'' module based on ''[[Alice in Wonderland]]'', along with other modules penned by Gary Gygax. The GM for the game recounted in "Tandem's Last Ride" buffed up the enemies to provide a challenge for the higher-levelled player characters, but the Mad Hatter and March Hare were still fairly high-level in the original module.

* [[Facial Horror]]: Tempus Thales in the ''[[Thieves World (Literature)|Thieves World]]'' campaign. Not only does he take '''[[Hollywood Acid|acid to the face]]''', but the goddess he serves revokes his regenerative powers until he redeems his utter humiliation, and because the PCs [[Humiliation Conga|continually foil his plans to do so]], she makes it ''worse''!

* [[The Food Poisoning Incident]] / [[Tampering With Food and Drink]]: The Toilet Pizza fiasco.

* [[Foreshadowing]]: The [[We Have Become Complacent|lax security]] in "[[Vampire: The Requiem (Tabletop Game)|Vampire]]: Spoony's Jyhad" was present from the beginning.

* [[Funny Background Event]]: [[Precious Puppy|Oreo]] occasionally pops up wanting attention from her master.

* [[Gameplay and Story Segregation]]: Spoony discusses this in the ''[[Thieves World (Literature)|Thieves World]]'' campaign, where, at the end, a group of level 7 characters manage to defeat [[God Mode Sue|Tempus Thales]]; he acknowledges that within the canon of the novels that would never happen, but the players spent (real-world) weeks planning and setting up the battle and exhibited amazing teamwork and foresight, so he felt that they had [[Earn Your Happy Ending|earned that victory]] and let them have it regardless of how it broke with the novels.

* [[It Got Worse]]: The ''[[Thieves World (Literature)|Thieves World]]'' campaign in a nutshell, especially after going [[Off the Rails]].

* [[Killer Game Master]]: Spoony laments that most of his sessions end with his players dying gruesomely. This is chalked up more to bad luck than evil intent, though Spoony has admitted that he's a "harsh" DM generally.

** In the "Leaping Wizards" video, he says that insultingly-easy encounters, such as fighting three first-level wizards with ''magic missile'' as their only spell, are just unfulfilling to the players. This leads to him modifying the above encounter by varying the wizards' spells, which ends up killing a couple of the player characters and led to Spoony getting kicked out of the RPGA.

** A genuine Killer DM, one [[Gary Gygax]], designed ''Dungeonland'', which is the focus of "Tandem's Last Ride".

** And Spoony's appropriately named acquaintance Gary (the "I forgot my pants" guy) was also one, with anyone who played in his campaign becoming resigned to rolling up a new character at least once per session.

** One party that ''did'' survive Spoony's campaign only did so by becoming a pack of sadistic, kill-crazy savages, even by ''[[Thieves World (Literature)|Thieves World]]'' standards.

* [[Lensman Arms Race]]: "The Squirt Gun Wars", where the introduction of DMSO (which allows any drug to be instantly absorbed through the skin) in ''[[Shadowrun (Tabletop Game)|Shadowrun]]'' leads to the introduction of lethal DMSO drug cocktails and an arms race of super soakers, hi-tech water balloons, and fire hoses.

* [[Lord British Postulate]]: Discusses in "All Jedi or No Jedi", when he put a cameo of Darth Vader into a Star Wars campaign just to add flavour, only for his campaign to instantly derail as all his adventurers became obsessed with trying to kill Vader.

{{quote| Fucking COUNTERSONG!}}

* [[Railroading]]: When Spoony played a ''[[Vampire: The Requiem (Tabletop Game)|Vampire: The Requiem]]'' LARP, the GM forced his character to get kidnapped and brainwashed by the other players. This did not end well; see [[Off the Rails]] above.

* [[Riding Into the Sunset]]: Referred to Tandem's last adventure as this.

* [[Roaring Rampage of Revenge]]: What the ''[[Thieves World (Literature)|Thieves World]]'' campaign [[Off the Rails|mutates into]] following the [[Facial Horror]] incident.

* [[Running Gag]]: "...I'm not that kind of thief!"

** An unintentional one is Spoony ''trying'' to protect the identity of the people he's talking about by giving them aliases, only to forget to use them halfway through the story and only realise he's done it until after he's used their real names several times.

* [[Shout Out]]: An unintentional one; while talking about fellow players Crazy Mike and Vegan Steve, he momentarily muddles their names into "Crazy Steve", [[Atop the Fourth Wall|Linkara's]] nickname for the [[In Name Only]] All-Star version of Batman.

* [[Special Guest]]: [[Bennett the Sage]] made a guest appearance in "Age of Manure" to talk about some of his own roleplaying stories.