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''Echo Chamber: The Adventures of a TV Tropes Vlogger'' is a TV Tropes video show. The show is about the travails of a group of tropers trying to make a "Trope of the Week" video series. Which they do. Sort of. In spite of their best efforts.

==== Episode 1.1: [[Show Within a Show]] ====

 

 

* [[The Big Board]]: The chalkboard in the planning scene.

* [[E=MC Hammer]]: On [[The Big Board]] in the planning scene. Includes a pie chart that is turned into a Venn diagram, chemical and mathematical formulae, and a [[Precision F-Strike]].

* [[Establishing Character Moment]]: Zack gets his in the first 30 seconds.

'''Zack:''' Nope. }}

* [[Film the Hand]]: Dana to Zack.

==== Episode 1.2: [[Freudian Excuse]] ====

 

 

* [[Big Little Brother]]: Tom uses his as a [[Freudian Excuse]].

'''Tom:''' I... I didn't say he was older. }}

* [[Inferiority Superiority Complex]]: Tom's treats Zack so harshly because his [[Freudian Excuse]] means he "needs to be better than someone".

==== Episode 1.3: [[Terrible Interviewees Montage]] ====

 

 

* [[Aside Glance]]: A blink-and-you'll-miss-it example by Tom around three minutes into the video.

* [[Hypocritical Humor]]: Dana points out that [[Terrible Interviewees Montage|Terrible Interviewees Montages]] are never funny.

* [[Made Myself Sad]]: Zack.

* [[Knife Nut]]: One of the interviewees.

* [[Psycho Ex-Girlfriend]]: Tom's Ex Shannon pops up, pissed off because Tom didn't tell her about the casting for a female actress and she had to find out about it on [[Facebook]]. She also seems to think they're still together.

* [[Silence, You Fool|Silence!]]: Said by the Administrator.

* [[Terrible Interviewees Montage]]: The actual montage included Zack's uncle (who's just as [[Cloudcuckoolander|strange]] as he is), a porn-star, a girl who ''may'' have come for the counseling session the team hijacked, and possibly a serial-killer.

* [[Unresolved Sexual Tension]]/[[Belligerent Sexual Tension]]: Invoked by the Administrator.

 

==== Episode 1.4: [[Dumbass Has a Point]] ====

 

 

* [[Buffy-Speak]]: Zack trying to explain what "After Effects" is.

* [[Cannot Spit It Out]]: Dana.

* [[Confusing Multiple Negatives]]: Dana initially calls the final intro "not unimpressive", but then corrects herself to "really good".

* [[Credits Gag]]: In the final credits, Zack's position has been changed from "Director of Photography" to "Doctor of Photography". The credits card also notes that he is responsible for the "Crap Titles".

* [[Stylistic Suck]]: The first intros Tom makes for the vlog.

* [[Wrong Genre Savvy]]: Tom assumes he's the dumbass when it's clearly Zack.

'''Tom:''' ''[[Big "Shut Up!"|To shut you up!]]''<br />

'''Dana:''' To be a "dumbass with a point", you need to have a point, dumbass.<br />

==== Episode 1.5: [[Unresolved Sexual Tension]] ====

 

 

* [[Beat]]: There is a long one after Dana's [[Hair Flip]].

==== Episode 1.6: [[Psycho Ex-Girlfriend]] ====

 

 

* [[Armor-Piercing Question]]: When Shannon confronts Dana alone, Dana offhandedly said that Shannon could do better than Tom. Shannon's reaction to that made Dana realize that she was a "multi-stalker."

* [[Buxom Is Better]]: Tom, about Shannon.

* [[Butt Monkey]]: Meta example. One viewer mistook the reflection of Dave in the window for Shannon and commented on it. The comment is now a top-rated comment and gets regular snarky replies.

* [[The Cameo]]: Zack's brother, Dave is visible holding a boom during the kitchen scene.

* [[Leitmotif]]: Shannon gets a [[Psycho Strings]] sting whenever she enters a scene.

* [[Love Confession]]: Zack to Dana.

'''Dana:''' That's nice, Zack. }}

* [[Male Gaze]]: Zack keeps the focus on Shannon's butt as she walks away after the first confrontation, dropping both Dana and Tom out of focus and out of frame briefly.

* [[Sarcasm Mode]]: Dana's response when Shannon claims that Dana doesn't know anything about love.

* [[Say My Name]]:

'''Tom:''' ''Shannon.'' }}

* [[Stalking Is Love]]: This is what Shannon seems to believe.

* [[What Does She See in Him?|What Does You See in Him?]]: Dana ask this to Shannon because in her eyes, Tom is gross and kinda of a loser.

* [[Yandere]]: Shanon is implied to have elements of this.

 

==== Episode 1.7: [[Walk and Talk]] ====

 

 

* [[Bottle Episode]]

* [[Invoked Trope]]: Tom invokes [[Walk and Talk]]; Dana is not pleased at all.

* [[Older Than They Think]]: In-universe example

'''Dana:''' "Oh, like ''[[The West Wing|West Wing]]''."<br />

'''Tom:''' "No! [[Kenneth Branagh]] did it first!" }}

==== Episode 1.8: [[Romantic False Lead]] ====

 

 

* [[Bare Your Midriff]]: One of Porn Girl's outfits in the [["Falling in Love" Montage]] is a red shirt that displays this.

* [[Call Back]]: "Porn Girl" first appeared in [[Terrible Interviewees Montage]].

* [[Curse Cut Short]]: Dana's opinion of Shannon hasn't improved.

* [[Dogged Nice Guy]]: Zack seems to be becoming this.

* [[Fail O'Suckyname]]: Shannon, or "Crazyfuck McStalkerson."

* [[Godiva Hair]]: Dana's hair covers up most of the 'Fucked' on the back of her shirt in the intro.

* [[Gold Digger]]: Porn Girl

* [[Just for Pun]]/[[Malaproper]]: Porn Girl says she doesn't do sex tapes "pro boner". It's not clear whether she intended the pun or just got the phrase "pro bono" ("for free") wrong.

* [[Lampshade Hanging]]: After filming Tom and Porn Girl's dates, Zack audibly wonders, "Why ''am'' I here?"

==== Episode 1.9: [[Did You Think I Can't Feel?]] ====

 

 

* [[Anachronic Order]]: The episode goes back and forth between Tom arguing with Dana in the evening and Tom arguing with Shannon in the afternoon.

* [[Arguments By Ponds]]: [[Word of God]] has stated that they hope for this episode to be the [[Trope Codifier]]. The entire episode takes place by ponds, and there sure is a bunch of arguing. The production blog [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshades]] this in Shannon's voice.

* [[Get a Room]]: "Just fuck already, ''Jesus!''"

* [[In Medias Res]]: The episode begins with Tom referring to an argument that he and Dana already had offscreen.

* [[Leaning on the Fourth Wall]]: The stinger, where Shannon looks at Zack's camera.

* [[Precision F-Strike]]: See [[Get a Room]] above.

 

==== Episode 1.10/Season Finale: [[Mysterious Employer]] ====

 

 

* [[Comforting Comforter]]: Tom covering up Dana with the blanket.

* [[Visible Boom Mic]]: After filming the puppet show, part of the mic is visible in the top right hand corner of the frame.

* [[You Have Failed Me]]: The Administrator uses a variation on this.

 

==== Episode 2.1: [[Always Someone Better]] ====

 

 

* [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin]]: How Ace describes the episode's trope.

** In episode 6, Tom is terrified of Shannon... until he sleeps with her again. At which point he no longer cares that she's stalking him, because she has great boobs.

** Zack:

'''Episode 6:''' "It's like she couldn't even ''see'' my boner!" }}

* [[Bad Boss]]: Tom to Zack, Mr. Administrator to Tom.

* [[Character Blog]]: Both Zack's [http://twitter.com/#!/deadcatinabox in-character Twitter account] and the [http://tvtropes.info/echochamber/ Production Blog which seems to be written by Shannon].

* [[Cloudcuckoolander]]: Zack. And judging by his uncle Bill, [[It Runs in The Family]].

* [[Conversational Troping]]: Happens a lot with this being about tropes.

* [[The Danza]]: The three main characters are named Tom Pike, Zack Wallnau and Dana Shaw. They are played by Tom Pike, Zack Wallnau and Dana Shaw. Shannon is played by Shannon Azzato Stephens. Subtle, huh?

** Zack.

*** Except {{spoiler|episode 2. And even then, it's so dark that you don't really see anything}}.

*** You also see him briefly in episode 4 {{spoiler|when Dana leaves for the night and it cuts to a view of him holding the camera}}.

*** And again partially {{spoiler|episode 6 due to a [[Visible Boom Mic]] moment}}.

* [[Fun with Subtitles]]: On [[YouTube]], you can add subtitles, which are sometimes funny or sarcastic.

* [[Got Volunteered]]: Zack.

'''Tom:''' His dad owns the equipment, and he made me let him tag along. }}

* [[Idiosyncratic Episode Naming]]: Every episode is named after a Trope central to the episode, which is almost always [[Title Drop|discussed by name]] in the episode.