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* ''Escapist News Network'': [[News Parody]] show aimed at video-game news, [[Captain Obvious|hosted at]] [[The Escapist]]. Began as a kind of [[The Onion]] style [[Deadpan Snarker|deadpan snark]] affair, but over time shifted to a more [[Mock the Week]] boisterous approach when the original approach failed to go over with [[The Escapist]]'s audience. Sadly, this style didn't go over much either, and the show was cancelled. Then it [[Spiritual Successor|suddenly reappeared as]]...

** ''Checkpoint'', hosted at [[Penny Arcade]] TV: Pretty much exactly the same show as ENN in its latter mode, but with a new colour palette!

* ''The Whatever Thing'': A rambling [[~~Pod Cast~~|vidcast]] style show hosted by Morgan that was more-or-less just him talking about the news, sometimes with Graham helping out. Notable for spawning '''MAN COOKING''', a cooking show hosted by Morgan via [[Subverted Trope|subverted]] [[Testosterone Poisoning]]. Despite this, Morgan's lack of interest killed the show, before it rose again as...

* ''The Whatever Thing'': A rambling [[Podcast|vidcast]] style show hosted by Morgan that was more-or-less just him talking about the news, sometimes with Graham helping out. Notable for spawning '''MAN COOKING''', a cooking show hosted by Morgan via [[Subverted Trope|subverted]] [[Testosterone Poisoning]]. Despite this, Morgan's lack of interest killed the show, before it rose again as...

** ''Phailhaüs'': Which took the rough idea of ''The Whatever Thing'' but replaced Morgan with Graham as the lead host, often supplemented by guests. Used jump-cuts between guests to create a rapid-fire style of delivery. [[Running Gag|Featured another cooking episode.]] Huge hit with their fans, so much so that it was turned into...

** ''[[Feed Dump]]'', hosted at [[The Escapist]]: Which is basically just ''Phailhaüs'', but now [[Loading Ready Run]] [[Sell Out|got paid for it]][[Irony|.]]

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''(James shows up)''<br />

'''Graham''': Way to answer your phone, No-Answer-Your-Phone... }}

* [[But Thou Must]]: Parodied in [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/loadingreadyrun/4717-Duty-Calls Duty Calls], where the peasant (Paul) flat-out refuses to go on the Divine Quest laid out for him by the archangel [[Gender Blender Name|Gabriel(le)]].

* [[But Thou Must!]]: Parodied in [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/loadingreadyrun/4717-Duty-Calls Duty Calls], where the peasant (Paul) flat-out refuses to go on the Divine Quest laid out for him by the archangel [[Gender Blender Name|Gabriel(le)]].

* [[But Wait! There's More!]]: In [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/loadingreadyrun/4717-Duty-Calls Duty Calls]:

{{quote| '''Kathleen''': But wait, don't answer yet! You get the sword, you get the reasonably attractive maiden, you get martyred-<br />

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* [[Painting the Fourth Wall]]: A large percentage of [http://loadingreadyrun.com/videos/view/402/Time-is-Money Time is Money] consists of Graham explaining physics by ''drawing graphs in the air with his fingers''.

** The 'Bed Buggery' sketch had Graham tell Matt that his acting wasn't believable. Subverted in the stinger, which repeated the scene, ending with the two staring at the camera and then a boom mike moving across the shot.

* [[Pants Free]]: In "Wyyy" and as a closing gag in the Phailhaus

* [[Pants-Free]]: In "Wyyy" and as a closing gag in the Phailhaus

* [[Portmanteau]]: In "The Pub" where The Pub was the Portmanteau Club. Among other ''awkward'' entries.

* [[The Rashomon]]: Plays with this trope in the video [http://loadingreadyrun.com/videos/view/231/the_season_4_finale The Season 4 Finale]. In it, the usual characters are gathered as old men at the site's 30-year reunion. None of them can agree on what happened in the Season 4 Finale, each of them proposing their own self-interested version that the others claim is erroneous.

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'''Crowthorne''': Well, these people don't hire us because we're ''careful'', they hire us because we're ''thorough''! }}

* [[Shout Out]]: [http://loadingreadyrun.com/videos/view/30/Snakes-on-the-Town Snakes on the Town] is an episode-long [[Shout Out]] to the movie [[Snakes On a Plane]].

* [[Shout-Out]]: [http://loadingreadyrun.com/videos/view/30/Snakes-on-the-Town Snakes on the Town] is an episode-long [[Shout-Out]] to the movie [[Snakes On a Plane]].

* [[Spin-Off]]: One can argue that Morgan's attempt at creating ''The Whatever Thing'' was, in fact, an ill-thought out yet hilarious spin-off. While brief, it did bring us such joyous experiences as [http://loadingreadyrun.com/videos/view/274/panda_porn Panda Porn] and [http://loadingreadyrun.com/videos/view/271/whitey Whitey].

** Graham later took the format and spun it off (relatively) more successfully into [http://loadingreadyrun.com/videos/archive/phail/date/desc Phailhaus]. [http://loadingreadyrun.com/videos/archive/dump/date/desc Feed Dump] can be considered a further iteration on the format.

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