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More than just showing off their few previous works, Graham and Paul decided to make new videos. Lots of new videos. Like, one every week. As well as being big geeks, they also make very poor and ambitious decisions. Despite the thoroughly insane schedule they'd set up for themselves, and even though there was work and school to deal with, LRR has yet to miss a week's update.
[http://www.loadingreadyrun.com/ Loadingreadyrun.com] is based in Victoria, British Columbia, [[Canada, Eh?|Canada]] -- and is quite possibly made of pure awesome.
From their initial sketch comedy scenarios, they've also created a whole host of [[Web Original]] series:
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In addition, they post miscellaneous bonus videos on their website, live stream Magic: The Gathering Online drafts, and update two podcasts in the time left over. Even excluding the series without regular update schedules, they really do have a staggering level of output.
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{{quote| '''Xavier''': Oh, Martin. You really don't need me, you know.}}
* [[Butt Monkey]]: Matt; both in the 'them playing them' videos and in the group in general. Unlike traditional Butt Monkeys, the group defends him if the forums get too vocal with Matt insults, and Matt normally gives as good as he gets. Nonetheless, LRR aren't shy about the trope, and during [[DB 3]] a running gag began where Matt was personally blamed for all the world's problems.
* [[Buffy
{{quote| '''Graham''': We've been waiting for James - if he doesn't get here soon it's gonna be Snakes on James's Face, Applied Liberally and With Force.<br />
''(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 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 />
'''Graham''': What?<br />
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* [[The Cameo]]: To the shock and awe of all, the group managed to grab two geek-oriented celebrities for cameos in [http://loadingreadyrun.com/videos/view/240/lock_out Lock Out]. The lucky cameo-ees? [[Star Trek|Will Wheaton]] and [[Penny Arcade|Tycho]]!!
** Yet another cameo, though he doesn't actually appear in person, is Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw of [[Zero Punctuation]] as the narrator for the video [http://loadingreadyrun.com/videos/view/460/Save-Our-Games Save Our Games]. And, again, while he doesn't show up in person, he does mention at the end that he's narrator, at which point his Zero Punctuation character appears on screen for a second or two.
* [[Canada, Eh?]]: Had fun poking fun at some typical Canadian stereotypes in [http://loadingreadyrun.com/videos/view/3/canadaman Canadaman]. In it, the eponymous hero faces off against his francophone nemesis: '''Jaques Francois'''.
** "Canada is Sorry" pokes fun at Canadian stereotypes.
* [[Catch Phrase]]: Graham's "Phunny story". Particularly during [[LR Rcasts]] and the Phailhaus.
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* [[Demoted to Extra]]: Bill, Morgan, Tim and Jer, who each left the crew for their own reasons.
* [[Desert Bus for Hope]] : They made this.
* [[
* [[Fan Service]]: When the crew attempted to achieve viral success with anonymous [[YouTube]] accounts, Kathleen released a video called "[[Playing With a Trope|I heard you liek tits]]". Which utterly failed to generate viral fame<ref> primarily because she chose to wear a reasonably supportive bra while shaking her moneymaker. Or moneymakers, as the case may be</ref>.
** Ironically, Kathleen's noticeable assets later became a subject of entirely unintentional Fanservice when she forgot to bring her camisole to an ENN shoot. [[The Escapist]]'s policy on video comment pages changed almost overnight.
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{{quote| '''Alex''': Had you going there for a while, didn't I?}}
* [[No Fourth Wall]]: (sorta, maybe... I don't know? Okay, okay. ALL THE METAFICTION TROPES COMBINED): [http://loadingreadyrun.com/videos/view/117/Quantum-Documentary Quantum Documentary]. "A documentary ''about itself''."
* [["No. Just... No" Reaction]]: In Feed Dump.
{{quote| Graham: ''*reads a news story as a song* It's song time!''<br />
Kathleen: ''*excited* Can I sing a song?''<br />
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** Whatever Rob (played by Graham) has {{spoiler|not really}} done in [http://loadingreadyrun.com/videos/view/448/Youre-Kidding You're Kidding]
* [[No Peripheral Vision]]: [[Exaggerated Trope Exaggerated] in [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/loadingreadyrun/5620-En-Garde En Garde], where the two guards played by Matt and Paul can't see Andy breaking into the facility because they are so focused on looking the way they were ordered; even when Matt brings up the idea of "looking ''that'' way once in a while", and ''gestures towards Andy, missing him by centimeters'', they still don't notice him because they never actually look directly at him.
* [[Oh, Hi There.]]: In a number of their videos, a character will look at the camera and say "Oh, hi. I didn't see you there"
* [[The Oner]]: [http://loadingreadyrun.com/videos/view/398/Desert-Bus-Killed-the-Internet-Star "Desert Bus Killed the Internet Star."]
** Also [http://loadingreadyrun.com/videos/view/244/The-Writers-Room The Writers Room].
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'''Graham:''' Yeah, looks like you're shit out of luck there. }}
* [[Outsourcing Fate]]: Shades of this in [http://loadingreadyrun.com/videos/view/244/The-Writers-Room The Writers Room], where God outsources the writing of the Ten Commandments to the "best theological writers in the business". [[Played for Laughs]], naturally.
* [[Overly Prepared Gag]]: The first ''[[Rapid
** The entirety of [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/loadingreadyrun/3388-Interrupt-this-Program Interrupt This Program].
* [[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''.
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** Also, Graham recoiling at the sight of creepydolls.
** The pelvic thrust is a recurring visual gag still present to this very day.
* [[Serial Escalation]]: In the Daily Drop, there was the [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/daily-drop/2584-Santa-Candle Santa Candle], which took three strikes of the crowbar to break. There was also the [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/daily-drop/3152-Television Television], which didn't break ''even when a cinder block was dropped on it'', as well as the [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/daily-drop/3289-Billy-the-Bass fish] which everything bounced off. And just to add insult to injury, a common '''[http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/daily-drop/2615-Light-Bulb light bulb]''' survived the drop, prompting an outcry of [[Big "What?"|"WHAT??"]]
{{quote| '''Tally''': Seriously?!}}
** And Morgan in the first [http://www.loadingreadyrun.com/videos/view/270/Episode-1 Whatever Thing], wondering how on Earth the crew managed to stick to their weekly update schedule for three whole years:
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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]].
* [[Spin
** 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.
** A more solid example of a spinoff of LRR is [[Unskippable]], a [[MST3K]] romp though cutscenes that is hosted on The Escapist (ie: The place where [[Zero Punctuation]] is hosted)
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* [[There Is No Kill Like Overkill]]: Kane and Crowthorne of the [http://loadingreadyrun.com/videos/view/404/mercenary-solutions Mercenary] [http://loadingreadyrun.com/videos/view/474/Mercenary-Solutions-2 Solutions] [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/loadingreadyrun/2111-Mercenary-Solutions-3 series] seem to operate on this logic.
* [[There Is Only One Bed]]: Graham and Paul are often depicted as sleeping in the same bed, complete with matching pyjamas and night caps as a light parody of cartoon characters who do this for no apparent reason.
* [[Timey
* [[Too Incompetent to Operate A Blanket]]: ''Harshly'' [[Deconstructed Trope|deconstructed]] in [http://loadingreadyrun.com/videos/view/433/Has-This-Ever-Happened-To-You Has This Ever Happened to You?], wherein Paul suffers from an actual disability which makes him clumsily mess up even the simplest of actions, such as turning a key in a door, and shaking someone's hand. This makes him so depressed that {{spoiler|it drives him to suicide.}}
* [[Training Montage]]: Parodied in [http://loadingreadyrun.com/videos/view/52/underpantaloons Underpantaloons] where Morgan trains to creep out the widest variety of people who come to his door. C64 version of 'Eye of the Tiger' included!
* [[Who Writes This Crap?]]: Used ''preemptively'' in [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/loadingreadyrun/5088-Formal-Complaint "Formal Complaint"], which starts with [[Heard Any Good Jokes Lately|a Graham walking into a bar... er, bakery]] and asking to [[Title Drop|make a formal complaint]] about the unquality/unoriginality of [[Breaking the Fourth Wall|the sketch that is about to commence.]] The rest of the sketch is constantly disrupted by his criticisms, and by the other characters' arguments against those criticisms.
* [[Wikipedia]]: Parodied in [http://loadingreadyrun.com/videos/view/29/OMG-Bears OMG! Bears!] with the specialized wikis "Bearipedia" and "Bearsharkocalypsipedia"
{{quote| '''Both Graham and Kathleen at different times''': Well, they are a pretty ''reliable'' source...}}
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