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Title: Background Jokes
Post by: One Of The Crappy Pokemon That Nobody Likes on April 02, 2013, 03:38:46 am
So this is something I'm always interested in. I love background references/gags in pretty much anything, even our own podcast. There have been a ton of times when all of us will be laughing or talking, but if you listen closely you can hear someone muttering a joke in the background. I listen to episodes repeatedly as I work, but even I miss these gags a lot of the time.

For example, I just now realized there's at least one in the latest episode (the Sherlock one). Lemon reads off Moriarty's titles for the different types of insane Sherlock fic. He says there are "Asexuals," "Dog Cocks and Mpreg," "Asexual Dog Cocks," and then "Miscellany." In the background you can hear Isfahan saying "okay, thanks Taygon," in reference to the Cytran types found on Malatora.

One that I always thought was silly was during the Bad Dragon episode. When we read about the madman who shoved a glass ball up his butt, the post's author says his ass will close up and trap the ball forever. As we're all laughing and vomiting, Kumquatxop enthusiastically exclaims "I remember that level in Majora's Mask!"

I'm sure I've missed a lot of these jokes, and I love tiny details like this. Has anyone spotted any more?
Title: Background Jokes
Post by: Chaz on April 02, 2013, 10:30:27 pm
Oh my god I can't believe I missed that one. I'm gonna have to listen to it again. I've listed a couple of my favourites that I've picked up on in the "Favourite Moments" thread too. From the same episode, "Cream Pi times diameter" didn't get much of a reaction, except for Kumquatxop who caught it and cracked up.

I have a lot of re-listening to do to catch some of the other ones. It doesn't quite count since everyone picked up on it and started laughing, but I'm listening to Episode 18, and Squiddy's distant shouting amused me.

"I'M REALLY FAR AWAY!"
Title: Background Jokes
Post by: Down10 on April 02, 2013, 11:00:03 pm
For anyone that was curious of the author intros from Episode 88: I Can See Your Retch Marks, they are "fetish content" story codes found on the Overflowing Bra (and other dark places on the Internet). Here is a translation:

slow - Slow Growth (hours/days)
fast - Growth measured in minutes
instant - Instant growth
magic - Magic-induced
chem - Chemical-induced
science - Science-induced
ag - Ass Growth
fa - Fat Growth
gts - Giantess
hg - Hair Growth
lg - Leg Growth
mg - Muscle Growth
mm - Male Muscle Growth
mpg - Male Penis Growth
multiple - Multiple Breasts (more than 2)
big - Large but realistic size
huge - Unrealistically huge
wow - Room-filling or larger
ftg - Female-to-Male transformation
tg - Male-to-Female transformation
aliens - Extraterrestrial participation
ar - Age Regression
bond - Bondage
cb - Clothes Burst/Rip
hyp - Hypnosis
inc - Incest
lac - Lactation
ment - Mental transformation
nc - Non-consensual
offstage - Events occur offstage
preg - Pregnancy
rc - Remote-Controlled
sc - Self-Controlled
shem - She-Male
weird - Unclassifiable transformations
asleep - While subject is sleeping
Title: Background Jokes
Post by: Moriarty on April 02, 2013, 11:14:21 pm
offstage - Events occur offstage
Down10, April 02, 2013, 11:00:03 pm

Wait, what events? Like the actual fetish stuff? Wouldn't they kind of want that in the story?
Title: Background Jokes
Post by: Isfahan on April 03, 2013, 01:08:37 am
One that I always thought was silly was during the Bad Dragon episode. When we read about the madman who shoved a glass ball up his butt, the post's author says his ass will close up and trap the ball forever. As we're all laughing and vomiting, Kumquatxop enthusiastically exclaims "I remember that level in Majora's Mask!"portaxx, April 02, 2013, 03:38:46 am

Interestingly enough, I also referenced the glass ball in the Sherlock episode, though that wasn't really in the background.
Title: Background Jokes
Post by: montrith on April 03, 2013, 03:59:57 am
I personally love callbacks to earlier episodes, though I'm not particularly good at catching them most of the time. "Fried chicken" has got to be one of my favorites though, since it always makes me smile when it comes up.
Title: Background Jokes
Post by: Yossarian on April 03, 2013, 05:04:33 pm
I have a lot of re-listening to do to catch some of the other ones. It doesn't quite count since everyone picked up on it and started laughing, but I'm listening to Episode 18, and Squiddy's distant shouting amused me.
"I'M REALLY FAR AWAY!"
Chaz GELF, April 02, 2013, 10:30:27 pm
And here I was sure it was
"I'M RUNNING AWAY!"
Title: Background Jokes
Post by: Chaz on April 03, 2013, 07:17:37 pm
I have a lot of re-listening to do to catch some of the other ones. It doesn't quite count since everyone picked up on it and started laughing, but I'm listening to Episode 18, and Squiddy's distant shouting amused me.
"I'M REALLY FAR AWAY!"
Chaz GELF, April 02, 2013, 10:30:27 pm
And here I was sure it was
"I'M RUNNING AWAY!"
Yossarian, April 03, 2013, 05:04:33 pm

That's probably what it was, I could barely hear it.
Title: Background Jokes
Post by: Cyberventurer on April 03, 2013, 08:01:59 pm
It wasn't made in the background, but my favorite callback joke was after the reading of A Gangbang on a Cruise Ship and Hitchhiking, where Isfahan says that the story was written from a real doll's perspective.  That one hit me out of nowhere and I had to pause the episode to compose myself.
Title: Background Jokes
Post by: Delcat on April 04, 2013, 01:35:18 am
shem - She-Male

Wait, that isn't shorthand for Three Stooges smut?  Fuck, I have to go change a LOT of fics now.
Title: Background Jokes
Post by: Isfahan on April 05, 2013, 04:20:12 am
I realized the other day, while listening to the Sherlock episode again, that Lemon and I both say "deep cut" at the exact same time when Jimmyfranks gives Bert Convy as his pick for someone to have an asexual-positive conversation with.
Title: Background Jokes
Post by: KingKalamari on April 08, 2013, 06:37:17 pm
I just remembered one from the Above Top Secret episode that sort of got lost in the shuffle: When they're reading through the story of the Time Wizard and were making fun of the narrator seemingly forgetting the part about accidentally chopping his brother in half a mere paragraph after bringing it up Portaxx quietly chimes in with "Well, he's only his half brother now..."

And somewhere in the world john just started fist pumping and didn't know why...
Title: Background Jokes
Post by: BlueDiablo on May 02, 2013, 11:22:55 pm
Not sure if this would qualify as a background joke, but one that deserved more of a reaction was the part in Bad Dragon where they were discussing this tentacle dong, and... I forgot the name but one of the regulars said "what if I don't want these tentacles?" and someone said "Then the tentacle is for YOU anyway".  The first time I nearly had to pull over and laugh myself hoarse.


Title: Background Jokes
Post by: Isfahan on May 02, 2013, 11:31:30 pm
"Then the tentacle is for YOU anyway".BlueDiablo, May 02, 2013, 11:22:55 pm

That was Victor, enlightening us all on the logic tentacles keep.

Yay Victor!
Title: Background Jokes
Post by: BlueDiablo on May 02, 2013, 11:44:27 pm
Also, your avatar is insisting I should ask you about AK's

Title: Background Jokes
Post by: Isfahan on May 03, 2013, 12:54:09 am
Also, your avatar is insisting I should ask you about AK's
BlueDiablo, May 02, 2013, 11:44:27 pm

Have I got a thread for you! (http://ballp.it/index.php?topic=357.0)

I just noticed that the thread number is, serendipitously, 357.
Title: Background Jokes
Post by: A Whirring Bone-White Gleech on May 03, 2013, 05:29:37 pm
One that I recall because I am a huge fucking dork was when Kumquat started singing "Nor-mal mode, NOR-MAL MODE!"


(Not that most of us don't already get it.)
Title: Background Jokes
Post by: Isfahan on May 03, 2013, 06:46:42 pm
Um excuse me good sir upon reviewing the episode I believe you will find that it was "normal words" that Kumquat did, in fact, speak. Heh.

(I am now smiling smugly at my computer as I preen my ponytail)
Title: Background Jokes
Post by: A Whirring Bone-White Gleech on May 03, 2013, 07:08:53 pm
Um excuse me good sir upon reviewing the episode I believe you will find that it was "normal words" that Kumquat did, in fact, speak. Heh.

(I am now smiling smugly at my computer as I preen my ponytail)
Isfahan, May 03, 2013, 06:46:42 pm

God dammit, you're right!  I remember now, it was in the creepypasta episode, when someone said something couldn't be described with "normal words"!

I'm assuming the etiquette here is that I have to commit ritual suicide to remove this dishonour, but I'm a little worried the appropriate form of ritual suicide is going to involve a dragon dildo.
Title: Background Jokes
Post by: Alpha Starsquatch on May 03, 2013, 08:34:38 pm
I personally love callbacks to earlier episodes, though I'm not particularly good at catching them most of the time. "Fried chicken" has got to be one of my favorites though, since it always makes me smile when it comes up.
montrith, April 03, 2013, 03:59:57 am

Same here. I just start grinning anytime Joan Ocean or Velvet Justice or other favorite 'characters' of mine are mentioned in later episodes.
Title: Background Jokes
Post by: agentanalogue on June 12, 2013, 01:34:09 pm
Caught  a great new one from one of my favorite episodes today:

"I didn't know Eddie Pepitone was  Juggalo". I think this was John, in response to Lemon's erudite crook voice.
Title: Background Jokes
Post by: Psammetichus on June 12, 2013, 02:12:29 pm
I think there have been multiple references to Francis E. Dec or the WORLDWIDE GANGSTER COMPUTER GOD, especially on earlier episodes.

For those who don't know, Francis E. Dec was a former lawyer who suffered from schizophrenia and mailed thousands of rants from the mid-1960s until the late-1980s describing the WORLDWIDE MAD DEADLY COMMUNIST GANGSTER COMPUTER GOD who controlled the world, or something.

In the late 1980s, a radio DJ named Doc Britton in Milwaukee happened to receive one of Dec's letters and read it on the air and boosted Dec to underground cult stardom. So in a way, Doc Britton is a predecessor of the F-Plus.

Here are a bunch of his rants. (http://www.bentoandstarchky.com/dec/rants.htm)
Title: Background Jokes
Post by: Isfahan on June 12, 2013, 02:36:47 pm
Francis Dec's rants were often read aloud over allspeak during TF2 play back in the days when people from PoE (PoEple) actually played TF2. This accounts for some of our background familiarity with them.
Title: Background Jokes
Post by: agentanalogue on June 12, 2013, 04:36:58 pm
I had to look Dec up to get the reference.  I ve looked up any reference I didn't get from the F-plus so far.  The only one I've utterly failed at is finding what Lemon and Squiddee are talking about when they do that "There goes the fuckin' fandom, watch as it fly by BAD LYANDING oh my gawabout" thing at the end of the Transformers episode.  I still have no idea what that's about.

Title: Background Jokes
Post by: Acierocolotl on June 12, 2013, 05:14:16 pm
That was just us reading some commentary from others reacting to the second screenplay.
Title: Background Jokes
Post by: agentanalogue on June 12, 2013, 05:20:06 pm
That was just us reading some commentary from others reacting to the second screenplay.
Acierocolotl, June 12, 2013, 05:14:16 pm

I know the initial "there goes the fandom" was, but I thought the rest of that was riffing.  Were those all comments?
Title: Background Jokes
Post by: Ansemaru on June 15, 2013, 12:00:06 pm
In the background of the Sissykiss episode, Isfahan going "Brett Favre-kun" made me crack up, mostly because it's so quiet and so far from the topic of the episode. So, you know. Not horrifying.
Title: Background Jokes
Post by: Acierocolotl on June 15, 2013, 01:20:27 pm
That was just us reading some commentary from others reacting to the second screenplay.
Acierocolotl, June 12, 2013, 05:14:16 pm

I know the initial "there goes the fandom" was, but I thought the rest of that was riffing.  Were those all comments?
agentmonster cockogue, June 12, 2013, 05:20:06 pm

It's been awhile, so I don't rightfully recall.  Probably?  I certainly didn't riff anything, I can barely muster the imagination required to respond to comments in a remotely timely manner.
Title: Background Jokes
Post by: agentanalogue on June 30, 2013, 07:37:49 pm
I only just now caught the (I think Isfahan?) joke about Corona virus being the one you get by sharing beer.  it's in an episode I've heard over 20 times, too..."Ignorance of the Law is my Excuse"
Title: Background Jokes
Post by: Chaz on July 01, 2013, 04:40:30 pm
I dunno if it counts as a background joke or not, but in the Men's Rights episode, after the line "Let every man go his on way", Boots' response of "That's not how you spell 'ennui'." got a chuckle out of me, even if it didn't get much of a response from the other readers.
Title: Background Jokes
Post by: Isfahan on July 03, 2013, 06:10:49 pm
I dunno if it counts as a background joke or not, but in the Men's Rights episode, after the line "Let every man go his on way", Boots' response of "That's not how you spell 'ennui'." got a chuckle out of me, even if it didn't get much of a response from the other readers.
Chaz, July 01, 2013, 04:40:30 pm

That's what he deserves for getting in the way of potential Fleetwood Mac references.
Title: Background Jokes
Post by: chai tea latte on July 03, 2013, 07:10:20 pm
I liked the ennui thing when I caught it, too, but it took a couple of listens.

It's supposed to be about Men Going Their Own Way, which is this thing about just running away from the world to only be with MRAs in galt's gulch some place to be named later.