Projects => The F Plus => Topic started by: Fatty Bo Batty on February 20, 2016, 09:50:11 pm
Title: Best introductory episode?
Post by: Fatty Bo Batty on February 20, 2016, 09:50:11 pm
I have a friend who is starting to catch the atrocity tourist bug, and I want to introduce her to the podcast. What episode would you suggest?
Title: Best introductory episode?
Post by: Digital Walnut on February 20, 2016, 10:05:56 pm
Wikihow and question/answer site episodes seem like a good entry point for a new listener. They're based on something that your friend has probably stumbled across at one point or another and they usually cover a variety of themes that The F Plus routinely explores.
Title: Best introductory episode?
Post by: Frank West on February 20, 2016, 10:18:21 pm
I think episodes that have a focus on one crazy person are really good intros, because we get into what makes that one person really crazy, and it doesn't require a larger "knowledge of internet crazy". It also lets a new listener get deep into the crazy without being overwhelmed, since it's a focus on just one person.
Title: Best introductory episode?
Post by: Sherman Tank on February 20, 2016, 10:19:45 pm
I have a friend who is starting to catch the atrocity tourist bug, and I want to introduce her to the podcast. What episode would you suggest? FattyBoBatty, February 20, 2016, 09:50:11 pm
What atrocities does she particularly enjoy touring?
Like, if she really, really hates MRAs I'd start with the Roosh V episode. Is she into making fun of woo and hippie alternative medical bullshit? Pyradyne or Joan Ocean. Weird fetishes? The breast inflation and watch fetish episodes are weird without being gutwrenching. Internet nonsense in general? [orbison] + [clingfilm].
Title: Best introductory episode?
Post by: Nikaer Drekin on February 20, 2016, 10:25:10 pm
If she's already aware of weird internet fetish stuff, The F List might be a fun one. To me, it's so over the top that it's just as funny as it is gross, and besides it's a great episode in general!
Title: Best introductory episode?
Post by: One Of The Crappy Pokemon That Nobody Likes on February 20, 2016, 10:34:01 pm
I'd say depending on what level of insanity/grossness she's okay with, pick something tangentially related to her interests. For example, I got a friend of mine into the podcast by showing her the MRA episode. She was so delighted by how those idiots got ripped apart that she actually paused the episode and texted one of her other friends to tell them to listen to it, which gave me the warm fuzzies.
Title: Best introductory episode?
Post by: Dawnswalker on February 20, 2016, 11:00:04 pm
Wikihow episodes are my favourite episodes because they end up all over the Internet Spectrum, without lingering too long on the grossest bits (courtesy pee.) That can be important if your friend needs to start out gently.
If you just want to throw them into the deep end, lock them in a dark room with the Monster Girl Wiki episode.
Title: Best introductory episode?
Post by: EYE OF ZA on February 20, 2016, 11:46:24 pm
I was going to make a list but I realized like half of the episodes would be on it.
Just figure out what sorts of atrocity tourism your friend has liked so far and the F Plus has probably done something like that. Or if you want, dump something all-around fun on them like any of the Q-and-A episodes, bad fanfic, or the water episode.
Title: Best introductory episode?
Post by: LINDA on February 21, 2016, 12:06:14 am
Dick bugs
Title: Best introductory episode?
Post by: Bodark on February 21, 2016, 12:11:15 am
eudo actually started me on the adult baby episode, I think.
If you survive that one, you can keep going, because most of the others aren't nearly as horrible. It's a good litmus test.
Title: Best introductory episode?
Post by: Ashto on February 21, 2016, 12:37:16 am
If you think she can handle being thrown into the deep end, then go with either the body mod episode, or the one based on monster girl wiki. Otherwise, you can't really go wrong with the first Wikihow episode. I would even make an argument for going with the Juggalo episode from way back, but you may want her to acclimate to the new show format first.
Title: Best introductory episode?
Post by: LINDA on February 21, 2016, 01:39:20 am
Something about juicy dickgirl sissies just brings people together
Title: Best introductory episode?
Post by: moooo566 (taylor's version) on February 21, 2016, 04:17:49 am
I usually say food or audiophiles, but I'm thinking Kadir-Buxton might be pretty good. It's not too disgusting, but it's got some weird sex, as well as some wikihow and a lot of good pure crazy.
Title: Best introductory episode?
Post by: STOG on February 21, 2016, 07:06:02 am
I'd actually recommend an episode based off of someone's interest if they're already ankle-deep into weird internet culture, but I always use the Wikihow and cooking episodes as introductions to people who aren't actively aware of weird shit on the Internet.
Title: Best introductory episode?
Post by: moooo566 (taylor's version) on February 21, 2016, 07:51:30 am
Here's a partially related question: how does this even come up in conversation? Maybe I just don't have the sort of friends who might be interested in this, but I absolutely cannot imagine saying "hey, I think you'd like this podcast about dickbugs." I've recommended it once to someone who I was talking about audiophiles to, but if someone doesn't already have an interest in weird internet shit, I can't imagine bringing it up.
Title: Best introductory episode?
Post by: goombapolice on February 21, 2016, 09:11:28 am
I would say either #106: Asgard Doesn't have Alimony Laws Or #129: You May Fistbump the Spouse. Great introductions to the weirdo awfulness, without getting tooooo awful gross. Also a good way to showcase the format of the episodes.
Then I would give them one that focuses on a particular fetish/awful thing. the smokers or the car fuckers or plushophiles or the dick bug lovers as a second course to demonstrate the depths the episodes can reach.
Then, for dessert, an episode focused on pure idiots. Epinions or binaural beats or spells or the singlular focused crazies (Like the latest one would be amazing for this one.)
Title: Best introductory episode?
Post by: Ashto on February 21, 2016, 11:08:57 am
Here's a partially related question: how does this even come up in conversation? Maybe I just don't have the sort of friends who might be interested in this, but I absolutely cannot imagine saying "hey, I think you'd like this podcast about dickbugs." I've recommended it once to someone who I was talking about audiophiles to, but if someone doesn't already have an interest in weird internet shit, I can't imagine bringing it up. moooo566, February 21, 2016, 07:51:30 am
Everyone I've shown this podcast to either is entrenched in weird crap to begin with (making it kinda funny to show them episodes about their interest), or at the very minimum have a guilty pleasure for watching cringe videos.So, I guess I'm saying that I knew them well enough to either bring it up in response in conversation, or just simply spring it on them during a lull. You ease them into it first that way before breaking out dickbugs.
Title: Best introductory episode?
Post by: Sherman Tank on February 21, 2016, 11:21:11 am
Here's a partially related question: how does this even come up in conversation? Maybe I just don't have the sort of friends who might be interested in this, but I absolutely cannot imagine saying "hey, I think you'd like this podcast about dickbugs." I've recommended it once to someone who I was talking about audiophiles to, but if someone doesn't already have an interest in weird internet shit, I can't imagine bringing it up. moooo566, February 21, 2016, 07:51:30 am
[me laughing at work with headphones on] Co-Worker: What are you laughing about? Me: Oh, I'm listening to a podcast that mocks dumb shit on the internet.
Title: Best introductory episode?
Post by: Laocius on February 21, 2016, 11:36:17 am
I usually go with the Hans von Hozel/ShakespeareHemmingway episode.
Title: Best introductory episode?
Post by: Nikaer Drekin on February 21, 2016, 12:36:58 pm
That's probably a good one, because if STOGfield doesn't convince someone to listen to the podcast I don't know what will!
Title: Best introductory episode?
Post by: Nemo2342 on February 21, 2016, 07:08:24 pm
I usually say food or audiophiles, but I'm thinking Kadir-Buxton might be pretty good. It's not too disgusting, but it's got some weird sex, as well as some wikihow and a lot of good pure crazy. moooo566, February 21, 2016, 04:17:49 am
Audiophiles or Sins of the Djinn would be my first picks.
Title: Best introductory episode?
Post by: Isfahan on February 21, 2016, 07:41:42 pm
Hmm, so Roy Orbison in clingfilm seems to have fallen out of vogue as an ambassador/evangelical episode? I'm surprised nobody's mentioned it yet.
I myself would suggest something with retarded fanfictions or scripts: episodes 9, 46, and 53, for example. But that's my favorite sort of reading, so I'm biased.
Title: Best introductory episode?
Post by: Sherman Tank on February 22, 2016, 12:28:54 am
Hmm, so Roy Orbison in clingfilm seems to have fallen out of vogue as an ambassador/evangelical episode? I'm surprised nobody's mentioned it yet. Isfahan, February 21, 2016, 07:41:42 pm
I mentioned it in emote form.
Title: Best introductory episode?
Post by: Emperor Jack Chick on February 22, 2016, 01:40:24 am
I always go with the singing episode
I am also very bad at this.
Title: Best introductory episode?
Post by: Nifty Nif on February 22, 2016, 09:42:30 am
I think any Wikihow episode makes a good gateway, but I recently recommended r/un_away to a friend who has a particularly high tolerance (enjoyment?) of grossness, so we'll see how that works out.
Title: Best introductory episode?
Post by: Carbon on March 13, 2016, 02:57:08 pm
My introduction to the F Plus was a friend just linking me to the Lyrical Guesstimation of Lady ft. Fella - I Need. Talk shit and he resembles moss.
From there I knew I needed more and just jumped into the newest episode, which was 128: Pioneers of Squat Cracking. I wasn't an atrocity tourist at all, but the whole format of readings and jokes and that banter that goes on is just hysterical. I guess the moral is don't underestimate your friends. If they don't like the humor, it won't matter where you throw them in, and if they do enjoy it, then they'll keep listening long enough to find the good stuff.