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Projects => The F Plus => Topic started by: One Of The Crappy Pokemon That Nobody Likes on February 02, 2013, 05:28:50 pm
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So, what's everyone's favorite episode(s) of the podcast, and why? No, this isn't for focus grouping the episodes. I'm just always curious as to what people like about their entertainment.
Personally I can never pick just one episode, since I like all the readers and I can't imagine picking one episode that excludes even one reader.
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Oh geez, that's a toughie. I'm going to say my favourite was Episode 56, "Excuse Me, May I See Your Water Selection?", just because of how ridiculous the notion of overcharging for fancy labeled water is, based on its hardness and MOUTHFEEL.
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Episode 34 "This is What You Want? This is What You Get!" featuring God's plans for her vagina.
One of my favorite readings is of that Gimli and Legolas slash. I have no idea how the readers made it through that.
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Episode 24: Violet, You're Turning Violet, Violet, is probably my favorite episode. I think it's mainly because it's just so unfathomably ridiculous, and the voice acting during the first segment always leaves me in stitches XD
Episode 83: Just The 160,000 Of Us and Episode 89: Angry Angry Hippos also great when I just want to laugh at fake oppression. Especially that ThinPrivilage blog oh man.
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I regularly listen to pretty much any episode where fanfiction or scripts get read. Just great for car rides. If the Transformers and Resident Evil/CSI episodes were on vinyl, I'd probably have worn them out by now.
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Our Love Doesn't Need A Third Dimension
Just The 160,000 Of Us
The Ace And Cakes
Mockery of ludicrous people seems to play a strong part in my choices.
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Hopping back in to say that almost any of the bizarre fetish episodes are also funny to listen to (Particularly the "Any Cling You Want" episode. Such an oddly specific and innocuous thing!).
I'd be biased in saying that "I Sink I Love You" was one of my favourites, too, since I submitted the majority of the content used in there (Somehow I completely missed the thread about Bin Laden possibly having quicksand fetish videos, you guys are way better at finding this crazy stuff than I am). I am sorely tempted to attempt a dramatic reading of one of BoggyMan's posts, since he sadly didn't get read in the episode itself.
I Can See Your Retch Marks was amazingly ridiculous, especially that one story with the sugar bags. I have no idea what was going on there.
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It's really hard to limit myself to one. So I'll list a few of my favourites...
Episode 25: Porno For Pyros (Except With Sex Instead Of Fire)
Episode 50: What's Louisville Got To Do With It?
Episode 51: She Thinks My Sex Are Spexy
Episode 52: How To Listen To A Podcast (Advanced Users)
Episode 69: The State of the Micronation Is Strong
Episode 75: If I Could Turn Back Time, I'd Still Cut You In Half
Episode 87: So, Clearly You All Hate Us
Come to think of it, I've had some great times with The F Plus!
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I can't possibly pick a favourite episode, but my proudest find is the Victor Laszlo Buttman Remembers bit from Episode 25. It's the perfect example of somebody who has spent too much time in their weird community to realize that a eulogy should probably not be mostly about buttsex.
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Episode 89: Angry Angry Hippos always struck me as the episode where all the ridiculists came into the topic all guns blazing in terms of humor and jokes, there were literally fat jokes made every couple of minutes or so but they were all so well delivered that it still remains one of my favourites.
Episode 79: Help Me Help Rob Help You is also a really funny episode, it's on par with wikihow and yahoo answers in my opinion.
But my favourite episode has to be our friend Hans Von Hozel. There was nothing I liked better then hearing his story about Garfield and the reading of that whole story was just superb. It's the one episode I keep listening to and I can honestly say I still haven't tired of it.
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I like the ones with Jack Chick. He's the best!
Most of the ridiculists know my Deep Dark Secret about episodes...
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Definitely a tie between Hans Von Hozel and the cling wrap guy. Runners up: every bad recipe episode ever.
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Soo hard to pick...
Just the 160,000 Of Us - This was what introduced me to The F Plus and it's still probably my favorite episode
I Can't Believe It's Entirely Butter - "Stupid Hot Dog Thing" will never stop being funny
It's Only Supernatural - I've listened to this many times and it's still just as hilarious and disgusting
The Devil Went Down to Tumblr - everything about this "demon" is just perfect for the F Plus
Lemon Types In A Title For This Episode - laughs and reminisces about how great this one was
Special mention: The haiku battle on Sissykiss, and the guy with a Stargate on AboveTopSecret
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Episode 50: What's Louisville Got To Do With It?, because it tore me between laughing at all of the bizarre methods the featured person was taking to keep out the NWO gangstalker projected sound noises, and feeling sorry for this individual who was possibly going through a lot of pain, however much of it self-induced. The episode left an impact on how I think about the average internet weirdo, how the little slices of their lives they give us in between bizarre outbursts can tell us so much about their personal circumstances, and how those circumstances can possibly lead to the behaviors that make them stand out to us. It also taught me that people actually wear tinfoil hats - who knew!
The episodes about multiples, fat activists (good god that name), and the recent one about dumb parents giving dumb advice have also become my favorites almost solely because they had me laughing and alternatively being in-fucking-furiating.
I also really liked Boot's "...and then you fuckin' eat it." from the second recipe episode, because it just sums up so well the view that anyone who follows those recipes must have towards food. If you have no qualms with actually eating fucking marshmallow sugar slop then you must have had your taste-buds cauterized, and you just fuckin eat any food that's placed in front of you. That episode in general was spectacular not only because the humor was dead-on, but, as Lemon explains at the end of the podcast, the collection of recipes that were read illustrated the trend towards providing a step-by-step guide to finding the last three or four things in the pantry that might not induce vomiting when combined and dumping them in a pan (or trough).
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Hard to pick, but I think that the ones I always recommend to people new to the podcast, and hence the ones that I consider to be among the best would be...
Angry Angry Hippos is a good recent addition.
I Sink I Love You, I'm always a fan of the niche-yet-inoffensive fetishes. There's something adorable about them.
Disliking This Episode Is A Form Of Harassment, just... pure reams of insanity. Fucking amazing.
Our Love Doesn't Need A Third Dimension, because these fetishes really hit the upper zenith of their madness when someone gets philosophical and superior about them.
Amazon Recommends Years of Therapy, badly written porn? Always a wonder.
The State of the Micronation Is Strong
Where Can I Find A Tailor For These Pinstripe Balls?, see the Amazon Recommends episode for why I love this. Bad fiction is the best fiction.
In The World of Dragon Dildos, Is The Chin-Wattle Man King?, because hearing the readers' sanity slowly leaking away was amazing.
Gotta Poke 'Em All!, honorary mention as I never get tired of any episode that makes a member of the cast break down.
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Amazon Recommends Years of Therapy, badly written porn? Always a wonder.
PurpleXVI, February 02, 2013, 11:44:27 pm
I can't believe i forgot this one! It's hysterical. Oh, and the Kickstarter one too.
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Our Love Doesn't Need a Third Dimension is what got me hooked on the F Plus and it holds up to repeated play. I can keep finding new ridiculous crap every time I listen to it. WHEELS WITHIN WHEELS
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The Yahoo Answers one is fun to listen to as well. I always crack up when Isfahan just abruptly jumps into angry-voice and growls "YOU SHOULD PUT A DILDO IN HIS BUTT AND SEE HOW HE LIKES IT!" out of nowhere.
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I actually wanted to think about this for a little while because it deserved a good answer.
I don't have favourite episodes as such, but here are a few moments off the top of my head:
"before you is a gaint of a man" - Reno Iz Drest in a Kostoom
"Zis is Bunker Sirteen" - Where can I Find a Tailor...
That little riff about poop in the outtakes about False Pregnancy. ALIENS STOLE MY POOP!
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I suffer from podcast withdrawal so the newest episode is my favorite all the time.
But in honesty, the Kickstarter and TVTropes episodes are pretty great, as a Something Awful lurker.
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I will listen to Garfield: Sheen Instinct whenever I need a pick me up. Stog singing "Lover and Fighter Man" cracks me up every time.
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The Yahoo Answers one is fun to listen to as well. I always crack up when Isfahan just abruptly jumps into angry-voice and growls "YOU SHOULD PUT A DILDO IN HIS BUTT AND SEE HOW HE LIKES IT!" out of nowhere.
Chaz GELF, February 03, 2013, 12:09:29 am
That was actually one of the responses on the page, but it looked like we were getting ready to move on so I just shoehorned it in there.
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Clearly, Episode 75: If I Could Turn Back Time, I'd Still Cut You In Half is far superior to everything else the fplus has done. I don't exactly know why, but there's just something about that episode that makes it so much better in terms of quality.
In all seriousness though, it's really hard to pick a favorite. I tend to prefer the types of episodes that feature really stupid/incomprehensible people and/or weird fetishes. Hans von Hozel is naturally a favorite, as is Storyprovider. Stand-out moments in general are Portaxx reading the part of the guy who has a Stargate, anything that's read with the "Royalty!" voice and anything Lemon cackles at.
I also have a strange fondness for the sentences "Before you is a gaint of a man" and "The pants Moron wears" from the Reno episode.
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anything that's read with the "Royalty!" voice
montrith, February 03, 2013, 06:00:12 am
Oh man, aside from favourite episodes, what about favourite voices? I start grinning whenever I hear the "fat voice" that sounds so obese that it's almost drowning in its own rolls.
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Anything that makes Portaxx uncomfortable.
Also, it was bizarre during the "Disliking this Episode is a form of harassment!" how there was a reference to Uhh Yeah Dude, which is another excellent podcast and was actively trying to get sued by that guy back in like 2008, I think.
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The Creepy Pasta episode is great too. I told my six-year-old some of the stories, and btw, she thinks skeletons ARE scary.
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The Yahoo Answers one is fun to listen to as well. I always crack up when Isfahan just abruptly jumps into angry-voice and growls "YOU SHOULD PUT A DILDO IN HIS BUTT AND SEE HOW HE LIKES IT!" out of nowhere.
Chaz GELF, February 03, 2013, 12:09:29 am
That was actually one of the responses on the page, but it looked like we were getting ready to move on so I just shoehorned it in there.
Isfahan, February 03, 2013, 01:41:31 am
Yeah, I knew it was a response, but it was just the way you managed to get it in there just as the others were getting ready to change the subject that caught me off guard and made me crack up the first time I heard it.
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If we're going solely on "Number of times listened to" then definitely the creepypasta episode. It helps that I really like creepypasta to begin with and JimmyFranks and Kumquat's performances were top notch.
Another contender for top is definitely "I Can't Believe it's entirely Butter", it has just so many wonderful moments: Stupid Hotdog things, Aaron Tank, BunnyBread's Paula Deen impression, Portaxx's complete loss of composure over everything looking like "poo poo" and one of my favorite lines from lemon: "It's the police...FOR KIDS!"
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All of Season 2. Every episode between F Plus Live and F Plus Live 2.
What? That's not allowed? Okay, alright, I think Any Cling You Want (You Got It) is my all-time favorite. I bought that book, by the way, and it is one of the greatest things I've ever read. At one point, he fashions a pair of pincers using cling film and uses them to pick a lock.
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Anything that makes Portaxx uncomfortable.
BlueDiablo, February 03, 2013, 10:09:01 am
I think the Sissy Kiss episode would have to take the cake on that one. Portaxx wants to call off the podcast after the first line of the first reading and stays angry through the whole thing.
I'm ashamed to say that my favorite episodes are the weird sexual ones, so Sissy Kiss is one of them. The Cockrub Warrior episode was pretty funny too.
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planet moneygrubber.
gamer's hip clip gets me (and everyone i share it with) every time.
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So, I laugh the loudest at most ridiculous fan-fiction, but in my exhaustive re-listening those age the worst. Once you know what twists are coming they just don't have the same punch.
On the other hand, episodes that involve a larger number of shorter clips I'm always a little excited to get back to. The "Is it Legal" and "Rob The Parrot" episodes are two of my favorite examples of this.
My favorite parts of every episode are the ones where Lemon gets excited about something, but like Portaxx, I love all the readers too.
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Pokegirls, largely because I had friends who reacted much like Portaxx did when I exposed them to it. SissyKiss and Unschooling get honorable mentions.
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I've re-listened to past episodes countless times, some more than others.
- The Gargantua and James Joyce episode. The extremely French-Canadian-sounding Acier reading the story and Lemon cracking up at certain lines: gold. "I DON'T have your letters!"
- Allrecipes.com. "It looks like poo-poo!"
- The fat activism episode. Not just because it was the first time my submissions got read. It was a really solid episode all the way through. "Fat the power." (Can you tell I really love Portaxx?)
- A Lonely Life. That whole thing is a great example of how the way something is read can make things instantly funnier. I was laughing so hard during big head guy I couldn't breathe.
- Roy Orbison wrapped in clingfilm. Again, the way the stories were read made already hilarious material even better.
I love the episodes about weird, gross fetishes too (sissykiss, dragon dildos, etc.) but once I've listened to them a billion times, the shock factor wears away and for me they just don't have the lasting hilarity appeal of say, a guy blaming his unattractiveness on being asian.
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Angry Angry Hippos is probably my favorite because a few years ago I followed so many people on Tumblr that posted stuff like the pieces read (maybe not QUITE as bad) and totally thought they were making logical points. The secondhand embarrassment was almost too much at times. The readings were all great, but I also enjoyed it on a level of realizing "thank God I grew the hell up and got away from those people."
The Supernatural fandom and Bad Dragon episodes are also at the top of the list for me.
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Not As Funny With The Sound Off -- Both the content and the voices were amazing. These guys take themselves very seriously and aren't afraid to be crazy about it. The content was even surprisingly insightful about the animation community!
Angry Angry Hippos -- I just love how blatantly -out of touch- with reality these people are.
Just the 160,000 of Us -- More blatant theft of LGBT buzzwords for your bullshit oppression!
My Fanfics Are Full Of Emotion! -- I don't know where you found those fanfic authors, but hot damn. I love both of 'em.
Gotta Poke 'Em All! -- Poor Portaxx. Poor, poor Portaxx. It helps that I get everything she's saying and grew up with Pokémon too.
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If I had to pick it would definitely be "Angry Angry Hippos". It's a very quotable episode ... my friends and I say "fucking chairs" quite often.
Runner up for me would be Wesley Crusher: Teenage Sex Machine.
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I've never really thought about it. Gut answer is the first episode just because of how cool it felt seeing it made, even if everyone was still getting their footing. Nostalgia aside, the episode I remember laughing to the most was 58: I Can't Believe It's Entirely Butter! . Thought I'd listen to something before I went to bed, ended up lying in the dark unable to contain myself.
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I'm going to have to go with the bottled water episode, because it perfectly illustrates everything that is wrong with America, I think. Also, I love how about half way through Portaxx just breaks and keeps repeating "It's water" for the rest of the episode, because that is more or less my response as well.
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The "Lover and Fighter Man" Garfield performance is pretty amazing.
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I'm going to have to go with the bottled water episode, because it perfectly illustrates everything that is wrong with America, I think. Also, I love how about half way through Portaxx just breaks and keeps repeating "It's water" for the rest of the episode, because that is more or less my response as well.
Runic, February 06, 2013, 01:10:59 pm
Favourite exchange from that episode has to be: "It's still water." "No, this is effervescent water."
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The recipe ones are up there, not least because they're rare episodes I can share with my mother. Probably my favorite vein is anything fundie-related, though, since I went through about four iterations of that in my childhood, including spending four years in a Baptist school before being kicked out for being Catholic. I can also share those with my mother, which, again, is a plus. By Demons Be Driven (Insane) is special to me because I snarked that site in days of yore and I'm glad to see it remains as crazy as ever.
For sheer recurring humor value, though, I always go back to the short with the "screenplay" about the slug woman. I listened to every episode of the podcast until the beginning of last year while working a library internship, and I was really good about keeping quiet no matter how funny it got, but "THAAAANK YOU" made me quietly collapse in the children's section and screech breathless laughter into the shelves. It STILL gets me when I think about it.
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toss up between the ISLAND OF MALATORA and the one with the advice parrot.
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I've noticed that there are a few episodes I just keep going back to over and over, so here they are:
My Fanfics are Full of Emotion - No further expalnation needed methinks
Teh Ship Vas Crash Like BOOM! - Everon eververe vas laffing like HA
Hoc Est Praecupie De Buttsex - Both the wipebummatory discourse and James Joyce crack me up
The Transformers Radio Variety Hour - Just Then!
Special mentions go to both AllRecepies epidodes and WikiHow. Moar plz.