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* TrashyTrueCrime: The podcast is a parody of true crime podcasts, about the disappearance of a woman, Clara Pockets, in the 1980s. A filmmaker ("who's never made a film, but has ''also'' never made a podcast) seeks to investigate the murder, only to zone out during the actual confession and miss the confession of a legitimate serial killer. He then wastes episodes on whether or not all the geese were murdered by a SerialKiller...and then ultimately figures out that geese migrate, so they had presumably gotten lost. It also gives a specific TakeThat to ''Podcast/MyFavoriteMurder'', as a podcast called ''My Dearest Disappearance'' gets a ShoutOut.
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* ChirpingCrickets: J.J. Johannesburg is greeted with crickets after [[ThemeTuneCameo playing his music]] at a vigil in the Season 2 Finale.

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* ChirpingCrickets: J.J. Johannesburg is greeted with crickets after [[ThemeTuneCameo [[DiegeticSoundtrackUsage playing his music]] at a vigil in the Season 2 Finale.



* DiegeticSoundtrackUsage: Season 1's composer J.J. Johannesburg usually plays the opening theme when he appears.
--> '''J.J. Johannesburg''': "Maybe you'll recognize me if I do ''this''!" [''plays theme music'']



* ThemeTuneCameo: Season 1's composer J.J. Johannesburg usually plays the opening theme when he appears.
--> '''J.J. Johannesburg''': "Maybe you'll recognize me if I do ''this''!" [''plays theme music'']
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* ProductPlacement: Debbie Dorfman plugs products such as Stitch Fix and Casper Matress during psychic help sessions.

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* ProductPlacement: ParodyProductPlacement: Debbie Dorfman plugs products such as Stitch Fix and Casper Matress during psychic help sessions.
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* FunWithAcronyms: Debbie Dorfman says WebVideo/{{ASMR|Video}} stands for "A Sound Makes Relaxation".

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* FunWithAcronyms: Debbie Dorfman says WebVideo/{{ASMR|Video}} {{ASMR|Video}} stands for "A Sound Makes Relaxation".
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* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Debbie Dorfman is usually focuses more on spiritual experiences than what's actually happening.

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* AcCENTUponTheWrongSylLABle: Booter says "Indie-GO-GO".



* AgeInappropriateDress: In the 1980s, Bonnet was involved in a scandal of sorts over the clothing she wore.
* AllGirlsWantBadBoys: Booter falls in love with alleged goose ganker and serial murderer Bevins Maroney and becomes convinced she's innocent. He proves she never ganked a goose, though she's still a convicted murderer. Nevertheless, they get married at the start of Season 3 even while she's still in prison.
* AlwaysIntroducesThemselves: John David Booter introduces himself whenever he mentions the podcast ''Done Disappeared'' (with him, John David Booter).
* BasementDweller: Booter moves into his mother's attic, but he then moves to the basement after he gained weight.



* BigBad: [[spoiler:In Season 2, Bubbles sets up Booter for the disappearance of Clara Pockets because he hates the podcast so much]].

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* BigBad: [[spoiler:In Season 2, Bubbles sets up Booter for the disappearance of Clara Pockets because he hates the podcast so much]].



* CantTakeCriticism: After releasing Episode 3.05, Booter gets criticized for including incoherent telephone calls. He almost snaps in the next episode.
--> '''John David Booter:''' ... and my social media addiction, and habit of Googling myself led me to be exposed to the one thing more detrimental to me than anything else: criticism. No matter how light or valid, criticism is almost impossible for me to take, and has led to some of my most debilitating bouts of depression, and some of my most indignant outbursts.
* CatchPhrase: Debbie Dorfman's "I already knew that!"
* CluelessDetective: Debbie Dorfman goes to Alaska to "solve" a murder case. She determines that the case will always be a cold case, so there's no point in trying to solve it.



* DissonantSerenity: Debbie Dorfman describes her experience [[TheToothHurts losing her front teeth]] while on retreat in Cassadaga, Florida as a great spiritual experience.



* EverytownAmerica: Davistown and Davistone, Pennsylvania.
* TheFaceless: John David Booter in his [[https://vimeo.com/253190517 video appearances]].

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* EverytownAmerica: Davistown Davistown, Pennsylvania, and to a lesser extent its neighbor Davistone, Pennsylvania.
* TheFaceless: John David Booter in his [[https://vimeo.com/253190517 video appearances]].
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* FormerlyFit: Booter gains weight after breaking up with his girlfriend.
* FullNameBasis: John David Booter.



* GenreShift: While first two seasons spoof the TrueCrime genre, the third season parodies the ParanormalInvestigation genre.

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* GenreShift: While the first two seasons spoof the TrueCrime genre, the third season parodies the ParanormalInvestigation genre.



* HeroicBSOD:
** Booter breaks down in Episode 6 of Season 1 after following a false lead.
** He breaks down again in Episode 3.06 [[CantTakeCriticism after getting criticized]] for including incoherent phone calls in his previous.



* IHaveManyNames: [[spoiler:J.J. says that Bubbles goes by many names, including everyone who left one-star reviews for ''Done Disappeared'' on [=iTunes=]. His actual name is Bill Wyland, a part-time dog groomer from Iowa.]]



* ManipulativeBastard: [[spoiler:Bubbles hooks Booter up with a SerialKiller and gets him to effectively frame himself for the murder of Clara Pockets]].



* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Season 2 is about the disappearance of the pageant competitor Bonnet, a reference to child beauty queen [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_JonBen%C3%A9t_Ramsey JonBenét Ramsey]]. However, Bonnet is actually a goose in the Golden Goose Pageant.
* NotGoodWithRejection: After Booter broke up with his girlfriend, he moves in with his parents and gains weight.
* NotQuiteDead: [[spoiler:It's mentioned that J.J. Johannesburg was murdered between Seasons 1 and 2, but he comes back in Episode 2.11]].



* PhonyPsychic: The psychic Debbie Dorfman, who John David Booter asks to find out details of the cases he's investigating. In Season 2, John David Booter asks her about Bevins Maroney, and she "taps into the spiritual realm" by booting up her computer and searching online.



* RepetitiveName: Johannes Johannes "J.J." Johannesburg



* SuspiciouslySpecificDenial: Debbie Dorfman insists that she does not have problems with her relationship to her husband because of her psychic powers.
* TalkingInYourSleep: Debbie Dorfman says random phrases in her sleep in the first episode of ''I Already Knew That''.



* TookALevelInBadass: J.J. Johannesburg [[spoiler:in Season 2]].
--> '''John David Booter''': Wow, J.J. you've gotten cool, really cool.
* TheToothHurts: Debbie Dorfman loses her front teeth while visiting a springs in Cassadaga, Florida.

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** Booter appears on ''Series/DrPhil'' in Episode 3.04, which parodies how Dr. Phil portrays himself as a licensed doctor.



* CantTakeCriticism: After releasing Episode 3.05, Booter gets criticized for including incoherent telephone calls. He almost snaps in the next episode.
--> '''John David Booter:''' ... and my social media addiction, and habit of Googling myself led me to be exposed to the one thing more detrimental to me than anything else: criticism. No matter how light or valid, criticism is almost impossible for me to take, and has led to some of my most debilitating bouts of depression, and some of my most indignant outbursts.



* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Debbie Dorfman

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* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Debbie DorfmanDorfman is usually focuses more on spiritual experiences than what's actually happening.



* HeroicBSOD: Booter breaks down in Episode 6 after following a false lead.

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* HeroicBSOD: HeroicBSOD:
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** He breaks down again in Episode 3.06 [[CantTakeCriticism after getting criticized]] for including incoherent phone calls in his previous.



* WritersBlock: Booter has this at the start of Season 3, since he can't find a new case where somebody disappeared. Even when he does find his case he has trouble making it into a compelling podcast.

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* WritersBlock: Booter has this at the start of in Season 3, since he can't find a new case where somebody disappeared. Even when he does find his case he has trouble making it into a compelling podcast.

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** In Season 3, some of the names are changed or distorted "for privacy reasons", which in practice means adding WackySoundEffect[=s=] in place of some people's names.



* WackySoundEffect: In Season 3, names are randomly changed or distorted "for privacy reasons."



* WritersBlock: Booter has this at the start of Season 3 since he can't find a new case where somebody disappeared.

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* WritersBlock: Booter has this at the start of Season 3 3, since he can't find a new case where somebody disappeared.
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* FunWithAcronyms: Debbie Dorfman says [[WebVideo/{{ASMR}} ASMR]] stands for "A Sound Makes Relaxation".

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* FunWithAcronyms: Debbie Dorfman says [[WebVideo/{{ASMR}} ASMR]] WebVideo/{{ASMR|Video}} stands for "A Sound Makes Relaxation".
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* GenreShift: While first two seasons spoof the TrueCrime genre, the third season parodies the ParanormalInvestigation genre.


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* ParanormalInvestigation: Parodied in the third season.

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** The podcast ''Yore'' in Episode 3.02 is a parody of ''Unobscured'' by [[Podcast/{{Lore}} Aaron Mahnke]].



* EverytownAmerica: Davistown, Pennsylvania

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* EverytownAmerica: Davistown, PennsylvaniaDavistown and Davistone, Pennsylvania.




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--> Thanks for reading this trope page. And please, don't...disappear.

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* AllGirlsWantBadBoys: Booter falls in love with alleged goose ganker and murderer Bevins Maroney and becomes convinced she's innocent.

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* AllGirlsWantBadBoys: Booter falls in love with alleged goose ganker and serial murderer Bevins Maroney and becomes convinced she's innocent.innocent. He proves she never ganked a goose, though she's still a convicted murderer. Nevertheless, they get married at the start of Season 3 even while she's still in prison.



* DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment: In the first episode of Season 3, Booter says he feels "empty, hopeless, and without hope."



* FullNameBasis: John David Booter
* FunWithAcronyms: Debbie Dorfman says [[WebVideo/ASMR ASMR]] stands for "A Sound Makes Relaxation".

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* FullNameBasis: John David Booter
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* FunWithAcronyms: Debbie Dorfman says [[WebVideo/ASMR [[WebVideo/{{ASMR}} ASMR]] stands for "A Sound Makes Relaxation".



* ParodyCommercial: Includes parody of podcast commercials for actual products like [=MeUndies=], Blue Apron, Squarespace, Madison Reed, and also fictional products like Big Box of Shit.

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* ParodyCommercial: ParodyCommercial:
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Includes parody of podcast commercials for actual products like [=MeUndies=], Blue Apron, Squarespace, Madison Reed, and also fictional products like Big Box of Shit.Shit.
** The third season has similar satirical commercials for real products, though the sponsorships are real.



* ShoutOut: The Davistown Penitentiary's automated phone service gives John David Booter the confirmation number "867-5309" and starts reciting the Music/TommyTutone song.



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* JennysNumber: The Davistown Penitentiary's automated phone service gives John David Booter the confirmation number "867-5309", and then starts reciting the Music/TommyTutone song.
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* ShoutOut: The Davistown Penitentiary's automated phone service gives John David Booter the confirmation number "867-5309" and starts reciting the song by Tommy Tutone.

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* ShoutOut: The Davistown Penitentiary's automated phone service gives John David Booter the confirmation number "867-5309" and starts reciting the song by Tommy Tutone.Music/TommyTutone song.

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* CatchPhrase: Debbie Dorfman's "I already knew that!"
* CluelessDetective: Debbie Dorfman goes to Alaska to "solve" a murder case. She determines that the case will always be a cold case, so there's no point in trying to solve it.



* EasilyForgiven: [[spoiler:Booter forgives Bubbles and Bevins Maroney in the Season 2 Finale]].

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* FunWithAcronyms: Debbie Dorfman says [[WebVideo/ASMR ASMR]] stands for "A Sound Makes Relaxation".



* ProductPlacement: Debbie Dorfman plugs Stitch Fix during a psychic help session with Trudy Gibson.

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* DisappearedDad: Booter says his father blew up in the war before he was born. [[spoiler:In a special bonus episode, Booter says he thinks he found his dead dad, though it appears to be a RedHerring.]]

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* DisappearedDad: Booter says his father blew up in the war before he was born. [[spoiler:In a special bonus episode, Booter says he thinks he found his dead dad, deceased father, though it appears to be a RedHerring.]]]]
* DissonantSerenity: Debbie Dorfman describes her experience [[TheToothHurts losing her front teeth]] while on retreat in Cassadaga, Florida as a great spiritual experience.



* IgnoredConfession: [[spoiler:Bevins Maroney appears to confess to killing Clara Pockets, but Booter zones out and only listens for the word "goose".]]
* ItWasWithYouAllAlong: [[spoiler:Season 1 concludes that Clara Pockets was within all of us the whole time.]]

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* IgnoredConfession: [[spoiler:Bevins Maroney appears to confess to killing Clara Pockets, but Booter zones is zoning out and only listens listening for the word "goose".]]
* ItWasWithYouAllAlong: [[spoiler:Season 1 [[spoiler:Booter concludes at the end of Season 1 that Clara Pockets was within all of us the whole time.]]



* LampshadedDoubleEntendre: Lorraine speaking to Booter in the Season 2 Finale:

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* LampshadedDoubleEntendre: Happens when Lorraine speaking to asks Booter in the Season 2 Finale:Finale about Bart Buchanan, who was actually Booter speaking over the phone with an English accent. Booter dodges the question.

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!!Find all the podcast's tropes below. You won't...[[note]]be disappointed.[[/note]]

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!!Find all the this podcast's tropes below. You won't...[[note]]be disappointed.[[/note]]


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* TheToothHurts: Debbie Dorfman loses her front teeth while visiting a springs in Cassadaga, Florida.
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* AgeInappropriateDress: In the 1980s, Bonnet was involved in a scandal of sorts over the clothing she wore.

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* ManipulativeBastard: [[spoiler:Bubbles hooks Booter up with a SerialKiller and gets him to effectively frame himself for the murder of Clara Pockets]].
* TheMissusAndTheEx: [[spoiler:Booter meets his ex-girlfriend while [[CrimeReconstruction reconstructing the disappearance of Clara Pockets]]. His ex-girlfriend recognizes him, but her boyfriend thinks he's Clara Pockets.]]


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* TheMissusAndTheEx: [[spoiler:Booter meets his ex-girlfriend while [[CrimeReconstruction reconstructing the disappearance of Clara Pockets]]. His ex-girlfriend recognizes him, but her boyfriend thinks he's Clara Pockets.]]

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* ManipulativeBastard: [[spoiler:Bubbles hooks Booter up with a SerialKiller and gets him to effectively frame himself for the murder of Clara Pockets]].



* NotQuiteDead: [[spoiler:It's mentioned that J.J. Johannesburg was murdered in between Seasons 1 and 2, but he comes back in Episode 2.11]].

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--> '''Lorraine''': "Now have you seen a man round here with a real fancy London accent? Goes by the name Bart Buchanan? Mama's looking to make a deep connection, if you know what I mean."

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--> '''Lorraine''': "Now Now have you seen a man round here with a real fancy London accent? Goes by the name Bart Buchanan? Mama's looking to make a deep connection, if you know what I mean."



-->'''Trudy Gibson''': "[[LampshadeHanging I'm sorry, was this whole thing just an ad for Stitch Fix?]]"

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-->'''Trudy --> '''Trudy Gibson''': "[[LampshadeHanging [[LampshadeHanging I'm sorry, was this whole thing just an ad for Stitch Fix?]]"Fix?]]



-->'''J.J. Johannesburg''': "Maybe you'll recognize me if I do ''this''!" [''plays theme music'']

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-->'''J.--> '''J.J. Johannesburg''': "Maybe you'll recognize me if I do ''this''!" [''plays theme music'']



* TookALevelInBadass: [[spoiler:J.J. Johannesburg in Season 2]].
-->'''John David Booter''': "Wow, J.J. you've gotten cool, really cool."

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* TookALevelInBadass: [[spoiler:J.J.J. Johannesburg in [[spoiler:in Season 2]].
-->'''John --> '''John David Booter''': "Wow, Wow, J.J. you've gotten cool, really cool."

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* BasementDweller: Booter moves into his mother's attic, but he moved to the basement after he gained weight.

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* AlwaysIntroducesThemselves: John David Booter introduces himself whenever he mentions the podcast ''Done Disappeared'' (with him, John David Booter).
* BasementDweller: Booter moves into his mother's attic, but he moved then moves to the basement after he gained weight.



* IHaveManyNames: [[spoiler:J.J. says that Bubbles goes by many names, including everyone who left one-star reviews for ''Done Disappeared'' on [=iTunes=].]]

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* IHaveManyNames: [[spoiler:J.J. says that Bubbles goes by many names, including everyone who left one-star reviews for ''Done Disappeared'' on [=iTunes=]. His actual name is Bill Wyland, a part-time dog groomer from Iowa.]]



** [[spoiler:Played straight with Bevins Maroney, the suspected Goose Ganker, who turns out to be an actual serial killer.]]

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** [[spoiler:Played straight with Bevins Maroney, the suspected Goose Ganker, who turns out to be an actual serial killer. Maroney has even figured out how to murder or drive a person to suicide from prison.]]



* TalkingInYourSleep: Debbie Dorfman talks random phrases in her sleep in the first episode of ''I Already Knew That''.

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* TalkingInYourSleep: Debbie Dorfman talks says random phrases in her sleep in the first episode of ''I Already Knew That''.


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''Done Disappeared'' is a satirical podcast which parodies the TrueCrime genre. The podcast follows John David Booter, a filmmaker from Davistown, Pennsylvania (though he hasn't made a film). He decides to make a podcast where he searches for Clara Pockets, who disappeared in October 1987 at a local Piggly Wiggly, leaving behind only a squashed cake. In the next season, he investigates the case of the Davistown Goose Ganker[[note]]gank means to steal[[/note]] and becomes convinced the person who was convicted for the crime was innocent.

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''Done Disappeared'' is a satirical podcast which parodies the TrueCrime genre. The podcast follows John David Booter, a filmmaker from [[EverytownAmerica Davistown, Pennsylvania Pennsylvania]] (though he hasn't made a film). He decides to make a podcast where he searches for Clara Pockets, who disappeared in October 1987 at a local Piggly Wiggly, leaving behind only a squashed cake. In the next season, he investigates the case of the Davistown Goose Ganker[[note]]gank Ganker[[note]]"gank" means to steal[[/note]] "to steal"[[/note]] and becomes convinced the person who was convicted for the crime was innocent.
innocent.

Following Season 2, the ''Done Disappeared'' feed included a SpinOff podcast and John David Booter Film titled ''I Already Knew That'', which follows the [[PhonyPsychic purported psychic]] and spiritualist Debbie Dorfman.



* ForInconveniencePressOne: The automated call system for the Davistown Penitentiary has a hard time recognizing John David Booter's name, and his him set up a 45-digit password.

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* ForInconveniencePressOne: The automated call system for the Davistown Penitentiary has a hard time recognizing John David Booter's name, and his has him set up a 45-digit password.



* ProductPlacement: Debbie Dorfman plugs Stitch Fix during a psychic help session with Trudy Gibson.
-->'''Trudy Gibson''': "[[LampshadeHanging I'm sorry, was this whole thing just an ad for Stitch Fix?]]"



* SerialKiller: [[ParodiedTrope Parodied]] in Season 2 with the Davistown Goose Ganker, who ganked (stole) all the geese in Davistown in 1980. [[spoiler:Played straight with Bevins Maroney, the suspected Goose Ganker who turns out to be an actual serial killer.]]

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* SerialKiller: SerialKiller:
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[[ParodiedTrope Parodied]] in Season 2 with the Davistown Goose Ganker, who ganked (stole) allegedly ganked[[note]]stole[[/note]] all the geese in Davistown in 1980. [[spoiler:After Booter learns that geese hibernate, he concludes that they just flew south for the winter and got lost.]]
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[[spoiler:Played straight with Bevins Maroney, the suspected Goose Ganker Ganker, who turns out to be an actual serial killer.]]



* TheStoic: ... refuses to be spoofed in ''Crime Writers Off''.

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* TheStoic: ... TheStoic: Bobby Tall refuses to be spoofed in ''Crime Writers Off''. Off''.
* SuspiciouslySpecificDenial: Debbie Dorfman insists that she does not have problems with her relationship to her husband because of her psychic powers.
* TalkingInYourSleep: Debbie Dorfman talks random phrases in her sleep in the first episode of ''I Already Knew That''.

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''Done Disappeared'' is a satirical podcast which parodies the TrueCrime genre. The podcast follows John David Booter, a filmmaker from Davistown, Pennsylvania (though he hasn't made a film). He decides to make a podcast where he searches for Clara Pockets, who disappeared in October 1987 at a local Piggly Wiggly, leaving behind only a squashed cake. In the next season, he investigates the Davistown Goose Ganker[[note]]gank means to steal[[/note]] and becomes convinced the person who was convicted for the crime was innocent.

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''Done Disappeared'' is a satirical podcast which parodies the TrueCrime genre. The podcast follows John David Booter, a filmmaker from Davistown, Pennsylvania (though he hasn't made a film). He decides to make a podcast where he searches for Clara Pockets, who disappeared in October 1987 at a local Piggly Wiggly, leaving behind only a squashed cake. In the next season, he investigates the case of the Davistown Goose Ganker[[note]]gank means to steal[[/note]] and becomes convinced the person who was convicted for the crime was innocent.



* FiveFiveFive: John David Booter leaves his number in Episode 2.01, and it's all fives and over thirty numbers long.

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* FiveFiveFive: [[ExaggeratedTrope Exaggerated]]. John David Booter leaves his number in Episode 2.01, and it's all fives and over thirty numbers long.



** The podcast parodies the TrueCrime genre and disappearance podcasts like ''Up & Vanished'' and ''Crime Stories with Nancy Grace''.
** Also includes ShowWithinAShow parodies of TrueCrime podcasts like ''True Crime Garage'', ''Crime Writers On'' (''Crime Writers Off''), ''My Favorite Murder'' (''My Dearest Disappearance''), ''Up & Vanished'', and ''Sword and Scale''.

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** The podcast parodies the TrueCrime genre and disappearance podcasts like ''Up & Vanished'' and ''Missing Maura Murray''.
** Also includes parodies of TrueCrime podcasts and shows like
''Crime Stories with Nancy Grace''.
** Also includes ShowWithinAShow parodies of TrueCrime podcasts like
Grace'', ''True Crime Garage'', ''Crime Writers On'' (''Crime Writers Off''), ''My Favorite Murder'' (''My Dearest Disappearance''), ''Up & Vanished'', and ''Sword and Scale''.Scale'', and ''Casefile True Crime Podcast''. The writer of ''Done Disappeared'' discusses these parodies in an [[https://youtu.be/ym3bFkq3Bpo?t=1146 interview]] with the Crawlspace podcast.



* EverytownAmerica: Davistown, Pennsylvania



* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Season 2 is about the disappearance of the pageant competitor Bonnet, a reference to child beauty queen [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_JonBen%C3%A9t_Ramsey JonBenét Ramsey]]. However, Bonnet was actually a goose participating in the Golden Goose Pageant.

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* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Season 2 is about the disappearance of the pageant competitor Bonnet, a reference to child beauty queen [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_JonBen%C3%A9t_Ramsey JonBenét Ramsey]]. However, Bonnet was is actually a goose participating in the Golden Goose Pageant.



* WriterCopOut: Discussed InUniverse. [[spoiler:After Booter concludes that Clara Pockets was [[ItWasWithYouAllAlong with him the whole time]], some commenters in Season 2 question if this was a cop-out.]]

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* WriterCopOut: Discussed InUniverse. [[spoiler:After Booter concludes that Clara Pockets was [[ItWasWithYouAllAlong with him the whole time]], some commenters commentators in Season 2 question if this was a cop-out.]]
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-> ''"My name is John David Booter. I'm not a podcaster, I'm a filmmaker, I've never made a podcast, but I've also never made a film."''
-->--'''John David Booter'''

''Done Disappeared'' is a satirical podcast which parodies the TrueCrime genre. The podcast follows John David Booter, a filmmaker from Davistown, Pennsylvania (though he hasn't made a film). He decides to make a podcast where he searches for Clara Pockets, who disappeared in October 1987 at a local Piggly Wiggly, leaving behind only a squashed cake. In the next season, he investigates the Davistown Goose Ganker[[note]]gank means to steal[[/note]] and becomes convinced the person who was convicted for the crime was innocent.

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!!Find all the podcast's tropes below. You won't...[[note]]be disappointed.[[/note]]

* FiveFiveFive: John David Booter leaves his number in Episode 2.01, and it's all fives and over thirty numbers long.
* TheEighties: Season 2 makes a big deal that the case happened in the 1980s, even though the previous season investigated a case from 1987.
* AcCENTUponTheWrongSylLABle: Booter says "Indie-GO-GO".
* AffectionateParody:
** The podcast parodies the TrueCrime genre and disappearance podcasts like ''Up & Vanished'' and ''Crime Stories with Nancy Grace''.
** Also includes ShowWithinAShow parodies of TrueCrime podcasts like ''True Crime Garage'', ''Crime Writers On'' (''Crime Writers Off''), ''My Favorite Murder'' (''My Dearest Disappearance''), ''Up & Vanished'', and ''Sword and Scale''.
** The podcast ''Things You Should Think'' in Episode 2.10 is a parody of ''Stuff You Should Know''.
* AllGirlsWantBadBoys: Booter falls in love with alleged goose ganker and murderer Bevins Maroney and becomes convinced she's innocent.
* BasementDweller: Booter moves into his mother's attic, but he moved to the basement after he gained weight.
* BecomingTheCostume: Booter "becomes" Clara Pockets by dressing up as her.
* BigBad: [[spoiler:In Season 2, Bubbles sets up Booter for the disappearance of Clara Pockets because he hates the podcast so much]].
* BigDamnReunion: [[spoiler:Beth's song in the Season 2 Finale summons the missing geese.]]
* BreatherEpisode: In Episode 7, John David Booter throws a candlelit pizza party light show vigil extravaganza.
* ChirpingCrickets: J.J. Johannesburg is greeted with crickets after [[ThemeTuneCameo playing his music]] at a vigil in the Season 2 Finale.
* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Debbie Dorfman
* CrimeReconstruction: In the finale, Booter tries to reconstruct the disappearance of Clara Pockets by becoming Clara Pockets. [[spoiler:He runs into his ex-girlfriend Lisa and her boyfriend, and runs over cake while trying to escape. He concludes that [[ItWasWithYouAllAlong Pockets was with him the whole time]].]]
* DisappearedDad: Booter says his father blew up in the war before he was born. [[spoiler:In a special bonus episode, Booter says he thinks he found his dead dad, though it appears to be a RedHerring.]]
* EasilyForgiven: [[spoiler:Booter forgives Bubbles and Bevins Maroney in the Season 2 Finale]].
* EccentricTownsfolk: The people who Booter interviews for his podcast.
* TheFaceless: John David Booter in his [[https://vimeo.com/253190517 video appearances]].
* ForInconveniencePressOne: The automated call system for the Davistown Penitentiary has a hard time recognizing John David Booter's name, and his him set up a 45-digit password.
* FormerlyFit: Booter gains weight after breaking up with his girlfriend.
* FullNameBasis: John David Booter
* HarassingPhoneCall: Booter sets up a tip-line and panics when somebody tells him to mind his own business.
* IgnoredConfession: [[spoiler:Bevins Maroney appears to confess to killing Clara Pockets, but Booter zones out and only listens for the word "goose".]]
* ItWasWithYouAllAlong: [[spoiler:Season 1 concludes that Clara Pockets was within all of us the whole time.]]
* TheMissusAndTheEx: [[spoiler:Booter meets his ex-girlfriend while [[CrimeReconstruction reconstructing the disappearance of Clara Pockets]]. His ex-girlfriend recognizes him, but her boyfriend thinks he's Clara Pockets.]]
* HeroicBSOD: Booter breaks down in Episode 6 after following a false lead.
* HiddenWire: [[spoiler:Booter has cameras hidden in his neck brace, allowing him to prove that Bubbles set him up for the murder of Clara Pockets.]]
* IHaveManyNames: [[spoiler:J.J. says that Bubbles goes by many names, including everyone who left one-star reviews for ''Done Disappeared'' on [=iTunes=].]]
* LampshadedDoubleEntendre: Lorraine speaking to Booter in the Season 2 Finale:
--> '''Lorraine''': "Now have you seen a man round here with a real fancy London accent? Goes by the name Bart Buchanan? Mama's looking to make a deep connection, if you know what I mean."
* MirandaRights: A police officer tries and largely fails to recant this to Booter in Episode 2.11, but the officer says he's just practicing.
* MoodWhiplash: Very dramatic scenes are often interrupted by [[ParodyCommercial satirical commercials]].
* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Season 2 is about the disappearance of the pageant competitor Bonnet, a reference to child beauty queen [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_JonBen%C3%A9t_Ramsey JonBenét Ramsey]]. However, Bonnet was actually a goose participating in the Golden Goose Pageant.
* NotGoodWithRejection: After Booter broke up with his girlfriend, he moves in with his parents and gains weight.
* NotQuiteDead: [[spoiler:It's mentioned that J.J. Johannesburg was murdered in between Seasons 1 and 2, but he comes back in Episode 2.11]].
* ParodyCommercial: Includes parody of podcast commercials for actual products like [=MeUndies=], Blue Apron, Squarespace, Madison Reed, and also fictional products like Big Box of Shit.
* ParodyEpisode: "*Bonus Episode*" parodies the true crime review podcast ''Crime Writers On'', poking fun at Flynn's reading advertisements, Bricker's love of cats, and Ball's style of criticism.
* PhonyPsychic: The psychic Debbie Dorfman, who John David Booter asks to find out details of the cases he's investigating. In Season 2, John David Booter asks her about Bevins Maroney, and she "taps into the spiritual realm" by booting up her computer and searching online.
* RepetitiveName: Johannes Johannes "J.J." Johannesburg
* RunningGag:
** The saying "you will not...be disappointed" at the end of the commercials gets shortened to "you will not" and then just "you won't" or "be disappointed".
** John David Booter's gives discount codes for getting 100% off.
* SerialKiller: [[ParodiedTrope Parodied]] in Season 2 with the Davistown Goose Ganker, who ganked (stole) all the geese in Davistown in 1980. [[spoiler:Played straight with Bevins Maroney, the suspected Goose Ganker who turns out to be an actual serial killer.]]
* ShoutOut: The Davistown Penitentiary's automated phone service gives John David Booter the confirmation number "867-5309" and starts reciting the song by Tommy Tutone.
* SpinOff: Debbie Dorfman gets her own podcast titled ''I Already Knew That''.
* TheStoic: ... refuses to be spoofed in ''Crime Writers Off''.
* ThemeTuneCameo: Season 1's composer J.J. Johannesburg usually plays the opening theme when he appears.
* ThoroughlyMistakenIdentity: A woman calls the ''Done Disappeared'' tip-line and says she actually saw Clara Pockets. John David Booter travels with this woman to see find Clara, but it turns out she actually saw ''Karina Podgetts''.
* TitleDrop:
** The detective Michael Wooley says, "We ain't never found Clara, she done disappeared."
** Gert Roberts, the woman who baked Clara Pockets' cake, says, "All's I know is that cake was really pretty...and uh after I went ahead and went out and gave it to her, well she done disappeared."
* WriterCopOut: Discussed InUniverse. [[spoiler:After Booter concludes that Clara Pockets was [[ItWasWithYouAllAlong with him the whole time]], some commenters in Season 2 question if this was a cop-out.]]

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