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* BizarreSeasons: Foon has six seasons: winter, blunder (a season of 24-hour darkness), spring, summer, vwishtash (a season when fire rains from the sky), and fall.

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* {{Medusa}}: Gorgons do exist in Foon, and one of them stays in Chunt's burrow for a while. Chunt complains about her leaving snakes in the shower.



* NoPeriodsPeriod: Averted. The ads for Chubbins' Chamber Pots and So Forth often mention "menses rags" (though like the company's other products, their quality leaves something to be desired, sometimes being made of poison sumac).

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* NoPeriodsPeriod: Averted. The ads for Chubbins' Chamber Pots and So Forth often mention "menses rags" (though like the company's other products, their quality leaves something to be desired, sometimes being made of poison sumac).rags".
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* ForeignQueasine: Arnie is apprehensive about indulging in Foon's culinary delights, especially the fox face starved at Chu Chu's Chow.

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* ForeignQueasine: Arnie is apprehensive about indulging in Foon's culinary delights, especially the fox face starved served at Chu Chu's Chow.
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* AudienceParticipation: The characters will read emails and tweets from listeners. During live shows, they often read emails that were submitted during the show (though they [[Kayfabe don't acknowledge when the emails were sent]]).

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* AudienceParticipation: The characters will read emails and tweets from listeners. During live shows, they often read emails that were submitted during the show (though they [[Kayfabe [[{{Kayfabe}} don't acknowledge when the emails were sent]]).

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* AWizardDidIt: The RetCon to explain why robins were non-existent in an early episode, but came to be regular birds later on.

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* AWizardDidIt: AWizardDidIt:
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The RetCon to explain why robins were non-existent in an early episode, but came to be regular birds later on.on.
** In Season 2, Ep 54, the group wonders how the Vermilion Minotaur hasn't burned down yet, and Arnie answers "I don't know, magic?" He turns out to be right, as there is a spell protecting the tavern from fire damage.

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* ComicallyMissingThePoint: [[spoiler:When Craig gets shot and his metal arm is revealed, his reaction is "My arm is a robot?"]]



* DisguisedInDrag: Arnie and Usidore use a magical illusion to disguise themselves as women to sneak into the Dark Lord's birthday party.
* DistractedByTheSexy: Usidore once created a very attractive woman to distract the goblins of Sparro. He was inspired by the great sorcerer Asmodemus, who created a goddess of beauty for a similar purpose.
* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: Foon's issues and debates often mirror the ones in the real world. For example, there's controversy over the legality of abortion (of Mittens games), and some Foonians advocate for tighter wand control.



* ForeignQueasine: Arnie is apprehensive about indulging in Foon's culinary delights, especially the fox face starved at Chu Chu's Chow.



* FullContactMagic: Jamillious The Mauve can literally slap the taste out of someone's mouth.

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* FullContactMagic: Jamillious The the Mauve can literally slap the taste out of someone's mouth. mouth.
* GenderFlip: The Mirror World version of Jen'Leeviyah is the male Ken'Leeviyah.



* {{Kayfabe}}: It's an unspoken rule that you can't break the fourth wall when talking to the hosts in email. Many fans have even pretended to be from Foon or experiencing something similarly magical in their messages, and the hosts usually go along with it (though sometimes they believe the fan is lying). During live shows, the audience members also pretend to be Foonians in the Vermilion Minotaur watching the hosts record the show.



* MusicalEpisode: Episode 14, starring the traveling bards Glenn Miller and Spants.

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* MusicalEpisode: Episode 14, starring the traveling bards Glenn Miller and Spants. The episodes with nymbee and Grundle and the Winter Solstice episodes also qualify.



* PaperThinDisguise: The Mysterious Man openly talks about Space Bunker affairs and goals in his disclaimers, rendering the masquerade pointless.

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* OurZombiesAreDifferent: They're brought back from the dead by necromancers, but they will also turn anyone they bite into a zombie. They feel the need to complete their UnfinishedBusiness, usually by sharing a terrible secret, before they can return to death. They also speak in echoing, ghostly voices.
* PaperThinDisguise: The Mysterious Man openly talks about Space Bunker affairs and goals in his disclaimers, rendering the masquerade pointless. pointless.
* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: Many of the evil characters hold bigoted beliefs and engage in FantasticRacism.



* SelfDeprecation: In INTERLUDE - Cowboy World, the hosts say that badgers make terrible and unlikable characters.

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** If someone has to guess someone's name, they usually guess Hank. They're often right.
*** In one episode, Arnie believes that the show is down to one listener, and calls that listener Hank. He continues to reference Hank for the next few episodes. After reading an email from a fan named Rusty, they start to reference Hank and Rusty as their only two listeners.
* SelfDeprecation: SelfDeprecation:
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In INTERLUDE - Cowboy World, the hosts say that badgers make terrible and unlikable characters.characters.
** In Season 2, Ep 45 - Night of the Oversharing Dead, Chunt implies that all stories come from truth. Arnie adds that they sometimes come from improvisers, but Chunt scoffs at the mere mention, and Usidore asserts that improvisers are not very good at creating stories.



* ShortScreentimeForReality: [[InvokedTrope Invoked]] by Arnie, who generally refuses to talk about Earth stuff, much to his cohosts' annoyance.

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* ShortScreentimeForReality: [[InvokedTrope Invoked]] by Arnie, who generally refuses to talk about Earth stuff, much to his cohosts' annoyance. Also played straight in that very few episodes take place in Arnie's dimension.



* StatusQuoIsGod: Arnie and the others have extensive contact with Earth through email and Twitter for 3+ years now, but none of that has affected the "Arnie can't get in touch with his family and let them know he's okay" plot point.

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* StatusQuoIsGod: StatusQuoIsGod:
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Arnie and the others have had extensive contact with Earth through email and Twitter for 3+ years now, but none of that has affected the "Arnie can't get in touch with his family and let them know he's okay" plot point.point. The in-universe reason is that Arnie's wife doesn't listen to podcasts and probably doesn't believe that Arnie's podcast is real.
** Despite being a shapeshifter, Chunt remains a badger for the majority of the series, only taking other forms for one or two episodes at a time (he had only been a badger for a short time when the series began, so this isn't something he's done for most of his life).
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-->''nymbee'': We like every town, we adore every place\\

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-->''nymbee'': We -->We like every town, we adore every place\\
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* CityShoutOuts: In nymbee's performance of "Lutin' in Foon" near the end of Season 2, Ep 44, he shouts out Hogsface as the best town of all, and [[LampshadeHanging lampshades this trope as he does so]].
-->''nymbee'': We like every town, we adore every place\\
And it's more than simple pandering when we say\\
That the best place of all -- is Hogsface\\
Yes, we said the name of your town, because it's so fucking fantastic!


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* ListingCities: "Lutin' in Foon" by nymbee and Grundle (performed by nymbee in Season 2, Ep 44) lists the many towns the pair have traveled to.
-->Vinegarban, Weaselthird, Guthrington, we were lutin'\\
Dirtpile Tower, Bryn-Manuel, Anonymous Field of Flowers, yeah darn tootin'

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* AudienceParticipation: The characters will read emails and tweets from listeners.

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* AudienceParticipation: The characters will read emails and tweets from listeners. During live shows, they often read emails that were submitted during the show (though they [[Kayfabe don't acknowledge when the emails were sent]]).
* BasiliskAndCockatrice: A cockatrice appears in one episode, with the head of the chicken and the lower body of a snake. Through her interview, we learn some things about cockatrices in Foon: most of them have a deadly gaze, but the cockatrice being interviewed is only able to kill a person's creative drive; they live in communities of chicken coops; they're born from cock's eggs, which greatly stretches the "cock" of the male cockatrice; and because they're born from cock's eggs, they often have normal chicken siblings born from their mothers' eggs.



* CardCarryingVillain: The Mirror World is filled with these, with most characters openly calling themselves evil and priding themselves in their terribleness. The Mirror World's equivalent of Chicago is even called Evil Chicago.



* FantasticFantasyIsMundane: In some of the premium episodes the cast play an RPG called "Offices and Bosses".

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* FantasticFantasyIsMundane: In some of the premium episodes episodes, the cast play plays an RPG called "Offices and Bosses".



* HalfHumanHybrid: Otok Barleyfoot, the owner of the Vermilion Minotaur, is half-elf, half-human.
* HomoeroticSubtext:

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* HalfHumanHybrid: Otok Barleyfoot, the owner of the Vermilion Minotaur, is half-elf, half-human.
half-human. Additionally, Blemish is half-dwarf.
* HomoeroticSubtext: HomoeroticSubtext:



* InterspeciesRomance: These are fairly common in the land of Foon. Among the interspecies relationships we've seen so far are Lois (a shark) and Louis A. Shark (a human), human Tomblain Belaroth and Alice P. Corn the talking acorn, and Chunt the shapeshifter and [[ExtremeOmnisexual practically every species there is]].



* KingIncognito: Tom the Traveler, son of the King in the Northeast, masquerading as a humble [[LampshadedDoubleEntendre cock-tickler]].

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* KingIncognito: Tom the Traveler, son of the King in the Northeast, masquerading as a humble [[LampshadedDoubleEntendre cock-tickler]]. He later takes on the even more humble guise of [[PaperThinDisguise a series of bats]].
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* UnfortunateImplications: {{In-universe}}, Jamilious the Mauve, who is black (as in he has dark skin) exists at least in part to counter the negative implications that might be associated with blackness as a result of the Dark Lord being the [[ColourCharacter black wizard]].
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* OurWerewolvesAreDifferent: They're turned in many ways, one of which is sleeping in a meadow during a full moon (a method more folklore-accurate than the werewolf attack-based turning most modern media uses). Strong emotions, whether angry or happy, cause them to [[PainfulTransformation painfully transform]].


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** For a while after the podcast was added to the Earwolf library, OncePerEpisode, the Mysterious Man misnamed the podcast channel as a random combination of animal and body part, such as "Throatvulture".

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** Jen'Leeviyah is the GenderFlipped Ken'Leeviyah.

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** Jen'Leeviyah is the GenderFlipped [[GenderFlip Gender Flipped]] Ken'Leeviyah.



* {{Catchphrase}}: Chunt tries to force these. Recurring examples include: "Mmm, Chunt please", "get wet", and "baby don't know."

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* {{Catchphrase}}: CharacterCatchphrase: Chunt tries to force these. Recurring examples include: "Mmm, Chunt please", "Chunt's up with that?", "get wet", and "baby don't know."



* ColorCodedWizardry: Usidore the Blue, Spintax the Green, etc. Wizards are associated with a specific color which both refers to the color they wear, but also the type of magic they have mastery over. Blue wizards have mastery over light and shadow, Green wizards have mastery of truth and lies, etc.
* CuckooNest: Episode 59 has Dr. Ward, a director of clinical psychology claiming that Arnie has been checked into his institute for the last year, and all of his time in Foon has been a hallucination.

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* ColorCodedWizardry: Each wizard is associated with a color: Usidore the Blue, Spintax the Green, etc. Wizards are associated with a specific This color which both refers to is usually worn by the color they wear, wizard, but it also indicates the type of magic they have mastery over. Blue wizards have mastery over light and shadow, Green green wizards have mastery of truth and lies, etc.
and so on.
* CuckooNest: Episode 59 has Dr. Ward, a director of clinical psychology psychology, claiming that Arnie has been checked into his institute for the last year, and all of his time in Foon has been a hallucination.


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** The amount of child death in Foon. The SAD Bard even writes a song about it.

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