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* ExpositionBeam: One suggestion for how Professor X of ''ComicBook/XMen'' would update someone who missed the past fifty years by immediately uploading all fifty years of history into their mind in a single moment before wheeling off, leaving the updated person to cry blood.
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* ExpositionBeam: One suggestion for how Professor X of ''ComicBook/XMen'' would update someone who missed the past fifty years by is quite blunt; Xavier would immediately uploading upload all fifty years of history into their the person's mind in a single moment before wheeling off, and wheel off while leaving the updated person to cry blood.blood from the information overload.
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* DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu: "Why is Johnny Cage in VideoGame/MortalKombat?" wrestles with how in the world Hollywood stunt actor Johnny Cage could conceivably fight an undead ninja, a soul-sucking sorcerer, and a thunder god on his stuntwork alone.
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* DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu: "Why is Johnny Cage in VideoGame/MortalKombat?" wrestles with how in the world Hollywood stunt actor Johnny Cage could conceivably fight an undead ninja, a soul-sucking sorcerer, and a thunder god on with only his stuntwork alone.and charm.
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* CreateYourOwnVillain: "Professor Charles Xavier's Crazy Summer" sees the titular professor humiliate Thor with mind control, leading the Prince of Asgard to return to his home and rally an army to over Earth.
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* CreateYourOwnVillain: "Professor Charles Xavier's Crazy Summer" sees the titular professor humiliate Thor with mind control, leading the Prince of Asgard to return to his home and rally an army to take over Earth.
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* BuffySpeak: Professor Xavier's {{Telepathy}} is referred to as his "boop-boop-boop powers" because someone always accompanies discussion of his powers with the computer-like noises.
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* BuffySpeak: Professor Xavier's {{Telepathy}} is referred to as his "boop-boop-boop powers" because someone always accompanies discussion of his powers with the computer-like noises.
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* BreakoutCharacter: Professor Xavier is probably the character brought up most on the show if only because Zammit and Jackson fell in love with doing his voice after imitating him the first time.
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* BreakoutCharacter: Professor Xavier is probably the character brought up most on the show if only because after Zammit and Jackson Joel imitated his voice once and fell in love with doing his voice after imitating him the first time.it.
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''[[http://www.sanspantsradio.com/plumbing-the-death-star/ Plumbing the Death Star]]'' is a Podcast run by the Melbourne-based Sanspaints Radio regarding FridgeLogic in popular films, comic books, video games and anything else that comes to the hosts' minds. Based around RuleOfFunny more than anything else, the show hardly takes itself too seriously, and prefers to take the most ridiculous tangent possible than to seriously question the science of whatever they discuss. The show is hosted by Jackson Baly, Joel Zammit, and the aptly named Joel Duscher, often designated "The Plumbing Boys." and frequently makes use of guests like Mr. Sunday Movies and ''Tabletop/DungeonsAndDragons'' expert Adam.
The podcast also has two sub-series also has two sub-series: ''Plumbing the Death Eaters'', which exclusively deals with ''Franchise/HarryPotter'', and ''Plumbing the Death Star Presents Movie Maintenance'', which eventually branched off into its own show with its own rotating cast.
The podcast also has two sub-series also has two sub-series: ''Plumbing the Death Eaters'', which exclusively deals with ''Franchise/HarryPotter'', and ''Plumbing the Death Star Presents Movie Maintenance'', which eventually branched off into its own show with its own rotating cast.
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''[[http://www.sanspantsradio.com/plumbing-the-death-star/ Plumbing the Death Star]]'' is a Podcast run by the Melbourne-based Sanspaints Radio regarding FridgeLogic in popular films, comic books, video games and anything else that comes to the hosts' minds. Based around RuleOfFunny more than anything else, the show hardly takes itself too seriously, and prefers to take the most ridiculous tangent possible than to seriously question the science of whatever they discuss. The show is hosted by Jackson Baly, Joel Zammit, and the aptly named Joel Duscher, often designated "The Plumbing Boys." and Boys," who frequently makes make use of guests like Mr. Sunday Movies and ''Tabletop/DungeonsAndDragons'' expert Adam.
The podcastalso has two sub-series also has two sub-series: ''Plumbing the Death Eaters'', which exclusively deals with ''Franchise/HarryPotter'', and ''Plumbing the Death Star Presents Movie Maintenance'', which eventually branched off into its own show with its own a rotating cast.
The podcast
* BattleInTheCenterOfTheMind: "Professor Charles Xavier's Crazy Summer Adventure" sees Loki of ''Film/TheAvengers2012'' and Professor Xavier of ''ComicBook/XMen'' battling in the mind of Hawkeye of ''The Avengers (2012)'' to undo each others brainwashing, which goes back and forth until Hawkeye dies from the mental stress of it all.
* BoomerangBigot: Jackson connects the dots between their Professor X being a homophobe and the ''ComicBook/XMen'' being used as a metaphor for homosexuals to deduce Professor X must be using his telepathy to repress his own homosexuality.
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* ButtMonkey: A whole episode is dedicated to "Why is Hawkeye in the Avengers?", and he's frequently brought up as the worst of the Avengers. They make a point of killing him off in their WhatIf "Would the Avengers be Better off Without the Hulk?", they characterize him as an emotionally-fragile whiner in "Which Avengers Would Make the Best Friend?"
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* BreakoutCharacter: Professor Xavier is probably the character brought up most on the show if only because Zammit and Jackson fell in love with doing his voice after imitating him the first time.
* BrokeTheRatingScale: One episode ranks the original ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBros'' cast's stepfathering ability on a scale of ten. Things start off pretty bad when the two VideoGame/Pokemon both get zeroes for being wild animals, but things get even worse with Donkey Kong, a wild ape who can't talk, and worse, comes with ''in-laws''. He gets a negative ten out of ten.
* BuffySpeak: Professor Xavier's {{Telepathy}} is referred to as his "boop-boop-boop powers" because someone always accompanies discussion of his powers with the computer-like noises.
* TheBully: Each candidate in "Which Smash Bros. Character Would Make the Best Stepdad?" is measured by how they would handle it if they found out a stereotypical bully was hassling their kid. By the end of the episode, the bully has to deal with bounty hunters, [[Franchise/SuperMarioBros magical deadbeat Italians]], and actual wild animals who all come down on him with extreme force. After getting eaten and spit back out by the final stepfather, the bully doesn't even want to associate with his victim and just wants to stay away from his terrifying family members.
* ButtMonkey: A whole episode is dedicated to "Why is Hawkeye in the Avengers?", and he's frequently brought up as the worst of the Avengers. They make a point of killing him off in their WhatIf "Would the Avengers be Better off Without the Hulk?", they characterize him as an emotionally-fragile whiner in "Which Avengers Would Make the BestFriend?"Friend?", and they waste no time "Professor Charles Xavier's Crazy Summer" having Professor Xavier fire Hawkeye just before accidentally destroying his mind and killing him.
* BrokeTheRatingScale: One episode ranks the original ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBros'' cast's stepfathering ability on a scale of ten. Things start off pretty bad when the two VideoGame/Pokemon both get zeroes for being wild animals, but things get even worse with Donkey Kong, a wild ape who can't talk, and worse, comes with ''in-laws''. He gets a negative ten out of ten.
* BuffySpeak: Professor Xavier's {{Telepathy}} is referred to as his "boop-boop-boop powers" because someone always accompanies discussion of his powers with the computer-like noises.
* TheBully: Each candidate in "Which Smash Bros. Character Would Make the Best Stepdad?" is measured by how they would handle it if they found out a stereotypical bully was hassling their kid. By the end of the episode, the bully has to deal with bounty hunters, [[Franchise/SuperMarioBros magical deadbeat Italians]], and actual wild animals who all come down on him with extreme force. After getting eaten and spit back out by the final stepfather, the bully doesn't even want to associate with his victim and just wants to stay away from his terrifying family members.
* ButtMonkey: A whole episode is dedicated to "Why is Hawkeye in the Avengers?", and he's frequently brought up as the worst of the Avengers. They make a point of killing him off in their WhatIf "Would the Avengers be Better off Without the Hulk?", they characterize him as an emotionally-fragile whiner in "Which Avengers Would Make the Best
* CoolHorse: One of the only reason Link, a mute kleptomaniac with a nagging fairy, gets more than a two out of ten in "Which Smash Bros. Character Would Make The Best Stepdad?" is because he has a horse, which means he gets the 1.5 horse multiplier bonus. This same bonus later applies to other characters with cars and dinosaurs.
* CreateYourOwnVillain: "Professor Charles Xavier's Crazy Summer" sees the titular professor humiliate Thor with mind control, leading the Prince of Asgard to return to his home and rally an army to over Earth.
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* DecapitationPresentation: Johnny Cage entered the ''VideoGame/MortalKombat'' tournament to prove his own stunts; Johnny Cage's signature move is to punch someone's head off. Using these two facts, it's assumed that he likely has a photo of him raising his enemy's head out for all to see on his Instagram.
* DefeatByModesty: The cast reasons that Johnny Cage, an actor, could manage to defeat Goro, the four-armed demon monster from ''VideoGame/MortalKombat'', by removing Goro's loincloth and embarrassing him.
* DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu: "Why is Johnny Cage in VideoGame/MortalKombat?" wrestles with how in the world Hollywood stunt actor Johnny Cage could conceivably fight an undead ninja, a soul-sucking sorcerer, and a thunder god on his stuntwork alone.
* DisappearedDad: When going through "Which Smash Bros. Character Would be the Best Step-Father?", the wife and step-child in question are characterized and discussed, but no mention is given to what happened to the original husband.
* DefeatByModesty: The cast reasons that Johnny Cage, an actor, could manage to defeat Goro, the four-armed demon monster from ''VideoGame/MortalKombat'', by removing Goro's loincloth and embarrassing him.
* DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu: "Why is Johnny Cage in VideoGame/MortalKombat?" wrestles with how in the world Hollywood stunt actor Johnny Cage could conceivably fight an undead ninja, a soul-sucking sorcerer, and a thunder god on his stuntwork alone.
* DisappearedDad: When going through "Which Smash Bros. Character Would be the Best Step-Father?", the wife and step-child in question are characterized and discussed, but no mention is given to what happened to the original husband.
* ExpositionBeam: One suggestion for how Professor X of ''ComicBook/XMen'' would update someone who missed the past fifty years by immediately uploading all fifty years of history into their mind in a single moment before wheeling off, leaving the updated person to cry blood.
* {{Fanboy}}: In "Why is Johnny Cage in Mortal Kombat?", a cyborg supercriminal from the game is made into such a fan of Johnny Cage that he's willing to throw a life-or-death fighting tournament for an autograph.
* {{Fanfare}}: When discussing Link's capabilities as a stepfather, the conversation shifts to whether Link's stepchild would know he's having sex because of the bombastic "Victory!" and "ItemGet" fanfares that play wherever Link goes.
* {{Fanfare}}: When discussing Link's capabilities as a stepfather, the conversation shifts to whether Link's stepchild would know he's having sex because of the bombastic "Victory!" and "ItemGet" fanfares that play wherever Link goes.
* GroinAttack: A tangent about ComicBook/AntMan in "Professor Charles Xavier's Crazy Summer" delves into the possibility that Ant-Man could easily use his size-shifting abilities to blow up an enemy goon's gonads.
* HandWave: An explanation is given for how Johnny Cage could defeat every original ''VideoGame/MortalKombat'' fighter in "Why is Johnny Cage in Mortal Kombat?" until they reach Scorpion, an undead ninja with no moral code. The closest they could come with an explanation is that Scorpion would impale Cage with a spear in the shoulder and pull him in, only for Cage to raise his fist and decapitate Scorpion, only to die from bleeding soon after. The Plumbing Boys decide to ignore Cage's death so they can match him up with the three remaining fighters.
* HeteronormativeCrusader: The podcast's increasingly villainous interpretation of Professor Xavier is quick to judge homosexuals and quick to use his mind control as a form of conversion therapy. This is ironic, since mutants are a metaphor for homosexuals.
-->''"We don't have a 'Don't ask, don't tell,' policy here, we just have a 'Don't,' policy."''
-->''"We don't have a 'Don't ask, don't tell,' policy here, we just have a 'Don't,' policy."''
* IKnowMortalKombat: Fittingly, the ''VideoGame/MortalKombat'' episode is based around how Johnny Cage's experience with fight ''scenes'' does not translate to experience with actual fights, leaving the Plumbing Boys to figure out how such an inexperienced person could defeat actual warriors.
* MirrorsReflectEverything: Based off his signature sunglasses, Johnny Cage's ability to survive the ''VideoGame/MortalKombat'' tournament is justified with his ability to reflect ice beams and lightning with his eyewear. Zammit has none of it and points out that neither of those things remotely work that way, forcing the others to explain Johnny's victories through even more contrived means.
* MonsterModesty: Taken to its logical extreme in "Why is Johnny Cage in Mortal Kombat?" while trying to reason how stunt actor Johnny Cage could defeat a four-armed monster that wears only a loincloth. Duscher realizes that if the monster wears a loincloth, it must feel shame, so if Cage can manage to rip off its loincloth, the monster will run off in shame and give Cage the victory by default.
* MonsterModesty: Taken to its logical extreme in "Why is Johnny Cage in Mortal Kombat?" while trying to reason how stunt actor Johnny Cage could defeat a four-armed monster that wears only a loincloth. Duscher realizes that if the monster wears a loincloth, it must feel shame, so if Cage can manage to rip off its loincloth, the monster will run off in shame and give Cage the victory by default.
* MrsRobinson: Lucy, the mother in question in "Which Smash Bros. Character Would Make the Best Stepdad?", ends up marrying a ten-year old and a seventeen year old within the same year, severely confusing her only child.
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* NoEndorHolocaust: A frequent topic of discussion, like in "Why Did God Make Bruce Almighty," where they conclude that Jim Carrey's character from that ''Bruce Almighty'' is as evil as Hitler for erasing stars to make his night more romantic. He could have erased entire planetary civilizations just on a whim.
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* NoEndorHolocaust: A frequent topic of discussion, like in "Why Did God Make Bruce Almighty," where they conclude that Jim Carrey's character from that ''Bruce Almighty'' is as evil as Hitler for erasing stars to make his night more romantic. He could may have erased entire planetary civilizations just on a whim.
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* ThePeterPrinciple: "Why Isn't Nightcrawler Fat" devolves into a discussion of why the ''ComicBook/XMen'' are made teachers. The most contentious hire among the cast is ComicBook/Wolverine, who's success with fighting supervillains has no relation to his ability to teach history classes.
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* ThePeterPrinciple: "Why Isn't Nightcrawler Fat" devolves into a discussion of why the ''ComicBook/XMen'' are made teachers. The most contentious hire among the cast is ComicBook/Wolverine, ComicBook/{{Wolverine}}, who's success with fighting supervillains has no relation to his ability to teach history classes.classes.
* PowerCopying: The main advantage to having VideoGame/{{Kirby}} as a stepfather is that he can absorb a mother's abilities and become more of a second mom rather than the twelfth stepfather to one very troubled child.
* PowerPerversionPotential:
** One of the purposes of "Which Superhero Would Make The Best Lover?" is to discuss how superheroes could use their powers to improve their love life.
** Duscher points how Professor X's powers wouldn't work on Thor, only for Jackson to respond in his Xavier imitation, "Well let's try. Boop-boop-boop, fist your own asshole. ''[beat]'' Yes, I think we know who's in charge here." All three burst out laughing and can barely continue the episode.
** A point of this is almost made in "Which Smash Bros. Character Would Make the Best Stepdad?" when Yoshi's abnormally long tongue is brought up, but Duscher shuts it down by pointing out it only goes straight, and also that Yoshi's a dinosaur.
* PowerCopying: The main advantage to having VideoGame/{{Kirby}} as a stepfather is that he can absorb a mother's abilities and become more of a second mom rather than the twelfth stepfather to one very troubled child.
* PowerPerversionPotential:
** One of the purposes of "Which Superhero Would Make The Best Lover?" is to discuss how superheroes could use their powers to improve their love life.
** Duscher points how Professor X's powers wouldn't work on Thor, only for Jackson to respond in his Xavier imitation, "Well let's try. Boop-boop-boop, fist your own asshole. ''[beat]'' Yes, I think we know who's in charge here." All three burst out laughing and can barely continue the episode.
** A point of this is almost made in "Which Smash Bros. Character Would Make the Best Stepdad?" when Yoshi's abnormally long tongue is brought up, but Duscher shuts it down by pointing out it only goes straight, and also that Yoshi's a dinosaur.
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* RobotMe: In the WhatIf scenario of "Professor Charles Xavier's Crazy Summer," ComicBook/IronMan creates the evil robot Ultron based off the mind of Charles Xavier, who in this scenario is a Machiavellian homophobe who waged intergalactic war to take power.
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* SamusIsAGirl: In "Which Smash Bros. Character Would Make the Best Stepfather?", one of the disadvantages of having Samus as a step-parent is that her new stepchild would assume their mother would have just married another man, before seeing Samus take her helmet off and forcing the young child to question everything they know about sexuality.
-->''"If Mom's gay does that mean I'm gay?"''
-->''"If Mom's gay does that mean I'm gay?"''
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* SerialSpouse: The premise of "Which Smash Bros. Character Would Make the Best Step-Dad?" is that a woman named Lucy marries all twelve characters from the original ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBros''.
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* TheStoolPigeon: The Plumbing Boys partially resolve "Why is Johnny Cage in Mortal Kombat?" by figuring that Johnny Cage could easily rat out four of the fighters to either their bosses who don't want them killing a Hollywood star, or a rival who wants them dead.
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* TitleDrop: Most episodes begin with the central question, but "Professor Charles Xavier's Crazy Summer" wasn't originally titled as such. The title came up naturally throughout the episode as they imagined Xavier explaining his adventure to the ComicBook/XMen and writing it off as just a fun summer.
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* WhenYouComingHomeDad: Mario gets a 5/10 as a stepdad largely because he's too busy plumbing, saving princesses, [[VideoGame/MarioKart going go-kart racing]], [[VideoGame/MarioParty holding massive parties]], and [[VideoGame/MarioAndSonicAtTheOlympicGames mastering sports]] to raise a child with love and care.
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* What Do the Public Know About the Avengers Initiative? (Feat. Mr SundayMovies)
* If You Were a Superman Villain What Would Your Gimmick Be? (Feat. Mr SundayMovies)
* If You Were a Superman Villain What Would Your Gimmick Be? (Feat. Mr SundayMovies)
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* What Do the Public Know About the Avengers Initiative? (Feat. Mr SundayMovies)
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* If You Were a Superman Villain What Would Your Gimmick Be? (Feat. MrSundayMovies)Sunday Movies)
* If You Were a Superman Villain What Would Your Gimmick Be? (Feat. Mr
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* AlmightyIdiot: [[Literature/LordOfTheRings Sauron, the Dark Lord of Middle Earth]], is portrayed as this in "Are There Better Ways to Invade Middle Earth?", having become so broken a delusional without his Ring of Power that even Saruman can't talk him into an actual strategy. Instead, Sauron is reduced to simply screaming about throwing armies straight at his enemies.
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* AlmightyIdiot: [[Literature/LordOfTheRings Sauron, the Dark Lord of Middle Earth]], is portrayed as this senile in "Are There Better Ways to Invade Middle Earth?", having become so broken a and delusional without his Ring of Power that even Saruman can't talk him into an actual strategy. Instead, Sauron the darkest force in Middle-Earth is reduced to simply screaming about throwing armies straight at his enemies.
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* AllStarCast: [[invoked]] In "Exploiting Television Tropes for Financial and Personal Gain (Feat. Michael Williams and Adam)," the hypothetical {{Special Guest}}s for Michael Williams's "life" include Creator/BradPitt, Creator/LilWayne, and UsefulNotes/BillClinton. Oh, and they're all related to him, apparently.
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* AllStarCast: [[invoked]] In "Exploiting Television Tropes for Financial and Personal Gain (Feat. Michael Williams and Adam)," Gain," the hypothetical {{Special Guest}}s for Michael Williams's "life" include Creator/BradPitt, Creator/LilWayne, and UsefulNotes/BillClinton. Oh, and they're all related to him, apparently.
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** The Plumbing Boys conclude in "Which Fictional Character Would Make a Better Santa Claus? (Feat. Adam)" that Professor Xavier would eventually brainwash kids to want their parents to donate to Xavier's School for Gifted Youngster for Christmas. This has the result of making the kids legitimately happy in their messed up heads, but eventually they would look back and be sincerely disturbed by their strange childhood obsession.
** Near the end of the Christmas episode, the Plumbing Boys begin to suggest incredibly violent Santas including the ''Film/{{Predator}}'', the Xenomorph from ''Film/{{Alien}}'', the planet-eating ComicBook/{{Galactus}}, a serial killer called ComicBook/ThePunisher, and the demonic ComicBook/GhostRider.
* BondOneLiner: Every time he catches a criminal, Duscher's version of Batman from "Which Comic Book Hero Would Make the Best Horror Movie Villain?" makes sure to say "GOT HIM!" as deeply as he can.
* BorrowedCatchphrase: After establishing "GOT HIM!" as a catchphrase for Batman in ""Which Comic Book Hero Would Make the Best Horror Movie Villain? LIVE," Jackson's imitation of [[ComicBook/XMen Professor X]] wipes the mind of one of his students to keep them obedient, before whispering to himself, "Got him."
* {{Brainwashed}}: The cast of ''Plumbing the Death Star'' frequently portray ''ComicBook/XMen'''s Professor Xavier as using {{Telepathy}} to make his students to whatever he wants, with no thoughts of morality. They even accompany it with beeping sounds to show he's treating them like some sort of computer program.
** Near the end of the Christmas episode, the Plumbing Boys begin to suggest incredibly violent Santas including the ''Film/{{Predator}}'', the Xenomorph from ''Film/{{Alien}}'', the planet-eating ComicBook/{{Galactus}}, a serial killer called ComicBook/ThePunisher, and the demonic ComicBook/GhostRider.
* BondOneLiner: Every time he catches a criminal, Duscher's version of Batman from "Which Comic Book Hero Would Make the Best Horror Movie Villain?" makes sure to say "GOT HIM!" as deeply as he can.
* BorrowedCatchphrase: After establishing "GOT HIM!" as a catchphrase for Batman in ""Which Comic Book Hero Would Make the Best Horror Movie Villain? LIVE," Jackson's imitation of [[ComicBook/XMen Professor X]] wipes the mind of one of his students to keep them obedient, before whispering to himself, "Got him."
* {{Brainwashed}}: The cast of ''Plumbing the Death Star'' frequently portray ''ComicBook/XMen'''s Professor Xavier as using {{Telepathy}} to make his students to whatever he wants, with no thoughts of morality. They even accompany it with beeping sounds to show he's treating them like some sort of computer program.
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** The Plumbing Boys conclude in "Which Fictional Character Would Make a Better Santa Claus? (Feat. Adam)" Claus?" that Professor Xavier would eventually brainwash kids to want their parents to donate to Xavier's School for Gifted Youngster for Christmas. This has the result of making the kids legitimately happy in their messed up heads, but eventually they would look back and be sincerely disturbed by their strange childhood obsession.
** Near the end of the Christmas episode, Jackson and thePlumbing Boys Joels begin to suggest incredibly violent potential Santas including the ''Film/{{Predator}}'', the Xenomorph from ''Film/{{Alien}}'', the planet-eating ComicBook/{{Galactus}}, a serial killer called ComicBook/ThePunisher, and the demonic ComicBook/GhostRider.
* BondOneLiner: Every time he catches a criminal, Duscher's version of Batman from "Which Comic Book Hero Would Make the Best Horror Movie Villain?" makes sure to say "GOTHIM!" 'EM!" as deeply as he can.
* BorrowedCatchphrase:After establishing "GOT HIM!" as a catchphrase for Batman in ""Which In "Which Comic Book Hero Would Make the Best Horror Movie Villain? LIVE," Jackson's imitation of Villain," Duscher establishes "GOT 'EM!" as a catchphrase for Batman. A few minutes later, Jackson goes through a scenario where [[ComicBook/XMen Professor X]] wipes is wiping his student's memories, and Jackson finishes the mind of one of his students to keep them obedient, before bit by imitating the Professor's voice and whispering to himself, a quiet, "Got him.'em."
* {{Brainwashed}}: The cast of ''Plumbing the Death Star'' frequently portray ''ComicBook/XMen'''s Professor Xavier asusing a unapologetic villain who uses his {{Telepathy}} to make his students to whatever he wants, with no thoughts wants. Whenever they describe his abuse of morality. They even power, they make sure to accompany it with beeping sounds to show sounds, showing he's treating them people just like some sort of a computer program.
** Near the end of the Christmas episode, Jackson and the
* BondOneLiner: Every time he catches a criminal, Duscher's version of Batman from "Which Comic Book Hero Would Make the Best Horror Movie Villain?" makes sure to say "GOT
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* {{Brainwashed}}: The cast of ''Plumbing the Death Star'' frequently portray ''ComicBook/XMen'''s Professor Xavier as
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* CastFromCalories: This is referred to as the "Joel Duscher Bird Theory;" Duscher answers "Why Isn't [[ComicBook/XMen Nightcrawler]] Fat?" by positing that using mutant powers like teleportation would expend energy similar to a physical activity, so Nightcrawler would burn calories by teleportation. Problem is, other mutants like Cyclops and "the one with the bees" don't turn their powers off, which must mean they are just constantly starving.
* {{Catchphrase}}: Duscher's imitation of Franchise/{{Batman}} in "Which Comic Book Hero Would Make the Best Horror Movie Villain? LIVE" gruffly says "GOT HIM!" to himself [[BondOneliner every time he snatches a criminal]].
* {{Catchphrase}}: Duscher's imitation of Franchise/{{Batman}} in "Which Comic Book Hero Would Make the Best Horror Movie Villain? LIVE" gruffly says "GOT HIM!" to himself [[BondOneliner every time he snatches a criminal]].
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* CastFromCalories: This is referred to as the "Joel Duscher Bird Theory;" Duscher answers "Why Isn't [[ComicBook/XMen Nightcrawler]] Fat?" by positing that using mutant powers like Nightcrawler's teleportation would expend energy similar to a physical activity, so Nightcrawler would burn calories by teleportation. like flight does for birds. Problem is, other mutants like Cyclops and "the one with the bees" don't can't turn their powers off, which must mean they are just so under this theory those characters should be constantly starving.
exhausted and starved.
* {{Catchphrase}}: Duscher's imitation of Franchise/{{Batman}} in "Which Comic Book Hero Would Make the Best Horror MovieVillain? LIVE" Villain?" gruffly says "GOT HIM!" 'EM!" to himself [[BondOneliner every time he snatches a criminal]].
* {{Catchphrase}}: Duscher's imitation of Franchise/{{Batman}} in "Which Comic Book Hero Would Make the Best Horror Movie
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* CoincidentalBroadcast: Jackson chooses this in "Exploiting Television Tropes for Financial and Personal Gain? (Feat. Michael Williams and Adam)" because he could carry around a pocket TV, wonder aloud whether he could ever find something, and then look at his TV to find an advertisement for some competition where the reward is exactly what he needs. Duscher points out that at that point Jackson would have to actually ''win'' the competition, and even if it was a podcasting competition, there are still plenty of people to beat out Jackson at it.
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* CoincidentalBroadcast: Jackson chooses this in "Exploiting Television Tropes for Financial and Personal Gain? (Feat. Michael Williams and Adam)" Gain?" because he could carry around a pocket TV, wonder aloud whether he could ever find something, and then look at his TV to find an advertisement for some competition where the reward is exactly what he needs. Duscher points out that at that point Jackson would have to actually ''win'' the competition, and even if it was a podcasting competition, there are still plenty of people to beat out Jackson at it.
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* EpilepticTrees: InUniverse; Duscher tries to pitch "How Does Dating Work in Beyoncé's Single Ladies?" by asking why "he" needs to "put a ring on it" in this universe, only for his two co-hosts to answer his question and leave him with nothing to say five minutes into the episode. This leaves the cast to spend another twenty minutes to create an absurd theory that evolves into the idea that Beyonce is a ComicBook/GreenLantern talking about the madness of Hal Jordan.
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* EpilepticTrees: InUniverse; Duscher tries to pitch "How Does Dating Work in Beyoncé's Single Ladies?" by asking why "he" needs to "put a ring on it" in this universe, only for his two co-hosts to answer his question and leave him with nothing to say five minutes into the episode. This leaves the cast to spend with another twenty minutes of the episode to create fill, so they end up fumbling into an absurd theory that evolves into the idea that about how Beyonce is a ComicBook/GreenLantern talking about the madness of Hal Jordan.Jordan suffered in ''ComicBook/ZeroHour''.
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* EvilTwin: Duscher gets out the negative consequences of living through a SoaplandChristmas once Adam points out that if he's living in a soap opera world, he could just have all his enemies go after his secret evil twin.
* ExploitedTrope: The episode "Exploiting Television Tropes for Financial and Personal Gain? (Feat. Michael Williams and Adam)" is all about how the Plumbing Boys and their two guests would abuse the conventions of television to make their lives easier. Jackson chooses to exploit CoincidentalBroadcast, Duscher chooses SoaplandChristmas, Adam chooses TreasureMap, and Michael Williams chooses SpecialGuest.
* ExploitedTrope: The episode "Exploiting Television Tropes for Financial and Personal Gain? (Feat. Michael Williams and Adam)" is all about how the Plumbing Boys and their two guests would abuse the conventions of television to make their lives easier. Jackson chooses to exploit CoincidentalBroadcast, Duscher chooses SoaplandChristmas, Adam chooses TreasureMap, and Michael Williams chooses SpecialGuest.
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* EvilTwin: Duscher gets out of the negative consequences of living through a SoaplandChristmas once Adam points out that if he's living in a soap opera world, he could just have all his enemies go after his secret evil twin.
* ExploitedTrope: The episode "Exploiting Television Tropes for Financial and PersonalGain? (Feat. Michael Williams and Adam)" Gain?" is all about how the Plumbing Boys Duscher, Zammit, Jackson, and their two guests would abuse the conventions of television to make their lives easier. Jackson chooses to exploit CoincidentalBroadcast, Duscher chooses SoaplandChristmas, Adam chooses TreasureMap, and Michael Williams chooses SpecialGuest.
* ExploitedTrope: The episode "Exploiting Television Tropes for Financial and Personal
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* AFoolAndHisNewMoneyAreSoonParted: One of the last two tropes mentioned in "Exploiting Television Tropes for Financial and Personal Gain (Feat. Michael Williams and Adam)" is the tendency for characters to strike oil in their backyard, find money on the bus, or any other crazy way to get rich instantly. However, they conclude that they'd have to lose the money since these type of scenarios tend to involve a form of FriendOrIdolDecision where they either must return the money to its rightful owner or keep it, wherein the character always chooses to return it.
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* AFoolAndHisNewMoneyAreSoonParted: One of the last two tropes mentioned in "Exploiting Television Tropes for Financial and Personal Gain (Feat. Michael Williams and Adam)" Gain" is the tendency for characters to strike oil in their backyard, find money on the bus, or any find some other crazy way method to get rich instantly. However, they conclude that if they followed the trope completely, they'd have to lose the money since these type of scenarios tend to involve a form of FriendOrIdolDecision where they either must return the money to its rightful owner or keep it, wherein the character always chooses to return it.it out of moral obligation.
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* FriendOrIdolDecision: The main reason the Plumbing boys decide AFoolAndHisNewMoneyAreSoonParted is difficult to exploit is that if you randomly find money on a bus, the choice to return it is always presented and characters '''always''' have to return it, so they'd only be rich for a brief and insignificant time.
* FunnyAneurysmMoment: [[invoked]] Jackson points out the problem with having a lot of [[SpecialGuest Special Guest Stars]] as relatives: it turns out a lot of your relatives are pedophiles.
* GladYouThoughtOfIt: "Why Isn't Nightcrawler Fat" ends up becoming a discussion of Professor X, where the Plumbing Boys suggest he could easily cover up his obesity by hiding his appearance with telepathy and implanting the idea to increase the food budget in everyone else's mind. He also uses this to get people to do whatever jobs his needs, like planting the idea to be a gardener in a mutant named Evergreen.
* FunnyAneurysmMoment: [[invoked]] Jackson points out the problem with having a lot of [[SpecialGuest Special Guest Stars]] as relatives: it turns out a lot of your relatives are pedophiles.
* GladYouThoughtOfIt: "Why Isn't Nightcrawler Fat" ends up becoming a discussion of Professor X, where the Plumbing Boys suggest he could easily cover up his obesity by hiding his appearance with telepathy and implanting the idea to increase the food budget in everyone else's mind. He also uses this to get people to do whatever jobs his needs, like planting the idea to be a gardener in a mutant named Evergreen.
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* FriendOrIdolDecision: The main reason the Plumbing boys decide it's decided that AFoolAndHisNewMoneyAreSoonParted is too difficult to exploit is that if you randomly find money on a bus, bus in fiction, the choice to return it the money is always presented and characters '''always''' have to return it, so they'd only be rich for a brief and insignificant time.
it.
* FunnyAneurysmMoment: [[invoked]] Jackson points out the problem with having a lot of [[SpecialGuestSpecial Celebrity Guest Stars]] as relatives: it turns out means that a lot of your relatives are turn out to be pedophiles.
* GladYouThoughtOfIt: "Why Isn't Nightcrawler Fat" ends up becoming a discussion of Professor X, where the Plumbing Boyssuggest he could easily cover up his obesity by hiding his appearance with telepathy and implanting the idea become convinced he's using {{Telepathy}} to increase the food budget by implanting the thought to increase it in everyone else's mind. He also uses this to get people to do whatever jobs the mind of the rest of his needs, like planting the idea to be a gardener in a mutant named Evergreen.staff.
* FunnyAneurysmMoment: [[invoked]] Jackson points out the problem with having a lot of [[SpecialGuest
* GladYouThoughtOfIt: "Why Isn't Nightcrawler Fat" ends up becoming a discussion of Professor X, where the Plumbing Boys
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* TheGoodGuysAlwaysWin: When Jackson proposes exploiting CoincidentalBroadcast in "Exploiting Television Tropes for Financial and Personal Gain (Feat. Michael Williams and Adam,)" the others point out that he hasn't also exploited the fact that the protagonist always wins, so he'd probably just lose the various singing and soup-making competitions he ends up entering. On the flip side, this helps out Adam, who's exploit of the TreasureMap trope makes him the bad guy to the [[KidHero kid heroes]] who inevitably will hunt the treasure.
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* TheGoodGuysAlwaysWin: When Jackson proposes exploiting CoincidentalBroadcast in "Exploiting Television Tropes for Financial and Personal Gain (Feat. Michael Williams and Adam,)" Gain," the others point out that he hasn't also isn't exploited the fact trope that the protagonist always wins, so he'd probably just lose the various Jackson would end up losing any singing and soup-making competitions he ends up entering. had entered. On the flip side, this helps out Adam, who's exploit of the TreasureMap trope makes him the bad guy to the [[KidHero kid heroes]] who inevitably will hunt the treasure.treasure; with no storytelling convention to help them, Adam's adult fists easily give him the advantage over his infantile adversaries.
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* HalfHumanHybrid: The reason Aquaman is proposed in "Which Comic Book Hero Would Make the Best Horror Movie Villain? LIVE" is that his origin as the child of an affair between a nonhuman sea creature and a fisherman raised in a lighthouse make him sound like some sort of alien monster.
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* HalfHumanHybrid: The reason Aquaman is proposed in "Which Comic Book Hero Would Make the Best Horror Movie Villain? LIVE" Villain?" is that his origin as the child of an affair between a nonhuman sea creature and a fisherman raised in a lighthouse make him sound like some sort of alien monster.
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* HeroicBuild: One of the key reasons "Why Isn't Nightcrawler Fat" exists is that there are no conventionally fat members of the ComicBook/XMen even if most of them have powers with no relation to physical exertion, yet they all look like models and bodybuilders.
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* HeroicBuild: One of the key reasons "Why Isn't Nightcrawler Fat" exists is that there are no conventionally fat members of the ComicBook/XMen even if most of them have powers with no relation to physical exertion, yet they all look like models and bodybuilders.exertion.
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* ImmuneToDrugs: Realizing that his HealingFactor prevents any type of drug from taking effect, Wolverine's cigarette smoking takes over the conversation for a bit of "Why Isn't Nightcrawler Fat?"
* IronicEcho: Adam points out one of Zammit's suggestions in "Which Fictional Character Would Make a Better Santa Claus?" involves redistribution of wealth and says "I knew this was a socialist podcast;" moments later, Adam suggests using Ronald [=McDonald=] and the millions of McDonalds to take over for Santa and his elves, at which point Zammit complains that this is capitalizing Christmas and says "I knew this was a capitalist podcast."
* JobStealingRobot: A fantastic variation. One of the problems with Elsa's ice cream business in "Who's the Best Disney Business Princess?" is that none of the money from the shop would go to anyone but her, since she can create ice golems to do any labor she needs without paying them a single dime.
* JustLikeRobinHood: Two examples from "Which Comic Book Hero Would Make the Best Horror Movie Villain? LIVE."
* IronicEcho: Adam points out one of Zammit's suggestions in "Which Fictional Character Would Make a Better Santa Claus?" involves redistribution of wealth and says "I knew this was a socialist podcast;" moments later, Adam suggests using Ronald [=McDonald=] and the millions of McDonalds to take over for Santa and his elves, at which point Zammit complains that this is capitalizing Christmas and says "I knew this was a capitalist podcast."
* JobStealingRobot: A fantastic variation. One of the problems with Elsa's ice cream business in "Who's the Best Disney Business Princess?" is that none of the money from the shop would go to anyone but her, since she can create ice golems to do any labor she needs without paying them a single dime.
* JustLikeRobinHood: Two examples from "Which Comic Book Hero Would Make the Best Horror Movie Villain? LIVE."
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* ImmuneToDrugs: Realizing that his a HealingFactor prevents any type of drug from taking effect, Wolverine's cigarette smoking takes over the conversation for a bit of "Why Isn't Nightcrawler Fat?"
Fat?".
* IronicEcho: Adam points out one of Zammit's suggestions in "Which Fictional Character Would Make a Better Santa Claus?" involves redistribution of wealth and says "I knew this was a socialist podcast;" moments later, Adam suggests using Ronald [=McDonald=] and the millions ofMcDonalds [=McDonalds=] to take over for Santa and his elves, at which point Zammit complains that this is capitalizing Christmas and says "I knew this was a capitalist podcast."
* JobStealingRobot: A fantastic variation. One of the problems with Elsa's ice cream business in "Who's the Best Disney Business Princess?" is thatnone of the money from the shop it would go to anyone but her, create zero jobs, since she can create ice golems to do any labor she needs without paying them a single dime.
* JustLikeRobinHood: Two examples from "Which Comic Book Hero Would Make the Best Horror MovieVillain? LIVE."Villain?"
* IronicEcho: Adam points out one of Zammit's suggestions in "Which Fictional Character Would Make a Better Santa Claus?" involves redistribution of wealth and says "I knew this was a socialist podcast;" moments later, Adam suggests using Ronald [=McDonald=] and the millions of
* JobStealingRobot: A fantastic variation. One of the problems with Elsa's ice cream business in "Who's the Best Disney Business Princess?" is that
* JustLikeRobinHood: Two examples from "Which Comic Book Hero Would Make the Best Horror Movie
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* KillerRabbit: [[Franchise/{{Superman}} Krypto the Super Dog]] may be a cute white puppy, but he's allow an invincible alien monster with the strength of locomotive and the speed of a bullet who has no capacity to reason with any who incur his wrath. There's a reason he gets voted the third most horrifying hero in "Which Comic Book Hero Would Make the Best Horror Movie Villain?"
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* KillerRabbit: [[Franchise/{{Superman}} Krypto the Super Dog]] may be a cute white puppy, but as "Which Comic Book Hero Would Make the Best Horror Movie Villain?" spins it, he's allow also an invincible invincible, lightning-fast alien monster with the strength of a locomotive and no capacity. If anyone upset him, there'd be no way to calm him down before the speed of a bullet who has no capacity to reason with any who incur his wrath. amoral hound ripped out their jugular. There's a reason he gets voted the third most horrifying hero in "Which Comic Book Hero Would Make ahead of the Best Horror Movie Villain?"likes of ComicBook/{{Wolverine}}.
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* MakeAWish: Jackson initially tries to exploit the wishing in ''Film/{{Ted}}'' to make an army, but decides instead to use the variant in ''Film/LiarLiar''. Specifically, he decides to get a factory full of kids, have them each blow out a candle, and make them all wish for Jackson to get diamonds. This fails as soon as one of them wishes for Jackson's death.
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* MakeAWish: Jackson initially tries to exploit the wishing in ''Film/{{Ted}}'' to make an army, but decides instead to use the variant in ''Film/LiarLiar''. Specifically, he decides to get a factory full of kids, have them each blow out a candle, and make them all wish for Jackson to get diamonds. This fails as soon as one of them wishes for The group very quickly realize this would be a horrible idea, since eventually some kid would wish Jackson's death.head would explode.
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* MundaneUtility:The question in "Why Isn't Nightcrawler Fat?" centers around the idea that if Nightcrawler and the other ''ComicBook/XMen'' have these fantastic powers of flight, levitation, and teleportation, why would they ever walk?
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* MundaneUtility:The MundaneUtility: The question in "Why Isn't Nightcrawler Fat?" centers around the idea that if Nightcrawler and the other ''ComicBook/XMen'' have these fantastic powers of flight, levitation, and teleportation, why would they ever walk?not just use them and forgo walking?
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* ThePeterPrinciple: "Why Isn't Nightcrawler Fat" devolves into a discussion of why the ''ComicBook/XMen'' are made teachers, pointing out that ComicBook/Wolverine's success with fighting supervillains has no relation to his ability to teach history classes.
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* ThePeterPrinciple: "Why Isn't Nightcrawler Fat" devolves into a discussion of why the ''ComicBook/XMen'' are made teachers, pointing out that ComicBook/Wolverine's teachers. The most contentious hire among the cast is ComicBook/Wolverine, who's success with fighting supervillains has no relation to his ability to teach history classes.
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* {{Sampling}}: Each episode opens with a small snippet of a song or theme related to the topic at hand. For example, about five seconds of Creator/Beyonce's "Single Ladies" is used in "How Does Dating Work in Beyoncé's Single Ladies?", while the opening of Creator/JohnWilliams's "Hedwig's Theme" for "Is Harry Potter a Good Wizard? (Feat. Sophie Kneebone)."
* {{Sequelitis}}: [[invoked]] Even before seeing the first ''Film/FantasticBeastsAndWhereToFindThem'' film, Duscher is adamant that the fourth film will be the worst with nothing to go on but his gut instincts.
* ShroudedInMyth: One of the metrics by which characters are ranked in "Which Fictional Character Would Make a Better Santa Claus? (Feat. Adam)" is "mysticism," or how discrete and mysterious the new Santa Clauses are. Naturally, this makes the Abominable Snowman a highly appealing choice.
* SoaplandChristmas: Duscher chooses to exploit the tendency for soap operas to end the winter season Christmas episode with horrible disasters by inviting all his enemies to town for Christmas. Once they're there, his enemies will inevitably end up in jail, suffer an unexpected pregnancy, die in a fire at a school dance, or just die. The others point out that terrible things could happen to Duscher, but he replies that he'll always end up find because StatusQuoIsGod.
* SpecialGuest: Michael Williams suggests exploiting the tendency for characters to have relatives played by celebrities who only appear once. He points out having Lil' Wayne as a distant cousin is great because it means you get a wild adventure with him for the one time he shows up, and he never gets the chance to be an annoying relative since he's too expensive for the studio. Ultimately, Michael's suggestion ends up being the best in the "Exploiting Television Tropes for Financial and Personal Gain (Feat. Michael Williams and Adam)" episode.
* StatusQuoIsGod: One of the reasons Duscher can get away with picking SoaplandChristmas in "Exploiting Television Tropes for Financial and Personal Gain (Feat. Michael Williams and Adam)" is by pointing out he'll always get out of the horrible Christmas events because the writer's will want to get back to a comfortable status quo by the next season.
* StudioAudience: When discussing SpecialGuest Stars, Jackson says "Woo!" in reference to the loud and long applause celebrities get when they guest star on sitcoms.
* SubbingForSanta: "Which Fictional Character Would Make a Better Santa Claus? (Feat. Adam)" centers around the idea that Santa Claus has died and some fictional character (whether it be Ronald [=McDonald=] or the entirety of the ComicBook/XMen) has taken over the role with none of his powers.
* {{Sequelitis}}: [[invoked]] Even before seeing the first ''Film/FantasticBeastsAndWhereToFindThem'' film, Duscher is adamant that the fourth film will be the worst with nothing to go on but his gut instincts.
* ShroudedInMyth: One of the metrics by which characters are ranked in "Which Fictional Character Would Make a Better Santa Claus? (Feat. Adam)" is "mysticism," or how discrete and mysterious the new Santa Clauses are. Naturally, this makes the Abominable Snowman a highly appealing choice.
* SoaplandChristmas: Duscher chooses to exploit the tendency for soap operas to end the winter season Christmas episode with horrible disasters by inviting all his enemies to town for Christmas. Once they're there, his enemies will inevitably end up in jail, suffer an unexpected pregnancy, die in a fire at a school dance, or just die. The others point out that terrible things could happen to Duscher, but he replies that he'll always end up find because StatusQuoIsGod.
* SpecialGuest: Michael Williams suggests exploiting the tendency for characters to have relatives played by celebrities who only appear once. He points out having Lil' Wayne as a distant cousin is great because it means you get a wild adventure with him for the one time he shows up, and he never gets the chance to be an annoying relative since he's too expensive for the studio. Ultimately, Michael's suggestion ends up being the best in the "Exploiting Television Tropes for Financial and Personal Gain (Feat. Michael Williams and Adam)" episode.
* StatusQuoIsGod: One of the reasons Duscher can get away with picking SoaplandChristmas in "Exploiting Television Tropes for Financial and Personal Gain (Feat. Michael Williams and Adam)" is by pointing out he'll always get out of the horrible Christmas events because the writer's will want to get back to a comfortable status quo by the next season.
* StudioAudience: When discussing SpecialGuest Stars, Jackson says "Woo!" in reference to the loud and long applause celebrities get when they guest star on sitcoms.
* SubbingForSanta: "Which Fictional Character Would Make a Better Santa Claus? (Feat. Adam)" centers around the idea that Santa Claus has died and some fictional character (whether it be Ronald [=McDonald=] or the entirety of the ComicBook/XMen) has taken over the role with none of his powers.
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* {{Sampling}}: Each After the advertisements and Duscher's {{Catchphrase}}, each episode opens with a small snippet of a song or theme related to the topic at hand. For example, about five seconds of Creator/Beyonce's "Single Ladies" is used in "How Does Dating Work in Beyoncé's Single Ladies?", while the opening of Creator/JohnWilliams's "Hedwig's Theme" is chosen for "Is Harry Potter a Good Wizard? (Feat. Sophie Kneebone).Wizard."
* {{Sequelitis}}: [[invoked]] Even before seeing the first ''Film/FantasticBeastsAndWhereToFindThem'' film, Duscher is adamant that the fourth film will be the worst of the five planned with nothing togo on back him up but his gut instincts.
* ShroudedInMyth: One of the metrics by which characters are ranked in "Which Fictional Character Would Make a Better SantaClaus? (Feat. Adam)" Claus?" is "mysticism," or how discrete and mysterious the new Santa Clauses are. Naturally, this makes the mythical Abominable Snowman a highly appealing choice.
choice, while picking Ronald [=McDonald=] is equated with ruining Christmas.
* SoaplandChristmas: In "Exploiting Television Tropes for Financial and Personal Gain," Duscher chooses to exploit the tendency for soap operas to endthe winter season their Christmas episode episodes with horrible disasters by inviting all his enemies to town for Christmas. Once they're there, his enemies will inevitably end up in jail, suffer an unexpected pregnancy, die in a fire at a school dance, or just die. be killed. The others point out that terrible things could happen to Duscher, but he replies that he'll always end up find fine because StatusQuoIsGod.
* SpecialGuest: In "Exploiting Television Tropes for Financial and Personal Gain," Michael Williams suggests exploiting the tendency for characters to have relatives played by celebrities who only appear once. He points out having Lil' Wayne as adistant cousin relative is great because it means you get a wild adventure with him for the one time he shows up, and he can never gets the chance to be an annoying relative since he's too expensive for the studio. studio can only afford one appearance from him. Ultimately, Michael's suggestion ends up being is unanimously voted the best in the "Exploiting Television Tropes for Financial and Personal Gain (Feat. Michael Williams and Adam)" episode.
trope to exploit.
* StatusQuoIsGod: One of the reasons Duscher can get away with picking SoaplandChristmas in "Exploiting Television Tropes for Financial and PersonalGain (Feat. Michael Williams and Adam)" Gain" is by pointing out he'll always get out of the horrible Christmas events because the writer's writers will want to get back to a comfortable status quo by the next season.
season, so they'll just write him out of whatever trouble he finds during his holiday horrors.
* StudioAudience: When discussing SpecialGuest Stars, Jacksonsays yells "Woo!" and claps in reference to imitation of the loud and long applause celebrities get when they guest star on sitcoms.
* SubbingForSanta: "Which Fictional Character Would Make a Better SantaClaus? (Feat. Adam)" Claus?" centers around the idea that Santa Claus has died and some fictional character (whether it be Ronald [=McDonald=] or the entirety of the ComicBook/XMen) has taken over the role with none of his powers.
* {{Sequelitis}}: [[invoked]] Even before seeing the first ''Film/FantasticBeastsAndWhereToFindThem'' film, Duscher is adamant that the fourth film will be the worst of the five planned with nothing to
* ShroudedInMyth: One of the metrics by which characters are ranked in "Which Fictional Character Would Make a Better Santa
* SoaplandChristmas: In "Exploiting Television Tropes for Financial and Personal Gain," Duscher chooses to exploit the tendency for soap operas to end
* SpecialGuest: In "Exploiting Television Tropes for Financial and Personal Gain," Michael Williams suggests exploiting the tendency for characters to have relatives played by celebrities who only appear once. He points out having Lil' Wayne as a
* StatusQuoIsGod: One of the reasons Duscher can get away with picking SoaplandChristmas in "Exploiting Television Tropes for Financial and Personal
* StudioAudience: When discussing SpecialGuest Stars, Jackson
* SubbingForSanta: "Which Fictional Character Would Make a Better Santa
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* TreasureMap: Adam's suggestion in "Exploiting Television Tropes for Financial and Personal Gain (Feat. Michael Williams and Adam)" is to use the idea that a person's attic has a secret treasure map to get that treasure, use it to buy more land, get the maps from the houses on his new land, and then keep going so he can obtain a ludicrous fortune.
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* TreasureMap: Adam's suggestion in "Exploiting Television Tropes for Financial and Personal Gain (Feat. Michael Williams and Adam)" Gain" is to use the idea that trope where a person's attic has a secret treasure map to get that treasure, execute the following plan: hunt down the treasure on the map in your attic, use it to buy more land, get the maps from the houses on his new land, and then keep going so he can obtain until you've accumulated a ludicrous fortune.
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* WouldHurtAChild: Jackson suggests to Adam in "Exploiting Television Tropes for Financial and Personal Gain (Feat. Michael Williams and Adam)" that the best way to exploit the TreasureMap trope is to let a bunch of kids find the treasure and then just punch them while you take the treasure without having to do any of the hard work.
* WithGreatPowerComesGreatPerks: One of the suggestions in "Who's the Best Disney Business Princess?" is to have Elsa, queen of the kingdom of Arendelle and a person with enough power to summon eternal winter, run a successful ice cream shop without having to pay anyone to make the ice cream or serve it, since she can create {{Golem}}s that do her bidding without need for pay.
* WithGreatPowerComesGreatPerks: One of the suggestions in "Who's the Best Disney Business Princess?" is to have Elsa, queen of the kingdom of Arendelle and a person with enough power to summon eternal winter, run a successful ice cream shop without having to pay anyone to make the ice cream or serve it, since she can create {{Golem}}s that do her bidding without need for pay.
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* WouldHurtAChild: Jackson suggests to Adam in "Exploiting Television Tropes for Financial and Personal Gain (Feat. Michael Williams and Adam)" Gain" that the best way to exploit the TreasureMap trope is to let a bunch of kids find the treasure and then just punch them while you take the treasure without having to do any of the hard work.
* WithGreatPowerComesGreatPerks: One of the suggestions in "Who's the Best Disney Business Princess?" is to haveElsa, queen of the kingdom of Arendelle and a person with enough power Elsa uses her ice magic to summon eternal winter, run a successful an ice cream shop without having to pay anyone to shop. She can not only make the ice cream or serve it, since herself, but she can also create ice {{Golem}}s that do her bidding to serve the ice cream without need for pay.having to give to waste money on wages.
* WithGreatPowerComesGreatPerks: One of the suggestions in "Who's the Best Disney Business Princess?" is to have
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* CrystalDragonJesus: The Hutts immunity to the JediMindTrick mean that they are "like slug atheists."
-->''"Not ''like'' slug atheists, that implies there are slug atheists!"''
-->''"Not ''like'' slug atheists, that implies there are slug atheists!"''
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* CrystalDragonJesus: The Hutts immunity to the JediMindTrick mean that they are make them "like slug atheists."
-->''"Notatheists," in Jackson's words.
-->'''Dushcer''': Not ''like'' slug atheists, that implies there are slugatheists!"''atheists!
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* AllStarCast: [[invoked]] In "Exploiting Television Tropes for Financial and Personal Gain (Feat. Michael Williams and Adam)," the {{Special Guest}}s the Plumbing Boys mention the cast for Michael Williams "life" include Creator/BradPitt, Creator/LilWayne, and UsefulNotes/BillClinton. Oh, and they're all related to him, apparently.
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* AllStarCast: [[invoked]] In "Exploiting Television Tropes for Financial and Personal Gain (Feat. Michael Williams and Adam)," the hypothetical {{Special Guest}}s the Plumbing Boys mention the cast for Michael Williams Williams's "life" include Creator/BradPitt, Creator/LilWayne, and UsefulNotes/BillClinton. Oh, and they're all related to him, apparently.
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** Near the end of the Christmas episode, the Plumbing Boys begin to suggest incredibly violent Santas including the ''Film/{{Predator}}'', the Xenomorph from ''Film/{{Alien}}'', the planet-eating ComicBook/{{Galactus}}, the serial killing ComicBook/ThePunisher, and the demonic ComicBook/GhostRider.
* BondOneLiner: Every time he catches a criminal, Duscher's version of Batman from " makes sure to say "GOT HIM!" as deeply as he can.
* BondOneLiner: Every time he catches a criminal, Duscher's version of Batman from " makes sure to say "GOT HIM!" as deeply as he can.
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** Near the end of the Christmas episode, the Plumbing Boys begin to suggest incredibly violent Santas including the ''Film/{{Predator}}'', the Xenomorph from ''Film/{{Alien}}'', the planet-eating ComicBook/{{Galactus}}, the a serial killing killer called ComicBook/ThePunisher, and the demonic ComicBook/GhostRider.
* BondOneLiner: Every time he catches a criminal, Duscher's version of Batman from" "Which Comic Book Hero Would Make the Best Horror Movie Villain?" makes sure to say "GOT HIM!" as deeply as he can.
* BondOneLiner: Every time he catches a criminal, Duscher's version of Batman from
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The podcast also has two sub-series also has two sub-series: ''Plumbing the Death Eaters'', which exclusively deals with ''Franchise/HarryPotter'', and ''Plumbing the Death Star Presents Movie Maintenance'', which eventually branched off into its own show with a rotating cast separate from just the ''Plumbing the Death Star'''s cast.
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The podcast also has two sub-series also has two sub-series: ''Plumbing the Death Eaters'', which exclusively deals with ''Franchise/HarryPotter'', and ''Plumbing the Death Star Presents Movie Maintenance'', which eventually branched off into its own show with a its own rotating cast separate from just the ''Plumbing the Death Star'''s cast.
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* AFoolAndHisNewMoneyAreSoonParted: One of the last two tropes mentioned in "Exploiting Television Tropes for Financial and Personal Gain (Feat. Michael Williams and Adam)" is the tendency for characters to strike oil in their backyard, find money on the bus, or any other crazy way to get rich instantly. However, they conclude that they'd have to lose the money since these type of scenarios tend to involve a form of FriendOrIdolDecision where they either must return the money to it's rightful owner or keep it, wherein the character always chooses to return it.
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* AFoolAndHisNewMoneyAreSoonParted: One of the last two tropes mentioned in "Exploiting Television Tropes for Financial and Personal Gain (Feat. Michael Williams and Adam)" is the tendency for characters to strike oil in their backyard, find money on the bus, or any other crazy way to get rich instantly. However, they conclude that they'd have to lose the money since these type of scenarios tend to involve a form of FriendOrIdolDecision where they either must return the money to it's its rightful owner or keep it, wherein the character always chooses to return it.
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* KillerRabbit: Krypto the Super Dog may be a cute white puppy, but he's allow an invincible alien monster with the strength of locomotive and the speed of a bullet who has no capacity to reason with any who incur his wrath. There's a reason he gets voted the third most horrifying hero in "Which Comic Book Hero Would Make the Best Horror Movie Villain?"
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* KillerRabbit: [[Franchise/{{Superman}} Krypto the Super Dog Dog]] may be a cute white puppy, but he's allow an invincible alien monster with the strength of locomotive and the speed of a bullet who has no capacity to reason with any who incur his wrath. There's a reason he gets voted the third most horrifying hero in "Which Comic Book Hero Would Make the Best Horror Movie Villain?"
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* EpilepticTrees: InUniverse; Duscher tries to pitch "How Does Dating Work in Beyoncé's Single Ladies?" by asking why "he" needs to "put a ring on it" in this universe, only for his two co-hosts to answer his question and leave him with nothing to say five minutes into the episode. This leaves the cast to spend another twenty minutes to create an absurd theory that evolves into the idea that Beyonce is a ComicBook/GreenLantern talking about the madness of Hal Jordan.
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* WithGreatPowerComeGreatPerks: One of the suggestions in "Who's the Best Disney Business Princess?" is to have Elsa, queen of the kingdom of Arendelle and a person with enough power to summon eternal winter, run a successful ice cream shop without having to pay anyone to make the ice cream or serve it, since she can create {{Golem}}s that do her bidding without need for pay.
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* WithGreatPowerComeGreatPerks: WithGreatPowerComesGreatPerks: One of the suggestions in "Who's the Best Disney Business Princess?" is to have Elsa, queen of the kingdom of Arendelle and a person with enough power to summon eternal winter, run a successful ice cream shop without having to pay anyone to make the ice cream or serve it, since she can create {{Golem}}s that do her bidding without need for pay.
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* WithGreatPowersComeGreatPerks: One of the suggestions in "Who's the Best Disney Business Princess?" is to have Elsa, queen of the kingdom of Arendelle and a person with enough power to summon eternal winter, run a successful ice cream shop without having to pay anyone to make the ice cream or serve it, since she can create {{Golem}}s that do her bidding without need for pay.
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* WithGreatPowersComeGreatPerks: WithGreatPowerComeGreatPerks: One of the suggestions in "Who's the Best Disney Business Princess?" is to have Elsa, queen of the kingdom of Arendelle and a person with enough power to summon eternal winter, run a successful ice cream shop without having to pay anyone to make the ice cream or serve it, since she can create {{Golem}}s that do her bidding without need for pay.
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* AllStarCast: [[invoked]] In "Exploiting Television Tropes for Financial and Personal Gain (Feat. Michael Williams and Adam)," the {{Special Guest}}s the Plumbing Boys mention the cast for Michael Williams "life" include Creator/BradPitt, Creator/LilWayne, and UsefulNotes/BillClinton. Oh, and they're all related to him, apparently.
* BondOneLiner: Every time he catches a criminal, Duscher's version of Batman from " makes sure to say "GOT HIM!" as deeply as he can.
* BorrowedCatchphrase: After establishing "GOT HIM!" as a catchphrase for Batman in ""Which Comic Book Hero Would Make the Best Horror Movie Villain? LIVE," Jackson's imitation of [[ComicBook/XMen Professor X]] wipes the mind of one of his students to keep them obedient, before whispering to himself, "Got him."
* {{Brainwashed}}: The cast of ''Plumbing the Death Star'' frequently portray ''ComicBook/XMen'''s Professor Xavier as using {{Telepathy}} to make his students to whatever he wants, with no thoughts of morality. They even accompany it with beeping sounds to show he's treating them like some sort of computer program.
* BorrowedCatchphrase: After establishing "GOT HIM!" as a catchphrase for Batman in ""Which Comic Book Hero Would Make the Best Horror Movie Villain? LIVE," Jackson's imitation of [[ComicBook/XMen Professor X]] wipes the mind of one of his students to keep them obedient, before whispering to himself, "Got him."
* {{Brainwashed}}: The cast of ''Plumbing the Death Star'' frequently portray ''ComicBook/XMen'''s Professor Xavier as using {{Telepathy}} to make his students to whatever he wants, with no thoughts of morality. They even accompany it with beeping sounds to show he's treating them like some sort of computer program.
* CastFromCalories: This is referred to as the "Joel Duscher Bird Theory;" Duscher answers "Why Isn't [[ComicBook/XMen Nightcrawler]] Fat?" by positing that using mutant powers like teleportation would expend energy similar to a physical activity, so Nightcrawler would burn calories by teleportation. Problem is, other mutants like Cyclops and "the one with the bees" don't turn their powers off, which must mean they are just constantly starving.
* {{Catchphrase}}: Duscher's imitation of Franchise/{{Batman}} in "Which Comic Book Hero Would Make the Best Horror Movie Villain? LIVE" gruffly says "GOT HIM!" to himself [[BondOneliner every time he snatches a criminal]].
* {{Catchphrase}}: Duscher's imitation of Franchise/{{Batman}} in "Which Comic Book Hero Would Make the Best Horror Movie Villain? LIVE" gruffly says "GOT HIM!" to himself [[BondOneliner every time he snatches a criminal]].
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* ExploitedTrope: The episode "Exploiting Television Tropes for Financial and Personal Gain? (Feat. Michael Williams and Adam)" is all about how the Plumbing Boys and their two guests would abuse the conventions of television to make their lives easier. Jackson chooses to exploit CoincidentalBroadcast, Duscher chooses SoaplandChristmas, Adam chooses TreasureHuntEpisode, and Michael Williams chooses SpecialGuest.
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* EvilTwin: Duscher gets out the negative consequences of living through a SoaplandChristmas once Adam points out that if he's living in a soap opera world, he could just have all his enemies go after his secret evil twin.
* ExploitedTrope: The episode "Exploiting Television Tropes for Financial and Personal Gain? (Feat. Michael Williams and Adam)" is all about how the Plumbing Boys and their two guests would abuse the conventions of television to make their lives easier. Jackson chooses to exploit CoincidentalBroadcast, Duscher chooses SoaplandChristmas, Adam choosesTreasureHuntEpisode, TreasureMap, and Michael Williams chooses SpecialGuest.
* ExploitedTrope: The episode "Exploiting Television Tropes for Financial and Personal Gain? (Feat. Michael Williams and Adam)" is all about how the Plumbing Boys and their two guests would abuse the conventions of television to make their lives easier. Jackson chooses to exploit CoincidentalBroadcast, Duscher chooses SoaplandChristmas, Adam chooses
* AFoolAndHisNewMoneyAreSoonParted: One of the last two tropes mentioned in "Exploiting Television Tropes for Financial and Personal Gain (Feat. Michael Williams and Adam)" is the tendency for characters to strike oil in their backyard, find money on the bus, or any other crazy way to get rich instantly. However, they conclude that they'd have to lose the money since these type of scenarios tend to involve a form of FriendOrIdolDecision where they either must return the money to it's rightful owner or keep it, wherein the character always chooses to return it.
* FriendOrIdolDecision: The main reason the Plumbing boys decide AFoolAndHisNewMoneyAreSoonParted is difficult to exploit is that if you randomly find money on a bus, the choice to return it is always presented and characters '''always''' have to return it, so they'd only be rich for a brief and insignificant time.
* FunnyAneurysmMoment: [[invoked]] Jackson points out the problem with having a lot of [[SpecialGuest Special Guest Stars]] as relatives: it turns out a lot of your relatives are pedophiles.
* GladYouThoughtOfIt: "Why Isn't Nightcrawler Fat" ends up becoming a discussion of Professor X, where the Plumbing Boys suggest he could easily cover up his obesity by hiding his appearance with telepathy and implanting the idea to increase the food budget in everyone else's mind. He also uses this to get people to do whatever jobs his needs, like planting the idea to be a gardener in a mutant named Evergreen.
* {{Glamour}}: Zammit and Jackson conclude that Professor X, considering he doesn't walk and uses his {{Telepathy}} for everything, must be simply implanting an image of a healthy version of himself into others, while in reality he is morbidly obese and unkempt.
* TheGoodGuysAlwaysWin: When Jackson proposes exploiting CoincidentalBroadcast in "Exploiting Television Tropes for Financial and Personal Gain (Feat. Michael Williams and Adam,)" the others point out that he hasn't also exploited the fact that the protagonist always wins, so he'd probably just lose the various singing and soup-making competitions he ends up entering. On the flip side, this helps out Adam, who's exploit of the TreasureMap trope makes him the bad guy to the [[KidHero kid heroes]] who inevitably will hunt the treasure.
* FunnyAneurysmMoment: [[invoked]] Jackson points out the problem with having a lot of [[SpecialGuest Special Guest Stars]] as relatives: it turns out a lot of your relatives are pedophiles.
* GladYouThoughtOfIt: "Why Isn't Nightcrawler Fat" ends up becoming a discussion of Professor X, where the Plumbing Boys suggest he could easily cover up his obesity by hiding his appearance with telepathy and implanting the idea to increase the food budget in everyone else's mind. He also uses this to get people to do whatever jobs his needs, like planting the idea to be a gardener in a mutant named Evergreen.
* {{Glamour}}: Zammit and Jackson conclude that Professor X, considering he doesn't walk and uses his {{Telepathy}} for everything, must be simply implanting an image of a healthy version of himself into others, while in reality he is morbidly obese and unkempt.
* TheGoodGuysAlwaysWin: When Jackson proposes exploiting CoincidentalBroadcast in "Exploiting Television Tropes for Financial and Personal Gain (Feat. Michael Williams and Adam,)" the others point out that he hasn't also exploited the fact that the protagonist always wins, so he'd probably just lose the various singing and soup-making competitions he ends up entering. On the flip side, this helps out Adam, who's exploit of the TreasureMap trope makes him the bad guy to the [[KidHero kid heroes]] who inevitably will hunt the treasure.
* HeroicBuild: One of the key reasons "Why Isn't Nightcrawler Fat" exists is that there are no conventionally fat members of the ComicBook/XMen even if most of them have powers with no relation to physical exertion, yet they all look like models and bodybuilders.
* ImmuneToDrugs: Realizing that his HealingFactor prevents any type of drug from taking effect, Wolverine's cigarette smoking takes over the conversation for a bit of "Why Isn't Nightcrawler Fat?"
* JobStealingRobot: A fantastic variation. One of the problems with Elsa's ice cream business in "Who's the Best Disney Business Princess?" is that none of the money from the shop would go to anyone but her, since she can create ice golems to do any labor she needs without paying them a single dime.
* MadLibsCatchphrase: Every episode opens with, "Welcome to ''Plumbing the Death Star'', where we ask the important questions like [episode title]?"
* MakeAWish: Jackson initially tries to exploit the wishing in ''Film/{{Ted}}'' to make an army, but decides instead to use the variant in ''Film/LiarLiar''. Specifically, he decides to get a factory full of kids, have them each blow out a candle, and make them all wish for Jackson to get diamonds. This fails as soon as one of them wishes for Jackson's death.
* MundaneUtility:The question in "Why Isn't Nightcrawler Fat?" centers around the idea that if Nightcrawler and the other ''ComicBook/XMen'' have these fantastic powers of flight, levitation, and teleportation, why would they ever walk?
* ThePeterPrinciple: "Why Isn't Nightcrawler Fat" devolves into a discussion of why the ''ComicBook/XMen'' are made teachers, pointing out that ComicBook/Wolverine's success with fighting supervillains has no relation to his ability to teach history classes.
* {{Sampling}}: Each episode opens with a small snippet of a song or theme related to the topic at hand. For example, about five seconds of Creator/Beyonce's "Single Ladies" is used in "How Does Dating Work in Beyoncé's Single Ladies?", while the opening of Creator/JohnWilliams's "Hedwig's Theme" for "Is Harry Potter a Good Wizard? (Feat. Sophie Kneebone)."
* SoaplandChristmas: Duscher chooses to exploit the tendency for soap operas to end the winter season Christmas episode with horrible disasters by inviting all his enemies to town for Christmas. Once they're there, his enemies will inevitably end up in jail, suffer an unexpected pregnancy, die in a fire at a school dance, or just die. The others point out that terrible things could happen to Duscher, but he replies that he'll always end up find because StatusQuoIsGod.
* SpecialGuest: Michael Williams suggests exploiting the tendency for characters to have relatives played by celebrities who only appear once. He points out having Lil' Wayne as a distant cousin is great because it means you get a wild adventure with him for the one time he shows up, and he never gets the chance to be an annoying relative since he's too expensive for the studio. Ultimately, Michael's suggestion ends up being the best in the "Exploiting Television Tropes for Financial and Personal Gain (Feat. Michael Williams and Adam)" episode.
* StatusQuoIsGod: One of the reasons Duscher can get away with picking SoaplandChristmas in "Exploiting Television Tropes for Financial and Personal Gain (Feat. Michael Williams and Adam)" is by pointing out he'll always get out of the horrible Christmas events because the writer's will want to get back to a comfortable status quo by the next season.
* StudioAudience: When discussing SpecialGuest Stars, Jackson says "Woo!" in reference to the loud and long applause celebrities get when they guest star on sitcoms.
* SpecialGuest: Michael Williams suggests exploiting the tendency for characters to have relatives played by celebrities who only appear once. He points out having Lil' Wayne as a distant cousin is great because it means you get a wild adventure with him for the one time he shows up, and he never gets the chance to be an annoying relative since he's too expensive for the studio. Ultimately, Michael's suggestion ends up being the best in the "Exploiting Television Tropes for Financial and Personal Gain (Feat. Michael Williams and Adam)" episode.
* StatusQuoIsGod: One of the reasons Duscher can get away with picking SoaplandChristmas in "Exploiting Television Tropes for Financial and Personal Gain (Feat. Michael Williams and Adam)" is by pointing out he'll always get out of the horrible Christmas events because the writer's will want to get back to a comfortable status quo by the next season.
* StudioAudience: When discussing SpecialGuest Stars, Jackson says "Woo!" in reference to the loud and long applause celebrities get when they guest star on sitcoms.
* TreasureMap: Adam's suggestion in "Exploiting Television Tropes for Financial and Personal Gain (Feat. Michael Williams and Adam)" is to use the idea that a person's attic has a secret treasure map to get that treasure, use it to buy more land, get the maps from the houses on his new land, and then keep going so he can obtain a ludicrous fortune.
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* WellIntentionedExtremist: In order to keep the magic of Santa Claus alive, Professor Charles Xavier brainwashes all the adults in the world to randomly give to whatever child Xavier needs them to. Moreover, Xavier also reads the minds of kids with divorced parents and then uses his telepathy to make the parents get back together until the next Christmas, at which point he lets them split apart again because he needs to focus on a gift for this Christmas.
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* WellIntentionedExtremist: In order to keep the magic of Santa Claus alive, Professor Charles Xavier brainwashes all the adults in the world to randomly give to whatever child Xavier needs them to. Moreover, Xavier also reads the minds of kids with divorced parents and then uses his telepathy to make the parents get back together until the next Christmas, at which point he lets them split apart again because he needs to focus on a gift for this Christmas.Christmas.
* WouldHurtAChild: Jackson suggests to Adam in "Exploiting Television Tropes for Financial and Personal Gain (Feat. Michael Williams and Adam)" that the best way to exploit the TreasureMap trope is to let a bunch of kids find the treasure and then just punch them while you take the treasure without having to do any of the hard work.
* WithGreatPowersComeGreatPerks: One of the suggestions in "Who's the Best Disney Business Princess?" is to have Elsa, queen of the kingdom of Arendelle and a person with enough power to summon eternal winter, run a successful ice cream shop without having to pay anyone to make the ice cream or serve it, since she can create {{Golem}}s that do her bidding without need for pay.
* WouldHurtAChild: Jackson suggests to Adam in "Exploiting Television Tropes for Financial and Personal Gain (Feat. Michael Williams and Adam)" that the best way to exploit the TreasureMap trope is to let a bunch of kids find the treasure and then just punch them while you take the treasure without having to do any of the hard work.
* WithGreatPowersComeGreatPerks: One of the suggestions in "Who's the Best Disney Business Princess?" is to have Elsa, queen of the kingdom of Arendelle and a person with enough power to summon eternal winter, run a successful ice cream shop without having to pay anyone to make the ice cream or serve it, since she can create {{Golem}}s that do her bidding without need for pay.
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-->''Support my socialist Christmas, Adam.''
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* GreenChristmas: The main objection to letting Ronald McDonald become Santa Claus is that he'd ruin Christmas by turning it into McDonalds's Day and only giving children Happy Meals instead of actual presents.
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* GreenChristmas: The main objection to letting Ronald McDonald [=McDonald=] become Santa Claus is that he'd ruin Christmas by turning it into McDonalds's [=McDonalds's=] Day and only giving children Happy Meals instead of actual presents.
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* IronicEcho: Adam points out one of Zammit's suggestions in "Which Fictional Character Would Make a Better Santa Claus?" involves redistribution of wealth and says "I knew this was a socialist podcast;" moments later, Adam suggests using Ronald McDonald and the millions of McDonalds to take over for Santa and his elves, at which point Zammit complains that this is capitalizing Christmas and says "I knew this was a capitalist podcast."
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* IronicEcho: Adam points out one of Zammit's suggestions in "Which Fictional Character Would Make a Better Santa Claus?" involves redistribution of wealth and says "I knew this was a socialist podcast;" moments later, Adam suggests using Ronald McDonald [=McDonald=] and the millions of McDonalds to take over for Santa and his elves, at which point Zammit complains that this is capitalizing Christmas and says "I knew this was a capitalist podcast."
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** In Ronald McDonald's version of Christmas, the Hamburglar takes over for Krampus and kidnaps the bad kids.
** In ComicBook/Superman's version of Christmas, Batman's dark and brutal tactics make him a good candidate for Santa.
* MagicalClown: Ronald McDonald gets some points in "Which Fictional Character Would Make a Better Santa Claus?" for being sort of a magician, but they point out that most of magic is fabricated by the corporation he works for, who would commercialize the holiday and ruin the Christmas magic Santa Claus represented.
** In ComicBook/Superman's version of Christmas, Batman's dark and brutal tactics make him a good candidate for Santa.
* MagicalClown: Ronald McDonald gets some points in "Which Fictional Character Would Make a Better Santa Claus?" for being sort of a magician, but they point out that most of magic is fabricated by the corporation he works for, who would commercialize the holiday and ruin the Christmas magic Santa Claus represented.
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** In Ronald McDonald's [=McDonald's=] version of Christmas, the Hamburglar takes over for Krampus and kidnaps the bad kids.
** InComicBook/Superman's ComicBook/{{Superman}}'s version of Christmas, Batman's dark and brutal tactics make him a good candidate for Santa.
* MagicalClown: RonaldMcDonald [=McDonald=] gets some points in "Which Fictional Character Would Make a Better Santa Claus?" for being sort of a magician, but they point out that most of magic is fabricated by the corporation he works for, who would commercialize the holiday and ruin the Christmas magic Santa Claus represented.
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* MagicalClown: Ronald
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* SubbingForSanta: "Which Fictional Character Would Make a Better Santa Claus? (Feat. Adam)" centers around the idea that Santa Claus has died and some fictional character (whether it be Ronald McDonald or the entirety of the ComicBook/XMen) has taken over the role with none of his powers.
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* SubbingForSanta: "Which Fictional Character Would Make a Better Santa Claus? (Feat. Adam)" centers around the idea that Santa Claus has died and some fictional character (whether it be Ronald McDonald [=McDonald=] or the entirety of the ComicBook/XMen) has taken over the role with none of his powers.
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* Which Fictional Character Would Make a Better Santa Claus? (Feat. Adam)
* What Did We Think of Rogue 1: A Star War Story?
* What Do We Think Is Going To Happen In Rogue 1?
* Which Comic Book Hero Would Make the Best Horror Movie Villain? LIVE
* What Did We Think of Rogue 1: A Star War Story?
* What Do We Think Is Going To Happen In Rogue 1?
* Which Comic Book Hero Would Make the Best Horror Movie Villain? LIVE
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* AlmightyIdiot: Sauron, the Dark Lord of Middle Earth, is portrayed as this in "Are There Better Ways to Invade Middle Earth?", having become so broken a delusional without his Ring of Power that even Saruman can't talk him into an actual strategy. Instead, Sauron is reduced to simply screaming about throwing armies straight at his enemies.
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* AlmightyIdiot: [[Literature/LordOfTheRings Sauron, the Dark Lord of Middle Earth, Earth]], is portrayed as this in "Are There Better Ways to Invade Middle Earth?", having become so broken a delusional without his Ring of Power that even Saruman can't talk him into an actual strategy. Instead, Sauron is reduced to simply screaming about throwing armies straight at his enemies.
* BadSanta:
** The Plumbing Boys conclude in "Which Fictional Character Would Make a Better Santa Claus? (Feat. Adam)" that Professor Xavier would eventually brainwash kids to want their parents to donate to Xavier's School for Gifted Youngster for Christmas. This has the result of making the kids legitimately happy in their messed up heads, but eventually they would look back and be sincerely disturbed by their strange childhood obsession.
** Near the end of the Christmas episode, the Plumbing Boys begin to suggest incredibly violent Santas including the ''Film/{{Predator}}'', the Xenomorph from ''Film/{{Alien}}'', the planet-eating ComicBook/{{Galactus}}, the serial killing ComicBook/ThePunisher, and the demonic ComicBook/GhostRider.
** The Plumbing Boys conclude in "Which Fictional Character Would Make a Better Santa Claus? (Feat. Adam)" that Professor Xavier would eventually brainwash kids to want their parents to donate to Xavier's School for Gifted Youngster for Christmas. This has the result of making the kids legitimately happy in their messed up heads, but eventually they would look back and be sincerely disturbed by their strange childhood obsession.
** Near the end of the Christmas episode, the Plumbing Boys begin to suggest incredibly violent Santas including the ''Film/{{Predator}}'', the Xenomorph from ''Film/{{Alien}}'', the planet-eating ComicBook/{{Galactus}}, the serial killing ComicBook/ThePunisher, and the demonic ComicBook/GhostRider.
* CatScare: A negative of having Aquaman as a horror movie villain is that any time he popped out of the shadows after a long bit of tension his victim would immediately have a sense of relief after seeing a beautiful blond man in a silly orange outfit.
* ChummyCommies: Zammit suggests the monsters of ''Film/MonstersInc'' would excellently take over for Santa because they could steal whatever presents they needed and give them to the children who need it most; Adam realizes this is basically redistribution of wealth and exclaims that he "knew this was a socialist podcast from the beginning."
-->''Support my socialist Christmas, Adam.''
* CoincidentalBroadcast: Jackson chooses this in "Exploiting Television Tropes for Financial and Personal Gain? (Feat. Michael Williams and Adam)" because he could carry around a pocket TV, wonder aloud whether he could ever find something, and then look at his TV to find an advertisement for some competition where the reward is exactly what he needs. Duscher points out that at that point Jackson would have to actually ''win'' the competition, and even if it was a podcasting competition, there are still plenty of people to beat out Jackson at it.
* ChummyCommies: Zammit suggests the monsters of ''Film/MonstersInc'' would excellently take over for Santa because they could steal whatever presents they needed and give them to the children who need it most; Adam realizes this is basically redistribution of wealth and exclaims that he "knew this was a socialist podcast from the beginning."
-->''Support my socialist Christmas, Adam.''
* CoincidentalBroadcast: Jackson chooses this in "Exploiting Television Tropes for Financial and Personal Gain? (Feat. Michael Williams and Adam)" because he could carry around a pocket TV, wonder aloud whether he could ever find something, and then look at his TV to find an advertisement for some competition where the reward is exactly what he needs. Duscher points out that at that point Jackson would have to actually ''win'' the competition, and even if it was a podcasting competition, there are still plenty of people to beat out Jackson at it.
* ExploitedTrope: The episode "Exploiting Television Tropes for Financial and Personal Gain? (Feat. Michael Williams and Adam)" is all about how the Plumbing Boys and their two guests would abuse the conventions of television to make their lives easier. Jackson chooses to exploit CoincidentalBroadcast, Duscher chooses SoaplandChristmas, Adam chooses TreasureHuntEpisode, and Michael Williams chooses SpecialGuest.
* ExposedToTheElements: Having survived naked in the Himalayas all his life, the Abominable Snowman would have no trouble replacing Santa and relocating to his facility in the North Pole.
* FakeMemories: One of Professor Xavier's methods of replacing Santa Claus is to telepathically induce memories of a present into the minds of every good child on earth and then adding another memory of losing it a few days after Christmas. This causes problems when kids begin trying to compare notes with friends, who notice they all lost presents at the same time.
* ExposedToTheElements: Having survived naked in the Himalayas all his life, the Abominable Snowman would have no trouble replacing Santa and relocating to his facility in the North Pole.
* FakeMemories: One of Professor Xavier's methods of replacing Santa Claus is to telepathically induce memories of a present into the minds of every good child on earth and then adding another memory of losing it a few days after Christmas. This causes problems when kids begin trying to compare notes with friends, who notice they all lost presents at the same time.
* GreenChristmas: The main objection to letting Ronald McDonald become Santa Claus is that he'd ruin Christmas by turning it into McDonalds's Day and only giving children Happy Meals instead of actual presents.
* HalfHumanHybrid: The reason Aquaman is proposed in "Which Comic Book Hero Would Make the Best Horror Movie Villain? LIVE" is that his origin as the child of an affair between a nonhuman sea creature and a fisherman raised in a lighthouse make him sound like some sort of alien monster.
* HiveMind: Professor Charles Xavier of ''ComicBook/XMen'' gets voted as the most horrific superhero because he takes control of the minds of all of his students regularly as part of his lessons. Any telepath who would come to his school would quickly find the entire class staring at them as one entity, as Xavier asks the telepath to allow him to take control. This would also allow him to force students into battle, prevent them from leaving, and erase memories of any of Xavier's wrongdoings.
* IronicEcho: Adam points out one of Zammit's suggestions in "Which Fictional Character Would Make a Better Santa Claus?" involves redistribution of wealth and says "I knew this was a socialist podcast;" moments later, Adam suggests using Ronald McDonald and the millions of McDonalds to take over for Santa and his elves, at which point Zammit complains that this is capitalizing Christmas and says "I knew this was a capitalist podcast."
* JustLikeRobinHood: Two examples from "Which Comic Book Hero Would Make the Best Horror Movie Villain? LIVE."
** Among many, many attempts Professor Xavier makes to take over the mantle of Santa Claus, one of them is to brainwash the rich so that they pay for the gifts of all the children in the world.
** The monsters from ''Film/MonstersInc'' could use their access to any door to rob whatever gifts children would want. Adam then [[DefiedTrope denies]] this would be charitable by saying "it's less Robin Hood than just hood."
* KillerRabbit: Krypto the Super Dog may be a cute white puppy, but he's allow an invincible alien monster with the strength of locomotive and the speed of a bullet who has no capacity to reason with any who incur his wrath. There's a reason he gets voted the third most horrifying hero in "Which Comic Book Hero Would Make the Best Horror Movie Villain?"
* IronicEcho: Adam points out one of Zammit's suggestions in "Which Fictional Character Would Make a Better Santa Claus?" involves redistribution of wealth and says "I knew this was a socialist podcast;" moments later, Adam suggests using Ronald McDonald and the millions of McDonalds to take over for Santa and his elves, at which point Zammit complains that this is capitalizing Christmas and says "I knew this was a capitalist podcast."
* JustLikeRobinHood: Two examples from "Which Comic Book Hero Would Make the Best Horror Movie Villain? LIVE."
** Among many, many attempts Professor Xavier makes to take over the mantle of Santa Claus, one of them is to brainwash the rich so that they pay for the gifts of all the children in the world.
** The monsters from ''Film/MonstersInc'' could use their access to any door to rob whatever gifts children would want. Adam then [[DefiedTrope denies]] this would be charitable by saying "it's less Robin Hood than just hood."
* KillerRabbit: Krypto the Super Dog may be a cute white puppy, but he's allow an invincible alien monster with the strength of locomotive and the speed of a bullet who has no capacity to reason with any who incur his wrath. There's a reason he gets voted the third most horrifying hero in "Which Comic Book Hero Would Make the Best Horror Movie Villain?"
* TheKrampus:
** In Ronald McDonald's version of Christmas, the Hamburglar takes over for Krampus and kidnaps the bad kids.
** In ComicBook/Superman's version of Christmas, Batman's dark and brutal tactics make him a good candidate for Santa.
* MagicalClown: Ronald McDonald gets some points in "Which Fictional Character Would Make a Better Santa Claus?" for being sort of a magician, but they point out that most of magic is fabricated by the corporation he works for, who would commercialize the holiday and ruin the Christmas magic Santa Claus represented.
** In Ronald McDonald's version of Christmas, the Hamburglar takes over for Krampus and kidnaps the bad kids.
** In ComicBook/Superman's version of Christmas, Batman's dark and brutal tactics make him a good candidate for Santa.
* MagicalClown: Ronald McDonald gets some points in "Which Fictional Character Would Make a Better Santa Claus?" for being sort of a magician, but they point out that most of magic is fabricated by the corporation he works for, who would commercialize the holiday and ruin the Christmas magic Santa Claus represented.
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* NominalHero: Ever since "Is Xavier a Jerk?", the Plumbing Boys have consistently portrayed Professor Xavier of the ComicBook/XMen while playing up his manipulative and callous side, despite his role as a BigGood.
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* TragicKeepsake: The answer of "Why Does Donkey Kong Wear a Tie?" is that he keeps it to remember the slavery and torture Mario put his grandfather through in the 1985 ''VideoGame/DonkeyKong'' game.
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* ShroudedInMyth: One of the metrics by which characters are ranked in "Which Fictional Character Would Make a Better Santa Claus? (Feat. Adam)" is "mysticism," or how discrete and mysterious the new Santa Clauses are. Naturally, this makes the Abominable Snowman a highly appealing choice.
* SubbingForSanta: "Which Fictional Character Would Make a Better Santa Claus? (Feat. Adam)" centers around the idea that Santa Claus has died and some fictional character (whether it be Ronald McDonald or the entirety of the ComicBook/XMen) has taken over the role with none of his powers.
* TragicKeepsake: The answer of "Why Does Donkey Kong Wear a Tie?" is that he keeps it to remember the slavery and torture Mario put his grandfather through in the 1985 ''VideoGame/DonkeyKong''game.game.
* ViceCity: The Plumbing Boys are convinced that all jobs available in Franchise/{{Batman}}'s hometown, Gotham City, must either be related to crimes or law enforcement, with nothing else available. They go so far to suggest that instead of a job fair, that schools probably just invite the Joker and Batman's other villains to introduce students to their gangs.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: In order to keep the magic of Santa Claus alive, Professor Charles Xavier brainwashes all the adults in the world to randomly give to whatever child Xavier needs them to. Moreover, Xavier also reads the minds of kids with divorced parents and then uses his telepathy to make the parents get back together until the next Christmas, at which point he lets them split apart again because he needs to focus on a gift for this Christmas.
* SubbingForSanta: "Which Fictional Character Would Make a Better Santa Claus? (Feat. Adam)" centers around the idea that Santa Claus has died and some fictional character (whether it be Ronald McDonald or the entirety of the ComicBook/XMen) has taken over the role with none of his powers.
* TragicKeepsake: The answer of "Why Does Donkey Kong Wear a Tie?" is that he keeps it to remember the slavery and torture Mario put his grandfather through in the 1985 ''VideoGame/DonkeyKong''
* ViceCity: The Plumbing Boys are convinced that all jobs available in Franchise/{{Batman}}'s hometown, Gotham City, must either be related to crimes or law enforcement, with nothing else available. They go so far to suggest that instead of a job fair, that schools probably just invite the Joker and Batman's other villains to introduce students to their gangs.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: In order to keep the magic of Santa Claus alive, Professor Charles Xavier brainwashes all the adults in the world to randomly give to whatever child Xavier needs them to. Moreover, Xavier also reads the minds of kids with divorced parents and then uses his telepathy to make the parents get back together until the next Christmas, at which point he lets them split apart again because he needs to focus on a gift for this Christmas.
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* Exploiting Television Tropes for Financial and Personal Gain (Feat. Michael Williams and Adam)
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* KillTheGod: If "Why Did God Make Bruce Almighty?" is anything to go by, Morgan Freeman's character in ''Film/BruceAlmighty'' isn't actually God, but someone who was temporarily given God's power (like Bruce) and used it to kill and replace God. This is how the Boys justify the more questionable action of Freeman's character in the film.
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* NoEndorHolocaust: A frequent topic of discussion, like in "Why Did God Make Bruce Almighty," where they conclude that Jim Carrey's character from that ''Bruce Almighty'' is as evil as Hitler for erasing stars to make his night more romantic. He could have erased entire planetary civilizations just on a whim.
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* {{Sequelitis}}: [[invoked]] Even before seeing the first ''Film/FantasticBeastsAndWhereToFindThem'' film, Duscher is adamant that the fourth film will be the worst with nothing to go on but his gut instincts.
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* What Did We Think of the Avengers 2 AoU? (Feat. Mr Sunday Movies & Alli)
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* What Did We Think of the Avengers 2 AoU? [=AoU=]? (Feat. Mr Sunday Movies & Alli)
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''[[http://www.sanspantsradio.com/plumbing-the-death-star/ Plumbing the Death Star]]'' is a Podcast run by the Melbourne-based Sanspaints Radio regarding FridgeLogic in popular films, comic books, video games and anything else that comes to the hosts' minds. Based around RuleOfFunny more than anything else, the show hardly takes itself too seriously, and prefers to take the most ridiculous tangent possible than to seriously question the science of whatever they discuss. The show is hosted by Jackson Baly, Joel Zammit, and the aptly named Joel Duscher, and frequently makes use of guests like Mr. Sunday Movies and ''Tabletop/DungeonsAndDragons'' expert Adam.
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''[[http://www.sanspantsradio.com/plumbing-the-death-star/ Plumbing the Death Star]]'' is a Podcast run by the Melbourne-based Sanspaints Radio regarding FridgeLogic in popular films, comic books, video games and anything else that comes to the hosts' minds. Based around RuleOfFunny more than anything else, the show hardly takes itself too seriously, and prefers to take the most ridiculous tangent possible than to seriously question the science of whatever they discuss. The show is hosted by Jackson Baly, Joel Zammit, and the aptly named Joel Duscher, often designated "The Plumbing Boys." and frequently makes use of guests like Mr. Sunday Movies and ''Tabletop/DungeonsAndDragons'' expert Adam.Adam.
The podcast also has two sub-series also has two sub-series: ''Plumbing the Death Eaters'', which exclusively deals with ''Franchise/HarryPotter'', and ''Plumbing the Death Star Presents Movie Maintenance'', which eventually branched off into its own show with a rotating cast separate from just the ''Plumbing the Death Star'''s cast.
[[folder:Episode Topics]]
* How Would You Survive in Skyrim if You Weren't the Main Character? (Feat. Adam)
* How Would You Survive in Skyrim? (Feat. Adam)
* What Did We Think of Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them? (feat. Adam and Ryder)
* What Do We Think Is Going To Happen In Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them? (Feat. Adam)
* If Australia Had a Wizarding School How Would it Function? (Feat. Adam)
* Which Fictional Universe Has the Worst Moral Message? (Feat. Follow)
* Cars What?!
* Which Fictional Universe Offers the Worst Education? LIVE from Sydney!
* What Do the Public Know About the Avengers Initiative? (Feat. Mr SundayMovies)
* If You Were a Superman Villain What Would Your Gimmick Be? (Feat. Mr SundayMovies)
* Which One of the Plumbing Boys Would Best Be Consumed by the Symbiote?
* How Hard is it to Grow up in the Pokémon Universe? (Feat. Mr Sunday Movies)
* How Would You Survive in a Fantasy World? (Feat. Adam)
* What Alignment is a Baby? (Feat. Adam)
* How Does a Centaur Work? (Feat. Adam)
* How Entertaining Would the Hunger Games be to Watch?
* How Would You Use the Suicide Squad? (Feat. Mr Sunday Movies)
* How Would You Survive A Groundhog Day?
* Why Does the Toothfairy Collect Teeth?
* What Did We Think of Suicide Squad?
* What Do We Think Is Going To Happen In Suicide Squad?
* Why Does Donkey Kong Wear a Tie?
* How Did P!nk's House Get So Full of Evil Clowns?
* What is Your Ideal Fallout Vault? (Feat. Adam)
* What Would be the Worst Fallout Vault to Live In? (Feat. Adam)
* How Do You Train a James Bond?
* Which One of the Plumbing Boys Would Make a Better Lord Voldemort and Why is it Obviously Jackson B. Baly?
* Which One of the Plumbing Boys Would Make a Better Dumbledore and Why is it Joel Zammit?
* Which One of the Plumbing Boys Would Make a Better Boy Who Lived and Why is it Joel Duscher?
* Is Harry Potter a Good Wizard? (Feat. Sophie Kneebone)
* Why are Wizards So Ignorant?
* If You Were a Spider-Man Villain What Would Your Gimmick Be? + Dinosaur Park #2 Subway, Steaks and Argentinian Children
* What Did We Think of X-Men: Apocalypse (Feat. Alli and Edgoose)
* What Do We Think Will Happen in X-Men: Apocalypse
* Are Muppets Second Class Citizens?
* How Did the Mystery Inc Gang Keep Themselves Afloat Financially? (Feat. Michael Williams)
* What Happened to the Mushroom Kingdom?
* What Did We Think of Captain America: Civil War? (Feat. Tessa Stickland)
* What Do We Think Will Happen in Captain America: Civil War?
* How Does Aquaman Feel About Global Warming?
* How Would you Deal with the Superhuman Registration Act?
* Whose Side Are You on in the Civil War (Comics)?
* How Does Dating Work in Beyoncé's Single Ladies?
* What are the Consequences of Inside Out? (Feat. Michael Williams)
* What Did We Think of Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice? (Feat. Adam)
* What Do We Think is Going to Happen in Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice? (Feat. George Dima)
* Why Haven't We Done a Vs Episode LIVE?!
* Are Mutants a Problem?
* How Would You Survive the Game of Thrones?
* What Would You Do About the Mutant Problem?
* Is Being a Werewolf a Hassle? (Feat. Michael Shanks)
* Which 80s Horror Villain Would Make the Best Boyfriend?
* Why Hasn't Professor X's School for Xtraordinary Children Been Shut Down?
* Smurfs What?! (Feat. Michael Williams)
* If You Could Have Any Super Power What Would it Be?
* Which Avengers Would Make the Best Friend? (Feat. The Video Shop Podcast)
* Which Super Smash Bro would Make the Best Step Dad All-Stars Edition
* The Implications of Regeneration in Dr Who (Feat. The Video Shop Podcast)
* How Would Spider-Man Deal with Being Middle Aged? (Feat. Edgoose)
* Best Fictional Christmas Universe
* Why are Lightsabers Only for Force Users?
* What did you think of the Force Awakens (SPOILERS)
* Why is the Death Star Spherical?
* Would you Join the Rebel Alliance (LIVE)?
* What Do You Think's Gonna Happen in the New Star Wars Film? (Feat. Steele Saunders)
* Why Doesn't Rogue Use Protection?
* Dinosaur Park 2: The Lost Park
* Is Dr Dolittle's Life a Living Hell? (Feat. Mr Sunday Movies)
* How Would you Cope Being Furniture? (Feat. Mr Sunday Movies)
* Are There Better Ways to Invade Middle Earth? (Feat. Gabe)
* Which Super Smash Bro would Make the Best Step-Dad? (Feat. Edgoose)
* Which Horror Movie Could you Resolve with Non-Violence? (Feat. Zoe)
* How Would You Take Down the Bat Man?
* Which Superhero is the Best Lover?
* What is the Worst Fictional Universe Again LIVE!?
* Why was Johnny Cage in Mortal Kombat?
* Professor Charles Xavier's Crazy Summer
* Which is the Worst Fictional Afterlife? (Feat. Mr Sunday Movies)
* Would the Avengers be Better off Without the Hulk?
* The Consequences of Being Your Own Dad
* The Odds of Kal-El Landing on Kent Farm
* Why Don't Wizards Rule the World? (Feat. Alli)
* Why Haven't We Done a Versus Episode?
* What is the Best Fictional Universe to Live In Again?
* The Worst Fictional Universe to Live In
* Is Gotham better than Metropolis? (Feat. Mr Sunday Movies)
* Why is Robocop not a Volunteer Program?
* Why doesn't Batman Kill the Joker?
* Are Xenomorphs a Bad Weapon? (Feat. Mr Sunday Movies)
* The Concerns of Fictional HR Departments (Feat. Ray Lawrence)
* What is Your Batman Villain Theme?
* Why Doesn't Clark Kent Get a Job? (Feat. Mr Sunday Movies)
* Is John Hammond a Bad Boss?
* Who is the best F*R*I*E*N*D? (Feat. Mr Sunday Movies)
* How Radioactive is Spiderman? (Feat. The Weekly Planet)
* When Bad Guys Go Good (Feat. Mr Sunday Movies)
* Does Wonka Know How to Run a Business? (Feat. The Weekly Planet)
* Why is Batman in JLA? (Feat. Nick Mason
* Is the Death Star a Good Weapon?
* Is Xavier a Jerk? (Feat. Mr Sunday Movies)
* When Can You Feed a Mogwai?
* What Did We Think of the Avengers 2 AoU? (Feat. Mr Sunday Movies & Alli)
* How did the Hutts Rise to Power? (Feat. Mr Sunday Movies)
* What are the Ramifications of Liar Liar?
* What's Gonna Happen in the Avengers? (Feat. Mr Sunday Movies)
* Is Daredevil a Better Batman Than Batman? (Feat. Mr Sunday Movies)
* The Problems of Being Frozen in Time (Feat. Mr Sunday Movies)
* Ethical Concerns of Meta Human Prisons (Feat. Mr Sunday Movies)
* How Did New York Cope Before the Ghostbusters?
* Why isn't Nightcrawler Fat?
* What Happened to the Spidermen Program? (Feat. Mr Sunday Movies)
* Who is Peter Quill's Father?
* Why Do Siths Take Apprentices?
* Why is Hawkeye in the Avengers? (Feat. Mr Sunday Movies)
* The Pros and Cons of Dating Monsters
* Is the Penguin the True Hero of Gotham?
* Who's the Best Disney Business Princess?
* How Does Thor Get a Haircut?
* How is Everyone Ok with the Truman Show?
* When Does Sentience Begin in Toy Story?
* Midi-Chlorian Testing and You
* Joel Duscher's Christmas Miracles
* A Christmas Heist
* Why Hasn't Hogwarts Been Shut Down Yet?
* What Happens After Hogwarts?
* Our Quibbles with Squibs
* Who Thought Quidditch was a Good Idea?
* The Ethical Dilemmas of Azkaban
* Why are the Weasleys Poor?
* Where Would the Sorting Hat Put You?
* Which Horror Villain Would You Fight? (Feat. Zoe)
* What is the Best Fictional Universe to Live in?
* Why does Superman find Lois Attractive?
* Why was the Matrix Programmed Poorly?
* Is Obi-Wan Kenobi Incompetent?
* Why is Hyrule so Easy to Conquer?
* Why Does James Bond Still Have a Job?
* Is Doc Brown an Idiot?
* Why Did God Make Bruce Almighty?
* Would Batman's Parents be Proud of him?
* What are the Consequences of Mario Kart?
* Why Does Skynet Even Try?
* Why is Xavier in a Wheel Chair?
* Are Horror Movie Villains Scary? (Feat. Zoe)
* The Most Effective use of Time Travel
* Is Batman Really a Hero?
* Problems of Assembling The Avengers
* Munchkins and the Wizard of Oz
* Imperial Army Part II - The Cleanse
* Comic Book Heroes and Petty Crime
* Is Jonathan Kent a Terrible Father?
* Does Jon Hammond Understand Theme Parks?
* Is Madrox just the worst for the MU?
* Is the Imperial Army Racist?
[[/folder]]
The podcast also has two sub-series also has two sub-series: ''Plumbing the Death Eaters'', which exclusively deals with ''Franchise/HarryPotter'', and ''Plumbing the Death Star Presents Movie Maintenance'', which eventually branched off into its own show with a rotating cast separate from just the ''Plumbing the Death Star'''s cast.
[[folder:Episode Topics]]
* How Would You Survive in Skyrim if You Weren't the Main Character? (Feat. Adam)
* How Would You Survive in Skyrim? (Feat. Adam)
* What Did We Think of Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them? (feat. Adam and Ryder)
* What Do We Think Is Going To Happen In Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them? (Feat. Adam)
* If Australia Had a Wizarding School How Would it Function? (Feat. Adam)
* Which Fictional Universe Has the Worst Moral Message? (Feat. Follow)
* Cars What?!
* Which Fictional Universe Offers the Worst Education? LIVE from Sydney!
* What Do the Public Know About the Avengers Initiative? (Feat. Mr SundayMovies)
* If You Were a Superman Villain What Would Your Gimmick Be? (Feat. Mr SundayMovies)
* Which One of the Plumbing Boys Would Best Be Consumed by the Symbiote?
* How Hard is it to Grow up in the Pokémon Universe? (Feat. Mr Sunday Movies)
* How Would You Survive in a Fantasy World? (Feat. Adam)
* What Alignment is a Baby? (Feat. Adam)
* How Does a Centaur Work? (Feat. Adam)
* How Entertaining Would the Hunger Games be to Watch?
* How Would You Use the Suicide Squad? (Feat. Mr Sunday Movies)
* How Would You Survive A Groundhog Day?
* Why Does the Toothfairy Collect Teeth?
* What Did We Think of Suicide Squad?
* What Do We Think Is Going To Happen In Suicide Squad?
* Why Does Donkey Kong Wear a Tie?
* How Did P!nk's House Get So Full of Evil Clowns?
* What is Your Ideal Fallout Vault? (Feat. Adam)
* What Would be the Worst Fallout Vault to Live In? (Feat. Adam)
* How Do You Train a James Bond?
* Which One of the Plumbing Boys Would Make a Better Lord Voldemort and Why is it Obviously Jackson B. Baly?
* Which One of the Plumbing Boys Would Make a Better Dumbledore and Why is it Joel Zammit?
* Which One of the Plumbing Boys Would Make a Better Boy Who Lived and Why is it Joel Duscher?
* Is Harry Potter a Good Wizard? (Feat. Sophie Kneebone)
* Why are Wizards So Ignorant?
* If You Were a Spider-Man Villain What Would Your Gimmick Be? + Dinosaur Park #2 Subway, Steaks and Argentinian Children
* What Did We Think of X-Men: Apocalypse (Feat. Alli and Edgoose)
* What Do We Think Will Happen in X-Men: Apocalypse
* Are Muppets Second Class Citizens?
* How Did the Mystery Inc Gang Keep Themselves Afloat Financially? (Feat. Michael Williams)
* What Happened to the Mushroom Kingdom?
* What Did We Think of Captain America: Civil War? (Feat. Tessa Stickland)
* What Do We Think Will Happen in Captain America: Civil War?
* How Does Aquaman Feel About Global Warming?
* How Would you Deal with the Superhuman Registration Act?
* Whose Side Are You on in the Civil War (Comics)?
* How Does Dating Work in Beyoncé's Single Ladies?
* What are the Consequences of Inside Out? (Feat. Michael Williams)
* What Did We Think of Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice? (Feat. Adam)
* What Do We Think is Going to Happen in Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice? (Feat. George Dima)
* Why Haven't We Done a Vs Episode LIVE?!
* Are Mutants a Problem?
* How Would You Survive the Game of Thrones?
* What Would You Do About the Mutant Problem?
* Is Being a Werewolf a Hassle? (Feat. Michael Shanks)
* Which 80s Horror Villain Would Make the Best Boyfriend?
* Why Hasn't Professor X's School for Xtraordinary Children Been Shut Down?
* Smurfs What?! (Feat. Michael Williams)
* If You Could Have Any Super Power What Would it Be?
* Which Avengers Would Make the Best Friend? (Feat. The Video Shop Podcast)
* Which Super Smash Bro would Make the Best Step Dad All-Stars Edition
* The Implications of Regeneration in Dr Who (Feat. The Video Shop Podcast)
* How Would Spider-Man Deal with Being Middle Aged? (Feat. Edgoose)
* Best Fictional Christmas Universe
* Why are Lightsabers Only for Force Users?
* What did you think of the Force Awakens (SPOILERS)
* Why is the Death Star Spherical?
* Would you Join the Rebel Alliance (LIVE)?
* What Do You Think's Gonna Happen in the New Star Wars Film? (Feat. Steele Saunders)
* Why Doesn't Rogue Use Protection?
* Dinosaur Park 2: The Lost Park
* Is Dr Dolittle's Life a Living Hell? (Feat. Mr Sunday Movies)
* How Would you Cope Being Furniture? (Feat. Mr Sunday Movies)
* Are There Better Ways to Invade Middle Earth? (Feat. Gabe)
* Which Super Smash Bro would Make the Best Step-Dad? (Feat. Edgoose)
* Which Horror Movie Could you Resolve with Non-Violence? (Feat. Zoe)
* How Would You Take Down the Bat Man?
* Which Superhero is the Best Lover?
* What is the Worst Fictional Universe Again LIVE!?
* Why was Johnny Cage in Mortal Kombat?
* Professor Charles Xavier's Crazy Summer
* Which is the Worst Fictional Afterlife? (Feat. Mr Sunday Movies)
* Would the Avengers be Better off Without the Hulk?
* The Consequences of Being Your Own Dad
* The Odds of Kal-El Landing on Kent Farm
* Why Don't Wizards Rule the World? (Feat. Alli)
* Why Haven't We Done a Versus Episode?
* What is the Best Fictional Universe to Live In Again?
* The Worst Fictional Universe to Live In
* Is Gotham better than Metropolis? (Feat. Mr Sunday Movies)
* Why is Robocop not a Volunteer Program?
* Why doesn't Batman Kill the Joker?
* Are Xenomorphs a Bad Weapon? (Feat. Mr Sunday Movies)
* The Concerns of Fictional HR Departments (Feat. Ray Lawrence)
* What is Your Batman Villain Theme?
* Why Doesn't Clark Kent Get a Job? (Feat. Mr Sunday Movies)
* Is John Hammond a Bad Boss?
* Who is the best F*R*I*E*N*D? (Feat. Mr Sunday Movies)
* How Radioactive is Spiderman? (Feat. The Weekly Planet)
* When Bad Guys Go Good (Feat. Mr Sunday Movies)
* Does Wonka Know How to Run a Business? (Feat. The Weekly Planet)
* Why is Batman in JLA? (Feat. Nick Mason
* Is the Death Star a Good Weapon?
* Is Xavier a Jerk? (Feat. Mr Sunday Movies)
* When Can You Feed a Mogwai?
* What Did We Think of the Avengers 2 AoU? (Feat. Mr Sunday Movies & Alli)
* How did the Hutts Rise to Power? (Feat. Mr Sunday Movies)
* What are the Ramifications of Liar Liar?
* What's Gonna Happen in the Avengers? (Feat. Mr Sunday Movies)
* Is Daredevil a Better Batman Than Batman? (Feat. Mr Sunday Movies)
* The Problems of Being Frozen in Time (Feat. Mr Sunday Movies)
* Ethical Concerns of Meta Human Prisons (Feat. Mr Sunday Movies)
* How Did New York Cope Before the Ghostbusters?
* Why isn't Nightcrawler Fat?
* What Happened to the Spidermen Program? (Feat. Mr Sunday Movies)
* Who is Peter Quill's Father?
* Why Do Siths Take Apprentices?
* Why is Hawkeye in the Avengers? (Feat. Mr Sunday Movies)
* The Pros and Cons of Dating Monsters
* Is the Penguin the True Hero of Gotham?
* Who's the Best Disney Business Princess?
* How Does Thor Get a Haircut?
* How is Everyone Ok with the Truman Show?
* When Does Sentience Begin in Toy Story?
* Midi-Chlorian Testing and You
* Joel Duscher's Christmas Miracles
* A Christmas Heist
* Why Hasn't Hogwarts Been Shut Down Yet?
* What Happens After Hogwarts?
* Our Quibbles with Squibs
* Who Thought Quidditch was a Good Idea?
* The Ethical Dilemmas of Azkaban
* Why are the Weasleys Poor?
* Where Would the Sorting Hat Put You?
* Which Horror Villain Would You Fight? (Feat. Zoe)
* What is the Best Fictional Universe to Live in?
* Why does Superman find Lois Attractive?
* Why was the Matrix Programmed Poorly?
* Is Obi-Wan Kenobi Incompetent?
* Why is Hyrule so Easy to Conquer?
* Why Does James Bond Still Have a Job?
* Is Doc Brown an Idiot?
* Why Did God Make Bruce Almighty?
* Would Batman's Parents be Proud of him?
* What are the Consequences of Mario Kart?
* Why Does Skynet Even Try?
* Why is Xavier in a Wheel Chair?
* Are Horror Movie Villains Scary? (Feat. Zoe)
* The Most Effective use of Time Travel
* Is Batman Really a Hero?
* Problems of Assembling The Avengers
* Munchkins and the Wizard of Oz
* Imperial Army Part II - The Cleanse
* Comic Book Heroes and Petty Crime
* Is Jonathan Kent a Terrible Father?
* Does Jon Hammond Understand Theme Parks?
* Is Madrox just the worst for the MU?
* Is the Imperial Army Racist?
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* FreakyFridayFlip: When discussing ''Film/FreakyFriday'', they assume that in any situation in which people disagree in that universe, they must have a body switch. This initially makes it a candidate in their minds as one of the best fictional universes, as people can switch bodies with others so long as they agree to disagree and each refuse to learn a moral. However, the Boys quickly realize the FridgeHorror of this idea since it means people may start to use this to have children solely to have people to swap bodies with before death.
* GrandTheftMe: The Boys hypothesize that if every disagreement in the ''Freaky Friday'' universe resulted in people switching bodies, people would come to abuse this by having children and forcing them to perform a body switch, allowing immortality for anyone willing to having children with sole purpose of letting them die.
* GrandTheftMe: The Boys hypothesize that if every disagreement in the ''Freaky Friday'' universe resulted in people switching bodies, people would come to abuse this by having children and forcing them to perform a body switch, allowing immortality for anyone willing to having children with sole purpose of letting them die.
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* RefusalOfTheCall: Zammit proposes this as the best way to survive the hostile world of ''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim'': ignore the destiny of the Dragonborn and go hide on the farm. The rest of the cast are quick to point out that if the Dragonborn doesn't finish his quest, the world is destroyed, putting a damper on Zammit's quiet farm life.
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* MonumentalDamage: In "Would the Avengers be Better off Without the Hulk?", Jackson believes that if Thor was in charge of getting rid of the nuke from ''Film/TheAvengers'' he would try to return it to the Pentagon and blow up all of Washington D.C.
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* MonumentalDamage: In "Would the Avengers be Better off Without the Hulk?", Jackson believes that if Thor was in charge of getting rid of the nuke from ''Film/TheAvengers'' ''Film/{{The Avengers|2012}}'' he would try to return it to the Pentagon and blow up all of Washington D.C.
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''[[http://www.sanspantsradio.com/plumbing-the-death-star/ Plumbing the Death Star]]'' is a Podcast run by the Melbourne-based Sanspaints Radio regarding FridgeLogic in popular films, comic books, video games and anything else that comes to the hosts' minds. Based around RuleOfFunny, the show hardly takes itself too seriously, and prefers to take the most ridiculous tangent possible than to seriously question the science of whatever they discuss. The show is hosted by Jackson Baly, Joel Zammit, and the aptly named Joel Duscher, and frequently makes use of guests like Mr. Sunday Movies and ''Tabletop/DungeonsAndDragons'' expert Adam.
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''[[http://www.sanspantsradio.com/plumbing-the-death-star/ Plumbing the Death Star]]'' is a Podcast run by the Melbourne-based Sanspaints Radio regarding FridgeLogic in popular films, comic books, video games and anything else that comes to the hosts' minds. Based around RuleOfFunny, RuleOfFunny more than anything else, the show hardly takes itself too seriously, and prefers to take the most ridiculous tangent possible than to seriously question the science of whatever they discuss. The show is hosted by Jackson Baly, Joel Zammit, and the aptly named Joel Duscher, and frequently makes use of guests like Mr. Sunday Movies and ''Tabletop/DungeonsAndDragons'' expert Adam.
* AmbiguousDisorder: An unexpected conclusion from "Why Donkey Kong Wears a Tie?" is that Franchise/DonkeyKong doesn't wear clothing and doesn't talk (in contrast to others like Funky Kong and Lanky Kong) is that he has a severe mental handicap.
* AlmightyIdiot: Sauron, the Dark Lord of Middle Earth, is portrayed as this in "Are There Better Ways to Invade Middle Earth?", having become so broken a delusional without his Ring of Power that even Saruman can't talk him into an actual strategy. Instead, Sauron is reduced to simply screaming about throwing armies straight at his enemies.
-->''"OOOOORCS!"''
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* ConversedTrope: Essentially, the whole podcast is spent discussing scenarios and conventions of popular culture, especially those from the {{Fantasy}} and {{Superhero}} genres.
* FantasticRacism:
** The first and sixth episodes detail the lack of any alien forces in the Galactic Empires ranks, from ''Film/ANewHope'' to ''Film/ReturnOfTheJedi'', and propose that this came about due to an ethnic cleansing of non-humans throughout the Empire.
** Playing on this is part of guest star Gabe's suggestion for how Sauron could have won the war in ''Film/TheLordOfTheRings''. Instead of relying on wave after wave of Orcs, Sauron could have easily played on the hatred the elves, dwarves, humans and hobbits have with each other to sow discord and tear down the other kingdoms before coming to claim what's left over.
* ForWantOfANail: According to "Why is the Death Star Spherical?", putting a friendlier management on the Death Star and renaming it the "Love Sphere" would make the Stormtroopers more open about the Death Star's structural problems; this would allow the Empire to cover up the exhaust port, allowing them to destroy Alderaan, the Rebellion, and Luke while derailing the entire ''Franchise/StarWars'' saga.
* HalfDressedCartoonAnimal: Justified in "Why Does Donkey Kong Wear a Tie?", where they figure Donkey Kong refuses to wear anything besides a tie because of some AmbiguousDisorder. One the similarly pants-less Diddy Kong is brought up, they brush it off and don't explain it.
** The first and sixth episodes detail the lack of any alien forces in the Galactic Empires ranks, from ''Film/ANewHope'' to ''Film/ReturnOfTheJedi'', and propose that this came about due to an ethnic cleansing of non-humans throughout the Empire.
** Playing on this is part of guest star Gabe's suggestion for how Sauron could have won the war in ''Film/TheLordOfTheRings''. Instead of relying on wave after wave of Orcs, Sauron could have easily played on the hatred the elves, dwarves, humans and hobbits have with each other to sow discord and tear down the other kingdoms before coming to claim what's left over.
* ForWantOfANail: According to "Why is the Death Star Spherical?", putting a friendlier management on the Death Star and renaming it the "Love Sphere" would make the Stormtroopers more open about the Death Star's structural problems; this would allow the Empire to cover up the exhaust port, allowing them to destroy Alderaan, the Rebellion, and Luke while derailing the entire ''Franchise/StarWars'' saga.
* HalfDressedCartoonAnimal: Justified in "Why Does Donkey Kong Wear a Tie?", where they figure Donkey Kong refuses to wear anything besides a tie because of some AmbiguousDisorder. One the similarly pants-less Diddy Kong is brought up, they brush it off and don't explain it.
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* FantasticRacism: The first and sixth episodes detail the lack of any alien forces in the Galactic Empires ranks, from ''Film/ANewHope'' to ''Film/ReturnOfTheJedi'', and propose that this came about due to an ethnic cleansing of non-humans throughout the Empire.
* ForWantOfANail: According to "Why is the Death Star Spherical?", putting a friendlier management on the Death Star and renaming it the "Love Sphere" would make the Stormtroopers more open about the Death Star's structural problems; this would allow the Empire to cover up the exhaust port, allowing them to destroy Alderaan, the Rebellion, and Luke while derailing the entire ''Franchise/StarWars'' saga.
* ManOfSteelWomanOfKleenex: In "Which Superhero is the Best Lover?", Duscher argues the ComicBook/IncredibleHulk would make a great lover and gets laughed off by the rest of the cast when they realize that coitus with Hulk would definitely end with him accidentally ripping you to shreds from sheer strength.
* ForWantOfANail: According to "Why is the Death Star Spherical?", putting a friendlier management on the Death Star and renaming it the "Love Sphere" would make the Stormtroopers more open about the Death Star's structural problems; this would allow the Empire to cover up the exhaust port, allowing them to destroy Alderaan, the Rebellion, and Luke while derailing the entire ''Franchise/StarWars'' saga.
* ManOfSteelWomanOfKleenex: In "Which Superhero is the Best Lover?", Duscher argues the ComicBook/IncredibleHulk would make a great lover and gets laughed off by the rest of the cast when they realize that coitus with Hulk would definitely end with him accidentally ripping you to shreds from sheer strength.
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* FantasticRacism: The first and sixth episodes detail the lack of any alien forces in the Galactic Empires ranks, from ''Film/ANewHope'' to ''Film/ReturnOfTheJedi'', and propose that this came about due to an ethnic cleansing of non-humans throughout the Empire.
* ForWantOfANail: According to "Why is the Death Star Spherical?", putting a friendlier management on the Death Star and renaming it the "Love Sphere" would make the Stormtroopers more open about the Death Star's structural problems; this would allow the Empire to cover up the exhaust port, allowing them to destroy Alderaan, the Rebellion, and Luke while derailing the entire ''Franchise/StarWars'' saga.
* ManOfSteelWomanOfKleenex:ManOfSteelWomanOfKleenex:
** In "Which Superhero is the Best Lover?", Duscher argues the ComicBook/IncredibleHulk would make a great lover and gets laughed off by the rest of the cast when they realize that coitus with Hulk would definitely end with him accidentally ripping you to shreds from sheerstrength.strength.
** The central issue in "Why Doesn't Rogue Use Protection?" is Rogue's inability to have sex due to her mutant powers, though the discussion veers into the problems most of the mutant population and the ComicBook/FantasticFour must have. They conclude that Tony Stark and Reed Richards, with their ridiculous intellect, could simply de-powering collars or full-body suits to prevent superpowers from interfering with coitus.
* ForWantOfANail: According to "Why is the Death Star Spherical?", putting a friendlier management on the Death Star and renaming it the "Love Sphere" would make the Stormtroopers more open about the Death Star's structural problems; this would allow the Empire to cover up the exhaust port, allowing them to destroy Alderaan, the Rebellion, and Luke while derailing the entire ''Franchise/StarWars'' saga.
* ManOfSteelWomanOfKleenex:
** In "Which Superhero is the Best Lover?", Duscher argues the ComicBook/IncredibleHulk would make a great lover and gets laughed off by the rest of the cast when they realize that coitus with Hulk would definitely end with him accidentally ripping you to shreds from sheer
** The central issue in "Why Doesn't Rogue Use Protection?" is Rogue's inability to have sex due to her mutant powers, though the discussion veers into the problems most of the mutant population and the ComicBook/FantasticFour must have. They conclude that Tony Stark and Reed Richards, with their ridiculous intellect, could simply de-powering collars or full-body suits to prevent superpowers from interfering with coitus.
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* OddlyNamedSequel2ElectricBoogaloo: It's proposed in "Would the Avengers be Better off Without the Hulk?" that ''Film/ThorTheDarkWorld'' should have really been named ''Thor 2: ANOTHER'', based on a gag from the first ''Thor'' film.
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* NominalHero: Ever since "Is Xavier a Jerk?", the Plumbing Boys have consistently portrayed Professor Xavier of the ComicBook/XMen while playing up his manipulative and callous side, despite his role as a BigGood.
* OddlyNamedSequel2ElectricBoogaloo: It's proposed in "Would the Avengers be Better off Without the Hulk?" that ''Film/ThorTheDarkWorld'' should have really been named ''Thor 2: ANOTHER'', based on a gag from the first ''Thor''film.film.
* PunchClockVillain: One of the arguments in "Is the Penguin the True Hero of Gotham?" is that the Penguin is more heroic than Batman because he offers a secure job market for the population of Gotham, since half the city's population (by Zammit's estimation) works as a criminal.
* TragicKeepsake: The answer of "Why Does Donkey Kong Wear a Tie?" is that he keeps it to remember the slavery and torture Mario put his grandfather through in the 1985 ''VideoGame/DonkeyKong'' game.
* OddlyNamedSequel2ElectricBoogaloo: It's proposed in "Would the Avengers be Better off Without the Hulk?" that ''Film/ThorTheDarkWorld'' should have really been named ''Thor 2: ANOTHER'', based on a gag from the first ''Thor''
* PunchClockVillain: One of the arguments in "Is the Penguin the True Hero of Gotham?" is that the Penguin is more heroic than Batman because he offers a secure job market for the population of Gotham, since half the city's population (by Zammit's estimation) works as a criminal.
* TragicKeepsake: The answer of "Why Does Donkey Kong Wear a Tie?" is that he keeps it to remember the slavery and torture Mario put his grandfather through in the 1985 ''VideoGame/DonkeyKong'' game.
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* AndZoidberg: When describing the Avengers, Zammit intentionally leaves Widow and Hawkeye at the end of the sentence to point out how normal they are.
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* AndZoidberg: When describing the Avengers, Zammit intentionally leaves Black Widow and Hawkeye at the end of the sentence to point out how normal they are.
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* ButtMonkey: A whole episode is dedicated to "Why is Hawkeye in the Avengers?", and he's frequently brought up as the worst of the Avengers, and they make a point of killing him off in their WhatIf "Would the Avengers be Better off Without the Hulk?" and mentioning his grave every time they move on to discuss another film that would be affected by the Hulk's absence.
-->''"Would the Avengers be better off without say Hawkeye? Yes, yes they would."''
-->''"Would the Avengers be better off without say Hawkeye? Yes, yes they would."''
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* ButtMonkey: A whole episode is dedicated to "Why is Hawkeye in the Avengers?", and he's frequently brought up as the worst of the Avengers, and they Avengers. They make a point of killing him off in their WhatIf "Would the Avengers be Better off Without the Hulk?" and mentioning his grave every time Hulk?", they move on to discuss another film that would be affected by the Hulk's absence.
-->''"Would thecharacterize him as an emotionally-fragile whiner in "Which Avengers be Would Make the Best Friend?"
-->''"Chances are you think you're betteroff without say Hawkeye? Yes, yes they would.than Hawkeye thinks he is."''
-->''"Would the
-->''"Chances are you think you're better
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* EvolutionaryLevels: When discussing "How did the Hutts Rise to Power?", it's mentioned that they may have been a more monstrous and athletic species before years of wealth and luxury devolved them into the immobile, slug creatures that grace the ''Star Wars'' universe today.
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* EvolutionaryLevels: When discussing "How did Did the Hutts Rise to Power?", it's mentioned Jackson mentions that they may have been a more monstrous and athletic species before years of wealth and luxury devolved them into the immobile, slug creatures that grace the ''Star Wars'' universe today.
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* ManOfSteelWomanOfKleenex: In "Which Superhero is the Best Lover?", Duscher picks Hulk and gets laughed off by the other Plumbing Boys when they realize that coitus with Hulk would likely kill you, no matter what type of intimacy you try.
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* ManOfSteelWomanOfKleenex: In "Which Superhero is the Best Lover?", Duscher picks Hulk argues the ComicBook/IncredibleHulk would make a great lover and gets laughed off by the other Plumbing Boys rest of the cast when they realize that coitus with Hulk would likely kill you, no matter what type of intimacy definitely end with him accidentally ripping you try.to shreds from sheer strength.
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* OddlyNamedSequel2ElectricBoogaloo: It's proposed that ''Film/ThorTheDarkWorld'' should have really been named ''Thor 2: [[MemeticMutation ANOTHER]]'' in "Would the Avengers be Better off Without the Hulk?".
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* OddlyNamedSequel2ElectricBoogaloo: It's proposed in "Would the Avengers be Better off Without the Hulk?" that ''Film/ThorTheDarkWorld'' should have really been named ''Thor 2: [[MemeticMutation ANOTHER]]'' in "Would ANOTHER'', based on a gag from the Avengers be Better off Without the Hulk?".first ''Thor'' film.
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[[caption-width-right:350:We ask the important questions.]]
->''"Because seriously, who deals with super weapon sanitation and imperial employee agreements?"''
''[[http://www.sanspantsradio.com/plumbing-the-death-star/ Plumbing the Death Star]]'' is a Podcast run by the Melbourne-based Sanspaints Radio regarding FridgeLogic in popular films, comic books, video games and anything else that comes to the hosts' minds. Based around RuleOfFunny, the show hardly takes itself too seriously, and prefers to take the most ridiculous tangent possible than to seriously question the science of whatever they discuss. The show is hosted by Jackson Baly, Joel Zammit, and the aptly named Joel Duscher, and frequently makes use of guests like Mr. Sunday Movies and ''Tabletop/DungeonsAndDragons'' expert Adam.
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!'''''Plumbing the Death Star'' contains examples of the following.'''
* AndZoidberg: When describing the Avengers, Zammit intentionally leaves Widow and Hawkeye at the end of the sentence to point out how normal they are.
-->''"As I said so many episodes ago, the Avengers is like strong guy, strong guy, strong guy, ''very'' strong guy, bow and arrow, guns."''
* ButtMonkey: A whole episode is dedicated to "Why is Hawkeye in the Avengers?", and he's frequently brought up as the worst of the Avengers, and they make a point of killing him off in their WhatIf "Would the Avengers be Better off Without the Hulk?" and mentioning his grave every time they move on to discuss another film that would be affected by the Hulk's absence.
-->''"Would the Avengers be better off without say Hawkeye? Yes, yes they would."''
* CostumeCopycat: Jackson's strategy in "How Would You Take Down the Bat Man?" is to make a Batman costume and menace Gotham, not by committing anything as serious as murder, but by displaying public nudity and just acting strange publicly in order to shame Batman's name.
* {{Cuckold}}: When Hawkeye comes up in "Which Avengers Would Make the Best Friends?", the main advantage the Plumbing Boys can see to having him as a friend is that he'd be away enough that they could have an affair with Hawkeye's wife.
* EvolutionaryLevels: When discussing "How did the Hutts Rise to Power?", it's mentioned that they may have been a more monstrous and athletic species before years of wealth and luxury devolved them into the immobile, slug creatures that grace the ''Star Wars'' universe today.
* HeartIsAnAwesomePower: Madrox the Multiple Man has the power to make exact copies of himself and absorb them for their knowledge; "Is Madrox just the worst for the MU?" makes the case that he could potentially take over every job in the world economy, learn every possible skill, become everyone's significant other, and become the dominant species on Earth by himself solely through his one superpower.
* FantasticRacism: The first and sixth episodes detail the lack of any alien forces in the Galactic Empires ranks, from ''Film/ANewHope'' to ''Film/ReturnOfTheJedi'', and propose that this came about due to an ethnic cleansing of non-humans throughout the Empire.
* ForWantOfANail: According to "Why is the Death Star Spherical?", putting a friendlier management on the Death Star and renaming it the "Love Sphere" would make the Stormtroopers more open about the Death Star's structural problems; this would allow the Empire to cover up the exhaust port, allowing them to destroy Alderaan, the Rebellion, and Luke while derailing the entire ''Franchise/StarWars'' saga.
* ManOfSteelWomanOfKleenex: In "Which Superhero is the Best Lover?", Duscher picks Hulk and gets laughed off by the other Plumbing Boys when they realize that coitus with Hulk would likely kill you, no matter what type of intimacy you try.
* MonumentalDamage: In "Would the Avengers be Better off Without the Hulk?", Jackson believes that if Thor was in charge of getting rid of the nuke from ''Film/TheAvengers'' he would try to return it to the Pentagon and blow up all of Washington D.C.
* OddlyNamedSequel2ElectricBoogaloo: It's proposed that ''Film/ThorTheDarkWorld'' should have really been named ''Thor 2: [[MemeticMutation ANOTHER]]'' in "Would the Avengers be Better off Without the Hulk?".
[[caption-width-right:350:We ask the important questions.]]
->''"Because seriously, who deals with super weapon sanitation and imperial employee agreements?"''
''[[http://www.sanspantsradio.com/plumbing-the-death-star/ Plumbing the Death Star]]'' is a Podcast run by the Melbourne-based Sanspaints Radio regarding FridgeLogic in popular films, comic books, video games and anything else that comes to the hosts' minds. Based around RuleOfFunny, the show hardly takes itself too seriously, and prefers to take the most ridiculous tangent possible than to seriously question the science of whatever they discuss. The show is hosted by Jackson Baly, Joel Zammit, and the aptly named Joel Duscher, and frequently makes use of guests like Mr. Sunday Movies and ''Tabletop/DungeonsAndDragons'' expert Adam.
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!'''''Plumbing the Death Star'' contains examples of the following.'''
* AndZoidberg: When describing the Avengers, Zammit intentionally leaves Widow and Hawkeye at the end of the sentence to point out how normal they are.
-->''"As I said so many episodes ago, the Avengers is like strong guy, strong guy, strong guy, ''very'' strong guy, bow and arrow, guns."''
* ButtMonkey: A whole episode is dedicated to "Why is Hawkeye in the Avengers?", and he's frequently brought up as the worst of the Avengers, and they make a point of killing him off in their WhatIf "Would the Avengers be Better off Without the Hulk?" and mentioning his grave every time they move on to discuss another film that would be affected by the Hulk's absence.
-->''"Would the Avengers be better off without say Hawkeye? Yes, yes they would."''
* CostumeCopycat: Jackson's strategy in "How Would You Take Down the Bat Man?" is to make a Batman costume and menace Gotham, not by committing anything as serious as murder, but by displaying public nudity and just acting strange publicly in order to shame Batman's name.
* {{Cuckold}}: When Hawkeye comes up in "Which Avengers Would Make the Best Friends?", the main advantage the Plumbing Boys can see to having him as a friend is that he'd be away enough that they could have an affair with Hawkeye's wife.
* EvolutionaryLevels: When discussing "How did the Hutts Rise to Power?", it's mentioned that they may have been a more monstrous and athletic species before years of wealth and luxury devolved them into the immobile, slug creatures that grace the ''Star Wars'' universe today.
* HeartIsAnAwesomePower: Madrox the Multiple Man has the power to make exact copies of himself and absorb them for their knowledge; "Is Madrox just the worst for the MU?" makes the case that he could potentially take over every job in the world economy, learn every possible skill, become everyone's significant other, and become the dominant species on Earth by himself solely through his one superpower.
* FantasticRacism: The first and sixth episodes detail the lack of any alien forces in the Galactic Empires ranks, from ''Film/ANewHope'' to ''Film/ReturnOfTheJedi'', and propose that this came about due to an ethnic cleansing of non-humans throughout the Empire.
* ForWantOfANail: According to "Why is the Death Star Spherical?", putting a friendlier management on the Death Star and renaming it the "Love Sphere" would make the Stormtroopers more open about the Death Star's structural problems; this would allow the Empire to cover up the exhaust port, allowing them to destroy Alderaan, the Rebellion, and Luke while derailing the entire ''Franchise/StarWars'' saga.
* ManOfSteelWomanOfKleenex: In "Which Superhero is the Best Lover?", Duscher picks Hulk and gets laughed off by the other Plumbing Boys when they realize that coitus with Hulk would likely kill you, no matter what type of intimacy you try.
* MonumentalDamage: In "Would the Avengers be Better off Without the Hulk?", Jackson believes that if Thor was in charge of getting rid of the nuke from ''Film/TheAvengers'' he would try to return it to the Pentagon and blow up all of Washington D.C.
* OddlyNamedSequel2ElectricBoogaloo: It's proposed that ''Film/ThorTheDarkWorld'' should have really been named ''Thor 2: [[MemeticMutation ANOTHER]]'' in "Would the Avengers be Better off Without the Hulk?".
