History Podcast / TheHiddenAlmanac

* HumanoidAbomination: Mord. [[note]]In the Inquisitor Ingrid arc, Drom admits she knows he's a form of "holy" undead[[/note]]

* TheWormThatWalks: Reverend Mord himself may be an example, if Pastor Drom's theory about him being a swarm of beetles in a plague doctor suit is correct.

* WebcomicTime: If you take the dating of the show literally, it takes over a week for [[spoiler: Drom]] to have a dying conversation with Mord. With him announcing the date at the start of each episode.

* ParodyCommercial: The sponsors' messages at the end of each episode.

* TrademarkFavoriteFood: George the crow loves Cheetos.
* TheVerse: We get enough references to shared cultures and historical events that it's apparent this takes place in the future of the same world as ''Webcomic/{{Digger}}'', ''Literature/{{Gearworld}}'', and ''Literature/BlackDogs''.

* NewJobAsThePlotDemands: The Red Wombat company usually sells tea, but occasionally either changes their wares, or lets a similarly-named company take their spot selling something related to whatever Mord has been talking about in the current episode. Whatever they sell, it's usually "fine and inaccessible."

* BrotherhoodOfFunnyHats: The Ancient Order of Bull-Moose Men.

* ChristmasCreep: One episode is sponsored by Suzie's Seasonal Assassins, an organization devoted to discouraging perpetrators of Christmas Creep with extreme prejudice. In later advertising spots they appear to have branched out to things like unpleasant relatives making holidays uncomfortable, but they always come back to this.

* ContinuityNod: The episode for 9 November 2013 records that in 1781, the Librarian Prince forbade the use of numberical placings in contests, leaving people to come up with workarounds such as "color-coded ribbons, Honorablest Mentions, and the 'We're Extremely Glad You Participated Award'". A couple of episodes later, an item about sheep breeding mentions that in 1783 a ram named Sturdy took the "Exceedingly Honorable-We-Really-Mean-It Award" at the city fair.

* HoneyTrap: One ongoing storyline describes a war between a colony of house mice and the squirrels that live in the back yard. One significant event in the war involves a female mouse infiltrating the squirrel disguised with a false tail, and seducing a high ranking squirrel to learn about their battle plans.

-->'''Drom:''' As long as I keep licking these horrible inedible fruits, I'll be safe from the mind control. Wow, there's a phrase I didn't expect to have to utter twice in one lifetime.\\

* ShoutOut: The description of the Feast of the East Wind is a shout-out to the fairy tale "Literature/EastOfTheSunAndWestOfTheMoon".

* WhyDoYouKeepChangingJobs: The Red Wombat company usually sells tea, but occasionally either changes their wares, or lets a similarly-named company take their spot selling something related to whatever Mord has been talking about in the current episode. Whatever they sell, it's usually "fine and inaccessible."

** Creator/CarrieFisher's death was similarly commemmorated:

** Similarly [[Creator/TerryPratchett Sir Terry Pratchett]], "one of the great ethical voices of our time. The world is less for his passing."

* IncurableCoughOfDeath: [[sooiler: Drom]] at the end of the Inquisitor Ingrid arc. Justified in that she ''does'' have a piece of rebar sticking through her chest.

* YouAreNotAlone: The catchphrase Mord always says at the end of the episode is literally "And remember, you are not alone." Turns into a CMOH when he says it directly to Drom when [[spoiler: she seems to be mortally injured after having a building collapse on her.]]

* HumanoidAbomination: Mord, whatever he is. (Drom's theory is that "whatever" is a group of scarab beetles in a plague doctor outfit, but this has yet to be explicitly confirmed. He does send her scarab beetles with letters in lieu of calling or texting.)

* ItMakesSenseInContext: An excerpt from ''[[WebOriginal/{{Gearworld}} The Book of the Gear]]'' regarding Heinrich's cooking proclivities seems absurd, but is entirely appropriate within the book as a whole.

* EldritchAbomination: Mentioned periodically in history segments, usually in connection with Echo Harbor. Some of the more notalble ones to come up elsewhere include:

** Plus a very small skeletal mouse that infests the garden and at least once bit a visiting Royal Ornithologist.

* EldritchAbomination: Corvus-Wrax, god of the crows. Also, the horrible many-mouthed plague god that a cult tries to feed the interns to. Others are mentioned periodically in history segments, usually in connection with Echo Harbor.

-->'''Mord:''' ''[VoiceOfTheLegion]'' WE. DO. NOT. BURN. BOOKS.

* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: Mord's voice is higher and faster in the beginning. Drom in her early appearances was entirely unwilling to talk about the Feast Day of St. Phallos. The first time "Mord may be a mass of scarab beetles in a plague doctor suit" came up was when Drom declared she'd always suspected it but had decided he wasn't, since he'd just torn off a degenerate cultist's face with his teeth. Drom responded, "I still might be. We may just be very good at operating teeth."

-->'''Mord:''' I have been told to be 'groovy', Drom. I do not DO 'groovy'.

** The recent takeover of the Fathers, who have warped everyone's memory but his, is trying him sorely. Especially when Drom mentions that they have [[BerserkButton a yearly book burning]].

* TeamPet: George the crow, adopted by the Hidden Almanac Test Garden after he was abandoned by his kin in the Corvus Wrax incident. Is universally regarded as "an excellent crow", though his presence causes problems when an official ornithologist is dispatched to protect his habitat, as he is an endangered species.

--->''“You’re so lucky to live in this lovely city,” she is reported to have said. “One sees so much evil in small towns.”''

* BaitAndSwitch: An advertisement for a bake sale in Echo Harbour declares, "[[ThinkOfTheChildren It's for the children]]... [[EnfantTerrible and you know what happens if we don't appease the children]]."

* SuspiciouslySpecificDenial: "This episode is sponsored by the Silent Night Club, which is absolutely not a front for the underground Mime Cult."

* DisposableIntern: The Hidden Almanac has interns, whose duties include tending the Hidden Almanac Test Garden. If an intern's name is mentioned, they'll probably do all right, but if not they'll probably die in the same sentence in which they're first mentioned while testing an electric birdbath or something.

* NameThatUnfoldsLikeLotusBlossom: Mole people have names like this, as demonstrated by the famous poet Worms-Moving-Sideways.

* ContinuityNod: The episode for 9 December 2013 records that in 1781, the Librarian Prince forbade the use of numberical placings in contests, leaving people to come up with workarounds such as "color-coded ribbons, Honorablest Mentions, and the 'We're Extremely Glad You Participated Award'". A couple of episodes later, an item about sheep breeding mentions that in 1783 a ram named Sturdy took the "Exceedingly Honorable-We-Really-Mean-It Award" at the city fair.

* TheIntern: The Hidden Almanac has interns, whose duties include tending the Hidden Almanac Test Garden. If an intern's name is mentioned, they'll probably do all right, but if not they'll probably die in the same sentence in which they're first mentioned while testing an electric birdbath or something.