History Podcast / TheThrillingAdventureHour

* CelebrityEndorsement/CharacterCelebrityEndorsement: ''The Thrilling Adventure Hour'' is (very often) brought to you by [[BrandX Patriot Brand Cigarettes]], usually by one of the characters in the show.

* HasTwoMommies: Robot sheriff Gork and two other robots adopt and care for a human baby, giving her three robot daddies.

* CriticalResearchFailure: [[invoked]]InUniverse. During a PSA played in the final episode, a man tells about how he lost his entire family to the aliens because he [[spoiler:thought their nut allergy would be triggered by coconuts. Except coconuts are ''not really nuts''.]]

--->"Well, what else am I gonna [[StrokeTheBeard twirl when I'm winning]]?"

* OutOfCharacterAlert: A shapeshifting Jupiter spy does this blatantly, though [[IdiotPlot the other characters take it all at face value while grasping at straws to accuse each other instead]].

** The Algonquin Four (Creator/DorothyParker, Creator/HarryHoudini, UsefulNotes/WoodrowWilson and Robert Benchley) are an obvious parody of The Comicbook/FantasticFour, having similar superpowers. Dorothy Parker doubles as a parody of both The Thing and ComicBook/TheIncredibleHulk.

** The Algonquin Four (Creator/DorothyParker, Creator/HarryHoudini, UsefulNotes/WoodrowWilson and Robert Benchley) are an obvious parody of The Comicbook/FantasticFour, having similar superpowers. Dorothy Parker doubles as a parody of both The Thing and [[Comicbook/IncredibleHulk The Incredible Hulk]].

** The Algonquin Four (Creator/DorothyParker, Creator/HarryHoudini, UsefulNotes/WoodrowWilson and Robert Benchley) are an obvious parody of The Comicbook/FantasticFour, having similar superpowers. Dorothy Parker doubles as a parody of both The Thing and [[Comicbook/IncredibleHulk The Incredible Hulk]].

* {{Corpsing}}: Sparks Nevada can barely get through his own theme song without laughing in "The Thing From This Same Planet," thanks to constant interjections from [[spoiler: the [[CampGay campy]] Jovian shapeshifter pretending to be him/Croach.]]

** The episode "Circle Gets the Square" subverted just about every step of the formula. Captain Laserbeam ''fakes'' the Adventurekateer distress call to get away from the Righteous Brothers, Captain Laserbeam successfully guesses the villain of the week on the third try, the Adventurekateers are blase about something happening to Captain Laserbeam, which makes their memory less than helpful when Captain Laserbeam is caught in the deathtrap, which he escapes only with the intervention of the Righteous Brothers.

* SomethingCompletelyDifferent: Unlike the other ''Thrilling Adventure Hour'' segments, "A War of Two Worlds" is built largely on improv humor and celebrity impersonations rather than scripted stories.

* SomethingCompletelyDifferent: Has no apparent connection to the other ''Thrilling Adventure Hour'' segments, though it has the same style of writing and comedy as them.

* SpaceJews: They lampshade this trope with the martians. They celebrate a holiday called Han-oo'Kah and their rite of passage for younglings is named B'at-mit zvah for females and B'ar-mit zvah for men. Interstingly, they also invert this trope. Commander Gene Peeples has none of the stereotypes associated with Jews, but when Pemily Stallwark wants to give him a gift for [[RecycledInSpace space-Christmas]], he replies that he is space-Jewish. She then offers it as a gift for space-Hanukkah instead and he accepts.

* YouHaveToHaveJews: The Barkeep and Gene Peeples identify as "Space Jewish." Not much is made of it, other than as a recurring gag during Christmas specials.

* HeroVsVillainDuet: In "The Piano Has Been Thinking", the various residents of Mars have begun to spontaneously break out into son. One of the songs that occurs from this is "I'm Gonna Kill You Someday", a duet between Sparks Nevada and Techs, the robot bandit that ururpsed his position as Marshal on Mars. The two sing about how one of them is going to kill the other and when and where it'll happen. Because the two are in two completely different places as this happens, Sparks's girlfriend Rebecca Rose Rushmore can only note that not only did Sparks just randomly burst into song, he also randomly burst into exactly ''one half'' of a song.

* ItIsPronouncedTroPAY:
** A bizarre case in the Sparks Nevada universe. Croach always corrects humans who try to pronounce his monosyllabic name, claiming they don't have the required set of vocal organs needed. The exception is Cactoid Jim, who somehow got it right on his first go.
** Turned on him in the crossover with ''Podcast/WelcomeToNightVale'', when he goes to Night Vale and everyone corrects his way of pronouncing the town's name.

* '''"Beyond Belief"''': Frank and Sadie Doyle (Paul F. Tompkins and Paget Brewster) keep having to deal with the supernatural, though they'd rather just [[TheAlcoholic drink martinis all day]]. Typically the last segment of the show.

* HeroVsVillainDuet: In "The Piano Has Been Thinking", the various residents of Mars have begun to spontaneously break out into song due. One of the songs that occurs from this is "I'm Gonna Kill You Someday", a duet between Sparks Nevada and Techs, the robot bandit that ururpsed his position as Marshal on Mars. The two sing about how one of them is going to kill the other and when and where it'll happen. Because the two are in two completely different places as this happens, Sparks's girlfriend Rebecca Rose Rushmore can only note that not only did Sparks just randomly burst into song, he also randomly burst into exactly ''one half'' of a song.

* AsHimself: President Joshua Malina, who is said to have been elected because of his experience with [[Series/TheWestWing fictional politics]].

* EarthDayEpisode: The podcast has an annual "I'm from Earth Day" on Earth Day (which plays on the Catchphrase of Sparks Nevada, Marshall on Mars- "I'm... From Earth").

* DeliberateValuesDissonance: In the episode "Lights, Camera, Murder!", when an actor is revealed to have been effectively outed after being seen at a social club for "bachelors" by a gossip wrangler, the other characters seem not only completely fine with it ("You'd think something like that wouldn't matter; after all, it's the 40's!"), but the reveal actually pushed his career towards more roles as Roman emperors and doting fathers, which he is more comfortable with. Needless to say, being outed as gay would probably ''not'' have been as well-received during the real-life 1940s.

* '''"The Boat Show"''': A down-on-its-luck theater company stow away on a boat as part of a desperate plan to get funding for a new musical from a millionaire. A one-shot story unrelated to the other ''TAH'' segments originall performed at [=JoCo=] Cruise Crazy 4 in 2014, then performed again and recorded at LA [=PodFest=] in 2015 and later released as a ''Thrilling Adventure Hour Treasury'' episode.

* MrSeahorse:

In addition to the regular "[=WorkJuice=] Players", guest stars have included Creator/NeilPatrickHarris, Music/WeirdAlYankovic, Creator/JKSimmons, [[Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000 Bill Corbett, Kevin Murphy]], Music/PaulAndStorm, [[Series/{{Community}} Gillian Jacobs, Alison Brie, Danny Pudi, Yvette Nicole Brown]], Creator/PatrickWarburton, [[Series/ParksAndRecreation Nick Offerman, Aubrey Plaza]], [[Series/TheState Tom Lennon]], Music/GarfunkelAndOates, [[Series/{{Nerdist}} Chris Hardwick]], [[Series/ComedyBangBang Scott Aukerman]], Creator/AmyAcker, [[Series/{{Mythbusters}} Adam Savage]], [[Literature/CompleteWorldKnowledge John Hodgman]], [[Series/FreaksAndGeeks Samm Levine, Martin Starr, Linda Cardellini]], and countless others.

* BadassGay: "This Cockamamie Future" established Amelia as one. And she's in a relationship with Joan of Arc.

* IllTakeTwoBeersToo: The Doyles, on a fairly regular basis.