History Radio / AdventuresInOdyssey

* DenserAndWackier: The AnimatedAdaption, in some episodes, but it came to a peak in ''Flight To The Finish''.

* ActorAllusion Jack tells the story of when he and [[HalSmith Whit]] visited Bath, North Carolina, where they met uncle [[TheAndyGriffithShow Randy and his Deputy Arny...]] Also, on newer episodes, after an all night rocking chair competition, Emily Jones says "The [[VideoGame/MetalGearSolid4 sunrise...]] It's so [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lO8jcem2qC4#t=06m14s pretty...]]"

* {{Defictionalization}}: There is a real Whit's End at the Focus on the Family headquarters.

* MissingEpisode: A few early shows starring a bumbling police officer (named Officer Harley) were pulled and re-recorded when parents complained that he gave children the wrong impression of authority figures. Officer Harley's only appearance now is at the end of the episode where the Barclays get robbed and the {{Flashback}} about how Whit acquired Whit's End.

* OldShame: Katie Leigh (voice actress for Connie) played a major character from the ''Dungeons & Dragons'' [[WesternAnimation/DungeonsAndDragons animated series]], a fact which got a bit awkward after AIO did an episode condemning the role-playing game, "Castles and Cauldrons". Of course, considering how much fantasy voice-acting there is to do, most of the cast probably view that episode as OldShame themselves. In any case, when the D&D came out on DVD in 2006, Leigh was the only member of the cast to reprise her role as Sheila for (appropriately enough) the radio play of "[[TheResolutionWillNotBeTelevised Requiem]]". In earlier interviews she said she'd be quite happy to do the role again.

* TheOtherDarrin: Whit's voice actor was replaced after his original one died. And then ''again'' after he died too.
** When Katrina's [[PutOnABus bus came in]], her actor had changed as well. She's even quieter now.

* RecycledScript: After the episodes starring the bumbling police officer Harley were pulled (parents objected because they gave children the wrong impression of authority figures), the episodes were rewritten to feature a bumbling private investigator instead.

* TalkingToHimself:
** Walker Edminston as Tom Riley and Bart Rathbone.
** Earl Boen as Edwin Blackgaard and Dr. Regis Blackgaard (although they only ever interacted with each other in one episode).
** Steve Burns as Rodney Rathbone and Robert Mitchell.

** Also in the episode "Truth Be Told": Wooten says he'd go over the details of something that happened in his superhero story but "this is a kid's program."

* CluelessAesop: Averted in an episode that teaches AnAesop about cursing. Though it would seem impossible to teach such a moral in a Christian children's radio show, where you obviously aren't supposed to use curse words, it manages to pull it off by having some kids thinking that a certain word is a curse word and using it in such a way. It's a bit odd, but it actually works pretty well.

*** The bigger inspiration for this episode was Film/ItsAMadMadMadMadWorld. The opening scene of "The Smiler" ripping the map in half was ripped directly from the start of the film nearly verbatim.

* DidYouDie: In a story from Bernard's childhood.

* EasyEvangelism: [[ZigZaggedTrope Zig-Zagged]]. In some cases, 5 minutes and a commercial break is all that's required to get a conversion. In other cases, especially those involving main characters, it could take years after they're introduced before they convert, and some simply don't for whatever reason.

Aside from the individual half-hour segments, the show has featured two long-running (and more mature than usual) arcs. The first dealt with the plots of Dr. Regis Blackgaard to take over Whit's End to gain access to a rare mineral in the Underground Railroad tunnels below the building that was the crucial ingredient to creating a deadly, invincible virus to use as a bio-terrorism weapon. (Whit was, unfortunately, [[CharacterOutlivesActor away on a secret archaeological expedition in the Middle East]] during the finale.) The second arc dealt with a plot by the communications company Novacom and a computer program they created that would brainwash the entire world, in which Eugene was a major, [[PutOnABus if completely absent]], player. A third, shorter but sequential 12-part serial "The Green Ring Conspiracy", concerning a counterfeit ring, has been also been released, notable again for its level of maturity in storytelling.

* CrackFic: Bethany's Flood. The Ark is a wet dry vac, Shem, Ham, and Japheth are really Sam, {{Hamlet}} and [[ThomasJefferson Jefferson]], and Christopher Colombo caused the flood!

** They have done so many of these that they've literally ran out of Bible stories to adapt. The show now tend to focuses on reenacting events in Christian history.

* HotMom: Eva Parker (for the recently-added Parker family). [[LampshadeHanging Mentioned in an episode]] where her sister's spurned fiance tries to woo her and Eva's [[ItMakesSenseInContext mother suggests having Eva pose as her sister]].

* Creator/CoreyBurton: He's kind of [[http://www.aiowiki.com/wiki/Corey_Burton everywhere]].

* CollapsingLair: Richard Maxwell somehow programmed Blackgaard's computer to ''blow up'' his business. Something about a short-circuit that set the building on fire.

* ConcealingCanvas: A safe hidden behind a picture of a safe.

Some of the most recurring characters are the employees at Whit's End. Over the years, this has included: rebellious teen-turned-convert Connie Kendall; super-techno-genius Eugene Meltsner; Eugene's distant cousin and professional window-washer, Bernard Walton; part-time spy and Whit's son Jason; Whit's friend and local antique dealer, Jack Allen, and another rebellious teen-turned-convert, Aubrey Shepherd. The show has also had various casts of kids such as chronic troublemaker Curt Stevens; budding journalist Lucy Cunningham-Schultz; sisters Robin and Melanie Jacobs; cousins Alex and Cal, and Jared [=DeWhite=], who moved away when his father was put into the Witness Protection Program (money-laundering issues involved with a TakeOverTheWorld plot), as well as his younger brother Trent.

Aside from the individual half-hour segments, the show has featured two long-running (and more mature than usual) arcs. The first dealt with the plots of Dr. Regis Blackgaard to take over Whit's End to gain access to a rare mineral in the Underground Railroad tunnels below the building that was the crucial ingredient to creating a deadly, invincible virus to use as a bio-terrorism weapon. (Whit was, unfortunately, [[CharacterOutlivesActor away on a secret archaeological expedition in the Middle East]] during the finale.) The second arc dealt with a plot by the communications company Novacom and a computer program they created that would brainwash the entire world, in which Eugene was a major, [[PutOnABus if completely absent]], player.

* RecycledScript: After the episodes starring the bumbling police officer Haley were pulled (parents objected because they gave children the wrong impression of authority figures), the episodes were rewritten to feature a bumbling private investigator instead.

** The character of Edwin Blackgaard (played to Shakespearean perfection by TonyJay soundalike Earl Boen) was created largely for this very purpose.

** There have been exceptions, including Jimmy Barclay and Jared DeWhite.

* FaceDeathWithDignity: In fact Whit was so dignified and calm that it unnerved the would-be-killed into running away.

* [[WhereTheHellIsSpringfield Where the Heck is Odyssey]]: It's probably somewhere in the eastern Midwest area, the clues do not get any more specific.

* PrayerIsALastResort: The show did the "Atheist in the Foxhole" storyline twice, in one case with Cryin' Brian Dern (who gave in and prayed for his life) and once with Leonard Meltsner (who didn't). Interestingly, the story was more critical for Dern for his moral cowardice than Meltsner.

**** FridgeBrilliance Campbell County Community College accepted Eugene when he was VERY YOUNG, and considering he was (as far as the state knew, anyhow) an orphan, they also took care of him. He stayed with them out of gratitude.

* PhraseCatcher: When Eugene lapses into his [[BigWords overly complex]] way of explaining something, he is frequently met with cries of, "In ''English'', Eugene!"