History Radio / AdventuresInOdyssey

* MeddlingParents: Lucia, the mother of Eva Parker and grandmother to the Parker kids, makes her first appearance ("Grandma's Visit") filling this role by commandeering the Parker house for guests in an attempt to prepare for Eva's sister [[FoolishSiblingResponsibleSibling Rosalita]]'s upcoming wedding - to the point where the Parkers end up having to leave for a hotel due to the house being crowded; only for Rosalita to elope with her ex-fiance at the last moment; resulting in a [[BewareTheNiceOnes stressed-out Eva]] telling Lucia ([[BilingualBonus in Spanish]]) that she drove her crazy.

* TooStrangeToShow: In one episode, Whit tries to program his Imagination Station to show a representation of Heaven as a means of explaining how wonderful a place it is. Whit himself suffers a heart attack after entering the Imagination Station with the program running. Eugene attempts to find out what happened, and immediately requests the program be shut down before it goes very far, and states that Whit intruded on an area man wasn't meant to know until it was actually time. Eugene, in curiosity and a bit of arrogance, tries to view the program and is implied to have been shown a horrific vision of a black void that was Hell itself, which ends up being a step in his later conversion to Christianity. The program is ultimately deleted for being too dangerous.

* TooStrangeToShow: In one episode, Whit tries to program his Imagination Station to show a representation of Heaven as a means of explaining how wonderful a place it is. Whit himself suffers a heart attack after entering the Imagination Station with the program running. Eugene attempts to find out what happened, and immediately requests the program be shut down before it goes very far, and states that Whit intruded on an area man wasn't meant to know until it was actually time. Eugene, in curiosity and a bit of arrogance, tries to view the program and is implied to have been shown a horrific vision of a black void that was Hell itself, which ends up being a step in his later conversion to Christianity. The program is ultimately deleted for being too dangerous.

* BalletEpisode: "For Thine Is the Kingdom" centers on a young ballet dancer who's confronted with the very real possibility of having to give up on her dreams after a terrible injury.

* NewJobsAsThePlotDemands: Jillian Marshall, the new roommate of Connie and Jules, is listed in the [[TheWikiRule AIO Wiki]] as [[https://www.aiowiki.com/wiki/Jillian_Marshall having held 19 jobs in 14 different cities]].

* SadistTeacher: According to [[TallTaleTeller Leslie]], her teacher, "Mr. Gutwrench," is one. She claims that on the first day of school, he singled her out for humiliation because she was late and wearing a torn dress, then gave her a massive WritingLines assignment because she hadn't done anything more substantial than "hanging out" during summer vacation. His real name is Mr. Garrison, and he isn't anything like that in real life.

* SadistTeacher: According to Leslie, her teacher, "Mr. Gutwrench," is one. She claims that on the first day of school, he singled her out for humiliation because she was late and wearing a torn dress, then gave her a massive WritingLines assignment because she hadn't done anything more substantial than "hanging out" during summer vacation. His real name is Mr. Garrison, and he isn't anything like that in real life.

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** "Preacher's Kid" takes this UpToEleven with Donna, who feels she is being scrutinized extra closely because she's the preacher's daughter and is becoming alienated from her friends. Against her parents' wishes, she accompanies her friends to a forbidden teen hangout, an abandoned house, and the kids accidentally burn the place down.

* WellIntentionedExtremist: Monica Stone is wanted by the FBI and does several illegal jobs for Novacom, including infiltrating the Missions Board to steal a disk from Jason, mentally seducing him and threatening to kill his friend in the process—all because she bought the story that the Novacom technology was going to be used to help the handicapped, like her brother. She fully answers for her crimes, even rejecting a plea bargain when she testifies against Novacom, and accepts that she's going to go to prison for what she's done.

* {{Meganekko}}: Katrina Shanks and Lucy Cunningham-Schultz. Also, Mandy Straussberg, on at least one album cover.

* AdultFear: Quite a few for what is supposed to be a children's show:
** Danny Schmidt believing that he is responsible for his mother's miscarriage in "Forever, Amen".
** Jenny Roberts, a blind middle school girl, being kidnapped in "The Perfect Witness".
** The terrorist ring from "A Name, Not A Number", Red Scorpion, working to wage chemical warfare by contaminating the Swiss water supply with a deadly virus.
** Armitage Shanks dying from what appeared to be an unusual inoperable brain tumor, recounted in "Plan B, Part I", [[spoiler: especially since it was later revealed that it was actually an assassination.]]
** Mitch [[spoiler: appearing to be killed in "Plan B, Part 2", which wasn't alleviated that much by the reveal that he was, for all intents and purposes, kidnapped and placed in the Federal Witness Protection Program.]]
*** Even more frightening is that Steven [=DeWhite=]'s discovery of Andromeda's money-laundering scheme and then later finding a hidden camera in his office leads to him and his wife and two sons being placed in the WPP.
** "Exit" has Bennett Charles threaten [[DamselInDistress Connie Kendall's life]] in order to keep Whit away from stopping the worldwide launch of Novacom's technology.
** "Here Today, Gone Tomorrow" has [[DistressedDude Mitch get kidnapped]] and nearly taken out of the country by a revenge-driven Bennett Charles.
** Eugene's father Leonard's backstory: he was an archaeologist working in Africa who, along with his wife, was kidnapped and enslaved by his rival for twenty years, with his wife dying in captivity and his two sons [[spoiler: believed to be dead.]]
** Whit explains in "Blood, Sweat, and Fears" that he has a fear of giving blood because he was once injured in combat and woke up to find a nurse taking his blood by mistake.
** "The Other Side of the Glass" features [[spoiler: people being persuaded to emigrate to America, only to be blackmailed by the people who brought them there into working as cheap labor for a glass factory or being outed as illegal aliens. When Whit, Bernard, and Wooton stake out the factory, they discover that even young children are being forced to work midnight shifts.]]
** In "Accidental Dilemma", The Whisperer, a terrorist whom Jason arrested while working for the NSA, discovers his identity, kidnaps him in exchange for Applesauce, and holds Grady [=McKay=], an elementary-school-age boy, hostage in order for Jason to cooperate. [[spoiler: With the exception of Grady's kidnapping, this was actually an elaborate BatmanGambit on Whit and Jason's part in response to the Whisperer escaping prison, but the concept and its execution are still pretty intense.]]
** "Living in the Gray" has one of the most difficult ones to handle for a parent: [[spoiler:Connie, and the viewer by extension, reunites with Jimmy Barclay after having heard little of him since the family moved to Pokenberry Falls a fair while back, only to slowly find out he's gone down a very dark path. He works for [[TabloidMelodrama an unethical tabloid,]] is led by a MeanBoss who borders on [[BadBoss the bad variety]] and is also his landlord, he has a girlfriend who appears to care very little for him and in some respects is implied to only be around because he finds her attractive, and perhaps the scariest part from George's point of view, he has almost completely abandoned God and all of his faith. Adding insult to injury, he has [[LyingToProtectYourFeelings continuously lied to his friends and family about the whole thing]], claiming that he actually has a much more prestigious job and hasn't even told them about the fact he failed out of college.]]
** The entire "one of three will fall" arc, where [[spoiler:Olivia begins to doubt her faith and effectively loses her moral compass in the process.]] It especially sets in come "The Lost One Part 2", where we learn that [[spoiler:she began to doubt her faith as a (flawed) way to cope with the fact that she thought Mr. Norton's death at the start of the arc was ''[[ItsAllMyFault all her fault.]]'']]

* RecycledInSpace: "Passages, Part I & II" and the novel spinoffs. Children from Odyssey are transported to a parallel Earth, where biblical history from our world is repeating itself against a different setting (think ''Narnia'' if they didn't bother with the allegory).

* MusicalEpisode: There have been a number of these; among them the [[OffToSeeTheWizard Wizard of Oz]] spoof "The Great Wishy Woz"; the [[ChristmasEpisode Christmas show]] "Caroling! Caroling!"[[note]]effectively a sing-along episode with very little spoken dialogue[[/note]]; the historical trilogy "The Jubilee Singers"[[note]]focusing on the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fisk_Jubilee_Singers Fisk Jubilee Singers]] when the group began shortly after UsefulNotes/TheAmericanCivilWar; the episode also becoming one of the first well-received episodes produced after the 2010 reboot[[/note]], "A Thankstaking Story"[[note]]primarily a spoof of Literature/HowTheGrinchStoleChristmas[[/note]] and the 2-part "Legacy" episodes[[note]]focusing on a [[TheWildWest Wild West-themed]] musical intended to raise enough money to keep Tom Riley's sister from having to sell the farm she inherited after Tom's death, with a likely secondary reason for the episode being to show off Shona Kennedy - who voices Jules - having a very good singing voice (in addition to the Jules Kendall role, she along with mother Karona and sister Katriona are part of a music group called [[BandOfRelatives The Saguaro Sisters]], often performing alongside Will Ryan[[/note]]

* InformedObscenity: "Millijoit," from the episode "War of the Words" (actually [[{{Mondegreen}} a mangling of the word "maladroit"]], which some kids heard Eugene call Connie.

* UnusualEuphemism: The 2003 episode "Black Clouds" takes place mainly at a roadside diner where the owner uses the names of past [[UsefulNotes/ThePresidents American Presidents]] as exclamations of surprise where some would use profanity.

** Jenny Roberts, a middle school girl, being kidnapped in "The Perfect Witness".

* ItsPronouncedTroPAY: A rare dramatic example happens in the Novacom saga: [[spoiler:a mysterious hacker figure keeps appearing known as AREM, which the characters initially read as "air-em". After TheReveal that this identity belongs to Mitch, they are finally told it's actually pronounced "ahr-em", a pun on Mitch's initials R.M.]].

** The Old Testament Action News segments of the ShowWithinAShow KYDS Radio feature a news anchor named Brink Chetley; a portmanteau of the names of early television news anchors Chet Huntley and David Brinkley[[note]]the latter of whom was still active at the time the character first appeared as host of the Creator/{{ABC}} panel discussion show ''This Week'' before his 1997 retirement (Brinkley died in 2003; Huntley in 1974)[[/note]]; who anchored ''The Huntley-Brinkley Report'' (the precursor to today's ''Creator/{{NBC}} Nightly News'') from 1956 until Huntley's 1970 retirement.