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** In more recent runs, the team's opted to limit this, because they need the final hour for thank-yous, and in DB 2017 the clock was locked with one hour to go as a result (not that the chat was anywhere near getting another hour anyway).

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** In more recent runs, After a few runs the team's opted to limit this, this because they need the final hour for thank-yous, thank yous, and in DB 2017 the clock was locked with one hour to go as a result (not that the chat was anywhere near getting another hour anyway).



* UnusualEuphemism: Since it's for the children, cursing is replaced by variants on "bus" or "balls." (Graham in particular often says "What the balls?")

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* UnusualEuphemism: Since it's for the children, cursing is replaced by variants on "bus" or "balls." (Graham in particular often says "What the balls?")balls?")
* WhenTheClockStrikesTwelve: Once the shift system was established, Zeta Shift quickly began heralding it's beginning with the speakers loudly blasting [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4TLO4FvxCQ0 "The Jock Jam"]]. This soon led to Night Watch playing up the dread of midnight approaching, since as soon as the clock hits twelve Zeta will come roaring in.
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* ''Desert Bus 2023'' breached the $10,000,000 lifetime donation mark.

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* ''Desert Bus 2023'' breached the $10,000,000 lifetime donation mark.
mark, and ended with $1,193,560 after merch. It was also the first run held in Moonbase Mk VI and the first since 2019 where all shifts were physically present.[[note]]Dawn Guard and Zeta Shift continued to be remote in 2021, and Zeta stayed remote in 2022[[/note]]
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* CatGirl: In ''[=DBFH3=]'', Tally and Kathleen were dressed as some. Although most of the crew had a turn with those cat ears...

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* CatGirl: In ''[=DBFH3=]'', ''[=DB3=]'', Tally and Kathleen were dressed as some. Although most of the crew had a turn with those cat ears...



** Omega Shift covers the final few hours of the stream and has a predominantly black color scheme in it's graphics, though it's also associated with light blue due to it's banner having the color of the game's sky.

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** Omega Shift covers the final few hours of the stream and has a predominantly black color colour scheme in it's graphics, though it's also associated with light blue due to it's banner having the color colour of the game's sky.



** In ''[=DBFH2=]'', donations were made to make Matt see ''Film/{{Twilight}}''. He had to see it four times in total. The next year, he [[TemptingFate pledged to see New Moon as many times as possible during a day]] if the donation total rose to 100K. He had to see it six times in all.

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** In ''[=DBFH2=]'', ''[=DB2=]'', donations were made to make Matt see ''Film/{{Twilight}}''. He had to see it four times in total. The next year, he [[TemptingFate pledged to see New Moon as many times as possible during a day]] if the donation total rose to 100K. He had to see it six times in all.



** The Final Busdown that closes out each run since ''Desert Bus 3'', where everyone present sings "The Final Countdown" by Music/{{Europe}}. ''DB1'' didn't have a song, and ''DB2'' ended with "The Wheels on the Bus".

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** The Final Busdown that closes out each run since ''Desert Bus 3'', where everyone present sings "The Final Countdown" by Music/{{Europe}}. ''DB1'' ''[=DB1=]'' didn't have a song, and ''DB2'' ''[=DB2=]'' ended with "The Wheels on the Bus".



** [[StoppedNumberingSequels The next two were simply]] '' Desert Bus 8'' and ''Desert Bus 9'', with the tenth being referred to as either ''DBX'' or ''DB10''. Following that, each run has been referred to with the year (''Desert Bus for Hope 2017'', ''2018'', etc).

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** [[StoppedNumberingSequels The next two were simply]] '' Desert Bus 8'' and ''Desert Bus 9'', with the tenth being referred to as either ''DBX'' or ''DB10''.''[=DB10=]''. Following that, each run has been referred to with the year (''Desert Bus for Hope 2017'', ''2018'', etc).



* TheScapegoat: Matt is responsible for all technical faults, and even managed to crash the bus while asleep at home during [=DBFH5=]. And several others during [=DBFH6=].
* SerialEscalation: The donations just keep going up and up and up, to the point where a single auction in ''Desert Bus 4'' went for $4300... just short of the goal for ''[=DBFH1=]''!

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* TheScapegoat: Matt is responsible for all technical faults, and even managed to crash the bus while asleep at home during [=DBFH5=]. [=DB5=]. And several others during [=DBFH6=].
[=DB6=].
* SerialEscalation: The donations just keep going up and up and up, to the point where a single auction in ''Desert Bus 4'' went for $4300... just short of the goal for ''[=DBFH1=]''!''[=DB1=]''!
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* CrowdSong:
** The Final Busdown that closes out each run since ''Desert Bus 3'', where everyone present sings "The Final Countdown" by Music/{{Europe}}. ''DB1'' didn't have a song, and ''DB2'' ended with "The Wheels on the Bus".
** The Full Song Random Dance Party usually becomes this, unless it hits early enough during Dawn Guard that there aren't as many people, or during the pandemic where they couldn't bring more than a few people into the staging area at the same time.

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* DeadGuyJunior: Bill - one of the founding members of WebVideo/LoadingReadyRun - passed away in early 2016. That year's Desert Bus had the in-game bus driver's name set to "Bill" for the duration.



* GoshDangItToHeck: The crew try to keep things PG-13 in case younger viewers tune in to the stream, so they endeavour to replace any curse word with "Bus".



* IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming: ''Desert Bus for Hope'', ''Desert Bus for Hope 2: [[Film/DieHard Bus Harder]]'', ''Desert Bus for Hope 3: [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyVI It's Desert Bus 6 In Japan]]'', ''[[Franchise/StarWars Desert Bus IV: A New Hope]]'', ''[[Film/{{Se7en}} De5ert]] Bus for Hope'', ''Desert Bus for Hope 6: [[BrickJoke Desert Bus 3 in America]]'', ''[[Film/JamesBond Desert Bus 007]]'', ''Desert Bus 8'', ''Desert Bus 9'', ''DBX'', ''[[StoppedNumberingSequels Desert Bus for Hope 2017]]'', ''Desert Bus for Hope 2018'', ''[[VideoGame/UntitledGooseGame Untitled Bus Fundraiser]] by Desert Bus for Hope''.

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* IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming: ''Desert Bus IncomingHam: After a long day of streaming, one can't be blamed for Hope'', ''Desert Bus for Hope 2: [[Film/DieHard Bus Harder]]'', ''Desert Bus for Hope 3: [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyVI It's feeling a little tired by the time midnight rolls around...and then Zeta Shift begins with Beej (or another entertainer) bursting in while "''Let's get ready to rumble!''" starts blasting from the speakers.
* InMemoriam: Bill - one of the founding members of WebVideo/LoadingReadyRun - passed away in early 2016. That year's
Desert Bus 6 In Japan]]'', ''[[Franchise/StarWars Desert Bus IV: A New Hope]]'', ''[[Film/{{Se7en}} De5ert]] Bus had the in-game bus driver's name set to "Bill" for Hope'', ''Desert Bus for Hope 6: [[BrickJoke Desert Bus 3 in America]]'', ''[[Film/JamesBond Desert Bus 007]]'', ''Desert Bus 8'', ''Desert Bus 9'', ''DBX'', ''[[StoppedNumberingSequels Desert Bus for Hope 2017]]'', ''Desert Bus for Hope 2018'', ''[[VideoGame/UntitledGooseGame Untitled Bus Fundraiser]] by Desert Bus for Hope''.the duration.



** X didn't crash the bus, Matt crashed the bus,

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** X didn't crash the bus, Matt crashed the bus,bus.
* ItWillNeverCatchOn: The crew initially suspected the stream to be a fun stunt for a good cause that would last over the weekend. They ended up driving for four and a half days, which ran into some logistical difficulties when most of them ended up having to leave for work or school on Monday. After that they knew they had to do it again the following year ''and'' make sure they planned it out so that people could stick around longer.


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* OddlyNamedSequel2ElectricBoogaloo: The first one was ''Desert Bus for Hope'', pretty simple. After that things got a little silly.
** ''Desert Bus for Hope 2: [[Film/DieHard Bus Harder]]''
** ''Desert Bus for Hope 3: [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyVI It's Desert Bus 6 In Japan]]''
** ''[[Franchise/StarWars Desert Bus IV: A New Hope]]''
** ''[[Film/{{Se7en}} De5ert]] Bus for Hope''
** ''Desert Bus for Hope 6: [[BrickJoke Desert Bus 3 in America]]''
** ''[[Film/JamesBond Desert Bus 007]]''
** [[StoppedNumberingSequels The next two were simply]] '' Desert Bus 8'' and ''Desert Bus 9'', with the tenth being referred to as either ''DBX'' or ''DB10''. Following that, each run has been referred to with the year (''Desert Bus for Hope 2017'', ''2018'', etc).
** However, the 2019 run was also referred to as ''[[VideoGame/UntitledGooseGame Untitled Bus Fundraiser]] by Desert Bus for Hope''.
* OnceASeason: Some gags were popular enough once established that they're brought back at least once a year.
** Beginning in Desert Bus 9, each year has at least one duo do a reading of ''Literature/TheyreMadeOutOfMeat''.
** The Full Song Random Dance Party: The Random Dance Party was established in Desert Bus 10, consisting of a very long playlist that would play a 30-second snippet of a song whenever a button was pushed. But one song in the playlist was the full song, so one of the unsung goals of the run is to also hit the RDP button enough to reach it.
* OverlyLongGag: Wheeler's Horse Joke in 2019. It took him several tries to get through it all, it took up about thirty minutes spread across several hours, and the puncline was [[spoiler: why the long face?]]
* RealSongThemeTune: Dawn Guard and Zeta Shifts came up with their own theme songs pretty quickly as the shifts started solidifying. Dawn Guard plays [[Franchise/StarWars The Imperial March]] while singing "Dawn Dawn Dawn" along with the music, while Zeta Shift plays [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4TLO4FvxCQ0 "The Jock Jam"]] at full blast.
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** Graham did not crash. [[Franchise/MetalGear Solid Snake]] crashed.

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** Graham did not crash. [[Franchise/MetalGear [[VideoGame/MetalGear Solid Snake]] crashed.
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* ''Desert Bus 2021'' also broke the 1 million total and then some, raising $1,223,108 after merch sales. To this day it's the most successful and longest campaign.

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* ''Desert Bus 2021'' also broke the 1 million total mark during the stream, and then some, raising totalled $1,223,108 after merch sales.sales were added. To this day it's the most successful and longest campaign.


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* ColorCodedForYourConvenience: Each of the six-hour shifts codified in Desert Bus 9 have a colour scheme applied to their banner, graphics, and background lighting to help differentiate who's in control.
** Dawn Guard (6 AM to 12 PM) is yellow.
** Alpha Flight (12 PM to 6 PM) is red.
** Night Watch (6 PM to 12 AM) is dark blue.
** Zeta Shift (12 AM to 6 AM) is purple.
** Omega Shift covers the final few hours of the stream and has a predominantly black color scheme in it's graphics, though it's also associated with light blue due to it's banner having the color of the game's sky.
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* ''Desert Bus 2021'' also broke the 1 million total and then some, raising $1,189,143.
* ''Desert Bus 2022'' again broke the 1 million total and then some, though slightly less than the year before: $1,138,003.

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* ''Desert Bus 2021'' also broke the 1 million total and then some, raising $1,189,143.
$1,223,108 after merch sales. To this day it's the most successful and longest campaign.
* ''Desert Bus 2022'' again broke the 1 million total and then some, though slightly less than the year before: $1,138,003.$1,138,003 after merch.
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* ''Desert Bus 2023'' breached the $10,000,000 lifetime donation mark.
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** In ''[=DBFH2=]'', donations were made to make Matt see ''Literature/{{Twilight}}''. He had to see it four times in total. The next year, he [[TemptingFate pledged to see New Moon as many times as possible during a day]] if the donation total rose to 100K. He had to see it six times in all.

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** In ''[=DBFH2=]'', donations were made to make Matt see ''Literature/{{Twilight}}''.''Film/{{Twilight}}''. He had to see it four times in total. The next year, he [[TemptingFate pledged to see New Moon as many times as possible during a day]] if the donation total rose to 100K. He had to see it six times in all.
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* ''Desert Bus 2022'' again broke the 1 million total and then some, though slightly less than the year before: $1,138,003.
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''And'' the bus veers slightly to the right, requiring constant player supervision.

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''And'' the bus veers slightly to the right, requiring constant right [[ObviousRulePatch so that the player supervision.can't just use something to automatically hold the driving button down]].
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* ''Desert Bus 2021'' also broke the 1 million total and then some, raising $1,189,143.
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* IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming: ''Desert Bus for Hope'', ''Desert Bus for Hope 2: [[Film/DieHard Bus Harder]]'', ''Desert Bus for Hope 3: [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyVI It's Desert Bus 6 In Japan]]'', ''[[StarWars Desert Bus IV: A New Hope]]'', ''[[Film/{{Se7en}} De5ert]] Bus for Hope'', ''Desert Bus for Hope 6: [[BrickJoke Desert Bus 3 in America]]'', ''[[Film/JamesBond Desert Bus 007]]'', ''Desert Bus 8'', ''Desert Bus 9'', ''DBX'', ''[[StoppedNumberingSequels Desert Bus for Hope 2017]]'', ''Desert Bus for Hope 2018'', ''[[VideoGame/UntitledGooseGame Untitled Bus Fundraiser]] by Desert Bus for Hope''.

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* IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming: ''Desert Bus for Hope'', ''Desert Bus for Hope 2: [[Film/DieHard Bus Harder]]'', ''Desert Bus for Hope 3: [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyVI It's Desert Bus 6 In Japan]]'', ''[[StarWars ''[[Franchise/StarWars Desert Bus IV: A New Hope]]'', ''[[Film/{{Se7en}} De5ert]] Bus for Hope'', ''Desert Bus for Hope 6: [[BrickJoke Desert Bus 3 in America]]'', ''[[Film/JamesBond Desert Bus 007]]'', ''Desert Bus 8'', ''Desert Bus 9'', ''DBX'', ''[[StoppedNumberingSequels Desert Bus for Hope 2017]]'', ''Desert Bus for Hope 2018'', ''[[VideoGame/UntitledGooseGame Untitled Bus Fundraiser]] by Desert Bus for Hope''.



* MemeticMutation:[[invoked]] They reference a lot of memes, thanks to the participation from the online chat. The ''LRR'' crew is constantly 'appoint', [[JustForFun/{{Rickroll}} Rick-rolls]] and [[JustForFun/CaramelldansenVid Carmelldansen]] pop up from time to time, and ''Desert Bus 4'' introduced their helpful [[StarWars Bothans, many of which have died to help the childrens.]]

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* MemeticMutation:[[invoked]] They reference a lot of memes, thanks to the participation from the online chat. The ''LRR'' crew is constantly 'appoint', [[JustForFun/{{Rickroll}} Rick-rolls]] and [[JustForFun/CaramelldansenVid Carmelldansen]] pop up from time to time, and ''Desert Bus 4'' introduced their helpful [[StarWars [[Franchise/StarWars Bothans, many of which have died to help the childrens.]]
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* ''Desert Bus 2020'', despite being held remotely due to ongoing UsefulNotes/COVID19Pandemic, was the first to break the 1 million total - raising $1,052,902[[note]]the oryginally reported total was $986,793, but merch sales brought additional 65 grand[[/note]] and bringing the lifetime total to over $7,000,000.

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* ''Desert Bus 2020'', despite being held remotely due to ongoing UsefulNotes/COVID19Pandemic, was the first to break the 1 million total - raising $1,052,902[[note]]the oryginally originally reported total was $986,793, but merch sales brought additional 65 grand[[/note]] and bringing the lifetime total to over $7,000,000.
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* ''Desert Bus 2020'', despite being held remotely due to ongoing UsefulNotes/COVID19Pandemic, raised even more - $986,793, bringing the lifetime total to over $7,000,000.

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* ''Desert Bus 2020'', despite being held remotely due to ongoing UsefulNotes/COVID19Pandemic, raised even more was the first to break the 1 million total - raising $1,052,902[[note]]the oryginally reported total was $986,793, but merch sales brought additional 65 grand[[/note]] and bringing the lifetime total to over $7,000,000.
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* ''Desert Bus 2020'', despite being held remotely due to ongoing UsefulNotes/COVID19Pandemic, raised even more - $986,793, bringing the lifetime total to over $7,000,000.
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* AllBikersAreHellsAngels: Jacob invokes this trope when narrating [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjA2AR2yAL8 how he learned to drink whiskey.]]
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* NoodleIncident: The semi-spontaneous [[Music/{{PSY}} "Gangnam Hell"]] sketch apparently drew some complaints for being [[GoneHorriblyRight legitimately disturbing]], so it has become this, with the bus crew no longer willing to even explain what it was (though it can still be found on Youtube).
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* ManlyTears: The ending of ''De5ert Bus''. Graham just couldn't hold it in and most of the cast went with him. Except for James cause he's a dick.

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* ManlyTears: The ending of ''De5ert ''[=De5ert=] Bus''. Graham just couldn't hold it in and most of the cast went with him. Except for James cause he's a dick.



** DB10 had a few of them (possibly because it was 2016, a memetically crappy year - not to mention the year of the first known instance of an LRR cast member dying). In addition to Alex's speech, there was [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zcglLyiFhkc Paul's wavery-voiced tribute to Leonard Cohen]], a recently deceased hero of his.

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** DB10 [=DB10=] had a few of them (possibly because it was 2016, a memetically crappy year - not to mention the year of the first known instance of an LRR cast member dying). In addition to Alex's speech, there was [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zcglLyiFhkc Paul's wavery-voiced tribute to Leonard Cohen]], a recently deceased hero of his.

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* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: [[InUniverse Used deliberately]] in 2019 with the "Hamfather" sketch, where a waiter would suddenly show up with a slab of ham and serve some to everyone present while music from ''Film/TheGodfather'' played in the background. This repeated several times with slight variations--once with live musicians!--but no one ever acted like it was unusual, and once the ham-serving ended they went straight back to what they were doing as if nothing happened. No one on-set even acknowledged the existence of this bit until after the last "episode," when they explained the whole concept.


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* NonSequitur: The "Hamfather" sketch in [=DB19=], where a waiter would suddenly show up with a slab of ham and serve some to everyone present while music from ''Film/TheGodfather'' played in the background. This repeated several times with slight variations--once with live musicians!--but no one ever acted like it was unusual, and once the ham-serving ended they went straight back to what they were doing as if nothing happened. No one on-set even acknowledged the existence of this bit until after the last "episode," when they explained the whole concept.

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* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: [[InUniverse Used deliberately]] in 2019 with the "Hamfather" sketch, where a waiter would suddenly show up with a slab of ham and serve some to everyone present while music from ''Film/TheGodfather'' played in the background. This repeated several times with slight variations--once with live musicians!--but no one ever acted like it was unusual, and once the ham-serving ended they went straight back to what they were doing as if nothing happened. No one on-set even acknowledged the existence of this bit until after the last "episode," when they explained the whole concept.



* CreepyDoll: [[http://desertbus.org/2011/11/23/creepy-doll-art-contest/ The one and only.]]

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* CreepyDoll: [[http://desertbus.org/2011/11/23/creepy-doll-art-contest/ The one and only.]]]] Was literally called "Creepy Doll" until he was renamed "Harry."
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* ''Desert Bus 2019'' surpassed the record once again, raising $864,415 and reaching the $6,000,000 lifetime total.

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