History WebVideo / LoadingReadyRun

** A biweekly talk/variety show, titled ''[=LoadingReadyLive!=]''

* ''WebVideo/LoadingReadyLive'': As part of a stretch goal from the Kickstarter, the team now streams several hours of content a week on Twitch. LRL includes:

** A biweekly talk/variety show, uncreatively titled ''[=LoadingReadyLive=]''

* ''WebVideo/DesertBusForHope'': A [[{{Telethon}} once-a-year show]] aimed at raising money for ''[[Webcomic/PennyArcade Child's Play]]''. The crew plays [[VideoGame/PennAndTellersSmokeAndMirrors one incredibly boring video game]] non-stop for as long as people will keep on paying them to do it. The most recent iteration took over six ''days''.

* BreakingTheFourthWall: [[http://loadingreadyrun.com/videos/view/231/the_season_4_finale The Season 4 Finale]] broke the FourthWall at the end by having the following exchange:

* ItWillNeverCatchOn: In [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M873ttmTj9w the first episode of The Idiot Room]], Graham muses that due to the nature of his job, he figured that it would be a good idea to make a video blog... a v-blog... a ''vlog?'' Yes, LRR is such a LongRunner that one of their founders may have invented the term 'vlog' without even knowing it... and then later defaulting back to 'video blog' because 'vlog' sounded weird to him.

* SuddenlySexuality: Parodied in [[http://loadingreadyrun.com/videos/view/50/The-Worst-Homosexual The Worst Homosexual]], wherein Morgan suddenly decides that he's gay (because, as Graham summarizes, he's "too good at being straight"). He spends the remainder of the episode trying to be gay, but keeps accidentally sleeping with women.

* NiceHat: The (usual; variants occured) host sign off for Feed Dump:

* ''Webvideo/LoadingReadyRun'': Self-titled sketch comedy show. Began on the team's website and is now hosted at ''Website/TheEscapist'' on Mondays. Officially ended as a weekly project in 2015, and is now only done intermittently. (Relax, guys, they crew's not going anywhere, just focusing on other projects.)

* ''Iron Stomach Challenge'': [[InWhichATropeIsDescribed In which]] a bunch of idiots agree to eat horrible things on video. While [[ScheduleSlip left fallow for quite some time]], they've repeatedly refused to say it's done.

There's also one series that is complete as a part of LRRCast:

In addition, under their Bionic Trousers Media label, the [=LoadingReadyRun=] crew worked on the web reality shows ''WebVideo/StripSearch'' (in collaboration with ''Webcomic/PennyArcade'') and ''Tabletop Deathmatch'' (in collaboration with TabletopGame/CardsAgainstHumanity). They post miscellaneous bonus videos on their website, do Magic: The Gathering Online drafts biweekly for MtGO Academy, and update '''four''' podcasts in the time left over. Even excluding the series without regular update schedules, they really do have a staggering level of output.

* ActingForTwo: This was often the case in the early days of the site, especially when the only actors were Graham and Paul. In the [=LoadingReadyRumble=] (a battle royale of characters from past videos), 25 characters were played by seven people.
** ''[=RapStar 64K=]'' is also rather insane, as only two out of the eight cast members play only one character.

* ButtMonkey: Matt; both in the 'them playing them' videos and in the group in general. Unlike traditional Butt Monkeys, the group defends him if the forums get too vocal with Matt insults, and Matt normally gives as good as he gets. Nonetheless, LRR aren't shy about the trope, and during DB3 a running gag began where Matt was personally blamed for all the world's problems.

* ChekhovsGag: Every Jonny story so far has ended with the line "...and THAT was when I blacked out". [[spoiler: In the third installment he finally explains that this is because he has a crippling fear of heights, and the situations he got into - leaping from one rooftop to another, doing a handstand on the [[ItMakesSenseInContext ÜbderKeg Supreme]], riding a roller-coaster - all triggered his phobia.]]
** Contradicted by WordOfGod in that [[http://loadingreadyrun.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=588540#p588540 Graham said he didn't have an intentional theme related to the blackouts]].
* TheChick: Kathleen.

* CreepyCute: Creepy Doll.

* {{Defictionalization}}: "Clickquest", shown in "[[http://loadingreadyrun.com/videos/view/1919/Crapshots-Ep45-The-Grinder The Grinder]]", can actually be played at <www.clickquest.net>.

** RoadQuest has the [=LRR=] intro tune play anytime Graham giving directions is brought up. While it starts as a text tone, it continues to play when the trip crew get his instructions from things like a rock or a sign. It really hits this status in episode 10, when Alex is pointing out that Graham isn't present to physically enforce his marching orders to drive down 266 km of poorly maintained road that's been shown to have claimed multiple vehicles in the past.

* SuppressedMammaries: Kate did this in Rapidfire 3, [[http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/loadingreadyrun/6637-Rapidfire-3-Episode-5 Episode 5]], so that she could play Bob Ross.
--> '''Kate Stark:''' NEVER AGAIN.
* SuspiciouslySpecificDenial: [[http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/loadingreadyrun/5048-Suspiciously-Good-Movers Staggeringly Fast Movers]] are just really fast. They definitely do '''not''' have a teleporter capable of moving your furniture through space and time. And they '''certainly''' don't have a stable wormhole conduit to the Argon Mines of Thelios 5, which would be necessary to power such a device. [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments Well, they do,]] but [[MundaneUtility they use it for dumping garbage.]]

* WhatTheHellIsThatAccent: In Road Quest Jimmy, the historical reinactor they spent a day with, has an unidentifiable but extremely charming and vaguely "old-timey" accent. According to the Making Of Q&A they never found out what the accent was supposed to be because he ''never once'' broke character in the entire time they interacted with him, including setting up the visit ahead of time.

* StuffyOldSongsAboutTheButtocks: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vCAnxqBcygk "Oh, I've got a butt."]]

* ''WebVideo/DesertBusForHope'': A [[{{Telethon}} once-a-year show]] aimed at raising money for ''[[Webcomic/PennyArcade Child's Play]]''. The crew plays one incredibly boring video game non-stop for as long as people will keep on paying them to do it. The most recent iteration took over six ''days''.

* ''Road Quest'': A road trip series inspired by the ''Series/TopGear'' travel specials. Six of the crew follow the path of the Yukon goldrush north from Victoria more than 3000km... in three cars that they spent less than a collective $10,000 on.

* ''Road Quest'': A road trip series inspired by the ''Series/TopGear'' travel specials. Six of the crew follow the path of the Klondike goldrush north from Victoria more than 3000km... in three cars that they spent less than a collective $10,000 on.

** ''Friday Nights'': Premiered February 23rd, 2012, as a spin-off from ''WebVideo/CommodoreHustle'', produced in association with Creator/WizardsOfTheCoast and centering on the group's enjoyment of ''MagicTheGathering'' as Paul gets into the game. This had it's own sub-spinoff ''Hero's Path'' about Kathleen going insane over the Theros block.

** The existing MagicTheGathering with Graham and James

* RhymesOnADime: Overlaps with PainfulRhyme in [[http://loadingreadyrun.com/videos/view/222/Rebellin Rebellin']], where Graham and Morgan find every excuse to rhyme their sentences with "Jellin'", making them sound to Paul like "really annoying pod people".

* ''[[http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/escapist-news-network Escapist News Network]]'': The original version of Checkpoint, [[CaptainObvious hosted at]] Website/TheEscapist. Began as a kind of Website/TheOnion style [[DeadpanSnarker deadpan snark]] affair, but over time shifted to a more ''Series/MockTheWeek'' boisterous approach when the original approach failed to go over with Website/TheEscapist's audience. Sadly, this style didn't go over much either, and the show was canceled.

** Since Penny Arcade stopped supporting third-party content at the start of 2014, Checkpoint almost got cancelled, but because some extra money was found in the Kickstarter budget, Checkpoint lives on as Checkpoint Plus, live streamed every Monday at 2:00 PM Pacific, with the video going up on LRR's Youtube page by the next day.

* ''WebVideo/FeedDump'': Kathleen (or occasionally, Graham or Cam) plus two guests discuss weird news items and riff wildly. Showed at ''Website/TheEscapist'' on Wednesdays, but all episodes are now hosted on YouTube. The show ended on January 2018, with the crew feeling the format had run its course.

--->'''Youtube Comment:''' I've never seen an arms ''race'' and an arms ''deal'' happen at the same time before.

* SpringtimeForHitler: The first plotline from ''Hustle'' involved the crew releasing clearly staged YouTube videos in a cynical attempt to go viral, and they were put on the platform for real. Then "Nunchuck Jousting" really did get famous, and thanks to being shown on a few TV shows as cutaway gags has been seen by more people than anything else they've done.

* SprintimeForHitler: The first plotline from ''Hustle'' involved the crew releasing clearly staged YouTube videos in a cynical attempt to go viral, and they were put on the platform for real. Then "Nunchuck Jousting" really did get famous, and thanks to being shown on a few TV shows as cutaway gags has been seen by more people than anything else they've done.