Funny / Critical Role: One-Shots

Occasionally the usual Critical Role episode can't happen - maybe Matt is unwell, or some of the players are at a con, or perhaps they all just went to Burning Man. On these occasions the usual episode may be replaced with a one-shot special episode. Sometimes these are set in the usual Critical Role setting of Tal'Dorei, sometimes they are something completely different. Whatever they are, they're always funny.

As a Moments subpage, all spoilers are unmarked as per policy. You Have Been Warned.

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In-Universe One-Shots

Critical Rejects (Part 1)

• While describing Snugglelord's background, Zac states that his power comes from the Overlord of Geek and Sundry. Matt deadpans that that would make it an infernal pact.
• Overlord Zac's intro hints at what the viewers were in for.
  Zac: I AM THE SNUGGLELORD! THERE HAVE BEEN NONE BEFORE ME AND THERE WILL BE NONE AFTER, I AM THE SNUGGLELORD!
  Matt: It has been decreed, here and now.
  • During this, Erika is glomping Zac adorably.
• It should be noted here that this one-shot is more of a workshop, with Matt explaining the game mechanics and answering viewer questions while Liam, Orion and Marisha help out the guests with character creation - and they're done well before Matt is. They spend the remainder of his time taking as much of the piss as they can.
  Matt: So to get people to start roleplaying - for one thing I wanna mention, it's not necessary...
  Marisha: BULLSHIT! It's in the title!
• Matt is showing how you could help players immerse themselves by putting them on the spot and does it to Liam who replies with a sort of whiny cartoony voice that sells it.
• The party tries to get past a locked door. Ulfgar tries to break it down but Ify rolls too low and so he bounces off. Salty Pete tries to pick the lock but instead breaks his pick because Dan rolls a one. Snugglelord sets the whole house on fire, and when the occupant tries to flee the smoke, she can't because of the pick blocking the lock. Ulfgar tries to break it down again, with a headbutt and fails a second time. The door opens when the occupant opens it due to the headbutt knocking the pin out. This prompted comments about the door being a boss fight.
• Dan wants his character, Salty Pete, to make an impressive acrobats roll to grab a treasure. He rolls a one, and so Matt narrates his "ninja-run" and how he jumps too high to grab the treasure. So he futilely stretches for it while overshooting it, lands in its moat, which is filled with acid, and then rolls against the far wall.
• At the end of the one-off adventure Matt improvises, Ulfgar offers a female Halfling NPC to join their group. Matt immediately tells them to make a persuasion check... against her father.
  • Having failed at this, Salty Pete then asks if instead they can have the old crone with the tiny violin (actually a Brick Joke that came out of Marisha's phone going off during the game, turned into one of the villagers). The crone is extremely excited that anyone even noticed her, and joins the group at the end of the session.
• Liam cut the twins' birthday cake with his dagger, prompting comments of it being a Sneak Attack.

Critical Rejects (Part 2)

• Like the first part of this installment in episode 12, far too many moments to count. The main gimmick of the chat suggesting what happened next at any moment provided the majority of them. They run from shoutouts to Mobile Fighter G Gundam that lead to a party-wide sex change to Snugglelord receiving a shield in the form of a body pillow, of himself.
• Matt's slow descent into madness over the course of the session, as a result of said gimmick. Particularly his "oh god no" reaction to Salty Pete getting a Deck of Many Things.
• One chat-mandated moment needs special mention: Salty Pete looks at his hand to find his lost fingers are back. When he tries to touch them, they vanish, and he hears the laughter of the Pit Fiend hunting him (due to the Deck of Many Things) in the distance. The monotone text-to-speech voice that reads the chat messages makes it even funnier.
• Snugglelord is the Chat Room's Butt-Monkey. Most of their jokes are at his expense, and Zac thinks that the moderators are responsible because they were in-jokes.
• The Gender Flip curse everyone is hit by even extends to Ulfgar's swords, as "Linda" and "Regina" become "Larry" and "Robert".
• Marisha revealing during the "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue that Edna was the old lady that got murdered at the hands of Tiberius in episode 25.
• An accidental one. Right after Matt describes Ulfgar's killing blow against the Gibbering Mouther, there is a long silence before Dan's phone goes off. What is his ringtone? The MLG airhorn.

Battle Royale I

• During the Q&A, Matt tells the story of Dork the Ox, an ox Vox Machina bought during the pre-stream days. He proved difficult to transport, so one day Grog tried to shove him into the Bag of Holding. After a few strength checks, he succeeded... and then the group found out the hard way that the Bag of Holding doesn't have an air supply. And that was the end of Dork the Ox. Then they butchered him and put the meat in the Bag of Holding... and learned that the Bag of Holding isn't refrigerated.
• Mittens, the cat of divine destruction. Sending goliaths, tieflings, and air ashari to a graveyard near you.
• Matt's disappointment that his freaky pit of skeleton hands sees absolutely no action during the fight. Despite the fact that the pit is quite sizable and in the center of the battlefield.
• Keyleth rising about seventy feet into the air as a flying eagle, only to fall back to the earth like a sack of dirty laundry when Zahra very calmly and professionally hits Keyleth with a spell bolt, about three seconds later.
• The lengths that Zahra and Kashaw go to take Grog out of the fight, from attempting to blind him, bind him, freeze him, dazzle him, and simply banish him, only for them all to fail spectacularly.

The Goblins: A Pathfinder One-Shot

• The entire premise of Matt Mercer running a Pathfinder Oneshot with Critical Role regulars Marisha (Snizzler, alchemist) and Taliesin (Mezek, monk) along with guest players Phil Lamarr (Browntooth, rogue), Ivan Van Norman (Grizznak, sorcerer), and Ashly Burch (Piglet, barbarian) playing Chaotic Stupid goblins. Matt could barely hold it together as the party got into their roles.
• All of the players have special Goblin Songs they've composed for themselves that allow them to reroll, provided they sing the song on the stream. All of them get to sing their songs, which are amazing. With the exception of Taliesin, none of their rolls improve, which is hilarious. Ashly's is to the tune of "Kiss From A Rose". Marisha's is about how much she loves blowing things up and ends with her greeting Homeland Security.
• Grizznak and Snizzler both blow their Survival checks and lead the party, respectively, into a bramble thicket and deeper into the bramble thicket towards a tree that promptly gets struck by lightning. It's Mezek who leads them out despite (because of?) his perpetual state of drunkenness.
• Mezek decides to play in the mud. Grizznak decides to start kicking mud in his face. The soundtrack picks a beautiful moment.
  Grizznak: What you gonna do about it, Mezek? What you gonna do about it?
  Mezek: Wait 'til you're asleep. (ominous crack of thunder)
• At Snizzler's suggestion, they collectively pass a Stealth check by pretending to be garden gnomes. The guards passing by, unaware that they're goblins, make fun of them and call them "stupid gnomes," which the party takes pretty personally.
  Everyone: (grumpy muttering)
  Mezek: Two arms, two legs, one head. We'll find him again.
  Everyone: (enthusiasm)
• The goblins, using a tree branch, try to build a boat. They end up with something rather more like (as Matt describes it) a pool noodle.
• Snizzler manages to roll a negative one on a swim check, which turns into Snizzler trying to get away from the water by stepping on everyone else's heads.
  • And once Snizzler gets across the river, he throws up, and Mezek and Grizznak Ro-sham-bo for the vomit. Mezek wins, and later uses the vomit as a makeshift oil slick.
• Browntooth is good at stealth.
  Matt: I need you all to roll stealth checks.
  Phil: 40.
  Matt: You vanish from time and space!
• Sneaking into the grate after Browntooth's ridiculous stealth check produces this wonderful exchange, which puts Taliesin into hysterics:
  Browntooth: Sometimes it pays to be quiet.
  Piglet: I think we've all learned a valuable lesson.
  Mezek: That's a very fair point.
  Browntooth: Now, who's going to rip off this grate?
  Piglet: (screaming) ME!
• The goblins spot a shiny thing and promptly fight over it. Piglet wins what turns out to be a human ribcage.
  Matt: You smell it. Marrow hasn't been tapped yet.
  Piglet: Can I eat it?
  Matt: You can.
  Piglet: I eat it.
• Mezek makes an attack.
  Mezek: I have Stunning Fist.
  Browntooth: And lovely eyes.
  Mezek: One of them's mine!
• Piglet screaming "I WANNA RAGE!" in a squeaky voice. Grog would be proud.
• Piglet, while raging, takes a bite out of a Gelatinous Cube, and assures Snizzler that it's delicious as the acid is dissolving her face.
• Taliesin wants to invent a cocktail based on the Gelatinous Cube called the "Numb Yum."
• Snizzler stuffs a lit, fiery bomb into the Cube right next to Grizznak, who's been absorbed and paralysed by the Cube, and gives him a cheery thumbs-up before it explodes. Ivan mentions that he's screaming internally.
• Snizzler shrinks himself so that the other can throw him to the other side of a gap, but before they do that, they make fun of him for being tiny and Grizznak starts playing with him like a doll. Marisha's sounds of goblin-y outrage are fantastic.
  Matt: You immediately regret this decision.
• Taliesin bequeathing his "Golden Snitch" die to Ashly, due to her rolling a natural 20.
  Taliesin: Golden Snitch man, don't fuck with the Golden Snitch.
  • Almost seconds afterwards, Marisha (who is at times the anti-Taliesin when it comes to rolls) needed to roll an acrobatic roll to save herself, with everyone hoping her Snitch would work the same way. It didn't.
  Taliesin: I was about to say, "that Golden Snitch never rolls well, though..." (everyone breaks into laughter)
  • Marisha continues to make mediocre rolls to save herself, causing the party to laugh even more at her bad luck.
• Matt realizes part of the way through explaining the flammability of wet feces what he is saying.
  Matt: We are having this conversation.
  Taliesin: No, I, I’m really excited that this is a thing that’s happening right now.
• The five-goblin Totem Pole Trench, which is surprisingly successful... for a while.
  • Grizznak has the highest charisma, so he gets to stand on top. This leads to Voltron shoutouts. "You are the legs, you are the torso, and I'll form the head. Together, we are Globtron."
  • A drunken guy pats them on the back, causing their disguise to "take a knee" and Grizznak successfully bluffs the guy into thinking him a religious individual.
• Mezek steals a pouch from a drunk man. It turns out to contain 8 gold pieces and a snuffbox.
  Mezek: Ooh! I eat all the snuff.
• Grizznak tries a Flame Sneeze to show up the wizard adventurer but rolls poorly. He sings his Theme Song Power Up for a better roll and gets a Nat 1. This results in him literally sneezes himself into unconsciousness.
• The final battle, which veers straight into Black Comedy as Mezek and Piglet decapitate no less than three of the enemy PCs with blunt instruments. It's basically Looney Tunes directed by Sam Peckinpah.
• Snizzler's last act before they leave the city is to throw a bomb at the church and cackle as the burning interior tapestries send a pair of hiding humans into the street, where they are immediately killed by other goblins. Taliesin is so proud.
  • As the church goes up, Browntooth/Phil Lamarr begins singing.
  Browntooth: A-MAZE-ing grace, how sweet the sound-
• At the very end, Matt reveals that the goblins faced off against and viciously slaughtered the main characters of the Pathfinder comics, Paizo's Iconic PCs, in their canonical first adventure. Marisha is delighted by the idea that somewhere in spacetime is a group of players demoralized because they got a party-wipe at level 2.
  Taliesin: Hey, guys, congratulations: we are the darkest timeline.

Battle Royale II

• The battle royale's organizer is revealed to be... The Beyonder?
• Keyleth's anguished declaration of love to Vax after she ruthlessly kicks his barely alive body into a lava pit.
  • As Vax sinks to his fiery death in the lava he raises his hand above the lava's surface and gives her the middle finger.
• Vax sics his poisonous snake belt, Simon, on Keyleth in what should be a tense scene where Keyleth is trapped in an enclosed space with a lethal creature, only for Keyleth to totally misinterpret the vibes going on and courteously talk to the snake.
  Keyleth: Hello, Simon!
• The Beyonder accidentally forgetting to restore the losers to full health after the battle.

The Screw Job

• Sam's character, Obby the Rat, is a fountain of hilarity:
  • For starters, his accent is ridiculous.
  Sam/Obby: Obby the Rat is now realizing he must maintain accent for 3 hours. With limited accent capabilities.
  • His response to Dren's haikus
  Obby: I'm Obby the Rat/You know why they call me that?/Cause I hate haiku.
  • Related to the above:
  Dren: Do you guys wanna hear a haiku I wrote?
  Tarvis: A haiku?
  Delweth: What the fuck is a haiku?
  Obby: It is a 7-5-7 meter poem.
  Dren: Well, 5-7-5.
  Obby: Not where I'm from.
  • He attempts to use the blood sigils keyed to the Bluebottom bloodline, claiming he could be related as he has "a vast lineage."
  • When Devan finds a secret door, invalidating the need for the risky climbing Obby just did, Tarvis makes her hug the dwarf. While he is covered in pee.
  Obby: (spreads arms) It's okay, I am frequently used as punishment for everything.
  • His many reasons for why he is called Obby the Rat, including the aforementioned "I hate haiku" moment. They range from the expected: "Because I am small like rat"; to the absurd: "Because I hate art"; to the weird, but mundane: "Because Obby is actually short for Obenthal, it's a nickname".
• Obby and Dren go to investigate the library. Obby rolls high for an investigation check on the bookshelves and finds amidst the books on history and magic... an erotic novel. He gives it to Dren. Which leads to this moment when the group meet up again.
  Obby: We found...
  Dren: (cutting him off) Nothing! There was nothing!
• Liam describes The Shrew's magic room as "Taliesin Jaffe's wet dream".
• Devan triggers a trap and is teleported inside a glass tank of water full of toxic fish. In a tense moment, the party rushes in to save her, hammering the glass tank with everything they have. Devan spends her rounds trying, but failing, to break her bound hands free (the rest of the party bound her hands earlier). For several rounds this goes on and the tank still holds, it seems like Devan is doomed... and then Laura remembers she has Misty Step and can just bamf out of the tank, rendering all that effort for nothing.
  • Tarvis is annoyed,and breaks the glass anyway so she gets pelted with fish and water whilst on the ground.
• Delweth's explaining how she punishes betrayal by flaying and wearing the skin of the traitor. She goes into great detail how she could wear Devan's skin as a hat but wishes there was enough so she could make a skirt.
• The Running Gag of Obby's name being said wrong to the point that Delweth says Obby should kill Dren just for getting it wrong the most.
• Travis' character is just named Tarvis. Lampshaded by Liam in his narrated intro: "Yes, that's the name Travis went with." He later explains that Travis spent weeks putting off naming the character before finally choosing.
  • Tarvis is built up in the intro as this amazing assassin who The Clasp expects great things from. Travis then proceeds to roll low for pretty much the entire session.
  • He ties Wil Wheaton's Thorbir for the most Natural 1s rolled in a single session (6). He gets progressively more upset with each one.
• Tarvis and the others yell at Dren for betraying The Clasp. Dren retorts that she never wanted to be an assassin, she wanted to be a poet.
• Liam ends up having his own version of the Vax/Vex problem: Three of his players have names that begin with "D", and he keeps confusing them.
• Liam describes a dead rat being smeared by a door. Travis and Mary simultaneously turn to Sam and say "Obby, your cousin."
  Obby: Not related.
  Dren: I thought you said you had a vast lineage?
  Obby: That one I knew particularly.
• Dren and her haikus are adorably funny.
  • Speaking of Dren, her complete inability to hide how much she cares about Devan borders on Most Definitely Not a Villain territory.
    • One of her attempts involves loudly proclaiming they should use Devan as a human shield against a trap.

Battle Royale III (Level 17)

• About midway through the session, the cast are confused to realise that the warpaint on Travis' face has been slowly fading, as if he's absorbing it somehow.
• The sheer schadenfreude of Taliesin Jaffe, God of Dice, rolling multiple nat 1s and 2s and getting eliminated first of the PCs.
  • Opposite the above, the increasing surprise/exasperation the rest of the table expresses at Travis' consistently high rolls throughout the entire battle.
• More moments of Black Comedy involving Trinket. First, when he gets set on fire, Sam makes a blink-and-you'll-miss-it "only you can prevent forest fires" joke. Then, on Laura's turn, she has Trinket jump in the pool to douse the flames. While this works, Trinket finds out the hard way that the liquid in the pool is actually acid.
• Vex traps Grog in the necklace, so he attacks the interior of the necklace - and breaks out. Travis only did this because Grog is an idiot, the last thing he expected was for it to actually work.
• Everyone's faces when they realize it's down to Tary and Grog.
• With 1 hitpoint left, Grog decides to draw from the Deck of Many Things - five times. To everyone's increasing bewilderment (Travis included), not only does he avoid being horribly cursed, but he gets a nifty weapon, a knight companion to help him fight and extra hitpoints. (Four pulls by Travis, the last one by Laura - "I hope I cursed you, please let me have cursed you!")
  • He first draws Ruin - a cliff exploding and body plummeting to their doom. Everyone explodes with laughter, proclaiming this card simply ends the game. Instead Grog would just lose all of his personal wealth.
  • Second card he draws is Rogue (turns an ally against you), and Matt describes the hypothetical scenario of Grog returning from the battle to be backstabbed by Uncle Wilhand.
  • Star increases one ability score by 2, which he chooses to increase Constitution and instantly gains 17 hit points. Fourth is Key, which gets him a Greatsword of Life Stealing - which unfortunately requires a 30-minute attunement.
  • The knight Grog summons is expected to be a shortly-dispatched Red Shirt by everyone, Grog included. He not only survives Keyleth's attack on him but the subsequent electrical trap (making the save while Keyleth fails, no less), only finally going down when Taryon (literally) ices him with a Prismatic Spray. Everyone is reduced to hysterics at his increasingly-improbable survival.
• Tary's plan for the battle? Use the Force Sphere made to imprison enemies on himself, suffering 5d4 of damage, and have Doty carry him around while the others kill each other. He doesn't even get his next turn before the sphere is taken from Doty and thrown around like a rubber ball. The fact that it actually worked might make it even funnier.

Bar Room Blitz!

• Sam as DM is always ramping up the humor.
  • Notably, he put double-digit NPCs in his first map ever as DM. Not a smart move, but oh so funny.
  • The bar's name: Ass Sailor. The "C" and "R" fell off because this isn't Critical Role.
• The very first interaction of the session is comedy gold.
  Gryffin: Do you have any scotch?
  Valerie [Sam's NPC]: I have a menu.
  Sam: [Out-of-character] I'm over-prepared. ...Oh god I've lost the menu. Oh god everything's gone wrong one minute into the show. Oh god...
  Valerie: [Back in character, seamlessly] We have ale.
• Kingston spills his life story.
  Kingston: So I... left my family and the travelling circus and found myself a wife, Chloris. We wed, and together I wrote some of the best books the land has ever seen.
  Liam: Jayne is quietly digging her fingernails into her leg to stop from screaming.
• Kingston's attraction to Clothesline leads to...unfortunate moments
  Kingston: I'm not saying I have a type, but my preferred terrain is a litter box.
  • Kingston also provokes the first attack roll by hitting on Clothesline
    Clothesline: You are this close from a claw in your goddamn eye Kingston. So choose the next few words carefully!
    Kingston: Catnip and chill?
    Ashly: Can I attack Kingston?
• Kingston and Gryffin talking about Kingston's books. One of the most notables is Doors: The Idiot's Enemy.
• Kingston, in his "Fuck the gods" speech, says "The Chained Oblivion took your mom to second base and never called her again!" to Jayne, who is, unbeknownst to him, a fourth-generation Cleric of the Chained Oblivion.
• Frankfurt demanding his "one courier pigeon" and demanding to speak with his lawyer.
• Mary has the best way of saying "kitty kitty kitty".
  • Mary switches from a posh speaking lady to a uncouth person from Joisey whenever Gryffin has a Wild Magic surge.
• Brian doesn't care as long as he can hit Frankfurt - and Frankfurt's dice are blessed, making all the bard's spells miss.
• The guy with no pants, the old man, is dead. One of the whores just killed him with a crossbow.
• Jayne kicks Kingston in the ass... and casts the Light cantrip on his ass, sending him tumbling down the trap-door with light shining out of his butt. Which continues to shine for an hour. It's technically a legal move, since Light can affect anything the caster touches.
• In the basement, Sam gives Gryffin the choice of checking something on the left, or the right. When she chooses left, Sam hands Mary a note and asks her to read it out loud.
  Mary: [Reads] Oh, there's a fucking snake on the left. Oops! The fucking snake just bit me. I take 1 point of damage and I make Con save vs 10.
  Ashley: It literally says "a fucking snake", by the way.
• Jayne lights up the end of her whip.
  Gryffin: Oh, so it's finally useful.
  Jayne: [Creepy Monotone] You're not here, you bitch.
• Upon hearing how many dice worth of damage she is about to receive, Ashly starts singing "Amazing Grace." Mary immediately joins in for the harmonies, and impressively keeps up even when Ashly improvises the lyrics:
  Both: I have three / hit points / Just three / hit points / I am / about / to dieeee...
• The moment Liam brags about not having taken any damage the entire fight, Ashly scores two critical hits on Jayne. Liam's reaction to the second nat 20 is what sells it:
  Liam: WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT? GET OUT OF THIS BUILDING, GET OUT OF THIS BUILDING.
• Kingston hates Frankfurt because he slept with his wife. Clothesline hates Jayne because she's crazy, dangerous and almost killed her. Frankfurt hates Jayne because she is a follower of the Chained Oblivion, and that cult wiped out Frankfurt's village, leading to him swearing an oath of revenge. When they reach the boss fight, they basically spent a lot of their resources and took heavy damage fighting themselves, and keep doing it and only Gryffin is actually fighting the boss. Sam lampshades it, then Liam follows it up later.
  Liam: This salamander is like, "Look at these assholes fighting amongst themselves!"

Bunions and Flagons

• A game run by Travis playing as Grog running a game of "Bunions and Flagons" for Vex, Vax, Percy, and Scanlan. Grog is the "Bunion Master".
• Grog has made his own adorably childish character art complete with horribly misspelled names for the group (except for Pike, whose name is spelled correctly and even has a little flower drawn over the "i" in her name).
  • Eventually, the in-game nametags are changed to match.
• The first map that appears during the game is a literal cock and balls, and the second is a pair of breasts that the group initially perceives as an egg.
• Scanlan's character voice for when he's speaking as in-game Scanlan.
• Apparently, all the furniture in Scanlan's Magnificent Manson is made of bear skins. But only ever since he met Vex.
• Vax spends most of the game complaining that he doesn't know how to play and trying to cast spells he doesn't actually know.
• Vax tells the group how he had a weird dream about dying and spending the past three weeks as a dad to some kids he didn't know and driving around in a strange "horseless carriage".
• Grog as "Bunion Master" keeps changing the rules to match how he feels about the player characters. Scanlan gets away with turning invisible and generally having a... forgiving approach to his own effectiveness, but Vax's high Acrobatics roll to jump over a trap is arbitrarily inadequate, Grog rules his Perception roll resulted in "staring at the wall like a nerd," and even standing up to face the same direction as his teammates requires multiple turns and several Dexterity checks.
• Percy is skeptical about how easy it is to open the doors in Grog's game and claims it's not realistic.
  Percy: So nothing happened when we opened the door?
  Grog: No.
  Percy: Are you sure you're doing it right?
  • Vax then goes on to mention that his bathroom door hits him for at least one point of damage when he uses it. Percy agrees because that is how doors are made.
• Scanlan turns into a dung beetle and attempts to fly through a metal hatch. Because he failed to realize the hatch was a solid metal slab (he thought it had bars) and was, despite being unlocked, still closed, Grog describes him ineffectually banging against the metal, and rules that he takes "5 points of Stupid Damage" for this action.
• Everyone goes up against "perfectly picked" foes: Percy battles a mindflayer (which he utterly destroys), Vax a cambion, Vex a majestic unicorn (by all appearances just to troll Laura), and Scanlan "a fuckin' T. Rex" - a fight that he, for his own reasons, undertakes in the form of a gibbon.
  Taliesin: I have been waiting for gibbon versus T. Rex my entire life.
• At one point Travis speaks as Grog speaking as Trinket, which causes everyone at the table to fall into fits of laughter. Sam in particular is laughing so hard he can't physically speak for about 30 seconds. As is so often the case, context here makes it even better. Scanlan engages in a bit of wish fulfilment and poisons Trinket with a meatball, causing the bear to take significant damage and nearly die. Vex heals the bear and casts Speak With Animals to figure out what happened.
  Vex: I go 'Trinket, what happened?!'
  Trinket: I had the worst stomachache! I dunno, I ate that meatball from Scanlan and I fuckin' died.
  (A pause as everyone frantically struggles to remain in-character, with varying degrees of success.)
  Trinket: I don't wanna make any assumptions...
  (Everyone breaks spectacularly)
  Vex: Scanlan! Did you kill my bear?!
  Scanlan: (incoherent squeaking noises, too busy sobbing with laughter to manage a response)
  Percy: (also through sobbing laughter) Did you perpetrate this grizzly murder?
  • Travis made the unfortunate mistake of taking a sip of this drink just as Sam attempted and failed to answer Vex's question, leading to him having to spit it back into his cup behind the DM screen to avoid a spit take after Percy asked his own question. Witnessing this only breaks Liam even further.
• To see who "wins" the game, the players have to try to guess Grog's favorite color.
  Vex: Red.
  Percy: Six.
  Scanlan: Ale.
  Vax: Titties.
  Grog: Percy guessed it. It was six.
  Vax: Not titties!? I don't know you anymore.
  Percy: I've always known you. That's why I will be the one to end you.

Trinket's Honey Heist

• Waffle's role is the Hacker, despite there being nothing to hack in a fantasy world. Over the course of the session, Taliesin takes the word "hack" as far as he can, at one point even attempting to "hack" a sword with his claws.
  • Similarly, Liam Las Vegas is The Driver...which mostly amounts to carts and wheelbarrows. Keep in mind, he's also the smallest member of the cast, as a honey badger.
• After Waffle, Cookie, and Liam Las Vegas get back from stealing hats, they find Trinket explaining to Peddy what it's like when he's inside Vex's magic necklace. Apparently he watches the outside like TV.
• Who are the contestants in the honey competition? The Slayer's Cake (represented by Pike,) Reginald's daughter (whom neither Matt nor Marisha can remember the name of)... and Viktor, who added black powder to his honey.
  • Cookie and Waffle debate eating Pike. Trinket tries to explain that she's a cleric that can beat them all up...which gets Liam Las Vegas to assume he means she's poisonous if they bite into her. Trinket decides Sure, Let's Go with That.
  • Trinket later tries to warn that they need to keep the black powder honey away from fire. Because Waffle is carrying said honey in his fez, they initially think they need to keep any fezzes away from fire.
• The bears encounter two cows named Bonnie and Cow. Trinket recognizes from their branding that they were among the cows Vox Machina saved from the Roc... and demands the group kill them.
  Trinket: Wait a minute... I know those cows. Those cows are assholes. Finish them off!
• Peddy's continual checking to see if the other bears want him to "leave no witnesses." Taken up a notch once he gets a stick that can magically turn into a giant tree trunk.
• One of the mechanics of the Honey Heist game involves invoking a flashback to manipulate your stats. At one point, Liam Las Vegas and Peddy Tuxpin invoke a flashback to the beginning of the episode.
• Waffle, via hacking some "scrying mirrors" (read: security cameras) eventually gains the ability to teleport to honey he can see, an ability that causes a Psychic Nosebleed. The first time he does it, Trinket concentrates really hard and tries to do the same.
  Peddy Tuxpin: No, no, no, you need a nosebleed! [As Sam] I hit him in the nose!
• The "code" for the door to the honey vault consists of a ticked-off letter and a South Korean singing fish game.
  Matt: I'm so proud that I married you.
• Tova returns, working for a council of bears known as the High Bear Nation.
• Liam Las Vegas saying to Tova "From one extremely high bear to another." And everyone just loses it.
• Peddy Tuxpin wrestling with a really drunk Grog then speaking "Panda" to him and Grog apparently understood what he said. It ends with the two crying and hugging then Grog falling drunkenly back to sleep.
• As the rest of the bears make their escape and Trinket stays behind:
  Liam Las Vegas: Tell her to fuckin' remember Hunter's Mark!
  Trinket: I do. Constantly.

Battle Royale IV (Level 20)

• Taliesin provides a master class in trolling with Silence and Spider Climb denying multiple effects Matt tried to make him roll for. Silent, deaf, and immune to Reverse Gravity is a wickedly funny combination.
• Marisha's gleeful abuse of Unlimited Wild Shape is just as trolltastic.
• However, they are both outdone by Liam repeatedly texting Matt his latest hiding spot, being completely unseen for 3/4 of the battle.
• Sam making Scanlan's Major Image ice-skate across the water because he always wanted to.
• Reverse Gravity Earth Elemental bouncing off the ceiling.
• Sam's comment about "Feebleminded Keyleth being more effective".
• Scanlan pulled off Irresistible Dance on Keyleth, and the result was a stomp-dancing Earth Elemental.
• After succeeding on a Plane Shift against Grog, Keyleth asks him where he'd like to die. When he suggests the Feywild, she decides that's too nice and teleports him directly in front of the Kraken from Episode 88.
• Sam, and eventually everyone, excitedly describing every successful attack as "First blood!"

Honey Heist 2: Electric Beargaloo

• Why is Trinket being left home alone this time? Scanlan "accidentally" booked a casino in Dalen's Closet that doesn't allow bears.
• Marisha's impression of an annoyed Vex calling for Percy.
  • Marisha's spot-on impression of Marlon Brando in The Godfather as Vinnie The Pooh. Which later causes her to break down, as she didn't expect to have to voice him for so long.
• Liam reacts to one pun by nearly doing a Spit Take.
• The group all gets new roles, except for Trinket who remains The Thief. His thief's tools? Silverware he stole from Whitestone's kitchen, including corn skewers and a meat cleaver.
  • Peddy is now The Driver, excused as having gotten lessons from Liam Las Vegas. He later invents a tandem bicycle.
  • Waffle is now The Brains while Cookie is the Face. Cookie somehow manages to pass himself off as a tourist without needing a hat. Which includes scenes of a bear trying to speak French.
  • Liam Las Vegas is overjoyed to be the muscle, as he is a honey badger.
• When everyone rolls for hats, Trinket gets a cowboy hat. Matt's reaction to a passphrase being "It's high noon" is to glare at Liam.
• The entirety of the section with the polar bears who want people to stop hammering their dicks.
• Sam provides the group with fabric to put in their mouths to help keep them quiet. He refers to them as "mufflers", and Marisha collapses out of shot.
  • Why did they need "mufflers"? Peddy invented a multi-bear bicycle for them to ride in the hallways, in his role as the driver, but it only works if they blow raspberries while riding it.
• The group tries to search through crates and proceeds to roll miserably for their attempts...except for Peddy, who decided to open the crates by sitting on them with his big panda butt. And finds a big gun.
• The mysterious substance invented by Hatori Bongo? Balootonium, which the group constantly mistakes for blue-tonium or assumes must be blue. Hatori has to pause mid evil rant to correct them.

Song of the Lorelei

• Sam decides to have Benicio speak in a significantly deeper voice then his normal voice, causing all of the table to burst out into laughter at Sam's attempts to sound more like Travis. He even jokes that he always talked this way.
• Not to be out done, Travis' voice for Lawrence sounds so Camp Gay that it is just as funny as Sam trying to sound like Travis, since it sounds like Travis trying to imitate Sam.
• While looking throught their rooms, TJ as Lucius finds that the attackers used one of his books as toilet paper, using a nearby chamberpot. As soon as he confronts Benicio about this including if he murdered everyone in the castle, Liam calls for him to make an insight check.
  TJ: Natural 19.
  Liam: He's full of shit, he killed them all.
  (everyone starts to shout and bust out laughing)
  Travis: Madness! Transform!
• Sam as Benicio decides to give himself some charcoal warpaint, prompting this:
  Travis: It's raining, you moron.
  Sam: Oh shit!
  Liam: No, actually, in the last five to ten minutes, it has slowed to a drizzle.
  Travis: It is drizzling, you moron.
  Liam: Now it's misting at this point.
  Travis: It's only misting, it should last a good while.
• Laura's freakout upon seeing Lucius spam Guidance and finding out it's a Cantrip. She really wishes Jester took it now. It gets to the point where after a tense moment following its casting, Laura brings it up again causing the table to laugh at the sheer Mood Whiplash she caused by it.
• Laura assumes that the skeletons attacking the hired mercenaries are on their side because said skeletons are likely the risen remains of their family. She then decides to have Portia approach them, despite earlier some skeletons having already attacked them, which causes them all to turn to attack her. The table immediately call her out on what a terrible idea it was, though they do so while laughing about it.
• Liam's plan was to have the Big Bad give a Motive Rant, then kill the siblings' father - Laura stomps on this plan with wild abandon as she immediately charges with Travis and Sam, prompting 'roll initiative' almost before Liam can blink.
• Maddened with rage, Benicio yanks his father away from the Big Bad... while said Big Bad has their father's neck wrapped up in a barbed chain.
  Sam: Uh... no one- no one look at me! I'm going to keep dragging him down the stairs...
• After killing the Xhorhasian Drow in the final battle, Sam's character uses Curse of the Fallen Puppet to reanimate his corpse for one final act... giving his brother (played by Travis) a wedgie. Retroactively Crosses the Line Twice when Liam's ending monologue reveals that Drow was their grandfather.

Honey Heist 3: Tova's Honeys

• The synopsis of this one deserves a mention; all the world's supply of Balootonium has been stolen, and it is up to Tova to stop the culprit, aided by the Hacker, the Muscle, the Driver, the Thief and the Face. All of whom are bears, except for the Thief, who is a honey badger.
• Bearah Pawcett, the Hacker is given the Nerds Are Sexy portrayal by Krystina Arielle and she runs with it.
• Mary Elizabeth McGlynn playing "Grizz Leigh Bayer" as a Southern-Fried Genius working on the vehicles, and part of the wardrobe she wears to get into character is a black cowgirl shirt and black cowgirl hat. When she rolls for hats and gets "the crown" Noelle (Tova) said it made her look like a "cool Southern Mom going out for a bachelorette party" while Marissa admits Noelle beat her to it—"more like going to a Taylor Swift concert at a bachelorette party."
• The sheer Black Comedy of one of the villains being a dimension-shifted Crispin Glover, who ends up getting mauled and killed by the bears, who take his eye and use it to try and get past a security system (it didn't work, the scanner requires both eyes). And then they find out he was Good All Along.
• At the climax, the Honeys have to disarm the Balootonium Bomb. How? Ker-Plunk.
• Everyone being Disappointed by the Motive when the Big Bad Bearsley reveals their reasons for turning to villainy.

The Search For Grog

• Before he introduces the cast, Brian naturally gets in some zingers, many of them in mockery of his own outfit: a white shirt, a black tie, a pair of blue sequined pants, black sneakers with neon blue treads, blue shutter shades, and a black jacket with the hood pulled up over a flat-brimmed hat that says RAGE.
  Brian: I wanted to know, like, what do the drug dealers in Beverly Hills dress like? Well, this is actually what I wear when I go to the skate park to sell cigarettes to kids. [...] This outfit says, cocaine's back, baby!
• Before the adventure, Sam says all of Vox Machina should be present. What seems like a setup for the return of the giant Trinket plush is instead a lead-in to a giant skeleton wearing a bird hoodie, representing the very dead Vax. Laura concludes Sam is a terrible person.
  Liam: I wish I knew how to quit you, Sam Riegel!
  • Liam then adds that of course it wouldn't have been Trinket, as Sam doesn't consider Trinket a member of Vox Machina.
• The episode might as well be called "The Roast of Grog", as the start of the episode has the entire group practically say Grog was Too Dumb to Live for pulling from the Deck of Many Things, in character mind you. All the while Travis sits there with what could be described as a look of shame...though at one point he does give them the finger.
• Crossing over with Nausea Fuel; while the audience may have loved the return of Sam's massive Scanlan tankard, the entire cast reacts in shock and horror when he drinks from it. Why? Well, after the final episode of the Vox Machina campaign proper, the tankard (which was not empty) was placed on the Talks Machina set and not touched or opened in any way until this live show. Other cast members complained about the smell, and the bottom of it was even labelled "TOXIC HAZARD".
  Liam: Everyone in the cast tried to convince him to not drink from that poisonous cup that is broken on the inside and full—
  Marisha: It's rank.
  Liam: It's broken.
  Taliesin: So bad.
  Travis: There are smurfs living inside of that thing.
  Matt: Whatever was last poured in that at the end of the last campaign has been in there for a year.
  Sam: I have tetanus now!
  Laura: And many other things, I'm sure.
  Liam: Yeah, enjoy your botulism. Great.
• When the Highbearer finds out that Grog was in possession of the Deck of Many Things:
  Highbearer: Dear Lord...you let him have this?!
  • And moments later when Allura finds out Scanlan can use the Wish spell:
  Allura: You let him...Wish?
  Percy: Why does anyone think we let any of these people do anything?
• Vex's entirely reasonable response to Allura explaining what happened to Grog.
  Allura: I don't know [where Grog's soul is]. Somewhere. Probably under the guard of some dangerous entity. And to retrieve it, you would have to bring...this [Grog's body]...to it.
  [beat]
  Vex: Who the fuck makes these cards?!
• Allura's equally reasonable response to hearing that Grog had access to a Deck of Many Things: "Oh...shit."
• Allura attempts to delicately explain both that Vox Machina will need backup if they intend to enter Pandemonium, and also that she loves them and wants to do everything she can to help, and also that she absolutely will not be coming with them. Eventually she gives up.
  Allura: Few, if not none, return from there, due to the...dangers present. [beat] So, um...you could probably use some help...[awkward pause] I...don't...[deep breath] Kima would kill me—
• Gilmore refers to Vox Machina as having once been a "bunch of bumblefucks".
• Just before they leave, Vex releases Grog from her necklace so Trinket can carry him. Percy is still...less than pleased about the reason for this mission.
  Percy: You're lucky we don't shave you in your sleep. Ugh. Good Lord.
  ''(The entire audience gasps in shock; Travis looks murderous)
  Taliesin: He had it coming!
  Scanlan: I think his face just moved!
• Keyleth suggests tying Grog's hands and feet around Trinket like a "Grog backpack". Travis buries his head in his hands in shame.
  • Taliesin asks if this will increase Trinket's armor class; it doesn't, but it does give him additional hit points.
• Bertrand, Travis's new character for this oneshot, runs ahead when they arrive in Pandemonium, causing Percy to complain about how stupid he is and how he's never met someone as egotistical and pompous. Vex agrees that she has never met someone like that before.
  • Travis's character deserves special mention in this category for having most of his personality based on Gilderoy Lockhart. Bertrand Bell lies about his many, many trips to Pandemonium and his vast expertise on the plane, down to his collection of pressed flowers native to the place.^note They almost didn't have to perform that Insight check to prove it.
• Taliesin keeps forgetting that in Pandemonium, the wind is so strong that you have to shout to be heard. As a result, he spends a good chunk of time having people shout they cannot understand him. Liam even proceeds to joke about him needing more voice lines like you would tell a voice actor in a video game.
• Lieve'tel, Liam's new character, flirts with Bertrand, stating she needs the entertainment. The cast's reaction is to jokingly accuse Liam of trying to make a Caleb/Fjord AU happen.
• Percy does, in fact, lose an arm to a random pack of Bugbears. Apparently Sam had to convince Matt to actually let it happen.
  Travis: Are you serious!?
  Matt: Yes!
  (Everyone starts laughing)
  Travis: (mimes grabbing a sword and has Bertrand run off giving a battle cry)
  • The reactions are mostly confusion and bemusement (Travis can be heard asking "Wait, wait, wait, what?"). Liam, on the other hand, chooses to let out a Big "YES!".
  • As Sam/Scanlan (the instigator) yells that Percy is bleeding and Keyleth needs to do something (Marisha has her face firmly planted in her hand):
  Taliesin: (flips Matt off with both hands) Oh! Oh! Where did that come from? Hold on, I'll put these back. (puts hands into pockets) Oh, wait, wait, wait. (resumes flipping Matt off, but with only one hand because of Percy's missing arm)
  • Keyleth opposes chasing after the bugbears on principle since the whole event feels like a throw-away joke by Scanlan meant to make her burn a 7th-level spell before a dangerous encounter. She tries to persuade the now one-armed Percy that they should just forget about it and live and let live. Taliesin, still in character, is disturbed at this while Liam lampshades Keyleth's zen reaction.
    Keyleth: You've got a gun! Isn't that like—like, fine?!
    Percy: For four times and then I have to reload it with something! And that can get complicated! Which is why the joke isn't funny, I've explained this!
  • Crosses over into Tear Jerker, but Keyleth bringing back Percy's arm with "I'll bring that back, I guess" being how she's coping with Vax's loss is as sad as it is hilarious.
    Percy: I don't like it here!
    • The cast's reactions to this line are great, most notably Travis hiding his face in his hood.
  • Taliesin grumbles "You could've just gotten me a cake or something, man". Matt responds with a cheery "Happy birthday!".
  • Bertrand ends up retrieving the arm moments after they had regenerated one for Percy, which leads Matt to tell the party to write down on their inventory sheet: "Percy's arm". They joke they can use it to grow another Percy—which Taliesin writes off as a bad idea, prompting Laura to comment in-character as Vex that she likes the prospect.
• As the group makes their way up through the Howler's Crag, they encounter a balor...who has reverted to a childlike state, using a decapitated howler's blood to draw funny pictures on the wall while humming to himself.
  • Trying to sneak past it requires being in close proximity to it, which means taking fire damage. Taliesin asks if Grog's beard has been singed off; it hasn't, but Taliesin simply smiles and says "The night's young."
    Travis: You shut your damn mouth, Percy!
• The plane of Pandemonium takes its toll—both in combat and just crossing the plains to their destination players have to make wisdom saving throws. Bertrand fails a bunch, Percy and Pike too - but those with high wisdom seem to be competing for how high they can go. Lieve'tel gets a 26, Keyleth gets a 28. 27 for Lieve'tel, 23 for Keyleth. 29 for Lieve'tel, 33 for Keyleth. Then they have to roll for stealth, and Liam jokes his isn't very high—only 20. Laura gets in on the fun by chiming in—not like her 38.
• Neither Liam nor Travis expects their character to live very long, and Liam's character does indeed die, which he plays for much Black Comedy for the audience.
  Liam: [Rolls his last Death Save, looks at it, and simply makes a Throat-Slitting Gesture] On brand!
  • Meanwhile, Bertrand goes unconscious several times in the final fight but barely survives. When Grog returns, Sam trolls him by healing his new character just to force him to play two people at once. Fortunately (?) for Travis, Bertrand immediately goes down again.
• When Grog's soul returns to his body, Travis takes off his hoodie to reveal he's wearing his old Enjoy Grog shirt beneath it.

The Orb of Generosity (aka Red Nose Day 2019)

• For Red Nose Day 2019, Matt crafted a one-and-done adventure reimagining the humble Red Nose into the Orb of Generosity, for an adventure simple enough for a lone player to complete. That player? Stephen Colbert.
  • Stephen, or Capo the half-elf bard, enters the antechamber of the Big Bad where the floor is covered in bones like a crime scene. He chose to examine the bones, which requires a roll - which gets a crap number thanks to his wisdom modifier being -1 (leaving him with 5).
  Them's some bones, right there on the floor... something died, and those were in 'em.
  • About the only time Stephen interrupted the narrative:
  Matt: ...about 70 feet across, you can see a series of stalagmites hang from the ceiling, slick with interior moisture...
  Stephen: (pointing up) 'Tites. (pointing down) 'Mites. Sorry. [...] This is what it was like to play D&D with me when I was 13.
  • Capo gains a magical relic weapon, the legendary Exalting Blade. Not exalted, exalting. It's a sentient magic sword that constantly compliments and hypes up its wielder.
  • The confrontation between Capo and the Big Bad begins:
  Stephen: Is he armed?
  Matt: He has arms, but there are no weapons visible.
  • Capo's animal companion for the adventure is a single bee, who thanks to Matt's roleplaying and facial expressions develops quite a personality.

The Search for Bob

• Travis is Acting for Two, often forgetting that Bertrand is still around.
• The running gag of someone apologizing for forgetting how an ability works by saying "it's been a while" (since they played as these characters), whereupon the other players burst into singing the Staind hit single. Despite no one wanting to be the victim of this, this happens eight times, as virtually everyone (including Matt) says it at least once due to nervousness.
• Scanlan's part in the ritual to revive Lieve'tel...was smearing poo on her. It only works because of Lv 20 Scanlan's stupidly high Persuasion modifier.
  Sam: [After being told to roll Persuasion with Disadvantage] I rolled a 2, so that's 20.
• When reviving Lieve'tel, Keyleth and Pike implant a fossil in her forehead. She is not amused, and Regenerates it out.
• Grog's part in the ritual involved him politely talking to her...then screaming in her face about how she better come back. Natural 20.
  • Grog opens with the remark that he really appreciates "the meat comin' out of [her] dome".
• Lieve'tel brought Bertrand to her room to "show him the wisdom of the ages". When he asks if she means some kind of meditation, she drags him along by the beard to her room.
  Matt: [In a southern accent] This is a house of sin. Oh my...
  • During the followup Talks Machina, Liam claims that this was so he could mock Laura for bedding one of her husband's characters before she could.
• Keyleth's Animal Shapes turns everyone but Percy into a small bird, and Percy pockets all seven of them. When dropping it out of necessity, Percy's coat is shredded...and Laura notes that Vex was in his pants pocket, so Percy lost those as well.
  • The animal shape of choice was that of small birds of different varieties, including Grog in the form of a pigeon. While they are trying to give Percy instructions, they cannot be understood while in bird form, so the players begin chirping. They now are literally a bunch of metagaming pigeons.
• Scanlan's Cutting Words to the Dust Titan (which saves Keyleth's life) is "Your virginity breeds mites, much like a cheese!" The funny part is Sam quickly reveals that line comes from Shakespeare!
• Liam relishes in using Sentinel at Death's Door.
  Matt: [As the titan attacks Pike] That's a Natural 20.
  Liam: Uh, no it's not: Grave Cleric. [Fart noise]
• Bertrand, who has taken two points of exhaustion, uses one of his actions to cry.
• A few users on Reddit noticed that Matt's use of the Lady of Pain statue contains a few amusing mythology-gags to the first campaign: she's the guardian of the city of Sigil (the same word Matt constantly mispronounced^* The city's name is actually pronounced the way he mispronounced it!)... which is also known as the City of Doors.
• Upon returning to Whitestone, Bertrand retires. Lieve'tel eventually runs after him, confident that she can keep him around.
• Keyleth collapses on the ground after teleporting the group back to Whitestone because she still has 1 hit point, so Pike rolls across the ground quite some ways to cast Cure Wounds on her.
• Cassandra is frightfully smug at the state of Percy's clothes and waves off his threat of "I know where you sleep" with the satisfaction of knowing how she caught her brother with his pants down (almost literally).
  Percy: I will see the end of you!
• When discussing the setting for the next VM one-shot, Marisha mentions that it was billed as a summer reunion episode at Dalen's Closet. Taliesin's reaction to her next two words is pure gold:
  Marisha: ...Destination wedding?
  Taliesin: Oh my god, they are those assholes, I'm so in!

Dalen's Closet One-Shot

• While most of the well-wishes from guest characters are sweet, there's a little humor mixed in to some of them.
  • Lillith offers to take Vex and Percy's daughter off their hands if they ever get bored of her, since she knows some cults who will raise her for them. She's kidding...maybe?
  • Lyra didn't get an invitation but is sure she just missed it. She's apparently been moving around a lot since Aldor died. She hastily leaves an address to send her an invite to.
  • Garthok congratulates them and hopes they start a family. He and his wife just had a son but aren't sure about the name, but he's thinking Fjord.
  • Kashaw's story quickly takes a turn for the disturbing. He also tries to offer up a blood offering but is stopped by Zahra.
  Kashaw: Zahra and I were invited but she killed our dragon and frankly, I just didn't want to go. I'm sure your wedding day is going to be incredible. I know mine was. I was first raped by a demi-god and then bathed in her blood while she showed me the future of the world which was nothing more then death and destruction...the food was good.
• With six of the people at the table being married (and four of them constituting two wedded couples) in real life, the episode begins with a very honest look at what wedding planning is like.
• Keyleth brings her bodyguard Derrig (played by Liam) as her plus one, all of Vox Machina believe that there is something going on between them and start interrogating him only for him to reveal he has been married for 47 years and has four kids, three of which are triplets.
• Laura-as-Vex inisiting they need to find Taryon before going through the sun tree, which leads to her and Marisha calling out for him while Sam has a hilarious deer-in-the-headlights look on his face before catching on and playing along that Taryon has just run up and claim he was "casually wandering about" before asking who Scanlan is and then going on a monologue for Doty.
  • Doty is, by the way, the fifth Doty. Doty Four "had a little glitch. He tried to kill us all."
• While in the middle of wedding-planning stress, Percy sidles up to Vex and reminds her that they can still bail out of this and elope. She groans and laments that it's too late for that.
  Percy: You say that. I already have a ship chartered, ready to go, everything's taken care of. We can be out of here in less than an hour.
  Vex: Just take our friends and go.
  Percy: ...they can come too, sure.
• Percy and Vex ask Grog to be the flower girl for the wedding. Grog being Grog, he thinks this means he has to throw whole flowers at people as hard as he can. Upon being told he has to throw petals on the ground instead, he begs to keep his job and then spends hours practicing.
  • Grog then practices by throwing one at Percy. Percy easily catches it thanks to his Gloves of Missile Snaring.
• Scanlan's daughter Kaylie trying to scam Percy with cryptocurrency. Every word of that sentence is true.
  Liam: It was cryptocurrency that finally wiped out the de Rolos.
• The happy couple run into Kima and Allura having a date on the beach. Percy doesn't even miss a beat:
  Kima: So. You finally gonna make an actual honest woman out of this one?
  Percy: Well there's nothing to be done about that, but at the very least we're cementing some titles.
• Grog finds out there is no ale at the rehearsal dinner and starts to get angry only to burst into tears.
  • Put beautifully in the subtitles:
  Grog: No, I'm going to wait for the ale, thank you very much.
  Najeed: We don't have any ale.
  Grog: What?
  Najeed: We have wine.
  Grog: I—
  would like—
  (tearfully) some ale.
  • Pike then asks him to try some wine. It turns out that Grog has an incredibly discerning palate.
• A case of Black Comedy occurs while Laura is rolling her death saving throws for Vex'ahlia while she's drowning. She has to roll after each player's turn, just to see how long Vex can survive before she's rescued, but each time before she rolls, Liam tempts fate by assuring her she just needs to roll 10 or above. She fails each roll, with her final roll before Vex drowns being a Nat1.
• Laura has a demand for Matt while Vex is drowning. Three failed rolls later, the bride dies in a wedding dress.
  Laura: I am in a wedding dress! Don't kill me when I'm in a wedding dress!
  Matt: You're not in your wedding dress at the rehearsal.
  Laura: I am!
  Matt: You are, I know.
• Travis, dressed in-character as Grog, is wearing a hat with a feather plume, a waistcoat, and a lacy arm garter, and the cast jokes that he's a stripper. Much later during the combat, Sam got a dollar bill out of his wallet. With some whispering, the dollar passes nearly imperceptibly from Sam to Taliesin, Marisha, Liam, Laura, then finally Ashley who stuffs it into Travis' garter to pay for a dance. It eventually falls out.
  Matt: Sliiiiiick. You earned it.
• Vex uses her blessing of Pelor to create a blinding light to help kill the remaining vampires. Unfortunately, it remains active for nearly an hour, meaning once combat ends, she turns to face the party, and nearly blinds them all.
• The wedding is held the night of the rehearsal dinner once the battle is over, partially because they realize they might just get attacked again the next day but instead during the wedding, and because Vex's dad won't be there to see it.
• Pike, who expected to be officiating the ceremony the next day rather than the night of the disastrous rehearsal dinner, is a little bit flustered.
  Vex: Wait, the rings!
  Pike: Oh, shit, I didn't get—
  Scanlan: No, don't curse!
  Pike: Sorry, it's my first time!
• Scanlan's wedding gift—his last Wish—is famously tender and emotional. However, the way he segues into it is by informing the happy couple that "I didn't buy you a gift because nothing is expensive enough for you."
• Vax's appearance is mostly heartwarming and tearjerking, but at the very end as Vax starts to disappear, Vex tries to get his Boots of Haste one last time.
• As Vex and Percy kiss, Keyleth druidcrafts 1000 fireflies to burst outward. Scanlan, in turn, casts a bunch of lightning bolts out of his dick.
• The episode closes with Grog tackling Scanlan for the bouquet.
  Scanlan: Pike, look! I caught the bouquet!
  Grog: The fuck you did! (football tackles Scanlan) That's mine!
• This YouTube comment is gold:
  Piperbird: Man, that one dude they sent away to find 25 casks of ale for Grog really dodged a bullet there. He must have come back with the ale like that one dude with the pizzas and the room is on fire.

The Adventures of the Darrington Brigade

• The entire brigade is a complete joke, with each one of the Ragtag Bunch of Misfits more absurd than the last.
• Taliesin's character is nothing but a giant Captain Ersatz of Batman called The Owlbear. Complete with gravely voice and terrible one-liners about "Justice."
  Taliesin: I haven't even gotten to the 'Bear' jokes yet.
  • Every time The Owlbear is startled or does any sort of movement, Taliesin says 'I hide'. At one point when Tary tries to talk to him within the Brigade group he says 'I'm stealthed 18' meaning he was hiding right behind Tary just as they were walking along. An early, Taliesin-called stealth check says he's at 31 'right now' - leading the joke of Tary's new shag carpet or stuffed owlbear.
  • Following his duel with Farriwen and after being revived from unconsciousness by Hazel, The Owlbear is heard mumbling "Evil. Crime."
• Marisha has created a bard named Hazel who is a one-woman band, as well as Exandria's first recording artist, having invented wax cylinders for analog sound. She voices her with an over-the-top 1940s radio voice, often adding extra syllables to words for over-pronunciation. Marisha's even wearing Victory Rolls in her hair.
  • Marisha also recorded an entire radio play introduction, a retelling of Vox Machina facing the kraken way back in their early adventures... all from Tary's perspective and with him as the hero, of course.
  • As Marisha's recording plays, she continually pretends to turn a hand crank to operate the audio device. She does it for so long, the entire cast starts doing it too.
  • It becomes a Running Gag throughout the show that Hazel is making constant noise wherever she goes due to her get-up. ^note She's a bard, meaning that she has to keep her MASSIVE sound set up on her at all times. Nowhere is this funnier than when The Owlbear Natural-Ones a stealth check that everyone else succeeded, at which point Taliesin points out that he's less stealthy than a One-Woman band.
• Doty does not like Hazel stealing his thunder as Tary's biographer.
• Marisha actually brought an armful of props to make timed sound effects for Hazel's recordings.
  Liam: And thus, Foley was invented.
• Ashley's Noo Yawk accent from the CritMas one-shot returns.
• Liam's character is an enormous ogre named "Buddy" who speaks with a slow, rumbling voice. Travis is a tiny companion Halfling named "Mac" (short for Macaroni) with a high-pitched squeaky voice.
  • Mac's full name is Macaroni Samsonite. Travis must have been in a hurry when he realised he had not named his character...
• Taryon claims he looks decades younger than he is, thanks to "bovine toxin".
• In order to join the Brigade, the recruits have to complete the "initiation ritual". That is, fighting one another. Which Tary learned from his initiation into Vox Machina. Laura is quick to blame Liam and Travis for this.
• This happy little coincidence:
  Matt: Roll initiative.
  Liam: ...Six.
  Marisha: Nine.
  (Sam gets up to show that his custom Dallas Cowboys football gear actually carries the number 69 - crowd goes crazy)
  Marisha: Nice!
• In the fight between Hazel and Buddy, she casts "Confus-i-on" on him, leading to this gem.
  Buddy: I'm already confused!
• Tary's ugly crying returns. Apparently nobody wanted to join a "non-profit" adventuring guild, and the original members all left after Tary kept giving their spoils away. Even the new recruits were unaware that this was a non-paying gig and seem reticent to join.
• Buddy, with newly prescribed goggles, observes everything is "Pretty." Even hideous abominations with too many eyes that can regrow torn off limbs.
• The following exchange, set off when Ashley accidentally bumped into her microphone.
  Liam: You just hit that like Marisha Ray striking an Irishman.
  Marisha: I hit you ONE TIME when you were leaning over MY SPACE, motherfucker!
  Liam: (Gesturing to the audience) You've all watched the show, how many times has she come close to smacking me in the face?
  Audience: Calls out various numbers.
  Marisha: I'm watching all of you all, right now. You're all in my line of sight.
  Liam: Yeah. Careful, 'cause she'll hit you.
  Sam: (seated directly next to Marisha) Why do you think I'm wearing pads today? *dons football helmet*
  Marisha: *takes out tambourine and smacks it near Sam's face*
  • A Critter backed Liam up. Here's "Personal Space", with Liam & Marisha.
• The final boss of this session? A giant mutated tentacled duck called "Quackthulhu". The best part is the mini: it's literally a painted rubber ducky with tentacles glued on.
• Sam asks a pertinent question:
  Sam: Matt, why are you so cruel?
  Matt: *Only gives an Evil Grin*
• After spending so long as a Squishy Wizard (and before that, a somewhat squishy Rogue), Liam’s unrepentant joy at finally being the tank is both Heartwarming and hilarious.
  Liam: It’s like I’m Grog!
• A number of Brigade members are paralyzed by Quackthullu, including Farriwen. However, she had been hasted beforehand. Thanks to a quirk in the rules, the paralyzed condition does not negate the hasted condition, which also grants a bonus to AC. This leads Quackthullu to miss its attack roll to her. Matt is utterly dumbfounded, and has to find a way to explain the miss.
  Matt: As it goes to strike towards you, as you're paralyzed... I don't fuckin' know, it doesn't make any sense but there you have it... you toot a little, and it's just enough of an air buffer from all of the muscle constraining of being in this paralyzed state, just deflects it out of the way. Cool.
• As Tary offers his post-battle Rousing Speech...
  Hazel: [cranking her audio recorder] -This direction, please.
  Tary: [turning towards Marisha] -Oh, sorry!
  Hazel: Thank you...
• At the end of the adventure, Tary not only hires the group as full members of the Darrington Brigade, but also declares them all honorary members of Vox Machina, and wonders whether he's allowed to do that. Now remember who this group is comprised of. The rest of Vox Machina is probably going to have some words with Tary when they find out...
  • Tary does say that he is allowed to have sex with any members of Vox Machina. He then quickly asks if Hazel is still recording, which she is, so he rips out the wax cylinder and throws it into the water.
    Hazel: Nooooooooo! I hadn't backed that up yet!

Vox Machina vs. Mighty Nein

• Jester apologizes pre-emptively for killing Vox Machina if they're good people, while Fjord tries to scare them off by revealing he has a Vestige. Pike unconvincingly pretends she has no clue what that is.
• The initial meeting immediately turns horny, an energy that remains for the rest of the session.
  • Pike flirts with Beau in front of Scanlan.
    Pike: This one's hot! Weirdly attracted for some reason.
    Scanlan: Pike!
    Pike: What?
    Scanlan: You're on our team!
    Pike: Yeah, I know! I'm just trying to like, boost them up so that... y'know they-
    Scanlan: Reverse psychology?
    Pike: Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah.
    Vax: Wind up the sexual tension until it snaps.
  • Scanlan promises not to defile the Nein's corpses... Unless they're into that. In return, Jester promises not to rearrange Vox Machina's dead bodies to make it look like they were having an orgy, leading Vax'ildan to suggest they do that instead. The Nein seem amenable. The Devils all start booing.
    Beau: Maybe we give it 60 seconds and see how this goes.
    Announcer: THAT WAS NOT THE ARRANGEMENT!
• Fjord taking umbrage over Pike calling Jester a healer:
  Fjord: (Travis gesturing to Laura) This is a bad bitch! This is a bad, goth, lollipop-licking bitch!
• Travis clarifies that, although it isn't immediately visible in his character art, Fjord is wearing assless chaps. Marisha points out that Travis is also wearing assless chaps, prompting Matt to lean back and have a look.
  Travis: It's hot in here, I'm just keeping it airy.
  Matt: It is now.
  • Apparently Fjord was not made aware of the outfit he was given, only realizing his ass is on display when Jester compliments him on it.
    Fjord: I HAVE NO PANTS?! WHAT FIEND GAVE ME NO PANTS?!
• Percy appears and, after attacking Fjord, runs up a wall. As soon as he arrives, Beau grabs the crystal and changes him to Molly.
  Percy: Oh, for fuck's sake.
  • Matt then states that Molly immediately loses his footing since he's not wearing the spider boots anymore.
    Molly: Oh, for fuck's sake!
• Scanlan tries to hype up Percy's entrance and instantly butchers his ridiculously long name. Percy calmly turns and aims Bad News at him.
• Vax gets very excited about Percy's appearance...though not for the reason you may be thinking. Unless it's exactly for the reason you may be thinking.
  Vax: Vex isn't here, he's all mine!
• After taking several serious hits to the chest, Fjord approaches Pike and Scanlan offering a truce and even the possibility of him switching sides...until he's 10 feet away from them, at which point he casts Thunderstep at them. Scanlan immediately Counterspells it. Fjord realizes he is now standing 10 feet away from 2 enemies who have taken minimal damage and are now probably very pissed off.
  Fjord: Ooh... that was unfortunate.
• Scanlan tries some Blatant Lies. It doesn't work very well.
  Scanlan: You guys seem like lovely people, and you're very close. You're invading my personal space, and if there's one thing you should know about Scanlan Shorthalt, he likes his privacy.
  Beau: Didn't you pitch the orgy?
  Scanlan: Why, are you down?
  Beau: ...Has it been 60 seconds?
• Percy pulls Animus on Beau, who reacts with bemused confusion.
  Beau: Oh, you're one of those rich boys.
  Percy: (smiles) Oh, yes.
  • Beau manages to catch Percy's first two shots, even almost completely negating a full-powered shot from Cabal's Ruin... and then Percy proceeds to dump the remaining four shots of Animus into her with Action Surge.
  Matt: So you're like *Kssh, kssh*... Outta hands! *BOOF*
• Matt points out to Taliesin that his outfit makes him look like "the gayest of Ben Franklins". The others immediately point out that that's just normal Ben Franklin.
  Taliesin: Ben got some dick, we know that.
• As Scanlan lays unconscious, Percy pulls out Bad News and starts to line up a shot. Sam suggests he put a health potion into the barrel and shoot it into Scanlan's leg.
  Matt: The good news is, it healed you for a d4. The bad news is, your head is gone.
• As Beau approaches Scanlan, a letter to his daughter falls out of his pocket. In it, Scanlan apologizes for being a bad father, hopes he's made up for it, and hopes that every other daughter of a bad father finds nothing but joy in her life. Beau — who famously has a lot of daddy issues — reads the letter... then uses it to mop up some blood, tosses it away, and rips Scanlan's throat out.
• Scanlan inspires Jester as a ghost, seemingly for kicks and giggles.
• In their spectral forms, Pike and Scanlan have sex in the lava pool for some reason, and how Sam describes it suggests that Scanlan is (probably) being pegged. Vax later comments that he was about to join in before they were revived.
• Vox Machina's mortal enemy, doors, comes back to get Pike as she forgets to close a tower door behind her, allowing Fjord to come in and hit with Thunderstep.
  Sam/Scanlan: Always close the doors!
  Ashley/Pike: Fucking doors!
• Pike gets knocked out and has to roll a death saving throw. Ashley rolls her Pike dice right off the table, where it lands among all the wires below. Matt gives her the option of looking at what it says and taking whatever it is, which Ashley decides to do.
  Marisha: What is it?
  Ashley: (from under her table) FUCK!
  (the table breaks out laughing again)
  Ashley: (emerges from under the table) Nope, I failed!
• Vax hides the switching stone so the Mighty Nein can't call Molly back. He has to roll a Survival check to see how well he hid it, against Beau's 28 for her Investigation.
  Liam: Oh, that's a four.
  Matt: Beat Yeah, you find it. (turns to Beau) You get there and you look down, and there's one big rock that's like, place super obviously, right there to hide it. You just kinda kick it over. It's right there.
• The match ends with Percy raising Bad News to shoot Fjord, only for him to suddenly turn into Molly again.
  Percy: (annoyed) Oh, fuck! (poof)
  Molly: (poof) Oh, fuck!
  • Fjord starts to update Molly in the fight, only for Molly to reveal he had been kept in a comfortable room with snacks and drinks, watching the match the entire time.
  • Molly's entrance ends the fight, since Percy was the last Vox Machina member still standing. Therefore, Molly spends his turn stealing everything in the room that's not nailed down.
    Molly: Ooh, there's a crossbow!

The Plunder Games (Guest Battle Royale)

• Despite all the five heroes being randomly pulled from their times without warning, Sprigg (Darin De Paul) already has a theme song rehearsed.
• Turns out Sam Didn't Think This Through yet again, as the heroes attack the Killer Game Master and humiliate him on his own show.
• Despite being, you know, a death match, Sprigg is so sweet and caring that he quickly becomes the Kid-Appeal Character in-universe.
  Sam: The children in the audience start swaying back and forth, singing in harmony... They loved this act of kindness...
  Kashaw: Gotta put a spear through this guy.

Dignity (aka Red Nose Day 2022)

• Stephen Colbert didn't tell anyone that he would be dressing up in-character, and everyone else is jealous and upset that they weren't in costume too.
• Due to Stephen Colbert being paired with an early-campaign Mighty Nein, we have pre-Character Development Nott immediately hitting on Stephen's new character Lucky Jack.
  Nott: Is there a Lucky Jill, a Mrs. Lucky Jack?
  Lucky Jack: No, we take a vow of celebacy.
  Nott: So, you're single?

A Familiar Problem: Sprinkle's Incredible Journey

• Travis' response to Marisha describing Jester as Sprinkle's mother:
  Travis: (as Sprinkle) That bitch ain't my mom!
• The irony of CLAPP the octopus being afraid of water, to the point where she has panic attacks every time she has to immerse herself in her bucket.
• Toby summons a horse, then later asks his new horse friend if he had a name. The horse's response?
  Horse: Uh... I just kind of apparated and I've had thirty seconds of memories.
• Marisha bringing out a Don't Wake Daddy game to simulate a sleeping Drudy. Later, cue all the players losing their shit after Toby manages to wake him up.
  Isabella: Look at that pervert!
  Travis: Why does it gotta creep like that?! The sound is so bad!
  Matt: I hate it so much.
  Travis: [...] We jumped harder than we had any right to.
  Marisha: Why write jump scares when you can just have Don't Wake Daddy?
• Toby groin attacking a knife-wielding Drudy, then picking up the knife after Drudy drops it. Toby is now a crab with a knife.
• Froga Yaga offers to tell the familiars their fortunes, and pulls out the following tarot cards:
  • First is The Lovers — which Froga Yaga calls "The Pervy Deer," because the image on the card depicts a deer in the background, watching the lovers mid-coitus.
  Froga Yaga: This is not necessarily a bad card, despite how fucking pervy that deer is.
  • Second is Rebirth — what Froga Yaga calls "The Rabbit and the Murder Baby."
  Froga Yaga: You see the path you walk is treacherous. Filled with horrors. Like that fucking naked child, who's definitely showing signs of a future serial killer.
  • Lastly is "The Unlucky Fucks Card," aka The Tower.
• Apparently Professor Thaddeus has a reputation among the animals as The Dreaded, going by many names such as The Harbinger of Screams, The Verminator, The Talon of Assmoldius and The Bird of Prey to the Wildmother He Doesn't Find You.
• Marisha's description of the recently deceased Sprinkle: "He smells like ass. He died as he lived, which is ratchet."

The Mighty Nein Reunited (Part 1)

• Veth giving a long explanation of her camp and how they get their money from their wealthy benefactor, the Gentleman. He simply gives Veth his "blood money" to use, and whatever she doesn't use, gets returned to him as clean money. Everyone laughs when Veth outright calls it a money laundering scheme.
  • While walking through Nicodranas, Beau loudly asks Veth if she's still laundering the Gentleman's money, before realizing she probably shouldn't say that. Kingsley lets out a snort-laugh that he quickly muffles behind a cough, and Caleb immediately changes the subject.
    Caleb: So, imminent doom, ja?
• Luc attempting to sneak around while holding large bags in his hand. When he gets spotted, he notes that he shouldn't carry bags next time.
• As the fish people board the ship and demand to know where the traitor was, Travis is noticeably tight-lipped and avoiding all eye contact.
• Kingsley pulling out his boat from a box with Fjord asking how he had one. Kingsley gives him a brief explanation before yelling for the crew to get on since they were all "too pretty to die."
• Kingsley in general is very clearly not used to the way the Mighty Nein operate, and seems to get progressively more annoyed and weirdly excited at the fact that he appears to be Surrounded by Idiots.
  Kingsley: How did you people ever kill me? This is really ridiculous, all of you.
  Jester: To be fair, you're much cooler now.
  Kingsley: I would hope so!
• Marius is apparently still under the group's employ, and nearly falls off of the ship during the attack.
• Matt and the rest of the cast apparently forgot that the Balleater was attacked and wrecked by a Dragon Turtle — they call the Nein Heroez the Balleater for more or less a whole hour until Laura realises!
• Sam's flask has a bag of popcorn attached to the front, causing him to spill it everywhere when he takes a drink. Laura freaks out, but Liam and Ashley sneak over to grab handfuls for snacks.
• This is a...horny episode, to say the least:
  • Once Caleb returns to his home in Rexxentrum, Sam suggests he is going to masturbate.
  • Jester casts Sending to warn Veth about Uk'otoa, but had caught her just after she had finished having sex with Yeza, and ends her reply by pulling her husband in close for round two.
  Jester: (Beat) Veth is coming too!
  • Caleb uses a Sending Stone to contact Beau but had caught her in the middle of performing oral sex on Yasha (based on the hand gestures Marisha was making at the time). He moves the stone about two feet away from him and stares as soon as he realises what he and his poor timing have just interrupted.
    • What makes it funnier is the implication that this isn't the first time Caleb has done this to Beau and Yasha!
    Yasha: (clearly annoyed) Worst timing, every time! Goddamn it.
    Beau: I know, every time he does this timing. Pass me Martina's prune juice, that she gave us.
  • In the same conversation, Beau asks Caleb if he is "coming right now." His response: (sigh) "No, I'm not. I'm by myself."
  • Caleb teleports to Nicodranas to pick up Veth. Three hours go by.
  Caleb: Veth are you in? I saw your scout-master sash on the window.
  • Eagle!Caleb returns to human form and wonders if his back hurts because of the fall he just took or because of Beau kegeling him "like a vice" for the entire trip. Beau's response? "Sorry, I got a good grip!" Cue groans from most of the cast^NoteFor context, kegeling is an exercise that strengthens the pelvic floor, solving a number of medical issues. They can be beneficial sexually, as well. So, to put it another way, Beauregard has been doing her puss-ups..
  Matt: This is a horny episode. And that's saying something!
• Fjord's proposed name for his and Jester's new shipping company: "Stone's Throw Shipping." Jester is...less than enthused about the name.
  Fjord: Every time I say it though, Jester kind of winces and smiles with her teeth.
  Jester: (while smiling with her teeth) No, it's good! It's really good.
  Fjord: Like that. That face.
  • Kingsley isn't a fan of the name either:
  Kingsley: It's a bit of a problem, if you think about it, that your shipping company is just a stone's throw away. That means it hasn't gotten very far, isn't it?
  Fjord: (Beat) Look, its—we didn't go that deep with it.
• As Marisha and Ashley describe Beau and Yasha's home in Zadash, Ashley mentions that Yasha has been taking cooking lessons from their neighbour...Martina Steward.
  • In a related moment, Yasha has a cooking apron that says, "Zadashian in the streets, Xhorhasian in the sheets."
• Caleb's lecture at the Soltryce Academy brings to mind the classroom scenes from the Indiana Jones movies...including the students who are completely smitten with Caleb.
  Liam: Ich liebe dich!
  • We then find out he and the half-ling teacher there clearly don't like each other. After bidding each other farewell, Caleb walks away and mutters under his breath, "What an arschloch."
• Yasha casts Sending to try and contact Caduceus. She doesn't have the Sending spell, which Taliesin hadn't realised when he responds as Cad with a "Hey!" The rest of the cast plays it off as Caduceus sitting alone when he happens to see a beetle.
  • Veth also blows off the idea of contacting Caduceus, saying he was useless most of the time. Taliesin shoots Sam some very pointed looks.
    Taliesin: Literally saved your kid. Just saying.
• Every time Uk'otoa is mentioned in-universe, and thus triggers the whispering echoes from the cast, Kingsley visibly reacts with confusion to them.
• Travis having trouble looking for a location that Matt has spent a good five or so minutes hinting him toward...when it turns out that the location in question isn't even marked on their map.
• Jester offers Orly a hundred gold pieces so that he and the crew could hit up the Lavish Chateau, to which Marius offers his services as the "face man." Orly's response? "Mmmmm... Ain't no face prettier than mine!"
  • Not even five minutes later, after the Nein have arrived at Fjord and Jester's home, Orly takes up space in the centre of the room to sleep. Matt had already forgotten that Orly and the rest of the crew were going to the Lavish Chateau.
  Orly: (Beat) I got lost.
• As Caleb teleports the group, he notes that they were lucky they weren't split in half the first few times. But then when they manage to get to where Jester told them to go, they take force damage as they fall into the sea. Veth is notably really unhappy about being in the water again.
  • The spot the initially arrive at is the only part that Caleb had seen before.
  Laura: Yeah he saw it from a - from a distance.
  Sam: You can't "from a distance" yourself.
  Laura: I just did.
  • The group manages to swim ashore and Caleb arrives as a shark flopping helplessly around.
• Caleb and Jester turn themselves and Fjord into eagles to fly into the heart of the jungle. Caleb takes Beau and Veth, Jester takes Yasha, and Fjord flies off, leaving Kingsley standing in the middle of the road.
  Kingsley: I know where you live and I'm gonna go take all your stuff!
  Travis: [Fjord] turns around and picks him up.
• After jumping down into the forest, Beau manages to land just fine. But then Veth lands on top of her and Kingsley soon follows, with Veth managing to catch him. Yasha does a three-point landing. Then Caleb, who had turned himself into an eagle, falls off the tree and lands not too far away.
  • It should be specified that Beau does a Three-Point Landing, followed by Veth doing a three-point landing on top of her and Kingsley doing a three-point landing on top of Veth.

The Mighty Nein Reunited (Part 2)

• Sam's ad for DnD Beyond's new Dragonlance setting features has the cast dressed as various Dragon "Lances" (i.e. Sam comes dressed as Dragonlance Bass, Liam is Dragonlance Armstrong, etc). Taliesin is the only one not dressed up because Marisha took Dragonlance Henriksen.
  Marisha: I'm sorry!
  Taliesin: YOU DON'T EVEN KNOW WHO HE IS!
  Marisha: I DON'T!
  • And to make it just a little bit funnier, both Marisha and Taliesin mispronounce his last name as Hendriksen. More than once.
• The Deep Scion mage casts a spell (presumably Feather Fall) before jumping into the ruined temple of Zehir, which Fjord promptly dispels with a Counterspell. The mage hisses at Fjord and then jumps into the hole anyway:
  Matt: (Beat) Poof!
• The party is offered aid from Zehir on the condition someone makes a pact with him, which no one is excited about besides Kingsley, who cheerfully goes to accept. The rest of the Nein are utterly aghast by his complete lack of caution around making a deal with an evil Betrayer god and stop him.
  Veth: You just got this body!
• The Nein charter a new ship, and decide to have one nightcap before they go to sleep.
  Jester: I wonder if the boat has milk. I hope so. (mimes gagging)
  Veth: You can milk me!
  Jester: Ew.
• As everyone is bedding down, Kingsley walks over to Yasha and Beau's room and starts knocking on the door, loudly and without pause, until a very annoyed looking Beau answers. He then asks if they were sleeping, because that's only polite.
  • After an emotional conversation about Molly and the direction of Kingsley's life, he leaves the ladies to it, not because they look tired, but because they look like they'd rather be doing... other things. He does swipe every bit of booze in the room first though.
• Ashley had to step away from the table for a moment, and as such completely misses Caleb casting Shapechange. When she comes back, she is rather astonished at seeing the model of an adult blue dragon flying over the battlefield.
  Ashley: Oh! Wh-who's this?
  Marisha: (gestures to Liam) Oh, that's him.
• In the joint HDYWDT against Uk'otoa, Veth hits him with the fluffernutter just as Fjord comes down with a lightning-charged Star Razor...with predictable results.
  Fjord: (as the fluffernutter explodes and blows his ass into the air) YAAAAAARRRRRGH!!
  Veth: Fuck you, Fjord!
• In Fjord's part of the epilogue, he hides one of the Cloven Crystals in a volcano and gives another to the Cobalt Soul, and decides to keep one close for safekeeping...despite the fact that his keeping one of the crystals in his possession is exactly how Uk'otoa was released from his prison in the first place. And he knows this!
• In Jester's section of the epilogue, Laura mentions that she will eventually open an art studio and start painting graffiti all over the streets of Nicodranas. That's right: Jester eventually becomes the Exandrian equivalent of Banksy. Only with more dicks, given Jester's usual theme when it comes to her art.
  • Additionally, Laura mentions that Jester still has her magic paints that bring everything she draws with them to life...
• According to Veth in her part of the epilogue, her new camp is a resounding success...despite the fact that one of the kids had died on her watch and Jester had to Revivify them. Jester makes the suggestion that the children each bring with them a three-hundred gold piece diamond next year.

The Mighty Nein Reunion: Echoes of the Solstice

• It's a live show. The first live show since the Pandemic. The first live show held in Britain. Sam dresses up as a mashup of Freddie Mercury and Ginger Spice, complete with glitter on his mustache.
  Matt: Thank you, Sam. Thank you, Thorum. And I apologize to anyone in the front row.
  • Warming up the crowd, Daniel Sloss admits as surreal as doing standup comedy for a crowd of 12,000 is to him, even he's just waiting to see what the hell Sam is wearing this time. Even funnier, one of Daniel's lines went "if there's any time for him to get his cock out it would be now", and Sam appears in a dress so short that we almost get an early appearance by Nott and Veth.
• The lights went up after the opening credits, and Matt opens his mouth to start the episode proper... and has to stop, because most of the front rows took the opportunity to put on masks of Sam while the lights were down.
  Laura: Oh my God.
  Taliesin: Oh my God!
  Marisha: Oh my God.
  Liam: I've had this dream!
  Matt: Thank you all so much for the trauma. (Beat) That will haunt me whenever I close my eyes.
  Sam: Horrifying.
  • The camera catches one man not wearing a mask, who looks straight through the fourth wall: noted UK-based Critter Arsequeef.
• There's some issues with the audio in the venue, meaning the cast is occasionally interrupted by loud microphone feedback. Every time it happens, Matt points out something in the environment that made that noise, like the feedback from the Malleus Key, a snake, or a boat horn.
• While the magic on the Mage Hunter's collar is dispelled, it is still very much stuck around Caleb's neck. He immediately turns to Beau and asks if she can punch it off.
  Beau: You want me to punch a collar off your neck?! It'd be better to take off your head.
  Caleb: You are highly trained. We have worked together for years. I trust you will not break my windpipe.
  Beau: That's some misplaced trust right there.
  • Caleb thinks better of it, and instead uses Minor Alchemy to turn the whole collar to wood.
    Sam: No, I want her to punch you!
    Caleb/Liam: I'm sitting next to her, it's going to happen.
  • A Funny Background Event for this scene: While Beau and Caleb are talking, Taliesin leans over to whisper something in Laura's ear, only for one of the horns of her Jester cosplay to poke him directly in the eye. What makes it even funnier is that shortly before (during the same Beau & Caleb convo), the same thing seemed to have happened to Sam, as Laura leaned towards him to talk and he recoiled briefly.
• Beau and Yasha's reunion is sweet, if very mushy. It makes sense, given all that they've been through, right? Except...
  Caleb: I have seen this 500 times, often when they've been apart for 2 hours.
• Once again, this is a horny episode.
  Matt: How did we start this so horny? What the hell?
  Beau: It's the Mighty Nein!
  Matt: Ah, fair.
  • In the middle of the scramble to collect everyone from the Blooming Grove, Yasha tells Beau about a nightmare she had where Beau fell in love with someone else. Beau comforts her... but also says that she would not be against having an open relationship.
  • As Caleb, Beau, Yasha and Caduceus teleport onto the deck of the Nein Heroez, Matt asks what Fjord and Jester were doing. Their reactions very much imply they were having sex, though Fjord tries to insist he was just doing ship repairs.
    Jester: We're not doing anything!
    Fjord: Oh, you call this nothing?
  • When Matt asks how the group spends the night in Caleb's tower, Yasha states that she and Beau are going to go at it like it's their last night on Exandria. Jester immediately shouts that she and Fjord are gonna do the same thing.
    Jester: There's a lot of boning happening in this tower, okay?!
    Liam: No-one more competitive than Laura Bailey!
  • For those not boning in the tower the experiences vary: Luc sleeps soundly because the sounds of sex coming from the next room over is just like home (cue disgusted groans from the audience). Meanwhile, Caduceus prays to the Wildmother for earplugs.
• Beau, in a manic panic, starts shoving things off shelves and into Caduceus's emergency bag.
  Caduceus: That's not...
  Beau: We might need it, you don't know!
  Caduceus: That's baking soda.
  • Caleb, equally manic, downs his cup of tea in one go and immediately burns the shit out of his mouth.
• Jester is also affected by the global downing of the Sending spell. She has taken a great deal of psychic damage from her failed Sendings. Jester could probably use some healing, and she's a 20th level cleric herself... so she gets Caduceus to heal her instead.
• When the party arrives at Veth's house, they find her freaking out about the state of the world— not because of the events surrounding the Solstice, but because Luc's a teenager!
  Veth: He's a monster! He only thinks about himself; he's trying to grow this stupid mustache, but he can't do it; He's on my case all the time, slamming doors. I lock him in his room; he unlocks the door, because I taught him how to pick locks!
  ...
  Beau: How old is he now, again?
  Veth: Y'know, he's— Let's not— You know teenagers, you can never really tell.
• Jester tries to Scry on Trent to figure out if he's still in prison, but loses track over which old, creepy Assembly member is Trent and which one is Ludinus.
  Caleb: You remember him, he tried to kill us underground.
  Jester: He's the old one with the ugly—
  Caleb: Jaundice. Yeah.
  Jester: Ohh, and he was like— Yeah, I remember.
  Caleb: Ruined my life, you remember the one?
  Caduceus: Set fire to my house, yeah.
• When Veth objects to coming along because she has to keep the children safe, Jester offers to let the kids stay with her mother, to which Veth replies that she's not sure if her insurance covers sending children to a whore house.
• Caleb's reaction to Luc having jumped through the teleportation circle after him is to pop a vein in his forehead and produce a flame in his hands.
  Caleb: Oh my gods, your mother is going to KILL ME, and I don't mean that figuratively, she could kill me in my sleep! What are you DOING here, Luc?!
  • The Mighty Nein try to see what Luc's capabilities are. Yasha tells him to take a swing at her, but she catches his fist without even looking. Beau then encourages him to hit her with a spell, so Luc starts to draw the runes on his arm for Caleb's Produce Flame in a clear attempt to look more impressive (Produce Flame is a cantrip and doesn't have a material component) and throws it at Beau... only for Caleb to immediately Counterspell it and put him in a spherical Wall of Force.
    Caleb: You are GROUNDED!
  • Fjord is so impressed with Luc that he starts speaking in his/Vandren's old Texan accent, and Travis's exclamation when he realizes he did it is even funnier.
• When Aggy spots Luc, he asks "What kind of creche^note daycare is this?" before realizing he's at a table with a bunch of Americans who don't know what that word means.
  Luc: Hey! Don't insult me then explain it to me!
  • Upon his introduction, Aggy is described as carrying two green bottles of medicinal wine, the British audience immediately recognize the description of Buckfast^note A tonic wine that has a reputation of being the drink of choice of the Violent Glaswegian, but the American cast...don't.
  Daniel: (pointing at the entire cast slightly disappointed) None of them get it, none of them get the reference!
  • He then immediately tries to offer Luc alcohol, before Caleb loudly shouts "Nein, nein!" and stops him. Aggy then offers it to Caleb, who takes a swig... and spits it out immediately.
• Aggy's reaction to Caduceus.
  Aggy: I am sorry if this is offensive, but are you a horse?
• Aggy immediately shows himself to be worse than Veth when it comes to Sticky Fingers — he barges right into the heavily trapped storage room, setting off multiple glyphs on the way, and headbutts the first lockbox he sees.
  Caduceus: See, Luc, this is what we call a learning experience right here. This is just... Pay attention, it's a cautionary tale. Take notes.
  Luc: I'm young, but I'm not stupid!
  • Caduceus ends up being entirely right of course, as Aggy's headbutt sets off a Disintegrate trap, instantly reducing him to fine ash and earning him the dubious honor of being Critical Role's shortest lived guest character, beating Spurt by around 3 minutes.
• Using Mage Hand, Luc grabs onto the handle of a drawer and gives it a tug. The audience immediately starts snickering.
  Luc: I'm a teenager, I know how to tug it!
  Caleb: I was there. I'm sure you've had that talk with your father. I'm the uncle, I do not need to have that one.
  Luc: They're very sex-positive.
  Caleb: We know.
• The Nein get increasingly more annoyed with Trent covering the entire place in Magic Mouths, clearly loving the idea of Caleb having to listen to his voice.
  Jester: Speaking of tugging it!
  • What's Jester's reaction to learning about Trent speaking without actually being there? Asking how he did it so she can do it too!
• Sam sneezes again, and Ashley yells "Stop it!"... and so does the entire audience.
• Caleb, at level 20, can cast Wish, which he uses to instantly cast Simulacrum and create a duplicate of himself. Like with Pumat, things get weird with two Calebs.
  Caleb: (to Luc) I told you that I will have eyes on you, and I will.
  Caleb-2: Ja, I will.
  Caleb: Ja, he will.
  • As soon as Caleb-2 appears, Travis immediately says "Hot".
  • The two Calebs then begin divvying up their components, which they do by simultaneously counting very slowly.
  • Caleb-2 joins the rest of the Nein for breakfast the next morning. Beau is not impressed.
    Beau: Twice as insufferable.
    Both Calebs: Did you know I have Keen Mind?
    Beau: (irritated) Okay!
• Caleb hands Luc a custom-made harness and saddle that he crafted for Beau because, quote: "sometimes she rides [him] when he is a large thing, other than [Yasha]." Suffice it to say that Yasha took umbrage over that—even though she wasn't even there.
  Liam: (to Ashley, out of character) You're not here! Go away, Metapigeon!
  Ashley: (still in character as Yasha) There's no riding going on! Except on me.
• As the others are following Caleb inside the house or flanking the building, Caleb-2, Luc and Caduceus are left out front.
  Luc: Uncle Deuce, are you going in?
  Caduceus: ...Wow, I'd forgotten about that. It's been a stressful day. I think we're just going to sit right here. Watch through the window, and not hide.
  Luc: I mean, that's cool. I-I would have gone in if... Y'know, I could go in, if—
  Caduceus: Sit down.
  Luc: Okay, thanks.
• As the Nein realize that Trent isn't actually in the house, Luc casts See Invisibility. Matt describes that, while the Trent illusion remains, Luc does see a second Trent hiding behind a nearby tree "like a little creep." He immediately shouts that there's a weird looking guy on the west side of the house.
  Luc: Just like the rest of you, I also hate old people.
  • Luc then uses his bonus action to hide... While riding Caleb-2, who is Polymorphed into a T-rex.
  • Jester, using Luc's directions, runs to the tree, kicks some dust around to find where Trent is, then casts Antimagic Field. Trent immediately becomes visible, and Matt describes a frail, creepy old man crouching behind a tree and cackling to himself, before turning around to see Jester standing right next to him.
• Caduceus casts Mass Heal, and the Nein try to figure out how to best distribute the 700 HP that's about to give them.
  Liam: My total is— shite.
  Taliesin: Yes, we know.
• Liam is appalled that Matt would unleash a Kaiju on Caleb's hometown.
  Liam: It's got the word "flower" in the name!^note "Blumenthal" roughly translates to "Flower Valley."
  Matt: I know! It's a beautiful flower. For now.
• Caleb, seeing the monster laying waste to Blumenthal, transforms into Gelidon, the Nightmare in Ivory, and lets out a massive, Godzilla-esque screech. Luc immediately shouts "Guys, I think I just heard my mom!"
• Jester gets some help from Artagan by casting Gate and physically yanking him out into the world. Artagan tries to play it off... and then sees the three Kaiju about to tear into eachother in the middle of Blumenthal.
  Artagan: Don't worry Jester, I've got y- ohhh, what have you brought me into?!
  Jester: (thumbs up)
  Artagan: Really?!
• When Marisha rolls a natural 20 for her opportunity attack against the kaiju, she rolls her damage and invokes Sentinel so that the kaiju won't move. Matt overruled her by asking how exactly was Beau able to stop a massive kaiju from moving.
  Marisha: Are you being patronizing? I don't know, what do you mean?
  Matt: Yes, I am. It is not stopped by Sentinel, I'm sorry.
  • Matt's ultimate ruling is that Sentinel doesn't stop it, but Beau does manage to trip it a little, followed by it looking a little sheepish and embarrassed, hoping nobody saw.
• As the dust settles, Matt describes the people of Blumenthal beginning to cheer and clap, followed by the entire audience doing so as well. Blumenthal is a tiny, sleepy village, the audience fills the Wembly Arena. There's a bit of disconnect.
  Jester: There's a lot of people in your hometown!
• Now that Divine Intervention works every time for Jester, she's been using it every week, to Artagan's dismay. What's better is that she apparently only uses it to make him get her coffee.
  • As soon as Artagan leaves, Jester uses Divine Intervention again. Her request? For him to just hang out with the Nein for a bit.
• Caleb inducts Luc into the Mighty Nein, and the others all begin chanting his name... All except Caduceus.
  Caduceus: He's still grounded though, right?
  • Luc is... a little shellshocked.
    Luc: (smiling a little too wide) This was... So cool. And so scary! I think... I think I wanna go home! But... Can I maybe come out with you guys again sometime?
    Caleb: Two weeks... Nine days a year!
    Luc: I love you guys. Um... Thanks. Um. Uh. I'm gonna throw up now.
    Matt: And he does.
• After the kaiju battle, Fjord has a question, utterly dumbfounding Matt (crosses over with Awesome because Travis shows his growth as a D&D player, and Heartwarming for obvious reasons):
  Fjord: Jester?
  Jester: Yeah?
  Fjord: Will you marry me? (audience goes wild, the rest of the cast are stunned)
  Matt: (laughing) You motherfucker.
  Jester: Oh Admiral Tusktooth, yes I will.
  • The cast's reactions are all beautiful: Laura turns to the audience with a Thousand-Yard Stare before bursting out laughing, Liam tilts his head like a confused puppy, Matt makes this face, Marisha jumps out of her seat out of sheer delight, Sam and Ashley just stare in open-mouthed shock, and Taliesin has what Travis later describes as a "perfect Caduceus reaction", looking around in confusion like he heard a weird noise and couldn't figure out where it came from.
• Sam's comically large drinkware for Luc is a white mug with drawings and text that says "What Mama Don't Know". It comes with a tea bag tag that says "TEA" on one side and "PK" on the other. As in, TPK: Total Party Kill.

Red Nose Day 2023 Oneshot

• The characters, as always, are amazing.
  • Because Liam couldn't make it, Sam Riegel had to fill in for him, but didn't have enough time to make a new character. Enter a young Scanlan Shorthalt, who has only just started traveling with Dr. Dranzel's troup and has clearly not developed the confident swagger from Campaign 1 yet. He seems especially fascinated with the idea that you can sleep with women without having to date or emotionally connect with them.
    • Matt also lampshades the problems it's going to cause that, with the addition of guest Sam Richardson, he now has two people named "Sam R." sitting right next to each other at his table.
  • Laura plays a fairy barbarian named Bramble, who is convinced that Sam Richardson's character Ranthiel is her boyfriend, despite his repeated insistence that he's not.
  • In sharp contrast to his current character, Taliesin plays an adorable little halfling boy called Bobby Socks, the son of Kent Plucker, who seems too cheerful to understand that his father doesn't really like him.
• The group encounters a panicked elven woman who trips over and falls on her face in front of them. Bobby rushes over to help her up, at which point Taliesin reasons he'd probably need to make a strength check to see if he can do that. He rolls a 2, and Bobby immediately collapses under the woman's weight. Bramble, who is about the size of a mouse, flies over and pulls the woman up without a problem.
• As Sarge is telling the group about the murder he was framed for, he turns to see Bobby furiously taking notes, and asks what he plans to do with those. Bobby, who seems to realize that taking notes on the backstory of a man out on murder charges isn't the best idea, immediately rips the sheet out of his notebook and eats it.
  • It's worth noting that this isn't an action described by his player — Taliesin actually shoves a piece of notebook paper in his mouth.
• One of the items Bobby carries around is a large egg, which suddenly begins to crack. Bobby asks Ran to try to poke it to see if there's something alive in there. Ran does... by shooting it with an Eldritch Blast, which sends the egg flying off into the forest.
• The group encounters a singing apple.
  Bramble: We should eat it...
  Sarge/Tony: I come from a religious background, that is not a good idea.
• The woman the group was following turns out to be a siren, who attempts to charm the party along with her sisters. Everyone resists it except Bobby, who goes sprinting into the cave after them.
  Bramble: They always want virgins...
  Scanlan: He's definitely a virgin!
  Bobby: (while running) I have a girlfriend in Emon!
• When the charm on Bobby breaks, he gets very angry and Wild Shapes into the most terrifying creature he can think of... An alpaca. His "battle alpaca" form promptly gets slammed onto the ritual altar, and reverts back to Bobby out of sheer panic.
• Bobby heals Scanlan, then summons a bear totem spirit. Sam and Taliesin immediately start making digs at Laura.
  Scanlan: Bobby Socks, that is the most useful bear I've ever seen in my entire life!
  Bobby: Thanks! His name is Bauble!
  Matt: (through laughter) His name is Bauble...
  Taliesin: (to Laura) How's it feel?
• Sarge had been carrying the talking apple with him the entire time, which had been whispering promises of greatness in his ear. Finally feeling like he needs some help, he takes a huge bite of the apple... which begins screaming in agony.
• After killing the crab monster, the group returns to the village with a massive supply of crab meat, which is served during the festival. Matt then describes the festival ending with the Dance to the Dreamer, in which the people call upon the crab guardian that has protected this village for ages, and get very confused when it fails to show up. Nobody seems to have put two and two together yet, leading to a whole bunch of people confused about the lack of crab god while stuffing their faces with crab cakes.
• At the end, Dr. Dranzel's troup is moving on, and the rest of the Glorious Ones decide to come with him. Bramble has always wanted to see Tal'Dorei, Ran wants to give Scanlan some charm lessons, and Bobby...
  Bobby: Kent legally has to have me for two more weeks.

Other One-Shots

Liam's Quest

• The concept of the episode is hilarious in itself: Laura, Travis, Taliesin and Sam are playing themselves as the world falls apart in an apocalyptic time warp.
• Laura spends a solid seven and a half consecutive minutes at the start of the episode hula-hooping during the pre-show announcements.
• At the 23:29 mark, you see Sam lift his giant tankard and on the bottom there is posted a note saying "I Need Money Bad."
• The voice actor Slice of Life section at the beginning, where Liam mentions that Sam arrives 10 minutes later than everyone else, Travis spent the morning working out, and Taliesin spent it writing.
  Taliesin: Oh, why would I do that?
  Liam: Well, 'cause it's anime and that goes deep with you. Somebody's gotta adapt that shit.
  Taliesin: God damn it.
  • In the second take of the dialogue they're recording, Sam cuts himself off to say "pickup!" and start his line over four times. His line is two sentences long.
• The fact that Taliesin, in Real Life, is apparently Crazy-Prepared for the apocalypse:
  Taliesin: If I can get to my car, I think I have a kit for this...
  Travis: That does not surprise me about you one bit.
  (later)
  Taliesin: I had six extra arrows in the trunk of my car...
• The Running Gag of Liam trying not to copy Mercer's catchphrases:
  Liam: You can certainly...have at it.
  Liam: You may indubitably give it your best go.
  Liam: In what manner would you like to kill this?
  Liam: Is it the day before Friday yet?
• Travis is displeased with his character sheet:^* Liam created the character sheets for them, so they receive them in the first hour of the episode as a surprise.
  Travis: My intelligence sucks, you motherfucker!
  Laura: Look how strong you are though. You're so strong baby!
• Sam constantly pesters Travis about whether he's getting paid more for their VO jobs. After the world has already started falling apart.
• Taliesin mourning the fact that he has to burn a few pages of his copy of The Wicked + The Divine to make a torch...added the fact that Liam included the book on his character sheet.
  Taliesin: If this is the last copy on earth...I will kill you.
  • In the Q&A after the game Taliesin was asked what he actually had in his car. The list did in fact include the arrows (borrowed), the book, a frock coat...
• Sam is a ranger. His favoured terrain? Recording studios.
• Travis panics at the apocalypse:
  Travis: It's The Last of Us, dude. It's all over. I think we should just eat Taliesin and move on.
  Taliesin: I think if it's The Last of Us, we need Ashley Johnson. This is not just about me not wanting to submit to cannibalism.
  • Taliesin is stung over getting declared the first to be eaten.
    (later) Taliesin: I'm still a little upset that we talked about eating me before the dog.
• Liam's spot on impression of Ashley Johnson's speech patterns, if not her actual voice.
  • Hilarious in Hindsight - Ashley says she's nearly finished Season 5 of Blindspot, then she'll be back for good - the cast object as the time they're only up to Season 2. Several years later, Blindspot finished at Season 5 and Ashley finishes Commuting on a Bus.
• Travis refuses to give a piggyback to his wife Laura, but agrees to piggyback Taliesin because he says "please." This receives an amazing Call-Back later, when Taliesin is slapping Travis to break him out of a stun state:
  Travis: STOP SLAPPING ME!
  Taliesin: SAY PLEASE!
• Liam sets up the villain to sound like a super-powered lich Marisha. It's not. It's Conan O'Brien.
• Travis trying to chop Sam's arm off after he's frozen solid by Conan O'Brien.
  Travis: He was never very good in the cold reads.
  • Laura getting upset with him.
    Laura: TRAVIS WILLINGHAM! YOU ARE NOT KILLING SAM RIEGEL RIGHT NOW!
  • Taliesin lamenting this turn of events.
    Taliesin: It just took Conan O'Brien for us to turn on each other.
• In the impromptu Q&A afterwards, the other players start asking Travis why he tried to kill Sam:
  Travis: It said on the bottom of my character sheet, "Kill Sam".
  Everyone else: (looks at Liam)
  Liam: (looks confused)
  Travis: DECEPTION CHECK!
• Once Travis realizes that the Apocalypse just went down, he immediately starts making plans to acquire wealth in a cashless society. These plans include throwing his wife under the bus.
  Travis: "I will sell you and be rich in the post-apocalyptic world!"

Liam's Quest: Full Circle

• The entire premise of the episode: it's a sequel to Liam's first apocalyptic episode, but due to the time warp, the cast is playing as themselves as children of varying ages, from teenage Marisha to seven-year-old Taliesin (who is still a warlock). There is character art.
• Liam's opening narration describes Sam having a dream within a dream, in which he feels uncomfortable as something is prodding at his back. Sam can't keep a straight face, and has to reassure everyone that it's not a dick.
• Laura's first reaction, without missing a beat, when she and Sam find each other and discover that they're children:
  Laura: Your face is smaller, but your teeth are the same size!
• Although in theory they still have their adult minds, Travis apparently reverts to childlike terror and runs from every possible conflict, completely abandoning his friends and wife.
  Travis: (bawling after seeing something gory) I haven't seen an R-rated movie at this point!
  • After Laura sees Travis get killed and decides to make a break for it, Travis approves.
• When Taliesin finds Matt and Marisha, he makes a brief Running Gag of Comically Missing the Point.
  Taliesin: [On hearing Liam describe a teenage girl with long red hair] Matt, is that you?
  Taliesin: [On hearing Liam describe a teenager in a Hawaiian shirt and hair like Matt's] Liam! I'm coming to get you!
  • He then wakes Marisha up with a slap, and when she instinctively grabs his wrist and asks who he is, he replies " Mr. Mom, you know exactly who I am!"
• It sadly doesn't last into actual combat, but Teen!Matt picks up Child!Taliesin and attempts to wield him as a weapon.
• Matt's response to rolling a Nat 20 for initiative:
  Matt: I just realized that I'm sitting in Taliesin's chair.
  • Oddly enough, Taliesin isn't rolling too well later in the night...
• After seeing her take damage, Matt casts Healing Word on Marisha. Laura, having suffered really bad damage earlier, asks if Matt can heal her. Matt claims he's really spent, and Laura gives him a nasty Death Glare for several seconds.
  Matt: We're all gonna die.
• Ashley's attempts to intimidate their opponents veer rapidly from teenage rebellion into hilariously horrifying madness, from picking up a dead demon-cat and tying it to her belt, to taking a bite out of said (raw) dead demon-cat, to responding to Marisha's death by wearing her ribcage as a hat. Made more funny when Marisha drapes herself limply over Ashley's shoulder.
  • Taliesin's reaction to the cat-biting:
  Taliesin: (fondly) We so would've hung out.
• Matt is in perfect form as his Adorkable teenage bard self. While he doesn't sing, his inspiration lines are just as memorable as Sam's.
  Matt: (after the above cat-biting incident) Ashley! Continue to prove your savagery! Chew deep and revel in the insanity, as this day, we prove our mettle against the force of darkness!
• Taliesin has apparently been face-to-face with a throng of hellish monstrosities in the past, and says what he said last time.
  Taliesin: Mr. Satan, dude, we are totally ready to serve you!
• Sam's habit of Gallows Humor character deaths returns.
  Sam: [As his head is being split open by the Demogorgon's spiked tail] I can work with this.
• The second half of the session opens with another mock-VO session. Sam repeats the "pickup!" gag from Liam's first one-shot and constantly starts his line over to get it right...except this time, his entire line is a scream of agony.
  • During the entire VO session, everyone is still in their child forms, but no one acknowledges it. Even better is that they're playing the crew of a spaceship that's just been damaged in battle.
  • Since Laura went home sick during the break, Sam takes this opportunity to make fun of her accent acting.
  • Before each take, everyone does a T-pose to set the motion capture. The last time they T-pose, Travis starts playing with Taliesin's ear, leading Taliesin to attempt biting Travis' fingers.
• In the battle in the recording studio, real-life Naughty Dog creative director Neil Druckmann is an NPC...and dies tragically. Sam leaves his picture and resume on his body.
• When Marisha is not sure about one of her class abilities, Matt immediately jumps in, taking the manual, in full DM mode, to help her. Travis lampshades it yelling "no DM-ing", and Liam replies he's not actually complaining about a little help.
• Liam's Speak & Spell robot voice has the entire cast, but especially Travis, paralyzed with laughter for over a minute when it's first revealed.
  • Matt does a commendable job fending off the Corpsing; at one point, he looks at Liam with eyes full of empathy and says:
    Matt: Liam, how do you spell 'farmhouse'?
• Ashley's character profile gives her name as Ash-O-Lee.
• At last, we get a sense of the chaos just before the live stream begins. As the crew is counting down:
  Matt: Liam, let no one ever tell you you're talented or special.
  Marisha: PUSSY POCKETS!
  • Matt's line crosses into Heartwarming and Fridge Brilliance: Liam's fictional counterpart was taken away because he was special. Given that the party managed to break the loop and go back to the start, Matt would want to ensure that Liam wouldn't be persuaded to go with the people who took him.

Deadlands One-Shot

• This is a charity game, so there are donations coming in often in line with the game itself. Every time a donation arrives, there is a notification sound that says "All right!" in a Southern American accent... which Matt and the players try to work into their sentences as if it were totally normal.
  Marisha: (as a gypsy fortuneteller) I just walk off yelling in my native language...
  Notification: Alright!
  Marisha: (maintaining the accent) Alright...
• The game starts with every player blind-drawing three chips from a bowl, leading to everyone reaching at awkward angles so they don't see what colors they get. Then Laura has to draw a secret backstory card from a deck, so she's reaching at an awkward angle again despite the cards being face down and in front of her:
  Laura: Where's that deck?
  Travis: Where's that what?
  Laura: That deck. (Beat) Shut up!
• Matt mentions that one thing donors could win is a chance to name a new NPC for the Vox Machina campaign. Liam immediately figures out what it means.
  "Welcome, I am Skizzbucket Tatertaint!"
• Matt's narration is funnier than usual, with him integrating various elements of Sophisticated as Hell into his usual calm expository voice, beginning by ending the initial introduction to the inn as people "getting shitfaced."
• Note that some donations come with a suggestion on the direction the game goes, which means that someone out there wanted all the player characters to wake up in bed together. If that's not enough, it leads to this:

  Matt: It becomes obvious that you've all slept in for a bit, because (beat) It's High Noon.
  (all players go nuts)

  • They follow up on it later, with Stinky Jules (Laura) going into very uncomfortable detail about what Reverend Alton (Liam) ended up doing to Sudas (Marisha, who even goes into a victory dance) and Sydney (Travis).
• The Non-Player Character examples Matt picks for this one-shot are all characters from Deadwood. Eventually, Travis catches on and starts cracking up.

Shadow of War One-Shot

• Sam's description of a stunning strike is amazing.
  Sam: Knowing my medical knowledge that I know so well, I hit him where I know it will hurt the most—the wang!
• The initial attack is over, and our "heroes" look out for any additional threats:
  Travis: It's real blurry - does anyone here have any good, yknow, eyeballs?
  Laura: I dunno if they're any good, but I got some eyeballs...
  Sam: Some of those aren't eyeballs by the way.
• It leads into a Brick Joke when the actual quest begins, and Skak (Travis) suggests that Arby (Laura) install two of those eyeballs in the severed human head provided by Moozu (Special Guest Darin De Paul), after which Sam points out that "one's a wolf eyeball and one's an acorn, so I dunno how that's gonna work..."
  Skak: The beast and the land speak through me!...
  Moozu: See, an acorn is really a seed... and you can't spell "seed" without "see".
• Laura attempts to make owl noises to distract an orc watchman. After a horrendous performance check, Travis pitches in that he would like to aid her using Minor Illusion in order to make it sound like a two-headed owl.
  Laura: Do I get advantage?
  Matt: Because it's a two-headed owl? ...No.
• As Moozu tries to stealthily Misty Step behind a guard and rip his throat out, Laura's character yells: "Rip it out quietly!"
• In one of their rare genius moves, the trolls come across a sleeping uruk mob and opt to use sleeping powder on them to put them deeper in sleep - and then massacre them. It finally comes to an end with Arby splattering the second last one in his sleep, so that his bits land all over the place and one hand ends up on the last sleeping one. Who just takes it and sucks on its thumb like it was his own. Cue even more squick.
  • Why leave one alive? Because the trolls planned to interrogate him, using a harebrained intimidation tactic of booming the same words all together - without really deciding what to say first. At some point Sam reverts to growling all his lines in time with the others.
  Matt: SOMEONE make an intimidation check!
• It turns out that all the uruks were the troops of the Gravewalker himself the whole time, as indicated by the hand print symbols they wear. Arby gets the idea to put handprints on themselves to infiltrate Isengard - by slapping Mozuu in the face.
• When the next battle starts, the uruk hostage escapes in the chaos, but Ur-Eden (Sam) catches up to him and manages to talk him into stopping without incident - and then the other trolls, too far away to hear any of that, elect to kill the hostage. They nail him with a crossbow. Even better, it turns into an In Medias Res moment when Sam and Matt redo their previous lines, only now ending with the hostage Killed Mid-Sentence.

Thursday by Night (Part 1)

• Evil people don't pinkie swear. They use their middle fingers. (Marisha and Laura demonstrate.)
• Travis smashes open Laura's coffin to find her with her face covered in blood.
  Laura: (immediately) I ate a rat, baby!
  Travis: You ate a rat? It wasn't because I just punched through the floor?
  Laura: No!
  Travis: You could've lied and I wouldn't have known that! Ugh, god.
  Laura: I was really hungry. I'm sorry.
  Travis: Is there any left?^note There's just rat butt. Even vampires have standards.
• Taliesin's DM description takes a turn for the Lemony Narrator early on with the line: "Something is wrong... including the sign on the wall written in blood that says 'Something is wrong'." Travis in particular cracks up at that.
• After Matt and Marisha both die, Liam begins worrying about what to do the present he bought them for their wedding: tickets to Hamilton. This causes a bunch of the people in the room to stand up and try to attack them over it, shocking Liam.
• As things get weird, Laura stops even reacting much to some of the bizarre happenings, culminating in her telling Travis that Ivan Van Norman, who has her in a Deadly Game, is "made of electricity now."
  Travis: ... that’s fun.
• Much like the Conan O'Brien reveal in Liam's one-shot, Taliesin vaguely implies the "Father" everyone's alluding to might be himself as a vampire. It's not. It's vampire Gary Gygax.
• Matt feeling compelled to look outside and immediately turning to dust? Horrifying and a little funny in its abruptness. Matt having warned them all about sunlight beforehand? Funny. When it turns out Gary Gygax turned them all into vampires so they could keep doing Critical Role forever, and he's really pissed that Matt is gone? Hilarious.
  • When Sam suggests that Gary Gygax becomes DM, it somehow leads to the most hilarious Double Entendre in CR's history.
  • Compounded by the reveal in the World of Critical Role book that Matt and Marisha's early deaths were planned - they had wedding stuff to do, so Taliesin told them in advance to look for opportunities to do something stupid to get themselves killed.
• Sam brings Liam a person to snack on.
  Liam: You do love me!

Thursday by Night (Part 2)

• It's nearly Halloween, so instead of the all-black fancy Goth getup of Part 1, everyone's in costume.
  Sam: You're from Portal?
  Laura: Yeah, I'm from Portal! I'm Chell.
  Sam: And you're (Taliesin) Assassin's Creed? Okay, I guessed that one...(Liam)'s from Fallout, he told me.
  Laura: And what is Travis from?
  Sam: That's the only one I know. He is Ellie from The Last of Us.
  • Sam's costume is then identified as Q-bert, Kirby, and a peanut M&M before Sam reveals it was a $14 Pac-Man Amazon purchase with fangy makeup.
• The gang meet an underground society of lizard people living under L.A. One of them is a Critical Role fan. Apparently they get excellent internet service underground.
• In the Hollywood graveyard, Liam attacks and completely drains some poor guy in a porta-potty. Only afterwards does he look and see that it's Will Friedle. Liam is completely unapologetic. He then stuffs the body into the porta-potty cistern. The group debates whether it's possible for someone to be shoved down the cistern. Taliesin reassures them with a big grin he knows for a fact it is, but not to ask how he knows this.
• Travis needs to distract the bouncer at a vampire club so Laura can sneak up to the VIP room. He does this by breaking his finger while staring directly at the guy.
  • Sam, claiming he's watched a lot of True Blood, tries to heal Travis' hand by biting it, but bites too hard and bites the finger clean off. Then he tries to smear his own blood on it, which also doesn't work. At that point the bouncer pushes them upstairs because this is too weird for him to deal with.
  • After discovering Travis' blood seems special, Sam sucks on the severed finger. When asked if he gets anything out of it, Taliesin says "just some really, really awful fanart".
  Laura: Stop sucking on my husband's finger!
  Taliesin: This is not nearly the worst thing I've seen in a Vampire game.
• Liam, Sam, and Laura tease Travis for being the only one who hasn't actively killed another human being. In fact, the one time he does try to kill someone, Laura talks him out of it because it's someone they actually know.
  Travis:You're sleeping in your own coffin tonight.
• All of the players have an intelligence of four (out of a possible five), except for Sam who has an intelligence of three. Sam does not react well to this revelation. Taliesin tells him to blame his brother, who was the one to decide on their stats.
• It turns out nearly all the Geek And Sundry showrunners and regulars (that weren't seen in Part 1, anyway) are vampires. The group is surprised by most of the reveals, but everyone agrees Satine Phoenix was obvious in hindsight.
• They never found Taliesin again in the game. GM Taliesin says his in-game self is currently in a cage because he has "done a bad thing."
  • Later revisited on Talks Machina a couple weeks later: Vamp!Taliesin was in a cage because a) he was responsible for a lot of the mess that was once the LDN offices, and b) he went on a killing spree as soon as he got out. (The only reason they didn't just kill him was because they needed information on what all had gone wrong)

Once Upon A Fairytale Cruise

• Sam messes up the opening monologue
  Sam: Once upon a cruise, somewhere in the seven seas, a peaceful three-masted ship sways towards...fuck.
• When they unveil the character art, Goldilocks is the only one Flipping the Bird for some reason. Also she's got brunette roots growing out.
• Amy Vorpahl's Queen of Hearts is a laugh a minute. Oh, and she's a Barbarian.
• Yuri Lowenthal's (Mad) Hatter attacks the chocolate bar when his first target dies.
• Noelle Stevenson makes the evening's best pun by saying that her Peter Pan is "Pan"-sexual.
• The Scarecrow sees Hansel's head get blown off, so he immediately tries a pickup line on Gretel.

Kobolds and Catacombs

• Matt's opening narration often reminds the players about their mismatched armor, Rainbow Pimp Gear being a fairly infamous trope of World of Warcraft itself.
• Everyone's accents are fantastic - special props to Liam's (who also voiced a few Draenei in World of Warcraft), which he doesn't drop even when completely out of character until after the break (when he accidentally switches to Vax's voice).
• Laura's character is a big fan of Jaina Proudmoore (who, in World of Warcraft, is voiced by...)
• Travis's character being all vain and narcissistic.
• Liam's character hero-worships Leeroy Jenkins.
  • Liam's character then gets a sword that is Leeroy Jenkins incarnate. Naturally, said sword is the death of him.
• Matt gives the kobolds a Gollum voice.
• The resident Night Elf (Special Guest Jennifer Hale) makes the assumption that "kobold" is taken from Reporting Names and potentially like the N-word to actual kobolds:
  Aerwin: How many people are with the king?
  Kobold: People? No people...
  Aerwin: Sorry, how many more of your kind are with the king?
  Kobold: King is not very kind either, but is good king!
  • Then Liam as the Husky Russkie Draenei takes over the interrogation... and may actually be former KGB as well.
  • The kobold winds up hostage to our heroes, and Quazirat (Liam) proposes that Greldamine (Laura) be put in charge of him, whereupon the kobold immediately goes into Ugly Cute puppy-dog mode (justified, it was being tortured) which is way more hilariously disgusting that it really should have been.
• Stoned troggs who have had way too many mushrooms (probably from the black market mushroom salesman kobold in a trenchcoat). The team easily manipulates and confuses their way through the encounter, Liam (who plays a space alien) topping it off:
  Quazi (Liam): Good news, my brothers! We come from both the future and the past... (Aside to the party) I have been this fucked up before.
• Matt briefly forgets the kobold suffering Draenei torture, and it looks like he was faking injury the whole time... (They don't bother to roll with it.)
• Dance emotes against the Magma Rager(fire elemental armor thing).
• Matt's descriptions of the failed stealth rolls against the dragon. Laura's character gained a burnt bun, Travis's armor was clanky, and Jennifer rolled a Natural 1.
• Taliesin's various reactions to his poor dice rolls, mostly ending in asking for the Golden Snitch back (Matt says no).

Crash Pandas

• Sam gives a disclaimer at the beginning of the episode: he doesn't know anything about cars. Or tires. Or racing. This first comes up when Sam describes Travis' character prying open a car's Back-Hood.
  Sam: You peel open, the 'back hood'... uh- The engine is in the back of the van.
  Travis: OH! How peculiar for an American car.
• When the raccoons are tossing car parts out of a pit in the junkyard to steal, Sam represents this by putting a paper bag (with a raccoon face drawn on it) and monster paws on Matt and requiring him to blindly catch ping-pong balls thrown at him by the rest of the cast. He gets a few solid whacks to the head.
• Izzie throws her broomstick like a spear out the back of their ice cream truck at the exterminator's van behind them and rolls so well that she kills the driver, somehow causing the van to explode shortly after.
  • Despite all this, that car still also crosses the finish line, presumably due to being still on the accelerator.
• The raccoons' vehicle gets a bonus in the end by setting up a sail and using the wind for a speed boost. This entails Sam setting a 1 minute timer and requiring everyone to gather around and blow the car across the finish line.

Critical Role and the Club of Misfits

• The entire premise of the campaign is a Writing Around Trademarks for a setting that is basically Harry Potter, to the point where Laura has to find ways around calling them by their original name in the heat of the moment, such as "Defense Against the Dark Farts" and "Care of Magical Screatures". This in addition to it being a thinly disguised Whole-Plot Reference to The Breakfast Club.
  • Because of the two lengthy combat sessions and various small comedy bits, the cast get zero meaningful interactions between their characters. When they realize they need to wrap up the game with some sort of "heartwarming" resolution (as in the original film), they all half-assedly pour out their basic motivations to each other, sending everyone into hysterics. Note that Sam doesn't remember much about The Breakfast Club.
  Claire: Oh, by the way, I'm a virgin. I read that on Wikipedia.
  • Brian's ending narration. All of it.
• Travis' character, named Bunder, decides to argue with the classes teacher shortly into the episode, resulting in her threatening him for a full semester's worth of detention, because he kept arguing against her, resulting in a Serial Escalation of how long he will be in detention.
• Sam is grossly unfamiliar with Harry Potter and misses most of the references and shout outs the others are trying to hold to. For example, when bragging about well Claire's going to do in school, he lists out what will happen Year 10, 11, and 12... which don't exist in Harry Potter.
• Laura introduces a house-elf named Beetle, who requests the players' help. Unfortunately, Laura ambushes herself with her own phrasing.
  Beetle: Beetle needs help down belo-
  Laura, breaking character: That sounds really dirty...

The Night Before Critmas

• On a failed roll at making toys, Liam rules that Matt's elf made a Caleb figure but forgot the "crippling guilt", without which it just isn't Caleb.
• Sam is about to play reindeer-whisperer to Blitzen at a pivotal point - which veers into Mood Whiplash when Liam somehow misreads "Blitzen's snout" into "Blitzen's nut", leading to a ton of jokes from the guys, like Travis imagining a huge Newton's Cradle with just two bearings, Sam miming bopping the speedbag...
• Why has the North Pole never been discovered? Matt's elf has killed every human that gets close. 634 people to be exact (and three elves for unrelated reasons).
  Chutney: I always thought the December red snows were a natural phenomenon!
• The elves discover a grove of trees with doors leading to other holiday worlds, leading to Travis joking that the one with the green leaf (actually St Patrick's Day) goes to 4/20-ville.
• Chutney (Travis) distributes "field rations", as in actual candy canes he brought for everyone - and Ashley can be briefly seen bopping one like it was a pack of cigs.
  • Taliesin sharpening a candy cane to a point.
• Matt's elf explaining that there are three lists: the nice list, the naughty list, and the naughty list.
  Bundlestein: Be honest with us. Is the naughty list a hit list?
  Klaus: Well there's the nice list, there's the naughty list and there's the naughty list.
  Nutmeg: So there's two naughty lists? How do you know which is which?
  Bundlestein: What if you make a mistake?
  Klaus: That's only happened twice. There are precautions in place now.
  Nutmeg: Mistakes were made...
• After Ellory (Julie Nathanson) executes a spiritual attack by just putting a real fruit cake on the board, Cranberry (Marisha) executes his own spirit attack - in the form of the head of a brawny man "with his rolls of paper towels".
  Matt: (singing) It's the quilted, quicker fuck-you-upper...
• Sam manages to trigger a trap that sends a spikey d20 at him. After narrowly dodging, he says, "Watch out for balls!" When Travis triggers a similar trap on his next turn, Liam describes one of the spikes grazing his sack as it misses. His elf being a grouchy old man, Travis hisses, "Only got one of those left, gotta be careful."
• Matt proceeds to take 5 attacks on one turn - Marisha immediately questions why no-one in the group plays a Fighter in their regular campaign.
  • Similarly, Taliesin takes his first round of combat and immediately realizes how good Rogues are. He now regrets never having played one.
• The oneshot nearly goes Off the Rails at the end when Travis' character, Chutney, pulls a Mistreatment-Induced Betrayal and stabs Santa in the chest with his chisel! Everyone at the table can barely contain their laughter.
  Chutney: He told me... to make Voltron... out of wood. No one wanted it!
  • "You're a fool, Klaus! We can't compete with Amazon!"
  • Everyone including Liam corpses badly with laughter, but guest Julie is visibly horrified. She quietly asks Marisha if she's allowed to attack Chutney. Marisha assures her that she can.
  Julie: This is against everything I stand for!
  • While trying to talk Klaus into joining his rebellion, Chutney proposes selling off the land, becoming insanely wealthy property owners, etc, as well as "ending the suffrage of the elves". In context, the overworked and underappreciated Chutney probably meant "suffering," but the fact that an endgoal of taking away elfish voting rights in the North Pole is completely in-character makes the slip of the tongue hilarious.
  • And then, moments later, Travis realises that someone will tell his son about it.
  • Made even worse as Matt had just conducted military field-style first aid on Santa by stuffing marshmallows in his wounds to stop the bleeding. At least Santa survives it...
  • Right before his turn, you can see him, Matt, and Ashley whispering to each other, and just make out him saying "You have to stop me" before he starts cracking up, with Matt giving him the 'I'm watching you' gesture, staring at him intently when his turn is called.
• After Santa is saved and Chutney is Dragged Off to Hell by the Hollow King, Nutmeg suggests setting up a judicial system. Santa then reveals that the North Pole has a care home he was willing to let Chutney retire to, horrifying everyone at the realization Klaus has been killing hundreds for literally no reason.
• In the spirit of Christmas, all the players spin the ending into a framing device, like they were retelling it to their children the whole time.
  And remember, Chutney will come after you if you don't have at least one wooden toy!

Tails of Equestria

• In general, everyone's attempts at horse puns.
• Roger Craig Smith plays Whirlypoo... a name that probably sounded better in his head. He usually insists others call him "Whirly".
  • Roger, who's voiced the likes of Batman, Ezio Auditore and Captain America... give Whirly a voice that's pretty much Carl Wheezer.
• Liam O'Brien plays Tomeytime, who's something of a ponified Caleb... except Liam is quick to clarify that he didn't kill his parents. He's obsessed with self-help books, and step one he learned: "keep your parents alive".
• Ashley runs with her character's Honesty element by frankly telling Captain Summer Harvest that yes, everypony in the castle does find her terrifying.
• After Peaches fails at moving some clouds, Countess Pi tries to use her magic to do the same... and rolls a 1. So in instead of clearing the clouds away, she somehow makes it start snowing.
• "Whirly" gets barfed on by a bear due to a failed plan by Trixie and Tomey. After the others deal with the problem, he interjects.
  Whirly: I'm covered in vomit.
• Whirly's Suspiciously Specific Denial regarding starting an Earth Pony uprising in Zirconia.

Call of Cthulhu: Shadow of the Crystal Palace

• The setting is the 1890s, and all the players are upper-class hobnobs attending a cat convention - and Travis is the one guy who didn't plan that part out well enough.
  Travis: Mine is Ahchoo... I found it outside... with a little bit of cheese.
  Phil: You're not really a cat person, are you Captain?
  Travis: What gave it away?
• At the beginning of the oneshot we are given a very dull and slow speech by the organiser about news of this Cat tournament. It's eventually cut short when all the characters decide to leave.
  • Taliesin reveals he had an entire four pages of this speech prepared if needed
  • According to Maryweather at the end of the one shot this speech is still happening.
• Liam plays a "spiritual consultant", with his Vax accent tacked on for flavor and indulges in a bit of innuendo that would have made Vax (or even Vex) proud:
  Travis: Out of curiosity, Mr Septimus, what will these "spirits" do...
  Erika: What have they done to you? Have they hurt you?
  Liam: They have never hurt me... if one is open and willing. (Beat) They wish to talk, in their way. (another beat)
  Erika: Consider your words heeded, sir.
  Ashly: Oookay, lights or not?
  • And later on the English accent suddenly turns Irish when he's revealed as a Phony Psychic.
• They finally get the lights to work (electricity being a very recent innovation at the time), and Travis is the first to bring up how the cats in the cat convention will react.
  Taliesin: Yknow, there's enough white noise from the fountains that the cats don't go 'what the fuck has happened'; also being cats, if you just turned on the lights I think they all did this in unison. (Eye Roll)
• It should be noted at this point that the players get an incredible number of physical props to play with, from working ones like electric "gas lamps" to completely mundane ones, like a copper key:
  Ashly: Does anyone with... more knowlege of this kind of thing know what this is?
  Travis: It goes in a lock.
  Ashly: Thank you, does anyone have any more insight than that?
  Liam: Thanks, Grog.
• Septimus payed off the judges so his cat would win.
  Septimus: Why do you think I took that bet?
• All the other players having great fun over the thick sexual tension between Cpt. Badger and Hanako.
  Phil: If you're looking for a heat source...! (points his thumbs at Travis and Erika)
  • Phil's incredible facial expression when Hana thanks Badger for his "discretion".
• Taliesin reacting to Liam putting the red jewel stone on his eye like a monocle. "I've been waiting to say this my entire life: you're just an asshole with a ruby on his eye."
• Everyone's reaction when Ida Coswell is dragged into the shadows. Marisha and Erika's combined Jaw Drop are a work of art.
  • And then Marisha and Erika clinging to each other Scooby-and-Shaggy style when Septimus is Killed Off for Real.

Feast of Legends

• The setting, Freshtovia, leans hard into the ridiculousness inherent in a fast food inspired campaign, and Sam Riegel leans into the ridiculousness by adding things which aren't already there, and most of the cast (minus Matt) leans into Sam's ridiculousness, so the whole thing is basically a CMoF.
  Sam: How do you want to chew this? (Matt just slumps into a double Face Palm while everyone else melts down)
• The sheer amount of fast food puns the players manage to slip into their dialogue, which nearly breaks Sam by the end of it all.
• Special Guest Ify Nwadiwe is having way too much fun as the Macho Camp Hogg Wyld.
  • When our heroes bid farewell to their families, Hogg's words to his children aren't nearly as encouraging as they really should be, even ending with telling them that a neighbour of theirs will be their legal guardian if anything happens to him. Next up is Snaxx (Liam), who has instead five siblings since they're all based on chicken nuggets:
  Snaxx: If anything happens to Hogg, I want you to look after his children, they're kinda messed up...
  • Ify rolls a crap intelligence check of 1, because he's too busy staring at his own chest. Sam curiously asks if he can Pec Flex. He can.
  Liam: I roll a 6 because I'm too busy staring at his chest... (as Snaxx) What were we doing again?
  Tweezle: Look at that, it's like a choppy shoreline... it's mesmerising...
  • While Tweezle is a Friend to All Living Things who can calm two spooked horses, Hogg buys a pet snake that immediately tries to kill him.
• After trekking through the fast-food-based environment, our heroes reach a fast-food Mordor of sorts with the trees tainted by underground chilli veins, and Marisha dubs it "Char-nobyl". And immediately regrets it.

UnDeadwood

Part I: Stay Close, Reverend
Despite deliberately going for a Darker and Edgier approach, it doesn't take very long for the zaniness to kick in.

• Al Swearengen's commentary on the Rag Tag Bunch Of Misfits as they introduce themselves is rather amusing, but his talk to Aloysius Fogg is a stand out. Khary Payton nearly chokes on his drink after hearing it.
  Fogg: My mother named me Aloysius.
  Swearengen: A sin I hope you’ve forgiven her for.
• It's a meta-humor moment, but Matt was seated near an A/C vent that made his hair move as though he were constantly in a dramatic breeze. Viewers just assumed this was intentional.
  • Travis is wearing a makeup scar intended to foreshadow his Dark and Troubled Past. Not so intended, his real tattoos peeking out from his sleeves.
• Shortly after the meeting with Swearingen, Miriam tells Arabella she is sorry for her being forced into marriage, but asserts their own power as women. Aloysius initiates a hilarious example of mood whiplash just as she finishes speaking.
  Fogg: Ain't that the damn truth. It's a shame. I'm sorry about that. Dan, you said there were women available?
• After being employed by Swearengen, our party is offered their choice of all the whores of The Gem, and Aloysius picks one... and two more volunteer. All while Reverend Mason is practically clutching his crucifix for support,
  Aloysius: I love this town!... Reverend, I got three of 'em in here, are you sure...?
  Reverend Mason: No, I have my own three... the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. Amen.
  (everyone loses it)
  • When Arabella yells for Aloysius later, he just reponds in muffled sounds.
• Travis' Oh, Crap! look when Marisha asks if she knows where they are in the moon cycle, his mind clearly jumping to werewolves.
• Realising that the snake-like creatures are frightened of fire, Fogg suggests to the Reverend that he quote some "Bible shit" at them.
  Reverend Mason: The Lord is my Shepherd; I shall not want-
  Miriam: Talk about fire!
  Reverend Mason: For He burns fuckin' serpents with fire!
• Matt Mercer is known to get a little exasperated with people who want him to repeatedly spout McCree's catchphrase out of context, but Brian gets an I Always Wanted to Say That moment when Marisha asks about the lunar position when they wake up:
  Brian: It's HIGH MOON!
  (Everyone at the table cracks up laughing except for Matt, who struggles mightily to keep a straight face.)
  Brian: I knew I got one.

Part II: God Don't Play Cards
At this point it's safe to assume that the trademark CR zaniness isn't going anywhere, and just move on:

• Following the Cliffhanger ending of part 1, our heroes are thrust into a literal firefight with Sheriff Bullock up in arms against something. Clayton (Matt) yells to the sheriff, and right off the bat:

  Marisha: Did you just distract a man in the middle of a gunfight?

• The irony of Reverend Mason yelling "Get behind me, Satan!" while casting a Bolt spell... and immediately rolling three sixes.
• Everything about Farnum, the "self-appointed mayor", who Brian gives the voice of Kermit the Frog.
• Thanks to the peril of the mission, Reverend Mason manages to bargain Al Swearengen into making continued "donations" to the church for the continued services of our heroes.

  Swearengen: You wouldn't be the first shepherd to fuck a sheep.
  (everyone melts down)

• Brian's brief befuddlement over what a gravestone that's actually made of wood should be called.

Part III: I Got My Wish
It's Black Comedy out the wazoo (literally!) as a NPC death forms the central plotline this week.

• Our heroes haul the murder victim to Doc Cochran's place to carry out an amateur autopsy, but they still have problems working out what happened after the fact. Reverend Mason is the first to suggest that whatever went into his mouth might have eventually come out the other end, and all of them start skittishly arguing over who gets to check down there. Clayton just rolls the body right over to save time.
  • Made better when Brian gives him an extra poker chip just for having the audacity to do that.
  Brian: This is for being the ass man.
• Brian indulges in a bit of Theme Naming for the Bella Union prostitutes - Celine, Whitney, Katy, Britney...
• It's Arabella's turn to ask the Bartender for some advice, and he notes that during his answer, she's barely touched her whiskey.
  Arabella: I'm a sipper, not a shooter...
  (She downs it in one gulp.)
  Arabella: Most of the time.

Cinderbrush: A Monsterhearts One-Shot

• Right off the bat, Taliesin's outfit, which can best be described as "vampire Boy George".
• Just the fact that the Running Gag of using Sending in the main campaign has been unofficially turned into texting.
  • When a group text is sent to specific characters, Matt shows all of them what it looks like, using an old-fashioned overhead projector like you'd find in an actual school (when Matt was in school, anyway). This doesn't prepare the guys for Matt reading it out in Valley Girl mode.
  • Naturally, the projector later breaks down.
• AF (Ally Beardsley), born Abigail Flowers, has been trying to shake off that name for a while. They overreact in a huge way when the teacher taking roll call calls them by that name, by which we mean they physically throw something at Matt. Their excuse is they saw a bird, which Jamie immediately backs up for seemingly no reason than compulsive lying.
• The zaniness finally kicks in when the Jerk Jock attacked by AF finds them and stomps up to them... and then takes a surprisingly civil approach to resolving conflict.
  AF: Yeah, well, you seem pretty big and pretty intimidating, and... I just wanted to show that, so am I.
  Jason: Well I feel that there are more constructive ways than y'know, just decking someone... (all players meltdown)
  • The Dumb Muscle of Jason's football team, also trying to be civil, is described by Matt as "dumb woke".
• AF "T-1000 sprinting" away after asking if Sasha is single.
• Everything about Amanda, the adorable horse girl NPC, who AF makes wear fake glasses to help trick their parents into thinking they have a huge project worth 90% of their grade due.
• Cameron (Ashley) is supposed to lend an ascot to AF, and ends up just grabbing a napkin off his dinner table.
  AF: Oh cool, it comes with this wooden ring thing... (puts it on)
• The Running Gag of Sasha turning on absolutely everybody.
• Matt asks Ashley how long Cameron spends kissing Sasha outside the warehouse.
  Ashley: I do not know time in this moment!
• AF's LSD-induced ramblings, and Jamie's attempt to put up with them, which of course, ends up with them making out.
  AF: You're the butterfly, I'm the president.
• Jamie hexes one of the cloaked figures who kidnap Amanda.
  Taliesin: What's the technical term for hallucinating insects crawling all over you, crawling inside of you and unable to scratch them off?^NoteFormication.
  Matt: Weirdly, don't have that information!
• Sasha, flirting with a police officer, ends up making plans to redesign the local PD's social media strategy.

DOOM Eternal One-Shot

• Laura Bailey is the big, slow, not-too-bright Mancubus. Whose name is... Mancubus.
  • Mancubus has no hands. Much humour is derived from this fact.
• Sam Riegel's Archvile has a moment where he asks the Hell Priest if he can take a selfie before they go and do his bidding, and rolls a 20.
  Hell Priest: Only if you have the right filter.
• Anjali Bhimani's Pain Elemental takes the name of a horrible mortal she once heard of... Phyllis. She uses the souls of dead celebrities, such as Johnny Cash and Shakira.
  Phyllis: [with her shrill, raspy demon voice] Her hips don't lie!
  • It should be noted: Phyllis does not actually know what a celebrity is at first. She just liked Cash's Ring of Fire song and Shakira's hips and happened to take their souls for it. A few good rolls later, though, she decides her celeb souls are "lucky" and demands any "celebrity" move to the front of the soul sheild because of it.
  • Also at her disposal is Summon Magic, but summoning other demons has an unexpected drawback:
  Phyllis: ...Esther?!
• Jasmine Bhullar not only plays a Revenant, but also carries a kazoo so she can "DOOT DOOT" for emphasis.
• They hit an unforeseen snag when the lovingly painted demon figures turn out to be too big to act as minifigs. Matt eventually settles for using just the Pain Elemental, ironically the slowest moving one, to represent them moving as a squad.
• The demons come across a control panel, unaware of how to work it. Phyllis suggests pressing the red button, since red is a good color for demons, while Reva suggests pressing everything that's not pressed and unpressing everything that is pressed, since they want the opposite of what the humans want.
• "How do you want to rip and tear this?"
• Whenever an audio recording is played with one of the Critical Role cast's voices, Sam and Laura completely lose it.
• After taking another scientist hostage, Jasmine mentions as part of her interrogation, "I breathe in her face... and I had tuna salad for lunch."
  Taliesin: [to Anjali] It is Hell.
  [Taliesin and Anjali crack up in silent laughter]
• The first half of the session ends with the arrival of The Doomslayer himself, sparking a Mass "Oh, Crap!" from the demons... Except Riva, who has a bit of a different opinion of the Hell Walker.
  Riva: Oh my god, it's Doom-senpai!
  Ichibod: (after the Slayer levels his Chaingun at them) GET US OUT OF THIS ROOM!
  Riva: Step on me!~
• After the break, faced with the goddamn Doomslayer, the party rolls initiative... and their highest roll is Mancubus with a 10. Given the Slayer rolled a 19, the party's immediate reaction to his high rolls contrasting their pathetic ones is well justified. Making matters worse is that two of the party's strongest units, Taliesin's Marauder and Sam's Archvile get 4 and 0 respectively.
• Faced with the Doomslayer, they drop a smoke bomb and flee expeditiously. Except poor extremely slow and lacking any special movement abilities Phyllis. All she can do is putter along 20ft each turn and top up her soul shield. The hilarity comes with the in character panicking, and because of some lucky rolls she actually manages to survive a long while as his only visible target.
• Mancubus tries to help Phyllis by summoning a Pinky to engage the Doomslayer... only for him to get a Nat 20 chainsaw attack on it that results in a "Glory Kill", which heals him and recovers his ammo. Oops.
  Mancubus: I tried to help but only made it worse!
• Matt's response to Jasmine's Revenant trying to move stealthily: "It's gonna be hard to stealth with rocket boosters. Just saying."
• As the group decides to split the party when the Doom Slayer arrives, Sam's Archvile is absent from most of the fighting. It takes several rounds for him to get back to the group, during which time the Mancubus and Revenant both die. But Sam's character doesn't know that, so he milks the Black Comedy by yelling that he's coming to save them.
• Sam doesn't let being hunted by a demon slayer stop his pedantic callouts (also a Call-Back to an identical joke during the Call of Cthulhu game):
  Matt: Samuel Hayden, is gonna go ahead and make a dexterity saving throw...
  Sam: Please, Matthew, Doctor Samuel Hayden.
  Matt: Sorry.
  Sam: He didn't go to fake medical school for you to-
  Matt: You're right, Sam. You're right.
  [everyone laughs]
  • This leads to a discussion of exactly what kind of doctor Samuel Hayden is. Which gets a Call-Back in Dr Hayden's last words, where he trolls the party to the end.
  Hayden: I just want you to know, I'm a doctor of... well, why would I ever tell you that?
• Sam is the last to fall...and Matt allowed the Archvile to take a selfie of his own demise.
• Darin De Paul's trash talk as Dr. Samuel Hayden is absolutely brutal, and he declares the one-shot canon.
  Hayden: Interesting. You've made me feel something I haven't felt in a long time. Pity.
  • It reaches the point where even the demons are appalled at Dr. Hayden's people skills.
• Who finishes off Hayden, completing the demons' mission? A really hot floor.

Diablo One-Shot

• Right off the bat we have Mica Burton talking about finding gold someone just left on the ground, and then Laura smashes a pot to find some more gold. Liam then notes it's strange most things turn into gold coins "in this world".
  Liam: I once hit a waffle and it turned into three gold coins.
  Carlos Luna: We're, like, one act away from The Truman Show right here?
  Marisha: Maybe there's another realm where there's just piles of gold.
  Matt: A distant echo of some distant screech suddenly cuts you off this deep metaphysical conversation.
  Liam: Do you hear that? The narrative structure is calling us.
• Carlos summons a skeleton from a corpse, and learns that he has the option on his character sheet to name it. But, suddenly dealing with a mind blank, he goes with Spell Slots.
• Liam's Paladin needs to wait to recharge his spells. He elects to do a montage... which nobody but Johnny understands.
  Johnny: It's when a bunch of activities are partaken in a very long bit of time and shortened down into a much more easier to grasp scenario for the audience.

Elder Scrolls Online: Blackwood

• The conceit of this three-part series is that the characters are running a tavern together in the world of Elder Scrolls. Each episode begins with an extended parody of food service life. Absolutely no one involved has a brain cell. It's Ramsey's Kitchen Nightmares with lizardmen and elves.

Part I: Death and Taxes

• As the title implies, they introduce some real world horror with our party's first adversary - the tax man.
• The Running Gag of what they're actually going to call their business. With Laura Bailey in the party there's really only one way it can go.
• Sam is Slaughter Grimm, an intimidating lizardman from a family of torturers... who's actually the mild-mannered waiter of the establishment.
  "My father is Massacre Grimm... my mother is Felony Grimm-Liebowitz..."
  • Slaughter is a necromancer who can use skulls as weapons, except that he only gets one really good hit in before they start failing him. His solution to this - execute his skull attack just as a waiter would, by barking a meal order at it instead of his regular spells. Then he rolls a 1.

Part II: A Faulty Foundation

• Taliesin's character Mallory, the cook, has upgraded the kitchen with two brand new ovens (one's broken) and an eight-burner stove (with two burners that won't light). He also hired a sous-chef. Who's quit. Mallory did install new doors to make it harder to get into the kitchen, so his disposition has still improved. Several fans from the food service industry noted that Taliesin clearly has kitchen experience.
• Last episode's tax collector is now a health inspector. Everyone hates him even more. He fails a strength check to enter Mallory's kitchen, much to Taliesin's amusement.
• The planned final epic battle is derailed when a combination of Aabria's clever tactics and Marisha's bad rolls lead to Tavima landing 42 points of damage in one round, destroying the Big Bad instantly.
  Marisha: This was supposed to be....
  Sam: A multi-round thing?
  

Part III: The Golden Goose

• Somehow, Liam started dungeon-mastering a game of D&D without a single die behind his screen. After almost 90 minutes, he finally confesses he needs to borrow some dice. Dice-hoarder Laura's moment has arrived.
• Slaughter Grimm has at last found his spiritual home serving food — at the competing and competent restaurant across the street. His companions literally have to drag him out.

The Nautilus Ark: A Johnson Corp Odyssey

• Ashley Johnson's first words in the episode: "Oh!" (Beat) "Hello?"
  • Then immediately after, comes Ashley and Travis' take on Matt's usual introduction to an episode:
  Ashley: And welcome to tonight's episode of Critical Role, where a bunch of nerdy-ass voice actors sit around and play...whatever this is gonna be.
  Travis: (hollering) WHATEVER THIS IS GONNA BE!!
• The group goes around and introduces themselves in character, only for Ashley to point out that they are currently in stasis and shouldn't have been able to do so.
  • Ashley also immediately realises the party would have been naked in stasis and were so for the session till now. Made funnier when the only character fazed by this is Dr Nomen, an anthropomorphic frog, who looks down embarrassed.
• Gunnery Sergeant Cameron Garrett referring to the others as "egg heads and number humpers".
• Apparently, the code needed to open up the stasis pods is "6969".
  Forrest: Nice.
• Cameron is using the bathroom with his issue of Armory Weekly but Ashley describes his time in there as mostly busting toots and liquidy shits.
  • Cameron gets sad when Wiser points put that his issue of Armory Weekly is 30 years out of date.
• Speaking of using the bathroom, this exchange after Laura says she's going to run to the bathroom:
  Travis: Which lavatory are you going to?
  Laura: The one that [inaudible] recording.
  Travis: (Beat) She's definitely taking a shit.
  Liam: She's infected already.
  • And it was then when Taliesin takes out a train whistle and gives it a little toot.
• One word: Meanomorph.
• The fact that Taliesin had apparently chosen a feat for Dr Wiser that deals with alien psychology. Not only that, but he even asks Ashley if his character's psychology degree could be put to use while the Meanomorph is attacking the crew.
  Liam: (in a Sigmund Freud voice) So, tell me about your birth from ze queen!
  Taliesin: I have backstory for this shit! Don't think I don't have backstory for this shit.
• The sheer amount of bad luck that happens to Cameron when the Meanomorph attacks the crew, including being Shot in the Ass by his own captain, having his helmet providing oxygen be ripped off his head and getting infected.
• The creepy Nightmare Fuel grin on Liam's face when his character is revealed to be a synthetic.
• On his next turn after Forrest is revealed to be a synthetic, Cameron has this to say:
  Travis: "Motherfucker's (Corpsing) He's bleeding Quaker Oats out his neck!
• And, yes, there is the continuing gag of referencing Vanessa Carlton's "A Thousand Miles" whenever somebody says "making my way".

Elden Ring One-Shot

• Right off the bat, bringing renowned wild cards Sam Reigel and Brennan Lee Mulligan to the same table pays off, when Sam realises that Brennan chose an accent and decides to go with one of his own, leading to a session-long accent-off.
• Sam couldn't help himself when Krystina describes her character as "regal." His response? "I'm also Riegel."
  Marisha: This is so Meta!
• A lot of the prophetess' predictions are of obvious things.
  Krystina: You... You were born to parents.
  Brennan: Do you see good she is?! She just met you!
  Alex: I'm starting to have doubts.
• Krystina pulls off a Running Gag of her own, as the prophetess Mariah, with the gift of saying basically the same thing again. It helps that three-fifths of the party are Dumb Muscle, with one Only Sane Man, Alexander as Two-Soul Marcus, just getting roped along.
• Due to the regular players being the minority now (just Sam and Marisha with 3 guests), Marisha can be seen physically restraining herself from doing the "makin' my way" Running Gag.
• To get over a castle wall, the group decide to channel Good Bad Bugs and physics engine abuse by summoning their horses on top of eachother to make a "horse stack" and use it as a makeshift ladder. Matt allows it, since it sounds like something speedrunners would do.

Tiny Tina's Wonderlands One-Shot

• The intro alone, from how Ashly promotes said game to how much preparation the players have on their backstories.
• Ramsey's (played by Ashley) companion is canonized as a feathered little man despite the character art showing he is a bird.
• Ify claims his backstory for Metta is too large for the one-shot but Ashly promises to give him Mayhem Points (similar to inspiration dice) each time he drops in part of his backstory.
  • The image of Headmaster MacGruber swinging bamboo at Metta.
• Kill-Pro is taking orders at Moxxy's Grog. The party wonders if she actually works here, then Mateo bunks her on the head with Dewey pointing out that normally wouldn't work.
• Metta dribbles into a guy's grog, which quickly becomes a canon fact. Also the fact that, not only does Moxxy admit there's already dribble in the beer, but Ramsey is okay with dribble and adds some of Metta's to her own drink.
• Since this one-shot is promoted for a T-rated game, some language has to be avoided. Cue Ashly describing what Moxxy looks like without talking about her obvious assets.
  • Not even 30 minutes in and Ashly uses the f-word, points out she shouldn't have said that, and quickly repeats the dialogue with a new word as if it didn't happen.
• The tree releases orbs from its orifices to attack Ramsey. Ashley claimed the tree pooed those orbs, and Ashly quickly rolls with it.
• Ashley describing Ramsey's sniper rifle in great detail, to the point that others are wondering if there is anything sexual going on or a love triangle in Ify's case
  • Ashley claims she knows the rules to the game very well. When she decides to follow her attack with a grenade, Ashly ask if Ramsey even has any. Cue a pause and in-universe awkwardness as Ashley realises, no she doesn't.
  • Ramsey berate her gun Tiffany for failing to shoot a second time. Not only does the gun sheen like it's crying, but the tree is disturbed by this act...despite being a moving sentient tree.
• The realization that any player, Travis in this case, rolling a natural 1 gives BM a Mayhem Point. Ashly claims that what happened is in their favor...as the forest is lit on fire, giving the party only five turns to fight the trees.
  • The realiziation that Mayhem Points stack, which also applies to the BM. Ashly spends 2 to summon a big tree.
  • The realization that the BM can use Mayhem Points after a fight and can spend 3 of them to choose one they want. Thankfully, Ashly chooses to have the child tree give the party a gift before it turns to leave. Then Ramsey decides to give the tree father's message to the child, making the party realize that they would have been okay before and now have to convince the child that they didn't just kill the big tree minutes earlier.
• Kill-Pro offers to take care of Claptrap...and pulls out her sword. Claptrap is excited and Torgue thought she would have taken him away, so Kill-Pro does that instead.
  • Metta knows the answer to Claptrap's "what's brown and sticky" joke but doesn't want to answer it. It's a stick.
  • Claptrap and Metta bond because "blimpin' ain't easy".
• When Ramsey's potion gives Torgue a feather on his wound, Metta had to ask if Ramsey keeps putting weird feathers on his body. Ramsey admits it, and Metta simply accepts that.
• Torgue urges the party to go to the Immortal Woods because his voice is hurting the BM's throat.
• The Handsome Sorcerer somehow becomes more handsome with an ab reveal
• The diorama of the Tree of Life is impressive, but it also makes it difficult to move around the game pieces even when Ashly is on a stand.
• Kill-Pro, an Assassin robot, seducing a skeleton and succeeding. When it dies, Laura is okay, claiming she's saving herself for the Handsome Sorcerer.
  • And rejected because the Handsome Sorcerer is too whiny.
• Dewey trying to revive Ramsey. First, he accidentally pours a Tiny Tina's Potion into her mouth, which gives her a randomized effect that gives her an automatic gun in her mouth, then after his attacks against the skeletons, he then pours an actual healing potion in her mouth...but gets a nat 1 which sprays and heals a skeleton instead. Metta ends up reviving her though (with an extra point from his dribble).
• The party rides back to Flamerock Refuge victorious, all five somehow fitting on Queen Butt Stallion's back.

Tears of the Kingdom: Lookout, Here We Come

• Robbie Daymond's character, a Goron Fanboy of Link named Dink, is a goldmine of hilarity. One of his earliest moments comes in the first fight, when he attempts a jumping stab attack:
  Dink: I learned this from a weird old man in a town in an attic!
• Babson's "well-travelled" ability lets them regale a story once every game hour to give an ally re-rolls. Her second story involves the time she was building a shopping mall in Gerudo Valley, only to find a Sand Seal and her pups nesting where the foundation would be. So she built a public library instead. Implicitly killing the Sand Seals. This is somehow still inspiring, but the group is a little creeped out.

Persona 5 Tactica Oneshot

• The hilarity of Matt playing a dungeon master in-universe. His Metaverse attire (codename "Nexus") and Persona lean full "gamer edgelord" and has has a ton of fun hamming it up.
  • During the In-Universe campaign, Liam comments "The best part of this is that I've managed to offload my DMing duties onto Matt." Matt notes that he didn't know in advance that they were going to do that, so he's just rolling with it.
• Xanthe Huynh plays Van Nguyen/Strike, who seems to be inspired by Haru's Memetic Psychopath treatment in the Persona 5 fandom.
• Krystina Arielle plays Penny Matthews/Goddess, a veteran tabletop gamer, Proud Beauty who is so done with everything.
• Robbie Daymond is playing. Is his character similar to Goro Akechi? No, he plays Jackson Sloan, an Occidental Otaku whose rolls make him essentially the Ryuji or Yosuke of the group.
  • His first action in the first combat sees him throwing a shuriken at an enemy. The first hits, he realizes he gets to throw two in a turn... and rolls a Natural 1, getting the second stuck in his own hand and taking damage.
  • After Strike inflicts an enemy with blindness, Jackson (Kensei) attacks it in melee... before noting "there's no honor in this" and producing a second eyepatch so they can duel on equal terms. He rolls another natural 1, and not only misses but cuts himself. Nexus, exasperated, finishes off that enemy to make it look like Kensei did.
  • When deciding how to approach a barricade of vines, Kensei forces the issue by beginning a very loud, Dragonball-esque summoning sequence for his Persona (which Robbie notes isn't necessary), and casting a fire spell to burn it away.
• Liam's voice for the Legionnaires. In-game, they have Helium Speech with a heavy reverb filter, which Liam manages to accurately imitate with just his own voice.
• Liam O'Brien keeps teasing the cast that he has a lot of horrible puns prepared for the session. This culminates in the oneshot's boss, "Ze Floriste", a tiny gardener Legionnaire with an over-the-top French accent and a love of flower puns.

Critical Role plays Daggerheart

• During session zero, Ashley would constantly interrupt Matt's intro by shouting "OPEN BETA", which would promptly cause the entire cast to burst out laughing and derail Matt's script. Come the end of character creation, she's decided to name her character "Oppenheimer Betabean" ("Oppy" for short).
  • More naming shenanigans happens when each player gets the chance to name a location. Sam names his character's underground hometown "Sub Ubi" (which, when said fast, sounds like "'s a booby"), and Laura and Ashley count down to say their characters' hometown at the same time... then both just mumble incoherently, which is how the town of Sermon Terts got its name.
• Laura and Ashley are playing as foster sisters Sweetpea and Oppy, who have a habit of sneaking out at night to party. Sweetpea is a mushroom-girl, Oppy is a frog-girl. The guys immediately start joking about what kind of parties would involve mushrooms and frogs.
• Xarlo speaks with a very thick Irish accent, which the other players have trouble understanding. At one point, Dante slips into an attempt at Irish himself, before quickly giving up. Xarlo then comments that he's finally "shaking [his] accent off" and "talking like a normal person", prompting Taliesin to laugh for just a little too long.^note Taliesin's Irish accent while playing Molly during campaign 2 was famously shaky.