Podcast About List (often shortened to simply "PAL" or Pod About List) is a Surreal Humor podcast featuring comedians Caleb Pitts (@braingetter
), Cameron Fetter (@nibiru_TRUTH), Patrick Doran (@lunch_enjoyer), and sometimes a rotating cast of guests. During your average episode, the three read through strange and hilarious Top 10 lists from various deep corners of the internet, with a majority from the site The Top Tens. Outside of that, they have Patreon-exclusive episodes where the three just discuss whatever's on their mind, with no top 10 lists, as well as an ongoing Dungeons & Dragons campaign called Gun City DMed by their friend Pierce Campion.
The podcast is well known for its offbeat comedy style, focusing heavily on Word-Salad Humor, So Bad, It's Good comedy and Non Sequitur. Think the podcast equivalent of a Gag Series, with even their D&D campaigns being much more comedy-driven than your average campaigns, being set on the planet EBaum, and having characters with names such as Patrick Yoda and Blotoss Piss.
The show's most popular episodes are collaborations with larger podcasts, such as Felix Biederman or Matt Watson.
Top 10 Tropes Found In Podcast About List:
- Actually Pretty Funny: Often occurs when one of the members is roasting another one, with the victim often saying "No. No, I don't do that." while still continuing to laugh.
- Adolf Hitlarious: Poop Hitler.
- Anti-Humor: In spades.
- Bald of Evil: Caleb has been shaving his head clean for a few years now, and he's easily the most villainous on the show. He also has the honor of being the evilest member of Matt Watson's EpicSMP server.
- Big, Thin, Short Trio: Patrick is big, Cameron is thin, and Caleb is short.
- Butt-Monkey: In Gun City, Sullivan T. Frog is treated this way. You could also say Patrick is this in the podcast itself.
- Catchphrase: "Yuuuuuup."
- "And you KNOW..."
- Clip Show: Episode 200 is a parody of clip shows, with the hosts flashing back to obviously-fake improvised “clips”. This being PAL, it eventually ceases to follow even that format and just turns into a series of clips from famous movies, culminating in the entirety of episode 200 being played back at 2x speed.
- Comic Trio: Caleb is the schemer (coming up with most of the elaborate bits), Cameron is the fool (usually blindly agreeing with whatever Caleb says, to humorous effect), and Patrick is the Only Sane Man (often playing a confused straight man to Caleb's antics, as well as the target of his abuse).
- Cosmic Motifs: "The Five Weeks of Planets" is a series of 5 episodes where the boys look at Mercury, Saturn, Mars, Venus, and The Sun.
- Courtroom Antics: One episode has a bit where the boys pretend to be lawyers. Their first move is to simply claim that the trial is a boring waste of time before they segue into accusing the judge of keeping a Sex Slave under his pew.
- Death of a Child: Belac Sttip was murdered at age 8.
- Dream Within a Dream: Episode 201: The Cowboy Princes of Cannibalism has the boys pitching a romcom about a man with a murderous Split Personality. That movie turns out to actually be a game of The Sims, that’s in a movie being watched by Donald Trump, being dreamed by Hitler, who himself is being dreamed by the romcom’s protagonist (or was he?). This all turns out to be a Couch Gag on The Simpsons, but the Simpsons episode that follows it was actually all being dreamed by Homer. And the movie is called “Homer’s Dream”.
- Drugs Are Bad: The bulk of the humor in episode 198 is the boys coming up with increasingly-unlikely ways that "dopers" are undermining the United States.
- Long-Haired Pretty Boy: Cameron.
- Lyrical Tic: Caleb notes with frustration that he can never do a freestyle rap without talking about going to the store.
- Mascot: Since the transition to a video podcast, the gang has started using a baby sticking a fork into an electrical outlet, which is also its face.
- Non-Malicious Monster: Ray William Johnson is this, however it might be because his demon form is being controlled by the computer on his back.
- Overly Long Gag: Commonly seen on the show. One example would be episode 153, The Belac Story, which for nearly half its runtime is the three talking about a fictional rapper named Belac who died when he was 8 and was the saddest rapper of all time.
- Pretty Fly for a White Guy: A good chunk of the show’s humor is the three (especially Caleb) acting like this- note Caleb’s durag in the page image.
- Prison Episode: In the episode "Prison At Last", the gang goes to prison for intentionally crashing a car. Cameron becomes a dangerous kingpin.
- Sleepyhead: Patrick will announce how tired he is at the beginning of most episodes, which his fellow hosts have picked up on.
- This Bear Was Framed: Episode 107 has the gang riffing on a list that said a chimpanzee “allegedly” attacked a human by imagining a courtroom staffed entirely by monkeys.
- Trademark Favorite Food: The gang's love of Jollibee is immortalized in Patrick Goes to Jollibee.
- Troubling Unchildlike Behavior: “Belac” is an eight-year-old soundcloud rapper who makes songs about his suicidal depression and is addicted to drinking perfume.Caleb: He was probably the most tortured eight-year-old of all time.
- Wild Card: Due to the nature of the show, every Gun City character tends to be this, with the characters all doing dumb irrational things just out of the sake of comedy.
- Word-Salad Humor: A mainstay on the show. A prime example would be the "Would you wake a pervert from a nightmare?" bit. Often combines with Inherently Funny Words.Cameron: Would you let a sensitive creep hit it?Caleb: Yes. Yes, I would.
