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  • Accidental Aesop:
    • From Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter — Always wear a seat belt.
    • Ocean's Eleven ends up becoming a tale about the futility of revenge. Danny Ocean stages his heist to get back at Benedict, which he does. However, he ends up hurting so many people close to him that his "victory" brings him no joy. Benedict's vengeful murder of Jack Robinson is treated as similarily empty.
    • As pointed out by DM Paulo Quiros, all the Alcohol-Induced Idiocy in Halloween III — culminating in Sasha’s drunken shotgun accident — might serve as a quite effective anti-drinking aesop for some listeners.
    • It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown winds up being a PSA about the dangers of leaving bonfires unattended.
    • Galaxy Quest: Never talk to the cops.
  • Accidental Innuendo:
    Paulo Quiros: Give me 1d.
    Kara Strait: I'll give you all the d's you want...
    • In O Brother, Where Art Thou?, Delmar attempts to calm a frightened animal:
    Joz/Delmar: I'm pattin' the pig...
    Paulo: Not in public!
    • In Halloween II, Laurie Strode is said to be "strodin' and loading." The players immediately pick up on it and turn it into a Running Gag.
    • In Home Alone, the players make jokes about Angels with Filthy Souls, the grown-up movie Kevin is not allowed to watch. (It's not really a porno, but rather a violent Film Noir film.)
    • Also from Home Alone, Jon's maps are "covered in white stuff." (That is, papers meant to hide them from the players until the right moment.)
  • Alternate Character Interpretation:
    • Is Tyrell from the Blade Runner campaign a Too Dumb to Live Affably Evil Big Bad who refuses to take responsibilities for his actions? Or a Reluctant Mad Scientist who genuinly regrets his actions, to the point of becoming a Death Seeker when confronted by their results? Did he create Rachel — a replicant with a extended lifespan, trapped in a Gilded Cage, unaware of her true nature — purely For Science!, or to avoid what happened to his earlier "children?"
    • Many from Memento, much like in the original film:
      • Protagonist Leonard Shelby gets many In-Universe, as he’s played by no less than twenty actors — some of whom haven’t seen the film — who each put their own spin on the character. Thus, Leonard’s portrayal ranges from a clueless insurance agent who tries to make it through the gang war alive mostly by Indy Ploy, to a cold-hearted Badass Normal driven by a lust for vengeance, and pretty much everything in between.
      • Does the Film Reroll incarnation of Leonard have some form of Split Personality, given how much his behavior (and voice) constantly changes? Does he get his wife’s killer? Or is he the killer, as Teddy claims in the film? If so, was it an Accidental Murder — again, as claimed in the film — or did Leonard and Catherine’s relationship have an even darker ending here?
      • For that matter, Teddy is shown to be more than capable of making up lies on the spot, and outright gloats to Leonard that he will believe anything he says. This raises the question of how much he tells his protege here or in the film is anywhere near the truth. This was actually invoked by DM Paulo Quiros, who doesn’t tell the listeners how well Leonard did on his interrogation roll specifically in order to add more ambiguity.
      • When confronted, drug dealer Jimmy Grantz denies having ever killed anybody, much less Leonard’s wife. Was he a Fall Guy and a case of Even Evil Has Standards? Is he a Dirty Coward who refuses to own up to his actions in order to save his own skin? Or is he overstating his own innocence, but still not guilty of that particular murder?
      • Does the One Ring have its usual More than Mind Control powers? If so, how did it influence the various characters it came near throughout the story?
  • Anvilicious: The anti-sexist message in their Thelma and Louise campaign is no more subtle than it was in in the film, and Joz admitted to standing on a soap box during it.
  • Asshole Victim:
    • Few cared in or out of universe when Mayor Frank Simms became one of Michael Myers victims in Halloween 2. Our heroes come across his spirit again in Halloween 3, and don’t even try to save him.
    • Weekend at Bernie's has — aside from Bernie himself — Paulie the mobster. While it gets the protagonists into trouble with the police, they still consider his death to have been Worth It.
    • Jimmy, Gillian's abusive husband, dies twice in Practical Magic. Neither time elicts much mourning.
    • Chief Brody in Jaws doesn’t get much sympathy when the shark brutally kills him, considering how much of an incompetent, unempathetic Jerkass he had been up to that point.
    • Jimmy Grantz from Memento is described by Teddy as ”an asshole so heinous even drug lords don’t wanna put up with him”, with a 25.000 dollar-price on his head. Leonard pursues him throughout the campaign — getting the drop on him in the final episode — for the murder of his wife which Grantz very well may be innocent of.
    • Burke from Aliens, a Corrupt Corporate Executive who throws away countless lives and put even more at risk just out of sheer greed. He’s bad enough that the previously pacifist Ripley sees no issues with blowing his brains out even as he’s begging for mercy. It helps that the Alien Queen has been Adapted Out and that the final confrontation with him now serves as the climax, making him unquestionably the Big Bad of the story.
  • Awesome Ego: Sassy from Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey.
    Shadow: "There is only one possible explanation for this."
    Sassy: "Yes, the time has come for me to ascend to the rank of queen. Bring me the meat! Canned and otherwise!"
  • Base-Breaking Character:
  • Big-Lipped Alligator Moment: The sudden, totally random radio interview with a grown-up Gordie in Stand By Me, which may have been either an Imagine Spot or a Flash Forward. Whatever the case was, it's still a funny scene, and Andy the Radio Host is a One-Scene Wonder.
  • Ensemble Dark Horse:
  • Epileptic Trees: Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day clearly sets up some kind of dark conspiracy, but never even comes close to answering what said conspiracy actually is. As a result, it's ripe for Wild Mass Guessing.
  • Harsher in Hindsight:
    • Halloween: Laurie telling Tommy that "[he'll] thank [her] in twelve years" becomes this when the sequel reveals that in this continuity, Laurie only had one more year to live. Granted, this depends on whether or not you count her state in Halloween III as being "alive".
    • Memento is full of these, as the Back to Front storytelling basically creates reverse Cerebus Retcons. Leonard asking Anne why she's still with him? He was unknowingly willing to let her die earlier. John possibly being executed by Leonard? They really were friends before. Leonard and Anne driving off together? She's not his wife, and is manipulating him for her own ends. Even that random guy watching Looney Tunes cartoons becomes heartbreaking when we learn that he's another amnesiac who believes himself to still be a little kid, and is basically being held prisoner by the The Mafia, who have stolen his entire fortune.
    • In Licence To Kill, two out of three James Bonds end up dying. In No Time to Die, the first Bond movie to be released afterwards the Daniel Craig incarnation of Bond is Killed Of For Real. And much like in the Reroll version of Tomorrow Never Dies, it was in a Heroic Sacrifice. To make things even more ironic, all three films have allusions to death in the title.
    • The unusual spelling of the name "Pitr" just seems like a slight oddity, but it can become this once you learn that she changed it back in her school days because the other kids bullied her over it, comparing her to Peter Rabbit. Fortunately, she says that she's gotten over it. Even after changing that name to Kara, she stated that she did not outright dislike her old name.
      Kara Strait: "... as always this me speaking for me and not any other trans people, for now it's not a disaster if you slip up and say "Pitr." It's not really a deadname to me? Obvs that might change later, but it's a name I chose and I hope I'll always treasure it in its way".
    • Part 6 of the Rogue Two campaign begins with the Empire bombing the Yavin IV Rebel Base, collapsing the building into fiery ruins and also destroying Bitho and Kleeeshak’s ship. The episode ended up being released only days after cast member Scott Aiello and his wife Katy’s apartment building caught fire and collapsed after being struck by lightning, with the couple getting a Go Fund Me page set up to get their lives back in order.
  • Heartwarming in Hindsight:
  • Hilarious in Hindsight:
    • Back to the Future Part II: Just like in the film, Marty McFly (played here by Kara Strait) is terrified of the holographic shark used as an advertisement for Jaws 19. Kara would later get her revenge in the Jaws campaign, where she would play Hooper and be the one who takes the shark down.
    • Also from Back to the Future, Joz asking if she has to roll to get on the bus becomes this in Speed, where the bus scene (i.e. the majority of the film) never happens, and the only thing her character gets to do is to not catch the bus. Since then, it's become a Running Gag that she's still waiting for it, many campaigns and several Real Life years later.
    • The Back to the Future cartoon gave Jennifer a shorter, straight, blonde haircut, making her look very little like actresses who played her in the films... but quite a bit like Jocelyn Vammer, who would play her on this show years later.
    • In Speed, Jon Miller plays a cop originally played by Jeff Daniels, and is encouraged to do impressions of "all the famous Jeffs," (including Jeff Bridges and Jeff Goldblum.) This became more amusing after a police officer named Jeff became a recurring character in the show.
    • The Speed campaign also has the players joke about Jon Miller being a robot. He would go on to play the Tin Man in the Wizard of Oz campaign.
    • In the Doctor Who: Day Of The Moon Bonus Scene at the end of the first E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial episode, Kara Strait compares her Scottish accent with that of Scrooge McDuck. In the 2017 Reboot of Ducktales 2017, Scrooge is played by David Tennant, who of course also played the Tenth Doctor in Doctor Who. The advertising had already revealed this by the time this episode came out, but it's unclear if Kara knew it.
    • Halloween II has, among other things, blood raining down from the sky. This would just be creepy if it wasn't coincidentally released a few weeks after a certain infamous Harry Potter fic, where "the sky outside was a big black ceiling which was full of blood."
    • Several fans were amused when Joz's portayal of Laurie Strode as a gun-toting Action Girl preparing herself for Michael Myers' inevitable return turned out to be very similar to her incarnation in Halloween (2018). "Strodin' and loading" indeed... Even better, both are sequels to the original Halloween (1978) made about 40 years later, and the official sequel was originally going to Rewrite the ending of the first film, much like the Film Reroll campaign did.
    • Bill and Ted kidnapping Benito Mussolini is actually far more plausible than it sounds. A year after the campaign was released, Ed Solomon — one of the writers behind the film — revealed that the duo were originally going to kidnap another fascist dictator — one who was famously allied with him during World War II no less — Adolf Hitler.
    • The climax of the campaign where the players are asked to imagine a present day Bill and Ted also feels a bit quaint now that there actually is a third film, complete with Alex Winter and Keanu Reeves reprising their roles. (The film had already been announced, but seemed to be stuck in Development Hell. It took three more years for it to actually be made and released.) They also managed to predict that the duo would team up with a young Bill and a young Ted, note  throw a concert, and save the world with The Power of Rock. There was even another (not quite as evil) Killer Robot.
    • Jyn Erso's Sweet Polly Oliver act in Rogue One becomes rather pointless if you've read the novelization of the original film which confirms that not only did female stormtroopers exist, some were stationed on that very base.
    • Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey has Kara/Sassy declare herself queen and regret that she's not a vampire. She got to play a proper vampire queen in From Dusk Till Dawn. Not to mention Kara's portrayal of Sassy being compared to Judi Dench, which is downright hilarious after Dench's appearance in the infamous Cats. The facehugger joke from the same campaign may also count, given the later Alien episodes.
    • The deliberately silly suggestion in Raiders of the Lost Ark that the monkey would be the backup character becomes this once Aladdin actually had Kara Strait play a monkey... who ended up becoming one of the most powerful characters in the campaign, (and unfortunately for Kara, become a Non-Player Character in the process.)
    • Also from Aladdin, Reddit user ymcameron made a mockup pamphlet describing Jasmine as "a new leader for a new Agrabah." The last episode makes this literally true, as Genie creates a new city — also named Agrabah — for her to rule over.
    • The crackpot theory about Michael Myers from Halloween just being ”a swarm of bees in a trenchcoat” suddenly becomes Not So Crazy Anymore in Halloween III, where his spirit possesses a Swarm of Rats who eventually group together into a single, humanoid being.
    • In Part 1 of Home Alone, when Kevin ends up watching Angels with Filthy Souls, Kara brings up the possibility of doing a reroll of a Film Within a Film. Kara would later more or less get this wish when they rerolled Last Action Hero.
      • Likewise, Paulo tried to get Joz to let Kevin keep watching Angels with Filthy Souls so that the DM (in this case Jon) would have to invent the rest of the movie. The Last Action Hero campaign would basically require such a thing, as they don’t leave Jack Slater IV until the end.
    • Part 1 of Last Action Hero has Kara / her character being asked “Do you wish you were the little girl?” which is followed by Kara implicitly denying being trans. The episode ended up being released after she had come out as the same, requiring an opening disclaimer as to why it even had her use male pronouns in the first place. Granted, she did say that she wasn’t ready to crack that egg yet.
  • Hollywood Homely: Paulo Quiros and Jon Miller have (jokingly) been said to look really ugly, to the point of resembling Joseph "The Elephant Man" Merrick. Their pictures on the main page would beg to disagree.
  • I Knew It!:
    • Quite a few fans managed to predict that there would be a Home Alone campaign starring Joz as Kevin (it might help that they're both Memetic Psychopaths) long before it was actually released.
    • Several listeners managed to predict that Leonard Shelby from Memento was the first Film Reroll character to find The One Ring.
    • In a case where nobody was expecting it to ever be right, the joke conspiracy about Kara Strait not really being bald actually came true in a fashion in 2021. Her new look shown off during her "gender reveal" does in fact include a full head of hair, which she technically did keep secret at least for some time. This was naturally lampshaded.
  • Les Yay: Jennifer has this with herself in the Back to the Future II campaign. (See Accidental Innuendo above.)
    • There is also some between Thelma and Louise in their eponymous campaign. It's taken much further than in the film. Thelma tells Louise that they have a double-sized bed they can get cozy in, and even asks her several times if she wants to spoon. There is also one moment towards the end where our protagonists are holding hands and staring deeply into each others eyes. It might very well have ended in a kiss if Louise hadn't remembered that she was driving a car at full speed! They still get to kiss at the end, just like in the film. (Joz and Carolyn even play it out in Real Life.)
    • Bill and Ted manage to mix this with a bit of Ho Yay when disguising themselves as "Minoan babes." Ted protects Bill from an intrusive trader by saying that "she" is "her" girlfriend, and then grabbing him by the hand as if that was actually the case.
    • The same campaign has a bit of this between Tomoe Gozen and Lydia, with Bill and Ted even wondering if Tomoe is into ladies.
  • Magnificent Bastard: Paulo and Tim may have fallen into this category by Friday the 13th: the Final Chapter, where they trick the players into thinking that they're in an obscure, fictional Sex Comedy called Summerspell, not giving up the ruse until Jason appears. Paulo went as far as uploading a clip from the movie on Youtube under the fake title.
  • Narm Charm: Halloween!Jeff's squeaky voice can become this after a while. It should make it impossible to see him as anything but the comic relief character he was originally created as, but it doesn't keep him from being awesome after he takes a level in badass.
  • Never Live It Down:
    • Joz Vammer being unable to figure out the answer to the first riddle in Labyrinth, even saying that it can't be that.
    • Jon Miller's obsession with obscure architectual terms is mostly just noticeable in Frozen, but it has become a Running Gag ever since.
    • Speed will never live down having the villain taken down during the Action Prologue, leaving Joz (playing Sandra Bullock's character) with nothing to do aside from trying to catch a bus (which she fails to do.) It's become a running gag that she's still waiting for a bus, many campaigns and several Real Life years later.
    • The Rogue One campaign has become somewhat of an Old Shame for the show itself (especially as far as Kara is concerned) mostly because of the overly long Jedi Temple Dungeon Crawling section.
    • While an otherwise well-received campaign, Memento became rather infamous for its massive Schedule Slip — apparently caused by a combination of technical issues, Attention Deficit Creator Disorder, and DM Paulo Quiros contracting Covid — especially as the hiatus was officially announced as being over several episodes in a row.
    • Halloween III became somewhat infamous for constantly being passed over in favor of different horror campaigns. It finally got released in time for Halloween 2021, four years after the second part.
  • Older Than They Think:
    • Not a parody, per se, but the first puzzle from Labyrinth is actually (a slightly altered version of) one of Jonathan Swift's riddles. Joz, at least, likely didn't recognise it, as she had trouble solving it.
    • Yes, Tattypoo and her dragon Agnes are canon characters from the Land of Oz books, even if they're much Darker and Edgier here.
    • Given that "sixty-nine" is pretty much Joz's catchphrase, it can be surprising to learn that Bill using the phrase as a Trust Password actually comes from the original film for people who haven't seen it. (Arguably, this is part of the reason why it's such an excellent casting choice.)
    • The Running Gag "Damn, we're in a tight spot!" in the O Brother, Where Art Thou? campaign is taken straight from the original film.
    • Another "sixty-nine" reference occurs in John Wick; another campaign starring Joz Vammer based on a Keanu Reeves film. Here however, GM Andy Hoover actually explains that yes, this happened in the film, too.
    • The Rerollers themselves may have fallen victim to this in their Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid campaign, as they make no mention of it being based on a true story.
    • Michael Myers being a victim of Demonic Possession with ties to Celtic Mythology was already canon in the 1978 novelization of the original film, with the biggest difference being that the inhabiting spirit was portrayed as a cursed, vengeful human Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds as opposed to an Always Chaotic Evil, "demonic" being. Him having other powers was also alluded to here, with people at the institution suffering unexplainable deaths.
  • One-Scene Wonder:
  • Pop-Culture Isolation:
  • Rooting for the Empire: John Wick is technically the antagonist of his eponymous campaign, but the character is such a Memetic Badass that many listeners couldn't help but root for him anyway. There have already been demands to make a sequel where he comes Back from the Dead.
  • Retroactive Recognition: Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey features a "wolf dog" named after Joe Biden who — while certainly a well-known politician already — became even more so after being elected President of the United States in 2021.
  • Signature Scene: The moment Paulo pulls back the curtain during the Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter campaign. “There’s a man standing behind you.
  • Spiritual Successor: Someone on Reddit had an analysis of the Home Alone campaign, arguing that itnote  was in essence Duck Amuck.
    Part 2 of Home Alone is Jon repeatedly finding ways of fucking with Kara, who keeps bitching about the lack of free will at her disposal, and her repeated attempts at trying to get an advantage over the DM.

    Kara is Daffy Duck, and Jon Miller is Bugs Bunny holding the paint brush.
  • Spoiled by the Format:
    • Early on in the second episode of their Halloween campaign, it seems like Michael Myers has been shot dead. But there is still another hour left of the campaign, so it's not very surprising when he turns out to be Not Quite Dead.
    • In general, though, the amount of episode left has become a much less definite indicator of whether the story's nearly over since they started adding user mailbag segments and other bonus content at the end of episodes.
    • Conversely, the players frequently speculate during the Jumanji campaign about how many episodes it's going to end up taking, but the audience already knows that it's going to be wrapped up in a single episode.
    • Discussed in their second E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial episode. They describe how some fans would prefer to not have the "Part 1" on the first episode in a series so that this wouldn't happen.
  • They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot:
    • Come on. Bill and Ted in modern day Japan sounds like an excellent idea, but they leave almost immediately. (Granted, this is justified In-Universe. Traveling to another time period was the easiest way to escape the security guards. Also — to quote Ted — it's a history report, not a future report.) For what it's worth, they do visit Feudal Japan and 1980's Japan later.
    • A minor example, but episode 69 — the second Pirates of the Caribbean episode — is not acknowledged at such at all, despite sixty-nine being a Running Gag. This was pretty much unavoidable though, as the Anachronic Order of the episodes would make it all but impossible to determine how they would end up being numbered. note  The fans were perfectly fine with referencing it, however.
  • Trapped by Mountain Lions: Unfortunately, this happens in their The Wizard of Oz campaign. Once the fellowship is broken, only Dorothy's actions affect the climax, and she never reunites with her friends again. Their plot doesn't even get a proper conclusion, and the last we hear from them is that they might have been imprisoned in The Wizard's dungeons. (Though Dorothy did send a dragon to look for them, so there might be a way out for them, after all.)
  • Trans Audience Interpretation: As Sasha Varnaskaya from Halloween III is a man with a gender-neutral first name and feminine Russian surname (being named after a Patreon supporter the Rerollers didn’t know the gender of) some fans speculated that he was a trans man. This explanation would be canonized in the following episode.
  • Villain Decay: Big Dan Teague from O Brother, Where Art Thou?. Unlike his movie counterpart, he never manages to steal our protagonists car, and his role as a Grand Cyclops of the Ku Klux Klan is never mentioned. On the other hand, this version of the character is never killed or really punished for his crimes...
  • What Do You Mean, It's Not for Kids?: It really isn't, as it contains quite a bit of violence and a few sexual scenes, but this hasn't stopped at least a couple of children from writing to the show about how much they love it. Paulo Quiros has said that this is something he does try to keep in mind.

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