TV Nopes Podcast

Here at TV Nopes we cover TV Tropes pages that shouldn't exist. For the first time, however, the TV Tropes editors agreed, as the "Louder With Crowder" page was deleted before we could record the episode. Comedian and activist Anders Lee (Redacted Tonight, Pod Damn America) and I dove into the Wayback Machine to find out why the TV Tropes page for "Louder With Crowder" was deleted. Spoiler alert: it's cause the show seems to be pretty racist! Before that, however, we looked at the "Greg Gutfeld Show" TV Tropes page for a significantly less racist appetizer. Did Greg ever get his driver's license? What's up with the opening monologue in "The Departed?" Is Steven Crowder's "Chinese spy" costume culturally sensitive? These questions and more will be revealed when you listen to the episode!

Friend and comedian Hana Michels joined me to look at the TV Tropes page for the Garfield comic strip, a page that probably shouldn't exist because the Garfield newspaper comic strip doesn't really have much structured plot. And yet, for some reason, it has so many tropes that we decided to split it into 2 parts. Among the topics covered are alien prudes, 9/11 comic strips, and Ben Shapiro getting mad about a lack of animal genitals in kid's cartoons.

Wouldn't it be neat if this releases right as they announce when I Think You Should Leave Season 2 Is?

Anyway, some TV Tropes pages shouldn't exist because the material they're trying to cover is too sensitive for the format. Other TV Tropes pages shouldn't exist because the media they're covering isn't really the sort of narrative that can be analyzed in the TVT style. The TV Tropes page for I Think You Should Leave is the latter. Friend and writer Lenny Burnham (Arden Podcast) joins me to see a bunch of oddballs misunderstand the point of comedy and become very obsessed with Skelletrex, a character with no-screentime who exists in one sentence yelled by Sam Richardson.

To be fair, it is a great sentence.

We also learn about other kinds of skeletons, Death Eater Ron's penis, and much much more!

Of all the TV Tropes pages we've covered that shouldn't exist, this one is the one that should exist the least so far. Steve McQueen's Oscar-winning adaption of Solon Northup's memoir of being kidnapped into slavery is a brutal magnum opus that refuses to gloss over the horrors of American slavery. So of course, some TV Tropers documented every single way that the slavemasters are like anime school girls. I wish I was kidding. Joining me is comedian and podcaster Alex Ptak (Pod Damn America, Ballin' Out Super, Theater of Delights). We try, and fail, to understand the kind of person who sees "12 Years a Slave" and thinks "that's Trauma Conga Line featuring a Yandere Bigot With a Crush" to me.

So far the TV Tropes pages that shouldn't exist that this podcast has covered shouldn't exist for sensitivity reasons. So it's time for a lighthearted frolic through a page that shouldn't exist because the story it covers is around 2 minutes long. I'm joined by comedian and friend James Fisher Jr. as we discuss bears' rights to defend their home, whether Goldilocks was the first Karen, strong opinions from Reggie the Dog, and the downside of lying about your age so that you can go fight in World War Two.

I'm joined by brilliant comedy writer and friend Jenny Jaffe as we look at the TV Tropes page for "Black Fish." Many people would say that a documentary about an abused killer whale who murdered his trainers doesn't need to be analyzed as though it were a Marvel movie, and yet... here we are. We learn about the cinematic universe of Black Fish, speculate about the inevitable action-packed sequel, and spend way too long trying to understand what it means when a story "undergoes Cerberus Syndrome cauing a character to lose their Joker Immunity."

For the premier episode, I'm joined by comedian, friend, and Will Smith social media consigliere Brandon Scott Wolf (@BrandonEsWolf)! Bong Joon-ho's tragicomic weath-inequality thriller fantasia was the first foreign film to win the Best Picture Oscar. There's no reason it should have a TV Tropes page, and yet it does. Together we learn about Bong Joon-ho's application of the "Batman Gambit," the plot holes TV Tropers seem to think the movie has, JK Rowling's feelings about Jewish wizards, and so much more!