Feed Dump

Feed Dump is a weekly series hosted on The Escapist created by the crew of Loading Ready Run. The show features Graham Stark and two guests poking fun at odd news stories from around the world.

Episodes are here.

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Tropes used in Feed Dump include:

• Catch Phrase: A few.
  • "Good times."
  • "There may be better sources for news, but they don't have this hat."
• Couch Gag: Every episode opens with a variation of "And now, some (word rhyming with 'news')", often with an accompanying graphic.
• Halloween Episode: Two in a row - "Dinosaurs" and "Powerless and Nude".
• It Makes Sense in Context: Pretty much all of the titles.
• Jingle: Several segments, including "Paul and Matt have to figure out what Graham is talking about", "Why in the hell?", and "Jer and Alex assess the playability of some bullshit".
• Nice Hat: Graham ends every episode by placing a Nice Hat on his head as he proclaims that other news sources don't have a hat like it. Most episodes contain additional jokes featuring hats.
  • An entire investment market has arisen around predicting the number of hats in the next episode.
• "No. Just... No" Reaction

Graham: *reads a news story as a song* It's song time!
Kathleen: *excited* Can I sing a song?
Alex: NO!
Kathleen: *pouts*

• • Also Kathleen's reaction to Alex's "The Great Vagnini".
• Panel Show
• Product Placement: The episode "Soldiers of Fortune".
• Pungeon Master: Alex. Possibly Matt as well.
• Rummage Sale Reject: The Halloween costume suggestions, including a gorilla who's also a sailor and a construction worker, and The Honorable Judge Pimp Santa.
• Running Gag: Ron Dewings.
• Spiritual Successor: To Loading Ready Run's previous funny-news series, Phailhaus, which was in turn a Spiritual Successor to "The Whatever Thing."
• Take That: The stinger of Criminals & Lawyers has Graham wearing a golden hard hat, a cowboy hat and a police cap on top of each other, stating that he needs a studded leather cap and a feathered headdress. He follows it up by saying, "Coming soon to Team Fortress 2!"
• You Keep Using That Word: Cameron points this out when "inertia" is used in relation with sleep.