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A Very Fatal Murder (Podcast) |
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A Very Fatal Murder is a satirical podcast by The Onion. It follows the fictional Onion Public Radio reporter David Pascall (voiced by David Sidorov) as he tries to create an award-winning podcast by solving a murder case which comments on the fabric of America in the 21st century. Pascall finds this case with the help of the MIT supercomputer ETHL (Extremely Timely Homicide Locator), and goes to Bluff Springs, Nebraska to solve the murder of 17-year-old Hayley Price. |
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Dropped link to AffectionateParody: Not a Feature - ITEM |
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Black Comedy |
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Black Comedy: The death of Hayley Price is way over the top, such that she was "shot, stabbed, drowned, strangled, and given a haircut." Pascall's reenactment of the crime scene ends with an OPR intern shooting and killing another intern. |
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Clue, Evidence, and a Smoking Gun |
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Clue, Evidence, and a Smoking Gun: Averted. While searching through the case's evidence, Pascall thinks he found the smoking gun. However, it turns out that it's just a Red Herring. |
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Scatterbrained Senior |
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Scatterbrained Senior: W.O. Calloway |
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Eccentric Townsfolk |
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Eccentric Townsfolk: The inhabitants of Bluff Springs, Nebraska. |
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Distant Finale |
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Distant Finale: The podcast's ending skips to ten years after Pascall started investigating Hayley Price's murder. |
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Take That, Audience! |
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Take That, Audience!: The podcast is brought to you by "listeners more generous than you". Pascall concludes that the audience killed Hayley Price because they wanted her to die for his podcast. |
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Going Native |
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Going Native: Pascall moves from New York to Nebraska and spends a decade in Bluff Springs and considers himself a local. |
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A.I. Is a Crapshoot |
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AI Is A Crap Shoot: ETHL kills Hayley Price to create a perfectly podcast-worthy murder. |
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Never the Obvious Suspect |
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Never the Obvious Suspect: Pascall is certain that W.O. Calloway murdered Hayley Price, while the murder was actually orchestrated by ETHL. |
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Parody Commercial |
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Parody Commercial: Parodies popular podcast ads such as Complete Meal (Blue Apron), BrickShorts.com (SquareSpace), etc. The commercial for the US Postal Service acts as a counter for Stamps.com ads, arguing that since the USPS is so old it doesn't matter that you might have to wait in long lines or your mail arrives a little late. |
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Crime Reconstruction |
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Crime Reconstruction: Parodied. David Pascall takes the crime scene reconstruction so seriously that it ends up killing an intern. |
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Multi-Part Episode |
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Multi-Part Episode: Episode 5 is a "juicy" two-parter. |
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Police Are Useless |
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Police Are Useless: The police can't solve Hayley's murder, even after Pascall joins their ranks. |
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Time Skip |
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Time Skip: Episode 5 takes place in 2018, ten years after the previous episode. |
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The Reveal |
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The Reveal: ETHL reveals that she orchestrated Hayley's murder for the podcast. |
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Only Known by Initials |
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Only Known by Initials: W.O. Calloway |
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Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking |
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The death of Hayley Price is way over the top, such that she was "shot, stabbed, drowned, strangled, and given a haircut." |
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Tyrannical Town Tycoon |
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Tyrannical Town Tycoon: W.O. Calloway is a wind tycoon who runs pretty much every industry in Bluff Springs, Nebraska. |
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There Is No Kill Like Overkill |
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There Is No Kill Like Overkill: Played for Laughs. Hayley Price was "shot, stabbed, drowned, strangled, and given a haircut." |
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Back for the Finale |
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Back for the Finale: ETHL returns for the finale after disappearing from the story after Episode 4. |
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Da Chief |
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Da Chief: Pascall becomes chief of the Bluff Springs Police Department in Episode 5, Part 1. |
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Eccentric Millionaire |
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Eccentric Millionaire: The town millionaire W.O. Calloway turns out to be a simple old man who's unphased by a SWAT Team storming his residence. |
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Precision F-Strike |
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Precision F-Strike: Used in an ad in the season finale. |
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Clueless Detective |
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Clueless Detective: Pascall tries to solve the murder, but often times he's more preoccupied with creating a compelling podcast. |
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Non-Human Sidekick |
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Non-Human Sidekick: ETHL |
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A.I.-cronym |
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A.I.-cronym: ETHL, which stands for Extremely Timely Homicide Locator. |
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Trashy True Crime |
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Trashy True Crime: The podcast is a series-long parody of true crime podcasts, and as such features mainstays like characters investigating "the perfect subject for a true crime podcast" - the death of a "really hot dead white girl" in a small, apparently corrupt town in Nebraska. Exaggerated with the revelation that ETHL murdered Hayley for the podcast, as she calculated that Hayley really was the perfect subject for one. |
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Friend to All Living Things |
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Friend to All Living Things: Hayley's dad says his daughter loved animals and people. W.O. Calloway says that Hayley was his only friend. |
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SWAT Team |
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SWAT Team: Pascall's police department deploys one on W.O. Calloway. |
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Society Is to Blame |
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Society Is to Blame: David Pascall initially believes that W.O. Calloway murdered Hayley Price, so he wonders if Flyover Country is to blame for her murder. Pascall ultimately concludes that podcast listeners are to blame for her death, because they wanted her murder to happen in the first place. |
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Everytown, America |
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Everytown, America: Bluff Springs, Nebraska |
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Department of Redundancy Department |
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Department of Redundancy Department: The podcast's title, A Very Fatal Murder. |
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Innocently Insensitive |
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Innocently Insensitive: While Hayley's mom is still crying over the loss of her daughter, Pascall doesn't pass tissues to Hayley's mom to get her sniffles on audio and he has her read an ad for the podcast. |
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