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BuzzFeed Unsolved (Web Video)
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BuzzFeed Unsolved is a Web Video live-action/documentary series created by Ryan Bergara for BuzzFeed that ran from 2016 to 2021. Covering both True Crime and Supernatural unsolved mysteries, it was hosted by Ryan and Shane Madej, with whom Ryan maintains a very... intense friendship. Each serves as the resident believer and skeptic respectively.The series premiered on February 4, 2016, as part of BuzzFeed IRL. The first episode, The Mysterious Death of the Somerton Man, began Season One of the True Crime segment and was hosted by Ryan and his friend Brent Bennett, who played the role of skeptic. Brent stayed on for much of the first season of True Crime, and co-hosted the first episode of Supernatural, but was replaced by Shane in late 2016.Unsolved updated on Fridays, with post-episode Q&A sessions (known as Postmortems) being posted the following Wednesday. The True Crime segment has run for 5 seasons, with the 5th season premiering on March 21, 2019. The series began on one of Buzzfeed's subsidiary YouTube channels; Buzzfeed Blue, but from the 5th season of the Supernatural segment onwards, the show switched to a new Unsolved-only Buzzfeed channel, Buzzfeed Unsolved Network.invoked There's also a sports segment. So that's cool.Also check out Ruining History, another show on Buzzfeed that features Shane and Ryan. As of 2020, Ryan and Shane have both left Buzzfeed to found their own company, Watcher Entertainment, alongside fellow Buzzfeed alumni, Stephen Lim. On June 7, 2021, Ryan announced that the upcoming 8th season of True Crime would be the final one, along with a 7th and final season of Supernatural set to premiere on October 15, 2021. The final episode aired on November 19 2021 and was followed up by a behind the scenes documentary Buzzfeed Unsolved: The Making of the Final Investigation. A Spiritual Successor series, once again starring Ryan and Shane, called Ghost Files is currently in production on the Watcher Youtube channel and premiered on September 23, 2022. | |
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The Unsolved Mystery | |
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The Unsolved Mystery: Well, duh. | |
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Became Their Own Antithesis: Played for Laughs in the Waverly Hills Hospital episode when Shane realizes with horror that he is a ghost hunter. | |
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Adam Westing: Their appearance on S.W.A.T. (2017) has them as douchey youtube stars who both believe in the supernatural. | |
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I Am a Humanitarian: Discussed in the Roanoke episode. Researchers found evidence of mass cannibalism on the island, leading some to theorize that a zombie plague wiped out the colony. Ryan does admit that they were going through a harsh winter, and may have just turned to good old Donner dinners to survive, with John White gone to get supplies. | |
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Rasputinian Death | |
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Rasputinian Death: Roland T. Owen was discovered with critical wounds indicating he was struck repeatedly in the head, fractured his skull, stabbed in the chest several times, had a punctured lung and was possibly strangled. Somehow though, he was still alive and conscious for several hours before being discovered and eventually dying from his injuries. | |
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Arbitrary Skepticism | |
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Arbitrary Skepticism: Shane, depending on your personal beliefs of the supernatural. It's a running joke on the show that a ghost would have to "rock bottom him through the floorboards" for him to even consider the existence of the paranormal. While he does put stock into the existence of Bigfoot, he mentions that he doesn't see it as paranormal, just as a rare, unusual creature of meat and bone. The most "out there" he gets is his belief in aliens (although he will still shoot down most alien abduction theories). According to Ryan and Quinta, the type of aliens he typically believes in are tiny bacteria on other planets. | |
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Darker and Edgier | |
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Darker and Edgier: The JonBenét Ramsey episode. Not the case itself per se, as you can see Shane and Ryan merrily joking away in other episodes with missing/dead children, but here (possibly due to the relative recency of the case and how well-known it is)they're more toned down. Notably, Ryan says that, for this particular episode, they're legally not allowed to say who they think did it. The entire Ken Rex McElroy episode was incredibly dark in comparison to previous episodes with little to no comedy being featured (so much as that a viewer discretion warning had to be put up). | |
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Tempting Fate | |
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Tempting Fate/Smite Me, O Mighty Smiter: Practically Shane's hobby. He has yelled for demons to kill him, given Ryan's home address away so any ghosts could follow him home, laid down on a pentagram in a basement supposedly used for Satanic rituals, and declared a possibly demonic bridge to be his if said demon didn't show itself. Most of the episodes that take Shane and Ryan to haunted locations end with them sleeping in the haunted places as a final act of provoking the supposed spirits. | |
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Genre Savvy | |
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Almost definitely intentional, given the Genre Savvy nature of the show. Shane always rebutts Ryan’s claims of the supernatural by offering possible real-life explanations and/or making fun of them. He also dismisses the more outlandish theories, such as aliens being responsible for the disappearance of the lost Roanoke colonists or the existence of an "Underwater Area 51" in The Bermuda Triangle. | |
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Ryan ends each episode with some variation on "For now, the mystery of [topic of video] will remain Unsolved." | |
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Hypocritical Heartwarming | |
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Hypocritical Heartwarming: A lot of their dynamic is roasting each other for whatever reason, but Shane will tell (small dickish percentage) Shaniacs off if they act like Ryan is “too scared”, and Ryan will tell (equally small) Boogaras off if they act like Shane genuinely has no feelings. | |
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Dead All Along | |
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Dead All Along: Invoked in "The Haunting of the Salem Witch Trials", in which Ryan has Shane dress up in pilgrim outfits with him, hoping the ghosts will be more receptive to something familiar. They dress as union soldiers when visiting the Farnsworth House Inn. | |
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Pay Evil unto Evil | |
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Pay Evil unto Evil: The death of Ken Rex McElroy. After literal decades of imposing a reign of terror upon the town of Skidmore and never suffering more than a slap on the wrist for his crimes, McElroy was finally gunned down in the street by at least one enraged citizen. To this day, the people of Skidmore have not disclosed the identity or identities of those responsible despite the dozens of witnesses present at the crime scene, making it a case of evil-paying shared by an entire town. | |
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Heh Heh, You Said "X" | |
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Heh Heh, You Said "X": In "The Ghost Town at Vulture Mine," Shane and Ryan both laugh uproariously at the location known as "The Glory Hole," though they do acknowledge the phrase meant something innocuous back when the town was founded. | |
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Who Shot JFK? | |
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Who Shot JFK?: Kennedy's assassination gets its own video with Ryan mentioning some of the more popular theories surrounding it. | |
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Black Comedy | |
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Black Comedy: This is what a lot of the series banter falls under, since they're frequently joking about things like murder, serial killers, ghosts, death, creepy places, and demons in order to lighten the mood. They said in an AMA that they try to make fun of the ridiculousness of a case/mystery and not in any real suffering. | |
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Played Straight in the JonBenét Ramsey video, where Shane appears genuinely miserable and even horrified when talking about the case. | |
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Missing White Woman Syndrome | |
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Missing White Woman Syndrome: Their own channel hosts other videos to do with crime/mysteries, and one discusses how mothers of pretty missing white girls who don't mourn hard enough are slandered and deemed guilty by the media and public. | |
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Fire-Forged Friends: They don’t go into detail, but they’ve talked about going through some shit both on Unsolved shoots and making Watcher, and know each other better because of all that. | |
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Anti-Climax | |
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Anticlimax: All the goddamn time, usually lampshaded and Played for Laughs. | |
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Haunted Castle | |
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Haunted Castle: They visited and ghost-hunted at the supposedly haunted Colchester Castle in England during Season 3 of Supernatural. They recorded some interesting evidence, including a sound that some interpret as a woman singing. | |
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Failure Is the Only Option | |
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Failure Is the Only Option: They've lampshaded numerous times that they'll never solve anything. | |
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Death of a Child | |
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Death of a Child: A few episodes have centered around the murder of children. "The Murder of JonBenét Ramsey" in particular is uncharacteristically somber. They've explained in the Walter Collins post-mortem that they can't do many episodes on the trope, as it makes them both miserable. | |
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Funny Background Event: For the series' one hundredth episode, Shane and Ryan revisit the case of the Somerton man; the focus of the very first episode of Buzzfeed Unsolved. The two note that the case was before Shane's tenure on the show, when Brent still co-hosted. Ryan jokingly says that that was a time when Brent was "still alive". Cut to a shot of Shane blowing a kiss to the heavens, presumably for Brent, with Brent himself in the back of the shot, out of focus. | |
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Spiritual Successor | |
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Spiritual Successor: To Unsolved Mysteries, down to the creepy background music and the dramatic Robert Stack-style narration delivered by Ryan. This show is just considerably funnier. | |
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Hurricane of Puns | |
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Hurricane of Puns: The episode about the Australian Shark Arm Murders. Ocean and marine-based puns abound. | |
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Nightmare Fetishist | |
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Nightmare Fetishist: Both of them, naturally. When a fan sent them true crime baseball cards, Ryan described it as feeling "so wrong and yet so right at the same time". | |
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Artifact Title: Despite Dan and his family being killed off in Season 2 of the Hot Daga and Maizey, Gene, and Mike Soup taking their roles as the main characters, Shane continues to call the post-Mortem animation by that name. | |
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Orphaned Series | |
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Orphaned Series: Despite the ending of Season 5 of the Hot Daga indicating that Maizey's journey to save her wife, Dan, Rebecca, Future Brandon, and their friends from Pam is not over yet, Shane ultimately chooses to end the series. | |
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Rooting for the Empire | |
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Rooting for the Empire: An In-Universe example: During the Whaley House episode, Ryan and Shane both sympathize with the most feared ghost, Yankee Jim, and hope that he has a sweet speed boat in the afterlife. In The Thrilling Gardner Museum Heist, from the very beginning Shane outright is rooting for the thieves. In the episode about the Alcatraz breakout, Ryan says he sort of hopes the men survived and got away, partially because their plan was so ingenious. In general, if a criminal targets rich people and corporations, Shane's probably on their side. He outright endorses the actions of "the Monster With 21 Faces," since they didn't actually hurt or kill anybody (they did put cyanide in candy, but gave the public a heads-up and even labelled the dangerous boxes, and no one was ever reported to have eaten the contaminated products), and their targets were mega-wealthy companies. Ryan doesn't fully approve, since the revenue lost for the companies lead to many innocent workers losing their jobs, but can't help but say "nice work" to the criminals. | |
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Ghost Ship | |
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Ghost Ship: The Queen Mary, where they spend the night. This is also noteworthy as the site that made Ryan believe in ghosts at the age of seventeen. He saw a tube of toothpaste fly off the sink. | |
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Lightmare Fuel | |
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Lightmare Fuel: Part of the series' popularity. Disturbing murders and haunted places are interspersed with a lot of comedy, often at the genuinely scary situation's expense. | |
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Scrolling Text/Color-Coded for Your Convenience: Dialogue between Shane and Ryan is portrayed as this with Shane's being in yellow on the left and Ryan's being in dark blue on the right. Prior to Shane taking Brent’s place, Brent’s dialogue was also in yellow text while Ryan’s dialogue was a light blue colour instead. If a third party participates in the conversation, their dialogue is centered and in purple. So far this has included Daysha, a major fan of Tupac Shakur (and to a lesser extent, Biggie Smalls) in "The Mysterious Death of Tupac Shakur" and "Biggie Smalls" episodes; Pepe from Buzzfeed Mexico, who acts as Ryan and Shane's guide during the Doll Island part of "3 Horrifying Cases of Ghosts and Demons"; and Ryan's girlfriend, Helen, who Ryan calls for moral support in "The Haunted Halls of Waverly Hills Hospital". | |
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Ascended Meme | |
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Ascended Meme: The famous "Hey there demons, it's me, ya boy" line became a popular internet meme. It was then used in the season 3 trailer ("Hey there demons, ya boys are back") and the line appears on the official merchandise. | |
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Deadly Hug | |
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Deadly Hug: This was how William Desmond Taylor was suspected to have died, embracing his killer before being shot in the back. | |
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Properly Paranoid | |
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Properly Paranoid: Natalie Wood who was terrified of water, ended up drowning in 1981. | |
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Character Development | |
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Character Development: Ryan has gotten noticeably more confident and assertive when dealing/communicating with spirits, which is lampshaded by Shane in "The Spirits of Moon River Brewing". | |
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Stalker without a Crush | |
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Stalker Without a Crush: It's unknown why the Watcher was terrorizing and stalking the Broaddus family, even knowing intimate details like the children's nicknames and their birth dates. | |
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Foregone Conclusion | |
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Foregone Conclusion: Per the name of the show, the questions surrounding the culprit of the crime cases and existence of the supernatural are never given a definitive answer, although Ryan and Shane will sometimes give individual opinions. | |
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Bootstrapped Theme | |
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Bootstrapped Theme: "Nightshade" by David O'Brien, which typically plays during the theories segment. | |
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Hidden in Plain Sight | |
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Hidden in Plain Sight: Agatha Christie wrote a letter to her brother saying she was in Yorkshire but the police, not believing it, seemed to start by checking everywhere but Yorkshire. | |
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Bat Out of Hell | |
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Bat Out of Hell: In the Vulture Mine episode, Ryan and Shane are repeatedly startled by (admittedly harmless) bats. | |
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Body in a Breadbox | |
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Body In A Bread Box: Discussed in two different episodes. Tragically, in one, a young woman's body was found in a water tank, and in another, a young boy's was found in a refrigerator box. In both cases, no one is quite sure how the bodies got there. | |
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The Guards Must Be Crazy | |
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The Guards Must Be Crazy: In The Thrilling Gardner Museum Heist episode, the night guard openly admitted he was usually drunk or high during most of his shifts. He even told the police the reason he let the robbers (disguised as cops) into the building was because he had a Grateful Dead concert to go to the next day. Ryan wonders why the museum would hire him in the first place. | |
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Love Dodecahedron | |
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Love Dodecahedron: The Natalie Wood episode brings up the possibility of one happening. Natalie Wood and Robert Wagner were married but there were rumors that Wood was infatuated with Christopher Walken (to the extent Wagner was concerned about it) and Wood was jealous of Wagner's on-screen romance with his co-star Stephanie Powers. Ryan also brings up the possibility that their friend Captain Dennis Davern being in love with Wood. | |
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Crime Reconstruction | |
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Crime Reconstruction: Used in True Crime episodes as of Season 3, namely in the Gardner Museum, Isdal Woman, and William Desmond Taylor episodes. | |
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"Cavemen vs. Astronauts" Debate | |
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"Cavemen vs. Astronauts" Debate: Bears v Sharks, in "The Odd Death of Michelle Von Emster" and "The Strange Drowning of Natalie Wood". | |
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Downer Ending | |
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Downer Ending: Majority of the True Crime episodes end with the discussed deaths/murders/disappearances remaining unsolved with little to no closure for family and friends. Bizarrely averted in Ken Rex McElroy. Despite his death being unsolved, everyone sees it for the best due to the utter chaos he had wrecked on the town. | |
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Electromagnetic Ghosts | |
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Electromagnetic Ghosts: Alluded to in "The Haunting of the Salem Witch Trials", in which Ryan uses an EMF reader. More dramatically, it's seen in the Sallie House, where Shane taunts the demon to turn a flashlight on and off, and it does, more than once. In the voodoo episode, a fan turns on in a house without electricity, and it did not turn off when Shane tried to turn it off. As of Season 3 of Supernatural, they have been using the spirit box at haunted locations, as per fan request. In the London Tombs episode, a light turns on randomly, and the boys prove that they are not motion censor lights and mention that they are alone. | |
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Early-Installment Weirdness | |
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Early-Installment Weirdness: Ryan's been in the show since the beginning, but Shane only joined in the Illuminati episode. Before then, Ryan's co-host was Brent Bennett. Early episodes were much shorter (4-10 minutes), covering fewer theories (if any at all, the earliest, like Hinterkaifeck farm, mention them in passing) while later episodes range from 20 to 40 minutes. The graphics and filming location when not on-site were also not as high-quality. BuzzFeed Unsolved did not become its own series until The Black Dahlia episode. The episodes before that were considered part of the BuzzFeed IRL series, though they were retroactively made into BuzzFeed Unsolved episodes. | |
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Smug Snake | |
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Smug Snake: Ken Rex McElroy, who was awfully full of himself for a creepy, universally loathed crook, with a boatload of gloating to go with it. It's for this reason that Shane admits he'd love to know what McElroy's last thoughts were, after someone just shot him in the middle of the street. | |
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Do Not Call Me "Paul" | |
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Do Not Call Me "Paul": Apparently, Arthur Leigh Allen's nickname was the Zodiac. Ryan and Brent wonder if he was obnoxious about it. | |
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Multiple Identity IDs | |
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Multiple Identity IDs: The Isdal Woman was found to have several passports in her luggage, leading to Ryan and Shane theorizing she was a spy. | |
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Police Are Useless | |
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Police Are Useless: Shows up all over the place in the True Crime episodes, with a truly depressing (and, frankly, kind of scary) number of law enforcement officials, as well as other professionals who were brought in to help with investigations, who are corrupt, utterly incompetent, or just plain lazy. Lampshaded by Shane in the Amelia Earhart episode, who snarks that half these cases wouldn't be unsolved if people just did their freakin' jobs right. | |
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Karma Houdini Warranty | |
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Karma Houdini Warranty: Discussed in the episode about the murder of Ken Rex McElroy. After literal decades of terrorizing his small town, and always wriggling his way out of legal punishment, someone decided to shoot him. | |
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The Un-Reveal | |
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The Unreveal: At the end of the JonBenét Ramsey episode, Ryan explains that they are legally not allowed to say who they think is the killer, so Ryan blinks his answer in Morse code. Turns out, he doesn't actually know Morse Code and just said "TTTT". | |
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SlidingScaleOfComedyAndHorror | |
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Sliding Scale of Comedy and Horror: Strikes a careful balance between them, with some episodes being more serious and some being more light-hearted, and all having a mix of scary and snarky moments. | |
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Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? | |
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Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: Though ghosts and monsters freak Ryan out, nothing gets him more scared than demons. He has said he will only do one demon related episode per season, and it usually ends with him sweating bullets if things went well, screaming and whipping around at every noise if they didn't. | |
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AwesomeMcCoolName | |
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Awesome Mc Cool Name: C.C. Tinsley, the detective hired by the Sodder family to find their missing children, and then went missing himself. Both Ryan and Shane agree that that is the perfect name for a private investigator. They both agree that D.B. Cooper, which was the result of a printing press error, and not the original name of the unknown criminal printed on the airplane ticket is a much cooler name than Dan Cooper. Doctor Fear, a doctor who worked at the Pennhurst Asylum. Shane notes that with a name like that he was morally obligated to be an evil man. Shane and Ryan eventually conclude that Doctor Fear is the reason C.C. Tinsley went missing, as they were obviously archnemeses. On the episode about George Reeves's death, Ryan immediately called his "hell of a name" just three words into the case. | |
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Hellhole Prison | |
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Hellhole Prison: They're more horrified at the conditions of Ohio State Penitentiary than any ghost stuff, and even apologize to one of the prisoners who decided to set himself on fire just to be free from it. | |
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Bavarian Fire Drill | |
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Bavarian Fire Drill: Employed by Ryan's alter ego "Ricky Goldsworth," who can get anything he wants just by being super-confident and aggressive, until whoever he's talking to has to back down. | |
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Collective Death Glare | |
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Collective Death Glare: Discussed in "The Strange Killing of Ken Rex McElroy." McElroy was shot and killed in front of several witnesses, none of whom ratted the killer out, because McElroy was truly Hated by All for terrorizing the community. When McElroy was shot, he was left to bleed out and die, and no one called the cops until after he was dead. When discussing the case, Ryan and Shane wonder what it was like in the immediate moments following the shooting, and speculate that someone would've offered to call for help... only to be met with everyone else glaring at them until they got the message. | |
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Dying Moment of Awesome | |
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Dying Moment of Awesome: Discussed in the Alcatraz breakout episode, where Ryan mentions that, if they're even still alive, the statue of limitations will expire when the escapees turn ninety-nine. He and Shane agree that, if it were then, they'd totally roll into the US Marshal's office on their their ninety-ninth birthdays, sunglasses on and Flipping the Bird, telling the cops to go fuck themselves, before promptly dying right there in the office. | |
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Aluminum Christmas Trees | |
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Aluminum Christmas Trees: In-universe, Ryan accuses Shane of making up the Dancing Plague of 1518 when he uses it to defend the mass hysteria theory in the "Bizarre Toxic Death of Gloria Ramirez" episode. It then became a Running Gag on the show. | |
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Tinfoil Hat | |
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Tinfoil Hat: Ryan has one specifically for the Area 51 episode, which in Shane's eyes makes him look more crazy. | |
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Ironic Nickname | |
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Ironic Nickname: Discussed in the "Bugsy Siegel" episode in relation to Matthew Pandza, whose nickname was "Moose", and the boys joke that he could've been a small guy with a high pitched voice. | |
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Serious Business | |
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Serious Business: As the resident Agent Mulder, Ryan of course takes the supernatural seriously, but there's one particular rule he's incredibly staunch about. | |
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Driven to Suicide | |
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Driven to Suicide: A few of the theories from True Crime that involves death mention suicide as a potential reason, although the presumed way the person in question died makes this questionable at best. | |
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Stock Unsolved Mysteries | |
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Stock Unsolved Mysteries: Befitting the show's nature, a few of them have been covered over the years on both True Crime and Supernatural. | |
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Once Done, Never Forgotten | |
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Once Done, Never Forgotten: Enforced. Shane intended to end the Hot Doga in the episode in which it essentially began, but Ryan pulled a To Be Continued. Since then, Shane has decided that he will never end the Hot Doga (which Ryan hates), and often reminds Ryan that he could have avoided it if he hadn't taken narrative control for the sake of a Cliffhanger. | |
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Serial Killer | |
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Serial Killer: They've done surprisingly few, but the ones that do feature serial killersNote The Zodiac Killer, The Axeman of New Orleans, the Cleveland Torso Killer and Jack the Ripper are colorful. They're typically peppered with Ryan and Shane joking about the killers Growing the Beard in regards to their "fun little things". | |
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Arc Words | |
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Arc Words: During the demon special, the phrases uttered by the priest "Do not be afraid" and "Do not do anything to invite the demons in" come up frequently. They’re immediately followed by Shane shouting at the demons to harm them. | |
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Poison Is Evil | |
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Poison Is Evil: In one episode, the duo covers multiple people's death by poisoned Tylenol caplets. Ryan theorizes that the killer may have been Ted Kaczynski (more infamously known as the Unabomber), but anyone willing to do such a thing certainly falls under the "Evil" category. | |
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Relax-o-Vision | |
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Relax-o-Vision: In "The Shocking Case of O.J. Simpson," the guys show a picture of a cute little Akita when the case gets too depressing or disturbing. | |
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Slain in Their Sleep | |
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Slain in Their Sleep: How the Axeman of New Orleans operated. He would wait for the victims to go to bed before attempting to murder them with an axe. Attempting because as Shane and Ryan do point out, for someone murdering people in their sleep, he's not actually all that successful. He managed to actually kill his victims in less than 50% of his attacks. The victims of the Villisca ax murders – the six members of Moore family and their two house guests – were all found in their beds. | |
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Cannot Tell a Lie | |
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Cannot Tell a Lie: The Plupples from the Hot Daga prefer not to tell them, as they would explode if they do. | |
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Agent Mulder | |
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Agent Mulder: Ryan is a true believer, always left shaking his head at Shane's defiant antics and trying in vain to make him see the supernatural side. Ryan and Shane briefly swap roles in the Bigfoot episode, with Shane being a fan of the theory, and Ryan admitting that he's "not the biggest believer in Bigfoot". Shane scoffs that it's only because Bigfoot is flesh and blood, too scientific and solid for spooky Ryan. | |
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Portmanteau | |
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The Hot Dog Saga/Hot Daga. Shane insists on keeping the story alive, and expect him to continue with the tale at the end of every Post-Mortem episode. | |
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Breather Episode | |
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Breather Episode: The Missing Family episode, a case with no deaths, takes place right between The Boy in the Box and JonBenét Ramsey episodes, both of which involve the murder of a child. | |
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Agent Scully | |
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Shane looking into the camera and shaking his head every time Ryan asks "are ghosts real" at the beginning of the supernatural episodes. | |
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Bait-and-Switch | |
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Bait-and-Switch: In the first-season demon special, Ryan says he'll stay in the infested house until 5, then gives up at 3. Shane needles him about it, casually saying he doesn't have the guts to fulfill his promise. The video then slows and pulls out the dramatic music, intercutting Ryan's conflicted face and Father Thomas saying "do not be afraid". The speed returns to normal as his expression grows resolved, and he says....."Yeah, you're right. Let's get out of here." | |
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Back from the Dead | |
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Back from the Dead: In the Hot Daga, with the help from Gina and Murray's father, Pam is revived with the intent of undoing her wrongs and help Maizey, Mike Soup, and Gene go back in time to stop the Dark Master from eating the universe. | |
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Ham and Deadpan Duo | |
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Ham and Deadpan Duo: Ryan spends most of the Supernatural episode visits loudly freaking out and demanding questions of the spirits, while Shane stands off to the side joking. | |
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Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil | |
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Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil: The Ramsey episode is dark anyway, but Shane delicately asks how gross they're going to get when Ryan mentions DNA on Benet's underwear. Ryan reassures that he doesn't mean like that. In the Ken Rex McElroy episode, Ryan warns the audience that he's going to discuss sexual assault — and, sure enough, among McElroy's many crimes is the the assault and rape of multiple teenage girls. This, along with his infuriating ability to wriggle out of legal repercussions for anything, is what gets the guys (and most of the audience) to agree that McElroy deserved what he got. | |
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Creepy Doll | |
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Ryan, Shane, and Pepe all get the fuck out of Dodge when they see that the Island of the Dolls is full of huge spiders. Of course, the fact that it's Creepy Doll Central probably doesn't help. Even Shane admitted to being creeped out by that place. | |
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Who Murdered the Asshole | |
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Who Murdered the Asshole: The main question surrounding the death of Ken McElroy. It's really a testament to how big an asshole Ken was that not has the entire town of Skidmore remained silent on who killed him, but also that Ryan, Shane and the show's fans are perfectly okay with letting the mystery go unsolved. | |
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Paranormal Investigation | |
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Paranormal Investigation: The Supernatural seasons. At least, on Ryan's side. | |
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Demonic Possession | |
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Demonic Possession: Covered in The Chilling Exorcism of Anneliese Michel, and discussed with an exorcist named Father Thomas. | |
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Set Right What Once Went Wrong | |
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Set Right What Once Went Wrong: Seasons 3-5 of the Hot Daga has Maizey, Gene, and Mike Soup trying to go back in time to prevent Pam from killing Dan, Rebecca, Future Brandon, Gebra, and their friends in Season 2. | |
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Evil is Cool | |
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Evil Is Cool: Discussed In-Universe in a few episodes, especially the ones about D.B. Cooper and the Gardner Museum Heist. In the former, Ryan and Shane both admit to finding Cooper's calm demeanor and method of committing the crime kind of cool, and are a little disappointed when they realize he was probably kind of an idiot. In the latter, Shane's outright rooting for the thieves, and is delighted by how awesome and movie-like the heist was. Ryan also admits to liking the thieves, and notes that in heist movies, most audiences are inclined to root for the criminals. | |
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Cut Himself Shaving | |
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Cut Himself Shaving: When asked who caused his extensive injuries (consisting of being stabbed in the chest, being beaten in the head and being tied up and strangled), Roland T. Owen denied the involvement of anyone and told the detective that he fell against the bathtub. | |
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Stealing the Credit | |
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Stealing the Credit: Ryan accuses Thomas Edison of stealing the credit of inventing the motion picture from Louis Le Prince. | |
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Bigfoot, Sasquatch, and Yeti | |
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Bigfoot, Sasquatch, and Yeti: Bigfoot is the unsolved mystery in one episode. A Yeti attack is also given as a possible theory for what happened at Dyatlov Pass. | |
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Values Dissonance | |
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Values Dissonance: In-universe, they're always willing to point out misogyny/racism/homophobia of the time, especially when it's to do with a motive. In the Bobby Dunbar episode, they get genuinely angry at a newspaper vilifying Julia Anderson (a single mom who was obviously far less well off than Lessie Dunbar) for not recognizing her child right away and calling her "a big coarse woman". Ryan being Mexican/Japanese hunting old-fashioned ghosts doesn't come up a whole lot. He mentioned that Shane would fit in more to the Sorrel-Weed house being a white guy, but that banter was cut out of the show thanks to feeling like it wasn't funny and halting the momentum. | |
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Continuity Nod | |
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Continuity Nod: Shane brings up Father Thomas, the man who they consulted in their first season of Supernatural about demons, to Ryan in the third season of Supernatural, in a episode where they were again covering demons. He wonders if Father Thomas would be disappointed in Ryan. Ryan sighs and says he probably would. | |
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Alien Abduction | |
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Alien Abduction: A frequent theory, and the topic of an entire episode dealing with three famous cases. The boys also joke that Shane would be the perfect candidate for an abduction, because he would be so unrelentingly snarky and skeptical that the aliens would just toss him back. | |
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Nerves of Steel | |
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Nerves of Steel: Regardless of whether you believe in ghosts or not, a lot of the supposedly haunted locations the duo visits are creepy as hell, and would scare the living daylights out of most people, particularly when visited alone at night. Shane, however, is calm and even relaxed in most cases, and frequently Trolls Ryan by daring any ghosts that may be there to come after them. | |
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Rapid-Fire "No!" | |
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Rapid-Fire "No!": Shane's immediate reaction to the theory that the Axeman could've been a supernatural entity due to the contents of a letter sent to the police that is attributed to them. | |
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Mood Whiplash | |
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Mood Whiplash: Happens a lot. You'll hear the terrifying details of a crime scene, and then it'll cut to Shane and Ryan making jokey commentary. | |
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Rule of Three | |
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Rule of Three: Discussed in the episodes centering around demons, since the Rule of Three is allegedly significant in mocking the Holy Trinity. Ryan mentions when spending the night at the Sallie House, that at 3:00 am he's going to be quiet for 3 minutes to see if any demonic activity happens at that specific time. When they go to a demonic bridge, Ryan mentions that according to lore, if you knock on it three times, the demon that haunts it will throw you off. They try it: nothing happens. | |
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Karma Houdini | |
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Karma Houdini: Several criminals/serial killers in the True Crime episodes have yet to be identified and brought to justice for their crimes, including Jack the Ripper, the Zodiac Killer, JonBenét Ramsey's murderer, etc. | |
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AngryMob | |
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Angry Mob: One was involved in Ken Rex McElroy's murder, although it was a lot less violent than the trope is usually associated with. After a town meeting where everyone was airing out their grievances with him and getting no solutions, they got a call that he was nearby and about 60 people went out to confront him. It's not certain whether the mob meant to kill him, as they mostly just intimidated him by standing around his car and it was only one or possibly two people who actually shot him, but they all remained quiet on who the shooter(s) were. | |
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Deadpan Snarker | |
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Deadpan Snarker: Both have their moments, but Shane shines due to Ryan's antics giving him plenty of material. | |
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Catchphrase | |
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Catchphrase: Ryan starts off each Supernatural episode with "This week on Buzzfeed Unsolved we investigate [name of place] as part of our ongoing investigation into the question: 'Are ghosts real?'" Shane usually responds to this with his non-vocal catchphrase of shaking his head. Ryan ends each episode with some variation on "For now, the mystery of [topic of video] will remain Unsolved." Ryan says, "Shut up, Shane" a lot. You could make a drinking game out of the number of times Ryan says, "That being said..." (wheeze) | |
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Town with a Dark Secret | |
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Town with a Dark Secret: Keddie. Possibly. The fact that the town had maybe 50 inhabitants and yet nobody saw or heard a series of brutal murders leads Shane and Ryan to speculate that somebody was covering for the killer. A good portion of the Skidmore town knew who murdered Ken Rex McElroy, having 60 witnesses to his murder, but refused to say who. | |
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Selective Obliviousness | |
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Selective Obliviousness: In The Scandalous Murder of William Desmond Taylor, some neighbors including the apartment manager, heard what sounded like a gunshot but write it off when no other disturbance follows. One of the neighbors spotted someone leaving Taylor's home, dressed like a burglar, but again, didn't think too much about it. | |
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My Beloved Smother | |
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My Beloved Smother: In "The Scandalous Murder of William Desmond Taylor", one suspect was Mary Miles Minter's mother, who was overbearing and controlling of Minter's life, including having Minter steal the name of a deceased relative so Minter could work. | |
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Touché | |
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In general, if a criminal targets rich people and corporations, Shane's probably on their side. He outright endorses the actions of "the Monster With 21 Faces," since they didn't actually hurt or kill anybody (they did put cyanide in candy, but gave the public a heads-up and even labelled the dangerous boxes, and no one was ever reported to have eaten the contaminated products), and their targets were mega-wealthy companies. Ryan doesn't fully approve, since the revenue lost for the companies lead to many innocent workers losing their jobs, but can't help but say "nice work" to the criminals. | |
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Love Triangle | |
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Love Triangle: The William Desmond Taylor episode posits that Taylor possibly had romantic entanglements with Mabel Normand. Another star Mary Miles Minter was also in love with Taylor but he did not appear to reciprocate. In "The Mysterious Death Of The Eight Day Bride", there was one between Christina, her husband Jack and Jack's best friend Ronald. However, the question of who was in love with who drives the mystery of Christina's death. Her family believed Ronald loved Christina but others claim that Jack and Ronald were in a relationship. | |
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It Makes Sense in Context | |
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During the post show, Shane frequently insists he'll progress his ongoing tale of hot dogs jousting on crabs but instead flashes back to the lives of the hot dog couple. He finally insists on the post show of the Poison Pill Murders episode that there will be some crab action. It's the backstory of the crabs that the hot dogs are jousting on. | |
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Berserk Button | |
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Berserk Button: The Hot Doga and Shane's Arbitrary Skepticism for Ryan. Outlandishly supernatural theories for Shane. | |
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Mistreatment-Induced Betrayal | |
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Mistreatment-Induced Betrayal: In the Hot Daga, the root of Pam's Heel–Face Turn is this, as she was killed by the Dark Master. | |
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Bait-and-Switch Comment | |
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Bait-and-Switch Comment: Ryan asks Shane whether he thinks Pennhurst Asylum is haunted. Shane shockingly says he does not. Ryan then asks if Shane wants to know if he thinks it is. | |
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And Starring | |
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And Starring: Played on a more light hearted level during the Hot Daga, as the character Dr. Goondis is "voiced" by Ryan via stitched up voice recordings and Shane would always credit him, at least until Goondis hatches from his egg and Shane takes over and actually voices him. | |
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Nice Guy | |
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In the Ken Rex McElroy episode, it's very telling that Ryan says he's glad McElroy's dead, and that his killer got away with it. | |
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Bystander Syndrome | |
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Bystander Syndrome: In The Strange Killing of Ken Rex McElroy, there were 60 witnesses to his murder but no one other than McElroy's partner Trena McCloud would report it. However McElroy had terrorized the small town for years and those 60 witnesses remained in complicit silence as to who the murderer was. | |
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Self-Deprecation | |
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Self-Deprecation: The duo poke fun of themselves during the series finale of True Crime concerning how they didn't solved anything with Ryan calling themselves "worst detective agency ever assembled". | |
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Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane | |
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Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane: What pretty much all of their paranormal investigations come down to. They find a fair amount of evidence, but it's rarely dramatic and often has a mundane explanation. | |
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Lighter and Softer | |
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Lighter and Softer: The Supernatural series comes across as this in comparison to True Crime, since they're more about Shane and Ryan's skeptics vs believers antics and debating the supernatural whereas True Crime is grounded in real life deaths and disappearances. And the beginning of the Mothman episode is this to the entire Supernatural series, as Ryan and Shane start out by strolling around the town of Point Pleasant and enjoying some local Mothman-themed snacks. | |
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Bizarre Taste in Food | |
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Bizarre Taste in Food: Shane has mentioned that he would eat a pickle from a pond and that once he took a whole bite out of a pumpkin. | |
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That Came Out Wrong | |
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That Came Out Wrong: After Shane dismisses the idea of Lizzie Borden not being able to change her clothes unassissted: In the St. Augustine Lighthouse episode: | |
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Refuge in Audacity | |
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Refuge in Audacity: Shane is so skeptical of demons that he casually lays down where a pentagram once was in the basement of the Sally house. Notable for being a case that features one of the few examples of possible supernatural activity caught on camera (a flashlight mysteriously turns on after Ryan and Shane challenge the demon to do so). On the Goatman's bridge Shane starts swearing at the Demon right off the bat, and continues to do so through the whole episode, and when they try to communicate with him via Ouija Board, Shane eventually goads Ryan into claiming the bridge as their own if the Goatman didn't communicate with them (which he didn't). | |
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Color-Coded Speech | |
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Color-Coded Speech: The series uses this for cutaways where Ryan and Shane's conversation is transcribed instead of showing video of them talking. Shane's text is transcribed in yellow and Ryan's is transcribed in blue. | |
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Treasure Hunt Episode | |
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Treasure Hunt Episode: “The Treacherous Treasure Hunt of Forest Fenn”. They didn’t get the gold, unfortunately. | |
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Vitriolic Best Buds | |
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Vitriolic Best Buds: Shane and Ryan. Their bickering is the trademark of the show, arguably even more so than the Unsolved Mysteries aspect. | |
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Hollywood Voodoo | |
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Voodoo: Covered in an episode. Shane and Ryan team up with New Orleans Voodoo priest, Bloody Mary. They learn that Voodoo is not necessarily an evil practice and can be used for good. | |
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Unusually Uninteresting Sight | |
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Unusually Uninteresting Sight: In "The Creepy Murder in Room 1046", they frequently lampshade how many suspicious things (like a guy lying on the bed surrounded by a dark stain) the hotel staff discount/walk away from with no comment. Shane posits that the Keddie killer got away clean because "in the 80s, you see someone running down a back road covered in blood, you just move on". | |
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Screw This, I'm Outta Here | |
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Screw This, I'm Outta Here: Ryan, Shane, and Pepe all get the fuck out of Dodge when they see that the Island of the Dolls is full of huge spiders. Of course, the fact that it's Creepy Doll Central probably doesn't help. Even Shane admitted to being creeped out by that place. In the same episode, Ryan can't make it through a night in the Sallie House, and bolts. | |
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Hell Hotel | |
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Hell Hotel: Twice. The Cecil Hotel in the Elisa Lam episode. While the hotel is technically normal, it has a reputation for having housed several serial killers and being the site of an unusually high number of suicides. Ryan proposes ghosts as an explanation for Elisa's psychotic behavior right before her death. The Dauphine Orleans Hotel, which is famously haunted with the spirits of former prostitutes. Visitors (including Shane and Ryan) report being kept up all night by loud, pacing footsteps and other eerie noises. | |
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Audience Participation | |
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Audience Participation: Though the actual episodes are recorded in advance, the aftershow BuzzFeed Unsolved: Postmortem is recorded weekly and has Shane and Ryan answering questions about the previous episode submitted by fans via Twitter and Instagram. | |
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Cat Scare | |
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Cat Scare: Happened on the Queen Mary when a pigeon flew into Ryan's face. | |
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Suspiciously Specific Denial | |
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Suspiciously Specific Denial: Ryan references the one made by Bill Rothstein in his suicide note concerning the death of Brian Wells, which would allow the authorities to connect him to the case as a potential suspect. | |
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Laser-Guided Amnesia | |
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Laser-Guided Amnesia: All members of the Tromp family in The Bizarre Road Trip of a Missing Family don't have any memory of what caused them to go on their sudden road trip or any event that happened during said trip. | |
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O.O.C. Is Serious Business | |
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O.O.C. Is Serious Business: Subverted. In the Eastern State Penitentiary episode, a lot of viewers noticed that Shane seemed a little off and theorized something there may have seriously scared him. It was later revealed in the post show, that he ate some bad hot-dogs before arriving on set. Played Straight in the JonBenét Ramsey video, where Shane appears genuinely miserable and even horrified when talking about the case. In general, if the boys aren't laughing and cracking jokes, the case is probably really getting to them. In the Ken Rex McElroy episode, it's very telling that Ryan says he's glad McElroy's dead, and that his killer got away with it. According to the almost 70th episode, when they were in the shoot at Waverly and heard the noise, Shane ran off. Mark their camera-man said that he knows if Shane is scared by something, something is actually wrong. The Demon Priest Of Mission Solano has Ryan actually wanting to mock the demon along with Shane, because the priest was so shitty and deserves it. He doesn’t actually, but the fact that he’s terrified of demons and was almost willing, speaks to how much they both hate him. | |
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Creepy Monotone | |
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Creepy Monotone: Ryan's "theory" voice, which he uses to narrate each of the episodes. | |
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Exact Words | |
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Exact Words: During the post show, Shane frequently insists he'll progress his ongoing tale of hot dogs jousting on crabs but instead flashes back to the lives of the hot dog couple. He finally insists on the post show of the Poison Pill Murders episode that there will be some crab action. It's the backstory of the crabs that the hot dogs are jousting on. In the following post show of the Keddie Cabin, Shane claims that he isn't going to trick the audience by starting with the joust and then cutting to a flashback. That's because that it doesn't feature the joust at all and is instead a flash-forward. | |
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Dirty Cop | |
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Dirty Cop: Discussed frequently in the True Crime seasons, since this trope is sometimes the reason why cases are unsolved in the first place. This was particularly notable in the Sodder Children episode, where the authorities located only a few miles away showed up hours after the house was set on fire, and in the episode about the Keddie Cabin Massacre, where it has often been theorized that the authorities were covering something up, due to the sheer negligence that was shown to the case. | |
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Haunted House | |
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Haunted House: They have visited many. "Three Horrifying Cases of Ghosts and Demons" has the Winchester Mystery House (mansion variety), the Sallie House (suburban version), and a haunted island. | |
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Running Gag: Ryan frequently brings up his fear of bears, insisting that they are the most fearsome and dominant creatures on the planet. Shane vehemently disagrees. The Hot Dog Saga/Hot Daga. Shane insists on keeping the story alive, and expect him to continue with the tale at the end of every Post-Mortem episode. Shane looking into the camera and shaking his head every time Ryan asks "are ghosts real" at the beginning of the supernatural episodes. Father Thomas. Ryan reminds himself of Father Thomas' advice, "Do not be afraid" when visiting haunted locations. Father Thomas' advice against interacting with ghosts and demons is often replayed before they do just that. The concept that Ryan has an alternate personality named Ricky Goldsworth (a very willful and domineering con man in sharp contrast to Ryan's usual demeanor) and that Shane is actually a demon. Shane's pet bird that he may have eaten. Explanation When Shane was young and lived in the Chicago area, his bird died during the winter, making it impossible to bury the bird outside due to the ground being frozen. His parents agreed to wrap the bird up and put it in the freezer until the ground thawed out and it could be properly buried, which Ryan proceeds to have a great time with, repeatedly accusing Shane of sticking his dead bird in the freezer with all of his frozen foods so he could eat it later. The rotten Dalmatian that harassed Shane while he was jogging. | |
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Canon Immigrant | |
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Canon Immigrant: In "The Odd Death of Charles C. Morgan" Ryan accidentally mentions the Hot Daga, much to Shane's joy, who declares that having done so Ryan made the Hot Daga real in the main series. | |
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Depending on the Writer | |
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Depending on the Writer: Discussed in the La Llorona episode, as Curly mentions that many families and cultures from the Latin American world have their own spin on the La Llorona story. | |
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Doctor Fear, a doctor who worked at the Pennhurst Asylum. Shane notes that with a name like that he was morally obligated to be an evil man. Shane and Ryan eventually conclude that Doctor Fear is the reason C.C. Tinsley went missing, as they were obviously archnemeses. | |
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Once a Season | |
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Once a Season: The duo have only done one demon investigation per Supernatural season due to Ryan's fear of them. Subverted in the final season, which started and finished with a demonic investigation. | |
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