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la-principessa-nuova · 1 day

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Hi i just got dropout and was wondering what to start out with, any nice tips? :>

Depends what specifically you’re into. I watch everything on there now, and I would categorize Dropout’s content into a few categories, so I’ll break it down by category.

Game Changer and Spinoffs

I started with Game Changer, and I think that is a very good first Dropout show because it introduces you to a lot of the recurring cast members, and since the game changes every show, you can either join in on the latest season or start at the beginning to get all the recurring jokes.

Make Some Noise I enjoyed more once I’d become familiar with the people doing it from other shows (plus it’s a spinoff of Game Changer, so chronologically it would come some time after the Game Changer episode it’s based on).

As a former theater kid, I very much enjoy Play It By Ear. It’s improv musicals, so i feel like you either hear that and absolutely must see it or you heard that and know you absolutely don’t want to see it, lol.

The D20 section

If you’re into D&D or think you could be, Dimension 20 is my favorite thing on there, and you could definitely start with that if you’re up for the long episodes. I’d recommend starting at the beginning with Fantasy High. Personally I really liked going through all the seasons in order so I didn’t need to figure out which ones were sequels and spinoffs of other ones.

If you’re going to watch Dimension 20 definitely use the “The Complete Experience” versions that have the adventuring parties (talkback) in between the regular episodes.

The order of the seasons has occasionally been flipped around in a way that puts one of the spin offs before the season it spun off from, so here is the order of the seasons so far, with some symbols I’ll explain after:

Fantasy High [I, F]

Escape From the Bloodkeep

The Unsleeping City [I, U]

Fantasy High: Sophomore Year [I, F]

Tiny Heist

A Crown of Candy [I, C]

Pirates of Leviathan [F]

The Unsleeping City - Chapter II [I, U]

Mice & Murder

Misfits and Magic

The Seven [F]

Shriek Week

A Starstruck Odyssey [I]

Coffin Run

A Court of Fey & Flowers

Neverafter [I]

The Ravening War [C]

Dungeons and Drag Queens

Mentopolis

Burrow’s End

Fantasy High - Junior Year [I, F]

The letters in brackets mean:

I - Intrepid Heroes season (the players are the main cast of players from the first season)

F - Fantasy High (this season is in the Fantasy High universe)

U - The Unsleeping City (this season is in the Unsleeping City universe)

C - A Crown of Candy (this season is in the A Crown of Candy universe)

I believe adventuring party starts during A Crown of Candy, so there is no talkback for the previous seasons. In general, you can watch the seasons that don’t have an F, C, or U in any order, but there are callbacks to previous jokes, especially in Adventuring Party, so I would say to watch any season with any letter above in order at least, and the rest it doesn’t really matter the order.

I watched them all in order except I gave up on Shriek Week because I wasn’t enjoying it and then came back to it when I was out of seasons to watch, and I saved Dungeons and Drag Queens until I was in the mood for a beginner adventure (plus Mentopolis started just after I finished The Ravening War).

Other TV-style shows

The first season of Very Important People just wrapped up, which is Vic Michaelis interviewing Dropout cast members who are improvising characters based on a costume they were put into without knowing what it was ahead of time. Like many other shows on Dropout, I got more into it the more episodes I saw. It could be watched first, but you’ll get more out of it from knowing who the person is that’s being put in costume to be shocked how different they look.

Dirty Laundry, which is a panel show where they share a secret/embarassing/weird fact about someone and then the panel members guess who it was, could be watched first, but the episodes with Dropout cast members as guests are more enjoyable if you know who they are.

Smartypants is a new show that just started. The show is them doing presentations, and I’m realizing I’m not going to be able to describe it in a way that doesn’t sound awful, but it’s good. This is a good one to watch earlier, I think. At least so far it hasn’t been highly dependent on inside jokes.

Um, Actually is very fun to play along with trying to find the mistake in statements about nerdy media. That you can watch whenever.

One of the first shows they did, Total Forgiveness, I would highly recommend. It’s only one season, but you might want to be familiar with Ally Beardsley and Grant O’Brien first.

I also liked Where in the Eff is Sarah Cincinnati

YouTube-Style Videos

Since Dropout got its start from CollegeHumor’s YouTube videos, there are some things that feel more like a YouTube video than a TV show (in the sense of less polish, shorter length, and/or the concept just being more like what you’d expect from YouTube)

The only ongoing one that I would describe that way (I think) is Breaking News, which is where they act like newscasters but they’ve never seen the words on the teleprompter and they have to try not to laugh as they say all the ridiculous things on there. Some episodes are funnier with more context on the cast, but most of them can be watched whenever, and there isn’t really any continuity to it, so any season can be watched in any order. I’ve only watched some of the past seasons and picked and chose the episodes to watch.

They also have all the old College Humor skits and stuff, and some of them have not aged well, but the Hardly Working series has a lot of good stuff in there, especially in the later seasons, that explains some of the running jokes across the platform.

Also all of Brennan’s A Message from the CEO skits are very funny (I think they’re all still on YouTube too, but they’re also on Dropout).

Early Dropout Content

The last category in my opinion is some of the stuff they tried to do early in Dropout where they were trying to grow out of the YouTube videos but didn’t yet pivot into what Dropout is now.

I already mentioned Total Forgiveness, which is from this era, but the only other thing I’ll mention is that they did some video podcasts during this time, and personally I really enjoyed Tales from the Closet.

There’s also just a LOT from this time and I’ve only seen some of it. They really tried some different things.

Summary

There is a lot of good content on Dropout, and it is the sort of thing where whatever you watch first you’re probably missing some inside jokes that you’ll then get next time they come up.

Having just thought about it all to write this, I’d say the best places to start are either Game Changer or Dimension 20: Fantasy High depending on what you’re looking for.

And then poke around at some of the shorter videos when you don’t feel like watching something long.

#dropout #dropout.tv #dropout tv #dimension 20 #game changer #um actually #dirty laundry #total forgiveness #college humor #where in the eff is sarah cincinnati #my lil dropout daddies

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znks · 7 years

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my dearest charlotte aka um0v3dm3kurt and charlotter stroganoff circa like 2012 and Pudding Life circa 2017

today on the day celebrating your birth I would like to take it back to those 2012 fandom days by publicly and obnoxiously posting a Birthday Letter™ for all to roll their eyes at and scroll the fuck past because who interacts on this website anymore I mean honestly

look at this supermodel wow amazing beautiful gorgeous

(do not be fooled she is even more beautiful in person but I also still have hundreds of pictures/screenshots of her making the most glorious of ridiculous faces)

I also have like 40 pictures of her trying to “sit like a lady” like this cat

anyway,

on this day 22 years ago a thing happened (u happened) and then a few years after that, like 16 of them, we met irl but like didn’t know each other so I’m not counting that as our origin story but thEN a few months later we met online and thus started a sweet sweet friendship that still continues to this day

we spent a good chunk of our ~teen years~ and young adult years (ya lit son) and now 20s together either on tumblr, on skype a few times, on tinychat, on like AIM for a week just for the lols, by text until someoNE stopped having an iphone, on whatsapp, and now mostly on messenger but also in real life when you lovingly came all the way to ShitHampton to stay with me in my rad dorm room where I would like stock up mattresses from flatmates for you then later when you spend a godawful amount of hours on buses on mutliple occassions to come sleep on my (or ben’s) floor in Paris, AND all the way to san francisco to go bike riding and buy some bras and get scared to death by a wild boar (seriously though this friendship is really one sided one day I will come to you instead jfc) and we chilled in our pjs and sometimes napped together during the day because we stayed up all night playing video games or watching things or reading things silently next to each for like 7 hours because bb we have a perf friendship tbh

and we would go out like Once during the week and then either stay in the restaurant for hours playing our own version of million dollars but or cut dinner short because we once wanted to run home to build massive ore blocks or like build a fucking moat around our anti-zombles bunker

but in all seriousness you have been a constant in my life, a rock, an anchor of support and friendship and caring, like we don’t get sappy often but bruh get ready for it because what better way to be wished a happy birthday than by having a friend of yours publicly pull out the friendship receipts on you

you were there for me throughout some of the shittiest years of my life (high school and then shithampton) and though we grew up a lil and changed and like moved away from our beginning fandom dayz we were still always able to come back together over and over and we still talk almost every day like you mean the fucking world to me you have no idea how much you’ve helped me and how much I love and value having you as my friend beyond this hellsite where we can still scream about dumb boys playing video games or in bouncy castles or about the sims whenever we get obsessed with it again for a few days (weeks) but also talk about our future or our ~feelings~ and like sometimes that happens with distractions and jokes and quiet support because that’s what we need that day, and you have always provided that for me, comfort and safety and warm happy feelings and a lot of laughter along with the words of encouragement of the unwavering support and faith I hope you know I have in you (for you?)

like there is literally zero doubt in my mind and heart and soul that you will have an amazing life and go so far and accomplish many great things and ur already a pretty fucking swell person so I can’t wait to get to know who you will be in 5 years or 10 or 30 or 50 (when we move in together and get 10+ cats if we’re single)

I love you so fucking much and your happiness means a lot to me okay

so happy birthday, Charlotte Rose [last name], I hope that your cats step on ur boobs lovingly and your family and friends and bf smother you with love and affection and kindness and though I can’t be there to physically help them out with that I can still post this ridiculous thing where we first wrote porn for each other and whatnot and send you all dem good birthday vibes your way over the internet because it’s pretty gr8 and allows me to talk to one of my bestest friends on the regular god could you imagine if we had to send each other letters by pigeons fuck man

happy birthday charlotteR, I love you <3

and to conclude here are some fab pictures from our years of friendship

Gabby’s Laptop Mitch, “Bloggers In Their Natural Habitat”, 2012, Webcam

Our amazing bunker before the Renovations™

that time we went outside (lol get wrecked @those I badly cut out of the picture)

when u and ciara came to shithampton for one of my greatest birthdays ever and we set up camp in the flat kitchen, A+++

just.... this

aforementioned reading in the same room together sending each other various links and never wearing anything other than pjs

or that one time a few years previously on a different bedroom floor in a different country when I sent you a super angsty thing to read and I broke you oops xoxo (stutter stiles)

the greatest thing that ever happened to me tbh

THESE ARE OUR FIRST INTERACTIONS OH GOD SO EMBARRASSING AND GLORIOUS I LOVE IT

and another instalment

stunning

that time you made a secret fucking birch (THE WORST OF THE TREES) room in our world which I found like a year later

and thus concludes this long ass birthday post of friendship and love and here’s to many more years of that!!! <3

#sophisticatedyetslutty #or alternatively #youmovedmekurt #for a nice callback to go with this callback #sophisticatedyet #charlotte

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