The Thrilling Adventure Hour is a popular Hollywood staged show and has been running since March 2005. Beginning in January 2011, the Thrilling Adventure Hour began podcasting sketches from past performances. Each stand-alone tale celebrates and reinvigorates a new genre from the radio comedies of yesteryear, including science fiction, fantasy, westerns, superheroes, horror, war dramas, and many more. The various tales told are in the same format as traditional old-time radio serials as they are performed in front of a live studio audience and have an original intro song. Each episode is essentially a parody of various works of pop culture as they constantly delve into the cliches of all these sub genres for comedic effect. Examples of this are the characters of Sparks Nevada and Croach the tracker from one of the most popular segment Sparks Nevada: Marshall on Mars. Sparks Nevada is like a childish Indians Jones mixed with every western protagonist in 50’s as his exceptionally quick draw and even quicker mouth gets him into more trouble than out of trouble. Croach the tracker on the other hand is a combination of Tanto and Spock as he has a great sense of honor and tradition but is also a Martian and his lack of understanding of human customs and logical thinking causes confusion between him and Sparks Nevada. Most segments have a three act structure as the norm is introduced with banter between characters, then a conflict emerges to the dismay of the main characters which disrupts the norm so they have find some way to overcome the obstacle. This is usually solved with an exchange of quick witted responses and any other means depending on the show, between the protagonists and antagonists. In some cases there are ‘Specials’ that occur on the anniversary of the show where in that episode the podcast’s fan favorite characters will crossover with each other. There are also various spin offs of the podcast’s flagship shows that also converge as they make several references to past events that end up effect the entire Thrilling universe. This is similar to the example given in class which was the Marvel cinematic universe where the actions taken in one property affects the rest. The casual manner in which the characters react when they face each other is unique in the sense that they just accept that they are now in the same timeline. These are very interesting episodes as in a one particular ‘special’ they had fans of the show as characters. These particular fans where dwellers from the fifth dimension so that was the explanation of how they viewed the character’s reality as fiction. The characters refused to acknowledge their fictional world as the fans addressed the character as if they were actors by being star struck and repeating catchphrases despite the fact that in reality they actually fictional. This fictional reality upon fictional reality made for a fascinating listening experience as it was conflict between realities as both sides argue that their reality is the ‘real’ reality despite the fact that both are fictional.