The Totally Rad Show

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Three rad dudes, with nothing better to do,
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get abducted by the crew of the starship Alpha-2.
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They're from the planet Q which, due to a space time loop,
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is stuck in '82 and must be rescued.
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They need our heroes to discuss the latest news
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and give their reviews of games and movies too.
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Sure hope you're not confused. We swear this is all true.
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Not just the premise to The Totally Rad Show.
The Totally Rad Show Theme Original Version

The Totally Rad Show is a Web Original program on the Revision3 network. It features three guys, Alex Albrecht, Jeff Cannata, and Dan Trachtenberg, as they review various geek-related media. This includes Film, Video Games, Television, and occasionally Comic Books.


Tropes used in The Totally Rad Show include:
  • Expository Theme Tune: Parodied them with its always absurd (and, for a time, constantly changing) theme song. It did, however, manage to tell you the basic premise of "Three Guys Cover Pop Culture Stuff" in between the puns, wackiness, and Shout Outs.
  • Gratuitous Spanish: Danny T: ¡Mañana!
  • Live Episode: The excursions to San Diego Comic Con and SXSW
  • Five of Us: Jeff, Alex, Dan, Mike and formerly Steve all wear their geek hearts on the sleeve. One of the show's mantras is: "Nerd is the new cool".
  • Podcast
  • Proud to Be a Geek
  • Retool: On September 20th, 2010 the show went from a long form weekly show with new episodes on Tuesdays to a daily show with shorter episodes covering topics from Monday through Friday.
  • Shout-Out: So so many
  • Something Completely Different: The End of the Year (Raddies) shows count for this but an even better example would be Episode 153 where the TRS guys do the whole show as a public access program from 1986.
    • And now we have Episode 180, which is set entirely in 1959.
  • Spiritual Successor: To Dan's earlier podcast on Revision3 Geekdrome.
  • Totally Radical