I don't know if there are any Night Vale fans here, but I could only find a few mentions in comments when I searched. Boyfriend has been getting me into it lately, and now I'm hooked. It's delicious, funny, dark, and absurd, sort of like a less cartoonish version of League of Gentlemen.

I'm delighted that stuff like this can find an audience, though I don't expect that it could have flourished in the pre-Internet days. It's especially gratifying that the Internet has latched on to the presenter Cecil's adoration of Carlos, a scientist who is there to study Night Vale's oddities. "His hair is perfect, and we all hate and despair and love that perfect hair in equal measure." Those understated plot threads are what make the town feel more real rather than just a series of offbeat gags.

If you're not sure whether you want to try listening to it, here's a quote from their Twitter that represents the kind of bizarre horror/humor they do:

    Roses are red. Violets are sentient. Orchids have giant hearts. Lilies feel pain. This has been a comprehensive list of flowers.


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Someone pitched it to me as "like Garrison Keillor moved to Innsmouth". It's hilarious, but gets repetitive after a while. I stopped following around the one about the yellow helicopters. Definitely worth checking out, but maybe not something that should continue indefinitely.


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