A Birthday, Not a Break: Happens to Eiffel several times.

Absentee Actor: "Cigarette Candy" only has one of the three main cast members.

Absurd Phobia: Ducks for Jacobi.

A Dick in Name: Major Richard Littlewood.

Adult Fear: In "Limbo", Eiffel reveals that he drunkenly caused a car crash that deafened his daughter and seriously injured two high schoolers. For Minkowski, the realization that her crew (and especially Eiffel) look to her for instructions when she often doesn't know what to do, and might not be able to get everyone home alive.

Similarly, Lovelace was unable to save her crew, and is traumatized as a result.

Hera's fear of people "putting their fingers in [her] head" initially seems pretty AI specific, but definitely corresponds to some very human adult fears: losing or forgetting herself (as to a brain injury or senility), losing control of herself/being violated, being erased/"killed", etc.

A Form You Are Comfortable With: The Dear Listeners imitate Eiffel's voice in order to communicate with the crew. Later, we see that they can replicate crew members, even copying their memories and emotions. It's uncertain whether this is because they are Eldritch Abominations or because it's actually the easiest way for them to make contact.

Agonizing Stomach Wound: In the last episode "Brave New World", during the final confrontation Lieutenant Rene Minkowski gets shot through the stomach, with Marcus Cutter mockingly pointing out how agonising that is. The wound eventually causes them to lose consciousness due to blood loss, right as everyone else is disabled and the station is falling into the star. Thankfully Jacobi rescues them all.

The Ahab: Minkowski to the mutant plant monster in "Minkowski Commanding." Lampshaded by Eiffel.

A.I. Is a Crapshoot: Played with. Hera is, by and by, probably the most pleasant person on the station, and she seems generally happy to do her job and keep the station working. However, she is also prone to miscalculations or systems errors, as well as (possibly) deliberate misunderstandings of orders or requests. All of which often leads to situations that are extremely uncomfortable and/or dangerous to the human members of the crew. Her section of "Am I Alone Now?" also revealed her private impatiences and frustrations with the crew, as well as her idle fantasies about what life would be like if she didn't have to deal with them. Hera: Maybe one day, (...) I'll come up with some names for these colors. Yes, I like that idea. I think I'll do that. Someday after you're all gone away... And in "Need to Know", it's revealed that at one point, Hera tried to circumvent the programming preventing her from killing the crew of the Hephaestus.

In "Limbo", they reveal that Hera tried to break out of the facility she was created in.

However, this also seems averted by "Limbo", which shows Hera having a panic attack. "Memoria" also shows that she has insecurities and feels isolated from the rest of the crew - she seems more human than homicidal when compared to the prior episodes cited above.



Hera's personhood is the very thing that makes her an embodiment of this trope. She isn't a power-hungry murderbot trying to overthrow mankind, she's a sentient being...which makes her resentful of taking orders. Even her attempts to override the first law are more motivated by a need for autonomy than by cruelty.

Hera's personhood is the very thing that makes her an embodiment of this trope. She isn't a power-hungry murderbot trying to overthrow mankind, she's a sentient being...which makes her resentful of taking orders. Even her attempts to are more motivated by a need for autonomy than by cruelty. By "Desperate Measures" she can completely override her programming, even ignoring direct orders, at least for a short period of time.

The Alcoholic: We learn in season three that Harsher in Hindsight. Eiffel is recovering, which makes a lot of the jokes he's made in past seasons

Alien Arts Are Appreciated: The transmissions of classical music are eventually found to be the Dear Listeners trying to find us, as our invention of music is our greatest technological achievement .

Aliens Never Invented the Wheel: The Dear Listeners have the ability to bend time, space, and matter, but they never learned to make music.

Aliens Speaking English: Or at least, producing English by mixing Eiffel's audio transmissions. Although they have yet to figure out what is meant by 'crazy wamajama.'

Also sprach Zarathustra: As if Eiffel's over the top speech in "Cataracts and Hurricanos" weren't enough, this is playing in the background.

Alternate History: Implied - casual AI, and infrastructure in deep space exist in the world of Wolf 359, the main plot of which is set in 2014-16. In-world history is expanded in "Volte Face," where certain advancements (such as breaking the sound barrier and first manned orbit) are stated as occurring 15-30 years ahead of actual history.

Always a Bigger Fish: No matter how far up someone is in the chain of command at Goddard Futuristics, (example being Hilbert) there's usually someone bigger and scarier. Example being Kepler and Jacobi. Even for Kepler.

An Asskicking Christmas: The Season One finale was neither peaceful, nor jolly.

And Your Little Dog, Too!: Kepler threatens to shoot Eiffel in the head. Minkowski responds by shutting down the station's engines and preparing to let it fall into the star.

Annoying Patient: Eiffel in "Cigarette Candy."

Applied Phlebotinum: Hilbert name-drops this trope with mocking frustration in "Knock Knock."

Armor-Piercing Slap: When Maxwell confronts Jacobi about the way he lost his cool during "Time to Kill," it involves a few of these.

Artistic Licence  Astronomy: The series has been all over the place in terms of accuracy, though it has made the effort to be mostly correct. For instance, listeners who are familiar with the physics of light will have picked up immediately that the music transmissions Eiffel listens to throughout the early installments weren't from Earth . Things like the true nature of Wolf 359 are inaccurate, but it's commented on in-universe. However, the series takes a lot of licenses in thermodynamics, orbital mechanics, and basic physics. Solar storms do not have event horizons, and stars can't instantly change color or increase their own mass . That ain't how it works.

Bald of Evil: Hilbert is established as this in "Lame-O Superhero Origin Story", though it's closer to Bald of Ambiguous Morals than evil. Prematurely Bald: He's been that way since he was 5, courtesy of radiation poisoning.

Batman Gambit: Eiffel's plan in "Gas Me Twice": It could have gone wrong in a hundred different ways. Eiffel comes up with another one to defeat SI5 in "Desperate Measures". It does not go so well.

Batman Grabs a Gun: Minkowski doesn't want to hurt anyone, and is generally in favor of Team What's Wrong With Handcuffs. Given bad enough circumstances, though, she might contemplate napalming the Urania crew, or shoot Maxwell in cold blood.

Battle in the Center of the Mind: "Memoria" has this, with Hera and Maxwell in Hera's memory, fighting her anxiety. "Brave New World" has one with Hera and Eiffel fighting Pryce in Eiffel 's mind.

Because I Said So: Cutter and Kepler both pull this card. Cutter: It is an issue because I am right here telling you it is an issue.

Befriending the Enemy: The crews of the Hephaestus and Urania spend a lot of time on friendly terms. That doesn't mean they're friends.

Berserk Button: The only thing that makes Doug Eiffel resort to physical violence? Threatening his daughter .

Better the Devil You Know: Both Hilbert and Lovelace are untrustworthy, but act along with the original crew when an outside threat is bad enough.

Beware the Nice Ones: Doctor Hilbert and Alana Maxwell

Big Bad Ensemble: SI5

"Blackmail" Is Such an Ugly Word: Eiffel uses a variation of this in the episode "Little Revolución", insisting "hostage is such an ugly word, commander" right before threatening to destroy the remaining toothpaste if Minkowski or Hilbert come any closer.

Blatant Lies: Nary an episode goes by without Eiffel invoking this in some way, shape, or form. The other characters see through him a good portion of the time. Perhaps most spectacularly displayed in Eiffel's portion of "All Things Considered" Kepler: How much of that completely asinine story contains even a modicum of truth?

Blood from the Mouth: How we know the Decima is getting out of control.

Blood Transfusion Plot: In "Do No Harm" Eiffel needs a blood transfusion due to Decima causing internal bleeding, unfortunately he's type B- and both Minkowski and Hilbert are A-, and their supply of synthetic blood has spoiled. Fortunately Lovelace volunteers her O- blood just before it's too late.

Bolivian Army Cliffhanger: Season 2 ends with Lovelace in critical condition, the station unstable, the aliens on the intercom, and Eiffel getting blasted into space in a nonfunctioning vessel.

Bottle Episode: Given that all episodes are set within the confines of the Hephaestus and feature the limited cast of four characters ( well, all early episodes anyway ), all episode fit this trope to a certain degree. Special mention must be made, however, of "The Sound and the Fury," which takes place entirely within the same room and in continuous time. "Mayday", though it definitely does not take place in continuous time, is even more claustrophobic.

"Time to Kill" takes this up to eleven.

Brain Upload: The backup plan Command gave Hilbert. If the mission fails, they will leave him to die, but first, he will be able to send everything he knows back to Earth, allowing his work to continue.

Bound and Gagged: Eiffel's preferred method of dealing with problems. (He likes it better than murder.)

Break The Gamebreaker: Hera is a near-omniscient supercomputer who, in addition to being computationally smart, is also unusually resourceful and adaptable. She also has what basically amounts to the AI version of anxiety, which leads her to occasionally malfunction, sometimes in near-disastrous ways, and various villains have attempted to control her or shut her down when she gets too obstructive.

Breather Episode: After a five episode arc at the end of season one/start of season 2 that involved many dramatic twists, a major character reveal, a character dying and coming back to life , a quick succession of life-and-death situations, and enough Paranoia Fuel to run a paranoia 747... "Bach to the Future" basically consists of three characters sitting around and talking, trying to find a way to pass the time on a boring night. And that's pretty much all that happens in that episode. The characters joke around, play some games, and grow a bit closer, but plot-wise there's almost nothing to speak off. Following a particularly relentless high-octane story arc, it comes across as a major gear shift. "Minkowski Commanding" is another one right up until the last minute, where it becomes a Wham Episode.

Brilliant, but Lazy: Eiffel is definitely smarter and more qualified than he looks.

Broken Bird: Implied of Captain Lovelace . When we hear her earlier logs she seems like a kind Reasonable Authority Figure. By the time of the podcast, after seeing her friends die and appearing in the same station she wanted to escape, she's... not.

Butt-Monkey: Eiffel is put through all manner of painful, humiliating, and/or demeaning plotlines. Whether it's getting exposed to sub-zero temperatures, being knocked out and stuffed in a broom closet, getting attacked by the station's Space Mutant Plant Monster, ending up adrift in space and with a dislocated shoulder and also temporarily blinded and drowning, being casually experimented on by another member of the crew, or ending up with a deadly, venomous spider inside his clothing, almost any story on the show will involve misfortune for the Communications Officer.

Buffy Speak: Eiffel's speech patterns often end up here, especially when it comes to describing the more technical or complicated parts of the Hephaestus. Minkowski: Connect two tethers together, then attach them to the restraint. That should be enough slack for me to reach him with my propulsion maneuvering unit. Eiffel: Is that your jetpack thingy? Minkowski: Yes, Eiffel, that's my jetpack thingy! Because of this the Dear Listeners talk this way as well.

Call a Human a "Meatbag": Hera will occasionally do this, usually in response to humans treating her differently because she's an AI. Hera: Careful, commander, your biology's showing. But we also see this Subverted in "Bach to the Future", when Hera reassures Eiffel that she doesn't actually see him that way. Hera: I don't think you're just an experimental meatbag.

Callback: Quite a few. Hera convinces a suspicious Eiffel to work with Maxwell in "Overture" by quoting the speech he gave her in "Gas Me Twice" Hera: So be here, and talk to us. "Memoria" contains quite a few, which makes sense, since it literally takes place within Hera's memories. We hear the "count to 10" scene from "Pan-Pan," as well as the pep talk Minkowski gave Hera at the end of "Let's Kill Hilbert." There is also an audio montage containing many other lines from the show.

The Empty Man gets a lot of callbacks. In "Mutually Assured Destruction" we hear a bit of Eiffel telling Lovelace about that fiasco, and Eiffel often wonders out loud whether any other aspects of their mission are similarly tasteless psychological experiments. In "Time to Kill": Eiffel: This is just like the Empty Man all over again! ...Oh goddamn it, none of you were here for the Empty Man! In "Desperate Measures," Eiffel cautions Lovelace about "poking the bear"—that is, pissing off an already pissed-off Kepler. Lovelace was similarly reminded not to poke the bear by Maxwell and Jacobi in the episode bearing that title.

Calvinball: Funzo, the craziest board game of 1973. Minkowski: Price and Carter 792: Of all the dangers that you will face in the void of space, nothing compares to the existential terror that is Funzo.

Can't Kill You, Still Need You: One of the reasons Eiffel and Minkowski opted not to kill Hilbert after his mutiny despite Cutter's orders was that Eiffel needed him to keep the Decima virus under control.

Censored for Comedy: Liberally employed when answering a third grader's question on going to the bathroom in space in mini-episode "Are Spacesuits Itchy?" Eiffel: And that's how you ████ in space!

Cessation of Existence: Presumably what would have happened to Hera if Maxwell had overwritten her with the dummy program.

Characterization Marches On: The original main characters of the show all began as fairly stock sitcom tropes. They have come a long way since then.

Chekhov's Gun: Emergency Protocol Override-34-Stroke-C. Eiffel's gas mask .

. Lovelace's bomb.

In the finale, Minkowski's harpoon.

Christmas Episode: "Deep Breaths" and "Gas Me Twice" are set on Christmas Day. The episodes were even released as a holiday two-parter, one on December 24th and one on December 25th. "A Matter of Perspective", despite being released during the summer, is also this, although it is notably low on holiday cheer.

"Boléro" was released on Christmas, although it does not take place on Christmas canonically. No holiday cheer was employed in the making of this episode.

Cliffhanger: The first season only contained one cliffhanger ending: in "Deep Breaths." The first half of Season 2 was also pretty sparing with these, with the exception of the Wham Line at the end of "Minkowski Commanding." But beginning with "Lame-O Superhero Origin Story" and continuing through Season 3, almost every episode ends this way.

Cloudcuckoolander: Eiffel insists on peppering his speech with as many crazy pop culture references, shout-outs, and mash-ups as he possibly can. Given that it's pretty stiff competition between Minkowski, Hera, and Hilbert to find the person with the lowest pop culture I.Q., about half the stuff he says probably just comes across as incoherent gibberish to the other characters on the show.

Comic Role Play: In "Super Energy Saver Mode," Eiffel tries impersonating Minkowski to try to figure out a way out of a dangerous situation. This being Eiffel, it's a matter of seconds before he's manning both sides of an argument between himself-as-Minkowski and himself-as-himself and any sense of urgency or danger has been promptly forgotten.

In the live show "Deep Space Survival Procedure & Protocol," Eiffel and Minkowski put on mocking impressions of each other to the point of it pretty much turning into a screaming fight of total insanity .

Conspiracy Theorist: Minkowski's section of "Am I Alone Now?" reveals that she's keenly aware of the various inconsistencies and paranormal phenomena that has been occurring on the Hephaestus, and that she is extremely suspicious of the other members of the crew . Lovelace was and is this, particularly where Hilbert's involved.

Computer Voice: Eiffel has a whole conversation with one of these in "Am I Alone Now." It turns out to just be Eiffel talking to himself with a gag voice box. In a not-so-funny example, the Hephaestus sounds like this after Hera's personality core is ripped out.

Cowardly Lion: Eiffel is hardly the paragon of bravery, but he's shown to be quick on his feet and has saved multiple lives by at least trying to keep a level head in the face of danger. Eiffel: Oh, I'm a man of many fears.

Credits Gag: Almost every episode's closing credits have some shout-out or reference to the events of the preceding installment.

Darker and Edgier: Season three gives us multiple character deaths, huge amounts of conspiracy, the revelation that everyone on Earth thinks Eiffel and Minkowski are dead, the fact that Eiffel is a felon, and an alien clone on board the station. Episode two was about toothpaste.

Dead All Along: Seems Captain Lovelace didn't survive her escape from the original Hephaestus after all... Kepler: You've never met Isabel Lovelace. She has been dead for a very, very long time.

Deadly Euphemism: In a flashback, Hera is told to think of being switched off and put into cold storage as being "decommissioned", not killed. As it entailed her consciousness being turned off with little hope of it being turned back on again, she failed to see the difference. In "Desperate Times" Hilbert refers to napalming Kepler, Jacobi, and Maxwell as "making our problems go away."

Dead Man's Switch: Lovelace is nothing if not prepared

Deadpan Snarker: Hera, usually in response to dumb questions (or general stupidity) from Eiffel. Season 2 has brought this out in Minkowski.

Dead Person Conversation: Boléro has three: one between Minkowski and the recently-deceased Lovelace, one between Hera and the recently-deceased Maxwell, and one between Eiffel and the recently-deceased Hilbert.

Dead Serious: To show that Kepler isn't playing games anymore, he shoots Captain Lovelace to try to get Minkowski and Hilbert to surrender.

Despair Event Horizon: After discovering he has to travel at least a lightyear in a broken ship, without water and without a working cryostasis pod, Eiffel reaches this. He starts to speak in a quiet, exhausted monotone, resigned to the fact that his previous efforts to stay alive had been All for Nothing and that he's going to die in deep space, alone, in a broken-down spacecraft, without the chance to say goodbye to the people he loves

Deus Exit Machina: Hera spends a lot of time shut down or partially incapacitated, presumably because when she is fully functioning she's a supercomputer with a brain the size of a Mack truck.

Digging Yourself Deeper: What inevitably ends up happening when Eiffel gets mixed up in the fight between Minkowski and Hera in "The Sound and the Fury." After a few minutes of attempted peacekeeping, he's admitted to thinking that one of them is obstinate and that the other one is untrustworthy. His attempts to fix it mostly result in him admitting that he's repeatedly lied to both of them.

Doppelgänger: Jacobi meets his in "Time to Kill."

Downer Ending: It's not like there are many episodes that end happily, at least in the latter part of the series, but "Desperate Measures" deserves special mention.

Drowning My Sorrows: Eiffel almost does this in Boléro, but stops himself before he goes too far.

Dying as Yourself: In Memoria Hera requests this of Maxwell, rather than have her memories altered in order to increase her functional ability.

Early Installment Weirdness: After the plot-heavy, angst-heavy later episodes, returning to the triviality of Season 1 can be really jarring. The show's writers noted it took a few episodes of wacky space hijinks before Wolf 359 settled into a darker track.

Enemy Mine: The crew required the help of Hilbert multiple times over the course of Season 2 to deal with various problems, including bringing Hera back online, fighting Eiffel's Decima outbreak , and trying to convince Isabel Lovelace to not blow up the station. By the end of Season 2, Lovelace has joined the team as well. By Season 3, Lovelace is no longer seen as an enemy (she's more of a really scary friend) but Hilbert still falls into this category. Hilbert and Lovelace have lot of bad blood between them, because Hilbert betrayed Lovelace and her crew during the last Hephaestus mission. But when no one else is willing to take drastic action against SI5, they team up to make napalm.

For most of the second half of Season 4 after Cutter and crew show up on the Hephaestus , Jacobi ends up teaming up with Minkowski and crew.

Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Hilbert was motivated to develop the Decima virus after his entire family died from nuclear fallout. Daniel Jacobi and Alana Maxwell have an adorable friendship and clearly care a lot about each others' well being.

have an adorable friendship and clearly care a lot about each others' well being. In "The Devil's Plaything", we learn that Jacobi once had a close relationship with Klein from the Hermes crew .

Evil Cannot Comprehend Good: Jury's out on whether Hilbert is evil, but he sure as hell can't comprehend how Eiffel managed to convince Minkowski not to napalm everyone simply by making her laugh.

Evil Counterpart: SI5 is a bit of this for the old Hephaestus crew. Kepler is the evil counterpart to Minkowski, and Jacobi is the evil counterpart to Eiffel. Maxwell would be the evil counterpart to Hilbert, except that they're both so morally ambiguous it's difficult to tell who is worse.

Evil Laugh: Kepler gives a terrifying one in Desperate Measures .

Expositing the Masquerade: Goddard has known about aliens since the '70s.

False Roulette: A double case of this in "Dirty Work," between Minkowski's empty gun and Jacobi's nonexistent bomb.

Family of Choice: On Team Hephaestus we have Minkowski, Eiffel, Hera, and Lovelace. Depending on who you ask, Hilbert may or may not be included in that group hug. On Team Urania we have Kepler, Jacobi, and Maxwell.

Faux Affably Evil: Mr. Cutter can destroy you so utterly the world will forget you ever existed... By the way, can he get you a chai?

Feud Episode: "The Sound and the Fury" is mostly Hera and Minkowski fighting. It's pretty petty.

Fire-Forged Friends: It seems incredibly unlikely in the first episode, but by the start of Season 2 Eiffel and Minkowski are very much this.

First Contact: The original crew thinks they've done this. In reality, first contact happened in the 70s.

First Law of Tragicomedies: Generally followed. As the seasons grow darker, much of the humor is left to filler episodes such as "All Things Considered" and "A Matter of Perspective." There aren't an awful lot of jokes in Boléro. That said, the goofy episodes usually have their darker moments (The pig joke in "A Matter of Perspective," the revelation of Eiffel's past in "Need to Know") and the dark episodes have their moments of lightness (Eiffel completely butchering military protocol in "Desperate Times", for example).

Five-Man Band: The Leader: Minkowski

The Lancer: Hera

The Smart Guy: Hilbert

The Big Guy: Lovelace

The Chick: Eiffel

Five-Second Foreshadowing: When Eiffel is fitted with a mental restraining bolt that makes him mindlessly obedient, as with the rest of the crew , Lovelace is not. This is due to her Alien Blood , which (apparently) makes her immune to the restraining bolt's effects. Listeners may remember that she gave it to Eiffel in a transfusion, Spanner in the Works. Again.

Foreshadowing: In Lovelace's backstory episode, Greensboro, she is asked whether she is an alien. She isn't... yet.

backstory episode, Greensboro, she is asked She isn't... yet. In her first appearance in "Mutually Assured Destruction" Eiffel suggests that Lovelace might be a robot or a clone. He's not wrong.

He's not wrong. In her her "Am I Alone Now" speech, Minkowski mentions that Wednesday once repeated itself. This is brought back in "Out of the Loop", when day 1093 starts repeating.

Freakout: Eiffel has these with some regularity.

Friendship Moment: Many between Eiffel and Minkowski and Eiffel and Hera as their relationships develop. This is not an exhaustive list: "The Kumbaya Approach": Eiffel poking fun to cheer Minkowski up in the face of post-mutiny darkness, and Minkowski actually laughing for possibly the first time in the series.

"Bach to the Future": Hera and Eiffel have a pretty serious heart-to-heart.

"Desperate Times": Minkowski and Eiffel have a much-needed talk.

"Brave New World": Minkowski and Eiffel take a moment before their final coup against Pryce and Cutter. As an extra touch of heartwarming, they even make the same pop-culture reference.

From Bad to Worse: This show in a nutshell.

Gender-Equal Ensemble: The crew on board the Hephaestus originally consists of two men (Eiffel and Hilbert) and two women (Hera and Minkowski.) After the new character introductions in seasons 2 and 3, the number of people on board has doubled in size, but the gender ratio is again equal, with two more men (Jacobi and Kepler) and two more women (Lovelace and Maxwell.) Meanwhile, at Command, the only characters with speaking parts are Cutter and Rachel, a man and a woman respectively.

Genre Roulette: Some episodes (especially the earlier ones) are essentially an office sitcom in space. The show contains a lot of horror elements in general, but certain episodes ("The Empty Man" and "Time to Kill," for instance), are especially rooted in that genre. We also have "The Paranoia Game"-one part whodunnit, one part screwball comedy; "Minkowski Commanding," which is like something out of a roadrunner cartoon; "All Things Considered," a Rashomon story; and "Memoria," an experimental psychological thriller.

Get A Hold Of Yourself Man: Minkowski smacks Eiffel during his Freakout in "Into The Depths". When he refuses to calm down, she smacks him again.

Get It Over With: After she and Eiffel have been caught mid-mutiny, Lovelace asks a monologuing Kepler if he could just get to torturing them already, since she'd prefer that over listening to him talk.

Getting Crap Past the Radar: Up until recently the podcast kept its language pretty PG, which led to a few moments like this: Eiffel: Here's a pro tip: If a doctor ever uses the phrases "optic nerve" and "will only hurt for a second" in the same sentence, you tell him to go f- [COMMS BUZZER] -requencies! Amplitude! Watts! Buttons! I'm working!

Giant Spider: The audio format means we don't know exactly how large the titular "Extreme Danger Bug" is, though it is noted to be "huge" and pack a stinger "at least as big as [Eiffel's] thumb."

Gilligan Cut: Two from Episode 50: Eiffel: I... I guess we could check with Kepler? See if he had any good ideas. Lovelace: Oh for God's sake, no. We're desperate but not that desperate. We're not asking Kepler for ideas. *swipe cut* Lovelace: So. Any ideas, Kepler? And Lovelace: C'mon, Minkowski. What could go wrong? Minkowski: Well. That went horrifically wrong. From Episode 58, "Quiet, Please": Eiffel: I'd hate to be one of the morons who got that job. Eiffel: Why am I one of the morons who got this job?

Greater-Scope Villain: Mr. Cutter definitely qualifies. Pryce and the Dear Listeners may also. All three receive relatively little airtime, but are much greater threats than anyone currently on the Hephaestus.

"Groundhog Day" Loop: Lovelace gets stuck in one in "Out of the Loop." Previously, Minkowski referenced a Wednesday repeating in her "Am I Alone" monologue.

Guilt by Association Gag: Annoyed by Minkowski, Jacobi, Lovelace, and Maxwell's cascade of complaints, Kepler makes them all spend hours doing tedious filing. Except a confused Lovelace notes she never complained about anything, she just happened to walk in at the same time with a ranting Jacobi.

Guttural Growler: Hilbert's voice plunges lower and lower over the course of the series. By Season 3, it is here. Partly caused by the need to make him easily distinguishable from Eiffel, who has the same voice actor.