Cleveland Show Calls



The Cleveland Show Calls are a Failtroll Tactic that started on Episode 418. The calls are usually in a chain call playing the theme song to Fox's The Cleveland Show. The calls would irritate not only Ghost, but many listeners and trolls, which would raise tensions in the TCR Cold War. One of these callers would attempt to frame Elfoxoloco, and many others such as InsaneEnergy, MaskedPony. More recently, SharpSplicer and Teutonic Plague have also been accused of doing such calls.

Behavior and Motifs
Cleveland Caller is widely believed to be an anti-troll whose main objective is to aggravate other trolls, rather than Ghost. On the show, he typically manages to call in about 5-20 times per episode. His calls are typically just playing the theme song over and over again. The calls have varying degrees of audio quality ranging from clear to Sub-Obamaphone, implying that the calls are taking a toll on his internet connection. While mostly considered an annoying asshole wasting time by Ghost and listeners, on rare occasions, he has managed to pretty decently troll Ghost by putting some variety to his calls, showing that he could be a fully capable troll on the show if he wanted to.

He has appeared on YouTube comment sections, where he typically gives vague hints about his identity. Given how he has tried to frame other community members for his actions in the past, all of these hints are likely red herrings meant to distract people who are trying to dox him and to put the blame for his calls onto wrong community members.

Typical Discord raids done by Cleveland Caller involve him coming into the server and spamming Rule 34 images of The Cleveland Show before he gets banned. He typically also claims responsibility for several doxes, but given how he never presents evidence for this, he probably isn't behind them and just takes responsibility for them to fuck with the trolls. He doesn't tend to answer questions trolls try to ask him, with the exception of questions regarding his identity, which are typically vague and misleading hints, just like in the YouTube comments.

Possible Callers
During Episode 433, a caller made a Pizzagate joke that caused Ghost to rage quit out of pure anger along with his number being revealed. This would make a riff from every chatroom calling him back and with some threatening to dox him. On Tubguy's Tinychat room, an individual would even reveal that he was playing the Cleveland calls and thought the Pizzagate joke was funny. 8Equal and the caller had a confrontation which ended with the caller saying he will call in more, further showing the caller his true colors and that he is a rogue troll.

On Episode 434, he would be called again by Ghost, this time he would be asked why his address was on a sexual predator list, with the caller evading the question and not responding. His dox was then made public revealing, that he lived in Palmdale, CA. Despite this doxing, Cleveland calls didn't stop and they still plagued Radio Graffiti.

Another popular theory was that one of the Cleveland Callers (someone posing as Cleveland on /pol/ claimed that there were three Inner Circle members behind it) was an Inner Circle anti-troll named InsaneEnergy, who became relevant after fighting with several members of Tison Rockit's chatroom (Disco Waffle in particular). Despite this, no concrete evidence ever proved he was behind them, and following Disco Waffle's departure from the community in January 2018, he revealed that he intentionally accused InsaneEnergy to instigate a personal army against him.

For a short while, The Cleveland Show calls had been replaced with the American Dad intro with the reactions being pretty much the same except for giving Ghost a reason to mock the Adult Swim channel. These calls stopped well before Ghost went on his break, however. Some callers have also called in with other songs from The Cleveland Show besides the theme song.

On the pilot of Ghost's 2 hour Saturday Radio Graffiti show, Ghost would grow to like and sing along to the calls on Radio Graffiti, leading to many people to believe that it's a planned call by the Inner Circle. Which would lead to many anti-calls of it which included a Nickelback remix of the show's theme. This would cause Ghost to break out in rage.

On Episode 560, after an Anonymous caller played the show's theme, Ghost started singing the theme. He called out the Teutonic Plague, who he believes is the Cleveland Show Caller. This led to a Mid-Show splice of him singing the song, causing cans.wav. Ghost would re-assert his belief that Teutonic is the Cleveland Caller repeatedly on Episode 561.

As of Episode 563, Ghost no longer takes Radio Graffiti calls. As a result, the Cleveland Show trolls have seemingly come to an end. During Radio Graffiti's short-lived revival on Episode 577 and Episode 578, the Cleveland Show calls were not heard at all, to Ghost's, and many trolls pleasure. Similarly, when Ghost brought the segment back for the 600th Episode, the Cleveland Show calls once more did not return.

Other Seth MacFarlane related calls in the show
TCR has a long history of having characters from Seth MacFarlane's shows calling in, though unlike the Cleveland caller, most of them haven't been considered failtrolls. Long before the Cleveland calls in the late True Conservative Radio and early True Capitalist Radio days, Ghost regularly received calls from Herbert the Pervert, another Seth MacFarlane-inspired troll. A few callers have played audio from Family Guy in both the pre-return and post-return eras, with one notable call being audio Donald Trump talking with Peter Griffin, which caused cans. In one episode after Herbert called Ghost, Ghost mentioned that he doesn't like Seth MacFarlane, viewing him as a “fruity bastard”. Despite his opinion on MacFarlane, Ghost has sometimes referenced Family Guy, most notably “Yoouuu gooott theeee AAIIIIDDDSSS!”