Desert Bus for Hope 5

Desert Bus for Hope 5 (AKA Desert Bus 5, DB5, De5ert Bus) will begin November 18, 2011 at 6:00PM PST.

Events

• An auction for a hand-crafted Doctor Who-esque scarf resulted in a bidding war between users dave_random and DuctTape. DuctTape eventually won with a bid of $3339, after Space Bidding (bidding over one's own bid) twice, and achieving the highest auction bid of all Desert Bus.

• Dostrow won the Ken "Value Added" Steacy live auction of a custom sketch with a high bid of $5,700.

• IRC chat mod Ian 'Dix' Dixon, during his call in, challenged Kroze and Ashton to read/act out a slashfic written by chat users Fayili and Cho_J. Originally the DB Survivors Group Challenge donation was to be for $400 but thanks to the Group Challenge tag being left open during the following few hours, over $17,000 was raised for the challenge. To date this stands as a Desert Bus record for 'Most Expensive Challenge issued'. (the figure of $17,000 is nearly 75% of the total raised during the ENTIRE first year)

Parody Songs

• If I had a Million Dollars by Barenaked Ladies [Google Doc DBFH5 Performance]
• I Mod Alone
• Defying Sanity
• Safety Dance
• My Little Krozy
• Bad Bromance [Google Doc]

Skits

• THE OPENING

• Council of Desert Bus
• Ashton and Kroze Slashfic by Fayili and Cho_J [YouTube Video of the performance]
• Kroze denounces Ponies
• Big Giant Circle's LRR Theme Remix Dance Party
• Wrath of Creepy Doll

The Kroze Ponies Trilogy

• Kroze Denounces My Little Ponies
• Kroze's Letter to Princess Celestia
• DB4 Total beaten and PONY GLUE!

• TeamPaulSexual round 2
• QWOP breaks Graham
• Kathleen dances FOREVER!
• 10 challenges in 5 minutes
• The Final Busdown 5
• The Slapsgiving conclusion you missed if you left right away after the Final Busdown...

Quotables

Chat user bloodraven setup parsing of his logs for some unofficial Stats from the Chat.

Notable Memes

These are new or exceptionally notable memes that arose or were perpetuated during the marathon.

• Chess - Chess is used as a reference to Sex. This makes for many amusing double entendres.
• Desert Bus for Hope Drinking Game
• "Well Dong" instead of "Well Done", named after a confusing font on the Titus the Fox game Graham was challenged to play simultaneously with Desert Bus.
• "Myth Busted" In regards to an auction of Myth Busters SWAG, Graham challenged the chat to bust the myth that the auction couldn't go over $1,000. Henceforth the chat decreed that all auctions hitting $1000 must be greeted with hearty cheers of "Myth Busted!"
• QWOP - The chat discovered how to break Graham the way WHARRGARBL broke Kathleen in DBFH4; a game called QWOP.
• Star Trek Erotic Fanfiction - One of the first call-in guests was asked for their opinion on Star Trek Erotic Fanfiction, this lead to the same question being asked during every call-in thereafter.
• I'm Notchicus- Thanks to many attempts being made by a 'fake' Notch trying to log into the IRC, Dix started saying I'm Notchicus which has been repeated many many times over various occasions.