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...To the parents of Chad the intern, we regret to inform you that your son was lost in the line of community radio duty, and that he will be missed, and never forgotten.
— Cecil

Night Vale Community Radio has several interns in and out of its service. Most of them die gruesome deaths; as of the episode "Old Oak Doors Part A", sixteen interns (and one intern's doppelgänger) have been lost. Of those sixteen individuals, six are confirmed dead, three are missing, presumed dead, two are no longer human, three were lost in space and / or time (although two them later returned alive and unharmed), and two more are presumed KIA, or, at the very least, MIA, as they were mentioned in a list of dead and missing interns.

Cecil seems unfazed by this mortality rate. When former intern Maureen brings it up, he says, "I'm not terribly sure what you mean.[1] Lauren Mallard, however, is appalled by the inefficiency of the internship program.[1]

Deaths by Episode[]

Live Shows[]

  • "The Man in the Tan Jacket": Intern Rob (cousin of intern Leland) was introduced in the special padded performance of "The Man in the Tan Jacket", performed at the LA Podcast Festival. He died mid-conversation with Cecil, covered in blood and spiders, after picking at his heart murmur while in the studio.
  • "The Librarian": Intern Andrew (played by Andrew WK) who is played by different actors throughout the many performances and therefore has several names, dies in the library whilst trying to fight off a librarian with a fencing sword. He was sent there by Cecil and is constantly urged to "be closer to the story", which is what eventually lands him in the librarian's path. We hear his final words "for Night Vale!" followed by a scalternate
  • "The Investigators": Intern Joseph Fink (played by Joseph himself) dies while in the studio. He gets a vision of his death prior to becoming an intern at NVCR, and tells Cecil that he was shown the exact moment of his death. The intern says that he doesn't bleed to death, despite being stabbed by a table of knives, and instead killed by a shark. Cecil claims he does not know how the shark got in or out of the studio. Cecil says that the intern died doing what he loved; living in perpetual fear of death.
  • "Ghost Stories": Intern Jeffrey Cranor (played by Jeffrey Cranor himself) tells Cecil about his predecessor, intern Felix, who died after opening a fridge which had an active jet engine from an Airbus A320 inside. He adds that Felix is now a ghost and it is possible to talk to him through a hole in one of the walls.
  • "All Hail": Intern Jeffrey Cranor (played by Jeffrey Cranor himself) travels back in time and erases himself from existence in order not to die as an intern.

Aversions[]

  • "Poetry Week": Intern Dana enters the dog park, but survives.
  • "The Retirement of Pamela Winchell": Intern Maureen is swept away by a gust of wind, but returns in "A Carnival Comes to Town".
  • "Hatchets": Intern Maureen voluntarily retires after getting tired of constantly facing threats of death, becoming one of a handful of people to survive the internship program.
  • "The Hierarchy of Angels": Intern Kareem, after surviving multiple brushes with death in his 16 months with the program, decides to switch majors from communications to Earth science.

Alternate timelines[]

Adam Dunnells[]

Commonplace Books' Night Vale intern Adam Dunnells has some misfortune according to the outro section of the episodes.

  • "Street Cleaning Day": Died in an unfortunate accident that they arranged for him.
  • "The Phone Call": Carried away by a swarm of aggressive ants and is presumed eaten.
  • "Valentine": Transplanted his living brain into a computer to escape death, but was accidentally deleted.
  • "The Traveler": No longer ever existed due to an accident during research for The Traveler's time travel plot.
  • "The Sandstorm (Part A)": Killed by his double. (A person who looks just like him replaced Adam, but whose name is now pronounced correctly.)
  • "The Sandstorm (Part B)": Super great, just the best, Desert Bluffs intern Adam Dunnells was killed in an unfortunate accident.
  • "Poetry Week": Night Vale intern Adam Dunnells is believed to be real and alive, despite all evidence to the contrary.
  • "A Memory of Europe": Died and miraculously remains dead in his tomb three days later. (They checked.)

References[]

  1. 1.0 1.1 Episode 49A "Old Oak Doors Part A"
  2. Spelling confirmed in The Great Glowing Coils of the Universe
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