Fun fact: this came out BEFORE Doki Doki Literature Club! Only a few weeks after FNAF, but considering the production cycle this was made much earlier than anything related to FNAF.
@@synderthmc it’s honestly so serial because it’s like games like that feel as if they always existed but then you realize you’re older then them like wtf
@@TheGoldNinja101i think it’s the absurd, sudden level of coldness that makes the joke. gravity falls really likes the “disturbing out of nowhere” jokes
@@lakeswirl6985 I don't want to be this guy that ruins jokes, but If you're struggling to find a person for yourself, eventually, this joke would sound more hurtful than funny, then you may understand how Soos feels.
Fun fact: In the Journal 3 book, it is revealed that Giffany survived by jumping into the Fight Fighters game and is dating Rumble McSkirmish, although their relationship consists of them fighting each other.
Giffany meeting Rumble McSkirmish was the original end credit scene, but someone came up with Stan and Goldie going to Vegas, and Alex thought it was too funny not to include.
In the director’s commentary, it’s revealed that at one point Stan went to Vegas, won big, and fell in love with and married a snaggletoothed woman named “Marilyn”, before she, on the same day, stole his money and car, and left him. Now, a snaggletoothed conwoman who goes by the alias “Marilyn”? It was Eda. Eda canonically married Stan to con him out of money.
This is definitely one of my top 10 favorite episodes. It basically predicted both _Five Nights at Freddy's,_ and _Doki Doki Literature Club._ Giffany is such a great, unhinged villain with a great design. (pixelly outlines and electrical cables for a bow.) I also like Melody and how perfect a match she is for Soos.
FNAF, Hooty's Country Jamboree (from this show), Bloaty's Pizza Hog (from _Invader ZIM_ [Bloaty is an obese man in a pig mascot costume]), and every other "Suck-E Cheese" parody restaurant is based on the real-life dual arcade pizzeria chains Chuck E. Cheese Pizza Time Theater (ft. The Pizza Time Players) and its longtime rival-turned-buyer Showbiz Pizza Place (ft. The Rock-afire Explosion). Sadly, when corporate higher-ups wanted creator (and leading performer) Aaron Fetcher to sign away ownership of The Rock-afire Explosion for practically nothing w/o being compensated, Aaron stubbornly put his foot down & said no. As a result, Concept Unification happened & every 3 stage w/ the RAE had the band cosmetically changed to The Pizza Time Players under their new moniker of Munch's Make Believe Band (that is, the face masks, body fur/faux feathers, clothes, and - for Beach Bear & Dook La Rue - swapped eyes, Rolfe De Wolf losing heckling puppet Earl Schmerle & gaining a 2nd hand, Dook La Rue as well as his drum kit being moved from center stage to stage left once Billy Bob Brockali was taken off stage left [his mech was sadly relegated to being sold for spare parts, left to rot in a landfill somewhere, hopefully given back to Aaron Fetcher, or reclaimed by die-hard RAE super fans] were changed from bad comedian Rolfe De Wolf to the titular emcee Chuck E. Cheese, Rolfe & Earl's rainbow curtain was replaced by a generic black starry curtain, Antioch the Birthday Spider became The Wink, Mr. Sun became Mr. Building & secretly had his connecting value hidden behind the prop television set placed next to Chuck E., Mr. Moon was the only one retained & never altered but was only used sparingly for nighttime scenery whenever Mr. Building was lit up, Dook La Rue became Pasqually on stage left, Fatz Geronimo became Mr. Munch, Choo Choo the bear cub for a limited time became either Mr. Munch Jr. or the sparsely recurring Ricky Raccoon before being discarded altogether, Mitzi Mozzarella became Helen Henny, Beach Bear became Jasper T. Jowls, Jasper had Beach Bear's previous guitar switched to his banjo & was occasionally moved to Dook La Rue's former position on center stage at some locations, the Smitty's Service Station or forest backdrop used for Billy Bob & Looney Bird on stage left was replaced with a phony brick wall background with some graffiti backsplash on it, and Looney Bird very briefly became Pizza Cam with his gasahol barrel replaced with a generic camera tripod box that doubled as the main control mechanism at some locations), yet eventually, even that was phased out, because Chuck E. Cheese nowadays is basically gutting the animatronic band entirely in favor of a CGI dance floor, with the only remnants of the characters being color-coded wall displays & the walk around mascots.
I find Soos’ pick up lines of “Your face is good …I’m a Soos!” And “I’m not afraid of your eyes at all! I’m going to look at them! EYE CONTACT!!” Hilariously absurd and would try them myself…”
The codes are "STAN IS NOT WHAT HE SEEMS", "SPACEJAMTWO", "ANTHYDING CAN HAPPEN", "WINNING HEARTS BY DAYLIGHT", "POSSESSING ROBOTS BY MOONLIGHT', "HER EMOTIONAL BAGGAGE IS A REAL FRIGHT', and "SHE HAS ONE NAME GIFFANY" 😊
Everyone gets that the last four lines are set to the old DiC dub Sailor Moon theme, right? I never know these days. Hard to tell what is and isn't in the popular zeitgeist anymore. th-cam.com/video/oCRsCXN7WvQ/w-d-xo.html
Fun fact: the equation in Giffany's classroom blackboard is actually correct. It's a quantum operator called Hamiltonian and it's used to determinate the energy of a system based in its particules velocity and potencial. Essencially, GF background artists are big nerds.
You're getting closer to episode 7 where Wendy turns out to be a robot that was controlled by the author who gets kidnapped by Toby determined who is then revealed to be Bill cipher in disguise
Depends on which version Disney airs, there’s another version where it turns out Wendy is actually one of the sentient wax figures, and Robbie is five gnomes in a hoodie…
• There's a burnt tree outside Soos' house, keep that in mind • The secrets agents were seen in the background, did you see them? .w. • The episode title is likely a reference to the film Lars and the Real Girl, in which the character Lars also finds a substitute for an actual girlfriend (although in that case it was a s*x doll) • The code at the credits is "ANTHYDING CAN HADPLEN"
And now, we've met the best girlfriend Stan ever had. Old Goldie! You're not prepared for the side story where Eda shows up and they have this huge crazy battle with the Moon exploding and then everything is resolved when Soos shows up and gets everyone pizza because he's a very friendly young man and everyone loves Soos. Seriously, though, Soos is great, it's nice to see him get a bit of focus. Codes: ANTHYDING CAN HADPLEN (key: BEARO) WINNING HEARTS BY DAYLIGHT POSSESSING ROBOTS BY MOONLIGHT HER EMOTIONAL BAGGAGE IS A REAL FRIGHT SHE HAS THE ONE NAME GIFFANY
You gotta keep in mind the time period when Chuck E. Cheese opened. Animatronic characters were a novelty not seen in places outside of theme parks. These days, however, they're not quite the draw they once were. CEC tried to supplement that with arcade games, but have generally been struggling in the 21st Century. And as for frightening--some people are scared of clowns, too, so y'know, mileage always varies. There are a couple of good summaries about CEC's history here on TH-cam if you wanna really figure out the why. I recommend either the Company Man channel or Secret Galaxy.
Some spoiler-free things: 1. This episode came out only a little after the first FNAF game, but this episode was still being written before the game came out, so neither were the inspiration. 2. This episode managed to make fun of FNAF and Doki Doki literature club in the same episode. 3. The journal reveals Giffany survived and is now in fight fighters with rumble mcskirmish.
Melody is going back to Portland, which is still in the same state as Gravity Falls, namely Oregon. Given the way that Americans treat distance like it's nothing, that's practically no worse than one's girlfriend moving to the other side of town, in European terms. The code in the credits is, *"Anthyding can hadplen"* (sic), referring back to the terribly translated opening text of _Romance Academy 7._ The code on the post-credits journal page is: *Winning Hearts by Daylight,* *Possessing Robots by Moonlight,* *Her Emotional Baggage Is a Real Fright,* *She Has the One Name, Giffany.* which is a reference to the English translation of the _Sailor Moon_ theme song. ("Fighting evil by moonlight…" etc.)
Interesting fact here, Stan was married to a few hours to a woman named Marilyn, until she robbed him and stole his things. And now it is highly likely that Stan's ex was Eda, considering she uses the name Marilyn when in the human realm
I imagine the real appeal of those restaurants is the arcade. The robots are more a fun detail the the main draw. Also pizza. Heck nowadays there a Dave and Busters which is a pretty big arcade restaurant that became big recently.
Gravity Falls is in the middle of Oregon, and Portland is on the coast. It's about as far as driving from Edinburgh to Birmingham in the UK. I like how they handle Soos' dating difficulties; I feel like part of it was aiming within his league, but mostly it was not trying so hard, but still being out there to meet someone. It's a bit too easy to live online now, and avoid going to places where you can just meet people.
Gravity Falls appears to be in Central Oregon. Portland Oregon is probably about 190 Kilometers away. It would not be difficult for Soos or Melody to visit each other. Depending on traffic it is a 2.5 - 3 hour car drive.
Chucky Cheese is basically a casino for children. You get to win tickets and ignore lousy lounge singers. There's crappy food that meets the standard for junk food. All you have to do as an adult is make sure the kids aren't mugging each other, and you're good. You barely have to babysit, and still get credit for being the cool parental figure.
An enormous million dollar smile spread across my face when you said “If you understood that reference you’re a legend.” I became a huge bleach fan when I was a teenager back when it first aired. You so rock! ✌️😁👍
Melody is actually the main villain from the second dimension. She has been giving Bill Cipher orders to destroy the third dimension for reasons still unknown to people who have seen the whole show.
Flying probably isn't how they'd go see each other Gravity Falls is in Oregon and almost everyone in Oregon uses the Portland airport where Melody lives.
I might age myself with this comment, but I had a couple of birthday parties at Showbiz pizza back in the day and loved those animatronics! Looking back as an adult, they are creepy af. But if you look at pictures from very early Disney Land, those costumes were way creepier and children loved them as well. In fact, a lot of those older costumes were very creepy looking...
8:31 Nah, hitting on service employees sucks. You're the customer, they've got to be nice to you as part of their job, etc. Whole power imbalance there makes it a bad call.
1. Technically FNAF came about because of a critic comparing the designs of Scott Cawthon's game Chipper and Son's to that of animatronics. 2. I was actually more fascinated by the Chuck E. Cheese animatronics when I was little. 3. Take it from a girl who's seen food theory and whose dad actually worked for the franchise, the recycled slices theory is just a myth.
I love the pun that, when they met, Melody was working at a place called "Meat Cute". How far is Gravity Falls from Portland? Gravity Falls is a fictional town (like "The Simpsons"s Springfield, and "Family Guy"s Quahog) with no specific location beyond "a quiet logging town in eastern Oregon", but we can make a few guesses: - According to Alex Hirsch, Gravity Falls was inspired by the town of Boring, Oregon, which he remembered from family road trips as a child (specifically, Boring's roadsign that said "The most exciting place to live!"). Boring is only a little more than 20 miles (32 km) from Portland. However, they're both in _northwest_ Oregon. - The Bill Cipher statue (don't look it up yet, show finale spoilers) is in Reedsport, 195 miles (314 km) from Portland, but it's in _southwest_ Oregon. - Alex has also said that they liked sneaking in references to the show "Twin Peaks"; Twin Peaks is in the northeast corner of the state, 328 miles (528 km) from Portland. This one is the most likely, since it's actually in eastern Oregon. - Now, if Melody meant Portland, _Maine_ (she doesn't), that would be much farther away on the other coast of the US, about 2813 miles (4527 km) from Oregon's east border.
Soos’ grandma is a trip, she might be my favorite side character. Side note I consider anyone who is part of the ritual is a main character, no spoilers, Mosco won’t be able to figure what I mean phrased like that but most people who’ve seen it to the end already know what I mean.
The first time I heard "No, he's not there" I almost choked on my drink. I was not prepared for that kind of dark humour. I was amazed that Alex Hirsch got away with that joke. Also, really loving that fact that Soos was having a meet cute at the meat cute. Nice touch there, very dad joke!
When I was a kid, I love going to Chuck E. Cheese during my b-day. For your question maybe is the mascot, the pizza, lots of lots of arcade games. I don’t why but I hope my answer might help.
I feel like "standards" might not really be a thing. Remember, in the body-swapping episode, Soos also managed to get a date with someone by behaving like a pig (and I mean like a literal pig! He body-swapped with one!). And yeah, it's a cartoon, but even in real life: Two people that get along is really all that's required, so there's really no such thing as "standards". If two people like each other, get together, that's it! I dunno, maybe that's just me trying to be more positive about it. Doesn't matter really: There's 8 billions people in this world, with 8 billions different point of views!
Perhaps it's because I'm completely aroace, but yea, I've never really gotten the idea of "leagues" when people are dating. If two people like eachother romantically, then a romantic relationship can form if they both want it. The whole placing of people into different leagues feels so arbitrary. It invokes a sense of "dating value" which I've most commonly seen used by pickup artists. It feels distasteful that to categorise people into objective leagues based on how much they conform to arbitrary norms and standards.
Yes, the restaurant is a Chucky Cheese parody, but not as much of a parody as Chucky Cheese is of itself. John Oliver (Last Week Tonight) did a great segment on Chucky Cheese over the years on his show just this past week and it can be found here on TH-cam. Definitely worth a watch.
As someone whos been to Chuck E. Cheeses many times the main draw (at least for me) wasn't the animatronics or the food (which wasn't that good to me) but the games. It was one of the few arcade places close to home that had a wide variety of games (such as Arctic Thunder) that you could spend hours playing for a relatively cheap cost. Me and my brother'd also sometimes go and play around in the jungle gym area when we were little. As a bonus, the one I went to had a Checkers nearby, so a family tradition would be to go grab some fries & shakes from there after playing at Chuck E. Cheeses. We haven't been there in years for a couple reasons. 1) We have many more games at home to play, so there's rarely a need to go there anymore. 2) The last time we went there it had been changed from a family fun place to a toddler fun place, with many of its games, jungle gym and animatronic show place being removed to make room for more little kid games and rides. 3) Dave & Busters has taken over the role of our preferred arcade despite it being farther away than CeC.
Flights within the US are still expensive, but Melody said she was from Portland, so she's still in the same state as Soos. She'll only be a few hours away by bus.
She's definitely one of those villains that I am conflicted about whether I was fully against. On the one hand, she was undoubtedly overly possessive and dangerous. On the other hand, it seems like she was brought to life on accident, killed her creator trying to defend herself from deletion, and spent the rest of her life trying to fulfill the purpose she was made for, to find love. She probably fell in love with the many people who played her game, but was abandoned when they found out she was alive. Having that happen to her over and over again clearly left an impression on her, because she's crazy from rejection at worst, and desperate at best
@Guardian 6 Yeah. Her backstory is probably the saddest in the series. I wound up just plain feeling bad for her because of how much she’s been abused.
19:41 Yeeaaaaaahhhh, you may be underestimating the amount of - well - *geography* over here. That said, it sounds like she isn't moving out of the same state he's in. That's more promising.
I must say, i personally found this episode most relatable. Back when this episode first aired, i too was awkward around the ladies and didn't know where to begin about learning the ropes. Needless to say, Soos became my favorite character after this episode.
Yep you are correct, a lot of this does stem from Chuck-E-Cheese that spawned five nights at Freddy's, and I feel like the world has gotten worse for it lol Also know they don't put together pieces of old pieces to make a new pizzas to serve, they just have a really shity pizza cutter.
Also: Soos could visit Portland without flying--it's probably a couple of hours by car (Gravity Falls is a fictitious town, but the maps in the show place it somewhere just southeast of Mt. Hood, which would be just a few hours from Portland).
Just to say, most everyone I know who went to Chuck E Cheese as a kid didn't go for the animatronics. They were just there to give the kids something to look at as we shoved pizza in our faces. The real draw was the arcade games and the prizes you won for playing and getting tickets.
The fingers thing: back when this show first aired that was noticed and became the focus of some odd fan theories. One being it was an age thing, like characters born before a certain date had five fingers and those born after only had three.
I can’t wait until you find out that Soos’s grandma is actually a spider person that was released from a knock off version of dungeons and dragons. The strangest part is that she’s voiced by Weird Al in that episode.
Honestly it's as much of a mystery to us, why our children enjoy these mechanical nightmares so much, as it is to everyone else in the world. I personally dread seeing these things both on the stage and when the floor show starts and people in costumes of the animatronics start dancing around the room. Creeps the ever loving heck out of me.
Yeah echoing what other people said. The places like chuckie cheese were fun. Pizza, arcade games, indoor playgrounds. the place near me growing up had miniature golf and bumper boats too. The animatronics were ignored to the best of my ability.
Codes for this episode: Credits code: ANTHYDING CAN HADPLEN Numbers code: WINNING HEARTS BY DAYLIGHT POSSESSING ROBOTS BY MOONLIGHT HER EMOTIONAL BAGGAGE IS A REAL FRIGHT SHE HAS THE ONE NAME GIFFANY (this is a refference to the intro for the English dub of Sailor Moon.)
"Why do kids find this fun?" Even as a child, I hated the animitronics. I did like Chuck E. Cheese, but only because it was basically an arcade with a restaurant that serves pizza. As an adult, still not a fan, even if it is more psychological horror than actual fear.
Coming back to this, I also feel compelled to point out for fairness' sake that the problem of this episode isn't that _women_ are crazy, it's that cursed, homicidal artificial intelligences programmed to seek love at all costs are. Melody, Wendy, and the other human ladies come across as significantly more reasonable by comparison. ... well, all except for "Can't Undo Who You Are" Lady. That level of absolute savagery was uncalled for. Hilarious, yes, but still uncalled for.
Travel is SOOOOO expensive here in the States. Like, it can cost hundreds of dollars just to fly within the country, and thousands to fly out of the country.
Gravity Falls and Portland are both in Oregon, so Soos and Melody aren't more than like a four hour drive away from each other (based on where we see GF on maps).
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7:10 generally not, for obvious reasons. But it various between games how self aware if this the games are. some are closer to interactive romance stories, others are borderline offensively. Some are integrated into plots, as almost a core game mechanic. I played this one that involved some twin shenanigans and a kidnapping/extortion plan, while also requiring getting close to the various characters for plot reasons. some character progressions decided the ultimate fate of the characters lives. the sfw setting uses a lot of sweaters, while the nsfw was more about sexual atmosphere with some nudity then actual intercourse. Mind my experience is almost exclusively sapphic games or at least having sapphic options, so the purely het games might be different.
15:20 I don't think it is anymore. Pretty sure Chuck E. Cheese went out of business years ago. All that's left is FNAF, faded memories, a few rusty sideshow attractions here and there, and 90's nostalgia.
Much like a romance movie or a romance novel, dating Sims are usually unrealistic but not necessarily wrong either. Like it's dramatic, exaggerated, and often highly specific. But also not the worst if you're looking for a place to start. I mean, you're awkward anyway right
2:26 ...Probably not? ...I'm not sure. There is a London branch of the Soul Society and its waaaaay different from the Seireitei. Like...I'm not sure if everyone from around the world can wind up in the Seireitei, or you have to have died in Japan to be konsoed by a Shinigami.
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"Soos, these are children." Yes. They're also the most competent people in town.
Fun fact: this came out BEFORE Doki Doki Literature Club! Only a few weeks after FNAF, but considering the production cycle this was made much earlier than anything related to FNAF.
Wait what!? Oh god axolotl have mercy on my soul for time is moving.
@@specturv9836 a kid born in that time is now going to elementary school, and is probably as old as most people were when those released.
I love how this episode basically predicted the existence of two indie horror sensations, simultaneously
There were a lot of fairly meta date sims and horror games that directly adressed the player by then, comiket games are always that or bullet hells.
@@synderthmc it’s honestly so serial because it’s like games like that feel as if they always existed but then you realize you’re older then them like wtf
"You can't undo who you are" has got to be one of my favorite Gravity Falls joke.
Such a killer line, and it comes out of nowhere.
It's honestly more hurtful than funny.
@@TheGoldNinja101i think it’s the absurd, sudden level of coldness that makes the joke. gravity falls really likes the “disturbing out of nowhere” jokes
@@lakeswirl6985 I don't want to be this guy that ruins jokes, but If you're struggling to find a person for yourself, eventually, this joke would sound more hurtful than funny, then you may understand how Soos feels.
Fun fact: In the Journal 3 book, it is revealed that Giffany survived by jumping into the Fight Fighters game and is dating Rumble McSkirmish, although their relationship consists of them fighting each other.
Of course it is
I just hope it’s more healthy than any of the people who played her game
Giffany meeting Rumble McSkirmish was the original end credit scene, but someone came up with Stan and Goldie going to Vegas, and Alex thought it was too funny not to include.
1:50 Alex Hirsch said in an interview once that he always imagined Mabel was constantly knitting her jumpers off screen.
Checks out
In the director’s commentary, it’s revealed that at one point Stan went to Vegas, won big, and fell in love with and married a snaggletoothed woman named “Marilyn”, before she, on the same day, stole his money and car, and left him.
Now, a snaggletoothed conwoman who goes by the alias “Marilyn”? It was Eda. Eda canonically married Stan to con him out of money.
No she married him to con him out of his car
@@tahraethestoryteller6079 Why stop at one when she could get both?
@@tahraethestoryteller6079 one wonders what she did with the car...
Pretty bold of Eda to marry someone at least 16 years older than her.
@@tommcewan7936, considering she no longer has it, I assume she either scrapped it for parts or just sold it.
This is definitely one of my top 10 favorite episodes. It basically predicted both _Five Nights at Freddy's,_ and _Doki Doki Literature Club._ Giffany is such a great, unhinged villain with a great design. (pixelly outlines and electrical cables for a bow.) I also like Melody and how perfect a match she is for Soos.
Yeah, I love her design.
Yep. The episode was in production long before the first FNAF.
FNAF, Hooty's Country Jamboree (from this show), Bloaty's Pizza Hog (from _Invader ZIM_ [Bloaty is an obese man in a pig mascot costume]), and every other "Suck-E Cheese" parody restaurant is based on the real-life dual arcade pizzeria chains Chuck E. Cheese Pizza Time Theater (ft. The Pizza Time Players) and its longtime rival-turned-buyer Showbiz Pizza Place (ft. The Rock-afire Explosion). Sadly, when corporate higher-ups wanted creator (and leading performer) Aaron Fetcher to sign away ownership of The Rock-afire Explosion for practically nothing w/o being compensated, Aaron stubbornly put his foot down & said no. As a result, Concept Unification happened & every 3 stage w/ the RAE had the band cosmetically changed to The Pizza Time Players under their new moniker of Munch's Make Believe Band (that is, the face masks, body fur/faux feathers, clothes, and - for Beach Bear & Dook La Rue - swapped eyes, Rolfe De Wolf losing heckling puppet Earl Schmerle & gaining a 2nd hand, Dook La Rue as well as his drum kit being moved from center stage to stage left once Billy Bob Brockali was taken off stage left [his mech was sadly relegated to being sold for spare parts, left to rot in a landfill somewhere, hopefully given back to Aaron Fetcher, or reclaimed by die-hard RAE super fans] were changed from bad comedian Rolfe De Wolf to the titular emcee Chuck E. Cheese, Rolfe & Earl's rainbow curtain was replaced by a generic black starry curtain, Antioch the Birthday Spider became The Wink, Mr. Sun became Mr. Building & secretly had his connecting value hidden behind the prop television set placed next to Chuck E., Mr. Moon was the only one retained & never altered but was only used sparingly for nighttime scenery whenever Mr. Building was lit up, Dook La Rue became Pasqually on stage left, Fatz Geronimo became Mr. Munch, Choo Choo the bear cub for a limited time became either Mr. Munch Jr. or the sparsely recurring Ricky Raccoon before being discarded altogether, Mitzi Mozzarella became Helen Henny, Beach Bear became Jasper T. Jowls, Jasper had Beach Bear's previous guitar switched to his banjo & was occasionally moved to Dook La Rue's former position on center stage at some locations, the Smitty's Service Station or forest backdrop used for Billy Bob & Looney Bird on stage left was replaced with a phony brick wall background with some graffiti backsplash on it, and Looney Bird very briefly became Pizza Cam with his gasahol barrel replaced with a generic camera tripod box that doubled as the main control mechanism at some locations), yet eventually, even that was phased out, because Chuck E. Cheese nowadays is basically gutting the animatronic band entirely in favor of a CGI dance floor, with the only remnants of the characters being color-coded wall displays & the walk around mascots.
You can’t forget the Capricola Gang from Regular Show. The criminal animatronic band that came packing heat!
I find Soos’ pick up lines of “Your face is good …I’m a Soos!” And “I’m not afraid of your eyes at all! I’m going to look at them! EYE CONTACT!!” Hilariously absurd and would try them myself…”
But... the first one only works if you are, in fact, a Soos 😂
@@IceMetalPunk there’s a Soos in every reality, dude…
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Yea, I tried the first one too, and all I got was a slap in the face and pepper spray in my eyes.
Mosco giving us advice: "compliment their boots"
*Flashbacks to the way Mosco looks at Eda's boots*
The codes are "STAN IS NOT WHAT HE SEEMS", "SPACEJAMTWO", "ANTHYDING CAN HAPPEN", "WINNING HEARTS BY DAYLIGHT", "POSSESSING ROBOTS BY MOONLIGHT', "HER EMOTIONAL BAGGAGE IS A REAL FRIGHT', and "SHE HAS ONE NAME GIFFANY" 😊
Everyone gets that the last four lines are set to the old DiC dub Sailor Moon theme, right? I never know these days. Hard to tell what is and isn't in the popular zeitgeist anymore. th-cam.com/video/oCRsCXN7WvQ/w-d-xo.html
I know i am 5 months late, but, it predicted space jam 2. Pls put me out of my misery.
Dipper canonically rarely changes his clothes, because it’s more efficient than washing them all of the time.
I hope he changes that by the time he's 15 cause he's going to be rank otherwise.
Fun fact: the equation in Giffany's classroom blackboard is actually correct. It's a quantum operator called Hamiltonian and it's used to determinate the energy of a system based in its particules velocity and potencial.
Essencially, GF background artists are big nerds.
You're getting closer to episode 7 where Wendy turns out to be a robot that was controlled by the author who gets kidnapped by Toby determined who is then revealed to be Bill cipher in disguise
Depends on which version Disney airs, there’s another version where it turns out Wendy is actually one of the sentient wax figures, and Robbie is five gnomes in a hoodie…
Soos and Giffany, they'll meet again.
Don't know where, don’t know when, but I know they'll meet again some sunny day
• There's a burnt tree outside Soos' house, keep that in mind
• The secrets agents were seen in the background, did you see them? .w.
• The episode title is likely a reference to the film Lars and the Real Girl, in which the character Lars also finds a substitute for an actual girlfriend (although in that case it was a s*x doll)
• The code at the credits is "ANTHYDING CAN HADPLEN"
Portland is the largest city in Oregon, the state Gravity Falls is in. So Melody probably only has to drive a few hours to come visit!
"You can't undo who you are!" another classic Soos-related line
And now, we've met the best girlfriend Stan ever had. Old Goldie! You're not prepared for the side story where Eda shows up and they have this huge crazy battle with the Moon exploding and then everything is resolved when Soos shows up and gets everyone pizza because he's a very friendly young man and everyone loves Soos. Seriously, though, Soos is great, it's nice to see him get a bit of focus.
Codes:
ANTHYDING CAN HADPLEN (key: BEARO)
WINNING HEARTS BY DAYLIGHT
POSSESSING ROBOTS BY MOONLIGHT
HER EMOTIONAL BAGGAGE IS A REAL FRIGHT
SHE HAS THE ONE NAME GIFFANY
I never knew there was a Sailor Moon reference in Gravity Falls
You gotta keep in mind the time period when Chuck E. Cheese opened. Animatronic characters were a novelty not seen in places outside of theme parks. These days, however, they're not quite the draw they once were. CEC tried to supplement that with arcade games, but have generally been struggling in the 21st Century. And as for frightening--some people are scared of clowns, too, so y'know, mileage always varies. There are a couple of good summaries about CEC's history here on TH-cam if you wanna really figure out the why. I recommend either the Company Man channel or Secret Galaxy.
15:03 Can confirm as an American. Those animatronics terrified me as a kid.
Some spoiler-free things:
1. This episode came out only a little after the first FNAF game, but this episode was still being written before the game came out, so neither were the inspiration.
2. This episode managed to make fun of FNAF and Doki Doki literature club in the same episode.
3. The journal reveals Giffany survived and is now in fight fighters with rumble mcskirmish.
Melody is going back to Portland, which is still in the same state as Gravity Falls, namely Oregon. Given the way that Americans treat distance like it's nothing, that's practically no worse than one's girlfriend moving to the other side of town, in European terms.
The code in the credits is, *"Anthyding can hadplen"* (sic), referring back to the terribly translated opening text of _Romance Academy 7._
The code on the post-credits journal page is:
*Winning Hearts by Daylight,*
*Possessing Robots by Moonlight,*
*Her Emotional Baggage Is a Real Fright,*
*She Has the One Name, Giffany.*
which is a reference to the English translation of the _Sailor Moon_ theme song. ("Fighting evil by moonlight…" etc.)
Interesting fact here, Stan was married to a few hours to a woman named Marilyn, until she robbed him and stole his things. And now it is highly likely that Stan's ex was Eda, considering she uses the name Marilyn when in the human realm
I imagine the real appeal of those restaurants is the arcade. The robots are more a fun detail the the main draw. Also pizza. Heck nowadays there a Dave and Busters which is a pretty big arcade restaurant that became big recently.
Gravity Falls is in the middle of Oregon, and Portland is on the coast. It's about as far as driving from Edinburgh to Birmingham in the UK.
I like how they handle Soos' dating difficulties; I feel like part of it was aiming within his league, but mostly it was not trying so hard, but still being out there to meet someone. It's a bit too easy to live online now, and avoid going to places where you can just meet people.
Gravity Falls appears to be in Central Oregon. Portland Oregon is probably about 190 Kilometers away. It would not be difficult for Soos or Melody to visit each other. Depending on traffic it is a 2.5 - 3 hour car drive.
The animatronic pizza-and-arcade jamboree sort of thing was admittedly more fun for kids back in the '80s and '90s...
That's what Hooty Ha Owl's Jamboree was based on.
Chucky Cheese is basically a casino for children. You get to win tickets and ignore lousy lounge singers. There's crappy food that meets the standard for junk food. All you have to do as an adult is make sure the kids aren't mugging each other, and you're good. You barely have to babysit, and still get credit for being the cool parental figure.
For the record Moscow, Portland and Gravity Falls are both in the state of Oregon
So it’s more like a drive than a flight
An enormous million dollar smile spread across my face when you said “If you understood that reference you’re a legend.” I became a huge bleach fan when I was a teenager back when it first aired. You so rock! ✌️😁👍
4:30 legit one of my favorite jokes in the show, "your face looks good, I'm a Soos" (i masseuse), it's so simple but i love it
Melody is actually the main villain from the second dimension. She has been giving Bill Cipher orders to destroy the third dimension for reasons still unknown to people who have seen the whole show.
Flying probably isn't how they'd go see each other Gravity Falls is in Oregon and almost everyone in Oregon uses the Portland airport where Melody lives.
I might age myself with this comment, but I had a couple of birthday parties at Showbiz pizza back in the day and loved those animatronics! Looking back as an adult, they are creepy af. But if you look at pictures from very early Disney Land, those costumes were way creepier and children loved them as well. In fact, a lot of those older costumes were very creepy looking...
8:31 Nah, hitting on service employees sucks. You're the customer, they've got to be nice to you as part of their job, etc. Whole power imbalance there makes it a bad call.
Imagine the fandom's shock when we found out Hoo Ha the Owl is the Author!
soos is actually not that old !! hes only 20
i thought he was 18
Yeah apparently he’s 22 to be specific
WHAT!!?!??!?!! His character design made me think he was in his late 30's / early 40'swhooops
@@WeeLassReacts I think there joking I could be Wong though lol
1. Technically FNAF came about because of a critic comparing the designs of Scott Cawthon's game Chipper and Son's to that of animatronics.
2. I was actually more fascinated by the Chuck E. Cheese animatronics when I was little.
3. Take it from a girl who's seen food theory and whose dad actually worked for the franchise, the recycled slices theory is just a myth.
I love the pun that, when they met, Melody was working at a place called "Meat Cute".
How far is Gravity Falls from Portland? Gravity Falls is a fictional town (like "The Simpsons"s Springfield, and "Family Guy"s Quahog) with no specific location beyond "a quiet logging town in eastern Oregon", but we can make a few guesses:
- According to Alex Hirsch, Gravity Falls was inspired by the town of Boring, Oregon, which he remembered from family road trips as a child (specifically, Boring's roadsign that said "The most exciting place to live!"). Boring is only a little more than 20 miles (32 km) from Portland. However, they're both in _northwest_ Oregon.
- The Bill Cipher statue (don't look it up yet, show finale spoilers) is in Reedsport, 195 miles (314 km) from Portland, but it's in _southwest_ Oregon.
- Alex has also said that they liked sneaking in references to the show "Twin Peaks"; Twin Peaks is in the northeast corner of the state, 328 miles (528 km) from Portland. This one is the most likely, since it's actually in eastern Oregon.
- Now, if Melody meant Portland, _Maine_ (she doesn't), that would be much farther away on the other coast of the US, about 2813 miles (4527 km) from Oregon's east border.
Soos’ grandma is a trip, she might be my favorite side character.
Side note I consider anyone who is part of the ritual is a main character, no spoilers, Mosco won’t be able to figure what I mean phrased like that but most people who’ve seen it to the end already know what I mean.
I don't know if Chuck-e-Cheese was popular with kids, but I think I can explain it's popularity with parents in 3 words: "They serve beer."
Did they? I never went there as an adult. Never knew that...
Can you imagine the animatronics that they would have if Chucky Cheese had started in Scotland?
I feel like putting animatronics in Glasgow would be the easiest way to teach robots violence. If only by osmosis.
The first time I heard "No, he's not there" I almost choked on my drink. I was not prepared for that kind of dark humour. I was amazed that Alex Hirsch got away with that joke.
Also, really loving that fact that Soos was having a meet cute at the meat cute. Nice touch there, very dad joke!
When I was a kid, I love going to Chuck E. Cheese during my b-day. For your question maybe is the mascot, the pizza, lots of lots of arcade games. I don’t why but I hope my answer might help.
Also robots are rad as hell 😎
@@A.MNeverP.M that’s true. Big robot nerd right here, high five 🖐️
I thinks it’s a combination of all three
@@tahraethestoryteller6079 ok, that might be right.
Would you believe that this isn't Stan's first Vegas wedding? Who was the first, the one who got away? Why, it was only EDA THE OWL LADY
Of course, Eda only went along with it so she could steal his car and winnings.
And by "got away" I of course mean in a full on police chase that ended when she dove into a canion and "disappeared"
Not gonna lie, saying Soos is "Out of his league," seems kinda mean, considering he does almost nothing except help other people all day, every day.
I feel like "standards" might not really be a thing. Remember, in the body-swapping episode, Soos also managed to get a date with someone by behaving like a pig (and I mean like a literal pig! He body-swapped with one!).
And yeah, it's a cartoon, but even in real life: Two people that get along is really all that's required, so there's really no such thing as "standards". If two people like each other, get together, that's it!
I dunno, maybe that's just me trying to be more positive about it. Doesn't matter really: There's 8 billions people in this world, with 8 billions different point of views!
Perhaps it's because I'm completely aroace, but yea, I've never really gotten the idea of "leagues" when people are dating.
If two people like eachother romantically, then a romantic relationship can form if they both want it. The whole placing of people into different leagues feels so arbitrary. It invokes a sense of "dating value" which I've most commonly seen used by pickup artists. It feels distasteful that to categorise people into objective leagues based on how much they conform to arbitrary norms and standards.
Paul Robertson--who pixel-animated Rumble McSkirmish--also pixel-animated Giffany for this episode.
Yes, the restaurant is a Chucky Cheese parody, but not as much of a parody as Chucky Cheese is of itself. John Oliver (Last Week Tonight) did a great segment on Chucky Cheese over the years on his show just this past week and it can be found here on TH-cam. Definitely worth a watch.
15:48 the arcade is the main appeal and the animatronics are just there for merchandising
Gravity Falls predicted FNAF and Doki Doki Literature Club! 😱
Over the years, I think Soos became my favorite character in this show
Same.
All hail the Handyman of the Apocalypse.
2:35 that's a cleaning product reference right?
As someone whos been to Chuck E. Cheeses many times the main draw (at least for me) wasn't the animatronics or the food (which wasn't that good to me) but the games. It was one of the few arcade places close to home that had a wide variety of games (such as Arctic Thunder) that you could spend hours playing for a relatively cheap cost. Me and my brother'd also sometimes go and play around in the jungle gym area when we were little. As a bonus, the one I went to had a Checkers nearby, so a family tradition would be to go grab some fries & shakes from there after playing at Chuck E. Cheeses.
We haven't been there in years for a couple reasons. 1) We have many more games at home to play, so there's rarely a need to go there anymore. 2) The last time we went there it had been changed from a family fun place to a toddler fun place, with many of its games, jungle gym and animatronic show place being removed to make room for more little kid games and rides. 3) Dave & Busters has taken over the role of our preferred arcade despite it being farther away than CeC.
9:46 I think someone probably already mention it but that's a reference to a very good game called Octodad
Flights within the US are still expensive, but Melody said she was from Portland, so she's still in the same state as Soos. She'll only be a few hours away by bus.
Call me crazy but i LOVE Giffany and was sad to see her go
She's definitely one of those villains that I am conflicted about whether I was fully against. On the one hand, she was undoubtedly overly possessive and dangerous. On the other hand, it seems like she was brought to life on accident, killed her creator trying to defend herself from deletion, and spent the rest of her life trying to fulfill the purpose she was made for, to find love. She probably fell in love with the many people who played her game, but was abandoned when they found out she was alive. Having that happen to her over and over again clearly left an impression on her, because she's crazy from rejection at worst, and desperate at best
@Guardian 6 Yeah. Her backstory is probably the saddest in the series. I wound up just plain feeling bad for her because of how much she’s been abused.
I am a sucker for evil ai, so yeah I agree. She's canonically still alive though which is revealed in the Journal 3 book
19:41 Yeeaaaaaahhhh, you may be underestimating the amount of - well - *geography* over here. That said, it sounds like she isn't moving out of the same state he's in. That's more promising.
The four fingers thing is just an animation style for certain characters. Makes it easier to draw their hands.
I must say, i personally found this episode most relatable. Back when this episode first aired, i too was awkward around the ladies and didn't know where to begin about learning the ropes. Needless to say, Soos became my favorite character after this episode.
Yep you are correct, a lot of this does stem from Chuck-E-Cheese that spawned five nights at Freddy's, and I feel like the world has gotten worse for it lol
Also know they don't put together pieces of old pieces to make a new pizzas to serve, they just have a really shity pizza cutter.
Also: Soos could visit Portland without flying--it's probably a couple of hours by car (Gravity Falls is a fictitious town, but the maps in the show place it somewhere just southeast of Mt. Hood, which would be just a few hours from Portland).
This isn't a spoiler, we never actually find this out in the show, but fun fact, Dipper's real name is canonically Mason
It's weird how a psychic told me I was going to die in the dark cold and alone... probably the only time she got a prediction right lol
How do you know? Did you already die.
@@Brasswatchman not yet
Just to say, most everyone I know who went to Chuck E Cheese as a kid didn't go for the animatronics. They were just there to give the kids something to look at as we shoved pizza in our faces. The real draw was the arcade games and the prizes you won for playing and getting tickets.
SOOS IS 22 DONT DO MY BOY DIRTY LIKE THAT
The fingers thing: back when this show first aired that was noticed and became the focus of some odd fan theories. One being it was an age thing, like characters born before a certain date had five fingers and those born after only had three.
Such a great episode. I’m so glad Soos met somebody.
I can’t wait until you find out that Soos’s grandma is actually a spider person that was released from a knock off version of dungeons and dragons. The strangest part is that she’s voiced by Weird Al in that episode.
Honestly it's as much of a mystery to us, why our children enjoy these mechanical nightmares so much, as it is to everyone else in the world. I personally dread seeing these things both on the stage and when the floor show starts and people in costumes of the animatronics start dancing around the room. Creeps the ever loving heck out of me.
Yeah echoing what other people said. The places like chuckie cheese were fun. Pizza, arcade games, indoor playgrounds. the place near me growing up had miniature golf and bumper boats too.
The animatronics were ignored to the best of my ability.
7:15 I’ve played one dating game, and I think you can probably guess which one.
Codes for this episode:
Credits code:
ANTHYDING CAN HADPLEN
Numbers code:
WINNING HEARTS BY DAYLIGHT
POSSESSING ROBOTS BY MOONLIGHT
HER EMOTIONAL BAGGAGE IS A REAL FRIGHT
SHE HAS THE ONE NAME GIFFANY
(this is a refference to the intro for the English dub of Sailor Moon.)
SO happy my mother never caved to my demands to take me to Chuck E Cheese as a kid...
I'M HERE, I'M HERE, I'VE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS ONE
this is definitely giving me Five Nights at Freddy's vibes especially when the robots at a kids arcade go psycho killer on the characters.
Chuck-E-Cheese: the animatronic floor show is creepy and weird, but the gigantic arcade is amazing. That's it in a nutshell.
Love this episode, I love SOOOS!! This is so relateable and so much fun and cracy.
such a fun episode, and yay for soos finding a nice girl who likes him for who he is :]
Those have got to be the third most horrifying animatronics I've ever seen in a cartoon.
"Why do kids find this fun?"
Even as a child, I hated the animitronics. I did like Chuck E. Cheese, but only because it was basically an arcade with a restaurant that serves pizza.
As an adult, still not a fan, even if it is more psychological horror than actual fear.
If you look closely, you can see the government agents from the Zombie episode hanging out in the mall.
Coming back to this, I also feel compelled to point out for fairness' sake that the problem of this episode isn't that _women_ are crazy, it's that cursed, homicidal artificial intelligences programmed to seek love at all costs are. Melody, Wendy, and the other human ladies come across as significantly more reasonable by comparison.
... well, all except for "Can't Undo Who You Are" Lady. That level of absolute savagery was uncalled for. Hilarious, yes, but still uncalled for.
Animatronics aren’t popular anymore, but they absolutely were in the 80s-90s
Travel is SOOOOO expensive here in the States. Like, it can cost hundreds of dollars just to fly within the country, and thousands to fly out of the country.
She wouldn’t need to fly she’s from Portland. That’s also in Oregon and she’s likely just a couple hours away.
Gravity Falls and Portland are both in Oregon, so Soos and Melody aren't more than like a four hour drive away from each other (based on where we see GF on maps).
Amazing reaction! I've only just recently started to watch your vids but you seem to have a really likeable and funny personality! Keep up the reactions 🎉
A shinigami in seireitei, huh, what would your Zanpakuto be like?
Gravity Falls comes first, then Amphibia, then The Owl House but they all take place on the same Earth and same multiverse
Stan does crazy things in Vegas, like getting married to Eda.
I think Chuck'e'Cheese is so popular more for the arcade and prizes than for the mouse.
7:10 generally not, for obvious reasons. But it various between games how self aware if this the games are. some are closer to interactive romance stories, others are borderline offensively. Some are integrated into plots, as almost a core game mechanic.
I played this one that involved some twin shenanigans and a kidnapping/extortion plan, while also requiring getting close to the various characters for plot reasons. some character progressions decided the ultimate fate of the characters lives. the sfw setting uses a lot of sweaters, while the nsfw was more about sexual atmosphere with some nudity then actual intercourse. Mind my experience is almost exclusively sapphic games or at least having sapphic options, so the purely het games might be different.
15:20 I don't think it is anymore. Pretty sure Chuck E. Cheese went out of business years ago. All that's left is FNAF, faded memories, a few rusty sideshow attractions here and there, and 90's nostalgia.
And Billy Bob's Wonderland. XD
One of my favorite episodes!
Much like a romance movie or a romance novel, dating Sims are usually unrealistic but not necessarily wrong either.
Like it's dramatic, exaggerated, and often highly specific. But also not the worst if you're looking for a place to start. I mean, you're awkward anyway right
5:38 You dug your own self into this hole, nobody's gonna dig you out of it... :D
2:26 ...Probably not? ...I'm not sure. There is a London branch of the Soul Society and its waaaaay different from the Seireitei. Like...I'm not sure if everyone from around the world can wind up in the Seireitei, or you have to have died in Japan to be konsoed by a Shinigami.
They will meet again. We don’t know where. We don’t know when . But we know they’ll meet again some sunny day.
Soos's grandpa was Isekai'd, that's why he isn't in heaven. In fact, he' a character in another Disney show.
You’re talking about Dr. Heinz Doofenschmirtz, right? Abuelita had a falling out with him because of his obsession with building Inators…