The Night Before Critmas
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 9 ก.ย. 2024
- Special guest Julie Nathanson joins the cast of Critical Role for a hilarious "slay" ride through Dungeon Master Liam O'Brien's "The Night Before Critmas".
Character art by Hugo Cardenas: / takayuuki_art
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HEY, there might be some SPOILERS under the thing
0:10 Travis’s thing only works for CR
2:30 Intro sequence
3:30 Episode Starts
6:05 Elf momma down
6:35 Taliesin’s character intro
7:05 Travis’s character intro
7:40 Matt’s character intro
8:15 Sam’s character intro
8:50 Marisha’s character intro
9:40 Julie’s character intro
10:30 Ashley’s character intro
12:25 Bixby Quimblerump
13:55 Don’t tease us with action figures unless they’re in the store
18:40 You and your fingers
21:35 Unrecognizable Caleb
24:50 Santa Claus intro
27:15 Kids these days
28:15 Fake yous
29:45 All of the other reindeer
32:05 First map
36:20 Battle begins
40:45 Recognize the alpha
46:50 Fighting gloves
49:05 Marisha fights to maintain the accent
53:00 Wrath of the craftsman
57:00 Yippee!!!
1:10:50 Matt and Marisha talk about the war on Christmas
1:15:30 A gift worse than death
1:22:55 Taliesin finds the joy of being a rogue
1:23:20 HWYLTDT (also Taliesin… really? Always?)
1:24:50 Sam checks the Blitzens
1:27:00 Travis gets some epic loot
1:33:25 Usurping Santa
1:37:15 Hazing the new girl
1:42:35 On Blitzens
1:48:10 The other holiday worlds are a lot less fun
1:49:55 Sam’s whine is getting worse
1:51:45 Break Starts
2:01:50 Break Ends
2:08:00 One day I want to see Travis on a Wheaties box
2:11:20 Matt’s kill count
2:18:55 Technically they both lifted different sacks
2:22:50 The religion of elves is confusing
2:32:40 Half a pot of gold
2:35:15 Marisha is caught in the crossfire
2:40:35 Shout out to The Man himself
2:46:25 Matt is a very naught elf
2:56:30 Travis is the most badass
2:58:10 A legally distinct big bad
2:59:45 The map is down
3:01:30 Battle begins
3:05:00 Julie’s spiritual weapon
3:10:40 Marisha’s spiritual weapon
3:12:55 The dead are tolled
3:21:00 HWYLTDT
3:40:55 Sam is crowning
3:42:25 The king is here
4:03:40 Let’s go save Christmas
4:05:45 Butt Up is definitely Dreamworks
4:08:35 D&D is fun
4:09:00 Curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal
4:15:05 HWYLTDT
4:17:20 Recognize that fire graphic. That’s production value
4:24:55 PvP
4:26:00 You fool
4:31:35The rebellion was kinda justified
4:34:10 Matt Earther
4:36:40The legend of Chutney
4:38:10 Episode Ends
Live viewership of this episode on Twitch peaked around 14,000 people. The in-game start date for the episode was the 24th of December.
Any moments I missed? Feel free to post them here. Is it tomorrow yet, I guess?
Happy Holidays, Flando!
Bless you Flando
you are a god among men
You are a mad man and I love you
Wow you're fast...
“You built the Caleb, but you left out the crippling guilt, so he’s barely recognizable.”
You can’t spell Caleb without “The Crippling Debt of killing his own parents and being in asylum”.
He's clean, shaven, has a look like he's happy, he even says 'My parents are alive.' when you pull the string, if it didn't come in a two pack with Nott, you wouldn't even know it's him
He made the happy caleb from the island
@@FatalHog 😭
Oh my god
Laura: "So, how'd the game go?"
Travis: "I tried to kill Santa."
@@JasperForge This was recorded, not aired live, so she wouldn't have been watching
@@Antenox thats why shes asking how it went
that comment is underrated
Their kid is going to watch this and Travis will have to explain why he tried to kill Santa.
@@josephmort4039 saw this comment somewhere else but it fits here
I just imagine one day, Travis is sitting at home reading the paper, then a little kid comes up and says:
Kid: Daddy?
Travis: Yes Honey?
Kid: Did you really stab Santa?
Travis: *Crumbles up paper*
Laura: Laughs from the other room.
"You built the Caleb but forgot the crippling guilt"
Essential piece, also that was HILARIOUS.
That was so good xD he made a happy caleb i guess?
A happy Caleb is a scary Caleb.
Yuubi Timberwolf no he made a psychotic serial killer Caleb
@@randoranderson8903 Yas
Everyone is making new characters and Travis is giving us a reason to relive the greats hahaha
I've never seen this one shot before and I don't know why
Travis being "Chetney" literally implies that there is a way to get from Earth to Tal'Dorei
@@tiptapdrats8454 sigil if I had to guess
(city of doors)
@@azanthal I mean, makes sense. I'm not sure what Matt's rule would be on Prime Material Plane access there though, cause I think the Gate Towns only access outer planes
I’ve never seen the oneshot until yesterday-and this week’s episode of Critical Role was the reason that prompted me to watch the Night Before Critmas. Just in time for the holidays too!
matt looks like he's gonna sell you drugs behind the macy's and skateboard away when he hears police sirens
That's painfully accurate
The eyeliner was such a great touch but he barely even go out of his character and just played him so well.
He makes me feel like I'm seeing a teenage dream; I can't sleep, those elves are running and they never look back, don't ever look back.
So he was Brian W Foster for this one shot?
The same macys that ashley's character worked at.
Kid: "Dad, why do I always get a wooden toy every Christmas?"
Dad: "Because if you don't get one, Chutney will come and take your hands"
Chutney would say it's not him; it's Old Faithful and Steve.
ebony1442 Old Faithful and Hentai Rod that is.
@@Whiskerbro Old faithful for the little kids, hentai rod for the adults.
"You built a Caleb but you left out the crippling guilt."
Amazing, A*, give this man a frickin' trophy.
Kyuu it’s even better because it’s from Liam
but he is barely recognisable, who wants a fan toy, that looks nothing like the character you love?
He said it's perfect other than that though. Also: Necropost!
travis playing old people is *literally* my favorite thing ever.
Would love to hear your reaction to C3x7
@@tjschewy I was just about to say this! XD
"You're a fool, Klaus. We can't compete with Amazon!" A classic from Travis.
I feel like no one talks about ageism at all... Playing a clear stereotype isn't funny... The elderly are discriminated against quite a bit but it's like no one is ready to call it out like other "ism's." I know everyone's gonna say stuff about "everyone's too sensitive nowadays" or "cancel culture", but I just don't think making a caricature of a group who faces real discrimination is funny or clever... I love what Travis does, but this character ruins this one shot for me, and makes me worry about the future of campaign 3.
What's the alternative for other groups? Is it not the problematic stereotype? The elderly face real ageism, yet no one wants to talk about it.
I like to imagine that when Grog's soul was flung into the depths of pandemonium a familiar scraggly, elderly voice was there to great him "I see you tried to oppose the fatman as well"
IT WAS BOB
@@Sam_Markley No It Had To Have Been Larkin
@@ninjadrew1033 but where is Larkin?
@@WiseSageBum Who really knows?
"He wuz actually kinda skinny and uh, boney?"
To me the funniest part is the fact that Matt looks like a goth kid in the most uncomfortable christmas attire ever.
Over a thousand likes and zero replies? I must remedy this anomaly.
I just- this hit me
@@russianman3226 every one before you was just stunned with laughter or impression by bullz eye pinn point accuracy of comment
@@jhcode I suppose so lol. I just found it strange that no one had anything to add.
Wait so he's NOT wearing eyeliner?
"I haven't thrown down since 1756!"
Fun fact, 1756 was the beginning of the Seven Years' War. Which implies Chutney likely fought against either the British colonial militia, the Swedish Royal Army, or the Russian Imperial Army. Possibly all three.
It's cannon.
He's cannon
I like to beleive he fought all 3, the history books just leave him out because no one wants to admits to being afraid of a 3 foot midget wielding a chisel.
Travis what are you wtf are you
@@thenosieyartist6924 Travis is an old soul, he was just channeling the spirit of chutney
I love the implication that Klaus was just murdering people without Santa’s knowledge.
You better watch out
You better not cry
I'm tellin' you why.
Mr. Klaus is taking you down.
I fucking love this comment thread😂
Nutmeg: "Don't we have some sort of jail system?"
Klaus takes no prisoners.
you are gohohohoing to die tonight,
That’s not my department
I like how Ashley's frequent absences are part of Nutmeg's character
To New York, no less
Also Julie being a fan of the show.
I remember that bit from GM/DM Tips from Matt, where he says "one-shots are a great way of letting the usual DM play for once!", but I love how he still narrates his actions like he would when DM'ing. That man has the best imagination and narrative skills ever.
Pretty sure that's how he wants his player to do it
love when a player gets down and describes what they do rather than just being like "I attack with my sword."
My Dm doesn't seem to like it that much when I do it, can't help myself sometimes tho
It's more like a bad habbit us forever DMs get after years of constant descriptions.
HacaPotato Mercer’s not the only one that does it. When Matt Coleville guest starred he was doing something very similar.
Who else is here in the year of 2021 because of Travis Willingham being the biggest troll in CR history?
Definitely me!
Same
I am
Present
quite true
Me: Watching old one shots to escape the crazy times we’re in
Liam, immediately: “Everyone has the flu and is incredibly sick!”
I'm in the exact same mood - feel a lil bad about watching a Christmas thing in June but hey ho?
@@shanemiley3533 We're only halfway through the year and I'm already craving candy canes
Same XD
@@littlebigweirdo556 I just bought an entire jar of candy canes
Hears this 🙁🙁🙁🙁🙁😳😳😳😳
I love that Matt's character (Klaus) is essentially a serial killer or a paranoid security guard with too many guns. I really hope they do this again next year.
Klaus Blart: Pole Cop
He has killed 300 so i think its the serial killer one
Alston Harris I think he said 637 so almost twice that number
I got to be the 666th like on that comment
I mean, if Chutney remembers the 1700s, Klaus could be a 200+ years old. That's only 3 per year. Three trespassers/burglars/theives at one of the most prominent production sites in the world, idk... If people are coming in to kidnap Santa, maybe it's not as safe as we think it is.
I like how Matt provides helpful input without being controlling of the game, when Liam asked for help he was glad to give advice. I think that's so cool
i can actually see in his eyes when he heard some mistakes here and there and he kept his mouth shut. he's a good player
Yes! And hard! I DM for my crew most times switching only when I feel I have to much to do in life. And the few times I sit down as a player with that same group the first 20-30 minutes my brain is in total DM-mode. It's a problem 😂
Matt is biting his tongue hard
Yep, keeping shut up is hard. But, when asked for how a rule works is something else.
Matt is a wellspring of knowledge to draw from as a DM. I 100% approve of his occassional backseat DM'ing.
Travis stabbing Santa is one of the funniest player decisions in CR history
He should have whispered into Santa's ear after stabbing him.
"Recognize The Alpha." 😆
I love that when Matt gets to play he just goes absolutely FERAL
...and then sometimes completely breaks character by genuinely chuckling at everything. I! LOVE! IT!
It almost seems like he knows what a DM might put in front of every'one when he ready's for battle when no one else does hahaha..... wait...
@@toraquan his DM poker face is too good. I’m the first two campaigns he held composure on some of the best jokes for the sake of keeping an NPC administrative or serious or angry. Absolutely love it. The PC Matt is amazing too just a fun man!
The riposte was a very smart speedup showing great dnd skill.
He’s equally as much as a goblin as the rest of critical role he just has to be the responsible one 98% of the time
How does Tal manage to sound like Every 15 year old boy at the same time
He had thousands of years to practice.
He was a child actor, this is therapy.
He's been a 15 year old boy thousands of times
I feel like these responses are all simultaneously true
Tal is a timelord so what do you expect xD
Oh my god I just realized. The first fight was against Lock, Shock, and Barrel from Nightmare Before Christmas. A purple witch, a devil, and a skeleton. That's ingenious.
OH SHI-
Huh, neat
Every part of it was pulled from Nightmare Before Christmas, actually (Halloween characters and locations), just with the dial cranked all the way up on the "Nightmare"
Did you recognize the treehouse too?
DynamicWorlds yeah I made this comment literally after I had seen the opening fight and no further, it’s still pretty ingenious though
As soon as Liam said worm sack I was thinking wait a second a sack of worms? That's a familiar Christmas villain...
(I'm so far behind I'm just now watching this)
Quick reminder to add more fuel to the fire: according to Narrative Telephone, Chutney did in fact get sent to Exandria (specifically Nicodranas) after the events of this one shot.
Amazing, amazing, amazing! This one shot was hilarious and I cannot believe I haven't watched until now. Can't wait for what happens Thursday
Which episode of narrative telephone it is?
@@PandaBearWithMic Round 2, Episode 7: Chutney's Christmas Vacation
@@wjblegge thank you
Marisha: why do none of us play a fighter ever
Percival fredrickstein von musel klossowski de rolo III: *looks at the camera like the office*
@@josiemcmillan5012 Or you could be Tary and shorten it to P. De Rolo III
To be fair, it's easy to forget that Percy was a fighter class, since he was always just referred to as a gunslinger.
@@CptObvious it's because they switched from Pathfinder, where gunslinger is its own class, so they made a homebrew thing for it.
Right, and when they switched to 5e Matt made Gunslinger an archetype of fighters. My point was that since they only ever referred to him as the gunslinger archetype, and never as the fighter class, it's easy to forget that he technically was one.
Travis points out that Percy was a Fighter but, Grog took dips into Fighter as well
Taliesin, in his normal voice: I've always wanted to see someone choke on a lego brick.
bless him.
that was a weird but great comment
Those would be the desires of a Cthonic Immortal
Taliesin went full Artagan for a moment
Yeah, all the TH-cam videos that supposedly feature people choking on Legos are all clickbait anyway...
...I mean... weird comment, huh...?
We mortals can’t understand the mind of a pyramid
"he told me to make vultron out of wood, no one wanted it,
he told me to make a game boy, I can't do circuts,
he told me to make the little trolls, but the hair didn't move"
this is Legit sad. even more so with that delivery from travis
Yea it really was
Honestly a Voltron made of wood sounds like a dope collectors item
I so wanted him to one-shot Santa, and it just end with the Wraith of the Lich King ending. There must always be... a Santa Claus.
My question is: was voltron made from a single wooden block like back in chutney's day? Or was it "assembly required"? 😆
Taliesin turning his candy cane into a shiv is the most on brand shit
They all are sharpening their own, and it has me dying
I love Wormsack’s introduction. It’s loud, over the top, it feels like it’s coming straight from Liam’s imagination, and the way he says “roll for initiative” and excitedly runs off to get his map just shows how stoked he is to be running this game.
Wormsack is oogie boogie fr nightmare before Christmas
It's literally a parody of nightmare before christmare, oogy boogy, jack, the 3 kid, the bathtub with feet. He was just talking like oogy boogy lol
@@Chibipayne I can see how I might have been misinterpreted, but I mean that when he introduces Wormsack, what was in Liam's mind's eye was coming out of his mouth, not that Wormsack was an original creation straight out of Liam's mind. It's a nightmare before christmas parody, but that doesn't mean he can't be good at describing it.
Chutney was 100% the MVP of this episode, I laughed at every single thing that came out of Travis' mouth. Arthur was a close second bc Taliesin as a teenage asshole will never not be amazing.
and matt as a bad ass elf was a pleasure as well
Shoutout to Ashley's impeccable New York elfitude
That's often true. Travis is hilarious. And Taliesin was effing HYSTERICAL during the Darrington Brigade live show. They all were really. Except Marisha. She tried too hard sometimes. 🤟🏻😂
2:48:02
@@xMRxZEROx Nah Marisha was great during the Darrington Brigade one shot, her character was super creative
Thats what happens when a DM makes a character = Mercer goes beastmode, kicking ass taking names.
Or he plays a literal hamster. Though to be fair Boo was a very badass hamster.
Fuck I get it now! Travis is going to keep using one-shot characters to force me to watch all the one-shots! Genius!
I saw a theory that said Travis may be bringing back all his one shot characters so that they can be killed off lol and honestly I don't mind it because it keeps campaign 3 kinda fresh
Exandria's Best CEO Status
@@johnblack8872 Macaroni Samsonite will be the BBEG
@@johnblack8872 Or maybe at the very end they are brought back one last time in an epic endgame style finale LOL
Looks at CR one shot list. Who’s next on the potential murder list, who did Travis play in the darington brigade one shot?
Liam: Haha, Mercer! You put my cat in a gelatinous cube, I put you in a gelatinous cube. check and mate
Vengence 😈
@@youtubegameraddict5016 Then Julie uses the deadly fruitcake to take said cube out. (And people wonder what fruitcake had in it to keep it fresh...although Alton Brown's "free range fruitcake" aka "Alton's Family Fruitcake" was once used as the Secret Ingredient in "Iron Chef America" :P)
No one rollplays like travis
NO ONE ROLLPLAYS LIKE
T R A V I S
KILLS SANTA LIKE TRAVIS
@@maagicmaan569 NO ONE PLAYS AN EVIL ELF LIKE TRAVIS
FOR THERE'S NO MAN IN TOWN HALF AS FUNNY
@@kiwa8830 you have ruined something that could have been magical. But to answer your question a roleplay is when a person stops acting as themselves and fully immerse themselves into the mind, role and world of the character they play as. Hope this helps.
Travis is amazing sam as nott is amazing liam as caleb is amazing
@Theo Salmon yup
“You built a Caleb but without the crippling guilt.”
...man liam out here *_flaming_* his own character.
Better make a wisdom save.
You might even say it was a bit of a BURN.
But not quite as bad as Caleb flamed his parents.
@@kendrajade6688 n o
@@pidgethepigeon2706 *Y* *E* *S*
why is no one talking about Liam's absolutely genius moment when he combines Oogie Boogie's dice/gambling symbolism with the lyrics "put your fate in your hands. Take a chance, roll the dice!" from "Your Turn to Roll"?? It fits so perfectly! I knew right away as soon as he started describing the circle of trees that this was Nightmare Before Christmas inspired and i was so damn hype! Nightmare Before Christmas is my literal favorite movie of all time!!
I knew as soon as the first battle happened when Liam described the 3 different monsters the dark red skinned figure with horns ( the devil) = lock. hag( witch) = shock the dead guy (skeleton) = barrel
Matt talking shit about Marisha's natural one, to then immediately roll a natural one, might be the highlight of the show for me
Blows a quad
Me: Liam is finally going to DM a wholesome session with a happy ending this will be great
Travis: *Obi-Wan voice* Oh I don't think so...
chutney voice: Ohhh i dont think so...
Liam is DM of his children if you didn't know
@@DonHendricks This implies that he knew damn well that one of his PCs was gonna try to kill Santa. It's what I would expect out of any group of children.
It would be better if It was Bane's voice
"You're a fool Klaus! we can't compete with Amazon!"
Holy shit I don't think I could have loved Travis more than I did this holiday special XD
That's why they joined them to create a second animated season! It goes full circle man, the wheel turns!
When does he say that?
@@BENI-ye4nx 4:26:00
15:12 "The Grog that you made only has half a beard."
Liam reliving his greatest hits.
“…Vax!”
*snaps mechanical pencil*
"Chutney's Revenge" needs to be next year's critmas special.
Oh man, that idea is brilliant! XD
Yes, please! 😄😄
Can we wait an entire year for it?
He should be a Death Knight, like Lord Soth.
Travis could do it if you were to DM again
Liam (to Matt): What do you think?
Matt: It's your game!
Liam: Thank you, but WHAT'S THE RULE YOU BEAUTIFUL DM?!?!
That's complete change my view about Liam and Matt dinamic.
@@gilbertosilva1304 They feel like liam always tries to brake the rules and look at matt if its possible. This just goes along with that, Matt knows most, and liam just tries ifhe can bend rules in his favour, while respecting Matts knowledge
For Public Records this takes place roughly at 50:30
Public Records thanks you!
Additionally, at 46:15 when Sam couldn't remember the rules and everyone immediately turns to Matt to have the rules explained to them
1:42:36
Sam Riegel: “On Blitzen, on Blitzen, on Blitzen, and Blitzen”
Me: * literally chokes on my water *
I'm so excited to see "Chetney" causing as much chaos as possible.
I can't wait either. This is going to be CHAOS
Did they announce a sequel or something?
@@AmDeadInside You might want to catch up on campaign 3. Lets just say there was a cameo...
@@samdyer-payne4719 will do! Thanks!
No fat man with a beard is save from now on.
God bless Travis Willingham, that wonderfull chaos-engine
You know what..... Travis is actually a very chaotic person, and I never realized that, before.
@@Anubis30224 Which makes him being the CEO even better!
Chutney is the best thing ever!
And Sam Riegel, the only person able to make Travis weep from laughter, as well as supplement his chaos to a larger whole".
Travis and Laura truly were meant for each other. **LET CHAOS REIGN**
Sam: "Be honest with us, is the naughty list a hit list?"
Matt: "Well there's the nice list, there's the naughty list, and there's the NAUGHTY list."
Ashley: "So there's two naughty lists? How do you know which is which?"
Sam: "What if you make a mistake?"
Matt: "Well that's only happened twice"
Who's Allison?
@@Larilyon1 LMAO, So true. I'll correct
Ashley: "Mistakes were made"
He checks it twice
@@smilemore7431 after those two deaths, *now* he checks it twice. XD
I loved everyone in this, but Travis was insane. Every time he was opening his mouth it was another highlight of the episode. He stayed in character, with accent and all, for the full episode and the final betrayal made this episode an instant favorite. This is why I love these one-shot special episodes. You can only do that here. Julie was also great. I hope she will come back in the future.
"Why are none of us playing a fighter class?"
And then Liam had an idea.
An awful idea
@Ryan Reffert
If they won't make a fighter..... I'll make one instead!
@@theKurtAnderson He actually made a vary interesting combat style with Orym. It was a pretty good idea! Nice character too.
@@desmondcoppin591 I was continuing the Grinch quote that OP started.
Orym was imagined during Campaign 1. Also, Sam was playing a Fighter.
"I've always wanted to see someone choke on a lego..." -Taliesin, in passing. :-O ?!
I know right! Marisha did a double take but no one else said anything, lol.
new york accent "mage armor" is the new texas accent "eldritch blast"
Yes
mage ormor*
2:11:10 "I always thought the December Red Snows were a natural phenomenon ..." Oh man Matt and Travis are hysterical together! :)
It was marisha that said that not travis x
@@ravenqueen4873 It was definitely Travis. Marisha came after saying it was the reason they call it Black Friday (which I don't quite get since the that's the day after Thanksgiving, not Christmas, and black is not the same as red).
@@tuftbelly601 Yeah, when I first got into critical role I had a hard time latching on. Started season 2 and it was a lot of meandering from tavern bar to tavern bar and a lot of talking with no actual set objective. If it wasn't for Laura and Sam, I wouldn't be the fan that I am now because FUCK! Marisha and Talisen are seriously some of the most uncomfortable people to watch and extremely unpopular opinion but I'm glad Molly got popped that character was just a colorful Chriss Angel and Talisen was floundering trying to make him the cool and aloof character he was shooting for. Caduceus is so much better... now if Beau could just 🔪🧏🤞
TLDR There's no way Marisha made that joke.
Mr. Bee'Otch k
@@MrBEEOUTCH Don't know if you're caught up, but Beauregard as a character has gotten better/more palatable (in my opinion). Definitely agree in the beginning that her attempts at being cool/funny reeked of "Try-Hard Terry" syndrome. But once the character opened up and started to explore the group dynamic I felt myself start to slightly warm up to that character. That being said, the way the character is played from time to time rubs me the wrong way.
I don't get the hype behind Mollymauk; my $$ is on the androgynous nature of the character, because they weren't particularly contributive to the group dynamic in either RP or Combat. Cadeuces is a far more contributive character on both fronts.
I’m back for my annual screening of this wonderful one shot. Happy Holidays and Merry Critmas critters!
This entire episode was a jolly good time of outstanding and hilarious moments all abound. But nothing, absolutely nothing will haunt my future with the threat of sudden, overwhelming laughter like remembering a broken and bitterly whispered "You're a fool, Claus... we can't compete with Amazon..."
4:26:00 priceless quote. someone needs to do fanart of this scene. its so good!
Right as I read the last sentence, Travis said that, I'm shaking
That was freaking amazing!!!!
@@MarkEdwardRom It needs to go hard too, a grizzled Klaus and a bloody Chetney, leaking crimson from his mouth as he says it.
GAG ME WITH A SPOON MRS HENDERSON
C Brabzilla choke me devil daddy choke meeeee
@@tireshop6219 on a lego chunk
Gag us all with a spoon, Gale
GOSH!
"The element of... SURPRISE!"
Rushes in to see the grotesquely monstrous bathtub
"Well, that is a surprise"
Matt fearing a Gelatinous cube by eating it while inside it is the most Matt Mercer thing ever.
Reality is real! LIVE IN IT!
-Travis Willingham 2018
Sahir Virmani it’s the new “life needs life to live”
How ironic...
@@MOsesIcan life needs things to live
amjad khan very true!!!!
Time stamp?
Now I come every Christmas to relive the tale of Chutney.
Same. I'm perfectly fine with making this a new Christmas tradition.
@@Kiserai CRITTERS, WE HAVE A NEW YEARLY GATHERING
TO WITNESS CHUTNEY ATTEMPT MURDER ON SAINT NICK
@@awinnerismi Christmas 2020 bby
i would die for chutney
I didn’t see It before and decided that if I was going to watch it in 2020 I might as well wait for December. I was not disappointed
I like to think that Klaus’ department is run by Mrs. Claus, so all of the ruthless kill-counts are just her being in charge.
dont fuck with Mrs. Claus
@@julianwenz4270 your pfp reminded me how much I miss cayde
@@deshanfelder7172 RIP the homie
@@deshanfelder7172 raise a glass in honor of the greatest of us Hunters. To Cayde-6! 🍻
"The fanfics led to internships" truly a Christmas miracle
Taliesin - Arthur Fizzlebottom
Travis - Chutney Chocolatecane
Matt - Claus Prigman
Sam - Bundlesten Sprusenburg
Marisha - Cranberry Stockings
Julie - Ellory Jinglegumdrop (thanks!)
Ashley - Nutmeg Gingersnap
Her name's Julie Nathanson btw. Fellow voice actor.
Cranberry started talking w an Irish/Celtic accent then went Canadian so naturally it was uncanny. kind of miss her attempt at a Brave accent
I want stickers of Chutney, Claus, Bundlesten and Cranberry♡
THANK YOU
Thank you, so much
if Fjord ever dies I *need* Chutney to be Travis' new character
Fuck yes.
Somehow I'd be delighted if this was Fjord's real voice and way of talking, when he's not imitating Vandren.
Chutney should be in the quest to find Grog.
When*
@@heavynovI have seen a few people referencing something like this. Is this a speculation or did I miss something?
Matt did 78 damage in one turn. Too bad he's a forever DM.
This wasn't a super min-maxed character. It just a plain vanilla single-class 8th level Fighter (Battle Master) with only a +3 strength modifier, with two-weapon fighting. I assume his canes were re-skinned maces, so only 1d6, not the classic 1d8 rapiers you'd use to min-max a dual wield build.
Fighters have good burst damage with Action Surge (1/rest at that level); especially Battle Master if you use all 4 of your superiority dice in that one turn, especially if you don't miss. And especially if you get a crit to double a superiority die.
I love to see Matt play, but not because of min-maxed character builds. He does play tactically well, e.g. if you watch him in Escape From the Bloodkeep he makes some cool and clutch moves. But this fight wasn't complicated. It happened to play to the strengths of the build he chose, but I think most of the cast would have been able to do that with that character.
If you really wanted to see amazing burst, Fighter 3 / Paladin 5 or something could have dumped +2d8 Divine Smite into some of those 5 attacks *as well* as superiority dice, including the crit which would double the smite dice. A 3rd-level Battlemaster still gets 4 superiority dice (d8), and Action Surge, and a 5th level paladin gets 6 spell slots (including 2x 2nd-level for +3d8 smites). And could have been wielding a Greatsword (2d6 base damage on each of 4 attacks), or still doing dual wield with 2 different "fighting style"' options from Fighter and Paladin (1d8 base on each of 5 attacks assuming optimal 1h weapons).
@@Peter_Cordes I remember one time I did almost 300 damage in one round at level 12 with 9 levels of paladin and 3 levels of champion fighter. And Right now im playing a glory paladin and planning on taking 3 levels of echo fighter after I get my aura. It’s looking like it will be pretty nuts at later or even mid levels.
Came here to remind myself of what Travis did with this character and i am a firm believer that after this, he changed his name to go in hiding. x_x
Ive been reading some comments on this stream( cant confirm cause i havent seen the most recent episode of campaign 3 or narrative telephone) but supposedly during the narrative telephone special, chutney was sent to exandria, specifically Nicodranis. My spelling aside, travis' new character might actually be our favorite santa stabbing elf in disguise
nah, Santa doesn't exist in this universe. it's an entirely "different" person. but, like, obvs the same character
@@Destinysday i would love to agree with this but i really doubt they'll incorporate earth into their stories. it's too close to breaking the 4th wall at that point. not to mention that in the version of earth depicted in this one shot, they're making figures of their characters from the past 2 campaigns. this means chutney would be crossing over from an earth that critical role exists in, which is kind of a mind fuck.
@@friedtoads13 I mean it's possible, our world is a realm in dnd technicaly, dnd anything Gose lol
Changed it just enough to stay off the radar but close enough he would recognize it and respond when it’s used. Chutney put himself in witness protection 😆
Julie: "THIS THE OPPOSITE OF WHAT WE WERE SUPPOSED TO BE DOING! WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU?"
Welcome to Critical Role!
welcome to D&D.
“You’re new to this whole DnD business, aren’t ya?”
@@Grim_Sister In D&D, you EXPECT the plan to go wrong. That way, when they occasionally go right, it’s a nice surprise XD
Liam's reaction when everyone started singing after Marisha tolled the dead is hilarious.
Time stamp?
3:13:00
He looked like that one meme of Elmo
Not gonna lie, after the video was over I was still waiting for Travis to say that Chutney was covered in blood standing in the forest saying "See you next Christmas". As the next morning every character finds a wooden toy under their pillows XD
My head cannon
They wake up next to wooden horse heads in each of their beds.
I love how even in this "Christmas sweater attire" dress code, Matt still wears a vest, and Tal somehow a goth Christmas sweater. xD
What an amazing, off-the-rails game. Thank you all so much for this. Can't wait until Critmas II: Red Sled Redemption
Fuck me that title is perfect.
Critmas II: A Very Merry Boogaloo
Critmas II: Fallen saint Chut! Krampus origin story! this was it!
When Laura isnt here Travis kills Santa
Hannah Walker ever get the feeling Travis is Chaotic Neutral?
Spoilers!
@@dubbingsync Oh my gosh, you're right!
"she is 90% of my impulse control"
Chaotic Neutral seems about right
We really need Travis playing more sassy old people... Him and Matt were the two best parts of this episode
We need a one-shot of all senior characters!
I love when its said: why aren't any of us playing a fighter?
Idk I kinda liked Taliesin's edge lord.
@@mijaxyl Oooh, is there an RPG set in an old folks home? Oh, Oh, Another twisted Liam game where the CR cast play as themselves but 30 years from now? I NEED THIS!!
@@MarkEdwardRom Next season, Marisha plays a fighter! :P
3:01:23 Chut and Nut is yelled by Travis and Ashley doesn't acknowledge it. Sam repeats the same line and then Ashley responds and yells it back to him! Travis looks so defeated ahaha
My favorite insurance of this was the "Nut up or Chut up" earlier in the video.
Me sitting through this wonderful one shot, blissfully unaware: "Huh a witch, a devil, and an undead skeleton man. That's a weird combo but I'm sure Liam has a reason.
*Liam starts to describe the circle of distinct trees with different Holiday doors*
Me: WAIT A FUCK
That was definitely my reaction last year. At least this year I can appreciate it right from the start.
𝑇𝐻𝐸 𝐶𝐻𝐼𝐿𝐷𝑅𝐸𝑁?!?!
I just realized that. I was thinking through half the one shot "Man, this is kinda like the Nightmare before Christmas!" Then literal Oogie Boogie came up. But I never connected the dots to the devil, witch, and skeleton
@@wardrecaridius3740 Well, since it's kind of Nightmare Before Christmas inspired it could be Lock, Shock and Barrel. The little kids that were dressed up as a witch, a little devil and a skeleton.
At first I thought, "Huh, kidnapped Santa, kinda like Nightmare before Christmas"
Then, "Witch, devil, and skeleton and they serve Wormsack? THIS IS NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS!"
I absolutely adore Liam’s whole D&D Dad style of DMing. Such an absolute joy to watch.
He actually does campaigns for his kids and their friends! Absolute DM-dad
@@rosiecooper8030 He’s just got that “Cool Nerd Dad” vibe, like the teacher from stranger things.
"You built the Caleb but you left out the crippling guilt, so he's barely recognizable" LIAM YOU CHAOTIC WONDER
Hold on a moment... the first combat encounter was a Hag, a Demon and a Skeletal figure.........
.....did they just straight-up kill Lock, Shock and Barrel?!
Yep. And then they tracked the claw marks of the clawfoot tub they traveled in. Amazing detail.
It took me 1 hour and 44 minutes to realize that the inspiration was nightmare before Christmas 😂 and I love it.
Right? I didn't realize who they were until Shock said "Worm Sack"
As soon as they Said that a basin was making off with a sack into the woods I just lost it. And then started sing kidnap a sandy claws to myself
I'm glad I'm not the only one that noticed.
Current Mood: Travis nearly choking on a piece of candy cane at around 2:39:26 live on stream while Matt, Ashley, and Marisha look on in horror and concern.
Baebadook Imagine having friends get all concerned about your wellbeing like that.
And Matt's, "what have we learned?"
@@thenosieyartist6924 You know, I considered going into the comments to find out what he said, but I thought I'd get back to it after I finished the video. Sure thing I forgot, but I found you anyway XD
@@dig8634 always here :) also what are you doing watching a Christmas campaign in fuckin march? Honestly no shade but why out of curiosity
@@thenosieyartist6924man, I'm watching this in July.
Oh man, Travis was on absolute fire this session
He does really well to match the insanity that is dm Liam.
I'm really enjoying this episode as a whole, but Travis is taking it to the next level for sure.
Bobaline making is grand return XD
I get the feeling he wasn't acting.
Literally anything he says in that voice is hilarious
Matt Mercer dont break character till the dvd commentary
I love tropic thunder
Maybe because Matt Mercer’s character is Matt Mercer
Matt Mercer doesn’t read the script, the script reads him.
Matt gets so frustrated when Sam as FCG insists that Exandria is flat, but he started the flat earth jokes. Klaus, at 4:34:00
Guess it different when it’s about the world you created.
Sam and Travis watched this one night before Campaign 3, and Sam decided he wanted FCG to be a Flat-Exandrian to mess with Matt and the others, and Travis decided to bring back Chutney as Chetney.
I can't take Matt seriously! The dude's in character the whole time wearing and tree hat! I love this show.
That is the beauty of the whole situation though xD
Don't forget spouting lines like...
"No one else get bifornicated."
What class is he playing? I'm having trouble pinning the sections and feats he's using
@@knittingmoose He's playing a fighter.
knittingmoose Battle Master Fighter Specifically
I kinda love how about halfway in Taliesin the teenager meticulously creating a candy-cane shiv and giving questionable side-eyes to the other elves while watching them struggle to even grab a rope; and doing all this upside down hanging from a tree.
1:39:45 I love Travis saying that nobody takes the annoying elf voice because no one wants go hear it for 4 hours, but flash forward a year to the "Darrington Brigade" where we get his Mac voice and he kills it.
Klaus's emotionless expression as Santa says of course they don't kill people is terrifying to me
Right?!?
Kinda makes you wonder if that is the normal company line…
Taliesin being incredulous at how overpowered a class is is pretty funny considering critrolestats puts his maximum damage output as Percy at roughly 800 damage in 1 round.
What episode did that happen in? I forget when Percy kills everything, since he does it so often
Austin White the 800 damage was a calculation by critrolestats to see what the max damage for each character would be in a single round. Percy could deal over 800 damage in a single round, while the runner up was Grog at around 550 damage in a round
Guns just be like that
"this is some broken-ass shit!"
@@Archer13591 And that's why we need gun control
I love how Matt is physically into character, even holding the candy canes like the're weapons irl.
Travis: Time to decide if you're gonna be a man
Matt: I'm not a man. I'm an elf.
This much exposure to Liam's bright personality and acting Talent is quite a treat I must say
I was thinking the same. Liam plays such mournful, brooding characters, so it's nice to see him smiling
@@bhickling9632 Even his broody characters have silly fun. Like when Vax braided ribbons into Trinkets fur, or Caleb wearing octopus frumpkin like night vision goggles.
@@stingerjohnny9951 kinda yes, but it is not the same
things I learned from this episode: Liam can sure make some FUNKY sounds
He always made the animal sounds with Calebs polymorph
"Holy...Night!"
"Don't worry, Santa, you're still coming to town."
Sam's the most hilarious human being on this earth :'D
When was that?!
@@aimeepollock2943 I can't tell anymore, wrote the comment after finishing the episode... I can add timestamps when I watch it again
Agree about Sam! Timestamp: 4:20:07
Yeah Matt, Fighters REPRESENT!
Also, 'We can't fight Amazon!' slayed me.
4:07:58 Travis says "You have to stop me" and starts cracking up while Matt stares at him and pantomimes "I'm watching you." Matt knew DAMN WELL what he was about to do!
"3 hentai tentacles"
*I LIKE IT*
Can't we all agree chutney is #1 on top 10 anime betrayals?
In 2019 it will be; The Night Before Critmas 2: Chutney's Revenge
Edit; He will also have an army of wooden toy soldiers.
Wooden toy soldiers finished with some metal peace’s of course
@@efferillis3980 With real metal weapons.
wait are u describing a dark version of the nutcracker where the rats and the rat king are the heroes vs the elf(s) and the toy soldiers as the villains?? the girl sides with the rats? I need to see this happen!
@@MarkEdwardRom ROFL
This feels like The Santa Clause 2
I love at 2:46:25 when Matt's just talking about the second naughty list, and how mistakes had been made twice before, and now there's "precautions" in place.
Like what, Klaus??? Are you the reason for the line "makin' a list, checkin' it twice"!?
It's my headcannon that the "happened twice" were JFK and Archduke Frans Ferdinand.
@Danny Knesek
Klaus sits before a wall of monitors, some of them feeds of text, some of them live video feeds. The prompt “Kill order: ___” flashes on the center screen, as crosshairs center over a politician’s head on one of the other screens.
He glances over to the hit list he’s made and checks it once.
_It won’t happen again, it can’t happen again._
He checks it twice.
_I’ve got you this time, you son of a bitch._
His gloved fingers patiently key in the phrase that reflects off his half-moon glasses:
“Terminate”.
Rudolph quietly utters “copy,” before pulling the trigger.
The reason why the list is checked twice. always twice.
"He's making a list, checking it twice, gonna find out who's naughty or..." 'NAUGHTY'
Time for the yearly tradition of watching this special for the holidays
'tis the season again! Cheers, eggnog and marshmallows to you! Merry Critmas! ♥
Have a merry Yule and a good winter solstice friends!❤
I was literally just thinking this! One of my favourite Christmas traditions now! 😊
As a kid I watched It's a Wonderful Life with my parents. Now this is the yearly holiday watch without fail.
True true😂
I love how when Liam dm's everything is gory and either sticky or gooey
He's a nightmare dm in the most literal way possible
Meanwhile when Matt dms everything has a maw.....
Listen to this every Christmas Eve, but this year - that intro hits different.
Hah, I should have scrolled down - I commented pretty much the same thing!
Same! Every Christmas Eve since its release! Hope for a sequel some day.
same. it's like a nice warm hug.
What's Christmas without Chutney?
Worth rewatching anyway I feel.
I can't believe no one was a bard singing Christmas songs.
That could have been Laura's character who wast absent