Monster Factory: Reviving The Shrek Franchise With Spore
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 9 ก.พ. 2025
- We weren't anticipating our encounter with Spore to turn into the latest three-part Monster Factory saga, but here we are. The game is so rich with potential, but also so rich with game-ruining crashes and design problems that it makes it difficult to stick with any one creation. Hence our abandonment of the "Sequel to Dogs" project - our apologies, Jaa'm - and our migration to a new cause: The long-overdue revitalization of the Shrek intellectual property.
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"I've made an un-killable creature, and I've lost him." Isn't this basically the plot of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein? lol
Only if Bee Movie manages to escape from the computer and kill Griffin's wife.
(very suddenly and enthusiastically) BACKPACK FOR HIS APPLESAUCE. BACKPACK WHERE HE KEEPS HIS APPLESAUCE
Everybody catch his juicy Jaa'm wave.
2:24 for my own viewing later
The backpack chosen especially to carry applesauce, applesauces backpack. That backpack?
Is his applesauce backpack filled with jars of applesauce, or those little cups, or is the whole thing filled to the brim with applesauce like some kind of CamelBak, with a little straw to drink?
I want to know more
2:22 actually
one of my favorite Monster Factory things is Griffin typing furiously in silence while Justin loses it
Uncle Lucky you really wanged it this time
Out of all the comments I've seen here, all have failed to acknowledge the fact that tribal Jaa'm showed up on the registry of native creatures on the planet they created after Slam Dunk City.
Riley υωυ Oh god, it’s still out there
Riley υωυ so what ur saying is...they’re still living?? They haven’t been exterminated yet????????? No one put them back into Pandora’s box and locked that shit?
Am I ok? Absolutely not No, the Ja’am is still out there. In the Thanos snap that should have ended them left one alive.
Ryne Mcgriffin This comment has the horrifying implications that Jaa’m can perform asexual reproduction
Rosie Low It’s like the gosh darn Xenomorphs! Don’t eat their applesauce or else they’ll incubate inside you and burst out of your chest
I think about Jaa'm's Applesauce Backpack on a daily basis
alice ashbrooks Do you catch that juicy Jaa'm wave on a daily basis?
Who doesn’t
The only thing I’m ever able to catch
Even two years later he still has that apple sauce that you crave.
@@Jeevesie1988 even 4 years from then,he still has the applesauce that you crave
The part where the game stole your bee movie character i just died laughing
backpack for his applesauce.
BACKPACK WHERE HE KEEPS HIS APPLESAUCE.
Jaa'm has got that applesauce that you crave!
everybody catch this juicy jaa'm wave
I laughed till I had the hiccups and tears running down my cheeks when that happened 😂
2:20
My new theme song.
The horrifying reveal that Buzzbo Beemovie had returned from oblivion as a formidable enemy is legit one of the scariest moments in Monster Factory. Just, pure, unintended spookiness.
Take it to the bank, boys, this one's similar to but legally distinct from a Shrek!
Weee are similar to but legally distinct from the lollipop guild! The lollipop guild!
when exiting the creature creator, bee movie saved to the sporepedia (in-game collection of creatures) but was not saved as the player's species before the crash. after restarting the game, the world generator said "i need to place a species here" and chose one from the sporepedia, and it happened to be bee movie.
It prioritizes player's creations.
Oh boy
@@Arrakiz666 I occasionally just make an ultra-lethal Spore and it makes my own life hell on later creations.
I love how Buzzbo gained awareness and reprogrammed itself into the game.
Mike Myers gives Shrek franchise to McElroy brothers - "they're better at Shrek than I am," he admits.
There's a new Shrek in town.
It's their swamp now
DonkeyLover69 comments: Just like Shrek
Mike Myers says "Take it to the bank boys, this ones just like Shrek."
They’re the shrekmen now
Spore is a strange case, where everything in the game is great, except the actual game. The creature creator is still loads of fun.
I liked some aspects of the space stage purely from a kind of messed up creative standpoint, but otherwise I totally agree
honestly even though the game was shit i want a spore two, because i feel there was potential to be great, just you know, actually connect all the parts of the game other then giving you abilitys based on the previous stages
It's definitely a game that could only benefit from a sequel. Just improve every aspect even a little and you've got something great.
I feel like I'm the only one in the entire multiverse who likes the gameplay of Spore and the creature creator equally
The God of Soap, Kekcario Nah fam, I do too.
we started out as dogs and ended up as ripe avocados
Thats my fave fall out boy lyric
it was only a kiss
it was only a kiss
Stopping to play Stardew Valley when stressed and angry is a mood
I love how quickly the goal shifted from…
Trying to create a sequel to dogs → To trying to oppose God → then back to making a dog → then trying to make shrek.
the fucking "email" just about murders me every fucking time. "this has been left intentionally blank." just gets me. so hard
The "backpack where he keeps his applesauce" part gets stuck in my head at least once a week
Haylee Elizabeth
I constantly return to this video because BACKPACK FOR HIS APPLESAUCE just pops into my brain.
Instead of creating the sequel to dogs I think the boys might have shown us the precursor to the book of Revelations.
Underrated comment
I like the idea of this becoming a sort of spin off of the Worst Idea of All Time podcast where Justin and Griffin play spore from the cell stage to the tribal stage every week.
I'm worried Griffin would kill someone or himself or both.
But man would that make for a great video.
go listen to a little podcast called "Til Death Do Us Blart"
No. They neef to do space stage. It is too much. It is so confusing
7:37 “something that’s gonna make people want to watch basically the exact same Monster Factory video a second time.” Me on my 70th viewing of this video: are we not supposed to rewatch these on repeat forever, hoping that the Monster Factory will throw open its gates again to let us observe its wonderful new machinations???
*I D E M A N D M O R E A P P L E S F O R P R O D U C T I O N*
but seriously, if you run out of games you can just do more characters for games you've already played. you've proven that you don't use up all of a games comedic potential by creating a single character
I wouldn't mind more second life videos. Those have been the best so far.
They should go back to the sims 4 and make daytrader vader into the new second dad
Resurrect the final pam
I agree , second life and Sims have unlimited potential
Skyrim Mods! Skyrim Mods!
No seriously, the RaceMenu mod alone has an entire video's worth of content
The first time I ever watched this and Justin's "the brood mama " line hit, I thought I was gonna choke on my own tongue laughing.
I laughed so hard when I realized you'd named the save "Spore is a Bad Videogame".
Plus, I loved the diversion into Stardew Valley. Reminds me of my favorite Giant Bomb video, where the Sleeping Dogs DLC refused to cooperate during a live stream, so Vinnie just pulled out some emulated cowboy game and had himself a laff riot.
ok y'all. i'm too lazy and nervous to figure out how to contact these guys but since theyre running out of games to play, i recently came across an xbox 360 (if they can play on that platform?) game called karaoke revolution that has an.. interestingly robust character creation system for being, you know, a fucking karaoke game. something they could definitely make monsters in. and on top of it all, there seems to be a glitch that may or may not be specific to my disk where if you try to mess with the head shape on a male character, it fucking blows out like some kind of blossoming fungus and refuses to shrink back again. it's intense. so ?? this is just a suggestion if anybody can get the word out. peace
hal vice i wanna know more about this specifically
Hi this comment was from 3 years ago.. so Hi
Smugboon Ah, yes! Another person who replies to SUPER OLD comments! Woo, I’m not alone!
@@johnthedork723 all of us, together
Wow, his thread is really popping off, huh?
Even as someone who actually enjoyed Spore back in the day, your endless ripping of the game was gut-bustingly hilarious. XD
Bust my gut rom
The holy triad
Space Jam, Shrek, and Bee Movie
I've never been so moist
Sigrid Nilsen o you no it
( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
What about Cory in the House?
+Raging Okapi Get out.
We're talking about movies, not chinese cartoons, you dumb egg
backpack👏🏻for👏🏻his👏🏻applesauce
It's somehow taken me approximately 25 rewatches of this video to realize that the plinky-plonky piano "music" in the intro is a version of All Star. I've thought it was literally just stock audio of random piano keysmashes this whole time
ive been having a bad day today and id like to thank the mcelroy boys for bringing me hope in my darkest times
Same. Girlfriend just dumped me and the McElroy's are here to cheer me up.
+NjordsWolf yeah man the same just happened to me
I have two exams next week, these boys saved me
I'm gonna miss Jaa'm tho
Every Jaa'm has it's day.
It's a Jaa'm eat Jaa'm world.
Marley Gilliam I mean "daa'y" Jaa'ms don't have regular dog days. They exist on their own timeline. For example: "These are the long, hot Jaa'm daa'ys of summer."
Come on and slam
Jaa'm lives.
Now donkey is interesting, because you’ve managed to create a creature that walks by lifting all it’s legs off the ground at once
Space Jam has been slowed down so much that it sounds like a different song, or a different genre.
space Jaa'm*
Apéritif 420 Everybody get up, it's time to STOP
I'll watch the same Monster Factory video every time, I think you underestimate us
this is why I save constantly in every game I play. I dropped my DS after catching a shiny Zubat and I lost my progress, being sent to the beginning of the long cave without my shiny. I've had a fear of losing my progress since.
backpack for his applesauce is at 2:23.
you're welcome
I keep imagining one of the Jaa'ms at 5:13 saying "Hi guys, I brought you some fruit to welcome you to the neighbourhoo- Oh, nope, I guess this is what we're doing now... DIEEE!"
Nobody is going to see this but I've been meaning to say it for the last 7 years--Jaa'm ambulates all crazy bc Griff made him upside down in the first episode (the spine inside the pink blob is supposed to be at the top)
monster factory is keeping me alive
49% wanna die, 51% wanna watch monster factory
THIS
48 percent wanna die, 51 percent wanna watch monster factory, 1 percent wants to wait till griffin and Justin die so i can say when i die i watched all the monster factories.
i'm part of that 1 percent.
Eli It’s the fluid in your intravenous tube that’s keeping you alive
every time griffin goes "wHAt'S tHe dEEALL with POLLEN" and "whAT's thE dEAl with my STAMEN" i lose my goddamn mind
The Monster Factory experience is just cry-laughing and whispering "I hate it"
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“Will crash the game!!! Will!! Please hear my prayers” gets me every time
In the battle between Bee Movie and Shrek, the only winner is FINAL PAM
Basically if there’s a versus anywhere, the only acceptable winner is *pam*
Backpack for his applesauce,
Backpack where he keeps his applesauce,
Jaa'm's got the applesauce that you crave!
Everybody catch his juicy Jaa'm wave!
Toe to tip, this is a Shrek!
Eat shit and take it to the swamp, boys! That's a Shreck!
take it to the bank boys!
shreck*
I have no idea what you're talking about. This is clearly SHRECK THE MOVIE, nothing like Shrek.
Just like Shreck!
despite griffin's intesne hatred of this game, the only thing this series makes me want to do is go back and play it :/
It crashed once and requires actual progression. Worse game.
You cannot impress the SHRECK THE MOVIE!
Honestly, after they make the "Donkey" abomination, that cursed "party all the time" sound clip kinda slaps. I'd listen to a full version of the song randomly going demonic like that
Will Wright saw them make the bee movie, and he liked it so much he crashed their game to steal it
Buzzbo walking in circles at 13:38 is what happens to my brain when I forget things.
"I think it's that butt mouth that's really goofing things up"
This is the point at which the Monster Factory started fighting back.
I am glad Stardew Valley is also Griffin's relax game.
Do you think that god too lives in fear of what he's allowed Griffin to create?
'Hide the arm in the forest of legs so they won't see the fighting coming'. - Tsun Zhu
you know, when he tweeted that the next episode would contain a lot of "musical body horror" i expected it to be the anthem creator
i don't think anyone saw this coming
I like to imagine Will Wright watching this series and sobbing to himself
From the sheer beauty
Is this the only game the McElroy boys have gotten legit mad at?
Yeah what was that cat game called?
@@mildlydistressedmaninaturt5452 Catlateral damage
griffin got mad at girls club
They seemed a little bit mad about the Rat Babies
@@rattyeely true, but that was their own fault
I wish I could experience this series for the first time again.
Pause at 3:14. Look at Jaa'm's shadow.
Shrek foreshadowing.
I want to meet the person who edits these so I can thank them for their service.
The fact that they just kept making creatures with backwards spines without knowing it brings me much joy and an embarrassing amount of anger as someone who used to play this.
Take it to the bank, boys! This one's just like Shrek!
Lilgreenman Rounded bottom acting as a toe to tip, that’s a Shrek!
No, it's legally distinct!
This is honestly the best example of alternative approaches to improv ive ever seen
I really liked this game back in the day. I never had these problems though.
I believe it's a problem with newer hardware and drivers.....shame
Mordalon same
"Why are you afraid to tell this story, JOHN LASSETER?" is a joke that got SUPER dark in hindsight
It's been six years and I still think about the backpack. For the sauce.
The part you're all looking for: 2:20
oh my god i have been waiting so long for this. this is the only thing I've been looking forward to
no joke I've been checking my sub feed e v e r y day
+MaxStar McDonald Absolutely
Really, this is better than most tv shows.
The only reason I still haven't offed myself yet is because of the McElroys tbh.
I can't believe fucking Bee Movie went rouge and turned against them
Rogue*
or consider: rouge like red. what's red? anger. it went aggro. illuminabee confirmed
I lost it at "the dog that kisses back"
The rest of the video just increased the funny to the point of me dying
I am now a ghost
Thanks Polygon!
This is probably the most "charcter intro screens" a single monster factory video has ever had
This video provides a visual on how Bee Movie memes are dominating and destroying Shrek memes. Soon there will be no Shrek. Only Bee Movie.
I gotta be honest, this was the video that made me want to play both Stardew Valley and Spore
1/2 so far, thanks for the good times boys
i’m so sick right now, and i’ve come back to this video to bring me joy. Thank you Shreck
“you know when shrek opens his mouth and sings the eternal song and he summons a plague of locusts from the swamp portal”
thats the best part in the whole movie !
I really wish someone would make a video of just all the times games have crashed on the McElroys. It's my favorite subgenera of their library
I wish I saw this video before I bought spore.
PLEASE MORE OF THIS SERIES IT'S THE BEST. Also you two playing games together is awesome and hilarious so please make more videos of that! Like just anything please, even if it's just something like a let's play it'd be awesome. Also THE PEOPLE DEMAND MORE MONSTER FACTORY please do it more often! It's so so so good!
This was one of the funniest videos I have ever watched on TH-cam. Jesus fucking christ, where have you guys been my entire life?
I don't even know how you guys break Spore so hard. It's truly incredible.
My god, that "Party All The Time" part completely killed me.
Griffin having a meltdown and opening stardew valley is one of the funniest things I’ve ever watched.
13:35
The most raw laughter I have ever heard
pretty much torturing my neighbors by yelling at 3 am BACKPACK WHERE HE KEEPS HIS APPLESAUCE
I read this as "tutoring" and my brain just accepted it. Like "yeah that sounds educational."
BACKPACK FOR HIS APPLE SAUCE
I had a pretty shitty day, but seeing this come up on my feed just before I go to bed makes it all worthwhile. Thank you Polygon. Thank you brothers.
set underwear to no
unfuckthisterriblegame
Expecting at least two arguments from "set underwear to no"
I have played SO much spore. It's easily one of the games I've played the most, to the point where now, having not played it for about 5 years, I still remember lots of tips and tricks I discovered from playing it, like prioritising the charge and poison agility before progress to the tribe stage, because when your peeps are using weapons they don't bite or strike
I had a guy in my dnd campaign who made his character exactly like Shrek in every way, but named him Chrek.
it’s always interesting watching people discover the weirdness of a game i’m familiar with
From toe to tip, this is NOT a Shrek.
no but it is a shreck
I don't why, but the phrase: "I love Shrek's cute little antennas" almost just made me choke to death on a biscuit.
Take it to the bank boys, this one's just like Shrek!
watching these again makes me so nostalgic and happy. love these boys.
The reason that this video only has like 975 comments is because it’s just the same group of us watching this video 1.3 million times
“water water everywhere and not a drop to drink” has fully entered my vocabulary because of this video
Guys you need to play The Political Machine 2016, it's character editors is amazing. It'd be great for the series.
its*