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@@ascentar6713 That would still stay Aaron Stone, which was unfortunately, after 2 great (by child standard) seasons, was ended on a cliffhanger without renewal (and I will never forgive Disney for it).
marcus's eyebrow raise has to be his permanent resting face because that guy is doing it in EVERY scene hes in, even when he's just standing behind someone
Years ago when I first saw him on lab rats I had such a crush on him! 😂 And I would like and comment on all his photos on Instagram and one day he liked one of my photos! I straight up died! He went on my Instagram, saw me and liked it?! Wtf! 😂 He’s still super gorgeous too
no way they made Bree's outfiit have high heels and she's the one that runs fast. no way Leo saying, "LIVING IN MY BASEMENT!" is so iconic that him saying living on a bionic island sounds so unatural
I'm glad someone finally noticed how incredibly unfair the writing was to the character of Marcus, the guy had every right to be angry and was clearly looking for a father/mother figure (as you can see calling the villain "mom") . Douglas is an abusive father and he came out of all of that well.
I’d love to see a fanfic either address how sad his life was or give him a pseudo redemption arc that focuses on him, Leo, and Douglass (before he comes back at the end)
I agree. Marcus could have a very intresting character arc. His motivation is quite understandable and complex and his rivarly with the Adam, Bree, Chase and Leo is dynamic. Write off Daniel and focus on Marcus, his revenge story and his final redemption. Also, the fact that Douglas didn't face any consequestions is incredibly annoying. This guy is responsible for why Marcus was a villain in the first place, but the series let him go with an ok.
You mentioned the weird bit where extras aren't allowed to talk, and I'm reminded of that one joke from Victorious where the teacher wanted something from the main cast and one of them asks "Why do you keep having us do this?" and the teacher replies "Because the other kids don't really talk. Like, at all." and another one says "Yeah, they just kinda sit there and... react."
i think the whole talking thing has to do with extras having to be paid more if they have a speaking line. if they don’t have any lines they just get the regular pay
Lab Rats was ICONIC. Till they ruined it with 100 other bionic kids. Also the spinoff that didn’t have the two best character: Leo and Adam was such a serious crime. 😐
Yeah, it really lost its charm in the fourth season. It felt like a different show with the same characters. but I guess it was the only option to continue the show
“Lab Rats has better things to do than make logical sense”, truer words have never been spoken, that just sums up the entire series and wraps it in a neat bow.
@@ninjajeb Thank you! All the silly shit that's happened in the show had me laughing for days 😂🤣! Especially Leo, Leo Douelly was really one of my favorite characters. I love how he went from this bratty kid to actually mature member of the team 😁. That's why I was so pissed he wasn't in Lab Rats Elite Force 😡.
The thing that made lab rats cool to me as a kid was that they were the only bionic kids in the world which made them special, I can accept Marcus, Daniel, and Leo being bionic but like 100 other kids made them seem less cool. I remember when Sebastian was talking about how he was basically as smart as chase it made me feel bad for chase. I feel like having just the six (Adam,Bree,Chase,Daniel,Marcus, and Leo) would’ve been fine for me especially with the adding of Daniel. I know a lot of people thought it was random to add him but I quite liked him. I just think the whole 100 bionic kids in an island bored me
100%. Same for me. I stopped watching when it got to 100+ they didn’t feel special anymore, Expecially with the new kids being “smarter” or “faster”. I compare this feeling to DC’s The Flash. I enjoy the first season but it just gets boring to me the more speedsters the show adds, it makes him less unique, and they are almost always faster than him.
agree 100%! the 4th season completely broke the original set up of the show that made it interesting in the first place, being that adam, bree, and chase were the only bionic humans (that we knew of) in the world and no one being allowed to know about that except the davenports, and as a result the show became harder and harder to enjoy, with the 4th season being too far gone from what made it enjoyable before
I think I mainly found it more boring because every episode early on was about them keeping it a secret in creative ways, it got boring and repetitive in the later seasons cause of the boring plot
I remember even watching it as a kid and being frustrated and annoyed at the whole island thing. The reason I loved the show was watching these robot-y teens trying to fit into a world with a bunch of "normal" people
@@gooeater1544 did you like Sebastian you know before he turned evil and started the rebellion and do you think that Chase telling Sebastian about krane was the right thing to do since the truth about krane could have come out anyway even if Chase didn’t tell Sebastian about Krane.
To this day, Leo’s reaction to Marcus blaming him for the guitar thing is the best I’ve ever seen in that situation. Like, normally the protagonist does the whole “why are you doing this to me?” or “I just wanted to be friends” whereas Leo is just like “… bitch” and knows where they stand. Also, it makes sense why Adam and Chase would believe Marcus over Leo because he’s been transparently jealous and petty for the entire show at that point.
He really does just narrow his eyes and clocks Marcus as a bitch. it’s great. It made Leo a funny protagonist and solidified Marcus as the target of all my vitriol as a kid
The ending where Douglas finally got rid of Marcus instead of Leo was the best part because now Leo doesn’t get the opportunity to destroy his nemesis for good 😹
Lab Rats is definitely one of those shows that I view through rose-colored glasses. I'm 16 and still rewatch this shows regularly but I've never taken notice of any of the continuity errors, random character disappearances, or limited sets.
For some reason, a lot of shows during the time changed the status quo for their final season. Ant Farm went from the high school to a boarding school, Liv and Maddie switched to a new house, Kickin It changed dojos and Lab Rats went from a lab to an island. I think that changing the main location was something that Disney did for final seasons.
Lab Rats was basically: ‘What if Elon Musk had the personality of Iron Man while being the father of three Bionic Kids and creator of a sociopathic AI?’ It’s honestly not a bad concept of a show.
Yo how do people notice these things this comment section is goated. AND I JUST REALIZED THEY WERE CALLING HIM MR DAVENPORT SINCE THE FIRST EPISODE BEFORE THEY KNEW ABOUT THEYRE REAL DAD. I think this was further foreshadowing Douglas being they're real father. What if at a very young age Donald told them not to call him dad and call him Mr davenport instead BECAUSE HE FELT THAT IT WASNT RIGHT. WOW😳
i think also the teens and leo don’t need davenport to be their dad, he’s certainly their family but they don’t feel the need to call him dad (even tho they refer to each other as siblings) but with marcus it’s just him and doug who isn’t very fatherly so it also makes sense that marcus is striving for a real relationship like the lab rats have with their human family and part of that could be calling marcus dad
I really liked Chase as a character. I always saw his "egotism" as him being anxious to please authority figures. He's not that arrogant, he just has daddy issues.
So glad Leo was recognized as one of the carrying characters of the show, kid was absolutely amazing and I absolutely LOVED when he was taken more serious by everyone.
I had blocked Marcus out of my mind for years, but the moment I saw him I swear such an intense sense of primal hatred hit me. I DESPISED Marcus as a kid. Everytime Marcus showed up little me wanting only pain to come to him. Literally no other character caused this, but M A R C U S
I like how the implication of Eddy disappearing after season 3 episode 7 is that he was finally destroyed/banished for his crimes against Tasha and humanity.
@@dawndoesartsomething I liked about Perry is that they did a good job writing her seeing as she’s meant to be a hated character who the audience is meant to hate/dislike and not us the audience just hating/disliking her
Anyone else notice how Bree is A LOT more upset about the possibility of Adam being dead than Chase? Not a single tear shed for Chase but yelling and losing it for Adam lmaoooooo Edit: Also noticing how much I don't like Davenport's attitude towards Douglas in the beginning. You supposedly care enough about them to steal them for their actual father but not enough to care about their birthdays or take them out of the basement??? Yeah okay lol
Idk if this matters but the actor for Bree was dating the actor of Adam at some point so maybe it is related to how she expresses emotions during acting??
I will admit that bree's inconsistency and unpredictability make a bit of sense considering her power, she is going a thousand miles an hour in every direction. The other two have personalities linked to their abilities as well.
i'm sorry but "the next generation of the human race is... living in my basement?!" is leaps and bounds better than "living on a bionic island," that was the first issue
Plus it’s not like the island itself is Bionic, it’s just a regular island which happens to have bionic people on it. “Living on a private island” would’ve been a more interesting hook AND a more accurate description.
HE KEPT THEM IN A BASEMENT!!! THEIR ENTIRE LIVES!!! He experimented on them!!! Theyre totally dependant on him and can’t function in society and I think that might have been intentional!!! Like there’s secret children and there’s oh fuck I gotta call CPS and sue for custody secret children.
I didn't even remember trent but you convinced me that he's by far the best character. A 10/10 subversion of the bully tope. Thank you for taking one for the team and putting yourself through 4 seasons of lab rats
I think Bree’s inconsistency comes down to Disney not knowing what teenage girl stereotype give her so they gave her 2. It would make sense that she’s a tomboy bc she grew up around boys & was the only girl in the family. BUT it also would make sense that bc she spent so long around only around men she was related to, when she got the chance to be a normal girl she became very feminine & boy obsessed. They get away with it bc she’s a teenage girl and teenage girls “can never make up their mind”.
I always interpreted Bree’s personality in the early seasons as a facade of sorts, just kind of puppeting various teen girl stereotypes seen in movies/tv shows. Idk if this was some kind of big-brain move by the writers to be like “she never had a chance to develop a proper personality so she’s just playing a role based on what she’s seen on tv” or just them genuinely not know how to write a teen girl.
At the beginning, it definitely seemed to be the case that it was on purpose to me. (For example, introducing herself to other girls in the first episode saying that she like horses and girl things.) Arguably it went on too long though
The problem is there isn’t a real stereotype to place her in besides being the token female on an all male show for the most part. Chase is smart and egotistical, Adam is a meat head steroid infested teenager and Bree is kind of the one that fits into the mold of a generic Disney channel girl. They could’ve made her the “spoiled favorite child” and had that factor into the adventures. Davenports only daughter whose not as rebellious as the others probably would be the spoiled one.
i think that might not have been the writer's intentions but the way the actress played it off definitely made me perceive your interpretation which made the show sm more enjoyable and layered tbh
tyrell jackson williams has sucha good performance in this show. he's genuinely likable and he knows just how to deliver those cringey disney lines In a way that sounds sincere and real. its refreshing seeing a character played by a child actor be a real character and not a one dimensional joke every single time (like a lot fo there disney shows)
Fr. It’s honestly kinda an OP ability so I can see why he doesn’t use it much in the show even tho they easily could of gotten out of many situations if he used his telekinesis
The villain killing herself with the laser whip is incredibly dark when you realize what it implies. She was basically cut into meaty chunks in what I imagine would be a horrific display of gore. Awesome.
I remember seeing that when I was like 9 All I could do was think about what it must have looked like 💀 Like how the hydra got its head cut off in Hercules.
i abandoned Lab Rats around season 4 as well. When they got to the Island, the family vibe really died out and instead of the powers being a device for family stories and growing pains, the powers were a device for stories about super powered beings. it went from light sci-fi to total sci-fi which didn't work as well in the corny nature of Disney Channel shows with thin tecnobabble that only slipped through due to the fact the show was self aware and it had a cartoony nature to it.
Douglas is the typical "I'm a villain, not a monster" character, I think it's nice that he actually cares about enough about them to not wanting to kill them
I like how he describes it as a phase because technically it was. He was angry, spiteful and jealous, he felt genuinely robbed of his "assets", blinded by the riches he could make as a war profiteer. But when that got taken away from him, he realises his life isn't suitable for a kid and sends Daniel (who he could've easily have used) to a loving foster family. He even admits how he didn't want to hurt them, or even do anything really that bad with them, just doing it for the sake of it out of spite, and when Crane shows he's serious about using the bionic kids as weapons, Douglas gets the hell out of dodge. Douglas isn't inherently a bad person, just lost his way for a while.
I'm still shocked that Leo lost his arm and they didn't really touch on it! Sure they did the stuff about the robot arm, but not how Leo felt about it :/
Him losing an arm and that later character losing her vision could have been a neat way of incorporating characters with disabilities. There’s ways of doing that well without it being bleak, considering it’s a big change in their perspectives. I’m asking way too much of Disney XD here though lmao
my new favorite genre of youtube video is multi-hour discussion of children's shows I've never watched from content creators I've never heard of before that I somehow managed to watch all the way through and be completely entertained the entire time.
Same except I binged watched all the shows as soon as I turned 18 out of curiosity. I didn’t have the time to watch most shows TV shows but then they started showing up on subscription based streaming platforms.
The weird thing about Adam's lung capacity thing, aside from it being used before he actually gets it, is that technically Chase's bionic sneeze at the start of the series is pretty much the same thing
Chases sneeze ability wasn't control, he's couldn't just go "sneeze" and he would sneeze, I'm pretty sure it was a glitch, wheras adams ability is controlable
Marcus raises his eyebrow 41 seperate times in the show . He did it so much that it inspired child me to learn how to do it so i could be just like him !
Personally what I found kind of disheartening, was the lack of focus placed into their familial dynamics and relationships. With an ensemble like this, I'd love if they introduced or 'toyed' with more unlikely duos. Like I wished Tasha was more present in Adam, Bree and Chase's lives to explore their dynamics with their mother figure. For example, let's have a subplot dedicated to Adam and Tasha, have them go to the mall or something. Adam wants to join Tasha to go to the mall for the experience, and Tasha's happy to have him tag along for both the bonding aspect, and for him to help carry her bags, just something sweet like that.
I think the reason she was acting those ways was because of how long they were in their house without being let out. She was trying to find her actual personality instead of the personalities she's seen only in TV
Plus I would say beinga teen and having super speed as your main ability, perhaps she's always thinking a mile a minute not really able to focus on one thing for so long.
TO THIS DAY, I will never forgive Disney for taking away the chance for Leo to take out Marcus, not once, but TWICE. Given the history and beef between those two, Leo vs Marcus should've been the final battle.
I 100% agree. The rivalry between Leo and Marcus was one of my favorite aspects of the show, so when Marcus came back I was fully expecting a big final rematch between the two, but then it was ruined for a joke that wasn’t even that funny.
That made me so mad. I didn't watch lab rats as a kid, I binged it during quarantine and it was great. Marcus is one of the best sitcom villains and I really wanted him to have a proper fight with Leo but they did Marcus and Leo dirty in the end.
Yeah, after all that Marcus put Leo through, made his life a living hell, tormented him, practically abused Leo and such, Leo does deserve a chance to fight his own demons if he really wants.
If Lab Rats had a reboot where it was more serious and it had better CGI, it'd be wayyy more better; Lab Rats was easily one of Disney's best shows, with the exception of Gravity Falls.
Lab Rats post-S1 felt very much like an adult’s show that had to be made on a kid’s show budget. Even parts of S1 do. It’s an idea that even to this day, I could incredibly easily see someone at Marvel or DC going ‘hey guys I came up with this great idea’ but you get the shoddy (to adults) CGI and the Disney-show tropes. I think that honestly, as a kid, that was what made me want to watch it. My friends and I all felt like this was a show that we almost weren’t supposed to watch, it had some real plot points while being digestible to kids. I don’t really have a conclusion, except that if this idea had been produced and developed in the same way/with the same budget as a Marvel show like Jessica Jones, for example, I think I would absolutely watch it today.
for real, lab rats were one of those shows you'd watch after coming home from school and finishing your homework. you'd watch it on the couch eating cereal. it was comedic, about teens, and kids with super powers can't beat that
Yea Leo mentions this is season 4 when it’s revealed they have a brother named Daniel. He says something along the lines of “what is it with you, naming your kids in ABC order?!?!”
You're right that Markus was totally reasonable in his revenge, but children are generally totally seperate and different from their parents by 14. Markus was only like that because he was manipulated and abused.
Reminds me of that time in Star Trek when Data knocks out a bunch of people with his phaser and says "That was the stun setting. This is not" and switches the settings on the phaser and explodes a building just to prove a point.
The one scene I still think about frequently is the one where Chase is "dead" and Adam is crying about how he wasn't a good enough brother to him and loved him. That was the best scene in all of season four. I just wish that it had carried over, like that it had more of an impact on their relationship going forward.
I think bri's personality changing every episode kind of makes sense because her character wants to fit in any way that she can so she changes her personality to fit in
@@martinwilches6583 oh really I never knew man. Maybe they did know how to write the character but you and others are oblivious to how the character was supposed to be.
The fact I only hear Naruto when the principal speaks makes this way funnier for some reason, I was already aware he was voiced by her but the fact she acted in this and I really had no clue is wild
Apparently completely resetting the status quo of their shows in the final season was just something Disney channel did during that time because I remember it happening in both Ant Farm and Liv and Maddie. And in those two shows I remember it also being really weird and jarring, leading me to not seeing the end of the series. I can’t remember if this happened in any other shows besides these three, so maybe it wasn’t a huge trend. Edit: apparently this also happened in Austin and Alley, Dog With a Blog, and Kickin It
It also happened with Hannah Montana, moving the Stewarts from Malibu and rebranding the show as Hannah Montana Forever for season 4, even having Miley out herself as Hannah publicly. Jackson had a regular girlfriend as well!
And, i'm pretty sure the reason all this series got canceld is 'cause lack of audience after the chenges. some of them had no storyline reason to end, so they just ended for low audience
It really made me angry when after ALL Leo did to prove himself as a hero, he was placed as a student instead of as a mentor as well as EVERYONE babying him. He had that whole two part episode about him and he finally became a mentor but that was like 3 episodes until the series ended and even after, they still babied him.
Yeah! Like if they wanted to set him as a beginner to be fair to everyone else at the school then that’s fine, that makes sense. But the fact that they immediately assign a bunch of random amnesiac kids as above him from the get go despite never being on missions before and having no clue about how the Lab Rats actually function that’s just unfair to Leo. He shouldn’t have been a mentor class at the very beginning but he should’ve been classified as like a middle rank at the very least
I get as a kid he was small and scrawny, but as an adult, even if he didn't bulk up he still looked in decent shape, so it's not like he was flimsy. But the show had to constantly drive that nail in because they refused to let go of jokes that stopped making sense.
Seeing Leo get his proper credit as the central protagonist of the series is so vindicating. If it wasn't for that tacked on sequel hook to Elite Force, the series would've started and ended with him and the lab.
That's what gets me so much about elite force. No Adam and Leo? The two most charismatic and likeable characters in the whole show? Always bugged me, even as a kid.
@@xhgcommentaryarchive elite force killed 2 shows i actually liked killing off major characters from one and banishing major characters from the other its taking 2 good shows and shoe horning them together in a way that makes both massively worse
I heard they ended elite force because it wasn't getting enough views, if they just threw leo in there im sure the show would still be around or atleast had a good 4 seasons. and honestly if you look at the show elite force there really wasn't any direction in it like Bree ends up getting bionic powers and super powers makes no sense
@@xhgcommentaryarchive when i was watching the 2 parter home-sweet-home i was literally begging that adam and leo were gonna save bree skylar and oliver and i was so dissapointed when chase and kaz saved them instead, still bugs me to this day
I feel like one of the biggest issues with the latter half of season 4 onwards is that it goes from “Leo and his bionic siblings get into shenanigans” to “Leo’s siblings and the 100+ people like them are there and so is Leo sometimes”
Literally, I seriously prefer the show earlier when the main premise of the show was 3 bionic siblings trying to fit in and keep their secret from the world whilst going to high school, idk though
@@reezy21 i agree for the mostpart. when i was growing up watching the show, i loved when leo finally got his bionic arm, but from what i can remember, they really underutilized it even though it was a MAJOR part of his character that he wished he could be bionic like the others.
@@Immortal_BlazeLiterally Leo getting his bionic arm was probably my favourite episode due to the fact it actually made sense with the storyline AND gave our boy Leo a taste of that bionic life. But then it’s just rubbed in his face how he’s only part bionic, felt bad for the kid in the episodes where they wouldn’t let him do certain things because of it
I think they should’ve made a spin-off about the bionic island students being trained and given specific abilities, and then send them to the space colony. This leaves the fourth season to better develop Leo’s storyline after becoming bionic.
I don't think I've ever been as hype as I was when Marcus returned and gave us one final, eyebrow raise. I didn't think I'd be cheering a Disney sitcom from 10 years ago that I was too old to enjoy 10 years ago but here we are.
I feel like the last episode to feature Eddy gives the answer to the question of "why did Eddy never appear after this point" in a very dark way, because Eddy is so intensely and openly cruel to Tasha in that episode that it makes complete sense to me that the only possible thing that could have been done after all that was for Davenport to pull the plug on him. Eddy pulled a LOT of nasty stuff on Tasha throughout the series, but if none of Eddy's prior actions had ever resulted in Tasha threatening divorce I think that incident would have been the breaking point that made her not just threaten it but immediately start getting the paperwork together. His "death" being so unceremonious that it didn't even get highlighted in the show also makes sense to me because everyone who wasn't Davenport would have been THRILLED he was finally gone and eager to move on from thinking about him.
Marcuses little eyebrow thing happens at least twice in every one of his scenes and I find it so funny. It's so clear the writers found it as funny as I do
@@mishavolkov3230 "The People's Eyebrow" was The Rock's trademark in WWE since like 1999. The meme may only have taken off a few years ago, but it was definitely around way before that especially among wrestling fans.
@@jjrilla___2664 the originator of moving your muscles in a certain way? You have zero evidence they were connected or that the show creators even knew about the rock doing it
I FOUND MY PEOPLE! Lab Rats was my childhood (I was kind of old (15) when it came out but still) I loved it and no one else around me knew about it so I was alone on this one back then. A few fun facts about the show and me as I have seen some people do this in the comments: - A couple of years back I remember finding out about Billy or William Unger having a kid. It might have been only me who did not know this, but he was a teen dad (16 years old) and his kid was born while recording I don't remember if the first or second season of Lab Rats which is crazy because nobody (or at least me) knew he had a kid back then. He hid it pretty well I think. - The episode where Adam goes underwater before he even knows he can breathe underwater still haunts me and the whole Marcus thing as well, at least from what I remember it wasn't normal back then to blatantly talk about such a sensitive topic on a kid's show back then. Yes, it was mentioned, like x character had a parent that passed, but it was rarely (or dare I say never) shown on a show before (or at least that I remember, I might have been too young to understand it before). But the Adam thing sacrificing himself to save others was ugh devastating for me back then idk what is wrong with me, sorry. But this not only happened to Adam, there was a chance of losing one of the characters constantly. Not only that but more serious topics than what used to be talked about in Disney shows back then (it is now more normal, but it started around that time, at least from what I can remember) Like a character losing an arm? hello? That never ever happened before on a Disney show. Mighty med was kinda like this too but it doesn't count because it started after lab rats - I still vividly remember watching the episode promos on TH-cam because I was watching it online as not from the US, and I wanted to be up to date and was watching it as it came out in the US and not when it was released here (the episodes had to be translated and dubbed, so it was delayed) - I'm still mad about the abrupt ending in Elite Force ugh. I know it is technically another show but still. I even signed a petition to finish recording it hehe Oh and an extra I once was on a trip (inside my country) while obsessed with this show and had a server who looked just like Hal Sparks (Donald Davenport) and I kept staring at him, Poor guy he must have thought I was crazy. Either way, thank you for this video! I really like your humor and storytelling so I had a great time!
Bro I literally don’t care but I want to know the ending of elite force. At least publish a comic or something, disney literally let us just sit. Also can you share the link of the petition?
As a kid, Leo was the Miles Morales before Miles Morales. I saw a black teen, that looked like me, in an awesome superhero setting. He was the greatest character in the show. He's what kept me coming back and laughing so much.
@@MrBlazingninja I'm black and white, so Miles Morales looks like me, but I'll never look like him. I still cry tears of joy whenever I read the comics. So no need to apologize, because I understand completely.
That’s funny man. I realize now I was always looking for Asian characters but I never realized it until now. Weird how we really do like representation as kids
"I have many layers. I am very dense." and "I have an itch to crush a dream or two. Who's gonna be my ointment?" are genuinely brilliant lines. I actually laughed out loud.
The whole "extras never talk" thing is something I noticed with every Disney Channel sitcom I watched and I always found it super bizarre. I don't know why the rule is in place but it makes so many scenes feel so awkward. (edit) Yes I have read the replies and I understand it's a contractual thing
its because as soon as someone talks, they have to get paid a lot more money and disney doesnt want to pay someone they dont have to. its awkward and annoying but there is a reason (whether its a good reason is up to you lol)
Iirc the law correctly, the moment an extra talked, they are upgraded to an actor immediately. Which means more payment and actual credits on the show or movie they were part of. So a show like Lab Rats, that seemed to be always stretching the budget far, probably held back extra talking to avoid that
it always looked so funny how they’d just furrow their brows or drop their hands in frustration and walk away when a character says/does something to them lmaoo
As others mentioned, the moment they talk they are paid more. It's not only a Disney Channel thing, you can find this in other tv shows or movies, but maybe it is more obvious in Disney, I don't know.
If you think about it. Even if there was always a 4th sibling planned. It doesnt make any sense how he was able to contact douglus. Considering douglus is still supposed to be dead. They never rven tell his mom hes still alive and hes constantly hiding in season 4 from their mom. They couldve written it so that he contacted their mom and rhen she pointed him to donny and THEN donny would tell douglus and he would reveal the 4th sibling that way. Plus it is very clear that they were planning a season 5 but elite force was commisionrd and messed up both labrats and might med. So all plans for the next season were cut
ok but why is no one talking about the fact that Leo literally blinded a girl.. that was such an unexpected scenario for a Disney show, so sad and dark if you think about it...
I mean I think disney shows tend to go dark (more so their cartoon shows). I remember this scene on Wizards on Weverly Place (forgive me if I didn't write the title right, I grew up with the Spanish ver.) where Alex basically killed a girl that was her BFF the same day she found out she wasn't a good person, but they brushed it off completely lol
I really missed some of the Disney Channel shows, Lab rats being one of them and others like: Kickin It, Shake it up, Suite Life On Deck, Austin & Ally, Mighty Med, Pair of Kings etc. All these shows have a special place in my heart since I grew up with these shows.
For the points about extras not speaking: You gotta pay them more for having any speaking role, even if it's a single line--which can be devestating to, say, a TV show that seems to pour most of their budget into the special effects and event episodes. So to cirumvent this, all extras are simply mute.
In Life of Brian one of the extras in one scene ad libbed a line, which does make the joke a lot funnier (it’s the one where Brian wakes up to his followers and when he implores to them that they’re all individuals, they parrot the line back to him en masse except for one guy who pipes with “I’m not!”) but he still did get a pay rise.
I remember watching the pilot as a little kid and being very confused as to how it was ok that Mr Davenport had these HUMAN CHILDREN locked in his basement and it was ok just because they had powers. Like at first I thought that they were robots that he didn’t know were sentient but no, they were kids that he adopted and then locked in his basement
When I was a kid I used to think Davenport was actually Leo's biological father, I never saw the pilot so it was just never explained to me and I never questioned why Leo called him 'Davenport'
I remember seeing this theory a few years ago that the reason why the bionic kids are named alphabetically is because Douglas originally just named them "Subject A, B, & C" until Donald took them and gave them actual names
I don’t think Donald named them though. I agree that maybe It started like that but I feel like Douglas named them because it’s implied Donald didn’t know about Daniel, who would be “subject D”. So I think Douglas eventually named them before Donald rescued them.
"there is no lab rats fandom" you underestimate the power of young adults and ppl in their early 20's with an unhealthy attachment to the shows they grew up watching
TRUE TRUE I turned 18 this year and am on my second full watch of this show . one of my top 5 shows ever I adore it unironically and unequivocally so much
Okay wow I can’t believe this is actually a 3 hour video but I really appreciate the time and work you put into these videos. I love how informative, nostalgic, and entertaining your videos are! Keep up the good work!
I know it immediately got replaced with an arm that looks almost exactly the same but I'm honestly amazed disney allowed a character to get so grievously injured in a show that their arm had to be amputated.
When I first saw this pop up in my recommended I thought “3 hours?!” Then now that I’m half way through. This is great content! And I realized after 5 minutes we were getting a run down of the *entire* show.
okay but if douglas did the alphabetical names for everything. how many androids did he go through before he got to marcus?? did he really go through like 9 androids before one worked? is that why he barely cared about marcus dying? cause he already lost 9 androids before him and just kept makin em?? what weird n name tech creature did he make between marcus and otis (bionic dog)?
They're probably different types of boy and not boys because he originally wanted to named Adam, Bree and Chase "Big Boy, Not A Boy and Little Boy" respectally
As someone who, as a kid, thought this was the coolest concept for a Disney Channel show, had the biggest crush on both Billy Unger and Kelli Berglund, and wished there was an extended version for the intro theme, the fact that this video exists and it's 3 hours long makes me feel so vindicated.
Honestly, I can't lie, the scene where Adam and Bree run in and discover Chase's "dead body" still gets me. I know it not actually being him and stuff makes it not as impactful in the long run , but I think Adam's actor really pulled off that scene. It made me so emotional watching it the first time as a kid.
It’s weird how Adam and Chase got fake out deaths and Brie got really close to a fake out death all in the spam of a few episodes, it’s like they suddenly wanted to do that trope a LOT
I had a conversation with my dad and ill say this again, I think Adam and Leo carried the show as they both were really funny but yet they got rid of them in elite force.
@@RiseLeon_Turtle that’s why that show probably wasn’t renewed, and because Mighty Med was horrible. Elite force got super low ratings and I think it’s because no one cared about the show once Adam and Leo left. I personally couldn’t watch past the first couple episodes of elite force because it just wasn’t a good show
as much as I loved this show, Disney had a lot of trouble with the trailers where they forgot they maybe shouldn't expose literally everything about the new episode. "I'm your father" in season 2? that feels like a surprise that should only come from actually watching the episode
I literally said the same thing! Why are you revealing the twist??? Now we pretty much know what's happening days/possibly weeks in advance and the hype and mystery is no longer there, making it a bit of a waste of time
Disney channels trailers drove me crazy because of how they would always spoil the episode. What’s the point of watching if you already know what the twist is?
It seems like I and many others have had a similar experience of “loving this show as a kid” and “completely forgetting about it.” It’s so odd. Something that was so great about our childhood was all of a sudden wiped from our brain. I guess that’s how things work early on. Thank you so much for making this video man.
I have a decent amount of shows from my childhood that I don’t remember well but occasionally remembered watching them but this is the only one I’ve COMPLETELY forgotten about until now, this video really unlocked some memories
I remember starting the show when it was in late season 3, meaning I completely missed the first two seasons until I'd already seen the fourth (I watched it on Netflix afterwards). So that shift period between the lab and the bionic island wasn't that strange since I'd mostly only seen the bionic island eps. I do remember loving it when I was a kid, especially the crossover episode and the other hour long specials. I also remember being super upset when Elite Force ended on a cliffhanger and just never continued. It was kinda strange to me that even though the show had more Mighty Med characters it was still called Lab Rats? Now that I'm older, I look back on it as my introduction to superheroes, because I'm a huge Marvel fan now. Lab Rats deserved better than to be a low-budget Disney sitcom and I will stand by that.
I don't understand why Adam & Leo weren't in Elite Force but Bree & Chase were. Adam especially should have been in the show considering he has more super powers. I get that Oliver has super strength which is Adam's thing but both Bree & Skylar have super speed so why can't both Adam & Oliver have so strength? Or just get rid of Oliver's super strength and he can just have flight and hydrokinesis.
3:02:30 on a rewatch with this video. This may be my favorite Perry scene cause it’s one of the few times she shows empathy to the team and worries for them and even consuls Bree
you rewatched this whole video? Jesus 😭 it took me days to watch this came out. im only back to show this video to a friend because i randomly thought about the time I watched a long ass video about lab rats 😂
can we talk about how interesting the premise of the show was? it was such a unique idea for a disney sitcom. i kinda want the show to have a reboot so the concept can be executed better
The only problem I had with this show was how Tasha was treated. It seems like she was barely there and she took some heavy insults from eddy and was not defended by Donald. She also wasn't credited in the intro and I always wondered why. Other than that I got a lot of good laughs from this. Edit: I didn't think I was gonna get this many likes. I'm glad I'm not the only person who felt this way.
Correction: The field in “commando app” is not the school’s field. It is the dog park across the street from the school. Perry says this in the episode.
Through this video, I started to remember how I never really questioned why Marcus hated Leo so much, but I think subconsciously, I had a theory. This is bleak but, ultimately, I figured that since Marcus is an android, he must feel pretty isolated from other people, like his “dad,” right? So, when he heard about the Lab Rats, maybe a part of him hoped they could actually be friends, seeing as they would’ve been the closest thing to him robot wise. Well, whether they cared or not, to Marcus, I figured it must’ve felt like an insult that Leo was able to interact and be family to the Rats when he himself had more in common with them, and needed to family more than Leo did. Honestly, I thought it was jealousy (and maybe a bit of feeling superior as an android in comparison to Leo who’s only a weak human), and I just left it at that.
Congrats, you paid Marcus more attention just now than the writers did RIP Marcus genuinely, I saw a lot of potential in him as the odd lost step-brother vibe, so much drama and humor was lost with that
looking at the time travel episode where leo finds out he's married to janelle in the future, it feels like he both thwarted his chances of marrying her and caused an endless stream of bad luck for her in later episodes, simply by *knowing* who he's married to. intentional or not, it's a nice foreshadow for how bad things are gonna get between them
@@PedroGoncalves-en8qp Mistake or not she was still irreversibly hurt by his actions and his reckless need to prove himself. Even though she forgave him I don't think that's a strong foundation for a romance, especially when you consider what happened with Janelle.
being older now i realized how underused leo was in s3 and s4 especially in the finale. they never really gave him much credit. leo was and still is my favorite character and it's sad how he went from the main to the side character. Also... they made him a mentor for like 1 and 1/2 episodes. and they cheated him out of the final fight with marcus. when he got bionics i was so hyped because realistically he could've been a mixture of adam, bree and chase he could've had super speed in his leg like bree and a laser bow in his arm like Chase and power replication like Daniel. they never even gave Leo more abilities besides super strength and laser cannons. like he lowkey could've been as powerful as them.
This is the kind of video that I can watch all the way through in one sitting, and then immediately rewatch it again from the start. It’s short enough that it stays interesting throughout the whole thing, but long enough that it feels fresh on every rewatch.
something small i’d kinda hoped you would would mention, a blink-and-you-miss-it detail in concert in a can, wherein bree and davenport are playing on the guitars and it’s making a loud screeching, unpleasant noise. for a short moment we cut back to the boys, and see chase covering his ears because, you know, sensitive bionic hearing. if you pay attention to marcus, he’s doing the exact same thing. it goes by very quickly and i legit never picked up on it as a kid until i saw it in some post online years later but yeah. lab rats isn’t super consistent across the board so this little moment foreshadowing marcus being bionic before it’s actually revealed is just fun and cool to me. there’s still hours left in the video but i’m going to assume since you’ve talked abt concert in a can already and marcus being bionic this detail is never gonna get brought up so might as well comment it now.
I haven't watch the video yet. I just wanted to say that Lab Rats is one of the best Disney sitcoms imo. However, I wasn't a fan of the island and stopped watching all together after Mighty Med and Lab Rats became a permanent thing. I didnt really cared for Mighty Med in the first place and lost interest in Lab Rats all together when it happened. Leo and Adam leaving was the final nail in the coffin for me. Lab Rats always hold a place in my heart watching season 1 and 2 during middle school
I watched like the first episode of elite force, but they removed some of the best characters. Mighty med and lab rats were good shows on their own, and they both took a sharp decline afterwards.
@@PolandSphere sometimes, just because two things are good doesn't mean they'll be good together. it's like mixing a chocolatebar with italian cheese bread or something
"What makes this show weird" "Davenport, as you will se throughout the series is not a good father or person," YEAH I guessed that from your synopsis of the show's premise in the beginning, growing up I didn't question it but as an adult, if I married a man and found 3 bioengineered kids in his secret underground lab, I would assume I married a supervillain
I will say when it comes to Leo and Chase I completely understand why they acted how they did when they were on the island. With Chase, he had always had Daddy issues, but it didn’t really matter because in their hometown, he was still the leader, he was still the smartest, whereas is in this environment, he is no longer that. Instead, his only advantage he has over the people on the island is his experience. So naturally, he becomes more bitter, and he does more things to prove that he is the smartest as we see that all backfires and just shows his immaturity. For Leo, it made sense that he started to do more extreme things to be seen as their equal. In the beginning, he lacked bionics and knew that there was no way for him to be seen in the same light as them. Hes always wanted to be a part of their times and he feels as though this is the time That he finally gets the recognition he has always been seeking. They don’t grant that to him, especially Chase. In turn, he acts out and he does more things to prove himself and delving into more reckless methods. With both of them I think it made a lot of sense for them to butt heads, because while Chase is trying to be seen as the most important person on the island, Leo is trying to finally be acknowledged. So while Leo is trying to gather spotlight for himself, Chase is always constantly trying to undercut that because he doesn’t want him to be seen as more than Chase . While this is an irrational thought, It’s still one that they both have from insecurity in their childhood that we did see earlier on. Overall, I think it’s actually pretty clear where both of them get their ideas of how to improve their status on the island. Despite the destructive nature, I think that’s just the result of a lack of emotional growth in their childhood because of their environment, but the island forces out an entire separate type of experience for them to show that they are better than they have previously been perceived
I love how the only way Marcus' actor is able to attempt to make him look threatening is by making a 🤨 face but all I can hear everytime he does does it is the vine boom sound effect
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Why 3 days after the video posted?
Not right now, but in the future, you should do that spinoff show
are u gonna talk about the several shows that are like sequels
You should do a mighty Med one that show was interesting
You should re-watch lab rats bianicle Island
Lab rats is a concept that deserves better than what a Disney sitcom could offer but at the same time it's those limitations that add to its charm.
...I think you just perfectly and concisely summed up why this was my second favourite Disney show as a kid
@@josiahwilkinson4334 what was your favorite show?
@@josiahwilkinson4334 Dang, really? What's your favorite?
@@upg5147 That would of course be Aaron Stone, a show cut before it's time.
@@ascentar6713 That would still stay Aaron Stone, which was unfortunately, after 2 great (by child standard) seasons, was ended on a cliffhanger without renewal (and I will never forgive Disney for it).
marcus's eyebrow raise has to be his permanent resting face because that guy is doing it in EVERY scene hes in, even when he's just standing behind someone
RIGHT?? LMAO
honestly 😭😭
he 100% got the role after doing that in his audition. it's campy and cartoony. perfect for that show.
LMFAOOAO 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Years ago when I first saw him on lab rats I had such a crush on him! 😂 And I would like and comment on all his photos on Instagram and one day he liked one of my photos! I straight up died! He went on my Instagram, saw me and liked it?! Wtf! 😂 He’s still super gorgeous too
no way they made Bree's outfiit have high heels and she's the one that runs fast. no way
Leo saying, "LIVING IN MY BASEMENT!" is so iconic that him saying living on a bionic island sounds so unatural
I know ! It just sounds so... meh. The original intro made me laugh because of the delivery but the new one is just him stating where they are.
He should’ve been like “Not in my basement?”
@@Nimodog19 Yess. If the intro was "'Not in my basement ?!" it would fit in more with leo saying it. He sounds so... defeated, numb ? idk.
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At that point he was bionic himself and used to them
😂 thought the same
I'm glad someone finally noticed how incredibly unfair the writing was to the character of Marcus, the guy had every right to be angry and was clearly looking for a father/mother figure (as you can see calling the villain "mom") . Douglas is an abusive father and he came out of all of that well.
I like Douglas but I’d want revenge on him too if I was Marcus for leaving me for dead and never bothered to reconstruct me.
I wouldn't call the writing that it clearly showed he was not the best father.
I’d love to see a fanfic either address how sad his life was or give him a pseudo redemption arc that focuses on him, Leo, and Douglass (before he comes back at the end)
I agree. Marcus could have a very intresting character arc. His motivation is quite understandable and complex and his rivarly with the Adam, Bree, Chase and Leo is dynamic. Write off Daniel and focus on Marcus, his revenge story and his final redemption.
Also, the fact that Douglas didn't face any consequestions is incredibly annoying. This guy is responsible for why Marcus was a villain in the first place, but the series let him go with an ok.
I dont think he was abusive, they had pizza nights afterall.
But yeah, I don't think I'd care if they didn't blame him and not Douglas.
You mentioned the weird bit where extras aren't allowed to talk, and I'm reminded of that one joke from Victorious where the teacher wanted something from the main cast and one of them asks "Why do you keep having us do this?" and the teacher replies "Because the other kids don't really talk. Like, at all." and another one says "Yeah, they just kinda sit there and... react."
That line is so good
What episode is that in
Edit: this is my most liked comment!!!!
@@DinoRicky I don't remember. It's been at least a decade since I've seen it.
Yeah, I remember that
i think the whole talking thing has to do with extras having to be paid more if they have a speaking line. if they don’t have any lines they just get the regular pay
Lab Rats was ICONIC. Till they ruined it with 100 other bionic kids. Also the spinoff that didn’t have the two best character: Leo and Adam was such a serious crime. 😐
Nahh i actually liked the bionic island episodes
ICONIC, you mean BIONIC?~ B)
@@samueldembela9154 yea I use to think the 4th season was weak but looking back, it was pretty good. Just as good as the other seasons
Yeah, it really lost its charm in the fourth season. It felt like a different show with the same characters. but I guess it was the only option to continue the show
@@kangarumpy you dropped this 👑
“Lab Rats has better things to do than make logical sense”, truer words have never been spoken, that just sums up the entire series and wraps it in a neat bow.
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yeah, thats why it was so great
Lab rats is the best show in the universe
@@ninjajeb Thank you! All the silly shit that's happened in the show had me laughing for days 😂🤣! Especially Leo, Leo Douelly was really one of my favorite characters. I love how he went from this bratty kid to actually mature member of the team 😁. That's why I was so pissed he wasn't in Lab Rats Elite Force 😡.
The thing that made lab rats cool to me as a kid was that they were the only bionic kids in the world which made them special, I can accept Marcus, Daniel, and Leo being bionic but like 100 other kids made them seem less cool. I remember when Sebastian was talking about how he was basically as smart as chase it made me feel bad for chase. I feel like having just the six (Adam,Bree,Chase,Daniel,Marcus, and Leo) would’ve been fine for me especially with the adding of Daniel. I know a lot of people thought it was random to add him but I quite liked him. I just think the whole 100 bionic kids in an island bored me
100%. Same for me. I stopped watching when it got to 100+ they didn’t feel special anymore, Expecially with the new kids being “smarter” or “faster”. I compare this feeling to DC’s The Flash. I enjoy the first season but it just gets boring to me the more speedsters the show adds, it makes him less unique, and they are almost always faster than him.
agree 100%! the 4th season completely broke the original set up of the show that made it interesting in the first place, being that adam, bree, and chase were the only bionic humans (that we knew of) in the world and no one being allowed to know about that except the davenports, and as a result the show became harder and harder to enjoy, with the 4th season being too far gone from what made it enjoyable before
I think I mainly found it more boring because every episode early on was about them keeping it a secret in creative ways, it got boring and repetitive in the later seasons cause of the boring plot
I remember even watching it as a kid and being frustrated and annoyed at the whole island thing. The reason I loved the show was watching these robot-y teens trying to fit into a world with a bunch of "normal" people
@@gooeater1544 did you like Sebastian you know before he turned evil and started the rebellion and do you think that Chase telling Sebastian about krane was the right thing to do since the truth about krane could have come out anyway even if Chase didn’t tell Sebastian about Krane.
To this day, Leo’s reaction to Marcus blaming him for the guitar thing is the best I’ve ever seen in that situation. Like, normally the protagonist does the whole “why are you doing this to me?” or “I just wanted to be friends” whereas Leo is just like “… bitch” and knows where they stand. Also, it makes sense why Adam and Chase would believe Marcus over Leo because he’s been transparently jealous and petty for the entire show at that point.
I have a feeling that that was improvised and if I'm right, it makes it a million times better.
Leo clocked on to that shit immediately
He really does just narrow his eyes and clocks Marcus as a bitch. it’s great. It made Leo a funny protagonist and solidified Marcus as the target of all my vitriol as a kid
Loved that part. He wasn't taking any of it and knew exactly what was happening. Straight to the point with some sass. Leo was great in that show.
The ending where Douglas finally got rid of Marcus instead of Leo was the best part because now Leo doesn’t get the opportunity to destroy his nemesis for good 😹
honestly 2 hour+ retrospectives/reviews/whatever about old childrens' sitcoms is my favorite genre of youtube
Mai pfp so true
This is the comment I've related to the most ever.
The guy who does the iCarly and victorious vids 😩😩😩
Same 🤣
@@Rachel-xu7jj i know exactly who youre talking about 💀
i like how no matter what, no matter how the opening sequence changes, they always keep Bree's little wink with the ding sound. What an icon
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Lab Rats is definitely one of those shows that I view through rose-colored glasses. I'm 16 and still rewatch this shows regularly but I've never taken notice of any of the continuity errors, random character disappearances, or limited sets.
Trust me matey, that only gets stronger as you get older, I still love going back to shows I watched as a kid and see them the exact same way
Same here, though my love for it gets a bit more validated every time someone walks in, hears a joke, and laughs.
Yea man jsut rewatched it nd I noticed a lot of it
i took notice to the sets but everything else was out of my mind 😭
Same I’m 17 and still rewatching😂
For some reason, a lot of shows during the time changed the status quo for their final season. Ant Farm went from the high school to a boarding school, Liv and Maddie switched to a new house, Kickin It changed dojos and Lab Rats went from a lab to an island. I think that changing the main location was something that Disney did for final seasons.
Don’t forget when Austin and Ally turned sonic boom into the Austin and Ally Music Factory.
a hope to keep the series i think
Hannah Montana as well
Zack and Cody had a more permanent status quo change with a brand new show that had them on a boat so they could commit crimes in international waters
This isnt disney, but Regular Show also did this when they went to space
The comedic ability of the entire cast is impeccable, 100% they played a huge role in making the show what it was
I don't remember this being a funny show. Am I just remembering wrong or do we just have different tastes?
@@TheMagicalArden it was hilarious 😂
@@TheMagicalArden Different tastes
@@TheMagicalArden diff tastes
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Lab Rats was basically: ‘What if Elon Musk had the personality of Iron Man while being the father of three Bionic Kids and creator of a sociopathic AI?’ It’s honestly not a bad concept of a show.
It’s not a bad show
they could simplify it, focus on the father, and just make it “what if Elon musk had the personality of iron man”
@@christianchan9947 or the smartness
Tbh u didn’t even have to throw in Elon musk tony stark is Davenport plus worse
can people stop using Elon Musk as an example of an inventor, ffs.
I always found it interesting that Adam, Bree, and Chase call Mr. Davenport, Mr. Davenport. Yet, Marcus calls Douglas, dad.
Yo how do people notice these things this comment section is goated. AND I JUST REALIZED THEY WERE CALLING HIM MR DAVENPORT SINCE THE FIRST EPISODE BEFORE THEY KNEW ABOUT THEYRE REAL DAD. I think this was further foreshadowing Douglas being they're real father. What if at a very young age Donald told them not to call him dad and call him Mr davenport instead BECAUSE HE FELT THAT IT WASNT RIGHT. WOW😳
@@palomao8949cringe asf
@@Marvelfanatic3658says "marvelfanatic3658" you're projecting your own insecurities onto this person my guy if anything that's cringe
i think also the teens and leo don’t need davenport to be their dad, he’s certainly their family but they don’t feel the need to call him dad (even tho they refer to each other as siblings) but with marcus it’s just him and doug who isn’t very fatherly so it also makes sense that marcus is striving for a real relationship like the lab rats have with their human family and part of that could be calling marcus dad
@@froogalityoh boo hoo quit whining kid.
I really liked Chase as a character. I always saw his "egotism" as him being anxious to please authority figures. He's not that arrogant, he just has daddy issues.
I had the biggest crush on him because I could relate 😭
@@frozenfantasy2458 I had a big crush on him too, and Adam for very different reasons lol.
@@mattm2451 I wish I could respond to this with a meme because naurrr😭
@@jstnnn1 If this specific meme has a name I'll Google it or you can put a link lollol🦖
@@mattm2451 jerry from Tom and Jerry’s smirking
Tyrell was too good for this show "I have something to confess" "No you don't" hahaha his delivery and comedic timing is amazing
If they had a different actor for him, the show wouldn’t be as good
0:43 how did this make me spam it?!
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Growing up I didn’t like him but he’s the only charming character in the main cast
I noticed while watching this that a lot of my sense of humor comes from this show
So glad Leo was recognized as one of the carrying characters of the show, kid was absolutely amazing and I absolutely LOVED when he was taken more serious by everyone.
How have I gotten 1.6K likes in less than 24 hours. I don't understand, I'm a nobody.
@@K0ira idk
@@K0ira you made a good comment
@@K0ira most commenters are lol, you just made a very objectively correct statement so ppl liked it
leo and adam carried
I had blocked Marcus out of my mind for years, but the moment I saw him I swear such an intense sense of primal hatred hit me. I DESPISED Marcus as a kid. Everytime Marcus showed up little me wanting only pain to come to him. Literally no other character caused this, but M A R C U S
I had that with characters from other shows
He's just a little boy man and he's awesome and cool
@@darkdemon1972nah he wanted to kill them and made leo seem insane. That shit aint right. 😂😂😂
Me with charlotte from h2o
@@ThatGuyGloomy Facts Marcus is like one of the first fictional characters that I actively hated as a wee lad.
I like how the implication of Eddy disappearing after season 3 episode 7 is that he was finally destroyed/banished for his crimes against Tasha and humanity.
He comes back in season 4 tho
To be fair, being rude to Tasha is a crime punishable by death.
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I love how you made the choice to make the distinction between Tasha and Humanity
@@mal7182you can crawl away from death, but it will reclaim you
I bet Perry's actress was shook when she kept appearing in Lab Rats and ended up somehow becoming the most recurring non-main character in the show.
More than Tasha which shouldn't be
Mt girl is naruto
Did you know she also did Naruto?
She better gave been paid good cuz she was the best side character in the show
@@dawndoesartsomething I liked about Perry is that they did a good job writing her seeing as she’s meant to be a hated character who the audience is meant to hate/dislike and not us the audience just hating/disliking her
The best part of the show is that even with low budgets, you can tell the team cares abt making a fun and awesome show. Loved it as a kid.
Same it was and probably always will be one of my favorite shows
I didn't realize how low the budget was until I watched this video, when I was young I guess I thought it was normal?
@@seventeenhamilton5362 fr i thought it was a god tier show
th-cam.com/video/J39XajnpFV8/w-d-xo.html it’s music
I couldn’t even tell if it was low budget or not when I was younger
Anyone else notice how Bree is A LOT more upset about the possibility of Adam being dead than Chase? Not a single tear shed for Chase but yelling and losing it for Adam lmaoooooo
Edit: Also noticing how much I don't like Davenport's attitude towards Douglas in the beginning. You supposedly care enough about them to steal them for their actual father but not enough to care about their birthdays or take them out of the basement??? Yeah okay lol
I did see a tear in bree when she saw chase, look closer
@@samueldembela9154 okay I’ll give her that singular tear, but she was still much much more sad about Adam
Even if Adam screws up, she will still stick up for him. He is somehow favored by Bree over Chase
Probably because she believes chase can save himself, he's super smart but she thinks Adam can't because he's dumb.
Idk if this matters but the actor for Bree was dating the actor of Adam at some point so maybe it is related to how she expresses emotions during acting??
I will admit that bree's inconsistency and unpredictability make a bit of sense considering her power, she is going a thousand miles an hour in every direction. The other two have personalities linked to their abilities as well.
I can’t look at Bree the same anymore after seeing her naked in now apocalypse, rip childhood 🥲
I never understood why they gave her super powers. Maybe it was just younger me just wanting superspeed lol
@@egyptian_noob true
@@L9ne_Wlf You mean bionics or like actual super power stuff from Mighty Med? Cuz I don’t remember her getting non-bionic abilities…
@@egyptian_noob can you give sauce for research
i'm sorry but "the next generation of the human race is... living in my basement?!" is leaps and bounds better than "living on a bionic island," that was the first issue
I kinda liked it
@@dianneramos1810 same
Exactly, it doesn’t have the same jab
Plus it’s not like the island itself is Bionic, it’s just a regular island which happens to have bionic people on it. “Living on a private island” would’ve been a more interesting hook AND a more accurate description.
Gotta agree there
Props to Leo’s mom bc if my new husband turned out to have three secret kids in the basement I would peace out immediately
Yep, its creepy
HE KEPT THEM IN A BASEMENT!!! THEIR ENTIRE LIVES!!! He experimented on them!!! Theyre totally dependant on him and can’t function in society and I think that might have been intentional!!! Like there’s secret children and there’s oh fuck I gotta call CPS and sue for custody secret children.
hes rich tho
Just normal rich person things
Is this the perspective of all women?? Asking for a friend...
I didn't even remember trent but you convinced me that he's by far the best character. A 10/10 subversion of the bully tope. Thank you for taking one for the team and putting yourself through 4 seasons of lab rats
How could u forget him😢
Tope
@@fatalbert7732 tope
I think Bree’s inconsistency comes down to Disney not knowing what teenage girl stereotype give her so they gave her 2. It would make sense that she’s a tomboy bc she grew up around boys & was the only girl in the family. BUT it also would make sense that bc she spent so long around only around men she was related to, when she got the chance to be a normal girl she became very feminine & boy obsessed. They get away with it bc she’s a teenage girl and teenage girls “can never make up their mind”.
Even for a teenage girl, I thought she came out looking schizophrenic.
@@jwb52z9 LMAO😭
So much this.
fr they can’t
@@frvnkie58 sure styles change but we still have consistent personalities
I always interpreted Bree’s personality in the early seasons as a facade of sorts, just kind of puppeting various teen girl stereotypes seen in movies/tv shows. Idk if this was some kind of big-brain move by the writers to be like “she never had a chance to develop a proper personality so she’s just playing a role based on what she’s seen on tv” or just them genuinely not know how to write a teen girl.
“the writers never had a chance to develop teen girl personalities so Bree’s just playing roles based on what they’ve seen on tv” fify
At the beginning, it definitely seemed to be the case that it was on purpose to me. (For example, introducing herself to other girls in the first episode saying that she like horses and girl things.) Arguably it went on too long though
The problem is there isn’t a real stereotype to place her in besides being the token female on an all male show for the most part. Chase is smart and egotistical, Adam is a meat head steroid infested teenager and Bree is kind of the one that fits into the mold of a generic Disney channel girl. They could’ve made her the “spoiled favorite child” and had that factor into the adventures. Davenports only daughter whose not as rebellious as the others probably would be the spoiled one.
Uuuh, death of the author…. They might be smarter than they seem… yadayadayada… yeah that sounds cool her personality was a facade that sounds cool
i think that might not have been the writer's intentions but the way the actress played it off definitely made me perceive your interpretation which made the show sm more enjoyable and layered tbh
tyrell jackson williams has sucha good performance in this show. he's genuinely likable and he knows just how to deliver those cringey disney lines In a way that sounds sincere and real. its refreshing seeing a character played by a child actor be a real character and not a one dimensional joke every single time (like a lot fo there disney shows)
you are the best person
You’re right about the cringy lines to the point that I’ve never once seen him as cringy
I agree.
The whole trio of brothers are great actors
@@pch3611 such a fact when I was growing up I didn’t think the show was REAL obviously but at the same time I didn’t think the brothers were acting
It’s funny to me how Chase never thinks to use his molecular kinesis in times when it would easily help.
Fr. It’s honestly kinda an OP ability so I can see why he doesn’t use it much in the show even tho they easily could of gotten out of many situations if he used his telekinesis
The villain killing herself with the laser whip is incredibly dark when you realize what it implies. She was basically cut into meaty chunks in what I imagine would be a horrific display of gore. Awesome.
My gosh 0_0 I can't believe that was allowed to be a Disney show (well, Disney X.D was more for the scrapped shows with lower ratings)
I remember seeing that when I was like 9
All I could do was think about what it must have looked like 💀
Like how the hydra got its head cut off in Hercules.
Yes as we never see it, it is implied that it is to gory and bloody to see it
@@jocelynecupcake uh that's not at all what xd was
@@myselfhello6128 wtf no 9 year old should be watching Hercules 0_0 not for kids!
i abandoned Lab Rats around season 4 as well. When they got to the Island, the family vibe really died out and instead of the powers being a device for family stories and growing pains, the powers were a device for stories about super powered beings. it went from light sci-fi to total sci-fi which didn't work as well in the corny nature of Disney Channel shows with thin tecnobabble that only slipped through due to the fact the show was self aware and it had a cartoony nature to it.
It kind of fell into the same issue as Ant Farm in that regard
I don’t really like the island ark
@Μαία Megan’s probably talking about when the characters went from kids in high school to kids living in some weird rich guys place.
Exactly!!
My thoughts exactly.
Douglas is the typical "I'm a villain, not a monster" character, I think it's nice that he actually cares about enough about them to not wanting to kill them
Except for Leo 😐
@@yaguybrookie Yeah which sucks since Leo already broke his back from carrying the show
I still can't believe that this guy escaped despite the horrible things he has done. Personaly I consider him big Karma Houdini.
I like how he describes it as a phase because technically it was. He was angry, spiteful and jealous, he felt genuinely robbed of his "assets", blinded by the riches he could make as a war profiteer. But when that got taken away from him, he realises his life isn't suitable for a kid and sends Daniel (who he could've easily have used) to a loving foster family. He even admits how he didn't want to hurt them, or even do anything really that bad with them, just doing it for the sake of it out of spite, and when Crane shows he's serious about using the bionic kids as weapons, Douglas gets the hell out of dodge.
Douglas isn't inherently a bad person, just lost his way for a while.
tbh ,, hes my favorite lr character EVER for a disney show his arc and writing is really well done. you can tell he really cares abt his kids
I'm still shocked that Leo lost his arm and they didn't really touch on it! Sure they did the stuff about the robot arm, but not how Leo felt about it :/
Feels like a subject matter this show wasn't willing or equipped to tackle. Too nuaced for them not to turn into a punchline
He never lost his arm. 🤦♂️
Him losing an arm and that later character losing her vision could have been a neat way of incorporating characters with disabilities. There’s ways of doing that well without it being bleak, considering it’s a big change in their perspectives. I’m asking way too much of Disney XD here though lmao
@@Jacobson4200 bait used to be believable
@@Jacobson4200he basically did Douglas said that he wouldn’t be able to use his arm again so he gave him bionics
my new favorite genre of youtube video is multi-hour discussion of children's shows I've never watched from content creators I've never heard of before that I somehow managed to watch all the way through and be completely entertained the entire time.
Same lmao TH-cam has devolved and evolved so much
I recommend Quinton Reviews if you haven't heard of him
@@kermitgotthesickkicks4265lol
same
Same except I binged watched all the shows as soon as I turned 18 out of curiosity. I didn’t have the time to watch most shows TV shows but then they started showing up on subscription based streaming platforms.
The weird thing about Adam's lung capacity thing, aside from it being used before he actually gets it, is that technically Chase's bionic sneeze at the start of the series is pretty much the same thing
That's what I was thinking!
Chases sneeze ability wasn't control, he's couldn't just go "sneeze" and he would sneeze, I'm pretty sure it was a glitch, wheras adams ability is controlable
What?
@TheGlassesPro I’m pretty sure he can just breathe under water an his enhanced lung capacity is a separate ability
Adam also uses his blast wave in episode 2 (as a glitch) but doesn't unlock the ability until a later season.
Marcus raises his eyebrow 41 seperate times in the show . He did it so much that it inspired child me to learn how to do it so i could be just like him !
Fr. I learned how to do it just bc I watched him do it and I thought it was cool
Me too lolz
@@morgxan185 and you were cool. Cool as hell
Considering he's only in like 5 episodes that's impressive.
Same
Personally what I found kind of disheartening, was the lack of focus placed into their familial dynamics and relationships. With an ensemble like this, I'd love if they introduced or 'toyed' with more unlikely duos. Like I wished Tasha was more present in Adam, Bree and Chase's lives to explore their dynamics with their mother figure. For example, let's have a subplot dedicated to Adam and Tasha, have them go to the mall or something. Adam wants to join Tasha to go to the mall for the experience, and Tasha's happy to have him tag along for both the bonding aspect, and for him to help carry her bags, just something sweet like that.
That sounds incredibly amazing, I’m so incredibly disappointed we didn’t get this
@@zacharynguyen7286 a wasted opportunity 😔
I think the reason she was acting those ways was because of how long they were in their house without being let out. She was trying to find her actual personality instead of the personalities she's seen only in TV
Exactly! I always thought she was a bit of a girly girl, but she grew up around guys, so she might not always know how.
Plus I would say beinga teen and having super speed as your main ability, perhaps she's always thinking a mile a minute not really able to focus on one thing for so long.
TO THIS DAY, I will never forgive Disney for taking away the chance for Leo to take out Marcus, not once, but TWICE. Given the history and beef between those two, Leo vs Marcus should've been the final battle.
Agreed
I 100% agree. The rivalry between Leo and Marcus was one of my favorite aspects of the show, so when Marcus came back I was fully expecting a big final rematch between the two, but then it was ruined for a joke that wasn’t even that funny.
That made me so mad. I didn't watch lab rats as a kid, I binged it during quarantine and it was great. Marcus is one of the best sitcom villains and I really wanted him to have a proper fight with Leo but they did Marcus and Leo dirty in the end.
Fr
Yeah, after all that Marcus put Leo through, made his life a living hell, tormented him, practically abused Leo and such, Leo does deserve a chance to fight his own demons if he really wants.
If Lab Rats had a reboot where it was more serious and it had better CGI, it'd be wayyy more better; Lab Rats was easily one of Disney's best shows, with the exception of Gravity Falls.
Lab Rats post-S1 felt very much like an adult’s show that had to be made on a kid’s show budget. Even parts of S1 do. It’s an idea that even to this day, I could incredibly easily see someone at Marvel or DC going ‘hey guys I came up with this great idea’ but you get the shoddy (to adults) CGI and the Disney-show tropes.
I think that honestly, as a kid, that was what made me want to watch it. My friends and I all felt like this was a show that we almost weren’t supposed to watch, it had some real plot points while being digestible to kids.
I don’t really have a conclusion, except that if this idea had been produced and developed in the same way/with the same budget as a Marvel show like Jessica Jones, for example, I think I would absolutely watch it today.
The comicbook-like energy is the most charm of the show. Although, it would be great if they handled more mature themes.
I'd pay money for a serious reboot. They could throw in episodes and moments that finally addressed the messed up things Disney glossed over
gravity falls >>>
for real, lab rats were one of those shows you'd watch after coming home from school and finishing your homework. you'd watch it on the couch eating cereal. it was comedic, about teens, and kids with super powers can't beat that
At 3:00:55 when Krane reveals himself I love how Perry looks around in shock with everyone else despite the fact she never met him or heard of him
She has met him lol. In the episode of “you posted what?”
I just realized that the Lab Rats’ names (Adam, Bree, and Chase) are literally a “joke” on the idea of Subject A, B, and C
Later in the show it’s revealed that have a 4th sibling named Daniel
Yea Leo mentions this is season 4 when it’s revealed they have a brother named Daniel. He says something along the lines of “what is it with you, naming your kids in ABC order?!?!”
@Tails Gaming probably. I forgot
@@morgxan185 2:57:00
And maybe this is a stretch, but they follow up that theme with Eddy as well
You're right that Markus was totally reasonable in his revenge, but children are generally totally seperate and different from their parents by 14. Markus was only like that because he was manipulated and abused.
Honestly
I agree Douglas also knew he would die before 16 and joked about it
He was a terrible father and I feel bad for Marcus
But markus and his father had a chance to change, in the end, his father took that chance but markus didnt
also they shorten or speed up the theme song often
Markus was not a child, he was a weapon. He was made, not born. Android, not human. It's like me making a gun and hoping it will choose who it shoots.
@@johnkeheno748 he was a weapon with sentience. Thus he can choose.
The only part of this show I remembered was "That was a warning shot. Next one won't be." because that line went so hard for me as a kid.
I remember as a kid I considered that line to be iconic. No idea if other people watching the show at that time felt the same way.
@@celesticnova I never really watched the show beyond an episode or two, but that line was iconic for kid me.
Reminds me of that time in Star Trek when Data knocks out a bunch of people with his phaser and says "That was the stun setting. This is not" and switches the settings on the phaser and explodes a building just to prove a point.
For some reason, I only remembered that really weird episode with a lunar eclipse where Perry got mind controlled by aliens or smth
@@evangelinewood3325
... Which episode was that? I straight up don't remember this moment, despite watching all of TNG.
Are we not gonna talk about the fact that Markus was killed by the gun Douglas was going to use on Krane? Imagine how painful that would be
The one scene I still think about frequently is the one where Chase is "dead" and Adam is crying about how he wasn't a good enough brother to him and loved him. That was the best scene in all of season four. I just wish that it had carried over, like that it had more of an impact on their relationship going forward.
I think that was part of the whole bit, things just go back to normal like it never happened but from there you better understand the sibling dynamic
I’m so mad that that scene was cut out on Disney plus
@Lsabelle Blanchard that’s the way of Disney +
What episode was this? Because Chase almost died a lot, I also just binged lab rats haha
@@tabitha.b2576 Bionic Action Hero I Think
I think bri's personality changing every episode kind of makes sense because her character wants to fit in any way that she can so she changes her personality to fit in
I mean, the show isn't that deep, so j don't think it applies here
Wow I can change my personality on a whim too!!!
Hope y'all realize that is a perfect description of a disorder. So it does apply rather you think it does or not.
@@imdarizzler this is a Disney Chanel sit com. They just didn't know how to write her since it never happened again lol
@@martinwilches6583 oh really I never knew man. Maybe they did know how to write the character but you and others are oblivious to how the character was supposed to be.
The fact I only hear Naruto when the principal speaks makes this way funnier for some reason, I was already aware he was voiced by her but the fact she acted in this and I really had no clue is wild
same even tho I never watched naruto
I'm backwards I only hear principal perry when naruto speaks which I think makes it even funnier
@@voxhead8765 same lol
@@Remi23986 I ain't watching 500 or so episodes of naruto
@@kermitgotthesickkicks4265 ay man if you think that’s bad, don’t watch dragon ball or one piece
I love when bree is supposed to be doing a fast motion but its actually normal speed with a visual effect and a woosh noise
Apparently completely resetting the status quo of their shows in the final season was just something Disney channel did during that time because I remember it happening in both Ant Farm and Liv and Maddie. And in those two shows I remember it also being really weird and jarring, leading me to not seeing the end of the series.
I can’t remember if this happened in any other shows besides these three, so maybe it wasn’t a huge trend.
Edit: apparently this also happened in Austin and Alley, Dog With a Blog, and Kickin It
It also happened with Hannah Montana, moving the Stewarts from Malibu and rebranding the show as Hannah Montana Forever for season 4, even having Miley out herself as Hannah publicly. Jackson had a regular girlfriend as well!
They sort of did it with Dog with a Blog when Stan was revealed publicly for most of the last season
It also happened in bunk’d, where they eventually just replace the entire main cast.
@@m.a.9648 wait he was revenge publicly for most of the last season I remember more people knowing but I thought everyone knowing was the final.
And, i'm pretty sure the reason all this series got canceld is 'cause lack of audience after the chenges. some of them had no storyline reason to end, so they just ended for low audience
It really made me angry when after ALL Leo did to prove himself as a hero, he was placed as a student instead of as a mentor as well as EVERYONE babying him. He had that whole two part episode about him and he finally became a mentor but that was like 3 episodes until the series ended and even after, they still babied him.
Me too!!! Made me so confused too!! Angry and confused!!
Bro he saved almost the all most recurring characters a bunch before he became a mentor as well
Yeah! Like if they wanted to set him as a beginner to be fair to everyone else at the school then that’s fine, that makes sense. But the fact that they immediately assign a bunch of random amnesiac kids as above him from the get go despite never being on missions before and having no clue about how the Lab Rats actually function that’s just unfair to Leo. He shouldn’t have been a mentor class at the very beginning but he should’ve been classified as like a middle rank at the very least
They gave him powers just when the other three got promoted lmao It's like the writers are afraid of changing this dynamic
I get as a kid he was small and scrawny, but as an adult, even if he didn't bulk up he still looked in decent shape, so it's not like he was flimsy. But the show had to constantly drive that nail in because they refused to let go of jokes that stopped making sense.
Seeing Leo get his proper credit as the central protagonist of the series is so vindicating. If it wasn't for that tacked on sequel hook to Elite Force, the series would've started and ended with him and the lab.
That's what gets me so much about elite force. No Adam and Leo? The two most charismatic and likeable characters in the whole show? Always bugged me, even as a kid.
@@xhgcommentaryarchive elite force killed 2 shows i actually liked killing off major characters from one and banishing major characters from the other its taking 2 good shows and shoe horning them together in a way that makes both massively worse
I heard they ended elite force because it wasn't getting enough views, if they just threw leo in there im sure the show would still be around or atleast had a good 4 seasons. and honestly if you look at the show elite force there really wasn't any direction in it like Bree ends up getting bionic powers and super powers makes no sense
@@burundianfamily2982 wait, sorry for the dumb question, but i thought she was a speedster?
@@xhgcommentaryarchive when i was watching the 2 parter home-sweet-home i was literally begging that adam and leo were gonna save bree skylar and oliver and i was so dissapointed when chase and kaz saved them instead, still bugs me to this day
I feel like one of the biggest issues with the latter half of season 4 onwards is that it goes from “Leo and his bionic siblings get into shenanigans” to “Leo’s siblings and the 100+ people like them are there and so is Leo sometimes”
Literally, I seriously prefer the show earlier when the main premise of the show was 3 bionic siblings trying to fit in and keep their secret from the world whilst going to high school, idk though
@@reezy21 i agree for the mostpart. when i was growing up watching the show, i loved when leo finally got his bionic arm, but from what i can remember, they really underutilized it even though it was a MAJOR part of his character that he wished he could be bionic like the others.
@@Immortal_BlazeLiterally Leo getting his bionic arm was probably my favourite episode due to the fact it actually made sense with the storyline AND gave our boy Leo a taste of that bionic life. But then it’s just rubbed in his face how he’s only part bionic, felt bad for the kid in the episodes where they wouldn’t let him do certain things because of it
I think they should’ve made a spin-off about the bionic island students being trained and given specific abilities, and then send them to the space colony. This leaves the fourth season to better develop Leo’s storyline after becoming bionic.
@@RealogOnlyBrodie Bionic Island as a seperated show would had been a better spin-off then Elite Force
I don't think I've ever been as hype as I was when Marcus returned and gave us one final, eyebrow raise. I didn't think I'd be cheering a Disney sitcom from 10 years ago that I was too old to enjoy 10 years ago but here we are.
I feel like the last episode to feature Eddy gives the answer to the question of "why did Eddy never appear after this point" in a very dark way, because Eddy is so intensely and openly cruel to Tasha in that episode that it makes complete sense to me that the only possible thing that could have been done after all that was for Davenport to pull the plug on him. Eddy pulled a LOT of nasty stuff on Tasha throughout the series, but if none of Eddy's prior actions had ever resulted in Tasha threatening divorce I think that incident would have been the breaking point that made her not just threaten it but immediately start getting the paperwork together. His "death" being so unceremonious that it didn't even get highlighted in the show also makes sense to me because everyone who wasn't Davenport would have been THRILLED he was finally gone and eager to move on from thinking about him.
Was just about to say that it was probably something like that...
...and then he’s back in Season 4 saying he locked Tasha in the closet
I find it horrifying Davenport murdered Eddy so unceremoniously
Yeah. Fuck Eddy. He was funny to a point. But afterwards, you just wanted to see him die painfully.
Marcuses little eyebrow thing happens at least twice in every one of his scenes and I find it so funny. It's so clear the writers found it as funny as I do
Just wanted to point out to the creator of the vid Marcus would never raise his eyebrow if it wasn’t for the rock. Respect the originator.
@@jjrilla___2664 This show was made before the meme was a thing. Unless this is a joke. I can't read tone over text
@@mishavolkov3230 the eyebrow thing is The Rock's signature thing, he does that since he was on WWE
and I think he did it way more back then than now
@@mishavolkov3230 "The People's Eyebrow" was The Rock's trademark in WWE since like 1999. The meme may only have taken off a few years ago, but it was definitely around way before that especially among wrestling fans.
@@jjrilla___2664 the originator of moving your muscles in a certain way? You have zero evidence they were connected or that the show creators even knew about the rock doing it
I FOUND MY PEOPLE! Lab Rats was my childhood (I was kind of old (15) when it came out but still) I loved it and no one else around me knew about it so I was alone on this one back then.
A few fun facts about the show and me as I have seen some people do this in the comments:
- A couple of years back I remember finding out about Billy or William Unger having a kid. It might have been only me who did not know this, but he was a teen dad (16 years old) and his kid was born while recording I don't remember if the first or second season of Lab Rats which is crazy because nobody (or at least me) knew he had a kid back then. He hid it pretty well I think.
- The episode where Adam goes underwater before he even knows he can breathe underwater still haunts me and the whole Marcus thing as well, at least from what I remember it wasn't normal back then to blatantly talk about such a sensitive topic on a kid's show back then. Yes, it was mentioned, like x character had a parent that passed, but it was rarely (or dare I say never) shown on a show before (or at least that I remember, I might have been too young to understand it before). But the Adam thing sacrificing himself to save others was ugh devastating for me back then idk what is wrong with me, sorry. But this not only happened to Adam, there was a chance of losing one of the characters constantly. Not only that but more serious topics than what used to be talked about in Disney shows back then (it is now more normal, but it started around that time, at least from what I can remember) Like a character losing an arm? hello? That never ever happened before on a Disney show. Mighty med was kinda like this too but it doesn't count because it started after lab rats
- I still vividly remember watching the episode promos on TH-cam because I was watching it online as not from the US, and I wanted to be up to date and was watching it as it came out in the US and not when it was released here (the episodes had to be translated and dubbed, so it was delayed)
- I'm still mad about the abrupt ending in Elite Force ugh. I know it is technically another show but still. I even signed a petition to finish recording it hehe
Oh and an extra I once was on a trip (inside my country) while obsessed with this show and had a server who looked just like Hal Sparks (Donald Davenport) and I kept staring at him, Poor guy he must have thought I was crazy.
Either way, thank you for this video! I really like your humor and storytelling so I had a great time!
Bro I literally don’t care but I want to know the ending of elite force. At least publish a comic or something, disney literally let us just sit. Also can you share the link of the petition?
@@lopez4059 It ends with "the war just began...." And then the war never happened
@@mariajimenafigueroa233 what do you mean? It ends at episode 17 with a massive cliffhanger and then doesn’t continue.
As a kid, Leo was the Miles Morales before Miles Morales. I saw a black teen, that looked like me, in an awesome superhero setting. He was the greatest character in the show. He's what kept me coming back and laughing so much.
I look like my Miles and I am only Puerto Rican hope that doesn't offend you.
@@MrBlazingninja I'm black and white, so Miles Morales looks like me, but I'll never look like him. I still cry tears of joy whenever I read the comics. So no need to apologize, because I understand completely.
That’s funny man. I realize now I was always looking for Asian characters but I never realized it until now. Weird how we really do like representation as kids
you are completely right, I think i was definitely drawn to leo because of that. also had a crush on janelle
@@elik031 😂now that's funny, but she is pretty though.
"I have many layers. I am very dense." and "I have an itch to crush a dream or two. Who's gonna be my ointment?" are genuinely brilliant lines. I actually laughed out loud.
The whole "extras never talk" thing is something I noticed with every Disney Channel sitcom I watched and I always found it super bizarre. I don't know why the rule is in place but it makes so many scenes feel so awkward.
(edit) Yes I have read the replies and I understand it's a contractual thing
its because as soon as someone talks, they have to get paid a lot more money and disney doesnt want to pay someone they dont have to. its awkward and annoying but there is a reason (whether its a good reason is up to you lol)
I think it's very dependent on the context. Sometimes I thought it was funny how the extras were always interrupted when talked to
Iirc the law correctly, the moment an extra talked, they are upgraded to an actor immediately. Which means more payment and actual credits on the show or movie they were part of.
So a show like Lab Rats, that seemed to be always stretching the budget far, probably held back extra talking to avoid that
it always looked so funny how they’d just furrow their brows or drop their hands in frustration and walk away when a character says/does something to them lmaoo
As others mentioned, the moment they talk they are paid more. It's not only a Disney Channel thing, you can find this in other tv shows or movies, but maybe it is more obvious in Disney, I don't know.
If you think about it. Even if there was always a 4th sibling planned. It doesnt make any sense how he was able to contact douglus. Considering douglus is still supposed to be dead. They never rven tell his mom hes still alive and hes constantly hiding in season 4 from their mom. They couldve written it so that he contacted their mom and rhen she pointed him to donny and THEN donny would tell douglus and he would reveal the 4th sibling that way. Plus it is very clear that they were planning a season 5 but elite force was commisionrd and messed up both labrats and might med. So all plans for the next season were cut
ok but why is no one talking about the fact that Leo literally blinded a girl.. that was such an unexpected scenario for a Disney show, so sad and dark if you think about it...
And people keep saying that season 4 is lame 🤦🏾♂️
I mean I think disney shows tend to go dark (more so their cartoon shows). I remember this scene on Wizards on Weverly Place (forgive me if I didn't write the title right, I grew up with the Spanish ver.) where Alex basically killed a girl that was her BFF the same day she found out she wasn't a good person, but they brushed it off completely lol
@@samueldembela9154 ikr
@@yamigoya8291 STEVIE! OH MY GOD, THIS JUST UNLOCKED A MEMORY
@@yamigoya8291 Oh yea...christ
I really missed some of the Disney Channel shows, Lab rats being one of them and others like: Kickin It, Shake it up, Suite Life On Deck, Austin & Ally, Mighty Med, Pair of Kings etc. All these shows have a special place in my heart since I grew up with these shows.
Same
bro ur gonna make me cry
anyone know where i can rewatch them
I have a serious problem with the lack of mentions of Wizards Of Waverly Place
@@john8036-z5u disney plus
For the points about extras not speaking: You gotta pay them more for having any speaking role, even if it's a single line--which can be devestating to, say, a TV show that seems to pour most of their budget into the special effects and event episodes. So to cirumvent this, all extras are simply mute.
In Life of Brian one of the extras in one scene ad libbed a line, which does make the joke a lot funnier (it’s the one where Brian wakes up to his followers and when he implores to them that they’re all individuals, they parrot the line back to him en masse except for one guy who pipes with “I’m not!”) but he still did get a pay rise.
@@jbcatz5 what are you talking about the only life of Brian I know is a family guy episode and I'm pretty sure that's not what your talking about
@@MR-SINISTER76 Monty Python movie
@@roman.nose.enjoyer which one aren't there several of em
@@MR-SINISTER76 You have so much to discover! Monty Python’s Life of Brian is a masterpiece!
For anyone who cares at all, Tyrel now makes music with his siblings. They’re all really talented/skilled at it. I suggest you check them out
The principal is actually the best character she has great lines her actress protrays her perfectly with so much energy and malice its just so perfect
Fun fact the actor that played the principal it’s also the voice for Naruto
@@jamesabrams3715 it’s literally in the video
I absolutely despise Principal Perry. Her actor did an amazing job
Yeah love her character.
@@meIatonin I mean, it is 3 hours long.
I remember watching the pilot as a little kid and being very confused as to how it was ok that Mr Davenport had these HUMAN CHILDREN locked in his basement and it was ok just because they had powers. Like at first I thought that they were robots that he didn’t know were sentient but no, they were kids that he adopted and then locked in his basement
When I was a kid I used to think Davenport was actually Leo's biological father, I never saw the pilot so it was just never explained to me and I never questioned why Leo called him 'Davenport'
the halo spartan-II program in a nutshell
Ohh I thought he made the kids like in a test tube or something
@@joelle4226 same
This show really took the “kids in my basement” joke literally starting
I remember seeing this theory a few years ago that the reason why the bionic kids are named alphabetically is because Douglas originally just named them "Subject A, B, & C" until Donald took them and gave them actual names
😱
I don’t think Donald named them though. I agree that maybe It started like that but I feel like Douglas named them because it’s implied Donald didn’t know about Daniel, who would be “subject D”. So I think Douglas eventually named them before Donald rescued them.
@TheGlassesPro Yea that seems way too legit to be a theory
Are you telling me that there are Lab Rats theories?
@@rewskiem5700 I thought this was canon ngl
"there is no lab rats fandom" you underestimate the power of young adults and ppl in their early 20's with an unhealthy attachment to the shows they grew up watching
big facts. that was actually the last good show on disney XD
TRUE TRUE I turned 18 this year and am on my second full watch of this show . one of my top 5 shows ever I adore it unironically and unequivocally so much
Okay wow I can’t believe this is actually a 3 hour video but I really appreciate the time and work you put into these videos. I love how informative, nostalgic, and entertaining your videos are! Keep up the good work!
Reminded of that one garfield guy
ikr
I know it immediately got replaced with an arm that looks almost exactly the same but I'm honestly amazed disney allowed a character to get so grievously injured in a show that their arm had to be amputated.
exactly bro
They even made a joke about the crushed arm bleeding when it happened like I was not expecting that from Disney
@@chubby_runs9091 it was back before Disney got all whatever the hell their doing now.
@@hermitsunite953 well recently Disney killed off a main character in Amphibia. Even though she was revived later it was still a shock then.
@@fireblade696 ...don't tell me anymore. I'm gonna cry now knowing that one of them is gonna temporarily die.
When I first saw this pop up in my recommended I thought “3 hours?!” Then now that I’m half way through. This is great content! And I realized after 5 minutes we were getting a run down of the *entire* show.
We’re in a club now
Same haha
Same here, I thought it was a 20 minutes video but when I was at 40, I realized how long it was, but I couldn't stop.
this mans viewer retiention bout to go crazy
okay but if douglas did the alphabetical names for everything. how many androids did he go through before he got to marcus?? did he really go through like 9 androids before one worked? is that why he barely cared about marcus dying? cause he already lost 9 androids before him and just kept makin em?? what weird n name tech creature did he make between marcus and otis (bionic dog)?
omg WHY HAVE I NEVER THOUGHT OF THIS WTHH
That’s incredible thinking
They're probably different types of boy and not boys because he originally wanted to named Adam, Bree and Chase "Big Boy, Not A Boy and Little Boy" respectally
As someone who, as a kid, thought this was the coolest concept for a Disney Channel show, had the biggest crush on both Billy Unger and Kelli Berglund, and wished there was an extended version for the intro theme, the fact that this video exists and it's 3 hours long makes me feel so vindicated.
we are the same person
Holy shit same, this show was my childhood.
I honestly knew i was gay bc of Kelli Berglund
@@rednecromancer2579 same
I couldn't get over how much I loved the name Bree as a kid.
Honestly, I can't lie, the scene where Adam and Bree run in and discover Chase's "dead body" still gets me. I know it not actually being him and stuff makes it not as impactful in the long run , but I think Adam's actor really pulled off that scene. It made me so emotional watching it the first time as a kid.
It’s weird how Adam and Chase got fake out deaths and Brie got really close to a fake out death all in the spam of a few episodes, it’s like they suddenly wanted to do that trope a LOT
I had a conversation with my dad and ill say this again, I think Adam and Leo carried the show as they both were really funny but yet they got rid of them in elite force.
@@RiseLeon_Turtle that’s why that show probably wasn’t renewed, and because Mighty Med was horrible. Elite force got super low ratings and I think it’s because no one cared about the show once Adam and Leo left. I personally couldn’t watch past the first couple episodes of elite force because it just wasn’t a good show
@@lunko1736 agreed but i think mighty med is a good show better then lab rats porb
Just a really well delivered and directed scene. Chase was off-screen for a long while as well
as much as I loved this show, Disney had a lot of trouble with the trailers where they forgot they maybe shouldn't expose literally everything about the new episode. "I'm your father" in season 2? that feels like a surprise that should only come from actually watching the episode
I fucking hate when trailers do that
i swear i would be excited for the new episode, and suddenly during commercial break i would get the whole thing spoiled
I literally said the same thing! Why are you revealing the twist??? Now we pretty much know what's happening days/possibly weeks in advance and the hype and mystery is no longer there, making it a bit of a waste of time
I did not watch the trailer so I was legitimately shocked about that
Disney channels trailers drove me crazy because of how they would always spoil the episode. What’s the point of watching if you already know what the twist is?
"Just imagine Elon Musk doing a tailgate challenge in a college parking lot in order to win tickets."
... I can see it.
It seems like I and many others have had a similar experience of “loving this show as a kid” and “completely forgetting about it.” It’s so odd. Something that was so great about our childhood was all of a sudden wiped from our brain. I guess that’s how things work early on. Thank you so much for making this video man.
I forgot about it too! This is really weird.
I agree, I loved this show as a kid, and then a 3-4 years later I complete forgot about it until this video
I have a decent amount of shows from my childhood that I don’t remember well but occasionally remembered watching them but this is the only one I’ve COMPLETELY forgotten about until now, this video really unlocked some memories
I’m surprised that characters aren’t terrified of leaving the screen knowing that at any second they can mercilessly cease to exist if they do
Which characters
@@toddhoward1616 True
“WAHOO! GONNA STOP EXISTING!”
R.I.P. Spin
I remember starting the show when it was in late season 3, meaning I completely missed the first two seasons until I'd already seen the fourth (I watched it on Netflix afterwards). So that shift period between the lab and the bionic island wasn't that strange since I'd mostly only seen the bionic island eps. I do remember loving it when I was a kid, especially the crossover episode and the other hour long specials.
I also remember being super upset when Elite Force ended on a cliffhanger and just never continued. It was kinda strange to me that even though the show had more Mighty Med characters it was still called Lab Rats? Now that I'm older, I look back on it as my introduction to superheroes, because I'm a huge Marvel fan now. Lab Rats deserved better than to be a low-budget Disney sitcom and I will stand by that.
Ig since it was only the Lab Rats creators that worked on it, not the Mighty Med creators
I still love it for what it was and was so unique that is still has a place in my heart
@@theAstarrr definitely
I don't understand why Adam & Leo weren't in Elite Force but Bree & Chase were. Adam especially should have been in the show considering he has more super powers. I get that Oliver has super strength which is Adam's thing but both Bree & Skylar have super speed so why can't both Adam & Oliver have so strength? Or just get rid of Oliver's super strength and he can just have flight and hydrokinesis.
Has it been removed from netflix? I couldnt find it
3:02:30 on a rewatch with this video. This may be my favorite Perry scene cause it’s one of the few times she shows empathy to the team and worries for them and even consuls Bree
you rewatched this whole video? Jesus 😭 it took me days to watch this came out. im only back to show this video to a friend because i randomly thought about the time I watched a long ass video about lab rats 😂
I didn’t realize that😢
can we talk about how interesting the premise of the show was? it was such a unique idea for a disney sitcom. i kinda want the show to have a reboot so the concept can be executed better
It’d be interesting but the guy who plays Leo is irreplaceable
No, leave it as it is.
@@ahuman3393 that’s true, no one can replace leo
@@ahuman3393 mmm
The only problem I had with this show was how Tasha was treated. It seems like she was barely there and she took some heavy insults from eddy and was not defended by Donald. She also wasn't credited in the intro and I always wondered why. Other than that I got a lot of good laughs from this.
Edit: I didn't think I was gonna get this many likes. I'm glad I'm not the only person who felt this way.
Yeah ong
I'm glad Eddy disappeared after Three Minus Bree, if anyone did my wife that dirty, I'd make them wish for deactivation.
Eddy was my favorite he was funny as hell
Eddy was so funny to me, but I absolutely HATED how he would treat Tasha. Especially when he compared her to an animal in one of the later episodes.
@@hearts4mikey it happened around the same time Douglas moved in, I like to imagine Tasha convinced him to get rid of Eddy
Correction: The field in “commando app” is not the school’s field. It is the dog park across the street from the school. Perry says this in the episode.
Haha nerd /j
@@jello9079 lmao
I said the same thing have I haven’t seen the show in at least 3 years 🥲 I was and still am too obsessed with this show
Nerd
@@theharync6113 i was jus rewatching da episode and realized he made a mistake bro its not dat hard
Through this video, I started to remember how I never really questioned why Marcus hated Leo so much, but I think subconsciously, I had a theory. This is bleak but, ultimately, I figured that since Marcus is an android, he must feel pretty isolated from other people, like his “dad,” right? So, when he heard about the Lab Rats, maybe a part of him hoped they could actually be friends, seeing as they would’ve been the closest thing to him robot wise. Well, whether they cared or not, to Marcus, I figured it must’ve felt like an insult that Leo was able to interact and be family to the Rats when he himself had more in common with them, and needed to family more than Leo did. Honestly, I thought it was jealousy (and maybe a bit of feeling superior as an android in comparison to Leo who’s only a weak human), and I just left it at that.
Congrats, you paid Marcus more attention just now than the writers did
RIP Marcus genuinely, I saw a lot of potential in him as the odd lost step-brother vibe, so much drama and humor was lost with that
looking at the time travel episode where leo finds out he's married to janelle in the future, it feels like he both thwarted his chances of marrying her and caused an endless stream of bad luck for her in later episodes, simply by *knowing* who he's married to. intentional or not, it's a nice foreshadow for how bad things are gonna get between them
Reason why He would be better with Taylor
@@PedroGoncalves-en8qp he blinded taylor babes :D
@@romezele so??
@@romezele doesn’t mean he hates her and even she forgives him and knows it was a mistake
@@PedroGoncalves-en8qp Mistake or not she was still irreversibly hurt by his actions and his reckless need to prove himself. Even though she forgave him I don't think that's a strong foundation for a romance, especially when you consider what happened with Janelle.
being older now i realized how underused leo was in s3 and s4 especially in the finale. they never really gave him much credit. leo was and still is my favorite character and it's sad how he went from the main to the side character.
Also... they made him a mentor for like 1 and 1/2 episodes. and they cheated him out of the final fight with marcus. when he got bionics i was so hyped because realistically he could've been a mixture of adam, bree and chase he could've had super speed in his leg like bree and a laser bow in his arm like Chase and power replication like Daniel. they never even gave Leo more abilities besides super strength and laser cannons. like he lowkey could've been as powerful as them.
he did get his character development in the episode where he dazzled S1 and then became a mentor
I liked leo the most
True if Leo was bionic he could have had energy transformering
Disney XD's peak was a strange time
Indeed
It's the guy
Vail do vid on Lab Rats I dare you
ong it was
but they had alot of great shows
Yep, and I loved it
This is the kind of video that I can watch all the way through in one sitting, and then immediately rewatch it again from the start. It’s short enough that it stays interesting throughout the whole thing, but long enough that it feels fresh on every rewatch.
something small i’d kinda hoped you would would mention, a blink-and-you-miss-it detail in concert in a can, wherein bree and davenport are playing on the guitars and it’s making a loud screeching, unpleasant noise. for a short moment we cut back to the boys, and see chase covering his ears because, you know, sensitive bionic hearing. if you pay attention to marcus, he’s doing the exact same thing. it goes by very quickly and i legit never picked up on it as a kid until i saw it in some post online years later but yeah. lab rats isn’t super consistent across the board so this little moment foreshadowing marcus being bionic before it’s actually revealed is just fun and cool to me.
there’s still hours left in the video but i’m going to assume since you’ve talked abt concert in a can already and marcus being bionic this detail is never gonna get brought up so might as well comment it now.
this show actually had great attention to detail, you'll slowly notice the more you rewatch the show.
I haven't watch the video yet. I just wanted to say that Lab Rats is one of the best Disney sitcoms imo. However, I wasn't a fan of the island and stopped watching all together after Mighty Med and Lab Rats became a permanent thing. I didnt really cared for Mighty Med in the first place and lost interest in Lab Rats all together when it happened. Leo and Adam leaving was the final nail in the coffin for me. Lab Rats always hold a place in my heart watching season 1 and 2 during middle school
This is exactly how I feel. I was so disappointed that the main two characters not coming to the next season were Adam and Leo. They carried the show!
@Unoriginal Kōhai same
@@businessduck3900 Adam was kinda trash if they just got leo it wouldn't have mattered
I watched like the first episode of elite force, but they removed some of the best characters. Mighty med and lab rats were good shows on their own, and they both took a sharp decline afterwards.
@@PolandSphere sometimes, just because two things are good doesn't mean they'll be good together. it's like mixing a chocolatebar with italian cheese bread or something
"What makes this show weird" "Davenport, as you will se throughout the series is not a good father or person," YEAH I guessed that from your synopsis of the show's premise in the beginning, growing up I didn't question it but as an adult, if I married a man and found 3 bioengineered kids in his secret underground lab, I would assume I married a supervillain
Which isn't necessarily a bad thing.
And yet as the story unfolds, you get to see that he was protecting them and trying to train them in their abilities.
I will say when it comes to Leo and Chase I completely understand why they acted how they did when they were on the island.
With Chase, he had always had Daddy issues, but it didn’t really matter because in their hometown, he was still the leader, he was still the smartest, whereas is in this environment, he is no longer that. Instead, his only advantage he has over the people on the island is his experience. So naturally, he becomes more bitter, and he does more things to prove that he is the smartest as we see that all backfires and just shows his immaturity.
For Leo, it made sense that he started to do more extreme things to be seen as their equal. In the beginning, he lacked bionics and knew that there was no way for him to be seen in the same light as them. Hes always wanted to be a part of their times and he feels as though this is the time That he finally gets the recognition he has always been seeking. They don’t grant that to him, especially Chase. In turn, he acts out and he does more things to prove himself and delving into more reckless methods.
With both of them I think it made a lot of sense for them to butt heads, because while Chase is trying to be seen as the most important person on the island, Leo is trying to finally be acknowledged. So while Leo is trying to gather spotlight for himself, Chase is always constantly trying to undercut that because he doesn’t want him to be seen as more than Chase . While this is an irrational thought, It’s still one that they both have from insecurity in their childhood that we did see earlier on. Overall, I think it’s actually pretty clear where both of them get their ideas of how to improve their status on the island. Despite the destructive nature, I think that’s just the result of a lack of emotional growth in their childhood because of their environment, but the island forces out an entire separate type of experience for them to show that they are better than they have previously been perceived
A whole book, damn
@@9urn93we (the lab rats fandom) are very passionate about this show
WHY DID THEY MAKE A DUDE NAMED CHASE AND NOT GIVE *HIM* THE SUPERSPEED
It would’ve been cheesy
@@cherrylemonade2376 This entire show is cheesy, it would have worked
@@coffeewolfproductions9113 nah it’s not Disney cheesy
@@cherrylemonade2376 May I direct your attention to Dash from The Incredibles?
@@coffeewolfproductions9113 no but like chase just wouldn’t work logically
I love how the only way Marcus' actor is able to attempt to make him look threatening is by making a 🤨 face but all I can hear everytime he does does it is the vine boom sound effect
Wait nvm I just got to the part in the video where you mention it lol
It looked dumb
34:00 “and your grandma didn’t die” is one of the funniest and most well-delivered moments I’ve seen in a kid show. I genuinely laughed out loud.
PLS I LOVE THAT PART SO MUCH I LAUGH EVERYTIME
Same, I did not see that joke coming 😂
Not only the joke but Mr Davenport's look at Adam 😂