WEBVTT 00:25.570 --> 00:33.586 Hello, and welcome to our weeb there yet in exploration and education and anime. I'm your anime idiot, patrick Dugan. 00:33.698 --> 00:36.306 I'm an anime expert, dana hollander. 00:36.418 --> 00:42.440 And I'm brenda mccullough, your anime swords to lend. I'm just I'm trying to stay out of this. I don't want to I'm backing out. 00:43.450 --> 00:44.834 Just trying to keep the peace. 00:44.882 --> 00:48.742 Just don't worry. I'll do my thing, you guys do yours. We just we're good. 00:48.876 --> 00:53.534 Just I didn't see nothing. I didn't see nothing. Just take the money and go. 00:53.732 --> 00:59.230 I got an Xbox and a TV in my bedroom. You guys can have family dinner without me. I'm good. I don't need the fighting. 00:59.810 --> 01:07.950 And a special guest joining us, someone who's often here for all the recordings, just in a different room, my partner, Sam Miller. 01:08.030 --> 01:11.662 Hello. I am Sam, your anime box of tomatoes fairy. 01:11.806 --> 01:12.830 Hi, Sam. 01:12.910 --> 01:13.540 Hello. 01:13.910 --> 01:16.210 Hi, I'm Brendan. 01:17.590 --> 01:23.910 You suffer through all the anime with Dugan, but you have none of the acknowledgment on the podcast until now. 01:24.060 --> 01:36.566 It's true. I often find myself on the other side of the wall wondering what that cackling was, and it'll find out, like, the following week when it's posted, and I'll be like, oh, that's what you were laughing at while I was playing pokemon. 01:36.758 --> 01:42.234 Then also just listening to me yell and yell at Brendan curse. 01:42.362 --> 01:43.520 Well, that could be anything. 01:44.210 --> 01:47.200 I'm a good noodle, dugan doesn't yell at me. 01:48.450 --> 01:49.962 I direct all the hate. 01:50.106 --> 01:59.700 Well, I think there was one show you brought that I was mad at, because I do remember saying, brendan usually makes me mad. Forget what show it was. 02:00.230 --> 02:01.090 Stalking. 02:01.510 --> 02:02.530 Yeah, there we go. 02:02.600 --> 02:03.554 That's right. 02:03.752 --> 02:07.766 That is the only episode that I haven't listened to because Patrick told me not to. 02:07.868 --> 02:10.200 Yeah, it's just not good. 02:12.170 --> 02:16.120 Panty and stalking is not good. So it just drained us. 02:17.790 --> 02:20.890 It was the most upset I've been since seeing the movie Cats. 02:22.110 --> 02:22.858 Wow. 02:23.024 --> 02:25.100 I mean, that's a tall order. 02:26.110 --> 02:27.354 It was a bad show. 02:27.472 --> 02:32.394 I was pretty happy after Cats. It was exactly what I thought it would be. 02:32.512 --> 02:34.240 Yeah, it was just such an experience. 02:34.850 --> 02:42.080 Well, speaking of a gaggle of horny people thrown together for no reason, let's talk about this show. 02:43.090 --> 02:45.050 Okay. I'm confused. 02:45.130 --> 02:52.930 So, yeah, this week we have a real throwback, at least for Sam and I. We're watching italia. Access powers. 02:55.910 --> 02:58.340 Data. We got data. Oh, no. 02:59.910 --> 03:02.420 Are they okay? All right. 03:03.210 --> 03:03.910 Who. 03:04.060 --> 03:10.790 Every time I hear that word, I'm just reminded of being 14, and I. 03:10.940 --> 03:15.130 Hey, the worst immersion therapy. 03:16.190 --> 03:19.906 So yeah. What is your history with italia, Dana? 03:19.958 --> 03:20.990 That's funny. 03:22.130 --> 03:24.270 What's your baggage with italia? 03:26.210 --> 04:06.714 I was obsessed when I was 13 ish. 14 ish, like, going into my freshman year of high school, so I cosplayed from it. It reminds me of a really dark time, honestly. cosplay. Sorry, who did you cosplay? Canada. I was, like, kin with Canada. You could not separate me. But yeah, it reminds me of a time where I just as a person was, like, nasty as hell. So it just brings up, like, really icky memories. But who knows? Maybe it's better than I remember. I don't know. Maybe it's just as good as I remember. 04:06.912 --> 04:10.638 What? You at the 14 was an icky person. 04:10.724 --> 04:11.360 What? 04:11.730 --> 04:12.480 Never. 04:14.370 --> 04:33.842 I was also an icky 13 year old watching this because this was the one true middle school anime experience I had where my quote unquote girlfriend at that time showed it to me and was also obsessed and made me watch it on release day. 04:33.976 --> 04:35.640 Were you kin with anyone? 04:36.330 --> 04:53.898 No, I was scrambling to figure out what was going on. She was so obsessed. We would watch for, like, the episode would go up in Japan, and then a half hour later the fan sub would be up and then we would watch that. 04:54.064 --> 04:54.826 Wow. 04:55.008 --> 04:57.500 That's how I used to watch sherlock in high school. 04:59.470 --> 05:04.430 So yeah, I also have those very middle schooly weebly memories. 05:05.810 --> 05:07.246 Wow. I know. 05:07.348 --> 05:34.166 Yeah. Literally not very similar for me, although I was older and probably should have known better. I was best friends, super into this girl when I was a sophomore in high school, and she was into anime. And so she made me watch or on High School Host Club and hitler fine. I got, like, a very into both in my attempts to impress her and apparently now she's a Trump supporter. So that turned out great. 05:34.268 --> 05:36.870 Oh, no, good. That's good. 05:37.020 --> 05:39.480 I'm cool and I like or on high school. 05:41.950 --> 05:45.020 So Dana, whose pants were you trying to get into for watching the show? 05:52.530 --> 05:54.186 Probably America's. 05:54.378 --> 05:55.898 America is very cute. 05:56.074 --> 05:58.734 Brendan, do you have any experience with this show? 05:58.852 --> 06:12.260 No, I'm the dugan this week. I got nothing. I've heard of it, but I think it's about war, like history and stuff. And I just don't give a shit. So I just never got into it. 06:14.630 --> 06:19.222 This was perfect for me because I was a giant history nerd at this point watching it. 06:19.276 --> 06:20.854 So I was like, hell yeah. 06:21.052 --> 06:23.320 I can relate to anime for once. 06:24.650 --> 06:41.722 Got you. I had a buddy give me a game on Steam called valkyrie chronicles, which is like anime War One style stuff. So I'm guessing it's something like that, but less turn based. Nothing less turn based, but otherwise I'm going and blind. 06:41.866 --> 06:42.510 Great. 06:42.660 --> 06:44.480 I'm so excited for you. 06:44.850 --> 06:45.950 I'm scared. 06:47.890 --> 07:05.730 So, yeah, since these episodes are about five minutes each, we're watching more this week just to give us more fodder to talk about. So we're watching episodes one and two, five and six and 17 and 18. 07:06.310 --> 07:08.450 A nice concise story. lark. 07:10.490 --> 07:17.110 What's that sound? Is that pasta boiling? Is that sweet tomatoes on the horizon? 07:17.450 --> 07:18.600 Here we go. 07:39.890 --> 07:44.314 This is fast. Did you catch all that anime? Did you catch all that anime? 07:44.362 --> 07:45.118 Ha ha. 07:45.284 --> 07:50.210 Yo. Yeah, like real talk. 07:50.360 --> 07:52.850 The enthusiasm is contagious. 07:53.190 --> 07:55.578 I'm having flashbacks. 07:55.774 --> 08:05.240 I don't want to judge middle schoolers because we're all dumb in middle school, we've all made bad decisions. I'm not the only one here. 08:06.170 --> 08:10.758 But like, yo, this was the anime. 08:10.854 --> 08:14.394 For weird World War II boys. You know what I mean? 08:14.432 --> 08:14.890 I guess. 08:14.960 --> 08:16.140 Do you know those kids? 08:17.470 --> 08:22.078 I guess. But like, wow, this is not what I thought it was. 08:22.244 --> 08:28.202 And then it's also for girls or anybody who likes cute boys because they're all just cute boys. 08:28.346 --> 08:31.230 Yeah. In my experience, it has mostly been that. 08:31.380 --> 08:34.240 Okay, Brendan, what did you think it was? 08:35.590 --> 08:51.270 I thought it was like valkyrie chronicles where it's just like it's just World War II or World War I or whatever, but as anime. And it's like all those old World War I documentaries that our dads love to watch and then fall asleep while watching on Thanksgiving. 08:51.770 --> 08:54.358 I thought it was pretty boys talking about it. 08:54.444 --> 09:04.134 I thought it was a documentary. Peter Jackson remade and funded himself about those who do not come back. But with anime, I thought it was that where it's just like here's. 09:04.182 --> 09:08.730 I thought it was a one shot movie that's better in theory than it was an execution. 09:09.150 --> 09:10.842 I mean, that's partially true. 09:10.976 --> 09:11.660 Yeah. 09:12.050 --> 09:15.950 Now I'm just imagining brendan's video game remade as the chibi talias. 09:20.210 --> 09:23.486 I can't I thought it was like. 09:23.508 --> 09:41.590 Trench warfare, but with big anime eyes. I thought it was a legitimate story and not five minute episodes where half of them are cheapy bullshit about gross caricatures of countries. I was not expecting this upfront racism. 09:42.090 --> 09:49.880 I'm sorry, did you not see the five minute episode thing and go, oh, yes, we're getting into some deep storylines with these. 09:50.330 --> 09:59.690 I clicked on it and then it ended. I was like, Wait, what? And I saw those five minutes. I was like, oh, no, I didn't know they were five minutes fast. 09:59.840 --> 10:07.182 To be fair, there are storylines they just jump around so much that it was impossible within six episodes to finish. 10:07.236 --> 10:10.042 Any of them nearly incoherent. 10:10.186 --> 10:19.394 Yeah, I think the most complete storyline we got was the island. Yeah, that's pretty much the whole island. Because the island is also nothing. 10:19.592 --> 10:26.840 It's also the one scene they just reuse over and over again and with very minute changes because you can tell there's no money in this show. 10:28.410 --> 10:34.614 So, yeah, let's get into it because it won't take long. So we have plenty of time to. 10:34.652 --> 10:38.220 Discuss elbow room to just bullshit for a while. 10:38.910 --> 10:49.622 Yeah. So we start off episode one. Also, I should say, I watched all of these dubbed, which I had not done when I was a youth. 10:49.766 --> 10:51.020 Oh, man. 10:52.670 --> 10:56.142 But I don't remember that much because it was almost a decade ago. 10:56.276 --> 11:05.200 I think I may have started watching it subbed, but then once I found out there was a dub boy, that's all I want. 11:05.830 --> 11:10.542 Well, the girl I liked had the subs on dvd because she was invested. 11:10.686 --> 11:15.620 Yeah, I had the funimation dvds when they came out. I still have them. 11:16.230 --> 11:17.074 You don't need them. 11:17.112 --> 11:18.910 They're just watching, waiting. 11:19.070 --> 11:27.346 Yeah, one day I tried watching sub in dub, and then I saw how fast the dialogue was moving and how useless the dialogue was, and I just switched the dub. 11:27.458 --> 11:29.050 Yeah, that's probably a smart move. 11:29.200 --> 11:29.900 Yeah. 11:30.350 --> 11:42.560 Also, it helps when it's not just a lot of Japanese people with Japanese accents doing all of the countries. I do like that they at least try to put accents on as bad as they are. 11:44.690 --> 11:46.990 Fun fact. Are you ready for this? 11:47.060 --> 11:48.718 Oh, boy, here we go. 11:48.804 --> 12:06.466 I'm sorry. I just remembered this. So I have to say it the guy that plays Russia in the English dub, right? He plays Victor Nakivarov and uri on Ice doesn't match at all. But because they knew he could already do a Russian accent, I guess they. 12:06.488 --> 12:09.080 Were like, hey, did for anyone? 12:10.170 --> 12:13.266 I'm just always tight cast as Russian anime. 12:13.298 --> 12:13.880 Boy. 12:16.970 --> 12:19.338 They should have gotten anyone else. 12:19.504 --> 12:20.860 Literally anyone. 12:22.110 --> 12:30.650 So we start off episode one with America is trying to run a world conference. 12:31.550 --> 12:32.282 Sounds right. 12:32.336 --> 12:51.794 Yeah. So basically, we sort of talked about it, but haven't explicitly said each person is a representation of their country. So just broad general country stereotypes are basically all the characterizations you get in this show. 12:51.912 --> 12:55.938 But they're still anime, so they all kind of look the same. Just different hair. 12:56.114 --> 12:59.238 Yeah, hair and clothing is slightly different. 12:59.404 --> 13:00.758 Just enough of color. 13:00.924 --> 13:04.642 Yeah, they have different eyes. Britain's got the eyebrows. 13:04.786 --> 13:07.430 Big eyebrows. Big eyebrows. 13:07.850 --> 13:11.062 And italy's got the little hair curly thing. 13:11.196 --> 13:14.090 He's gotten a hoge, which is not a hay gal. 13:14.830 --> 13:17.530 I was thinking a hoagie because I ate one earlier. 13:19.230 --> 13:21.366 Just like an American yo. 13:21.398 --> 13:24.986 Hey, I'm from the East Coast. Here, I'm eating. 13:25.018 --> 13:35.550 Here, I get a cheese steak. Philadelphia, I'm Brendan. So, yeah, America is trying to run a world conference. 13:36.630 --> 13:40.820 This show is about as respectful to other cultures as we are a guy. 13:42.950 --> 13:48.018 So just defaulting to a New York accent for any city we go to. 13:48.184 --> 13:51.000 Is not the funniest one. It's just fun. 13:51.770 --> 13:53.750 Hey, I'm from Pittsburgh. 13:55.370 --> 13:58.294 America didn't have, like, a more specific accent. 13:58.422 --> 14:01.206 Yeah, I'm surprised it wasn't very generic. 14:01.238 --> 14:03.910 He should have been, like, Southern or, like, generic. 14:03.990 --> 14:04.620 Yeah. 14:06.590 --> 14:09.914 Generic was that mid Atlantic is. 14:09.952 --> 14:13.150 Like, the old timey accent. They called in, like, old movies. 14:14.050 --> 14:38.294 Anyway, yeah, America is trying to run a world conference, but everyone's just chipping in and being like, hey, I'm China. China stuff. Hey, I'm Italy. Italy stuff. Switzerland. Here switz stuff. And I wrote it down just as a shotgun blast of country stereotypes because it was just so rapid fire of, like, hey, this is the show. Do you get it yet? Hey, this is the show. Do you get it yet? 14:38.412 --> 14:44.946 Yeah, like, America is talking about building a giant superhero to save the world, and grease is asleep. 14:45.138 --> 14:54.810 Okay, that shit is, like, funny, though. America, he says that, and then he says and I will not be accepting criticism, essentially. 14:56.830 --> 14:58.890 So good, so accurate. 15:00.530 --> 15:24.158 But yeah, as this chaos unfolds, germany finally stands up and is like, all right, this is some nonsense. I'm here. I'm going to establish some order. We're all going to do this where everyone gets like, eight minutes of speaking time. We're going to have uniform discussions. All right, let's do this. So just taking charge, being highly aggressive, like Germany. 15:24.334 --> 15:25.070 Sure. 15:25.240 --> 15:35.590 And first person he calls on is little old Italy. And the first contribution we get is pasta. 15:36.090 --> 15:40.520 Oh, God. Oh, my God. 15:43.230 --> 16:19.442 But yeah, and then we go to credits, which is just a little bumper, but yeah, then we go out. We get into actual, like, show plot. This jumps around so much. There's just disjointed things like this world conference. I don't think we see again in the show, at least for a long, long time. So, yes, we see Germany out in the field talking about he heard the legends of this great mighty warrior that conquered most of the world called Roman. 16:19.506 --> 16:22.230 Empire, who is a babe. 16:26.890 --> 16:51.310 And he heard that there is a descendant of this Roman Empire fellow. And in World War I, we see that Germany is in this area on the lookout for this very mighty warrior descendant and stumbles upon a box that just says tomatoes. 16:51.970 --> 16:55.678 He's walking through the woods and he's talking to a stick. 16:55.854 --> 16:56.194 Yeah. 16:56.232 --> 17:04.546 So he has his trusty hair stick. It was just his, like, weapon, I guess. 17:04.648 --> 17:08.838 He talked about how he forgot to feed it. Mine sticky friend. 17:08.924 --> 17:09.560 What? 17:10.330 --> 17:13.240 Mine sticky friend. And that he forgot to feed it. 17:14.090 --> 17:26.010 I forgot about that. I watched this one subbed for whatever reason, and he talks about how he crossed the border with just a stick, and he was just like, nobody attacked me. I just have this stick that makes more sense. 17:26.160 --> 17:28.742 Yeah, him talking to a stick. 17:28.886 --> 17:34.250 I think in the Dub, they just wanted to make it, like, funny. 17:34.590 --> 17:39.274 I mean, it was yeah, I think they just aggressively leaned into it for the Dub. 17:39.402 --> 17:58.962 They were real generous with some of these dubs when I switched episodes. And yeah, I don't know if it was a better choice to just get the balls to the wall nonsense or if they should have stuck to the plot like Japan or like the Japanese subs, but there's really no plot. So just fucking go wild. 17:59.106 --> 18:06.498 Yeah. I can say after watching most of it subbed yeah, you don't need plot. There's no plot. There's no plot. There's no plot. 18:06.674 --> 18:09.046 It's all just stereotype jokes. 18:09.158 --> 18:09.820 Yeah. 18:10.510 --> 18:17.450 So we see him stumble upon this tomato box, and then we cut to a different segment. 18:18.190 --> 18:19.610 Chibi talia. 18:20.030 --> 18:28.958 Yeah, we got chibi talia, which is a quick little history lesson shown with little cute little kid versions of everyone. 18:29.124 --> 18:32.720 It is very sweet and also makes no sense. 18:34.630 --> 19:09.802 So, yeah, we get a quick little history lesson of, like, grandpa Roman Empire takes baby Italy away from his friends of France, and I think it was Holy Roman Empire. Yeah. So takes him away, tries to train him to fight, but he just keeps drawing and all that stuff. He grows up being an artistic, little non threatening little boy. And when he reunites with France and the Holy Roman Empire, they are assholes. And they want to join him and. 19:09.856 --> 19:18.814 His brother south Italy. South Italy, because there's northern Italy and southern Italy. They're separate entities for whatever reason. 19:18.932 --> 19:24.850 Yeah. I'm so bad at history. I can't tell if this show is just nonsense or if this is accurate. 19:25.990 --> 19:39.154 It uses broad strokes to tell history stuff because the gist is like, yeah, but a lot of it is like, oh, you're not actually going to pass your AP history test watching this show. 19:39.272 --> 19:42.950 Shit. Mr. cooney is going to kill me. 19:43.020 --> 19:47.110 Government in politics when I watch this. And it was not very helpful. 19:49.290 --> 19:51.820 So yeah. And that's episode one. 19:53.070 --> 19:53.818 Great. 19:53.984 --> 19:55.802 I thought someone was going to say something. 19:55.936 --> 19:58.362 No, I definitely thought I heard someone. 19:58.416 --> 20:00.140 Say wait, I said great. 20:01.970 --> 20:07.600 All right, so episode two, we're back with Germany and the box. 20:09.090 --> 20:10.590 Right where we left off. 20:10.740 --> 20:12.094 Yeah, right where we left off. 20:12.132 --> 20:12.950 And the stick. 20:13.050 --> 20:13.698 Yes. 20:13.864 --> 20:23.362 Can't forget hairstick. So he's poking around, tries to see what's up with it, and he hears from inside. 20:23.496 --> 20:24.786 Oh, not me. 20:24.888 --> 20:43.500 There's no one in this box. It's just me. The box of tomatoes fairy. And of course, this is Italy being terrified and hiding from the war, which is the one joke they have besides pasta. Good stuff. 20:43.870 --> 20:44.890 Hilarious. 20:46.190 --> 21:18.040 So Germany opens the box, sees Italy hiding, and he pleads not to be killed. And he's just crying and whining. And Germany is unimpressed, being like, oh, this is this foe I'm here to fight, this great descendant of the Roman Empire. But then he realizes, this clever bastard, it's a trap, and he's ready for the attack to come. And it doesn't, because Italy does not plant a head. 21:21.850 --> 21:31.350 Because it's italia axis powers. And we see him later up says Germany, Japan, and Italy hanging out. So is it about World War II? 21:31.510 --> 21:43.266 So it begins in World War I, and then throughout it transitions into World War II. Like, this is basically okay, origin story of Italy and Germany working together, which is World War II. 21:43.318 --> 21:44.542 Okay. Yeah. 21:44.596 --> 21:56.146 The specific description of the show says it mostly takes place between the wars. So, like 1918 to like 1934 or about there. 21:56.248 --> 21:59.042 So they can just hang out and have a chill time. 21:59.176 --> 22:02.862 They're chill before they commit mass war crimes on a global scale. 22:02.926 --> 22:03.634 What? 22:03.832 --> 22:07.982 Hell yeah. Just guys being due. 22:08.046 --> 22:13.910 Just guys being pals. Oh, shit. I didn't do the bingo card for this week. All right, I'll tell that in later. 22:14.060 --> 22:16.182 Would you have gotten bingo? I don't think so. 22:16.236 --> 22:19.340 I don't know if I would have gotten anything. Maybe the delicious food. 22:19.710 --> 22:55.250 Yeah, that works. But yeah, we immediately leave that scene again and go back to chibi italia. And we see that now that Italy is back in the game and not just under control of Roman Empire, Holy Roman Empire and France. They're all basically bullying Italy, trying to take control. Italy breaks down into city states, so it's all a mess. And everyone just wants to beat up and bully little Italy. And he's just so sad. 22:56.170 --> 22:59.270 Poor baby just wants to paint. 22:59.770 --> 23:04.310 And then we leave this and go back to the original scene. 23:04.970 --> 23:09.000 Is this what gave it us all add? Is this what did it? 23:09.930 --> 23:11.254 I think so. 23:11.452 --> 23:15.450 We can't pay attention for more than 10 seconds. It's just like, new scene, new scene, new scene. 23:15.870 --> 23:22.010 Or it's just leaning into it. It's like, yeah, you're not going to follow this anyways. We're going to just keep cutting. 23:22.990 --> 23:26.686 Four logo is about to come out in like a few years. You're going to have to get ready for it. 23:26.868 --> 23:48.710 Yeah, we got a lot of work to do. So yeah, then we go. We see germany has captured Italy, but Italy loves it because Germany is protecting him from all the bullying from all the other countries, because no one wants to mess with big old tough Germany. And Germany is like, but you don't want freedom. 23:50.650 --> 24:00.406 He says, even the French try to escape, which is another great, original, hilarious joke that is unlike any of the other humor in the show. 24:00.508 --> 24:28.370 Yeah, how you need original. Germany literally opens the door and be like, oh, the door is open. Do you want to try to escape? And Italy leaves for a minute, chats up a couple girls outside, and walks right back in. So Germany is stuck, and we get confirmation that they officially become allies. 24:28.870 --> 24:29.378 Great. 24:29.464 --> 24:31.810 And Germany is not thrilled. 24:32.550 --> 24:41.400 It's like, if you get a cat, it's not really my cat, but like, I fed it one time and now it just sleeps under my bed. So I guess it's mine now. 24:42.010 --> 24:47.910 This stray followed me home because I stopped it from getting beat up by all the other cats. 24:47.990 --> 24:52.060 Yeah, that's the plot of Cats. Oh, God. 24:53.630 --> 25:02.150 Every tall comes back to Cats. All of us separately saw Cats. That's not a joke. 25:02.230 --> 25:06.270 Are our mental and emotional scar is not visible enough that we've just seen Cats? 25:07.730 --> 25:09.898 But yeah, those are the first two episodes. 25:09.994 --> 25:17.934 Neat. Here we go. So in episode five, we're on a beach. 25:18.062 --> 25:21.090 Yeah. This is not the beach episode I was promised. 25:22.310 --> 25:27.506 It was, in fact, a beach episode. You got multiple beach episodes because we care about you, Brendan. 25:27.618 --> 25:27.894 Yeah. 25:27.932 --> 25:29.160 We know what you're about. 25:29.690 --> 25:32.610 Would you want to see Italy in a speedo, Brendan? 25:32.770 --> 25:39.546 That'D be the beach episode I would expect. Yeah. I need some crass anime on my. 25:39.568 --> 25:48.070 Beach because all the characters in this anime well, not all, but all the ones we see are dudes, you don't get the big anime titties. 25:48.150 --> 25:51.354 No, they're not nearly sexualized enough. 25:51.472 --> 25:53.486 I just remembered Ukraine, I was going to say. 25:53.508 --> 25:55.690 Yeah. Brendan, fast forward to Ukraine for the titties. 25:55.850 --> 25:58.350 Yeah, I never won with the titties. 25:59.810 --> 26:01.454 We'll have to watch that later. 26:01.652 --> 26:03.540 Yeah, I don't think so. 26:05.110 --> 26:12.770 Yeah. So they're on a beach, italy finds a crab, and he's like, I'm hungry. Can I eat it, daddy? Germany and Germany. 26:13.190 --> 26:16.030 It really is that, though? That's the dialogue. 26:16.190 --> 26:20.050 Yes. And Germany is like, yeah, just don't get it stuck in your hair. 26:20.130 --> 26:20.534 Ha ha. 26:20.572 --> 26:47.898 Fun. And then we get Japan. This is the first time we've seen Japan. And this one I did watch dubbed, and yikes. It's weird because we think, like, white people doing other white people accents is like, Ha, okay, funny. But then once white people start doing Asian accents, that's yeah, it is dicey. 26:47.994 --> 27:21.158 It is weird because the whole premise is, like, making fun of other countries, and it's just so weird being like, yeah, this is all great, except for Japan and China, these two. Yeah, it's just weird that this divide goes up for these two because yeah, there's a lot of precedent for this being extremely racist and this being the butt of the joke, but when it's, like, specifically the country, it's supposed to hit different, but it doesn't. 27:21.254 --> 27:31.034 I feel like I remember the subs being a little bit less skewed in that way, I assume, because they were actually Japanese involved, but I can't remember enough. 27:31.232 --> 27:42.954 Yeah, it's okay, because we're not making fun of the people. We're making fun of the country itself. That just happens to have all the people inside of it. But that's not what we're making fun of. It's not racist, we swear. 27:43.082 --> 27:56.194 Yeah, but just like the strong leanings into the rsr. ls and ls are ours. And just everything you hear in an extremely on the nose racist impersonation is. 27:56.232 --> 28:41.890 Like, this isn't yeah, but he comes out, and he's like, I found fresh fruit in the forest. And they're like, oh, yeah. And then Italy is like, let's play Marco polo. And then he runs out into the ocean, and he's calling out, Marco. And Germany and Japan have stayed on the beach, and they are calling polo. And they're just, like, having to chill time, but they also want to get rescued. And then we cut away from that, and we get Italy going up to Germany and being like, I have prepared to be the best ally ever, Germany. And Germany is like, oh, great. Let me see what you got. And he's like, I have pasta, fruit, wine, pasta, and ingredients to make pasta. 28:42.550 --> 28:43.154 Get it? 28:43.192 --> 28:58.120 Because Italy and then he says, but don't worry, Germany, I also thought of something for the war. And then Germany is like, oh, really? And he's like, yes, and I made you one special. And Germany is like, oh, really? 28:58.490 --> 29:01.302 Like, the screen turns pink, and he's so touched. 29:01.446 --> 29:05.238 He's blushing. He says, it's handmade, and he stayed. 29:05.254 --> 29:06.634 Up all night making it. 29:06.752 --> 29:16.938 Yes. And then it turns out that he's made them two personalized surrender flags because, again, dems the joke. 29:17.114 --> 29:18.960 We got one joke per country. 29:20.210 --> 29:33.582 Well, two sometimes. So then Italy comes back, and he's like, Germany, I thought of something else. I can't believe I forgot this before. And he added pizza. 29:33.726 --> 29:34.658 What up? 29:34.824 --> 29:37.650 Which did look delicious, to be fair. 29:37.720 --> 29:38.242 Yeah. 29:38.376 --> 29:49.206 And then Germany is like, what the hell, man? You've got to have something that'll help us with the war. And then Italy pulls niccolo machiavelli out of his suitcase, and then Germany is like, no, never mind. 29:49.388 --> 30:02.540 This is another problem I have with the show, where it's like we're making old historical references that have a lot of context to it, and even just something like in the first episode, I think Italy says, like, oh, you're from this place. 30:03.230 --> 30:05.102 I know somebody from a relative there. 30:05.156 --> 30:20.914 And that is, like, apparently a reference to something italians do. I'm not sure. But say with the Machiavellie, when it appears on screen, there's just a good two paragraphs of text that appear for maybe a second and a half, and it's just like, who is this for? 30:21.032 --> 30:27.646 It's like, if you want to pause and read the screen rather than just googling machiavelli while the show continues. 30:27.758 --> 30:33.686 Yeah, it's like we know. You probably need to Google this. We're going to just throw that up. 30:33.788 --> 30:40.810 I really liked in the first episode that they did that when Germany talks about, like, a worst yeah, it's a sausage. 30:42.350 --> 30:44.586 Cool. All right, great. Thanks. 30:44.688 --> 30:58.766 It felt like those legal disclaimers drug commercials have to have at the bottom of the screen, where it's just this huge paragraph of text. We have to have this for a certain amount of time for a legal department to pass us see it, and they're just gone. They did it out of obligation, not because it was for anybody. 30:58.948 --> 31:24.630 Yeah. No. We're back on the beach again. And Germany has made a flow chart of all of the Allies and their relationships to each other. And essentially, what they all are is that they don't like each other. And in the meantime, Italy has been building a beautiful sand sculpture of pasta. 31:26.410 --> 31:28.594 Call me off guard there. I thought it'd be something different. 31:28.652 --> 31:29.434 I get it. 31:29.552 --> 31:30.730 It's Italy. 31:31.710 --> 31:32.794 Got it. 31:32.992 --> 32:19.400 And then we're back to chiv italia. And Italy works for Austria now, and he wants to draw, but all he found was ink and a big paint brush. Ha ha. So he drew a big black mustache on austria's portrait. He's just a little baby. He doesn't know any better. And then we're back on the beach again, and Italy is snoozing, and Japan is like, hey, Germany, italy and I were talking, and we think we should have a team name. And he says, they thought of axis. And then Germany says, I'm partial to Fire Death Team, but that's all right, that's fine. 32:19.850 --> 32:22.010 Play your hand there a little bit. Germany. 32:22.430 --> 33:14.614 Yeah. Japan. He says, like, no, that's too literal. We have to confuse them with a metaphor. Italy is just like I said before, he snooze in, and he has a dream of the planet literally revolving around the three of them. And then it's the next day, and we see them through binoculars on the beach, and all of the Allies are talking over each other because they've been watching them, they've been snooping on them. That's episode five. And then on episode six in episode six, we're still on the beach. See, this is a problem, too, is that the episodes are five minutes long, and sometimes they just dedicate too much time to, like, a recap of what you just saw previously. 33:14.662 --> 33:21.774 And it's like, Brother, sorry, a minute of this five minute thing is what you watched five minutes ago. 33:21.972 --> 33:42.530 Yeah. Then we get Austria being mad at Germany for forming an alliance with Italy, and he's like, he's such a coward. Why would you do that? And then he shows his disgust and anger through the piano, which lasts way too long for a five minute episode. 33:42.950 --> 33:44.786 Got a full time slam on the. 33:44.808 --> 33:50.434 Keys, and that, like, very harsh sound. And I was like, oh, that's the joke. 33:50.562 --> 33:51.960 Yeah, that's what I thought. 33:53.370 --> 33:58.378 Oh, it's like, okay, yeah, all right, we get it, we get it, we get it. 33:58.544 --> 34:00.890 We can't clear this. Stop playing the song. 34:02.350 --> 34:08.780 And then the axis are on the beach, roasting marshmallows, bonding. I don't know. 34:09.230 --> 34:16.302 I mean, Italy made a giant pasta bowl out of sand. Logic kind of has no place here. 34:16.356 --> 34:18.110 There's sand everywhere, though. 34:18.180 --> 34:20.270 Yeah. Like I know sand. 34:21.570 --> 34:24.170 Clearly, I'm in the wrong here. I apologize. 34:24.250 --> 34:25.710 Yeah. Shut up, barnett. 34:29.090 --> 34:38.710 So, roasting marshmallows, and then Japan puts it between two. He says biscuits, and then America gets mad, and he's like, s'mores are supposed to have chocolate. 34:39.290 --> 34:41.350 Sam had the same reaction. 34:42.730 --> 34:48.280 Why is there no chocolate in there? s'mores in America's. Like, there's supposed to be chocolate. And I was like, fuck me. 34:48.650 --> 34:58.380 I think the saddest thing is that I think, like, the things America says are the funniest, because he then says, we'll show them, and they're like, how? And he's like, we'll build a campfire, too. 34:59.070 --> 35:03.606 I was kind of upset by how much I agreed with America on a lot of stuff. I felt called out. 35:03.728 --> 35:06.218 I just felt like the America jokes were the most accurate. 35:06.314 --> 35:06.814 Yeah. 35:06.932 --> 35:08.094 Or is it we just feel most. 35:08.132 --> 35:12.170 Comfortable laughing at those, or we fully understand them all? 35:12.340 --> 35:12.770 True. 35:12.840 --> 35:14.766 I mean, I feel pretty comfortable laughing at Britain. 35:14.878 --> 35:15.540 Yeah. 35:18.230 --> 35:19.970 Like, Brexit lol. 35:23.430 --> 35:41.994 And then we're back to Tibetalia. Austria is scolding Italy all the time, and Italy is afraid of him, but Italy likes it best when Austria is playing the piano, and Austria lets him sit nearby and listen to a little. 35:42.032 --> 35:46.490 Story, like, Are you pussy? 35:49.710 --> 36:00.074 And then. We're back to the Allies and they built a fire, and I think it's England that's doing this chant. Hold on, I wrote it down. Don't worry. 36:00.202 --> 36:01.582 I forgot about this. 36:01.636 --> 36:13.394 He says, Bring on the fire, bring on the hell. Set everything ablaze so that no trace remains. And then he starts to do it again. And then America's like, can you stop? 36:13.592 --> 36:15.010 Hey, knock it off. 36:15.080 --> 36:18.642 I believe his actual words are, I feel like we're summoning the devil. 36:18.786 --> 36:19.334 Yeah. 36:19.452 --> 36:22.882 I mean, as a puritan based country, it's an act of fear. 36:22.946 --> 36:25.880 There was the paragraph of text explaining what just happened. 36:27.050 --> 36:28.474 Yeah, that's when we need it. 36:28.592 --> 36:37.146 I remember later on there's a part where England does, like, weird witchcraft. I don't know. Yeah. 36:37.328 --> 36:44.590 This is a reference to the popular British series Harry Potter. Wait, no, wait. There's no historical contacts. 36:45.650 --> 37:04.740 And then we have Germany living with Austria, and he's not having a good time because Austria is really uptight and he is really stingy. So he finds Germany's old ripped underwear on the floor, and he's like, you can still wear this. And he patches it up and makes Germany wear it still. 37:05.130 --> 37:14.840 There's a very great shot of just Germany standing there with it, like, back to the camp, turned over his shoulder, just so defeated at a very relatable moment. 37:15.930 --> 37:17.270 That thick German. 37:19.370 --> 37:35.786 And then there's more access. Camp fire time. And Japan. Okay, this is kind of funny, too. Japan is wondering how Austria is doing. And then Italy sits up and he's like, Why don't you ask him? He's been over there the whole time, and he's just sitting in the ocean playing the piano. 37:35.978 --> 37:41.470 And in Germany, he's like, how did I not notice that before? Yeah, so dumb. 37:41.970 --> 37:44.158 And then we get the ending song again. 37:44.244 --> 37:46.050 Yes. Why are we having to put the ending song yet? 37:46.120 --> 37:50.994 Oh, yeah, because I kept skipping over it. But why would you do this? 37:51.112 --> 37:52.098 Moving past it? 37:52.184 --> 37:54.340 The ending song is so good. 37:54.810 --> 38:01.080 My anthem, baby, just high octane. As high energy as the show is. 38:03.130 --> 38:06.790 I want to sing it so bad. Shall I? 38:06.860 --> 38:07.430 Yes. 38:07.580 --> 38:40.290 You fucking ready? Here we go. chicku. I'm crying. And that's a whole part of the episodes. Every single time. 38:40.440 --> 38:44.180 This is not a visual medium, but I can assure you I was dancing that whole time. 38:44.790 --> 38:48.462 I also was. Why are you so surprised that I know it, Brendan? 38:48.526 --> 38:52.550 Just because it was just pure gibberish to me and I did not pay attention for a second. 38:52.620 --> 38:53.910 It's Japanese. 38:54.650 --> 38:59.026 I mean, not the language. What they were saying in the language was gibberish. 38:59.218 --> 38:59.960 Yeah. 39:03.050 --> 39:13.870 It's actually nonsense. Like talking about drinking more wine and thinking about baloney sauce you had a long time ago. But then the draw, the circle, there's the earth thing actually makes sense. 39:14.020 --> 39:15.690 And make a toast with our boots. 39:15.770 --> 39:19.310 Yeah. talia invented chewies. 39:21.010 --> 39:22.080 That'S that. 39:22.530 --> 39:24.078 I don't want to know what shoeies are. 39:24.164 --> 39:25.326 You want to know another thing? 39:25.348 --> 39:30.754 About me out of a shoe. Okay, that's for the punk kids out there. 39:30.872 --> 39:32.978 God. idiot. You don't do that. 39:33.064 --> 39:36.814 God, I've been on the Internet too long. I assumed it was something sexual. 39:36.942 --> 39:38.386 No, no. 39:38.488 --> 39:38.850 Okay. 39:38.920 --> 40:04.400 I was a hoodie. I had a time last night while I was talking to Paul because I had watched the first two episodes and I was just reminiscing about Hitalia and vocaloid. And I was looking at my old YouTube videos and I was reminded that I had written a Canada version. So that's a thing that I did too. 40:05.730 --> 40:07.870 There's a reason you're an expert on this show. 40:08.020 --> 40:11.680 Yes. I'll try and find the lyrics, but let's keep going. 40:13.590 --> 40:24.340 Jumping ahead. Good. Ten episodes. I'm sure we missed a lot of good, important plot. Episode 17. I don't like this show. 40:25.510 --> 40:26.370 Damn. 40:27.510 --> 41:04.490 Jump to episode 17. Opens up with someone helping America clean up a mansion. I don't know who this country is. And the person runs off to make coffee while America goes into like, a little closet or like, storage area. And he's like, oh, man, I've been pushing this off for so long. I hate trying to clean up this closet, looking at the past and then getting distracted and not doing it. It's probably been locked up for like a century or so. And I wasn't sure if this is supposed to be a commentary of America reflecting on its past and getting sad by what it did or not. Or it's just like, I'm easily distracted by toys. 41:04.650 --> 41:05.730 Could be both. 41:05.880 --> 41:28.166 Could be both. And then as America gets in there, starts looking around the stuffsy closet, we cut away to another country saying America is going to kill himself by eating so much and gaining all this weight. And America's like, nah, I'm good. I eat a bunch of processed gmo chemically raised beef. Like, I'm fine. I know what I'm doing. They stand. Not that. 41:28.188 --> 41:29.442 The other country is Britain. 41:29.506 --> 41:36.458 Britain, okay. They're all anime boys. And I really just check the fuck out. At this point, I feel like I. 41:36.464 --> 41:46.638 Do kind of need to give a disclaimer because we are picking these episodes. I forgot that this storyline is a two parter. Yeah, so you didn't get the good stuff that I thought was going to. 41:46.644 --> 42:41.374 Be so we get a picture or we get a shot of America on a scale, freaking out, realizing how much weight he gained. He's like, I'll go ask the other countries for some tips. So he runs up to France. He's like, hey, France, you're always skinny after you eat so much crap. How do you say thin? France was like, oh, I don't sit around all the time like you do. It's like, ah, touche. barren. I say someone watching anime in my pajamas for two days in a row. And then it cuts to just a white screen. And it says, like, for educational purposes, we cut out what France said as like, a weight loss tip, and then he jumps up at the very bottom. And I believe it was screamed to me very quickly in a bad French accent. So I don't know if I heard it, but I think he said, sex is a valid workout. So that's what I heard. 42:41.492 --> 42:43.994 And once again, I didn't watch this one in English. 42:44.122 --> 42:55.906 Yeah, I don't know if this is the actual dialogue or if this is the dubbed dialogue that they changed to fuck. I mean, it is a valid workout. Yeah, it's not wrong if you're doing it. 42:55.928 --> 43:00.710 I think in the Japanese, he says, like, that's not fair. Like, just something like that. 43:00.780 --> 43:05.926 Yeah. Instead, the translators were like, let's take another shot at France and got to. 43:05.948 --> 43:06.934 Squeeze another one in. 43:06.972 --> 43:11.110 Except for shot at France. The sick bird is that France sucks. 43:13.450 --> 43:14.520 Over here. 43:14.970 --> 43:17.930 He's getting late all the goddamn time. What a fucking idiot. 43:19.070 --> 43:20.090 The worst. 43:22.030 --> 43:53.158 So then America is like, oh, I'll go ask China. They're always so thin, and runs up to China and he's like, hey, China, how do you lose weight? Do you stay thin because you're so poor all the time? And China turns around. I was like, yep, you can't gain weight in a famine. You can't eat food that's not there. And it's like, oh, no, that was bad rough. And he's like, we also have this tea, and America drinks it and he's like, It tastes like ink. I was like, I don't know if this is a specific joke or if this is just like a gross tea joke. I don't know. 43:53.244 --> 43:55.510 China says it makes her colon slippery. 43:56.010 --> 43:58.440 Yeah, I wasn't sure about that. 43:59.050 --> 44:11.978 Yeah, the dumb is way different than the stuff. Yeah, because he just says, oh, with every meal we drink tea, and then America tastes the tea and he's like, oh, I don't like that. And that's it. 44:12.064 --> 44:29.380 It feels like in the sub, it's like, hey, this is a fast paced show and it's about different countries. And that's it. America is like, with rave Master where it's like I feel like the localizers and translators got the show, got no context for it, and we're just like, I'm writing what I see on screen, and they're just, like, filling in the blanks themselves. 44:30.310 --> 44:44.230 Yeah, I wouldn't I mean, I don't know. Maybe in Japan, maybe the stereotypes are just, like, easier to read or something. And then in America, they just like, turn it up to eleven because Americans are racist. 44:45.850 --> 44:51.258 I don't know. I don't even know if this is an official dub. Like, this could be a fan dub, and I would fully believe it. 44:51.344 --> 44:52.870 No, it's funimation, baby. 44:52.950 --> 44:54.410 Yeah, this is funimation. 44:55.150 --> 44:57.290 J michael tatum plays France. 44:57.790 --> 45:01.674 Is he ida? Yeah, that sounds like an ida name. 45:01.712 --> 45:03.018 He's a very talented man. 45:03.104 --> 45:07.870 Well, that france is the EDA character in this chicken. 45:09.330 --> 45:51.260 And then in the dub, America is like, oh, I'll go ask Japan. He always looks like a girl from behind. It's like, okay, weird commentary. He runs up to Japan. It's like, Japan, how do you say so thin. And I couldn't actually understand them because the dub is so bad. So I was like, Let me switch to the sub for this episode. The sub was just like, I eat, like, three square meals a day, and we have rice with it and, like, drink some tea or something. Like, it was just informative. There wasn't a joke here. It's just like, this is what Japanese traditionally eat for their meals. And I was like, okay, that's clearly not the joke they were making in the dub, because in the dub, America reacts of like, Wait, that's offensive or something. I was just like, But I don't know what he said. 45:51.790 --> 45:59.678 He also just says in the Japanese, instead of saying he looks like a girl from behind yo. He says, Japan is the skinniest guy I know. 45:59.764 --> 46:00.400 Yeah. 46:01.010 --> 46:03.120 Why does it have to be a change that was made? 46:03.570 --> 46:12.834 When I switched to the dub and sub on this one, I was like, oh, it's very different. Okay? So I don't know actually what Japan says in the dub, because it's just. 46:12.952 --> 46:28.130 I think it was something like, well, I don't eat all that bullshit. You eat America. Something like that. Which is why America is like, hey, that's offensive, okay? It's sort of a theme of, like, yeah, clean eating is the answer, not all your processed bullshit. 46:28.210 --> 46:37.914 Can we also talk about for a quick SEC that America is still equally as skinny as all of the characters on the show? Like, physically doesn't look any different. 46:38.112 --> 46:42.666 Yeah, they didn't feel like changing character models. That's expensive. 46:42.778 --> 46:43.440 Yeah. 46:43.890 --> 47:13.400 So then we go back to America, cleaning up the closet and picking up some, like, toy soldiers, and you get some fond flashbacks of Great Britain giving them the toy soldiers and Britain's talking about, like, oh, yeah, all the faces are different because I painted them. Each face is unique. I painted them all by hand, and it's like, Cool. Then it flashes back to American, the present. And he's like, well, don't need this anymore. I guess I'll just throw it away. And I was like, Are we supposed to feel bad for print? Are we trying to have a plot now? 47:15.130 --> 47:42.430 The part I forgot was the whole diet thing. I forgot that existed. I scrubbed it from my brain because it was terrible. And I thought when I was writing the description of this episode that it went into what happened in the second part of the episode, which short spoiler, is they talk about the relationship between America and Britain, and then they talk about the Revolutionary War. So you see them used to be brothers, and then they come to war, which is why America picks up the gun with a scratch on it at the end. 47:42.580 --> 47:44.194 Got you. Okay. Yeah. 47:44.232 --> 47:46.398 This part is like, hey actually a plot? 47:46.494 --> 47:47.710 Yeah. Weird. 47:47.870 --> 48:06.614 This is like the hey, I fought hard. I gave you soldiers in the French and Indian war. We're setting you up for a good country. Here's your toy box. So we're getting like, the hey, they're still on good terms at this point. And then we miss the actual conflict that comes. 48:06.732 --> 48:07.878 And it's also the part where I. 48:07.884 --> 48:09.340 Started singing, you'll be back. 48:10.990 --> 48:14.314 You'll be back soon, you'll see. 48:14.432 --> 48:15.194 Okay. 48:15.392 --> 48:24.846 I'm glad I didn't watch this in school because I know middle school. And you would have tried to pull this off on some history paper and be like, you know, it's historically accurate and just fucking flunked out of history. 48:25.028 --> 48:34.378 You bet your fucking ass. I was like, I'm learning more from Italian than I am in my history classes. Shut up, 13 year old dana. 48:34.474 --> 48:44.500 I tried pulling that shit with the assassin's creed and the crusades. Does it get historically accurate? God. Luckily, my teacher was a pushover and a bad teacher and let me do it. 48:45.030 --> 48:52.214 I got away with it. I never said those things to a teacher. Thank God I had my limits, I guess. 48:52.332 --> 49:21.374 I did not. So, yeah, America is still cleaning up the closet and finds, like, a bridge or something. And same thing. Get a flashback of Britain giving it to him and then back to current day America going like, whoa, guess I'll throw it out now. And then America finds a bayonet. He's like, oh, shit. This saved my life a few times. This is a good shit. I'm going to hold on to this. And we see a scratch on it. And then America gets like, the flashbacks of, like and then it cuts right. 49:21.412 --> 49:26.500 At the very end of spence about the Revolutionary War. 49:27.270 --> 49:54.214 You'll never believe what happens. So yeah, it's incredible that a show tries to have plot within three minutes of show that isn't recap or end song or opening song. So yeah, but they try and then we cut we get to episode 18 and it opens up with Germany talking about the Roman Empire again, because it's what they do. They love they're hot and heavy for the Roman Empire, frankly. 49:54.262 --> 49:55.194 I mean, how could you not? 49:55.232 --> 49:55.750 Who isn't? 49:55.830 --> 49:56.986 Can you blame them? 49:57.088 --> 49:57.740 Yeah. 49:59.470 --> 50:00.810 The Roman Empire. 50:02.510 --> 50:08.522 And I think it was actually the same opening we get from like, episode one or two, I think, talking about the Roman Empire. 50:08.586 --> 50:09.470 Yeah, it's the same. 50:09.540 --> 50:10.062 Yeah. 50:10.196 --> 50:13.214 Got to save that this whole episode. 50:13.262 --> 50:15.330 Is just reused animation. 50:17.350 --> 50:19.860 That song was the only part that was really new. 50:20.870 --> 50:21.522 Yeah. 50:21.656 --> 51:04.034 So then after the intro, we cut to the axis sitting on the beach, having a grand all the time, just pounding around. And that's when they noticed the Allies are up on the cliff side surrounding them. And America calls out like, go, China, I choose you. Which is like, great, because pokemon at this time is like, that's not popular. No, it's not. But this localization is garbage. So China jumps out and starts attacking Germany and Japan with a ladle and a walk because waka waka jokes that joke is not any worse than this show. 51:04.072 --> 51:05.954 Complain about the joke telling and then. 51:05.992 --> 51:37.850 Say, waka waka, waka waka. Listen, I'm like one degree from fozzie Bear at all times. I this I know this is no news to anyone. So, yeah, China knocks out Germany and Japan, and then he goes to knock out Italy, who's surrendering as he does. And then as he's surrendering, the Allies approach the Axis, and all of a sudden, the Roman Empire comes out of the ocean, and he's fucking gigantic and. 51:37.920 --> 51:39.978 Just starts he big, man. 51:40.064 --> 51:41.610 He's a big himbo. 51:42.270 --> 51:43.910 Oh, big old himbo. 51:43.990 --> 52:08.258 Big hinbo energy. And he just starts singing. And it's not an analogy, but like a joke. I guess it is, but I've definitely heard this before where it's about, like, if you're going to have like, the French are going to be the police officers, the German are going to be the chefs, the Swiss are going to be the soldiers, and the Americans are. 52:08.264 --> 52:10.786 Going to be stereotype from the song. 52:10.978 --> 52:11.878 Well, that's the thing. 52:11.964 --> 52:16.406 It's still the generic thing of, like, in hell. All these countries are bad at what. 52:16.428 --> 52:18.342 They do, maybe that's they're doing the. 52:18.396 --> 52:19.958 Wrong things in hell. 52:20.044 --> 52:52.580 Yeah, I definitely heard this before, where it's supposed to be it's all these countries who are known for stereotypical things doing the wrong ones, or it's like the French are engineers, but it should be germans. So it's all that I don't know what it is, but I've definitely heard it before. So it's just Rome, the Roman Empire, singing the song in, like, an operatic tone, and then that's it. And then it cuts back to just the ally. Like, America laughs at it, and then all the Allies feel like, oh, fuck, and then run. So it's like, okay. 52:54.550 --> 53:03.000 You know that if yeet was a thing when they dubbed this, america would have laughed and said, yeet. And they would have left. 53:03.450 --> 53:05.190 Oh, you're so right. 53:05.340 --> 53:27.434 God, yeah. If their hip feels millennial italia, let's do it. Let's redub it all. You can't get any worse. Oh, God, my skin is crawling just at the words. So then it cuts to the same scene again, because why not? Why not? 53:27.472 --> 53:30.558 It goes back to the Axis on the beach, and then Japan says, what was that? 53:30.724 --> 54:16.800 Yeah, it's the same scene again. Japan is saying, like, what just happened in Germany is like, I don't really know. And then the Allies appear again. America tells China to attack again. China attacks again. Italy surrenders again. It's all the same stuff again. But this time, instead of the Roman Empire rising out from the ocean and singing, the Roman Empire comes sailing across on a boat with a bunch of women and singing the same song, but this time, all the countries are to their stereotypical jobs. So, like, the germans engineer, the French police, the Swiss or banks and all this stuff, and then the Allies run away again, and I take a sigh of relief because my torture is over and the show is done. 54:19.010 --> 54:22.766 This is such a wonderful role reversal to be a part of. 54:22.868 --> 54:23.614 Yeah. 54:23.812 --> 54:25.810 You're on a very special episode. 54:28.790 --> 54:30.420 Are we there yet? 54:30.790 --> 54:32.130 Are we there yet? 54:32.280 --> 55:08.590 No, believe it or not, we're not. Before we even started recording, I went into the Google doc and put no on italia, on the not happening. I can't tell them how there's so much of this show and in so many spin offs, and it just keeps going, and it makes me wonder, why are good shows canceled when garbage like this exists, perpetually existing, and just cumulatively gathers together on the Internet and forms the trash island that is anime? 55:10.370 --> 55:11.070 Yeah, see? 55:11.140 --> 55:12.766 Yeah, this was rough for me. 55:12.868 --> 55:43.910 I think this is just something where they're like, yeah, we can milk this premise. This premise is simple enough. We haven't seen anyone else do it. We'll just milk it. We have all of history. We have the entire global history to pull cheap jokes from and dip into for small storylines. So it's sort of that it's not good, but we can just do this for forever. And that's their motivation. 55:44.070 --> 55:53.658 Yeah, I could see the writers and creators doing that, but I'm just thinking of the people who animated it. Animation is hard. Even bad animation takes time. 55:53.744 --> 55:56.190 Reuse so much of it, I get. 55:56.260 --> 56:05.154 But I don't know if I was an Amber on this, I'd just like, stop and be like, what are we doing here, guys? This clearly can't be paying the bills. What are we doing? 56:05.192 --> 56:11.170 I heard you sound so sad. After reviewing experience, I went with you to see Cats. 56:13.670 --> 56:17.750 Cats was wild. This was just disappointing. 56:20.250 --> 56:46.958 It's so weird to think about because I used to really like this, and I knew a lot of people that used to really like this. I went to Anime Expo in 2011, and there was a panel that was just all about the history stuff that they actually talk about in italia and explaining it, and there were a lot of people at that panel, and he. 56:46.964 --> 56:56.414 Was very popular amongst the tweens and the young teens. I feel like after all the Cat jokes, I should also mention that the girl that got me into Hitalia in high school was also into Cats. 56:56.542 --> 57:20.582 That makes sense. Wow, that makes sense. I mean, I guess you got a point, though, because I've heard so much about italia, and I know a lot of people who've enjoyed italia, but I've never heard anyone talk about it outside of early high school. I've never heard adults talk about it fondly. They're always just like, oh, God, I remember italia. And that's italia. 57:20.646 --> 57:24.118 Oc, I was in deep, baby. 57:24.294 --> 57:31.514 Wow. Really changing my opinion on you here, dana, and it's going to be real for you. 57:31.552 --> 57:34.910 I'm a different person now, my dude. 57:35.890 --> 57:38.430 Who were you when you were 14 years old? 57:38.580 --> 57:44.660 It's me. I haven't changed. I still love ditch him on. I haven't grown much. I fully know. 57:46.070 --> 57:48.018 Am I better than you? No. 57:48.104 --> 57:49.460 But maybe. 57:50.950 --> 57:54.340 Who knows? I wasn't going to be the one to say, I know it. 57:56.390 --> 58:02.098 You weren't fishing, but you liked what you caught. Oh, God. Yeah. 58:02.184 --> 58:03.926 They answered that question before they even asked. 58:03.948 --> 58:04.920 Let's be real. 58:05.530 --> 58:22.126 We all knew that answer because I can look back on it and just be like, holy fuck, what a mess out. And that was before I was into homestuck. Like, I was in the homestuck fandom. And I consider this a worse time for me as a person. 58:22.228 --> 58:22.880 Really? 58:23.330 --> 58:37.220 I was insufferable when I started high school, and then I cut my hair and everything got better. And then in my senior year, I got plastic surgery and damn, everything just looking up. 58:38.470 --> 58:48.246 Oh, God. I feel like it's different for me because I'm the only one here who doesn't have history with it versus, like. 58:48.268 --> 58:55.670 Who doesn't have history versus podcast. 58:58.090 --> 59:09.050 Versus, like, a panty and stocking where we all went in blind and we all came out as beaten up as each other. Like, this one is just like it's rare for me to be the only one being blindsided. 59:09.550 --> 59:20.942 Yeah. And realistically, it pained me to admit that while you guys dugan and Sam, you guys got into it for people. You were I just watched it. 59:20.996 --> 59:42.358 It was all for me, baby. Either hey, well, for going this trip down memory lane with us, for better or for worse. What do we have going on next week? 59:42.524 --> 59:50.600 Oh, God. Something better? I mean, I think so. It's not probably not. Wow. 59:52.330 --> 59:54.250 Listened to all the episodes. 59:55.070 --> 59:57.286 Sam coming in with the hits. 59:57.478 --> 01:00:20.194 Sam knows. Can't sneak them past that. I did rave, master. So I'm apologizing for that. And I'm picking a show I actually enjoy. And it's not like an ironic, like, ha ha. This is trash. I love it. Monster massume I enjoy. Like, this is equality. I don't know if you'll like it because I don't understand anything. 01:00:20.312 --> 01:00:22.770 You're really hyping this up right now, my dude. 01:00:23.190 --> 01:00:38.322 I'm putting a disclaimer. I'm just like I like it. I'm not promising anything, though, but I'm not picking it ironically. That's the only thing I'm trying to get by it's. Like, I do genuinely enjoy it, but also there's a lot of stuff I genuinely enjoy that's trash. 01:00:38.466 --> 01:00:39.798 So same. 01:00:39.884 --> 01:00:40.582 The next show. 01:00:40.636 --> 01:00:41.240 Cat. 01:00:42.410 --> 01:00:44.460 Yeah. Do you want to leave the name of this show? 01:00:45.790 --> 01:00:46.154 No. 01:00:46.192 --> 01:01:00.042 The movie Cats ruined the animal cats for me. Anyway, the next anime we're watching is darker than black, and we're watching episodes one, two, and five. neat two exhausted. 01:01:00.186 --> 01:01:01.920 Now you know how we feel. 01:01:02.310 --> 01:01:02.962 Yeah. 01:01:03.096 --> 01:01:24.226 This is my almost weekly existence. If there's a show you would like us to watch. You can send your recommendations to us at our email arreveriet@gmail.com, or you can reach out to us are we verriet on Twitter and Instagram? You can find me on Twitter and Instagram at Mr. Patrick Dugan. 01:01:24.338 --> 01:01:32.102 You can find me on Instagram at queen. Period weebu and on twitter at queen underscore weebu and queen underscore weebu art. 01:01:32.236 --> 01:01:40.410 You can find me on Twitter at brandon. It stands for Almost Better Than Silence, which is a video game podcast where we don't talk about italia. 01:01:40.830 --> 01:01:41.978 And that's a plus. 01:01:42.064 --> 01:01:43.306 That's a bonus. 01:01:43.498 --> 01:01:45.886 And, Sam, where can people find you? 01:01:46.068 --> 01:01:57.620 You can find me on Twitter and Instagram at mix. Sam Miller, mx sam Miller. Everything else is like it sounds. Or by volunteering at the La lgbt center where I work. 01:01:57.990 --> 01:01:59.358 Yeah, baby. 01:01:59.454 --> 01:02:00.242 Hell you. 01:02:00.376 --> 01:02:01.154 Yeah. 01:02:01.352 --> 01:02:17.540 Thank you to camille ruley for our artwork, and thank you to Louisong for our theme song stories off the album Beats. You can find all of louie's music at Louisong bandcamp.com. Thank you, and we hope you'll join us next week as we learn to live with anime, pasta, and whatever.