It's a beautiful cream color. I want to see how far it goes.
Hello, and welcome to our rebear an exploration and education and anime. I'm your anime idiot, patrick dugan.
I'm an anime expert, dana hollander.
And I'm brenda mccullough. Your anime millennial furry obsession. No, not that one. The other one. No, not no, the other one. The other other okay.
There's a lot you have to be specific. We're talking about things you can find on the Internet.
Oh, God. It's just like, you ask someone, like, what was your first furry awakening? And, like, for anyone close with our age range, there's multiple answers. Now there's too many answers.
They're indoctrinating our children younger and younger.
Yeah, they are.
I want to know, do you guys have answers?
I mean, I feel like most people say lila Bunny from Space Jam, but I feel like what was her name? The one from the animaniacs.
Oh, dot.
Which one? No.
If you were a kid, you could have a crush on her. As a kid.
It was the minks. I think her name was the Church. She was minerva mink. There you go.
Let me look her up. Is she hot?
Basically a blonde, furry Jessica rabbit.
Oh, baby.
She'S cute.
Wooga.
Hello, nurse, if you will.
She is she is lola bunny adjacent.
Yeah, adjacent. But she was the first I saw her before lola Bunny. So I'm I'm I'm a hip surfer before they were popularized by Michael Jordan.
Oh, wow.
I truly cannot think of, like, all the cartoons that are popping to my head have, like, human protagonists, so I'm like, what would be the first animal based one?
Sally acorn from the sonic Adventures animated series when sonic was voiced by Julia White. She wore shoes and a vest, so she understood what clothes were, but no pants, so she was a freak.
Mine was when I was very young. It was from a jump start game. He was a lion named Sam, I think.
Is that? Where the Mr. Lion thing comes? Is that what Africa style is? Basically. Sam.
He had a nice voice too. I don't know.
One of those was Sam in it where he's going through, like, a haunted castle. Oh, did you have that one?
No, mine. They were jumpstart. preschool and kindergarten.
Second grade. Yeah.
I also really liked botley from jump start third grade. But he's a robot. That's something different.
He has know a lot more about Jump Start than I remember.
I love Jump start games in the same way that I love I Spy games. I love jump start games.
Oh, no, I'm thinking of Reader Rabbit.
Reader Rabbit.
Those are mine.
What's going on here? I'm sorry. I'm getting either, like, pepper Pig rabbits or, like, weird dolls.
Reader Rabbit. Like a rabbit that is in the library a lot. Oh, that yeah, the second grade one. There's a lion, and that's the one I played a lot. Got you images. Yes.
I've seen a Nintendo ds reader Rabbit game where this lion is just dry helping this ball.
Oh, no.
What?
Yeah, that's probably where it all starts.
Sam. No.
Yeah, we're watching B Stars, by the way.
Yeah, no, it's in the title. You know, we're playing it fast and loose. Everyone just wants to fucking hang out.
We're all shooting the vibe off the charts.
We need some good furry loving. So we're just reminiscing about our first furry awakening now, I guess.
Yeah, it is what it is. Since I can't think of anything, I'll I'll probably lock mine in as Sandy from spongebob. That's probably where I was at.
Perfect.
Oh, when you see when you see you're out of the suit for the first time, and it's like, oh, whoa.
If I had watched Lion King as a child, it probably would have been simba. But I didn't see The Lion King until I was, like, twelve, so I.
Mean, hey, it even got royalty. Prince Harry said nala was his first crush, so there you go.
Wow.
You're in good company.
Kovu from Lion King Two. But let's talk about these furries.
Yeah.
All right. We got to get specific with our furry talk today. And we're talking about B stars.
Yeah.
Oh, God, no. I'm just imagining, like, World Star videos that said it's furries beating the shit out of each other.
You might not be wrong.
That might be what they do.
No one takes off a shirt. They just put on a fur suit.
Give me a second. The zipper is, like, caught in the fur. Oh, God, I love to watch that.
Actually.
In fur suit.
It is.
There's a real damage because it's a first suit. It's paddock.
That means the fights can last longer.
Yeah, but also not as long because it's hot and you're like dehydrating anyway.
You would faint.
Yeah.
This is a very fresh series. I think it's been out, like, two weeks as of recording.
Something like that.
Yeah, something so yeah. How did you find I watched this.
In two days last week. I watched five months later and seven on the second day.
You're in deep then.
I'm in deep. I'm ready to go. I'm ready to talk about the boys.
Let's go again.
One more time.
Let's one more take it back.
I've also watched this. I've heard a lot of hype about it, so I was like, Let me get in. And we got a lot of free time all of a sudden with the quarantine.
No. Yeah. The Internet has been very horny for the show since they dropped the opening credit sequence.
It's a real horny community. Yeah. It's like zootopia, but just crank that horny knob up.
Depraved.
Yeah. It's like who's? zootopia? But if they fucked, what if zootopia was Chad? I mean, we know what this is. That the Internet has ruined it for most of and ruined us for most of it.
Yes.
Well, shall we plug our ears until we watch these? y'all don't need to, because you already seen it, but I certainly will.
I'm ready.
We are watching the first three episodes.
Woof. woof.
Oh, hookah.
Oh, boy. I thought they were exaggerating how horny the show was. It's so horny.
Nah, it's very horny. It's a real horn dump show, you guys.
We got you pranked.
Got you got goofed.
I'm used to Netflix animal shows having jokes about being horny and not this.
This is just horny. And I love every second of it.
Now we've seen, like, agrisoko where they're like adults and they're in a dating world and all this stuff. But what if you just pent them all up into one building and just throw in a shitload of hormones in there? And it's like, yes, this is it. This is it. This is it, baby.
The animal urges, if you get my meaning.
I did not know the show was about a high school before I started watching it, so that caught me off guard too.
So let's get let's go.
Episode one. It opens on a foggy night by, like, a fountain outside of the school grounds. And we see a wolf boy tackling a rabbit girl as he's discovering his basic primal instincts. And then we cut away. Cut away immediately. Enough of that. We're done cleaning our hands.
Welcome back to that later.
Yeah. Cuts to a small pack of boy in a little sweater vest. And he looks adorable. Don't get it too attached to him, though, because he's running scared for his life. As he's bleeding, he runs into a big classroom, is just thorpe behind him, and someone's chasing him. Someone's after him. Someone's going to get this snack of a lad. And he runs in saying, like, why would you even do this? You're trying to eat your own classmate. We've been classmates for years. And as he's backing away, the attacker kicks open the door and starts, like, approaching him, cornering his prey up on stage. And because of the angle there's, like, he hits a remote, I think. And the projector comes on screen for the stage. Because the projector is on screen, we can't see who the character is, who's attacking him. We get like an outline of them, and we see a sharp teeth because they're a carnivore, but we don't actually see who it is. And they go into attack and it cuts away right then and there. So it shows the next day, a bunch of animal characters. There's like a parrot and like, an antelope. And they're all animals in this school.
That's the whole deal.
That's the practice. They're reading the school paper and it shows. Tim from the drama club. It's a little packet boy, and he's dead. He got munched. He can get, like, a little nibble. He's just dead.
He's gone.
I don't know how boarding school work, but I feel like it'd be weird to everyone just to have class the next day after someone who's murdered on campus. That's just my opinion when your theater.
Is an active crime scene.
What was this, a lecture hall?
Yeah, this is just like a lecture hall, but still we get shots later in the episode of just, like, police tape over it, and it's like, okay, maybe, like, maybe shut the school down for it.
Yeah, or, like, get some, like, wing something.
Like, it's just like, all right, keep going on it's. Monday, kids go to class. It's like yo. Really? Like yo. What? So, yeah, they're talking about Ted was in the drama club, and they say that's one of the rare clubs or, like, groups where it's actually carnivores and Herbivores working together. So that's why it's kind of like, oh, he had interactions with other carnivores or with carnivores. Maybe that's what led to it. Maybe he had an altercation or something. And it's a bunch of girls speculating as they read the paper, and they look up at, like, a fox and I think, like, a wolf or hyena, like, nearby, and they kind of give him a dirty them a dirty look like carnivores. So tensions are high between Herbivores and Carnival, and later that day, we see everyone's on edge, and we're at the drama club meeting, tems drama club meeting. And this episode kind of focuses on a little sheep girl named els, and she had, I guess, a better relationship with Tems than most people. So they kind of focus on her and saying, like, Are you okay? els talking. She's like, I don't know. I'm just scared. Like, we got carnivores in this drama club, got that weird lanky ass wolf who's really just, like, staring at people, and really weird as we see this lanky ass wolf just staring at her from above, like, he's kind of up on, like, a catwalk with a light and just kind of staring down wolf walk.
I'm booing myself.
And right then, the teacher comes in. And I love this teacher. Not for any real reason. He doesn't really do anything in the show, but I just love this character design of this pelican being the old balding teacher with the wobbly neck. And it really conveys, like, this is an old man. This is a little old dude. And I thought that's just really well portrayed teacher comes in and the Herbivores and Carter verse arguing thing, like, you're trying to eat us. You're eyeing us up right now. And all this stuff with the tensions being high, and he's trying to defuse the situation. And then we see a little squirrel girl walking around like, hey, where's Lagoshi? I need him to crack open some of my nuts. And it's just like, squirrels.
They got one joke.
That's all we got. And it is startling to see, like, most of the animals are about the same size. And then you get, like, the squirrel or, like, some of the smaller rodent animals that are just much smaller. So it's like, wow, that's got to be difficult. And they're saying, like, oh, look, she's not here. And that scares els the sheep a little more, being like, Where is he? He should be around. He's unsupervised. And we see els going home. She's going home with a friend. And then her friend goes up to her dorm because it's a boarding school. elle is walking home by herself and she sees Lagoshi staring at her, those big wolf eyes, and he starts walking closer to her. She's scared. She pulls a fucking pair of scissors on him because she'll cut a bitch. She's not afraid. She knows how to shear. And she just walks up and just kind of puts his colossal hand over hers and just takes the scissors away and it cuts to black. And when it cuts back, we see he's giving her a love letter. And it's actually a love letter from temp to alpaca because he had a crush on Hell. That's why they were so close. He wanted to give it to her when she was alone because he felt like it was a private matter. So that's why he was kind of like stalking her, sort of, and waiting for her to be by herself. And she apologizes for freaking out and saying what she said. She said some bad stuff about him to other people. And he's like, nah, it's fine. I'm used to it. I'm a wolf. Everyone's scared of me. It's what they do.
It's my whole thing.
I'm a monster.
It's just this fun little game I play with society where they think I want to eat them. It's a bit, I swear, it's a bit we're all in on it and having fun, right?
Yeah. And it's clearly go, she's just this very lanky, awkward kid. He's a wolf, so I probably grew at a reasonable size. But it just seems like that kid that hit that grew spurt, like, way too early. And now he's like, I don't know what to do with my monster body. So he's got that energy about him. And then it cuts to the gushi outside of the classroom that Tim was murdered in. And like I said, it has the police tape over it and the door is still caved in and now there's flowers and drinks all around as offerings and it's like, yo, maybe don't have the active crime scene accessible by the students. Still, just my idea, but okay, yeah.
What's some police tape going to do for a bunch of strong carnivore?
Just strong, muscular lads.
I'm a muscular.
Taste is going to hold me back.
Yellow.
Oh, God. It's too bright.
It reminds me of a snake. Oh, sorry, Jerry.
Oh, God.
That was gracious.
Oh, no.
I'm so sorry.
My best friend's a boa constrictor.
I'm sorry. We hug all the time. He might be trying to kill me, to be fair. There's a park across the street from me with, like, public gym equipment and that's police taped off. People still use that, so it ain't stopping anybody fair.
But no one was murdered on that equipment a day.
Unless unless it's La baby. You never know. So, like, oh, she's at the little shrine, like his respects to Tim, and while he's there, hears a bunch of chatter. And LOUIE'S there LOUIE'S walking down the hallway. And it's louie. He's the most popular, richest, handsomest character in existence, where girls literally just scream. Has anyone ever been to a school or anywhere where people are just screaming at how hot this character like a person is?
I wish.
Like, only an anime. We saw it in The Love is War, where the two walk by and it's a parade.
It blows my words. Like, where on earth is this reasonable? Where it's like, he's so hot. Like, yo, someone just died here. Take it down.
And yeah, pay your respects, you sexy bitch.
Mine is bulky. It's just these girls are just screaming anytime he's on screen. So louie is there. He brings, like, a bouquet of flowers and pays his respect too. And Lagoshi is kind of staring at him. And we get a little monologue of lagosi saying like, oh, it's louie. He's the most popular, handsomest character of all time, and he's set to be the next B star. I don't know what that means, but okay. And louie calls him out of like, hey, could you not stare at me with your mouth ajar like that? Oh, sorry. And I like this because there's a few scenes we get multiple times with the goshi overthinking stuff of it in his head and going over stuff in his head. And it doesn't do that animate thing or just the show thing where it's like, oh, he has a five page monologue in his head, but in real time it's only a second. No, it takes up the time it takes for him to talk in his head, which helps convey how awkward and nervous like, oh, she is. And that really helps his character, I think. Yeah, definitely enjoyed those scenes. So he's saying like, oh, you're in the drama club, right? legoshi is like, cool, you got to help me with something. I'm also head of the drama club. So then we cut away to a little rabbit girl watering some flowers outside. While she's doing that, a bunch of crack comes flying out the window above her and falling right close to her on top of the flowers. We look up into some girls being catty because they're cats, and they're throwing her stuff out the window because they're bullying her, because everyone hates this little rabbit girl for some reason at this point in time. And she's like, I don't care. Do whatever you want. You are beneath me. I don't need this bullshit. And as the little rabbit girl starts walking away, they throw her mattress out the window because wow. Just wow. Really brutal.
This school has a big bullying problem.
Yeah, they do.
This school has no adults, no teachers, no one being like, hey, knock at the fuck off. Don't throw school property out the window, you dip shit.
Yeah. I feel like with a boarding school where the students stay on campus and live around each other, you need to have tighter security, not loser security. So it's wild, and as the rabbit Girl picks up her mattress and all her stuff helps her out, she starts dragging it back. And you see a little annie and her a little pony Boy walk by. He's like, oh, hey, it's haru. Hey, you need some help, haru? And the pony Boy leans over. He's like it's.
Haru.
Don't get involved with her. She's travel. And the annealer is like, all right, see you. It's like, wow, just fucking spinal.
Aren't you great?
Yeah. So then we see haru dragging her stuff back to her room and puts it away, and her roommate there is a squirrel, and she's got a big poster of louie signed. And it's like, I don't what?
He's a classmate.
What? It's weird. And she's like, hey, do you see those girls that came in and stole my stuff and threw out the window? Could you have stopped them? She's like, yeah, but they were mad, and I didn't want to get involved. It's like, Sally the Squirrel, you're a bitch. You're useless. She's like, all right, well, do you want to get dinner? The dining hall is open. She's like, no, I don't want to get associated with you. It's like, cool. Even a roommate hater everyone hates this little rabbit girl for no reason.
Great, she says with you.
Think I'll pass.
Yeah. She's like, Jesus. So haru goes down and gets dinner by herself. And then we get a little montage of her asking if she could sit with everyone, and everyone turns her way. She's like, cool. Fuck you all. I don't need you all. I'm an independent rabbit. I'll do what I want. And she goes outside and eats her dinner by herself. And that's when we get the bullies. The token bullies come up, and I don't even think they say her name, but it's a harlequin Rabbit. So she's got white on half her face, black on the other half, and she's teasing haru, saying, like, I must be lonely eating all by yourself because everyone hates you. And haru basically just stands up and it's like, yo, your boyfriend kissed me. If you want to fix shit with him, you could probably be better spending your time with him than bullying me further because you got your own shit to deal with. It's like, oh, damn.
Hara is a bad bitch, and I love her so much.
She don't take no shit, and it's great. And as she says that, she walks past them, and the harlequin Rabbit pushes her over, like off this little led she's on. And it throws a bucket of water on her. And she basically says, like, me and my boyfriend are harlequoen rabbits. We're an endangered species, so we're fancy and extravagant. I don't know if that's what that means, but okay. Maybe in the society pulling that bitch.
Ass move of, oh, you can't hit.
Me back because I'm endangered.
Whoop your ass.
I got speciatic immunity. It's like diplomatic immunity, but for species. You can't hit me because my species is about to die. That's a weird rag. So then we come back to louie and Ligoshi and LOUIE'S asking him to make a new costume for the guy who's replacing Tim. It's this little goat kid who's in the room with him. And when louie says that, he just starts going into the dialogue from the play. They're rehearsing. And the goat kid is like, oh, I don't know the lines yet. I just became the replacement, so I'm not familiar with the lines yet. And louie like, grabs him by the face. He's like, what did you do? Did you eat it, you goat piece of shit? Did you eat the script? Because that's all you're excuse for your goats. You goddamn mistakes. It's just like, yo, louie, jill so intense.
Louie, you're a deer. You also eat bullshit.
You ate a boot earlier. I saw you, man. Shit.
That's kind of your whole job. When you grow up, you're just going to walk around and eat shit off the ground.
And we didn't mention it, but louie is voiced by friend of the show, Griffin puttu.
Yeah, so good. I watched it all dubbed. I really like the dub. The writing works.
Really well done.
Yeah, the writing is a little iffy in some parts, but jonah Scott is legoshi is so, so good. And then I feel like with haru, they really could have gone in the direction of the typical soft anime girl like moe. But they picked I forget her name. I forget the actresses.
Laura chill, Miller.
Yeah. And her voice is like I was so surprised because it's so unique. It's not quite that moe kind of thing. It has like an edge to it and I love it.
Yeah. She's like, voice.
I'm blinking on the actor's name. Silence of the lambs. clarice like one of the most jody Foster.
Foster.
Yeah.
It sort of has that slight raspy smokier quality to it. I like that. It's really working.
Yeah, it's still, like childish and high. I love it.
I truly have not heard a voice like this in anime. And it's very refreshing.
I recognize it.
Correction. You both have heard this voice in anime before because she's kari from digima.
That's true. I was about to say I recognized it and I was like, who is this? And it was that. But also she's an okko. She plays think Professor venomous is like henchman.
I've seen a lot of professor venomous.
Yeah, he's hot. Anyway.
Yeah. Anyway, so LOUIE'S grabbing the goat, just being like, goddamn, you worthless piece of shit. And just like, yo, LOUIE'S real intense about everything. And he kind of throws a goat out of the room. He's like, don't let me see again until you memorize your lines, basically. And at that point, we got a mongoose running in called kai who basically takes open a door and he's like, what the fuck is this? I should have been the replacement. I know all the lines. I'm an actor. And you just picked this go person. And Louise is basically like, yeah, we picked him because you suck. You suck, kai. Remember those last four plays you fucked up? And he starts like railing muffy. He's like, what about this one? And this one and this one? This must be painful to relive because you fucked them up and that's why we didn't pick you, kai. And we see ky getting angry and he goes to throw a punch at louie. And the goshi flies in out there and blocks them, saying like, he's a stagehand. And actor security is the number one priority for a stage hand. yo, shit, the Goshi's big lad. And we see him here, like kind of showing his fangs a little to dissuade kai from continuing the fight. And louie points that out. He's like, oh, I've never seen a wolf or carnivore use their fangs to stop a fight from happening rather than to start a fight.
But also still being shitty about it. And it's like, fucking big man over here saving my life and shit.
Yeah, LOUIE'S real smokey shin. He's got issues with carnivores. That's right.
He's an asshole. He's so but yeah, for good reason.
Yeah, you'll find out later. He's got history.
He's got baggage.
Not in these three episodes.
Backstory for an anime character.
Shocking absurd. So Lukoshi is about to leave the room when louie stops him and grabs him by the tail. And this is a shot I've seen shared around a lot on social media because it's just rife with sexual tension.
Absolutely.
And Louis says, hey, we got to practice that scene with the goat boy. And we don't have that much time anymore. So we're going to come in. We're going to sneak into the auditorium at night and practice. But we're not allowed to do that. So we need someone to be a lookout for us. And you're a big dumb muscley boy. So you're going to be our lookout. Negotiate? Like, oh, well, I guess I can't say no.
Hey, you're a hymbo. Can you stand off? Is he not quite.
He's too smart to be a hymbo.
Yeah, that's what I was thinking. Because we got that on the bigger bingo card, the five X five I've now.
Yeah, it's not that he's smart. It's that he overthinks things. And I feel like hymbos do not.
One of the prime traits of himbo is don't think at all.
Exactly.
So then we cut to haru in the bathroom. And it's like sunset. It's like the late afternoon now, and she was drying her clothes out and cleaning up after she got the water thrown on her. So she's just kind of thinking in her head how she's sick of guys always wanting to she gets a lot of shit from other girls because guys are always attracted to her. Because guys either always want to protect her because she's so small, because she's a dwarf rabbit, so she's smaller than most rabbits. And they always want to protect her but then also play with her. That's why she's got a reputation at school. And she's sick of everybody pretty much. She's sick of everyone's shit. So then we cut away to we see legoshi outside of the theater, being the lookout, just walking around and getting a little nervous. Hears a noise. He gets jittery. And then it's a cricket. He starts playing with the bug because we find out in later episodes he's a bug boy.
He likes he loves bug bugs.
They don't judge you.
Weirdly. Not people, though.
Yeah.
So he's where does the line of animal be drawn?
It was like animal crossing. Like you collect bugs and fish.
We talk about too much.
It's just a weird line to just draw. Yeah, it's like people who say, I'm a vegetarian, but I eat fish. It's like yeah, it's still meat, though. brah. Like that's still meat. Anyway, he's outside. He's playing with the cricket. And Harry starts walking by. It got later, so she was in the bathroom getting cleaned up. And as she's walking by the building, the goshi smells a smell. A smelly smell. He's smelled before. And it's the scent of her before. And his body just starts reacting. And we see him kind of like it looks like he's hulking out, but he's just like his instincts are kicking in. And as soon as he smelled, we see hobbies ears perk up. And she kind of like can hear something too. Like her herbivores instincts are kicking in and kind of like, oh, shit. Fight or flight time. And she starts taking off. And as soon as she turns to run the ghost, she's just on top of her. And this is the scene we saw in the beginning of the episode of him tackling her. So when he's giving into his base or instincts of a carnivore and that's it. He cuts to the credits. And the music for the credits are actually the opening theme credits. And oh, boy. Oh, boy. If this music slapped any harder, it'd be charged for assault.
All of the music in this show is really good.
So good. It's real good.
For as emo as this show is, it is such an upbeat danceable song.
Like a lounge jazz, like pickup. It's great. And that's episode one.
So we start out with legoshi waking up in. This sort of dream state as he still overcome with his animalistic instincts of him being in, like, a cage. And he's woken up by his dog roommate, who's like, hey, let's go get some breakfast. I don't know anything went wrong.
I know dogs are carnivores. It still threw me off seeing like wolves and hyenas and stuff being in the same room like a sheep dog. I was like, wait.
So then we get the proper opening credits, which is the stop motion animated version. And it is so good. So cute. It's wes Anderson wet dream.
Oh, God. Fantastic. Mr. Fox, his high school years.
Horny, mr. Wolf.
Fantastic.
So we go back to the attack the night before of him just holding on to haru. And he's just arguing with himself. manifestation of his animalistic impulses is talking to him and being like, yes, meat. You're destined for this. It's in your blood. Ha, give in. Stop fighting. Society is bullshit. Haven't you seen the joker yet? And as he's about to give in and bite, he scratches the rabbit's arm and he hears a goatman scream out for him because something happened in the theater. And as that happens, he lets go of the rabbit, who runs away, and he leaves and goes inside to help goat Man. So turns out Louis or louie fuck, I did it too.
Can't do that.
Louie has fallen off the stage. He stopped goat Man from falling and he hurt his leg. But he's like, oh, no, it's fine. For the sake of theater, I can't give in.
Wow.
So he gets help from legoshi as he walks away. And yeah, so back to the next day. They start out in the cafeteria, and we get a little info dump of everyone has to eat their meals in the cafeteria. It's very illegal to eat meat, especially when you're surrounded by people who potentially may have that same meat. So all of the food is nutritionally balanced vegetarian meals. So lots of, like, soy burgers and all that artificial meat for the carnivores and just regular shit for the herbivores.
They're still eating eggs, though.
There's an episode later on where it kind of focuses on this.
A bit strange. I did not like that part.
It's weird how they're explaining they eat animal byproducts. They drink milk and stuff, but I don't think it's soy milk. So it's just kind of like, yeah, it's wild to me that that's where they draw the line once again.
Yeah, because we see birds later on. So it's easy to imagine that there's chickens and stuff where they're like, oh God, I guess I'm eating derek's spawn.
How you like my eggs, Lagoshi? I pop them out special for you.
Stop.
Lagoshi is freaking out. He's like, I can't eat something so soft looking at his bread because I almost ate a rabbit and they're soft too. So he's having a little existential crisis because he still has some instinct running through his blood. And we see hyena and a fox start bickering because one keeps stepping on the tail. So they start fighting, and then Lagoshi springs in and yells at them to stop. And the fox is like, someone's getting tough. Just because you're big, you think you can take me, punk? So as he's walking up trying to start a fight, lagoshi is like, fuck, I'm going to kick his ass. I got to figure out a way to convincingly lose this. So he starts getting in his head again, being like, if I drop a coin, if I bend over and he kicks me in the face. Oh, all these things. As he's spiraling, louie comes out and is like, I will stop you from fighting all you carnivores.
Ha ha. chivalrous knight.
Yeah. He's truly living under chivalry laws. So he stops him. They introduce the concept of the Beastar here. I sort of missed it a little bit. It seems like it's sort of award or rank or something they give to people. Can someone elaborate a little, please?
It's hard because it's not that important.
Or super well explained.
Yeah, this is pretty much it. It's just a title for somebody. I think it's supposed to be something of like a good person who is exemplary of both sides of the food chain and whatever.
Yeah. They show characteristics that everyone should aspire to. It's like a Medal of honor, sort of like, you know, a high award given to just a citizen. And I think they have some sway over the government and they go on a council or something. It's not super well explained.
Yeah, they show like a shadowy boardroom and they're like the B star. anyways, back to high school drama. So he stops the fight and goes up to Lagoshi and he's like, hey, I know you're planning on losing, so let's just say we're even after you help me out last night. Was that cool? He's like, sure, I'm all meek and stuff.
No bullying.
Oh, no. So we flash into a fantasy sequence. As they are rehearsing the play, we get to see a little bit of the world that they're weaving.
Theater. Theater.
So they're going about the rehearsal, and the director is like, hey, louie, you're a little slow and limping. Is everything cool? He's like, leave me alone. It's my process.
Fuck off, peach. Let me do what I want.
So as they're doing that, the rest of the stage crew are sewing costumes in the back. And they find tem's costume and start thinking about mortality and stuff. And they're like, LOUIE'S probably the hardest hit because he's also a herbivore on the cast. So one of the stage hands is like, hey, someone needs to go to the gardening club and pick up roses because we're going to decorate the theater for the final scene. So they get Lagoshi to volunteer and he's like, oh, no, they're going to be terrified. Of me, isn't it? All herbivores in the gardening club. So little ardvark anteater friend is like, oh, yeah, I'll go with you. So as they go over there, they get outside the door, and he smells rabbit. Oh, no, she's here, dear.
It's rabbit.
Sees no rabbit. Not a deer.
A lot of plunge.
This thing is about to happen.
So he goes in and sees her and her arms all bandaged up, and he's kind of freaking out. He's like, think of an excuse to leave. Think of an excuse to leave. You got to shit yourself. No, that's too gross. You have an errand. Yeah. As he's about to say, oh, I got to run. The little ardvark anteater friend is like, oh, I got to go. I'm pooping my pants. Oh, no.
Goodbye. I mean, he also had a marine.
But no, this is more fun.
Yeah, this is better.
This is better for us.
Sorry, I just remembered I have diarrhea. Got to go.
We've all been there.
So he's getting all the flowers, and she's like, for payment, you can help me move the big pots. I can't lift myself. So he's freaking out. Number one, because he almost ate her. And number two, he's never really talked to a small animal before, which is weird because this is his second year at the school, and they're everywhere.
He's a loner. He's a lone wolf.
I guess he just avoids them.
But there's other small animals in the drama club. It's like they're in your social groups.
He stares from afar.
I think it's more she's the only one in the gardening club, so they're alone. So he's kind of, like, scared to be one on one with a small herbivore by himself.
Yeah.
All the other times, he was probably with other people.
I think it's worth mentioning that when the anteater runs away, she's like, oh, I guess I scared him off. And Lagoshi is, like, scary. You you kind of, like, keep saying stuff like that.
Yeah.
She hints at, like, do you know rumors? And he's like, I don't know your herbivore gossip.
No.
So, yeah, we get a little backstory. He's a second year, and she's a third year, and everyone else graduated out of the gardening club. So she's trying to maintain it by herself. And no one else is joining because she has a reputation.
Herbivores love tea because it's made of plants.
So yeah, he is so in his head. He subconsciously, without control, just blurts out, like, oh, hey, just real casually quick, what happened to your arm? And conveniently, she doesn't remember, so she's like, it probably happened in my sleep. Something you don't want to hear about that. So as they're wrapping up, they're in, like, the gardening shed, and she's like, oh, thank you so much for your help. I'd love to pay you back with food sometime. And he's freaking out and in his head and is unresponsive because he's like, I got to go. She doesn't owe me anything else. I already taken too much by hurting her.
Blah, blah, blah.
And as he's freaking out, she's like, oh, I think I know what's up. I think I know why you're so nervous. I think I know your ulterior motive. Someone wants to fuck. So she starts to undress, and she's like, all right, let's just be quick. I've never really done it with a carnivore before, so it'll be a first for both of us. Just very hyper casual and just like, yeah, I'm super down for this etf. So she gets all naked and walks up to him, and then he finally gets out of his head and is like, oh, fuck. This isn't what I wanted either. And then the episode ends.
Yeah.
I am curious if the casualness of her just ready to bone is because she's a rabbit.
Because I think of that.
Yeah, that's what I was thinking too. It's, like, sort of their flip sides of giving into their animal impulses. He's a hunter, and rabbits got a fuck.
Rabbit got a fool.
I don't know how that did not cross my mind.
That might not be episodes I watched. That might be just me reaching for things.
But, I mean, at this point, we haven't seen enough of the other rabbit characters. But they're all talking about, like, boyfriends and relationships. So they all got fucking on their brain. But they're also high school students, so I don't know.
Yeah, high school students got fucking on their brain. We were on high school.
A horny teen in high school.
I never nanny.
So in episode three, we start off with what is a flashback of the anteater friend with the harlequin rabbit boy and an antelope, I think. I don't know what he is.
Something like that, yeah.
And the anteater sees some white hairs on the rabbit boy, and he's like, hey, what's this about? And he's like, I was on a date with that dwarf rabbit the other day. And they're like, you cheated on your girlfriend? And he's like, yeah, have you seen haru? She's so hot.
Yeah, I cheated. This other girl was hot, of course.
And then the antelope, he's like, the one that's completely white all over her body. And after we finish, she just cleans up and leaves, and he's just like, huh?
Excuse me? What?
You've been with her too? And he gets really upset that she's sleeping with other guys. And I'm like, dude, you're cheating on your girlfriend.
Read the fucking room.
And then the antelope warns the anteater of how dangerous haru is.
More dangerous than any carnivore here.
Yeah, because she likes to fuck. How terrible is that?
Because she would just chew you up and spit you out, like having casual sex, like you both agreed upon. Wild, crazy.
And then we're back outside the gardening club just as the anteater is leaving, and he's like, oh, nothing like that would happen between them because Lagoshi is Lagoshi and also they're a carnivore.
And Herbivore, this wouldn't happen because she's a big idiot.
And we're back. And Lagoshi is very nervous because he did not ask for this and he doesn't know what to do. And haru is like, Come on, just relax. That's fine. And she says it's her first time with a carnivore. And she's like, undoing his belt and she unbuttons his shirt and runs her hands through his stomach fur and remarks that it's the same color as his face. It's a nice creamy white color. And he's just standing there not knowing what to do.
She literally has a line saying, like, I hope the curtains match the drain.
Hold on. She says it in a more sensual.
Smooth way than that, but still with the meaning. Yeah, I hope your wolf carpet matches your wolf dream.
She's, like, starting to pull down his pants. And she says, I want to see how far down it goes. Who winked? And then she says, Is that okay? Love? That we love consent. And he says no.
I mean, she says, Is that okay? As she's already in his pants?
Yeah, he's petrified.
Yeah. Which is not a good indicator of that. Yeah, I should keep going.
She could not read him because she I mean, she's never been with a carnivore before.
She's a big nervous idiot, or a.
Big nervous idiot, but so, yeah, he finally snaps out of it and he's like, no, I'm not okay with that. And then she gets all huffy, and she's like, I'm just trying to set the mood, man. I'm the only one putting in any effort here. And he's like, buttoning up his pants and his shirt, and that's when she's finally like, oh, fuck. You did not want this. You didn't come here for this.
Oh, no.
How weird, because that's what most people want from me.
Oops.
Can I have my roses now?
He grabs a sheet and puts it around her shoulders. And he's like, you should probably get dressed. And I'm just going to go. And he closes the door on his tail and he jumps and he runs, gets the heck out of there, so nervous. And she's like, so surprised that he a carnivore is, like, so soft and scared and nervous. And she's like, what a strange guy.
What a big nervous idiot.
Yeah. And he's bolting it down the stairs and he stops at the wall to regain his composure. And he's like, what just happened to me? And I'm like horny.
Welcome to the club.
This animal instinct, it feels different.
We skipped over this when we talked about him attacking her, but as he's holding her, he's like, oh, she's so warm. What is under her clothes and her fur, which is weird, but carnivore even that was horny. He's a horny kid, the poor boy.
He wanted to eat her, and now she wanted to eat him. wink.
No.
So the Anteater comes back and he's like, hey, did anything happen up there? You're bolting down the stairs four steps at a time and he's like, no thank you, sir. And then the ant eater says that he's glad. And Lagoshi is like, whoa. Why? And he pushes him on a wall and he's like, she's a slut. Or he's a slut.
Yeah. I wanted to like animate her, but it's like, dude, he suck.
Yeah, he said slut.
But it reminded me of our perfect Blue episode where he talked about the duality of, like double bind. That's it. Yeah, I know there's a term for it. Because he was like, it's disappointing because she's so small and innocent looking, but then she's a slut. And it's like, you want both? You want both, though.
Yeah.
So like, what the fuck, man?
That's society, baby. So he's like, oh, of course she wouldn't seduce a carnivore. How scary. And then he asks if Lagos she got the flowers. And he's just like, we'll have to get them somewhere else another time. And then he thinks to himself, he's like, oh, I didn't know about all of these rumors. That sucks. But I think haru is a good person. And he thinks that everyone's spreading rumors about here are just narrow minded, which is nice. Slogia's. Best boy. Sweet lad.
I've never experienced hornyness before, but I'm pretty chill with it.
And he reminds himself that he was going to eat her because he feels really guilty about it, of course. And then he's like, why did she act that way? But what do I know about girls? I've never had a girlfriend. And then we see a ceremony going on in the theater and it is the principal giving out the cherryton Honor Award. otter Award.
The principal is an otter?
No, it's not to the drama club, I guess, for like, bringing Herbivores and Carnivores together. And louie is the one that accepts the award. And he makes a speech about coexistence and the audience is going fucking wild. And this is when we hear someone. Yeah, Lewis, I think. And Lagoshi in his mind is like, wow, people fucking love this guy. And then at the rehearsal later, the boy who was kicked out of the actors team, he's a mongoose. kai. That's his name. So kai was complaining to the goshi and he's like, how can louie preach coexistence when he kicked me off of the actors team? Wait. But he says like, oh, but I'm getting used to being on the stage crew. And he asks Lagoshi if he'd ever joined the actors team. And Lagoshi is like, Ha, no. And then kai talks to Lagoshi about being scouted for the club, but Lagoshi doesn't really seem to understand what he's talking about. And apparently you can only join the club if you're scouted. And Lagoshi asks what the club advisor is looking for. And this is when kai he talks about some people in the group. He talks about sheila, who is cheetah, she's like the choreographer. And he says that when she was 14, she was working part time as a dominatrix to make money. So she was asked to join the club. And then there's a giraffe that can't look at herself because she has tripophobia.
Which that would suck so much.
And then there's a rhino boy who thinks he can see his guardian angel, but it's really just his horn on his nose.
Big idiot.
And then the kai says, as for me, I'm a mongoose that was abandoned by my parents and I was raised by hyenas. So they all have different stuff going on. And I'm just kind of like I don't really see the connection. I guess it's just like troubled youth.
Just something interesting about them, something unique to them.
Yeah. He says it's unusual folks with unique circumstances.
It's real messed up that the only way you can be in a club is if you got some personal baggage and it's judged by the advisor. That's fucked up.
Yeah, it's weird. And then he asks Lagosi what his secret is, and Lagoshi is like, I don't really have anything to hide, man.
Too soft for being a wolf.
I think that's it though, that he.
Just is not yeah, it's not like.
He was raised by sheep or something. Like there's nothing super obvious.
Yeah, he's just soft. And then Lagoshi wonders to himself what louie might be hiding. And then we see the PR Club, which I guess is just the newspaper club.
Yeah, it's like the newspaper and they're.
Having a meeting and the editor is angry because they're not getting anything juicy. They need a good picture of louie because that's what all the people want.
I need pictures of Deer Man for the medical society.
And they talk about how the show opens tomorrow. So they're going to get a good picture then. And after club is over, there's a girl lamenting that her camera is out of battery and they're worried about getting the picture. And I'm like, why don't you either charge it if it can be charged, or just get a new battery?
Yeah, you have hours.
Yeah, you have a day. But then she does say that she thinks the second night would be better because on the second night, people tend to let their guard down and that maybe louie would do something wrong. And she's very right. In my experience in high school theater, the first night is always good, the second night is always really bad. And then the last show is great because we get cocky. The first show goes well and then.
You'Re like, we got this in the bag.
Yeah. And then we see louie in that room on his own. I'm not really sure what that room is, where it is. I think it's like in the practice theater.
Oh, yeah, we've seen it before.
Yeah. And he's tending to his ankle and he's thinking about how he's working his body too hard because he knows that he's not built for fighting, but he still fights people. And then Lagoshi comes in and louie like, grabs his medicine and ace bandages and he's like, oh, you should have knocked. And then the goshi is like, Well, I did, but no one answered, so I came in.
I was too busy in my head being dramatic theatre.
I was deep in my fields.
I was in my mind palace. You opened.
You took me out of my mind palace.
Iron method.
Well, louie is like, what do you want? And Lagoshi is like, oh, I came in to finalize the lighting. And he's like, talking about the lighting and we see this a lot, and I really like this thing that they do. They'll do like, a split screen of the characters that are having a conversation of both of their faces, but in this case, it's LOUIE'S face. And he's focusing on Lagoshi's hands. And as he's talking about the lighting, he's like, very expressive with his hands and not Lagosi. louie tells him that he gets aggressive every chance he gets. And Lagoshi is like and then he like, hides his hands behind his back and he's like, oh, I'm really sorry. I clip my fingernails every day, but they grow back. I can't help it, I'm a wolf. And then louie kind of runs with that and he says, can you not control your instincts and negotiate? Is like I mean, I don't know. And then louie pushes him up against a wall. Wow, this whole show is so horny.
Are you just realizing this noddies in the bra?
I kind of put that in my mind. We're going.
And louie tells Lagoshi that people like him make him mad, because even though he's a carnivore, he tries to hide it with his personality and he should just be who he is. And then louie grabs Lagoshi's throat and Lagoshi is just confused, which is like his whole deal. And louie tells him to show him his fangs, and Lagoshi is like, I'm not going to do that because it's forbidden for a carnivore to show their fangs to an herbivore. And then louie gets upset because he's like, I'm not just some other herbivore.
I'm special.
I'm special. Show me your fangs. louie like, forces his mouth open with his hand and his fangs. That was gross. Hold on. Okay, shut up. I'm taking medicine and it makes me feel much better. So he forces his mouth open and his fangs are right on his hand and he yells at him to bite him. But as the points of his fangs touch down to his hand, LOUIE'S instincts kick in and he pulls away. And because of the force that louie was putting on him, Lagosi kind of bursts away from the wall after he's let go. And he apologizes and he says he can't deny that wolves are strong, but louie is strong too. And that's what everyone loves about him. And that's what everyone is going to come see in the theater tomorrow. So Lagoshi leaves and apologizes for saying too much.
Played my hand.
I love him. I love Lagoshi so much. He's very much like he's everything I love. He's, like, really big, but also, like, really nervous and soft. He combines he combines a lot of my interests.
He's a small, timid, nervous boy and a big, timbo body.
Yeah, I love him. And then as he's walking out of the, like, practice theater, there's an announcement saying that it's Biology Day. So if students haven't done their tests, they have to go to the basement. So I don't really know the purpose of this, but there are separate rooms designed for different animals. We see, like, some lizards in a room that's like a rainforest. It's really humid. We see polar bears in a really icy room. And then the wolf room is just like it's like a DMV waiting area with just a big full moon, just.
A moon in it, which is so weird.
Maybe they're supposed to, like, resist the urge to howl or something. I have no idea.
Or maybe this is where they just give into it because they're around each I didn't get this because this would be like if I just sat in a room with a bunch of other Irish people and got drunk. I get it now. That's a far.
So they're in there, and Lagoshi says that he could smell the medicine that louie was using. And then one of the girls in the room asks just to break the tension, I guess, because they're just all sitting there in silence. She asks if anyone thinks that rabbits actually live in the moon, which is a Japanese folktale, like the man in the moon, but it's a rabbit. And then, of course, that gets Lagosi thinking about haru and how she wasn't afraid of him. How she kind of just looked at him as a guy instead of a big, scary wolf. And he wonders if louie is wrong about him. That he's not just a monster. He's a guy with a personality and a life. And after that, he's like going up a staircase and he's humming to himself. And he's like, what am I feeling right now? I feel like a drive to move forward. Like, I feel motivated. And then he looks back and he leans over and he's like, oh, I'm happy. And then we see that his tail is wagging. I love this boy so much. And he is like, well, I guess I should also accept that I want to see haru again. And then it's showtime, and louie is staring at his reflection. And he cannot fail because failure means death. And he's like, I'm going to go on, even though I'm very badly injured and I'll have to go to the hospital right after this, but I have to do this because the only person I could trust is myself. So before the show starts, he's, like, giving the drama club a motivational speech. But what he's saying isn't actually what he's thinking. No one here is ready except for me. They're not good enough. They just have to follow me, and then everything's ready to go. louie is ready to stun the audience. He lives for the theater theater. And as the performance is going on, legoshi is describing it. He uses a lot of really flowery words. The one I remember is radiant, and he doesn't falter through the entire show, even though he's injured until the end. We see the final scene. It's very dramatic. The show is about the Grim reaper and a woman that he falls in love with. And as the curtain falls, louie is in his head and he's like, well, that went well. I did it. I can't feel my legs. What's going on? But I did it. I did this. And then he faints. And then everybody crowds around him and he's like, oh, my God, are you okay? Everyone says, oh, my God, are you okay? But in his head, he's like, what are you all doing? Like, let's do the curtain call. And then it's over. Yeah, that's episode three.
That's some B stars.
That's the first three episodes of The Furry Stuff.
The furry place.
Zootopia High School, basically.
I mean, we even got the rabbit. Fox is time, but it's a wolf similar wild dog.
So how do you feel about it, dugan? Brendan and I have already watched all this.
Yeah, yeah. I'm not going to keep watching it because I already watched it.
I had some extra time, so I did keep watching. I watched episode four as well, because.
I like, is this a first?
No, you did that with aggregate SUKO as well.
Oh, God, I'm learning. I only continue watching the furry shows.
Was he watching africa salary man as well.
That one I did not. But dana, help me. I see my furry guide.
Gladly. Oh, my God.
Your furry denmark. We're learning more about dungeon. Every evidence.
Oh, no. But yeah, I did like this a lot. The dub being good was very helpful. The art style was just so unique because it does have that 3d style to it. We have cuts into 2d stuff, but it's very creative and playful with its animation. So I'm liking that. The tone definitely throws me off because I'm so used to BoJack where nothing is taken too seriously.
No one even talks.
But just having it be pure drama, basically, is like, oh, but they're fun, colorful animals. We're having fun, right?
No.
I like it so much, I think, because it is just like a high school drama at its core. But then also, the characters are animals, and it does have that tension of the carnivores. And the herbivores, obviously, that's a big part of it. But all of the stuff that's happening outside of that is just like high school shit. And I really like it because in later episodes, it just gets to be like wild team soap opera high school drama. It's so good.
I love it.
And I love haru, and I want to cosplay her so bad, it gets.
Real over the top. But, like in the soap opera way where it's like, yeah, this makes sense. We might as well go here.
So fun and wild.
No, dad, this was your dream. Not my dream. I get it. Kind of.
Yeah. I found it really easy to watch. I loved it.
Yeah. I enjoyed it. And I'm happy to hear you like the animation because the studio that did this did one of my favorite series, Land of illustrates, which we will get to someday. But it's effectively done in the same style. So it's one of the first series I saw that did 3d animation well. And clearly they carried that over into the show as well, because I typically prefer 2d. But it's like, wow. They knew how to highlight it in the best ways while still relying on 2d animation to do the stuff that 3d can't quite do yet. It's a good studio and they know what they're doing. It really shows. Yeah.
It takes the best of both worlds.
Yeah.
But yeah, I'm definitely liking this.
Yay. I'm so happy that's wow.
I didn't expect you to keep watching it. I knew it would be good, but wow.
Hey, we're in the sad times. I'll distract myself with whatever I have genuinely put thought into going back and continuing some of the series. I said yes, now that I have plenty of time to do.
So you have no excuse.
Watch erie on ice.
Erie on ice here.
He on I'm currently catching up on Steven Universe because I hadn't seen any of season five. So once that's done, I will assess where I'm at. But probably my love story, because that's still one of my favorites and the one I actually genuinely continued at the time. Great.
Good. We got some good shows going.
If you dare to give us a fucking clunker right now. Brendan, I'm not I don't know what you're talking about.
What do you no, I wouldn't do that.
My soul in the nation cannot handle this. The world cannot handle this.
I would never do something like that. I don't know where you get these accusations that I would make us watch. Just deplorable insane, pedantic, overcomplicated trash.
That's why history is my indicator.
History, schmidt. That's why next week we're watching episodes one, seven and Eleven, because it's a very concise story of zach Bell.
I don't know anything about it, but I'm worried.
I don't know anything about it, but the way you delivered that title, it makes me scared.
It's going to be fun. I'll say that it's going to be fun for me. Yeah. Brendan it's not quite four kids, but.
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Yeah.
I got a digimon game if you guys want me to stream it.
No.
Let me stream.
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I got to learn how to draw furries.
Nuzzle nuzzle.