It says a lot more than that in Japanese.
Hello, and welcome to our Read video. There yet in 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 action hank from that one episode of dexter's Lab where he grows a beard and he's part of the superhero team that fights people with their beards.
I remember that. Yeah, vaguely.
It's somewhere.
Speaking of cart Two network, we got a fun one today.
We're doing a silly one.
This one's just for me.
Okay.
So, yeah, I've probably mentioned this show so much because this is, like, the first non. Hey, you five year old, watch some cartoon anime that I've seen. We're watching Bobo Bow.
Here it is, episode 99.
This was the first anime I added to my list of, like, hey, let's get around to it, because I just remembered, like, yeah, it was like, nine or ten. This is a cartoon that's on at a sleepover. And that's the full context I have for nothing else. But yeah. So this show came out 2005. Do you either of you have any history with this show?
No, I got it.
I've heard the name.
Of course I've got history. I got problems with bubble.
Oh, no.
I mean, no, not really. I've seen it. I was like, not for me. And I watched every other anime that was on tsunami at that time. Got you. Yeah.
So already such a fan.
Going perfect at the ripe age of 2005. God, I was 14. So very discerning taste. And with all the free time in the world as a 14 year old has, even then I said, you know what? I got better things to do.
Well, I need to read every piece of one piece instead.
You know, there's about 14 years of just pirate bullshit I got to catch up on. I digging my teeth into that.
It is the year 2005. There's only 800 episodes.
I can do it.
I can do it as possible.
It's manageable.
Now. it'd be a shame if I wasted all this youth and energy on learning a profitable skill that can actually propel my career forward. nah, one piece.
Hey, Brendan, you want to join the family's plumbing business? No, dad, I'm watching anime.
Too. Real.
So, yeah, we're going to watch the first three episodes. Let's just get to it, shall we?
Just do it.
It's a very plot heavy show. We got to give our stuff all the time in the world to discuss this rich stone.
Track your knuckles, roll up your sleeves.
You're we go.
So now that you've both seen this, do you understand why I don't like anime?
Yeah, I'm going to be perfectly honest right now. I thought this was a hoot. I thought this was fun and funny. I'm feeling attacked.
Welcome to my spot every fucking episode.
I'm not feeling attacked. I just thought it was kind of funny.
It definitely has some more tones to Brave master.
I disagree, but I'll talk about that later.
Okay. But I felt like a common comparison would be like zach Bell, where like, I ain't going to say it's good, but I did have fun with it.
I disagree with that too.
But yeah, this is why we get conflicting opinions on the show.
I get where you're coming from. dana, episode one, I was like, okay, yeah, we're having a fun time. This is just a bunch of silliness. But then two more episodes of Keeping Up that breakneck pace.
It's a lot sequitur jokes.
I was like, oh, okay. All right.
It is very all over the place.
It's just like kind of like even with Ultimate Muscle, too, where it's just like those kind of like four kit. There's plenty of shows we've watched that we've had comedic value out of, but they aren't comedies. And then these animes are specifically comedies. And it's just so much at least with in my opinion, zach Fell had a bit of a plot going on ultimately also a bit less of it. So I can understand, like, that where it's like, this is just a mile a minute and it's just beating you over the head with it. So if you're not on board with some of the jokes right away, it's going to get rougher. So I can see how you guys felt with those other shows.
Finally, you're on the other side. You get it now.
I mean, I'm still going to pick those shows.
Fair.
I'll talk about it more later. But yeah.
So I'm going to give just, like, the world backstory. I did a little bit of research and that may help illuminate why the show is this way as well. So, yeah, we start out, we get the introduction. The year is 3001 and a half. And the world did you say that in the dub? Oh, yes.
I watched the first one. subbed.
Got you. For some reason, we are probably going to have some very different experiences.
I want that though, because I watched the second two dubbed and I was like, oh, this is probably so different. I'm so excited.
Yeah.
So the world is ruled by the Chrome dome Empire and zar baldi bald IV is in charge. And basically all hair is illegal. And if you have hair, the hair hunters are going to steal your hair because that is going to take away your power and you'll be subservient to the bald's Empire. So yeah, that's basically the premise of the show. So some of the research that I did helped to illuminate this because this is very just strange hashtag random humor. And a lot of that is because of the dub, because a lot of these jokes are very Japanese. So the dub was like.
Let'S just.
Completely rewrite this shit because we need it to make sense in English. So that's why it's extra random is because they're like they're not going to get this joke about, like a weird Japanese festival. Let's make them talk about Brazil for one liner or something like that. This is like a direct parody of Fist of the North Star. His BOVO bow's main martial art is translated in the original, is Fist of the Nose Hair because he fights with nose hairs.
That makes more sense.
Yeah, and it's not elaborated. I think it's elaborated. Later we get references to it. But there is another martial art that he uses called wigging, which is basically the bugs bunny style of let me do like a weird dress up non sequitur to distract my villain and then I can win. So that's why he's extra random and just breaks into weird jokes in the middle of fights, especially because his tactic is to confuse the other person so he can win.
Got you. It works.
We don't get that context, but that sort of helps to illuminate why the show is just so fucking weird. Off the walls.
Nonsensical, but yeah.
So that's just some backstory. To help with all of this.
We.
Start out we see a young girl, pink hair, basically a mix of knuckles and amy. And sora from Kingdom Heart, her name is Beauty, and she is being attacked by some hair hunters because they need to shave her pink hair and make her bald. And that's where our hero Bobabo comes in, and he's here to save her and protect her precious hair. He has nose hairs that he whips people with and uses to attack. There's a pickle man named Dylan who pops in and out of this episode, but he doesn't matter because he's only in this one. So fuck him. But yeah, so we get his backstory. His big power is he can hear the thoughts of other people's hair. And he always has since he was a kid. So when he was young, he met someone named iboji who can also hear people's hair. And he sort of trained under him to learn the ways of hair combat, I guess. I don't know. It doesn't matter.
I made the Action Hank reference because I remember Action Hank fighting with his beard and like mustache stuff, and I thought Bobo did. And then after watching a few minutes, I remembered it's his nose hair. And I was like, this is much worse.
Yes, it is.
Can you defend the nose hair?
Yeah, no, I can't defend that, but yeah. So in his back story, his dad is just a follicle of hair. He just looks like a black sperm anyway.
Yeah, or Soul from Soul Leader, but that's probably buried deep down in your guys'parents. Wait, soul in Soul Leader, the souls.
Come out of the enemies looked like a soul. Not soul character.
Oh, no. Yeah, I said a soul.
Okay.
I was like, he didn't have shark teeth.
Soul. Soul.
So a hair hunter squad comes, breaks into their house, and his dad's like, no, I'm just a tadpole take my son. He has hair, and they take him instead. But Bobo is like, I need to avenge my dad. He sacrificed himself for me. And beauty is like, no he didn't, you're dumb. A lot of this is just weird breakaway gags that we don't really want to get into because it's going to be like, this weird thing happened.
Cool gag.
Then this next weird thing happened, and it's going to be a bad episode of the podcast. So I'm just blasting through it. So they go to destroy the hair hunters headquarters, and we see the hair hunters at their base discussing Bobo is on the scene. He's going to cause trouble, blah, blah, blah. A bunch of weird gags. Who cares? So they're at the headquarters. bobobo confronts the big boss. He goes to fight his nose hairs. He says in the English, the martial art style is snot foyyou.
Love it. Yeah.
So that's the fist of the nose hair in the original, but they fight wackiness and sues. Like, a lot of this is just weird. This whole show is just weird gag. So it's constant.
Have you guys ever played a warioware game? Warrior wear ink warioware.
This is that it's warioware. Yeah.
And maybe that's also why I love it. Warioware games are like my favorite with.
Knowing it's a fifth of the North Star parody. It makes a lot more sense to me now because I didn't realize that watching it, but it feels like a fist of the North Star parody. Plus Johnny bravo from Cardinal, where it's just like just a big, dumb blonde idiot misunderstandings of it. Just a lot of sketches. A lot of micro sketches.
Lot of it. Yeah, but yeah. So he fights the boss that we get some he has, like, little people that will live in his hair and his nose. So he has the booger brigade fighting the boss. There's like a weird shopkeeper that every once in a while is like, the nose is closed. We got a prep for tomorrow. Sure. The boss finally tries to pull his hair off, but there's a bunch of chipmunks breaking up over just like, no, sweetie, I can change, please. And that's enough to distract the boss so Bobo can beat him. And yeah, the beauty comes in, and she wants to join the team and join the hair revolution. dill and the pickles also there, but Bobo is like, no, fuck you. You can't come. It's just me and the girl, and we never see Dylan again. Perfect.
Funny to me, the little guy in Bobo, well, he was in his nose, but now he's in his hair. So it's like, yeah, you two can come join along. And then Boot just turns like, not fuck you, pickles. Fuck you. Why they hate why they ain't for pickles.
Like, I feel like this is such a pinnacle of the early 2000s, like, random humor that I feel like it's hitting me on that slight cringe level of, like, I would have thought this was hilarious in 2005, but I'm sophisticated now.
I've grown, says a person 100 episodes into an anime podcast.
Whatever.
It's fine. But I'm like, oh, some of these, I know are just, like, objectively funny, but I'm also hitting it with that. This is some edgy, early tumblr stuff, and it's, like, weird. No, thanks. I feel like a lot of these bits you would have seen, like, backstage for a theater kid.
Got this idea for a sketch.
Yeah, basically. But yeah. So they join forces. They go, and they're confronted by a gang of wigs that want to fight. And yeah, that's kind of where we leave off. This is a big jumble, but that's the show, so sorry, folks.
These are the jokes.
These are the jokes. I mean, I grew up on looney tunes, and that's all. There's just a lot of bits and a lot of sketches, a lot of visual gags. So there's definitely some in here that I thought were funny, but it's just the spacing of just the constant onslaught of them, which just tired me out. Or I'm like, if you just spaced these out a little bit and gave me time to breathe, I'd probably be better with this. But it's just like, there's so much going on. Yes.
This is basically, like, three episodes of animaniacs just crammed into the time of one episode.
Yeah, it's a lot.
It is. That. If you just give me a second to breathe and even just process the joke you just made before you make three more, I can appreciate it more, but I'm just exhausted with just the density of jokes in here.
I really want to see a variation of cells at work, but in bobo's Money because there's so many things inside.
Of them.
And they're all changing out all the time. Okay, episode two. We get, like, a pre up previous episode recap because that story is important. We got to we got to capture every detail of it and then to give they're showing the wig. No, it's a group of little high sea sons in a group. And they're like wigs, though. Are they wigs?
They look like sons. I always thought the character that's about to be introduced was a son, but he is canonically a wig.
Okay. Because they were talking about going after the Wig bros, which were the bad guys, so I assumed they weren't wigs.
They're snatching wigs. Wig bros are snatching Wigs.
Okay. Yeah. So the wick bros are bad guys with wigs. They are wigs. So they're being, like, fun, I guess. Okay, that took a lot.
Wait, I got it again.
You got it?
No problem.
We see, like, their boss, and they're like, you're going to have to deal with the boss. And it's like, get ready for him. And he's just he looks like a son, but he's exhausted. And he's like droopy and sad. We got pip him up. Pip him up. Soda product placement for just children. pounding soda left and right, watching this show to keep pace with it. And then we find out Don Patch is this character's name. And babo just immediately grabs him and stabs him into his Afro. He's like, oh, thanks for the hat. And the weirdest part is Don Patch just goes with it. He just goes meditative and just like, all right, I'm a hat now.
I accept my new life.
Yeah, he's fine with it. And then we get the opening, which I mean, it's like any other anime opening. It just jump cuts of a lot of the characters and stuff. The music wasn't terrible. I'll say that I was going to scrap.
I don't even remember it.
Yeah, it's fun. It matches the tone of the show.
It gets the job done, shows high energy old rock. And then it cuts back to Don Patch challenging Bobo to a wig out contest. Which I was kind of getting it with the wig out, but with the context of, like I guess that's what they call it in Japan is this type of comedy. It's like dressing up as someone else, trying to be as over the top as possible. That makes more sense now. And the theme of the contest is Christmas. So we do a cutaway of Don Patch in a city on Christmas Eve, and he's trying to get some money to buy toys for his kids. So he's just a lonely food vendor out on the street, and he's selling churros. They definitely weren't churros in the sub. I didn't watch the sub. But I can promise you they weren't because they didn't look like churros in the animation. He's selling them on the street and no one wants them. And then he overhears someone walking by saying like, oh, we're going to the company party. I hope the food doesn't shit like last year. And he's like, now's my chance. And he goes into the company party and he sells churros. And everyone says, what the fuck are you doing here? You're not an employee. Like, why are you here? I am the caterer. And then a cop shows up and tries to arrest him. And he just screams that he's just trying to sell his churros. And that's his contest. That's what he did. And then it goes to Bobo Bow, who's his turn to try.
He is moved by John patch's story. He doesn't know how he'll top it.
He's very emotional. He's very emotional about everything. bobo's crying about half the time he's on screen.
We love an emotional man.
And so for boo boo boo's wig out contest submission, it's him sitting in an apartment listening to the radio. And the radio is talking about a contest where the winner of the contest is going to get like, a lifetime supply of hot pepper jelly is like, I'm going to fill out my ticket. I'm going to try and win. I love hot pepper jelly. This is going to be great. He's like, what Japanese? I'm just going to do a fun doodle. And it's like, all right, we're not trying here, are we with the translation anymore?
That's a funny joke. He's looking at the paper and he's like, oh, I can't fill this out because it's in Japanese. Oh, well.
But everything's Japanese. It's Japanese.
Yeah. There is so much Japanese text on the screen, but it's not translated for the dub. And the characters are just constantly talking about that. Doesn't line up like one of the flashback things. It's like youth, but it's like a full banner of Japanese text. And they're like, that's way more than just youth. That has to say something else.
They make another joke about it. They say, God, I hope that's what it says in Japanese.
I got that with the movie theater one. My problem with the ticket one is he then writes his name. He signs it in Japanese and then draws like a dog. Paul, no one would know that in English.
People are dumb.
Yeah, that's fair.
But also, it could be argued that it's just funny that that's the only time that they really acknowledge it. But I won't talk about it anymore. I thought that joke was funny. That's my opinion.
Okay, so he signs the ticket and then realizes he's allergic to hot pepper jelly. And that's it. That's the sketchy. He's very upset. Don Patch is very broken up about it. And then Don gets a second wins, and he's like, I'm not going to lose out to that. I'm gonna, you know, I'm going to come back at you one more time. And then he just says, wake out quietly and in place a few times. And I was kind of confused by that. And then all of a sudden transforms into a ninja star and starts flying around Bobo, attacking him. And then to counter that, bobo summons all of his energy and summons the Bobo bow. What do you call ships, like the aircrafts? So you see like a jet and like another ship fly out and then a, like, kitchen table and then a pig. And they all fly up in the sky and get into formation and all fuse together to form blah, blah, sitting at a table playing a video game with the pig. Which you know what? That made more sense than if it was going to be an actual, like, giant mech. So I'll give them that work for me. And Don Patch is like, oh, I like this video game. Let me join in. So they all start playing a game together. And Don Patch is like hype man assistant buddy just starts freaking out, warning them like, hey, we're supposed to be figuring shit out because the Wig bros are snatching people up. We got to go after the Wig Bros. And right on cue, a Wig Bro appears and steals Beauty away.
Goodbye.
And then we get Don Patch, gets mad and says he'll fight all the Wig Bros. And baba says, I didn't write it down, but Bobo is, like, reluctant. He's like, well, I guess if you're going to fight all the Wig Bros, and if they're part of the hair hunt troop, I'll go with you. Like, fully not acknowledging at all that Beauty was kidnapped. And then they go to the Wig Bros. Base. God, it's so hard to explain, but it's the whole show. They go to the Wickbrows base, and instead of just walking up, they're riding in a full, like, scene, like a cut out of a scene from, like, a play. And it's like bubble bows dress up like a woman applying for a job as a secretary to Don patch's company. And he's like, you're pretty good. Am I hiring you? I forget already. It's just so manic.
We can gloss over the details of these things because, again, it does not matter to listen to.
It doesn't matter to listen to. But there's also nothing else for me to talk about. This is the episode. So, yeah, they roll up, and they start beating up all the Wig Bros. And they get inside, and to be fair, one of the Wig Bros. Had a bunch of sparkles around him and was holding a rose, so I checked off. Beautiful boys. I feel like the roses roses are obligated. Yeah. Once they get inside the base, they find mattel, who's the commander, and he's also the third cousin of medusa. So he starts turning Don Patch to stone, and when he tries to turn Bobo to stone instead, he turns into a carrot. I'm assuming this is where the puns come in, because this didn't make sense in English.
Jokes, jokes, jokes.
And then he tries it again, and this time, Bobo is a cabbage. And then cabbage bobo sets up a boom box and throws a microphone because it's karaoke time, and that's what breaks Don Patch out of his stone work. God, he loves karaoke.
Ready to perform. Always ready.
And then they both get magical wands and start doing all these poses and talking about the magical wands. Power activate. And you know what? I was really hoping for a magical girl transformation sequence right here. I was a little disappointed by that.
Hey, he transformed into an eggplant. Weren't you paying attention?
I wanted the full sailor moon like scene. Yeah, they threw the wands away because they did nothing. And then yeah, bowbow bows, now an eggplant. And mattel gets a call on his cell phone saying he's got a hot date tonight with kathy, and kathy's bringing three of her friends. So he's got to bring three of his hot guy friends. He's like, oh, God, I didn't know the group date was tonight. I'm not ready. But I was like, we got you, bro. We'll wing mania.
He's like, no problem. We can stop this fight to go on a date. I'd be happy to.
He's like, first off, no. Second off, there's only two of you. We need three to fill out the whole group date. It's like, oh, don't worry. We got pigs still. And the pig playing the video games just in the background is like, hello. It's a good pig.
And now it's Africa salary. Man. A pig on a group date.
Yeah, I didn't even think of that. Don Patch is definitely two can. mattel's lizard. Bobo is lying. And so we cut away to restaurant where the women are waiting with hot pot, waiting for the guys to show up, and then they all just break through the window in full rugby gear, and Bobo spikes Don Patch into the table, scoring a point, and everyone was freaked out for a second. And once they start talking about Bobo was like, oh, thank you for getting my bath ready for me. And he takes off the lid to the hot pot and starts putting in, like, soaps into the hot pot and start suddenly himself up, asking if someone can scrub his back. And then the women get mad, understandably, and leave. And we see mattel starts freaking out, yelling at Bobo, and his afro snaps open. And there's a full graduating class of students in there giving, like, a graduation speech, thanking mattel for being a great teacher and guiding them through school.
It's so dumb.
It's so they jump out of his afro to hug mattel with tearful eyes of joy. And as mattel goes to hug him back, boom. Bow like blind shots him with a mustache or with a nose hair and knocks him out. So it was all a distraction, all of ruse. And then they ask him where Beauty is, where the guy who kidnapped Beauty is, and he says, like, oh, I forget his name. It's like, that's that guy. He didn't do it on orders. He just does that for fun. He kidnaps people and sells it our wigs.
He's a freelancer.
Yeah, he's gone rogue. And right before he can tell him anymore, he passes out. So then we cut to Beauty running away from Wig Bro. I guess she escaped somehow. And we see a spiky white haired kid throws out a stink bomb and knocks out the wig bro guy. And he's like, if you've ever seen Hunter Hunter, he's the spiky white haired kid from Hunter hunter kilowatt. It's him. That's just exactly him. And, yeah, we get a shot of him looking cool with a skull and crossbones on the back of his shirt, and that's it. That's episode two.
Cool. So in episode three, in the beginning, don Patch interrupts the recap, and he's like, I'm not in this one, but I still like this, so remember me. And we see Beauty walking in the woods thinking about that boy, and he's she's dragging Bobo behind her, and he's like, in a hamburger. And he is apparently trying to connect to the mentality of a hamburger because he's a vegetarian. So he's trying to feel the pain or something.
Very performance art logic.
Yes.
And then Beauty is talking about how hungry she is. They arrive at a carnival, but Bobo is upset because he cannot channel the feelings of the hamburger. And then he starts going a little crazy, and he just starts attacking randos at this carnival. And some people come up to try to stop him, but he makes a run for it. And then a guy jumps out and, like, takes Beauty down, and then Bobo attacks him. So then the folks, like, surround him, and they're like, we're going to fight you now. But he says he's he's ready to do, like, a wig duel. He's like, if you want to fight me, you have to show me up. So some guys come up, and it's just like, three sticks of dynamite. And they're like, hey, we'll duel you. And one of them is like, I want to do a duel of risks. So Bogobo goes first, and his risk is that he just buys some random stocks in the stock market, and then he loses $5 million. So that's his risk. And the dynamite boy is like, how am I going to top that? I know. I'm going to light my fuse and kill myself and everyone here.
That's risky.
That's pretty risky. But then Beauty is like, you're only a danger to yourself because you're a firecracker. And everyone's like and the three firecrackers are like, huh? Because they thought they were dynamite.
They thought they were hot shit.
Imagine living your whole life thinking you were dynamite and then finding out you were a firecracker the whole time. And then he, like, lifts off really slowly and explodes. But then he lives. Beauty sees him. She's like, oh, he's okay. All right.
He had a parachute.
Yeah. And then there's, like a commotion. And then we hear someone asking for silence. And Bobabo's hair has popped open, and there is a band inside. And they're like, this is our last performance. And then there's like a crowd of their fans, and they're like, oh, my God, no. And then they sing a shitty song. But boba beau is moved. He's crying, and he doesn't want them to break up. And Beauty is like, maybe that's why he's been so upset all day. And then somehow he was their promoter. So now he's just sad that he doesn't have a band to promote anymore.
But it was, like a smaller one that was also inside of his hair.
Yeah, maybe all of the things inside of his hair are just secretly his memories. Maybe that's the thing. The small one goes to a convenience store, and then Beauty is like, great, I'm going to go there. And get a snack. And then the convenience store explodes, and then Beauty is alone in the woods.
That transition.
She explodes into the woods. And Beauty, she's walking around calling for boba Bow, and then she sees a bunch of dogs with Bobabo's face, and then she wakes up. That was a dream. She's in the forest alone, but that was a dream. And then there's, like, a duck head popping out from behind a tree, and she's like, oh, little duck, you separated from your parents. And she goes over there, but it's.
A weird dude in a it's like a wrestling singlet.
Yeah, yeah. He's got garters on.
Yeah, yeah.
And the duck is attached to a pair of underwear he's wearing on his head, so that's pretty spooky. He's like, hey. She's like, oh, fuck.
Also, you can definitely see most of this wrestler guy's ass just hanging out.
Hell, yeah.
He's got that full on plumbers crack.
So she screams, and Bovobo hears her. He is also in the forest. He got there somehow, but he's busy playing mahjong with some monkeys. And then the guy, he takes Beauty hostage. And then Bobabo does show up, and he's wearing a schoolgirl outfit. He apologizes for being late. And then the guy, he found out he's an assassin. He's like, I've heard boba Bow is one of those vegetarians, disgusting terrible but, yeah, he's there to ruin. ruin? No, he's there to destroy boba Bow, because Bobabo is ruining the hair hunter's gig. So he's got to go down, and they get ready to fight, and then boba Bow insults the duck on his forehead. And then the duck gets mad and starts talking, and the guy is shocked. He's like, you can talk? And he's like, I'm to quote taco, I'm a fully realized creation. He wants to be his own guy, and he like he takes him off of his head, and then the three of them are sitting in front of it, and it's just lecturing them for some reason. And then the duck's dad comes out of Bovobo's hair, and he's like, hey, son, I'm a head duck now, okay? But the time has come for him to know about his origins. So his dad is there to tell ducky about his origins, and pretty much all that happened is that his dad fell in love with a pair of underwear instead of a duck. So now he is dundees duck undies unique.
I love the office.
I feel God in this chili's tonight. He's like, oh, I always wanted to be a fancy swan. But then his dad is like, no, man, you got to be the best pair of dundees you can be. And then Ducky is like, you know what, dad? Thank you for this assassin guy. Put me back on your head. I liked my place there. So they team up again, and then they fight, and boba beau wins, because of course he does. And then they leave beauty and boba Bow leave. And boba Bow is back in the hamburger trying to relate once more. And we see the white haired boy following them. He's either very interested in beauty or very interested in Bobo right now. It is not clear. And yeah, that's pretty much it. I blew through that. And I think it was perfectly coherent.
Absolutely.
I think I kept it together.
You said what happened. What happened was the problem.
Say what happened. We are 41 minutes into recording. I'm fucking done.
Yeah, we got nothing else.
I did it. I proud of myself.
I'm probably most upset about that episode knowing that that duck underwear is out there. Like, that exists as like joke underwear where it's like, ha ha. The duck's, the dick.
Probably one of those. It's probably like a Halloween costume some terrible person would wear.
Yeah, exactly. So it's just like I'm more upset that that is absolutely a real thing.
I'm going to look up novelty duck underwear.
We have time. We got filler.
Yeah. Oh, I came up with a fun thing we can do to fill some time. But yeah, let's wrap up our thoughts first. Obviously, dana is the only one who.
Has.
Let me say that I feel like it's fun because it doesn't take itself seriously. Like, I feel like with rave Master and zach Bell, they kind of have this thing where they're like trying to tell a story with also being funny. And also they just do nothing every episode, it seems like. But in this one, it's just fucking stupid. And that's all it is. Like, yeah, there's the Hair hunter stuff, but it's just dumb jokes and fights and that's all it is. And I'm just kind of like, yeah, sure, whatever.
So it's like the commitment to one or the other instead of trying to do both and kind of failing at both.
And this is just kind of absurd. It just went for it. And I think too, imagine being the person who had to write this script for the English dub. The studio was just like, yeah, we're going to dub this. But none of these jokes are going to make sense in English. So you just have to make some shit up, figure out how come up. I think they did their best.
Oh, absolutely. I'm not disparaging that. With that duck episode, there was just a Donald Duck noise thrown in there. And I was like, don't think you can slip that past us. But yeah, there's so many stuff, like in other shows where it's like, this is a Japanese pun that does not translate into any other language. And then when the show sticks on it for a full scene or for like a full minute, it's like, how do you work with that? How would you do that if you're the translator? So yeah, I'm not disparaging the dub. I know the source material is very manic.
Yeah. And I think for its time, it's exactly what the humor was like we've been saying. So it's just like, stupid silly all the time. All the time.
Yeah. Like, shows and dubs already were like, hey, we don't need to be faithful. Let's add a little joke here that will just be fun for the English audience. And this is exclusively that.
Yeah, that's all this is.
So it's not like it was so out of like, oh, you're not honoring the source material like you get from dubbed things today of like, you changed the wording here and now I'm boycotting your show. It's like, no, fuck off. We need silly jokes to match the silly visuals, and we will make it work no matter what.
Yeah, just absurdity.
I was confused with saying because episode three felt like it easily could have come before episode two, especially because Don Patch wasn't in it at all. But looking at it like, I thought it was one of those things where like, the sailor Moon where it's like, oh, episode two was actually episode 17, but they swapped it in the dub for some reason. No, that's the right order of episodes. So I just have no idea what's happening.
It's just whack.
It's doing what it wants, I guess. Yeah. I did enjoy the gummy man in the first episode.
Oh, yeah, the jello man.
We breeze past him because he's just in it for one scene. But he does come back later because he's in the intro. He's got to be important.
He's in the opening, so he's going to join the gang at some point. Just not now.
So fuck him. I did like how they were like, hey, stop yelling. Sorry, Commander jello. He's like, you're making the jiggle. Just like, imagine having to keep your voice down because someone can't stop shaking next to you from just the vibrations coming out of your voice. But yeah, I mean, it's a very silly show. It's not apologetic for any of it. It goes for what it's going to do. I'm still not a fan of it. I'm still going to enjoy it. But it did what it sought out to do, and I got to respect that. Yeah.
And it is still just doing that extra research to be like, hey, what the fuck's going on here? There's still so much love for this show because it's basically anime deadpool of let's just riff on a bunch of stuff and be silly. The world around us is as serious as you want it to be. We don't want it to be serious at all. And just going to town on it.
Absurdity for absurdity's sake.
Like, that's all it is.
So to fill the time, since we're running short, since this is such a parody and reference heavy show, I have a game for you too, to play. Let's play. Can you guess the reference?
Fuck yeah.
I'm on don't Google it because they'll be cheating I'm on the Wiki page of just a bunch of references that appear in this show. I'm going to give you the situation that happens. And I want to see if you can guess which show it is. perioding periodic.
So it's going to be anime references.
Yeah.
So these are references to other manga and anime. You have to guess the source material they're goofing on.
Okay. I don't know how I'll do. We'll see.
We'll see.
Yeah. Some of these are because this came out in 2005.
Some of these are just very common shows. Some of these are smaller ones that I don't know if either of you have seen. So I will go with more common ones. Great.
I hope the creator of it was a big fan of Nick and Night, like I was.
So yeah, this first one, some of these are from the manga. Some of these are from the show. I'm just going to say a situation. It's fine, but yeah. So there is a scene where Bobabo has two swords sticking out of his nostrils and a green onion sticking out of his ass. What show is this? perioding.
Pokemon.
That's elite very much.
Oh, yeah, sorry. That's what I thought of, though. I thought of your boy.
Isn't that a green onion? Is that not what leaks are?
It's like in the same family.
I think my vegetable ignorance is showing. I apologize. I'm going to guess one piece.
We have a winner. Yes.
Pokemon is reference.
This is zoro's three sword style. But one is an onion sticking out of his ass.
Well, that's similar to what dana said. I kind of enjoy one piece because at least out of the three big three shown it, it jumped the shark immediately by having a character that has a sword in his mouth. And we all accepted that. And we all let it happen for 20 years.
We're like, yeah, that would work. Good baseline that we can build off of. Right? Already having three swords to fight with. Perfect.
Great. Yes, perfect. Can't get dumber than this. And oda cracks his knuckles and he's like, oh, just you wait.
Time will tell.
So here's another one. This is in the manga. A different character pops out of Bobabo's head and summons a creature to win a battle. But it was not legally allowed for the anime, so they had to completely redo the sequence. What character popped out of his head?
Oh, no.
Copyright infringement. The biggest enemy of them all is.
It like an alien reference?
I'm going to say this one.
These are anime or manga references.
Fuck.
I'm going to say this one's like pikachu. And they're just like, nah, we're shutting this down.
I don't know. I'm not going to be good at this. This is fun, but I'm not good at it.
I'll give you a hint. This is a show that we have watched for the podcast.
I couldn't tell you what we watched last week Fair Man?
I don't know. I pass.
All right, the answer is yugio. yugi pops out of his head and summons a monster card to win the battle for him, but they could not get the rights to it, so they had to completely reanimate it and have like a meat monster pop out of his head.
I was I was focusing too hard on the fact that he popped out of his head for some reason. And not the summoning a monster part.
We can't get this teen boy that throws cards around. So instead it's just going to be a big sentient pile of meat.
Meat boy.
All right, I have what else do we got here? Okay, here's one. There's not a lot of hints to this, but it's just a great story. This was an April fool's Day parody where Bobabo just released an episode or released a chapter of the manga that was a direct copy of the text of a different manga. Just all of the characters were replaced with Bobabo characters. And the creator of that show loved it so much. He did the same thing with his show and parodying a boba Bow chapter.
Oh, so it's someone who's got like a sense of humor and isn't a dick about it.
All right, I would guess one piece again, but I don't know if there are doubles.
Double up just for Claire.
Okay. naruto, because that would be funny.
That would be funny. I feel like the creators too. The motherfucker creative boro ruto. For fuck's sake. Fucking up his own ass. Let me say I'm going to guess Detective conan.
Not quite the fun loving show. You thought. This is a Death Note parody.
I was going to guess it. I'm so mad.
You're right there.
I was going to say it.
I guess they go for the super serious manga element, like to parody.
Yeah, it is a parody. Chapter 18, gaze. I don't know if that means anything to anyone, but apart from a few visual changes, the original script remains the same. So they just dropped the characters in and changed nothing else. And we had so good. Don Patch as light yogamy and Bobo as Reyuk.
Fuck yeah.
Promotional art on this wiki I will have you go to after this. And it is delightful.
I hope it's that dramatic scene where Light takes a potato chip and eats it.
And he eats it.
All right, here's the last one. At one point in episode 69 of the anime, bobo appears as a slug. Another character, or, appears as a snake, and another appears as a toad. What show is this from?
This one. I know you can say it. Neurodo.
Yeah. yep. This is a reference the battle between Shannon. I haven't seen it. I don't know.
I'm sure that means something to someone.
They can summon creatures in Neuroto that they make packs with. I'm not going to get it. Don't bother there's three characters that can summon a toad of frog and a snake.
Perfect. But yeah, that's our game. That's our fun little improvised game.
It's our filler. It's our fluff. Can we do a peach episode to just wrap it out? Is that our filler?
Yeah. Let me put on my bathing suit. We went through the sprinklers.
We all drive 3 hours of it.
Oh, no, I forgot.
I'm extremely pale. I'm burning already.
I stepped out of the car and burned. Okay, great.
Time to go.
I got burnt on the car to the beach.
How? I don't know.
That's happened before. I got burnt going to college once in a car ride. I am, wow, very pale.
I had that happen as I drive to and from work. I drive, like, south in the morning, north at night. So just the sun is on one side of my face in both directions. And you can just see the divide of like, yeah, we're just cooking this one side of your face.
Have you guys ever seen the pictures of the long road truckers where half of their face is like, super wrinkly and tanned because it's getting hit by the sun for like 10 hours a day?
Crazy.
It's weird looking.
I also sunburn easily. I just want to be included.
We're all nerds. We're all standing inside.
I got sunburned on the top of my feet once. It was terrible.
I got sunburned on the back of my knees once when I went tubing down a river.
Oh, God.
I couldn't bend my knees for like, two days. That's probably the whitest thing I've ever said. Got sunburned on tubing.
You have an anime podcast. I think they're white.
You know what? I think one piece is the superior anime. That's probably the whitest of it. Yeah.
Well, let's talk about what's happening next week.
Yeah, that's a big one.
Next week. Well, what do we have?
Yeah, next week is episode 100.
Oh, boy.
We've really done it.
We did it. We watched all 100 anime series.
We're done. It's over.
We're done.
Our contract tackles have been broken.
Oh, God. Finally.
But so yeah, so we're going to have something special. We're going to talk about an anime series no one has seen. Let's leave it at all.
What a fun, suspicious mystery.
I was just trying to think of an anime series just a shit on because they can time up. But there's 400 episodes of that. Someone's seen it.
But yeah. So we'll we'll give you more details at the beginning of next week's episode. And thanks for hanging out with us for 99. At this point and soon to be 100 episodes.
Yes, please don't bail out at 99. Please just get one more episode.
Just one more. Then you can quit.
We promise. It's a sun cost fallacy. You're stuck with it this long. Just one more. Just one more.
Just tough it out. We got you.
But yeah, so if there's a show you would like us to watch to start our next 100 street season two.
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