It's asses.

They sell asses. Hello and welcome to our weave Video air 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 American freelancer get as much work out of me as you can without giving me benefits.

Wink got to work me to my core and not give me any tax breaks. I got to just pay it all out of pocket at the end. I love it. It's great work.

If you've been burned before, work me to the grave because I can't afford health insurance. America.

Wow.

Starting off on a good note.

Yeah.

Why do you guys keep bringing me back? We're all in good places. We're all not dreading employment, that's for sure. Right, Brendan?

Let's not get into that.

Well, why are we talking so much about being in soul crushing office jobs? This feels familiar, right? Right?

I've lost control of my life.

We've talked about this before.

Because we're watching a show that's very similar to a different show we watched. We're watching Africa. celery, man.

Wow. I kept thinking you were saying celery Man.

The rare African celery stalk.

Paul rudd, what are you doing in this anime?

Nude ted, this shows actually came out like, what, three years ago? I was surprised by because I saw that there was a dub, so I was like, oh, that must have been like the simulcast dub. Like where they dub it at the same time as the no, this show came out three, like in 2017. shotgun.

This came out 2017. Agratzuko came out 2016. So very similar timelines for very similar shows.

Suspicious people just want to be furries.

This is the observer. Report to aggregate codes. Paul blart.

Is this Kevin James or this is seth Oregon.

We'll see, but yeah. Brendan, I know you brought this to the table. Was this something that you've seen before or just heard about?

No, this was recommended by Melissa on Twitter.

Sorry. Long on both fronts.

I'm as ignorant as I am loud.

Wow.

Yeah, it's impressive. That's the Irish in me.

Dana, do you know anything?

No, I've never heard of it. So here we go, I guess.

Great. Good stuff. It's never burned us before.

I'm sure it's fine. It's got animal peoples. What has that burned us?

I love a good furry, so I'm down to clown with this one.

I think with our track record, furry shows are probably actually our safest.

I'm trying to think of more than just aggressuco a Pullbare Cafe count or.

Were they just like yeah, they'll do.

That was really loud. I don't know what's happening with my microphone, but I'm loud, so we're into it. Happy Saturday.

Good stuff.

Alright, well, shall we dive into oh wait, sorry, I forgot about that meeting. We have to go do that. Then we can watch this video.

No.

So yeah, we're going to meet with HR, watch three episodes and then we'll be right back.

Yeah.

I forget how it goes. Yeah, there's a couple of moments of rip off stuff in this first episode. We'll get into it. But yeah, we just watched the first three episodes. Shall we dive right in?

Yeah, I'm ready.

All right. So the opening truly is just the opening to Lion King simba.

They even got James Rojanos, which was impressive.

Yeah. You'd think he wouldn't work nonunion dubs, but here we are.

I mean, he's getting old. He doesn't want to leave the house anymore. He just records in a closet. I get it.

He'll take it. Yeah.

It's not like he's coming off any big movies like Lion King again, no.

Lion King of our Lord 2020.

But yeah. So we have this opening just dreaming of the African wild lands. We see a lion crouched on Pride Rock, and then it's all a dream. It's our lion boy. Big lion man he's waking up. He's getting ready for his office job because he lives in Japan.

I think he lives in Africa because there's like a train where they're like, next stop the savannah.

I assume it's like zootopia. Yeah.

Looking into it, I think it was talking about how they want to be back in Africa and the wildlands. And we see it a little bit in some of the episodes. But I believe this is truly set in Japan, though.

Okay. Yeah, that makes more sense.

But yeah. So we see Lion Man getting ready for work, going about his day. He has a wife and kids and he's getting dressed, trying to get all the furd out of his jacket with a lint roller. I can only imagine the terror that would ensue on a daily basis as.

Someone with probably the longest terror on this podcast. Yeah, I actually just follow that roller myself.

So, yeah, he leaves for work and he scares two bunnies out in the streets and everyone's looking at him, like, harassing the bunny people, trying to eat them. He's like, no, I'm a gentle office man carnivore. And then we have the opening.

I do like, we see really quick just the style of the show, where it's, like, fairly simplistic and not overly detailed in the drawing style. So it kind of seems appears a bit flat at times. But then there's also certain scenes, 3d, like cg models, and that actually lends itself really well to the flatter, not as detailed style. So you don't really notice it as much. Like, oh, wait a minute, the scene was 3d. Like, it didn't catch me at first. And it blends in really well.

Yeah, it's a very interesting like, they are definitely trying to match the 2d, like, established artwork, but, like, just trying to give it more life in the dynamics. It does look really cool.

Yeah.

But yeah, so he gets to the office and he meets his buddies. We got a two can and a lizard. I just called two can Bird, so I may just say Bird. I hope that's fine. I hope you don't get too confused.

Even when it's something as easy as.

You can't even to translate it to English.

Well, mostly because we establish right away he doesn't like just being called Bird and he doesn't deserve the respect.

It's a conscious decision.

I could switch to two phones from here, but I'm not going to. But you'll see why. So we see them. He gets into the office and Lizard is just covered in blood. And he's like, what's happening? Is everyone okay? What's up? And we are given their journey into work this morning. Bird is normally driving a lexus, just flipping people off, being super hyper, road ragey and aggressive. But for some weird reason, his car is in the shop driving like that. So he has to take the train in with Lizard that morning. I think my favorite just part of this whole show so far was on the train. They passed by a building that says Glasses, but the G is out and two cans just like, hey, Lizard. It says asses.

That hooked me early. I was like, oh, I like this show. Yeah.

I was like, ah, just good fun, dumb relatable people. And then it devolves from there.

And real quick, I remember my dad sending me a text once. He's like, I'm passing by a shopping center. It's being built. So far, the only stores in there are Dick Sporting Goods and bjs. I was like, thanks.

Perfect.

Wow.

Thanks for the update.

Modern art.

Thank you, father, for this gift.

Now you guys know where I get it from.

It checks out. So.

He says this out loud, and lizards like, don't say that out loud. Be more quiet about it.

Yeah. And he's like, People will think you're a perv. He's like, but I am a perv. I love being a perv. It's great. Being a perv is great.

Finally a character I can remember.

No.

You don't have to admit it out loud. We know, bretton.

It's clear from my choices.

And as he's talking about how great it is to be a pervert, of course there's some high school girls nearby that are like, this dude's a fucking pervert. And they start accosting him because he thinks think he's talking about being a perv on the train to other people. And he's like, but no, I'm not. You're not my type. And all that just very shitty stuff.

He's defending himself, but he's not doing it very poorly. Yeah.

His defense at this point is, no, I'm not a perf. I'm just an asshole. But then Lizard is like, hey, check out his phone. He's not into young girls. He's into milfs. So don't worry. You're not his type.

Yeah, I wrote the code from Lizard. It says, only the most professional of milfs will do the trick. She's like, fantastic.

And then they need a distraction because things are getting tense. So the way they escape is tucan rips off his lizard's tail so it starts bleeding everywhere. And in the panic, they slip off the train and escape. So that's why he's all covered in blood that morning.

Deeply disturbing.

Well, also, Lizard is a horned lizard, and one of their defense mechanisms is they actually shoot blood from their eyes. So that's a segue into that as well.

Or not into that, but yeah, off to a great start.

Leading perverts.

Yeah, we get a lot of just like scattered scenes. I'm going to bounce around a little bit. So next off, they go to a donut shop, burden Lizard. And lion is like, hey, can you pick some up for the office? So they go and they get to the shop, and Lizard sees a fly buzzing around the donuts. He's like, oh, no, not like this. No, I'm a civilized man. I'm not going to eat this fly in public. I can't resist. And then he just eats it off the donut in the rack. And of course, tucan was filming it. It was like, hey, you're going to buy all these doughnuts or else I'm sharing this to the whole office, you deranged maniac. You uncultured swine. And of course, while they're in the donut shop, the girls from the train arrive. Sorry, I'm a little out of order. So they pay for the donuts. They get like a punch card that they don't need. So the bird is like, oh, there's some lovely young ladies over here. Let me give it to them. Let me try making some moves with free donuts, which isn't a bad strategy.

It worked on me.

I agree.

So he goes up to the girls and he's like, hey, baby, want some free donuts? And of course, they're the two girls from the train, so they need to escape again. So again, Bird rips off Lizard's tail to make a getaway.

Terrible.

Yeah, it worked.

Yeah, give him that much.

It's a bad rip chord to need to pull multiple times a day, but it's a ripcord nonetheless.

It's a ripcord that grows.

So back at the office, they think lion is just giving them like a death glare, and they can't figure out why. So they keep going back through the things that may have made him mad. Bird gave him, like, catnip to steal a ham that he got from a client. And he distracts him as he, like, leaks client info. And Lizard accidentally broke his mug. So they're trying to figure out which one of these things made him the maddest and why is he trying to kill us now. So Lizard's like, this is stupid. Let's just ask him directly what's up. So they walk over to him, and lion is trying to read something. He's like, hey, what does this say? And points down on the paper, and the phrase is, you are dead. So they start freaking out. They start crying and they're like, no, it was him. Kill him first. And they're just weeping and apologizing and all this stuff. But turns out lion forgot his glasses and he can't read, so he's squinting. That's why he looks so mad.

So mad.

I love him. He like, rubs his eyes. Oh, my God, he's so cute.

Dana'S in love.

I am very deeply in love. While I was watching this, I sent a picture of papyrus to Brendan and dugan that said, you're meeting all my standards in reference to this big lion man.

We went back to undertale memes. That's how hard Davis.

Only the most, deepest, darkest memes will work.

I pulled it out of the meme cell. Or this one is a this is a vintage. What year did it come out?

2016?

Yeah, something like that.

Fine year for joke.

Went too far. It's not funny anymore.

Anyways, so everyone's leaving work. Bird says he's going to a mixer. Lizard has to get home to his wife. So the lions just smoking out the window, looking out across the city. So peaceful, so lovely. And then we go with Bird to the mixer, where he's meeting some other two can friends and his nephews.

Two can say I've had nephews. Anyway, it's a deep cereal cup.

Sorry. My mascot knowledge is not where it should be.

All that Japanese Twitter account.

So they're at the mixer and three girls arrive. They're basically just the cast of Agritzuko. We got a fennec fox red panda. There's like a cheetah as well, which doesn't line up. But still, it's like a friend.

It works.

Yeah, but yeah. So blatant rip off aside, there's three girls, four boys, and they're like, oh, no, there's not going to be one for daddy. But as they settle in, another pig girl arrives.

And she's beautiful.

She's cute. Oh, he's mad.

Bird is like, oh, God, I get the pig. This is gross. Blind date women. And I'm so sucky.

That's taken verbatim from the show.

Yeah, it's a quote, I swear. And they go on, they're chatting. The pig does not speak like the rest only oinks.

Yeah. He says the pig doesn't speak. People talk. Which makes me question, where are the people? Where are the humans?

Racist.

So they're all talking. Pig girl is just very enthusiastically eating and just spraying stuff everywhere. And he's about to freak out. Actually, he does berate her at this point, but then the other girls are like, oh, yeah, she comes from a rich family. She's like a daughter of a big major company and all this stuff. And whoever marries her is going to be so rich. And immediately, Bird is like, I'm in love. So he's trying to turn on the charm. But all the pig behavior of just eating so fast and so messily, he's just barely holding in his rage the entire night. And then we get to the end. All the other people are exchanging numbers and getting everyone's contact info, but he tries to get the contact info from the pig. And I don't know if I heard this right, so please back me up if I sang this wrong, but they're like, you can't have her info. She's the pet of our pig friend.

Yes, that is what it was.

Okay. I couldn't tell if I heard pet wrong, so I had to confirm because that's also pretty fucked up that this pig keeps another pig as a pet, right?

Yes. It is also strange that this wasn't something that he was told outright that they just brought this pig with them. How is that a replacement for a person that is not a pig? This is like the pluto and goofy thing.

Yeah, that's what I was thinking.

Definitely.

Because it's like pluto wears a collar and is a dog. Goofy wears clothes. This pig is wearing clothes. It's not just like, pork bowl from silver spoon running around and being a pig. It's wearing clothes and sitting at the table with everyone else. Yeah.

And no one says anything as he spends the entire night conversing and only says it at the very end when he's like, hey, let's hang out some time.

Yeah, this was a weird gag.

Yeah. It didn't quite work. No, but yeah, he talks about it at work and tries to play it off of, like, it was gross. I was in the right ha ha. And then we see. We get the closing credits. Nice and relaxing. And post credits are Africa high school girls. And we see this is lion's daughter, I believe, the girls on the train. One of them was lion's daughter. Is that correct?

I believe so. I think these are the two same girls that we see.

Yeah.

Because they keep coming back. And later on, we talk about being lion's daughter, but it's not clearly established in this first episode. But yeah, just fun, like, running into the office workers and, like, hunting them and stuff. Yeah, it's nothing. anyways, and that's episode one.

Great. So in episode two, we start with our trio in a diner, and Mr. Lyon is talking about how he has poor health, so he's going on a diet and he wants to watch his portion sizes. So he's eating a salad, and the lizard is a little considerate of his feelings, and he's like, oh, man, I'm sorry to be eating all this in front of you. And then the two can is just like, I fucking love spaghetti. And he's just, like, shoveling food in his mouth.

He's a dick.

He is. And Lyon also talks about how even though he hasn't changed his eating habits just because he's getting older, it seems like every morning he gains weight. And then tucan is like, oh, buddy, I can relate to things changing every morning. And we see, like, a flashback or fantasy of his where he wakes up next to a girl, and he's like, who are you? And he just wanted an excuse to say that he wakes up next to a different girl every day.

Whoa. zany.

And then lion is like, hey, Lizard, you're fit. What do you do? And he's like nothing. I couldn't gain weight if I tried.

I'm just so genetically superior that it's so terrible.

I felt relatable to two can of just hitting the shit out of Lizard.

Yeah. And then after that, Lizard is like, okay, yes. I go to the gym after work. And he thinks that sports are the best way to lose weight. And they're all like, oh, yeah, we should all go on a run together. That would be nice, right? Like, right now. Okay. And lion is, like, motivated. And then they go outside and it starts raining. And they're like, we'll just do it tomorrow. And then we get the opening, and then we're at work because office setting comedy. And Lyon is talking to tucan about how his daughter thinks it's weird to use the bath after he's finished because I guess in Japan, I have to look this up. But people fill up a bath to be used by more than one person.

Yeah. The whole family shares the bath water.

Yeah. So she doesn't want to use it after he's done because it's all hairy and gross. And then he's like, oh, it seems like just yesterday she was a little kid. And then tucan is talking about his girlfriend and whether or not he'll get married. And he's jealous of people with families because he fills up the bath just for one use. And then the lion is like, well, what if you use the leftover water for broth.

Also? I just looked it up real quick. Yes. Japanese families will share the same bathwater because they just soak in it. They typically do actual bathing outside the bathtub. So it is considered clean technically, because they don't bathe the same way we do with bath water.

Like that got you.

Yeah. They shower first to get clean, and then they soak in the bath to relax.

Right. So tucan is like, I'm not going to use me broth.

Gross.

And then Lizard comes up to them and says hello, and he likes a cigarette. And lion has been smoking this whole time. But once Lizard smokes one, two can starts coughing dramatically, and he's like, don't you know that secondhand smoke is the true killer?

We learned it from darker, the block.

And then he's like, stop smoking, Lizard. And he's just like, this is the smoking room, though. I can smoke here.

You can live.

You are more than welcome to get the fuck out of here. And then Lizard makes the same joke about the two can broth. And then we see him tucan get home, and it's bath time, and he thinks about their broth jokes and how lion is a carnivore. So this was very inappropriate. And he should have gone to HR.

Yes, which you can the victim of inappropriate jokes.

Always the victim.

He sucks. So he goes into work the next day with some cabbage rolls that he made, and he says that he used his bathwater. And I guess he was, like, trying to tempt lion into eating it so he would have a case against him. But him and Lizard were both like, no, that's fucking gross, dude.

I think he was more just offering, like, hey, guys, I made some food at home. Do you want some? And everyone who suggested he do that and use his bathwater to make food that are just like, ew, no, I would eat that. He's like, you told me to, for example.

Not for us.

Yeah, you can eat it if you.

Were eat your own soup.

Everyone likes their own flavor.

Then we get into a new part, and this one's pretty short, but tucan is talking about how he's upset about his remote cohabitation relationship, which means that he's, like, in a long distance relationship, but he just talks on the phone with her all day. But he's upset because he messed up because he got on the phone with one of his girlfriends and put it on speaker and then was talking to another one of his girlfriends on speaker, and he mixed them up for a trip that they took. And she was just like, I knew it. You're cheating on me. And then they just start yelling at each other over the speaker phones. And he just sits there and he's like, long distance cat sight, which is smooth brain. That Bird brain is really just you.

Can'T be that shitty.

And then Lizard is like, wow, that must be hard. And tucan is like, yeah, I know. He's like, for the women. And I'm like, yes, Lizard, we stand. He also loves his wife. We haven't met his wife, but I hope we do.

He's also voiced by the same actor that voices brooke in one piece.

We knew he was Japanese or English.

English.

Yeah, I watched this one in English. I liked it.

Yeah, I watched the first two dubbed, and then my very legal website was not acting well, so I had to watch the third one.

Sucked.

Got you.

Very good.

I will say real quick, yeah, I really liked it. And I like the vernacular they use. Like, later we hear one of the high school girls say, do you want the t? Love that.

I must have missed that. I did like, yeah, because I feel.

Like it could be read as, like, all they're just trying to be trendy. But it's a thing people say. And I like that.

That's what localization is. I like that. When two K was in the bath, he's like, oh, he's thinking back. He's like, oh, yeah, lizard and Biggs told me to do this. Like, he's my own broth. He just called him biggs instead of big cat. I thought that was a nice son.

Yeah, because he's big.

The cat.

All characters are sonic.

We all come back to sonic.

But so they're back at work, and we meet the president of the company, who is a very old turtle, and I love him so good. And he carries around a little stack of cash on his head. And so he approaches the three of them, and tu Ken is like, Why do you do that? And Turtle is like, It's a power thing to make you pores feel bad. Just showing off, that made me laugh so hard. I was like you pores.

I got to dunk on the pores.

But also, he's not a turtle man. He's not, like, humanly. He's a straight turtle. He's the only one.

But so he's there because he has a special assignment for the trio. And I wrote this name down once, and I wrote it down the way I heard it because I didn't look it up. He wants them to find the mikayla Benbay for him, which is a cryptid. He's like the loch ness monster, but in Africa. ooh, yes. And they're like, Why do you need us to find it? And he's like, Because she's my wife, which I thought was very good and sweet, but then it was just a joke.

It's a goof.

And he said he's just making them do it, and I'm not going to tell you I'm I'm not going to tell you why.

Pores, go get him for $10 million. I'll give you a reason. What's that? You don't have it. Interesting.

And then tucan is like, oh, since this is a work trip, we'll get, like, money, right? And then Turtle is like, oh, yeah, of course. You'll get ¥100 for travel and ¥300 for food total, which is a dollar and $3. And then tucan pulls out his phone. He's like, hello, job finder. Yeah, I pulled this episode. Got me. I laughed out loud at a lot of the stuff in this episode. And so off they go to the jungle. Even after that joke, tucan goes and they have butterfly nets. And then tucan pushes lion to lead the way because he's the big boy, so he can protect them in case of predators. And as they're going through the jungle, they're like, oh, where should we look? And then the two can is like, oh, a pond. But they don't really see anything. And then tucan gets excited, but it's because he was playing a game on his ds, and he caught a tuna. So he was playing animal crossing.

Yeah, they call it Animal Crossroads, which is definitely a reference.

So good. I didn't hear that, but obviously I knew so good. And then with the physical pond, a CAPA rises up, and this was good. This whole sequence was wild. And because the kappa is drawn, like, she has, like, a lot of, like, cross hatching and she just looks like she's from a book about cryptids.

This is from jungie to shit. Like, she looks so different. And I was just like, it felt like aqua Team Hunger, where she was like, here's a different animation style entirely.

Yeah. And they're just, like, unfazed by it because they're just like, oh, a CAPA. Okay, great. And tucan is like, I'm not getting paid to find a cappa. And then Lizard is like, hey, have you seen this guy? And she's like, yes, but I won't show you for free. And she wants them to introduce her to a man her age. She wants romance.

When the Kappa said, I'll do it for a price, I got concerned because we've experienced this before.

I was like, oh, no, sorry, please. She was so good. So then she describes what she wants, and she says that she wants a man who's hairy all over with red eyes and has spikes on his back. And our trio is like, oh, that will be hard to find. But then they run into someone of that exact description on the path. A chupacabra, of course. How fortuitous. And then Lizard is like, oh, great. So he goes up to him, and he's like, hey, how's it going? In the English? Oh, my God, I can't even remember what the chupacabra says, but he has, like, a Spanish accent, and it's, like, really good, because he's just like, can you do me a favor, please? And I'm just like, oh, my God. What's happening?

I watched this one stop, and, yeah, they kept the accent.

Oh, good. And his favor is that he wants a companion as well. He wants a girl with a high pitched voice and a plate on her head. Wow, how weirdly specific. So they're the perfect match. And then they take him to the Kappa, and then Lizard is like, are you going to help us find what we're looking for now? And she's like, oh, yeah, he's been over there this whole time, and he's licking the SAP off of a tree. And, boy, is this thing a sight to be cold. This thing. I don't even know how to describe it. He's like a short, stout brontosaurus, but his face is on his chest. So, like, the part with the head does not have a face? Yes.

It's just like a weird appendage.

Yeah. This guy's fucking wild.

I don't like him.

I'm a big fan.

I don't like him.

But so he knows he spotted, and he dashes away, and they're like, well, we got to get it for Turtle. And then there's, like, a short little chase sequence, and then it's sunset, so, like, time has passed, and they're laying down, catching their breath, and tucan has dropped his wallet. And then the mikhaile bembe comes over and just starts licking it. Yes. And then lion and Lizard approach from behind, and they catch it. hurry, yay. They take it to Turtle. In a net. And it turns out he was an employee. He asked for sick leave, and then he fucked off to the jungle.

My dream, the biggest mood.

And then he's just like screaming. He's like, no, I don't want to go back to work for admin. Please help me. And then they're like, huh, there must be some pretty fucked up shit going on in this company. And the three of them at the same time pull out their phones and call Job finder.

Got to get the hell out.

And then we get more after credit scene of Mr. lyon's daughter. Her phone rings during the class. And then the guerrilla girl tries to distract the teacher, but it doesn't work out. And then they talk about lyon's daughter not wanting to take a bath after her dad. And then the gorilla girl complains about her dad eating her food. And yeah, that's episode two.

Yeah, good shenanigans and horrible employers. Very relatable. Episode three opens up with a street interview segment where they're just like, let's ask the salary men these questions. And behold, they catch lizard, lion and tucan. And they're asking about fake book, which has some type of social media element to it. And they're asking about that. We don't know anything about that. It's such a fictional idea. And they ask Lizard, and he's like, oh, yeah, it's a good business tool. It's a good way of keeping in contact with people and stuff and getting their ideas. And they ask Lie, and he's like, oh, I don't know. My daughter has it. She's on it all the time. I don't really use it. tucson's like, yeah, it's great for meeting women. And they're like, all right, well, what about mixers? Lizard is like, oh, it's a good way to network with other coworkers and people you work with and stuff. It's good for business. mine's like, I don't go to mixers anymore. I'm too old. But my daughter does. And that's concerning. Tucan is like, yeah, it's good for women. It's like seeing a trend here.

No.

And then we get the opening and then cuts back to Lizard and Tucan at the bar going for some after drink work. What? No. After work drinks. That's the sentence.

There you go.

I got it. And they're just hanging out. And Lizard is kind of complaining. He's like, oh, man, I need like a gimmick. I need a shit. He's like, when I go out with clients and try and sell them on stuff, he's like, last time I took him out, they asked me to do some sort of trick or joke or something, and I had nothing. And we get a flashback to that. And Lizard just does the removing his thumb bit where it looks like he's removing the top half of his thumb and like, yeah, that's grade A material. That's fantastic.

That would be nice.

Yeah. So he's like, yeah, that didn't work because I weren't happy so I need something to make him laugh. I need some sort of joke or some magic I can do or something entertaining. And two games like, oh, yeah, there's a whole bunch of stuff. He's like, you got to be able to do a tr trick at any second. If they ask you, he's like, I didn't write this down, but two can says he'll agree to show Lizard if Lizard pays for his food. Because once again, Cam reinforced this enough. Tucans a dick.

What? Where have we seen that on this podcast? Me.

Just about me. And we see two cans take out two toothpicks and just stabs himself in the beak, like in his nostrils. And blood is I hated this. I checked this out. I used a five by five bingo card for this show because it hit off more points. And I checked off nosebleed for this one because he just tries to lobotomize himself with toothpicks.

We've all been there, right?

Trying to get out of a work conversation with a coworker.

Excuse me.

And he's just spraying blood out of his nose. He's like, look, it's a sweet gag. And they're entertained. And then you just pass out after a while. It's a great bid. And Lizard is like, hey, this isn't good. You're dying. And then that's around when lion shows up. And two cans like, you're our superior management. Get the hell out of here. We don't want you here. It's like, cool still being a sick. Everyone loves lion. And Lizard asks he's like, I love him. And right around that time, the food arrives, and Tucan is eating, like, kebabs with chicken on him and stuff. And Lizard is like, hey, Tucan, you're eating chicken. Isn't that kind of fucked up? Isn't that cannibalism to a degree? And tucson is like, nah, it's cool. The chickens get it. It's a joke for them. They're fine with that. It's fine. It's like, I don't trust tukan. And tukan is lying about party tricks. He's like, what would you do to impress clients back when you were in sales and stuff? He's like, oh, I would always do this sweet trick. And he just, like, poses real quick. And he's like, ha. And it's supposed to be I didn't catch the brand, but it's supposed to be like a logo. Go for a merchandise brand or something. And they're like, oh, that doesn't work. We're not lions. Only you can do that because it's a lion on the logo. He's like, oh, I also do this. And he just takes his little towel and just folds it into a rabbit. He's like hair.

I love this man. I love him so much.

Let's get a sequel to Dream Daddy. But it's just a lion. Maybe Lizard.

Except that he's married. I don't want to make him leave his wife.

Maybe you could be the one. Lion talks about the old days.

Cannot.

Lion starts talking about the old days back when he wasn't in sales and he had to impress clients. And he's like, oh, yeah, me and my coworkers, we dress up as idols and start dancing around to do songs and dance. And we're like, yeah, that's weird. And he's like, yeah, you'd really get him. And you had to strip down naked. That's how you really impress them. That's illegal. He's like, back in the day, it was fine. You're lying. What the fuck? What did you do?

Lying stripped down? I need to see.

Show us goats. And Tucan says, like, oh, it's cherry blossom season, so we should go see the flowers blooming and stuff. That would be a good way to impress bond with our coworkers, but then also impress clients. So we invite them out to it for a flower viewing party. And in that scene, he says, this is the most stereotypical anime moment we've had so far. And he's right. He's right.

Although we did have a train perv scene.

I feel like that stereotypical hand.

That's true.

I don't know if we've seen too many animes with that happening. It's not on the bingo card.

Well, there are lots of train scenes.

Yeah, we've seen at least, like, three or four different train perv things.

Have we?

Yeah, like my love story.

Okay.

Yeah, we've seen that happens in the first episode of My Love Story.

That's right.

Yeah, because it's a big problem in Japan and here.

Anywhere with trains and distracted.

Keep your hands to yourself.

I was looking up you want to know? I was looking up. Rule 34, Africa salary.

Oh, I knew it.

Wow. And I claimed to be the permanent episode. I didn't realize there was a drought.

I had to see what's out in La.

Because it's thirsty up in here.

I had to see what there was. And again, I'm disappointed. Well, I saw two pictures. One was a blizzard, and the other was of lion, so I guess I'm not it could be worse.

It could be worse. It could have been two cans.

I'll find more later. Sorry, I just zoned out. I just, like, disassociated. And I was like, I need to see it.

I need to see that lion dick.

Leave me alone.

Comes yeah, this election is not good.

Well, there you go. If you're an artistic person out there and you want to send in fan art, you know what we want. There you go. We'll get a po?

Box.

We need a body pillow. I know a few people at cons.

I can't even imagine a mystery lion body pillow would be so good. Sorry.

Oh, God. On the other side, it's just a photorealistic picture of a lion. Just a real ass lion.

Even his suit laying down nicely. And then, yeah, the other side is just a lion.

It's just a lion. So lion comes into work, and he finds out that Tucan is out today because he's out saving a spot for the flower family party, but he's saving it, like, way ahead of time, like, the day before. So that's where Tucan is. And we see a little segment them, like, setting up the blanket, and they all like, set them. They're like, all right, great. See you, Tucan. He's like, wait, what? And they just kind of leave him there, and he's like, Am I the only one qualified to sit here? It's like, well, you don't seem to be great at your job, so probably and we see Tucan just sitting around on the blanket all day cracking open a beer because why not let's Day drink? And he wonders why he's doing this. He's like, Why do I have to do this? He's like, this is a comedy anime, and I'm the character that you love to hate. Is this why do you love to see me in these boring positions? Yeah, he's meta. He's right. So you see him just, like, thinking and he just starts zoning out, and he's like, Why am I doing this? I'm helping out Lizard. Why should I help out Lizard? He's coming to me, and he goes in this weird tangent of, like, I'm helping out other people. I'm buddha. I've achieved the enlightenment. I'm goddamn. And he just, like, zones out super hard and then just passes out. And it's, like, nighttime now. When he wakes up, he's like, oh, shit. Okay, well, it's dark out. I better get going. I can't sit here all night. And that's what we see the lethal hamster appear. We haven't talked about it before.

I'd rather not.

It was there briefly.

It's a little, like, mascot.

What do you mean?

I don't know. This just hits me as, like, peak, like, 2006 Internet of, like, it's a hamster but has knives. Yeah, that's all it needs to be.

That's the peak of comedy. Yeah, it's just a little hamster with two, like, carving knives, and it just kind of, like, runs around. And they even, like, pointed out in the second episode. They see it and talk to it. So it's a creature. It's not just this weird. It's not the grid gazoo from The flintstones. That's an old reference for you older folks. And so the hamster just pops out, and he's just holding knives, and he starts asking for food and tuke, and it's like, well, you got me a knife point. I guess I'll oblige. And he gives him a piece of dried squid he had in his pocket for some reason, and the hamster thanks him. And to show him his thanks, he pulls Tucan aside. He's like he wants to show him something, and it's a dead body. Guess what? You're in a Stephen King anime.

Did he kill this tucan?

It's not proven. So legally, I have to say no. But it is a strange man at camps are running around screaming all the time with knives, so, like, good chances. So, yeah, he shows him the body of a dead two can. tucan's got it freaked out, understandably? And he's like, what the fuck? He's like, wait a minute. Big brain idea. I'm going to use this body to save our blanket, to save our spot for the flower viewing. Genius. And he drags the body over, puts it on the blanket, and then he goes off to an EDM nightclub to try and get laid.

And hey, yo.

Wow.

Two cans just from Always Sunny in Philadelphia. He's just dead us from always sunny.

Oh, wow.

Yeah. And at the nightclub, Tucan uses his tucan eyes. It's a special power he has where he can scout out women that are open to flirtation, which is really kind of any of them. For Tucan, he'll swing at anything. And while he's there, he's dancing. He comes dancing up on this little Wabat girl. He's having a good time as he's dancing, he's talking to her a bit. And she's got this little Australian accent, which is very adorable. And he spills her drink on her because that's the plan. It's all part of his plan. He knows what he's doing, so he apologizes. He says he'll buy her another drink. And while he does, he pulls her sides or chatter up and tries putting on the charm, tries to smooth his weight in with the introduction.

The non existent charm.

Oh, yeah. He's as smooth as his nose is small. And he seems to actually be striking up a decent conversation with her for a while. And then he just casually drops that he's a lawyer, which he isn't. And she doesn't seem to really react to it. In fact, she seems to kind of zone out, pull out her phone and start looking at that. And he's like, oh, she didn't hear me. He's like, I'm a lawyer. Like just really over the top. And she's like, huh. Cool. Yeah, I don't care about your job. And the fact that you're trying to use it to woo me shows how pathetic you are and how materialistic you are. He's like, you know what? You probably split your drink on me on purpose. That was probably part of your plan to try and sweep me off my feet or something, thinking you're some romantic guy. And she just tears the fuck into him and just breaks him down to.

His it's what he deserves.

Oh, absolutely. I was kind of disappointed because it kind of cuts away while she's doing it. And I was like, no, I don't watch this.

Give us the justice we want.

Yeah, I waited for this. This is the climax of the show. So while he's being just torn into and having like a breakdown as she calls him out, it cuts away. And we see that the company lion and lizard and everyone's showing up for the flower viewing. And they're walking up on the spot. And they see the dead toucan body he put there. And understandably they kind of freak out. And they're just like, oh, god, Tucan died. I guess they don't realize he's a different Tucan. And they'll start getting ready and having a funeral for him. And that's when we see Tucan walking up, kind of rubbing his head, saying like, oh, god, I struck it at that first club. So I went to another club. And now it's morning. And as he's walking up, he sees them holding a funeral. And like a eulogy for him. He's like, oh, shit. Who died? All right. And we see everyone, like, crying. And we see a lizard crying. And his two can was kind of annoyed. Lying wasn't more emotional. He said, well, at least Lizard is upset. We see Lizard of like, why do you die? You owe me money. And he's like, what the fuck? And we see President turtle. He's like, oh, man, I've been waiting to do this all day. And he's just hitting a bell. I guess it's like a custom in Japan for this deathbell. And turtle is just going to town on it. He's like, hell yeah. I love this. He's having a good time. And then we see this little rabbit lady's news reporter like, all right, we're out here at the Cherry blossoms, like blooming. And we see there's a bunch of people here. Why does it look like they're having a funeral? And she goes up to Lizard and he's like, oh, yeah, our friend died. She's like, oh, God, you aren't having a funeral. I'm so sorry. And it's just like these weird cutaways. And then Lizard realizes that. He's like, you know what? tukim was trying to teach me something the other night at that bar when he was saying he was okay with eating chickens. He's like, he wanted another bird to eat him. This is the joke he was doing. This is the cycle he's perpetuating of, like, birds eating other birds. He's like, we got to find another bird.

Circle of life.

Circle of life. We got to find another bird to eat tucan's dead body. That's what he would have wanted. And right when he realizes that, he sees Tucan walking up upon them. He's like, you there, Tucan. That looks suspiciously like my dead friend Tucan over here. Get over here and eat this dead body. It's like, the fuck?

Excuse me.

And Lizard just grabs him and tries to force feed him. Tucane, he pulls him in front of the coffin, and he's like, eat this body in front of us. It's like, no. And he just gets out. And they all start chasing after him, like, out of the flower vealing party. Like, out of the cherry blossoms. It ends with like, Tucane yelling like, what the fuck? And Lizard saying, I'll kill you. Just got real intense at the very end. And yeah, that's episode three. I forgot about the after credit sequence. So I did not watch it.

I did not even stopped watching.

I'm sorry. Great. That's episode three irresponsible anime viewers.

Weird how this one didn't have credit sequence. That's weird. Anyway, it has like a first third.

Of the end credits themselves and then just stopped like it's wild. And then high Q started playing. It's weird how that just happened.

My computer.

Anyway. African salary, man.

Yeah.

So are we there yet?

I don't know because I enjoyed the art. I enjoyed I don't know.

They all enjoyed Lyon.

See, my problem is lion is the best character and we see very little of him.

Yeah, I had that feeling.

That's true.

Yeah. We spend most of our time with Tucan, who is the worst character, and it's like, this is a strange choice. Are you sure you want to do this?

There's always going to be something happening around two can, for better or for worse. Whereas if we just saw a line all day, you'd be like, yeah, he's just a dad doing his job, and then he goes home.

Yeah. I don't know. It sort of hit me with just such random wacky humor that I was like, okay, this is entertaining. I don't know if I would continue with this. But yeah, it wasn't awful. It just didn't really grab my attention for the long term.

Understandable.

Yeah. Especially comedy. Yeah. I think with comedy, especially shows like this, where it is segmented and we've talked about it before with smaller shows, it's just real hit or miss. Some of these segments are real funny of like, lizard trying to force feed a dead body into two camp. And then others are kind of not funny where it's like anything involving two camp by himself and with no real through line of what's happening. We did have some segments that were reoccurring, like the school girls and stuff, but it's like, I'm not excited to find out what's happening with that. I'm not interested in what the story is going it's just like, maybe this one will be entertaining. Maybe they'll hunt another weird cryptid in this animal society. Or maybe they're just going to go and try and get late again. It's like so it's just kind of a gamble. So yeah, I understand that. Yeah.

I was like, with agra suko, they set up like, oh, there's actual plot and narrative in the long term, and we're moving towards stuff so we can have these many encounters, but we're still having longevity built in.

Yeah, all of the segments were built around a part of the ongoing plot of the one girl in the office, like taking pictures all the time and Feneco stalking her through her instagram and stuff.

But yeah.

Well, I love this lion man. That's all I could say about this one.

If they just gave us more of him, it would have been great.

Yeah. I've talked about before how when I watch things, even if I think they're very funny, I just don't laugh unless I'm surprised by it. And definitely the moment where they saw the cryptid, and it was not what anybody expected. I lost my mind. I thought that was so funny. But yeah, it's not all like that. Yeah. Other stuff is Tucan trying to get a girlfriend, and that stuff sucks.

It's even beyond just like, oh, two Cans, the shooting character. And we love to hate him. Like, he even points out it's just like yeah, but just those segments with him are just stuff we've seen before a lot on other shows, too.

Yeah.

So it's just kind of like, eh.

Yeah.

It's unoriginal and oddly in the forefront. It's, like, focused on way more than it should be.

Yeah.

Yeah. Give me more president turtle.

Yes.

Oh, please.

Hello again, pores. Oh, God. Here must be of, like, Craig Ferguson and, like, the Judiciary show.

Listen up. fives. A ten is speaking.

Well, we didn't find a new anime to watch, but we found a new husbando to love.

Yes, we sure did.

A body pillow design is being made as we.

Look it up on our merch website. We're definitely going to get sued for this one.

We're going to get sued. The hell? But it's going to be a fun ride while it goes.

It's fine. You act like we're the first bootleg anime merch.

Yeah, it's true. I said it, and then I was like, wait a minute. Artist tally.

Yeah. Anyway, it's a good romp, but yeah.

We have some fun coming up next week.

Well, this is your pick, so next week's my pick. Correct. That's how it normally goes.

I think I'm going to oh, what's this? What's this? You've stumbled onto my trap card. It's called birthday responsibilities.

My grandpa sold and stolen.

So you know what we did last year for my birthday? Do you remember how much fun we had?

You got all hot and heavy over zoids.

Yeah. One more gan. We're watching more zoids for my birthday? Because you can't tell me no.

He's setting a bad president here, deegan.

I'm just fine with it.

How could they? Every year I'm just going to make you guys watch more of uri on Ice.

I mean, perfect.

I already watched it. I'm fine with that.

Great.

You know, my restriction would just make me sit down and watch it, and I'll watch it. And here we are.

Excellent.

So, yeah, here we are.

And I have to watch more zoid.

Maybe there will be, like, a big dream lion robot daddy in this one.

I mean, odds are there will be a lion Mac at some point.

Liger Zero is my dream day.

Liger Zero. So. Yeah, we're going to watch zoid's new century. This was recommended a whole half year ago by Alice on Twitter. If there's a show you would like us to watch in a year, if it's thematic for one of our birthdays, send your recommendations to us. Our email is areweedtheryet@gmail.com, or you can reach out to us on Twitter and Instagram that's are we there yet? On both. You can find me on Twitter and Instagram at Mr. Patrick dugan.

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