Hello and welcome to our weave variat, an exploration and education and anime. I'm your anime idiot, patrick dugan.

I am an anime expert, dana hollander.

And I'm brenda mccullough. You're anime?

Oh, my God.

I'm sorry. I didn't quite catch that.

I'm the anime.

I'm sorry. I will speak.

Did I stutter?

Yeah. I got to turn up my headphones a little bit. One more time.

Anime. It's very simple. I don't know what you're having a problem with.

Oh, sorry. Okay, I got you now.

Yeah, completely understandable.

Right? We all get it. We all majored in that language in middle school.

Yeah. This is america. Of course, you immediately learn a new language.

Everyone speaks two languages here.

So hey, everyone. Shit sucks. We're all getting nice and cozy as we hope you are getting as well. We literally, before recording this, all pause to wrap up in blankets and get as comfortable as possible because, yeah, we all collectively as a universe, need it.

Shits lack.

Shit sucks. You grab a plushie cuddle up. Don't go outside.

Yeah, it's a great time to watch some TV, watch some movies, play some video games, engage with a franchise that does some of all of these.

No, I won't feel guilty about not going outside and actually doing all this stuff because I can't.

Ha.

Finally, my one excuse.

I had a friend say, like, no one loves the rain. You just love not having an excuse to not do anything and stay inside all day. I was like, that's fair. You got me there.

I'll take it.

And what's the point?

What do we have going on? dana?

Oh, boy. I believe this suggestion came to us from Ribbonquest.

Yeah. The local anime. Anime. Animal crossing anime expert.

Yeah. So we're going to watch the Animal Crossing movie. yay. I'm for one, I'm very excited. I have an animal crossing tattoo. I am so stoked for Animal crossing new horizons. I almost cried during the direct. I watched it twice. I can't believe it comes out in just a few days. I'm really I have my friend is coming over on the 20th because I didn't work. Anyway, who knows what's going to happen now, but we're literally just going to play Animal Crossing and eat.

The world is your oyster.

It sure is.

We're doing an audible. We had another episode planned for this week, but we need this.

This is much more important than my bullshit.

Yeah, bullshit. He said that.

Dana, I assume you know all about Animal Crossing, given that. Yes. Brendan, where do you stand with Animal Crossing?

Oh, you know me. I'm the elite hack gamer boy of the show. So I've never touched one. I know nothing.

And I guess I'm as a gamer as you because I have also never played I played Pocket Camp for like a minute and then bounced off that very quickly. But yeah, I've never played it.

That makes me so sad.

I know.

For me recently, my cousin sorry.

No, go ahead.

Recently, my cousin, I think he just turned eleven. He asked me what the point of Animal Crossing was, and I was like.

It's just a vibe, boy.

What's a vibe?

Just a chill vibe.

Have you ever just hung out with your boys, but your boy's an eagle.

Your boy has a beak, big feathery arms. I very much like your nephew. No, not nephew. Cousin. Didn't understand it when I was eleven when I think the first game came out. So I'm just like, I don't get it. This is boring. And as I got older, I've grown to much appreciate it. But then as I got older, I felt the crushing guilt of taking care of my apartment in a video game and not doing it in real life. So now I get a weird, like, embedded Catholic guilt vibe anytime I even look at Animal Crossing for not doing it in real life.

No. Hard same.

Yeah. So I never really got rid of playing it.

Every time, I'm like, yes, just petting all these cows in stardu Valley. I'm like, I haven't hung out with my own cat enough today.

Here you go, Tommy.

Feed my dog.

He's hungry.

Oh, God. I love the aesthetic, though. Yeah. Like dugan. I played pocky camp for a hot minute, and then the microtransactions booted me out. But I've grown to very much appreciate the style and the games and enjoy seeing everyone's passion.

Pocket camp is not the what's the word? It's not the pure animal crossing experience.

Yeah.

It's not how it's meant to be played.

I didn't play for very long or Animal crossing. Pocket camp, that is. I put a lot of hours into new Leaf baby.

Shocking.

What's your favorite villager?

I'm Basic. You have a tattoo.

Of course. You played a lot.

I'm Basic, and my favorite villager is goldie. She's a golden retriever dog, and she's very sweet and cute.

It's very good.

Yeah.

I'm still kind of confused about the whole Animal crossing. Like, animals are people. Except for the fish and bugs. Those are still animals.

You got to draw a line somewhere.

I guess. So anything you can't cuddle isn't cute.

Well, hopefully this movie is a good introduction to the series for you guys.

Yeah, let's let's see what's going on. I got my bags packed.

I'm going to go give Tom Nook 100,000 bells.

I'm moving to the country. Eat me a lot of peaches.

Got a warm feeling. What's the sensation? I haven't felt happiness in so long.

Your heart blew three sizes this day.

It's concerned.

Should it feel like hot, burning pain?

Yes, it should.

That might be the heart issue. You're not supposed to have a heart that big. I can see it through the shirt.

Oh, God. Oh, no. It's trying to claw its way out.

I saw that episode of Adventure Time.

Look at Twitter for 0.2 seconds. There we go. My soul crushed.

Thank God.

I even doubt okay.

Can down into a livable size.

It's all about balance, baby.

You got to bounce it out. Oh, boy. Animal Crossing the movie, because I don't know what the Japanese title is because it was only released in Japan.

I've already forgotten something.

Omari, don't boot animal Crossing the movie.

That's what animal Crossing the movie.

Yeah.

Let's roll. Check that. So it opens up with the main character. forgive me already.

Her name is I I okay, that's it.

You know that thing in your face that you see with that's the name.

Okay. I knew the pronunciation would kill me, so that's going to be confusing with pronounce. So he opened up with I being driven to her new home on the coast, to the new Animal village. She packed up her life. She's moving out to a whole new town with a new fresh start. But she's being driven there by kappa in the taxi, and it's just torrential downpour and, like, stormy. Very kind of what La is going through right now. And they start driving through a tunnel, talking a bit. And of course, because it's paradise once they get out of the tunnel. It's a bright, sunny day and a beautiful rainbow going into the sky. And the rainbow ends right at the Animal Village because it's the pond of gold at the end of the rainbow. So we get the little opening, and I is very excited. She shows. She's real self reliant. She's taking the luggage out, and he's like, oh, don't worry, Mr. cappa. I got this. She's, like, pushing her suitcase across the ground despite it having wheels is she so excited and not realizing, like, oh, I could just pull this and save myself a lot of trouble. So she goes into the town hall and meets Pelley, who's a pelican. We're already off to a fresh start. Love the design. And pelley there. I don't know what the exact position of this. Be like the town hall clerk or something.

Yeah, but she's in a game. In a game, pelley runs the post office, but in this one, they kind of gave her the job of the secretary. And I was like, isabel really came for her gig, huh?

I'm not sure when this came out because isabel is in 2006.

Yeah. New Leaf was way after this.

Yeah, okay. Because we do see a pelican delivering mail later, so they probably have the same, like, oh, here's a throwaway mail delivery character. But yeah, pelley's there. And she's like, I can help you out setting up, getting settled into town. And here's this just crazy old turtle man. He's the mayor. And he immediately calls I out, and be like, who are you voting for in the next election in the winter? She's like, I'm not sure. Who are the candidates? He's like, well, we got candidate number one, me, candidate number two, me, candidate number three. And four. Also me. She's like he kind of gets, like, demoralized by her not knowing. And Pelley just leans over and say, just tell him you're voting for him. It'll make him happy.

Play along. He doesn't have a lot of time left.

He's got a real mayor about townsville vibe to him of just like, we let him have fun. He can't really do anything. So we just go along with it.

Don't worry. It's me, Pelley. I'm actually the mayor.

We just tell him I'm the Miss bellam of this town. I run everything. So she tells him she's voting for him, and he gets all excited. And then he says like, oh, while you're here, you're new in town, so you're going to be going down and talking to your new landlord, tom Nook. He runs the tanooki goods. And it's at this time I realized after 1817 years, Tom nook tanooki.

Tanooki.

Just got it watching us, too.

I'll be honest. I got it like a couple of weeks ago.

We're not alone.

No.

Okay. Makes me feel better, but yeah, same premise as the game. Tom looks a landlord and also your boss. And so I goes down with a suitcase, goes to the general good store, and it's like, hello, I am I. And he's like, oh, welcome to my store. Let me know if you need anything. I can help you browse some of the goods. She's like, oh, no, I'm not a customer. I'm here to rent out the space. I think you're my landlord. And he just, like, completely loses all enthusiasm. He's like, oh, you there he is. That's the tom. Nook, we know.

Down to business.

Yeah, that's true. Tom look is a nice guy.

Is he?

Yeah, he charges you rent and he doesn't charge interest. And he lets you pay it off at your leisure. And the only thing he makes you do is work to get it.

Okay, there it is.

Like three errands and then it's over.

All right. It's both my boss and my landlord. sketch, but yeah, as soon as sketch, as soon as he says that, he's like, all right, cool. You're going to live in this house over here by the coast. But right now you're going to work like, immediately. You start the second you're my now new employee, gets to work chop shop. And she's like, oh, what? I didn't agree to this. What's happening?

He's like, well, can you tell me where I live first?

The answer is no. You live here for the next 8 hours till your ship's over. And yeah, he throws her an apron, and he's like, we got deliveries to make. And when you're done those deliveries, come on back. We got more deliveries. She's like, I just got here like an hour ago. He's like, great. Deliveries are a great way to explore the town and meet all the locals. So get to it, newbie. She's like, oh, wow. Okay. He's not wrong, though. It's a new it's a great way for her eye to meet everyone as she's delivering to them. So she gets to work exploring the town. We get a good little montage of different scenes of her going around. We see different villagers having fun and doing their daily stuff. Get a good shot of a penguin fishing. I love that penguin. That's a good penguin. And we see for her first delivery, she delivers to Miss Bouquet, who is a little cat girl. And we see like, when she pops out, the subtitle has silly next to it. And I think it was like trying to translate, like, either her name or something written on or something. But it's kind of identifying all the villagers as their personality types. In Animal Crossing. They have different types of personalities. So I thought that was a neat little tie in of introducing, like, here's the character. It's this type of personality you might recognize from the game or just the characters themselves from the game. So, yeah, it's a cat who's like all energetic and like, talking. It's like, oh, you're new in town. Did you have to run away from your old life? You had to cut ties with an old lover and start somewhere new and fresh? Oh, the drama. And I was just like, nah, dude.

No, I'm like six, I guess.

I did check off child living alone on the bingo card.

Oh, yeah, big cat that's.

So that's Miss Bouquet. She's having fun and exaggerate. Next we got a delivery of a bunch of pies. Just a lot of pies going to this hungry alligator boy who I've grown to deeply love and care for and I don't know his name. And she's like, oh, I got the boy.

I don't think they ever said it.

Yeah, I'm not sure if they ever did. But she's like, I got a delivery for 500 pies.

500 pies?

He said it's a lot of pie. And he's like, oh, yeah, they're rad. I love me pies. He's like, what's your favorite teramisu cherry rudimega. She's like, man, that's a lot of pies. And right as she's talking to him, we see just a ninja boy fly out of nowhere chasing a bug. And he runs off chasing the bug. And the alligator boy is like, let me in on that. I want in on this. He got me. And he runs in after the bug. After him after the ninja boy too.

So anything more delicious than 500 pies is one bug.

One bug. I'm going to eat that bug. So I was just standing there like, oh, what? Okay, I guess I'll put these pies in your house now and just walks inside with all the deliverables.

All right, bye, sir. Fuck me, I guess.

No cursing.

This is Animal Crossing. We're pure. You got to do the animal Crossing noise of Curtis.

All right. Me. I guess I'll do it in post.

Perfect.

So next, she's off to deliver to Miss bianca, who's a wolf that is just by far too pretty for this. It's shocking because her body, all the animals, all the villagers have kind of the same body, just very round and pills, very double whisk. But then bianca is just like a very thin body and a giant wolf head because they have to make her so detailed to show how pretty she is. The contrast always threw me off whenever I saw her.

She's stunning.

George a queen.

We stand wolves. And she says, like, oh, you're new to town. If you want me to teach you the proper response, the proper ladylike response for any situation, I can teach you how to do that. So swing by whenever you need some lessons on being a lady, a proper lady. And then we get next delivery is to the Able sisters, which are the porcupines sisters that run the clothing store. And they seem, as far as I know, they're in every game.

I think they're in every game, or.

At least they're very reoccurring because I at least recognize them without playing it. So we get the Able sisters, and they're running the clothing store. And while I is there making deliveries, see a big old elephant walk in. And she's like, Hello, I'm Sally. It's like, I already like her. I already like the design of Sally.

Sally is my fave.

Big, soft friend, but also strong lady.

Yes.

And yeah, that's about I delivers her the day, so she's done. So she starts heading home, and she finally gets to go home for the first time after working all day. And while she's walking up, she's like, oh, I guess that's my place right by the coast. Get to see the beach and stuff. Prime location. And as she's walking up, she walks into a spider, gets hit in her face. She starts freaking out. And then the ninja boy appears and collects the spider because it's super rare, apparently. And when he goes to catch her, catches the spider, he puts a big net over I trying to catch the spider, too. So I just stand there, like, awkwardly in the net while he's running around catching the spider. When he finally does, he runs up to her and be like, oh, hi, my name is you. I'm from another village nearby, but I hang out here a lot. Why are you a ninja, and why are you haunting spiders? We find out the answer.

I got an outfit for every occasion.

Yeah, we find out.

The spider man. Of course.

That makes sense. Now. This is Peter Parker. No, the reason he's dressed up like a ninja is because he can. The reason he's catching a spider is because he can.

I crave that freedom in my own life.

He does what he wants. He apologizes for nothing. I do like, though, this is like another element. We see animal crossing, get a bunch of different outfits and costumes. And we see I change our clothes and stuff. But we see you in all of the exaggerated costumes. Like, we see them in like a bunny costume later and stuff. So I felt like you is the player character who's running around trying to accomplish everything and kicking off the task list as quick as he can, trying to do everything all at once. So he's running around in people's faces, shaking trees and just in bizarre costumes. And then I is like the player who's role playing and just living her life, just enjoying your time in the animal crossing village.

She's focusing on the social aspects of getting to be everyone's friends.

Yeah, you is the gamer boy who's just trying to met a game and Min Max all at the same time.

She said, see you lamer boy. Give me this. I need this.

You get nothing.

I need this.

Going to have to self quarantine you from the podcast. So he goes up to he's like, oh, thanks for helping me catch that rare spider. And he holds out his hand and she's like, oh, what's up? He's like, here, thanks for helping me catch that spider. She's like, oh, okay. And he opens up his hand and a cockroach just flies out of his hand onto I. And she just freaks out more. It's like it's pure. And animal crossing cockroaches are still gross. So then we get a little monotized of just I live in her life, just working and talking to people and meeting and greeting folks. And then we see she has a delivery for a big old eagle man named apollo. But when she goes to delivery, he's not there.

He ain't there.

Where that boy hat? And at this time, we see you runs by chasing another bug in his ninja costume. And as he's running by, he knocks into I, who falls into his flower bed and she ruins all the flowers, or at least the one she fell on. And then if someone messes up, you know who comes comes and knocking? Mr. reset. I always thought it was Mr. resetti.

Our good friend Mr. resetti. Yeah, all of the names in this were not the names that I was familiar with. I forget what they call the mayor in this, but in English his name is tortimer. tortimer.

That's good. kotobuki. And yeah, when they're like, oh, it's Mr. reset, I was like, oh, okay. These are the Japanese names because I couldn't think. I always remember Mr. rossetti because it's so similar to Billy Joel song.

Mom. spaghetti.

Exactly.

Billy Joel.

It's great spaghetti.

So yeah, Mr. resetti comes out and just starts yelling and I like, what the hell you think? And he's just all the anger and animal crossing embodied into one being. And she's like, oh, sorry. Someone ran by and I fell over. And he's like, it was an accident. Well, no point in lecturing you you didn't do it on purpose. And I liked that he said he's the enforcer of the justice of the people in the village. And I was like, is he the Batman? What justice is there? Like, this place is pretty gillante.

I guess so in the game, he just gets mad at you if you don't save.

Yeah. And at least in the early one, he takes your face if you don't save properly. You get this hollowed out, like ghost face or something.

Yeah. horrifying, yeah.

So he says, oh, yeah, apollo, he's not home right now. You might want to check out the pigeons roost. He's usually hanging out there. She's like, okay. And she goes up to pigeons roost, which is actually at the museum. So she walks in, the door shuts behind her and felt dark. Bunch of skeletons everywhere of dinosaurs. She starts freaking out, screaming, let me see. fuko and fuko. Who are we? Goal siblings. Yeah.

The boy the boy owl in the games. In English. His name is blathers.

Blathers.

And the girl's name celeste.

Oh, parents really trust the ball in that boy's name, didn't they? I guess it makes birth.

I knew you couldn't shut the fuck up.

Yeah. Sure enough, when they find her, they turn on the lights and they're like, oh, this is a museum. And blathers starts blathering about all the dinosaurs, and so let's just pull his eye out of the side. All right? We can leave. Don't you can leave him. He's going to be going for a while. She says like, oh, yeah. The pigeon's roost is up on the rooftop of the museum. So I checked off rooftop on the bingo card, even though we don't see it. So she's like, okay. And she runs up and she looks for apollo. And when she gets up there, we see pigeon boy brewing some coffee. This one I know. That's Brewster. That one I know. Yeah, he's a good lad. And we see an ant eater and a gorilla just like hanging out there too. And we get their little personality traits below their names as well. And as she's talking, she's like brewster is like, oh, yeah. apollo comes in usually, but he's not in right now. And as he says that, apollo walks in. And they're saying, like, oh, yeah, someone messed up apollo's garden. So he's kind of been in a foul mood lately.

And I'm at foul mood. He's not actually a foul it's fine. We'll roll with it.

Take the puns where we burn it up. I runs up to him and delivers his package to him. And while she's handing it over, she also boughs and apollo Jesus to him for messing up the garden. That's the whole episode, guys. You can check out now if you want. And she's like, I'm sorry I messed up your garden. I fell into it. And apollo just like, finishes his coffee, drops some money down. He's like, see, you and just walks out without really saying anything to her.

You're dead to me.

He's upset, and everyone's saying he was in a bad mood already. Now he hates me forever. I'm going to die.

Don't worry, kid. I'll get my revenge.

It feels like that. He's one of the bigger people in the village. So I keeps on with her deliveries, and she's delivered some big old statues, and her bike is really heavy now, so she's having trouble pedaling it. And then Sally shows up, and it's like, you know, what up? I'm buff, and just pushes the statues with her, like, to help her out. And while they're pushing the statues, they get distracted by cherries because it's just so innocent. Why not? And they take a break.

It's a cherry town.

Yeah, they start shaking.

The town has its own fruit.

Oh, yeah?

I didn't know that.

Well, this one's got cherries. Four or five different ones. Yeah.

Okay.

I love Animal Crossing.

So they see the cherries, and Sally shakes the tree, and they split the cherry, and they just kind of talk about thinking, which is like, Sally is like, let's sit down and discuss this. I was like, hey, I still on the clock. I don't want to be the Tom Milk here. But she is working. So they just, like, talk things over a bit and hang out. And at night, we see. I write some letters to her mom talking about all the stuff she's done so far about hanging out with Sally and having a good old time. She's loving her new life. And then we see cut to her walking on the beach at night, and she just finds a message in the bottle, which I believe is also something in Animal Crossing. So she pops that open, is talking about, there's going to be a miracle happening at the Winter Festival if everything's done right. And then she sees a shooting star, she's like, it's fate. Cut to got a beach episode. Got our stuff up. Beach episode. We're an anime now, and everyone's just chilling at the beach because no one in this town really works except for I and Tom. Nook, apparently everyone's just, like, relaxing. We see a few different people, and we see the mayor running into the waves with a surfboard, trying to get some six sick waves. crush that surf. That sweet. nar bra. And I like them.

I hated every minute of that. And it felt like many minutes.

It was a very long minute. But I like when we see a pelley running after the maripian, like, no, sir, that's too dangerous. You're old, like, trying to stop them.

Oh, God. Sir, your bones.

You're a tort.

It's not a turtle. You can't swim. And then we see bianca walk by, and she walks by Bouquet, I and Sally. And when she walks by, Bouquet is like, ooh, do you hear the rumor about bianca and apollo? They used to be a couple, but they're not anymore. And sally's like, don't spread rumors like unnecessarily. puket is like, oh, yeah. What about you over here drawing and stuff? It's like, wow, bouquet got hostile real fast.

What does that have to do with anything? I was talking about how those two were fucking.

I think she's like, I got nothing to criticize Sally about. So I'm like, Let me just go after her. And they start talking about sally is always drawing, always designing clothes, and she wants to be a designer and sell clothes that everyone around the world can wear stuff. And I was talking about like, you got to get that. That's your cherry pie. You got to get that bread and cherry pie is, like, the goal that she has to achieve her dream. So she's encouraging Sally. Then the wind picks up and takes her umbrella. That's where I stop paying attention. I mean, I still watched.

Oh, good. Well, we have a scene change. And you and his gator friend are looking for fossils. And you is wearing a new outfit. He's wearing, like, a caveman outfit.

And they keep thrown off because he had a beard. And I was like, that's like, not clothes. Why does kid have a fake face wig? All right, let him play his colleague.

He's having fun. But so they're they're digging up a bunch of holes so that Mr. rossetti comes out and he's like, hey, you're digging all these holes. You're ruining my tunnels.

Knock it off, you scally wagner.

Yeah, I mean, he lives down there.

They're ruining his home.

You're ruining it.

So as he's ranting, you and the gator just kind of run off.

Scattered cops.

The fuzz. And they are fuzz 50 because they're animals.

They're all fuzzy.

And then we see the mole lease.

No, I had to zing.

I and Bouquet are talking about how they're excited to wear sally's new designs. And they're definitely going to wear them to kk slider's next show.

That's one name I recognize.

Yeah. And then we see I walking along the beach in the evening, and she finds another message in a bottle, and it has a map of the town in it with a bunch of x's on it. And the message tells her to plant pine trees in time for the winter festival. And then I and her friends meet pelly in the town square. And Pelley talks about how she's getting things ready for the fireworks festival. But this year is going to be special because they're setting up a stage, and kk slider is going to perform. And then the boys looking for fossils again. And they find the last part of a collection that they were looking for. And they do a little dance because they're so excited.

I love this dance.

Very good. And then they see them, and Bouquet is like, oh, I've seen places that we can look for more fossils. And the boys. Are like, take us, please. More fossils, more bones, more dead things. And they take a rowboat into a cave, and the boy is dressed like a pirate because, again, he has an outfit for every occasion.

Love a good costume.

And they're in the cave, and they reach a fork, and they're like, which way? boque arrived. I'm opposed. I didn't even know it.

I'm something with orange door.

Hinge.

We've all seen drake and Josh. That's the answer to your trick question.

You got me.

So they're like, which way? And she's like, Right. And then they continue on. And it's clear at this point that bouquet didn't actually know where she was going because they go over a waterfall. But we're left in suspense because we get another scene change. And tortimer is walking by the beach when he runs into someone he doesn't know. It is a dread otter. I think. He's not an otter. What is he? I think he's an otter.

He's certainly odd enough.

So bad.

I need this motherfucker.

I was confused at first, but he's got, like, a seashell on his belly, and that's why I was like, I'm guessing he's on otter. I think that's, like, the universal sign of otters.

Yeah. So this is, like his whole character, tortimer. He goes up to him, and he's like, oh, hi. And then he doesn't say anything, and he's like, oh, that's rude. I guess he's just zone in, out. And then tortimer asks him if he knows who he is, and he doesn't say anything. And then tortimer gets all huffy and starts to walk away. But then the stranger speaks, and this is what he does in the game. He stands on a bridge, gives out wisdom, and then jumps into the ocean.

I love him.

So this wisdom, he says, don't you know a visitor when you see one? You shouldn't expect much of visitors. And then he jumps into the ocean.

See you.

Not much wisdom.

I am here. Don't ask me to do shit. Bye bye.

My people on my plane need me now.

Got to go. And then we're back with the cave crew, and they're okay. They live. And they found a whole bunch of fossils. So it turns out bouquet was kind of right.

Yeah.

And then I noticed something, and she runs off, and she found a big old dinosaur skeleton.

Beefy Boy?

Yeah.

Well, not beefy, boy.

Yeah. It's called the seismosaurus. And she knows it because Blathers talked about it when she was in the museum. And it is blather's dream to display it in the museum. So you jumps up and tries to, I don't know, grab it, take it. I mean, you can put anything in your pockets and animal crossings, so who knows? But as he jumps up, something happens, and the cave just starts to collapse. I guess you must weigh, like, £5000. He's dense.

Just a dense lad. He's got just £5000. Like £1. barbells in his bag whoops didn't mean.

To bring these with me. But so they run for their lives and luckily they find a way out. And you really wants to go back for the size of a source, but they don't let him. And then another scene change. It's time for the fireworks festival.

Woo.

They're in the town square and Sally is doing a drawing. And she talks about how she can't get the fossil out of her head. She just has to draw it.

I have to paint you.

Must paint you.

I have to paint you. And that is the moment we've all been waiting for. ak slider takes the stage. The crowd goes wild. He talks about where he came from. He used to perform in front of the train station and now he has weekly gigs in the roost. That's what it's called in the games.

Nice.

And then he's like, Anybody got requests? And Sally is like, play kk rhythm. And he does. And it's very nice.

It's a very sweet moment.

I thought that he would actually sing, but he sings like the animal crossing.

Sinatra, because he was like, yes, it is me, kk slider. I have a new little diddy for you.

But so as he's singing, I has, like, flashbacks of her and Sally and some sweet little moments. And then the song is over and everyone cheers and the fireworks go off. It's lovely. It's very nice. I wish I lived there.

Paradise.

Yeah. And now it's just like festival time. There are like, food stalls and some games and they're talking about kk slider's performance. And sally's like, it felt like he was singing to me. Those words mean something to me.

It's about.

He loves me. And I says that she was inspired and she wants to make her own cherry pie. It's at this point that I'm like, does she know it's a metaphor or does she actually want to make cherry pie?

Please clarify. If you just want to make a pie that's real simple and you can do it, like tomorrow.

And we see you. And he's at a stall where he finds a golden slingshot. But it's from red. And if you know the games, you know that Red is a shitster. He runs the black market where he'll sell you fake paintings and then if you take them to the museum, blathers will be like, this shit's fake. So you spend like 10,000 bells on some bullshit.

He runs the black market. He also has guns. If you got enough bells to hook you up.

I got some stuff in the back.

You need a liver. Don't ask who's.

Or what kind of animal it is.

I don't care what you do with it. You can eat it if you want.

Apollo has a big coke habit.

He hypes up the slingshot, saying it's one in a million. But we see that he has a box of golden slingshots in the back and then a big old firework goes off and it's the mayor's face. He wants to remind people of the election. Remember to vote, kids.

Please, for God's sake, please, for the.

Love of God, please.

And then we see. I writing another letter to her mom, and she writes about how she's kind of jealous of Sally, that she has something that she wants so badly and strives for, and she wants that too. And she goes over to a shelf where she keeps all of the messages and bottles that she found. And they talk about a winter festival miracle. And I guess she decides that that's her cherry pie, that she's like, I'm going to make this happen.

This side quest. This is my quest.

She says she doesn't know exactly what her dream is, but she can smell it. She's getting close. And now it's fall and it's so pretty and the trees look so nice. And then bouquet comes by i's house and she's upset and she's like, why weren't you at sally's goodbye party? And I was like, what do you mean? And bouquet was like, Sally moved out of this town. Drama. I wasn't expecting this.

I was promised for some some fun.

She runs off to see if she can catch Sally on her way out of town, but she's already gone. And then we get more comedy. The anteater boy comes out of a store and he falls into a pitfall. Oh, no. And then the gorilla man comes by and the anteater is like, hell. And the gorillas like, ha, loser. And then a few steps later, he also falls. And it turns out you and the gator are the ones that set the traps. And then we have not mentioned this guy. There's a monkey, and he is a jock. And all he does is run around and exercise going, ooky, got to get fit, get swollen. Yeah. So when it comes to him getting in the traps, he is too fit. So he easily avoids all of them. And then they see I come along and she falls in one. And they run up to her and they're like, haha, we got you. But she's just like too sad to care. And she just gets up and walks away.

Please. The hole she falls in is like two inches deep. The hole the aia falls in is like 5ft deep. It's a crank it out to save his life.

Yeah, he's literally there now.

And the one the grill falls in is like up to his waist. They got lazier with each holy dog and an eater is going to die.

In his they only have so much time.

Yeah, that's how you get fossils. Anyway, it starts raining. Just to add to the drama. We see the penguin guy again and he thinks he's pulling up something good while fishing. Turns out it's a bike.

That's good. Yeah.

Basically every time you have a bike and see him. He's just getting garbage. He pulls up a boot is that and other stuff?

Yeah, I love him. And then I goes to the roost and bianca is there. And then Brewster is like, your usual? And she's like, yeah. And then the song comes on. kk's rhythm comes on. And I get all in her feelings about Sally and there are more flashbacks. Hands her her coffee.

Yeah, brewster says. He's like, I bet Sally is listening to this song right now. It's just like, Jesus Brucer, way to just twist.

She's out there somewhere.

I guess it's sweet for him because he doesn't have the context of I. But it's just like for I who's already sad about it, it's just like.

Salt, salt in my wounds.

Yeah, she souls crying. And then bianca is like, stop being a little bitch.

Yeah, bianca is cold.

She's like, you should be happy for Sally. She moved to pursue her passion. And then I is like, I understand that. But she also left without saying goodbye. And then bianca laughs and calls her silly. And she tells I that she should believe in herself more. And she says, think until you understand. And then I leave. And then bianca talks about how a bond between ladies is wonderful because the next time they see each other, it'll be like, no time passed. But men and women are different. And we see that apollo is standing outside of the door listening. She says, no matter what, there's too much distance between a man and a woman.

I want to see prayer opera esque.

Yeah, he's just like, please leave.

Please leave.

So then I is walking along the beach and she sees a walrus, and his name is wendell. And he's being very dramatic about how hungry he is. And he's like, oh, I can't move. I'm starving. And she's like, oh, I live just up the road. And he's like, great, I can walk there. And then they're back.

It seems like a scam to me.

That'S the real thing is that everything in Animal Crossing is a scam. People just want you to do their chores.

And people call the scam wholesome grift city more like it.

So they're back at her place and they're eating well, he's eating a bunch of onigiri. And he's like, oh, that hits a spot. And he could tell that she's sad. And he's like, hey, when you're sad, you're hungry. And then being hungry makes you sad. And he gives her one of the onigiri and she eats it. And she's like, delicious.

Hey, you're not yourself when you're hungry.

Have snackers. This is a very elaborate commercial product placement. And then someone knocks on the door and it's the mailman. You mentioned him earlier. He's not a throwaway character. I forget his name. But in the game sometimes if you come out of your house at the right time, you see him delivering your mail.

He's not a throwaway character. I don't know who he is, and I do not care. Moving on.

I know exactly who he is. I just forgot his name. But so he has a letter for her, and it's from Sally, and she goes back inside, and she's like, oh, wendell, look. And then he's gone. He escaped through the window like a shadow in the night.

Yeah.

What is this?

Wendell character eats all of her food. She eats half her own agiri, and it goes to the door, and when she goes back, it's all gone. So he even ate her onigiri that she took a few bites of, and then he just parkours off the balcony.

Like, what he's done?

I don't remember him, but I think probably in the game, you find him on the beach, and you just bring him some fruit, and then he probably gives you something.

Probably, yeah.

But so she opens the letter, and it's Sally. And she apologizes for leaving without saying anything. But she couldn't say goodbye to i's face because she knew that it would make her cry. And she didn't want to start this new chapter of her life with tears in her eyes, and she hoped that she would understand. And I love it. And then she also gave her a little selfie, a little portrait, which is also something that happens in the game. If you, like befriend people, like, if you're like their best friend, they give you a little portrait to put in your house. Yeah. And on the back, there's a doodle of I eating her cherry pie because it's her turn to live her dream bread. And then bouquet shows up to apologize for getting angry at II earlier. But I is like, no, it's fine. Look, this is why Sally didn't tell me. And then there's like, a meteor shower, there's a bunch of shooting stars, and it's beautiful. And I wishes for sally's transition to her new life to go smoothly. And then she finishes her letter to her mom with her new found wisdom about being sad and hungry.

That's every time I talk to my mom, too.

I'm eating, not selling the hole.

What do I do?

Please send me more food.

College.

Good times. We finally made it to Winter. It's almost been a full year already, so we see everyone is getting ready for the Winter festival. We see bouquet is out putting everything up on her house, because it's a big contest of who has the most decorated house and eyes running by. We see rossetti decorating the trees in the forest, and it's like, so many pine trees. What could have happened? Who would have planted all these things? Yeah, I don't know why he turned into that guy.

I'll get you gadget. One day.

The mayor is decorating, and he decorates with his face all over the building, and everyone's like, he's just trying to get extra points before the election, which is today. I guess we see Tom nook is running around busy because everyone's getting all their decorations and stuff. And the boys you and Gator Boy run past. We see penguin fishing out, and he pulls up an entire Easter Island head. He's like, at least it's big.

He says, I'm getting old. And I didn't understand what that joke was.

I don't know. I mean, he's been sitting in the same spot for a year. He's like, Fuck, my degree wasted.

Same man. Same man.

The Gator boy's name is alfonso.

Why not?

I found it. I looked up alligators and animal crossing, and he was the first one that showed up.

Damn.

I was curious what his name was.

Fair enough. So I is out in the woods, sees all the trees with the lights on. Is like, I did great. All of these little baby trees I planted are grown up big and strong. I don't know how they did it in, like, two months, but sure, fine. The miracle of the animal town. So she runs back into town and goes to the museum and uses the telescope there and is hanging out with Futa. Is it futa or fuka?

Blather.

Yeah.

Or blather's sister?

Futo.

Oh, yeah.

Celeste futa is something very different.

Yeah, it is really different.

Okay, we will talk about it on this.

We'll tell you when you're older. It's not nasty. It's a hentai thing.

Yeah. Got you porn.

See, my fun curse naming convention was I was saying Futa and puta. But girl science. One girl l is they're chatting, talking about all the messages that I found and how she's like, I think it's aliens. They're leaving me a message. They're going to take over the world. And they're just talking about this theory. And through the telescope, they see a ufo, but it crashed. It hit something. It's going all erratic. It's crashing into the woods. And it's so big, everyone in town sees it. And they all run up on this spot. And I goes up to the ufo, and a seagull man comes out. dana, is this an established character?

Yeah. What's going on with the spot?

Well, there is a seagull character named gulliver who sometimes shows up on the ocean, like the shore. But I don't know. I've never seen an astronaut, I don't think.

Yeah, I wasn't sure if I never heard about ufo stuff with animal Crossing, so I wasn't sure if this was, like, game canonical.

So the first animal crossing that came out in America was the GameCube one, but there was one for the N 64. So maybe in the N 64 one, there was ufos. Or maybe this was just something fun they did for the movie. I don't know.

A quick Google. I see a screenshot of one of the animal crossing games. I'm not sure which one. Where there's a crashed ufo and a seagull man in an astronaut costume. Yeah, it does look like it happens.

In one interesting oh, that city.

Which one is that? That's the one on the wii.

Is it? Yeah.

Interesting.

Easter eggs.

Never saw that.

If that came out on the wii, which would have at least been 2007, that character is based on the movie. Unless it's in the N 64 game.

I don't know. Or the GameCube. One question is abound.

This is too much for me.

Yeah. anyways, mysterious.

Too much.

Lore side.

Yeah, blah, blah. Didn't read. Moving on.

Hey, it's your boy gabe, a cat 69. And we're here with animal crossing lore today.

Oh, god.

So we got this crash seagull man who stumbles out, and he's like, oh, I hit something. I can't fly away. I lost five ufo components that went flying off when I crashed into something. Go find them for me, strangers and fetch quest. Yeah. And everyone's like, sure, mysterious man. I'll take your word for it. And they all run away looking for the different components. You is like, oh, shit. I definitely saw one of them. But it fell into the seismosaurus cave, which we sealed up. So we got to get there. So they all run to the cave. They try to push the rock out of the way, but it's too heavy. But it starts moving faster because sally's back. She came back for winter break.

Yay.

So there's a big reunion. And they're like, I'm sorry I couldn't tell you. And I'm sorry I didn't see you. It's a nice, fun, touching moment. They go into the cave and they see that the component from the spaceship is all the way at the top of the fossil. Basically, they're like standing in a volcano on the bottom. And it's all the way at the top at the rim. So you, of course, is like, well, got to climb that shit. And everyone's like, wait, but the rocks, they're going to crumble again. He's like, you fucking idiots. It's winter. They're all frozen. I'm smart.

See, that's how rocks work.

Yeah, yeah. I mean, yeah, it's more solid when it's colder. That's that's how, like, states of matter are.

Okay, I'm sorry. I haven't taken a science class in a long time.

Solids are more solid the colder they are. But yeah, he free solos that shit and just climbs his way up.

Harcour.

Yeah. parkor just jumping up from bone to bone. Gets all the way to the top, gets the component, almost slips, and then he does fall. But conveniently, since this is a show for children, he softens his landing and falls on his alligator friend. And they both go into the ice underneath. So they're just wet and cold. But no one's dead. That's great.

He didn't get hypothermia at all.

He throws the component as he's falling and eye catches it. So everything's great.

I really love when he's falling. It's. bouquet and alfonso are running up like, oh, we'll catch you. And then as he gets close, bouquet is like, no, wait. I'm scared and runs off. And just the shot, it's like three frames where it's like a photograph, where it's like alfonso looking at her like, you've betrayed me. At the moment, I just needed you. How dare you? And then you falls down on them through the ice. And I love that shot.

Just the distillation of betrayal.

How could you do this to me?

So they pulled alfonso and you out of the ice. Oh, I forgot to mention you was dressed like a bunny for sure.

Yeah. They're blending into their surroundings.

So to dry off, takes off his mask, and I realize, oh, this is the first time all year I've ever seen you not in a disguise. And he's like, oh, yeah, I got a face and stuff.

I got a real face under here. It's not just like a skull. I like that. Even alfonso is like, yeah, this is the first time I've seen you without a costume. I was like, yo, really? Like, you're his best buddy.

So they come out of it alive. They bring back the components, and they see ufos up in the sky as they come out. And the components, they become flubberized. They start to move and become alive because these are the things that astronaut boy hit. So these are the ufos.

Real aliens.

So I carrying the component that becomes alive. One of the ufos up in the sky beams down. She walks it into it, and it starts to heal because it got damaged when the other ship crashed into it. And the aliens start drawing her face and just I don't know. They're doing some cute stuff to be like, hey, thanks, friend.

Even though you risked his life to get that piece.

Yeah, they're like the one who happened to hand it to us. Yeah. And this is one of five components, and this is the only one that freaks out. Sure. Cool.

All right, well, the five were from gulliver's fake spaceship thing. The one they found was the real alien that just shapeshifted into one.

Got you. Yeah, okay, that makes sense at the end.

Why?

It shapes it into a key convoluted, encounters third kind of shit. So the component turns back into the alien spaceship and flies away. All the ufos draw a big eyes face in the sky and the stars. And everyone's like, oh, that's pretty. And apollo, who is not here, finally turns up. He's like, ha, that's impressive. And I is like, oh, shit. Are you not mad at me anymore? And he's like, what? Excuse me? Oh, the flower thing. Oh, you thought I hated you this whole time because I didn't show you otherwise? Don't worry about a kid.

That's just my face.

Yeah, I think it's just how he looks. Everyone's like, oh, he's always mad.

Sorry, rbf. It affects us all.

There it is.

So the mayor seeing the big sparkly eye face in the sky is like, well, that's decorations we've never seen before. I guess we can all agree I is the winner of the festival, right? And they're all like, fuck, yeah. My face isn't up in the sky. Then they all go back to the village, and the mayor is like, oh, it's time for the election results. I'm so excited and nervous. And we show the crowd, and everyone's just muttering like, oh, fuck, I forgot to vote.

Did you vote?

There's ufos. I was a little distracted. blah, blah, blah. So he pulls out the one ballot, and it was for him. And we know it was for him because he voted for himself. And he's the only one all right, fine.

I guess he's the only one running.

Sure.

It doesn't even matter. So we see astronaut Boy comes in town. He's like, all right, bye bye. And then he flies away. And turns out he left all those messages in the bottle. Because from space, the design of all the pine trees and how they're decorated makes a big old pattern. So it's like it's a nice little surprise.

It's a big star in a circle that only he can see.

Yeah, a brilliant light will appear in the sky. Just kidding. It's on the ground. You can only see it from the sky.

Dirty work for me. You got tricked. You got Tom sawyer.

And then I writes a letter to her mom and is like, I'm finally feeling like I belong in this town. Next year, I'm going to go and get my cherry pie. And that's where we end. Well, we get the end credits, which is just still shots of I and the villagers just hanging out, being more bonded and friends.

Vibing.

Yeah, just vibing in the classic Animal Crossing style. And then after credit scene, we just see I being like, it's spring again. Well, time to get my cherry pie. And then she goes off and about to do her stuff. So she finally has confidence and time.

To turn over a new leaf. Yeah. Looking it up. It's definitely gulliver is the seagull in the astronaut costume and animal costume. Wild World, which is the ds game that came out in 2005. So the game.

I didn't play that one.

No, it says you can shoot them down with a slingshot. Which I think is kind of implied with you buying a slingshot at the fireworks festival.

Wow.

Yeah.

You really got to know your stuff for that one. I'm ashamed.

This is a movie for Animal Crossing fans. By Animal Crossing fans.

Oh, dana, I thought you were a true gamer.

Fake gamer.

Interesting.

Well, this has been fun. But.

No, please.

We need you.

You keep this show together.

You really do.

Brent and I would just kill each other.

We'll still do that. It was just delayed.

Yeah, just slowly through breaks and spirits, through puns.

Well, how are you guys feeling? You guys excited for Animal Crossing? New horizons now. You guys want to go out and play the other ones?

Yes and no.

Okay.

Honestly, I was not planning on getting the new Animal Crossing, but now it makes it look so fucking fun.

Are you kidding? Oh my goodness.

No, genuinely, if this movie ended after the first arc yeah, like the first half, I would have been fine because it's just, hey, do you want to just vibe with some cute animals and dig up some fossils and stuff? It's like, fuck yeah. It's like, hey, did you know there's a whole game where that's all you do? I'm like, oh, interesting. Tell me more. I didn't have this in my childhood, so I guess I'll cash in now.

Yeah, I mean, really am crossing new Horizons is like the ultimate version of Animal Crossing.

Yeah, so makes sense. This movie inspired me to get Animal Crossing.

Yay. I pre ordered it a month ago.

It's odd because I do know a ton of people that love Animal Crossing, but at least for me, as a kid, I had too much energy and it was boring as hell to me. So I never cared for it. But it seems like it's interesting to see how many people grew up with it and still love it as adults and how many people are discovering it as adults. Because now I definitely have a much greater appreciation for that kind of a slow paced, calmer game than I did as a kid. So I'm interested to see what the numbers would be for people who never played it before the age of 20 and people who are getting into it after. Because I definitely hear a lot of people saying, oh yeah, my parents, like my mom or my dad really love Animal crossings. Like, wow, really? That's surprising to hear.

It's just a chill, easy game, easy to understand. You have to have fun. I in New Leaf, befriended a bird named Phil. I always called him my bird boyfriend. I wonder how he's doing. I haven't played New Leaf in a very long time.

My boyfriend, I feel like with Sally leaving does a good example of paralleling in the game. When you have like a villager you're really attached to where it's like, oh, man, I love this character. And then you put the game down for a week and it's playing in real time. So stuff really happens when you're not playing. And then you come back to the game after a week and it's like, hey, your favorite villager, they moved away. It's like, what? I didn't even get to say goodbye. Sorry. You didn't? So it's just like, oh, I thought that was a really interesting way of doing it, of like, oh yeah, she's gone. That's what happens in the game. It happens in the movie. Man, I thought the movie was very well done. We're not going to continue watching.

I'm going to start. Finally something on the show inspired me. To actually do something.

Yay. Now you got to think of a name for your island. I decided a long time ago, I.

Wrote a list and decided, what if.

It'S island, but it's AI land?

I mean.

You have to consider that it's going to be called Blank Island.

If only I was from a place where that applied. If only I had some history on this kind of place.

Tan island. All right, I'm out.

That's what I was waiting for.

Someone has to do it. Good times, though. Good movie. Good recommendation. Thank you very much. ripping quest.

Yeah. Thank you.

Yeah. Thank you.

We hope you had a chill time and you're just getting cozy and chilling if you can. And if you can't, we're rooting for you, and we hope everyone's having a safe, healthy time. What's going on? Next week, we're back to our regularly scheduled bullshit of zoids.

Sorry to we're already telling it's already recorded. We don't have to live through it again.

Yeah. So these chuckleheads don't have to worry about it, but be prepared.

Yeah.

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Your animal crossing sona.

Yes.

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Thank you to camille Ruling for her artwork. And thank you to Louis zong for theme song stories off the album Beats. If you just need some more chill vibes, I feel like Louisong is the perfect accompanying music for Animal Crossing. So get to it. You can find out all of Louismusic at Louisong bandcamp.com.

Yeah, one more thing. Louisong actually just put out a little game called Bird Museum, where you just walk around a museum, kind of like in virtual reality. You don't actually need a virtual reality kit, but you just walk around a museum and it's got like 50 paintings of birds that are from a bunch of different people, and they all rotate, like there's 1000 paintings in the game, and they just rotate between these 50 different slides.

They're basically all like fan submitted bird artworks.

Yeah. So that's just good. Feels all around.

So, yeah. Thank you for joining us. We hope you're having a good day, and we hope you'll join us next week as we learn to live with anime.

I'm going to play Animal Crossing for 24 hours straight.

Wash your hands.