AWTY 198 - Aynggeel (Big O)

It's not like I pack a lunch box full of missiles when I go to work. Hello, and welcome to our reveriet ah in exploration and education and anime. I'm your anime idiot, patrick dugan.

I'm an anime expert, dee hollander.

And I'm brenda mccullough, your anime Batman with a 23 year old twist saying that I'll mix my bones hurt.

The Batman of 23 years ago. How ancient. The oldest batman.

My bye. Back then it was just Batman, and now I am Batman. Beyond the bat in mind.

Batman had nipples.

We don't talk about that Batman.

I do.

I like, that one just such a weird. It's like in Smash Brothers with the Captain falcon where he changed his alternate color schemes. And it's like, why does the white and pink one have just pink nipples on it? The other ones don't. Where did that one come from?

Yeah, I know what I'm doing tonight. Looking at Captain falcon's pink nipples.

Welcome to our first Smash Brothers Podcast.

That sentence made me physically ill.

You know, the sexiest Nintendo character, Captain falcon.

Kirby, we're already making ourselves sick and we haven't even introduced the show this week.

What are we watching in a week off? We really got this horrid energy. We bottled up and we got to just let loose. At any chance we're watching new stuff? We're watching hot new stuff lately. I don't like it. Let's go back 23 years, back to the good old age of 99 where nothing bad is happening because I was an ignorant child. This week we're watching Big O. I.

Tell you, when I saw that title on our list, I was like, what's that?

Are you sure you pardon me?

Figure we watch Enuo, so let's go over to the Baker one.

I was like, did Brendan choose this because it rides with Enuo?

No. You expect too much thought in this empty little head of mine. I honestly thought, hey, we watched a lot of new stuff recently. Let me dust off a classic and that's it.

I'm glad we all just base things off stuff like that because I was going to make a pick for next week. Then I saw this one was also a 90 show, so I was like, no, we can't do two in a row. No, we can't be that consistent.

I refuse to. Yeah, so either you have experience with the big O?

I've never heard of it.

It sounds like a disease when I call it the well, you know, he's got the big OS arthritis experience with.

A different kind, but make a dirty joke.

How about you do good? No? Okay.

In 1999, I was three years old. Just a little dumpling.

Going to have to go take a walk.

Yeah, I love reminding you that you're yeah, five years older than me.

Trendy. If it makes me feel a little better, I was four, so I was.

A little bit it feels like so much more. It is only five, but my knees have just been hurting for, like, the last two weeks. And I assume this is for the rest of my life. So this is just where I'm at.

Mental the rest of my life. Is my body aching and giving my soul to the corporation?

You've been digging yourself a grave on hands and knees, so I assume that was part of it. Just getting ready for the near future. I mean, we should all be at that stage getting ready for that near future. But I digress.

Yeah, I got to pick a good spot for my whole sentence.

Also, let's talk about fucking anime or anything else.

All right. Well, clearly just the title Big O has tainted our minds. Master way. Your Batguard gundam is ready.

It's only a matter of time.

Well, I was going to say it's like Batman, but with Max. But in the 23 year span, we've had multiple Batmecs.

I hope in the next Batman movie that gets made Robert Pants and gets into a very, very large Batman mech.

I'll say this now because I don't know if we'll ever be able to watch it, given the state of some things at this parent company. But there is a movie called Batman ninja where Batman goes back to feudal Japan.

Oh, yeah, I've heard of that.

It's great. And there's a giant mechanist for some goddamn reason.

There you go.

So there we go.

Such a rip off of this classic.

Of course.

Of course. He's ripped it right off.

I can't believe Batman has only existed for 20 years and that it stole everything from the Big O.

So derivative of Big O. So it starts off with the title screen saying, cast in the name of God, ye not guilty. And a faith coming out of a pool of lava. Which, boy, howdy did that set the tone? I didn't remember from watching this on tunami. This was on tsunami. So I just caught random snippets of the show. I don't really know the plot, so this is going to be fun for me as well.

Oh, yeah.

A very similar opening to Dragon Ball Z and devil Castle, whatever the movie was, where you just open on just a horrifying face and a completely different art style that never returns.

Yeah, it's like what really set them the pace. So then we see, like, a downtown city. It's very gray, very washed out. And we see a very long car. It's very wide, too. They have fun with proportions in this show. It's great. And we see driving around town is the protagonist Roger Smith.

Roger Smith. Good American man, roger Smith.

I'm going to have to forget this name halfway through my recap.

Sorry. Isn't that technically the full name of the alien from American dad? If you consider it part of the family. Roger Smith.

Oh, no, that sucks.

Sorry, it just hit me once. D said all american. I was like, Wait, no, this is too familiar.

Wait, it's also the voice of sonic for a time, Roger Craigsman.

Anyway god, this goes deeper than we thought. I got to get the red yard.

Now. We got sort of our conspiracy podcast we have on the side. So it's Roger Smith. Drive around town. We get a voiceover from him. Just a lot of info dumps right off the bat because this is a weird setting. And you know what? I appreciate just throwing this info at us, explaining that he performs an important job in the City of amnesia. It's not the name. Don't write that down. As he's driving around, we see a lot of dilapidated buildings and stuff. Feels post apocalyptic. Not sure if it is. Got that vibe. And he arrives at a destroyed airplane hanger where we see him getting out of the car, holds up a suitcase, and he's got some distance between him and a group of people. It seems like they're making a trade. And we see a man appear in a yellow suit. A lot of suits in this show. Not a dapper gentleman, lot of fancy lads. Even the aesthetic of the show really gives me Batman of the Animated Series plus, yeah, lupin or cyborg Zero Zero Nine, because they they really have fun with some of the designs, which I appreciate. Keeps it from getting boring. And, yeah, this yellow suited gentleman's called beck, you know, also from the musician, he has a woman with him, and it is a hostage situation.

He also has two turntables and a microphone.

Thank you. Roger Smith walks up, drops the suitcase, walks back, and they're like, all right, bring out the girl. And they have a guy walk over with her, picks up the suitcase, and trades off the girl to Roger Smith, sends her over, and as soon as she gets to him, we see another car riding up behind him, like, driving towards the airplane hanger. He goes, hey, when a client can't just stay and wait for me. And as he's pulling up, we see beck and his guys running off. They got the money. Ha ha. And when the client arrives, it's an old man with a pointed head. And Roger Smith. Says here I rescued your daughter. I did the job as the negotiator that I am. And the old man looks at her. He goes, that's not my daughter. It's just an android. He goes, what?

This here is over one of them robots.

One of them robots. This is here to my near automotive.

Near automotive. Oh, what a cute little aquatic creature.

I think just an otter in the two B. Fantastic. I always see Roger do a double take at her, and she's like, pale, but no more than anyone else in the city. So it's like, I don't know how you could recognize an android right away in this world, but Roger is like, Well, I expected a level of professionalism from them, and they did not do with me that courtesy. And he pulls out a little one of my favorites, a detonator, which is just a big square box with a big button on it, and that's all it is. pushes it. And we cut back to beck and his gang, and we see them with the suitcase, and we just see smoke pouring out of it. And then we just see it shoot up out of the car with jets, propelling out the baggage, flies back to Roger Smith.

This is my favorite part of all three episodes.

I'm so glad this was at the top of the first episode because I was like, okay, another Gritty Crime Brendan show. And then you just have just flying briefcase somehow armor plated as well.

While I was watching it, I sent a picture of that to Brendan and I said, oh, my God, this is a good show. This is a fun time, because it's the same thing. Yeah, it seems like it might be kind of gritty and whatever, and then this goofy shit happens. Oh, I loved it.

It's cowboy Beepop, but they have more fun with a lot of stuff. cowboy Bee BOP is fun too. But this one's even, like even just designs and stuff. They're like, let's get campy. How serious can be with giant robots?

I don't know. Ask any other anime.

And we see the goons, like, the suitcases getting wing yet? And they start shooting it down. beck's like, no, you idiots, don't shoot at it. And when they shoot at it, breaks the case open. You see the money just spilling out across the city. It's like, Well, I hope that wasn't real money, because it's all gone now. Or maybe this is how you redistribute the wealth. Batman. Finally, then we cut to Roger drive around the city. He goes to a local bar he frequents, and we see him get out of his car and hit a button. Like, he locks his car up, but instead of just locking the doors, it like it rises up on, like, stealth so the wheels aren't touching the ground. And then covers everything in, like, heavy metal, like, ceiling down the car, which is insane.

We seem to I mean, you say it's insane. The second he took one step away from his car, two people were ready to steal it, and they were shocked. Like, oh, we we can't what? So, yeah, I get it.

It's valid. It's just insane to see happen. Just, like, the full lockdown of the car, it's just like, visually wild. Goes into his bar, gets a drink, sits down at a table, happens to be right next to another guy at a table, but they're not together. They're just talking out loud into the open. It's his contact spy shit and all that. And he says he was hired to find the client's daughter and find her whereabouts. He wasn't hired to rescue her. So him doing that was just him going above and beyond, going the extra mile. So technically, he didn't fail that contract. And as the client's talking, he's saying the client or as his contact is talking, he's saying the client is saldano. And he's got a factory off to the side where he supposedly made that android girl, and he actually found a memory fragment for her. It's like, memory fragment, you say? And it seems to catch Roger Smith's interest. So then he leaves, pays them, and then starts driving off. And we get more info dumping. This is paradigm City is the actual name of the city, and 40 years ago, everyone here lost their memories.

Cool.

Sure.

Absolutely.

And he says, I like this forever. The only ones that seem to really regret it or have a problem with it are the elderly, older than 40, who have memories, have lived a full life before it happened. Yeah, I get why they're mad. I'd be pissed, too.

Yeah. The people most affected by this were the most affected by this.

Why?

Thank you. Thank you. I appreciate it.

Wonder why they're upset. So we see Roger get home, and he tells his butler, Norman, to check in his car. The brakes feel a little off again.

Is they're one 8th less effective than usual?

Norman, I can't imagine having to think that much that I would actually notice that. That would be a horrible life. And Norman says that Miss Wayne Wright is here to see Roger. And I didn't write it down, but some comments of, like, I have one rule in this house, and it's that pretty ladies are always vulgar or something like that.

It's that babes are always allowed in, basically.

Yeah. It's just like he's a playboy, though. We never see any proof of that, ever.

Yeah.

Where's the fucking where's the comment room, Roger?

It's on big o. Of course.

You know what? That's why he calls it Big O. So Roger goes in when he gets to see his guest, he sees it's the android. dorothy, what are you doing here? I just rescued you, like, an hour ago. You got here faster than I did. And he says the military police are looking into the kidnapping now. Oh, right. So, yeah, the client that dad said, that's not my real daughter. They still have my real daughter. So Roger says, like, the military police are looking into the real kidnapping. I did my job. Like, why are you here? And dorothy asked Roger to protect her. It's a new job for him. And he's like, I'm a negotiator. I'm not a bodyguard. What are you talking and she says her father merely funded the construction for her and that this job is as good as his. And he's like, what do you mean? Your father just paid for you. He's very confused by what she says. And at that moment, we hear he has another guest, major dustin from the military police. boo.

Not a hot babe.

Yuck, he went outside.

He does look a lot like Jet from cowboy B Bob.

Oh, yeah, a little bit.

And this is our military the cop guy that we always got. He's the Commissioner gordon to the Batman.

Yeah, I just called him Chief.

And while he's there, he's looking over at Rogers like bantal place, looking at old photos of Roger in the military police passage. Memories fleeting. And he says major dustin says the father doesn't actually have a daughter. And they couldn't find anything, so they're kind of dropping the case. He's got no kids. We don't know what he's talking about. And Roger is like, all right, well, I don't know why you're here bothering me then. And the major says like, listen, here to Lieutenant trying to pull rank. And Roger snaps at him. Basically like, that part of me is dead. Fuck off.

I'm not a cop.

You walk into my civilian home.

Yeah, true, true. Fourth Amendment or whatever.

I think third maybe you can't sleep over.

Yeah, that's the one.

He sleep running away as my cat and big pajamas with his candle. Yeah, we always go to screw when we think of pajamas. And he says basically like, all right, if he's got no daughter, I have no business. What do you want from me? And it's basically just the police just like toe the line. Watch yourself. Don't get too hoytie toddy full of yourself. So he leaves and then Roger goes and gets his car to check out the saldano factory out on the outskirts of town where he supposedly owns the factory where he made dorothy. And dorothy gets in the car with him and he's like, what are you doing? You can't come along with me. She's like, I'm an android. Good luck pushing me out. Fair got me there. So they end up driving around the city for a bit. They arrive at the destroyed factory. Looking around, it seems to be dilapidated for a while. And they look up at the operator's booth and they see blood.

Blood.

Someone call osha, quick.

Roger, dorothy go running up there and running inside, they see saldano there. He's on the ground, bully now and saying he never wanted to build it. He wishes he didn't. And he sees dorothy there with him. He goes, you were always my real daughter. It's like you like 3 hours ago you said she wasn't. I don't know timelines of this world, but it's been fast.

People conveniently lose and regain memories as plots.

Failed. It's fine, Fair. That's the whole premise of the show. But this dorothy is his real daughter. And as he's like in Rogers arms, he goes, it's all right, Nightingale, and fucking dies. wrist great gritty noir dying on a cliffhanger.

It was a sled. Is that too high brow of a joke?

It's not too high brow of Joe. That movie sucks playing solve as well.

It's?

No.

Paddington two.

Absolutely. Talk about paddington, too. I've been waiting to talk about paddington too.

Hard.

Cut.

We don't talk about big o for the rest of this episode. It's just paddington now.

There's worse things we could do.

So paddington won. We open.

We open on darkest peru.

It's a bear. He's got a little hat and a.

Bigger coat, but not yet, Brendan.

Okay. I'm sorry. Jumping on outside the operator booth. Back down on the ground, we see one of beck's goons, and he's just got a full on bazooka and shoots it at the booth. But Rogers got a little alert on his watch. He's got a lot of gizmos, a lot of gadgets, and they're able to dive out of the way just in time. And brusher is sitting there recovering. He's like, Wait a minute. You're an android. Get on out there and be a distraction for me. He's like, hey, you suck, and then goes and is a distraction. She's running it. She starts bugging. She's running full blast as they launch another full on rocket at her, destroying the railing she's on. And she's, like, hanging from it as Roger fiddles with his watch again and is able to shoot rockets from his car remotely and fully kills these two goons. Actual murder. And then once they're done with that, they get back into the car, and Norman the butler calls, saying, hey, there's a giant robot at Dome Five. And, like, this is this is the way they introduced the Max in the ship. So it's like, all right, all right. Yeah, let's go. Let's see what this is about.

Great. You survived the missiles. Cool. Mex introduced. Go, go.

And as they're driving there, they just found out that dorothy's got a bigger sister, a real big sister. And he says he still has a contract to fulfill, even if his client is dead. He's honorable. He sticks to his guns. And driving in the Dome Five, they're going through, like, a checkpoint, and some rookie cop is like, hey, what are you doing here, Mr. Quarantine? Offer professionals. Rogers like, remember my face. I'm kind of a big deal, and drives off. And while they're driving, dorothy sees an old man in the crowd. He goes, Father. And then they keep driving. And meanwhile we see a giant mech outside of a bank. Mint. I think it's a bank, but they got, like what's the word? They got printing press, the mint patterns. For money. Yeah, basically to make their own money. And Roger says, There's dorothy's big sister. dorothy won the 20 foot tall mech. I feel like if someone hired me to find a mech, they should probably say, hey, it's a mech, and not, like, a human girl.

So you're not looking for yeah, you're not looking for a it's a it's a robot.

A robot, but it's not a human. But it's also not the human. It's not so not the robot that looks like a human. It's a third one. How about you just, instead of saying everything's, your daughter, how about you just say the 20 foot tall fucking robot? That would help me find it a lot easier.

Okay, sorry. Just use names. They're all different. Right?

Well.

That'S not going to make it any clearer.

I'm sorry, I only know one lady name. I'm so sorry.

I met one woman in my life, and I've been obsessed ever since.

I would also make a joke, but four people in my family are named James, so clearly I have no ground to stand on. And then, yeah, he sees the giant robot robbing the bank. He's like, all right, it's showtime. Big O and yells into his watch. And his big mech appears, the titular Big O. And we see, like, the majors there, like, doing a police stand off with the mech. And he sees Big O appear and he goes, Great. There's Mega Deuce again.

I'm sorry, Big o's other name is Mega Deuce.

So I wrote it down because I thought he's just calling him, like, a big shit. Yes, but then another character calls it Mega Deuce later. And I was like, Is that actually his name? Not Big?

Oh, I hope everyone in this city just fucking hates this thing.

I would. It destroys everything.

Everybody just calls it that.

Yeah. Like, this is the true Batman situation of oh. Everyone knows there's this vigilante mech named Mega Deuce. Even though there is a man who screams Big O right before he appears. Every time.

Yeah, he never whispers it into his watch. Quietly, he yells it from the mountain.

Damn, Roger, you missed the mega deuce again. Oh, shucks.

Oh, boy. Man, it's weird. You're always around when it disappears, but you're never around when it is here.

You always have a bathroom?

Master Wayne, why do you always just shout caped crusader right before Batman shows up? It seems like a weird coincidence.

To be fair, I also yell out, I am the night running into the bathroom. A lot of stomach issues. So, yeah, he yells out and the giant robot just rises out of the ground. We find out there's just a lot of underground railway systems that I guess only Roger Smith has access to and he utilizes. So big o appears. It's a big old robot with big old arms. And as he's getting inside, we see on one of the monitors it says, cast in the name of God. Ye. Not guilty. Again, kind of weird.

Yeah.

I see Roger Smith inside bigo, lock it in as dorothy, once tentacles break into the vault and Big O rips them out, starts fighting. And the evacuation order goes out in dome five because two giant mex are destroying the entire city. I know it's not a great city. I know most plays are dilapidated already, but if I did live here, I would really hate Big O. I guess I don't have a job anymore. The building is gone.

No, you have a new job. Cleaning up rubble. That's how 90% of the city is employed.

Can only imagine. So everyone's, like, running away from the fight. As the manager sees dorothy running towards the fight, that's unintuitive. And we see as she gets there, she's standing beneath the two robots fighting. And it's kind of reaching out to dorothy One, and it's kind of mimicking some of its movements as we see Big O jump over behind dorothy One, loads its big gun, big arms and punges straight through its fucking chest, killing the neck. And when it does that, we see dorothy on the ground short out a little something fries in her brain. And then as dorothy One starts falling, collapsing after the fight, we see the Major run in, try and rescue dorothy, like, you got to get out of here, lady. And goes to move her and realizes she weighs a literal ton just being entirely made of metal.

Love that.

As dorothy One crashes down on top of that. And that's episode one. We get the credits going across and just a shot of Roger Smith sitting on top of our class with a melodramatic love song.

The song is very 90s.

Yeah. We begin just imagine, like, the animation studio being like, what do we do for the credits? Like, fuck it. I'm done. I had to draw a mech for half this episode. The ending is just a still image of him. I'm done.

Not even of the robot. I'm too tired.

They see enough robot. It's fine.

Another fucking robot. It's episode one.

So we begin episode two with a quick recap of the first episode. We see that the Major survived the fall of dorothy One on top of them. But where's little dorothy?

What?

Anyways, bigo walks away. And of course, sure, it stopped the mint getting stolen, but it did destroy a bunch of the city. So the Major and all the military there are like, hey, stop that other still alive mech. But it burrows underground. And Roger, immediately after it descends underground, appears in a puff of smoke behind the Major and is like, weird, you can't chase into the underground. That's so cowardly of you, huh? But yeah. Again, no one asks any questions. No one wonders why Roger disappeared exactly in the minutes that this mech appeared. Like, you have the meme of no one ever sees Bruce Wayne Batman in the same room at the same time that's this entire show. Someone has to notice at some point.

We've always given Superman shit for being like, his disguises, a pair of glasses and him running out of a building being like, oh, I just missed everything. What happened? comparatively, the Clark can't disguise his better.

Yeah.

Because he at least isn't immediately where Superman was standing. As Superman disappeared, he goes somewhere else.

Yeah. Clark doesn't shout superman before jumping into.

A phone booth to change.

But yeah. So in paradigm City, we get this quick little info dump on the underground. There are metro tunnels under the city, but since everyone lost their memories, no one remembers it. And everyone if you go down there, likely you just get lost in the labyrinth. So he's like, oh, score. I can now just use this as my mech transportation system because everyone else is terrified of this mythical subway.

It's a labyrinth. But instead of a mania to Rich, just some shitty rich kid and his robot and his big robot.

But yeah. So dorothy still gone. Don't worry about it.

Not a big deal.

Roger returns home, and he questions the mysterious kidnapping and how he's supposed to get this big sister. And the contract is done, technically, but he just can't let it go. So he goes back to the bar to speak more with his contact, and apparently soldano built dorothy one in secret. But there's a question on where all that funding came from. The contact says there's a nightingale somewhere in the domes. And Smith remembers, oh, those were soldano's last words. Could this possibly be related? Don't worry about it.

I'm going to the club.

So he goes to a nightclub. He's stopped by the bouncer because it's from members only. And he sees dorothy walking in.

What?

And she's with an old man, the old man she saw from the car in episode one. Father. So Roger, of course, is like, hey, you disappeared while fighting this big mech, and we all thought you were dead. What happened? What are you doing? And she's like, I don't know what you're talking about. You're obviously confusing me with someone else. Oh, no. Is this yet another dorothy? No, she's lying. Don't worry.

She's lying. Don't worry.

I truly was confused. I was like, Wait, is this the real flesh and blood?

I also thought that might have been no.

But yeah. She goes into the club with the old man, who says he's her granddaughter at this point, but then we'll say daughter later. He's old.

He's confused.

Yes.

So they go into the nightclub, they talk about the fable of the nightingale, blah, blah, blah. Roger confronts dorothy. He sneaks in after knocking out the bouncer, of course, and she's singing a song. Old man tipped off the piano player to let her sing a song, and, oh, no, it's beck, the gangster from the first episode. He's back and takes them all captive. But before he can, dorothy fights them off a little bit, but not good enough. Surprise. She is the android because they can't move her and stuff. But in the fight, someone was holding a gun up to the old man, and she was like, cool, let me fight some other guards. I'll make my way over to my old man grandfather soon. But of course, he gets shot immediately because you didn't do anything about. The man with a gun up to your grandfather dad inventor.

Maybe it's secretly what she wanted.

She's free now. I do appreciate that. He's like, don't move, or I'll shoot the old man. And she moves. And he did shoot the old man. And not like other dumb henchman. Or did they just, like, fumble, being like and then they walk up and take the gun from them? He followed through. I respect that.

She was warned.

Yeah. So they all get tasered. They're all knocked out. It's great. So more info dump on old man timothy wainwright. He was a recluse who regained his pre amnesia memories and turns out he was a mech builder. So he had the actual blueprints for the dorothy. So they wake back up. Some of them are still there. Police are at the club now because there is, like, an attack. But pretty immediately after, they all wake up. Hey, you remember the fight from the last episode? Let's do it again. dorothy One's back.

Big robots back at it again.

I think we had this with Tiger and bunny as well, where clearly they just had to draw, like, one mech fight that they then had to break up across episodes. So they're like, okay, we moved to a new location. There's different things happening. We have to go back to the big boss fight of the last episode because we already animated it. Go, go. So dorothy One is reactivated, and they all leave the club. So beck is remotely controlling dorothy One to get those mint print plates again because the mission didn't go well yesterday. Just got to muscle through again.

Do it again. There's no way they put extra security on it or anything. Since then.

No one would be dumb enough to do this twice.

Yeah, I love that dorothy One is just the giant hole punched in the chest still.

They should be calling that one Big O because of the AO hole in the chest.

So beck is remotely controlling dorothy One to do the same thing of the last episode, but this time strapped little dorothy to the face of dorothy One for power. Sure. bigo again powers up, jumps out of the ground. Roger gets in. They fight, while bigo gets all tied up with the tentacles. Don't google this anime. So while bigo is tied up, roger jumps out of the mac to dorothy's One Face to go and free dorothy and just, like, rips her out, and it powers down. Great. Cool. So beck being in, like, a remote control van off to the side, of course. Roger Smith is so brilliant. He knows where that van is. So he throws it to the police, and bigo returns to the Metro. So we finally get the resolution of all this whole dorothy thing, where wainwright was beck's original client, trying to get dorothy back because he got his memories back and was like, oh, my real daughter dorothy is dead. Let me get the robo version so I can still have some sort of daughter in my life. Again, introduce saying granddaughter, grandfather. Now, its daughter didn't elaborate.

I think his real daughter was dorothy, but that was like, 50 years ago. And it'd be weird if he's like, this is my granddaughter, or, this is my daughter, who's 60 years younger than him.

Hey, you never know.

You never know. Some people.

We live in Hollywood, baby. There's a bunch of gross old men who do whatever. The nightingale, he just wanted to hear his daughter sing again. Cute. But now back at Wayne manor oh, dorothy the android is there. Doesn't have a family. So I guess indentured servitude is where I live.

We have goth daughter you'd love to see.

And that's where we end episode two.

Yeah, two things real quick. When beck was being arrested, that saxophone was going off.

The sequence in episode one where he's like, driving android dorothy back to the place from the beginning, that was some delicious jazz.

Yeah, the soundtrack was hard. And two, at the end, they make a joke where the one rule in the mansion is everyone has to wear black, even Roger Smith. And I think it's supposed to be set up as a joke because dorothy, from what we can see, is pretty much wearing black with just a slight red undertone to it. So I guess she's supposed to be wearing a red. But the shadows are so dark and looks black, at least to me. So I'm just like, this trip didn't make sense.

But whatever, man. They're doing their best. So Big o episode Three We finally get the real opening. Lots of bright colors, and it's like the zoids opening where they just say the same thing over and over again.

Best opening?

I thought it was just Flash Gordon by Queen. Very similar.

Again, second show in a row where, like, heavy Queen influence.

So at Rogers house, he's grumpily awoken by dorothy, just absolutely mashing the keys, playing some song on the piano.

This cat can cook.

Sure can speedrun.

Beethoven'S ate sonata this feline is preparing food.

So he goes out there, and he's like, what the hell are you doing? She's like, you slept in 15 minutes. And now the eggs Norman made you are cold. You absolute asshole.

I love my new butler dad.

So they're sitting at the dining table, and she brings a teacup to her mouth, but can't drink because she's a robot. And he makes fun of her because she's just imitating humans. And then the power goes out for some reason, and Norman is going to go turn on their private generator. And she has a disk drive on her head. So she opens it, and it like, makes some light. And then Norman returns without having turned the lights on and being like, how novel. Weird girl has cdrom.

Norman has seen a lot of shit. He's not faced yeah, I am equipped.

With a PlayStation Two for your leisure.

You tie the tasmanian tiger in here.

So, yes. Norman returns, and he says, Roger has a guest. And of course, because this guest was just led into roger's office, roger is like, Hell yeah. Lady time. Oh, boy, kissing time.

We're kissing today.

So he goes into his office. It's a very posh lady. Her name is Casey Jenkins. The names of the show are so good.

I'm sorry, do you remember how to spell Casey?

I-C-A-S-S-I spelled it C-A-S-E-Y.

On her business card. It was C-A-S-S-E-E-Y. Just double letters for good.

Oh, my God.

Double it up.

You'll never see it coming. She always wants to be a mystery. And she says she works for power management or something, and she's overseeing some investigations. And he talks to her about the power going out. And she's like, do you know where we get our electricity from? And then the power turns back on, and that's the end of that scene. And I was like, what is happening? This is one of those episodes. The first two are just kind of silly and fun. But this one, so many things just, like, cut off. And I'm like, what is happening?

Tries to be like a mysterious noir at its own detriment.

Yeah. So we see Roger in his car, and his film noir, inner monologue says that he was hired to check an electrical plant that hasn't been used in a while to see if it was turned back on, I think. And the people living where the power plant is getting in the way of the power company because they don't want the plant to be turned back on. And he says that normally he wouldn't take a job from paradigm because paradigm is the company that owns the city. And they're like, this is something that they should worry about, but I want to know why they care about this particular situation. So he arrives in Electric City. He goes to the power plant, but it's all locked up. And then some people come and hold a gun to his back. It's the locals.

Fancy man out there.

So this was another freaking moment. They take him, and he's, like, surrounded by all of them. And he's like, what's going on here? And then a guy steps forward, and he's like, oh, I'll tell you. And then that's just over. That scene just ends. And Roger is just, like, walking on a bridge. And I was just like, okay, sure. And here they must have told him something, because he says, well, I'm not an atheist, but I'm not crazy. How could God make electricity fall from the sky? Something like that. They're like, afraid of God. These people are afraid of God?

Yeah. If they turn the power plant back on, their freak and angry God will strike them down. With lightning or something.

Cool.

Zaptos from pokemon.

Sure. So he looks over at the tower of the plant, and he sees that someone is inside, and the lights are on, and he figures that there's a way in underground. So he's walking in a nearby forest, and he finds a house. And we see an old man hiding behind a tree. And Roger approaches, like, a staircase that has a door at the bottom of it, like a bunker. But before he can go down there, the old man hits him in the back of the head.

The fred's found my moonshine cellar.

I wrote it down. Because he hears roger hears someone behind him, and he goes, I'm not one to carry a gun. And, quote, I don't like to be slug from behind either. Right before he gets slight from behind.

The irony. So he wakes up inside the house, and he's tied to the chair. We get a better look at the old man. Now. He comes in. He's got some buckets full of water. He's like, You've been asleep for a long time.

Of course.

Paradigm would hire a lazy bum. And I'm like, you hit him in the head with your rifle. He's unconscious.

Different than sleep now.

But Roger has managed to untie himself from the chair, of course. And he takes the buckets from the old man and makes him some breakfast.

While you were passed out, I made you eggs, but you over slept 15 minutes, and they got cold, so I had to throw them away.

He asks the old man why he doesn't live with the others, and he doesn't want to answer. And Roger gives him some bacon and eggs. And now he's just, like, hanging out in this old guy's house, drinking some coffee.

There you go, dad. I'm your son now.

I live here forever now. Nice to meet you.

You got the drop on me. That means I'm your child.

You adopt it. It's in a contract.

It's binding.

I bought this house while I was unconscious. It's mine now. And he notices there's a part in the floor that's all creaky when he steps over it. And he moves the rug and finds, like, a trap door. And he goes down, and there's, like, a lab down there. He starts snooping around. He sees this, like, big glass panel that's all broken. And while he's in there, the electricity kicks on. So Roger goes outside, and he finds the old man, and they realize someone has turned on the turbines.

What nut.

So they go back to that door with the stairs that Roger was knocked out in front of. And the old man says he has to stop the turbines, or something bad will happen. So Roger is like, I'll take care of it. I'm a professional. So he goes down in the tunnel, and he sees Casey Jenkins from earlier. And she's like, you led me right to it, because she's not who she says she is.

Espionage.

And she tells him to call her angel. And he says, Fallen angel. Shut up.

This guy shut up.

Call me angel. Spell. It A-N-G-G-E-E-L.

There'S, like, a Y in there somewhere? Was that over there?

God. It's A-Y-N-G-G-E-E-L. starbucks hates her. They hear, like, a loud groaning sound, and some electricity surges through the tunnel. She's the one that turned on the electricity. So they run out, and the old man isn't up there anymore. They see something swimming in the lake. It looks like a big old fish monster.

Zappos.

And Roger remembers the lab and that there was that big glass panel that was broken. And he's like, oh, it was a tank. What's going on here? The creature bursts up out of the water. It's like a big eel, and it starts absorbing the electricity.

Eel of electricity, if you will.

Genius.

So horizontal brain.

And this part was prime. Angel literally just turns around and runs away. And Rogers like, where are you going? There's no way out of this. And she's like, I have a car.

Oh, shit. I forgot what cars were.

It was just great. I love that. She's like, I'm not fucking sticking around for this.

A rational thought in my anime?

Never.

I just want the power to be on. I'm not fighting a dragon.

That's the thing. We've established, like, giant Mexican stuff existence, where it's like, okay. It's like monsters. I wasn't ready for this. I stopped prepared.

So Roger calls on big o. We see angel driving, but the fish monster catches up to her and electrocutes her car. And it's, like, looming over her. But lucky for her, we have Big O, the deus ex machina. Because this show, if it continues, this formula is just like, here's the plot. Big plot. Things are happening. Good news. Now we have the big robot to fix it all.

The formula.

I just loved that they had to. As you see, like, Big O emerging again, not mentioned previously. You get radio of the butler coming over and being like, yes, I sent it there last night like you asked. We are reconning it in this moment.

So the residents of Electric City are watching the big robot fight the big monster like the Pacific rim. And he revs up to deliver what he thinks will be the final blow. But the monster swallows him. And I thought, this is a vora awakening for somebody, because you watch him, like, if you have roger's perspective of seeing the inside of the sea monster's mouth. And I was just like, oh, no, pov.

You are getting glumped.

Yeah. So it's in it's his mouth, big mouth, and it electrocutes him. And while that's happening, he somehow sees the old man from earlier in a raft, rowing out on the lake, and he's going to shut down the power, and he's successful and the big fish no longer has power. And then Roger defeats it easily. After that, electricity does rain down on the city, and everything's powered again, and it looks beautiful.

My first thought was, you all left your power on.

All of it, in all the city, literally every one of these giant buildings.

It was like, no wonder your power shut off. You guys are just burning through this shit.

They have the biggest light pollution footprint of anywhere on the planet.

You can see it from space.

So jobs done. hooray. And now Roger is explaining what happened instead of getting the information from the old man. Like, at any point in the episode, roger is just like, well, this is what happened, and just rattles it off.

Keep it together himself, I guess.

I still don't even know what it was the old man made the fish monster or something.

I think before everyone lost their memories, he was a researcher trying to create a living resource that could generate the power plant like a big mutant electric eel. And that's what he got.

Well, okay.

Careful what you wish for, especially if you don't know you're about to get amnesia.

What's the worst place you could just get citywide amnesia?

Imagine the Olympics. Everyone at the Olympics just loses their memory, and everyone has to figure out not only, what am I doing here? Why why am I racing these people? I I'm in a pool surrounded by 10,000 people. I can't remember what I had for breakfast.

What?

Why am I so good at snowboarding.

Falling downhill on this weird piece of wood? I've imagined, like, an actor. Where you get amnesia? I'm in this hardware outfit. I guess I'm a repairman. It's like you're not an actor playing one, but yeah, that would you guys.

Watch the rehearsal on HBO? Max? That made me think of that. So he says roger says paradigm took a sample of the sea monster, but he doesn't think they would make another one.

They're not going to do it again.

I'm sure they wouldn't do that again.

There are only good companies here.

Corporations always learn their lesson and never double down on their mistakes.

Absolutely. I guess back home, dorothy's rocking the keys again. Roger asks why she's playing the blues, and she says she feels like it. And that surprises him because he's like, feeling, you're a robot. And then that's over. Yeah, here we are. We did it. We've achieved the big O.

Big O says, have you always wanted to watch Batman crossover with My Life as a Teenage Robot crossover with Cowboy bebop? Good news, you can.

We found it.

Are we there yet? Are we big O? I can't say.

I was going to say, I am so close to the big ass. I apologize, everyone. Yeah, as dee was saying before the first two episodes, it's pretty self contained. You're like, okay, this is like the story arc, right? And then we abandoned it for a completely new one in episode three. So that was a little bit jarring. I feel like all the elements definitely worked more for, like, a mech. This is a capital B. Brendan show. It's new r with crime. It's got mechs. It's everything you need. Steve blooms there.

You're not wrong.

So, like, all those things on paper, I'd be like, I don't know. But yeah, as we're saying, the first few episodes are fun. You see Roger Smith whenever he says something like confidently that is then going to be contradicted, it's almost immediate rather than standard, like, anime protagonist of no, I'm the smartest in the room. And then the big villain reveal, like, two episodes later happens. And then they're like, oh, maybe I'm not smart. He's always like, oh, yeah, I'm not going to get knocked out right now. Knocked out. So it has those comedic elements of like, yeah, we're talking big robots. We're not taking it as serious as other shows would. But there are the elements where they take it too seriously, where it's like, okay, I don't care. Your crime plots are so reliant on. Yeah, everyone has amnesia and is also a secret genius in their former life that they just happen to remember that it feels a little bit like that everything is deus of, oh, yeah, this happened because of course it happens.

Yeah.

I was telling Brendan before we recorded this gives me like, Saturday morning cartoons vibes. It reminds me, I feel like this is the show that anya is watching in Spy Family because it's fucking silly and goofy for the most part. And it feels very like, 60s spy cartoon. I love the jet briefcase, but I wouldn't watch more of it. But it's just silly and goofy and fun for the most part.

It's a good time, what we watched, but not something that really hooked you.

To keep that one.

Yeah, I just had the thought, can you ride the jet briefcase as a surfboard?

I open it to the board. Can I personally know? Could someone? Yes.

Could Roger?

Probably I can definitely ride this thing. Oh, no.

Now I want to see off a bridge into the water, trying to do a Christ air grind into a 360. I want to see it fully opened and him standing on both compartments of the breeze, teeth and just standing there like the Green goblin on like, a glider. Yeah, when he said Saturday morning, I was like, it's sent me a Saturday cartoon or Saturday night cartoon because it was on tsunami, at least for me. And yeah, that's exactly what it was. It's very like monster of the week of like, what other outlandish plot line can we solve with giant robots punching it? Yeah, they're here to sell you on the big robot fight. And they got a little mystery amnesia noir plot line going as a b plot throughout. Who is dorothy and what were all our memories. And, yeah, it's all very convenient. I just happen to be a master class bioengineer who designed this big monster eel, and now I'm in a weird old man in the woods. Of course you are. But, yeah, I enjoy a lot of the designs. Like you said, it does feel like old 60s spy sort of style. And that's kind of what I meant by it feels like looping the Third or like cyborg Nine, because both of those are, I think, from the 60s. See how the style really lends itself to that. I do enjoy it. I don't know if I'll keep watching it. I did also just finish up Golden conway, so maybe I will, because I need something else to fill the void of my life. But, yeah, it's fun. It does dig itself pretty serious at times, but it's cowboy peep off, and that's good. It just boils down to new R robots punching. Like, if that's what you want. Here it is.

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