@@yueliadragonflavour731OHHHGG ok that makes way more sense! I thought this was just a reference I didn’t get. I mean technically it is, I’ve never been Bulgarian
watching Andrew misunderstand how australian seasons work (specifically queensland which is a sub-tropical climate and doesn't have 4 seasons a year) thus completely fucking up the timeline of the show because he doesn't know that summer in australia is december-february has been the highlight of this video
Ik u said u weren't gonna watch Mako Mermaids, but given how excited you were at the concept of one of the boys becoming a mermaid I feel like its important for you to know that there IS a merman in that show. In the first episode a random dude falls into the moonpool and becomes a mermaid :)
I completely forgot about Mako Mermaids, which was I was obsessed with. And the entire time I was watching it I was going “wait? didn’t one of the boys turn into a merman? was the lewis?? HUH??” so thank you lol
This is my first BHultra video, but YES, YES, absolutely he has to do this. Mako Mermaids is INSANE; I have an interpretation the entire show is about bisexuality and I will DIE ON MY HILL.
3:42:26 to be fair, Lewis didn't actually cheat on Charlotte. He broke up with her before going to find Cleo. Lewis: "I never want to see you again." Charlotte: "What, so you're dumping me?" Lewis: "Absolutely." So...pretty clearly broken up.
theres this theory that Charlotte WASNT evil. Cos she was like perfectly nice, reasonable and understanding Pre-mermaid, but as soon as she lands in the moonpool she becomes corrupted. The theory is that the moon pool turned her evil because she was the odd one, there is only meant to be three mermaids, not four, so her turning wasn’t meant to happen. It was against nature. When the moon stole her powers in the Season 2 finale it also took the evil corruption that it gave her. Thats why as soon as she was human again she was nice and her old self. AND in season 3 the villain thing is the moonpool, which uses a water tendril… the same water tendril that charlotte used when attacked the girls. So there, charlotte is overhated, the moon pool is the REAL villain
How would you explain last season mermaid that also turned in her pool alone. There were no other mermaids, and she was not evil. So here goes your theory. Also Charlotte made a lot of questionable things while human, so she was not very nice or reasonable
@@karina_idea9187id say it’s a different moon pool! Also it was explained how the moon pool/tentacle was “agitated” in a sense during the approach of the comet. The entity presenting it was aggressive and possessive in some sense. The new mermaid (whose name I totally I forgot just now) explained how safe she felt safe and how magical the moon pool was. That was also years prior to the start of the series. So maybe different moon pools have different moods OR it was because the comet wasn’t approaching at the time. She got transformed as a child after all. That’s how I would explain it
Charlotte reads to me as a character with sociopathy or borderline personality disorder or smth like that. She adapted to behave nice bc it's the perfect way to get what she wanted. She is great manipulator. After she got powers, she stopped controlling herself that much cause she wasn't vulnerable anymore. But overall, the show isn't that deep, so yeah Charlotte is overhated.
I kind of agree but I don't think the moon pool isn't a villain. Instead it was trying to preserve the balance needed for the comet disaster since that's what it was trying to communicate. It must have accepted bella since Emma was away with her family. Hence it had the 3 mermaids it needed to prevent the disaster
Honestly, I like how determined Kim (or Cleo Jr™️) is at trying to Get her Sister killed and/or shipped off to some lab to forever be a lab project. This show really knows how to portray siblings😌❤️
as an Australian it's so funny seeing you overreact to the "attempted murder" in episode 1. In Australia it's basically assumed that everyone knows how to swim because its taught as part of the standard school curriculum.
@@morgandubeux na boomerang eles passaram como série mas uns anos antes eles passavam na globo como um filme só, as 3 temporadas em 2h de filme, inclusive depois que passaram na boomerang a record chegou a passar a 1 temporada, não lembro se passou as outras, mas ers bem comum na globo passar o "filme"
2:23:25 I think Phineas and Ferb also counts as positive divorce representation. Linda and Lawrence might kind of count, since they were presumably married before, but mainly Doof and Charlene - there aren't any scenes that really focus on it, but neither of them wants to get back together, and there isn't any animosity between them.
I have this vivid memory of my dad walking in when I was watching this show (it was the scene when they're testing moisturizers) and he stood perfectly still to watch a few minutes of it (you know, like dads do) and he asked me about it and I explained that they turn into mermaids when they get wet and he said "oh so now they're gonna get all shriveled and dry 'cause they can't use moisturizer?" or something like that and I was like Dad, stop summarizing my weird mermaid show.
I think lotion was fine for them, since the substance had to have a certain percentage of water to cause transformation. As for the bikini top, it's PG lol
One memory of my dad is he accepted my love for mermaids. I was watching an episode one day, dangerous waters maybe...he came into lounge sat on couch and watched with me. Us talking here and there about things we saw on screen. He then gets excited... The humpty Dumpty looking fish pops up on screen.. my dad gets all excited and rushes out if room. He comes back with photo album of when he and my step mum went to Australia and seaworld. Low and behold the humpty Dumpty fish is there in the album lol. My dad always brings it up now as a memory between me and him lol. We alittle disconnected now.. very limited contact see once a day a year... But we try to mend slowly.. but i too remember this memory.
My biggest gripe with season 3 was how horribly they botched Zane's character growth. He reverts back to some inscure kid like season 1, but you could clearly see in season 2 he learns how to cooperate. What was the point!? And then breaking up Rikki and Zane!? That was messed up on TOP of Lewis leaving.
imo this is one of the best & most realistic parts of not only the season, but the entire show. zane didn't do much growing in season 2 unless u view it from a nostalgic or child's perspective. possibly my favorite aspect of the shit show that was s3
As someone who actually really liked season 3, i feel like it makes sense for Zane to be like that. Zane didn't really have much growth at all. Yeah, he became nicer after finding out their secret, but he continued to be selfish the entire time, but he kept getting excuse for it.
tbh there are two break ups that I absolutely hated as a kid, Zane and Ricky and (more intensely) Caleb and Cornelia from W.i.t.c.h. But as an adult I actually appreciate teen stories where there isn't 'one true first love' that's supposed to last till the day they die or smth.
I’m wanting a video about Shezow. It’s a cartoon (Canadian cartoon I think so it tracks with the other shows Andrew has talked about) about a boy who discovers a ring belonging to his late aunt that turns him into the superhero SheZow, but because SheZow is a female superhero he pretends to be a girl while being SheZow. I read the wiki because i haven’t thought of this show in years so correct me if I said something wrong
In 'Get Off My Tail' (S2E14) we are told that Emma has been working at the cafe for over a year. Four episodes later in 'The Heat Is On' (S2E18) the girls are celebrating their one year anniversary of being mermaids. The girls became mermaids in S1E1, however Emma did not start working at the cafe before S1E15 ('The Big Chill', which never aired on Nickelodeon)
As someone who didn’t watch this show as a kid, I respect that you spent the video trying to tell us that Charlotte is not bad and does not deserve the hate she gets, but unfortunately I spent the entire video agreeing with commenters and hating her anyway. Good try though
I am 40 minutes in and so far the most important thing that I have learned is that Lewis DESERVES to be a mermaid. Why doesn't Lewis get to be a mermaid!???
I can't believe the US didn't get the episode where they freeze a teenage girl and spend the whole time thinking they are getting arrested for murder. It's one of the most memorable ones for me.
you constantly bringing up how lewis should be a mermaid reminds me when I was in second grade, some girl told me that Lewis and Zane turned into mermaids and I was so excited. But then later, I found out she lied and I yelled at her for lying to me. I got in trouble for it but it was worth it. we all wanted a lewis mermaid.
He deserves to be a mermaid (merman?) too. My man was always so supportive and protective of the girls! Also, that way he could do the mermaid research on himself.
I love having this video in the background because half the time the words just blend together into an inaudible but still entertaining mess in the back of my brain but its occasionally interrupted by "MAKO ISLAND" and i get really really hyped just from the delivery of that line and whisper yell "YES!!"
You ever watch a 5 and a half hour UA-cam video and then end with both the exhausted feeling of finishing a work shift, but also the sad feeling that it's over and the thought that this kid show meant way more to you than you ever thought
I've never disliked Charlotte for "coming between Clewis" or the sort. I've disliked her for how she went about having a crush on Lewis. She desperately wanted him to like her, so much that she pretended to share his interests, kinda stalked him (it's not only creepy when the hot, mysterious guy does it) and even became a mermaid just because she thought the reason Lewis spent so much timr with Cleo and co was due to them being mermaids (willfully ignoring that it was mainly because Lewis was still in love with Cleo and Charlotte was his rebound). When her trying to belong to the group failed, she tried to isolate Lewis from them (the bday party with ONLY HER friends, the forbidding him to talk to Cleo...) and when that failed as well, she went crazy on Cleo. I wanna say that I do feel sorry for how Lewis treated Charlotte due to his unresolved feelings for Cleo, but at some point she knew about them and tried to show Lewis how much better she was compared to Cleo instead of doing the mature, self-respecting thing and break up with him.
Yeah, Charlotte is kinda a victim initially. Like, when she starts being unable to take a hint and becomes vindictive and possessive she clearly becomes a nightmare but early on it’s actually Cleo who creates a lot of the bad blood between them. Fans hate charlotte for shipping reasons, I dislike her because she’s almost cartoonishly evil after a certain point and the writing around her later on seemed designed to make us ignore that Cleo and Lewis handled their dynamic with her terribly too. Not as terribly as she did obviously but Lewis absolutely strung her along and Cleo kept simultaneously wanting and denying Lewis while attacking Charlotte unprompted from the moment she popped up.
The reoccurring "remember when Zayne exploded." and "When she burned down the building" and 'MAKO ISLAND" jokes had me CRYING. Like this video is so funny
About an hour into the live premier and I’m living my best life, Rikki and Zane were peak enemies to lovers they really had us hooked for three seasons
@@alicetheneko7529 right?! It's like they were thinking about having Will be a villain, but then they assassinated Zane's character for....I don't even know for what exactly his character was ruined.
After watching this whole video, I can’t stop thinking about Zane in particular. He started out as an asshole, then started becoming a better person much later in the season after meeting Rikki (ironic since Rikki is seen as a bit of a troublemaker. Like stealing his spark plug) and soon after season 3 hits, it’s like his character arc vanished partway through the season. Because they decided to throw Sophie into the mix. Wtf? He and Rikki’s relationship was pretty healthy for the most part by the time season two rolled around and the first half of season three. They essentially just assassinated his character just like Thomas Astrid did to Chloe Bourgeois in Miraculous Ladybug.
I’m glad you’re pointing out that the main girls became bullies and the UA-cam comments. Charlotte’s actress got and still gets a crazy amount of hatred and body shaming for a role she played 15 years ago where her role as a “villain” essentially boils down to Charlotte being relentlessly bullied with very of-the-time sexist logic.
The audacity of this man to make me ship Zayne and Lewis when there's besically no fanfiction about them... my disappointment is immeasurable and my day has been ruined.
And in fact, it can be visible for 2-3 hours before sky turns dark, with still setting sun. I see this often in summer. This August there was awesome bloody-orange full moon in my city😍
Oh I love H2O: Just Add Water. I was so upset when seasons two and three were removed from Netflix. Also I think Lewis is everyone’s favourite character. Even if they won’t admit it. Or at least in their top three.
I think Netflix currently doesn't have the last half of Mako Mermaids either, right? (But I think the animated remake of Just Add Water still has all seasons up, at least.) Like they had all of the first series and all of the second series, and then most of the first series was gone for a while, then it came back, then they lost it again, and then they lost a bunch of the second series. What's going on with these shows on there?
@@MuljoStphoNetflix pays to have shows (or certain seasons of shows), when the licence expires they get removed and if the show is on one of the other streaming services they often never return to Netflix. Sometimes they stay for good and others only last as little as a few months or a year or two. I realized this when they took off all the Disney stuff and now they’re all locked in Disney+ 😒
Those "sippy cups" are really common cheap Australian water bottles, they were everywhere during my childhood throughout the 2000s. I haven't seen them in a long time likely because they weren't great for the environment and Australia pushed environmentalism a lot throughout the 2010s.
growing up in germany this show had such a cult status it was insane. + The production was partially handled by national German TV which is why it was so prevelant here probably
As an Australian, I too also swim to a mysterious island and become a X-Men Mermaid. It's pretty normal here tbh. Just the crocs and Box Jellyfish make it hard to swim around all the time. Also Lewis deserved better. And Charlotte did not deserve becoming a villain.
3:13:35 Wait I need to talk about this for a second. LEWIS decorated the whole moon pool by HIMSELF. HE got all the stuff and brought it to ✨ MAKO ISLAND ✨ … Cleo and him were supposed to meet there but when she finally arrived which took her literal months, Lewis was already done decorating. And Emma and Rikki will never know. They will always be thinking from now on that Cleo did this. Another Lewis bullying episode, theoretically.., He’s just not getting the credits he deserved, the usual, you know. THIS DUDE DESERVES BETTER. GET AWAY FROM THOSE TOXIC ASS MARINES. Okay, I watched this video over the span of three days and it was so fun. I enjoyed this so much! Fedora and the Zane explosion were my favorites
the australia to america misunderstandings are so... her sandwich was honey and BUTTER bc we dont use mayo as the base of our sandwiches bc we're not freaks (affectionate)
@@Ashtray888it is? it's not only Australian, in central Asia and Europe at least it's common, like putting butter then jam. Idk why you'd assume putting a sweet sticky paste on top of butter is so weird
For me, the thing about Charlotte was that she just feels shifty. Like yeah she's the sweet new girl, but half the situations she gets in are her not reading the room or purposefully ignoring it entirely. She feels like she has weaponized niceness or something. Where you could say "oh she's so sweet, she'd never do that" but she _would_ and that's the play. Also, she forces herself onto Lewis's outings, he clearly is going through something and she doesn't seem to care because it doesn't get her what she wants. I think part of her being "different" when she gets powers is partly her mask slipping and partly the power going to her head. I remember when I watched it initially, I wasn't surprised she became evil as soon as she got powers, she always felt devious but good at hiding it.
The problem is that none of that seems like a big deal after seeing our "heroes" narrowly avoid committing murder, twice before Charlotte gets involved. It just sounds like you're making up reasons to justify hating her.
i never got the Charlotte hate and fully agree ppl only hated her because she was with Lewis (which is weird because Cleo is the one who broke up with him) but once she got her powers they just made her weirdly arrogant and insufferable.
Maybe i don’t understand how tv stations work but it just seems bizarre that Nickelodeon just stopped airing this show in the US. In the UK the channel aired all the episodes. It was always on TV. So they clearly owned it all
The "M A K O I S L A N D *Dramatic/mysterious bgm*" and the "Remember Zane... when you exploded." are the best recurring jokes of the video Edit: I was praying to God he'd end off the video with another "Remember when Zane exploded?" joke and bro delivered
Alright I gotta disagree with your Charlotte comments, she's not that bad at the beginning but she does gradually get worse. There are genuinely reasons to dislike Charlotte other than the obvious 'the show wants you to' and/or 'She's dating Lewis when he's supposed to be with Cleo!!'. For me, it mainly has to do with her behavior towards Lewis specifically. But I'd have to write a whole essay to get all my thoughts out on it and I know aint nobody's about to read such an insanely long comment lmao. Point is, Charlotte sucks sorry.
Please please please watch Mako Mermaids and see how they dash all the lore and completely up root everything about this show while trying to convince you that it’s a direct sequel
I honestly get the hate around charlotte, like some hate on her was absolutely undeserved. but she was a pretty controlling person, saying she found it weird that Lewis hung around Cleo, and getting jealous about it, as if they weren't childhood friends who had known each other long before Charlotte even got there. Also the fact she was a stalker lmao..
I can’t wait, I loved this show! When I was in elementary school, I watched an episode and then realized it was on teen nick. I actually felt guilty about it and didn’t watch for years 😂
I remember not knowing what H2o was but then a friend showed me specifically the epsidoes with kissing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! We were in like second or third grade!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1 I loved it.
I was there when it aired on the US and was just as confused as Andrew was. Last year, I binged The Bureau of Magical Things which was created by the same guy and is apparently in the same universe!
it was on amazon prime and lemme tell you smth when I was a kid I had this shitty kindle fire and I would stay up so late and watch the episodes. I think its still on amazon prime now !
@@EllisephaNo it really depends. Idk if it depends on location but sometimes the moon will be up at 10am, or 12pm. literally middle of day and the moon is up
I'm surprised that in research you didn't find out they aired all of H2O in America, on the channel Teen Nick. That channel's how I found so many Australian shows. It's how I found Dance Academy and Alien Surf Girls. Although they never aired season 3 of Dance Academy for some reason, so I had to watch it on UA-cam.
THANK YOU! I KNEW I remembered episodes from season 2 and the episodes of season 1 he said never aired in the west! I felt gaslit for the entire dang video!
I found my people 😂😂. I lived and breathed dance academy Edit: when did they rename alien surf girls or was lightning point always the name of the show im confused
@@jadynariana I'm pretty sure Lightning Point was the name of the show in Australia, but I know when it was premiering in America it was always promoted as Alien Surf Girls
2:08:00 my theory is that the writers had a sever case of “make the characters people act horrible to soften the blow on the new character” and to easy people into introducing and liking the new character, before halfway through the season deciding that actually the new character is a villain and the original character was right the whole time with no reservations
1:38:54 No literally as soon as I saw this episode I was like “Omfg each of you dye your hair, get tattoos, fuck it try scarification, anything to make your mermaid form look less like your human form” that just makes so much more sense to me and I’m so upset they got rid of Emma’s red hair so fast
@@Ellisepha No literally I bet she’d be so into tattooing plus if you needed to you could definitely learn to yourself or become close enough with someone who does/wants to
YEAH YEAH YEAH. I was OBSESSED with this show. Ive rewatched it at least a dozen times and even watched the spin off before its first season hit netflix.
I need every single hat that andrew has proposed. If you have an etsy and want my money, tell me the name of your shop and i will buy a custom "i fear women. I want fish." "Women dont want me. Fish are indifferent." Etc hat. You will get MORE of my money if your hats are for big heads bc i might be dumb but im built like jimmy neutron
narratively im halfway thru s3 and i support rikki and zane on an emotional level but on an instinctual level my brain is like “get that old man away from that child ASAP”
Remember when Zayne exploded, MAKO ISLAND, and the character nicknames were excellent bits for this video! Gave me a lot of laughs on my work commute and lunches. Excellent work as always Mr. Andrew Ultra!
3:59:50 "If you wanna get with me, you better line up ladies! Line up ladies! If you want a love letter from me, you better sign up ladies, better give me your address!" The best lines Nate has ever dropped. This one bit of song stuck with me for years and will continue to move on with me till the end of time.
how did I just watch a five and a half hour video on a show I don´t quite care about instead of studying for my exams or doing something that would have made me profoundly happy?
Bulgaria noticed!
Genuinely very confused
Remembering it was broadcasted in Bulgaria takes me back to my childhood
@@yueliadragonflavour731OHHHGG ok that makes way more sense! I thought this was just a reference I didn’t get. I mean technically it is, I’ve never been Bulgarian
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watching Andrew misunderstand how australian seasons work (specifically queensland which is a sub-tropical climate and doesn't have 4 seasons a year) thus completely fucking up the timeline of the show because he doesn't know that summer in australia is december-february has been the highlight of this video
to be fair idk how Australian summers work either... like is it cold during their summer break???? what a bummer.
@@boybutchpls tell me this is sarcasm lol I’m terrible at picking this stuff up
@@Mellow87468 its half sarcasm
@@Mellow87468 its not
Oh well, I mean to answer the question it’s summer during summer break?
This show is refreshing in that everyone looks like an awkward unpolished teenager
This is so funny to me because another video I watched about the show said the girls were literally teen models before they were casted
The girls definitely don't
@@chyane2314they were tho like literally lol it's just that early 2000's and 10's fashion was messy lol
Its actually amazing that they cast the girls as they're actual ages in the show, no 20 somethings playing teenagers
The "...remember when Zane exploded" bit truly never gets old
I haven't watched the video or the series yet is this a fucking Ninjago reference? Fuck yeah.
@@RealRaven6229i hope it is lmao ninjago deserves more fame and popularity. but also in h20 theres a character named zane so idk
So true
i need someone to post time stamps every time he makes that joke it’s so fucking funny
Both that and the epic voice whenever M A K O I S L A N D is mentioned.
Ik u said u weren't gonna watch Mako Mermaids, but given how excited you were at the concept of one of the boys becoming a mermaid I feel like its important for you to know that there IS a merman in that show. In the first episode a random dude falls into the moonpool and becomes a mermaid :)
I completely forgot about Mako Mermaids, which was I was obsessed with. And the entire time I was watching it I was going “wait? didn’t one of the boys turn into a merman? was the lewis?? HUH??” so thank you lol
@@citruscirrus5607 np :)
seconded, id love to see his reaction to it!
This is my first BHultra video, but YES, YES, absolutely he has to do this. Mako Mermaids is INSANE; I have an interpretation the entire show is about bisexuality and I will DIE ON MY HILL.
And it has a lot more of the magical mermaid stuff and lore(even though it makes no sense when compared to this series)
They really made Ricky the best mermaid and treated her terribly for no reason
"doesn't rain for months and then rains every other week" that's literally how it is in queensland lol
How the hell did Bella keep being a mermaid secret in Ireland. Ireland is so wet and so windy. Did she go outside in a plastic bubble?
3:42:26 to be fair, Lewis didn't actually cheat on Charlotte. He broke up with her before going to find Cleo.
Lewis: "I never want to see you again."
Charlotte: "What, so you're dumping me?"
Lewis: "Absolutely."
So...pretty clearly broken up.
it’s another friends situation lol
theres this theory that Charlotte WASNT evil. Cos she was like perfectly nice, reasonable and understanding Pre-mermaid, but as soon as she lands in the moonpool she becomes corrupted. The theory is that the moon pool turned her evil because she was the odd one, there is only meant to be three mermaids, not four, so her turning wasn’t meant to happen. It was against nature. When the moon stole her powers in the Season 2 finale it also took the evil corruption that it gave her. Thats why as soon as she was human again she was nice and her old self. AND in season 3 the villain thing is the moonpool, which uses a water tendril… the same water tendril that charlotte used when attacked the girls. So there, charlotte is overhated, the moon pool is the REAL villain
How would you explain last season mermaid that also turned in her pool alone. There were no other mermaids, and she was not evil. So here goes your theory. Also Charlotte made a lot of questionable things while human, so she was not very nice or reasonable
@@karina_idea9187id say it’s a different moon pool! Also it was explained how the moon pool/tentacle was “agitated” in a sense during the approach of the comet. The entity presenting it was aggressive and possessive in some sense. The new mermaid (whose name I totally I forgot just now) explained how safe she felt safe and how magical the moon pool was. That was also years prior to the start of the series. So maybe different moon pools have different moods OR it was because the comet wasn’t approaching at the time. She got transformed as a child after all. That’s how I would explain it
Charlotte reads to me as a character with sociopathy or borderline personality disorder or smth like that. She adapted to behave nice bc it's the perfect way to get what she wanted. She is great manipulator. After she got powers, she stopped controlling herself that much cause she wasn't vulnerable anymore.
But overall, the show isn't that deep, so yeah Charlotte is overhated.
I kind of agree but I don't think the moon pool isn't a villain. Instead it was trying to preserve the balance needed for the comet disaster since that's what it was trying to communicate. It must have accepted bella since Emma was away with her family. Hence it had the 3 mermaids it needed to prevent the disaster
What turned her evil was those three bullying her 💀
“remember when zayne exploded” literally made me laugh every damn time it happened even thinking about it now is making me giggle
ditto its such a funny clip and event on its own and then his delivery every time 😭
17:33 "you can never trust brunette guys"
the cut afterwards to u wearing a blonde wig had me cackling hdkadhajd
He’ll never be a mermaid. 😞
The biggest sin of season three is messing up the unstated but consistent Rikki red ranger dress code
Ugh yes
Unfortunately, I can't for the life of me remember what happened to Zane on that boat. If only there were someone willing to jog my memory.
Remember when Zane exploded…
@@V4LENTINEsW0RLD He exploded?!!? Why was this never even mentioned in this 5h long video?
@@V4LENTINEsW0RLD HE EXPLODED?????
Honestly, I like how determined Kim (or Cleo Jr™️) is at trying to Get her Sister killed and/or shipped off to some lab to forever be a lab project. This show really knows how to portray siblings😌❤️
it's the cain instinct
cleo junior is so real cause her real name IS cleo
as an Australian it's so funny seeing you overreact to the "attempted murder" in episode 1.
In Australia it's basically assumed that everyone knows how to swim because its taught as part of the standard school curriculum.
Im reeling at him getting the season and months incorrect aswell. No! Its not July! If its the start of summer it's December!!
@@maddygullotta2551 He's going based on the episode with the April calendar for Cleo's birthday.
but Cleo states that she can’t swim
It’s so interesting because I live in a state with over 11k lakes and it’s not a standard to teach how to swim in school here
@@thisisavivistanaccount7866 so true! Cleo says she can't, and they're like 'that's a you problem'
fun fact, in brazil, for some reason, they paired ALL THE 3 SEASONS in a 2h movie. So a lot of brazilians think the series is just a really cool movie
How do you cram 3 seasons into 2h??
@@rachael5300 excluding A LOT OF STUFF
Quando eu assisti era dividido em 3 temps. Passava na boomerang
@@morgandubeux na boomerang eles passaram como série mas uns anos antes eles passavam na globo como um filme só, as 3 temporadas em 2h de filme, inclusive depois que passaram na boomerang a record chegou a passar a 1 temporada, não lembro se passou as outras, mas ers bem comum na globo passar o "filme"
Man, Im really curious now
Anyone know where to find this version?
2:23:25 I think Phineas and Ferb also counts as positive divorce representation. Linda and Lawrence might kind of count, since they were presumably married before, but mainly Doof and Charlene - there aren't any scenes that really focus on it, but neither of them wants to get back together, and there isn't any animosity between them.
I have this vivid memory of my dad walking in when I was watching this show (it was the scene when they're testing moisturizers) and he stood perfectly still to watch a few minutes of it (you know, like dads do) and he asked me about it and I explained that they turn into mermaids when they get wet and he said "oh so now they're gonna get all shriveled and dry 'cause they can't use moisturizer?" or something like that and I was like Dad, stop summarizing my weird mermaid show.
My dad said something similar but he always asked why the mermaids had the bikini top thingy 😭
I think lotion was fine for them, since the substance had to have a certain percentage of water to cause transformation. As for the bikini top, it's PG lol
@@adriannaa545it’s not, cleo complains about not being able to use lotions and moisturisers cuz of the high water content
@@seulk7527did your dad expect these teenage girls go around topless or?
One memory of my dad is he accepted my love for mermaids. I was watching an episode one day, dangerous waters maybe...he came into lounge sat on couch and watched with me. Us talking here and there about things we saw on screen. He then gets excited... The humpty Dumpty looking fish pops up on screen.. my dad gets all excited and rushes out if room. He comes back with photo album of when he and my step mum went to Australia and seaworld. Low and behold the humpty Dumpty fish is there in the album lol. My dad always brings it up now as a memory between me and him lol. We alittle disconnected now.. very limited contact see once a day a year... But we try to mend slowly.. but i too remember this memory.
Lewis and his love for fishing is the most realistic and relatable part of this. "I am just trying to fish" me too brother, me too
Calling Cleo's sister Cleo Junior has a wonderful irony, since the actress who plays Kim is actually called Cleo.😄
a 5 hour retrospective on a niche childhood interest of mine that started my lesbian awakening? lets go!
my fav was rikki and now im a butch lesbian im pretty sure that had something to do with it so umm thank you h2o and cariba heine for ur service
@@Yvesouler I send the homophobic dog meme to you lol
i am so beyond happy that someone else has recognized lewis as the best character. he’s so underrated
My biggest gripe with season 3 was how horribly they botched Zane's character growth. He reverts back to some inscure kid like season 1, but you could clearly see in season 2 he learns how to cooperate. What was the point!? And then breaking up Rikki and Zane!? That was messed up on TOP of Lewis leaving.
It's perfectly justified, but either you're too young to see it, or you've never paid attention to the details
also the plot of season 3 is the dumbest thing ever
imo this is one of the best & most realistic parts of not only the season, but the entire show. zane didn't do much growing in season 2 unless u view it from a nostalgic or child's perspective. possibly my favorite aspect of the shit show that was s3
As someone who actually really liked season 3, i feel like it makes sense for Zane to be like that. Zane didn't really have much growth at all. Yeah, he became nicer after finding out their secret, but he continued to be selfish the entire time, but he kept getting excuse for it.
tbh there are two break ups that I absolutely hated as a kid, Zane and Ricky and (more intensely) Caleb and Cornelia from W.i.t.c.h. But as an adult I actually appreciate teen stories where there isn't 'one true first love' that's supposed to last till the day they die or smth.
This channel has that strange nostalgic magic of talking about a show you've completely forgotten and yet remember vividly
I’m wanting a video about Shezow. It’s a cartoon (Canadian cartoon I think so it tracks with the other shows Andrew has talked about) about a boy who discovers a ring belonging to his late aunt that turns him into the superhero SheZow, but because SheZow is a female superhero he pretends to be a girl while being SheZow. I read the wiki because i haven’t thought of this show in years so correct me if I said something wrong
@@YourAveragePlayer432That actually sounds so interesting!
Oh my god exactly
In 'Get Off My Tail' (S2E14) we are told that Emma has been working at the cafe for over a year. Four episodes later in 'The Heat Is On' (S2E18) the girls are celebrating their one year anniversary of being mermaids. The girls became mermaids in S1E1, however Emma did not start working at the cafe before S1E15 ('The Big Chill', which never aired on Nickelodeon)
One of the girls clearly can boil/freeze/manipulate the waters of time
I was looking through the comments to see if someone would mention this!! The timeline really is inconsistent
As someone who didn’t watch this show as a kid, I respect that you spent the video trying to tell us that Charlotte is not bad and does not deserve the hate she gets, but unfortunately I spent the entire video agreeing with commenters and hating her anyway. Good try though
That reflects more on you and the kind of person you are than on the character, buddy...
@@anjafrohlich1170 for hating a fictional character? Chill, dude 😂
@@anjafrohlich1170 it's a silly little tv show it's really not that serious i promise you
@@anjafrohlich1170she literally SUCKS what the fuck more do u want her to do so she could be considered a bad person?😆
maybe if you watched the show you would rightly hate her like the rest of us
I am 40 minutes in and so far the most important thing that I have learned is that Lewis DESERVES to be a mermaid. Why doesn't Lewis get to be a mermaid!???
The fact that we didn't get any male mermaids until the spin off series was honestly such a miss.
can't wait until he figures out there's a spin off series and rikki comes back
Nah literally, especially since there is man ……… maid 😅
I watched ALL of mako mermaids for the rikki cameo and when she finally showed up the episode and series ended
@@nomenome3244 No literally, I was so excited for so little screen time.
I can't believe the US didn't get the episode where they freeze a teenage girl and spend the whole time thinking they are getting arrested for murder. It's one of the most memorable ones for me.
Don’t worry, I still saw it on Netflix! I’m sure other Americans saw the crime as well😊
it aired in argentina and i remember vividly not wanting to leave to visit grandma until the episode ended lol very memorable
It's very memorable to me in the UK too!
wait is this real😭
@@mayamorgan it's the 'Big Freeze'(?) episode in S1 that is talked about in this video
you constantly bringing up how lewis should be a mermaid reminds me when I was in second grade, some girl told me that Lewis and Zane turned into mermaids and I was so excited. But then later, I found out she lied and I yelled at her for lying to me. I got in trouble for it but it was worth it. we all wanted a lewis mermaid.
He deserves to be a mermaid (merman?) too. My man was always so supportive and protective of the girls!
Also, that way he could do the mermaid research on himself.
I love having this video in the background because half the time the words just blend together into an inaudible but still entertaining mess in the back of my brain but its occasionally interrupted by "MAKO ISLAND" and i get really really hyped just from the delivery of that line and whisper yell "YES!!"
You ever watch a 5 and a half hour UA-cam video and then end with both the exhausted feeling of finishing a work shift, but also the sad feeling that it's over and the thought that this kid show meant way more to you than you ever thought
Same
I've never disliked Charlotte for "coming between Clewis" or the sort.
I've disliked her for how she went about having a crush on Lewis. She desperately wanted him to like her, so much that she pretended to share his interests, kinda stalked him (it's not only creepy when the hot, mysterious guy does it) and even became a mermaid just because she thought the reason Lewis spent so much timr with Cleo and co was due to them being mermaids (willfully ignoring that it was mainly because Lewis was still in love with Cleo and Charlotte was his rebound). When her trying to belong to the group failed, she tried to isolate Lewis from them (the bday party with ONLY HER friends, the forbidding him to talk to Cleo...) and when that failed as well, she went crazy on Cleo.
I wanna say that I do feel sorry for how Lewis treated Charlotte due to his unresolved feelings for Cleo, but at some point she knew about them and tried to show Lewis how much better she was compared to Cleo instead of doing the mature, self-respecting thing and break up with him.
Yeah, Charlotte is kinda a victim initially. Like, when she starts being unable to take a hint and becomes vindictive and possessive she clearly becomes a nightmare but early on it’s actually Cleo who creates a lot of the bad blood between them. Fans hate charlotte for shipping reasons, I dislike her because she’s almost cartoonishly evil after a certain point and the writing around her later on seemed designed to make us ignore that Cleo and Lewis handled their dynamic with her terribly too. Not as terribly as she did obviously but Lewis absolutely strung her along and Cleo kept simultaneously wanting and denying Lewis while attacking Charlotte unprompted from the moment she popped up.
Thank you for defending hating Charlotte. One of the things I remember most about the show was hating Charlotte.
@@auroraj8987what defending she literally sucks
@@h3avenscentWomp womp
Absolutely love how Rikki bought Cleo a freshwater fish for her marine tank LMFAO
The reoccurring "remember when Zayne exploded." and "When she burned down the building" and 'MAKO ISLAND" jokes had me CRYING. Like this video is so funny
About an hour into the live premier and I’m living my best life, Rikki and Zane were peak enemies to lovers they really had us hooked for three seasons
Rip to Zane’s character arc
@@alicetheneko7529 right?! It's like they were thinking about having Will be a villain, but then they assassinated Zane's character for....I don't even know for what exactly his character was ruined.
@@samsampleman2439instead it was Sophie all along
My respect for this show grew 100% when they had the balls to break them up
everytime you did the “mako island” bit i started losing it. imagine how much you’d have to say it reviewing mako mermaids
Considering that Zane is a very much main character I was wondering how long you were going to mention him nameless
"The joke is that I want to date dads, not that I hate women."
Mmm somebody decided to be *based* today.
Like, what a damn vibe, man. What a vibe.
Please do mako mermaids next. Its a reboot/sequel of h2o and its even more chaotic than this show, youd love it
Yes pleaseee
I love how every season of mako mermaids has a whole new cast inexplicably
@@nomenome3244 their powers are so much cooler in mako mermaids too. I loved the moorings when I first watched it
@@Ana-rf5cu reeeeeaaaaalllllllll I just wish the story actually focused on zac, and also cam and their complicated love/angst relationship
@@nomenome3244 he wasn't at the time, but I think cam might be my favourite character now. All of the girls were kinda psycho at times
My guy skipped season 1 episode 25 "Dr. Danger" and thought we wouldn't notice
@@annika6815 to be fair, does anyone actually care about what happened in that episode?
@@keelanbarron928I mean they took photos of literal mermaids, feel like that’s important
After watching this whole video, I can’t stop thinking about Zane in particular. He started out as an asshole, then started becoming a better person much later in the season after meeting Rikki (ironic since Rikki is seen as a bit of a troublemaker. Like stealing his spark plug) and soon after season 3 hits, it’s like his character arc vanished partway through the season. Because they decided to throw Sophie into the mix. Wtf?
He and Rikki’s relationship was pretty healthy for the most part by the time season two rolled around and the first half of season three.
They essentially just assassinated his character just like Thomas Astrid did to Chloe Bourgeois in Miraculous Ladybug.
How dare you make me remember that evil evil man and what he did to Chloe 😂😂
Hey, there's an allegory of puberty in my UA-cam video about a fantastical mermaid show.
I used to think this show was a documentary because the tails were so realistic 😢
That's either funny or deeply concerning depending on how old you were at the time.
@@jazzy4830 I was 10😅
@@Terriblenogoodverybadartist yikes😂
@@TerriblenogoodverybadartistThat's very sad...
@@TerriblenogoodverybadartistOh that’s not..
andrews disappointment when Will doesnt turn into a merman reminded me that mako mermaids exists and he'd love the merman rep fr
Oh boy my favourite genre of content 5 hour video essays about a show I vaguely remember watching as a kid
The fact I didn’t even remember Nate EXISTING even though he’s been in EVERY season is crazy
I’m glad you’re pointing out that the main girls became bullies and the UA-cam comments. Charlotte’s actress got and still gets a crazy amount of hatred and body shaming for a role she played 15 years ago where her role as a “villain” essentially boils down to Charlotte being relentlessly bullied with very of-the-time sexist logic.
The audacity of this man to make me ship Zayne and Lewis when there's besically no fanfiction about them... my disappointment is immeasurable and my day has been ruined.
Be the change you want to see in the world 😭
you know what you have to do
Do what you have to do for the better of us all
OMG I feel challenged
just write the damn fic already 😂
everyone is talking about the seasons but the only thing that bothered me in the entire video is that the moon can in fact be out during the day
And in fact, it can be visible for 2-3 hours before sky turns dark, with still setting sun. I see this often in summer. This August there was awesome bloody-orange full moon in my city😍
Oh I love H2O: Just Add Water. I was so upset when seasons two and three were removed from Netflix.
Also I think Lewis is everyone’s favourite character. Even if they won’t admit it. Or at least in their top three.
The whole thing is on UA-cam for free.
I think Netflix currently doesn't have the last half of Mako Mermaids either, right? (But I think the animated remake of Just Add Water still has all seasons up, at least.) Like they had all of the first series and all of the second series, and then most of the first series was gone for a while, then it came back, then they lost it again, and then they lost a bunch of the second series. What's going on with these shows on there?
I know whatcha mean on the Netflix thing
@@MuljoStphoNetflix pays to have shows (or certain seasons of shows), when the licence expires they get removed and if the show is on one of the other streaming services they often never return to Netflix. Sometimes they stay for good and others only last as little as a few months or a year or two. I realized this when they took off all the Disney stuff and now they’re all locked in Disney+ 😒
Those "sippy cups" are really common cheap Australian water bottles, they were everywhere during my childhood throughout the 2000s. I haven't seen them in a long time likely because they weren't great for the environment and Australia pushed environmentalism a lot throughout the 2010s.
growing up in germany this show had such a cult status it was insane. + The production was partially handled by national German TV which is why it was so prevelant here probably
I noticed how much of the official merch is exclusively German and that makes so much sense now!
GUYS GET THE STOKED VIDEO TO A MILLION I WANT A 6TEEN VIDEO FROM HIM SO BAD
As an Australian, I too also swim to a mysterious island and become a X-Men Mermaid. It's pretty normal here tbh. Just the crocs and Box Jellyfish make it hard to swim around all the time.
Also Lewis deserved better. And Charlotte did not deserve becoming a villain.
im still genuinely upset Ricki’s actress never went over to the Originals
No matter how many times *MAKO ISLAND* was mentioned, I still laughed. The way you say it is too funny.
3:13:35 Wait I need to talk about this for a second. LEWIS decorated the whole moon pool by HIMSELF. HE got all the stuff and brought it to ✨ MAKO ISLAND ✨ … Cleo and him were supposed to meet there but when she finally arrived which took her literal months, Lewis was already done decorating. And Emma and Rikki will never know. They will always be thinking from now on that Cleo did this. Another Lewis bullying episode, theoretically.., He’s just not getting the credits he deserved, the usual, you know. THIS DUDE DESERVES BETTER. GET AWAY FROM THOSE TOXIC ASS MARINES.
Okay, I watched this video over the span of three days and it was so fun. I enjoyed this so much! Fedora and the Zane explosion were my favorites
One important detail that you forgot for the timeline: summer in australia is from mid december to early march, southern hemisphere my guy
BHultra: "I'll never be a mermaid."
Mako Mermaids: Am I a joke to you?
the australia to america misunderstandings are so... her sandwich was honey and BUTTER bc we dont use mayo as the base of our sandwiches bc we're not freaks (affectionate)
While that's 100x better than mayo, I would have never thought to try that either 😅
as if thats better lolol
@@Ashtray888 it is actually. seems like youve never had one
@@beelzebub6414 im allergic to bees, honey, gluten and dairy so ill never have one
@@Ashtray888it is? it's not only Australian, in central Asia and Europe at least it's common, like putting butter then jam. Idk why you'd assume putting a sweet sticky paste on top of butter is so weird
"Mako island" will be repeating in my mind for ages. Thanks a lot 😂
“Remember when Zane exploded” lives in my head rent free
Can’t believe i missed emma x rikki as a kid😂 thank you for this, I didn’t know I needed a 5 hour video and I’m honored to watch it!
For me, the thing about Charlotte was that she just feels shifty. Like yeah she's the sweet new girl, but half the situations she gets in are her not reading the room or purposefully ignoring it entirely. She feels like she has weaponized niceness or something. Where you could say "oh she's so sweet, she'd never do that" but she _would_ and that's the play. Also, she forces herself onto Lewis's outings, he clearly is going through something and she doesn't seem to care because it doesn't get her what she wants. I think part of her being "different" when she gets powers is partly her mask slipping and partly the power going to her head. I remember when I watched it initially, I wasn't surprised she became evil as soon as she got powers, she always felt devious but good at hiding it.
thank you!! she’s so sussy
The problem is that none of that seems like a big deal after seeing our "heroes" narrowly avoid committing murder, twice before Charlotte gets involved. It just sounds like you're making up reasons to justify hating her.
I absolutely love using the name The Neptunes to refer to the girls
i never got the Charlotte hate and fully agree ppl only hated her because she was with Lewis (which is weird because Cleo is the one who broke up with him) but once she got her powers they just made her weirdly arrogant and insufferable.
A FIVE HOUR H2o retrospective?? Bless you🙏😭
Maybe i don’t understand how tv stations work but it just seems bizarre that Nickelodeon just stopped airing this show in the US. In the UK the channel aired all the episodes. It was always on TV. So they clearly owned it all
It was moved to Teen Nick instead
The "M A K O I S L A N D *Dramatic/mysterious bgm*" and the "Remember Zane... when you exploded." are the best recurring jokes of the video
Edit: I was praying to God he'd end off the video with another "Remember when Zane exploded?" joke and bro delivered
Alright I gotta disagree with your Charlotte comments, she's not that bad at the beginning but she does gradually get worse. There are genuinely reasons to dislike Charlotte other than the obvious 'the show wants you to' and/or 'She's dating Lewis when he's supposed to be with Cleo!!'. For me, it mainly has to do with her behavior towards Lewis specifically. But I'd have to write a whole essay to get all my thoughts out on it and I know aint nobody's about to read such an insanely long comment lmao. Point is, Charlotte sucks sorry.
Girl I want to know please write that essay
Please please please watch Mako Mermaids and see how they dash all the lore and completely up root everything about this show while trying to convince you that it’s a direct sequel
I honestly get the hate around charlotte, like some hate on her was absolutely undeserved. but she was a pretty controlling person, saying she found it weird that Lewis hung around Cleo, and getting jealous about it, as if they weren't childhood friends who had known each other long before Charlotte even got there. Also the fact she was a stalker lmao..
I can’t wait, I loved this show!
When I was in elementary school, I watched an episode and then realized it was on teen nick. I actually felt guilty about it and didn’t watch for years 😂
I remember not knowing what H2o was but then a friend showed me specifically the epsidoes with kissing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! We were in like second or third grade!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1 I loved it.
I was there when it aired on the US and was just as confused as Andrew was. Last year, I binged The Bureau of Magical Things which was created by the same guy and is apparently in the same universe!
@@Sproutgoodnight1161 I was the same when i watched it when I was 10 then I got obsessed with the show I still love it
@@theoutsiderjess1869 What episode did you first see? Mine was Moon Spell? The one where Emma was effected I'm not sure.
it was on amazon prime and lemme tell you smth when I was a kid I had this shitty kindle fire and I would stay up so late and watch the episodes. I think its still on amazon prime now !
this being set in the gold coast was a fucking whiplash for me because that's my home town and somehow i had never heard of this show before
I’m convinced the casting director from “The Originals” is somehow obsessed with the cast from H2O Mermaids…
True 😅 from what I can remember they got at least 3 actors to appear on TO
The writers wrote lewis so well and I'm glad they would develop the characters that weren't the three main girls
The moon doesn't rise at sundown and set at sunup. It's on a different cycle, it could set in the middle of the day.
The full moon is pretty much opposite to the sun tho, so it is pretty close to sunset/rise.
@@EllisephaNo it really depends. Idk if it depends on location but sometimes the moon will be up at 10am, or 12pm. literally middle of day and the moon is up
@@Ellisepha for context i live where this show was filmed
I'd love to see a video like this on Charmed, that show is legit what happens when H20 meets Supernatural
I'm surprised that in research you didn't find out they aired all of H2O in America, on the channel Teen Nick. That channel's how I found so many Australian shows. It's how I found Dance Academy and Alien Surf Girls. Although they never aired season 3 of Dance Academy for some reason, so I had to watch it on UA-cam.
THANK YOU! I KNEW I remembered episodes from season 2 and the episodes of season 1 he said never aired in the west! I felt gaslit for the entire dang video!
YES OMG...
yeah i was confused like, did it not pop up when he looked it up? Alien surf girls is iconic.
I found my people 😂😂. I lived and breathed dance academy
Edit: when did they rename alien surf girls or was lightning point always the name of the show im confused
@@jadynariana I'm pretty sure Lightning Point was the name of the show in Australia, but I know when it was premiering in America it was always promoted as Alien Surf Girls
2:08:00 my theory is that the writers had a sever case of “make the characters people act horrible to soften the blow on the new character” and to easy people into introducing and liking the new character, before halfway through the season deciding that actually the new character is a villain and the original character was right the whole time with no reservations
Every time you said "Moonpool" I was violently reminded of being a Warrior Cats kid
SAME
"Doesn't rain for months and rains every other week" is exactly how the good parts of Australia are
1:38:54 No literally as soon as I saw this episode I was like “Omfg each of you dye your hair, get tattoos, fuck it try scarification, anything to make your mermaid form look less like your human form” that just makes so much more sense to me and I’m so upset they got rid of Emma’s red hair so fast
Okay, but, wouldn't you kinda HAVE TO reveal your form to a talented tattoo artist?
@@homeiswonderlandtbh Rikki strikes me as the kind of girl who would offer to tatoo her friends
@@Ellisepha No literally I bet she’d be so into tattooing plus if you needed to you could definitely learn to yourself or become close enough with someone who does/wants to
Here is my pitch to make you watch Mako Island of Secrets: it has merman
YEAH YEAH YEAH. I was OBSESSED with this show. Ive rewatched it at least a dozen times and even watched the spin off before its first season hit netflix.
I need every single hat that andrew has proposed. If you have an etsy and want my money, tell me the name of your shop and i will buy a custom "i fear women. I want fish." "Women dont want me. Fish are indifferent." Etc hat. You will get MORE of my money if your hats are for big heads bc i might be dumb but im built like jimmy neutron
They turned Charlotte evil and then acted like they knew her real self. Like bitches no, you bullied an innocent girl into a mental break
narratively im halfway thru s3 and i support rikki and zane on an emotional level but on an instinctual level my brain is like “get that old man away from that child ASAP”
In regards to 1:02:15 Australia does not look after its homeless people, despite having more vacant houses than homeless people
49:19 it never made sense to me how harrison didnt believe zane saw a shark in shark infested waters 😂
Rikki and Emma are my OTP, and the second you mentioned you shipped them, you gained a new subscriber! you're SO REAL for that!
Okay, now I need a Mako Mermaids one.
Can someone make time stamps for every time Zane exploded.
ricky was probably one of my first girl crushes… omg
Remember when Zayne exploded, MAKO ISLAND, and the character nicknames were excellent bits for this video! Gave me a lot of laughs on my work commute and lunches. Excellent work as always Mr. Andrew Ultra!
Hey, remember that time Zane exploded?
3:59:50
"If you wanna get with me, you better line up ladies! Line up ladies! If you want a love letter from me, you better sign up ladies, better give me your address!"
The best lines Nate has ever dropped. This one bit of song stuck with me for years and will continue to move on with me till the end of time.
how did I just watch a five and a half hour video on a show I don´t quite care about instead of studying for my exams or doing something that would have made me profoundly happy?
tbf this video made me profoundly happy!
@@djswurld3957 valid xD
Lewis is hands down my favorite character of all time. dude just wanted to fish, and I can respect that