RIP Gummigoo. Pomni finally found a friend to share her existential pain with, and Caine just zapped him out of existence. Kinda surprised she didn't abstract right there.
I’m really going to miss Gummigoo, he was going to be my new favorite character to the Digital Circus but Caine had to get rid of him. I really hate Caine for that.
chance of reintroduction. (ragatha mentioned that Caine reuses npcs from time to time. they've been there for a long while, so we can trust their word.)
@@noahschultz9031 ragatha does say kain reuses NPC’s so he’ll probably return eventually. Who knows what he’ll be like on returns but he’ll probably not remember any of this
The teapot is actually the "Utah Teapot," one of the first objects to be 3d-modelled and frequently used as an example object. It's a very distinctive shape!
I was cackling when I saw that. That model is very important in the history of computer graphics, and was used to test the look of lighting on different types of surfaces!
@@victorconway444| Well, as an AI, he's basically a piece of the Circus's algorithm that's been programmed to believe it's separate. His "death" was him returning the the Circus. It'd sorta be like waking up from a dream and remembering what you really are. It's still an ego-death, though. Just like how the simulated people in your dreams cease to exist when you wake up.
I love the fact that Pomni isn't still just going to be only mentally unstable, but instead she made a realization that she isn't alone. There's other people who feel the same way, and that there's other people who are with her. Like Ragatha
None of them are mentally stable there. They are all just show it differently. Plus it's all is fresh for Pomni, I bet she'll be better in time. (or worse but that leads to abstraction)
So what I understand from the ending is it cutting back to her dream sequence, all of them grab her hand. Her fear in the dream is that she’d be forgotten and not even cared about if she got abstracted. The funeral kinda puts that fear to rest, metaphorically showing that by them pulling her out from the pit
I think it was everyone who was at the funeral who grabbed her. I might've missed it, but I didn't see Jax's or Caine's hands. It makes sense because it showed her that, at least those attending the funerals don't forget the Abstracted.
I also feel its supposed to mean she feels shes not alone. When she got there everyone tried convincing her everything was gonna be okay or that they were content....it made a big space between her and them. But with the funeral she realized while she might be alone in her feelings at the moment they arent completely leaving her on her own and there are others who will support her when it gets tough there even if theyre more accustomed to things.
"Aren't you supposed to be submissive and agreeable" one word away from greatness. I feel so bad for Pomni, she makes a friend only for him to get Thanos snapped away. You will be missed Gummigoo
I don't think he will. I suspect he'll return without his memories of this. Don't know if it'll be a one time thing or if it'll develop into more, but not bringing him back is just leaving opportunities to break pomni even more on the table.
@@alansmithee419 we are given visual evidence that the whole circus world is full of glitches and errors. Maybe one of those ends up causing Gummigoo to respawn with his memories of this intact
Pomni I feel so sad for of seeing Gummie Goo die after they became friends who share a similar existential crisis pain in the Out of Bounds part. RIP Gummie Goo, you will not be forgotten.
They knew we would fall in love with Gummygoo so they yeeted him out to make us want to buy his plushie even more 😭 its smart for marketing but MY HEART
12:06 Gummigoo's existential crisis begins the same way Stitch has his crisis in the first "Lilo and Stitch" movie. They both realize they don't have a past, not even memories of their childhood or their parents/family because they never had any. They spawned into existence they day they were set to create mayhem. Even worse for Gummigoo, he HAD memories of his mom being sick written into his code (by Caine) but he realized those were all fake and he didn't even have a mom. His world shattered when he realized that he and his friends were only created "to be defeated and forgotten." And unlike Stitch, he almost immediately accepted to go with his new friends/family at Pomni's invitation, BUT outside of the context he was created for, he wasn't allowed to exist.
I really loved the scenes with Pomni and Gummy Goo, and seeing him learn the dark truth that he's just an NPC with no freedom or agency was really tragic and such an unexpected direction I didn't see the episode take. At least Pomni is slowly realising shes not alone in this mess. But of course, when Kaine sent Gummy Goo away, my jaw dropped! Seeing Pomni straight up lose more of her sanity over losing what could've been a potential friend to relate to in this virtual hell was heartbreaking I love how much of an unhinged agent of chaos Jax is in this episode
It was honestly jaw-dropping both moments, Caine absolutely destroying the.. "NPC", and both characters having their mental breakdowns. This all just confirms that, indeed, it's just a game after all. What truly got me was Gummigoo realising his mother wasn't apart of the game's assets, he really didn't lie saying it was all false. About Jax, i'm assuming he'll probably be the second one to abstract, or third. The other worlds Caine has to show probably won't catch Jax's interests, which are about Mayhem and Chaos, this will probably make him lose it due to boredom or something else and seek REAL FUN on The Circus itself (abstracting, and then causing mayhem himself) I do really want to see Gummigoo coming back, he's my favorite character :(
Interesting to note that Jax was not at the funeral. Gooseworx has said that Jax deserves to be there the most out of all of them. With this episode I now have a theory that Jax is an NPC himself pretending to be human, don’t have a lot of evidence for it but it’s a hypothetical.
Maybe he skipped out on the funeral for personal reasons. Some ppl don’t handle funerals well. And it looks like he gave Kaufmo his bowling ball so maybe there’s something to it
A thing to note is that Caine said that he has a hard time telling NPCs and Characters apart… So who knows? Jax being the trickster he is was probably able to weasel his way in, and convince Caine and the rest that he’s just always been there
@@ma.2089 That also makes sense… Plus his reaction to seeing Kaufmo abstracted was pretty spooked (then again, everyone was frightened by Kaufmo’s abstracted form)
21:47 Can we all collectively appreciate the other too bandits busting a move together in the background? Protect them at all costs, make the Fudge a hard candy before it eats them.
At the end, we see a flashback to Pomni's dream from the start. In her nightmare, the others don't even remember her name when she abstracts or "dies", so she's afraid that in this world the loss of people is so lackadaisical that noone cares, but at the end, she sees how they honor Kaufmo's "passing", and realizes that even if something happened to her, they'd remember her, so she gets a flash of the same nightmare, except this time you see the other's hands grab hers to stop her from falling, showing that they care and that in turn is stopping her from totally losing it and abstracting.
9:45 This is the Utah Teapot, an in-joke in animation between animators because it was one of the first computer/digital assets ever created because it was vector practice. It was relatively easy to make using the basic level of power old computers had, so now the teapot is referenced in (often 3D) animation. I can remember it was in the first Toy Story movie as the teapot Buzz Lightyear used while he was "Mrs. Nesbitt."
Since i saw it during the premiere's livestream (awful chat btw), a few things i noticed: -Pomni learns the colission glitch since waking up from the nightmare. -The new AI is probably the reason why Gummigoo actually reacted to the glitch and kept moving, rather than just be your common NPC, as well as why Jax was able to essentially kill everyone by changing the course of the monster, in a way that AI is going to be the excuse for why NPCs can actually be characters in this video game show. -It's more "What if Undertale met The Truman Show" with all the talk about NPC's having feelings and existentialism. It's like a darker turn on Free Guy which you guys recently watched. -As for Erick's question on who grabbed Pomni's hand at the end, it was all of them except Jax who grabbed Pomni, she was remembering her nightmare but now they save her, because she's now realizing they DO care about each other instead of just LARPing like she thought.
I personally thought he would be stuck in the candy kingdom, unable to cross, infinity train style. He would then have been at risk of being executed by then candy people... still a better fate though 🙁
Same. I dont know how I have some sort of phsycic brain that can predict whats going to happen. Its not even predicting! Its a feeling that i have! And it keeps happening! Its happened 2 times now! Im confused how my mind is that smart.
The teapots are more likely a reference to the Utah Teapot, which was the first 3D CGI model ever created without precisely measuring every line, back in 1975. It's often used as a test model for 3D modeling programs, or to compare other models against as a standard.
@@standingbylife Probably because Caine has already did a bunch of other worlds, as Ragatha mentioned him reusing characters. But doesn't explain his.. VERY AI behavior, well he'll be hated a lot so good luck to the Caine fans.
I just noticed at the end, the hands that grabbed Pomni's hand are Ragatha, Zooble, Kingler and Gangle So interesting for her to see an "alternative" ending to her Nightmare, where her friends hold her hand instead of letting her fall into the Cellar.
24:36 Had to go frame by frame, but I think I noticed at least 4 “arms”/“hands” which are Gangle, Kingler, Zooble, and Ragatha. Gangle’s ribbons was the first one that sticks out on my first watch, which made me immediately believe the other arms was the other characters, however, I don’t think I noticed Jax. No purple arm and yellow glove. Just a red ribbon for Gangle, tanish arm with a dress sleeve for Ragatha, blue plasticky arm for Zooble, and a white floating glove without arms for Kingler.
Makes sense as Jax is the least emphatic of the bunch. I'm not blaming Jax, we don't know what he could have been through to become like this, but the fact is he would be the least likely to help.
@@leovk5779 Yea, while I don’t see Pomni having any connection with Zooble (since they always don’t want to be involved with Caine’s Shenanigan, nor spoke much with Gangle or Kinger… But the interactions that Pomni had with Jax was *_Not_* pleasant at all.
With how quickly this reaction was posted, I like to imagine that when this episode was put up, an alarm went off in the Sorta Stupid studio telling everyone to report to their stations for an emergency reaction.
RIP Gummigoo and the rest of the candy kingdom. Also idk if anyone noticed but when they were talking about Kaufmos funeral Jax looked sad for a spilt second before realizing and looking mad and tough again. Maybe Jax does have good heart on the inside.... very down deep-
That... or he accidentally deleted a human thinking he was an NPC. The confusion can go both ways... Since none of the humans know about that, not even Kinger who is the oldest here, that could mean this group is not the first Cain takes care of, and some people were there even before Kinger...
@@leovk5779| Nah, Kinger has almost certainly been here since the beginning. Notice how simple his model is compared to the others? Like it was the Circus's first attempt at generating one. It even has classic VR floating hands!
Yeah... best case scenario, he let an NPC live among the humans for a while (still there? Jax maybe?), worst case, he deleted a human thinking he was an NPC...
3:06 I'll never get over how Jax's interactions with Zooble feel so much like a long-time couple because their VA's, Michael Kovach and Ashley Nichols respectively, really DO live together and they're a couple.
@@CpandaA It's definitely sweet! You can see they've worked together on the same shows before, such as Lackadaisy. She played the owner of the Lackadaisy speakeasy, Mitzi May, and he plays her employee Roark "Rocky" Rickaby. On the Hazbin Hotel pilot, she was a cleanup artist for the animation and he was the voice of Angel Dust 🥰
23:42 We see a glimmer of sad-emotion from Jax here when they mention the funeral service. I wonder if Jax is grieving over the loss of someone he was close with who abstracted and masks his feelings with aggressive/chaotic behavior.
“Where I came from.” “I’m originally from somewhere else.” So, Pomni’s remembering things? Also, does anyone else think Zooble is abstracting. Some of her features are changing significantly
I believe it’s just Zooble switching pieces. If they can disassemble, they probably have replaced their pieces at least a few times. Maybe they got damaged during the encounter with the Gloink Queen.
We actually don't know all the effects that going from the real world to the circus does, as Caine has admitted he can't access their minds (for better or worse), the only thing we know she doesn't remember is her name.
I don’t think anyone’s really forgotten their real world human lives exactly(except maybe Kinger but he’s shown lapses of clarity),it just seems too painful for them to openly recall it since they might never return to it again or even remember their names from that life. It’s just the names that are forgotten so that new identities can be forged for them in the Digital Circus. Even Pomni mentioned in the Pilot about putting on the headset, so she still had memories of that. It might take a while but I think we’ll eventually learn everyone’s background.
Basically from what I can tell they introduced gummigoo in the “first” episode to test how people would feel about his plot and to avoid shoehoring in someone everyone would not like, if he’s popular enough tho I could see him coming back especially since ragatha said caine reuses npcs sometimes
24:37 Ok so I'm glad they asked who pulled Pomni back up. I think its Zooble, Ragatha, & Gangle's hands grabbing Pomni's. Anyways, very fun reactions! I loved that they guessed what was going to happen in the end but were still horrified. I also think its great that they encouraged people to buy the ADC merch! Great video!
23:27 makes me think Jax was what Ragatha is to Pomni and bringing back a NPC is a tradition "is that allowed?" asked like before it was and before must not have been a concern till a incident happened, plus what she was saying sounded really sarcastic n had that Jax like pose but she obviously means it in a positive way
I'm reminded of a quote from The Good Place: "Don't worry, they're not real." "Well, they're fake people, but their _pain_ is real." The teapots are probably a reference to the Utah Teapot, but there is a hypothesis that they may also be a reference to Russel's Teapot too. 18:39 - They got those ARMA 3 vehicle physics in there.
I can't believe how sad I am about the gummy crocodile dying! Usually the "Getting to know a character only for it to be killed suddenly" trope doesn't get to me but in just one episode the glitch team made a character that I got attached to even though I knew what was gonna happen to him. Well done glitch team.
24:44 ~ That represented her nightmare in the beginning, how she feared falling apart and being forgotten immediately, but the funeral event showed her how much everyone cared and how she trusted them to catch her if she fell. (Nothing neither Jax or Caine's hand was there, representing how she doesn't have confidence or trust in them.) Also, I'd expected it to maybe build up like a kingdom of numerous NPCs alongside the "players", so I was very taken aback by that sudden turn 😅
Quick thing, it was with this video (the episode), that I discovered for the first time about youtube new multi-languages audio tracks, and it felt really surreal to hear the voices in my native language, kinda made me loose my mind for a sec
@@ChamarM I know he’s voiced by Micheal you can find him in every indie production besides ramshackle it seems. But I was referring to the yay pain line by nifty.
I really appreciate that y'all have the media literacy to understand this show is dark comedy, NOT horror. I've seen so many idiots write it off as "another colourful pretend-horror property for children." I've seen people spending so much time trying to build theories as they watch that the jokes fly right over their heads.
Jax is continuing to channel the energy of Master Shake in this series (i.e. screwing over anyone and everyone to get a laugh, even his friends), and I'm all for it.
Pomni thought of herself as nothing, replacable, so in her nightmare when she abstracted she was just thrown into the pit with others being like 'ha! oh well'. But in the end she sees that no, everyone who is there and who got abstracted, they were not nobodies, people grieved them, they mattered. She is not alone.
I feel like gangle will abstract eventually because of Jax its especially shown during this episode the point where Jax ask Gangle if she was supposed to be submissive theres a music change just before they hit the bumps on the road
You just know during that whole convo starting at 15:58 she was also totally talking ABOUT herself TO herself. I am such a sucker for scenes where a character has an “aha” moment and inadvertently gives themselves their own advice by giving advice to someone ELSE with the same problem. When I saw that that’s what was about to happen I smiled so big and went “omg they’re going to do the THING”
Okay...I still love this show in terms of writing, but...yeaaaaaah, after that bitchslap of an ending, I'm tuning out. I'm tuning out in a loving way though - like it's not cause of bad writing, it's cause they wrote it well enough for me to flip the table. Like if you flipped the table over an NPC dying in a DND game, it's more a compliment to the DM then anything.
The graphic quality of this episode is EXPONENTIALLY better than the pilot. Holy shit. GLITCH knocked it out of the park with this one guys. It's so fluid and there's so many background details. RIP Gummigoo.
I hope that if Gummigoo comes back (Which he most probably will) he doesn’t remember going into the void place but does remember his friendship with Pomni, I feel like it would drive her mad but make her happy she still has her friend
R.I.A. Kaufmo & Maybe See You in A While Crocodile - What a Bittersweet ending to the leader of (what I will call them) the Gummy Gator Gang that being Gumigoo who is voiced by Jack Hawkins who also voiced another gummy gator that being Chad, & he also voices some Elf combat vocals & Shadow (Baldur’s Gate 3), & a few more while the remaining gator is Max voiced by Hamish Plaggmars who also voices Jones’s, Will, Cole, & Caleb (Broken Roads) then a few more. As for the named Candy Citizens there is Princess Loolilalu voiced by Vera Tan who also voices Gwyneth (AFK Arena) & a few more while as for the Fudge Monster he is voiced by Lyle Rath who also voices CEO, Angry Dent-Headed person, & Warren Buffett (Smiling Friends), Lifeguard & others (Helluva Boss), Tim Allen (Cyanide & Happiness), Golbat, Haunter, & Gastly (Starter Squad), Jaffe (Hellsing Ultimate Abridge), & a few more - This episode was like Md Max meets Candyland which speaking of the Fudge Monster maybe based on Gloppy while Princess Loolilalu mayber based on Princess Lolly
I mean the card background of Jax keychain is outside his room, but everyone else's card background are their room interior. It's an odd detail. Honestly
not just video game reference but 3d animation and stuffs too. the teapot is a 3d test model. and about pomni at the end, this is my take on it. at the beginning she had a nightmare about being abandoned and forgotten, but the funeral helped her see these people won't. the visual of hands reaching out to her is a visual metaphor that she's not alone. but i think it's safe to assume the visual of people grabbing her arms and then her smiling is showing that she don't have to worry about her nightmare at the beginning.
Glitch: Here's a fun new character! He has a backstory, goes on zany adventures with his goofy gummi crew, has his entire world shattered in an existential crisis leaving him a crumpled husk of his former self before getting picked up by our sweet heroine fish-out-of-water protagonist, who promises him a home for fellow outcasts, companionship, adventures, and now he's dead............ Also Glitch: HEY, WANNA BUY A PLUSHIE OF THAT CHARACTER WE LITERALLY JUST ERASED IN FRONT OF YOUR EYES 30 SECONDS AGO?!?!
I’d say having this Episode take place just the Day after the Pilot is pretty fair, since, assuming that they do Adventures every Day, this would be Pomni’s Actual First Adventure, since she didn’t actually partake in the one meant for her when she first arrived, even though like i said she was only part of it halfway, Also, it also made the Funeral Scene at the end feel more fitting, by the way about that Scene, I find it very interesting that Jax ended up not being part of the Funeral and who he was not featured amongst the Hands that prevented Pomni’s Metaphorical Fall, now that part could just be due to him not being part of the Funeral, but considering what the Curators has said about Jax, i think it’s a detail that’s worth keeping in mind for the Future. Anyway, with all of that now being out of the way, i am now left wondering: Will every Episode take place just the Day after the Previous One or could we expect Episodes to have at least a couple of Days in between them from now on? Will Pomni get out of the Adventure and into some kind of Out of bounds moment every Episode? If so, while that would be interesting, I would appreciate to see at least one Episode where Pomni stays in the Adventure all the way through, because I don’t think we need a Out-of-Bounds Moment every time to make a Episode worthwhile. On to of that, will Pomni bond with more NPCs in one way or another and will she end up having them learn something about themselves too? I also wonder if we’ll ever get to see Loo and Gummigoo again? Now, I am aware that the Candy Canyon Kingdom was probably just meant to be for this Episode, hence why it was sent off the way it did, still I would like to see some kind of Aftermath to what Jax did. Also, i wonder if we’ll ever get to a point in time where Pomni won’t stutter all the time or at least not when it counts? If so, i will look forward to see what might lead us there. Anyway, regardless of it all, this Episode has made me even more excited to see how this Show will play out, I can’t wait for more Episodes, What do you think will happen next?
RIP Gummigoo. Pomni finally found a friend to share her existential pain with, and Caine just zapped him out of existence. Kinda surprised she didn't abstract right there.
Gummigoo would’ve been a good addition to the circus
Or try to maim Caine.
very disturbing that the only way she was able to react was laugh-
I’m really going to miss Gummigoo, he was going to be my new favorite character to the Digital Circus but Caine had to get rid of him. I really hate Caine for that.
chance of reintroduction. (ragatha mentioned that Caine reuses npcs from time to time. they've been there for a long while, so we can trust their word.)
Never in my life, I'd would never expect to be sad over an australian gummy crocodile, but here we are
It made me really sad too… I would have liked GummyGoo as a new main character
@@noahschultz9031 ragatha does say kain reuses NPC’s so he’ll probably return eventually. Who knows what he’ll be like on returns but he’ll probably not remember any of this
@@Broomer52yeah… he might have a completely new personality too.
I cried. Am i cooked?
Ah, thanks! I thought he had a British cockney accent. Maybe a little fusion
The teapot is actually the "Utah Teapot," one of the first objects to be 3d-modelled and frequently used as an example object. It's a very distinctive shape!
I was cackling when I saw that. That model is very important in the history of computer graphics, and was used to test the look of lighting on different types of surfaces!
Ooohhhhhhhh that makes sense, thank you for answering that question on my mind! I was wondering what the significance was!
Very happy someone explained this, when I saw the episode I was like why..are there so many mf teapots? 😭
My humor is so broken that looking at teapots is funni idk why
I kind of wanted the Blender monkey to show up, but maybe that would be legally difficult
"You know, he might be back in a future adventure. I know Caine sometimes likes to reuse NPCs."
He had better come back...
Even if he somehow comeback, I doubt it'll even be the same person....
I can perfectly see Gummigoo coming back but having no memories of his relationship with Pomni whatsoever
That makes it sound even worse. Just being zapped away and brought back again at Caine's leisure. He can't even find peace in death.
@@victorconway444| Well, as an AI, he's basically a piece of the Circus's algorithm that's been programmed to believe it's separate. His "death" was him returning the the Circus. It'd sorta be like waking up from a dream and remembering what you really are.
It's still an ego-death, though. Just like how the simulated people in your dreams cease to exist when you wake up.
@@m.shaquilletristan9144 Ooh if they pull some Wall-E shit where he becomes a shell of his former self, I will lose my mind.
Fun Fact: Glitch is an Australian company, which is why so many characters, like Tessa and Gummigoo, are Aussies.
Didn't know that!
Best thing to come from Australia
Which it's ironic that they're both dead
@@maributalsofwoggie Either that or Bluey. They're doing something right down under.
@@maributalsofwoggie bro we created WiFi, so not the best
I love the fact that Pomni isn't still just going to be only mentally unstable, but instead she made a realization that she isn't alone. There's other people who feel the same way, and that there's other people who are with her. Like Ragatha
None of them are mentally stable there. They are all just show it differently. Plus it's all is fresh for Pomni, I bet she'll be better in time. (or worse but that leads to abstraction)
@@DeathKitta Yeah, it's just Ragatha also took time to get accustomed. Like Pomni. Also I hope she doesn't get abstracted
@@Blu-B3RrY Ragatha is all over the place but that's how she keeps herself stable in that world.
So what I understand from the ending is it cutting back to her dream sequence, all of them grab her hand. Her fear in the dream is that she’d be forgotten and not even cared about if she got abstracted. The funeral kinda puts that fear to rest, metaphorically showing that by them pulling her out from the pit
I think it was everyone who was at the funeral who grabbed her. I might've missed it, but I didn't see Jax's or Caine's hands. It makes sense because it showed her that, at least those attending the funerals don't forget the Abstracted.
I also feel its supposed to mean she feels shes not alone. When she got there everyone tried convincing her everything was gonna be okay or that they were content....it made a big space between her and them. But with the funeral she realized while she might be alone in her feelings at the moment they arent completely leaving her on her own and there are others who will support her when it gets tough there even if theyre more accustomed to things.
"Aren't you supposed to be submissive and agreeable" one word away from greatness. I feel so bad for Pomni, she makes a friend only for him to get Thanos snapped away. You will be missed Gummigoo
:) breedable
I don't think he will.
I suspect he'll return without his memories of this. Don't know if it'll be a one time thing or if it'll develop into more, but not bringing him back is just leaving opportunities to break pomni even more on the table.
@@alansmithee419 I mean, Pomni mentally breaking is perfectly possible if he DOES come back.
@@alansmithee419 we are given visual evidence that the whole circus world is full of glitches and errors. Maybe one of those ends up causing Gummigoo to respawn with his memories of this intact
Gangle may be submissive and agreeable...
...but Gummigoo was inquisitive and deleteable.
Pomni comforting Gummigoo is definitely my favorite scene. It shows character development and amazing writing on both of them 🥺
Pomni having insane character development with another character just for it to disappear is the most Pomni experience ever.
Man you took this from someone else
@@Shaders_ WHAT ELSE DO YOU PUT, ITS BASICALLY THE SAME AS SOMEONE SAYING YOU COPIED THEM WHEN ITS CORRECT, LIKE WHAT ELSE DO YOU PUT
@@jessg3416it’s copied word for word buddy
Damn you shameless thief
Yeah, I saw this exact comment word for word
I thought it was the same guy, but I guess not?
22:47
yep i think it's safe to say practically everyone screamed his name when that happened XD
Not me, I was honestly too in shock for that. I kinda wanted to cry tho
@@decristal48 that too
@@decristal48real (i am experiencing a extreme depression)
I was expecting it but it is still a very powerful moment
Pomni I feel so sad for of seeing Gummie Goo die after they became friends who share a similar existential crisis pain in the Out of Bounds part. RIP Gummie Goo, you will not be forgotten.
I love your kingdom hearts pfp
They knew we would fall in love with Gummygoo so they yeeted him out to make us want to buy his plushie even more 😭 its smart for marketing but MY HEART
12:06 Gummigoo's existential crisis begins the same way Stitch has his crisis in the first "Lilo and Stitch" movie. They both realize they don't have a past, not even memories of their childhood or their parents/family because they never had any. They spawned into existence they day they were set to create mayhem. Even worse for Gummigoo, he HAD memories of his mom being sick written into his code (by Caine) but he realized those were all fake and he didn't even have a mom. His world shattered when he realized that he and his friends were only created "to be defeated and forgotten." And unlike Stitch, he almost immediately accepted to go with his new friends/family at Pomni's invitation, BUT outside of the context he was created for, he wasn't allowed to exist.
I really loved the scenes with Pomni and Gummy Goo, and seeing him learn the dark truth that he's just an NPC with no freedom or agency was really tragic and such an unexpected direction I didn't see the episode take. At least Pomni is slowly realising shes not alone in this mess. But of course, when Kaine sent Gummy Goo away, my jaw dropped! Seeing Pomni straight up lose more of her sanity over losing what could've been a potential friend to relate to in this virtual hell was heartbreaking
I love how much of an unhinged agent of chaos Jax is in this episode
It was honestly jaw-dropping both moments, Caine absolutely destroying the.. "NPC", and both characters having their mental breakdowns. This all just confirms that, indeed, it's just a game after all. What truly got me was Gummigoo realising his mother wasn't apart of the game's assets, he really didn't lie saying it was all false.
About Jax, i'm assuming he'll probably be the second one to abstract, or third. The other worlds Caine has to show probably won't catch Jax's interests, which are about Mayhem and Chaos, this will probably make him lose it due to boredom or something else and seek REAL FUN on The Circus itself (abstracting, and then causing mayhem himself)
I do really want to see Gummigoo coming back, he's my favorite character :(
Interesting to note that Jax was not at the funeral. Gooseworx has said that Jax deserves to be there the most out of all of them. With this episode I now have a theory that Jax is an NPC himself pretending to be human, don’t have a lot of evidence for it but it’s a hypothetical.
He very, VERY briefly looked sad about it...he's definitely hiding something.
Maybe he skipped out on the funeral for personal reasons. Some ppl don’t handle funerals well. And it looks like he gave Kaufmo his bowling ball so maybe there’s something to it
A thing to note is that Caine said that he has a hard time telling NPCs and Characters apart… So who knows? Jax being the trickster he is was probably able to weasel his way in, and convince Caine and the rest that he’s just always been there
@@ma.2089 That also makes sense… Plus his reaction to seeing Kaufmo abstracted was pretty spooked (then again, everyone was frightened by Kaufmo’s abstracted form)
Yoooooo that would be insane!!! 😮
21:47 Can we all collectively appreciate the other too bandits busting a move together in the background? Protect them at all costs, make the Fudge a hard candy before it eats them.
19:44 I just realized (coming back after ep 3) that Kinger is wearing the bucket to make it dark, which is why he’s more lucid/fatherly here
R.I.P. Gummigoo. 2024-2024. 🐊
RIP 🥺😭
Well definitely he still alive just like other NPC they can respawn but they will not having same memories so ye RIP Gummigoo 🐊
Man was only like a few hours old he didn't deserve that shit
At the end, we see a flashback to Pomni's dream from the start. In her nightmare, the others don't even remember her name when she abstracts or "dies", so she's afraid that in this world the loss of people is so lackadaisical that noone cares, but at the end, she sees how they honor Kaufmo's "passing", and realizes that even if something happened to her, they'd remember her, so she gets a flash of the same nightmare, except this time you see the other's hands grab hers to stop her from falling, showing that they care and that in turn is stopping her from totally losing it and abstracting.
21:52 - What if Caine just obliterates him (Gummigoo) as soon as he crosses...
Wow. You guys called it! RIP to him though.
9:45 This is the Utah Teapot, an in-joke in animation between animators because it was one of the first computer/digital assets ever created because it was vector practice. It was relatively easy to make using the basic level of power old computers had, so now the teapot is referenced in (often 3D) animation. I can remember it was in the first Toy Story movie as the teapot Buzz Lightyear used while he was "Mrs. Nesbitt."
I haven’t felt that sad for an NPCs’ death in a long time, I’m tearing up 🥲
Yeah. Last wave of support like that I saw for an NPC was Free Guy with Ryan R.
Since i saw it during the premiere's livestream (awful chat btw), a few things i noticed:
-Pomni learns the colission glitch since waking up from the nightmare.
-The new AI is probably the reason why Gummigoo actually reacted to the glitch and kept moving, rather than just be your common NPC, as well as why Jax was able to essentially kill everyone by changing the course of the monster, in a way that AI is going to be the excuse for why NPCs can actually be characters in this video game show.
-It's more "What if Undertale met The Truman Show" with all the talk about NPC's having feelings and existentialism. It's like a darker turn on Free Guy which you guys recently watched.
-As for Erick's question on who grabbed Pomni's hand at the end, it was all of them except Jax who grabbed Pomni, she was remembering her nightmare but now they save her, because she's now realizing they DO care about each other instead of just LARPing like she thought.
Oooooooooooh that’s some very good points!!!
✨Licorice hair✨
Also at 21:32 the two cowboys are playing pattycake in the back 😂
I think they were dancing
My reaction to seeing Pomni inviting Gummigo to live in the circus : Aw, that's so sweet aaaaannnd he is definitely gonna ge killed by Caine
I personally thought he would be stuck in the candy kingdom, unable to cross, infinity train style. He would then have been at risk of being executed by then candy people... still a better fate though 🙁
Same. I dont know how I have some sort of phsycic brain that can predict whats going to happen. Its not even predicting! Its a feeling that i have! And it keeps happening! Its happened 2 times now! Im confused how my mind is that smart.
23:51 Lmao you know they're bros when they all said "Damn" at the exact same time lmfao.
I love the detail that GLITCH put into this. In the captions, the Aussie crocodile said "mum" and Pomni said "mom".
From what I can see, Ragatha, Tangle, and Zooble are the ones who grab Pomni's hand
*Gangle, and your right, cause those are the ones who are genuine to Pomni
Jax doesn’t give a fuck and Kinger’s…Kinger
I saw Kinger's hand there too, its just kinda hidden cause it's dark and his hands not an obvious color
kingers there too, its just not visible in the last bit because its behind ragatha's hand. but you can see it when they are reaching
"Who grabbed her hand?"
Everyone.
@@magne7771 probably everybody but Jax
The teapots are more likely a reference to the Utah Teapot, which was the first 3D CGI model ever created without precisely measuring every line, back in 1975. It's often used as a test model for 3D modeling programs, or to compare other models against as a standard.
This episode suddenly made me hate Caine with every fiber of my soul
I don’t think he has any conception that what he’s doing is bad. So I can’t really blame him, but at the same time…
The way he just zoned about getting confused about who's human and who's an NPC…
Makes me worry someone might be NPC…😬
@@standingbylife Probably because Caine has already did a bunch of other worlds, as Ragatha mentioned him reusing characters. But doesn't explain his.. VERY AI behavior, well he'll be hated a lot so good luck to the Caine fans.
Same! He’s basically if Chris McClean was made a god, change my mind! 😂
@@standingbylife ...Or he's zapped someone who's human out of existence before.
Called it, it’s going to be a running gag where Gangle will have her comedy mask fixed at the start of each episode and have it immediately break.
Instead of abstracting, become an aberration and break down the walls
TEAR DOWN THE DIGITAL WALLS
I just noticed at the end, the hands that grabbed Pomni's hand are Ragatha, Zooble, Kingler and Gangle
So interesting for her to see an "alternative" ending to her Nightmare, where her friends hold her hand instead of letting her fall into the Cellar.
24:36
Had to go frame by frame, but I think I noticed at least 4 “arms”/“hands” which are Gangle, Kingler, Zooble, and Ragatha.
Gangle’s ribbons was the first one that sticks out on my first watch, which made me immediately believe the other arms was the other characters, however, I don’t think I noticed Jax.
No purple arm and yellow glove. Just a red ribbon for Gangle, tanish arm with a dress sleeve for Ragatha, blue plasticky arm for Zooble, and a white floating glove without arms for Kingler.
Makes sense as Jax is the least emphatic of the bunch. I'm not blaming Jax, we don't know what he could have been through to become like this, but the fact is he would be the least likely to help.
@@leovk5779
Yea, while I don’t see Pomni having any connection with Zooble (since they always don’t want to be involved with Caine’s Shenanigan, nor spoke much with Gangle or Kinger…
But the interactions that Pomni had with Jax was *_Not_* pleasant at all.
With how quickly this reaction was posted, I like to imagine that when this episode was put up, an alarm went off in the Sorta Stupid studio telling everyone to report to their stations for an emergency reaction.
I fell in love with Gummigoo the second I saw his and his buddies and was openly sobbing when he was dusted into streamers and ribbons😩😭😭
RIP Gummigoo and the rest of the candy kingdom. Also idk if anyone noticed but when they were talking about Kaufmos funeral Jax looked sad for a spilt second before realizing and looking mad and tough again. Maybe Jax does have good heart on the inside.... very down deep-
Yeah, it's important to remember that ALL NPCs are deleted the moment the players finish the adventure. At best, their personalities are saved.
4:15 oh snap! If you look at the mannequin near Ragatha you can see the purple one strangled the blue one and killed it.
Holy shit Boom predicting what Cain will do to Gummigoo just seconds before is CRAZY 😭
I didn't realize my power, I'm sorry 😭
@@sortastupid not one of yall beating any pre watch allegations 😂
@@sortastupid i didn't realize my power either. Its happened twice now, and idk how. I'm not very smart.
"Jack belongs in the game" I wonder if Jack is an NPC that Cain lost track off, since Cain implies that it did happen before
That... or he accidentally deleted a human thinking he was an NPC. The confusion can go both ways...
Since none of the humans know about that, not even Kinger who is the oldest here, that could mean this group is not the first Cain takes care of, and some people were there even before Kinger...
@@leovk5779| Nah, Kinger has almost certainly been here since the beginning. Notice how simple his model is compared to the others? Like it was the Circus's first attempt at generating one. It even has classic VR floating hands!
First 10 seconds and Ruff already called Boom ugly...i know this is gonna be good.
Okay. Caine definitely lost track of whose a human and whose an NPC once and something horrible happened because of it.
Yeah... best case scenario, he let an NPC live among the humans for a while (still there? Jax maybe?), worst case, he deleted a human thinking he was an NPC...
3:06 I'll never get over how Jax's interactions with Zooble feel so much like a long-time couple because their VA's, Michael Kovach and Ashley Nichols respectively, really DO live together and they're a couple.
Aw! I didnt know that! Thats so cute!!!
@@CpandaA It's definitely sweet! You can see they've worked together on the same shows before, such as Lackadaisy. She played the owner of the Lackadaisy speakeasy, Mitzi May, and he plays her employee Roark "Rocky" Rickaby.
On the Hazbin Hotel pilot, she was a cleanup artist for the animation and he was the voice of Angel Dust 🥰
All the other humans (except Jax) grabbed Pomni's hand at the end.
23:42 We see a glimmer of sad-emotion from Jax here when they mention the funeral service. I wonder if Jax is grieving over the loss of someone he was close with who abstracted and masks his feelings with aggressive/chaotic behavior.
You know what fuck this show for giving a character that i instantly loved and than just zap him away
“Where I came from.” “I’m originally from somewhere else.”
So, Pomni’s remembering things? Also, does anyone else think Zooble is abstracting. Some of her features are changing significantly
I believe it’s just Zooble switching pieces. If they can disassemble, they probably have replaced their pieces at least a few times. Maybe they got damaged during the encounter with the Gloink Queen.
@@thepyrosharktf2gooseworxs says that every episode Zooble will have something different on
We actually don't know all the effects that going from the real world to the circus does, as Caine has admitted he can't access their minds (for better or worse), the only thing we know she doesn't remember is her name.
I don’t think anyone’s really forgotten their real world human lives exactly(except maybe Kinger but he’s shown lapses of clarity),it just seems too painful for them to openly recall it since they might never return to it again or even remember their names from that life.
It’s just the names that are forgotten so that new identities can be forged for them in the Digital Circus.
Even Pomni mentioned in the Pilot about putting on the headset, so she still had memories of that. It might take a while but I think we’ll eventually learn everyone’s background.
Basically from what I can tell they introduced gummigoo in the “first” episode to test how people would feel about his plot and to avoid shoehoring in someone everyone would not like, if he’s popular enough tho I could see him coming back especially since ragatha said caine reuses npcs sometimes
I'm not the only one who thinks Kingers flouting hands are a reference to Rayman's flouting hands?
Dude same Everytime I saw him I could just think of Rayman lol
24:37 Ok so I'm glad they asked who pulled Pomni back up. I think its Zooble, Ragatha, & Gangle's hands grabbing Pomni's. Anyways, very fun reactions! I loved that they guessed what was going to happen in the end but were still horrified. I also think its great that they encouraged people to buy the ADC merch! Great video!
I absolutely loved this reaction vid, I like how you were on Jaxx’s side instead of saying something like “don’t do that that’s dangerous Jaxx!” lol
23:27 makes me think Jax was what Ragatha is to Pomni and bringing back a NPC is a tradition "is that allowed?" asked like before it was and before must not have been a concern till a incident happened, plus what she was saying sounded really sarcastic n had that Jax like pose but she obviously means it in a positive way
3:12-The Fact Jax broke the fourth wall is crazy😂
20:20-Metal pipe😂
21:53-Uhm about that…
22:43-Ye…Yeah..
I think Jax was looking at Caine
I'm reminded of a quote from The Good Place: "Don't worry, they're not real." "Well, they're fake people, but their _pain_ is real."
The teapots are probably a reference to the Utah Teapot, but there is a hypothesis that they may also be a reference to Russel's Teapot too.
18:39 - They got those ARMA 3 vehicle physics in there.
(At 24:44) everyone, except for the stupid ringleader and the purple rabbit.
I can't believe how sad I am about the gummy crocodile dying! Usually the "Getting to know a character only for it to be killed suddenly" trope doesn't get to me but in just one episode the glitch team made a character that I got attached to even though I knew what was gonna happen to him. Well done glitch team.
I was actually looking forward to having gummigoo as part of our crew 💔
24:44 ~ That represented her nightmare in the beginning, how she feared falling apart and being forgotten immediately, but the funeral event showed her how much everyone cared and how she trusted them to catch her if she fell. (Nothing neither Jax or Caine's hand was there, representing how she doesn't have confidence or trust in them.)
Also, I'd expected it to maybe build up like a kingdom of numerous NPCs alongside the "players", so I was very taken aback by that sudden turn 😅
Definitely getting that Gummigoo plushie
Quick thing, it was with this video (the episode), that I discovered for the first time about youtube new multi-languages audio tracks, and it felt really surreal to hear the voices in my native language, kinda made me loose my mind for a sec
(At 19:57) I sincerely doubt Pomni's "hates" Ragatha. I'm wondering does If Raggedy Ann is smitten with the Jester?
22:56
That has...implications.
...has Caine gotten them mixed up before...?
...is he mixing up any NOW?
23:43 jax got sad when they talked about kaufmo
4:58 Jax got some nifty in him.
And Angel Dust (since he's voiced by Pilot Angel Dust)
@@ChamarM I know he’s voiced by Micheal you can find him in every indie production besides ramshackle it seems.
But I was referring to the yay pain line by nifty.
I really appreciate that y'all have the media literacy to understand this show is dark comedy, NOT horror. I've seen so many idiots write it off as "another colourful pretend-horror property for children."
I've seen people spending so much time trying to build theories as they watch that the jokes fly right over their heads.
24:35
It's everyone except jax, bubble, and caine - i.e. everyone at the funeral.
First Quirky Quota and now these guys, man everybody’s been hyped for this…I mean I was hyped for this as well ^_^
Jax is continuing to channel the energy of Master Shake in this series (i.e. screwing over anyone and everyone to get a laugh, even his friends), and I'm all for it.
Pomni thought of herself as nothing, replacable, so in her nightmare when she abstracted she was just thrown into the pit with others being like 'ha! oh well'. But in the end she sees that no, everyone who is there and who got abstracted, they were not nobodies, people grieved them, they mattered. She is not alone.
I feel like gangle will abstract eventually because of Jax its especially shown during this episode the point where Jax ask Gangle if she was supposed to be submissive theres a music change just before they hit the bumps on the road
22:59 is the exact moment Caine realizes he's on everyone's hit list for what he did.
#BingBackGummigoo
You just know during that whole convo starting at 15:58 she was also totally talking ABOUT herself TO herself.
I am such a sucker for scenes where a character has an “aha” moment and inadvertently gives themselves their own advice by giving advice to someone ELSE with the same problem. When I saw that that’s what was about to happen I smiled so big and went “omg they’re going to do the THING”
Gummigoo looking at himself under the map reminds me of that one scene from free guy.
21:50 "What if Caine just obliterates him as soon as he crosses" Yeah jaja, inagine that...
"did *I* take shrooms before this?"
Great question! you'll ask that alot watching this show
4:16 in between kinger and ragatha a doll loses his head after being shook too much
23:42 The tiiiiiny flicker of sadness on Jax's face betrays his fake bravado...
Okay...I still love this show in terms of writing, but...yeaaaaaah, after that bitchslap of an ending, I'm tuning out. I'm tuning out in a loving way though - like it's not cause of bad writing, it's cause they wrote it well enough for me to flip the table. Like if you flipped the table over an NPC dying in a DND game, it's more a compliment to the DM then anything.
if the depression gets even crazy worse after this i might not even touch my phone sheeshh
(we all know this is psycho horror genre but still)
I understand that. But unfortunately I cannot escape they got me hooked 😂
Poor Gangle She Can’t Catch A Break Of Getting Her Mask Broken Again
I love seeing the feelings an NPC can go through in games or just extras in movies or shows. They're nothing but just props
The graphic quality of this episode is EXPONENTIALLY better than the pilot. Holy shit. GLITCH knocked it out of the park with this one guys. It's so fluid and there's so many background details.
RIP Gummigoo.
3:35 Caine and bubble continue to be the best duo.
I hope that if Gummigoo comes back (Which he most probably will) he doesn’t remember going into the void place but does remember his friendship with Pomni, I feel like it would drive her mad but make her happy she still has her friend
I really like how they just shade and unshaded gummiegoo’s eyes to express shock. It’s so simple but effective. ❤
Justice for GummiGoo, I’m so mad they did that to him. Hope he’ll come back eventually😭
Omg, I'm just now realizing why Kinger was so normal with the bucket on his head🤯🤯🤯 Even Ragatha said "I'm surprised you remember that"
R.I.A. Kaufmo & Maybe See You in A While Crocodile
- What a Bittersweet ending to the leader of (what I will call them) the Gummy Gator Gang that being Gumigoo who is voiced by Jack Hawkins who also voiced another gummy gator that being Chad, & he also voices some Elf combat vocals & Shadow (Baldur’s Gate 3), & a few more while the remaining gator is Max voiced by Hamish Plaggmars who also voices Jones’s, Will, Cole, & Caleb (Broken Roads) then a few more. As for the named Candy Citizens there is Princess Loolilalu voiced by Vera Tan who also voices Gwyneth (AFK Arena) & a few more while as for the Fudge Monster he is voiced by Lyle Rath who also voices CEO, Angry Dent-Headed person, & Warren Buffett (Smiling Friends), Lifeguard & others (Helluva Boss), Tim Allen (Cyanide & Happiness), Golbat, Haunter, & Gastly (Starter Squad), Jaffe (Hellsing Ultimate Abridge), & a few more
- This episode was like Md Max meets Candyland which speaking of the Fudge Monster maybe based on Gloppy while Princess Loolilalu mayber based on Princess Lolly
7:48 Pizza Tower Taunts reference
yep
Jax is the main antagonist I'm calling it now.
Yeah, there’s more to him than he’s letting on
@@unforeseeable2.058 agreed say he's atleast komeada
I mean the card background of Jax keychain is outside his room, but everyone else's card background are their room interior.
It's an odd detail. Honestly
4:35 I gotta say one thing about Caine: He has a MASSIVE Ego
22:52 their faces was everyone's reaction to this scene 😭
not just video game reference but 3d animation and stuffs too. the teapot is a 3d test model.
and about pomni at the end, this is my take on it. at the beginning she had a nightmare about being abandoned and forgotten, but the funeral helped her see these people won't. the visual of hands reaching out to her is a visual metaphor that she's not alone. but i think it's safe to assume the visual of people grabbing her arms and then her smiling is showing that she don't have to worry about her nightmare at the beginning.
Glitch: Here's a fun new character! He has a backstory, goes on zany adventures with his goofy gummi crew, has his entire world shattered in an existential crisis leaving him a crumpled husk of his former self before getting picked up by our sweet heroine fish-out-of-water protagonist, who promises him a home for fellow outcasts, companionship, adventures, and now he's dead............
Also Glitch:
HEY, WANNA BUY A PLUSHIE OF THAT CHARACTER WE LITERALLY JUST ERASED IN FRONT OF YOUR EYES 30 SECONDS AGO?!?!
I’d say having this Episode take place just the Day after the Pilot is pretty fair,
since, assuming that they do Adventures every Day, this would be Pomni’s Actual First Adventure, since she didn’t actually partake in the one meant for her when she first arrived, even though like i said she was only part of it halfway,
Also, it also made the Funeral Scene at the end feel more fitting, by the way about that Scene, I find it very interesting that Jax ended up not being part of the Funeral and who he was not featured amongst the Hands that prevented Pomni’s Metaphorical Fall, now that part could just be due to him not being part of the Funeral, but considering what the Curators has said about Jax, i think it’s a detail that’s worth keeping in mind for the Future.
Anyway, with all of that now being out of the way, i am now left wondering:
Will every Episode take place just the Day after the Previous One or could we expect Episodes to have at least a couple of Days in between them from now on?
Will Pomni get out of the Adventure and into some kind of Out of bounds moment every Episode? If so, while that would be interesting, I would appreciate to see at least one Episode where Pomni stays in the Adventure all the way through, because I don’t think we need a Out-of-Bounds Moment every time to make a Episode worthwhile.
On to of that, will Pomni bond with more NPCs in one way or another and will she end up having them learn something about themselves too?
I also wonder if we’ll ever get to see Loo and Gummigoo again? Now, I am aware that the Candy Canyon Kingdom was probably just meant to be for this Episode, hence why it was sent off the way it did, still I would like to see some kind of Aftermath to what Jax did.
Also, i wonder if we’ll ever get to a point in time where Pomni won’t stutter all the time or at least not when it counts? If so, i will look forward to see what might lead us there.
Anyway, regardless of it all, this Episode has made me even more excited to see how this Show will play out, I can’t wait for more Episodes,
What do you think will happen next?
Those who grabbed Pomni’s hand at the end clip (from Pomni’s nightmare) were Ragatha, Zooble and Gangle.
Pomni: Cool I made a friend with someone who shares my existential dread.
Caine: And I took that personally.
I love the amazing digital circus episodes 2 so much 😊💓
he hand at the end probably symbolizes that the funeral dispels her idea of an uncaring cast who would just move on if she ended up like Caufmo
New episode, same old existential dread.
Still, the ending was at least a little sweeter than the first episode was.