Hazbin Saloon | LACKADAISY Pilot Reaction
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LACKADAISY (Pilot)
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The producers confirmed that leaving the sketchlines in the final product was an intentional artistic choice. They wanted the animation to feel like it was made by human hands, not computers.
It is a really nice touch.
hopefully they keep that, it's a really unique detail that you don't really see in other cartoons, especially the more recent ones.
From what I've heard it was a bit of a pain in the behind to pull off too!
To put it simply, every animator had to be able to not only draw the characters on model, but also sketch them on model so that those sketches stayed consistent between frames. If I'm right they animation crew had fairly regular meetings on discord to ensure everyone was both sketching and animating these characters on model.
during prohibition era it was common to have a speakeasy run out of funeral homes, so they would use graves to hide the beer until it could be dug up and served
And just as frequently booze would be cut with stuff like turpentine, or in the case coffin varnish
Actually, it was a dead drop, the news article was a tip to where it was hidden
@@weldonwin As well, Canadian Whiskey was also apparently just awful.
@@thomaswang2223 yes i know. thats the origin of the term dead drop
Additionally they were one if the few cars not commonly pulled over and fully checked because opening sealed caskets was seriously taboo
Rocky is literally just a bard in the 1920’s. He had a violin, talks in riddles and rhymes, super chaotic, and is absolutely obsessed with explosions.
Already my favorite character.
And Freckle I'm guessing is a war veteran, with some *SERIOUS* PTSD from having served in WW1
@@weldonwin no he is a cop well was a cop he basically is unstable it's just that side became more prominent cause of rocky's "encouragement" tldr: He is the barbarian who is a massive dork
From a reader of the webcomic, Rocky is a former circus performer looking for a new life. He's incredibly ill-suited to being a gangster, but Lackadaisy (the name of the secret speakeasy beneath the Little Daisy) is using him as a squad leader because they literally have no one else left at this point and Rocky is very enthusiastic about the romance of being in a gang.
Freckle is not a veteran, Freckle is a police academy washout. Being a cop was his lifelong dream but the boys in blue couldn't handle his enthusiasm for firearms. Freckle himself cannot handle his enthusiasm for firearms.
Freckle and Rocky are cousins and both were raised by Freckle's extremely Irish Catholic mother, who is a terrifying disciplinarian. Mild psychotic episodes run in their family.
Viktor, the Slovakian barman, ***is*** a WWI veteran, and Lackadaisy's former fixer. He has sustained so many permanent injuries over his career that he is now nearly crippled (his knees don't bend, for starters) which is why he is stuck behind the bar instead of out there breaking people's heads with Rocky and Freckle.
Ivy is the frontman for the Little Daisy cafe and normally is supposed to be sitting upstairs during the day selling sandwiches when not attending college, but again the Lackadaisy gang is absolutely desperate for manpower with almost all of their old members and allies having abandoned them in the time since the death of Atlas, so she's been volunteering for danger she has absolutely no business being anywhere near.
He also does hella drugs and screwed with Mordecai’s drink one time and made him see eldritch nightmares
yep, me too. Freckle going insane is a close second
Fun fact about Freckle: he grew up with his cousin Rocky and was the "good boy" of his very Irish Catholic family. He continued being the good one by becoming a police officer, however he was let go from the force due to "being too enthusiastic while using firearms".....he might have a repressed side to him
Guess Rocky planted seeds 😂
@@maciejas2471Honestly? I think Aunt Nina (Freckle’s mother) planted those seeds, just completely unintentionally. In fact, pretty sure she was trying to accomplish the exact opposite but she went so damn hard that it backfired and led to Freckle just bottling every negative feeling up until it finally just explodes.
@@rekkariley652Could be both.
As I recall, the author is a cat-lover and the personalities of the main cast reflect her experience that all cats have their crazy side and are just better or worse at hiding it.
@@RabidDog20With some adjustments for ease of art; OG Rocky was definitely a lynx-point Siamese mix, whereas Toon Rocky has a more consistent all-over gray tabby pattern.
He’s still gotta be some sort of colorpoint in order to have blue eyes like that, though. I wonder if colorpoint babies in the Lackadaisy verse are born solid white and get darker over time the same way colorpoint kittens in real life do?
10:50 having a brother that is obsessed with gangsters and moonshiners. i can tell you it was not uncommon to have a fake funeral service with an outlandish story to hide booze in the coffin and even have a escort with that story if it was real that would be a closed casket service anyway and no one would want to see the body.
A bit of background,
The massive bar is the Lackadaisy, it was built by Atlas May (the tiger guy), Ms M’s ex. Lackadaisy used to be the premier speakeasy until Atlas was killed by unknown parties, some blame his widow Ms M. After Atlas’ death, his organization fractured with many his people leaving, such as Mordecai. Right now Ms M is just trying to keep together the remains of Atlas’ former empire. For more information, I would highly recommend the comic, it’s great and gives a lot more background.
You mean Mrs M's dead husband
12:19 That's a BAR, Airier. A Browning Automatic Rifle, and a cutdown version of the M1918 model to be exact. It saw limited use in WW1 and later became the standard squad LMG for US forces in WW2 until it was replaced by the M60. Prohibiton-era gangsters often used it when they couldn't get their hands on Thompson SMGs, and a cutdown version was used by Clyde of Bonnie and Clyde fame during their crime spree., i.e. the one depicted in the video.
Also what killed Bonnie and Clyde, as Texas rangers didn't bother to even attempt an arrest and just ambushed them on the road like a mob hit
30 ot 6
@@Kaarl_Mills To be precise about what was used, it was a Colt Monitor, a modified BAR with a compensator, pistol grip, and a weight reduction of about 6.3 lbs. They also used the standard M1918 BAR.
If you can't tell, I am a gun nut.
@@Kaarl_Mills good
@@Wishtelle welcome to the internet where people fill ther minds with slew of information. So they can give answers for no reason, other than a compulsion to nerd out.
So far you are the only blind reactor I've seen that was able to put together that Wick is the owner of the quarry that Rocky destroyed. Well done!
Wealthy Industrialist that’s familiar with heavy machinery and dynamite - a shame not many people get that
Yeah, I've noticed that as well. It was a cute gimmick to have them plow through the sign instead of the entrance, I thought, at first. I get the impression Rocky did that on purpose, as though he has a thing against Mr Sable. He was obviously familiar with the quarry. There's method to his madness in bringing the enemy to play on his turf.
@@RichardRoy2He does have a thing against Wick, but it’s completely one-sided and mostly just Rocky’s own insecurities and anxieties getting the best of him.
Like, if he was honest about what he was going through, Wick would probably want to help him out.
@@rekkariley652 Well, we've seen how Rocky can suffer flights of fancy and interpretation to fit a poetic need. As the lady said, he is an unfathomable surprise.
I didn't catch this the first time either. It might have helped if they swapped the order of the final two stills -- Wick's reaction followed by the shot of the (now ruined) Sable Stone Quarry.
13:02 You were right the first time. They are CAJUN. This pilot is based on a comic series that’s free to read if you just type in Lackadaisy.
Fun little fact: Rocky, that psychotic cat with the violin, is played by Michael Kovach. That is the same voice actor as Angel Dust from Hazbin Hotel and Serial Designation N from Murder Drones.
i fuckin knew it
Thanks for this.
Came here to say this^^^.
Just listened to the Hunicast stream with the cast and crew earlier today. The stream is from 3 years ago when they were running the kickstarter for the project. I recommend for some cool info.
He just got gives so much charisma to anything he voices! I hear a line and immediately love the character due to his performance
Recognized Michael as soon as he spoke his first line, some part of me just knew Michael would be in it
"An underground cabaret cave"
A 'Speakeasy', in simpler terms.
19:12 That Browning Automatic Rifle seems to have an extended magazine, so about 30 rounds. Assuming she reloaded during the car scene, it would make sense.
No, the 30-rounder for the BAR is curved, she's using a 20. I suppose we just have to assume she keeps reloading it offscreen.
@@CruelestChris Some BAR magazines were brazed together during World War Two, so it's not entirely out of the question.
@@TheMedicalDemon
I found the picture you're talking about and the resulting magazine is the size of the gun's entire receiver, much larger than the one she's shown using which has the proportions of a 20-rounder compared to the rest of the gun. Also doesn't have a visible weld seam. I think the only reason the magazine looks unusually large is that the gun's proportions are based on the Clyde Barrow modified BAR with a cut-down barrel and stock (you can see the barrel is cut off to be the same length as the gas piston), so it's best to compare proportions to the receiver.
There's an Art Deco flair throughout Lackadaisy, I believe that's what you were thinking of a bit before 4m in. And Ivy calls Rocky "Mudbug" when picking him up after the flood.
So to clear up a few things:
Miss Mitzi May isn't Freckle's mother, she's just the owner of The Little Daisy Cafe, a front for The Lackadaisy Speakeasy (Represented by the club suite.) Rocky fell in with them by being the violinist for Zib's travelling band, which Mitzi used to be a dancer for until marrying Atlas. Freckle was invited to the Speakeasy one night by Ivy, who has a thing for him, and there he accidentally displayed the propensity for firearms and chaos that runs in the family and got him kicked out of the police academy, and got him a job at Lackadaisy. His mother is Rocky's aunt Nina, an Irish force of nature who isn't in the pilot, but is in the comic.
Rocky does work for Mitzi to try and gain her favour and doesn't like that Sedgewick Sable (Wick, the quarryman) also likes her, hence destroying his quarry specifically. You were right about Rocky, take away his music and he begins making music with chaos.
Viktor wasn't the barman. He was the "hatchet man" alongside Mordecai before the latter left to work for the competition. The reason he works the bar now is that Mordecai broke Viktor's kneecaps when he left, leaving him unable to be the muscle anymore. He glares at Freckle like that because he's protective of Ivy and he's the reason she's always inviting new guys like Freckle to the bar, cos her past boyfriends always end up scared off by Viktor, sometimes with broken limbs.
It's implied in the comic that Mitzi had Mordecai kill Atlas to gain his empire from him, and this is what drove Mordecai out. Ivy is Atlas' god-daughter, and this is probably why Mordecai didn't shoot when she was driving, but did shoot when Rocky was driving. He has too much respect for Atlas. Mordecai isn't an incredibly emotional man, he's excessively logical and obsessed only with keeping himself tidy and symmetrical, but he values honour and loyalty. There's times in the comic that he extends an olive branch to Mitzi and discusses his misgivings about his new employer, still caring to a degree about the old business and wanting to figure out what's going on behind the scenes of Asa's dealings that may have had a hand in Atlas' demise.
Asa Sweet, Mordecai and the twins; Serafine and Nicodeme, all are part of a racket run behind the front of The Maribel Hotel called The Marigold Speakeasy, hence why they all wear Marigold flowers on their lapel, besides Mordecai. They took over much of Lackadaisy's territory once Atlas died and the empire fell apart. One of those alcohol suppliers were a funeral home, and in the comic, they had recently begun supplying Lackadaisy on the side again. This might help explain the ending scene.
Funnily enough, not only do they use the obituaries as a coded message about the dead drop here, but in the comic Mitzi was so depressed by the state of their business that she'd read the obituaries for a laugh, hence what she's doing as she's introduced and why she's reminded about the funeral home in that scene.
I think that's everything that needs clearing up! You should read the comic! The art is amazing! It started back in 2006 I think and from then to now, the art has IMPROVED. Plus it's just as funny and awesome.
you gave a perfect summary. The only downside of Lacdkadaisy is that you just can't get enough of it because it's so good and also a page of the comic takes a LOT of time. Considering they have been working for 3 years to make this very pilot episode, the last chapter came out back then, so the newest one will take a very long time
I would argue that Mordecai's chief motivation in not taking the clear shot at Ivy was due to a certain surly Slovak. Mordecai was more or less trained by Viktor, and partnered with him for most of his career. Viktor had always been hyper-protective towards Ivy and, when Atlas died, assumed the mantle of being her godfather.
Given that Rocky knew him well enough to swerve at the precise moment he fired, Viktor would most certainly have known that Mordecai had pulled the trigger had he fired at Ivy. Even if he had missed (unlikely as that would have been under the circumstances), that would have made him the prime target of Viktor's unbridled rage.
Mordecai is relentlessly analytical and, in that split second, he "reluctantly concluded that the detriment from garnering the personal animosity of his erstwhile compatriot vastly overshadowed any potential benefits by several orders of magnitude".
Thing to remember: Lackadaisy is described explicitly as “Black and Gray Morality.” NO ONE is a saint here. And Rocky and Freckle both have something…OFF about them.
They are Yin and Yang
If Rocky and the Cajun siblings teamed up, they'd have so much fun... and nobody else would...
I had heard about this project for a while, but only really knew what it was a few days ago. And now that I've seen the pilot, I'm blown away from just how incredible this turned out. The concept is really interesting, and the animation, character designs, sound effects, and voice acting are all incredible. Freckles is definitely my favorite character. His voice actor did a great job making him sound cool and cute, or completely unhinged when he needed to be. Fable Siegel and the rest of the team did an amazing job bringing this world from webcomic to webvideo. I hope it's just the first of what's to come.
Freckles' VA definitely surprised me too. Sounded much deeper than I expected at times.
I still don't really know what it is. It's pretty awesome tho
Holy crap, that's a good catch on the Sable thing. No wonder why he was so concerned about the dynamite.
You think rocky is insane now, wait till you get to the comic where he gets a literal head splitting concussion...
And then hops behind the wheel of a truck the very next day.
Take note of who is reflected in Mordecai's glasses during the chase scene and the scene where the trio is driving away from the quarry. It's an interesting little detail.
Yet another fun fact but when rockey smashes into the gate while they are driving it says "sable". The same guy sitting at the bar seeming freaked out by hearing Rocky talk about dynamite. Rocky famously hates Sable in the comic so his maniacal laughter is because he's excited to mess up sables buisness. You'll notice he's all smug to him later. And at the after credit scene you can see Sable witness the damage and.. well he ain't happy 😂
“It's a great advantage not to drink among hard-drinking people.”
- F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, 1925
I just can't get over Rocky and Freckle's personality splits. That image of Rocky on the excavator punctuating his poetry with dynamite is epic. If they can get this off the ground, it's gonna be awesome.
I also went into this one blind, and I was super happy with what I got. I want this series to be a thing like... yesterday please.
Also new, and trying not to get too many details since I generally like to learn as the series unfolds.
You caught the business owner owned the quarry faster than I did. On my fourth watch Rocky called him Mr. Sable with an impish grin and it clicked.
You are the first reviewer that actually deciphered a lot of everything that connected the dots to the characters and plot. You even connected Mister Sable to the company. Only ONE other person (reviewer) I have seen has caught that part (me)
I really liked the ticking tock when Mordecai had them in his sights, but also when Freckle had Mordecai in *his* sights! Very cool!
I really like how the music immediately slows down and becomes more serene(?)
when Mordecai talks during the car chase.
Watched this yesterday, and was pleasantly surprised at how well both human and feline characteristics were melded together.
The VA for Mr Sweet is doing an excellent job channeling the late Ed Asner. Probably why it sounded somehow familiar.
sounded more like John Goodman to me, but i can hear Asner now that you mention it
people dont know this but the rifle she is holding is actually a browning automatic rifle aka the infamous BAR, her hipfiring it would make sense being as that rifle at automatic had monstrous recoil firing 30.06 rounds, known to bruise shoulders and break collarbones after prolonged fire
10:45 Yeah, Mr. Hapfamshfeel never existed. If you go back and look at the annotations Rocky made on the obituary, he used a few incidental remarks to derive a set of coordinates and a few other helpful notes (e.g., "under the truss" i.e., the bridge). They arranged a purchase of illegal alcohol from a supplier, and the supplier buried it (likely after "cutting" some or all of it significantly with other alcohol-esque substances) and put a fake obituary in the paper so they (and not the Revenuers or casual readers) would know where to pick it up.
17:24 Atlantic Grease and Lubricant makes a variety of useful engineering-related liquids to this day; in this case that can is extra coolant for the radiator. Normally it goes _inside_ the machine, of course, but in a pinch...
32:10 I had no idea it was the Sable factory, thanks for pointing it out!
I always felt the pacing of the crash-gag felt weird. Where Rocky takes the wheel and veers them into the fence instead of the open gate.
And the reason it feels weird is because they intentionally rest on the veer for a moment so that you can see the sign that says “Sable Stone & Quarry,” and THEN have Rocky smash through it. So they wanted us to see that detail, but it flew over a lot of people’s heads cause it was delivered mid-joke lol
@DubiousTheatre YT but... how else could they deliver the punchline? You mean, like, show the sign after Rocky steers through it? But I wouldn't say there was a need to do it that way, right?
@@ivansleepy4722 Well, the punchline itself was "Here is the wide open gate! And here is Rocky, smashing through the fence directly to the left of the wide open gate!" They just used the gag as an opportunity to clue in that this was Sable's quarry.
Yeah the implication is meant to be that there was never a body in the casket. The funeral is a distillery, and they sometimes put out fake obituaries in the paper with specific information in the articles to let their customers know where to pick up the goods (Hence the article having a bunch of pen marks scribbled and circled around words that would direct them to the correct grave). Safer than always having their customers come to their place of business to pick up their illegal alcohol.
Lackadaisy is indeed adapted from a webcomic. One from my childhood. I was BEYOND HAPPY to see it was indeed a thing. I first discovered it...oh god, well over fifteen years ago. In the case of the comic, the characters aren't meant to be cats, the artist just drew them that way because anthros are easier to draw than humans, if I remember right.
The characters in Lackadaisy are based on actual real-life cats the creator has known.
More that they’re more expressive and there’s a greater level of freedom as a result.
IIRC, she explained on Tumblr that it got a bit more complicated when they started animating it, because it would’ve looked very, very strange if the characters didn’t interact with the tails and all that.
1, Yes, the accents are either Cajun or Creole.
2, Serafine has a BAR: Browning Automatic Rifle, 20 round mag, so she must have switched mags at some point in the fight. Nico has a long Barrelled .45 revolver, and Mordecai a colt 1911, the M1 not the later M1A1. Freckles uses first a 1921 configuration Thompson Sub Machine gun (which would cost about half as much as the car, these things were pricy), with the 50 or 100 round drum mag and Cutts compensator (a recoil control device) and then what looks like a .25ACP pocket pistol, possibly a "Baby Browning". All very on-point choices for the time period.
3, That art style you couldn’t quite place is pre-war art Deco, with the strong geometric lines that got softened slightly in wartime and mid-century Deco (everything angular and chromed, 20’s and 30’s, every curvy and chrome 40s-to-50s).
4, And yes, Rocky has the same voice actor as Angel Dust from Hasbin. Michael Kovaks seems fated to voice insanely hilarious old-timey explosive-throwing mobsters at this point.
12:19 It's a BAR, a light machine gun(EDIT: apparently it was in the gray area between LMG and assault rifle). They were used during WW1, and since this is during the Prohibition era, it's one of those "marked as destroyed but nabbed by gangs" type weapons (EDIT: actually stolen from National Guard bases) similar to how the M1 Thompson, the Tommy Gun, became the iconic weapon of Al Capone and his gang. Both of these weapons would also be used during WW2, with the Thompson not using the drum mag as they had a reputation for jamming, and the BAR, I think, retained it's role as a squad support weapon. Bonnie, of the infamous Bonnie and Clyde, used a stripped down BAR, points to her since she was 4'10 and 85 pounds, my thirteen year old sister is slightly bigger than her.
12:29 It sounds like Cajun to me.
19:10 About twenty or thirty, can't remember which. All I know is that the BAR had a reputation of burning through its ammo rather quickly during sustained fire.
26:51 It's entirely possible that the guy is part of the Army.
29:04 He sounds Russian. Given this takes place during the Prohibition era, it's entirely possible he could be a foreign exile due to the Soviets taking over, would certainly explain the eye patch.
Well, the BAR isn't _really_ a light machine gun, it occupied a rather awkward space of being too light and low-capacity for an LMG and too heavy for a standard rifle, and in practice tended to be used more like a modern designated marksman rifle. BARs were typically stolen from National Guard depots rather than illicitly transferred (that's how Bonnie got hers).
@@CruelestChris Thank you for the corrections.
If I remember correctly, the bartender is slovak
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I believe he's described as Austro-Hungarian since he was born within the Empire, but he speaks Slovak.
well it does sort of sound cajun, but she is DEFINITELY speaking french , "mon cher"; "allons!" and "bonjour mes cheries" are french words, respectively meaning "Go! (imperative, first person plurial of the verb "aller"), "dear", "hello my dearies", the last two used as a tauntingly respectfull way to adress someone (in this case) and as a way to install a threat with overwelmingly polite words when they are about to k!ll you, showing confidence in her supperiority. But in normal circumstances calling someone "cher" or "cherie" is to refer to someone important to you or in general, in a polite way.
I know nobody asked but still, sort of cajun accent using french words, which make sense in the end since cajun english was influenced a lot by Louisiana french
Serafine and Nico's accent is Vichy French, commonly spoken by descendants of the original French settlers of Louisiana.
"oh that's a SHOTGUN"
noooo no... thats a BAR.
In all fairness, with the barrel cut down to the gas tube and the large fore-stock I can absolutely understand someone who doesn’t know any better mistaking it for a shotgun
The Prohibition is such an iconic era, and extremely fascinating! There are so many stories you could tell in it!
The weapon you were attempting to identify was the Browning Automatic Rifle or M1918 BAR.
Was supposed to be supplied to US troops in WW1 but missed the show. So when they had excess of them they sold them off to national guards and police units. Well when said units become corrupt, they also tend to sell things on so they became quite common amongst gangsters of this era alongside that of the Tommy Gun.
As for the accent your trying to tell, your actually quite close. Note I’m not a yank but a Brit but I believe the term for her accent is French-Mississippi. Due to a large influx of French immigrants to the south over many generations of war there.
Some fled/immigrated after the Napoleonic wars due to reprisals by the re-established king.
Some immigrated/fled during the 1848 revolutions.
Some fled/immigrated after the Franco-Prussian war went disastrous
And some fled/immigrated during/after WW1 to avoid conscription or because they’d lost alot and wanted to start a new life in a new country - since many a Frenchman served alongside US servicemen at the end of the war and were a bit fed up with the French Government (literally they were on the brink of revolt/mutiny in many areas at the end of 1917) many decided to pack up and leave with the US when they went home.
So across generations of those who turned up in Mississippi and founded cities and towns down there (I believe the one in the comics is St. Louis) it became quite common for Frenchmen and women to pick up the souther accent while learning English but at the same time retraining their traditional French accents. So a mix formed from such.
26:03 during the times of prohibition, secret meeting places where alcohol could be sold and drank like these were called speak easies
I've been looking forward to this for 3 years. Absolutely recommend the comic this is adapted from, as well as the fan dubs ProZD made before the animation was even announced
Does the Comic go by the same Name and is it online only, or can i buy a copy?
@@anyathepanther7977 Same name
The sketching left in the final is a callback to Disney's old school animation where they did the same. One good example is the animated short "John Henry".
dang this gave me "all dogs go to heaven" or "An American Tail 1986" vibes with the art style and the voice work 🥰
Cats Don't Dance
Yeah, I could see Don Bluth making a movie about this in the 90s.
If i remember corect, Rocky has ADHD most likely, and "Baby Face" îs trigger happy, he wanted to be a good law abiding citizen funny enough
Yeah, Rocky’s a pretty good example of exactly what untreated ADHD looked like back then. It wouldn’t be an official diagnosis for at least another decade or two, and even then it would be an extremely obscure one and not many options in terms of management or treatment.
Atlas May founded the Lackadaisy speakeasy at the onset of Prohibition, beneath the Little Daisy Cafe, while Asa Sweet established a speakeasy at the Marigold Hotel. The two establishments had amicable relations early on but, as federal agents began cracking down on the supply of illicit booze, they became fierce rivals.
Ivy Pepper is the cashier at the Little Daisy and was adopted by Atlas as his goddaughter; when Atlas died, Viktor assumed the mantle as Ivy's godfather. You seem to have picked up on some cues as to how protective he is towards Ivy.
Mordecai and Viktor were Atlas' right-hand men (er, cats) from the beginning and worked together for years. After Atlas died and Lackadaisy seemed destined to follow, Mordecai accepted one of the many employment offers by Marigold. Mordecai is cold, calculating, and extremely analytical - he is also particularly cognizant of the fact that anyone harming Ivy would earn Viktor's unbridled wrath and knows from experience (as Viktor's former partner) just how detrimental such would be to his well-being. So, yes, Mordecai had considerable motivation to not take that shot at Ivy.
Always love to see a review channel that actually pauses the video and shares their opinion instead of letting the video play and piggybacking of of it’s success
That gun the lady cat was holding looks like a Browning Automatic Rifle, or a BAR. Clyde of Bonnie and Clyde had one.
27:37 Victor used to be the muscle /enforcer but after repeated gunshots to the kneecaps( leave your I used to be an adventurer until I took an arrow to the knee joked here) basically crippling him to the point where he can't bend over or walk down a flight of stairs he was forcibly retired and became the bartender that's why Rocky who's a member of the band is doing liquor runs instead he's literally the only capable hands they have left after atlas's death
28:40 yeah supposedly the reason why cocktails became a booming version of liquor is because they wanted to hide when it was subpar quality
congratulations, you are one of the very few reactors that get to see Wick's reaction to his industry, let alone realize when Rocky called Wick by his last name it correlated to the sign.
nicely done!
Yes! Yours was the reaction I was waiting for! This is gonna be awesome, you have some of the best analysis of any reactor I know.
😯😊👍
This is staggeringly good, with brilliant characterisation, the fang moments are really evocative.
There's some nice stories from the team who worked on it too (I was already subscribed to 2, I've suggested their videos).
Thanks for this reaction.
Random fact I know that more than likely in the scene at the quarry where rocky is on a steam shovel. It's more than likely a Bucyrus Erie piece of equipment that made pretty early gasoline or diesel engines and they would have worked in quarries and mines Digging and loading trucks and the whole fact that the bucket takes multiple bullets is probably accurate because the bucket would be much thicker as it would. Be rubbing up against rocks sand and gravel very abrasive materials so it shrugging off bullets is pretty accurate.
I cannot tell you how much I appreciate you immediately getting that it was Sable's
mordecai the cat with glasses used to work for lackadaisy atlas gave him a job after he'd got into trouble he put himself into atlas offered him some kind of minor favor to see if he could save himself mordecai left after atlas died. atlas may being the owner of lackadaisy speakeasy
To anyone who doesn’t know btw the prohibition was a real world event in which all alcohol was prohibited which is the characters were fighting over it
Rocky is actually voiced by the same voice actor as Angel Dust from Hazbin
Old voice actor**
He’s not voicing angel anymore
AirierGames
That is a Browning Automatic Rifle, or more commonly known as a B.A.R.
The B.A.R. use 30.06 caliber or 30cal ammunition in a 20 round box magazine.
The normal weight of a B.A.R. is around 20 pounds. Unless it's the colts saber version that weighted around 15 pounds.
The version that the artist used in this video is the one used by Bonnie & Clyde, a cut down version made special for Bonnie from Clyde.
Wow. I remember reading the web comic back in the 00s. Didn't know it was still a thing. That's cool.
00s?! Bro, if that’s true this thing’s been going on longer than my…
Well… still… seriously?
@@JustinTK416 yup. latest issue came out 3 years ago, when they stopped in order to animate the cartoon. It will probably continue, but still, prepare for a LOT of wait time
The visable Line art was a Art direction decision designed to mimic the Xerox effect and create an Old Cartoon effect.
12:03 that is a WW1 era M1918 browning automatic rifle. Chambered in 30-06 the B.A.R. was intended to be a squad support weapon. It was meant to be used with the “walking fire” maneuver where you put the gun on semi auto and place it on your hip and provide covering fire to advancing troops. It saw limited use during WW1 but was used heavily during WW2 as an M1918A2 model witch added a bipod. It was even used in the Korean war where they also added a carry handle. It was a revolutionary gun for its time.
With the car going fast backwards while probably a style choice nascar was born from the bootleg runners who would often race each other to destinations to help keep the heat off so many cars where supped up to aid in speed handling and secret compartments in case of searches.
The web comic this originated from has a real rough sketch look to it, especially the early chapters. So the visible sketch lines in the animation is a really cool nod to that, like the panels of the comic started moving.
Rocky aimed for the sign and went out of his way to destroy the quarry because he and Mr. Sedgwick 'Wick' Sable both like Mrs. Mitzy. He doesn't understand that Mrs. Mitzy is only playing Wick for the money to save the speakeasy, it's the only thing Atlas left when he died.
I just wanted to say the rifle that character was holding at the beginning is a B.A.R. or also known as Browning Automatic Rifle. From what I remember each magazine holds about 20 or 30 rounds. Sorry I got a bit bothered when you called it a shotgun.
I LOVE how Rocky has the same voice as Angel Dust!!
The weapon the villain is wielding is a BAR or browning automatic rifle (i'm talking about the female one that started to shoot first)
The architecture style in the opening poem is called art deco
I didn’t know Airer played the violin. I always wanted to learn
"Play" might be a bit of a stronger word than I would choose. More like I "cludgeled" a violin. 😅
Fun fact! but freckle (the crazy gun dude) actually has applied to the police academy before but they rejected him due to his... unhinged nature.
33:09 that is another good point, it’s almost an unforeseen end of a tunnel for the crew that they only have these few years to get their club up & running & make profits again before the economy goes to $#% and that’s not even accounting things brewing towards WW2, basically they have a VERY limited time of bliss (and booze) before the 30s runs them through the ground…
I love the detail of the coordinates hidden in the outlandish obituary!
Now I want Forgotten Weapons or Royal Armouries do the "Guns of Lackadaisy" special!
Ever since I saw the project pop up while it was being developed I was so looking forward to this. This was incredible
One cat is using B. A. R. or aslo know Browning automatic rifle big one with the wraps around his arms is using a loger and then the other one looks like a customized what looks like a 1911 later on the other younger tigers using a classic tome gun with a drum magazine and I believe the smaller gun was maybe a check gun.
Actually that line work I think is an actual art style I believe in some of the older Disney movies you could sometimes see the character line work in some scenes that were left over from the drawing process
fun fact, michel covach, the voice of angel dust also plays rocky.
I’m pretty sure Rocky and Freckles are cousins cause I’m the comics Rocky calls freckles Mom ‘Aunty’. Though this could just a term of ender since I’m the comics the boys have known a each other since childhood
"Death by steamboat rearrangement" is now on my list of worst ways to die.
The half of the comment is about BAR and its so funny
By the way, BAR is a Browning Automatic Rifle and it goes ratatatatah
RATATATATA-
I'm calling it right now, Airier's going to reach 300K by the end of the year. This content is too good!
Lol. That would be awesome, but I'm just hoping for 75K. :)
FYI, Rocky is voiced by Michael Kovach, who voiced Angel Dust.
That "shotgun" is a Browning Automatic Rifle. An old school precursor to the modern idea of an LMG. 20 rounds, magazine fed. Obsolete now, but being shot with .30-06 is never recommended by a doctor. Not as famous or notorious as the Thompson Submachine gun or the Browning M1911, but the BAR would see a fair amount of use on both sides of the law as well as military deployment like the other two guns I mentioned. It was succeeded by the M60, a much more well known design.
Can't say I've seen a crazy Cajun gang enforcer use one before.
Airier calling a B.A.R. a shotgun… if I didn’t love your content I’d go on a nerdy gun rant
Nerdy rants are half the fun, go for it. 😁👍
okay some minor background lore that arnt too spoilery
i also haven't read the webcomic in awhile so this may not be entirely correct to begin with
this is skipping the more slow introduconary chapters from the webcomic
rocky and babyface are cousins (there mother/aunt isn't shown in this)
Lackadaisy crew
rocky is a musician, around early 20s
babyface is a new hire, about 2 or 3 years younger than rocky
ms M is there employer, 30s or 40s
victor is... victor, age is a good question but one im not asking
the girl is 18-20 young works in the cafe upstairs(honnestly cant remeber her name)
edit: oh good that cut off at a good point for if you dont want spoilers
Victor was the muscle, he was badly crippled during a raid on the speakeasy. He was shot in the lung.
Mrs. Mitzy won't let him do anymore pickups or hard work, she's afraid of loosing on of the last original members.
You are searching for the term Art Deco which came after Art Nouveau. Great video, as usual!
This is essential viewing, a violin enthusiast on the violin craziness of the laxadaisies.
I think that's a Browning Automatic Rifle, the thing they use to shoot Bonnie and Clyde thought their car. As far as I can tell every gun in this is a real gun. So there's a BAR, an M1911, a Thompson, and I don't know what Freckle's little .22/.25 is but I'm sure I've seen it on Forgotten Weapons.
When that cat girl pulled out the BAR I was in love lol
At 12:00 I think it might actually be a BAR(Browning Automatic Rifle) witch would be up their with a shotty bc it fires 30-06 full auto
Notes:
Freckle was formerly in the police academy. He was ejected because of what happens when he is holding a gun. He is otherwise perfectly sweet, polite, kindnatured, and safe to be around. Until he is holding a gun. Then he's not anymore. Emphatically not. ESPECIALLY that last one (though he still seems to have a functioning FOFID while holding a gun)
Viktor, our charming barista, was formerly the gang's muscle and enforcer. Unfortunately, age and cumulative injury has caught up to him and he can no longer do the job full time. That is not to say he can't do the job. He just can't do it like he used to. Ivy Pepper, the younger girl cat, is essentially his adopted niece. Do not EVER threaten her in front of him. He was very, very good at his former role, and screwing with Ivy is an express route to a personal demonstration.
Ivy is Miss Mitzi May, the speakeasy owner and proprietress,'s ACTUAL niece. She is constantly involving HERSELF in the business whether Mitzi or Victor like it or not. It was probably her idea to tag along to pick up the dead drop.
Rocky Rickaby... is... you know what, not even gonna try and explain Rocky, at all. Officially he's one of the speakeasy band members. Unofficially he's part of their newer enforcers along with Freckle. As you can see, he has a chaotic and incoherent but... occasionally shockingly effective approach. He has a thing for Mitzi May, as does Sedge Sable over there (who does, indeed, own the destroyed quarry), and he likely saw the massive amount of collateral property damage to the quarry during the fight as an absolute win. He does not like Sedge, at all, because of his perceived 'potential love rival' for Mitzi's affections status. It is possible he went out of his way to cause excessive collateral damage BECAUSE it was Sedge's quarry.
I don't think you can really say Rocky went out of his way to damage the quarry since he didn't intend to blow up the water tower, there'd otherwise have just been a few holes to fill in since I'd assume he intended to climb down from the bucket and stop the steam shovel once he was done. After all, he got up there while it was moving.
@CruelestChris I never said he had a plan or any specific damage in mind. I just said he was probably a LOT more uncaring of the collateral damage than usual (which says a lot) BECAUSE it was Sedge's quarry.
Since damaging Sedge's property at all would be in his mind, sticking it to his rival. It is possible he was going out of his way to cause damage. He didn't seem to be particularly aiming his throws, after all. No matter what the dynamite blew up, as long as it wasn't Ivy, Freckle, or the booze he was gonna be happy about it.
@@GuukanKitsune
Yeah, but he was driving through a lot full of gravel, I don't think there'd be any difference between him caring and him not caring. The dynamite would probably cost more to replace than the damage he did with it would have cost to fix if he hadn't blown up the water tower.
@@CruelestChris Depends on how many buildings or heavy equipment the steam shovel hit and crushed, or the dynamite happened to blow up. Even just the driving paths being boom cratered would cost poor Sedge a lot of money to fix and halt operations for a pretty significant profit-negating amount of time.... and not less than the dynamite. And all this is on top of replacing the stolen and destroyed dynamite because dynamite is neither cheap to make OR cheap to transport... ESPECIALLY back then.
@@GuukanKitsune
Doesn't seem to have hit anything in particular (I mean, you'd aim for a clear path when you're standing in the part of it that would hit something first), and the thing with dynamite is it doesn't do a lot if you don't first drill a hole and bury it: otherwise, path of least resistance and almost all of the blast directs upwards. If the ground there has been compacted by heavy machinery it might not even be cratered: even if it was, this is a quarry and it's full of material that could be used to fill in shallow craters. Nothing that they couldn't fix in a day with their existing equipment.
And dynamite isn't that hard to transport, the problem with it is more related to how it will "sweat" out the nitro-glycerine bound in it and become extremely unstable over time. The methods for transporting dynamite haven't really changed at all, and if anything it would have been cheaper back then since it was produced in much higher quantities due to the lack of competition from plastic explosives.
I think the french cat was using a browning automatic rifle
I knew you would see this. After this came out I actually Just went and read the 3 volumes Just because I felt so interested in this story and characters. So sad I've missed this gem for all this years
hello my friend, the gun at 12:20 is a B.A.R. browning automatic rifle. It was created by john browning in the last days of the first world war to fullfil the roll of portable machine gun but it saw very little combat since it arrived to late into the war. During the 1920's it was used mainly by the us army and some police departments along side the tommy gun it wasn't as common back then becuase it was very bulky, heavy and long (in the pilot you are watching what is thought to be a sawed off version of the gun) It was used by some gangsters and bank robbers, it was the favourite choice of Bonnye and Clyde.
That gun you siad was a shotgun is a BAR. It stands for Browning Automatic Rifle.
Rocky has the same voice actor as N from Murder Drones and Angel Dust from Hazbin Hotel
I do enjoy your reactions and astute observations. That and your appreciation of the art.