Honestly, stacy fakename is a DMs dream. Brennan doesn't need to remember ANY interaction, any random name, he doesn't need to remember the 18 different people who all got different names given to them, everyone's fake name is just stacy fakename.
The moment Danielle went "well fuck I need a fake name..." and turned it from a funny joke into a running gag maybe the most important from this series
just noticed that ivana saying she's heard the name stacy fakename before could be from when Hunch used the name is the ring, but even crazier is that she knows that name because it's flight's real name.
This joke got so perfectly adopted, I honestly find it hard to believe it wasn't planned. Are you really telling me the defining bit of the ENTIRE campaign just came from Siobhan not thinking of an actual fakename.
I love how this bit could've ended in the first episode if Trapp just said "that's such an obvious lie" but he riffed off it so well with Joanna Fakename
Wait so, Imelda Pulse is ACTUALLY Joanne Fakename (with no 'A'). However, she sometimes pretends to be Stacy Fakename, who she is not. The real Stacy Fakename exists and is a separate non-player character with a sister named Joanna Fakename (with an 'A'), who will never enter Fucks' establishment.
6:41 has got to be the funniest part of this bit ever... Stacy is WANTED cause of all the impersonation but Siobhan, in ridiculous fashion, claims that "Stacy Fakename" is a fake name, but ties it back to Joanne as "Joanne Fakename" being her real name lmao Edit: And then followed up with the brilliance that is "You can trust us, or my name isn't Joanne Fakename! Why would I lie?" "Well, you did lie right away when you first got here... But then you immediately corrected to what I know and believe is the truth! *TIME TO GET TEA AND VODKA AND CHAMPAGNE!!!"*
I keep trying to figure out when, exactly, the presence of this gag re-wrote all of the NPCs character sheets to give them the stat debuff "Credulous". Brennan just decided organically at some point to stop rolling for deception when people were posing as a Fakename and it implies SO MUCH about what's going on in the Big Guy's head. Obviously not an intentionally thematic thing, but it works so well nonetheless. The Big Guy is super paranoid and probably thinking ahead about how to leak all the juicy details, maybe ... using a fake name? And meanwhile, his brain is working overtime to look for threats *out there*. So another Fakename showed up in the Cortex. So what? Honestly, we get another one of those every couple of cycles.
At 4:20, Brennan did one of the best impressions of the king of the Gungan people that I have ever heard, and no one is giving it the credit it deserves XD
"What kind of fool do you take me for? _He's_ Stacy, _She's_ Stacy, _You're_ Stacy, _I'M_ STACY! Are there any other Stacy Fakenames I should know about?"
I like to believe that Stacy Fakename has established itself similarly to John Doe. Except not for missing persons and... well, whatever you'd summarize this video as
@@kristenchen ohhh i see! sometimes when i watch d20 i do something else as well so i don’t see everything that happens onscreen, thanks for clearing that up chief 🙏
This series was just brilliant. I've been trying to watch other D20 seasons but I've never been able to get past the first episode or so. Nothing has hooked me quite like Mentopolis.
If i ever went on a roleplaying show, it would go like this: "Excuse me, what is your name?" (My thoughts: Okay. You need to come up with a really unique, completely original fake name. So whatever you do, don't say...) Me: "My name is Caleb" (My thoughts:F#%$) Me: "Caleb, Fakename." (My brain: That's it, im out of here)
Stacy Fakename Is driving me insane She's all I want And I think she's a real dame Stacy can't you feel That's just not your name for real I know it might be lame but I'm in love with Stacy Fakename
It would have been better if Danielle had said that she was Joanne Fakename and then they had all just assumed the identities of different members of the Fakename family
“When I’m fightin’ the name’s Stacey Fakename”… not knowing he’s gonna take a Dragon Ball Z punch to the face… my favourite moment of a very funny season.
@@dalgona4819 No reason to be sad for that. I couldn't tell. Considering that English is a language of loan words, world spread nuance and constant re-definition occurring likely more frequently than in any other language, it's par for the course that new ways of expressing in English are introduced all the time. English isn't my first language either, though it is my primary one, and I both marvel at, and get confused by the constant nuances of expressions and words, and even inflection of speech making it incredibly difficult to make a clear line between "this is a rough translation" and "this is just not *common* English." Expressions in any language are also difficult, even if not requiring language to think.
WEEEEWOOOWEEEWOOO NEED ALERT "Fa" isn't a valid sequence in Japanese because in Japanese "f" is just what comes out when you pronounce "h" with you lips already in position for "u"
@bacicinvatteneaca You can actually use katakana fu with small a, e, i, or o to represent fa, fi, fe, or fo sounds. So フェ would represent the "fe" sound.
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This is one of those rare jokes where the more you do it, the funnier it gets.
(it’s called a gag)
@@TrippleDogDare Some may call it a bit.
if YOU'RE stacy fakename, and I'M stacy fakename, and SHE'S stacy fakename, and HE'S-
Are there any other Stacy Fakenames I should know about?!
@@klausoshaunacey8429Meow
@@klausoshaunacey8429Gary Fakename: “Meow”
THEN WHO’S DRIVING THIS TRAIN!??!
@@sunnybloom7272Stacy Fakename, the driver of the Fakename Expressname!
8:48 it’s SO lucky that Anastasia decided to be honest and not say “Stacy Fakename” to Stacy Fakename
That’s why she’s called Honestasia.
right but if she had you know Brennan would have pivoted to Joanna/Joanne Fakename and it would have been almost as good XD
Fakename really starts to sound like a real surname after a while
There’s a real surname called NULL
If you pronounce it like it's Japanese (fak-a-nam-ay) it's more convincing
stacy surname
Bytheway is a surname, there’s weirder stuff out there than Fakename
@@snowfloofcathugdon't forget Unknown Thatoneguy
Honestly, stacy fakename is a DMs dream. Brennan doesn't need to remember ANY interaction, any random name, he doesn't need to remember the 18 different people who all got different names given to them, everyone's fake name is just stacy fakename.
I absolutely love the moment where Trapp goes, "... I know the name I wanna say."
The moment Danielle went "well fuck I need a fake name..." and turned it from a funny joke into a running gag maybe the most important from this series
just noticed that ivana saying she's heard the name stacy fakename before could be from when Hunch used the name is the ring, but even crazier is that she knows that name because it's flight's real name.
im so proud of myself for calling stacy fakename being flight the moment Brennan started setting it up
This joke got so perfectly adopted, I honestly find it hard to believe it wasn't planned.
Are you really telling me the defining bit of the ENTIRE campaign just came from Siobhan not thinking of an actual fakename.
that's the beauty of ttrpgs, one-off bits can go on to define the whole campaign
we once had a running bit coming from our warlock misremembering a name and the dm running with it
“A concept you didn’t think would be this resilient” is beautiful
I love how this bit could've ended in the first episode if Trapp just said "that's such an obvious lie" but he riffed off it so well with Joanna Fakename
At 5:13 when Trapp confidently goes "STACY" and even the subtitles reference everyone failing to keep the scene tense... Just comedy gold
maybe the real Stacy Fakename was the friends we made along the way
Siobhan and Trapp made this meme so exhilarating. Trapp grinning with his entire body
Wait so, Imelda Pulse is ACTUALLY Joanne Fakename (with no 'A'). However, she sometimes pretends to be Stacy Fakename, who she is not. The real Stacy Fakename exists and is a separate non-player character with a sister named Joanna Fakename (with an 'A'), who will never enter Fucks' establishment.
The name Joanne definitely contains an a
@andrewwebb917 I concur
Well, not after last time.
Stacy fakename being flight is the best payoff to a running joke I can think of
6:41 has got to be the funniest part of this bit ever... Stacy is WANTED cause of all the impersonation but Siobhan, in ridiculous fashion, claims that "Stacy Fakename" is a fake name, but ties it back to Joanne as "Joanne Fakename" being her real name lmao
Edit: And then followed up with the brilliance that is "You can trust us, or my name isn't Joanne Fakename! Why would I lie?" "Well, you did lie right away when you first got here... But then you immediately corrected to what I know and believe is the truth! *TIME TO GET TEA AND VODKA AND CHAMPAGNE!!!"*
I love how they all get confused on whether it was Joanna or Joanne that was the real one, and also was said that she would be leaving forever.
A concept you wouldnt think would be this resilient is such a good joke
This side quest felt like a single ongoing bit in the best way possible
This might actually be my favorite season of Dimension 20
I keep trying to figure out when, exactly, the presence of this gag re-wrote all of the NPCs character sheets to give them the stat debuff "Credulous".
Brennan just decided organically at some point to stop rolling for deception when people were posing as a Fakename and it implies SO MUCH about what's going on in the Big Guy's head. Obviously not an intentionally thematic thing, but it works so well nonetheless.
The Big Guy is super paranoid and probably thinking ahead about how to leak all the juicy details, maybe ... using a fake name? And meanwhile, his brain is working overtime to look for threats *out there*. So another Fakename showed up in the Cortex. So what? Honestly, we get another one of those every couple of cycles.
The lighting and backdrop effects are next level
thank you for this, what a hilarious ride
- definitely Stacy Fakename
Fun fact, Stacy Fakename is a Drawfee patron!
At 4:20, Brennan did one of the best impressions of the king of the Gungan people that I have ever heard, and no one is giving it the credit it deserves XD
"What kind of fool do you take me for?
_He's_ Stacy, _She's_ Stacy, _You're_ Stacy, _I'M_ STACY! Are there any other Stacy Fakenames I should know about?"
I like to believe that Stacy Fakename has established itself similarly to John Doe. Except not for missing persons and... well, whatever you'd summarize this video as
Missed opportunity to have the big guy go "im stacy" during his escape.
In 20 years I bet there will be at least one person named Stacy Fakename
Joanna Fakename?
No I already have one
This is brilliant.
1:57 hold up, this whole time i thought his name was dan fucks. is it dan phucks??
It's different every time
His intro is "Dan Fucks, spelt however you want", so each episode Fucks is spelt however the post-production team wants
I always picture it as ‘Fuchs’
@@kristenchen ohhh i see! sometimes when i watch d20 i do something else as well so i don’t see everything that happens onscreen, thanks for clearing that up chief 🙏
My goto is Alias Fakename. Pronounce Elias Fa-ka-na-mé.
bit so good you do it 35 times
This series was just brilliant. I've been trying to watch other D20 seasons but I've never been able to get past the first episode or so. Nothing has hooked me quite like Mentopolis.
5:13 i love the dropout captioners
I was fully expecting a Columbo bit ngl
SHE’S Fakename, SHE’S Fakename, YOU’RE Fakename, I’M FAKENAME!!! Are there any other Fakenames I should know about?!
I feel so seen
Such a good bit!
such an underrated season
If i ever went on a roleplaying show, it would go like this:
"Excuse me, what is your name?"
(My thoughts: Okay. You need to come up with a really unique, completely original fake name. So whatever you do, don't say...)
Me: "My name is Caleb"
(My thoughts:F#%$)
Me: "Caleb, Fakename."
(My brain: That's it, im out of here)
Are there any other Stacey Fakenames I should know about?!?
Stacy Fakename
Is driving me insane
She's all I want
And I think she's a real dame
Stacy can't you feel
That's just not your name for real
I know it might be lame but
I'm in love with Stacy Fakename
10:57 No, I'm Spartacus!
I'm disappointed they didn't reveal Stacy Realname
Love my sister
i don't know shit about dnd, never watched d20, but this is really making me feel like i have to
FREDDIE WONG??
1:41 I think this was supposed to be "faux"
Daniel Fucks, also spelt Fuchs/Phucks/Fuxxx/Fūks/Föks/Phõcks/F-ughhh-cks
It’s spelt “however you like” and there was a running gag of it being spelled differently every time his file was shown
you dont LOOK like a stacy....
It would have been better if Danielle had said that she was Joanne Fakename and then they had all just assumed the identities of different members of the Fakename family
“When I’m fightin’ the name’s Stacey Fakename”… not knowing he’s gonna take a Dragon Ball Z punch to the face… my favourite moment of a very funny season.
I've only watched a number of Dimension 20 series, but Stacy Fakename and Hilda Hilda are some of the funniest bits I've ever encountered XD
That you chose to use "a number of" here is just, very funny.
@@M.Datura how so?
@@dalgona4819 The combination of "only" and "a number of". I found it funny, as they are sort of counter to one another.
@@M.Datura oh lol. English isn't my first language sadly so I didn't realize XD
@@dalgona4819 No reason to be sad for that. I couldn't tell.
Considering that English is a language of loan words, world spread nuance and constant re-definition occurring likely more frequently than in any other language, it's par for the course that new ways of expressing in English are introduced all the time.
English isn't my first language either, though it is my primary one, and I both marvel at, and get confused by the constant nuances of expressions and words, and even inflection of speech making it incredibly difficult to make a clear line between "this is a rough translation" and "this is just not *common* English." Expressions in any language are also difficult, even if not requiring language to think.
That's because they aren't using the original Japanese pronunciation: FAH-keh-NAH-meh.
WEEEEWOOOWEEEWOOO NEED ALERT
"Fa" isn't a valid sequence in Japanese because in Japanese "f" is just what comes out when you pronounce "h" with you lips already in position for "u"
@bacicinvatteneaca You can actually use katakana fu with small a, e, i, or o to represent fa, fi, fe, or fo sounds. So フェ would represent the "fe" sound.
Who will we run into next? Sue Donym?
It's pronounced Fah-keh-nah-mee
This compilation motivated me to see Mentopolis, and honestly if you havent youre missing out. Worth every penny