Baywatching Nights: The Vortex

[@jamiethebadwitch4003]

Just one more episode until this chapter of the Baywatch Saga is over. Feels like only yesterday we were watching Mitch throw a whole ass chicken at some robber, Ryan's inconsistent backstory, Garner becoming increasingly under utilized, Lou Rawls being way too cool for this, and Destiny's powers that were somehow in the normal season

[@planescaped]

I remember none of this, lol Guess that means I can rewatch them like they're new, huh?

[@Alexander_Stern1]

I would love it if they just randomly dropped Lou Rawls into the final episode to look at a monster and say, “What the ham sandwich is going on here?”

[@jamiethebadwitch4003]

@@Alexander_Stern1 If only there was a last minute bit where Lou shows up to run over the monster of week with his car, and casually revealed he knew the supernatural was real the whole time, a la Lost Boys

[@patrickkelmer6290]

Best chapter of the Baywatch saga.

[@CorbCorbin]

I don’t believe it was a whole ass chicken. Mitch pulled a leg off, at the least.

[@altromonte15]

"Mitch, I accidentally dropped this episode's script into the fireplace" "whatever, this show's over. let's just wing it, I vaguely remember what happens" "we could just print another" "not worth it"

[@ryandowney9383]

I can definitely believe that the cost of the paper to print another script would be too much for their budget.

[@Bushipunk]

Having just rewatched Allison's "Circle of Fear" video last night, apparently reprinting scripts was something they had trouble with.

[@1000huzzahs]

definitely read that in Allison's comedy voices

[@kamenanew9867]

​@@1000huzzahssame lol

[@pseudonymous9153]

Yeah, not worth the printer trying to put a satanic curse on them.

[@jeffkiska]

"I'm not even supposed to BE here today!"

[@bittertroll7476]

im just glad the series ended before anyone told them about " the multiverse"

[@56postoffice]

😂

[@zaneseibert]

Teague: "Mitch have you ever heard of parallel dimensions? The theory that there are infinitely different yet similar realities?" Mitch: "You're telling me there could be a reality where there are no dogs, no Hobie, and inifinite burgers?"

[@kingvulturo]

But then we could have seen Gator Mitch drag a human Mitch out of a storm tunnel. ^_^

[@bittertroll7476]

@@kingvulturo a infinite battle royal of mitches in all shapes and sizes? the only thing that they all have in common is the lush chest hair!

[@lordmontymord8701]

@@zaneseibert Mitch: "Sure, why not. I traveled through time, one time as a ghost, fought demons, had contact with aliens, i had a frog-hybrid girlfriend. You think parallel dimensions could make my life any weirder?"

[@Alexander_Stern1]

So, it’s kind of like “Twin Peaks”, but instead of the White Lodge and the Black Lodge, it’s an Econo-Lodge and a Motel 6.

[@gregorywiederecht]

This is a distressingly accurate comment

[@ravenwilder4099]

I know it's probably just a poorly thought out story, but I love the idea that, in the Baywatch Nights writers' room, there was a white board filled with intricate diagrams of branching timelines and intersections between the physical and spiritual realms that made sense of everything, but it just couldn't fit into the episode.

[@michmasharts8870]

I don’t think I’ve ever commented before but I had to pop in to say - while watching Alien Romulus, I said “That’s it! Romlus and Remus” upon seeing the space station 😂

[@bronco5591]

I had that during Alien and again during Gladiator 2

[@aperson4640]

Baywatching is no exaggeration one of the all time funniest long running series on KZbin. Sad to see it come to an end. Thank you for all the laughs when I really needed them Allison.

[@AllisonPregler]

Thank you! There's still four more seasons of regular Baywatch after this!

[@julioagua]

@@AllisonPregler And then VIP! (just wishful thinking)

[@aperson4640]

@@AllisonPregler ha ha ha. I wildly mistimed my poignant KZbin comment. Oh well, that's good news and just know, you've got a very moving and complimentary comment coming in about 4-6 years, (release schedule pending.)

[@lotus-prince]

We need an embarrassing 30-years-later sequel series of Baywatch Nights, bringing back all of the original actors. They could be visibly embarrassed that the world wasn't a raging inferno in the late 90s like they thought it would be.

[@guaposneeze]

This absolutely should have been the Baywatch movie. Do the Baywatch branding, everybody is expecting hot babes running on the beach. Stick somebody in a swim suit for the trailer. Then the actual movie is just post apocalyptic horror set near the Santa Monica beach 20 years after the collapse of human civilization. That's how you use an IP.

[@lotus-prince]

@@guaposneeze Mummies. Vampires. Frog girlfriends. Vortices.

[@othertalk3313]

And it should be revealed that Teague was actually Al Gore in disguise... which explains why all of the late 90s doomsday prophecy stuff just kinda didn't happen... and why he's been sulking in a corner by himself somewhere for the last few decades.

[@Ryan-k9w]

"Some mystical flute is playing music, so they gotta do it...😂

[@jonsmtih3636]

Oh you hit us with a Saturday morning Baywatch nights drop. They should bring this show back on Audible

[@Arrowdodger]

The show made many, many mistakes, but not telling us more about that talented cat has to rank highly.

[@Hunteriffic86]

15:50 I think we entered a timeline where Future Mitch is the one responsible for blowing up his frog hybrid girlfriend.

[@42neddy]

"Talented cat in Oaks drill! Holy sh*t!" 🤣🤣🤣 Thank you So much for your work Allison

[@wstine79]

I will miss the Baywatch Nights reviews. They have been outrageous even if the episodes themselves aren't always.

[@Eviltwin531]

I don't think I have ever seen the people involved in a creative endeavor so visibly checked out from what they're doing. Cast, crew... everybody involved had clearly given the hell up by this point.

[@FlyingLavaDragon]

"If you're wondering what Mitch and Ryan being the chosen ones means, 🎺!"

[@Ringer5]

Oh my god! Where was Captain Janeway when you need her? Chakotay's ancestors and their damn "A-koo-chee-moya" spirit-ghost vision didn't help Mitch at all! Hell, even that Michael McKean's computer clown was dancing in the background @4:47 , I thought you said Janeway killed that thing! Allison, you're on report!

[@lordmontymord8701]

What did you expect? Chakotay is never helpful and that goes for his ancestors too. The only thing he can do is tell boring stories - ok, that might be helpful if you can't sleep, but that's all.

[@Ringer5]

@lordmontymord8701 That's not true! He made an excellent doormat for Janeway to wipe her dirty boots on. LordMontyMord, you're on report!

[@TonyGearSolid]

This has "we're getting cancelled, so just write something about time travelling indian spirits that fight slugs or something, IDK who cares" written all over it.

[@zaneseibert]

I love that "CJ gets captured by a PotO guy" somehow sounds totally sane after whatever the hell we just listened to.

[@flippedoutkyrii]

Never before has there been a show with such immense highs and incredible lows as Baywatch Nights, and never will there be anything else like it ever again. Gonna miss these reviews. Every single one of them was a visual fever dream!

[@dupersuper1938]

...There were highs?

[@richardro1634]

New Baywatching Nights? Christmas will never be the same!

[@PrinzPassionsfrucht]

I think I´ve never seen an episode of a show before that screamed: "Fuck it, we´re ending it anyway, might as well try everything and nothing at the same time" as loudly as this one!

[@Daniel-yy5tx]

Pretty sure that the golden age of television didn't start with The Sopranos. It started right here, with The Vortex. What a complex web of plotlines which must be leading to what will surely be a satisfying conclusion in the series finale.

[@CAMarino92]

Me to Ascencion: “Perhaps I treated you too harshly…maybe you’re not the most confusing episode of Nights”

[@Steven-wz7sh]

It had to be Stollinger's men.

[@boraxkid1097]

I can't thank you enough! If you hadn't made this series, I wouldn't have the image of a dumpster chasing Mitch down an alley BURNED into my brain till the day I die 😊

[@TankHardcheese]

I'm just convinced the writer went on a bad trip and this episode is the result, like that one episode of ALF.

[@matthewhancox4389]

Time displaced ghost spirits try to help past selves defeat melting space slugs. LIFEGUARD SHOW!!!

[@Drekal684]

ngl, not watched the video yet, but saw the description and "In the most confusing episode of Baywatch Nights to date," is a powerful first half of a sentence. Now to watch the video and let you know if I think it matches up in an edit! Edit: Alright, I'm 5 minutes in and my eyes have crossed from trying to folllow it I think we have a winner. Edit 2: Oh no, Nights is contaminating the main series now as well! That next episode is really based on Phantom of the Opera?!

[@NobodyDrinksFromMyGal]

Try watching the full episode. If enough people watch it, maybe someone will be able to make sense of it. Probably not, though.

[@56postoffice]

My "Notifications"must've been switched off by accident, otherwise I would be here so fast before you could say "My save!!"

[@TheLegPumpkin]

Chalk Outlines around dead bodies were such a weird made up thing in media from my youth. Like there was a point in my life when being told "they don't actually make an outline wherever you die in scene contamination dust" actually blew my mind because of how omni present they were in movies and tv shows in the 80s and 90s.

[@lotus-prince]

13:33 I am instantly reminded of Phelous highlighting Shao Kahn doing the same thing in Mortal Kombat Conquest.

[@VerdantRange]

Gotta love how this episode of Nights shows how this show knows less about tarot cards than The Simpsons since he Death card doesn't actual death. Upright, it means the end of cycle, beginnings, change, or metamorphosis while inverted means fear of change, holding on, stagnation, or decay. Also, since we know there are episodes of Baywatch after 1999, that means one of two things happened. Either what Mitch and Ryan saw in that past episode was An AlTeRnAtIvE uNivErSe... or Camp Baywatch was a success that averted the apocalypse.

[@lotus-prince]

My favorite subversion of this was in the video game "The Quarry." "Death takes many forms... it could mean change, transition, transformation often interpreted as a beacon for the hopeful. In your case, it just means death."

[@dylanbandstra3567]

It sure was courteous of Mitch to humour Destiny in season 1 despite not believing in fortune telling or psychic powers.

[@erikjohnsonillustrat]

I read that same synopsis about going twenty years into future and am beyond disappointed to have been misled. Shoulda made an episode about the talented cat!

[@mb7626]

My takeaway from this whole series re Ryan’s character is that it has to be rough or pretty humiliating being the exposition ‘this is what’s really factually happening’ character when the writers don’t care about making sense or accurately labelling anything.

[@GamesFromSpace]

I don't know how you can say they're out of ideas, when they used like three entire unrelated concepts for this one single episode.

[@elijahmatthews2781]

I loved Baywatch Nights but I really was hoping that at some point it was just Lou Rawls, Angie Harmon and Gregory Allen Williams with The Hoff as an occasional guest starring role. Missed opportunity if you asked me 😅

[@jdnaz1288]

We're almost done with this insane, confusing, yet hilarious mess of a show, that was Baywatch Nights...as well as this hilarious & insane section of Baywatching! It's bringing tears to my eyes 😢

[@ETownLive]

Sad bananas time in the world where we're at the end of Baywatch Nights. Thanks for giving us a new way to appreciate this weird, misbegotten series.

[@marknificence2474]

Hooo-lyyy crap. Of all the Baywatch Nights episodes to NOT have access to a script. What in the hell were the writers even trying to do here? I do not envy the task of trying to summarize this mess and make something entertaining out of it. My hat's off to you, Alison. Hilarious as always.

[@Nintendofan-yk4cd]

"It's my day off!" - I dunno why but I get Clerks "I'm not supposed to be here today" vibes here

[@Polycomical]

The Allison Mitch voice needs to be recorded, archived and preserved. #mysave

[@MforMovesets]

Soil is people!! Also... a ghost spirit? How dare you turn a lifeguard rescuer and a woman lady into a ghost spirit?

[@cyberpunkstarfish897]

Peniultimate episode of Nights?! NOOOoooo....

[@56postoffice]

13:32: Using this as a ringtone.😂

[@jjwubs1638]

Seeing we are approaching Christmas... I am going out on a limb and declare this a low key Christmas Carol special, with all these spirits from the past and future and things of that nature. Merry Christmas everybody!

[@nemothenobody7859]

We need the inevitable reboot of Baywatch and Baywatch Nights!

[@mattofsmegpoop3027]

I'm not even suppose to be here today! I hope his manager is heading in for the afternoon or they'll have to play hockey on the roof!

[@jamcalx]

So after we're done with the baywatch verse, what will we do next? She Spies, cleopatra 2525, VIP, Invisible man? I need my cheese hit!

[@oosbeckanderson3199]

Oh, I would love to see SyFy's invisible man getting an episode-by-episode review treatment.

[@kingvulturo]

So for half a minute there was a bearded bald mime guy behind Mitch and Ryan and I was fervently hoping you'd veer off the main story and talk more about him after seeing this whole episode.

[@michellemarty7510]

"What? How? Why? Huh? What?" - me watching this episode

[@doctorhirst9302]

If Vortex Lady really wanted to communicate with Mitch in a language he understands, she should have put her message on a burger.

[@DespoSpyder]

Welcome back, The nights will never be the same

[@JThom529]

Well this is unbecoming. Ryan made contact with herself and didn’t cause the universe to explode

[@AllisonPregler]

Thanks!

[@lordmontymord8701]

I always thought Mitch fighting the fart-demon was the last episode of the show, so i was really hyped to see what i mised all those years. And wow ... can't say i'm disappointed. This is a new level of madness. One where the writers have given up and just threw some vague ideas together and nobody even tried to make something at least resembling a cohesive plot out of that mess. Makes you look back at the old days of exploding frog-hybrid girlfriends and say "well that was at least a story you can follow".

[@Tareltonlives]

I'm going to miss Baywatching Nights. "WHAT THE HELL GOING ON IN THIS EPISODE" I have never been so lost. I can only commend you for attempting to understand this insanity

[@brutalboy1000]

Mitch: This is my day off! Dante from Clerks: I'm not even supposed to be here today!

[@nicholasandheather9488]

Another great video! My husband and I just discovered a David Hasselhoff Lifetime Christmas movie called The Christmas Consultant. We were like "Omg we have to tell Allison about this!" Currently streaming it on the Friendly app.

[@pawned79]

Always a pleasure to see new BWN reviews on my feed. Thank you! Happy holidays, Pregler. 🎄

[@riccardoleone4265]

Oh gosh, this seems like they stitched together the drafts of two different episodes.

[@1000huzzahs]

Honestly Baywatch is so cheap I bet that's how it happened.

[@dennydorko]

My theory is they filmed part of the episode, completely rewrote it, started filming the new version, and then ran out of time to finish it, so they just edited it together with what they had from the original footage.

[@edwardhoptrough9933]

My theory, which mostly aligns with your own one, is that this episode began as simply ‘radioactive slug monster and zombies on a ship’ with some weak environmental messaging as the whole thing. Then they read it and realised that it was both entirely derivative of previous episodes they’ve already done, and painfully boring ship/warehouse wandering heavy. So they rewrote it in haste with the whole spirit thing to mix things up, and were so checked out they didn’t care to create any further versions even with it now being an indecipherable mess.

[@pucknorris3473]

About time for my annual rewatch of your charmed series…

[@tangoblue]

Angie Harmon looks like she’s aged about a decade after two years working with Hasselhoff.

[@gerjanm7648]

I would have

[@patrickjohnson1649]

1:53 Mitch… in season 1 of This Show, you worked with a Fortune Teller who was Actually Psychic.

[@seraphonica]

6:32 that's why he did Knight Rider... he knew that the only thing that could kill him was a car, so he teamed up with his greatest adversary

[@rubylucas9179]

Oh baywatch nights this is the silliest one yet and still one to go 🎉

[@cameronstone4495]

Mitch Powers: Wait a tick. Ryan, if we travel to 20 minutes in the future and we never went into the Vortex, presumably, I could go and visit my non-ghost self. But, if we never went into the Vortex, then how could we have become ghosts and traveled back to...Oh, no, I've gone cross-eyed. Ryan Exposition: I suggest you don't worry about those things and just enjoy yourself.

[@MoriartysDemon]

Time travel astral projection episodes are tough, huh?

[@CaptainSpauld1ng]

Elaine Bilstad is called Vortex Woman. That is her name in this.Elaine Bilstad

[@andrewparnell5566]

One of her last roles.

[@CaptainSpauld1ng]

@@andrewparnell5566 Yeah 😞 She was a pretty lady.

[@BaronVonHardcharger]

This is one for the ages! I laughed until I cried.

[@mikekz4489]

In twenty years, PBS is going to put together another tribute to commercial television programming and Baywatch Nights will be there.

[@Bakecrusto]

"They're out of ideas" No no, they're just saving up their good ideas for mainline Baywatch, like the very original episode idea where a rival rescue team called Bayguard appears out of nowhere and one-ups everyone, and Baywatch are threatened to be dissolved and replaced. Idea so fresh it was parodied by everyone, even Smiling Friends.

[@Shades14]

This time travel spirit stuff makes about as much sense as the ending of Grimm.

[@ThingsWeSaidToday]

God I love this series, you're the best Allison.

[@jonothanthrace1530]

When you listed the four sets the show had, I wanted to hear "And we're all out of Nights" at the end.

[@jakubmakalowski6428]

A great start to the morning with Allison and the Hof

[@TimTE01]

This truly is the Thanksgiving leftovers thrown into a blender Episode.

[@ThePonderer]

Almost at the end? Damn, how big a chunk of my life has this show been?

[@3L_B4R7O]

*Our lives are not complete if we don't see David Hasselhoff with a hamburger at least once a week!*

[@DarkfireTaimatsu]

Thank goodness this is the penultimate episode, because I don't think they could top themselves in terms of confusion after this one~

[@seanmatyas]

So Mitch is Dante in this episode "Im not even suppose to be here today "

[@Symon2099]

I've been looking forward to this one! With just a couple of episodes of Nights to go, I did something I haven't done for any edition of Baywatching/Nights so far and watched the actual episode first. And your reaction did not disappoint! I do wonder if this was maybe just gonna be a slug monster episode, but then someone in production had an idea!; "Hey, you know how we've saved money by reusing the same sets over and over again? How about in this episode, we reuse our two lead actors too. Then we won't have to hire a big supporting cast?" "Great, but how do we do that?" "Do some time travel thing. I mean, how hard can that be?"

[@MinutzAkira]

I wish I knew why hearing you talk about trash TV feels so relaxing.

[@henrygvidonas9573]

Hard to believe this show didn't get five or six more seasons, eh? I'm always happy to see Floyd Westerman, because he was awesome in almost everything he was ever in - but other than that? When I made the terrible mistake of binge-watching "Baywatch Nights" (because I love "Baywatching" and "Baywatching Nights" and stupidly _thought_ I wanted to "experience" the actual show for "the full context"), I was almost in physical pain at this point of season two. If we didn't know for certain, that nobody who was in charge of the writing, production, etc. gave a toss anymore in season two, it's almost as if they made a concerted, massive, unbelievably dedicated effort to bring the worst season of any TV show ever into existence. Just to prove a point... or something.

[@poposterous236]

This has been one of my favorite series on YT. I always rush to click it when there's a new episode. I'm really going to miss it when its gone.

[@Neon_talons]

If only you could have gotten your hands on a script for this episode, too, so we might find out what it was supposed to be about. Alas, some mysteries weren't meant to be solved.

[@canedust]

I think I understand - the show was hinting that Griffley "I'm Griff!" Griffilton was holding the time/space continuum together. Ryan & Mitch messing with the timeline without him is why nothing made sense (and why next episode is the end. Mitch's bomb also destroyed reality)

[@cpkgrownup9496]

So many questions, so many people on the BayWatch Nights set that didn’t gaf about answering any of them

[@SonicAlpha]

Just one more episode until nights will forever be the same 😢

[@BATCHARRO]

"20 years in the future" With no attempt to age them and wearing the same clothes?

[@aresgalamatis7022]

When I begin watching these videos, I am tempted to watch the whole episode; but by the end, I always give you the thumbs up for for suffering them for mine (and I hope thousand of others) entertainment 👍

[@doyleharken3477]

what do you think, did the siblings who wrote the conjuring movies make the original script more or less confusing in their job as story editors

[@anthonypryor9673]

The 10x loop of Mitch’s “YAH!” is a series high point. Well the end is coming soon. Sigh. I guess nights will never be the same…

[@palatinus712]

Great episode (of watching, not the actual show) as always! Thanks, Allison!

[@UnknownXero]

Im going to miss baywatching nights . I guess ill just have to rewatch them all again Its also funny and ironic cuz I just watched the phantom of the opera guy one on Pluto tv like a day ago

[@patrickkelmer6290]

I pray every day that G-d makes it possible that somehow, this will get a third season so Baywatching Nights will never be the same.

[@distance7721]

Hell yeah! Baywatch! Woo!

[@jasonblalock4429]

15:20 LOL even the sound editor couldn't keep track of which Mitch was which. ...that sounds like the start of a terrible tongue twister.

[@blackrobedprincess]

I can't believe we're reaching the end! Im not ready!