BLAXPLOITATION & Shrooms!! // Cowboy Bebop Ep. 17 REACTION!

[@SeanTanktop]

WHAT A GADDAMN BAWL of an episode! Get EARLY Access to EP 18 & 19 of Cowboy Bebop at Patreon.com/SeanTanktop for only $5!!

[@iesika7387]

Everyone's trips were actually pretty meaningful and symbolic for their own personal character journeys, which I quite like: Jet happily taking care of his little family, all of them safe and sound; Faye tiny, lost, and drowning, taking her identity cues from those around her; Spike trying to climb that stairway to heaven but stuck in one place without moving forward.

[@pollyyander]

i listen the the song that plays when they’re on top of the train ALL THE TIME-- its so good.

[@lorettabes4553]

05:05 Oh yeah! Once ya'll finish the show, you could watch Mother Basement's Tank explanation video. He often dives pretty deep in what the meaning behind anime openings are. Though his interpertation is simply one of many.

[@Talisguy]

I really appreciate how Avatar recontextualised this premise. In Cowboy Bebop, the adults are all high as balls to take them out of the action, letting Ed and Ein take centre stage, hijinks ensue. In that Avatar episode, Sokka is high as balls and taken out of the action so that Katara is left as the only one with her shit remotely together in a very dangerous situation, forcing her to hold the team together so they don't all die of dehydration, and his ramblings are the only source of humour in an otherwise pretty bleak episode. Same premise, recognisable reference, _completely_ different results. It's a good way to homage an episode concept from another show.

[@cje499]

The song "Mushroom Hunting" will forever be stuck in my head thanks to this episode Also.. obnoxious frog!

[@iesika7387]

I live in the PNW and regularly go mushrooming (finding the tasty kind in the woods, that is) with some friends, and this song has to get played in the subaru* every time we head out into the woods. *the official unofficial mushroom hunting automobile. You should see the parking lot at the mycological society meetups.

[@wraith1701]

Whenever I see that a new Tank-Top BeBop episode has been posted, my day gets a little bit better. THANK YOU for doing them! 😁 I am both excited and sad that we’re getting closer and closer to the final stage of the series…

[@goonanhate101]

My instinct about the mushrooms was they really were “special” mushrooms. Since we are in the future, I just assumed they were grown special and altered in such a way, that through testing, would appear like conventional mushrooms, while secretly being psychedelics. My only assumption for this is that the smuggler never really seems too worried about cops, and is only being assailed by other criminals and people that know him personally. So I don’t think he was ever really worried about getting stopped by a cop on the street, unless they have seen the bounty posters. So he’s just a regular guy with a random bag full of shiitake mushrooms. Strange but not illegal.

[@DerOberfeldwebel]

I always thought those were regular mushrooms he duped Ed with because Ed came across as kinda gullible

[@mookiestewart3776]

The background text in the intro is literally the personal manifesto of series creator/director shinichiro watanabe . The bits about creating a new genre is his explicit stated goal of creating a new genre of media with cowboy bebop . “And the work which will become a new genre unto itself will be called COWBOY BEBOP”. The man is a legit genius as a director and you can find the full manifesto online, some very dedicated fans have pieces it together . Edit: he’s also a big fan of drugs from his time hanging out in the US . In pretty much every show he does he has a “drug episode”

[@chrisk1537]

wooooo! been waiting forever! you'll be a cow woof woof! Ed and Ein are such a badass combo!

[@garrettwhite5943]

I love that you actually GOT Ed Ein n Eddy with this episode. The pre-episode discussion is absolutely exactly what this episode gives you. This is one of my absolute favorite episodes of this show. Fantastic stuff.

[@TomVCunningham]

One of my favourite episodes. Pure fun!

[@0okamino]

See? No matter who is the best, Ed and Ein are the bestest. 😄

[@jackdavids2723]

That other guy who was bounty hunting the mushroom dealer was a bad motha … “Shutch yo mouth”

[@mariebourgot4949]

Thanks for the video team! :)

[@Literallyjustmint]

No they did trip from mushrooms, but those are different (normal) shroomies at the end

[@seriomarkj]

Can't wait until the next episode.... and this is a fun but ultimately harmless episode

[@Dannydarko27]

So much fun in one episode

[@lpharmer3496]

I am a fan of the wholesome Portuguese sex bots

[@brianyaniro4797]

The only episode I actually like Ed in. And Ein hopping just makes me laugh so hard fo some reason. Like he thinks he's a squeaky toy.