Cowboy Bebop’s Best Episode?

[@dry_cereal_4283]

Bro got plok boss theme in the background, dope as fuck

[@jallomoth]

you already know .

[@yourcordialvermillionchapw2398]

Very fitting music of course: Mad Pierrot literally has borderline Cheat Code Hax on. One would feel the desperation from such a boss that can't be beaten... *_Conventionally at least._* Oh I would also like to know the music in 7:16... It's very familiar, yet I just can't put my finger on it. Some of the beats are almost akin to the Ratchet & Clank franchise, but not quite, and it's very catchy.

[@jallomoth]

the song at 7:16 is called goul by artist Pilotredsun :)

[@yourcordialvermillionchapw2398]

@@jallomoth I looked for it, I was met with _"The TINY Enemy Spider"_ ... But yeah it's good music and ever fitting here. Still sounds like something out of Ratchet & Clank I swear to god though, the spider in the tracks image would make me further visualize Ratchet/Clank on an arachnid level, the worse kind XD.

[@mazack00]

It should be mentioned how in the background the other characters are pushed to their limits as well: Jet goes to their top connection at the ISSP to get a rumor. Ed has to bust out all of their hacking abilities to break into the network that had information about Tongpu. Faye pulls some manipulation to try to stop Spike, and when that fails, gets their expensive zipcraft destroyed whilst attempting to help. Also keep in mind this is the last mission they do all together. The next 4 episodes, each character is faced with a personal mission that helps each deal with their own individual stories. Jet with "Boogie Woogie Feng Shui" facing what he views as a totally illogical situation. Spike with "Cowboy Funk" and... well... Andy. Faye nearly dying in "Brain Scratch" was a real wake-up for them... Because it's wrapped up with "Hard Luck Woman" where she explores her past while Ed finds their father. Ed, the last member to join is the first to leave signaling that the Cowboy Bebop group is done. All that remains after is the finale. I think the near lack of music plays into this theme of the groups final "performance". They're not the bebop group they want to be, free and doing their own thing. They're now bound to what they feel they MUST do. The little music we do get during is either grating metal noises or the methodical and manic beat that plays when Pierrot's past is explained. The analogy of this group being a bebop band is so perfect and their final episodes fit the theme beautifully.

[@jallomoth]

this is my favorite comment i’ve gotten on this channel . everything you said is exactly right and im sort of jealous I couldn’t have mentioned that in the video !! I guess I was so hyper fixated on the dichotomy between spike and pierrot that I neglected the other character’s importance . super interesting to think about how this is one of the gang’s final romps

[@ryanmorris3114]

Appreciate this comment so much! 🙏👍

[@mookiestewart3776]

Ed is a girl not non binary . She says herself “Ed is a little girl”

[@mazack00]

@@mookiestewart3776 You're in the wrong comment thread.

[@mookiestewart3776]

@@mazack00 “Ed has to bust out all of their hacking ability” should be “her hacking ability”

[@darkscholar625]

This was the first and only episode I saw as a child. For years I thought it was a dream. Took me years before I watched the whole series. I was transfixed the first time I saw it and I'm glad somebody else can appreciate it's morbid beauty.

[@jallomoth]

what an eye-catching first episode to see !! sort of jealous it wasn’t mine haha . how could you not be hooked after

[@darkscholar625]

@@jallomoth I never got the chance to see it when it came on at Saturdays. I think it might’ve been a toonami special

[@mookiestewart3776]

@@darkscholar625 it was adult swim not toonami

[@whywhy3289]

The Japanese voice actor for Pierrot gave one of the best voice performances I have ever heard.

[@HOLDENPOPE]

Vicious, the Pierrot and Vincent are, at least as far as I remember, the only three villains to ever put Spike in bandages.

[@julioalvarado7548]

Eds dad too

[@DefenestrateYourself]

@@julioalvarado7548don’t put Spike in bandages. Would have if the fight continued though

[@travismazur7662]

I was 19 it was 2002 flipping through the Channels at the exact moment spike walked out of the pool hall and the gun battle started. I had never heard of cowboy bebop but after this episode I was hooked

[@predator2262]

What Is awessome in this episode Is the fact that Spike don't let the fear dominate him, he fought Pierro like a savage, he knew he can't beat him and that he was possibly gonna die,,but he still fight,he was hurt and tired but he still go to space land to face Pierro and having a rematch,,this ,Is a true badass character

[@jallomoth]

real

[@janiscr9977]

MAN it has been my favorite ep since i saw it for the first time, the mood the story the end everything seemed perfect and i never thought id find someone who shared this vision

[@jallomoth]

ahh thats so good to hear !! thank you for sharing my opinion :) this episode has just always been so stand out in my mind

[@Cincy32]

This really is hands down the best episode IMO. I remember tuning into adult swim every week to catch the latest Cowboy Bebop episode as it first premiered stateside (I want to say it was on Sunday nights) & this was the first episode where I was genuinely worried Spike could get killed. In fact, it really seemed to me then as though he would. It was a genuinely good horror episode too & my 11 year old self spooked.

[@jallomoth]

im so glad you share my opinion !! when bebop was airing in the US I had’nt been born yet hahaha .

[@simonb8988]

This has been my favorite episode since the first time I saw it on Adult Swim back in 2002/2003.

[@jallomoth]

you’re an OG !

[@Admmkh]

Yup. The good old days

[@mookiestewart3776]

Thank you for getting it CORRECT and saying you saw it on ADULT SWIM back then. Way too many people think toonami was airing this show back in those days and I constantly have to correct them lol. No way in hell was early toonami airing fucking cowboy bebop

[@mookiestewart3776]

@@jallomoth most of us are fam!!! I watched it on it’s original run back in 2001!! I still remember the first episode airing and having my mind blown when I was like 12 lol

[@mookiestewart3776]

@@Admmkh the best days

[@lofilazy.]

I'm not sure why, but the shot of Spike in the bar playing pool is my favorite in the whole series.

[@jallomoth]

not a bad pick :D i’m not sure what mine would be , maybe the shot of spike when he’s fighting andy atop the skyscraper in Cowboy Funk. they are so high up that the wind speeds are rippling the hell out of his hair and clothes and with the orange sunset it just always gives me chills

[@mookiestewart3776]

Love that one but Faye in the bar while mr saxophone played “goodnight Julia” might be better lol. Also spike falling out of the window in ep 5

[@Valentina-666-x3b]

The most memorable scene in this session is Mad Pierrot screaming and going mad when he sees the mechanical kitten toy.

[@jallomoth]

definitely

[@niceguy0080]

Yes. But I also love that triple floaty backflip kick he does against spike

[@noheroespublishing1907]

Broken Villains like this are always fascinating, one's that cannot be fixed but you know why they are the way they are, they're unreasoning is a result of their brokenness, thereby making them terrifying and sympathetic at the same time. Resident Evil 7's main antagonist is exactly like this as well, making the character dangerous enough to understand why they should be destroyed, but understanding their situation enough to understand that even if they wanted to not be dangerous, it's impossible for that to happen.

[@Parasolhyena]

Aww Resident Evil 7, the poor family though, just nice people who were fully turned. Except Lucas.

[@coltoncole6857]

@@Parasolhyena ya, some clues you find in Luke’s room, and I think his DLC shows that he was a lunatic even before Evelyn, something do do with the development of his brain, that makes him unsympathetic, and very petty.

[@Sevatar_VIIIth]

Still one of the greatest anime episodes ever, Pierrot had Spike shook fr.

[@215will4]

Idk why for me the theme park music made it even more creepy

[@jallomoth]

because children and clowns are scary

[@Neoentrophy]

Because it's slowed and slightly out of tune, it creates an unsettling version of something normally familiar and innocent.

[@Merm1392]

I love how spikes on the back foot the whole episode this episode was great

[@jallomoth]

yes he got quite clowned on :)

[@artaog302]

Only after finishing did I realize this only has a hundred views. Genuinely such a quality video, keep it up

[@jallomoth]

bro 🥺

[@insert-name101]

Apart from the vicious episodes, this was my favourite episode from the entire show. So much to love from it. Simplistic adrenaline rush from start to finish. Reminded me of Anton Chigurh in No Country for old men. How it was said that “you shouldn’t be alive if you saw him”. Undoubtedly the most menacing character in the entire show. Pure evil as he himself was subjected to pure evil. With a mind going backwards. On top of that, the ‘on the run’ sample from pink floyd’s dark side of the moon. This already has two aspects from my favourite thriller & my favourite album. They really nail on this episode with everything. Especially the cat. How the cat is really a reference to Spike. One eye is of a different colour to the other. Direct reference to spike. Also the story spike tells jet in the final episode. About how he is like the cat who dies a million times only to die forever after crying a million times. This is really the peak of the show. Horror, pity, adrenaline. Cowboy Bebop itself is a masterpiece.

[@ALCvideoprofile]

This episode HORRIFIED me as a child. I caught this late at night on Adult Swim, and though I had seen Cowboy Bebop before many times, this one was very different from the get go. Perrot's piercing maniacal eyes and his huge square teeth shook me to my core, the way he hovered so unnaturally and how he so relentlessly chased his prey. The scariest part is what intense joy he seemed to feel at the hunt, the kill, the sick twisted thrill of toying with his victims. Still to this day those who revel in the pain or misfortune of others frighten me. It feels in it's own way totally inhuman.

[@heroedeleyenda05]

Fun fact: this episode might have been inspired by the movie "Desperado" there is a scene where the main character is being chased by danny trejo , who has a vest filled with knives and badly wounds the main character who barely makes it out alive trough an alleyway. also, dany trejo gets distracted fighting some heavily armed gangsters in a limousine. I know the similarities arent that much , but wh

[@NimmyJewTronn_]

I watched this episode high as a kite. One of the best experiences I’ve ever had

[@Bestialce2007]

I wandered into this episode by accident. It was the first episode of CB I watched and I was instantly hooked. To this day, it remains my favourite episode of the entire series. I know anime was consolidated in the 80s, but the 90s was truly the golden age of anime

[@bespectacledheroine7292]

I think Brain Scratch is scarier and more primal. Something about new agey cults man, and that monologue about television. Chills. But as for magnum opus....Toys in the Attic has my vote.

[@jallomoth]

they’re all so good, it’s hard to decide. at least we agree the spooky ones are king

[@bespectacledheroine7292]

@@jallomoth I really did love the analysis whether I agree with the title. :)

[@chesterstevens8870]

Fun fact: given enough time, everything in all concievable universes will be voiced by Steve Blum.

[@vicentebahamondez196]

This episode is incredible and i love how this enemy feels like a force of nature without break the world

[@louperranth.c.1759]

i just saw this episode on my job (launch) and i noticed that the ambience and everything was different and has a lot of details so i rewatched this episode again. i must say daaaaaamn i almost cry for pierrot when he was calling for his mom (sorry for my english xD still learning)

[@jallomoth]

you’re good man , and I know :(( ahh its so sad

[@BiggerJohnTheSnorlaxGod]

My absolute favorite episode.

[@jallomoth]

me 2 :)

[@nickn271]

There have been very few instances of pure visceral dread as intense as seeing the preview for the next episode back in high school around 2001. Watching Spike get kicked in the air over and over set to the sound of nothing but laughter. I couldn’t wait for the next episode and it quickly became my favorite episode of any TV show.

[@cartoonhistory353]

Toys in the attic has to be my favorite episode

[@jallomoth]

me too :) or cowboy funk

[@noriringtail7428]

This was my favorite episode! Very good breakdown of it.

[@jallomoth]

thank you so much !! :)

[@RthmnNdrsn]

All these years I always thought this ep looked so different, but I figured it was just my imagination. Thank you for pointing out the difference o7

[@silly4380]

as a kid i was hyperfixated on this episode i kept rewatching the dvd with this on it but i was always made fun of by my family for being so scared of it this episode is like seared into my brain it's the first thing i think of when i'm reminded of cowboy bebop

[@matti2b431]

Yes!! I thought I was the only one that considered this my favourite episode. Honestly the ominous it’s scary but it’s so interesting

[@jallomoth]

exactly

[@dakotalange2858]

That guy gave me nightmares as a kid 😂

[@commitarson6583]

The carnival music made me feel so unsafe

[@maxwellgraves635]

The way Pierrot died in the end was super upsetting though 😢 like idk why but it's really hard to watch now 🥺

[@coltoncole6857]

Because you know he’s a monster, you also know he’s basically a child, acted like a literal child that got a terrible injury. It’s a weird feeling when you see someone that’s supposed to be a monster, but acts like this, affecting you to the point of wanting to more comfort them so tell them that everything will be all right. Really activates the inner parent in a person.

[@bearlogg7974]

Idunno man Mushroom hunting is peak fiction...

[@austinmajor1595]

Something about this episode always felt so different to any other

[@KCEBGaming]

I think one detail that you missed out on is that the composer chose a very interesting song to play in this episode, and that’s “On the Run” by Pink Floyd. It’s the song that plays during the scene showing the video footage of Tongpu’s creation.

[@Windjammer19]

"HAAAAAHAHAHAHAHA HAAAHAHAHAAAHAHAHAA HAHA HAHA HAAAAAHAHAHAHAAAA!" "Episode 20: Pierrot Le Fou" If that doesn't get you interested, nothing will.

[@jallomoth]

straight fax

[@user-lr8ow2jg4e]

Didn't expect to hear pilotredsun music and cowboy bebop in the same video. Nice

[@trashpanda9427]

You're crushing it guy. Your anime stuff is great but I like your breakfast club episode the most. I think you got great strength in variety

[@rickyarroyo2262]

Spikes right artificially eye is a hitech tracking device., This is the object of twist in this story

[@GETOFFMYBOARD]

good video man had to rewatch the episode after watching. Definitely one of my favorite episodes of Bebop.

[@jallomoth]

it’s so cool that you went and rewatched it after and then came back to comment too. you da best man

[@mookiestewart3776]

My second or third favorite ep, I would have to give ballad of fallen angels my top spot though. The lore dump and the church scene are just too good man

[@Tobacc0]

The Pink Floyd inspired insanity sound track is gold.

[@jallomoth]

i know ! i wanted to use it in the video but couldn’t bc of copyright :/

[@leme3082]

You used warm pop in the opening though and that places you high in my book

[@Cuffy6]

My favorite too …. It just felt like it was directed way different than the rest similar to what you said

[@thewindow5663]

I feel like this might blow up soon

[@jallomoth]

I hope you’re right lmao !!

[@BoyKagome]

Why would a child like mind say "Hello boy." sound like adults greeting...

[@jallomoth]

true lolol . i’d imagine its because while he does have a child like mind , he still knows his actual age . his mental age is young but i’m sure he on some level understands he’s over twice as old as spike

[@BoyKagome]

@@jallomoth Or hes role playing? Kids say some pretend adult stuff when they got their action figures out.

[@jallomoth]

very true . wouldn’t put it past him

[@arunn3874]

ellie from last of us had similar moment in the 8th episode where she who never feared anything, she cried with fear. and that was unsettling, just like spike's eyes, there was a certain horror

[@7waterdrops_7]

Whenever I watch this episode I feel sick, like physically nauseous

[@LMGunslinger]

Nice edit at the end there.

[@jallomoth]

thank you !

[@TalkingAboutGames]

Excellent video, but I still don't get why Spike's eye reminded him of a cat; I get the whole "cat with the stripes of a tiger" thing, but it's quite surreal that just because of that, Tongpu thought of a cat the moment he saw Spike's eye; I feel like I'm missing a detail 🤔

[@jallomoth]

don’t really have an answer tbh . pierrot is mentally ill so a lapse in judgement , something reminding him of his trauma shouldn’t be totally uncommon . maybe just the fact spike is somehow still alive mixed with the exact right mood and lighting struck the same bell in his head that the cat used to . its not like tongpu rly KNEW spike was a “tiger striped cat” , I just think its an interesting way to explain something that had no previous explanation , and really doesn’t need one imo . but its interesting to think about and connect the dots none the less

[@archive881]

It wasn't just any cat but apparently the pet of the head researcher. Throughout the flashback we see this creature staring at Tonpu through its two distinctive colored eyes as he is subjected to horrendous experiments.

[@TalkingAboutGames]

@@archive881 Ah! That must have been what I had missed, Spike's right eye look slightly different from his left eye, so that triggered the flashback; excellent observation.

[@Windjammer19]

@@jallomoth It's the eyes. Tongpu was afraid of the cat since it reminded him of the pain he suffered. The cat has two colored eyes, like another tiger-striped cat.

[@jallomoth]

well ,, yeah I know that’s what I was saying in the video 😂

[@thevoid4393]

I felt really bad for pier

[@jallomoth]

me too :(

[@thevoid4393]

@@jallomoth like yeah he was a killer but i wonder since he had the mind of a child perhaps we coulda bribed him with candy or something

[@jallomoth]

so effing true … what candy tho ?

[@thevoid4393]

@@jallomoth jolly ranchers or whatever is considered good candy in the bebop universe

[@archive881]

10:29 - He will bear thee away to the houses of lamentation, beyond all darkness, where thy flesh shall be devoured, and thy shriveled mind be left naked to the Lidless Eye. - Witch-king of Angmar, Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

[@jallomoth]

amen

[@Kenshin6321]

Man, I hate theme parks.

[@jallomoth]

spike’s first bad take

[@beanbagvevo]

What song is playing at 1:54? great video btw

[@RifetOkic]

0:30 what’s the song name ? Thanks in advance 🙏

[@Pacmanfan-po9rn]

A blackplotation caught me off guard lmao

[@jallomoth]

yeah, blaxploitation does have a jarring title. it’s a fitting name for something so evil though, the exploitation of black people in popular media. I most likely should have gone more in depth about that statement by the way. The episode isn’t a blaxploitation as much of a parody or take on the “blaxploitation” genre itself

[@adityakancharla5815]

Definitely the best episode, the one I rewatch the most

[@PajamaOperator]

quality ass video. did you make your own bumper cards? needs more views and subs, i got you 😎

[@jallomoth]

yes I did 😅 and THANK SO MUCH BRO

[@jallomoth]

i call em jallobumps 😁

[@PajamaOperator]

@@jallomoth ofc ofc! and jallobumps, i like it lol… you got a very adult swim vibe to the vids w the bumps and the music choice. great stuff!

[@jallomoth]

thats what I was going for !! so hell yeah . that late night TV vibe

[@archive881]

Though it's not really that relevant to the episode, but one question still irritates me. Why was there a cat in the research facility in the first place? What is its purpose? What is its origin? Is this creature a genetically enhanced data animal like Ein and studying Tongpu like the others. Does the cat symbolize the researcher's fiendish control that surrounds Tongpu as he lies helpless, unable to stop the torture they subject him to? The same way a cat "plays" with a caught mouse?

[@jallomoth]

that second idea is honestly thematic genius , but I think the first would be more realistic . I actually have a video idea about what exactly makes ein a “data dog” , and looking into other important animal figures in the series like the cat is a really good idea !

[@DarkGhostHacker]

If this guys green force field usually protects him from bullets, then why did it not work when spike threw thrbknife at his leg? It by passed the kinetic force field and pierced his leg. Why?

[@baronkarza2939]

its a reference to the forcefields from dune it only protects against things moving 200mph

[@brandonbarnes9681]

My favorite episode

[@jallomoth]

me too :D or cowboy funk

[@truereligionfiend738]

George clanton fan 😅

[@Thorgrax]

high key wish tom won.

[@ViewtifulJae]

Mine too

[@kokorosand1090]

warmpop!

[@jallomoth]

yes warmpop :D check out my video on vaporwave they’re in that too teehee

[@gollygeology]

My least fav episode. But I'm curious

[@jallomoth]

still your least fav ?

[@gollygeology]

@@jallomoth yea

[@GeorgeMonet]

This was the worst episode. It utilized bullshit technology that makes no sense for the series to have. If shielding like this existed then everyone would be using it. And really this dumb looking shit beating Spike was just unbelievable ruinous garbage. HATE THIS EPISODE.

[@jallomoth]

did you at least watch the video or just click and comment that

[@adrianpopa2268]

hey hallo

[@jallomoth]

why hello :)

[@dumbidiot2899]

whenever i go back for a rewatch if i don’t start from the beginning i start from this episode. it sets such a unique tone from the rest of the series only seen in episodes like this and brain scratch