Cowboy Bebop - Session 16 Black Dog Serenade - Group Reaction

This Episode reminded us of Con-Air. A bunch of prisoners hijacking their transport. We all loved this little tale. What did you think of this episode when you all watch it.
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[@Dhunter95]

Btw there wasn't anymore bullets in the gun at the end there. If you remember in the space ship he only put one bullet in there and he killed the assassin with that bullet.

[@eternalposer1955]

Yea, he wanted to die. Basically suicide by cop.

[@CWojcieszak]

Yeah and you can clearly see it's empty at 15:01

[@hikikocorgi]

Black dog refers to Jet. In the episode Ganymede Elegy he mentions that when he was a cop his nickname was the black dog

[@Warriorten10]

Also his name is Jet Black

[@spikespiegel7964]

they always miss shit talkin over it makin the same comments each ep. just like they aint realize Udai worked for the syndicate until the end of the ep even though they repeatedly said it all through the ep

[@allyourmoney]

I can't believe this has to be explained. No, wait. I can.

[@bigbofa1488]

It's also a play on the song by Zeppelin.lol

[@hikikocorgi]

Don't expect it to get better. I had a subscription on patreon and I watched up until the faye episode speak like a child and they talk over the most important part, I was so disappointed I unsubscribed. Also because they talk during the most important scenes they get confused over the most simple things

[@avataraang4312]

suraj talked over every time the syndicate was mentioned

[@Dell-ol6hb]

Luis Madrigal without fail too

[@justinprather4760]

All the guns in Cowboy Bebop are real guns. Spike uses an IMI Jericho 941 R, Jet uses a Walther P99, Faye uses a Glock 30. Fad, the corrupt cop in this episode, uses a S&W model 29 chambered in .44 magnum. It's of note that aside from the barrel length Fad's gun is the same as Dirty Harry used in his movies.

[@0okamino]

Right? If I didn't know better, I'd think that Kenichi Sonoda worked on this.

[@TheBakuganmaster99]

I never understood tho. Why would they be using such old guns so late into the future?

[@justinprather4760]

@@TheBakuganmaster99 I know lots of people running and carrying 100+ year old guns right now.

[@TheBakuganmaster99]

@@justinprather4760 Well not many I would presume.

[@justinprather4760]

@@TheBakuganmaster99 More than you would think, plus guns are an apex technology, a deflagrating powder powered projectile firing weapon is already as good as it can be, I think we'll still use Glocks in space.

[@UncleMilo]

Sheesh! Jet is the "Black Dog". He talked about that in his last solo ep and they even re-stated it again in this ep.

[@avataraang4312]

i feel like they overlooked all of the little details in this episode, like the Black Dog reference to the other episode, & the guy being part of the syndicate

[@johnspartan12]

Pluto is not a planet again, it's status is being reevaluated

[@stevendunn2501]

I know there probably were subtitles, but way too much talking this time, guys.

[@jazzorion1]

Jet's partner was working for the syndicate. They told him to take out the assassin because those are syndicate roles. Jet's arm was shot off by a sniper rifle, which can be pretty powerful.

[@ripbozo6780]

Suraj can be really annoying like a kindergartener who had too much sugar

[@Mokkari77]

I've apparently watched way more cop movies and TV shows than the Normies because I saw the partner betrayal coming from a mile away.

[@huntedguy9013]

I havent even watched cop movies and I had a hunch it was coming xD

[@6SJW6]

Want them to watch more 90s anime. Trigun is fun action for everyone, Berserk somehow has both the best gore and shockingly the most thoughtful emotional deep story. And there’s also Lain, and evangelion and yu yu hakusho and wolfs rain ...ugh 90s so good...

[@douglas2938]

Evangelion would be great, but also very confusing, specially if you watch it once a week.

[@Porque1000]

Yeah Trigun left me some good memories but Berserk put a hole in my soul when I've watched it. Tremendous shows.

[@aikokoga150]

6SJW6 Wolf's rain is good anime but it's 2000's anime. btw i want them reacting to it

[@tsogobauggi8721]

Neon Genesis Evangelion really would be great. Would be interesting and funny to see reactions to that. And it's not confusing if you watch it once a week.

[@danzansandeev6033]

Tsögö Bauggi well with their attention span I doubt evangelion would be a good idea) Trigun would be awesome though

[@spikeinmadness5005]

You need to listen! The Black Dog was Jet. His name is Jet Black....his partner tried to shoot him in the heart but missed and took his arm instead. Jet's partner loaded one bullet in his gun to kill Budai, and threatened to kill Jet to force him into shooting his partner. It was "suicide by cop". You guys are literally too juvenile to follow this series.

[@justinprather4760]

You guys need to watch Trigun and Outlaw Star both in English dub. Then you'll know the big 3 of space westerns.

[@Roger6233]

Fad got in there with just a bullet, which he used to kill Udai, he acted like he was going to kill Jet. Guess there was only one way to quit the syndicate.

[@oppai454]

Pluto still not a planet just a dwarf planet

[@oppai454]

@SpyengoEen aye, but there are 5 known dwarf planets in our solar system. if the astronomy community included them in the list of planets then we would be saying that there are 13+ planets in the system. if we included dwarf planets, the classifications would get very tricky and there would be much more than 8 or 13 being classified as planets. that's why they excluded Pluto and kept the significant eight.

[@oppai454]

@SpyengoEen there's three criteria to be classified as a planet in our solar system: 1. In orbit around the sun 2. Have sufficient mass to retain a round shape 3. Has cleared its orbit of other celestial objects Pluto and the other dwarf planets haven't met the third criteria.

[@TheBakuganmaster99]

@@oppai454 What does the third point mean exactly?

[@davejonedellomos5963]

@@TheBakuganmaster99 way too late to the party but essentially it means there should not be anything around its orbit other than rings and moons. Pluto is next to if not in the Kuiper Belt.

[@wyattetzel926]

Black Dog is a song by Led Zeppelin.

[@LrnecBuma]

Next week Ranas favorite episode!

[@coolasiwanatabe1233]

After all this time, I finally realize that Jet's partner didn't have a bullet to shoot Jet with after he killed that one guy. Seems like he wanted to die

[@thaddeus_maximus]

It might have been missed but Fad's gun was empty. He loaded one bullet and put it in the head of Udai, I believe he wanted Jet to kill him as a penance.

[@kylew79]

there were no more bullets. He used it on the assassin. He wanted Jet to kill him

[@gunslinger11bravo]

Things in the movie are much more poignant when you know how things in the series ended. Watch the movie last.

[@Cookieboy70]

Shoutout to Spike for being in Book 4? Lol, he was Amon in Book 1!

[@Doomclown]

Steve Blum is in every anime and video game.

[@brettd2308]

6:00 eh, not really. What happened is a new study came out that argues that the IAU definition of a planet is bad and Pluto should be considered a planet based on other criteria. But nothing official has happened, and wouldn't be able to until sometime next year because the annual IAU general assembly (where they vote on such decisions) already happened in August. There's always been some controversy over how the Pluto vote was handled - it was snuck into the last day of the IAU general assembly in 2006, so only 424 of the ~2500 attending astronomers actually voted on the decision, and many who attended were surprised by the announcement afterwards. It was also changed at the last minute, with the wording that demoted Pluto added in right before the vote (the proposal that was posted publicly before the assembly initially kept Pluto as a planet, but would have also added Charon and Ceres as planets based on the new definition). Ever since it happened, there have been accusations within astronomy that the demotion proponents deliberately stacked the vote by letting their supporters know they needed to show up for it, while most of the astronomers were in the dark about the nature of the altered proposal and left the assembly early. There have also been some scientists arguing that the new definition is bad ever since it was made official, and this isn't actually the first study about that - it seems like every time a new one comes out, the media just runs a bunch of sensationalist headlines like "Pluto definitely a planet again! (say some scientists)" The issue is just that the current IAU definition is reasonably sound and makes it easier for us to classify things (except for the bizarre name "dwarf planet" which I hope is changed), while most attempts to reclassify Pluto as a planet would wind up with our solar system having tens of planets, not 9. This new study attempts to use Pluto's geologic features to argue that it's different from other small bodies, which I honestly don't think will fly because it's just currently impossible for us to know such things about any stellar body not in our own solar system.

[@CarbonMage]

I'm personally rather fond of "plutoid". Dwarf planet is just awkward

[@tsogobauggi8721]

Dwarf planets are cool, but my favorites are elf planets. :)

[@asheradensein]

7:00 Nah, I'm getting more of a Jackie Brown type Samuel L. Jackson vibe from this guy :)

[@-Gilver]

Oh shit me too XD

[@fredburger5087]

Someone should of told them a lot of lines are spoken softly so they should try and listen more. Also I never really got the impression that I should of watched the movie before the final when I did.

[@FlubbedPig]

Nahid's gonna get his wish on next week's episode. Get ready to Samba!

[@clem1257]

Jet Black (Dog), the cop who never stops.

[@JoeKerr019]

please guys, watch Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex. If ya guys loved this show, GitS is right up your alley

[@Demonicpoo]

Gits tends to get into some out there philosophical discussions though.

[@JoeKerr019]

Philosophy in gits it's quite interesting actually

[@SgtBagel32]

SAC is not really a group watch show. Very heavy on the politics, philosophy and conspiracy. Don't even get me started about characters monologuing about social theories or when the Tachikomas start debating about free will for an entire episode

[@sweetjaysus4507]

Dude, GitS would be awesome; It'd absolutely be interesting to hear their takes on the philosophy and ethics of a super well built sci-fi world like GitS, and even if the plot gets a little too thick at times, multiple people watching together means someone is bound to remember key points the others might miss/forget

[@SoCal818]

The Normies misunderstood the assassin, he said Jet's partner "hired" the gun that night, not "held" The partner was standing directly behind the spotlight on Jet so he could stay hidden like a coward.

[@loveschunkontv1900]

I mean do you not know one of Led Zeppelin's most famous songs "Black Dog" ? Also did they really not pick up on the multiple times they have called Jet the "Black Dog"? I understand this show is nuanced I understand but when you miss stuff they flat out tell you, its really just annoying. Also I always assumed the thing under Jet's eye was the interface between the arm and his brain.

[@superlive98]

Even more hilarious, they did not know what "serenade" means.

[@VolatileSupernova]

He didn't almost kill Jet, earlier when he reloaded he put one bullet in the revolver, he used that bullet on the assassin dude, so he was empty and knew it, suicide by bounty hunter. Guess he was sorry for what he had done previously.

[@Malo-Hombre71]

Black Dog is a Led Zeppelin song just saying

[@damonbrown5424]

"Black Dog" is song by Led Zeppelin. Even if you're not into that style of music, you've probably heard it before. Check it out on your favorite streaming service. You won't be disappointed.

[@SheaHarris]

Some people aren't into that style of music?! Okay I know it's true, but it's a shame.

[@nangke]

I had no idea there was a Con Air episode of this show

[@allyourmoney]

10:17 After being cut off from the syndicate Udai looks like a solitary spider in a web.

[@heinrichagrippa5681]

22:08 - Suraj: "I never saw the original Star Wars trilogy." Implying he's seen literally every Star Wars movie _except_ the original trilogy. Millennial fuckboy confirmed.

[@someonesomewhere3902]

Sorry...Pluto still not a planet

[@AngelTovar]

Just watch the movie after, that's the way everyone viewed it.

[@joshuagross3151]

Nope. They're seeing it before ep 23. Deal.

[@tsogobauggi8721]

21:22 Series is series and movie is movie. They should not be mixed together. It's like mixing two good foods together and then both of them loose flavours. Series was first and then was the movie. That is how they were made and how they should be watched.

[@OroborusFMA]

Bullshit. The movie has all kinds of valuable foreshadowing that should be watched in order. Doesn't 'effin matter when it was made.

[@LadyVenomWay]

This is not a kids show shirt lmao XD

[@JeffOf813]

I wish i knew what it was about steve blooms voice that makes him so good, even though he never does anything more than his real voice lmao... Once you know who he is, you hear him everywhere! Like yes he is solid snake, but hes also been in like every single call of duty... He plays the smooth self centered aloof guy in every anime ever, and one of the villians in the same anime lol. Check out his imdb... Its eye opening, it has everything from tigerwoods golf video game all the way to one of the main characters in samurai champloo or big-O.

[@Dell-ol6hb]

Pluto is still not considered a planet, it’s considered a dwarf planet, don’t know where you heard that from.

[@philglass295]

"I don't want to get emotionally attached to the partner." I was smirking the whole damn time lol.

[@renzpapunas8086]

Jet can be a MC in a movie,,, his story is classic movie material

[@tsogobauggi8721]

0:18 & 9:16 In the Episode 10 'Ganymede Elegy' Jet said "I'm the Back Dog. And when I bite, I do not let go." 10:43 Marketa Lol! :) 17:49 & 12:49 Fad had just bullet in the gun and he used it to kill Udai. 20:45 Rana has already seen the show... ;) 9:00 & 13:04 & 16:05 Rana seemed a little bit tired

[@bobriemersma]

You guys should react to The Big O sometime. Imperfect due to several kinds of production constraints but one of the top tier animes like Bebop, GITS-SAC, FMA, and of course Rio: Rainbow Gate. BTW: Watch the movie afterward. You will not regret it.

[@CrazeeAdam]

Some comments mentioned Jet's nick name is the Black Dog. But it makes more sense when you consider his full name is Jet Black. And cops are often considered "dogs"

[@antonyreimers570]

Where's Navi

[@0okamino]

_"Is that a song?"_ Hey, hey, Normies, said the way you move Gonna make you sweat, gonna make you groove

[@zepfan007]

Someone gets it.

[@PedroGBSilva]

"that reminds me of Quentin Tarantino blood spray". And he got that from japanese movies, so

[@Otokichi786]

Jet Black is reunited with his old ISSP partner to retake a prisoner shuttle. Revelations happen, and as they hunt down a legendary syndicate assassin on the shuttle.

[@DaisyAzuras]

He put a single round in the revolver and used it to kill the assassin and then forced Jet to kill him as repentance for his past betrayal.

[@allyourmoney]

11:18 Love the drum & bass song. The Real Man: kzbin.info/www/bejne/g3KzgWmJdttkkMk

[@musayt]

Serenade is originally Spanish. . .as in, from Spain.

[@Cpt-Falco]

God this show is so great. Everytime I read "See you space cowboy..." I get chills.

[@3kingzs1]

Watch the movie before the last two episodes

[@junaoneil1202]

watch the movie before the last 3 episodes!!! Also watch Samurai Champloo.

[@dannybob42]

Time for some more Jet Black story for you all, 'how did you get that arm Jet?' The song referenced here was Black Dog by Led Zepplin, Jet being 'The Black Dog' as per his cop nickname Forgot to censor that Fuck :P Yep, Spike's VA Stephen Blum is Amon of many voices You think you can't watch this episode Marketa wait until you get to Pierrot Le Fou The effect of the blood drops floating in the simulated gravity is such an underrated effect, it is literally such a genius idea that sets the mood perfectly Udai 'oo-die' No it isn't again, the back and forth continues Gotta have the Noir with such a grizzled cop like Jet If there's air there would be a small pocket of sound since sound is generated through vibrations in the air. If there's fire in space there'd be air, especially with ships that need air to keep its crew alive... European isn't Europe though, it's the moon Europa...I doubt there even is a Europe anymore She didn't say fuck, they never say Fuck in Bebop You gotta get in line for putting Faye's body on yours Did it suddenly get louder? Jet really needs to put a cover on that knee... Maybe he was covering his tracks? There are multiple Syndicates, Vicious (and Julia and Spike formerly) were from the Red Dragon Syndicate, Fad and Udai were from the European Syndicate Fad tricked Jet one more time though, he only brought one bullet and tricked Jet into shooting him. Well no-one knew what Faye was up to. It all follows the same theme though, a confrontation of one's past. Luckily for Jet his past is very clear cut and ready to find him, meanwhile Faye's is lost to memory and Spike's wants to kill him. Udai wasn't the Black Dog, Jet is the Black Dog. Y'all gotta have better faith in Jet to survive Oh Jet is 100% Team Mom in the Crew I think Spike and Faye have a lot of Depression in their story, it's just it's not set in a noir style You'll never know what the eyepiece is, NEVER You have Never Seen the Original Star Wars Movies!? Why haven't you gotten to that yet?

[@diaborosyuzuha9865]

Y'all need Google.

[@Dotseoem]

You guys are always SO OFF when discussing things... But .

[@bigbofa1488]

Black Dog, in the context of a song, would be referring to the song by Zeppelin. In the context of the plot, it's Jet.

[@Seissmo]

Cowboy bebop!

[@CaesiusX]

It seemed to me that the partner only set him up. But a different guy was the sniper. You showed that on your fair used timer clip. And to make up for it, his partner only loaded one bullet . . . for the bad guy. And he knew that when he held the (now empty) gun on Jett, then Jett would shoot him dead.

[@metalahhhhhhhhhhhh]

Black Dog is a fantastic song by Led Zeppelin and seeing as alot of the titles are rock songs I always associated it with that

[@Avocado11]

21:40 The girls couldn't handle the continuity talk, they will be missed.

[@WordoftheElderGods]

Reminds me of Tony Todd more than Samuel L. Jackson.

[@SilentChaos15]

Black Dog is also a Led Zeppelin reference.

[@SilentChaos15]

Udai

[@-Gilver]

You guys gotta watch Trigun after this

[@xblade149]

First jet girlfriend now his partner

[@ianjames9732]

His partners gun wasn’t loaded at the end

[@dport9563]

His partner spared his life twice.

[@The_Sigillite]

Pluto is still a dwarf planet. Some people have just been reigniting the argument again. They also think the moon is a planet though so your choice whether to take them seriously.

[@crapstirrer]

The real question is, should Charon/Pluto be a binary planet?

[@dport9563]

Ghost In the Shell, Trigun

[@DuskOpbr]

React to Black Lagoon next time

[@foetoid1310]

Next weeks episode is gonna be fun

[@heyzeuscreestow9394]

One of my personal faves

[@-Gilver]

Or Outlaw Star

[@ralphjosephacobo8014]

Again with the scat man

[@azure5584]

The glasses lady just loves showing her feet, doesn't she. Not even 2 minutes in, the socks already came off.

[@sirdamned9272]

9:02 dat armpit tho

[@wolfsinferno8746]

THEY ARE MAKING A NEW AVATAR THE LAST AIR BENDER LIVE ACTION FOR NETFLIX. OOOSUMANGAAAAAAD

[@candifan865]

Suraj beautiful 💖💖💖

[@axongear9650]

Anybody gonna tell them Spike was Amon?

[@urnakedcellmate]

When Cowboy Bebop has ended I highly recommend Trigun. It is great.

[@smugsneasel]

Up next is one of my favourite episodes. Can't wait.

[@nicholasleon-guerrero6474]

You guys are going to enjoy Cowboy Bebop Session (episode) 17 next week! Can't wait to see your video!

[@14megasxlr]

oooooooh, you guys are 2 episodes away from my personal favorite episode in the series.

[@clearwater4470]

Spike's voice actor was in the legend of korra at least twice. First as Amon and then as the guy in book 4.