The Funniest Event In Hololive History | Reacting To The HoloEn Speeling Bee

[@yuku6921]

The spelling bee stream is one of those streams that'll convert newcomers fully to watching Hololive

[@Sapizanza]

Niceu niceu

[@Caminopoi66]

Ooooh, we need to compile a bigger list of “moments that will drag you into the Rabbit Hole”

[@yamada_rob]

justice kinda did it to me, but the spelling bee stream was just the cherry on top ngl

[@Nomimonyo]

Make sure to put a brainrot in the middle of it all. The Nerizzler!

[@theerrantwanderer]

That and Bae's telephone game I feel

[@Furluge]

Just a reminder, the sock puppets are designed after real ones Kiwawa made of everyone. As for why Nerissa is one, well, her oshi is Kiwawa.

[@lianaverwood9810]

Said Sock Puppets were also used in a Christmas Special by Kiara last year, that included a Sock Puppet of Nerissa, so the Reference is likely more to That than the Puppets in general...

[@Furluge]

@lianaverwood9810 "And you know what, my boss does have a cute butt and I'm not afraid to talk about it, I will continue to talk about it."

[@armandorangel3126]

Not the misspelled Spelling Bee in the title!

[@smashfam1]

Spealing Bee

[@hio.hinomaru21]

Koe be having hard time on spelling bee, and this is one of them reason

[@NeinBreaker]

"I speel my drink!"

[@Cross-ns9vu]

How long do you think it'll be before he notices?

[@Kay_Sea251]

​@@Cross-ns9vulonger than I expected...

[@beanzaru]

The Spelling Bee stage is based off the Muppets Show which is why Calli and Kronii look like that

[@Furluge]

It frightens me people needed that explained. D:

[@MikePhantom]

and bea and ame and gura. gig was a freggle. nerrisa and kiara are of course SOCK puppets

[@markburton5292]

@@Furluge those that didn't need it explained are old now

[@lianaverwood9810]

It isn't just the *Muppet Show* the Stream made reference to, but _Puppetry in General over the course of History:_ The Stage and many of the Characters are indeed derived from *the Iconic Henson-Designed Brands* (Gigi's is more of a _Fraggle Rock_ design, for instance); while FUWAMOCO's Designs are suggested to be based more like that of the _Smiling Friends_ show's characters; and others use *more Generic Puppetry Styles,* like Cecilia's Design is of an old *Marionette* _(String-Controlled Puppet),_ and Kiara and Nerissa are designed after the more Inexpensive practice of *Sock Puppetry* - which was chosen _based on Kiara's Christmas Special Last Year_ that used Sock Puppets to tell the Story...

[@Sapheiorus]

@@lianaverwood9810 One could even go so far as to say that vtubing itself is just the newest and hottest iteration of puppetry, when you think about it.

[@akumuryuu]

I love how Calli pretty much adopted Raora at this point. She got her back at the spelling bee, she had her back in ARK.

[@SeanStrife]

Pink stronk together.

[@MotoroidARFC]

There is an Italian connection; tenuous but present

[@Toastybees]

It's an aura thing I think. They're both cool and well put together with a silly side.

[@terrykusanagi3849]

Pink power i guess

[@jimai808]

they had a pizza making off collab, they hang out IRL...

[@john_etc]

One of the best realization of the spelling bee stream was finding out Fuwawa can’t spell Refrigerator but can perfectly spell Pterodactyl

[@t3hf1gm3nt9]

You're getting the twins mixed up. Mococo was the one who spelled Pterodactyl with surprising ease

[@Dragoon1809]

To be fair, refrigators is a funny sounding word.

[@daeganislegit]

My oshi Amelia Watson has been planning an event like this ever since council debuted heck she even already decided to have gura as a co host back then too. Due to other things happening it's taken 2 years I love my oshi and her projects

[@bassbusterx]

In a way, it worked out even better due to the bigger cast and such

[@Scudboy17]

Ame is a content genius, hands down.

[@CertifiedGoonerMan]

I love how creative she is and not just her but the whole en branch is really good on how funny they are.

[@wren842]

This glorious mess was her fault? I love her.

[@MeguminDStaff1007]

Does it mean, in other timeline, we will have a version of this spelling bee with Sana... dammnn

[@TheColonelKaijuVT]

Gigi at debut: Repeatedly calls herself stupid with an Int dump stat Gigi a month later: Wins spelling bee like it's nothing

[@CertifiedGoonerMan]

She underestimated herself so bad that her dumb part underestimate itself.

[@Fishman465]

So like Ruze?

[@Solidaritas1]

Intelligence so low it underflows and becomes a genius. 😅

[@ACSigma]

Hear me out: Gigi is pretending to be dumb so her enemies underestimate her until it's time to strike.

[@manofculture156]

Shes like gura bad at math good on other

[@ivanpetrov5255]

Unfortunately, Fuwawa was the only one with a "death animation" - the artist said this was a test animation, but the idea was dropped. Ame decided to use it anyway. That's why that one clip called her "child of prophecy" - she was the only one eliminated and the only one with "death animation".

[@piotr004]

Yea, I still can't believe it, it truly feels like a destiny.

[@lianaverwood9810]

We don't call that 'Prophecy' - we call that 'Scripted'... There were a lot of things that were clearly Set Up beforehand (like the Words were Blatantly NOT RANDOM as stated Constantly), though the Important Things like the Spelling Itself were Authentic Ad-Libbing - Fuwawa was given an obviously Easy Word to start so they could hit her with Hard Questions she clearly wouldn't get Right afterwards, resulting in the Only Elimination they had the Animations for. Biboo asked Gura and Ame to show off all the 'Burning' Animations, forcing Amelia to Admit the lack of all but Fuwawa's - and led to them making up to Fuwawa by setting Everyone on Fire around her... which she Enjoyed greatly...

[@MrMarnel]

​@@lianaverwood9810They were obviously being sarcastic about the words being randomly chosen. Fuwawa's death may have been scripted or not, I don't particularly care but it doesn't really matter cause it was really funny.

[@vallecend6855]

@@lianaverwood9810The words are not random, but Fuwawa dying first is most definitely not “scripted”. It was just a huge coincidence, since if you actually watch the show, you can see that a lot of other members came close to dying. Mococo, Biboo, Cecilia, all could’ve died before Fuwawa. And the argument that Fuwawa’s death is scripted is pretty dumb since if that was true, then that is one hell of a dumb “script” putting Fuwawa NOT in the first or last position, but in the middle-end position (and especially knowing that the starting point was mostly from Mococo, meaning there are a lot of people they have to go through until they reach Fuwawa), giving huge chances of the “script” being broken. Unless you believe they were all in it together, which is even dumber, then I see no possible way of it being actually scripted. And Fuwawa’s words aren’t even that much harder compared to the rest of them. So again, while the words might not be random and specifically targetted towards each members for the lolz, Fuwawa dying being a scripted moment is a bit far-fetched… But tbh who cares anyways? It’s Vtubers doing virtual spelling bee..

[@lancearnedo7837]

​@@lianaverwood9810Since you obviously didn't actually watch the whole stream, there's a part where ame and gura were surprised that almost everyone survived to the end and that's why the stream dragged on for so long.

[@animefanrk2k]

Fuwawa fulfilling the prophecy is even funnier because she is the only one with a death animation, and no one else has an actual death animation ready.

[@Ragnell123]

Another one of my favorite moments was Nerissa saying that she didn’t want to spell “Kumquat” on stream. So she made Fauna do it, lmao

[@soraarizuto242]

Nerissa 100% would have started with C instead of K 😂

[@blackjacktrial]

Nerissa would be correct in Australia! It's actually spelled cumquat here. Of course it's Australia who doesn't see a problem with this...

[@JabitNazmi]

​@@soraarizuto242 And also, everyone shocked that Fuwawa got Sprinkle while Nerissa got Kumquat

[@Pilligrim-gd3oe]

Well, she didn't want to spell it because she didn't know how to spell it. Not because she was uncomfortable spelling it 😅

[@OhWaker]

​@@Pilligrim-gd3oeShe said she was gonna spell it in a way that she didn't want to on stream. I assume with a "c"

[@ivanpetrov5255]

I recommend watching the original VOD, if you haven't - it's hilarious. And adorable - the puppets and their movements, the scuff, the jokes, the yappa yappa 😂

[@brian_amado]

Plus there’s so much that these condensed videos skipped. Off the top of my head one thing is Gura asking Gigi if she was going to… monk them and Gigi saying she Seeketh Consent. The lisp really added to the bit.

[@SquidJoe]

I second this. The whole stream was amazing.

[@Dracobyte]

Great references to the Muppet Show!

[@TomGS]

Any of you folks got a link?

[@ivanpetrov5255]

@@TomGS kzbin.infoAtHC0cUtYJE?si=486AAQAzR7e3sjnh

[@groynin]

Can't believe they didn't add the 'sprinkle' after 'kumquat' moment, got such a good reaction of Nerissa lmao

[@noinimble]

22:06 dude you’re gonna make me blush man 🤭

[@Mingulinthu]

Absolute goat left a comment and was barely noticed, what a shame! But anyway, thank you for blessing the world with your art!

[@mogerus]

If ERB was part of this, she would have made the "It's the British spelling" excuse. If Shiori was here, she would have gaslit anyone who would ask her to be a lifeline.

[@blackjacktrial]

Bae should have pulled the Aussie spelling card. Would have worked on kumquat, because it is spelled with a C there.

[@nyankrauss]

Ame did it again, raised the bar of creativity in holostreaming

[@longlongman9351]

I like how all of the ESL and members with a unique regional accent were chosen too.

[@producerVagrant]

Gigi's puppet is based off a fraggle from Fraggle Rock! Same production company as Sesame Street and The Muppets, all created by Jim Henson/The Jim Henson Company

[@Heyhowsitgoin999]

TFS Vegita "Thats right we can grow Raditz's." TFS Nappa "But then you gotta worry about the Fraggles." TFS Vegita "Nobody is gonna get that Nappa." TFS Tien "I did."

[@DarukaEon]

Your word is "codependancy". The pendajitos: K-O-E-- *loud buzzer noise*

[@moroseloki1912]

Motion to turn over the name to Koedependents

[@yuppppy]

I WANT A MOCOCOE PLUSHIE WITH THAT CUTE AND CLUELESS FACE

[@Shrimp4Gura]

No thoughts, head empty, only bau baus

[@Scudboy17]

"Heah?!?" Gotta love Mococo. That model was perfect.

[@Kaiten-uk8gd]

I can already feel the "Hœh" aura behind that plushie....

[@bigmcthunderbottoms3490]

We love it when the Fister takes her dub

[@jhonarzinedavegallion2751]

20:00 Mococo is so adorable, we had the same reaction koe lol

[@reaperofthings]

Gooba setting her kouhai on fire was not on my 2024 bingo card, but to be fair, neither was a lot of this year. And both Kronii and Bae actually got set on fire IRL I swear to god lmao, those screams were way too real

[@MotoroidARFC]

Did you hear the story of the Fister continuing to play League while there was a fire in the next room? There's a clip of her recounting that.

[@Draeckon]

Someone forgot about Gura and Mumei's early Minecraft interactions, where she set her on fire and killed her on accident. lol

[@Jengamouse]

I love Fauna's animation so much, she's so smug. Raora, Mococo and Fuwawa's are all great too. Also Mumei with the shifty eyes at the end there.

[@ActivelyVacant]

Any time Ame throws a group event, you know it's something special.

[@FlutterSwag]

"im always discombobulated" is such a mood, me too fuwawa

[@Draeckon]

Mococo*

[@rafaelcalmon2858]

So, fun fact for those who don't know that show: Mococo's and Fuwawa's are, I assume, based on the artstyle of the show Smiling Friends, including Fuwawa's hilarious spontenous combustion animation 🤣🤣🤣 Biboo might be too, but I'm not sure. She does look like a bliblie XD

[@Scudboy17]

Biboo's model is actually based on a Grimace hand puppet McDonalds once gave away in their Happy Meals.

[@longlongman9351]

FuwaMoco are our Smile Protecting Friends.

[@robthk]

as far as I know,both of FUWAMOCO are Pim (or the pink little guy) from smiling friends,and I find that to be the perfect fit lol (I need to watch smiling friends and those models reminded me of that fact)

[@AnimeSquirrel]

This stream was legendary. When Bae realized at the end how long they had been live and not muted from the viewers was frealing epic.

[@XemnasTM]

"When in doubt, just BAU BAU it out." - Fuwawa probably

[@Bobbias]

22:00 spelling bees arent a thing in most languages, japanese has some challenges that are similar, but not the same. For any pronunciation in Japanese, there is only 1 phonetic spelling. What Japan has instead is either asking you to write the kanji for something correctly (getting all the strokes right), or asking you what the reading for a word is given only the kanji. Thats like spelling a word in english and asking for the pronunciation instead, except if there were thousands of letters and they all had 2+ sounds and no rules for deciding which sound you use.

[@blackjacktrial]

何！？

[@hashem1990rko]

We needed this today my man 07 Edit : mococo is the cutest ever

[@earthysoup]

16:51 I feel that way about the Kiara sock puppet. It just has her essence somehow.

[@uguuv2]

I live for Fuwawa's REFRIDGATOR and every house should have one

[@Capydachi]

AmeSame as Statler and Waldorf is peak perfection

[@DarukaEon]

Koe: "I CAN'T STOP LOOKING AT MOCOCO!!!" Mococo: "Bau bau!"

[@Scudboy17]

The moment Gigi blatantly tried to bribe the judges at the beginning was epic too! And might have worked...

[@casteanpreswyn7528]

I love that the whole yapping bit is a reference to Seasame Street and the alien puppets that can just say "yep".

[@RexusprimeIX]

Honestly, you did yourself a disservice by experiencing this through clips. The revelation that Gigi is actually a god-speller was so amazing. When she spelt Connoisseur right I knew she was the winner. And then that plot twist at the end "I won my 3rd grade spelling bee with that word" holy hell. Pure cinema! Also it's kinda annoying that the clips spoil the spelling of the word with their subtitles.

[@MrMarnel]

I thought that was a joke. A real spelling competition would give participants the word "supercalifragilisticexpialidocious"?

[@RexusprimeIX]

@@MrMarnel Yes? It's a real word. Why wouldn't they use it for finals in a real spelling bee?

[@Lowlightt]

@@MrMarnel Yes its a famous joke word for spelling bees which is why its often memorized. More than half the people here tried to memorize it for this spelling bee as well.

[@Zayamad]

I still contend that Biboo's scream if she was on fire would be "This is power! THIS IS TRUE POWER!"

[@nickdavis27]

9am's animation is one of my favorites for being so adorable.

[@potatoexe5410]

Rip no "lullaby" and CC stating she feels like she's missing half her heart and GG reposnds "im right here."

[@Grammarhead]

Everyone got surprisingly difficult words in the """easy""" round, except Fuwawa, who got "sprinkle"

[@peachypie8734]

And she was the only one eliminated 😂

[@crimsonhawk52]

Gigi apparently once was going to be a writer. Or maybe she was published at once point? Idk her level of success in that track, but the girl is well-read

[@K-dis_Boher]

it saddens me how there's people that don't recognize this whole puppet theme calling back to the Muppets; the Muppets were even before my time, but I still recognized the theater and iconic designs in the noses, mouths, etc.

[@HunterTheron]

I missed the beginning and came in when Nerissa was spelling Kumquat. “Why is Nerissa a sock puppet?” I knew it would be a good stream.

[@whazzup_teacup]

Let me psychoanalyze why this is absolutely brilliant. It's not that people enjoy spelling bees. It's because of multiple other factors becoming one. A: massive collab. People enjoy interaction. B: a challenge/competition. Artifically creating tension and hype. C: capturing moments in the name of comedy. Not taking things too seriously.

[@blackjacktrial]

D: the ruleset being loose enough for laughs but strict enough to feel not completely random. It's a line most comedy panel shows try to find (eg. 8 out of 10 cats, have you been paying attention, would you lie to me?, good news week) but not all succeed.

[@RApollos107]

5:01 It was at this moment Mococo's brain shut off

[@montyeggman3075]

(sees Mococo's spelling bee model) Koe: Shut up and take my money! 💰

[@AlesongtheBrewer]

I now know Gigi's age because of the Fraggle Rock model (Was one of my favorite shows when I was little)

[@NipplesTheEnchilada2323]

My favorite part was when everyone was set on fire at the end, but only Fuwawa had an on fire animation. It was quite hilarious, tbh.

[@N13J]

This collab is at legendary level. So many unique moments were created on pure chemistry from these comedic geniuses.

[@yotoniha]

Koe: "I feel like they use bau bau as an excuse" Meanwhile, one exasperated fox

[@amfrog8277]

Oh you missed Gigi's connoisseur (I had to spell check it). The most chaotic correct spelling I've ever heard.

[@failosaurus6764]

I am sad that we didn't see a clip showing Nerissa ACTUALLY knew how to spell kumquat but didn't want to say it and pushed it on Fauna lmao

[@FreinHowe]

Any context on why everyone was averse to the kumquat word? I only know it as a fruit but it doesn't grow in the country I live in.

[@kev1nno]

I'm pretty sure that was just a joke reason, but it was still funny, yeah XD

[@failosaurus6764]

@@FreinHowe Kumquat's first three letters is very close to a not so seiso word and something tells me Ame and Gura were trying to catch Nerissa lol

[@Sybato]

Yeah I think that was missed in a lot of clips since she only revealed it later, but you can kinda hear it in her voice if you know.

[@ArcaneMaiden]

​@@FreinHoweTwo of them can be an innuendo for 'scrotum'. And there are instances of the fruit itself looking like one when deformed. Add a splash of intrusive thoughts + the 1st three letters = ಠ⁠◡⁠ಠ

[@Blitzkit]

fun fact: everybody had a burning background incase they fail but only fuwawa had the burning animation, they tested it and not one but fuwawa had the animation it was probably fate... bau bau

[@Kro-RissaVirus]

The clips don’t do full Justice to the fact that GiGi dominated the entire stream start to end and never made a single mistake. Literally 5000IQ pretending to be a dumb brick.

[@jonathan45732]

Gigi is fricken awesome, glad more people get to discover my Oshi

[@sph1988]

33:23 FuwaMoco commits warcrimes, but it's ok because BauBau.

[@crisr.8280]

Gonna go back to the vods for this one. I'm amazed this is HololiveEN and not HololiveESL. Edit. In the Philippines, we say Ah-kha-sha. All the "A"s are the same sound. LoL

[@blackoutnine]

Yeah PH calls the trees like the Queen of the Damned.

[@Sornemus]

Yeah, Ame delivers top content, as always. On par with Holo Ministry Host Club by the number of hilarious interactions.

[@MotoroidARFC]

Agreed. "I gotta wash that." 😅

[@mungriyaw]

Is that when the girls turns to boys? I cant stop lauging at IRyS(host) and Kronii conversation there. I hope Ame would do that with the newer EN gens.

[@Tube4life679]

Big collabs like this are my favorite things to watch. This one was no exception one the the best EN streams. Yeah the OG hecklers Statler and Waldorf

[@seanlocke2228]

This is the sort of thing to cheer us all up after the Aqua news today.

[@HunterTheron]

Interior crocodile alligator, I drive a Chevrolet refridgator.

[@samhiltz1107]

I hate you. Take my like.

[@Ultimaniacx4]

16:42 I know why. It's because the face is so done with life. It matches with her personality where she sounds like she hates being a vtuber or something.

[@qwertydavid8070]

Kronii is so interesting to me because she's basically the complete opposite in personality to the rest of the hololive girls. She's more akin to what you'd expect from an indie vtuber, but nope she's part of THE hololive. I mean, props to a corporation for actually taking risks and doing something different and interesting. Kronii's amazing!

[@KevKrieger32]

HoloEN Speeling Bee xD Small trivia: the artist for Fuwamoco is noinimble and the artist drew the burning Fuwawa only as a test animation. It's funny how the first one, that lost is Fuwawa ^^ Also thank you for this video in this difficult time!

[@MotoroidARFC]

Agreed 🧅

[@ShadowdaHedgie11]

Fuwawa: I trust Bae with my life forever and ever despite having just questioned her! It's also really funny that Fuwawa was the only one who had a game over animation... and she's the only one who lost all her lives.

[@Justakatto]

that one person in chat saying they don't get the gura mumei voice thing like bruh, you're either deaf or has superhuman hearing.

[@bubbles46853-ep9if]

The only clip that was missing was one that showcased ALL of their "on fire" reactions. They were gold in one way or another.

[@Lowlightt]

Yes because it revealed that Fuwa was the only one with a special one and it broke all of them lol.

[@bubbles46853-ep9if]

@@Lowlightt I was more referring to all of their screams, but yes.

[@cucumbermainline]

No refridgators are future paradox of Refrigerators. The past paradox are alligators.

[@jrockz133t]

32:18 there used to be, earlier this year, a billboard near me of that guy

[@hayatojin2886]

I really wish EN did more stuff like this like JP does, it makes for the best content! With so many members now it should be easy for bigger collabs.

[@MotoroidARFC]

Unlike JP, they're not all in the same time zone. That's why it's special when EN does stuff like this. Many of the members have to sacrifice something (usually sleep) to come together at a specific time. This is also scheduled far in advance to ensure minimal disruption to their personal schedules (not streaming before or after this stream and their daily lives).

[@wyrmofvt]

The two old codgers in the balcony seat in the Muppet Show are Waldorf (the shorter one) and Stadler (the taller one), named after two famous hotels.

[@NetoKruzer]

This was indeed the greatest Collab of EN....

[@tmr3volver]

I love that they kept Bae tiny.

[@benjaminandrew9057]

I felt so sorry for Mococo with the waste of her star. She doubted herself when she was correct.

[@shadowfox2300]

he didn't see the one where gura had to threaten the others with her gun

[@blackoutnine]

Rissa malding over Sprinkle after getting kumquat xD

[@Macabri_2k10]

The Marry Poppins word has also an additional difficulty, since it is slightly different in every language it was translated to. If you're used to the word in your own language the english version is confusing.

[@chrisshorten4406]

Nerissock is perfection.

[@tantheman0921]

Hahahahaha 😂 I loved this spelling bee stream. Now for Koe to react to the Coffee vs Tea debate stream. Its hilarious

[@unmemorablehero]

All of it was amazing, refridgator made me laugh endlessly

[@wilsoncalhoun]

Fuwawa's bau bau serves the exact same function as Neuro-sama's filtered.

[@Pseudowolf]

I would have been able to spell "hullabaloo" but ONLY because it's in my university's fight song. Gigi did amazingly on that one.

[@DarukaEon]

GG was hella good at spelling. Ha ha ha ha!

[@MaverickGear]

3:15 I want that for my steam alerts

[@Larus_The_Lock]

Mococo is too cute in this, I agree.

[@stillballin8908]

It was an amazing overall hilarious collab and yes watching the full stream is a must, for example I don't think any Kiara moments were shown here like her and Kronii saving each other or the stalling banter

[@johndoh9395]

As an enjoyer of dry, understated humor, kinda disappointed no one clipped Kiara's "scream" when asked to scream as if on fire.

[@Mordaedil]

Honestly, probably could have just watched the spelling bee in full, since these clips pretty much just covered the entire stream.

[@heikoy]

1:32 you mean the Hecklers? Statler and Waldorf?

[@TUNK-ty8zo]

I feel mococo, out of the twins, is the more academically inclined twin while fuwawa is the one you pick if you're getting into a street fight or need access into someone's house.

[@larajamila005]

Nah, Fuwawa just got the harder words XD Mococo herself said it on stream that she doesn't wanna ask Fuwawa because she knows the same stuff she does

[@Zephier]

Koe is 100% correct about the mococo plush... we need merch of all these models

[@FandomChronicle]

Mococo: Hæh?

[@saberalter1586]

Gigi, The Champion of Capua, I mean Ame-Sama Spelling Bee 😂👍

[@KillaManReaper2]

"You didn't fail me biboo, I love you." She is so precious and must be protected at all costs.

[@cardinalhamneggs5253]

My three favorite PNG Models from the AmeSame Spelling Bee are Raora’s and FuwaMoco’s.

[@mercenery1232]

In Grade 3.Was announced there will be a spelling bee tomorrow, and the winner will go home earlier than others. My stupid ass thought its spelling of words only starting with the letter B. Proceeds to look at dictionary. Good thing i didn't inform anyone. That would have been so embarrassing.

[@Crazael]

I gotta say, the delay between the explosion effect and the change in the avatar and stuff makes it a whole lot funnier to me than it would be otherwise.

[@faereman]

This stream really is an instant classic, the mascots and the humor are on point, you love to see it!

[@stavik96]

32:28 damn I would have gotten it wrong as well since the shortened version is fridge I would have probably done refridgerator.

[@swolshrimp]

Speeling Bee, Koe noooooo