LET'S ARGUE: Your Takes Are Garbage

[@nate2826]

Melon I didn’t drop $10 on your Patreon for you to tell me that you are actually my father and the entire patreon was a clever ruse to reunite with me.

[@MelMelodyWerner]

yes you did, you fucking lying Hypnotoad. ps: Chogs are superior.

[@nwut]

real

[@johnwise9811]

Congrats on your reunion ❤

[@eduardocortez8916]

He did that to me too :(

[@tuesday0846]

My dad only raised me and loved me as a joke and behind my back shit-talked me and said I was cringe so I consider my situation worse than yours.

[@madeleine61509]

The fact that someone said you treat Ween like "the Ocean Man band" when the only album you fully reviewed isn't the one with Ocean Man on it, is absolutely insane.

[@TheIceManSSB2001]

Everytime Anthony says the F word it sounds like he just learned it from his older cousin and has been gathering the courage to say it with confidence for the past 10 minutes

[@sliski_rysiu_bejbi]

Especially in this goofy fit lmao he looks like a fifth grader on the first day of school 😂😂

[@fatteststevenson]

Idk how to describe it. It’s exactly that. Like he just got hooked on saying it. I mean I feel like I’m that way too sometimes.

[@redevzip203]

Considering the vocal performance at 6:19 I think we need a full melon acapella album

[@clementinelives]

NOT GOOD

[@nofuture104]

Melon-dulla

[@scottvogel8477]

​@@clementinelives I give it a wasn't expecting that master piece of meme out of ten.

[@thetreeofclues]

Fantano's Eddie Vedder impression will never fail to amuse me.

[@darshin95]

picture of Russell Crowe got me rolling

[@sole__doubt]

still clearing the tears away from laughing so hard. :)

[@ProdByAngus]

As eddie vedders cousins son L

[@cphoover11]

honestly pretty corny unoriginal impression

[@cayniner]

FEEEEEEEEELIINNNNN' OOMBA BOOGA SHUMMA DUMMA

[@mission101]

thank you for whoever sent the eddie vedder take, we can never have enough fantano vedder impressions

[@lilfellavids]

can’t believed you killed Jfk

[@enormouslittlethings6893]

Leethony Harvey Oswaltano here…

[@firstlast9846]

“JFK’s Security IS NOT GOOD”

[@KaisTestKitchen1]

It's a 0 a fat goose egg

[@dtanobo]

Again?

[@1ntr0spect98]

fantano comments are reaching a point of post irony and i love it

[@juneguts]

rest in peace to dylan , dylan tried to stop him but dylan built different

[@Dennis_The_Peasant]

I SPIT HOT FIRE

[@ryantrinque7982]

@@Dennis_The_Peasant its hilarious he thinks its bob dylan

[@snow5064]

dylan trynna top five, dylan make millions

[@IK-yb5rn]

I’d say Dylan deserves to be on the list too but he kinda ruined his reputation by spreading COVID misinformation

[@maxjohansen9475]

I rip and I rhyme. I rhyme and I rip. This is the way Dylan spit.

[@qoast6105]

Melon is just salty he doesn’t have the world record on Bowser’s Big Bean Burrito.

[@zacharywoloszynski4258]

TRUE

[@mattcblackman]

s tier comment

[@wakkawakkagaming3710]

Melon should pin this

[@qoast6105]

@@wakkawakkagaming3710preach bro

[@roke4874]

more dunkthony bunktano

[@Thegbear]

I like when Anthony’s feeling silly. You drive that youtube bus Tony. Drive it all the way to Valhalla.

[@Totema1]

6:32 That harmonization made me cry

[@epicurefamiliar]

Thank you for saving those 4 kids from that housefire

[@bryan1956]

did he? WOW

[@WinedandDined27]

You have no idea how awful those children are prophesied to become. Anthony has doomed us all by saving those children. But have fun with your little white knight comment, hope the likes are worth it.

[@Sleeper_6875]

@@WinedandDined27 yeah it seemed like a good act and the time but it’s a real bummer one of them turned out to be the antichrist

[@chagrin6919]

Crazy how one of those kids grew up to be dignan

[@herothehedgefox]

Unpopular opinion

[@Opno]

The worst take of this whole video was where it didn't open with Fantano bass

[@edkruse9541]

3:42 Anthony says he has to sit down, inadvertenly revealing that he's been standing the whole time.

[@thoughtsonawhim]

Oh boy, oh boy. The sarcasm, the energy... 2023 is going to be a fantastic year for you Melon

[@Frankfurter420]

S tier video. A banger. This is the 'Sign o' the Times' of the Let's Argue series.

[@weegee_hates_the_blind]

All I can focus on is the light reflecting off his glasses. I’m waiting for it to be perfectly aligned with his eyes so that it looks like he has glowing eyeballs.

[@burgermind802]

Hypthany Notano

[@herothehedgefox]

Erm, yeah, keep waiting buddy, KEEP MAKIN ME LAUGH

[@reaganhealey8358]

There's the comment. Yep. It's like watching a lava lamp.

[@Reezy_Tha_Fundraiser]

6:23 As much as Fantano dislikes Eddie Veddar's style of singing, he enjoys impersonating it and it kills me everytime😂😂

[@TheMaryXIncident]

Anthony doing an Eddie Vedder impersonation in front of a photo of Russel Crowe was a highlight 😂

[@fortynights1513]

Glad to see this concept revisited. Last year’s version of that is one of my favorite Fantano videos ever.

[@christie_brown]

The concept of melon basically getting angry with obvious trolls? Like I’ve watched his content and read his comments to know enough about how his audience jokes around and troll each other. At this point I can’t tell if he’s being hyperbolic, but personally, I just never understood why he gets so angry and irritated whenever he not only sees an obviously troll comment, but reads it as actually being sincere AND wasting his time and energy filming himself throwing a tantrum about how OBVIOUSLY bad the take is. Like, bro. Chances are, you are doing what the trolls WANT you to do: which is responding in the first place, let alone on a public site 🤦‍♀️. Like I know Anthony isn’t stupid and has proven multiple times that he understands how people on the internet interact. Like sure, there are a fraction of people who unironically believe whatever garbage take that some troll posted to your let’s argue. But, it confounds me how confident you are in thinking that most of the obviously troll comments you get are genuine opinions.

[@fortynights1513]

@@christie_brown Melon getting angry with obvious trolls sums up Let's Argue well in a nutshell. But for me at least, the videos he's done of hot takes being bad stood out because I found it interesting to see what he considers to be a take so bad that it doesn't even make the cut of the other videos looks like.

[@birdwatching_u_back]

4:09 Anthony is literally the one who taught me about Ween’s status as a respected and versatile band, before watching that classic review I had only ever heard of Ocean Man 🤡

[@lazarus-lake]

The Deaner-Fantano Pipeline continues

[@alonsoarana5307]

Let's argue: Yu-Gi-Oh would not suck so much if they didn't have such a huge paywall and everyone could actually play the best decks to see if it's actual skill

[@Clarkv2]

Tear forever. I’ll pay any extra deck card before I pay rent. Thanks Konami

[@scottvogel8477]

Magic the Gathering players: First time?

[@WiiCON-49000]

"We don't need to get in the thick of viola vs. violin." I'm sorry, I thought this was called Let's Argue!

[@hawkman8706]

"I enjoy ween" - fantano

[@elsviec]

anthony fantano's weekly "my audience is dumb" video

[@HandlebarOrionX]

6:18 The epic duet between Eddie Vedder ans Dadius Rucker. Absolute classic song titled "Say you'll be not there"

[@FamooWahVe]

That Yeat & MBV comparison was brutal

[@JuliaRoshambo]

lmao at the response to the ween question "i feel like you're talking to me about the anime and you haven't even FUCKING READ THE MANGA."

[@PecktheTownCrier]

Dude, every time you go on a flight of vocal fancy, the results are wonderful. Can we get a compilation of your singing moments from Needledrop videos across the years?

[@NotGrayson__]

i love Eddie Vedder but watching Fantanos impresssions i cant help but smile

[@wadekemmsies7180]

anthony really needs to drop an eddie vedder cover album

[@jerrys1]

The Eddie Fantano harmony was pretty legit tho

[@guitarman9526]

this was perfect for my level of intoxication

[@oops6876]

Ironic that Melon isn’t a melon man, but more of a peach man.

[@itsallenwow]

Anytime Anthony breaks out the Eddie vedder it’s a great video

[@rossprior]

As a die hard Ween fan I can confirm that Ween comment wasn't a personal attack at melon. Whilst fans of other bands may be a bit gatekeepy, Ween fans are mostly the complete opposite, we are desperate for more people to like them.

[@nightmare-nightmarenightma1147]

Anthony's secret Italian side reared its head on that pizza take

[@heyyitsdexter]

this felt like a hit piece on twitter blue, nice

[@d3monbby115]

Thank you for the cold pizza take i thought my friend was psychotic for thinking cold pizza is better I'm glad to feel validated

[@heliodorable4612]

no pizza tastes better than fresh out the oven pizza

[@nowxon967]

Nothing beats pizza that's not cooked at all

[@enotsnavdier6867]

@@nowxon967 Mmmm, uncooked dough. Tasty!!!

[@firstnamelastname7244]

​@@nowxon967consume the uncooked ingredients one by one

[@MSHNKTRL]

sounds like a lot of mental gymnastics hiding the fact that he is a Cello Purist.

[@purechaos3498]

I’m looking for fantanos opinion on the song that’s called “Dupe - Gangsta “ ❗️❗️❗️❗️

[@untallsteve]

"IT'S OVER. THEY'RE DONE. I KILLED THEM" -Melon, before their editor cropped the video

[@gabesage]

i laughed so hard at that panda thing

[@zackcash4941]

Pizza is better the next day because you're hungover.

[@mygroinisonfire]

About pandas: We've been trying to conserve the species for a while now and the thing that gets me about it is that while they are endangered due to poaching and habitat loss, even when you have them safe and in captivity, they don't really wanna have sex. Females only ovulate once a year and males have a really hard time simply mounting the female for sex, so even motivating them to try to do it is a gamble every time. Now, I don't think it's a good idea to just release em and let them get poached, but maybe spending so much money on getting pandas to bang when they clearly don't wanna bang isn't the way to go either. Wouldn't it be more respectful to their bodily autonomy to just let them not bang? Idk they are Hella cute tho

[@atanjacket]

Person @ 6:41 queues the OST for the 2007 movie "The Assassination Of Jesse James" by Nick Cave and Warren Ellis on playlists at parties and wonders why no one gives him the phone again.

[@WeaponX8629]

VIOLA GANG REPRESENT Also that SZA take was godawful

[@davidhowell5585]

Fantano's extra terrestrial voyage to planet KZbin had me in tears. 8/10

[@WinedandDined27]

Low threshold for tears, huh?

[@klakeron4209]

That “feeling a little silly for the new year” was so depressing 😂😊

[@zeropluslessthan5126]

LCD Soundsystem's New Body Rhumba was a fave new song of mine before I knew it was a soundtrack song, then I saw White Noise not knowing that was the movie, and then seeing them together made both song and movie awesomer than each was apart. I'm not sure if this supports or opposes that person's comment, but either way, I am OUtRAGED.

[@jna9841]

this is already one of your best vids of 2023

[@ty_teynium]

6:42 Uh, Inception? Also, I heard the entire Grand Budapest Hotel OST and BIRDMAN OST and now have both albums on my Playlist play everyday on way to work and classes. I wish I was making that up.

[@WiloPolis03]

*"I prefer RateYourMusic over All music"* AOTY continuing to get no respect 😤😔

[@fazegreg8739]

yeah i love ween and quebec is an outstanding record

[@henryhill92]

When I watch these videos I have to repeatedly remind myself that the people tweeting this shit are most likely teenagers and its ok we're not completely doomed

[@dylanm1174]

frankly upsetting to see Dylan finish in such an unfortunate position

[@mooooooooooooove]

6:30 Anthony hitting us with a brand new Bulgarian polyphonic chant, what a nice guy

[@bke8073]

Worst part about this video is Fantano not getting the Chapelle reference

[@breadmoneymusic]

Let’s Argue: we’d have better “Let’s Argue” takes if Anthony opened up submissions to KZbin community posts and the Fantano subreddit.

[@jasperr3]

i wish anthony would talk more about beabadoobee. i'm a big old music type of guy and usually hate most pop or indie music but she is just so great to me. she has a variety of stuff as well, some of her lullaby type songs are absolutely beautiful

[@heliodorable4612]

her song with cavetown is so good. actually now that i think about it i don't believe melon hasn't so much as even mentioned cavetown on his channel, which is strange because he's rather popular. i guess he's not really so much into indie bedroom pop

[@Sonicshadow8989]

W

[@TrilobiteTerror]

Anthony definitely respects Ween (no question about that). I just wish I could hear more of his detailed thoughts about their music (since that's something I would THOROUGHLY enjoy).

[@scott9235]

a man has never more skillfully driven a bus. ive never seen that steering technique before.

[@jakeislate]

I almost spit out my water when he had to sit down about the Yeat/ MBV comparison

[@petertaylor4647]

Anthony "Ween emailed me" fantano

[@maynardwayward12]

I think the pizza guy is trying to tell us that he is living in the past to an unhealthy degree. It's not even about fresh, hot pizza to him, but the stale and frozen memories of what remains of said pizza

[@amberplease9537]

i understand where the soundtrack comment goes. imo, the point is to be a compliment for another media, not being the media itself. with that in mind, a good soundtrack HAS to work along the movie* while giving it some atmosphere. daniel lopatin's work for the safdie brothers comes to mind in that regard *:any other media tho, works with videogames as well

[@milos1967]

2:24 The truly woke take is that reheated pizza (reheated in an oven, not a microwave) is better than pizza that's fresh out of the oven.

[@pablosantisbon7232]

This take has actual scientific merit to it, the molecules of the ingredients integrate better with each other in the reheating process in an oven. It makes it more cohesive and it's the same as marinating the ingredients between themselves.

[@grahamreece519]

@@pablosantisbon7232 So just slam it in a microwave 50 times and you have perfection

[@TheeDeeM]

Mfer pulled out the gotdam science TEXTBOOK

[@BenVisness]

Then you crisp up the bottom in a hot pan (preheating while microwaving) and you’ve got yourself pizza _better than fresh_

[@marioi.carrillo6264]

I like to reheat them on a pan so that the bread it's all crispy and crunchy and delicious.

[@MarioHernandez-ey5cb]

Did melon not get the joke with the 5 Dylans? He spits super hot fire

[@dertodesking.]

All we need is Mercyful Fate.

[@JohnDoe-vc5qb]

Honestly, if they were taken from Twitter it shouldn't be any surprise.

[@vallie84]

2:21 perdonalo Mariano, non sa cosa dice. Essendo un falso italiano non sa cosa significhi la magia della pizza il giorno dopo (mangiata magari di mattina)

[@neves1904]

6:19 Amazing melodie, profound lyrics, stellar vocal performance, I'm feeling a light to decent 9 on this track

[@sasukesarutobi3862]

I'm not sure you could even say that mainstream sellout is an album of our generation

[@Spydyr-dead]

Where is my bass playing melon

[@Sonicshadow8989]

Indeed

[@beansfebreeze]

I'm convinced cold pizza is a myth sold to us as quirky teens back in high school for some unknowable reason

[@ZoeSimza]

I've had some pretty spiteful disagreements with Melon over the years now but that pizza take was spot on. Next-day cold pizza is ALWAYS inferior if you're eating properly made pizza.

[@alexverdana2435]

you cant deny that next day pizza is delicious. somehow it tastes better microwaved than fresh.

[@mentos7070]

@@alexverdana2435 imagine microwaving ur pizza wtf

[@alexverdana2435]

@@mentos7070 :(

[@alphachestnut]

@@alexverdana2435 I agreed with you at first but that microwave comment is foul

[@billhicks8]

I love my pizza raw, not even going into the oven, as just flaccid dough hanging in my mouth. You will all disagree, and that is precisely why I hate every single one of you personally.

[@mattbutler4953]

Anthony intentionally not get the Dylan Dave Chappelle joke means he probably gets this tweet every time he goes to make this video

[@troymucha2611]

“Dylan, Dylan, Dylan, Dylan, Dylan” is from a bit from the Chappelle Show, you stunad

[@jacksonflower8045]

never in a million years would i have expected melon to acknowledge the existence of twoset

[@finmin2k]

7:00 they're right though there are some absolute masterpiece soundtracks (like the parasite soundtrack) that weren't even NOMINATED for any awards despite being one of the most interesting and unique yet powerful soundtracks I've ever heard

[@finmin2k]

I genuinely thought I was listening to some sort of Bach fugue during the film

[@jayr.3720]

😮‍💨 the king of the underground Fahim finally gets mentioned on the channel and is immediately swept under the rug DAMMIT

[@Myythril]

Made me sad

[@MyoticTesseract]

that fed up brockhampton part was one of the most satisfying things i've ever seen in a fantano video

[@AshiwiZuni]

Finding out Fantano is an Ass man is very interesting to me

[@WinedandDined27]

He’s married to a black woman. It’s been obvious where his preference lies for years now.

[@dansammy398]

@@WinedandDined27 He was married

[@Ismael-kc3ry]

Common Melon W

[@scotty7864]

Antoni pulls strings in the violin viola race behind the scenes. dont be fooled.

[@bifieri69]

Mr. Bungle deserves a classic review

[@ZakTheGuy]

My adrenaline spikes every time Anthony mentions Ween

[@katherinekier]

WAIT that Eddie Vedder bit was golden

[@ldm2622]

how did he miss that chapelle show reference lol

[@sjeanmacleod]

Fantano doing EV makes me all happy and stuff.

[@expansivegymnast1020]

Lmao at the Gish Gallop reference that’s a deep cut

[@HedgeLockedonallplats]

thank you fantano

[@clementinelives]

thank you hedgelocked

[@jesuissteve]

thank u

[@HedgeLockedonallplats]

@@clementinelives you’re welcome clementinelives

[@HedgeLockedonallplats]

@@jesuissteve you’re welcome eve m

[@shiitalke]

Very happy to have finally had a take included in this series. I look forward to the next Sarcastony upload

[@theheresiarch3740]

If you go purely by influence on other vocalists, Eddie Vedder really is one of the greatest of the 90s and early 00s. I'm not sure I like what that implies about our society, but there it is.

[@fortynights1513]

Sounds like an ok vocalist, but I get why some could find that delivery corny. It’s not my favorite delivery, but there are some tracks with it that I like. Namely, I enjoy Even Flow by Pearl Jam, and With Arms Wide Open by Creed personally.

[@basedcommentor]

Yeat can't be the hypertrap version of MBV because MBV was original.

[@deeal5336]

Jesus Christ this makes me respect Anthony for all the stupidity he has to wade through on the daily basis.

[@vincenta8652]

Dy- Lan ..because he spits hit fire

[@bigbongofire]

u not gonna honorably mention dylan

[@vawnjour]

Kathleen Hanna's Julie Ruin should be considered a classic or a landmark piece in indie/bedroom/diy music at the least

[@vilexius9912]

Top five and all of them Dylan!!