'MAKIN-MA-WAY' Supercut

The long-awaited compilation.
Clips taken from 'Liam's Quest: Full Circle', 'Dalen's Closet', Campaign 2, and 'The Nautilus Ark: A Johnson Corp Odyssey'.
Song is obviously 'A Thousand Miles' by Vanessa Carlton.

[@jabisdumb]

Aww you missed one of my favourites! Episode 129 right as Matt is first describing the plane of fire. Great compilation, this must have taken so much time and work and energy, like holy moly this is pretty all-encompassing and honestly _very_ impressive! Lovely work!

[@nightymein]

Oh no I was so worried I'd miss one! That's gonna haunt me forever, haha. I've just looked it up, is it the "Makin it work!" around 1:39:32? If so, at least we can immortalise it in these comments.

[@jabisdumb]

@@nightymein I was actually thinking of the one at about 53:49, “there is a pouring river of lava that is slowly snaking it’s way-“ “ snakinitsway”

[@nightymein]

@@jabisdumb oh wow it's a double whammy, how did I miss them?! you're right, it's a great moment. thanks for making me aware!

[@mrmoosetachio]

@@nightymein makinmeaware!

[@a_Taveren]

@@nightymein Snakinitsway was my absolute favorite time they did that bit!

[@digifreak90]

I love how it just slowly devolved from actually singing that song a little to just "makinmaway"

[@Jackie_Tikki_Tavi]

"mrup"?

[@AndreyKrichevsky]

Yeah. My favorite is the one where it devolved so much Laura had to appreciate it Sam - "makiway", Marisha - "tingalingaling" Laura - "Hahaha, I love us!"

[@ailkye]

honestly devolved into unintelligible sounds at some point

[@Laban6112]

To just "mkn" lately :D

[@LexLuxray]

Didileedoo

[@2009mouser]

I love how you can see it go from being a recurring joke to just a reflex.

[@Styxintheriver]

my dad and I have the one shared critter thing where we both go "doo doo doo" when anyone says that

[@IceMetalPunk]

Travis makes a joke -> Everyone joins in on it -> Sam takes it to ridiculous levels -> Everyone becomes reflexively more and more ridiculous with it. That is the lifecycle of a Critical Role inside joke 😂

[@fieryhephestus]

its becom a reflex for me aswell

[@dinkeycat]

@@IceMetalPunk we play dungeons and dragoooOOOOOoooOoOooooons

[@the_one_jess_travelled2600]

It is a reflex for me

[@themeanlesbeann]

I love how it went from 🎶making my way🎶 to just a high pitched "meymawa"

[@ore0hn0]

It's my favorite 🤣 I watch Campaign 1 now and in my head I add "makinmyway" everytime 😂

[@Shuffle-Major-Arcana]

One syllable. No pauses.

[@nimishakhode3086]

Travis at 1:12 : STOP Narrator's voice: they did not, in fact, stop

[@nickthedreamer4434]

I love that Travis literally starts the next one after that moment.

[@Fyreflier]

@@nickthedreamer4434 Better is that Travis started _the whole bit_

[@rayv3r]

They should start a new trend whenever Matt says "And I need you...", then everyone else to chime in with a "And I miss you"

[@cora-illus]

i might pass away if they did that 😂😂

[@S1L3NTIGamer]

I need this in my life

[@liron5889]

YES

[@dnf-dead]

Yes this 🙌

[@anathem9982]

@@cora-illus passingmyway

[@Salderosan99]

Can we appreciate how whenever Matt was speaking, they ALWAYS made a much softer and unobtrusive "makin my way"? Golden players right there.

[@elementaryabuse-chan5763]

And yet somehow no less disruptive

[@hollyisobsessed]

Marisha physically hiding from Matt after her lil "doo doo" at 2:04 🥺😍

[@sammy431]

One of my favorite moments 😂

[@babblingmongoose]

I'm literally crying laughing, they're so cute and funny!!! 😭😭

[@wingedkitsune6]

I'm dying laughing from the wheezes from the rest of the cast losing it in quick succession at that same moment

[@kaizen5023]

His look was like, "Zip it! Zippy zippaaay!'

[@Blindluck92]

Matt's face: "I will actually kill you." Also Matt's face: "You're fucking adorable, and I love you."

[@Foultarnished513]

This video is 8 minutes of just pure serotonin enhanced audio.

[@deltablaze77]

This is a very accurate description. :)

[@aaronm.706]

Sam’s dead serious expression after saying “shakinmyway” and Beau saying “HES COLLAPSING THE TUNNEL” KILLED me

[@garr_inc]

5:56

[@ethanharrison3237]

My favourite ones are when it’s so fast it isn’t even recognisable as words and is just “mrup”.

[@Kradd]

The one tiny one with a question mark while Matt is introing the show killed me.

[@alexandragoff6609]

When they don’t want to interrupt, but they need to acknowledge the phrase, just “mknmw” bwrbled out 😂

[@jeohranalfhir8366]

yessss the one at 5:04 is incredible

[@Eddiefx92]

Can't wait for the next live show where an entire sea of critters just screams out "MAKINMAWAY"

[@majorzipf8947]

I need this to happen!!!! When is the n4xt live show?!?!?!

[@samanthq]

I love that Ashley always finishes the song with whatever’s going on

[@braveherogreenleaf6256]

I love Talesin's smile of fucking anger as he realizes what he's done. "MAKIN MY WAY" "Thank you, okay..."

[@bryansmith844]

Sam’s concerned face parroting shakinmyway and quakinmyway killed me

[@annafantasia]

Like it was a part of his brain he couldn’t control while he was trying to focus on the serious task at hand 😂

[@SingingSealRiana]

​@@annafantasia feel that one so much

[@laurelleaves]

i love that it started as actually singing then devolved to saying three words as fast as possible

[@dormishaeli]

This is everything I ever wanted Now we need an "It's been a while" one!

[@sonicsanime44]

You read my mind.

[@M4GG0TK1NG]

I love how they even did thatbduring the State of the Role from a couple weeks ago

[@doing_aok]

i couldn’t remember the other one. thank you!

[@sarahl1173]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/jYarcn2KnqeIpac Love to the critters who put these together

[@aleymorial]

It has become a pavlovian response at this point

[@serrelinda]

The moments when Matt gives his spouse the Neutral Face of Displeasure are just gold 😂 and the way Marisha hides her face because she's laughing so hard.

[@hazarozgen6508]

I love that Marisha's enjoyment of the joke never dimmed as time went on.

[@stonecoldku4161]

"Making my way to the worm." She is either fighting a monster or drinking tequila.

[@braveherogreenleaf6256]

Marisha: doo doo Matt: *DEATH STARE*

[@spooked_glitch]

I love how it gradually gets faster as they try and get it past Matt lol

[@Alassandros]

5:57 It's the glare, the look of a man beholden to some viral chant seemingly soldiering through the way making ritual without the enthusiasm of a neophyte. He just does it through parallel processing and continues on, much like how many people grant blessings to one who has sneezed in the presence of others.

[@Hghartung]

This comment is as good as the video

[@IsaacMayerCreativeWorks]

He’s collapsing the tunnel.

[@ReyaitheShadowWolf]

Last's night's episode had one of the absolute best "Makin-Ma-Way" moments ever. Taliesin: I'm gonna slowly make my way to -- Marisha, Laura, Ashely, Robbie, Travis: Maaaaaaaaaaaakin-Maaaaa-Waaaaaaaaaaaaay

[@Aloysius_OHare]

7:05 Matt joined in and finally the group was harmonized in unity 🤧

[@aidencrabb9203]

The way half of them have devolved into just knee-jerk Animal Crossing noises

[@Matisyahuwu]

You know it’s “bad” when Matt says it while Sam is talking lol

[@cay8897]

I am so happy the joke made it into the animated series!

[@nightymein]

SAME!

[@anonymouspalmtree]

There's an animated series??????

[@trinityx3o522]

@@anonymouspalmtree Look up "The Legend of Vox Machina"

[@Aceshot-uu7yx]

I making my way, I'm making my way. From the top of this shitty mountain To the bottom of this God damn field. I'm making my wayyaaaayy I'm making my way.

[@xleplayVA]

Wait what, was it in the series? I swear i dont remember, but im gonna guess season 2 maybe, scanlan walkin somewhere, right?

[@VI_VA.]

i think the only one that its missing its Sam's "snaking its way" with the lava river xDD

[@amodelmannequin]

Ashley, Laura, Sam, and Travis without fail: makinmyway Liam, Taliesin, and Matt: 😐

[@savingpyro]

Can you imagine if they had to pay royalties every time they said that.

[@hannahr8277]

I love that in the middle of all that is just that CADUCEUS part

[@SirFoxbutt]

I love how just like Travis screaming "WE PLAY DUNGEONS N DRAGOOONS" in the opening, over time it just slowly devolved to a couple of completely incomprehensible syllables but everyone still knew what was going on.

[@deburrito6882]

95% of critical role is just these goofs trying to make eachother laugh, we just get to join them on the ride 😂

[@Kirayni]

The other 5% it's getting emotional trauma and sobbing :'D

[@deburrito6882]

@@Kirayni oh, for sure, both happy and sad sobbing on my end, but sobbing nonetheless :p

[@hoopa_axolotl9293]

10% gravitas 90% bullshit

[@BixLovesMiley]

3:11 Travis begrudgingly giving in and doing it after no one else did it.... It's so interesting how it evolved thooo. From changing the lyrics and adding the diddle-lee-diddle-doo, to a shorter version that still caught at least Matt off guard, to becoming an expected thing, to applying it to other words.... great. Also I only joined in c2e131 (snakingtheirway), and when I recently watched all the Narrative Telephones i thought it stemmed from there, but it's been around so much longer!

[@BixLovesMiley]

It's in Beau's story (ep 6 of the first season) at 44.44 :)

[@seanmetts7341]

I was watching Vox Machina and it was present all the way back then- it just wasn’t abused back then lol

[@maximilianocarrion1599]

@@seanmetts7341 Someone once said that it even dated back to the home game (pre-stream) so it could potentially be THE oldest inside joke in CR.

[@HellfuryXY]

And now it's evolved into an actual song, I love it.

[@stumbling_]

Knowing they were sitting on it since 2020 really explains why the second half of this video is mostly Ashley, Sam, and Laura doing it

[@dnf-dead]

Vanessa carlton needs to do a version of making my way.... 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣

[@dealinginfiction]

6:55 is the best one yet. They all harmonized

[@MrWildbox]

New fan of critical role here, just learning about this running gag. I can’t believe I didn’t notice this happen once in the entirety of Ashley’s one-shot, but I assure you after watching this video I’ll never miss it again.

[@bee-vk3lr]

the way this running joke turned reflex became an actual song in the Vox Machina animated series called Making My Way

[@falcychead8198]

Matt must be the most patient DM in the world.

[@SingingSealRiana]

I would agree, if I had not witnessed aabria putting up with exu with an grace that was plain unreal... Nothing beats the pretty much exclusively chaotic neutral exu party

[@volteer1332]

They just know how much they can poke his buttons before he starts adding hit points to the boss (most of the time). They're also extremely good friends, and when you know someone long enough, you know what kind of stuff they can tolerate.

[@kayjarell2424]

I'm watching the latest campaign, and I needed this catalogue of how it deteriorated from a whole song to just real quick and light "makinmaway" and sometimes it's JUST the noises/notes of it and I love that. I also love Liam's "we're just inside jokes"

[@magiv4205]

Sometimes it's just a "meep" lmao

[@nikkimabanlongeval601]

4:54 He just knew and pointed at them. And the "Oh no, it's evolving" gets me everytime

[@chloefranke4556]

I love how Ashley always does it for herself 😂

[@notfurb1378]

I love how they started to say it quicker as to not take up more time on the joke but it ended up making it much more funnier

[@B1gBoyPants]

I love when running gags go so long in a group that it gets shorter and shorter until they’re unintelligible to anyone outside of the group

[@theenigmaticmrwu]

I wonder if Vanessa Carlton knows about Critical Role.

[@SingingSealRiana]

She should at this point

[@Figgy5119]

I love when Matt participates like at 7:05 XD

[@dloental]

My new favorite is from C3, as Tal describes "I...sloooooowly make my way..." and on cue, the entire cast sings "Maaaaaaaakin' my waaaaaaaaaay..."

[@ArceneStorms]

When was this?

[@dloental]

@@ArceneStorms C3E11 - kzbin.info/www/bejne/o5TMh2ajl7pgjdE

[@ashyoung3326]

PURE DEDICATION PURE SEROTONIN

[@heathercarver321]

The slow progression from human to Beaker from The Muppets is astounding lol

[@GUNDAMURX73]

As a DM myself, I feel Matt's expressions in my *soul.*

[@piercewise1]

3:50 legit sounds like an error popup sound, they all have the exact same pitch and duration! XD

[@DarkAngelCookie]

The "mrup?!" Just starting to sound like chirping cats 🤣💀

[@alliebit]

I love how the melody slowly disappeared.

[@samanthq]

I feel like the critters probably all do it too now.

[@jlhitz35]

I literally can't hear someone say making my way without immediately thinking "MAKINMAWEY"

[@shazade258]

My online game is mostly critters and it’s almost obligatory at this point.

[@samanthq]

@@shazade258 that’s so awesome. It’s also obligatory at this point for Travis to say “we play dungeons and dragons!”

[@renee6411]

I ABSOLUTELY DO THIS (I might annoy my dm a lil bit)

[@goblinphreak2132]

I guarantee matt was like "no more" and they kept doing it anyway in spite

[@abbakarenina]

so it was TRAVIS who started it

[@sandrinenoel7329]

Travis starts all the things. He also started 'It's been a while" and "WEPLAYDUNGEONSANDDRAGONS!". All hail our meme king.

[@braveherogreenleaf6256]

I knew one of you dorks was gonna immortalize this joke at some point. Travis: *STOP IT*

[@SingingSealRiana]

He started it!!!

[@braveherogreenleaf6256]

@@SingingSealRiana AND YOU'RE PERPETUATING, YOU'RE GROUNDED

[@Intrafacial86]

I love how it eventually devolves into 3:50

[@cairothetiefling_]

"Makin ma way-" *Laura you are DROWNING.*

[@cracksniffer396]

So Travis is responsible for creating the joke, but Sam is responsible for making it a noise

[@isabellahopeferris-green2897]

It’s totally not relevant, at all, in the slightest, but GOOD LORD these people are hot.

[@jakemunoze7430]

Amen to that!

[@Kirayni]

Right?! The bi panic this whole group gives should be illegal

[@najadetwo22]

@@Kirayni bi panic? more like bi delight!

[@Kirayni]

@@najadetwo22 you know what? You're right, it's delightful

[@nickenglehart6469]

@@Kirayni debiful

[@PhilosopherWR]

I love how part of it is trying to sneak it past Matt. 😂

[@ashlynx1]

It's just an instant Pavlovian response

[@shinobi-no-bueno]

I love how it just becomes a thing over time and people keep triggering it on accident 😂😂😂

[@k.whatever9046]

"snakintheirway" killed me 😂

[@jojosworld8957]

Loved it! Even got Ashley's one-shot in there. What's missing is Exandria Unlimited incidents where Ashley and Matt did it. Mostly Ashley.

[@TheTechReactor]

I love watching the raw frustration in Matt's face when they do this.

[@Kalin5513]

It just continually de-evolves into just a mumble and I love it

[@dmstevo3610]

I love seeing their friendship. At there age (I’m in my 50’s) usually this kind of stuff is left in their college years. But here they are absolutely crushing it as adults but still keeping the joy of childhood at the forefront of their lives. This is why I love these guys. Pure joy and unapologetic friendship for one another. Thank you CR!!

[@amadeus5889]

I swear to god, you could rename this show “Seven Middle Schoolers and an Exasperated Drama Teacher.”

[@Chloroplastspectrum]

The comedic timing at 2:03 is literal perfection

[@SweetiesSys]

Marisha hiding her face from Matt gets me every time 😆

[@akiraking00]

i love the ashley always makes it fit what yashas doing

[@Kasino80]

I love how at the end there's only Marisha laughing at the joke, yet everyone still makes it.

[@nolanmejia5510]

I love how Ashley always adds a little bit more to the bit

[@hollyisobsessed]

🎶"maykamahway"🎶

[@NukaChloe76]

COMMENTING MY WAY

[@ivenkohn3404]

As much as i love sam focusing as hard as he can to make the most of the "Makinmyway" jokes, i love Taliesin's delivery of the initial line and then waiting for someone to say it and then just saying "Thank you." and continuing what he was going to say lol

[@phoenixmartinez]

You missed one of the best ones! I can't remember the episode, but Campaign 3 (I think) Talesin says "I'll slowwwly make my way down.." and the whole table goes "mmmaaaaaakinnn mmmyyy wwwaaaayyyy....." in slow-mo

[@nightymein]

this was made before that happened!

[@phoenixmartinez]

Oops! 😅 So it was

[@99baking]

Sam doing it with anything that rhymes with "making" for that little bit was glorious and I wish he still did it lol

[@rubberd0512]

My favorite is in campaign three where someone says slowly making their way and the whole cast goes “maaaaakkiiinnggggg my waaaaaaaaaayyy”

[@iiristaika]

i didnt remember sams remixes and now i cant stop laughing

[@NtoTheM]

Even Matt joins in, that is amazing.

[@INKI_teh_Rogue]

It's become impossible for me to not echo a high pitch rapid stumbling over syllables _''makinmaway''_ back at strangers... I blame you nerds for this.

[@thevoidlord1796]

I love the 30 seconds in this video tht is just same finding various variations of "making my way" without anyone else adding onto it

[@Warcodered01]

Best one has to be the "slowly making my way" one, they sing it in slow motion.

[@TakeAway69]

At some point they'll just say "meh" and it will be just as funny

[@MrImastinker]

Hopped back here after those latest episodes of TLOVM... I love these guys so much.

[@Asher1347]

The looks on their faces when they realize they said "making my way"

[@MetaKaios]

This video gave me a new appreciation for Ashley. And a renewed one for Marisha. And the group as a whole.

[@anachronologist2017]

Somewhere on Earth Vanessa Carlton is endlessly sneezing & doesn't know why

[@blueoblivionx]

Snakintheirway is my absolute favorite 😂 this was just pure happiness

[@apadvogados]

Man, I'd freaking love a full cover by Ashley. Her voice is so great!

[@AquaFoxcos]

And now they made it a country song in the animation haha

[@deltablaze77]

I feel like maybe you do hold some responsibility for getting "A Thousand Miles" by Vanessa Carlton stuck in our heads...

[@Kasino80]

At this point in my life a have pavlovian reaction to both "making my way" and and "it's been a while". No matter the context, I say both out loud like CR.

[@TPBurrow]

great editing, really fun to watch:)

[@pabloevens1038]

I love how in The Legend of Vox Machina they ended up adding a song called Makin' my Way 😂😂😂

[@Thundarr100]

I swear, in some of those scenes Matt had an expression on his face like “If they start singing that damn song again, there’s going to be a TPK.”