MBMBaM 644: Which One is the Old Man

Have you ever wanted to finally get into My Brother, My Brother, and Me? Well, this is the perfect episode to start! We got cool movie reviews, some ideas about reboots, some Munch Squad. No pre-requisites required at all. Except one. You DO need to have a working knowledge of Cats the Musical.
Suggested talking points: It's Planentines Plane, Animorph Smell, Matt the Cat, Italian Stewart, Johnny ChaCha, Jeremy Criterion, The Hieroglyph for Crispy
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[@wendingus_]

I'm a BIG fan of the way 6 minutes in, I still don't know if this film is real or if they're just yes-and'ing each other into oblivion. I love these boys.

[@giottoblue]

It is real and it is plane

[@wendingus_]

@@giottoblue Oh thank goodness

[@mariocomputer808]

The idea of Justin's soundboard silently playing that Korn loop for weeks made me lol.

[@ranibowsprimkle4185]

The nature of reality is such that, every so often, someone accidentally invents the episode of Kimmy Schmidt where Titus cons his way into the cast of Cats again

[@leiram8833]

I've always subconsciously felt that Griffin had catboy energy, and it seems that just by thinking it, I may have accidentally manifested it into reality.

[@strawberrycelia]

I respect u for speaking the truth

[@amefuraggamuffin]

@18:00 the extra mass goes to Z-space, a white void that andalites and i assume other advanced races use to travel faster than light. In one book they animorph into mosquitos, but because so much of their mass is in z-space, they get sucked into it and (luckily) appear inside/near a vessel that takes them aboard.

[@OddDrop]

I am glad I found this comment before I made it myself.

[@amefuraggamuffin]

@@OddDrop im telling you i was clutching my stomach and groaning, i was punching the floor, i was chewing on electrical wires, it would have killed me if i tried to keep this comment inside.

[@shwowbow5858]

i have never read these books, and i would have bet any amount of money that this comment was an insane troll. imagine my shock when i found out that it is not.

[@XanBcoo]

What's fucked up is that Travis' joke about where the extra mass goes in Animorphs is actually a thing in the later books

[@lorrygoth]

I mean you probably popped a few veins with your banana antics Griffin.

[@leiram8833]

I gotta remember that trick the next time I go for lab work.

[@mattgarner7851]

Interesting that they converged with Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt on cosplaying one's way into a Cats performance.

[@Arrakiz666]

Travis is clearly not knowledgeable in Animorphs lore, so for the record, when they morph, the excess mass is ejected into a separate dimension that also functions as the means of faster-than-light space travel, and similarly, the extra mass is siphoned from the same dimension if they morph into something with more mass than their current body. This is canon. You're welcome.

[@risxra]

Thank you for this information, everything I learn about Animorphs is increasingly buckwild

[@kwkirkby]

Is it like a extra-dimensional bank? What happens if you don't have enough mass stored in that dimension when you turn into an elephant? Half elephant?

[@Arrakiz666]

@@kwkirkby It's just a gimmick that is supposed to work like wormholes so people can travel faster than light. For all intents and purposes, the mass in that dimension is infinite. I'm not even sure if it's ever explained what form the mass in that dimension takes, might be fully converted to energy upon entry.

[@Arrakiz666]

@@risxra The themes of the series include: horrors of war, child soldiers, psychic manipulation, dubious consent, PTSD, complete ego death, political drama, graphic depiction of death and dismemberment, and the beauty of the natural environment. It's completely buckwild.

[@m.holmes]

4 minutes in and I'm loving the boys' wild inconsistency in saying the first name of Mr. Butler

[@SlipperyTeeth]

I'm listening to the Animorphs audiobooks right now, and I got a little excited when Travis said "That mass has to go somewhere" (18:18). Then I was immediately disappointed when he said "mass gas". IT GOES INTO Z-SPACE, Travis. In Animorphs #18 "The Decision", an Andalite ship goes near their excess mass in Z-Space - this disturbance pulls them from their morphs on Earth into Z-Space for a good portion of the book until they're "rubber banded" back to their morph bodies (with the time it takes for them to be shot back proportional to their mass in Z-Space, i.e. inversely proportional to the mass of their Earth body's morph). Duh, Travis.

[@sadierift1201]

NOBABYBEETSTHEOLDMAN

[@TurbopropPuppy]

I really enjoyed Griffin's vein-popping humor on this episode of MBMBaM!

[@endy_fx]

Plane (2023): 4/10. 'feeling misled and disappointed '. I attended the theatre replete with my high-sodium comestibles, expecting to see Gerald Butter deliver a vein-popping performance focusing on the correct use of woodworking tools. Whilst there were some shots of hammers, they would be grossly inappropriate for turning a table leg. Can only recommend the after credits explicitly grisly blooper reel.

[@Nadodan]

18:00 No one asked for this but the excess mass of the children when they turn into smaller creatures in Animorph is actually held in a sort of side dimension to our own and can even be damaged, this dimension also recieves other mass from Black Holes which lets them transform into larger creatures

[@swimfree-1023]

for real, though, the old man is a really good show. jeff bridges and john lithgow are crushing it

[@otralee]

Engagement

[@phillipdangt341]

45:35 End of Moneyzone

[@awethailu1011]

28 minutes in. You guys are geniuses.

[@Sage_the_Turtoise]

i don't think travis knows what formal means

[@Thelittlehipster63]

Holy Pam I'm early 😱

[@jascal]

Omg! I'm the 1st one! Yeeeeeeehaaaaaw

[@zacharyraucci2224]

ily guys