Monster Factory | The one where they actually play WWE2K20

Well, it's come to this. Griffin and Justin are actually going to do the unthinkable and play WWE2K20.
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[@Nissun0]

Becoming aware of Sweet Gene's REAL size is giving me a mild panic attack.

[@corwinchapman4565]

His Stand, Biggie Smalls, has no weaknesses!

[@fjr4205]

I was already creeped out by Sweet Gene but when they showed him actually wrestling I gasped out loud. Too! Scary!

[@aduckinlingerie]

I can barely reach his thighs

[@notinspectorgadget]

You thought he was Big But really He's *B I G G*

[@bb-ef2qm]

this is easily the most cursed monster factory saga. I mean, literally EVERYTHING goes wrong, multiple times. it's like the game doesn't want to be played and their recording device doesn't want to record all the evil deeds going on. there is so much anger and loss in this wwe2k20 trilogy, it's truly a tragedy.

[@raysravens52]

The game is self aware and desperately wants to stop them from playing it.

[@BethAnn10987]

You’ve uncovered the true motives of Ribbie.

[@coykoi5128]

it's somehow even more cured than spore

[@ashezarrine]

It’s almost as bad as the Spore saga lol

[@Catgirl_Online]

is every mbmbam fan an English major

[@breloomy]

to put it into context: this game is less stable than the _arby's witch's version of dark souls_

[@jacobgraham8363]

polarbethy that game was had the stability of pizza grease and meat magic, what excuse does this game have

[@lunardogs2416]

this game is equally as stable as gil souls

[@xa6669]

"Google Ribby, make sure he's not problematic"

[@arsweetie1234]

"Let me put The Rock's $500 shirt in a $400 toilet." is somehow so raw to me

[@designate_om]

according to google, that is $90 cheaper than your average toilet

[@penbailey9677]

knowing that is so much Cheaper than a normal toilet is so good

[@robengle5786]

If ever there were a "Griffin Being Savage to AI in Monster Factory" this would truly be the cherry on top of the whipped crêmê pile atop said proverbial savage sundae

[@SigmaStudios7]

Well you know he had to lay the Smackdown on em.

[@GippyHappy]

Why are toilets so expensive

[@Narokkurai]

I do like how you can still make out some of the facial features of the generic man who became Sweet Gene. Really sells the mythology that this was once an ordinary wrestler who became absorbed by some kind of Gritty Symbiote hell-bent on revenge.

[@bcdm999]

Sweet Genom

[@AuntBibby]

Weee hurtsssss... fOR SSSSNAK!!!!

[@Pomlithe]

“I’m sorry, but they’re making me hurt for Snack.” it all makes sense now

[@notinspectorgadget]

or it's like One Punch Man. generic background wrestler became so obsessed with wrestling that he got monsterified

[@ruby8455]

The year is 2054... Human civilisation has crumbled. And yet, new Monster Factory episodes continue to be our one joy in these dark times. We hear in the distance... "Hey guys, quick programming note, in the near future

[@cicifuentes5685]

"Smash it, baby!"

[@nyranna_]

Mirani Kawanapu I begged you not to!

[@kindle9597]

SMASH IT BABEY

[@Kvalln]

SMASH THAT

[@themittenfireshow3597]

@@nyranna_ mmmmm smash it

[@laurentsketches]

Sweet Gene sitting to off the side at 15:23 like he’s the goalie, mid match, picking dandelions off of a kids soccer field is such an image

[@rachelmazza4079]

Samantha Laurent high árt

[@OkamiG15]

And thus, with three monsters and untold hours of footage devoured, WWE 2K20 officially becomes the most cursed game the brothers have ever used.

[@ashleycook2202]

The game is a serial killer at this point

[@BEEEELEEEE]

Could Spore be a runner-up?

[@chabashirq4528]

BEEELEEE spore is absolutely a close second

[@OkamiG15]

BEEELEEE Spore would probably have retained the #1 slot, but WWE2k20 gave us the monster that is Brock Lesnar, which put it over the top.

[@Dude523]

​@@chabashirq4528 Especially since Spore is 12 years old and this game has only been out for 5 months.

[@midnightsloth1643]

this game is cursed because ALL those glitches are not normal

[@spinosaurus2001]

No don't worry all WWE games are like this

[@MissEmilyStrife]

Pam is trying to force her way into the game

[@designate_om]

​@@MissEmilyStrife or she's just trying to save them from Ribbie

[@bensirach3586]

Every punch Sweet G lands, is a smile on Snack Braff's face #hurtforsnack

[@natalie7851]

Sweet Gene feels so goofy and gentle and morally upright but it’s times like these when we are painfully reminded that he CAN and WILL kick the shit out of Randy Orton

[@robertsmithfan877]

he loves his friends and will kill the rock for them

[@spencykings3182]

i really dont know what reality you're living in where sweet gene seems gentle and morally upright

[@greyseph...]

@@spencykings3182 he has ‘sweet’ right in the name he’s gotta be a kind fella :0)

[@Cheezbuckets]

It’s 3am, and I laughed embarrassingly hard at the phrase “kick the shit out of Randy Orton”, and I have no earthly idea why.

[@spencykings3182]

i know what i said a year ago but i changed my mind. you're right about sweet gene being gentle and morally upright, but i do disagree with the notion that kicking the shit out of randy orton *isn't* morally upright

[@yourfriendhashy]

the sudden image of ribbie in the character select screen cut me to my core in such a visceral way that i may never recover

[@bb-ef2qm]

when i was in hgh school, there was a very sweet, very large boy that was always very quiet and kept to himself. he was regularly picked on by a tiny rich kid that would slap at him and say mean things. eventually the big sweet nerdy boy had enough and there was a fight that looked almost identical to the first 5 seconds or so of the gene versus randy fight. it was awesome, and after that, the bully seemed to disappear forever. I had completely forgotten about that until i saw the fight in this video and it all came rushing back to me. art imitates life, i guess.

[@jaycarp6474]

suzimoon sweet gene real

[@Austib_]

This whole comment was a fuckin rollercoaster from start to finish

[@bb-ef2qm]

Austin thank you :)

[@BLahgeek]

beautiful :,)

[@poofan5086]

and that very sweet very large boy would grow up to be wwe super national star sweet gene

[@MrSkerpentine]

Ribbie is the team mascot of the high school that your character goes to in MyCareer. He’s also the only good thing to come from WWE 2K20.

[@EdenNeedsAYoutubeHandle]

Reminds me a lot of Hotdog Man from Life is Strange

[@NateCummings]

Idea!

[@ThomasWilson4]

Did they overhaul the story and is that why they included the rundown gym? I remember it was just go straight to a generic ring in the school.

[@cmpunkfan1122334]

No he’s not lol 😂 He’s the mascot for a baseball team in Memphis

[@Mothmaninist]

eden Ribbie and Hot Dog Man are married and own a small second hand antique shop downtown

[@peterm5545]

why did justin reveal the rib's origins like it was a horror story i've got chills in my bones justin

[@boopboppboo]

His hair is like radioactive spaghetti

[@BootlegAdult]

Radioactive cheetos

[@alexanderjones5109]

"he got that jumanji money" got me harder than i was ready for

[@rynemcgriffin1752]

“There will be no Jumanji Two”

[@SeymourDisapproves]

It was so nice of the McElroy brothers to invent comedy

[@sofiecallow350]

Ribbie looks like he already got a ride at the monster factory roller coaster.

[@PoisonJellybean]

Is....is Ribbie like...the fursona of one of the devs, who isn't *entirely* sure what a fursona is?

[@elizabethreed618]

@Jacqueline A that's just his meat

[@pureicefire]

Foodsona

[@plat4234]

*No they know.*

[@c-puff]

Honestly the game crashing so bad it corrupted the footage is the perfect way to end this thing.

[@Brettisen]

the way you can see slight contours of a human face under not gritty's face when you zoom in.... haunting

[@LS-jj4sy]

The Rock ($500 Shirt) is just such a funny character option

[@rachelrachel9152]

makes me wonder how many other preset versions of the rock there are.

[@shannfran]

Griffin softly saying "oh.. my snickers" after The Rock punched Sweet Gene in the nuts sent me

[@ppplvr]

Imagine seeing Sweet Gene seeing walking around a Walmart parking lot in the Florida panhandle. Maybe he occasionally kicks or picks something up off the ground. Natural habitat.

[@Mystery__Otaku]

VinciFox tbh if I saw sweet gene on my 2am Walmart snack run I'd just go home

[@ppplvr]

@@Mystery__Otaku That's probably for the best. You wouldn't wanna accidentally say the word 'snack' and upset him

[@nfadaloo]

I'm very sad that Sweet Gene was born into this game. Sweet Gene carries the energy of a thirty year old man that still lives with his parents and is really into wrestleboys despite being a terrifying behemoth of daemonic Gritty power and won a chance to be in the wwe despite having no actual understanding of how wrestling works but his sheer Mass just renders him unconquerable. Sweet Gene deserves more than this game.

[@HiperPivociarz]

That's how I feel about Tammy Radbody

[@lemonhscott7667]

Under Ribbie’s costume, Snack is hiding. He’s been banished within the meat.

[@VoltieBird]

I've never seen a video game commit suicide.

[@MitskulpCh36]

I dry heaved laughing at Ribbie dead in the background

[@peterm5545]

i don't know at one point along the way that i forgot that sweet gene was a giant huge monster but man was it rough when he first walked up on randy

[@jasus3787]

He looks like a rejected Cheetos mascot from the early 2000s

[@marsisgay936]

JASUS I was gonna say Meatos before I realized you were talking about Sweet Gene

[@Sprech41]

every time I see Sweet Gene's profile picture I feel like my life is in imminent danger

[@sicksalt7765]

It is

[@officialnezquick]

“Griffin...Ribbie...Ribbie debuted in this game.” Said like the reveal in a horror movie

[@poco351]

theres somethin angelic about Sweet Gene's sweet hair

[@Kate-uj9rx]

And yet something equally demonic about the rest of its body

[@poco351]

@@Kate-uj9rx a link between worlds....

[@phillyfanmatt]

Gritty fighting alongside a sentient BBQ slathered rib is surprisingly on brand for both monster factory and for gritty himself

[@JoeMama-cd7be]

I love how the only people who play this game are Griffin and Justin

[@TheSkullivan12]

This is the most adversarial game that Monster Factory has ever faced. Not only did it murder Justin and Griffin's wonderful child, but then it adds insult to injury by creating a monster of its own, more hellish, unspeakable, and dripping with barbecue sauce than anything their mere mortal minds could hope to conjure.

[@ddurrant25]

I need a sitcom with Sweet Gene, Ribbie, and Big E, but the only person allowed to talk is Big E, because I don't want to know what sweet gene talks like to be completely honest.

[@sand__witch]

...Curse you for making me think about how Ribbie would sound like.

[@zombifying]

"man, he got that Jumanji money" tickled me so badly that I just sat here and laughed for 5 minutes

[@gabriellarena2256]

15:38 the match ended because mister sweet gene was out of the fighting square for too long, you can see that because of the referees no no hand movements, griffin must have accidently moved the cursor because he was in the middle of kicking the rock in the gut

[@defvalleydriver]

Gabriel Larena “fighting square” 😂

[@ZanraiKid]

I don't think Justin understands how visceral "Sweet Gene Budokai" sounds.

[@LLAMASbluecar]

there’s something so visceral about the rock having the phrase “$500 shirt” floating above his head constantly

[@DEVILCOMPLEX]

"I think it's a rib?" more than u could ever imagine, griffin

[@michaelknapp5149]

Even with GOT and TWD on the table Monster Factory still has the most funerals of any show I've watched.

[@Xzeihoranth]

Big E is looking at Sweet Gene the way we all are. With fear.

[@TheDiplomancer]

How is this game so bad at being playable? I've never seen anything like this!

[@RainingOnMyParade]

you sir have never played any of the WWE game then, they are all a hot mess just like this some worse, some better but all of them just as prone to crashing but infinitely fun to design stupid characters with.

[@defvalleydriver]

Whitney S it’s not as bad as when it was first made

[@johndowell6028]

You should watch Griffin and Justin play Spore if you wanna see a game that sucks at being a game. Not only does the game destroy your progress, but it mocks you viciously.

[@Bodmanford]

Whitney S thats sports games in a nutshell

[@Bodmanford]

John Dowell I’ve played like 90 hours of spore and none of griffins problems arose cause I used the SAVE feature

[@Tohstie]

Broke: Sweet Gene will hurt them for Snack Woke: Sweet Gene will hurt Randy for Snack Bonus: Gene's intro music is the same as Randy Johnson and Pan Pan's, so Sweet Gene must have taken down yet another Randy to use that.

[@Kithara1117]

Sweet Gene hears voices in his head, they talk to him, they understand.

[@MrSkerpentine]

They talk to Gene (TALK TO GENE TALK TO GENE TALK TO GEEEEENE)

[@carabuker897]

I just assumed Griffin created Ribbie in his spare time

[@bondfool]

I love that 2KSports prioritized beautiful glowing hair and Ribbie over, uh... function.

[@missssunflower08]

seeing Ribbie activated my fight or flight response and the fact that Griffin and Justin didn't immediately start yelling when they saw him chills me to my core

[@EpicBeard815]

Sweet Gene is the angel that will guide me up the stairway to heaven when I die

[@tonytot8357]

It feels like already dead and he's just coming back for us after we we're dropped off at the wrong bus stop

[@jonathancottrill9729]

@@tonytot8357 this comment makes me feel things I can't explain and by God somehow I'll write a book based off of it

[@Zuzu00000]

Replying so I can find this chain again, there's something very poetic about it.

[@tonytot8357]

Jonathan Cottrill I think sweet gene would want that. Go forth brave soldier

[@DarianXLP]

Can this game be over? It's taken everything from us.

[@trevorsheffield9654]

He looks like the sweatiest radio DJ

[@Wigglebury2959]

Ow, my snickers

[@adams3627]

Imagine punching a guy just SQUARE on, dead in the man meat, and he just kinda stiffens for a second and says that to you.

[@resident-evil-jerma5389]

revenge for snack braff. every move sweet sweet g man makes is a protest against the evil WWE men. #avengebraff #hurtforsnack

[@Blattella]

imagine wario with photorealistic eyes

[@bensirach3586]

Ew no stop you're under arrest

[@MiloKuroshiro]

I think I read that creepypasta already

[@MrxstGrssmnstMttckstPhlNelThot]

I didn't want to but now I have. Why have you cursed me so? Gritty but with BIG human teeth.

[@KasperMcKay]

Hahahahah I can never sleep again

[@guytorie]

Sweet Gene is powerful in a way I wasn't prepared for

[@clown-cult96]

That horrifying moment when you realise just how large Sweet Gene is.

[@LinkTheHero]

I really want a game now where it starts out as a wrestling game and everything makes it seem like a wrestling game like you can do all this, but then you can just keep going outside and start an adventure outside as a wrestler

[@DoctorTillinghast]

The glowing lava hair is a magnificent touch. Hot/10

[@lucystarlight8887]

Ribbie's dead body lying far away from the stage, gently illuminated by the pale blue lights of the grave, is an incredibly powerful and haunting image

[@XHeartCriztalx]

HE GOT THAT JUMANJI MONEY

[@abderians]

That One Laugh that Justin does where he sounds like a sweet and jovial Pennywise or an animated Jester

[@TigirlakaLaserwolf6]

'Broccoli Lesner' You just created og Broly of three DBZ movies

[@narcspector]

*"HOLD ON LEMME PUT THE ROCK'S $500 SHIRT IN A $400 TOILET"* "And the award for Best Lead Boy in a KZbin series goes to... *YOUR SWEET BABY BROTHER 30 UNDER 30 MEDIA LUMINARY GRIFFIN MCELROY!!!!!!"*

[@juxhex]

just when i desperately needed some serotonin, thank you boys

[@BritishCooking]

who's.........ribbie

[@robertsmithfan877]

me

[@LordCantalo]

I don't care how long it takes for you to play a game, I'm here to watch a couple of boys have fun.

[@pecanarchy]

I have never heard my name spoken so many times in a row. Is this what it feels like to be a Randy or a Steven?

[@pecanarchy]

woah, a comment from before I changed my name. weird!

[@AlyssaRueckert]

I smelled what the Rock was cooking and it was Ribbie

[@notinspectorgadget]

9:55 We got a cartoon dog turd wearing sunglasses, an absolutely MASSIVE Deadpool impersonator going Super Sayan 5, and Gary Coleman The White.

[@Spalfos]

This game’s Randy Savage could not look any less like Randy Savage

[@ororion212]

RIBBIE, BIG E, and Sweet Gene the Dream team

[@KyleS.1987]

Worst part of 2K wrestling games is always when you have to play the wrestling game part of it. Come back to us, AKI!

[@AuntBibby]

Kyle S. fire pro wrestling *is* snack

[@CyberneticCupcake2]

Game developers need to create a stable and usable game with character creation of monstrous proportions. Our boys are scraping the bottom of the barrel! 😭

[@AuntBibby]

Cybernetic Cupcake (Archive) fire pro wrestling world? saints row IV: re-elected?

[@lr-]

The news that Ribbie is exclusive to this game was psychically damaging

[@sexualtaco308]

I love this Monster with all my heart and soul

[@austintipton8864]

Griffin’s “There is NO Jumanji 3 is THERE!?” Is vastly underrated

[@emilylenz7781]

I have not seen a game resist so hard being played since spore. now we just need to see snack returned somehow and have the game turn him against sweet gene like the bee movies

[@johnathanhooker5375]

Brock looks like one of the orcs from shadow of war

[@Daedkro]

Sweet Gene looks like Dave Mustaine went super saiyan and ripped his face off.

[@MaggieJacksonJacksonspace]

Justin: You'll have to play this game eventually. WWE2K20: Not if I have anything to say about it.

[@endymionredacted1304]

why does sweet gene have deadpool energy though

[@Kate-uj9rx]

To be honest sweet gene has a lot of energy, mostly demonic, and no one knows why.

[@whathitwonder4037]

I can still see it when I close my eyes..

[@endymionredacted1304]

I would meet that man at a folk festival

[@fjr4205]

Griffin: OOPS! Justin, simultaneously: OPES!

[@WheezyShotta]

Two of the biggest wrestlers in WWE history and 7 people and their dog show up to watch them in a 3v3 tag-team match I'd pay good money to see All-Stars Ribbie and Sweet Gene wrestle

[@sweetprimrose]

HE'S JUST A MEAT ON A BONE THE ROCK!

[@TheApostleofRock]

"This is not Gritty." Lmao off to a great start

[@MrIAMKROGAN]

Deeply, unforgivingly possessed game

[@dajosh42069]

NICE! At the time of this comment, this episode of Monster Factory has; 7.7K Views on Polygon's channel. -=AND=- 25K Views on The McElroy Family channel. It pleases me to see that Monster Factory is getting some real traction on your direct channel. It tells me that... ...a soul STILL BURNS! ;)

[@tyhyin1]

I just absolutely love how much Sweet G's hair glows.

[@neofoxboi]

I love how ($500 SHIRT) is baked into all the GUI elements

[@vianerdss]

WWE2K20 should be on haunted doll watch because of how cursed it is

[@goofydess]

Wrestling in those gold Gucci slides is what makes it for me 🤣

[@djfebrezee]

Their humor is the perfect balance of old references and bizarre jokes, and I fucking love it.

[@mudstick]

ribbie looks like he snuck in from the jerma rumble lmao

[@IndieGoScreeen]

This 3 series saga has been officially cursed 😂😂😂