Monster Factory: Stang Is Totally Not Sting Trying To Play Basketball

[@phillyfanmatt]

"did they bench you in the game you bought" will never not make me laugh

[@Bodmanford]

MattFromPhilly no basketball player plays the entire game, they just needed to press a, but yea, this is a video I can watch anytime and die laughing

[@robertdicke7249]

I CAN NOT FUCKING BELIEVE WHAT IAM WITTNESSING!!!! Like what the hell kinda game makes its player watch the AI play without anything to do about it???

[@jordanfry5138]

@@robertdicke7249 Not this one, based on the extremely visible a to skip prompt on screen.

[@robertdicke7249]

@@jordanfry5138 Not extremely visible enough, based on the me not seeing any.

[@jordanfry5138]

@@robertdicke7249 15:34 "a to continue"

[@gothclown9013]

gordan looks like one of those hyper realistic recreations of neanderthals faces that they show in documentaries

[@e-811]

It’s one year after you posted this but I am wheezing with laughter

[@origaminosferatu3357]

I mean…Right?

[@Dazzaster84]

Casey Neistat?

[@jamesemslie2201]

I was gonna say he looks like Wayne Rooney, so same difference

[@Sara-xf7ls]

SO TRUE

[@abdaug8274]

Actually almost puked from laughing when the game forced Griffin to sit on the bench and the dude just stood in front of him. Lol

[@SonOfaChipwich]

Kobe! KObe! Kobe baby! Kobe Beef! Hup-ah Kobe! Jordan!

[@em_birch]

*silent pause for when the ball wasn't picked up*

[@boneboy_]

SCOTTY PIPPENS

[@bioheroplayer]

BUCKETS

[@TLOEric]

Gretzky!

[@user-qq4tj8gm8b]

buuuuUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUHHHHHhhhhhhhHHHHHHhHhhhhH---BUCKeTs!!!!

[@laquearian]

13yrs ago I invited my childhood enemy to my seventh birthday party. He cut in front of me in line for like a ballpit or smth, accused ME of cutting in front of HIM, and I had to sit in time out at my OWN birthday party due to the false accusation. griffin being benched in the game that he bought inspires a very similar response that I had at age 7

[@katqt32]

Audrey Enns this story has me fucking howling.

[@theindomitablemass]

Please tell me you later decked him in life

[@laquearian]

@@theindomitablemass OH YA DW LOL he kinda consistently bullied me for a few years. he was bigger than me so he got psychologically tortured instead ty for asking

[@janesmith1840]

I feel this on a deep emotional level

[@plantmage9850]

I'm feeling genuinely angry in this comment section today

[@Blackbirdness]

“Come on Ref, let ‘em play!” has made it into my everyday vernacular. Stuff in commuter traffic? Dropped my coffee after I just made it? Any kind of minor inconvenience? Yep. There I go, quoting monster factory and confusing everyone around me.

[@Sara-xf7ls]

Is...is God your ref?

[@todd2771]

Remember the titans

[@Plasmaggie]

i hate it when i yell too much and gatorade sends me to the phantom zone

[@electrapng]

I think I may have lost my fucking mind when they benched Gordan, I almost threw up from laughing so hard

[@guen4413]

I’ve seen this video multiple times but forgot they named the character Gordan, so for a second I thought you had just messed up Griffin’s name

[@0axel078]

LET HIM PLAY THE GAME HE BOUGHT!

[@everettehungerford2858]

Nope, not good enough.

[@generaldisclosure2407]

I feel so bad for Gordan Summers -- he worked his butt off in his classes all semester so he could be on the team, and then he ends up flunking basketball. Now his GPA is ruined, and he's never gonna get into a good basketball graduate school and earn his basketball PhD. :(

[@specialolympicsnews5359]

0Axel0 I agree with you on that no I grew a That

[@AcousticNoise]

The bench incident is similar to why I stopped playing 2k20. I missed ONE EFFING BASKET and the computer decided at that moment that I would never be allowed to touch the ball again. I played through seven more games and didn't get to have the ball at all during any of them. It was equal parts hilarious and frustrating.

[@fizzyizzy78]

holy shit polygon still liked it, four years later. efforts will not be unnoticed, and yes, I realize how much this sounds like a response in a video game about youtube.

[@californiansniper2133]

SKILL ISSUE

[@roronoa1243]

I was not fucking prepared for Stang's dab, that caught me so off guard

[@UltimateBurstLP]

But who would win in a one-on-one game? Gordan "Stang" Summers or Justin "Hoops" McElroy?

[@Lonelycoast]

I mean, Hoops is a legend, god among b-ballers. There is no contest

[@thecuttlekid2758]

UltimateBurstLP i feel like the surprise winner of that game would actually be Turbovicki, who tranSPORTed through the time and space dimension of sportsball to join the mystical sick b-ball match between Stang and Hoops.

[@Zachlandia]

seeing how Justin's like 5'8" and stang is 7'3" probably stang

[@toni6527]

zthelus but with his short, short arms he would even be able to reach the ball should Justin be holding it

[@SheoTheFox]

UltimateBurstLP ..

[@giraculum9981]

jersey numbers can only have the digits 0 through 5 so referees can display them with hand signals. When Stang got his 69 jersey, all the refs sprouted additional fingers to compensate. It's in their contract.

[@ThatButchBitch]

wait what about people with 48 ?

[@giraculum9981]

@@ThatButchBitch The only professional player I know of with that number is Nazr Mohammed, and he got away with it by stacking two zeroes to make it look like an 8.

[@IanZWhite00]

@@ThatButchBitch maybe they do it in binary

[@garfieldbrooks]

@@ThatButchBitch grow more fingers

[@drpibisback7680]

@@ThatButchBitch Not allowed under NCAA rules - by mandate, they only use 0-5. The NBA does allow all numerals, but over-fives are still rarer because most players keep their number from college - people only tend to take digits above 5 because another player on their team has their original number or they're from outside the US and played under different rules. Somewhat relevant, nobody in the NBA has ever worn 69. The NBA has never confirmed nor denied rumors that they don't allow it, but Dennis Rodman reportedly requested 69 as his number when he joined the Lakers and got turned down by the NBA's commissioner.

[@birdknight6616]

In my opinion the best Monster Factory creations are the ones where they just barely slide into the uncanny valley, so you know something's off but as you look at it more and more it becomes worse and worse

[@confetti_kisses427]

With the exception of Knife Dad

[@darlingicarus]

"little arms, but he keeps them far away from himself" oh my god. someone remind me never to drink or eat during monster factory because there's inevitably a tiny comment like this that takes me by surprise and results in a near death experience.

[@fiercebaldguy]

And as an added layer of hilarity, Stang looks like a Sting who's having an allergic reaction to some kind of insect sting...

[@charliekat8able]

"Don't Stand So Close To Him, He Has a Spore That He Gives Off" is Stang's new version of "Don't Stand So Close to Me" (by the Police). We need the album dropped asap.

[@quinnmarchese6313]

i tried for 20 minutes to come up with parody lyrics from the first verse and its very difficult

[@TikiShades]

I'm glad we're continuing the Monster Factory tradition of being horrible at basketball

[@itslexactually]

Kobe! Kobe, baby! Ko-baby!

[@rachelrachel9152]

@@itslexactually that's exactly what i was thinking, cinematic parallels

[@tomflegg4227]

🎉🎉🎉🎉

[@ThreeofMoths]

Son of sports Turbo Vicky

[@farosh-end]

Watching stang lope around the court and swat randomly at players is the epitome of comedy

[@libby5055]

griffin shouting "NOBODY LOOK AT HIM" while trying to "box out" the hornet mascot made me spit out my drink this ep is too funny

[@KerbalRocketry]

Should have put Justin "Hoops" McElroy behind the controls and just smashed the AI into dust.

[@aliceermentrout5529]

The mayor of dunktown!

[@Owen.Fallon]

This is like three years late, but you KNOW that they fingerprint locked Justin out of playing this game, he would absolutely DOMINATE all of the bas ket ball

[@polymphus]

Important: if that was Stang at high school and it is The Hoops Game 2017, that means he must've invented the dab in 2013 or so. Stang is a style leader.

[@electrapng]

Polygon is the only channel where I make a point of reading the comments after I finish watching the video. This community is really excellent, thanks to all of you for being so lovely.

[@mcgrane1234]

Totally! Polygon's Facebook comments, however, I always regret reading lol

[@mcgrane1234]

Kimberly lots of normie dudes who make jokes about ~SJWs~ and ~feminism~ whenever a Polygon Show episode is posted

[@moth.monster]

because here, we just wanna have fun and talk about these game boys

[@kyzf]

Kimberly What's wrong with FB comments is they come from people who use FB.

[@juliaschneider3862]

its gay culture babeeeeey

[@CuttlefishCaptain]

I'm starting to think that maybe Griffin isn't a basketball professional

[@TurboNemesis]

23:12 hey come on, Griffin. This series used to be about love. You said it yourself back when you created Squirtle, the Squirting Turtle Man. This isn't about mocking your creations. You're supposed to love your children no matter what. Stang may not be the best hoops boy, but he he has heart. did you see that sick half-court shot he made? you can't tell me there isnt something there.

[@ExtrematronYT]

Lol, Griffin hates his child because he wasn't good at sports. He's literally a soccer mom.

[@anthonygrant4413]

Real talk, I remember an interview where Griffin talks about his dad pushing him to sports for a while. He was worried about disappointing his dad until they bonded over video games, iirc

[@cafedeflore]

I bet Turbovicki would have won.

[@mellow_mallow]

Sarah M final pam was banned from the game preemptively because of her final attack.

[@Bi_scotti_5]

Turbovicki is bad at b-ball that's her only weakness

[@endlesswanderer1753]

@@Bi_scotti_5 I wanna upvote you cause I laughed, but turbovicki has no weaknesses, that's her only weakness

[@Bi_scotti_5]

That would imply she's good at basketball which she definitely isn't

[@hotanubis3661]

Justin Kuykendall turbovicki’s only weakness is final pam

[@jmcrofts]

Shades of Wii Sports Resort - BUCKETS! KOBE! KOBEEEEE!

[@munchhecks250]

jmcrofts my boyfriends name is kobe. Everytime he throws something in the trash he yells kobe, and he always misses.

[@rosegardnz]

the NICE that flashed up on the screen when they hit 69 absoLUTELY killed me

[@mirmalchik]

8:20

[@alice6035]

Wow Magnus Burnsides looks different than I imagined.

[@doodstormer]

hey uh if anybody else was curious I googled it and nobody in the history of the NBA has ever worn #69 so pay attention in gym class kids and maybe you can break new ground in sports one day

[@lawrenceglista]

Dennis Rodmann wanted to but the commissioner wouldn't let him

[@lCYU81]

@@lawrenceglista Youre saying I could have had a "69 Rodman" jersey?

[@Ray-hk1zm]

@@lCYU81 Oh my god.

[@Pixeleyes00]

@@lCYU81 This confirms definitively that we exist in the wrong timeline

[@cozycowboy]

Fun fact, in college basketball, the numbers 6-9 are banned due to not being able to be counted on fingers.

[@KaizerHiwatari]

"I kinda made an old, sad Dave Grohl" had me wheezin', but the best laugh so far has been: "What's the jump ball button?" *character stands there like a statue* "Not THAT one."

[@scrungybingus285]

*LOWER VALLEY 69* is such a powerful combination of words to put on a jersey

[@AndrewPowerSM]

I'm sorry, can we talk about "Lower Valley 69", for like a second?

[@joshuaplank4001]

Nice

[@danybug314]

Nice

[@danybug314]

Nice

[@danybug314]

Nice

[@danybug314]

Nice

[@allonsyification]

Griffy's voice went to supersonic levels when he got put on the bench 😂

[@MatthewThrone]

I want to see these guys load a game file, with a character that is completely busted. And they are tasked with trying to restore it back to normal.

[@user-sg6ww7ts6n]

past-times include: scrolling through 2 year old comments of people saying how much this made them laugh or brightened their day or caused them to choke and liking them all with a sentimental smile

[@AlexiaSmith96]

Oh my gosh, yes. It’s magical.

[@Stinky_Inky]

Agree

[@chiffon788]

how does it feel to slowly be becoming one of those 2 year old comments? halfway there!

[@user-sg6ww7ts6n]

D Money oh jeez…

[@thebadpoet]

Congratulations! The cycle is complete! You are now a two year old comment, which has been liked and sentimentally smiled o’er.

[@zimbabweh]

griffin is so fucking clever like he spits out jokes so fast and its amazing how quick he is

[@jellyjeffrey7350]

Guys, I think that Stang might actually be Sting trying to play basketball

[@bavarianbanshee]

Nnaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

[@dearratboy6326]

you delete that comment right now🔪

[@literalruleslawyer]

You can only tell if you stand close to him, but he super doesn't want you to do that

[@anthonygrant4413]

This is ridiculous

[@coyotejone_s]

nah youre crazy dude

[@IcyColdStare]

15:30 "Did they bench you on the game you bought?!" i'M DEAD

[@PrinceoftheLions]

I feel Jeffandrews in this basketball court tonight

[@abbyluvspie2]

Prince Lions 😩👌 nice ref also I'm still in absolute agony over that ep

[@PrinceoftheLions]

abbyluvspie2 fuckin same

[@ellmango]

we just met god!

[@sloanely]

GOD

[@pyromancysfinest]

I cry everytime

[@FeralStarRecords]

me: "is that Matt Walsh?" justin: "is that Matt Walsh?"

[@angryyogbuscus1578]

All: "We could make Matt Walsh."

[@vuuvovuuv]

is that Matt Doyle?

[@misterkingdom3571]

'Ric, I'm still a person, okay?" I don't know why that made me laugh so hard.

[@Bodmanford]

Griffin knowing nothing about basketball makes this so much funnier.

[@hambor12]

Concept: Monster Factory - Miitopia An all-star cast of monsters following the leader Mii (a new creation), with the rest of the cast filled in at random

[@MaoiJo]

Justin and griffins laugh are so incredibly contagious- I love them.

[@thunDaClap01]

14:22 it's the son of the boy mayor from second life

[@TimTeboner]

I think that's his dad

[@user-qq4tj8gm8b]

THEY *GOTTA* MAKE THE FATHER OF BOY-MAYOR, WITH AN AMAZING BACKSTORY, THEY *GOTTA*

[@mythril-jelly7005]

The Dad-Mayor of Real Life.

[@PhantomSniper100]

+Mythril-Jelly Clint McElroy?

[@nikanj]

Character creators get better every year. More and more developers are dropping the concept of "can't" altogether.

[@SkyNinja759]

**stares at Bethesda**

[@partyinthecloudkingdom]

i feel turbovikki's ghost in this stang tonight

[@deerlordhunter]

how is the hair in this game still better than Dragon Age Inquisition

[@Whambow]

i get a ttiny bit overwhelmed whenever i see one of these boys pop up in my sub box gotta inhale the water, relax, and press forward. take me to chuckle city boys

[@MellifexFarm]

FINALLY my BOYS ARE BACK ITS BEEN SO LONG

[@MellifexFarm]

@god give me those wonderful monster children

[@bennygummm]

You could say his infiltration into basketball was a....STING operation?

[@raisinmcgee8509]

this is the actual canon magnus burnsides during the stolen century arc

[@octopirate]

10:23 crazy that in the time since this video came out, matt walsh has become a Different guy

[@TheNeonCaster]

I swear I would be genuinely this bad at the game if I played it and it grading you for every mistake feels astoundingly stressful???

[@SquawkMonk]

"I learned today...if you do five...you are taken." Spoken like a true sports man.

[@MrMabb91]

Boys... my good, good boys where is monster factory's triumphant return to mass effect? With the advent of Mass Effect Andromeda you get to make not 1 but 2 characters with a very robust system, make us the monster twins we deserve Griffin, warp their features beyond recognition Justin! Andromeda. Heaven. Now!

[@bluelover929]

you really cant customize all that much, since you need a preset first. although..if anyone could break it..

[@AdventuringwithMeech]

If you want to add a little extra greatness to this video, open up another tab and look up "Sweet Georgia Brown" or better known as the Harlem Globetrotters theme, and play it softly in the background

[@ParadoxGavel]

14:20 Glad to see the Boy Mayor is still getting work.

[@Ehh97]

Why is it that sports games seem to have the best character customization? I'm not kidding i wish Skyrim would let me edit my character this much

[@ava-ii8pl]

kobe! buckets! jordan! sco tty pippin! scotty pippin!!!

[@Hi_Just_Fred]

My head-cannon is that Stang is Daz's son who after seeing the miserable failure that was his father's golf career chose to follow a different path in basket ball.

[@catzrule001]

justin sayin come on and slam in a calm cute serious voice makes my life

[@bossbabyfacts]

6:05 wow, i love magnus burnsides!

[@Everetses]

This is the funniest episode in a while

[@d3lvn]

are you new here or something? nick was never in monster factory.

[@Everetses]

Is this the only thing ppl talk about now.. shut up about n**k he's gone and some ppl rly don't want to hear about him

[@deawnatapia6481]

i still can't believe my high school let someone get away with putting 69 on their football jersey. i hate it

[@JonathanSicoli]

Deawna Tapia nice

[@caseyhayes7510]

Deawna Tapia alongside the words "lower valley"

[@jermainereyem7635]

Deawna Tapia Reminded me of how Rob Gronkowski, New England footballer and avid Mario Kart fan, delibaretly missed a point during a game so he could finish with 69 points.

[@mr.sodiepop3550]

You love it tho.

[@F00f00cuddlyp00ps]

the absolute hysterics he dissolves into when they bench him is just *chefs kiss*

[@daniguess]

I got the notification of a new Monster Factory before leaving work. Made sure to grab a bag of (Triple Pepperoni) Totinos on my way home to set the mood proper before watching my favorite monster boys.

[@plantmage9850]

Gordon is literally the caveman spongebob meme

[@Kewpiepie]

the undulating skull is the wors tthing ive e ver seen in ym life

[@boscorner]

qeueu qeu the undulating skull is my fav prog metal band.

[@rmd251]

I thought this game looked like a lot of fun, so I picked it up today and am having a blast! I've never payed attention to basketball or played a b-ball game before. Thanks, Stang, for introducing me to a whole new kind of game.

[@spencer2116]

This is the hardest I've laughed since the last Monster Factory video.

[@nomukun1138]

This game makes you feel like a basketballer. Lesser games would not be bold enough include heckling from critics and being benched. I loved the realistic post-career section, in which the player experiences chronic pain from sports injuries, paparazzi harassment, and losing a fortune in bad investments. 9.5/10 - IGN

[@joabraham199]

how DARE you two not choose Georgia Tech as Stang's university, they're mascot is LITERALLY a yellow jacket lmao

[@TheFatNinjaGroup]

They had a chance to be a Georgia Tech Yellow Jacket with an in disguise Sting. I'm incensed

[@mintjaan]

Looks like a guy I dated, does anyone know if Sting has a secret twin brother who's into men?

[@casualcrisis6349]

you dated someone who looks like stang? dear god, what are your standards.

[@pandarandaa]

4:12 i think what you have there is your classic, run of the mill christian slater

[@allen-simpson]

Toe to tip.

[@casketscratcher]

I can't unsee it.

[@nickkester4486]

That slowed down version of de do do do is what keeps me coming back.

[@evie5375]

"don't stand so close to him he has sort of a spore that he gives off" fucking kills me

[@everettehungerford2858]

You played the game so badly it made you take a seat! I'm laughing so hard it hurts.

[@ruinpowder]

this is by far my favorite episode of monster factory griffin’s growing frustration with the game constantly penalizing him is so fucking funny to watch

[@chesusjrist9733]

These are soooo worth the wait. Every single monster factory knocks it out of the park for me.

[@hudgynsasdarl6967]

That laughing fit at 15:19 is absolutely godlike.

[@brianfleitman9668]

LOWER 69 VALLEY nice

[@JonathanSicoli]

Brian Smith nice

[@smallish1632]

nice

[@somer4213]

nice

[@allie34]

nice

[@morwennatrevena6013]

Stang is for sure flirting adorably with his roommate while they play video games

[@octodaddy1602]

And Cassandra wept, for no one believed her even though she saw the truth

[@romeo9401]

Sporty boys are the best boys.

[@sorou]

i just broke my foot this morning and this is exactly what i needed. thank you stang

[@realxized]

LET 👏 STANG 👏 PLAY

[@AshB78]

Nice to have some McElroy content that WON'T MAKE ME CRY UNTIL I DIE OF DEHYDRATION, GRIFFIN

[@icarus7198]

What a nice recovery after the McElroys fucking murdered me yesterday

[@cas6174]

god dude TAZ Balance DESTROYYEEDD me

[@jazfromspace]

Seeing kobe really hits different now

[@landfillbaby]

the boys are back in town again!! edit: griffin yelling "shit" repeatedly while absolutely destroying this man's nose has me in tears

[@captainchapan]

Looks like tara got her basketball watching simulator

[@coyotejone_s]

the way he went from pug to borzoi then back to pug is simply FASCINATING to me

[@Onetruetrain]

The McElroy boys always bringing light and beauty to the hellscape we live in. Thank you so much my dudes!

[@suburbanindie]

I like the little details, like the way Justin says, "That's VERY good!"

[@bellen3304]

I've missed these boys. I've missed witnessing the births of these beautiful, beautiful children.

[@koen5396]

Griffin smacks a man directly in the ribcage and gets fouled *LET EM PLAYYYY*

[@Alstor_H2O]

Do MLB The Show next! Lots of friend crafting tools for your baseball friend.

[@TimTeboner]

Seconded.

[@HeavyDirtySoulz]

17:14 EXCESSIVE CALL FOR PASS LMAO