Is Pierrot Le Fou COWBOY BEBOP’s Best Episode ?

[@dry_cereal_4283]

Bro got plok boss theme in the background, dope as fuck

[@jallomoth]

you already know .

[@yourcordialvermillionchapw2398]

Very fitting music of course: Mad Pierrot literally has borderline Cheat Code Hax on. One would feel the desperation from such a boss that can't be beaten... *_Conventionally at least._* Oh I would also like to know the music in 7:16... It's very familiar, yet I just can't put my finger on it. Some of the beats are almost akin to the Ratchet & Clank franchise, but not quite, and it's very catchy.

[@jallomoth]

the song at 7:16 is called goul by artist Pilotredsun :)

[@yourcordialvermillionchapw2398]

@@jallomoth I looked for it, I was met with _"The TINY Enemy Spider"_ ... But yeah it's good music and ever fitting here. Still sounds like something out of Ratchet & Clank I swear to god though, the spider in the tracks image would make me further visualize Ratchet/Clank on an arachnid level, the worse kind XD.

[@mazack00]

It should be mentioned how in the background the other characters are pushed to their limits as well: Jet goes to his top connection at the ISSP to get a rumor. Ed has to bust out all of their hacking abilities to break into the network that had information about Tongpu. Faye pulls some manipulation to try to stop Spike, and when that fails, gets her expensive zipcraft destroyed whilst attempting to help. Also keep in mind this is the last mission they do all together. The next 4 episodes, each character is faced with a personal mission that helps each deal with their own individual stories. Jet with "Boogie Woogie Feng Shui" facing what he views as a totally illogical situation. Spike with "Cowboy Funk" and... well... Andy. Faye nearly dying in "Brain Scratch" was a real wake-up for her... Because it's wrapped up with "Hard Luck Woman" where she explores her past while Ed finds their father. Ed, the last member to join is the first to leave signaling that the Cowboy Bebop group is done. All that remains after is the finale. I think the near lack of music plays into this theme of the groups final "performance". They're not the bebop group they want to be, free and doing their own thing. They're now bound to what they feel they MUST do. The little music we do get during is either grating metal noises or the methodical and manic beat that plays when Pierrot's past is explained. The analogy of this group being a bebop band is so perfect and their final episodes fit the theme beautifully.

[@jallomoth]

this is my favorite comment i’ve gotten on this channel . everything you said is exactly right and im sort of jealous I couldn’t have mentioned that in the video !! I guess I was so hyper fixated on the dichotomy between spike and pierrot that I neglected the other character’s importance . super interesting to think about how this is one of the gang’s final romps

[@ryanmorris3114]

Appreciate this comment so much! 🙏👍

[@whywhy3289]

The Japanese voice actor for Pierrot gave one of the best voice performances I have ever heard.

[@Tomahawk588]

The most memorable scene in this session is Mad Pierrot screaming and going mad when he sees the mechanical kitten toy.

[@jallomoth]

definitely

[@darkscholar625]

This was the first and only episode I saw as a child. For years I thought it was a dream. Took me years before I watched the whole series. I was transfixed the first time I saw it and I'm glad somebody else can appreciate it's morbid beauty.

[@jallomoth]

what an eye-catching first episode to see !! sort of jealous it wasn’t mine haha . how could you not be hooked after

[@darkscholar625]

@@jallomoth I never got the chance to see it when it came on at Saturdays. I think it might’ve been a toonami special

[@mookiestewart3776]

@@darkscholar625 it was adult swim not toonami

[@predator2262]

What Is awessome in this episode Is the fact that Spike don't let the fear dominate him, he fought Pierro like a savage, he knew he can't beat him and that he was possibly gonna die,,but he still fight,he was hurt and tired but he still go to space land to face Pierro and having a rematch,,this ,Is a true badass character

[@jallomoth]

real

[@janiscr9977]

MAN it has been my favorite ep since i saw it for the first time, the mood the story the end everything seemed perfect and i never thought id find someone who shared this vision

[@jallomoth]

ahh thats so good to hear !! thank you for sharing my opinion :) this episode has just always been so stand out in my mind

[@HOLDENPOPE]

Vicious, the Pierrot and Vincent are, at least as far as I remember, the only three villains to ever put Spike in bandages.

[@Sevatar_VIIIth]

Still one of the greatest anime episodes ever, Pierrot had Spike shook fr.

[@Cincy32]

This really is hands down the best episode IMO. I remember tuning into adult swim every week to catch the latest Cowboy Bebop episode as it first premiered stateside (I want to say it was on Sunday nights) & this was the first episode where I was genuinely worried Spike could get killed. In fact, it really seemed to me then as though he would. It was a genuinely good horror episode too & my 11 year old self spooked.

[@jallomoth]

im so glad you share my opinion !! when bebop was airing in the US I had’nt been born yet hahaha .

[@lofilazy.]

I'm not sure why, but the shot of Spike in the bar playing pool is my favorite in the whole series.

[@jallomoth]

not a bad pick :D i’m not sure what mine would be , maybe the shot of spike when he’s fighting andy atop the skyscraper in Cowboy Funk. they are so high up that the wind speeds are rippling the hell out of his hair and clothes and with the orange sunset it just always gives me chills

[@mookiestewart3776]

Love that one but Faye in the bar while mr saxophone played “goodnight Julia” might be better lol. Also spike falling out of the window in ep 5

[@simonb8988]

This has been my favorite episode since the first time I saw it on Adult Swim back in 2002/2003.

[@jallomoth]

you’re an OG !

[@Admmkh]

Yup. The good old days

[@mookiestewart3776]

Thank you for getting it CORRECT and saying you saw it on ADULT SWIM back then. Way too many people think toonami was airing this show back in those days and I constantly have to correct them lol. No way in hell was early toonami airing fucking cowboy bebop

[@mookiestewart3776]

@@jallomoth most of us are fam!!! I watched it on it’s original run back in 2001!! I still remember the first episode airing and having my mind blown when I was like 12 lol

[@mookiestewart3776]

@@Admmkh the best days

[@215will4]

Idk why for me the theme park music made it even more creepy

[@jallomoth]

because children and clowns are scary

[@Neoentrophy]

Because it's slowed and slightly out of tune, it creates an unsettling version of something normally familiar and innocent.

[@ALCvideoprofile]

This episode HORRIFIED me as a child. I caught this late at night on Adult Swim, and though I had seen Cowboy Bebop before many times, this one was very different from the get go. Perrot's piercing maniacal eyes and his huge square teeth shook me to my core, the way he hovered so unnaturally and how he so relentlessly chased his prey. The scariest part is what intense joy he seemed to feel at the hunt, the kill, the sick twisted thrill of toying with his victims. Still to this day those who revel in the pain or misfortune of others frighten me. It feels in it's own way totally inhuman.

[@z1111m]

All these years I always thought this ep looked so different, but I figured it was just my imagination. Thank you for pointing out the difference o7

[@noheroespublishing1907]

Broken Villains like this are always fascinating, one's that cannot be fixed but you know why they are the way they are, they're unreasoning is a result of their brokenness, thereby making them terrifying and sympathetic at the same time. Resident Evil 7's main antagonist is exactly like this as well, making the character dangerous enough to understand why they should be destroyed, but understanding their situation enough to understand that even if they wanted to not be dangerous, it's impossible for that to happen.

[@heroedeleyenda05]

Fun fact: this episode might have been inspired by the movie "Desperado" there is a scene where the main character is being chased by danny trejo , who has a vest filled with knives and badly wounds the main character who barely makes it out alive trough an alleyway. also, dany trejo gets distracted fighting some heavily armed gangsters in a limousine. I know the similarities arent that much , but wh

[@silly4380]

as a kid i was hyperfixated on this episode i kept rewatching the dvd with this on it but i was always made fun of by my family for being so scared of it this episode is like seared into my brain it's the first thing i think of when i'm reminded of cowboy bebop

[@bespectacledheroine7292]

I think Brain Scratch is scarier and more primal. Something about new agey cults man, and that monologue about television. Chills. But as for magnum opus....Toys in the Attic has my vote.

[@jallomoth]

they’re all so good, it’s hard to decide. at least we agree the spooky ones are king

[@bespectacledheroine7292]

@@jallomoth I really did love the analysis whether I agree with the title. :)

[@chesterstevens8870]

Fun fact: given enough time, everything in all concievable universes will be voiced by Steve Blum.

[@artaog302]

Only after finishing did I realize this only has a hundred views. Genuinely such a quality video, keep it up

[@jallomoth]

bro 🥺

[@mikeyrodriguez3317]

I love how spikes on the back foot the whole episode this episode was great

[@jallomoth]

yes he got quite clowned on :)

[@louperranth.c.1759]

i just saw this episode on my job (launch) and i noticed that the ambience and everything was different and has a lot of details so i rewatched this episode again. i must say daaaaaamn i almost cry for pierrot when he was calling for his mom (sorry for my english xD still learning)

[@jallomoth]

you’re good man , and I know :(( ahh its so sad

[@bearlogg7974]

Idunno man Mushroom hunting is peak fiction...

[@BiggerJohnTheSnorlaxGod]

My absolute favorite episode.

[@jallomoth]

me 2 :)

[@arunn3874]

ellie from last of us had similar moment in the 8th episode where she who never feared anything, she cried with fear. and that was unsettling, just like spike's eyes, there was a certain horror

[@Bestialce2007]

I wandered into this episode by accident. It was the first episode of CB I watched and I was instantly hooked. To this day, it remains my favourite episode of the entire series. I know anime was consolidated in the 80s, but the 90s was truly the golden age of anime

[@shaggychungus9421]

Keep it up, Love these videos, each one is so well done

[@cartoonhistory353]

Toys in the attic has to be my favorite episode

[@jallomoth]

me too :) or cowboy funk

[@mookiestewart3776]

My second or third favorite ep, I would have to give ballad of fallen angels my top spot though. The lore dump and the church scene are just too good man

[@trashpanda9427]

You're crushing it guy. Your anime stuff is great but I like your breakfast club episode the most. I think you got great strength in variety

[@7waterdrops_7]

Whenever I watch this episode I feel sick, like physically nauseous

[@vicentebahamondez196]

This episode is incredible and i love how this enemy feels like a force of nature without break the world

[@noriringtail7428]

This was my favorite episode! Very good breakdown of it.

[@jallomoth]

thank you so much !! :)

[@KCEBGaming]

I think one detail that you missed out on is that the composer chose a very interesting song to play in this episode, and that’s “On the Run” by Pink Floyd. It’s the song that plays during the scene showing the video footage of Tongpu’s creation.

[@TalkingAboutGames]

Excellent video, but I still don't get why Spike's eye reminded him of a cat; I get the whole "cat with the stripes of a tiger" thing, but it's quite surreal that just because of that, Tongpu thought of a cat the moment he saw Spike's eye; I feel like I'm missing a detail 🤔

[@jallomoth]

don’t really have an answer tbh . pierrot is mentally ill so a lapse in judgement , something reminding him of his trauma shouldn’t be totally uncommon . maybe just the fact spike is somehow still alive mixed with the exact right mood and lighting struck the same bell in his head that the cat used to . its not like tongpu rly KNEW spike was a “tiger striped cat” , I just think its an interesting way to explain something that had no previous explanation , and really doesn’t need one imo . but its interesting to think about and connect the dots none the less

[@archive881]

It wasn't just any cat but apparently the pet of the head researcher. Throughout the flashback we see this creature staring at Tonpu through its two distinctive colored eyes as he is subjected to horrendous experiments.

[@TalkingAboutGames]

@@archive881 Ah! That must have been what I had missed, Spike's right eye look slightly different from his left eye, so that triggered the flashback; excellent observation.

[@sterlingburton5107]

@@jallomoth It's the eyes. Tongpu was afraid of the cat since it reminded him of the pain he suffered. The cat has two colored eyes, like another tiger-striped cat.

[@jallomoth]

well ,, yeah I know that’s what I was saying in the video 😂

[@sterlingburton5107]

"HAAAAAHAHAHAHAHA HAAAHAHAHAAAHAHAHAA HAHA HAHA HAAAAAHAHAHAHAAAA!" "Episode 20: Pierrot Le Fou" If that doesn't get you interested, nothing will.

[@jallomoth]

straight fax

[@user-lr8ow2jg4e]

Didn't expect to hear pilotredsun music and cowboy bebop in the same video. Nice

[@LMGunslinger]

Nice edit at the end there.

[@jallomoth]

thank you !

[@GETOFFMYBOARD]

good video man had to rewatch the episode after watching. Definitely one of my favorite episodes of Bebop.

[@jallomoth]

it’s so cool that you went and rewatched it after and then came back to comment too. you da best man

[@dumbidiot2899]

whenever i go back for a rewatch if i don’t start from the beginning i start from this episode. it sets such a unique tone from the rest of the series only seen in episodes like this and brain scratch

[@Kenshin6321]

Man, I hate theme parks.

[@jallomoth]

spike’s first bad take

[@Cuffy6]

My favorite too …. It just felt like it was directed way different than the rest similar to what you said

[@rickyarroyo2262]

Spikes right artificially eye is a hitech tracking device., This is the object of twist in this story

[@thewindow5663]

I feel like this might blow up soon

[@jallomoth]

I hope you’re right lmao !!

[@austinmajor1595]

Something about this episode always felt so different to any other

[@PajamaOperator]

quality ass video. did you make your own bumper cards? needs more views and subs, i got you 😎

[@jallomoth]

yes I did 😅 and THANK SO MUCH BRO

[@jallomoth]

i call em jallobumps 😁

[@PajamaOperator]

@@jallomoth ofc ofc! and jallobumps, i like it lol… you got a very adult swim vibe to the vids w the bumps and the music choice. great stuff!

[@jallomoth]

thats what I was going for !! so hell yeah . that late night TV vibe

[@beanbagvevo]

What song is playing at 1:54? great video btw

[@Tobacc0]

The Pink Floyd inspired insanity sound track is gold.

[@jallomoth]

i know ! i wanted to use it in the video but couldn’t bc of copyright :/

[@leme3082]

You used warm pop in the opening though and that places you high in my book

[@BoyKagome]

Why would a child like mind say "Hello boy." sound like adults greeting...

[@jallomoth]

true lolol . i’d imagine its because while he does have a child like mind , he still knows his actual age . his mental age is young but i’m sure he on some level understands he’s over twice as old as spike

[@BoyKagome]

@@jallomoth Or hes role playing? Kids say some pretend adult stuff when they got their action figures out.

[@jallomoth]

very true . wouldn’t put it past him

[@RifetOkic]

0:30 what’s the song name ? Thanks in advance 🙏

[@matti2b431]

Yes!! I thought I was the only one that considered this my favourite episode. Honestly the ominous it’s scary but it’s so interesting

[@jallomoth]

exactly

[@adityakancharla5815]

Definitely the best episode, the one I rewatch the most

[@thevoid4393]

I felt really bad for pier

[@jallomoth]

me too :(

[@thevoid4393]

@@jallomoth like yeah he was a killer but i wonder since he had the mind of a child perhaps we coulda bribed him with candy or something

[@jallomoth]

so effing true … what candy tho ?

[@thevoid4393]

@@jallomoth jolly ranchers or whatever is considered good candy in the bebop universe

[@DarkGhostHacker]

If this guys green force field usually protects him from bullets, then why did it not work when spike threw thrbknife at his leg? It by passed the kinetic force field and pierced his leg. Why?

[@archive881]

Though it's not really that relevant to the episode, but one question still irritates me. Why was there a cat in the research facility in the first place? What is its purpose? What is its origin? Is this creature a genetically enhanced data animal like Ein and studying Tongpu like the others. Does the cat symbolize the researcher's fiendish control that surrounds Tongpu as he lies helpless, unable to stop the torture they subject him to? The same way a cat "plays" with a caught mouse?

[@jallomoth]

that second idea is honestly thematic genius , but I think the first would be more realistic . I actually have a video idea about what exactly makes ein a “data dog” , and looking into other important animal figures in the series like the cat is a really good idea !

[@ViewtifulJae]

Mine too

[@Pacmanfan-po9rn]

A blackplotation caught me off guard lmao

[@jallomoth]

yeah, blaxploitation does have a jarring title. it’s a fitting name for something so evil though, the exploitation of black people in popular media. I most likely should have gone more in depth about that statement by the way. The episode isn’t a blaxploitation as much of a parody or take on the “blaxploitation” genre itself

[@brandonbarnes9681]

My favorite episode

[@jallomoth]

me too :D or cowboy funk

[@truereligionfiend738]

George clanton fan 😅

[@archive881]

10:29 - He will bear thee away to the houses of lamentation, beyond all darkness, where thy flesh shall be devoured, and thy shriveled mind be left naked to the Lidless Eye. - Witch-king of Angmar, Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

[@jallomoth]

amen

[@TheSnurtBurglar]

I recently reviewed Cowboy Bebop as my first anime review on my Instagram blog thing. I gave it a 8.5/10 because while I really, really liked it, I felt that the early episodes did very little to establish the thesis of the work, and led to be becoming very burnt out trying to binge it. I became frustrated at episodes that had seemingly little to do with the story and ultimately stalled at Boogie Woogie Feng Shue. Eventually I came back to finish it, and despite all of what I said, gave it an 8.5/10. However, I cannot stop thinking about the show, and about how I had the wrong mind set my first attempt. Cowboy Bebop 100% accomplished it's Jazz-like tone, because you can't go into a jazz performance expecting a rock anthem. No matter how perfect, how beautiful the music is, it's going to be a massive shock to the system. Should I re-review it with a fresh understanding, or just leave it?

[@jallomoth]

I personally think you should give it rewatch . i’ve seen bebop dozens of times , and when I first found it I had binged it over and over and over again - sometimes within the same week . I truthfully think it hits harder every single time. I didn’t cry during episode 24 on my first, second, third watch … but it got to a point where I was struggling to carry the weight of what I was seeing more and more every time and now I struggle to get through that episode unscathed

[@mookiestewart3776]

Bebop is episodic and it’s on purpose. You are watching the aftermath of stories that have already been completed and seeing how the characters deal with that trauma. I suggest watching it again with that context in mind. The show is much better than an 8.5 but for most people it takes multiple viewings to understand why. The soundtrack alone puts it at an 8 for crying out loud lol

[@kokorosand1090]

warmpop!

[@jallomoth]

yes warmpop :D check out my video on vaporwave they’re in that too teehee

[@gollygeology]

My least fav episode. But I'm curious

[@jallomoth]

still your least fav ?

[@gollygeology]

@@jallomoth yea

[@adrianpopa2268]

hey hallo

[@jallomoth]

why hello :)