My Transformers Midlife Crisis

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[@historicalFeminist]

"we didn't realize that killing every character in our children's show with no death in it would emotionally effect our child audience" they just let anyone make kid's tv in the 80s huh

[@russellharrell2747]

Yes, they did. Luckily there was some good stuff made even though it was all just made to sell toys

[@unfathomable3434]

I was traumatised by optimus' death. I watched it at my grandmas on a DVD when I was 6. I loved the film but it was hard when I saw optimus' death.

[@theoriginalrandomman]

I realize this was a show created to sell toys to kids, but damn is that cynical. Like, they really didn't give a single shit how what they were doing was impacting their audience, who were, and I can't stress this enough, *children*.

[@taranullius9221]

Death of characters was pretty traumatic. I still remember crying over Astro Boy, Mr. Hooper from Sesame Street, Punky Brewster's Daddy Warbucks whose name escapes me rn and Optimus Prime. Old episodes of Doctor Who was also kind of quietly traumatising and scary actually.

[@MarceloOmegaAGDM]

Yes, that's why the 80's were amazing! [Citation Needed]

[@cheezemonkeyeater]

Fun fact about the universal greeting: in like the comics or something (I forget where exactly, I only know random trivia about this franchise) is explained that it is a phrase that is universally regarded as so silly and so absurd, no matter what language you speak, that only good people will say it because evil people are too egotistical to debase themselves that much.

[@fourmoyle]

This is genius.

[@xdevantx5870]

This comment gives me joy. It is the reading equivalent of eating ice cream.

[@mrscruffy8045]

Knowing nothing about the Transformers universe, when i heard "universal greeting" i thought "smile?". Always worked for me.... But then again, i dont even know, if transformers can smile, so....

[@cheezemonkeyeater]

@@mrscruffy8045 Smiles aren't universal, though. With chimps, for example, smiling is a threat.

[@mrscruffy8045]

@@cheezemonkeyeater Well, yeah, i was thinking human cultures. And yes, even there are some exceptions to this, i heard. But that only fits the movie, doesnt it? In my experience though, if you meet someone who doesnt speak any language you do, a smile is the safest bet to start. Point being: If there is a real life equivalence of a universal greeting, that´s what i would come up with, to a point, were i´d be confident to put it as a clue in a crossword puzzle for "smile". Would also work for "Hi", maybe. I think, that one is pretty universal by now, too. But doesnt count for much, without that smile, going with it. Only that leads to spontanious dance celebrations by everyone attending with an approximate 6.9 % probability ("Hi" only coming in as distant 2nd at around 0.9% [citation needed]).

[@slightlyuncomfortable]

My friend once said to me, about Transformers, 'what if your Hot Wheels had Greek mythology?'

[@RaspberryPastry]

Dare to be stupid is punkrock because believing in the good in people is radical as hell even when you're proven wrong repeatedly

[@rigen97]

the establishment want you to stop trying when proven wrong. ...wait no nevermind this is conspo-speak

[@Telecritter78]

Merrick Deville theme song right there, and that’s a compliment to both.

[@defeatstatistics7413]

yuh, punk is love without shame

[@Broken_robot1986]

Madness

[@gruwidge]

The song was my anthem as a struggling autistic teen. I hated myself and thought I was an idiot, I thought I was stupid. Then I found weird al and I found dare to be stupid and it made me laugh and cry at the same time. It still can make me emotional. The idea to not tone your "weirdness" down, EMBRACE IT! CELEBRATE IT! DARE TO BE STUPID! The song helped me learn to love myself.

[@ianmaccartney6824]

fun fact! the reason the universal greeting is as silly as "bah weep granah weep nini bong" is because no one in the universe can find it threatening.

[@carlbradley3175]

Inb4 the human race makes contact in 300 years time with the single species in existence to whom 'bah weep granah weep nini bong' translates as 'a curse upon you and your seventh grandfather' and we get unicroned

[@GrimSleepy]

Namaste!

[@Ezekiel_Allium]

@@carlbradley3175 honestly it's a good thing second hand nostalgia poisoned zoomers like myself aren't going to be in charge of first contact, because I would really want to try it out lol

[@llamathenerd1672]

@@Ezekiel_Allium Great, now I can describe myself as a second hand nostalgia poisoned zoomer.

[@Ezekiel_Allium]

@@llamathenerd1672 glad to be of service lmao

[@modernenaree]

"be realistic: demand the impossible" - communist graffitti, in france 1968. also optimus prime

[@stephenwilliams163]

Well, Situationist graffiti. They kind of straddled the gap between Marxists and anarchists.

[@stephenwilliams163]

@No Longer Human Its all good. The Situationists were really interesting. Their main idea was that mass media under capitalism consisted of a million ways to distract the populus from the actual material conditions of their lives, which they called the Spectacle. They attempted to confront the Spectacle by using absurdist art and graffiti to create what they called Situations, which were meant to be bizarre moments that would cause people who came in contact with them to question the assumptions of their everyday lives. SI's other famous piece of graffiti was "Under the pavement, the beach!"

[@ashikjaman1940]

There was a tank transformer right?

[@lorddunsparce9425]

@@stephenwilliams163 i’ll have to read into this more, I’m intrigued

[@stephenwilliams163]

@@lorddunsparce9425 Check em out. Everything they published was as dense and pretentious as you would expect from French art students, but the things they did were pretty cool

[@gweedohatsis8404]

My 5 year old son said to me yesterday "I love Optimus and bumblebee, they're my favourite" and I was like "yeah, Optimus is my fave, his voice is like a really comforting dad" then I remembered the movie and how I never had a dad growing up. I remember crying for about a day straight after I saw the movie and not knowing why I was still so upset, just getting teased by my brother the entire time. Dads, go hug your sons.

[@yourlocalreptillian1742]

I think im in the same boat. I went through 3 dads, and dont even remember the first 2

[@frownyclowny6955]

Robot dad 🥺

[@JoshSweetvale]

He knows. Optimus's actor knows he was a paternal figure for all Milennials.

[@Buddhabebop]

IM NOT CRYING YOURE CRYING! SHUT UP NERD!

[@TheBioneer]

Transformers was my favourite show ever. My Dad died when I was 9. Shortly after, my Mum recorded Transformers the Movie for me as a surprise. She wasn’t to know 😶😶

[@candyh4284]

looking back on this video again, the concept of "introducing children to Nietzschean morality by killing their idols" makes me fucking belly laugh for some reason

[@Tyveris]

It actually makes me reflect on the sorta twisted way in which the religious right talks about innocence and children. Their narrative of protection is really one of maintaining ignorance.

[@liamroberson440]

“Fuck them kids” -Writers of The Transformers: The Movie

[@LordVader1094]

@@Tyveris Rent free

[@hand13932]

@@LordVader1094 Rent free what?

[@JoshSweetvale]

​@@LordVader1094Yeah when y'all stop being a danger.

[@preciat816]

POV: you are a 6 year old who just finished watching transformers with his dad and he starts going on a rant

[@devilmaycrysarockingdontcome]

No le sabes al POV 😔

[@aim__freakz8499]

cool pfp. i dunno what it is but this fire man looks cool

[@isaacdr3w62]

​@@devilmaycrysarockingdontcome sí le sabe al POV, porque se refiere a que eres el niño y ves a tu papá (hbomberguy) haciendo una rabieta. TÚ no le sabes al POV

[@deathmetalalchemist2731]

Reminds me of when my dad told my mom that the movie Robots was a scathing criticism of modern capitalism

[@blammo5226]

​@@deathmetalalchemist2731 That movie's existence is an argument against capitalism

[@ramywiles]

Also, "I felt like I was 19 until I was 26, and now I feel like an old person" is ALARMINGLY accurate to my experience of life

[@adeer87]

So accurate to me it kind of hurt my soul a little.

[@evam6961]

I'm 24 but without make up ppl still think i'm 17 or 18 so it's hard for me to take myself seriously or like "grown up"

[@BenGrem917]

@@evam6961 I don't know that experience. I can't relate, but feel bad for you. My experience is being 32 and beginning to bald and people think I'm a 20-something suffering premature hair loss like Stephen Miller. I should've spent my attractive years being an extrovert and not gaming. xD

[@doctaflo]

@eva m & Cani Terrae: 36 here. epoxy both your houses.

[@MsOopsiDaisy]

Around age 25 your hormones settle, so your teenager years are actually over then. So this feeling makes a lot sense

[@incognitoergocoom7837]

When life gives you a trolley problem, you save everyone anyway.

[@kaemonbonet4931]

That's why I love superman.

[@kelvinyoung3655]

@@kaemonbonet4931 Superman vs the elite (or what's so funny about truth justice and the american way? for the comic) is the best superman story IMO. Acknowledges the modern world of cynicism but still offers hope as the better way forward.

[@scarletlarvesta]

Thesis of spiderverse babey!

[@geoffreysorkin5774]

⁠@@kelvinyoung3655 it was the perfect response to Snyder and his flying monkeys (the world can be dark and cynical, Clark isn’t) and it was written twelve years before Man of Steel

[@TheKingNaesala]

I know you posted this 3 years ago, but thanks. This really touched me, and I'm gonna start using it.

[@Ringowasprettygood]

Holy cow that “holy shit what do we do now?!” Is honestly really horrifying to hear in a kid’s movie

[@rainingcomplete3018]

The answer was apparently die

[@JetstreamGW]

In fairness, it was "oh shit," not "holy shit." :D Also it literally exists only to increase the rating from G to PG.

[@DepressingMusicPlaylist-qz9gg]

It was rated G though@@JetstreamGW

[@OsirisMalkovich]

The hardest part of the movie to watch is the scene where the Decepticons keep pretending Unicron isn't coming so they can keep making money from fossil fuels.

[@LimeyLassen]

inb4 video essay about how Mitch McConnel is Skeletor

[@VostokApollo]

@@LimeyLassen Gneeeeeh! Come, Beastman! *Ted Cruz waddles across the hall*

[@AngryNerdBird]

Hahahaha

[@duncanquinn4103]

I literally burst out laughing at this. Bravo.

[@nerdimusprime8753]

But at least the miners are in control of the business.

[@JennyNicholson]

Reporting for infringement

[@clymdodds1020]

But he doesn’t have a fringe.....

[@disastermidi1990]

Clym Dodds is that a balding joke because if so you can’t do him that dirty lol

[@kameqblindweaver8296]

I don't know why I didn't expect you to be here And I don't know why I assumed that your audience and Hbomberguy's audience would overlap Veeeeery intriiiiiiguing

[@clymdodds1020]

@@disastermidi1990 It was a 2 for 1, I simply couldn't resist. Clym: now celebrating 20 years of exceptionally poor impulse control online... Woo!

[@favoritemustard3542]

_What_ are you doing to *The Invisible Man* in your p4p?

[@weary4731]

I feel like the message of “always trying to do the right thing on the off chance it works out” is something we need more of in media.

[@pikachucetthesecond4296]

Agreed. It's why I love NieR: Automata so much (and I find it very funny that game shares themes with the first Transformers movie)

[@prof_parahelix2390]

Yee! Trigun's another cool one about that

[@saagabragi6938]

Exactly

[@RatTalisman]

This is a common theme in a lot of mecha animation in my experience. For instance, the Universal Century timeline of Gundam can be often described as "War is bad, but it is sometimes worthy to fight it to defeat a greater evil." which is a very refreshing take from a country that can be conservative at times. The climax of the last Gundam movie is so great at this. They were fighting a man literally compared to Hitler by his own father and has a WMD of untold proportions at his disposal, yet our heroes keep fighting. Things keep going wrong, but they press on. And they win. Things may not have turned out as well as they could have in the end as seen in the direct sequel Zeta Gundam, but It was a much preferable alternative to Gihren's "utopia."

[@ursa8772]

That kind of feels like what Raya and the Last Dragon was trying to get at, but their execution was pretty bad.

[@Paradukes]

HB: "A lot of things have happened over the last few years" * Checks the date of the video: 2019 * Me: "Oh, you poor sod..."

[@saulgallagher5668]

Seeing pre-pandemic, and even content from the very start of the pandemic... it gives me a very "oh, good luck" thought in my head yknow?

[@jddi1527]

Lol

[@WitchyThyme]

So the rhyming Autobot is Wheelie and their Transformers-wiki page is even more infuriating because IT IS ALSO ENTIRELY IN RHYME.

[@someoneoutthere3232]

As someone who just got into transformers, the wiki has truly been a trip, I wasn't expecting to see the image of a characters alt form captioned with "Get in loser, we're going shopping."

[@ButlerWho]

God bless each and every person who works on that wiki.

[@mostlyjoe]

@@someoneoutthere3232 which one?

[@somethingpithy8547]

Thanks, man. I appreciate the fix.

[@fellinuxvi3541]

You gotta admire the commitment.

[@SamuraiMujuru]

"He hated regulation almost as much as he hated South American civilians." Well played, my good man. Well played.

[@lautarofernandez5543]

@@snow2546 Boi you dont know what you are talking bout

[@majoapaolaza7122]

*cries in Argentinian*

[@lautarofernandez5543]

Well sorry then, I didnt knew all that, i am speaking from the whole south american perspective with you know, dictator ship , crimes awaits humanity , thousans of people kidnaped tortured and killed, babies of pregnant women being sold to police or military officers, etc@Dangerz Own

[@TheChowitzer]

Not to mention Central American.

[@wonderingcryingugh]

I an so happy to hear this. It's nice to have it acknowledged

[@tbonehavoc]

This movie was one of my fixations as a kid, so hearing you break it apart, and concluding "Dare to be stupid" is an anthem of hope and good leadership. I really needed it.

[@squanchy474]

“No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it is not the same river, and he is not the same man”

[@jabestur]

"Ronald Reagan famously hated regulations almost as much as he hated South American civilians" I did not prepare myself for a take with that level of spice HOT DAMN

[@FrenchToast663]

and Hbomberguy was caught gaslighting a rape survivor when she revealed that one of Hbomberguy's colleagues molested her.

[@nicholascharles9625]

@@FrenchToast663 who? And when?

[@sambradley9091]

@@FrenchToast663 And then apologized and disowned that same colleague publicly soon after. Even if you don't accept it, don't just leave that detail out

[@possiblyadickhead6653]

@@FrenchToast663 what are you referring too??

[@possiblyadickhead6653]

@@FrenchToast663 the way he dressed in the video it might as well be him who did it lol

[@nancyrexford9897]

My husband walked in on me watching this, having never seen an Hbomberguy video, and said, "He looks like if Jesse from Breaking Bad cried for like four days." I'm dying.

[@kudosbudo]

Nah Hbomb is the Saxophone player from Men AT Work.

[@marinao4412]

that's just jesse from breaking bad

[@DUKEHadToDoItToEm]

It's because of the crushing white guilt he carries with him

[@Bronxbug]

wait.....that is exactly what he looks like....

[@mckinneym.2743]

Bailey Xavier wow you must be fun at party’s huh

[@mkgriffeth]

I'm pretty deeply ensconced in the transformers fandom and I've consumed a lot of content involving some iteration of rodimus prime. I'm thankful that this video has gently reminded me that rodimus's name is fucking stupid because after seeing it played straight for so long, it almost started sounding reasonable.

[@Pineappolis]

I blame the fact that Peter Cullen was the first person to say it. That man can make ANYTHING sound glorious.

[@HirathaYT]

@@Pineappolis Accurate.

[@asrieldreemurr1988]

hey we could have gotten hotimus prime

[@blokkyboi7384]

I like to think it's part of the whole embrace the silliness, dare to be stupid attitude that frightened unicron and lead hot rod to becoming the leader. It IS fundamentally a stupid name! That guy said some silly words and gave sweets to some guy with guns for nipples, causing a dance party where Grimlock discovers homosexuality, which in turn leads to them KILLING DEATH... or at least making it inert

[@RetroSegaDev]

​@@asrieldreemurr1988sounds like a total babe 😂

[@guessmyname1246]

I have a friend who loves the Transformers show, he's a bit naive but very caring. He is just so hopeful and kind, I'm gonna tell him I appreciate him.

[@Earthstar_Review]

We all need that sometimes.

[@fegreninja7197]

I think he’d really appreciate that, your friend is truly a man of culture

[@maxmunich]

this is the greatest youtube comment of all time

[@TSFboi]

*is an actual television show creator* "Shit I didn't know people get attached to characters"

[@athenabrown3117]

Especially children lol

[@sodacat8749]

keep in mind, this was relatively new, older childrens programming would just end without a word and a new one would take its place.

[@TSFboi]

@@sodacat8749 In the 80's, but there'd been decades of Disney & Looney Tunes to hammer in the fact that ya don't dispose of the audience's favourite lineup. Marketing just came first this time.

[@sodacat8749]

@@TSFboi the loney toons were created in a different era though, the company viewed the show as a toy commercial and little else, its why the earlier plots are super nonsensical till after the movie when they realized "whoops we've got something bigger"

[@chiyo-chanholocaust8143]

"So we murdered Bambi's mom because she was just a stupid fucking deer, we never expected children to react that way"

[@nickkuroshi0]

Bill Maher: "Comic Books are for kids" Hbomberguy: "You guys remember how a bunch of kids cartoons and comics had explicit cosmic horror?"

[@kostaslb7899]

I vividly remember my first exposure to body horror being the 90s spider man cartoon. The one that was so censored spidey wasn't allowed to punch people

[@KhayJayArt]

#billmaheraintshitbutalittlebitch

[@zmdumpbox2340]

Oh god, if only these white people knew what Japan was cranking out at the time period... *coughIDEONcough*

[@jonsnor4313]

Star vs the foecces of evil has some effective horror. The time when the gozillalike villain goes around really wrecking shit, stealing souls, and she has an actually good written motivations. Or when the villain played by dexter getting under stars skin and actually winning somehow. Mixed in with fun lively bits with humor. And eclipsa who you can never tell what her intentions are because she is actually neither good or evil. Mirroring how people are never good or evil. Just sometimes abusing power, or abuse vistims themselves even. Not always the horror but that are deep thought provoking issues.

[@jonsnor4313]

Or many anime , gurren laggan is super enthusiastic, and deals with loss and growing up at the same time. And the themes and musical themes are super catchy. Or inuyasha which is about dealing with the very tragic past and learning to trust in the future again. With a demon that drives of that drama that cant be killed till everyone works together in the end. Ands a guy overcoming his exgirlriend that still haunts him, literally and is always compared to the girl he travels around with. And rassism, it deals with rassism too.

[@E3kHatena]

The exact end of Orson Welles’ film career is also the exact beginning of Weird Al’s presence in film (via Dare to be Stupid) and I just think that’s funny.

[@nexokor6091]

"Partly metal, partly real" cannot be an actual line in a song written by a human being

[@xMxM9xSx]

The writers acted as Unicron/Galactus.... they weren't killing the characters because they were evil. They just killed them to make new toys. "Hungry" for new product. Ironic

[@ShinGallon]

This movie is more meta than I ever realized as a child.

[@ikeekieeki]

i expected hbomb to take this perspective tbh

[@felixbache5369]

It makes even more sense if the writers were forced by the producers to kill the characters to make new toys and they used the producers as inspiration for Galactus

[@megamage911]

That's some meta level cosmic horror.

[@skrang9671]

I kept expecting him to use that as a way to pivot into criticizing capitalism!

[@Maravex44]

One of my favourite lines of the movie is when the heroes fly back to cybertron and see Unicron in person for the first time, and Hot Rod goes "Any one of your stories this reminds you of?" Like, it's sort of a joke, like haha old Kup has long war stories, but in this scenario it becomes "Do you have any experience or idea what to do...?" But Kup, without looking at him, says "No kid..." and it cuts to Unicorn destroying their home, their entire planet and he continues; "Cause I've never seen anything like this before..." Keep in mind Transformers are capable of living literal millions of years. And Kup is very old by Transformers standards... and in those tens of millions of years he has no idea what to do or make of the terror that is Unicron... That still hits real hard no matter your age...

[@mckenzie.latham91]

It’s also more poignant since throughout the film Kup keeps telling stories about what their current situations remind him of of his own war history and experience and yet for the first time he has nothing...

[@ThrottleKitty]

lol ........ unicorn

[@T0xXx1k]

No matter how hard I try my brain sees unicorn 🦄

[@Goldtoise]

war.... has changed....

[@Toksyuryel]

Unrelated: you're a cute pony

[@bashbashfulsson4540]

I know you were paraphrasing when you said that Hotrod says "no" but I think it's important that he specifically says "not today!" He's acknowledging that he will die and eventually everything comes to an end, but also showing that just because he will die one day doesn't mean that his life doesn't matter. He isn't dead right now, and that's enough to keep going.

[@JoshSweetvale]

This was _before_ Syrio Forel from ASOIAF "What do we say to the god of death?" _"Not_ today!"

[@ZZ-sb8os]

The transformer who talked really fast was Blurr, who was only there so that they could give a part to the Micro Machine guy, John Moschitta Jr., because for some reason audiences of the 80's LOVED how fast that guy could talk.

[@RileyWritey]

You gotta remember they didn't have the internet as it exists now, so people like him were seldom seen and were considered celebrities for their talents.

[@OccamAldanis]

So what you're saying is, the core question of the movie is: "Do you interpret YOLO as a warning or a call to action?" :D

[@jazwhoaskedforthis]

Occam Aldanis I mean right

[@AspenBrightsoul]

I hate you for being right.

[@ashikjaman1940]

I'm making this my life motto

[@Ezekiel_Allium]

Makes me angry how much I enjoy this quote and the underlying philosophy. It's been stuck in my head since the first time I saw this comment and it has almost made me use the word yolo in conversation because its poisoned my vocabulary by echoing around my brain like a screensaver that never quite hits the corner of the screen

[@professionalhimbo]

@@Ezekiel_Allium That's how modern slang slowly works it's way into your lexicon- it pings around what brain cells it can like a DVD screensaver until it's been burned into your eyes- or in this case, your mouth.

[@robinvik1]

"What's the philosophy of the Transformers movie?" hbomberguy: * 45 minute diatribe * The creators: "Buy our toys"

[@morganstern0]

or to reduce it further hbomberguy: “its about nihilism” creators: “yeah we are nihilists” the consequences of their consumer art did not enter into their ethical or moral calculus, since capitalism is purely concerned with eternal feeding.

[@Idazmi7]

@@morganstern0 _Burrrrn._ XD

[@mckenzie.latham91]

Actually if you listen to the writers commentary they were more interested in the story, hasbro wanted new toy lines so the writers killed off a lot of the old g1 characters as a result which actually did give the transformers movie some more tension, real life consequences and maturity.

[@The5lacker]

The funny thing about meaning is that it isn't the sole domain of the author. It's almost like the author might as well be... dead, or something. I wonder if there's a theory about that?

[@Idazmi7]

@@The5lacker That theory is stupid because: 1. The producers of the product aren't actually the writers of the story. In fact, the producers wrangled the plot from the writers, as said directly above your comment. 2. The writers (and the producers) both had intentions for the final product. It turns out that the writers had more pull on the audience, as the show was interpreted _their way,_ not the way the producers wanted. 3. The message is created by the author, and remains regardless of the author's death. In that way, the message is actually writer immortality, not a dead thing to be reinterpreted as you please.

[@LanokirX]

When I was a kid, my dream job was to become a transformer dinosaur. As an adult I still wish I could!

[@nicholasfrost6098]

Don’t lose your (Transformer) Dinosaur

[@arempy5836]

Dare to believe

[@TonySpike]

Me tony say, it not as good as you think

[@bootblacking]

I want to be a crab transformer

[@MichaelRudich]

As an adult I'd expect a bit more profesionalism and a realistic grasp of the position you are submiting a request for... its DINOBOT not ""Transformer dinosaur"... phhh Good luck all the same :)

[@happysillygoofy]

He describes Unicron as both ‘awful’ and ‘awesome’ within the same minute like - whatever it is, it inspires awe

[@Sludgefriend]

"In a way, I don't think they HAD created such an icon UNTIL they killed him." oh okay so basically optimus prime is jesus

[@LimeyLassen]

Optimus loves me this I know, for the wiki tells me so

[@anitamaciri6763]

Like their god is primus so like...... prime.... yknow

[@ToaArcan]

Optimus Prime died for your sins.

[@raycearcher5794]

Optimus Prime is like Jesus, if Jesus had to make hard decisions and genuinely cared about individual people. He's the Jesus man's Jesus.

[@chriscombi1614]

The IDW comics really push the Prime is Jesus thing

[@Zephyrbal]

I kind of expected Lindsay Ellis to just have been sitting next to you the whole time, just off screen, revealed by a slow pan.

[@Trepanee]

bahahahahaha. I'm also surprised she hasn't left a comment

[@_Snowflame]

@@Trepanee ... Oh geez. What if after this video they aren't friends anymore?

[@apanapandottir205]

Hahhaa omg that would have been beautiful! but probably kinda expensive for a gag.

[@JamezRebelStudios]

That would have been great. It's a shame it didn't happen :/

[@TSFboi]

Perhaps at a dinner table after eating the whole plate

[@ChloeTheePayne]

new viewer who is binging the backlog after having loved the most recent video (about the oof sound) just here to say wow and how lovely to always be able to find new people who are all experiencing time and age and nostalgia in different ways and that we can all share that with each other. in the unlikely even that anyone ever sees this comment: long distance high five to you, bah-weep-graaaaagnah wheep ni ni bong.

[@fabulousmaggot1124]

bah-weep-graaaaagnah wheep ni ni bong!

[@andymurray5045]

Bah-weep-graaaaagnah wheep ni ni bong to you all, lest we forget

[@KillItAndBurnIt]

bah-weep-graaaaagnah wheep ni ni bong! :D

[@garrottingonabudget5626]

Bah-weep-Graaaaagnah wheep ni ni bong.

[@starry_lis]

You made me remember it. In the nineties my post-communist country was being flooded with all the surplus pop culture the West has produced in the 80s. Transformers were one of those things. Your video woke up the memories of facing the utter sublime when watching the Unicron arc. I was terrified. Existentially. And only now, years later, can I understand what I felt then, as a child.

[@GammaWALLE]

the real april fools prank is this godawful premiere feature.

[@TheCaptainSquid]

GammaWALLE it’s cruel to do

[@RileyDia]

I have my pants down wtf am i supposed to do now

[@concon09090]

@@RileyDia do what we all do, whack off to the sherlock video

[@thrownstair]

The true patricians do April Fools jokes on the 2nd.

[@bevanmcnicholl2525]

Maybe the Premiere feature helps with getting the video out in 1080p until most videos in which they take some time to get there

[@anarchofairy9400]

this genuinely helped me with some of my existential anguish. specifically the part where that guy said "come out, we all must die" and then that other guy was like "no" and punches him.

[@justbeyondthecornerproduct3540]

Reminds me of IASIP's "Everybody's dying bitch, let's get you some fruit"

[@Sarcasticron]

The movie pretty explicitly signals that the Matrix symbolizes hope. When one of the characters says that the Matrix is gone, Kup responds "And with it, all hope." I don't dispute parents' shock and horror over all the graphic (robot) violence in the movie, but if you watch it to the end, "never give in to despair" is clearly the message, and that's a good message to give kids about to enter adolescence, don't you think?

[@Sarcasticron]

Actually in that scene, Hot Rod says: "Not today, Galvatron" which is a much better line seeing as it underscores the inevitability of death, but the importance of not surrendering. Also, and I just thought of this now, it echoes Springer's line from the Battle of Autobot City earlier in the film: "I've got better things to do tonight than die." Now you've made me notice how people keep talking about death in the movie and how this ties into the theme. Thanks! :-)

[@ZTanMURReneRs]

Rage against the dying of the light. Except it's a toy commercial.

[@SkittlesInYourHand]

@@ZTanMURReneRs I think the fact it's a toy commercial compounds it, says even though those days are over we should keep that optimism. Like now I can say Bah-Weep Graaaagnah Wheep Ni Ni Bong to you and you to me, but in the past and future we won't get the chance

[@nanardeurlambda]

31:21 "and that is an actual philosophical statement about how to live in the world. to... insist, if not demand, that better things are possible. Even when it specifically doesn't seem possible at all." Felt like highlighting this quote.

[@irisworrall8253]

for one of my college classes we had to write an essay about a quality of leadership that we felt was important to us and how that specific quality was portrayed in media. i ended up writing about how naïvety is important for (some) leaders. i used mainly novels and short stories as my sources, but i did end up mentioning this video. i'd like to genuinely thank you for my a-

[@BlueKeyAnimations]

Did you cite with proper MLA formatting?

[@jasmijnisme]

The real april fools was the friends we made along the way

[@BetterThanYouXuD]

i just realized how close "optimus" is to "optimist"

[@moonmannd7501]

I figured it was derived from Optimal, but given the idea behind the Autobots that might actually be the source

[@nitrohydroray5483]

Y'all know both of these words come from the latin word "optimus" right?

[@The-kr9rb]

Optimus Prime roughly means "Best First" iirc. Makes sense since he was originally supposed to be the biggest, strongest, and wisest of all the Autobots. Kinda funny now that I think about it, every other Autobot has a simple modern earth name. Bumblebee, Cliffjumper, Wheeljack, Ironhide, Brawn... and then we get Optimus Prime.

[@benvoliothefirst]

The TransFormers Animated cartoon (2007, not to be confused with all the OTHER animated TransFormers cartoons) had a good justification for this: they all had binary number sequences as identifiers, but for simplicity's sake they also had nicknames. Helps when communicating with other beings. "Bumblebee" came from the fact that he "bumbled" around the battlefield. And was bright yellow.

[@setaside2]

Optimus Prime was the 80s generation's version of Luke Skywalker. He was the center of moral certitude, the indomitable leader who may be set back, sure, possibly even fail to an extent but he was always there at the denouement, validating the viewers' faith: that there was never an unwinnable scenario. Watching the core crowd of 1st gen Autobots and Decepticons get absolutely tossed aside in the first 10min was an absolute parfait of existential considerations, agreed, up to and including to the ol' "War. Huh. What is it good for?"

[@sloppynyuszi]

He was the 80s answer to John Wayne. He even walks like a cowboy

[@thecianinator]

I'm pretty sure Luke Skywalker was the '80s version of Luke Skywalker

[@dr.k1012]

I was born in late 90s but my god was Optimus Prime all of that for me & more for like a decade of my life!

[@TheKodiakDJ]

I'm 28 and only about 6 months ago found a stable full time job in a field at least adjacent to the one I went to school for. The first time I listened to this video was when it was on autoplay while I was working my previous dead-end job in the back of a pizza parlor. I still feel like I'm in an intermediate stage of transformation, but at least this one is more stable than the last. And hopefully, if I dare hard enough, when I watch and/or listen to this video again I will be even more stable. Thanks HBomb

[@pyktukasplays4945]

Best if luck to you on your new job!

[@nunyabidness1681]

Man I wish my midlife crisis was only 45 minutes.

[@TSFboi]

And people in hell wish for ice water.

[@chewychibi03]

lmao love that stressed out Malory is your pic

[@davidnotonstinnett]

How’s that for bread and roses?

[@joywolfe.]

Oh that's just his Transformers mid-life crisis. You should get a load of his Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles mid-life crisis

[@doctaflo]

Is he planning on dying at 52?

[@azraphon]

The bedroom scene is more impressive once you remember he paid three thousands of pounds for that Sherlock bear.

[@Rankerquat]

I've never seen the movie, but I nearly choked when Mr. hydrogen bomb here revealed that "Dare To Be Stupid" was actually playing over that scene, and he wasn't just piping it in himself.

[@Forke13]

You just made me realize the H stands for hydrogen

[@teathesilkwing7616]

@@Forke13no it stands for Harris

[@Forke13]

@@teathesilkwing7616 also

[@Toksyuryel]

Luigi's thousand-yard stare will haunt me for the rest of my life.

[@Playzon]

The childhood Nuzlocke challenge: when your toy dies, burial ritual time.

[@Mysticgamer]

Didnt most people do that with the green army men?

[@xems8910]

You must buy the first toy you encounter in any store, and you can't get anything else in that store. Unless it's like really shiny then just get it.

[@rimjobsteve3264]

Warhammer 40k Nuzlocke???

[@Mysticgamer]

@@rimjobsteve3264 I'm surprised its not a option, like ironclad for Xcom games.

[@AnnDVine]

The real April Fools joke is the friends we made along the way.

[@fr0ggi3princ3]

Andy McCoolname Ja’am

[@slendy9600]

@@fr0ggi3princ3 It's spelled "Ja'am" how dare you :P

[@fr0ggi3princ3]

slendy9600 oh no! I feel like a sham! :((

[@slendy9600]

@@fr0ggi3princ3 In your defense, I was binging Monster Factory for the thousandth time recently so my memory is fresh XD

[@blarg2429]

@@fr0ggi3princ3 You mean you feel like a sha'am?

[@lizerdspherex]

Now let's make him watch Beast Wars, Animated, and Prime.

[@m0fr001]

Listening to this as i pack my house up to move across country into the unknown. Your final section about growing and changing hits. Thank you and positive vibes. Thanks.

[@hbomberguy]

Thanks for taking the time to leave such a nice comment!

[@12Altaire]

"He's not actually good at making the high concept decisions that a leader should make" *cuts to Luigi*

[@nathanlevesque7812]

@Masaka Jenosito Better that than a narrow minded psycho.

[@JoshBurcham104]

The warping of Homer Simpsons face on the shirt is horrific

[@weirdskyreallyweird.5519]

Oh god I didn't notice that Oh god oh god oh god oh god oh god oh god oh god

[@th3rasave]

Kinda looks like one of Jonen Vasquez's smiley faces

[@MechanicalRabbits]

This video was really interesting not just because of the points you elaborated on, but because it goes to show how two people can enjoy the same thing for vastly different reasons. I too rewatched this movie a couple months ago and had the time of my life while chugging on beers because of the nonsensical plot, the absolutely amazing soundtrack by Vince DiCola, the colorful and sometimes almost surreal visuals, the one liners you hated, and just the pure bombastic energy it has, coupled with the surprisingly serious tone the deaths have on it. I loved every single part of it and spent the next week listening to the soundtrack on repeat. I unironically think it's a great movie because it offers exactly what you'd want from it plus more, but I would've NEVER even thought about the philosophical ideas you got from it while watching it. Art really is an amazing thing, giving us all a window into ourselves through the lens of other people's creativity. That alone makes every single existential and nihilistic horror worth the price of being alive.

[@somerelativleyuninterestin4763]

And the scariest part is a lot more transformers we’re planned to be killed in storyboards, like Mirage being blown up by an explosion, trailbreaker having an off-screen death and red alert being blasted through the back, and that’s not even mentioning the implied off screen deaths seeing as a boat-load of characters weren’t seen after the movie ended like tracks, warpath, sideswipe and the remaining Datsun brothers. It’s really mortifying when you think about it

[@pmcshow44]

As a south american civilian i'm happy you dunked on Reagan.

[@MiloKuroshiro]

Same

[@ShinGallon]

I will dunk on Reagan all day every day.

[@Oops-All-Ghosts]

I'll dunk on Reagan if you vote for me, Snowskeeper, as Canadian prime minister

[@grmpEqweer]

I am a child of the 70's, I think Reagan should be dug up and staked. Zombie Reagan walks the land.

[@McCammalot]

@@grmpEqweer oh my god thank goodness I'm not the only one Little baby dude up there is having a mid life crisis and I thought I was just going to have to leave KZbin entirely

[@camlamont4350]

idk why they insisted on going through all that trouble with the alien species in Arrival (2016) when a simple, sincere and welcoming Universal Greeting would have sufficed

[@AbstractTraitorHero]

Indeed. The universal greetiing is amazing, I love every part of it and what it represents.

[@asrieldreemurr1988]

Ba weep gra na weep nini bong

[@benvoliothefirst]

@@asrieldreemurr1988 Ba weep gra na weep nini bong?

[@wawawuu1514]

Oh my god, what a video. I have a really hard time crying, in situations where it would be appropriate or helpful I mean, but watching this thing of video-essay beauty made me feel like I was on the verge of tears.

[@unstoppableExodia]

It’s interesting to hear the perspective of someone born in the nineties who was into generation one transformers on the movie. I’m surprised Hbomb-guy didn’t comment on implied narrative that fans became aware of when discovering why the movie had such a sudden tonal shift compared to its source material. Basically Hasbro had a bunch of new toys, I mean characters ready for store shelves and a lot of the characters that people had grown to love were discontinued. For hasbro the movie was not just a vehicle by which to introduce new characters/toys for kids to nag their parents for. No, there was a purge of the older characters that they felt necessary. For many kids of that generation it was perhaps the first real taste of how brutal capitalism could be. We’d probably all seen movies where the bad guy was some corporate psychopath who gets blown up after a climactic fist fight with the protagonist. But this time the corporate psychopath/s blind sided their audience and offed many fan favorites in theaters. And there was no hero to bring them back or to hold the power brokers who made it happen to account. For kids at the time it was shocking how hasbro was so disconnected from how invested kids were in these characters and the lore around them. There was no real reason to kill those characters off they could have kept them in the series while their toys were no longer on store shelves. Even the dimmest kid could understand that just because a character is in the show it doesn’t automatically mean they’ll be able to get their toy in stores. I guess maybe the marketing fellas thought “let’s launch this new line up with a real bang. A huge twenty year time skip just isn’t enough for these kids. We need to really murderize these original characters so that kids will only want hot rod, kup, galvatron and the blue guy that talks really fast for some reason”. It’s now common knowledge among the hardcore transformers fans how rushed the production schedule was and how many continuity flubs exist and all the cynical things that occurred in the original cartoon series because hasbro just wanted to sell as many of the fucking things as possible before kids moved onto the next craze. That’s why hasbro started cheaping out on the animation budget for season 3 and on the quality of the toys as soon as they thought the popularity of the franchise and the tremendous amount of goodwill they’d built up would keep people lining their pockets as they cut costs to increase profit. It was real ruthless, Gordon gecko 1980s capitalism at work. It even carried over to how abruptly they ended the cartoon in the late 80s when tmnt and Nintendo were becoming the next big things. The fact that there was a Japanese continuation of the show that ran for several years after, right up to the new decade says a lot about how disposable 80s capitalists saw things and how quickly they would want to move onto the next thing as soon as something started to lose a bit of steam. By the time of the new millennium hasbro was starting to realize that they really had something with transformers, something that would appeal to the kids of the original fans they had cultivated. Which is why since then there have consistently been newer cartoons every year pretty much. And the new stuff could never capture what made the original series special but the new generations of kids didn’t have that reference point to compare to and could accept those newer series on their own merit, faults and all just like all of us 80s and 70s kids could the original series.... and then some idiot at hasbro greenlit Michael bay to direct five god awful live action movies that somehow made money. The 1986 movie with all its short comings was still a million times more enjoyable than any of those bay-formers movies.

[@albstare]

Regardless of your feelings about capitalism using Hasbro discontinuing production of a certain toy line and killing those characters off in a show as an example of the system's "ruthless" excesses is just beyond ridiculous, particularly when you consider that the motivation behind the show's mere existence was so blatantly profit-motivated in the first place.

[@unstoppableExodia]

@@albstare yeah I’m not denying that the show existed to market toys to kids through entertainment which is an inherently profit motivated endeavor. That is something that continues to this day. But what’s different is since the turn of the millennium Hasbro’s approach has changed. Such that they would never kill off key characters the way they did in in the 1986 movie. Yes characters do get killed off in subsequent reimaginings of the franchise but it hasn’t been done in such a cold tonal shift that kids aren’t prepared for. Lessons were learned from that as they copped a huge backlash at the time from parents who complained that the movie made their little kids cry. Those same kids would go on to appreciate the boldness of it later when they grew up and the movie became a cult hit. Bottom line is there was a disconnect from the higher ups who greatly underestimated the reverence their young fans had for these characters they’d created.

[@yakobsoulstorm5187]

The entire history of the franchise is littered with blunders and fuck ups performed by Hasbro and their inability to empathise with their viewers while at the same time being completely unable to actually run their damn franchise. We’ve been stuck in a rut of no innovation because Beast Machines was a failure (more of a disappointment really), which was caused by Hasbro *not letting the creators of it watch Beast Wars, the thing they were making a sequel for* . The entire Unicron trilogy being rushed and fucking up everything good about its first section Armada by skimping on the budget. THEY FUCKING GOT RID OF IDW, WHO PRODUCED SOME OF THE BEST AND MOST RESPECTED TRANSFORMERS COMICS *EVER* , TO THE POINT THAT THEY WERE RESPECTED AS _SCIENCE FICTION COMICS_ RATHER THAN SOME VAPID CONTINUATION OF AN 80s FAD.

[@SoozUK]

"I'm 26 and I feel old" Me at 34: "Oh shit"

[@Thessalin]

Me at 44: "Tell everyone I loved them." Dies.

[@robthehitmanrude]

I'm too old to wear short sleeve shirts over long sleeve shirts, but too young to shake my fist at kids in the street.

[@bebebebota11]

lol same here, I'm 35. But I get feeling old at 26. I dealt with "feeling old" since I was around 20 (I guess because of depression?) and then, looking back, marveling of how young I was. So these days I don't give a shit. I'm old. Watch me still write "lol" at KZbin comments, ya dumb kids

[@flappletarts]

Me at 27 : [Nervous Laughter]

[@RAFMnBgaming]

Me at 20: "THERE'S NOBODY LEFT! I'M ALL ALONE!"

[@buffypython]

I've never watched the Transformers movie, so hearing that guy say "Oh, shit! What're we gonna do now?" was incredibly jarring!

[@birdgvee4982]

My midlife Transformers crisis was reading a fanfiction. It is called Eugenesis and it was written by James Roberts who nowadays actually does write for Hasbro. As far as I remember from an interview, he was hired after publishing his novel of a fanfiction. (And apparently it's as a book on goodreads now...?) Since you like pain and suffering and the misery of living, hbomb - I think you might like it. It explored alot of the concepts you touched on in this video. Just worse. But it's great. And alot of moments from that un-official Transformers story have stuck with me. Because every moment you knew that any of the characters it follows could not just die but suffer even more and you pray with each sentence that they make it because they are all very likeable in different ways. And you feel for them and their friends while they fight for not just their own survival, but the survival of their entire species and their planet. And I don't wanna spoil the end but... yeah. I felt like I learned something and felt vindicated. I didn't wanna read it again. But I felt that I'd suffered with the characters, and I was one that made it to the end to see the future.

[@tristanraine]

Transformers More Than Meets the Eye, the comic. Holy shit, that shit really hurts. It just hurts.

[@Vivigreeny25]

Yeah that… sounds like transformers,

[@Pineappolis]

16:28 On the point of it being kind of tragic, in the context of the rest of show, to watch Optimus and Megatron genuinely fight each other to the death: I was never sure whether I was reading too much into Optimus' iconic, "Megatron must be stopped, no matter the cost," but the weight of those words has always felt to me at least as much that Optimus is talking about the loss of his ideals as he is the potential loss of his own life. There was no attempt to minimise casualties on both sides in the optimistic style of leadership you discuss here - he coldly and clinically butchers half the Decepticon army because this time he has no choice. I say I might be reading too much into it because the fact that The Touch immediately starts playing and the butchery is framed as incredibly badass kind of stands in contrast to that idea. That said, you really highlight in this video how much dissonance there is in the whole production, with some people clearly trying to tell a meaningful and surprisingly richly thematic story with the execution kind of hamstringing them at every turn, so I may just be on to something. EDIT: That last sentence is far too negative - I do adore the movie; silliness and all.

[@GhostTwinkek]

I've actually gone out of my way to memorize "bah weep gragnah wheep ni ni bong," because I thought it was rather cool, and if someone else ever understands it they'd be someone I could relate with, so it actually translated itself into real life. I find that idea magical.

[@benvoliothefirst]

Don't come up with the greeting and expect it to work: create the universe in which you'd like to live, and the greeting will be a part of it by design!

[@pacotaco1246]

Klaatu baraada niktu

[@kaboomerty1638]

this is the first time i actually found out how to say it right 😂 i’ve been saying “Bah Wee Granah wee midibong”

[@zer03d14]

Yeah I guess really it just works as a different way of making an obscure reference. Think my version of this accidently became a phrase from Oblivion, I had just started college and after my first day went to a bar with a classmate, got introduced to his mates and at one point this guy, who later became a very good friend for a few years, randomly (I really can't remember what the conversation was cause I was so nervous at the time) went "What is the colour of midnight" and without thinking I answered the nerdiest phrase "Sanguine my brother". Everyone else chuckled, by he was estatic and from that point we spent the whole rest of the day talking about video games, music, movies we were into etc.

[@dereknicholson3322]

I had a bar guest who was a kid when the movie came out and I always greeted him with the universal greeting. Always great to see that guy smile

[@piotrbakua4875]

I like how depressed Luigi looks while listening to this

[@nameforcomments4092]

I'd say he 'won' this video. Yes, by doing nothing.

[@thomasw4422]

Luigi is questioning what he's got into

[@thecianinator]

"A leader isn't someone who tells you what to do and you obey because he's in a position of power over you. A leader is someone who talks, and then you realize you believe them, and you want that thing to happen as well." - Optimus Prime, probably

[@butteredbread5534]

i did a double take when he said shit.. i genuinely thought it was edited in

[@tiffanypaulsen5334]

me too!

[@quadpad_music]

I curse so much and so often that I didn't even notice that until Hbomb pointed it out, so I had to rewind to actually hear it.

[@brandonporter8509]

I think they Literially added in the curse because they were trying to get a pg rating because they wanted to get the parents into the movie with their kids because a toy commercial only works if the person with the money to buy the toys sees the product that is being advertised as well. They wanted to push the toy units of new Wave of g1 since they knew the kids already likes the old wave. How’s the parent supposed to know he’s now supposed to buy their kid rodimus prime for Christmas instead of optimum if they don’t see the correct toy to buy themself.

[@betuna9487]

@@quadpad_music impressive

[@flugelblarghen]

I like to imagine a classroom a thousand years from now where they're talking about the great philosopher hbomberguy like he's Socrates

[@Robstafarian]

Does that make Abby Thorn Plato?

[@The5lacker]

Lets be honest... he's closer to Diogenes.

[@washada]

@@The5lacker ‘’The definition of man: A measured response’’

[@tokevarvaspolvi8999]

@@washada You, sir, just broke me.

[@professionalhimbo]

@@The5lacker if he's Diogenes, then who's UpisnotJump?

[@incorrectbeans]

Ahhh yes, youthful Hbomb, still full of hopes and dreams.

[@asherroodcreel640]

And hair, mostly the hair

[@theviniso]

Back in the days when we all thought Tommy Tallarico had been on MTV Cribs

[@grahamlovely6361]

“I’ve felt like I was 19 until I was 26” Little weird, but I’m 19 and honestly I feel like I’m 35... 3 cheers for a midlife crisis before I even leave my teens

[@maclark88]

Two things that reminded me of my mortality. Turning 26 and having a cavity. OMG I'm going to DIE!!!!

[@Gohka]

Believe me, when I was in my late teens/early 20s I thought I felt like I was 35. Now, being only a bit under 5 months away from that age. I know I had no idea what being 35 would feel like haha.

[@kalebtewodros]

Soon to be 20 year old here… *yep*

[@weirdcreature9928]

I'm 19, I already have lower back problems and I have no concept of my life after 35. On some intrinsic, fundamental level, I just don't believe I will live to be older than 35. It's not that I think my life is going to end, and I certainly don't want to/intend to end it myself, but whenever I try to think about it, it's just...void. I guess maybe I don't want to think about it. There is nothing in my future, nothing about growing old that I could possibly look forward to. Not in this already deteriorating body, not in this increasingly unlivable economy, not on this dying planet, not on this society filled with adult expectations to be the exact opposite kind of person I am. I'm surprisingly at a place where I enjoy my life now. It could only ever get worse.

[@gorway6807]

Don't worry man it definitely gets worse

[@GarrettKearns]

"And what do we say to death?" "NOT TODAY, GALVATRON!"

[@notnotkavi]

"Beyond good / beyond evil / beyond your wildest imagination" in the exact tone of voice of the announcer is the kind of thing I'd write as a joke about commercializing pop culture lol

[@benvoliothefirst]

Victor Caroli is a legend and I will brook no argument

[@LukeMcGuireoides]

Galactus is such a freaking cool character. He was totally based in the sprawling cosmic marvel series, my favorite overarching big publisher storyline line. It's massive, stretches across many titles and many years.

[@LukeMcGuireoides]

It contains the infinity saga, and the annihilus saga

[@LukeMcGuireoides]

And some other stuff, I believe

[@apersonwhomayormaynotexist9868]

I don't think there's a marvel series/storyline called "sprawling cosmic," I've tried to find it and can't anywhere

[@LukeMcGuireoides]

@@apersonwhomayormaynotexist9868 it's generally known as the cosmic marvel saga. It's made up of several "events", such as infinity gauntlet, annihilus, etc

[@ASCENDANTGAMERSAGE]

I have lots of intrusive thoughts. This video has consumed probably 60% of those intrusive thoughts recently. I am still processing it months after watching it. I've rewatched it multiple times. It makes me cry somewhat regularly. I love almost all of your videos, but this one will always hold a special place in my heart and personal philosophy. Your thesis (or transformer's thesis?) have really helped me find optimism and hope in the worst time of my life. At least I hope it's the worst time of my life. If worse times come, I know I will remember this video and the lesson it taught me. If you see this Mr. Brewis, thanks.

[@saturnusdevorans]

I'm really glad to hear Optimus transforms into Rodimus as it is the sensible Latin progression. Optimus meaning, y'know, 'best' and Rodimus meaning *checks notes* 'we corrode'

[@anarchisttechsupport6644]

A new layer to the nihilism of everything falling apart. Nice.

[@niko3688]

Saturnus Devorans creepy profile pic

[@dublinjake]

Alternatively: "We nibble". The movie is about how life sucks and the only relief is snacks.

[@vgamer11]

Although, to be fair, that is the best way to describe Rodimus as a leader. He slowly got more and more cowardly and lazy until he gave the Matrix back to Optimus (who had, of course, been brought back to life by then)

[@bobjones2959]

Oh damn I thought they only called him that cos he was Hot *Rod.*

[@baykkus]

The unofficial prologue to Lindsay Ellis' The Whole Plate series.

[@benvoliothefirst]

CANON

[@xmlthegreat]

This is it. This is true.

[@benvoliothefirst]

@@xmlthegreat THIS IS THE WAY

[@jbucata]

After watching the movie in the theater, I remember telling my mom afterward how funny it seemed that after decades of fighting, now the Decepticons all suddenly became good shots...

[@UnholyBasil]

I love that you ended this video with a realization of "Oh my God that's so brilliant" in both a personal sense and an I-love-this-movie sense. Splendid work.

[@lisano2013]

"The possible has been tried and failed. Now it's time to try the impossible." - Sun Ra and also Hot Rod

[@frodothehobo9581]

The universal greeting should have been dial-up sounds. Just audible binary.

[@ivyssauro123]

Fuck, that's genius

[@jessielefey]

It was too early for that joke to land. Not that there wasn't Internet, but like "mobile phones" were still hardwired into cars. ;-)

[@frodothehobo9581]

@@jessielefey I just googled it and it was only commercially available from 1992 onwards. Crap. I thought it was way older.

[@TempRawr]

Wouldnt the only response from that to scream at your sibling or parent to get off the phone. Like would defeat the purpose if we immediate think the greeting isnt working

[@genuineculter5640]

Praise the omnissiah!

[@mikaxms]

In a way, we are all transformers. We're always becoming something else through our experiences. We come to understand who we are now, by looking at the things from our past with the new lens that we have. That is the value of nostalgia.

[@pacotaco1246]

Also we can fly and have been at war for millions of years

[@victoriakochanek7931]

I have a long, boring commute. Finding your KZbin channel is like finding the perfect playlist/audiobook. Thank you and your team for the work, the humor, and the dedication to truth.

[@AlfredSoul]

When I clicked on this, I expected some jokes about Orson Welles finishing his career with voicing a planet in a kids film and was not prepared for "The Transformers The Movie" to end up being connected to Nietzsche and Lovecraft.

[@Donyoku]

What do we say to the god of death? Not today, Galvatron

[@sarmythreader]

The universal greeting bit is basically Waymond's thesis from "Everything, everywhere, all at once"

[@michaelsinnreich6626]

Hbomberguy: unicron is an uncaring entity that destroys worlds to feed. Hasbro: let's kill everything to sell more toys. Me: (stares into abyss)

[@waityseg]

(Lindsey Ellis has entered the chat)

[@annalol6128]

Bahahahaha TRUTH

[@oof-rr5nf]

Lindsey Ellis is getting inspired to write Transformers fanfiction as we speak.

[@SeekerSean]

Challenger Approaches! Lindsay Ellis enters the match!

[@zanderzephyrlistens]

Uhh, excuse me, it's Lindsay*

[@zanderzephyrlistens]

Sorry, everyone, like Anita is the dark mother of Contrapoints, so too are Oliver North and Lindsay Ellis my dark father and dark mother

[@RowanFallsGames]

im loving this trend of april fools vids just being really insightful essays on silly topics

[@laughingmask3118]

The realization that two of the dead Autobots are Ratchet and Wheeljack, when you think about it, makes the new permadeath feature of the movie not only make more sense but carries emotional weight because Ratchet and Wheeljack were these beloved characters, I had their toys, and now not only are they dead: they were the only chance of the other Autobots not staying dead themselves.

[@slevinchannel7589]

I DONT GET IT. Why is it considered a Weird-Thing to comment "This here, the engaging Fun you just had - theres more of the same."? I really dont get why only some people thank me for the Info and some reprimand me, as if saying theres more Fun to be had is Vile. As if its weird to pont out Hbomberguys Big-Criticism-Essay he did to RWBY, others did too. Madvocate and Jay Exci and if it can be Books: Krimson Rogue. And even an entire Channel named Some-More-News. Some of those even have faster Upload-Schedule, so Peopels Main-Complain with Hbomb is solved by just accepting my Recommendattion!?!

[@zephyrfyrian7000]

for anyone curious (and not deep in the transformers fandom like me) talking-fast-guy is blurr and creepy-rhyme-child is wheelie

[@bast81577]

When I was a kid, I remember going to see this movie in the theater. There was a collective gasp from the audience when Spike said "oh shit."

[@Spudcore]

The death of Optimus Prime kind of traumatised me. I couldn't watch Transformers, which had been probably my favourite programme up to that point, for a good long time after that. I would get really upset as soon as the opening titles started and either change the channel or leave the room. I guess you could say it was a transformative experience!!! HAHAHAHA Kill me.

[@gavichealsomething2169]

Yourenot the only one who was traumatized But you'll be glad to know that Peter Cullen, the actor himself, has a favorite role in that of Optimus, because of fans like you (That wasnt supposed to be rude btw)

[@xmlthegreat]

I still have that reaction to the Heidi anime, and only because of Peechee the tiny bird she rescues and who eventually leaves and that was fucking traumatizing for 5 year old me, like I still genuinely cannot breathe because of the grief that grips me just now thinking about it.

[@wolfywise]

Kid shows should traumatize kids more ngl.

[@rubywest5166]

"To insist, if not demand that better things are possible, even when it specifically doesn't seem possible at all" Wow, the Transformers movie is more philosophically developed than the population of England.

[@crystaljeffbabeeey]

watching this on xmas after having an extremely bad mental breakdown. comfort at it's finest.

[@dadaism]

The one who talks in rhyme is Wheelie. The one who talks fast is Blurr. I won't let you escape.

[@miricobladetail9670]

I was going to do this, but you already did it. I'm going to do it anyway.

[@alphaBravoAB]

Blurr is awesome but everyone hates Wheelie.

[@albertgore7435]

He must join us in the suffering.

[@serioussaitama4071]

We must remind hbomb at all opportunities

[@StorytellerOfTheDead]

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